Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. From the Fury 2014 movie. However it shows that every idea is peaceful until it is inevitably put into action and most if not all the actions are violent ones.
For all the Americans pointing at Russians, America fucked up so many democracies and countries due to their 'Freedom' shit. Yeah there is no good or bad side. Everybody is for themselves
@@shrekeatscupcakes3918 In the first video, she explained that Over Simplified left out Russia's participation and she didn't understand why as Russia was also heavily involved in WW2. Every time she shook her head, it was because the video made it seemed as if America (mostly, per the video) did all of the work while Russia's participation was kept to a bare minimum. As she stated "we lost a lot of soldiers". I am not Russian but looking at it from her perspective, I can understand but at the same time, it's called "Over Simplified" for a reason.
Yes, please do! That‘s an highly appraised and popular video. Very educational, easy to follow. And not goofy. It would complete your WW 2 series . Would love to see your take on it!
Not really. It’s just tragic to see how the Soviets used their men as cannon fodder. Whereas the Allies actually cared about their people and had much lower casualties as a result. Interestingly Russia would have lost without US aid.
I remember my grandmother telling me how, when she was in high school in Pennsylvania back in 1945, there was a day where the principal interrupted class by bursting into the room. He had a big smile on his face and said he just heard on the radio that hitler killed himself, so he was giving all the students the rest of the day off. My grandmother said that she and the other kids ran across town cheering that hitler was dead, and the townsfolk came out and cheered because for many of them this was the first time hearing it. As a teacher, I told this story to my high school history class during the lesson on wwii. The students’ jaws dropped in horror, one even asked “how could anyone celebrate someone committing suicide?!” That’s how I knew they weren’t paying attention.
The idea that someone wouldn't know who Hitler was is just weird to me. When I was in early High School I didn't know the exact details about Hitler and the Nazis before learning about WWII but I at least knew they were *bad guys.*
Oversimplified does a pretty good job at explaining certain moments in history with a bit of humor added in, a great way to make people learn at least the basic important facts and from there you can research more if wanted. And I find it cool that you're Russian, because I'm sure you learned about any of the wars from a very different perspective that most of us in other places of the world. Thanks so much for sharing these reactions with us :)
6:18 A terrible fate that was. To be fair though, people were starving long before that. My family escaped the Soviet Union and many of them who didn’t make it died in the gulags. My grandmother was Ukrainian and my grandfather was Russian. My great grandfather told my mother how captured cities would sometimes welcome the Nazis in as liberators…
Interesting how the Soviet actions were mostly reduced to a few mentions, as what was going on in the Eastern front was more of a 'singular' direct, large scale, beast of a conflict lasting months and years; while the UK/Allies from the west were involved in much more nuanced, 'small' scale engagements all over Europe with various little operations playing cat and mouse. It makes sense, but it does put a disproportionate amount of focus on all these small events while the vast scope of battles throughout the East are summed up in a few sentences. And really surprising that the whole final push into Germany, the fall of Berlin, etc were basically glossed over. I feel like more time was spent on the fall of Italy.
He is emphasizing the smaller stories you find that don't make it into summaries. That's really nice. The Soviet side of the war was under top-down control, the Eastern front stories of partisans and spies mostly never got told, unlike in the West, where participants wrote memoirs or fiction based on the events. Millions of people's stories on the Eastern front were forgotten because there wasn't a proper publishing or movie industry paying people to write memoirs or make movies based on their experience. The few films about WWII that came out in Russia came later, and were often based on the shared common stories, the propaganda, rather than detailed individual memoirs. An exception might be something like "Come And See".
Because the Soviets wasting their men as cannon fodder is not something people want to see over and over again. The Soviets would have lost without American aid anyway so that’s why the West is focused on.
One thing I learned in the last months is that the USA sent food, clothing, and war supplies to all the Allies including Russia. The USA sent steel, gunpowder, explosives, combat boots/uniforms/helmets food for the troops and the people of Russia. Without the USA, Russia would have had a hard time defending itself, and probably would not have defeated Hitler.
Many time I had debate about world politics with people that personally disliked the USA, they like to brush off these important actions the US do as just a political gain action. While it maybe is true in some degree, these actions in a larger sense were for a good cause, and it simply cannot be overlooked.
My grandpa was part of the US force that went through North Africa and then into Italy. And since his parents (my great grandparents) had been born in southern Italy, family and friends were more of an influence than national leaders.
Russian schools always gloss over the start of WW2 because the Stalin was Hitler's ally in the beginning. The attacks on the west front was possible only because of permanent supplies (gas) from USSR. What the Soviets did in Poland was terrible (e.g. Katyn). However, Hitler hated Stalin and hated marxism, therefore the attack on the East front was not that surprising. Russians lost an enormous number of people - they actually have the highest number of victims in WW2. However, Russian schools always omit that many of those were killed by their own, and they were often sent to battles without guns, or even without shoes. What really won the WW2 was the economic power of USA. USA sent big material help to UK, and later also to Russia (the "lend lease" program). I live in Prague, which was liberated by the Soviets (it could be liberated days earlier by USA but the treaty forbid it). One the the first things happening after the liberation was that the Russian secret police took a list of names of Russian emigrants, went to their homes and abducted them to Russia.
Too bad schools in Poland and Czechia started glossing over the start of WW2 as Soviet invasion, leaving students completely unaware about everything that happened before and after. Oh well, can't blame them, gotta follow "the economic power of USA" in 21 century.
@@J0rdan912 You need to study so much more man. I don't know where are you from but what you said was so messed up I don't even know how to respond. Schools in Poland and Czechoslovakia for over 40 years were teaching that USSR was saving everyone from Germans, that Katyń massacre was made by Germans and so on. People new the truth but no one was allowed to say it out loud. After 1990 the facts started to come to light and e.g. on 13.10.1992 Russia officially admitted that USSR was to blame of massacre of over 20000 people in Katyń and other places. Germany started the war but USSR wasn't waiting too long to join (they invaded Poland exactly 16 days after Germany did).
@@mojito510 Maybe you are from older generation, but you can easily see from these days kids in Poland, Czechia some other countries are completely unaware about it if you read some comments from social media. Well, start from the very first comment I replied from @Ondrej Hanslik comment and study fact by fact.
@@J0rdan912 I don't know if I am an older generation but I'm not a kid definitely and what @Ondrej Hanslik wrote was mostly a fact. Hitler wouldn't have started the war as we know it if he hadn't guaranteed peace with the Soviet Union. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact provided for the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union and established a new border between the two countries. Not only did this mean that Germany and the Soviet Union would attack Poland roughly at the same time without a declaration of war (which made it significantly easier for Hitler to quickly occupy Poland), but it also ensured peace in the east, allowing Hitler to focus his entire forces on attacking western Europe (only Hitler's stupid mistake allowed the British to manage to evacuate part of their forces back from France).It's true that if not for the defeat of Hitler on the eastern front it would have been difficult for the allies to win the war and in this sense the USSR contributed significantly to its end, but it must be remembered that the USSR started the war with Hitler only when it was already attacked - earlier Stalin did not bother The Third Reich in any way and as a bonus Stalin murdered thousands of Polish prisoners (mostly high rank officers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, post office members) taken captive during the campaign in September 1939. By the way, I find it amazing that Russians defend people like Stalin, Beria (Лаврентий Павлович Берия), Yezhov (Николай Иванович Ежов) and Ijegoda (Генрих Григорьевич Ягода) - they were responsible for killing many many thousands of russians...
@@mojito510 And still we are avoiding everything that happened *before* The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Which was the exact and important role of Poland and Czechoslovakia in WW2 start. The part that Poland and Czech kids are missing these days when they talking too much about "glossing over things in Russian schools" while their own countries are too busy with destroying monuments and history books for "some" reason. So if I'm wrong and "what Ondrej Hanslik wrote was mostly a fact", I'm out.
I never noticed he says General Nimitz @14:43 but also it refers to trapped Americans in Bastogne as they were airborne infantry they were trained to fight surrounded by enemy forces. The 101st Airborne was sent in to hold the city before the armor could arrive.
Actually I know this is probably really surprising but the Soviets were really the only ones taking land the Allies on the other hand were mostly liberating I'm not saying they didn't take land I'm just saying that the Soviets after World War II occupied Eastern Europe while the Western allies liberated Western Europe.
I am gonna make this short 1. Allies never considered SU as even a potential long term ally(they denounced SU right from the start of its forming), so it was just enemies who united against same threat 2. SU lost A LOT of man, resources, integrity of land. So with the threat of allies it had to find resources, that’s why it crated puppet states(also remember ww 1 when none of Russia’s territories were given back)
@@RAD2070 what's funny though and kind of ironic is that the Soviets wouldn't have even been able to develop their tanks or aircraft without America because America literally supplied the Soviets with most of their supplies, everything from metal for tanks and planes to oil and food rations.
@@stratejic1020 caucasus mountains had oil. Uralic mountains had metal. The only thing that matered was food and cars. it was important but the soviet people were suffering much more than US so it was logical to at least supply the soviets And by develop you mean build? Because development was the success of soviet engineers
@@stratejic1020 britain and the united states sent thousands of tanks and planes to su united states also sent farm equipment and locomotives for their rail system not to mention the thousands of tons of food
Interesting fact: When I was in school, back in the 70's up to 1990 (finishing 12th grade) "The Battle of Stalingrad" was part of our WW 2 lessons. We learned basically more about the fight over the city itself than we did of any OTHER Russian efforts until Russia was fighting Germany and moving through Poland. Most of the USA lessons (back then) obviously focused on USA military efforts. But we also learned of supplying Russia with arms/food/medicine during the winter over frozen lakes and through Siberia. Not enough to really say "we made the difference", but enough to at least say "we helped keep Russia able to focus more on military efforts than anything else". We also learned of Russia's push to capture Berlin before US/UK forces could reach it. How that became the 'main focus' near the end. But somewhere around 85-86, the focus became more and more about US military efforts from D-Day invasion forward with LESS attention on the Africa/Italy efforts, or Russia in general. It was mostly just "mentioned" more than "taught".
Yeah I was in HS in the late 90s (class of 2000 actually) and I remember when it came to WWII, the Africa/Italy efforts weren't given as much attention. I actually learned more about that part from my own family since my Grandpa was in the US army in WWII and he was part of the campaign that went through Africa and Italy.
Russia was mentioned in part 1, for it's pact with Hitler, dividing up Poland and making it possible for Hitler to start WW2. They later made up for it by defeating Hitler on the east front.
Lol the Soviet Union literally tried to establish an anti-Hitler coalition with France and Britain, but they refused to work with Stalin because of the fact that he was a communist. The Soviet Union was the last country to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler; the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact would not even happen if the French and the British were not such a dick. In this sense, the Soviets were not the only ones who “made up” by helping the world defeating fascism.
@@Meine.Postma The invasion was part of that non-aggression pact, and this was related to what the Poles were doing in Czechoslovakia. The Soviets had no choice when the British and the French refused to work with them to counter Hitler from the beginning because, at that time, they knew they were not ready to face Hitler alone. Again as I said, the invasion of Poland would not have happened if both the British and the French were not such a dick and busying kissing Hitler’s ass.
@@LeonWagg I see your point and mostly agree with it, except for the part that they had as much to make up for as the UK and France. Well except for Chamberlain, he was an idiot. Sort of.
@@LeonWagg It is "funny" how Germany and the Soviet Union made a pact they both never intended to keep because both were not ready to fight each other.
The pykrete aircraft carrier was the idea of making a floating island half way between the US and UK for aircraft to land on their way to Europe and patrol for U-boats where the allies could not reach. Pykrete is sawdust and ice its really tough and doesn't melt much so unsinkable by torpedoes and bombs.
It's incredible how much information was in these videos and yet there is still so much to know. The holocaust, pearl harbor, the Russian invasion, the African battles, and many other pieces were just barely mentioned yet have so many small details that change one's perception of war.
The Eastern Front was quite frankly treated very superficial. No Kursk, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising, Narva, Bagration, hardly anything about Fall of Berlin. Considering the importance of the Eastern Front quite the insult.
Another failure at Pearl Harbor was that the American aircraft carriers were not in port leaving America with a strong naval force despite the surprise attack
When I was in school (I'm an American) -- I began first grade in 1956 -- all the emphasis was on the American role in World War II. It wasn't until much later that I studied the Soviet side of the European war. The Soviets suffered terribly but they wouldn't quit. As a result, Germany's military force was drained, and they were kept away from the oilfields in the Caucasus, Iran, and Iraq. The sheer carnage at Stalingrad was horrible, but it crippled Germany in more ways than one. In 2004, an American author, married to a Russian woman -- they lived in Moscow -- made a rafting trip on the Lena River from Ust' Kut to the Arctic Ocean. He hired a guide, a veteran of the Afghan War and an expert in survival. The trip took the whole summer. The author went ashore frequently to talk with people. Some Russians told him that the Russian response to harsh conditions is to dig in and endure, but that wasn't always the best thing to do. Many felt that Russia might not have had to endure so many imperial and Soviet dictatorships if they had fought the tyrants. However, they still held Stalin in high esteem because of his leadership in the Great Patriotic War, as the Russians call World War II. The book I'm referring to is River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny, by Jeffrey Tayler. Dasha, if I had a granddaughter, I would want her to be as intelligent, warmhearted, and beautiful as you.
(10:12) In Western Europe, Stalingrad is often considered to be the turning point of the war, but it was actually the Battle of Kursk, where the Nazis lost most of their armored units. Without the immense effort of the Russians on the Eastern Front it would have been impossible to defeat the Nazis
Same, I am a Filipino and yeah when I was in grade school the teacher only taught us how the Imperial Japan invaded the Philippines and Gen. McArthur's "I Shall Return" statement. Same as you I learned a lot from Oversimplified.
You didn't forget about the Pacific Theater. I've had discussions with a number of people outside the US and, apart from a couple of Australians, almost no one learns about the Pacific Theater in grade school besides the fact that it happened. The rest of the world (besides the countries occupied by Japan) were minimally involved. For practical purposes, it was a completely separate war between the US and Japan. Had it not been going and US resources hadn't been split between two different theaters, the war in Europe would have ended much quicker. Of course, had it not happened, the US wouldn't have been in the war, so... there's that.
Technically, actually Japan was in war with China as well and while SU was definitely focused on war on their territory, actually China had help as well, mostly with instructors, though, so Japan had to spread their resources quite thin.
I would also note the war effort in the Pacific by allied nations such as the UK (including India at that time), Australia and New Zealand. The British were particularly instrumental in SE Asia, defending India and retaking Burma. The ANZAC troops held off the Japanese in Papua and were active all over the theater of war. Yes, we were the most numerous in the Pacific but it was an Allied victory there, just as in Europe and elsewhere. I completely agree, though, that most Europeans largely overlook the half of the war that occurred in the Pacific -- and thus fail to understand the totality of the war effort.
@8:10- If there's one thing about this video I don't 100% agree with it's the phrase on how our country "had no choice but to join the war". That's SOOO not true. From stories that I've heard from my grandparents' generation, Americans, INCLUDING Roosevelt were furious about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the country was very Pro-War at that point. So many young men join the war effort, including my maternal grandpa, step-grandpa, several uncles, and other cousins. Sadly, not all of them made it. My paternal grandpa's oldest brother died on D-Day and my father is named after him.
I would guess he used the words "had no choice" because two hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Declaration of War on the U.S. and Great Britain was received from Emperor Hirohito. In other words, if the attack wasn't a clear declaration enough on its own, war had already officially been declared. Roosevelt declared war on Japan the following day in response. Four days later, Germany declared war on the U.S. Even if Roosevelt had wanted to, there was no avoiding the war at that point.
Yeah, Leningrad had to come up with a technology that made bread with wallpaper because the people were starving inside. A reminder that we don't necessarily have it that bad
You should definitely watch The Cold War by over simplified. I'm 45, and American, so the Cold War was something I grew up with. We grew up, in a time, when Russians were the enemy. After the "war", I've gotten to know quite a few people from Russia and former Soviet Republics, that moved to America, and have come to love the Russian people. I had a great friend from Tajikistan, who is about my age, so it was so interesting to see his side of the Cold War, from his perspective. And, I've become friends with Russians, about 10 years younger than me, that were too young to really have experienced the Cold War. It would be cool to see, a person your age and from your perspectives, reaction to it. Plus, you have great energy and are perfect for doing reaction videos. Udachi.
I lived in Ukraine for 7 years and found that the Russian/Ukrainian people knew very little about any other part of WWII. it was all Russia. Frankly I was shocked when people said that the US had a minor part in the war. They did not know or believe that the US supplied millions of dollars worth of food, trucks and weapons to help them against the Germans. Almost no one knew about the US and Japan. Their view was that Russia saved the world.
Nah, they totally know about US help and other war theaters. But dude, just look on numbers if not soviet, but german casualties at eastern front relatively to all other ones. They speak this way bcs anything that other allies did is just utterly dwarfed into insignificant nuance by what happen at eastern front. And what about "US supplied". SU received 1/3 of supply from all Allies in comparison to what just Britain received in billions of dollars. And I don't see Britain did triple damage to Germany respectively.
@@Tree.fiddy. but technically it was the soviet union who defeated nazi germany by killing 2+ million german soldiers of the wermacht compared to the half a million killed by the western allies. Considering the casualties, USSR also suffered the most under german occupation, but they ultimately won.
As you say, at school everyone learns a view of the war that revolves around their own country. German kids learn a lot about how things are Germany's fault and the weaknesses of the Weimar constitution that allowed a load of gangsters and psychopaths to take over. Teachers in Japan and even in Italy seem reluctant to be so negative about their national histories.
It's estimated that about 80% of the German forces were fighting Russia on the Eastern front including the massive Battle of Kursk, which to this day was the largest tank battle in history. People in the west are very ignorant of just how much Russia was key to beating Nazi Germany and Hitler because it rarely gets mentioned.
17:19 the emperor hirohito’s radio address to his people is significant for more than one reason: Japan is the world’s oldest country and this was the first time in all of history that the common Japanese people heard the voice of their emperor; he was considered divine and therefore they were unworthy of hearing him speak. Language had changed so much in those millennia that when Hirohito spoke to his people he did so in Courtly Japanese, essentially like Shakespearean English. But, his people got the gist of his speech: the war was over. I don’t approve of the use of the atomic bombs but I have seen the plans for the alternative, Operation Downfall, and I’m honestly not sure which is worse.
Actually I don't think that's true I don't think Japan is the oldest country I'm pretty sure China is since it's been around since it's early dynasties and hasn't fallen apart yet. I would say Japan is one of the oldest countries but I wouldn't say it's the oldest country.
@@lizd2943 well firstly actually the Japanese emperor isn't seen as a god anymore and I'm talking about the longest continuous country, however I consider China to have ended after the Communists won the Civil War and destroyed china
The *2 Atomic Bombs* dropped on *Japan* actually probably saved lives since they fought to the death over Islands the main land would have been worse on both sides compared to *2* cities. In fact the massive fire bombing the *US* had been doing killed more it just took massive numbers of planes compared to the *2* planes that each dropped *1 Atomic Bomb*
Dude, no offense, but you are just blind. Look better into casualties structure of Japan presented on video. Actually 2 atomic bombs created same number of civil casualties as WHOLE fire bombing during war. Though, fire bombing had quite devastating effect on facilities.
@@FakTorThis Doubtful. Japan was already on the break of collapse and was ready to surrender before A-bombing. Just terms of surrender wasn't good enough for US, so they decided to force Japan more into submission with that. And whole western theater of WW2, counting D-day was very far from taking even 1 million lifes. Really. JUST.LOOK.INTO.GODDAMN.NUMBERS.
@@antonzhdanov9653 no they wouldn’t surrender. Emperor Hirohito was like Stalin, he was going to sacrifice everyone in the defense of Japan if he had to.
@@antonzhdanov9653 Yes, look in the numbers. Then you'll see that at the day of surrender Japan had MORE soldiers on the southern island than the Allies had available for the invasion of that same island. A military rule of thumb is that you need to outnumber the enemy 3 to 1 for an assault to have a reasonable chance of succes, and that is without the complications of an amphibious assault. In any case the Japanese would have the benefit of fighting from solid ground, as opposite to the Allies who would need ships, in other words floating targets. Any attempt with those numbers would've been futile.
There were many cases of German soldiers seeking out American and British soldiers to surrender to because they feared the Russian Army and saw surrendering to them as a death sentence
The reason why the cold was a problem was not like what your teachers told you that "we are russians and we are used to the cold" ... its not much colder in western russia than in germany. The reason was that the plan was to finish the war with soviet union before winter arrives ( probably expecting they would surrender after some time ) , so they did still have their summer uniforms from when the invasion started and all was designed for summer because they were expecting to finish before winter comes. Really strange if your teachers believed that, because germany also has cold and long winter every year, just a few degees less in russia in average, they should know that. And around the 1940s years germany had -20°C, -25°C, -30°C in many cities. The City of München did hit -30,5°C in 1942. Hamburg -29°C ... and so on.
I 'US' Had a grandfather that only once told the story of New Guinea , North of Australia, was shooting down coconuts with japanese guns for a Betting-Game. I wont mention the other stories out of courtesy
Theses were the Saving Private Ryan Moments in the war. By the way (WW2 in color) is a great if not the best method to get up to speed with this war me recommends :)
The allies were not trying to conquer land they were trying to stop the expansion of Germany and her allies. this wasn't a war of aggression the allies part it was a war of self defense
The winter is mostly excuses. Nearly all historians agree that the war in easter front was not lost because of winter, but unexpected stubborn resistance and understimation of soviet reserves and natural resources. Soviet union was mostly also outnumbered in the begining of the war up to german defeats in moscow and stalingrad. Also most high german field marshals admitt that the winter wasnt the problem, but that they underestimated soviet union due to insane progress at the begining. The progress was mostly due to soviet union being inferior in terms of warfare, basically germany had better airforce, better tanks, better trained army. Soviet union went mostly on retreat and bunch of those encirclments from germans happened because of people being forced to stand their positions as retread would lead to civilians being targets. Oversimplifed is good videos, but winter stopping germans was just excuse. Factually in moscow battles many counter attacks to break germans was hailed to bad weather. It affected both, but its just an excuse.
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it".....George Santayana I've been studying WW2 history for probably twice as long as you have been alive, and I can assure you that video is pretty accurate. Watching it with you, made it more .........interesting
For more on the US-Japan Pacific Theater, these are pretty good: Pearl Harbor: th-cam.com/video/f6cz9gtMTeI/w-d-xo.html Coral Sea: th-cam.com/video/NB5hH3ksvKE/w-d-xo.html Midway (3 parts): th-cam.com/video/Bd8_vO5zrjo/w-d-xo.html For a wide number of WW2 events, the excellent British documentary series "Battlefield" on TH-cam: events in chronological order th-cam.com/play/PLFKGWRjVCefuIAhS439ROXtD0L9cungW_.html
One distinction you be proud of is that your nation tested the largest nuclear bomb ever because of the cold war in a test of might agains the US. They called it the Tsar Bomba.
'The same mistakes', the problem is that those who start wars start them because they think they will gain something from them. People like that have always existed, and while they exist those who want peace can't just disband their armies, because then they will be in danger. A saying that goes all the way back to Roman times is 'if you want peace, prepare for war', in other words, you have to always be ready to defend yourself. When you mentioned 'everyone was trying to get as much land as possible' when the Allies were invading Normandy in France, they weren't. The Allies in Western Europe were trying to TAKE BACK land that had been taken by the Germans. The only Nations trying to land grab were Germany, Italy and Japan (literally) and the Soviet Union (by creating puppet states and the Union). In the case of WW2, you said 'why?', because certain governments were greedy and wanted to take, enslave and destroy, and other people had to fight back or be destroyed, or allow others to be enslaved. Even with the end of this war, many were still not saved because they went from German occupation to Soviet occupation.
Whats important is to see from people like you that no matter where we are from we were only taught 1/2 the story. In the west we did not learn much about what happened in Russia, In America we did not learn much about what hapened before pearl harbor....
No Offense, but Stalin was the reason for just as many Russian deaths, but its interesting to see your side of what you're taught in school. Good to see you have an open mind and see the big picture of the war.
Want a musical twist to history..... Try the "sabaton / yarn hub" collaboration channel. In particular the song "night witches" its about a totally female bomber squadron. Also, the "defence of Moscow" same band, same channel...
I assumed she thought the same as every person in the UK at the time , that's a huge disappointment were are your allies when you need them more than ever. FDR was a good man who brought the yanks into the war when they didn't want to. And when they turned up they turned up in style to be fair.
Is it possible that you are recording the sound through the camera's microphone instead of the headset's? At least that's how it sounds to me and it's sometimes quite difficult to understand you because of the reverb in the room. Otherwise great video, keep up the good work.😄
WW2 is still an huge deal for Russia today. Negative birthrate, well thats is same for most of the wesern countries but Russia/Soviet Union hit the bad high score all time.
There is a dramatuzed semi biographical book about one of the writer of Game of Thrones' grandfather who was a young Russian conscript in Leningrad during the siege called "City of Thieves." Worth checking out.
Dasha, you should react to Enemies at the gates. One of my favorite war movie. In Russians point of view surrounding Vassili Zaitsev the amazing Russian Sniper.
16:51 The US beat Germany into building the A-Bomb. Both countries were trying to develop it, plus Hitler had in development the first inter-continental missile, the V2, which if both combined were completed before his demise, he could have nuked Washington and make everyone surrender in one or two strikes. The US knew this was a race they could not lose. After the massacre on both sides that was the invasion of Okinawa, the president of the US realized that to capture emperor Hirohito he might have to kill every Japanese, men, women and children between the coast and the emperor. Japanese mentality that dying with honor was preferable to living in disgrace required a large massacre to defeat Japan, that's what led to the use of the A-Bombs. The long-term effects of nuclear explosions was not known at the time. It is hard to understand today why the US used such devastating weapon over civilian targets, because now the effects are well known, but at the time the US had detonated US bombs at certain altitude over a few "volunteers" who tested in themselves the risks of being exposed to the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. Since they were OK, no further effects were expected. It was years later that all the volunteers died of cancer, that the connection to the effects of the bombs in Japan was made.
Actually, Russia was mentioned in part 1. They signed the Non Aggression Pact with the Nazis and helped them conquer Poland, remember?
My favorite quote about history is from Mark Twain. He said, "History never repeats, but it often ryhmes."
He was wrong it repeats all the time.
"It's like poetry, it ryhmes"
history doesn't repeat itself but historians often do.
Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. From the Fury 2014 movie. However it shows that every idea is peaceful until it is inevitably put into action and most if not all the actions are violent ones.
Not confirmed quote by Mark Twain but it is often something we say as historians.
It's funny how it's ingrained into you to shake your head everytime America is mentioned doing something in the video.
Yeah I don't get why she did that
For all the Americans pointing at Russians, America fucked up so many democracies and countries due to their 'Freedom' shit. Yeah there is no good or bad side. Everybody is for themselves
@@shrekeatscupcakes3918 In the first video, she explained that Over Simplified left out Russia's participation and she didn't understand why as Russia was also heavily involved in WW2. Every time she shook her head, it was because the video made it seemed as if America (mostly, per the video) did all of the work while Russia's participation was kept to a bare minimum. As she stated "we lost a lot of soldiers". I am not Russian but looking at it from her perspective, I can understand but at the same time, it's called "Over Simplified" for a reason.
The ship game you were thinking of, we call it "Battleship" here in the states.
You should watch a video called "the fallen of ww2" it's really interesting
Yes, please do! That‘s an highly appraised and popular video. Very educational, easy to follow. And not goofy. It would complete your WW 2 series . Would love to see your take on it!
theres one of ww1 also... and the nukes on the globe vid is really interesting as well. the number of nukes blown up is kinda mind blowing.
Not really. It’s just tragic to see how the Soviets used their men as cannon fodder.
Whereas the Allies actually cared about their people and had much lower casualties as a result.
Interestingly Russia would have lost without US aid.
I remember my grandmother telling me how, when she was in high school in Pennsylvania back in 1945, there was a day where the principal interrupted class by bursting into the room. He had a big smile on his face and said he just heard on the radio that hitler killed himself, so he was giving all the students the rest of the day off. My grandmother said that she and the other kids ran across town cheering that hitler was dead, and the townsfolk came out and cheered because for many of them this was the first time hearing it.
As a teacher, I told this story to my high school history class during the lesson on wwii. The students’ jaws dropped in horror, one even asked “how could anyone celebrate someone committing suicide?!” That’s how I knew they weren’t paying attention.
It’s easier for a teen to be familiar with suicide then a Holocaust.
@@trayolphia5756 I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
@@lazymansload520 thats an odd story to tell children wtf?
@@pullimau8555 I was trying to reach them not only about the impact wwii had on American society but also how we are still not so far removed from it.
The idea that someone wouldn't know who Hitler was is just weird to me. When I was in early High School I didn't know the exact details about Hitler and the Nazis before learning about WWII but I at least knew they were *bad guys.*
Oversimplified does a pretty good job at explaining certain moments in history with a bit of humor added in, a great way to make people learn at least the basic important facts and from there you can research more if wanted. And I find it cool that you're Russian, because I'm sure you learned about any of the wars from a very different perspective that most of us in other places of the world. Thanks so much for sharing these reactions with us :)
6:18 A terrible fate that was. To be fair though, people were starving long before that. My family escaped the Soviet Union and many of them who didn’t make it died in the gulags. My grandmother was Ukrainian and my grandfather was Russian. My great grandfather told my mother how captured cities would sometimes welcome the Nazis in as liberators…
И почему они убежали из Советского Союза интересно?
Interesting how the Soviet actions were mostly reduced to a few mentions, as what was going on in the Eastern front was more of a 'singular' direct, large scale, beast of a conflict lasting months and years; while the UK/Allies from the west were involved in much more nuanced, 'small' scale engagements all over Europe with various little operations playing cat and mouse. It makes sense, but it does put a disproportionate amount of focus on all these small events while the vast scope of battles throughout the East are summed up in a few sentences.
And really surprising that the whole final push into Germany, the fall of Berlin, etc were basically glossed over. I feel like more time was spent on the fall of Italy.
He is emphasizing the smaller stories you find that don't make it into summaries. That's really nice. The Soviet side of the war was under top-down control, the Eastern front stories of partisans and spies mostly never got told, unlike in the West, where participants wrote memoirs or fiction based on the events. Millions of people's stories on the Eastern front were forgotten because there wasn't a proper publishing or movie industry paying people to write memoirs or make movies based on their experience. The few films about WWII that came out in Russia came later, and were often based on the shared common stories, the propaganda, rather than detailed individual memoirs. An exception might be something like "Come And See".
That's typical western propaganda for you. They can't do jack shit but keep taking credit for no apparent reason.
Because the Soviets wasting their men as cannon fodder is not something people want to see over and over again.
The Soviets would have lost without American aid anyway so that’s why the West is focused on.
One thing I learned in the last months is that the USA sent food, clothing, and war supplies to all the Allies including Russia. The USA sent steel, gunpowder, explosives, combat boots/uniforms/helmets food for the troops and the people of Russia. Without the USA, Russia would have had a hard time defending itself, and probably would not have defeated Hitler.
Many time I had debate about world politics with people that personally disliked the USA, they like to brush off these important actions the US do as just a political gain action. While it maybe is true in some degree, these actions in a larger sense were for a good cause, and it simply cannot be overlooked.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything better than “people are monster” and I love that you said that
Dasha, I appreciate your laser focus. It was refreshing to watch you absorb the information.
Finland was kicking WW2 seriosly with Stalins ass. We try to keep seperate but Stalin thought otherwise.
14:42 I think this is an error. I believe Chester Nimitz was an admiral, not a general.
Yes he was, MacArthur was the US army general in the pacific and Nimitz was admiral
@@fatlipcentral8891 wasn't he general by the end of the war?
@@namastehindustan9879 If you're referring to MacArthur he was already a General he led the American forces in the Philippines.
One of Russia greatest generals- General Winter.
My grandpa was part of the US force that went through North Africa and then into Italy. And since his parents (my great grandparents) had been born in southern Italy, family and friends were more of an influence than national leaders.
Russian schools always gloss over the start of WW2 because the Stalin was Hitler's ally in the beginning. The attacks on the west front was possible only because of permanent supplies (gas) from USSR. What the Soviets did in Poland was terrible (e.g. Katyn). However, Hitler hated Stalin and hated marxism, therefore the attack on the East front was not that surprising.
Russians lost an enormous number of people - they actually have the highest number of victims in WW2. However, Russian schools always omit that many of those were killed by their own, and they were often sent to battles without guns, or even without shoes.
What really won the WW2 was the economic power of USA. USA sent big material help to UK, and later also to Russia (the "lend lease" program).
I live in Prague, which was liberated by the Soviets (it could be liberated days earlier by USA but the treaty forbid it). One the the first things happening after the liberation was that the Russian secret police took a list of names of Russian emigrants, went to their homes and abducted them to Russia.
Too bad schools in Poland and Czechia started glossing over the start of WW2 as Soviet invasion, leaving students completely unaware about everything that happened before and after. Oh well, can't blame them, gotta follow "the economic power of USA" in 21 century.
@@J0rdan912 You need to study so much more man. I don't know where are you from but what you said was so messed up I don't even know how to respond. Schools in Poland and Czechoslovakia for over 40 years were teaching that USSR was saving everyone from Germans, that Katyń massacre was made by Germans and so on. People new the truth but no one was allowed to say it out loud. After 1990 the facts started to come to light and e.g. on 13.10.1992 Russia officially admitted that USSR was to blame of massacre of over 20000 people in Katyń and other places. Germany started the war but USSR wasn't waiting too long to join (they invaded Poland exactly 16 days after Germany did).
@@mojito510 Maybe you are from older generation, but you can easily see from these days kids in Poland, Czechia some other countries are completely unaware about it if you read some comments from social media. Well, start from the very first comment I replied
from @Ondrej Hanslik comment and study fact by fact.
@@J0rdan912 I don't know if I am an older generation but I'm not a kid definitely and what @Ondrej Hanslik wrote was mostly a fact. Hitler wouldn't have started the war as we know it if he hadn't guaranteed peace with the Soviet Union. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact provided for the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union and established a new border between the two countries. Not only did this mean that Germany and the Soviet Union would attack Poland roughly at the same time without a declaration of war (which made it significantly easier for Hitler to quickly occupy Poland), but it also ensured peace in the east, allowing Hitler to focus his entire forces on attacking western Europe (only Hitler's stupid mistake allowed the British to manage to evacuate part of their forces back from France).It's true that if not for the defeat of Hitler on the eastern front it would have been difficult for the allies to win the war and in this sense the USSR contributed significantly to its end, but it must be remembered that the USSR started the war with Hitler only when it was already attacked - earlier Stalin did not bother The Third Reich in any way and as a bonus Stalin murdered thousands of Polish prisoners (mostly high rank officers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, post office members) taken captive during the campaign in September 1939. By the way, I find it amazing that Russians defend people like Stalin, Beria (Лаврентий Павлович Берия), Yezhov (Николай Иванович Ежов) and Ijegoda (Генрих Григорьевич Ягода) - they were responsible for killing many many thousands of russians...
@@mojito510 And still we are avoiding everything that happened *before* The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Which was the exact and important role of Poland and Czechoslovakia in WW2 start. The part that Poland and Czech kids are missing these days when they talking too much about "glossing over things in Russian schools" while their own countries are too busy with destroying monuments and history books for "some" reason. So if I'm wrong and "what Ondrej Hanslik wrote was mostly a fact", I'm out.
Happy to see a lovely young Russian lady who is interested in history!
I never noticed he says General Nimitz @14:43 but also it refers to trapped Americans in Bastogne as they were airborne infantry they were trained to fight surrounded by enemy forces. The 101st Airborne was sent in to hold the city before the armor could arrive.
Actually I know this is probably really surprising but the Soviets were really the only ones taking land the Allies on the other hand were mostly liberating I'm not saying they didn't take land I'm just saying that the Soviets after World War II occupied Eastern Europe while the Western allies liberated Western Europe.
I am gonna make this short
1. Allies never considered SU as even a potential long term ally(they denounced SU right from the start of its forming), so it was just enemies who united against same threat
2. SU lost A LOT of man, resources, integrity of land. So with the threat of allies it had to find resources, that’s why it crated puppet states(also remember ww 1 when none of Russia’s territories were given back)
@@RAD2070 what's funny though and kind of ironic is that the Soviets wouldn't have even been able to develop their tanks or aircraft without America because America literally supplied the Soviets with most of their supplies, everything from metal for tanks and planes to oil and food rations.
@@stratejic1020 caucasus mountains had oil. Uralic mountains had metal. The only thing that matered was food and cars. it was important but the soviet people were suffering much more than US so it was logical to at least supply the soviets
And by develop you mean build? Because development was the success of soviet engineers
@@RAD2070 the Soviets themselves say that it's unlikely they would have even been able to fight the Germans if it weren't for american supplies
@@stratejic1020 britain and the united states sent thousands of tanks and planes to su united states also sent farm equipment and locomotives for their rail system not to mention the thousands of tons of food
Interesting fact: When I was in school, back in the 70's up to 1990 (finishing 12th grade) "The Battle of Stalingrad" was part of our WW 2 lessons. We learned basically more about the fight over the city itself than we did of any OTHER Russian efforts until Russia was fighting Germany and moving through Poland.
Most of the USA lessons (back then) obviously focused on USA military efforts. But we also learned of supplying Russia with arms/food/medicine during the winter over frozen lakes and through Siberia. Not enough to really say "we made the difference", but enough to at least say "we helped keep Russia able to focus more on military efforts than anything else". We also learned of Russia's push to capture Berlin before US/UK forces could reach it. How that became the 'main focus' near the end.
But somewhere around 85-86, the focus became more and more about US military efforts from D-Day invasion forward with LESS attention on the Africa/Italy efforts, or Russia in general. It was mostly just "mentioned" more than "taught".
Yeah I was in HS in the late 90s (class of 2000 actually) and I remember when it came to WWII, the Africa/Italy efforts weren't given as much attention. I actually learned more about that part from my own family since my Grandpa was in the US army in WWII and he was part of the campaign that went through Africa and Italy.
15:59 that’s a true story
Yes it is so funny that was the reply. I like how they mention it in Band of Brothers.
Russia was mentioned in part 1, for it's pact with Hitler, dividing up Poland and making it possible for Hitler to start WW2. They later made up for it by defeating Hitler on the east front.
Lol the Soviet Union literally tried to establish an anti-Hitler coalition with France and Britain, but they refused to work with Stalin because of the fact that he was a communist. The Soviet Union was the last country to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler; the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact would not even happen if the French and the British were not such a dick. In this sense, the Soviets were not the only ones who “made up” by helping the world defeating fascism.
@@LeonWagg Well, they did a little more than be non-aggressive. They invaded Poland when Hitler did.
@@Meine.Postma The invasion was part of that non-aggression pact, and this was related to what the Poles were doing in Czechoslovakia. The Soviets had no choice when the British and the French refused to work with them to counter Hitler from the beginning because, at that time, they knew they were not ready to face Hitler alone. Again as I said, the invasion of Poland would not have happened if both the British and the French were not such a dick and busying kissing Hitler’s ass.
@@LeonWagg I see your point and mostly agree with it, except for the part that they had as much to make up for as the UK and France. Well except for Chamberlain, he was an idiot. Sort of.
@@LeonWagg It is "funny" how Germany and the Soviet Union made a pact they both never intended to keep because both were not ready to fight each other.
The pykrete aircraft carrier was the idea of making a floating island half way between the US and UK for aircraft to land on their way to Europe and patrol for U-boats where the allies could not reach. Pykrete is sawdust and ice its really tough and doesn't melt much so unsinkable by torpedoes and bombs.
It's incredible how much information was in these videos and yet there is still so much to know. The holocaust, pearl harbor, the Russian invasion, the African battles, and many other pieces were just barely mentioned yet have so many small details that change one's perception of war.
The Eastern Front was quite frankly treated very superficial. No Kursk, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Uprising, Narva, Bagration, hardly anything about Fall of Berlin. Considering the importance of the Eastern Front quite the insult.
"The Fallen of World War II" really brings into perspective how many died.
The battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in all of human history. Truly horriffic stuff and it happened so recently
Another failure at Pearl Harbor was that the American aircraft carriers were not in port leaving America with a strong naval force despite the surprise attack
When I was in school (I'm an American) -- I began first grade in 1956 -- all the emphasis was on the American role in World War II. It wasn't until much later that I studied the Soviet side of the European war. The Soviets suffered terribly but they wouldn't quit. As a result, Germany's military force was drained, and they were kept away from the oilfields in the Caucasus, Iran, and Iraq. The sheer carnage at Stalingrad was horrible, but it crippled Germany in more ways than one.
In 2004, an American author, married to a Russian woman -- they lived in Moscow -- made a rafting trip on the Lena River from Ust' Kut to the Arctic Ocean. He hired a guide, a veteran of the Afghan War and an expert in survival. The trip took the whole summer. The author went ashore frequently to talk with people. Some Russians told him that the Russian response to harsh conditions is to dig in and endure, but that wasn't always the best thing to do. Many felt that Russia might not have had to endure so many imperial and Soviet dictatorships if they had fought the tyrants. However, they still held Stalin in high esteem because of his leadership in the Great Patriotic War, as the Russians call World War II.
The book I'm referring to is River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny, by Jeffrey Tayler.
Dasha, if I had a granddaughter, I would want her to be as intelligent, warmhearted, and beautiful as you.
(10:12) In Western Europe, Stalingrad is often considered to be the turning point of the war, but it was actually the Battle of Kursk, where the Nazis lost most of their armored units. Without the immense effort of the Russians on the Eastern Front it would have been impossible to defeat the Nazis
Same, I am a Filipino and yeah when I was in grade school the teacher only taught us how the Imperial Japan invaded the Philippines and Gen. McArthur's "I Shall Return" statement. Same as you I learned a lot from Oversimplified.
Loved how engaged you are watching this
You didn't forget about the Pacific Theater. I've had discussions with a number of people outside the US and, apart from a couple of Australians, almost no one learns about the Pacific Theater in grade school besides the fact that it happened. The rest of the world (besides the countries occupied by Japan) were minimally involved. For practical purposes, it was a completely separate war between the US and Japan. Had it not been going and US resources hadn't been split between two different theaters, the war in Europe would have ended much quicker.
Of course, had it not happened, the US wouldn't have been in the war, so... there's that.
Technically, actually Japan was in war with China as well and while SU was definitely focused on war on their territory, actually China had help as well, mostly with instructors, though, so Japan had to spread their resources quite thin.
I would also note the war effort in the Pacific by allied nations such as the UK (including India at that time), Australia and New Zealand. The British were particularly instrumental in SE Asia, defending India and retaking Burma. The ANZAC troops held off the Japanese in Papua and were active all over the theater of war. Yes, we were the most numerous in the Pacific but it was an Allied victory there, just as in Europe and elsewhere. I completely agree, though, that most Europeans largely overlook the half of the war that occurred in the Pacific -- and thus fail to understand the totality of the war effort.
Love your reactions. Keep it up
@8:10- If there's one thing about this video I don't 100% agree with it's the phrase on how our country "had no choice but to join the war". That's SOOO not true. From stories that I've heard from my grandparents' generation, Americans, INCLUDING Roosevelt were furious about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the country was very Pro-War at that point. So many young men join the war effort, including my maternal grandpa, step-grandpa, several uncles, and other cousins. Sadly, not all of them made it. My paternal grandpa's oldest brother died on D-Day and my father is named after him.
I would guess he used the words "had no choice" because two hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Declaration of War on the U.S. and Great Britain was received from Emperor Hirohito. In other words, if the attack wasn't a clear declaration enough on its own, war had already officially been declared. Roosevelt declared war on Japan the following day in response. Four days later, Germany declared war on the U.S. Even if Roosevelt had wanted to, there was no avoiding the war at that point.
It was staggering how many losses Russia suffered in WWW2. Very sad.
Yeah, Leningrad had to come up with a technology that made bread with wallpaper because the people were starving inside. A reminder that we don't necessarily have it that bad
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You should definitely watch The Cold War by over simplified. I'm 45, and American, so the Cold War was something I grew up with. We grew up, in a time, when Russians were the enemy. After the "war", I've gotten to know quite a few people from Russia and former Soviet Republics, that moved to America, and have come to love the Russian people. I had a great friend from Tajikistan, who is about my age, so it was so interesting to see his side of the Cold War, from his perspective.
And, I've become friends with Russians, about 10 years younger than me, that were too young to really have experienced the Cold War.
It would be cool to see, a person your age and from your perspectives, reaction to it.
Plus, you have great energy and are perfect for doing reaction videos.
Udachi.
I lived in Ukraine for 7 years and found that the Russian/Ukrainian people knew very little about any other part of WWII. it was all Russia. Frankly I was shocked when people said that the US had a minor part in the war. They did not know or believe that the US supplied millions of dollars worth of food, trucks and weapons to help them against the Germans.
Almost no one knew about the US and Japan. Their view was that Russia saved the world.
Nah, they totally know about US help and other war theaters.
But dude, just look on numbers if not soviet, but german casualties at eastern front relatively to all other ones.
They speak this way bcs anything that other allies did is just utterly dwarfed into insignificant nuance by what happen at eastern front.
And what about "US supplied". SU received 1/3 of supply from all Allies in comparison to what just Britain received in billions of dollars. And I don't see Britain did triple damage to Germany respectively.
Well I mean, the USSR did the heavy lifting. The US and UK jumped in at the last minute and took credit.
@@Tree.fiddy. I ain’t wrong, they invaded in 1944 whereas the USSR started pushing the Germans back by 1942
Why are you booing me? I’m right.
Most of the German soldiers died on the eastern front fighting the soviets.
@@Tree.fiddy. but technically it was the soviet union who defeated nazi germany by killing 2+ million german soldiers of the wermacht compared to the half a million killed by the western allies. Considering the casualties, USSR also suffered the most under german occupation, but they ultimately won.
As you say, at school everyone learns a view of the war that revolves around their own country. German kids learn a lot about how things are Germany's fault and the weaknesses of the Weimar constitution that allowed a load of gangsters and psychopaths to take over. Teachers in Japan and even in Italy seem reluctant to be so negative about their national histories.
It's estimated that about 80% of the German forces were fighting Russia on the Eastern front including the massive Battle of Kursk, which to this day was the largest tank battle in history. People in the west are very ignorant of just how much Russia was key to beating Nazi Germany and Hitler because it rarely gets mentioned.
*Russia/USSR* was mentioned *3* times in the time line on *Part 1* go back & look I put time stamps in the comments
Why after WW2 occupated CCCP Estonia - I now Molotov and Ripentrop pact. In Russia they not teach that pact at all.
Dead wrong
They actually do and talk about splitting Poland as well as economic partnership
Plus Molotov and Ripentrop pact doesn’t talk about Estonia
@@RAD2070 it talk all Baltic countries including Estonia too
17:19 the emperor hirohito’s radio address to his people is significant for more than one reason: Japan is the world’s oldest country and this was the first time in all of history that the common Japanese people heard the voice of their emperor; he was considered divine and therefore they were unworthy of hearing him speak. Language had changed so much in those millennia that when Hirohito spoke to his people he did so in Courtly Japanese, essentially like Shakespearean English. But, his people got the gist of his speech: the war was over.
I don’t approve of the use of the atomic bombs but I have seen the plans for the alternative, Operation Downfall, and I’m honestly not sure which is worse.
Actually I don't think that's true I don't think Japan is the oldest country I'm pretty sure China is since it's been around since it's early dynasties and hasn't fallen apart yet.
I would say Japan is one of the oldest countries but I wouldn't say it's the oldest country.
@@stratejic1020 Japan has the oldest continuous ruling dynasty, by far. No one else even comes close, because you do NOT try to overthrow a god.
@@lizd2943 well firstly actually the Japanese emperor isn't seen as a god anymore and I'm talking about the longest continuous country, however I consider China to have ended after the Communists won the Civil War and destroyed china
The *2 Atomic Bombs* dropped on *Japan* actually probably saved lives since they fought to the death over Islands the main land would have been worse on both sides compared to *2* cities. In fact the massive fire bombing the *US* had been doing killed more it just took massive numbers of planes compared to the *2* planes that each dropped *1 Atomic Bomb*
Dude, no offense, but you are just blind. Look better into casualties structure of Japan presented on video. Actually 2 atomic bombs created same number of civil casualties as WHOLE fire bombing during war. Though, fire bombing had quite devastating effect on facilities.
@@antonzhdanov9653 yes and the bombs saved millions of lives on both sides if we had invaded it would of been worse than d day
@@FakTorThis Doubtful. Japan was already on the break of collapse and was ready to surrender before A-bombing. Just terms of surrender wasn't good enough for US, so they decided to force Japan more into submission with that. And whole western theater of WW2, counting D-day was very far from taking even 1 million lifes.
Really. JUST.LOOK.INTO.GODDAMN.NUMBERS.
@@antonzhdanov9653 no they wouldn’t surrender. Emperor Hirohito was like Stalin, he was going to sacrifice everyone in the defense of Japan if he had to.
@@antonzhdanov9653 Yes, look in the numbers. Then you'll see that at the day of surrender Japan had MORE soldiers on the southern island than the Allies had available for the invasion of that same island. A military rule of thumb is that you need to outnumber the enemy 3 to 1 for an assault to have a reasonable chance of succes, and that is without the complications of an amphibious assault. In any case the Japanese would have the benefit of fighting from solid ground, as opposite to the Allies who would need ships, in other words floating targets. Any attempt with those numbers would've been futile.
There were many cases of German soldiers seeking out American and British soldiers to surrender to because they feared the Russian Army and saw surrendering to them as a death sentence
They were afraid of the Russian army because their propaganda said that the Russians are monsters, and they kill everyone.
The reason why the cold was a problem was not like what your teachers told you that "we are russians and we are used to the cold" ... its not much colder in western russia than in germany. The reason was that the plan was to finish the war with soviet union before winter arrives ( probably expecting they would surrender after some time ) , so they did still have their summer uniforms from when the invasion started and all was designed for summer because they were expecting to finish before winter comes.
Really strange if your teachers believed that, because germany also has cold and long winter every year, just a few degees less in russia in average, they should know that. And around the 1940s years germany had -20°C, -25°C, -30°C in many cities. The City of München did hit -30,5°C in 1942. Hamburg -29°C ... and so on.
Thank you.
I 'US' Had a grandfather that only once told the story of New Guinea , North of Australia, was shooting down coconuts with japanese guns for a Betting-Game. I wont mention the other stories out of courtesy
2 of my grand uncle's does during world war 2 1 died in El Alamein the 2nd died in cassino 3 of them left 1 came home
It wasn't the weather & Soviet reinforcements that beat the Germans, it was their lack of logistics.
The atomic bombs were much more of an act of mercy..
No. Just no. Stop with this whitewashing of history.
13:58 - the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan"
“People are monsters”. Amen!
Theses were the Saving Private Ryan Moments in the war. By the way (WW2 in color) is a great if not the best method to get up to speed with this war me recommends :)
The allies were not trying to conquer land they were trying to stop the expansion of Germany and her allies. this wasn't a war of aggression the allies part it was a war of self defense
LMAO so what was all the collonies in africa asia then
Japan kinda gets a pass when comes to condemning their war crimes and genocide
The winter is mostly excuses. Nearly all historians agree that the war in easter front was not lost because of winter, but unexpected stubborn resistance and understimation of soviet reserves and natural resources. Soviet union was mostly also outnumbered in the begining of the war up to german defeats in moscow and stalingrad. Also most high german field marshals admitt that the winter wasnt the problem, but that they underestimated soviet union due to insane progress at the begining. The progress was mostly due to soviet union being inferior in terms of warfare, basically germany had better airforce, better tanks, better trained army. Soviet union went mostly on retreat and bunch of those encirclments from germans happened because of people being forced to stand their positions as retread would lead to civilians being targets. Oversimplifed is good videos, but winter stopping germans was just excuse. Factually in moscow battles many counter attacks to break germans was hailed to bad weather. It affected both, but its just an excuse.
You've seen the Normandy invasion, in *Saving Private Ryan*
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it".....George Santayana
I've been studying WW2 history for probably twice as long as you have been alive, and I can assure you that video is pretty accurate. Watching it with you, made it more .........interesting
For more on the US-Japan Pacific Theater, these are pretty good:
Pearl Harbor: th-cam.com/video/f6cz9gtMTeI/w-d-xo.html
Coral Sea: th-cam.com/video/NB5hH3ksvKE/w-d-xo.html
Midway (3 parts): th-cam.com/video/Bd8_vO5zrjo/w-d-xo.html
For a wide number of WW2 events, the excellent British documentary series "Battlefield" on TH-cam:
events in chronological order
th-cam.com/play/PLFKGWRjVCefuIAhS439ROXtD0L9cungW_.html
One distinction you be proud of is that your nation tested the largest nuclear bomb ever because of the cold war in a test of might agains the US. They called it the Tsar Bomba.
I love Dasha
I like watching your Reaction videos love for Canada ❤
The game we played as children was called "Battleship"
Довольно иронично, что под Сталинградом победил СССР, но лучший фильм про это сняли немцы. Глянь по возможности.
6:22 they could've been evacuated tho but Stalin decided not to do it so it's Soviet fault mostly
what an opening splash
Russia was part of the Soviet Union and was mentioned in Part 1.
You should react to ww1 too. Great video!!
I can make this even more simplified. Hitler started some shit, got his ass handed to him, end of story lol
Those who do not rember the past are destined to repeat it.
'The same mistakes', the problem is that those who start wars start them because they think they will gain something from them. People like that have always existed, and while they exist those who want peace can't just disband their armies, because then they will be in danger. A saying that goes all the way back to Roman times is 'if you want peace, prepare for war', in other words, you have to always be ready to defend yourself.
When you mentioned 'everyone was trying to get as much land as possible' when the Allies were invading Normandy in France, they weren't. The Allies in Western Europe were trying to TAKE BACK land that had been taken by the Germans. The only Nations trying to land grab were Germany, Italy and Japan (literally) and the Soviet Union (by creating puppet states and the Union).
In the case of WW2, you said 'why?', because certain governments were greedy and wanted to take, enslave and destroy, and other people had to fight back or be destroyed, or allow others to be enslaved. Even with the end of this war, many were still not saved because they went from German occupation to Soviet occupation.
Whats important is to see from people like you that no matter where we are from we were only taught 1/2 the story. In the west we did not learn much about what happened in Russia, In America we did not learn much about what hapened before pearl harbor....
yup russia undoubtedly saved the world at that point
Alot of Russians ended up fighting with Hitler as they were finally liberated from Stalins communisù, which was far worse.
she is absolutely right. Learn from history.. The correct history.
About the nukes it is estimated that more people would have died in an invasion of Japan then dropping the nukes
No Offense, but Stalin was the reason for just as many Russian deaths, but its interesting to see your side of what you're taught in school. Good to see you have an open mind and see the big picture of the war.
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Want a musical twist to history..... Try the "sabaton / yarn hub" collaboration channel. In particular the song "night witches" its about a totally female bomber squadron.
Also, the "defence of Moscow" same band, same channel...
😞 you seemed disappointed America sent weapons and food to the allies. Especially the British. Enjoy your videos lol 😀
Look up the numbers sent to the USSR. It’s amazing the amount of supplies we sent
I assumed she thought the same as every person in the UK at the time , that's a huge disappointment were are your allies when you need them more than ever. FDR was a good man who brought the yanks into the war when they didn't want to. And when they turned up they turned up in style to be fair.
Pykrete will work awesome in space.
I'd rather jump off the Empire State Building than fight a Russian in the cold.
Is it possible that you are recording the sound through the camera's microphone instead of the headset's? At least that's how it sounds to me and it's sometimes quite difficult to understand you because of the reverb in the room.
Otherwise great video, keep up the good work.😄
fallen of world war 2 is awesome video
Thank you Russia you saved the world
So in Russia you only learn about how great Russia was in World War 2. Not surprised.
WW2 is still an huge deal for Russia today. Negative birthrate, well thats is same for most of the wesern countries but Russia/Soviet Union hit the bad high score all time.
You should watch a movie called Enemy at the Gates from 2001, its about a Russian Sniper in World War 2
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There is a dramatuzed semi biographical book about one of the writer of Game of Thrones' grandfather who was a young Russian conscript in Leningrad during the siege called "City of Thieves." Worth checking out.
You should look at another video showing how much supplies the USA sent Russia
Damn you didn't know about the war in the Pacific with Japan??
I'm a year late.. but you should watch a really great movie called 'enemy at the gates. ' I believe you would like it.
Dasha, you should react to Enemies at the gates. One of my favorite war movie. In Russians point of view surrounding Vassili Zaitsev the amazing Russian Sniper.
16:51 The US beat Germany into building the A-Bomb. Both countries were trying to develop it, plus Hitler had in development the first inter-continental missile, the V2, which if both combined were completed before his demise, he could have nuked Washington and make everyone surrender in one or two strikes. The US knew this was a race they could not lose.
After the massacre on both sides that was the invasion of Okinawa, the president of the US realized that to capture emperor Hirohito he might have to kill every Japanese, men, women and children between the coast and the emperor. Japanese mentality that dying with honor was preferable to living in disgrace required a large massacre to defeat Japan, that's what led to the use of the A-Bombs.
The long-term effects of nuclear explosions was not known at the time. It is hard to understand today why the US used such devastating weapon over civilian targets, because now the effects are well known, but at the time the US had detonated US bombs at certain altitude over a few "volunteers" who tested in themselves the risks of being exposed to the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. Since they were OK, no further effects were expected. It was years later that all the volunteers died of cancer, that the connection to the effects of the bombs in Japan was made.
React to Cold war part 1&2
Dasha you should react to the "Fallen of World War II" It really highlights the sacrifice of the Russian people during that awfull period .