Lenin on his death bed: "Stalin, I don't think you should be the next leader. I'm afraid that the people won't follow you." Stalin: "Do not worry. Half of them will follow me. The other half will follow you"
Lenin: Don't let that jerk Stalin get the job of party leader. By the way, who did I make in charge of giving people their jobs? Guy: That would be Stalin Comrade Lenin: *Dies
Lenin had a complex view of Stalin. In his later years, he grew increasingly wary of Stalin’s concentration of power. In his “Testament,” written in late 1922 and early 1923, Lenin criticized Stalin’s authority and suggested that he be removed from his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Lenin believed that Stalin’s temperament and excessive power could be dangerous for the party and the revolution. Ultimately, Lenin’s concerns foreshadowed the authoritarian direction that Stalin would take after Lenin’s death in 1924.
Agreed but I wouldn't use "authoritarian" re. Stalin, I'd use "totalitarian". Lenin and other allied cadres like Trotsky were already authoritarian enough. Said that, it must be said that true socialism was only accomplished under Stalin.
Lenin warned about Stalin’s excessive power and suggested his removal from leadership, fearing he would abuse it. Imagine how history might have changed if Lenin’s warning was heeded!
"Hey, tell whoever I put in charge of giving people jobs not to put Stalin in charge. By the way, who did I put in charge of giving people jobs?" "That would be Stalin, sir." "*blech*" - From Oversimplified's video on the Russian Revolution
Granted Lenin is one to talk about excessive use of power his decrees agaisnt the press and religion aswell as formation of the Cheka and gulags formed the basis of all the apparatus Stalin would later exploit even further
Meh! I for one think that the seeds of Stalinism were already in Leninism. The authoritarian (not yet totalitarian) regime was created with the so-called October Revolution (which was a putsch after it became clear that the Bolsheviks only came second in the elections, and it was almost certainly a premature affair, triggering the civil war) and consolidated after the brutal annihilation of the Kronstadt rebels, who demanded exactly the soviet democratic program that the Bolsheviks had in theory. All that happened under Lenin's leadership, not yet Stalin's. Once you put a single party in power it's only normal that the regime becomes dictatorial and promotes its own worst dictators from within. Once again Platonism failed us. More radical democracy is needed also in communism and that's something that, for example, the Kurds and allies have learned and massively developed after the collapse of the USSR.
Lenin in deathbed, Lenin: Hey whoevever is in charge of giving people job tell him to never make Stalin next chairman. By the way, who's in charge of that? Assistant: That would be Stalin, sir. Lenin: BLEH!! 💀😵😵(Dies with this reaction)
Lenin though Stalin was a bullish foo he can use to get things done, and would be easily discard when the end was achieved by whatever means necessary. Little did he know the means that you achieved what you wanted very much had a will of its own. By the time he realized it, it was too late. And I highly doubt that even if Lenin was in good health that he would control Stalin, eventually he would be defeated like how Stalin defeated all of his rivals
Lenin's legacy was just too great to be challenged. At the time, if the choice was between Lenin and Stalin, they'd not even give a damn and throw Stalin out. Stalin could only begin defeating his rivals years into his reign, in 1929 Trotsky was gone, and then in 1932-1936 he used Genrikh Yagoda to keep the Party in place and justify minor purges after Sergei Kirov's assassination. And then he unleashed his trials, 1936-1938 where he killed all who dared to oppose him. He was already enemy-less when he falsely and via treason implicated Mikhail Tukhachevsky in crimes and had him executed but his paranoia took the better of him and continued purging until all his former "allies" like Rykov were executed (alongside 2 million citizens).
The story is interesting (and AFAIK truthful) but the main map is absolutely weird: Belarus ("White Russia", literally) was also a distinct republic, bolshevik and allied to Red Russia since day one of the German evacuation, while the areas of Russia controlled by the "Whites" fluctuated.
@@easyegg9760 He basically said that just because someone "f"'s Lenin, doesn't mean they understand Leninism". Although Molotov cleaned up the quote by saying that Stalin said "just because someone shares a bathroom with Lenin".
Koba in a job discussion with Lenin had let slip to him that, as he put it "My hand will not tremble."; that meant he was willing to eliminate anybody he had to to accomplish his task.
The authenticity of Lenin's Testament is very questionable because first of all it wasn't even called Lenin's Testament but was rather simply called Lenin's letter to the Congress. Secondly his other works which were dictated to his secretary by him during the same time frame had been signed like for example this _Better fewer, but better (January-March 1923) and On Cooperation (Jan 4-6 1923)_ but the Testament was unsigned and what did the Testament say about Stalin that he was too rude? He couldn't be entrusted power? Needless to say it would have been uncharacteristic for Lenin to criticize someone behind their back or conspire. Also taking matters personally and being offended or holding grudges would have been equally unlike him.
The root of all Stalinist arguments is whether classes and class struggle exist in countries where socialism has been established. Obviously, classes and class struggle still exist in socialist countries.
Stalin never actually officially took Lenin’s title as leader, but instead kept the title as General Secretary which became the de facto title used by all the other Russian dictators after Stalin during the USSR’s reign. He did add the title as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1941 due to the war situation at the time, but never gave up that position even after the war was over.
Stalin's rule stands as one of the most complex and chilling chapters in 20th-century history. A history documentary on him must dive deep into the brutal purges, the sweeping industrialization, and the iron-fisted control he wielded over the Soviet Union. Stalin's paradoxical legacy shows a leader who transformed a nation but at an unimaginable human cost. His leadership during WWII, while decisive, was marked by a disregard for human life that permeated his policies. To truly understand the Soviet Union's rise and the scars it left on its people, one must look beyond the victories and confront the stark reality of Stalin’s rule.
Lenin, much too late for his own good; proved, like Stalin's own mother, to be quite prophetic about that man they had in their midst- in a most alarmingly high number of ways!
Lenin: _I have no pride in you, who ruined everything my Revolution was doing to stop the bourgeoisie! Iosif, you were supposed to be my right hand man, but your loyalty shriveled up like your right hand, man! Our whole future was bright! You let your heart grow dark, and stopped the greatest revolution since the birth of Marx!_ _Hey, _*_obligatory!_*
Lenin thought he was totally unreliable; a brutal thuggish bully frankly; and someone who he really wondered what was wrong with him in the head: he sent him to a *mental hospital* for crying out loud; and the feedback Lenin got was that "Comrade Koba is PARANOID.", not only that, but this whole situation may have had something to do with an incident about some defecting Tsarist officers whom "Koba"/Stalin had had drowned in the Volga river; to which Lenin really did appear to reply "What is wrong with him?" and had him mentally evaluated.
The author stubbornly draws a map of Ukraine with Crimea, during the revolution the UPR did not control either the Crimea or the whole of Ukraine.And the Germans drew a map of Ukraine, up to the Kuban, although in fact they never knew in Kuban that they were part of Ukraine.
Here's where you got it *backwards* about Lenin's politics: he was NOT any sort of supporter of freedom: he pushed through that *all* "workers councils/"soviets" in Russian" be subordinated to the "Supreme Soviet" headed yes, by *him himself*; it was NOT any sort of free society: it was a *dictatorship*; and a very stupidly arranged one at that- it was TRULY inefficient in the extreme! Thing is; Lenin was playing at being pragmatic about how to attain his goals, but he absolutely did NOT want the average Russian nor former Tsarist subject to have any say at all! NO dictator has any real charity for any of his own group *in particular*, this's the rule, with no exceptions at all; every single time a dictator develops, he completely despises his own group *especially*!
8:45 welp you can even say that it started to deteriorate due to Stalin basically throwing polish-bolshevic war in 1920 when he chased glory instead of strategic objectives
At least both men, the faithfulness for communism political project in Russia gathered them. Stalin was a suitable successor of Lenin .he was a successful office administrator and a brilliant political systems organizer .but Leon Trotsky was a dreamy, revolutionary speaker and talkative ,successful militia organizer and leader..
Lenin did create the monster that Stalin was, in the end he tried to undo his mistake, but it was to late. This doesnt make what Lenin did less evil. Stalin was a real terror.
On the subject of Lenin's Testament, I feel rather skeptical that someone as ill as Lenin was supposed to be then could have written that. Is it more likely Lenin's wife was the main author?
Russia's always relied upon *buying not building* its means for warfare and other activities; that's why it was so weak in WW1; and it bought almost all of its means for war from Germany of all places; that meant that Germany had all they needed to beat Russia: namely knowledge of what they needed verses what they had in abundance- the reason why is the Russian leaders feared their people way more than foreign armies!
Lenin absolutely did NOT believe in allowing *anybody* self-rule; study the history of this all over again, buddy: he was even *more* autocratic than the Tsars!
"Hey, tell whovever is at charge of giving people jobs, to not appoint that jerk Stalin as leader of the party after I'm dead. Anyway, who did I appoint of giving in giving people jobs?" "That would be Stalin, sir." "Oh.... Blueeegghh!!"
I'm confused. If they had a deep love and understanding of Marxism, why weren't they Mensheviks. Mensheviks, as Orthodox Marxists, wanted to create a capitalist society that could industrialize and develop the economic and social necessities to support a communist state. Marx was thinking about places like Germany, Britain, or the United States when he was writing and very much NOT states that were barely out of serfdom, poorly educated, and underdeveloped.
Yes. To prove this just do a thought experiment. Was the average peasant or worker genuinely equal to Stalin or any communist party official? Not even remotely.
Socialism has 2 flaws its supporters refuse to engage with. While they compare their utopia world to the most flawed capitalism, capitalism has the entire population to rebounded from a recession. No single government can manage this which is why starvation, fear and tyranny always surface after resources or aid money dries up. This creates the flaw of impossible management. The second flaw is human nature isn't a hive mind. Eg) Socialists imagine their leader, but what if it were Trump? The differences in humans and concepts of labour have continually been debunked by economists
Its funny we all think Lenin Soviets would be better but ask yourself this. Would that Soviet had survived WW2? Remember Lenin was let go by the Germans in WW1 so he could sow discord and that he did. I think Stalin was the type of evil that came in the nick of Time to go toe to toe with the evil painter
It is debatable whether Russia would have been able to prepare for war if Stalin and the communists had not been in power. Perhaps, if the Tsar had remained in power, Russia would have supported Poland and fought together with the allies as in World War I. Hundreds of thousands of officers, engineers, and businessmen who could have created a military industry for Russia without the Gulags, repressions, and robbery of peasants would not have fled
Lenin: "Hey, tell whoever I hired to give out jobs to not let that jerk, Stalin, get control... By the way, who did I put in charge of handing out jobs?" Comrade: "That would be Stalin, sir" Lenin: 💀
1:59 *Lenin was born in Russia and **2:20** Stalin was born into Georgia* Wrong! *Both were from Russia only* *Current day Georgia was part of The Russian Empire aka Russia bruh* *Then by this logic Leon Trotsky was born in Ukraine.*
This is the issue these revolutionaries have with having a beast on their side, they have an outlandish view they can tame the beasts to their whim. This is fundamentally the biggest contrast between the American revolution war, to the French and the Russian revolution wars. First off, the founding fathers were mixed in still retaining some hope to be a part of the British empire but it was Parliament and King George III that pushed the American congress of the colonies to seek a resolution to make their own government that will listen to the people. Their priorities were first to not overthrow a monarchy, but to abolish it from the land they resided in. They didn’t seek vengeance but defending their rights that were being stripped from them just because they were colonies. The French attempted to make their king submit to the new government but the moment the king and queen attempted ed to flee the hostile environment, it broke whatever remaining trust their was and amplified giving power to the beasts of society. In the end, all of France paid the price, decades of hostility and suffering, revamping their republic, over and over. And did Karl Marx learn anything from this revolutionary war? Nope! In fact he amplified it and gave more power to the monsters of society to then butcher the term of “republic” into a loophole of a utopia of supposedly a class-less society yet not dropping the standards of a strict class regiment. And Lenin learned too late he looked at the wrong philosophies to inspire a revolution, he had the ideal environment of how Zsar Nicholas was handling things, but Lenin gave too much power to the beast, Stalin, and Stalin’s technique of ruling with an iron fist is how Lenin was bound to lose. And the outcome of Stalin’s regime is forever Lenin’s legacy to give that tyrant any hold of power in his revolution. The American founding fathers were not perfect, thank God they understood this and were able to bring anyone in any other founding father that got carried away with power. 🙏
Hey, wanna make video about how Islam and Christianity came to Indonesia? As an Indonesian, Islam didn't really come with trade like most of popular historians believe especially to what happened with my ethnic groups, an indigenous ethnic group in the middle of North Sumatran jungles and Bukit Barisan mountain range near the largest vulcanic lake in the world. In 1539, Aceh was having war against Portugal, during the war, Acehnese sultan wanted to dominate Sumatra and Islamize the entire island, Acehnese Sultanate invaded my ancestors's land when one of our king refused Islam. Aceh faced difficulties during the war since my ancestors were known for their tropical jungle fighting skill, then they bought & hired Ottoman weapons & mercenaries to invade us, our people freaked out then asked Portugal to help 'em to stop the invasion of Aceh and Ottoman Empire. In the 1810s during Padri War, an Islamic civil war in Minangkabau, Padri soldiers heard a cannibalistic pagan tribes in the middle of North Sumatra who remained as pagans, the Padris sent envoys to our kingdom to demand our people to leave our paganistic religion and became Muslims but got rejected. After the rejection, Padri soldiers invaded our kingdom and massacred 200.000 people and arrested our king, when he refused Islam, they executed our king for not accepting Islam, they brutally ransacked our villages/cities & massacred my ethnic groups who refused their religion. They were failed to conquer us when a cholera outbreak happened thanks to dead bodies that leaked cholera. After they failed to conquer us, our ancestors were devastated after watching our ransacked kingdoms and dead relatives even cholera outbreak happened and severely decimated our population. My ancestors became hostile towards outsiders/foreigners. Years later, a couple of US Baptist missionarists came and introduced Christianity. Too bad, the locals thought they were another hostile foreigners/outsiders and they caught & ate them. Before Christianity came, my people were pagans who had cannibalistic culture/rituals. My ancestors conducted cannibalism towards people who did terrible crimes such as rape, murder, or treason. A defendant was brought in front of judge, if the judge found the defendant conducted heinous crimes, he/she would be tied on an altar then a shaman who was also executioner would recited some mantras and slashed the defendant's body before beheading him/her and being eaten by people. POWs were also eaten back then. Before Christianity, my ancestors believed if we ate people, it'd grant us magical strength. We also did child sacrifice ritual by sacrificing li'l boys to gain black magic. Besides cannibalism and child sacrifice, my ancestors were known as jewellery makers and weavers. A German missionarist came and introduced Christianity among my people. He built schools, hospitals, etc. But a lot of kingdom citizens hated him coz Christianity could destroy our culture and religion such as our cannibalistic rituals. There're some reports that some people tried to assassinate him to stop Christianity from destroying our old faiths and culture but failed. Cannibalism and child sacrifice were eventually banned when Dutch colonial regime imposed anti cannibalism law towards us after annexing us in the 1907. If Christianity never came, perhaps my people would still do capital punishment in form of cannibalism and child sacrifice. Unlike other Indonesian regions which were colonized for 350 years, we only got conquered in 1907 when Dutch soldiers succesfully assassinated our priest king. Dutch faced difficulties at fighting a cannibalistic nation in the middle of Sumatran jungles near the largest lake in Indonesia
@dragosstanciu9866 For whom? For the rich? I'm not a sucker. Guess that even with the world on the brink of wide war (again for hitting the unbareble consequences of the capital accumulation and imperial expansion) you guys still can't snap out of it. Once this happens, I'm down to a honest discussion.
@@dragosstanciu9866 For whom? For the rich? I'm not a s**ker. Guess that even with the world in the brink of wide war (again for hitting the unbareble consequences of the capital accumulation and imperial expansion) you guys still can't snap out of it. Once this happens, I'm down to a honest discussion.
That video lost 100% of it's credibility, when a 1991 borders Ukraine map appeared as a separate country in a video discussing WWI and WWII periods... Is there anything you people wouldn't do to stay in the frameworks of the propaganda? :)
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Lenin on his death bed: "Stalin, I don't think you should be the next leader. I'm afraid that the people won't follow you."
Stalin: "Do not worry. Half of them will follow me. The other half will follow you"
Good one😅
Crazy thing is. He actually said this to Lenin after he died!!
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When Communist kept asking Joseph what he thought of Lenin he never answered...he just kept Stalin .
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Lenin: Don't let that jerk Stalin get the job of party leader. By the way, who did I make in charge of giving people their jobs?
Guy: That would be Stalin Comrade
Lenin: *Dies
Oversimplified
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@@caleb97484 YESS
Lenin had a complex view of Stalin. In his later years, he grew increasingly wary of Stalin’s concentration of power. In his “Testament,” written in late 1922 and early 1923, Lenin criticized Stalin’s authority and suggested that he be removed from his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Lenin believed that Stalin’s temperament and excessive power could be dangerous for the party and the revolution. Ultimately, Lenin’s concerns foreshadowed the authoritarian direction that Stalin would take after Lenin’s death in 1924.
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Lenin’s testament critiqued all of the highest ranking soviet officials not just Stalin specifically which is why it was suppressed after his death
Lenin had a good idea. Sadly, he misunderstood the nature of humans: to submit others.
Agreed but I wouldn't use "authoritarian" re. Stalin, I'd use "totalitarian". Lenin and other allied cadres like Trotsky were already authoritarian enough.
Said that, it must be said that true socialism was only accomplished under Stalin.
do ppl not understand that this is simply chatgpt? seriously
Lenin warned about Stalin’s excessive power and suggested his removal from leadership, fearing he would abuse it. Imagine how history might have changed if Lenin’s warning was heeded!
"Hey, tell whoever I put in charge of giving people jobs not to put Stalin in charge. By the way, who did I put in charge of giving people jobs?"
"That would be Stalin, sir."
"*blech*"
- From Oversimplified's video on the Russian Revolution
Granted Lenin is one to talk about excessive use of power his decrees agaisnt the press and religion aswell as formation of the Cheka and gulags formed the basis of all the apparatus Stalin would later exploit even further
Meh! I for one think that the seeds of Stalinism were already in Leninism. The authoritarian (not yet totalitarian) regime was created with the so-called October Revolution (which was a putsch after it became clear that the Bolsheviks only came second in the elections, and it was almost certainly a premature affair, triggering the civil war) and consolidated after the brutal annihilation of the Kronstadt rebels, who demanded exactly the soviet democratic program that the Bolsheviks had in theory. All that happened under Lenin's leadership, not yet Stalin's.
Once you put a single party in power it's only normal that the regime becomes dictatorial and promotes its own worst dictators from within. Once again Platonism failed us. More radical democracy is needed also in communism and that's something that, for example, the Kurds and allies have learned and massively developed after the collapse of the USSR.
@@scotandiamapping4549Oversimplified reference
I imagine Leninist Russia would had not survived WW2. It was a double edge sword situation in the nick of time
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That's really a thorny issue TBH, considering the fake secularism and brutal genocidal tendencies of the Young Turks.
@@AltaicGigachad Yes. Lenin was of Chuvash descent
@@AltaicGigachad Lenin was Russian, Kalmyk ( not chuvash), Jewish and Swedish
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Lenin and Stalin liked their politics, but didn’t like their performances
Stalin complaining about Lenin's smallish stature while Lenin being 165 in height and Stalin 165-168 is just so funny
Stalin did get someone who was super tall to play him in soviet films lol
"well im pretty tall in my own mind hehe"
he was 172, what are you on about and why do you like lying so much?
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Lenin in deathbed,
Lenin: Hey whoevever is in charge of giving people job tell him to never make Stalin next chairman. By the way, who's in charge of that?
Assistant: That would be Stalin, sir.
Lenin: BLEH!! 💀😵😵(Dies with this reaction)
Oversimplified reference
Oversimplified 🤣🤣🤣
Not gonna forget this 😂
Assistant: Whoa, Deja Vu 😮
Lenin though Stalin was a bullish foo he can use to get things done, and would be easily discard when the end was achieved by whatever means necessary.
Little did he know the means that you achieved what you wanted very much had a will of its own. By the time he realized it, it was too late. And I highly doubt that even if Lenin was in good health that he would control Stalin, eventually he would be defeated like how Stalin defeated all of his rivals
Lenin's legacy was just too great to be challenged. At the time, if the choice was between Lenin and Stalin, they'd not even give a damn and throw Stalin out. Stalin could only begin defeating his rivals years into his reign, in 1929 Trotsky was gone, and then in 1932-1936 he used Genrikh Yagoda to keep the Party in place and justify minor purges after Sergei Kirov's assassination. And then he unleashed his trials, 1936-1938 where he killed all who dared to oppose him. He was already enemy-less when he falsely and via treason implicated Mikhail Tukhachevsky in crimes and had him executed but his paranoia took the better of him and continued purging until all his former "allies" like Rykov were executed (alongside 2 million citizens).
The story is interesting (and AFAIK truthful) but the main map is absolutely weird: Belarus ("White Russia", literally) was also a distinct republic, bolshevik and allied to Red Russia since day one of the German evacuation, while the areas of Russia controlled by the "Whites" fluctuated.
Lenin was probably unimpressed and Meh about Stalin until Stalin cussed his wife openly. Stalin is honestly lucky that didn't end him.
lol do you remember what he said to her? I read about it in a biography not too long ago but can’t remember the specifics
@@easyegg9760 He basically said that just because someone "f"'s Lenin, doesn't mean they understand Leninism". Although Molotov cleaned up the quote by saying that Stalin said "just because someone shares a bathroom with Lenin".
Lenin warned in a letter that Stalin should be kept from power, but Stalin of course made sure that this statement was never made public.
Lenin and Stalin were two differently thinking philosophers.
Stalin thought about when Lenin would release new album.
Koba in a job discussion with Lenin had let slip to him that, as he put it "My hand will not tremble."; that meant he was willing to eliminate anybody he had to to accomplish his task.
The authenticity of Lenin's Testament is very questionable because first of all it wasn't even called Lenin's Testament but was rather simply called Lenin's letter to the Congress. Secondly his other works which were dictated to his secretary by him during the same time frame had been signed like for example this _Better fewer, but better (January-March 1923) and On Cooperation (Jan 4-6 1923)_ but the Testament was unsigned and what did the Testament say about Stalin that he was too rude? He couldn't be entrusted power? Needless to say it would have been uncharacteristic for Lenin to criticize someone behind their back or conspire. Also taking matters personally and being offended or holding grudges would have been equally unlike him.
yes the "testament" was sus
it may have been made up by Zinoviev
The academic, Stephen Kotkin agrees and suggests in his multi-part biography of Stalin that Krupskaya may have played her part in concocting it.
I always got mixed up with the ideology of Lenin and Stalin this video has actually solved my confusion thank you
Nicely done video
Very informative and good for my A Level History
Nice reference in the thumbnail
The root of all Stalinist arguments is whether classes and class struggle exist in countries where socialism has been established. Obviously, classes and class struggle still exist in socialist countries.
Stalin never actually officially took Lenin’s title as leader, but instead kept the title as General Secretary which became the de facto title used by all the other Russian dictators after Stalin during the USSR’s reign. He did add the title as Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1941 due to the war situation at the time, but never gave up that position even after the war was over.
Stalin's rule stands as one of the most complex and chilling chapters in 20th-century history. A history documentary on him must dive deep into the brutal purges, the sweeping industrialization, and the iron-fisted control he wielded over the Soviet Union. Stalin's paradoxical legacy shows a leader who transformed a nation but at an unimaginable human cost. His leadership during WWII, while decisive, was marked by a disregard for human life that permeated his policies. To truly understand the Soviet Union's rise and the scars it left on its people, one must look beyond the victories and confront the stark reality of Stalin’s rule.
🤔 . . . Do a part two of this video. I want to see a checklist of sorts & such.
Literally Animal Farm
Amazing 🎉
Marriages of convenience rarely end well
Very interesting
Lenin, much too late for his own good; proved, like Stalin's own mother, to be quite prophetic about that man they had in their midst- in a most alarmingly high number of ways!
Damn, Lenin without the stasche looks like Antonio Banderas.
Lenin: _I have no pride in you, who ruined everything my Revolution was doing to stop the bourgeoisie! Iosif, you were supposed to be my right hand man, but your loyalty shriveled up like your right hand, man! Our whole future was bright! You let your heart grow dark, and stopped the greatest revolution since the birth of Marx!_
_Hey, _*_obligatory!_*
Stalin perversely may have seen Lenin's rebuking letters as his idea of a hilarious joke- he really had a strange and deadly sense of humor!
Lenin thought he was totally unreliable; a brutal thuggish bully frankly; and someone who he really wondered what was wrong with him in the head: he sent him to a *mental hospital* for crying out loud; and the feedback Lenin got was that "Comrade Koba is PARANOID.", not only that, but this whole situation may have had something to do with an incident about some defecting Tsarist officers whom "Koba"/Stalin had had drowned in the Volga river; to which Lenin really did appear to reply "What is wrong with him?" and had him mentally evaluated.
The author stubbornly draws a map of Ukraine with Crimea, during the revolution the UPR did not control either the Crimea or the whole of Ukraine.And the Germans drew a map of Ukraine, up to the Kuban, although in fact they never knew in Kuban that they were part of Ukraine.
If you make a monster, don’t be surprised when you get hurt.
It’s actually been strongly considered recently that Lenin didn’t even leave a last testament, but rather his wife foraged it pretending to be Lenin.
The biggest historical what if. What if Lenin lived another ten years. Would the Soviet Union still be going today. Would it be worse or better?
Here's where you got it *backwards* about Lenin's politics: he was NOT any sort of supporter of freedom: he pushed through that *all* "workers councils/"soviets" in Russian" be subordinated to the "Supreme Soviet" headed yes, by *him himself*; it was NOT any sort of free society: it was a *dictatorship*; and a very stupidly arranged one at that- it was TRULY inefficient in the extreme!
Thing is; Lenin was playing at being pragmatic about how to attain his goals, but he absolutely did NOT want the average Russian nor former Tsarist subject to have any say at all! NO dictator has any real charity for any of his own group *in particular*, this's the rule, with no exceptions at all; every single time a dictator develops, he completely despises his own group *especially*!
I would argue that Lenin had begun to take a dim view of Stalin after Trotsky blamed him for the loss of the Russo-Polish War.
I wonder what Lennon thought of Lenin
8:45 welp you can even say that it started to deteriorate due to Stalin basically throwing polish-bolshevic war in 1920 when he chased glory instead of strategic objectives
Classes and class struggle still exist in socialist countries, otherwise the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries would not have disintegrated
At least both men, the faithfulness for communism political project in Russia gathered them. Stalin was a suitable successor of Lenin .he was a successful office administrator and a brilliant political systems organizer .but Leon Trotsky was a dreamy, revolutionary speaker and talkative ,successful militia organizer and leader..
Never listen to an american talk about other countries politics, ever.
I laughed when he said Lenin wanted a "communist state" and that he murdered millions 😂
@UnlistedTTV communism is a purge followed by starvation after third party money is exhausted
Oh yeah what a great guy Lenin was.
Stalin was the closest disciple of lenin. Unlike menshvik Trotsky. He followed lenin and became a loyal leninist successor
Lenin did create the monster that Stalin was, in the end he tried to undo his mistake, but it was to late.
This doesnt make what Lenin did less evil. Stalin was a real terror.
That he was an unsophisticated thug, but one that is on his side.
Where are the sources for what Stalin said when meeting Lenin? I have never heard that.
I still think Stalin posioned Lenin
Stalin may've even caused Lenin's death come to think of it.
1. There was NOTHING brilliant about Lenin
you get to make this statement
when you also succeed in seizing power and establish a large empire filled with your statutes
Yeah, he just randomly spawned at the head of a super power
On the subject of Lenin's Testament, I feel rather skeptical that someone as ill as Lenin was supposed to be then could have written that. Is it more likely Lenin's wife was the main author?
Bro really used the same thumbnail style from the Kaiser Wilhelm vs Painter from Austria video 💀
Good old Big J
Lol they met at Tampere 😂
lenin was gone too soon
Russia's always relied upon *buying not building* its means for warfare and other activities; that's why it was so weak in WW1; and it bought almost all of its means for war from Germany of all places; that meant that Germany had all they needed to beat Russia: namely knowledge of what they needed verses what they had in abundance- the reason why is the Russian leaders feared their people way more than foreign armies!
Lenin absolutely did NOT believe in allowing *anybody* self-rule; study the history of this all over again, buddy: he was even *more* autocratic than the Tsars!
Good luck with showing me historic period which has ukraine borders in shape presented in your map
Obviously the map is wrong. There was a Ukrainian People's Republic between 1918-1921 but it did not include Crimea.
Y’all will say anything online but don’t have the balls to do it in person lol
@@zachlittle5841 it's fascinating how comments can give away someones skin colour so easily. Damian is correct, so what is the problem expert?
@@abcogien maybe I miss interpreted? It sounded to me like he was saying Ukraine was part of Russia and not its own nation
@@zachlittle5841 I do not care about any country I only point that someone try to alter history to match current situation
Lenin was more fine. While Stalin was a dictator
Socialism is dictatorship of the state. Human nature always takes it that way.
All socialist governments end up as dictators.
"Hey, tell whovever is at charge of giving people jobs, to not appoint that jerk Stalin as leader of the party after I'm dead. Anyway, who did I appoint of giving in giving people jobs?"
"That would be Stalin, sir."
"Oh.... Blueeegghh!!"
I'm confused. If they had a deep love and understanding of Marxism, why weren't they Mensheviks. Mensheviks, as Orthodox Marxists, wanted to create a capitalist society that could industrialize and develop the economic and social necessities to support a communist state. Marx was thinking about places like Germany, Britain, or the United States when he was writing and very much NOT states that were barely out of serfdom, poorly educated, and underdeveloped.
My eyes hurt reading this
Lennin: Stalin is a stupid bore. A grayish blob in the background
In countries where the socialist system has been established, do classes and class struggle exist?
Yes. To prove this just do a thought experiment. Was the average peasant or worker genuinely equal to Stalin or any communist party official? Not even remotely.
Socialism has 2 flaws its supporters refuse to engage with. While they compare their utopia world to the most flawed capitalism, capitalism has the entire population to rebounded from a recession. No single government can manage this which is why starvation, fear and tyranny always surface after resources or aid money dries up. This creates the flaw of impossible management. The second flaw is human nature isn't a hive mind. Eg) Socialists imagine their leader, but what if it were Trump? The differences in humans and concepts of labour have continually been debunked by economists
Who’s the narrator?
Its funny we all think Lenin Soviets would be better but ask yourself this. Would that Soviet had survived WW2? Remember Lenin was let go by the Germans in WW1 so he could sow discord and that he did. I think Stalin was the type of evil that came in the nick of Time to go toe to toe with the evil painter
Ah yes, the necessary evil
It is debatable whether Russia would have been able to prepare for war if Stalin and the communists had not been in power. Perhaps, if the Tsar had remained in power, Russia would have supported Poland and fought together with the allies as in World War I. Hundreds of thousands of officers, engineers, and businessmen who could have created a military industry for Russia without the Gulags, repressions, and robbery of peasants would not have fled
Video #4 of me saying: Bro you must stop using AI to write your scripts
How do you know it's ai?
Stalin and his lover aged 13
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Chicken
Sesame or General Tsao's?
If that’s not free and fair, I don’t know what is
Oversimplified reference?
@@oliversherman2414 yup
@@caleb97484 nice one
Lenin
Stalin
Yelsin
Putin
Where the Oversimplified fans at
Lenin: "Hey, tell whoever I hired to give out jobs to not let that jerk, Stalin, get control... By the way, who did I put in charge of handing out jobs?"
Comrade: "That would be Stalin, sir"
Lenin: 💀
Both of them are psychopaths 😢
Uh no…
Sociopath vs Psychopath
4th 37 views only 🎉
1:59 *Lenin was born in Russia and **2:20** Stalin was born into Georgia*
Wrong!
*Both were from Russia only*
*Current day Georgia was part of The Russian Empire aka Russia bruh*
*Then by this logic Leon Trotsky was born in Ukraine.*
ukrain was a third the size at that time, most of it was russia.
There was a Ukrainian People's Republic between 1918-1921
1:45 duuuuuuuuuuurrrr.............deer irs muhkraine!
A threat too late to stop😂
Meaning?
You know the videos good if it has 7 likes and 3 views
This is the issue these revolutionaries have with having a beast on their side, they have an outlandish view they can tame the beasts to their whim.
This is fundamentally the biggest contrast between the American revolution war, to the French and the Russian revolution wars. First off, the founding fathers were mixed in still retaining some hope to be a part of the British empire but it was Parliament and King George III that pushed the American congress of the colonies to seek a resolution to make their own government that will listen to the people. Their priorities were first to not overthrow a monarchy, but to abolish it from the land they resided in. They didn’t seek vengeance but defending their rights that were being stripped from them just because they were colonies. The French attempted to make their king submit to the new government but the moment the king and queen attempted ed to flee the hostile environment, it broke whatever remaining trust their was and amplified giving power to the beasts of society. In the end, all of France paid the price, decades of hostility and suffering, revamping their republic, over and over. And did Karl Marx learn anything from this revolutionary war? Nope! In fact he amplified it and gave more power to the monsters of society to then butcher the term of “republic” into a loophole of a utopia of supposedly a class-less society yet not dropping the standards of a strict class regiment. And Lenin learned too late he looked at the wrong philosophies to inspire a revolution, he had the ideal environment of how Zsar Nicholas was handling things, but Lenin gave too much power to the beast, Stalin, and Stalin’s technique of ruling with an iron fist is how Lenin was bound to lose. And the outcome of Stalin’s regime is forever Lenin’s legacy to give that tyrant any hold of power in his revolution.
The American founding fathers were not perfect, thank God they understood this and were able to bring anyone in any other founding father that got carried away with power. 🙏
Hey, wanna make video about how Islam and Christianity came to Indonesia? As an Indonesian, Islam didn't really come with trade like most of popular historians believe especially to what happened with my ethnic groups, an indigenous ethnic group in the middle of North Sumatran jungles and Bukit Barisan mountain range near the largest vulcanic lake in the world. In 1539, Aceh was having war against Portugal, during the war, Acehnese sultan wanted to dominate Sumatra and Islamize the entire island, Acehnese Sultanate invaded my ancestors's land when one of our king refused Islam. Aceh faced difficulties during the war since my ancestors were known for their tropical jungle fighting skill, then they bought & hired Ottoman weapons & mercenaries to invade us, our people freaked out then asked Portugal to help 'em to stop the invasion of Aceh and Ottoman Empire. In the 1810s during Padri War, an Islamic civil war in Minangkabau, Padri soldiers heard a cannibalistic pagan tribes in the middle of North Sumatra who remained as pagans, the Padris sent envoys to our kingdom to demand our people to leave our paganistic religion and became Muslims but got rejected. After the rejection, Padri soldiers invaded our kingdom and massacred 200.000 people and arrested our king, when he refused Islam, they executed our king for not accepting Islam, they brutally ransacked our villages/cities & massacred my ethnic groups who refused their religion. They were failed to conquer us when a cholera outbreak happened thanks to dead bodies that leaked cholera. After they failed to conquer us, our ancestors were devastated after watching our ransacked kingdoms and dead relatives even cholera outbreak happened and severely decimated our population. My ancestors became hostile towards outsiders/foreigners. Years later, a couple of US Baptist missionarists came and introduced Christianity. Too bad, the locals thought they were another hostile foreigners/outsiders and they caught & ate them. Before Christianity came, my people were pagans who had cannibalistic culture/rituals. My ancestors conducted cannibalism towards people who did terrible crimes such as rape, murder, or treason. A defendant was brought in front of judge, if the judge found the defendant conducted heinous crimes, he/she would be tied on an altar then a shaman who was also executioner would recited some mantras and slashed the defendant's body before beheading him/her and being eaten by people. POWs were also eaten back then. Before Christianity, my ancestors believed if we ate people, it'd grant us magical strength. We also did child sacrifice ritual by sacrificing li'l boys to gain black magic. Besides cannibalism and child sacrifice, my ancestors were known as jewellery makers and weavers. A German missionarist came and introduced Christianity among my people. He built schools, hospitals, etc. But a lot of kingdom citizens hated him coz Christianity could destroy our culture and religion such as our cannibalistic rituals. There're some reports that some people tried to assassinate him to stop Christianity from destroying our old faiths and culture but failed. Cannibalism and child sacrifice were eventually banned when Dutch colonial regime imposed anti cannibalism law towards us after annexing us in the 1907. If Christianity never came, perhaps my people would still do capital punishment in form of cannibalism and child sacrifice. Unlike other Indonesian regions which were colonized for 350 years, we only got conquered in 1907 when Dutch soldiers succesfully assassinated our priest king. Dutch faced difficulties at fighting a cannibalistic nation in the middle of Sumatran jungles near the largest lake in Indonesia
That's interesting, TY. Next time I'd recommend you break such a long paragraph in several.
I’d watch this
What a shitty narrative! 😂
false maps, and understanding overall. Have a sit, thats a D in your score card
Here comes westerner lies
How do you know? Do you have better information?
Another amazing video from knowledgia 👍. One day , my channel would be like yours. Someone like this comment so I keep coming back to this.
Lenin felt that Stalin had more power than he could handle and might be dangerous if he was Lenin's successor.
The start doesn't look promising. References from the ivy league bourgeois funded propaganda ain't it
Do you have better propaganda?
@dragosstanciu9866 For whom? For the rich? I'm not a sucker. Guess that even with the world on the brink of wide war (again for hitting the unbareble consequences of the capital accumulation and imperial expansion) you guys still can't snap out of it. Once this happens, I'm down to a honest discussion.
@@dragosstanciu9866 For whom? For the rich? I'm not a s**ker. Guess that even with the world in the brink of wide war (again for hitting the unbareble consequences of the capital accumulation and imperial expansion) you guys still can't snap out of it. Once this happens, I'm down to a honest discussion.
That video lost 100% of it's credibility, when a 1991 borders Ukraine map appeared as a separate country in a video discussing WWI and WWII periods...
Is there anything you people wouldn't do to stay in the frameworks of the propaganda? :)
"In 1991, Ukraine as a new independent state inherited the territory and the boundaries of the former Ukrainian SSR". The video is correct.
Why the hell are you showing ukraine a separate nation when you are talking about USSR..western propaganda channel
😅😅😅 these videos are funny. Qhere do u get all this crap from?
This is super weak. Is this AI generated?
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