@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Large number of troops per mile of front line, more machine guns and artillery, more trenches. Also, mountain terrain in Eastern France.
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 World War Two saw the rapid advancement of low-echelon radio communication, mobile armored vehicles, pure motorized combat units, and accurate close air support. It was simply easier to get thousands of troops to a breakthrough location, and support them with trucks, tanks, and aircraft. This benefitted Germany, which had a numerical superiority in troops and aircraft over France. When we look at other parts of World War Two, such as in 1939 Poland or 1944 Italy, many of the issues of World War One are still apparent.
@@KonstantinValentix he was the best ruler for Russia,It would be cool if we had another one that will bring us the land,well we have Putin but its not quite the same
It always amazes me how forgotten the Brusilov Offenisive is. It was literally the bloodiest battle of WW1 with over 2 milion casualties on both sides. The only other battles that are comparable in this respect are: Kaiserschlacht Offensive, Moscow, Rzhev, Leningrad and Stalingrad. It's also fascinating from a millitary point of view. The Russians used tactics that revolutionized the battlefield. It also creates great opprotunities for what if scenarios. This offenisve could have failed completely as many other russian offensive in the Great War. Is such scenario Russia may have collapsed sooner with grim consequences for the Entente. It also could have succeeded and gave Russia a complete victory in the war. Unfortunately, it is really hard to find any really in depth sources on this topic. If you know any please tell in the comment section.
Fantastic, I'm sure the research and analysis was exhausting, so well done, and we can't wait to see and hear in more detail how the fronts of the red terror moved back fore in the hell that was the soviet takeover of the poor Russian and "Stan" people.
Was so eager for this video. Very detailed and didatic as the previous ones. Congratulations for the exceptional work. It would be great if you could also cover the WW1 Western front in a future video.
Very informative, easy to understand, love your frontline-approach. Greetings from vienna. On 21th of November 1916 Franz Joseph I., emperor of austria, apost. king of hungary, passed away. He sat on the throne for more than 67 years. A grace of god spared him from seeing his realm rammed to wreck.
Yeah, that's what happens when your country adheres to arisocracy and monarchy: it gets badly dismantled and overrun, as inevitably will happen; Franz Joseph's heir, as it turned out, tried to surrender to Wilson, but relying on the idiocy of "divine right' really did it: that alone ended his ability to keep *any* holdings and ensured the near-total-demise and complete wrecking of his country. What the Hapsburgs' domains were rightly subjected to way exceeds that of which Germany was subjected to, the reason for this really amounts to the views and history of the Hapsburg empire, which was really the HRE evolved, that emphasis on God's vicar having a close connection *alone* was a justified major cause of its complete total and utter demise; this's not jealousy nor envy at all- it is simple and something far wiser: the complete, total, and utter demise of anything derived from "above" and all that biblical nonsense of how to structure a government!
I remember a few years back I asked you about doing a video detailing the Russian civil war, and you replied that there was not enough information to make one. I guess it took you that long to do all the research lol great job, love your videos
What about the battles of Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz in Romania in 1917? They were significant as well. In the summer of 1917, a Central Powers offensive began in Romania under the command of August von Mackensen to knock Romania out of the war. Resulting in the battles of Oituz, Mărăști and Mărășești where up to 1,000,000 Central Powers troops were present. The battles lasted from 22 July to 3 September and eventually, the Romanian army was victorious advancing 500 km2. August von Mackensen could not plan for another offensive as he had to transfer troops to the Italian Front. Following the Russian revolution, Romania found itself alone on the Eastern Front and signed the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers, which recognised Romanian sovereignty over Bessarabia in return for ceding control of passes in the Carpathian Mountains to Austria-Hungary and leasing its oil wells to Germany for 99 years. Although approved by Parliament, King Ferdinand I refused to sign it, hoping for an Allied victory in the west. Romania re-entered the war on 10 November 1918 on the side of the Allies and the Treaty of Bucharest was formally annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
You can see the military mismanagement clear as day in how they did their offensives. Lessons learned: 1. Don't go on offensives without a clear numerical superiority. 2. Concentrate numerical superiority against the weaker foe, and don't attack at all against the stronger foe. 3. Attacking the weaker foe forces the stronger foe to shift troops to help him, which is just as effective as attacking him and for far fewer casualties. 4. Don't expand the frontline when it forces you to go on the defensive and stretch your lines even thinner. 5. Don't go on pointless offensives, since defeats sap national morale worse than the continued presence of the enemy on your soil does.
Well it's not that Russia was going on "pointless" offensives. Eastory doesn't cover it but many of Russia's actions were in conjunction with the Chantilly conferences, which were an attempt by the Allies to coordinate their war effort. If everyone conducted offensives at the same time, it would overstretch Germany. The issue is that the central powers went launched offensives first, and countries like France and Italy were demanding their allies do attacks to relieve pressure on them (arguably before they were ready).
@@pax6833 The timing wasn't pointless, but each offensive could've been done differently. 1:21 Should've concentrated more forces on the Austrians, taking some from the center and north (as they would do in later offensives). 1:42 Instead of attacking the Germans, why not attack the Austrians in greater force? A big enough breakthrough will force the Germans to send troops to help the Austrians. This will have better results (some regained land and less casualties) than OTL (no land, a lot of casualties). 2:30 Offensive in the north is not going to achieve anything, not even tie down extra German troops, because of the defenses there. Instead, why not attack in the middle to split the Austrian and German lines, or concentrate all forces against the Austrians? 4:33 Should've held still or sent some troops to join the southern offensive to give them a numerical advantage. 5:18 Alright, but after all the previous defeats it was a bad idea to go on the offensive anyway. 6:22 The Romanians would've done much better if they'd joined in 1915, before the Bulgarians had joined the war and when the Russians were still deep in Galicia. As it was, them joining late only weakened the Russians.
@@ConradJD777 Bruh, you only need basic reading comprehension to get this shit as the video plays. Use your brain for once instead of envying those who use theirs.
@hashkangaroo Bruh, you only need basic reading comprehension to get this shit as the video plays. Use your brain for once instead of envying those who use theirs.
My grandfather had fought in 1916 within Ottoman VI th Corps in Dobrudja, I am excited to see him as a dot on the map. I hope you will make another animated series for Ottoman fronts in the future
Wow! I’ve been waiting for 1916-1917 forever! Can’t wait for the Eastern Front in 1918! Appreciate the videos! Edit: Weren’t there also three battles in Romania, that defended Romania against Germany?
Nice video regarding the developments on the Russian front, although the coverage of the Romanian front was very rushed and sparsed, as the video completely ignored the fighting in the Carpathians, the siege of Turtucaia, the counterattack on the Arges river, the retreat at the end of 1916 and the campaign and battles in the summer of 1917.
It's so weird. In WW1 and WW2 when the enemy broke through Central Powers/Axis lines or couldn't success an attack, Germany sent reinforcements and the front stabilized lol Feels kinda like an OP weapon in a strategy game
Now I know there is a very low chance you will see this, but where do you get your maps from? They are so high quality and well made. Did you make them yourself?
There was also a strong offensive in July - August 1917, launched by the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians against the Romanian Army, who was defending what was left of Romania. It resulted in several bloody battles. Overlooking the Central Powers forces was general August von Mackensen, at that moment one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. That offensive was supposed to crush Romania, then to stab Russia from the south, through Romania. The Romanian Army hold the front line. As result, Romania survived to live another day. Romania surrendered in May 1918, two months after Russia sued for peace under Lenin. At that moment it was the only Ally country still functional on the whole Eastern Front. The Central Powers threatened Romania that they will focus on it all their might from the East...
Great work as usual. So interesting from a strategic perspective. From a human perspective, this probably led to 100+ year of continuing tragedy, death, and suffering in the Russia and Europe. Not that the land of Russia was lacking in human suffering before this, but so much more added since.
Thank you for covering in such great detail the Romanian Debacle of 2016. It was a national disaster having to fight 4 enemies at once, but thankfully it was the right call and in the end we got a seat at the negociating table, because the Allies did not forget our sacrifice - nearly 9.1% of the pre-war population died for the Allied cause. Please keep in mind for the 2017 WW1 video to also cover the Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz battles. It was a Romanian counter-offensive that stopped Mackensen from conquering the whole country, but it's often forgotten during the broad Kerensky Offensive. Fantastic work as always, Eastory!
it sounds opposide. You had every advantage over the enemy yet you lost the war. İf you had terrible army why did you join the war either it sounds like italy in eastern europe who performs badly and switches sides
I am quite dissapointed of you not explaining the Russian revolution, the German offensives over Bolshevik forces or the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. However, this was a great series, I loved it, good job
Awesome video. It would be so cool if u did one of these videos on the russian civil war. Ofc thatd be a nightmare, but u could probably just cover the southern front against the armed forces of south russia, and the esstern one against Kolchak. Idk lol
The Central Power forces also shifted their eastern forces off to the Western Front as a result of the peace agreement with the new government in Petrograd. How many actually were moved would have been a nice finale to the video, but otherwise it was nicely done overall.
На самом деле в результате окупации Украины Германии пришлось держать в гарнизонах около миллиона человек так что фактически это даже уменьшило численность людей. Другой разговор что гарнизоны не требовали чтоб активного пополнения людьми и материальными средствами, а продукты Украины предотвратили полный голод в самой Германии
WWI was main factor in development of internal situation in Russia. Even relatively succesful 1914 took tens of thousands of most trained and motivated Russian soldiers. As the war prolonged two flows of discontent started to grow. The first one was among part of ruling class that wanted to succesfully win the war and was more and more disillusioned with imperial government's and Nicholas II's inability to build an effective war economy and command. This flow of discontent concentrated in the parliament that demanded to form new effective government since 1915. As I know, reluctance of N-II to press commanders of the northern and central fronts to attack together with Brusilov's southern advance to "seize the opportunity of knocking A-H out of the war" made most of general staff completely disillusioned with N-II. In february 1917, Parliament bonded with High Command finally forced N-II to abdicate and formed new government, the Temporary one. But it was far too late and new government proved itself ineffective just the old one. Because not only big men of ruling class determine history. The other flow of discontent was popular one. Tremendous inequality, lack of opportunities and decades of oppression, both social and political, made majority of population disillusioned with existing state years before WWI. Already during Rus-Jap war, when in addition to mentioned above common men started to be drafted en mass to fight and die for goals obscure or alien to them, this popular discontent grew to the point when people started to ignore or overthrow imperial authorities, replacing them with local self-governing councils, the soviets. Back in 1907, this revolution was supressed, but this exact situation repeated itself during WWI, only on larger scale. In 1917, as N-II abdicated, people started to openly organise soviets once again, including the central one in Petrograd. One of its first decrees was organisation of soldier soviets on the front, that let soldiers to democratically decide if they want to execute officers' orders instead of blind obedience. This was this "lack of discipline" shown in the video. As Temporary government commited itself to continuing the war, and situation continued deteriorating both on front and inside the country, the soviets started to take more and more socially radical and anti-war stance, as the revolution loomed. That's on this stage Lenin and Bolsheviks came in, and took power months later, promising most clear and radical solutions among other revolutionaries, that resonated in majority of the people: peace as soon as possible, complete abolishment of previous regime and transfer of all authority to the soviets, redistribution of land among peasants who work on it, worker's control in factories, etc. etc.
Fun fact : J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, famously took part in the Brusilov Offensive on the Entente side during that time.
@@meyers6975 He can't, considering that he stopped fighting in 1916, the year before the Entente landed in Normandy, on December 10th 1917, to liberate France from the Vichy regime that was set up by the German Empire on September 15th 1914 after France surrendered, so if he was in the Western Front, he would either be stationed on the English side of the Channel, where he would boringly watch the body of water separating England from German-occupied France, or he would be in the British navy, fighting against German ships to prevent the United Kingdom from being blockaded, and neither of these descriptions matched what he actually saw, as he actually saw trench warfare on land, and in the Western Front, there was already little to no trench warfare from August 3rd 1914 to September 15th 1914 and from December 10th 1917 to November 11th 1918, let alone from September 15th 1914 to December 10th 1917, when almost no warfare actually took place, so he can't be in the Western Front, and actually, trench warfare that is often associated with the First World War mostly took place in the Eastern Front, not to mention that when France was under German occupation, Britain had actually sent their troops in the Eastern Front to divert German troops away from German-occupied France and to prevent a German invasion of the British Isles, so he must be in the Eastern Front instead, specifically in the Brusilov Offensive.
@Tovalokodoncdude everywhere I go, I see you all the time, and all you do is just argue with Romanians even when they don't even say anything. Why do you do that?
@Tovalokodonc remember that in both terms of net numbers and % the Hungarians in Transylvania decrease faster than the Romanian average, soo yeah, you stink of frustration from afar but feel free to believe whatever makes you happy
Will there be videos about military operations not only in Europe, but for example in the Middle East? For example, the Arab-Israeli wars, the war in Syria, the Gulf War, the Iran-Iraq war. It would also be interesting to hear about the tactics used by terrorists.
I would love to see the Russian Civil War - as I know so little about it. Thank you for this wonderful video. I had no idea Bucharest was taken during WW1. ☮
ww1 and ww2 are so different from eachother. one noticeable difference is that the western front was the most deadly in ww1 but the least in ww2 and the opposite for the eastern
The red is the Ottomans. The corps with letters are usually the same type as the numbered corps, the only difference is in the name. (Usually named after the corps commander).
@@Eastory - thanks for the response. I would be interested in a link to a key for unit colours and abbreviations (some of your other videos have this). I don't think the information is readily available anywhere else.
Actually, this is wrong - the Russians did not want for RO to join the war, because they knew that RO did not had the tech for its army. France and UK were the ones who pushed for it. Also, Russia suggested RO to attack BG, but RO command wanted to go for the Transilvanian Core. This entire plan was so bad and so out of touch with reality - the plan was seeing RO troops and Allied troops meet (in 5-6 weeks since RO joined the war) in Budapesta
In that little moment in 1916, Romania had the world in it's hands, with Germany simultaneously fighting titanic battles at Verdun, the Somme, and also in the East detailed here. "It is certain that so relatively small a state as Rumania had never before been given a role so important, and, indeed, so decisive for the history of the world at so favorable a moment. Never before had two great Powers like Germany and Austria found themselves so much at the mercy of the military resources of a country which had scarcely one twentieth of the population of the two great states. Judging by the military situation, it was to be expected that Rumania had only to advance where she wished to decide the world war in favor of those Powers which had been hurling themselves at us in vain for years. Thus everything seemed to depend on whether Rumania was ready to make any sort of use of her momentary advantage." - Paul von Hindenburg
Военная авиация России была одной из лучших. Россия построила тяжёлые бомбардировщики раньше других стран. Но в 1 Мировую войну большое значение у артиллерии крупного калибра.
Fun fact: The Romanian royal family was actually Hohenzollern. A branch of the German imperial family. So, when king Ferdinand I betrayed them, the emperor angrily had them erased from the family tree.
Romania, always ready to switch sides when the winds change. (background information: Romania at this point had a Hohenzollern King and a defensive pact with Germany, but always wanted to occupy and gain Transylvania). After the losses in 1916 the battle at which Russians stopped the Central Powers advance was the battle of Marasesti ... after that they signed a separate peace treaty with the Germans. This was forbidden to allies but they did it anyway (betraying the allies in 1917). At the same time the Romanian treasury was evacuated to Russia. It is there still. They are keeping it safe. Then in 1918 one day before the armistice on November 10th Romania broke the peace treaty it signed and re-joined the Allies. All the great conquest of Transylvania then happened against an Austro-Hungarian Army that already laid down their weapons. For two years there was no peace treaty so Romania grabbed as much as it could in the process gaining both Transylvania and also Moldova from the Russians. An army that has not won battles in the world war betrayed its allies three times gained in the end huge territories (it will betray the Allies again by siding with nazi Germany an starting a war of conquest in Ukraine in 1941 and then it will betray Germany at Stalingrad when both flanks held by the 3rd and 4th Romanian armies collapsed and then finally in 1943 August 23rd, switching sides and just killing unsuspecting Germans to end the war on the winning side again).
Bs, Hungary did not lay down arms and in fact in 1919 Romania and Hungary fought a war that lasted 8 months in which Romania occupied the vast majority of Hungary, including Budapest and went as far as occupying Győr, so Hungary at the Trianon treaty had no choice but to accept the treaty terms and leave Transylvania. In ww2 Romania was forced to join the Axis as France and UK literally did nothing to stop Germany from invading Poland. It's also bs that the 3rd and 4th armies betrayed Germany at Stalingrand, where on earth did you get that info? Neverming that the Romania then capitulated to the Soviet Union in 1943, and your Horty Miklos also wanted to secretly negociate with the allies but obviously Germany did not let that happen and in fact Horty was then forced to resign
@@metodiusm428 that is not true. The Hungarian Army was instructed by the French to keep withdrawing in peacetime. That is how the Romanians advanced in Transylvania. The regular Austro-Hungarian Army laid down their weapons the one small division that did not was betrayed by the new communist government in Budapest. The offensives you talk about were against the newly formed communist Hungarian regime that armed peasants and workers who had zero military background that is where the big "victories" of the Romanian army came with the looting of Budapest. The Trianon treaty betrayed even the Woodrow Wilson principles giving completely Hungarian lands to both Czechoslovakia and Romania as well along the borders. In WW2 Romania went willingly to conquer land from the Soviets look up the 1942 borders of Romania, there was no coercion there, but of course today that is the version of the historical lie that benefits Romanians so that is the narrative. Read Ernst Udet's autobiography on what he saw from the air from his Stuka plane on how the Romanian ran and abandoned the flanks in Stalingrad that cause the encirclement. Romania did not capitulate to the Soviets they waited until the main German forces, Grossdeutschland who bled to defend them at Targu Frumos withdrew to refit and then they murdered their allies and switched sides collapsing the Carpathian defensive line. Yes Horthy wanted to negotiate an exit not to betray and murder unsuspecting allies. There is a difference.
That pact with Germany(which was secret) was signed by the king before the war started. In 1914 the government wanted to side with the Entente but the king with the germans and because of this Romania remained neutral until 1916 when the new king and the government agreed to join the war on the side of the Entente. Romania wasnt obligated to join the Central powers in the first place because as you said It was a devensive pact but the war was started by them. Italy also was part of the triple alliance which was a DEFENSIVE one and when the war started they dropped out of it. The battles of Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz were won by romanians not russians. They only assisted the romanian army. After these battles Russia left the war and Romania was left alone against the Central powers. How were they supposed to fight with no allies on the eastern front? They would had only ended up like the serbs.
Quit your bs, troll. By Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz, the Russian army was in a sorry state, refusing to obey the orders of their COs because of the Revolution. The Romanian army did all the heavy lifting, especially the artillery. The Peace Treaty of Bucharest was never ratified by the king, only by a traitor government of pro-german collaborationists, many of whom were tried after the war. Austria-Hungary was busy disintegrating while the Romanian army advanced to pre-established demarcation lines in Transilvania, agreed upon by the Entente. Once the Hungarian Soviet Republic refused Entente directives and proceeded to attack Romanian lines, the Romanian army began advancing towards Hungary-proper (alongside Czechoslovakia and the future Yugoslavia), an action that was supported by France. Bessarabia declared independence from Russia and requested Romanian military aid to protect itself until a vote could be held on whether or not it would unite with Romania. As for WWII, Romania joined the Axis only after the Allies abandoned it to the USSR and Hungary's territorial claims. It was not a war of conquest, but of REconquest, which did unfortunately spiral out of control. As for switching sides and fighting Germany, I'm sure there is nobody in the world (aside from nazis) that would find such a move objectionable
Good luck on civil war video! It won't be easy to adapt your style (with frontlines and divisions) to a war full of insurgencies, switching sides, multitude of factions and general lawlessness
@@thiephwell you lost more than half your land and the only reason you guys didn’t get your borders cut up was because the west won. Still fought bravely but it was a bad idea to join the war from someone’s perspective back then. You guys got lucky though good for you
Meanwhile on the video of the Western Front..
"Look at the millimeter moving there.. and there.. wow.. such gains in one year" :O
"As a result of this successful offensive, General Haig was able to move his drinks cabinet five feet closer to Berlin".
seriously why didnt the front move
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Large number of troops per mile of front line, more machine guns and artillery, more trenches. Also, mountain terrain in Eastern France.
@@againsttheleftandright4065 then why was ww2 so mobile they had all the things ww1 had was it the vehicles that mad war mobile again
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334
World War Two saw the rapid advancement of low-echelon radio communication, mobile armored vehicles, pure motorized combat units, and accurate close air support. It was simply easier to get thousands of troops to a breakthrough location, and support them with trucks, tanks, and aircraft. This benefitted Germany, which had a numerical superiority in troops and aircraft over France. When we look at other parts of World War Two, such as in 1939 Poland or 1944 Italy, many of the issues of World War One are still apparent.
It's amazing how excited I get every time I see a new Eastory upload. Way more than anything else I'm subscribed to. Instant watch, every time.
Surely that Lenin guy will make peace asap.
Even though o didnt like it still Ussr is the best and Lenin and Stalin too best leaders for Russua
@@ChobeVelyasha Are you high?
@@KonstantinValentixwhy would you said that
@@ChobeVelyasha Stalin was one of the worst humans to have ever existed.
@@KonstantinValentix he was the best ruler for Russia,It would be cool if we had another one that will bring us the land,well we have Putin but its not quite the same
Loved this series East, took me back to the old Great War channel (which in fact might warrant a rewatch since ww2 is ending)
Great video!
The sound/music balance seems back to being very very nice, this time
Thanks for having spent the time to make the video for us
It always amazes me how forgotten the Brusilov Offenisive is. It was literally the bloodiest battle of WW1 with over 2 milion casualties on both sides. The only other battles that are comparable in this respect are: Kaiserschlacht Offensive, Moscow, Rzhev, Leningrad and Stalingrad. It's also fascinating from a millitary point of view. The Russians used tactics that revolutionized the battlefield. It also creates great opprotunities for what if scenarios. This offenisve could have failed completely as many other russian offensive in the Great War. Is such scenario Russia may have collapsed sooner with grim consequences for the Entente. It also could have succeeded and gave Russia a complete victory in the war. Unfortunately, it is really hard to find any really in depth sources on this topic. If you know any please tell in the comment section.
ye, one of the meat assaults that actually did some difference, or didn't?🤔
Its bias info about brusliov in this video
@@ChobeVelyashaso do you truly believe the only war tactic russian's know is mass assault?
@@ChobeVelyasha yep, russians never lost tens of thousands in just weeks. Total bias :)
@@insane5375 Well, WWI was all about meat assaults. Even tanks were very rare and rarely influential until late in the war in the western front
wake up eastory uploaded
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Babe wake up it’s another bot comment
@@jasperedwards7029 im not a bot
@@wotevert4679 Then why did you copy and paste this comment?
@@jasperedwards7029 because I like it when eastory uploads?
Fantastic, I'm sure the research and analysis was exhausting, so well done, and we can't wait to see and hear in more detail how the fronts of the red terror moved back fore in the hell that was the soviet takeover of the poor Russian and "Stan" people.
Shot video bias against Russia in brusilov enemy lost way more than Russia
Why does it says it's been commented 15 hours ago?
you'll find that all factions of the russian civil war comitted atrocities and terror on a large scale, not just the reds...
@@ChobeVelyasha Casualties-wise both sides lose about the same including dead, injured and PoWs
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Was so eager for this video. Very detailed and didatic as the previous ones. Congratulations for the exceptional work. It would be great if you could also cover the WW1 Western front in a future video.
Very informative, easy to understand, love your frontline-approach. Greetings from vienna. On 21th of November 1916 Franz Joseph I., emperor of austria, apost. king of hungary, passed away. He sat on the throne for more than 67 years. A grace of god spared him from seeing his realm rammed to wreck.
Yeah really poor guy 😂😂😂
Yeah, that's what happens when your country adheres to arisocracy and monarchy: it gets badly dismantled and overrun, as inevitably will happen; Franz Joseph's heir, as it turned out, tried to surrender to Wilson, but relying on the idiocy of "divine right' really did it: that alone ended his ability to keep *any* holdings and ensured the near-total-demise and complete wrecking of his country.
What the Hapsburgs' domains were rightly subjected to way exceeds that of which Germany was subjected to, the reason for this really amounts to the views and history of the Hapsburg empire, which was really the HRE evolved, that emphasis on God's vicar having a close connection *alone* was a justified major cause of its complete total and utter demise; this's not jealousy nor envy at all- it is simple and something far wiser: the complete, total, and utter demise of anything derived from "above" and all that biblical nonsense of how to structure a government!
"his realm" => the prisons of the people of central europe, the dissolution of this abomination was one the greatest outcome of the first world war.
@@poneyenshort9616 The good thing is, UA-cam and similar online locations are the only places where an monarchist can get 98 likes.
Sorry, i‘am neither a monarchist nor a catholic. Just a older human being that isn‘t that harsh in his historical judgements.
Romania was like: the risk I took was calculated. But boy, I'm bad at math
@Tovalokodonc You again? 💀
@TovalokodoncTransylvania is Romania, we did the math correctly
@Tovalokodonc well, is not my fault your are the mongol here. I speak an european language, hard to understand when you are an immigrant
@Tovalokodoncsoon the poor horse fucker gonna have to learn chinese😂😂😭
*the risk i took
Can't get enough of your content over here in America. Your perspective, presentation, and research are phenomenal. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this! It’s rare to get the perspective of the Eastern Front. I had no idea that the north was so stagnant!
I love your vids! Keep up the excellent work.
This is best video man thanks for uploading it
Edit: wow ty for 109 likes!
Bias against Russia
fascists go home
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@@ChobeVelyashaHow?
@@kousikdhar9031 casualties wrong
Thought you had hidden a subliminal message at 10:54, but was just a single frame of "Pogrom of the Winter Palace." Excellent painting, btw.
same lol
Great video as always! Thanks for your tremendous effort!
Excellent video as always. Thanks for the post. Cheers from Tennessee
I remember a few years back I asked you about doing a video detailing the Russian civil war, and you replied that there was not enough information to make one.
I guess it took you that long to do all the research lol
great job, love your videos
Keep up the good work! Don’t be tied of producing great work even if it doesn’t pay well and is exhausting!
Love your videos man. Very informative and entertaining!!
It's always great when Eastory uploads, who else agrees?
So happy you posted again love all the work you do dude.
It's a good day when eastory uploads
What!? I always get excited when I wake up to a new Eastory video
I would like to thank you for your great job.
Always here to enjoy those videos
thank you for this amazing video
Great video! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I'm so happy that u included Romania in one of ur videos :D
Another amasing job by Eastory.
oh nice finally i had been waiting for this for soo long
Thank you for this amazing video! Im waiting for Italian Front (;
Love your videos😊
Great video as always
another good vid, keep up the work!
@Eastory Thanks for the another great video! I hope you plan to cover Polish-Soviet, Estonian-Soviet and Latvian-Soviet wars as well.
Danke!
Great content! Love it!
Man I hope this Russian Civil war isn't gonna cost like 10 Million lives or something
What about the battles of Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz in Romania in 1917? They were significant as well.
In the summer of 1917, a Central Powers offensive began in Romania under the command of August von Mackensen to knock Romania out of the war. Resulting in the battles of Oituz, Mărăști and Mărășești where up to 1,000,000 Central Powers troops were present. The battles lasted from 22 July to 3 September and eventually, the Romanian army was victorious advancing 500 km2. August von Mackensen could not plan for another offensive as he had to transfer troops to the Italian Front. Following the Russian revolution, Romania found itself alone on the Eastern Front and signed the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers, which recognised Romanian sovereignty over Bessarabia in return for ceding control of passes in the Carpathian Mountains to Austria-Hungary and leasing its oil wells to Germany for 99 years. Although approved by Parliament, King Ferdinand I refused to sign it, hoping for an Allied victory in the west. Romania re-entered the war on 10 November 1918 on the side of the Allies and the Treaty of Bucharest was formally annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918.
Fantastic, thanks a.lot for all your efforts
You can see the military mismanagement clear as day in how they did their offensives. Lessons learned:
1. Don't go on offensives without a clear numerical superiority.
2. Concentrate numerical superiority against the weaker foe, and don't attack at all against the stronger foe.
3. Attacking the weaker foe forces the stronger foe to shift troops to help him, which is just as effective as attacking him and for far fewer casualties.
4. Don't expand the frontline when it forces you to go on the defensive and stretch your lines even thinner.
5. Don't go on pointless offensives, since defeats sap national morale worse than the continued presence of the enemy on your soil does.
Well it's not that Russia was going on "pointless" offensives. Eastory doesn't cover it but many of Russia's actions were in conjunction with the Chantilly conferences, which were an attempt by the Allies to coordinate their war effort. If everyone conducted offensives at the same time, it would overstretch Germany.
The issue is that the central powers went launched offensives first, and countries like France and Italy were demanding their allies do attacks to relieve pressure on them (arguably before they were ready).
@@pax6833 The timing wasn't pointless, but each offensive could've been done differently.
1:21 Should've concentrated more forces on the Austrians, taking some from the center and north (as they would do in later offensives).
1:42 Instead of attacking the Germans, why not attack the Austrians in greater force? A big enough breakthrough will force the Germans to send troops to help the Austrians. This will have better results (some regained land and less casualties) than OTL (no land, a lot of casualties).
2:30 Offensive in the north is not going to achieve anything, not even tie down extra German troops, because of the defenses there. Instead, why not attack in the middle to split the Austrian and German lines, or concentrate all forces against the Austrians?
4:33 Should've held still or sent some troops to join the southern offensive to give them a numerical advantage.
5:18 Alright, but after all the previous defeats it was a bad idea to go on the offensive anyway.
6:22 The Romanians would've done much better if they'd joined in 1915, before the Bulgarians had joined the war and when the Russians were still deep in Galicia. As it was, them joining late only weakened the Russians.
>I have 500 hours in hoi4, trust me bro 🤓
@@ConradJD777 Bruh, you only need basic reading comprehension to get this shit as the video plays. Use your brain for once instead of envying those who use theirs.
@hashkangaroo Bruh, you only need basic reading comprehension to get this shit as the video plays. Use your brain for once instead of envying those who use theirs.
Simply epic. Thank you!
My grandfather had fought in 1916 within Ottoman VI th Corps in Dobrudja, I am excited to see him as a dot on the map. I hope you will make another animated series for Ottoman fronts in the future
I love your video good work
Wow! I’ve been waiting for 1916-1917 forever! Can’t wait for the Eastern Front in 1918! Appreciate the videos!
Edit: Weren’t there also three battles in Romania, that defended Romania against Germany?
Yes, the battles of Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz, were part of the Romanian Front after the Kerensky Offensive. The events take place at around 9:20
Nice video regarding the developments on the Russian front, although the coverage of the Romanian front was very rushed and sparsed, as the video completely ignored the fighting in the Carpathians, the siege of Turtucaia, the counterattack on the Arges river, the retreat at the end of 1916 and the campaign and battles in the summer of 1917.
It's so weird. In WW1 and WW2 when the enemy broke through Central Powers/Axis lines or couldn't success an attack, Germany sent reinforcements and the front stabilized lol
Feels kinda like an OP weapon in a strategy game
It is because even more so than offensives,the Germans were the masters of counteroffensives .
That is also praised by American generals.
You´re the best. Can you make a video about the Winter war or the frontline of Finland in the WW2? Thank you.
Amazing, thank you!
Now I know there is a very low chance you will see this, but where do you get your maps from? They are so high quality and well made. Did you make them yourself?
There was also a strong offensive in July - August 1917, launched by the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians against the Romanian Army, who was defending what was left of Romania. It resulted in several bloody battles. Overlooking the Central Powers forces was general August von Mackensen, at that moment one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. That offensive was supposed to crush Romania, then to stab Russia from the south, through Romania. The Romanian Army hold the front line. As result, Romania survived to live another day.
Romania surrendered in May 1918, two months after Russia sued for peace under Lenin. At that moment it was the only Ally country still functional on the whole Eastern Front. The Central Powers threatened Romania that they will focus on it all their might from the East...
Great work as usual. So interesting from a strategic perspective. From a human perspective, this probably led to 100+ year of continuing tragedy, death, and suffering in the Russia and Europe. Not that the land of Russia was lacking in human suffering before this, but so much more added since.
Thank you very much
Thank you for covering in such great detail the Romanian Debacle of 2016. It was a national disaster having to fight 4 enemies at once, but thankfully it was the right call and in the end we got a seat at the negociating table, because the Allies did not forget our sacrifice - nearly 9.1% of the pre-war population died for the Allied cause.
Please keep in mind for the 2017 WW1 video to also cover the Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz battles. It was a Romanian counter-offensive that stopped Mackensen from conquering the whole country, but it's often forgotten during the broad Kerensky Offensive.
Fantastic work as always, Eastory!
it sounds opposide. You had every advantage over the enemy yet you lost the war. İf you had terrible army why did you join the war either it sounds like italy in eastern europe who performs badly and switches sides
I am quite dissapointed of you not explaining the Russian revolution, the German offensives over Bolshevik forces or the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. However, this was a great series, I loved it, good job
Excellent video, idk how they dealt with constant losses and no gains. Must have been maddening.
Hype morning upload
How exactly you measure war exhaustion in Russia? It mobilized and lost the least percentage of its population amongs all of great powers.
Excuse me, what city is ther instead of Wrocław or Breslau? 0:44 BRBBEARN???
Awesome video. It would be so cool if u did one of these videos on the russian civil war. Ofc thatd be a nightmare, but u could probably just cover the southern front against the armed forces of south russia, and the esstern one against Kolchak. Idk lol
You should cover the Napoleonic Wars to.
But lets not forget that in the same time, Russia fought also in Caucasus Front against Ottoman Empire.
And that ottoman empire fought against the British and Arab nationalities within,goes on and on..
Great video.But i was wondering if you have any future plans for Caucasus campaign?
can you do ottoman front pls
The Central Power forces also shifted their eastern forces off to the Western Front as a result of the peace agreement with the new government in Petrograd. How many actually were moved would have been a nice finale to the video, but otherwise it was nicely done overall.
На самом деле в результате окупации Украины Германии пришлось держать в гарнизонах около миллиона человек так что фактически это даже уменьшило численность людей. Другой разговор что гарнизоны не требовали чтоб активного пополнения людьми и материальными средствами, а продукты Украины предотвратили полный голод в самой Германии
10:54 what is the that one frame?
WWI was main factor in development of internal situation in Russia. Even relatively succesful 1914 took tens of thousands of most trained and motivated Russian soldiers. As the war prolonged two flows of discontent started to grow.
The first one was among part of ruling class that wanted to succesfully win the war and was more and more disillusioned with imperial government's and Nicholas II's inability to build an effective war economy and command. This flow of discontent concentrated in the parliament that demanded to form new effective government since 1915. As I know, reluctance of N-II to press commanders of the northern and central fronts to attack together with Brusilov's southern advance to "seize the opportunity of knocking A-H out of the war" made most of general staff completely disillusioned with N-II. In february 1917, Parliament bonded with High Command finally forced N-II to abdicate and formed new government, the Temporary one. But it was far too late and new government proved itself ineffective just the old one. Because not only big men of ruling class determine history.
The other flow of discontent was popular one. Tremendous inequality, lack of opportunities and decades of oppression, both social and political, made majority of population disillusioned with existing state years before WWI. Already during Rus-Jap war, when in addition to mentioned above common men started to be drafted en mass to fight and die for goals obscure or alien to them, this popular discontent grew to the point when people started to ignore or overthrow imperial authorities, replacing them with local self-governing councils, the soviets. Back in 1907, this revolution was supressed, but this exact situation repeated itself during WWI, only on larger scale. In 1917, as N-II abdicated, people started to openly organise soviets once again, including the central one in Petrograd. One of its first decrees was organisation of soldier soviets on the front, that let soldiers to democratically decide if they want to execute officers' orders instead of blind obedience. This was this "lack of discipline" shown in the video. As Temporary government commited itself to continuing the war, and situation continued deteriorating both on front and inside the country, the soviets started to take more and more socially radical and anti-war stance, as the revolution loomed. That's on this stage Lenin and Bolsheviks came in, and took power months later, promising most clear and radical solutions among other revolutionaries, that resonated in majority of the people: peace as soon as possible, complete abolishment of previous regime and transfer of all authority to the soviets, redistribution of land among peasants who work on it, worker's control in factories, etc. etc.
Millions of men died for not any progress at all. Being there must've been truly terrifying.
Need Eastory to narrate my Hearts of Iron playthroughs
5:26 Interesting Fact: The corps numbered 15 which can been seen in the north is actually an Ottoman corps which came to help Austria Hungary.
Fun fact : J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, famously took part in the Brusilov Offensive on the Entente side during that time.
No? He was at the somme
@@meyers6975 It's still in the Eastern Front.
@@candyneige6609 he was at the western front
@@meyers6975 He can't, considering that he stopped fighting in 1916, the year before the Entente landed in Normandy, on December 10th 1917, to liberate France from the Vichy regime that was set up by the German Empire on September 15th 1914 after France surrendered, so if he was in the Western Front, he would either be stationed on the English side of the Channel, where he would boringly watch the body of water separating England from German-occupied France, or he would be in the British navy, fighting against German ships to prevent the United Kingdom from being blockaded, and neither of these descriptions matched what he actually saw, as he actually saw trench warfare on land, and in the Western Front, there was already little to no trench warfare from August 3rd 1914 to September 15th 1914 and from December 10th 1917 to November 11th 1918, let alone from September 15th 1914 to December 10th 1917, when almost no warfare actually took place, so he can't be in the Western Front, and actually, trench warfare that is often associated with the First World War mostly took place in the Eastern Front, not to mention that when France was under German occupation, Britain had actually sent their troops in the Eastern Front to divert German troops away from German-occupied France and to prevent a German invasion of the British Isles, so he must be in the Eastern Front instead, specifically in the Brusilov Offensive.
@@candyneige6609
What are you talking about even?
This may be one of the most frustrating videos I've ever seen
Good video
The numbers are mind boggling! And all for nought. It’s hard to believe it actually happened. Fact is truly stranger than fiction.
Are you okay? You sound like you experienced the war yourself!
Can you do 1917-1918 quickly
it takes long time
as romanian I'm glad that u made video that accurate
@Tovalokodonc hungarian detected,opinion rejected, don't forget that Transilvania is Romania
@Tovalokodoncdude everywhere I go, I see you all the time, and all you do is just argue with Romanians even when they don't even say anything. Why do you do that?
@@ThisSaysALotAboutSociety probably the guy has Trianon frustrations:))
@Tovalokodonc remember that in both terms of net numbers and % the Hungarians in Transylvania decrease faster than the Romanian average, soo yeah, you stink of frustration from afar but feel free to believe whatever makes you happy
@Tovalokodoncloser🤣
Can you do a video of the Italian front ww1 and ww2
Luv me Eastory. Simple as
Lenin is that one harmless and friendly uncle looking guy, nothing bad would happen, right?
Wow thanks!
Son buenísimos estos videos
Can you do the Polish-Soviet War please? It would be very much interesting to learm.
Will there be videos about military operations not only in Europe, but for example in the Middle East? For example, the Arab-Israeli wars, the war in Syria, the Gulf War, the Iran-Iraq war. It would also be interesting to hear about the tactics used by terrorists.
7:48 Russia was like: I’VE CALLED YOU TO HELP ME NOT FOR ME TO HELP YOU
I would love to see the Russian Civil War - as I know so little about it.
Thank you for this wonderful video.
I had no idea Bucharest was taken during WW1.
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Your videos are better than sitting in a classroom. Thanks!
ww1 and ww2 are so different from eachother. one noticeable difference is that the western front was the most deadly in ww1 but the least in ww2 and the opposite for the eastern
Will you also make more videos about the Russian inter-WW period after you're done with WWI on the Eastern Front?
Is there a link for the corps colours and abbreviations? What's the red 15th corps? Abbr for Me, He, Ko, Sz, Be, Ha, Sn, Kra, Bes etc
The red is the Ottomans. The corps with letters are usually the same type as the numbered corps, the only difference is in the name. (Usually named after the corps commander).
@@Eastory - thanks for the response. I would be interested in a link to a key for unit colours and abbreviations (some of your other videos have this). I don't think the information is readily available anywhere else.
One of the prettiest roads in Transylvania built in 1916 by the Germans to cross the Carpathians is the Transalpina road it is still in use today.
Actually, this is wrong - the Russians did not want for RO to join the war, because they knew that RO did not had the tech for its army. France and UK were the ones who pushed for it.
Also, Russia suggested RO to attack BG, but RO command wanted to go for the Transilvanian Core. This entire plan was so bad and so out of touch with reality - the plan was seeing RO troops and Allied troops meet (in 5-6 weeks since RO joined the war) in Budapesta
Good point
In that little moment in 1916, Romania had the world in it's hands, with Germany simultaneously fighting titanic battles at Verdun, the Somme, and also in the East detailed here.
"It is certain that so relatively small a state as Rumania had never before been given a role so important, and, indeed, so decisive for the history of the world at so favorable a moment. Never before had two great Powers like Germany and Austria found themselves so much at the mercy of the military resources of a country which had scarcely one twentieth of the population of the two great states. Judging by the military situation, it was to be expected that Rumania had only to advance where she wished to decide the world war in favor of those Powers which had been hurling themselves at us in vain for years. Thus everything seemed to depend on whether Rumania was ready to make any sort of use of her momentary advantage." - Paul von Hindenburg
Did the Russians lack armored cars, planes and such, or was it more of a failure in the command structure?
Была нехватка крупнокалиберной артиллерии. Россия мобилизовала более 10 000 000 человек.
Военная авиация России была одной из лучших. Россия построила тяжёлые бомбардировщики раньше других стран. Но в 1 Мировую войну большое значение у артиллерии крупного калибра.
Fun fact: The Romanian royal family was actually Hohenzollern. A branch of the German imperial family. So, when king Ferdinand I betrayed them, the emperor angrily had them erased from the family tree.
Romania, always ready to switch sides when the winds change.
(background information: Romania at this point had a Hohenzollern King and a defensive pact with Germany, but always wanted to occupy and gain Transylvania).
After the losses in 1916 the battle at which Russians stopped the Central Powers advance was the battle of Marasesti ... after that they signed a separate peace treaty with the Germans.
This was forbidden to allies but they did it anyway (betraying the allies in 1917). At the same time the Romanian treasury was evacuated to Russia. It is there still. They are keeping it safe. Then in 1918 one day before the armistice on November 10th Romania broke the peace treaty it signed and re-joined the Allies. All the great conquest of Transylvania then happened against an Austro-Hungarian Army that already laid down their weapons. For two years there was no peace treaty so Romania grabbed as much as it could in the process gaining both Transylvania and also Moldova from the Russians. An army that has not won battles in the world war betrayed its allies three times gained in the end huge territories (it will betray the Allies again by siding with nazi Germany an starting a war of conquest in Ukraine in 1941 and then it will betray Germany at Stalingrad when both flanks held by the 3rd and 4th Romanian armies collapsed and then finally in 1943 August 23rd, switching sides and just killing unsuspecting Germans to end the war on the winning side again).
you just hate us cuz you ain't us 😎 Always put national interest first over any shitty alliance
Bs, Hungary did not lay down arms and in fact in 1919 Romania and Hungary fought a war that lasted 8 months in which Romania occupied the vast majority of Hungary, including Budapest and went as far as occupying Győr, so Hungary at the Trianon treaty had no choice but to accept the treaty terms and leave Transylvania. In ww2 Romania was forced to join the Axis as France and UK literally did nothing to stop Germany from invading Poland. It's also bs that the 3rd and 4th armies betrayed Germany at Stalingrand, where on earth did you get that info? Neverming that the Romania then capitulated to the Soviet Union in 1943, and your Horty Miklos also wanted to secretly negociate with the allies but obviously Germany did not let that happen and in fact Horty was then forced to resign
@@metodiusm428 that is not true. The Hungarian Army was instructed by the French to keep withdrawing in peacetime. That is how the Romanians advanced in Transylvania. The regular Austro-Hungarian Army laid down their weapons the one small division that did not was betrayed by the new communist government in Budapest. The offensives you talk about were against the newly formed communist Hungarian regime that armed peasants and workers who had zero military background that is where the big "victories" of the Romanian army came with the looting of Budapest. The Trianon treaty betrayed even the Woodrow Wilson principles giving completely Hungarian lands to both Czechoslovakia and Romania as well along the borders.
In WW2 Romania went willingly to conquer land from the Soviets look up the 1942 borders of Romania, there was no coercion there, but of course today that is the version of the historical lie that benefits Romanians so that is the narrative.
Read Ernst Udet's autobiography on what he saw from the air from his Stuka plane on how the Romanian ran and abandoned the flanks in Stalingrad that cause the encirclement.
Romania did not capitulate to the Soviets they waited until the main German forces, Grossdeutschland who bled to defend them at Targu Frumos withdrew to refit and then they murdered their allies and switched sides collapsing the Carpathian defensive line.
Yes Horthy wanted to negotiate an exit not to betray and murder unsuspecting allies. There is a difference.
That pact with Germany(which was secret) was signed by the king before the war started. In 1914 the government wanted to side with the Entente but the king with the germans and because of this Romania remained neutral until 1916 when the new king and the government agreed to join the war on the side of the Entente. Romania wasnt obligated to join the Central powers in the first place because as you said It was a devensive pact but the war was started by them. Italy also was part of the triple alliance which was a DEFENSIVE one and when the war started they dropped out of it.
The battles of Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz were won by romanians not russians. They only assisted the romanian army.
After these battles Russia left the war and Romania was left alone against the Central powers. How were they supposed to fight with no allies on the eastern front? They would had only ended up like the serbs.
Quit your bs, troll.
By Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz, the Russian army was in a sorry state, refusing to obey the orders of their COs because of the Revolution. The Romanian army did all the heavy lifting, especially the artillery.
The Peace Treaty of Bucharest was never ratified by the king, only by a traitor government of pro-german collaborationists, many of whom were tried after the war.
Austria-Hungary was busy disintegrating while the Romanian army advanced to pre-established demarcation lines in Transilvania, agreed upon by the Entente. Once the Hungarian Soviet Republic refused Entente directives and proceeded to attack Romanian lines, the Romanian army began advancing towards Hungary-proper (alongside Czechoslovakia and the future Yugoslavia), an action that was supported by France.
Bessarabia declared independence from Russia and requested Romanian military aid to protect itself until a vote could be held on whether or not it would unite with Romania.
As for WWII, Romania joined the Axis only after the Allies abandoned it to the USSR and Hungary's territorial claims. It was not a war of conquest, but of REconquest, which did unfortunately spiral out of control. As for switching sides and fighting Germany, I'm sure there is nobody in the world (aside from nazis) that would find such a move objectionable
Good luck on civil war video! It won't be easy to adapt your style (with frontlines and divisions) to a war full of insurgencies, switching sides, multitude of factions and general lawlessness
Romania was basically the rookie that immediately got headshot the first second they got off the transport.
Did we? We survived in Moldova region, and won the war.
@@thiephwell you lost more than half your land and the only reason you guys didn’t get your borders cut up was because the west won. Still fought bravely but it was a bad idea to join the war from someone’s perspective back then. You guys got lucky though good for you