Together with The Tank Museum, located in Bovington (UK), we will cover all sorts of tanks that played a part in World War Two. The first tank we cover is the T-26, which saw action during the Winter War in both Soviet and Finnish service and during the Second Sino-Japanese war in China's army. For those of you who watch our regular episodes, the fact that the T-26 played a big part in the Winter War is not a surprise anymore. For those of you who didn't: get over there and binge them! As Indy says in the end of the video, we could really use your financial support on Patreon. While this video was shot by the Tankmuseum, it still needs editing, image research and factchecking from our side. We plan on doing more of these with the Tank Museum in the future - since we think they're awesome and the top experts in their field, but also with other partners, historians, experts and museums. See you next time! Joram
In the video, the historian said that those Germans said: "to buy some Panzer off of Germany, ok thats normal, but they also said to buy some tanks off of Britain, their enemy (the German enemy). How did that happen? BTW your show is amazing, keep up the great work, love from Latvia
World War Two when you post the episode for February 9th can you give me a shoutout? Cause that’s going to be my 18th birthday and my real name is Matthew Share.
@@valcha6156 Germans didn't say "buy stuff from Britain". Word "they" at 13:28 refers to the Chinese buying tanks from the British at later time. Also, at this time WWII hadn't begun, so UK wasn't an enemy to Germany.
While attacking a country a fraction of their size was very unsportsmanlike from the Russians, it was very kind of them to bring enough tanks for both sides.
@@smygskytt1712 It's still technically an "invasion" and there is also "occupation" (like occupation of Germany after WWII, or Iraq after 2003), but what is no there, what Americans do not do, while Soviets did and Russia still do are those: annexation, incorporation (or Anschluss, like that of Krimea) and colonisation.
Here is a list of the best WW2 original content creator I've found out TH-cam. Tank and AFV News, TIK, both Military History Visualized channels, Military Aviation History, The World War Two channel in real time, The_Cheiftain, Montemeyer, Forgotten Weapons, The Tank Museum , Greg's Planes and Automobiles, the Stalingrad Battle Data, Mark Felton Productions, Armchair Historian, WW2 AudioBooks and Potential History are the best of the best. Please copy, paste, share this and update if I've missed some.
I love that you have both David Willey and David Fletcher in the video. I like Willey for his precise details of history he lists, and Fletcher for his very English delivery of facts.
@@WorldWarTwo True, I actually asked myself if I missed something, which would have been definitely a shame. Really looking forward to more episodes, you are doing an amazing work as always!
Just finished watching the T-26 video on the museum's channel, great to see them here! Hopefully Kubinka museum can be collaborated with too, they've got a lot of awesome tanks including the Maus.
Just when i think i cant get any more impressed you pull out the tank museum in bovington and just up your game again . I am very impressed by these presentations , they should be on the curriculum of every school which still teaches the second world war . Too msny people hsve forgotten theor history and are doomed to repeat it. Thank you
I'm impressed that this curator narrated our country's early tank usage history in a concise and accurate manner. Usually that piece of Chinese history is ambiguous and confused to foreigners. So this curator does his job very well. I appreciate it and wish he keeps up good work.
The picture of the "Molotov cocktail" also shows the other primary Finnish anti-tank weapon that was actually more effective than the cocktail: the satchel charge or "kasapanos". They came in several sizes, from two to six kilos (c. 4.5 -- 13 lbs) of TNT fastened to a German-style potato masher hand grenade handle complete with fuze, but field-produced versions could have a simple stick handle and a simple blasting fuze. A two-kilo charge was enough to break a tank's track while a six kilo charge would destroy the tank if thrown onto the engine deck. They were also used against bunkers. The main drawback was that you had to get in close to throw the thing and -- particularly with the bigger charge -- you might lose your hearing at least temporarily when it went off. As for the Finnish Vickers 6-tonners, they were first armed with WW1-vintage short-barreled 37mm Puteaux guns from the old Renault FT's and only later with the 37mm Bofors AT guns.
But Tukhachrsky was not shot in 1938, but in 1937. It was Marshal Blucher, who was shot in 1938. I know, hardly matters, but anyway, it is also good to know the right dates. Nevertheless, thanks for this special, it has been great.
The T-26B also played a big part in the Spanish civil war, becoming a prized item to capture for the Fascist forces as it totally out gunned the Italian and German tanks they were using. In fact the fascists modified some of the Pz.I.A light tanks to mount the Italian Breda 20mm. L.65 autocannon AA gun in the turret to give at least a minimal anti-tank capability against the T-26. The Spanish also based their own manufactured tanks on the T-26, after the end of the civil war. These were still in service as late as the 1960's.
Tukhachevsky joined the red army, not because he was forced to but rather because he thought that Lenin was the only leader at the time to be able and unit the leftovers of the Russian empire.
Thanks so much for doing this, the T-26 is one of the most overlooked tanks in history relative to its importance. I really like seeing more about it. (I asked Nick Moran/The Chieftain once [when I met him in person] to do an 'Inside the Hatch' episode on it, but it hasn't happened yet).
wow, the first special of the war. I 'member the first one from the great war. I was thinking "oh man, how r they gonna handle all the extra content". I love how impressive TGW turned out. Stoked AF for the next 6 years of history. :D
We're not yet able to deliver one special every week. We're getting there though thanks to our still growing community and support on Patreon! This episode was edited by myself for example, because we can't get editors for all episodes. But we couldn't wait to start doing these so we made it work!
What did you expect from Britbong historians? They will always devalue the Russian on every aspect (could be lightly or heavily, depend on the expert) while lifting their side up, no matter how hard the Russian tried to be better tbh.
@@Defenestrationflight I would think the 19th century official transcriptions would have used the Wade-Giles romanization method which would be "Ch'ing." But then again in my reading of 19th century documents nobody who spoke English could decide how to spell anything from Chinese, anyways!
@@Defenestrationflight "There are still ppl around who call bejing peking." Honestly when I first heard the more accurate pronunciation I thought the Chinese had changed the name of the city (the difference being so remarkable that the thought, of the reason being a mispronunciation, didn't even occur at first).
We don't have the production capacity yet to publish weekly specials. For now, they are still produced and published sporadic, but once we get a little more Patreon income, we will be able to upscale our production. Something on Simo Häyhä is being worked on ;) Stay tuned!
@@VonArmagedda Yes, but one of those three armies was during the Vietnam War, out of the scope with this channel. Therefore, Torni only served in two armies, not unlike Joseph Beyrle. What World War Two really should do a special examination on Yang Kyeongjong, who supposedly served in three armies during WWII.
This was really interesting not just about the tanks but also a pretty good summary of the Winter War so far from the perspective of a tank. Really cool!
6:38 T-28s! I love that tank - it's such a characteristic example of the excesses of 1930s Soviet engineering. Also, in some ways, the T-28 can be thought of as metaphor for the early-war Soviet tank arm as a whole: that is to say, in 1933, when it was new, it was one of the best medium tanks in the world; in 1941, when Operation Barbarossa hit, it was showing its age.
I love how the concepts of "the war of destruction" and "the war of attrition" from the books was mentioned. I have not seen so much soviet logic being mentioned. Hope to see more of this in the future )))
10:31 - this is one of the examples of why I've always been a staunch opponent of calling all Soviet citizens "Russians". The fact of the matter is that there were many Ukrainians and Belorussians fighting in the Winter War, because of the losses suffered by the Soviets in the early stages of the conflict, and partially because of Stalin's distrust towards people of the northern parts of the Russian SSR - the Soviet leader feared that, since they were their "neighbors" for years, they might sympathise with the Finns, and therefore went on to send people from Belarussian and Ukrainian SSRs to this front. The tragedy was that these people, especially ones from southern Ukraine, were even less adapted to the cold climate encountered in Finland, leading to thousands of soldiers freezing to death or losing limbs, toes and fingers to frostbite. But, because of the tendency to generalize all Soviet people as "Russians", the tragedy of other East Slavic nations forced to fight Stalin's war is often omitted. In fact, I've only learned about it after a meeting with a reenactement group specialised in Finnish Army during the Second World War, a lot of publications on that topic never mention this chapter of the Soviet-Finnish conflicts. A somewhat similar situation would repeat itself 40 years later, when the Soviets entered Afghanistan: initially they'd sent in the troops from Central Asian districts, but after a wave of defections to the mujahideen side by Uzbeks, Tajiks and other Muslim soldiers, these forces were withdrawn and replaced by people from western parts of the USSR, such as the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States.
For your information, southern Ukraine is open steppes. In winter, there are piercing winds with snow. And there are many cases of death of lost and frozen people in the steppe. The defection of Uzbeks and Tajiks to the Afghan Mujahideen is a bias. There were individual cases, of course. But the Soviet Asians showed themselves very well in the Afghan war. Stalin's distrust of the inhabitants of the territory near Finland-I agree.
@Joseph Lisitzayou forget that for about 70 years, Soviet Asians absorbed European culture in half with Communist ideology. Most of the inhabitants of Central Asian cities were already industrial workers in the third generation.And they looked at their village relatives as Laggards in their development. Look at the photos of Soviet Asians living in cities. They are dressed in European fashion. (Unfortunately, many Europeans are victims of wild stereotypes about the USSR. )
@Joseph Lisitza I understand you. I also want to remind you that the selection of recruits for the war in Afghanistan was carried out. (and of course we took into account the personal characteristics and biographies of recruits from the Central Asian republics of the USSR.) As an example of this, the so-called "Muslim battalions" subordinate to KGB combat units. One of them participated in the storming of Amin's Palace with special forces units and performed well. And I am convinced that the combat characteristics of a soldier are influenced not by their ethnic origin, but by the environment in which they were raised.
@@WorldWarTwo It's Not only rewarding, it's like a History lesson but with tension. And Mr Neidell is a really good narrator. I know how it ends...but I'm curios for every new Episode! Keep Up this great Work.
My grandfather was in the northern African campaign in the royal gloucester hussars and fought in nearly every tank battle in the lib/egy northern African campaign from 1940-45, I was wondering if you would do a "behind the trenches" type thing on the battles that happened across the Egyptian and Libyan fronts?
Original low velocity 47mm that brits offered was poor. Finns wanted 37 bofors with german Zeiss optics. Nazi Germany had a pact with USSR and to the surprise of finns refused to sell optics. That and delays in british tank production and finnish gun production is why tanks were not ready when winter war started. Finns later installed captured russian 45mm guns to brit vickers 6 ton tanks. Jaegerplatoon, an excellent source to finnish ww2 weapons: www.jaegerplatoon.net/TANKS2.htm Vickers in finnish use
Excellent ! Just you could mention their use in Spanish Civil War where they get upper hand against Panzers 1 and 2. And Barbarossa too they were underarmed and generally obsolete against Pz 3 and 4
It's the same feeling like on The Great War channel when tank special comes. I think, it's a long episode about tanks, it must be boring. But then I start watching and it's super interesting.
ive been loving your Hard Ware coverage ,love learn about the back rounds of the tanks and how nations got them and stuff .love the channel,ill say it again its amazing .
Sadly I was introduced to The Great War channel in the ending days of the war. Or should I say gladly since I didn’t miss out on any World War Two episodes?
Thanks, we'll keep it up for sure! But in a slower pace for now. We can't start making weekly specials just yet because we are at the TOP of our production capacity right now.
Excellent Special Episode indeed and the dependable T-26 was indeed a British design! Which also served in The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 and to the last days of WW2 in the far east (Manchuria) by the Russians in August 1945 against the Japanese!
We put a deliberate focus on conflicts that are still ongoing in WW2,, while it surely would have been interesting to cover the early deployment of the T26 in Spain, at some point we simply run out of time and have to choose.
@@WorldWarTwo i would very much like to see in the future a special episode on the spanish civil war since its a prelude of whats ,it has 3 of the major players of ww2 involved and of the future weapons and tactics that are famous to ww2 . would something like this be expected in the near future?
We will definitely cover the Spanish Civil War and hopefully quite extensively on out Between 2 Wars episode, once we arrive in the mid 30s... we don't know yet when that will be - it depends a bit on how fast we can grow our financial support and thus our team. AT the moment we're a bit stretched for resources...
It's always funny to hear people accusing Staling of getting paranoid. Given multiple assassination attempts and that finally he did get assassinated with poison, he wasn't paranoid enough.
Spot on perfect representation on the Nationalist Tank evolution. The nationalist did prefer the T-26 over the Vikers 6 ton because the 45mm gun have much better firepower. To bad that most of the FTs was captured by the Japanese and given Japanese turrets and gun in the service of the Manchukuo Army.
Together with The Tank Museum, located in Bovington (UK), we will cover all sorts of tanks that played a part in World War Two. The first tank we cover is the T-26, which saw action during the Winter War in both Soviet and Finnish service and during the Second Sino-Japanese war in China's army. For those of you who watch our regular episodes, the fact that the T-26 played a big part in the Winter War is not a surprise anymore. For those of you who didn't: get over there and binge them!
As Indy says in the end of the video, we could really use your financial support on Patreon. While this video was shot by the Tankmuseum, it still needs editing, image research and factchecking from our side. We plan on doing more of these with the Tank Museum in the future - since we think they're awesome and the top experts in their field, but also with other partners, historians, experts and museums.
See you next time!
Joram
In the video, the historian said that those Germans said: "to buy some Panzer off of Germany, ok thats normal, but they also said to buy some tanks off of Britain, their enemy (the German enemy). How did that happen? BTW your show is amazing, keep up the great work, love from Latvia
So now a Chieftans into the hatch video?
Good job. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
World War Two when you post the episode for February 9th can you give me a shoutout? Cause that’s going to be my 18th birthday and my real name is Matthew Share.
@@valcha6156 Germans didn't say "buy stuff from Britain". Word "they" at 13:28 refers to the Chinese buying tanks from the British at later time. Also, at this time WWII hadn't begun, so UK wasn't an enemy to Germany.
@@Unknown1355 Fair enough
It’s here, the first special
Yeah finally
i wanted to write it, but i am too late here :(
The long-awaited, and much-appreciated, first special!
You're the first special.
And a bow tie
(Unless you were already talking about the bow tie)
I think every episode is a special episode
Astro Bot you're a special episode.
You're a special episode ❤
I'm having a special episode rn
You're a special episode
It's the only channel I really look forward to watching every weekend.
While attacking a country a fraction of their size was very unsportsmanlike from the Russians, it was very kind of them to bring enough tanks for both sides.
I've often said that Stalin was our best ally during those times.
It was a serious training camp for Soviet army.
You mean like how you Americans invade small countries they can find?
@@johnw5761
It's not called invasion when you are spreading FREEDOM to the rest of the world.
@@smygskytt1712 It's still technically an "invasion" and there is also "occupation" (like occupation of Germany after WWII, or Iraq after 2003), but what is no there, what Americans do not do, while Soviets did and Russia still do are those: annexation, incorporation (or Anschluss, like that of Krimea) and colonisation.
I don't know any other TH-cam channel that works so professionally.
Forgotten weapons might disagree. It's a shame though because I love them both.
I know one. It's called The Great War.
You should check out epic history tv, another amazing history channel!
@@nice_toes_xx It tskes ages for them to produce a video. So no. Even though the quality is good, I do not like huge delays between vids..
Here is a list of the best WW2 original content creator I've found out TH-cam. Tank and AFV News, TIK, both Military History Visualized channels, Military Aviation History, The World War Two channel in real time, The_Cheiftain, Montemeyer, Forgotten Weapons, The Tank Museum , Greg's Planes and Automobiles, the Stalingrad Battle Data, Mark Felton Productions, Armchair Historian, WW2 AudioBooks and Potential History are the best of the best. Please copy, paste, share this and update if I've missed some.
So glad we’re gonna have hundreds more of these specials for the next six years.
Yay, a special episode! Can't wait until Out of the Foxholes!
Soon
@@WorldWarTwo Sat in the Red Throne of Wisdom
@@archstanton6102 Chair of Secret Intelligence
Its named even cooler than that
I love that you have both David Willey and David Fletcher in the video. I like Willey for his precise details of history he lists, and Fletcher for his very English delivery of facts.
Make sure to check out David Fletchers Tank Talk on the T-26 too! He has some more facts about it!
They are both some of the most English men I have ever laid eyes on, for different reasons.
This is so much more interesting than my exam material
Can't agree more
Aflevering kijken en weer aan het werk;-)
What is your exam about?
@@victorbruant389 agribusiness models, so yeah... Not as exciting i'd say
Yeah totally agree most of my subjects are bad!!Although next week i will give 3 histories!
I was actually starting to ask myself, when we are going to see the first special from the WW2. Really glad to see it out now.
Didn't they already do one with the chieftain?
@@simpai941 Two of them. One on German, and one on British, tank development preceding the war.
The Chieftain did 2! But this is the first on our the World War Two channel.
@@WorldWarTwo True, I actually asked myself if I missed something, which would have been definitely a shame.
Really looking forward to more episodes, you are doing an amazing work as always!
Thanks
Indy looks mighty dapper wearing that bow tie! 😀
Give indy a leather whip and 38 Smith and Wesson model 10 too;)
@@spencershaw7818
*Indiana Jones theme intensifies*
Special! Great! Thank you! Thanks DW and DF from TTM and thanks to WW2 channel for posting!
Just finished watching the T-26 video on the museum's channel, great to see them here!
Hopefully Kubinka museum can be collaborated with too, they've got a lot of awesome tanks including the Maus.
Nationalist China operated German, Soviet, British and American tanks in the war against Japan...
Weird times indeed.
They basically used that they had. Plus they didn't have homemade tank at that time so they had to import them
@@auguststorm2037 OOF. that would've been expensive, especially considering that they were insanely poor at the time
and some Italian CV33, yep
Certainly true
They also operated captured Japanese tanks.
Just when i think i cant get any more impressed you pull out the tank museum in bovington and just up your game again . I am very impressed by these presentations , they should be on the curriculum of every school which still teaches the second world war . Too msny people hsve forgotten theor history and are doomed to repeat it. Thank you
YESSS!! A special! You guys just made my day!
we're happy to!
I'm impressed that this curator narrated our country's early tank usage history in a concise and accurate manner. Usually that piece of Chinese history is ambiguous and confused to foreigners. So this curator does his job very well. I appreciate it and wish he keeps up good work.
The picture of the "Molotov cocktail" also shows the other primary Finnish anti-tank weapon that was actually more effective than the cocktail: the satchel charge or "kasapanos". They came in several sizes, from two to six kilos (c. 4.5 -- 13 lbs) of TNT fastened to a German-style potato masher hand grenade handle complete with fuze, but field-produced versions could have a simple stick handle and a simple blasting fuze. A two-kilo charge was enough to break a tank's track while a six kilo charge would destroy the tank if thrown onto the engine deck. They were also used against bunkers. The main drawback was that you had to get in close to throw the thing and -- particularly with the bigger charge -- you might lose your hearing at least temporarily when it went off. As for the Finnish Vickers 6-tonners, they were first armed with WW1-vintage short-barreled 37mm Puteaux guns from the old Renault FT's and only later with the 37mm Bofors AT guns.
Thanks for the addition!
But Tukhachrsky was not shot in 1938, but in 1937. It was Marshal Blucher, who was shot in 1938. I know, hardly matters, but anyway, it is also good to know the right dates. Nevertheless, thanks for this special, it has been great.
Brilliant example of "what goes around, comes around."
Leslie Franklin meaning?
The T-26B also played a big part in the Spanish civil war, becoming a prized item to capture for the Fascist forces as it totally out gunned the Italian and German tanks they were using. In fact the fascists modified some of the Pz.I.A light tanks to mount the Italian Breda 20mm. L.65 autocannon AA gun in the turret to give at least a minimal anti-tank capability against the T-26.
The Spanish also based their own manufactured tanks on the T-26, after the end of the civil war. These were still in service as late as the 1960's.
Two of some of the best history TH-cam channels doing a collaboration. It just can't fail
Tukhachevsky joined the red army, not because he was forced to but rather because he thought that Lenin was the only leader at the time to be able and unit the leftovers of the Russian empire.
Many of the Tzarist officers have joined the Bolsheviks side voluntarily
@@daru5002 Most of the Red Army officers were former Tsarist officers. Zhukov, Rokossovskt e.t.c
*Potential History wants to know your location*
Meme Tanks 78 Tibetan tanks
😂
Thanks so much for doing this, the T-26 is one of the most overlooked tanks in history relative to its importance. I really like seeing more about it. (I asked Nick Moran/The Chieftain once [when I met him in person] to do an 'Inside the Hatch' episode on it, but it hasn't happened yet).
The one in Bovington is apparently empty... I do need to get to Parola one day
This guy is one of the best Curators ever. Passionate about his subject and easy to understand. I love the Tank Museum.
I'm sure that if you look hard enough, you would be able to see Lindybeige still roaming around somewhere in that museum
Probably still in the Churchill with Chieftain.
@@chaplainjamesthicc305 No, he went back to his home in the S-tank.
Awesome special. When it comes to tank history you guys have it made. First the Chieftain and now the Tank Museum. It could not be better :)
This episode is really amazing. I love how in depth it is, from the story behind it to how well it actually did.
I look forward to watching this series all the way through
wow, the first special of the war. I 'member the first one from the great war. I was thinking "oh man, how r they gonna handle all the extra content". I love how impressive TGW turned out. Stoked AF for the next 6 years of history. :D
We're not yet able to deliver one special every week. We're getting there though thanks to our still growing community and support on Patreon! This episode was edited by myself for example, because we can't get editors for all episodes. But we couldn't wait to start doing these so we made it work!
I’m surprised the Spanish Civil War wasn’t mentioned.
Same, T-26 gave Republicans a lot of fire power in comparition with the Pz. I and Italian tanketes.
I agree with you
What did you expect from Britbong historians? They will always devalue the Russian on every aspect (could be lightly or heavily, depend on the expert) while lifting their side up, no matter how hard the Russian tried to be better tbh.
Hữu Quyền Đinh, can you back that statement up with some concrete proof instead of blanket bias accusations?
It would have been nice especially to demonstrate the contrast from a feared weapon in the battlefield to completely obsolete in a few years.
Very much appreciate that you coordinate with Bovington on this topic.
So do we
I'm a simple man. I see David Fletcher, I hit Like and Subscribe.
While this guy clearly knows a lot about tanks, I think he may have never heard "Qing Dynasty" said out loud ;)
He is British, and probably old enough to have learned the flawed British transcription from XIXc. There are still ppl around who call bejing peking.
@@Defenestrationflight I would think the 19th century official transcriptions would have used the Wade-Giles romanization method which would be "Ch'ing." But then again in my reading of 19th century documents nobody who spoke English could decide how to spell anything from Chinese, anyways!
Indeed! It should be pronoun sed tsing at least
@@Defenestrationflight
In some countries that's still official name of the city. Just saying.
@@Defenestrationflight "There are still ppl around who call bejing peking."
Honestly when I first heard the more accurate pronunciation I thought the Chinese had changed the name of the city (the difference being so remarkable that the thought, of the reason being a mispronunciation, didn't even occur at first).
Loving your tank videos. Keep it up!
Sick stuff! Here's to many more specials!
Cheers!
So specials every week?? + Will there be a special on the white death? The Finnish sniper?
We don't have the production capacity yet to publish weekly specials. For now, they are still produced and published sporadic, but once we get a little more Patreon income, we will be able to upscale our production. Something on Simo Häyhä is being worked on ;) Stay tuned!
Not just Simo Hayha. Please do about the Pilot aces too...
Only one Finn surpasses the fame of Simo Häyhä, and that is Lauri Törni, Larry Thorne, the legendary soldier of three armies
@@VonArmagedda Yes, but one of those three armies was during the Vietnam War, out of the scope with this channel. Therefore, Torni only served in two armies, not unlike Joseph Beyrle. What World War Two really should do a special examination on Yang Kyeongjong, who supposedly served in three armies during WWII.
@@angusyang5917 He served in three armies.
Excellent I'm glad you joined up with the tank museum my two favourite TH-cam channels
Does this mean we will see a return of Who did what in ww2?
We should be getting one on Simo Häyhä in a few weeks.
That is right
Everyone did everything
This was really interesting not just about the tanks but also a pretty good summary of the Winter War so far from the perspective of a tank. Really cool!
It's a special !!!!!!!! I love it !!! Way to go Jones way to go !!!
6:38 T-28s! I love that tank - it's such a characteristic example of the excesses of 1930s Soviet engineering. Also, in some ways, the T-28 can be thought of as metaphor for the early-war Soviet tank arm as a whole: that is to say, in 1933, when it was new, it was one of the best medium tanks in the world; in 1941, when Operation Barbarossa hit, it was showing its age.
I love how the concepts of "the war of destruction" and "the war of attrition" from the books was mentioned. I have not seen so much soviet logic being mentioned.
Hope to see more of this in the future )))
Mr Willey is a fantastic collab. Here's to more.
The Finnish soldiers are ready with some molotov cocktail!
National Spain is the original country burning T-26s with molotovs
@@ottohonkasalo9303 Joo, ehkä polttopulloja käytettiin Espanjassa ensin, mutta nimi Molotovin cocktaili tulee suomalaisilta.
@@ExecutiveSonda Toki, en vaan saanut mieleeni polttopullon englanninkielistä nimeä.
@@ottohonkasalo9303 The Spaniards didn't use them for an anti-tank purpose or any sensible purpose in general. It's also a different mixture
Finland ready to sue for peace and lose the war*
Military advisor: “Well the first thing you need to do is purchase tanks from my country...” lol
10:31 - this is one of the examples of why I've always been a staunch opponent of calling all Soviet citizens "Russians".
The fact of the matter is that there were many Ukrainians and Belorussians fighting in the Winter War, because of the losses suffered by the Soviets in the early stages of the conflict, and partially because of Stalin's distrust towards people of the northern parts of the Russian SSR - the Soviet leader feared that, since they were their "neighbors" for years, they might sympathise with the Finns, and therefore went on to send people from Belarussian and Ukrainian SSRs to this front. The tragedy was that these people, especially ones from southern Ukraine, were even less adapted to the cold climate encountered in Finland, leading to thousands of soldiers freezing to death or losing limbs, toes and fingers to frostbite.
But, because of the tendency to generalize all Soviet people as "Russians", the tragedy of other East Slavic nations forced to fight Stalin's war is often omitted. In fact, I've only learned about it after a meeting with a reenactement group specialised in Finnish Army during the Second World War, a lot of publications on that topic never mention this chapter of the Soviet-Finnish conflicts.
A somewhat similar situation would repeat itself 40 years later, when the Soviets entered Afghanistan: initially they'd sent in the troops from Central Asian districts, but after a wave of defections to the mujahideen side by Uzbeks, Tajiks and other Muslim soldiers, these forces were withdrawn and replaced by people from western parts of the USSR, such as the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States.
For your information, southern Ukraine is open steppes. In winter, there are piercing winds with snow. And there are many cases of death of lost and frozen people in the steppe.
The defection of Uzbeks and Tajiks to the Afghan Mujahideen is a bias. There were individual cases, of course. But the Soviet Asians showed themselves very well in the Afghan war.
Stalin's distrust of the inhabitants of the territory near Finland-I agree.
@Joseph Lisitzayou forget that for about 70 years, Soviet Asians absorbed European culture in half with Communist ideology. Most of the inhabitants of Central Asian cities were already industrial workers in the third generation.And they looked at their village relatives as Laggards in their development. Look at the photos of Soviet Asians living in cities. They are dressed in European fashion. (Unfortunately, many Europeans are victims of wild stereotypes about the USSR. )
@Joseph Lisitza I understand you. I also want to remind you that the selection of recruits for the war in Afghanistan was carried out. (and of course we took into account the personal characteristics and biographies of recruits from the Central Asian republics of the USSR.) As an example of this, the so-called "Muslim battalions" subordinate to KGB combat units. One of them participated in the storming of Amin's Palace with special forces units and performed well.
And I am convinced that the combat characteristics of a soldier are influenced not by their ethnic origin, but by the environment in which they were raised.
Thank you all for your Work to teach us WW 2 History. But Not like in school. It's fun to listen Mr Neidell and your guests.
Thanks, good to hear you're finding it rewarding!
@@WorldWarTwo It's Not only rewarding, it's like a History lesson but with tension.
And Mr Neidell is a really good narrator.
I know how it ends...but I'm curios for every new Episode!
Keep Up this great Work.
Thanks:)
Wow, this was enormously informative! Super fucking interesting. Thanks guys! Keep kicking ass, please.
Will do!
David Willey is honestly so cool. I really hope we get more of him :)
For special episodes about aircraft, you should really get in touch with the National Air Force Museum in Dayton
So glad you have the folks from the Tank Museum here again.
My grandfather was in the northern African campaign in the royal gloucester hussars and fought in nearly every tank battle in the lib/egy northern African campaign from 1940-45, I was wondering if you would do a "behind the trenches" type thing on the battles that happened across the Egyptian and Libyan fronts?
We will definitely cover those fronts as well! We'll do it in the regular weekly episodes instead of a sub-series.
Great episode!
Hello from Finland! :D
Hello to you as well!
The first of many! I look forward to more in the future.
Fantastic crossover, two of my favourite channels and presenters.
Very special. Great way to start a week 👍
Having both David's talk in this makes this video so much more special!
Make sure to check out Davids Tank talk on the T-26 as well (though you only get one David)
I'm loving this series so far keep up the good work
Vickers: "Are you sure you don't want the guns? We're not going to charge you very much more for them."
Finland: "We're good thanks."
Original low velocity 47mm that brits offered was poor. Finns wanted 37 bofors with german Zeiss optics. Nazi Germany had a pact with USSR and to the surprise of finns refused to sell optics. That and delays in british tank production and finnish gun production is why tanks were not ready when winter war started. Finns later installed captured russian 45mm guns to brit vickers 6 ton tanks. Jaegerplatoon, an excellent source to finnish ww2 weapons: www.jaegerplatoon.net/TANKS2.htm Vickers in finnish use
i like how he get straight to the point no wasting time
Yay a special episode! Hope you can get rid of that cold soon!
Finally the first special episode!
Finally the first special!! I can't wait for more knowledge about ww2. I still somehow miss the great war.
SO HAPPY you guys have Specials... love this channel
Excellent ! Just you could mention their use in Spanish Civil War where they get upper hand against Panzers 1 and 2. And Barbarossa too they were underarmed and generally obsolete against Pz 3 and 4
Interesting information. Till now I didn't knew that much about the T-26. But I now know more about the subject.
Thank you @World War Two.
Oh yeah, can't get enough from the tank museum keep 'em coming guys.
The first special! And it goes to the mighty T26! Splendid.
Yay! A special. These were my favourite in the The Great War series.
It's the same feeling like on The Great War channel when tank special comes. I think, it's a long episode about tanks, it must be boring. But then I start watching and it's super interesting.
With a bow-tie for the specials, looking forward to seeing what Indy dresses in for "Out of the Foxholes".
ive been loving your Hard Ware coverage ,love learn about the back rounds of the tanks and how nations got them and stuff .love the channel,ill say it again its amazing .
Thank you!
Yaaaay a special episode
Id like to see a special on simo häyhä the withe death and lauri törni aka larry thorn
Well, the white death's getting one fairly soon, from what I understand.
lauri törni `s story, would make a nice, hbo mini series.
@@lukapredanic7647 it shure would
@@lukapredanic7647 his story is really unbelievable, it's a mystery why no one has made a series out of him yet.
Yay! Some more World War 2 content. This should hold us over until Saturday.
Sadly I was introduced to The Great War channel in the ending days of the war. Or should I say gladly since I didn’t miss out on any World War Two episodes?
We're sure as hell glad!
Just to note that those Great War episodes are still out there and can be viewed anytime.
This man"s knowledge is amazing, great story , well told.
I loved the WW1 special episodes and now I can't wait for more WW2 specials! Keep up the excellent work (I'm 100% sure you will)!
Thanks, we'll keep it up for sure! But in a slower pace for now. We can't start making weekly specials just yet because we are at the TOP of our production capacity right now.
Awesome Episode! These kind of episodes make this and the WW1 channel even more amazing!
Great and detailed as always. You look good with a bow tie!
Good to know you liked it! Credit for Indy's tie goes to Astrid ;)
Excellent Special Episode indeed and the dependable T-26 was indeed a British design! Which also served in The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 and to the last days of WW2 in the far east (Manchuria) by the Russians in August 1945 against the Japanese!
Great first special episode just a small nitpick is that the role of the t-26 on the spanish civil war was overlooked
We put a deliberate focus on conflicts that are still ongoing in WW2,, while it surely would have been interesting to cover the early deployment of the T26 in Spain, at some point we simply run out of time and have to choose.
@@WorldWarTwo i would very much like to see in the future a special episode on the spanish civil war since its a prelude of whats ,it has 3 of the major players of ww2 involved and of the future weapons and tactics that are famous to ww2 .
would something like this be expected in the near future?
We will definitely cover the Spanish Civil War and hopefully quite extensively on out Between 2 Wars episode, once we arrive in the mid 30s... we don't know yet when that will be - it depends a bit on how fast we can grow our financial support and thus our team. AT the moment we're a bit stretched for resources...
@@WorldWarTwo grood thank you for being so involved with the fans hopefully the channel Will get the financial support it deserves
One of your most Informative Videos by far.
I think collaboration with museums is a bright idea. Very interesting episode. Thnx 👍
Fantastic collaboration! Thank you :D
Nothing like having lunch at school and watching another informative video. Time well spent.
Good on you!
Cheers Indy greetings from Kentucky! Love the tank museum their videos as well as the Great War and your new channels videos are always well done! 🍻
I'm so glad these two channels are collaborating. Love watching these videos. Already subscribed to both.
Thanks! We like working with The Tank Museum too!
The picture with Indi is much better than before! This video is great.
It's always funny to hear people accusing Staling of getting paranoid. Given multiple assassination attempts and that finally he did get assassinated with poison, he wasn't paranoid enough.
The two men show up from one of my favorite channels into another awesome channel. It's like a double rainbow.
Awesome! Can't wait for more specials.
Amazing material. Thanks guys. I really needed this.
You're welcome
Very informative, loved it
I can’t tell how much I hoped for something like this, I have the smallest amount of knowledge about tanks.
The Davids are the right guys for you then!
Second 12:00 there is a funny slipped image 😅
Nice special, thx!
Spot on perfect representation on the Nationalist Tank evolution. The nationalist did prefer the T-26 over the Vikers 6 ton because the 45mm gun have much better firepower. To bad that most of the FTs was captured by the Japanese and given Japanese turrets and gun in the service of the Manchukuo Army.
An excellent explanation.
What a treat wasn’t expecting this today