Joseph Stalin: The Man Who Ruled by Fear
Episode 1 | Human History — Individuals
In this History episode we focus on Joseph Stalin — the son of a drunk from provincial Georgia who trained for the priesthood, became a revolutionary bank robber, and through cunning that none of his rivals understood until it was too late, seized absolute power over one sixth of the earth's surface.
This episode covers his rise through the Bolshevik underground, the purges that killed millions of his own people, the collectivization famine that killed five to seven million in Ukraine alone, the pact with Hitler and the catastrophic invasion that…
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