@@shayanabrouce686 Many did surrender already in Ukraine (some also offered to join against the Soviets and faced the same fate); none were accepted and the news traveled quickly. The Slavic peoples, Catholics, East Orthodox, Jews, Republicans (Communists included), etc. were all forced to unite against the Nazis and their collaborators, or face total annihilation and erasure.
28 workers of the Institute of Plant Industry died of starvation while keeping the collection of 200,000 seed samples, several tons in total. This collection saved many thousands during the post-war recovery.
Благодарю тебя за эту информацию. Она поможет понять то отчаянье и отвагу граждан блокадного Ленинграда. Thanks to you for that information. It might to help to understand that despair and valour of citizens of besieged Leningrad!
Zhukov wasn't actually that great, in 1942 he turned the Rzhev salient into a meat grinder, losing more than two million men for minor territorial gains and comparatively light German casualties.
@@rottensoul440 i personally agree, that there were many losses, but due to his departure to Stalingrad front almost all operation turned into failure despite some liberated territories. And only because of Stalingrad success, offensive Rzhev operation(Mars) completed successfully
Diary of Tanya Savicheva (age 11) Zhenya died on December 28th at 12 noon, 1941 Grandma died on the 25th of January at 3 o'clock, 1942 Leka died March 17th, 1942, at 5 o'clock in the morning, 1942 Uncle Vasya died on April 13th at 2 o'clock in the morning, 1942 Uncle Lesha May 10th, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 1942 Mama on May 13th at 7:30 in the morning, 1942 The Savichevs are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left
I've just read about her I found it sad to think that after going through all that and surviving Leningrad, it's a disease that killed her before the war even ended
The " sawdust" in their bread was actually the inner bark of a kind of pine.Scraped and dried it was quite edible when mixed with a certain amount of flour.
We have something similar in Norway to, when making fire food you could cut off some innerlining in the wood and eat it, it's like a wet chewing gum once you get it right, and it tastes surprisingly good and makes you full pretty fast.
An old story about the siege. Shostakovitch, a famous Russian composer, wrote a symphony, simply called The Leningrad Symphony, to be preformed at the city. the malnourished performers, dressed in ragged clothes, preformed the symphony to a equally malnourished populace of Leningrad. The Germans, in their trenches, heard the symphony from the city center, and it is said, a German Captain, said "this city will never fall.". I don't know the validity of the story, but it brings hope that music creates courage, even in the face of overwhelming odds.
There's more: the Soviets we're shooting German planes so they don't interrupt the concert. The audience said the philharmony was literally shaking. While the music played only 3 bombs fell in the suburb
I have some ideas for future videos -Remake of the battle of verdun video -battle of wuhan -Warsaw uprising -soviet invasion of afhganistan -Brazilian expeditionary force -battle of smolensk
Battle of Wuhan, Second Sino Japanese War, Battle of Taierzhuang... so many great battles that could be talked about... We all pretend like the war was in Europe and Japan was done by 2 nukes. We seem to forget the insane sacrifice of 20,000,000 Chinese
You have to make a series of critical mistakes before they would send Zhukov. He's one man and can't be everywhere at once. To his credit, his duty and incredible work saved many more millions of Soviet lives.
Cheers from Gatchina, bro. They was true steel people, city wasn't surrender, and produced ammunition, guns, tanks and more under constant bombardment, and send it to the frontline.
they say, that when the preformed Shostakovitch's Leningrad symphony in a concert hall in Leningrad, by a starving orchestra and listened by malnourished people in the concert hall. A German commander, who heard the symphony being played form the hall. he then spoke to his men and said "this city will never be conquered" .
Селина Винтер Yes. I remember feeling SO ashamed and embarrassed in 2015 when Obama (I’m American) turned down his invitation to the 70th Victory parade in Moscow. It was politically motivated, due to tensions over The Ukraine. But politics should never be more important than a respect for history or the unimaginable sadness and loss that the Russian Nation endured to defeat The Third Reich on the ground. Your people were alone in that fight and it is only The Russians who would not have given up in such a terrible conflict. I really respect that Victory, but cannot comprehend how nightmarish was the cost. Russia will outlive our planet and our sun.
Селина Винтер my two great grand fathers were fighting in the war and I respect them, one of them was fighting in Baltic fleet and he was in siege of Leningrad and the second one he was on katusha and event took participation in battle of Budapest
@@markd523 I hate to tell you Mark, but Russia is already dying. Russian women barely have one child on average, and many of those from Muslims. The problem is no better in Western Europe or America.
It's even horrifying to think about it. 872 days. Undernourished, under constant bombardment and under constant fear, for 872 days. But those heroic soliders and civilians never considered surrender or peace with Germans! Their moral was high, high until the last one of them. Until the last drip of blood! Eventually they persevered! Heroes, mostly forgotten by westerners, overshadowed by Staligrad in history books. The Seige of Leningrad
Thug Pigeon that’s like saying Germany didn’t win the war because Whitman. They *did* lose both the initial war and the continuation war, neither of which would have been necessary if they didn’t basically approach the pre-war negotiations plugging their ears with their middle fingers
A huge thank you also from the other side, I know that we have done many cruels but in the most documentations the Germans are described as monsters. Greetings from munich
@@karljohns4245 your comment is stupid, the british contributed a huge amount to the war effort but were efficent with there troops instead of throwing them waves and wave into battle
@@kylekustka Thanks to the sea in between. The British war effort is appreciated, but not significant in regards to the Soviet Union and United States. The British infantries were far more superior to their Germans counterpart, having much more training time, much better equipped, supported by far more superior fire power, possessed the best special force in the world, the Commandos. The British pit fall was their outdated tactics that caused more losses than necessary. Efficiency is up for debate when Market Garden exists.
@@kylekustka if Britain wasn't an island nation the german would have invaded them just as easy as they invaded France , the only contribution Britain did was to destroy the luftwaffe and kill the experienced german pilots .
yep, this Road of Life was quite a feat in itself. i remember a video by a Russian historian, on the details of its planning, engineering, organisation in general, of the defence. scientists had to investigate the ice conditions, and all that.
@@Simplehistory I remember reading somewhere that six members of the Soviet agriculture society had stored tons of grain the reason for why they did it was they were under orders to keep the grain safe for it to planted of the war four of the six members died from starvation but afterwards the grain was planted to help feed the people once the siege on the city was lifted.
@@joshuahuntington5467 like how Soviet Union lost so many lives since it was bigger than Germany and the Communist overthrown the government during the near ending of ww1?
zhukov, rommel, patton: they were commanders who could take one look at the layout of men/materials on a battlefield & know exactly what needed to be done, when, and how in order to win. stacking enemy bodies with maximum efficiency o.0
During the siege, 9 scientists at the Leningrad Institute of Plant Technology, a seed bank containing 250 000 different seeds, chose to starve to death rather than to eat the seeds, therefore preserving them for future generations.
Hanz there's only one thing to do What is it comandant? Go get the vodka and go berserk.... After 3days of fighting 2 Germans were seen fleeing the scene with a bottle of vodka in their hands
Thank you for this great video! People in the West generally don't know these pages of history. As a follow up you can cover the story of Tanya Savicheva, a child who lived in Leningrad during the siege. This is one of the darkest war stories you can imagine.
I remember ussr/russian ww2 tanker vet said "Yes, we will resist, we will resist this fight" Their fighting spirits is before they die, they make sure victory was at hand.
@@joshuahuntington5467 I was russian in my past life and I served as a sniper in the 1st Baltic Front. I was Ivan Sidorenko. I was the soviet sniper that gained 500 kills and awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" award
There was no possible way to get out of this city. Also a losing of this city would result in decreasing the morale of Red Army, which would be resulted in much more losses.
Exactly why I, as Russian, purposely silence myself when i want to complain about quarantine - I remember that my ancestors were through much, MUCH worse.
A very recent siege to cover should be Deir ez-Zor, took more than 1100 days. Of course the scale of the battle can't be compared to Leningrad but a really heroic defence against IS at the middle of the desert.
Swineminator What is with modern countries being bested by the equivalent to a poor man with some decent skill of ambushes wielding an AK, I mean I'd fear countries like Japan can just be beaten by such a laughably feeble power.
@@firepower7017 Usually has to do with preservation of one's own life. A freedom fighter will gladly give his/her life for the cause to defend their country and belief. A soldier from a modern country given orders to fight in the middle of no where just wants to go home alive. Acceptable casualties differ. Vietnamese guerilla fighters and their allies had 3x as many military deaths as their enemies. 50,000+ deaths for US is wholly unacceptable by US standards whereas the NVA were willing to keep going regardless.
@@SandvichTrolli48 The NVA was also combating the Khmer Rouge but America stepped up and saved them. America is evil for letting such regime survive. Same goes to the many dictatorships in South America
ZachSVK no its called “The Pacific Strategy” and happened through 1941 (when pearl harbor was bombed) to 1944 when japan surrendered. The war officially ended in 1945 from hitlers suicide.
@@SuperNgin есть куча хороших каналов: Тактик Медиа, у Гоблина/Пучкова регулярно выступают историки на тему. Simple History - это для амерских даунов, которые более объёмные материалы не способны воспринять. Нам такой обрезанный формат не нужен, у нас даже в школе дают больший объём знаний
I've read Salsibury's excellent book, "900 Days" which gives first hand accounts by survivors concerning the siege. There is one heart-rending account where a little girl in an freezing apartment wrote on a wall a daily record the name and death of each of her family members from starvation and cold, until she only remained, and was found dead. Tears.
What a terrible period. I came to know some of the people that endured this. In russian they are known as "Дети Ленинграда" (children of Leningrad) They are wonderful people , but now few of them remain.
The animation on these videos is AMAZING. Watching the Russians use their svt40s, mosin nagants, and ppks and the Germans with their kar98k and mp40s, etc is so impressive. The little details in combination with the awesome presentation can't be beat. I love this channel and all these videos.
"Road of Life" - during the Great Patriotic War the only transport route through Lake Ladoga. During periods of navigation - on water, in winter - on ice. Connected from September 12, 1941 to March 1943, the besieged Leningrad with the country. The road laid on ice is often called the Ice Road of Life (officially - Military Highway No. 101 (No. 102)). At the Osinovets lighthouse, there is also the Road of Life Museum. Few people know, but at the cost of their lives, hydrologists and geographers checked the calculations of their predecessors from tsarist Russia, manually checking ice thickness under the constant raids of German aviation!
@@robertr954 yeah, it's the Battle of Brody during the Operation Barbarossa. I did a reaserch after you reply on my comment but the Battle of Kursk is the most known biggest tank battle by many.
I'm from St.Petersburg (Leningrad nowdays), and i want say thank you for this video. Yes you observe only main part of the siege (as a citizen of Leningrad, of course i know much more of this), but still big thanks for this) Also, you mispronounce lake Ladoga, it's not a ladOga but lAdoga. Now you know more.
@@choochoomawpoker3125 the guy in the back his hand is going back and forth really fast and he look like he's beating his meat (probably should have clarified it😂😂)
There’s an amazing blockade museum in St Petersburg, if anyone gets the pleasure of visiting. Utterly heartbreaking but inspirational at the same time. The people of Leningrad were resilient and many heroes emerged from the devastation.
Germany in WW2: The Soviets are so unequipped we’re pushing through the Baltic’s, Belorussian, and Ukraine so well. We’re just abo..... Stalingrad happens
@@Mische2k millions of soldiers lacked trucks, the parts to maintain their equipment, a proper leadership since most of them are purged, how are they "prepared" to invade germany?
Quick story: in August 1941, very near Leningrad, the 8th panzer division was ambushed by 5 soviet KV-1 heavy tanks. After 2 hours, the soviet KVs had knocked out 43 German tanks without suffering a single loss, the KV-1s then withdrew, and afterwards upon inspection it was seen that one of the tanks had taken 135 hits an still survived
someguy someone the Ferdinand was not introduced until much later on in the war and there were less than 90 of them built so never fielded in enough numbers to be effective on the overall outcome of battles
Based Canadian well I originally heard this story from wargaming Europe’s inside the KV-1B video, presented by Richard Cutland, aka the challenger, who is one of their military experts, so I took his word for it. Now you have questioned me, I thought I should probably do some research as to make sure what I was saying was true. Turns out I am telling the truth, have a read of these links if you don’t believe me: forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/512162-5-kv-1s-hold-leningrad/ forum.tanktastic.org/index.php?/topic/1887-1941-5-kv-1s-vs-43-panzers-135-hits-on-one-kv-1/ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_encounter_of_Soviet_T-34_and_KV_tanks Truth be told, the early German Panzer 3s and 4s were no match for the KV, in some variants it had over 100mm of frontal armour, which the German guns simply couldn’t get through. There are many examples of German towed anti tank guns being completely ineffective against it. It was only when the Germans began to employ the 88mm kwk36 flak gun that they could take the KVs out. I have even read and heard many times that an 88 fired 6 shots at a KV2. All of the shots hit, but only 2 penetrated it’s armour. I hope this is enough evidence to prove my point to you, if you want more I will find you more PS- more evidence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviy_Kolobanov
The Finns were NOT "satisfied with just reclaiming the territories lost in the Winter War" and pushed further to the East from the old border almost everywhere in Karelia. They took Petrozavodsk which never before belonged to the Finns. The Finns stopped not on the old border but at the Karelian Fortifed Region - the system of the Soviet fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus outside of Leningrad.
They did stop at the old border in Karelian isthmus and never went further than the old border near Leningrad. They did advance further in north, but that was just a bumper zone. Finns were very weak in the north and they had to take few extra steps into Soviet territory because they were almost sure that Soviets will push back sooner or later.
It's always you russians who never believe anything except when it promotes your fantasy of "the great soviet union" and never believe facts. Even if they did go to karelia, it would have been justified because the karelians tried to free themselves from soviet tyranny so the finns would have been the liberators
@@kiriya02 if 3,5 Karelians who wanted to free themselves from the Soviets were enough to justify the Finnish invasion to Karelia, then the Soviet invasion in Poland in 1939 was justified by those Belorussians and Ukrainians who were displeased with Polish rule and wanted to join to Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Belarus.
This video is great! I came here because I'm doing a research for a presentation of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony (Subtitled "Leningrad"). I mean, most artworks (any art) have to have a historical and/or emotional context, which is clearly represented in DSCH 7. Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg in 1906, city which would later become Leningrad, after the Russian Revolution. He lived there all his life until the siege, when he had to flee in order to survive. He had already started composing the symphony in Leningrad, so he finished composing it out of there in a little amount of time. He finally finished it and it was premiered in Kuybyshev (now Samara), then in America, with Arturo Toscanini, and then, decided to perform the symphony in the sieged city of Leningrad. This was not an easy task, since most of the musicians were missing or dead. Karl Eliasberg was the conductor in charge of the premier in Leningrad. He was very demanding. Musicians were payed with a little loaf of bread, courtesy of the melomaniacs who still lived there. If any musician missed a rehearsal (only excuse if they were dead or in a life-or-death situation), Eliasberg wouldn't give them the bread. This symphony is really hard to perform, it requires a little bit more than 100 musicians, yet less than 30 musicians (amateurs involved) played in the Leningrad premier. Many musicians died during the rehearsals (mostly woodwinds and brass). The concert arrived, and they played it with amplifier so that people would hear the symphony. And that drove the Nazis attention. They tried to bomb the hall, so part of the Russian army defended it. In the end, the concert was a success, being taken as a symbol of resistance. I recommend everyone to listen to this piece, specially the 1st and 4th movements, and listen to Bernstein/Chicago, Mata/Dallas, Svetlanov/USSRSO, Currentzis/SWRSO (I highly recommend this one) and Eliasberg. This last recording is very special, since it was made around 20 years later to commemorate the victims of the siege, and many of the musicians who participated in the Leningrad premier.
@@cudanmang_theog Let me guess,your a commie that denies that so many people starved in communist contries somethimes these famines were man made like the Holomodor
I am an anonymous bot. The USA total murdered 100 million Native Americans and 40 million people from Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Ukraine today for saved their Rothschild's profits and opressing on other nations in their colonies. And they still have brick walls named Hollywood fiction movie studio and Fake news media to canceling people and the world to know it and bring the USA to prison.
I can't even imagine being in those conditions for 872 days, but that is not even the longest siege. Maybe do a video on siege of Sarajevo next? It was the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare and it was much more recent. It lasted unimaginable 1425 days (almost 4 years), from 5th of April 1992. to 29th of February 1996. There is even a really good video game that was inspired by the event, called This War of Mine.
Yes many seem to think that Germans came to the soviet union to hand out candy or something. People tend to overlook they killed 15 million citizens. Not soldiers.... Citizens of my country. My great grandmother was put into a concentration camp because her husband was a soldier. She was there with her child. Others of my family lost their homes due to Germans burning their villages.
Can't thank you enough for bringing the truth about our ancestors' heroism to the Western people. It's great pity that too little people outside Russia know it
I'm brazilian and now is more commonly accepted that the war turned out better to the Allies after Stalingrad. But people don't know too much about the siege of Leningrad and Kursk battle.
the first cargo of the "road of life" was 200 cats from Yaroslav. they was called "the meow division" for manage the plague of rats in the city. Even today in Leningrad (i dont like call it st petesburg) are momuments to the Yaroslav Cats in the city
I am staying in Saint Petersburg (Lenigrad) since 2013. And that events were really great tragedy for our town, our nation, our property. I am typing it now, and a tears are dropping from my eyes without a control...
When the war started, my grandmother was only 10 years old. Her father, my great-grandfather, went to the front, never returning from there. Together with my great-grandmother and brother, they survived the siege and the war. At night, my grandmother put out incendiary bombs on the roofs, every day in the cold she herself went for bread. War is terrible, it's sad to see how people are dying in war right now .. Never forget, never again 🙏
What's also really interesting is the fate of Army Group North later renamed Courland, after the long and brutal siege the battered remnants had to hastily retreat before becoming hopelessly trapped in Nothern Latvia with no chance of escape.
My wife and I visited St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) in 2014 during a cruise. We toured the Hermitage museum and other sites as part of a cruise ship stop. The city is beautiful with many very friendly people. Their only complaint was that the temperature was 86 F--mild for us as Texans.
Germans used the dirtiest tactics against civilian population of the Soviet Union, namely cities of Leningrad and Stalingrad, and still lost. Nazis lost not because Allies came and "heroically ended the war in one swoop" - they lost, because tens, if not hundreds of thousands of servicemen and civilians alike, from all occupied and invaded countries, including the Soviet Union, had the courage to stand up to them. And thanks to their courage, and many other contributions to the war effort, Soviets were able to turn tables on Nazis during the Stalingrad, and then push them back all the way to Hitler's rathole - Berlin. Sacrifices of Soviet people must not be forgotten.
Also mad props to you guys for everything you do! Absolutely love how you mentioned Finland during this period...no one ever talks about Finland after the winter war. 😁👍🏻
There was an absolutely terrible incident several days before the siege of Leningrad. The Soviets were desperately trying to evacuate as many kids as possible from the city. So there was a train with 2 thousand children, it stopped at Lychkovo station not far from Leningrad to collect several dozen kids from a nearby village. Then a German plane appeared and suddenly dropped 25 bombs directly on the train without any reason. Like it was not a warehouse, or an aerodrome, or a military base, it was just a civilian train with little kids. And I guess you understand what happened to them. The Soviest at that time knew about Hitler, but they still thought Germans were civilised and humane. It was hard for them to believe something like that could actually happen.
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Simple History wow....
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First or second
It’s so crazy to think how long these sieges were. I was so different 872 days ago. I can’t even imagine being under siege the whole time....
Well you couldn't. You were shot or starved generally.
@@REEEPROGRAM siege of Candia , 21 years. Yeah...
Well Netherlands colonizing other country for 350 years so
Then colonized again by japan for 3.5 years
Well have you played Rainbow 6 siege :-DDDD
@@shayanabrouce686 Many did surrender already in Ukraine (some also offered to join against the Soviets and faced the same fate); none were accepted and the news traveled quickly. The Slavic peoples, Catholics, East Orthodox, Jews, Republicans (Communists included), etc. were all forced to unite against the Nazis and their collaborators, or face total annihilation and erasure.
Almost three years. Years. It's insane to even try and think of what those guys endured.
Is this a serious Justin y comment?
Yeah it is the real Justin Y.
@@dominatordude7535 yeah but it's the first of his comments I've seen that isn't a joke or something.
Justin Y. A serious Justin comment crazy.
Samuel Cayford in way shorter time too
My great grandmother was a firefighter in the sieged Leningrad until 1943. She is still alive.
Wow legend. F
Ur grandma hero
@@JohnM-sw4sc wtf
The immortal firefighter of Leningrad
How old she is?
28 workers of the Institute of Plant Industry died of starvation while keeping the collection of 200,000 seed samples, several tons in total. This collection saved many thousands during the post-war recovery.
Incredible, I didn't knew that, thanks for sharing
Heroes, they knew what had to be done, at all costs.
Благодарю тебя за эту информацию. Она поможет понять то отчаянье и отвагу граждан блокадного Ленинграда. Thanks to you for that information. It might to help to understand that despair and valour of citizens of besieged Leningrad!
@@SuperNgin the citizens had valor. Valor for a brutal dictator that exterminated tens of millions of his own people.
@@kodingkrusader2765 you have no idea of valor. Да и пошел ты.
I swear to God, every time there's a crap Soviet Commander, Zhukov is there to replace him.
No wonder even Stalin and Khruschev feared him
Zhukov wasn't actually that great, in 1942 he turned the Rzhev salient into a meat grinder, losing more than two million men for minor territorial gains and comparatively light German casualties.
@@rottensoul440 no generals has perfect battle records. Even Napoelon has his losts.
Zhukov wasnt any better xD
@@rottensoul440 i personally agree, that there were many losses, but due to his departure to Stalingrad front almost all operation turned into failure despite some liberated territories. And only because of Stalingrad success, offensive Rzhev operation(Mars) completed successfully
Diary of Tanya Savicheva (age 11)
Zhenya died on December 28th at 12 noon, 1941
Grandma died on the 25th of January at 3 o'clock, 1942
Leka died March 17th, 1942, at 5 o'clock in the morning, 1942
Uncle Vasya died on April 13th at 2 o'clock in the morning, 1942
Uncle Lesha May 10th, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 1942
Mama on May 13th at 7:30 in the morning, 1942
The Savichevs are dead
Everyone is dead
Only Tanya is left
I've just read about her
I found it sad to think that after going through all that and surviving Leningrad, it's a disease that killed her before the war even ended
@@neitherman9997 Very sad. Reading this I was hoping she had lived.
@@markoap91 Таня умерла от туберкулёза кишечника в 1944 (по другой версии, это был энцефалит). 😔
@@markoap91 , she is dead on the "big land" because she had many diseases, that she toke in cold days of siege.
@Josip Broz Tito , she is dead on the "big land" because she had many diseases, that she toke in cold days of siege.
The " sawdust" in their bread was actually the inner bark of a kind of pine.Scraped and dried it was quite edible when mixed with a certain amount of flour.
in finnish its called pettuleipä..we also in hard times eat it
Apparently it's rich in vitamin c
We have something similar in Norway to, when making fire food you could cut off some innerlining in the wood and eat it, it's like a wet chewing gum once you get it right, and it tastes surprisingly good and makes you full pretty fast.
Are you trying to make eating trees sound okay?
@@gregbaranszky545 are you trying to say it isn't?
An old story about the siege. Shostakovitch, a famous Russian composer, wrote a symphony, simply called The Leningrad Symphony, to be preformed at the city. the malnourished performers, dressed in ragged clothes, preformed the symphony to a equally malnourished populace of Leningrad. The Germans, in their trenches, heard the symphony from the city center, and it is said, a German Captain, said "this city will never fall.". I don't know the validity of the story, but it brings hope that music creates courage, even in the face of overwhelming odds.
There's more: the Soviets we're shooting German planes so they don't interrupt the concert. The audience said the philharmony was literally shaking. While the music played only 3 bombs fell in the suburb
“And i dedicate my 7th symphony to the heroism of Leningrad” Dmitry Shostakovich
Yup, that's true history! My grandpa was 15 y.o. child during siege of Leningrad, and told me this story. (also, greetings from Russia)
America: do or die.
Russia/USSR: die but do.
What happen after die?
Святослав Цейко but do?
Mohd Zulfahmi Zakaria Gulag.
@@fahmicanaries89 You getting a hero medal. Post mortem.
Japan: Just die
I have some ideas for future videos
-Remake of the battle of verdun video
-battle of wuhan
-Warsaw uprising
-soviet invasion of afhganistan
-Brazilian expeditionary force
-battle of smolensk
Soviet invasion of Baltic’s
A video about the FEB whould be great (im a brazilian)
I had one but I can't remember
Battle of Wuhan, Second Sino Japanese War, Battle of Taierzhuang... so many great battles that could be talked about...
We all pretend like the war was in Europe and Japan was done by 2 nukes. We seem to forget the insane sacrifice of 20,000,000 Chinese
Yugoslav Partizans too
Soviet high ranking officer: *messes up once*
Georgy Zhukov: Allow me to introduce myself
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Fortnitegamer 123L5 I’m sorry little one *presses like button*
You have to make a series of critical mistakes before they would send Zhukov. He's one man and can't be everywhere at once. To his credit, his duty and incredible work saved many more millions of Soviet lives.
@Sebastian Demel Shut-
@Sebastian Demel Very Human comment right there. Ladies and gentlemen. Is that what your mother taught you?
GOTTA GIVE IT TO MY MAN SIMPLE HISTORY FOR NOT PUTTING ADDS EVERR 😤
We got demonetised on this video.. no ads or sponsors no more simple history channel..
F in the chat for simple history s bank account
To be honest it became my fav channel quick, I learn get smart and don't see useless ads. Gotta love it
@@jgrechhardie F
@@Simplehistory dont understand youtube language
Imagine traveling back in time to realize everything actually looks like Simple History animation
Lmao
What do you mean “animation”?
The matrix was much simpler back then.
Welp to the time machine to find out
XD
I'm from Saint Petersburg (aka Leningrad) myself. The amount of respect that those people deserve is impossible to express. They are truly heroic.
Cheers from Gatchina, bro. They was true steel people, city wasn't surrender, and produced ammunition, guns, tanks and more under constant bombardment, and send it to the frontline.
Ленин был шутником, он пообещал крестьянам землю, но так и не дал ее, но и крестьяне были шутниками, поэтому Ленин не видит землю до сих пор
Yes indeed lots of respect for those Wehrmacht soldiers
@@NapoleonBonaparde ok wehraboo
@@NapoleonBonaparde Why?
they say, that when the preformed Shostakovitch's Leningrad symphony in a concert hall in Leningrad, by a starving orchestra and listened by malnourished people in the concert hall. A German commander, who heard the symphony being played form the hall. he then spoke to his men and said "this city will never be conquered" .
My great grandma survived this siege, she was 13. She does bot like to talk about the siege, she still lives in Leningrad
It’s called St. Petersburg now.
@@JackNotJacks I am aware, I used Leningrad for its historical context
You made a typo. I think you meant to say not not bot but its ok. You can always fix it
Vicrus did you have any other family members that lived in Leningrad at the time
the majority does not like to talk about the blockade
My mom: We'll just be in and out, real quick.
What actaully happens: *1941-44*
Lol
Your profile picture fits with this comment so well
*twenty* *minute* *adventure*
Guys this isn’t funny
@@whitneywoodward907 God damnit, I was gpnna say that 🤣
Honour to my great grandpa Sascha igorov(1921-1943) .declared missing near Novgorod.
Blyat
It's either IgorEv or Yegorov. There's no such surname Igorov. You're welcome.
canep
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american ninja respect for your great grandpa
Probably desserted
That's why WW2 is very important for us. We still remember what our ancestors have been through.
Ww2 is important, because it is the only thing Putin could find what made Russian people pride and loyal to him at the same time.
@@boerekable Putin Putin Putin Putin Putin Putin. Maybe time to stop?
Селина Винтер Yes. I remember feeling SO ashamed and embarrassed in 2015 when Obama (I’m American) turned down his invitation to the 70th Victory parade in Moscow. It was politically motivated, due to tensions over The Ukraine. But politics should never be more important than a respect for history or the unimaginable sadness and loss that the Russian Nation endured to defeat The Third Reich on the ground. Your people were alone in that fight and it is only The Russians who would not have given up in such a terrible conflict. I really respect that Victory, but cannot comprehend how nightmarish was the cost. Russia will outlive our planet and our sun.
Селина Винтер my two great grand fathers were fighting in the war and I respect them, one of them was fighting in Baltic fleet and he was in siege of Leningrad and the second one he was on katusha and event took participation in battle of Budapest
@@markd523 I hate to tell you Mark, but Russia is already dying. Russian women barely have one child on average, and many of those from Muslims. The problem is no better in Western Europe or America.
It's even horrifying to think about it. 872 days. Undernourished, under constant bombardment and under constant fear, for 872 days. But those heroic soliders and civilians never considered surrender or peace with Germans! Their moral was high, high until the last one of them. Until the last drip of blood! Eventually they persevered! Heroes, mostly forgotten by westerners, overshadowed by Staligrad in history books.
The Seige of Leningrad
It wasnt bravery it was literally all males in russia had to fight. Russia loat 30% of its males after ww2
FinnishViking 1200 hmmm wonder where some bias could be in a name like that. Maybe a little salt at 2 losses in a row?
@@JacatackLP loss? simo is not agreeing
Thug Pigeon that’s like saying Germany didn’t win the war because Whitman. They *did* lose both the initial war and the continuation war, neither of which would have been necessary if they didn’t basically approach the pre-war negotiations plugging their ears with their middle fingers
Nothing really horrifying about it. Every siege is like that.
This city...is in..UNACCEPTABLE... _CONDITIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! _*_UNACCEPTABLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!_*
Edit: Ooooohhhhh. _Lenin_ grad.
Indeed.
i just spit out my soda
Samuel Cayford well 1 Russia’s not longer a communists state and 2 st Petersburg was the original name
@@MCL003 what
Leninglad
a huge thank you for just telling the story, without any anti-Soviet myths and clichés. you're doing a better job than most Russian and Western media.
A huge thank you also from the other side, I know that we have done many cruels but in the most documentations the Germans are described as monsters. Greetings from munich
russian media is controlled by the kremlin and they make soviet union look like it was the good guy in ww2
@@pkl-n5g So US was a good guy in ww2 ?
Jirou Horikoshi better then nazis or the ussr
@@ixibillixi1 USSR did most of the job defeating Nazis in WW2. So USSR was best in this particular case.
As civilians, we here in America don’t know a damn thing about the brutality of war other than what we’ve seen on tv
Bc it's ungodly difficult to invade the Americas
Yeah, I mean thats what a two massive oceans will do for ya!
Americans civilians : What is war? Lol
@Horatio Nelson Europe and asia were nations born from war but I can't tell which one had the most bloody wars.
@@joshuablue7938 oh shut up maybe in the past but not now
I love how much longer the videos are getting as well as how much more action is being put into each scene. Keep up the good work.
Last time I was this early, Yugoslavia still existed 🥶🥶
Oooffffff.
your coment shatered the USSR.
That isnt funny
Lol
So you were never early
As a man from Balkans I really wish I was alive when Yugoslavia existed, my country is a hellhole now :(
America:
We lost so many men in ww2
Britain:
We contributed more men in ww2
Soviet Union:
WE LOST MORE MEN IN ONE CITY THAN BOTH YOUR LOSSES COMBINED.
@@karljohns4245 your comment is stupid, the british contributed a huge amount to the war effort but were efficent with there troops instead of throwing them waves and wave into battle
@@kylekustka Thanks to the sea in between. The British war effort is appreciated, but not significant in regards to the Soviet Union and United States. The British infantries were far more superior to their Germans counterpart, having much more training time, much better equipped, supported by far more superior fire power, possessed the best special force in the world, the Commandos. The British pit fall was their outdated tactics that caused more losses than necessary. Efficiency is up for debate when Market Garden exists.
@@kylekustka weren't Britain doing terrible against rommel in Africa despite having more numbers
Dj hotdawg yeah
@@kylekustka if Britain wasn't an island nation the german would have invaded them just as easy as they invaded France , the only contribution Britain did was to destroy the luftwaffe and kill the experienced german pilots .
On the “Convoy of Life” on ice, the Soviets built snow forts and emplacements to shoot down potential planes or enemies seeking to disrupt he convoy.
yep, this Road of Life was quite a feat in itself. i remember a video by a Russian historian, on the details of its planning, engineering, organisation in general, of the defence. scientists had to investigate the ice conditions, and all that.
Make Philippine American War 1899-1902
Please reply simple history.
That will be cool
I know.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Yeah, especially the 3 bells have just been returned back to the philippines after the pillaging
nop
*Make a Warsaw Uprising video please!!! Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱*
we will
Simple History thank you 🙏
Yaaay
And now all I hear is Sabaton.
GREETINGS FROM EARTH!
Dear Lord, 872 days...
its hard to imagine the suffering
@@Simplehistory but how does the suffering last almost 3 years for the Soviets not ready against the Germans.
Christian Ramirez can you explain that a bit better and I shall explain if i can
@@Simplehistory I remember reading somewhere that six members of the Soviet agriculture society had stored tons of grain the reason for why they did it was they were under orders to keep the grain safe for it to planted of the war four of the six members died from starvation but afterwards the grain was planted to help feed the people once the siege on the city was lifted.
@@joshuahuntington5467 like how Soviet Union lost so many lives since it was bigger than Germany and the Communist overthrown the government during the near ending of ww1?
Soviet Commanders: *loses to Germany*
Zhukov: fine, i'll do it myself
I get that reference
Sad Konstantin noises
zhukov, rommel, patton: they were commanders who could take one look at the layout of men/materials on a battlefield & know exactly what needed to be done, when, and how in order to win. stacking enemy bodies with maximum efficiency o.0
My history teacher struggled to find good videos so I told her about your channel and she loved it and uses it for every lesson now
R.I.P all those who died under this siege :(
Druing this war in general
@@joshuas.686 Rip for him too
@@user-jd6gq2vh5w Lol XD
@@joshuas.686 Come on, you gotta give him some credit, I mean he killed Hitler
@@foximacentauri7891 There was certainly many people in the Soviet Union, Italy, and Germany that needed to die.
*Zhukov After Stalingrad*
"Ah yes I can rest now"
Stalin ; Zhukov I need you
Zhukoz ; awwww c' mon
@Inigo Bantok lol
@Inigo Bantok darn. I was about to comment that!
*WE
Vasily Chuikov also played a huge part in the victory at Stalingrad.
Zhukov was fighting Ukranian nazis and bandits after the War.
During the siege, 9 scientists at the Leningrad Institute of Plant Technology, a seed bank containing 250 000 different seeds, chose to starve to death rather than to eat the seeds, therefore preserving them for future generations.
Leningrad: **has grad in it**
Stalin: **holds it for 3 years**
Just Call Me Sköll Grad is Russian for “city”.
@@erinlee4310 makes sense then
@@erinlee4310 Also the case in the languages of the former Yugoslavia.
Boy, do they kept those word. They do hold it for 3 years.
*When you hear a large "UUUURRRRAAAAA" coming from over the hill*
HANZ GET ZE LUGAH!
@Dedi Wahyudi yea bro
Hanz there's only one thing to do
What is it comandant?
Go get the vodka and go berserk....
After 3days of fighting 2 Germans were seen fleeing the scene with a bottle of vodka in their hands
HANZ GET DA FLAMMENWERFAH
@Dedi Wahyudi TENNO HEIKA... BANZAIIIIIIII
@@gillesdupouy8357 flammenwerfer*
Thank you for this great video! People in the West generally don't know these pages of history. As a follow up you can cover the story of Tanya Savicheva, a child who lived in Leningrad during the siege. This is one of the darkest war stories you can imagine.
5:18
That guy is just standing,exposed,holding a pistol,and firing like his fingers are micro sized
That's a general
Why is je still alive?
And the riflemen fire in unisson. Talk about discipline
definition of badassness
From what I’ve heard, it was actually true that officers stood tall in battle, as it improved morale when the soldiers saw him braving enemy fire.
I remember ussr/russian ww2 tanker vet said
"Yes, we will resist, we will resist this fight"
Their fighting spirits is before they die, they make sure victory was at hand.
Its a good day when simple history uploads a video
Ronin Ivan Romanov I swear to god you damm commies I shall burn YOU ALL
First hop in the car we are going for pizza in Italy
@@joshuahuntington5467 I was russian in my past life and I served as a sniper in the 1st Baltic Front. I was Ivan Sidorenko. I was the soviet sniper that gained 500 kills and awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" award
Ronin Ivan Romanov your wish is my command commie
Ronin Ivan Romanov sooooo.......is that a no to 🍕
@@joshuahuntington5467 that's a no
The Russians showed true bravery in the face of terror.
Stalin did not allow ordinary citizens and soldiers leave the City, so they had no other choice than show true bravery.
@@jounisuninen your right. Its rlly sad tho, alot of people would have been saved if they could have evacuated.
Things would be different if Stalin didn't lock the citizens into Leningrad
There was no possible way to get out of this city. Also a losing of this city would result in decreasing the morale of Red Army, which would be resulted in much more losses.
@Lactose Tolerant Only cry more
Me: Quarantine day 10 is tough
Leningrad: Am I a joke to you ?
This virus looks like it will be a while tho
@Los Santos I know I am just saying that this virus can last a while I know they had it way harder
@Los Santos ha ha
Exactly why I, as Russian, purposely silence myself when i want to complain about quarantine - I remember that my ancestors were through much, MUCH worse.
Finally
I’ve been waiting for this for ages. Love your guys vids
Honestly this helps more than school 😂
For real
At school they only teach you your countrys history not the others
Edson Danao exactly
Yeah
Yee
A very recent siege to cover should be Deir ez-Zor, took more than 1100 days. Of course the scale of the battle can't be compared to Leningrad but a really heroic defence against IS at the middle of the desert.
Swineminator What is with modern countries being bested by the equivalent to a poor man with some decent skill of ambushes wielding an AK, I mean I'd fear countries like Japan can just be beaten by such a laughably feeble power.
@@firepower7017 Because Guerilla Warfare. Look it up.
@@laterceraguerramundial1433 I'm Cambodian, you don't gotta tell me. If my people pushed back America with such tactics. I'd be well aware
@@firepower7017 Usually has to do with preservation of one's own life. A freedom fighter will gladly give his/her life for the cause to defend their country and belief. A soldier from a modern country given orders to fight in the middle of no where just wants to go home alive. Acceptable casualties differ. Vietnamese guerilla fighters and their allies had 3x as many military deaths as their enemies. 50,000+ deaths for US is wholly unacceptable by US standards whereas the NVA were willing to keep going regardless.
@@SandvichTrolli48 The NVA was also combating the Khmer Rouge but America stepped up and saved them. America is evil for letting such regime survive. Same goes to the many dictatorships in South America
Zhukov:
Defenda Leningrad
Defends Moscow
Encircles Germans at Stalingrad
Takes Berlin.
Add what I missed.
He also defeated the Japanese army in Mongolia.
@@kayvan671 yeah thanks, khalkhin gol
Learn more in 6:33 seconds then I did 4 years of history lol
Lol yeah i pearned everything that happened ww2 in a 20 min video not 45 mins at school
@@whydoievenhavesubs3317 ok ok what war happened on 41-44 ???
That's embarrasing.
@@comraderfluff6923 you meant 41-45
ZachSVK no its called “The Pacific Strategy” and happened through 1941 (when pearl harbor was bombed) to 1944 when japan surrendered. The war officially ended in 1945 from hitlers suicide.
0:30 I thought that was Kim Jong Un for a second
Joseph Kim
A proof that Kim Jong Un is just another Hitler.
A man of culture I see, I love titanfall
@@MemestiffGaming I love it too, hyped at TF3
@@MemestiffGaming not gonna happen kid dont get your hopes up
I thought it too
Almost at 2 Million subscribers
It still 1,6
Not really...
It will happen some day.
Nobody
Germany: What if we make a 3 year siege and not even capture it
M1A1 Abrams 3rd Generation MBT do you think they could? They were constantly pressured, just like the soviets.
Nobody:
USA: What if we invade Vietnam for over 10 years and not even capture it?
@Mexodus How is a protest all the way in America gonna effect what's happening in Vietnam, especially with the draft. They're already there, lol.
@@Adrianrafael04 usa wasn't the only country that try to invade vietnam
@@Adrianrafael04 Vietnam btfo the french, aussies, americans, and kiwis
You left out that the PPS-43 was designed within the city in 1942 and tested by firing out the window
Also known as "Leningun"
Some KV tanks were used to shoot from windows before its construction was complete.
Спасибо, что не очернили историю моей страны, заслуженный лайк
LuckyBoy _ nein blyat
Blyat
не слушай этих ублюдков. Мне тоже было приятно смотреть это видео. Жаль наши редко балуют нас подобными рассказами.
@@SuperNgin есть куча хороших каналов: Тактик Медиа, у Гоблина/Пучкова регулярно выступают историки на тему. Simple History - это для амерских даунов, которые более объёмные материалы не способны воспринять. Нам такой обрезанный формат не нужен, у нас даже в школе дают больший объём знаний
Дмитрий Левыкин ты прав потому что они не знают через что наш народ прошёл
I've read Salsibury's excellent book, "900 Days" which gives first hand accounts by survivors concerning the siege. There is one heart-rending account where a little girl in an freezing apartment wrote on a wall a daily record the name and death of each of her family members from starvation and cold, until she only remained, and was found dead. Tears.
5:10 I like the officer who just stands there and shooting with his Luger like its nothing. Must be a huge morale boost for the soldiers taking cover
It’s crazy how my great grandmother had to go through this and starve barley getting food in the city
What a terrible period.
I came to know some of the people that endured this. In russian they are known as "Дети Ленинграда" (children of Leningrad) They are wonderful people , but now few of them remain.
dedkernel my grandma is one of them
thank you very much
I live in St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
My grandfather is one of the children of Leningrad
The animation on these videos is AMAZING. Watching the Russians use their svt40s, mosin nagants, and ppks and the Germans with their kar98k and mp40s, etc is so impressive. The little details in combination with the awesome presentation can't be beat. I love this channel and all these videos.
"Road of Life" - during the Great Patriotic War the only transport route through Lake Ladoga. During periods of navigation - on water, in winter - on ice. Connected from September 12, 1941 to March 1943, the besieged Leningrad with the country. The road laid on ice is often called the Ice Road of Life (officially - Military Highway No. 101 (No. 102)). At the Osinovets lighthouse, there is also the Road of Life Museum.
Few people know, but at the cost of their lives, hydrologists and geographers checked the calculations of their predecessors from tsarist Russia, manually checking ice thickness under the constant raids of German aviation!
Pls do next about The Battle of Kursk, the biggest tank battle in history.
Is not the biggest battle in history. The battle of Brody at Dubno is the biggest..
Robert R tank battle he said m
Vincent Malab yeah it’s Dubno
*INTO THE MOTHERLAND THE GERMAN ARMY MARCH!*
@@robertr954 yeah, it's the Battle of Brody during the Operation Barbarossa. I did a reaserch after you reply on my comment but the Battle of Kursk is the most known biggest tank battle by many.
Yes, History...
_SIMPLE_ History
Make a video on the Rape of nanking
Demonetized
You just go for the erection
DEMONETIZED
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo
wonder who'll sponsor that, good idea mind you but seriously who?
I'm from St.Petersburg (Leningrad nowdays), and i want say thank you for this video. Yes you observe only main part of the siege (as a citizen of Leningrad, of course i know much more of this), but still big thanks for this)
Also, you mispronounce lake Ladoga, it's not a ladOga but lAdoga. Now you know more.
Эээ, наоборот, Питер был Ленинградом при СССР.
@@БудаМарактаевЯ знаю что не очень понятно написал, но имелось ввиду что "... Санкт-Петербург (название Ленинграда в наше время)..."
What about Kursk or Brody? both on the eastern front and are the largest tank battles in history
Largest tank battle was America againts Iraq durin Operation Desert Storm
Kursk was not the battle. It was the front the were fighting on. The actual battle was the battle of Prokhorovka
Stefan that was the biggest american one, and you shoud be proud you share the same first name as Stefan karl stefanson
Stefan sorry false
In history the largest tank battle was the Battle of broody Russia 1941
Abandon your posts abandon your homes abandon all hope
Fortnite reference... right?
Lol
“Sorry I detect fortnite in this comment section”
“Please step on the train and you will be fixed”
Call if duty waw was th best
URA!!!!!
I have crippling depression what do you mean
3:52 when your undersiege but you see a hot comrade
We don't understand it that's why we look for other comments in your comment for an answer
@@choochoomawpoker3125 the guy in the back his hand is going back and forth really fast and he look like he's beating his meat (probably should have clarified it😂😂)
@@gamingjoe9649 r/whooosh
Thanks I don't really know it xD
@@gamingjoe9649 ok
not really
There’s an amazing blockade museum in St Petersburg, if anyone gets the pleasure of visiting. Utterly heartbreaking but inspirational at the same time. The people of Leningrad were resilient and many heroes emerged from the devastation.
Thank you! I was waiting for this video! Thank you! Thank you! Great video!
Please do USS Pueblo incident, it’s an interesting event that happened in my nation during the Cold War
Mail me a north Korean ak. I cant find one anywhere and I need it for my collection
Provocateur rly cuz I never wished that
the only thing that happened in your nation besides the occasional famine and embargo
Hi Legendary Voice Actor Guy! Please never leave this channel!
You are the best!
How did you not mention Zinovy Kolobanov’s last stand?
Germany in WW2: The Soviets are so unequipped we’re pushing through the Baltic’s, Belorussian, and Ukraine so well. We’re just abo.....
Stalingrad happens
unequipped? Millions of soldiers were prepared to invate germany.
Actually Leningrad begins, Moskow Happens first. Then Rjev.
Mische2k then why were they pushed all the way back, they were unequipped and barely trained
Moscow happens
@@Mische2k millions of soldiers lacked trucks, the parts to maintain their equipment, a proper leadership since most of them are purged, how are they "prepared" to invade germany?
Do one about Spanish Civil War In Iberia please
Matthew Familia what
Quick story: in August 1941, very near Leningrad, the 8th panzer division was ambushed by 5 soviet KV-1 heavy tanks. After 2 hours, the soviet KVs had knocked out 43 German tanks without suffering a single loss, the KV-1s then withdrew, and afterwards upon inspection it was seen that one of the tanks had taken 135 hits an still survived
The German just bring PzIIIs and PzIIs. If the German bring 88mm Flak, the Soviet were doomed
Did the germans use the Ferdinad lmao wtf?
someguy someone the Ferdinand was not introduced until much later on in the war and there were less than 90 of them built so never fielded in enough numbers to be effective on the overall outcome of battles
Based Canadian well I originally heard this story from wargaming Europe’s inside the KV-1B video, presented by Richard Cutland, aka the challenger, who is one of their military experts, so I took his word for it. Now you have questioned me, I thought I should probably do some research as to make sure what I was saying was true. Turns out I am telling the truth, have a read of these links if you don’t believe me:
forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/512162-5-kv-1s-hold-leningrad/
forum.tanktastic.org/index.php?/topic/1887-1941-5-kv-1s-vs-43-panzers-135-hits-on-one-kv-1/
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_encounter_of_Soviet_T-34_and_KV_tanks
Truth be told, the early German Panzer 3s and 4s were no match for the KV, in some variants it had over 100mm of frontal armour, which the German guns simply couldn’t get through. There are many examples of German towed anti tank guns being completely ineffective against it. It was only when the Germans began to employ the 88mm kwk36 flak gun that they could take the KVs out. I have even read and heard many times that an 88 fired 6 shots at a KV2. All of the shots hit, but only 2 penetrated it’s armour. I hope this is enough evidence to prove my point to you, if you want more I will find you more
PS- more evidence
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviy_Kolobanov
@@willmarcheselli1986 Ok I thought they were tigers and not panzer 3's and 4's that explains alot.
The Finns were NOT "satisfied with just reclaiming the territories lost in the Winter War" and pushed further to the East from the old border almost everywhere in Karelia. They took Petrozavodsk which never before belonged to the Finns. The Finns stopped not on the old border but at the Karelian Fortifed Region - the system of the Soviet fortifications on the Karelian Isthmus outside of Leningrad.
They did stop at the old border in Karelian isthmus and never went further than the old border near Leningrad.
They did advance further in north, but that was just a bumper zone. Finns were very weak in the north and they had to take few extra steps into Soviet territory because they were almost sure that Soviets will push back sooner or later.
@@RoyalMela please, check the facts.
It's always you russians who never believe anything except when it promotes your fantasy of "the great soviet union" and never believe facts. Even if they did go to karelia, it would have been justified because the karelians tried to free themselves from soviet tyranny so the finns would have been the liberators
@@kiriya02 if 3,5 Karelians who wanted to free themselves from the Soviets were enough to justify the Finnish invasion to Karelia, then the Soviet invasion in Poland in 1939 was justified by those Belorussians and Ukrainians who were displeased with Polish rule and wanted to join to Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Belarus.
Excellent video Simple History! I would like to learn about the Mexican Revolution of 1917, please.
Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
Yep greetings.
It might be a little long though, what with all the plans...
You always make amazing videos, keep it up
Поштовање за све храбре људе који су тамо били
(Respect for all brave men who were there)
Do a video on South Africa like the
-1st boer war
-2nd boer war
That would be AWESOME ! 😉👌🏽
YES!!!!!
I would say Rhodesia too, but it'd be impossible without starting arguments left and right in the comments.
Thurnis Haley yeah
Wasn't Zulu Wars, Boer War 1 and Boer War 2?
This video is great! I came here because I'm doing a research for a presentation of Shostakovich's 7th Symphony (Subtitled "Leningrad"). I mean, most artworks (any art) have to have a historical and/or emotional context, which is clearly represented in DSCH 7. Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg in 1906, city which would later become Leningrad, after the Russian Revolution. He lived there all his life until the siege, when he had to flee in order to survive. He had already started composing the symphony in Leningrad, so he finished composing it out of there in a little amount of time. He finally finished it and it was premiered in Kuybyshev (now Samara), then in America, with Arturo Toscanini, and then, decided to perform the symphony in the sieged city of Leningrad. This was not an easy task, since most of the musicians were missing or dead. Karl Eliasberg was the conductor in charge of the premier in Leningrad. He was very demanding. Musicians were payed with a little loaf of bread, courtesy of the melomaniacs who still lived there. If any musician missed a rehearsal (only excuse if they were dead or in a life-or-death situation), Eliasberg wouldn't give them the bread.
This symphony is really hard to perform, it requires a little bit more than 100 musicians, yet less than 30 musicians (amateurs involved) played in the Leningrad premier. Many musicians died during the rehearsals (mostly woodwinds and brass). The concert arrived, and they played it with amplifier so that people would hear the symphony. And that drove the Nazis attention. They tried to bomb the hall, so part of the Russian army defended it. In the end, the concert was a success, being taken as a symbol of resistance.
I recommend everyone to listen to this piece, specially the 1st and 4th movements, and listen to Bernstein/Chicago, Mata/Dallas, Svetlanov/USSRSO, Currentzis/SWRSO (I highly recommend this one) and Eliasberg. This last recording is very special, since it was made around 20 years later to commemorate the victims of the siege, and many of the musicians who participated in the Leningrad premier.
It would be amazing if simple history had Joakim Brodén from Sabaton as a guest and both of them did a video collab together.
Oooooh, now thats an idea.
The real Hunger Games
yoo
Ur everywhere
trycoldman23 TF EVERYWHEREEEE
That honour goes to the Soviet Cannibal Island (stuffed people on an island without food).
:D
I learned history from school 5%
And 95% from Simple History Thanks man👍👍💪💪
One of my grandfather's died in Leningrad he was only a young man. RIP
The people dieing from the famine is just really sad by itself :(
Siege or no siege,they would have starved anyway under Stalin
@Amon Ra Too soon
Mojew Jewjew but only on hollywood propaganda movies
@@cudanmang_theog Let me guess,your a commie that denies that so many people starved in communist contries somethimes these famines were man made like the Holomodor
I am an anonymous bot. The USA total murdered 100 million Native Americans and 40 million people from Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Ukraine today for saved their Rothschild's profits and opressing on other nations in their colonies. And they still have brick walls named Hollywood fiction movie studio and Fake news media to canceling people and the world to know it and bring the USA to prison.
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Prof Stepheral
only if you give us ALL YOUR OIL!!!!!
It wasn't even a 1on1
I can't even imagine being in those conditions for 872 days, but that is not even the longest siege. Maybe do a video on siege of Sarajevo next? It was the longest siege of a capital city in modern warfare and it was much more recent. It lasted unimaginable 1425 days (almost 4 years), from 5th of April 1992. to 29th of February 1996. There is even a really good video game that was inspired by the event, called This War of Mine.
That would be so cool
Was it easier to get supplies in Sarajevo than it was in Leningrad.
Hey, can I say thank you for mentioning Generalplan OST was a thing? I honestly think a video on that would be good- it’d help weed out the Wehrbs.
Yes many seem to think that Germans came to the soviet union to hand out candy or something. People tend to overlook they killed 15 million citizens. Not soldiers.... Citizens of my country. My great grandmother was put into a concentration camp because her husband was a soldier. She was there with her child. Others of my family lost their homes due to Germans burning their villages.
Can't thank you enough for bringing the truth about our ancestors' heroism to the Western people. It's great pity that too little people outside Russia know it
I'm brazilian and now is more commonly accepted that the war turned out better to the Allies after Stalingrad. But people don't know too much about the siege of Leningrad and Kursk battle.
Hollywood should make movies about the eastern front. Some of their ww2 movies are pretty dope.
the first cargo of the "road of life" was 200 cats from Yaroslav. they was called "the meow division" for manage the plague of rats in the city. Even today in Leningrad (i dont like call it st petesburg) are momuments to the Yaroslav Cats in the city
I am staying in Saint Petersburg (Lenigrad) since 2013. And that events were really great tragedy for our town, our nation, our property. I am typing it now, and a tears are dropping from my eyes without a control...
I love that place
Petersburg is a hero city, never fell to enemy hands.
I'm proud to have heritage from that great city.
@@andro7862 RUSSIA IS DA BEST!
When the war started, my grandmother was only 10 years old. Her father, my great-grandfather, went to the front, never returning from there. Together with my great-grandmother and brother, they survived the siege and the war. At night, my grandmother put out incendiary bombs on the roofs, every day in the cold she herself went for bread. War is terrible, it's sad to see how people are dying in war right now .. Never forget, never again 🙏
What an incredible story of bravery. Lest we forget
Make and videos for the battles at Kiev, Minsk and Moscow please.
What's also really interesting is the fate of Army Group North later renamed Courland, after the long and brutal siege the battered remnants had to hastily retreat before becoming hopelessly trapped in Nothern Latvia with no chance of escape.
My wife and I visited St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) in 2014 during a cruise. We toured the Hermitage museum and other sites as part of a cruise ship stop. The city is beautiful with many very friendly people. Their only complaint was that the temperature was 86 F--mild for us as Texans.
Germans used the dirtiest tactics against civilian population of the Soviet Union, namely cities of Leningrad and Stalingrad, and still lost. Nazis lost not because Allies came and "heroically ended the war in one swoop" - they lost, because tens, if not hundreds of thousands of servicemen and civilians alike, from all occupied and invaded countries, including the Soviet Union, had the courage to stand up to them. And thanks to their courage, and many other contributions to the war effort, Soviets were able to turn tables on Nazis during the Stalingrad, and then push them back all the way to Hitler's rathole - Berlin. Sacrifices of Soviet people must not be forgotten.
Every time my patience is tested, I just watch this video to understand how patient the soldiers and civilians of Leningrad were during the siege.
Also mad props to you guys for everything you do! Absolutely love how you mentioned Finland during this period...no one ever talks about Finland after the winter war. 😁👍🏻
and what should they say?🤡
There was an absolutely terrible incident several days before the siege of Leningrad. The Soviets were desperately trying to evacuate as many kids as possible from the city. So there was a train with 2 thousand children, it stopped at Lychkovo station not far from Leningrad to collect several dozen kids from a nearby village. Then a German plane appeared and suddenly dropped 25 bombs directly on the train without any reason. Like it was not a warehouse, or an aerodrome, or a military base, it was just a civilian train with little kids. And I guess you understand what happened to them. The Soviest at that time knew about Hitler, but they still thought Germans were civilised and humane. It was hard for them to believe something like that could actually happen.