All language subtitles for Apocalypse - Stalin S01E02 - Red (2015) HDTV 1080p.ENG

♪♪

Narrator: THE GERMANS OCCUPY
HALF OF RUSSIA.

HITLER IS ON THE VERGE
OF CAPTURING MOSCOW.

THE WEHRMACHT'S ARMORED TANKS
MOVE AHEAD RELENTLESSLY.

THE 24th ANNIVERSARY OF
THE COMMUNISTS' RISE TO POWER.

28,000 SOLDIERS ARE GATHERED

IN FRONT OF THE KREMLIN
IN THE FREEZING COLD.

THE SOVIET LEADERS HAVE DECIDED

THAT THE TRADITIONAL PARADE
WILL STILL TAKE PLACE.

THIS IS A DIRECT ORDER FROM
THEIR SUPREME LEADER, STALIN.

FROM THE TOP
OF THE LENIN MAUSOLEUM,

STALIN SPEAKS OUT.

[ SPEAKING RUSSIAN ]

STALIN INVOKES THE GLORY
OF TSARISM

TO MOBILIZE HIS TROOPS.

AND HE REMINDS THEM,
IN COMPARING HITLER TO NAPOLEON,

ONE SHOULD NOT FORGET
NAPOLEON'S FATE.

HITLER CANNOT IMAGINE
SUCH A FATE.

THE BLITZKRIEG,
OR LIGHTNING WAR,

THAT SHOULD HAVE PUT STALIN
OUT OF COMMISSION

IN JUST A FEW WEEKS
HAS SLOWED DOWN.

BUT NAZI GERMANY
STILL HAS CONSIDERABLE STRENGTH.

ONE LAST EFFORT,
AND MOSCOW WILL BE CONQUERED.

HITLER PROCLAIMS,
"SOLDIERS OF THE EASTERN FRONT,"

THE DECISIVE BATTLE
BEGINS TODAY.

WE ARE ABOUT TO AVERT
THE MOST TERRIBLE THREAT

"SINCE THE HUNS AND THE MONGOLS."

MOSCOW HOLDS ITS BREATH.

STALIN REFUSES
TO LEAVE THE CITY.

HE REQUISITIONS PART
OF THE POPULATION

TO DIG ANTI-TANK TRENCHES.

♪♪

A RELENTLESS ENEMY DESCENDS
UPON THE SOLDIERS

ON THE MOSCOW FRONT... THE COLD.

EXCEPTIONAL TEMPERATURES
HITTING MINUS-35 DEGREES CELSIUS

CRACK THE TANKS' STEEL,
HARDEN THE TIRES,

FREEZE THE WEAPONS' LUBRICANTS,
AND KILL THE HORSES.

[ WIND WHISTLING ]

STALIN AND GENERAL ZHUKOV

WITH HIS HIGH COMMAND,
THE STAVKA, SECRETLY ORGANIZE

A POWERFUL COUNTEROFFENSIVE
TO LIBERATE MOSCOW.

[ MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN ]

Narrator: ONE MILLION
SOVIET SOLDIERS BEGIN TO MARCH.

ALBINA GANTIMUROVA,
NOW A SENIOR SERGEANT, RECOUNTS,

"ORDER 227 SAYS,
'NOT ONE STEP BACK."

IF YOU TAKE THAT STEP,
YOU'LL BE EXECUTED.'

POLICEMEN WALK BEHIND US

AND SHOOT
WHOEVER STEPS BACKWARDS.

STALIN JOKES WITH HIS MACABRE
SENSE OF HUMOR, 'IN OUR ARMY,

"IT'S MORE DANGEROUS TO MOVE
BACKWARDS THAN FORWARDS.'"

[ GUNFIRE ]

THE BATTLE OF MOSCOW
IS IN FULL SWING

WHEN SUDDENLY, STALIN RECEIVES
AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF NEWS.

[ BOMB WHISTLING ]

ON DECEMBER 7th, 1941,
PEARL HARBOR,

THE AMERICAN NAVAL BASE
IN THE PACIFIC,

IS ATTACKED BY JAPAN,
GERMANY'S ALLY.

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES,

ANNOUNCES THAT HIS COUNTRY
IS ENTERING THE WAR.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
AND THEIR RIGHTEOUS MIGHT

WILL WIN THROUGH
TO ABSOLUTE VICTORY.

Narrator: STALIN HAS A NEW ALLY.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

CHRISTMAS, 1941,
MOSCOW IS SAVED,

BUT THE COST IS HIGH...
300,000 DEAD.

STALIN BROADCASTS THIS IMAGE
OF A WOMAN GENUFLECTING TO SHOW

THAT GOD IS NO LONGER OUTLAWED.

[ APPLAUSE ]

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

TO THE SOVIETS,
STALIN HAS SUCCEEDED

IN PUSHING HITLER
BACK 200 KILOMETERS.

BUT THE FUHRER
DOESN'T FEEL DEFEATED.

THE GERMANS ARE BLOCKED
BY THE RED ARMY

IN THE NORTH AND CENTER
OF THE SOVIET UNION,

BUT HITLER IS PREPARING
A NEW OFFENSIVE

ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT

FOR SPRINGTIME
OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

THE TARGET OF THIS OFFENSIVE
IS BAKU'S OIL.

THE GERMANS ADVANCE
AT AN ALARMING SPEED...

300 KILOMETERS IN JUST 1 MONTH.

THIS IS RUSSIA'S BLACK SUMMER.

HITLER WORRIES HIS HIGH COMMAND
WITH A NEW PROJECT,

ONE THAT WILL DIVIDE
GERMAN FORCES.

HITLER ORDERS GENERAL PAULUS,
WHO ORGANIZED THE ATTACK

ON THE SOVIET UNION,
TO MOVE ON STALINGRAD.

THIS OBJECTIVE IS BOTH STRATEGIC
AND SYMBOLIC.

THE CITY BEARS STALIN'S NAME.

THE GERMANS CAN THEN
HIT MOSCOW FROM BEHIND.

GERMAN TANKS MOVE
DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO STALINGRAD.

STALIN RECEIVES
SOME REASSURANCE.

ON AUGUST 10th, 1942,
WINSTON CHURCHILL,

THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER,

LANDS IN MOSCOW
ABOARD HIS PERSONAL PLANE.

HIS TRAVELING COMPANION
IS AN AMERICAN SPECIAL ENVOY...

AVERELL HARRIMAN,

THE POWERFUL BUSINESSMAN
WHO COORDINATES ALLIED AID.

THIS AID WILL PROVE DECISIVE...

15,000 PLANES, 140,000 TRUCKS,

MILLIONS OF TONS
OF FUEL AND SUPPLIES.

MOLOTOV, STALIN'S MINISTER
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

GREET THE TWO MEN
WITH "THE INTERNATIONALE,"

THE SOVIET ANTHEM OF THE TIME.

[ "THE INTERNATIONALE" PLAYS ]

THE TWO REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE CAPITALIST WORLD

LISTEN
TO THE REVOLUTIONARY CHANT

WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST REACTION.

CHURCHILL STATES,

"IF HITLER INVADED HELL,
I WOULD SIDE WITH THE DEVIL."

CHURCHILL WRITES IN HIS MEMOIRS,
"I PONDERED ON MY MISSION"

TO THE SULLEN,
SINISTER BOLSHEVIK STATE

THAT I HAD ONCE SO HARD TRIED
TO STRANGLE AT ITS BIRTH,

WHICH I HAD REGARDED

"AS THE MORTAL FOE
TO CIVILIZED FREEDOM."

A MAGNIFICENT PACKARD LIMOUSINE
DRIVES THEM TO THE KREMLIN,

WHERE STALIN AWAITS THEM.

♪♪

EVERYONE IS ALL SMILES.

THE AMERICANS
AND THE BRITISH NEED STALIN.

THEY KNOW THAT SUPPLIES
WON'T BE ENOUGH.

THEY NEED MANPOWER.

THE SACRIFICE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS
BY THE MILLIONS

WILL ENABLE THEM
TO DESTROY THE NAZI BEAST.

IN ADDITION TO AMERICAN AID,

STALIN WANTS TO URGENTLY
OPEN A SECOND FRONT,

MEANING AN ALLIED LANDING
IN THE WEST

TO DIVIDE GERMAN FORCES.

HITLER IS WORRIED

ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY
OF AN ALLIED LANDING.

HE NEEDS TO FINISH OFF
QUICKLY IN THE EAST.

HE NEEDS TO PUT
AN END TO STALIN.

HE NEEDS TO PUT AN END
TO STALINGRAD.

♪♪

Narrator: THE STUKAS,
THE GERMAN DIVE BOMBERS,

COMPLETE THE DESTRUCTION OF WHAT
ONCE WAS THE USSR'S MODEL CITY.

[ AIRPLANE ENGINES HUMMING ]

[ EXPLOSIONS ]

GENERAL PAULUS LAUNCHES HIS
6th ARMY TO ATTACK STALINGRAD.

THE GERMANS REACH THE RAVINES,

THE CITY'S NATURAL
FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE.

[ INDISTINCT
GERMAN CONVERSATIONS ]

[ GUNFIRE ]

THE RUSSIANS RESIST
WITH GREAT VIOLENCE.

STALIN DECLARES,
"IF WE SURRENDER STALINGRAD,"

THE SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY
WILL BE CUT OFF FROM THE CENTER.

"WE WOULD LOSE OUR MAIN WATERWAY
AND SOON OUR OIL, TOO."

STALIN'S RISE
TO POWER BEGAN HERE

A QUARTER OF A CENTURY EARLIER.

THIS CITY,

AT THE STRATEGIC INTERSECTION
BETWEEN BAKU AND MOSCOW,

WAS KNOWN AT THE TIME
AS TSARITSYN.

THE TERRITORY
CONTROLLED BY THE REDS,

BOLSHEVIK COMMUNISTS,

IS ATTACKED BY THE WHITES,
THE TSARIST ARMY.

CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT.

STALIN ALREADY HAS A ROLE

IN HISTORY'S FIRST
COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT.

AT THE HEAD OF THIS GOVERNMENT
IS LENIN,

WHO APPRECIATES STALIN'S
DETERMINATION.

STALIN IS COMMISSAR
FOR FOOD SUPPLIES.

HE TRAVELS TO TSARITSYN
TO FIND WHEAT

FOR THE COUNTRY'S
HUNGRY CAPITOL.

STALIN STEALS
ALL THE GRAIN RESERVES,

SPARKING OFF
REBELLIONS AND FAMINES.

LENIN HAS ALSO PUT STALIN

IN CHARGE OF WATCHING
OVER THE MAN

WHO DEFENDS THESE RICH,
AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

TROTSKY, THE POWERFUL PEOPLE'S
COMMISSAR FOR WAR

HAS BECOME TOO INDEPENDENT.

TROTSKY, IN ORDER TO SAVE
THE THREATENED CITY

OF TSARITSYN, PUTS FORMER
OFFICERS FROM THE TSAR'S ARMY

IN CHARGE OF HIS TROOPS.

THESE MEN ARE MORE
COMPETENT LEADERS.

STALIN DEFIES TROTSKY.

HE ACCUSES TROTSKY'S OFFICERS
OF COLLUDING WITH THE WHITES

AND DECIDES TO ELIMINATE THEM.

SO HE GATHERS THEM ON BARGES

AND SINKS THE BOATS
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VOLGA.

STALIN TURNS INTO A WARLORD,
DESTROYING VILLAGES,

EXECUTING POPULATIONS,
AND SPREADING TERROR.

HE MAKES AWKWARD ATTEMPTS
TO GET INVOLVED IN STRATEGY,

BUT TROTSKY, JUST AS VIOLENT

BUT MORE SKILLED,
SETS THINGS STRAIGHT.

THIS DOESN'T STOP STALIN
FROM PROCLAIMING HIMSELF

THE CONQUEROR OF TSARITSYN
AND DONNING THIS MILITARY DRESS,

WHICH HE WILL WEAR FROM NOW ON.

HE IS PRESENT
ON EVERY CIVIL WAR FRONT.

THE REDS FACE NEW ENEMIES.

FRENCH, AMERICAN, BRITISH,
AND JAPANESE

HAVE ALL COME
TO SUPPORT THE WHITES.

BUT AFTER THE GREAT WAR
AND ITS MASSIVE DEATH TOLL,

ALLIED SUPPORT REMAINS LIMITED.

THEIR PRIMARY GOAL IS TO STOP
THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM.

BECAUSE TROTSKY WANTS
TO EXPORT THE REVOLUTION,

HE IS COUNTING ON WORKERS
RISING UP ACROSS EUROPE.

HE ATTACKS POLAND,

WHICH HAS JUST ACQUIRED
ITS INDEPENDENCE.

THE POLES, WITH FRENCH SUPPORT,

RESIST THE REDS' ASSAULT.

STALIN, SENT AS BACKUP,
DOESN'T SUPPORT TROTSKY.

40,000 BOLSHEVIK SOLDIERS
ARE CAPTURED.

DESPITE HIS FAILURE IN WARSAW,

TROTSKY STILL
EMBODIES WAR COMMUNISM...

THE RED ARMY'S
ABSOLUTE PRIORITY.

TROTSKY SUCCEEDS
IN KEEPING STALIN

AWAY FROM MILITARY AFFAIRS,

EVEN THOUGH HE IS STILL
IN THE GOVERNMENT.

PEOPLE QUESTION STALIN'S METHODS
AND WONDER WHAT IS BEHIND

THOSE SMALL, SQUINTY EYES,
EVEN WHEN HE SMILES.

HELPED BY HIS GEORGIAN
ACCOMPLICES,

STALIN TAMES THE SEPARATISTS
WITH HIS IRON HAND,

JUST LIKE HE DID IN BAKU
IN AZERBAIJAN.

[ ALL SHOUTING ]

STALIN ALSO REINS IN ARMENIA
AND GEORGIA, HIS HOMELAND.

WHEN HE GOES HOME
TO VISIT HIS MOTHER,

SHE ASKS, "TELL ME, MY SON."

YOU DON'T HAVE THE TSAR'S BLOOD
ON YOUR HANDS, DO YOU?"

STALIN SWEARS
THAT HE HAD NO PART

IN THE ASSASSINATION
OF NICHOLAS THE SECOND

AND HIS FAMILY 3 YEARS EARLIER.

NICHOLAS THE SECOND,
CAPTURED BY THE BOLSHEVIKS,

ALONG WITH HIS HEIR,
THE TSAREVICH,

THE EMPRESS,
AND THEIR FOUR DAUGHTERS

WERE MOVED FROM LOCATION

TO LOCATION
THROUGHOUT THE CIVIL WAR.

THEY ENDED UP IN THIS HOUSE
ON THE SIBERIAN BORDER,

WHERE THEY WERE EXECUTED.

[ GUNSHOTS ]

ORDERS ARE GIVEN
BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY,

WHERE STALIN'S POWER IS RISING.

THE PARTY ALSO INFLATES
THE POWER OF THE BUREAUCRATS.

[ SPEAKING RUSSIAN ]

Narrator:
THE COLLECTIVE PARANOIA.

OF LENIN, STALIN
AND THE BOLSHEVIKS IS SO STRONG

THAT THEY ORDER A MASSIVE PURGE
IN THE HEART OF THE PARTY.

220,000 MEMBERS ARE THROWN OUT.

THE SECRET POLICE
INCREASES ITS EFFORTS

TO HUNT DOWN THE ENEMIES
OF THE PEOPLE.

♪♪

THE HEAD EXECUTIONER
IS DZERZHINSKY

ALONG WITH HIS TEAM
OF ASSASSINS.

STALIN IS A CLOSE,
INTIMATE FRIEND.

IN HIS JOURNAL, TROTSKY CLAIMS

TO HAVE HEARD
STALIN SAY TO DZERZHINSKY,

"THE GREATEST DELIGHT
IS TO PICK OUT ONE'S ENEMIES,"

PREPARE ALL THE DETAILS
OF THE BLOW,

TO SLAKE ONE'S THIRST
FOR A CRUEL REVENGE,

"AND THEN GO HOME TO BED."

FOR STALIN, WAR HAD OPENLY
BEEN DECLARED BY TROTSKY

WHEN HE WROTE THIS TO LENIN

AFTER THE VICTORY
ON THE VOLGA...

"I CONSIDER THE WAY
STALIN TOOK CREDIT"

FOR THE WHOLE TSARITSYN CAMPAIGN

"TO BE AKIN
TO A DANGEROUS WOUND."

STALIN COMMISSIONS A FILM,

THUS REINFORCING
HIS LEGENDARY STATUS

AS A CIVIL WAR HERO
AND CONQUEROR OF TSARITSYN.

HE CHANGES THE CITY'S NAME
FROM TSARITSYN TO STALINGRAD,

OR "STALIN'S CITY."

20 YEARS LATER IN 1942,

STALINGRAD IS IN RUINS
AT THE HANDS OF THE GERMANS.

♪♪

Narrator: HITLER'S TROOPS,

AFTER 2 MONTHS
OF ARDUOUS COMBAT,

HAVE REACHED THEIR GOAL...
THE SHORES OF THE VOLGA.

ACROSS THE RIVER,
THE RUSSIANS REGROUP

AND ARE COMFORTED
BY AN UNEXPECTED DECLARATION

BY STALIN...

"TOMORROW, WE SHALL DANCE
IN THE STREETS."

WHAT DOES STALIN MEAN?

HE KNOWS THAT HIS MILITARY CHIEF
OF STAFF, GENERAL ZHUKOV,

IS SECRETLY PREPARING
A COUNTEROFFENSIVE.

THE FATE OF STALIN'S COUNTRY
HANGS IN THE BALANCE,

BUT STALIN ALSO HAS SOME
PERSONAL ISSUES TO CONTEND WITH.

HE AWAITS A VISIT FROM BERIA,

THE FEARSOME HEAD
OF THE SECRET POLICE,

ALONG WITH THE HEADS
OF THE VARIOUS

LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS.

STALIN HAS ASKED
FOR AN INVESTIGATION

INTO A LETTER WRITTEN
BY ROMAN KARMEN,

A FAMOUS FILM MAKER.

THE LETTER DENOUNCES AN AFFAIR
BETWEEN KARMEN'S WIFE,

A RENOWNED ACTRESS
NAMED NINA ORLOVA,

AND STALIN'S SECOND SON, VASILY,

A FIGHTER PILOT
IN THE 32nd GUARDS AIR REGIMENT.

[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]

VASILY IS A DANGEROUS PILOT,

AND HIS FATHER
ULTIMATELY GROUNDS HIM.

HE IS DRUNK MOST OF THE TIME.

HE SHOOTS THE CHANDELIERS

AND BEATS HIS WIFE
WHO JUST GAVE BIRTH.

NICKNAMED "THE TSAREVICH,"
VASILY ORGANIZES ORGIES.

THE LETTER ALSO POINTS A FINGER
AT VASILY'S SISTER,

16-YEAR-OLD SVETLANA,
STALIN'S ONLY DAUGHTER.

THE GIRL WAS FOUND IN THE ARMS
OF ALEKSEI KAPLER,

A RENOWNED
38-YEAR-OLD SCREENWRITER.

STALIN CANNOT IMAGINE
HIS DAUGHTER

WITH A MAN 20 YEARS HER SENIOR.

BUT STALIN WAS 20 YEARS OLDER

THAN SVETLANA'S MOTHER,
NADEZHDA, WHO DIED IN 1932,

OFFICIALLY
OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS.

IN 1942, DURING THE BATTLE
OF STALINGRAD,

SVETLANA LEARNS THAT HER MOTHER

COMMITTED SUICIDE
10 YEARS EARLIER.

WHY?

STATE SECRET.

SVETLANA CONSOLES HERSELF
WITH KAPLER.

THROUGH HIM,
SHE DISCOVERS LITERATURE,

OFTEN EROTIC IN NATURE.

SVETLANA WRITES,

"WHAT BOTHERED MY FATHER MOST
ABOUT KAPLER

WAS THE FACT
THAT HE WAS JEWISH."

DURING THAT MONTH
OF NOVEMBER, 1942,

THE LETTER DENOUNCING
STALIN'S CHILDREN

IS A VERY DELICATE
BUSINESS, INDEED.

ITS CONSEQUENCES DIRECTLY AFFECT
THE NOMENKLATURA,

THE MAGIC LIST
OF THE REGIME'S ELITE,

FROM PARTY OFFICIALS
TO USEFUL ARTISTS

TO POLICE EXECUTIONERS.

AS LONG
AS THEY REMAIN FAVORITES,

THEY CAN LIVE IN A STATE
OF COMFORT UNKNOWN

TO THE REST
OF THE SOVIET POPULATION.

THIS HOLDS TRUE EVEN IN THE MOST
DIRE PERIODS OF THE WAR.

SO, ALEKSEI KAPLER,
STALIN'S DAUGHTER'S GREAT LOVE

AND A RENOWNED FIGURE
IN THE FILM WORLD,

THOUGHT HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE.

HE IS SENT TO STALINGRAD
AS A PRAVDA CORRESPONDENT,

OSTENSIBLY, TO BE KILLED.

[ EXPLOSIONS ]

HE SURVIVES THIS HELL.

SO STALIN HAS HIM DEPORTED
TO SIBERIA,

BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.

HE IS TAKEN TO THE VORKUTA
CONCENTRATION CAMP,

OTHERWISE KNOWN
AS THE ICE GUILLOTINE.

[ WIND WHISTLING ]

KAPLER IS ACCUSED OF HAVING TIES
WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES

AND OF BEING AN ENGLISH SPY.

HE IS SENTENCED TO 5 YEARS
IN THE GULAG.

GULAG... AN ACRONYM
FOR "MAIN CAMP ADMINISTRATION."

THE GREAT RUSSIAN WRITER,
SOLZHENITSYN,

REFERS TO THEM
AS THE G.U.L.A.G. ARCHIPELAGO...

HUNDREDS OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
OFTEN BUILT DURING LENIN'S DAY,

WHOSE NUMBERS WERE INFINITELY
INCREASED BY STALIN.

WHILE THE WORLD'S FATE
IS BEING DECIDED AT STALINGRAD,

AT LEAST 3 MILLION SOVIETS
HAVE BECOME ZEKS.

THESE UNFORTUNATE MEN
ARE CONVICTS,

ARRESTED BY STALIN'S POLICE
TO FILL HIS QUOTAS AND BALANCE

OUT THE HIGH MORTALITY RATE
IN THE LABOR CAMPS.

THIS ENDLESS SOURCE
OF SLAVE LABOR

IS AN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION
TO THE SOVIET WAR ECONOMY.

GOLD IS EXTRACTED
FROM THE KOLYMA CAMP

AND COAL COMES FROM VORKUTA.

IN THIS MINING COMPLEX,
UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS,

VIOLINISTS, AND PRIESTS ALIKE
MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN THE SHAFT.

OTHER ZEKS BUILD THE RAILWAYS

ACROSS THE ENDLESS STRETCHES
OF SNOW.

[ CLANKING ]

FOR RUSSIANS,
HELL ISN'T ETERNAL FIRE.

IT'S A DESERT OF ICE.

EACH GUARD IS MORE BARBARIC
THAN THE NEXT.

THEY SHARE THE WOMEN,
WHO ARE RAPED UPON ARRIVAL.

1,607,000 ZEKS DIE
IN THE GULAGS.

KAPLER SPENDS 10 YEARS
IN VORKUTA.

SVETLANA, STALIN'S DAUGHTER,
DOESN'T WAIT FOR HIS RETURN.

♪♪

ENTRENCHED
IN THE PARANOID SOLITUDE

OF THE KREMLIN, CUT OFF
FROM HIS FAMILY, STALIN AGES.

THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
OCCUPIES HIM 16 HOURS PER DAY.

HE GRABS A FEW HOURS' SLEEP
ON A COT IN HIS OFFICE.

HE CHAIN SMOKES,
AND AT 63 YEARS OLD,

HIS ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
IS LIFE-THREATENING.

[ SHOUTS ]

[ MORTAR FIRE ]

13,000 SOVIET CANNONS

FIRE THEIR TERRIFYING
MULTIPLE-ROCKET LAUNCHERS.

THE GERMANS NICKNAME
THESE MISSILES

"STALIN'S ORGANS"
AFTER THEIR ROAR.

[ ROARING ]

GENERAL ZHUKOV'S SOVIET ARMIES
HAVE SURROUNDED

GERMAN GENERAL PAULUS' 6th ARMY
IN THE RUINS OF STALINGRAD.

[ GUNFIRE ]

HITLER ORDERS PAULUS

NOT TO BREAK
THROUGH THE CIRCLE AND RETREAT.

[ WIND WHISTLING ]

ONE MONTH LATER, THE GERMANS
ARE OUT OF MUNITIONS AND FOOD.

CASES OF CANNIBALISM ABOUND.

THE SOVIETS ARE MOVING
FORWARD EVERYWHERE.

[ GUNFIRE ]

FILM MAKER ROMAN KARMEN,
WHO HAD ALERTED STALIN

ON HIS CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES,
IS LUCKY ENOUGH TO FILM

THIS UNIQUE MOMENT...
THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL PAULUS.

THE HEAD OF GERMAN FORCES
IN STALINGRAD

WAS PROMOTED
TO MARSHAL THE PREVIOUS DAY

BY HITLER IN A MOVE
TO PUSH PAULUS

TO COMMIT HONORABLE SUICIDE.

BUT PAULUS REPLIES,

"I'M NOT GOING TO SHOOT MYSELF
FOR THAT CORPORAL."

PAULUS DOESN'T SEE HITLER
AS THE FUHRER ANYMORE,

BUT AS THE WORLD WAR I SOLDIER

WHO'S INCOMPETENCE
HAS LED TO DISASTER.

ONCE PAULUS FINDS HIMSELF
A SOVIET PRISONER,

HE FEELS NOTHING
BUT HATRED TOWARDS HITLER.

HITLER, ON THE OTHER HAND,
WANTS TO EXCHANGE HIM

FOR STALIN'S ELDEST SON, YAKOV,

WHO IS HIS PRISONER
SINCE JULY, 1941.

STALIN PREPARES HIS ANSWER...

"I WILL NOT TRADE A MARSHAL
FOR A LIEUTENANT."

THE BODY OF YAKOV, STALIN'S SON,
IS FOUND

IN THE ELECTRICAL BARBED WIRES
OF HIS PRISONER CAMP IN GERMANY.

IN STALINGRAD,
AFTER 6 MONTHS OF FIGHTING,

500,000 GERMANS ARE DEAD,

100,000 HAVE BEEN CAPTURED.

VERY FEW WILL EVER RETURN HOME,
EVEN 10 YEARS LATER.

[ PIANO PLAYING ]

900,000 SOVIET SOLDIERS
HAVE BEEN KILLED.

700,000 HAVE BEEN WOUNDED.

♪♪

IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD,
THE GREAT VICTOR AT STALINGRAD

IS STALIN, WHO POSES
IN HIS NEW UNIFORM.

THE GREAT MARSHAL STAR SHINES
ON HIS EPAULETTES.

THE BIGGEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE
OF THE TIME, LIFE,

FEATURES STALIN ON THE COVER

OF IT'S MARCH 29th,
1943 ISSUE...

THE SUPREME HONOR.

THIS OUTCOME COULDN'T HAVE
BEEN PREDICTED 20 YEARS EARLIER.

♪♪

Narrator:
AFTER 4 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR,

RUSSIA COUNTS MILLIONS
OF CASUALTIES,

IMMIGRANTS, AND ORPHANS.

THE COUNTRY IS RAVAGED
BY FAMINE.

STALIN IS BOTHERED
BY THE SIGHT OF TROTSKY,

STILL TRIUMPHANT IN RED SQUARE,

EVEN THOUGH WAR COMMUNISM
HAS BROUGHT

ABOUT THE FALL OF THE ECONOMY.

SEVER RATIONING IS IN PLACE
EXCEPT FOR THE 20,000 PARTY

AND POLICE OFFICIALS,
WHO ARE ENTITLED TO 4 KILOS

OF MEAT AND 4 KILOS
OF FISH PER MONTH.

A WORKER ONLY RECEIVES 200 GRAMS
OF FISH, USUALLY ROTTEN.

THE WORKERS CAN NO LONGER
FEED THEIR FAMILIES.

THEY RISE UP,
EVEN THOUGH STRIKING

HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN
SINCE DECEMBER OF 1917.

TROTSKY DECLARES,

"ALL RESISTANCE CAN BE COUNTERED
BY ONE WORD... SHOOT."

AT THIS POINT, 18,000 SAILORS
AND OFFICERS AT KRONSTADT,

THE NAVAL BASE IN
THE FORMER CAPITOL OF PETROGRAD,

JOIN THE FRAY IN SUPPORT
OF THE STRIKING WORKERS.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

THEIR CREDO IS,
"YES, TO SOVIETS,

NO, TO BOLSHEVIKS."

[ GUNFIRE ]

TROTSKY ORDERS AN ASSAULT
ON THE KRONSTADT SAILORS

ON MARCH 7th, 1921.

20,000 RED ARMY TROOPS MOVE
ACROSS THE FROZEN BALTIC SEA.

BEHIND THEM, TO PREVENT THEM
FROM TURNING BACK,

MEMBERS OF THE SECRET POLICE

ARE POSITIONED
WITH MACHINE GUNS.

[ MACHINE GUN COCKS ]

[ GUNFIRE ]

AFTER 10 DAYS OF BLOODY COMBAT,

THE REBELS HAVE RUN
OUT OF FOOD AND MUNITIONS.

THEY SURRENDER
TO THE RED ARMY SOLDIERS.

2,168 SAILORS ARE EXECUTED
AND BURIED TOGETHER.

THESE VERY SAME MEN
LED THE COMMUNISTS

TO VICTORY IN 1917.

BUT THE KRONSTADT REBELLION
FORCES LENIN TO BACK DOWN.

HE DECLARES, "IT IS POSSIBLE
FOR US TO TAKE A FEW STEPS BACK"

WITHOUT DESTROYING
THE DICTATORSHIP

"OF THE PROLETARIAT."

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IN MARCH, 1921,
LENIN INSTITUTES THE N.E.P.,

OR NEW ECONOMIC POLICY.

THIS IS A SPECTACULAR,

ALBEIT TEMPORARY, LIBERALIZATION
OF THE ECONOMY.

INDUSTRY IS DENATIONALIZED.

FORCED REQUISITIONS
AND REQUIRED WORK IS ENDED.

INHERITANCE IS REINSTATED.

FARMERS ARE FREE TO SELL THEIR
HARVEST AT WILL ONCE AGAIN.

STORE SHELVES ARE FILLED UP.

MOSCOW DARES TO HOPE
AND CELEBRATE AGAIN.

THINGS ARE MOVING QUICKLY
AT THE KREMLIN.

THE BOLSHEVIK LEADERS ARE
ARRIVING IN THEIR ROLLS-ROYCES.

ON APRIL 3rd, 1922,

STALIN, NICKNAMED
"LENIN'S BEST DISCIPLE,"

BECOMES SECRETARY GENERAL
OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.

HE IS POWERFUL, BUT ALWAYS
RESPECTFUL TOWARDS LENIN.

HIS FUTURE MINISTER,
MOLOTOV, REMARKS,

"PEOPLE OFTEN ASK ME,
'WHO IS TOUGHER,"

LENIN OR STALIN?'

LENIN, OF COURSE.

"HE'S THE ONE
WHO TRAINED US ALL."

♪♪

SUDDENLY, ON MAY 25th, 1922,

LENIN SUFFERS A STROKE
AT THE AGE OF 52.

HE IS PARTIALLY PARALYZED.

SIX MONTHS LATER,
HE HAS A SECOND STROKE.

THE PARTY'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE

PUTS STALIN IN CHARGE
OF TAKING CARE OF HIM.

STALIN ISOLATES LENIN
AND PREVENTS HIS ENTOURAGE

FROM WRITING ANYTHING
DICTATED BY HIM.

THE YEAR CLOSES
WITH THE CREATION

ON DECEMBER 22nd, 1922,
OF THE USSR...

UNION OF SOVIET
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.

IT'S EMBLEM
IS THE FARMER'S SICKLE

AND THE PROLETARIAN
WORKER'S HAMMER.

[ RHYTHMIC CLAPPING ]

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

THIS GRAND ANNOUNCEMENT,
ALONG WITH THE END

OF THE CIVIL WAR,
TRIGGER HOPE FOR A RESPITE.

BUT THE TERROR ONLY INTENSIFIES.

SECRET POLICE VANS
DISCHARGE TRUCK LOADS OF VICTIMS

CONDEMNED FROM THE START.

1923, THE PEOPLE'S
COMMISSAR OF JUSTICE,

ISAAC STEINBERG,
ESCAPES TO GERMANY.

HE ONCE ASKED LENIN, "WHAT GOOD
IS A COMMISSAR OF JUSTICE?"

HIS TITLE SHOULD BE COMMISSAR
OF SOCIAL EXTERMINATION."

LENIN HAD REPLIED,
"EXCELLENT IDEA."

STALIN CARRIES LENIN'S COFFIN.

NADEZHDA KRUPSKAYA, HIS WIDOW,
REVEALS THAT LENIN MANAGED

TO DICTATE A WILL,
IN WHICH HE STATED,

"STALIN IS TOO BRUTAL."

I SUGGEST THAT THE COMRADES
FIND A WAY

"TO REMOVE HIM FROM HIS POSITION
AS SECRETARY GENERAL."

STALIN REACTS VERY VIOLENTLY
AND THREATENS LENIN'S WIDOW,

FORCING HER TO PUBLISH
A DENIAL IN PRAVDA.

ALL THE PALLBEARERS,

THE MOST FAITHFUL BOLSHEVIKS
FROM THE OUTSET,

WILL TRY TO USE THIS WILL
TO GET RID OF STALIN.

THEY WILL ALL DIE.

LENIN'S TRUE WILL,
RESPECTED TO THE LETTER

BY HIS HEIR, STALIN,
IS HIS DOCTRINE...

THE NEVER-ENDING PURIFICATION
OF THE SOCIAL BODY,

WHICH ALSO APPLIES TO THE PARTY,

THE STATE,
AND THE BUREAUCRACY...

THE HUNT FOR THE FALSE
COMMUNIST, THAT PARASITE

WHO HAS INFILTRATED THE PARTY
STATES' ADMINISTRATIONS.

ELIMINATING THESE PARASITES,

THE SURVIVORS OF A DOOMED
CAPITALIST SOCIETY,

IS AN ESSENTIAL TASK.

THIS PURGE WILL BE ENDLESS
FOR STALIN

AS IT WAS FOR LENIN.

THE WAR AGAINST THE ENEMY
WILL NEVER BE OVER.

WHILE LENIN'S BODY
IS QUICKLY BEING EMBALMED,

STALIN BLOWS
UP THE FROZEN GROUND

IN FRONT OF THE KREMLIN WALL

TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS
OF A MAUSOLEUM.

FIRST COMES THE WOOD,
FOLLOWED BY RED GRANITE

AND BLACK MARBLE,
WITH A GRANDSTAND

WHERE THE OMNIPOTENT
COMMUNIST LEADERS

WILL RITUALLY STAND
TO DOMINATE THE PEOPLE.

BUT THE PEOPLE LIKE TROTSKY.

STALIN IS STILL FORCED
TO APPLAUD HIM.

THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

OF THEIR UNDERGROUND DUEL
TO THE DEATH.

STALIN ESTABLISHES A COMMISSION
DEDICATED TO THE IMMORTALIZATION

OF THE MEMORY
OF VLADIMIR ULYANOV

KNOWN AS LENIN.

AND LENIN'S NAME IS GIVEN
TO PETROGRAD,

THE FORMER CAPITOL,
ST. PETERSBURG,

WHICH WILL NOW
BE CALLED LENINGRAD.

♪♪

Narrator: GERMANS HAVE SURROUNDED
LENINGRAD FOR THE PAST 2 YEARS.

[ EXPLOSIONS ]

HITLER HASN'T SUCCEEDED
IN CONQUERING STALINGRAD,

THE PRIMARY SYMBOL
OF SOVIET POWER.

SO HE KEEPS GOING AFTER
THE OTHER SYMBOL, LENINGRAD.

HITLER DECLARES,

"I WILL DESTROY THIS CITY,
DECIMATE ITS POPULATION."

IT WILL NEVER RISE AGAIN.

"I HEREBY TAKE THIS SOLEMN OATH."

THIS PROVES TO BE
ONE OF THE LONGEST

AND MOST DEVASTATING SIEGES
IN HISTORY.

800,000 INHABITANTS DIE
OF HUNGER.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

BACK THEN, THE CHILDREN
OF MOSCOW BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE.

THEY CHEER THE HEROES
OF THE REVOLUTION

GATHERED AROUND STALIN,
WHO MARCHES TOWARDS POWER.

THESE ARE THE FIRST
BOLSHEVIKS...

ZINOVIEV, KAMENEV,

VOROSHILOV,
THE CIVIL WAR GENERAL

AND BUKHARIN,
WHO DOESN'T TRUST STALIN.

HE SAYS, "HE IS A SCHEMER
WITHOUT PRINCIPLES"

WHO'S THIRST FOR POWER
COMES ABOVE ALL.

HE CHANGES HIS THEORIES
EVEN AS HE EXPRESSED THEM

"DEPENDING ON
WHO HE HAS CHOSEN TO ELIMINATE."

BUT THEY ALL STAND BESIDE STALIN
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TROTSKY,

WHO CONTINUES TO HAVE
THE SUPPORT OF MANY MILITANTS.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

[ WOMAN SHOUTING IN RUSSIAN ]

Narrator: THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO
EDUCATION OR TRAINING IN POLITICS,

BUT THEY WILL ALWAYS
BE GRATEFUL TO STALIN

FOR ALLOWING THEM TO RISE
WITHIN THE BUREAUCRACY.

TROTSKY BEGINS TO BE BOOED

AND LITTLE BY LITTLE,
CAST ASIDE.

[ BOOING ]

STALIN DOESN'T YET
HAVE THE POWER

TO KILL OFF HIS ENEMIES,
BUT AFTER 3 YEARS

OF FIERCE STRUGGLE
AND DEVIOUS PLOTTING,

HE MANAGES TO GET TROTSKY
BANNED FROM THE PARTY.

STALIN CAN NOW HUMILIATE TROTSKY
AND HAVE HIM EXILED

TO A FAR AWAY SOVIET REPUBLIC
IN CENTRAL ASIA.

STALIN HAS HIM FILMED, ESCORTED
BY POLICE OFFICERS WHO'S CHIEF,

ON THE RIGHT,
WITH THE GUN IN HIS POCKET,

DIRECTS THE CAMERA.

NEXT, STALIN GETS THE POLITBURO
TO ACCUSE THIS FOUNDING MEMBER

OF THE USSR
OF ANTI-SOVIET ACTIVITIES.

TROTSKY IS DEPORTED.

STALIN IS 50.

HE IS NOW THE ABSOLUTE RULER
OF THE SOVIET UNION.

HE SUMMONS THE CAMERAS
TO THE KREMLIN

IN FRONT OF A STATUE OF LENIN

TO SHOW THAT
HE IS TRULY THE HEIR.

[ MEN SINGING IN RUSSIAN ]

WITH HIS HENCHMEN,
WHO ARE BLINDLY DEVOTED

IN EXCHANGE FOR THEIR LIVES,
STALIN CAN FINALLY

RID HIMSELF OF THE N.E.P...
THE ATTEMPT AT LIBERALIZATION

AND FULLY ENGAGE
IN COLLECTIVIZATION.

[ SINGING CONTINUES ]

THE PARTY NEWSPAPER, THE PRAVDA,
IS DISPLAYED IN THE HALLWAYS

OF THE KREMLIN BOASTING
THIS FRONT-PAGE HEADLINE...

"A GREAT BOLSHEVIK ROUND
OF APPLAUSE

FOR THE GREATEST COMMUNIST
LEADER IN THE WORLD."

[ SINGING CONTINUES ]

20 YEARS LATER,
HE WILL REALLY BE ONE

OF THE MOST POWERFUL MEN
IN THE WORLD.

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STALIN TAKES AN AIRPLANE
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE.

FLYING OVER HIS NATIVE CAUCUSES,
HE IS AFRAID.

HE IS TRAVELING TO TEHRAN

TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE
OF ALLIES AGAINST GERMANY.

WITH HIS NEWFOUND POWER,
STALIN WAS ABLE

TO IMPOSE HIS EMBASSY IN IRAN
AS THE MEETING LOCATION.

THE EMBASSY IS SECURED BY
A BATTALION OF SOVIET POLICEMEN

AND FULL OF HIDDEN MICROPHONES.

THE SIGHT OF STALIN
IS A SURPRISE TO THE ATTENDEES.

HE LIMPS, AND HIS ATROPHIED ARM
ADDS TO HIS BEAR-LIKE DEMEANOR.

CHURCHILL, IN HIS ROYAL AIR
FORCE ATTIRE, STRIKES A POSE.

THE CONFERENCE'S
OPENING CEREMONY BEGINS

WITH "THE INTERNATIONALE,"
STILL THE SOVIET ANTHEM,

FOR NOW.

[ "THE INTERNATIONALE" PLAYS ]

STALIN, WHO ORCHESTRATED
EVERYTHING ON HIS OWN,

IS SURROUNDED BY
HIS OLD ACCOMPLICES,

MARSHAL VOROSHILOV AND MOLOTOV,

HIS MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

ON BEHALF OF KING GEORGE
THE SIXTH, CHURCHILL

GIVES STALIN A SWORD WITH
THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION...

"TO THE STEEL-HARDENED CITIZENS
OF STALINGRAD."

VOROSHILOV HAS THE MISFORTUNE
OF DROPPING THE SWORD.

[ CLANKING ]

HE THROWS A DISTRAUGHT
GLANCE AT STALIN.

HE KNOWS HE IS ABOUT
TO BE INSULTED IN PUBLIC...

UNTIL A POLICEMAN
RELIEVES HIM OF HIS BURDEN.

THEN CHURCHILL AND STALIN

JOIN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT,
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT,

WHO IS DISABLED AND TIRED
FROM THE LONG TRIP TO TEHRAN.

STALIN WANTS TO GET
CLOSER TO ROOSEVELT,

WHO HE BELIEVES TO BE NAIVE
AND EASILY MANIPULATED.

STALIN NEEDS SUPPORTS
AGAINST CHURCHILL

ON THE ISSUE OF A SECOND FRONT.

CHURCHILL WANTS TO ATTACK
FROM THE SOUTH...

THE SOFT UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE...

OUTRUN THE RUSSIANS,
AND ARRIVE FIRST IN BERLIN.

BUT STALIN WINS OUT
WITH THE NORMANDY INVASION,

FURTHER AWAY, PLANNED
FOR THE SPRING OF 1944.

ROOSEVELT SHOWS
HIS CONSIDERATION

FOR STALIN
IN THIS OFFICIAL PHOTO.

EVERYONE HOPES TO BE INTRODUCED

TO STALIN, EVEN SARAH,
CHURCHILL'S DAUGHTER.

OPTIMISM IS IN THE AIR.

STALIN JUST DEFEATED HITLER
IN THE BATTLE OF KURSK.

CHURCHILL DECLARES,
"GOD IS ON THE ALLIES' SIDE."

STALIN REPLIES,
"THE DEVIL IS ON MY SIDE.

HE'S A GOOD COMMUNIST."

♪♪