Was Joseph Stalin The Hero Of World War 2? | 1941 And The Man of Steel | War Stories
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- In this BBC Documentary historian David Reynolds reassesses Stalin’s role in the life and death struggle between Germany and Russia in World War Two, which he argues was ultimately more critical for British survival than ‘Our Finest Hour’ in the Battle of Britain itself
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This Narrator makes history come alive with colors and inflections kudos to him
And you do not mind that it is 90% lies!!
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 and you know that by reading the title and not bothering with the actual content.
@@mattycapone4281 Churchill and the British Empire committed their own crimes in the creation and defense of Empire.
Totally 👍🏻
I agree and he analyses Stalin well.
I do not know of a script more compelling and an enunciation more poetic than this marvelous analysis by David Reynolds.
I wish I had a history professor like this.
Try school
I love these history documentaries that tell like a story…
@@GabberPinda Do you KNOW all i.e. world's cooks to be THE BEST?!???
If so, pray tell WHICH WORLD is that!!
@@hhjj621 I don't pray why would I. Sorry to disappoint you but God does not exist 👍Stalin killed 20 million of his own people so what's your excuse? 🤷♂️
@GabberPinda Try focus meds and re-think the statement after reading it again.
Very well made documentary! Loved the techniques to make it more engaging!
That's how Narrators should be ❤ I'm here for him explaining very knowingly.
David Reynolds ftw on this one - fantastic content and commentary!
And you do not mind that it is 90% lies!!
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50: Please provide a list.
David Reynolds is the beat documentary narrator hands down.
Albert Speer recounted that at the onset of the unusually harsh winter of 1941, the regime solicited the German public for winter clothing donations to be sent to the Russian front for Germany's armies that had not been outfitted for winter fighting. Speer said that at this point, his first doubts concerning ultimate German victory began to creep in.
It's true. I've listened to diary passages in which the German soldiers were laughing about wearing ladies' fur coats.
I can't understand on what top German guys based their optimism before Barbarossa.Did they seriousely analise the logistics of that operation?How they misjudged so grosely the strenth of Soviet union?It is matter of fact that their operation went better than it should if we take in the account the balance of strenght two powers.
@@ivanlazarevic78 There was a quality and quantity difference, Germans had Quality Troops, Quality Equipment, but not much of it, The Russians were the complete opposite, They had no quality in troops,training, or equipment, but they had shitloads of it. In this case Quantity beats quality if the enemy does not give up, The French army was far superior to the german army, and yet they capitulated in almost sheer panic....
@@marine4lyfe85 no doubt confiscated from the Jews in captured lands.
@@Cybercolascorner Russians did have some quality though. The T-34s were superior to the Panzers. The Red Army was fully equipped to fight in the Russian winter. And Red Army soldiers were as tough and fanatical as Wehrmacht soldiers were, especially post-Stalingrad. Their main weakness was in its leadership, since Stalin purged so many officers and generals in the 1930s. The French also have quantity, but they completely lacked quality. The soldiers were war-weary and fought half-heartedly compare to Russians which fought with full ferocity. Their tanks were open to Stuka attacks and were designed as outdated WWI tanks. Their strategy was defensive with no offensive strategy.
I think this was the greatest documentary explaining the soviet mind and purpose. Kudos.
"The ferocity of Churchill's taunting caught Stalin completely by surprise. "
He didn't "come close" to a breakdown.
He actually had a full - on breakdown.
When ?
@@konstantinkelekhsaev302 In the first few weeks after the German invasion.
@@countdowntorevolution9986 The records show Stalin constantly holding meetings at his office from 22nd to 28th of June then from 1st of July onwards. So when exactly did he have a nervous breakdown ?
@@konstantinkelekhsaev302 When they had to get him from his Dacha.
Which is when ?
Waking up to this playing in your ear is an experience I tell ya 😅
Those Churchill meetings must've been intense
Interesting, I have listened to grandpas who were once in intelligence of Soviets, they said Churchill was very emotional and sensitive person deep down, Stalin quickly sensed that and used it.
Intense...as far as drinking, yes!
The German Soldiers’ lack of winter gloves was not a result of “Hitler’s hubris” as said in this video. The lack of winter clothing and supplies was due to Germany’s OKW not heeding the calculations of their own logisticians that said they don’t have the capacity to supply operation Barbarossa. It came down to a choice of shipping one or the other, bullets or blankets.
They gambled that with bullets delivered first, blankets would not be needed.
The narrator really makes it come to life more! I could feel the tension from the folks who witnessed stalin's actions during the war as well the stress of the meetings that occurred with Churchill.
A documentary well put together! 100%
The second World War could not have been won without Russia. Stalin was a monster but he was an EFFECTIVE monster. Soldiers were more afraid of Stalin than they were the enemy.
Perhaps, he did kill more of his own people than the Nazis did so they had something to fear.
Vejo muitos comentários semelhantes, porém cada componente do bloco aliado teve importância vital. Imagina se a Rússia luta sozinha, quem iria segurar o Japão no extremo oriente?
The big irony is that Stalin thought everybody was plotting against him in reality he was the biggest conspirator of them all 💀
Technically by definition he isn’t a conspirator. Conspirators are 2 or more people . But I get ur point. He was an evil devious plotter who was projecting .
You can see how Russia is still suspicious and ambitious to this day. Putin would rather have everyone confused and doubtful of any truth, than make his real intentions known. He’s recently said Poland wants Ukrainian lands that were once theirs. He’d love any fabricated pretense to land-grab and unite “oppressed Russian people.” Sound familiar to you?
Stalin had a point even if he was wrong in this case. Read about “operation unthinkable” and you’ll find out his fears aren’t misplaced.
Paranoia wouldn't be the correct word here. A life of handshakes, broken promises and peace treaties. You'd be stupid and wouldn't have survived very long if your weren't thinking who's plotting against you...
@Ffffg-ct4xt Джекпот - в тот день, когда животное умерло.
11:25 Napoleon was never a corporal, he studied at the École Militaire (Military School), graduated and was commissioned as an Artillery Officer.
I notice that the music has been resourced for the re-edit of this documentary. When I saw this on the BBC years back it included a lot of Bear McGreary's Battlestar Galactica sountrack.
1:20:53 Stalingrad's great grain elevator building.
1:20:58 1:21:00 1:21:25 1:21:28 Barrikady gun factory.
1:21:18 The higher ground near Stalingrad 1's railyard. The water tower is about 10% in from the left.
1:21:32+ Soviet State Bank at right, and two large apartment Houses of Specialists.
1:21:37+ The riverfront downtown. Smoke rises from oil fires between Krutoi and Dolgii Ravines, and at the oil depot for Krasnyi Oktyabr' Metallurgical Factory.
1:23:37 Stalingrad 1's water tower in the last days of the Battle.
1:23:38 The mostly enclosed inner yard of the House of Hydrolysis Plant Workers. Still standing in 2023 west of Kozlovskaya & Barrikadnaya.
1:23:43+ An ampulomet being fired in Krasnyi Oktyabr'.
1:24:29 1:24:35 The House of River Cargo Port Workers--the "House of Loaders"--seen from the House of Canning Factory Workers. Both still standing by the intersection of Raboche-Krestyanskaya & Ogareva.
Excellent documentary
This is the exact situation of the saying "When 2 elephants fight the grass bears the great suffering involved 😢.
One of the highest quality films I've seen on RUclips in all contexts.
Any documentary by Professor Reynolds is always worth watching, especially about WW2, he is a masterful historian up there with the great A, J. P. Taylor!
Awesomely narrated sir, back then you couldn't watch this sort of stuff, now it is history.
Absolutely a gem of a documentary! The more I learn about Churchill the more I admire the man. Legend
I think he would have been a good drinking buddy. 😁🍾
you do? he was demoted in the Dardanelles for a reason you know......
Cheap British propaganda.
Churchill was a racist colonialist. He was man with no morals who sustained the British Empire and justified its existence.
He was so reactionary thet ever after the blatant aggression and intervention in Czechoslovakia, refuse a pact of Friendship and cooperation offered by Stalin with France and Poland, but was planning an attack against the oil wells in the Soviet Caucasus. Obviously that for a supremacist Eurocentric mind, he may look like a "heroe".
Churchill was a racist colonialist. He was man with no morals who sustained the British Empire and justified its existence.
He was so reactionary thet ever after the blatant aggression and intervention in Czechoslovakia, refuse a pact of Friendship and cooperation offered by Stalin with France and Poland, but was planning an attack against the oil wells in the Soviet Caucasus. Obviously that for a supremacist Eurocentric mind, he may look like a "heroe".
If we don't know history and History will repeat it self
"Those that do not know their history are doomed to repeat it." Georg Santayana
Sadly, seems history continues to repeat itself...whether people know their history or not! Look at us go! Same thing..different decade.
Never fails
The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history
Awesome video, best part is voice of narrator. All the best
These stories are all informative. We hope to see more content similar to this.
Everyone who met Stalin was very impressed him including Churchil
Roosevelt loved Uncle Jòe
Stalin fue un GIGANTE de su tiempo. Iósif Stalin vivió en una época histórica, en donde el mundo requería de liderazgos fuertes. Así que tuvo que ser un dirigente enérgico. Severo. ¡Imponente! O, de otro modo, la “Madre Rusia” hubiera desaparecido del mapa. Stalin fue lo que tenía qué ser: Un Gran Líder. Un Gran Estadista. Stalin heredó un país yermo, rural, preterido, analfabeta, hambriento, supersticioso, deprimido, insalubre, carente de todo y, para colmo, delirantemente desamparado. Rusia era entonces, un país de “Siervos” (Esclavos), y Stalin lo convirtió en una súper potencia industrializada y poderosa, que puso a temblar al mundo. Rusia estaba atrasada en 100 años con respecto a Occidente y, superadas las precariedades y todas las devastaciones que causó la Guerra, él, Stalin, el “Fundador de la URSS”, puso en marcha el primer Programa Aero-Espacial del mundo. Seis años después en 1957, lanzaron el Sputnik I. Eisenhower, al saber de semejante hazaña, creó la NASA en 1958. Kennedy inauguró el primer vuelo tripulado hasta 1961. ¡Jáh! Stalin recibió una Rusia que estuvo en guerra casi 30 años. (Empezando con la humillante derrota frente al Imperio de Japón, 1904-1905. Revolución Rusa, 1905. WWI, 1914-1918. Revolución Bolchevique 1917-1922. Guerra Civil contra los “Rusos Blancos”, 1922-1927. WWII 1940-1945… Más la Pandemia de la mal llamada “Fiebre Española”, en 1918-1920. Después les llegó el brote de la “Peste Bubónica” en 1926. ―En 1932-33, Stalin implementó una campaña general de vacunación contra la viruela, la cual, en 1936, propuso que fuese una campaña a nivel mundial. Iniciada por Stalin y secundada por todas las naciones del planeta, la viruela se erradicó en 1980―. Y, además el “Crack Financiero de Wall Street”, de 1929-1937). O sea que, Stalin, asumió el poder de un país golpeado por las guerras, enfermo por la Pandemia y, económicamente quebrado por la crisis mundial. Estas calamidades dejaron una Rusia desposeída y miserable. Stalin la rescató imponiendo disciplina y trabajo. Ni antes ni hoy, nadie en el mundo puso en duda su ENORME LIDERAZGO. Stalin fue genial; magnífico, cultísimo y astuto. Fue un Titán con mano de hierro. Amado por su pueblo y temido por sus enemigos. Hace más de 70 años que Stalin murió y, la Propaganda Occidental, no afloja en denostarlo. ¿Con qué propósito? ¿Cuál sería su utilidad ahora? [*Y, acá, va un dato que dimensiona la grandeza de Stalin. Joseph Stalin, fue nominado DOS veces al Premio Nobel de la Paz (en 1945 y 1948), con el apoyo de múltiples instituciones universitarias de Reino Unido, Francia, Italia, Suiza, Bélgica, y Grecia. Esas nominaciones fueron tomadas en serio por el Comité en Oslo. A él se le acabó su tiempo a los 75 años. Stalin murió en 1953, sin recibir nada de nadie, pero sí, todo el reconocimiento de su propio pueblo amoroso y agradecido.].
¡¡¡SLAVA KOBA!!! СЛАВА СТАЛИНУ!!! ¡¡¡SLAVA STALIN!!! .
Interesting video.
I fell into a deep slumber , an Autoplay brought me here . Very good documentary indeed tbh
This era really had so many ridiculous dictators
“This” being the key word - alas.
More people were killed in the 20th century than in all centuries added together before that time. It's truly frightening that Stalin is estimated to be responsible for 20-60 million, killing his own people with starvation by selling off all production from farms and factories. Not a hero in my own eyes. He was a criminal in his youth and in his dictatorship. He was a psychopath.
What's even worse is we still have so many running in the world now
Stalin fue un GIGANTE de su tiempo. Iósif Stalin vivió en una época histórica, en donde el mundo requería de liderazgos fuertes. Así que tuvo que ser un dirigente enérgico. Severo. ¡Imponente! O, de otro modo, la “Madre Rusia” hubiera desaparecido del mapa. Stalin fue lo que tenía qué ser: Un Gran Líder. Un Gran Estadista. Stalin heredó un país yermo, rural, preterido, analfabeta, hambriento, supersticioso, deprimido, insalubre, carente de todo y, para colmo, delirantemente desamparado. Rusia era entonces, un país de “Siervos” (Esclavos), y Stalin lo convirtió en una súper potencia industrializada y poderosa, que puso a temblar al mundo. Rusia estaba atrasada en 100 años con respecto a Occidente y, superadas las precariedades y todas las devastaciones que causó la Guerra, él, Stalin, el “Fundador de la URSS”, puso en marcha el primer Programa Aero-Espacial del mundo. Seis años después en 1957, lanzaron el Sputnik I. Eisenhower, al saber de semejante hazaña, creó la NASA en 1958. Kennedy inauguró el primer vuelo tripulado hasta 1961. ¡Jáh! Stalin recibió una Rusia que estuvo en guerra casi 30 años. (Empezando con la humillante derrota frente al Imperio de Japón, 1904-1905. Revolución Rusa, 1905. WWI, 1914-1918. Revolución Bolchevique 1917-1922. Guerra Civil contra los “Rusos Blancos”, 1922-1927. WWII 1940-1945… Más la Pandemia de la mal llamada “Fiebre Española”, en 1918-1920. Después les llegó el brote de la “Peste Bubónica” en 1926. ―En 1932-33, Stalin implementó una campaña general de vacunación contra la viruela, la cual, en 1936, propuso que fuese una campaña a nivel mundial. Iniciada por Stalin y secundada por todas las naciones del planeta, la viruela se erradicó en 1980―. Y, además el “Crack Financiero de Wall Street”, de 1929-1937). O sea que, Stalin, asumió el poder de un país golpeado por las guerras, enfermo por la Pandemia y, económicamente quebrado por la crisis mundial. Estas calamidades dejaron una Rusia desposeída y miserable. Stalin la rescató imponiendo disciplina y trabajo. Ni antes ni hoy, nadie en el mundo puso en duda su ENORME LIDERAZGO. Stalin fue genial; magnífico, cultísimo y astuto. Fue un Titán con mano de hierro. Amado por su pueblo y temido por sus enemigos. Hace más de 70 años que Stalin murió y, la Propaganda Occidental, no afloja en denostarlo. ¿Con qué propósito? ¿Cuál sería su utilidad ahora? [*Y, acá, va un dato que dimensiona la grandeza de Stalin. Joseph Stalin, fue nominado DOS veces al Premio Nobel de la Paz (en 1945 y 1948), con el apoyo de múltiples instituciones universitarias de Reino Unido, Francia, Italia, Suiza, Bélgica, y Grecia. Esas nominaciones fueron tomadas en serio por el Comité en Oslo. A él se le acabó su tiempo a los 75 años. Stalin murió en 1953, sin recibir nada de nadie, pero sí, todo el reconocimiento de su propio pueblo amoroso y agradecido.].
¡¡¡SLAVA KOBA!!! СЛАВА СТАЛИНУ!!! ¡¡¡SLAVA STALIN!!! .
@@salvadorvizcarra769 The man starved and murdered millions. He was no hero.
Excellent.!
This is a phenomenal documentary!
amazing.. one of the beat doc films i've ever seen.. love your voice your accent changes you acting.. BRAVO
And the synopsis is, becouse russia had survived the war stalin was a criminal....ok.Im gona tell you a real story now.Cyprus in 1974 invated ilegally by the turkish army yours nato allies, therefore the island was divided in two parts.In that period the turkish army had done many criminal sanctions,as excecutions,rapes etc.England Greece and Turkey was guarantor powers in the island.Why the other two guarantor powers let turkey to invade and why the crimes didnt juged from the international Court.I want to see a documentary on this...
You can want it, but it’ll never happen unless the Bidens can make money off of it.
@7.05 the northern commentary makes it look and sound like an old Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse sketch! ha ha
The 'World Of Tanks' ad at the beginning gave me a laugh
I love the old woman part😂
1:09:39 Totally bizarre, but - sadly - typical of the shabby way documentary films are made these days. Does anyone recognize that flag? Yes, it's Russia's "tricolor"... Which was never used by the USSR, least of all by Stalin, and which only appeared around the time of the 1991 August Coup in that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union (I remember seeing it fly for the first time above the "White House" in Moscow - the then-HQ of the RFSFR - after the coup attempt).
The part I liked the most is the part which shows Stalin risking his own life to save the life of another person, earning the title of hero. Not.
Stalin spent years at a forced labour camp and risked his whole life for the revolution. He robbed a bank to raise funds for the Bolsheviks, punishable by death. He was no traitor either, standing by the Bolsheviks through and through, which Trotsky did not.
A lot of sophistry in this episode
Still watched and gave a like though
If he was 5'5" then how short was that little guy in the famous photo with him? The one where people kept getting erased from the photo?
That guy was VERY short.
His name was Nikolay Yezhov. Also known as " The Boody Dwarf"
@@philipmendisco6656 thanks. I hoped someone knew what I was talking about
Stalin wore lifts in his shoes that added a few inches
@@htx92 if he had taken the lift to the 5th floor he would have been even taller ha ha
People don't understand that had he not struck East into the Soviet Union army group North center and South.
I don't think we could have established a beach.
We had fight FIERCE WERMAHCHT.
BUT THE BEST OF GERMANYS MILITARY WAS IN RUSSIA
THANK GOD
3-MILLION. THANK U GOD
That’s because the Germans were defending Europe from the Red Terror that Stalin was preparing to unleash onto Western Europe thanks to Churchill refusing to see reason and accept unconditional peace with Germany and unite to defeat the true enemy, the jewish Soviet Union.
It wasn’t only Germany fighting for Europe but Italians, Spaniards, Hungarians, Cossacks, Croats, tatars, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Estonians, Romanians, French, and many more that joined Germany in the fight against Jewish Bolshevism and Communism. Participating in the Soviet Union invasion.
Instead of seeing the Soviet Union as the real enemy (likely because he surrounded himself with Jews that funded the Jewish Bolsheviks and the revolution during WW1 that claimed 12-15 million Russian lives), he allowed a senseless and bloody war to wage on that weakened nation after nation in Europe, making it easy for the Soviet Union and the Jewish NKVD brutally impose communism and brutal suffering onto Europe.
@@michaelwilliamson4759 It seems you have fallen victim to a conspiracy theory. If you read German documents, you will see that Hitler's goal was not the defense of Europe, but the conquest of resources.
I have studied Stalin for many years. He was both a terrible man and a great man. He was lucky to have a great general like Zhukov and a people able to endure immense suffering. As Churchill said ' It was the Red Army that tore the guts out of the German army ' . No Stalingrad - No Day IMHO
PS This is a brilliant documentary
very good excellent
During the cold war, the US and NATO were worried about the red army, and prepared to cede German land to it if necessary. Thus was after the red army was partially demobilizwd after ww2. Of cours the red army won WW2. With help from the US and Britain
They already did. Germany's eastern lands had been ceded to Poland and the USSR. And the Americans gave up land they occupied in Saxony and Thuringia to Soviet occupation forces.
@@tylerbozinovski427 they gave up land they had already lost? Generous if the Us
"Of course the Red Army won WWII".
Not even close, from Stalin's own lips:
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Not to mention America fighting in Africa and Asia, defeating Japan practically alone and then coming into Europe to take on Italy and Germany, remove them from heavily guarded France. America was basically fighting on three fronts and won several of those fronts while also giving up billions of materiel to Russia. If America wanted to, they could have nuked Russia and forced them to capitulate just like Japan, but it was a failure of foresight. Most of the world wouldn't be in this situation if America had decapitated the USSR right away.
Whoever told you that nonsense lied to you. The red army would have 2the war without the help of US.
Um, the Red Army did beat the Wehrmacht. But they needed lend lease and Germany wasting troops in Tunisia and Italy to do it. And the Soviets contributed almost nothing in Japans defeat.
I believe that Beria was important to the success of Stalin's attainment of total control in a way that no one else was
the only person who may have had some modicum of power vs. Stalin might have been Zhukov-somehow stopped what might have been a plan to denounce and purge him,perhaps even in a face to face confrontation
Not only by that, Beria was an Okrhana informant during the Russian Revolution. West secretly use Beria as a gateway to Stalin in 1930's, killing Beria would make West try to get revenge upon one of their best informants about Soviet Union's whereabouts. Beria also was very neutral but Stalin knows who the man he was, however Beria knows Stalin weaknesses which was important early on especially in 1935 Tblisi speech he could talk badly against Stalin never the less he don't do so. Sounds like Trotsky also and other prominent members, remember Stalin always play neutral trashing or posses any information about him good or bad on his personal life would brought you in danger or could be a weapon on rise to power of these people next to Stalin.
Stalin understood the crucial value of getting and maintaining control of paths of information within the party (including secret information, of course), and to this end he used a network of people who were not at all widely known but who held important posts in the party bureaucracy and the secretariat (in many ways the real centre of power). Read "Knowledge and Power" by Danish Sovietologist Niels-Erik Rosenfeldt, a groundbreaking late-1970s book that examined Stalins methods for shaping his power base and the traces of persons who helped him within the Secret Department (!) of the secretariat. Mostly people you won't find mentioned in ordinary books about the history of the USSR.
Georgians AL Capones😂😂😂😂😂!!!
They never learn Putin is another Stalin!!!😅😅😅😅😅
Please show the tank battle of "Assal Uttar" between India and Pakistan
Nice Vedeo. vassliy Grossman Was a great Author ❤
Undoubtedly the most fascinating historical figure.. to me a hero who believed in a just cause and didn't care who stood in the way. A true revolutionary
Wait. WTF sarcasim?
And he was NOT "the biggest mass murderer in history". He wasn't a mass murderer at all. Those lies have been debunked.
Ahh, I see the flat earthers aren't the only contemporary gullible suckers.
@David Parker You are either ignorant or blatantly lying.
@@davidparker108yeah those thousands of signatures of his on death orders of ppl who were never charged with any crime. That would be unfair to count.
It was evil against evil
what you call nato today?
@@karsaorlong3761
russia = openly corrupt
Nato(usa)= slightly less corrupt or maybe they just hide better
@@karsaorlong3761 A blessing. 🇺🇦
@@bricktopperheadon5490 🤣🤣🤣🤣 damn you western sheep are hilarious😂😂
@@karsaorlong3761 war criminal alliance
The watch to like ratio speaks for itself.
I swear I've seen this already yet it says it's posted 11 days ago
It's old. It's only new to this channel. I've seen it many times. It's good though.
See the citizens carry giant Photos of Beria and not knowing what monster he is makes me sick…
you are carry the photo of another monster
@@marinarojas8291 Pablo was apart of the dope game and knew the risk. Beria was a predator and Stalin didn’t even trust him near his kids.
Apples and oranges yo
😅😅😅
@@chrismandalor1293 Pablo was also a predator and rapist and killed thousands of people it is the same this one just worked for Stalin the other one was a Drug Lord
Come on David, George Formby would have crushed Stalin!
People who are in the government they are very professional and good what they do
LOL when churchill shouted at that mic installed in that lamp.. in russia..
If Germany did not attack Russia, Hilter would have won the war. Germany was weakened from the East and not the West, so yes Stalin won is the reason Germany was defeated. Russia lost many people because Stalin was caught off guard without defense and preparations.
Germany had no chance to win the war without defeating Russia.
If and would have
No mate, Germany would have defeated the USSR had they dealt with the UK in 1940 and not declared war on the US
That’s because the destruction of socialist Russia was hitlers (and the European capitalist/fascist/imperialist elites that funded him) primary objective.
True, Britian would have been defeated
Thanks for the upload but the world has changed since world war 2 and now old ALLIES turning FOES and old FOES turning ALLIES !! Vice a versa scenario!! Prayers for Ukraine and all other war zones!!🙏✌🏽🌍🌎🌏
If the Nazis successfully conquered the USSR there would be no Ukraine war. Or any other conflicts and oppression caused by Russia/Soviet Union
You’re delusional if you believe that.
Ads mean we actively can’t watch this content! Shame as it is well watch worthy, and fully understand you need to make a living, but it is not bearable to watch/listen to under current circumstances. All the best!
Yes
He was the perpetretor.of this tragedy without the molotov ribbentrop pact there will never been a world war 2.
Find the transcript of Hitler's meeting with the generals on May 23, 1939 and read it carefully.
I would say both Stalin and his top general Zhukov was the exact heroes of world war 2 true fact the Russians fought 80 percent of the axis forces during World War Two 2:51
Yes, Stalin was a butcher, but then again, without his leadership, WW2 might have lasted much longer.
That’s because socialist Russia was the target all along. They European imperialists have been trying to destroy Russia since Napoleon/France was defeated in 1807.
If it wasn't for American Lend-Lease, the Soviets wouldn't have defeated the Germans on the Eastern Front.
@@horatiodreamt lend lease helped some but Russia would have still have won because they moved their factories in western Russia
@@jamessmith-xq9zi The US provided vast quantities of industrial machinery, machining tools, chemicals for ordnance, and thousands of military trucks (Studebaker US6 trucks). The factories east of Moscow needed all of those components provided by the lend-lease program.
Stalin did not saved Britian but saved China from the Japanese onslaught in 1938-40. Then China was known as "Republic of China" under the leadership of Generalissimo KaiShek Chiang and the party he leaded was the Nationalist party(KMT). The ammunitions of Chinese army was exhausted in early 1938, the Soviet stepped in providing weapons and ammunitions, also a massive fighter wing with Soviet pilots to fight the Japanese army airforce. Soviet general Vasily Chiukov was served as the head of advisor in China at that time. The Soviet army also fought the Japanese army in inner Mongolia, the battle of Khalkin Koh, summer of 1939 commander was Zhiukov. The Soviet limited assistance withdrawn after a truce was signed with Japan in 1940 and a looming war in Europe.
Interesting the modern footage with AK sporting soldiers. Hmmm.
wouldn’t call him a hero he nearly brought his country to its knees
One mans hero is another mans terrorist.
W/o early on American Lend Lease Stalin would've been just another loser.
Not true
@@L_Train who can really say, but a lot more Germans might’ve made it back to defend Berlin.
Without the Soviets we would have lost millions of people. It's all debatable.
Yes but at the same time the west needed stalin just as much.
Americans did not aid early on. Aid began being effective in 1943.
The only thing weve learnt from history is that weve never learnt from history
amen
What. A. Video.
Thank you.
Yes.
Иосиф Джугашыили - борец с царизмом. Дважды был осуждён. Отбывал наказание и в г.Сольвычегодск Архангельской области.
The allies fought mostly german soldiers on the western front very few italians... Russsia didn’t just have to fight nazis.. THe germans had 500k finland soldiers 500k ukrainian soldiers and 500k romanian soldiers...Stalin defeated four countries he’s definitely a hero
An absolutely wonderful documentary in an attempt at understanding one of historys' true enigmas of a human being....Stalin.
Stalin left his own son in German POW camp saying he shouldve fought to the death when in fact he fought till is ammunition was exhausted. He refused to trade Hitlers nephew i think for his son
It wasn't Hitler's nephew you donut, it was a field Marshal. If Stalin had traded a lieutenant for a field marshal, and prioritised his own son over the millions of sons he would've killed by that, he wouldn't be much of a leader at all.
The Red Army won WWII, in Europe and Asia. Point.
Thanks to their daddy, the USA. Without their daddy Russia was a baby lamb for the slaughter to go inside German sausage
Nope
@@johncronin7875 Actually it's true. Professor David M. Kennedy from Stanford University quoted *"IF you asked the question "Who Won WWII?" and you meant by, "Which society, what Nation contributed most, the Blood and Treasure to the eventual victory?" Then the answer is thoroughly the Soviet Union. But if you asked the same question, and you meant by, "Which nation ends up most advantageous after the War, and reaps the greatest fruits of victory?" Then the Answer is thoroughly the United States."*
The Red Army! NOT Joseh Stalin. Millions of soviet citizens were made cannon fodder to simply exhaust Germany's supplies and troop numbers. They were a sacrifice force more than an armed force. Attrition and General Winter won the day for the Red Army many times over the centuries. Maybe those poor sacrificed souls that defended Mother Russia with 5 rounds of ammunition and a rifle taken from the dead man in front of him are heroes, but Josef Stalin is one of the most evil men to ever live.
I think an alternate title could be: "The actual enemy in WW2"
Or "The enemy of my enemy, who is also my enemy, is temporarily my ally".
Yeah because the Germans were such saints who never did anything wrong
Definitely the real enemy.
Nah Stalin better than Adolf h
@@laddrusso5243 In what way? Can you give us some factual examples of this?
Mute the stupid sound effects. Don’t need to hear a screeching phone ring 100 times!
I just finished two books on this subject: ‘Russia at war’from Alexander Werth, dating from the ‘60s, a kind of eyewitness account, and ‘the red tsar’ from Simon Sebag Montefiori. From these books, and this excellent documentary, a picture arises of Stalin being a sadistic, paranoid and foremost incompetent leader, who caused the death of millions and the destruction of thousands of villages and cities. He certainly had an organisational talent but to picture him as a hero that saved Russia would be a gross humiliation of all the innocent people that suffered. The sad thing is, that Vladimir Putin more and more seems to regard him as an example. That puts Russia’s future at risk.
Stalin was a good leader
@@socialistrevolution8795 A mass murderer can never be a good leader, regardless of his merits.
@@h.e.hazelhorst9838 he was not a mass murderer
@@socialistrevolution8795 you live on a different planet than I do, apparently.
@@h.e.hazelhorst9838 explain how he was a mass murderer
1:26:55 a terrible shame that this Documentary has devolved into pure propaganda at the end like this
One of the most wicked man in history!
22:15 - Very important part here
No is the short answer.
A pity that the video's comment is of such poor quality: too subjective, lack of analysis, old myths and on many points simply not true.
Жаль нет перевода на русский 🙁
Мне очень интересно.
I’m very sorry that is not available here. I’m also sorry for the pain and suffering Russia endured in this conflict.
Ну, это для англоязычной аудитории. Вы имеете в виду перевести его для трансляции на русских? Они знают историю лучше, чем мы.
Там ничего интересного. Все как обычно, Сталин убийца каких свет не видал, Берия только и делал что всех насиловал, сладкий запад предупреждал Сталина от нападении, но он не поверил. В общем их история все ещё в 90-х.
@@peterplotts1238 Да, именно поэтому я подписался на этот канал; даже не владея в совершенстве английским.
you're not missing much, its heavily western biased, garbage video tbh
I could only imagine Stalin meeting churchill for the first time, both arms up in disbelief, wtf bro. U guys haven’t done shit”
Let this be a reminder. Mao did collective farming too, and of course insisted competitiveness of regions and more output each year. But the ones in charge of counting the grain LIED to stay in good graces. As Mao shipped of the normal+ amount to fill his coffers, the people were left with less and less and starved because by lying how much was produced it left them with less and less. Even when the majority did go along with the idea at first..it DOESNT WORK. Unless one can be in charge of their own ability and attempts to compete, there's no incentive..other then a pat on the back and less food for your family.
B.S, if it wasn't for the anglo union russia would have fallen in the first year.
Petulant is the best single word that can describe Stalin’s contemporaneous and historical political image, though ‘petulant’ is not perfect. Therefore we should invent a word. Some ideas…
• nipadalidative
• welifishistic
• gilovant
• derdepropical
• caldapapianic
• gornflagorble (gorny, for short)
In american written history:- No
In real history, yes
Not even close
Ok buddy
@@johnhatchel9681He is an indian
Of course American are heroes only in Hollywood movies,but on the ground like mice , they are only good at bombing schools hospitals , Russian or soviet then back are true fighters and more courageous by far.
@@neloysuccess5836 that’s racist isn’t it?
Well done Sir Well done 👍A Very fair portrait of The Man and his legacy 🇷🇺
@@mkultra599 sorry English is my second language that way I understood ”@@mkultra599
@@mkultra599 I am sure the people who has an interest in Stalin know perfectly well of his evil endeavor
I lost my grandfather 🖤He was executed in 1937 so is my uncle and my aunty 🖤🖤🇷🇺
He certainly was not. He was Hitler's original ally from 1939 to 1941.
Their where a lot of heroes on all sides but the Russians played a very BIG BIG part in winning the war. Thanks.Stalin was a great listener and that’s better than a great talker because no one knows his plans.The real HERO where those who fought on the FRONT.
No he was not , he was the worst person to give any power over any land
No, however, the USSR decided the outcome of WW 2, destroying 80% of German armed forces.
Yes he was horrible, murdered 30 million of his own people, but hey he wiped out 80% of the German armed forces so I suppose that we should just go ahead and ignore all the people he murdered.
Blame Roosevelt’s shortsightedness.
Stalin was the villain who was an ally out of nothing but pure convenience
Lol yikes
Yes ❤❤
43:20 - Brest is in Belarus, and the defenders were SOVIETs in which most of them were BELARUSSIANS. Russians were only 59% of the Soviet Union.
I will say this for Stalin: he was a good lookin dude as a young man. Lol
True man....except he was a small man
@@dahunpyrtuh8710
Tom Cruise: "so what?"
Lol 😁
@@dahunpyrtuh8710 Мужественность не определяется ростом.
He was the most attractive pox-scarred dwarf with a funny accent you ever saw!
Amusing piece. However, it contradicts almost everything that Stephen Kotkin, the indisputable overlord of Stalin biographical work ( publisher of two enormous tomes, with one more to come ). I think that I’ll maintain my faith in Professor Kotkins command of the subject, thank you very much.
Maybe you should entertain faith in more than just one professor who is trying to make money. Just a thought.
@@neal.karn-jones You really think money is his only or even his primary motive? There's much easier ways for someone like him to earn more cash than he does.