Wow! My Seafardi family has 400 years proud Castilian Toledo-Spain, Algeria & Bratsilava roots. My dad was lucky enough to get out, arriving in Palestine in 1936 just as the Nazis rolled into Czechoslovakia, however, 72 other members of my Frankl family were murdered by the Nazis. My dad felt sufered from guilt having left his family behind, and blamed it on all his bad luck in life, such as losing his beloved wife when I was born, and marrying a brutal, cruel woman who conned him to move from beautiful Israel to an ugly shithole named Brooklyn, NY when I was 13 years old. I did return & served in the IDF, my greatest of all honors For a long time I felt resentful toward Czechoslovakia, but this video has helped me to forgive. Also a Cezchoslovakian Christian lady saved the lives of two of my cousins. Amen. VIVA Israel and heroic IDF warriors. Thank you Chechoslovakia. Sababa ("cool" in IDF slang). Never again will Jews be unarmed and defeseless. Amen.
wow, what a story! Thank you for sharing.... and sorry about the tragic events in your family..... I wish mankind learned enough to never make the same mistakes again...
As a Czech citizen I have to say something. Czechoslovakia really did help Israel but its only fair to say the reason CZ helped the Israel was not only a kind of Philo-semitism and Anti-capitalistic doctrine ordered by Soviet Union, but one of the important reasons was Czechoslovakia after the WW2 was literally thirsty for US dollars. Desperately thirsty because of the absence of the economic Marshall Plan aid and benefits refused by Czechoslovakian communist government and destroyed industry after the 2WW. Israel paid literally every gun and every bullet. It was definitely not a nice gift from Czechoslovakia to Israel, but I am really glad it helped Israel in a crucial period to face a numerical superiority of unscrupulous enemies. Jewish inhabitants of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia left an unerasable trace in our history and our culture. On the contrary we should thank them for contributing not only to the economic development of our country centuries and years ago but simply for being what they were/are with their interesting culture, architecture and customs. Greets from CZ and stay strong. You are definitely not alone.
There was an interesting TV show I took some info from and one of the Israelis said that he admires Czechoslovakia twice. For the help they provided despite the embargo and also for being able to sell the stuff so expensive which is something he would do as well :) and let's be honest, every country had problems after the war so it was just an opportunity taken. :)
Great video! I was researching the first Isreali war (1948) and there was mention that after the first UN cease fire that Israel received armored cars and heavy artillery. Did that also come from Czechoslovakia? If so what models. You mentioned Hetzer tank hunters were originally going to be purchased, but didn't make it. Thank you for a great video!
Thanks mate :)... well, there is a problem. Once Israel became "an enemy" of the combloc, many of the documents related to the military aid from Czechloslovakia were shreded because the people in charge were afraid it might backfire on them. I only put in the video the stuff we have resources for but unfortunately, there might have been more stuff sent there for which we have no proof. And it would make sense since there was a plenty of these abandoned around here...maybe over time the Israeli archives will help to fill these blank spots... would be great! :)
Russians have spared Prague and thousands of its own soldiers, a rare consideration. But I would not call what happened to Czechoslovakia in 1945 "liberated". Your country has changed masters. The true liberation came what, in 1990?
Correct. I mean for a brief moment it looked good. 1946-47 but commies were slowly taking over.... And the true liberation came after the '89 Velvet Revolution.
Good video. Thanks. Do you know the story of Jan ludvik Hyman binyamin hoch and who likes helped him in similar endeavors later. Supposedly had his daughter keep an eye on things.
Didn't knew Czech helped Israel to win the war against Arab World when they are on the verge of defeat and surrender Czechs were not hesitant helped Israel immediately this proved to be a massive difference
Czechoslovakia🇨🇿 at the founding of Israel🇮🇱 It was during the creation of Israel that Czechoslovakia also played one of the main roles, especially by supporting the newly formed Israeli army, which was formed from the military organization Haganah and the militant groups Irgun and Lechi. The newly formed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had to deal with several war conflicts right from the start in order for the State of Israel to defend its new existence. The Israel Defense Forces were faced with several problems. First, they waged war on several fronts, against Lebanon and Syria in the north, Jordan and Iraq in the east, Egypt in the south, and the Palestinian Territories across the region. Second, the soldiers lacked training, weapons, machines... in fact, everything needed to wage war. They mostly had older weapons that the Hagana organization acquired in various ways through individual conflicts. For example, the air force used repaired wreckage of British aircraft from the Second World War or smaller civilian aircraft adapted for combat. And here comes Czechoslovakia's turn. "I consider the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine to be the only possible and just solution to the world Jewish question at all. Therefore, whenever an opportunity presents itself, I will always help to make it happen," President Edvard Beneš said in 1946. And that's how the mood towards the creation of Israel in post-war Czechoslovakia could be summed up. Czechoslovakia was primarily a transit state for Jewish residents from various corners of Europe. These were, for example, Jewish resettlers from Hungary, Romania or Poland. Across our entire political spectrum, the Israeli situation was seen more or less unanimously - and Israel also considered its friendship with Czechoslovakia in the 1950s appropriate Czechoslovakia played a vital role in the creation of Israel and the Israeli army: It supplied weapons, ammunition and fighter planes to the Jewish state. Historically, the state of Israel is closely connected with Czechoslovakia, as our country made a significant contribution to its establishment in the post-war period. Above all, the Israeli army was grateful to Czechoslovakia in the beginning for training experts, weapons supplies and fighter planes, which we were the only country to deliver to Israel despite the UN embargo. However, one cannot deny Israel's unreal purposefulness in building its own state and in its tenacious defense. The State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948 (in 9 months, less than a year, it will be 77 years since its foundation) after the cruel Second World War, during which the Jewish population experienced hell on earth. The Jewish state in the Middle East was created from the blood of the victims of the Second World War, and with the blood of its new citizens it fiercely defended its independence in the first few years surrounded by Arab states.
me too, I guess this gun would deserve some short history video summary... there are some interesting information and it was not far from being adopted in a couple of countries.. :)
Czechoslovak Gun Stories Ian from the Forgotten Weapons channel did a video on the ZK-420S (and many other Czechoslovakian self loading rifle prototypes) and he posed a ‘what if’ the Czechs copied the American M1 Garand and the soviets copied the Czechoslovakian ZK-420S bolt design into the Kalashnikov
@@lesliegrant6898 yup, I also watch his videos carefully :) I guess the designers in general themselves rather take an existing and verified system and work on it further than work on a brand new one... as for the ZK-420 there were several prototypes and the initial ones shared very little with the later ones :) we are lucky we have a plenty of Czech written resources about these guns.... I am now also working on the possibility to get some of these guns in my hands and show them to you all.... hopefully it will work out fine :)
I did a search on "Czechoslovak Stalingrad" but couldn't find anything. Are there other names or are you aware of english-language sources of information on that? Never heard of it and would like to learn more.
Ostrava and Opava in the northern Moravia and Silesia were hit especially hard, when joint Soviet and Czechoslovak exile armies pushed into the occupied Czechoslovakia from the North.
I stumbled across the story of Czech arms helping the Israeli wifh weaponry when reading about the 1948 49 Arab Israeli War. I had not been aware of this. My research led me to your site Your story clarified the methodology and reasons for this. The politics of the situation were quite interesting. As was the frank disclosure of the finances Thank you very much. It has been brought to my attention that Czech mitary know how I s quite under rated or perhaps not as well known as it might be.. For example I have been told that the Czechs have developed a vastly superior version of the Hind helicopter gunship includes vastly uorafed engines hhat allow it to better operate in high altitude environments improved electronics and electrical systems and improved armaments.. Can you tell me if this is corrdct?ht be
Hi Joseph, thanks for your message :) as for the Hind I do not have any particular resources. But I guess it can be true since there is a plane factory which specializes apart from building planes like L-30 or L-159 in heavily modernizing Mi-17 helicopters. So it would make sense that Hinds would get the same amount of care....
yes, partially because of that, also, I would assume, since Mauser rifles and MG-34 machineguns were produced directly here in the Brno factory, there were large stockpiles of them here. Plus a lot of parts from which they could assemble more of them. I have to say that it is possible some MG42s and Stgs were sent there, but once the Israel became the enemy of the Eastern bloc in the early 50s a lot of documents were destroyed (probably because the responsible people were afraid of being compromised) so we cannot exclude the possibility of some other guns being delivered :) the stuff I mentioned in the video is what we have resources for :) hopefully some other documents will be found in the future :)
7:16 well that's efficient 12:53 do my eyes deceive me? Is that an Australian marked P-40 I see? Also serious question now though admittedly a touch off topic: what kind of equipment did the Czechoslovak legion use? I'm having a lot of trouble finding sources that give more than the bare minimum overview on them
a lot actually..... we cannot say very much about the particular prices for this or that type of equipment but for example the Avia S199 price was over 50k USD whereas the milsupr P51 had a price tag approx. 4k.... but, you know, embargo... :)
@@CzechoslovakGunStories - I've read somewhere the about 50 - 60 Spitfires czech RAF fighters were apparently given and returned with from Britain, were later sold to Israel for approx $ 25 000 a peace....
@@conceptalfa yup, I think the price for one Spitfire was 23k approx. but there were other expenses like maintenance and shipping costs so the price could have easily reach 30+k a piece....
Palestine is Jordan. Palestine is Israel they suffered by Decades and Israel is existing longer then Jordan! Fuck Palestine Long live Israel from Czech Republic! 🇨🇿❤🇮🇱 🖕🇵🇸💣💣💣
You realize how much of an oxymoron that is? WE ARE NOT THE SAME!!!!! I love "jews" and desire for them to be saved, but they hate Christ and everything about our faith.✝️🇵🇸✝️
@@caedmonnoeske3931 i didnt imply a unification of the belief systems. Contrary to that, i was rather pointing at the similarities in our roots but there is diversify regarding the way of life and salavtion. I was just mentioning an alliance between two religion. You gotta chill and read the sentence calmly.
Many Israelis who know this history remember well. Lots of love from Israel and health and success in these difficult times.🇮🇱🇨🇿
I am from Kyrgyzstan, thank you for educating me!
Wow! My Seafardi family has 400 years proud Castilian Toledo-Spain, Algeria & Bratsilava roots. My dad was lucky enough to get out, arriving in Palestine in 1936 just as the Nazis rolled into Czechoslovakia, however, 72 other members of my Frankl family were murdered by the Nazis. My dad felt sufered from guilt having left his family behind, and blamed it on all his bad luck in life, such as losing his beloved wife when I was born, and marrying a brutal, cruel woman who conned him to move from beautiful Israel to an ugly shithole named Brooklyn, NY when I was 13 years old. I did return & served in the IDF, my greatest of all honors
For a long time I felt resentful toward Czechoslovakia, but this video has helped me to forgive. Also a Cezchoslovakian Christian lady saved the lives of two of my cousins. Amen.
VIVA Israel and heroic IDF warriors.
Thank you Chechoslovakia. Sababa ("cool" in IDF slang).
Never again will Jews be unarmed and defeseless. Amen.
wow, what a story! Thank you for sharing.... and sorry about the tragic events in your family..... I wish mankind learned enough to never make the same mistakes again...
No wonder I always got along with Czechs. Dekuju!
Thats something i didn't know. Thanks for sharing the story!
Congrats Czechslovakia! You helped create a monster.
Love Czechia and Slovakia from Greece (I'm Mizrahi Jewish) :)
Good video. Masaryk was truly a hero.
As a Czech citizen I have to say something. Czechoslovakia really did help Israel but its only fair to say the reason CZ helped the Israel was not only a kind of Philo-semitism and Anti-capitalistic doctrine ordered by Soviet Union, but one of the important reasons was Czechoslovakia after the WW2 was literally thirsty for US dollars. Desperately thirsty because of the absence of the economic Marshall Plan aid and benefits refused by Czechoslovakian communist government and destroyed industry after the 2WW. Israel paid literally every gun and every bullet. It was definitely not a nice gift from Czechoslovakia to Israel, but I am really glad it helped Israel in a crucial period to face a numerical superiority of unscrupulous enemies. Jewish inhabitants of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia left an unerasable trace in our history and our culture. On the contrary we should thank them for contributing not only to the economic development of our country centuries and years ago but simply for being what they were/are with their interesting culture, architecture and customs. Greets from CZ and stay strong. You are definitely not alone.
There was an interesting TV show I took some info from and one of the Israelis said that he admires Czechoslovakia twice. For the help they provided despite the embargo and also for being able to sell the stuff so expensive which is something he would do as well :) and let's be honest, every country had problems after the war so it was just an opportunity taken. :)
Great video! I was researching the first Isreali war (1948) and there was mention that after the first UN cease fire that Israel received armored cars and heavy artillery. Did that also come from Czechoslovakia? If so what models. You mentioned Hetzer tank hunters were originally going to be purchased, but didn't make it. Thank you for a great video!
Thanks mate :)... well, there is a problem. Once Israel became "an enemy" of the combloc, many of the documents related to the military aid from Czechloslovakia were shreded because the people in charge were afraid it might backfire on them. I only put in the video the stuff we have resources for but unfortunately, there might have been more stuff sent there for which we have no proof. And it would make sense since there was a plenty of these abandoned around here...maybe over time the Israeli archives will help to fill these blank spots... would be great! :)
Veľmi zaujímavé videá a obsah! Tento kanál si zaslúži viac odberateľov
Very well explained. Good educational source for the current generation.
thank you :)
7:16 early use of drop shipping.
Interesting video. Thanks
For the algorithm gods
Good and interesting stuff quite enjoyed this video. could you make a video series about the VZ 58 as you did about the Skorpion?
Hi Felix, indeed, this is already on schedule :)
Russians have spared Prague and thousands of its own soldiers, a rare consideration.
But I would not call what happened to Czechoslovakia in 1945 "liberated". Your country has changed masters. The true liberation came what, in 1990?
Correct. I mean for a brief moment it looked good. 1946-47 but commies were slowly taking over.... And the true liberation came after the '89 Velvet Revolution.
Good video. Thanks. Do you know the story of Jan ludvik Hyman binyamin hoch and who likes helped him in similar endeavors later. Supposedly had his daughter keep an eye on things.
The story of Rabbi Leow and the Golem took place in Prague.
yep, that is true :)
Didn't knew Czech helped Israel to win the war against Arab World when they are on the verge of defeat and surrender Czechs were not hesitant helped Israel immediately this proved to be a massive difference
Czechoslovakia🇨🇿 at the founding of Israel🇮🇱
It was during the creation of Israel that Czechoslovakia also played one of the main roles, especially by supporting the newly formed Israeli army, which was formed from the military organization Haganah and the militant groups Irgun and Lechi. The newly formed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had to deal with several war conflicts right from the start in order for the State of Israel to defend its new existence.
The Israel Defense Forces were faced with several problems. First, they waged war on several fronts, against Lebanon and Syria in the north, Jordan and Iraq in the east, Egypt in the south, and the Palestinian Territories across the region. Second, the soldiers lacked training, weapons, machines... in fact, everything needed to wage war. They mostly had older weapons that the Hagana organization acquired in various ways through individual conflicts. For example, the air force used repaired wreckage of British aircraft from the Second World War or smaller civilian aircraft adapted for combat. And here comes Czechoslovakia's turn.
"I consider the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine to be the only possible and just solution to the world Jewish question at all. Therefore, whenever an opportunity presents itself, I will always help to make it happen," President Edvard Beneš said in 1946. And that's how the mood towards the creation of Israel in post-war Czechoslovakia could be summed up. Czechoslovakia was primarily a transit state for Jewish residents from various corners of Europe. These were, for example, Jewish resettlers from Hungary, Romania or Poland. Across our entire political spectrum, the Israeli situation was seen more or less unanimously - and Israel also considered its friendship with Czechoslovakia in the 1950s appropriate
Czechoslovakia played a vital role in the creation of Israel and the Israeli army: It supplied weapons, ammunition and fighter planes to the Jewish state.
Historically, the state of Israel is closely connected with Czechoslovakia, as our country made a significant contribution to its establishment in the post-war period. Above all, the Israeli army was grateful to Czechoslovakia in the beginning for training experts, weapons supplies and fighter planes, which we were the only country to deliver to Israel despite the UN embargo.
However, one cannot deny Israel's unreal purposefulness in building its own state and in its tenacious defense. The State of Israel was established on May 14, 1948 (in 9 months, less than a year, it will be 77 years since its foundation) after the cruel Second World War, during which the Jewish population experienced hell on earth. The Jewish state in the Middle East was created from the blood of the victims of the Second World War, and with the blood of its new citizens it fiercely defended its independence in the first few years surrounded by Arab states.
I wish there were more ZK-420S rifles :(
me too, I guess this gun would deserve some short history video summary... there are some interesting information and it was not far from being adopted in a couple of countries.. :)
Czechoslovak Gun Stories Ian from the Forgotten Weapons channel did a video on the ZK-420S (and many other Czechoslovakian self loading rifle prototypes) and he posed a ‘what if’ the Czechs copied the American M1 Garand and the soviets copied the Czechoslovakian ZK-420S bolt design into the Kalashnikov
@@lesliegrant6898 yup, I also watch his videos carefully :) I guess the designers in general themselves rather take an existing and verified system and work on it further than work on a brand new one... as for the ZK-420 there were several prototypes and the initial ones shared very little with the later ones :) we are lucky we have a plenty of Czech written resources about these guns.... I am now also working on the possibility to get some of these guns in my hands and show them to you all.... hopefully it will work out fine :)
I did a search on "Czechoslovak Stalingrad" but couldn't find anything. Are there other names or are you aware of english-language sources of information on that? Never heard of it and would like to learn more.
Probably Ostrava
Ostrava and Opava in the northern Moravia and Silesia were hit especially hard, when joint Soviet and Czechoslovak exile armies pushed into the occupied Czechoslovakia from the North.
I stumbled across the story of Czech arms helping the Israeli wifh weaponry when reading about the 1948 49 Arab Israeli War. I had not been aware of this.
My research led me to your site
Your story clarified the methodology and reasons for this.
The politics of the situation were quite interesting.
As was the frank disclosure of the finances
Thank you very much.
It has been brought to my attention that Czech mitary know how I s quite under rated or perhaps not as well known as it might be..
For example I have been told that the Czechs have developed a vastly superior version of the Hind helicopter gunship includes vastly uorafed engines hhat allow it to better operate in high altitude environments improved electronics and electrical systems and improved armaments..
Can you tell me if this is corrdct?ht be
Hi Joseph, thanks for your message :) as for the Hind I do not have any particular resources. But I guess it can be true since there is a plane factory which specializes apart from building planes like L-30 or L-159 in heavily modernizing Mi-17 helicopters. So it would make sense that Hinds would get the same amount of care....
Love Israel and IDF 🇨🇿❤🇮🇱
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Why didn't they purchase STG44s and MG42s? I presume the Czech Army used it themself, is this correct?
yes, partially because of that, also, I would assume, since Mauser rifles and MG-34 machineguns were produced directly here in the Brno factory, there were large stockpiles of them here. Plus a lot of parts from which they could assemble more of them. I have to say that it is possible some MG42s and Stgs were sent there, but once the Israel became the enemy of the Eastern bloc in the early 50s a lot of documents were destroyed (probably because the responsible people were afraid of being compromised) so we cannot exclude the possibility of some other guns being delivered :) the stuff I mentioned in the video is what we have resources for :) hopefully some other documents will be found in the future :)
@@CzechoslovakGunStories perhaps someone needs to make a visit to a museum in Israel and ask nicely lol. But seriously I am more than happy to do so
@@firestorm165 good idea :D
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The check republic has the best people in the world. I am jewish and the checks are great
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*czech republic
So finally once in history Czech weapons would fire a shot in battle...😂
Your knowledge of history is superficial.
7:16 well that's efficient
12:53 do my eyes deceive me? Is that an Australian marked P-40 I see?
Also serious question now though admittedly a touch off topic: what kind of equipment did the Czechoslovak legion use? I'm having a lot of trouble finding sources that give more than the bare minimum overview on them
Firestorm yes that is the Royal Australian Air Force roundel on the P-40 Kittyhawk, but the current RAAF has a red kangaroo inside the roundel
@@lesliegrant6898 I see there's a fellow Aussie in the comments. Well met friend
I know that in Russia Czechoslovak legions used mostly mosin nagants and some arisaka 38s
How much israel paid for them
a lot actually..... we cannot say very much about the particular prices for this or that type of equipment but for example the Avia S199 price was over 50k USD whereas the milsupr P51 had a price tag approx. 4k.... but, you know, embargo... :)
@@CzechoslovakGunStories - I've read somewhere the about 50 - 60 Spitfires czech RAF fighters were apparently given and returned with from Britain, were later sold to Israel for approx $ 25 000 a peace....
@@conceptalfa yup, I think the price for one Spitfire was 23k approx. but there were other expenses like maintenance and shipping costs so the price could have easily reach 30+k a piece....
Palestine is Jordan. Palestine is Israel they suffered by Decades and Israel is existing
longer then Jordan! Fuck Palestine Long live Israel from Czech Republic! 🇨🇿❤🇮🇱 🖕🇵🇸💣💣💣
Czechoslovaks helped both sides but considering other where helping onyl arab liege its till makes them better contributor.
Neznáte historii.....
Shows how beautiful the Judea-Christian alliance are
You realize how much of an oxymoron that is? WE ARE NOT THE SAME!!!!! I love "jews" and desire for them to be saved, but they hate Christ and everything about our faith.✝️🇵🇸✝️
@@caedmonnoeske3931 i didnt imply a unification of the belief systems. Contrary to that, i was rather pointing at the similarities in our roots but there is diversify regarding the way of life and salavtion. I was just mentioning an alliance between two religion. You gotta chill and read the sentence calmly.
White intruders helping each other
Defending Israel is nothing to be proud of.✝️🇵🇸✝️🇵🇸
Yes it is
Love Israel and IDF 🇨🇿❤🇮🇱
Yes it is, you terrorists.
Yes it is
Cry about it, Arabs lost most wars against Israel
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