In the interregnum of December 14 [O. S. December 26], 1825, a group of officers raised an uprising against the autocracy. They wanted to establish a republic in Russia, or a constitutional monarchy and destroy serfdom (almost eighty percent of the inhabitants of the Russian Empire were almost in the position of slaves) The uprising was suppressed, the leaders were hanged, other officers were either sent to hard labor or to the Caucasian war as privates. Soldiers who participated in the uprising were beaten to death with shpitsruten (a standard metal ramrod for muzzle-loading firearms.) Ответить

@serene_actual

Жыл бұрын

Damn...

@adamhall5298

Жыл бұрын

Just another normal day in Russia

@vadimanreev4585

Жыл бұрын

@@adamhall5298 Not true. We recall the USA, for example, the veterans' march on Washington in the summer of 1932, or the Ludlow massacre in 1914. The path to the kingdom of freedom, in any state, goes through blood.

@adamhall5298

Жыл бұрын

You're comparing apples with pears. Look at the outcomes, Russia is still stuck at kleptocracy level with complete disregard for human life and dignity. The US is a deeply flawed democracy.

@vadimanreev4585

Жыл бұрын

@@adamhall5298 It is you who have no concept of the flow of history. Are the USA and the Russian Federation cast in bronze? Haven't they been changing all this time? One moment: in the history of the United States, the civil war of the north with the south and Karl Marx, the founder of scientific communism, writes a welcome letter to Lincoln: "Dear sir! We send congratulations to the American people on your re-election by a huge majority. If the moderate slogan of your first election was resistance to the power of slaveholders, then the victorious battle cry of your second election reads: death to slavery! From the very beginning of the titanic struggle in America, the workers of Europe instinctively felt that the fate of their class was connected with the starry flag. Wasn't the struggle for territories, which marked the beginning of this harsh epic, supposed to decide whether the virgin soil of vast spaces would be given to the labor of a migrant or disgraced by the footsteps of a slave overseer?..." Another moment was the October Revolution in Russia and for the first time in the world the rights of workers to work, rest, treatment and study were legislated.

Revolutions are romantic, until you're actually in the revolution

@kevinjohnson3521

Жыл бұрын

Oh touché

@Nickname-hier-einfuegen

Жыл бұрын

Revolt, not revolution.

@chronos5090

Жыл бұрын

Ideals are peaceful my friend, history is violent.

@kevinjohnson3521

Жыл бұрын

@@chronos5090 very true statement, touché

@MonsieurBjornReddy

Жыл бұрын

A Revolution is not a dinner party - Chairman Mao

Imagine after years of battling against Napoleon then you had to go through this

@kitkat47chrysalis95

Жыл бұрын

you'd be surprised what the lack of food will do to a people

@CoffTheBirb

Жыл бұрын

@@kitkat47chrysalis95 my brother in Christ, Decembrist uprising had nothing to do with food

@runlarryrun77

Жыл бұрын

Ikr I'd have probably just gone home.

@WissHH-

Жыл бұрын

@@CoffTheBirb nothing? The endemic poverty and continue famines sure nothing related

@CoffTheBirb

Жыл бұрын

@@WissHH- do you really know anything about this historical event? It wasn't a peasant uprising or a mass mutiny among the conscripted soldiers, but rather an attempt of coup performed by a very tight and secretive group of military officers at the day of Nicolas I's coronation. It was caused primarily by the lack of political freedom, violently stern standards of military discipline and consistent incompetence of the previous emperor. Neither the officers who staged the coup, nor the elite soldiers of leib guard regiments were "starving". They were demanding freedom, education and respect, not food- and that's one of the reasons why they were absolutely ignored by the general public and easily overwhelmed by loyalist forces.

One of the best depictions of field artillery I’ve seen. Nothing about this scene comes out as “Wilhelm scream”. No exaggerated and dramatic jumping when artillery strikes the line, no Platoon-esque “falling dramatically from gunfire”. The grapeshot fires, and your line is torn apart a dozen men at a time, as though they’d been hit with a sledgehammer at high speed. Meanwhile you’re standing there, praying to every god there is that you not get hit…gruesome, visceral, and absolutely realistic

@Vanishingink4

2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean a jackhammer? Instead of a sledgehammer.

@mackenzieblair8135

Жыл бұрын

Other than the wet sponging and the guns not being depressed enough.

@Yaivenov

Жыл бұрын

@@mackenzieblair8135 Wet sponge was done to extinguish any residual embers in the bore. Very much a real thing.

@mackenzieblair8135

Жыл бұрын

@@Yaivenov The sponge creates a vacuum which deprives any existing embers of oxygen. To create a proper seal the sponge needs to be dampened; not soaking wet. A wet sponge is incredibly dangerous. It increases the risk of misfires and can create clumps of smoldering powder encapsulated in soaking wet powder which can then cook off the next powder charge. I’ve shot 19th century artillery many times and studied the manuals and loading procedures of the period.

@Yaivenov

Жыл бұрын

@@mackenzieblair8135 vacuum doesn't do what you're suggesting. You need to quench/cool the combusting material. Also at this point the powder charges are themselves encapsulated in waxed paper/lead foil.

They really need to make more movies like this where line infantry and Nepoleonic warfare is depicted accurately. People think this part of human history is boring, but in reality it was friggen brutal.

@katrinegadegaard1241

Жыл бұрын

Brutal for sure, but horrifically boring as well. I cannot think of anything more senseless than lining up two rows in front of each other and taking turns shooting until one side is dead.

@ryman1933

Жыл бұрын

@@katrinegadegaard1241 I would argue that's not boring as much as showcasing the level that "honor" was held too. It was two forces facing off face to face quite literally and may the best men win. It was what they considered honorable warfare at the time and these men bravely stood there knowing they almost certainly face a painful death and yet they stood there unwavering. That's beyond interesting to me.

@joshuasingleton9373

Жыл бұрын

​@Ryman completely agree, similar to world war 1 of over the trenches to death its incredible what they were trained to fight through

@donttouchmyfro

Жыл бұрын

@@ryman1933 yeah its interesting how soldiers just stood there, but I also wander if they were even prepared (or misled) about how war was fought. For example with this scene; the officers on both sides seemed horrified but what was happening to the enlisted (even the Emperor seemed upset when seeing what his weaponry was capable of). The first to run from the formations were the oldest/experienced, who most likely had witnessed grapeshot before.

@ryman1933

Жыл бұрын

@@donttouchmyfro I am sure that lack of knowledge and inexperience certainly helped them maintain a brave face under the circumstances. Had they been explicitly detailed what they were likely going to experience I doubt many men would have signed up for war at any point in history. It's often for the paycheck and a "honorable and noble fight again your nations enemy" but in reality it's horrible for everyone.

To cannon, all men are equal.

@ethanramos4441

2 жыл бұрын

Not really to cannon

@TheAngelOfDeath01

2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanramos4441 Yeah, to cannon... it knows not friend from foe... it only does what its told to do when loaded and ignited.

@ethanramos4441

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAngelOfDeath01 Oh I see I forgot it’s a quote from Napoleon

@Caesar88888

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAngelOfDeath01 Napoleon meant that cannon knows not aristocrat from peasant as far as I know, cannon doesnt care if you are rich or poor

@TheAngelOfDeath01

2 жыл бұрын

@@Caesar88888 Yeps, that's the inspirit of the French Revolution way of putting it, but you are quite right.

Another place where grapeshot was used was in Lyon after the French army suppressed the Girondist uprising. Dissatisfied with the slowness of the guillotine and conventional firing squads, the Revolutionary tribunals decided to try using grapeshot for mass executions of suspected Girondist rebels. It was abandoned after soldiers were forced to finish off the surviving condemned with swords, knives and bayonets, and subsequently refused to carry out any more grapeshot firing squads.

@TESkyrimizer

Жыл бұрын

Damn I feel like I read about that too before. Absolutely brutal. Not as brutal as the shit that went down in the Vendee but still terrible.

@jdlamb4212

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how often in history someone has thought "it's taking too long to kill all these people!"

@cat_city2009

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah dude.

@cat_city2009

Жыл бұрын

@@TESkyrimizer Vendee rebels had it coming.

@pierren___

Жыл бұрын

Napoleon used it in 1795 in Paris

The sad part, most of these soldiers killed would have been Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars.

@user-jf8pj7wb5n

Жыл бұрын

Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars were on both sides. For example, general Miloradovich, the hero of the war of 1812, was killed by Kakhovsky, one of the leaders of the Decembrist movement.

@Random_person-di9um

Ай бұрын

I say that every time I think about war

@wrtltable

29 күн бұрын

The saddest thing is that the soldiers were not rebels at all. The officers simply took advantage of their official position and led their soldiers out under buckshot without explaining anything to them.

@HoangNguyen-rw6wf

25 күн бұрын

@@wrtltable What worst the officers leader that was suppose to exacuted the coup got cold feet even the one that only had one job to kill the Tsar and then they just go for a walk or go back without informing the other officer who already going with the coup alongside theire soliders. At least the soldiers had their chances to go back to their barrack and thing will never happen until the officers screw that up.

@MrBubblecake

5 күн бұрын

Most of these soldiers were idiots. Standing in a tightly packed formation against a cannon and not even returning a single shot despite their entire platoon being armed. They could have fell back to the buildings, split up and used them as cover and fought an urban warfare setting, but I guess that would require an IQ higher than 80

The actor who plays the Tsar does a great expression of “I don’t want to do this, but I have to” , especially at 0:33 and 2:24.

@JayzsMr

Ай бұрын

He was the best actor in the movie in my opinion, great charisma and presence. He captures the aristocratic presence perfectly

In a situation like that on the battlefield there was some serious psychology at play. The artillerymen knew that if they ran or surrendered, the attacking infantry would be content to seize the position. If the artillery fired, then it would be a fight to the death against a much more numerous enemy hell bent on revenge. Battlefield stories are full of reports of artillerymen being bayoneted and sabered as their position is overrun.

@gidi3250

2 жыл бұрын

Civilians who where their also reported hearing the officers telling the men that they wouldn't fire the cannons since both sides are russians and we saw how that turned out.

@karandullet380

Жыл бұрын

Which movie is it?

@formgrya6927

Жыл бұрын

@@karandullet380 Union of Salvation, it's in the description

@peterlynchchannel

Жыл бұрын

@@karandullet380 It's called, "Union of Salvation".

@hankkingsley9300

Жыл бұрын

Shoot byden

The metallic retort of the cannon was perfect, as was the imagery of the impact.

My favorite part of this scene is the rising tension. Before the guns are fired, you can see and hear the moral weight of what is about to happen. The man running with the canister shot in his hands is nervous, the spectators are anxious of what might happen. The rebel officers are trying to rally their men with words that “they won’t dare fire at us”. Best of all, when the order to fire is given, the men do not fire immediately. They stand still, and refuse to fire until the officer has to do it himself and takes the first shot. Why should they shoot at their fellow countrymen? HOW could they shoot at them with such a horrible weapon? With this incredible weight on their shoulders, the men either freeze, or refuse to fire. Unfortunately when the first cannon goes off, it is already too late and the other cannon crews follow their grim orders.

@vadimanreev4585

Жыл бұрын

In nineteen ninety-three, a mirror situation turned out. The tank soldiers refused to shoot at the Supreme Soviet of Russia, and then the Yeltsin authorities bribed officers to form crews for tanks from them, which shot the Supreme Soviet.

@gromovboris

8 ай бұрын

это прекрасный комментарий, описывающий мои наблюдения

@FighteroftheNightman

6 ай бұрын

Dude narrated a 4 minute clip like he's the only one that got it

@reddragon52894

6 ай бұрын

Seems like a good solution. If only we implemented it today against protesters on roads

@theodoreroosevelt2154

6 ай бұрын

@@FighteroftheNightman Congratulations on making a condescending comment, you get a cookie for that one. Open wide!

Honestly, this has to be one of the greatest battles ever put to film. You can just feel the raw terror of it all, seeing the brutality put in place, watching the blood spray out, the people being shot at with grapeshot. I'd put this scene up there with scenes like the first battle in Saving Private Ryan it's that well done.

@Gigas0101

2 жыл бұрын

Seems a bit more like a slaughter and a route at this point, but I haven't seen the whole film yet. Agreed wholeheartedly on the quality of it, though!

@ManabiLT

2 жыл бұрын

Hacksaw Ridge did a great job. It's quiet, then all hell breaks loose. Bullets flying everywhere, artillery landing, and absolute, total chaos. It took me a few seconds to realize it was chaotic on purpose: That's what real battles are like.

@aopt471

Жыл бұрын

this is not a battle

@patrickneumann1245

Жыл бұрын

@@ManabiLT Oder auch der Kampf um die Fabrik aus dem Film Stalingrad von 1993

@simonnachreiner8380

Жыл бұрын

First off Waterloo Second off Zulu Third and finally this isn’t a battle this is field artillery opening up on a peaceful demonstration.

In fact, the rebels did not stand unanswered, this is how it really was: A volley of blank charges was fired at the square, which had no effect. The first volley was fired above the ranks of the rebellious soldiers. The rebels responded to the first volley with buckshot with rifle fire, but then, under a hail of buckshot, the flight began. According to the eyewitness of those events, V. I. Shteingel: “It was possible to limit ourselves to this, but Sukhozanet fired a few more shots along the narrow Galerny Lane and across the Neva to the Academy of Arts, where more of the curious crowd fled! Crowds of rebellious soldiers rushed to the Neva ice to cross to Vasilyevsky Island. Mikhail Bestuzhev tried on the ice of the Neva to again form soldiers into battle formation and go on the offensive against the Peter and Paul Fortress. The troops lined up, but were fired from cannons with cannonballs. The cores hit the ice, and it cracked, many drowned.

@FemboiSupremacy

Жыл бұрын

I thank you for your information

@kyle18934

Жыл бұрын

oh man, I could believe it. loaded with gear and heavy clothing. plus it is so cold. that would be a bad a bad way to go, but i guess that's better than dying from grapeshot in the belly

@difenol5750

Жыл бұрын

@@kyle18934 death from grapeshot is instant, unlike frost and ice.

@guypierson5754

Жыл бұрын

@@difenol5750 Sometimes, if you take a grape to the chest or head. But a leg or arm? You lose the limb and die in agony over the next two minutes. Stomach shot that doesn't hit your spine? Maybe days to die, all the while in terrible agony. Drowning is quick and painless by comparison.

@TheTuttle99

Жыл бұрын

@@difenol5750 there are probably many more wounded than instantly killed by the grapeshot. Being shot isn't just an off switch, and there's more places you can be shot and survive, than shot and killed

While I really appreciate the depiction of grapeshot, it's actually the reaction of the people that get me to fall in love with this scene. I can feel my own heart race as the first shot is being loaded up. Officers give assurance to the men, another's breathing is picking up, spit is being swallowed and the soldiers stiffen while the onlookers are shaken by the sound of the order. Be it the crowd and even the guy holding the fuse, I bet jitters are high, "oh God, is this really happening?" I'm going to have to look up the history on this, and watch this movie. Thanks

@kishascape

Жыл бұрын

Anyone else here after reading the "as the founding fathers intended" copypaste? "Tallyho lads!"

@troydodson9641

Жыл бұрын

@@kishascape No, but now I'm curious Edit, watched it, loved it

Guys, before you say anything, just remember that these are commanders that have been educated in a hundred years of linear combat. They know why they stand rank and file against enemy cannons.

@catsandporn

2 жыл бұрын

So why do they not shoot back? Is this what you do in linear combat?

@w_od9611

2 жыл бұрын

@@catsandporn because they are too far to shoot it's either a bayonet charge to take over the artillery or stay and get mowd

@joeleonard9965

2 жыл бұрын

@@w_od9611 Then why not a bayonet charge? Or marching forward? If you don't have artillery also, how can you assume this goes any differently if you don't close the distance? It just doesn't make sense...

@k.n7849

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeleonard9965 Beacuse it is harder to maintain proper advance under such an artillery fire. Taking the facts that they didn't have cavalry for atack against artillery brigades + Tsar had guard cavalry and infantry battalions which could easily repell any atack from rebel side.

@HoangNguyen-rw6wf

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeleonard9965 Beside they are outnumber. What ever they do they it will not work. If the Tsar have only artillery then it fine to charge. But that not the case, they don't even have calvary. If they broke square formation they are an easy target to get pick up by Calvary. If they got shot by grape shot or infantry first.

It Also shows how brutal Grapeshot was

@carlnico7331

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@adampay8906

2 жыл бұрын

Turn your cannon into a giant shotgun, the whole first rank of troops is dead. If you're in the second rank you'd begin to wonder if you actually want to be there.

@NaughtyNovaroo69

2 жыл бұрын

The ideology of shooting a weopen round that splinters into mutple small projectiles to effectively kill mutple and injury dozens of others is just like having a flame thrower and Molotov cocktails and etc Not only it's a brutal way to kill and injure but strikes fear knowing how savage and barbaric it is then compared to simole clean bullets to kill and even injury more

@erichvondonitz5325

2 жыл бұрын

@@NaughtyNovaroo69 its a good thing it works for close ranges

@Waakrissos

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Not just ground exploding, but people falling like dominos. I love how they made it look realistic.

1:50 BEHOLD the luckiest man to ever exist.

@DalionHeartTTV

2 жыл бұрын

Considering he would later either be arrested and executed, or would die on the ice shortly after this scene, I wouldn't consider him all that lucky.

@bottlerocket2528

2 жыл бұрын

Wind of ball might actually kill him

@konstantinosnikolakakis8125

Жыл бұрын

@Dalion Heart Only five Decembrists were actually executed. About 80 were transported to Siberia. The rest were sent to fight the Turks in the Caucasus.

@user-wb7ez9ud4p

Жыл бұрын

dude probably shitted himself as he looked around right there

@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479

4 ай бұрын

​@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125that's even worse...

- Что ты собираешься делать, стрелять в меня из пушки? - Цитата человека, расстрелянного из пушки.

@catholicdad

Жыл бұрын

Dobar dan

@Mike5Brown

6 ай бұрын

Interesting that meme jumped languages

@chasechiamulera7704

Ай бұрын

💀

I used to own a piece of US Civil War grapeshot. It was about an inch or so in diameter and was made of iron. These cannons look a bit smaller, the 6 pounder being one of the most common size guns during the Napoleonic era, so I imagine that's what these would have been, so the grapeshot would have been something like an inch in diameter or close to it. The grapeshot would have been devastating on anything it came into contact with.

@LoveVP_

2 жыл бұрын

During Napoleonic war leib-guard used 12 pounder cannons. So, in this scene decemberists was shot by 12 pounder cannons.

@mackenzieblair8135

Жыл бұрын

Canister shot used approx 1-inch diameter iron balls. Grapeshot was significantly larger and primarily used by naval guns.

@commenting000

Жыл бұрын

You owned a heckin ball of iron 1 inch in diameter?! That's like, le awesome, dude.

@XIIOSRS

Жыл бұрын

no shit

@lemmdus2119

Жыл бұрын

Actually it’s Canister shot. It’s full of musket balls.

This represents the complete brutality of canister shot or grapeshot at close range.

@Frankszky1923

2 жыл бұрын

Complete brutality of every regime russia has had in any time.

@Enclaveinator

Жыл бұрын

@@Frankszky1923 what has that to do with his statement

@Voron_Aggrav

Жыл бұрын

@@Enclaveinator the fact that Russia never had a government that wasn't brutal or inept, usually both And "Close Range" for a grapeshot is easily 50-100 metres, absolutely mental to think how powerful such a Shotgun is when it's a 12 Pounder gun, though I believe the one used here is like a 3 pounder

@tinkerstrade3553

Жыл бұрын

Humans still use anti-personnel munitions, such as cluster bombs. The brutality hasn't changed, only the method of delivery.

This scene blew me away.

@andrewcarlson3486

2 жыл бұрын

says the one who cant aim

@verpen8108

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewcarlson3486 ahahahahahH

@skyereave9454

2 жыл бұрын

It blew them away too.

@svalbard01

2 жыл бұрын

Grapes of wrath.

@andrewrobinson2565

Жыл бұрын

Clearly not.

The soldiers should’ve known they were in trouble when they heard the epic music...

@Marvin-dg8vj

Жыл бұрын

It is always a bad sign.

From the memoirs of Nicholas the First (popularly nicknamed Palkin): "...Having left for the square, I wanted to see if there would be an opportunity, surrounding the crowd, to force surrender without bloodshed. At that time, a volley was fired at me; bullets whistled through my head and, fortunately, none of us were wounded. The workers of St. Isaac's Cathedral started throwing logs at us from behind the fences. It was necessary to decide to put an end to this as soon as possible, otherwise the riot could be communicated to the rabble, and then the troops surrounded by it would be in the most difficult position."

I didn't know russian studios were capable of this kins of movies, they did a great job.

@flankerpraha

7 ай бұрын

Actually when it comes to historical movies like this, Russians are master in that.

@shaftoe195

6 ай бұрын

@@flankerprahaRussians have a lot of history, so they don't really need Hollywood-tier writing for those movies and series - just pick from something that has already happened, and go with it. So long as your budget is big enough, and you can act well, the result is gonna be fire.

@lettuceman9439

3 ай бұрын

Remember, The Waterloo Movie was only possible because of a Soviet Regiment was hired to play the role.

@kalwidorntheimmortalcaptai2435

27 күн бұрын

There's also very cool stuff like Hardcore Henry.

These guys have some damn fine discipline, I'd have run asap after the dude next to me got gibbed.

@montaguegray7486

2 жыл бұрын

id have run at first day training when they told me i had too stand in a line and get shot at by some other blokes in a line

@SobaYatai

2 жыл бұрын

@@montaguegray7486 become skirmisher then lol

@janchovanec8624

2 жыл бұрын

Those are the guys who fought off and beaten Napoleon's Le Grande Armee.

@capscaps04

2 жыл бұрын

@@montaguegray7486 what´s so different about today battlefield where you can also et shot by another squad of men.

@artemis7271

2 жыл бұрын

@@capscaps04 Because modern warfare conventions don't involve standing still in a wall of meat literally taking turns shooting at each other?

The metal sound when the cannons are going off really makes you feel the brutality of war. Just an observation.

@StumpfForFreedom

6 ай бұрын

The audio and visuals are quite beautiful.

Damn the courage of the guy at 2:13 to look around, see the entire group around him dead and to walk up and take the solider infront of hims place is js crazy, even if it was standard for all soldiers back then

@Sold7

8 ай бұрын

yeah, and imagine how brutal it was in a real battle, this was a revolution

@vadimanreev4585

8 ай бұрын

When they talk about the brutality of the Bolsheviks in the twenties of the twentieth century, you need to understand that the majority of the country's population approved of their actions. Because the people, for three hundred years of slavery, have suffered grief.

@jurgeeen

8 ай бұрын

@@vadimanreev4585 no, it's a lie. Even most the revolution supporting part of the society the majority supported social-democrats, which even won the soviet election, so Lenin and Trotsky just dismantled soviets by the brutal force of Petrograd Revolutinary Comitee, lol. Bolsheviks were nothing more but a red ISIS supported by the minority of the most cruel psychopaths

@samarmstrong6569

8 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@vadimanreev4585lmao, your source? Nearly half the county was against the Bolsheviks. Serfdom was horrible but that doesn’t mean that the majority of the county wanted the brutality and terror the Bolsheviks inflicted to happen. You can’t make generalizations for people in times where you haven’t lived without proof. “Bolshevik seizure of power was not universally accepted” (Wikipedia) Tambov Rebellion (Wikipedia)

@vadimanreev4585

8 ай бұрын

@@samarmstrong6569 My dear man! To refute you do not need to bother yourself much. The Tambov uprising took place in Russia and covered several tens of thousands of people. There were already a hundred million people in Russia at that time. So not all of Russia rebelled. How did the Ukrainian population feel about the Bolsheviks? More people joined the Red Army than the white one, and after twenty years of Soviet rule, NINE million Ukrainians fought in the war with the fascists in the red army, and no more than two hundred thousand people joined the Fascist.

The canister rounds are absolutely realistic. No fancy explosions on impact, but gives he'll to close infantry formations

@user-td8fy5fy9l

8 ай бұрын

谢国根

Never count on your enemy's mercy or decency, it's a potentially fatal move.

@svetchannel2998

10 ай бұрын

Именно благодаря этому через 100 лет победят большевики и устроят ад на Земле, прямо или косвенно убив десятки миллионов моих соотечественников, а их наследники будут править до сих пор. Либералы-февралисты, свергнувшие императора, посчитали что большевики не посмеют разогнать зарождающийся парламент, если они сами себя разоружат и распустят боевые подразделения, что они и сделали. Конечно большевики только посмеялись над этим и с помощью банд пьяных матросов Петрограда просто разогнали всех, а тех кто упорствовал расстреляли. Если вы считаете себя силами добра - сражайтесь, вы не имеете морального права позволять себе быть мягким, так как зло беспощадно и подло.

@maxwellsope1080

6 ай бұрын

They were their brothers in arms as this is after the Napoleonic wars. Also the grape shot was used in small quantities with the intent to break up the rebel lines. If this was a real war Vs a foreign enemy the grape shot would have been devastating.

Incredibly good looking uniforms

Everything about this scene is obviously incredible, but perhaps my favorite part is the music. It's intense, it's visceral, and it's modern-an aspect that makes the scene feel so much more real and tangible. You get the sense that this isn't just something that happened long ago, but that could be happening right now. Truly phenomenal film-making.

@lupohutchington269

Жыл бұрын

Actually happens in almost every protest

@lupohutchington269

Жыл бұрын

With tear gas and rubber bullets

@michaelgreenwood3413

10 ай бұрын

Russians have a lot of practice doing this to their own people. Especially over the past year and a half.

@lukasmadrid1945

10 ай бұрын

the music is pretty much the only thing i dont like about this scene, generic and doesn't really do the scene justice

@gigachadov8156

6 ай бұрын

​@@michaelgreenwood3413brainwashed. an American tells a Russian about what is happening in Russia, because that’s what he was told on CNN😂😂😂

How the fall and the brutality of the impacts make this scene unique

@kirgan1000

Жыл бұрын

It is still "sanitized" nobady screams in death pain for a long time, call for there mothere, or scream in horror of the wound they have taken, I have get un-maned (groin hit) they all die "relatively" fast and silent.

@gnas1897

10 ай бұрын

​@@kirgan1000 The only (almost) completely non-"sanitized" war movie is Come and See. Nothing comes close to that.

1:51 look at one guy survives one grapeshot Volley, wounded a little, covered in blood, loses his hat and is still standing. What are champion

1:44 Bro went from daring Russian commander to Lord Beckett in a span of about 0.2 seconds

My God, I truly feel for every soldier over the millennia who has died just standing there in position. Can you imagine the millions who have been mowed down over the centuries by arrow, cannon fire or so many other weapons? War is truly hell.

The rank and file soldiers, who had large numbers cut down by grape shot and then had more drown in the frozen river they retreated to, were not in the coupe itself and in fact were told that the man they thought was the Czar was being usurped by his younger brother.

@richarddevine8391

Жыл бұрын

This!

@sherlocksmuuug6692

Жыл бұрын

Which is unfortunate because Constantin had privately abdicated in favour of his brother, but that wasn't publicly known yet (Constantin was still in Warsaw). That's why the soldiers thought they were doing a counter-coup against Nicholas' coup.

@Qumielhan

Жыл бұрын

@@sherlocksmuuug6692 "Privately abdicated" is whatever was concocted after the event, since the loser would not dare contending it. It would be like miraculously discovering the men you stole a car from had privately donated it to you free of charge a bit earlier, how convenient. Especially since most of the previous century in Russia was called 'An Era of Palatial Coups' with inheritance wills of the emperors forged. Basically those soldiers indeed participated in a counter-coup that was mythologized long after the events to keep up the appearances.

When the lieb guard runs, you know it’s fucked up

2:13 the balls you have to have in that situation, like that dude took the meme “oh no, anyway” to heart. All his boys just dropped around him and he’s like “gotta get back in position” Edit: man the keyboard warriors really came out on this one “it’s your duty” stfu ya nerds y’all be sippin

@PRubin-rh4sr

Жыл бұрын

its ingrained in them, you just stand

@TheHolyRomanEmpireGaming

Жыл бұрын

It was your duty to stand, you stood for what you represented. He may have regretted his choices but he wasn’t going back.

@blecao

Жыл бұрын

After all this are no raw conscripts this is the russian imperial guard, the more discipline men of the russian army and quite some veterans of the napoleonic wars

@pyerack

Жыл бұрын

Nah bro his brain is probably hearing white noise from the shock.

@kspfan001

Жыл бұрын

In moments like this you can't think and without training will default to your instincts. Hence why soldiers drill & train over and over.

One of the better depictions of grape shot I've seen on film as a reenactor. But if it were real it would be far, FAR bloodier and gruesome... as in body parts flying everywhere 'gruesome'. However, I do appreciate the movie showing how a battery load of grape would eviscerate battalions whole companies at a time.

God I wish those hats were still in style.

It wouldn't take a lot of grapeshot to make me run like hell. These guys have brass balls!

Shostakovich's 11th "The Year 1905" has a similar scene depicted musically - the Russian army firing into a crowd of demonstrators with Maxim Guns. Absolutely chilling music.

@andro7862

Жыл бұрын

Russia moment.

@SillyUwUBilly

Жыл бұрын

@@andro7862 Exactly lol.

@bjorneisenseite9025

Жыл бұрын

Which movie?

@Baribrotzer

Жыл бұрын

@@bjorneisenseite9025 It wasn't a movie. In fact, there is no movie. It was a symphony - written in 1957, and sometimes described as "a film score without the film". The version on Naxos by the Liverpool Symphony, with Vasily Petrenko as conductor, is particularly good.

Wow Im traumatized just watching it! This needs to be shown in the theaters and on tv to remind people of awfulness of war ! I have so much respect for the people who came before me!

@vadimanreev4585

4 ай бұрын

We are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Thousands of years of defeats and victories, scientific discoveries and obscurantistic oblivion have created the current civilization

officer: Glory to Constantine and the constitution! soldiers: what is a constitution? officer: well... uh... that's Konstantin's wife soldiers: aha., glory to Constantine and the Constitution!

@Tounushi

Жыл бұрын

Quickly read up on it, they wanted to make the empire into something more akin to a mix of the UK and USA. Constitutional monarch; 12 sovereign States within the empire by economic lines, all with access to a sea or major river system and their own legislatures; division of powers; two legislative houses, etc. And Konstantin as emperor.

@lordkfc1297

Жыл бұрын

@@Tounushi they were too hasty, those kind of reforms must start slow or otherwise you meet the bullets and the powder

@Tounushi

Жыл бұрын

@@lordkfc1297 And in Russia, any hint of reforms is usually met with bullets and powder.

@lordkfc1297

Жыл бұрын

@@Tounushi It matters little that they were in Russia, if you tried to change from absolute monarchy to a constitutional one you would either need a revolution or be very careful on what reforms you propose so you don't take to much power from the king in one go

@cornbeefcommie7519

Жыл бұрын

​@@lordkfc1297 Ah yes the reforms must start slow to the point that you are the only last european country to reform and it came very late.

Ah yes giant shotgun

@steelflesher

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm

Jesus, grapeshot may as well be a fucking machine gun

While the rest of the movie might be crap and innaccurate... this isn't. This is exactly how horrific it is to be on the receiving end of grapeshot.

@majorchungus

Жыл бұрын

I remember when I grapeshotted 50 men, this is accurate.

@Tugboatpb

Жыл бұрын

Is the movie bad?

@evilbabai7083

Жыл бұрын

@@Tugboatpb it's historically inaccurate and has poorly written characters. There was a 1.2H comedy review of it (only in Russian, unfortunately) which is much more enjoyable than this move. So, yeah, battle scenes are great, everything else sucks big time.

@Tugboatpb

Жыл бұрын

@@evilbabai7083 damn that sucks. I've greatly warmed up to this era of history and want to watch more of it. The cinematography of this scene is excellent

@evilbabai7083

Жыл бұрын

@@Tugboatpb yeah, that's a common problem of mainstream movies in Russia since "Cinema Fund" was established - they make a good presentation to get money and then make a shallow lazy cash grab of a movie that eventually flops at the box office. And sometimes it's not only bad, but even offensive, misrepresenting historical events and portraying it's figures in absolutely disgusting fashion, twisting their actions and motivation. Quick tip - if you see movie reviewed by BadComedian, skip it or watch the review instead.

The subtitles in this video are not always accurate. E.g. at 0:29 he actually says: "Let me take the guilt for this blood", at 3:47 the officer shouts not just "Follow me", but "Follow me! To Neva!" (a river in St Petersburg - it was frozen at the time, and the officer hoped to cross the ice with the troops to capture the Armoury on the other bank and retry the offensive), at 4:07 soldiers shout not "Run", but "Run to Arsenal!" (Armoury) and "Until the victory, lads!"

@Pan_Z

10 ай бұрын

Thank you

Incredible scene! the uniforms and the atmosphere is gorgeous in every ways!

I just realized that, in 2 years, it will be 200 years since the Decembrist Revolt

Can confirm the new grapeshot ability for the Dawi in Warhammer 3 tears through even the most heavily armored chaos troops

I don't think I'm familiar with a better depiction in cinema of what grape was like until probably Scott's Napoleon epic

"They won't dare to shoot us!" NICHOLAS I: Bazinga!

Just the SOUND of it firing...

Famous last words, "They won't dare to shoot"

1:56 Is it just me or does Russia seem to have a long history of its citizens dying unnecessarily?

@zhukov7923

2 жыл бұрын

Who the hell even stands in the way of a military standoff, especially when they see cannons lining up.

@patrioticjustice9040

2 жыл бұрын

@@zhukov7923 Probably the closest thing they had to excitement back in the day. They used to make spectacles out of executions; watching a man hang for piracy was the equivalent of going to the movies.

@erichvondonitz5325

2 жыл бұрын

@@zhukov7923 probably didn't have a clue that they were using grapeshots instead of the normal ball shot

@kekero540

2 жыл бұрын

Because Russia has been ruled by totalitarian and parasitic despots and nobles since its very inception.

@Phoenix8492

2 жыл бұрын

@@zhukov7923 this kind of warfare was so far removed from civilian populace that it was a spectacle to many of this time, something very, very heavily romanticized by artists and propaganda. In one of the earliest battles of the American Civil War it was observed that people had settled on a nearby hillside to picnic as _spectators_ to the battle; they very quickly ran when the hill itself began to take musket and cannon fire. Even today we experience this effect; there are many stories from the US military of 18 year-olds soiling themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan because their entire perceptions of war and combat came from Call of Duty.

"They won't dare to shoot us" That didnt age too well

I like they included the metallic ring when the cannons fire. It's accurate and something you don't get firing just blanks.

I just love how the people on the sides are watching this like if it's a SPORTS event! 🤣🤣

@Indoor_Carrot

2 жыл бұрын

Public executions were a common spectacle back then. Not too surprising they'll be here to watch this

@090giver090

Жыл бұрын

There were no TV and internet back then, y'know ;)

@user-me4ie4hc6m

Жыл бұрын

People living the moment

@JayzsMr

Ай бұрын

This is actually historically accurate, many battles had spectators in the past

@davidcox3076

6 күн бұрын

@@JayzsMr First Battle of Bull Run. Have a nice picnic while watching the Army of Northeastern Virginia get pimp slapped.

Their discipline is phenomenal. As men fell, their comrades on either side simply closed in to reform the lines.

Have to wonder what would have happened had they convinced their men to charge the cannons before they began firing, still many would die from the cannons but if they had reached them it would have been interesting to know how things could have gone

@radziwill7193

2 жыл бұрын

They would have been killed by superior musket fire and bayonets.

@lrl2394

2 жыл бұрын

@@radziwill7193 is this based on the numbers from the actual event, I don’t know a lot about it but it does seem interesting. Movie makes it look fairly even but that could just be artistic liberty

@HansenDing

2 жыл бұрын

@@lrl2394 yeah they didn't have the numbers. This is based on the real events of the Decemberist uprising where they were hugely outnumbered. If they actually fought they would have been crushed. Their only bet was to stand there and hope the army wouldn't dare shoot at their own officers and veterans. The Decemberist story was a tragic one. They were essentially officers and veterans who marched through Europe to defeat what they were told was the tyranny of Napoleon, only to realise that France was much more liberal and prosperous than Russia. They wanted reforms but due to how autocratic and conservative the Tsarist administration was, they were convinced an armed uprising was the only solution and grew desperate, resorting to a series of suicidal coup and mutiny attempts.

@gidi3250

2 жыл бұрын

They where heard telling their men that the loyal troops wouldn't shoot on them since they are all Russians and cannons proved that wrong.

@pizzaki582

2 жыл бұрын

@@HansenDing jesus man, sounds like russia every few decades

I imagine that receiving grapeshot from a cannon while holding formation is probably just one the most horrifying situations to be on a battlefield. Every muscle in your body and your mind just screaming at you to run and take cover. And you can't even watch what happens you simply blink and the men on your left and right all fall crumpled to ground like dolls having their strings cut. You raise your rifle to fire back but you can't see your targets anymore the cloud of gunfire from the cannons and your men returning fire leaves the field shrouded in a haze while death and terror are all around you.

Can you believe this really happened? Like this was a regular occurrence during this time period. The testicular fortitude it must’ve took to stand in a fucking straight line and just get peppered with grape shot is astounding.

@paddyopatrick2941

Жыл бұрын

Walking slowly to maintain cohesion toward an entrenched enemy position walk 60ft infront of them unload 2 volleys point blank stick a sword on your gun and charge.... idk how they charged with their balls hanging so low.

@christophdollis1955

Жыл бұрын

Well it didn't really happen this way. The rebels were fired at with blanks and didn't respond. Then they were fired at over their heads with live rounds and the Decemberists replied with aimed shots. Then they were hit with with live rounds, including grape, slaughtered, fled, tried to regroup on the ice, and the ice was hit with canon balls. You can imagine what happened next.

@moogiibat5845

Жыл бұрын

@@christophdollis1955 I guess the Movie needed to cut for budget and time reasons, you can only put so much in hour 30 minute. Wish they made extended version for non cinema releases with more scenes and details, I'll pay for those.

@christophdollis1955

Жыл бұрын

@@moogiibat5845 I was a bit annoyed that this movie showed the Decemberists just stupidly standing there after being hit with grape shot repeatedly. In fact, they fired the first aimed shots.

@moogiibat5845

Жыл бұрын

@@christophdollis1955 Well, they did fire and fataly wounded the cavalry that charged before the artillery scene. They do look stoic tho.

Powerful. Also love the costumes/scenery. Effects of this still living with us -

“They won’t dare shoot us!” The loyalists: “Bet”

Survive the Napoleonic war but not in the Hands of their Countrymen

1:47 *WHOA! That was close,* he thought. 2:10 *My hat!*

Russian warfilm always Amaze me with it's accuracy. Not like Hollywood war film

I never sae this movie but from the scenes I know I just love the look. It captures how brutal line warfare actually is. I just love how they show grapeshot is just as much a psycological weapon as it is to kill and maim.

This is the most accurate portrayal of linear warfare i’ve ever seen.

the production values are the best i've seen in a movie

Grapeshot is one of those “so simple yet so devastating” inventions. I mean at the end of the day all you really do is to dump a bunch of small metal balls into a cannon. The result, however, speaks for itself…. The gods help whatever poor bastard that found themselves on the receiving end of that barrel…

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

A cannon with grapeshot is basically a shotgun that has been scaled up 50 times.

@AlexSDU

10 ай бұрын

Sometimes you don't even need small metal balls. Just nuts, bolts, nails and such will do too.

2:28 you could tell that wasn't his first time being on the wrong end of a cannon.

I've been looking for this dang movie, thank you man.

@HalfPraetorian

Жыл бұрын

Movie name?

@saintman9460

Жыл бұрын

@@HalfPraetorian союз спасение

Was looking for a scene that used canister/grapeshot. Hollywood focuses on the long range cannon balls but once the enemy was in range, they would employee the dreaded grapeshot. A Shotgun on steroids!

@090giver090

Жыл бұрын

Picket's charge scene in "Gettysburg" showed artillery switching from shells to canisters as enemy went closer and its effects quite well. Without gore for age restrictions considerations of course.

@7hunderingGod

Жыл бұрын

@@090giver090 there are even a few commands you hear during Pickett's charge for the union artillery to load double canister.

I forgot about grapeshot being used in cannons like that, it seems like it was extremely effective.

@alexmag342

2 жыл бұрын

Grapeshot was very rarely used that close, being the only times was if an artillery position was being charged and possibly overrrun by infantry or cavalry and would only have been one single volley, and formations didn't positions themselves directly in the line of fire of cannons while standing still. This movie is pure fantasy on a real event, at least the fight, the partial infiltration of the officer corps by masonic Judas puppets is accurate, and that the soldiers look confused about what's going on and that they didn't know that they were in fact being led in rebellion by foreign infiltrators and a handful of indoctrinated traitors, the rebels officers, is also accurate. The masons praying to God is almost has bad as the formations being grapeshoted, as its inaccurate as they were and are all godless anti-european degenerates, and this is no exaggeration, the forefathers and creators of Marxism after their other artificial ideology, liberalism/republicanism failed miserably and was rejected and fought against uninamously by the populace in every country, so they took to infiltration, subversion and destabilization, and indoctrination(by infiltrating academias), all financed by their banks, corporations, and masonic puppet state(USA and England, the latter post 16882, the former since its creation)

@jdlamb4212

Жыл бұрын

​@@alexmag342 are your circuits frying

@LordVader1094

Жыл бұрын

@@alexmag342 Least deranged Portuguese

@bobbyhill1110

Жыл бұрын

@@alexmag342 smartest Portuguese

@salter1630

Жыл бұрын

@@alexmag342 least schizophrenic monarchist

i love how only one contingent, the one at 3:44; stood still while others ran.

Don't fight unless you're willing to fight

Never take a hat to an artillery fight

I think I would of started shooting back if I was the other guys...

@jadestar554

2 жыл бұрын

rip to your grandma but I'm better....

@IsaiahRichards692

2 жыл бұрын

They were out of musket range!

@thejollyjohnson9015

2 жыл бұрын

@@IsaiahRichards692 bullshit if they shoot in volleys someone's bound to hit

@IsaiahRichards692

2 жыл бұрын

@@thejollyjohnson9015 But see, they Czar’s army has grapeshot, so…

@thejollyjohnson9015

2 жыл бұрын

@@IsaiahRichards692 well you see the past is the past. No helping them boys out now

Epic History TV. The reason I am here.

Pretty gnarly depiction of grapeshot

i feel bad for the guy right here running. 2:59

@gagetv814

Жыл бұрын

What’s the name of this movie

@louiseake1899

3 ай бұрын

@@gagetv814It’s Union of Salvation but it’s in Russian

That’s canister Grapeshot was used more on ships and it was was too Big to make such a spread and damage as shown But this is a accurate representation of canister

The generals rank depended on the length of their sideburns

I can't believe they filmed this back in 1825

Someone actually put the movie in the description. Bravo! 👏👏👏👏

Whoever produced/directed this movie should provide some lessons on movie making to Ridley Scott.

@flankerpraha

5 ай бұрын

Andrei Kravchuk. I've not seen this movie yet but I saw two other movies directed by him. Honestly I didn't like them much (that's why I'm still hesitating with watching this one) but I have to admit that they were done very professionally from the technical side.

@dicecorporation

2 ай бұрын

The outset was different. One was set to do his own interpretation of a historical events while the other was set to do anglo-saxon propaganda. There was never a chance

What's crazy; is that modern tanks have a grapeshot canister for their guns. I remember watching a video of an M1 shotgun canister and oh buddy it will pepper a whole field for a wide sweep. So to imagine that day and age when Grapeshot was the best anti infantry ammo they had; as wildly inaccurate as it was, god help the poor buggers it hit, because if it didn't kill you it would make you wish it did.

I like the grape shot touch they did an excellent job showing how it was deadly with its spread

The way the cannon reloads in this scene is satisfying

Amazingly well done movie

After the disaster of Ridley Scott's Napoleon, even if it's not related, I'm so disappointed that we didn't get a movie like this. With, among other things, realism and colour (I'm tired of modern movies with grey filters, might as well go back to the days of black and white films).

@aaronmarks9366

5 ай бұрын

Man, Napoleon was so disappointing. Although I'll give them credit for having a brutal grapeshot scene there, with the peasant woman crawling away from her own severed leg.

Man, you can just say you dislike their music, you don't need to go to these kinds of extremes.

Nice touch how instead of getting hit and falling over the shots are slamming them backwards on the ground

Russia has a tendency to make very corny movies about war, like they are action movies. But when they go realistic they never disappoint.

@Dan-jp8jr

Жыл бұрын

Best war movie I've ever seen was a Russian/Belarusian movie called brest castle

@firebolt00

Жыл бұрын

@@Dan-jp8jr indeed that is a great, and horrifying movie about the outbreak of WW2 in the USSR

Suddenly have a real urge to play Empire: Total War.

I like how the one guy just shakes it off and gets back in line

Theres a reason that Louis XIV's artillery was inscribed with "Ultima Ratio Regum" or 'The Last Argument of Kings'. When the crowd saw the Tsar roll the artillery out they shouldve bolted. A king can only argue so much before his authority disapears. His final argument is the sound of a cannon.