The Soviet Union death were so high that there's an entire lost generation of men. Population numbers in Russia and other former soviet states still suffer dramatically today from that loss.
and the reason for so many deaths is the legacy of the monarchy... the Russian Empire was backward both in terms of technology and in terms of industry and agriculture, and the Communists simply did not have time to restore the backward country after the First World War. (therefore, the Soviet armament was not infrequently lagging behind the German, there was not enough food at the front, medicines sometimes too.) if the revolution had happened earlier, the losses could have been reduced tenfold.
With the amount of casualties the soviet union had I never thought it would be possible for a soldier in the soviet union to see the war from beginning to end
@@Nclake5485в этом видео потери Германии на восточном фронте занижены в 4 раза, потери у Немцев на Востоке были почти такими же как у Советов, но видео создано для Западных людей, поэтому тут многие смерти советских граждан рассматриваются как вина Советского руководства... Политика
@chuck_quincymrp2640 not right, if German loss was as you suggest the total Ost heer all branches the war is over in mid 1943. Country births prove thisfor year by year. Although the Bundesarchiv now admits to 3.5 million troops KIA in the East.
Царствие небесное вашему деду. Память о наших героях никогда не умрет! Мой дед воевал, но знаю почти ничего о его боевом пути. Его не застала, а сам он никогда не говорил про войну, только какие-то обрывки фраз, но не в контексте, что вот во время войны был где-то там, а просто «я был в городе Лида» и уже потом начали понимать, что во время войны. А если судить по сайтам, он дошёл до Чехии, а потом ещё воевал и на Тихом октане против японцев. А бабушка всю жизнь вспоминала как бомбы падали. Всегда рассказывала «Сирена. Мы бегом в окопы. И как начинает бах, бах, бах… страшно, сидишь и думаешь, что сейчас на голову прилетит», а потом ходили осколки от бомб собирали
My grandfather (American) enlisted around 19-20 - and fought after Pearl Harbor until the end of WW2. He came back a very different man. "Shell Shocked" now known as PTSD. He died 8 years before I was born. He became an alcoholic - he died in a fox hole he dug in a snow bank 2 blocks from his apartment. I always wonder if he heard a car backfire or a gunshot and by sheer instinct dug himself in and died of exposure/hypothermia. It's so surreal. Who was he? What horrors did he see and experience in all of his service? I only know he did come across one of the concentration camps - and it broke his heart and mind. He became cruel and detached - but I still feel sorry for him. I wish I could have asked him questions. I still have so many questions that will never be answered. I know he became something of a monster after coming home once the war was over, but he served until the bitter end and deep down I know he never got any treatment or diagnosis - so he looked for the solution to his issues in the bottom of a bottle and never found any sense of peace - and that makes me feel such sorrow for who he could have been. But one thing is for sure; he was brave. He volunteered and enlisted of his own free will. He witnessed atrocities. And it mangled his soul and tore him to shreds. My poor, broken, yet courageous grandfather. If there is an afterlife, I hope he found the peace he so desperately wanted to find. 😢
now quadruple that and u have the average eastern front. Still sad for you and ur granddad. Mine fought on the eastern front and got captured and thrown into a copper mine which collapsed later.
Mathematics of civilian casualties in the USSR in 1942. Three Germans were killed near the village. The village was surrounded and burned down along with all the inhabitants in the number of 188 people. This is one example out of tens of thousands
You "forgot" to mention that they were most probably killed by partisans, in other words non-combattants, which is a war crime and will always lead to retaliation by any nation. Three German soldiers killed in battle do not mean 1 village destroyed, because normal warfare does not imply actions against civilians; partisan warfare is something else. BTW the Americans executed 10 German boys, 15 or 16 years old, months after the war; what do we call that ? You do know that 1.5 million Russians (and also Ukrainians) fought with the Germans against the hated Bolsheviks and that millions of civilians welcomed the Germans and were later killed by the Bolsheviks after Germany retreated or sent to Gulags. The Russians killed millions of their own people and already in the 1930's 3-4 millions Ukrainians during the Holodomor. That is how so many Russians died....and last but not least let us not forget the political commissars who shot every soldier instantly who did not advance during an attack. You probably also know that Russians put on German uniforms and burnt their own villages to create hate against the enemy ?! It worked.
That shot of the German soldier preparing to kill the civilian holding a child brings tears to my eyes every time. I've probably seen this video 30 times.
"Tears" is a pretty wholesome reaction. I would have to say "unquenchable rage". The sort of people who did that are still around, and still hope to get a chance to do it again, to this or that scapegoat. They don't hide it. They brag about their little conspiracy theories that they made up in their heads to justify their hatred.
It's sad seeing this video talking about the long piece but then knowing how recently the war between Ukraine and Russia has started, how tensions between China and the US have grown and overall how violent and messed up the world has been getting. So sad seeing how many innocent lives are ruined do to unnecessary hate, greed, corruption, and other rediculous reasons.
Well, the war is between Russia and Nato, to be exactly. Ukraine isn't independent since 2014. That is why Russia was negotiating with USA and NATO before conflict. Ukrainians don't mind to be slaves of USA to make Russia weak and made all for war. I was ukrainian till 2020, I know what I'm saying.
It's why wars need to be nipped in the bud before it takes hold, otherwise it can escalate into something far worse and bigger, and I have a feeling that if the west didn't respond so forcefully to the Ukraine-Russian war, things might have escalated far worse. As the video points out, this is the longest we've had when it comes to peace since Roman times, at least in the sense of major peace, because clearly, wars still happen, but are far smaller in scale and will it last? I like to think so but you never know and personally, I feel if a major war does break out, it's going to be because of the US or China butting heads, basically, China rising as a power and the US not taking it too well, it wouldn't take much for it to escalate into something major, but then, the same could have happened during the Cold War and peace remained.
@@nicklibby3784 2 миллиона человек за первый год войны попали в окружение, но сколько погибло? Выйти из окружения, месяцами прячясь в лесу без возможности подтвердить свою личность , свою историю и не попасть под НКВД , с их расследованием против тех кто был в плену. . . уж проще второй раз попасть под призыв. Так у нас получаются ,,дважды убитые,, . Полицаи отдельная история , сначала они работают на немцев, потом всеми способами пытаются записаться в партизаны, а как начинается расследование - записаться в мертвые герои СССР. Да же историю смерти своих родственников невозможно 100% подтвердить. Ленинград - там самые загадочные и лживые истории. Как величайшую оплошность в планировании списали на блокаду. Сотни тысяч людей умерли , не из-за каких то немцев, а потому что старая система логистики была признана не эффективной и нужно было переходить на новую (эффективную). Ликвидировать северный центр снабжения и расосредоточить(из-за захвата такого цента осенью в Киеве, по доктрине централизованного снабжения). Вот только вся северная армия , беженцы с Украины, Белорусии, Польши , Латвии, Литвы, Эстонии все направились туда, где уже было приказано леквидировать центр поставок. Огромный промышленный город , вторая столица. Все силы на эвакуацию заводов и специалистов. Люди есть, оружие есть , припасов нет. Куда записать этих погибших беженцев? Приказ 227- ни шагу назад , пока на западе все думают, что заград отряды убивали солдат, на деле сами солдаты не правильно поняли приказ и думали, что их расстреляют. А офицеры не чуть не лучше - поддрежвивали опосения рядовых, хотя сами не знали как работает этот приказ. Слухи и страх быть убитым своими , убили больше , чем заград отряды . Есть в Ленинграде - ,,дорога жизни,, . Это маршрут через озеро , по которому доставлялись припасы во время осады. У нас в официальной истории написано, что это дорога героев, где самые смелые под обстрелами артилерии и самолетов, по хрупкому льду везли припасы. Там погибло двое моих предков. Но если сесть изучать вопрос очень внимательно, то можно обнаружить, что до дороги жизни от берега 18км, у немцев на северном направлении нет артилерии, которая бы могла стрелять на такое расстояние. Авиация? У защитников города её в 2 раза больше + ПВО с земли и флота. В статистике написано огромное множество погибших на этом пути. Но как они могли погибнуть? А если начать изучать ,, торгсин,, то сам дедушка Ленин встанет из мавзолея на красной площади , чтобы тебя расстрелять. Уж очень это темная тема. Если официально : это магазин для иностранных туристов, для обмена иностранной валюты на советский товар. Если не офицально: ломбард для обмена скрытого от приватизации на дефицитные товары. Офицально: закрыт до войны , а все причастные приговорены по статье за привышение должностных полномочий , с целью разбогатеть . Но есть в отчетах за 41й год пункт - трофейное золото . Его там несколько тонн. Откуда в 41ом у отступающей армии трофейное золото в ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ? Есть огромное множество доказательств, что в голодающем Ленинграде , меняли еду на ценные металы . Доставленную еду , для торгсина , записывали в уничтоженную под атаками врага. Но это никогда не попадет в книжки по истории.
@@sitting_nut they paid with so much blood only because Soviets let it happen. If only they cared like Allies losses would be lesser. Also Stalin was just as bad as Hitler
My dad was a WWII VET..he was a field medic ...he told us that when he died he didn't want a 21 gun salute because he'd been shot at enough when in battle..he said that he even had his medic backpack shot off of him once
Мой дед, кавалер ордена Красной Звезды, танкист. Дважды тяжело был ранен под Воронежем, не дошёл до Берлина 40 километров.... My grandfather, Cavaliers of medal Red Star, tank crewman, was twice injured v ery hard under Voronezh. And he was KIA near Berlin, before Victory Слава советскому солдату!
My great grandfather passed away a couple years ago. He was i think 97 years old. He was a 2x puple heart, POW in germany. He was a truck driver/mechanic and he was in many famous battles. He was such an amazing man....
Azerbaijan was one of the countries in the USSR, out of 681,000 conscripts, 300,000 died, almost as many as US casulties, which is crazy because Azerbaijan SSR only had a population of about 3 million. One of the men who fought in stalingrad was my great grandpa, Rustam, who was shot in the legge and sent home in 1943.
There is a fantastic German TV series called “Generation War” that I can’t recommend enough. It’s about a group of friends including 2 brothers who are sent off to the war and what happens to them through the war and its aftermath.
@@nicklibby3784 you have serious brainrot. You've seen too many of your American propaganda movies, so you probably think German soldiers are all Cartoon caricatures screaming "DEATH TO THE J3WS"
The average age of a U.S. veteran. According to stephan ambrose, was 26 years old. The average age of a Korean War veteran, was 24. The average age of a Vietnam War veteran, was 21.
one of the worst parts of the holocaust is the fact that those who perpetrated it weren't the monsters that films and TV led us to believe, but were normal people who thought what they were doing was justified. Look up the book "Ordinary Men"
True. Villains don't see themselves as such, they see themselves as heroes. And heroes are those who win, not necessarily the "good guys". I was in grade school when the narrative taught switched from "how the West was won" to "how the West was lost" (referring to Westward expansion in the US).
As a Russian, I can honestly tell you. Most citizens of the Russian Federation are sure that the Nazi regime in Ukraine and Russia is fighting against the Nazis. And all who know the reality are either dead or live underground fearing death.
Победа во Второй мировой войне была достигнута совместными усилиями стран-участниц Антигитлеровской коалиции. Значителен вклад в нее западных союзников, разгромивших и пленивших 176 дивизий. Но главную тяжесть борьбы вынес именно советский народ.
@@НатальяВиноградова-о9ю Каждый Русский человек должен знать, что если бы не коммунисты, нацисты бы даже не пришли к власти в Германии и тем более бы не напали на Русских, уже не говоря о помощи коммунистов нацистам вплоть до 41 года. После объявления же войны, коммунисты могли сдаться немцам и сохранить миллионам гражданам жизни, как это сделала Франция, которая потеряла в 50 раз меньше человек чем СССР, при том что сдалась. Напомню, сами коммунисты и свергли Николая за то, что он не хотел сдаваться немцам в первой мировой и погубил 10 миллионов граждан в ней. Самих же комуняк большие потери не остановили, и по итогу умерло в 2.5 раз больше человек ради "победы", которая не дала русским ничего, кроме голода, разрухи и поколения без отцов, но зато советы остались у власти и подняли свой престиж на мировой арене.
@@mrmops1586 Эм..."что если бы не коммунисты, нацисты бы даже не пришли к власти в Германии" Что? "уже не говоря о помощи коммунистов нацистам вплоть до 41 года" Они одни или ещё были страны? "После объявления же войны, коммунисты могли сдаться немцам и сохранить миллионам гражданам жизни, как это сделала Франция, которая потеряла в 50 раз меньше человек чем СССР, при том что сдалась" Чтобы Германия получила в своё распоряжение так нужные ей ресурсы и победила в войне? "Напомню, сами коммунисты и свергли Николая за то, что он не хотел сдаваться немцам в первой мировой и погубил 10 миллионов граждан в ней" Нет, народ был недоволен войной и проблемами ,которые она вызвала ,левые расшатали лодку ,а объединил их засланный Ленин(ну это если опустить подробности и про Временное правительство и тп). Ну я понял вашу логику , у вас коммуняки виновны во всех бедах войны ,лучше бы они сдались, а страну бы поделили на Протектораты, чтобы они отправляли ресурсы и рабов в Германию ,как это было на территориях восточной Европы." Итог-вам надо лечиться.
when i was much younger, i worked at my dads barber shop and a lot of the clients were ww2 vets, most of them were very quiet, and never talked about the war, we even had 1 ww1 vet- he never talked about. im honored now that i got to meet them. my dad was a korea war tank commander- he never talked about it. he did say once that in one fight they were with ENGLISH TROOPs and they were good fighters.
One of the reasons why no one wants to talk about it afterwards is that not only have they experienced the horrors of war, but most of them have also done terrible things themselves. That is the nature of war. It is a mixture of guilt and repression. when my great-grandfather was dying, he was in a delirium (morphine) and was describing scenes he had experienced. this was 70 years later. we were standing by the bed and were shocked at what he had experienced. especially because he had never told us anything like this before.
The song is true. We don't have many songs about the age of defenders. If you want, I'll give you examples. My grandfather was almost twenty years old. Gunner, two concussions, shrapnel in the shoulder. He lived a happy life. He didn't like to tell me about the war. Only on the ninth of May. When he could drink a little vodka for dead friends. I'm 41, I still remember all the little things I heard. My grandmother is a minor prisoner of a concentration camp. She miraculously managed to survive. She didn't say anything at all. When she became old and died (my parents took her to their home, in her old age she could not serve herself), huge stocks of food were found in her apartment, especially dried bread. The second grandmother lived in besieged Leningrad. Have you ever cooked sparrow soup? Did you know that after the blockade was broken, there was a carriage with cats in the train train? There were a lot of rats. Rats ate corpses and carried infections. Do you know that people didn't get sick at the same time? Couldn't afford to be sick! You know that we still have an inscription on the wall: "Attention, this side is dangerous during shelling!" (the shelling was carried out from the west, from the Pulkovo heights). Read about the norms for issuing bread by cards. Would you be able to survive? The loss of a food card is death! People were evacuated! First of all, children! There is a poem by Olga Bergolz. And there were victims. A lot! Children! The "Road of Life" took place in winter - on the ice of Lake Ladoga. The air defense was working at full capacity, but it was not coping. Schools and theaters were working (you can imagine how it was, especially in winter, the first winter was -30 Celsius, the blockade lasted almost 900 days, this is an all-time record). Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) is the cultural capital of the country. Tram tracks have been repaired. Shestakovich gave a concert. The seventh Symphony was written in besieged Leningrad. Sorry, I'm talking about a sore point. If you are interested, I can tell you more. Many children reported that they were adults. Even more minors joined the partisans (watch the 1985 film "Come and See", if you are impressionable, it's better not to watch). Very, very many men have died. There was a demographic crisis after the war. There were women left. Nature made it so that after the war more girls than boys were born. We are still recovering now. As far as I know, we still have more girls than boys. And the women are very beautiful. Grandfather is an artilleryman. Grandfather is a fighter pilot. Grandma is a nurse. Leningrad: Great-grandmother - arrested a downed fascist pilot (a family heirloom is a school graduation dress made of parachute silk =)). Grandmother - miraculously escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp (Germany paid her a lot of money every month after the war). Another grandmother (half-sister) worked at the factory. Minors went to the front (they lied about their age). Female fighter pilots and female snipers. "There is such a profession - to protect the homeland." We won the war, but the USA won the war (Я не знаю как перевести с русского, "победить" и "выиграть" у нас разные - слова. I do not know how to translate from Russian. "to win" and "to win" we have different words. In one case, "victory" is meant, in the other, "a win".) I would be glad to talk to you.
Actually, there were significant numbers of soldiers under the age of 18. The Royal Navy accepted boys as young as 14, the 15 was more common. I many countries no one was looking too close at the paperwork - so many underage lads enlisted. Somewhat famously, the most decorated soldier in the US Army, Audie Murphy, coming from a poor family, he had his sister lie on an affidavit certifying his age (he was 17) and was enlisted, despite being baby-faced and his enlistment physical listing him as: 5 feet 5.5 inches (1.66 m) and 112 pounds (50.8 kg)!
A lot of children fought in the Soviet Union, in partisan detachments (pioneers), withstood numerous tortures, but did not give up. One example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Guard_(Soviet_resistance)
Three uncles of mine served in the U.S. military during World War II; my Dad's brother Lawrence (U.S. Army), my Mom's brother George (U.S. Army Air Force), and my Mom's brother-in-law Ken (U.S. Coast Guard/U.S. Navy). All three survived the war, although Lawrence was wounded twice, first in Sicily in 1943, then on Omaha Beach at Normandy in 1944. George re-enlisted in the Army Air Force after the war ended, finally retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972 after 30 years and three wars. Ken served in the Pacific fighting the Japanese.
The best-ever documentary about WW2 is "Apocalypse: The Second World War." Takes you through it step by step over six parts. Conveys the full impact as best as I've seen.
I've watched this video myself then started watching reactions no matter how many time i've watched it the total death count always make me tear up just imagining the amount of death and the total number is horrific
Well most people support the concept of collective responsibility so the whole nation is blamed for mistskes of government or aggressive minority We can see it even today
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
you cannot learn anything from something you didn't experience yourself, especially if something had occured quite some time ago. That's why there will always be wars. Add to that the sheer cult around soldiers, especially in the US, where you see parents proudly standing around the coffin of their son covered with the flag, that for me is pervers. As long as parents are proud that their sons are dying around the world for no reason at all, things will never change.
My dad, RIP, was a U.S. naval aviator in the Pacific Theater of operations. He flew transports. Went on to become chief pilot of a major regional airline. I worked with a guy who was in the Treblinka concentration camp. Had his number tattooed on his arm. He was Polish.
Its crazy how both my grandfathers (paternal and maternal) are alive over the age of 90. I wouldnt be alive nor would my parents if my grandfathers had been born a little earlier and died going to war. My great grandmother lived to be over 100. Its nuts sometimes the ride life might give you. I would pay my respects to every soldiers grave every day if I could for giving Americans today what they have. Red White and Blue forever.
My grandfather was 🇺🇸 Army Infantry in WWII. He was captured 4 months into his 1st tour and was a POW in Nazi captivity for nearly 10 months until he and a handful of other POWs escaped & made it back to 🇺🇸/Allied lines with the aid of 2 German soldiers that they met on the way who didn't want anything to do with Nazi Germany. In exchange for acting as their "guards" doing a prisoner camp transfer when they came up on other German soldiers, my grandfather & the other POWs would vouch for them once they made it to allied lines. One of the Germans was an artist and gave my grandfather the 2-sided sketch/charcoal he made on while they spent the night in a German jail over Easter during the escape(it's quite the adventure!). One side showed a lush valley with a stream running through it and the other side was a bombed out cityscape on fire. That piece sat alone, in honor, in a double-sided crystal frame on a small table in my grandparents' living room. My grandfather only talked of his experience to my grandmother, my aunt(his daughter) & myself due to the things he witnessed & experienced over there. He only talked to me because of a school assignment where I had to interview a WWII veteran and present that interview/paper as a speech in class. He let me take that drawing by the German soldier that helped them escape to show the class during my speech. My grandfather unexpectedly died in 1991 and my grandmother passed in 2013. When she passed, my uncle had high quality copies of that drawing made for each of us in the family. My grandfather obviously had PTSD from his capture & time as a POW which is why he never spoke openly about it. He told me a tiny bit about "life" in the POW camp which was incredibly hard to hear but mostly focused on the escape & journey back to allied lines. He told my aunt MUCH MORE, which she wrote down in her journal at the time and has told me I can read anytime and that she left it to me in her will. I haven't asked to read it yet.
Both my Grandfathers fought. My moms dad was in the US navy on a mine sweeper and my dads dad was in the British Royal armored core 7th fusiliers and was the radioman/loader on a Sherman tank in N. Africa and Sicily.
My great grandfather and great uncle both survived WW2 my great grandfather passed away in 1999 he was in the USAAF fighting in the European Theater and my great uncle passed away in 2011 He was in Navy on a minesweeper ship in the Pacific Theater
My daughter last night while watching this video said "Dad I want my hair like Sophie's for school tomorrow" 😭 bless her little soul, she is blonde but adores Sophie to death
My grandmother had to give birth to my Aunt Pat in the subway tunnels during a German bombing raid on London. She never said anything about the Blitz other than it was "absolutely dreadful". She married the first U.S. soldier that proposed to her, my granddad, just to get out of the country after the war.
Именно поэтому 9 мая это праздник со слезами на глазах. Славянский народ сражался не за режимы, а за свое выживание. Сталин великий лидер. Рузвельт и Черчель признавали что им не удалось бы совладать с Германией без СССР That is why May 9 is a holiday with tears in your eyes. The Slavic people fought not for regimes, but for their survival. Stalin is a great leader. Roosevelt and Churchill admitted that they would not have been able to cope with Germany without the USSR
@@dead-anarhist6291 это ясное дело, СССР у них развалить вышло, а после они сразу же с Россией то же самое решили проделать. В 90е они явно не могли подумать, что РФ сможет выбраться из этого кошмара
As I recall the Median Age was 19 and the Average was 23. That's from memory however, which is known to be unreliable. "Schindler's List" is a must see if y'all haven't seen it.
I watched a documentary on London recruits going in and saying they were 14 and the enlistment office telling them to come back in when they were 18. The would leave and come back in and say they were 18
Yeah Russian play heros but there were invaders too so in the end they had to protect themself because of their stupid alliance with Hitler they literally asked for waar so they got in in the end
@@queenxx1690 хватит принижать мою историю,западной пропагандой. Если ты про разделение Польши, задайся вопросом почему Польша разделила Чехословакию за несколько лет до этого. И на тот момент союз не знал на сколько Гитлер жесток и ужасен, и в Европе много примеров когда с Гитлером дружили,советский союз спас европу, а вы любите нас принизить. Нас в разы погибло больше,чем евреев и мы не просим никаких особых прав для себя, просто не передёргивайте нашу историю.
The youngest soldier to die was 13 that should give you some perspective on what was happening. the age of enlistment was 16 most didnt wait and the officers were happy to let them serve
German soldiers are not Nazis unless they were actually Nazi party members. So, 500,000 "Nazis" did not die in the Battle of Stalingrad. This is a common misstatement/misunderstanding.
I cringe every time he says "nazis" because it makes modern generations think that every single person in Germany was a "nazi" like conscription wasn't a thing. I can't imagine how people would react if their government drafted them then everyone labeled them in a negative way.
The Weirmacht was an arm of Nazi Germany's military and were complicit in the atrocities conducted by the Nazis. This is a distinction without a difference.
26 millions people of Soviet Union... I saw a report from RT where in the center of New York people are asked - "who made the greatest contribution to the victory over Nazism during World War II" to which people answered "Japan, Germany", and similar absurd answers, which suggests that the propaganda of capitalism, like capitalism itself, is firmly entrenched in people's minds, that people don't even know the history of the world. I don't know about you, but in Russia they teach WORLD history in schools, and they study it deeply, and not only our country, and it's very funny to watch when people talk about GULAGS, that Stalin shot people and even there is such a joke that he ate children. Capitalist countries, in the world of capitalism, are forever twisting history, especially everything related to communism. Many people do not even know why the war was waged in Finland, and that in fact all the goals of that war were fulfilled, no one wanted to annex it to the USSR, no one knows why the USSR signed a peace treaty. Better ask yourself the question: why did all the countries of Europe give up so quickly? Why many did citizens of European countries join Hitler's Nazi legions and actually fight against the USSR? Why did the United States supply ridiculous equipment and weapons with its lend-lease? Why did the United States (which usually only films about D-Day are made about) not immediately enter the war, if they are such liberators-heroes? 400 thousand and 8 million...I do not accept anyone's contribution to the victory (although if you know the history, there will be no doubt who REALLY made a huge contribution to the victory) and I have always been amused by how American films show a Nazi German and an American soldier who feast as friends at the end of the war...you won't see this in Soviet and early Russian films about the war, because it's unlikely that you can safely eat with someone who came to your land, burned your soil, houses, killed your wife, and sent your children to a labor camp, so Soviet troops, Soviet citizens fought the enemy so hard, drove them all the way to Berlin and they took him. While others did not want to fight, the Soviet man fought for his land until the last drop of blood. This will not be shown in American films or games, because a Soviet person is a communist, and a communist cannot be a hero, only a brave American soldier can, because he supports capitalism and democracy.
The song you referenced was about the war in Vietnam, it douse refrance ww2 saying the average age of a combat soldier was 26, but says the average age of the same combat soldier in Vietnam was 19 which is for the most part true, due to gurilla warfare tactics used the Americans struggled and constantly needed reinforcement and so the age dropped due to necessity. Of course there were people who lied on there investment forms but that was the average ages. The song is Paul Hard Hardcastle "19"
It was such a relief to see that there were no Australian Military Deaths, New Zealand Military Deaths, and no Canadian Military Deaths... The greatest problem with the Internet today is the proliferation of UA-cam Videos by people that should be in Straightjacket's!!!
The Soviet army wasn't that big at all, and almost lacking experienced commanders it was relatively weak. According to history, Germany had an incredible technological and numerical advantage when the war started. Not to mention the surprise factor that got many soldiers killed in their sleep. Many people volunteered to join the military throughout the war, ranging from 16 year olds, if not younger, to senior civilians. The reason the Soviet Union hasn't fallen in the first months of the invasion is because of their spirit and the fact that they never lost hope. Every child, woman, senior worked day and night at factories, providing the army with food, medication, weapons. It is truly a miracle how the people managed to live out those 4 years of war and push the Nazis hundreds of miles back from Moscow to Berlin.
The number is incorrect, in total, the Soviet Union, according to official data, lost at least 26 million people, and according to unofficial data, more than 30 million.This is the pain of each of our families, so you honor the memory of those people who stopped this hell.
Had a few family members in the service...my grampa, who was an apple farmer, in Northern California, wasn't able to get enough work at the cannery during WW2 so he and a few men in the area caught the bus to Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, CA) where my grampa was a mechanic there and helped repair the ships fighting the war. My Aunt Irma, a Red Cross nurse, was there that morning when Pearl Harbor was bombed. She was tough as nails and did her job well. My uncle was a Marine, serving in Korea and later went to Okinawa, Japan. In a weird twist, he ended up marrying a real nice lady, Fusako Shindo, my aunt, whose family were killed in the Hiroshimo/Nagasaki bombs.
Now you understand why for us (the inhabitants of the former USSR) Victory Day - May 9 - is the greatest holiday. We celebrate it with pride for our Grandfathers Grandmothers - warriors on the battlefield and in the rear. Everyone who could hold a weapon fought. Everyone who could work worked in the rear. We - the USSR - broke the back of fascism. All of Europe worked for Germany after the surrender. The US joined only after the USSR began to win victories on the battlefield.
The United States was not on the sidelines - since 1941, they had already been at war with Japan, which was one of the factors deterring Japan in the Far East
@@iohimfox8911 And who forced Japan to attack Pearl Harbor? Do not you know? I will tell you. The USA did it. And for what? To go to war. Otherwise, you won't earn big money... And the young people of the United States did not want to fight before the Japanese attack. For this, the United States angered the Japanese. By the way, read the history of IG Farben (manufacturer of Cyclone-B). They had interesting business partners. Who was the great-grandfather of the last Bush... The whole history of the United States - a provocation for the purpose of enrichment.
@@ЦеллнвдпввшеешЖгажосщнуto help is when it is gratuitous. You probably wanted to write that the USA sold or gave on credit, so it will be more accurate. Because Russia, as the legal successor of the USSR, paid a huge debt for this assistance, until 2006.
An example of how you can have some people of a higher age and a lot of people of a younger age and the average be 19: ((17*20)+(18*100)+(19*200)+(20*100)+(21*20)+(45*5))/445=~19.3 My example demonstrating how 440 people of age 17-21 with the mean at 19, and 5 people at age 45. Most people in this example are younger. This _idea_ of proportionality scales to the millions of people who fought of various ages. Most were very young, some were older. Because there so _so many_ more of a younger age than of an older age, the average calculates out closer to the younger end.
Yugoslavia will always be remembered as the fire that kept burning even after being doused by water multiple times with a people that love their freedom and nation so much that they'd give their lives one after another for it.
19:55 As strange as it may sound, That ,,The Long Peace" was possible is also due to the result of 40 years of efforts by the government in Bonn (West Germany, 1949-1991) The Bonn politicians have in 40 years have done their utmost to keep the world and Germany peaceful. As a country that was responsible for the Second World War, Germany after Hitler made sure that never again a country would do what had been done in its name. With its foreign policy and its policy of détente, the "Federal Republic of Germany", which served peace, gained trust in the world during the Cold War. Whether in Russia, America or China.
1:02 you are referring to the song "19" which is about the Vietnam war :D The songtext is: In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six , in Vietnam he was nineteen
Actually the average age of 19 refers to american soldiers in the Vietnam war, not WW2. The lyrics we are talking about are from the Paul Hardcastle song "Nineteen". "In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26 In Vietnam he was 19"
1) As of the end of 2022, about 167,000 American WW2 veterans were living. That's only 1% of the 16 million who served. 2) I was not familiar with "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." It is historical fiction, and apparently many have criticized it for being too fictional. Some have even called it a "fable."
Average age of 19 sounds like when they were enlisted. I enlisted as a combat soldier in a much later war, and at the ripe old age of 21 i was the 3rd oldest guy in my Troop. Nearly all 18, one 17 year old, a few 19s, and old people like me over 20 throwing off the average.
Gaynor, they didn't get your reference. I did. In the song they were talking about Vietnam. I don't know the average age for WWII. I'm sure it was low. In Germany and Japan, at the end, they had 15 and 16 year olds.
I’ve always thought this was a very well-produced video; however, the data are now obsolete. Recent trends have changed since this video was created 10 years ago.
I think every Western Country should watch this video possibly following watching the movie *(Saving Private Ryan)* especially Americans who constantly complain not knowing how good they actually have it
more than half of the male population of the USSR died in the war - official reports and this video only talks about military losses. Civilian losses are still not known - figures reach up to 30 million. When I was in high school and college, we used to gather groups to excavate World War II sites and found places where soldiers died. Personally, I find about 70 people. This practice has been carried out among all secondary educational institutions for more than 80 years. And the dead are still being found.
Good afternoon to all, gentlemen and ladies. Listen, dear ones. I'm Russian. My great-grandfather, Ilya Potapov, was, of course, born in the Soviet Union.. and he volunteered to defend his homeland at the age of 18, which he barely turned. He fought bravely against a ruthless and powerful enemy. He became commander at the age of 20-21, when he was the only survivor of his squad, he was the youngest and eventually led the remnants. His place was in intelligence. After returning, he lived for about 10 years and died quietly, having lost his comrades, exhausted by the war, sleepless nights at home and injuries. That's what they say in the family, he screamed at night.. And you know what I'm going to tell you.. I don't want to sound like a blasphemer, my friends, but you can't imagine that time, damn it.. It's even modest to call it just hell. Looking around at how ruthlessly and immorally the enemy behaved in our territories, for which the enemy did not deny himself ideologically and practically countless sacrifices of our citizens. It seems to me that in Europe, the Nazis may have been a little "simpler" and "more polite." The picture on the eastern front was much more ambitious, bloody, brutal and dramatic. History is full of examples of how they nullified us, how cruel they sometimes were not only towards the military or prisoners, but also towards the peaceful and innocent population. This primarily explains the catastrophic losses of more than 26 million people! Oh my god... damn... of which about half were just women, the elderly and children, people of different ages, genders and positions... Ethnic cleansing is mainly related to this exorbitant number, but not to the distorted idea that the Red Army fought poorly! Ay, ay, ay, I find it extremely vile and shameless). Ignorance stems from illiteracy... You guys don't know Russians well. People were ready to defend the right to life and take revenge, and many, especially young volunteers, were eager to go to war, sometimes attributing to themselves a fake 2-plus years. Although it is partly true that during the first year we were pushed inland, yes, there was confusion, yes, there were losses, because the pressure was huge, colossal, and the enemy knew his business, the Germans are a military nation. There were mistakes in management, yes. In addition, do not forget that along with the Germans invaded many other soldiers who were under the treacherous care of the Reich, various foreign legions, volunteers who were preparing for the campaign and formed SS divisions from: Italians, Hungarians, Estonians, Croats, Romanians, Latvians, Lithuanians, partially Bulgarians, Slovenes as well as Slovaks, so are others. The Finns also remembered themselves, with whom, alas, we had old scores, and so on. Wow! It seemed that the whole united Europe burst into our doorstep with a wild roar, sweeping away everything in its path, knocking down the jambs of our doors, robbing houses and killing, mocking, stealing cattle. And the million-strong city of Leningrad, which is almost completely extinct with millions of inhabitants because it was cut off from food supplies? You can't even imagine, gentlemen, how catastrophically terrible the situation was. It is for such a number of reasons, including the vile inhuman cruelty of the enemy and countless bombardments of units and cities! total genocide is in full swing - that was their goal, that's how our losses were achieved. But not because our citizens were driven, scared and did not want to fight. Come on, dudes! This is the highly unconscious and outrageous stupidity of someone who thinks so - he does not know Russians)). But the Germans found out about it at the very first launch. Ha ha ha! It's amazing, I swear to God. The Germans turned self heads with lightning victories. They naively imagined that if they could occupy a number of neighboring countries, then this would happen in Russia... And how funny it was to watch how reality itself hit them hard in the face as soon as they crossed the border of our enchanted forest, yes)... And they realized that they had overreacted with the direction and that Europe had come to them very easily)). Because there are other people here and the character is different. One more point, gentlemen: the Soviets had the honor to fight only with the Wehrmacht military, since German citizens were far away (accordingly, the Germans had no civilian casualties/collateral damage was excluded). In addition, the Germans could return home, rest, recuperate and return again. This is also important, for a moment, gentlemen. Although the Russians were exhausted, they did not give up in battle. Especially the enemy preferred to avoid attacks from close range. For obvious reasons. And much more. The list is long, gentlemen and ladies. I will soon get tired of enumerating. Even after the long and deep liberation of the whole of Europe, the war did not end for us). It's a terrible horror. Along the way, our troops met with friends - the American army, which was already in Germany, and after the "victory over the German war machine" our Soviet troops were transferred to the Far East to finish off Japan, eliminate the last hotbed, since they were enemies as allies of Germany. More losses. The result of the great war? What did we get in the end? Our cities are in ruins, hundreds of our villages have been shot or burned to the ground, kindergartens, railways, schools, hospitals, etc. Unfortunately, the enemy was operating in the most developed, European part of the country, the heritage and infrastructure were in decline, and oceans of corpses and broken equipment.. Losses of various kinds and scales are unimaginably shocking. The country was actually recovering. Everything has been dishonored and defamed by this infernal war. This is an unheard-of grief. It's monstrously funny that these impudents thought we were savages. We behaved more nobly. Even in relation to their civilians. Although, of course, there have been incidents. But they could have been punished or shot for it. The Germans did not burden themselves with anything like that. No dignity, and... besides.. a cultural nation. They have blackened themselves. That's why it's not just hard to forget, huh, it's impossible. Every first family in my country, with rare exceptions, has suffered at least a little from this war.. Ho-ho-ho! Omaha! Normandy, Market Garden.. These are just easy American walks, similar to a sad excursion in cloudy weather with a rifle.. It cost you barely half a million lives. Yo! While the USSR single-handedly disabled more than 75% of the entire Wehrmacht! but at what cost... I'm sorry, I understand, but this is also sad, dear reader). Don't think anything bad of me. A lot of people died because of this, too, Americans, Britons and others, although it is incomparable with us! with the Russians! Ok? Damn.. Consciously, it was the USSR that was the key to victory. Know this. I respect you and honor everyone and everyone who gave their lives on the altar of a single victory. This film is decent, but not quite correct. Good and peace to all my brothers and sisters not by blood.. regardless of the difficult political situations that have developed between all of us today. May all those who were involved in this war find eternal peace and quiet. Long live the new life. Amen. 👊 🤞 🌅
Да не делал Сталин такого. Чего вы врёте?! Сталин отдал приказ "Ни шагу назад!", который означал, что любой солдат или офицер, отступивший без приказа и без серьёзных на то оснований, должен был попасть под трибунал, чтобы военный суд выяснил, почему боец отступил и вынес ему приговор, если тот будет признан виновным. Законы военного времени были строги ко всем, но я впервые слышу, что Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин отдавал такой приказ! Наоборот, когда немцы приходили, старались спасти и эвакуировать как можно больше людей, но просто кого-то из-за малой доступности транспорта - многие автомобили были изъяты для нужд фронта и для того, чтобы трудиться в тылу на заводах, эвакуированных в безопасные регионы СССР - за Урал, например - могли не успеть спасти и вывезти из городов, там оставалось много стариков, которые сами не хотели ехать никуда, оставались те, кому было некуда ехать, кто считал, что и тут ничего, выстоят и выживут. А вот о приказе, что нельзя проводить эвакуации гражданского населения впервые слышу - это враньё.
Same thing here in the the US we have the selective service so everyone 18-25 have to sign up by law, you dont actually have to serve but in the case of an emergency they may enforce it and draw from a lottery,during WW2 we had a draft, I'll give you an example too as far as the German soldiers my great-grandfather was stationed outside of Stalingrad fighting the Russians, but he couldn't stand the Nazi party he was pretty much forced to fight in the infantry and was eventually wounded when his magazine was shot while he was reloading and was thankfully captured by the Americans because this was towards the end of the war when the Americans moved in towards the west and spent the rest of the war in an American pow camp but a lot of them were forced but the stories that my grandfather with my great grandmother back in Germany after the war how they would find live ammo and grenades and artillery shells just lying around when he was a kid because nobody picked it up afterward
And now so called patriots vote for a person who admires Hitler and works for KGB since 1979. I am against capital punishment, except for Putin, Trump and Murdoch.
This video is SO WELL MADE!! Award winning with all of the statistics and graphics of the charts! INTENSE! You would think Russia would have learned better about war with Russia's tragic WWII history but Putin does not give a damn what anyone thinks, especially not the Russian people, Ukrainian people, or people in general!
It should be kept in mind that the "Average Age' of soldiers INCREASED over time. A Brit who joined up in 1939 at age 18 was 24 by 1945! Americans who joined up in late 1941 at age 18 would be at least 22 by the end of the war.
The Soviet Union death were so high that there's an entire lost generation of men. Population numbers in Russia and other former soviet states still suffer dramatically today from that loss.
you're right
This is something nobody knows about anymore. Everything is just, Russia bad. It's sad.
Russia must die.
Before ukraine war there were 4mill man short in russia. Now the number raised a much I think...
and the reason for so many deaths is the legacy of the monarchy... the Russian Empire was backward both in terms of technology and in terms of industry and agriculture, and the Communists simply did not have time to restore the backward country after the First World War. (therefore, the Soviet armament was not infrequently lagging behind the German, there was not enough food at the front, medicines sometimes too.) if the revolution had happened earlier, the losses could have been reduced tenfold.
Мой дед прошёл всю войну. От советского Союза до Берлина. На стене Берлина его роспись. Артиллерист.
With the amount of casualties the soviet union had I never thought it would be possible for a soldier in the soviet union to see the war from beginning to end
@@Nclake5485в этом видео потери Германии на восточном фронте занижены в 4 раза, потери у Немцев на Востоке были почти такими же как у Советов, но видео создано для Западных людей, поэтому тут многие смерти советских граждан рассматриваются как вина Советского руководства... Политика
@@chuck_quincymrp2640 ничего здесь не занижено , хуйню написал.
@chuck_quincymrp2640 not right, if German loss was as you suggest the total Ost heer all branches the war is over in mid 1943. Country births prove thisfor year by year. Although the Bundesarchiv now admits to 3.5 million troops KIA in the East.
Царствие небесное вашему деду. Память о наших героях никогда не умрет!
Мой дед воевал, но знаю почти ничего о его боевом пути. Его не застала, а сам он никогда не говорил про войну, только какие-то обрывки фраз, но не в контексте, что вот во время войны был где-то там, а просто «я был в городе Лида» и уже потом начали понимать, что во время войны. А если судить по сайтам, он дошёл до Чехии, а потом ещё воевал и на Тихом октане против японцев. А бабушка всю жизнь вспоминала как бомбы падали. Всегда рассказывала «Сирена. Мы бегом в окопы. И как начинает бах, бах, бах… страшно, сидишь и думаешь, что сейчас на голову прилетит», а потом ходили осколки от бомб собирали
My grandfather (American) enlisted around 19-20 - and fought after Pearl Harbor until the end of WW2. He came back a very different man. "Shell Shocked" now known as PTSD. He died 8 years before I was born. He became an alcoholic - he died in a fox hole he dug in a snow bank 2 blocks from his apartment. I always wonder if he heard a car backfire or a gunshot and by sheer instinct dug himself in and died of exposure/hypothermia. It's so surreal. Who was he? What horrors did he see and experience in all of his service? I only know he did come across one of the concentration camps - and it broke his heart and mind. He became cruel and detached - but I still feel sorry for him. I wish I could have asked him questions. I still have so many questions that will never be answered. I know he became something of a monster after coming home once the war was over, but he served until the bitter end and deep down I know he never got any treatment or diagnosis - so he looked for the solution to his issues in the bottom of a bottle and never found any sense of peace - and that makes me feel such sorrow for who he could have been. But one thing is for sure; he was brave. He volunteered and enlisted of his own free will. He witnessed atrocities. And it mangled his soul and tore him to shreds. My poor, broken, yet courageous grandfather. If there is an afterlife, I hope he found the peace he so desperately wanted to find. 😢
PTSD is the beast that never sleeps. The most difficult part is the readjusting to civilian life after working so long as a cohesive unit.
now quadruple that and u have the average eastern front. Still sad for you and ur granddad. Mine fought on the eastern front and got captured and thrown into a copper mine which collapsed later.
@@semiramisubw4864 and then those wounded in eastern front got executed to end the suffering of the soldiers
Very sorry to hear that about your grandfather. War does ugly things to people, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Thank you for sharing his story. It has touched my heart
Mathematics of civilian casualties in the USSR in 1942. Three Germans were killed near the village. The village was surrounded and burned down along with all the inhabitants in the number of 188 people. This is one example out of tens of thousands
You "forgot" to mention that they were most probably killed by partisans, in other words non-combattants, which is a war crime and will always lead to retaliation by any nation.
Three German soldiers killed in battle do not mean 1 village destroyed, because normal warfare does not imply actions against civilians; partisan warfare is something else.
BTW the Americans executed 10 German boys, 15 or 16 years old, months after the war; what do we call that ?
You do know that 1.5 million Russians (and also Ukrainians) fought with the Germans against the hated Bolsheviks and that millions of civilians welcomed the Germans and were later killed by the Bolsheviks after Germany retreated or sent to Gulags.
The Russians killed millions of their own people and already in the 1930's 3-4 millions Ukrainians during the Holodomor.
That is how so many Russians died....and last but not least let us not forget the political commissars who shot every soldier instantly who did not advance during an attack.
You probably also know that Russians put on German uniforms and burnt their own villages to create hate against the enemy ?!
It worked.
@@theoderich1168what are you talking about? You talking about fascist doing ETNICAL cleansings , you know nothing about Nazi Germany do you?
@@theoderich1168 You've got shit in your head. Get treated
That shot of the German soldier preparing to kill the civilian holding a child brings tears to my eyes every time. I've probably seen this video 30 times.
"Tears" is a pretty wholesome reaction. I would have to say "unquenchable rage". The sort of people who did that are still around, and still hope to get a chance to do it again, to this or that scapegoat. They don't hide it. They brag about their little conspiracy theories that they made up in their heads to justify their hatred.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 All too true
I had the same reaction, made me want to cry. Just heartbreaking! 😢
Jinyatta yeah its staged and you fall for it like a true sheeple.
its sad many of them were forced to do all of this, but the waffen ss willingly did all this which is terrible.
It's sad seeing this video talking about the long piece but then knowing how recently the war between Ukraine and Russia has started, how tensions between China and the US have grown and overall how violent and messed up the world has been getting. So sad seeing how many innocent lives are ruined do to unnecessary hate, greed, corruption, and other rediculous reasons.
Well, the war is between Russia and Nato, to be exactly. Ukraine isn't independent since 2014. That is why Russia was negotiating with USA and NATO before conflict.
Ukrainians don't mind to be slaves of USA to make Russia weak and made all for war. I was ukrainian till 2020, I know what I'm saying.
It's why wars need to be nipped in the bud before it takes hold, otherwise it can escalate into something far worse and bigger, and I have a feeling that if the west didn't respond so forcefully to the Ukraine-Russian war, things might have escalated far worse.
As the video points out, this is the longest we've had when it comes to peace since Roman times, at least in the sense of major peace, because clearly, wars still happen, but are far smaller in scale and will it last? I like to think so but you never know and personally, I feel if a major war does break out, it's going to be because of the US or China butting heads, basically, China rising as a power and the US not taking it too well, it wouldn't take much for it to escalate into something major, but then, the same could have happened during the Cold War and peace remained.
You pretend like the world is just turning with tensions. While the west has been raping Middle East for the last 30 years.
@@paul1979uk2000oh man, I have some news for you.
Part of Human nature
Вряд-ли в нашей стране возможно посчитать потери . Но одно можно сказать точно : не существует семьи , которая бы не потеряла предка на войне .
Действительно?!? это верно?! насколько это было плохо?
@@nicklibby3784 2 миллиона человек за первый год войны попали в окружение, но сколько погибло? Выйти из окружения, месяцами прячясь в лесу без возможности подтвердить свою личность , свою историю и не попасть под НКВД , с их расследованием против тех кто был в плену. . . уж проще второй раз попасть под призыв. Так у нас получаются ,,дважды убитые,, . Полицаи отдельная история , сначала они работают на немцев, потом всеми способами пытаются записаться в партизаны, а как начинается расследование - записаться в мертвые герои СССР. Да же историю смерти своих родственников невозможно 100% подтвердить. Ленинград - там самые загадочные и лживые истории. Как величайшую оплошность в планировании списали на блокаду. Сотни тысяч людей умерли , не из-за каких то немцев, а потому что старая система логистики была признана не эффективной и нужно было переходить на новую (эффективную). Ликвидировать северный центр снабжения и расосредоточить(из-за захвата такого цента осенью в Киеве, по доктрине централизованного снабжения). Вот только вся северная армия , беженцы с Украины, Белорусии, Польши , Латвии, Литвы, Эстонии все направились туда, где уже было приказано леквидировать центр поставок. Огромный промышленный город , вторая столица. Все силы на эвакуацию заводов и специалистов. Люди есть, оружие есть , припасов нет. Куда записать этих погибших беженцев? Приказ 227- ни шагу назад , пока на западе все думают, что заград отряды убивали солдат, на деле сами солдаты не правильно поняли приказ и думали, что их расстреляют. А офицеры не чуть не лучше - поддрежвивали опосения рядовых, хотя сами не знали как работает этот приказ. Слухи и страх быть убитым своими , убили больше , чем заград отряды . Есть в Ленинграде - ,,дорога жизни,, . Это маршрут через озеро , по которому доставлялись припасы во время осады. У нас в официальной истории написано, что это дорога героев, где самые смелые под обстрелами артилерии и самолетов, по хрупкому льду везли припасы. Там погибло двое моих предков. Но если сесть изучать вопрос очень внимательно, то можно обнаружить, что до дороги жизни от берега 18км, у немцев на северном направлении нет артилерии, которая бы могла стрелять на такое расстояние. Авиация? У защитников города её в 2 раза больше + ПВО с земли и флота. В статистике написано огромное множество погибших на этом пути. Но как они могли погибнуть? А если начать изучать ,, торгсин,, то сам дедушка Ленин встанет из мавзолея на красной площади , чтобы тебя расстрелять. Уж очень это темная тема. Если официально : это магазин для иностранных туристов, для обмена иностранной валюты на советский товар. Если не офицально: ломбард для обмена скрытого от приватизации на дефицитные товары. Офицально: закрыт до войны , а все причастные приговорены по статье за привышение должностных полномочий , с целью разбогатеть . Но есть в отчетах за 41й год пункт - трофейное золото . Его там несколько тонн. Откуда в 41ом у отступающей армии трофейное золото в ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ? Есть огромное множество доказательств, что в голодающем Ленинграде , меняли еду на ценные металы . Доставленную еду , для торгсина , записывали в уничтоженную под атаками врага. Но это никогда не попадет в книжки по истории.
Stalin's and high command's fault
@@b4nterontilt no. they contributed most to winning the war , western contribution was small
@@sitting_nut they paid with so much blood only because Soviets let it happen. If only they cared like Allies losses would be lesser. Also Stalin was just as bad as Hitler
My dad was a WWII VET..he was a field medic ...he told us that when he died he didn't want a 21 gun salute because he'd been shot at enough when in battle..he said that he even had his medic backpack shot off of him once
Мой дед, кавалер ордена Красной Звезды, танкист. Дважды тяжело был ранен под Воронежем, не дошёл до Берлина 40 километров....
My grandfather, Cavaliers of medal Red Star, tank crewman, was twice injured v ery hard under Voronezh. And he was KIA near Berlin, before Victory
Слава советскому солдату!
Смерть советским солдатам!
@@TheKarlShow Земля тебе стекловатой, надеюсь на том свете тебе по заслугам воздастся
Всего тебе хорошего)
@@t-72b34 Советские солдаты были отвратительными убийцами, насильниками и ворами. Они будут гореть в аду вечно.
@@TheKarlShowмальчик, если бы не они тебя бы не было, иди учись
@@TheKarlShow молодец, хрюкнул. Теперь можешь зигануть
My great grandfather passed away a couple years ago. He was i think 97 years old. He was a 2x puple heart, POW in germany. He was a truck driver/mechanic and he was in many famous battles. He was such an amazing man....
Azerbaijan was one of the countries in the USSR, out of 681,000 conscripts, 300,000 died, almost as many as US casulties, which is crazy because Azerbaijan SSR only had a population of about 3 million. One of the men who fought in stalingrad was my great grandpa, Rustam, who was shot in the legge and sent home in 1943.
There is a fantastic German TV series called “Generation War” that I can’t recommend enough. It’s about a group of friends including 2 brothers who are sent off to the war and what happens to them through the war and its aftermath.
Bardzo fantastyczny i bardzo tendencyjny
Nazi propaganda
@@nicklibby3784 you have serious brainrot. You've seen too many of your American propaganda movies, so you probably think German soldiers are all Cartoon caricatures screaming "DEATH TO THE J3WS"
The average age of a U.S. veteran. According to stephan ambrose, was 26 years old. The average age of a Korean War veteran, was 24. The average age of a Vietnam War veteran, was 21.
one of the worst parts of the holocaust is the fact that those who perpetrated it weren't the monsters that films and TV led us to believe, but were normal people who thought what they were doing was justified. Look up the book "Ordinary Men"
True. Villains don't see themselves as such, they see themselves as heroes. And heroes are those who win, not necessarily the "good guys". I was in grade school when the narrative taught switched from "how the West was won" to "how the West was lost" (referring to Westward expansion in the US).
As a Russian, I can honestly tell you. Most citizens of the Russian Federation are sure that the Nazi regime in Ukraine and Russia is fighting against the Nazis. And all who know the reality are either dead or live underground fearing death.
Победа во Второй мировой войне была достигнута совместными усилиями стран-участниц Антигитлеровской коалиции. Значителен вклад в нее западных союзников, разгромивших и пленивших 176 дивизий. Но главную тяжесть борьбы вынес именно советский народ.
@@НатальяВиноградова-о9ю Каждый Русский человек должен знать, что если бы не коммунисты, нацисты бы даже не пришли к власти в Германии и тем более бы не напали на Русских, уже не говоря о помощи коммунистов нацистам вплоть до 41 года. После объявления же войны, коммунисты могли сдаться немцам и сохранить миллионам гражданам жизни, как это сделала Франция, которая потеряла в 50 раз меньше человек чем СССР, при том что сдалась. Напомню, сами коммунисты и свергли Николая за то, что он не хотел сдаваться немцам в первой мировой и погубил 10 миллионов граждан в ней. Самих же комуняк большие потери не остановили, и по итогу умерло в 2.5 раз больше человек ради "победы", которая не дала русским ничего, кроме голода, разрухи и поколения без отцов, но зато советы остались у власти и подняли свой престиж на мировой арене.
@@mrmops1586 Эм..."что если бы не коммунисты, нацисты бы даже не пришли к власти в Германии" Что? "уже не говоря о помощи коммунистов нацистам вплоть до 41 года" Они одни или ещё были страны? "После объявления же войны, коммунисты могли сдаться немцам и сохранить миллионам гражданам жизни, как это сделала Франция, которая потеряла в 50 раз меньше человек чем СССР, при том что сдалась" Чтобы Германия получила в своё распоряжение так нужные ей ресурсы и победила в войне? "Напомню, сами коммунисты и свергли Николая за то, что он не хотел сдаваться немцам в первой мировой и погубил 10 миллионов граждан в ней" Нет, народ был недоволен войной и проблемами ,которые она вызвала ,левые расшатали лодку ,а объединил их засланный Ленин(ну это если опустить подробности и про Временное правительство и тп). Ну я понял вашу логику , у вас коммуняки виновны во всех бедах войны ,лучше бы они сдались, а страну бы поделили на Протектораты, чтобы они отправляли ресурсы и рабов в Германию ,как это было на территориях восточной Европы." Итог-вам надо лечиться.
when i was much younger, i worked at my dads barber shop and a lot of the clients were ww2 vets, most of them were very quiet, and never talked about the war, we even had 1 ww1 vet- he never talked about. im honored now that i got to meet them. my dad was a korea war tank commander- he never talked about it. he did say once that in one fight they were with ENGLISH TROOPs and they were good fighters.
One of the reasons why no one wants to talk about it afterwards is that not only have they experienced the horrors of war, but most of them have also done terrible things themselves. That is the nature of war. It is a mixture of guilt and repression. when my great-grandfather was dying, he was in a delirium (morphine) and was describing scenes he had experienced. this was 70 years later. we were standing by the bed and were shocked at what he had experienced. especially because he had never told us anything like this before.
@@katzmax1совершенно верно.
The song is true. We don't have many songs about the age of defenders. If you want, I'll give you examples. My grandfather was almost twenty years old. Gunner, two concussions, shrapnel in the shoulder. He lived a happy life.
He didn't like to tell me about the war. Only on the ninth of May. When he could drink a little vodka for dead friends. I'm 41, I still remember all the little things I heard.
My grandmother is a minor prisoner of a concentration camp.
She miraculously managed to survive. She didn't say anything at all. When she became old and died (my parents took her to their home, in her old age she could not serve herself), huge stocks of food were found in her apartment, especially dried bread.
The second grandmother lived in besieged Leningrad. Have you ever cooked sparrow soup? Did you know that after the blockade was broken, there was a carriage with cats in the train train? There were a lot of rats. Rats ate corpses and carried infections.
Do you know that people didn't get sick at the same time? Couldn't afford to be sick!
You know that we still have an inscription on the wall: "Attention, this side is dangerous during shelling!" (the shelling was carried out from the west, from the Pulkovo heights).
Read about the norms for issuing bread by cards. Would you be able to survive? The loss of a food card is
death!
People were evacuated! First of all, children! There is a poem by Olga Bergolz. And there were victims. A lot! Children! The "Road of Life" took place in winter - on the ice of Lake Ladoga. The air defense was working at full capacity, but it was not coping.
Schools and theaters were working (you can imagine how it was, especially in winter, the first winter was -30 Celsius, the blockade lasted almost 900 days, this is an all-time record). Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) is the cultural capital of the country. Tram tracks have been repaired. Shestakovich gave a concert. The seventh Symphony was written in besieged Leningrad.
Sorry, I'm talking about a sore point. If you are interested, I can tell you more.
Many children reported that they were adults. Even more minors joined the partisans (watch the 1985 film "Come and See", if you are impressionable, it's better not to watch).
Very, very many men have died. There was a demographic crisis after the war. There were women left. Nature made it so that after the war more girls than boys were born. We are still recovering now. As far as I know, we still have more girls than boys. And the women are very beautiful.
Grandfather is an artilleryman.
Grandfather is a fighter pilot.
Grandma is a nurse.
Leningrad:
Great-grandmother - arrested a downed fascist pilot (a family heirloom is a school graduation dress made of parachute silk =)).
Grandmother - miraculously escaped death in a Nazi concentration camp (Germany paid her a lot of money every month after the war).
Another grandmother (half-sister) worked at the factory.
Minors went to the front (they lied about their age).
Female fighter pilots and female snipers.
"There is such a profession - to protect the homeland."
We won the war, but the USA won the war (Я не знаю как перевести с русского, "победить" и "выиграть" у нас разные - слова. I do not know how to translate from Russian. "to win" and "to win" we have different words. In one case, "victory" is meant, in the other, "a win".)
I would be glad to talk to you.
Actually, there were significant numbers of soldiers under the age of 18.
The Royal Navy accepted boys as young as 14, the 15 was more common.
I many countries no one was looking too close at the paperwork - so many underage lads enlisted.
Somewhat famously, the most decorated soldier in the US Army, Audie Murphy,
coming from a poor family, he had his sister lie on an affidavit certifying his age (he was 17)
and was enlisted, despite being baby-faced and
his enlistment physical listing him as: 5 feet 5.5 inches (1.66 m) and 112 pounds (50.8 kg)!
A lot of children fought in the Soviet Union, in partisan detachments (pioneers), withstood numerous tortures, but did not give up. One example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Guard_(Soviet_resistance)
Three uncles of mine served in the U.S. military during World War II; my Dad's brother Lawrence (U.S. Army), my Mom's brother George (U.S. Army Air Force), and my Mom's brother-in-law Ken (U.S. Coast Guard/U.S. Navy). All three survived the war, although Lawrence was wounded twice, first in Sicily in 1943, then on Omaha Beach at Normandy in 1944. George re-enlisted in the Army Air Force after the war ended, finally retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 1972 after 30 years and three wars. Ken served in the Pacific fighting the Japanese.
Ordinary people, doing extraordinary things
The best-ever documentary about WW2 is "Apocalypse: The Second World War." Takes you through it step by step over six parts. Conveys the full impact as best as I've seen.
I've watched this video myself then started watching reactions no matter how many time i've watched it the total death count always make me tear up just imagining the amount of death and the total number is horrific
Not all german soldiers where nazis it is unfair to classify all Germans as Nazi
Well most people support the concept of collective responsibility so the whole nation is blamed for mistskes of government or aggressive minority
We can see it even today
@@archamtracovich8783 True Very True
The Wehrmacht was an arm of Nazi Germany's military. The video is an overview, it's not about splitting hairs.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
I'm always surprised by how many people Germany actually had, their military was massive
Germany has over 80 million people, making it the second largest country in Europe after Russia (which has over 127 million people).
You'd think mankind had learned a lesson from this.
It hasn't.
The video argues that we learned, but obviously no memory is forever.
you cannot learn anything from something you didn't experience yourself, especially if something had occured quite some time ago. That's why there will always be wars. Add to that the sheer cult around soldiers, especially in the US, where you see parents proudly standing around the coffin of their son covered with the flag, that for me is pervers. As long as parents are proud that their sons are dying around the world for no reason at all, things will never change.
Because who has list was Germany, not Nazism. Trump admires Hitlers, Meloni is fascist, Le Pen is fascist, whole India admires fascism...
My dad, RIP, was a U.S. naval aviator in the Pacific Theater of operations. He flew transports. Went on to become chief pilot of a major regional airline.
I worked with a guy who was in the Treblinka concentration camp. Had his number tattooed on his arm. He was Polish.
the thing that gets me about this video is that each icon represents 1000 people, such a chilling visual
Its crazy how both my grandfathers (paternal and maternal) are alive over the age of 90. I wouldnt be alive nor would my parents if my grandfathers had been born a little earlier and died going to war. My great grandmother lived to be over 100. Its nuts sometimes the ride life might give you. I would pay my respects to every soldiers grave every day if I could for giving Americans today what they have. Red White and Blue forever.
My grandfather was 🇺🇸 Army Infantry in WWII. He was captured 4 months into his 1st tour and was a POW in Nazi captivity for nearly 10 months until he and a handful of other POWs escaped & made it back to 🇺🇸/Allied lines with the aid of 2 German soldiers that they met on the way who didn't want anything to do with Nazi Germany. In exchange for acting as their "guards" doing a prisoner camp transfer when they came up on other German soldiers, my grandfather & the other POWs would vouch for them once they made it to allied lines. One of the Germans was an artist and gave my grandfather the 2-sided sketch/charcoal he made on while they spent the night in a German jail over Easter during the escape(it's quite the adventure!). One side showed a lush valley with a stream running through it and the other side was a bombed out cityscape on fire. That piece sat alone, in honor, in a double-sided crystal frame on a small table in my grandparents' living room. My grandfather only talked of his experience to my grandmother, my aunt(his daughter) & myself due to the things he witnessed & experienced over there. He only talked to me because of a school assignment where I had to interview a WWII veteran and present that interview/paper as a speech in class. He let me take that drawing by the German soldier that helped them escape to show the class during my speech. My grandfather unexpectedly died in 1991 and my grandmother passed in 2013. When she passed, my uncle had high quality copies of that drawing made for each of us in the family. My grandfather obviously had PTSD from his capture & time as a POW which is why he never spoke openly about it. He told me a tiny bit about "life" in the POW camp which was incredibly hard to hear but mostly focused on the escape & journey back to allied lines. He told my aunt MUCH MORE, which she wrote down in her journal at the time and has told me I can read anytime and that she left it to me in her will. I haven't asked to read it yet.
12:55 they looked at this picture and the first thing that came to mind was a movie, wow
I can't with the fidgeting foot in the corner the entire video.
Just dont look at it then
Different brains require different mannerisms and activities to operate effectively 👍🧠😊.
Too much caffeine. 😬
My daddy used to say "Only women cross their legs son".
He is young and should have no compulsive disorders, but that nervousness drives me nuts!
It’s wild to see people making jokes while watching exact part of video about staggering losses of lives
Both my Grandfathers fought. My moms dad was in the US navy on a mine sweeper and my dads dad was in the British Royal armored core 7th fusiliers and was the radioman/loader on a Sherman tank in N. Africa and Sicily.
My great grandfather and great uncle both survived WW2 my great grandfather passed away in 1999 he was in the USAAF fighting in the European Theater and my great uncle passed away in 2011 He was in Navy on a minesweeper ship in the Pacific Theater
If we had a second of silence for everyone lost to WWII we would have silence for 2.8 years… crazy!
My daughter last night while watching this video said "Dad I want my hair like Sophie's for school tomorrow" 😭 bless her little soul, she is blonde but adores Sophie to death
My grandmother had to give birth to my Aunt Pat in the subway tunnels during a German bombing raid on London. She never said anything about the Blitz other than it was "absolutely dreadful". She married the first U.S. soldier that proposed to her, my granddad, just to get out of the country after the war.
Именно поэтому 9 мая это праздник со слезами на глазах. Славянский народ сражался не за режимы, а за свое выживание. Сталин великий лидер. Рузвельт и Черчель признавали что им не удалось бы совладать с Германией без СССР
That is why May 9 is a holiday with tears in your eyes. The Slavic people fought not for regimes, but for their survival. Stalin is a great leader. Roosevelt and Churchill admitted that they would not have been able to cope with Germany without the USSR
Видимо лишь для нас. Правительство Америки слезами может и захлёбывается, но лишь от досады, что не удалось тогда нас перебить
@@Respen Они сразу после конца войны хотели удар в спину сделать даже план по операции был и назывался он Немыслимое.
@@dead-anarhist6291 это ясное дело, СССР у них развалить вышло, а после они сразу же с Россией то же самое решили проделать.
В 90е они явно не могли подумать, что РФ сможет выбраться из этого кошмара
Хочу уточнить что не только славяне воевали
@@ka4erga779 Угу
Welp, so much for the "Long Peace" now lmao
Ye. It seems Russia wants milions of their people dead again
19 - by Paul Hardcastle. Your mom gets big props for remembering this awesome jam! 👌
This is why we remember them!
Every time he says the average age is 23, it hits me so hard.
Boys and girls practically. Dying as pawns on a chessboard.
MY father was Marine in WWII. he was 22 and on a small Japanese island. He was 92 when he passed in 2014.
Additional WW 2 films: Sophie’s Choice, and Saving Private Ryan.
As I recall the Median Age was 19 and the Average was 23.
That's from memory however, which is known to be unreliable.
"Schindler's List" is a must see if y'all haven't seen it.
I watched a documentary on London recruits going in and saying they were 14 and the enlistment office telling them to come back in when they were 18. The would leave and come back in and say they were 18
yeah because its 8-1 = 7 I know its goes over your head.
Along the lines of "Boy in the Striped P(y)jamas":
"Schindler's List," "Sophie's Choice," "Life Is Beautiful" ("La Vita E Bella")....
“One death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic” - Josef Stalin
Yeah Russian play heros but there were invaders too so in the end they had to protect themself because of their stupid alliance with Hitler they literally asked for waar so they got in in the end
@@queenxx1690 хватит принижать мою историю,западной пропагандой. Если ты про разделение Польши, задайся вопросом почему Польша разделила Чехословакию за несколько лет до этого. И на тот момент союз не знал на сколько Гитлер жесток и ужасен, и в Европе много примеров когда с Гитлером дружили,советский союз спас европу, а вы любите нас принизить. Нас в разы погибло больше,чем евреев и мы не просим никаких особых прав для себя, просто не передёргивайте нашу историю.
@@гоги-г8ч speak English or not at all
@@queenxx1690 ваш ответ это все, что нужно о вас знать
@@nmoret2991 Better dead than red
The youngest soldier to die was 13 that should give you some perspective on what was happening. the age of enlistment was 16 most didnt wait and the officers were happy to let them serve
We all love each other.... we have forgotten that sadly.
The long/new peace ended last year
German soldiers are not Nazis unless they were actually Nazi party members. So, 500,000 "Nazis" did not die in the Battle of Stalingrad. This is a common misstatement/misunderstanding.
I cringe every time he says "nazis" because it makes modern generations think that every single person in Germany was a "nazi" like conscription wasn't a thing. I can't imagine how people would react if their government drafted them then everyone labeled them in a negative way.
The Weirmacht was an arm of Nazi Germany's military and were complicit in the atrocities conducted by the Nazis.
This is a distinction without a difference.
26 millions people of Soviet Union...
I saw a report from RT where in the center of New York people are asked - "who made the greatest contribution to the victory over Nazism during World War II" to which people answered "Japan, Germany", and similar absurd answers, which suggests that the propaganda of capitalism, like capitalism itself, is firmly entrenched in people's minds, that people don't even know the history of the world. I don't know about you, but in Russia they teach WORLD history in schools, and they study it deeply, and not only our country, and it's very funny to watch when people talk about GULAGS, that Stalin shot people and even there is such a joke that he ate children. Capitalist countries, in the world of capitalism, are forever twisting history, especially everything related to communism. Many people do not even know why the war was waged in Finland, and that in fact all the goals of that war were fulfilled, no one wanted to annex it to the USSR, no one knows why the USSR signed a peace treaty. Better ask yourself the question: why did all the countries of Europe give up so quickly? Why many did citizens of European countries join Hitler's Nazi legions and actually fight against the USSR? Why did the United States supply ridiculous equipment and weapons with its lend-lease? Why did the United States (which usually only films about D-Day are made about) not immediately enter the war, if they are such liberators-heroes? 400 thousand and 8 million...I do not accept anyone's contribution to the victory (although if you know the history, there will be no doubt who REALLY made a huge contribution to the victory) and I have always been amused by how American films show a Nazi German and an American soldier who feast as friends at the end of the war...you won't see this in Soviet and early Russian films about the war, because it's unlikely that you can safely eat with someone who came to your land, burned your soil, houses, killed your wife, and sent your children to a labor camp, so Soviet troops, Soviet citizens fought the enemy so hard, drove them all the way to Berlin and they took him. While others did not want to fight, the Soviet man fought for his land until the last drop of blood. This will not be shown in American films or games, because a Soviet person is a communist, and a communist cannot be a hero, only a brave American soldier can, because he supports capitalism and democracy.
Факты. Но европейцы и американцы следовать чутка, их интересует сколько полов и гендеров может быть у человека.
Будем надеяться, что они сами вымрут
The song you referenced was about the war in Vietnam, it douse refrance ww2 saying the average age of a combat soldier was 26, but says the average age of the same combat soldier in Vietnam was 19 which is for the most part true, due to gurilla warfare tactics used the Americans struggled and constantly needed reinforcement and so the age dropped due to necessity.
Of course there were people who lied on there investment forms but that was the average ages.
The song is Paul Hard Hardcastle "19"
The woman in the middle acts like she never heard about a place called "Germany“
It was such a relief to see that there were no Australian Military Deaths, New Zealand Military Deaths, and no Canadian Military Deaths... The greatest problem with the Internet today is the proliferation of UA-cam Videos by people that should be in Straightjacket's!!!
The Soviet army wasn't that big at all, and almost lacking experienced commanders it was relatively weak. According to history, Germany had an incredible technological and numerical advantage when the war started. Not to mention the surprise factor that got many soldiers killed in their sleep. Many people volunteered to join the military throughout the war, ranging from 16 year olds, if not younger, to senior civilians. The reason the Soviet Union hasn't fallen in the first months of the invasion is because of their spirit and the fact that they never lost hope. Every child, woman, senior worked day and night at factories, providing the army with food, medication, weapons. It is truly a miracle how the people managed to live out those 4 years of war and push the Nazis hundreds of miles back from Moscow to Berlin.
The number is incorrect, in total, the Soviet Union, according to official data, lost at least 26 million people, and according to unofficial data, more than 30 million.This is the pain of each of our families, so you honor the memory of those people who stopped this hell.
12:35 We watched it in history class when i was in school
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was purely fiction.
Had a few family members in the service...my grampa, who was an apple farmer, in Northern California, wasn't able to get enough work at the cannery during WW2 so he and a few men in the area caught the bus to Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Vallejo, CA) where my grampa was a mechanic there and helped repair the ships fighting the war. My Aunt Irma, a Red Cross nurse, was there that morning when Pearl Harbor was bombed. She was tough as nails and did her job well. My uncle was a Marine, serving in Korea and later went to Okinawa, Japan. In a weird twist, he ended up marrying a real nice lady, Fusako Shindo, my aunt, whose family were killed in the Hiroshimo/Nagasaki bombs.
What's a grampa?
@@afrodemon8629 A relative aka Grandfather, Grandpa, Grampa
@@afrodemon8629 bro wtf
Now you understand why for us (the inhabitants of the former USSR) Victory Day - May 9 - is the greatest holiday. We celebrate it with pride for our Grandfathers Grandmothers - warriors on the battlefield and in the rear. Everyone who could hold a weapon fought. Everyone who could work worked in the rear. We - the USSR - broke the back of fascism. All of Europe worked for Germany after the surrender. The US joined only after the USSR began to win victories on the battlefield.
The United States was not on the sidelines - since 1941, they had already been at war with Japan, which was one of the factors deterring Japan in the Far East
@@iohimfox8911 And who forced Japan to attack Pearl Harbor? Do not you know? I will tell you. The USA did it. And for what? To go to war. Otherwise, you won't earn big money... And the young people of the United States did not want to fight before the Japanese attack. For this, the United States angered the Japanese.
By the way, read the history of IG Farben (manufacturer of Cyclone-B). They had interesting business partners. Who was the great-grandfather of the last Bush...
The whole history of the United States - a provocation for the purpose of enrichment.
Without the US you would've been throwing rocks at the Germans. Weren't you the same people who invaded Poland and finland?
Yet Russia wants to inflict horrors on the rest of Europe comparable to World War ll .
Shame on you
@@ЦеллнвдпввшеешЖгажосщнуto help is when it is gratuitous. You probably wanted to write that the USA sold or gave on credit, so it will be more accurate. Because Russia, as the legal successor of the USSR, paid a huge debt for this assistance, until 2006.
An example of how you can have some people of a higher age and a lot of people of a younger age and the average be 19:
((17*20)+(18*100)+(19*200)+(20*100)+(21*20)+(45*5))/445=~19.3
My example demonstrating how 440 people of age 17-21 with the mean at 19, and 5 people at age 45. Most people in this example are younger. This _idea_ of proportionality scales to the millions of people who fought of various ages. Most were very young, some were older. Because there so _so many_ more of a younger age than of an older age, the average calculates out closer to the younger end.
Смотрите сериал Неизвестная война он на английском , поймете насколько это чудовищно по документальным кадрам и свидетельствам очевидцев .
everybodys jaw drops when watching that video
Yugoslavia will always be remembered as the fire that kept burning even after being doused by water multiple times with a people that love their freedom and nation so much that they'd give their lives one after another for it.
19:55
As strange as it may sound,
That ,,The Long Peace" was possible is also due to the result of 40 years of efforts by the government in Bonn (West Germany, 1949-1991)
The Bonn politicians have in 40 years
have done their utmost to keep the world and Germany peaceful.
As a country that was responsible for the Second World War,
Germany after Hitler made sure that never again a country would do what had been done in its name.
With its foreign policy and its policy of détente, the "Federal Republic of Germany", which served peace, gained trust in the world during the Cold War.
Whether in Russia, America or China.
1:02 you are referring to the song "19" which is about the Vietnam war :D The songtext is: In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six
, in Vietnam he was nineteen
Actually the average age of 19 refers to american soldiers in the Vietnam war, not WW2.
The lyrics we are talking about are from the Paul Hardcastle song "Nineteen".
"In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26
In Vietnam he was 19"
1) As of the end of 2022, about 167,000 American WW2 veterans were living. That's only 1% of the 16 million who served.
2) I was not familiar with "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." It is historical fiction, and apparently many have criticized it for being too fictional. Some have even called it a "fable."
Average age of 19 sounds like when they were enlisted. I enlisted as a combat soldier in a much later war, and at the ripe old age of 21 i was the 3rd oldest guy in my Troop. Nearly all 18, one 17 year old, a few 19s, and old people like me over 20 throwing off the average.
Gaynor, they didn't get your reference. I did. In the song they were talking about Vietnam. I don't know the average age for WWII. I'm sure it was low. In Germany and Japan, at the end, they had 15 and 16 year olds.
I believe in that same song ,taken from an American documentary about the Vietnam war ,they said 26 for ww2
I’ve always thought this was a very well-produced video; however, the data are now obsolete. Recent trends have changed since this video was created 10 years ago.
My father fought in WW2 he was in England to Normandy and fought in many battles including the battle of the bulge. He went all the way to Germany....
И ни кто, банкирам, которые заработали на войне, не предъявил.
The average life expectancy for a man during the battle of Stalingrad was 16 minutes.......
But guys, this reaction was very bland. 3 bits of commentary?
There are winners and wars it's just at a high cost.
Как в шоу сидят улыбаются,смеются...вот собственно и все)Эх вы..
Glad you reacted to this. It is a sobering video.
Need to watch ‘The Pianist’ brilliant but sad film
I think the average age of 19 refers to Vietnam?
It was, you are correct.
Ww1 and 2 have a combination of 91 million people deaths maybe over 100 million death's
15:34 they have bread cupons, they make potato field to city parks , they eat horses cats ,dogs ...
Trust me you are living in the best time in the world, medicine has developed a long wey and standard living has went crazy
I think every Western Country should watch this video possibly following watching the movie *(Saving Private Ryan)* especially Americans who constantly complain not knowing how good they actually have it
There is Czechoslovak-German movie Stalingrad from 1993, unbelievably naturalistic. That is terror beyond believe.
more than half of the male population of the USSR died in the war - official reports and this video only talks about military losses. Civilian losses are still not known - figures reach up to 30 million. When I was in high school and college, we used to gather groups to excavate World War II sites and found places where soldiers died. Personally, I find about 70 people. This practice has been carried out among all secondary educational institutions for more than 80 years. And the dead are still being found.
Aiden your right that no winners in war except death. Oh what's up with the jumping foot
Good afternoon to all, gentlemen and ladies. Listen, dear ones. I'm Russian. My great-grandfather, Ilya Potapov, was, of course, born in the Soviet Union.. and he volunteered to defend his homeland at the age of 18, which he barely turned. He fought bravely against a ruthless and powerful enemy. He became commander at the age of 20-21, when he was the only survivor of his squad, he was the youngest and eventually led the remnants. His place was in intelligence. After returning, he lived for about 10 years and died quietly, having lost his comrades, exhausted by the war, sleepless nights at home and injuries. That's what they say in the family, he screamed at night.. And you know what I'm going to tell you.. I don't want to sound like a blasphemer, my friends, but you can't imagine that time, damn it.. It's even modest to call it just hell. Looking around at how ruthlessly and immorally the enemy behaved in our territories, for which the enemy did not deny himself ideologically and practically countless sacrifices of our citizens. It seems to me that in Europe, the Nazis may have been a little "simpler" and "more polite." The picture on the eastern front was much more ambitious, bloody, brutal and dramatic. History is full of examples of how they nullified us, how cruel they sometimes were not only towards the military or prisoners, but also towards the peaceful and innocent population. This primarily explains the catastrophic losses of more than 26 million people! Oh my god... damn... of which about half were just women, the elderly and children, people of different ages, genders and positions... Ethnic cleansing is mainly related to this exorbitant number, but not to the distorted idea that the Red Army fought poorly! Ay, ay, ay, I find it extremely vile and shameless). Ignorance stems from illiteracy... You guys don't know Russians well. People were ready to defend the right to life and take revenge, and many, especially young volunteers, were eager to go to war, sometimes attributing to themselves a fake 2-plus years. Although it is partly true that during the first year we were pushed inland, yes, there was confusion, yes, there were losses, because the pressure was huge, colossal, and the enemy knew his business, the Germans are a military nation. There were mistakes in management, yes. In addition, do not forget that along with the Germans invaded many other soldiers who were under the treacherous care of the Reich, various foreign legions, volunteers who were preparing for the campaign and formed SS divisions from: Italians, Hungarians, Estonians, Croats, Romanians, Latvians, Lithuanians, partially Bulgarians, Slovenes as well as Slovaks, so are others. The Finns also remembered themselves, with whom, alas, we had old scores, and so on. Wow! It seemed that the whole united Europe burst into our doorstep with a wild roar, sweeping away everything in its path, knocking down the jambs of our doors, robbing houses and killing, mocking, stealing cattle. And the million-strong city of Leningrad, which is almost completely extinct with millions of inhabitants because it was cut off from food supplies? You can't even imagine, gentlemen, how catastrophically terrible the situation was. It is for such a number of reasons, including the vile inhuman cruelty of the enemy and countless bombardments of units and cities! total genocide is in full swing - that was their goal, that's how our losses were achieved. But not because our citizens were driven, scared and did not want to fight. Come on, dudes! This is the highly unconscious and outrageous stupidity of someone who thinks so - he does not know Russians)). But the Germans found out about it at the very first launch. Ha ha ha! It's amazing, I swear to God. The Germans turned self heads with lightning victories. They naively imagined that if they could occupy a number of neighboring countries, then this would happen in Russia... And how funny it was to watch how reality itself hit them hard in the face as soon as they crossed the border of our enchanted forest, yes)... And they realized that they had overreacted with the direction and that Europe had come to them very easily)). Because there are other people here and the character is different. One more point, gentlemen: the Soviets had the honor to fight only with the Wehrmacht military, since German citizens were far away (accordingly, the Germans had no civilian casualties/collateral damage was excluded). In addition, the Germans could return home, rest, recuperate and return again. This is also important, for a moment, gentlemen. Although the Russians were exhausted, they did not give up in battle. Especially the enemy preferred to avoid attacks from close range. For obvious reasons. And much more. The list is long, gentlemen and ladies. I will soon get tired of enumerating. Even after the long and deep liberation of the whole of Europe, the war did not end for us). It's a terrible horror. Along the way, our troops met with friends - the American army, which was already in Germany, and after the "victory over the German war machine" our Soviet troops were transferred to the Far East to finish off Japan, eliminate the last hotbed, since they were enemies as allies of Germany. More losses. The result of the great war? What did we get in the end? Our cities are in ruins, hundreds of our villages have been shot or burned to the ground, kindergartens, railways, schools, hospitals, etc. Unfortunately, the enemy was operating in the most developed, European part of the country, the heritage and infrastructure were in decline, and oceans of corpses and broken equipment.. Losses of various kinds and scales are unimaginably shocking. The country was actually recovering. Everything has been dishonored and defamed by this infernal war. This is an unheard-of grief. It's monstrously funny that these impudents thought we were savages. We behaved more nobly. Even in relation to their civilians. Although, of course, there have been incidents. But they could have been punished or shot for it. The Germans did not burden themselves with anything like that. No dignity, and... besides.. a cultural nation. They have blackened themselves. That's why it's not just hard to forget, huh, it's impossible. Every first family in my country, with rare exceptions, has suffered at least a little from this war.. Ho-ho-ho! Omaha! Normandy, Market Garden.. These are just easy American walks, similar to a sad excursion in cloudy weather with a rifle.. It cost you barely half a million lives. Yo! While the USSR single-handedly disabled more than 75% of the entire Wehrmacht! but at what cost... I'm sorry, I understand, but this is also sad, dear reader). Don't think anything bad of me. A lot of people died because of this, too, Americans, Britons and others, although it is incomparable with us! with the Russians! Ok? Damn.. Consciously, it was the USSR that was the key to victory. Know this. I respect you and honor everyone and everyone who gave their lives on the altar of a single victory. This film is decent, but not quite correct. Good and peace to all my brothers and sisters not by blood.. regardless of the difficult political situations that have developed between all of us today. May all those who were involved in this war find eternal peace and quiet. Long live the new life. Amen. 👊 🤞 🌅
4 million Indonesian is death, we are patriotisme & militan RIP 🇮🇩 ❤
Да не делал Сталин такого. Чего вы врёте?! Сталин отдал приказ "Ни шагу назад!", который означал, что любой солдат или офицер, отступивший без приказа и без серьёзных на то оснований, должен был попасть под трибунал, чтобы военный суд выяснил, почему боец отступил и вынес ему приговор, если тот будет признан виновным. Законы военного времени были строги ко всем, но я впервые слышу, что Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин отдавал такой приказ! Наоборот, когда немцы приходили, старались спасти и эвакуировать как можно больше людей, но просто кого-то из-за малой доступности транспорта - многие автомобили были изъяты для нужд фронта и для того, чтобы трудиться в тылу на заводах, эвакуированных в безопасные регионы СССР - за Урал, например - могли не успеть спасти и вывезти из городов, там оставалось много стариков, которые сами не хотели ехать никуда, оставались те, кому было некуда ехать, кто считал, что и тут ничего, выстоят и выживут. А вот о приказе, что нельзя проводить эвакуации гражданского населения впервые слышу - это враньё.
The rate of sldier deaths by a bankrupted country before 6 from start of the war was amazing
His foot is making me crazy ,LUL.
Queensrÿche- Empire lol I wore that album out.
My father was in D-day, 2 uncles were in the British Air Force one was from Holand the other was from Oklahoma
Same thing here in the the US we have the selective service so everyone 18-25 have to sign up by law, you dont actually have to serve but in the case of an emergency they may enforce it and draw from a lottery,during WW2 we had a draft, I'll give you an example too as far as the German soldiers my great-grandfather was stationed outside of Stalingrad fighting the Russians, but he couldn't stand the Nazi party he was pretty much forced to fight in the infantry and was eventually wounded when his magazine was shot while he was reloading and was thankfully captured by the Americans because this was towards the end of the war when the Americans moved in towards the west and spent the rest of the war in an American pow camp but a lot of them were forced but the stories that my grandfather with my great grandmother back in Germany after the war how they would find live ammo and grenades and artillery shells just lying around when he was a kid because nobody picked it up afterward
The USA did not have mandarory military service. The young men volunteered for 2 reasons. Destitution and patriotism
And now so called patriots vote for a person who admires Hitler and works for KGB since 1979. I am against capital punishment, except for Putin, Trump and Murdoch.
This video is SO WELL MADE!! Award winning with all of the statistics and graphics of the charts! INTENSE! You would think Russia would have learned better about war with Russia's tragic WWII history but Putin does not give a damn what anyone thinks, especially not the Russian people, Ukrainian people, or people in general!
Agreed.
What happened before February 24, 2022?
Preach
@@cygnusx-3217 The annexation of Crimea. If there’s something you really want to claim. Act like a man and just say it.
@@Konrad9119 Why did Crimeans vote 90%+ in favor of rejoining the Russian Federation?
All the soldiers that gave up their lives fort their country would be ashamed of what our countries are like now. Politically and socially.
Никогда мы этого не забудем!
And we will never forget about Ukraine
@@b4nterontilt забудете у вас память короткая
@@b4nterontilt и мы о Ираке не забудем)
@@iluxazapolsky5877 Your country will pay fot that
@@b4nterontilt держи нас вкурсе дорогой :)
It should be kept in mind that the "Average Age' of soldiers INCREASED over time. A Brit who joined up in 1939 at age 18 was 24 by 1945! Americans who joined up in late 1941 at age 18 would be at least 22 by the end of the war.
Sad part is that it was most likely more then that😭