All language subtitles for The Ruthless Soviet Leader ¦ Joseph Stalin Documentary (English_ASR)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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by the time of Stalin's 70th birthday

celebrations his shadow has fallen

across an empire from Eastern Europe to

Kamchatka

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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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