BTW : if you have, or have found any other recording i could use for this video, please put it in this google docs as a comment: docs.google.com/document/d/1m68i5M624ZgeVhi3MerB1qTDSPrmtQLr_TwBRcujVhQ/edit?usp=sharing
Last broadcast of RRI (National Radio of Indonesia) on Timor Leste on September 1999. Timor Leste is occupied by Indonesia for 25 years since free from Portugal on 1974. There are many recording of it on youtube.
I feel like the Greek broadcast was the most haunting, as it states: “Caution. The broadcast in a few hours will not be Greek; it will be German. It will broadcast LIES!” There was even a caution at the beginning. 😭
I loved that. Our Hungarian plea was very characteristically tragic, like our anthem. The efforts of the French were brave and gallant, like THEIR anthem. I think a nation’s anthem predestines it to some degree to its national spirit.
The voice of the Hungarian broadcaster just feels... different. Not only because he's talking to the outside nations, too, but because his voice still felt powerful in the last hours of his homeland.
Iirc, if the emperor actually used terms like "surrender" in his surrender speech, there was a very real possibility the military could've revolted and either assassinated him or just ignored the declaration. The words were VERY carefully chosen. Also, given the archaic dialect, most couldn't understand it when they heard it anyway 😂
Thats how Japanese formality tends to work. Tho the language Hirohito spoke in that broadcast was actually classical Japanese read out in kanbun form, so not only potentially worse but also unintelligible to a majority (tho thanks to history not an entirety) of the Japanese population of the time. The very educated who were born at the end of the 19th and beginning or middle of the 20th century would have likely understood a majority if not an entirety of it tho, and I have personally met people, at least one person, who is 90-something years old over there who writes her notes that way still, and I, someone who is not native but have studied the language for about 12 years on and off and fluent in modern Japanese, can understand it in written form in brief segments more often than not.
@@petravonsakray That's very interesting thank you for sharing your thoughts and observations! As sb who's both interested and proficient in history as well as languages I've read a lot about that speech, but never actually got to ever hear it. Now I'm going to study classical Japanese kanbun form I suppose, so thanks for pointing me in that direction 🙏
Though to be fair, only a few sentences later we get (summarized) "The enemy has a new bomb that will kill millions, so we have to surrender to save us and perhaps everyone else around"
Funfact: the broadcaster who announced the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia was Vladimír Fišer and more than 20 years later, he became the Czech voice of Kent Brockman, the tv announcer in the Simpsons xd
For the Hungarian one, the 'unintelligible part' says 'We are requesting you to send us immediate aid, in the form of parachuted troops *to the Trans-Danubian provinces*'.
Honestly, it's so sad. It is the voice of president Emil Hácha, who at the time was persuaded to accept the position in the rump second Czechoslovak republic (after Munich) and eventually the protectorate. At the time, he was already quite old and tired and constantly under pressure. He took a bullet for us and sadly to this day, many people just see him as a collaborator and don't bother to look a bit deeper into his life.
Real government was in exile in UK, but yeah, Emil Hácha was forced to say everything, he even got heart attack during negotiations with nazis in Berlin before actual invasion and after that, he was probably not the same person as before. He died in prison after WWII, but later judge court said that due to his health, he was not responsible for his decisions.
The sadness of the Hungarian broadcast will always leave an impression on me, but the pure tone of defeat in the Czechslovkians broadcaster is just pure depression.
I am from Czechia and both of the broadcasts are kind of heartbreaking for me, those were the last moments of my country, then we ceased either becoming a soviet puppet basicly, or becoming a german puppet
The last broadcast of Radio Athens is often played on the 28th of October - the day where we Greeks commemorate our nation's involvement in the Second World War. The funny thing is that the original broadcast was not recorded - It was made in haste as the German Army approached Athens, and no recordings were made. However, the Broadcaster who made the announcement and the transcripts of the Final Broadcast survived the Occupation, and after the Axis Withdrawal this speech was recorded and played to commemorate our Liberation. This particular recording is perhaps one of the most famous of any Radio broadcast in our history.
@@radajradaj Exactly. It was recorded both to commemorate the Liberation, as well as to raise morale in the nation. This recording was made in the years of the Civil War, when we had defeated Fascism but were actively fighting Communism. I can imagine the thought was that it better sound good. In its own way, this broadcast has two meanings as a Greek.
@@NADG18Yep the cowardly French stereotype is weird, especially considering that they were not the only country to surrender. And especially when you consider the countries that surrendered without firing a shot.
@@tillettman Purely an English invention. England you know... the country that only started to become an actual country when they were invaded in 1066 by a Frenchman who made mincemeat of the English armies. The country that for a 100 years of war tried to invade France and ended up owning none of it.
For anyone interested in the broadcast of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Czechs have recently made a movie about the broadcasters trying their best to continue broadcasting while the invasion is happening. It's called Waves (Vlny in Czech). I saw it few days aho and it was one of the best history movies I've ever seen
@@officialxverzusz it wasnt about sphere of interest of usa. It was only because usa didnt wanted to start a war with soviet union + they were involved in vietnam already
@@vacuousbard6410 The Germans also gave no warning to Italy whatsoever. Much of the invasions/wars Germany perpetuated aggravated Italy, including that of the war with the USSR, to which Mussolini has had several commentaries over the war with the Soviets. Some interesting ones and trivia: Upon the declaration of war: "I hope for only one thing...that in this war in the East the Germans lose many feathers. It’s a falsity to talk about an anti-Bolshevik struggle. Hitler knows that Bolshevism has not existed for some time." - Benito Mussolini, 1941 He would constantly push Hitler to make peace with the Russians, to the point that before his arrest in 1943, he was planning on sending the Germans an ultimatum; Peace with Russia or Italy leaves the conflict. "The Germans have never grasped the importance of the Mediterranean, never... they maintained and still maintain that Russia is a deadly peril to Western and European civilization. I tried to convince Hitler that this was a meaningless phrase... Stalin has killed Bolshevism... in contrast to Trotsky, he has completely renounced world revolution." - Benito Mussolini, 1943 Overall, Italy was not ready at all for the war as during the 30s, they were still in the process of demilitarizing the industry from the legacy government and WW1. Only by 42, did they manage to start getting remotely developed but overarchingly, their airforce was the main thing going for them to compete with the other nations of Europe.
dude, Czechia got invaded by Nazi Germany after France, UK and Fascits Italy agreed to let Hitler invade Czechia just to save their own ass, knowing well how much terror that will throw upon the czechs. Czechs couldnt fight neither because they were ready to attack the Czech nation too as part of the agreement. Then later by the end of ww2 to immediately be turned into socialistic country by the soviets, which lasted all the way until 1989, we got invaded by the soviets again in the process in 1968 with 4 other socialstic states on side of the soviets, including Hungary, where lot of innocent people died
@@lovelandfrog5692 What the broadcaster said about this being the last free Hungarian radio broadcast actually rings true for the actual Hungarian Free Radio and free Radio in Hungary in general, kinda. Soviet influence is still rampant here, in the minds of the ruling classes especially. Most of the media is state/government controlled and is full of propaganda. We tried in 56, doesn't feel like we have been free ever since.
As Indonesian im pretty sure that was fake and added later, why ? Because it was sound of motorcycle 😂 i know because we Indonesian used motorcycle everywhere.
@@yasha886 strangely enough, i have never heard anything about the greek resistance, i've only heard about the yugoslav and polish ones, is there anywhere i can learn about the greek resistance?
And as Russia continues invading its neighbors in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2014, 2022, and who knows when later, only councils have been convened. Time for action
The Poland one has a chill factor I cant explain. Knowing that starting distortion was an explosion says all that needs to be said with what happened after that broadcast
@@CoolKoon That's because it essentially was. By the time the broadcast was being made, the enemy army has been actively "flooding" into the city (and trying to shut down the radio station, among other things). That's also why the message is sped up, instead of beig shared calmly - because the Polish soldiers were defending the place at the same time, as the message was being sent out.
well in the end, it still allowed a lot of hungarians to flee to austria and from there escape from the communist dictatorship afaik, but the that was it because the world didn't want to anger the soviet union. It really sounds similar to what happened with the spanish civil war tbf.
From what I heard only Franco was ready to help out, paratroopers and air supplies were ready to be shipped but good old USA the "allies" stopped it from happening, would have been awesome if it did though.
@@royale7620 i just imagine a random basque and a hungarian, both being able to relate to not being understood by anyone xD would've been an incredible scene
An interesting thing about Hácha's radio broadcast from 1939 is, that he speaks in really archaic Czech way that even to people at the time sounded weird, although not as weird as people of today. The most noticable thing is that he uses the suffix -ti for infinitives instead of the more natural -t and that the way he puts emphasis on certain words. Because the recording in this video is really short, you cannot hear much more of his archaic way of speaking, but look up other of his speeches. I remember also hearing a radio reporter Franta Kocourek from around the same time and he sounds completely different from Hácha in the way he speaks.
I hear something similar of Hirohito’s broadcast as well. He was speaking in a really formal/archaic form of Japanese that regular people couldn’t understand to the point that they had to translate the message for the common people.
@@hunter_0221 Basically the reason was a combination of being very old when he became the president in 1938, having been born in 1872, and being sort of a book worm. Up until the 1950s and in smaller sense to this day, there exists a gap between standard spoken and standard written Czech, where standard written Czech keeps a lot archaic features that are not used in speech. Added to that, there exists another form called Literary Czech, which is basically just standard written Czech, as it was in the 19th century. So because Hácha spent a lot of his spare time either reading, translating or writing literature and poetry, he adopted Literary Czech, in which he read and wrote, into his speech.
@@vojtechkubinek6650 That is very interesting and I didn't know that. But indeed, I did read that he was quite the intellectual. Certainly an interesting person who, like many Czech dignitaries and national heroes after the war, found an untimely death under "unclear circumstances". Though...perhaps not an untimely death as he was quite old, but probably not a natural one... I love linguistics and I have nothing but respect for your nation, therefore your comment is particularly illuminating to me. Thank you very much for answering so swiftly!
It's also interesting to hear 1938's austrian german (chancellor/dictator Schuschnigg was speaking) and 1945's german. Both sound rather similar, except for Schuschnigg's accent, but you can still hear differences. For modern ears, the 1938 sounds distinctly more old-fashioned because he uses some antiquated formulations, which the 1945's broadcast does less. The reason might be, that even the standartised austrian german was more distinct back then, before the germans influenced it. Germans were/are rather intolerant towards local dialects in official records, as dialect speakers had/have the reputation of uneducated peasentry. Even Hitler, who in private spoke Inn-bavarian (Inn is the name of a river) or standard german with a distinct bavarian accent, dropped his accent completely in his official, recorded speeches.
Comment to the Hungarian part: where they say "tanács" it is a common mistake to translate it to council, but in Hungarian we say it as advice ("tanács" is used for both words) and the inaudible part at the end said "over the Transdanubian provinces". Thank you for including it!
The Philippines broadcast (1942) was indeed done by General Wainwright. However, this was in the context of the surrender of all US and Filipino forces in the Philippines after the battle of Corregidor. The Japanese sent him to Manila after Corregidor fell to make the broadcast -- for all commanders in the Philippine Islands to receive the surrender order. Also, the radio station in question is KZRH, now DZRH (yes it still exists). Hope this helps! :))
I wonder what would happen if not all troops surrender and did guerilla warfare, but probably the decision allowed a slim chance for survival to be able to fight another day
It could be possible that the Unknown Filipino Radio Station was KZRH (now known as DZRH) which at first was just NBC in 1939 (but since 1946 it became the Manila Broadcasting Company/MBC)
Czechoslovakia was a member of the Warsaw Pact, part of the government simply asked for help during the crisis The USSR also held negotiations with the USA, clarifying that this would not be considered a violation of any agreements
@@Losowy crisis within the government, of course and he becomed “less Soviet” a couple of years earlier and Soviet Union didn’t care at all about all reforms
A side effect of literal translating. It may very well be "while sleeping" but in the original language context makes it understood to mean "without knowledge."
@@johnroscoe2406 That isn't the case here. The literal translation here would be "...it happened without the consciousness of the...". I don't really understand where the sleeoing thing came from, the rest seems to be translated somewhat well.
One thing to 1968 Czechoslovakia broadcast translation. "Stalo se tak bez vědomí" doesn't mean that the goverment was sleeping, but that no one told them about the impending invasion. "This happened without knowledge of President of the Rep..." something like that.
God the Hungarian one is so hard to listen to As a Hungarian myself I've learned every little bit about the 1956 October Revolution and it is still taken as such a massive tragedy in Hungarian history I've never heard this radio recording tho in class, I came across it myself one day here on YT and Jesus fucking Christ it is absolutely heart wrenching
And your wonderful prime minister is now collaborating with effectively the same country that inflicted that to you back in 1956, ruled by someone who was very much loyal to the same regime.
The Czech surrender to the Nazis is still a sore spot for us today. There are theories that if we defended ourselves back then, we could have held on just long enough for the Allies to realize Hitler had to be fought and come to our aid. We had a well-trained army at the borders ready to fight, but they had to stand by and watch as Wehrmacht poured in. In my opinion, Hácha (the president you hear in the recording) did the only thing he could in an attempt to prevent bloodshed and suffering of the Czech people. People hated him for it (some still do) but this decision completely broke him. He didn't live for long after that.
People that think that Czechoslovaks could defend themselves tend to be pretty delusional and probably never made it to academics...All Czechoslovak military plans were dependant on French help (the French honestly were willing to help more than once, but Brits always talked them out of it), the Czechoslovak army was to slowly fall back into Slovakian mountains untill the French arrive. Czech bunkers were not Magginot line and they were not build to hold the enemy, but slow them down untill the French arrive.
@@GrimmaStadguard Same goes for austria. People theorised, if we took arms against the occupation force, it would've given czechoslovakia time to prepare defenses or at least alert britain and france, but it would have been unnecessary bloodshed and nobody would've cared anyway. (Also 30% to 60% of austrians welcomed the germans because they either wanted to be german or just because they brought free food into the struggling country).
I don't think it would be the case, if Czechoslovakia did resist militarily most likely Brits and Frenches would declare the war sooner, but it wouldn't change the course of war that much, but it would cause immense suffering of Czech people and destruction of the country. Look at Poland, 1 in 5 people have been killed and cities were turned into piles of rumble and ash.
@@GrimmaStadguardtrue but i still think we should have deffended ourselves we would fall but germany would be very weakened and every czech was prepared to fight ready to fight instead we were betrayed its true i would probably not be here if we fought to the death but it would be worth it i think the phrase of the czech king john the bling about czech kings not running away from a fight applies to czechia as a whole as well
As a Pole, if we stood by you things could've been different. Czechoslovakia was EXTREMELY fortified and with Polands help things could've been different maybe (this was before Hitler - Stalin agreement to split eastern europe between themselves so maybe Russia wouldn't have attacked us). Instead we stabbed you in the back to take an extremely small piece of land (yes sure it was taken from us by you during Polish - Soviet war but still). My father used to say that Poland helping the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 is the most shameful moment of Polish history. For me it's helping Hitler annex it. In 1968 we were soviet puppets and the people had no power to stop it (although some tried, like that Polish man who literally set himself on fire to protest it and died for it). In 1938 Poland wasn't a democracy but still it was our own government that did this.
As a Greek, I always thought that the last Greek broadcast message was among the most painful radio messages to hear during WWII, since the old Greek generations had received the impact of the German war machine and famine in Greece. At least the Greek broadcaster ended his speech with a hopeful message for all fighting against the Germans. Still, it came to me as surrealistic and horrifying that the fates of countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were in much worse shape, even after the end of WWII. You can actually picture and understand the fear and despair on the tone of the broadcasters, who feared mostly Soviet reprisals, not German ones.
In the long run, the pro Warsaw pact members were affected way more than Greece, but I can't even imagine what it's like being under german occupation for 3 years and then have a civil war that lasts 5 years
@@anderslarsen1321 Russia's past is absolutely to be glorified. If the French, the English, the Spanish, the Italian, the Greek, the Turkish, the Austrian, the Egyptian, etc. pasts are to be glorified, so is Russian. Their history is absolutely wonderful, and so meaningful for the modern world. Without Russia, today's life would've been so much worse, as you're probably not aware of how many inventions the Russians blessed us with.
It's probably because the German regime was collapsing by the end of the war with Hitler dead and most high-ranking Nazis surrendering, while the Japanese regime only surrendered due to Hirohito breaking the tie and requesting a surrender.
Funfact: the man that broadcasted Polish radio at that time survived the war and was just fine! I absolutely adore how different people from different countries came here to appreciate their nation. I'm deeply proud of Poland and everytime I hear "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła!" makes me wanna cry in pride.
@hakimi69420 I know, but the "fun" is actually misused here. Better use fact or sad fact here, cuz you know. Anyway, I'm not trying to argue here. You'll get the point.
The marching sounds before the Dutch anthem played were Japanese soldiers entering the NIROM radio station, in the same room where the announcer was making the final broadcast.
Because that's basically what was happening. The Nazis were trying to hijack the frequency and the French station just blasted their national anthem loud enough to mostly drown it out. Absolutely legendary.
at 19:31 i feel like it shouldnt be translated as "sleeping" because the brodcaster said something along the lines of "this happened without the knowledge of" - "bez vědomí", its also possible that he said "bezvědomí" (without a space) which means unconsciousness although i think that thats much less likely lol. Great Video!
About the Hungarian and Polish broadcast: the very last people defending the stations are dying the moment message is broadcasted. You can hear something that appears to be gunfire in Hungarian one, wheras Polish is sped up on purpose because of germans flooding the city and as a result the lower levels of the radio station...
The broadcast at 17:41 is particularly haunting because those pops you hear in the background are actually Soviet Soldiers storming the building and shooting rebels, I think I heard everyone at that last station was killed
The 1968 invasion hits especially hard for me, as I am slovak and my grandparents had to experience that. I cannot imagine what they felt at that moment.
Honestly same, my parents both experienced the Soviets taking our country. They were so little (3 and 5) when it happened...they couldn't even enjoy most of their youth freely...
Heh, my grandfather proposed to my grandma that they should leave the country. She refused, because they had two small kids at the time. My grandfather also told them not to go near the window when the Russian troops were moving around on the streets. Everybody was afraid that they'll start randomly shooting (this fear wasn't unfounded at all).
In the actual full version of the Japanese surrender broadcast, the chime at noon sounds first, then the NHK announcer asks all listeners to stand up, and then the Director General of the Information Bureau announces that the voice of the Emperor will be broadcast. After that, the Emperor's voice is broadcast, and after the Emperor's voice, an explanation in easy-to-understand Japanese begins for the public, so the actual broadcast is longer.
God the Hungarian one leaves me feeling so sad….the desperation in that man’s voice…only to realize there answers weren’t called upon….they never received that help…
My favorite "last broadcast" was when the DJs at KiSS-FM were notified they were being laid off so they left the station playing a 24 hour loop of the uncensored "Killing in the Name"
6:28 This last Malaya radio broadcast was actually same with P Ramlee movie scene "Sarjan Hassan" (1958). The song "Nona Zaman Sekarang" was the last song before Japanese attack
If you can find the movie, it should start at 42:27 time mark. There were actually three different broadcasts shown in succession. In this video, only the first one (Pearl Harbor bombing) and the third one (Kota Bharu landing) was shown. The second one was about bombing of Singapore.
18:55 The Czechoslovakian one sounds especially scared and panicky, especially towards the end when the state transmitters are cut off. I am sorry on my country's behalf for what we've done to your revolution, only a few years after we tried to break feee ourselves. Egészséget és erőt Csehországnak 🇭🇺🇨🇿
@@janicnevim3969 We won't. Not a single (maybe very few might) Hungarian will go to war for the Russians, especially againts Czechia. And Orbán's regime if slowly falling apart. Hopefully we can elect a president in 2026 that rebuilds our connections/reputation that Orbán successfully destroyed.
@@jonnypopcorn702 Amen to that, I wish you luck. Wish us luck too, we will soon have our own battles to fight in the next elections. Hopefully we won't turn the same direction as Hungary and our supposed brothers in Slovakia.
It's even worse than you think. In the last seconds of the Hungary transmission, you can hear the soviet soldiers shooting against the people in the building. The person we were hearing ended as one of the victims
Just for fun, the interval signal of Czechoslovakia 18:33 is a snippet of the song “ La Vie En Rose” the most obvious version you can hear this is by Michel Legrand and His Orchestra
The Japanese one is the most interesting. It was a rare instance of the Emperor speaking directly to his subjects but he did so in an inscrutable Classical Japanese. Imagine if the president delivered the State of the Union in middle English. It was only after the speech that a radio announcer clarified what it meant. Fast forward to 2011 and then-Emperor Akihito got in front of a camera following the earthquake and tsunami, but that address was delivered in more everyday Japanese.
4:06 Thats the last broadcast of La Marseille on June 14th 1940, im pretty sure the last message was Charles De Gaulle "To all Free Frenchmen" on June 22nd 1940
this just made me very nervous as it put me in the people back then's position... imminent death all around... hopelessness.... hate.... darkness.... how did we recover? how do we continue to recover? the human spirit is truly incredible
„Free? More like under new management“. The election reforms made by Fidesz cannot be considered democratic. Hungary has become a mafia state, and the youth know that, that‘s why they leave the country
im greek and i got my heart broken by his plea, i felt his despair and fear. the fear that your country might stop ceasing to exist and be handed as the land of the enemy.
I don't understand, please explain it to me. Hungarians suffered so much from Russia in the past, so why did Hungarians vote for a pro-russian leader? Is it a Stockholm syndrome or some shit?
You sure about that bro? Orban been acting pretty “dictatory”. Just joking dude, my grandpa was Hungarian, and the final broadcast would have killed him to hear, either way, you’re not wrong. Everyone is at least a lot more free now.
@@gamer1mr.maskman996It took Germans 30 days and they couldn't pass the Greek front, they bypass it winning Yugoslavia and entering Greece by the East.
Hearing these nations last cry out to be strong, and to have hope just before being overtaken by such tragedy is heartbreaking. It really brings me into the shoes of a citizen hearing this, and knowing my nation has fallen, and that destruction is a certainty.
This was the last free broadcast in Poland for 50 years. The country lost 17% of its population, most in percent of any country and most of it was civilians. After the war those who tried to free Poland from the communists were jailed, tortured and some sentenced to death. The capital city, Warsaw, was completely leveled after the 1944 unsuccessful uprising and had to be rebuilt after the war, this is why you see so many commieblocks and restored buildings.
@@nonnon1649 When you are forced under threath by allies (mainly by brittian) to give germany biggest border fortifications along their borders then its hard to protect country. Especialy when czechoslovaks needed only time to hold line until planned coup would start in germany. But Chamberlain destroyd every hope because he refuse war at any cost.
As a filipino Wainwright’s message was unnerving and eye opening Its my first time coming across that message in the many years we’ve been taught our history in school
The unintelligible part at 22:46 (Hungary 1956) says "in the form of parachuted troops over the trans-danubian provinces", meaning they requested paratroopers to land in the western parts of the country. Hungary is split in parts of about 40:60 by the river Danube from North to South. This call also makes sense, since the Soviet troops approached the capital Budapest, which is also split by the Danube, from the North and East.
Additional Info: The radio station where General Wainwright broadcasted the surrender of Filipino-American soldiers is possibly a radio station named KZRH (currently named as DZRH) since the only radio station that operates in the Philippines at that time was only KZRH.
Fun Fact: Did you know that almost no one on this Earth, *including the Japanese themselves* can understand their declaration of surrender? This is because the declaration of surrender was written by the Emperor himself, who speak in an ancient Japanese language that only the royal family and high-ranking servant can understand and speak fluently. This cause 2 problems: Because it is a declaration of surrender, this force the fanatics of the Japanese army to try to start a coup to prevent this surrender to came into effect. The other problem is that because the regular folk who listen to this radio do not understand a single word spoken. They don't know that this is their Emperor asking them to lay down their arms. Causing them to continue to fight even after the war is over.
@@vincilo8835 Not really unless you take Chinese literature. Reading 古話 is really like reading a foreign language even though you kind of know what the words mean. Even those of us who speak other Chinese languages which retain older forms of expression and are closer to “old Chinese” like Cantonese may find it difficult to read since most of the time, unless it’s Mandarin, we just speak the word without knowing how it’s actually written.
@@vincilo8835 No one in China who has lived in the last 1000 years would understand a word of this speech without first knowing Japanese. The pronunciation of the ideograms in the on'yomi reading come from the Han, Tang and Song dynasties and there are components that are natively Japanese and alien to the Chinese languages, which are the particles, not to mention the various natively Japanese words (for example the second one, "fukaku"). What makes the text difficult for Japanese to understand are some unusual words, but the main information, the surrender of the war, is easily understood and conveyed to everyone at the time.
In most countries i heard, despair, fear and hopelesness. But in poland i heard pure determination, that they will always find a way, no matter the pain. And thats what happened decades after the broadcast.
(Not so) fun fact: It was Czechoslovak president Emil Hácha. Unfortunately for him, he was forced to say those things and until today he is still hated for it and called "collaborator" He was actually old man, who got to be a prezident in a wrong time and wrong place, I recommend searching him (only if you want ofc), since he was indeed an interesting person
I've heard the Polish one at least a dozen times now and it still gives me goosebumps. First to fall in the war, attacked by the Nazis and stabbed in the back by the Soviet co-conspirators. Considering all the German and Russian BS they had to endure over the centuries and still managed to survive it's no wonder they're so fiercely independent and proud. Heck I'm proud to be Polish, and I'm Irish!
Polish and Hungarian are saddest to hear. My own country was splitted on molotov ribbentrop pact to soviets. Only because my people gave all they had for our freedom we never fell. Poland was not lost then and never will be 🇫🇮🫶🇵🇱🕊
Apart from the suffering of people that happened to every country that appeared in the video, poland and austria even vanished from the maps for years. So in those cases it realy were "the last broadcasts of countries". (for years)
As a Czech citizen, who even though is too young to remember these broadcasts, is fairly well educated in our history, I have to tell you that this hits HARD
Fun Fact : Radio Paris who played the French Anthem as the German got into the local became exactly what the Greeks describe in their broadcast ; an ennemy controled station. So much so that in French there is a famous WWII saying "Radio Paris ment, Radio Paris est Allemand" (Radio Paris lies, Radio Paris is German)
You gotta understand..this was before the internet and TV..radio was a critical form of information and communication..so when stuff like this happens..it was really the final nail on the coffin that the invasion was complete
@ayumiko14 mostly likely he is referring to the state of TV prior to the Revolution. Back during the Marcos dictatorship, a lot of TV stations, including Channel 4 (which is a government-controlled station) were placed under extreme media censorship and were only made to report news and make programs that glorified the dictatorship. That part he mentioned was very significant because soldiers sympathetic to the revolution and protesters took over the studio to mark the end of dictatorship.
As a Czech, the broadcast of 1968 is the most horrifying one of them all, just imagine the situation. You are surrounded from every side, no one is gonna help you and your nation is slowly being "killed" by your OWN ally. Czechoslovakia didn't wanted to convert to a west regime, all we wanted was having some more freedom.
@Pepsi_Rules Pravda, a nejhorší na tom je, že ti starší, co to zažili, tak i přesto jsou schopni tvrdit, že za Komunistů bylo líp. I když je mi 17 (nedokážu si tu dobu představit) tak je mi toho líto.
i hate shit like this. based on most of these broadcasts, you could tell people thought it was the end of their country, that their country wouldnt exist. its sad as hell to think about
The Hungarian one brings tears to my eyes. You can hear the difference between his voice in the beginning and the end, it goes from stating the situation to a desperate plea. Éljen Magyarország!
15:50: "Nations of the World, the last flames on the watchtowers of the 1000-year old Hungary are starting to die." At least this is the literal translation.
The Hungarian broadcast is from the end of a 1957 German documentary called "Ungarn in Flammen" (Magyarország Lángokban / Hungary in Flames). The full 1 hour video can be found on youtube
@@flagministry602 its either the war with Czechoslovakia Romania and Hungary that happened after ww1 because Hungarians just couldnt let go or the Czechoslovak legionaries that were trapped in Russia after the russian civil war also at the end of ww1 and had to fight their way to freedom across whole Transsiberian railway. To both of these im gonna just say. We are not sorry for fighting for our freedom.
Well most countries in western Europe could have helped them, but they were afraid of a war with the soviets. The Hungarians died because of a conflict they never wanted to be a part of.
BTW : if you have, or have found any other recording i could use for this video, please put it in this google docs as a comment: docs.google.com/document/d/1m68i5M624ZgeVhi3MerB1qTDSPrmtQLr_TwBRcujVhQ/edit?usp=sharing
i have a question, what is that background sound or someone singing at 6:37 which is where the british malaya last broadcast is
@@Wildrussianedit i think it's just people speaking/panicking in the background, but the recording is not of high enough quality to know
Last broadcast of RRI (National Radio of Indonesia) on Timor Leste on September 1999.
Timor Leste is occupied by Indonesia for 25 years since free from Portugal on 1974. There are many recording of it on youtube.
@@hendrakurniawan8521 oh i thought i already looked but i guess i didn't, thanks !
Hey, I've tried to post a link with translation of the last broadsast of Czechoslovak radio in 1968 but the comment was automatically deleted.
I feel like the Greek broadcast was the most haunting, as it states: “Caution. The broadcast in a few hours will not be Greek; it will be German. It will broadcast LIES!” There was even a caution at the beginning. 😭
Ya except they weren't forced to speak German...so that was pure propaganda 🤣
@@UFCMania155 That was very obviously not what was said? They didn't say they'd be broadcasting in German, they said it'd be controlled by Germans
@@theultijimtruly the wehraboo is a fascinating creature to observe
@@winterbliss4459it doesn’t get more stupid than that.
@@UFCMania155and here we see a 14 year old political extremist in it's natural habitat
i like how the french did not care the radio was being hijacked, they played the anthem to show how much they dont care about the germans
They couldn't do much, but I wonder why it was a American artillery man march.
Reminds me of "Casablanca" when the French out-sang the Germans with their anthem.
I loved that. Our Hungarian plea was very characteristically tragic, like our anthem. The efforts of the French were brave and gallant, like THEIR anthem. I think a nation’s anthem predestines it to some degree to its national spirit.
they cared pretty much. it was a disastrous defeat against germany.
"hah we don't like your nation so we're going to outplay you with a song"
The voice of the Hungarian broadcaster just feels... different. Not only because he's talking to the outside nations, too, but because his voice still felt powerful in the last hours of his homeland.
And the anthem in the backround is sad, and if you understand the stuff he says wothout the text, its haunting
@@Aulus_Save I do, I'm a Hungarian-English bilingual 😅 mindkét nyelvet ugyanolyan jól használom/értem
@@tlostdj i am also hungarian
@@barmilehet1238 yeeeah felhasználónevedből rá nem jöttem volna 🤔🤣 azért üdv itt!
@@Aulus_Save Im hungarian and its actually just sad. Nothing else.
Germany Surrender: Well GG guys, it was a good fight
Japan Surrender: We did not lose, we merely failed to win
Oversimplified reference
Lol
Iirc, if the emperor actually used terms like "surrender" in his surrender speech, there was a very real possibility the military could've revolted and either assassinated him or just ignored the declaration. The words were VERY carefully chosen. Also, given the archaic dialect, most couldn't understand it when they heard it anyway 😂
@@GatsbyCioffi It was intentional. He used the very archaic dialect intentionally so that the Japanese people or army wouldn't depose of him.
China and South Korea are still sore about it to this day.
I'm Polish, and the Polish broadcast is super special to me, but the Greek radio man is a LEGEND.
Yippee
True
Ikr
Fr
Im german and the german Podcast was special to mee
"the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage" is quite the euphemism for "two of our cities have now been boiled"
My thoughts exactly. Could that have been any more of an understatement? I think not.
Boiled is an understatement
Thats how Japanese formality tends to work. Tho the language Hirohito spoke in that broadcast was actually classical Japanese read out in kanbun form, so not only potentially worse but also unintelligible to a majority (tho thanks to history not an entirety) of the Japanese population of the time. The very educated who were born at the end of the 19th and beginning or middle of the 20th century would have likely understood a majority if not an entirety of it tho, and I have personally met people, at least one person, who is 90-something years old over there who writes her notes that way still, and I, someone who is not native but have studied the language for about 12 years on and off and fluent in modern Japanese, can understand it in written form in brief segments more often than not.
@@petravonsakray That's very interesting thank you for sharing your thoughts and observations! As sb who's both interested and proficient in history as well as languages I've read a lot about that speech, but never actually got to ever hear it. Now I'm going to study classical Japanese kanbun form I suppose, so thanks for pointing me in that direction 🙏
Though to be fair, only a few sentences later we get (summarized) "The enemy has a new bomb that will kill millions, so we have to surrender to save us and perhaps everyone else around"
Funfact: the broadcaster who announced the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia was Vladimír Fišer and more than 20 years later, he became the Czech voice of Kent Brockman, the tv announcer in the Simpsons xd
what
@@nathanadrielsvlogs1021bro how did you not understand that
Really? That's amazingly funny 😯What a legend! 😄
I thought it was one of the most heartfelt broadcasts on this
“The Soviet Forces are invading Czechoslovakia.. can I have some sources on this? I.P. Freely… I- UGHH!!”
Tak to nene
4:06 For some reason, being able to hear the Germans actively trying to hijack Radio Paris is kind of eerie.
"Caution, this radio will not be greek, it will be german, and it will broadcast lies! Do not listen to it!"
That man is a legend
Surprised the building held up under the weight of his massive titanium balls...
For the Hungarian one, the 'unintelligible part' says 'We are requesting you to send us immediate aid, in the form of parachuted troops *to the Trans-Danubian provinces*'.
the unintelligible part is the hungarian language
it's "over the Trans-Danubian provinces", not to
@@TF2Goblinno shit
they sure were a lot more worried about the communists then most countries were about the germans lol
@@billy4lifeify 🙄🙄
You can hear the fear in the voice of the Czech broadcaster
Thats the president Emil Hácha himself
Honestly, it's so sad. It is the voice of president Emil Hácha, who at the time was persuaded to accept the position in the rump second Czechoslovak republic (after Munich) and eventually the protectorate. At the time, he was already quite old and tired and constantly under pressure. He took a bullet for us and sadly to this day, many people just see him as a collaborator and don't bother to look a bit deeper into his life.
failure and psychic destruction...... bohužel nebylo na výběr Anglie a Francie nás odevzdali aby pak zjistili že udělali chybu..
Real government was in exile in UK, but yeah, Emil Hácha was forced to say everything, he even got heart attack during negotiations with nazis in Berlin before actual invasion and after that, he was probably not the same person as before. He died in prison after WWII, but later judge court said that due to his health, he was not responsible for his decisions.
Chicken shit
The sadness of the Hungarian broadcast will always leave an impression on me, but the pure tone of defeat in the Czechslovkians broadcaster is just pure depression.
Becuse 990iq british and france sold us, we were prepared for war and able to stop Hitler
Shits disgustingly even more sad when you understand it
I am from Czechia and both of the broadcasts are kind of heartbreaking for me, those were the last moments of my country, then we ceased either becoming a soviet puppet basicly, or becoming a german puppet
we were forced to surrender by our allies and our enemies...
@@anothervarietyyoutuber4533 thats because we considered france and britain friends but the betrayed us
The last broadcast of Radio Athens is often played on the 28th of October - the day where we Greeks commemorate our nation's involvement in the Second World War. The funny thing is that the original broadcast was not recorded - It was made in haste as the German Army approached Athens, and no recordings were made. However, the Broadcaster who made the announcement and the transcripts of the Final Broadcast survived the Occupation, and after the Axis Withdrawal this speech was recorded and played to commemorate our Liberation. This particular recording is perhaps one of the most famous of any Radio broadcast in our history.
yes i learned that after making the video so it's not in it tho. it's the same thing they did with "to all free frenchmen" on the BBC i believe
oh so thats why its so high quality
@@radajradaj Exactly. It was recorded both to commemorate the Liberation, as well as to raise morale in the nation. This recording was made in the years of the Civil War, when we had defeated Fascism but were actively fighting Communism. I can imagine the thought was that it better sound good. In its own way, this broadcast has two meanings as a Greek.
@@MichalisG1821as a Turk that is really something to respect for , long live the Greek Independence!
Ηχογραφήθηκαν το 1966.
"Oh no, the Germans are hijacking us what do we do?"
French Radio: blast the anthem lol
No matter how much slack they get nowadays, we can't forget how badass they were
@@NADG18Yep the cowardly French stereotype is weird, especially considering that they were not the only country to surrender. And especially when you consider the countries that surrendered without firing a shot.
@@tillettman Purely an English invention. England you know... the country that only started to become an actual country when they were invaded in 1066 by a Frenchman who made mincemeat of the English armies. The country that for a 100 years of war tried to invade France and ended up owning none of it.
@@tillettman
They fought brave in WW II and absolutely carried WW I, the French deserve respect.
There was nothing to do in that situation so at the last day they broadcasted french sound
For anyone interested in the broadcast of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, Czechs have recently made a movie about the broadcasters trying their best to continue broadcasting while the invasion is happening. It's called Waves (Vlny in Czech). I saw it few days aho and it was one of the best history movies I've ever seen
are you czech?
How the heck made up stuff can be called best history movie??
@@killtie15 not made up
I saw it in the cinemas too! Very nice movie indeed
Finally someone is talking about it! I completely agree with you, that movie is amazing!
As a Hungarian both the Polish and the Hungarian was a heartbreaking point to me. Nobody helped, even if we tried to....
Apparently both Italy and Spain wanted to send us aid but the Americans withheld them because we weren't in their sphere of interest
@@officialxverzusz it wasnt about sphere of interest of usa. It was only because usa didnt wanted to start a war with soviet union + they were involved in vietnam already
There was public outcry in the Netherlands about that with anti-communist riots in many Dutch cities.
@@DasArtyom in 1956? no (in '68, yes)
@@DasArtyom In Vietnam in '56 ? Nice...
06:00 this part sent a shiver down my spine, how the reporter warned that in just a few moments the station would be invaded.
"it will broadcast lies!" really hit me like a rock
as a hungarian the hungarian one always makes me tear up, not because of a bias, but it's genuinely a horribly heartbreaking message
We have not been truly free ever since.
@@youdonegoofed why
Others: "We are not begging for freedom"
Hungary: sos, sos, we are weak, help help help help sos weak weak weak sos
@@SquareModel ok ROMAnian
@@SquareModel how about you go ahead and 1v1 the soviet union as a small country?
I love how Germany really just said "GG"
FR
Yeah but the team sucked, maybe they have more luck next time.
@JackTheMurderer German was the one to rush out before Italy could prepare their military properly.
@@vacuousbard6410 The Germans also gave no warning to Italy whatsoever.
Much of the invasions/wars Germany perpetuated aggravated Italy, including that of the war with the USSR, to which Mussolini has had several commentaries over the war with the Soviets. Some interesting ones and trivia:
Upon the declaration of war:
"I hope for only one thing...that in this war in the East the Germans lose many feathers. It’s a falsity to talk about an anti-Bolshevik struggle. Hitler knows that Bolshevism has not existed for some time." - Benito Mussolini, 1941
He would constantly push Hitler to make peace with the Russians, to the point that before his arrest in 1943, he was planning on sending the Germans an ultimatum; Peace with Russia or Italy leaves the conflict.
"The Germans have never grasped the importance of the Mediterranean, never... they maintained and still maintain that Russia is a deadly peril to Western and European civilization. I tried to convince Hitler that this was a meaningless phrase... Stalin has killed Bolshevism... in contrast to Trotsky, he has completely renounced world revolution." - Benito Mussolini, 1943
Overall, Italy was not ready at all for the war as during the 30s, they were still in the process of demilitarizing the industry from the legacy government and WW1. Only by 42, did they manage to start getting remotely developed but overarchingly, their airforce was the main thing going for them to compete with the other nations of Europe.
"GG guys, third time's the charm"
The austrian broadcaster sounds so sad in the first one
to be fair he was the prime minister, so he probably felt like he failed at his job of protecting his country
@@mariobot128to be fair he ultimately did, he chose a peaceful surrender rather than risk many of his people get slaughtered
@@housesports000He had to protect his people or else they all get wipes out
That was Kurt Schuschnigg, the dictatorial chancellor of Austria
@@AEIOU05 a man who tried all possible (without paying with blood) to stop the anschluss of austria
God, Hungary’s is utterly heartbreaking. To think that they were crying out for help to the entire world, but they wouldn’t be free for decades.
They where a axis power, they chose to collaborate with the demon worshiping Germans they got what they had coming
dude, Czechia got invaded by Nazi Germany after France, UK and Fascits Italy agreed to let Hitler invade Czechia just to save their own ass, knowing well how much terror that will throw upon the czechs. Czechs couldnt fight neither because they were ready to attack the Czech nation too as part of the agreement. Then later by the end of ww2 to immediately be turned into socialistic country by the soviets, which lasted all the way until 1989, we got invaded by the soviets again in the process in 1968 with 4 other socialstic states on side of the soviets, including Hungary, where lot of innocent people died
still not free lol
@@Sinberg ?
@@lovelandfrog5692 What the broadcaster said about this being the last free Hungarian radio broadcast actually rings true for the actual Hungarian Free Radio and free Radio in Hungary in general, kinda. Soviet influence is still rampant here, in the minds of the ruling classes especially. Most of the media is state/government controlled and is full of propaganda. We tried in 56, doesn't feel like we have been free ever since.
Dude the japanese Planes in the background of the dutch east indie´s ones is bone chilling
And fake af and clearly added after.
As Indonesian im pretty sure that was fake and added later, why ? Because it was sound of motorcycle 😂 i know because we Indonesian used motorcycle everywhere.
uhh i would just like to add that this may not actually be the sounds of planes, i just assumed it is due to context
@@mariobot128 *Understandable, have a nice day*
Ik dutch
hearing these kind of broadcast can break your heart
Ikr. The last Wehrmacht report was particularly sad.
@@I_am_nobody999wdym, the Austrian one and Hungarian ones were sad.
@Titancameramanedits5614don’t forget poland
imo the saddest was hungary
@@I_am_nobody999 lol wut
"The war is not over" filled my heart with pride as Greek. The only broadcast that called for immediate resistance. Proud to be Greek.
If you would listen to other broadcasts , Polish one also called for resistance
Greece famously also had one of the best resistance of all time too
The Poles did the same too.
@@yasha886 strangely enough, i have never heard anything about the greek resistance, i've only heard about the yugoslav and polish ones, is there anywhere i can learn about the greek resistance?
"Nations of the world, hear our plea, help us! Not with councils (counsels*) or words but with action!" Is so goddam heart wrenching...
And as Russia continues invading its neighbors in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2014, 2022, and who knows when later, only councils have been convened. Time for action
at 17:58 the guy says "in the form of parachute troops over the Transdanubian provences."
thanks !
I heard that too, I thought he said parachute troops *or* transdanubian provinces, but your explanation makes much more sense.
18:09 she told it is 1h55 AM 💀
They even gave the location :o Again, the west was not givin a shit same as in 45.
@@tymcio11I mean… if they did and a war did break out, how close to Moscow do you think the NATO army will get before the nukes fly?
The Poland one has a chill factor I cant explain. Knowing that starting distortion was an explosion says all that needs to be said with what happened after that broadcast
Yep, it literally sounded like the broadcast was made from the front line.
@@CoolKoon
That's because it essentially was.
By the time the broadcast was being made, the enemy army has been actively "flooding" into the city (and trying to shut down the radio station, among other things).
That's also why the message is sped up, instead of beig shared calmly - because the Polish soldiers were defending the place at the same time, as the message was being sent out.
@@TheCursedCat1927 I meant the background noises too, not just the speed at which they've relayed the message.
@@CoolKoon
Oh yeah, that too.
The Hungarian one brought a tear in my eye, they tried to call the world for help
well in the end, it still allowed a lot of hungarians to flee to austria and from there escape from the communist dictatorship afaik, but the that was it because the world didn't want to anger the soviet union. It really sounds similar to what happened with the spanish civil war tbf.
From what I heard only Franco was ready to help out, paratroopers and air supplies were ready to be shipped but good old USA the "allies" stopped it from happening, would have been awesome if it did though.
Same
@@royale7620 i just imagine a random basque and a hungarian, both being able to relate to not being understood by anyone xD would've been an incredible scene
Well like 6-7 years after that Kádár came and brought Goulash Communism which was just basically communism but actually livable
An interesting thing about Hácha's radio broadcast from 1939 is, that he speaks in really archaic Czech way that even to people at the time sounded weird, although not as weird as people of today. The most noticable thing is that he uses the suffix -ti for infinitives instead of the more natural -t and that the way he puts emphasis on certain words. Because the recording in this video is really short, you cannot hear much more of his archaic way of speaking, but look up other of his speeches. I remember also hearing a radio reporter Franta Kocourek from around the same time and he sounds completely different from Hácha in the way he speaks.
I hear something similar of Hirohito’s broadcast as well. He was speaking in a really formal/archaic form of Japanese that regular people couldn’t understand to the point that they had to translate the message for the common people.
Hmm, that is cool and all, but was there any reason for that? Something cultural? It feels significant.
@@hunter_0221 Basically the reason was a combination of being very old when he became the president in 1938, having been born in 1872, and being sort of a book worm. Up until the 1950s and in smaller sense to this day, there exists a gap between standard spoken and standard written Czech, where standard written Czech keeps a lot archaic features that are not used in speech. Added to that, there exists another form called Literary Czech, which is basically just standard written Czech, as it was in the 19th century. So because Hácha spent a lot of his spare time either reading, translating or writing literature and poetry, he adopted Literary Czech, in which he read and wrote, into his speech.
@@vojtechkubinek6650
That is very interesting and I didn't know that. But indeed, I did read that he was quite the intellectual. Certainly an interesting person who, like many Czech dignitaries and national heroes after the war, found an untimely death under "unclear circumstances". Though...perhaps not an untimely death as he was quite old, but probably not a natural one...
I love linguistics and I have nothing but respect for your nation, therefore your comment is particularly illuminating to me. Thank you very much for answering so swiftly!
It's also interesting to hear 1938's austrian german (chancellor/dictator Schuschnigg was speaking) and 1945's german. Both sound rather similar, except for Schuschnigg's accent, but you can still hear differences. For modern ears, the 1938 sounds distinctly more old-fashioned because he uses some antiquated formulations, which the 1945's broadcast does less. The reason might be, that even the standartised austrian german was more distinct back then, before the germans influenced it. Germans were/are rather intolerant towards local dialects in official records, as dialect speakers had/have the reputation of uneducated peasentry. Even Hitler, who in private spoke Inn-bavarian (Inn is the name of a river) or standard german with a distinct bavarian accent, dropped his accent completely in his official, recorded speeches.
The greek broadcaster was a badass he didn’t care what the Germans would do after the invasion he made sure the people knew the truth what a legend
it's better when you learn he survived the whole war
Comment to the Hungarian part: where they say "tanács" it is a common mistake to translate it to council, but in Hungarian we say it as advice ("tanács" is used for both words) and the inaudible part at the end said "over the Transdanubian provinces". Thank you for including it!
Mindkettő helyes, a "council" szót használják angolban is mindkét módon.
Counsel (different spelling) can mean advice. Perhaps this is what they meant? I could be wrong, though.
Counsel not council here
@@darkon4442no, counsel
Not the same as council
The Philippines broadcast (1942) was indeed done by General Wainwright. However, this was in the context of the surrender of all US and Filipino forces in the Philippines after the battle of Corregidor. The Japanese sent him to Manila after Corregidor fell to make the broadcast -- for all commanders in the Philippine Islands to receive the surrender order. Also, the radio station in question is KZRH, now DZRH (yes it still exists).
Hope this helps! :))
I wonder what would happen if not all troops surrender and did guerilla warfare, but probably the decision allowed a slim chance for survival to be able to fight another day
Quite a few troops didn’t actually surrender, and US officers and service personnel would serve alongside philipeano gurellias till the end of the war
@@LegendZe1-26 many continued the fight in the mountains until the end of the war
It was Hukbalahap fighting for our democracy not the U.S
@@gedgustilo1095 where did you learn that the U.S didn't fight for the Philippines? and how did you come up to that conclusion
It could be possible that the Unknown Filipino Radio Station was KZRH (now known as DZRH) which at first was just NBC in 1939 (but since 1946 it became the Manila Broadcasting Company/MBC)
czechoslovakia: first invaded and crushed by nazis, and then by the communists, what a sad tale
Poland too
Czechoslovakia was a member of the Warsaw Pact, part of the government simply asked for help during the crisis
The USSR also held negotiations with the USA, clarifying that this would not be considered a violation of any agreements
@@duren5691what crisis? Dubček started being "less soviet" And warsaw pact invaded
@@Losowy crisis within the government, of course
and he becomed “less Soviet” a couple of years earlier and Soviet Union didn’t care at all about all reforms
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19:34 - The correct translation is not "while sleeping" but "without knowledge" of all mentioned.
A side effect of literal translating. It may very well be "while sleeping" but in the original language context makes it understood to mean "without knowledge."
@@johnroscoe2406 That isn't the case here. The literal translation here would be "...it happened without the consciousness of the...". I don't really understand where the sleeoing thing came from, the rest seems to be translated somewhat well.
@@tuptap2457 ok then
@@tuptap2457 'v bezvědomí' - maybe the author interpreted it like this instead of Bez vědomí.
@@tuptap2457 "Without consciousness" could be interpreted as "unconscious" - or "asleep".
One thing to 1968 Czechoslovakia broadcast translation. "Stalo se tak bez vědomí" doesn't mean that the goverment was sleeping, but that no one told them about the impending invasion. "This happened without knowledge of President of the Rep..." something like that.
21:32 He isnt saying Radio Warsaw he is saying Wien radio. By the way the czech broadcasts are very well translated, im suprised its this well done.
After that when the volume is low, they talk about Romanian support
God the Hungarian one is so hard to listen to
As a Hungarian myself I've learned every little bit about the 1956 October Revolution and it is still taken as such a massive tragedy in Hungarian history
I've never heard this radio recording tho in class, I came across it myself one day here on YT and Jesus fucking Christ it is absolutely heart wrenching
Rákosi Mátyás and his cabinet were imbeciles. The Soviets negotiated with Nagy. And you just have to insult them over the radio... What idiots
@@CountryNerd12 its right there...
And your wonderful prime minister is now collaborating with effectively the same country that inflicted that to you back in 1956, ruled by someone who was very much loyal to the same regime.
@@fungo6631 and what did we inflict exactly? Or is it ok when people get lynch-hanged for their political beliefs?
@@gloomysahash9849 Huh???
The Czech surrender to the Nazis is still a sore spot for us today. There are theories that if we defended ourselves back then, we could have held on just long enough for the Allies to realize Hitler had to be fought and come to our aid. We had a well-trained army at the borders ready to fight, but they had to stand by and watch as Wehrmacht poured in.
In my opinion, Hácha (the president you hear in the recording) did the only thing he could in an attempt to prevent bloodshed and suffering of the Czech people. People hated him for it (some still do) but this decision completely broke him. He didn't live for long after that.
People that think that Czechoslovaks could defend themselves tend to be pretty delusional and probably never made it to academics...All Czechoslovak military plans were dependant on French help (the French honestly were willing to help more than once, but Brits always talked them out of it), the Czechoslovak army was to slowly fall back into Slovakian mountains untill the French arrive.
Czech bunkers were not Magginot line and they were not build to hold the enemy, but slow them down untill the French arrive.
@@GrimmaStadguard Same goes for austria. People theorised, if we took arms against the occupation force, it would've given czechoslovakia time to prepare defenses or at least alert britain and france, but it would have been unnecessary bloodshed and nobody would've cared anyway. (Also 30% to 60% of austrians welcomed the germans because they either wanted to be german or just because they brought free food into the struggling country).
I don't think it would be the case, if Czechoslovakia did resist militarily most likely Brits and Frenches would declare the war sooner, but it wouldn't change the course of war that much, but it would cause immense suffering of Czech people and destruction of the country. Look at Poland, 1 in 5 people have been killed and cities were turned into piles of rumble and ash.
@@GrimmaStadguardtrue but i still think we should have deffended ourselves we would fall but germany would be very weakened and every czech was prepared to fight ready to fight instead we were betrayed its true i would probably not be here if we fought to the death but it would be worth it i think the phrase of the czech king john the bling about czech kings not running away from a fight applies to czechia as a whole as well
As a Pole, if we stood by you things could've been different. Czechoslovakia was EXTREMELY fortified and with Polands help things could've been different maybe (this was before Hitler - Stalin agreement to split eastern europe between themselves so maybe Russia wouldn't have attacked us). Instead we stabbed you in the back to take an extremely small piece of land (yes sure it was taken from us by you during Polish - Soviet war but still).
My father used to say that Poland helping the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 is the most shameful moment of Polish history. For me it's helping Hitler annex it. In 1968 we were soviet puppets and the people had no power to stop it (although some tried, like that Polish man who literally set himself on fire to protest it and died for it). In 1938 Poland wasn't a democracy but still it was our own government that did this.
As a Greek, I always thought that the last Greek broadcast message was among the most painful radio messages to hear during WWII, since the old Greek generations had received the impact of the German war machine and famine in Greece. At least the Greek broadcaster ended his speech with a hopeful message for all fighting against the Germans. Still, it came to me as surrealistic and horrifying that the fates of countries like Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were in much worse shape, even after the end of WWII. You can actually picture and understand the fear and despair on the tone of the broadcasters, who feared mostly Soviet reprisals, not German ones.
In the long run, the pro Warsaw pact members were affected way more than Greece, but I can't even imagine what it's like being under german occupation for 3 years and then have a civil war that lasts 5 years
After WWII those countries were born to a new civilization, except for the Nazis.
@@hanbyol19Hahahahaha
You can see the traces of Japan's continual outright denial even here. It's amazing how different theirs and Germany's are to each other.
Not to speak about Russian denial and outright gloryfication about its past…
Yea, their claim of not wanting territorial agrandizement was bull####.
@@anderslarsen1321 Russia's past is absolutely to be glorified. If the French, the English, the Spanish, the Italian, the Greek, the Turkish, the Austrian, the Egyptian, etc. pasts are to be glorified, so is Russian. Their history is absolutely wonderful, and so meaningful for the modern world. Without Russia, today's life would've been so much worse, as you're probably not aware of how many inventions the Russians blessed us with.
It's probably because the German regime was collapsing by the end of the war with Hitler dead and most high-ranking Nazis surrendering, while the Japanese regime only surrendered due to Hirohito breaking the tie and requesting a surrender.
@@anderslarsen1321 Слава героям Советского Союза, а вам неучам позор.
Funfact: the man that broadcasted Polish radio at that time survived the war and was just fine!
I absolutely adore how different people from different countries came here to appreciate their nation. I'm deeply proud of Poland and everytime I hear "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła!" makes me wanna cry in pride.
The man from the greek broadcast also survived ! the recording we have is actually a re-recording from 1944
@mariobot128 omg that's good to hear!! so good few of those people survived 🥹
@@mariobot128 So that is actually a FAKE?
@@marcelbork92 technically, it's not the original recording. Realistically, it's the same guy and the same script, so it's good enough
Great historic documents
Poland broadcast was especially brutal for me
I know.... because since they're people got the worst among those the Jews in response to the Nazi Occupation.
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(not so fun) fact: 3 NIROM employees were executed because the Japanese found out that the station was allowed to play the Dutch national anthem
Damm
Not a fun fact. it should be sad fact. But still damn
@@7evenWondersyea thats why i put the (not so) part
@hakimi69420 I know, but the "fun" is actually misused here. Better use fact or sad fact here, cuz you know. Anyway, I'm not trying to argue here. You'll get the point.
The marching sounds before the Dutch anthem played were Japanese soldiers entering the NIROM radio station, in the same room where the announcer was making the final broadcast.
The french one had be rolling,it sounded like something being mic spammed in a TF2 lobby while the other players try to communicate
The server is full of Spies and Medics.
Because that's basically what was happening. The Nazis were trying to hijack the frequency and the French station just blasted their national anthem loud enough to mostly drown it out. Absolutely legendary.
at 19:31 i feel like it shouldnt be translated as "sleeping" because the brodcaster said something along the lines of "this happened without the knowledge of" - "bez vědomí", its also possible that he said "bezvědomí" (without a space) which means unconsciousness although i think that thats much less likely lol. Great Video!
Yes, instead of "sleeping", they should have used "unaware".
"Withouh their knowledge" Is also possible
"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Channel 4 is on the air again to serve the people."
That was cold.
which part?
@@MrPlanesTH-camAccountThe last 10 seconds of the video
Indeed, a month after the People Power Revolution, Channel 4 became the People's Television Network, which it still retains.
About the Hungarian and Polish broadcast: the very last people defending the stations are dying the moment message is broadcasted. You can hear something that appears to be gunfire in Hungarian one, wheras Polish is sped up on purpose because of germans flooding the city and as a result the lower levels of the radio station...
That's actually morse
@@Trek001 In the Hungarian broadcast when he's requesting aid and paratroopers. You can hear gunshots.
At least the man who broadcasted Polish one made it out alive, he lived after the war!!
Through the background static, you can kind of hear gunshots in the Hungarian broadcast
The broadcast at 17:41 is particularly haunting because those pops you hear in the background are actually Soviet Soldiers storming the building and shooting rebels, I think I heard everyone at that last station was killed
I hear it now…
The Soviet: DIE BLYAT DIEEEE
The 1968 invasion hits especially hard for me, as I am slovak and my grandparents had to experience that. I cannot imagine what they felt at that moment.
stay strong 🇸🇰 trash what happened today. my grandmother is also slovak
especially czechoslovakia was invaded by their "allies"
Honestly same, my parents both experienced the Soviets taking our country. They were so little (3 and 5) when it happened...they couldn't even enjoy most of their youth freely...
Heh, my grandfather proposed to my grandma that they should leave the country. She refused, because they had two small kids at the time. My grandfather also told them not to go near the window when the Russian troops were moving around on the streets. Everybody was afraid that they'll start randomly shooting (this fear wasn't unfounded at all).
In the actual full version of the Japanese surrender broadcast, the chime at noon sounds first, then the NHK announcer asks all listeners to stand up, and then the Director General of the Information Bureau announces that the voice of the Emperor will be broadcast. After that, the Emperor's voice is broadcast, and after the Emperor's voice, an explanation in easy-to-understand Japanese begins for the public, so the actual broadcast is longer.
God the Hungarian one leaves me feeling so sad….the desperation in that man’s voice…only to realize there answers weren’t called upon….they never received that help…
"Men don't cry"
hi
My favorite "last broadcast" was when the DJs at KiSS-FM were notified they were being laid off so they left the station playing a 24 hour loop of the uncensored "Killing in the Name"
kiss fm is in other countries other than romania ?
@@mon9519 Oh yes here in the czech republic too
@@mon9519 also USA
same
6:28 This last Malaya radio broadcast was actually same with P Ramlee movie scene "Sarjan Hassan" (1958). The song "Nona Zaman Sekarang" was the last song before Japanese attack
If you can find the movie, it should start at 42:27 time mark. There were actually three different broadcasts shown in succession. In this video, only the first one (Pearl Harbor bombing) and the third one (Kota Bharu landing) was shown. The second one was about bombing of Singapore.
Yeah in 6:30 why is there a child talking in the background of the radio speech
@@yeoengkiang3306 it was a song
@@onhiatus-v4i doesn’t seem like it to me because the child is crying like the father of the radio broadcast with interrupted
@@yeoengkiang3306 it was from a yt short, it’s rly annoying
18:55
The Czechoslovakian one sounds especially scared and panicky, especially towards the end when the state transmitters are cut off. I am sorry on my country's behalf for what we've done to your revolution, only a few years after we tried to break feee ourselves. Egészséget és erőt Csehországnak 🇭🇺🇨🇿
You have nothing to apologize for. In the light of current events, we can only ask of you to not do it again.
@@janicnevim3969 I cant exactly trust my country's government given how absolute of a nutjob Viktor Orbán and his goons are -
@@janicnevim3969 We won't. Not a single (maybe very few might) Hungarian will go to war for the Russians, especially againts Czechia. And Orbán's regime if slowly falling apart. Hopefully we can elect a president in 2026 that rebuilds our connections/reputation that Orbán successfully destroyed.
@@jonnypopcorn702 Amen to that, I wish you luck. Wish us luck too, we will soon have our own battles to fight in the next elections. Hopefully we won't turn the same direction as Hungary and our supposed brothers in Slovakia.
@@jonnypopcorn702 I sincerely hope you are right. Your Orban needs to go. Just like "my" Trump.
The Hungarian one... It sounds so depressing and desperate. I had no idea it was this bad. Poor souls...
It's even worse than you think.
In the last seconds of the Hungary transmission, you can hear the soviet soldiers shooting against the people in the building. The person we were hearing ended as one of the victims
Just for fun, the interval signal of Czechoslovakia 18:33 is a snippet of the song “ La Vie En Rose” the most obvious version you can hear this is by Michel Legrand and His Orchestra
That's actually pretty fuckin cool
I wonder where is that said original video tbh
I'm a Filipino but i cannot help myself to be emotional because of the last broadcast of greece.
The Japanese one is the most interesting. It was a rare instance of the Emperor speaking directly to his subjects but he did so in an inscrutable Classical Japanese. Imagine if the president delivered the State of the Union in middle English. It was only after the speech that a radio announcer clarified what it meant. Fast forward to 2011 and then-Emperor Akihito got in front of a camera following the earthquake and tsunami, but that address was delivered in more everyday Japanese.
古風な言葉遣いであるけど理解できないような古語ではないよ。現代日本人でも全然普通に分かる言葉。国民がすぐに内容を理解できなかったのはむしろその婉曲的な言い回しとラジオの音質などのせい。それでも多くの人たちは「負けた」ということはわかった。
4:06 Thats the last broadcast of La Marseille on June 14th 1940, im pretty sure the last message was Charles De Gaulle "To all Free Frenchmen" on June 22nd 1940
to all free frenchmen was broadcast from london on the BBC, not from france
@@mariobot128 oh mb
It was also broadcast well into the starting of resistance with the Vichy, so I don't consider it a last broadcast.
@@KingThrillgore it's a first broadcast if anything
7:04 the radio station is from KZRH (now DZRH, one of the oldest radio stations in the philippines) which was relayed to nbc san francisco radio
thanks !
this just made me very nervous as it put me in the people back then's position... imminent death all around... hopelessness.... hate.... darkness.... how did we recover? how do we continue to recover? the human spirit is truly incredible
Man, as a Hungarian. The Hungarian final broadcast hit hard. It sucks having to hear your people suffer like that. At least we're free now.
„Free? More like under new management“. The election reforms made by Fidesz cannot be considered democratic. Hungary has become a mafia state, and the youth know that, that‘s why they leave the country
im greek and i got my heart broken by his plea, i felt his despair and fear. the fear that your country might stop ceasing to exist and be handed as the land of the enemy.
I don't understand, please explain it to me. Hungarians suffered so much from Russia in the past, so why did Hungarians vote for a pro-russian leader? Is it a Stockholm syndrome or some shit?
Az ukránok még nem mind értik, de ez vár rájuk is. Értünk sem kockáztattak világháborút, értük se fognak.
You sure about that bro? Orban been acting pretty “dictatory”. Just joking dude, my grandpa was Hungarian, and the final broadcast would have killed him to hear, either way, you’re not wrong. Everyone is at least a lot more free now.
The Greek announcer was probably the most optimistic.
It's a quality my people have always had since the beginning of ancient Greek civilization
greeks held the nazis back for very long and the announcer knew, so did the people of greece
@@vgjpsych*they held the Italians back for a long time Germans did typical quick conquest on them
@@gamer1mr.maskman996It took Germans 30 days and they couldn't pass the Greek front, they bypass it winning Yugoslavia and entering Greece by the East.
@@gamer1mr.maskman996And Greece was attacked by Italians, Bulgarians and Albanians already before the German invasion
Hearing these nations last cry out to be strong, and to have hope just before being overtaken by such tragedy is heartbreaking. It really brings me into the shoes of a citizen hearing this, and knowing my nation has fallen, and that destruction is a certainty.
This was the last free broadcast in Poland for 50 years. The country lost 17% of its population, most in percent of any country and most of it was civilians. After the war those who tried to free Poland from the communists were jailed, tortured and some sentenced to death. The capital city, Warsaw, was completely leveled after the 1944 unsuccessful uprising and had to be rebuilt after the war, this is why you see so many commieblocks and restored buildings.
Not to take away from the tragedy in Poland, but Belarus lost even more in WW2, about 25% of its population.
@@beanapprentice1687 Belarus wasn't a country then
@@WindowsDrawerokay. What is now modern Belarus. (Byelorussian SSR)
@@beanapprentice1687in 1939 Polish population was around 35 milion after the war it was estimated between 27-28 milion right now it's about 38 milion
@@beanapprentice1687 Yes, very tragic. But the reason @WindowsDrawer brought up Poland is because it was included in the video.
Czechoslovakia being the only one apoearing twice, because of their good "allies"
technically so did he Pḧilippines, with both the american surrender (1942) & the people's power revolution (1986)
The Czech government didn't resisted
@@Aperson65323 They were forced to not resist.
@@nonnon1649 Yeah its easy to say to protect yourself againt many times bigger enemies :D
@@nonnon1649 When you are forced under threath by allies (mainly by brittian) to give germany biggest border fortifications along their borders then its hard to protect country. Especialy when czechoslovaks needed only time to hold line until planned coup would start in germany. But Chamberlain destroyd every hope because he refuse war at any cost.
As a filipino
Wainwright’s message was unnerving and eye opening
Its my first time coming across that message in the many years we’ve been taught our history in school
how is it eye opening for you?
@@laurnborne3830 even i havent heard that message
Wainwright should be celebrated more than McArthur. He stayed with the Filipinos instead of running away.
The unintelligible part at 22:46 (Hungary 1956) says "in the form of parachuted troops over the trans-danubian provinces", meaning they requested paratroopers to land in the western parts of the country. Hungary is split in parts of about 40:60 by the river Danube from North to South. This call also makes sense, since the Soviet troops approached the capital Budapest, which is also split by the Danube, from the North and East.
I actualy also understand it lol
Additional Info: The radio station where General Wainwright broadcasted the surrender of Filipino-American soldiers is possibly a radio station named KZRH (currently named as DZRH) since the only radio station that operates in the Philippines at that time was only KZRH.
Fun Fact: Did you know that almost no one on this Earth, *including the Japanese themselves* can understand their declaration of surrender?
This is because the declaration of surrender was written by the Emperor himself, who speak in an ancient Japanese language that only the royal family and high-ranking servant can understand and speak fluently.
This cause 2 problems:
Because it is a declaration of surrender, this force the fanatics of the Japanese army to try to start a coup to prevent this surrender to came into effect.
The other problem is that because the regular folk who listen to this radio do not understand a single word spoken. They don't know that this is their Emperor asking them to lay down their arms. Causing them to continue to fight even after the war is over.
私は日本人です。確かにこの放送の大部分で話されている日本語は非常に難解であり、細部までを理解するのには古語の知識が必須です。しかし、冒頭の「米英中ソに共同宣言を受諾する旨通告した」や中盤の「戦局必ずしも好転せず」などといった文言は現代日本においても通じる比較的庶民的な言い回しです。ラジオがあった家庭においてはこの旨を理解した一般人も一定数いたと思われます。また、この放送を理解できなかった一般人にも、天皇に絶対忠誠を誓う軍人や警察などにより日本の一般市民へ明確に終戦が伝えられ、その結果多くの市民と軍人は天皇に従い、敗戦という現実に向き合いました。一部の軍部が終戦の決定に反発しクーデター未遂を起こしたものの、天皇が決断し国民に発信した降伏そのものが比較的平和にアメリカの占領統治を受け入れることができたのだと思います。
That being said, the Chinese can understand it easily for ancient Japanese essentially took all its words from Chinese.
@@vincilo8835 Not really unless you take Chinese literature. Reading 古話 is really like reading a foreign language even though you kind of know what the words mean. Even those of us who speak other Chinese languages which retain older forms of expression and are closer to “old Chinese” like Cantonese may find it difficult to read since most of the time, unless it’s Mandarin, we just speak the word without knowing how it’s actually written.
@@vincilo8835not really, unless it was a telegraph transmission that was written down and you know classical chinese (back then not many people did)
@@vincilo8835 No one in China who has lived in the last 1000 years would understand a word of this speech without first knowing Japanese. The pronunciation of the ideograms in the on'yomi reading come from the Han, Tang and Song dynasties and there are components that are natively Japanese and alien to the Chinese languages, which are the particles, not to mention the various natively Japanese words (for example the second one, "fukaku"). What makes the text difficult for Japanese to understand are some unusual words, but the main information, the surrender of the war, is easily understood and conveyed to everyone at the time.
3:31 A legendary message
How tho?
@@Azti.2.officialthey kept fighting until the end, they knew it was a losing battle but they kept faith…
And they kept fighting for 40 years after ww2
The Greek broadcaster has a tremendous ,steady and epical voice
greeks just have a accent that goes hard.
In most countries i heard, despair, fear and hopelesness. But in poland i heard pure determination, that they will always find a way, no matter the pain. And thats what happened decades after the broadcast.
“I decided to declare that I hand over the fate of the czech nation and state with full confidence” scares me the most
(Not so) fun fact: It was Czechoslovak president Emil Hácha. Unfortunately for him, he was forced to say those things and until today he is still hated for it and called "collaborator"
He was actually old man, who got to be a prezident in a wrong time and wrong place, I recommend searching him (only if you want ofc), since he was indeed an interesting person
I've heard the Polish one at least a dozen times now and it still gives me goosebumps. First to fall in the war, attacked by the Nazis and stabbed in the back by the Soviet co-conspirators.
Considering all the German and Russian BS they had to endure over the centuries and still managed to survive it's no wonder they're so fiercely independent and proud. Heck I'm proud to be Polish, and I'm Irish!
Now it’s “Don’t mess with Poland!” (They’re called European Texas, after all).
As a Pole, Hungarian, Greek and Austrian, were the most heartbreaking.
Poland is very sad as a Greek. He said hello, hello, can you hear us, despite knowing that the allies won't help them 😔
Polish and Hungarian are saddest to hear. My own country was splitted on molotov ribbentrop pact to soviets. Only because my people gave all they had for our freedom we never fell. Poland was not lost then and never will be 🇫🇮🫶🇵🇱🕊
Apart from the suffering of people that happened to every country that appeared in the video, poland and austria even vanished from the maps for years. So in those cases it realy were "the last broadcasts of countries". (for years)
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła
Pozdrowienia z Węgier
Incredible piece of history. Thank you for this
As a Czech citizen, who even though is too young to remember these broadcasts, is fairly well educated in our history, I have to tell you that this hits HARD
Fun Fact : Radio Paris who played the French Anthem as the German got into the local became exactly what the Greeks describe in their broadcast ; an ennemy controled station. So much so that in French there is a famous WWII saying "Radio Paris ment, Radio Paris est Allemand" (Radio Paris lies, Radio Paris is German)
You gotta understand..this was before the internet and TV..radio was a critical form of information and communication..so when stuff like this happens..it was really the final nail on the coffin that the invasion was complete
It’s impressive that these were archived for all these years
The Philippines Peoples Power Revolution changed the way they see TV, even if it's a signal interruption
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@ayumiko14 mostly likely he is referring to the state of TV prior to the Revolution. Back during the Marcos dictatorship, a lot of TV stations, including Channel 4 (which is a government-controlled station) were placed under extreme media censorship and were only made to report news and make programs that glorified the dictatorship. That part he mentioned was very significant because soldiers sympathetic to the revolution and protesters took over the studio to mark the end of dictatorship.
As a Czech, the broadcast of 1968 is the most horrifying one of them all, just imagine the situation. You are surrounded from every side, no one is gonna help you and your nation is slowly being "killed" by your OWN ally. Czechoslovakia didn't wanted to convert to a west regime, all we wanted was having some more freedom.
Furt si pamatuji jak můj děda vypravěl přiběhy, jak byl na vojně atd....řikál jak poslouchal tady ten rozhlas
@Pepsi_Rules Pravda, a nejhorší na tom je, že ti starší, co to zažili, tak i přesto jsou schopni tvrdit, že za Komunistů bylo líp.
I když je mi 17 (nedokážu si tu dobu představit) tak je mi toho líto.
@@Pepsi_Rules Babička mého nejlepšího kámoše tak zrovna pracovala ve Slováckých když se to stalo, přímo k budově tam přijel tank (asi T-55)
i hate shit like this.
based on most of these broadcasts, you could tell people thought it was the end of their country, that their country wouldnt exist. its sad as hell to think about
User named British Empire saying shit like this 😂
The Hungarian one brings tears to my eyes. You can hear the difference between his voice in the beginning and the end, it goes from stating the situation to a desperate plea. Éljen Magyarország!
I think there were two different people speaking in that broadcast.
15:50: "Nations of the World, the last flames on the watchtowers of the 1000-year old Hungary are starting to die."
At least this is the literal translation.
The flames of the 1000 year old hungarys?
@@Alazarball corrected
@@mozeskertesz6398 ik
The Hungarian broadcast is from the end of a 1957 German documentary called "Ungarn in Flammen" (Magyarország Lángokban / Hungary in Flames). The full 1 hour video can be found on youtube
In the Hungarian last broadcast, the "inintelligible" part, He said "or the Transdanubian provinces" :)
thank you for getting the broadcast of Jonathan Wainwright
Thanks for posting these historical recordings
1938, 1939, 1948, 1968. We never forget. The Czech Republic never forgets.
@@kristof.demeter to who?
@@flagministry602 its either the war with Czechoslovakia Romania and Hungary that happened after ww1 because Hungarians just couldnt let go or the Czechoslovak legionaries that were trapped in Russia after the russian civil war also at the end of ww1 and had to fight their way to freedom across whole Transsiberian railway. To both of these im gonna just say.
We are not sorry for fighting for our freedom.
@@NARKYCZ I figured that he is probably talking about the conflict with Poland
@@kristof.demeterwell, it has been our lands since the great moravia times. Nothing to debate here.
Yeah thats why we have ex socialist military officer as president :D Czechia strong! lol
you should make more of these
The polish broadcast just gives me Chills. Long live Poland from Estonia
Ye
Allies: "Oh shit we're being invaded!"
Axis: TH-camr apology
Japannese Surrender broadcast is most like Politican said Mistakes were made.
The man for the Greek radio was a legend.
All of these are bone chilling knowing your entire country is about to end in just a few moments...
Hungarian one make me sad, There was some music and morse code in background and they are asking for help. No one could help them
Well most countries in western Europe could have helped them, but they were afraid of a war with the soviets. The Hungarians died because of a conflict they never wanted to be a part of.
@@mariobot128 yes sadly
@@mistoffeleesly5336 it was the hungarian anthem if you are interested in listening to it
@@mariobot128 I think we were not afraid of soviets particularly, but the near certainty of global nuclear war as a result.
@@Comet701 that is what i said "they were afraid of a *war* with the soviets",which obviously would've been nuclear.