Joseph Stalin
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.
The Bloody Hundredth
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The Corporation
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The Chosen
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When the Wind Blows
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Capitalism: A Love Story
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The Girls
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Mission to Moscow
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The Society of the Spectacle
as Self (archive footage)Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
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#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump
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Rita the Field Marshal
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State Funeral
as Self (archive footage)The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The...
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Stalin's Daughter
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
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The Untold History Of The United States
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High Voltage
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Reagan
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Laissez-faire
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1945: The Savage Peace
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Imminent Threat
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Big Data, Big Brother
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A Grin Without a Cat
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
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A Compassionate Spy
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
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Sputnik Mania
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Laboratory Greece
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
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Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
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Stalin's James Bond
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Stalin's Last Plot
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In Search of Dr. Seuss
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
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The Russian Revolution
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:03 from Gold
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
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A Web of War
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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
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Three Songs About Lenin
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Condom
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Stalin: Man of Steel
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To Arms, We Are Fascists!
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A War in Hollywood
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I Invite You to My Execution
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The Fight For Peace
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
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Ukraine: A Battle for History
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The Long Breakup
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Human Remains
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Life Begins Tomorrow
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Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
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Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
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How we built the Moscow metro
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Herrliche Zeiten
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Storm Front in Mayo
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Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
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The Russian German War
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Kino-Pravda No. 21
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Velikoye proshchaniye
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I Betrayed Hitler
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
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The Battle of France
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Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
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Stalin In Color
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The Soviet Union: A New Look
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
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The Mistake that Killed Hitler
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The Oath of the Albanian People Before the Great Stalin
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I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
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Stalin's Wife
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Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
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When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
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World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
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Reza Shah
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Beginning
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CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
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Svetlana About Svetlana
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The UnXplained
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Days That Shook the World
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Mentiras verdaderas
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The Vietnam War
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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
as Self (archive footage)Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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Brecht
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Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
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Apocalypse: The Second World War
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Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
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A History of Antisemitism
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World War II in HD Colour
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How to Become a Tyrant
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Tucker Carlson Tonight
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Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on The East (1941-1943)
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Apocalypse: Stalin
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Warlords
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