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Bro seems like u dont even know the news, there are letters leaked out of the vatican secret chambers with proof that german nazis and communism ist jkust a product of freemansonry and those freemansons are just puppets of a religious sect called CHABAD LUBAVITSCH. google picitures like "Chabadlubavitsch + Putin" or other big names. They brag about it that all big presidents are "CHABADNIKS". another proof is that JoE Rogan invited ALEXANDER DUGIN into his show, which is more then UNUSUAL to do so.
USSR offered Poland a military alliance against Germany, but it instead tried to do the opposite - ally itself with Germany against USSR. Except poles, in their infinite wisdom, decided they were the top dog of the forming alliance and tried to boss Germany around by leveraging it's control over Danzig. Hitler wasn't impressed.
@@kindlingking Offc!111 Ussr just tried allying with poland by singing a Molotov pact! And no! ussr didnt want to take anything from Poland! its Poland attacked USSR and Germany ! because they are evil! Russian TV says so!
"This is not peace, this is merely an armistice for 20 years." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, signing the treaty of Versailles 1919. Germany: *declares war on Poland in September 1939* Me: He was so right.
"We shall have to fight another war again in 25 years time, and at three times the cost" -David Lloyd George, Prime minister of Britian, speaking of Versailles.
@@jacobhamblin4255 While most historians agree that ww2 might not have happened if the treaty was more lenient due to it creating the political climate where hitler took power. if versailles was harsher and enforced it couldn't have happened either. There were multiple points where the germans were nowhere near prepared, that if the brits and french got off their asses would have very much put a stop to hitlers ambitions.
If you watch a video on blücher sinking it’s even more embarrassing as the captain could have fired on position but said it was dated and obsolete and is key cause on why the Germans failed to win in a day by capturing the king and government as the troops had to land well before Oslo hell watch the king’s choice on prime it deals with Norway situation
@@8-bitstream379 Idk, feels different when one sides just being a push over appeaser and the Soviets signed pacts with them, designed tanks with them oh and who could forget INVADING a sovereign country with them. Just sayin lmao?
It‘s truly astonishing how much luck the Nazis had. They were incompetent, their plans and goals were obviously crazy, and on paper the deck was stacked against them from the moment Hitler first got into politics. That they even managed to make it to 1945 is quite a miracle.
I mean the Soviets had to be idiots, France had to do exactly what Germany planned for, practically anything else and the war with France would have been a failure, Britain and France were still weak, didn’t help Poland at all, France after the encirclement got heavy defeatism and soon surrendered, and then Soviets were idiots again.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 also the Head of German Intelligence was a resistance member and literally handed over German war plans to the Allies both for the invasion of Poland and later France, but they didn't believe him. Then there is the issue of Hitler surviving countless attempts on his life that could have led to an early end of the war.
@@Barwasser TBH his early death would mean that Nazi German would still exist today. Ironically things go exactly the way for world to end better place.
@@kylezdancewicz7346how were soviets idiots? USSR at that time was pretty much in political isolation thanks to british efforts, all soviet attempts to intervene against Hitler and create a collective security in Europe were sabotaged by Entente, who thought they could use nazis to fight communism. In the end the Soviet-German agreement was supposed to postpone the coming war for another couple of year giving the Red Army time to finish it's reorganization and re-equipment. But Hitler bit the bullet and decided to go against common sense of not fighting a two-front war and caught everyone off guard once again.
yeah, declaring war on literally the ENTIRE WORLD wasn't gonna work without a pinch of luck :D Luckily (as a German), it ran out eventually (to any Americans in the comments: make sure you don't vote for your own Adoplh at home, learn from the others)
Well, no, France's army was still very incapable, as was Britain's. The Allied push into the Rhine would just allow the Soviets to nab more stuff and the Germans to have to prioritize beating the shit out of France. I doubt the Vichy government would be formed in such a TL. Italy might also be pressured into entering the war against France.
What? how? we had nowhere near the military power that capable of taken on Germany in 1941. At start of the war UK didn't have a sub machine gun. They were using rifles from ww1. The UK was in a massive mess after ww1.
The war would have been over in 1944, Japan still here. And it could have been over quicker if the Soviets didn’t let the Germans walk over Europe and let them prepare for, idk, one of their main goals of the war.
3:09 as a Lithuanian, I can tell that’s not our flag at the time: someone flipped the green and the yellow colours (Yellow at the top, green in the middle and red at the bottom is the correct one)
He’s just using the general flag of whichever country is mentioned. You can see that Canada also has the incorrect flag for the time, as in ww2 they used the red ensign
@@MaximGionet The “general flag” of Lithuania is still the yellow top, green middle, and red bottom flag mentioned by xenamorphwinner7931. Since 1918, Lithuania used the yellow, green, and red flag, at least when they weren’t under N*zi and Soviet rule. The only thing that changed from 1918 to the modern day is the ratio of the flag, being 2:3 from 1918-1940, 1:2 from 1988-2004, and then 3:5 from 2004 to present.
Whats crazy is that in Russia to this day, they don't consider the combined Nazi and Soviet attack on Poland the start of WWII. In fact, they start counting not in 1939 (when they attacked), but in 1941, when operation Barbarossa started and don't call it WWII, but the Great Fatherland War or something similarly self centered. They try to erase not just Ukrainian, but also Polish history from the books. Don't let them do it
WW2 and the Great Patriotic war are simply different terms with the latter being applied to the Eastern Front. What's more is Ukrainians also used the term.
@@iskanderrg thats 100% true, my point was more that in Russia (I don't know about Ukraine), they dont consider themselves part of WWII until the Great Patriotic War starts. Which ignores their involvement in the invasion of Poland
I respect Ismet Pasha because of this. Guy hold up as neutral while being completely surrounded by fighting parties for almost the entire conflict and hold up the turkish straits and chromium mines during this time.
Tankies get big mad when you point out that WW2 could have been averted if not for the red brown alliance. And yes, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was an alliance to divide eastern europe between the two empires.
What the actual fuck are you on about. Czechoslovakia was divided by Germany Hungary and Poland before molotov-ribbentrop was signed and from the documents recovered after nazi defeat was that they always wanted to invade Poland and USSR
Actually true tankies will simply refuse to believe you saying there was no such arrangement and then probably transition into Poland recapturing like 3 towns from Czechoslovakia during that invasion and refusing to let the Soviets move a hostile army through Poland.
Liberals get mad when they realize the United Kingdom had the option of an alliance with the Soviet Union during the sudeten crisis, but chose to give czechoslovakia away instead.
@@Nordbon1523 I mean, you don't have a national anthem that's basically titled 'We're not quite dead yet!' unless you've come pretty close a few times.
I can't believe how tankies have 4D chess mindgamed themselves into believing that the USSR was somehow against the Nazis "from the beginning". Stalin had several opportunities to deny or delay the Germans from achieving their strategic goals (even accounting for realpolitik), not pressuring the Allies to negotiate peace, not proving port to that tanker for Norway's invasion, not providing raw material, not providing tank and aircraft experts, etcetera.
well, its easy to put all the blame on soviets even though everyone had a similar share in this problem. Soviets were in part against the Nazis, just look at what was happening when Germany cleansed the Socialists in Germany. Soviets signed an alliance pact with France (1935) that was undermined by the west, Poland didn't let Soviets get into Czechslovakia. Also, Soviets didn't have good trading partners and they were isolated from the world and were in need of money which was a factor into trading more with Germany which had a similar faith. They were partners by circumstances and not cause they liked each other. Stalin also probably had a grudge for the allied intervention during the civil war. So, in conclusion they were in some degree against the Germans before the war. Stalin, on the other hand, could have been more aggressive against Germany, but decided to be opportunistic due to various reasons.
Yeah, you got tankies like Hakim who try to justify it by saying, “but Stalin had to do it to create a buffer state and by time for Soviet rearmament” or whatever bs he spews.
@ryanelliott71698 that's not what hakim said in his "There was no Hitler-Stalin pact" video. Also what is your definition of a tankie by the way? Is it someone who defends the soviet union at all?
@@8-bitstream379the soviets didn’t intervene because Wałęsa negotiated a Russian withdrawal with Boris Yeltsin. And eternal peace be to Gorbachev for letting the western holding of the Soviet Empire go.
@prfwrx2497 he was widely loathed pretty soon after the collapse of the ussr. When standards of living tanked post collapse. And most of the population hasn't recovered.
I knew the Soviets and Germans had a weird relationship prior to Barbarossa, but I definitely didn't expect/know the Soviets were this involved in helping the Germans.
@@hi-tech_soldier2558 I knew that much, but trying to force Turkey into an alliance with the Axis, alongside offering Germany an naval port in Murmansk/allowing them to use said port to assist in a naval invasion is crazy to me.
@@crusaderkaiser2000 yh that was new to me, but I expected something bigger. During interwar period Germany and USSR were helping to rebuild each other due to their isolation from the rest of the world caused by the west. For example, Germany was testing its first tanks in Soviet Union (Leichttraktor) before Hitler came to power. Germany was also the main economic partner after the civil war before Hitler. In case of the port and the Turkey, I assume Stalin wanted their opponents to get weaker by helping in some ways Hitler since for Stalin didn't really like the allies after their intervention into the Civil War and their hostile stance against communism. But, at the same time, In exchange Hitler agreed to give USSR the machinery to industrialize since they were still lagging behind.
@@hi-tech_soldier2558 Also NSDAP was called National SOCIALISTS for a reason. Hitler start as connected to International Movement and was even on Marks funereal. Soviets did see him as "his man" though he become suspicious over time and start drifting more in Nationalism side. Same as Soviets during Stalin. It is hilarious that many people still not realize that Communism and Fascism always were two sides of the same coin, just targeting different kind of naive audience for exact same reason and by same people. The only difference now is that now Russia is the Apprentice and China is the Master.
The sinking of the Blücher is actually quite a cool story, the commander at the fort should have fired a warning shot first (another ship had already done so, but he didn't know that). However, he decided that whoever was sailing a warship into the Oslo Fjord was there to invade Norway, and he wouldn't risk giving them time to respond, so he ordered accurate fire onto the ship. I've also heard that the people at the fort didn't know whether they were firing at a British or a German ship until they heard the panicked shouting coming from the ship as it got lit up.
Their here doing the standard “oh, but they weren’t as bad” and “they needed time to rearm” and pretending that they did literally nothing wrong. And then when you point out that they could have not invaded Poland or the Baltic states, they go “but if they don’t then it would’ve been worse!” And then ignore the various Soviet atrocities and the facts they forced the states into the union. Tankies will do anything to justify their imperialism and much like the soviets themselves are master gymnasts of the mental variety
The last time we had a "multi polar world with spheres of influence" it ended in two world wars and a long cold war during which many died as a result of the clashing ideologies.
Unipolar order is also unfortunately very dangerous if it is ruled from one center. It's called the New World Order. It is especially against the Bible (see Revelation of John) and traditionalism.
@@funtecstudiovideos4102 "sending" implies it was free, it really wasnt. USSR had to establish a non aggresion pact with Germany because the western powers always shut down the USSR's offers of an aliance in order to stop Hitler.
@@wyvernah Fun fact: in 1939 Poland had non aggression pacts signed with both Nazi Germany AND Soviet Union at the same time. And they both betrayed Poland by breaking it in September
@@wyvernah”the western allies didn’t want to work with me so I was forced to invade Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, and steal Bessarabia from Romania”
It wouldn't last mainly because Hitler for many reasons wouldn't allow the peace between the two to last. His goal from the very beginning was to conquer Russia.
It was only an alliance for ten years, entirely a charade by Ribbentrop, who knew his nation intended to genocide Moscow before then. It is heavily fought over whether or not the Soviets intended to break it early. I personally think they did, as the intense (but ineffecient) military buildup showed. If the Germans had not done it, the Soviets likely would have. They really didn't like eachother.
@@EricDillinghamboth parties knew the war was inevitable. Its just that ussr estimated they wouldnt be ready for a war until 1942-43. But what happened happened
A tear comes to my eye every time i hear "Poland is not yet lost", i just hear again and again that last radio announcement before the german capture of warsaw. The... desperation, fuck iam crying gain, wtf is wrong with me
That's a really bad quote. Mainly because most national interests have some sort of value. Maybe what you mean is "there are no morals in geopolitics, only interests"?
@@schudan3617 giving out China to Japan wasn't as bad you say? Are you aware of all atrocities commited by japs in China? That's also a second time (you can sorta count Poland as the third time too) Britain sold out a country to a genocidal imperialist maniac to achieve their shortsighted political goals, yet USSR is the "literally hitler" one here?
Zoomer Historian after seeing this: “Aktually, the Germans totally accidentally navigated into Poland, and the Allies were actually super evil and wanted the war, trust me bro.”
@@jamiemcintosh3030its way easier to just believe cold war propaganda pushed down your throat when you were a child, instead of actualy learning and discovering the truth
Pretty sure tankies are a mostly western phenomena. Same goes for actual socialists. Nobody who experienced living in a communist shithole wants to relive that.
@@jamiemcintosh3030so of course the next logical step was to form a military alliance with the nazis after that venture failed. Truth is that the Soviets knew that there was a war coming and tried to align themselves with either one side or the other. The allies didn’t want them since they knew that the Soviets would require heavy support to actually fight (which ended up being correct later on) and the nazis weren’t as picky.
@@jamiemcintosh3030May I invite you to look up why nobody agreed on it? (Soviets basically demanded half of Europe to be their sphare of influence straight-up) BTW The treaty of Riga you mention saw Russia agree on border and independence of all these states they conquered
Great video. Only discrepancy I noticed was Operation Wilfrid being ignored, and the other violations of Norwegian neutrality by the Royal Navy that encouraged the funny mustache man to go the northern route.
The losses were pretty bad on both sides (The Brits actually lost an aircraft carrier to the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) but of course, Germmany could not afford it. The Battle of Norway is quite the interesting event in WWII and people should discuss it more.
Yes, and more. German leadership had no intention of following it, it was just to hold off the Soviet threat until the Germans were ready. Fear of a two-front war was very, very big in Germany at the time. When Britain didn't surrender, plans for Barbarossa ironically had to be sped up.
Germans: Weserübung Ezekiel: Weserban Reminder that W is pronounced as a V in german, so Weserübung is pronounced "Veh-Zeh-Ru-Bum", with the stress in the Ru Ps. Stress on the "Weh" actually
Because author like to repeat Russian propaganda from time to time, due to sources he use. Most of his stuff is usually fine, but you need take this into account.
Hello Ezekiel. I dont have any membership or annything. But I would still like to ask if you would consider making a video about hypotetical "Munich War" between Czechoslovakia and the Reich. It is a tricky topic with many if's but I just wanted to ask.
Постой братишка, побудь со мной. Отдохни. Отдохни от Кремль ботов и комуняк. Они живут в своём закрытом мире, далёком от реальности, их уже не переубедишь. Ты ведь не телевизор. Не трать на них своё время.
Did the Soviets help the Nazis early so that they could conquer Eastern Europe as heroic liberators, rather than as spreaders of revolution? All their legitimacy thereafter stemmed from slaying this monster that they had fed to begin with.
There are historical issues with the video. Especially about 1939 and allied approach to Poland. Late mobilisation wasn't only polish idea but it was mostly enforced on us by UK to not provoke Germany. We did organise one mobilisation, it had to be cancelled after british pressures and just before the war we announced another mobilisation but soldiers nor weapon didn't have time to arrive on its positions. French did attack saarland and did stop before Zigfrid line. If they pushed further they would meet heavy defensive possitions, iirc TWO armies and luftflotte. The french thesmelf also attacked before they fully mobilised and before they finished army reform. Poladn was suppose to hold for 3 weeks to give french time for mobilisation, but Wehrmacht was already at gates of Warsaw after a week. Both British and French DID NOT gave up on Poland and went along "we will restore you after the war" line. French started sending supplies to Poland quickly but it didnt arrive on time, britishquickly abonded idea of dropping leaflets and switched to bombs. How they seid "their first line of defence was on Rhine" Germany wasn't planing to conquer Norway right away, nor they didn't plan to conquer Sweden. They had quite fruitful cooperation WITH Swedes and Narvik in Norway was best prot to shit iron ore to Germany. Turkey didn't sign any alliance with west until 1945. Their position made them dangerous to both allies, axis and soviets and everyone was trying to get on the good terms with them. Romania GAVE UP besarabia to soviets.
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Bro seems like u dont even know the news, there are letters leaked out of the vatican secret chambers with proof that german nazis and communism ist jkust a product of freemansonry and those freemansons are just puppets of a religious sect called CHABAD LUBAVITSCH. google picitures like "Chabadlubavitsch + Putin" or other big names.
They brag about it that all big presidents are "CHABADNIKS". another proof is that JoE Rogan invited ALEXANDER DUGIN into his show, which is more then UNUSUAL to do so.
3:12 is this just a state of Lithuania or the flag is wrong?
firstly, I am already subscribed, secondly, you missed, thirdly, you owe me a new fridge.
Nazi’s to the left of me,
Soviets to the right,
Here I am,
Stuck in Poland with you
Have a like good sir
Have another like dear fellow.
USSR offered Poland a military alliance against Germany, but it instead tried to do the opposite - ally itself with Germany against USSR. Except poles, in their infinite wisdom, decided they were the top dog of the forming alliance and tried to boss Germany around by leveraging it's control over Danzig. Hitler wasn't impressed.
@@kindlingking Offc!111 Ussr just tried allying with poland by singing a Molotov pact! And no! ussr didnt want to take anything from Poland! its Poland attacked USSR and Germany ! because they are evil! Russian TV says so!
Have yet another my good chap.
"This is not peace, this is merely an armistice for 20 years."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, signing the treaty of Versailles 1919.
Germany: *declares war on Poland in September 1939*
Me: He was so right.
"We shall have to fight another war again in 25 years time, and at three times the cost"
-David Lloyd George, Prime minister of Britian, speaking of Versailles.
Thanks mindless and unscrupulous pacifism.
@@mp40submachinegun81 *Insert Primo Victoria*
The irony is that he wanted the treaty to be harsher
@@jacobhamblin4255 While most historians agree that ww2 might not have happened if the treaty was more lenient due to it creating the political climate where hitler took power. if versailles was harsher and enforced it couldn't have happened either. There were multiple points where the germans were nowhere near prepared, that if the brits and french got off their asses would have very much put a stop to hitlers ambitions.
Did you know the blue in Polands flag represents reliable allies?
Funny because, well just look at it
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Yes I have realized
Poor Poland
That's why they made the NATO flag all blue then... 🤔
Finally hoi4 lore video
On skibidy
“Brazil declares war on France”
@The_whales
Chili declare themselves as the rightful owner of the french Throne
finland has called peru into the yunan turkish war
Mmmmm Lobster
Polish command: All units need to evacuate from Poland
Major Hubal: the fuck we will
I'm sorry you didn't get enough recognition for this. This made me laugh my ass off 😂😂
@@micahjoo9879 this is the most recognition i ve ever got, im happy with it, and im happy to make you laugh
Being sunk by Austrian-Hungarian bombs in 1940 is crazy
If you watch a video on blücher sinking it’s even more embarrassing as the captain could have fired on position but said it was dated and obsolete and is key cause on why the Germans failed to win in a day by capturing the king and government as the troops had to land well before Oslo hell watch the king’s choice on prime it deals with Norway situation
"Oh, you were expecting us to be mechanized? Yeah..sorry, we just have horses and meth"
The Finns only had skis and meth...
@@colbunkmustand a bunch of captured shit
Little jealous ngl
@@colbunkmust probably why they were hanging out so much
So you're just methanized? Must have been a typo confusion.
Ah yes the greatest ally of Germany until 1941
The uk and france were germanys greatest ally until 1939 lmao?
@@8-bitstream379 Idk, feels different when one sides just being a push over appeaser and the Soviets signed pacts with them, designed tanks with them oh and who could forget INVADING a sovereign country with them.
Just sayin lmao?
@@8-bitstream379 Who did they invade together?
@@8-bitstream379 I mean, appeasement sure as hell made them seem like germany's greatest allies
@@susangoaway Munich Pact 1938
It‘s truly astonishing how much luck the Nazis had. They were incompetent, their plans and goals were obviously crazy, and on paper the deck was stacked against them from the moment Hitler first got into politics. That they even managed to make it to 1945 is quite a miracle.
I mean the Soviets had to be idiots, France had to do exactly what Germany planned for, practically anything else and the war with France would have been a failure, Britain and France were still weak, didn’t help Poland at all, France after the encirclement got heavy defeatism and soon surrendered, and then Soviets were idiots again.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 also the Head of German Intelligence was a resistance member and literally handed over German war plans to the Allies both for the invasion of Poland and later France, but they didn't believe him.
Then there is the issue of Hitler surviving countless attempts on his life that could have led to an early end of the war.
@@Barwasser TBH his early death would mean that Nazi German would still exist today.
Ironically things go exactly the way for world to end better place.
@@kylezdancewicz7346how were soviets idiots? USSR at that time was pretty much in political isolation thanks to british efforts, all soviet attempts to intervene against Hitler and create a collective security in Europe were sabotaged by Entente, who thought they could use nazis to fight communism. In the end the Soviet-German agreement was supposed to postpone the coming war for another couple of year giving the Red Army time to finish it's reorganization and re-equipment. But Hitler bit the bullet and decided to go against common sense of not fighting a two-front war and caught everyone off guard once again.
yeah, declaring war on literally the ENTIRE WORLD wasn't gonna work without a pinch of luck :D Luckily (as a German), it ran out eventually (to any Americans in the comments: make sure you don't vote for your own Adoplh at home, learn from the others)
It's still mind boggling how the war could have been over by 1941, had France and Britain just.... walked forward.
Well, no, France's army was still very incapable, as was Britain's. The Allied push into the Rhine would just allow the Soviets to nab more stuff and the Germans to have to prioritize beating the shit out of France. I doubt the Vichy government would be formed in such a TL. Italy might also be pressured into entering the war against France.
What? how? we had nowhere near the military power that capable of taken on Germany in 1941. At start of the war UK didn't have a sub machine gun. They were using rifles from ww1. The UK was in a massive mess after ww1.
The war would have been over in 1944, Japan still here.
And it could have been over quicker if the Soviets didn’t let the Germans walk over Europe and let them prepare for, idk, one of their main goals of the war.
@EricDillingham the french could possible have done a larger Rhine offensive but I don't think it would have won the war.
@@kylezdancewicz7346 The Soviets needed the time much more than the reich did.
3:09 as a Lithuanian, I can tell that’s not our flag at the time: someone flipped the green and the yellow colours (Yellow at the top, green in the middle and red at the bottom is the correct one)
He’s just using the general flag of whichever country is mentioned. You can see that Canada also has the incorrect flag for the time, as in ww2 they used the red ensign
@@MaximGionet makes sense
@@MaximGionet The “general flag” of Lithuania is still the yellow top, green middle, and red bottom flag mentioned by xenamorphwinner7931. Since 1918, Lithuania used the yellow, green, and red flag, at least when they weren’t under N*zi and Soviet rule. The only thing that changed from 1918 to the modern day is the ratio of the flag, being 2:3 from 1918-1940, 1:2 from 1988-2004, and then 3:5 from 2004 to present.
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Ah yes, Ethiopia
Whats crazy is that in Russia to this day, they don't consider the combined Nazi and Soviet attack on Poland the start of WWII. In fact, they start counting not in 1939 (when they attacked), but in 1941, when operation Barbarossa started and don't call it WWII, but the Great Fatherland War or something similarly self centered. They try to erase not just Ukrainian, but also Polish history from the books. Don't let them do it
The Great Patriotic War
Great blunder, that was offset by allied lendlease, that was also erased from history there
WW2 and the Great Patriotic war are simply different terms with the latter being applied to the Eastern Front. What's more is Ukrainians also used the term.
@@iskanderrg Its a pathetic bot trying to rewrite history because russia bad. Prolly mad his grandpa was UPA and the NKVD hunted him down like a dog.
@@iskanderrg thats 100% true, my point was more that in Russia (I don't know about Ukraine), they dont consider themselves part of WWII until the Great Patriotic War starts. Which ignores their involvement in the invasion of Poland
I respect Ismet Pasha because of this. Guy hold up as neutral while being completely surrounded by fighting parties for almost the entire conflict and hold up the turkish straits and chromium mines during this time.
Ireland: I have the worst neighbor ever!
Poland: Hold my vodka.
Our vodka
Poland itself isn't a good neighbor either.
There are no good neighbours in europe
@@kindlingking True
The quality of these videos gets better and better! I’m blown away by the production quality! Great job to all those involved
Tankies get big mad when you point out that WW2 could have been averted if not for the red brown alliance.
And yes, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was an alliance to divide eastern europe between the two empires.
What the actual fuck are you on about. Czechoslovakia was divided by Germany Hungary and Poland before molotov-ribbentrop was signed and from the documents recovered after nazi defeat was that they always wanted to invade Poland and USSR
Germany always wanted war with soviets, they wanted the lebensraum. One thing to hate tankies, the other to be the opposite side of the same coin.
Actually true tankies will simply refuse to believe you saying there was no such arrangement and then probably transition into Poland recapturing like 3 towns from Czechoslovakia during that invasion and refusing to let the Soviets move a hostile army through Poland.
@@hi-tech_soldier2558 the liberal disregard for historical accuracy always boggles the mind
Liberals get mad when they realize the United Kingdom had the option of an alliance with the Soviet Union during the sudeten crisis, but chose to give czechoslovakia away instead.
That intro WAS FANTASTIC
And thus begins the story of why Poland in 2024 hovers its finger over article 5
As a Pole, let me tell you that this goes way farther back than WWII.
@@Nordbon1523 I mean, you don't have a national anthem that's basically titled 'We're not quite dead yet!' unless you've come pretty close a few times.
So nato sucks?
@@Nordbon1523goes back to 1795??
@@traceytraced even farther than that.
Very fascinating, I never heard of Operation Wäserbong
I can't believe how tankies have 4D chess mindgamed themselves into believing that the USSR was somehow against the Nazis "from the beginning".
Stalin had several opportunities to deny or delay the Germans from achieving their strategic goals (even accounting for realpolitik), not pressuring the Allies to negotiate peace, not proving port to that tanker for Norway's invasion, not providing raw material, not providing tank and aircraft experts, etcetera.
well, its easy to put all the blame on soviets even though everyone had a similar share in this problem. Soviets were in part against the Nazis, just look at what was happening when Germany cleansed the Socialists in Germany. Soviets signed an alliance pact with France (1935) that was undermined by the west, Poland didn't let Soviets get into Czechslovakia. Also, Soviets didn't have good trading partners and they were isolated from the world and were in need of money which was a factor into trading more with Germany which had a similar faith. They were partners by circumstances and not cause they liked each other. Stalin also probably had a grudge for the allied intervention during the civil war.
So, in conclusion they were in some degree against the Germans before the war. Stalin, on the other hand, could have been more aggressive against Germany, but decided to be opportunistic due to various reasons.
Radicals as rule of thumb are ideological purity zealots incapable/unwilling of self critique.
Yeah, you got tankies like Hakim who try to justify it by saying, “but Stalin had to do it to create a buffer state and by time for Soviet rearmament” or whatever bs he spews.
@@ryanelliott71698well what can you yap against that? Stalin indeed wanted the war to happen later
@ryanelliott71698 that's not what hakim said in his "There was no Hitler-Stalin pact" video. Also what is your definition of a tankie by the way? Is it someone who defends the soviet union at all?
You narrate history beautifully
0:05 why dose he say it so wholesome!?!😂
4:12 Don't worry, I'm subscribed, so the bullet missed me and hit my mom
She should have subbed
Yes 😁
Nobody expected for this war to last for 50 years for Poland.
It lasted 7 years. The Poles were governing themselves. The soviets didn't intervene militarily when Poland declared independence.
@@8-bitstream379the soviets didn’t intervene because Wałęsa negotiated a Russian withdrawal with Boris Yeltsin. And eternal peace be to Gorbachev for letting the western holding of the Soviet Empire go.
@rathisuhh4198 it speak volumes when one realizes that Gorbachev is quite widely loathed within russia these days.
@prfwrx2497 he was widely loathed pretty soon after the collapse of the ussr. When standards of living tanked post collapse. And most of the population hasn't recovered.
I knew the Soviets and Germans had a weird relationship prior to Barbarossa, but I definitely didn't expect/know the Soviets were this involved in helping the Germans.
We all knew about Poland's partition, literally nothing new, that's like the only thing they did together.
@@hi-tech_soldier2558 I knew that much, but trying to force Turkey into an alliance with the Axis, alongside offering Germany an naval port in Murmansk/allowing them to use said port to assist in a naval invasion is crazy to me.
@@crusaderkaiser2000 yh that was new to me, but I expected something bigger. During interwar period Germany and USSR were helping to rebuild each other due to their isolation from the rest of the world caused by the west. For example, Germany was testing its first tanks in Soviet Union (Leichttraktor) before Hitler came to power. Germany was also the main economic partner after the civil war before Hitler.
In case of the port and the Turkey, I assume Stalin wanted their opponents to get weaker by helping in some ways Hitler since for Stalin didn't really like the allies after their intervention into the Civil War and their hostile stance against communism. But, at the same time, In exchange Hitler agreed to give USSR the machinery to industrialize since they were still lagging behind.
@@crusaderkaiser2000 Soviets are directly responsible for starting WW2... and WW1.
@@hi-tech_soldier2558 Also NSDAP was called National SOCIALISTS for a reason. Hitler start as connected to International Movement and was even on Marks funereal. Soviets did see him as "his man" though he become suspicious over time and start drifting more in Nationalism side. Same as Soviets during Stalin.
It is hilarious that many people still not realize that Communism and Fascism always were two sides of the same coin, just targeting different kind of naive audience for exact same reason and by same people. The only difference now is that now Russia is the Apprentice and China is the Master.
I have a lot of knowledge about Nazi occupied Poland, but not Soviet occupied Poland
The fact that America is pretty much related to almost all nations is AMAZING, BUT WILD.
Cause it’s a land filled with Europeans with different accents who just revolted and got independence
@@traceytraced Yep, then Black get forced to come from all of africa, and then asians come over
It’s almost like the richest and most industrialized country in the world is going to be everywhere
Funny part is that I thought of America being almost like this. BOY, DID I HAD THE RIGHT IDEA.
@@CeleenasArtPresents7777 did you just reply to yourself 2 months after your original comment?
3:10 im Lithuania
Meanwhile Ethiopia: 😢😢😢
Before the Dark times Before The Empire...
How did my father die?
"A weapon from a more civilized time."
- Norwegian commander talking about his Austro-Hungarian Torpedos
This is so good, subbed 🎉
Ezekiel ready to throw hands over subs is a greater demonstration of his values than 99% of youtubers.
The quality here is astonishing for a youtuber so small!
I love India running in like "Oh goody a war, WAIT FOR MEEEEE"
The sinking of the Blücher is actually quite a cool story, the commander at the fort should have fired a warning shot first (another ship had already done so, but he didn't know that). However, he decided that whoever was sailing a warship into the Oslo Fjord was there to invade Norway, and he wouldn't risk giving them time to respond, so he ordered accurate fire onto the ship. I've also heard that the people at the fort didn't know whether they were firing at a British or a German ship until they heard the panicked shouting coming from the ship as it got lit up.
Man the tankies are gonna be mad if they learn how to read a history book
Their here doing the standard “oh, but they weren’t as bad” and “they needed time to rearm” and pretending that they did literally nothing wrong.
And then when you point out that they could have not invaded Poland or the Baltic states, they go “but if they don’t then it would’ve been worse!” And then ignore the various Soviet atrocities and the facts they forced the states into the union.
Tankies will do anything to justify their imperialism and much like the soviets themselves are master gymnasts of the mental variety
This is what people who are nostalgic for a "Multipolar World with Spheres of Influences" want again.
They dont realise that shit doesnt taste better when you have two turds to choose from instead of one
More Poles = More Wars
The last time we had a "multi polar world with spheres of influence" it ended in two world wars and a long cold war during which many died as a result of the clashing ideologies.
Unipolar order is also unfortunately very dangerous if it is ruled from one center. It's called the New World Order. It is especially against the Bible (see Revelation of John) and traditionalism.
So this is why Africa should remain a european colony?
Amazing work keep it up!
Not enough time to smoke brisket on account of the rain
Fun fact: Tonga was first country(from my info) to respond on German aggresion of Poland and was able tp buy 2/3 Spitfire planes
Hmmm... it seems Putin 'forgot' about that part at his interview with Tucker. :P
He claimed it to be saving of slavs 😂
While ignoring soviet Union sending rescources such as grain until operation barbarossa for example
What about Munich Agreement? Or that is forgotten to please of ignorance?
@@funtecstudiovideos4102 "sending" implies it was free, it really wasnt. USSR had to establish a non aggresion pact with Germany because the western powers always shut down the USSR's offers of an aliance in order to stop Hitler.
@@wyvernah Fun fact: in 1939 Poland had non aggression pacts signed with both Nazi Germany AND Soviet Union at the same time. And they both betrayed Poland by breaking it in September
@@wyvernah”the western allies didn’t want to work with me so I was forced to invade Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, and steal Bessarabia from Romania”
i hate myself for knowing these damn sound effects by heart
Another banger as always 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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31:22 Quisling was minister of Norway, not Germany. Just an honest mistake I'd say
From what I’ve heard the USSR and Germany both knew the peace wouldn’t last
It wouldn't last mainly because Hitler for many reasons wouldn't allow the peace between the two to last. His goal from the very beginning was to conquer Russia.
It was only an alliance for ten years, entirely a charade by Ribbentrop, who knew his nation intended to genocide Moscow before then. It is heavily fought over whether or not the Soviets intended to break it early. I personally think they did, as the intense (but ineffecient) military buildup showed. If the Germans had not done it, the Soviets likely would have. They really didn't like eachother.
@@EricDillinghamboth parties knew the war was inevitable. Its just that ussr estimated they wouldnt be ready for a war until 1942-43. But what happened happened
@@swatcccp4673 if you would read my message, i said this
9:48 the India one is accurate
A tear comes to my eye every time i hear "Poland is not yet lost", i just hear again and again that last radio announcement before the german capture of warsaw. The... desperation, fuck iam crying gain, wtf is wrong with me
Strongest people on earth.
I love the moment that you point a gun at me to subscribe. It worked
as a Polish person the intro went pretty hard
there are no morals in geopolitics
Only interests
That's a really bad quote.
Mainly because most national interests have some sort of value.
Maybe what you mean is "there are no morals in geopolitics, only interests"?
Yes , sorry , i don't speak english @@n8zog584
And how did that work out for the British and French in 1940 and the Soviets in 1941?
Commies are gonna love this one
The problem is the commies arent actually going to watch this.
That Canada joke was gold
Can you tell me about that
@@basednankingmassacre canada used the new flag, but durring the time of WW2, it had a different flag
that was the joke
22:30 ayo germany and Soviet union spit roasting poland is some subtle but hilariously messed up imagery lol
Funny how Russia nowadays doesn't talk about this, instead they're like "waaaaah we're fighting nazis!!!! 1111!! Yap yap yap"
What is there to talk about? Do brits talk about British-Japanese agreements very often?
@@kindlingking happens. Still, wasn't as bad as when these two clown states allied together
@@schudan3617and funny clowns they were! Israel cant stop loughing to this day, those who didnt die from laughter that is.
@@schudan3617 giving out China to Japan wasn't as bad you say? Are you aware of all atrocities commited by japs in China? That's also a second time (you can sorta count Poland as the third time too) Britain sold out a country to a genocidal imperialist maniac to achieve their shortsighted political goals, yet USSR is the "literally hitler" one here?
@@kindlingkingYou mean things that never happened?
Zoomer Historian after seeing this: “Aktually, the Germans totally accidentally navigated into Poland, and the Allies were actually super evil and wanted the war, trust me bro.”
3:06 Those aren't the Lithuanians, those are the Lethalanians
Also 7:55 Poland litteraly is his own grandfather😅
I can't believe you shoot me with an ad bullet in the middle of the video
In Sweden we helped dannish jews to escape nazis
My grandma father was a soilder guarding our border with Norway
yeah you also let the germans go though your country on they way to norway
@@Kringles12 i know about that and you right it still a controversal thing in history
9:47 "fuck it we ball"
Great Video Ezekiel, as always
26:39 ah yes, the Swedish port of Narvik. not like a big reason for Germany to secure Norway was said port.
I love how conveniently Twitter tankies nowadays forget that they actively aided the nazis in their conquests until they became the target
May I invite you to look up the aborted attempts by the Soviets to form an anti-Nazi alliance before the war and the Treaty of Riga of 1921?
@@jamiemcintosh3030its way easier to just believe cold war propaganda pushed down your throat when you were a child, instead of actualy learning and discovering the truth
Pretty sure tankies are a mostly western phenomena.
Same goes for actual socialists.
Nobody who experienced living in a communist shithole wants to relive that.
@@jamiemcintosh3030so of course the next logical step was to form a military alliance with the nazis after that venture failed.
Truth is that the Soviets knew that there was a war coming and tried to align themselves with either one side or the other. The allies didn’t want them since they knew that the Soviets would require heavy support to actually fight (which ended up being correct later on) and the nazis weren’t as picky.
@@jamiemcintosh3030May I invite you to look up why nobody agreed on it? (Soviets basically demanded half of Europe to be their sphare of influence straight-up)
BTW The treaty of Riga you mention saw Russia agree on border and independence of all these states they conquered
Great video. Only discrepancy I noticed was Operation Wilfrid being ignored, and the other violations of Norwegian neutrality by the Royal Navy that encouraged the funny mustache man to go the northern route.
Great video never knew of the Kreigsmarine's losses in the invasion of Norway.
The losses were pretty bad on both sides (The Brits actually lost an aircraft carrier to the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) but of course, Germmany could not afford it. The Battle of Norway is quite the interesting event in WWII and people should discuss it more.
Based using Cittadini Irresistibile at the Intro. 1:00 honestly one my most favorite Hoi4 OST's from by Blood Alone.
3:16 that is NOT a Lithuanian flag...
...yellow and green are switched
Can you make a history video about the norwegian recistian that stop germany from making nukes?
Great video!!
Your "shame what has to happen now" for subscriptions was perfectly timed to go to an ad.
Wasn't Molotov-Ribentrop a non-agression pact?!
Yes, and more. German leadership had no intention of following it, it was just to hold off the Soviet threat until the Germans were ready. Fear of a two-front war was very, very big in Germany at the time. When Britain didn't surrender, plans for Barbarossa ironically had to be sped up.
Correct, no one wanted to fight Germany alone at the start.
"yo can i see the terms?"
"nuh uh"
👊😡🇬🇧
Some of the terms were actually known to all, what wasn’t known was the 4 let’s partition Europe terms
Yet another wonderful masterpiece made by your channel!
Also, I was the first comment not made by ezekiel
Great work 🔥🔥🔥
Germans: Weserübung
Ezekiel: Weserban
Reminder that W is pronounced as a V in german, so Weserübung is pronounced "Veh-Zeh-Ru-Bum", with the stress in the Ru
Ps. Stress on the "Weh" actually
who cares
@@ukasz-ss2jy *sad German noises
0:46 Long live Poland!
The Norwegian king was the biggest gigachad ever
Good day. Ezekiel upload.
HA Jokes on you Im already Subscribed
32:20 “either I will be decorated or I will be court martialed. Fire!” - birger eriksen at drøbak sound
Watching comments and video in first 24 hours of upload is nicest, you dont see any russian bots
Are these russian bots in the room with us?
@@8-bitstream379 not yet. The first 24h were patreon exclusive and it's only been 13h since going public.
;-)
Because author like to repeat Russian propaganda from time to time, due to sources he use.
Most of his stuff is usually fine, but you need take this into account.
"Everyone I don't like is a bot. Everything I disagree with is propaganda."
@@kindlingking You forgot to say, that we westerners, are gаys, transgenders, also we are colonies of usa. and we are also slaves! of bad capitalism
21:37
*Kaliningrad General moment*
Hello Ezekiel. I dont have any membership or annything. But I would still like to ask if you would consider making a video about hypotetical "Munich War" between Czechoslovakia and the Reich. It is a tricky topic with many if's but I just wanted to ask.
I got shot while going to subscribe 4:29
Germany in 1940: Slavs??? Not in my Europe!
Ussr: WAIT WHA-
Omg 😳, also wish for video about history of mercenaries plus the 2018AD Battle of Khasham 🥺
Постой братишка, побудь со мной. Отдохни. Отдохни от Кремль ботов и комуняк. Они живут в своём закрытом мире, далёком от реальности, их уже не переубедишь. Ты ведь не телевизор. Не трать на них своё время.
lithania's flag is yellow, green, red
Did the Soviets help the Nazis early so that they could conquer Eastern Europe as heroic liberators, rather than as spreaders of revolution? All their legitimacy thereafter stemmed from slaying this monster that they had fed to begin with.
Lol what is wrong with anti communist s andd historical revisionism
you got my subscription sir! Please don't Shoot me :P
Germans on land: 😈
Germans on sea: 😅
8:41 countryball family lore be like:
This trailer looks so cool
subsccrived last sec
TURKIYE BEST NATION GERMANY DIDN'T EVEN DARE TO ATTACK GLORIOUS TURKIYE lol
You should do a video on the space race
Polska is not yet lost!!
The war entrance scene of india killed me xDDDDDDDDDDD
There are historical issues with the video. Especially about 1939 and allied approach to Poland.
Late mobilisation wasn't only polish idea but it was mostly enforced on us by UK to not provoke Germany. We did organise one mobilisation, it had to be cancelled after british pressures and just before the war we announced another mobilisation but soldiers nor weapon didn't have time to arrive on its positions.
French did attack saarland and did stop before Zigfrid line. If they pushed further they would meet heavy defensive possitions, iirc TWO armies and luftflotte. The french thesmelf also attacked before they fully mobilised and before they finished army reform. Poladn was suppose to hold for 3 weeks to give french time for mobilisation, but Wehrmacht was already at gates of Warsaw after a week.
Both British and French DID NOT gave up on Poland and went along "we will restore you after the war" line. French started sending supplies to Poland quickly but it didnt arrive on time, britishquickly abonded idea of dropping leaflets and switched to bombs. How they seid "their first line of defence was on Rhine"
Germany wasn't planing to conquer Norway right away, nor they didn't plan to conquer Sweden. They had quite fruitful cooperation WITH Swedes and Narvik in Norway was best prot to shit iron ore to Germany.
Turkey didn't sign any alliance with west until 1945. Their position made them dangerous to both allies, axis and soviets and everyone was trying to get on the good terms with them.
Romania GAVE UP besarabia to soviets.
do you have planned film about soviet ocupation on estern europe in 1945-1991 in the future?