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I've only just found and subscribed to this excellent channel. However, I was distressed to see that the last video was put up two years ago. I hope this is because the presenter has found employment and not because anything untoward has befallen him

Beacon ? You are one of the few countries who did not actually fight against the Nazi's. Many Irishman did fight but Ireland remained neutral. Hardly a beacon.

As is almost always the case, carpetbagging ruled the roost, and the ordinary people were deliberately stripped of everything meaningful just to satisfy the obscene greed of the very few at the top of the heap. Capitalism is not democracy, it's just a particularly pernicious form of plutocracy. Amputate that particular cancer from societies and we might just stand a chance of a worthwhile life for everyone, east or west.

The lowest point of course was when they made Sinn Féin inhale helium... ua-cam.com/video/MR6jGJ1lq2U/v-deo.html

Bloody good content, well-researched, engaging, original. I hope you have distilled this into some kind of academic paper, it is well worthy of it!

While i did not agree at all with the GDR's form of communism, subjugation of its population, banning travel, and religion, these are personsl things that should have been allowed, therefore, their state would have survived much longer. Everybody gets nostalgic, i do, i was fascinated by the DDR, they actually achieved a lot, despite its repressive form of communism, there are many different types of communism you know, not just one. They had one of the best trained and most formidable armies in the world. They sent satellites and people into space, and they often came second or third in olympic medal tables, yes there was state drug taking programmes, but most country's athletes were on some form of drugs from time to time. Their unemployment levels were among, if not the lowest, in the world. There was virtually no crime at all in the DDR. One of the biggest sporting programmes in the world encompassing its national population existed in the DDR. They were generally speaking, fairly self-sufficient in product manufacturing. They had the highest ratio of women in the workplace in the world, and state persecution aside, thats a pretty amazing list of achievements.

Architects of the Resurrection By R.M. Douglas is a fantastic deep dive into Ailtirí na hAiséirghe. Your video gave an accurate overview of the party. However, your Irish pronunciation needs some work. Great video!

It’s rare that I feel compelled to comment on a UA-cam video, but it’s even more rare that I stumble across a video - let alone a series of videos - that I enjoy so much. I’ve been doing a self-study of the Wasteland and using your videos to supplement my understanding of each section. Your editing and explanations have made the experience an enjoyable one (and who would’ve thought joy could be found in the wasteland?!)

17:49 Future Green Goblin meets future Aunt May.

Brilliant video, excellent analysis. Thank you!

Eye opening stuff! Keep it up. It's easy to look back today and say, "what were they thinking?" as Hitlers barbaric actions in the 40s were yet to come. But, the anti Jewish feelings amongst some , e.g Oliver Flanagan didn't come out of nowhere.

Although you got a little too carried away but far better than other monotonous explanation

The only beacon against facism that stayed neutral during the war against Hitler.

6:00 ‘..red rock..’ x 2 - why ‘Red’ - ?

I knew about the Donegal Corridor and a few other bits, so this is a good addition to my knowledge! I think I understand now why my Volunteer great-grandfathers didn't go back to Ireland in the '30s.

The building of the 'new Capital' at Tara is puzzling....I mean...why not Cork? ( Sorry...couldn't resist). Great info...thanks.

It's interesting, because even though Australia has always had a market economy, we had high Tariffs (Taxes) on imports that enabled our high wage manufacturing sector able to compete with imports. These Tariffs were gradually reduced from the 70s onwards, and were just about gone by the 1990s. Once we made just about everything, clothing, cars, buses, building products, home appliances, just about everything was made here. Almost our entire manufacturing industry was gone by the 90s, resulting in high levels of youth unemployment. Our car industry held out a little longer than other industries, largely because of large government subsidises. When the government decided to stop paying these subsidises, the industry was gone within a few years. Last cars made here were in 2017.

Joe biden is a war criminal too he supports genocide in GAZA .

6:16 The Allies did the same. The few functioning factories and plants in West Germany were also dismantled and transported to the victorious countries of the world war. Some factory infrastructure from West Germany even ended up in the USSR. And another point, which is a common misconception, is that Germany gained a lot from the Marshall plan.... Germany was the smallest receiver of funds from the Marshall plan in Europe and the total amount of 1.4 billion dollars is a drop in the ocean when you put into perspective that every city in Germany was either completely flattened or partly destroyed and Germany's complete infrastructure was also in ruins...

Don't be ridiculous, political opinions in Ireland are changing rapidly.

This is a very good documentary.

Well, Ireland certainly isn't a beacon against fascism any more. Over literally the last few years, Ireland has moved massively to the political far-right, and Irish people are now openly expressing racism and hatred of immigrants within all public forums. Which is a bit fucking hypocritical if you ask me, given the millions of Irish emigrants that the country has sent around the world over time.

Excellent v honest a bit embarrassing and shameful?

This is completely self indulgent. Work with your strengths: your scholarship, your personable pace and LOSE THE GODDAMNED MUSIC!!! you’re not the gifted orator to begin with . . . BUT I tried to hang on because you actually have something to say that people like me wish to hear. You’re just not good enough to carry this distracting circus on your back!!! I shut you off at 9:28, completely agitated!!

I'll be very blunt and to the point. The reason people from the East have GDR nostalgia, have difficulty integrating, etc etc is because now they have to work and pay for things that prior to the fall of the Berlin wall, was taken care of by the GDR government.

With what happened in East Wall earlier this year, these kinds of discussions are only becoming more important.

One of the best poems of the 20th century ? It wasn't even one of the best poems of 1922.

Pretty good, but "No chance for Freedom" is inaccurate. There were almost 500K freedmen in the US before the Civil War; about 10% of the black population. No biggee though.

There's nothing racist or homophobic about the "Mr Ezgenides" passage. The man's ethnicity (and he's actually Greek, not Turkish) is not frowned upon. This 21st century obsession with alleged racism and Homophobia is just another symptom of our waste land.

He hates Serbs, not the Serbs him! He is the one who openly stated that America should occupy Serbia! He killed so many children and innocent people ! He should be in jail!

15:01 Shout out to my church St. Sava in Merrillville, IN

17:00 Boy I was confused until I saw the text that said his voice changed. xD

I see your point about it being a gangster film. In the 1920s-set American television production, "Boardwak Empire" there is a sequence involving the civil war and there is a character who I think is based on De Valera. In looks, anyway.

Cool, what a nice title to give yourself " unemployed historian", what are those on your shelf? Male Russian dolls? It looks like Donald Trump. I have a jumper like yours, it is my favourite, I paid $6 at K-Mart, love your honesty, it is refreshing ☺️ PS: it is not sarcasm, I mean it.

4:43 to be fair no German "feels" German. We are a federation of dozens of different people and even here in the very western part we see ourselves as German as we see ourselves as European (outside of national football games). Our point of self identification and patriotism is much more regional. I am a European, I am a German, I am a proud Rheinländer

It's strange Micheal Martin should ask matty mcgrath to apologise for making a fascist remark considering eamonn develera signed a book of condolence to Adolf Hitler in the German embassy in dublin

Life was better in the DDR than now, in many respects, work conditions, public healthcare, non unemployment, affordable housing etc. Many people are nostalgic of the DDR and they're right.

The break-up of the IRON Curtain was "free game" for the financial elite to blindly steal the respective workers' share of their collective capital invested into their industries for which they worked. In economics we call it "slash & burn" take you want & destroy the rest or "corporate raid" where a functioning company is bought off & stripped of its assets as they worth more individually. Leaving the workers stranded. The final action is a hostile takeover where a company is bought off by a much wealthier company to the detriment of the proletariat by way of restructuring, (job losses) outsourcing functions etc. . Shock therapy/hijacking was planned & executed with sheer brilliance only a German (ably assusted by the US & UK) could engineer as they focused on the social & cultural freedom to sell to the proletariat of the Iron Curtain while the seedy cartel of toxic capitalists paid pennies for large industries, medium & small businesses. Moreover vast farmland. It was an absolutely corrupt process where poor East German officials were bought off by the respective capitalists. Their symphony was so well orchestrated that even Beathoven, Wagner & Mozart would be jealous. The only positive I can find is that at least the financial elite is not as bloody thirsty to dissent as their neighbours to the east. If you are under 30 & made it this far, capitalism is the real world of Monopoly. The capitalists accumulate wealth by themselves, handover to their descendants. If the descendants are successful over time they will accumulate & grow said capital to use this capital to buy off their supplyside chain (vertical integration) & competitors (horizontal integration). Thus forming a monopoly. The role of government and the law is to act in good faith with the sole purpose of public good however "that train left the station long ago." If we carry on in this trajectory we will have a neo-feudal system in power. I am certain of it.

Irish were indentured servants with contracts, far superior to being a slave. Once they fulfilled their agreement, they were free to live their lives. Money was sent to their family back in Ireland regularly, and a small stipend was provided; their kids were not automatically indentured servants. Irish indentured servants were also permitted to take their masters to court if they had evidence of cruel behavior. White people will also rewrite history 😂. That is why it's essential to keep accurate records and teach natural history as it happened in schools.

Great stuff, thanks for this.

Are you still unemployed.

Hope you upload again soon.

Yes. The fiction of Irish "slaves" in the Americas belittles the very real sufferings of Black Americans under chattel slavery for centuries. It is a negative variation of "stolen honor" - people who have never served wearing other peoples' medals to get steal their credit. Here it is "stolen suffering". Indentured servitude for a limited term was quite bad enough without pretending it was something even worse.

Ease up on whatever meds you're on, bro.

Capitalism does not “suck”

Only an uneducated person would believe these memes. 🤔

East Germans I know think they are more independent and more self-reliant than then West.

What always strikes me is how much political activity there was to have a better, democratic, but sovereign DDR. All that was crushed by Helmut Kohl's push to a 50% +1 majority for reunification and the "Western System"

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Great stuff 🇮🇪