This video is an excerpt
from the Soviet-funded film "Ivan the Terrible".
In the 13th century, the Russian Slavic
states (especially the massive Kiev Rus state) were obliterated
by the Shamanist/Animist Mongol armies and, especially, their
Muslim Turkic mercenaries (Tatars). Most of the region, as
well as the nation-creating trade rights, were dominated by
Tatar and Mongol states, especially Muslim Turkic Kazan. In
the 16th century, Ivan the Terrible crowned himself emperor
of the 3rd Rome (as the 2nd had been destroyed by the Jihad
of the Ottoman Turks), united most of the Slavs under the
new Russia (Muscowy), and led a military invasion against
the Muslim occupying armies at Kazan, Astrakhan, Sibir (Siberia),
etc. His efforts would ultimately lead to the creation of
Russia, quickly to become the largest empire on earth (still
today). From the Soviet propaganda classic, "Ivan the
Terrible".
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USED:
The film "Ivan the Terrible,"
produced during the Soviet period at the behest of Stalin
himself. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Copyright expired
due to age.
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