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Zulu
for 30 years the Man of Steel Joseph
Stalin ruthlessly dominated the Soviet
Union he had created a larger Empire
than any of the Tsar's he was probably
the most successful ruler the blusher
ever had but he gets the prize as the
most evil sable the human race has ever
produced
rising from within a band of
revolutionaries elet's this is the story
of a man whose pursuit of absolute power
transforms a nation stolen found Russia
with the wooden plow and he lifts it
with atomic weapons but the blood-crazed
Soviet strong man's tools for progress
are family
slavery and execution people didn't
count them they were no more than rats
and yet to this day some of his
countrymen lionize him as the man who
made Russia a superpower
[Music]
[Music]
for 300 years the autocratic Romanov
dynasty have ruled the Russian Empire
with an iron fist
but a crushing defeat in the First World
War and economic problems at home mean
that the current ruler tsar nicholas ii
is losing his grip on power
[Music]
the country is ripe for revolution when
in October 1917 the Communist Bolshevik
Party storms the Winter Palace and takes
over the country under revolutionary
leader Vladimir Lenin a new Marxist
government fights a civil war to
maintain control
the Civil War was a time when the
Bolshevik Revolution was struggling to
survive it was surrounded a beleaguered
on every side by enemies the only way it
was going to survive was by extremism by
terror by ruthlessness among the men
vying for a top position in Lenin's
regime his future Soviet dictator Joseph
Stalin people wanted to be President
they want to be People's Commissar for
this but defense for Foreign Affairs
they wanted the glorious jobs what
didn't realize was the Stalin was going
to eliminate all of them
born Joseph Jew gosh villi the man who
will become Stalin isn't even a Russian
he's a Georgian born into poverty in
1878 on the wild frontiers of the
Russian Empire he was I believe 5 foot 4
he was short and he didn't like to be
short but he was short then he had a
Napoleonic complex from day one he
always wanted to be number one and he
never conceded he was wrong he was
always right here this self-belief this
huge self-belief young Joseph gets the
best education available at a russian
orthodox seminary
[Music]
his mother wants him to become a priest
but he has other ideas
while I was at the seminary Starlin
first of all became an atheist then he
started to study the works of Marx
German social philosopher and author of
the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx is all
the rage in radical European circles his
writings open Stalin's mind to the
possibility of revolution against the
Cyrus regime he was a bright young man
who needed a cause not that different
from those guys who were joining up to
Isis today his cause became that of
communism
[Music]
when he is 20 years old Stalin leaves
the seminary to become a political
activist in the illegal Georgian Marxist
movement
but trying to topple Assad is a deadly
game his secret police the Okhrana are
on the lookout for subversives the life
of an underground conspiratorial Marxist
and was a very strange one you changed
your name constantly you moved house
constantly you have very quick love
affairs with people and then never saw
them again you could trust nobody full
of idealism Stalin adopts the codename
Koba after a Georgian Robin Hood and
begins to organize industrial workers to
destabilize the Czarist regime
[Music]
he went to batumi which was an oil
terminus on the Black Sea and there are
thousands of workers worked there and
Stalin immediately arranged a series of
strikes it is here in Batumi that he
gets his first real taste for blood
in 1902 his strikers confront the
authorities and the police opened fire
on killing 15 and injuring many more
Starlin gets away unscathed but he does
tend to the wounded
the death toll does not worry him one
bit in fact it teaches him a lesson he
will never forget the strike is like an
epiphany for him that he saw in the act
of violence the way forward that is how
you change Russia that's how you
progress the revolutionary movement
physical violence is of the essence
Stalin's activities get him noticed he's
invited to meet the great leader of the
movement Vladimir Lenin
the man he considers to be the Mountain
Eagle of the revolution Lenin was really
Stalin's teacher in the practice of
terror Lenin sees in Stalin a man of
loyalty a man committed to the cause as
Lenin defines it and a man who's
prepared to do the dirty work
Lenin gives Stalin a key mission to
raise money for the revolution he goes
to the booming port town of Baku full of
newly rich oil barrels and comfortably
far from the center of Czarist power
here
he becomes a mobster and sets about
fleecing the capitalists
Stalin ran a gang that it was called
something like the outfit
they were pretty motley bunch then he
ran brothels for the one he's shaking
people down he's pushing people around
that meant bank robberies piracy
protection rackets - Stalin the law does
not matter lives do not matter you do
what is necessary this is the key
Leninist principle what is necessary at
the moment you do regardless of
consequences
the only thing that matters is the
revolution
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by now Stalin is high up on the Czarist
secret police's most-wanted list but he
is not yet the murderous psychopath he
will become
he falls in love with ekaterina
Vanette sir the sister of a fellow
communist and in secret they marry she
was what the Georgians called ababa she
was the woman who was at home and just
provided the creature comforts Katarina
bears Stalin a son Yakov but just months
later she contracts typhus and dies when
Stalin's first wife died he was
absolutely shattered
[Music]
he said that when she died all my
feelings for people died with her she
melted my stony heart now the shutters
start to come down
Stalin decides that no one will be
allowed into his heart again it's a
trait which will serve him well on his
rise to power by 1906 tsar nicholas ii
regime is on the rocks after a wave of
strikes economic chaos and an attempted
revolution in a small concession to
democracy he sets up a parliament called
the duma then in so-called Bolshevik
Party win seats there though he
continues his illegal struggle against
the system
Stalin is still a wanted man spending
years in prison and exile but his friend
Roman malinovski becomes the leader of
the Bolsheviks in the Duma
in 1912 Stalin escapes from exile and
heads for the capital looking for a safe
base of operations
he immediately came to see his friend
malinovski
stunnin likes malinovski and trusts him
a big mistake
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malinovski was in fact as our as secret
agent
malinovski is the most highly paid
double agent to the Czar's Acronis
secret police has ever had he invites
Stalin to a fundraising dinner
and Stalin agrees to go
malinovski must have been a very good
actor because your honor would have set
up the meeting and they would have told
him what to say and how to proceed so
that there will be no suspicions aroused
in Stalin's mind the dinner is a trap
he betrayed by a party memory betrayed
by a fellow Bolshevik he sentenced to
exile he takes with him this burning
conviction that he'd given trust to
someone who could not be trusted
The Betrayal has a colossal impact on
star
he starts to believe that even those who
are closest to Minsk even the most loyal
and committed communists may be Treatise
the interesting thing about the
malinovski stories it explains why later
in Stalin's life he distrusted everybody
because virtually anybody even the
leader of the Bolshevik Party in the in
the Duma could be a secret agent and a
traitor consumed with bitterness Stalin
is sent into exile in Siberia on the
edges of the Arctic Circle
he is largely ignored by his communist
colleagues who this time do not bother
to help him escape
in Stalin's mind there must been a lot
of anger about the way he'd been treated
the way his comrades had betrayed him
they didn't give miss jus so their
belittled him if you like and he put him
down so therefore all this will be
stewing in Stalin's mind how could I
take revenge on these people I'm a much
more important person than they think
and I'm going to show them that for four
years Stalin is stuck in the frozen
wasteland his heart becoming as cold and
hard as the wilderness around him food
was in a short supply and it said every
night the Wolves gathered round looking
for the bits of food that might be left
the prowling wolves will haunt Stalin to
the end of his days
a common theme in his doodles was with
ravening wolves ready put the round mill
at the page the teeth bared show virtual
later said there's something wolf liked
about him and it may be the bottom
it wasn't just a happy metaphor there
was actually this all the iron element
coming out in
so when the Bolsheviks seized power in
1917 Stalin returns to the capital ready
to take his place in Lenin's new
communist government bringing with him a
brutal mindset born of years of struggle
violence is not really a means to an end
it is the end in itself you only win by
smashing to the enemy
the budding tyrant abandons his birth
name forever and becomes officially
Joseph Stalin meaning Man of Steel
[Music]
he's one of Lennon's most trusted
leaders and a member of the Communist
party's Central Committee but he is
neither the most senior nor the most
popular
when Lenin hands out the top jobs
Stalin's rivals in the top tier of the
party seemed to get the best positions
he didn't have that particular grain of
academic intellectualism but that Lenin
and Trotsky had and I think it made him
feel inferior the charismatic Leon
Trotsky who snobbishly fails to
recognize Stalin at a party meeting gets
Foreign Affairs and the Red Army Trotsky
made the great mistake of snubbing
Stalin Trotsky didn't realizes he was
singled out to be set aside and
destroyed school teacher turned
revolutionary Lev Kamenev gets to run
Moscow and is made Lenin's deputy
the conventional Marxist intellectuals
looked at Stalin and they dismissed him
they just had no idea how much Stalin
could do
because he admires his organizational
skills the job Lenin gives Stalin is an
administrative role the general
secretary of the communist party nobody
else wanted the job of general secretary
the general secretary might a boring one
while Trotsky and Kamenev struct the
political stage it seems Stalin has
assigned menial people
he is left working in the background
while they take all the glory but it's
not long before he realizes that in
reality the general secretary holds the
key to power a separate decides who is
going to come to the meeting who's going
to be told about it what's going to be
on the agenda the new Soviet Union is
run by committee if you control the
agenda you can control everything
gradually he controlled appointments and
by controlling appointments he could put
his people into various committees and
if you could get a majority in Central
Committee you were the number one man
while Lenin and his top team are
distracted by all the problems of
running a country that has been
downtrodden for years and just come
through a civil war Stalin builds his
power base and fights his time
all the while he plots his revenge
against the snobbish intellectuals who
dismissed him if you made a point of
humiliating Comrade Stalin your days
were numbered there is no question about
that
[Music]
in 1924 Lenin the unquestioned leader of
the revolution dies of a cerebral
hemorrhage
Stalin is among the party leaders
carrying Lenin's casket to its final
resting place
but one important person is not there
leon trotsky the general secretary
hasn't invited him stalin sends the
wrong date deliberately to prevent
Trotsky turning up on the field and
because he didn't turn up what sort of
Leninist could he be this man who
doesn't turn up with Trotsky absent it
falls to Stalin to deliver the eulogy to
the great Lenin we owe all that we have
to the great then him we dedicate
ourselves to the awesome to the great
Lenin a way of saying I am your heir
Stalin's plan works though officially
just the general secretary enough of his
supporters are in place to help
establish him as the heir to Lenin now
he can turn on his rivals first up Leon
Trotsky getting real Trotsky was was it
was a refined delayed processes drawn
out for his own pleasure it was
suggested Trotsky that he had no place
in the capital he was dragged kicking
and screaming to the Train
Trotsky is forced to flee overseas and
ends up in Mexico
eventually Stalin sends an assassin to
pick him off
by the time of his 50th birthday
celebrations five years after the death
of Lenin Stalin is firmly in charge
though he has kept the humble title of
general secretary he is effectively the
top man in the Soviet Union
[Music]
but despite a decade of communist rule
the country remains desperately backward
Stalin decides that what it needs is a
dose of his Willis Marxist medicine
the first area to fix is farming Sodom
was convinced that the Russian peasant
was unproductive and could be replaced
with tractors and that led to the first
really murderous acts of Stalin in
December 1929 he unleashes the poorest
peasants against the landowning farmers
called cool axe
in such class enemies ought to be
exterminated the order that Stalin gave
for the liquidation of the kulaks as a
class is the first legal order of a
state for the mass murder of its own
citizens they were no more than rats
they had to be wiped out they were
vermin
then in the name of liberating them
Stalin forces the peasants to work on
vast collective farms
[Music]
to speed Russia's rapid
industrialization he confiscates the
grain using it to feed factory workers
in the cities and to sell abroad
propaganda films portrayed the
collective farms as a triumph
[Music]
but the truth is exactly the opposite
production collapses and famine breaks
out across the Soviet Union
Starlin must have foreseen there would
be a famine he probably didn't foresee
that it would kill probably 10 million
people by 1933 you had cannibalism all
over southern Russia it was the most
appalling man-made famine in history and
it was done deliberately Stalin does not
care about the deaths in the countryside
it's a price worth paying for his
revolution Stalin once said the death of
one man is a tragedy the death of a
million is a statistic a Bolshevik like
Stalin Stalin prided himself on this
could look at things harshly with
toughness and as he said to Lenin my
hand will not tremble
in the cities news of the famines is
suppressed but it starts to leak out one
night in the Kremlin Stalin is enjoying
a dinner party with his second wife
Nadia
he didn't want everybody particularly
his family to know what was going on
they would have regarded this
annihilation of peasant classes as a
betrayal of their ideals but Nadia has
heard the rumors about the extent of the
famine they sort of gazed at each other
across the table and she got up and
flounced out she was very very upset
later in her room she writes a note
condemning the Stalin she didn't believe
that anything stalin was doing in his
policies were the right policies she
couldn't go along with collectivization
and the annihilation of the peasant
classes this was certainly such a
challenge thrown down Stalin that he was
wrong
[Music]
later that night Nadia takes the only
way out to Stalin her suicide is not a
tragedy it's a betrayal nobody was
allowed to say that anything he said or
did was wrong and she had made this
ultimate gesture with her life to say
what you're doing is wrong
so it it made him completely furious he
was heard to say she went away as an
enemy
Nadia's death is reported as due to
appendicitis
with her female influence gone
Stalin becomes more isolated and more
paranoid the days of the Great Terror
are about to begin
[Music]
in January 1934 Joseph Stalin summons
the supreme decision-making body of the
Soviet Union the Party Congress it's the
largest meeting of Soviet leaders in
four years one of those summoned is his
loyal supporter Sergei Kirov
[Music]
Kirov thinks he is the closest thing
Stalin has to a friend the general
secretary himself gives care of the
choice position of leningrad party boss
but the paranoid leader believes Kirov
has become too popular among the party
delegates popular enough that he can one
day become a rival or betray the
revolution like malinovski carapace
effect its very existence as popular
figure in the party there might be a
rallying round care off in opposition to
Starly Starly mean have no fear by 1934
but he did fear friendship and loyalty
do not matter to Stalin not if someone
is a potential threat to his power if
Kara is a threat then remove him that's
that's a simple way it's done in
revolutionary terms
on December the 1st 1934 Sergei Kirov
walks into his office in Leningrad
[Music]
at the time his death is an outrage and
a mystery what no one realizes is that
Kirov's murder is part of Stalin's
master plan the assassination of Carroll
was the beginning of Stalin establishing
himself as the absolute ruler the party
leader decides to seize the opportunity
and get rid of all his old rivals at
once the best way to do it is a purge
and the best way to do that is to
demonstrate that his arch enemies were
responsible for the beloved Kirov's
death he begins by arresting Lenin's old
deputy Lev Kamenev and his supporters he
accuses them of being traitors and of
conspiring to murder Kirov the trouble
is common F is a party member with
impeccable credentials one of Lenin's
original team he has to show to the
soviet people that the accusations are
true because it seemed incredible that
they could have been traitors but they
could have been anti-socialist
anti-marxist anti linguist all along
to make the absurd accusations credible
Stalin needs a confession Kamenev and
other top party leaders are taken from
prison to the kremlin where he makes
them an offer they cannot refuse if you
accept your fate and say what the party
requires of you then I can guarantee
that your family will not suffer now is
it worth your family's suffering and of
course being committed to their families
they back off
with their confessions in the bag Stalin
puts Kamenev and 15 other senior party
members on trial
foreign press are invited to view the
proceedings
they attended the show trials and they
expressed pleasure system was so perfect
that the accused balan teri confessed
and they will listen to treated very
mainly Stalin's plan works perfectly his
old rival Kamenev and the other alleged
conspirators are shot
he stages two more show trials for the
most senior party members others lower
down are simply arrested and executed
the whites are over a thousand of the
leading party members have gathered the
Congress and of the committee the
Politburo made up of 45 members within
two years only 11 of them are remaining
the great purge wipes out anyone who
might challenge Stalin's power including
more than half of the army's top brass
use any tree left standing in the forest
after Linda's death no one could
contradict his narrative about the
revolution the 1920s the 1939 living but
even now he does not feel secure
there are other witnesses to his
failures as leader the Soviet people
millions of them lived through the
Revolution and the years that followed
and they might remember the truth now
they must be forced to forget after the
Great Purge he unleashes the great
terror
Stalin's dreaded secret police the NKVD
predecessors of the KGB are given the
job of cleansing the country of what he
says are traitors
he would set targets for arrests now
called the limits in every city every
province had its limits they didn't care
who they were they wanted numbers killed
because that's how Bolshevik did things
5,000 10,000 there of whom about a
quarter were to be shot straight away
Stalin personally signs the death
warrants of those senior enough in the
party structure there are 44 thousand
names on which you had Stalin's initials
and tics he would add words like scum
prostitute deserves it he was enjoying
it enormous Lee Stalin by that point is
by any normal standards a psychopath an
incurable psychopath
the Soviet tyrant doesn't stop with the
adult population he wants to break down
any loyalty that is not to him
to do that he attacks the most
fundamental human social unit the family
children were made to see themselves as
children Stalin first and of their
parents second and if their parents were
suspect they were asked by their
teachers to report back and there were
scores hundreds of the end of stories of
children actually betraying their own
parents Soviet society collapses under
Stalin's relentless onslaught fear is at
the heart of it you are putting fear
distrust into the heart of society and
then you can achieve anything
[Music]
at least 700,000 people are executed
millions are sent to slave labor camps
known as the gulag no one in the country
dares even to think of challenging
Stalin's leadership he is now
effectively the Czar of the Soviet Union
[Applause]
but outside the Soviet Union a new enemy
is rising
Adolf Hitler is the only man who might
match Stalin's lack of empathy and
disregard for Humanity he is hell-bent
on wiping out communism nevertheless in
1939 Stalin cuts a deal with Hitler they
divide up Eastern Europe between them
and agree that they will not attack each
other
Stalin didn't trust anyone but he
trusted Hitler because he saw Hitler as
red leader a very strong leader he had
this belief that if the Soviet Union and
Germany can work together then they can
conquer the world
even after the Nazis take France in 1940
Stalin believes that the Soviet Union is
safe because Hitler will not want to
fight on two fronts a big mistake
in summer 1941 Stalin had the first real
big shock of his life
[Music]
Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa and
invades Russia Nazi tanks plow towards
Moscow in a devastating advance they
capture more than a hundred thousand men
in the first week
suddenly Stalin is facing the fight of
his life
Hitler's Panzer army is cutting through
Russia like a knife through butter
supreme leader Joseph Stalin is
dumbfounded
[Music]
he retreats to his country house known
as a Dasha
we sat in a chair looking at the wall it
said in his Dasha outside Moscow and
refused to comment when news came to him
it seemed to be an attack of depression
he did nothing for something like three
weeks
as the German tank person close in on
Moscow a delegation of Stalin's deputies
muster up the courage to go and find him
he was extremely shaken he said Lenin
build the state we're gonna lose it
and he you know he was close to panic
had he stayed paralytic for another 2-3
days refusing to allow proper response
on this Soviet side he may well have
lost the war they said Comrade Stalin we
need you we need your leadership and he
came back and he regained his his
vitality and he led the country after
that back in charge
Stalin tries to take full control of the
war
he would interfere forbidden generals to
retreat even when it made military sense
retreat Stalin is an expert at killing
helpless people but he knows nothing
about how to run a real world
he lost army after army division after
division hundreds of thousands of Soviet
soldiers are slaughtered as the Nazis
conquer vast swaths of Russia it wasn't
for a year or two that started finally
learnt that you leave the army to get on
with the job and you concentrate on
supplying them with tanks one thing that
Stalin does not relinquish is his
hardness
his firstborn son Yakov is fighting at
the front in July 1941 he's captured by
the Germans the Germans thought they had
a trophy so they they negotiated to get
some German generals back in exchange
for Yakov the Man of Steel shows Hitler
how ruthless he really is and started
said I don't swap generals for a soldier
that of course impressed the Germans
enormously and Yakov eventually threw
himself on the electrified barbed wire
and died
[Music]
yakov is one of more than 20 million
Soviet citizens who give their lives in
the fight against the Nazis to their
leader they're just another statistic
despite his early interference a
combination of winter and the
extraordinary bravery of the troops
turns the tide of war all invaders of
Russia except the Mongols have made one
mistake they don't believe the weather
reports Napoleon wouldn't believe it
Hitler wouldn't believe it so general
January General February are the biggest
generals in the Russian army the Soviet
army slowly pushes the Nazis back mile
by bloody mile through Eastern Europe
Hitler's forces are broken
on May the 2nd 1945 Russian troops
overwhelmed Berlin
the war is over but a new conflict is
about to begin
in the summer of 1945 Stalin meets US
President Truman and British Prime
Minister's Churchill and then Utley to
discuss the details of the peace Western
leaders are hoping for a golden era and
an end to all war but Stalin will later
reveal his hand
no one will ever be able to invade the
Soviet Union again because he is going
to keep every inch of the territory his
army has taken after five long years of
war the West doesn't have the stomach to
oppose him he would agree to democratic
elections of course but as Stalin said
it's not important who votes it's
important who counts the votes and that
was something he was going to do himself
Stalin builds the Iron Curtain 90
million people who thought they will be
freed are now yoked to Stalin's brutal
ideology
the cold war begins
[Music]
by the time of Stalin's 70th birthday
celebrations his shadow has fallen
across an empire from Eastern Europe to
Kamchatka
[Music]
along with a hundred and eighty million
people in the Soviet Union a further 90
million in conquered Eastern Europe are
now forced to live in servitude to
Stalin if anyone objects the great
terror is repeated across country after
country Stalin had total power he
probably had more power than any
individual in the world up to that point
the Cold War will run for almost half a
century
but by now the Soviet dictator has
cardiac problems and his health is
declining
in old age he could not be as active he
could not control things as well he's
just losing it you know and and that's
the way life is and he hadn't figured on
that
he spends more and more time at his
Dash's gardening but he's still paranoid
and looking for new threads
he starts to focus on a new enemy
towards the end of his life of course he
becomes more and more anti-semitic
violently anti-semitic
the hated traitor Trotsky originally
Bronstein had been a Jew and Lev Kamenev
had a Jewish father was one thing that
style is shared with Hitler suspicion of
Jews because they don't know loyalty to
one country they could easily be spies
and silence you in January 1953 Stalin
launches another purge he arrests the
country's top medical men accusing them
of treachery and conspiring to destroy
the Soviet leadership in what has become
known as the doctors plot most of the
accused are Jewish they're taken and
tortured for confessions Stalin goes
beat them beat them beat them with death
blows I want those confessions
one of the doctors had to be carried
into an interrogation on a stretcher
because he had been beaten so badly
could walk some scholars believe that
Stalin may have been planning a massive
purge of Soviet Jews Stalin had already
approved the building of four major new
concentration camps in the Far East the
speculation is that these concentration
camps were being built for the Jews but
Stalin's last purge will never happen on
March the 1st 1953 the father of the
nation is alone in his room he was
sitting on a sofa with heat oil he drunk
a lot he appears to have had a heart
attack
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and he fell over one side and made
burbling noises for an hour or two the
most feared man in Russia lies alone for
almost a day absolutely no one dares to
enter the room finally his deputies gain
the courage to come in they find Stalin
lying in a pool of his own urine but
still they don't dare touch the body
they're standing round in terror looking
at this body as it may be and a little
cleaning lady comes in and she pushed
away between people and said get out of
my way and she looked at old he's dead
come on let me and she starts to move
around the knees
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when the news is revealed the Soviet
Union is convulsed with grief
many find it hard to believe that Joseph
Stalin the beloved father of the nation
for 30 years is dead for three days the
tyrants body is displayed in Moscow
while millions filed past to pay their
respects
the feeling had Stalin's funeral was
that the strongman that held this
country together has gone and he's left
us with an a number of ghastly
incompetence who will fight and rip the
country apart
despite 30 million deaths and decades of
savage brutality at the time
Stalin's propaganda has cemented him in
the public imagination as the embodiment
of all that is good in Soviet Russia all
the press all the media is directed to
elevate and exalt style his name and
every textbook that published every play
that's written whatever the theme has to
have some reference to the greatness of
Stalin he's projecting himself as the
son the state was Stalin Stalin was a
statement Stalin was a Soviet Union
without him the Soviet Union would fail
Stalin had in some ways transplanted the
religion that he's been brought up in he
transferred that to socialism and he had
become the god of that so-called
paradise which he had built up over
nearly 30 years
the name Stalin becomes in itself almost
a prayer and people chanted what no one
is told is that even in death Stalin is
a powerful destructive force 500 people
a crushed to death by the crowds of
hysterical mourners Stalin's brutality
does make him one of the most terrifying
people in history I think he was an evil
man I think for him we know human
liberty and human human life was worth
very little Stalin got away with it and
senses the system that he created
basically went on for another 50 years
even now you're still here people in
Russia who can remember his time we say
that for all his failings
he made the Soviet Union an achievement
which he could have got by no other
means there are many elements
Stalinist thinking that are still alive
in this world and if we don't understand
how precious our liberal democracy is
yes there will be another Joseph Stalin
you
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