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Sounds,25 Oct 2023,45 mins,

Joseph Stalin Part 3: Hitler Attacks

Real Dictators
Contains some violent scenes.

Available for 285 days

Stalin’s regime hits the rocks when Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa and invades Russia. Nazi tanks plough towards Moscow in a devastating advance. Stalin’s legacy is forged in this fight to the death. In his final years, the strongman succumbs to cardiac problems. His tools for progress have been famine, slavery and execution. Yet to this day, some of his countrymen and women lionise him as the man who turned Russia into a superpower. A Noiser production, written by Joel Duddell

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