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I know, this channel, mxr, like 6 other channels getting challenged and demonetized, it's fucked Runaway greedy corporate stooges suppressing what made their platform huge Just want mindless top ten lists and trendy unboxings or bullshit pop/rap videos
@ Agree with you. But the last point I would argue it's like Hitler's biggest gamble. Like he must have concluded "This is it. For everything or nothing!" and there he went to war
Zhukov: "Our people are dying by the thousands. It's a slaughter." Stalin: breathing intesifies Zhukov: "What are your orders?" Stalin: "Wait... are we not doing phone sex here?" Zhukov: "No! Listen to the screams and gun fire." Stalin: "Oh god, I'm so close..."
The animation for this video, especially the starting animation showing the Soviet tank being attacked by the stuka and panzers is unlike anything I have seen. Amazing work
Stalin did learn his lesson tho. After World War Two, he purged the Red Army again. But instead of killing the generals, he simply demote them to unimportant roles so that 1) generals were unable to oppose him from their lowly positions and 2) the generals can be used again if another war broke out.
If Stalin did this during the 30s instead of killing his generals admirals and officers the Soviet army coulda been in a better position in the war and coulda inflicted more on the nazis
"RUclips has demonetized and shutdown the video for a reason they won't tell me." The reason is that they are utterly incompetent at programing their algorithm and are too pathetic and arrogant to admit it.
So yeah, Google is an extremely powerful and unethical company. I try to do what I can to get away from their toxic company and not buy from them anymore if I can help it.
The algorithm, from what I understand, is built with Machine Learning. That means they don't exactly "program" it per se, as in tell it exactly what to censor or flag, rather they teach it what to flag or censor. They feed it a ton of data saying "this is good" and "this is bad", the machine learns this and tries to establish patterns. This is faulty of course, and in the present is very far from being an effective technology, hence why self driving cars are still many decades away.
@@TheKingpool7 only because they lower down officers were upgraded up. You could go from a captain to a general in the span of a year. For example, i think about 2/3 of the "marshalls of the soviet union " where shot.
King Pool Ah yes, because officers just spring from the ground, more officers doesn’t mean better officers. It just means that the officers are bigger fans of Stalin
@@cisco8257 Sadly, I'm still at work, and they frown on watching videos (I'm sneaking in this comment) but rest assured, once I blow this joint, a thorough viewing will prompt a well placed comment from me.
It's probably hidden on the algorithm because it uses the word "bad". Meaning that someone doesn't think something is good and might offend someone with a differing opinion. It's absolutely ridiculous.
@Auxiliary Stream Services I know that there actually WERE people trying to kill him, all I was saying was that he was paranoid and thought EVERYONE wanted him dead.
These big corporations are happy to profit off of war, but when it comes to educating the public about the horrors of war they suddenly start to worry. The sad reality is that RUclips wants an audience of mindless consumers and nothing else.
you haven't seen the worse of it, 10/December is around the corner and the "Silly-Cone[Head] Valley" is irretrievably eager to impose total far-leftist-Berkeleyan conformity, ironically brought to you by international-mega corporations. ( remember all the anti-corporationey corporation screeds during the Occupy days? --being consistently inconsistent is now the new normal)
@@agentc7020 yes the Soviets were unstoppable, but no amount of skill on the German side could have changed it at that point, so that's not an indicator of their tactics against the red army.
cesar febres you mean the perfect russian tactic of sending more soldiers in war then the germans got bullets? Yeah pretty damn strategly. Allies did the same tactic on D-Day. Worked out well.
I heard that he was one of the "ss'ians" (army of people in russia baltics and other states but it was made by germans and they also had to kill jews and ro what hitler wanted) and he was afraid for his life because tommorow there was a fight and the man was a youngling and he thought that soviets would help him or something
It's because youtube is going woke and woke doesnt agree with history that isnt happy happy good times... woke isnt on board with anyone knowing any history period. Like history??? *you damn racist*
@@christopherdickinson4291 can't really feel bad for him when there are alternative sites that he refuses to use. If everyone that complained about RUclips just uploaded on RUclips and over there then it wouldn't be a problem
@@mpforeverunlimited he since has began his own site, but I think his willingness to stay here is due to us not moving away from RUclips. The vast majority of online video seekers for anything end up here.
There is several conspiracy's behind this. Some of them might be true. I hear on the underground that the left (which youtube is controlled by) wants the history of WWII to be atleast partially shut out because it points to a positive message of masculinity and american triumph, and they want people to feel bad about WWII even though it accomplished the greatest peace in world history. I should make this a stand alone comment.
@@zztimelapsezz The argument I often hear is that the French made a mistake in focusing on the Maginot Line. The Maginot Line kept the Germans from crossing the Maginot Line, and forced them to go around it. Thus forcing them to attack on a very narrow front. The issue wasn't that the Maginot Line was built. The issue was that the French didn't have significant forces defending the Ardennes. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the French should have built the Maginot Line all the way to the sea, behind Belgium. The Maginot Line freed up enough forces to defend the entire northeastern border, but the French commanders used those forces incompetently.
@@deriznohappehquite true but if they did that it would be as far as I saw in Hoi4 it would show a diplomatic issues with belgum that they would not be trusted with defence etc and some other issues with that.
@@Eclipselfish He was, that's why Hitler attacked so early while the Soviets weren't ready. It's just that when Hitler attacked Stalin wasn't anywhere near prepared so he had a bit of a mental breakdown.
to do lol and why then did Stalin pushed the borders with Finland and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? He also concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and secured this with a pact on the division of Poland. Not because Stalin was an invader and he needed Poland, but in order to secure the western front and gain time in order to better prepare. Stalin was already ready, just stop believing in the propoganda that rewrites history
@@Eclipselfish He conquered other countries because he was trying to spread Communism and his own power, because that's the ultimate goal of Communism, world domination. Stalin ordered his soldiers to not fire back since he thought Hitler was just trying to provoke him and locked himself away for days after the invasion started. The army might have been somewhat mobilized, but even then the T34 production was still pretty low and most equipment in general(Tanks/Planes/Artillery) was pretty old and outdated and the army was untrained and inexperienced, which is why the Germans managed to push them so far back. Stalin on the other hand was obviously absolutely caught off guard when Hitler attacked him and reacted in pretty much the worst way possible.
to do lol and why then did Stalin pushed the borders with Finland and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? He also concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and secured this with a pact on the division of Poland. Not because Stalin was an invader and he needed Poland, but in order to secure the western front and gain time in order to better prepare. Stalin was already ready, just stop believing in the propoganda that rewrites history. Also the official position of the Russia is that the accession of the Baltic countries to the USSR did not contradict the norms of international law as of 1940, and also that the accession of these countries to the USSR received official international recognition. This position is based on the de facto recognition of the integrity of the borders of the USSR as of June 1941 at the Yalta (1945) and Potsdam conferences (1945) by the participating states. You wrote nonsense about the troops not shooting at the Germans. Do you even understand that this is complete nonsense? The main forces of the Soviet Union army were in Siberia, in the middle of the country, since on the other hand, Japan could attack from the east and there were no allies from the east. Hitler also began to make his plan for the quick capture of the Soviet Union "blitzkrieg". So the troops of the Soviet Union simply did not have time to redeploy. HAHAHAH u r so low brain Jesus... You humiliate Stalin that he did not prepare anything, but Germany was a capitalist country for that and at the moment, and it had more money for production. The USSR is a country of workers and peasants. After the revolution, they had nothing - emptiness. In the periods of 29-41, the country was industrialized, villages turned into large cities. The country was still at that time, not because Stalin wanted it that way, but because such a country went to it. At the time of 43 years, the level of production of the USSR was the same as in Germany. In the period 41-42 years, 6 and a half thousand T34 tanks were produced, and Germany in the period 41-42 years produced only 1.3 thousand vehicles. After the war, the T34 was recognized by many experts as the best tank of the Second World War.
I was always a little confused as to how the blitzkrieg worked. I would think moving at such a fast speed directly into enemy territory would leave you vulnerable ooutflanked and encircled by the enemy
After the Soviets initial losses, the Red Army was able to replace its equipment losses, and it learned from the Blitzkrieg tactics from the Germans and how to defeat them. Soviet spies in Japan had also told Stalin that the Japanese had no designs for war with them and were able to bring fresh divisions from the East for the defense of Moscow.
@@bing4126 because most of his rethoric is based on nazi Propaganda narrative. The Soviets weren't prepared in the begging but destroy the Germans 2 years later.
Great video. Keep up the work man. Also, to add to the discussion, the Soviets were in the middle of rearmament and rebuilding operations; that was also a contributing factor. This was especially evident with the reserve airports being under repair and unable to host any sorties. P.S.: those captions, 11:23; why youtube?
“I’m breaking up with you.” “Nah.” “You can’t ‘nah’ me any more. How does it feel to be single?” “I really wouldn’t know.” “LET ME BREAK UP WITH YOU!” “Nah.”
Stalin didn't trust Hitler he just overestimated him and didn't expect him to be idiotic enough to start a war with the USSR whilst he was still at war with the Western powers, Stalin was hoping Hitler would destroy the west leaving Stalin with one easy target.
Yes, great video and upload the effectiveness video! Gotta mention though, Stalin in disgrace went to his HQ to think of his failure after the Nazis invaded, then some officers came to take away Stalin, he thought they came to arrest him but the officers instead told him they're in need of a leader of which, Stalin accepted the task.
There is not enough content to make a video on that. India just intervened and captured Pakistani soldiers without warning. Pakistani and Indians wars are too small scale in general. An interesting video would be China vs India 1962.
The Red Army was quite effective when it kept the Wehrmacht out of Moscow in 1941。That upended the Wehrmacht＇s entire plan。The next year the Red Army caught up with the Wehrmacht＇s Sixth Army in Stalingrad and destroyed it。
I'm a 56 year old man with a College degree who studied history extensively with some of the best Europen History minds in the 20th Century. Kid, your stuff, thus far, kicks ass!
I think history has created a myth about the purges though, Marshall did very simular things to the US generals, threw out the old ones and brought in new guys.
Yes, I also want to see "Why Was Russia so effective in later part of the war?" please. I think this is important because this is how Soviet doctrine was developed to be used in Cold War. Thank!!
@@seancascanet3428 I respectfully disagree, I think that due the the size of the Red Army, the Americans would've had to use most of their industry towards the Soviets ALONE, to influence it that much, however they did something MUCH MORE important, and that was to supply the Soviets with.... information! Yes every single major Soviet offensive after 1943 was based off Intel gathered by USA or UK, when to attack, where to attack, enemy troop movements, well everything, don't you agree that Intel/Information was much more important than Lend Lease?
@@Gabriel-sdf yeah the real reason the allies won ww2 British broke the german code US broke Japans Code US and UK gave Russia information on germans due to code breaking Otherwise the war would have lasted longer and been way bloodier
Gabriel Soares The Intel was of course very important but without the lend lease agreement, the Russians wouldn't be able to put the information to use. The US sent Russia over a half million trucks and tracked vehicles and Britain sent a considerable amount also, so the Russians could make the push. The US sent 2000 locomotives and 11,000 boxcars along with the trucks to better transport troops and supplies. Most don't consider the fact that for every man with a rifle, it takes 10 men in support to make him effective. Without good troop transportation and the ability to constantly resupply the men with the rifles, the best fighting men in the world would be hard pressed to win on a major front. The Germans lack of resupply and the Russians growing ability to quickly resupply was a major factor in the defeat of Germany.
@Ordinary Sessel you mean the same pact that whole europo had with hitler, even poland had non aggression pact in 1932 with nazi germany, then in 1938 poland invaded czech slovakia and took their land. speaking of hypocrise, but nobody talks about that tho.
@Ordinary Sessel of course soviet union rather had it under their sphere of influence then nazi, britisch or french. it is not all that simple, russia has been invaded plenty of times by western nations, so it was in their interest to secure those countries. and again nobody has a problem with poland taking a part of czech slovakia when nazi germany invaded it, nobody had problems when united states were doing busniss with nazi germany, everbody was shady.
@@MrStolboy cheeky try to make NAZI Germany (holocaust, mass murder on industrial scale, war without declaration of war, suppression of Jews, Sinti, homosexuals, etc) look less bad, comparing to other countries...but it's not true.
Not only were Soviet tanks spread out, they were sent into combat in small piecemeal formations as soon as they arrived at the front. It took the Soviets a while to figure out that you needed to mass tanks to overwhelm formations, and even when they did that the tanks often ran out of gas and were left helpless because the tank commanders had absolute orders to keep driving forward no matter what.
Whenever I see someone's content getting demonetized, I know there's a chance that it's good content and subscribe to the channel. Hopefully that problem gets fixed, bruh.
The sad thing is, Stalin knew war was coming, and before WW2 he asked France and Britain how many combat ready-divisions they could field and he was appalled when Britain replied with 16 seeming as he had roughly 150 (I think, might be more). Stalin was hoping the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would last long enough for his army gain enough equipment/manpower, and US/British lend-lease was very important at the beginning of the war. The rest is obviously history, with their now-moved industry greatly helping the Soviet Armed Forces
Would love to see more on the Eastern Front, including the Soviet effectiveness, but also looking into how Baltic partisan efforts affected the Soviet advance, and their later ineffectiveness against the occupying Soviet regime (particularly in Lithuania and Latvia).
I love the closing scenes in the end of the film! Timelaps of Soviet reconquest all the way up to 1945 while playing the glorious anthem together with some "memeing"... this is why Armchair History is so great at retelling history 😂😂😂
Actually it was. It alowed USSR to prepare to upcoming war. Here is list of events wich led to WW2 ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#Resolution ). As you can see there Molotov - Ribentrop pact is last one. British Royal house was flirting with Nazi Germany, which is put USSR into corner.
Stalin was honoring the pact. Stalin didn't think the Germans weren't going to attack the USSR until England was defeated. For Hitler. The non agression pact was a means to an end. The pact served it's purpose while France was beaten and England was all alone. It was time for the Soviet Union to fall.
@@DiMas-kt8jk 23 August 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 11 February 1940 - German-Soviet Commercial Agreement (supplies from USSR were essential for Nazi Germany military) 25 November 1940 - Stalin sent proposal to join Axis powers. He is ignored. USSR was not "in the corner". Stalin deeply believed he can rule Europe alongside Hitler.
@@MD-iw2vt so what? Give me same list of agreement between germany and poland, england and usa. German-Polish Non agression pact January 26, 1934 was signed earlier than molotv pact. And Poland at that time was considered by soviet goverment as the biger threat due to strong British influence in the goverment. And you should understand that main idea of bolshevik revolution was to unite working class people in the whole world by removing capitalistic elites. Ofcourse country with such ideology gona find itself surounded by enemies. Also keep in mind that example of Octobre revolution in Russia inspired a lot of working people all over the world to start movements for social justice for working class people, which is deffenetly dangerouse for one whose profiting from current state of society. Basicly what I am trying to say. In situation when you are surrounded by hungry lions, maybe hiena is a good ally. There is not so much options to choose from
During the war thunder sponsorship, the ticket counter at the top showed that the friendly team was winning. Highly unrealistic as seldom will you ever win because your team is always filled with glue sniffers.
Good work! But in 5:35 is this name "Chapaev" which in Russian is "Чапаев", who was one of the most famous Red commanders during the Russian Civil war?) Great and interesting job!) Thank you!) Love you channel)
You keep doing this amazing videos and you'll get picked for a show someday I just know it. Your production values are too high to be berated by youtube politics
These plane noises are definitely from the end of "In the Flesh?" You can hear the instrumental (keyboards etc.) very faintly while the plane is flying. (0:55)
Why were they so ineffective? Well, my friends. A *certain someone* decided that it would be a big brain, 500IQ idea to wipe out >50% of the Red Army's Command Staff from paranoia.
I'm so glad you're been sponsored! You channel deserve every kind of support possible. The content is amazing and the animations are very good! Thank you so much for your hard work!
Stalin was slow on implementing proper military doctrines, economic, and factory/production policies which also contributed to the Soviet ineffectiveness during the early stages of the war.
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Good luck with sorting out the demonetization
Its already demonitized. Rip
@RandomPerson how do you know?
can I downvote this more than one time?
@@robot6654 no ads on the video
Next vid: Why was youtube so ineffective in 2019
RUclips has been ineffective for alot longer than that.
The employees were purged
I know, this channel, mxr, like 6 other channels getting challenged and demonetized, it's fucked
Runaway greedy corporate stooges suppressing what made their platform huge
Just want mindless top ten lists and trendy unboxings or bullshit pop/rap videos
That sounds like a job for the Internet Historian
Though keen historians, they are traitors.
Hitler logic: *expects France to fall in 6 months*
*expects the Soviet Union to fall in 3 weeks*
Well nobody expected that the mightest military nation in the history will fall in 5 weeks
@@petartoshkov2076 Because he was stupid fanatic?
Which might enemy USA ever fought?Third Reich when it already collapsed on Eastern Front?
In late 1941 Hitler was in shock and awe with his army's success he became quite delusional
@ Agree with you. But the last point I would argue it's like Hitler's biggest gamble. Like he must have concluded "This is it. For everything or nothing!" and there he went to war
Germany: Literally bombs soviet cities
Stalin: It's just a provocation
They weren't bombing cities at the start of Barbarossa. They were bombing airfields and supply depots.
@@Inquisitor6321 you know what he means
"That guy only punched me in the face so I would start a fight" No dumbass he started a fight
Why was the armchair historian so innefective against demonitization (2019)
Because he keeps putting ads in his videos while doing the video. That is why RUclips is fighting him.
Conrad Eiban more like the other way around.
Conrad Eiban you mean sponsors? That’s usually quite acceptable
This video is amazing the animation was so good. Thanks for the good content.
Zhukov: “hey, they’re shooting at us”
Stalin: *breathing*
Z: “Did you hear me?”
S: *still just breathing*
Z: “Can we at least shoot back?”
S: “No”
lol
S: "niet cyka"
Zhukov: "Our people are dying by the thousands. It's a slaughter."
Stalin: breathing intesifies
Zhukov: "What are your orders?"
Stalin: "Wait... are we not doing phone sex here?"
Zhukov: "No! Listen to the screams and gun fire."
Stalin: "Oh god, I'm so close..."
@@eln5343 sussy stalin
Nice fantasy
One does not simply.... deletes facts and horrors of history. Dont let the RUclips garbage win over quality.
Kinda like memory holes...
U do know your giving them money by watching ads if you really hated them you would go to a different website
@@cisco8257 I just pay for Premium. No ads.
@@GarrettMerkin lol
You realise this video was posted on RUclips
The animation for this video, especially the starting animation showing the Soviet tank being attacked by the stuka and panzers is unlike anything I have seen. Amazing work
Stalin did learn his lesson tho. After World War Two, he purged the Red Army again. But instead of killing the generals, he simply demote them to unimportant roles so that 1) generals were unable to oppose him from their lowly positions and 2) the generals can be used again if another war broke out.
If Stalin did this during the 30s instead of killing his generals admirals and officers the Soviet army coulda been in a better position in the war and coulda inflicted more on the nazis
That’s really interesting
Armchair Historian: Posts educational WW2 video.
RUclips: "U GO TO GULAG!"
Stalin: No u
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John Ratican lol YT actively demonetizes commie YT channels.
"RUclips has demonetized and shutdown the video for a reason they won't tell me."
The reason is that they are utterly incompetent at programing their algorithm and are too pathetic and arrogant to admit it.
So yeah, Google is an extremely powerful and unethical company.
I try to do what I can to get away from their toxic company and not buy from them anymore if I can help it.
The algorithm, from what I understand, is built with Machine Learning. That means they don't exactly "program" it per se, as in tell it exactly what to censor or flag, rather they teach it what to flag or censor. They feed it a ton of data saying "this is good" and "this is bad", the machine learns this and tries to establish patterns. This is faulty of course, and in the present is very far from being an effective technology, hence why self driving cars are still many decades away.
@@TheDirtysouthfan They are actually spending a lot of money on AI systems, like AlphaGo.
Yup. That's google for ya. Living in their silicone valley bubble.
@EmperorJuliusCaesar Nah dude Adam caught your ass
Stalin: kills all of his officers
also Stalin: why are we getting pushed back?
>Kills all his officers
Zhukov, Rokossovskiy, Katukov, Konyev, Vatutin and a fuckton of others have left the chat.
Its surprising how incompetent this is. He did kill some officers but fact is amount of officers was higher after the purge then before the purge.
@@TheKingpool7 only because they lower down officers were upgraded up. You could go from a captain to a general in the span of a year. For example, i think about 2/3 of the "marshalls of the soviet union " where shot.
King Pool Ah yes, because officers just spring from the ground, more officers doesn’t mean better officers. It just means that the officers are bigger fans of Stalin
@@TheKingpool7 Yea because turning 3 lieutenants into generals definitely > Erwin Rommel.
RUclips, don't censor history. This is gold content.
RUclips: *ERROR_404_History_Not_Found*
He needs to keep the word 'war' out of his titles and tags. I think that's what it's about
censor*
@@mrkraffbs9583 Sorry! From the Spanish word "Censura" I got confused.
@@jaztin7197 No worries man I'm just pulling your leg :)
RUclips, leave history alone! This is quality educational work.
It be nice to see comments on the actual video tho
@@cisco8257 Sadly, I'm still at work, and they frown on watching videos (I'm sneaking in this comment) but rest assured, once I blow this joint, a thorough viewing will prompt a well placed comment from me.
Ha! This video offends people's safe spaces though so it needs to be demonetized or out right banned.
It's probably hidden on the algorithm because it uses the word "bad". Meaning that someone doesn't think something is good and might offend someone with a differing opinion. It's absolutely ridiculous.
You tube is more into promoting porn industry. Shame on you tube.
Stalin: Purges his officers
Also Stalin: "Who killed my officers and made them so ineffective?"
Not all of them got killed,instead most of them were arrested
Can Tütmez « He didn’t kill all of his officers in a paranoid tantrum, just most of them »
Who didn't tell me they were going to invade???
We did.
Who told me their sources were unreliable???
......
@Auxiliary Stream Services He killed everyone he THOUGHT was trying to kill him, which from his perspective was everyone
@Auxiliary Stream Services I know that there actually WERE people trying to kill him, all I was saying was that he was paranoid and thought EVERYONE wanted him dead.
Great video, love your channel. Down with mindless censorship and up with awesome cartoon educational videos!
These big corporations are happy to profit off of war, but when it comes to educating the public about the horrors of war they suddenly start to worry. The sad reality is that RUclips wants an audience of mindless consumers and nothing else.
reporting your offensive comment for saying mindless !
jokes :)
reporting your comment for sensationalistic effect.
reporting your comment for reporting.
RUclips is hitting history channels hard and it makes me sad.
you haven't seen the worse of it, 10/December is around the corner and the "Silly-Cone[Head] Valley" is irretrievably eager to impose total far-leftist-Berkeleyan conformity, ironically brought to you by international-mega corporations.
( remember all the anti-corporationey corporation screeds during the Occupy days? --being consistently inconsistent is now the new normal)
It's almost like giant media conglomerates are trying to control everything you see and hear. Pfft nah that's just conspiracy talk
@@Jonesyful10 what do you mean by "deus ex(1) predicted the future" not again!
They don't want you to learn about history....
I agree the radical left is the only group powerfull enough who is currently engaged in a totalitarian rewritting of history
Soviets in 1941:im to weak
Soviets in 1945:unlimited power
Soviets in 1991:💀
@@Mabbdaacope communism is rising
@@Mabbdaaalso Soviets in 1991: a just let a LITTLE bit of nationalism
@@MabbdaaIf we talk about military power, then even in 1991 the USSR would be of any country in 2024, except probably the USA, Russia and China
The Germans couldn't make mistakes.
The Russians learnt from their mistakes.
SwissCheese more like :
the Russians learnt from their mistakes.
The Germans didn’t.
@@agentc7020 they did though, by 1944/45 their anti-Soviet tactics had improved massively
Omar سلوم not really by 44/45 the Russians were unstoppable so they didn’t learn from their mistakes, they tried other things that also failed
@@agentc7020 yes the Soviets were unstoppable, but no amount of skill on the German side could have changed it at that point, so that's not an indicator of their tactics against the red army.
cesar febres you mean the perfect russian tactic of sending more soldiers in war then the germans got bullets? Yeah pretty damn strategly. Allies did the same tactic on D-Day. Worked out well.
Zhukov: pls let us fight
Stalin: HEAVY BREATHING
Zhukov: Is... is that a yes?
I was waiting for him to say he was snoring looool
Yes.
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@@Rao54168 Your eyes must be really dry and sore after laughing and crying so much.
Never heard any thing about that German soldier who deserted. What was his backstory?
He deserted
I heard that he was one of the "ss'ians" (army of people in russia baltics and other states but it was made by germans and they also had to kill jews and ro what hitler wanted) and he was afraid for his life because tommorow there was a fight and the man was a youngling and he thought that soviets would help him or something
According to a Russian documentary, he was a sapper and was a secret communist.
@@someonedraws4208 *Thank you mr helpful*
His name was Alfred Luskow.
Your videos are great! I hope you’re able to get to the bottom of the demonetization nonsense!
It's because youtube is going woke and woke doesnt agree with history that isnt happy happy good times... woke isnt on board with anyone knowing any history period.
Like history???
*you damn racist*
@@christopherdickinson4291 Sad, but True.
@@christopherdickinson4291 can't really feel bad for him when there are alternative sites that he refuses to use. If everyone that complained about RUclips just uploaded on RUclips and over there then it wouldn't be a problem
@@mpforeverunlimited he since has began his own site, but I think his willingness to stay here is due to us not moving away from RUclips. The vast majority of online video seekers for anything end up here.
There is several conspiracy's behind this. Some of them might be true. I hear on the underground that the left (which youtube is controlled by) wants the history of WWII to be atleast partially shut out because it points to a positive message of masculinity and american triumph, and they want people to feel bad about WWII even though it accomplished the greatest peace in world history. I should make this a stand alone comment.
Love your videos about history. Hope things get better for you. Keep up the awesome work.
You forget history, then you’re doomed to repeat it
Meanwhile Turkish, Japanese, and CCP: what accurate history
The Maginot Line was actually very effective in its intended purpose.
John D. If a wall is meant to keep people out, is it’s purpose fulfilled if the people can just go around it?
zztimelapsezz the issue isn’t that they went around it but that French command was incompetent and elected to abandon the fortifications
@@zztimelapsezz The argument I often hear is that the French made a mistake in focusing on the Maginot Line. The Maginot Line kept the Germans from crossing the Maginot Line, and forced them to go around it. Thus forcing them to attack on a very narrow front. The issue wasn't that the Maginot Line was built. The issue was that the French didn't have significant forces defending the Ardennes. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the French should have built the Maginot Line all the way to the sea, behind Belgium. The Maginot Line freed up enough forces to defend the entire northeastern border, but the French commanders used those forces incompetently.
Their failure was in either not including a northern line or maintaining good relations with Belgium
@@deriznohappehquite true but if they did that it would be as far as I saw in Hoi4 it would show a diplomatic issues with belgum that they would not be trusted with defence etc and some other issues with that.
Zhukov: Dude they're attacking us.
Stalin: Nah fam, that's just Hitler playin.
to do Stalin knew that Hitler will attack USSR and Stalin was also preparing for the incoming war
@@Eclipselfish He was, that's why Hitler attacked so early while the Soviets weren't ready. It's just that when Hitler attacked Stalin wasn't anywhere near prepared so he had a bit of a mental breakdown.
to do lol and why then did Stalin pushed the borders with Finland and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? He also concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and secured this with a pact on the division of Poland. Not because Stalin was an invader and he needed Poland, but in order to secure the western front and gain time in order to better prepare. Stalin was already ready, just stop believing in the propoganda that rewrites history
@@Eclipselfish
He conquered other countries because he was trying to spread Communism and his own power, because that's the ultimate goal of Communism, world domination.
Stalin ordered his soldiers to not fire back since he thought Hitler was just trying to provoke him and locked himself away for days after the invasion started.
The army might have been somewhat mobilized, but even then the T34 production was still pretty low and most equipment in general(Tanks/Planes/Artillery) was pretty old and outdated and the army was untrained and inexperienced, which is why the Germans managed to push them so far back.
Stalin on the other hand was obviously absolutely caught off guard when Hitler attacked him and reacted in pretty much the worst way possible.
to do lol and why then did Stalin pushed the borders with Finland and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? He also concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and secured this with a pact on the division of Poland. Not because Stalin was an invader and he needed Poland, but in order to secure the western front and gain time in order to better prepare. Stalin was already ready, just stop believing in the propoganda that rewrites history. Also the official position of the Russia is that the accession of the Baltic countries to the USSR did not contradict the norms of international law as of 1940, and also that the accession of these countries to the USSR received official international recognition. This position is based on the de facto recognition of the integrity of the borders of the USSR as of June 1941 at the Yalta (1945) and Potsdam conferences (1945) by the participating states. You wrote nonsense about the troops not shooting at the Germans. Do you even understand that this is complete nonsense? The main forces of the Soviet Union army were in Siberia, in the middle of the country, since on the other hand, Japan could attack from the east and there were no allies from the east. Hitler also began to make his plan for the quick capture of the Soviet Union "blitzkrieg". So the troops of the Soviet Union simply did not have time to redeploy. HAHAHAH u r so low brain Jesus... You humiliate Stalin that he did not prepare anything, but Germany was a capitalist country for that and at the moment, and it had more money for production. The USSR is a country of workers and peasants. After the revolution, they had nothing - emptiness. In the periods of 29-41, the country was industrialized, villages turned into large cities. The country was still at that time, not because Stalin wanted it that way, but because such a country went to it. At the time of 43 years, the level of production of the USSR was the same as in Germany. In the period 41-42 years, 6 and a half thousand T34 tanks were produced, and Germany in the period 41-42 years produced only 1.3 thousand vehicles. After the war, the T34 was recognized by many experts as the best tank of the Second World War.
I was always a little confused as to how the blitzkrieg worked. I would think moving at such a fast speed directly into enemy territory would leave you vulnerable ooutflanked and encircled by the enemy
not if everything is going at once
Hitler 1941: BLITZKRIEG CARD!!
Stalin 1945: UNO REVERSE CARD!!
More like:
Hitler 1941: BLITZKRIEG!!
Stalin 1943: REVERSE CARD!!
Stalin 1945: WILD DRAW FOUR!!!
After the Soviets initial losses, the Red Army was able to replace its equipment losses, and it learned from the Blitzkrieg tactics from the Germans and how to defeat them. Soviet spies in Japan had also told Stalin that the Japanese had no designs for war with them and were able to bring fresh divisions from the East for the defense of Moscow.
@@wwvvvvvww Hitler managed to play a card in 1942 and surprise Stalin again by attacking south instead of center.
@@Nikkimond Yeah, but the operation was a fail
@@_Abjuranax_ Another thing the Nazis over extended their supply lines and were ill equip for cold weather warfare.
Zero justification for censoring this video. Incredibly uncontroversial. Great stuff as always mate. Cheers from an Aussie fan. 👍
its because It criticizes comrade Stalin!
@@bing4126 because most of his rethoric is based on nazi Propaganda narrative. The Soviets weren't prepared in the begging but destroy the Germans 2 years later.
@@jonathand3842 It's not based on nazi propaganda, it's based on the reality that the soviets weren't ready for war with Germany... yet.
That bit about the lack of radios inside tanks- major reason French armored divisions were so ineffective during the blitz as well.
Although French tanks were usually superior to German tanks.
@@jaysinha0 😂😂😂lol
We definitely need more videos like this one on RUclips!
I'd watch it over and over again :)
RUclips: I serve the Soviet Union
🤣🤣🤣
It was sarcasm?
@@yakovgrynewicz4394 yup
Trash I rep the germans
RUclips serves Socialist and Communist ideologies.
Great video. Keep up the work man. Also, to add to the discussion, the Soviets were in the middle of rearmament and rebuilding operations; that was also a contributing factor. This was especially evident with the reserve airports being under repair and unable to host any sorties.
P.S.: those captions, 11:23; why youtube?
“I’m declaring war on you” “No you aren’t.” Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where George’s girlfriend refuses to let him break up with her
LOL😂😂😂
Well Hitler attacked 1st and declared war later but I get what you're saying. 😅
“I’m breaking up with you.”
“Nah.”
“You can’t ‘nah’ me any more. How does it feel to be single?”
“I really wouldn’t know.”
“LET ME BREAK UP WITH YOU!”
“Nah.”
The one and only person Stalin put his trust in... betrayed him.
That's fascism for ya
Top one anime betrayals. Number one won't surprise you at all
Stalin predicted that war between them would happen in 10 year's
Can't blame the guy for his trust issues.
Stalin didn't trust Hitler he just overestimated him and didn't expect him to be idiotic enough to start a war with the USSR whilst he was still at war with the Western powers, Stalin was hoping Hitler would destroy the west leaving Stalin with one easy target.
Yes, great video and upload the effectiveness video! Gotta mention though, Stalin in disgrace went to his HQ to think of his failure after the Nazis invaded, then some officers came to take away Stalin, he thought they came to arrest him but the officers instead told him they're in need of a leader of which, Stalin accepted the task.
Please do a video on the Indo-Pak war of 1971 which resulted in the formation of Bangladesh.
Yes!
There is not enough content to make a video on that. India just intervened and captured Pakistani soldiers without warning. Pakistani and Indians wars are too small scale in general. An interesting video would be China vs India 1962.
The Sino-Indian war of 1962 will be an interesting video too!
Yes please. Indian wars are severely underrated in spite of their effects and influence.
Pakistan Zindabad India Murdabad is what I always say!
Anyone else suddenly feel like playing HOI4?
Yes
Indeed
The more history vids I watch, the more I itch for HOI4
i always use console commands so that hitler wins
@@dookiejuju192 r/IamVeryEdgy
The Red Army was quite effective when it kept the Wehrmacht out of Moscow in 1941。That upended the Wehrmacht＇s entire plan。The next year the Red Army caught up with the Wehrmacht＇s Sixth Army in Stalingrad and destroyed it。
I'm a 56 year old man with a College degree who studied history extensively with some of the best Europen History minds in the 20th Century.
Kid, your stuff, thus far, kicks ass!
That is truly great to hear. Allways good when generations respect each other.
I think history has created a myth about the purges though, Marshall did very simular things to the US generals, threw out the old ones and brought in new guys.
@@Minuz1 Marshall?
@@catholicdad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall
Mostly known for "Marshall Plan"
He's pratically THE guy who made the US armed forces in WW2.
TheWersum still got raped tho
Zhukov: Sir, Are You ok?-
Stalin: *Cries Severly
GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!
*throws Vodka Bottle
Fantastic content, keep up the good work! (On in background 😉)
Yes, I also want to see "Why Was Russia so effective in later part of the war?" please. I think this is important because this is how Soviet doctrine was developed to be used in Cold War. Thank!!
I think that's a worthy follow up to this video.
They were so effective because of the huge population and Americas lend lease literally funding the soviets war...
@@seancascanet3428 I respectfully disagree, I think that due the the size of the Red Army, the Americans would've had to use most of their industry towards the Soviets ALONE, to influence it that much, however they did something MUCH MORE important, and that was to supply the Soviets with.... information! Yes every single major Soviet offensive after 1943 was based off Intel gathered by USA or UK, when to attack, where to attack, enemy troop movements, well everything, don't you agree that Intel/Information was much more important than Lend Lease?
@@Gabriel-sdf yeah the real reason the allies won ww2
British broke the german code
US broke Japans Code
US and UK gave Russia information on germans due to code breaking
Otherwise the war would have lasted longer and been way bloodier
Gabriel Soares
The Intel was of course very important but without the lend lease agreement, the Russians wouldn't be able to put the information to use. The US sent Russia over a half million trucks and tracked vehicles and Britain sent a considerable amount also, so the Russians could make the push. The US sent 2000 locomotives and 11,000 boxcars along with the trucks to better transport troops and supplies.
Most don't consider the fact that for every man with a rifle, it takes 10 men in support to make him effective. Without good troop transportation and the ability to constantly resupply the men with the rifles, the best fighting men in the world would be hard pressed to win on a major front.
The Germans lack of resupply and the Russians growing ability to quickly resupply was a major factor in the defeat of Germany.
Yes you should make a video about “how was the Soviet effective in WW2”
that was the whole reason behind the pact with germany, they weren"t ready for war
@Ordinary Sessel you mean the same pact that whole europo had with hitler, even poland had non aggression pact in 1932 with nazi germany, then in 1938 poland invaded czech slovakia and took their land. speaking of hypocrise, but nobody talks about that tho.
@Ordinary Sessel of course soviet union rather had it under their sphere of influence then nazi, britisch or french. it is not all that simple, russia has been invaded plenty of times by western nations, so it was in their interest to secure those countries. and again nobody has a problem with poland taking a part of czech slovakia when nazi germany invaded it, nobody had problems when united states were doing busniss with nazi germany, everbody was shady.
@@MrStolboy cheeky try to make NAZI Germany (holocaust, mass murder on industrial scale, war without declaration of war, suppression of Jews, Sinti, homosexuals, etc) look less bad, comparing to other countries...but it's not true.
@@R0ZEN7 it was taking that part of poland or leaving it to nazi germany, what would make them even closer to the soviet borders.
@@R0ZEN7 Yeah gtfo with your conspiracy bullshit
5:17 - word is written on tank is "Teafucker", lmao
Close enough, but not exactly. 'Teafucker' would be ЧАЕЕБ. Also, this is hate speech against the British :P
It have to be "Чапаев"
This video just went from a 9 to a 10
and we have our reason for demonetization
@@aenelle7370 calling a British person a tea fucker does not offend them 😂😂😂😂😂
New sub here, this is exactly the type of history channel I've been looking for. Time to binge!
Let's hope that this monetization issue gets fixed ASAP. Love your videos
It wont. All history channels are being smoked.
Not only were Soviet tanks spread out, they were sent into combat in small piecemeal formations as soon as they arrived at the front. It took the Soviets a while to figure out that you needed to mass tanks to overwhelm formations, and even when they did that the tanks often ran out of gas and were left helpless because the tank commanders had absolute orders to keep driving forward no matter what.
Whenever I see someone's content getting demonetized, I know there's a chance that it's good content and subscribe to the channel.
Hopefully that problem gets fixed, bruh.
Low IQ huh
TL;DW: the Germans caught the Russians with there pants down, almost literally
@ a small dong
@@BatCostumeGuy Stalin unleashed his big one on germany in , 45
@@boriszawotski1392 a big shot but a small dong
"Why Was Russia so Ineffective in 1941?"
Stalin
Because Georgy Zhukov actually knew what he was doing
Communism
@@namesurname-1488 Zhukov
I thought that was a pun. Lol
Why was France and the UK so ineffective in 1940? Not Stalin.
The sad thing is, Stalin knew war was coming, and before WW2 he asked France and Britain how many combat ready-divisions they could field and he was appalled when Britain replied with 16 seeming as he had roughly 150 (I think, might be more). Stalin was hoping the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would last long enough for his army gain enough equipment/manpower, and US/British lend-lease was very important at the beginning of the war. The rest is obviously history, with their now-moved industry greatly helping the Soviet Armed Forces
Off too the gulag with you
And you too mr/mrs reader
aad piraat jokes on you, im at gulag 5 days a week for 8 hours.
So excited for this video! ACH videos are great to watch/listen to while studying
plays hoi4 once*
Watches historical videos for next 2 weeks and becomes ww2 historian*
RUclips blitzkreiged the original video harder than the Germans did to the Soviets in 1941.
"He who laughs last laughs best....."
well, germany is a way wealthier country and a much better place to live than russia.... so yeah.. i guess they do laugh the best.
Oh my, that was a dope visual to the Panzer III’s interior.
Im glad to see you upload agian! Keep up the good work.
The after credits scene was beautiful.
a bit irritating IMO
Instead of Raiding Area 51, this guy teach us History.... Epic
Would love to see more on the Eastern Front, including the Soviet effectiveness, but also looking into how Baltic partisan efforts affected the Soviet advance, and their later ineffectiveness against the occupying Soviet regime (particularly in Lithuania and Latvia).
Please all support our favourite Historian! Our support needs to hit him like the german blitz!
Your videos are excellent. My appreciation to your great narrative and fact gathering.
Good to see this back
I love the closing scenes in the end of the film! Timelaps of Soviet reconquest all the way up to 1945 while playing the glorious anthem together with some "memeing"... this is why Armchair History is so great at retelling history 😂😂😂
That has got to be the funniest and best ending to a history video I’ve ever seen 😂
Wow that stereoscopic view of the Panzer III combined with the cutaway at 6:20 is grade A
Can't wait to see its continuation! Awesome narration by the way.
Gotta admit, my favorite part of the video was watching Griffin shave during the ad.
The non-aggression pact wasn't a very effective stallin' tactic
Actually it was. It alowed USSR to prepare to upcoming war. Here is list of events wich led to WW2 ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#Resolution ). As you can see there Molotov - Ribentrop pact is last one. British Royal house was flirting with Nazi Germany, which is put USSR into corner.
Stalin was honoring the pact. Stalin didn't think the Germans weren't going to attack the USSR until England was defeated.
For Hitler. The non agression pact was a means to an end. The pact served it's purpose while France was beaten and England was all alone. It was time for the Soviet Union to fall.
@@DiMas-kt8jk
23 August 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
11 February 1940 - German-Soviet Commercial Agreement (supplies from USSR were essential for Nazi Germany military)
25 November 1940 - Stalin sent proposal to join Axis powers. He is ignored.
USSR was not "in the corner". Stalin deeply believed he can rule Europe alongside Hitler.
@@MD-iw2vt so what? Give me same list of agreement between germany and poland, england and usa.
German-Polish Non agression pact January 26, 1934 was signed earlier than molotv pact. And Poland at that time was considered by soviet goverment as the biger threat due to strong British influence in the goverment. And you should understand that main idea of bolshevik revolution was to unite working class people in the whole world by removing capitalistic elites. Ofcourse country with such ideology gona find itself surounded by enemies. Also keep in mind that example of Octobre revolution in Russia inspired a lot of working people all over the world to start movements for social justice for working class people, which is deffenetly dangerouse for one whose profiting from current state of society.
Basicly what I am trying to say. In situation when you are surrounded by hungry lions, maybe hiena is a good ally. There is not so much options to choose from
@@DiMas-kt8jk maybe you give this list hmm? If you deny his facts then show it.
Wonder if this will be taken down again from all the inappropriate content.
Which inappropriate content, though?
A. Musthofa history.
@@ryanmurray7941 In a community post yesterday, Griffin said he wasn't going to take this video down.
@@ryanmurray7941 I see. Sorry, mate. Didn't realize it was sarcasm.
I think is something about the things he said during the sponsorship.
During the war thunder sponsorship, the ticket counter at the top showed that the friendly team was winning. Highly unrealistic as seldom will you ever win because your team is always filled with glue sniffers.
Thats all game one team has tryhards other glue sniffers
Turn on subtitles (Gear icon --> Captions) and skip to 11:21
In an effort to prevent *b i g c o c k*
Stalin: we must prevent BIG COCK at all costs
This definitely needs more likes
Good work! But in 5:35 is this name "Chapaev" which in Russian is "Чапаев", who was one of the most famous Red commanders during the Russian Civil war?) Great and interesting job!) Thank you!) Love you channel)
11:33 my gawd, that was disturbing 😂
You keep doing this amazing videos and you'll get picked for a show someday I just know it. Your production values are too high to be berated by youtube politics
Definitely would like a Part 2 to discuss how Stalin turned things around. Great video overall!
16:06, that was absolutely brilliant!
Take Minakata agree 😂
5:24 i think you meant "Чапаев". "чаиаеб" is something waaaay different :D
Gryffon went from grizzled veteran historian to John Mullaney real quick in that ad
These plane noises are definitely from the end of "In the Flesh?" You can hear the instrumental (keyboards etc.) very faintly while the plane is flying. (0:55)
Where the hell are you, Simon??
16:07 Hitler is like "they got wrekt by Finland LOL"
Why were they so ineffective?
Well, my friends.
A *certain someone* decided that it would be a big brain, 500IQ idea to wipe out >50% of the Red Army's Command Staff from paranoia.
because they forgot to do lessons of war
I, a history buff, loved watching this documentary, you did a great job. But I also was not prepared for the meme at the end, it was hilarious!
Whoever editted the last part of the video deserves a promotion. (The meme thing).
I'm so glad you're been sponsored! You channel deserve every kind of support possible. The content is amazing and the animations are very good! Thank you so much for your hard work!
Finally a history channel that uses accurate maps for the time!
At 5:17 the text on the turret says: TEA_A_FUCK... not a good sign to raise morale
That part behind the credits is golden, I love it
soooo happy I let it play til then lol
why soviet so bad?
comrade that's just capitalist propaganda
Really enjoying these vids about WW2, very interesting,keep up the good work.
"Do you want to know more?"
Yeah, buddy!
Thank you. Would love to have a follow up as well as the great Russo-Finnish War
dude that animation between 6:14 and 6:26 was top notch.
Soundtrack for when Stalin turned things around
Night Witches
Panzerkampf
Stalin was slow on implementing proper military doctrines, economic, and factory/production policies which also contributed to the Soviet ineffectiveness during the early stages of the war.