I worked in Asmara in 1966 for the US Army Satcom Command. The army had a communications facility In Asmara and they had a Satellite station in Gura. I set up the link between the two locations, the n went to Germany. This was before the 6 day war as I passed thru Cairo on my way to Germany.
I met an Angolan general once at a Portuguese language statistics course. Super nice dude. Also an Angolan bouncer once at the US and when he asked for ID and I showed my passport he was so happy to have someone to speak Portuguese to. Genuinely great people to be around.
I was actually a little surprised to find out just how little I know about Ethiopia's Cold War era history. Thank you for another educational episode! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Im sorry but where did u get that slogan from? 🤣 The well-known slogan of the derg was "Ethiopia tikdem, yale minm Dem" translating to- Ethiopia first, without any Blood. No mention of minorities being last or whatever
I love this channel. You guys dig into the real, smaller wars/battles that alot of times lead to the bigger ones. The other guys mostly just do the well know wars. K&G, The Cold War, Historymarche, The World War-all do a great job & thank you so much. I could watch these all day.
The initial post-war military support for Ethiopia came not from the US or any of the major powers but from smaller countries including neutral Sweden which not only helped train the Imperial guard but also played a key role in the creation of the Ethiopian air force supplying extensive training as well as Saab B17 bombers. Carl Gustav von Rosen was the cheif training officer of the EAF until 1956. The US support was a change in policy after the Korean War which saw the US move from the indifferent stance they had held in the 40's.
Thank you for carefully researched work and for presenting it to your audience without distorting facts! I've read a number of history books and news articles relating to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Everything you presented seats within the context of what I've read, but there are several TH-camrs that present false narrative in order to serve their own agenda or the agenda of those who pay them. Because you presented the truth, I've subscribed to your channel. Thank you and please keep doing what you are doing!
Even in Cuba this was sort of forgotten war, Angola was better known for us. Two exceptional events happened for the Cuban military and both were half of full hidden from the people in Cuba. First was General Ochoa commanding one the biggest tank battle after WWII, he was executed in 1989 in an obscure drug trafficking trial. The second was known after many years of being happening, a Cuban military was held in captivity for about 9 years, his name was released by the newspaper when his release was imminent.
My father met Arnaldo Ochoa at an interview (my father worked for the press). Cuba always bragged that they won that war and the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The battle saw for the first time Cuba defended Quito. The crazy Cuban logic is that: because they defended Quite Cuanavale, the South Africans decided to surrender.... so "we can't take you down therefore we decide to surrender?"
"Do they know it's Christmas" is such an insult, since Ethiopia was Christian far before most of Europe, and certainly before any "Old worlders" had reached the Americas.
@@Alec.40 Ethiopia was one of the first nations ever to Christianize. Unlike most of Africa it's long been a unified, centralized kingdom as opposed to a hodgepodge of city-states and scattered villages.
First of all, “Do they know it’s Christmas” was recorded by British artists in London by a British studio, so I’m not sure why you’re bringing up the Americas at all. Secondly, the song and campaign raised a lot of very real money to help with a very real famine, so I imagine the Ethiopians at the time were a little too starving to feel insulted by an effort to help them with all that
The “insult “ was a deliberate act of propaganda as part of the cold-war. To insult ‘Socialist Ethiopia’ a satellite of USSR, in all fronts portraying it as a bad example for other African and 3rd world countries to not follow. The west supported rebels eventually toppled the government and succeeded the Eritrea province. Irritating the west was the Ethiopian junta’s fatal mistake.
Haile Selassie and the Shah of Iran are eeringly similar. When Selassie was overthrown, people predicted the same for the Shah. They were living in ultimate luxury while the people were starving and were callous to their plight
When I was working for the National Blood Transfusion Service in the late 90s I was given the job of looking after a nurse who worked in the Ethiopian transfusion service on her visit to the UK. She commented on how life was better after the change of power in the country. I remember quite clearly her telling me the day the rebels took over everyone carried on as normal but is was very strange as the soldiers were just stood around looking very lost as no one was telling them what to do. I do hope she still feels life is better after the recent internal conflicts in Ethiopia.
Highland Eritrea was part of the Ethiopian Empire for centuries, and both the highlands and the coast were part of Axum in deeper history - this is a big part of Ethiopia viewing federation as an outside imposition on the resolution of a long-standing grievance (Italy's theft of Eritrea from Ethiopia). Not saying it's my opinion, but Ethiopia's actions weren't random.
I would love to see you do a video on some of the smaller African states like Republic or Congo (then People’s Republic of Congo), Togo, and Equatorial Guinea, all of whom have pretty crazy stories in the 20th century
Oh man, as someone who studies post-colonial African history, I gotta say Republic of Congo (as opposed to DRC) is so scarcely covered I wonder if they could cobble together an episode (unless they got a good french speaker, that might help).
Could you make an episode on Gaddafi coup d’état in Libya which turned the country from a pro usa state to a more soviet aligned country in the Cold War era (1970s)
It was an informative and truthful historical coverage episode about Cold War years' effectiveness on Ethiopia 🇪🇹.. How the USA focused on Military aids to Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and backed Hilassilassi monarchy remaind Ethiopian peoples in poverty, WW2 ruined situations, cultural retards atmosphere. Famine. While Arabian regimes supported separation rebellions in Eriteria, Somalia 🇸🇴.other Ethiopian regions. while the USSR supported the Derg coup in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (those toppled monarchy) & and separatists in the meantime ?!...China intervened against USSR influenced by supported rebellions? ..Eriteria became Israel 🇮🇱 friendship dictatorship, and Somalia 🇸🇴 became the most Islamic terrorist incubation territory fragmented, non recognized areas ...
Damn. This is what happens when we let other people tell our stories. The Ethiopians barely featured in this video. Rather, you made it about the Soviets and the Germans, and the artistes, etc. Made Ethiopians side characters in their own civil war.
@@echo_wz yet no mention of american involvement beside the precious aid that humane organization they did to save an openly commnist society. if you belive this is what Americans do at the hight of cold war? . u my friend is inside a bubble
Because they are in the grand scheme of things... Unless Ethiopia has some objective literature on the stuff that is surely not biased towards some personality like Putin is to Stalin...
Bob Geldof later admitted that Band-Aid and the follow-up efforts/ concerts were naive on his part and hurt much more than they helped. Most of the food and medical supplies never made it to the people in need and was hijacked by warlords. That or it was left rotting on the docks, never to even enter the country. In a pleading letter a Doctor's Without Borders physician revealed that those who did get the food and supplies were basically slaves in work camps that would be given just enough to keep working until they collapsed and died from exhaustion and malnutrition. NEVER try and help a socialist regime. The people will just suffer while their rulers grow fatter.
@@gabrielbrilhante8812 so does KMT of WW2 China a socialist regime too then considering the hoarding of aid in the hands of thr NRA? Also, states at war prioritizing a military is unsuprising. Stop being naive and demands angel-like actions from humans
Has nothing to do about the CIA’s backed TPLF and EPLF both had their leaders and years later that their fighters would deliberately travel with aid convoys and even set themselves up near relief facilities in order for the government to attack them and kill civilians if you look at how the famine in the horn of Africa affected the entire region, Kenya ,Sudan ,and Somalia that killed hundreds of thousands of people, but because Ethiopia wasn’t an ally of the United States, their famine was seen as a byproduct of their government
@@gabrielbrilhante8812Ukraine is the 1 fighting & defeating the Russian warlord. The world has clearly learned from Geldof’s mistake b/c now, no one is allowed to help Russia thanks to the strongest sanctions in human history - now even Chinese banks refuse to process Russian payments for fear of those sanctions
Can you do an episode on the history of the East West Dichotomy, and how that played into Cold War stereotypes in both the US and the U.S.S.R.? Thanks!!
How do you keep your people happy? Freedoms? Better quality of life? Not dragging people away in the middle of the night because they said you looked a little funny? East Germany: COFFEE! FREE COFFEE FOR ALL!
If I remember well, the WHO director during the covid pandemic, the one who lied about the numbers, was the former health minister of the DERG regime, and had a responsibility in the humanitarian crisis by blocking foreign aid
No, you got it wrong. He was the health minister of the government that came after the Derg. He was fighting with the rebels when the Derg was in power.
An episode on India post-independence 1947 in three-parts: 1947-1964, 1964-1966, 1966-1977 including the 1967 Sino-Indian Border War seen by India as revenge of the 1962 Sino-Indian War
Invaded by the British in 1940? The British were too tied up with the battle of Britain to get involved in Abyssinia. From what I read, it was the South Africans that struck the Italians from Kenya soon after Italy declared war on Britain. I read the South African Air Force was the only air force that opposed the Italians, their first strike was on an Italian airbase operating from Kenya. They say the Italians were not expecting any attack from the south, were expecting an attack from the north as there was RAF presence in Egypt.
This time Ethiopia regime is weak and destabilized by on going civil wars in Ethiopia. Perhaps Ethiopia will ended up with the same result as Former Yugoslavia..!! Yugoslavia of Africa is happening now.
How about a video on the Congo region and its role in The Cold War? We already know about the DR Congo, but what about the People’s Republic of the Congo next door?
One of the most memorable elements of the Ethiopian Civil War is the famine that caused up to 1.2 million deaths, and the apparent indifference the global community had, with promises being made to never let a catastrophe of that magnitude happen again. Two months ago, the UN estimated that up to 2 million people in Sudan would die from starvation if no action were taken to stop it. The global community collectively shrugged, with all the media attention focused on Gaza and Ukraine. I wonder how long it will be until we get more promises of "never again"?
@@ShubhamMishrabrono that's not true. The tigray famine didn't kill that much people. I'm sure it didn't even kill 100k people. But a lot of people died because of the war. Being the causality.
The fact is the so-called "civil war" in Ethiopia was one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating war during the cold war era. In this war, Eritreans, with a tiny population of about three million people fought against an illegal occupation of their country by Ethiopia, wth more than ten times the population of Eritrea at that time. A bitter war of attriition in ww1 like trenchs was fought mostly in the rugged mountains of Sahel province in Eritrea which ended with the victory of Eritreans who drove out the occupying Ethiopian army on May 24 1991.
A clown like you is not fit to tell history. The Derg was just a dictatorship that took power by force, and its actions cannot be described as representing Ethiopians. For your information, it was not just Eritreans but all Ethiopians who fought against that dictator. Population size doesn’t matter, as this wasn’t a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Was it intentional to not mention Djibouti French colony? Djibouti was supposed to be returned to Ethiopia in 1999 (per French Ethiopia treaty in the 19th century). Because of the Cold War computation Djibouti was made independent. The westerners don’t like to mention this fact. I wonder why?
Ethiopia is a nation in paralysis, propped up by international aid since its inception, incapable of standing on its own and perpetually dependent on others. Today, it faces profound challenges, lashing out with hostility toward both its neighbors and its own people. Relations with Kenya, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia are riddled with conflict. Accused of heinous crimes against humanity, Ethiopia, once rescued by the Soviet Union and Cuba in 1977, and later by the U.S. and its allies, now stands on the brink, in desperate need of salvation once more.
Too biased to be true. We have always been in civil war bc of our greedy neighbours, who create rebel groups and supply them with arms, ammunitions and tanks. Its true that we had bad governments before who failed to unify the nation, and its effects could be seen till this day. Thankfully the arabs are no longer against us and we have good relations with kenya, sudan, south sudan and half of whats recognised as somalia. The only threats we have today is Egypt as always, Eritrea which is still a puppet of Egypt, and half of somalia (the parts that are controlled by the somalian government). We are able to maintain good relations with Israel without affecting our relations with the arab world. Although we are still in civil wars its looking good for us at the moment for the first time😊
Ethiopia is among the most ancient nations in the world, and one of the few countries in Africa not invented by Europeans drawing random lines on a map
They shouldn't abeg. Did you watch this video? It was a video about an African civil war, and the Africans turned out to be side characters, focusing on the international scene instead of what happened locally. That's what they'll make the Nigerian civil war to be. Just like John St Jorre's book on the civil war. This is what happens when you let other people tell your story.
Can there be a vide someday about communist Afghanistan? Unless you already made one^^' Or a video about Albania becoming independent from the USSR, bonding with China and then tear up "friendship" too, Hoxha's death and the transition of Albania from communist to its current status
@@gabrielbrilhante8812 The US in awkward position? The Trail of Tears The conquest of Hawaii The Jim Crowe laws The U2 spy plane incident The Nixon/Watergate scandal The severe abusement of Iraqi prisoners The far-right conspiracy theories around 9/11 Trump's entire political existence Jan 6th When has the US never been in an awkward or humiliating position? All those events have been talked about by US historians, authors and university professors. And they told it like it was/is. Because they had to. Not because they liked to admit the US or themselves were in an awkward position. They told the truth, even if some disagree with it or don't like talking about it So unless you represent or a member of the Cold War channel, I am making a suggestion that might eventually be observed and talked about from a neutral point of view If you are not a member nor a representative of the Cold War TH-cam channel, then take your pride elsewhere
Bro this is a myth. Talibans only start existing in 1992 and this is after Mujahadeens come to power. USA help Mujahadeens who's are not only Islamic extremists but hundred of Factions some who's created famous groups like Al-Quida and Talibans after fall of commie Afghanistan
@@abdijama1430 There is nothing to see. Somalis like you live in the west, but pretend to be war veterans that are going to "liberate" your region. you won't to anything and Somalia will continue to fail
@@abdijama1430 haha another Somali keyboard warrior that is telling me to “wait and see” because he knows that there is nothing he can say that will make Somali region independence believable.
Italy never had anything more than superficial control of some regions of Ethiopia. They could never gain complete control like every other African country fell under.
How did this video not even mention Menelik II, who unified and created modern Ethiopia. He died in 1913 all he had to do is mention in 4 sentences how the Ethiopian state Selassie inherited was formed.
Ah yes, the famous Cold War figure of Menelik II who fought during the Ethiopian Civil War in the 20th Century. Maybe you should read what the title of the video is and the name of the channel that posted this video before saying something this stupid.
Ethiopia is a failing state rapidly rushing toward disintegration. Whether violently or through a carefully managed breakaway, the disintegration of Ethiopia appears to be inevitable.
First of all don’t call Ethiopia Abyssinia.such naming s a narrative to deny the oldest history of Ethiopia .After all Ethiopia signed the League of Nations as Ethiopia not as Abyssinia.
Some Feedback about the First 10 Minutes of this Video: you repeatedly jump back and forth between the 1890s, the 1920s and 1960s. This was very confusing to follow, i would have much preferred a chronological telling of events
These lesser-known Cold War topics are always interesting. Do you ever plan to cover the short-lived Karelo-Finnish SSR or in Soviet Karelia?
Who said they're "lesser known" ??
it has to be covered indeed
the khrushchevite revisionists dissolved it so they can have dictatorial rule over the finno-karelians
Ah yes
@@BronxBastard730 Everyone who wasn't involved.
I worked in Asmara in 1966 for the US Army Satcom Command. The army had a communications facility In Asmara and they had a Satellite station in Gura. I set up the link between the two locations, the n went to Germany. This was before the 6 day war as I passed thru Cairo on my way to Germany.
An episode on Angola please?!?! Love to understand Jonas Savambi story more.
I was about to comment the same!!The Angolan Civil War is actually what I call the African Vietnam!!
There's an old Cold War documentary and one episode covers that bit
I met an Angolan general once at a Portuguese language statistics course. Super nice dude. Also an Angolan bouncer once at the US and when he asked for ID and I showed my passport he was so happy to have someone to speak Portuguese to. Genuinely great people to be around.
Savimbi is known due to the video game Black Ops2.
@@Josef-v8i His family wasn't so happy with the depiction, I heard
I'd love to know more about this coffee mania in the GDR!
The coffee crisis of 1977 ?
@@carlosvalerochavez3045 whatever was mentioned in the video that made the GDR deal with Ethiopia so desperatly...
Fun Fact: The GDR ensured that Vietnam is now a major coffee exporter
Interesting
Interesting. Thanks for covering lesser-known (in the West) important history!
I was actually a little surprised to find out just how little I know about Ethiopia's Cold War era history. Thank you for another educational episode!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Eritreans (EPLF) fighters gave all in the Eritrean war of independence that lasted 30 years and finally made sure Eritrea was a sovereign country.
EPLF is a mere puppet of devilish england, united states of amerikkka and Egypt.
they made sure the country is in their control, they just become their own version of derg i don't see it as an independence
"Ethiopia be first, and her unruly minorities trying to rebel last"
-The unofficial slogan of the Derg
Its funny because they were the first of the filthy rebels against Emperor Haile Selassie.
@@FortuneZer0 It was a play on their anthem being “Ethiopia be First”.
@@nathanpangilinan4397 oh, neat
Im sorry but where did u get that slogan from? 🤣 The well-known slogan of the derg was "Ethiopia tikdem, yale minm Dem" translating to- Ethiopia first, without any Blood. No mention of minorities being last or whatever
@@theusareview7960Play on the slogan
Can't be explained objectively by any foreign analyst more than this channel did.
I love this channel. You guys dig into the real, smaller wars/battles that alot of times lead to the bigger ones. The other guys mostly just do the well know wars. K&G, The Cold War, Historymarche, The World War-all do a great job & thank you so much. I could watch these all day.
This is one of the most impressive, & important history channels available....
Very good episode, again! Thank you.
The initial post-war military support for Ethiopia came not from the US or any of the major powers but from smaller countries including neutral Sweden which not only helped train the Imperial guard but also played a key role in the creation of the Ethiopian air force supplying extensive training as well as Saab B17 bombers. Carl Gustav von Rosen was the cheif training officer of the EAF until 1956.
The US support was a change in policy after the Korean War which saw the US move from the indifferent stance they had held in the 40's.
Also Belgium who trained the Royal guard.
Ah, so the Swedes are partially responsible for Ethiopian warplanes bombing Eritrean people.
This is the most unbiased and honest video I have seen,good job.
Thanks for sharing love it
Thank you for carefully researched work and for presenting it to your audience without distorting facts! I've read a number of history books and news articles relating to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Everything you presented seats within the context of what I've read, but there are several TH-camrs that present false narrative in order to serve their own agenda or the agenda of those who pay them. Because you presented the truth, I've subscribed to your channel. Thank you and please keep doing what you are doing!
Even in Cuba this was sort of forgotten war, Angola was better known for us. Two exceptional events happened for the Cuban military and both were half of full hidden from the people in Cuba. First was General Ochoa commanding one the biggest tank battle after WWII, he was executed in 1989 in an obscure drug trafficking trial. The second was known after many years of being happening, a Cuban military was held in captivity for about 9 years, his name was released by the newspaper when his release was imminent.
Interesting. I remember my father telling me about that Cuban General who was executed for drug trafficking..🤔
My father met Arnaldo Ochoa at an interview (my father worked for the press). Cuba always bragged that they won that war and the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The battle saw for the first time Cuba defended Quito. The crazy Cuban logic is that: because they defended Quite Cuanavale, the South Africans decided to surrender.... so "we can't take you down therefore we decide to surrender?"
This war very interesting. i think an episode on Angola/Mozambique or Sudan would be very interesting. keep up the great work!
Do South Yemen!!
East Germany's eternal quest for coffee.😂☕
"Do they know it's Christmas" is such an insult, since Ethiopia was Christian far before most of Europe, and certainly before any "Old worlders" had reached the Americas.
whut
Ethiopian christmas is on Jan 7th. As orthodox, they use a different calendar than the wester churches.
@@Alec.40 Ethiopia was one of the first nations ever to Christianize. Unlike most of Africa it's long been a unified, centralized kingdom as opposed to a hodgepodge of city-states and scattered villages.
First of all, “Do they know it’s Christmas” was recorded by British artists in London by a British studio, so I’m not sure why you’re bringing up the Americas at all. Secondly, the song and campaign raised a lot of very real money to help with a very real famine, so I imagine the Ethiopians at the time were a little too starving to feel insulted by an effort to help them with all that
The “insult “ was a deliberate act of propaganda as part of the cold-war. To insult ‘Socialist Ethiopia’ a satellite of USSR, in all fronts portraying it as a bad example for other African and 3rd world countries to not follow. The west supported rebels eventually toppled the government and succeeded the Eritrea province. Irritating the west was the Ethiopian junta’s fatal mistake.
Haile Selassie and the Shah of Iran are eeringly similar. When Selassie was overthrown, people predicted the same for the Shah. They were living in ultimate luxury while the people were starving and were callous to their plight
Both were great
Sounds like Iran has not changed. People are still repressed, especially women
Same case with every anti monarchist revolution, be it France or Russia.
When I was working for the National Blood Transfusion Service in the late 90s I was given the job of looking after a nurse who worked in the Ethiopian transfusion service on her visit to the UK. She commented on how life was better after the change of power in the country. I remember quite clearly her telling me the day the rebels took over everyone carried on as normal but is was very strange as the soldiers were just stood around looking very lost as no one was telling them what to do.
I do hope she still feels life is better after the recent internal conflicts in Ethiopia.
Fantastic breakdown as always
Highland Eritrea was part of the Ethiopian Empire for centuries, and both the highlands and the coast were part of Axum in deeper history - this is a big part of Ethiopia viewing federation as an outside imposition on the resolution of a long-standing grievance (Italy's theft of Eritrea from Ethiopia). Not saying it's my opinion, but Ethiopia's actions weren't random.
Impressive analysis. This comes from an Eritrean who studies international relations and was born in Ethiopia.
Thank you for sharing!
I would love to see you do a video on some of the smaller African states like Republic or Congo (then People’s Republic of Congo), Togo, and Equatorial Guinea, all of whom have pretty crazy stories in the 20th century
Oh man, as someone who studies post-colonial African history, I gotta say Republic of Congo (as opposed to DRC) is so scarcely covered I wonder if they could cobble together an episode (unless they got a good french speaker, that might help).
Not so fun fact about Equatorial Guinea it was ruled by a mad man who has been compared to Pol Pot himself.
@@Josef-v8i Another fact is that Francisco Macías Nguema, the (mad man) was the uncle of the current leader Teodoro Obiang, who deposed him in a coup
Great summary 🎉
Dude called Bob Geldof "Bob Geldorf" lol sounds like a LOTR character
Could you make an episode on Gaddafi coup d’état in Libya which turned the country from a pro usa state to a more soviet aligned country in the Cold War era (1970s)
Ethiopia is currently in a civil war when will you be covering this ?
It was an informative and truthful historical coverage episode about Cold War years' effectiveness on Ethiopia 🇪🇹.. How the USA focused on Military aids to Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and backed Hilassilassi monarchy remaind Ethiopian peoples in poverty, WW2 ruined situations, cultural retards atmosphere. Famine. While Arabian regimes supported separation rebellions in Eriteria, Somalia 🇸🇴.other Ethiopian regions. while the USSR supported the Derg coup in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (those toppled monarchy) & and separatists in the meantime ?!...China intervened against USSR influenced by supported rebellions? ..Eriteria became Israel 🇮🇱 friendship dictatorship, and Somalia 🇸🇴 became the most Islamic terrorist incubation territory fragmented, non recognized areas ...
Eritrea did not become Israel's friend, and Eritrea was fighting a war of independence. You need to update yourself on the facts on the ground.
Lol! That subscribers comment was hilarious
Which subscriber??
Damn. This is what happens when we let other people tell our stories.
The Ethiopians barely featured in this video. Rather, you made it about the Soviets and the Germans, and the artistes, etc.
Made Ethiopians side characters in their own civil war.
I mean its a channel about the cold war, not a channel on wars
@@echo_wz yet no mention of american involvement beside the precious aid that humane organization they did to save an openly commnist society. if you belive this is what Americans do at the hight of cold war? . u my friend is inside a bubble
Lol, stop complaining, this is just Ethiopian history. Always needed a saviour
@@imperator692 what the fuck does this even mean....cheap conclusions
Because they are in the grand scheme of things... Unless Ethiopia has some objective literature on the stuff that is surely not biased towards some personality like Putin is to Stalin...
So glad to have found your channel. Have u covered the Kivu Congo actions in the Cold War? Anyhow liked and subbed
"Whew, we just fought a world war to show that taking other people's land is bad."
"...Here Ethiopia, have some of other people's land."
Bob Geldof later admitted that Band-Aid and the follow-up efforts/ concerts were naive on his part and hurt much more than they helped. Most of the food and medical supplies never made it to the people in need and was hijacked by warlords. That or it was left rotting on the docks, never to even enter the country. In a pleading letter a Doctor's Without Borders physician revealed that those who did get the food and supplies were basically slaves in work camps that would be given just enough to keep working until they collapsed and died from exhaustion and malnutrition.
NEVER try and help a socialist regime. The people will just suffer while their rulers grow fatter.
Didn't know uckraine was a socialist regime
Margret Thatcher right again.
@@gabrielbrilhante8812 so does KMT of WW2 China a socialist regime too then considering the hoarding of aid in the hands of thr NRA?
Also, states at war prioritizing a military is unsuprising. Stop being naive and demands angel-like actions from humans
Has nothing to do about the CIA’s backed TPLF and EPLF both had their leaders and years later that their fighters would deliberately travel with aid convoys and even set themselves up near relief facilities in order for the government to attack them and kill civilians if you look at how the famine in the horn of Africa affected the entire region, Kenya ,Sudan ,and Somalia that killed hundreds of thousands of people, but because Ethiopia wasn’t an ally of the United States, their famine was seen as a byproduct of their government
@@gabrielbrilhante8812Ukraine is the 1 fighting & defeating the Russian warlord. The world has clearly learned from Geldof’s mistake b/c now, no one is allowed to help Russia thanks to the strongest sanctions in human history - now even Chinese banks refuse to process Russian payments for fear of those sanctions
It cost the USSR financially with the heavy support to Cuba, Angola, Ethiopia etc, I often wonder if that drove the USSR into collapse.
want more footage of the events, if available
Can you do an episode on the history of the East West Dichotomy, and how that played into Cold War stereotypes in both the US and the U.S.S.R.? Thanks!!
I remember watching Live Aid & my wife attended it at Wembley.
How do you keep your people happy? Freedoms? Better quality of life? Not dragging people away in the middle of the night because they said you looked a little funny?
East Germany: COFFEE! FREE COFFEE FOR ALL!
If I remember well, the WHO director during the covid pandemic, the one who lied about the numbers, was the former health minister of the DERG regime, and had a responsibility in the humanitarian crisis by blocking foreign aid
No, you got it wrong. He was the health minister of the government that came after the Derg. He was fighting with the rebels when the Derg was in power.
An episode on India post-independence 1947 in three-parts: 1947-1964, 1964-1966, 1966-1977 including the 1967 Sino-Indian Border War seen by India as revenge of the 1962 Sino-Indian War
Do a video on Selassie,, OAU and NAM
Invaded by the British in 1940?
The British were too tied up with the battle of Britain to get involved in Abyssinia.
From what I read, it was the South Africans that struck the Italians from Kenya soon after Italy declared war on Britain.
I read the South African Air Force was the only air force that opposed the Italians, their first strike was on an Italian airbase operating from Kenya. They say the Italians were not expecting any attack from the south, were expecting an attack from the north as there was RAF presence in Egypt.
thanks so much, there was hardly any visual document available on Socialist Ethiophia before
This time Ethiopia regime is weak and destabilized by on going civil wars in Ethiopia. Perhaps Ethiopia will ended up with the same result as Former Yugoslavia..!!
Yugoslavia of Africa is happening now.
Will do a video on Operation Damocles? The Israeli covert operation against Nazi scientists in Egypt? Thanks!!
How about a video on the Congo region and its role in The Cold War? We already know about the DR Congo, but what about the People’s Republic of the Congo next door?
A third of Eritrea's army was made of woman. Socialism bring people together. I love to see it.
Socialism is garbage look at Eritrea today and compare it to ethiopia or even the somali regions
Hope can make about untold war Ogaden War....
Is there a war in ogaden?
One of the most memorable elements of the Ethiopian Civil War is the famine that caused up to 1.2 million deaths, and the apparent indifference the global community had, with promises being made to never let a catastrophe of that magnitude happen again.
Two months ago, the UN estimated that up to 2 million people in Sudan would die from starvation if no action were taken to stop it. The global community collectively shrugged, with all the media attention focused on Gaza and Ukraine. I wonder how long it will be until we get more promises of "never again"?
Its not the worlds ( meaning Europes of course) job to feed Africans.
Tigray famine recently killed 500k people and no one talks about it
@@ShubhamMishrabrono that's not true. The tigray famine didn't kill that much people. I'm sure it didn't even kill 100k people. But a lot of people died because of the war. Being the causality.
Because Ukraine and Gaza are the battlefields of new Cold War between the West and the new Fascist Axis of Iran, Russia and China
Do the first and second oil crisis, the yom kippur war and the Iranian revolution
Great documentary however the music is loud repetitive and distracting
The fact is the so-called "civil war" in Ethiopia was one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating war during the cold war era. In this war, Eritreans, with a tiny population of about three million people fought against an illegal occupation of their country by Ethiopia, wth more than ten times the population of Eritrea at that time. A bitter war of attriition in ww1 like trenchs was fought mostly in the rugged mountains of Sahel province in Eritrea which ended with the victory of Eritreans who drove out the occupying Ethiopian army on May 24 1991.
A clown like you is not fit to tell history. The Derg was just a dictatorship that took power by force, and its actions cannot be described as representing Ethiopians. For your information, it was not just Eritreans but all Ethiopians who fought against that dictator. Population size doesn’t matter, as this wasn’t a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Eritrean refugee spotted
Was it intentional to not mention Djibouti French colony? Djibouti was supposed to be returned to Ethiopia in 1999 (per French Ethiopia treaty in the 19th century). Because of the Cold War computation Djibouti was made independent. The westerners don’t like to mention this fact. I wonder why?
Try the Philippines even today we are still struggling with a communist insurgency
Mad to think people might not know what Band Aid/Do They know it's Christmas? It's so ubiquitous here
It would be really cool if you guys did a video on South Yemen, the only communist country in the Middle East
Music takes away from an otherwise good episode. A year ago episodes had better and less distracting music
Its fascinating how Kenya being a neighbor to Somalia,Ethiopia survived all of this cold war shenanigans.
Kenya is stable and culturally not in that 'zone' so affairs don't cross over often.
East Africa generally is stable cause of food and water availability and the bantu dominance seen as more manageable people of Africa
Ethiopia is a nation in paralysis, propped up by international aid since its inception, incapable of standing on its own and perpetually dependent on others. Today, it faces profound challenges, lashing out with hostility toward both its neighbors and its own people. Relations with Kenya, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia are riddled with conflict. Accused of heinous crimes against humanity, Ethiopia, once rescued by the Soviet Union and Cuba in 1977, and later by the U.S. and its allies, now stands on the brink, in desperate need of salvation once more.
Eritrean spotted 😂😂😂
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barya spotted
Too biased to be true. We have always been in civil war bc of our greedy neighbours, who create rebel groups and supply them with arms, ammunitions and tanks. Its true that we had bad governments before who failed to unify the nation, and its effects could be seen till this day. Thankfully the arabs are no longer against us and we have good relations with kenya, sudan, south sudan and half of whats recognised as somalia. The only threats we have today is Egypt as always, Eritrea which is still a puppet of Egypt, and half of somalia (the parts that are controlled by the somalian government). We are able to maintain good relations with Israel without affecting our relations with the arab world. Although we are still in civil wars its looking good for us at the moment for the first time😊
Ethiopia is among the most ancient nations in the world, and one of the few countries in Africa not invented by Europeans drawing random lines on a map
4 minutes ago is sensual
Do the Nigeria-Biafran war aka the Nigerian Civil War 1967 -1970
They shouldn't abeg. Did you watch this video? It was a video about an African civil war, and the Africans turned out to be side characters, focusing on the international scene instead of what happened locally.
That's what they'll make the Nigerian civil war to be.
Just like John St Jorre's book on the civil war.
This is what happens when you let other people tell your story.
Can there be a vide someday about communist Afghanistan? Unless you already made one^^'
Or a video about Albania becoming independent from the USSR, bonding with China and then tear up "friendship" too, Hoxha's death and the transition of Albania from communist to its current status
They will never do a video about communist Afghanistan, saying the USA was on the side of the Taliban puts them in awkward position
@@gabrielbrilhante8812 The US in awkward position?
The Trail of Tears
The conquest of Hawaii
The Jim Crowe laws
The U2 spy plane incident
The Nixon/Watergate scandal
The severe abusement of Iraqi prisoners
The far-right conspiracy theories around 9/11
Trump's entire political existence
Jan 6th
When has the US never been in an awkward or humiliating position?
All those events have been talked about by US historians, authors and university professors. And they told it like it was/is. Because they had to. Not because they liked to admit the US or themselves were in an awkward position. They told the truth, even if some disagree with it or don't like talking about it
So unless you represent or a member of the Cold War channel, I am making a suggestion that might eventually be observed and talked about from a neutral point of view
If you are not a member nor a representative of the Cold War TH-cam channel, then take your pride elsewhere
Bro this is a myth.
Talibans only start existing in 1992 and this is after Mujahadeens come to power. USA help Mujahadeens who's are not only Islamic extremists but hundred of Factions some who's created famous groups like Al-Quida and Talibans after fall of commie Afghanistan
@@gabrielbrilhante8812 Historians must be neutral. So unless you are a member of the Cold War channel, you don't speak for them
@@Barricade379 My point is that they aren't neutral at all.
Ogaden National Liberation front still stands ❤
Haha, they lost and they will never get independence. The green, yellow and re flag shall stand tall in Jijiaga
@@joninator7858 thats funny you will see
@@abdijama1430 There is nothing to see. Somalis like you live in the west, but pretend to be war veterans that are going to "liberate" your region. you won't to anything and Somalia will continue to fail
@@abdijama1430 haha another Somali keyboard warrior that is telling me to “wait and see” because he knows that there is nothing he can say that will make Somali region independence believable.
@@joninator7858 Ethiopia will collapse whether u like it or not and your people today are been killed by abiys government 🤡
Great episode. Terrible background music.
I love the tangent into Germans' addiction to coffee xD
Operation Urgent Fury (1983)
No coffee. Now that is a crisis
Geldof is pronounced geld-off. Not gel-dorph
Hailr Selassie was like Batista of Cuba.
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Didn't "We are the world" worsen the famine?
Live-Aid famously left out the nature of the famine's origins or any mentions of the Derg
well derg was the reason the new leo libral reinterpretation of history the cause .....
Italy never had anything more than superficial control of some regions of Ethiopia. They could never gain complete control like every other African country fell under.
Even the Chinese realized their mistake long ago and now also invest heavily in Ethiopia as the land of promise we were destined to be
Maybe it was for a good cause, but “Do They Know it’s Christmastime” is the most annoying Christmas song ever…
They give them more guns than food
Î could use a breakdown of the different forms of socialism;
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How did this video not even mention Menelik II, who unified and created modern Ethiopia. He died in 1913 all he had to do is mention in 4 sentences how the Ethiopian state Selassie inherited was formed.
probably because he had nothing to do with the revolution which occurred a century after his rule💀
Ah yes, the famous Cold War figure of Menelik II who fought during the Ethiopian Civil War in the 20th Century.
Maybe you should read what the title of the video is and the name of the channel that posted this video before saying something this stupid.
@@Cheekia2 He died in 1913 all he had to do is mention in 2 sentences how the Ethiopian state Selassie inherited was formed.
Bwomp
How many East Africans in Canada now.
ABIY Ahmed is destroying Ethiopia by using DERG system
Central America when?
The Derg need to be tracked down and punished.
Communist Somalia will be very interesting video.
Third!
You said it all right and interesting but hamid idris awate was never on a command
It was Occupation not Colonization
Ethiopia is a failing state rapidly rushing toward disintegration.
Whether violently or through a carefully managed breakaway, the disintegration of Ethiopia appears to be inevitable.
Found the Eritrean
We used to live better during the soviet now we're fucking suffering
First of all don’t call Ethiopia Abyssinia.such naming s a narrative to deny the oldest history of Ethiopia .After all Ethiopia signed the League of Nations as Ethiopia not as Abyssinia.
Ancient Ethiopia was Sudan, not Abyssinia.
Actually it did sign as Abyssinia, then later changed to Ethiopia.
Some Feedback about the First 10 Minutes of this Video: you repeatedly jump back and forth between the 1890s, the 1920s and 1960s. This was very confusing to follow, i would have much preferred a chronological telling of events
What a sad, bloody, mess.
The war in Tigray in 2020-2022 was not very much well explained in this episode.
Why you don’t add the history Ethiopia invented 2007 killed 50.000 Somalia and 800.000 failed kenya
Because its 1974 to 1991
Bob Geldorf?