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Message 1.Μύ
Posted by s_sintnicolaas95 (U15053947) on Monday, 5th December 2011
Hi,
I am currently studying Stalinist Russia for AS levels and came across the series "Russia: The Wild East" on Iplayer whilst looking for some wider info besides reading. However, there are only four of the episodes currently available on Iplayer and i was wondering how i could go about asking the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ to make the whole series available as it would be extremely useful for revision.
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Message 2
Posted by RusEvo (U2126548) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
You could email them.
I bet there is a lot of reading you could do in the mean time. I personally like to start with Wikipedia for an overview, and then jump into proper sources from there. -
Message 3
Posted by RusEvo (U2126548) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
Stalin is an interesting subject. You can get caught up in the horror of his crimes and initial incompetence of the war........ but then you compare it to improvements in some aspects of life for ordinary Russians that occurred during his time in charge.
When I read about him, I always wonder if he was crazy, or sane enough to know what he was. I get frustrated and wish I could go back in time to tell him off!!! -
Message 4
Posted by suvorovetz (U12273591) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
You can get caught up in the horror of his crimes and initial incompetence of the war........ but then you compare it to improvements in some aspects of life for ordinary Russians that occurred during his time in charge.Μύ This is intriguing. Perhaps, you would describe us what aspects of ordinary Russians did improve during Stalin's rein exactly.
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Message 5
Posted by baz (U14258304) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
You can get caught up in the horror of his crimes and initial incompetence of the war........ but then you compare it to improvements in some aspects of life for ordinary Russians that occurred during his time in charge.Μύ This is intriguing. Perhaps, you would describe us what aspects of ordinary Russians did improve during Stalin's rein exactly.
Μύ
It's incredible that Stalin, like other dictators, is still given credit for the few positive achievements of his misrule, without the blindingly obvious observation that his crimes made his 'improvemebts' an irrelevance at best, and a cruel joke at worst.
An old mate of mine from Holland, who had his teeth smashed out on a tram for upsetting a German, once said admiringly,"You know, Hitler wanted everyone to have a Volkswagen."
What can you say to such people? -
Message 6
Posted by OUNUPA (U2078829) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
...and Stalin wanted everyone to live in The Great Country...and now Russians vote for commies as an alternative to MedvedPUTS !
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Message 7
Posted by OUNUPA (U2078829) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
Living in the Great Country ! It sounds more better than simply having OWN car.
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Message 8
Posted by suvorovetz (U12273591) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
It's incredible that Stalin, like other dictators, is still given credit for the few positive achievements of his misruleΜύ I'm dying to find out what they were in the first place.
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Message 9
Posted by PaulRyckier (U1753522) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
Sint Nicolaas,
welcome to the boards. I am not intrigued by your nom de plume because of the name, while it is obvious on 5 December, but more about the Dutch name. I approach the event as an apprenti-historian...reasoning that as you could look to the series on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ I player, you couldn't reside in the Netherlands, otherwise you couldn't look to the I player as I can't, residing in Belgium...but now there is a vague memory that I had last time nevertheless some episodes from I player archive available even in Belgium....so my "historical" guess can be wrong and I have to dig for more "data"...before "constructing" my history...
Kind regards and again welcome to the boards,
Paul. -
Message 10
Posted by RusEvo (U2126548) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
You can get caught up in the horror of his crimes and initial incompetence of the war........ but then you compare it to improvements in some aspects of life for ordinary Russians that occurred during his time in charge.Μύ This is intriguing. Perhaps, you would describe us what aspects of ordinary Russians did improve during Stalin's rein exactly.
Μύ
It's incredible that Stalin, like other dictators, is still given credit for the few positive achievements of his misrule, without the blindingly obvious observation that his crimes made his 'improvemebts' an irrelevance at best, and a cruel joke at worst.
An old mate of mine from Holland, who had his teeth smashed out on a tram for upsetting a German, once said admiringly,"You know, Hitler wanted everyone to have a Volkswagen."
What can you say to such people?Μύ Well what you would say that sometimes even a terrible leader may have done some good things just as many a great and beloved leader may have done some bad things. You can't understand them unless you know all sides.
By the way, the thinking behind my comment (which may not be clear to others) is that I often tend to think of the Stalin years as a horrible brutal time with no light at all. But that is not strictly true. -
Message 11
Posted by suvorovetz (U12273591) on Tuesday, 6th December 2011
By the way, the thinking behind my comment (which may not be clear to others) is that I often tend to think of the Stalin years as a horrible brutal time with no light at all. But that is not strictly true.Μύ When I think of Stalin, about the only good thing he's ever done was - oh, that brutal poetic irony - to assassinate or execute other mass murderers from his own party - the likes of Lenin, Trotsky, Dybenko, Bukharin, Tukhatchevsky, etc, etc. That's all I can think of. You?
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