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The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
Isabelle Clarke
France 2
3
53 min
June 1941. Hitler has thrown himself into a fight to the death against Stalin. Two decades earlier, in 1917, Joseph Jughashvili from Georgia is a member of Lenin's Bolshevik Party, who has just seized power in Russia. The country is torn by civil war.
Nov 3, 2015
1942. After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.
Nov 3, 2015
In 1944, the Soviets find out about the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transforms his country using any method he can.
Nov 3, 2015
Narrator (voice)
Self (archive footage)
