Kenneth Branagh as narrator=great choice!

The guy was grateful for a mule and said Thank you. God bless you too 👆

@ben-jam-in6941

4 жыл бұрын

That’s my favorite part of the series. The news networks hardly ever actually ask the people America and other Western nations have helped over the years. Instead they ask some darn politician who has an agenda or someone who thinks they know what those that have been helped “should” think. God bless the farmers of the world.

@JereForsyth

4 жыл бұрын

@@ben-jam-in6941 God is. God bless you.

@xavierpaquin

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being in such a state of poverty that a damned mule is a game changer... Scary stuff that makes you appreciate what we have today.

@skymaster4743

3 жыл бұрын

A Muslim from Greece saying God Bless the US. The good old days when America gave hope to the world.

@aypniasanagnosma

2 жыл бұрын

@@skymaster4743 he is probably from the Pomak minority of Thrace. not Greek nor Turkish. they were Turkified first, then the Bulgarians massacred them, and nowadays they are on the Greek side, but keeping the Islamic faith. strange tribe of the Balkans.... Now, when it comes to American aid, I've heard stories from my grandpa, that the young barefoot children would go near the American cars, vans and the Americans would give them corned beef and chocolates. They had never tasted these things before... they loved the Americans back then. Up until 1974 , Greece was pro-American. Then, you know what and why...

The French student interviewed in this episode, Marianne Debouzy, passed away on June 20, 2021 at age 91.

@nelsongrant6882

Жыл бұрын

Did he surrender on his way out

@cjryan4097

Жыл бұрын

@@nelsongrant6882 Disgraceful comment. Have you no respect?

@nelsongrant6882

Жыл бұрын

@@cjryan4097 I apologise I just consider the French the neighbors from hell

@WestIndianAK

Жыл бұрын

@@nelsongrant6882 That's only an obnoxious and gratuitously disrespectful comment; it's also historically ignorant as hell. In its centuries-long history, France was generally regarded as one of the dominant military powers on the European continent. (They certainly did rather well under Napoleon!) But *one* surrender during World War II, and they get tarred as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" and the like forevermore by lazy, clueless critics (mostly Americans). It's ridiculous 🙄

@RossCo.H

Жыл бұрын

Obnoxious flag wavers

This series is a timeless treasure. Thank you for sharing it.

@larrymcjones

10 ай бұрын

I fall asleep to an episode a few times a month it never gets old

The best docu series for quarantine, better than most things on Netflix.

timestamp: Prague 13:31 Greece 23:21 France 27:52 Yugoslavia 29:19 Italy 31:16

@lilytaylor8138

3 жыл бұрын

thank youuuuu this saved me watching the whole thing for a history prep

@joselyn127

3 жыл бұрын

thank u!!!

@emmanuelperez227

2 жыл бұрын

thank you, you valid

Great work Gen. Marshall, you' re a genius for the ages.

@jeg5gom

4 жыл бұрын

You have got to respect a man who tells the president, your NCA in the flesh, that he cannot treat you on a first name basis. "General Marshall will do". Even Truman had to smile at that!

@dorianphilotheates3769

3 жыл бұрын

Fast Eddie - Not a genius, just smart; it’s easy to be smart when you’ve got unlimited money and power backing you up.

@alexandregoncalves6066

3 жыл бұрын

what about mcarthur ..?

@ThroneOfBhaal

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandregoncalves6066 I can't stand him haha

"This led to a debate in the young CIA. Did it have the legal authority to carry out covert operations?" Wow, how things have changed...

@terryrodbourn2793

4 жыл бұрын

I laugh with nervous laughter! :)

@samrees5517

3 жыл бұрын

Bro u good worried bout ur safety rn

@terryrodbourn2793

3 жыл бұрын

Sam Rees To bad you did to get the Joke, your humorless statement tells me you no sense of humor !

@samrees5517

3 жыл бұрын

Terry Rodbourn I was saying it w humour my friend don’t worry

@jimyoung9262

Жыл бұрын

34:48 the good old days when the CIA considered whether something was legal...

"I was going to Moscow as a minister over free state and I am returning as Stalin's slave."

@WolfyOfHonor

6 жыл бұрын

"It's all false and propaganda. Russia and USSR did nothing wrong. Ever." - totaly not a troll bot of the internet

@pezpowerproductions2602

5 жыл бұрын

Old Guy's Place get em! Way to tell the truth.

@mushr00msamba83

4 жыл бұрын

@Old Guy's Place I think the guy you replied to was making an ironic comment. He closed his comment implying that his first sentence was made by someone who is an internet troll, meaning someone that likes to bait people to have pointless discussions and irritate them. He doesn't seems to believe that the Soviet Union did nothing wrong, in fact I'd say the opposite.

@dantaylor7344

4 жыл бұрын

@Old Guy's Place I just hope you had enough money for your healthcare mate, because you ain't getting it for free out there pal. In America you worship ONE God and that God is Dollar!

@dantaylor7344

4 жыл бұрын

@World traveler PH No, no they don't

33:10 Thanks Luigi. You saved Italy.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t meant to be Manna from Heaven or the Free Money fund... of course there were strings attached but the countries included all benefited greatly and are still better off than 2/3 of the planet 70 years later. I’d rate that as a success 🤑

@dantaylor7344

4 жыл бұрын

That's all very good and wonderful but I'd prefer America to stay WELL OUT of Europe full stop, they only do harm wherever they go. I like my continent it is full of culture and history. I'd like it to stay that way

@Elghast

2 жыл бұрын

@@dantaylor7344 this is 2 years old but without America we’d STILL be the pawns of Russia or China. Thanks but no thanks. America saved this continent and those who don’t realise it are easy to manipulate

@dantaylor7344

2 жыл бұрын

@@Elghast The SAME Russia that controls all of Europe's Gas supply and the very SAME China that USA are too scared to tell what to do? Yeah much safer, man you know nothing about politics or war.

@cutter-lk8iw

2 жыл бұрын

@@dantaylor7344 Dan I see history isn’t your 1st subject is it

@dantaylor7344

2 жыл бұрын

@@cutter-lk8iw Nah just side line shit, History is never worth researching in any deep meaningful way, it's all subjective, no hard facts and it's up to interpretation. Victors write history and it's usually warped but you knew that right?

General Marshall was a brilliant and intuitive commander. One of my favorite characters of WWII - by far. He devised a way to handle both problems at once - taking care of the issue of post war reconstruction and dealing with communist infiltration and subversion. Really pissed in the commies Post Toasties. Did it all up front and out in the open without firing a shot. Brilliant man

@johntechwriter

Жыл бұрын

Marshall’s refusal to go on a first-name basis with Harry Truman speaks volumes for his sense of propriety. And yet at the same time, he approved covert CIA actions in Italy because the communists there were poised to take over, and that would have eliminated any chance for Italy to restore its economy. Many Italian communists were naïvely hopeful about the benefits of collectivization, and unaware that if they won, within a decade Russian Realpolitic would have reduced them to vassals in the service of the Soviet empire.

What a huge head Molotov had!

39:06 - “Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church had supported the Fascists throughout their decades of rule, but the Vatican totally opposed Communism.” - I’m shocked; my universe is shattered!

26:00-28:00 - Of all the possible choices, it is extraordinarily curious that the Greek segment was exclusively represented by two (rather affable, I might add) elderly members of the very tiny ‘Turkish’ Muslim minority from Xanthi, Thrace. It’s like interviewing two Navajo elders to talk about the Wall Street crash of 1929...weird.

@pdd60absorbed12

5 жыл бұрын

Ted Turner foresaw how important the Muslim voice was to be a decade later. He had the inside track.

@dorianphilotheates3769

4 жыл бұрын

PDD 60 Absorbed - Apparently...

@DarkReaperRedeemer

3 жыл бұрын

It seems not a mistake but done on purpose. Although I do not understand the intention.

@mlpxxmlp

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that too. But I didn't know the location was Thrace.

@Myrddin8453

5 ай бұрын

Thought that was an odd choice as well.

Thank you for posting these! I've been binging them!

I've never been so proud of our mules! 🐎

@joe18425

Жыл бұрын

Yayy

@colinstewart1432

Жыл бұрын

The V8 of mules.

@dorianphilotheates3769

Жыл бұрын

bricaf - Yes, and the equine variety were quite impressive too.

@Myrddin8453

5 ай бұрын

Those suckers are the biggest mules I've ever seen. They look like horses not mules. I didn't realize there were mules that damn big.

fantastic series, thank you for uploading it!

80% were grants and 20% were loans. The aid started with ample supplies of food and fertilizer, then farming equipment and machinery. In the 4 years of the Marshall Plan $13.5bn were spent in 16 countries, estimated to be 5% of U.S. gdp. Much of the aid to Europe was spent buying American goods and was thus reinvested back into the US, fueling a post-war boom in the US. Once it's communist threat had been contained, France would receive $2.7bn of aid. It was widely felt at the time that the Marshall Plan was cheaper than losing Europe to the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, America undoubtedly had a lot at stake in Europe's post-war recovery and restoration. Italy was at risk of falling to communism through the ballot box, a coalition of the left took on the Christian Democrats. Protests ensued in the US and ten million letters were sent by Italian Americans to their families in Italy urging them not to vote communist. The CIA went on the offensive using covert means to do so by undermining the communist movement in Italy, the first overseas political action by American intelligence services. The United States wanted a western block sympathetic to US hegemony, underpinned by a consumer-based society modeled on free enterprise that was intrinsically bound up with U.S. capitol and trade where U.S. markets could flourish.

@joostvanwijk3842

2 жыл бұрын

That touched me also.

42:10 Andreotti: “The victory was even greater than we had expected...” - That’s because you had conveniently forgotten that several thousand dead folks, olive trees, and thorn bushes had also cast their votes for the Christian Democrats.

In 1945 by the end of WW2 in Italy, the OSS ( US's secret services ) came to help many former fascists, neo-fascists and mafiosi and used them in a 30-years long campaign of bombings and terror ( not to mention *GLADIO* ) to fight off the "red scare". This intense period is widely known as the "years of lead"

@josephtheis5862

8 жыл бұрын

That went both ways. The Soviets also "recruited" former Nazis for their own purposes.

@pdd60absorbed12

5 жыл бұрын

Imagine the sickness this antidote attempted to cure.

⭐⭐🌟⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 3:01 Truman Doctrine 📜 5:45 1947 Big-4 🇷🇺-🇺🇸-🇫🇷-🇬🇧 Moscow Conference; *Marshall Plan* ; Jan Masaryk-Kelement Gottwald meets Stalin 17:36 Cominform and Comecon 18:54 Czechoslovak🇨🇿🇸🇰 coup d'état 1948 by communists 21:35 Facets of European Recovery Program, ERP/ Marshall Plan - Greece (23:22); France (27:52); Yugoslavia (29:17); Italy (31:15)

Just subed thanks for posting this cold war content cheers from LA!

"I urge you not to vote Communist, your cousin, Luigi" 🤣

@Myrddin8453

5 ай бұрын

I wasn't going to. I urge you to become a plumber! Your cousin, Mario.

the intro is so sick wtf

suspicion and zealotry a deadly combination

26:18 - 27:52: I’m glad to see that the documentary-makers chose to feature the most representative segment of the Greek rural population: the Turkish-speaking Muslim minority of Thrace, bordering Turkey...WTF?

Anyone who compares Putin to Stalin should be forcefully put into a time machine and sent to the 30s

@glynntowler

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@kaled1977

7 жыл бұрын

putin cannot be compared to stalin

@kinglear5952

6 жыл бұрын

Oh yes Putin. isn't he the first bloodthirsty tyrant in history to abolish, or strictly suspend, the death penalty?

@aconcernedworldcitizen236

6 жыл бұрын

I find more similarities with Putin and Stalin, than any other two political leaders in modern International political history.

@thomash5239

6 жыл бұрын

Mr PP: then you have very little concept of political leaders in modern political history

19:53 I swear Jan Masaryk's eyes blinked

It’s the erie Intro song that’s gets ya 😮

30:40 - An honest disclosure by a good man.

Excellent decsion

It's interesting that this (among other documentaries) doesn't really explain what the Marshall plan actually involved and - more interestingly - what strings were attached. We now know that the money lent could ONLY be spent buying American goods and then the loan had to be repaid anyway (with interest) - so the American economy made two separate profits from one "Altruistic" deal.

@mayena

6 жыл бұрын

It was mentioned between 21:59 to 23:21. The Marshall Plan was 80% grants and 20% loans. The United States had no obligation with giving aid to Western Europe after World War ii, it was partially altruistic.

@carlomango407

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Cross Correct, do you think the Anglo imperialists would have allowed the Marshall Plan without any strings attached? Nothing is free, specially under capitalism... In 1947, there was a banking capitalist crisis, which made it even worse, after WW2 in Europe.. The conditions were very critical as Europe was bankrupted and its infrastructure in ruins as WW2 destroyed their economies.. The US empire took advantage by imposing conditions to Europe to import massive US manufactured goods and allow massive US investments in return for so called Marshall Plan.. which reduced Europe to become a colony of imperialism...

@chetpomeroy1399

5 жыл бұрын

@Chris Cross--The production capacity of most of the world was *in rubble,* immediately following World War II. Where else, other than the U.S. at that time, could a war-devastated country go for anything Marshall Plan grants could buy?

@1974geary

5 жыл бұрын

Well, America should have left Stalin take over Europe. Do u think that would have been better then America have some control over Europe ?

@chetpomeroy1399

5 жыл бұрын

Had the U.S. decided *not* to deploy its forces in Europe during World War II, the Soviet Red Army would have eventually defeated the Nazis. However, most of western Europe, perhaps including the UK, would have had communist-puppet governments approved and installed by Generalissimo Stalin. There certainly wouldn't have been a Cold War.

"Fewer people in that agency spent more money than anyone in US history. It was an extraordinary performance" 🤦‍♂️

@mjxw

Жыл бұрын

lol yeah no kidding. You know what? I bet you I could break their record. C'mon US gov't, give me $20bn and see if I can't spend it all in a year or two. No need to call me a hero, I'm simply a man whom destiny has chosen.

36:12 - “...I don’t know anything about it...” - Mmhhhmmm...

Anyone got any more links to history docs like this, I really like it when they interview actual witnesses to world events.

@johntechwriter

Жыл бұрын

There are very, very few Cold War documentaries in this league. Most are propaganda pieces for one side or the other.

Kenneth Branagh as narrator?!

The article exposed the fact that one Katz, Marshall Plan Administrator, presided over the most of the Marshall Plan material to Communist countries, instead of sending it to the non-Communist countries for which Congress had designated it. To honor Marshall for his service to the Communist countries and their cause, the plan to continue aid to the Communist countries surreptitiously had been drawn up and named for him. At the end of World War II, Lend Lease Aid to Russia and other Communist countries ended. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, an unregistered agent for nine Communist countries through his law firm of Covington, Burling, and Acheson, (one of whose partners was Donald Hiss, brother to Alger Hiss) had tried to force a four billion loan to the new Communist regime of Poland. When Patriots in Congress turned this down, the Marshall Plan was formulated. Ostensibly earmarked for Greece, Italy, and other non-Communist countries, most of the Marshall Plan material was either distributed directly to Communist organizers in those countries, who used the aid as the basis for building up the Communist Party, or trans-shipped directly through those countries to Yugoslavia, and on to Poland and Russia. It was Tito’s attempt to keep much of this material, particularly heavy trucks, which caused the break between him and Stalin. However, neither of them dared to publicly argue the point, as it would have exposed the fact that Marshall Plan Aid was going to the Communists. Book: The World Conquerors by Louise Marshalko.

@joe18425

Жыл бұрын

Man, you should write a book !!

@Myrddin8453

5 ай бұрын

That, is a steaming load of bullshit.

Even out mules are fatter haha

Funny seeing an Truman calling out the main problems of capitalism, which are poverty and inequality, then advocate for socialist solutions, which are state intervention and revitalization of the economy, in order to prevent Western Europe from embracing comunism while at the same time they kept latinamerica and most of the third world poor and with deep seated inequalities. The Marshal Plan was simply the realization that the USA couldn't keep Western Europe under their control as they have traditionally done in Latinamerica because, unlike the latinamerican poor, the European poor would surely rebel and achieve independence from their american overlords.

@rolandacevans

2 жыл бұрын

Now come on be fair Osokarvan Bruce, America played a huge role in liberating Europe only a few years earlier.

Harry Truman always gets left in the second tier of great statesman To me he is the greatest leader in modern times And I am from uk

@bluecollarguy67

2 жыл бұрын

Truman is still very underrated as President. He made the right choice with the Marshall Plan and using atomic weapons to save lives and bring WW2 to an end.

@nelsongrant6882

Жыл бұрын

He was in the kkk

@Barricade379

10 күн бұрын

@@nelsongrant6882 No he was not. He only almost did

@nelsongrant6882

10 күн бұрын

@@Barricade379 In 1924, Truman was running for reelection as a judge in Jackson County, Missouri. He was backed by the Pendergast machine based out of Kansas City - their wing of the Democratic party was known as the "Goats". He was advised by friends to join the Klan, due to the Klan's popularity and power in the region. He paid the $10 membership fee, and arranged a meeting with a Klan officer. Spencer Salisbury, Truman's friend at the time, one of the people who suggested joining the Klan, and later enemy, stated that he was indeed inducted but did eventually leave.

Like the man said nothing wrong with doing well by doing good. In 1918 we sent troops to Europe, after it was over we came home. No aid was given, and 34 years later we had to go back. Then came the Marshall plan. No major European conflicts since 1945. Not counting the Soviets and the Balkans. Your welcome.

@apurplemonkey

8 жыл бұрын

+David Krater Oh please. Don't be so simplistic.

@davidkrater7946

8 жыл бұрын

+apurplemonkey Simplistic? Hundreds of thousands of dead Americans for a continent we don't live on? If not for the US Europe would either be a waste land or part of the Soviet Union.

@davidkrater7946

8 жыл бұрын

+apurplemonkey Not to mention trillions of dollars in aid and defense. Again for people who can't seem to get along.

@jelkel25

8 жыл бұрын

+David Krater The nuclear threat may have had as much to do with no European conflicts as the Marshall plan. The key to why it happened was in the last episode, the Soviets refused to join the World Bank. Most of your major trading partners were on the verge of going down the tubes, who else were you going to trade with? Sweden? Switzerland? Ecuador? Do you really think the Germans and Japanese would have left you to quietly get on with things? If the post war Soviets were left to get too strong they would have had a shot at the states too. I would say less ''doing well by doing good'' than ''prevention is better than cure''.

@davidkrater7946

8 жыл бұрын

+jelkel25 MAD. Absolutely, who provided the nuclear umbrella? Not the Europeans who benefit from it. The United States was the only economy capable of aiding the recovery effort. Socialism, communism, never had a realistic shot in the US.

Jan Masaryk continues the tradition of defenestration in Prague. I think he was helped out of that window

Who else here for school

Such a tragedy for the Czechs.

@pdd60absorbed12

5 жыл бұрын

Parallels to 2019 America.

@aaalavi94

4 жыл бұрын

PDD 60 Absorbed there are mass deaths and takeover?

27:48 Nice old guy !!

History is good for the mind to feel free and open to our on point of view

Germany paid two time the Marshal Plan back. First with Gold from the Reichbank, and then with D-Mark.

21:50 The real agenda behind Marshall aid

36:21 - “The Church, too...” - Ε, καλά• λείπει ο Μάης απ´ τη Σαρακοστή;

6:52 this strategy hasnt changed

18:05 - “...eveeel...”

37:13 That is a perfect image of Russian imperialism in Europe.

@charles1964

2 жыл бұрын

@thetoughguy Thank You, My Mothers People Came from Enna, Sicily. All this Communist Idealism Conveniently Disregards Stalin's Blood Soaked Regime. The Posters Told The Truth, All The Atheistic USSR had in Store for Italy was Misery, Persecution, Famine, and Death....

39:00 wheeeewh holy war, anda pal cará

Marianne Debouzy might have been happier speaking German, I suppose. To the rest of you French, you're welcome.

@KermitFrazierdotcom

4 жыл бұрын

Tony614 ☆ Ready to Learn Mandarin?

42:33-42:50 - CIA: Making the world safe from democracy, and proud of it!

@colinstewart1432

Жыл бұрын

We're going to democratise the shit out of you. CIA = Constantly Interfering Abroad

41:41 I doubt this persons honesty.

“200 kilos on them, and they could take it.”

dang even the west got to the pope not surprising but thats when u know this hole thing is just a big ol game LOL

What was happening in the Iberian Peninsula at this time? Did Spain and Portugal send food rations to some of the famished countries?

@carlosgomez1706

3 жыл бұрын

In spain we already had franco, a US minion, so no major political action.

Those mules

Hello IB History class Class of 2022 ;)

I think both communism and capitalism have their faults but if both were put in place perfectly ,as according to the basic ideology surrounding them, they would both work perfectly. However we are all human and there are many factors and variables which can get in the way of that. That is why I think each country and ethnic group should be in charge of how they govern themselves without imposing their ideas on others as there is no governing policy to suit everyone. Governments aren't a hat , one size doesn't fit everybody. However with that being said , this is just my personal opinion, don't take it personally.

@MPYarnall

7 жыл бұрын

Communism can never be a good thing and could never work.

@theant9821

6 жыл бұрын

Matt i can work in principle but is snookered by human nature.

@jorgecortesmerida1140

6 жыл бұрын

That is true

21:30 Marshall Plan

history class XD

They gave me a superb mule and we started to plough...

There are plenty of bad things to say about the CIA's covert actions, but what it was doing in Italy was more than matched by Stalin's agents.

16:42 i assume $20 bn is already adjusted for inflation?

@jorenvanderark3567

4 жыл бұрын

Adjusted for inflation it's roughly 100 billion dollars.

Us has made the world

22:39 - that's one large iphone

@JohnfromWaterFrontVillige

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy how it needs a giant red generator to power it. But I guess back then they hadn’t discovered effective battery technology yet.

Capitalists believe in free trade made me think of "Rugged individualism for the poor, and socialism for the rich"

@philchroniger7839

3 жыл бұрын

Those who believe that aren't capitalists, but corporatists, and are no friends of actual capitalists.

Best thing he could have done

Greeks seem to be on the receiving end of the greatest grants.

@dorianphilotheates3769

4 жыл бұрын

shaycenter - Not nearly so much as we’ve given; you’re welcome.

@mlpxxmlp

2 жыл бұрын

6th, so not that high . "$700,000,000 a sum that placed Greece sixth in the long list of war ravaged nations that received ERP money."

love the French Communist.... oh the Marshall plan had strings attached... WTF....ya think?

@nasdan5000

4 жыл бұрын

Really the only requirement was that you couldn't be communist, kind of a no brainer really

It's hard to judge who is wrong here. I started watching this video with a clear view that USSR was the evil empire (at least in regard to post-war economic situation), but now I'm not as sure about it. The truth is that US economy depended heavily on export to Europe, and therefore could not let it collapse. Knowing that, their generous economic support suddenly seems much more self-serving. On the other hand... the US was and is under no obligation to prop up the world economies, nobody ever gave them any help... But anyway, very nice series, gonna keep watching and thx to Vasile luga for taking the trouble of putting it all up.

@SERLAK2000

9 жыл бұрын

It is very easy to judge. Just look at wikipedia page with the most developed countries GDP-wise and see if there are communist states there.....

@shibbyobibbyo

9 жыл бұрын

Considering China, arguably the most stable economy of today, is a communist state I would say your logic is faulty.

@SERLAK2000

9 жыл бұрын

shibbyobibbyo China is as much communist as USA.... It is a dictatorship with capitalistic economy model. And the reason why they are so "advanced" (it is hard to call a country advanced when their GDP per capita is $3000 comparing to $40000 in USA) is because of close ties with USA. So your argument actually makes my argument (that countries which stick to USA side) stronger.... North Korea is pure communism. Even Cuba is moving into more free market and capitalistic model right now.

@shibbyobibbyo

9 жыл бұрын

Sergey Lucktinov You need to distinguish communism from planned economy employed by the USSR. China is a communist nation, it's even ruled by the communist party, so lets not argue semantics, you said show me a communist country - I did. And I would say that the US is sticking to China (which now controls 1 trillion USD in bonds and has the power to crash US market at will anytime it sees fit), not the other way around. You also seem to have missed the fact that US has a 20 trillion USD national debt, which translates to around 200000 USD debt per citizen. Translate that into GDP.

@SERLAK2000

9 жыл бұрын

shibbyobibbyo You can call yourself whatever you want, true communist state has planned economy. Because that is what communism is all about, it even says in the name "commune". You obviously have no idea what you talk about. How much are you getting for posting these comments?

Nothing changes, Greece is still struggling.

if all this ppl harvested corn, alot of them woudnt die

"The Marshall plan was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. ... In addition to economic redevelopment, one of the stated goals of the Marshall Plan was to halt the spread communism on the European continent."

It's pretty hilarious..a planned economy in response to the threat of a "Planned Economy".

7:06 you smug bitch Stalin for time. BRILLIANT I wonder if the director asked him to not make puns xD

11:54 I get the feeling that these guys like to agrandize themselves, and keep their distance so they can't be called on their bullshit

Only people from Central Europe who lived the "bright" communism have the real idea what it is about. I'm sad to see idealistic comments about communism. Let me highlight what the documentary also says - USSR started their own "Marshall plan". But what it doesn't say (due to space I believe) - this USSR plan led to over 2 milions deaths; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946-47). That all in the name of "brotherhood help", Not mentioning 40 yrs of occupation and economical disaster for Central European countries. Please DO NOT tell me anything about "the US strings" and "US benefits" in that matter.

@pdd60absorbed12

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it looks as though the Red Army continued to "liberate" for the next 45 years. With liberation like that who needs occupation, right?

29:25, Yugoslavia's leader: Tito

[Angry mule noises intensify]

Today Russia's opponents are still falling out windows.

French on strike,,,,,, plus ca change!!

16:00

These children are beautiful they are the future. The Marshall plan what was it Vietnam? Boneo was the first point, then it spread onto Hing Noi then Saigon -Rolling thunder, Tet offensive..come along agreement I will bring virtue onto the world with my perspective, dear God -Don't be fooled, if did this then they should be accountable for it, don't you think -You'll ruin traditions & families going this way! Cold War Museum_ Inc. v. Cold War Air Museum_ Inc._ 586...

Hello chris

All this is happening today

the old folk talking about greece are not greek they are turkish muslims left after the greco-turkish war

Theodore "Ted" Geiger died in 2004.

The cold war really was avoidable if anticommunism wasn't so deeply entrenched in US politics

Hello u silly

Read the bread book 🍞📚

@colinstewart1432

Жыл бұрын

Every page a slice 👍

Communism is NOT the way! When I hear college students now say they want communism I cringe!

@terryrodbourn2793

7 жыл бұрын

I hate this new KZread.App!

@luckyday465768

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Marxism is evil, Leninism is evil, communism is evil, socialism is evil. Back in the 1910s people thought it would be so great, 80 years, and 100 million dead people later they abandoned it...... for 20 years, now we're right back at it again. The only reason socialism has gained popularity is because we had Barack Obama as president, and the Democrats want control over the country and so they make the false narrative that rich people are evil when in reality we need rich people to run the show. And they're the ones with the jobs too. Marxists wants to get rid of free enterprise and free market economy. And anyone who disagrees with them they are not necessarily jailed like they would be in any other country, but they are called racists, sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, islamophobias and every -ists, and phobias you can think of. These liberals can't hold an argument worth a damn, so they resort to insults to try and put their message across. LOL the liberal left everyone.

@shaolin89

7 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant argument there, good sir. Now that you put it this way, Ive now completely changed my mind and want to start hating communism.

@alaskanchristian4881

7 жыл бұрын

that is NOT true, they both have the same end goal PERIOD. Stalin was just more willing to be brutal to get there.

@Oregons

7 жыл бұрын

and CIA isnt brutal? funny stuff

Jesus saves

Who's here from Mr. Chase's history class? #EasternSHS

@artemis3283

4 жыл бұрын

im here from Mr Revis history class oh shit u dunno who he is

@alarioderpp_control000aa9

3 жыл бұрын

Here from world geography from south louisiana school

Bruh

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