Soviet War Crimes
What happened behind advancing Soviet lines?
4.1 (36)
65 mins
Discover the history of war crimes associated with Soviet forces during and after World War II. Explore events including mass executions, deportations, prisoner abuse, and violence against civilians in regions across Eastern Europe.
Ep 1:
The Myth of the Liberator
We open with the buried truth behind the Red Army's 1945 advance—liberation's glorious myth cracks to reveal mass sexual violence, official denial, and a Kremlin desperate to blame the Nazis.
Ep 2:
Engineering Terror: Famine, Purges and Pacts
From Lenin's NKVD to Stalin's engineered famine, the Great Purge, and the secret pact that carved up Poland, we trace how terror became the Soviet state's founding operating system.
Ep 3:
Erasing Nations Behind the Curtain
Entire nations vanish overnight as Stalin deports Crimean Tatars and Chechens, while tanks, gas, and 'punitive psychiatry' crush uprisings in Berlin, Tbilisi, Hungary, and Prague.
Ep 4:
Empire's Long Bleed: Proxies, Afghanistan and Collapse
Moscow exports its terror machine to Ethiopia, Yemen, and Angola, then stumbles into Afghanistan's graveyard of empires—massacres, looting, and denial that finally bring the empire down.
Ep 5:
New Flag, Old Wounds: Chechnya to Syria
The USSR falls but its playbook survives: Yeltsin's tanks, two brutal Chechen wars, a poisoned theater siege, the horror of Beslan, and Russia's deadly footprint in Syria.
Ep 6:
History Repeating: The War in Ukraine
Every buried atrocity converges in Ukraine—Bucha's mass graves, stolen children, and a war crime record echoing Katyn—as the question lingers: why does this cycle never end?
Discussions (5)
Niles
Level 2 · 3 mo agoIs that 2 million babies stat actually true though?
Martin
Level 2 · 3 mo agoTake a look at the Nuremberg files. He is spot on.
Sean
Level 5 · 3 mo agoClaiming an unbroken thread between the USSR and modern Russia ignores the massive shift in material conditions. The current Russian state is a bourgeois oligarchy, not a continuation of Soviet political economy.
