Lenin's Terror: The Brutal Reality of the Bolshevik Rise

In "Lenin's Terror," we delve deep into the harrowing era of Bolshevik rule under Vladimir Lenin's leadership. This video uncovers the chilling crimes and actions committed by Lenin and the Bolsheviks during their early reign. From the plight of the starving peasants to the ruthless war waged against the Church, this comprehensive exploration sheds light on the dark underbelly of the Russian Revolution.

0:00 - Introduction
2:55 - The Peasants' War
7:56 - The Urban Fiasco
11:30 - (Promotion)
12:54 - The Great Povolzhye Famine
16:36 - The War On The Church
23:23 - Conclusion
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Sources Used:

"The Russian Revolution: A New History" by Sean McMeekin (Primary Source)

"Peasant Russia, Civil War" by Orlando Figes

"The Black Book of Communism" by numerous authors

"A People's Tragedy" by Orlando Figes

"Russia under the Bolshevik Regime" by Richard Pipes

"Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War" by Vladimir Brovkin

"The Famine in Soviet Russia" by H.H. Fisher

"Industrialisierung und Außenhandel der Sowjetunion" by Galina Berkenkopf

"Unter den Roten Machthabern" by George Solomon

"Storming the Last Citadel" by Jonathan Daly

"Istorria russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi 1900-1927" by Mitrofanov

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Music used:

"Stay The Course" by Kevin MacLeod
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Tags:

Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Bolsheviks, Communists, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsar Nicholas II, the Russian Revolution, Lavader, Communism, Soviet Famine, Russian Orthodox Church

[Lavader_]

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[sillygoose]

Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's most loyal toadie, once said between Lenin and Stalin, Lenin had been the more severe of the two. Lenin would have brooked even less limits on his power than Stalin if he'd lived.

[jamesquinney]

And the fact that people support tyrants and ideologies like this now a days is just crazy to me.

[DjDeadpig]

Man, first time I’ve seen a good anti Lenin video. Most critics of the USSR talk about Stalin or Brezhnev as opposed to the brutal tyrant who actually started all of this shit.

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[luckyprk]

“Lenin was the good guy, it was big bad Stalin that screwed over the Soviets!!!”

- every fan boy in your year 10 history class.

[LastBrigadier]

I find it so ironic that the worker's revolution basically genocided other workers (the peasants) what a clown world lmao.

[MartinRussellSchmidt]

Nazi Germany was a state that ran death camps, the USSR was a death camp that ran states.

[Taipei_]

I'm glad you mentioned Trotsky, he would have been just as evil as Stalin had he been given the same power.

[morgunism]

Just a few weeks ago an old liberal coworker of mine commented in passing that Lenin was a good guy and a "man of the people". I cant believe people today in the USA can be this evil or ignorant.

[theguybehindyou]

Bolsheviks: (Starves thousands through mismanagement, then executes the survivors)

Academics: The west needs this!

[TheThreatenedSwan]

The Tsarist regime had been rapidly modernizing before the rise of the Bolsheviks, and the war and internal oppression the latter instigated was extremely costly. It set Russia back decades

[DrewPicklesTheDark]

If Redditors were given complete control of a country.

[arlosmith]

Russia needed a strong czar who would have executed Lenin, Trotsky and company back in 1905. Weakness of leadership is what caused the Bolshevik Revolution to succeed.👎

[warrioroflight]

The next video should be about all the countries that Lenin invaded! That would be another welcome blow to his fictional legacy as a philanthropist.

[seandonoghue]

The Red Terror must be one of the most disgraceful times in human History.

[nashtheneet]

Tsar Nicolas being killed was the worst tragedy by the Red's in my mind. He wasn't the best leader by any means but i don't think he was a bad man, he just wasn't ready to lead. Not to mention killing his whole family. Exile would have still been awful, but at least they could have kept their lives. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, all of them are butchers who sadly aren't called out enough here in the west. In school we only learned about the tragedy's by the Fascists, but not the Communists.

[legaullonapoleonien]

Great video, the conclusion where you stated that communist believe that they were supported by the people remind me of of the exact same lie about the French Revolution ! How many time I here that the Revolution was overwhelmingly supporting by the people against the tyranny of Louis XVI although, this is not true and the King was loved by many French until Varennes, it really started to crumble from here !

[blairscartoonshistory]

Tintin in the land of the Soviets was right of what a communist regime is like

[Johnnycdrums]

Herbert Hoover is entirely under rated.

[tashatsu_vachel]

Lenin was perfectly clear in his correspondence with Bernstein, the 'revolution was too important to be left to the proletariat and must happen without them'. He also conceded that capitalism had already solved most of the conditions Marx had intended Communism to solve, and all of this was pre-WWI.