Man... this movie. My grandfather was sent to Stalingrad (he was in the Wehrmacht). It was the last time my mother ever saw him. We were never able to find out what even happened to him. A brutal, sad chapter in the world's history.
as terrible as this seems he might have been one of the many who died in the cold winter, maybe during patrol this is why his body might never have been found
The irony of this movie is Vasily Zeitsev really did meet his wife in uniform, whereas the duel is a hollywood invention. So for the first time the love story bit of the movie wasn't BS.
The story about the love affair in Stalingrad did happen but Zaitsez thought she had been killed and married someone else and it was only long after the war ended that he found out she had survived.
the duel wasnt a hollywood invention it was Soviet Propaganda. a lot of the things in this movie were actually referenced in the book Enemy at the Gates and at the time it was probably seen as true that barrier troopers were mowing down their own soldiers and only half of the soldiers getting weapons which isnt really true either. there was a shortage of weapons in some area's because of supply issues but they didnt send them half with a rifle and half without what they did was they told the people in the rear to hand over their weapons and give them to people going to the front. i think they got the idea because in the book it referenced those supply delivery issues 1 guy said they only had enough weapons for half their men and whoever was writing the movie took that as 1 person gets a rifle and 1 doesnt. either way i think its an alright movie. it can be ripped apart but most movies, even good ones, can be.
Vasilij was an officer during battle of Stalingrad (at beginning) He have a sniper school in ruins of Stalingrad during battle. Btw. Blue caps have NKVD units or officers. They really shoot their own soldiers but not in Stalingrad maybe at summer 1942. NKVD was cummunist border garrison in early part of war. After order 227 "No step back" was given they take deserters back to their units or send them to Gulags or to suicide units or in small number just shoot them.
The depiction of ed Harris's character pisses me off though. These are real people these actors are portraying,and they disgraced him by hanging a child. Thats despicable. He never did that.
@@promnightdumpsterbaby9553that's because some movies if it's based on a ture story which it is. It can't have everything in other wise it would be way to long. And it's called licence TV drama.
The scary bald Russian General is Nikita Krushchev. I didn’t catch it the first time. That dude is the future premier of the Communist Party and head of the USSR during the 50’s and early 60’s. He’s the guy that told the Kennedy administration that ‘We will bury you!’, but he was a man of sense too as he deserves a little bit of credit along with JFK for not letting the Cuban Missile Crisis lead to WWIII.
you know that "we will bury you" was a translation error, right? accurate translation would be something like "we will show you!". americans basically managed to red scare themselves. Khrushchev privately admitted to Kennedy that nothing in this world scares him more than a prospect of nuclear war, and begged lets never ever do this.
@@Ailurophile1984 Oswald WAS a Soviet "defector," but anyone who believes he acted on behalf of international Marxism is probably not thinking too much about the geopolitical realities of 1963.
Vasili may have been a Russian(Half Russian half Ukrainian) but he was a true Hero and a legend. He had total 225 confirmed kills(Historians say that the unconfirmed kills might be over 400) during the battle of Stalingrad. Plus, the more surprising thing is almost 50~70%(Almost 110~160 kills) of his kills were high ranked German officers and generals. The rest were mostly German snipers and engineers, repairers, and machine gunners.
Real historians will tell you that his deeds are bloated up by soviet propaganda. You cannot say how many soldiers did he really killed. russians lie all the time.
You should watch the German film, "Der Untergang" or Downfall. Its a realistic portrayal of the Fall of Berlin and Hitler's final days. All from the German perspective. A good movie and a wonderful cast. This is also the basis of the famous Hitler Rant Meme.
I don't want to steal your thread, but I would also like to recommend german movie Stalingrad, where one get a little bit bigger perspective of Battle of Stalingrad - it is from german perspective tho.
@@CalasTyphos And some good Russian films about the war are "Come and See" and "The Brest Fortress" (a.k.a. "Fortress of War"). "Come and See" in particular is a masterpiece, but probably one of the hardest movies you'll ever watch.
Something you should know is that the Eastern front of WWII had different rules. The Germans didn't consider the Russians as people. If any Russians surrendered to the Germans it's very likely they would have just been shot. The Russians were literally fighting for their own survival. That's why the Eastern front was so brutal. Both sides were engaged in total war.
Вышесказанное мало кто понимает и осознает. В той войне все жители СССР либо рабы, либо подлежат уничтожению. Другого не планировалось немецким командованием. Слава павшим и выжившим героям! P.S. Good reaction, man. Peace🤘
Indeed the Eastern front was more brutal than the Western front with lots of atrocities on both sides, but it's not entirely true that no prisoners were taken. Prisoners were taken and survived the war, on both sides.
'The Battle of Sevastopol' (movie) and "The Dawns Here Are Quiet' (short show) are two good Russian film/shows to watch, if you enjoy subtitles. The movie's about Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The show's based off of a book.
Love this movie. Spent some time in Russian and saw a lot of the old battlefields. Its crazy, yet beautiful. The Soviets suffered hard during that war and came back hard when the war turned. Stalin was pretty brutal as well. Nice video dude.
There is a controversy about the German sniper Major Koinings if he actually existed. Stalingrad was covered with so many buildings that the enemy could take cover. Also there were so many German snipers that were sent to eliminate Vasili and they were all elite snipers. So it was hard to know who was who. However, no matter who Koinings was Vasili took out all the German snipers that were sent to eliminate him.
It is based on true events. Which means Hollywood writers took a true event and turned it into what they thought would make a good movie. Personifying Major König as a single person is probably just a way to make it work in a movie. A Major is a staff officer, not someone who grabs a rifle and lies wait in the rubble.
I don't like this movie for a number of reasons, it not being particularly accurate, especially with a lot of the silly things the snipers were doing, is part of that. "Stalingrad" (1993) is better. "Cross of Iron" is also pretty good.
The movie did take liberties that's for sure and isn't an accurate representation of events, but Stalingrad was just about the worst and most horrible meat grinder in history. At the beginning it was: 270.000 Germans with 3000 artillery guns, 500 tanks and 600 aircraft growing to 1600 vs. 187.000 Soviets with 2200 artillery guns, 400 tanks and 300 aircraft. Later it grew to: 600.000-1.000.000 Germans with 640 tanks and 402 aircraft vs. 1.100.000-1.150.00 Soviets with 13400 artillery guns, 894 tanks and 1115 aircraft. Centered on a larger city, with civilians caught in it. Casualty numbers: The axis took 800.000-1.500.000 casualties with maybe around 500.000 dead. The soviets took 1.300.000-2.600.000 casualties with maybe around 1.000.000. And civilian inhabitants of Stalingrad went from over 500.000 to below 10.000, though how many fled, evacuated or died I don't know. ... I don't know what time and area would be the worst to be born into, but I'm pretty sure this would be one of the top ones.
it is straight up hilarious how they don't even TRY to put in accurate accents. The Russians are speaking with British accents and the German is speaking with an American one. That's next-level "fuck it".
They wouldn't have accents, though. The magic of movies means the languages of the characters - Russian and German - are translated for us into the language of the actors. So accented English would mean the characters were speaking their own languages with foreign accents.
You're not supposed to think about it. We're imagining the characters speaking their native tongue. They're only speaking English for the viewer. The only time an accent is to be applied (in this case Russian) is when the character is trying to speak English.
War movies haven't changed much in the accent regard. The best is the Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery starts out with a russki accent, but is damn near full Scottish by the end.
Also, as an amateur writer- in the beginning of this masterwork (albeit does have inaccuracies, such as how a large press conference scene has loads of interviewers!? Nope, there would be less than four at the press conference scene to interview Vassili Zaitsev-) that scene where a BIG Swastika swallows up EUROPE is intrinsically heart wrenching!
You know this movie is brutal when it’s about The Battle of Stalingrad the deadliest battle in human history and how brutal the Nazis and Soviets were during the battle
There were bloodier engagements than Stalingrad on the Eastern Front.The 3 battles of Kharkov,Operation Zitadel ( Kursk) and Bagration. To name a few. The EF was the bloodiest theatre of war in history,though.That's not in dispute.
G*d d*mn i love this movie, not exactly accurate historically as "everyone" says but... a d*mn good movie like you said. I love the story, execution, visuals, drama, sadness, you didnt tear up much but... i do a bit watching it, also cause my fav composer did the score. The master at emotional orchestra imo RIP James Horner the music composer of this movie (& titanic score which James is most popularly known for)
Winter War (Finland-Sovjet) 1939-1940 (105 days) 32 Finns held against 4000 sovjets hole 105 day War at Kollaa front !! *32 against 4 000* !!!,,, Finnish (one of the 32 men) Sniper Simo Häyha kill 7-800 of dem (Ruskies) !!
@@mattwillerton6775 I had same model rifle (*Pystykorva* (Spits dog)) when i did my military service in Finland ! I got silver in competition (No scope) 150 meters. i miss one shot in the air,, old rifle and it just went off.. ;)) (1969-70) Now check out another Finnish Badass . Lauri Törni/Larry Thorn *Soldier of 3 Armys* !! Hero in Finland,, Germany,,and USA (Vietnam) John Wayne (yes that John "Duke" Marion Wayne !!) playd Larry (Korn) in movie *Green Berrets* stay safe.
You should watch "The Death of Stalin"(2017). It's kind of a dark comedy with some recurring characters from this movie. Well sort of, the general, Khrushchev, is played in that movie.
Giving a rifle to one and the other had to follow, is an invention of the film. In reality, each had a rifle or a ppsh 41 submachine gun. An important factor in the Soviet army was that many soldiers carried submachine guns, while the norm in other armies was to carry a rifle. The Soviets were brutal, but they had no alternative, the German army had been massacring them for more than a year. Stalingrad was the bloodiest and most brutal battle in history. (excuse my English)
The Germans sent Romanians to fight the Soviets. According to what I’ve read there were more of them than Germans in total. Romania was still bitter about losing their national treasure holds to Russia when they held them for safe keeping.
@@brutallyhonest123 yeah the commies are just as bad as the fascists. Ivan burned down my grandmothers house when they were pushing the germans back on the eastern front. She later ran anti communist propaganda against the Soviets. After the hungarian revolt in 1956 she immigrated to the US.
Ewen moore badass is Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä (White Death) dead count 7-800 in 100 days in Winter War 1939-1940 !! *Deadliest sniper in military history*
@@pepqcat3169as I said to someone else most movies can't tell everything other wise it would be way to long of a movie. And it's call licence TV drama we're you can't tell the truth of everything. Either way I love this movie
The Russians charging gives off major “UUUURAAAHHH” energy. Also, Rachel Weisz’s character is based on a real love interest and sniper companion of Vasily. It’s debated what happened between them, but we do know that she lost her ovaries when she stepped on a mine.
I remember my parents getting me this movie on DVD as a 9 year old kid, because I was super into WW2 😂😂😂. I remember my brother bought a Mosin Nagant for $60 dollars after this movie came out in 2001. Great shooting rifle, at the time cheap ammo too, now they cost over $300. A great sniper flick for sure. Enjoyed the reaction man.
Awesome movie man! I remember watching this as a kid and that scene where he's timing his shots with the explosions and taking everyone out with iron sights is my favorite part. Devin, you know I have to keep bugging you on this.. Can you react to "The Outpost" and "Restrepo" for your boy over here? Lol.
The fact that you went into this blind is another great call! Only a minute into the video so will hopefully enjoy the rest with my morning coffees here.
6:02 That's true) Was an order #227 "No retreat" in case of bad situation on frontlines, and after charge of infantry in trenches are defensive detachment ("zagraditelny otryad") was deployed.
Notice that the "Russians" are speaking with Irish accents. Story is that the guy playing Vasily, Jude Law, couldn't manage a Russian accent but could do sort of an Irish accent, so everyone had to speak with one. The boy in the movie was based on a real boy at Stalingrad, though I don't recall if he actually spied or not.
Well the characters are all supposed to speaking actual Russian, without foreign accents, so it would be strange if the actors' English had fake Russian accents.
I'm Irish, and I can tell you for sure that there are no Irish accents in this movie. Jude Law is speaking in his normal Cockney accent which is probably the most irritating thing in this movie. At least Bob Hoskins made an attempt at a Russian accent.
@@thewildgoose7467 yeah its pretty obvious everyone is doing a standard english accent, i actually think although silly, constantly looking down at the subtitles, if it was in Russian would take something away from the visuals imo.
31:56 first time I ever watched this movie I had the world’s most intense chills when I saw this part not only was the kid hanging disturbing but it was more her gasping and screaming that made it even more shocking I was also young when I first watched this movie so it was probably a little more frightening then
The whole shooting retreating soldiers is a myth by the way. The "Not One Step Back" order only applied to officers who retreated without orders, not the common soldiers. Up until then the Russians were trading territory for time since Russia is so vast. The officers held the attitude that they could just keep retreating and eventually the Russian winter would take care of the Germans. There were obviously a lot of problems with this. The biggest one being that they had lost Ukraine and were well on their way to losing the oil fields in the Caucasus. Ukraine was Russia's breadbasket and if it wasn't for U.S. aid sending billions of tons of food, most of Russia would have starved over the winter.
Actually, there was some NKVD "stopping detachement" that killed retreating soldiers but that was not used everywhere, and by 1942, it was a waning practice as Stalin understood that it was counter-productive. There was also case of soviet panicking soldier who were shot on the spot by their officer, political or not, or even fellow soldiers. Also, the help from USA and Britain accelerated the soviet of the victory rate by 1943, providing truck, food, train, tank and some technical assistance in cryptography, but before 1942, the german submarine were too effective.
@@Skooffy Oh of course. Friendly ADVICE (learn to spell if you're going to be a douche) always comes in the form of someone being an asshole. If anyone needs to learn history it's you. The entire point of Order No. 227 (also known as "Not a Step Back") was that Russian officers were constantly retreating, trading space for time. It is LITERALLY the entire point of that order. In fact, here's the opening text of that order: Moscow, Nr. 227, July 28, 1942 The enemy throws new forces to the front without regard to heavy losses and penetrates deep into the Soviet Union, seizing new regions, destroying our cities and villages, and violating, plundering and killing the Soviet population. Combat goes on in region Voronezh, near Don, in the south, and at the gates of the Northern Caucasus. The German invaders penetrate toward Stalingrad, to Volga and want at any cost to trap Kuban and the Northern Caucasus, with their oil and grain. The enemy already has captured Voroshilovgrad, Starobelsk, Rossosh, Kupyansk, Valuyki, Novocherkassk, Rostov on Don, half Voronezh. Part of the troops of the Southern front, following the panic-mongers, have left Rostov and Novocherkassk without severe resistance and without orders from Moscow, covering their banners with shame. The population of our country, who love and respect the Red Army, start to be discouraged in her and lose faith in the Red Army, and many curse the Red Army for leaving our people under the yoke of the German oppressors, and itself running east. Some stupid people at the front calm themselves with talk that we can retreat further to the east, as we have a lot of territory, a lot of ground, a lot of population and that there will always be much bread for us. They want to justify the infamous behaviour at the front. But such talk is a falsehood, helpful only to our enemies. Each commander, Red Army soldier and political commissar should understand that our means are not limitless. The territory of the Soviet state is not a desert, but people - workers, peasants, intelligentsia, our fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, children. The territory of the USSR which the enemy has captured and aims to capture is bread and other products for the army, metal and fuel for industry, factories, plants supplying the army with arms and ammunition, railways. After the loss of Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic republics, Donetzk, and other areas we have much less territory, much fewer people, bread, metal, plants and factories. We have lost more than 70 million people, more than 800 million pounds of bread annually and more than 10 million tons of metal annually. Now we do not have predominance over the Germans in human reserves, in reserves of bread. To retreat further - means to waste ourselves and to waste at the same time our Motherland. Therefore it is necessary to eliminate talk that we have the capability endlessly to retreat, that we have a lot of territory, that our country is great and rich, that there is a large population, and that bread always will be abundant. Such talk is false and parasitic, it weakens us and benefits the enemy, if we do not stop retreating we will be without bread, without fuel, without metal, without raw material, without factories and plants, without railways. This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan. Now begone. I have better things to do. Like literally anything else.
I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie... I remember going in to get my wisdom teeth out, fell asleep on the operating table, and woke up on my couch with a slurpee and an ice pack halfway through this movie. Apparently when I left with my parents, I wasn't loopy, I simply demanded a slurpee and a DVD of this movie and refused to accept anything less.
I have been waiting for this since you announced it! great movie... have you seen The Longest Day (1962)? Last time I was in Normandy D-Day Beaches I went to visit Sainte-Mère-Église they actually keep a paratrooper manekin trapped in the churche's tower... where paratrooper Steele from Company F, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry, of the 82nd Airborne Divisionended actually was...I up rewatching the movie out of respect ...
It really isn’t, this movies great but the Soviet’s weren’t all forced to fight, they had incredible spirit. I don’t like the way this movie portrays them all as cowards, what they pulled off was incredible and it was through good planning and sheer will power
Awesome! Love this movie! It’s a true story. Exaggerated a little and love triangle added, but so much is true. Including the sniper duel and the places the took place (factory and the train yard). Great channel man, keep up the great content!
Exagerated a lot! especially the first part! I don't think a movie about Stalingrad needed to portray the Russian soldiers and commanders as dumb headless chickens thrown into a meatgrinder to be fascinating and have us rooting for them.. it's straight up disrespectful imo but the sniper duel is great
@@youtradvostraductions3082 hmm not true, its general knowledge in my country of Finland that in the winter war '39 Russians basically stormed like that finnish lines and got picked off. We had waaay fewer numbers but we held against them. You gotta remember Stalin in the 30's purged his generals and many officers (for fear of overthrowing him) and put the Political officers in charge at first and they because of no training did absolutely horribly. So that opening in my mind is very realistic even if it didnt happen there it happened elsewhere by them. Also Russians sent alot of ppl from the outer parts of russia or the so called conquered nations to fight in the front lines and to die first, forced to fight and die, that is also whey their morale and fighting wasnt good.
25:43 dude Stalingrad had battles where there would be 1 building and on each floor was a battle or the next building over was the command center or outpost
Movie Recommendations: The Last Full Measure Hacksaw Ridge Saints and Soldiers The Guns of Navarrone/Force 10 from Navarrone The Dirty Dozen The Deer Hunter Defiance Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima Valkyrie Kingdom of Heaven The Kingdom More where those came from.... keep it up man!
The battle of Stalingrad was a turning point of the war for the Germans, the fighting was bitter for both sides, sometimes room to room. The story of Vasili Zaitsev is only about three pages in the book Enemy at the Gateshe book covers the whole battle of stalingrad. The situation was so desperate at one point, that Russian T-34 tanks were driving off the assembly line and straight into battle, without even being painted.
The best movie about Stalingrad ever made in the English language... And about the 87th best movie made about Stalingrad overall. But numbers 1 through 86 are all in Russian and it's very hard to find dubbed or even subtitled copies of them, so this is what we got. And it is a great movie! No doubt about it.
Soviets didn't actually gun down retreating troops like this except in a few rare cases, but after the "no retreat" order by Stalin they did employ a rear security force whose mission was to catch frontline soldiers trying to go AWOL. The men in this scene would have been arrested, tried, and then either executed or sent to a penal battalion.
Im glad this movie was made. We never really see the depiction of the Eastern Front in the west. Of all the WW2 movies, how many can you count that depict the Eastern Front? No worries. I'll wait.
still pulling for the Generation Kill HBO series at some point, and someone else mentioned the John Adams HBO series, great stuff, but in the meantime you are killing it with these flics
As a russian (living in Moscow), and a student of history, many of the things in the movie is exagerrated to a fault (some are beyond that line). - ZagradOtryad (Haulting Squad) with the MGs at the square - one of the most common misconceptions. In fact, they did not fire on retreat, mostly they were used on the soviet side of the line to catch cowards and lost during battle to get them back in formation after a brief asking. And even if they had to use weapons, it was just an mg unit with a bit more commanding power. It was not a firing squad. - Other thing - as it is shown here and in Call Of Duty, soldiers were put in battle with minimum weapons and shot on boats, like cannon fodder. Counter to a popular belief, soldiers were trained, armed well and were mindful enough to fight for their home. Were they afraid? Yes, that's natural. And there were instances of runners. But few and not on such scale. Hollywood likes to demonize soviets, but that's "guilds" and "liberals" for ya. Never trust a hollywoodian to write about anything historically accurate if it doen't involve US in it.
@@SSD_Penumbra Once again, a common misconception. There were a few scumbags, no one denies it, but it was no mass orgy as people see in movies, not to mention those fucks were shot in a disciplinary manner. As a whole, RKKA (Raboche-Krestyanskaya Kranaya Armiya - Worker-Peasant Red Army) was a disciplined and dutiful organism. Plus, "memoirs", as it were, are all from the POV of a former nazi press writer, a woman at that, who's been closely working with ministry of propaganda of Germany. So we have a double whammy - "believe women" and "reds are demons, y'all".
In real way vasili got the major to reveal his position was he lifted a glove on a stick..the major got itchy and shot it and vasili saw the mussel blast from under the metal grate and put a bullet where the flash was and got him....badass
I love this movie...have you seen behind enemy lines with owen Wilson if you really want to watch a movie to react watch Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis
There is a bit of dramatization. The one man with the rifle one man with ammunition was loosely based on something that happened regarding a Cadet division that was mobilized in the Summer of 41. Barrier Troops/Blocking detachments were a thing, but they actually arrested people and investigated (hard to believe I know). It was pretty haphazard, but essentially if you were in the Red Army and you were caught anywhere outside of the direct c&c of your chain of command, you would be detained and investigated. 657k people were detained and investigated. 25k were arrested for desertion (or similar) and faced court martial. About half were returned to their units or penal battalions, the other half executed (about 10k). Actual blocking companies were assigned to rifle regiments so there might be one to four persons assigned to each company in a regiment to carry out investigations, and arrests (but obviously outside of combat operations). Blocking detachments as shown were relatively rare and mostly assigned to penal battalions.
I once read something from a German veteran of WW2 who said the Russians fought with undaunting courage and endless charges, and the British fought like gentlemen and professionals but had bad generals. When he was asked about the Americans he flew into a rage and curse filled vitriol about how the American troops just spammed grenades at everything!
Devin!!!!!! You gotta watch Empire of the Sun! Stephen Spielberg movie from the 80’s with a very young Christian Bale. One of the best underrated movies out there!
Great movie, great reaction. If you ever do black and white movies, I highly recommend 2 Humphrey Bogart WW2 movies, Casablanca and Sahara. Fantastic movies
Regarding the confusion at the beginning over whether they were soldiers or POWs: The Soviets were...intense...about military conscription. Especially once Germany violated the non-aggression pact they had with the USSR & invaded in 1941 (culminating in the battle depicted in this movie. The Battle of Stalingrad was where the USSR stopped the German advance & started to turn the tide of the Eastern Front)...
Awesome choice for a movie. It is not that well known but it is stunning and unforgettable. The Russian side of the war is not explored much in WWII movies. This movie would be a great addition to a WWII history class.
U kidding me? The only thing the movie got accurate is two things: 1 there was a battle in Stalingrad 2 there was a sniper called vassili. Everything else was Hollywood fiction. You should listen what actual historians have to say about the movie. It pisses me off how so many people depict this movie as accurate and believe in all this bullshit like the myth of 1 rifle for 2 men or every soldier who retreated was shot.
Great movie. There is another military movie based on a true story that came out around that time you might really like if you haven't seen it yet. Men of Honor with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro.
There's a series called Generals at War that is very good. They do great detail on the opposing sides of a battle. I'm almost positive there are some eposides on youtube. The battle of Kursk, Stalingrad and El Alamain are my favorites.
BTW the real life 'Tania' was a badass. she thought Vasily was dead until an interview in 1973 were she was informed he survived and had remarried, which shocked her as she claimed she was still in love with him ' was a Russian-American who went to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia. When she reached Belarus, the Germans had already killed them. After that incident, she joined the resistance.Tania and her group went to Stalingrad by traveling through the sewer system to reach the Russian lines. After that, she joined Vasily Zaytsev's sniper school and became a sniper. The group of snipers that Zaytsev formed was called "The Hares." Tania was a part of a raid on a German headquarters. She and the rest of The Hares killed Germans by picking off guards one by one. Tania was accredited with 24 kills. Chernova and Zaytsev were in love during the war but were later separated.
At the beginning I wouldn't say that they were being 'rough with the soldiers'. They weren't soldiers. They were conscripts. They weren't trained. I doubt they had ever been given a rifle before they got off the boats. The Soviets, at that point in the war, had been reduced to using swarm tactics all the way up and down the line. "Send more bodies than they have bullets." The 'veterans' weren't sent in until the Germans were tired and low on supply. It's a great tactic if you have a near endless supply of desperate starving citizens that you are afraid will rise up against you. Still works too.
@@Schizacz Nah, they wouldn't give half the guys glorious soviet riflle of Mosin, just link arms & march to the German positions, so they can be observed.
It's called order 227 in the soviet union. It is somewhat true not to a t because this is Hollywood. You earned a new subscriber enjoyed you're video. This was my favorite movie. I've studied alot of ww2 and the soviet union because this movie. It's a big picture that alot do not understand!
We "truly appreciate" YOUR Channel, *Devin G* ! WW2 was f-ing: insane, disturbing and a complete and total emotional and physical bloodbath... ...it IS also: fascinating, extremely detailed and in a way, a VERY LIKABLE part of history. ...I've NOTHING but: love, incredible respect and admiration for so many who were either cut down in the prime of their lives on the battlefield- or, even those who made it back! :.) The survivors of the Second World War are BARELY any now, just due to how long ago 1941 was. IF you were 18 in '45- you'd be around a whopping *_*100 now..._**
If you enjoyed this movie I highly recommend Generation War,Max Manus: Man of War, Flags of Our Fathers, Miracle At St Anna as a few good WW2 era films my man!
I saw Vasilis rifle at the Stalingrad battle museum 4 years ago. It's by far the most popular artifact in the place.
Which one?
@@clintlarvenz2570 which one of what
@ the Mosin Nagant
This movie and Vasili is why I bought a Mosin. Love her. She's my hunting rifle.
@@marleyjr00 How about reality instead of movies?
How about some Simo Häyhä?
Man... this movie. My grandfather was sent to Stalingrad (he was in the Wehrmacht). It was the last time my mother ever saw him. We were never able to find out what even happened to him. A brutal, sad chapter in the world's history.
as terrible as this seems he might have been one of the many who died in the cold winter, maybe during patrol
this is why his body might never have been found
True. And as macabre as it is, the possibilities are endless; it's a long way from Dresden to Stalingrad.
Bad stuff. I’m Russian, family from Stalingrad. Then I married a head strong Italian gal. Even though I was a Marines, gal scares me.
@@talliskr49 My wife's family is from Italy, too. Sicily and Calabria. Raisins in EVERYTHING.
@@JediSoth that’s cool, my family is from Belarus, Minsk
Good to know Devin and I both think Rachel Weisz is good looking. Check out The Mummy and Constantine too sir!
Definitely Constantine!
She legit got better with age too lol. Like a fine wine.
Love Rachel.
Who doesn't think that? A lot of people thought that in the early 2000s.
Rachel Weisz is absolutely beautiful! A Mona Lisa of our Age!!!
The irony of this movie is Vasily Zeitsev really did meet his wife in uniform, whereas the duel is a hollywood invention. So for the first time the love story bit of the movie wasn't BS.
The story about the love affair in Stalingrad did happen but Zaitsez thought she had been killed and married someone else and it was only long after the war ended that he found out she had survived.
@Necramonium big spasibo for defending the truth
the duel wasnt a hollywood invention it was Soviet Propaganda. a lot of the things in this movie were actually referenced in the book Enemy at the Gates and at the time it was probably seen as true that barrier troopers were mowing down their own soldiers and only half of the soldiers getting weapons which isnt really true either. there was a shortage of weapons in some area's because of supply issues but they didnt send them half with a rifle and half without what they did was they told the people in the rear to hand over their weapons and give them to people going to the front. i think they got the idea because in the book it referenced those supply delivery issues 1 guy said they only had enough weapons for half their men and whoever was writing the movie took that as 1 person gets a rifle and 1 doesnt. either way i think its an alright movie. it can be ripped apart but most movies, even good ones, can be.
Vasilij was an officer during battle of Stalingrad (at beginning)
He have a sniper school in ruins of Stalingrad during battle.
Btw. Blue caps have NKVD units or officers. They really shoot their own soldiers but not in Stalingrad maybe at summer 1942. NKVD was cummunist border garrison in early part of war. After order 227 "No step back" was given they take deserters back to their units or send them to Gulags or to suicide units or in small number just shoot them.
The cast in this movie is incredible. Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Bob Hoskins. Glorius stuff
The depiction of ed Harris's character pisses me off though. These are real people these actors are portraying,and they disgraced him by hanging a child. Thats despicable. He never did that.
@@promnightdumpsterbaby9553that's because some movies if it's based on a ture story which it is. It can't have everything in other wise it would be way to long. And it's called licence TV drama.
The scary bald Russian General is Nikita Krushchev. I didn’t catch it the first time. That dude is the future premier of the Communist Party and head of the USSR during the 50’s and early 60’s. He’s the guy that told the Kennedy administration that ‘We will bury you!’, but he was a man of sense too as he deserves a little bit of credit along with JFK for not letting the Cuban Missile Crisis lead to WWIII.
it was said that he wept the day JFK was killed and was quoted saying "they have killed a great man"
@@kasag37 Don’t know why he was sad about it. JFK was killed by a Marxist and a wannabe Soviet defector
you know that "we will bury you" was a translation error, right? accurate translation would be something like "we will show you!". americans basically managed to red scare themselves.
Khrushchev privately admitted to Kennedy that nothing in this world scares him more than a prospect of nuclear war, and begged lets never ever do this.
@@Ailurophile1984 no he wasn't, Oswald was a patsy, JFK was killed by the CIA because JFK was sick of their shit and was going to disband them.
@@Ailurophile1984 Oswald WAS a Soviet "defector," but anyone who believes he acted on behalf of international Marxism is probably not thinking too much about the geopolitical realities of 1963.
Vasili may have been a Russian(Half Russian half Ukrainian) but he was a true Hero and a legend.
He had total 225 confirmed kills(Historians say that the unconfirmed kills might be over 400) during the battle of Stalingrad. Plus, the more surprising thing is almost 50~70%(Almost 110~160 kills) of his kills were high ranked German officers and generals. The rest were mostly German snipers and engineers, repairers, and machine gunners.
Real historians will tell you that his deeds are bloated up by soviet propaganda. You cannot say how many soldiers did he really killed. russians lie all the time.
You should watch the German film, "Der Untergang" or Downfall.
Its a realistic portrayal of the Fall of Berlin and Hitler's final days. All from the German perspective. A good movie and a wonderful cast.
This is also the basis of the famous Hitler Rant Meme.
I don't want to steal your thread, but I would also like to recommend german movie Stalingrad, where one get a little bit bigger perspective of Battle of Stalingrad - it is from german perspective tho.
@@antondzajajurca7797 And don't forget "Das Boot".
@@CalasTyphos And some good Russian films about the war are "Come and See" and "The Brest Fortress" (a.k.a. "Fortress of War"). "Come and See" in particular is a masterpiece, but probably one of the hardest movies you'll ever watch.
FEGERLEIN!,
@@antondzajajurca7797 I think you are referring to Stalingrad 1993.
Something you should know is that the Eastern front of WWII had different rules. The Germans didn't consider the Russians as people. If any Russians surrendered to the Germans it's very likely they would have just been shot. The Russians were literally fighting for their own survival. That's why the Eastern front was so brutal. Both sides were engaged in total war.
Вышесказанное мало кто понимает и осознает. В той войне все жители СССР либо рабы, либо подлежат уничтожению. Другого не планировалось немецким командованием. Слава павшим и выжившим героям!
P.S. Good reaction, man. Peace🤘
That's called a rock and a hard place.
Indeed the Eastern front was more brutal than the Western front with lots of atrocities on both sides, but it's not entirely true that no prisoners were taken. Prisoners were taken and survived the war, on both sides.
That's because the Russians didn't sign the Geneva convention of 29
@@jima6545 No! It's called betweenThe Tractor Factory and the Volga!
'The Battle of Sevastopol' (movie) and "The Dawns Here Are Quiet' (short show) are two good Russian film/shows to watch, if you enjoy subtitles. The movie's about Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The show's based off of a book.
Love this movie. Spent some time in Russian and saw a lot of the old battlefields. Its crazy, yet beautiful. The Soviets suffered hard during that war and came back hard when the war turned. Stalin was pretty brutal as well. Nice video dude.
There is a controversy about the German sniper Major Koinings if he actually existed. Stalingrad was covered with so many buildings that the enemy could take cover. Also there were so many German snipers that were sent to eliminate Vasili and they were all elite snipers. So it was hard to know who was who.
However, no matter who Koinings was Vasili took out all the German snipers that were sent to eliminate him.
It is based on true events. Which means Hollywood writers took a true event and turned it into what they thought would make a good movie. Personifying Major König as a single person is probably just a way to make it work in a movie. A Major is a staff officer, not someone who grabs a rifle and lies wait in the rubble.
Other snipers could of get them or artillery it just regular troops
90% of this movie is anti-Russian propaganda. Major König is the last of its problems...
this is a good movie but stalingrad wasnt anything like this. for a better idea watch stalingrad (1993)
I don't like this movie for a number of reasons, it not being particularly accurate, especially with a lot of the silly things the snipers were doing, is part of that. "Stalingrad" (1993) is better. "Cross of Iron" is also pretty good.
Keep coping communist just mad you lost a lot more people than the Germans
@@lampdust1016 Cringe comment mate
Yep. Hollywood propaganda movie.
The movie did take liberties that's for sure and isn't an accurate representation of events, but Stalingrad was just about the worst and most horrible meat grinder in history.
At the beginning it was:
270.000 Germans with 3000 artillery guns, 500 tanks and 600 aircraft growing to 1600 vs. 187.000 Soviets with 2200 artillery guns, 400 tanks and 300 aircraft.
Later it grew to:
600.000-1.000.000 Germans with 640 tanks and 402 aircraft vs. 1.100.000-1.150.00 Soviets with 13400 artillery guns, 894 tanks and 1115 aircraft.
Centered on a larger city, with civilians caught in it.
Casualty numbers:
The axis took 800.000-1.500.000 casualties with maybe around 500.000 dead.
The soviets took 1.300.000-2.600.000 casualties with maybe around 1.000.000.
And civilian inhabitants of Stalingrad went from over 500.000 to below 10.000, though how many fled, evacuated or died I don't know.
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I don't know what time and area would be the worst to be born into, but I'm pretty sure this would be one of the top ones.
Das Boot 1980's movie next :D directors cut is best, but long, but best
@Gerald H I 100% agree with this. It's worth it in the original german!
it is straight up hilarious how they don't even TRY to put in accurate accents. The Russians are speaking with British accents and the German is speaking with an American one. That's next-level "fuck it".
They wouldn't have accents, though. The magic of movies means the languages of the characters - Russian and German - are translated for us into the language of the actors. So accented English would mean the characters were speaking their own languages with foreign accents.
Yes, because speaking with an exadurated accent for the length of a movie is so much better.
You're not supposed to think about it. We're imagining the characters speaking their native tongue. They're only speaking English for the viewer. The only time an accent is to be applied (in this case Russian) is when the character is trying to speak English.
War movies haven't changed much in the accent regard. The best is the Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery starts out with a russki accent, but is damn near full Scottish by the end.
@@chizorama I'd honestly prefer them with no accent than a bad accent
Also, as an amateur writer- in the beginning of this masterwork (albeit does have inaccuracies, such as how a large press conference scene has loads of interviewers!? Nope, there would be less than four at the press conference scene to interview Vassili Zaitsev-) that scene where a BIG Swastika swallows up EUROPE is intrinsically heart wrenching!
Let's get this man to 1 million! Great channel, Devin! Try Gone Baby Gone. It's sooooo good.
Only two things true in this movie. One: There was Battle of Stalingrad. Two: There was sniper named Vasily Zaitsev.
You know this movie is brutal when it’s about The Battle of Stalingrad the deadliest battle in human history and how brutal the Nazis and Soviets were during the battle
Bloodiest single day is either the Marne WW1 or Borodino 1812 Napoleons invasion of Russia
Human history? Doubtful
There were bloodier engagements than Stalingrad on the Eastern Front.The 3 battles of Kharkov,Operation Zitadel ( Kursk) and Bagration. To name a few.
The EF was the bloodiest theatre of war in history,though.That's not in dispute.
@@DanceySteveYNWA It isn't. The battle of stalingrad has the highest bodycount of any battle during ww2 and every war since and before.
@@SSD_Penumbra not all human history is documented with total accuracy either.
Stumbled upon your page and let me say I love seeing people watch some of my favorite war movies🔥
G*d d*mn i love this movie, not exactly accurate historically as "everyone" says but... a d*mn good movie like you said. I love the story, execution, visuals, drama, sadness, you didnt tear up much but... i do a bit watching it, also cause my fav composer did the score. The master at emotional orchestra imo RIP James Horner the music composer of this movie (& titanic score which James is most popularly known for)
One of my favorite sniper movies~
love your reaction too, man! :D
Man, you got a new fan/follower just for finding this movie! PROPS
Would love to see a reaction to “Windtalkers” next, such an underrated war movie! 👍
100%
"Oooooweee, Dat Boy good!" 😂
Really hope you add Zulu to your watch list 150 soldiers who defend an outpost against 4000 Zulu warriors
Winter War (Finland-Sovjet) 1939-1940 (105 days) 32 Finns held against 4000 sovjets hole 105 day War at Kollaa front !! *32 against 4 000* !!!,,, Finnish (one of the 32 men) Sniper Simo Häyha kill 7-800 of dem (Ruskies) !!
@@sixtuspettersson6059 Simo's the man, the fact he used an obsolete rifle makes what he did even more impressive!
@@mattwillerton6775 I had same model rifle (*Pystykorva* (Spits dog)) when i did my military service in Finland ! I got silver in competition (No scope) 150 meters. i miss one shot in the air,, old rifle and it just went off.. ;)) (1969-70)
Now check out another Finnish Badass . Lauri Törni/Larry Thorn *Soldier of 3 Armys* !! Hero in Finland,, Germany,,and USA (Vietnam)
John Wayne (yes that John "Duke" Marion Wayne !!) playd Larry (Korn) in movie *Green Berrets* stay safe.
You should watch "The Death of Stalin"(2017). It's kind of a dark comedy with some recurring characters from this movie. Well sort of, the general, Khrushchev, is played in that movie.
Giving a rifle to one and the other had to follow, is an invention of the film. In reality, each had a rifle or a ppsh 41 submachine gun. An important factor in the Soviet army was that many soldiers carried submachine guns, while the norm in other armies was to carry a rifle.
The Soviets were brutal, but they had no alternative, the German army had been massacring them for more than a year.
Stalingrad was the bloodiest and most brutal battle in history.
(excuse my English)
Both of them are evil
The Germans sent Romanians to fight the Soviets. According to what I’ve read there were more of them than Germans in total. Romania was still bitter about losing their national treasure holds to Russia when they held them for safe keeping.
@@brutallyhonest123 yeah the commies are just as bad as the fascists. Ivan burned down my grandmothers house when they were pushing the germans back on the eastern front. She later ran anti communist propaganda against the Soviets. After the hungarian revolt in 1956 she immigrated to the US.
Quit excusing commies bruh
@@varmint87 we also have a freedom fighter against the Soviet also
Vasily Zaitsev, man. His name will never be forgotten in the halls of eternal badasses.
Ewen moore badass is Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä (White Death) dead count 7-800 in 100 days in Winter War 1939-1940 !! *Deadliest sniper in military history*
This movie is honestly in my top 10! Before I was diagnosed with a rare bone disease I wanted to join the military and train to be a sniper
My only regret is that I didn't cure my boneitis!!!
this movie is a big old lie and gets evrything 100% wrong but at least its fun
@@pepqcat3169as I said to someone else most movies can't tell everything other wise it would be way to long of a movie. And it's call licence TV drama we're you can't tell the truth of everything. Either way I love this movie
@@dapaintbrush6965 Sadly, this one is a blatant American propaganda, portraying Soviets worse than Germans. Well made movie, but full of Iies.
damn, I watched this in theatres, good movie and not many reactions on youtube. Thanks man
Saw the notification and I just clicked right away
Me too! Been waiting for this and generation War.
The battle of Stalingrad really was the critical turning point.
The Russians charging gives off major “UUUURAAAHHH” energy. Also, Rachel Weisz’s character is based on a real love interest and sniper companion of Vasily. It’s debated what happened between them, but we do know that she lost her ovaries when she stepped on a mine.
Take a shot for every time you hear, "that boy good."
Drunk af 😂
I like reactions and a long time I was searching for reaction on Enemy at the gates. And now I finally found it.
I remember my parents getting me this movie on DVD as a 9 year old kid, because I was super into WW2 😂😂😂. I remember my brother bought a Mosin Nagant for $60 dollars after this movie came out in 2001. Great shooting rifle, at the time cheap ammo too, now they cost over $300. A great sniper flick for sure. Enjoyed the reaction man.
One of my absolute favorite war movies of all time. This and Fury. Glad to see you watched both.
My favorite actor in the movie is Ron Perlman. "You're such a cheater!!" Thanks for reacting to this! 😊
Yeah, Ron Perlman with a British accent is a hell of a thing.
@@JnEricsonx it's fantastic 🤣
Awesome movie man! I remember watching this as a kid and that scene where he's timing his shots with the explosions and taking everyone out with iron sights is my favorite part. Devin, you know I have to keep bugging you on this.. Can you react to "The Outpost" and "Restrepo" for your boy over here? Lol.
The fact that you went into this blind is another great call! Only a minute into the video so will hopefully enjoy the rest with my morning coffees here.
6:02 That's true) Was an order #227 "No retreat" in case of bad situation on frontlines, and after charge of infantry in trenches are defensive detachment ("zagraditelny otryad") was deployed.
Notice that the "Russians" are speaking with Irish accents. Story is that the guy playing Vasily, Jude Law, couldn't manage a Russian accent but could do sort of an Irish accent, so everyone had to speak with one.
The boy in the movie was based on a real boy at Stalingrad, though I don't recall if he actually spied or not.
Well the characters are all supposed to speaking actual Russian, without foreign accents, so it would be strange if the actors' English had fake Russian accents.
Valkyrie is the same English actors playing Germans
they are all speaking with english accents, i dont hear a single irish accent?
I'm Irish, and I can tell you for sure that there are no Irish accents in this movie.
Jude Law is speaking in his normal Cockney accent which is probably the most irritating thing in this movie.
At least Bob Hoskins made an attempt at a Russian accent.
@@thewildgoose7467 yeah its pretty obvious everyone is doing a standard english accent, i actually think although silly, constantly looking down at the subtitles, if it was in Russian would take something away from the visuals imo.
My grandfather was a sniper in WW1. My Father was a sniper in WW2. My dad taught me how to shoot at age 6. One shot! was his favorite expression.
Thanks!
Thank you!
31:56 first time I ever watched this movie I had the world’s most intense chills when I saw this part not only was the kid hanging disturbing but it was more her gasping and screaming that made it even more shocking I was also young when I first watched this movie so it was probably a little more frightening then
The whole shooting retreating soldiers is a myth by the way. The "Not One Step Back" order only applied to officers who retreated without orders, not the common soldiers.
Up until then the Russians were trading territory for time since Russia is so vast. The officers held the attitude that they could just keep retreating and eventually the Russian winter would take care of the Germans.
There were obviously a lot of problems with this. The biggest one being that they had lost Ukraine and were well on their way to losing the oil fields in the Caucasus. Ukraine was Russia's breadbasket and if it wasn't for U.S. aid sending billions of tons of food, most of Russia would have starved over the winter.
Actually, there was some NKVD "stopping detachement" that killed retreating soldiers but that was not used everywhere, and by 1942, it was a waning practice as Stalin understood that it was counter-productive.
There was also case of soviet panicking soldier who were shot on the spot by their officer, political or not, or even fellow soldiers.
Also, the help from USA and Britain accelerated the soviet of the victory rate by 1943, providing truck, food, train, tank and some technical assistance in cryptography, but before 1942, the german submarine were too effective.
@@charloteauxvalerian3875 Well yeah, there's always going to be outliers, my point was that it was hardly standard procedure.
@@twohorsesinamancostume7606 They sent women into battle and sent tanks out 90% finished. Its an exaggeration of a desperate, hungry war machine.
@@twohorsesinamancostume7606 *Billions* tons of food? RuSsIaN wInTeR? GeNeRaL fRoSt? Dude, please learn some history. Just a friendly advise.
@@Skooffy Oh of course. Friendly ADVICE (learn to spell if you're going to be a douche) always comes in the form of someone being an asshole.
If anyone needs to learn history it's you. The entire point of Order No. 227 (also known as "Not a Step Back") was that Russian officers were constantly retreating, trading space for time. It is LITERALLY the entire point of that order.
In fact, here's the opening text of that order:
Moscow, Nr. 227, July 28, 1942
The enemy throws new forces to the front without regard to heavy losses and penetrates deep into the Soviet Union, seizing new regions, destroying our cities and villages, and violating, plundering and killing the Soviet population. Combat goes on in region Voronezh, near Don, in the south, and at the gates of the Northern Caucasus. The German invaders penetrate toward Stalingrad, to Volga and want at any cost to trap Kuban and the Northern Caucasus, with their oil and grain. The enemy already has captured Voroshilovgrad, Starobelsk, Rossosh, Kupyansk, Valuyki, Novocherkassk, Rostov on Don, half Voronezh. Part of the troops of the Southern front, following the panic-mongers, have left Rostov and Novocherkassk without severe resistance and without orders from Moscow, covering their banners with shame.
The population of our country, who love and respect the Red Army, start to be discouraged in her and lose faith in the Red Army, and many curse the Red Army for leaving our people under the yoke of the German oppressors, and itself running east.
Some stupid people at the front calm themselves with talk that we can retreat further to the east, as we have a lot of territory, a lot of ground, a lot of population and that there will always be much bread for us. They want to justify the infamous behaviour at the front. But such talk is a falsehood, helpful only to our enemies.
Each commander, Red Army soldier and political commissar should understand that our means are not limitless. The territory of the Soviet state is not a desert, but people - workers, peasants, intelligentsia, our fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, children. The territory of the USSR which the enemy has captured and aims to capture is bread and other products for the army, metal and fuel for industry, factories, plants supplying the army with arms and ammunition, railways. After the loss of Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic republics, Donetzk, and other areas we have much less territory, much fewer people, bread, metal, plants and factories. We have lost more than 70 million people, more than 800 million pounds of bread annually and more than 10 million tons of metal annually. Now we do not have predominance over the Germans in human reserves, in reserves of bread. To retreat further - means to waste ourselves and to waste at the same time our Motherland.
Therefore it is necessary to eliminate talk that we have the capability endlessly to retreat, that we have a lot of territory, that our country is great and rich, that there is a large population, and that bread always will be abundant. Such talk is false and parasitic, it weakens us and benefits the enemy, if we do not stop retreating we will be without bread, without fuel, without metal, without raw material, without factories and plants, without railways.
This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan.
Now begone. I have better things to do. Like literally anything else.
I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie... I remember going in to get my wisdom teeth out, fell asleep on the operating table, and woke up on my couch with a slurpee and an ice pack halfway through this movie.
Apparently when I left with my parents, I wasn't loopy, I simply demanded a slurpee and a DVD of this movie and refused to accept anything less.
"Are those POW's" I can't even... at least You made me laught :)
"That is so f*cked up!" Well, welcome in Soviet Russia Commrade! We treat you like a sh*t, and give you sh*t. Why are You not happy?
Jokes aside man, They did fight like that, check USSR and US casualties durring WW II.
I have been waiting for this since you announced it! great movie... have you seen The Longest Day (1962)? Last time I was in Normandy D-Day Beaches I went to visit Sainte-Mère-Église they actually keep a paratrooper manekin trapped in the churche's tower... where paratrooper Steele from Company F, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry, of the 82nd Airborne Divisionended actually was...I up rewatching the movie out of respect ...
2:50 that's a very accurate statement
It really isn’t, this movies great but the Soviet’s weren’t all forced to fight, they had incredible spirit. I don’t like the way this movie portrays them all as cowards, what they pulled off was incredible and it was through good planning and sheer will power
@@alexmajor7773 sure lol... GOOD PLANNING WTF hahah. you must be high. russian bot
Awesome! Love this movie! It’s a true story. Exaggerated a little and love triangle added, but so much is true. Including the sniper duel and the places the took place (factory and the train yard). Great channel man, keep up the great content!
Exagerated a lot! especially the first part! I don't think a movie about Stalingrad needed to portray the Russian soldiers and commanders as dumb headless chickens thrown into a meatgrinder to be fascinating and have us rooting for them.. it's straight up disrespectful imo but the sniper duel is great
@@youtradvostraductions3082 hmm not true, its general knowledge in my country of Finland that in the winter war '39 Russians basically stormed like that finnish lines and got picked off. We had waaay fewer numbers but we held against them. You gotta remember Stalin in the 30's purged his generals and many officers (for fear of overthrowing him) and put the Political officers in charge at first and they because of no training did absolutely horribly. So that opening in my mind is very realistic even if it didnt happen there it happened elsewhere by them. Also Russians sent alot of ppl from the outer parts of russia or the so called conquered nations to fight in the front lines and to die first, forced to fight and die, that is also whey their morale and fighting wasnt good.
@@mrgoodsenchou5512
Eastern Front wasn’t anything like the winter war
no its was massively exaggerated and includes outright myths and falsehoods, its a great movie but not even close to the most accurate
25:43 dude Stalingrad had battles where there would be 1 building and on each floor was a battle or the next building over was the command center or outpost
Stalingrad during WW2 was like Verdun during WW1
Hell on earth
Movie Recommendations:
The Last Full Measure
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Saints and Soldiers
The Guns of Navarrone/Force 10 from Navarrone
The Dirty Dozen
The Deer Hunter
Defiance
Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima
Valkyrie
Kingdom of Heaven
The Kingdom
More where those came from.... keep it up man!
The battle of Stalingrad was a turning point of the war for the Germans, the fighting was bitter for both sides, sometimes room to room.
The story of Vasili Zaitsev is only about three pages in the book Enemy at the Gateshe book covers the whole battle of stalingrad.
The situation was so desperate at one point, that Russian T-34 tanks were driving off the assembly line and straight into battle, without even being painted.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time!!
The best movie about Stalingrad ever made in the English language... And about the 87th best movie made about Stalingrad overall. But numbers 1 through 86 are all in Russian and it's very hard to find dubbed or even subtitled copies of them, so this is what we got. And it is a great movie! No doubt about it.
Soviets didn't actually gun down retreating troops like this except in a few rare cases, but after the "no retreat" order by Stalin they did employ a rear security force whose mission was to catch frontline soldiers trying to go AWOL. The men in this scene would have been arrested, tried, and then either executed or sent to a penal battalion.
Man, I love your reactions. Love from UK.
Incredible film, such a dark war to have lived through.
My great uncles died in stalingrad, Cossack division of red army. Other uncle won the Hero of the soviet union award in 1957.
Im glad this movie was made. We never really see the depiction of the Eastern Front in the west. Of all the WW2 movies, how many can you count that depict the Eastern Front?
No worries. I'll wait.
One of the best sniper movies ever made ... just my humble opinion, of course.
still pulling for the Generation Kill HBO series at some point, and someone else mentioned the John Adams HBO series, great stuff, but in the meantime you are killing it with these flics
That was a great video mate fair play
As a russian (living in Moscow), and a student of history, many of the things in the movie is exagerrated to a fault (some are beyond that line).
- ZagradOtryad (Haulting Squad) with the MGs at the square - one of the most common misconceptions. In fact, they did not fire on retreat, mostly they were used on the soviet side of the line to catch cowards and lost during battle to get them back in formation after a brief asking. And even if they had to use weapons, it was just an mg unit with a bit more commanding power. It was not a firing squad.
- Other thing - as it is shown here and in Call Of Duty, soldiers were put in battle with minimum weapons and shot on boats, like cannon fodder. Counter to a popular belief, soldiers were trained, armed well and were mindful enough to fight for their home. Were they afraid? Yes, that's natural. And there were instances of runners. But few and not on such scale. Hollywood likes to demonize soviets, but that's "guilds" and "liberals" for ya. Never trust a hollywoodian to write about anything historically accurate if it doen't involve US in it.
Yup as soon as they get the chance to portray. Commies in a bad light, they will
@@pissfather6798 Take it we're going to ignore all the violations of human rights during the soviet era then?
I'd argue they were worse than most movies portray. *cough* the rape of Berlin *cough cough*
@@SSD_Penumbra Once again, a common misconception. There were a few scumbags, no one denies it, but it was no mass orgy as people see in movies, not to mention those fucks were shot in a disciplinary manner. As a whole, RKKA (Raboche-Krestyanskaya Kranaya Armiya - Worker-Peasant Red Army) was a disciplined and dutiful organism. Plus, "memoirs", as it were, are all from the POV of a former nazi press writer, a woman at that, who's been closely working with ministry of propaganda of Germany. So we have a double whammy - "believe women" and "reds are demons, y'all".
They also like to take credit for others achievements in their films as well like the first Enigma machine captured as an example
i really enjoy your reactions! greetings from germany!
Glad you got around to this one!
In real way vasili got the major to reveal his position was he lifted a glove on a stick..the major got itchy and shot it and vasili saw the mussel blast from under the metal grate and put a bullet where the flash was and got him....badass
It's a movie, but The Red Army absolutely has that attitude too their own troops
I love this movie...have you seen behind enemy lines with owen Wilson if you really want to watch a movie to react watch Tears of the Sun with Bruce Willis
Yes please!
There is a bit of dramatization. The one man with the rifle one man with ammunition was loosely based on something that happened regarding a Cadet division that was mobilized in the Summer of 41. Barrier Troops/Blocking detachments were a thing, but they actually arrested people and investigated (hard to believe I know). It was pretty haphazard, but essentially if you were in the Red Army and you were caught anywhere outside of the direct c&c of your chain of command, you would be detained and investigated. 657k people were detained and investigated. 25k were arrested for desertion (or similar) and faced court martial. About half were returned to their units or penal battalions, the other half executed (about 10k). Actual blocking companies were assigned to rifle regiments so there might be one to four persons assigned to each company in a regiment to carry out investigations, and arrests (but obviously outside of combat operations). Blocking detachments as shown were relatively rare and mostly assigned to penal battalions.
Bob Hoskins was the man!!! R.I.P to Smee
I once read something from a German veteran of WW2 who said the Russians fought with undaunting courage and endless charges, and the British fought like gentlemen and professionals but had bad generals. When he was asked about the Americans he flew into a rage and curse filled vitriol about how the American troops just spammed grenades at everything!
SO he's watched Call of Duty footage?
@@JnEricsonx LMAO
Devin!!!!!! You gotta watch Empire of the Sun! Stephen Spielberg movie from the 80’s with a very young Christian Bale. One of the best underrated movies out there!
It was nominated for 6 Oscars and won many other prizes. It's a great movie. It was so well made.
PS. "P-51! Cadillac of the Sky!"
Great movie, great reaction. If you ever do black and white movies, I highly recommend 2 Humphrey Bogart WW2 movies, Casablanca and Sahara. Fantastic movies
I recommend you watch A Bridge Too Far
Regarding the confusion at the beginning over whether they were soldiers or POWs: The Soviets were...intense...about military conscription. Especially once Germany violated the non-aggression pact they had with the USSR & invaded in 1941 (culminating in the battle depicted in this movie. The Battle of Stalingrad was where the USSR stopped the German advance & started to turn the tide of the Eastern Front)...
Awesome choice for a movie. It is not that well known but it is stunning and unforgettable. The Russian side of the war is not explored much in WWII movies. This movie would be a great addition to a WWII history class.
U kidding me?
The only thing the movie got accurate is two things: 1 there was a battle in Stalingrad
2 there was a sniper called vassili.
Everything else was Hollywood fiction. You should listen what actual historians have to say about the movie.
It pisses me off how so many people depict this movie as accurate and believe in all this bullshit like the myth of 1 rifle for 2 men or every soldier who retreated was shot.
Very underrated movie....great reaction DG!!! Waiting on Tears of the Sun. Keep up the great content Bro!
been a while since i watched that movie, crazy shooter though.
I've honestly never seen this movie now I gotta check it out
One of the best movies out there
Great movie. There is another military movie based on a true story that came out around that time you might really like if you haven't seen it yet. Men of Honor with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro.
As an amateur war historian, in my opinion, there has been no more difficult conflict, than that was fought between Russia, and Germany.
Thanks DG - never knew about this movie
There's a series called Generals at War that is very good. They do great detail on the opposing sides of a battle. I'm almost positive there are some eposides on youtube. The battle of Kursk, Stalingrad and El Alamain are my favorites.
BTW the real life 'Tania' was a badass. she thought Vasily was dead until an interview in 1973 were she was informed he survived and had remarried, which shocked her as she claimed she was still in love with him ' was a Russian-American who went to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia. When she reached Belarus, the Germans had already killed them. After that incident, she joined the resistance.Tania and her group went to Stalingrad by traveling through the sewer system to reach the Russian lines. After that, she joined Vasily Zaytsev's sniper school and became a sniper. The group of snipers that Zaytsev formed was called "The Hares." Tania was a part of a raid on a German headquarters. She and the rest of The Hares killed Germans by picking off guards one by one. Tania was accredited with 24 kills. Chernova and Zaytsev were in love during the war but were later separated.
At the beginning I wouldn't say that they were being 'rough with the soldiers'. They weren't soldiers. They were conscripts. They weren't trained. I doubt they had ever been given a rifle before they got off the boats.
The Soviets, at that point in the war, had been reduced to using swarm tactics all the way up and down the line. "Send more bodies than they have bullets." The 'veterans' weren't sent in until the Germans were tired and low on supply. It's a great tactic if you have a near endless supply of desperate starving citizens that you are afraid will rise up against you.
Still works too.
Love this film. Glad you enjoyed it👍
I Smashed that subscribe button like it was a Christmas ham!
"Are these prisoners?"
Yea, pretty much.
Worse, they're conscripts.
More like Penal units.
@@Schizacz Nah, they wouldn't give half the guys glorious soviet riflle of Mosin, just link arms & march to the German positions, so they can be observed.
It is privilege to die for motherland.
It's called order 227 in the soviet union. It is somewhat true not to a t because this is Hollywood. You earned a new subscriber enjoyed you're video. This was my favorite movie. I've studied alot of ww2 and the soviet union because this movie. It's a big picture that alot do not understand!
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One of my favorite movies hell yeah
We "truly appreciate" YOUR Channel, *Devin G* ! WW2 was f-ing: insane, disturbing and a complete and total emotional and physical bloodbath... ...it IS also: fascinating, extremely detailed and in a way, a VERY LIKABLE part of history. ...I've NOTHING but: love, incredible respect and admiration for so many who were either cut down in the prime of their lives on the battlefield- or, even those who made it back! :.) The survivors of the Second World War are BARELY any now, just due to how long ago 1941 was. IF you were 18 in '45- you'd be around a whopping *_*100 now..._**
Please react to “tears of the sun”
Yes please!
The LT was a Zampolit (a political officer). There job was basically to keep divisions in place and tow the party line.
Yall know the fantastic movie for him to react to? A bridge too far
Also Kelly's Heroes would be a good one.
I agree, about the allies invasion in Holland, it's a classic
"To End All Wars" is an amazing, gut wrenching but ultimately redemptive. And it's all true.
Oh hell yeah. Had forgot about that classic.
May have to go to Amazon and buy that.
Hollywood heavy weights are in that movie.
If you enjoyed this movie I highly recommend Generation War,Max Manus: Man of War, Flags of Our Fathers, Miracle At St Anna as a few good WW2 era films my man!