Stalin’s Great Purge: The Brutal Rise of a Soviet Superpower

The Soviet Union was formed on 30th December 1922 after five years of civil war. Stalin's iron fist and his Great Purge gave him unopposed murderous rule over the country, while heroically defeating Hitler's onslaught on Kursk and Stalingrad between 1941-43 effectively won WWII for the allies, and helped mark out his geopolitical world and power until his death in 1953. https://youtu.be/WxkfNzPhc70 Part 1 Red October to Barbarossa https://youtu.be/D1v6Zf5wDLM Part 2 100th Anniversary 1922 https://youtu.be/GNv5FYdncYw Part 3 Revolution and Dissolution