Communist Revolutionaries: When USSR Came Knocking On Reagan's Borders | M.A.D World | Timeline
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2023
- The Cold War: When nuclear weapons kept the entire world on the edge of M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction. As Russia, China and the USA flex their military muscles on the global stage today, ‘M.A.D. World’ takes a close look at the last time we were threatened by the might of world superpowers: The Cold War.
In this episode:
- The Caribbean island paradise of Grenada has a Marxist government and it’s just three and a half hours flight from Miami. When a violent coup installs an extremist leader, the USA moves swiftly. Overnight, they send in troops to invade the island and take over the government.
- The corrupt and brutal military dictatorship of Nicaragua is crushed by a national rebellion but the rebels are Marxist. The USA funds the counter-revolutionaries in a scandal that goes right to the top of the US Government.
- Ronald Reagan announces a new arms program that is so far from reality it is quickly dubbed ‘Star Wars’. The program aims to use a range of futuristic technology to build a laser defence system against nuclear attack. Many fear that if ever SDI becomes reality, it will upset the delicate balance of power of the Cold War.
- Gorbachev wants to stage a new revolution in Russia. He wants economic reform, greater freedom and an end to the Cold War. Talks begin with US President Reagan to begin destroying nuclear weapons and forge a renewed friendship between East and West.
- A new Russian Leader decides try and rescue the failing soviet economy. One of Mikhail Gorbachev’s first moves is to pull his troops out of Afghanistan. But the Mujahedeen do not sign the peace treaty and the Afghanistan war is far from over.
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Timeline is going crazy on Cold War docs. Love it!
Right dude ! I have been so pumped these past few weeks Cold War content like crazy. Really all I like to watch
Because it’s repeatin itself in many ways
Because it seems it's repeating itself.
This documentary is wrong and lefty propaganda. The Granadan invasion occurred because the leftist Prime-Minister was overthrown and murdered. The Organisation of American States, the Governor-General of Grenada and the endangered Americans gives ample justification for this. The Edit: "Contras" in Nicaragua were not exclusively former National-Guardsmen but also plenty of democratic opponents of the previous regime. They just were not communist. Furthermore the Contras won the next elections legitimately (A broad coalition from the left to the right.) and did not reverse but increased land-reform and finally the guy in charge of Nicaragua today Edit: "(07.01.23)" is the same guy as in the '80s. Edit: Ronald Wilson Reagan was correct, they were the Founding-Fathers of the country.
I also like Timeline to make documentaries on what The U.S. and Western Europe's Terrorism in Africa too.
the cold war has never really ended it only took a pause
Exactly, and it will never end. As long as there are nuclear weapons meaning as long as a direct military attack is out of the question the superpowers will attack each other with the cold war means. There's also the fact that all the dictatorial regimes in the world have their own imperialistic ambitions and in reality THAT was always the real cause of the Cold War. The USSR"s ambition and desire to spread communism to all the world is what triggered and maintained the Cold War.
@@JDA2185as long as they’re men they’ll always be wars no matter the country
@@user-otzlixr The only one who's very confused is you pal.
@@user-otzlixr dont worry I like Winnie the Pooh
"Within 24 hrs Prime bishop was killed" you just going to drop that bombshell and move right along?
commies always massacre bishops etc. all propaganda quickly glosses over it. meanwhile same propaganda has to make up fictional massacres to blame on the nazis. it's not whites in control of that propaganda, obviously, it's a religious group who is trying to wipe us out
Whoever wrote this documentary does not seem to realise that was part of the reason why the Americans invaded.
Always a joy to watch.
Congratulations on your TV license
@@SnakeBush😂
23:00 anyone else hearing “our friends were the Contras, freedom was their mantra so we sent them lots of money for guns, and land mines!”?
That a song?
The 80's were a period of anxiety and fear of who's gonna end the world 🤔
Maybe the 50s and 60s ,but the 80s? I don't think so. Fast forward to today and yes the ultra left is trying to take us to of a more communist state. Less government, more freedom. STOP MASS SURVEILLANCE!
Not true. For me, the 80s were a period of warmth, happiness and peace. I miss the 80s so much.
Ah the 1980's, when the oligarch found out they could call a cow a duck and the people would listen.
Ah 2023 when a man can say he's a woman and a woman can say she's man and world leaders force you to accept without any question
This was interesting
great series! love it!
Thank you for this. My previous knowledge of Israel consisted of trading EXODUS by Leon Uris.
"Are we the baddies?"
No, Gonzalez. Your familia wouldn't have moved here if we were.
@samantharay6098 oh yeah, our nation is just lovely to immigrants and refugees.
@@TicTacYo100 pathetic sarcasm, but yes actually
lmao white supremacist@@samantharay6098
@@samantharay6098 This is what makes me rather annoyed at the America evil narrative the left has now. Okay then, why did the Central-Americans not flee to Cuba or the soviet union and not the country that supposedly oppresses them? Maybe it is because subverting Central America was not a good thing. In the '80s, America was willing to at least look the other way if the revolutions were not marxist (See Korea and the Philippines who were staunch Cold War allies.). They made the correct decision of course. Instead today after decades of the United States of America doing nothing Nicaragua is ruled by the guy the Contras were fighting against.
15:10 🎯
Arming crazies wasn't helpful.. Reagan
The myths about Reagan & the USSR are insane. Carter set a counter defense in motion in Afghanistan before the Soviets even invaded, which Reagan neglected. Thanks to owing Iran a favor for keeping the hostages until 1981, they set up the disaster of Iran-Contra, another humiliation for the USA when we could've quietly earned credit with dignity.
I think the communist committed the killings then turned around and blamed the contras. Strategy 101
@@alexlopez5800 lol cute. dumb but cute
@@samantharay6098it’s doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to make them feel good.
What was he meant to do exactly? Let a communist state flourish? Also it is a bit hypocritical to complain about the Contras but not any other freedom fighters (Also if you look at the electoral record the Contras were voted in in the late '80s.). The commies supplied brutal terrorists in Asia and Africa but people complained about the colonial states but the moment the Americans do it everyone hates them. The Iran-Contra scandal is also @~?£ed up because it was the democrat's gag order which prevented funds normally going through.
Americans doing their thing 😒
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Clint Eastwood make a movie about the invasion of Grenada?
Heartbreak ridge.
@@Andy-te1mw That's it!
Man I love this country we just don’t care about nothing but guns and emotions!! 🦅
The only way to be a free human being is to have a Gun, the emotional thing is more like France or Sweden
@@bhiatt9803 Good luck using that gun against a nuclear superpower that can easily cut off electricity, clean water, internet, and access to food and medicine. The rebels at Waco and Ruby Ridge were freed from living on earth.
This isn't the 19th century anymore. You can use arms to protect your life, liberty, and property from criminals; but unilaterally declaring the state to be "tyrannical" because of a political disagreement is nothing more than suicide by cop.
Cringe...what's even more funny, America is over 🤣🤣
@@PoetofHateSpeech Sure. You could prove that by getting off of America's internet, and go parrot Kremlin and CCP propaganda to people living in third-world countries that don't have a choice but to believe your lies.
Now I’m sure old Ronnie wouldn’t do anything like that😂
People keep saying global warming but yet we be living Cold War . Make up your mind Mother Nature !
Lol who was the guy that was worried the island would flip over
Hank Johnson 😂
23:17 I was a baby during this time period.
Sea eye aye
I didn't realize Timeline was being funded by Putin
3:00
18:32 Democracy sounds good in theory. Until you realize it's never that only a slick Authoritarism. Making you think you matter only if you have a mindset of that entity.
Soviets : send schools, hospitals, doctors, engineers.
Americans: send mines, guns, ammo, and some businessman for lucrative deals.
Actually humanitarian aid was the only thing Ronald Wilson Reagan could legally provide. One should send both humanitarian and military aid...also the soviets were sending military aid.
So what's going on in France...??
Central America never needed saving
Unwatchable, too many ads.
Ever is on the property is the aggressor. That's the country or State , who will pay for war.
invasion of granada was based tho
Reagan the B rate actor who played the part of a President for 8 years . 👏
Black men from the United States should learn from Givens story , to do not speak or open your door to the Asian Orientals or the India and Haiti people and law enforcement😮.
Heroes is what they are fighting the red plague, thank you from East Europe.
Haiti and Korea Cops. I will show up in Austin to pickup whatever property or humans belong to me.
¿Reagan? No, Thanks
1945, when the world went MAD
with the help of a daft AMERICAN PRESIDENT.
PRESS THAT BUTTON!
WW3 and the Empire of Evil
Alot of this is not true, the crime and economic situation was terrible before the US came and Britain had destroyed it long before and basically abandoned it we fixed it
They wanted independence.
Any differences to what the Russian did ?
I mean they invaded a foreign country , killed people with howitzers and grenade throwers and what not.
How could the take cuban prisoners if they had not even declared a war ?
Bad habits , bad example and the russian followed that example.
And all the western allies ran into the same trouble when the americans invaded iraq and afghanistan and got totally defeated cause otherwise no one would retreat.
And Afghanistan was the same defeat like Vietnam, a war for nothing
except nowadays it is the american tourist destination and of cause what else work bench after apple does no longer love china that much anyemore.
I would love to hear how upset those vietnam veterans born in the 40s must be today for the war the fought without any real goal.
But the sad story: which american does care about grenada nowadays and draws the same line russia draws nowadays for the exact same reason, even worse: grenada had been part of the commonwealth
Time to learn for the americans more about history especially foreign history.
Whataboutism was a Soviet propaganda invention and the irony is not lost to this day.
Ummm, we overthrew Saddam in Iraq and easily cruised through the helpless insurgents
Afghanistan was Vietnam 2.0 in that enemy forces don't stand a chance, but it's not over until there's not a single one of them left
Grenada was completely justified you twit. The Governor-General asked for an intervention and the American states organisation authorised it.
IN WAR WE TRUST
God save us from being "saved" by the US.
You'd prefer to work 14 hours a day producing cars from the 1960s in exchange for $0.40 and a roll of government-issued toilet paper? Oh no I forgot, that wasn't "real communism". That's what arrogant leftists like you tell yourself.
Imagine this being your takeaway.
@@samantharay6098 Imagine being so brain dead as to think otherwise.
I was running then I fell but I got up then I fell again that's how it felt reading this almost as confused as when Bruce Lee said be like water like wgat??
US has given 1.1 billion dollars in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan since 2021. We get no oil from Afghanistan. They do nothing for us. The standard of living greatly increased with our involvement. Woman had rights for the first time ever. When we left all that left, too. You seriously need to re-evaluate your statement.
That SOB Reagan reminds me of Putin. Neither of them were ever needed on the face of this world, especially not in a government position.
Best President of the 20th century. I served in the Marines under him. I actually lived it, and it was great.
Reagan reminds me of Magneto🧲
😅😹🤣…. 🙊
TRUMP 2024!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reagan was cold blooded commie killer need more men like him.
Scorpitario. You should seek out professional help you need it.
Westren imperialism... i stand with our fallen comrades
Whilst Ukraine 2023
is just now simply a voyeuristic sideshow Bob...
😐🇺🇦
Just a Reminder, the famous Austrian painter was the greatest leader of the last 300 years
Ya that's why he killed himself in his bunker.
@kimobrien. So what the great Georgian leader of ussr died in his own urine.
Deranged
@@arejaycee5704 Are you?
The U.S is concerned about the number of people crossing the southern border. if they hadn`t destroyed the economies of their southern neighbours,they wouldn`t have that problem.
Wonder if you’ll still use that excuse when you’ve turned the US into another smelly favela.
Socialism did that, not the us
It's really convenient when you can blame the widespread corruption and immorality of a country that has been that way for centuries on the US, we were an exploited colony too you know? Why don't you blame Spain?
You're wrong. The U.S is NOT concerned about that. That's the problem
@@startrekmaniac1701Dream on mate. You know it but can't admit the fact that the U.S. always had an aggressive policy to keep power in the surrounding countries.
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It's amazing how pro communism this documentary is.
It’s more reasonable
As there’s would praise the Americans actions
@@alexvodka6480 it is just typical European liberal attitudes about communism aka socialism
@@kevingates503 lots of people have different view points on things because it is perspective and reason
@@alexvodka6480 Anyone who supports communism, at least of the 20th Century mould, does not operate on reasonable grounds. If any American or European still supports communism after 1968 then they should be judicially (Not advocating murder.) executed. Time after time aggression and tyranny was employed but those @~?£$%&s though yeah undermine the West.
@alexvodka6480 It's not perspective and reason, it's death and starvation
the legacy of the great Vladimir Lenin will never die, a hero of his generation, socialism and it’s principles of economic equality will never die
😂… always loved a ‘useful idiot’ our Len
He murdered hundreds of thousands to get there but sure.
Well it should die.
Mr Vladimir Lenin was a great leader. It was Mr Joseph Stalin who put an ugly face on the USSR. The Soviet Union accomplished engineering feats not seen since the Roman Empire. Western media is extremely biased regarding Russian history, and almost always gets portrayed in an unfavorable light. These people are worthy of study - an amazing group of people.
Ghey and cringe...the legacy of the great Austrian painter will never die. He was a hero of Europe.
Love for ones people will never end nor die
First
Pls pin 📌 mine😍🥰
Bro you are fifteenth, if you're lucky.
me too, lol😛😛😛😸😸😸
Why people don't like Reagan is beyond me
You must not know much about him then.
@@femstora know too much
@@femstoraelborate
We need another one like him, atleast he had balls.
He was a complete clown 🤡
Who is the most favorite president
Is it jfk
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Or bill Clinton
It will be funny, if he told you what he made with all the cocaïne been paid by Colombians . At the very beginning, guns and gears were for the contras, in Nicaragua. 😅😅😅
Should I told you? No, you won't like him anymore .
Easy one there. JFK#1 Always! 😎🇺🇸🥃
Franklin D. Roosevelt
@@fredcollins8919 Liberal hope more than any achievements.
Of those Ronald Wilson Reagan, William Jefferson Clinton, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and James Earl Carter.
Regan the worst president I guess
No, he was one of the best. He shuttled through the end of the cold war without war, ended the violent communist occupation of Grenada, pushed through one of the greatest economic expansions in history and restored hope for Americans.
@johnnotrealname8168 bush senior ended the cold war. Regan's used that scary government to help the rich. Typical republican policy!!! Also, regan led wars just like most American presidents.
He was okay.
This documentary distorts the invasion of Grenada 40 years ago, the Americans got involved because there were Americans there under threat, a revolution took place with the murder of the Prime-Minister and the Cuban threat (Also no-one cares what the General Assembly thinks.). The Governor-General himself asked the Americans for help and the American states agreed. This is such a brain-dead attempt to take a swipe at Ronald Wilson Reagan. If anything blame how disorganised the invasion was. As for the Contras, they were not just samoza people, there were those disillusioned by the sandanistas. This is one area where I have a lot of sympathy with this documentary (Guerrillas are very effective but their tactics involve immense violence on civilians which I find difficult to support.) but it just leaves it out. Edit: Want some irony, people are fleeing Nicaragua now in 2023 because a certain dictator with flashback power is there...I wonder what foreshadowing the '80s give us.
Why didn't the governor-general call on help from the commonwealth? Grenada was part of the commonwealth, so that would make it a british problem and an american problem.
@@TheWedabest Who was closer and who had a bigger navy and army?
@johnnotrealname8168 the USA. Again it was a British problem not an American problem! The UK and USA are supposed to be allies... not invade each others territory!
@TheWedabest ...You do know that Granada was independent right?
@@johnnotrealname8168 independent commonwealth country. Their head of state is the british monarch.
I'm Canadian and I stand with Righteous Putin
One of the most biased anti Reagan “documentary” I’ve ever seen.
I agree.
I toured the USSR in 1976 on a study tour. What this 71 year old came away from this was we were fed PROPAGANDA! I STAND WITH RUSSIA!
as an individual who literally survived soviet union, you have no idea what are you talking about, lady. do you honestly think you spoke to anybody who you were not supposed to talk to? so many of my relatives were sent to gulag with their only crime being being an Estonian. Last auntie that came back from gulag just died last winter. When you were happily lapping up propaganda, she was working slave in a copper mine in Vorkuta since she was 14. You have absolutely no idea what are you talking about, tourist.
HA HA you fell for the Potemkin village treatment.
USSR was Far Superior to The Far RightWing Theocratic Dictatorship Russia has become.
But Vladimir thanks you just the same
Russians hate Nazis for good reason.
i liked Reagan but TRUMP will always be my #1 !!!!
@Duffelbag Drag Thats why to the rest of the world you’re pretty much just a bad punchline,.
how silly to worship these men
@@duffelbagdrag not for long at this rate and your lil hero ronnie would have been the first to tell you
Someone’s trash is someone else’s cult leader.
@@domjal Actually the economy was pretty good.