The Heart-Melting Story Of Wojtek, The Soldier Bear
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- The tale is bizarre, but true. During World War II, an orphaned brown bear went from being a cuddly pet to an officially enlisted soldier in the Polish army, and reportedly saw fierce combat in Italy. Decades after the war and his death, "Wojtek" continues to be honored.
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Would you allow me to voice over this video? Bears mean a great deal to me.
I'm growing my channel and this experience would be great for us both
what's the name of the music you used?
Aww I wish that is my pet
How coincidental that he died at the age of 22 when he was in the 22nd Resupply Army. Or maybe he wanted to never be forgotten
@@camronrapp4146 I second this!
I imagine the bear saying at the zoo, "The war was the best years of my life."
Bro I’m blown away. Have y’all never watched a documentary about nature, if an animal gets shelter, food, water they would be completely happy and would have no desire to leave.
@@Hayden11335 plus since we was raised with humans and drank beer and cigarettes I don't think he'll survive in nature
@I ain't no millionaires son! yeah I don’t agree with keeping monkeys in captivity at all.
@I ain't no millionaires son! and you can’t compare a human to an animal like a lion doesn’t make any sense
@I ain't no millionaires son! yes zoos are horrible but not because of captivity. It’s how they are treated that is the issue
The soldiers saved his life when he was a cub, but when he grew up, he was the one saving them on the battlefield. What a legend.
He even cracked open cold ones with the boys. It is always nice when people treat animals as equals, and in return they show that same respect.
@Don Joe it was his destiny, at the end he did a great Job and thought this is his way and i will stand by my family also in *War*
A human War!
This is underated
You right there A legend 💯
Wojtek needs a movie made in his honor, who agrees?
sadly be incredibly difficult
@ChaMpioN oh serious, lot of more special things in history just felt left behind cause of bigger things, sorry for grammar
@ChaMpioN ohhh interesting maybe i ganna watch th movie, idk any Russia or Polish history, it sounds super interesting tbh
@@HenryBlackwell not that much if you watch a movie that now is going to be release (the call of the wild), the dog in the movie is completely helped in the movement by a 3d graphic system that let it looks real.
MAR Bre13 me
It's enough to make a grown man cry
I can't stop crying, on top of that he's my fellow countryman....
And that's okay
Damn right
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs reference
Wojtek was the bravest and goodest boy there ever was. ❤
Doesn't matter what you are
*A bro is still a bro.*
❤️
💙
💚
I felt that
Brother bear
Soldiers: “We ran out of ammo!”
Bear: “Hold my beer and light my cigar”
An (drinking, smoking, and actually helping in battle,) Iranian bear serving besides polish soldiers under British command, fighting in Italy. He needs a movie!
@@LilBigBriggi An anime motion picture will do him justice.
So true!
Very humorous.
Just D O N ' T! The enemies would shot off the cute bear 😖
British army: No animals allowed in camp.
Polish army: Nah that’s just Private Wojtek
Lol that’s amazing.
He was even promoted to corporal wow even i wouldn't be able to do all that shit
Ganga Devi is that because the crates were too heavy
@@augerspyramid9466 no it's because it's a bear.. a bear who copied what humans do and did jobs that normal bear can't do.. that bear has a human soul inside of him
That is polish way....
British army:understandable have a great day
First time seeing this. The smile on their faces. Glad someone take those videos and pictures for us to see.
They put him in a zoo... the bear probably become depressed after that. He think he is a human. There is a story about a dolphin commit suicide cus they put him in a tank. He commit suicide in the hands of his Trainor. Would be nice to see a video about it.. but this is the problem, ... they use the bear and after that they put him to zoo.. too bad they can't adopt him and make into their own family
@@lalagirl211 It's sad but the soldiers didn't wanted to make him a communist symbol
@@lalagirl211 he would die in nature in the first day he was raised by humans after all
I agree, without any footage or photos taken at the time we wouldn't know or see how it was and/or how it went.
Wojtek would've been completely forgotten in the sense of being seen in action.
@@lalagirl211 Nah it's just like he retired after some hard working years, he had food and a field and was still able so see humans.
Wojtek: Was I a good bear?
Death: No
Wojtek: ...
Death: I heard you were one of the best
Wojtek:"Got a cigarette?"
Έλληνας Εθνικιστής Wojtek: Some beer too? Cheers.
Nah he's THE best
I felt that.
Your gonna make me cry man lol
Just imagine being on the other side and peeking out of cover to see a full grown grizzly carrying mortar shells across a live battleground
that's insane, i could imagine!
He is with Allah now. He will get his 72 virgins
@@xiangxu1050 wtf
Me as a german soldier *peaks over the trench and sees a bear carrying bullets* "wtf... since... When did they, wha?
@@jmgonzalez1959 lol the guy who said that was obviously taking a cheap shot at that dude for having a Jewish last name
Wojtek is legendary in Italy too. That bear and the 22nd company freed my hometown in WW2, we even made him a statue!
How is your town called?
@@lastpsych5033 Imola
@@FoOLiShGuAcBoWLMeRCHanT From germans.
Wasn't Italy on German side?
@@rakun-raccoon1907 many Italians were not.
The fact that the polish didn't abandon the bear but enlisted him as private is highly commendable.
Finally he repaid it by helping in carrying heavy ammunitions
not only carrying ammo was the point, imagine the morale booster everyone had, he could always make you crack a smile in a sad days like war
I would feel fucking unstoppable with a bear on my side
Soldiers: Were out of shells
Bear: this is my moment...
Bear: my tike has come
Bear:Hold my beear humans=))
@usmc 03retired funniest thing I've seen all day
bear: hold my beer
Liemez 😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine a bear telling you his grandpa served in ww2
This comment is so underrated.
Huh
I had to do a double take on this comment. At first I interpreted it as; Imagine your grandpa telling you a bear served in WW2. Then I realized what you actually meant.
RATED-X ! On some Bojack Horseman shit
that would be grand grand pa
Glad to find out Wojtek the bear was not killed in action but survived the war.
@carmena
You gotta go sometime...
@carmena probably wouldn't survive the wild
@carmena he won't survive the wild, worst case he become a man eater
No it much better if he died in a battle not in a zoo cage!
@@touya-san_omannuevo2071 you'd rather have the bear shot in the head by an enemy for being in a war an animal knows nothing about than it dying due to natural causes while being cared for and treated right by humans in a zoo?
If yes then you're a fucking asshole
I forgot to say, thank you for posting this and keeping Wojtek’s memory alive. My father was with the 1st Polish armoured division but he met him. The only time i saw tears from my father was when he talked of him, he loved all of nature but said God has sent this bear
My father was also in the 1st armoured division.
That's pretty cool. Do any of you possibly have pics?
@@dragonmaster909any pics from...WORLD WAR 2?
@@blueyandicy I saw someone somewhere mention a guy who said his grandfather or something met or spent time with Wojtek, and when people asked for proof, they say he delivered. So far I haven't found the so called pics. It was a passing curiosity for me.
I saw him too, in Edinburgh Zoo. I went with my Babcia who was visiting us from Chorzów Poland. It was about 1960.
"The crates weighed over 100 pounds."
That's like 1 pound in bear units
Ha
True lol
British pounds
That was so cool. I was like whoa awesome!
TheWalkingRed Metric bear units? Or Customary bear units?
It's nice especially because he lived for 22 years, their expectancy is about 20. That means he was happy and healthy. Salute!
@@ohdreadeddawn1804 yah thats a nice point brother so we can conclude that bears can live longer if we give them cigarettes and beer 😂
i mean, they are really tough, a lot tougher than human, beer and cigarettes barely do anything
He can bear the nicotine and alcohol
So you saying eating cigarettes and drinking beer is heathy I'm gonna give it a try
@@wizzlo3307 Are you a bear?
This is an awesome story! Made my day!
Y E S
hi
It is
Yes! So awesome. They killed it's mom then carried it around like a puppy, and then feeding it beer and cigs.
So awesome.
They didn’t kill its mother moron
I've seen his statue in Edinburgh, people still leave wreaths & flowers. Touches the heart to see
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@@kennethultimate02 301st like :) he was an awesome bear
Wait! No cigarette?
Do they leave beers too?
"Bear carrying crates with bullets around."
*Battlefield intro plays*
Also can be League of Legends into-"Legends never die...."
Fun fact: no one told him to carry the ammunition boxes, he volunteered. After observing his comrades carrying the boxes and placing them he learned to carry them and worked hard. Thanks to his effort his squad carried over a few tons of ammunition
Wait what someone can speak bear language oh. my. god.
They learned h8m that by giving him candys
Exactly, the best part about Wojtek was that he could easily leave at some points, but he was committed to helping the soldiers.
usually animals run away when hearing loud explosions and gunfire, but this one particular bear would rather mimick human behaviour
Sarawak's Sky Dweller because that’s all he knew he imprinted on humans and they taught him human nature same way a mother bear would’ve taught him how to be a bear if she hadn’t been killed.
Such an amazing story, beautifully told with these precious pictures. My father Tadeusz fought as a second lieutenant with the Light Artillery Regiment (Pułk Artylerii Lekkiej).of the Polish II Corps at Monte Cassino in 1944.
God bless him for his service! 🇵🇱🙏
Monte Cassino was a terrible battle. The British tried to capture the monastery twice, the second time with Indians, the third was New Zealanders and the fourth was the Polish.
Not only was the hill steep, there was only one approach which the enemy covered.
I feel like having a bear,gave the troops a morale boost.
Is all he needed was some goodiez and the ammo kept a' comin
@ninepuchar1
Similar bond with our troops K9’s. Definitely a morale boost and is carried over to post war endeavors. 👍
@scott warwick
Wojtek
I’ve heard the navy had kittens to boost morale but a bear alongside you in the trenches is a whole different level lol
probably the only reason they let their regiment keep the bear
Im from Poland and here is a fun fact: When the bear was in zoo, Polish soldiers would jump over the fence and play with him (even the zoo let them do it).
😢😢
😪 😫
THIS BEAR didnot deserve to bee in zoo
RIP harambe
lord carlos da hek😂
Everyone’s gangster till the bear starts sending mortars down range
The best version of this Meme so far
Lmao
You copied that off reddit
Reshma Deshpande obviously no one cares, just like no one cares of your roblox and Minecraft videos
Forgot UA-cam has a bunch of four year olds that dont know what reddit is and how it feels when someone takes credit for your work. I'm sorry you haven't lived that long.
Can you imagine the fear any enemy soldiers who were close enough to see that even a massive BEAR was helping the Allied Artillery crew to fight against them?
It's amazing he survives the war. I bet his unit take great care of not exposing him to much to ennemy fire. Maybe even the ennemies don't want to shoot him, cause they would be amazed too by it.
@@rKhael53I know I wouldn’t. That bear deserves a fair hand to hand combat god damn it! He’s a good and honest boi, only to be taken out in an honorable duel. (Yes I know he’ll absolutely slaughter me)
@@DaTimmehthe idea of 1v1ing a bear being the only way to take it down is strangely adorable
BRUh Imagine being newly recruited and seeing a bear in your platoon that eats cigars and is an alcoholic.
That would be fuckn sick if enemies trained a bear id leave em alone
And this bear becomes a corporal later and even outranks you as a private :D
@@balex1109 😂
@@balex1109 lmfao 😂
Especially when you have to salute him!
He protecc
He attac
But most importantly he brings ammunition back
awesomeA6 - FN like tucker budzyn!
Not Austinnn fuck off with that pathetic bullshit🖕🏻
Bacc**
@@missyb9438 bruh you mad xD
@@missyb9438 someone woke up on their bad side
Soldiers: WE NEED MORE AMMUNITION
*bear comes running in with supplies*
Germans: fml
Matthew Rarig choked on my food reading this
I fucking died laughing reading this
i hahahahahhaha omg just screenshotted that shit
“Hold on, be a min bear with me boys, i mean *GROWL*”
Lmao
There’s a life size statue of him carrying an artillery shell in the Scottish Borders town of Duns.
It often has flowers placed in its arms.
"Sir what should our plan of attack be?"
*bear noises*
"You heard him men, we shall go to the woods and catch samon with our mouths."
“But the Germans are marching towards our position!”
“COURT MATIAL,”
samon
@@MNZGamin underrated
Sal mon
@@MNZGamin in poland its samon u fool
*_Everybody gangsta till the bear starts loading the Artillery gun._*
Lol made my day
these comments make me die lol
@@j0sh368 should I call a medic? The medic is also a bear.
Made my day
Real Gangsters are Italian.
In America, we believe in the right to bear arms. In Poland, they believe in the right to arm Bears!
Absolutely the most brilliant comment!
Fuck I had to delete my post after I saw you beat me to it haha Witty Minds think alike!
Very witty 👌🏽
Wierzymy w to co jest pod ręką 😂
@@hubertsochalski3060
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zabawny
I kinda felt bad, when he was turned over in a zoo, I hope his comrades who visited him were able to bond like they was before, hugging, wrestling, and eating.
The bond of real friendship never dies, even after years and decades its still there.
They did and were a nightmare to the zookeepers bcs they sometimes climbed over the railing and played with him there
@somebody true! It's DEFINITELY better to slap him in a cage without all his childhood friends and 'parents'...do you have a brain?
@somebody He's free to smoke/drink whatever he wants though...it's not like someone's forcing the bear to do so. You, instead, would force him to live in a cage🤔
@King King well to be fair - if he returned to Poland like most Polish soldiers were forced to he most likely would have been killed... Like those returning soldiers who weren't inprisoned... Poland after the war was gifted to Russia by it's allies and suffed due to it greatly...
So yeah - leaving Wojtek in a zoo was the best choice...
In sure the bear felt like he retired from such a horrible war being in that zoo relaxed
imagine having a lower rank than a bear
Minister of defence, from my country, was liberated from sevice at recruite site before joining the army, as the incapable for service. As such, he was selected as minister of defence, many years later, and served few months of basic military training...
And from the other side, there is Wojtek...
i'd be fucking honored
If the bear deserves it like Wojtek did I would be happy
Doesn't matter who you are, the bear always outranks you
hahahahaha!
Imagine spying on their base, and just seeing a bear smoking a cigarette and drinking beer from the bottle
There was a situation when wojtek find german spy in something like shower room. (Wojtek liked to take shower)
lol that's hilarious
beer*
Haha, that's hilarious, the Nazis would think the Allies have made a species of super intelligent bear supersoldiers
Banks Drinnen eating a cigarette you mean 😂
I bet he missed his brothers-in-arms terribly when they locked him up. No drinking, smoking, wrestling, sitting around the camp fire and sleeping with his comrades.
Yeh bro then they locked him up he was a war hero,that's why he died at aged just 22.
@@nathansugden9332 just like John j Rambo ..
Bro that face is so punchable 😂😂😂
@@slowcarracing3025 Every time ANTIFA wanna punch "nazis" (White ppl) they knock themselves out though?
Nathan Sugden dude Syrian brown bears have a life span of 20 to 25 years, wojtek lived a long and full life, it’s not like he died young or anything because they put him in the zoo
Nasz kochany MISIU, pozostaniesz zawsze w naszej pamięci!!
He couldn't talk to them. But he understood the language of love.
I’m your 500th like! Gave a good day!
He understood kurwa
Perfectly summed up. This world is alive.
I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that we have to destroy it to survive longer.. And for what, to destroy it more.
LOL, you snowflake whimp. They spoke the language of the army.
they saved him from most likely death and he loved them for it
This is unbelievable....how has there not been a movie about this yet???
I really want to see a movie made :/
they made a movie for a horse, why not a bear?
I would watch that
His fat idk
123 dont1234 lol wut
Imagine the enemies radioing to his superiors. “Sir there is a bear carrying ammo”
Lol, If I was a superior I would go crazy.
Lmao! If you heard this in battle as superior you be pissed off & in disbelief bcuz you think someone had the audacity to lie & talk shit to you in an ongoing battle. Lol!
Soldier: Sir! They have a bear!
Superior: They what?
Soldier: THEY HAVE A COMBATANT BEAR
Superior: They’re fighting bare??
Soldier: THEY. HAVE. A. BEAR.
Superior: They’re having a fair?
Soldier: Curses while walking away
No they would say "Heilige Scheisse Kameraden da ist ein Bär der die Munition trägt"
I see this happening in my head and i like the idea lol
I never thought a bear could make me cry. Rest in power, Corporal Wojtek! 🫡 🐻
British high command: No animals allo....
Polish army: Welcome private
That's how we Poles roll!
@@funnythrush2891 Germany started ww2 by attacking Poland. If you think it was the other way around kust think for awhile. If Poland attacked Germany, why for all the time soldiers fought on Polis land? From the first day to the defeat of Poland no Polish soldiers fought on German land. By your logic if Poland started ww2 and was easly defeated, why war didn't end in October 1939?
Poland was defeated in a month, France nearly the same amount of time, while having more soldiers and better equipment.
Polish soldiers fought in Battle of England and Polish squadron was one of the best. They bear away Monte Cassino. Polish soldier Witold Pilecki volounteer to Aushwitz and thanks to him whole world got to know what Germans done in death camps.
Without Poles whole war would look diffrent. They were actually pretty helpful.
10 days after German attack we have been attacked from other side by russia ...
@murzyn n Erm no ya didn't? if you were so successful in the war how come you fell so fast? Stop with the lies.
@@funnythrush2891 Poland did not start the ww2!!! It started in Poland but we were atacked, by german. How can you Say think like that?
Everybody gangsta till they see a bear on enemy lines
Hahaha
A bear carrying artillery and smoked. Yeah I'm not fighting that.
WhydoU Needit and drank beer lmao
@@zen528 Throw some coke in him and you're in for a wild time
Haha! This one got me good. Great comment here
In my hometown Cassino,Italy ( where he fought) we recently built a sculpture of Wojtek.
❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for this information. My father was fighting there. Best regards from Poland
Serio, non ne avevo idea
Show us please.
@@N238EGoogle it beyaatch
Wojtek is a favorite of mine. he needed the soldiers as much as they needed them. such a beautiful soul may he live in heaven with his friends from the expat army of Poland forever.
Soldier:WE NEED MORE AMMO
Wojtek: *RAWR*
'Passes artillery crate'
😂😂
Nae mate we ppl talk like bears theres no big difference
the fact that this scene could very much be real just blows my fucking mind
what a story
reminds me of the dovah bear animated series lol
This was the most manliest thing I've ever seen. Imagine fighting alongside a fully grown Bear and drinking beer with him afterwords
Masculinity has reached it's peaked years ago. Amen
Thats true
@@paranpics is that supposed to be a prayer?
@@monsterlord9438 amen means the truth 😂 so it might be a prayer or just another fancy way of saying it
Fusion LaZyy Rocket Racoon??
Imagine the stories he'd tell his bear friends at the zoo
I could almost here the beats."That new bear is such lier. Yea tell me about it, he told me he was corporal"
~ what bear friends? Animals were kept in concrete jungles when he went to a zoo 😞
@@NannupTiger his cellmates* :D
tas tiger I think this comment is A JOKE 🤗we all no that zoos are cages and the bears would be kept separate ect, plus BEARS DONT TALK, your looking at it from a serious perspective, just see it from a light hearted perspective 😊 x
@@claireosborne692 it was a joke I can verify that
" he was promoted to corporal " thats when I had to burst out laughing lol what a freakin bear this is.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😝😝
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Mayank Rages just did
Commander: what did u see in their shelter?
Soldier : a bear smoking and drinking beer
Commander: another schizophrenia patient
Another victim bois
No, it's a bear.🇵🇱🇵🇱
Made tears roll down my face, ,, salute to corporal wojtek....
👍 i agree
We have a statue of him in Edinburgh. Gave what he could and was respected for it.
Must pay a visit to Wojtek the warrior bear statue when i come to Edingburgh & the rest of Scotland for my holiday.
@@hansvonessen6259 Thats great, are you doing a tour of Scotland? So much to see here. I end up taking it for granted because I was born here.
@@DevilsAvocado69 I am also visiting England, Wale and Northern Irealand. Thank you for the recommendation about Scotland.
The best thing UA-cam has ever recommended to me.
1,000 subs with no videos challenge well, I guess you haven't seen the farting dog and the puking cat then.
Boy you got 4000 subs now damn
Wait
I’m ur 4,126 sub
Same here 😁!
Wojtek lived his life in dignity. Like a true soldier.
so im a medical student and interestingly i was told about this bear by a patient! he was too frail to explain the whole thing, so i came here to find out! this patient was one of the soldiers in this squadron can you imagine, what a remarkable story
Fighting a war and your comrade is a fucking bear!!!
That must have been a shock haha. I have always been interested in the War and have found all kinds of interesting little stories buried in those horrible years. This has to be one of the more interesting ones for sure!
You are fortunate to have been told this story.
@Tj 100+ years of age. Hope he’s doing okay 🙏
@@yawarnoaman2636 Wow, what an incredile honor it was to meet such a legendary person!
Dolphins: were the most human like creatures
Wojtek: hold my bear my cigar and my ammunition box....
And his wrestling gloves
@KING RAGENDARY yea they said in the video he wrestled with the other soldiers
Underated comment.
@KING RAGENDARY sorry boxing* gloves
And the fricking beer bottle 😂
Glad to know that he was visited by his friends even during his life at the zoo.
Lol same profilpicture
Unfortunately not everything was a great as it might seem. A bear had mental health problems while in the zoo. He spent 16 years in 10 m2 small room, he didn't like other bears. After the war Poland was under occupation of ZSRR. Polish-communist government tried to bring the bear home, but British refused, maybe rightfully so, polish war heroes were being hunted down by communists so they may have lied about Wojtek, possibly saying that he fought for soviets. Either way, his last years were pretty sad, they live 30-40 years on average, so he passed way faster than it should.
@@roger8506 it's crazy how you write so much yet none of them is true. A bear's life expectancy is only 20-30 years. Mental health problem? Did you speak to him or what? 10m2 small room? According to whom? and again with all that bullshit you write.. He was constantly visited by his friends and soldiers in the post world war. They would oftenly gift him food and wrestle with him. His favorite things to do is getting drunk and eating cigarettes. That's his life. Sure being in a zoo is hard but it's because most animals in the zoo can't survive in the wild. If the baby bear was left alone in the wild without its mother in the first place,it would surely die to other predators as he was as small as a little dog.
@@roger8506 uh no, he had a open enclosure....there are pictures and proof of his living area after the war....and he lived a happy life. What mental problems are you talking about?
@Rootbeer Express 😂😂😂
Fun fact: You wonder why there are a lot of Bear talking movies, because they are inspired by this.
Hollywood should turn these into a movie like "Balto" and "Hachiko" these bear deserve an international recognation 😍❤
posibly if bear is jude...
Wotjek later went on to fight in the Tekken Tournament where he became the Champion after beating a kangaroo who served in Australia's Navy.
HunchoPuncho901 W and changed his name to kuma
@@hansbendixen5430 nah.. that's his stage name ya know?
Did that really happen😂
@@garycooper1375 Yes its on "Where Are They Now?"
And fell inlove with a sexy panda
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What a fantastic true story and what a morale booster for the lads serving at the time 👌❤️🇬🇧
2:20
He has a huge smile on his face, i can tell he loved his buddies !
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
🐻😁
Thought the same thing :D
bear died. ther are nasis from deutchland :-(
Hemic Shark love it
USA: We have the right to bear arms.
Poland: UNO Reverse card.
underrated lol
Poland: We have the right to arm bears.
We have the bears to arm us.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Us arm to bear the have we
Private Alexander!
Present
Private Franciszek!
Present
Private Wojyek!
Roar
And this is how the movie starts
Corporal
@@2HeadEagle when it's the start of the movie, he's still a private...
@@Heisenberg355 is there a movie? based on this story?
@@RimiruTemPest433 I don't know if it's part of a movie but there is one.
"Wojtek: The Bear That Went to War" from 2011
And he will ha a red shirt
Kindness and compassion shown towards the abandoned bear resulted in such a friendly and joyful relationship.
I’m glad he was able to live a life with people who cared about him like family, and I’m further pleased he did not die in combat
me too
Yep. I thought that he was a bear who was enslaved to fight in wars or something like that ...
And that he died in combat. That would be already sad.
But it saddened me ever more how the story actually is. Damn I love that bear.
They need to add him to call of duty
Ron GG haha a killstreak
That would be fucking awesome
Ron GG he should have been the replacement for Reilly sure Reilly’s cool and all but this would just be awesome to see him instead
I'm just seeing a bear running all over the place with some shells
bear artilary strike imbound, get to cover!
American army: we bear arms
Polish army:we armed bears
Seriously on 11 likes. What’s wrong with the algorithm?
@@michaelsmith9714 it was copyed
@Daniel Guevara it does, the same focking comment is in this comment section
*Right to arm bears*
edit * in poland bears armed us...
That's what we call "true hero" right there. He deserves every joy in this world
Never in a million year would I imagine a story like this.
My friend this just goes to show that sometimes people need to listen to their elders this Summer's they can learn in the elders wants to pass on the knowledge before they depart This Plane that just the bottom line
In USA they train Dinosaur for war
You must not think a lot
True
Yeah youre right😢
This would make a badass movie
Yes this definitely movie material but it better be a well made one
RJ Stug i doubt he was that constrained.
What would it be called though? Would an eponymous work?
@@preyrez8138 Wojtek- A beary badass soldier
Just 2D animate the movie
just imagine how boring his life got after being sent to a zoo.
William Edwards I was thinking, it’s an incredible story until they put him in a zoo. Then it became a sad story.
His life was like a life of whole Poland and men, who fought bravely for their homeland (ripped apart and destroyed by Hitler and Stalin). They fought for their country, but in the end, they were put behind bars.
MAN!!! Probably got extremely depressed
Poor bear he served his country and his, life behind bars!!
No more beer or cigs what's a bear to do.
William Edwards why not let him in the wild?
One of the best polish soldiers.
RIP Wojtek
From Bulgaria
Imagine families in Scotland taking their children to the zoo and then a Polish veteran breaks into Wojtek's cage and starts wrestling him before sharing a few shots of vodka and cigarettes.
That was real, polish soliders was breaking into Wojtek's cage, but they wasn't giving him cigaretts hahahah. In Poland we remember about him!
😂 😂 😂
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But that is actually not nice becose it was stupid drunk man.
I was watching documentary about it and Wojtek actually was begging for the cigarettes and they were being thrown to him on regular bases
If i was a german soldier and i saw a BEAR holding ammo and fighting alongside the polish, i would retreat
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Nah man I would defect to the polish side just so I can meet the bear in person
Fuck it I’m changing sides at that point
Lekker mark rutte😂😂
But the pictures show the bear serving with German para mortar team troops...
Soldier: carries rifle ammunitions
Wojtek: *hold my beer*
And it makes sense cause the bear drank beer
Hold my bear
Hold my cub
Like instead of cup its cub
*hold my artillery shell*
I cried with this story. Happy Valentine Wojetk and all the hearts out there who are filled with pure love.
Nice!!!
The fact that Wojtek carried 100 pound ammo crates while walking on his two hind legs, is impressive. Usually bears do not walk on their hind legs for any lengthy distance, but this bear was constantly walking far distances on just two legs while carrying heavy crates at the same time. What a legend.
Yeah and this gen gets PTSD for playing Minecraft lol
@@fitstar8871 what?
He didn’t , apparently it was empty shells in there
100 pounds for a bear is like 3 pounds for a human but the fact that he carried it on hind legs on walking is astonishing
@@fitstar8871 for real? I thought it was just a meme 😳
Lets make a movie about Corporal Wojtek!
That would be a great Movie...Hollywood would make a killing on it.
Yeahhh i will gonna be excited with it
There is a movie made about him. The name is: Wojtek, the bear thar went to war
@@k1tteR thanks
That would be awesome.
The fact that this isn’t fiction is incredible
Yes, my dear,, It is absolutely *true, as my father was in the unit of soldiers that took Wojtek in,, and also went on to Monte Cassino.. When Wojtek was brought to Edinburgh zoo,,, we were taken as kids to visit him. When you spoke to Wojtek in Polish, he understood every word.. Huge Respect to Edinburgh, for putting up the statue in memory of Wojtek. Bless you. ✍️🙏💝🌹🐻🎶🎶🎶
@@irenajendrycha6102 That is so cool! At least you've seen Wojtek in person before he died!
Sometimes reality is often stranger than fiction.
@@finnheisenheim8274 Best sentence to describe the WWII Era
@@finnheisenheim8274Many units have an animal as a mascot though I've never heard of a bear before.
That bear must have been one hell of a morale booster
Imagine this bear telling stories to his fellas in the zoo and no one believing him 😔😔
Worst is those soldiers backed to Poland to be killed by new communist regime...
That's actually sad :( plus this comment is gold!
Maybe tho but he did smoke and drink beer which isn't a natural thing a animal can do but u can teach them or make them do it
You stupid!😁😂😂
Hubert Szeszula only if they chose to... it’s not like Britain left them to die they had refugee available in Britain
Imagine see a bear walk with a AK-47 and a pack of cigaretts
And let's not forget his six pack of beer.
And some face paint that makes him look like a bear version of Rambo
pizzamx I would be scared shitless
Well anime does that
Imagine having an ak47 during world war 2
Imagine your about to fire on an enemy artillery truck and then a bear just waddles out carrying ammo and has a cigarette in his mouth.
I'd turn over myself.
I would turn myself over asking if there could be anyway to fight on their side! I would absolutely die for the chance to be able to just hang out and chill with a ammo carrying, drinking and smoking, badass bear that loves to rough it!
Michael DeRousse I would hold fire and give up just to see the bear
The Shadow`Moto even if you had to join axis?
Nah in Russia that's just ol' grizzly from the neighborhood
What a magnificent bond they all had. Wojtek I will go see your memorial statue in Edinburgh. May you rest easy in the stars with your brothers 😌
W Polsce i we Włoszech też jest pomnik
It’s sad a war hero ended up in jail after the war.
shits deep for real
Not uncommon, even for human actually...
That's why some of the smartest soldiers stayed on the battlefield rather than taking a promotion until they retire or die back then (even now!).
When all your nation CARES about is their image, there's ALWAYS those that for scape goat-ed...
A war hero? The bear was held in captivity by the soldiers. See the leash?
Just imagine it was hes retirement like most veteran do
Jail is a strong word for this. Pretty sure he was contained in an inclosure which he can move around. Also returning him in wild after being raised by human is just cruel imagine not being able to hunt or fend for yourself yet they leave u in the wild
solder: the Germans are pushing our defenses!
wojtek: grrrr
solder: sir yes sir
Caden Serrador 😂😂😂😂
Did you know that the Picture the bear and the mortar, its helmets of fallschmjager. Germán unit... and the years are when Germán y already conquer poland... so that bear was in axis side
@@lanslegolas well shit a nazi bear
Actually Monte Cassino was totally different story Poles were pushing Germans and took it in few days
Why would he call the bear sir lol that's stupid, wojtek is only a private
Loki: I have an army
Poland: We have a wojtek
@thaaxmike first avengers 🎥 bud*
thaaxmike Loki said it in the first avengers movie and tony stark replied we have a hulk so in endgame they remade the scene however Loki says we have a hulk which makes it ironic to the audience as they previously knew what had happened.
@Tony38G He watches fortnite videos, he's a lost cause bud.
Wojtek and the Winged Hussars
@thaaxmike facepalm
Somehow it made me feel so sad even though people were smiling in the video. Wish there would be no war anymore. This bear was really the tender moment during the harsh time.
Imagine leaving the army knowing that you’ve been outranked by a bear😂😂😂
Ouch
I wouldn't mind tbh, it's a bear!!
KarmaTheCamel That would be cool. Not much people can say that
I forgot the lamb sauce
@Space Whale Now, thats embarrasing
They need too make a movie about this bear I swear!!
Not going to happen, he's not a jew.
Watch the guardians
They made a movie about Sgt. Stubby the World War 1 Army dog. Look it up
Paul Wolf can you compare a measly 130 pound dog to a few hundred pound giant bear
They have it's call ted.
His mother was shot by hunters so now that the soldiers trained him he is ready to get revenge
Rambear : First Blood
Juan Catalan lol
@@ozfeldi With the way Hollywood makes movies? Don't be surprised.
Someone has to make something like AMV of his life with good music with that scenario 😂
He died in 1963
Quite literally the strongest soldier to have ever lived
You can see something special in the bear's eyes. Such a unique and awesome story!
Animals are our equals. We're all the same conciousness.
Colorado Native 84.... RIGHT!!! ALMOST LIKE IF HE WAS A BEAST!!! WHEN I SAY BEAST LIKE ONE HELL OF A SOLDIER!!!
What I saw was that he 'bear'ly old enough to leave home
Yup
@@quantumleap4023 yes I see a lot of animals building skyscrapers cars and cultivating farmlands too.
"This is the stuff that I like to see on the internet..!!" ❤
Agree.
Yes.
"Why did you put your comment in quotations"?
Right?
So you like fake news?