I mean this in such a good way. Nothing helps my insomnia more than these. It stops me racing thoughts and allows me to focus and then I'm able to fall asleep fast when I am tired. I go back and listen where I dozed off the last time. Thank you for posting these.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 of the soldier playing the accordion along with solders relaxed 😌/smiling. Knowing that their arduous odyssey was coming to an end. Special thanks to the Russian guest veteran soldier. Sharing his personal combat experiences making the documentary more authentic and possible. Knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. Also the ( R N ) who repeatedly put herself in harm's way to rescue wounded soldiers. Her courage/determination to keep her oath to care ❤ for the sick/wounded is the honorary hero of this documentary!!! I sincerely hope that she survived the war.
you do a good job of matching very striking and appropriate photos with the written accounts. and most of these photos i’ve never seen before. honestly many of these accounts are hard to take in. but they add the frontline soldier’s personal touch to the standard history ive studied.
@@neilleonard8751 waiit.. i mean I though about this the other day when listening to one of these bits. and I know that book was voiced by someone completely different but that bit was voiced by this "rober" so i was right..
This is quite a find. Accounts by Red Army, troops are very rare - I've only heard one account and that was written in Soviet, times. This Lt. Bessanov, gives a lucid and frank report (makes me think he was writing after the fall of the U.S.S.R.) I would like to hear the end of the story, and also how he fared after the war.
At the age of 50, I have found my hearing to be deficient for about the last 15 years or so. I never served in combat and although I have several hundred hours of using firearms, I always had proper hearing protection. As he talks about the mine blowing up in front of his foxhole and not hearing correctly for days, it reminds me of my frustration with that generation. Nobody could hear!!! Now I understand why and feel like a jerk for the things I thought about them. I was so blessed and didn’t even know it.
Lol my dad worked on a cargo ship for like 20 years… now if you tell him something he automatically says “huh?”. Just so used to making people repeat themselves because on the cargo ship it was so loud you could rarely hear people speaking to you! I used to get mad at him because I’d get annoyed but he’s not doing it on purpose. He doesn’t even know he’s doing it until I point it out. Even if he heard you he will say “huh” and answer you lol.
this soldier's "luck" was the blessing of God on men with good sense.....intuition is a thing where you give up on an insoluable problem facing you, blank your mind and act on the first inspiration that comes your way....a feeling (god whispering).....sorry he got wounded in the end...great stories
"Enough to make a cat laugh", that's a new one for me. Not sure how I would use it in a sentence, I'm guessing what the "enough " is, is sad irony? The way life can act and show indifference to the tragedy all around us, obviously even more so if trapped in a war.
14:44 - 14:50 @worldwar2stories I need to ask you( my last name is Gregg ) , how is the name “Greg” spelt in the ACTUAL reading? On closed captions is says “Greg” but I am curious for my own family historical record.
I’m guessing that because Germany was occupied, it was easier for soldiers to give accurate accounts of battles. Many of the accounts from German soldiers were taken within 10 years of the war. For Soviet citizens, that wasn’t really possible. Also, as messed up as it is to say, when the wall fell in Germany, in the public eye that was the fall of communism. Depending on where you live that was not necessarily true. I read a book years ago that I highly recommend. “One soldier’s war”. It’s an amazing read and really helped me, growing up in 1970’s America, understand how much other nations suffered. We are not taught in American schools how damn blessed most were, compared to our European counterparts, during both world wars.
@@mattiemathis9549 communism did not fail or fall, it delivered housing to millions of people, who used to live in wooden unheated huts and used to get water from the river. Today I live in a warm, heated apartment, with tap water, cheap electricity, public transport, roads, parks, I received math and chemistry education in a school built during USSR, I learned 3 languages from soviet teachers, for free. Communism pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty, my family moved to Siberia during 1890s with nothing and had nothing, until USSR, when my grandfather became a mechanic (free education), received a house, a truck, became someone, received a chance in life. Things built during USSR still serve its purpose well, in 2023. And most people who tell how horrible communism is are westerners who lived and some even continue living off their colonies and sit and explain to everyone how their system is better. Of course its nice to be French when for every French citizen there are 10 blacks digging uranium in Africa with wooden sticks and you could buy that uranium that costs 100 euros for 1 euro and then sell electricity. Of course it is nice in Britain, when for every British citizen there used to be 100 Indians bending their backs to produce a whole range of products for pennies. Now once all those colonies are gone, look at how all western countries are quickly becoming bleak shadows of themselves. All of a sudden once slavery and colonialism contracted, it turned out that western countries started facing same problems Russia had 100 years ago. Communism in Russia was way ahead of its time and what is past for Russia will be future for all European countries. As your landlords increase your rent and as fewer and fewer of you could buy houses, as your food prices go up, you will learn that capitalism is amazing and great only as long as there are some slaves across the ocean making all sorts of goodies for you. Spent so much time criticising Russia and USSR, we will really enjoy westerners facing the same issues and we will see how efficient and smart you are when blacks and asians will no longer want to do your dirty work for a bowl of rice.
@@snowsnow4231Russian colonial territories include Transnistria (taken from Moldova); Abkhazia and South Ossetia (taken from Georgia); and some part of the territory of Ukraine as well as Kazakhstan. Could be wrong about that last one. You make a compelling argument though!
@@longjohnlongdong4692 I recommend you to look up the data on how much was built by Russia in those "colonies", because Russian Empire, just as USSR, was built on taking away money from Russian people and building power stations and the loyalty of puppet states to maintain the land buffer zone between mainland and potential enemies. Afghanistan is the best example of this, USSR have built thousands of schools, Kabul polytechnical university, car factory, Naglu hydro electric station, bridges, roads, etc. All that to create proletariat working class to support socialism, because stone age peasants are not the most avid socialism supporters. And this tactic worked. In Poland and Ukraine, Lithuania or Latvia, Georgia or Afghanistan, most Russia supporters are exactly blue collar working class men in their 40s and 50s. It was an Empire but backwards, instead of sucking resources out of colonies, it sucked out resources out of Russia to manufacture working CLASS in puppet states through massive injections of money into industrial objects.
@snowsnow4231 oh that's why I, being below 50, with a simple job, live in a 850.000 euro house with a small mortgage. You obviously never been to the West and rely on Russian news.
"Few hard drinkers" in an entire battalion of Russian infantry?! Grain of salt, as with every deservedly paranoid Russian account of absolutely anything.
I like these stories but I take them with many grains of salt. The veterans can give us an idea of what it was like I think. But they all include details, conversations, things that make you feel like you were there. It makes the them enjoyable but they must a blend of memories and fiction I think.
I'd like to hear more stories from the soviet perspective. I can seem to find a lot of german-perspective stories but soviet-pespective ones seem difficult to find
@@shootdonttalk9500thats pure propaganda. The soviet literacy rate was 90% in 1939. That number although lower than germany at the time is by no means that of an "illiterate" country. There are plenty of russian memoirs in written in russian. They are rarely translated into english however.you can look up that of Mansur Abdulin.
Sweet a Chance to get in the First 10 Comments when Russia is again fighting against Nationalistic forces. This channel feeds a good niche and the speaker is as clear as a bell 5/5
These are amazing but I can't be the only one who finds the raise in inflections every now and then extremely off-putting. It's almost like I can't tell if it's a fairly good AI reading or a very weird human who thinks he's a 14 year-old Australian girl from time to time.
U.K. There has always been an argument as to who started the atrocities during the WW2 Russian war. I think what the Russians have done to Ukraine settles that argument. No old British soldier I met had seen in WW2 what happened there. I have two good Russian friends, they are never going home. One (a bit drunk) was in tears. Come to think of it, we all were.
Its telling that he didnt know whay the Germans had fewer tanks. The Thunderbolts, and Spitfires had been concentrated on eliminating all German tanks, since eliminating their airdrones and destroying the Luffewaffee all over Germany, since crossing the Rhine in March, 45. Patton was already in Czechoslovakia, and Austria by this time, and for weeks, 100s of thousands of German troops were retreating West to surrender to the Allies before Russia even crossed the German border. The only reason we didnt assault Berlin was because FDR, and Churchill decided to let Russia. Casualty estimates for the attack on Berlin scared them, and Stalin didnt care how many Russians were killed. He just wanted the coup of capturing Berlin. When you hear him talk about cutting down Germans keep in mind that most of the Germans hes talking about are old men, and youg boys. (Still the Russian casualiss were extremely high.) Aalso, when you hear him talking about the Officer running up and down, behind his lines, screaming. That the officer was a political officer, and he was probably waving a pistol and threatening to shoot them if they didnt get up and continue the assault.....
Lt. Bessanov describes how very often Soviet troops would advance against enemy forces through open fields. They would keep switching from running a short distance and then crawling a bit on their stomachs. As they were some 50 meters from the enemy lines shooting at them with machine guns and rockets, they would dash forward shouting "ura" throwing themselves unmindfully against enemy fire. Countless soldiers were obviously killed, but life meant very little for Russians. They are still fighting that way in the present Russo-Ukrainian war. In Bakkmut on Ukraine's eastern front, where the terrain is level and there are many open fields Russians are incurring unimaginable casualties. Half of the Wagner force of 50 thousand died in such idiotic "charges of the light brigade." That's why the Ukrainians were happy to keep the Russians bogged down there as all the fresh Russians units kept getting decimated. Sure Stalin helped the Allies win the war. But their military fatalities were ten times those of the other allies, and 2 and a half times the German losses. Even the Germans were more careful about how they conducted operations. Stalin could care less about how many of his men were lost (just like Putin today), soldiers were simply cannon fodder, especially non Russian soldiers. The Russian frame of mind is very different from that of those in the West and this is what should scare the west not to take the threat that Russia poses lightly. If Ukraine doesn't pacify them, they will become as unsatiable as nazi Germany in World War 2.
15% of Russians died in W2. Doesn’t excuse anything they did but there is blood on all sides. Allies killed 100s of thousands of German civilians in mass bombings of German cities. Even the democracies are dirty. And yes only 1/4 if Germans voted for hitler.
@@UncleSam7.62 Didn't the allies 'back in the day' fight and die against people who used the term Untermenche? As a Brit i always remember my nan saying we wouldn't had won the war without 'The Yank's', but i also know those 'reds under the bed' played a massive part in defeating fascism.
I mean this in such a good way. Nothing helps my insomnia more than these. It stops me racing thoughts and allows me to focus and then I'm able to fall asleep fast when I am tired. I go back and listen where I dozed off the last time.
Thank you for posting these.
Repeat my mind is clear and free of thoughts
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography picture 📷 of the soldier playing the accordion along with solders relaxed 😌/smiling. Knowing that their arduous odyssey was coming to an end. Special thanks to the Russian guest veteran soldier. Sharing his personal combat experiences making the documentary more authentic and possible. Knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. Also the ( R N ) who repeatedly put herself in harm's way to rescue wounded soldiers. Her courage/determination to keep her oath to care ❤ for the sick/wounded is the honorary hero of this documentary!!! I sincerely hope that she survived the war.
Some were wearing German boots
I feel like solders from other counties should get a different voice, this one will always be German 😂
''a different voice '' ''BS feel sorry for you...
you do a good job of matching very striking and appropriate photos with the written accounts. and most of these photos i’ve never seen before. honestly many of these accounts are hard to take in. but they add the frontline soldier’s personal touch to the standard history ive studied.
That's sooo funny when they took the fancy coaches and dressed up in tuxedos
Thank you sir, once again superb, your narration is faultless!
It's not narration, it's an ai voice
I love these videos nice and long not broken up into 5 videos for a hour long story . Keep up tge great videos!
I love this !
This narrator from Blood red snow has the best voice for these kinds of stories
It's AI, not a real person, British/English Voice "Robert"
@@neilleonard8751 waiit.. i mean I though about this the other day when listening to one of these bits. and I know that book was voiced by someone completely different but that bit was voiced by this "rober" so i was right..
I think the least necessary comment is when he says " I was not killed."😊
This is quite a find. Accounts by Red Army, troops are very rare - I've only heard one account and that was written in Soviet, times.
This Lt. Bessanov, gives a lucid and frank report (makes me think he was writing after the fall of the U.S.S.R.)
I would like to hear the end of the story, and also how he fared after the war.
At the age of 50, I have found my hearing to be deficient for about the last 15 years or so. I never served in combat and although I have several hundred hours of using firearms, I always had proper hearing protection.
As he talks about the mine blowing up in front of his foxhole and not hearing correctly for days, it reminds me of my frustration with that generation. Nobody could hear!!! Now I understand why and feel like a jerk for the things I thought about them.
I was so blessed and didn’t even know it.
Lol my dad worked on a cargo ship for like 20 years… now if you tell him something he automatically says “huh?”. Just so used to making people repeat themselves because on the cargo ship it was so loud you could rarely hear people speaking to you! I used to get mad at him because I’d get annoyed but he’s not doing it on purpose. He doesn’t even know he’s doing it until I point it out. Even if he heard you he will say “huh” and answer you lol.
I am obsessed with this channel
I'd have aimed for the accordion - I thought they were banned by the Geneva Convention.
this soldier's "luck" was the blessing of God on men with good sense.....intuition is a thing where you give up on an insoluable problem facing you, blank your mind and act on the first inspiration that comes your way....a feeling (god whispering).....sorry he got wounded in the end...great stories
"Enough to make a cat laugh", that's a new one for me. Not sure how I would use it in a sentence, I'm guessing what the "enough " is, is sad irony? The way life can act and show indifference to the tragedy all around us, obviously even more so if trapped in a war.
These stories are really interesting as they give a totally different perspective.
I would love it if.for the picture you could show a map along with a route of the company's advance with stars at all the key battles
“Hung themselves” and left all that food in there cellars
Achtung! They have accordions! We are finished!
The other day I nearly died ,but I had Bessonovs luck.
Thank you
14:44 - 14:50 @worldwar2stories I need to ask you( my last name is Gregg ) , how is the name “Greg” spelt in the ACTUAL reading?
On closed captions is says “Greg” but I am curious for my own family historical record.
First one I’ve heard not from a German soldier. Was beginning to wonder……..
I’m guessing that because Germany was occupied, it was easier for soldiers to give accurate accounts of battles. Many of the accounts from German soldiers were taken within 10 years of the war. For Soviet citizens, that wasn’t really possible.
Also, as messed up as it is to say, when the wall fell in Germany, in the public eye that was the fall of communism. Depending on where you live that was not necessarily true.
I read a book years ago that I highly recommend.
“One soldier’s war”.
It’s an amazing read and really helped me, growing up in 1970’s America, understand how much other nations suffered.
We are not taught in American schools how damn blessed most were, compared to our European counterparts, during both world wars.
@@mattiemathis9549 communism did not fail or fall, it delivered housing to millions of people, who used to live in wooden unheated huts and used to get water from the river. Today I live in a warm, heated apartment, with tap water, cheap electricity, public transport, roads, parks, I received math and chemistry education in a school built during USSR, I learned 3 languages from soviet teachers, for free. Communism pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty, my family moved to Siberia during 1890s with nothing and had nothing, until USSR, when my grandfather became a mechanic (free education), received a house, a truck, became someone, received a chance in life.
Things built during USSR still serve its purpose well, in 2023. And most people who tell how horrible communism is are westerners who lived and some even continue living off their colonies and sit and explain to everyone how their system is better. Of course its nice to be French when for every French citizen there are 10 blacks digging uranium in Africa with wooden sticks and you could buy that uranium that costs 100 euros for 1 euro and then sell electricity. Of course it is nice in Britain, when for every British citizen there used to be 100 Indians bending their backs to produce a whole range of products for pennies.
Now once all those colonies are gone, look at how all western countries are quickly becoming bleak shadows of themselves. All of a sudden once slavery and colonialism contracted, it turned out that western countries started facing same problems Russia had 100 years ago. Communism in Russia was way ahead of its time and what is past for Russia will be future for all European countries. As your landlords increase your rent and as fewer and fewer of you could buy houses, as your food prices go up, you will learn that capitalism is amazing and great only as long as there are some slaves across the ocean making all sorts of goodies for you.
Spent so much time criticising Russia and USSR, we will really enjoy westerners facing the same issues and we will see how efficient and smart you are when blacks and asians will no longer want to do your dirty work for a bowl of rice.
@@snowsnow4231Russian colonial territories include Transnistria (taken from Moldova); Abkhazia and South Ossetia (taken from Georgia); and some part of the territory of Ukraine as well as Kazakhstan. Could be wrong about that last one. You make a compelling argument though!
@@longjohnlongdong4692 I recommend you to look up the data on how much was built by Russia in those "colonies", because Russian Empire, just as USSR, was built on taking away money from Russian people and building power stations and the loyalty of puppet states to maintain the land buffer zone between mainland and potential enemies.
Afghanistan is the best example of this, USSR have built thousands of schools, Kabul polytechnical university, car factory, Naglu hydro electric station, bridges, roads, etc. All that to create proletariat working class to support socialism, because stone age peasants are not the most avid socialism supporters. And this tactic worked.
In Poland and Ukraine, Lithuania or Latvia, Georgia or Afghanistan, most Russia supporters are exactly blue collar working class men in their 40s and 50s. It was an Empire but backwards, instead of sucking resources out of colonies, it sucked out resources out of Russia to manufacture working CLASS in puppet states through massive injections of money into industrial objects.
@snowsnow4231 oh that's why I, being below 50, with a simple job, live in a 850.000 euro house with a small mortgage. You obviously never been to the West and rely on Russian news.
Probably is the luckiest man in WW2, with more lives than Chuikov.
"Few hard drinkers" in an entire battalion of Russian infantry?! Grain of salt, as with every deservedly paranoid Russian account of absolutely anything.
You have to remember their idea of a heavy drinker is probably a different standard than you or I. Many of them were also very young.
I like these stories but I take them with many grains of salt. The veterans can give us an idea of what it was like I think. But they all include details, conversations, things that make you feel like you were there.
It makes the them enjoyable but they must a blend of memories and fiction I think.
Put some maps up of the areas of combat ops.
I'm the second to like and comment on this video
Aren't you special
...ARE YOU BRAGGING OR COMPLAINING?!!
Very interesting.
He sounds just like those other guys! 😮
Maybe they're related…
I'd like to hear more stories from the soviet perspective. I can seem to find a lot of german-perspective stories but soviet-pespective ones seem difficult to find
Could be the level of education differences. Hard to keep a diary when you can’t read and write.
@@shootdonttalk9500thats pure propaganda. The soviet literacy rate was 90% in 1939. That number although lower than germany at the time is by no means that of an "illiterate" country. There are plenty of russian memoirs in written in russian. They are rarely translated into english however.you can look up that of Mansur Abdulin.
Why don’t any of the videos have any information about author/publisher.
Because the stories are fake. Produced by ChatGPT and read by a voice generator.
So "storming" went to "crawling" then
...I HOPE HE RECEIVED A "HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION" MEDAL-(!)
He probably didn't, the communists were/are corrupt as can be. Stalin was just as bad as the Nazis.
Sweet a Chance to get in the First 10 Comments when Russia is again fighting against Nationalistic forces.
This channel feeds a good niche and the speaker is as clear as a bell 5/5
Thumbnail from paniflov's 28
An audio book. Not a movie.
This was not written by a Russian Combat soldier. Come on...,
PLEASE DO MANSTEINS BOOK "LOST VICTORIES" ALL I CAN FIND ON HER HAD THAT COMPUTER NARRATION THAT I CAN'T, WILL NOT, LISTEN TO.....
I think TIKhistory has done that ))
These are amazing but I can't be the only one who finds the raise in inflections every now and then extremely off-putting. It's almost like I can't tell if it's a fairly good AI reading or a very weird human who thinks he's a 14 year-old Australian girl from time to time.
It is AI.
Nebelwerfer 42
U.K. There has always been an argument as to who started the atrocities during the WW2 Russian war. I think what the Russians have done to Ukraine settles that argument. No old British soldier I met had seen in WW2 what happened there. I have two good Russian friends, they are never going home. One (a bit drunk) was in tears. Come to think of it, we all were.
The russian atrocity stories in Ukraine, are as real as the" ghost of kiev".
Is this AI generated story ?
I think so. It's a scam channel that generates war stories by AI and has a computer voice read them. Then puts in ads to make a lot of money.
Its telling that he didnt know whay the Germans had fewer tanks.
The Thunderbolts, and Spitfires had been concentrated on eliminating all German tanks, since eliminating their airdrones and destroying the Luffewaffee all over Germany, since crossing the Rhine in March, 45.
Patton was already in Czechoslovakia, and Austria by this time, and for weeks, 100s of thousands of German troops were retreating West to surrender to the Allies before Russia even crossed the German border.
The only reason we didnt assault Berlin was because FDR, and Churchill decided to let Russia.
Casualty estimates for the attack on Berlin scared them, and Stalin didnt care how many Russians were killed. He just wanted the coup of capturing Berlin.
When you hear him talk about cutting down Germans keep in mind that most of the Germans hes talking about are old men, and youg boys. (Still the Russian casualiss were extremely high.)
Aalso, when you hear him talking about the Officer running up and down, behind his lines, screaming. That the officer was a political officer, and he was probably waving a pistol and threatening to shoot them if they didnt get up and continue the assault.....
Yeah yeah we get it you simp for the nazis and hate the russkies. Didnt need to write an essay about it.
I'm the 859th
Lt. Bessanov describes how very often Soviet troops would advance against enemy forces through open fields. They would keep switching from running a short distance and then crawling a bit on their stomachs. As they were some 50 meters from the enemy lines shooting at them with machine guns and rockets, they would dash forward shouting "ura" throwing themselves unmindfully against enemy fire. Countless soldiers were obviously killed, but life meant very little for Russians.
They are still fighting that way in the present Russo-Ukrainian war. In Bakkmut on Ukraine's eastern front, where the terrain is level and there are many open fields Russians are incurring unimaginable casualties. Half of the Wagner force of 50 thousand died in such idiotic "charges of the light brigade." That's why the Ukrainians were happy to keep the Russians bogged down there as all the fresh Russians units kept getting decimated. Sure Stalin helped the Allies win the war. But their military fatalities were ten times those of the other allies, and 2 and a half times the German losses. Even the Germans were more careful about how they conducted operations. Stalin could care less about how many of his men were lost (just like Putin today), soldiers were simply cannon fodder, especially non Russian soldiers. The Russian frame of mind is very different from that of those in the West and this is what should scare the west not to take the threat that Russia poses lightly. If Ukraine doesn't pacify them, they will become as unsatiable as nazi Germany in World War 2.
Don't forget to mention the mass rapes committed by the brave Russian troops. Beasts, one and all.
1/3 of the red army was Ukrainian. They commited most rapes out of revenge.
15% of Russians died in W2.
Doesn’t excuse anything they did but there is blood on all sides.
Allies killed 100s of thousands of German civilians in mass bombings of German cities.
Even the democracies are dirty.
And yes only 1/4 if Germans voted for hitler.
@@UncleSam7.62that's exactly what they are
Did they line millions of germans and shoot them in the back of the head?
@@UncleSam7.62 Didn't the allies 'back in the day' fight and die against people who used the term Untermenche?
As a Brit i always remember my nan saying we wouldn't had won the war without 'The Yank's', but i also know those 'reds under the bed' played a massive part in defeating fascism.
"The Mine Fell Within A Few Foot Of My Position"
Mortar?