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Stalin, The Red Terror
A Comprehensive Documentary on Joseph Stalin's Brutal Regime, Mass Killings, and Ambition to Create a Communist Utopia in the Soviet Union
00:00 🇷🇺 Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, is celebrated as a hero but is actually one of the greatest criminals in history.
8:41 🌍 Stalin's ambition to create a communist utopia in the Soviet Union is met with challenges and a deteriorating quality of life for the population.
16:49 🔴 Stalin's brutal reign and his implementation of political trials and mass repressions.
25:02 😢 Stalin's famine in Ukraine leads to the death of millions of people, while the French delegation is deceived by propaganda.
33:08 😱 The construction of the Stalin Canal was a tragic and cruel event, resulting in the deaths of thousands of prisoners and ultimately being a failure.
41:38 ⚡ The Great Terror: Stalin's purges and executions
50:02 😔 Stalin fails to recognize the threat of Hitler and the Soviet Union is unprepared for war.
59:46 🇷🇺 Stalin's leadership during World War II, including the Battle of Stalingrad, solidified the Soviet Union as a superpower.
1:10:23 🇷🇺 Stalin celebrates victory in Berlin and demands half of Europe at the Potsdam Conference.
1:18:55 🌍 The people of Grigny wish a happy birthday to Stalin and praise his leadership.
Through the most significant events of his time, we discover the legacy of terror and destruction that Stalin bequeathed to his people.
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin died in Moscow. His funeral was that of a demigod. Last irony of one of the worst criminals in the history of the 20th century, who brought misery to his people while creating a collective admiration. During more than 30 years of absolute rule, millions of people died.
With Stalin's policy the standard of living fell. The poverty of the early 1930s was evident on the streets of Moscow. In his labor re-education camps, better known as the Gulag, he imprisoned 18 million Russians, turning them into slaves. Machiavellian and paranoid, Stalin invented the impeachment trial, where sentences were set before the start of the hearing. He starved 7,000,000 peasants to death as punishment for refusing his revolution. He had fooled the entire world through false propaganda campaigns.
During World War II, Adolf Hitler set out to destroy Stalin. On June 16, 1941, three million soldiers attacked the USSR. The Nazis took over the city of Stalingrad, which was finally liberated by Russian troops in November 1942. In February 1943 the German troops surrendered. With this victory, Stalin became the first leader to defeat Hitler, which gave him the recognition of the international community.
Directed by Serge de Sampigny
Published Apr 16, 2025
