i'm indy neidell and this is out of the
trenches where I sit here in the chair
of wisdom and answer all your questions
about the first world war
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okay Mason asks hi Indian crew I knew
you guys since the Christmas truce well
he's known as for 104 years my question
is I know a lot about Joseph Stalin but
I don't know about his involvement
during the First World War
could you tell me well the short version
of the first half of his life Joseph
Stalin born
Yoseob Yogesh viele in 1878 in Georgia
was an academically gifted student but
abandoned his studies as he became
immersed in pro revolutionary socialism
like Trotsky and Lenin the
socio-political theories of Karl Marx
heavily influenced him and he grew ever
more antagonistic to his environment
dropping out of school and into the
Russian social democratic Workers Party
he belonged to the more radical leftist
section of the party and disagreeing
with the Mensheviks he aligned himself
with the Bolsheviks
now Joseph met Lenin in the Central
Committee adopted his pseudonym Stalin
and was eventually arrested by the
Russian secret police for his
revolutionary agitation in 1913 he would
spend the rest of the war in Siberian
exile until the overthrow of the Tsar in
spring 1917 brought him back to st.
Petersburg and the Bolshevik movement
Stalin was always always interested in
rapprochement between the factions and
even favored reaching out to the
provisional government but bowed to
Lenin's radical standing of no
compromise as an editor of Pravda Stalin
would become a leading figure in the
Bolshevik Party during the October
Revolution or coup whichever you want to
call it in November 1917 Stalin became
the people's commissar of nationalities
in Lenin's new government and as such he
oversaw the disintegration of the
Russian Empire though after the signing
of the brest-litovsk treaty in march
1918 he played a major role in forcibly
reintegrating
former russian territories like like the
Transcaucasian nations and ukraine in
June that year he was sent to Czar it's
in to oversee the import of grain from
the Russian south now this task quickly
turned into a
military tasks when the White Army
besieged the city as a member of the
Central Committee he commanded the North
Caucasus Military District together with
Clement of Voroshilov now they had a
shared a mutual hostility and mistrust
towards you know military professionals
but still Stalin did well in Czar ittsan
and partly thanks to him Sorensen became
a model for revolutionary guerrilla
warfare nevertheless military setbacks
late in the year and a fierce well what
can only be called red terror campaign
on Stalin's part when he had many
military commanders and civilians
executed calls Trotsky head of the Red
Army to remove stolen from Saracen in
October 1918 still stolen was later
rewarded with the honor of having
Surratt's and renamed to Stalingrad for
his efforts in defending the city eric
cartman asks hello Indian team what were
these sentiments of most French
Canadians from Quebec regarding the war
did soldiers from Quebec prefer to serve
in the Canadian Army or in the French
army
well when the British joined the war in
August 1914
so did Canada the general response in
Canada both in the English part as in
the french-speaking part was was pretty
much the same Canada would support the
war honorably Raza leader of the Quebec
nationalist movement said it is natural
for any Canadian to wish for the triumph
of the franco-british troops official
numbers of French Canadian soldiers are
in fact hard to come by since language
is not mentioned on recruitment forms
what we know is that French Canada got
criticized for not contributing enough
soldiers to the war effort one
explanation for that could be that the
French Canadians were usually more
critical of imperialism in general and
did not feel you know a really strong
commitment to France another reason for
the difference could be that the
english-speaking provinces had a richer
military history also when the minister
of militia and defence Sam Hughes
reorganized the army before the war he
gave little attention to the
french-speaking population the defense's
policy was unilingual ism hue
refused a french-canadian division in
the first contingent to go overseas and
he did not appoint a senior French
Canadian officer the Conscription crisis
in 1917 and 1918 was largely about the
French Canadians finally paying their
debts to Canada demonstrations against
conscription were held in the cities in
the Quebec province and when the
government enforced the military service
act in January 1918 in which they called
for 400,000 men for service riots broke
out in Quebec Quebec City oh by the way
Flo did a podcast where he talked to a
Canadian historian about Canada during
the First World War and you can find a
link to that below ok here's number
three hi Andy I'm from Scotland and
during the independence referendum in
2014 my father told me there was the
proposal of Home Rule for Scotland
before the war and was scrapped when the
war broke out is this true the Scottish
nationalist movement gained a lot of
following in the late 1800s yes when
Scotland started losing more and more
independence to us to a new English
education and administration bills right
on top of that the success of the Irish
Home Rule movement sparked feelings of
unfair treatment among the Scottish now
this led to a Scottish Home Rule
Association being founded in 1894 which
wanted a Scottish Parliament in
Edinburgh Scottish Home Rule was
discussed in British Parliament several
times in the late 1800s and early 1900s
but it never made it into a bill now ok
this changed when the young Scots
movement was set up in 1900 they gained
a lot of followers and had 30 MPs in
Westminster in 1914 the efforts of the
young Scots proved to be successful
since they did result in a Scottish Home
Rule bill in 1913 now the bill was given
a second reading in May 1914 but when
the war broke out a couple months later
the bill was simply ignored or forgotten
so to summarise yes
the Scottish Home Rule bill almost made
it through the British Parliament but it
was suspended by the outbreak of the
first world war if you'd like to see our
special about Ireland before
and during the first world war you can
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