10 Brutal Realities of Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union

Check out our New Biography Channel: When Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, his charismatic henchman Leon Trotsky seemed to be his most obvious successor. Instead it was Joseph Stalin, a man once described by Trotsky as a “dull grey blur” and a “nonentity” who had, by 1929, vanquished his political rivals and seized power for himself. →Subscribe for new videos every day! Find more lists at: