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[ SPEAKING RUSSIAN ]

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Narrator: MOSCOW, 1936.

INSIDE THE KREMLIN REIGNS ONE OF
HISTORY'S BLOODIEST DICTATORS.

STALIN.

HIS POWER IS ABSOLUTE.

[ APPLAUSE ]

HE'S MERCILESS,

ASKING HIS PEOPLE
TO SACRIFICE THEIR BLOOD.

HIS SUBJECTS LIVE IN FEAR.

LIKE IN A RITUAL, THEY'RE FORCED
TO SHOWER THE TYRANT

WITH ENDLESS ROUNDS OF APPLAUSE.

STALIN FEIGNS IMPATIENCE.

HE PULLS OUT HIS WATCH.

[ APPLAUSE CONTINUES ]

JUNE 22, 1941.

WITHOUT A PRIOR DECLARATION
OF WAR, THE GERMAN AIR FORCE

ATTACKS RUSSIA,
KNOWN AT THE TIME

AS THE USSR... THE UNION
OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.

[ BOMBS WHISTLING ]

[ PLANES ROARING ]

[ GUNFIRE, EXPLOSIONS ]

THE GERMAN ADVANCE
IS DEVASTATING.

WITHIN DAYS, GERMANY CAPTURES

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF PRISONERS.

HITLER, THE RULER
OF NAZI GERMANY,

IS CLEARLY REAFFIRMING
HIS WAR OBJECTIVES.

HE WANTS TO GET RID
OF HIS WORST ENEMY, COMMUNISM,

AND ITS LEADER, STALIN,

AND CONQUER WHAT HE REFERS TO
AS GERMANY'S LIVING SPACE.

HITLER DECLARES, "OUR DESTINY
POINTS US TO THE EAST."

WE WILL PUT AN END TO RUSSIA."

SINCE SEPTEMBER 1939,
HITLER AND HIS FANATIC ARMY

HAVE INVADED
POLAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM,

THE NETHERLANDS,

DENMARK, NORWAY, YUGOSLAVIA

AND GREECE.

THEY ARE NOW ADVANCING
ON LENINGRAD, KIEV, AND MOSCOW,

THE CAPITAL OF THE SOVIET UNION.

EARLY ON THE MORNING
OF JUNE 22, 1941,

STALIN FINALLY WAKES UP.

NO ONE HAS HAD
THE COURAGE TO WARN HIM.

STALIN HAS DONE EVERYTHING
POSSIBLE TO AVOID WAR,

EVEN GOING SO FAR
AS TO PROVIDE GERMANY

WITH THE FUEL AND RARE METALS

THAT HAVE HELPED
HITLER DEFEAT FRANCE.

[ CROWD CHEERING ]

MAY 1, 1941, IN RED SQUARE,

JUST A FEW WEEKS
BEFORE HITLER'S ATTACK,

SOVIET PROPAGANDA INSISTED

THAT GERMAN GUESTS ATTEND
THE TRADITIONAL MILITARY PARADE.

IN ORDER TO DELAY THE TIMETABLE

AND BE THE FIRST TO ATTACK,

STALIN SHOCKED THE WORLD

BY SIGNING A GERMANO-SOVIET
NONAGGRESSION PACT WITH HITLER.

THE AGREEMENT
INCLUDED SECRET CLAUSES,

GIVING GERMANY POWER

OVER HALF OF POLAND
AND THE BALTIC COUNTRIES.

STALIN IS NOT RUSSIAN, IN FACT.

HE IS GEORGIAN.

HIS MOTHER TONGUE
ISN'T RUSSIAN, IT'S GEORGIAN.

ALTHOUGH HE WAS RAISED
IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH,

HIS MIND-SET IS CLOSER TO THAT
OF A MIDDLE EASTERN DESPOT.

1892...

THE EARLIEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH
OF STALIN,

A CHOIRBOY OF 14.

STALIN IS BORN
ON DECEMBER 6, 1878, IN GORI,

A LITTLE VILLAGE
A 2-DAY WALK FROM TIFLIS,

THE CAPITAL OF GEORGIA,
PART OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE,

THE WORLD'S GREATEST
AT THE TIME,

WITH 170 MILLION INHABITANTS.

IN SAINT PETERSBURG,
A LONG LINE OF ROMANOVS

HAVE BEEN RULING
FOR 3 CENTURIES.

THE CURRENT EMPEROR, OR TSAR,

A DERIVATIVE OF "CAESAR,"
IS NICHOLAS II,

A WEAK AND DEVOUT SOVEREIGN.

STALIN'S GEORGIA IS A ROUGH
COUNTRY IN THE CAUCASUS,

WHERE TURKISH, ARMENIAN, KURDISH

AND JEWISH MINORITIES
STRUGGLE TO COEXIST.

HIS FATHER,
BESARION JUGHASHVILI,

IS A COBBLER
FOND OF HIS RED WINE.

JOSEPH LOOKS LIKE HIM.

JOSEPH, SON OF BESARION,
OR, IN RUSSIAN,

JOSEPH VISSARIONOVICH
JUGHASHVILI,

ALIAS STALIN,
WILL HIDE THE MEMORY

OF HIS DRUNK, VIOLENT FATHER,

JUST LIKE HE WILL HIDE
HIS MANY CHILDHOOD DISABILITIES,

LIKE HIS WEBBED FEET

OR THE DISEASES
THAT KILLED HIS TWO BROTHERS,

THE SMALLPOX THAT LEFT PERMANENT
SCARS ON HIS SKIN,

MARKS WHICH KREMLIN
MAKEUP ARTISTS

WILL DESPERATELY TRY TO MASK.

HIS LEFT ARM IS SHORTER
THAN THE RIGHT,

AND HE'S HAD A LIMP

EVER SINCE A CART FELL ON HIM
WHEN HE WAS 12.

BUT THE ONE THING HE CAN'T HIDE
IS HIS HEAVY GEORGIAN ACCENT,

SO HE RARELY SPEAKS IN PUBLIC.

[ CHIME PLAYING ]
JULY 3, 1941...

THE CHIME RINGS
OUT FROM THE KREMLIN,

HERALDING RADIO MOSCOW

AND SIGNALING THAT STALIN
IS ABOUT TO MAKE A SPEECH

WHICH WILL BE RELAYED
BY MANDATORY LOUDSPEAKERS

THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY'S
PUBLIC SQUARES.

IT HAS TAKEN STALIN 10 DAYS

TO ADMIT THAT THE RED ARMY
IS THREATENED BY THE GERMANS.

THE WORRIED SOVIET PEOPLE
FINALLY HEAR HIS VOICE

AND HIS GRAVELLY
CAUCASIAN ACCENT.

STALIN, THE NEW GOD,

PERSECUTOR OF THE CHURCH,
WAS EDUCATED IN A SEMINARY.

THANKS TO A SCHOLARSHIP,

HE ENTERED THE SEMINARY
IN 1894 AT 16.

HIS EXCEPTIONAL MEMORY

AND HIS SINGING VOICE
HAD BEEN SINGLED OUT.

A SEMINARY EDUCATION
WAS THE WISH

OF EKATERINA, HIS MOTHER.

DESPITE BEING A PIOUS WOMAN,

SHE BEAT HIM AS OFTEN
AS HIS FATHER DID.

STALIN HAS ALWAYS PREFERRED
TO FORGET HIS FAMILY

AND HIDE THEM AWAY.

ONCE HE'S IN POWER,
HE RETURNS TO HIS CHILDHOOD HOME

AND, LIKE ANY DUTIFUL SON,
HE VISITS HIS MOTHER.

SHE ASKS HIM WHAT HE DOES NOW.

AND STALIN REPLIES,
"DO YOU REMEMBER THE TSAR?

WELL, I'VE BECOME
A SORT OF TSAR."

SHE REPLIES,

"YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
OFF BECOMING A PRIEST."

STALIN LOSES HIS FAITH

WHILE HE IS A STUDENT
AT THE TIFLIS SEMINARY.

IN THIS BREEDING GROUND
FOR REVOLUTIONARIES,

WITH THE HELP OF THE MEAN,
FILTHY ORTHODOX PRIESTS

AND THEIR ALCOHOLIC GUARD,

HE LEARNS TECHNIQUES
OF REPRESSION.

[ MAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

STALIN LISTS THEM HIMSELF...

SURVEILLANCE, SPYING,
INVASION OF ONE'S INNER LIFE,

VIOLATION OF ONE'S FEELINGS.

BUT HE ALSO LEARNS THE VIRTUES
OF SILENCE.

TO STALIN,

THERE IS ALWAYS MORE TO GAIN
FROM LISTENING THAN SPEAKING.

NEVER REVEAL YOUR FEELINGS.

NEVER BETRAY YOURSELF.

IN 1898, HE IS 20.

HE HAS CHANGED.

HE PROVOKES THE AUTHORITIES.

HE REFUSES TO CUT HIS HAIR.

HE LETS HIS BEARD GROW OUT.

HE READS FORBIDDEN BOOKS
BY ZOLA OR VICTOR HUGO,

WHICH SPEAK OUT
AGAINST SOCIAL INJUSTICE.

HE IS EXPELLED
FROM THE SEMINARY.

HE ADOPTS HIS FIRST
NICKNAME, KOBA,

THE NAME OF A ROBIN HOOD
OF THE CAUCASUS.

HE PICTURES HIMSELF
AS A GANG LEADER.

IN 1901, HE JOINS

THE UNDERGROUND SOCIAL DEMOCRAT
PARTY IN TIFLIS

AND IS IMMEDIATELY SPOTTED
BY THE TSAR'S SECRET POLICE,

THE OKHRANA.

HE WORKS FOR A FEW MONTHS

AT THE METEOROLOGICAL
OBSERVATORY.

THIS LEAVES HIM ENOUGH TIME
TO READ THE WORKS

OF THE GERMAN KARL MARX WHO,

ALONG WITH FRIEDRICH ENGELS,

HAD WRITTEN
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO IN 1847.

THIS TEXT CALLED FOR THE END
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

AND CAPITALISM,

EXHORTING THE WORKERS
OF THE WORLD TO UNITE

AND JOIN TOGETHER
IN ARMED REVOLUTION.

MARX DECRIES THE EXPLOITATION
OF MAN BY MAN

AND THE MISERY
OF THE PROLETARIAT

THAT, ACCORDING TO HIM,

HAS NOTHING TO LOSE
BUT ITS CHAINS.

STALIN'S NAIVE PAINTINGS
SHOW THE FUTURE DICTATOR

AS A MARXIST
INDOCTRINATING WORKERS.

HE ASKS THEM,

"WHY DON'T WE HAVE
ANY POLITICAL RIGHTS?

HOW CAN WE CHANGE
OUR EXISTENCE?"

HE BELIEVES
THAT THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE

OF THE 20th CENTURY.

IS A FEUDAL SOCIETY
THAT MUST BE DESTROYED.

A NEW WORKING CLASS EMERGES

AS RUSSIA
BECOMES INDUSTRIALIZED,

PARTICULARLY IN THE CAUCASUS.

BAKU'S OIL WELLS AND REFINERIES
MAKE A FEW ELITE WEALTHY

AND INCITE THE EXPLOITED
TO RISE UP.

THEIR REVOLUTIONARY SONG
IS "LA MARSEILLAISE,"

IN RUSSIAN,
WITH DIFFERENT WORDS.

AT 23, JOSEPH JUGHASHVILI

IS SENT TO BAKU
BY THE SOCIALISTS

TO ORGANIZE PROTESTS
AND FORBIDDEN STRIKES,

CONFIRMING HIS CALLING
AS A LEADER.

HE IS IMPASSIONED
BY THE WRITINGS

OF NECHAYEV,

A 19th CENTURY
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY,

IN PARTICULAR, "CATECHISM
OF A REVOLUTIONARY."

"THE REVOLUTIONARY HAS
NO PERSONAL INTERESTS, FEELINGS,"

NOT EVEN A NAME.

HE HAS CUT ALL TIES
WITH LAW AND MORAL.

HE IS A REMORSELESS ENEMY
OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD

WHICH HE ONLY LIVES IN
TO DESTROY.

ALL INNER FEELINGS
OF FRIENDSHIP,

GRATITUDE, AND HONOR

"MUST BE STIFLED BY THE SINGLE
REVOLUTIONARY PASSION."

JOSEPH JUGHASHVILI,
A REVOLUTIONARY AGITATOR,

IS ARRESTED ON APRIL 5, 1902.

HIS POLICE RECORD READS,

"HEIGHT 1-METER-62, BROWN HAIR,

AVERAGE BUILD, AGE 24."

HE WILL LATER SAY

THAT TSAR'S PRISONS
ARE LIKE REST HOMES.

INDEED, THE DISCIPLINE
AND TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

IS A FAR CRY
FROM STALIN'S FUTURE METHODS,

A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF CRUELTY.
[ CHAINS RATTLE, LOCK CLICKS ]

HE LIVES IN THIS CELL
FOR 1 WHOLE YEAR.

HE SPENDS HIS TIME
READING VARIOUS WORKS...

LIKE "WHAT IS TO BE DONE,"

THE REVOLUTIONARY'S INSTRUCTION
MANUAL PENNED BY LENIN.

THE AUTHOR OF THIS PAMPHLET IS
IS VLADIMIR ILYICH ULYANOV,

A RUSSIAN MARXIST IN EXILE,

WHO GOES BY THE NAME OF LENIN,

A PSEUDONYM ALLUDING
TO THE LENA,

THE GREAT SIBERIAN RIVER.

LENIN WILL SOON BECOME
THE LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION.

50 YEARS LATER,
HIS STATUE IS THE FIRST

TO BE PULLED DOWN
BY THE GERMANS.

Narrator:
IN MINSK, IN JULY, 1941,

THE MAIN BUILDING HOUSING
THE NKVD,

THE SOVIET POLITICAL POLICE,

IS TURNED INTO
S.S. HEADQUARTERS.

THE S.S. HAVE BEEN ORDERED
TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS.

GERMAN PROPAGANDA
EXPRESSES NAZI RACISM.

THUS BEGINS THE HOLOCAUST
BY BULLETS...

[ SHOUTING ]

THE MASSIVE GENOCIDE
OF THE JEWS,

FAMINE IN THE GHETTOES,

DEATH CAMPS.

[ MAN SHOUTS, GUNSHOTS ]

THE GERMANS CONTINUE
TO MARCH THROUGH RUSSIA.

THEIR ARMORED TANKS
BREAK THROUGH THE FRONT

ACROSS 500 KILOMETERS.

HITLER NOW CONTROLS
20 MILLION SOVIETS.

THE FATE OF THE RED ARMY
TAKES A TRAGIC TURN IN 1941.

IT IS POORLY MANAGED

BECAUSE STALIN EXECUTED
THOUSANDS OF OFFICERS IN 1937.

IN MID-JULY, 1941, STALIN
ESTABLISHES ORDER NUMBER 270.

IT PUNISHES THE FAMILIES

OF SOLDIERS THAT SURRENDER
TO THE GERMANS.

HITLER WILL LET THEM DIE
OF STARVATION.

ONE OF THESE SOVIET PRISONERS,

PRIVATE IVAN SHULENSKI,

REMEMBERS...

[ CHOIR SINGING ]
"TO STAY ALIVE,"

I WOULD SING THIS TUNE
FROM THE LAND OF HUNGER,

'IF ONLY I HAD WINGS,

I WOULD RISE INTO THE SKY
TOWARDS THE CLOUDS

"WHERE THERE IS NO PAIN
AND NO PUNISHMENT.'"

[ CHOIR CONTINUES ]

THE FATE OF THESE SOVIET
PRISONERS IS A TRAGIC ONE.

SURVIVORS ARE DEPORTED BY STALIN

BECAUSE THEY HAVE SURRENDERED
TO THE ENEMY.

THE GERMANS PURSUE
THEIR FORWARD MARCH.

THE UKRAINIAN FARMERS,

VICTIMS OF A STALINIAN FAMINE
THAT CAUSED 6 MILLION DEATHS,

WELCOME THE INVADING GERMANS.

THEY WILL BE HANGED
WHEN THE RED ARMY RETURNS.

THEY ARE CONSIDERED TRAITORS

AND ARE FILMED
TO SHOW THE EXAMPLE.

[ HORSES BLUSTER ]

THE SUMMER OF 1941...

THE POLITICAL COMMISSARS
SHOOT ANYONE WHO RETREATS.

IN MOSCOW, THE FACTORIES
AND THEIR WORKERS ARE EVACUATED.

SO ARE THE MINISTRIES.

NURSE SARAFINA PANASENKO
ENLISTS.

SHE EXPLAINS,
"MY FATHER WAS A COMMUNIST."

FROM THE EARLIEST AGE,
HE INSTILLED IN US THE IDEA

THAT THE MOTHERLAND
WAS EVERYTHING

"AND MUST BE DEFENDED."

THEY WILL ENDURE
A HORRIFYING FATE

IF THEY ARE EVER CAPTURED.

BUT THEY FIGHT FOR
STALIN'S SOVIET UNION.

ALL THE MEN FROM AGE 16 TO 50

ARE IMMEDIATELY MOBILIZED
ACROSS THE MASSIVE NATION,

14 MILLION SOLDIERS.

[ CHEERING ]

THEIR SACRIFICE

AND STALIN'S APPEAL
TO PATRIOTISM

HAS YIELDED RESULTS.

[ GUNFIRE ]

[ SHELLS CLATTERING ]

[ GUNFIRE CONTINUES,
BULLET WHIZZES ]

THE GERMANS ARE BLOCKED
ON THE ROAD TO MOSCOW

IN THE CENTER OF THE FRONT.

[ GUNFIRE CONTINUES,
MEN SHOUTING ]

[ EXPLOSION ]

[ GUNFIRE, EXPLOSIONS ]

THE BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK DELAYS
THE BLITZKRIEG,

HITLER'S LIGHTNING WAR.

THE RUSSIANS HAVE LOST
1.5 MILLION MEN.

AN ADDITIONAL
4 MILLION ARE PRISONERS.

GERMAN LOSSES ARE HEAVY,

AN ESTIMATED 700,000 MEN,

WHICH IS A SOURCE OF WORRY
TO THE FUHRER.

HITLER DECLARES,

"COMMUNISM REPRESENTS A TERRIBLE
THREAT TO OUR FUTURE."

THIS WAR IS A WAR
OF EXTERMINATION.

IF WE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS,
WE MAY WIN,

BUT THE PROBLEM
WILL RESURFACE IN 30 YEARS.

"WE ARE NOT WAGING WAR
TO SPARE THE ENEMY."

[ SOLDIERS CHANTING ]

[ SOLDIERS CHEERING, SHOUTING ]

OMNIPRESENT, STALIN
DIRECTS THE WAR AGAINST HITLER.

HE HAS APPOINTED HIMSELF

PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR OF DEFENSE,

SUPREME COMMANDER
OF THE ARMED FORCES.

HOWEVER, LIKE HITLER,
HE IS AN AMATEUR STRATEGIST.

THANKFULLY, STALIN
HAS GENERAL ZHUKOV BY HIS SIDE.

STALIN TRUSTS
THIS TANK SPECIALIST.

ZHUKOV IS THE ONLY PERSON

WHO DARES TO TELL HIM THE TRUTH.

ZHUKOV PREDICTS THE GERMANS

WILL NOW FOCUS
THEIR EFFORTS ON KIEV.

THE CITY MUST BE EVACUATED.

STALIN EXPLODES,
"WHAT IS THIS INSANITY?

HOW CAN WE LEAVE KIEV
TO THE ENEMY?"

BUT ZHUKOV'S PREDICTION
IS ACCURATE.

STALIN IS WRONG.

HITLER DECIDES TO SEND
HIS FORCES TOWARDS THE SOUTH.

THE GERMANS START OFF
TOWARDS THE UKRAINE.

THEY SURROUND THE SOVIET TROOPS
AND TAKE 600,000 PRISONERS.

[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]

THE GERMANS ENTER KIEV
ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1941.

IN UKRAINE, WHERE THE POPULATION
IS DIVIDED INTO ANTI-SOVIETS

AND RESISTANCE, THE NAZIS
STIR UP HATRED AGAINST STALIN.

GERMAN PROPAGANDA
SHOWS THE POPULATION

IN FRONT OF A PRISON.

THE PEOPLE
WITNESS THE EVACUATION

OF THE VICTIMS OF STALINISM.

STALIN'S POLITICAL POLICE
HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY

AFTER CARRYING OUT ORDERS
TO EMPTY THE CELLS,

MEANING TO EXECUTE
THE PRISONERS.

100,000 MEN

ARE FOUND WITH THEIR HANDS
TIED BEHIND THEIR BACK.

[ WOMAN SOBBING ]

[ CROWD CLAMORING ]

IN KIEV, HATRED IS UNLEASHED
ON THE EFFIGIES

OF THE ABSOLUTE
AND MERCILESS RULER, STALIN.

Narrator: STALIN, 1903...

HE STILL GOES BY THE NAME
JUGHASHVILI.

HE IS 25.

BETWEEN TWO JAIL STINTS,
HE JOINS THE MOST EXTREME BRANCH

HE UNDERGROUND
SOCIALIST PARTY...

THE BOLSHEVIKS.

AT THE HELM OF THIS FACTION
IS LENIN, STILL IN EXILE

AND AS IMPASSIONED AS EVER.

IN SOCIAL DEMOCRAT MEETINGS
OUTSIDE OF RUSSIA,

LENIN CONFRONTS THE MENSHEVIK
MINORITY,

MORE MODERATE
THAN THE BOLSHEVIK MAJORITY.

LENIN SINGLES OUT JUGHASHVILI
AND SUPPORTS HIS RISE

TO THE HEAD OF THE BOLSHEVIKS
FROM THE CAUCASUS.

LENIN APPRECIATES HIS MARXIST
SECTARIANISM AND, MOST OF ALL,

HIS FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION
TO THE BOLSHEVIK CAUSE.

THIS CONTRIBUTION COMES FROM
WHAT IS EUPHEMISTICALLY

REFERRED TO AS EXPROPRIATIONS...
BANK ROBBERIES.

IN JOSEPH JUGHASHVILI'S EYES,

THESE ARMED ASSAULTS
ARE COMPLETELY LEGITIMATE

BECAUSE HIS MARXIST PROJECT
IS ABOVE THE LAW.

THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.

MANY SOCIALISTS
CONDEMN THESE CRIMINAL ACTS.

JUGHASHVILI DEFENDS HIMSELF,

"WE MUST CONTINUE TO BREAK
THE LAW UNTIL THE REVOLUTION."

TO RESPECT THE LAW
WOULD MEAN TO BECOME NORMAL.

"ONLY ARMED STRUGGLE
CAN CONQUER TSARISM."

IN BAKU, HE BEGINS TO RACKETEER

WITH VOROSHILOV, SECRETARY
OF THE OIL WORKERS' UNION.

NOW HE CONTROLS 50,000 MEN.

HE EXTORTS THE RICH
INDUSTRIAL POWERS

BY THREATENING TO STRIKE
OR TO SET FIRE TO THEIR WELLS.

HE REGULARLY CHANGES
HIS APPEARANCE.

HE BECOMES ONE OF
GEORGIA'S GODFATHERS OF CRIME.

HE DESERVES HIS ALIAS...
STALIN, MAN OF STEEL.

HE IS 30, AND HIS SEXUAL
APPETITE IS INSATIABLE.

HIS EYES ARE FULL OF FIRE,

ACCORDING TO ONE
OF HIS YOUNG CONQUESTS.

HIS DANGEROUS
UNDERGROUND EXISTENCE

ISN'T CONDUCIVE TO FAMILY LIFE.

NONETHELESS,
IN BETWEEN TWO ARRESTS,

HE MEETS A PRETTY SEAMSTRESS,

EKATERINA SVANIDZE.

HE IS SO SMITTEN THAT,
FOR THE FIRST TIME,

NOT ONLY DOES HE ACCEPT
GETTING MARRIED,

BUT HE AGREES
TO A CHURCH WEDDING.

BUT 3 YEARS LATER,

SHE DIES OF TUBERCULOSIS
AT THE AGE OF 22.

REMEMBERING HER, HE SAYS,

"THIS WOMAN KNEW HOW TO MELT
MY HEART OF STONE."

SHE GAVE HIM A SON, YAKOV,

WHO STALIN EVEN ALLOWS
TO BE BAPTIZED.

HE CANNOT CARE FOR THE CHILD.

YAKOV IS RAISED
BY HIS GEORGIAN GRANDPARENTS.

ONCE HE IS IN POWER,
STALIN RECLAIMS HIS SON.

YAKOV IS CLOSE
TO STALIN'S BODYGUARD,

NIKOLAI VLASIK.

1941... YAKOV,
AN ARTILLERY LIEUTENANT,

IS CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS.

CAPTURING STALIN'S SON
IS AN EXCEPTIONAL WAR TROPHY.

WHEN STALIN HEARS THE NEWS,

HE PUTS HIS OWN DECREE
INTO EFFECT

AND HAS YAKOV'S WIFE ARRESTED
AND SEPARATED FROM HIS DAUGHTER.

YAKOV'S INTERROGATION
BY THE GERMANS

PROVIDES THEM WITH ONE
ESSENTIAL PIECE OF INFORMATION.

YAKOV, WHO HIS FATHER HAS NEVER
REALLY LOVED, CONFIDES,

"MY FATHER IS AFRAID

OF THE RUSSIAN
NATIONALIST MOVEMENT."

THE CREATION
OF A RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT HOSTILE

TO STALIN COULD PAVE THE WAY
FOR A SWIFT GERMAN VICTORY.

[ PLANE ENGINE RUMBLING ]

THE GERMANS HAD ALREADY INVADED
THE GREAT RUSSIAN PLAIN

30 YEARS EARLIER.

1914... STALIN DOESN'T
TAKE PART IN WORLD WAR I.

AFTER A SERIES
OF ARRESTS AND ESCAPES,

HE ENDS UP BEING
DEPORTED TO SIBERIA.

LOCKED UP FOR 3 YEARS
IN AN IZBA,

HE PASSES THE TIME
PUTTING THE WORLD TO RIGHTS

WITH OTHER EXILED MARXISTS
SUCH AS LEV KAMENEV,

WHO WILL BECOME ONE OF THE GREAT
MEN OF THE REVOLUTION,

A MAN THAT STALIN WILL HAVE
EXECUTED 20 YEARS LATER.

MARCH 12, 1917...

STALIN, NOW A FREE MAN,
ARRIVES IN SAINT PETERSBURG,

WHICH HAS BEEN RENAMED PETROGRAD

AFTER THE FIRST REVOLUTION
OF FEBRUARY 1917,

WHEN THE TSAR
WAS CHASED FROM POWER.

NICHOLAS II ADMITS,
"I WAS BORN INTO UNHAPPINESS,

AND I HAVE BROUGHT UNHAPPINESS
TO RUSSIA."

HOWEVER, SOCIALIST
ALEXANDER KERENSKY'S

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT WANTS TO
UPHOLD RUSSIA'S COMMITMENTS.

THIS INCLUDES PURSUING THE WAR.

HE NEEDS MEN.

[ CROWD CHEERS ]

STALIN, SUMMONED BY THE ARMY,

IS DECLARED UNFIT FOR SERVICE
BECAUSE OF HIS ATROPHIED ARM.

HE RETURNS
TO HIS BOLSHEVIK FRIENDS

WHO HAVE ALSO COME
OUT OF HIDING.

HE BECOMES KAMENEV'S DEPUTY

AT THE HEAD OF THE DAILY
NEWSPAPER "PRAVDA,"

OR "THE TRUTH,"

WHICH BACKS
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

[ CHEERING ]

LENIN RETURNS FROM SWITZERLAND
ON APRIL 3, 1917.

HE REJECTS THIS GOVERNMENT,
WHICH IS PROPAGATING

WHAT HE REFERS TO
AS "THE IMPERIALIST WAR."

LENIN EXPOSES HIS PROGRAM
FOR REVOLUTION.

FOR HIM, LIKE FOR STALIN
STILL IN THE BACKGROUND,

IT IS TIME TO GIVE
ALL THE POWER TO THE SOVIETS,

TO THE WORKER,
AND SOLDIER COUNSELS

FORMING IN THE CITIES.

[ CHEERING CONTINUES ]

LENIN ADVOCATES
MERGING ALL THE BANKS

AND CONFISCATING
THE BIG AGRICULTURAL FARMS.

ON THE FRONT,
THE ENLISTED RUSSIAN FARMERS

DESERT THE ARMY

TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS WILD
REDISTRIBUTION OF LAND.

[ TRADITIONAL ACCORDION MUSIC
PLAYING ]

[ CROWD MURMURING ]

THE SUMMER OF 1917...

THE BOLSHEVIKS' INFLUENCE

SPREADS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY,

THANKS TO LENIN'S SLOGAN,

"I PROMISE YOU PEACE,
LAND, AND BREAD."

OTHER SIGNS CARRY MORE
THREATENING SLOGANS...

"DOWN WITH
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

DOWN WITH CAPITALIST MINISTERS."

LEON TROTSKY, 38,

IS A BRILLIANT
JEWISH MARXIST INTELLECTUAL

WHO HAS RETURNED FROM EXILE
IN PARIS AND NEW YORK.

NOTHING
ABOUT HIM IS PROLETARIAN.

EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IS DESPISED
BY STALIN.

STALIN, WHO IS UNCOMFORTABLE
IN PUBLIC,

ENVIES HIS TALENT AS AN ORATOR.

TROTSKY IS SKILLED
AT RALLYING THE CROWDS

TO THE BOLSHEVIK CAUSE,

SO KERENSKY, HEAD
OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT,

DECIDES TO GET RID
OF THE BOLSHEVIKS.

HE LAUNCHES A WIDESPREAD
POLICE RAID.

800 BOLSHEVIKS ARE ARRESTED,

INCLUDING TROTSKY AND KAMENEV.

♪♪

LENIN ESCAPES TO FINLAND
WITH THE HELP OF STALIN,

WHO SHAVES OFF HIS FAMOUS GOATEE

AND DISGUISES HIM AS A FARMER.

STALIN STAYS BEHIND.

HE BECOMES LENIN'S MESSENGER
AND GAINS IN IMPORTANCE.

TENSION IN THE COUNTRY

IS ACCENTUATED
BY THE IMPENDING WINTER,

MAKING IT AN EASY TARGET
FOR STRIKES AND FAMINE.

Narrator:
AFTER A 3-MONTH ABSENCE,

LENIN DECIDES TO RETURN
TO PETROGRAD

TO KICK OFF AN INSURRECTION.

ON THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER 7,
1917, THE BOLSHEVIKS

TAKE OVER ALL THE CAPITAL'S
STRATEGIC POINTS...

THE POWER STATION,
THE POST OFFICE,

THE BRIDGES.

THEY FREE THEIR PRISONERS.

THE WINTER PALACE,
THE TSAR'S FORMER RESIDENCE,

IS THE LAST REFUGE

FOR KERENSKY'S
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

A BATTALION OF YOUNG WOMEN

ARE THE ONLY TROOPS
LEFT TO DEFEND THE PALACE.

THE GARRISON'S STARVING SOLDIERS
HAVE LEFT IN SEARCH OF FOOD.

THE CRUISER AURORA,
SIDING WITH THE REVOLUTIONARIES,

FIRES A BLANK SHOT.

THIS IS THE SIGNAL
TO LAUNCH THE ASSAULT

ON THE WINTER PALACE.
[ MAN SHOUTING ]

THE 140 HEROIC YOUNG WOMEN

DEFEND THE PALACE
TO THE BITTER END.

[ SHOUTING, GUNFIRE ]

THE BOLSHEVIKS CAPTURE

THE MEMBERS
OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

KERENSKY, THEIR LEADER,
MANAGES TO ESCAPE TO AMERICA

FOR A LONG EXILE.

[ SHOUTING ]

THIS COUP D'éTAT IS KNOWN
AS THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION,

IN REFERENCE TO THE FORMER
RUSSIAN CALENDAR.

THE ACTUAL DATE
IS NOVEMBER 7, 1917.

THE BOLSHEVIKS ARE IN POWER.

LENIN FORMS HIS GOVERNMENT.

LENIN, WANTING TO ELIMINATE

BOURGEOIS TITLES
SUCH AS MINISTER,

COINS THE TERM
PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR.

HE OFFERS TROTSKY

THE POSITION OF COMMISSAR
OF INTERIOR AFFAIRS,

WHO DECLINES...

"IS IT WORTHWHILE TO PUT INTO
OUR ENEMIES' HANDS

SUCH AN ADDITIONAL WEAPON
AS MY JEWISH ORIGIN?"

SO LENIN OFFERS HIM
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

WHICH SUITS TROTSKY PERFECTLY.

FOR THE FIRST TIME
IN HISTORY, A WOMAN

BECOMES A MEMBER
OF A GOVERNMENT...

ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI,

AN ARISTOCRAT
WHO HAS EMBRACED MARXISM.

SHE WILL REMAIN IN OFFICE
FOR 4 MONTHS.

[ KOLLONTAI SPEAKING RUSSIAN ]

Narrator: LENIN NAMES STALIN
COMMISSAR OF NATIONALITIES.

HE IS IN CHARGE OF MANAGING
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS

NEAR THE BORDERS.

THE GEORGIAN,
WHO HAS GAINED HIS TRUST,

WROTE A BROCHURE
IN 1913 ENTITLED

"MARXISM
AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION."

20 YEARS LATER, STALIN
WILL ORDER THE EXECUTION

OF 12 OF THE 15 MINISTERS

OF LENIN'S 1917 GOVERNMENT.

BUT FOR THE TIME BEING,
LENIN HOLDS THE POWER.

HE IS PRESIDENT
OF THE SOVNARKOM,

THE COUNSEL
OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR

AND MASTER OF PETROGRAD,
THE CAPITAL OF RUSSIA.

PETROGRAD, NOVEMBER 1917.

AFTER THE BOLSHEVIK COUP D'éTAT,
LIFE RETURNS TO NORMAL.

THERE ARE NO MORE CLASHES
BETWEEN MILITIA IN THE STREETS.

WRITER MAXIM GORKY WONDERS,

"WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW?"

I FEAR THAT MUCH BLOOD
WILL BE SHED,

"MUCH MORE THAN EVER BEFORE."

LENIN IS SEEN IN PUBLIC
WITH HIS MISTRESS,

A FRENCH MILITANT
NAMED INèS ARMAND,

AND HIS WIFE,
NADEZHDA KRUPSKAYA,

A BOLSHEVIK FROM THE EARLY DAYS.

HE IS PRESSURED ON TWO ISSUES,

PEACE WITH GERMANY,

AND AN UPCOMING
POLITICAL THREAT.

MONTHS AGO,
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT

HAD ORGANIZED ELECTIONS.

LENIN DECIDES
TO MAINTAIN THE ELECTIONS

TO LEGITIMIZE HIS POWER.

THE FIRST FREE ELECTIONS
IN RUSSIAN HISTORY

TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER 25, 1917.

ONLY 3 WEEKS
AFTER THEIR COUP D'éTAT,

THE ELECTIONS
ARE A CRUSHING DEFEAT

FOR THE BOLSHEVIKS.

THEY END UP WITH 168 DEPUTIES

AGAINST ALMOST 400 FOR
THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES,

WHO ARE MORE MODERATE
AND DEMOCRATIC.

LENIN IMMEDIATELY
DISSOLVES THE ASSEMBLY.

HE ESTABLISHES HIS DICTATORSHIP,

WHICH HE CHRISTENS DICTATORSHIP
OF THE PROLETARIAT.

HE PROMISES A SOCIETY
WITHOUT CLASSES.

HE SUSPENDS ALL LIBERTIES
AND RIGHTS,

FORBIDS THE EXISTENCE
OF POLITICAL PARTIES,

AND ELIMINATES FREEDOM
OF THE PRESS

AND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE.

LENIN DESIGNATES
ALL HIS OPPONENTS,

LEFT AND RIGHT,

AS ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
OR COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES.

TO NEUTRALIZE THESE ENEMIES,

HE CREATES A NEW SECRET
POLITICAL POLICE

AND NAMES IT THE CHEKA,

USING THE RUSSIAN INITIALS
FOR COMMISSION

FOR COMBATING COUNTERREVOLUTION.

IN 6 WEEKS, THE CHEKA,
THE SECRET POLICE,

CARRIES OUT
50,000 ASSASSINATIONS,

NO LAW, NO JUSTICE.

THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ASSERTS,

"WE MUST GO
BEYOND EXECUTING THE GUILTY."

THE EXECUTION OF INNOCENTS
WILL IMPRESS THE MASSES

"FAR MORE."

IN THIS WORLD OF TERROR, STALIN

SEDUCES HIS 16-YEAR-OLD
SECRETARY,

NADEZHDA ALLILUYEVA.

HE HAS KNOWN HER
SINCE SHE WAS 4.

HER PARENTS, AVID BOLSHEVIKS,
HAD HIDDEN LENIN

WHEN THE POLICE
WERE SEARCHING FOR HIM.

STALIN HAD ALREADY HAD
AN AFFAIR WITH HER MOTHER,

AN ADVOCATE OF FREE LOVE.

HE MARRIES NADEZHDA,
WHO BEARS HIM TWO CHILDREN.

THEY WILL BOTH PURSUE
UNIQUE DESTINIES.

SHE WILL PROVE TO BE
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN,

CAPABLE OF FACING
THE RED TYRANT AT HER OWN RISK.

Narrator: MARCH 3, 1918.

THE RUSSIAN AND GERMAN SOLDIERS

EMERGE FROM THE TRENCHES
AND FRATERNIZE.

THE WORD ON EVERYONE'S LIPS
IS INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTION.

[ TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING ]

THE BANNERS CALL OUT,

"WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!"

♪♪

LENIN AND THE BOLSHEVIKS
HAVE JUST SIGNED

THE PEACE TREATY
OF BREST-LITOVSK,

A DISASTER FOR RUSSIA,

WHO LOSES A SIGNIFICANT PORTION

OF LAND RICH IN WHEAT AND STEEL.

PETROGRAD IS DEEMED TOO CLOSE
TO THE GERMAN BORDER.

THE BOLSHEVIKS CHOOSE TO RETURN
TO THE FORMER CAPITAL,

MOSCOW.

MOSCOW, MARCH 1918...

LENIN POSES IN FRONT
OF THE FAMOUS KREMLIN CANNON.

THE KREMLIN, THE CITADEL

THAT HOUSES THE TOMBS
OF THE 47 TSARS.

AND TODAY, THE TSAR IS LENIN,
A MARXIST...

LENIN, THE RUSSIAN DICTATOR.

HIS REGIME IS SUPPORTED
BY THREE PILLARS...

THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY,

THE POLITICAL POLICE,

AND THE RED GUARDS,

WHO WILL EVOLVE
INTO THE RED ARMY.

♪♪

BUT LENIN IS IN
A PRECARIOUS POSITION.

HE IS SURROUNDED BY FORCES
HOSTILE TO BOLSHEVISM.

THROUGHOUT RUSSIA, ARMIES
OF WHITE GUARDS ARE FORMING.

OFTEN CONSTITUTED
OF FORMER TSARIST SOLDIERS,

THESE MEN ARE PREPARED
TO FIGHT FEROCIOUSLY

AGAINST THE REDS,

WHO ARE UNDISCIPLINED WORKERS
OR FARMERS,

OFTEN POORLY ARMED AND EQUIPPED.

SO LENIN APPOINTS TROTSKY,

PEOPLE'S COMMISSAR
OF ARMY AND NAVY AFFAIRS.

A MILITARY MAN AT HEART,

TROTSKY HAD BRILLIANTLY
ORGANIZED THE BOLSHEVIK COUP

OF NOVEMBER 1917. [ CHEERING ]

ALL HIS ENERGY WILL BE REQUIRED.

♪♪

CIVIL WAR IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.

IT WILL LAST 4 YEARS

AND CLAIM 10 MILLION LIVES.

BOTH SIDES ARE EQUALLY BARBARIC.

THEY TAKE NO PRISONERS.

THIS BOLSHEVIK SOLDIER
SMILES IN DEFIANCE

AT THE WHITES ABOUT TO KILL HIM.

THERE HE IS ON THE RIGHT,

TEASING THEM
UNTIL THE VERY LAST MOMENT.

[ GUNSHOT, BODY THUDS ]

LENIN AND A HANDFUL OF MEN

HAD THROWN
AN ENTIRE CONTINENT INTO CHAOS.

SO OTHER GOVERNMENTS
HOSTILE TO THE BOLSHEVIKS

BEGIN TO FORM,

LIKE THE SOCIALIST
REVOLUTIONARIES IN SAMARA,

ON THE VOLGA.

DISAPPOINTED AND DESPERATE,

THEY PUT TOGETHER A PLOT
TO ASSASSINATE LENIN.

THEY USE A WOMAN,

SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY
FANNY KAPLAN.

SHE SHOOTS HIM IN THE SHOULDER
AND THE LUNG.

[ GUNSHOT ]

FANNY KAPLAN LATER STATES,

"I FIRED AT LENIN"

BECAUSE I CONSIDER HIM TO BE
A TRAITOR TO SOCIALISM.

"HIS VERY EXISTENCE
DISCREDITS SOCIALISM."

REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS, LENIN
REFUSES TO BE HOSPITALIZED,

WHERE HE BELIEVES
HE WILL BE AT RISK.

HE HAS HIMSELF TRANSPORTED
TO THE KREMLIN,

WHERE THE DOCTORS
ARE UNABLE TO OPERATE.

LENIN SURVIVES
WITH TWO BULLETS IN HIS BODY.

FANNY KAPLAN IS TORTURED
AND EXECUTED

WITHOUT A TRIAL 3 DAYS LATER.

IN RETALIATION,
THE CHEKA EXECUTES

1,300 UNLUCKY SOULS

DECLARED HOSTAGES
OF THE BOURGEOISIE.

THE BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT DECREE
OF AUGUST 30, 1918

OFFICIALIZES THE RED TERROR.

IT STIPULATES,

"THE CLASS ENEMIES MUST BE
ISOLATED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS."

ALL PEOPLE ARE TO BE
EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD

WHO ARE CONNECTED WITH
THE WHITE GUARD ORGANIZATIONS,

"CONSPIRACIES AND MUTINIES."

LIKE THE HORSEMEN
OF THE APOCALYPSE,

THE BOLSHEVIKS
WREAK DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

IN ORDER TO STAY IN POWER.

THEY PURSUE THIS COURSE
OF ACTION FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS

UNTIL THE GERMANS SHOW UP
AT THE GATES OF MOSCOW.

1941, EARLY NOVEMBER,

GERMAN BOMBERS
ATTACK THE SOVIET CAPITAL.

THE WEHRMACHT'S TANKS ARE
70 KILOMETERS FROM THE KREMLIN.

[ ARTILLERY FIRE BURSTING ]

HITLER DECLARES,
"RUSSIA IS FINISHED."

[ SIREN BLARING ] IN MOSCOW,

STALIN DECIDES TO STOP
AUTHORIZING EVACUATIONS

AND TO SHOOT ALL THOSE SUSPECTED
OF WANTING TO LEAVE THE CITY.

[ SIREN CONTINUES,
DISTANT EXPLOSIONS ]

[ EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE ]

[ CHEERING, APPLAUSE ]

ON NOVEMBER 6, 1941,

SAFE INSIDE THE MOSCOW SUBWAY,

STALIN DELIVERS A GREAT SPEECH

IN FRONT OF HIS GOVERNMENT
AND COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERS.

[ APPLAUSE CONTINUES ]

STALIN QUOTES HITLER,

DIRECTING THE FUHRER'S WORDS

AT THE MEN AND WOMEN
LISTENING TO HIM.

THEY HAVE SURVIVED
2 DECADES OF TERROR.

STALIN WARNS THEM
THAT THE WORST IS YET TO COME.

[ CHEERING, APPLAUSE ]

STALIN HAS ALWAYS LIED,
BETRAYED, AND KILLED.

IN HIS UTOPIC WORLD,
HE HAS FORGED A NEW SOCIETY

AND A NEW MAN...

THE RED MAN.

[ APPLAUSE CONTINUES ]