EPISODE · May 14, 2017 · 35 MIN
Episode 191: Lenin's Cruelty, Stalin's Ambition
from The History of WWII Podcast · host Ray Harris Jr
With the Kaiser's forces coming ever closer to Petrograd and Moscow, many Russians lose confidence in Lenin and his Bolsheviks. As such, no party member is safe. Bolshevik members begin to disappear, or are openly murdered. Even Lenin is unsafe. This chaos eventually forms into the Russia Civil War. Fortunately, Stalin is far away in the south, gathering grain for the Russian peasants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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With the Kaiser's forces coming ever closer to Petrograd and Moscow, many Russians lose confidence in Lenin and his Bolsheviks. As such, no party member is safe. Bolshevik members begin to disappear, or are openly murdered. Even Lenin is unsafe. This chaos eventually forms into the Russia Civil War. Fortunately, Stalin is far away in the south, gathering grain for the Russian peasants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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