The 31st Infantry Regiment is probably the most hard-luck regiment in the US Army. Their first combat deployment was to Siberia. Their next combat was on Bataan in the Philippines and were subject to the Bataan Death March. In the Korean War they were at Chosin Reservoir. Poor bastards.
@@deeipomar2366 Try this: 1. The furthest the Greeks have traveled was to Scandinavia. 2. Celts had sizable population in Egypt. They were first invited by Ptolomey II as bodyguards, but they soon settled with families. That means Egypt was at that time place where you could find Celts from Europe and Ethiopian merchants living side by side. 3. Muslim Spain was so well connected that they had plantations of rice. Emirate of Granada financed all their fortresses that Christians had hard time conquering by selling Silk to Italians on nearly an industrial scale. 4. Few Japanese visited Tenochtitlan that was now capital of New Spain and converted to Christianity. 5. Portugese tried to conquer a Sultanate in Somalia and they failed spectaculary. That same Sultante sold Chinese a Giraffe. 6. Sultan Ismail fathered over 1000 children, making him one of the most fertile men in history. 7. Mussolini suggested that, if Jews have to be transported and given home, it should be neither in Madagascar or Palestine, but in Beta Isreal (Ethiopia). 8. That same Wodrow Wilson would invade Mexico and occupy Velcrauz for a decade. This happened because Mexico accidently arrested American crew for smuggling goods. When they realised what they did, Mexico appologiest and offered reparation in return, to with America simply invaded. 9. USA and Soviet Union nearly gave up all the nuclear wepeons. That never happened because Regan was convinced his program Star Wars will succsed, which is arming of the space. It didn't happen for now.
@@fokkermollari Yeah, no mention of the real reason why the allies withdrew. That the soviets spread leaflets which caused the allied troops to mutiny. But the war was another heavy burden on the soviet people that was a big reason for the degeneration of the revolution under the stalinist bureaucracy
@@joevonnivega4224 it makes you look like a bitter berry that has an obvious vendetta against a set of people, which you totally appear to do. those kinds of people aren’t really appreciated in academic environments.
@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 . . . It also works in reverse with chinas recent nuclear buildup and I think russia would rather keep european russia habitable and lose siberia over taking china down with them.
Fun fact: Alexander Zvorykin, one of the inventors of the TV, was procuring radio supplies in New York for Alexander Kolchak's government, when he found out that it has fallen and decided to stay in the USA, starting his career in Westinghouse Electric
Thank you so much for making this! My great grandfather was with the American Forces in Operation Archangel. So cool to see this history recreated - he was concripted from a dairy farming community in Wisconson to serve.
Awesome Video about events forgotten by so many. Even taking history classes events such as these are overshadowed, and rarely mentioned. But the people who fought there shouldn't be forgotten. Thank you for taking about this topic and so many other events not taught in by classes or by the media. This the best history channel I have ever encounter!
Throwing stones in a glass house, my friend. Like the Russian Soviets playing the world's greatest victim when invaded by the Nazis, but they're the same Nazis with whom the Russians jointly invaded Poland and divided it between them. Does the Katyn Forest ring a bell?
Your reply does not even connected to my comment, but okay I mean in video, actions of americans soldires (and not many other sides of conflicts) praized for no reason. Esspesialy considering that they are fighting waaaaay far from home on foreing land
@@Ymirson999 Soviets had a deal with Germans to partion Poland? - Yes Poland had a deal with Germans to divide Czecoslovakia? - Yes But, I guess, Poland of 1939 its not a yakie commies - they just are "friendly to Freedom" facist state, so its okay
@@illiakaliuzhnyi4438 It IS connected.. look, I don't mean to argue with you, there's no hard feelings on my end. I"m merely pointing out that we all tend to praise our home team even when they might not really deserve to be praised.
@@Ymirson999 you are right here but K&G were always neutral in their narratives, so it seemed strange to me. P.S. Anyway, they are my favorite history channel on UA-cam
@@tyroneemail Yeah but that one sentence was especially brazen. Some of the rest I can kinda forgive since obviously his main sources are the US military's claims about itself. But calling that "liberation" indicates a very advanced case of brainworms
Comrade here. I didn't find it strange. Its from american perspective in a military sense. "liberated" as in "cleared of hostiles". Not a case of propaganda imho, the opposite: the very existence of the video is proof of quite the absence of it, you would think anti-sovuet ideology would hide and deny being the invaders.
They're used to picking a side in another country's civil war and calling themselves liberators. It would be politically incorrect for anyone else to do the same.
You do realize it's 2020 and "liberated by the US" almost literally means "occupied" or "installed an authoritarian government"? It's basically a meme.
I love how those foreign intervening forces who has no idea of local politics decide to mold kingmakers then started infighting among themselves. Kind of typical if you look at US's interventions in Latin America and South Vietnam.
Since the Bolsheviks were basically German agents at the start, it was more a low stakes low commitment continuation of WW1 than any serious effort to beat the Reds. So, in 1918 you had to intervene to put pressure on the East German Empire, then the Macedonian front collapses and there's peace, and now you're just kind of pissed at the Bolsheviks and since the British had spent the entire 19th century being rivals with Russia the idea of have a Russian puppet sounded nice. I get what you're saying, but I think this is significantly different from those other interventions in ways that makes comparison difficult at best.
@Don't Trigger Me This means nothing. The Germans would need a form of control over Lenin after letting him go, which they had not. Therefore the Bolsheviks were not German agents, but Germany just knocked over the first domino piece.
@@AeneasGemini Being Latin American I can tell you you know nothing. The US didn't liberate South Korea, they've replaced Japan. Funny how they don't like to speak about the comfort women, since they've continued exploiting women like the Japanese did. There are papers proving the Americans even increased the number of brothels. They didn't care about the Japanese occupation of the peninsula, but the North Korean resistance did a lot of work to repel them.
Guys...GUYS! Calm down and tear each other apart You're both terrible USA killed millions of civilians, so did Russia (ussr), so what's the point of arguing?
They don't choose to live in reservations, reservations is the only place where they are able to practice self rule, but the whole continent used to belong to them to practice such.
@Hannibal B China? Cause those guys are (and have) invaded Vietnam and Australia, economically and through their bases in the South China Sea. With no tough foreign policy team in the White House now, China and Russia will press up more and more.
@Hannibal B that's what communism looks like in the real world: a very rich upper clique profiteering off the system. In a country that contains 20% of the world population, that's a lot of billionaires. But they have been implementing more free market policies, as you say.
I actually learned about the Russian Civil War and the Anti-Bolshevik invasion which included the United States. Amazing considering it was an American education. You would not learn that in school now.
I really don’t know why you call it the American invasion of Russia, the Americans didn’t even bring the most troops during this intervention. The Americans brought 13,000 troops meanwhile Japan brought 70,000 and Britain brought 53,000 not counting Canadian and Indian troops, Even Greece and contributed more soldiers than the Americans but albeit for a shorter time.
It's just great title and yes if I see another Japan-Russia war ot Czechoslovakia-Russia conflict it wouldn't surprise me so much but...man USA, Canada ..India woooow
Bolsheviks are not representatives of the Russian State. No country recognized the Soviets as a state, similar to how we do not recognize Al Qaida as an "Afghan" state. It is just a terrorist organization.
@@bringbackmy90s But the Bolsheviks did become the representatives of Russia (obviously for a lot of people even to begin with), and you're crying about the country and every other one for recognizing it.
@@tritium1998 So the Taliban did become representatives of Afghanistan, by your logic, and North Koreans representatives of the whole Korean Peninsula. A totally false assumption, even the bolsheviks never called their state officially "Russia" or a "successor-state" to any Russian state, as such thing was considered "Tsarist" and "reactionary". They regarded Russia just as a "place d'armes" / carrier for World Revolution and for their expansion into Central Europe, and only when that failed after being stopped in Warsaw, they had to settle for "Russia". Besides this video is about the early years, when nobody recognized the bandit and terrorist groups as a legit state, even Lenin admitted he had no control over all of them. So whatever you are crying about, it is not relevant for the period in this video. Soviets are not the same thing as "Russia", just as North Korea and South Korea are not successor states or anything like that.
The United States wanted neither an expedition on a large scale, nor free action by any single country in Siberia. The expedition was obviously limited in its aim, area, and number of forces. This was not the kind df military operations which the Japanese interventionists were expecting to cany out.
From the Australian War Memorial Canberra: “An Allied expeditionary force, including some Australian volunteers, was landed at Murmansk in March 1918 to support the weakening Russian front against Germany. The front was reinforced by further landings at Archangel in August 1918. In supporting the White Russians, the force became involved in operations against the Bolsheviks. To extract the force after the Armistice and after the Russian winter, the North Russia Relief Force was raised in UK, again including Australian volunteers, arriving in North Russia in June 1919. All British forces were evacuated by September 1919.” Two Australians were awarded a Victoria Cross for actions in North Russia: Corporal Arthur Percy SULLIVAN and Sergeant Samuel George PEARSE. Their Victoria Crosses are on display in the Hall of Valour at the Memorial.
Thank you, that was interesting. But... but... Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany on March 3 (!), 1918. Why didn't your brave soldiers just pack up and head straight back home? Why "getting involved"? It's called invasion, intervention, violation of independence or whatever, isn't it? Why couldn't they just be brave on their own land instead? I know it's the governments that are to blame. Those are rhetorical questions. I'm just sad.
More about Russian Civil war, please! This topic is completely fascinating and one of the most tragic part of our history (like the whole our history, unfortunately)...
I watch your channel regularly but was excited to see this as you showed the 27th Infantry Regiments crest in the thumbnail. I served with the "Wolfhounds" in the 1990's. Learned about our involvement in Russia back then as it played a large role in the Regiments identity.
The battle of lower tulgas, around the 11:00 minute mark, is an interesting read on wikipedia. A group of soviets charged a field hospital, and the commander ordered all the wounded to be killed, but was stopped by his mistress. While this was happening the Canadian Artillery repositioned their guns, and when the russians eventually left the field hospital to charge at the artillery, they were met by a salvo at point blank range, scattering them.
what does make it soooo special to "survive Russian winter"? millions of people just live there without any funny badges. Besides climat of North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota does not differ so much.
@@alexeyyyyyyyyyy Because this is a time before industrial heating. And fighting in below freezing temperature is much different than just living in it.
Terrific as usual. While part way through I remembered a shipmate of mine talking of his uncle being in White Russia after WWI while in the U.S. Army. While enroute to Russia it was discovered he could understand elements of spoken Russian.
@@darthmalafathjunior388 I know the pain of wondering what a track is called and never finding it. So I do what I can to ensure others never experience it :)
I've been watching a lot of this channel called the Great War. And they went quite in depth to the Russian Civil War. So some of these details are familiar to me. Others not so much. A different perspective is always nice. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Britain: America, support Kolchack. He is our guy. Czechs: No, he's our guy now. Reds: And now he's our guy. You Czechs can go home. America: Mission accomplished, now we piss off. Britain: Wait wha- don't go! We were going to- oh, bugger it all!
Great work on the animations and graphics. Your videos are always great, but this one was truly a masterpiece. Fun to watch, plus another great history lesson, Nice work. Keep up the great work, this is really awesome!!!
Yes, yes. The foreign forces intervening in a civil war and capturing cities are actually "liberating" those and when they fall back it is brave retreat, while the forces fighting with popular appeal on their own soil just "flees" or conquers cities. I have to say, not many people can show their bias so subtly, but surely didn't expect such from K&G.
Hardly an invasion. The occupation of Archangelsk and Vladivostok was an occupation of two cities during the Russian Civil War. No govt was in power in Russia and the Americans were not attempting to conquer Russia, so it is inappropriate to label the intervention as an invasion. Also, Wilson's policy was not hypocritical as is implied by the video. Advocating democracy and self determination was not at odds with being against the Communist/Bolsheviks, who were not democratic nor the voice of the Russian people.
I read a quote regarding an American artillery captain Harry S. Truman's view on the Russian civil war: "Most soldiers don't give a whoop (to put it mildly) whether Russia has a Red Government or no government and if the King of Lollipops wants to slaughter his subjects or his Prime Minister it's all the same to us."
This video just goes to highlight how little I know about the Russian Civil War. I'm gonna have to listen to more videos on the topic! Thank you very much for this one! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
All that fighting talked about, only for the casualties to be that few? It's almost as if the invading troops simply marched through without a fight, or the casualties are way higher.
Bolsheviks was busy fighting with Whites, anarchists, poles and others, so they had similar to Allies strength in Northern front with around 10 thousand men just to contain them and they hadn't communications with Siberian forces, there was just pro-bolshevik partisans. It's the reason of such low casualties from both sides
They are awear of it. They stoped making new series and focus on finishing them. They already finished two and are nearing the end with others. This is merly a single documentry meaning there will be no "sequals".
I was assigned to the 3rd battalion, 27th Infantry regiment in 1989 and 1990. Nice to see a little Wolfhound history. In December of 89 through February of 90 we added Operation Just Cause (Panama) to our regimental colors.
I like the video but I don’t think the title is right. It’s clear that we weren’t the only ones who aided the White Russians so maybe it should be “when the allies invaded Russia” to be more accurate. Great work regardless though
@@aze94 well depending on who held it I’d say it was liberation. It it was held by the communists that is but if by the White Russian army then no probably not
@@onehope6448 idk what NPCs your referring too but it depends on who controlled it. It’s called war cities get taken. We liberated France from nazi Germany in WW2 because it was oppressed and under control by a foreign and evil host. Same with communism. Communists controlled it and we liberated them from a not good government but in the end we pulled out and they got it anyway but the liberation part just depends on who your taking it from and how bad they are so no it still counts as liberation
@@onehope6448 yeah sure buddy. Because it was an example of liberation something occupied by a hostile force. I didn’t say it was ok we got involved but just because the communists were also Russians doesn’t mean that they weren’t following a bad and dangerous ideology that needed to be stopped if possible like the nazis. Like in the American civil war we fought against our own but what they were fighting for was wrong so it was about who controlled certain areas not what country they belonged too.
@@onehope6448 no your just an anti-American conspiracy theorist. We were fighting to help the better Russian ideology win so they could stay in power. We didn’t want to rule Russia there’s no way we could have kept control of that. That’s insane. And we didn’t conquer the south we beat it in a war they started. It’s part of one country not a foreign land we conquered. I’ve studied history most of my life and believe me we did do lots of wrong expansion. After the Spanish American war we took the Philippines which was wrong and we expanded west and broke treaties with the native Americans. I know we did wrong and expanded when we shouldn’t have but the civil war and the Russian revolution just wasn’t one of them
"So, do want to invade Russia?" "Yes". "Are you from Mongolia?" "No". "Just get out of my sight! And don't tell anyone about our meeting, I don't want my friends making fun about it..."
Despite it is funny, it isn't that hard to conquer Russia. All you have to solve is cold winter and large distance logistics. Mongolian hordes solved both.
@B Whit Ottoman past the prime period. Napolean who beat Russians at literally every single occasion and then throw his victory because of cockiness and underestimating the winter and Nazis who were fighting half of the world simultaniously. Meanwhile Russia loosing to Japanees in 1904-1905.
@@jakubcidlik "and underestimating the winter and Nazis who were fighting half of the world simultaniously" Napoleon left Moscow in October. The Americans and the Brits only fought a shadow of the Wehrmacht.
Oh yah all people have the right to chose any form of government they want as long as They aren't communist They don't have oil And they don't threaten USA interest
Red and white flag for the Czechs - before the added the blue triangle to differentiate their flag from the Polish one. Really good attention to detail! Love it.
It'd be great because it's so strange when polish people complain about soviet agression in 1939, but they can say nothing when Polish-Russian war 1920 being mentioned
@@greatwolf5372 Sure did, the Russian Civil War was a footnote, and I was in New York State. Evidently all of that government aid which comes out of my taxes and goes to Red States actually does do some good!
I’m from a small North American town, one that idolized Reagan, and one thing as a history buff that I’ve always tried to help people understand is that the United States and Russia have directly fought in conflict. I remember a speech we had to listen to in school and he had said no Russian and American boys have ever fought and I just remember saying out loud that wasn’t true. Certainly an overlooked topic in our history lessons in school, and also I firmly believe the conflict going after the armistice helped further the spread of the influenza outbreak. Thank you for your work, time, and dedication to “Ourstory” the history we all are apart of but forgot.
USA: Sends expeditionary forces to Russia, makes sure to properly equip and train them for cold weather. I mean, who would be stupid enough to go to war in Russia without being ready for a cold front?
I haven't watched so not sure if covered but Kamchatka had/s oilfields and America wanted to do a deal with Soviet Russia during Lenin's rule to take over Kamchatka in order to put a check on Japan's power seeing as they had plans on expansionism in the region [and possibly Siberia]. It's pretty niche but interesting, Lenin disagreed but still ended up letting the Americans rent the oilfields there.
At the time and until post WWII, the US was the largest and principal producer of oil in the world. The US so dominated the commodity that the embargo imposed upon Japan, by FDR in 1941, convinced the Japanese to attempt the Pearl Harbor attack, since without US oil, its economy would simply collapse. The Saudi fields and Iraq, Iran and Kuwait did not begin to come on line until the 40s and 50s; nor had the other modern, major oil sources such as Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Nigeria etc... Everything in world history has not been inspired by a desire for oil. Also, the major oil fields in Russia at the time, were between the Black and Caspian Seas, not in Siberia. These were the fields that supplied the USSR in WWII and what Hitler attempted to seize in the Stalingrad campaign in 42.
Thanks for shedding a light on these events, obviously hardly known about in western countries. Having grown up in communist East Germany you bet we were thaught this piece of history ;) They even taught us a song about that, which is called "Partisans of the Amur River" and a hell of a tune btw. One point of criticism though. That these event have shaped the identity of three American regiments is certainly nice to know. I think it would have been more important to underline, how these events shaped the view of the Soviets of the West, which has implications to this day. Cheers.
The reason I don't appreciate Kings and Generals anymore is because of their one sided propagandist terminology. I myself hate both Communism and Western Imperialism but K and G sugar-coats American- British invasion as "liberation" and the Soviets as "occupation" in their own country. I noticed it in the Early Muslim "Conquest" videos when the defeated Byzantine sources were considered and the Arab sources were belittled as "unlikely". K and G as historical channel should stay neutral like "HistoryMarche" channel who takes every source into consideration.
Carl Anderson That’s because Stalin and Trotsky pushed to basically invade back everyone on their borders at like the same time. Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Finland (the white guard there managed to win out in a particularly confusing civil war inside a civil war).
@UCj5lZ5R1QwHwm03yribAa_w "The Bolsheviks were a united" they were left-wing armies that also had conflicted interest and later fought against the Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks were just better at talking and recruiting common people, them having initial control over Western Russia helped too.
@@keemstarkreamstar7069 Yep, at first Bolsheviks gave up terries in Brest-Litovsk later, they invaded the said territories, they just wanted some challenge i guess.
It was not an invasion. Russia did not exist politically. It was in Civil war. The Allied move was an intervention. No one was trying to conquer Russia therefore, no invasion.
@@thomassenbart A civil war does not mean a country is dissolved, it is still a country. It was the Russian Empire. It is as if you are saying “US did not exist politically while the south and the north fought”.
@@aliancemd He was right... Trust me, I'm Russian. In that time Russia has about 8-10 'governments' simultaneously. At that time city of Vladivostok, mentioned in the video was the capital of the anti-Bolshevik's so-called "Far-East Republic".
@@deleteduser7132 It has nothing to do with ideology. I don't like comunists either. But ... 1. Bolsheviks aren't Trockists (which you have in the west). "Ain't a commie like a commie"... but that would be a long dive into history etc. 2. Look at Lybia. I'm sure they are "very happy" you (West) have "liberated them from that "evil Khadafi"... Lybia was one of (if not 1st) the most developed countrie in Africa. Now they're failed state. I'm not sure lives of ordinary people improved.
@@Quilgen You can thank our grand supreme leader Obama for that. Apparently we are not allowed to criticize him for ruining Libya or that makes us racists.
Solid, objective video. Key fact in Bolshevik win--the support of the worker/peasant masses. In the modern era, no amount of money or military superiority get invaders or their puppets anywhere if they have no popular base. Vietnam showed that.
@@nikhtose you means under a communist regime millions of communists die? Color me surprised lol the Bolsheviks were just a bunch of commies with no real plans on how they will govern. Leninists and Stalinists are what happens will Bolsheviks pick choose a plan.
@Hunter Smiththat's like saying after winning the u.s civil war the first thing the north did was steal southern property. Just all types of wrong & false equivocations. Stop defending u.s imperialism
@@HxH2011DRA I don’t believe he’s doing that at all. In fact, you seem to be excusing Soviet suppression. The majority of the Entente’s objectives weren’t territorial expansion, but a desire to keep Communists out of power. Based on the result of their rule from the 1920s to 1991, can you really blame them for wanting them out? 22 million dead under Stalin alone with events like the Holodomor. That’s not saying the Whites were innocent, they were famously anti-Semitic and massacred many as scapegoats for their losses.
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Shining, shimmering, splendid
You are one of the best historical chenals kings and Generals!
I hope you cover my country too!
It's almost surreal that your season 1 video of Mongol conquest became the most viewed on the channel.
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Your channel is truly a gift 🎁 💯💯
The 31st Infantry Regiment is probably the most hard-luck regiment in the US Army. Their first combat deployment was to Siberia. Their next combat was on Bataan in the Philippines and were subject to the Bataan Death March. In the Korean War they were at Chosin Reservoir. Poor bastards.
The frozen chosen.
The same......wow. I did not know that.
Indeed very hard-luck, they also fought in China together with the 4th Marine regiment.
That’s awful.
There a proud regiment and they take pride in the fact they went through all those things and still came back as a regiment
Then after that the Czechoslovaks proclaimed the great horizontal empire and clashed with the Chilean great vertical empire, true story !
*A most powerful empire!*
The Greatest Since the Empire of Liechtenstein
While Poland was being taken by great Walrus empire with its supporters(mostly Seaguls and Sea Lions)
Almost impossible as it sounds but true indeed.
When you don’t like your teammates but it’s ranked match so you can’t team kill.
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@UC8iIvVnAkTdrM9v33Bmh4Pw ima member brah, it’s pretty cool.
We went only there to lame their boars and eat their sheep
This is the last thing I thought I would know in history.
Knowing Russia and USA once fought absolutely surprised me.
Wait until Russian Reds and Whites invade China.
Me too, I've never thought that it actually happened!!
I wonder what else history hides for me to learn??!
@@deeipomar2366 Try this:
1. The furthest the Greeks have traveled was to Scandinavia.
2. Celts had sizable population in Egypt. They were first invited by Ptolomey II as bodyguards, but they soon settled with families. That means Egypt was at that time place where you could find Celts from Europe and Ethiopian merchants living side by side.
3. Muslim Spain was so well connected that they had plantations of rice. Emirate of Granada financed all their fortresses that Christians had hard time conquering by selling Silk to Italians on nearly an industrial scale.
4. Few Japanese visited Tenochtitlan that was now capital of New Spain and converted to Christianity.
5. Portugese tried to conquer a Sultanate in Somalia and they failed spectaculary. That same Sultante sold Chinese a Giraffe.
6. Sultan Ismail fathered over 1000 children, making him one of the most fertile men in history.
7. Mussolini suggested that, if Jews have to be transported and given home, it should be neither in Madagascar or Palestine, but in Beta Isreal (Ethiopia).
8. That same Wodrow Wilson would invade Mexico and occupy Velcrauz for a decade. This happened because Mexico accidently arrested American crew for smuggling goods. When they realised what they did, Mexico appologiest and offered reparation in return, to with America simply invaded.
9. USA and Soviet Union nearly gave up all the nuclear wepeons. That never happened because Regan was convinced his program Star Wars will succsed, which is arming of the space. It didn't happen for now.
Lol fun fact those same White Russians fought with the IJA during ww2
@@aleksapetrovic6519
Many thanks, I will further check them out!!
Truly did not know so many countries sent troops during the war!
Excellent video.
It wasn't enough
@@irongeneral7861 yeah, it was not meant to be enough, just enough to make a little theater.
@@irongeneral7861 It would never be enough. That's Soviet Power!
@abis8 alpha8 Are you insane??
@@fokkermollari Yeah, no mention of the real reason why the allies withdrew. That the soviets spread leaflets which caused the allied troops to mutiny. But the war was another heavy burden on the soviet people that was a big reason for the degeneration of the revolution under the stalinist bureaucracy
Wilson's self-determination... Cost a lot of lives around the world.
Communists do not deserve self determination
@@joevonnivega4224 might wanna cut down on that obvious anti-left stance... just saying
*insert edgy zoomer name* why would I? I absolutely hate leftism.
@@joevonnivega4224 it makes you look like a bitter berry that has an obvious vendetta against a set of people, which you totally appear to do.
those kinds of people aren’t really appreciated in academic environments.
Wilson created the United Nations so he saved many more lives than he destroyed
"Self-determination"
Anyone: Invading Russia from Siberia
Russians : Meh
Especially when you have only one single-track railway that all of the occupying powers had to fight over.
Russia when china could invaide siberia
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT DO IT. WELL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT.
@@Newbmann Russia would just wipe china off the map if that would ever happen.
@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 . . . It also works in reverse with chinas recent nuclear buildup and I think russia would rather keep european russia habitable and lose siberia over taking china down with them.
@@octaviantimisoreanu5810 Cap
Fun fact: Alexander Zvorykin, one of the inventors of the TV, was procuring radio supplies in New York for Alexander Kolchak's government, when he found out that it has fallen and decided to stay in the USA, starting his career in Westinghouse Electric
Holy shit
Thank you so much for making this! My great grandfather was with the American Forces in Operation Archangel. So cool to see this history recreated - he was concripted from a dairy farming community in Wisconson to serve.
Excellent as usual Thank you K&G!
Awesome Video about events forgotten by so many. Even taking history classes events such as these are overshadowed, and rarely mentioned. But the people who fought there shouldn't be forgotten. Thank you for taking about this topic and so many other events not taught in by classes or by the media. This the best history channel I have ever encounter!
Americans: Bravely attack, bravely retreat
Any other soldiers in the video: attack, retreat
Throwing stones in a glass house, my friend. Like the Russian Soviets playing the world's greatest victim when invaded by the Nazis, but they're the same Nazis with whom the Russians jointly invaded Poland and divided it between them. Does the Katyn Forest ring a bell?
Your reply does not even connected to my comment, but okay
I mean in video, actions of americans soldires (and not many other sides of conflicts) praized for no reason. Esspesialy considering that they are fighting waaaaay far from home on foreing land
@@Ymirson999 Soviets had a deal with Germans to partion Poland? - Yes
Poland had a deal with Germans to divide Czecoslovakia? - Yes
But, I guess, Poland of 1939 its not a yakie commies - they just are "friendly to Freedom" facist state, so its okay
@@illiakaliuzhnyi4438 It IS connected.. look, I don't mean to argue with you, there's no hard feelings on my end. I"m merely pointing out that we all tend to praise our home team even when they might not really deserve to be praised.
@@Ymirson999 you are right here
but K&G were always neutral in their narratives, so it seemed strange to me.
P.S. Anyway, they are my favorite history channel on UA-cam
Not gonna lie, using the word "liberated" to describe Americans capturing territory in North Asia is pretty fucked up
Lot of propaganda in this video
@@tyroneemail Yeah but that one sentence was especially brazen. Some of the rest I can kinda forgive since obviously his main sources are the US military's claims about itself. But calling that "liberation" indicates a very advanced case of brainworms
Comrade here. I didn't find it strange. Its from american perspective in a military sense. "liberated" as in "cleared of hostiles". Not a case of propaganda imho, the opposite: the very existence of the video is proof of quite the absence of it, you would think anti-sovuet ideology would hide and deny being the invaders.
They're used to picking a side in another country's civil war and calling themselves liberators. It would be politically incorrect for anyone else to do the same.
You do realize it's 2020 and "liberated by the US" almost literally means "occupied" or "installed an authoritarian government"? It's basically a meme.
Fun fact: the flag of this polar bear regiment is in a Chinese museum
Do you know how this flag ended up in the Chinese museum?
@@htrland Korean War
@@Maxium1352 You mean the Chinese captured their flag after defeating them? Just to clarify
@@htrland Yes, nearly all of the regiment was destroyed
@@htrland yes, they got wiped out by the PVA in 1950
This is absolutely brilliant. How lucky are we to watch all this for free?
I had to watch adds read you. Put you in your place. This is hard work the video is just the reward
@Tolerant Leftist Is it
Better watch it before YT takes it down!
@Tolerant Leftist you clearly have no idea how much work it takes to make these kinds of videos..
I don't know about you but I see ads every few minutes. Even traditional TV is not this "free".
I love how those foreign intervening forces who has no idea of local politics decide to mold kingmakers then started infighting among themselves.
Kind of typical if you look at US's interventions in Latin America and South Vietnam.
Since the Bolsheviks were basically German agents at the start, it was more a low stakes low commitment continuation of WW1 than any serious effort to beat the Reds.
So, in 1918 you had to intervene to put pressure on the East German Empire, then the Macedonian front collapses and there's peace, and now you're just kind of pissed at the Bolsheviks and since the British had spent the entire 19th century being rivals with Russia the idea of have a Russian puppet sounded nice.
I get what you're saying, but I think this is significantly different from those other interventions in ways that makes comparison difficult at best.
@@simonmabee100 "Since the Bolsheviks were basically German agents at the start"
Complete nonsense.
@Don't Trigger Me This means nothing. The Germans would need a form of control over Lenin after letting him go, which they had not. Therefore the Bolsheviks were not German agents, but Germany just knocked over the first domino piece.
@@AeneasGemini That only happened because Russia happened to boycott the UN at the worst possible time. It's absolutely hilarious.
@@AeneasGemini Being Latin American I can tell you you know nothing.
The US didn't liberate South Korea, they've replaced Japan.
Funny how they don't like to speak about the comfort women, since they've continued exploiting women like the Japanese did. There are papers proving the Americans even increased the number of brothels.
They didn't care about the Japanese occupation of the peninsula, but the North Korean resistance did a lot of work to repel them.
*A country with self determination exists*
America: So u have chosen death
Tell that to the Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Tartars etc.
Guys...GUYS!
Calm down and tear each other apart
You're both terrible
USA killed millions of civilians, so did Russia (ussr), so what's the point of arguing?
@@abdelkarim8381 that Russia never invaded the USA on the basis of fakely defending democracy
They don't choose to live in reservations, reservations is the only place where they are able to practice self rule, but the whole continent used to belong to them to practice such.
@@abdelkarim8381 "so did Russia (ussr)" - nice joke
Can you imagine how paranoid Americans would be if the Soviets, or anyone really, landed troops on our land?
Hannibal B We are occupying fictional communist nations?
@Hannibal B China? Cause those guys are (and have) invaded Vietnam and Australia, economically and through their bases in the South China Sea. With no tough foreign policy team in the White House now, China and Russia will press up more and more.
@Hannibal B that's what communism looks like in the real world: a very rich upper clique profiteering off the system. In a country that contains 20% of the world population, that's a lot of billionaires. But they have been implementing more free market policies, as you say.
@Hannibal B Billionaires ≠ Capitalism
Well there was that one time when Japan invaded Alaska.
Thank you for posting this!
most people have no idea that the US invaded Russia
Mexicans Got on Boots faxist
ehh invasion is kind of a strong word since the country was in a civil war.
That's like saying China invaded South Korea in the Korean War or that Germany and Italy invaded Spain in 1939
@@chaosXP3RT tell that to the historian who named the video
Most people know nothing of history
I actually learned about the Russian Civil War and the Anti-Bolshevik invasion which included the United States. Amazing considering it was an American education. You would not learn that in school now.
I really don’t know why you call it the American invasion of Russia, the Americans didn’t even bring the most troops during this intervention. The Americans brought 13,000 troops meanwhile Japan brought 70,000 and Britain brought 53,000 not counting Canadian and Indian troops, Even Greece and contributed more soldiers than the Americans but albeit for a shorter time.
It's "when American invaded Russia" as an episode in the Cold War not "The American Invasion of Russia"
It's just great title and yes if I see another Japan-Russia war ot Czechoslovakia-Russia conflict it wouldn't surprise me so much but...man USA, Canada ..India woooow
Americans “liberating” Russian towns/villages on their own soil? Come on K&G
Lmao imagine defending bolsheviks
Bolsheviks are not representatives of the Russian State. No country recognized the Soviets as a state, similar to how we do not recognize Al Qaida as an "Afghan" state. It is just a terrorist organization.
@@bringbackmy90s But the Bolsheviks did become the representatives of Russia (obviously for a lot of people even to begin with), and you're crying about the country and every other one for recognizing it.
@@tritium1998 So the Taliban did become representatives of Afghanistan, by your logic, and North Koreans representatives of the whole Korean Peninsula. A totally false assumption, even the bolsheviks never called their state officially "Russia" or a "successor-state" to any Russian state, as such thing was considered "Tsarist" and "reactionary". They regarded Russia just as a "place d'armes" / carrier for World Revolution and for their expansion into Central Europe, and only when that failed after being stopped in Warsaw, they had to settle for "Russia". Besides this video is about the early years, when nobody recognized the bandit and terrorist groups as a legit state, even Lenin admitted he had no control over all of them. So whatever you are crying about, it is not relevant for the period in this video. Soviets are not the same thing as "Russia", just as North Korea and South Korea are not successor states or anything like that.
@@bringbackmy90s Lmfao imagine if Russia came to "liberate" US towns
It is surprising how little is known about these two interventions. I only knew about them because George Orwell features them in Animal Farm.
Utterly bizarre seeing American and Japanese ground forces on the same side.
The United States wanted neither an expedition on a large scale, nor free action by any single country in Siberia. The expedition was obviously limited in its aim, area, and number of forces. This was not the kind df military operations which the Japanese interventionists were expecting to cany out.
Woah, those globes looks amazing!
From the Australian War Memorial Canberra: “An Allied expeditionary force, including some Australian volunteers, was landed at Murmansk in March 1918 to support the weakening Russian front against Germany. The front was reinforced by further landings at Archangel in August 1918. In supporting the White Russians, the force became involved in operations against the Bolsheviks. To extract the force after the Armistice and after the Russian winter, the North Russia Relief Force was raised in UK, again including Australian volunteers, arriving in North Russia in June 1919. All British forces were evacuated by September 1919.”
Two Australians were awarded a Victoria Cross for actions in North Russia: Corporal Arthur Percy SULLIVAN and Sergeant Samuel George PEARSE. Their Victoria Crosses are on display in the Hall of Valour at the Memorial.
Thank you, that was interesting. But... but... Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany on March 3 (!), 1918. Why didn't your brave soldiers just pack up and head straight back home? Why "getting involved"? It's called invasion, intervention, violation of independence or whatever, isn't it? Why couldn't they just be brave on their own land instead? I know it's the governments that are to blame. Those are rhetorical questions. I'm just sad.
More about Russian Civil war, please! This topic is completely fascinating and one of the most tragic part of our history (like the whole our history, unfortunately)...
Early Rus!
I watch your channel regularly but was excited to see this as you showed the 27th Infantry Regiments crest in the thumbnail. I served with the "Wolfhounds" in the 1990's. Learned about our involvement in Russia back then as it played a large role in the Regiments identity.
The battle of lower tulgas, around the 11:00 minute mark, is an interesting read on wikipedia. A group of soviets charged a field hospital, and the commander ordered all the wounded to be killed, but was stopped by his mistress. While this was happening the Canadian Artillery repositioned their guns, and when the russians eventually left the field hospital to charge at the artillery, they were met by a salvo at point blank range, scattering them.
KNG: *mentions Canada at all*
Me: WOOOOOOOOO!
what does make it soooo special to "survive Russian winter"? millions of people just live there without any funny badges. Besides climat of North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota does not differ so much.
when your eyelids freeze to your eyeballs, then you know a Russian winter.
@@bunzeebear2973 don’t tell me this bullshit. I live in Russia.
It's special because they are brave Americans. Kind of men who would liberate Russian land from Russians. ROCK, FLAG AND EAGLE!
@@alexeyyyyyyyyyy Because this is a time before industrial heating. And fighting in below freezing temperature is much different than just living in it.
@@sunk5244 how do You think Russian settled the region? They had to fight. And they had to fight in winters as well. Without funny bear badges.
Thank you for calling them the Entente! Too many people call them by WWII labels Axis / Allies. This is another reason I love this channel.
Terrific as usual. While part way through I remembered a shipmate of mine talking of his uncle being in White Russia after WWI while in the U.S. Army. While enroute to Russia it was discovered he could understand elements of spoken Russian.
Pre-Cold War eh? Guess I learn something new today
The great war or ww1
@@jerkizum2793 indeed
I just learned why the Cold War happened here in this video
@@Righteous1ist wait what are they teaching in school
@@jerkizum2793 Not American invasions lol
When America invaded Russia,
Russia defended and protected Americans
My favorite channel is back at it again!
Love your videos
In case anyone wants to know, the music played from 19:05 to the end of the video is called "Heroes Will Fall"
You are the hero mate but not a fallen one
@@darthmalafathjunior388 I know the pain of wondering what a track is called and never finding it. So I do what I can to ensure others never experience it :)
I've been watching a lot of this channel called the Great War. And they went quite in depth to the Russian Civil War. So some of these details are familiar to me. Others not so much. A different perspective is always nice. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Britain: America, support Kolchack. He is our guy.
Czechs: No, he's our guy now.
Reds: And now he's our guy. You Czechs can go home.
America: Mission accomplished, now we piss off.
Britain: Wait wha- don't go! We were going to- oh, bugger it all!
Great work on the animations and graphics.
Your videos are always great, but this one was truly a masterpiece.
Fun to watch, plus another great history lesson, Nice work.
Keep up the great work, this is really awesome!!!
Yes, yes. The foreign forces intervening in a civil war and capturing cities are actually "liberating" those and when they fall back it is brave retreat, while the forces fighting with popular appeal on their own soil just "flees" or conquers cities.
I have to say, not many people can show their bias so subtly, but surely didn't expect such from K&G.
Hardly an invasion. The occupation of Archangelsk and Vladivostok was an occupation of two cities during the Russian Civil War. No govt was in power in Russia and the Americans were not attempting to conquer Russia, so it is inappropriate to label the intervention as an invasion.
Also, Wilson's policy was not hypocritical as is implied by the video. Advocating democracy and self determination was not at odds with being against the Communist/Bolsheviks, who were not democratic nor the voice of the Russian people.
Amazing video as always! What program did you use for the immersive map?
Photoshop, Blender, Premiere Pro
@@KingsandGenerals That's seamless execution of the transition. Great production quality.
I have been waiting for someone, anyone to do a short on this subject. Thank you "Kings and Generals"!
It would be fantastic to get a full series on the Russian Civil War. I'd definitely watch that.
Is it just me or has this channel been uploading in tuesdays more in addition to the regular thursday/sunday schedule? Absolutely love to see it!!
"We support your right to self-determine the way we see fit."
I read a quote regarding an American artillery captain Harry S. Truman's view on the Russian civil war: "Most soldiers don't give a whoop (to put it mildly) whether Russia has a Red Government or no government and if the King of Lollipops wants to slaughter his subjects or his Prime Minister it's all the same to us."
@B Whit Even though the US has the largest economy and military in the world?
@B Whit You can't even use proper grammar lol.
@B Whit When did I say I was a yankee?
This video just goes to highlight how little I know about the Russian Civil War. I'm gonna have to listen to more videos on the topic! Thank you very much for this one!
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
I love to watch your videos I am your subscriber since 2018
No Partisans of Amur song in the end? Honestly, I was expecting it very much after hearing Kalinka playing in the background in the latest Rus video.
Fascinating time period and war. Thanks for covering.
Great exposé ! Why not making one more global about the other Western powers interventions in the Russian civil war like France, UK or Japan ?
Happy new year kings and generals i wish you all best ❤️
All that fighting talked about, only for the casualties to be that few? It's almost as if the invading troops simply marched through without a fight, or the casualties are way higher.
Bolsheviks was busy fighting with Whites, anarchists, poles and others, so they had similar to Allies strength in Northern front with around 10 thousand men just to contain them and they hadn't communications with Siberian forces, there was just pro-bolshevik partisans. It's the reason of such low casualties from both sides
I read about this on Wikipedia a few years ago and i was as surprised as everyone in the comments
You have left a lot of nice and entertaining series in the middle. It is actually a pity, because lots of your fans want to see what happens next.
They are awear of it. They stoped making new series and focus on finishing them. They already finished two and are nearing the end with others. This is merly a single documentry meaning there will be no "sequals".
@@aleksapetrovic6519 A, OK.
Let the man do what he wants. Its his UA-cam.
@@gabrielrosas4200 A , OK . Sorry
I was assigned to the 3rd battalion, 27th Infantry regiment in 1989 and 1990. Nice to see a little Wolfhound history. In December of 89 through February of 90 we added Operation Just Cause (Panama) to our regimental colors.
I like the video but I don’t think the title is right. It’s clear that we weren’t the only ones who aided the White Russians so maybe it should be “when the allies invaded Russia” to be more accurate. Great work regardless though
@@aze94 well depending on who held it I’d say it was liberation. It it was held by the communists that is but if by the White Russian army then no probably not
@@onehope6448 idk what NPCs your referring too but it depends on who controlled it. It’s called war cities get taken. We liberated France from nazi Germany in WW2 because it was oppressed and under control by a foreign and evil host. Same with communism. Communists controlled it and we liberated them from a not good government but in the end we pulled out and they got it anyway but the liberation part just depends on who your taking it from and how bad they are so no it still counts as liberation
@@onehope6448 yeah sure buddy. Because it was an example of liberation something occupied by a hostile force. I didn’t say it was ok we got involved but just because the communists were also Russians doesn’t mean that they weren’t following a bad and dangerous ideology that needed to be stopped if possible like the nazis. Like in the American civil war we fought against our own but what they were fighting for was wrong so it was about who controlled certain areas not what country they belonged too.
@@onehope6448 no your just an anti-American conspiracy theorist. We were fighting to help the better Russian ideology win so they could stay in power. We didn’t want to rule Russia there’s no way we could have kept control of that. That’s insane. And we didn’t conquer the south we beat it in a war they started. It’s part of one country not a foreign land we conquered. I’ve studied history most of my life and believe me we did do lots of wrong expansion. After the Spanish American war we took the Philippines which was wrong and we expanded west and broke treaties with the native Americans. I know we did wrong and expanded when we shouldn’t have but the civil war and the Russian revolution just wasn’t one of them
@@tsdocholiday8965 "We were fighting to help the better Russian ideology" Which was?
You should make more videos like this
"So, do want to invade Russia?"
"Yes".
"Are you from Mongolia?"
"No".
"Just get out of my sight! And don't tell anyone about our meeting, I don't want my friends making fun about it..."
Despite it is funny, it isn't that hard to conquer Russia. All you have to solve is cold winter and large distance logistics. Mongolian hordes solved both.
@B Whit Ottoman past the prime period. Napolean who beat Russians at literally every single occasion and then throw his victory because of cockiness and underestimating the winter and Nazis who were fighting half of the world simultaniously. Meanwhile Russia loosing to Japanees in 1904-1905.
@@jakubcidlik "and underestimating the winter and Nazis who were fighting half of the world simultaniously"
Napoleon left Moscow in October.
The Americans and the Brits only fought a shadow of the Wehrmacht.
@@simplicius11 If soldiers would matter so much Britain would be conquered, but guess what? They dont.
@B Whit Your answer make no sense. I hope you are not so stupid you would think I am american. lol
It's always a good video whenever Kolchak shows up.
Oh yah all people have the right to chose any form of government they want as long as
They aren't communist
They don't have oil
And they don't threaten USA interest
Red and white flag for the Czechs - before the added the blue triangle to differentiate their flag from the Polish one. Really good attention to detail! Love it.
can you do a video on the Duke of Marlborough?
You learn something every day with Kings and Generals 👍
Next time 1920 war Poland - Russia
It'd be great because it's so strange when polish people complain about soviet agression in 1939, but they can say nothing when Polish-Russian war 1920 being mentioned
@@ezekielprophet6016 1 word Pilsudski.
@@ezekielprophet6016 Or the Polish-Lithuanian War.
Great video like usual
Yet again something totally avoided in American Public Schools, thank you Kings and Generals as always!
Did you ever read your history textbook? Even in my hick state, the history textbook talked about it.
@@greatwolf5372 Sure did, the Russian Civil War was a footnote, and I was in New York State. Evidently all of that government aid which comes out of my taxes and goes to Red States actually does do some good!
@@AgrippaMaxentius
“Red States”? Really?
I’m from a small North American town, one that idolized Reagan, and one thing as a history buff that I’ve always tried to help people understand is that the United States and Russia have directly fought in conflict. I remember a speech we had to listen to in school and he had said no Russian and American boys have ever fought and I just remember saying out loud that wasn’t true. Certainly an overlooked topic in our history lessons in school, and also I firmly believe the conflict going after the armistice helped further the spread of the influenza outbreak. Thank you for your work, time, and dedication to “Ourstory” the history we all are apart of but forgot.
They fought in Korea as well.
The Bolsheviks had defeated all enemies.Both Internal and External were crushed.
Great documentary! Thanks Kings and Generals Team.
USA: Sends expeditionary forces to Russia, makes sure to properly equip and train them for cold weather.
I mean, who would be stupid enough to go to war in Russia without being ready for a cold front?
Ohhh... I don't know...let me think....Aha! A large "H" comes to mind. :)
@@AeneasGemini Ok " Winter Fritz".
Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany.....
@@SunTzu119 Correct! I was going for the most recent failure.
But they repelled all soviet forces, they were more worried of the Japanese😂😂
Thank you , K&G .
Someone in 1918: America, Russia has oil
America:
I haven't watched so not sure if covered but Kamchatka had/s oilfields and America wanted to do a deal with Soviet Russia during Lenin's rule to take over Kamchatka in order to put a check on Japan's power seeing as they had plans on expansionism in the region [and possibly Siberia]. It's pretty niche but interesting, Lenin disagreed but still ended up letting the Americans rent the oilfields there.
Damn neocons.
@@shangtsung1362 What?
At the time and until post WWII, the US was the largest and principal producer of oil in the world. The US so dominated the commodity that the embargo imposed upon Japan, by FDR in 1941, convinced the Japanese to attempt the Pearl Harbor attack, since without US oil, its economy would simply collapse.
The Saudi fields and Iraq, Iran and Kuwait did not begin to come on line until the 40s and 50s; nor had the other modern, major oil sources such as Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, Nigeria etc...
Everything in world history has not been inspired by a desire for oil.
Also, the major oil fields in Russia at the time, were between the Black and Caspian Seas, not in Siberia. These were the fields that supplied the USSR in WWII and what Hitler attempted to seize in the Stalingrad campaign in 42.
@@thomassenbart Its a joke, if you cannot take it gtfo
Wonderful work, thank you for clarifying this time period.
When you meddle with others civil war and got attacked by both sides
Been waiting for a good video on this
Thanks for shedding a light on these events, obviously hardly known about in western countries. Having grown up in communist East Germany you bet we were thaught this piece of history ;) They even taught us a song about that, which is called "Partisans of the Amur River" and a hell of a tune btw. One point of criticism though. That these event have shaped the identity of three American regiments is certainly nice to know. I think it would have been more important to underline, how these events shaped the view of the Soviets of the West, which has implications to this day. Cheers.
Between this channel and the cold war channel you guys do amazing work.
Salute!!!!
The reason I don't appreciate Kings and Generals anymore is because of their one sided propagandist terminology. I myself hate both Communism and Western Imperialism but K and G sugar-coats American- British invasion as "liberation" and the Soviets as "occupation" in their own country. I noticed it in the Early Muslim "Conquest" videos when the defeated Byzantine sources were considered and the Arab sources were belittled as "unlikely".
K and G as historical channel should stay neutral like "HistoryMarche" channel who takes every source into consideration.
Thank you! As a European I didn’t know much about the time between the wars in the pacific. Great work!
I learned so much new things today. Amazing topic.
My most sincere appreciation for Kings and Generals' great work!
It seems Reds fought the whole World and still won.
And then some Polish guy brought them to their knees and their entire empire crumbled.
@@111mmgg if you are talking about war against Poland, that is because they were fighting like 25 other countries at the same time.
Carl Anderson That’s because Stalin and Trotsky pushed to basically invade back everyone on their borders at like the same time. Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Finland (the white guard there managed to win out in a particularly confusing civil war inside a civil war).
@UCj5lZ5R1QwHwm03yribAa_w "The Bolsheviks were a united" they were left-wing armies that also had conflicted interest and later fought against the Bolsheviks. Bolsheviks were just better at talking and recruiting common people, them having initial control over Western Russia helped too.
@@keemstarkreamstar7069 Yep, at first Bolsheviks gave up terries in Brest-Litovsk later, they invaded the said territories, they just wanted some challenge i guess.
I feel like WWI isn't something you guys do a lot so this is awesome!
Why I didn't know that US invaded Russia and why I am surprised...
It was not an invasion. Russia did not exist politically. It was in Civil war. The Allied move was an intervention. No one was trying to conquer Russia therefore, no invasion.
@@thomassenbart A civil war does not mean a country is dissolved, it is still a country. It was the Russian Empire.
It is as if you are saying “US did not exist politically while the south and the north fought”.
@@aliancemd He was right... Trust me, I'm Russian. In that time Russia has about 8-10 'governments' simultaneously. At that time city of Vladivostok, mentioned in the video was the capital of the anti-Bolshevik's so-called "Far-East Republic".
@@aliancemd it still wasn't an invasion though, your terms are wrong
Finally! This topic has been ignored not forgotten for years. It's a fantastic example of pre- WWII politics
West "liberating" others....
Yeah, I’d call liberating towns from bolsheviks freeing them tbh
@@viracocha6093 I'm sure you would ....
Let me guess “real communism hasn’t been tried yet”
@@deleteduser7132 It has nothing to do with ideology. I don't like comunists either. But ...
1. Bolsheviks aren't Trockists (which you have in the west). "Ain't a commie like a commie"... but that would be a long dive into history etc.
2. Look at Lybia. I'm sure they are "very happy" you (West) have "liberated them from that "evil Khadafi"...
Lybia was one of (if not 1st) the most developed countrie in Africa. Now they're failed state.
I'm not sure lives of ordinary people improved.
@@Quilgen You can thank our grand supreme leader Obama for that. Apparently we are not allowed to criticize him for ruining Libya or that makes us racists.
Trippy. I was just reading about the Polar Bear Expedition yesterday. K&G is listening to our thoughts!
Solid, objective video. Key fact in Bolshevik win--the support of the worker/peasant masses. In the modern era, no amount of money or military superiority get invaders or their puppets anywhere if they have no popular base. Vietnam showed that.
the Bolsheviks definitely used Military superiority to hold down the worker/peasants once they got power.
You’re leaping ahead to the Stalinists, who created a different state by exterminating the surviving Bolsheviks.
@@nikhtose Stalinists were the children of the Leninists. Both sides of the same coin
@@theoyancey The ocean of Bolshevik blood spilled by Stalin says otherwise
@@nikhtose you means under a communist regime millions of communists die? Color me surprised lol the Bolsheviks were just a bunch of commies with no real plans on how they will govern. Leninists and Stalinists are what happens will Bolsheviks pick choose a plan.
2:44 I love how you outright call him a hypocrite.
self-determination unless we don't like you, good to see americans were hypocrites long before the cold war
The hypocrisy started with the 3/5th Clause.
@Hunter Smiththat's like saying after winning the u.s civil war the first thing the north did was steal southern property. Just all types of wrong & false equivocations. Stop defending u.s imperialism
@@HxH2011DRA I don’t believe he’s doing that at all. In fact, you seem to be excusing Soviet suppression. The majority of the Entente’s objectives weren’t territorial expansion, but a desire to keep Communists out of power. Based on the result of their rule from the 1920s to 1991, can you really blame them for wanting them out? 22 million dead under Stalin alone with events like the Holodomor. That’s not saying the Whites were innocent, they were famously anti-Semitic and massacred many as scapegoats for their losses.
The White Russians never got Self-determination.
@@colinokeeffe7625 Well, if that so, why then the general populace felt threatened by foreign troops and instead joined the Reds?
Wow great video! Btw I didn't know that America invaded Russia what a shocker!
You have the best documentaries on UA-cam
Thank you
Will you do the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913
I read about this before but this is the first time that I've seen this on film. Thank you very much for this upload.
please more about the russian civil war!
Glad to see this brought up . A very little discussed topic in American history . There are archived pictures of American troops in Vladivostok.