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Western portrayals often reduce the Soviet Union to a single nation, but it was officially a union of 15 republics—each with its own language, culture, and identity. Despite centralized control, these republics were considered distinct nations, a fact often overlooked in Western historical narratives.
Does anyone know if any of the historians in this documentary have also studied Russian accounts of this time period? I looked up the three historians in the description (Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, and Matt Lewis) and didn’t see Russian listed as a foreign language for any of them :/ I know personally if I watched someone recount the history of my country without even learning English to read my country’s historical texts, I’d be insulted 🙁
Does anyone have any USSR documentary recommendations from historians who are knowledgeable about the people’s language and cultural texts from that time period? Thanks! 🙂
1:25:50 He's exactly right. Nikki played Kennedy. As an American…not happy admitting this but… Russia did win that round.
Where else they didn't mention is .. Kennedy had to pledge not to attack Cuba. Ever!
1:37:17 Eye Brows …had a thing for kissing on the lips ….dudes! Dunno what that was about! 😉😀
now talk about how all of the leaders of the bolshevik revolution were all jewish and put them against each other to devide and collapse russia to make a jewish communist nation..
And to this day no one likes terrorists pedophile Russians
I love the stallion ussr
No mention of the Jewish bolchevics huh
Biased Documentary, it's so sad that it's impossible to find a good ussr documentary without propaganda and invented numbers.
"Soviet" power is no better and no worse than any other"-Nestor Makhno