The Siege of the Dubrovka Theater
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
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"Congratulations, you are being rescued. Please, do not resist".
Reminds me of what happened during the Beslan school siege... Even the terrorist were shocked by what the Russian forces did and clarified to the hostages that it wasn't them firing weapons at hostages.
@@fukkitfulthat was a hell of an incident.. you know it’s bad when the guys who took you hostage explain to you that this is about money and dead hostages make the number go down, so no we’re not killing hostages..but of course most Russians could never blame or criticize its own government
(2) (80th like) Wow
Most authoritarian sentence I’ve ever heard. 😂
Now we know where American cops learned their rescue tactics.
Thank you Simon and team, for completely taking over my UA-cam feed. The rest were all junk channels anyways
Facts 🐐✊
I swear 👏 Very thorough, & informative 👌🙏🥰💯 loving all the channels. Keep up the Great work Team 🥳
I renamed my place of viewing videos SimonTube. Hmmmm sounds kind of kinky.
@@kweezynonya955 idk about that, i love his videos but a lot of them have factual errors
😂
"In exactly zero moments of history has post-Soviet Russia been an easy place to be."
The same is largely true for Soviet and pre-Soviet Russia too. The podcast Behind the Bastards once described Russian history as "a series of lateral moves," which sounds about right.
yeah, russia was always invaded from all sides yet still lives strong. Russians are built differently
@@KolyaUrtz
no, russia repeatedly fails at invading other countries after starting wars. For example, russia invaded Germany in 1914 after mobilizing first and forcing Germany's hand. The result was Tannenberg and later the collapse of Czarist russia.
Russia has been extremely hostile to all its neighbors throughout history, then they cry and play victim
Which episode is that from?
@@KolyaUrtzIndeed, and especially from within their own borders. The Russian people have suffered from every government and authority, and dozens of international enemies. Truly a strong people. And heartbreakingly tragic too…
I remember this in the news for weeks. My Uncle (in the Navy in WW2) turned to me and said "The soviet union hasn't gone away, it's still there, just a new name" and used this siege and the Russian response as example.
new regime same lies
@adamgaude5922 nah watching what's happening, from numerous sources. Including within Russia itself and making reasoned judgements.
@@adamgaude5922your pfp is literally a capitalist product. WTF are you talking about.
@@adamgaude5922 pretty sure NATO lies a whole lot less than russia, just by the nature of its existence, 32 very diverse countries. Only one side here is invading sovereign nations and incorporating its territory into itself with fake elections, and it sure as hell ain't NATO countries. On a side note, imagine how horrible a country must be to justify the existence of a military alliance of 32 very divergent countries
Your uncle was bang on button with statement
The Russian approach to things like this is always like they've watched too many Hollywood action movies. There is no such thing as 'sleeping gas' per se - if you want to render a human unconscious through use of sedative substances, no matter how it's administered, they're all going to need respiratory support. The dosage that the people inside received was undoubtedly massive and was always going to end in causing mass civilian casualties. In classic Russian style though this basic fact was ignored and a lot of innocent people died due to reckless incompetence.
It probably wasn’t incompetence so much as willful negligence. The Russian stance on civilian casualties varies between “shit happens, people are cheap” when it’s Russian civilians in question and “yes, as many as possible” when it’s anyone else. They wanted those militants dead and civilian casualties simply weren’t a factor.
Simon you are at your absolute best when you cover events like this. You make people very aware of the seriousness of the topic your covering and bring our all the right emotions and feelings in your audience.. The background music is always well chosen to ensure that your listeners understand and embrace the seriousness of the story.
You have an incredible gift Simon of telling the story and that your audience will think or talk about it to others well after the episode ends .
You have a perfect team of writers that you work in harmony with. It's an excellent and rare combination to have.
I greatly appreciate all the hard work you and your staff to do make all your stories come to life. You have a set that compliments the tone of your story .
When it comes to your more funny segments which I also love. You have impeccable comedic timing along with the music and video shorts..
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you and say thank you Simon. Thank you for what you do and to open our eyes and make us think . Your not just a well established and highly respected storyteller.
You are a man that the world needs in these uncertain times to make us think, change, debate, laugh, cry. And most of all to make us aware that we are have the potential to become better people and be more loving and compassionate towards others.
No Simon your not just a story teller. Your an invaluable and unreplaceablble reporter of the world. Past and present.
My youth pastor's brother and his family were in the Dubrovka Theatre when this happened. The terrorists released them (at the end of the first day if I remember right) as they were US citizens, but their Russian friends had to stay through the whole thing, I believe they all survived. They still stayed in Russia until the invasion of Ukraine. I was a young kid when that happened, but I remember it well, though I haven't thought about it in 10 years.. We had youth group on Wednesday or Thursday nights, it was a pretty surreal experience as we all sat there watching the tv.
The gas was an analogue of fentanyl, it’s been reported on many times in the past and a spetsnaz operator who had been there mentioned that the hostages not being put on their side in the recovery position was a large reason for the mass deaths
Imagine a nation that provides such poor training its military special forces don't know as much about first aid as a boy scout or girl guide in the west. How utterly pathetic and typical.
I learned that when I was 10 years old....Europa
Yea i was waiting for him to mention that
I recall the news saying it was sarin gas
@@arielsfish even Russia wouldnt be able to send sarin to civilians without extreme consequences
The children and pregnant women were not let out immediately. They were freed by different negotiators including Josef Kobzon (you mentioned him) and the Surgeon General. But otherwise, very accurate, thank you.
I think there were a few groups freed at different times
I couldn't believe this story when I first heard it. I can't imagine how horrible it must have been for the families who found out their loved ones were gassed by the government. This and the school are just some of the most awful stories to come out of russia related to government incompetence.
Russian must of looked at Waco, Texas situation as the golden standard of how to end domestic seiges.
@@Smokecall they definitely took Waco as the bible when it came to the school siege
@@SmokecallRussians killing women and children but expecting sympathy when it hits home lol
I checked a few weeks ago if Simon did this topic already. I knew it would not be far away 😊
This isn’t about the recent attack. It’s about an attack that occurred in 2002
@@michaelschemlabI know. The recent attack let me to want to check about this one in closer detail.
@Baddy187 definitely timely given that recent attack.
The poor man that gave the quote at the end of this video said "the state failed couldn't save..." That's sad that he can't say the state killed my family!! He's in a suppose democracy and still must hold his tongue.
Same thing happens in the West, wen u tellin the truth but against the narrative you're just called a "conspiracy theorist" or "commit suicide"
@@RushVidz44since 1993 yes it has
@@RushVidz44 Yes it has, Ivan.
Ummm…this is Russia. Russia doesn’t know what democracy is.
Technically their government is a Federal semi-presidential republic under an authoritarian dictatorship.
That’s almost the exact opposite of a democracy.
The supposed 1993 constitution wasn’t a declaration of democracy. It was a slight weakening of the existing state.
That’s about it.
The guy said "Our state failed to save our loved ones. It is a monster, a cannibal that devoured the lives of our relatives for the sake of political ambitions."
Sounds to me like he DID in fact call out the Russian state.
Not trying to be a dick, your comment just had me a little confused.
The most feared statement anywhere, “We are spetznaz and we’re here to rescue you.”
Hey Simon I love your videos on this interesting topics. I hope one day you could do a video on the 2014 Lindt Cafe Siege in Sydney, Australia as I was just finishing up high school as the who ordeal went on...
My God, how heartless. A soulless leader is a dangerous animal
Look at David Koresh!!
Well in all of Russian history the people have always been pawns...
Got here so early, had to help put up the banners
I would have helped but as soon as I got here I realized I forgot aunt myrna's party cheese salad. :( Had to run back home and grab it
were very proud
What a performance! Congratulations! Even reading your comment can change people’s lives!
You should deserve a medal for this achievement!
great content just found the channel today. hooked. appreciate the time and effort you put into these. great videos
Simon,when I watch one of your presentations I binge watch for the remainder of the evening.
A history of false flag attacks would be incredibly interesting
There’s an apartment block that happened to blow up around that time.. you should also do a video on it too
Always great videos and always well put together!
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Only read about this the other day. Thanks Simon.
This isn’t about the recent attack. It’s about an attack that occurred in 2002
@@michaelschemlab I'm well aware.
Yes! I've been waiting for this one.
I swear I just love these info videos. Just great. I work at aerospace company in Cincinnati and every month we have EHS meetings amongst my team about safety stuff and we just had one last week. The person running the meeting then put your old geographical video in about the Bhopal chemical disaster in the 80’s and as soon as your face came up, I’m like, “hey I know that guy, that’s Simon whistler!!” And everyone around me looks questionably at me. Then I go in to explain your bio and all your channels and how much I learn from watching them so I think I gained you at least 12 new viewers. You can make an advertising payment out to C.Miller. Your welcome. 😂
The S.O.B.R? That got to be the closest a Russian has come to being fully sober 😂
Doing better than the Irish, they don't even have that.
Thank you
Love your content
That opening scene in Tenet hits different after this video
Wow, posted 43 minutes ago?? I feel privileged to have been here towards the beginning
Great show I love this guy seen all is videos on all his channels
Will Simon cover the 2017 London Bridge attack?
Very honest question, do all of these in-depth researched topics not trigger some kind of anxiety or depression in you or your team? Are you guys dealing with this well enough?
As informative as all of this is, please make sure to take care of your mental health and thank you for everything you guys do to inform us!
It's history and they are professional researchers. There are things out there way disturbing and a few russian civilians getting gased by the russian govt.
Simon has said the Casual Criminalist channel/podcast is what affects him the most. The topics on this channel don't hit home on a personal level as much as those stories I think. Learning about history on something like this channel is only "depressing" if you see no hope in the world, in my opinion.
I see Simon more than my own partner these days
😂😂 between all the channels and podcast I hear his voice more for certain
Re-evaluate your priorities lol
@@jeffdroogoh do lighten up! ❤
@cheekyb71 I bet that's what their partner would say to them...If they bothered to spend time with them apparently lol
Thanks for making my little brain just a tad bit larger.
Carfentanyl, according to wikipedia. that's fentanyl but way worse.
hey, when you need to relieve pain in elephants, carfentanil is THE drug of choice
Imagine the amount of Naloxone required to to reverse Carfentanyl IF you get to the person within time lol.
It took them 8 mgs to bring me back man. Carfet almost got me on December 4th 2021.. been clean since 7-17-2022@@NZMunchie
@@iamarbiter6469 keep on dude my aunt made it too, just quit and get a 2% tatoo, you are better then the rest!
@@iamarbiter6469congratulations! you should be seriously proud of yourself!! That’s extremely difficult to do.
Great work as always, it would be interesting to do a video of the 2016 failed coup in Turkiye, very few unbiaised account from this..
That footage triggered my memory of watching all this. Time had forgotten it.
I was at my grandma’s while it was unfolding. We were glued to the tv, watching in shock. It was a bit after 9/11 and also a few years prior to the Beslan massacre. Quite unsettling those years.
Thank you Simon for covering the 1995 tragedy at Dubrovka, which could be its own video.
Common Russia L lol
@@lukealexanderrobertsthefir458 Why do you laugh at the deaths of civilians? It doesn’t matter if They’re from an evil country, why are children not innocent?
"Our state failed to save our loved ones". No. It did not. It never even tried. The "saving" part was never on the table.
`Russia go home!
Here I was about to comment "You should do the Beslan siege next". But he did already. Two weeks ago.
Forgive me o Factboi for my lack of faith!
My wife was actually there at the time - in the audience
Everything ended fine for us fortunately, but there it is..
If anyone is interested ParCast Network did a in-depth look of this particular case.
Yeah I vaguely remember this story in a science oddity book as a kid: its point was that an anaesthesiologist is engaged and researches administering "knock out" agents to one person in surgery, we highly doubt they had the medical history and bloodworks of every civilian and insurgent in the theatre that day before they started pumping the gas in.
I remember this
I heard somewhere they used carfentanyl in aerosol form..
How one can use that and expect anyone to survive is beyond me..
10:27. Is that a WWII German SP with a German soldier following????
Ooops!
Whats it with the best of FSB recently?
I remember seeing a photo of one of the buses in I think Newsweek. A dead woman slumped against the window exposed as if she had been groped.
tell me the font have a group called "sober"?
Boosting the engagement rate...
Dear editor,
I know finding royalty-free music is like Helen Keller completing mission impossible, but this ain't it chief. Also, please turn it down a bit, it's very hard to understand Simon with all the not-so-background noise.
Thank you,
A hard to please viewer.
Simon should comment all his channels in the comments
The gas used had been tested with incredible success before, but it was tested for OUTDOOR purposes not INDOOR
is it just me or is the starting song overwhelming and not rly on beat with the subject?
Kobzon's toupe omfg hahahahaha
music is a bit loud
How do I block this chapter?
Knowing what we know now about Fentanyl, this is just wild.
Also side note, I dig the mysterious background music 😂
EDIT: If anyone reads this and is interested, all of the background music appears to be by Dmitro Khatskevych and the track I was referring to is "Dark Tech"
Will Simon now cover the Beslan achool siege?
He already did
@@esteemedmortal5917link?
ETA: Never mind. It was posted 2 weeks ago.
@@esteemedmortal5917yup. Found it.
He did like two weeks ago
Oh ye of little faith 😉 factboi got us covered
Oh, hi Fuse
.... and history repeats itself.
The background music is too distracting. 13:29 this is where I stop.
Hello Simon, genuinely love your videos as they are informative and mostly partial. Here, you've added a deliberate tone of negativity towards one side. I remember this in the news as I grew up in post soviet country. You only mention part of the story of special forces siege and media coverage laws that followed this incident. What forces had to struggle with were the media itself: reporters would go live with images of forces attempting a rescue mission. Those reports were watched by the hostage takers on the inside, so they knew exactly from which angle and how big of a force they should expect. There were numerous mission attempts! At each failed one the Chechens would execute another few hostages as retaliation. Media were asked not to report live, but understandably they didn't as the whole country was watching this. Imagine how many people could have been saved!! Multiple failed attempts also resulted in the decision to use the gas. If I remember correctly, this incident made Russia leaders to say very famous words "we will not negotiate with terrorists". This was received with quite an agreement from the population. Let's be real: hostage rescue missions are extremely delicate and no matter the detail of planning things go wrong and sadly, people lose their lives. There will be of course multiple negative comments from families, however I think focusing on that final comment has ruined this video. It stopped being impartial.
All his videos when it concerns Russia are negatitve towards Russia. Simon is just another MSM mong parroting the US state department.
Simon, please cover what happened at Colimbine as the 25th anniversary on the 20th approaches.
Sorry, Team whistler here. We won't be able to as the 20th of April is the. AUTHOR of our favourite books birthday., so we like to inva...Visit... Definitely visit Europe... And if things get hectic there is always Argentina.
The music in the background can be very distracting 😢
Hey simon and crew. Just a quick note the music is a lil loud on this one.
It seems good to me. Any quieter and Simon would cover it up completely.
I've got ear buds in only using the left one cuts it down to an okay level
Its just the first part. Setup to the siege. Its like 20% music when it should be 10%
Just curious, are you wearing headphones? I've seen a lot of people mention the music is very loud the last couple months on a LOT of different videos.
I'm listening on my TV, and even with military grade tinnitus I hear Simon just fine. Most videos I don't even realize there's music.
I'm starting to wonder if there's some setting that's making the music louder for some people, or a model of headphones, or something.
Nah, just in the car sitting in traffic
Freedom isn’t free…….
this attack is known as a Nord-Ost in Russia, a very sad day
Sad
Right now cover the Waco Texas massacre…!
There is so much garbage on UA-cam. Yours is the exception. Thank you
(403) Wow 😯
Hello Simon
Some of these images of the men involved are wonky. Are they enhanced by AI or?
Some of them are definitely AI generated if you look at their faces and hands. So, take the image's validity with a grain of salt, I guess.
Pretty sure there are old nuclear reactors within central Russia (or former USSR states appropriately removed from any NATO nation/ state).
Other than…you know…how was the play?
Honestly is there anyone in the former ussr countries without the name Vladimir?
Fentanyl Cayman strong that day
I remember this, and all the BS after. It was a typical Russian cover up. Just like the Kursk disaster.
hi, it's not 'chechnyan', it's CHECHEN.
This was in tenet
Simon, sitting down with the beard kinda looks like a Homeless professor Xavier
The gas used was carfentanyl, an analogue of fentanyl reserved for use in sedating massive mammals like elephants.
Due to the inevitably heterogeneous distribution of the gas, hostages which were positioned near vents used to deliver the gas sustained unsurvivable doses, whilst others got far less in their system.
All it would have taken is the foresight to supply enough oxygen and naloxone to restore the hostages respiratory drive, and many of the deaths would never have occured.
What a tragic story, and one told so well in this video that despite being an MD with a degree in pharmacology and detailed knowledge of these events, i still enjoyed the video tremendously and even learned a few new things.
Keep it up!
The thing is, in my opinion, aerosolized fentanyl could have worked, had the medical workers and other officials been able and willing to administer Naloxone quickly.
Well… I guess minus the large amount of health effects afterwards… so nvm
20:55 impossible to aspirate on your tongue
They suck at rescue operations.
Maybe one day people will figure the Russian government out. But I doubt it.
My only question is, where does Joseph Kobzon get his rugs cleaned? 🤔
Another hit of the religion of peace.
Very sad.
Much better than russians 🤮
The Chechens seemed to have forgotten that human life has no value in Russia.
Despite everything, and anyone's opinions...
Terrorist attacks are tragic.
This one. And the most recent one.
Citizens have such little actual control over what their governments do that it is ALWAYS a tragedy when civilians become targets.
That said. Most terrorism is absolutely understandable from the perspective of the other side.
Truly, tragedy all around.
@@aurelcorstan5242 Understandable? When the perspective is 'let's intentionally target and kll as many innocent people as possible because we're not man enough to go after military or government targets'. I don't think that's understandable, I think that's just Islam being Islam.
@@CyrilSneer123
Because no other religion has ever engaged in terrorism?
Rofl.
11:28 that woman had more balls then most men in America today
She didn’t have balls. She had a lack of brains. She stupidly went charging in and got herself killed. She assumed they wouldn’t harm anyone and was wrong.
I dare you I double dare you make a similar video about the government failures that led to 911.
My Spetsnaz are undefeatable.
I remember watching a documentary on this event. And I remember thinking to myself just how shocking it was on the sheer level of incompetence of the Russian government and military and such during this event. I mean, it was absolutely laughable in all the wrong ways.
Personally, I think the only event that was even worse was an event that took place in. I believe it was Peru. Where a group of individuals stormed the Japanese embassy and took a large number of individuals hostage and the Peruvian government instead of trying to do things easily they literally , I think it was like two months digging a tunnel underneath the road so that a bunch of commandos could pop up and take down the various insurgence or whatever you wanna call them. A whole process that I feel was needlessly, complicated and complex.
Also, it seems that even now Russia has not learned its main lesson. They are still thinking in terms of the Soviet system where the citizens are basically just statistics. I can tell you that if an event like this happened in the United States, it wouldn’t have taken as long as it did resolved. If anything, the event would’ve been dealt with in probably less than two days.
USA never dealt and I hope never gonna experience such incidents. If you remember watching film why you forget about vests? And also how you storm no window space without some element of surprise ? USA never dealt with that. On my mind it’s only Oregon cult when USA just killed everyone including civilians( casual American ops)
24:20 On the subject of naloxone.... It's also important to note that - while effective and rapid acting - naloxone is also incredibly *_short_* acting. Meaning, often times, multiple doses are needed following opioid overdose / poisoning, as the previous naloxone dose wears off. This is because naloxone works by competitively blocking the receptors, temporarily preventing / limiting binding by more dangerous opiates. It however, does nothing to help break down those opiates more quickly; meaning those opiates are still there once the naloxone wears off.
Tenet
The communists and the ex-communists have never known to care about their civilian populations.