10 Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union

Check out our New Biography Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his charismatic henchman Leon Trotsky seemed to be his most obvious successor. Instead it was Joseph Stalin, a man once described by Trotsky as a “dull grey blur” and a “nonentity” who had, by 1929, vanquished his political rivals and seized power for himself. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook: http://ift.tt/1QRrRgJ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Other TopTenz Videos: 10 Brides and Grooms Who Died On Their Wedding Day https://youtu.be/8DgprPPh-rU?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnLt3JIYHY_PUk7TrxFJZFGK Top 10 Horrifying Cities You REALLY Don't Want to Live In https://youtu.be/G-J1f-ij_fk?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnIYyd7gYfzJto1ix7J_3r-6 Text version: http://ift.tt/2kOt5Qa Coming up: 10. The Soviet Famine of 1932-33 9. The Great Terror 8. The Activities of the NKVD were an Open Secret 7. Stalin’s Right-Hand Man was a Sadist and a Serial Killer 6. Suppression of Religion 5. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 4. Prisoners of War were Treated as Traitors 3. The Most Powerful Men in the Soviet Union were Routinely Humiliated 2. Siberian Gulags 1. The Cult of Stalin Source/Further reading: http://ift.tt/1Ux8Q74 http://ift.tt/2qbpCeh http://ift.tt/2GkOaLP http://ift.tt/1Vu0LyJ http://ift.tt/2GkZHui http://ift.tt/1eUwoPM http://ift.tt/2frLeSW http://ift.tt/2tD6gpF http://ift.tt/1MOZei9 http://ift.tt/2u2CRkg http://ift.tt/2FvXtLL http://ift.tt/2tAPQOg http://ift.tt/2sMtvJ8 http://ift.tt/2tB8u92 http://ift.tt/2Gk1QGB http://ift.tt/2tB8xBK http://ift.tt/1iPeqZK http://ift.tt/2tB8Exa http://ift.tt/2GjvImv http://ift.tt/1YUqMGV http://ift.tt/1TIQPRj http://ift.tt/2tFuYFD http://ift.tt/2Fxkcak http://ift.tt/2tB8R3q http://ift.tt/2Fulna9