I love your reaction videos, I just watched another video called "THE LARGEST ancient battles in history" by Top Fives and would love to see your reaction towards that video.
I don't care how non-historical it is, I FULLY believe there was a buff shadowy figure named He who was wreaking havoc all over the world during the war.
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. "Al-Qaeda" means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked.
Unless wikipedias timeline has changed significantly the actual phrase is “Malta is supplied via Operation Pedestal.” So I guess pedestal->support->some intermediate-> the base->Al-Qaeda
I can't believe we are not having a holiday after Shinzo Abe for granting us independence as a continent... Truly one of the most overlooked things in history.
I had to pause a few times, my ribs are hurting, my jaw hurts, and I'm crying from laughing so much. May HE rein his country forever! Funniest video you have done yet :D
Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian are all part of the Finno-Ugric language family (along with other smaller languages scattered around Russia). They're some of the few non-indo-european languages in Europe.
@@corneliali7747- The root language originated from pre-historic Asian tribes IIRC. Back when semi-nomadic tribal migration, and associated conflict, was a regular occurrence.
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. "Al-Q@eda" means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked.
Not gonna lie, this is the hardest I've laughed in a while (not helped by the fact that I had to hold it in so my co-workers wouldn't hear. XD) May HIS great contribution to the Allied victory never be forgotten!
17:12 I can't help but imagine a country doing this and an international conference leads to a bunch of world leaders saying, "They broke diplomatic relations with us." followed by several sassy, "You sure about that, bud?"
I recommend checking out “Why American Soldiers Where So Easy To Fight With” by The Front. It explains the Australian and American battle and how the soldiers connected with one another on every side! Great video
I absolutely agree we don't talk about the Siege of Leningrad enough. I've read several diaries, journals, and memoires written by blokadniki (people who lived through the siege) and many of them reveal both humanity at its absolute best and its most horrific worst. I've visited several sites associated with the siege in St. Petersburg and some of them are absolutely heartbreaking, especially the "Flower of Life" memorial dedicated to the children who died during the siege. The establishment of the Доро́га жи́зни (the Road of Life) in the first winter of the siege is also an astonishing feat of ingenuity and logistics that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. I also have to tip my hat to the Finns, who had plenty of reasons to want to give the Soviets some payback and were supposed to assist the Germans in sieging Leningrad. Despite that, they refused to do more than guard their own border. Yes, they did effectively block the northern access to Leningrad by virtue of just guarding their borders, but they did not directly invade or bomb the city, nor did they make any strong efforts to block the flow of critical supplies into the city even when the opportunities presented themselves. Things could have gone much, much worse for the Leningraders if the Finns hadn't restrained themselves.
In the end, Finland's goal was largely just to reverse the Winter War border adjustments. There were of course agitators within the Finnish political scene who desired a "Greater Finland" carved out from lands beyond the prewar border but they were only ever a sidelined minority unlike their government supported counterparts in the likes of Hungary and Romania. And really, between the USSR getting supported by the western Allies after the European Axis invasion and Japan upholding the Soviet-Japanese Nonaggression Pact, Finland had been left with no other realistic choice as far as great power alliances went. Germany had sadly become the one last big sympathetic ear now that Britain and friends had taken the Soviet side.
I believe that the Hungarian and Finnish Languages are both related because they are both Uralic, because the Hungarians and Finnish migrated from the Ural Mountains to their respective locations. Great video Chris!
I'm so glad you actually pulled up the Wikipedia article to show what was actually translated. My favourite mistranslation was the Luxembourg one in 10:02 😂
7:28 Sorry if this is nitpicky and I might just be misunderstanding you but Finland is not a Scandinavian country, it’s a nordic country. While many tend to use these terms interchangeably, Scandinavia consists of only Sweden, Norway and Denmark, while the Nordic countries are the three Scandinavian countries along with Iceland and Finland. Also, Finnish and Estonian are very similar and I struggle to tell them apart. But apart from Estonian, Finnish is indeed a very unique language.
Having Finnish as my first language and having lived in Estonia for 3 years I can say that our languages are about 40% mutually intelligible at best. I can see why the languages can seem very similar to a non-speaker though.
23:28 it looks like it was a combination of things that exploded here. The US soldiers were paid far better than the Australian ones, the US soldiers were often treated better by local (Australian) shopkeepers and merchants, and... Douglas MacArthur. He had degraded the Australian leadership multiple times, and often completely ignored the Australian forces in his reports. There were some brawls earlier that week, including a gunfight that killed an American soldier. The battle itself started when a drunk American was arrested by an American MP for not having a leave pass. The Australians attacked him, both sides called for backup, and the situation exploded.
5:08 Uh, no, god no. Karl Dönitz did definitely _not_ become "the first President of Germany" after WW2. Dönitz was a Nazi and Navy Admiral who was one of the 24 main accused war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials (Nürnberger Prozesse) of 1945-46!! (As many of the high-ranking Nazis had already committed suicide by then.) He was sentenced to prison, but escaped the death penalty. Not only does Germany _not_ have a "President" in the way the USA has (and never had in its history), our head of government is the Chancellor ("bundeskanzler"), the head of the Executive branch. A "Bundespräsident" exists as a ceremonial neutral head of state who is explicitely not part of the three branches of government and who isn't allowed to own any companies or have any paid job while serving in this function; the Bundespräsident has to sign off on laws but can veto a law being passed.
8:20 Wang Jinwei was a left-wing and formerly high-ranking member of the Kuomintang (the nationalist party that was founded by Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China). Due to his rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually pushed him out of the leadership of the party, he broke away from the nationalist government and collaborated with the Japanese invaders. He lead the "Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China", the collaborationist government of the Japanese-occupied territories in China. Edit: This is the 4th time I've had to repost a comment. TH-cam robot, f*** you.
That Brisbane riot is an interesting subject, as far as I remember it was because Brisbane’s population had grown by a massive amount due to the American soldiers there and because American soldiers were paid far more than Australian soldiers they were favored in bars and other places, and then eventually an American MP tries to arrest an drunk American soldier, but Australian troops help the drunkard soldier because American MPs were hated by Australians too, and that somehow evolves into a citywide fight This is just what I remember and some of the details are vague but it’s an interesting topic for a video of you find more about it
I wonder if Race had any part in the riot? Because I remember that a couple months before there was another riot that stemmed from Black soldiers not being segregated (since Australia didn't have segregation laws) which upset white American troops, leading to fights breaking out.
@@SquadPoopywhile the battle of Brisbane didn’t have anything directly got to do with race (tensions were increased at the time of how white American soldiers separated African American soldiers, which Australians didn’t look kindly on), there were fights in England, Australia and New Zealand when people refused to segregate whites and non-whites. The New Zealand one (Battle of Manners street) happened when American soldiers were refusing Māori soldiers entrance into a club (that they had already been using) and fighting broke out when American troops used belts to attack Māori soldiers. In the UK (Battle of Bamber Bridge) happened under similar circumstances when American mps tried arresting African American soldiers for not having permission or wearing correct attire at a local pub.
And American Soldiers were trying to get Australian girls and 2nd AIF wasn’t having that, it’s was around the time when Australian soldiers were returning home from North Africa (Tobruk) Syria and Iraq
@@SquadPoopy this also happened in the UK, all be it on a smaller scale. Black troops drinking in a pub, MPs told the pub owner blacks and whites couldn't drink together so the next day the landlord put out a sing that said black troops only, MPs turned up to arrest a black service man on a trumped up charge, and were attacked by locals. I'm missing a lot out but I've seen several TH-cam channel's covering it.
@@astartesteadious3756kinda the opposite of what happened to South Africa, our men black and white mixed and returned calling eachother brothers, and when the government made the 1948 laws that is now known as apartheid these ww2 veterans created the torch kommando, and declared they would fight for total equity between all races, just like they had at the front during ww2.
3:35 On the topic of namealikes, there was one Donald Regan the Treasury Secretary then Chief of Staff in the Ronald Reagan administration. He, of course, was a huge proponent of Reaganomics.
Hey Chris, thank you for doing a video of something more humorous. I'm going through a really rough patch in my life right now. my fiancé passed away Sunday morning after her body rejected a lung transplant. you video made me laugh when i've been doing nothing but crying the past day. thank you.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Thank you Chris. that does mean a lot coming from you. She was such an important part of my life. I know it'll be a long time for me to be able to move on; i need to take things one day at a time.
8:20 Wang Jinwei was a left-wing and formerly high-ranking member of the Kuomintang (the nationalist party that was founded by Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China). Due to his rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually pushed him out of the leadership of the party, he broke away from the nationalist government and collaborated with the Japanese invaders. He lead the "Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China", the collaborationist government of the Japanese-occupied territories in China.
19:10 this is the exact moment Chris signed his own death warrant. You can really see and hear the confidence in him before he realised what he had done. By then it was too late.
I really enjoyed watching your and Mr. Terry's reactions to StarvHarv back to back for student yet informative points on these mistranslations. It seems like quite a perfect set-up that the focus video entertains is and makes us laugh, while our TH-cam historians encourage us to contemplate what the heck could actually be meant, or inform us of the actual actions of the cited events. I hope to see more from all three creators!
Don't know why my comments keep getting deleted but here it is: If you're still taking suggestions for reactions, here are a few I've made before (if you've seen them already, please tell me so I stop bothering you about it): -Extra History's series on Persian king Khosrau I Anushirvan, as a companion to their series on Justinian. -EpicHistory TV's two-parter on the Abbasid Caliphate, easy to understand for a non-specialist. -Overly Sarcastic Productions' History Summarized on either Rome, Greece, Italy, India or China. Or their Legends Summarized series where they deep-dive into the history of a legend with a good deal of historical context behind it (Werewolves and The Wild Hunt are really good ones). -Some French history TH-camrs who do a really great job with subtitles that can be turned to English: Nota Bene (for instance his work on the American Revolution or the Comanches if you want to stay close to home) or La Folle Histoire (his video on why the N@zis escaped to Argentina is also really good). Hope one of them catches your eye!
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. "Al-Q@€da" means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked Edit: TH-cam robot, stop deleting every comment I post.
8:20 Wang Jinwei was a left-wing and formerly high-ranking member of the Kuomintang (the nationalist party that was founded by Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China). Due to his rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually pushed him out of the leadership of the party, he broke away from the nationalist government and collaborated with the Japanese invaders. He lead the "Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China", the collaborationist government of the Japanese-occupied territories in China. 20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. That word (YT censorship) means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked. Edit: STOP DELETING MY COMMENTS, TH-cam BOT!
Oh dear. This was quite the video. In this alternate timeline, HE is just the hero of World War 2. I'm pretty sure he is the King of two countries at the least.
7:20, just one thing. Finnish is actually a uralic language from the finnic branch, it is actually more closely related to estonian (which is a Trans Baltic Volgaic Finno Permic language) than it is to Hungarian (which is a Ugric Finno-Ugric language). And the weirdest part about it isn't that it is nott related to any north-Germanic language, the weird part is that it isn't related to any Indo-European language.
13:31 Maybe its referring to the ''Stab'' which can be translated into both shaft, stick and probably a few other things and was also a name for the german military.
The oldest Nelsons' Monument is in Montreal. The British quickly raised monuments to Nelson in Dublin & Montreal(old grudges never die) in 1809. The Irish blew up the one in Dublin during The Troubles, so the Nelsons' Column in Montreal is now the oldest.
It's believed the Battle of Brisbane broke out due to Australian Soldiers coming to the aid of an American soldier being harassed by US Military Police, which led to a chain reaction (assisted by alcohol) and riots throughout the centre of the city. There are many theories but this is the most plausible.
Operation Barbarossa was followed by Operation Barbarossa 2: Electric Boogaloo and was then finished with Operation Barbarossa 3: With a Vengence! There was Operation Barbarossa 4 planned but the war ended and Hitler fled to Brazil.
7:20 Finnish is also related to Estonian. Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are the three major Finno-Ugric languages in Europe. In contrast to most of the other European (e.g. Romance, Germanic & Slavic) language groups is Finno-Ugric not part of the Indoeuropean family, but the Uralic family.
“Despite the fact that they are the first European country to be invaded during the war.” Czechoslovakia: *“Am I a joke to you?”* All jokes aside, this was great!
kinda offtopic but when at 7:05 it says "declare war on Finland" its somehow still inaccurate because the USSR never declared war, the attack on Finland simply started without declaration to catch the defenders offguard.
37:14 The worst thing that can happen is a medium sized explosion from the outer explosive device that compresses the plutonium uranium core. Wouldnt set off the nuke in this case because it needs to be very precise in order to make the nuclear reaction happen.
8:08 Yes, "suma" has meanings in various languages, but its specific interpretation depends on the context and the language in question. Here are some potential meanings: Swahili: In Swahili, "suma" can mean to prosper or flourish. Spanish: In Spanish, "suma" refers to the mathematical action of addition, or the result of adding numbers together. (the sum)
Suma is probably a mistranslation from the two battles of Summa during the Winter War (The first battle Dec. 16 to Dec. 22 1939 and the Second battle Feb. 1 to Feb. 15. 1940).
@14:32 this is the second video I've watched where a history teacher has let the Air Force line go... Despite the fact it was very much still the Army Air Corps until 18 Sept 1947
6:34 This is actually true. On the Wikipedia page for world war 2 timelines, it does say "17: The IRA is blamed for bombs set off in London." the IRA referred is the Anti-Treaty IRA. It would last from 1922 up until 1969. 1969's clashes would spark the troubles and the Anti-treaty IRA would split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA.
19:45 (hey, fitting timestamp lol) "Church planting" makes it sound like: "hey, i just planted some church seeds today, ao churches will start growing in the city"
23:28 Americans were given priority at most bars and many restaurants, meaning Australians had a hard time entering their own local establishments because of the sheer number of Americans. Never get between an Aussie and his drink.
13:05 I definitely meant to say St. Paul's there. I've been to St Paul's. Not sure why I said St Peters (which in London would be Westminster Abbey)
I love your reaction videos, I just watched another video called "THE LARGEST ancient battles in history" by Top Fives and would love to see your reaction towards that video.
Hey that guy has another video on the cold war that is more funny somehow HE also returns in the cold war
He made another video about WW1
I forgive you because thanks to you, we finally know who He is
I think 14:00 was a Helen of Troy joke lol
I hope we never forget HE’s actions during the war, HE’s bravery and valor arguably won the entire thing.
he approved this comment
HE committed warcrimes in Argentina from 1977-1983
Also he is the youngest son of the communist revolution
@@JBcountryballAnd HE is Spanish
@@Brother_O4TS yes HE is spanish
@catodes1295 I like HE hope HE returns so we can see more cool HE adventures. I'm not an AI it's supposed to be funny
I don't care how non-historical it is, I FULLY believe there was a buff shadowy figure named He who was wreaking havoc all over the world during the war.
He's Him.
@@PresidentFunnyValentine He's Him
There must of been.
He is the true hero of WW2. And WW1.
He‘s him.
The mentions of "He" are easily the funniest parts of this. How have I gone so long without ever hearing of him and his accomplishments?!
I happen to have a co-worker the last name of "He". I think that He would appreciate all this praise.
There's also a youtuber couple with a guy named Mr. He
I swear whenever “He” shows up, it's hilarious.
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. "Al-Qaeda" means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked.
Oh! That actually makes a lot of sense.
Unless wikipedias timeline has changed significantly the actual phrase is “Malta is supplied via Operation Pedestal.”
So I guess pedestal->support->some intermediate-> the base->Al-Qaeda
based?
Teacher: dont use Wikipedia
My essay after using Wikipedia:
😂
I hate to say that I find this quite relatable.
Valid
StarvHarv has a great concept going. Lots of fun!
Yes
I can't believe we are not having a holiday after Shinzo Abe for granting us independence as a continent... Truly one of the most overlooked things in history.
I agree. I can see now why Poland and Japan maintained relatively friendly relations over the course of the war
tsuma means wife in Japanese and Suomi means Finland in Finnish. "Finland" got turned into somebody's wife
Of both Russia and the West.😂
No, it was the battle of "Summa", which is a location in Finland. Also Suomussalmi doesn't even have any salami in it.
I had to pause a few times, my ribs are hurting, my jaw hurts, and I'm crying from laughing so much. May HE rein his country forever! Funniest video you have done yet :D
only a few times? video is 39 minutes, took me over an hour to watch :)))
Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian are all part of the Finno-Ugric language family (along with other smaller languages scattered around Russia). They're some of the few non-indo-european languages in Europe.
Don't forget Saami ;)
how did they came to be?
@@corneliali7747- The root language originated from pre-historic Asian tribes IIRC. Back when semi-nomadic tribal migration, and associated conflict, was a regular occurrence.
@@NefariousKoel that's really cool! Do they have any other family members in the language group currently?
Other non-Indo-European languages in Europe are Maltese (Semitic) and Basque (unknown origin). And Turkish, if you can count it as "in Europe".
Another History TH-camr gets exposed to the Chronicles of Him!
He invades Belgium
And then God said, "Let there be Him".
Amen 🙏
HE is responsible for many crimes against humanity
He is him
He flew several hundred miles without a plane
He is truly an underrated figure from history, we really need to talk about him more.
Of course Chris recognizes the Antietam battlefield on sight.
You set him in Petersburg and he would trace out the trench lines by instinct.
Just so you know Chris, the "He" that they mention so much is... professional History TH-camr, Sam Nixon
He’s my go-to guy for the history of India
You sure? It could be a sibling of Him from the Powerpuff girls
His new video on Gupta history is the best!
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. "Al-Q@eda" means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked.
Not gonna lie, this is the hardest I've laughed in a while (not helped by the fact that I had to hold it in so my co-workers wouldn't hear. XD) May HIS great contribution to the Allied victory never be forgotten!
Ronaldo's role in WW2 is something to never be forgotten!
Man I spent way too much time crying from laughing too much. This was great and maybe you'll do some more of them.
17:12 I can't help but imagine a country doing this and an international conference leads to a bunch of world leaders saying, "They broke diplomatic relations with us." followed by several sassy, "You sure about that, bud?"
I recommend checking out “Why American Soldiers Where So Easy To Fight With” by The Front. It explains the Australian and American battle and how the soldiers connected with one another on every side! Great video
I absolutely agree we don't talk about the Siege of Leningrad enough. I've read several diaries, journals, and memoires written by blokadniki (people who lived through the siege) and many of them reveal both humanity at its absolute best and its most horrific worst. I've visited several sites associated with the siege in St. Petersburg and some of them are absolutely heartbreaking, especially the "Flower of Life" memorial dedicated to the children who died during the siege. The establishment of the Доро́га жи́зни (the Road of Life) in the first winter of the siege is also an astonishing feat of ingenuity and logistics that deserves a lot more attention than it gets. I also have to tip my hat to the Finns, who had plenty of reasons to want to give the Soviets some payback and were supposed to assist the Germans in sieging Leningrad. Despite that, they refused to do more than guard their own border. Yes, they did effectively block the northern access to Leningrad by virtue of just guarding their borders, but they did not directly invade or bomb the city, nor did they make any strong efforts to block the flow of critical supplies into the city even when the opportunities presented themselves. Things could have gone much, much worse for the Leningraders if the Finns hadn't restrained themselves.
In the end, Finland's goal was largely just to reverse the Winter War border adjustments. There were of course agitators within the Finnish political scene who desired a "Greater Finland" carved out from lands beyond the prewar border but they were only ever a sidelined minority unlike their government supported counterparts in the likes of Hungary and Romania.
And really, between the USSR getting supported by the western Allies after the European Axis invasion and Japan upholding the Soviet-Japanese Nonaggression Pact, Finland had been left with no other realistic choice as far as great power alliances went. Germany had sadly become the one last big sympathetic ear now that Britain and friends had taken the Soviet side.
I believe that the Hungarian and Finnish Languages are both related because they are both Uralic, because the Hungarians and Finnish migrated from the Ural Mountains to their respective locations. Great video Chris!
are they both theoritically mongolian(idk my sens of humor is so broken
They aren’t Mongolian this was discredited years ago @@jassen1924
The Hungarians however lived in the Ukrainian steppe before moving to the carpathian basin which is why they are confused for mongols I think
They moved from the urals to the steppes of Ukraine and then pushed the bulgars out of modern day Hungary
Also Estonia is part of the finish language family
I was hoping you would react to this!! This video was hilarious!! Please do Ruining The Cold War With Bad Translations next.
Yeah it is great too and continues the world of He
HE did some crazy stuff
Same
We need this.
I'm so glad you actually pulled up the Wikipedia article to show what was actually translated. My favourite mistranslation was the Luxembourg one in 10:02 😂
17:50 "The sun is stronger at night" could be a reference to Japanese night-fighting being superior to the allies early in the war?
Bro knew that was the Antietam battlefield! I'm very impressed, NERD!!!
8:08 Yes you're right, VTH. Suma or Tsuma means wife in Japanese
Indeed!
The Soviet army captured a Japanse wife… in Finland
Wonderful stuff! Have you ever laughed so much the snot began to dribble from your nose?! I just couldn't help myself. Just wonderful.
7:28 Sorry if this is nitpicky and I might just be misunderstanding you but Finland is not a Scandinavian country, it’s a nordic country. While many tend to use these terms interchangeably, Scandinavia consists of only Sweden, Norway and Denmark, while the Nordic countries are the three Scandinavian countries along with Iceland and Finland.
Also, Finnish and Estonian are very similar and I struggle to tell them apart. But apart from Estonian, Finnish is indeed a very unique language.
Having Finnish as my first language and having lived in Estonia for 3 years I can say that our languages are about 40% mutually intelligible at best. I can see why the languages can seem very similar to a non-speaker though.
23:28 it looks like it was a combination of things that exploded here. The US soldiers were paid far better than the Australian ones, the US soldiers were often treated better by local (Australian) shopkeepers and merchants, and... Douglas MacArthur. He had degraded the Australian leadership multiple times, and often completely ignored the Australian forces in his reports.
There were some brawls earlier that week, including a gunfight that killed an American soldier.
The battle itself started when a drunk American was arrested by an American MP for not having a leave pass. The Australians attacked him, both sides called for backup, and the situation exploded.
Only in Russia is winter a choice😂I saw HE was wearing army pants and flip-flops, so I bought army pants and flip-flops.
17:00 “Soviets begin to winter!” “It’s super effective!”
7:33 Finnish is also related to Estonian and Saami. The other languages in the family are found around the Ural mountains.
Oh man this was the funniest video I have seen in a minute. Please, make more of these.
Thanks for giving me a good laugh! Are you HE? Edit: make sure to check out the Cold War version as well, that one covers FDR's death.
shhhhhhh
@@VloggingThroughHistorynaah VTH is hiding something
Oh wait, wasn’t supposed to say this
5:08 Uh, no, god no. Karl Dönitz did definitely _not_ become "the first President of Germany" after WW2. Dönitz was a Nazi and Navy Admiral who was one of the 24 main accused war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials (Nürnberger Prozesse) of 1945-46!! (As many of the high-ranking Nazis had already committed suicide by then.) He was sentenced to prison, but escaped the death penalty.
Not only does Germany _not_ have a "President" in the way the USA has (and never had in its history), our head of government is the Chancellor ("bundeskanzler"), the head of the Executive branch. A "Bundespräsident" exists as a ceremonial neutral head of state who is explicitely not part of the three branches of government and who isn't allowed to own any companies or have any paid job while serving in this function; the Bundespräsident has to sign off on laws but can veto a law being passed.
Always enjoy your videos because I learn so much and love history so much!! Thank you! This guy's voice is perfect for his videos. So funny.
Great video and comparison to the real timeline. I recommend his WW1 video to go along with this one.
16:05 "That's a good idea" And that killed me 🤣
8:20 Wang Jinwei was a left-wing and formerly high-ranking member of the Kuomintang (the nationalist party that was founded by Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China). Due to his rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually pushed him out of the leadership of the party, he broke away from the nationalist government and collaborated with the Japanese invaders. He lead the "Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China", the collaborationist government of the Japanese-occupied territories in China.
Edit: This is the 4th time I've had to repost a comment. TH-cam robot, f*** you.
Such a goofball chineseman
That Brisbane riot is an interesting subject, as far as I remember it was because Brisbane’s population had grown by a massive amount due to the American soldiers there and because American soldiers were paid far more than Australian soldiers they were favored in bars and other places, and then eventually an American MP tries to arrest an drunk American soldier, but Australian troops help the drunkard soldier because American MPs were hated by Australians too, and that somehow evolves into a citywide fight
This is just what I remember and some of the details are vague but it’s an interesting topic for a video of you find more about it
I wonder if Race had any part in the riot? Because I remember that a couple months before there was another riot that stemmed from Black soldiers not being segregated (since Australia didn't have segregation laws) which upset white American troops, leading to fights breaking out.
@@SquadPoopywhile the battle of Brisbane didn’t have anything directly got to do with race (tensions were increased at the time of how white American soldiers separated African American soldiers, which Australians didn’t look kindly on), there were fights in England, Australia and New Zealand when people refused to segregate whites and non-whites.
The New Zealand one (Battle of Manners street) happened when American soldiers were refusing Māori soldiers entrance into a club (that they had already been using) and fighting broke out when American troops used belts to attack Māori soldiers. In the UK (Battle of Bamber Bridge) happened under similar circumstances when American mps tried arresting African American soldiers for not having permission or wearing correct attire at a local pub.
And American Soldiers were trying to get Australian girls and 2nd AIF wasn’t having that, it’s was around the time when Australian soldiers were returning home from North Africa (Tobruk) Syria and Iraq
@@SquadPoopy this also happened in the UK, all be it on a smaller scale. Black troops drinking in a pub, MPs told the pub owner blacks and whites couldn't drink together so the next day the landlord put out a sing that said black troops only, MPs turned up to arrest a black service man on a trumped up charge, and were attacked by locals. I'm missing a lot out but I've seen several TH-cam channel's covering it.
@@astartesteadious3756kinda the opposite of what happened to South Africa, our men black and white mixed and returned calling eachother brothers, and when the government made the 1948 laws that is now known as apartheid these ww2 veterans created the torch kommando, and declared they would fight for total equity between all races, just like they had at the front during ww2.
3:35 On the topic of namealikes, there was one Donald Regan the Treasury Secretary then Chief of Staff in the Ronald Reagan administration.
He, of course, was a huge proponent of Reaganomics.
Hey Chris, thank you for doing a video of something more humorous. I'm going through a really rough patch in my life right now. my fiancé passed away Sunday morning after her body rejected a lung transplant. you video made me laugh when i've been doing nothing but crying the past day. thank you.
Oh no. I’m so sorry to hear this. Glad to bring a little joy into a really terrible time for you.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Thank you Chris. that does mean a lot coming from you. She was such an important part of my life. I know it'll be a long time for me to be able to move on; i need to take things one day at a time.
Of course you don't believe Hitler went to Argentina. He went to Belgium, says so at 36:00
HE is clearly one of the unsung heros of WW2
HE really is.
He is such an overlooked historical figure from WWII
8:20 Wang Jinwei was a left-wing and formerly high-ranking member of the Kuomintang (the nationalist party that was founded by Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China). Due to his rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually pushed him out of the leadership of the party, he broke away from the nationalist government and collaborated with the Japanese invaders. He lead the "Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China", the collaborationist government of the Japanese-occupied territories in China.
“Who is he?”
“He’s..”
“ *HIM* “
19:10 this is the exact moment Chris signed his own death warrant. You can really see and hear the confidence in him before he realised what he had done. By then it was too late.
Yeah, that part was pretty weird
I really enjoyed watching your and Mr. Terry's reactions to StarvHarv back to back for student yet informative points on these mistranslations. It seems like quite a perfect set-up that the focus video entertains is and makes us laugh, while our TH-cam historians encourage us to contemplate what the heck could actually be meant, or inform us of the actual actions of the cited events. I hope to see more from all three creators!
Don't know why my comments keep getting deleted but here it is: If you're still taking suggestions for reactions, here are a few I've made before (if you've seen them already, please tell me so I stop bothering you about it):
-Extra History's series on Persian king Khosrau I Anushirvan, as a companion to their series on Justinian.
-EpicHistory TV's two-parter on the Abbasid Caliphate, easy to understand for a non-specialist.
-Overly Sarcastic Productions' History Summarized on either Rome, Greece, Italy, India or China. Or their Legends Summarized series where they deep-dive into the history of a legend with a good deal of historical context behind it (Werewolves and The Wild Hunt are really good ones).
-Some French history TH-camrs who do a really great job with subtitles that can be turned to English: Nota Bene (for instance his work on the American Revolution or the Comanches if you want to stay close to home) or La Folle Histoire (his video on why the N@zis escaped to Argentina is also really good).
Hope one of them catches your eye!
24:51 Ghenghis Khan would probably be proud.
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. "Al-Q@€da" means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked
Edit: TH-cam robot, stop deleting every comment I post.
8:20 Wang Jinwei was a left-wing and formerly high-ranking member of the Kuomintang (the nationalist party that was founded by Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China). Due to his rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, who eventually pushed him out of the leadership of the party, he broke away from the nationalist government and collaborated with the Japanese invaders. He lead the "Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China", the collaborationist government of the Japanese-occupied territories in China.
20:09 Okay this one I can take a guess at. That word (YT censorship) means "the base" in Arabic, so if he translated into and back from Arabic, it could just mean there was a military base here (probably British) that could have been attacked.
Edit: STOP DELETING MY COMMENTS, TH-cam BOT!
Oh dear. This was quite the video. In this alternate timeline, HE is just the hero of World War 2. I'm pretty sure he is the King of two countries at the least.
7:58 "tsuma" means wife in Japanese
You gotta continue this by watching Bad Cold War Translations
Well the father of footballers Gary and Peter Neville was also called Neville, so his name was Neville Neville
Neville squared
and he was buried in a town called Bury!
There is no way- you have to be kidding
Can confirm this is absolutely true!
Phil Neville, not Peter Neville
16:25 “The enemy of the enemy is my friend” proceed to declared war in yourself
Average IJN vs IJA debate
7:20, just one thing. Finnish is actually a uralic language from the finnic branch, it is actually more closely related to estonian (which is a Trans Baltic Volgaic Finno Permic language) than it is to Hungarian (which is a Ugric Finno-Ugric language). And the weirdest part about it isn't that it is nott related to any north-Germanic language, the weird part is that it isn't related to any Indo-European language.
13:31 Maybe its referring to the ''Stab'' which can be translated into both shaft, stick and probably a few other things and was also a name for the german military.
The oldest Nelsons' Monument is in Montreal. The British quickly raised monuments to Nelson in Dublin & Montreal(old grudges never die) in 1809. The Irish blew up the one in Dublin during The Troubles, so the Nelsons' Column in Montreal is now the oldest.
It's believed the Battle of Brisbane broke out due to Australian Soldiers coming to the aid of an American soldier being harassed by US Military Police, which led to a chain reaction (assisted by alcohol) and riots throughout the centre of the city. There are many theories but this is the most plausible.
This has no business being this funny😂
What a great video, we need more reactions to this channel
Love your reactions chris!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Operation Barbarossa was followed by Operation Barbarossa 2: Electric Boogaloo and was then finished with Operation Barbarossa 3: With a Vengence! There was Operation Barbarossa 4 planned but the war ended and Hitler fled to Brazil.
Trust me, HE will be a recurring character in upcoming StarvHarv videos.
As a finn, i can confirm that Finnish is a super hard language. I mean i can speak it, but i don't understand how it works.
its great that this reaction features the actual timeline for comparison ^^ makes it more funny and informative
@6:00 Poland played the “No U” card in Uno 😂😂😂
14:30 I personally believe *HE* is the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k.
7:30 idk if you just ddnt mention it but finish is more similar to estonian, but im just gona guess that that was so obvious it didnt need a mention
Didn't really think you would do it but im super glad to see since im very interested in your perspective on this
7:20 Finnish is also related to Estonian. Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian are the three major Finno-Ugric languages in Europe. In contrast to most of the other European (e.g. Romance, Germanic & Slavic) language groups is Finno-Ugric not part of the Indoeuropean family, but the Uralic family.
“Despite the fact that they are the first European country to be invaded during the war.”
Czechoslovakia: *“Am I a joke to you?”*
All jokes aside, this was great!
We just going to ignore 20:00 how He can see Japan from Guadalajara?
kinda offtopic but when at 7:05 it says "declare war on Finland" its somehow still inaccurate because the USSR never declared war, the attack on Finland simply started without declaration to catch the defenders offguard.
@7:38 Ugro-finic languages are: hungaria, estonia and finnish. Also some ppl in norther russia speak this also (the original ugro-fins)
These were hilarious. Oh by the way, Happy Belated Birthday from a fellow Leo.
37:14 The worst thing that can happen is a medium sized explosion from the outer explosive device that compresses the plutonium uranium core. Wouldnt set off the nuke in this case because it needs to be very precise in order to make the nuclear reaction happen.
29:42 Botswanna has basically the same colors just different design. the blue is a bit lighter though i think
I love the comradary between you and Mr Terry
Please do the Cold War translation video as soon as you can. Having somebody else reacting to these videos makes it so much more funny
"He" became an unintentional character in every video in this series.
8:08
Yes, "suma" has meanings in various languages, but its specific interpretation depends on the context and the language in question. Here are some potential meanings:
Swahili: In Swahili, "suma" can mean to prosper or flourish.
Spanish: In Spanish, "suma" refers to the mathematical action of addition, or the result of adding numbers together. (the sum)
Suma is probably a mistranslation from the two battles of Summa during the Winter War (The first battle Dec. 16 to Dec. 22 1939 and the Second battle Feb. 1 to Feb. 15. 1940).
12:15 although i would argue the german population suffered a lot more from air raids on civilian targets
this was so funny lmao please do more of these i couldnt stop laughing
@14:32 this is the second video I've watched where a history teacher has let the Air Force line go... Despite the fact it was very much still the Army Air Corps until 18 Sept 1947
Finland declared war on itself? LOL
6:34
This is actually true. On the Wikipedia page for world war 2 timelines, it does say "17: The IRA is blamed for bombs set off in London." the IRA referred is the Anti-Treaty IRA. It would last from 1922 up until 1969. 1969's clashes would spark the troubles and the Anti-treaty IRA would split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA.
That was a lot of fun. Thanks Chris!
7:21 Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language, which, like Hungarian, has common roots with some languages spoken in Russia today.
30:48 this was misinterpreted, it was HIM who took care of field marshall rommels Familie.
19:45 (hey, fitting timestamp lol)
"Church planting" makes it sound like: "hey, i just planted some church seeds today, ao churches will start growing in the city"
Please do more of these reactions. Hardest I've laughed in a while
Have fun in Salzburg! I went last April and it was a really enjoyable experience
I mean Italy only had 7 more troops left😂😂😂
23:28
Americans were given priority at most bars and many restaurants, meaning Australians had a hard time entering their own local establishments because of the sheer number of Americans. Never get between an Aussie and his drink.