Joseph Stalin Part 1: The Young Bank Robber

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Joseph Stalin - the “man of steel” - was the party secretary who plotted a route to absolute power, becoming head of the Eastern Bloc and chief nemesis of the United States. But how did a man from the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire do it? In 1917, the 300-year-old Romanov Dynasty collapses. The communist Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power. From this band of revolutionaries, a future bloody dictator - a man with an extraordinary backstory - begins to emerge... For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 1903, a young man from Georgia on the edge of the Russian Empire arrived in Siberia.
0:10.6	He's been exiled to this wintry wasteland for three years.
0:14.5	It's hellish, freezing cold, food and alcohol are scarce, wolves prowl around his hot at
0:20.5	night.
0:22.1	The young man tries to escape on foot.
0:25.0	He gets 40 or so miles into the 4,000 mile journey before frostbite kicks in.
0:31.1	Brews and defeated, he staggers back to the exile colony.
0:35.4	The world has forgotten him.
0:38.4	But this man is Joseph Stalin.
0:41.9	He will become the most powerful man on the planet.
0:45.2	One of the most feared dictators in all of history.
0:49.0	How did he do it?
0:51.4	Let's find out.
0:56.0	My name is Paul McGann and welcome to Real Dictators, the series that explores the
1:01.1	hidden lives of tyrants such as Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao and Kim Jong-il.
1:06.5	You'll be right there in their meeting rooms and private quarters, on the battlefields
1:10.4	and in their bunkers, up close and personal with some of history's most evil leaders,
1:15.3	watching on as they make the decisions that shape the world as we know it.
1:19.4	We'll take you behind the curtain, beyond the propaganda and the myth making, to hear
1:23.8	the real stories of their totalitarian regimes.
1:28.1	In this episode, we follow the rise of Joseph Stalin, the man of steel, from extreme poverty,
1:33.9	all the way to the Kremlin and the Cold War.
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