British Guy Reacts to The Fallen of World War II
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This is why learning history is so important, so we don’t repeat it and remember the sacrifices that were made for peace now.
And the efforts that need to continue if you want another 70 years of the Long Peace. That is the implied message of the video.
It's funny how easily people forget history. And then repeat it over and over and over.
Betty, exactly. It's very scary that so many people are never taught about so much of history and what does this portend for the future and democracy? My parent's generation lived through this and sacrificed so much to preserve democracy. We were taught about the war but I'm afraid the memory is fading and the lessons with each generation. Hopefully at the very least Luka's reaction will help open more people's eyes to the horror of war.
Oh hell. Your words couldn't be more true. Unfortunately yet saying these words to Finnish people and they'll laugh at you. Thus is coming from Finnish guy who loves studying history. I'm ashamed to admit that my country HATES studying history
It’s the failure of our schools that make history and science so boring. I’m learning more watching RUclips than I ever did in school.
There is no such family in Russia where there would not be a person who did not fight in that war, my great-grandfather died and the second one came without a leg.
Rest In Peace.
Никто не забыт. Ничто не забыто.
@Nolan Nez. In my family of 4 grandfathers, only 2 returned alive, but the war crippled their bodies and souls! The grave of my grandmother's brother was found only in 2020, until that time, everyone considered him missing. War is very scary and our land will not survive another such war! We are all different, but we must keep the peace on earth!
This is a false interpretation of the numbers concerning the Second W.W. A distorted picture of history. Giving absolute numbers changes the true dimensions of the tragedy. I come from the country. who suffered the most during the Second W.W. During World War II, Poland suffered the greatest biological losses (for every 1,000 inhabitants, it lost 220 people). For comparison: USA - 2.9, Belgium - 7, Great Britain - 8, France - 15, Netherlands - 22, USSR - 116. It estimated the total personal losses at 6.028 million people, including 3.2 million Polish citizens of Jewish origin. The death losses of the Slavic Polish population under the German occupation amounted to approximately 2,770,000 people. This group does not include the victims of Soviet crimes in the territories incorporated into the USSR after 1939, and it does not include the victims of the UPA crimes in Volhynia. The post-war census showed 24 million, and the census covered 2 million Germans and about 1-1.5 million Poles living in Germany before World War II. Before the war, Poland was inhabited by 35 million citizens. Of which 13 million in the lands annexed by the Soviet Union, 22 million in the areas occupied by Germany. Poland suffered the greatest material losses during World War II. Material losses per capita, which amounted to $ 626 compared to the second Yugoslavia with $ 601. According to materials presented at the International Reparation Conference in Paris in 1946, material losses in Poland amounted to $ 16.9 billion, respectively, in Yugoslavia - $ 9.1 billion. (Losses are given in 1946 value of money.) 2/5 of Poland's cultural assets were completely destroyed and stolen. Under pressure from the great powers, Poland also had to cede 48% of its territory to the Soviet Union, losing about 178,000 km² in the east. Most of the losses resulted from the German occupation, the USSR was responsible for the other part of the losses. One sentence at the end. Stalin killed many more USSR citizens in 1923-39 than they died during the Second World War
@@yakeosicki8965 thats bullshit. All the deaths from hunger ae now put to blame on Stalin. Its wrong. The hunger in Ukraine and in Volga region came because the politics had no clue how to maintain the huge country after the civil war. Dont listen to Solzenitsyn bullshit. His wife acknoledged he made it up for money
I love his reactions. He sees where he is weak in knowledge and that shows HOW SMART HE IS! The thirst for knowledge is intoxicating for me to see...especially in a younger person..
He is such a thoughtful and empathetic guy with such a thirst for knowledge. This demonstrates the Internet at its finest. He is great.
There's something I really like about people from different areas learning about what we know just to see their perspective. Sometimes, we learn with him.
He is also the first person reacting to this video that I've seen who actually pauses it when the narrator prompts the viewer to pause to look at it.
@@jeffreyanderson1851 Agreed! He is a very thoughtful and caring young man. Very personable and so open to learning about other cultures and countries. I'm loving watching his videos. He would definitely be a friend of mine if I met him in person.
“Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, Mason. We Russians know this better then anyone.” - Viktor Reznov
The scariest thing about Soviet deaths is that it's still effecting the Russian population today. Every few generations the population dips because almost an entire generation was killed. They never had kids, and their kids never had kids, and so on and so on. Those people just aren't there to have kids and the population drops.
the reason why the population of Russia is decreasing is migration, low life expectancy of men-67 years, in General, the population of Russia is slowly starting to age, now the average age of a person in Russia is 41 years, I'm from Russia and I think that my country is dying out I'm going to migrate to the United States and help my parents move there too. the quality of life here is terrible, the average salary is $ 300, medicine is poorly developed and the ruble exchange rate jumps up all the time, I am very sad to admit the fact that Russia may die out.
@@CallMeShiba oh god, that sounds horrible. If you do move to the U.S I hope you receive the help you need
@@flamingoimportc3176 спасибо и тебе тоже.
@@CallMeShiba а ты кто по образованию?
@Platinum where did you get these numbers? from American propaganda?
It's mindblowing that they never emphasized the brutality of the Eastern Front when I was in school. I actually think my history education was pretty damn good overall and I got a pretty well rounded and in-depth look at most of the United State's history, but when covering events like WWII we only focus on what the US participated in directly for the most part. The Soviet Union and the Russian people's suffering is not nearly highlighted enough, it was INSANITY.
For what I've seen talking to people of the USA: Your history education is so biased and egocentrical. Not your faut of course but it's a shame, educate yourself on your own as much as you can. I'm from Europe btw.
I agree and I really enjoyed learning about ww2 and still do. Luckily I've learned a lot from the internet :) And I follow a teacher on YT Mr. Terry who reacts to history videos but also gives a lot of input
I mean, it’s US history of course you’ll learn mostly about the US
I had a very good education but I learned so much more after finishing my schooling (university). I fear for the future of American kids. There is such a lack of history, US and world history, taught in schools now.
This is a false interpretation of the numbers concerning the Second W.W. A distorted picture of history. Giving absolute numbers changes the true dimensions of the tragedy. I come from the country. who suffered the most during the Second W.W. During World War II, Poland suffered the greatest biological losses (for every 1,000 inhabitants, it lost 220 people). For comparison: USA - 2.9, Belgium - 7, Great Britain - 8, France - 15, Netherlands - 22, USSR - 116. It estimated the total personal losses at 6.028 million people, including 3.2 million Polish citizens of Jewish origin. The death losses of the Slavic Polish population under the German occupation amounted to approximately 2,770,000 people. This group does not include the victims of Soviet crimes in the territories incorporated into the USSR after 1939, and it does not include the victims of the UPA crimes in Volhynia. The post-war census showed 24 million, and the census covered 2 million Germans and about 1-1.5 million Poles living in Germany before World War II. Before the war, Poland was inhabited by 35 million citizens. Of which 13 million in the lands annexed by the Soviet Union, 22 million in the areas occupied by Germany. Poland suffered the greatest material losses during World War II. Material losses per capita, which amounted to $ 626 compared to the second Yugoslavia with $ 601. According to materials presented at the International Reparation Conference in Paris in 1946, material losses in Poland amounted to $ 16.9 billion, respectively, in Yugoslavia - $ 9.1 billion. (Losses are given in 1946 value of money.) 2/5 of Poland's cultural assets were completely destroyed and stolen. Under pressure from the great powers, Poland also had to cede 48% of its territory to the Soviet Union, losing about 178,000 km² in the east. Most of the losses resulted from the German occupation, the USSR was responsible for the other part of the losses. One sentence at the end. Stalin killed many more USSR citizens in 1923-39 than they died during the Second World War
This is only the dead.... imagine the wounded and mentally scarred...
Mentally scarred would be like a quarter of the population.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t In allied countries maybe. Here in Germany it was at least half the population. In the east... well... if 16% of the Polish population died within 6 years I find it hard to imagine that it left anyone unscarred.
@@schtreg9140 I made my assumption based on the population of the earth. 75 million people died. Let's say there is an average of 8 people who got mentally scarred for 1 dead. That should include family members and very close friends. So, 75 times 8 is 600 million people scarred. There were around 2.3 billion people alive at that time. That makes it so about 26% of the world population is mentally scarred. Of course, I don't mean that this number is correct in every country. Countries like Poland, Germany, Russia, etc. will have a much higher percentage, which will compensate for all those countries that didn't really have many deaths.
When I think about war, I always wonder who we lost. What brilliant scientists, artists, and leaders was the world denied because their life was snuffed out so quickly.
Yeah it's my least favourite thought about war. Imagine we're society would be without all the wars in history.
@@viktorcsanyi5224A world without wars would be excellent. If humanity would just reunite and strive to make itself better, we could achieve so much more. I mean just compare the budget of NASA and the US military. NASA's budget in 2020 was 22.6 billion dollars. The budget of the military in 2019 was 686 billion. You could instead give 200 billion to science agencies, to move humanity forward, and another 300 billion to help combat poverty, disease, etc. The USA would still have tons of money left for the military.
the 18-year-olds, far home, where just as important...
I don’t understand the necessity of such a massive standing army. Who is seriously going to attack the US? Even if we didn’t have the largest nuclear deterrent in the world, WW2 showed that the US is capable of switching production to fit the military very quickly, rendering any war longer than 6months impossible to fight for any rival power. What would anybody gain by invading anyway? Our populace would be HELL to try and govern, and the world would unite against such an attack. The only reason for an army like ours is for foreign projection of power and foreign intervention - imperialist goals. Who made us policeman of the world, able to use threat of violence to impose our will on the rest of the planet? I think the world would be more amenable to American interests if we used that money to fight poverty at home and abroad anyway
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The topic is so tragic, but this is such a beautifully produced video.
the horrible thing is these days people are acting like they have experienced even a sliver of that kinda shit when in fact they have no clue wtf reality is
It gets pretty tiresome listening to people whine about fascism and oppression while they are living in a country like America.
These people lack all perspective, and any true understanding of the horrors of war, totalitarianism, real oppression, or any of the secondary effects of things like total war, like extreme rationing, famine, lack of medical supplies leading to death from simple infections, etc.
It's just complain, complain, complain, and I say that as an American.
When I was young I worked for a man who escaped the Armenian genocide as a child, his parents paid to have him smuggled out of Turkey into Greece. His parents and the rest of his blood family were killed. He served in the Greek navy until they found out he was an ethnic Armenian, at which point he was kicked out and decided that he would emigrate to America. He came to America and worked his ass off and became a successful businessman, he owned a company that did custom-built cabinetry and countertops for kitchens and bathrooms. His children were then even more successful than he was.
I've met other people in America who immigrated after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and they told me stories about having to forage for food in order to supplement what they received from standing in the breadlines for hours, or risk starvation.
I've known Romanians who would tell me stories about having neighbors who disappeared in the middle of the night, and how everyone knew that you weren't supposed to talk about it, so a mass 'amnesia' would just overtake the neighborhood where everyone basically pretended to forget that neighbor ever even existed. They had to do that out of fear that the secret police may come and take them too.
My cousin's grandmother was born in 1921 in Austria, and she has told us about the Anschluss and what happened towards the end of the war, specifically what happened to the women in her town that she was living in when it was taken by the Soviets.
These moronic protesters, these agitators, they don't know anything about that level of suffering.
@@scottcantdance804 I agree, my Siberian Soviet great grandad didn't escape to America for no reason g.
In my experience, a lot of people were worried about history repeating itself and something like this happening again (WWII wasn't actually that long ago if you look at the large scale. Antisemitism and racism still exists). Fascism doesn't just pop out of nowhere- they saw some red flags pop up and got kind of worried (it doesn't help Trump, regardless of what his beliefs were, had racist followers. Not saying all trump supporters are). Most people get how horrible WWII was and even though today is a lot better (even with current circumstances), it doesn't mean people have to settle for "well, it is better..."
We have a lot of freedom nowadays, but there's still a few things that can be fixed and things people are still fighting for. Yes, there are complainers and people that act like Job, but even the people I mention don't want anything to do with them.
@@scottcantdance804 there are certain groups of people that have legitimate reason to be upset at the current world and how they're treated. But there are others that think oppression is communicated through Starbucks cups 🙄.
Russia:
“A thousand years of sacrifice in our blood”
Russia is the greatest because it went through the greatest hardships in the world. Name an issue, Russia experienced it x10 and survived.
USSR. Those numbers were USSR soldiers and civilians, all 15 republics combined. Not just Russia.
@@anrd8595 Yeah, I know. I mention all 15, republics when I say Russia, what you would refer to as the USSR.
@@anrd8595 , true but don't forget that Russia itself was that big back in the day.
It was only after Lenin and his comrades made Russia into a communist country did the Soviet Union rise.(This happened at same time Russia left the First World War due to the revolution)
@@checkmate9099 Russian Empire was larger than USSR
Personal WWII story that no one asked for: My great grandfather served in the war. Not on the fighting lines, but he worked on a railroad station in India sending supplies to the eastern front battling Japan. While there, he got a blood clot in his leg. They put him on a boat back to the US. His condition worsened quickly and the people on board thought for sure he would die and they’d have to dump his body in the ocean (this was before modern day body freezers and such). Thankfully he
just made it and got immediate attention back home and survived. By the time he recovered the war was over, so he didn’t have to go back and could stay home with my great grandmother!
WWII story from the other side: My great grandfather fought in the Wehrmacht. All I know about him is that one day an officer showed up at his wife's door to tell her that her husband wasn't going to return. My grandmother couldn't have been older than six at that point. She is the single most fervent anti-war person I know.
And... I know that one of my great grandfathers was actually ideologically a Nazi, and he believed in it. Luckily my grandpa didn't catch that. But... not all Nazi soldiers were actually fighting for the ideology. They were fighting for their friends and family, and because they had been ordered to do so. It's good that they lost, but many on both sides lost people close to them. Not everybody on one side was just evil... and propaganda against the other side was strong for both the Allies and the Axis.
All in all I'm glad we live in times when we can exchange such stories without having to see each other as enemies. And one can only hope that it remains that way.
My grandfather served in the war. He was an American "Island Hopping" and fought solely against the Japanese. He passed when I was twelve (5 years ago now) but I can still remember the stories he shared. He freed a number of Filipinos who were forced laborers for the Japanese and was awarded a Purple Heart, Silver Star and Combat Infantry badge.
@@FonVegen Nazis were bad and majority of German at that time believe in Nazism.
Abhishek Nanda pretty sure Nazis were in the minority, not the majority, of people who lived under German occupation.
Thanks for sharing :)
You need to watch the movie "come and see" it is about the German extermination of Belarusian villages. It is truly horrific.
It also breaks the fourth wall with impunity. That young character looking into the camera with the thousand yard stare.
View 'Come and See' with caution. It literally makes 'Schindlers List' or 'Saving Private Ryan' seem like Disney fantasy in comparison.
Can’t be mad at Russians being so locked away to others
What do you mean?
Все страны Европы и США принижают заслуги СССР , Русских, которые освобождали Европу от Наполеона , от Гитлера, от Турции. Но всегда несправедливо русских обманывали и поступали с ними неправильно.
На самом деле изолированы вы а не мы!
I want to say that what is being said here about the fact that Stalin did not evacuate the civilians of Leningrad is not entirely true, the city was surrounded, but the evacuation began when ice arose on Lake Ladoga, and civilians were taken out of the city and brought into the city with supplies, important the fact should be borne in mind that there were defense plants in the city that supplied the troops defending Leningrad, I hope I explained the situation about the blockade more broadly. My great-great-grandfather died in the battle for Leningrad. Greetings from Russia!
Моя пробабушка была полевым медиком в блокаде.. Герои.
My grandfather was executed by firing squad for refusing to fight for the Nazi's.
Rip
My great grandfather died in the soviet union and my father and grandfather don't know anything about him.
Same with my great grandfather but for helping my great grandmother escape to the US
My grandfather was farmer in germany. My great-grandfather was also a farmer in germany
My Grandfather was killed in an POW camp.
My father fought in World War II in France, England and Belgium. He was in the second wave of soldiers to storm Omaha Beach. He passed at the age of 91 in 2016 but never forgot the atrocities he witnessed in the War. I'll never forget him telling me about the crazy thick hedgerows they had to get through just beyond the beach. It was a nightmare because German soldiers were on the other side of those hedgerows but you couldn't see them. In Belgium they were stuck out in deep wet snow for a long period of time. He never had the desire to "camp out" when my brother and I were growing up. Dad had enough of that overseas. Dad also helped to liberate the people in one of Hitler's concentration camps. He absolutely loved the English and French people and they were very good to him. Dad especially loved the fresh baked bread they made and fed him. Thank you for looking into this. It is the single most important event our countries collaborated on and made us friends and allies for life. Our world would be very different now if not for the brave soldiers who fought for and won victory over an evil dictator. It is a lesson never to be forgotten.
The Russians probably have the most tragic history I have ever heard of any major country!! Anyone not aware of it should look into it if you are interested.. it is genuinely crazy.. all the way from Napoleon to Stalin
hell fucking yes, and now putin... when will this shit end(
My world history teacher showed my class this my Sophomore (2nd year, 15-16 yrs old) year. I’ve never once seen a class go more silent. Or leave more emotional/changed.
I'm an American grandmother and I've been enjoying your reactions. I'm learning a lot too. Great job on your channel.
My great grandfather served in WWII he told me many stories. He was stationed at the top of Africa into the Italian front. He passed away last year peacefully god rest his soul, he was a very great man ❤️
Did he ever tell you about the war? My dad lived with an older WW2 Polish veteran and he told me parts of it, and moving to Australia after the war to escape the Communists.
@@thedude9024 he told me some things, he told me about his battle buddy and everything but it was a rough topic for him so I tread lightly and only gained a little bit of info at a time
Ah my great grandfather also served in WWII and he survived Pearl Harbor. I’ve never met him but my mother would always tell me what he experienced during that time
"I don't know what weapons will be used in WW3. I do know exactly what weapons will be used in WW4.
STICKS AND STONES!!!"
Albert Einstein
Not exactly but close enough. I would also like to comment on Albert Einstein's quip, he was right. The prospect of an antimatter bomb the size of a baseball with the capability to destroy a city, or kinetic bombs with the ability to cause as much destruction as nuclear bombs without the uranium, plane, or rocket necessary.
“I don’t know with what weapons ww3 will be fought, but I do know that WW4. will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Information control is the weapon, this very site is a battlefield. Make no mistake there is a war going on. Has been for some time.
Cold War oversimplified you need to watch
He already mentioned in the oversimplified ww2 part 2 video he was interested in it. So, I assume he’s going to react to it eventually.
Extra Credits' "Cuban Missile Crisis"
I feel like I should watch it
I can't help but feel like the "Cold War" started with Korea and included Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, the Ukraine, and it never actually ended 😆
Luka you need to watch the movie "Saving Private Ryan" the opening scene is the d-day invasion and it is one of the greatest war movies of all time starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon
Amazing film!😉American veterans who actually took part in D-day,were quoted saying that the film's portrayal of those scenes were the most accurate of any other WW2 movie they'd ever seen.Quite a few of these men had to leave the theater because of this brutal accuracy.
Yes that would be amazing
Or the adult version, "Saving Ryan's Privates".
I haven’t see that movie in ever
If someone asks you to name a war movie, chances are that "Saving Private Ryan" will be the first movie you think of. It's that good and iconic.
Thanks to RUclips recommendations that work so "well", I came across this video. I am from Russia, so I apologize for my English, it is very bad, but my knowledge and translator should be enough for me. I just want to tell you to read diaries, notes and books written by Soviet soldiers and ordinary people. Not for the sake of propaganda, no, but for the sake of how much the people of my homeland and our Slavic brothers suffered. You have lost quite a few people, but compared to our losses, this is nothing. I fully share the grief of any other nation for the people who were killed and wish that this will never happen again. I don't quite understand why I'm writing this, but I just want to say something. And if you want to answer me, please write more simply, I know your language badly.
Great comment.
I'm American.
Honestly....your English, patched together as it may be, is better than many Americans.
:)
@@avedic Thank you for your appreciation of my comment. What about my English - it's better to say "thank you" to Google translator :D
When he zoomed in on the people before zooming out again to make it the 1000 people placeholder, that hit me. Imagining the actual people, then realizing how many of those individual actual people, died very horrible deaths in WWII...it's hard to think about.
My grandparents somehow made it out of Poland in the early stage of the invasion. Thousand escaped by boats .
my great grand father escaped through train from ukraine and bombs were blowing up next to the trains
My dad fought in Iraq and he said it was the toughest thing he's ever had to do. The Iranian soldiers and generals would send kids in the front lines ages 13-16 and my dad was never shot but he said he shot over 50 kids and he struggles with ptsd because of it also because of you know bullets whizzing past your head he told me the conditions in Iraq were brutal the amount of mosquitos, and diseases that were in those camps were astonishing. He told me he slept with a glove on his hand because he would wake up with bloody legs from scratching mosquitoes
@Yo Momma whatever you say, Russian troll
@Yo Momma There are plenty of other candidates (1214 in 2020), but for some reason, Americans are unable to choose unless it's a "left or right" choice.
www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54334173
@Yo Momma Anyone can vote for whatever they want but they are choosing to vote for those with the largest media coverage.
@@Cofeeman911 I cannot say 'many', but for the most part, Even if we wanted to vote for someone else, We cannot. Each state chooses whether to put someone on the ballot or not. (I think it's something along having to pay to be on the ballot. Which is why they raise money when going around to states.) There have been times I wanted to vote for someone not Rep OR Dem, but I know my vote would be pointless because it would be impossible for them to win the whole country due to not being on every ballot. Then it comes down to choosing the lesser of two 'evils'. (Not saying they always are, but that's how it feels.) There have been some Very close voting sometimes, so I feel like my vote does matter if it were to come down to that.
@@neosunrider That's horrible. So only the rich or very popular people have a chance to be a president in the USA.
Where I'm from you need to collect 20 000 signatures supporting your candidacy, you must be 40 years or older and you must be a citizen who lived here for at least 3 years up to date and you must pay 5 national average monthly salaries (~7 000 euros. But you get that money back if you complete the whole process).
And the voting process is - every single vote counts and the person with the highest % of votes wins. And as a voter, I can change my mind on who to support even the moment I cast my vote. No need for registration or anything.
I believe that my fellow Americans (including myself at some point) have overlooked how brutal WW2 was to the UK and the Soviet Union, our old allies. It was much worse for them, and I’m so glad we won! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇷🇺
It's not your fault, your country's education system is just... Very egocentric, and doesn't care for much that doesn't happen to America itself. Hello from the UK, thank you.
@@serathaevistille995 Yes, I agree! Our public education system is pretty unfavorable (coming from someone that is currently in it). It is mostly too boring and monotonous. Don’t get me wrong, I love to learn, but I don’t believe we have harnessed the best ways to administer the actual learning.
@@theparadigm8149 Mhm. From what I've read, mainland European countries, Netherlands, Germany, France, etc. Seem to have the best overall education systems. I could be wrong though. Unfortunately, what we have in the UK, especially in primary and secondary schools, (Elementary and High school) is just... Really bad.
You should watch time lapse of the future: a journey to the end
Please do, its amazing.
That video is mind blowing
He should react to you in combat
How dare you make me emotional late at night like this.
Great video tho
Arguably the worst thing that has ever happened. Hard to overstate it.
The most chilling thing about that video is just listening to the tics as it steady counts up millions of extinguished lifes
True
Russia still to this day finds bodies of Soviet WW2 soldiers every spring when the snow melts.
i dont think so
Not under the snow of course, but there are organization of voluntaries, that still to our days search and dig out unburied bodies of soviet and german soldiers in the fields and forests of Russia
I’ve always loved your British perspective on things and combining that with my favorite subject history is so damn entertaining to watch
The Soviets sacrificed a lot of men for that war. They don't teach us this but Hitler hated Slavs and wanted to exterminate them until they were few in number and enslave the remaining few. The Eastern Front was literally a fight for survival for Slavic peoples. They called it the fatherless generation in Russia after WW2.
Granted the Soviets weren't any better than the Nazis since they did all the same shit. I'm just pointing out that there's a good reason why modern day Russia takes WW2 memorial services seriously.
The soviets weren't even remotely close to the Nazis, i don't understand why people try to make this equivocation.
@@gomiladroogies5951 Thousands of polish officers and civilians disagree.
@@patrzacinaczej3300 if killing thousands of civilians is all it takes then then the list of countries that are like the nazis is longer than the one that isnt like the nazis.
@Half life 3 im curious on what you think the alternative camps were in ww2 for countries like the soviet union? They did majority of the ground work and captured majority of the soldiers, should they kill them or imprison them and let them leach on the little amount of resources available without providing anything?
Mass expulsion was common everywhere in the US there was 100s of thousands of japanese, german and italian citizens expelled or put in camps too. Obviously you cant let them chill and do anti-allied activities in city centers.
Millions died in the soviet mostly from famine due to weather conditions which were a common issue in russia for decades along with the stress on resources from war. The amount of people directly killed for who they are or their political views was nowhere near the nazis which is what makes sense to be conpared. The soviets generally went for the strat of capturing troops meanwhile the US and British bombed without discrimination like in Berlin and in japan killing many many civilians.
Civillians killed by soviets were generally people who were found to be collaborators with the nazis.
They also did commit war crimes but dear god its not close to the nazis.
Theres a big problem when you start looking at history through the lens of good and evil rather than actually understanding what happened and being unbiased.
Also regarding my original comment, i know very well why the soviets are compared to the nazis, its due to cold war propaganda.
@Half life 3 well i will tell you this. My country was occupied by the Nazis and the Soviets. When you listen to the testimony of the people who survived both occupations, they almost always say the Soviets were worse.
It's definitely good to see you learn about the role the soviets played in wwii. It's a very important part of history and should be taught more in schools.
Its just sad that because soviets won, they were allowed to continue brutal opression Eastern Europeans and Russians for decades. And because they won, people barely know about holdomodor. 20 million Ukrainians were starved to death by force.
@@jarskil8862 You aren't better than Hitler.
@@dimonnello kremlin bot
@@luckyblockyoshi You are far from reality, lol )
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You are the most humble person I've come across on the internet, it's has shown to be your best asset when it comes learning from these videos. Subscribed.
I highly recommend giving the film Come And See (from 1985) a watch, it focuses on the journey of a young Russian man recruited to fight. Come And See is one of my favorite war films, it does an amazing job at conveying the brutality of the war on the Russian front from more perspectives than just the expected soldier’s perspective.
Some of my other favorite war films, not necessarily about WWII itself, All Quiet On The Western Front, 1917, Thin Red Line, Jarhead, & Full Metal Jacket.
Godspeed 🙏🏼😊
Wow, I'm going to watch some of it, thanks. I'm Russian btw
My father was born in Budapest Hungary in 1933. He lived every sordid minute of that war. He lost 1/3 of his family in Auschwitz. He is 87 this year, and to this day he has never spoken about it. I can't even imagine what he saw during that time.
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Please Contine reveiwing history, We as Humans must never forget are History and MUST learn from it.
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My Grandfather was 17 and soon to turn 18 when he lied to join the military and join the war. He is still living and will be 96 this year. He doesn’t like to talk about the war, but we try to get him to tell us what he is willing to share. We are losing these veterans daily. God Bless them all.
Вам повезло, что ваш дедушка еще жив, я ни одного из своих не застала(( Хотя мамин отец тоже ушел на войну в 1941 году в возрасте 17 лет добровольцем. Вы же можете из первых уст узнать правду о той страшной войне от своего деда и это важно, ведь сейчас так сильно искажают историю!(( Долгих лет жизни вашему деду-герою!
It's true 😔
Legend says his windows was never activated...
This is a great presentation, they did an amazing job with the visualization of the numbers, great reaction video to.
a lot of people miss that the deaths on the soviet union side include all of those eastern European countries such as beleruse and ukraine and they were a part of the soviet union at the time that got invaded
same with the UK including their colonial holdings
what is this information for
@@ProstoImechko i am not disrespecting you or your family many people that do not know about history and only attribute Russia to the soviet union but i was simply informing people that the soviet union took up many more countries that just Russia but it is very much true that Russia took up most of those 26 million deaths but a lot of those deaths can be attributed to the other territories in the soviet union. Again i do not hold any resentment towards Russian soldiers or citizens and I have all the respect in the world for those who gave their lives to stop the axis. I only put down beleruse and the Ukraine because they were some of the largest countries under the soviet union other than Russia
@@smakkmakk8118 you will never distinguish a Russian from a Ukrainian or a Belarusian. Because they are the same people. Ukraine and Belorussia are not other countries, they are parts of the same country and the same people.
AND Central Asian and Caucasian republics of USSR. I am from Kazakhstan. Every kazakh family lost their men and at least 1 member of their families. Some returned and all others laid in the grass of europe. I am kazakh. My grandpa from father's side fought in Eastern front and returned. From my mother's side granda's 3 elder brothers died at Ukrainian village protecting them from nazi occupation. Grandpa himself wasn't drafted because he was 12 years old. And every kazakh family i know around me had also members who fought in this war in European theatre. I find it unfair that in the Western media other ex-soviet nations like kazakhs, ukrainians, belarussians, uzeks etc. are not mentined and acknowledged in this topics of WW2. Although they fought feircely and win the nazi TOGETHER with russians.
P.S. Also a lot of young women asked to be drafted by their own initiatives. Check about female aviators "Night witches".
You should react a to time lapse of the future :)
Yessss that’s fire
That video is absolutely incredible, agreed
Agreed that video is trippy ASFFFF
that video sucks because after awhile it's just fucking random shit that no one actually knows
@@gotworc, and I’m sure you’re a a claimed scientist and have a different theory? No offense man, this comment just sort of annoys me because I think it’s a testament to are scientific community that were able to predict that sort of thing. I find it kind of strange when people dismiss it out of hand with no evidence to the contrary.
And you always have to remember most of those German soldiers who died were simply following orders, it wasn’t their fault entirely of the evils Hitler and the S.S. Commited, making it extra sad
edit: I’m not defending nazis by the way I’m just pointing out people usually forget that Germany had a lot of dead people
Yeah that's something the creator of the original video talked about. He said "nazis" but most germans soldiers werent nazis. He acknowledge that mistake at least
@@artsysabs I know what you mean. Some German soldiers did not agree with the ideas of the 3rd Reich, but they were technically Nazis
@@artsysabs I know what you mean. Some German soldiers did not agree with the ideas of the 3rd Reich, but they were technically Nazis
@@themixer5029 Just like all Soviets were commies.
Both countries would have gotten you shot if you said otherwise.
Yup. A shit ton of unwilling conscripts were involved.
My grandmother always said “i just pray for no war”
From Russia with love
My great grandmother was born in London, October 16th 1937, and she's told us many stories about when they would have to rush to the shelters during bombing raids. She passed away last week though, peacefully in her sleep, at 83 years of age.
"There's probably a point where someone in the soviet union knew someone who lost someone in this war"
Uh, yeah... literally millions of people?
He probably means a point where everyone knew someone who died
Every modern post-soviet citizen has someone who was the victim of this war. The causes are different, but this conflict impacted every family: some people survived starvation during the siege of Leningrad, others - imprisonment, military wounds, working on soviet military facilities which were evacuated to the Urals and Western Siberia (manufacturing clothes, ammunition, tanks, planes, etc. for the Red Army; most of these people were women and children).
actually I think he might have meant that there was probably a point where there weren't any people in the Soviet Union that didn't experience a loss or knew someone that did.
At the end when he said he was only talking about military deaths, but civilian deaths, too, are in decline, he was referring only to the very last chart showing deaths in wars since WWII
Not the earlier portion of the video/fallen of WWII segment
Every tiny icon = 1000 lives. 1000 hopes, dreams, memories..........every one.
Thank you for showing this.
In both World Wars, the US were hesitant to get involved.
Both wars would probably have been lost if it wasn’t for the U.S
@@mrmicro3183 probably the second world war was much shorter for the USSR without stands for Hitler until 1943 by the United States. Without the participation of half of the "civilized" countries on the side of Hitler. And even more so when entering this war on the territory of Europe, not after Russia returned the former borders. Do not be a hypocrite and do not forget that the lend-lease bvil not free. If the Nazis had won the us would not have been embarrassed to trade with them
@@mrmicro3183 not the first one
I must've seen the original video 10 times... makes me emotional every time
The first president, George Washington, wrote that the US would lean towards not getting involved in conflicts out of their circle.
JackAttack When US was still cool. A country of freedom. Now theyre selfish like others.
@@therevanchist9986 ikr
@@therevanchist9986 nah we just realized if we don’t involved in global politics then the world devolves into war, now we make sure war of conquest is illegal
@@lmac7633 Is that what you're telling yourself? Guess that's why America is so eager to send their militaries to conflict zones where there's oil. Open your eyes man. They can assassinate a dictator when they know theyll have gain from it. They could kill Lukashenko, but they dont, cause there would be no gain from it for them. Theyre selfish.
@@lmac7633 by doing war to conquer the resources of other nations?
My grandfather was a b17 pilot in WW2. He was shot down and sent to stalag luft III
You know what isn't fair?...They didn't include the invasion of African Countries who lost Veteran too. Like South Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea etc. They fought valiantly too. They need to remembered and added to the list. Not right to forget their fallen as well.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Now it become apparent why the Soviet Union was so desperate to keep up as a superpower and never become vulnerable again. If they hadn't developed the A bomb when they did, the Americans and British would possibly have attacked them and broken them into smaller countries. That eventually happened anyway 50 years later. WW2 hardly touched our shores or threatened American civilians. We were making movies in Hollywood, building Disneyland and playing baseball while European and Asian cities were being levelled. Americans are quick to want to use military solutions because we have never had to suffer the devastation of war on our own soil. We should be thankful more than we would feel pride...
Great video Luka. What an eye opener 👀👀👀👀👀 for some of you!
Yet america also Still involved in multiple wars in small countries today and one of the reasons why Middle East is still at war
"Human can do the worst things.." I mean yeah.. Earlier this year when the news were hot about us-iran military attacks, many in social medias were actually so hyped and excited to the possibility of Ww3.. Even only the idea of it. Probably to them it will be "cool".. I was completely speechless. Like.. wtf .. Do they know what war means
Yh, here in Greece all Greeks are like '' yE bRo iF tHeY aTtAcK wE WiLl fxCk tHeM uP'', of course usually the teens say that, that don't know shit about war and think it's cool, it's really sad
Edit:If turkey attacks*
My dad and his first cousin who was his best friend enlisted at age 17. Dad never talked about WWII much. That generation rarely did. He went through a Typhoon tied to a mast. That he spoke about. He watched ships break like matchsticks. The waves were so big he could see the bottom of ships then they would drop low. He served in the Pacific Theatre. His cousin was killed on a ship that was hit by a kamakazi pilot. My dad was supposed to be on it but was in sick bay. He was only 18. His name was Adelbert. I was named for him as Adell. After the war my dad went to college, police academy, FBI academy and became a policeman. He served 28 years and was Chief for 11 of them. My dad was the best man I've ever known. He was intelligent, funny, kind and I never saw him lose his temper. We lived in a small town when he was a cop. When he became Chief he had no friends and didn't really hang out with anyone. I didn't understand why until I got older. He never wanted to be put in a situation for "favors". Great man, he passed in 2008 and I still think of him every day.
My poor dad. I am 4th of 5 kids the oldest is 9 yrs older, then 8, 5 and my younger sibling 2 yrs. The oldest went through the 60s with acid, weed and the hatred of police. We were all stoners at some point. I started senior year, 1975. He knew but only warned me to be careful and remember his job could be affected. He thought weed should be legal. He retired in 1977 and said that in an interview for the local paper. Cool dad.
You need to react to Pearl Harbor to understand why the US entered the war
I still don’t understand why Japan did that. Like didn’t they know how much super power we had?
@@justabuckeyesfan if japan had continued with their land grabs, the u.s. probably would have entered the war against japan anyways. the idea was to destroy the carriers and as much as possible at pearl harbor, thereby crippling the us pacific fleet. if they had succeeded in their original goal of sinking the carriers, it would have taken the u.s. much longer the rebuild the fleet and by that point after the resources they would have acquired from the lands they have taken might have fielded a much stronger fleet, with much higher material reserves to keep the fight going.
@@mrexists5400 good plan, poor execution
@@dylanholman3 very, and if they had extended the plan to attacking the oil reserves and repair facilities, and were successful with the first part of the plan, that would have forced the pacific fleet to go all the way back to mainland us. and no telling how different the pacific theater would have gone at that point
@@justabuckeyesfan I mean, they probably didn’t. America’s involvement in WWI was brief, and then we cut our military considerably after the war. It wasn’t until WWII that America emerged as a superpower. Until then we were a pretty isolationist country and our military was not known around the world like it is now. So yeah, I think Japan didn’t realize that they were going to wake the sleeping giant, as the saying goes.
My grandpa and 4 of his brothers fought in World War II. They were all fortunate and came back home safely. Its sad how many people died and didn't get to come back home to their families... What is actually horrible is that Stalin just threw soldiers at Nazi Germany.... he didn't care about how many he lost. He just had to win no sacrifice was too great. He actually order the civilians that lived in Stalingrad to stay in the city. If they left, he'd have them arrested or killed. He then later killed more of his own people himself.
That's one reason I don't like messed infantry charges, drowning the enemy in rivers of your own blood is not a sane battle tactic.
I think it’s crazy the out of the 243 years that America has been around we’ve been at war for 225 years
Remembrance day bois.
This video gives me chills every time. My grandpa fought for America though the western front as a teenager. There's a reason they're called "The Greatest Generation". The courage every person that had to live through that era had cannot be understated.
They really the greatest generation. all who fought to free a humanity from the Nazi monster
It would be be cool if you reacted to the St. Louis Blues 2019 cup run. Theres a 'mini movie' on RUclips and the Blues youtube page posted 4 separate segments about the events after called 'History Made'. A historical, never before seen run for our first cup and the city went mental.
The video was very informative and that time ending was so cool.
ww2 was won and lost on the eastern front.
All the other countrys involved did their valiant part to bring the beast down but as a german i cant help but get a litle angry every time an american says somethimg along the lines of "we won ww2 for the world". For it was, for the biggest part, the unbelievable sacrifice of the soviets that defeated Germany.
The Soviets were important but they couldn't have won it on their own
@-tsph Because the eastern front was 1 of 4 fronts
@@co8783 an yet most of Germanys best forces were on the eastern front trying to stop the soviets.
@@tf-uderpy699 I didn't say it wasn't very important. Just that it wasn't the only front in the war that was vastly more important than all of the others.
@Cel2Savage The Pacific? North Africa? Italy? Western Europe? Burma?
A German plane, unloading some bombs to gain altitude in the war, unloaded one right next to my grandparent's house, coming mere meters away from destroying them. If it had been a few meters closer, I wouldn't be here, typing this comment. Whether it be economic, physically, mentally, it was hard to find someone not affected by this awful conflict.
Maybe invest in a greenscreen in the future? Sometimes important stuff can get covered up by how much of your room is visible in the shot. Alternatively maybe just crop out the right 1/3 of your camera and the top bit to make the extra part that isn't you in the camera as small as possible.
He actually has one, but didn't like the hassle it took to get good results.
That part at the end where it zooms in on the time, if you're watching it on their website, it seems to zoom in on your current time.
history of japan by bill wurtz
The photo of the father holding his small child seconds before being shot will haunt me for the rest of my life. I have a 5 year old daughter. I can't imagine the fear going through his mind or his poor child.
It’s not the fear going through the child that disturbs me, it’s that he has no idea that his life is about to end right there.
@@luckyblockyoshi yes absolutely true. And the fact that the father knows that his child is going to be shot as well, moments later.
You should react to the Armchair Historian’s video on the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan
I love your channel. Watch the time-lapse of the future!
Gotta react to the first medal of honor ever recorded
I love how this said mao only killed 40 million, where the actual numbers push 100 million
I had family who was part of the holocaust. They actually escaped with their sister under a fence. It's very very very sad. But I'm glad they got out. But... They listened to their parents get shot in the head...
Dad was U.S Army and we lived in France for 3 years. I recall visiting various Memorial sites in France and Germany. White crosses as far as I could see. Mausoleums with crypts inside and small windows outside where one could see that each crypt was filled with different parts of human skeletons: arm bones in one, leg bones in another, and so on from military service members that were blown apart and unidentifiable. Tours of underground German command posts carved into mountains. Played in pill boxes in the forest that surrounded the housing area. Lived in villages that had large fields cordoned off with barbed wire that contained mine fields. City blocks of areas in cities that remained leveled from bombs, surrounded by wooden fences with peep holes to see inside. Other than that, France and Germany were beautiful countries. I don't recall any special foods in Germany, but in France my favorite memories was getting a hot loaf of bread that longer than I was tall, ice cream in restaurants was heavenly, and have never had as wonderful a cookie.
Fair winds and following seas to all.
This isn't even covering the injured soldiers
Vietnam War was horrific. Our boys were drafted and had to sign up for draft starting age 18. Every week on the news the draft numbers were pulled and announced, which meant young men were so scared that their number would be called. Draft cards were burned and many fled to Canada. When the soldiers were spit on and condemned even though they were drafted. Many suicides and PTSD. Love to hug a Vietnam Vets because they never got a home welcome. We learned a lot from that war!
If you want to learn more about the American Iraq conflict I’d suggest armchair historians videos on it. they are terrific!
My Granddad and his twin sister were roughly 7 years old when WWII ended. He doesn't remember a lot of the war itself, but he remembers very clearly the after affects. He remembers his childhood friends who would come home after school and learn that their father or brother were killed in action or presumed dead. His uncle was killed. His dad fought. His mother managed to keep their large family together.
He later joined the army and served in the Vietnam War and then in a diplomatic unit in Germany. He can always tell us more about those years. I treasure the memories he shares with me. I can remember for him and share with other people what is slowly being forgotten as that generation passes away.
Я русский! Не забывайте,какой ценой далась нам эта Победа!
What?
@@creeeeeeeeee4101 переведи.
@@creeeeeeeeee4101 "I'm russian! Don't forget at what cost we got that Victory!"
I requested this so much!!!! Thanks for reacting to it!😁
You should react to “There Will Never Be Another Dale Earnhardt”.
ive been asking this for months but he wont react to Nascar anymore for some reason
He doesn’t seem to be super into NASCAR, which is fine. He should do videos about things he’s interested in, otherwise, the reactions aren’t going to be very genuine.
My Great Grandpa was a WW2 veteran. He was in the navy and faught for the US. I’m told stories from relatives how he was an amazing person and very kind. He really cared about his family and never wanted to talk about the war. He passed away December 2001 from cancer. 6 years before I was born. His father also fought in WW1.
You should react to Mexican American war in 16 minutes
When they mentioned Pearl Harbor, over half of the 2,403 American deaths occurred on the USS Arizona (1,177 sailors and Marines killed) and the USS Oklahoma (432 sailors killed) when those two battleships were sunk during the attack. 23 sets of brothers died on the Arizona along with a father and son. 25 young men from my home state of Iowa were among the Arizona's casualties. Most were between the ages of 19-23.
As horrific as all these deaths were, can you imagine what the population of the world would be today had they lived?
Wars are now fought on the ‘asymmetric battlefield’ now, which experts claim is also incredibly destabilizing. I feel like we are all holding our breath...
Horrible war for everyone. My great-grandfather was one of the few who survived imprisonment after Stalingrad. Thanks for the video man, love from Canada
If you want a more personalized version of WWII -- watch Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks series -- Band of Brothers and The Pacific
I'm German and in EVERY family you had people that were killed or crippled or disfigured in the war as a soldier. Even if they came from rural areas that had not much war going on in daily life. Both my grandfathers survived, both were POW, one in France the other in the East. (Both were not in the Nazi party BTW)
I'm born 1974 and these people were around. (Not my grandfathers, but still). And you had MILLIONS of people coming in from the East that fled death, torture and rape and experienced it. After the war they were in the neighborhood, in your house. Because of shortage of housing it was mandatory to take people in.
Other then the guilt that many or most Germans still have to this day, this death and devastation still runs in the collective and individual psyche. And that is all over Europe and I think this mindset and awe that is still present, when it comes to war, connects the Europeans, but even closer Germans with Russians, Poles and others from the East. I imagine I feel what they feel. Might sound strange, but it was SO major that it might have changed the genes. There is a darkness and depression around these peoples, that we share. But Soviets could cover this hurt with pride, while all Germans had was shame and guilt.
Nie wieder Krieg!
The first casualty of battle is the plan. The attack was successful, not as successful as it could have been but that's the nature of war sometimes. It's easy to nitpick after the fact but in the moment its usually chaos. But that's why any military studies past war and battles to hopefully be more effective in the future.
My grandpa was a junior by the end of the war and we got a special licence to drive a school bus because there were so many men gone that needed someone to drive the kids to school.
Why do they have to be called “Nazi” soldiers, they were German soldiers
they called Russians soviets I believe
idk why tho, its not like Americans are called democrats
I want to share my grandfather's story.
Hungary mostly wanted to remain neutral but due to proximity really had no chance to evade Nazi Germany's political gravity, a prime minister even committed suicide when left with no choice. As puppet had to partake on Eastern front against Soviets. We were preparing and finalising a separate peace with east and west, but learning about this the nazis occupied us.
My grandfather was a well liked butcher in our town (60km west of Budapest). Got drafted into the military. An officer friend helped arrange that he could remain home as an anti air serviceman, instead of being taken to the bloodiest eastern front. Eventually the soviets occupied Hungary. Our town was occupied back and forth numerous times by nazi and soviet forces. He did what he could to to hide, not just himself but others.
He was captured by soviets. Taken by train to east, possibly to gulag. But at entering a counting station, when lining them up for processing he begged the guard to let him take a dump. He went to bushes and crouched, second later sprinted as fast as he could and got away. The officer friend once said to him if ever gets captured he should walk 1 km parallel by the highway back home, which he did.
He was one of the luckier survivors of the time, let's say due to positive karma. He helped jews hide during nazi reign. In our street soviets shot at wall random 12 civilians, from this for an orphan he acted as father. He said that big proportion of soviet troops were war torn, even feeble. And that amongst nazis he saw the most frighteningly efficient cold ones. Later during soviet rule's communism our family house of generations was taken by state.
In December this year will be the 10th year he passed away at 92. He was always tried to be positive, humble, never meaning to hurt anyone and for me was the role model of simple goodness. I miss him.