Nikolai Bukharin’s Trial and Execution: Stalin’s Most Brilliant Victim

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Headline: The Golden Boy Betrayed: How Stalin Murdered the Soul of the Revolution He was the ""Golden Boy"" of the Bolsheviks, the man Lenin called the ""favorite of the whole party,"" and the brilliant mind behind the Soviet economy. Nikolai Bukharin was supposed to be the future of Russia. Instead, he became its most tragic ghost. In this video, we uncover the heartbreaking true story of a sensitive intellectual who collected butterflies, only to be crushed by the brutal machinery he helped create. From his close friendship with the man he called ""Koba""—Joseph Stalin—to the agonizing psychological torture of the Lubyanka prison, this is a tale of betrayal on a Shakespearean scale. Discover how the ""Fatal Marriage"" between Bukharin and Stalin fell apart, leading to the infamous Moscow Show Trials. We explore Bukharin's desperate final gamble to save his wife and son, his defiance in the face of the prosecutor, and the haunting seven words he wrote before his execution: ""Koba, why do you need my death?"" Witness the rise and fall of the man who tried to build a utopia but found himself standing in a dark cellar, facing the barrel of a gun held by his own revolution. #NikolaiBukharin #SovietHistory #JosephStalin #TheGreatPurge #RussianRevolution #MoscowTrials #Bolsheviks #HistoryDocumentary #ColdWarHistory #PoliticalTragedy"