The End of a Monster

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Mark Schauss

History, Putin, Ussr, Usa, War, Tsar, Belarus, Arts, Revolution, Social Sciences, Ukraine, Science, Crimea, Russia, Soviet

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🗓️ 8 April 2012

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Joseph Stalin, who ruled the USSR for 30 years was planning World War III when he died of a stroke in 1953. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/support

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0:00.0	The Yes, yes,
0:13.0	ras, if yes shawras.
0:17.0	We're you're ras.
0:18.0	We're hoo h Welcome to the Russian rulers history podcast.
0:27.0	Episode 86, the end of a monster.
0:34.0	Before we begin, I'm recording it today on Easter Sunday,
0:38.0	and so I'd like to say
0:41.0	Christos Vaz Kresi to my Russian Orthodox brethren sisters and to which reply
0:46.8	I'm sure you've all gone Vaisto Vass Graci. What that means is
0:50.9	Christ was Christ is Christus was crazy means Christ is risen,
0:54.3	Vaista of Vaz Krasi, which is the response means
0:57.8	he has risen indeed.
0:59.6	There's your little Russian language lesson for the day, I hope that I pronounced it all correctly.
1:07.0	Last time we recounted the times after the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Also, Stalin noticed that his Soviet Union
1:16.0	satellites were getting too nationalistic and that both the intelligentsia and military needed
1:22.2	raining in. Another great terror was looming on the horizon.
1:27.0	Remember last time I ended with a kind of a tease about something Stalin was planning that would have changed the world as we know it.
1:36.4	Well let me first tell the story of what was happening in the USSR in the final years of Joseph Stalin's life.
1:44.1	When we look back at the selection of the men who survived the purges of the late 1930s and became
1:50.2	Stalin's henchmen, we see a bunch of dependent lackeys, men totally unable to stand
1:56.4	up to the boss or make a decision without their leader making it for them. This is what Rodzinsky says about them in his biography of
2:05.6	Stalin. Quote, who were these henchmen of his? The all-powerful favorite
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