My long overdue response to all the comments about the film's use of the phrase "Nazi soldiers." It was a mistake, and I regret it. When we recorded the narration for the other languages (available on the Vimeo account), I corrected it so that it states "German soldiers." I need to go into the recording studio and make the correction to the english version too (along with a handful of other corrections), but I have regrettably not yet done so. While it was certainly an error, I do not think it fits the comparisons many are making, i.e. that it is like calling American soldiers "Republican soldiers." I want to point out that in the case of Nazi Germany, it is correct to say Nazi invasions, led my Nazi commanders, which became Nazi occupations as part of a Nazi war effort. Calling soldiers of a Nazi war effort Nazi soldiers was a mistake, for sure, but a more complicated mistake than such analogies. As a personal note, I will say that I have close family members in Germany, and I feel that the transformation of the country after the war is a beautiful and inspiring story that we often take for granted. The word Nazi is often used to show separation between the German people today and a political movement of their past. In this case I screwed up and got it backwards.
The fact remains that the Nazi Party was responsible for every German invasion, atrocity, and aggression of Germany before and during World War II. Your only mistake was calling the soldiers themselves "Nazis". But they still answered to the Nazi government, and in fact every one of them swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler, the Nazi leader, even if some of them were actually not registered members of the Nazi Party.
1 days have 86400 seconds. 983.8 days of total silence for those who have died or 2 years, 9 months and 18 days without ever saying any words to anybody. 😞🏳️
I'm Russian. My great grandfather died in Stalingrad. In Russia there is nearly no family that hasn't been at some point associated with the war. There are entire villages with memorial plates with more names on them than the whole current population of that village.
4:44 is so haunting, when there is just that ominous tone of music and then the Soviet flag slowly comes into view...and anyone who knows anything about history knows the horrifying stats that are about to be shown to you. The Eastern Front of WW2 was the closest thing you will ever see to Hell on Earth, and it's embarrassing how little it's talked about here in the West. "War in the West was proper sport, while War in the East was unmitigated horror" ~German survivor
Idk where you went to school, but I learned about the eastern front. Spent a whole week on it in high school and a month in college. Plus think of it this way. French people know tons about their own revolution, but little about the American one. And vice versa. Americans know tons about our revolution, but little about the French one.
@@uncannyvalley3190 Most of the world thinks that the Soviets just had an ineffective army which they used to just throw at the Nazis, which rarely happened. And also, people think that America brought both Germany and Japan to their feet, and no one even talks about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The Americans and the British were mostly responsible for the defeat of Japan and Italy. The Soviets were mostly responsible for the destruction of Nazi Germany. And the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the Japanese version of D-Day. I am Indian, and it was only when I turned 14 where I realized who did what to win this war, and before that I always felt the Americans were responsible.
Both sides fought viciously in the eastern front, both nazi and Soviet propaganda were effective, the reason why the eastern front was so bloody is because of the viciousness, if it had fought like they did in the west, much less people would have died
Approaching this place, [Stalingrad], soldiers used to say: "We are entering hell." And after spending one or two days here, they say: "No, this isn't hell, this is ten times worse than hell." - Vasily Chuikov
just sayn 70 million died in 6 years that means about 11,5 million a year 1 million in month 250k in a week 35k a day 1,5k in a hour 25 in a minute only in war
Isn‘t it interesting how these 35k a day is still present? If you look it up you will see that we die at the same rate today as we did during ww2 but relative to the worlds population it has of course significantly decreased. Edit: it‘s actually 150k per day. But around 40k die of unnatural causes per day so we still have an interesting fact right here
Except not really. The numbers are terrible, don't get me wrong, but disease kills far more. Over 300 million deaths were attributed to Smallpox alone in the 20th century, and the Spanish Flu is estimated to have killed almost as many as all the men that died during WW1 over the same period.
Ryan Munga Every single one of them was like you and me. Not anything else but humans. Even the darkest persons in this war could have been to live the most normal lives one could imagine. It all came from terrible mistakes and mental sickness, sadly forming an unexplainable product of destruction and death. What i want to say is, that people are people, and even if they happened to plan and do the most evil things imaginable, they could have also had luckier influences throughout their whole lives, which could have then lead to them questioning and hating such bad ideologies and dogmas.
@@womble3383 And I think in every army are trained. Maybe the Soviet high command, not Stalin. And the war was not only the soldiers but also volunteers, who coached only 2 weeks or a little more.
My my great-grandfather survived. He fought from the beginning of the war from 1941 to 1942, in 1942 he was seriously wounded and went home from the hospital
The east was were Hitler's back was broken. By D-Day the German army was beat, and some say that's the only reason we landed in France in 44. Now take that information and imagine if Hitler would've have the 200 divisions he stormed Russia with on the Atlantic wall. I think Germany only had 5 divisions facing the D-Day beaches. Imagine if there wouldn't been 40 fucking divisions waiting. Hitler should should have went to Stalin and made a real pact.
@Ornate Orator They don't. But the point is here: WW2 in Europe was mainly about Soviets vs Germans. All the rest beeing side theaters. I don' t mean that these side theaters didn't matter somehow. I just say that without the soviets, the allies would have never beaten Germany. This is a story Hollywood is never going to tell you about... Same thing in the Pacific Theater: WW2 was mainly a war between Nationalist China and Japan, while the rest were side theaters, although the aeronaval fighting between USA and Japan was very determining for the outcome of the war. But if it hadn't been for the millions of Chang kai Tchek's soldiers dying in mass against the japanese armies and holding the big bunch of their armies, I hardly see who the allies could have defeaten the vast number of these same men in the Pacific islands. History is written by the winners. USA and the west won the une hundred year war tthat was the XXth century (1914-1989). Therefore Hollywood just tells you the story on the viewside of the winners. Which is a pretty deformed standpoint of view once you go and check out the facts in the history books.
@Ornate Orator If we're strictly speaking about the point you made, "it’s normal for a country to focus only on their impacts on certain events", then let me tell you that you are wrong. You're just justifying the attitude the medias are promoting in your own country and not aknowledging that this is not what's happening outside your borders. If you watch the documentaries on WWII made in european countries or in Russia, you'll see that they don't have a necessary self centered vision. They depict the war the way it went phase by phase, and no one denies the main theater of the entire war was the eastern front, the place where the fate of the conflict was decided. And no one overthere says that the western front didn't played any significant role in the outcome of the war, not even the russians (who actually were expecting the opening of this front ASAP in order to relieve the eastern front of several german divisions, which of course didn't really happen after all...) You may have some debates depending the countries on some specific issues such as, for instance: was the Germano-Soviet pact of 1939 a cynical scheme between Hitler and Staline do divide eastern Europe between them, or a mean for Staline to earn some time before an inevitable conflict to come? But you'll never hear nonsense narratives such as "the allies, gathered and united all together where to defeat Germany". Everyone agrees that Germany was already defeated by the end of 1942 (Churchill even knew they were defeated by january 1942, when they failed to take Moscow, reason why he took a plane and went visit Staline this same month in Moscow...). The only medias where the world ears of a narrative where the world was beeing defeated by the "nazis" (you never use the word germans, but always the word "nazis" where in Europe and Russia, everyone says Germans), untill the USA entered the war is someting that is beeing spread out by the Hollywood entertainment business. And unlike what you are saying, this isn't a narritive specifically targeted to the american people, but to the entire world, since Hollywood dominates each single cinema markets out there in the world. So basically what's happening is that the people who don't read books, or don't watch documentaries (mainly the young ones), are completely ignorant about WW2, and just believes that everything the Hollywood shows them as beeing the truth. And this is affecting every single average Joe that lives around this planet and who nows share's the USA's vision on what was this war. This isn't simple as saying that every country should only care about it's own business, and write down it's own version of his history no matter what the facts are, as long as it suits them. China for instance does this, since their regime has complete control on their medias and can tell all the BS to the population about the commies defeating the japanese, while it's the nationalists who fled to Taiwan in 49 who actually did all the job. But the main difference between the chinese propaganda and the Hollywood propaganda is that one is targeted to it's own people, whereas the other one is aiming nearly the entire humanity. One is using coercition and complete information control to promote it, while the other one is using entertainment medias and sensationalism imagery to make it look more believable. In the end the objective remains the same: build a narrative on which a suitable vision can be given to the people in order to pursue specific strategic goals. If you just examine this war just on the datas you have on the papers, the facts are here: -80% of the Japanese forces were located in China, Korea and Japan during the 1937-1945 period. -Germany was defeated by USSR (with the auxilliary help of allies forces). If you still doubt about this, just ask the Germans and they'll tell you who crushed them and who was their true Nemesis. Once again I'm not saying that the allies were cowards, or that what they did was irrelevant. I'm just saying that we weren't the central pivot of this war, despite taking part in it. Trying to tell something else is, in my point of view, an historical falsification.
@@MoreAwsomeMetal Chinese played a huge part in the Pacific war, absolutely no question. But they never would have defeated the Japanese empire itself. They best they could have hoped for would be be to reduce the Chinese territory Japan occupied. They didn't have the air power or naval capability of taking the fight to the Japanese. Had the US not destroyed their empire across the Pacific and south east Asia, they would taken a large chunk of Manchuria and kept it.
Watching the Soviet soldier death count is already terrifying, but when you remember that one person here was one thousand people, and you think about how every single person in that one thousand person group had their own unique life and story, you realize how lucky you are to be living in this era
Correction, YOU are lucky to be living where you are right now in this era. There are billions of people right now living in war zones, genocides, oppressive regimes, being separated from their families, trapped in authoritarian governments with no way to escape. Some are starving, some are being forced to spend their lives working in factories, some are just being killed. We need to realize we are very lucky we were born on the “right” side of the earth
unique life and story and family story/history... think of the spider web of lives touched. Most probably had family/friends, kids (never had the chance to have kids). The fact of genocide means blood lines were forever ended. The world never to be the same... crazy
“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” Whoever said it, it's a very astute observation. It means that the death of a stranger is not as meaningful to another person as the death of a loved one. And since it's simply impossible to know a million individual people, their deaths must experienced more abstractly, like a statistic rather than a tragedy that can be truly, personally felt.
@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis It isn't mind boggling at all. Stalin had serious flaws and made huge mistakes before and during the Soviet Union's conflict with Nazi Germany and its allies. However, it is also simply a fact of history that he led his nation during the entire time it struggled against that formidable, annihilating force, and that struggle for ultimate survival ended in decisive victory. It's therefore entirely understandable that Russians and other formerly Soviet peoples will always have conflicted attitudes toward Stalin's legacy.
@@botongyu8326 It's easy. Just imagine that you are sitting at home, do not touch anyone, and suddenly the fascists start walking through your city with weapons and killing everyone in their path. EVERYONE! City after city, village after village. Children, women, old people, everyone. Then you will understand why Russians hate fascists and racists and will be grateful to them for the fact that you do not know what it is and can not even imagine.
@@thomasjess5029 usually in history, American as well, there are many people that we learn about, and saying about all of these people died in this war that we talk about it a lot and then we just forget about all of it.
I had a great great uncle who served in Patton's Third Army as a tanker in the 6th Armored Battalion as I recall he came across the concentration camp of Buchenwald my grandfather once asked my great great uncle what he saw and my grandpa said he got this thousand yard stare and he would start crying and looked at him and said. "I saw things that no man who believes in God should have done to another human being."
There is one important aspect to the liberation of Buchenwald. When American troops approached the camp, there was already a red flag there. No. Not the Soviet army. The prisoners (Russians, Poles, Jews, Germans from the communists) rebelled and took over the camp, receiving information that the SS had received orders to destroy the camp and kill living witnesses. The people had nothing to lose and they went on the assault without weapons, dividing into groups. They broke through the barriers between the prison barracks and the guard barracks, seized weapons and after 2 hours the camp was liberated, and the camp guards were partially arrested, partially killed and partially fled.
4:52 - 6:48. That’s how long it was counting the deaths of Soviet soldiers. If we had a second of silence for every soldier fallen, we’d be silent for around 100 days. Staggering.
@@WhiteWolf-ow2mc Please don't listen to this trol. As a dutch person i am extremely thankful for the contribution the russian people have given to the world in eliminating fascism. Your soldiers were absolute heroes.
Max Orlemann as a Turkmen who’s great Grandpa died fighting Stalingrad, you don’t know anything. Have you ever been on a war front. It is truly horrifying and confusing. You don’t know what to do. Do you sit there with your comrades? Do you ask them if they want to start an attack. Do you just let the general decide. What if you don’t agree with what the general said? You are the true pussy.
@@BullRadu A coward speaks upon those who died fighting and living a life the coward could not even imagine from the comfort of his home. The soviets will be remembered until the last human takes their last breath, and you on the other hand, are a nobody.
it's hard to believe that just a single one of those figures were 1000 people, people who had families, lives, dreams, hopes, and loves. And they all had their own stories to tell. Stories that can no longer be shared.
I am from Russia and every year we celebrate Victory Day with tears in our eyes... Many people ask us: “Why do you still remember this war? It’s time to forget the past and move on.” But we cannot forget! This terrible war is in our blood, in every Russian family there is a memory of the people who died or suffered from this war. Sorry for my English
... and since February of last year the government of your country brings war and death over another country. Many Russians don't forget the second World War and what loses it brought with it to their country. But certainly the leaders of your country have not learned from WWII - at all.
Russia is the largest country in the world by territory. Why? all the time since its inception, it has waged wars of conquest, conquered, assimilated, and destroyed nations. if many nations have outgrown this, empires have collapsed, then the Russian empire still wants blood, wants expansion. Burn in hell Russian orcs. putin huilo, ruzzkie pidorasi.
@@qua3rotypical guy who has no friends. You came from a generation of cowards don't talk big when you didn't do crap. Or you can just admit you're a cringe bullied 10 year old boy who likes fascism. Cope harder seething and malding BANDERA KHOKHOL BOT.
@@qua3rogo burn in hell with stepan bandera KHOKHOL it's a good thing are government stop sending you weapons and realized Ukraine will eventually lose and doesn't want to get involved with a sinking economy
I know its crazy looking at it in numbers, but imagine if each name was listed. Each of their stories listed, each of their dreams, each of their hopes, each of their families, each of their thoughts. Hell, each with their favorite food. They're all just souls like us but who were taken away by the war
I always think about this. The human mind would never be able to comprehend this. Our minds are so feble and weak when it comes to comprehension of scale. When numbers like 70 million get thrown at you it's hard to mentally differentiate 70 million from 70,000 or even a few thousand. The sheer scope of the death is just unfathomable to human minds. It's like the scale of space. It's impossible to truely appreciate. We can only use numbers and a vague imagination of it.
It made me realise how time is valuable, and how we're lucky to keep this "new peace" for so long. I hope it continues for way more seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades and centuries. Forever, I hope.
My history teacher showed this in class today. It made some people cry. And now I am here to watch it again. Rest in peace to all the dead of WW2. I pray such an awful war never happens again.
Unfortunately, a serious study of history (real study, and not acquaintance with textbooks, "independent" media, religious sermons and other sources of information that are under the sensitive and careful control of politicians and corporations associated with them) indicates that the social processes of the emergence of wars have not undergone significant changes over the past couple of centuries. More ominous is that the civilized world has constantly adhered to these processes, considering them the pinnacle of the development of civilization, always striving for them. For example: m.ua-cam.com/video/oyJTv_qLqsI/v-deo.html Our common desire for peace deserves respect, but we should not hope that it will be taken into account. P.S. Oh yes, and I will boldly call this video anti-scientific and propaganda, and don’t worry, there are quite enough arguments for this.
Speaking of the tragedy of Leningrad, see the story of the people at The Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, the first seed bank, who chose to starve than lose the invaluable specimens
They deserve to be remembered just as much as every soldier on the ground and innocent bystanders. Those are people believed in and knew the importance of what they were doing
@@Lastiqewow, this video is old so when I didn’t expect to see recent comments but I see yours here.; For the past couple years, I’ve been reading about what the Soviet people went through in Leningrad (as well as the events of Stalingrad) and the amount of horrific terror on the Eastern Front (in American schools we are taught “Hitler is the bad guy, he was doing bad things, so eventually America came on Dday and saved the world from Nazis” they barley mention the eastern front. Anyway, with all the books and documentaries I’ve read/watched about Russia’s history from the revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, world war 2 stands out, and to me it’s Stalingrad and Leningrad, but I have never heard the name Daniil kkutinen so I googled it. There’s a couple links about him so I’m going to save them and start reading to learn more, thank you for the info
Я живу в санкт-петербурге, и читал о том что некоторые люди ели других людей, обманом заманивая в дом. Еще готовили суп из ремня от штанов, ели птиц, кошек. Это не поддается осмыслению, когда слышишь, что от голода погибло 1.5 миллиона человек. Многие не могли даже ходить от истощения, а на бомбы уже никто не обращал внимание
The most chilling part of the whole video. It really isn't appreciated in the west the sacrifice the Soviets made to defeat fascism. The war was won on the eastern front.
@@josephpostma1787 Of course: all world wars and all invasions into foreign countries, genocide and enslavement of their population - were not committed by communism at all - but by capitalism.
Imagine the amount of chicks you'd get tho. Just kidding, had to bring some light to a dark situation. It truly is horrendous, and still affects russia's population to this day.
In this terrible war, my great-grandfather reached Berlin, but lost one arm. After that, he lived in Omsk and never spoke about that war. I'm even afraid to imagine how people's psyche didn't break after those events. Eternal memory to all the heroes of the Second World War!
You just try to get up and take each day one at a time. You stay on task and try to find something that makes you even briefly happy. And try to keep it out of your mind.
@@concept5631 Lugansk People Republic. I have a bit of a personal connection to it. It's one of the regions in Ukraine that Kiev has been subjecting to genocide by artillery because it's Russian (identifying, speaking, ethnic) for the past 9 years.
@@concept5631 There's a few YT'ers you should watch 1. Patrick Lancaster - American independent war reporter, has been covering Donbass for years, has thousands of interviews with people living there 2. Willie OAM - Australian military veteran who covers news and does interviews with people on both side of the conflict. A recurring confession from Ukrainian supporters and auxilarie is the Donbas people are pro Russian and the Kiev forces are cruel.
Fortunatley there are channels that record stories from veterans, so that we may watch them even after their deaths. These people are literally doing amazing work, interviewing both sides
Personally, I find it more weird that this catastrophe happened within living memory. We’ve come so far since then, but in the grand scale of time its nothing but a tiny blip. We’re closer now in time to the end of WW2 than the end of WW2 was to the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic.
“Peace is a difficult thing to measure. It’s a bit like counting the people who didn’t die, in the wars that didn’t happen.” Man I don’t know what it is about that quote, but it’s goosebump inducing.
My great grandfathers were German and Polish, they both fought on the same battlefield at the same time against each other during the invasion of Poland. Their descendants would later leave their respective countries because of the war, and despite their cultural heritage, they would fall in love and start a family together in Australia. Despite what happened, despite all the pain and death, humanity always finds room for love.
@@Ant_111 The reason why he didn't see any Japanese men in that age range during the time of the Korean War is because they were all killed in World War II.
6:08-6:48 Is the part I think that sticks to everyone’s mind. It’s quiet and cold seeing the numbers rise uninterrupted for 40 seconds. The rattling sound of each figure appearing almost mimicking the sound of machine guns silencing the hopes and dreams of countless lives…heartbreaking stuff. It feels like something you’d see in fiction only to be disappointed by the reality.
The truly tragic thing about the Soviet losses are the long term demographic consequences due to not just the deaths but potential births that never happened. It is estimated that Russia alone has around 85 million “missing people” because of the catastrophic losses in the war. Millions of people that will never exist because of events that happened decades ago. and with Russia’s fertility rate very low (1.5), Russias population is aging and declining, Russia will never replace that potential population again…
@@Zapper-kq1zg He mean if Soviet Union didn't have this catastrophic losses in ww2 ( ~27 million ) , 85 million would be added to its population ( include of those people that died in war and their babies )
It's very disgusting that people completely ignore the message of this video and are trying to prove that their country suffered and did the most in WW2.
There would not be the need to do so if Hollywood had not already state such thing about one country in particular. What you see in the comment section is the inheritage of Cold War and how a sizeably disbalanced vision of history prevailed because of it. As a Frenchman, I would never pretend France played a major role in defeating Germany. It would be just utter bullshit. And the fact I'm sympathetic to Poland and to Stalin's victims doesn't change what I honestly think of the true role of each country in the war. Truth is in historical facts, period.
Thanks Alejandro you are right, there is a need for these numbers to be discussed, because 80% of Americans are daft enough to think they're the heroes of WW2. We contributed only where we knew we wouldn't lose, while Russia was cornered and beaten until nothing but sheer badassery took over.
In Latvia last year, the authorities demolished all the monuments to Soviet soldiers that had stood in every city since Soviet times. The same thing is happening in Poland. In the USA, several years ago they issued a commemorative coin to mark the end of the war. There are only three flags on it: American, British, and French. In Poland, even Germany, which built these concentration camps, was invited to the annual event on the occasion of the liberation of Auswezen prisoners and did not invite Russia, which liberated them. This is how history is rewritten. Monuments are destroyed, and the new generation is given different information.
@@broski4039 They tried to get the UK and France to fight against Germany and stop the invasion. Once they saw they wouldn't do it, they decided to invade Poland and create a buffer zone. Nothing wrong in that. Don't try to rewrite history, russophobe. I'm sure you would be gladly speaking German today if it were up to you, fascist f**k
@@broski4039 To say that the USSR conquered Eastern Europe, you need to find out the opinion of people who lived at that time, and not look at the words of modern politicians who create the image of an enemy.
@@Mentol_ I hate the fact that people just ignore how well did Eastern Europe redevelop and give everything a man needed for everyone in just short 4 years, after the war. Not only did East have most genocide, most warcrimes and most deaths, it had less finances, less industry and less innovation, yet they still endured everything. Do not ignore the fact that west always had better economico-geographic placement and had business all around the world, they always had more resources, and had them cheaper.
@@Mentol_ Yep, and the people said the Soviets were just as ruthless as the Germans. They were a terrifying mob descending like a wave towards Berlin that destroyed, robbed, and molested everything in their wake.
6:19 Stroke of genius, switching the marching steps into howling winter winds, while the column just keeps rising... and rising... This gave me chills.
My grandfather fought In Stalingrad to Berlin, died in 2007 of naturelly cause and he always said : "war? war is the stupid thing the man can do, war seems the answer to a problem but just make many more."
war is part of nature. thats like saying a lion preying on a deer is pointless. we have evolved this form of struggle into what we identify as war. it is just as necessary to have wars that can help propel and evolve humanity. it has existed for as long as humans have. Too long of a period of peace time and its like not being exposed to diseases for a long time... may sound good at first but ask how the native Americans feel about that.
this was the cleanest, most well organized and put together video and animation I have ever seen. the amount of time and effort put into this video is felt and the commentary is genuine.
I wouldn’t say that the Ukraine invasion ends the long peace. By your definition you could say that Korea, or Vietnam, or the gulf war, or the war on terror was the end of the long peace.
@@sergeantswiss2401those where invasions from a large economy against a small economy. The Russia-Ukraine war is largely a evenly matched war with both sides fielding actual militaries, rather than insurgents doing guerrilla warfare
D-day Always seems so large but compare it with some battles of the Eastern front it looks like nothing. 2500 us casulties is just a normal day for the russians.
the Germans lost on average that number each day in the war. D-Day was quite important strategically as it opened a 3rd front forcing the already outnumbered Germans to split their forces even more. But it is still dwarfed by battles on the east like Stalingrad, Leningrad and kursk.
1. Normandy was huge and everyone who died for their homeland should be honoured 2. Amount of Casualties is not proud thing stop saying like more casualties more credits
How much genius was lost in this conflict? How much joy was forgone? How much grief created? The cause of a war is sometimes just, but the means is always terrible.
So its not even the same amount of people who died though! Its a shame it isnt more makes me sad to think so many died and no one remmber them ever again.
Rest in the Peace All Soldiers And Civilians And Partizans ! War Never Changes ! Or Maybe Changes ! Changed ! Secondly Times ! Europe And All World ! +1 No Longer For Darkness ! For Lights Open To Freedom ! Forever ! +1
@Flare I agree with you, but not sure what we can do as a country. I actively try to avoid buying anything made in China. I encourage more people to do the same.
I live in nigeria I can confidently and sadly tell you that 70% have never heard about ww2 or even know who Hitler is, it's saddening at times cuz history isn't even taught here. RIP to the men who lost their lives.
This is the best synopsis I have ever seen. Brilliant use of graphics Neil, a masterpiece of sadness, but nevertheless a masterpiece!! Thank you for this!!!
I had a Russian friend who remembered an old man came in to the room, and told a story he had from WW2, he was in a Russian tank until he was captured by the Germans, he was thrown into a pit with other bodies, thinking he was dead, but survived off of eating worms he found in the ground, truly scary
@@Disorder2312 Shut your mouth! This joke isn't even 1 percent funny! You will never be able to understand what the Soviet people endured during the Great Patriotic War...
@@cfoster6567 Yes, the first half of the 20th was particularly vicious for us, 2 world wars, 3 dictators, a pandemic, the 1929 crash, the depression, the prohibition, sickness, hunger... NOT good.
@@bartecki6 what are you talking about, child? Do you even understand what the Molotov-Ribentrop pact is? if not for Stalin you would have been in a concentration camp with your family now. Stalin initially foresaw a war against Germany, he understood that the ideology of Nazism is the absolute opposite of the ideology of communism and a war between them is inevitable. For this, he signed an agreement with Hitler to gain time and prepare for war, at least 2 years. For 2 years (from 1939 to 1941), 2 factories were built in the USSR every day. In total, about 4,500 factories were built. Thus, Stalin in 2 years did what the Russian emperors could not do for a whole century (he industrialized the country). And most importantly, he prepared the country for war. It was these factories that helped win the war and provided our army with everything it needed. When Hitler realized that the USSR was becoming the most powerful industrial center of Europe and the greatest threat, he realized that he could not hesitate any longer and needed to attack right now as quickly as possible and with all his might. Otherwise, the USSR will swing at such a rate to the level of a superpower and easily win the war. After all, already in 1947, a Soviet engineer created the greatest weapon AK-47(don't forget about it ). Do you think Hitler would have had a chance then? Yes, no. And he understood this perfectly. Stalin outplayed Hitler as a small child. And all his actions are a cold-blooded calculation.
@@bartecki6 big number because of advanced german army. Every country was looking forward to sign pacts with germany because it became powerfull..and meny countries did. So stop pulling out this bullshit.
@@sloniychelovek2367 What are you talking about, old commie? If not for Stalin, Germany wouldn't have army; If not for Stalin, Germany wouldn't risk getting closer to Russia and start a war; If not for Stalin, millions of people would stay alive. Instead they died in Gulags, were shot in the back of their head or were tortured by kgb.; If not for Stalin, Ukraine wouldn't have to suffer from hunger. Children would have something to eat. Instead everything went to the army.; If not for Stalin, Russia would focus on something diffrent than making more and more tanks to fight into Europe.; If not for Communists Hitler wouldn't gain power, because Germans wouldn't be scared of red army.
@@VascoCC95 yeah. The Russian soldiers were sometimes sent without a firearm. They were just advised to pick up the weapon from the man who died in front of you
@@VascoCC95 wrong. The Russian military was better equipped than the Germans. This is American propaganda. The Russian and the Germans just had fiece battles. But both were armed well
without any of the three the nazi's would have won, d-day doesn't go off without the brittish deciphering the nazi communications, the soveits would'nt have enough guns or tanks for their blood to even gain an inch without the lend lease act, and the brittish and Americans didn't have the manpower nor the "will" to keep throwing men at the germans until they pushed, the problem for the nazi's is there wasn't really a way for them to not have those 3 factors, without breaking what their ideology was
@@blackfalcon1324 Treaty of Versailles & the effects of it in Germany itself proves that European were responsible for this war to break out than Adolf himself
And it also represents over a thousand suffering PTSD, losing limbs, going blind or deaf, organ damage from bullets and survivor's guilt for the rest of their lives :(
Now imagine for everyone of those soldiers there were even more woman children and old men that were, raped, shot, stabbed, starved set on fire, used as human Ginny pigs, crushed under bombed buildings, left orphans, homeless, and who lost everything. As bad as the soldiers have it, they're far from the only ones that suffer in war.
Thats why, the war is sucked! Imagine, who knows from that million who perished, it could've been future inventor, artist, or influential people who will help the world in better place. Sadly, they didnt have a chance to try.
wow your comment and the replies really put this into perspective. The deaths are a terrible thing, but that is really not even quarter of all the suffering that is in a war. All those who have lost relatives, friends. People who's lives are forever ruined by being injured, uneducated, traumatized, losing familiy, losing everything they have, raped and so on. Really makes you silent, and incredibly thankful for the long peace we have had here, but also makes you feel really sad about the war, and suffering that is going on everywhere else.
Lest we forget, in our lifetimes, we'll probably know around 1000 people. Another person will know 1000. That's one million people that can be reached just from one person's influence. One more person, and you're at a billion. These people could have effected others the world over, especially if they had the technology we have today.
the parts justifying the Nazi and condemning USSR are all lies. mostly lies of omission and facts doctoring. for example, it compares military casualties of USSR and Germany, while USSR fought with forces from Germany, France, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Poland and others. if you compare actual numbers, USSR would not look this bloody, which is no-no. the GuLag numbers are plain fake, moreover, fake first voiced by Nazi ministry of propaganda. the comments on Leningrad are not just fake, they're highly insulting. the author might suffer serious injury if tries repeating that these parts nowadays.
This video is such a beautiful creation. Not only on understand the terrible loss endured by World War 2, but also in greater teacing of optimism, and helping us truly comprehend the importance of optimism in the way we view life and conflict. This is art.
The scary part about that 8.7 million dead Soviets is that, there are still, to this day, dead soldiers being uncovered. From Western Russia to Eastern Germany, corpses still turn up occasionally in the Spring/Summer ice thawing period. It’s tragic. To die in a war fighting for your own freedom, to only be uncovered nearly 80 years later.
About 7.4 million Soviet soldiers were killed on the battlefield (7.5 along with the allies) versus 3.8 in the Axis armies. The number of 11-14 million for the USSR includes the soldiers who died in captivity, and not on the battlefield.
Crazy Mixture You are actually disgusting. Just because somebody serves their motherland does not make them a believer in the ideology. You’re telling me the children who were brutally genocided because they were Slavic is a good thing simply because the country they lived in was a communist country? Horrible
@Crazy Mixture That’s honestly fucking pathetic of you. They fought because they wanted to protect their home, namely from a man with a silly mustache. They lived under communism, hell maybe not all of them agreed with it. But one thing was certain, they were Russians, and they wanted to survive.
@@dddd-uk4vn Yes this is true. But the Germans murdered 27 million soviets that must be a person in almost every family. This war ruined their lives so obviously they weren’t gonna be nice when the tables turned. Not justifying their actions two wrongs don’t make a right. But what do you expect? Mess with the Russian bear you get the claws
There were other nations beside russians,it was soviet union-in soviet republic of Georgia with population of 2,5 milion 500 000 were sent to eastern front and 400 000 never returned
@@legopants8898 I know. The Caucuses, the the Soviet border into europe and a large part of it in Asia were all separate nations but Russian was the largest and the most important so when you refer to Russian in the time between the russian revolution, and the end of the cold war if you talk about russia you most likely mean the Soviet Union as a whole
@@scoposteve8470 from all total deaths in soviet union(more then 8million MILITARY casulties) Buryats5,76% Russians 5.5% Ukrainians 4.9% Bellorusians 4.7% Jews 4.62% Chuwash 4.35% Tatars 4.35% Moldovians 4.34% Mari 4.04% Kazakhs 3.83% Armenians 3.83% Udmurts 3.76% Bashkirs 3.53% Karelians 3.76% Georgians 3.51% Ossetians 3.02% Kyrgyz 3.0% Turkmen 2.89 And others( too many to write down)
It's the 4th time I watch this clip. I do it every 2 years or so, just to remind myself how lucky I am and how grateful I am for the sacrifice the previous generations have done for us. I also review this as a reminder not to take for granted what I have. Thank you so much, Neil!
my grandfather got the flu and stayed behind the day his platoon went out to patrol. They were all gunned down. He had severe PTSD and couldn't bare to look at a gun or nazi flag for the rest of his life.
My grandfather was sent to the Auswits camp and he survived 6 months there. Later when the camp was overrun, he was sent back to the army to fight on the German front. He passed away when i was really young but he use to tell me a lot of stories about how he and his friends use to survive there. He also meantioned a good German guard called ''Peter'' and how he would allways sneak in food for them because he fealt bad for them.
@@wyattgraff8306 He may just as well not be a Nazi. Not every German citizen were party members. And considering the general draft at the time, he might be a 15 years old kid.
Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Very nice but if you consider that most religious divisions are convinced that only they are the chosen ones who will share in bliss, all others be they deserving or not, bystanding or not...
Yes but the innocent people who died (mostly babies and children who are mostly very innocent) probably went to heaven not having to see all the terror going on in the world at their time.
All this only happened 80 years ago, everybody had family and friends that mattered the most to them. It's extremely easy to forget that it could've been us today, and we forget to be thankful for what we have now. I couldn't imagine the pain and suffering.
To make it worse, this is only counting some of the countries. Countries like Brazil, Australia, New Zealand etc weren't included. The total death toll is 79-86 million, not 70 million,
@@jackaroo8867 Brazil lost 2k ppl. The 86 mil would mainly come from India, Indonesia, Philippines (3 of them together almost making 10mil) and other directly occupied territories instead of the countries you mentioned. Not criticising, just letting ppl know.
It gets very warm in my heart when reading the comments below this video. As a Russian, I am very happy to see that foreigners do not turn a blind eye to such topics. It is good that these people are still on Earth. God Bless you, guys!
Russians are Germans best friends. It was these perfidious English that orchestrated this all. Beside, the English are agitating again due to Crimea. They are to stupid to understand that these areas are ethnic Russians. God bless the Russians
Each one of those people is a thousand stories, a thousand families with a missing member, a thousand lost personalities, a thousand who’s potential was lost and a thousand who’s lives were cut short from war.
Barnabas, the Soviets didn't go on any 'suicide attacks', in terms of military losses the Soviets lost 1.3 times the soldiers the Axis lost, most of the Soviet losses were civilians (16 out of 27 million) because Nazis exterminated them on purpose
Barnabás Orosz, the Germans and their allies (there were 0.7 million non-German soldiers killed, Finland and Romania sent 300 thousand men each) lost nearly nine million men in the Eastern front, killed and irreplaceable lost for other reasons, not two and a half. Soviet Union had captured 3 million German prisoners of war alone. And USSR lost eleven million, not eight, three of which were killed as prisoners of war, which overall amounts to a 1.6:1 military losses ratio, and a 1.3:1 irreplaceable losses ratio. The rest of the 27 million lost were civilians, as compared to Germans and their allies losing about 12.3 million with civilians in the Eastern front.
Barnabas, I tried my best to keep it short, the topic is extensive because there are many versions and calculations out there. Yet the one thing is for certain that Soviet losses are misrepresented, hence the stereotype that USSR was 'throwing bodies' at the Axis, coming from people mixing up civilian casualties into the result. The only thing I wanted to clarify and hopefully get rid of this misconception for good some day. Thanks for being a good sport
@notlenzo The irretrievable losses of the armed forces of the USSR and the Axis on the Eastern Front are 11,444,100 and 8,649,200 people, respectively. The ratio of irretrievable losses is approximately 1.3: 1 and less. The losses of the Soviet civilian population in the zone of occupation are 13,684,700. In the West, Soviet losses are often exaggerated for ideological purposes. Sorry for Google translator.
@notlenzo contrary to popular belief the soviets actually had actual tactics in ww2 and didnt just throw their men into the meat grinder that is the eastern front and only 8 million soviet soldiers died compared to 5 million axis is bc they were caught unprepared the 20 million *civilian* deaths were from nazi war crimes and collateral damage
I read a comment below which stated; "... this is sad because everyone of them had names." It breaks my heart to think just how much of an understatement that is. Every single one of them had their own dreams and aspirations. Some would've liked to become doctors or engineers, ushering humanity to a brighter future; others would've been excellent artists with the likes to rival Gogh or Leonardo. Some would've liked to laze around their backyard on a warm summer, others might've preferred the salty whiff of the seaside. They had fancies, loves, hates, likes, bores, interests, hobbies. They wondered if they might be pursued again. They had friends, lovers, families, colleagues. They wondered if they might ever see them again, save for the photos they kept near their breast. They had names. That is the only metric we can use to remember them now. Names. Such a miniscule noun that betrays what they were. They were human. Flesh, bone and soul. Like you and me.
some of them were also war criminals and serial killers/ psychopaths. sadly much less evil was killed than innocence but what do you expect from a massive war steming from external political pressure and a mass population in poverty truth is cruelty breeds cruelty and ww2 was sorta the way to cleanse the cruel from the world (with colossal collateral damage). point is the more you read about ww2 the more you realize no one was right or wrong just no one had an answer that anyone liked so the world revolted against each other because the only solution at the time to external political pressure from other nations was fighting a war to turn your nation against the propaganda everyone wanted to be right and to keep a healthy happy population but years of poor economic and infrastructure in some of these countries mixed with more and more corporate/government own resources caused people to turn to leaders that would lead the people in a different direction. just so happens that direction was the biggest war in history but ya know when you eat sawdust and bread crumbs you roll the dice or die.
I’ve watched this video more times than I can count, every few months or year I’ll come back to it. And still, that soviet death count, towering over everything else gives me a wave of emotion and chills. What a horrible tragedy this war was
Hollywood just pumps us with stories about how the us army saved the world and how hard the Americans sacrificed. The soviets lost double the amount the us did defending one city.
Oliver Corfield, i was reading some other sources(not popular) and there are some very controversial facts, that i came across: 84% of all soldiers died on european(western europe, exclude Britain) side were those, who fought on Nazis side.
This is a false interpretation of the numbers concerning the Second W.W. A distorted picture of history. Giving absolute numbers changes the true dimensions of the tragedy. I come from the country. who suffered the most during the Second W.W. During World War II, Poland suffered the greatest biological losses (for every 1,000 inhabitants, it lost 220 people). For comparison: USA - 2.9, Belgium - 7, Great Britain - 8, France - 15, Netherlands - 22, USSR - 116. It estimated the total personal losses at 6.028 million people, including 3.2 million Polish citizens of Jewish origin. The death losses of the Slavic Polish population under the German occupation amounted to approximately 2,770,000 people. This group does not include the victims of Soviet crimes in the territories incorporated into the USSR after 1939, and it does not include the victims of the UPA crimes in Volhynia. The post-war census showed 24 million, and the census covered 2 million Germans and about 1-1.5 million Poles living in Germany before World War II. Before the war, Poland was inhabited by 35 million citizens. Of which 13 million in the lands annexed by the Soviet Union, 22 million in the areas occupied by Germany. Poland suffered the greatest material losses during World War II. Material losses per capita, which amounted to $ 626 compared to the second Yugoslavia with $ 601. According to materials presented at the International Reparation Conference in Paris in 1946, material losses in Poland amounted to $ 16.9 billion, respectively, in Yugoslavia - $ 9.1 billion. (Losses are given in 1946 value of money.) 2/5 of Poland's cultural assets were completely destroyed and stolen. Under pressure from the great powers, Poland also had to cede 48% of its territory to the Soviet Union, losing about 178,000 km² in the east. Most of the losses resulted from the German occupation, the USSR was responsible for the other part of the losses. One sentence at the end. Stalin killed many more USSR citizens in 1923-39 than they died during the Second World War
My grandfather was a kid in ww2 he was living in the Philippines then he saw Japanese soldiers walking around with katanas and guns going in peoples houses. I just can’t imagine how scared he was seeing his neighbors being killed by swords. Thankfully he survived the war
My grandfather's friend was an American soldier stationed in the Philipenes, he survived the Battan Death march. It is something that cannot be put into words. My gradfather would say he would only talk about it every once in a while. It's weird though, he never showed any sort of animosity in his voice, no anger to the Japanese. Just forgivness. RIP Bill for you're sacrifice.
@@Solidinius_Snake The jewish and russian soviet leaders gave thousands of reckless orders to their armies, and it has nothing to do with the German superior tactic or equipment. They led their troops on positions impossible to take or held them in already lost positions. Over 30% of Soviet political officers and politicians were Jewish. There were so many of them that "Jew" was a German word used for a soviet officer
@@Rottensparrow can you read? NOBODY knew how to fight the Germans properly, but after a couple of years the Soviets learnt it they pefromrmed some brilliant operations, for example in Balaton, Koenigsberg, Crimea, Lviv etc. Not to mention all people make mistakes, not only Jews. Btw, talking about Jews, so not it's not Soviet leaders now, eh? Just 30% of political officers and politicians (which is a questionable number but let's pretend it you've got it from legit sources (lol)), and non of them actually had the right to make some really big desicions. Bravo, pal.
@@Solidinius_Snake You need to ready any history books before writing such bullshit. Even the operations you mentioned gave Soviet gigantic losses. And French, British or even Poles lost much less soldiers than Soviets. Because their generals weren't reckless idiot who sent masses to death without thinking
@@scottishseal631 I studied history, I read books and interviews with Soviet people and soldiers, and you probably read some brainwashed Russian "history" books wrote by comrades of batushka Putin. And no, captured doesn't count on this video as casualities. Soviets would have never won war with Germany if there was no D-Day and millions tones of American and British supplies, tanks, military vehicles, fuel, ammunition and even fucking shoes for your soldiers. If Soviets would be able to go for Paris, when there was 1 million German army in West, then why they didn't take Paris when there was the same force of Americans protecting Western Europe?
It makes me sad when people undermine the Soviet role in WW2, both my grandparents were orphaned during the war, and 1/4 of Belarus was killed in the war. People don't understand that the Soviets were fighting for survival.
@@henrivahakangas2858 Who took Berlin?... The Soviets, Where did most Germans dies?... The Eastern Front. It's a know fact that the Soviets had to buggest contribution to winning the war in Europe.
But did the Allies take Berlin? No they didn't. Winter helped the Soviets but the Soviets still had the biggest contribution. A reason D Day was so successful was because the Germans sent many of their troops to the Eastern Front because they saw the Soviets as a bigger threat. It was the Soviets who entered Germany first and it was the Soviets who fought in Berlin, Berlin wasn't just a one day battle it took weeks to secure the city. If the Allies had arrived within the two days they wouldn't haveet much resistance because of the Soviet siege of the city.
My great grandfather was Soviet Union soldier, fortunately he survived the war. He was from Poland but he lived in USSR before the war and he got into military
I`m russian. One of my grandfathers was a second - rank capitain on a military ship during WW2 and the other one was infantry in the battle of stalingrad and was injured by shrapnell, only 3 men including him survived in his whole platoon.
My long overdue response to all the comments about the film's use of the phrase "Nazi soldiers." It was a mistake, and I regret it. When we recorded the narration for the other languages (available on the Vimeo account), I corrected it so that it states "German soldiers." I need to go into the recording studio and make the correction to the english version too (along with a handful of other corrections), but I have regrettably not yet done so.
While it was certainly an error, I do not think it fits the comparisons many are making, i.e. that it is like calling American soldiers "Republican soldiers." I want to point out that in the case of Nazi Germany, it is correct to say Nazi invasions, led my Nazi commanders, which became Nazi occupations as part of a Nazi war effort. Calling soldiers of a Nazi war effort Nazi soldiers was a mistake, for sure, but a more complicated mistake than such analogies. As a personal note, I will say that I have close family members in Germany, and I feel that the transformation of the country after the war is a beautiful and inspiring story that we often take for granted. The word Nazi is often used to show separation between the German people today and a political movement of their past. In this case I screwed up and got it backwards.
Thank you. Also many people are pointing out that you left out Mongolian deaths at Khalkin Gol.
Thankyou.
That's no excuse. Also Khalkin Gol was a major battle.
The fact remains that the Nazi Party was responsible for every German invasion, atrocity, and aggression of Germany before and during World War II. Your only mistake was calling the soldiers themselves "Nazis". But they still answered to the Nazi government, and in fact every one of them swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler, the Nazi leader, even if some of them were actually not registered members of the Nazi Party.
He mainly covers major campaigns over major, war altering battles like Stalingrad and D-Day. Not every battle.
If we had a second of silence for everyone who died due to ww2, we'd be silent for around 2.8 years
We would have to have a moment of silence for like 70m people
@@alexkhaid 85 million actually
@@shanu3009 yeah around there
1 days have 86400 seconds. 983.8 days of total silence for those who have died or 2 years, 9 months and 18 days without ever saying any words to anybody. 😞🏳️
@Danni Chesney prove
When the Soviet deaths weren't stopping I got kinda scared 👀
it was way more deaths, more than 10 million only military.
URA!!
same but I cried
*G U L A G*
The Soviets lost in Stalingrad alone, double what America lost the entire war.
I'm Russian. My great grandfather died in Stalingrad. In Russia there is nearly no family that hasn't been at some point associated with the war. There are entire villages with memorial plates with more names on them than the whole current population of that village.
I'm a Russian, but we live in Kazakhstan. I also had a great grandfather who fought in the war. He lived till 1995.
Im german, my grandfather invaded poland and stalingrad, was a prisoner of war for 6 years. After the war he became chainsmoker, he is 96 now.
Sorry man. Such a sacrifice
How could the Germans be so cruel
Im froma america and my grandpa died in the war :(
4:44 is so haunting, when there is just that ominous tone of music and then the Soviet flag slowly comes into view...and anyone who knows anything about history knows the horrifying stats that are about to be shown to you.
The Eastern Front of WW2 was the closest thing you will ever see to Hell on Earth, and it's embarrassing how little it's talked about here in the West.
"War in the West was proper sport, while War in the East was unmitigated horror" ~German survivor
Idk where you went to school, but I learned about the eastern front. Spent a whole week on it in high school and a month in college. Plus think of it this way. French people know tons about their own revolution, but little about the American one. And vice versa. Americans know tons about our revolution, but little about the French one.
@@uncannyvalley3190 Most of the world thinks that the Soviets just had an ineffective army which they used to just throw at the Nazis, which rarely happened. And also, people think that America brought both Germany and Japan to their feet, and no one even talks about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The Americans and the British were mostly responsible for the defeat of Japan and Italy. The Soviets were mostly responsible for the destruction of Nazi Germany. And the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the Japanese version of D-Day.
I am Indian, and it was only when I turned 14 where I realized who did what to win this war, and before that I always felt the Americans were responsible.
Представьте , войска СС заживо сжигали деревни с мирными жителями, брали кровь детей для своих солдат.
A quote about Stalingrad during 1942 and 1943
「If Hell truly exist on this planet, it could only be here」
Both sides fought viciously in the eastern front, both nazi and Soviet propaganda were effective, the reason why the eastern front was so bloody is because of the viciousness, if it had fought like they did in the west, much less people would have died
Approaching this place, [Stalingrad], soldiers used to say: "We are entering hell." And after spending one or two days here, they say: "No, this isn't hell, this is ten times worse than hell."
- Vasily Chuikov
War is worse than hell
in hell the guilty suffer, but in war, the innocent suffer as well.
Max Hastings: the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure
All wars end but hell is for all of eternity
Chuikov is the only Soviet general, that wished to be buried on Mamaev Kurgan (mass grave in Stalingrad), instead of the Kremlin wall
@@jsamc that's a pitty thing you people invented a nonexisting horror world to
justify and belittle realexisting horror made by nothing but humanity
just sayn 70 million died in 6 years
that means about 11,5 million a year
1 million in month
250k in a week
35k a day
1,5k in a hour
25 in a minute
only in war
Isn‘t it interesting how these 35k a day is still present?
If you look it up you will see that we die at the same rate today as we did during ww2 but relative to the worlds population it has of course significantly decreased.
Edit: it‘s actually 150k per day. But around 40k die of unnatural causes per day so we still have an interesting fact right here
Except not really. The numbers are terrible, don't get me wrong, but disease kills far more. Over 300 million deaths were attributed to Smallpox alone in the 20th century, and the Spanish Flu is estimated to have killed almost as many as all the men that died during WW1 over the same period.
Not to mention that back then there werde way fewer people ive, Not even 2 Billion If i am not mistaken
Rodler i think you mean billions
on average
It’s terrible because all those people had names.
And history
Ryan Munga Every single one of them was like you and me. Not anything else but humans. Even the darkest persons in this war could have been to live the most normal lives one could imagine. It all came from terrible mistakes and mental sickness, sadly forming an unexplainable product of destruction and death. What i want to say is, that people are people, and even if they happened to plan and do the most evil things imaginable, they could have also had luckier influences throughout their whole lives, which could have then lead to them questioning and hating such bad ideologies and dogmas.
I'm depressed now
That's the reason why its terrible?
Why does a person or animal need to have a name to be treated with compassion and respect. Surely the fact it is alive is enough to command that?
When soviets deaths kept piling up and the music went away I got chills.
The Soviets lost entire generation of men to the war.
Yeah and sadly many of them dies in vain because Stalin starve the country before the war, purging many of his general, and many more
Two soldiers use one gun
@@womble3383 germany will have defeated soviet if 5 year plan was put in action it cause a lot of life than ever but who survive live because of it
@@womble3383 And I think in every army are trained. Maybe the Soviet high command, not Stalin. And the war was not only the soldiers but also volunteers, who coached only 2 weeks or a little more.
My my great-grandfather survived. He fought from the beginning of the war from 1941 to 1942, in 1942 he was seriously wounded and went home from the hospital
It’s crazy how the eastern front makes the west look like a school playground although it gets all the attention
Maybe they have better media..
The east was were Hitler's back was broken. By D-Day the German army was beat, and some say that's the only reason we landed in France in 44. Now take that information and imagine if Hitler would've have the 200 divisions he stormed Russia with on the Atlantic wall. I think Germany only had 5 divisions facing the D-Day beaches. Imagine if there wouldn't been 40 fucking divisions waiting. Hitler should should have went to Stalin and made a real pact.
@Ornate Orator They don't.
But the point is here: WW2 in Europe was mainly about Soviets vs Germans. All the rest beeing side theaters.
I don' t mean that these side theaters didn't matter somehow.
I just say that without the soviets, the allies would have never beaten Germany.
This is a story Hollywood is never going to tell you about...
Same thing in the Pacific Theater: WW2 was mainly a war between Nationalist China and Japan, while the rest were side theaters, although the aeronaval fighting between USA and Japan was very determining for the outcome of the war.
But if it hadn't been for the millions of Chang kai Tchek's soldiers dying in mass against the japanese armies and holding the big bunch of their armies, I hardly see who the allies could have defeaten the vast number of these same men in the Pacific islands.
History is written by the winners.
USA and the west won the une hundred year war tthat was the XXth century (1914-1989). Therefore Hollywood just tells you the story on the viewside of the winners. Which is a pretty deformed standpoint of view once you go and check out the facts in the history books.
@Ornate Orator If we're strictly speaking about the point you made, "it’s normal for a country to focus only on their impacts on certain events", then let me tell you that you are wrong.
You're just justifying the attitude the medias are promoting in your own country and not aknowledging that this is not what's happening outside your borders. If you watch the documentaries on WWII made in european countries or in Russia, you'll see that they don't have a necessary self centered vision. They depict the war the way it went phase by phase, and no one denies the main theater of the entire war was the eastern front, the place where the fate of the conflict was decided.
And no one overthere says that the western front didn't played any significant role in the outcome of the war, not even the russians (who actually were expecting the opening of this front ASAP in order to relieve the eastern front of several german divisions, which of course didn't really happen after all...)
You may have some debates depending the countries on some specific issues such as, for instance: was the Germano-Soviet pact of 1939 a cynical scheme between Hitler and Staline do divide eastern Europe between them, or a mean for Staline to earn some time before an inevitable conflict to come?
But you'll never hear nonsense narratives such as "the allies, gathered and united all together where to defeat Germany". Everyone agrees that Germany was already defeated by the end of 1942 (Churchill even knew they were defeated by january 1942, when they failed to take Moscow, reason why he took a plane and went visit Staline this same month in Moscow...).
The only medias where the world ears of a narrative where the world was beeing defeated by the "nazis" (you never use the word germans, but always the word "nazis" where in Europe and Russia, everyone says Germans), untill the USA entered the war is someting that is beeing spread out by the Hollywood entertainment business.
And unlike what you are saying, this isn't a narritive specifically targeted to the american people, but to the entire world, since Hollywood dominates each single cinema markets out there in the world.
So basically what's happening is that the people who don't read books, or don't watch documentaries (mainly the young ones), are completely ignorant about WW2, and just believes that everything the Hollywood shows them as beeing the truth. And this is affecting every single average Joe that lives around this planet and who nows share's the USA's vision on what was this war.
This isn't simple as saying that every country should only care about it's own business, and write down it's own version of his history no matter what the facts are, as long as it suits them. China for instance does this, since their regime has complete control on their medias and can tell all the BS to the population about the commies defeating the japanese, while it's the nationalists who fled to Taiwan in 49 who actually did all the job.
But the main difference between the chinese propaganda and the Hollywood propaganda is that one is targeted to it's own people, whereas the other one is aiming nearly the entire humanity. One is using coercition and complete information control to promote it, while the other one is using entertainment medias and sensationalism imagery to make it look more believable.
In the end the objective remains the same: build a narrative on which a suitable vision can be given to the people in order to pursue specific strategic goals.
If you just examine this war just on the datas you have on the papers, the facts are here:
-80% of the Japanese forces were located in China, Korea and Japan during the 1937-1945 period.
-Germany was defeated by USSR (with the auxilliary help of allies forces). If you still doubt about this, just ask the Germans and they'll tell you who crushed them and who was their true Nemesis.
Once again I'm not saying that the allies were cowards, or that what they did was irrelevant. I'm just saying that we weren't the central pivot of this war, despite taking part in it.
Trying to tell something else is, in my point of view, an historical falsification.
@@MoreAwsomeMetal Chinese played a huge part in the Pacific war, absolutely no question. But they never would have defeated the Japanese empire itself. They best they could have hoped for would be be to reduce the Chinese territory Japan occupied. They didn't have the air power or naval capability of taking the fight to the Japanese. Had the US not destroyed their empire across the Pacific and south east Asia, they would taken a large chunk of Manchuria and kept it.
Watching the Soviet soldier death count is already terrifying, but when you remember that one person here was one thousand people, and you think about how every single person in that one thousand person group had their own unique life and story, you realize how lucky you are to be living in this era
yeah im lucky to live in ukraine where more than 1 thousand civians and more are being killed right now
@@rmnk_tm I hope the situation gets better in your area. At least it wasn’t as bad as ww2
Actual downgrade of USSR population from 1941 to 1945 was 30% of population. 52 millions. Diseases, hunger, bombs, etc
Correction, YOU are lucky to be living where you are right now in this era. There are billions of people right now living in war zones, genocides, oppressive regimes, being separated from their families, trapped in authoritarian governments with no way to escape. Some are starving, some are being forced to spend their lives working in factories, some are just being killed. We need to realize we are very lucky we were born on the “right” side of the earth
unique life and story and family story/history... think of the spider web of lives touched. Most probably had family/friends, kids (never had the chance to have kids). The fact of genocide means blood lines were forever ended. The world never to be the same... crazy
One of the best UA-cam videos of all time.
@@DjUpinHere could you give some examples? Not beefing, genuinely want to know.
@@DjUpinHereit’s not inaccuracies it’s disputed facts. We don’t know.
“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.”
There is something about that quote and this video, just, I don't know.
That's fuckin Stalin for you. "Victory at any cost" was his motto. It's mind boggling how some russians are still worshipping him.
why am I wasting my time on this Stalin never said that, it was actually Oliver Cromwell
“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” Whoever said it, it's a very astute observation. It means that the death of a stranger is not as meaningful to another person as the death of a loved one. And since it's simply impossible to know a million individual people, their deaths must experienced more abstractly, like a statistic rather than a tragedy that can be truly, personally felt.
@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis It isn't mind boggling at all. Stalin had serious flaws and made huge mistakes before and during the Soviet Union's conflict with Nazi Germany and its allies. However, it is also simply a fact of history that he led his nation during the entire time it struggled against that formidable, annihilating force, and that struggle for ultimate survival ended in decisive victory. It's therefore entirely understandable that Russians and other formerly Soviet peoples will always have conflicted attitudes toward Stalin's legacy.
JuanDeSoCal Really good and balanced evaluation there, I agree with you
* Seeing the soviet counter go up *
Man that's a lot
*still goes up 10 seconds after*
MAKE IT STOP!
@@noranqey WTF
That Noranqe guy has no brain
I even can not imagine that！
🙁
@@botongyu8326 It's easy. Just imagine that you are sitting at home, do not touch anyone, and suddenly the fascists start walking through your city with weapons and killing everyone in their path. EVERYONE! City after city, village after village. Children, women, old people, everyone.
Then you will understand why Russians hate fascists and racists and will be grateful to them for the fact that you do not know what it is and can not even imagine.
Each of those symbols represents one thousand lives, one thousand stories, one thousand families. Lest we forget all those lives that were lost.
Ironic that you have an american flag and your account is called United States of America.
@@MasonKLutz Why is that ironic?
@@thomasjess5029 usually in history, American as well, there are many people that we learn about, and saying about all of these people died in this war that we talk about it a lot and then we just forget about all of it.
bro your country is the master on getting in wars where we never called
Oil
I had a great great uncle who served in Patton's Third Army as a tanker in the 6th Armored Battalion as I recall he came across the concentration camp of Buchenwald my grandfather once asked my great great uncle what he saw and my grandpa said he got this thousand yard stare and he would start crying and looked at him and said. "I saw things that no man who believes in God should have done to another human being."
My friend August Caccavone was in the 7th Army, He was in the Battle Of The Bulge and was a squad leader
There is one important aspect to the liberation of Buchenwald.
When American troops approached the camp, there was already a red flag there.
No. Not the Soviet army. The prisoners (Russians, Poles, Jews, Germans from the communists) rebelled and took over the camp, receiving information that the SS had received orders to destroy the camp and kill living witnesses.
The people had nothing to lose and they went on the assault without weapons, dividing into groups. They broke through the barriers between the prison barracks and the guard barracks, seized weapons and after 2 hours the camp was liberated, and the camp guards were partially arrested, partially killed and partially fled.
4:52 - 6:48.
That’s how long it was counting the deaths of Soviet soldiers. If we had a second of silence for every soldier fallen, we’d be silent for around 100 days.
Staggering.
add in civilian casualties and you get 312 days
@@teltos6817 almost a year
So wy they start this all storm with germany?
@@WhiteWolf-ow2mc Please don't listen to this trol. As a dutch person i am extremely thankful for the contribution the russian people have given to the world in eliminating fascism. Your soldiers were absolute heroes.
Max Orlemann as a Turkmen who’s great Grandpa died fighting Stalingrad, you don’t know anything. Have you ever been on a war front. It is truly horrifying and confusing. You don’t know what to do. Do you sit there with your comrades? Do you ask them if they want to start an attack. Do you just let the general decide. What if you don’t agree with what the general said? You are the true pussy.
Seeing the soviet casualties is honestly terrifying
@@BullRadu This was so edgy that i was cut just by reading the comment.
@@BullRadu I hope this is a joke
@@BullRadu A coward speaks upon those who died fighting and living a life the coward could not even imagine from the comfort of his home. The soviets will be remembered until the last human takes their last breath, and you on the other hand, are a nobody.
German P *Russian, my grandfather hated the Soviets but loved his people and his land
@@tapep225 the Slavs endured unimaginable suffering under the Bolsheviks.
The World needs to know.
it's hard to believe that just a single one of those figures were 1000 people, people who had families, lives, dreams, hopes, and loves. And they all had their own stories to tell. Stories that can no longer be shared.
Legend Shibe
Also hard to believe that all of them have a story to tell. 60+ million stories. I wish we never get this type of conflict again.
@@batmanbruce186 in future we will have even bigger one
KrakenCraft WW4
@@mattthelad4686 nah
Jeb Bush As the famous Einstein quote states “ I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
I am from Russia and every year we celebrate Victory Day with tears in our eyes... Many people ask us: “Why do you still remember this war? It’s time to forget the past and move on.” But we cannot forget! This terrible war is in our blood, in every Russian family there is a memory of the people who died or suffered from this war. Sorry for my English
... and since February of last year the government of your country brings war and death over another country. Many Russians don't forget the second World War and what loses it brought with it to their country. But certainly the leaders of your country have not learned from WWII - at all.
Russia is the largest country in the world by territory. Why? all the time since its inception, it has waged wars of conquest, conquered, assimilated, and destroyed nations. if many nations have outgrown this, empires have collapsed, then the Russian empire still wants blood, wants expansion. Burn in hell Russian orcs. putin huilo, ruzzkie pidorasi.
@@qua3rotypical guy who has no friends. You came from a generation of cowards don't talk big when you didn't do crap. Or you can just admit you're a cringe bullied 10 year old boy who likes fascism. Cope harder seething and malding BANDERA KHOKHOL BOT.
@@qua3rogo burn in hell with stepan bandera KHOKHOL it's a good thing are government stop sending you weapons and realized Ukraine will eventually lose and doesn't want to get involved with a sinking economy
@@qua3rodid your mother left you for a Russian guy?😂
I know its crazy looking at it in numbers, but imagine if each name was listed. Each of their stories listed, each of their dreams, each of their hopes, each of their families, each of their thoughts. Hell, each with their favorite food. They're all just souls like us but who were taken away by the war
That ain’t happening probably at least 95% of people who have died in ww2 had there names lost
@Anna's randomness WhoCares u ruined the comment.
@@gras2121 ok
I always think about this. The human mind would never be able to comprehend this. Our minds are so feble and weak when it comes to comprehension of scale. When numbers like 70 million get thrown at you it's hard to mentally differentiate 70 million from 70,000 or even a few thousand. The sheer scope of the death is just unfathomable to human minds. It's like the scale of space. It's impossible to truely appreciate. We can only use numbers and a vague imagination of it.
Xi Peng's favourite was breastmilk, for that was the only food he's managed to taste.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that editing, jesus Christ
I was looking to see how far I had to go to see this. Man, it was top notch!
Yea it probably took months to edit the whole thing
@@urmaker puts mine to shame ill tell u that 😂😭
It made me realise how time is valuable, and how we're lucky to keep this "new peace" for so long. I hope it continues for way more seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades and centuries. Forever, I hope.
@@PentaPW i hope so, but probably the nuke gonna kill us before we felt pain so i am not that worried
My history teacher showed this in class today. It made some people cry. And now I am here to watch it again. Rest in peace to all the dead of WW2. I pray such an awful war never happens again.
I'm so glad that decent history is being taught somewhere. There wasn't much of it at my son's school.
@@thomidog9047 im sure its more of the teachers themselves that chose this instead of the lazy textbook examples
_¡¡¡"Espero se Muestre en Todas las Escuelas del Mundo, es Importante"!!!!_
Unfortunately, a serious study of history (real study, and not acquaintance with textbooks, "independent" media, religious sermons and other sources of information that are under the sensitive and careful control of politicians and corporations associated with them) indicates that the social processes of the emergence of wars have not undergone significant changes over the past couple of centuries. More ominous is that the civilized world has constantly adhered to these processes, considering them the pinnacle of the development of civilization, always striving for them. For example: m.ua-cam.com/video/oyJTv_qLqsI/v-deo.html
Our common desire for peace deserves respect, but we should not hope that it will be taken into account.
P.S. Oh yes, and I will boldly call this video anti-scientific and propaganda, and don’t worry, there are quite enough arguments for this.
Well one of my peers didn’t show the same respect.
Speaking of the tragedy of Leningrad, see the story of the people at The Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, the first seed bank, who chose to starve than lose the invaluable specimens
They deserve to be remembered just as much as every soldier on the ground and innocent bystanders. Those are people believed in and knew the importance of what they were doing
@@gabrielibarra5551 they are remembered. As also the baker, who died from starving at his kitchen, his name is Daniil Kiutinen
@@Lastiqewow, this video is old so when I didn’t expect to see recent comments but I see yours here.;
For the past couple years, I’ve been reading about what the Soviet people went through in Leningrad (as well as the events of Stalingrad) and the amount of horrific terror on the Eastern Front (in American schools we are taught “Hitler is the bad guy, he was doing bad things, so eventually America came on Dday and saved the world from Nazis” they barley mention the eastern front.
Anyway, with all the books and documentaries I’ve read/watched about Russia’s history from the revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union, world war 2 stands out, and to me it’s Stalingrad and Leningrad, but I have never heard the name Daniil kkutinen so I googled it. There’s a couple links about him so I’m going to save them and start reading to learn more, thank you for the info
Я живу в санкт-петербурге, и читал о том что некоторые люди ели других людей, обманом заманивая в дом. Еще готовили суп из ремня от штанов, ели птиц, кошек. Это не поддается осмыслению, когда слышишь, что от голода погибло 1.5 миллиона человек. Многие не могли даже ходить от истощения, а на бомбы уже никто не обращал внимание
However, Russia is now deprived of its seed fund.
"But winning the war, came at a cost..."
Understatement of the century.
The most chilling part of the whole video. It really isn't appreciated in the west the sacrifice the Soviets made to defeat fascism. The war was won on the eastern front.
When the alternative is ethnic extermination by the nazis.. it is a worthwhile trade.
@@cowboydoggo6168 we can agree to disagree on the first point
@@LiterallyWho1917 about commie nism?
@@josephpostma1787 Of course: all world wars and all invasions into foreign countries, genocide and enslavement of their population - were not committed by communism at all - but by capitalism.
The fact that Bodies of Russian Soldiers from the war are still being found all over Russia gives me the chills
@александрт яковлев woah no need to get so aggressive
@александрт яковлев how the fuck was he racist?
@александрт яковлев seek help
My IQ is gone
My heart aches alone to the thought of how many would be designated “Unknown”. God rest their souls.
Just imagine, being sent to war by the Soviet Union, then once you return every single man your age is gone in your entire neighborhood... if not city
sounds like a harem anime
@@nouser316 I el oh elled
I laughed when I shouldn’t
It sounds like the Pals' Battalions in World War I.
Imagine the amount of chicks you'd get tho. Just kidding, had to bring some light to a dark situation. It truly is horrendous, and still affects russia's population to this day.
In this terrible war, my great-grandfather reached Berlin, but lost one arm. After that, he lived in Omsk and never spoke about that war. I'm even afraid to imagine how people's psyche didn't break after those events.
Eternal memory to all the heroes of the Second World War!
You just try to get up and take each day one at a time. You stay on task and try to find something that makes you even briefly happy. And try to keep it out of your mind.
@@MortabluntWhat flag is in your pfp?
@@concept5631 Lugansk People Republic. I have a bit of a personal connection to it. It's one of the regions in Ukraine that Kiev has been subjecting to genocide by artillery because it's Russian (identifying, speaking, ethnic) for the past 9 years.
@@Mortablunt
...I see. Hope the kool-aid tastes good.
@@concept5631 There's a few YT'ers you should watch
1. Patrick Lancaster - American independent war reporter, has been covering Donbass for years, has thousands of interviews with people living there
2. Willie OAM - Australian military veteran who covers news and does interviews with people on both side of the conflict. A recurring confession from Ukrainian supporters and auxilarie is the Donbas people are pro Russian and the Kiev forces are cruel.
We think that coronavirus is scary. Imagine living during ww2 and having no idea how it would turn out. Honestly Terrifying.
Louise X Why are you politicizing this shit? People are dying, and the first thing you people do is blame it on Trump.
I see that you are a fellow Canadian a? Fan of the jets?
@@mrsqueaker751 Thats right
The coronavirus already killed 25% of the WW2 USA casualties
@@samxu4928 because trump could have prevented it, but he didnt take it seriously, and now american lives are being lost.
Isnt it weird that in around 10 years no one is alive to tell about how ww2 was
That's frightening
I'm really afraid of losing veterans and children of war
@@misc7446 well most of the people experiencing wars died so. Wars are old news.
Fortunatley there are channels that record stories from veterans, so that we may watch them even after their deaths. These people are literally doing amazing work, interviewing both sides
Personally, I find it more weird that this catastrophe happened within living memory. We’ve come so far since then, but in the grand scale of time its nothing but a tiny blip. We’re closer now in time to the end of WW2 than the end of WW2 was to the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic.
Don't. Go. There. Please. I'm not ready.
“Peace is a difficult thing to measure. It’s a bit like counting the people who didn’t die, in the wars that didn’t happen.” Man I don’t know what it is about that quote, but it’s goosebump inducing.
"People don't truly appreciate peace until they see firsthand its antithesis."
- Quote I made on the fly
-@@concept5631 30 june, 2023
Looking back the wars seem inevitable but they weren’t…it could have gone much differently
@@faderzon1639 Yes thank you
Where is that quote from?!
My great grandfathers were German and Polish, they both fought on the same battlefield at the same time against each other during the invasion of Poland. Their descendants would later leave their respective countries because of the war, and despite their cultural heritage, they would fall in love and start a family together in Australia. Despite what happened, despite all the pain and death, humanity always finds room for love.
Well, 70 million people had to die first for that, apparently
Seldom, not always
"War does not determine who is right - only who's left."
Yoda
I love these comments
Anti-war libertarians were right. Every damned time.
To deep for me.
is that supposed to be smart?
My dad was in the Korean war, he told me in Tokyo 1950-1953 you didn't see a Japanese male aged from 18-35.
Yes but this is ww2 not the Korean war
@@Ant_111 The reason why he didn't see any Japanese men in that age range during the time of the Korean War is because they were all killed in World War II.
@@bigboineptune9567 Bingo!
@@noahwiebe2558 lol
@@Ant_111 boy you look stupid
6:08-6:48 Is the part I think that sticks to everyone’s mind.
It’s quiet and cold seeing the numbers rise uninterrupted for 40 seconds. The rattling sound of each figure appearing almost mimicking the sound of machine guns silencing the hopes and dreams of countless lives…heartbreaking stuff. It feels like something you’d see in fiction only to be disappointed by the reality.
When i saw german casualities my heart dropped....then i saw this...
It's been quiet and cold, but it's most likely ww3 will soon happen if we don't get along and from many great relationships with another.
Ive watched it at least 10 times and on memorial day i come back to this video each year and i can still not watch that part without dropping a tear.
Weak comment.
@@ussenterprisecvn-8098 you jinxed us god dammit that might happen
The truly tragic thing about the Soviet losses are the long term demographic consequences due to not just the deaths but potential births that never happened. It is estimated that Russia alone has around 85 million “missing people” because of the catastrophic losses in the war. Millions of people that will never exist because of events that happened decades ago. and with Russia’s fertility rate very low (1.5), Russias population is aging and declining, Russia will never replace that potential population again…
We'll figure it out and besides, you're drunk, what 85 million
@Glub_blub спасибо большое
This is true for most of the west, birth rates are abysmal everywhere.
@@Zapper-kq1zg He mean if Soviet Union didn't have this catastrophic losses in ww2 ( ~27 million ) , 85 million would be added to its population ( include of those people that died in war and their babies )
why won't you count how many people russia deported to siberia or killed with their political police?
and now remember: every one of those little figures stands for 1000 people
Lucia Greenwell you girl?
Mads Svender XD yes
@@Masv1pe I would consider anyone who calls himself "Lucia" a girl.
Mads Svender XD simp
The crazy weeb it is my duty to identify and expose simps
It's very disgusting that people completely ignore the message of this video and are trying to prove that their country suffered and did the most in WW2.
There would not be the need to do so if Hollywood had not already state such thing about one country in particular. What you see in the comment section is the inheritage of Cold War and how a sizeably disbalanced vision of history prevailed because of it. As a Frenchman, I would never pretend France played a major role in defeating Germany. It would be just utter bullshit. And the fact I'm sympathetic to Poland and to Stalin's victims doesn't change what I honestly think of the true role of each country in the war. Truth is in historical facts, period.
Thanks Alejandro you are right, there is a need for these numbers to be discussed, because 80% of Americans are daft enough to think they're the heroes of WW2. We contributed only where we knew we wouldn't lose, while Russia was cornered and beaten until nothing but sheer badassery took over.
Sheer badassery? Did you know how terrible their regime was? If we didn't have nazis, the soviets would be the main evil of history now.
Ezekiel the dragon no the Japanese
Oh yeah, I forgot about them, but you get what I'm saying right?
I cant even imagine how many parents got news of theirs sons were killed
Aiden The History Reporter sons
@@ncrranger6409 yeah I didn't realize that until I layed in my bed to go to sleep
The same number that died lol
@@lamborger I mean you're not wrong
@@lamborger actually not entirely true. Sometimes death wasnt reported to the family for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they couldn't be identified.
In Latvia last year, the authorities demolished all the monuments to Soviet soldiers that had stood in every city since Soviet times. The same thing is happening in Poland. In the USA, several years ago they issued a commemorative coin to mark the end of the war. There are only three flags on it: American, British, and French. In Poland, even Germany, which built these concentration camps, was invited to the annual event on the occasion of the liberation of Auswezen prisoners and did not invite Russia, which liberated them. This is how history is rewritten. Monuments are destroyed, and the new generation is given different information.
The soviets invaded and annexed half of Poland and all of the Baltic states. They did not liberate anyone, they were conquerors.
@@broski4039 They tried to get the UK and France to fight against Germany and stop the invasion. Once they saw they wouldn't do it, they decided to invade Poland and create a buffer zone. Nothing wrong in that. Don't try to rewrite history, russophobe. I'm sure you would be gladly speaking German today if it were up to you, fascist f**k
@@broski4039 To say that the USSR conquered Eastern Europe, you need to find out the opinion of people who lived at that time, and not look at the words of modern politicians who create the image of an enemy.
@@Mentol_ I hate the fact that people just ignore how well did Eastern Europe redevelop and give everything a man needed for everyone in just short 4 years, after the war. Not only did East have most genocide, most warcrimes and most deaths, it had less finances, less industry and less innovation, yet they still endured everything.
Do not ignore the fact that west always had better economico-geographic placement and had business all around the world, they always had more resources, and had them cheaper.
@@Mentol_ Yep, and the people said the Soviets were just as ruthless as the Germans. They were a terrifying mob descending like a wave towards Berlin that destroyed, robbed, and molested everything in their wake.
6:19 Stroke of genius, switching the marching steps into howling winter winds, while the column just keeps rising... and rising...
This gave me chills.
Marx was a bum who tried to steal people's wives!! He's basically responsible for 100+ million deaths!! Evil awful human
Ikr
why did karl marx steal your bike
damn
"and now we switch to civilian deaths..." *stomach turns*
My grandfather fought In Stalingrad to Berlin, died in 2007 of naturelly cause and he always said : "war? war is the stupid thing the man can do, war seems the answer to a problem but just make many more."
Respect for your grandfather, mine escaped the siege of Leningrad when he was a boy
war is part of nature. thats like saying a lion preying on a deer is pointless. we have evolved this form of struggle into what we identify as war. it is just as necessary to have wars that can help propel and evolve humanity. it has existed for as long as humans have. Too long of a period of peace time and its like not being exposed to diseases for a long time... may sound good at first but ask how the native Americans feel about that.
@@Tiger_III we aren’t animals
@@andrewbay8891 aha... aha.
@@andrewbay8891 Pick up a science book someday buddy
this was the cleanest, most well organized and put together video and animation I have ever seen. the amount of time and effort put into this video is felt and the commentary is genuine.
Which facts? I'm actually curious
Which facts?
too bad its incorrect
How?
i would love to hear which facts were left out or mistaken as well
Hearing you talk about “the long peace” gave me chills now that it’s over. It’s surreal to experience.
over? in what way is it over?
I wouldn’t say that the Ukraine invasion ends the long peace. By your definition you could say that Korea, or Vietnam, or the gulf war, or the war on terror was the end of the long peace.
@@sergeantswiss2401those where invasions from a large economy against a small economy. The Russia-Ukraine war is largely a evenly matched war with both sides fielding actual militaries, rather than insurgents doing guerrilla warfare
@@hd5783 The North Koreans fielded actual militaries, and china got involved in Korea. The whole thing almost went nuclear.
@@sergeantswiss2401 ok? They said “since 1956”
This dude whole ass made me cry by looking at a bar graph
You are the antithesis to Stalins "[...] a million deaths is a statistic"
@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 This whole UA-cam channel is the antithesis to Stalin's quote
@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 lmao chill
Me to.
Yes
Why Isn't anyone talking about the sound engineering background that this documentary has? The soundtrack it's amazing tooo
Because we want to focus on the information the video has all the deaths and stuff. We don’t really care about the background
@@BreakingWhite 😢true
Unfortunately, most people don't realize how important a good soundtrack is.
Almost like the videos of lemmino
The sound effects, the bgm, and the narrator make this video beautiful! Sure the info and graphics are good, but the audio is what makes it perfect.
D-day Always seems so large but compare it with some battles of the Eastern front it looks like nothing. 2500 us casulties is just a normal day for the russians.
the Germans lost on average that number each day in the war. D-Day was quite important strategically as it opened a 3rd front forcing the already outnumbered Germans to split their forces even more. But it is still dwarfed by battles on the east like Stalingrad, Leningrad and kursk.
It's a normal hour.
Or the Serbs
Battle of Stalingrad is largest battle in history. No battle had as much deaths.
1. Normandy was huge and everyone who died for their homeland should be honoured
2. Amount of Casualties is not proud thing stop saying like more casualties more credits
How much genius was lost in this conflict? How much joy was forgone? How much grief created?
The cause of a war is sometimes just, but the means is always terrible.
No war is just, they are just made by politicians, never by civilians , war is a business
@@TheKeystoneChannelPoltcains lost sons in this war . This was down to a handful of nutters
War is very bad for business
@@hannahdyson7129 Leaders of countries invaded each other even at the times of Roman Empire.
Please, don't spread your "propaganda".
And now this war is used as propaganda... a case for new war...
I'm glad that over 10 million people have seen this. We all need to understand the costs of war.
So its not even the same amount of people who died though! Its a shame it isnt more makes me sad to think so many died and no one remmber them ever again.
Rest in the Peace All Soldiers And Civilians And Partizans ! War Never Changes ! Or Maybe Changes ! Changed ! Secondly Times ! Europe And All World ! +1 No Longer For Darkness ! For Lights Open To Freedom ! Forever ! +1
I agree but we need billions to see this if another great war happens this planets done mostly because (we're losing oh no time to nuke them)
@Flare I agree with you, but not sure what we can do as a country. I actively try to avoid buying anything made in China. I encourage more people to do the same.
@@edwelndiobel1567 lol this is happening to 99,999 of the population. after we die at some point we will be forgotten
This should be taught in schools! Half the people I speak to about WW2 info have no idea about any of this
Why is Hitler?
David Bačák that is the start of a very strange question my friend... let’s not mess around here
what people are you talking to lol? also why should they know any of this but most of the basics?
Wait... you don't talk about WW2 in school??? I am german and WW2 and the Third Reich are the biggest topics in our history class
I live in nigeria
I can confidently and sadly tell you that 70% have never heard about ww2 or even know who Hitler is, it's saddening at times cuz history isn't even taught here.
RIP to the men who lost their lives.
This is the best synopsis I have ever seen. Brilliant use of graphics Neil, a masterpiece of sadness, but nevertheless a masterpiece!! Thank you for this!!!
Let’s hope that there will never be a “The Fallen of WW3”
it for sure won't be a UA-cam video. For a very long time after WW3...
Hell, will there even be anyone left? We got friggin nukes that have like 300x the power of Hiroshima
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Nothing will survive that if it ever happen
That's going to be SW1 (Solar War One)
I had a Russian friend who remembered an old man came in to the room, and told a story he had from WW2, he was in a Russian tank until he was captured by the Germans, he was thrown into a pit with other bodies, thinking he was dead, but survived off of eating worms he found in the ground, truly scary
oh my god that's brutal
@@Disorder2312 Shut your mouth! This joke isn't even 1 percent funny! You will never be able to understand what the Soviet people endured during the Great Patriotic War...
@@Disorder2312 i know where you live
@@Disorder2312 tf???
if were being honest man he most likely ate the bodies, he probably didn't want to drop such a dark fact.
to only be remembered by a number is a truly depressing thing
deep
Almost every number left behind someone who loved them!
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
that expression is hauntingly beautiful
Chill it was statistics
7 years later and this video is still so haunting and I can't help but watch it all the way through
The British supplied time, the Americans supplied treasure, but the Russians supplied blood.
The Russians provided the manpower, The US all the tools and the British... Churchill????
@@rosesprog1722 tea
Stalin pushed his people to death, through no sacrifice of their own. He is responsible for their high death toll
@@cfoster6567 Germany would have conquered Europe if Stalin didn't do it. 80% of Nazi forces were in the North.
@@cfoster6567 Yes, the first half of the 20th was particularly vicious for us, 2 world wars, 3 dictators, a pandemic, the 1929 crash, the depression, the prohibition, sickness, hunger... NOT good.
8.7 million Soviet deaths? That would be like the entire population of my city dying 106 times. That's just wild to think about
That would be the entire population of my *Country.*
Twice the population of my country
And even that is the low estimate...
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!! Mine too
that's about a third of the population of mine.........
This is the 3% of world's population at that time, 15% of Soviet population perished
Yeah, big number because of Stalin... You have to remember this war wouldn't go that far if not for Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
@@bartecki6 what are you talking about, child? Do you even understand what the Molotov-Ribentrop pact is? if not for Stalin you would have been in a concentration camp with your family now. Stalin initially foresaw a war against Germany, he understood that the ideology of Nazism is the absolute opposite of the ideology of communism and a war between them is inevitable. For this, he signed an agreement with Hitler to gain time and prepare for war, at least 2 years. For 2 years (from 1939 to 1941), 2 factories were built in the USSR every day. In total, about 4,500 factories were built. Thus, Stalin in 2 years did what the Russian emperors could not do for a whole century (he industrialized the country). And most importantly, he prepared the country for war. It was these factories that helped win the war and provided our army with everything it needed. When Hitler realized that the USSR was becoming the most powerful industrial center of Europe and the greatest threat, he realized that he could not hesitate any longer and needed to attack right now as quickly as possible and with all his might. Otherwise, the USSR will swing at such a rate to the level of a superpower and easily win the war. After all, already in 1947, a Soviet engineer created the greatest weapon AK-47(don't forget about it ). Do you think Hitler would have had a chance then? Yes, no. And he understood this perfectly. Stalin outplayed Hitler as a small child. And all his actions are a cold-blooded calculation.
@@bartecki6 big number because of advanced german army. Every country was looking forward to sign pacts with germany because it became powerfull..and meny countries did. So stop pulling out this bullshit.
@@sloniychelovek2367 What are you talking about, old commie? If not for Stalin, Germany wouldn't have army; If not for Stalin, Germany wouldn't risk getting closer to Russia and start a war; If not for Stalin, millions of people would stay alive. Instead they died in Gulags, were shot in the back of their head or were tortured by kgb.; If not for Stalin, Ukraine wouldn't have to suffer from hunger. Children would have something to eat. Instead everything went to the army.; If not for Stalin, Russia would focus on something diffrent than making more and more tanks to fight into Europe.; If not for Communists Hitler wouldn't gain power, because Germans wouldn't be scared of red army.
@@MrKerag Do you know why Germany had strong army? Maybe because they were training troops in ussr, you idiot.
Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal.
-Tomb of unknow soldier, moscow
'War does not determine who is right, only who is left'
Prefer2BePineapple
I don't get it?
Survival of the fittest, right?
clever, both a pun and a fact in a single phrase. I love it
It only determines how many people they get to kill and how many land they get to keep
This quote doesn't work in german, maybe that's an explanation...
The average soldier in Stalingrad would only survive for 24 hours. True hell on earth.
My history teacher said that they were sent to war with incomplete equipment, and advised to scavenge from the fallen
@@VascoCC95 it's wrong
@@totti581 no ships sherlock
@@VascoCC95 yeah. The Russian soldiers were sometimes sent without a firearm. They were just advised to pick up the weapon from the man who died in front of you
@@VascoCC95 wrong. The Russian military was better equipped than the Germans. This is American propaganda. The Russian and the Germans just had fiece battles. But both were armed well
"Sacrifice. Yes. We Russians know this is necessary...more than anyone else." -Victor Resnov
That hit me hard
Ahh yes bargain...
“Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, we Russians know this better than anyone”
Black ops 2??!!!!
Viktor Reznov*
I remember I heard a saying before about the Allied forces in WW2
“The War was won with British Intelligence, American Production and Soviet blood.”
without any of the three the nazi's would have won, d-day doesn't go off without the brittish deciphering the nazi communications, the soveits would'nt have enough guns or tanks for their blood to even gain an inch without the lend lease act, and the brittish and Americans didn't have the manpower nor the "will" to keep throwing men at the germans until they pushed, the problem for the nazi's is there wasn't really a way for them to not have those 3 factors, without breaking what their ideology was
The war was also started by soviets so I guess you get what is coming. No one complains about the german losses in the war.
@@blackfalcon1324 learn your history with a history book.
@@armin-8801 ok what was wrong?
@@blackfalcon1324 Treaty of Versailles & the effects of it in Germany itself proves that European were responsible for this war to break out than Adolf himself
*Let us take silence.*
*For the ones who have Served*
*For their Land and Country*
*May they rest in peace.*
Nice anime pfp
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Fuck that „serving for their country“
Even if they were German
think about it. One person here means 1000 invidual stories, families, lives, deaths, friendships
And it also represents over a thousand suffering PTSD, losing limbs, going blind or deaf, organ damage from bullets and survivor's guilt for the rest of their lives :(
Now imagine for everyone of those soldiers there were even more woman children and old men that were, raped, shot, stabbed, starved set on fire, used as human Ginny pigs, crushed under bombed buildings, left orphans, homeless, and who lost everything. As bad as the soldiers have it, they're far from the only ones that suffer in war.
Thats why, the war is sucked! Imagine, who knows from that million who perished, it could've been future inventor, artist, or influential people who will help the world in better place. Sadly, they didnt have a chance to try.
wow your comment and the replies really put this into perspective.
The deaths are a terrible thing, but that is really not even quarter of all the suffering that is in a war.
All those who have lost relatives, friends. People who's lives are forever ruined by being injured, uneducated, traumatized, losing familiy, losing everything they have, raped and so on.
Really makes you silent, and incredibly thankful for the long peace we have had here, but also makes you feel really sad about the war, and suffering that is going on everywhere else.
Lest we forget, in our lifetimes, we'll probably know around 1000 people. Another person will know 1000. That's one million people that can be reached just from one person's influence. One more person, and you're at a billion. These people could have effected others the world over, especially if they had the technology we have today.
This is the best visual presentation I've ever seen, well done! Incredibly engaging.
Provocateur what?
It is also biased in a leftward manner in some cases. But overall, not bad.
it's well made, although lies a lot.
Which parts? the statistics? just curious...
the parts justifying the Nazi and condemning USSR are all lies. mostly lies of omission and facts doctoring. for example, it compares military casualties of USSR and Germany, while USSR fought with forces from Germany, France, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Poland and others. if you compare actual numbers, USSR would not look this bloody, which is no-no. the GuLag numbers are plain fake, moreover, fake first voiced by Nazi ministry of propaganda. the comments on Leningrad are not just fake, they're highly insulting. the author might suffer serious injury if tries repeating that these parts nowadays.
This video is such a beautiful creation. Not only on understand the terrible loss endured by World War 2, but also in greater teacing of optimism, and helping us truly comprehend the importance of optimism in the way we view life and conflict.
This is art.
"and now we switch to the civilian deaths"
oh god please no
I was like "welp, wake me up when then Holocaust bar finishes".
Really? I thought you were going to say that about the soviet union bar.
*Russian count is done*
Me: "Thank god it's ov-
*And now we switch to the civilian deaths*
Me: Oh no
...."Then we have the Asian theatre"
Why ‘no’. It happened and what is done is done. It is over 75 years ago. Nobody remembers any of them anyway
“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers” - Some French Dude
-François Fénelon
@RoMMeL1337ak47 war is the natural state of human exsistins
*The Great Emu War Flashbacks*
Truth
Thank you "some french dude" for your wise words
The scary part about that 8.7 million dead Soviets is that, there are still, to this day, dead soldiers being uncovered. From Western Russia to Eastern Germany, corpses still turn up occasionally in the Spring/Summer ice thawing period. It’s tragic. To die in a war fighting for your own freedom, to only be uncovered nearly 80 years later.
8,7 is a highly understated number there is not doubt amongst experts that the count exceeds 11 million at least, could be 14 million as well
About 7.4 million Soviet soldiers were killed on the battlefield (7.5 along with the allies) versus 3.8 in the Axis armies. The number of 11-14 million for the USSR includes the soldiers who died in captivity, and not on the battlefield.
Tragic? What is tragic about communists dying? They killed more people than Hitler could have ever dreamed of.
Crazy Mixture
You are actually disgusting. Just because somebody serves their motherland does not make them a believer in the ideology. You’re telling me the children who were brutally genocided because they were Slavic is a good thing simply because the country they lived in was a communist country? Horrible
@Crazy Mixture
That’s honestly fucking pathetic of you. They fought because they wanted to protect their home, namely from a man with a silly mustache. They lived under communism, hell maybe not all of them agreed with it. But one thing was certain, they were Russians, and they wanted to survive.
what an excellent video, i really expected this to just be a 2 minute long number comparison but this was way better, definitely my favorite
“Older men declare war, it’s the younger men that fight and die.”
*NO, THIS IS NOT MY OWN QUITE AND I AM NOT LOOKING FOR FIGHTS*
Damn.
Agree with you
@Crimson Idol were are you from? I am from Albania and my Uncle fought on the Serbo-Croat war.
Older men were once young.
so true
Bru when he started talking about the Soviet deaths and said winning the war came at a cost I got chills.
the soviets raped 2 million German women in the Rape of Berlin, it certainly came at a cost to the Germans
@@dddd-uk4vn Yes this is true. But the Germans murdered 27 million soviets that must be a person in almost every family. This war ruined their lives so obviously they weren’t gonna be nice when the tables turned.
Not justifying their actions two wrongs don’t make a right. But what do you expect? Mess with the Russian bear you get the claws
There were other nations beside russians,it was soviet union-in soviet republic of Georgia with population of 2,5 milion 500 000 were sent to eastern front and 400 000 never returned
@@legopants8898 I know. The Caucuses, the the Soviet border into europe and a large part of it in Asia were all separate nations but Russian was the largest and the most important so when you refer to Russian in the time between the russian revolution, and the end of the cold war if you talk about russia you most likely mean the Soviet Union as a whole
@@scoposteve8470 from all total deaths in soviet union(more then 8million MILITARY casulties)
Buryats5,76%
Russians 5.5%
Ukrainians 4.9%
Bellorusians 4.7%
Jews 4.62%
Chuwash 4.35%
Tatars 4.35%
Moldovians 4.34%
Mari 4.04%
Kazakhs 3.83%
Armenians 3.83%
Udmurts 3.76%
Bashkirs 3.53%
Karelians 3.76%
Georgians 3.51%
Ossetians 3.02%
Kyrgyz 3.0%
Turkmen 2.89
And others( too many to write down)
“One mans death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Is that the words of Stalin?
@@charleswinters9567 Nope. It's from Remark's "Black Obelisk".
When the president does it its not illegal god bless America
Covid-19:
@Kinda Brian, But not really. it is though? somebody said exactly that before him, therefore its a quote.
It's the 4th time I watch this clip. I do it every 2 years or so, just to remind myself how lucky I am and how grateful I am for the sacrifice the previous generations have done for us. I also review this as a reminder not to take for granted what I have. Thank you so much, Neil!
same and it always hits so hard
my grandfather got the flu and stayed behind the day his platoon went out to patrol. They were all gunned down. He had severe PTSD and couldn't bare to look at a gun or nazi flag for the rest of his life.
жthe non commenter ж That's horrible, bless his soul.
nepali hercules What the fuck is wrong with you?
Maxibulle truth too much for ya?
nepali hercules says the guy that hasn't seen a single fight in his life...
nepali hercules says the guy that hasnt beaten a single guy in his life
Rest in peace the men who died in the final minutes of the war...
Big oof. They were convinced they won.
They were wrong.
My grandfather’s brother, Priima Ivan Ivanovich, died in Prague at the end of April 1945.
Rest in peace everyone.
@@tedodor1 My grandpa killed a russian soldier in prague, 1945 end of April
@@patrickbateman4148, my grandpa killed a soldier in pragua, who killed a russian soldier at the end of april, 1945.
And people think the times were living in now is bad. Thanks, this puts it all into proper perspective.
In Russia, in almost every family, a relative did not return from the war
damn...
@@jamilkhan-xr9pc that’s true, never saw in my entire life Russian family that didn’t lost someone
same with jewish families
@@shuarma0 as sad as that even was, it was not more amount of deaths Russia had. However they were close.
@@reallymentalpig1173 no it was not more, but every jewish family in europe lost someone.
My grandfather was sent to the Auswits camp and he survived 6 months there. Later when the camp was overrun, he was sent back to the army to fight on the German front. He passed away when i was really young but he use to tell me a lot of stories about how he and his friends use to survive there. He also meantioned a good German guard called ''Peter'' and how he would allways sneak in food for them because he fealt bad for them.
I hope that Peter survived the war.
Chilled Madness good story :) my great great Gandpa was in North Africa
@@wyattgraff8306 He may just as well not be a Nazi. Not every German citizen were party members. And considering the general draft at the time, he might be a 15 years old kid.
@@emitizmo7456 no mean intensions but i need to know how your grandfather survived an execution
@@emitizmo7456 but mad respect for both grandads❤
Hawkeye:
War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy:
How do you figure, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye:
Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy:
Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye:
Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Underrated comment
That's deep 😥
M.A.S.H. spoke the truth
Very nice but if you consider that most religious divisions are convinced that only they are the chosen ones who will share in bliss, all others be they deserving or not, bystanding or not...
Yes but the innocent people who died (mostly babies and children who are mostly very innocent) probably went to heaven not having to see all the terror going on in the world at their time.
All this only happened 80 years ago, everybody had family and friends that mattered the most to them. It's extremely easy to forget that it could've been us today, and we forget to be thankful for what we have now. I couldn't imagine the pain and suffering.
I was like "Oh god 41 Millions" and he said "then we have the Asian theater...."
To make it worse, this is only counting some of the countries. Countries like Brazil, Australia, New Zealand etc weren't included. The total death toll is 79-86 million, not 70 million,
@@jackaroo8867 Also the fighting in Africa.
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 yea, you literally can see people from miles away, because theres no literally trees or things blocking your view
@@jackaroo8867 Brazil lost 2k ppl. The 86 mil would mainly come from India, Indonesia, Philippines (3 of them together almost making 10mil) and other directly occupied territories instead of the countries you mentioned. Not criticising, just letting ppl know.
oof...
“Victory can not be achieved without sacrifice, Mason. We Russians know this better than anyone.” - Reznov
WaW and B01 had such good campaigns cuz the devs did good research
Karol Clark facts
Played this about a week ago for the memories
VORKUTA
@The crazy weeb fr
It gets very warm in my heart when reading the comments below this video. As a Russian, I am very happy to see that foreigners do not turn a blind eye to such topics. It is good that these people are still on Earth. God Bless you, guys!
People are too focused on nations, we have to learn from history as humanity. :)
Vov4ik I’m not Russian but I was always interested in these topics. Thank your ancestors.
Russians are Germans best friends. It was these perfidious English that orchestrated this all.
Beside, the English are agitating again due to Crimea. They are to stupid to understand that these areas are ethnic Russians.
God bless the Russians
@@bubiruski8067 God this propaganda shit of yours is annoying...
@Berolina Gloria no one was "innocent" during ww2.
Each one of those people is a thousand stories, a thousand families with a missing member, a thousand lost personalities, a thousand who’s potential was lost and a thousand who’s lives were cut short from war.
It's so painful to watch.
Barnabas, the Soviets didn't go on any 'suicide attacks', in terms of military losses the Soviets lost 1.3 times the soldiers the Axis lost, most of the Soviet losses were civilians (16 out of 27 million) because Nazis exterminated them on purpose
Barnabás Orosz, the Germans and their allies (there were 0.7 million non-German soldiers killed, Finland and Romania sent 300 thousand men each) lost nearly nine million men in the Eastern front, killed and irreplaceable lost for other reasons, not two and a half. Soviet Union had captured 3 million German prisoners of war alone. And USSR lost eleven million, not eight, three of which were killed as prisoners of war, which overall amounts to a 1.6:1 military losses ratio, and a 1.3:1 irreplaceable losses ratio. The rest of the 27 million lost were civilians, as compared to Germans and their allies losing about 12.3 million with civilians in the Eastern front.
Barnabas, I tried my best to keep it short, the topic is extensive because there are many versions and calculations out there. Yet the one thing is for certain that Soviet losses are misrepresented, hence the stereotype that USSR was 'throwing bodies' at the Axis, coming from people mixing up civilian casualties into the result. The only thing I wanted to clarify and hopefully get rid of this misconception for good some day. Thanks for being a good sport
I think the situation in Hungary was as bad as it was here (Romania) with a communist part ruling? I was never able to ask someone from there really
watch it all the way to the end then - numbers are heading a good direction!
That stack of Soviet Union deaths just continuing on made me so damn sad.
@notlenzo You missed the point entirely
@notlenzo The irretrievable losses of the armed forces of the USSR and the Axis on the Eastern Front are 11,444,100 and 8,649,200 people, respectively. The ratio of irretrievable losses is approximately 1.3: 1 and less. The losses of the Soviet civilian population in the zone of occupation are 13,684,700. In the West, Soviet losses are often exaggerated for ideological purposes. Sorry for Google translator.
@notlenzo *cough* do more research on the eastern front and don't use western propaganda as a reference *cough*
@notlenzo contrary to popular belief the soviets actually had actual tactics in ww2 and didnt just throw their men into the meat grinder that is the eastern front and only 8 million soviet soldiers died compared to 5 million axis is bc they were caught unprepared the 20 million *civilian* deaths were from nazi war crimes and collateral damage
Yes
It brought a lump up into my throat.
The average life span of a soldier in the battle of stalingrad was 24 hours!!
Wow, it goes to show you how horrible WW2 and all wars are. 😔
nah, more like 5 hours.
@@Y_ooKang Average life span of kreigsman is 7 minutes, 6 of those are marching to the battle
@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 lmao can't tell if ur serious.
@@apollojenkins4046 Its a warhammer 40k joke. In the warhammer universe though it is serious.
I still come back to this video every few years and watch it through. Such a well made piece of information
I read a comment below which stated; "... this is sad because everyone of them had names." It breaks my heart to think just how much of an understatement that is.
Every single one of them had their own dreams and aspirations. Some would've liked to become doctors or engineers, ushering humanity to a brighter future; others would've been excellent artists with the likes to rival Gogh or Leonardo.
Some would've liked to laze around their backyard on a warm summer, others might've preferred the salty whiff of the seaside.
They had fancies, loves, hates, likes, bores, interests, hobbies. They wondered if they might be pursued again.
They had friends, lovers, families, colleagues. They wondered if they might ever see them again, save for the photos they kept near their breast.
They had names. That is the only metric we can use to remember them now.
Names. Such a miniscule noun that betrays what they were. They were human. Flesh, bone and soul. Like you and me.
some of them were also war criminals and serial killers/ psychopaths. sadly much less evil was killed than innocence but what do you expect from a massive war steming from external political pressure and a mass population in poverty truth is cruelty breeds cruelty and ww2 was sorta the way to cleanse the cruel from the world (with colossal collateral damage). point is the more you read about ww2 the more you realize no one was right or wrong just no one had an answer that anyone liked so the world revolted against each other because the only solution at the time to external political pressure from other nations was fighting a war to turn your nation against the propaganda everyone wanted to be right and to keep a healthy happy population but years of poor economic and infrastructure in some of these countries mixed with more and more corporate/government own resources caused people to turn to leaders that would lead the people in a different direction. just so happens that direction was the biggest war in history but ya know when you eat sawdust and bread crumbs you roll the dice or die.
Incredibly said.
"Like You and Me".
That really hit hard.
Words
That is an incredible observation. I'm an English teacher in the UK and I'd love to quote you if that's ok with you
I’ve watched this video more times than I can count, every few months or year I’ll come back to it. And still, that soviet death count, towering over everything else gives me a wave of emotion and chills. What a horrible tragedy this war was
It just kept going-
From RealLifeLore’s video about Russia. Of All males born in the Soviet Union in the year 1923, 80% of them were dead by the year 1946! 😢
Hollywood just pumps us with stories about how the us army saved the world and how hard the Americans sacrificed. The soviets lost double the amount the us did defending one city.
Oliver Corfield, i was reading some other sources(not popular) and there are some very controversial facts, that i came across:
84% of all soldiers died on european(western europe, exclude Britain) side were those, who fought on Nazis side.
This is a false interpretation of the numbers concerning the Second W.W. A distorted picture of history. Giving absolute numbers changes the true dimensions of the tragedy. I come from the country. who suffered the most during the Second W.W. During World War II, Poland suffered the greatest biological losses (for every 1,000 inhabitants, it lost 220 people). For comparison: USA - 2.9, Belgium - 7, Great Britain - 8, France - 15, Netherlands - 22, USSR - 116. It estimated the total personal losses at 6.028 million people, including 3.2 million Polish citizens of Jewish origin. The death losses of the Slavic Polish population under the German occupation amounted to approximately 2,770,000 people. This group does not include the victims of Soviet crimes in the territories incorporated into the USSR after 1939, and it does not include the victims of the UPA crimes in Volhynia. The post-war census showed 24 million, and the census covered 2 million Germans and about 1-1.5 million Poles living in Germany before World War II. Before the war, Poland was inhabited by 35 million citizens. Of which 13 million in the lands annexed by the Soviet Union, 22 million in the areas occupied by Germany. Poland suffered the greatest material losses during World War II. Material losses per capita, which amounted to $ 626 compared to the second Yugoslavia with $ 601. According to materials presented at the International Reparation Conference in Paris in 1946, material losses in Poland amounted to $ 16.9 billion, respectively, in Yugoslavia - $ 9.1 billion. (Losses are given in 1946 value of money.) 2/5 of Poland's cultural assets were completely destroyed and stolen. Under pressure from the great powers, Poland also had to cede 48% of its territory to the Soviet Union, losing about 178,000 km² in the east. Most of the losses resulted from the German occupation, the USSR was responsible for the other part of the losses. One sentence at the end. Stalin killed many more USSR citizens in 1923-39 than they died during the Second World War
My grandfather was a kid in ww2 he was living in the Philippines then he saw Japanese soldiers walking around with katanas and guns going in peoples houses. I just can’t imagine how scared he was seeing his neighbors being killed by swords.
Thankfully he survived the war
Oh god i thought you said he was killed, happy hes alives
That's scary
@@worldmapping4895 If his grandfather was killed he wouldn't be alive to write this comment.
My grandfather's friend was an American soldier stationed in the Philipenes, he survived the Battan Death march. It is something that cannot be put into words. My gradfather would say he would only talk about it every once in a while. It's weird though, he never showed any sort of animosity in his voice, no anger to the Japanese. Just forgivness. RIP Bill for you're sacrifice.
They killed civillians for sport
I try to watch this every memorial day. My Grandfather served in Germany, my Uncle in the Pacific.
6:12 stop
6:16 stop please
6:20 ...it does not stop
6:24 I started to cry
And it's two times less than civilian losses...
@@Solidinius_Snake The jewish and russian soviet leaders gave thousands of reckless orders to their armies, and it has nothing to do with the German superior tactic or equipment. They led their troops on positions impossible to take or held them in already lost positions. Over 30% of Soviet political officers and politicians were Jewish. There were so many of them that "Jew" was a German word used for a soviet officer
@@Rottensparrow can you read? NOBODY knew how to fight the Germans properly, but after a couple of years the Soviets learnt it they pefromrmed some brilliant operations, for example in Balaton, Koenigsberg, Crimea, Lviv etc. Not to mention all people make mistakes, not only Jews. Btw, talking about Jews, so not it's not Soviet leaders now, eh? Just 30% of political officers and politicians (which is a questionable number but let's pretend it you've got it from legit sources (lol)), and non of them actually had the right to make some really big desicions. Bravo, pal.
@@Solidinius_Snake You need to ready any history books before writing such bullshit. Even the operations you mentioned gave Soviet gigantic losses. And French, British or even Poles lost much less soldiers than Soviets. Because their generals weren't reckless idiot who sent masses to death without thinking
@@scottishseal631 I studied history, I read books and interviews with Soviet people and soldiers, and you probably read some brainwashed Russian "history" books wrote by comrades of batushka Putin. And no, captured doesn't count on this video as casualities. Soviets would have never won war with Germany if there was no D-Day and millions tones of American and British supplies, tanks, military vehicles, fuel, ammunition and even fucking shoes for your soldiers. If Soviets would be able to go for Paris, when there was 1 million German army in West, then why they didn't take Paris when there was the same force of Americans protecting Western Europe?
It makes me sad when people undermine the Soviet role in WW2, both my grandparents were orphaned during the war, and 1/4 of Belarus was killed in the war. People don't understand that the Soviets were fighting for survival.
Just cuz they have the most killed doesn't mean the did the most
@@henrivahakangas2858 Who took Berlin?... The Soviets, Where did most Germans dies?... The Eastern Front. It's a know fact that the Soviets had to buggest contribution to winning the war in Europe.
Biggest*
@@samuel_aduquaye Winter killed more than russians did, and soviets took berlin with allies help and allies would have taken berlin in 2 days
But did the Allies take Berlin? No they didn't. Winter helped the Soviets but the Soviets still had the biggest contribution. A reason D Day was so successful was because the Germans sent many of their troops to the Eastern Front because they saw the Soviets as a bigger threat. It was the Soviets who entered Germany first and it was the Soviets who fought in Berlin, Berlin wasn't just a one day battle it took weeks to secure the city. If the Allies had arrived within the two days they wouldn't haveet much resistance because of the Soviet siege of the city.
My entire body started to shiver when the Soviet death column kept rising and rising for what felt like an eternity... (5:53)
It also started at 4:50
it just kept on going-
Yes
I literally kept begging for it stop, tears rolling from my eyes....
@@jasonduhela9597 they won but at what cost
My great grandfather was Soviet Union soldier, fortunately he survived the war.
He was from Poland but he lived in USSR before the war and he got into military
I`m russian. One of my grandfathers was a second - rank capitain on a military ship during WW2 and the other one was infantry in the battle of stalingrad and was injured by shrapnell, only 3 men including him survived in his whole platoon.
Feels Bad
@R3M f
Your family is a family of survivors; no small feat.
F
He probably killed Russian civilians and Stalin was evil