To cut iron, one needs iron. Stalin was determined to end Hitler's Natzi Party rule in Germany. Isn't it? And there was no United Nations then, until after 1945.
The fact he’s called “Stalin’s Himmler” and Stalin of all people feared Beria especially near his children says enough about the man without having to write a book!
I think he thought Beria couldn’t control himself, he knew he could have him killed after he did something. But whatever Beria did would still be done and even that would make Stalin appear a little weaker.
My uncle was one of the victims from the Katyn Forest massacre. My aunt told me the story of how they came to her house and took my uncle away for questioning. They told her not to worry and that he would be back in a couple of hours but he never returned. I hope they tortured Beria before shooting him.
Your uncle was killed by Germans. After return of sovereignty to Russia (as you can see Pax Americana is being dismantled) there will be a flag change to red as well as a trial against Gorbachov for state treason and coup, including acceptance of fake responsibility of Russia for genoside of Polish in Katyn.
This assumes that Beria lived long enough to be tortured. It is also likely that he was executed on the spot during his "arrest" and the subsequent "trial" was fabricated.
@@jmi5969 - The Soviets had a procedure for ‘disappearing’ people, no doubt partly worked out by Beria. Pretty sure they followed it with Beria himself.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 Dear sir, what's the point of "disappearing" if the next planned step is a show trial? On the contrary, they strived to make an impression that the fall guy was still alive. Same with Beria's second-tier faithfuls - their trials were front-page news. Disappearance was reserved for the lesser folk.
@@jmi5969 - OK, good point. I meant the procedure for arresting folk was already tried and tested… a knock on the door at 4AM. Of course this procedure was much older than Beriya, being used since the mid-1800s if not earlier.
In the 1970's Beria's Moscow house was the Tunisian embassy. The ambassador's son was my classmate at the French school, and one day he gave me a 'tour' of Beria's underground facilities. Pretty gruesome place, you could see where prisoners were kept chained to the wall and tortured. A doorway that had been sealed with bricks supposedly once led to a tunnel that went straight to the Kremlin. I didn't know Beria's full story until now. I'm glad he got what he deserved in the end, but it's scary how people like him can rise to power and do the things he did, mainly in authoritarian regimes, and to see how authoritarianism is on the rise in our time.
Merrick Garland's Department of "Justice" here in the U.S. is following in Beria's footsteps with the "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" approach. I wonder how many of the Trump prosecutors are sexually depraved like Beria.
Is that any more barbaric than our drug companies killing babies to use for developing, testing, and manufacturing their drugs and vaccines? How many medications does the average 60, 70, or 80 year old take that exists because babies were murdered at some stage of the drugs' development? Is that any different from the Nazi "medical" experiments? The Nuremberg trials, lead by the US, convicted Nazis while in the US drug researchers were murdering babies as far back as the 1930s.
Only people like this raise to high ranks of totalitarian regime, especially with communism ideology. I recommend you to read Gregory Klymov's books, if you find them in English of course.
The Death of Stalin is a dark humour film of what happened after Stalins death ,I highly recommend it , it’s one of those films I can watch every 6 months or so and find something new.
@@greggibbons1113 no in US high schools the tend you down play communist atrocities and focus only on the holocaust, colonialism, CRT and drag queens instead. ✊🏿🏳️🌈👩🏿🦰✊🏿💉✡️
@@adamferencszi797irlewanger was a criminal lowlife responsible for thousands of deaths. With Berija we are talking about someone actively proposing and executing the murder of more than 6million Russians alone. In total a lot more. There really is next to no comparison. Only Mao's China, Holocaust in total and Rouge Khmer come close to that carnage
It speaks volumes about the barbarism of Stalin and his underlings this man was allowed to exist all, let alone spend years in the top echelon if the Soviet government.
The moral of the story is: no matter how well you serve an Ideology and State, your usefulness always runs out. Some of the most fervent Servants of our State should take note.
Most people who serve a cruel state die peacefully in their beds from old age. It's the rare things that make history. Wishful thinking and rare anecdotes are no way to judge history. For every one person who you think got karma there are thousands you have never heard of who lived their entire lives in luxury. Luxury gained by taking part in oppressing their own people.
Moral is Bolshevik Jews will still favor sending arms to Israel over making Russia better. They prefer ruling over ash piles than having a productive and happy worker class that they claim to represent.
In America are you referring to victims of the drug war? Or poverty? The assassinations of political leaders? Maybe foreign civilians indiscriminately bombed or oh ok victims of racial laws like black wall street and slavery? Because these crimes were more committed under religious authority not democratic.
@@Aeternous I could be wrong, but Zhukov and Koniev were basically just professional soldiers. None of the historical accounts I have read about either man were particularly damning, and they certainly weren't monstrous by the relative standards of the Chekists or NKVD.
@@lashlarue7924professional soldiers is a good choice of words. They were certainly not ideologues like how you could describe almost all of those high up the party
@@lashlarue7924 Konev actually had a reputation for being a somewhat ruthless commander, a trait Stalin admired Konev for in addition to him being a skilled general.
Don't worry Stalin is here: And if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished. -excerpt Gospel of Mark chapter 9 - words of Jesus the Great King
@@briancarton1804 God sent His only Son to pay the price for your sins, so you would have a chance to escape endless pain. God was not obligated to do that. But He was pierced for our offenses, He was crushed for our wrongdoings; The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed. All of us, like sheep, have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all To fall on Him. -excerpt Isaiah 53 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not judged... -excerpt Gospel of John chapter 3 -words of Jesus
@@briancarton1804as an Athiest, I personally believe that if hell did exist, you’d really have to work for it. Stalin and Beria don’t deserve your sympathy.
The history of USSR is a collection of violence, hatred for life and freedom, contempt of the law. Beria was just one of the best actors in this tragedy.
Not at all after Stalin died. At least 95% of Soviet crimes were between 1918 and 1953 during the time the country was ruled by either the 2 Georgians - Stalin and Beria, or the Jews (all 4 top people of the Gulag system, majority of the government, majority of the secret police bosses, the leaders of Ukraine and Kazakhstan where the 2 biggest famines happened etc - all Jews).
@@mountainmama349 Stalin was one of the biggest masters of crime and evil in the entire human history, but this does not mean that life in the USSR was nice after he died. Dissidents were still sent in jail and even in asylums a lot after 1952. War crimes were committed during the invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, torture and violations of human rights were common in many situations. The death of Stalin was for sure good news for the mankind, but evil is hard to eradicate and the death of the dictator did not stop it.
The history is Bolshevik Jews hijacking a Slav empire from a royal family connected to the English Crown, trying to make their little Heaven on Earth, then failing, and having to get aid from goy America.
I was so happy to see that Tatiana Kirillovna Okunevskaya survived the Gulag. I have to say well done on pronouncing all these Russian names throughout this video.
It was like a Game of Thrones in the SU back then, but I have to admit, today looks not much different. What is the deal with these people? Is power all they're bred to acquire? Sheesh!
Beria was a cruel, evil man who used his malignant power to terrorize thousands of people over many years. Yet, when they came for him, he begged and wept for his life. As my late father once said: "They all fall in the end." Beria was a human stain that was eventually erased.
Oddly enough one of the reasons why they may have moved on Beria was the fact that he was talking about defusing the Cold War, introduce small scale private business and reform the system in the long term. This probably scared the politburo more than his crimes did. The point is that everyone in the system had blood on their hands, but were more concerned about a course change in politics than murder, rape and evil acts in the name of an ideology.
@@rotwang2000 According to many reports everyone hated Beria, Zhukov wanted payback for the attempted arrest on him by Beria, and the remaining Politburo were definitely unwilling to let a man who has so much blood on his hands just go away. The others, at least some of them had blood (Lazar and Molotov, they helped Stalin organize the purges and the Holodomor), but some like Malenkov and Khrushchev and Zhukov had little to no blood on their hands, whatever were were because the options were to obey and survive Stalin or be brutally murdered alongside your family. But the thing is that in a Politburo surrounded by Stalinism, the only way you can have your way without suffering repercussions is by using the same accusations as were used in the system before, literally the only way to have your way when half of your Bureau is filled with neo-Stalinists. It was the only way Khrushchev could get rid of him, and begin destalinization.
To be described, playfully or otherwise as 'our Himmler' and to be so unpleasant that even Stalin, Stalin of all people was scared of you really says something.
Poetic justice! I always warn people about doing other people’s dirty work. Read Machiavelli and what Cesar Borgia did to his lieutenant. Borgia put Remirro de Orco in charge of restoring order in Romagna, which he did well. However, Remirro de Orco was so cruel that everyone hated him, so to deflect bad feeling from himself, Borgia had him publicly executed.
A fascinating thing I noticed in my life in the public service was the deputies were often ruthless or a least the people who got things done. The head guy was the showman or the front and the deputy did the necessary work. I spoke to many school principals but the deputy principals did the action. A common tactic was to make an unpopular man your deputy. One example was Spiro Agnew was Nixon’s VP and nobody wanted him to be president.
I lived in Moscow until last year, and lived across the Garden Ring from Beria's house. It's now an embassy. He used to cruise Moscow late at night and if he saw a girl on her own, he would pick her up, take her home, rape her and kill her. He also tortured and murdered plenty of others in the basement of his house. There were bathtubs for dissolving bodies. For decades afterwards embassy officers would report screams in the house late at night and, occasionally, the figure of a naked girl running toward the front door with her mouth open in a silemt scream. She would always disappear before reaching the door. Edit: Oops, just reached this part in the video.
Yeah, you personally saw that. Especially bathtubs for dissolving bodies. Once again: Right after the war Beria was head of the Special Committee on developing and production of the atom bomb. Just try to understand what it was: developing and production of the atom bomb in a totally destroyed and ruined country and in a very short period of time. And time was of paramount importance: once again, Dropshot. Usually they like to say that Soviet spies stole the secret of the atom bomb OK, you are a Papuan on New Guinea. And you magically stole this secret. Would it be any help to you? Even if you have people for understanding what it is, you must build a whole bunch of industries to get materials suitable for the atom bomb. And you must find people capable of doing this, not mere charlatans who only promise and do nothing. You may say - what's the problem? Failed - shot . Ok, you shot this man and that one. But the result is absent! And you desperately need the result! No comparison to Manhattan project. For Americans this was no difference: have they the atom bomb, not have - the victory was guaranteed. For Hitler getting the atom bomb was equal to going to the Moon by foot. No chance. But for the postwar Soviet Union it was completely different: the USA was rapidly becoming a foe, it already had an atom bomb, very quickly produced them and developed plans of attacking the USSR. Are you able to understand responsibility which lied on that man - especially considering the fact that the word "failure" was impossible. The fate of the country was at stake. And responsibility is yours, personally yours. I highly doubt that in these circumstances you even not wanted women but simply had time for that. No ordinary man can't even comprehend this measure of responsibility.
@ZombieDeathKick It's more like German and Italian Fascists in reality acted like communists. Takeover of industry. Central planning. Authoritarian lack of rights. Brutality.
I greatly enjoyed this episode. Growing up during the cold war I grew up very distrusting of the Russians. It bothers me greatly that the people running Russia today held High positions in the Soviet Union when the Curtain fell and our leaders want to overlook that Fact, and our younger citizens have no education about the empire they served. Please continue to post episodes about others like this individual and even those who followed after Stalin, a man who should get the twice press Hitler gets, for the atrocities he delivered unto his people.
So well said. I grew up with the cold war too, and I've never understood why so many people think communism is somehow ok but fascism is bad. It's because communism pretends to be sweet where as the fascists were honest about their evils. Liberty should never be negotiable.
You do not understand a thing. "when the Curtain fell" - the Curtain was declared by Churchill in Fulton. All social processes are managed so the Curtain was dismantled. Since traditional colonial powers (UK, USA, France, Germany...) failed to keep the promise to not move NATO to the East - to Russian borders - bolsheviks are now together with global predictor dismantling Pax Americana.
As an educated Slovenian to a Pole, thank you for saying Soviets instead of Russians. Among the bad guys in Soviet Union I found out only about 20 - 30 percent were Slavic Russians, even though they were 60% of the population. At least 95% of Soviet crimes were between 1918 and 1953 during the time the country was ruled by either the 2 Georgians - Stalin and Beria, or the Jews (all 4 top people of the Gulag system, majority of the government, majority of the secret police bosses, the leaders of Ukraine and Kazakhstan where the 2 biggest famines happened etc - all Jews).
By the way, the secret of the long political life of Beria was in that he wasn't only head of the secret police. In fact, for the big part of the postwar Stalin era he had no relation to the secret police. His main job during the war and after the war was in the industry. He was the head of the so-called Special Committee - the emergency government body responsible for the developing and production of the atom bomb. You there know such codename as Dropshot? By the way, this was Beria's weakness: he knew very well the leading persons in industry - literally by name - but he very badly knew the party cadres, the party apparatus.
A very sad story. However if one wants to see it portrayed in a lighter fashion, the movie "The Death of Stalin" is absolutely hysterical. It covers the Beria situation within it.
Yes they did. Fleeing to England equals surrendering. The most horrible crimes were committed in Poland, and man assisted the Nazis. The poles are depicted as pigs in Maus for a reason.
This beast of a man was a character without name in an excellent novel "The Eighth LIfe" merely referred to as the little bald man with glasses. Stalin is referred to as the the man called steel. The Novel depicts how lives are altered under a totalitarian rule.
I know you'd know this, but to lend credence to what you're saying, "Stalin" is a near 1:1 translation of "Man of Steel", his actual birth name was "Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili". I have ADHD so I've yet to get started on a reading list, but I'm considering getting Audible if they're not censorious, I want to read/hear the works of Cormac McCarthy (some of his books have been made into movies, one of which; "No Country For Old Men" is widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time which I agree with entirely) as well "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" if I can get it narrated by Harlan Ellison, I'll add "The Eighth Life" to the list and hopefully get around to it by the end of the year :) (gotta make your goals realistic)
What's tragically comic about all dictatorships, especially communist, is that those that rose up through the government ranks quickly due to a special talent in murdering people, and for a time wield a significant amount of power, continuing to rise, will ultimately be brought down hard by someone who is more badass. These leaders are able to wipe out their competition by being better at establishing relationships with the key people that will enable them to do so. In addition, I find it notable that when leaders that are not Russian, inherit power, they turn out to be the most bloodthirsty of all.
Scapegoats, that's why he took them. When their usefulness came to an end, Stalin could portray them as criminals that he didn't know what they were doing. Of course he knew what they were doing but that was the ruse he used One quote by Stalin "I don't trust anyone. Not even myself"
@@ronaldmessina4229 Not the word I would ever associate with Stalin. Or even with Hitler, Kim Jung-Un, Assad, Mussolini, Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, Mao Zedong and some other murderous dictators
@@Barricade379 Some historians theorize that had Stalin lived, he would have done another purge, this time getting rid of Beria and possibly Voroshilov. Not sure why the latter. But Stalin was paranoid. The theory goes on to say that the "Doctor's Plot" would have been Stalin's "Final Solution" and that he planned to attack Western Europe and start the next world war.
Can you please do a documentary on the Aleutian campaign during world War 2 my great grandfather was a officer when his regiment was sent there to take back attu and kiska islands from the imperial Japanese army
Absolutely the best content you have ever created and I’m saying this in 2024 so I know this was the peak of performance has yet to be match many years later
Stalin and Beria were among history's greatest monsters, but Stalin became a monster. Beria was *always* a monster, right from the moment he drew breath. Russia could've ended up a democracy after 1905 and Stalin could've been a priest, and Beria would still have been a serial killer. Stalin was an immense evil, but Beria was evil incarnate
Watch now one of my favorite movies "the Death of Stalin" a hilarious movie, very loosely based on, fact? Jason Isaacs steals the show as Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
@Rob 57 One year after his inauguration, Gorbachev pardoned all political prisoners in the Soviet union. He was the one to put an end to the gulag system.
This balding, clean-shaven man in glasses could easily be fit into the character of an unassuming small-town school-teacher. Who could have imagined that there was a sadistic monster hidden under his seemingly plain external appearance?
In Western countries we hear never ending stories about Nazi atrocities but scant information about the Soviet State pre WW2 and the couple o-f decades after 1945 which of course was equally barbaric. I’ve a theory about that.
It's because in the West, Leftists are constantly pushing Socialism and Communism. Especially in the Media and colleges. They are unwilling to discuss where these philosophies eventually end, with piles of corpses. What Leftist revolutionaries don't understand is that the quest for unbridled power always ends the same way. They start by "allegedly correcting the "faults" of capitalism only to consume their own. What Leftists don't understand is that if you are willing to sign the death warrant (to prove your loyalty to the revolution) for somebody you have known for 20 years as a friend, they will do the same thing against you. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
I believe the 1930s were the worst. So much blood was spilt in WW2 that even the Soviets were sick of it by 1945. Didn’t stop them of course, but things softened considerably after Stalin passed in 1953.
@@greggstrasser5791 I get it. It is true that there were many Jews who were Communists. However, we have to also admit that in China (Mao) and Vietnam (Pol POT) there were very few Jews. I assume you will say that "they started it." Perhaps. But Warlords have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. They consumed their power the same way Communists do. (Kim Jong Un). Communism is just an excuse for power, just as "climate change" is just a system to get power. It has nothing to do with climate. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
From what I heard somewhere Lavrenti Baria was the inspiration for the character " Boris Badinov ", in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. They wore the same kind of hat anyway. But President Truman was right. "If you want a good friend in Washington [ or Moscow], get a dog" 😅😅
He was almost certainly executed weeks before his trial, in a summary execution to avoid keeping him alive and the risk his allies would support him. The person on trial and then executed was likely to be an unfortunate actor told if he went along with it then he would be released.
The greatly feared henchman of Stalin who left a wretched trail of rape and murder in his wake, begged for mercy and got none. A rather fitting end for a warped, degenerate sexual predator and psychopath...
@@GTX1123 He was not a saint, none of them were, but we can't know if he was as bad as they rest made him out to be. Remember, they wanted a scapegoat to blame for everything that had happened up to then, so him and Stalin served that purpose. It made the rest of them look like the good guys, so for them there would be no reckoning, at least for the time being. We can't know if everything, or anything for that matter, of what they said was true. It was necessary to paint him as black as possible so they could rationalize getting rid of him without anyone getting upset.
@@Tugela60 You don't wield the kind of power Beria did without being a psychopath. Even if the accusations of rape were false, he reaped what he sowed; i.e. the same game of false accusations he used to condemn many people came back on him.
@GTX1123 That is not really an appropriate comparison, it is more accurate to generally describe it as sociopathy, which applied to all of them. There can be and probably were psychopaths among them, but it is not necessarily the case. You have to remember that it was the system doing it, and they were along for the ride. They are of course responsible for their personal actions, but those personal actions are dictated by the system. Those kinds of systems are usually not kind to those who buck the rules, so to survive and prosper they had to be part of it, as did everyone else in the country. Autocracy is a hungry beast, it consumes everyone. The only real opportunity to do things differently would be to be the one who filled the power vacuum when the last top dog died, then there would be a chance to go a different route, but otherwise not, they had to perform the role they were assigned to perform.
@riccardoc1711 good idea if you have the privilege of being able to vote for your choice, have a choice, having a fair election and being able to trust the people you are voting for.
In 2023 we have a demented coward who barks like a mean chihuahua and a lion being devoured by disease who might in desperation burn the world with nuclear fire because he bit off more than he can chew. In the corner a dictator of 1.3billion people prepares to feast on the carrion
@@Salt-Upon-Woundss His son was named Yakov. He was a prisoner by the Nazis. Stalin refused a prisoner swap for him. Before capture Yakov tried to commit suicide but failed. Prompting Stalin to say "he can't even shoot straight"
@@Barricade379 Yeah, Some think he might of hated that particular son because of his mother which Stalin was apparently pretty broken up over her dying.
Years ago when I was reading a history about the Soviet Union, I felt very similar reading about Beria’s death as I felt years later watching Geoffrey choke to death on Game of Thrones.
I can't decide if this is a good quality computer-generated voice-over, or a real person doing the narration. Sounds oddly robotic if it's a real person.
Interesting leadership on soviet union. If you didn’t like your neighbor you just called NKVD and say he’s the enemy of the state and you heard him praising Trotsky. And just like that… no more neighbors.
The movie (Stalin 1992) depicted that part when Beria mocked Stalin as he dies, then dropped to his knees, kissed Stalin's hand and as he fades from consciousness then spits on the floor in disgust and walks out.
Because of Katyn the coalition between USA/GB and the USSR against Germany/Japan almost broke. As it is proved today there was a lot of trouble between the allies and if the support for the Soviets would have been stopped by the USA and GB it is a serious question how WW2 would had been continued.
The nasi also called in the Red Cross so there wasn't any bias reporting... The allies ie usa and uk Elitists Establishment hushed it up, and it was only a tiny minority of non famous journalists who tried to highlight it in the West but they were ignored in the mass media, right up to the fall of the Soviet Union when all became official because it was there in documents and the Russians admitted that the Soviets did mass kill Polands Elitists Establishment, the country that UK and FRANCE went to war for in 1939.
Thanks for this very well researched subject. I've trawled through written comments. I can't find a Russian contributor. Usually anything to do with how great they are, they leave lots of comments. Anything by their current leader for example. 👇 A "chip off the old block" of types shown in this video.
Cause Poland is an ally, and England and France made it public that if Germany invaded Poland England and France would support their Allies Ally Poland just like they backed and supported Belgium in WW1
England and France had got informations, that Hitler had betrayed Stalin in August 1939 with the treaty of nonagression and partionating Poland and planned to attack the USSR in June 1941. Therefore they knew very well, that they would get the best and mighty ally against Hilter, whom they could never defeat. Since November 1941 the USSR achieved its first big victory against the German Wehrmacht near Moscow. In January 1943 the German Wehrmacht lost its 6th Army with more then 250000 soldiers in Stalingrad. Now the British and the US Army were able in May 1943 to defeat the Germans and the Italians in Tunis and invade South Italy. When they landed in June 1944 in France, the Red Arny of the USSR had flung out the German from its territory and entteres Poland.
They don’t want to lose. You notice how many western nations that actually will send troops to ukraine. They don’t wNtvto snd cup looking like ukraine. Kalingrad is afmed to teeth with nuclear missiles pointed at every western capital from Kondon Paris Berlin etc Kalingrad is most fortified piece of land in world. And is defended by the three tier anti air systems rusdia uses. Including s500s Why no European nation actually engages Russia . They try to get an inexperienced actor to do so. Not an intended pun please forgive.
You know you are twisted and demented when Stalin is creeped out by you.
Silly little guy comment
@@greggibbons1113
Fan of Beria? Or fan of Stalin? Both?
To cut iron, one needs iron. Stalin was determined to end Hitler's Natzi Party rule in Germany. Isn't it? And there was no United Nations then, until after 1945.
Stalin was a great man.
@@LarzGustafsson He was Hitler fanboy though...( in the end )
The fact he’s called “Stalin’s Himmler” and Stalin of all people feared Beria especially near his children says enough about the man without having to write a book!
Stalin was a paranoid schizophrenic! 🤪 He was afraid of everyone! 😳👀
Agreed!
I think he thought Beria couldn’t control himself, he knew he could have him killed after he did something. But whatever Beria did would still be done and even that would make Stalin appear a little weaker.
Q - One of STALIN's MANY notorious "crypto" jews, aye?
Himmler was a saint compared to this creep.
There’s nothing more pathetic than a serial killer, serial rapist, and mass murderer begging for their life when it’s about to end
Yeah, most of them tend to do that, and then theres dirlewanger
Most of them cowards deep down 👇
All of them were mass murderers though, not just Beria.
So you prefer serial killers, serial rapists, and mass murderers that are stoic & unrepentant ?
That was Ted Bundy.
"The more i learn about people, the more i love my dog" -Mark Twain
Beria treated his opponents and their families much the same way as Biden is treating his.
Nonsense.
Of course, Dogs make better people than a lot of humans.
@@edemekwo2974And Trump treats his "friends!"
Biden's What Artificial Intelligence Is All About Or Artificial Life Maybe 😢😢@@edemekwo2974
I know it was a comedic drama but Simon Russel Beale’s portrayal of Beria was brilliant and often tragically humorous in “Death of Stalin”.
He played it so perfectly
Communism is a comedic tragedy.
@@Speegs23 No, if we try it again for the 20th Time it will work... I swear
It is a great film. Simon Russel Beale is too fat for the role honestly.
None of the photos I have seen of Beria show him to be obese like that.
That film is a masterpiece
My uncle was one of the victims from the Katyn Forest massacre. My aunt told me the story of how they came to her house and took my uncle away for questioning. They told her not to worry and that he would be back in a couple of hours but he never returned. I hope they tortured Beria before shooting him.
Your uncle was killed by Germans. After return of sovereignty to Russia (as you can see Pax Americana is being dismantled) there will be a flag change to red as well as a trial against Gorbachov for state treason and coup, including acceptance of fake responsibility of Russia for genoside of Polish in Katyn.
This assumes that Beria lived long enough to be tortured. It is also likely that he was executed on the spot during his "arrest" and the subsequent "trial" was fabricated.
@@jmi5969 - The Soviets had a procedure for ‘disappearing’ people, no doubt partly worked out by Beria. Pretty sure they followed it with Beria himself.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 Dear sir, what's the point of "disappearing" if the next planned step is a show trial? On the contrary, they strived to make an impression that the fall guy was still alive. Same with Beria's second-tier faithfuls - their trials were front-page news. Disappearance was reserved for the lesser folk.
@@jmi5969 - OK, good point. I meant the procedure for arresting folk was already tried and tested… a knock on the door at 4AM. Of course this procedure was much older than Beriya, being used since the mid-1800s if not earlier.
In the 1970's Beria's Moscow house was the Tunisian embassy. The ambassador's son was my classmate at the French school, and one day he gave me a 'tour' of Beria's underground facilities. Pretty gruesome place, you could see where prisoners were kept chained to the wall and tortured. A doorway that had been sealed with bricks supposedly once led to a tunnel that went straight to the Kremlin. I didn't know Beria's full story until now. I'm glad he got what he deserved in the end, but it's scary how people like him can rise to power and do the things he did, mainly in authoritarian regimes, and to see how authoritarianism is on the rise in our time.
Merrick Garland's Department of "Justice" here in the U.S. is following in Beria's footsteps with the "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" approach. I wonder how many of the Trump prosecutors are sexually depraved like Beria.
Is that any more barbaric than our drug companies killing babies to use for developing, testing, and manufacturing their drugs and vaccines? How many medications does the average 60, 70, or 80 year old take that exists because babies were murdered at some stage of the drugs' development? Is that any different from the Nazi "medical" experiments? The Nuremberg trials, lead by the US, convicted Nazis while in the US drug researchers were murdering babies as far back as the 1930s.
Only people like this raise to high ranks of totalitarian regime, especially with communism ideology. I recommend you to read Gregory Klymov's books, if you find them in English of course.
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liberals never watch or except these history video's as true, so they do everything to make it happen again. 😮
The Death of Stalin is a dark humour film of what happened after Stalins death ,I highly recommend it , it’s one of those films I can watch every 6 months or so and find something new.
How some things never change. I heard the movie was banned in Russia.
Same here!
You know what I think exactly the same. I find I can watch it weekly and still it's funny and there are new things that pop out
Brilliant film
That movie makes me laugh so hard my face hurts and feels like I may pass out😂
Probably one of the most depraved & debauched players in world history that most do not know of.
I if you at least passed high school you would have heard of Beria ...speak for youself
@@greggibbons1113 LOL. Certainly in Chicago you will have!
@@greggibbons1113 no in US high schools the tend you down play communist atrocities and focus only on the holocaust, colonialism, CRT and drag queens instead. ✊🏿🏳️🌈👩🏿🦰✊🏿💉✡️
The sob Oskar dirlewanger would like a word with you requesting to be included in that list.
@@adamferencszi797irlewanger was a criminal lowlife responsible for thousands of deaths. With Berija we are talking about someone actively proposing and executing the murder of more than 6million Russians alone. In total a lot more. There really is next to no comparison. Only Mao's China, Holocaust in total and Rouge Khmer come close to that carnage
It speaks volumes about the barbarism of Stalin and his underlings this man was allowed to exist all, let alone spend years in the top echelon if the Soviet government.
You think American politicians and clergy are any better?
@@leoperidot482 "Grab 'em by the Pussy."
@Leo Peridot whataboutism... really? Is this the best you got? How about Putin and the death on windows? 😂😂😂
Its a testement to how depraved and devilish the Soviet Union was. Its probably one of the most evil states in human history.
@@leoperidot482 America politicians 👃 plan to eventually exterminate whites - the new bourgeoisie.
A serial rapist , murderer , serial killer and finally a coward in the face of death. If there is a Hell, he is there for sure…..
Lord, have mercy...
@@SuperGreatSphinx Are you speaking on behalf of the devil? I'm pretty sure he doesn't want/trust Beria either.
The moral of the story is: no matter how well you serve an Ideology and State, your usefulness always runs out. Some of the most fervent Servants of our State should take note.
Most people who serve a cruel state die peacefully in their beds from old age.
It's the rare things that make history. Wishful thinking and rare anecdotes are no way to judge history.
For every one person who you think got karma there are thousands you have never heard of who lived their entire lives in luxury. Luxury gained by taking part in oppressing their own people.
Or dont let Bolshevik Jews take control of your gov.
Moral is Bolshevik Jews will still favor sending arms to Israel over making Russia better. They prefer ruling over ash piles than having a productive and happy worker class that they claim to represent.
In America are you referring to victims of the drug war? Or poverty? The assassinations of political leaders? Maybe foreign civilians indiscriminately bombed or oh ok victims of racial laws like black wall street and slavery? Because these crimes were more committed under religious authority not democratic.
@@edwardscott3262 Exactly. I like to say that self-preservation is both a blessing and curse. It's the root of all human problems.
It's good to know that Zhukov and Koniev were good enough men to see justice was done in the end. What a monster.
They were not remotely good, it was just a power play.
@@Aeternous I could be wrong, but Zhukov and Koniev were basically just professional soldiers. None of the historical accounts I have read about either man were particularly damning, and they certainly weren't monstrous by the relative standards of the Chekists or NKVD.
@@lashlarue7924professional soldiers is a good choice of words. They were certainly not ideologues like how you could describe almost all of those high up the party
@@HealthySkepticism777 indeed! 👍
@@lashlarue7924 Konev actually had a reputation for being a somewhat ruthless commander, a trait Stalin admired Konev for in addition to him being a skilled general.
The only complaint I have, this monster was given a very easy death. He should have been made to have a taste of what he did to so many.
Don't worry Stalin is here:
And if your eye is causing you to sin, throw it away; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell, where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished.
-excerpt Gospel of Mark chapter 9 - words of Jesus the Great King
V@@8784-l3bSo what you are telling me is that God is more evil than Beria.
I could never worship a God that tortures sentient beings for eternity.
@@briancarton1804
God sent His only Son to pay the price for your
sins, so you would have a chance to escape endless
pain. God was not obligated to do that.
But He was pierced for our offenses,
He was crushed for our wrongdoings;
The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him,
And by His wounds we are healed.
All of us, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the Lord has caused the wrongdoing of us all
To fall on Him.
-excerpt Isaiah 53
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not judged...
-excerpt Gospel of John chapter 3
-words of Jesus
@@briancarton1804as an Athiest, I personally believe that if hell did exist, you’d really have to work for it. Stalin and Beria don’t deserve your sympathy.
The history of USSR is a collection of violence, hatred for life and freedom, contempt of the law. Beria was just one of the best actors in this tragedy.
True.
Not at all after Stalin died. At least 95% of Soviet crimes were between 1918 and 1953 during the time the country was ruled by either the 2 Georgians - Stalin and Beria, or the Jews (all 4 top people of the Gulag system, majority of the government, majority of the secret police bosses, the leaders of Ukraine and Kazakhstan where the 2 biggest famines happened etc - all Jews).
@@mountainmama349 Stalin was one of the biggest masters of crime and evil in the entire human history, but this does not mean that life in the USSR was nice after he died. Dissidents were still sent in jail and even in asylums a lot after 1952. War crimes were committed during the invasions of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, torture and violations of human rights were common in many situations. The death of Stalin was for sure good news for the mankind, but evil is hard to eradicate and the death of the dictator did not stop it.
Literally Hell on earth 😈
The history is Bolshevik Jews hijacking a Slav empire from a royal family connected to the English Crown, trying to make their little Heaven on Earth, then failing, and having to get aid from goy America.
I was so happy to see that Tatiana Kirillovna Okunevskaya survived the Gulag. I have to say well done on pronouncing all these Russian names throughout this video.
Liked even before watching! And tears shed for his victims only👍👍
It was like a Game of Thrones in the SU back then, but I have to admit, today looks not much different. What is the deal with these people? Is power all they're bred to acquire? Sheesh!
Well said! Thanks for watching
@@ridethecurve55 the high position in the SU can seriously corrupt some peoples
He wasn't russian... He was georgian!
Beria was a cruel, evil man who used his malignant power to terrorize thousands of people over many years. Yet, when they came for him, he begged and wept for his life.
As my late father once said: "They all fall in the end." Beria was a human stain that was eventually erased.
Oddly enough one of the reasons why they may have moved on Beria was the fact that he was talking about defusing the Cold War, introduce small scale private business and reform the system in the long term. This probably scared the politburo more than his crimes did.
The point is that everyone in the system had blood on their hands, but were more concerned about a course change in politics than murder, rape and evil acts in the name of an ideology.
Никогда его имя не будет стёрто, он дал СССР ядерное оружие!
@@rotwang2000 According to many reports everyone hated Beria, Zhukov wanted payback for the attempted arrest on him by Beria, and the remaining Politburo were definitely unwilling to let a man who has so much blood on his hands just go away. The others, at least some of them had blood (Lazar and Molotov, they helped Stalin organize the purges and the Holodomor), but some like Malenkov and Khrushchev and Zhukov had little to no blood on their hands, whatever were were because the options were to obey and survive Stalin or be brutally murdered alongside your family.
But the thing is that in a Politburo surrounded by Stalinism, the only way you can have your way without suffering repercussions is by using the same accusations as were used in the system before, literally the only way to have your way when half of your Bureau is filled with neo-Stalinists. It was the only way Khrushchev could get rid of him, and begin destalinization.
To be described, playfully or otherwise as 'our Himmler' and to be so unpleasant that even Stalin, Stalin of all people was scared of you really says something.
Amazing they don't teach people about beria, yet we all know of himmler..
@@willambonney plenty still don't know about Himmler.
It's almost as if they want to protect socialism to try it again UHUMMM KLAUS SCHWAB UHUMMM
Poetic justice! I always warn people about doing other people’s dirty work. Read Machiavelli and what Cesar Borgia did to his lieutenant. Borgia put Remirro de Orco in charge of restoring order in Romagna, which he did well. However, Remirro de Orco was so cruel that everyone hated him, so to deflect bad feeling from himself, Borgia had him publicly executed.
A fascinating thing I noticed in my life in the public service was the deputies were often ruthless or a least the people who got things done. The head guy was the showman or the front and the deputy did the necessary work.
I spoke to many school principals but the deputy principals did the action.
A common tactic was to make an unpopular man your deputy. One example was Spiro Agnew was Nixon’s VP and nobody wanted him to be president.
Great video as always! I am glad you started with soviets! Good job and keep working! 👍
I lived in Moscow until last year, and lived across the Garden Ring from Beria's house. It's now an embassy. He used to cruise Moscow late at night and if he saw a girl on her own, he would pick her up, take her home, rape her and kill her. He also tortured and murdered plenty of others in the basement of his house. There were bathtubs for dissolving bodies. For decades afterwards embassy officers would report screams in the house late at night and, occasionally, the figure of a naked girl running toward the front door with her mouth open in a silemt scream. She would always disappear before reaching the door.
Edit: Oops, just reached this part in the video.
Yeah, you personally saw that. Especially bathtubs for dissolving bodies. Once again: Right after the war Beria was head of the Special Committee on developing and production of the atom bomb. Just try to understand what it was: developing and production of the atom bomb in a totally destroyed and ruined country and in a very short period of time. And time was of paramount importance: once again, Dropshot. Usually they like to say that Soviet spies stole the secret of the atom bomb OK, you are a Papuan on New Guinea. And you magically stole this secret. Would it be any help to you? Even if you have people for understanding what it is, you must build a whole bunch of industries to get materials suitable for the atom bomb. And you must find people capable of doing this, not mere charlatans who only promise and do nothing. You may say - what's the problem? Failed - shot . Ok, you shot this man and that one. But the result is absent! And you desperately need the result! No comparison to Manhattan project. For Americans this was no difference: have they the atom bomb, not have - the victory was guaranteed. For Hitler getting the atom bomb was equal to going to the Moon by foot. No chance. But for the postwar Soviet Union it was completely different: the USA was rapidly becoming a foe, it already had an atom bomb, very quickly produced them and developed plans of attacking the USSR. Are you able to understand responsibility which lied on that man - especially considering the fact that the word "failure" was impossible. The fate of the country was at stake. And responsibility is yours, personally yours. I highly doubt that in these circumstances you even not wanted women but simply had time for that. No ordinary man can't even comprehend this measure of responsibility.
The evils of Marxism in action.
Like how you made up that story
@@markmower1746 Chucklehead, you can look it up. It's public knowledge.
@@markmower1746 buckethead
I shed no tears for Laverntiy Beria. I hate Communist and sexual deviants.
The same here!
At last he got what was meant for hin.straight to hell. Burn MF burn.
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They were fascist
@ZombieDeathKick It's more like German and Italian Fascists in reality acted like communists. Takeover of industry. Central planning. Authoritarian lack of rights. Brutality.
I greatly enjoyed this episode. Growing up during the cold war I grew up very distrusting of the Russians. It bothers me greatly that the people running Russia today held High positions in the Soviet Union when the Curtain fell and our leaders want to overlook that Fact, and our younger citizens have no education about the empire they served. Please continue to post episodes about others like this individual and even those who followed after Stalin, a man who should get the twice press Hitler gets, for the atrocities he delivered unto his people.
So well said. I grew up with the cold war too, and I've never understood why so many people think communism is somehow ok but fascism is bad. It's because communism pretends to be sweet where as the fascists were honest about their evils. Liberty should never be negotiable.
Rambling nonsense...the worlds jews loved the Russians
@@greggibbons1113 Huh?
@@haroldcampbell3337 Not just the Rosenbergs but millions of world Jews loved the Russians like get real
You do not understand a thing.
"when the Curtain fell" -
the Curtain was declared by Churchill in Fulton. All social processes are managed so the Curtain was dismantled. Since traditional colonial powers (UK, USA, France, Germany...) failed to keep the promise to not move NATO to the East - to Russian borders - bolsheviks are now together with global predictor dismantling Pax Americana.
Beria was so brutal that the rest of the post-Stalin Politboro authorized his summary execution - to save their own skins👎
Baria is one of the few people I wish was still alive, and that he had been tortured this whole time
He is, just not here, he's been screaming for mercy since 1953 in Hades
Love the vid nice to see some Soviets. Too many peoole are unnaware of their crimes.
As an educated Slovenian to a Pole, thank you for saying Soviets instead of Russians. Among the bad guys in Soviet Union I found out only about 20 - 30 percent were Slavic Russians, even though they were 60% of the population. At least 95% of Soviet crimes were between 1918 and 1953 during the time the country was ruled by either the 2 Georgians - Stalin and Beria, or the Jews (all 4 top people of the Gulag system, majority of the government, majority of the secret police bosses, the leaders of Ukraine and Kazakhstan where the 2 biggest famines happened etc - all Jews).
@@mountainmama349Oy vey, how dare you notice those things goy! I’m reporting you to the ADL for antisemitism.
Thank you for sharing
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Now we’re exposing Soviet villains!! How exciting! Please allow me to say…
I shed no tears for Lavrenty Beria.
Its about time to start sharing stories of the "collective west" politicians.....
Nor did anyone else.
@@peaceforeverybody5433 No.
he wanted to be a hero, but went to zero
Good one :))
By the way, the secret of the long political life of Beria was in that he wasn't only head of the secret police. In fact, for the big part of the postwar Stalin era he had no relation to the secret police. His main job during the war and after the war was in the industry. He was the head of the so-called Special Committee - the emergency government body responsible for the developing and production of the atom bomb. You there know such codename as Dropshot? By the way, this was Beria's weakness: he knew very well the leading persons in industry - literally by name - but he very badly knew the party cadres, the party apparatus.
Beria perfectly knew everything. He also was aware of state treason and coup of communists against bolsheviks in 1953.
A very sad story. However if one wants to see it portrayed in a lighter fashion, the movie "The Death of Stalin" is absolutely hysterical. It covers the Beria situation within it.
The best comedy movie of the last twenty years.
Did anyone else chuckle at the phrase Soviet Supreme Court?
No, because it's more complex than you make it out to be.
As opposed to the US supreme court? 😂
it is incredible how such people were at the elm of a state 'of the people'
The sheer amount of evil that culminated at relatively short period of time all at once…. where beasts in human form took power is just bewildering
The small hats chosen people Bolsheviks took power
We may see reincarnation soon as the marxist elites are dreaming again in 2024...wake up people...
Do Your research. Poland NEVER surrendered. Not like France or any other nation conquered by Hitler. Poland never surrendered.
Yes they did. Fleeing to England equals surrendering. The most horrible crimes were committed in Poland, and man assisted the Nazis. The poles are depicted as pigs in Maus for a reason.
They capitulated.
A finer example of the "New Soviet Man" has never lived.
What a huge disappointment to his parents.
Good afternoon, and Thank You. I'm learning So Much from your videos! It's greatly Appreciated!
Thank you Renee. Glad to have you here :)
@@WorldHistoryVideos Thank You!
This beast of a man was a character without name in an excellent novel "The Eighth LIfe" merely referred to as the little bald man with glasses. Stalin is referred to as the the man called steel. The Novel depicts how lives are altered under a totalitarian rule.
I know you'd know this, but to lend credence to what you're saying, "Stalin" is a near 1:1 translation of "Man of Steel", his actual birth name was "Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili". I have ADHD so I've yet to get started on a reading list, but I'm considering getting Audible if they're not censorious, I want to read/hear the works of Cormac McCarthy (some of his books have been made into movies, one of which; "No Country For Old Men" is widely considered one of the greatest movies of all time which I agree with entirely) as well "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" if I can get it narrated by Harlan Ellison, I'll add "The Eighth Life" to the list and hopefully get around to it by the end of the year :)
(gotta make your goals realistic)
What's tragically comic about all dictatorships, especially communist, is that those that rose up through the government ranks quickly due to a special talent in murdering people, and for a time wield a significant amount of power, continuing to rise, will ultimately be brought down hard by someone who is more badass. These leaders are able to wipe out their competition by being better at establishing relationships with the key people that will enable them to do so. In addition, I find it notable that when leaders that are not Russian, inherit power, they turn out to be the most bloodthirsty of all.
Stalin had this weird habit of hiring awful people to do awful things, and then killing them for going to far.
Scapegoats, that's why he took them. When their usefulness came to an end, Stalin could portray them as criminals that he didn't know what they were doing. Of course he knew what they were doing but that was the ruse he used
One quote by Stalin
"I don't trust anyone. Not even myself"
Stalin himself was also very weird 😢
@@ronaldmessina4229 Not the word I would ever associate with Stalin. Or even with Hitler, Kim Jung-Un, Assad, Mussolini, Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, Mao Zedong and some other murderous dictators
@@Barricade379 Some historians theorize that had Stalin lived, he would have done another purge, this time getting rid of Beria and possibly Voroshilov. Not sure why the latter. But Stalin was paranoid. The theory goes on to say that the "Doctor's Plot" would have been Stalin's "Final Solution" and that he planned to attack Western Europe and start the next world war.
too far
Remarkably Molotov survived long enough to write his memoir-well into his seventies.
"No tears were shed. . . ."
It seems he thought everyone hated Stalin as much as he did. In that he was most likely right, except that they all hated him more.
Can you please do a documentary on the Aleutian campaign during world War 2 my great grandfather was a officer when his regiment was sent there to take back attu and kiska islands from the imperial Japanese army
Absolutely the best content you have ever created and I’m saying this in 2024 so I know this was the peak of performance has yet to be match many years later
He would have gotten away with all, if he hadn't risen to power where he became a risk to Khrushchev.
A superb and chilling piece of reportahe. History thanks you❤
Kevin, thank you :)
Thank you for great video. Your quality is amazing. You are top historical channel on RUclips!
Lol, Mark Felton's channel is miles better. This 'comedy voice' channel is painting by numbers by comparison.
Stalin and Beria were both Georgians. WTF is going on there and what makes that place produce so much evil?
thanks for the video
"Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime!" ... Alright, the man is You!
Stalin and Beria were among history's greatest monsters, but Stalin became a monster. Beria was *always* a monster, right from the moment he drew breath. Russia could've ended up a democracy after 1905 and Stalin could've been a priest, and Beria would still have been a serial killer. Stalin was an immense evil, but Beria was evil incarnate
The Russians threw God out of their borders, as Saint Faustina says and they were left on the hands of the devil and his minions
20,000 children has died in Gaza last 6 months
@@jacobjorgenson9285and your mother prefers arab men instead of your father.
@jacobjorgenson9285 20,000 vs 25 million or more 😂 also Palestine laughed at the victims of 9/11. They don't deserve any love
Watch now one of my favorite movies "the Death of Stalin" a hilarious movie, very loosely based on, fact? Jason Isaacs steals the show as Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
I just LOVE ❤THE narrators voice so much !
Is that narrator actually human? He pronounces very well in at least 3 languages and probably more.
It sounds like British English until he pronounces 'Moscow' as 'Moscauw' then it's probably AI...although it should really be 'Moskva' :)
@@blunderbusssi9587 And "fife" instead of "five"...I guess AI
An absolute monster
True
And Russia is still a hell hole run bij psychische stoornissen
What monsters these people were. Thank heaven for Gorbachov.
@Rob 57 Take a deep breath, Robby. Now exhale and calm down. His comment wasn't some blanket approval of everything that the Soviets did.
@Rob 57 One year after his inauguration, Gorbachev pardoned all political prisoners in the Soviet union. He was the one to put an end to the gulag system.
@Rob-fd5oxhow many hospitals did the US bomb in Afghanistan?
Gorbachow will be sued. The flag will become Red.
@@TheRVSN We were happy to not have a nuclear threat hanging over us after 30 odd years of it. 89 represented to us that threthreat was diminished.
This balding, clean-shaven man in glasses could easily be fit into the character of an unassuming small-town school-teacher. Who could have imagined that there was a sadistic monster hidden under his seemingly plain external appearance?
12:26 *Beria as a sexual deviant/predator*
Chris Hansen: Please have a seat
Baria was a real sadist and was hated by most of the Soviet Elite and Military Leadership.
In Western countries we hear never ending stories about Nazi atrocities but scant information about the Soviet State pre WW2 and the couple o-f decades after 1945 which of course was equally barbaric. I’ve a theory about that.
It's because in the West, Leftists are constantly pushing Socialism and Communism. Especially in the Media and colleges. They are unwilling to discuss where these philosophies eventually end, with piles of corpses. What Leftist revolutionaries don't understand is that the quest for unbridled power always ends the same way. They start by "allegedly correcting the "faults" of capitalism only to consume their own.
What Leftists don't understand is that if you are willing to sign the death warrant (to prove your loyalty to the revolution) for somebody you have known for 20 years as a friend, they will do the same thing against you.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
I believe the 1930s were the worst. So much blood was spilt in WW2 that even the Soviets were sick of it by 1945. Didn’t stop them of course, but things softened considerably after Stalin passed in 1953.
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You said all that without mentioning Jews. Good job.
@@greggstrasser5791 I get it. It is true that there were many Jews who were Communists. However, we have to also admit that in China (Mao) and Vietnam (Pol POT) there were very few Jews.
I assume you will say that "they started it." Perhaps. But Warlords have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. They consumed their power the same way Communists do. (Kim Jong Un).
Communism is just an excuse for power, just as "climate change" is just a system to get power. It has nothing to do with climate.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
@@greggstrasser5791yeah too many pay attention to Jews thinking it’s part of some conspiracy
Roy Cohn mentor ....gets de-barred just hours before he died. That is POWER
By describeing Beria as "our Heinrich Himmler", Stalin describes himself as the Soviets' Adolf Hitler.
He was there’s no denying that’s for sure
And there are still people who believe the USSR was better for Russia than the monarchy. 🙄🙄🙄
Makes sense monarchy and serfdom are moronic. What's crazy is people can look at Stalin and still support far right ultra nationalism.
@@eatfrenchtoast you don't know your left from your right , just embarrassing
@JamesSmith-ui2hv No he knows exactly what he's talking about.
From what I heard somewhere Lavrenti Baria was the inspiration for the character " Boris Badinov ", in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. They wore the same kind of hat anyway.
But President Truman was right. "If you want a good friend in Washington [ or Moscow], get a dog" 😅😅
Not true. Boris Badinov character was based on AkimTamiroff.
He was almost certainly executed weeks before his trial, in a summary execution to avoid keeping him alive and the risk his allies would support him. The person on trial and then executed was likely to be an unfortunate actor told if he went along with it then he would be released.
The greatly feared henchman of Stalin who left a wretched trail of rape and murder in his wake, begged for mercy and got none. A rather fitting end for a warped, degenerate sexual predator and psychopath...
We don't really know that, it is just what his enemies said, and portraying him as a coward at the end served their purpose.
@@Tugela60 So Beria was some sort of saint in the midst of Stalin's warped culture of torture and death? Really?🤔Where there's smoke there's fire...
@@GTX1123 He was not a saint, none of them were, but we can't know if he was as bad as they rest made him out to be. Remember, they wanted a scapegoat to blame for everything that had happened up to then, so him and Stalin served that purpose. It made the rest of them look like the good guys, so for them there would be no reckoning, at least for the time being. We can't know if everything, or anything for that matter, of what they said was true. It was necessary to paint him as black as possible so they could rationalize getting rid of him without anyone getting upset.
@@Tugela60 You don't wield the kind of power Beria did without being a psychopath. Even if the accusations of rape were false, he reaped what he sowed; i.e. the same game of false accusations he used to condemn many people came back on him.
@GTX1123 That is not really an appropriate comparison, it is more accurate to generally describe it as sociopathy, which applied to all of them. There can be and probably were psychopaths among them, but it is not necessarily the case. You have to remember that it was the system doing it, and they were along for the ride. They are of course responsible for their personal actions, but those personal actions are dictated by the system. Those kinds of systems are usually not kind to those who buck the rules, so to survive and prosper they had to be part of it, as did everyone else in the country. Autocracy is a hungry beast, it consumes everyone. The only real opportunity to do things differently would be to be the one who filled the power vacuum when the last top dog died, then there would be a chance to go a different route, but otherwise not, they had to perform the role they were assigned to perform.
Crazy how history repeats itself
History cannot repeat itself because it is a managed social process.
@@TheRVSN aaaa paranoia 🥵🥵🥵
Yes, Israel has killed 20,000 children in Gaza
A world run by psycopaths/sociopaths…. Leaders should be selected with much more care, for the good of all.
@riccardoc1711 good idea if you have the privilege of being able to vote for your choice, have a choice, having a fair election and being able to trust the people you are voting for.
In 2023 we have a demented coward who barks like a mean chihuahua and a lion being devoured by disease who might in desperation burn the world with nuclear fire because he bit off more than he can chew. In the corner a dictator of 1.3billion people prepares to feast on the carrion
Excellent as always.
Yet Putin just recently referred to this monster as national hero. Sick
Source?
@severianmonk7394 Putin's own words in 2023, when he referred to Beria as a hero.
Your sources?
Victoria Nuland, V. Zelenskyy and Lindsay Graham?
Beria misrepresented. See Vladimir Petrov defection.
I choose to believe that everything went down like I’m the movie “The Death of Stalin”???
It's appropriate that Katyn Forest isn't forgotten.
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
I am actually kind of surprised Stalin cared enough to tell his teen daughter to get out of the house with Beria.
He actually liked his daughters, It was his one son in particular that he hated.
@@Salt-Upon-Woundss His son was named Yakov. He was a prisoner by the Nazis. Stalin refused a prisoner swap for him. Before capture Yakov tried to commit suicide but failed. Prompting Stalin to say "he can't even shoot straight"
@@Barricade379 Yeah, Some think he might of hated that particular son because of his mother which Stalin was apparently pretty broken up over her dying.
@@Salt-Upon-WoundssHe hated all of his sons.
@@campusconservatives559 Hint: Stalin hated people. That's why he behaved as he did.
Years ago when I was reading a history about the Soviet Union, I felt very similar reading about Beria’s death as I felt years later watching Geoffrey choke to death on Game of Thrones.
Does knowing Netanyahu killing 20,000 Palestinians children the last 6 months sit well with you ?
I can't decide if this is a good quality computer-generated voice-over, or a real person doing the narration. Sounds oddly robotic if it's a real person.
Thanks a lot for the imformation that man really live up to is name (beria).
Repulsive human being top to bottom. I know its ahistorical but his execution in The Death of Stalin was immensely gratifying.
these are old school bolshevik methods imagine what they're doing now in the soviet union
Interesting leadership on soviet union. If you didn’t like your neighbor you just called NKVD and say he’s the enemy of the state and you heard him praising Trotsky. And just like that… no more neighbors.
We have that here in America to a lesser extent. It’s called red flag laws and it’s abused all the time
@@hellaacapella maybe in California if your muffler smokes
There were no tears shed for Lavrentiy Beria!
See the satirical "Death of Stalin." The execution of Beria is tragicomedy.
Love the comedic parody narrator's voice. Nice modulations. Very funny!
Funniest thing is he thinks he's serious.
Nothing has changed in ruSSia.
The movie (Stalin 1992) depicted that part when Beria mocked Stalin as he dies, then dropped to his knees, kissed Stalin's hand and as he fades from consciousness then spits on the floor in disgust and walks out.
"The Nazis discovered a mass grave". I have never heard anything more hilarious.
Because of Katyn the coalition between USA/GB and the USSR against Germany/Japan almost broke.
As it is proved today there was a lot of trouble between the allies and if the support for the Soviets would have been stopped by the USA and GB it is a serious question how WW2 would had been continued.
The nasi also called in the Red Cross so there wasn't any bias reporting... The allies ie usa and uk Elitists Establishment hushed it up, and it was only a tiny minority of non famous journalists who tried to highlight it in the West but they were ignored in the mass media, right up to the fall of the Soviet Union when all became official because it was there in documents and the Russians admitted that the Soviets did mass kill Polands Elitists Establishment, the country that UK and FRANCE went to war for in 1939.
May sound "hilarious" to some people, I admit... Who cares for the countless mass graves in Siberia and "Mao China"....?
@@wolfimuller9849 True, the poor Nazis having to experience finding a mass grave. It must have been traumatic for them.
@@cuthbertjolly4859 "poor Nazis", "traumatic for them"....?? How weird.
Thanks for this very well researched subject.
I've trawled through written comments.
I can't find a Russian contributor.
Usually anything to do with how great they are, they leave lots of comments.
Anything by their current leader for example.
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A "chip off the old block" of types shown in this video.
Sounds like Joseph taught him well
Jagoda, Jezjov, Beria were all terrible beasts who begged to live but instead received all karma.
Please everybody read the book: Anton Antonov Ovseyenko / The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny . First hand account.
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My big question, if England and France went to war over Poland, why not also declare war on Russia?
Cause Poland is an ally, and England and France made it public that if Germany invaded Poland England and France would support their Allies Ally Poland just like they backed and supported Belgium in WW1
@@stephmishelle they really helped Poland during ww2 😂🤦🏻♂️ , left them getting liquidated by Germans Until Soviet Came
England and France had got informations, that Hitler had betrayed Stalin in August 1939 with the treaty of nonagression and partionating Poland and planned to attack the USSR in June 1941. Therefore they knew very well, that they would get the best and mighty ally against Hilter, whom they could never defeat. Since November 1941 the USSR achieved its first big victory against the German Wehrmacht near Moscow. In January 1943 the German Wehrmacht lost its 6th Army with more then 250000 soldiers in Stalingrad. Now the British and the US Army were able in May 1943 to defeat the Germans and the Italians in Tunis and invade South Italy. When they landed in June 1944 in France, the Red Arny of the USSR had flung out the German from its territory and entteres Poland.
@@WilloSNoack then Poland ended up being occupied by Russia for decades who also invaded Poland in 1939 with Germany 🤡
They don’t want to lose. You notice how many western nations that actually will send troops to ukraine. They don’t wNtvto snd cup looking like ukraine. Kalingrad is afmed to teeth with nuclear missiles pointed at every western capital from Kondon Paris Berlin etc Kalingrad is most fortified piece of land in world. And is defended by the three tier anti air systems rusdia uses. Including s500s Why no European nation actually engages Russia . They try to get an inexperienced actor to do so. Not an intended pun please forgive.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Live by the sword, I guess.
He makes Stalin look somewhat normal
The AI commentator makes this otherwise interesting doc non-audible...too bad.
Best video I've seen on Beria et al.