World War 2: 1941 And The Man Of Steel | Part 2 (WW2 Documentary) | Real Stories
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Historian Professor David Reynolds reassesses Stalin’s role in the life and death struggle between Germany and Russia in World War Two, which he argues was ultimately more critical for British survival than ‘Our Finest Hour’ in the Battle of Britain itself
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David Reynolds is just about the best of the Historical Narrators and commentators in the world He gets to the Gristle of events with a suprisingly balanced eye
He actually makes documentaries, and not propaganda
Reynolds is clear and consistently in his works, we need more of him!
Nobody tells history like David Reynolds.
I would have loved to been present for those drunken dinner talks between Churchill and Stalin. I bet some parts were truly hilarious.
I agree 👍
Masterpiece
Do you know the soundtracks for this documentary?
Churchill was a moron for not assuming his dacha was bugged. Churchill made a ton of blunders during WWII himself. However, the victor writes history.
Imagine Nick T. casually explaining that Winston Churchill was a moron who made a ton of blunders during WW2. Would you care to list a couple of his moronic blunders off the top of your head?
@@mikehiggins946 There’s a difference between saying Churchill = a moron and a certain thing he did was moronic. There are lots of blunders in Churchill’s career. He was a good wartime leader we can all agree. And as history showed, in peacetime he always faltered. It’s why his career was dead before WWII and even after being the hero of Britain, voters tired of him and voted him out eventually. My primary point was that guys like FDR, Churchill, etc. made plenty of blunders, but YT videos tend to be superficial and glossy. If we want to oversimplify things as much as Churchill’s popular legend, we can pretty much say Russian blood and American manufacturing capacity and financial loans won the war. Churchill gave some good speeches. It’s obviously not that simple. But from the legend you’d think Churchill masterminded the victory over Germany.
I'm curious why you think Mr Churchill, who among his many honors was voted by the people of Great Britain the Greatest Brit of the 20th Century, is not worthy of a Documentary chronicling his incredible life. I also wonder how much you really know about him. He was in Parliment from 1901 until 1964. Certainly anyone in government for 63 years is going to make some mistakes, unless you don't ever dare to make a difference. Did you know for instance that in addition to his WW2 Record that he was The First Lord of the Admiralty (In charge of the Royal Navy) in
WW1?
Lastly he wasn't a racist and he didnt kill a bunch of people in India either. He was a man of his times and he more than likely saved Western Civilization in May of 1940 when he prevented the Appeasers in Britain from surrendering to Hitler and the Nazis rather than fighting on.
@@mikehiggins946 Wow, you’re jumping to a lot of conclusions. Did I ever say he committed genocide? No. Did I ever say he wasn’t worthy of a documentary? No.
Are you familiar with Brendan Bracken? Probably a good lens for understanding Churchill’s strengths and shortcomings.
But the idea that Churchill was responsible for not surrendering to the Nazis in 1940 is simply silly. When has Britain ever given up that easily? Napoleon was much more successful in continental Europe than Hitler, and had a real navy. Did the British seriously contemplate surrender then?
Since WWI, Churchill has been a mill for bad ideas. Gallipoli was a horrible operation from conception to execution to planning to everything.
During WWII, it was Churchill who insisted on the Italian campaign coming before an Allied invasion of northern France. Had they launched a full scale invasion in 1943, the war could have been won by 1944, saving millions of lives and most of Eastern Europe from Soviet occupation.
In other words, his poor decision making is possibly solely responsible for the needless deaths of millions and 7 decades of economic misery for millions.
@@mikehiggins946 - He was a racist even in terms of his own times - in this episode of the documentary you can here his racism about Russians. His racism against Indians was described as Hitler like by his contemporaries and sorry but decisions he took condemned several million Indians to death by starvation at a time he was contemplating moralising about the death of millions of Soviet citizens due to the horrific brutality of collectivisation.
Great documentary 👏
The 20th century was not a place where Angel's could decide history.
In order to defeat a great evil, sacrifices had to be made, compromises had to be struck, and morality had to be questioned and nuanced at times in a world where ruthlessness was the name of the game.
It was a ghastly moral compromise, but necessary to defeat a greater evil.
There can never be a perfect world, much less the one the we live in, but it is all we got and the lessons of history have to learnt, Even if they are written in the blood of millions.
Sometimes a great sacrifice is required to achieve a lasting peace, a great sacrifice is required in order to ensure that such a thing never happens again. In order to ensure a lasting peace. Freedom ultimately comes at a price.
That is the world we live in, and we would do well to remember the lessons history has taught us.
Is about time western nations give credit tu RUSSIANS....
Yeah somebody had to kill all those millions of people
21:39 Great map.
A splendid 2 part narration on the art of survival against all the odds for both the man , Stalin and the Motherland , Russia . The Court of the Red Tzar by Montefiore is also worth reading .
Some of Stalin's military tactics; he was Mr Bean all along.
Stalin was a hard man for hard times. Yes he was a monster but not worse than Hitler. Nothing could be worse than Hitler.
Are you kidding me Stalin was a million times worse than Hitler! Stalin murdered more people oppressed more people and jails more people. He rules for longer and actually set up a system where he was a God and anybody else got to die
And also arguably killed for colder more unfeeling reasons it was an ideology he just did not care about human life at all anyone
Think Katn Forest massacre well that's been going on from about 1926 to 1953 in Russia at the whim of Stalin
Stalin was far worse than Hitler. Hitler took care of those who were blindingly loyal to him. Stalin would arrest anyone, even his closest allies and their families. He killed far more people than Hitler. Hitler had the capacity to be far more genocidal to certain ethnicities but Stalin didn't discriminate. Everyone was fair game.
You really are sure of that!!??
Wow a train can pull a load of 1 million carts the length of a country the distance of Poland to the Pacific!!! That is crazy insaine!! Incredible how you can just disassemble and move a whole city and factories too.
Yeah the funny part was it was really terribly done they shipped old tractor factories to places with already locomotive or other tractor factories and put things other where they weren't supposed to go
There are still factories in the middle of nowhere that just got dropped at some random railroad spur
And the real challenge was to reassembele the factories again...
You must not have been listening. He said if they were all connected that'd span that far.
WHERE IS PART 3???
I liked part one but part 2 of the documentry implies that Stalin was a dump
Part 1 is identical to this?
Jesus that means that Dieppe catastrophe was for Stalin's sake!
The greatest Georgian before Jimmy Carter.
Stalin is from Georgia in East Europe dummy not state of Georgia :D unless you were being sarcastic
@@bilge1919 "unless..." yeah, you're the sharpest tool in the box.
@@bilge1919 Georgia is not even in Europe, it is south of the Caucasus mountain range and thereby in Asia.
@bilge1919 that's LITERALLY the joke. Which obviously went straight over your head.
That British news report sounds almost facetious or cheeky. "All along the front, the Russian counter-offensive, which Stalin has personally worked out in every detail, springs to life!..." it's almost laughable.
damn at 38:31 that german soldier was dead and stiff in the weirdest position i have ever seen
Stiff cold?
5/5
Its is more than true that Stalin screwed up everything he touched early in the War. But the Russians defeated something like 78 German divisions and a large number of Italian, Romanian, Hungarian and Finnish divisions as well, meaning that there were that many fewer Germans for the British, Americans, Canadians, and Poles to fight.
best
Bruce Peek
@sandir toukaev yup, Stalin prolonged the Eastern front intentionally to place in puppet governments etc. Even went so far as to let out to the Japanese about some U.S plans in the Pacific.
@sandir toukaev I've never heard the meth/heroin allegations before.
6:20
33:27
He was "Gangster from Caucasus" INDEED
Stalin was no better than Hitler and had also killed and imprisoned millions but Churchill was no angel himself. In India thousands died of famine and he was least bothered. He didn't supported Indian independence and wanted to keep millions enslaved.
And you're a moron who believes everything you hear on TV and Twitter.
The 20th century was not a place where Angel's could decide history.
In order to defeat a great evil, sacrifices had to be made, compromises had to be struck, and morality had to be questioned and nuanced at times in a world where ruthlessness was the name of the game.
It was a ghastly moral compromise, but necessary to defeat a greater evil.
There can never be a perfect world, much less the one the we live in, but it is all we got and the lessons of history have to learnt, Even if they are written in the blood of millions.
Sometimes a great sacrifice is required to achieve a lasting peace, a great sacrifice is required in order to ensure that such a thing never happens again. In order to ensure a lasting peace. Freedom ultimately comes at a price.
That is the world we live in, and we would do well to remember the lessons history has taught us.
Without Stalin Hitler would've easily won the war
Yugk
While, or shortly after, Churchill was internally moralising about Stalin's very real crimes during collectivisation of agriculture he was making decisions that would condemn millions of Indians to die of famine. Obviously a good Cambridge lad like Reynolds can't recognise that hypocrisy.
Ditto with his pontifications on Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, which while bad enough pales in comparison to the fruits of American hegemony in Central America.
Seethe
@@marine4lyfe85 - Yeah whatever.
I like hopw there is no insight from july till december..wtf happened in 5 months?nazis didnt just wait..talk about these battles
There's so much Narrative Fallacy here. Claims that can't be disproved.
Surely truth is amongst "claims that can't be disproved". You may have a point, but you need to be clearer about what you want to say.
He doesn’t allow for the fact america was sending all foodstuffs!
4.5m tons of food during the war - a small fraction of Soviet production.
Great documentary in both parts. Glory to Russia, and glory to Russia's victory against NATO occupiers in Ukraine and to liberate the Ukrainians from the Western imperialists. The light of the world comes from mother Russia.
I want to see Russia ditch Putin to where NATO would NO LONGER BE NESSACRY! Why couldn't Russia be part of the world? It can't be that everyone other country are assholes.
Clearly you have never heard of Westphalia. Hope you choke on your Kremlin roubles (what's left of them).