Mercenaries - Congo '64 [Remastered]
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- The Four Tops - Reach Out
I wasn't originally planning on making this but people were asking for it and I needed something that I could work on relatively quick over the last couple weeks. I haven't made any changes to the structure of this one, just used a much higher quality copy.
In which people finally understand the term "remaster."
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This is a certified MajorSamm classic.
Petscop 2
Fuckin certed!
I really prefer the originals...
Honestly this video is what made me subscribe to this channel
This should be a certified fucking historic piece. Sam is incredible.
A little research answered most of my initial questions; the footage is from a 1965 documentary called "Africa Addio". Most of the men you see in the clip are from "5 Commando" - a mercenary unit of the Congolese National Army which was led by an ex-British military officer, Major "Mad" Mike Hoare. They were active from 1964-1967.
Great documentary, really weird but true
Yes, the epaulet worn at 02:21 by a Belgium is theirs.
Is that the guy with the bird on his shoulder?
mike was a fucking legend, such an interesting figure
Mad Mike lived to be a hundred years old
Not a cell phone in sight, just mercs living in the moment
And dying
OMG warcrimes and vibes 😌🥰
Hmmm, cell phones were a little hard to come by in 1964.
Life was 10x better without cell phones and internet.
Ironic mentioning cell phones as the fight for the Congo, the southeast mineral rich portion Katanga, was for metals from uranium to the metal that makes cell phone circuitry.
Ever since the first Mercenaries, Reach Out has been my go-to Spotify radio playlist during road trips. Thanks for the great taste in music in addition to the awesome videos.
Wait road trips
If you like the sound of the Four Tops you will enjoy Northern Soul.
You're very welcome, you have great taste by association now
Motown always comes through with the classic R&B. Greatest record label in American history
That's a good song to make a road trip in Africa
Never enough of these chaps. Still trying to figure out who Coke Pirate is/was.
Me too bro me too
One of most mysteries of Internet: the unknown mercenary loved by all
What a savage though
is tiv wasilenko
@@chrisbarandao2208 idk bro
Man, didnt know I wanted a Congo remaster so bad. Those guys went through a lot, you can see it in their eyes. Also the merc pirate who dolphin dives is just on another level
Keeping human skulls as souvenirs might also be a sign that they've been through some things.
@@Vixctor13 communists aren't human
@@Rat__Trap based
@@Rat__Trap true
cocaine pirate's name is Tiv Wasilenko btw according to some people on the old version. Kind of just accepted as fact here that his name is Tiv
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.”
-Joseph Conrad
This is end .. my only friend
The Horror
The Horror
“Savages…”
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.” - every mercenary ever.
Sadly Walt Kurtz has gone completely insane.
At first I thought this was fake, but then I looked at other parts of this documentary and I had to say that these videographers had serious balls.
they were almost executed by the locals, you can look up the meme video "wait they arent white, theyre italian" its the same guys
I love this one. The old version introduced me to your channel.
Same here I can thank this guy for so much good music
Enclave here. Why isn't your video feed working?"
@@lucluc7063 because I jammed a wrench in the screen
Same here as well.
Needs more enclave
I remembered watching this the first time and thinking "damn this is a weird movie". Knowing it's all real goes to show how great the camera quality was.
With extra realistic death and a brutal sense of humor.
Yeah this murder and war, a real triumph of Photography, isn't it?... :/
The creators really just went straight into the hell that was early post-colonial Africa, filmed everything they could walking on the razor's edge when it comes to safety, commented it as objectively as they could and left us this masterpiece. Rare thing back then, almost impossible nowadays.
This was honestly a hard watch considering it really brought back some memories. However it was some of the best camera work I think could have been done, especially considering the limitations of the equipment they had. These camera crews had amazing guts and balls of steel.
@@lightblue254 it really is, it's beautiful
It always amazes me how good the camera quality is.
Cameras from this time are analog and not digital, they can be restored indefinitely
Nothing like film
@@ArturMorgan7491 I wish you had succeded, but not in art
Looks like 16mm footage.
@@ArturMorgan7491 how does this work and what does it mean to be restored indefinitely? Can it really be improved no matter how good our screens get or something?
Things I could spot on detail:
1. M1911.
2. FN FAL (Standard Issue rifle & Paratrooper Version) - The RIGHT ARM of the free world.
3. Franchi LF-57.
4. LMG M1919.
5. CETME Model C
6. M2 HB (recognizable by the rear sight, the firing grip and trigger system)
7. Heckler & Koch HK33A2
8. Vigneron M2
9. FN Model 24/30
I’m pretty sure that’s an isreal version M1919A4
wow. good eye
Yes but can you name the Ribbons on that Rupert?
wasnt the HK33A2 produced from 1968? I thought this video was based on the Congo Crisis, which is during the early 60's (1960-65), or was there a war later that included loads of mercenaries?
@@bozo8724 pretty much, yes. It was designed in 1960's primarily for exports use. Now as of the video, I took the muzzle flash, front sight, left charging handle and barrel handguard as a reference for my searching, it was either _this_ specific model or maybe a clon or variant. Keep in mind most of the set-ups used on modern wars (starting from 60's) are way different than what movies or TV shows resemble. Look on Vientam's M60 door gunners set-up, it's way too modern for that era.
It's surprising at how incredibly similar it is to today's Congo, The country has developed so bad which literally has the same look it had in the 60's
Corruption , war and greed
Instead of rebelling, they should have been grateful to the Belgians. While Kind Leopold II's private rule had been a disaster, subsequent rule by the Belgian state was a great success. In the years leading up to rebellion, the quality of life in the Congo had never before or since increased so quickly. Life there was much better then than it is now. For everyone there.
But the upper class blacks became so prosperous and educated that they started having notions of self-rule, not realizing that the majority of the population was still in too primative a condition for them to easily create a European-style country in central Africa without leadership from Europeans. The country descended into violent conflict and tyranny and has never emerged. If there hadn't been violent resistance to Belgian colonization for at least a few more decades, enough so that uplifting Belgian education programs could have spread, the Congo could have become a more peaceful and better-run country than South Africa or Botswana.
It's even worse for the local blacks than what happened in Rhodesia. Life for blacks was better in Rhodesia than under Mugabe's dictatorship, and before Mugabe took over there was Muzorewa's often-ignored and short-lived black-led Zimbabwe-Rhodesia which should to this day be mourned as a tragic loss and the last decent government of the country before genocidal tyrant Mugabe took over.
But in the Congo, the Belgian rule was seen as the most "enlightened" colonial rule in Africa, run for the benefit of the black natives. The blacks were being educated and provided and taught medicine and other social improvements. Black "évolués" were being created quickly, and life for them and everyone else in the county was improving quickly. Some of the newly educated, inspired by Marxist radicalism, living in their educated, modernized little bubble and ignorant of the fragility of the countryside newfound civilization, then tried to take over before the country was ready. They lasted about five minutes without the Belgians to lean on before other black natives, more violent, less civilized men, killed them to seize power for themselves. The whole country collapsed and has not recovered since. If they'd continued at the pace they were developing at before the rebellion and war against the Belgians, they'd be the most advanced country in all of Africa. Now they're one of the worst places on Earth. Most women in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have been raped in their endless wars. They have more rape and violence than anywhere on the planet. Congolese no longer survive to old age, but if there were any old people left they'd remember Belgian rule as better than what came after.
I'm not saying the Congolese should have remained subservient forever. I'm saying a Commonwealth approach where a country reaps the modernizing benefits of colonization and then subsequently gradually gains independence works better. It maximizes stability and growth. Had they remained with Belgium, they'd probably be self-ruling or independent by now, as most European colonies around the world became. Most of them didn't degrade into what the Congo became. The Congo needed a delicate, gradual approach. The population was not used to the peaceful modern lifestyle the Belgians were promoting. Universal education didn't have enough time to work and give the masses opportunies and wealth.
How much change can you do when your country is a literally forest?
@@frds_skce , South Korea and Singapore never existed ??
@@pepe__thefrog350 well, Germany or Canada as well
My favourite is the one with Lauren O'Connels cover of Roland The Thompson Gunner 👌
Exactly
Definitely
Yeah, she's a bitter daike though, who can't take a joke.
@Jahtzee I wrote under her video that she should shave her Sasquatch legs, that she was clearly exposing on purpose. She replied something about happy pride month and then blocked my comments.
@@piotr277 How harry were they?
The footage quality increase is incredible
2:17 broke my heart... The way he tries to hold the tears in, brought me into tears. I was a soldier in the Greek heavy artillery division at a small outpost on a small island about 10 miles off the Turkish shores. There were many refugees with the same look of despair and fear of what's going to happen next, being literally washed ashore in these wrecked, half sunken boats.
you know that man rape and burn alive innocents in that document
I would like to know your perspective as someone that saw these things directly, can you get into more detail of your time in that island and your experience with the refugees?
Those refugees were usually smuggled by human traffickers for a huge price then put on shitty boats that wouldn't survive the aegean sea.
The ones here are islamists so I harbor no sympathy for them but I still feel bad knowing that there must've been a few decent people among the drowned.
If im not wrong he and his friend got caught after setting fire to school with children in it
@@savero-4228 Different dude
What a pansie
2:51 this guy still has the best drip in the universe
Wrong. The guy at 32 Seconds.
thats so called "f2p" friend
I had a big complex about whether I would be a good officer because it is not an art to become an officer, but it's an art to not mess up. And until a person does something, he cannot be sure of himself. I was most afraid of being afraid...
I had an additional problem. The problem of discipline... you had to rely solely on personal authority, because you could not punish a soldier, his friends in the next ambush might shoot you in the back.
Rafal Gan-Ganowicz, mercenary.
More than 25 years ago, i had a customer at my motorcycle shop that was reputedly a mercenary in the '60's. He was grizzled, rough and intense. He rode his motorcycle all year, even in the snow. He claimed to have ridden it to the tip of South America, which was absolutely believable. I never had the nerve to ask him about it, but to this day i believe it to be true.
This vid is Such a neat peak into a world of rough men that enjoy the mayhem of war and were willing to do ugly things for whomever was willing to pay the best.
0:10 Jeremy Wade from river monsters
Why does this footage from the 60s look better than some modern war footage now??? Im so confused.
It was filmed on an analogue camera
Film is more difficult to work with than tape, but it was much much higher quality. Once tape came around, and digital cameras after that, we moved to them for their ease of use, even though for a while that meant much lower quality (digital cameras have since improved in resolution).
2:50 Finally, we get to see the Driplord in even higher quality
My 80yo Great Uncle enlisted as a mercenary to fight in the congo in the 60s.
The pay was very good, like 3 soldier's salaries put together with some more up front. He said he enlisted because he was young and "felt invincible and feared nothing".
Luckily the guy recruiting died or something because he ended up not going to the Congo. To this day we joke about how he narrowly avoided dying of malaria while fighting a guerilla XD.
To be fair, he was and is a very fit man, and very possibly would have survived. But I'm just glad he didn't go to get PTSD in a jungle.
Physical fitness helps, but it is no guarantee of survival.
Ain't no amount of pull-ups gonna save a man from a roadside mine.
@@Killicon93 He was fit for combat, that's what I mean.
@@Killicon93 yeah, a bullet odoes not discriminate nor does it judge
My father in law was a merc pilot there in that timeframe.
A lot of murders happened shortly off-camera after this was filmed.
Mostly ex members of the Parachute regiment , Rhodesian army and sundry waifs and strays . Brilliant irregular forces, got the job done , picked up their wages , and bugged out . If they survived many of them spent their days after ,propping up a bar somewhere ( or bought a pub )and going to reunions . We don't make them like that anymore
Lol, in his book Hoare tells how half of his boys didn’t spoke English
I would totally commit multiple war crimes just to make my subsequent low-key beach bar more interesting. Gotta be authentic I suppose.
There are a lot of people like that around. They popped up in ukrain on both sides. Lots of people wanna fight
Read the book Mad Dog Killers by Ivan Smith. He was there and gives a brutally raw and honest account of the goings on there. He is especially critical of Mike Hoare’s handling of the whites who were sheltering in a church in Stanleyville and butchered by the Simba’s. BTW a distant relative of mine was killed by the Simba’s during that time. He worked in the mining sector and was a non-combatant.
Always good to start of the year with Mercenaries in the Congo
My father once joined the world peacekeeping force (Congo 1963) from the Indonesian National Armed Forces, served for one year... "salute to my father's achievements"...
Bapak saya also, tetapi dari Malaysia
My gran uncle was with the Irish UN deployment joined at 17
We had 6000 Irish fight in the Congo from 60 to 64
Khakis, FALs, and M1 Helmets. Now in HD!
@2:20 The guy firing his pistol with the US helmet and single green epaulet is either French or French/Belgian because he's yelling "allez" the French word for go, get out of here.
This remaster is incredible. Absolutely amazing Work.
Major Sam you deserve 1 million views. Those that get an emotional reaction from these films watch them over and over…
When I was 15 I subscribed to SOF . I signed up in a peacetime military and was there for a short boring time.
20 years later the world erupts and I’m too old. Maybe I should at nearly 60 go to Ukraine and support port people
dont fight in ukraine you will die
Ukraine is terrible
Merc Pirate was definitely just there for the action, dude was blasting and diving
This one really deserved a remaster. Wonderful!
Watching these certified legends makes me wonder how the Irish lasted for so long and took no casualties against mercenary’s presumably similarly to these at Jadotville.
Faulques was too over-confident at the ability of the African fighters
@@conorbyrne3348 Plus, even the Irish get lucky once in awhile
Because the mercenaries where incompetent, and of barely any military value. Mike Hoare was way better at self promotion, than actually soldiering. He was known as a pretty arogant and poor leader of men. As most mercenaries, they excelled most in drinking, avoiding combat agaist anything resembling military opposition, looting and war crimes against civilans and prisoners.
Because the Irish were formed soldiers againts mostly thugs with a former WW2 french corporal at command.
Because their irish nuff said
Always loved the symbolism of the dude lighting that ciggie with the dollar bill
0:38
If I'm not mistaken, that is Mad Mike Hoares. An indian-born Irishman who recently passed in 2020.
Times were very different for every generations. It is crazy.
mad Mike or Bob Denard?
Probably neither (guy with parrot in front of Katanga flag).
I believe Bob Denard was with Commando 6. He wasn't well respected in Commando 5.
My 60yr mom started to sing the chorus immediately when the song started
Qual o nome dessa música?
@@ronaldocunha2716"Reach out" por "the tops"
@@ronaldocunha2716 The Four Tops - Reach Out
@@ronaldocunha2716I’ll be there
Starting 2022 with one of the most iconics videos
Oka Crisis, 1990. Armed Mohawk standoff against the Canadian Forces and Quebec Provincial Police. Canadian media captured a lot of good footage.
Manliest vacation video I've ever seen
They seem like good people. I'm sure they didn't commit any crimes while they were there.
Certainly they didnt commit crimes against humanity
Watching Major Samm because his edits are amazing ---> broke
Watching Major Samm because he has certifiable bangers and you want to find more ---> woke
2:35 i watched the documentary and that guy died a really gruesome death i cant even imagine actually being there.
Hope it doesnt get age restricted
Halfway through I thought it was a movie before realizing they're all real people, this actually happened, and nothing is staged
I spent 5.5 months in the bush of Rhodesia setting up Christian operated safe camps with several other former military, U.S & Canadian. This was in 78. Our last month there was throughout June and about 10 days into July. A friend and I had just been up to to the Mozambican border to visit and asses the security of some British friends at a Christian mission there. My partner, a former SEAL, and I had made it very clear that they were in a bad place at a bad time. The day after we left, every white person at the mission, including women and babies, were all violated and butchered and murdered by ZANLA scum. I witnessed 6 of the autopsies, one being a 3 year old girl who died from massive internal injuries caused by a gang raping that only Satan could conjure up. Her mother was found next to her with a axe in her back. All this is I believe still public record.
These were that final days of a man having the freedom and right to be proud of who he was, of what God made him to be.
We did some things ..... I did some things after Vumba that I have had to live with for many years now, things I am not proud of. But I have never once backed up on my belief that Rhodesia was a beautiful, safe, prosperous, honest, Christian nation that was properly kept Apartheid because of the guaranteed political, cultural, and societal, disasters that were to occur once the nation went to a so-called democratic voting system.
Is it fair to tell the people who gave everything they had to build a nation out of nothing that now their beautiful nation will be run by outsiders that despise them so much that they will have to leave their homeland just to keep their families safe?
And now as Rhodesia went, so goes Western culture.
@willb.5225 nope, I'm happy he gets to see the death of Western hegemony, HAHAHAHHAA, cry boy! Glory to Russia!
@@MB2.0Russia isn't exactly a leftist liberal paradise
Hero, fuck communism
cope
Sup internet dude. Regardless of cool story bro this kind of shit happened and I myself am beyond sad we only send thoughts and prayers. But whatever. Good times soft men and all that.
These videos capture the times so well. I hope to see you make some videos on recent but already obscure conflicts such as Nagorno-Karabach and India-China.
Yes, more eyes on Armenia please
Watched the original video for a first time several days ago and I've fell in love with it. The footage selection, the music. You really have talent for making nice edits. Here's for a great 2022, MajorSamm. Keep doing great.
This is an amazing video. Seeing it made me want to read up on what actually happened and man was it an insane time. Currently looking to find "Congo mercenary" by Mad Mike Hoare, if anyone has a digital version that'd be much appreciated. Phenomenal video
I hope you find the book. It is a good read.
My mechanic here in LA served with Mad Mike. Next time I see him, I'll see if he has a copy.
If you are looking for books on Congo war "Condottieri" by Rafał Ganowicz is also a very good read. He was there as a mercenary and story about local shaman with medical degree from Prague that was cited in comments on previous version of this video is from that book.
I have it in pdf, if you’re still interested
@@pargoman854 may I
No telephones, no Wi-Fi just people living the moment
That Dutch looking dude with a beret and the pirate guy were hardcore as hell. They weren’t messing around. Kinda scary actually
These mercs have SO much personality. WW2 vets, young men seeking adventure, and as one stated "The money, fighting communism, and the adventure." Another simply said "I had to get away from the wife and mother." Anyone that can hip fire a .30 cal and casually change a mag while smoking a cigarette in the middle of a firefight is just another level of manhood we're sorely lacking today. The communist threat didn't go away-it just changed into wokeness and environ-mentalism within the West.
Quanta merda em um comentário só 😂
2perf 35mm has this gritty feel, not too much like 16mm but enough to not feel like proper 3perf.
1:36 best dolphin dive
Cocaine is a powerful drug.
Hey Ryan, hey Riley just wanna make sure you guys know how much I love you that I am going to do my best to always be here for you... unfortunately as you know, I am sick, but I am fighting every day for you guys.... you and Riley have given me all the motivation I need to go through everything that I'm going through... eventually I believe Cancer will take me, but I want you guys to know that you were my favorite people in the world and that I always want you to be happy
Never thought I'd see a remaster of this video.
no coddling back then..just mercs kicking some major ass without mercy.
Ever since watching this and Africa Addio I’ve always wanted to become a mercenary in Africa
5 Commando was quite a collection of thugs, layabouts and misfits, who some how still proved well effective against the Simbas. Check out my dude with the dismounted 1919, aaaagh!!! That's awesome.
They may have been ruthless and thugs but most were former military except for the younger ones. Against what were basically local militias they certainly were more than enough. There's no rule saying that someone that kills for fun cannot be a good soldier.
@@florinivan6907 Trudat! Domestic Cats kill for fun, and they are the most successful of predators.😺 The fact this footage exists and is here and that I found this video - incredible. Epic. My feed gave me something I didn't know existed.
Pretty sure that songs from MajorSamm videos make up at least a third of my Spotify playlist
Wouldn't be a surprise if the members were both from Allies and Axis and also veterans of Malayan Emergency and Korea.
The golden era of mercenaries
Before they became PMCs?
@@kaptenlemper Hah, no one calls them "PMCs" outside of paperwork
@@zissimoskalarrytis3865 you mean news reports?
@@apileofcocaine6855 that and official documents from the UN and such
Well i mean mercanaries has been existing since medival era but there are no camera to record it
Fight house to house with Browning 1919. Be a man.
It's actually an FN30, which is very similar but not identical to a 1919.
Dude ran into that house with negative fucks to give.
Straight savages.
If you are fighting mercenaries... and the point man is dressed like a pirate... and the CO has a parrot on his shoulder.. just fuckin' run.
One of these guys gifted my grandpa a looted fan from a hospital that still works to this day
Swear everytime I watch this I find something new and interesting, like the incoming rounds impacting the ground when they're spraying the hut with the 1919, or one of them rocking a g3
2:35 The guy in the white shirt got shot a few seconds later in the original. Very crazy and disturbing recordings.
Most of the people who were shot were terrorist / terrorist sympathizers, no need to feel bad. The same rebel group had set a school bus on fire and killed tons of people.
The FIRST video that I saw from the one and only MajorSamm has been remastered! Legend.
Good way to start the year
The gift that keeps on giving.
These guys were fierce hunters. You need balls of steels to press forward against the enemy with all that shooting. Praise for the Italian cameraman as well.
whiteboy summer '64
😂😂
Based.
Never clicked a notification so fast. Shoutout to the cocaine pirate!
the remaster of the remastered remaster
0.08 the guy is wearing British WW2 medal ribbons, 1939-45 Star and the Italian Campaign and some others.
Holy shit the day just got way better, thanks Major
M1's, FN's, HK's, Colts. The weapons that shaped the modern world!!!
Still as clean and masterfully edited as it was when you uploaded it for the first time. Keep it up Samm!
Is it possible that even an actual 4k scan from the original negative wouldn't look as good as this AI remaster?
00:25 the face of a war torn man
Esto es una obra de arte
Thats the rawest war footage I've ever seen, but the soldiers are clearly not trained well enough.
I learned a whole story by just watching this 3 minute music video.
I see you guys really like this Belgian - Congo episode..... Me too.
The Dogs Of War....Many mercs served in 1st Armored Div.....Germany...late 1970s....I was in 2 Armored Cavalry...most became NCO's based on experience...
All of these people seem so larger than life...
This was my first Majorsamm video I ever watched, which started it all.
Ahhh, ..America and Europe 2022..(History Repeats Itself ) 😉
My absolute favourite from all your videos, this is masterclass!
All those guys very skinny, but 100% warriors mf you can't deal with. So different than nowadays so called tough guys, muscular and big mouth, but just crying anytime about ptsd
Dang, even though I've watched it before, still sends the same chilling vibes as the original. Looking forward to your next one!
Also, any plans about the Malayan Emergency? ;)
The dude running around with the .30 cal Browning... that's a new level of *cool*.
I still think this is the best honestly, for some reason it just hits differently out of all the Series so far
Thank you for remastering this!!!
Perú - 80s
This is the terrorism era in my country, it was a really violent decade and there's many videos from that time not sure if they're enough to make a video like yours but still it would be nice to see it
1:57, someone tell me what gun is that
It's a CETME
The Spanish/Portuguese
version of the G3
Further more a Cetme model A or B
This one and the Boende liberation one are simply fantastic. The combination of the music, war... It resonates with how I feel these days.
The energy of this video is impeccable.
Most probably lots of South Africans there. I remember my S. Maj, when we had a quick dip in the river, he had more bullet holes than a sif. He mumbled before I could ask, 'Congo'.
Tons were from Belgium that’s where those pink shirts and hats come from.
We had hundreds of Irish serve there under the un most mercs we were against were Belgians
This one goes out to all the Mercs, pirates ,soldiers of fortune, hedge knights, sellswords and freebooters
Aren't mercs & sellswords the same thing
@@samanth.In some ways, they differ in mentalities and other things though
Say Major, I know you've got a lot of videos in the works but would you add the 1990 Oka crisis to the list? Theres a man in there with groucho glasses and it gets me everytime!