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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,129 --> 00:00:06,069 for 30 years the Man of Steel Joseph 2 00:00:06,069 --> 00:00:09,550 Stalin ruthlessly dominated the Soviet 3 00:00:09,550 --> 00:00:12,730 Union he had created a larger Empire 4 00:00:12,730 --> 00:00:15,460 than any of the Tsar's he was probably 5 00:00:15,460 --> 00:00:17,080 the most successful ruler the blusher 6 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,200 ever had but he gets the prize as the 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,939 most evil sable the human race has ever 8 00:00:21,939 --> 00:00:22,930 produced 9 00:00:22,930 --> 00:00:25,000 rising from within a band of 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,029 revolutionaries elet's this is the story 11 00:00:28,029 --> 00:00:31,110 of a man whose pursuit of absolute power 12 00:00:31,110 --> 00:00:34,810 transforms a nation stolen found Russia 13 00:00:34,810 --> 00:00:38,800 with the wooden plow and he lifts it 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,210 with atomic weapons but the blood-crazed 15 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:46,060 Soviet strong man's tools for progress 16 00:00:46,060 --> 00:00:47,560 are family 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:52,870 slavery and execution people didn't 18 00:00:52,870 --> 00:00:54,520 count them they were no more than rats 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,310 and yet to this day some of his 20 00:00:57,310 --> 00:00:59,920 countrymen lionize him as the man who 21 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,420 made Russia a superpower 22 00:01:06,730 --> 00:01:09,819 [Music] 23 00:01:27,140 --> 00:01:31,860 [Music] 24 00:01:31,860 --> 00:01:35,850 for 300 years the autocratic Romanov 25 00:01:35,850 --> 00:01:38,490 dynasty have ruled the Russian Empire 26 00:01:38,490 --> 00:01:41,930 with an iron fist 27 00:01:43,780 --> 00:01:45,820 but a crushing defeat in the First World 28 00:01:45,820 --> 00:01:48,909 War and economic problems at home mean 29 00:01:48,909 --> 00:01:51,430 that the current ruler tsar nicholas ii 30 00:01:51,430 --> 00:01:55,080 is losing his grip on power 31 00:01:55,250 --> 00:01:57,369 [Music] 32 00:01:57,369 --> 00:02:00,909 the country is ripe for revolution when 33 00:02:00,909 --> 00:02:04,479 in October 1917 the Communist Bolshevik 34 00:02:04,479 --> 00:02:07,149 Party storms the Winter Palace and takes 35 00:02:07,149 --> 00:02:13,720 over the country under revolutionary 36 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,420 leader Vladimir Lenin a new Marxist 37 00:02:16,420 --> 00:02:18,879 government fights a civil war to 38 00:02:18,879 --> 00:02:20,890 maintain control 39 00:02:20,890 --> 00:02:22,900 the Civil War was a time when the 40 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:24,880 Bolshevik Revolution was struggling to 41 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,370 survive it was surrounded a beleaguered 42 00:02:27,370 --> 00:02:29,680 on every side by enemies the only way it 43 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,350 was going to survive was by extremism by 44 00:02:32,350 --> 00:02:36,070 terror by ruthlessness among the men 45 00:02:36,070 --> 00:02:38,290 vying for a top position in Lenin's 46 00:02:38,290 --> 00:02:41,800 regime his future Soviet dictator Joseph 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,950 Stalin people wanted to be President 48 00:02:44,950 --> 00:02:47,200 they want to be People's Commissar for 49 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,910 this but defense for Foreign Affairs 50 00:02:48,910 --> 00:02:52,209 they wanted the glorious jobs what 51 00:02:52,209 --> 00:02:54,700 didn't realize was the Stalin was going 52 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:57,630 to eliminate all of them 53 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,300 born Joseph Jew gosh villi the man who 54 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:10,860 will become Stalin isn't even a Russian 55 00:03:10,860 --> 00:03:14,580 he's a Georgian born into poverty in 56 00:03:14,580 --> 00:03:18,220 1878 on the wild frontiers of the 57 00:03:18,220 --> 00:03:24,240 Russian Empire he was I believe 5 foot 4 58 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,180 he was short and he didn't like to be 59 00:03:28,180 --> 00:03:29,920 short but he was short then he had a 60 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:33,040 Napoleonic complex from day one he 61 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,140 always wanted to be number one and he 62 00:03:35,140 --> 00:03:37,870 never conceded he was wrong he was 63 00:03:37,870 --> 00:03:39,850 always right here this self-belief this 64 00:03:39,850 --> 00:03:44,830 huge self-belief young Joseph gets the 65 00:03:44,830 --> 00:03:47,140 best education available at a russian 66 00:03:47,140 --> 00:03:48,580 orthodox seminary 67 00:03:48,580 --> 00:03:49,830 [Music] 68 00:03:49,830 --> 00:03:53,150 his mother wants him to become a priest 69 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:56,790 but he has other ideas 70 00:03:56,790 --> 00:03:59,790 while I was at the seminary Starlin 71 00:03:59,790 --> 00:04:02,370 first of all became an atheist then he 72 00:04:02,370 --> 00:04:05,870 started to study the works of Marx 73 00:04:05,870 --> 00:04:08,670 German social philosopher and author of 74 00:04:08,670 --> 00:04:11,969 the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx is all 75 00:04:11,969 --> 00:04:18,870 the rage in radical European circles his 76 00:04:18,870 --> 00:04:21,000 writings open Stalin's mind to the 77 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,550 possibility of revolution against the 78 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:29,310 Cyrus regime he was a bright young man 79 00:04:29,310 --> 00:04:33,389 who needed a cause not that different 80 00:04:33,389 --> 00:04:37,039 from those guys who were joining up to 81 00:04:37,039 --> 00:04:41,970 Isis today his cause became that of 82 00:04:41,970 --> 00:04:43,260 communism 83 00:04:43,260 --> 00:04:46,449 [Music] 84 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,440 when he is 20 years old Stalin leaves 85 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,180 the seminary to become a political 86 00:04:51,180 --> 00:04:54,090 activist in the illegal Georgian Marxist 87 00:04:54,090 --> 00:04:56,180 movement 88 00:04:56,190 --> 00:04:58,710 but trying to topple Assad is a deadly 89 00:04:58,710 --> 00:05:02,940 game his secret police the Okhrana are 90 00:05:02,940 --> 00:05:06,930 on the lookout for subversives the life 91 00:05:06,930 --> 00:05:09,930 of an underground conspiratorial Marxist 92 00:05:09,930 --> 00:05:12,960 and was a very strange one you changed 93 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,120 your name constantly you moved house 94 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,190 constantly you have very quick love 95 00:05:17,190 --> 00:05:18,780 affairs with people and then never saw 96 00:05:18,780 --> 00:05:22,710 them again you could trust nobody full 97 00:05:22,710 --> 00:05:25,110 of idealism Stalin adopts the codename 98 00:05:25,110 --> 00:05:29,340 Koba after a Georgian Robin Hood and 99 00:05:29,340 --> 00:05:31,710 begins to organize industrial workers to 100 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:35,250 destabilize the Czarist regime 101 00:05:35,250 --> 00:05:37,819 [Music] 102 00:05:37,819 --> 00:05:40,740 he went to batumi which was an oil 103 00:05:40,740 --> 00:05:44,819 terminus on the Black Sea and there are 104 00:05:44,819 --> 00:05:46,650 thousands of workers worked there and 105 00:05:46,650 --> 00:05:49,560 Stalin immediately arranged a series of 106 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:55,259 strikes it is here in Batumi that he 107 00:05:55,259 --> 00:05:59,599 gets his first real taste for blood 108 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:06,850 in 1902 his strikers confront the 109 00:06:06,850 --> 00:06:08,950 authorities and the police opened fire 110 00:06:08,950 --> 00:06:16,260 on killing 15 and injuring many more 111 00:06:21,110 --> 00:06:24,630 Starlin gets away unscathed but he does 112 00:06:24,630 --> 00:06:27,800 tend to the wounded 113 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:32,280 the death toll does not worry him one 114 00:06:32,280 --> 00:06:38,280 bit in fact it teaches him a lesson he 115 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:44,340 will never forget the strike is like an 116 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:46,830 epiphany for him that he saw in the act 117 00:06:46,830 --> 00:06:51,840 of violence the way forward that is how 118 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:54,060 you change Russia that's how you 119 00:06:54,060 --> 00:06:58,250 progress the revolutionary movement 120 00:06:58,250 --> 00:07:01,670 physical violence is of the essence 121 00:07:01,670 --> 00:07:08,220 Stalin's activities get him noticed he's 122 00:07:08,220 --> 00:07:10,110 invited to meet the great leader of the 123 00:07:10,110 --> 00:07:13,520 movement Vladimir Lenin 124 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,380 the man he considers to be the Mountain 125 00:07:16,380 --> 00:07:21,480 Eagle of the revolution Lenin was really 126 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,670 Stalin's teacher in the practice of 127 00:07:23,670 --> 00:07:31,440 terror Lenin sees in Stalin a man of 128 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,650 loyalty a man committed to the cause as 129 00:07:34,650 --> 00:07:36,870 Lenin defines it and a man who's 130 00:07:36,870 --> 00:07:39,950 prepared to do the dirty work 131 00:07:39,950 --> 00:07:42,960 Lenin gives Stalin a key mission to 132 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:49,920 raise money for the revolution he goes 133 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,340 to the booming port town of Baku full of 134 00:07:53,340 --> 00:07:56,100 newly rich oil barrels and comfortably 135 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,570 far from the center of Czarist power 136 00:07:59,570 --> 00:08:00,810 here 137 00:08:00,810 --> 00:08:03,270 he becomes a mobster and sets about 138 00:08:03,270 --> 00:08:06,920 fleecing the capitalists 139 00:08:10,490 --> 00:08:13,530 Stalin ran a gang that it was called 140 00:08:13,530 --> 00:08:15,090 something like the outfit 141 00:08:15,090 --> 00:08:17,820 they were pretty motley bunch then he 142 00:08:17,820 --> 00:08:22,050 ran brothels for the one he's shaking 143 00:08:22,050 --> 00:08:25,910 people down he's pushing people around 144 00:08:25,910 --> 00:08:29,490 that meant bank robberies piracy 145 00:08:29,490 --> 00:08:34,710 protection rackets - Stalin the law does 146 00:08:34,710 --> 00:08:39,480 not matter lives do not matter you do 147 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,770 what is necessary this is the key 148 00:08:43,770 --> 00:08:47,550 Leninist principle what is necessary at 149 00:08:47,550 --> 00:08:50,220 the moment you do regardless of 150 00:08:50,220 --> 00:08:52,490 consequences 151 00:08:56,390 --> 00:08:59,180 the only thing that matters is the 152 00:08:59,180 --> 00:09:01,870 revolution 153 00:09:02,890 --> 00:09:04,500 [Music] 154 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:07,930 by now Stalin is high up on the Czarist 155 00:09:07,930 --> 00:09:11,860 secret police's most-wanted list but he 156 00:09:11,860 --> 00:09:13,959 is not yet the murderous psychopath he 157 00:09:13,959 --> 00:09:16,470 will become 158 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,500 he falls in love with ekaterina 159 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:21,870 Vanette sir the sister of a fellow 160 00:09:21,870 --> 00:09:25,710 communist and in secret they marry she 161 00:09:25,710 --> 00:09:28,050 was what the Georgians called ababa she 162 00:09:28,050 --> 00:09:30,840 was the woman who was at home and just 163 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,130 provided the creature comforts Katarina 164 00:09:35,130 --> 00:09:40,830 bears Stalin a son Yakov but just months 165 00:09:40,830 --> 00:09:45,720 later she contracts typhus and dies when 166 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,810 Stalin's first wife died he was 167 00:09:48,810 --> 00:09:51,800 absolutely shattered 168 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:54,690 [Music] 169 00:09:54,690 --> 00:09:58,020 he said that when she died all my 170 00:09:58,020 --> 00:10:03,020 feelings for people died with her she 171 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:07,740 melted my stony heart now the shutters 172 00:10:07,740 --> 00:10:10,190 start to come down 173 00:10:10,190 --> 00:10:12,840 Stalin decides that no one will be 174 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,680 allowed into his heart again it's a 175 00:10:16,680 --> 00:10:19,080 trait which will serve him well on his 176 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:28,080 rise to power by 1906 tsar nicholas ii 177 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,720 regime is on the rocks after a wave of 178 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,080 strikes economic chaos and an attempted 179 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:39,480 revolution in a small concession to 180 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,660 democracy he sets up a parliament called 181 00:10:42,660 --> 00:10:46,710 the duma then in so-called Bolshevik 182 00:10:46,710 --> 00:10:49,410 Party win seats there though he 183 00:10:49,410 --> 00:10:51,510 continues his illegal struggle against 184 00:10:51,510 --> 00:10:53,840 the system 185 00:10:53,970 --> 00:10:56,999 Stalin is still a wanted man spending 186 00:10:56,999 --> 00:11:00,839 years in prison and exile but his friend 187 00:11:00,839 --> 00:11:03,659 Roman malinovski becomes the leader of 188 00:11:03,659 --> 00:11:06,910 the Bolsheviks in the Duma 189 00:11:06,910 --> 00:11:10,780 in 1912 Stalin escapes from exile and 190 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:13,480 heads for the capital looking for a safe 191 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,800 base of operations 192 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,690 he immediately came to see his friend 193 00:11:19,690 --> 00:11:22,380 malinovski 194 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:28,160 stunnin likes malinovski and trusts him 195 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,890 a big mistake 196 00:11:29,890 --> 00:11:31,220 [Music] 197 00:11:31,220 --> 00:11:34,830 malinovski was in fact as our as secret 198 00:11:34,830 --> 00:11:36,950 agent 199 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,360 malinovski is the most highly paid 200 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,550 double agent to the Czar's Acronis 201 00:11:41,550 --> 00:11:46,350 secret police has ever had he invites 202 00:11:46,350 --> 00:11:49,880 Stalin to a fundraising dinner 203 00:11:51,610 --> 00:11:55,230 and Stalin agrees to go 204 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,089 malinovski must have been a very good 205 00:11:58,089 --> 00:12:00,279 actor because your honor would have set 206 00:12:00,279 --> 00:12:02,440 up the meeting and they would have told 207 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,649 him what to say and how to proceed so 208 00:12:05,649 --> 00:12:07,420 that there will be no suspicions aroused 209 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:15,060 in Stalin's mind the dinner is a trap 210 00:12:15,060 --> 00:12:18,610 he betrayed by a party memory betrayed 211 00:12:18,610 --> 00:12:21,339 by a fellow Bolshevik he sentenced to 212 00:12:21,339 --> 00:12:23,860 exile he takes with him this burning 213 00:12:23,860 --> 00:12:26,170 conviction that he'd given trust to 214 00:12:26,170 --> 00:12:29,399 someone who could not be trusted 215 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:34,040 The Betrayal has a colossal impact on 216 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,399 star 217 00:12:37,089 --> 00:12:39,430 he starts to believe that even those who 218 00:12:39,430 --> 00:12:43,120 are closest to Minsk even the most loyal 219 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,220 and committed communists may be Treatise 220 00:12:47,220 --> 00:12:49,180 the interesting thing about the 221 00:12:49,180 --> 00:12:51,730 malinovski stories it explains why later 222 00:12:51,730 --> 00:12:55,389 in Stalin's life he distrusted everybody 223 00:12:55,389 --> 00:12:58,389 because virtually anybody even the 224 00:12:58,389 --> 00:13:00,189 leader of the Bolshevik Party in the in 225 00:13:00,189 --> 00:13:03,100 the Duma could be a secret agent and a 226 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,959 traitor consumed with bitterness Stalin 227 00:13:07,959 --> 00:13:11,110 is sent into exile in Siberia on the 228 00:13:11,110 --> 00:13:13,620 edges of the Arctic Circle 229 00:13:13,620 --> 00:13:16,449 he is largely ignored by his communist 230 00:13:16,449 --> 00:13:19,749 colleagues who this time do not bother 231 00:13:19,749 --> 00:13:22,800 to help him escape 232 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,779 in Stalin's mind there must been a lot 233 00:13:24,779 --> 00:13:27,480 of anger about the way he'd been treated 234 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,690 the way his comrades had betrayed him 235 00:13:29,690 --> 00:13:32,640 they didn't give miss jus so their 236 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,070 belittled him if you like and he put him 237 00:13:35,070 --> 00:13:37,890 down so therefore all this will be 238 00:13:37,890 --> 00:13:41,490 stewing in Stalin's mind how could I 239 00:13:41,490 --> 00:13:44,370 take revenge on these people I'm a much 240 00:13:44,370 --> 00:13:45,750 more important person than they think 241 00:13:45,750 --> 00:13:49,440 and I'm going to show them that for four 242 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,170 years Stalin is stuck in the frozen 243 00:13:52,170 --> 00:13:55,410 wasteland his heart becoming as cold and 244 00:13:55,410 --> 00:13:59,160 hard as the wilderness around him food 245 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,500 was in a short supply and it said every 246 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:03,270 night the Wolves gathered round looking 247 00:14:03,270 --> 00:14:04,850 for the bits of food that might be left 248 00:14:04,850 --> 00:14:09,330 the prowling wolves will haunt Stalin to 249 00:14:09,330 --> 00:14:11,990 the end of his days 250 00:14:11,990 --> 00:14:14,330 a common theme in his doodles was with 251 00:14:14,330 --> 00:14:17,180 ravening wolves ready put the round mill 252 00:14:17,180 --> 00:14:21,740 at the page the teeth bared show virtual 253 00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:23,660 later said there's something wolf liked 254 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:26,720 about him and it may be the bottom 255 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,690 it wasn't just a happy metaphor there 256 00:14:29,690 --> 00:14:31,760 was actually this all the iron element 257 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,510 coming out in 258 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,210 so when the Bolsheviks seized power in 259 00:14:42,210 --> 00:14:46,470 1917 Stalin returns to the capital ready 260 00:14:46,470 --> 00:14:48,270 to take his place in Lenin's new 261 00:14:48,270 --> 00:14:51,360 communist government bringing with him a 262 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,190 brutal mindset born of years of struggle 263 00:14:55,190 --> 00:14:58,050 violence is not really a means to an end 264 00:14:58,050 --> 00:15:00,150 it is the end in itself you only win by 265 00:15:00,150 --> 00:15:02,850 smashing to the enemy 266 00:15:02,850 --> 00:15:05,819 the budding tyrant abandons his birth 267 00:15:05,819 --> 00:15:08,249 name forever and becomes officially 268 00:15:08,249 --> 00:15:12,020 Joseph Stalin meaning Man of Steel 269 00:15:12,020 --> 00:15:16,039 [Music] 270 00:15:21,409 --> 00:15:23,849 he's one of Lennon's most trusted 271 00:15:23,849 --> 00:15:25,859 leaders and a member of the Communist 272 00:15:25,859 --> 00:15:29,609 party's Central Committee but he is 273 00:15:29,609 --> 00:15:31,649 neither the most senior nor the most 274 00:15:31,649 --> 00:15:34,120 popular 275 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,120 when Lenin hands out the top jobs 276 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,670 Stalin's rivals in the top tier of the 277 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:42,180 party seemed to get the best positions 278 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:46,210 he didn't have that particular grain of 279 00:15:46,210 --> 00:15:49,870 academic intellectualism but that Lenin 280 00:15:49,870 --> 00:15:52,720 and Trotsky had and I think it made him 281 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,279 feel inferior the charismatic Leon 282 00:15:57,279 --> 00:16:00,550 Trotsky who snobbishly fails to 283 00:16:00,550 --> 00:16:03,580 recognize Stalin at a party meeting gets 284 00:16:03,580 --> 00:16:06,760 Foreign Affairs and the Red Army Trotsky 285 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,490 made the great mistake of snubbing 286 00:16:09,490 --> 00:16:12,730 Stalin Trotsky didn't realizes he was 287 00:16:12,730 --> 00:16:15,160 singled out to be set aside and 288 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,670 destroyed school teacher turned 289 00:16:18,670 --> 00:16:21,610 revolutionary Lev Kamenev gets to run 290 00:16:21,610 --> 00:16:25,759 Moscow and is made Lenin's deputy 291 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:28,819 the conventional Marxist intellectuals 292 00:16:28,819 --> 00:16:31,579 looked at Stalin and they dismissed him 293 00:16:31,579 --> 00:16:35,509 they just had no idea how much Stalin 294 00:16:35,509 --> 00:16:37,959 could do 295 00:16:39,170 --> 00:16:41,660 because he admires his organizational 296 00:16:41,660 --> 00:16:44,989 skills the job Lenin gives Stalin is an 297 00:16:44,989 --> 00:16:47,179 administrative role the general 298 00:16:47,179 --> 00:16:51,709 secretary of the communist party nobody 299 00:16:51,709 --> 00:16:53,269 else wanted the job of general secretary 300 00:16:53,269 --> 00:16:57,819 the general secretary might a boring one 301 00:16:58,149 --> 00:17:00,980 while Trotsky and Kamenev struct the 302 00:17:00,980 --> 00:17:03,739 political stage it seems Stalin has 303 00:17:03,739 --> 00:17:06,520 assigned menial people 304 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:08,900 he is left working in the background 305 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:13,760 while they take all the glory but it's 306 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,490 not long before he realizes that in 307 00:17:16,490 --> 00:17:19,760 reality the general secretary holds the 308 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:24,020 key to power a separate decides who is 309 00:17:24,020 --> 00:17:25,670 going to come to the meeting who's going 310 00:17:25,670 --> 00:17:27,589 to be told about it what's going to be 311 00:17:27,589 --> 00:17:31,610 on the agenda the new Soviet Union is 312 00:17:31,610 --> 00:17:35,570 run by committee if you control the 313 00:17:35,570 --> 00:17:38,290 agenda you can control everything 314 00:17:38,290 --> 00:17:42,400 gradually he controlled appointments and 315 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,560 by controlling appointments he could put 316 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,100 his people into various committees and 317 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:50,840 if you could get a majority in Central 318 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,300 Committee you were the number one man 319 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:58,340 while Lenin and his top team are 320 00:17:58,340 --> 00:18:00,170 distracted by all the problems of 321 00:18:00,170 --> 00:18:01,700 running a country that has been 322 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:04,250 downtrodden for years and just come 323 00:18:04,250 --> 00:18:07,880 through a civil war Stalin builds his 324 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,000 power base and fights his time 325 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,700 all the while he plots his revenge 326 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:17,250 against the snobbish intellectuals who 327 00:18:17,250 --> 00:18:23,120 dismissed him if you made a point of 328 00:18:23,150 --> 00:18:26,100 humiliating Comrade Stalin your days 329 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,080 were numbered there is no question about 330 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:29,300 that 331 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:31,660 [Music] 332 00:18:31,660 --> 00:18:35,860 in 1924 Lenin the unquestioned leader of 333 00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:38,620 the revolution dies of a cerebral 334 00:18:38,620 --> 00:18:41,070 hemorrhage 335 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,700 Stalin is among the party leaders 336 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:46,370 carrying Lenin's casket to its final 337 00:18:46,370 --> 00:18:48,480 resting place 338 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:53,420 but one important person is not there 339 00:18:53,420 --> 00:18:56,960 leon trotsky the general secretary 340 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:01,680 hasn't invited him stalin sends the 341 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:03,750 wrong date deliberately to prevent 342 00:19:03,750 --> 00:19:05,610 Trotsky turning up on the field and 343 00:19:05,610 --> 00:19:07,530 because he didn't turn up what sort of 344 00:19:07,530 --> 00:19:09,270 Leninist could he be this man who 345 00:19:09,270 --> 00:19:12,630 doesn't turn up with Trotsky absent it 346 00:19:12,630 --> 00:19:16,770 falls to Stalin to deliver the eulogy to 347 00:19:16,770 --> 00:19:19,050 the great Lenin we owe all that we have 348 00:19:19,050 --> 00:19:21,630 to the great then him we dedicate 349 00:19:21,630 --> 00:19:23,910 ourselves to the awesome to the great 350 00:19:23,910 --> 00:19:28,580 Lenin a way of saying I am your heir 351 00:19:29,780 --> 00:19:33,360 Stalin's plan works though officially 352 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:36,210 just the general secretary enough of his 353 00:19:36,210 --> 00:19:38,160 supporters are in place to help 354 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:43,020 establish him as the heir to Lenin now 355 00:19:43,020 --> 00:19:50,460 he can turn on his rivals first up Leon 356 00:19:50,460 --> 00:19:53,640 Trotsky getting real Trotsky was was it 357 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,330 was a refined delayed processes drawn 358 00:19:57,330 --> 00:20:01,230 out for his own pleasure it was 359 00:20:01,230 --> 00:20:04,080 suggested Trotsky that he had no place 360 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,140 in the capital he was dragged kicking 361 00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:10,580 and screaming to the Train 362 00:20:18,049 --> 00:20:21,239 Trotsky is forced to flee overseas and 363 00:20:21,239 --> 00:20:25,429 ends up in Mexico 364 00:20:25,990 --> 00:20:29,320 eventually Stalin sends an assassin to 365 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,799 pick him off 366 00:20:38,860 --> 00:20:40,860 by the time of his 50th birthday 367 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:43,750 celebrations five years after the death 368 00:20:43,750 --> 00:20:49,080 of Lenin Stalin is firmly in charge 369 00:20:49,510 --> 00:20:51,640 though he has kept the humble title of 370 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,190 general secretary he is effectively the 371 00:20:54,190 --> 00:20:57,410 top man in the Soviet Union 372 00:20:57,410 --> 00:21:00,699 [Music] 373 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,710 but despite a decade of communist rule 374 00:21:12,710 --> 00:21:17,720 the country remains desperately backward 375 00:21:18,140 --> 00:21:20,670 Stalin decides that what it needs is a 376 00:21:20,670 --> 00:21:25,130 dose of his Willis Marxist medicine 377 00:21:25,170 --> 00:21:30,280 the first area to fix is farming Sodom 378 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,200 was convinced that the Russian peasant 379 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,080 was unproductive and could be replaced 380 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,080 with tractors and that led to the first 381 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,490 really murderous acts of Stalin in 382 00:21:41,490 --> 00:21:45,340 December 1929 he unleashes the poorest 383 00:21:45,340 --> 00:21:47,350 peasants against the landowning farmers 384 00:21:47,350 --> 00:21:50,660 called cool axe 385 00:21:50,660 --> 00:21:53,450 in such class enemies ought to be 386 00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:57,820 exterminated the order that Stalin gave 387 00:21:57,820 --> 00:22:00,680 for the liquidation of the kulaks as a 388 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,620 class is the first legal order of a 389 00:22:03,620 --> 00:22:06,050 state for the mass murder of its own 390 00:22:06,050 --> 00:22:10,930 citizens they were no more than rats 391 00:22:10,930 --> 00:22:13,010 they had to be wiped out they were 392 00:22:13,010 --> 00:22:15,430 vermin 393 00:22:20,730 --> 00:22:23,130 then in the name of liberating them 394 00:22:23,130 --> 00:22:25,650 Stalin forces the peasants to work on 395 00:22:25,650 --> 00:22:29,210 vast collective farms 396 00:22:29,210 --> 00:22:31,860 [Music] 397 00:22:31,860 --> 00:22:34,000 to speed Russia's rapid 398 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,730 industrialization he confiscates the 399 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:39,430 grain using it to feed factory workers 400 00:22:39,430 --> 00:22:43,320 in the cities and to sell abroad 401 00:22:44,580 --> 00:22:46,630 propaganda films portrayed the 402 00:22:46,630 --> 00:22:49,820 collective farms as a triumph 403 00:22:49,820 --> 00:22:53,000 [Music] 404 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,320 but the truth is exactly the opposite 405 00:22:58,790 --> 00:23:01,880 production collapses and famine breaks 406 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,870 out across the Soviet Union 407 00:23:05,870 --> 00:23:07,760 Starlin must have foreseen there would 408 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,370 be a famine he probably didn't foresee 409 00:23:10,370 --> 00:23:13,190 that it would kill probably 10 million 410 00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:20,660 people by 1933 you had cannibalism all 411 00:23:20,660 --> 00:23:24,140 over southern Russia it was the most 412 00:23:24,140 --> 00:23:28,220 appalling man-made famine in history and 413 00:23:28,220 --> 00:23:32,660 it was done deliberately Stalin does not 414 00:23:32,660 --> 00:23:36,400 care about the deaths in the countryside 415 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,410 it's a price worth paying for his 416 00:23:39,410 --> 00:23:42,590 revolution Stalin once said the death of 417 00:23:42,590 --> 00:23:45,080 one man is a tragedy the death of a 418 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,350 million is a statistic a Bolshevik like 419 00:23:48,350 --> 00:23:50,679 Stalin Stalin prided himself on this 420 00:23:50,679 --> 00:23:53,030 could look at things harshly with 421 00:23:53,030 --> 00:23:55,490 toughness and as he said to Lenin my 422 00:23:55,490 --> 00:23:58,660 hand will not tremble 423 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:01,960 in the cities news of the famines is 424 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:07,030 suppressed but it starts to leak out one 425 00:24:07,030 --> 00:24:10,000 night in the Kremlin Stalin is enjoying 426 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,060 a dinner party with his second wife 427 00:24:12,060 --> 00:24:15,060 Nadia 428 00:24:15,149 --> 00:24:17,879 he didn't want everybody particularly 429 00:24:17,879 --> 00:24:19,529 his family to know what was going on 430 00:24:19,529 --> 00:24:21,419 they would have regarded this 431 00:24:21,419 --> 00:24:25,589 annihilation of peasant classes as a 432 00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:30,239 betrayal of their ideals but Nadia has 433 00:24:30,239 --> 00:24:32,399 heard the rumors about the extent of the 434 00:24:32,399 --> 00:24:36,179 famine they sort of gazed at each other 435 00:24:36,179 --> 00:24:38,450 across the table and she got up and 436 00:24:38,450 --> 00:24:46,070 flounced out she was very very upset 437 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:53,220 later in her room she writes a note 438 00:24:53,220 --> 00:24:56,890 condemning the Stalin she didn't believe 439 00:24:56,890 --> 00:24:59,110 that anything stalin was doing in his 440 00:24:59,110 --> 00:25:01,960 policies were the right policies she 441 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:03,790 couldn't go along with collectivization 442 00:25:03,790 --> 00:25:05,830 and the annihilation of the peasant 443 00:25:05,830 --> 00:25:09,190 classes this was certainly such a 444 00:25:09,190 --> 00:25:12,280 challenge thrown down Stalin that he was 445 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:12,910 wrong 446 00:25:12,910 --> 00:25:20,610 [Music] 447 00:25:20,610 --> 00:25:24,269 later that night Nadia takes the only 448 00:25:24,269 --> 00:25:35,159 way out to Stalin her suicide is not a 449 00:25:35,159 --> 00:25:40,529 tragedy it's a betrayal nobody was 450 00:25:40,529 --> 00:25:42,899 allowed to say that anything he said or 451 00:25:42,899 --> 00:25:45,799 did was wrong and she had made this 452 00:25:45,799 --> 00:25:48,870 ultimate gesture with her life to say 453 00:25:48,870 --> 00:25:50,490 what you're doing is wrong 454 00:25:50,490 --> 00:25:57,029 so it it made him completely furious he 455 00:25:57,029 --> 00:26:00,419 was heard to say she went away as an 456 00:26:00,419 --> 00:26:01,610 enemy 457 00:26:01,610 --> 00:26:05,000 Nadia's death is reported as due to 458 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,050 appendicitis 459 00:26:06,050 --> 00:26:08,990 with her female influence gone 460 00:26:08,990 --> 00:26:12,620 Stalin becomes more isolated and more 461 00:26:12,620 --> 00:26:15,920 paranoid the days of the Great Terror 462 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,720 are about to begin 463 00:26:20,060 --> 00:26:23,960 [Music] 464 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,279 in January 1934 Joseph Stalin summons 465 00:26:28,279 --> 00:26:30,619 the supreme decision-making body of the 466 00:26:30,619 --> 00:26:35,360 Soviet Union the Party Congress it's the 467 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,309 largest meeting of Soviet leaders in 468 00:26:37,309 --> 00:26:42,440 four years one of those summoned is his 469 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,160 loyal supporter Sergei Kirov 470 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,229 [Music] 471 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,490 Kirov thinks he is the closest thing 472 00:26:51,490 --> 00:26:55,600 Stalin has to a friend the general 473 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,429 secretary himself gives care of the 474 00:26:57,429 --> 00:27:02,279 choice position of leningrad party boss 475 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:06,399 but the paranoid leader believes Kirov 476 00:27:06,399 --> 00:27:09,610 has become too popular among the party 477 00:27:09,610 --> 00:27:13,570 delegates popular enough that he can one 478 00:27:13,570 --> 00:27:15,789 day become a rival or betray the 479 00:27:15,789 --> 00:27:19,179 revolution like malinovski carapace 480 00:27:19,179 --> 00:27:21,940 effect its very existence as popular 481 00:27:21,940 --> 00:27:23,529 figure in the party there might be a 482 00:27:23,529 --> 00:27:25,360 rallying round care off in opposition to 483 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,029 Starly Starly mean have no fear by 1934 484 00:27:28,029 --> 00:27:31,950 but he did fear friendship and loyalty 485 00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:36,279 do not matter to Stalin not if someone 486 00:27:36,279 --> 00:27:39,880 is a potential threat to his power if 487 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,120 Kara is a threat then remove him that's 488 00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,740 that's a simple way it's done in 489 00:27:44,740 --> 00:27:47,700 revolutionary terms 490 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,530 on December the 1st 1934 Sergei Kirov 491 00:27:54,530 --> 00:27:56,960 walks into his office in Leningrad 492 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:05,609 [Music] 493 00:28:05,609 --> 00:28:10,029 at the time his death is an outrage and 494 00:28:10,029 --> 00:28:13,719 a mystery what no one realizes is that 495 00:28:13,719 --> 00:28:16,539 Kirov's murder is part of Stalin's 496 00:28:16,539 --> 00:28:21,519 master plan the assassination of Carroll 497 00:28:21,519 --> 00:28:25,089 was the beginning of Stalin establishing 498 00:28:25,089 --> 00:28:28,779 himself as the absolute ruler the party 499 00:28:28,779 --> 00:28:30,759 leader decides to seize the opportunity 500 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:33,609 and get rid of all his old rivals at 501 00:28:33,609 --> 00:28:38,349 once the best way to do it is a purge 502 00:28:38,349 --> 00:28:40,719 and the best way to do that is to 503 00:28:40,719 --> 00:28:43,359 demonstrate that his arch enemies were 504 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:46,829 responsible for the beloved Kirov's 505 00:28:46,829 --> 00:28:52,059 death he begins by arresting Lenin's old 506 00:28:52,059 --> 00:28:58,179 deputy Lev Kamenev and his supporters he 507 00:28:58,179 --> 00:29:00,429 accuses them of being traitors and of 508 00:29:00,429 --> 00:29:05,259 conspiring to murder Kirov the trouble 509 00:29:05,259 --> 00:29:08,409 is common F is a party member with 510 00:29:08,409 --> 00:29:11,199 impeccable credentials one of Lenin's 511 00:29:11,199 --> 00:29:14,769 original team he has to show to the 512 00:29:14,769 --> 00:29:16,599 soviet people that the accusations are 513 00:29:16,599 --> 00:29:19,719 true because it seemed incredible that 514 00:29:19,719 --> 00:29:22,659 they could have been traitors but they 515 00:29:22,659 --> 00:29:24,099 could have been anti-socialist 516 00:29:24,099 --> 00:29:28,199 anti-marxist anti linguist all along 517 00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:32,100 to make the absurd accusations credible 518 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:38,020 Stalin needs a confession Kamenev and 519 00:29:38,020 --> 00:29:40,090 other top party leaders are taken from 520 00:29:40,090 --> 00:29:42,550 prison to the kremlin where he makes 521 00:29:42,550 --> 00:29:46,420 them an offer they cannot refuse if you 522 00:29:46,420 --> 00:29:49,900 accept your fate and say what the party 523 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:52,180 requires of you then I can guarantee 524 00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:57,130 that your family will not suffer now is 525 00:29:57,130 --> 00:29:59,440 it worth your family's suffering and of 526 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,720 course being committed to their families 527 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,650 they back off 528 00:30:05,220 --> 00:30:08,190 with their confessions in the bag Stalin 529 00:30:08,190 --> 00:30:10,950 puts Kamenev and 15 other senior party 530 00:30:10,950 --> 00:30:14,330 members on trial 531 00:30:15,809 --> 00:30:19,030 foreign press are invited to view the 532 00:30:19,030 --> 00:30:20,780 proceedings 533 00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:23,390 they attended the show trials and they 534 00:30:23,390 --> 00:30:26,090 expressed pleasure system was so perfect 535 00:30:26,090 --> 00:30:28,130 that the accused balan teri confessed 536 00:30:28,130 --> 00:30:30,920 and they will listen to treated very 537 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:38,030 mainly Stalin's plan works perfectly his 538 00:30:38,030 --> 00:30:40,040 old rival Kamenev and the other alleged 539 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:44,050 conspirators are shot 540 00:30:49,270 --> 00:30:51,850 he stages two more show trials for the 541 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:59,050 most senior party members others lower 542 00:30:59,050 --> 00:31:04,410 down are simply arrested and executed 543 00:31:05,790 --> 00:31:08,800 the whites are over a thousand of the 544 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,510 leading party members have gathered the 545 00:31:10,510 --> 00:31:12,100 Congress and of the committee the 546 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:16,000 Politburo made up of 45 members within 547 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,540 two years only 11 of them are remaining 548 00:31:18,540 --> 00:31:22,390 the great purge wipes out anyone who 549 00:31:22,390 --> 00:31:25,000 might challenge Stalin's power including 550 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,020 more than half of the army's top brass 551 00:31:28,020 --> 00:31:30,640 use any tree left standing in the forest 552 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,320 after Linda's death no one could 553 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,710 contradict his narrative about the 554 00:31:38,710 --> 00:31:45,490 revolution the 1920s the 1939 living but 555 00:31:45,490 --> 00:31:49,500 even now he does not feel secure 556 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,130 there are other witnesses to his 557 00:31:52,130 --> 00:31:57,309 failures as leader the Soviet people 558 00:31:57,309 --> 00:31:59,330 millions of them lived through the 559 00:31:59,330 --> 00:32:01,390 Revolution and the years that followed 560 00:32:01,390 --> 00:32:06,830 and they might remember the truth now 561 00:32:06,830 --> 00:32:11,570 they must be forced to forget after the 562 00:32:11,570 --> 00:32:15,080 Great Purge he unleashes the great 563 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,500 terror 564 00:32:17,940 --> 00:32:22,020 Stalin's dreaded secret police the NKVD 565 00:32:22,020 --> 00:32:25,090 predecessors of the KGB are given the 566 00:32:25,090 --> 00:32:27,159 job of cleansing the country of what he 567 00:32:27,159 --> 00:32:29,020 says are traitors 568 00:32:29,020 --> 00:32:32,890 he would set targets for arrests now 569 00:32:32,890 --> 00:32:34,870 called the limits in every city every 570 00:32:34,870 --> 00:32:38,590 province had its limits they didn't care 571 00:32:38,590 --> 00:32:41,049 who they were they wanted numbers killed 572 00:32:41,049 --> 00:32:45,240 because that's how Bolshevik did things 573 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:51,010 5,000 10,000 there of whom about a 574 00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:54,870 quarter were to be shot straight away 575 00:32:56,610 --> 00:32:59,140 Stalin personally signs the death 576 00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:01,210 warrants of those senior enough in the 577 00:33:01,210 --> 00:33:05,020 party structure there are 44 thousand 578 00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:08,380 names on which you had Stalin's initials 579 00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:11,789 and tics he would add words like scum 580 00:33:11,789 --> 00:33:15,010 prostitute deserves it he was enjoying 581 00:33:15,010 --> 00:33:17,919 it enormous Lee Stalin by that point is 582 00:33:17,919 --> 00:33:21,400 by any normal standards a psychopath an 583 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,020 incurable psychopath 584 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,970 the Soviet tyrant doesn't stop with the 585 00:33:32,970 --> 00:33:36,270 adult population he wants to break down 586 00:33:36,270 --> 00:33:40,640 any loyalty that is not to him 587 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,330 to do that he attacks the most 588 00:33:43,330 --> 00:33:47,549 fundamental human social unit the family 589 00:33:47,549 --> 00:33:50,559 children were made to see themselves as 590 00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:52,990 children Stalin first and of their 591 00:33:52,990 --> 00:33:54,970 parents second and if their parents were 592 00:33:54,970 --> 00:33:57,340 suspect they were asked by their 593 00:33:57,340 --> 00:34:00,370 teachers to report back and there were 594 00:34:00,370 --> 00:34:02,559 scores hundreds of the end of stories of 595 00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:04,840 children actually betraying their own 596 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,250 parents Soviet society collapses under 597 00:34:09,250 --> 00:34:13,899 Stalin's relentless onslaught fear is at 598 00:34:13,899 --> 00:34:18,250 the heart of it you are putting fear 599 00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:22,469 distrust into the heart of society and 600 00:34:22,469 --> 00:34:25,250 then you can achieve anything 601 00:34:25,250 --> 00:34:27,880 [Music] 602 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:34,260 at least 700,000 people are executed 603 00:34:34,409 --> 00:34:37,510 millions are sent to slave labor camps 604 00:34:37,510 --> 00:34:42,760 known as the gulag no one in the country 605 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,920 dares even to think of challenging 606 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,620 Stalin's leadership he is now 607 00:34:47,620 --> 00:34:52,139 effectively the Czar of the Soviet Union 608 00:34:52,139 --> 00:34:53,550 [Applause] 609 00:34:53,550 --> 00:34:57,220 but outside the Soviet Union a new enemy 610 00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,070 is rising 611 00:34:59,070 --> 00:35:01,870 Adolf Hitler is the only man who might 612 00:35:01,870 --> 00:35:04,200 match Stalin's lack of empathy and 613 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,050 disregard for Humanity he is hell-bent 614 00:35:08,050 --> 00:35:13,360 on wiping out communism nevertheless in 615 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:19,630 1939 Stalin cuts a deal with Hitler they 616 00:35:19,630 --> 00:35:21,670 divide up Eastern Europe between them 617 00:35:21,670 --> 00:35:23,800 and agree that they will not attack each 618 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,440 other 619 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,970 Stalin didn't trust anyone but he 620 00:35:27,970 --> 00:35:30,430 trusted Hitler because he saw Hitler as 621 00:35:30,430 --> 00:35:32,740 red leader a very strong leader he had 622 00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:36,460 this belief that if the Soviet Union and 623 00:35:36,460 --> 00:35:39,250 Germany can work together then they can 624 00:35:39,250 --> 00:35:41,380 conquer the world 625 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:45,270 even after the Nazis take France in 1940 626 00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:48,010 Stalin believes that the Soviet Union is 627 00:35:48,010 --> 00:35:50,410 safe because Hitler will not want to 628 00:35:50,410 --> 00:35:56,220 fight on two fronts a big mistake 629 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,300 in summer 1941 Stalin had the first real 630 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:04,250 big shock of his life 631 00:36:04,250 --> 00:36:07,409 [Music] 632 00:36:07,750 --> 00:36:11,000 Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa and 633 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,619 invades Russia Nazi tanks plow towards 634 00:36:15,619 --> 00:36:19,130 Moscow in a devastating advance they 635 00:36:19,130 --> 00:36:21,020 capture more than a hundred thousand men 636 00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:24,099 in the first week 637 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,320 suddenly Stalin is facing the fight of 638 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,470 his life 639 00:36:40,470 --> 00:36:43,170 Hitler's Panzer army is cutting through 640 00:36:43,170 --> 00:36:46,840 Russia like a knife through butter 641 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,240 supreme leader Joseph Stalin is 642 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:51,100 dumbfounded 643 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:54,270 [Music] 644 00:36:54,670 --> 00:36:58,040 he retreats to his country house known 645 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,030 as a Dasha 646 00:37:01,030 --> 00:37:03,190 we sat in a chair looking at the wall it 647 00:37:03,190 --> 00:37:05,109 said in his Dasha outside Moscow and 648 00:37:05,109 --> 00:37:07,980 refused to comment when news came to him 649 00:37:07,980 --> 00:37:10,770 it seemed to be an attack of depression 650 00:37:10,770 --> 00:37:14,349 he did nothing for something like three 651 00:37:14,349 --> 00:37:16,619 weeks 652 00:37:16,890 --> 00:37:19,470 as the German tank person close in on 653 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:23,070 Moscow a delegation of Stalin's deputies 654 00:37:23,070 --> 00:37:27,530 muster up the courage to go and find him 655 00:37:27,530 --> 00:37:30,900 he was extremely shaken he said Lenin 656 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:33,180 build the state we're gonna lose it 657 00:37:33,180 --> 00:37:36,830 and he you know he was close to panic 658 00:37:36,830 --> 00:37:39,830 had he stayed paralytic for another 2-3 659 00:37:39,830 --> 00:37:43,280 days refusing to allow proper response 660 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,500 on this Soviet side he may well have 661 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,940 lost the war they said Comrade Stalin we 662 00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:55,160 need you we need your leadership and he 663 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,680 came back and he regained his his 664 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,290 vitality and he led the country after 665 00:38:00,290 --> 00:38:05,690 that back in charge 666 00:38:05,690 --> 00:38:08,450 Stalin tries to take full control of the 667 00:38:08,450 --> 00:38:10,660 war 668 00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:15,540 he would interfere forbidden generals to 669 00:38:15,540 --> 00:38:18,089 retreat even when it made military sense 670 00:38:18,089 --> 00:38:21,540 retreat Stalin is an expert at killing 671 00:38:21,540 --> 00:38:25,170 helpless people but he knows nothing 672 00:38:25,170 --> 00:38:29,359 about how to run a real world 673 00:38:32,090 --> 00:38:35,450 he lost army after army division after 674 00:38:35,450 --> 00:38:40,100 division hundreds of thousands of Soviet 675 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,650 soldiers are slaughtered as the Nazis 676 00:38:42,650 --> 00:38:46,940 conquer vast swaths of Russia it wasn't 677 00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:49,340 for a year or two that started finally 678 00:38:49,340 --> 00:38:51,290 learnt that you leave the army to get on 679 00:38:51,290 --> 00:38:53,330 with the job and you concentrate on 680 00:38:53,330 --> 00:38:57,590 supplying them with tanks one thing that 681 00:38:57,590 --> 00:39:00,050 Stalin does not relinquish is his 682 00:39:00,050 --> 00:39:02,500 hardness 683 00:39:04,010 --> 00:39:07,340 his firstborn son Yakov is fighting at 684 00:39:07,340 --> 00:39:12,020 the front in July 1941 he's captured by 685 00:39:12,020 --> 00:39:14,840 the Germans the Germans thought they had 686 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,340 a trophy so they they negotiated to get 687 00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:21,530 some German generals back in exchange 688 00:39:21,530 --> 00:39:24,590 for Yakov the Man of Steel shows Hitler 689 00:39:24,590 --> 00:39:28,460 how ruthless he really is and started 690 00:39:28,460 --> 00:39:30,910 said I don't swap generals for a soldier 691 00:39:30,910 --> 00:39:33,260 that of course impressed the Germans 692 00:39:33,260 --> 00:39:37,550 enormously and Yakov eventually threw 693 00:39:37,550 --> 00:39:40,010 himself on the electrified barbed wire 694 00:39:40,010 --> 00:39:43,420 and died 695 00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:48,260 [Music] 696 00:39:50,630 --> 00:39:53,160 yakov is one of more than 20 million 697 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,800 Soviet citizens who give their lives in 698 00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,120 the fight against the Nazis to their 699 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,340 leader they're just another statistic 700 00:40:06,490 --> 00:40:08,930 despite his early interference a 701 00:40:08,930 --> 00:40:10,970 combination of winter and the 702 00:40:10,970 --> 00:40:12,890 extraordinary bravery of the troops 703 00:40:12,890 --> 00:40:19,130 turns the tide of war all invaders of 704 00:40:19,130 --> 00:40:20,810 Russia except the Mongols have made one 705 00:40:20,810 --> 00:40:22,130 mistake they don't believe the weather 706 00:40:22,130 --> 00:40:24,740 reports Napoleon wouldn't believe it 707 00:40:24,740 --> 00:40:28,040 Hitler wouldn't believe it so general 708 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,050 January General February are the biggest 709 00:40:30,050 --> 00:40:34,460 generals in the Russian army the Soviet 710 00:40:34,460 --> 00:40:37,400 army slowly pushes the Nazis back mile 711 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:41,620 by bloody mile through Eastern Europe 712 00:40:41,620 --> 00:40:45,780 Hitler's forces are broken 713 00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:49,550 on May the 2nd 1945 Russian troops 714 00:40:49,550 --> 00:40:52,970 overwhelmed Berlin 715 00:40:53,570 --> 00:40:57,890 the war is over but a new conflict is 716 00:40:57,890 --> 00:41:00,880 about to begin 717 00:41:05,740 --> 00:41:09,430 in the summer of 1945 Stalin meets US 718 00:41:09,430 --> 00:41:11,560 President Truman and British Prime 719 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,990 Minister's Churchill and then Utley to 720 00:41:13,990 --> 00:41:18,790 discuss the details of the peace Western 721 00:41:18,790 --> 00:41:21,010 leaders are hoping for a golden era and 722 00:41:21,010 --> 00:41:26,050 an end to all war but Stalin will later 723 00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:28,400 reveal his hand 724 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,099 no one will ever be able to invade the 725 00:41:31,099 --> 00:41:35,089 Soviet Union again because he is going 726 00:41:35,089 --> 00:41:37,609 to keep every inch of the territory his 727 00:41:37,609 --> 00:41:41,569 army has taken after five long years of 728 00:41:41,569 --> 00:41:44,809 war the West doesn't have the stomach to 729 00:41:44,809 --> 00:41:48,319 oppose him he would agree to democratic 730 00:41:48,319 --> 00:41:50,660 elections of course but as Stalin said 731 00:41:50,660 --> 00:41:52,640 it's not important who votes it's 732 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,950 important who counts the votes and that 733 00:41:54,950 --> 00:41:58,050 was something he was going to do himself 734 00:41:58,050 --> 00:42:02,310 Stalin builds the Iron Curtain 90 735 00:42:02,310 --> 00:42:04,380 million people who thought they will be 736 00:42:04,380 --> 00:42:07,230 freed are now yoked to Stalin's brutal 737 00:42:07,230 --> 00:42:09,950 ideology 738 00:42:10,130 --> 00:42:12,850 the cold war begins 739 00:42:12,850 --> 00:42:16,070 [Music] 740 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,090 by the time of Stalin's 70th birthday 741 00:42:22,090 --> 00:42:24,880 celebrations his shadow has fallen 742 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,820 across an empire from Eastern Europe to 743 00:42:27,820 --> 00:42:28,980 Kamchatka 744 00:42:28,980 --> 00:42:30,210 [Music] 745 00:42:30,210 --> 00:42:32,380 along with a hundred and eighty million 746 00:42:32,380 --> 00:42:35,500 people in the Soviet Union a further 90 747 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:38,230 million in conquered Eastern Europe are 748 00:42:38,230 --> 00:42:41,349 now forced to live in servitude to 749 00:42:41,349 --> 00:42:45,430 Stalin if anyone objects the great 750 00:42:45,430 --> 00:42:48,640 terror is repeated across country after 751 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:55,060 country Stalin had total power he 752 00:42:55,060 --> 00:42:57,960 probably had more power than any 753 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,460 individual in the world up to that point 754 00:43:02,460 --> 00:43:06,550 the Cold War will run for almost half a 755 00:43:06,550 --> 00:43:08,579 century 756 00:43:09,150 --> 00:43:11,579 but by now the Soviet dictator has 757 00:43:11,579 --> 00:43:14,640 cardiac problems and his health is 758 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,670 declining 759 00:43:16,670 --> 00:43:21,680 in old age he could not be as active he 760 00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:25,730 could not control things as well he's 761 00:43:25,730 --> 00:43:29,210 just losing it you know and and that's 762 00:43:29,210 --> 00:43:31,430 the way life is and he hadn't figured on 763 00:43:31,430 --> 00:43:33,490 that 764 00:43:34,050 --> 00:43:36,510 he spends more and more time at his 765 00:43:36,510 --> 00:43:40,860 Dash's gardening but he's still paranoid 766 00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:44,960 and looking for new threads 767 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,220 he starts to focus on a new enemy 768 00:43:49,220 --> 00:43:51,600 towards the end of his life of course he 769 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,270 becomes more and more anti-semitic 770 00:43:53,270 --> 00:43:56,660 violently anti-semitic 771 00:43:56,670 --> 00:43:59,849 the hated traitor Trotsky originally 772 00:43:59,849 --> 00:44:03,500 Bronstein had been a Jew and Lev Kamenev 773 00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:06,990 had a Jewish father was one thing that 774 00:44:06,990 --> 00:44:09,210 style is shared with Hitler suspicion of 775 00:44:09,210 --> 00:44:12,660 Jews because they don't know loyalty to 776 00:44:12,660 --> 00:44:14,400 one country they could easily be spies 777 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:20,309 and silence you in January 1953 Stalin 778 00:44:20,309 --> 00:44:25,200 launches another purge he arrests the 779 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,170 country's top medical men accusing them 780 00:44:28,170 --> 00:44:30,270 of treachery and conspiring to destroy 781 00:44:30,270 --> 00:44:33,150 the Soviet leadership in what has become 782 00:44:33,150 --> 00:44:37,380 known as the doctors plot most of the 783 00:44:37,380 --> 00:44:40,619 accused are Jewish they're taken and 784 00:44:40,619 --> 00:44:44,220 tortured for confessions Stalin goes 785 00:44:44,220 --> 00:44:47,069 beat them beat them beat them with death 786 00:44:47,069 --> 00:44:52,160 blows I want those confessions 787 00:44:52,930 --> 00:44:55,340 one of the doctors had to be carried 788 00:44:55,340 --> 00:44:58,570 into an interrogation on a stretcher 789 00:44:58,570 --> 00:45:01,010 because he had been beaten so badly 790 00:45:01,010 --> 00:45:03,470 could walk some scholars believe that 791 00:45:03,470 --> 00:45:06,050 Stalin may have been planning a massive 792 00:45:06,050 --> 00:45:10,460 purge of Soviet Jews Stalin had already 793 00:45:10,460 --> 00:45:14,150 approved the building of four major new 794 00:45:14,150 --> 00:45:18,440 concentration camps in the Far East the 795 00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,780 speculation is that these concentration 796 00:45:20,780 --> 00:45:25,820 camps were being built for the Jews but 797 00:45:25,820 --> 00:45:31,640 Stalin's last purge will never happen on 798 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,900 March the 1st 1953 the father of the 799 00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:39,080 nation is alone in his room he was 800 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,540 sitting on a sofa with heat oil he drunk 801 00:45:41,540 --> 00:45:44,480 a lot he appears to have had a heart 802 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,320 attack 803 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,469 [Music] 804 00:45:48,730 --> 00:45:52,180 and he fell over one side and made 805 00:45:52,180 --> 00:45:59,230 burbling noises for an hour or two the 806 00:45:59,230 --> 00:46:02,080 most feared man in Russia lies alone for 807 00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,530 almost a day absolutely no one dares to 808 00:46:05,530 --> 00:46:10,990 enter the room finally his deputies gain 809 00:46:10,990 --> 00:46:17,950 the courage to come in they find Stalin 810 00:46:17,950 --> 00:46:22,450 lying in a pool of his own urine but 811 00:46:22,450 --> 00:46:25,950 still they don't dare touch the body 812 00:46:25,950 --> 00:46:28,330 they're standing round in terror looking 813 00:46:28,330 --> 00:46:32,080 at this body as it may be and a little 814 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:37,600 cleaning lady comes in and she pushed 815 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,790 away between people and said get out of 816 00:46:39,790 --> 00:46:41,770 my way and she looked at old he's dead 817 00:46:41,770 --> 00:46:43,570 come on let me and she starts to move 818 00:46:43,570 --> 00:46:45,480 around the knees 819 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,980 [Music] 820 00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:53,380 when the news is revealed the Soviet 821 00:46:53,380 --> 00:46:57,900 Union is convulsed with grief 822 00:46:58,230 --> 00:47:00,600 many find it hard to believe that Joseph 823 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,300 Stalin the beloved father of the nation 824 00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:08,430 for 30 years is dead for three days the 825 00:47:08,430 --> 00:47:10,619 tyrants body is displayed in Moscow 826 00:47:10,619 --> 00:47:14,250 while millions filed past to pay their 827 00:47:14,250 --> 00:47:16,670 respects 828 00:47:16,890 --> 00:47:19,319 the feeling had Stalin's funeral was 829 00:47:19,319 --> 00:47:22,170 that the strongman that held this 830 00:47:22,170 --> 00:47:25,109 country together has gone and he's left 831 00:47:25,109 --> 00:47:27,630 us with an a number of ghastly 832 00:47:27,630 --> 00:47:30,450 incompetence who will fight and rip the 833 00:47:30,450 --> 00:47:31,430 country apart 834 00:47:31,430 --> 00:47:35,309 despite 30 million deaths and decades of 835 00:47:35,309 --> 00:47:38,269 savage brutality at the time 836 00:47:38,269 --> 00:47:41,489 Stalin's propaganda has cemented him in 837 00:47:41,489 --> 00:47:43,650 the public imagination as the embodiment 838 00:47:43,650 --> 00:47:48,059 of all that is good in Soviet Russia all 839 00:47:48,059 --> 00:47:51,660 the press all the media is directed to 840 00:47:51,660 --> 00:47:54,269 elevate and exalt style his name and 841 00:47:54,269 --> 00:47:57,329 every textbook that published every play 842 00:47:57,329 --> 00:48:00,420 that's written whatever the theme has to 843 00:48:00,420 --> 00:48:02,339 have some reference to the greatness of 844 00:48:02,339 --> 00:48:05,099 Stalin he's projecting himself as the 845 00:48:05,099 --> 00:48:09,180 son the state was Stalin Stalin was a 846 00:48:09,180 --> 00:48:11,009 statement Stalin was a Soviet Union 847 00:48:11,009 --> 00:48:13,920 without him the Soviet Union would fail 848 00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:17,700 Stalin had in some ways transplanted the 849 00:48:17,700 --> 00:48:20,609 religion that he's been brought up in he 850 00:48:20,609 --> 00:48:25,140 transferred that to socialism and he had 851 00:48:25,140 --> 00:48:28,190 become the god of that so-called 852 00:48:28,190 --> 00:48:32,519 paradise which he had built up over 853 00:48:32,519 --> 00:48:33,900 nearly 30 years 854 00:48:33,900 --> 00:48:36,930 the name Stalin becomes in itself almost 855 00:48:36,930 --> 00:48:40,859 a prayer and people chanted what no one 856 00:48:40,859 --> 00:48:43,680 is told is that even in death Stalin is 857 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,789 a powerful destructive force 500 people 858 00:48:47,789 --> 00:48:50,069 a crushed to death by the crowds of 859 00:48:50,069 --> 00:48:53,519 hysterical mourners Stalin's brutality 860 00:48:53,519 --> 00:48:55,140 does make him one of the most terrifying 861 00:48:55,140 --> 00:48:58,739 people in history I think he was an evil 862 00:48:58,739 --> 00:49:01,680 man I think for him we know human 863 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,829 liberty and human human life was worth 864 00:49:04,829 --> 00:49:08,160 very little Stalin got away with it and 865 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,779 senses the system that he created 866 00:49:09,779 --> 00:49:12,289 basically went on for another 50 years 867 00:49:12,289 --> 00:49:15,299 even now you're still here people in 868 00:49:15,299 --> 00:49:17,970 Russia who can remember his time we say 869 00:49:17,970 --> 00:49:19,769 that for all his failings 870 00:49:19,769 --> 00:49:22,980 he made the Soviet Union an achievement 871 00:49:22,980 --> 00:49:24,720 which he could have got by no other 872 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,109 means there are many elements 873 00:49:27,109 --> 00:49:29,989 Stalinist thinking that are still alive 874 00:49:29,989 --> 00:49:32,720 in this world and if we don't understand 875 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:35,390 how precious our liberal democracy is 876 00:49:35,390 --> 00:49:39,970 yes there will be another Joseph Stalin 877 00:49:52,110 --> 00:49:53,210 you 878 00:49:53,210 --> 00:00:00,000 [Music] 93342

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