This channel has a skill for answering questions that I never knew I had, and yet desperately needed the answers to

@FIVEBASKET

Жыл бұрын

Yea

@FederationMapping

Жыл бұрын

so true

@Idontknow46262

Жыл бұрын

Ong

@franciscoacevedo3036

Жыл бұрын

If the Jan 6 insurrectionists woulda been native or black USA and Canada woulda activated NATO and b0mbed Czechoslovakia and Hungary the next week just like the Ussr

@assassain0425

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

Speaking of Warsaw Pact, I'd love this channel to do a dive into why Yugoslavia never signed up, or why they split with the USSR, or something along those lines. Just an excuse for Tito's letter to Stalin to make an appearance.

@215Days

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! I love Tito's letter so much!

@WILLIAN_1424

Жыл бұрын

Because Yugoslavia was a "neutral" nation and it also wasn't a puppet of the Bolsheviks so it wasn't necessary or beneficial for them to sign it.

@g26s239

Жыл бұрын

That was done a while Adam.

@markmarano913

Жыл бұрын

Well, seeing your comment, I had to go and Google Tito's letter to Stalin, and I was not disappointed - thank you!

@advocatusdiaboli4861

Жыл бұрын

The letter is fake, Stalin explicitly told his confidants that murdering Tito wasn't an option. We have a transcription of that conversation.

I was told by a US Army intelligence officer that in fact some Warsaw Pact forces did eventually make it to Afghanistan, though not in large numbers. Mostly intelligence and logistical types.

@mardiffv.8775

Жыл бұрын

And the secret services of Warsaw Pact nations were involved, like the East German Stasi.

@daveanderson3805

Жыл бұрын

Interesting

@zeroyuki92

Жыл бұрын

I can definitely see intelligence guys going to Afghanistan to observe and learn. Especially since Mujahideen was equipped with NATO weapons and they would definitely want to see how Soviet equipments and strategies fare against those. Edit: I initially wrote Taliban instead of Muhahideen, that's just a slip of my brain.

@andrewdriver3318

Жыл бұрын

This is more complicated. There is a parellel in the US experience in Vietnam so I will use that to explain. NATO wasn't involved in Vietnam, but AUS was due to them also seeing the groth of Communism in thier back yard as a threat. Ther Bitish had an exchange officer program and some British officers did serve in Vietnma with AUS units. Likewise many Canadians joined the US Army and also served in Vietnam. The US also had an exchange officer program with the UK as well, and the British MOD lists only one casualty in Vietnam, one of these exchange officers. Interestingly the US Draft is not based on Citizenship but Visa Status and there was at least one UK BBC Jourbalist in the US that was drafted and sent to Vietnam. The SOviets had parallels of all of these programs, exchange officers, and foriengers from Warsaw nations joining the Soviet Military. These people however where considered a formal part of the Soviet(Russian) Miliatary and not the militaries of thier home countries. Exchange officers are considered full(caveats) Officeres off the military they are exchanged with, as distincnted from a liason officer who is assigend to a forigne military post as a representative of that nation.

@andrewdriver3318

Жыл бұрын

@@zeroyuki92 Mujahideen, the taliban and the Mujahideen are not the same thing and actually where opposing factions. The Taliban never fought the Soviets. The Taliban formed later after the Soviet War during the Afghan Civil War and were never trained, equiped or had any contact with the west. A brief history, the mujahideen was a loose collection of anti soviet factions, this was the group NATO supplied and supported. After the Soviets left this group fell to infighting between the Northern Alliance primarily led my Ahmed Sha Massoud and various groups in the south primarily the HIG led by Gulbudddin Hekmetyar. This war distabilized the region. The Taliban formed at this time amoung madrassa students in Kanahar. They grew in power allegedly with outside support from various Islamic extreamist groups and forigen goverments that want ed to keep Afghanistan unstable. They eventually where strong enought to take over the south and lay siege to Kabul. This led to the next phase of the Civil war between the Northern Alliance and the Taliban, which was the situation in the country on 9/11/2001. After which the US reestablished contact with the northern Alliance, the Mujahideen it had supported earlier, against the Taliban. The US War in Afghanistan ensued with the Taliban becoming the insurgency and the Northern Alliance(mujahideen) becoming the GIROA.

James Bissonette simply told the Warsaw Pact he could handle it himself.

@thorgot911

Жыл бұрын

Yes but Boogly Woogly and Spinning Three Plates provided funds and arms for James' invasion.

@theplinko9840

Жыл бұрын

Nah, James Bissonette would have actually won.

@tommykawaii

Жыл бұрын

That was a gambit of his, only to later not help the Soviets, whom he secretly hated, and help ending the USSR. Well played Bissonette, well played.

@jamesbissonette8002

Жыл бұрын

@Rzepki ….nah

@kaiquecf

Жыл бұрын

It was a plot by Kelly Money Maker to undermine the influence os the soviets with the help of certain intel agencies and 'students' movement. haha

0:11 It should be noted that, while a number of countries sent troops to Vietnam to support the Americans, none of those countries were in NATO. The US instead relied on allies in the Pacific like Australia, Korea and the Philippines.

@SamAronow

Жыл бұрын

Indeed; Canada, the UK, and France outright refused to participate.

@albertrex6851

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why

@spk1121

Жыл бұрын

​@@albertrex6851: Regional interests dictated priorities, probably, on both ends.

@roydowling2542

Жыл бұрын

Yet when the US invaded Iraq, and Afghanistan every NATO member state had soldiers on the ground at some stage

@mrterp04

Жыл бұрын

Yup. History Matters did a video a few years back, “Why Didn’t Britain Fight in Vietnam?”

I love the amount of effort you put into the newspapers lol

@Dourkan

Жыл бұрын

Poor P.Vlasov

@candiman4243

Жыл бұрын

@@Dourkan His career is finished

@marekroll3290

Жыл бұрын

22% GDP

@MesaperProductions

Жыл бұрын

Always gotta pause the video and read the news!

@Kliscian

Жыл бұрын

Can we appreciate the amount of effort he puts into creating Pravda the newspaper

Hello, historian of the Afghan wars here. A great video but I’d say the soviets were very much concerned about that the international opinion of their invasion was. They leaned heavily on the Afghan governments request for aid as their justification. They were just willing to risk international outrage because the thought the conflict would be over relatively quickly. The politburo and foreign ministry were very active after the invasion trying to mitigate the damage.

@SeverityOne

Жыл бұрын

Thinking that the war will be over quickly appears to be a recurring theme in Russian/Soviet military thinking.

@Unicalnetwork

Жыл бұрын

@@SeverityOne that type of thinking took place in many countries around the globe during different time periods. In fact, that particular though led countries into long wars in the first place. World Wars, Russo-Japanese, Finno-Soviet, Folkland Islands, Napoleon, this list may go on forever. One thing for sure: countries attack when they are convinced of their invincibility

@livethefuture2492

Жыл бұрын

Why would a closed off nation like the ussr care about their image?

@mrkuilko

Жыл бұрын

@@livethefuture2492 closed off? It was actively engaged in the Cold War. Afghanistan was a close and historic friend who held a position of influence among the non-aligned nations movement. It had also recently sponsored two successful communist coups in Africa and wanted to prove itself in the Middle East as well. Just because the Soviet internal society was closed off doesn’t mean it wasn’t very active in international relations. It wanted as many friends as possible.

@SeverityOne

Жыл бұрын

@@Unicalnetwork Yes, very much so. And we may add another one: countries don't particularly think beyond the victory. Even if you score an easy victory after an asymmetric war, after that you need to manage the presumably occupied country. And not think: "We gave them freedom, so everything is solved now."

Sapkowski, the author of the Witcher books, wrote a book about a Polish soldier serving in the Red Army in Afghanistan (until a bunch of weird magical stuff happens). It was called "Viper".

@user-pg3hs1wb6j

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he took one of the Soviet military urban legends about Afghanistan and turned it into a book.

@LittkeTM

Жыл бұрын

​@@user-pg3hs1wb6j So he plagiarized yet again?

@_TkiT_

Жыл бұрын

@@LittkeTM Yeah bro you are right, every modern story with mythological creatures in it is a rip off. You can't have werewolves, vampires, dragons and so on, very logical.

@LittkeTM

Жыл бұрын

@Łukasz Porycki Cool story bro, too bad he takes entire characters and plots, changes some words, and resells it as his own. The Witcher is a point for point retelling of The Elric series and every other series or he has made has another story predating his that "inspire him." He's less creative than JK Rowling.

@_TkiT_

Жыл бұрын

@@LittkeTM If you say so.

I love how these videos ask questions I never thought about or ever cared to think of but the answers are satisfyingly simple and logical

@themessiath0728

Жыл бұрын

I love when I find other based Hungarians in the comment section, love my nation being educated😏😉 Üdv a magyarhonból✌🏽

@aayushbhatt449

Жыл бұрын

Stolen comment

@balabanasireti

Жыл бұрын

I love how I see the same comment under every video. Wait... I don't

@randomguy2048

Жыл бұрын

@@aayushbhatt449 No. Just a very common one.

@michaspringphul

Жыл бұрын

@channel you call it invasion, but the Afghan gov actially called for help to the Sovjets. And US counter measures led to the attrition war which then happened.

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” -Mark Twain

@sail2byzantium

Жыл бұрын

I am aware of this wonderful saying, but was ignorant about the attribution. Now I know. Thank you!

@crispykneecaps7209

Жыл бұрын

Video in 40 years time, "Why didn't CSTO help Russia in Ukraine?"

@philipweber9545

Жыл бұрын

@@crispykneecaps7209 _because russia wanted to convince the world it was still a superpower by invading another nation and that it could do it on its own. Also, because of already existing tensions and issues present within the alliance pushing for assistance would likely strain their relationship further._ Yeah, it certainly does rhyme

@kingace6186

Жыл бұрын

I have my gripes with Twain but I fully agree with this statement.

@somejerkbag

Жыл бұрын

I thought that was a James Bissonette quote...

Fun fact: Many former Warsaw Pact countries (like Poland, Czechia and Hungary) actually had troops stationed in Afghanistan back when the US had a go at invading the country. They were operating under the ISAF-mission (international Security Assistance Force)

@090giver090

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I Saw Americans Fighting. 😁

I’m hoping he can do one on the origin of the gold standard and why it became the default for currency basing

@phil2544

Жыл бұрын

There will be videos from other YT creators, though not quite as funny.

@abgeordnete

Жыл бұрын

Followed by the origin of the fiat standard and why it became the default for currency debasing

@clouds-rb9xt

Жыл бұрын

@@phil2544 ?

@phil2544

Жыл бұрын

@@clouds-rb9xt??

@TheFivetimesdead

Жыл бұрын

that would be a much longer video...

Once in a blue moon there were noticeable cracks in the Warsaw Pact alliance. Like when the East Germans were upset the USSR made them boycott the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (payback for the American-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games). They told the Soviets that they would defy any boycott calls of the 1988 Seoul Olympics despite South Korea being on the other side of the Cold War.

@Eygam1

Жыл бұрын

Or when they like... invaded their own member.

@temporaryname6335

Жыл бұрын

@@Eygam1 or that other time they invaded their own member.........or the other time they (basically) invaded their own member..........................

@garcjr

Жыл бұрын

It seems like how the CSTO isn't joining Russia in Ukraine right now. I'm sure some of those countries are providing some kind of intelligence support.

@DehydratedDarkness

Жыл бұрын

Or when the Soviet Troops began marching onto Warsaw during party elections in Poland. Long story short the new first secretary has historically been aligned with Bukharin against Stalin which was frowned upon even after destalinization and acted quite liberal (he wasn't)

@philipramirez5406

Жыл бұрын

​@@garcjr Isn't the CSTO only 3 other states? Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Armenia. Kazakhstan idk about, while Belarus is definitely providing logistical support, but Armenia is having it's own dispute with a neighbor and tried to invoke the CSTO defense pact but Russia literally ignored them so I doubt they're keen on providing any support. Something about their foreign policy of bullying weaker neighbors into unfavorable terms seems to leave them with few steadfast and useful allies.

These videos are always gems, but the newspapers are my favorite parts. So much wit crammed into a tiny newspaper that shows up on screen for around 2 seconds

@makarabaduk1754

Жыл бұрын

History Matters: KZread's only channel with a watch time longer than the videos ;-)

The Warsaw Pact had no obligation to help the Soviets in Afghanistan, as it was a defensive alliance and thus was only obligated to step in if Warsaw Pact territory was attacked, not to help in offensive military operations. It’s the same principle for why NATO had no obligation to help the US during its invasion of Iraq.

@dicestreet2103

Жыл бұрын

This. It is annoying to see this treated with such reflexive disdain that would never be applied to a similar western organization.

@syedr258

Жыл бұрын

but nato helped during the invasion of libya even tho it was offensive

@andrzejnadgirl2029

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's like theory but in practice all members acted as vassal states or satellites to be more era correct. US never had nowhere of the control over NATO members as USSR of Warsaw Pact countries. So no obligation and not having means to force them to help, did they liked it or not, are two different things entirely.

@johnnyanderson2-roblox185

10 ай бұрын

This was literally explained in the video.

@Mortablunt

7 ай бұрын

@andrzejnadgirl2029 The USA exercises much more control over NATO members than the USSR over the Warsaw pact, or the Russian federation over CIS members. Do you ask as much more compliance, and it’s foreign policy goals from its alliance members than the Russians have ever gotten from theirs. The US also much more sharply punishes members who do not comply with its wishes. Example sanctioning and boycotting France after it refused to go all in on the Iraq invasion insanity in 2003. Then there was kicking Turkey out of the F35 program over purchasing weapons from non-alliance members. And most notably back in July, there was the attempt at overthrowing the Georgian government, because the Georgians refuse to go all in all the hate Russia craze, but they also attempted to pass a law that would disclose the origin of foreign money in their politics. Russia, by comparison does not rope all of its allies in on its current projects, and allows a much greater degree of freedom in its coalition.

It is worth mention that the USSR had successful experience of fighting against the insurgents in the former Central Asian part of the Russian empire, getting it under control and pacifying it in the 1920-1930s, ("Basmachi movement"). That included two interventions in Afghanistan in 1929 and 1930. Most likely, party high ranks remembered that and thought something similar could work again.

@remembertotakeshowerspleas355

Жыл бұрын

The political situation was different, more Afghans were radicalized against "communist" influences after the Saur revolution and disastrous reforms by the PDPA that followed. The previous interventions were just the Soviets playing kingmaker with local despots that the average Afghan didn't care about, but by trying to restructure their society at a fundamental level the USSR and PDPA ended up pissing off the tribal elites and commoners.

@meatiest1989

Жыл бұрын

My relatives who were in the PDPA and the army were a part of a faction that didn’t want the Saur Revolution to happen. They believe it was too soon! We were not ready! They were right.

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

Жыл бұрын

​@@meatiest1989 Are your relatives, are you Aryan or Abd Berber?

@meatiest1989

Жыл бұрын

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j Pashayi Indo Aryans, similar to Nuristani people

@user-cg2tw8pw7j

Жыл бұрын

@@meatiest1989 You are from the Vikings tribe, why did your most recent Vikings leave and go with their Aryan brothers?

This channel answers all sorts of interesting questions I never knew I needed answered, and it does it in a really entertaining way. The little South Park style people squinting suspiciously and (my personal favorite) sliding in close to each other to emphasize menacing intent is really funny.

These 3 minute history lessons always have laughs thrown in for good measure!

These are always great videos. Now he needs to do videos on the following subjects: 1. Why did the revolution of 1848 fail in Germany and Spain? 2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?

@Toonrick12

Жыл бұрын

1. No real central leader for Germany and Spain was in a Civil War at the time. 2.Much like many other things in history, Napoleon and Imperialism.

@thundercactus

Жыл бұрын

They drive on the left in Britain because of farmers. And every other country that drives on the left is because of the British Empire. Either through being a colony, or Britain helping industrialize the nation (Japan). Although Japan's left side use of pathing predates British involvement, the fact they DRIVE on the left side is very much due to how they were industrialized rather than their history. Worth noting that Okinawa was under US control after WW2 and were made to drive on the RIGHT. When they were re-integrated with Japan, they switched back to the LEFT side.

Hahahaha, that newspaper at 2:24 is once again BRILLIANT! "...who agreed to speak to us on condition we guard the door for him" somehow it is just too funny in that context. Also, 2 children in a trench coat running off with 22% of Soviet GDP made my day hahaha. Best history channel in the world 🤣

@imonbanerjee2997

Жыл бұрын

It's funnier, because it was only due to P. Vlasov interviewing that he could not guard the door to Kremlin, which allowed the children to steal the pens.

@saiajin82

Жыл бұрын

I love pausing the video to read the letters and newspaper articles, they never disappoint.

"Die slowly..." for me as a Polish guy - it is funny and sad at the same time. Good vid as always.

Wonderful upload!

@zoombini1831

Жыл бұрын

oh my lord

@dimamatat5548

Жыл бұрын

Finally, the mastermind has shown himself.

@TheTrex9000

Жыл бұрын

James Bissonette, what were you doing from 1933-1945??🤨

@FuneFox

Жыл бұрын

We shall bow to you and fight in your name, our great King.

Great video, I hadn't thought about it before but it's great information. Keep up the great work.

Thank you once again for answering a question nobody knew they wanted the answer to

I wish there were screenshots of the newspapers; they're never clear enough for me to read all the stories. Another interesting video.

@gimmethegepgun

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried manually setting the video to 720p or higher?

Very interesting insight, I learned a lot about the Warsaw Pact's purpose!

Excellent summation!

"Die slowly" OMG! Love it 1:48

GF's thoughts: I can't wait to plan our wedding BF's thoughts : why didn't the soviet union's allies help in Afghanistan

@ZMGian

Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

Well done! Very good job!

Another amazing video

I absolutely loved this episode! I always wondered why the Warsaw Pact didn't get involved in the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan, and your explanation makes complete sense. It's fascinating to see the different factors that played a role, from the defensive nature of the pact to the limitations of the member countries' militaries. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights. Keep up the great work!

@Mortablunt

7 ай бұрын

I mean while America ropes, Veneto club into whatever its current adventure is invades far more countries, and yet somehow talks about being a force for peace

2:24 Pravda, Dec.1. 1979: Leonid, or Leon to his chums, has made a formal plea to Poland, East Germany and Romania to provide as many men as possible. "We can literally drown this country in dudes. Just chaps in uniform all over the place. They literally won't stand a chance and odds are they'll run out of ammo before we run out of your kids."

This channel is perfect, and not just because it is very fun and informative, but also these guys are making videos in an academic view. The organization and quality of your videos are tremendous. Thank you for bringing us, history nerds, such pleasure.

Yes, I did enjoy this episode. Please keep up the great work!

A video about trade relations between the eastern and western blocks of the Cold War would be an interesting video

“In 1979, the Soviets thought they should have their own Vietnam, and they invaded Afghanistan to prevent a US-sponsored Islamic insurgency.”

@yamataichul

Жыл бұрын

Sneak 100

@kingofcards9516

Жыл бұрын

They invaded to help support the communist coup d'etat they sponsored.

@meatiest1989

Жыл бұрын

@@kingofcards9516 The Soviets never sponsored the coup. The Saur Revolution of 1978 was done by majority Khalq party members and they wanted to distance themselves from the Soviets a little bit. That’s what differentiated them from the moderate Parcham faction. The coup and its plans were so secretive that even Soviets who were already in Afghanistan prior to the coup were unaware until it actually happened, or when the PDPA stormed RTA station. My grandpa, an Afghan Army officer in 1978, had no knowledge of this coup and thought we were being invaded by Pakistan. Suddenly, he sees they’re Afghan soldiers so he just walks home to see the news. RTA station has been taken by the communists.

@DRAZindabad

Жыл бұрын

not prevent but to stop it. The Islamists existed as a party in the 60s and started militant activities in 1974 but they only had PAkistani support. After 1978 they got american support which is when the Afghan gov asked the Soviets for help.

@meatiest1989

Жыл бұрын

@@DRAZindabad najibullah zindabad Watan ya kaffan

I love your work, been a viewer for years :)

Love your channel.

It should be noted, however, that some Warsaw Pact countries did dispatch "Advisors" to Afghanistan, that helped train the Afghan Army, I put that in quotations, because many of those advisors were actually intelligence troops that worked with the Soviets. It is known, that the East German STASI send operatives to Afghanistan, working alongside KGB units there. Cuba, while not a Warsaw Pact country, also helped out with advisors and such.

@meatiest1989

Жыл бұрын

My uncles were in the Afghan KHAD intelligence agency during this time and they got sent to Warsaw Pact countries and Uzbekistan

Well, the nations of the Warsaw pact were supposed to fight in the area of the world where the pact's namesake is located. That being eastern Europe.

@ivancho5854

Жыл бұрын

And West Germany. 🤣

Very in-depth and well put together video thanks for the information blessed be.

Ahhh. Missed the skipping through the daisies. ❤️ Fantastic take on Mrs Thatcher too. Brilliant detail.

I heard that Some communist allies of USSR (East Germnay, Cuba, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia) did secretly send some troops, numbering around 100,000 troops (This was reported by two officers of the communist Afghan secret service 'KhAD' who defected to Pakistan). I saw a documentary about the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets around Kandahar. The footage showed a dead Cuban soldier (one of the Afghan resistance fighters himself said that in Pashto) East German Stasi and Indian government was also involved in Afghanistan

@dabbasw31

Жыл бұрын

If this was the case these were probably volunteers and not regular troops. Like the Spanish troops who fought against the Soviets in WW2 (Blue Division). This does not mean either that Spain or the Spanish Army itself fought in WW2.

@Chillerll

Жыл бұрын

Stasi? Stasi were normal people who ratted out their neighbors to the government. They weren't really some kind of elite secret police. My dads stasi files were as thick as a book and he knows exactly which neighbors were selling his info to the state, you can request them from the government now when you were alive back then.

@billygoatgruff3536

Жыл бұрын

@@dabbasw31 This must be it because I met a AA mechanic many years ago who told me about growing up in Czechoslovakia and when he learnt I was in the military he told me how he served in Afghanistan. Absolutely wild.

@carlbates9110

Жыл бұрын

Of course the Cubans went. They tried to involve themselves in every communist war that happened around the world.

@meatiest1989

Жыл бұрын

Do you have any proof or anything for the KHAD statement? I have six known uncles who were in KHAD so I’m interested

Fun fact: this is commonly referred to as the USSR’s equal to the Vietnam war.

@ecurewitz

Жыл бұрын

Now they have a second one in Ukraine

@aaronTGP_3756

Жыл бұрын

Russia's Vietnam. But yes at the same time, since Russia dominated the USSR politically and culturally. Russia can try to conquer Ukraine, but the longer the war takes, the more it's being humiliated on the world stage. As well as more war crimes.

@yarpen26

Жыл бұрын

@@ecurewitz Ukraine is a full-blown first-half-of-the-20th-century-like international conflict, not some anti-partisan grinding across a jungle/desert.

@yoloswaggins7121

Жыл бұрын

​@@ecurewitz The Ukraine war is not comparable to Vietnam. Russia have already lost more troops in Ukraine than the US did in Vietnam.

@yoloswaggins7121

Жыл бұрын

​@@yarpen26 Exactly, not comparable at all. The Russians are actually suffering major strategic defeats. It's not just some guerillas blowing stuff up.

Great video.

I appreciate what you’re doing

Love your videos! I'd love to see more content on the Caucasus and Middle East.

Leaping through the flowers never gets old 😂

thank you for answering this question I had in mind.

I always thought that had to be it, nice video

You’ve done a lot of these, so I was thinking of a good video Idea: Why did Thailand join the Axis? They joined Japan’s side in WW2.

@josecipriano3048

Жыл бұрын

They also joined the fascists during the Vietnam war.

@raptorfromthe6ix833

Жыл бұрын

@@josecipriano3048 how were south vietnam fascist

@stevens1041

Жыл бұрын

@@josecipriano3048 It really wasn't like that. You should know that Thai people have no ill-will towards Viet Nam or Vietnamese people. Even Vietnamese want to move on from that conflict. Thailand's main concern was stability of a region it traditionally had an interest in. To put things very simply, things during the Indo-China conflict got very out of control. Thai and Vietnam today are part of ASEAN and generally have very good relations.

@kungalexander829

Жыл бұрын

Its actually a very simple question Thailand want to keep the western empires out of their borders

Can you make a video why in the Lybian Civil War each sides´ supporters were so weird (similar to the nigeria CW video), and also make a video why Napoleon wasn´t just executed after all the chaos he brought?

@Toonrick12

Жыл бұрын

Because the French decided that killing their leaders was so 18th century.

Awesome video thank you very much for uploading it

nice touch with the news paper ^^

The Soviets never watched the Princess Bride, which clearly stated: "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

0:34 Warsaw Pact wasn't create as response to creation of NATO, it was response to West Germany joining NATO.

Its always a good day when History Matters uploads, especially when its your birthday

Fascinating!

This is a question I haven't even considered before, but it makes sense. Sending in Warsaw Pact soldiers would have gotten quite messy.

AKs throughout the Communist countries, M14s for the Americans in Viet Nam, I absolutely love the attention to detail given to these videos. Thanks for all you do for us!

@aeroblitzt9561

Жыл бұрын

​@John Williamson in the first couple of years of the war (1965-1967) the standard issue us rifle was the m14 depicted in the video. Only after 1967 did it become the standard us service rifle.

@vincedibona4687

Жыл бұрын

@johnwilliamson3752 No, M14s. Look at the video.

I ❤ the news clippings 📰

This is the first time you presented something that I never considered.

Can you do what happened to the japanese and german warships and tanks when they were dimilitarized and occupied after world war ii

@mikeynth7919

Жыл бұрын

Many of the survivors got nuked at Bikini Atoll.

@ghostramen7002

Жыл бұрын

​@@mikeynth7919 idk why, but my brain immediately thought the survivors you were referring to were the crews of the ships.

Answering the questions no one asked

I love that little spec in the Warsaw Pact

That all makes sense when you put it that way. Cheers.

Funny, I was asking the same question the other day when I was writing my alternative history where the Soviets won the cold war and expanded the Warsaw pact west.

I read somewhere that the Warsaw Pact was abit different from Nato. Basically the USSR had several bilateral defence treaties with eastern european countries and packaged them into one alliance. Except unlike Nato which is the social media group where all members were admins, warsaw pact had one admin who decided how each group member was treated. Just what i read.

@ikipemiko

Жыл бұрын

there is only one admin in NATO to be fair.

@ebrim5013

Жыл бұрын

@@ikipemiko yeah, that’s why Finland and Sweden are already in the alliance… oh wait…

@helicoidsniffer1303

6 ай бұрын

@@ebrim5013 So what? That does not change the truth: members of NATO are our slaves. When we say: "die four our cause" they say: "where and when?" As an american, i'm proud of our government.

TY 🙏🙏

Really cool

I think that the USSR avoided bringing the intervention in Afghanistan into the discussion of the Warsaw Pact because it would have met opposition. Romania would certainly have opposed it as it did to the intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Not the Pravda newspaper. "The children managed to escape with three pens and a paperclip. Roughly equivalent to 22% of Soviet GDP in this period" 😂

I think James Bissonette should have his own patron page so we can say thank you to him.

Nice to know as usual. Can you do a video about the boer wars?

"Invade" is a hilariously bold statement given that the Afghan government *requested* military help against the US funded Mujahideen.

@nobodyherepal3292

Жыл бұрын

So like south Vietnam *requesting* help from America around 1963 against the Viet Cong?

“Pravda: Man Sneaks into Kremlin” Can that be the next video?

Ty

Dude you rock.

They were too busy with invading James Bisonette land

@mybodyisamachine

Жыл бұрын

Very original, thank you!

@cieproject2888

Жыл бұрын

I love that even all these years into this channel, there's still no agreement on how to spell that guy's last name

@pabcu2507

Жыл бұрын

@@mybodyisamachine your very welcome

@TOBAPNW_

Жыл бұрын

I think you mean The Sovereign Republic of Bissonettia

@tommykawaii

Жыл бұрын

Which they obviously failed miserably

I love these afghan videos

Your videos are very informative. If you shared the sources of information from your videos, I would subscribe.

100% Brilliant!

1:06 I feel like that is now the case for csto

Love it. Can you do one on what people in America were doing during the English civil war. Pls?

@davidrowland6

Жыл бұрын

Europeans hasn't yet settled the east coast at the time of the civil war, but (native) Americans had formed the Iroquois Confederacy, a political union which some scholars believe inspired the Framers.

@adrianosousa5936

Жыл бұрын

There was plenty of settlers in the new world by the 1640s, thousands came from 1620-1640 alone idk what you’re talking about

@duncanread4442

Жыл бұрын

There were loads of English people settled in America by the time of the English civil war. But there never mentioned buy books on the subject.

@kingt0295

Жыл бұрын

I heard they simply stayed out of it, when Cromwell ruled they chilled and when the monarchy came back they supported Charles II

I absolutely love the newspaper in this one

The only channel I sit through the "credits" 😁

Bro imagine just some polish guy in Afghanistan

@randomtanker4355

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if the Poles defected to the Afghan resistance just like the Poles who fought in Haiti sided with the Hatians against France

@maas1208

Жыл бұрын

The guy would go winged hussar mode and shout: REMOVE KEBAB!!!

@Young_Sheldon422

Жыл бұрын

@@maas1208 lmao

Am I the only person to just look through his older vids cause they're so good.

@Steeyuv

Жыл бұрын

No, you aren’t!

@theEWDSDS

Жыл бұрын

Wdym older vids this is brand new

@christianvalencia4489

Жыл бұрын

No, you aren't my friend

The newspaper articles are hilarious! Well done!!

I've always wondered this.

Funny in the Anime Black Lagoon The Russian mafia leader was a paratrooper during that war saying she knew Romanian because some fought alongside the USSR

@patrioticserbian1935

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it would makes more sense if she was a Soviet advisor that fought in Angola. Since there were also some Romanians involved with very small numbers as well

What about a video on the reason why Brazil kept the war against Paraguay after Argentina and Uruguay had already stopped it?

Nice

Cannot wait for the one single time I’ll get to use this knowledge in a conversation

What's interesting is that all of these reasons are actually fairly rational.

@samoldfield5220

Жыл бұрын

Realpolitik makes you an arsehole to your contemporaries and a genius in the history books.

@atlantiswolf

Жыл бұрын

@@samoldfield5220 Being an asshole and being a genius are not mutually exclusive. I call it Sherlock Holmes Effect. Dr. House Effect if your under 30. Tony Stark Effect if you're like...12 or something? Idk

Good video, although I have a few doubts about the Warsaw Pact being purely defensive, and the militaries of countries like Poland and East Germany being designed just to hold off NATO because in the 60s the Polish Military was planning for an invasion of Denmark. Yes, really. Edit: It was, of course, a part of larger Soviet offensive plans, not a Polish idea.

@elemperadordemexico

Жыл бұрын

Basado

@seb_1504

Жыл бұрын

Based

@cv990a4

Жыл бұрын

There were no NATO plans to invade Eastern Europe. In the European area, Russia + Warsaw Pact had about 50,000 tanks (yeah, a lot of f*cking tanks) compared to about half that on the NATO side, so even if NATO wanted to (which it did not) the idea of a NATO invasion was a pipedream. Further, part of NATO defense plans was for US soldiers to fly into Europe and pick up tanks that were pre-positioned there. That is to say, a lot of NATO tanks tasked with defending Europe didn't even have their soldiers stationed on the same continent. The question was how long it would take the Sovs to get to Atlantic once the balloon went up - one week? Two? Another big difference between NATO and Warsaw Pact - NATO had a no first use of nuclear weapons policy, Soviet Union did not. In fact, the Soviet Union, in many ways, viewed tactical nukes as just another weapon to use, whereas it was a big fricking deal to shift from conventional to nukes on the western side. Cold War projections about what a Soviet invasion would be like were insane. The projected lifetime for a tank entering the battlefield was something like a minute.

@yoloswaggins7121

Жыл бұрын

I don't they were planning to invade Denmark. They drew up plans for an invasion of Denmark because it's the military's job be prepared for such things, but that doesn't mean that they were actually planning on doing it. Something I always like to point out is that the US, UK and Nazi Germany all drew up plans for an invasion of Ireland. But none of them every really had plans to actually invade, they were just preparing for every eventuality.

@rob6927

Жыл бұрын

That was probably meant in the way that the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets couldn't be framed as a "defensive" action since the Warsaw pact was not attacked by the Mujahedeen. The reason all of NATO got involved in AFG was that article 5 was invoked as a result of 9/11, unlike in Iraq, where most of the US's allies did not take part.

The ability to to distill an appreciation of a country's disdain via small changes in cartoon eyes is fucking magic.

2:24 the newspapers always contain some gold

Well put. I'd say that in 1979, they didn't really care about whether satellites had a military capability to be of any help, and at the latest after 1981 Jaruzelski coup in Poland, they couldn't draw forces from Warsaw Pact even if they wanted to. Despite not sending any troops, however, Warsaw Pact countries were involved in providing economic aid to Soviet puppet government in Afghanistan.

@recoil53

Жыл бұрын

Russia also wouldn't want the Warsaw Pact countries to gain military competence.

@JakeBassCZ

Жыл бұрын

@@recoil53 Also true. They could get uppity if they got any sort of military competence. That said, I think that Soviet military was at that point pretty inept, too. Corruption, endemic alcoholism, promotions based on political loyalty instead of merit, lack of professional NCOs, relying on hazed conscripts. It just had the numbers and in conventional fight, it usually pounced on a much weaker target. What kept that dumpsterfire around for so long was the nukes. That is not to say that some of Soviet military equipment was not top notch.

@recoil53

Жыл бұрын

@@JakeBassCZ You just described the Russian military in the majority of the post-Renaissance era.

@kollo3457

Жыл бұрын

@@recoil53 Russian army was top tier in about 1750-1850