What The Cold War Was Really About
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2023
- World War III - the Apocalypse that never was - started in the same place that World War II in Europe had ended: Berlin. “An Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent,” said Winston Churchill, and that curtain ran right through the heart of Berlin.
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Control.
Greetings from 👋 a survivor of communist labor camps. 👍Viva la libertad!!
I fucking hate collectivists.
@@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617😊g😊71😊gg😅
The communist/ socialist running the education systems here in the US would fight very hard to keep this out of our history classes.
I like this guy. Have him host more documentaries.
Bill Whittle is awesome! He has his own UA-cam channel.
His dailywire exclusive series about the Space Race is pretty interesting!
He has. Look him up
America's Forgotten Heroes is his best.
I'll allow it
0:22: 🧱 The Berlin Wall was a physical and symbolic division between collectivism and individualism, and its fall represented the collapse of a death sentence and the hope for a future.
8:21: 🌍 The Cold War, a half-century nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States, began and ended in Berlin.
15:26: 📚 The founding fathers of the Russian Revolution were men who used pseudonyms and were constantly on the run from the tsar's secret police.
20:42: 💔 The lubianka building in Moscow was the headquarters of the Soviet secret police, where thousands of innocent people were tortured and executed during the Cold War.
24:39: 🔪 The brutalities of the Soviet secret police and prison system during Lenin and Stalin's reign.
29:43: 💔 The United States was far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of economic and military power after World War II.
35:50: 🌍 The United States and Soviet Russia had opposing strategies and ambitions during the Cold War.
Recap by Tammy AI
Thanks for saving my time! amazing summary tool with time stamps! where did you get this Tammy Ai
@@ambition112just go to their website. Tammy AI is a tool to summarize UA-cam videos.
It was not only a nuclear standoff though. Conventional forces were a huge part of thinking, the beginnings was all conventional, and later the soviets utilised their massive forces both nuclear and conventional. The Americans adapted with manoeuvre.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Churchill wanted to use the NAZI forces and move forward fighting the Soviets. American forces wanted to go home instead of going to fight in China. At home both parties began a witch hunt against the Stalinists much like what is being done to Donald Trump. The real enemy being the labor movement.
"Carrying decades of emotional baggage," says a lot as I spent six years in the Navy in a submarine hunting USSR submarines, with great success.
PLEASE have Bill Whittle host another batch of “America’s Forgotten Heroes”. Hands-down the greatest podcast series I’ve ever heard, and immensely re-listenable.
YASS! Great series! Anything with Mr. Whittle is awesome but that series was spectacular- deserves its own video series as well.
He's got another one coming out in November about the Soviet Union.
I served in Germany during the last breaths of the Cold War in Europe. By the late 1980s we had been equipped with modern systems, modern weapons, and had excellent leadership. As East Germany crumbled--even before the wall went down--we saw real Soviet equipment and knew without doubt, it was over for them. Crude would be an understatement. The most modern of their land war systems could have been fielded in 1950. This is why Desert Storm seemed so "easy"--not because it was, but because our superiority was so great.
Those days are over. We have squandered our superiority on high dollar, low payoff ideas like welfare, expanded medicaid and medicare, more loans to people who cannot pay them, corporate and ag welfare schemes, and "qualitative easing"--welfare for the Wall Street bros.
In the Pacific, the Cold War never ended, we just started pretending it had. The cost of the stupidity there is unknown, but it will not be small.
Having one set of great grandparents that immigrated to America from Russia at the beginning of the 20th century before things fell apart I was very interested from a young age in learning about the Russian revolution and the subsequent Russian civil war and how the communists came to power. Everything I've learned about what it was like living under communism make me firmly believe that as Americans we cannot even begin to fathom the horrors and atrocities carried out in the name of "progress" within the USSR.
Shut up Kim Jong poon
And yet leftists will process the greatness of communism and anti American as they are try to cast america as equally bad or worse to places that wiped out millions of their own people in camps. Government organizations are untrustworthy everywhere and many major companies and so on but that’s about equal everywhere you just also add gulags and work camps to that bad stuff in russia and China.
I'm sure you realise how fortunate you are for part of your family to have managed to just narrowly escape from that incredibly brutal system.
What a bullshit! As a Russian it's really funny to hear about "horror" and terror in USSR. I'm 45, and only my childhood I spend there. But my parents and grand mom tell me a lot. After WW2 our country was absolutely destroyed. But already after 15 year Gagarin's flight. My parents told it was the happiest time of their life- 60-80.In USSR we had Free of charge medicine, free housing, free any education, social lifts worked perfectly.
Could you imagine, you should not buy a flat- just live and work, and you get absolutely free of any charge new flat.Waiting for new family for this flat was about 5-8 years.( if you don't want to wait, you can take money for some kind of mortage. But the interest percent was.... Tadammm... 1-2.Can you imagine mortage for 2 percent? And it was - reality.
Soviet horror😂
Excellent program Bill. I served in Field Station Berlin, at Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain), in Army Intelligence (insert oxymoron joke here), in the early '80s. We had printed T-shirts we wore under our fatigues that said "Don't Shoot: I Know Secrets" in German and Russian. I had plans to be in Berlin in early November 1989, but those plans fell through... I was ecstatic and heartbroken to watch the wall come down on TV. Heart broken because I could have actually been there, but ecstatic for my friends there and the great victory that I had played a small part in.
So you were an US Army spy were you hunting for Reds in the Army?
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Thank you Bill Whittle for making this series. Well researched and really well written. We love it!!
Well researched, just like Saddam's WMD and Ghost of Kiev?
He forgot the US/UK invasion of the early Soviet Union and the the two US Red Scares begun by Wilson and FDR along with the founding of the US FBI America's secret police. Churchill was hated more than Hitler in India and he had called for the strangling of Bolshevism in its cradle. Eugene Debs who called himself a bolshevik from head to toe ran for President from Prison just like Trump may do. Both were charged with the Espionage Act violation. The second Red Scare began with the arrest of Trotskyist leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters and Socialist Workers Party.
And at some points superficial, relying on what is the received wisdom in intellectual circles that are too timid to look further than the nearest specious fallacy.
You love it. I not so much. Avoids addressing what is the essence.
@@Borzasnyul The Stalinists were not defeated by the capitalist worlds military but rather by internal popular revolutions. Future events would bring an end to the original euphoria in western capitalist ruling circles. First it was Islamic Terrorism a political grouping they had originally endorsed in their cold war drive against communism and then the economic crisis' of 2008.
Bill's excellent narration over historic events will capture you and want you waiting for more on each topic.
Saw both series already twice. I think Cold War was even better.
Hope we get a third instalment.
It`s honestly dogshit. I`m from Eastern Europe and he COMPLETELY fails to understand our point of view of events. He doesn`t understand what we mean by collectivism. He doesn`t understand why we wanted communism gone. He doesn`t understand why so many of our people today still like communism. A lot of the shit he is selling like democracy, liberalism and freedom is also a bunch of shit that we don`t care about and in many cases would be happy to see gone.
A lot of the people he praises like the Founding Fathers and Churchill are seen as traitors and shits and not for the reason he assumes. Solzhenitsyn is also seen as a hypocrite here.
I love that people are discovering Bill Whittle, been watching him for years. His documentary series on the space race is fantastic
It is not possible to explain the conflict in Ukraine today without explaining Russia after the Cold war. And I can't not explain that without explaining the Cold war.
And then I need to explain Ww2 etc and soon I am back at 1700 and the Great Nordic war. And I should probably start earlier...
So everything in history is tied together. Just like you show here.
Thank you!
Super interesting, fantastic content. I love love love the 50's and 60's era as someone born in the 90's, it's hard to put into words how much I appreciate being told about this time period by people who actually lived it.
You have anemoia, the Greek word for nostalgia for a time you never actually experienced. I experienced it. The time was in general a better one. Or it seems that way in reflection.
Bill Whittle is a treasure.
I would not mind an hour long doc per day of this quality, different one shown every day for several years.
@TheGJRuppert Watching/listening to another episode in the Cold War series today, and had the same thought.
I was surprised to hear a new series hosted by Bill. He's got some great commentary. Hope to see more DW and Bill Whittle collabs in the future.
Having watched the entirety of the What We Saw: Cold War from start to finish in one week, I can honestly say it was absolutely incredible! I would love to see a series about WWI or WWII or the Manhattan Project or other historical events!
Bill Whittle has an awesome voice. Loved the space race series, and I'm sure I'll enjoy this also.
I’ve watched countless documentaries and read many books about the Cold War and the history of the Soviet Union, but I’ve never really heard it articulated this way. Aside from Stephen Kotkin’s books, it’s rare that I hear something new.
The comparison of the founding fathers of the US vs the USSR was something I hadn’t heard before. And it’s so interesting to think that the communists portrayed themselves as working towards the next evolution of mankind, but in reality it was the individualism of the West that was leading away from our historical default of collectivism.
Can’t wait to watch the rest of the series!
This is awesome I’m a history buff and still learned a lot from this. Please continue these. This guy does a great job
40 minute video about one of my favorite history subjects?
Yes please!!
12 part series 👍
Love the aesthetic of the interviewer and his office -great 60’s look.
Bill and his facts are the best.
You forgot to mention the Anglo-American invasion of Russia from 1918-1919. Surely the Russians haven’t forgotten about that yet.
Churchill already had written his "Iron Curtain" speech and decided to deliver it at Westminster College in Fulton. i wondered how Churchill found it and then got there, by train or auto. I have seen some photographs that show a motorcade leaving Jefferson City for Fulton.
Omigosh. So excited to watch this. Thank you for making these. I want to know more history but am so distrustful of most of the narratives.
Also…..love the vintage design of this set!! Good job!
As a senior citizen who watched much of this happen, it is interesting to think there are grown adults to whom this IS distant history.
Funny enough, my mother is a senior at this point. She notes how even her primary school talked about WWII as if it were distant history, even though it ended about 10 years before she was born.
Most of her teachers lived to see WWI. Remarkably, the more you study history, the more you recognize that all of these dates were not really that long ago.
@@Buddybeej Your mom and I are the same age. My family has children late in life so I had grandparents who were young adults at the turn of the 20th century. Think about this. My material grandfather remembered speaking to civil war veterans. He was born in 1886, and there were many veterans of the civil war living in his town. He remembered his parents using oil lamps and a coal fired Franklin stove to light and heat their home. This was long before electric lights and natural gas furnaces. He lived to be 94 and I was a young adult listening to him reminiscing about a world where people were still using horse drawn wagons.
This is such a beautifully well done and neutral documentary, narrated by a well spoken, competent personality.
Big thumbs up from a big history buff.
Neutral? It’s not even remotely neutral.
An important point you neglect to mention is that of the 25 million WWII dead in the USSR, "only" 7-9 million died at the hands of the Nazi's.
A Robert Conquest reader
@@jamesmurphy9426 The figure is not in dispute.
Disease tends to kill more soldiers in most wars.
@@johnnotrealname8168 which doesn't really bear on the point here. And in any case, many of the soldiers who died of disease on Germany's Eastern Front were mistreated in captivity, effectively killed by the captors.
@occhamite It does though, you wrote only 7 or so million thus died. I showed that most who die in war die of disease anyway. I am not arguing you are wrong on this either, the Eastern Front was industrial teeth tearing people apart.
The Cold War wasn’t just about the Iron Curtain. It was also about the Bamboo Curtain, which never collapsed and has gotten more and more powerful.
In other words, the fall of the USSR was NOT the end of the Cold War. We are still in the middle of it, only that now one side denies there’s a war at all. A perfect recipe for defeat.
don't worry, China is a paper tiger...it will soon go downhill...
Agreed! Also, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the west's response to it shows the Cold War has never ended.
it is not about curtains at all. The whole world history is one curtain or anothey - by different words, the game between the Great powers. Sometimes it was Rome, Persia, China; sometimes it were France, Germany, Britain and Russia. Only difference - there were nuclear weapons and ideology instead of religion.
I love Bill Whittle. What a great storyteller. Looking forward to listening to the series.
Amazing series! Love both of the what we saw docuseries
1:19 bro tripped
More Bill Whittle please 🙏 great episode
Im going to enjoy this series 👌
This is an engrossing series, thank you.🇭🇲
Political Police
I don’t mean to be a wet blanket, because I love this video. I only have a small suggestion to make, if you don’t mind. It is commonplace to hear the reference of “secret police” applied to communist countries. This is a mistake. There was no such thing as a secret police, in any communist country. The GRU, KGB, NKVD and all the other multi-letter police departments, were all overt and in your face, all the time. In order for terrorism to work, the recipients of the terror, must be aware of the terrorists, otherwise there would be no fear. The Western countries had secret services. Nazi Germany had secret police: GeStaPo: Gehime Staats Polizei or Secret State Police. Hitler did not want to terrorize his own Aryan population. In the East Bloc countries, a strange plainly dressed old man would approach people, from time to time, and say something like “We are watching you.” They wanted the people of the Warsaw Pact countries to be in a constant state of terror. And, perhaps more importantly, people were aware of the fact that even their best friends, could possibly betray their hatred of the regime and snitch on them, to the Political Police. This is the correct name for this department: Political Police. Their job was to scare people straight, to stay in line, in their march to total compliance.
I love Bill Whittle, this docuseries alone makes a lifetime of memberships worth it.
I’m a new subscriber because of this excellent documentary. Please continue to support Bill Whittle as host of these documentaries. Thanks
I absolutely love this stuff. This info is simply not taught. Thanks to Jordan Peterson for expressing the catastrophe that The Gulag Archipelago is not taught in western society. Which peaked my interests since I'm trying to understand the current political climate by understanding ideologies of the past. I hope to one day finish The Gulag Archipelago as I only made it about half way through. As it takes a heavy emotional toll on the soul. The atrocities and evil done is depressing. And it seems to be that the way way people act in todays political climate, we run the risk of repeating history. Hopefully, people will realize we need to choose the Right path.
200 Years Together has only been translated 10 years or so ago
Did you ever think why such poor and tortured nation could break the spine of Hitler and to end up in Berlin? Solzhenitsyn lived in our neighborhood in Moscow. His fiction books are taken too seriously and scale of repressions pictured there is greatly hyperbolized.
Just check the demographic figures and you will see that Gorbachev and Yeltsin were by far worse disaster for USSR and Russia, not Stalin.
Incredible the number of people who still believe communist lies and still drink the koolaid.
Peterson is just another intelectual whose confusion is enough to make anyone laugh. He names his child after Gorbachev the last Stalinist leader of the Soviet Union only to later go on ranting about Stalin.
@@konstantinzaslonov1357 It is true but 90-s was demographical wave from WW2. Life expectancy is more telling.
Good to see Bill Whittle!
Thanks Bill
Amazing show!!
Great episode
This is an excellent documentary. Most captivating I've seen.
I used to walk behind that building every day when I lived in moscow. In the back there is a ramp with guards that descends into the basement. I too found it so ironic that there is a children's store nearby. At the top of the children's store is a lookout you can go to in order to get a better view of the building and the square. Lots to ponder up there.
This was fantastic!
Wow! Great video....
I’m Igor Pachenko the famous train robber. STOP THIS TRAIN AT ONCE!!!
great content
EXCELLENT! BILL WHITTLE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST STORY TELLERS OF OUR TIME!
Didn’t realize how well-informed Pat Sajak was on The Cold War😮
All these years I thought he just told Vanna to turn the lighted game show props.
The Cold War: 1945-1991
WAS WWIII.
Korea and Vietnam were two of its Theatres or Major Camlaigns.
This was exceptionally well written and produced.
This was a great documentary.
Love this series!
Great to see Bill Whittle still doing his thing, shout-out to old skool PJ Media fans!
Hell yes, please for the love of god keep Bill Whittle around. So glad to see him again!!
Just outstandingly good!
This was but an introduction what a great feeling i get from this series.
This was great !!
1:20 That was quite a remarkable confession I really did not expect to get here.
Why? It’s quite obvious, what do you think tribalism is?
This is so good!
This is great!
Well done Bill.
Thank you!
Best host ever!!! Amazing work!
Arms sales. The Cold War was all about the world's two largest arms industries competing over foreign markets.
Not even close, since governments lose money doing everything, including arms sales. If the private sector is permitted, it just sells arms to countries that constantly war anyway, so what is the point of having a huge nuclear standoff that prevents a bunch of direct conflicts?
“Push the button, Frank.”
WAS THAT A MST3K REFERENCE?!?
In the 70s Spanish singer Nino Bravo released a song called "Libre" (Free man) as a tribute to an East German young man Peter Fechter who was 18 years old and was shot in the pelvis by the communist guards while climbing the wall as he was trying to flee to West Berlin. He bled for an hour while pleading for help and mercy. Even if you don't speak Spanish I strongly advise you to listen to the song with the translated lyrics. RIP Peter.
If you want to flee west Berlin, you can just pass; I think you mean East Berlin?
@@rhs5683Re-read this bit: "as he was trying to flee to West Berlin."
excellent
The crusades were a massive war, but nobody ever fired a shot.
This is the third or fourth time that I am listening to this. First the podcast and now the video!
Thanks DW
"Council housing and prescription glasses". Yep, it carries on like that.😢
Brilliant.
Barely 30 seconds in. Already love it lmao
ik 2 german who were separated until the wall was torn down their father who was a Wehrmacht soldier survived the war but their mother wasnt so lucky and was killed by a Red Army soldier
*for you*
History will not be changed by allowing freedom of speech and a flow of information exchange and a plethora of views (that merely gives you many viewpoints to choose from) however when strict narrative control is imposed and there is a lack of information exchanges allowed or only allowed under strict scrutiny or sometimes not allowed at all, this is what changes history (a lack of transparency) something I will never stand for, even though I may disagree with whomever I'm engaging with I still stand for your right to say it that's what makes for a free and open society where objective and often controversial points of view and discussions can actually happen no matter how uncomfortable they make you feel *remember feelings do not matter in a mature society all feelings of being offended lead to overtly and often tyrannical weaponized narrative control* . In truth freedom of speech really truly only matters when it's the opposing viewpoints, the hard ones you don't want to hear when you refuse to go out of comfortable zone you *stifle* your wisdom. *if discussion and "truth" has to be rigidly controlled then it's not truth* .
- *for their can, be no true freedom in thought in a regime of propagandized and weaponized narrative control* -Maggie Morgan 2023
This is awesome
Really nice to hear Bills voice
This was pretty incredible.
I was 6 years old when the Berlin Wall came down - barely old enough to remember it. But in spite of that, even at that age I remember a different feeling about the world before and after - I've noticed that people younger than me tend to look at foreign policy with rose colored glasses. They don't really understand the benefits of American hegemony and see it as no big deal if our political rivals gain in strength. Reminds me of those too young to remember 9/11 and how they tend to not understand that isolationism doesn't work out so well.
Super
37:57 "Russia was inward-looking, suspicious, and ruthless. America was outward-looking, trusting, and naïve."
lol
You've done it. You've made me a member.
The music accompaniment was on point. 🤌🏻
Very well made!
Old style TV :)
37:44 "The United States didn't have the slightest need for either buffers or conquest. The two largest bodies of water on the planet protected America, and we had the very best land on the planet as well ..."
Incredible
Please do more World War documentaries
What kind of reasoning is, "if you're not willing to tear down this mass murder factory, then at the very least you should restore it to it original condition"?
This gentleman has the most perfect voice for this type of docunentary.
I live Bill Whittle. ❤️
Handing half of Europe to the Soviets on a silver platter was the worst thing America ever did
Your solution would be a another war with nuclear weapons
But what could we have realistically done differently in that situation, while avoiding bloodshed?
@streetsoldierhood9796 make a separate peace with Germany, arrest Nazi leadership and SS, then fight alongside the regular German army to keep the Soviets out of Romania, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia
@@Heath580 Yeah let's overlook the fact nazi Germany killed around 13 million one way or another and start the war with the Soviet Union and declared war on America with the knowledge they could never land a army on American soil
I guess it could have worked out
@@Heath580 Unfortunately, that does not avoid bloodshed. You have to remember that once the dust settled, everyone was sick of war. Most nations, and people of those nations, didn’t want to fight another war at the time.
The Brits were like, put the dog back in his kennel, that burglars dead…
God help us!
I've never heard of Kolyma too. Until you told me.
Please put on all the moon missions that are no longer on the You Tube channel I used to watch called Esoteric Radio Theatre.
Needs a ton more views.
Great monologue
I remember in 1989 in the second grade we were still doing nuclear fallout drills. The next year in the third grade we didn't have to do them anymore. It would be a couple years before I discovered why. I'm sure my parents told me about it, but I was having so much trouble with my fractions I had more important stuff to worry about.