1989 East German Military Parade | 40 Jahre DDR

[@MaximusandHistory]

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[@nietzchepreacher9477]

@@MaximusandHistory thank you for buying this dont listen to that guy. i cant afford to support you but thank you anyways. its interesting to watch

[@onjon7043]

@@MaximusandHistory Is there a video of the whole process of the parade for the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin?

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@onjon7043 There is, but some channel already uploaded it!

[@donreed]

What was the exact date of this event, and the exact date, if one exists, of the collapse of East Germany?

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@donreed The parade was held on October 7, 1989. One month later, on November 9, the Berlin Wall fell and the SED stepped down by the end of that year. Almost a year later (4 days short), on October 3, 1990, East and West Germany reunited as a single country.

[@AnonAnonAnon]

These parades by the East German military just didn't take place on one day, there was a week of rehearsals beforehand and the Allies on the otherside of the Wall would be able to attend these rehearsals (informally) via Checkpoint Charlie. I attended the rehearsals in 1987 as a young Trooper in the British Army. The day I was there we witnessed two tanks and one personnel carrier broke down. All the military hardware on display was gleaming, absolutely squeaky clean with either a fresh coat of paint or spent the best part of a day being polished. The East German soldiers (Eastie Beasties) would be a mix of being nice to us, or would tell us to F off in German. I struck up a conversation with one lad, probably the same age as me, he asked me in German where I was from, and he then asked if I followed Manchester United! I told him I didn't but that he could come and watch a match with me. He laughed (cos he was trapped behind the Iron Curtain). Bizarre now when I think about it. Thousands of East German soldiers, posed and trained to fight their way through into the West alongside Warsaw Pact troops and here I was have a laugh with one such soldier. Told me what I knew at that age, that it was all a game played by politicians on all sides, the ordinary folk would be the ones to suffer in the event of a war. Same applies today.

[@solideshalbwissen]

I remember one time at one of the parade rehearsals, my old man chatted up a couple of you guys. I think they might have been liaison people, not sure though. In uniform and had binos. I remember distinctly how weirded out I was that the enemy was allowed to spy on all the military hardware and how they were normal people that you could talk to (not evil aggressors). They were very polite, but distant. Like professional, not too keen on fraternizing. I kind of miss the parades, a couple dozen MBTs crawling through a dense urban area is an awesome experience.

[@Anuclano]

Well, we should praise the politicians that they finally restrained from the war. Unlike current times...

[@charlesaferg]

Thank you for sharing this. It really gives younger generations a dose of reality.

[@mshkotnyar]

Some of the ordinary folk are defending his country today

[@dieterwolfgangkohler]

Da war die DDR mit den Warschauer Pakt noch eine Macht. Was ist jetzt aus den DDR Bürgern geworden,???

[@SerialdesignationK-w9q]

The last German military parde.

[@Changnoi12]

Economically they were dependent on West Germany and only had full employment as a result, there were people in the NVA who thought we had overrun you, unfortunately not economically, they cultivated Prussianism, which was not wanted in the West by West.

[@rlm2933]

The last one was in 1945

[@foxrotneinnein1968]

@@rlm2933 wdym

[@jimjimsandbern9382]

@@rlm2933 The last East German parade.

[@Mr.DalekLK]

Nah

[@marclandreville6367]

I was there, but upstream of the review stand with the dignitaries. Wasn't able to enter the area opposite the dignitaries because we didn't have a pass (ausweiss). After the parade, I was near the band. A General (he had General's Arabesque collar patches), probably in charge of the band, was so happy, and he was walking amonst the bandsmen backslapping them and shaking their hands. It was my first and only visit to East Germany.

[@MaximusandHistory]

Wow, thank you for sharing your personal memory of this event! It's so surreal that I am getting comments from people who were at such events!

[@sonckebecker8725]

"It was my first and only visit to East Germany." That's my suggestion: Go there now. 😊

[@Chronoxile]

@@sonckebecker8725 Late but he was refering to the country... it fell apart 4 weeks after this parade.

[@andreyremizov8280]

Прекрасная была страна! Счастлив, что знаю это не по наслышке. Жил в ГДР 7 лет

[@manfreddeelsma7089]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@СергейКузнецов-п4в7щ]

Выгнали?😊

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

The two drivers maintaining formation in Soviet Chaikas showed great skill. The twin 180 degree turns came off flawlessly.

[@glennmartin6492]

I was hoping they'd race each other.

[@JPoulAndersson]

Even though they were commies, they’re still Germans…😊

[@pezazul2917]

@@glennmartin6492they had to. Otherwise stasi takes care and ends his careers . A Final service to the state

[@agadez4015]

@@pezazul2917 where do you guys come up with this crap?

[@pezazul2917]

@@agadez4015 rela man, its a joke. Anyway Who knows?

[@Mark-yy2py]

A mix of Prussian marching traditions, thrown in with a mix of some Soviet Marching traditions.

[@MaximusandHistory]

Correct.

[@OutnBacker]

Actually, the Soviet marching traditions are classic Russian drill from the empire period. Man y Eurpoean/Russian parade dirll is from the Prussian School of Ferderick the Great (1740's) What we call the goose step isn't uniquely German, but was practised in special parade performances for visiting dignitaries and monarchs well before this present era. Even the Chinese and N. Koreans have thier version of Prussin Drill, and probably do it best. Their training is brutal - literally. The US is the only major power that does not goose step, although the Marines do have a kind of high step they use when on the parade deck. Mostly, it's a very precise heel-toe stiff backed cadence step. No bobbing heads, no slumped shoulders, no swinging arms, no bored facial expressions, sleeves rolled tight, lots of well developed biceps. The US Marines are by far the best at marching discipline from company to company across the entire Corps. They ALL look as good as these German troops, without being special parade detachments.

[@vlabruic]

Тешко срање

[@thomdin]

Auf deinen Mist was du zum besten gibst haben wir gewartet

[@thomdin]

​@@OutnBacker 😢das wusste ich bis jetzt nicht,wie hieß gleich der russische Kaiser,

[@ducthuan.tran.]

I'm from Vietnam. '70, '80 of 20 century, there were many Vietnamese went to DDR ("Đông Đức" In Vietnamese) for studying or working That time, Vietnamese loved DDR's products such as Mifa bycicle, Simson motorcycle... I remenbered that: Not many slots for going to DDR, people tried to get a slot to DDR because when return from DDR, they earned more money than the other counties. But after "Berlin wall - 1989", many Vietnamese stayed at DDR and became Deutsche.

[@MaximusandHistory]

You should check my out my other video. Its about the Vietnamese visiting the DDR!

[@ducthuan.tran.]

@@MaximusandHistory Thank you for your recommendation. I know Vietnamese life in Gemany because my uncle lives there now.

[@kosmosfaber6534]

Then the BND infiltrated small Neo Nazi groups which started to do assaults on refugee camps in the East blaming "racist" Eastern Germans for being reactionary

[@LEK-we2hh]

Simson was in Hungsry too. Wartburg auto.

[@LowSkillSurvival]

To this day, the descendants of the Vietnamese Guest Workers/Contract Workers (GDR nomenclature) are among the most liked (if not THE most liked) non-germans in the east. Unlike Turks, Arabs and the like your people have shown time and time again productivity, adherence to the law and willingness to integrate. Literally the only foreign populace where the now 30ish year old speak accent free german and more often than not are named "Daniel" and "Maximilian" (the only "Friedrich" under 40 I have ever met was a son of a Vietnamese family btw). I personally have not met ONE descendant of a Vietnamese family that was unemployed. Case in point: my somewhat racist father-in-law has nothing but good to say about the Vietnamese. "Polite and hard working people they are", in his words.

[@Eisenernst]

Ich bin stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben, der letzten deutschen Armee.

[@MaximusandHistory]

Thank you for the kind comment! What years did you serve?

[@Eisenernst]

Ich hab als Feldgendarm von Frühjahr 1984 bis Herbst 1985 gedient.@@MaximusandHistory

[@horstbluesman54]

Es ist nicht die letzte deutsche Armee, ein Irrtum oder Propaganda.

[@ha61871]

​@@EisenernstGlory to you! ❤

[@dromo76]

Good for the soldiers that served. But they didn’t know what government they served.

[@MyManicmonday]

In fact the east german Military Uniforms were a mixture of the Soviet and the German Uniform tradition. In some cases they totally soviet in other terms you might think of them as real Prussians.

[@raymondlescott6092]

Prussian Officer Corps still lives!

[@costatitan8458]

The ugly soviet style helmets are terrible

[@DavidSternburgYt]

​@@costatitan8458 they are ww2 era helmets designed by nazi engineers, not soviet

[@dmitrypavlov872]

​@@raymondlescott6092 I hope so.

[@farmalmta]

@@DavidSternburgYt Not "engineered" so much as simply trying to simplify manufacture, therefore cut costs and quicken production as the war progressed not necessarily in favor of Germany.

[@billygoodmeme7635]

I genuinely hope the best for your channel. It's important to preserve history

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Former East Germany didn't do such a good job regarding preserving the history of its arms development. Not a lot of sources for people to do research on them. Because of the economy after the reunion, most of their weapons were sold to other countries.

[@nicolenicole2389]

To manipulate history you mean

[@dieterwolfgangkohler]

Wer sind heute die Kriegsverbrecher in Deutschland???

[@MrNajibrazak]

@@nicolenicole2389 u must be one of the woke toxic westerners. YUCK

[@guisousa7139]

@@nicolenicole2389 What? How?

[@opathe2nd973]

I was in East Berlin in June, 1989, and it was quite an experience. I am looking at my piece of the wall that my cousin sent me here on my desk. Memories!

[@jungleify]

I hope that piece of wall is enclosed in glass. Its Full of asbestos

[@parhamkhalaj-eu2pj]

زنده با شوروی سابق

[@parhamkhalaj-eu2pj]

آلمان شرقی آلمان اصیل بود

[@fuuz642]

@@jungleify mine is. I kind of suspect it to be fake though

[@konsultasiin]

Menurut saya, NVA adalah real tentara jerman terakhir. Lihatlah bagaimana uniform NVA yang bagus dan parade yang luar biasa. Saya rasa, militerisme prussia tidak perlu dihilangkan dari jerman. Dan NVA ini adalah DNA wehrmacht yang sebenarnya. Namun, Tentara jerman sekarang (bundeswehr) seperti badut.

[@salchaw]

i can't believe it's already 34 years ago... time flies !

[@walterweiss7124]

longer than that goddam wall existed

[@marcoshac9337]

Now brainless idiots in the west want it back.

[@marcoshac9337]

@Ozi Bits like economic prosperity and individual freedom. Such bad things. You should live in your paradise in North Korea

[@Yora21]

@Ozi Bits Oh, fuck off, Nazi!

[@Yora21]

The Wall has already been down longer than it was up.

[@wxyxx4795]

Thank you so much for the upload! Words cannot describe how much i enjoy this clip. Truly amazing!

[@MaximusandHistory]

And there's still more to come!

[@NandiCollector]

*This is just, PERFECTION!*

[@frederickgates4349]

Truly i'm stunned 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

[@resireg]

​@@MaximusandHistory what brand and model is the limousine the general is Riding?

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@resireg GAZ 13-B "Chaika"

[@MaximusandHistory]

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[@MaximusandHistory]

@Das Marokkanische Kaiserreich I appreciate the love! I hope the channel grows into something big! :)

[@ДмитрийЛогинов-й8ц]

@@MaximusandHistory Это правда что в нынешней ФРГ люди из ГДР считаются людьми второго сорта ?

[@oparudi2248]

Wenn ich heute unsere Handseln sehe wird mir ganz schlecht !!! 😫😫😫

[@luismachucam.3210]

Con alta probabilidad el mejor ejército en su época. Gran disciplina y compromiso. Nunca necesitó probar su valía.

[@MrDICKHEAD28]

THIS IS GREAT HD VERSION BUT WHY THE BIG WATERMARK AT THE BOTTOM?

[@donrst4595]

Да,останется в памяти Германская Демократическая Республика! Выше всяких похвал отточенное мастерство маршировки и выступления оркестра.

[@человекзапада]

идите ка нах. до сих пор от этого совкового у.г. отмыть германию не можем. желаю лично тебе обнулиться в мучениях.

[@ВладПоляков-ч6ь]

Традиции вермахта просто так не убьешь!🎉

[@donrst4595]

@ВладПоляков-ч6ь это ещё до Вермахта существовало...

[@ВладПоляков-ч6ь]

@@donrst4595 Но при вермахте достигло пика!

[@alexanderhoffmann-te5rp]

Германии ,- НЕТ с 1945 г. Есть ещё територия ,на которой ,(пока), примущественно говорят на Германском языке . Германский Народ - НИ на что не имеет право ,- даже на собственных детей ,- ибо ОН ,- нацист , антисемит ,фашист и прочее ! Теперь , чтобы окончательно уничтожить самый трудолюбивый, самый оккуратный, самый талантливый Народ ,- открыли границы и сюда прут , миллионами и миллионами африканцы , арабы и азиаты . Всем советую прочесть : Жерар Менухин "Правду сказать - чёрта изгнать ". Обязательно згрузите на стик , ибо, уже трижды было стёрто из интернета .

[@ernestpaniagua1210]

I was at this parade in 89 I was stationed in West Berlin . US Army Berlin Brigade Aco 6/502nd McKnair barracks. I was very impressed especially seeing the goose-stepping for the first time live .

[@Thargor3000]

in west berlin stationed and you was on this parade??? i dont think so

[@ernestpaniagua1210]

@@Thargor3000 I never said that I was in the parade I was at the parade watching the parade big difference go back and re-read it don't get it twisted.

[@felipeangeles4194]

You went to a communists parade being an American soldier? No mames Pinocchio !

[@Thargor3000]

@@ernestpaniagua1210 no you was never in east berlin at this time

[@ernestpaniagua1210]

@@Thargor3000 oh I was you probably weren't even born jr kick rocks

[@binaway]

The goose step march originated in Prussia. It was introduced into the Russian army by Prussian military advisers hired to modernize the Czars army. The Red army inherited it from it's predecessor. Under Hitler the march was abandoned by the Wehrmacht just before WW2. The West German Bundeswehr has never used it. The East German army following their Soviet masters reintroduced it.

[@MaximusandHistory]

And just to be clear the Soviet Army reserved the goose step only for drill training, state ceremonies, and the changing of the guard. Regular troops didn't goose step but instead used the "marching step" or "походный шаг."

[@ВасилийСпиридонов-й5б]

И это былой немецкой военной мощи. Немцы хотя нас убивали мы их уважали.

[@ВасилийСпиридонов-й5б]

Сейчас опять хотят, но это последняя война для немцев будет. Мы приедем.

[@gunslinger0963]

Bundeswehr didnt use it, because they only have light infantry und Stechschritt is only used by line Infantry

[@85Prix]

​@@ВасилийСпиридонов-й5буже приехали, конечная😂😂😂

[@ernestpaniagua1210]

Being the last parade no one had the slightest idea what the future was in store for us in the not so far future. Amazing.

[@MaximusandHistory]

Yep, even soldiers who participated in this event had no idea this would be the last GDR parade! One of these former soldiers, his name is Torsten, now owns a East German Militaria website called germandotmilitaria.com

[@ernestpaniagua1210]

@@MaximusandHistory amazing how I got to witness history in the making without even knowing it would happen had several friends that where in the East German army.

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@ernestpaniagua1210 Where you in Berlin at the time?

[@vwdubguy1]

Ganz dunkel

[@ernestpaniagua1210]

@@MaximusandHistory yes got there in 28 Dec 88 left in early Dec of 92 US Army Berlin Brigade. I was with Aco 6/502nd INF REG at McKnair barracks.

[@1saveliy1]

Вот это настоящие немцы, никаких арабов и геев

[@Mike-br8zt]

What memories. I was in the DDR and Poland in 1988 and you could feel something in the air.

[@MerleUnchained]

Yeah, total loss of faith in communism.

[@jody6851]

The fact East Germany aka DDR folded the moment the Soviets pulled the plug on them proves it was nothing more than a propped-up Soviet puppet state. If it was a true nation its people truly believed in, it would have remained independent of West Germany aka Bundesrepublik von Deutschland.

[@avenueb]

you could smell socialism it was stale

[@PolakInHolland]

@@MerleUnchained There never was any faith. Poles never wanted it.

[@BG_Low]

You mean the smell of radioactive from Chernobyl, right?

[@georgbuchner7153]

Only four weeks later was it over.

[@Basedlocation]

I cri everytime

[@H.P.W-j1m]

Ja genau , von Politikern verraten!

[@notroll1279]

​@@H.P.W-j1m Eher vom Volk abgeworfen...

[@faouzielmir9894]

Gorbatchev is responsible

[@husseinoskovjino9398]

@@faouzielmir9894Yeltsin is

[@waffle_burger8499]

Feels like the final flourish of Prussian militarism, hard to believe a few months after this it all came to an end. Maybe they sensed this would be the last parade.

[@prodigy-hu6dy]

You say Prussian when this drill is Soviet 😂

[@dangaming2698]

@@prodigy-hu6dytheir drills are very prussian with soviet sprinkled in

[@waffle_burger8499]

​@prodigy-hu6dy Their traditions were still based on Prussian militarism. This is definitely not a Soviet drill.

[@waffle_burger8499]

Similarities with 1927 are clear: kzbin.infoXmwx9cpP7lc?si=bS7MITwh3RbpANTN

[@gerdkoehler6132]

Ich bin in der DDR aufgewachsen und war von 1987 bis 1989 bei der NVA und ich muss sagen, es waren trotzdem schöne 1 1/2 Jahre.

[@marchesofgermany2755]

Great Video! As a collector of WW2 and GDR HD Footage I am very impressed of this Video. It is truly not easy to find such good Quality Videos and Sound of this Parades. Stay uploading and can I ask you where you got this great Footage?

[@pauleypavillion6088]

ITs too bad that Germany today are not using this type of Prussian military band and these type of soldiers.

[@williamjackson5942]

@@pauleypavillion6088 The German Army plays many of the same tunes as always, you are confused!

[@pezazul2917]

@@williamjackson5942limk?

[@Triggernlfrl]

@@williamjackson5942 Only when it is aproved by the occupiers....

[@r.c.s.3192]

It is a video recording of the live broadcast of the GDR state television at the time!

[@olafge]

In this very moment, I was sitting on my sofa in West Berlin watching the parade in east German TV. My apartment in Moabit was just a few kilometers away from the parade. It really gave me the shivers down the spine. All this Prussian military ceremony. All these missiles and tanks. And in the same moment, hearing them talking about world peace. It was quite an absurd situation and sometimes nowadays, I think it was just a nightmare. As if it wasn't real.

[@MaximusandHistory]

That's very fascinating to hear your anecdote! I am surprised West Germans watched these events live on TV! Did you always watch these parades every year? Or were you curious to see what was going on the other side of town? It definitely seems ironic that they were talking about world peace while parading tanks and missile systems on the streets of Karl Marx Allee. However it seems that was the ordinary thing back in the day. The Bundeswehr also had military parades with tanks and missile systems but they were not a frequent sight compared to the GDR.

[@olafge]

@@MaximusandHistory No I didn't watch the parade regularly. It was actually a very special day. The 40th anniversary of the GDR. The change was already in the air, and everyone was curious what Gorbachev is going to say. Actually, I watched the East German TV sometimes. Coming from West Germany, I moved to Berlin to study in 1987. Before I had no contact to East Germany, and it was very fascinating for me. A German country but totally different. They reported about the same events, but with different conclusions and from a totally different political perspective. And actually, I found the parade quite frightening. So massive. Compare it to a parade of the Bundeswehr's 30th anniversary a few years before.

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@olafge It is quite surreal to see so many people who were actually in Berlin around this time watching my KZbin videos. I've had countless American, British and former East German soldiers leave comments on my videos, sharing their experiences all here on KZbin. I was born a decade after the 40th anniversary of the GDR, so for most my life I didn't even know it existed because the American education system is quite poor when it comes to world history. Germany post-WW2 was not even mentioned once during my entire tenure in secondary education! In fact, most people don't really have any clue about Cold War history in general (which in my opinion is disturbing) considering it wasn't that long ago and how relevant it is in today's geopolitics. Part of my family is from the USSR, so I get a taste of both worlds.

[@cheswick617]

It had nothing to do with "Prussian military"...it was brazen communist military propaganda and projection of power. you don't see the unified German military doing that now...But you see constantly see China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, all trying to bully neighbors with flaunting military might in parades.

[@Ah01]

What would the comrades do, if their was a lion loose? 😅

[@robertshonk518]

As an American I enjoyed the brief glimpse of Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party U.S.A. He's the stocky Minnesotan in the tan suit at 10:22. By this time Gorbachev had cut off subsidies to his party because Hall was critical of the Soviet leader's reforms. But apparently he was still in Honecker's good graces.

[@dunbustin]

It looks like Nicolae Ceaușescu at 10:10. Little did anyone know what was to be his unenviable fate a few months later.

[@erik_griswold]

Thanks for pointing this out.

[@tech9803]

​@dunbustin Also Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Yasir Arafat

[@spikespa5208]

A veritable gallery of communist honchos and their friends, 1989

[@libertycowboy2495]

American communists....now just democrats.😡

[@steffencocconi8474]

Erst Sommer 89 zum Raketenschießen, danach zur Parade 40. Jahrestag. Zwei Monate später wurde ich entlassen. Das war meine NVA Zeit.

[@MaximusandHistory]

You took part in this parade?

[@URAN_235_URAN]

@@MaximusandHistoryBased of what he said and the context, yes.

[@marklunam4079]

Fantastic. The way the band turns left is amazing.

[@flatterfotze8667]

👍👍👍

[@ДмитрийЛогинов-й8ц]

Муштра туды её в качель но иначе такое не достигается.

[@PineappleOnPizza69]

It was neat right. You can see the discipline

[@knyazigorthe8617]

👍👍👍

[@dabsy123]

Nazis and Prussians did the same...all been passed down to even the goose stepping..

[@mieszkokoniecpolski5621]

Piękna dopracowana w szczegòłach defilada. Brawo.👏👏👍

[@shalashaska5851]

Gorbachev despised Honecker so much at this point. You can see it on his face.

[@TheMerryPrangster]

um ok

[@nicolenicole2389]

Despise honecker I read: not as much as putin hates occident and want to exterminate us..... All those videos and trolls are manipulations channels. To mix history and confuse people. And transform the world into al kaeda

[@maka2150]

Kein Wunder. Dieser Mensch war sich selbst der Nächste und hat, um sich herum, nichts mehr verstanden.

[@DimONTimOFF]

Горбачева презирают теперь все! В том числе и за предательство Хонакера!

[@plf2813]

​@@DimONTimOFFистория все расставила на свои места! Нет более проклятых людей в наше время, чем Горбачев и Ельцин!

[@PeterFrey-k7v]

Ich bin stolz ein ddr Kind zu sein diese haben uns noch leben lassen diese Bundesregierung vernichtet und meine Lebensqualität l

[@peterwolfgangwegener3666]

Tja Gennosse , warum sind euch denn die Leute weggelaufen ?

[@brunftbert3381]

@@PeterFrey-k7v Dummheit und Stolz...

[@tokre8880]

@barklex laber keinen mist in den Rücken konnteste schlecht schießen außer du wolltest jemanden auf BRD Gebiet erschießen und nen Skandal verursachen ......außerdem galt der Schusswaffengebrauch nur als letztes Mittel genau wie es zahllose andere Nationen z.B. die USA es heute auch noch machen...... wenn man nach Warnrufen und Warnschüssen noch weiterläuft muss halt damit rechnen auch mal etwas Blei in den Kadaver gepumpt zu bekommen ...... in den meisten Fällen war lediglich grenzenlose Dummheit und Selbstüberschätzung der Grund warum Personen generell in jene Lage gerieten....

[@tokre8880]

@@peterwolfgangwegener3666 sie sind abgehauen weil sie entweder verfolgt und oder von der Staatsmacht diskriminiert wurden ...... viele aber auch um schlichtweg etwas mehr Freiheit genießen zu können als es die SED Klappspaten ihnen erlaubt hätten, andere wiederum gingen weil sie dank Westfernsehen dachten das im Westen großer Wohlstand auf sie wartet und es dort jedem Menschen über alle Maße gut geht ..... HA weit gefehlt....

[@scanida5070]

Not truly in a German fashion but still quite impressive! Especially the hand movements of the drummers at 12:18

[@MaximusandHistory]

The drummers rotating their mallets as they strike the drum is a late DDR invention (1980's), before that, they hit the drums in Prussian style. It seems in the last decade of the NVA, a few Prussian traditions were dropped (Closed Collar Tunics, Exerzierschritt in 1990, and drummers hitting the snare drums). For most of the NVA's existence, the Musikkorps maintained the most Prussian doctrine and drill whilst the regular troops used mix of Prussian and Soviet traditions. I personally love the DDR's style of rotating the mallets, it looks so awesome and unique, but untraditional.

[@scanida5070]

@@MaximusandHistory I just love that drumming style ;) What‘s ironic is that right in the 80s, the Bundeswehr went away from its Americanisations (Adapting WW2 Luftwaffe uniform, replacing the American M1 with German M92 and berets, Guard battalion officially being the successor to the first Prussian foot guard battalion, etc.) and became more German while the NVA became less German. Man, these times were truly a headache.

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@scanida5070 I should also correct myself, I didn't realize this until later on, but the NVA Musikkorps still used the traditional snare drums and hit them in the Prussian style. If you look closely, they are hiding behind the front row of tenor drums (which rotate their mallets). For some reason I though they removed the snares and replaced them with the tenors entirely, but they actually just added the extra row of tenors, making it 3 rows of drummers.

[@scanida5070]

@@MaximusandHistory I’ll be honest with you: They should’ve removed one line of the snares because the fifes are just way too quiet. The Parademarsch der Spielleute only works if you can truly hear the fifes.

[@jimijarvinenorgan]

@@MaximusandHistory Adding of the tenor drums adds to the frequencies of all percussions together, making them even louder. The rotating of the mallets is actually an NVA-variant of old cavalry drummers' style of rotating mallets. Definitely an interesting and impressive feature of NVA's drum corps.

[@benny1977222]

Man kann von der DDR halten was man will aber das war wenigstens noch eine Armee!!!👍

[@earlystrings1]

These events took place on 6-7 October, 1989. Ten days after this parade, arguably the last Prussian military parade in history, Erich Honecker was ousted from the SED central committee. The DDR state was to survive only another two months.

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

Yeah in addition, Gunter Schabowski, East German Government Spokesman was well known of accidentally speech in a press conference that the Berlin Wall opened for good without condition thus led the collapse of the Berlin Wall

[@БредПидд-я3й]

Да горбатый, сука, всех сдал - и своих и союзников

[@krle7970]

Last “true” Prussian parade, as in Germans. The drill survives all over the world, most notably in chile

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

@@krle7970 Nice Chile is very Prussian because in 1890, Emil Kroner introduced the Prussian Doctrine including goose step marching, uniforms and musical march which is remained today and the most highlights was September’s Military Parade held in Santiago 😊😊

[@scottmalpass1427]

Watching the "goosestep" performed was fascinating to see, all the while thinking to myself, "You won't be doing that for much longer."

[@RalphKiehle]

Die deutsche Armee, die niemals Krieg führen mußte.

[@ВадимГончаров-т1в]

Чехам и словакам в 68 славно они пизды дали. Те боялись немцам подлянки делать, разговор был короткий-400 трупов провокаторов и ни одного убитого или раненного солдата ННА. В отличии от 120 погибших солдата СА. Вечно мы в милосердных играем.

[@_x_Elizabeth_x_]

Ja aber sie haben Menschen an der Mauer ermordet, das sollte man nicht vergessen.

[@elkemuller7911]

GOTTSEIDANK

[@safebet5841]

Den Krieg hat sie nur gegen anders denkende geführt und gegen Nachbarn und Freunde.

[@YoungGarrett]

Some of them did fight... Against South Africa 🎉

[@hartmutlorentzen9659]

Das Interessanteste sind wie so häufig die Kommentare!

[@port-artyr]

Я служил в Германии,в Дрезден-1978-1980г.г.

[@manfreddeelsma7089]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Bigsky1991]

Ich war dabei! I was there, saw it live....all of the Commie Bonzen were there also... The DDR Volksarmee Orchestra was the very best I've ever seen...outstanding musicians playing all the beautiful old Marschlieder.

[@MaximusandHistory]

How close were you to the parade ground? That's amazing!

[@stevenmajor9513]

The turn at 12:38 is absolutely astounding. I did do dril at one point of my life and that left turn would not be one i would like to do.

[@MaximusandHistory]

The 90 degree turn is called the "Schwenk", its a Prussian tradition!

[@stevenmajor9513]

@@MaximusandHistory as someone who has done drill, that turn is as sweet as a nut. It made my eyes fall out in amazement. The practice to do that must have been absolutely monotonous. Every day square bashing. To get it right. But I can't see the turn coming. No shouted instructions or change in music. Just a sweet change of direction. I am truly in awe.

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@stevenmajor9513 The drum corps performs 3 drum beats to signal to all the musicians to start goose stepping. After that, its all timing and then they execute the turn! Its truly an impressive drill maneuver, only found in Prussian military tradition

[@MaximusandHistory]

@@redlevantinist8947 Believe it or not the Bundeswehr has done the Scwhenk before but it is very rarely ever used and it looks rather lame because they don't goose step.

[@thebigmon]

You should check Texas A & M University marching band.

[@stuff38]

Ach was sind die Truppenfahnen für ein Genuss. Herrliche Parade. Vielen Dank für die Zuverfügungstellung der Aufnahmen.

[@ricardodutra9862]

Comunismo não representou nada, ao mundo, apenas 100 milhões de mortos.

[@brunftbert3381]

@@stuff38 Also ich genieße lieber anderes. Aber wem Truppenfahnen ein Genuss sind, dem sei es gegönnt. Muss mit so jemandem ja nix zu tun haben.

[@user-sukaveka]

Удивительно смотреть этот парад спустя годы, зная что вскоре произошло С ГДР (DDR). Выучка военных на высоте. Желаю немецкому народу всего наилучшего.

[@UweFiedler-jv9uk]

Es reicht, wenn Du uns, den Verratenen, alles Gute wünscht. Den Knechten der Amerikaner braucht man nichts Gutes zu wünschen 👍🇷🇺

[@bandit229]

Cpaciba.

[@worldclassflags]

Хорошая подборка видео истории! Желаю удачи в развитии канала!

[@jehudgoldstein6971]

🇷🇺🐷🇷🇺 Russenschweine 🇷🇺🐷🇷🇺

[@lestafan1783]

Вот это парад! Прусский шаг и настоящие немецкие народные войска

[@scanida5070]

Now after looking at this video a couple of times, I noticed a few things: 1. The NVA’s “Präsentiermarsch der NVA“ sounds nearly identical to the Bundeswehr’s “Präsentiermarsch der deutschen Marine”. 2. Why are the Navy’s Captain uniforms in weird black-dark-blueish tone? And is it only me or are the caps “bigger”, you know, that “Russian cap” style ;) 3. Maybe I am blind but did the NVA’s airforce ever have their own uniforms? 4. The 4 bands have two drum majors upon closer inspection.

[@MaximusandHistory]

First thing to consider is that despite the NVA's small repertoire of Prussian marches, unlike the Bundeswehr (which has performed way more traditional marches than the NVA) the school of thought of composing German marches ironically survived in the DDR. They produced more marches than the Bundeswehr, and their structure was completely modeled after older Prussian marches. The tradition of composing a Präsentiermarsch survived in the DDR and I have to say, they really nailed the Prussian style well. While the other marches sometimes borrow "Socialist" motifs or quotes in their compositions, but not all. I'm not too sure about the marine uniforms, those are the only uniforms that I haven't studied in detail, but from my knowledge, the peaked caps the NVA wears are virtually identical to Wehrmacht caps in shape and design. Soviet caps have a much bigger crown. I own a real one and it definitely is much bigger than NVA caps for sure. The Air Force definitely had their "own" uniform for a while, they were the first and only uniforms in the NVA to have open collar uniforms with a tie underneath with the traditional Reichswehr 4 button tunic. And although the Navy also had open collar, their uniforms were completely different in style from the Army and Airforce. By 1975, the Border Guards, Army, Paratroopers, etc. all switched to open collar tunics like in the Bundeswehr and the Air Force looked almost no different from the Landstreitkräfte. The only distinguishing feature about their uniform is the sky blue piping on their uniform and hats, and collar tabs.

[@chengtianheng6219]

The design of East German air force uniform refers to the Soviet Union. The color of Soviet air force uniform is the same as that of the army, but there are differences in edge color, shoulder badge and collar badge.

[@jimijarvinenorgan]

@Scanida There are two drum majors, and four conductors. The drum major marching in front of the whole band is the actual drum major of the drum corps. The other drum major standing foremost in front of the whole band is the chief conductor or Generalmusikdirektor of the army. His purpose is to coordinate the playing as a whole, and all the other conductors follow him. Each of the four bands also has their own conductor with a long baton in front of their respective bands.

[@KongmeiKhiong-n8y]

B

[@sunnyfresh2024]

Leichter Stechschritt, Ordnung und Disziplin bis ins kleinste. Kein Vergleich zur heutigen BW. Man sieht den Soldaten den Stolz auch an, den man heutige oft in der BW vergebens sucht.

[@haraldroehl978]

...20 Jahre davor....also 1969 war ich einer von denen mit Helm. Wir waren stolz auf unser Land. Heute??? muss man bunt sein und seine Land verachten. Grandiose Entwicklung....

[@brunftbert3381]

Ich sehe den Soldaten hauptsächlich den Stock im Arsch an...

[@klim-dim682]

Gorbachev is standing and thinking "I will sell them out now and tomorrow I will gain the right to advertise "Pizza hut". Mega profit.

[@aexgorov9619]

Наверняка ему уже всё было известно

[@odilachilov937]

Он уже продал в тот момент, абсолютно бессовестный черт!

[@UweFiedler-jv9uk]

Das war Verrat oder vielleicht auch nur Gutgläubigkeit. Es war jedenfalls ein sehr schwer zu reparierender Fehler

[@RostigeAxt]

Горит он в аду!

[@denisdimitrov5051]

"We have concluded that the Soviet system is unsustainable. It's got to be replaced from top to bottom... (asked when he knew)... 1978... I was in Young Communist League, actually with Gorbachev and there was a whole cohort of us who concluded that the Soviet Union is unsustainable" - Vadim Zagladin 1991

[@MrArealer]

Einfach ehrlich, die beste Jugend die je gab, in diesen Land verbracht zu haben.danke DDR.

[@ttqualle]

Dunkeldeutsche Hungerleider…💩

[@Ralf-RüdigerRodenbeck]

Ich kannte die Ganze Armeeführung persönlich und mit dem Wagen habe ich auch schon eine Runde gedreht 🫡😊 !

[@БахтиёрХайтмуратов]

настоящие немцы. честь и слава.

[@rainerklessinger8843]

Communist jew

[@АлександрНепряхин-ц7т]

Были когда то, когда мы их перевоспитали

[@michopoulosal]

Σκατα στους Γερμανούς και σε σένα

[@ЕвгенийКрючков-в1ш]

фашисты всегда остаются фашистами

[@Carl_ATHF]

“re-educated” lmao sure bud they transitioned nicely into a capitalist conservative society, modern day east Germany is Right Wing mostly. the soviet union collapsed. It gave up. You’re ideology is false if it lost to a blubber monster like USA lol. Modern day Russia is way better than the ussr.

[@randylidilc5516]

The marching band is awesome 👌

[@Wattn_ditte]

Da war mehr Zack drin als bei der Bundeswehr, bei 12:53 mehr Preußen geht gar nicht

[@wolfbue7912]

Ein unglaublich kitschiger Abgesang auf die Greise auf der Bühne und die ruinierte DDR ! !

[@nikname7665]

Мы в своих немцах не уничтожали их немцкость в отличие от американцев. Наши немцы были немцами!

[@Wattn_ditte]

@@nikname7665 Gebe ich dir vollkommen recht!

[@udohoffmann8092]

Und alles eine Größe wie bei der Deutschen Schutzstaffel, wer soll sich dabei was denken, Deutsche halt🤔

[@krustyclown2152]

Memories of a better world when family, relationships, social solidarity, and welfare of society mattered. Gone are the days when people were not completely narcissistic and selfish, when greed wasn't viewed as a virtue, when work wasn't just a rat race where you trample over other people to elevate yourself to the top, before we all became engrossed in mindless consumerism. I can only hope this nightmare we have been living in since the 1980s will end before I die, and I can at least spend a few of my final years living in a REAL society again.

[@Porosenok_miasnoy]

В обществе, где постоянно не хватало элементарной туалетной бумаги, а все деньги тратились на содержание армии? 🤣🤡

[@BudFox575]

At that stage the focus was on workers, family, country, and bread. Now it is only oligarchs, billionaires, and American rappers and pop stars, while everything is just getting more expensive...

[@ЯрославКондрашов-ъ4й]

Никогда не вернётся та жизнь, капитализм надевал маску с человеческим лицом, только потому что был СССР. Сейчас ему нечего бояться и он показывает свой звериный оскал.

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

​@@Porosenok_miasnoy ah yes because US would totally let socialist states to exist without an army Liberal brainrot level comment right here xD

[@slome815]

Wow, this comment section really is a great example of how extremely black and white many people think. It's like people think the DDR was either a communist utopia or a dystopian hellscape. In reality is was neither. It was probably the best Warschau pact country to live in, had a fairly high living standard, it was still authoritarian, but not nearly as bad as many of the other communist countries. Live in western europe was still a lot better though. I noticed this lack of nuance when talking about the Trabant as well. People will praise the 2CV (and fiat 500, or twostroke saabs or DKW's) constantly, but have nothing good to say about the Trabant. I drive both a 2CV and Trabant as my only cars, and I would argue that if you compare both in the early 60's, the Trabant is the superior car in everything but passenger comfort. By the 80's the it was hopelessly outdated though. It is still a reliable car though, in the DDR the average lifespan was 28 years, and mine is nearly 40 now.

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

While Fiat 500 is funny little car, remember this thing only existed in 1950s-1970s & it's not two-stroke engine vehicle.. Fiat started to replace the model with newer models like Fiat Panda etc.. while Trabant still uses the same design & engine from 1950s up until the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 :) .. plus both Fiat & Citroën did make both cheap economical cars like the 500 & 2CV *AND* magnificent pieces of engineering like Fiat Dino coupe & Citroën DS or SM.. while Trabant just make that single model only..

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

BDR A.K.A. West Germany designed & manufactured their own small arms like H&K MP5, H&K G3, Panzerfaust 3, MG3 machinegun.. while in comparison East Germany imported all their small arms: AKMS, AKM, RPG-7, and PKM machinegun from the Soviet Union.. even at this point Czechoslovakia was more self-sufficient than East Germany.. Czechs did designed their own vehicles & small arms

[@pwn5047]

scary movie for usa When the Russians unite with the Germans At the moment, Germany is being destroyed so that this never happens.

[@tushcanchik]

Очень красивая форма парадная у солдат ГДР, очень мощная армия была, жаль что получился развал, самой лучшей армии после советской.

[@agungprasetyo2665]

More germany than the current one

[@Kalashnikov413]

Not really

[@Alex-fw8pu]

Genau komme mir in Berlin vor wie ein Dauerurlauber in einem fremden Land

[@badschbenza8126]

​@@Alex-fw8pudie frechen Invasoren im heutigen Berlin würden sich vor den Soldaten der NVA einnässen!

[@thomasborger1783]

Ich war am 1.Mai 1976 oder 1977 als Teilnehmer dabei. Der Republikpalast wurde damals eröffnet. Ja, obwohl ich heute sehr gut Bayern lebe hat diese Offiersschülerausbildung vieles an Brauchbares für ein geordnettes und zielstrebiges Leben gebracht. Heute wird ja nur noch geschlampert. Ohne Ordnung und ein Mindestmass an Disziplin bricht alles zusammen.

[@dieterdodel835]

@@Alex-fw8pu Berlinestan.

[@reptiloidovich-v4q]

А было о чем поговорить Хенекеру и Горбачёву. Настроение неуверенное. Последний год стены.

[@josephbokor6738]

Dommagecque la Bundeswehr ne marche plus de cette façon et ne joue plus ces marches qui sont très martiales .

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

…Simple answer…Die Bundeswehr are just Nazis with their balls chopped off by American Occupation since 1945…🇩🇪💩🇩🇪💩🇺🇸…Vassals cowards…👊

[@flatterfotze8667]

Dito! 🙄😏

[@Changnoi12]

West Germany was brought up in the spirit of the victorious powers - East Germany was allowed to maintain traditions.

[@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373]

@@Changnoi12 fascist traditions

[@bugler75]

Je suis d’acc.

[@albert21able]

A few months later ,as a British paratrooper, I was jumping with the former GDR Fallshirmjager, Now part of the Bundeswehr, We gave them are tour of London, including the Houses of Parliament, Amazing how history can change so quick.

[@DietmarBeil-wi3zv]

Die einstige deutsche Armee die keinen Krieg verloren hat

[@renerothstock4015]

Ja,auch 68 nicht den Boden unseres Nachbarlandes betreten, Das hat sogar die UdSSR nicht gewollt.Warum nur He...?

[@H.D.k.M.]

Wo seid ihr gesprungen? Ich war auch in Lehnin.

[@NandiCollector]

*This is just, PERFECTION!*

[@brunokirchensittenbach9294]

Da Werden erinnerungen wach auf sehr Stolz die Ehemalige DDR Einfach Toll..!!!🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🫵🏼🫡…Der DDR…👋…

[@ВасилийПронин-ь6ш]

Красиво идут, приятно смотреть! Отличная выправка и выучка! Это действительно Армия!!!

[@OhhCats]

В Северной Корее ещё круче

[@ВасилийПронин-ь6ш]

​@@OhhCatsлучше только, в Китае!, ну а ты хоть разок прошел в такой колонне строевым с равнением направо? Думаю, что нет!!!

[@canuckguns]

Die Deutschen waren schon immer sehr intelligente, fortschrittliche und disziplinierte Menschen. Ich bewundere dich sehr, Respekt aus Kanada.

[@Nelezwerg01]

Das stimmt...ist aber jetzt nicht mehr so..Dank unbegrenzter Einwanderung und TikTok

[@Jhossack]

Cause in Alberta they short a little this and a little o that.

[@paulsmith3487]

Yeah,wonderful cosy types with it!

[@Jhossack]

@@paulsmith3487 Paul, they have co-opted your comment. Goose steppers can’t handle the truth. Failed orcs in a failed orc world.

[@dpt6849]

​@@Jhossack the truth is that muricans are no1 jewdogs and epstein and chilloving friends want global childlover trade.

[@karlaheidel8648]

Wie schnell ändert sich die Zeit - und wann kommt das andere ENDE?

[@rene-75]

hermosa parada militar de alemania y seguir la tendencia prusiana, saludos desde chile

[@MaximusandHistory]

Chile proudly continues Prussian military tradition! Thank you for the kind comment!

[@TheNeojimmy]

Pero esa es Alemania Oriental, no tiene relación con la doctrina prusiana de Chile 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ que es de la Alemania Prusiana

[@charliedex111]

Es Alemania del Este, son más soviéticos que nada

[@alanhunter-craig8041]

This looks and marches like a proper German Army that has retained its Prussian tradition.

[@richardvilseck]

Yeah. It’s kinda scary.

[@ministryofanti-feminism1493]

No it doesn't. There is no "Stechschritt" for a start.

[@daisy8297]

Reminds me of the marches during Hitler’s reign of terror.

[@sergiogregorat1830]

12:00 There is not and there will never again be anyone in the world who wields sticks like those front row drummers.

[@0374-x7c]

This is how we felt when watching the last military parade of Rhodesia. Except that was a good country

[@Arkan.97]

Congrats on the new channel 👏 hope it'll grow bigger and better

[@MaximusandHistory]

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video!

[@oparudi2248]

Die Obersten Riege waren einfach nur Irre , aber die Armee war noch eine Armee !!! 💪🎀💪

[@DGUS2017]

Einer der Geschosswerfer war meiner...🤭

[@rudihe6129]

Aber die haben die Armee wnigstens zu dem gemacht was sie war in bester preussischer Tradition mit ausdrücklicjer Zustimmung der Russen

[@uwehagen3495]

Heute haben wir wieder so eine Riege !

[@henryberger2793]

Bin ebenfalls stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben. Solche brutalen Angriffe auf Deutsche Bürger von Migranten und Flüchtlingen hätte es da nicht gegeben.

[@Нес_Тор]

Ich habe von 1987 bis 1991 in der DDR-Stadt Magdeburg gedient, T-80-Tanker! Die NVA war eine starke Armee, sie waren die qualifiziertesten Verbündeten, die an gemeinsamen Übungen teilnahmen!

[@matzek.9119]

Und was hat eine Armee damit zu tun? Die Sicherheit im Innern ist ja die Sache der Polizei und nicht der Armee. Oder geht die Bundeswehr auf Streife und jagt Kriminelle Ausländer?

[@Thomasschneider-h3f]

Ohne Euch Ossis hätten wir die Migranten gar nicht. Wer hat die denn hereingelassen? Merkel, die Ossi Tante. Also hört auf zu nölen Ihr West Russen.

[@peterwolfgangwegener3666]

Nein , dafür habt ihr den Bürgern , die vom Arbeiter und Bauern Paradies die schnauze voll hatten ,am Antifaschistischen Schutzwall in den Rücken geschossen .

[@hermann2020]

Aber wenn sie diejenigen ermordeten, die anders dachten als der Kommunismus, Mörder der Deutschen, dann lebe die Freiheit in der wahren Demokratie und die Kommunisten kehrten nie zurück

[@carlosbago7665]

Excelente desfile. Sin palabras

[@moln8077]

Удивительно, нет просто очень удивительно! Спустя 50 лет они носят такую парадную форму похожую на старую по покрою. А брюки галифе это просто картинка! Ведь они вышли из моды много десятилетий раньше! 🤗🏹🇫🇮

[@dhowe5180]

Amazing to think that probably none of those soldiers, politicians and spectators had an inkling that the DDR would be extinct in just a few months

[@agorazontas5894]

Always beware of self confidence

[@afitz34]

Gorbachev probably did.

[@Yora21]

I don't know. Everyone participating looks miserable.

[@riovoneinzbern8849]

best quality!

[@wilfriedhorn169]

Ehrenvoll gedient bis zum letzten Tag der Zeit des Wehrdienstes 🪖

[@1231-e3p]

Красавцы войска Восточной Германии, ну просто заглядение.

[@agorazontas5894]

Facade

[@Mr.Z1989]

​@@agorazontas5894 Shut up, soy boy!

[@vlasguby66]

gay

[@lepmuhangpa]

Prussian tradition.

[@OhhCats]

В Северной Корее лучше парады и вождь харизматичнее

[@peterschmidt5790]

12:00 - 12:40 absolut Perfect.

[@alexxd500]

Wer darf behaupten,das heute noch so hinzubekommen ? Das war noch eine richtige Show !

[@garypulliam3740]

Absolute perfection.

[@PineappleOnPizza69]

It was neat. Wished the modern Bundeswehr had this drip nowadays

[@richardjames1812]

Great parade and video of it! "Oh look, there's Gorbachev". The two generals running the parade from their cars, zipping around and saluting and shouting orders were my favorite part. My ~1990 training in enemy AFV recognition kicked in: BRDM-2, BMP-1, BRDM-AT (Sagger Missiles), tanks were T-72's? Infantry in the BMP's had AK-74 series rifles, most others were carrying AKM's. The E Germans had their own locally made version of each, I recall. The towed 152mm and 122mm artillery are all types being used in Ukraine today. Having been in much smaller parades, my main thought was "I bet they practiced this thing for a month - that must have sucked."

[@MaximusandHistory]

Yep, they had their own "MPi-KM" variant of the Soviet AKM!

[@flonkplonk1649]

And Yassir Arafat!

[@joukomaijala7422]

DDR:n kuolinkorinaparaati!

[@joukomaijala7422]

Ida-Saksamaa surmatants aurukatla ümber!😂

[@andreywp8705]

Последние немецкие мужчины. Последняя немецкая армия. Auferstanden aus Ruinen...

[@Yourfavgerman_15]

This is the last ever German marching parade 😢

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

The last ever pseudo-german parade by the German assistant of Soviet occupation force. LOL even NVA small arms were not from German origin (AKM and PKM) compared to Bundeswehr which designed & manufactured their own small arms (H&K MP5, G3, Rheinmetall MG3 a.k.a. incarnation of MG42)

[@alexanderv4609]

This was the last DDR parade, and that is good. There is one Germany, and thanks God it is not communist.

[@spa2133]

Last parade under Soviet tyrants. They managed to set East Germany 30 years behind West Germany. Russians never brought good to anyone

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

Hi Ivan, still b*tthurt not getting what you want? LOL. Now you should worry more about China producing unlicensed Russian weapons & also taking over Russia's global influence, thanks to Putin's lack understanding of Soviet (his own beloved) history. China betrayed Soviet Union after it had learned much from Soviet (Sino-Soviet Split), then China betrayed US after did the same, now it's time for China to do the same to Russia 🤣

[@vbxxx4895]

​@@alexanderv4609 Das ist gut? Leck mich du oooaaarrrsssccch

[@angelfoto4795]

There was considerably more foreign press compared to the prior parade in 1988. Foreign media were interested to cover this event because of the latest pro-democratic movements that emerged in the GDR that year. The foreign press stand is fully packed with people.

[@MaximusandHistory]

Yeah, there was definitely a noticeable increase in foreign press at the parade.

[@nobody-gg7ve]

fact: the helmets they are wearing were actually designed by the german wehrmacht, but the 2nd world war ended before it entered service. after the war the gdr needed a helmet, so they just copied the wehrmacht. the uniforms,helmets,traditions... just more communistic there even was a propaganda movie made by the gdr, that was supposed to tell the people that the gdr is the real germany, because they were still using wehrmacht uniforms, west germany got new combat and parade uniforms which weren´t traditionally german... but the west german uniform was actually better, because they weren´t as heavy as the gdr uniforms. the west german military became like a little us-army ... however they didn´t applie any american traditions ... some wehrmacht traditions and songs were still allowed. but after 2000 many songs were forbidden, so the german army isn´t that traditional anymore, the germans aren´t really into military traditions, because they think it´s too similar to the wehrmacht. example: there was a GROßER ZAPFENSTREICH (ritual to honor someone) performed to honor the soldiers who fought and die in afghanistan, many germans didn´t like it, because they thought it was to much ˋN@ZI´ ... actually it´s an old prussian ritual, the prussians copied from the russian military guards at st.petersburg, who would perform it in the evening... that´s the reason, why they are carrying torches, it´s not ´N@ZI´ .... so, it´s kinda 50% memory 50% just knowing nothing about the military except for that one word: BAD

[@ДмитрийЛогинов-й8ц]

Ничего страшного , скоро Вас заставят всё вспомнить и бросят на Украину где Русские в очередной раз Вам переломают хребет.

[@Ralf-RüdigerRodenbeck]

Das waren noch Deutsche !!! 👍👍👍✌️

[@gerdlunau8411]

Ihr nervt mit Eurem ewigen elendigen "wirklichen Deutschen". Und bevor Sie jetzt durchdrehen, ich habe in der NVA als Panzerkommandat ehrenvoll gedient und bin ein deutscher Ingenieur geworden. Diesen alten Preussenmist haben wir aber als Soldaten bis rauf zu den Offizieren schon damals abgelehnt. Sackgang ohne Ende und ohne militärischen Sinn. Die Uniformen habe wir gehaßt; wir sahen darin aus wie Nazi-Zombies. Ich habe bei meinen Kindern für eine 2. Staatsbürgerschaft gesorgt, damit, falls mal wieder so ein Irrer nach ihrem Stammbaum fragt, sie ggf. weggehen können. Auch wenn sie 100% Deutsche sind. Ich mag mein Heimatland Deutschland, aber diese nationalistische Überheblichkeit nervt einfach nur noch. PS: Historisch gesehen war Deutschland noch nie ethnisch homogen, sondern richtig doll gemischt - ob polnische Bergarbeiter oder französischer Adel. Peace! aus Dresden

[@redcar9949]

The most recent time in world history where you can see Germans goosestepping

[@arfshesaid4325]

half assed ya

[@odilachilov937]

Служил в ГДР, в Группе Советских Войск в Германии, прекрасная страна!

[@jorgebravo1950]

La unión soviética sólo produjo pobreza en es experimento

[@LeckyTamg]

Danke Bruder für deine Liebe zu meiner Heimatland

[@OhhCats]

Сейчас ещё лучше потому что вас больше там нет

[@БахытжанЖакупов-ч7ц]

​@@OhhCatsдурак. Там другие есть😂😂😂

[@OhhCats]

@@БахытжанЖакупов-ч7ц Американцы вывели большую часть своих войск ещё в 90-х. Там остался лишь небольшой персонал для поддержания оставшихся баз . Американцы не вмешиваются в политику Германии, именно поэтому немцы долго игнорировали призывы американцев не строить «северные потоки». Контроль же СССР над ГДР (т другими странами Варшавского блока был абсолютным - если не подчинялись СССР вводил танки и подавлял восстание как в ГДР в 1953, Венгрии 1956 или Чехословакии в 1968.

[@josefp1036]

Hut ab das waren die wahren Erben Preussens

[@edmondscott7444]

Outstanding video.

[@MaximusandHistory]

It's my pleasure that you enjoyed this historical footage!

[@КостяМ-у8щ]

Посмотришь как сейчас маршируют в ФРГ, просто плакать хочется. Потом смех нападает. А в ГДР сразу видны прусские традиции. Понятно также откуда в России такой стиль. Прусские капралы и сержанты у Лефорта обучали маршировать новую русскую армию.

[@bandit229]

🙏👍 Tradition verbindet.

[@kenattwood8060]

Was this the last real German Army?

[@bandit229]

Yes.

[@stephenjwprior6358]

Awesome East German Military Parade ❤ I miss them really 🤣

[@holly0311]

Schnifflig und Schneidig... Das Musikkorps iss der Hammer...😍

[@CarstenMauer]

Diese Armee hat keinen Krieg verursacht !!

[@jurgen7579]

Jedes mal zu Tränen gerührt...vor allem das Musikkorps...in der preußischen Tradition vom Kaiserreich, Wachbattallion Berlin in der Weimarer Republik und Wehrmacht...und bei dem "Kampflieder Potpourri" kann jeder mitsingen (entweder Text von 89 oder Text aus den 30er Jahren) Dieser Clip wird noch gezeigt, wenn niemand wer weiss was die "Bundeswehr" gewesen war

[@Atrux1]

Its not so old or far way in years, but it seems so far away since the world has changed so much. This is strange, I am 35 and I saw this when I was a very young child. I even got maps where "USSR" was written on them!

[@user-sj7od4ps2u]

И я родился в, СССР! И нет желания больше воевать, давайте лучше- дружить!

[@RocketTCoyote]

As a collector of DDR NVA militaria, I find this video quite useful as reference. My copy of the original broadcast, on VHS format, is not quite as sharp. Thank you.

[@MaximusandHistory]

Thanks for watching! This is the original Television broadcast quality in 50 fps, its the best version on the entire internet! :) I also collect some DDR militaria, especially if they are related to the Musikkorps!

[@damarmar1001]

That year I went to visit people i have met in Bulgaria with christmas. I needed 5 hours to pass the border and the roads were so bad I feared for my car. I still have some ddr coins and a roadmap. I went to Alterode and Eberswalde and have met the nicest people there. It was hard to imagine that they were the enemy before that year.

[@Birke44]

Damals gab es noch Soldaten ohne Bauch. 😂

[@brunftbert3381]

@@Birke44 Soldaten ohne Hirn auch.

[@wolfbue7912]

Was war denn da, deren Arsch ? ?

[@brunftbert3381]

@@wolfbue7912 😘

[@spider6660]

1989 Germany: Military parade 2023 Germany: Pride parade 😂

[@magnus_zhoposhnik]

:(