It was funny, however it was wrong. There is "CCCP" and there is the cyrillic "СССР", which is completely different (copy and paste both "CCCPs" to google and you'll see you'll get different results. The cyrillic СССР is "SSSR" in English. Russian "С" = Latin "S"; Russian "Р" = Latin "R".
@@johnaarson you're preaching to the choir pal, Linguistics is one of my favorite subjects. However, I don't feel the need to break a joke down to it's base components for analyzation and can enjoy it for face value.
"When you hear the name Ernest Hemingway..." I thought about Harry's Bar in Venice where he used to write and drink. You've managed to surprise and educate me once again! Thank you :)
Did you now when he was a war correspondent during WW2 he briefly led a resistance group until he was told of what cod happen to him if he did not stop.
Yes indeed. When a potential recruit came to the attention of an NKVD officer, they would report back to Moscow. The Soviets had a whole organization in the U.S. to do background checks and the person was not recruited without Moscow's approval following this background check, which is what I think being "verified" refers to. A number of other steps, monitored by Moscow, would be taken before the actual recruitment pitch was made. Notice not one "mission" is specifically described nor is any intelligence Hemingway collected is mentioned in the video.
Ironically, here is San Diego there is a radio station with the call letters KGB. Suggestion: How a car accident inspired Stephen King to write the novel "Misery".
Most suicides happen because of a variety of factors. He was also an alcoholic with mental health issues. It should have been obvious that he was at risk of suicide, but people weren't good at looking out for it back then.
@@np8139 It was obvious. He’d even tried walking into an airplane propeller. His wife usually locked his rifle cabinet but she’d either forgotten or he found the key, I forget.
@@ibjmac187 Wow. Geeez, I don’t want to sound insensitive but don’t these people consider that someone has to cleanup their mess and that they’re leaving a wake of pain and sorrow with their loved ones?
@@troubledsole9104 He wasn't in his right mind and suffered from depression and had several concussions. When he was mentally healthy, Hemingway had an aversion to suicide because his father had killed himself.
It's difficult to see what information he could have provided to the Soviets, considering his work, even that of a war reporter, didn't really give him any access to classified information.
My favourite story about him was related to me by my CP bureau chief. Before going to Spain he was working in Toronto. Did a pub crawl, came back to work, stood on Gordon Sinclair's desk , called him everything but a white man, then pissed on him, as a way of saying "take this job and shove it". He also shot up his house in Cuba with a Thompson gun in a drunk rage over the trend in Spanish matadors becoming sissyified. RIP Ernest. Men like you are rare jems.
Weird History Topic: Max Baer. Heavyweight boxing champion in the 30’s. Before winning the title, he killed Frankie Campbell in the ring with a barrage of punches in the second round. Later, he was charged with manslaughter for accidentally killing his opponent in the ring. He is in the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Israel and was also a Hollywood Actor. Baer is rated #22 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
"Had a file opened on him by J. Edgar Hoover, left a bunch of shit in a safe in Cuba and moved to Idaho, paranoid that the Feds were following him... which they were, because he spent most of the 1940s working for the KGB! Again, NOTMAKINGTHISSHITUP."
I have a copy of a story printed in the New York Daily News about 30 years ago that they said was originally published in Pravda. It's about the Spanish civil war, called "When War Becomes Murder." I have also heard that he was involved in a coup in the Dominican Republic but haven't found out anything about that.
I had to read "Old Man and the Sea" as a high school English class assignment. And was then told by the teacher it was a parable(?) for how Hemingway viewed being a writer and how editors ate away at his novel's length.
@@ibjmac187 What I was told was that the sharks were symbolic of the editors, cutting out reams of needless writing that contributed nothing to the story or character development.
@@TheGenericavatar Some people think that's what makes it great; that it can be interpreted in different ways. Of course Hemingway said the sharks are just sharks.
Kind of like joining Gestapo not that he as an American in that day would have this knowledge. At least had the courtesy of purging himself I guess it's better than most KGB agents.
The irony us that his hate of fascists inspired his interest in politics, which in turn, inspired him to work for the Soviets, whose leaders were infamous fascists
Man, calling the Soviets fascists shows you should read up about what you're talking about. Without the fascism vs communism struggle ww2 would've been a drastically different war.
Woop! facts of Hemingway I never knew. Of subject of writers, Iam super curious about JACK LONDON. Though we live not far from where he lived and have been to the home/museum lots of times, and also hiked to his big unfinished burnt home - I still feel there is more to know of him and his travels. Little fact : his writing room is as big as a closet! It has a window to see the trees, but its super teeny. (sorry not Hemingway subject)
I’m 40 years old, have a college education and grew up in a large city with access to lots of different art and literature and I literally have never read anything by Hemingway 🤷♂️ Edit: I’m American lol
The first 49 stories: Essential reading.I used to not like him at all when I was young, but something clicked somewhere - he's deservedly in the Pantheon; the one about the pug who 'takes a fall' comes to mind - but of course, many stand out: he clips things back; nuffink pupple, poiple, nor purr-ple - he wrote standing up; sharpened his own pencils - What a guy!
My favorite Hemingway story is the time he went out drinking with James Joyce, telling him all about the novel he was writing and getting little in reply. Before Hemingway was even halfway through explaining his project, Joyce flopped over, the end of a three day booze spree. Hemingway had to throw Joyce over his shoulder and for miles and miles wander the winding, Byzantine streets of Paris, searching in vane for his blacked out hero’s home. At one point he finally roused Joyce, got him standing. “Where do you live?” he asked. In reply, Joyce threw up all over Hemingway’s shirt and was out like a light. There was very little tenderness in Hemingway’s work, and it’s even scarcer in his life. If for nothing else, this story has always left me with a soft spot for the drunken, misogynistic old commie closet case.
Fun fact: Hemingway is basically a real life deadpool because he survived contracting malaria, hepatitis, pneumonia, skin cancer and anthrax. He survived accidentally shooting himself in the foot with a harpoon gun trying to hunt sharks, probably because he was trying to set the the world record for manliest afternoon in history. He survived a plane crash in Africa and literally the next day the second plane he boarded exploded before takeoff and survived a brush fire on his fishing boat and when he drove an ambulance in WW1 it got hit by mortar fire. He survived every single one of those injuries and catastrophes making him a real life deadpool.
Ernest Hemingway diagnosed with terminal cancer at the Mayo clinic returns home and shoots himself. Suicide because he was a spy? There is a hole in that story somewhere.
I have to wonder why the Soviets would even bother to recruit Hemingway. Hemingway's world travelling must have been the draw. I don't know what information of value Ernest Hemingway could have provided. Maybe the Soviets looked at Hemingway as a Low Cost asset. Being an alcoholic, Ernest Hemingway was unlikely to have been of any value to the Soviets.
Mr. History Buff , you know Hemingway was a volunteer Ambulance Driver for the Italian Army in WW1 aka The Great War aka War to end all Wars....but didn't. Im pretty sure he got Ideological and into journalism of geopolitics was after his WW1 service Hence the reason he went to report on the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent for the Partisan/Rebel faction. He didn't go there as a unbiased outside onlooker reporting for both Sides, he was on the Rebel side particularly the Communist Rebel side who were funded almost exclusively by the Russians. The US and other Western countries were funding the 2nd Rebel faction that was fighting against Franco but when they weren't fighting Franci, the 2 rebel groups sometimes fought each other or undermined each other they were not united in the least. Hence why Franco was eventually able to beat them ( with the help of Fascist Italy and eventually Fascist Germany) one group first the other in 36' . By 37' Francisco Franco had full control and 1st order of business, round up the Communist Rebels Party and anyone who was sympathetic to the Communist cause as political prisoners. If he didn't just outright set them up with a firing squad if they found a former Communist Rebel in hiding. WW1 turned Hemingway into the man he would become. It didn't start at the Spanish Civil War he was already against Nationalism ( which is the backbone of all Fascist states and dictatorships) after the horrors he saw in WW1 my friend
"... but he was a serious enough asset for the Soviets to give him his own code name, Argo. ... While the code name certainly provided cover to the writer during his clandestine operations, it's also believed to have a slightly more amusing purpose, it was meant to flatter Hemingway, and make him feel like a real secret agent. The tactic apparently worked ..." Russian intelligence officers gave a code name to just about everyone they had had contact with or made reference to, whether they worked for Soviet intelligence or not. This code name would be used in encrypted communications. It is an unwarranted leap from having a code name to "clandestine operations." Also, this code name would not be revealed to the person it referred to. Therefore, it would not have provided Hemingway any cover during the unnamed "clandestine operations." In the text of the book on the screen, where it says Hemingway was recruited on ideological grounds, it also say he was "unverified." That means a background investigation that would precede approval from Moscow to use him as an agent had not been completed. According to the video, Hemingway was recruited by Jacob Golos. In 1945, Golos' courier and lover, Elizabeth Bentley told the FBI all she knew about the networks Golos set up. She was a courier for them. Bentley told the FBI, and testified before Congress about numerous spies the Soviets were running, including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White. Apparently she never mentioned Hemingway in public or closed-door testimony. It is more likely that Hemingway was met by an NKVD officer or an NKVD agent, to whom he expressed his sympathetic support for the Soviet-backed Republicans and his hatred for Fascists. Other than disliking totalitarians intensely, Hemingway was not that politically inclined. Notice the alleged "missions" are not described even in a general sense. That is because Hemingway had no secrets to give them. The video gives zero specific missions the Soviets assigned to Hemingway. It seems more likely he occasionally encountered a Soviet spy who reported the meeting. In what has been flashed on the screen, it appears Hemingway's contact only saw him once or twice a year. This does not indicate he was actively gathering intelligence for the Soviets. Quite the opposite. It seems more likely that instead of secrets, what they got from Hemingway was not the blueprints for the latest fighter plane, but impressions of military, intelligence and political leaders he came across. "So Hemingway was right about being watched by the feds. Huh, maybe he wasn't so bad at the whole spycraft thing after all." Well, no. The purpose of good spycraft is to go unnoticed.
Ill never understand how people still walk around calling the soviet union "communist" and aligning it with liberalism or even radical values when the whole thing was in its essence if not classical fascism at the very least dictatorial and undermined and sought to eliminate the libertarian organizations it was purported to support during the spanish civil war i.e. the Anarchist trade unions CNT/FAI and the the trotskyist faction POUM. Its fitting hemingway would align himself with such an institution both seem to be narcissistic in nature (hemingway,USSR) and wolves in sheeps clothing.
Your right it wasnt, what I was trying to convey was that they shared a common authoritarian structure that displaced there liberal rhetoric which aligned them on some level with the libertarian movements of that time and allowed them to coopt those movements
He was a talented writer, but not a good person. There is a PBS documentary about him and his lodge in Idaho. Locals wouldn't go hunting with him, because he liked to kill so much it became an issue. And the people who talked about it on the documentary were just your normal guys, who hunted and fished all the time. There seemed to be something vicious about him. Also, the people who worked for him, made sure there were bottles of booze hidden in the trees along the path he would take. Not a good guy.
It was a PBS documentary I saw about 10-15 years ago. The people who made the allegations were interviewed for the film. I wouldn't be surprised if it were here, on YT.
A long time ago and in another country, I went to Pamplona with some friends from Paris. The wine was good and true. We ran with the bulls. I wrote a book about it. I called it, "The Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Done."
Please don't ask for something like that. If you're American, then what you're asking is is another iraq war and the return of the Clinton Administration.
This is an unexpected thing. Subverted my expectations. 😆 Whats next? You gonna tell me Plato or Confucius were generals and actually led men on the battlefield. 😆😅
"Writing? Easy. Short sentences. That's the key." - Hemingway
Brevity is the soul of wit - The Buddha
For Whom the Bell Tolls is full of complex stemwinders. His style is more about paring down adjectives.
And then write entire novels that way. Blech. Hemingway is so overrated.
@@heyheytaytay THAK you....
@@heyheytaytay I have to say that the story matters most; the prose is window dressing.
"The Old Man and the CCCP" is the first time you've actually got me to chuckle at one of the corny jokes, congratulations.
That was a fun one :)
It was funny, however it was wrong. There is "CCCP" and there is the cyrillic "СССР", which is completely different (copy and paste both "CCCPs" to google and you'll see you'll get different results.
The cyrillic СССР is "SSSR" in English. Russian "С" = Latin "S"; Russian "Р" = Latin "R".
@@johnaarson you're preaching to the choir pal, Linguistics is one of my favorite subjects. However, I don't feel the need to break a joke down to it's base components for analyzation and can enjoy it for face value.
It doesn't work if you speak Russian and pronounce it, 'Ess ess ess air'. :-)
@@johnaarson Soyuz Sovetsk Socialisticheskiy Respublik (I think I have the spellings right...)
At least he knew the importance of being Ernest. 🤷
Ayyyyy 👉👉
👏👏👏
Good pun intended
nice one
Bunbury!
I still remember his famous soliloquy, 'To KGB, or not to KGB'. 🙃
Depends who's asking
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@@Cheetahprint85 shakespeare is an SAS fabrication!
Newsflash: Sir Henry Neville was William Shakespeare.
Do one about the worst DEA agent ever: Elvis Presley.
Yes!!
Elvis personally tested all the drugs he confiscated!
@@jonmacdonald5345 “now hold on, let me make sure this is legit, *snooort* WHOOOO-WEEE THAT IS SOME GOOD STUFF TAKE IT AWAY BOYS!”
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 lol as he does one of his Elvis kung Fu poses HEEEEEE YAW!
@@jonmacdonald5345 A fellow MacDonald!
*Russia:* We need spies who will be discreet
*Also Russia:* Chooses Ernest Hemingway, a well-known American novelist
And nobody ever thought a thing 😏
It worked?
@@nussnougat5462
Yup, it ironically worked 😂😂😂
The old saying of hiding in plain sight.
Yeah, recruit Hemingway because he has all the secrets on how to tie trout flies and the finer points of bullfighting....
Make a vid on what shopping was like in the 1900s
Plot twist: He was so good at spying that he convinced everyone he was bad at it and is going to assassinate weird history.
Plot twist2: This guy is him.. LOL
@@guhansaravanan8437 plot twist @Your one black friend is trying to throw us off the scent
If you can't convince the Other Team you're not a spy, at least pretend to be a really bad one so you can get away with shit they didn't expect
@@k3nz1e73 Plot twist @K3N1E is the FBI here to catch him
Plot Twist 3: The Commies blew his brains out because The FBI was trailing him and made it look like a suicide.
He was reporting back to Moscow on the activities of the bars on Key West.
Insert Sloppy Joe Stalin joke here.
He clandestinely infiltrated classified fishing grounds in the Gulf Stream
Turtle approved.
Good job on being first
Your one black friend approves
Burger approved
Love u
I honestly love when I stumble upon a turtle approved video.
"When you hear the name Ernest Hemingway..." I thought about Harry's Bar in Venice where he used to write and drink. You've managed to surprise and educate me once again! Thank you :)
Hiw about a Weird Historyabout themysterious disappearance of Ambrose Bierce? That one always was a head scratcher for me
This is why I love this channel I learn things all the time
Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
*don't mean they're not after you
Ayo
This needs to be a movie! Ernest hemingway was far too fascinating a man not to have a biopic
There was a 1988 TV miniseries starring Stacy Keach as Hemingway.
He was as frank as he was earnest.
There should - REALLY - be some kind of a clothing store named “Earnest Hemmings”.
orle bar brown is probably as close to the Hemingway style as you could get.
........................................or a street named Ernest Hemming Way
@@garfieldfarkle Lol well it’s not a street, but we do have one of his apartments for sale in Toronto...
That’s... something 🤷🏻♂️😆
@@Vikanuck Does that apartment come furnished with essentials like a refrigerator, stove, washing machine and arsenal of guns?
@@garfieldfarkle ...too soon man. Too soon 🤦🏻♂️
JK 😂
Given its age... I’m gonna go ahead and say... _probably_ not to all of the above...? Lol 🤷🏻♂️
You should have talked about the 120 pages (15 pages totally redacted 1950's-60's) of FBI files released under the Freedom Of Information act in 1983.
He was about as sharp as a bowling ball...
Maybe he was a great spy and had messages to the USSR in his books?! He sure fooled you huh?!?!
Did you now when he was a war correspondent during WW2 he briefly led a resistance group until he was told of what cod happen to him if he did not stop.
That's a bit of a stretch from "not verified" to "worst spy ever".
Agreed especially with him living in cuba and the usa spying on him
Yes indeed. When a potential recruit came to the attention of an NKVD officer, they would report back to Moscow. The Soviets had a whole organization in the U.S. to do background checks and the person was not recruited without Moscow's approval following this background check, which is what I think being "verified" refers to.
A number of other steps, monitored by Moscow, would be taken before the actual recruitment pitch was made.
Notice not one "mission" is specifically described nor is any intelligence Hemingway collected is mentioned in the video.
I was in Key West over the summer and toured his home there. Great experience, highly recommended if you're in Key West.
Ty Weird History. Glad I caught it 8minutes fresh to TH-cam. I like news
Ironically, here is San Diego there is a radio station with the call letters KGB.
Suggestion: How a car accident inspired Stephen King to write the novel "Misery".
Yep. Listen to KGB going to work.
last time i was this early, hemingway's liver was still healthy...
and his cats had 5 toes, lol
What a crazy, convoluted life that man lived. Sounds a lot better than watching you tube videos all day.... OH WELL
I am so ready for a weird history video. Black Friday and today were enough, I need my soul food here!
Wow very interesting I would have never ever known about this without your clip, thank you very much for your hard work! 👍
I always thought it was writers block that lead him to suicide. Thanks for clearing that up.
Most suicides happen because of a variety of factors. He was also an alcoholic with mental health issues. It should have been obvious that he was at risk of suicide, but people weren't good at looking out for it back then.
@@np8139 It was obvious. He’d even tried walking into an airplane propeller. His wife usually locked his rifle cabinet but she’d either forgotten or he found the key, I forget.
@@ibjmac187 Wow. Geeez, I don’t want to sound insensitive but don’t these people consider that someone has to cleanup their mess and that they’re leaving a wake of pain and sorrow with their loved ones?
@@troubledsole9104 He wasn't in his right mind and suffered from depression and had several concussions.
When he was mentally healthy, Hemingway had an aversion to suicide because his father had killed himself.
Could you do a video on the legendary John Henry aka Doc Holiday?! & Wyatt Earp
And some of the not so pretty stuff about Wyatt Earp too!
Hemingway's fishing boat is still at his house in Havana. I had no idea he was using it to spot U-boats off the coast when I saw it a few years ago.
I didn’t know he’s a KGB spy 🕵️♂️
It's difficult to see what information he could have provided to the Soviets, considering his work, even that of a war reporter, didn't really give him any access to classified information.
can you do a life of someone in the medieval times.
I believe they did already. Look in the older videos
It was not fun unless you were of the gentry....the end.
My favourite story about him was related to me by my CP bureau chief. Before going to Spain he was working in Toronto. Did a pub crawl, came back to work, stood on Gordon Sinclair's desk , called him everything but a white man, then pissed on him, as a way of saying "take this job and shove it". He also shot up his house in Cuba with a Thompson gun in a drunk rage over the trend in Spanish matadors becoming sissyified. RIP Ernest. Men like you are rare jems.
The boat was named after a character in "For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Ernest Hemingway.
He lived a amazing life. He may of wrote other amazing books if he wasn't a drunkard.
Learn some grammar and you could too!
@@MrJonsonville5 nice
Or not.
He also had several traumatic brain injuries
Weird History Topic: Max Baer. Heavyweight boxing champion in the 30’s. Before winning the title, he killed Frankie Campbell in the ring with a barrage of punches in the second round. Later, he was charged with manslaughter for accidentally killing his opponent in the ring. He is in the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in Israel and was also a Hollywood Actor. Baer is rated #22 on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
What's with the turtle guy
More “Spy Who Shagged Me” than “Spy Who Loved Me”.
Thanks for another interesting and informative video.
Oh ypu have to do ian flemming now id like to see one also on Norman rockwell
Get Smart. The Soviet Edition
I waa thinking that
What an insult to Get Smart!! I LOVED that show! But yeah, I get the point.
@@janstan8407 exactly 🤣🤣
You should do a video on the history of Easter Island
I literally finished reading "The Old Man And the Sea" last week for french class... no wonder the name seemed familiar!
Love your work and videos 💕! Can you (please) do "Weird Facts about Peter the Great" someday? Thanks! ✨
"Had a file opened on him by J. Edgar Hoover, left a bunch of shit in a safe in Cuba and moved to Idaho, paranoid that the Feds were following him... which they were, because he spent most of the 1940s working for the KGB! Again, NOTMAKINGTHISSHITUP."
I'm not even gonna check the comments... Just posting this thumbs up for all the puns..
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I have a copy of a story printed in the New York Daily News about 30 years ago that they said was originally published in Pravda. It's about the Spanish civil war, called "When War Becomes Murder." I have also heard that he was involved in a coup in the Dominican Republic but haven't found out anything about that.
Whenever I hear KGB, I think of Destroy all Humans
Have you done one on Julia Child's spy days??!?
Bro what pls explain
Yeah like the time she used a blow torch to cook an omelette.
Can You Do A Video On Ellis Island And The History Of It?
I had to read "Old Man and the Sea" as a high school English class assignment. And was then told by the teacher it was a parable(?) for how Hemingway viewed being a writer and how editors ate away at his novel's length.
Hemingway said the sharks were just sharks but a lot of people considered them symbolic of literary critics.
@@ibjmac187 What I was told was that the sharks were symbolic of the editors, cutting out reams of needless writing that contributed nothing to the story or character development.
@@TheGenericavatar Some people think that's what makes it great; that it can be interpreted in different ways. Of course Hemingway said the sharks are just sharks.
Kind of like joining Gestapo not that he as an American in that day would have this knowledge. At least had the courtesy of purging himself I guess it's better than most KGB agents.
Do a video on John Laurens
Weird History please talk about Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
The irony us that his hate of fascists inspired his interest in politics, which in turn, inspired him to work for the Soviets, whose leaders were infamous fascists
Man, calling the Soviets fascists shows you should read up about what you're talking about. Without the fascism vs communism struggle ww2 would've been a drastically different war.
Woop! facts of Hemingway I never knew. Of subject of writers, Iam super curious about JACK LONDON. Though we live not far from where he lived and have been to the home/museum lots of times, and also hiked to his big unfinished burnt home - I still feel there is more to know of him and his travels. Little fact : his writing room is as big as a closet! It has a window to see the trees, but its super teeny. (sorry not Hemingway subject)
The worst KGB spy, but actually one of the best American spies that no one would ever know.
I’m 40 years old, have a college education and grew up in a large city with access to lots of different art and literature and I literally have never read anything by Hemingway 🤷♂️
Edit: I’m American lol
The first 49 stories: Essential reading.I used to not like him at all when I was young, but something clicked somewhere - he's deservedly in the Pantheon; the one about the pug who 'takes a fall' comes to mind - but of course, many stand out: he clips things back; nuffink pupple, poiple, nor purr-ple - he wrote standing up; sharpened his own pencils - What a guy!
Wow. That's pretty incredible ! I knew nothing. All that could make one crazy and he was being watched after all wow. Thanks 👍
My favorite Hemingway story is the time he went out drinking with James Joyce, telling him all about the novel he was writing and getting little in reply. Before Hemingway was even halfway through explaining his project, Joyce flopped over, the end of a three day booze spree. Hemingway had to throw Joyce over his shoulder and for miles and miles wander the winding, Byzantine streets of Paris, searching in vane for his blacked out hero’s home. At one point he finally roused Joyce, got him standing. “Where do you live?” he asked. In reply, Joyce threw up all over Hemingway’s shirt and was out like a light.
There was very little tenderness in Hemingway’s work, and it’s even scarcer in his life. If for nothing else, this story has always left me with a soft spot for the drunken, misogynistic old commie closet case.
Perhaps you are thinking of the time he ended up taking Joyce in a wheelbarrow back the the Hotel Angleterre on Rue Jacob...
Fun fact: Hemingway is basically a real life deadpool because he survived contracting malaria, hepatitis, pneumonia, skin cancer and anthrax. He survived accidentally shooting himself in the foot with a harpoon gun trying to hunt sharks, probably because he was trying to set the the world record for manliest afternoon in history. He survived a plane crash in Africa and literally the next day the second plane he boarded exploded before takeoff and survived a brush fire on his fishing boat and when he drove an ambulance in WW1 it got hit by mortar fire.
He survived every single one of those injuries and catastrophes making him a real life deadpool.
Ernest Hemingway diagnosed with terminal cancer at the Mayo clinic returns home and shoots himself. Suicide because he was a spy? There is a hole in that story somewhere.
He was a particularly popular imposter among 150 million people and we are scared to play imp among 10 people...
At least i am...
What is playing imp?
The imposter
@@guhansaravanan8437 I still don't understand.
@@SiiriCressey do you play among us?!
@@SiiriCressey if you don't its a game where you play as the imposter among 10 people just go give it a try if you have some time to spare.....
I have to wonder why the Soviets would even bother to recruit Hemingway. Hemingway's world travelling must have been the draw. I don't know what information of value Ernest Hemingway could have provided. Maybe the Soviets looked at Hemingway as a Low Cost asset. Being an alcoholic, Ernest Hemingway was unlikely to have been of any value to the Soviets.
Hi Weird History, Can you do a video about "What it was like to be a prisoner of Devil's Island"
@WeirdHistory I’d love to see a video on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s love life
please do the iriquois conference
Work until your signature becomes an autograph
-Shazistic
Edgy
Who the hell is that. I don't want everyone bugging me for my signature all the time. That's an awful reason to do a whole bunch of work.
Somewhat obscure sci-fi author with numerous movies made based on his works and very influential such as Solaris and Simcity. Stanislaw Lem
Got on this, Netflix!
Hemingway was well known for hunting and bullfighting, the two greatest things a man could do according to him.
@5:45 Is such a George Constanza Move, and why does he look like him in that photo? LMAO!
Mr. History Buff , you know Hemingway was a volunteer Ambulance Driver for the Italian Army in WW1 aka The Great War aka War to end all Wars....but didn't. Im pretty sure he got Ideological and into journalism of geopolitics was after his WW1 service Hence the reason he went to report on the Spanish Civil War as a war correspondent for the Partisan/Rebel faction. He didn't go there as a unbiased outside onlooker reporting for both Sides, he was on the Rebel side particularly the Communist Rebel side who were funded almost exclusively by the Russians. The US and other Western countries were funding the 2nd Rebel faction that was fighting against Franco but when they weren't fighting Franci, the 2 rebel groups sometimes fought each other or undermined each other they were not united in the least. Hence why Franco was eventually able to beat them ( with the help of Fascist Italy and eventually Fascist Germany) one group first the other in 36' . By 37' Francisco Franco had full control and 1st order of business, round up the Communist Rebels Party and anyone who was sympathetic to the Communist cause as political prisoners. If he didn't just outright set them up with a firing squad if they found a former Communist Rebel in hiding. WW1 turned Hemingway into the man he would become. It didn't start at the Spanish Civil War he was already against Nationalism ( which is the backbone of all Fascist states and dictatorships) after the horrors he saw in WW1 my friend
He served in US Navy Intelligence during ww2 with specialty was keep eye out for German activity on Cuba and regions around it.
Wow, I did not know this. Fascinating.
"Blacklisted or jailed" was the least of it- it's worth remembering that this would have all been happening on the heels of the Rosenberg executions.
not all great men are good men
Very interesting! I did not know this..
John Dos Passos stories, please. He is a giant of an author, a contemporary of Hemingway.
"... but he was a serious enough asset for the Soviets to give him his own code name, Argo. ... While the code name certainly provided cover to the writer during his clandestine operations, it's also believed to have a slightly more amusing purpose, it was meant to flatter Hemingway, and make him feel like a real secret agent. The tactic apparently worked ..."
Russian intelligence officers gave a code name to just about everyone they had had contact with or made reference to, whether they worked for Soviet intelligence or not. This code name would be used in encrypted communications. It is an unwarranted leap from having a code name to "clandestine operations."
Also, this code name would not be revealed to the person it referred to. Therefore, it would not have provided Hemingway any cover during the unnamed "clandestine operations."
In the text of the book on the screen, where it says Hemingway was recruited on ideological grounds, it also say he was "unverified." That means a background investigation that would precede approval from Moscow to use him as an agent had not been completed.
According to the video, Hemingway was recruited by Jacob Golos.
In 1945, Golos' courier and lover, Elizabeth Bentley told the FBI all she knew about the networks Golos set up. She was a courier for them. Bentley told the FBI, and testified before Congress about numerous spies the Soviets were running, including Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White. Apparently she never mentioned Hemingway in public or closed-door testimony.
It is more likely that Hemingway was met by an NKVD officer or an NKVD agent, to whom he expressed his sympathetic support for the Soviet-backed Republicans and his hatred for Fascists.
Other than disliking totalitarians intensely, Hemingway was not that politically inclined.
Notice the alleged "missions" are not described even in a general sense.
That is because Hemingway had no secrets to give them.
The video gives zero specific missions the Soviets assigned to Hemingway.
It seems more likely he occasionally encountered a Soviet spy who reported the meeting. In what has been flashed on the screen, it appears Hemingway's contact only saw him once or twice a year.
This does not indicate he was actively gathering intelligence for the Soviets.
Quite the opposite.
It seems more likely that instead of secrets, what they got from Hemingway was not the blueprints for the latest fighter plane, but impressions of military, intelligence and political leaders he came across.
"So Hemingway was right about being watched by the feds. Huh, maybe he wasn't so bad at the whole spycraft thing after all."
Well, no. The purpose of good spycraft is to go unnoticed.
Ill never understand how people still walk around calling the soviet union "communist" and aligning it with liberalism or even radical values when the whole thing was in its essence if not classical fascism at the very least dictatorial and undermined and sought to eliminate the libertarian organizations it was purported to support during the spanish civil war i.e. the Anarchist trade unions CNT/FAI and the the trotskyist faction POUM. Its fitting hemingway would align himself with such an institution both seem to be narcissistic in nature (hemingway,USSR) and wolves in sheeps clothing.
The Soviet Union was not fascist
Your right it wasnt, what I was trying to convey was that they shared a common authoritarian structure that displaced there liberal rhetoric which aligned them on some level with the libertarian movements of that time and allowed them to coopt those movements
do one about Guy Folks
Guy Fawkes
Read some of his books, but I didn't know that he wanted to be a traitor so bad. :))
Please do a video on Ancient Persia
He was a talented writer, but not a good person. There is a PBS documentary about him and his lodge in Idaho. Locals wouldn't go hunting with him, because he liked to kill so much it became an issue. And the people who talked about it on the documentary were just your normal guys, who hunted and fished all the time. There seemed to be something vicious about him. Also, the people who worked for him, made sure there were bottles of booze hidden in the trees along the path he would take. Not a good guy.
Mmmmm interesting.
How do you know all of this? Do you have any sources?
If so please send them my way. I’m infinitely curious 🤨
It was a PBS documentary I saw about 10-15 years ago. The people who made the allegations were interviewed for the film. I wouldn't be surprised if it were here, on YT.
Lol hiding bottles of booze along the hunting trail, that's hilarious and sad. It is like an alcoholics Easter egg hunt.
A long time ago and in another country, I went to Pamplona with some friends from Paris. The wine was good and true. We ran with the bulls. I wrote a book about it. I called it, "The Stupidest Thing I Have Ever Done."
Wouldnt it be soooooo amazing if 2021 turned into...... 1990? :)
Please don't ask for something like that.
If you're American, then what you're asking is is another iraq war and the return of the Clinton Administration.
Well that would put me back in high school. Hmmm. Well only if I get to keep what I know now with me then it'll be okay.
To maintain his cover as a KGB asset, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. That's commitment.
And the dogs continue to savage his bones.
My guy looking like Ricky Gervais
So, u r saying that he helped the Soviet union but did not work against America? How convenient.
If he was a bad Soviet spy... wouldn’t that make him a good Allie’s spy?
According to the CIA no.
Not funny
He was a suditionist.
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 how isn’t this funny? I laughed
@@bigblue6917 that’s just what they want you to think ;)
Maybe now Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd don't feel so bad about how the Ace Tomato Company viewed them
I diddnt know he was a total traitor
This is an unexpected thing. Subverted my expectations. 😆
Whats next? You gonna tell me Plato or Confucius were generals and actually led men on the battlefield. 😆😅
He had a ton of crazy ideas but having those players throw grenades is actually kinda of clever.
I always assume he was a double-agent for the US.