Stalin: What They Don't Teach You in School - Infrared Show

In another new video by Ed, a side of Stalin is revealed that is virtually unheard of in the West: A persistent fighter for democratic reform.

People in the West come to learn about Stalin from Western sources that usually do not transcend the level of Cold War propaganda. The image of Stalin and the Soviet Union presented there is so horrific that many do not even bother to seek truth from facts. But the Stalin one finds in actual historical facts is completely different from caricature presented in the West: it is an image of Stalin who spent his life struggling for Soviet democracy and the power of the people.

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List of all the cited sources:

1. Against Vulgarising the Slogan of Self-Criticism (Works, Vol. 2) - Josef Stalin
2. Waiting for Hitler - Stephen Kotkin
3. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization, Vol. 1 - Beatrice Webb
4. The Red Executive - David Granick
5. 'Excesses are Not Permitted', Mass Terror and Stalinist Governance in the Late 1930s (Russian Review, Vol. 61) - J Arch Getty
6. Soviet Legal Innovations and the Law of the Western World - John Quigley
7. State and Society Under Stalin - J Arch Getty
8. Stalin's Constitution - Samantha Lomb
9. Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin - Wendy Goldman
10. Practicing Stalinism - J Arch Getty
11. Mastering Bolshevism - Josef Stalin
12. Magnetic Mountain - Stephen Kotkin
13. Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform - Grover Furr
14. Economic Problems of the Socialism in the USSR - Josef Stalin