Joseph Stalin Part 1: The Young Bank Robber

Joseph Stalin - the “man of steel” - was the party secretary who
plotted a route to absolute power, becoming head of the Eastern
Bloc and chief nemesis of the United States. But how did a man from
the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire do it? In 1917, the
300-year-old Romanov Dynasty collapses. The communist Bolsheviks
storm the Winter Palace and seize power. From this band of
revolutionaries, a future bloody dictator - a man with an
extraordinary backstory - begins to emerge... For ad-free
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