Controversial World History Takes...

[@samjr0173]

The funny part about the 84year old german that everybody in his village knew about him owning a tank. He even drove it around in a bad snow storm.

[@firdaus99031]

So, who's the snitch??

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

@@firdaus99031 An outsider probably.

[@martinprantl5047]

He was probably convicted because the tank is not his property, but the states

[@jannik_3133]

He also Had a working Torpedo and Flaks and other wepons in His basment and also some Nazi stuff in His garden

[@vorerstniemand]

​@@martinprantl5047 Nah, the tank was most likely not disarmed and hence illegal to possess

[@tranquoccuong890-its-orge]

0:41 attacking russia in spring is actually worse than winter because all the frozen ground are now thawed into 2m deep (near 7ft deep) mud, everywhere all turn into deep pools of mud, which to say the least, is even hard for infantry to walk let alone for heavy tank to tread

[@yougoslavia]

I was about to go down and comment this.

[@jzh4805]

This is actually a perfect explanation of Ryazanian roads!

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

@@jzh4805 The entire Siberia is like that for a couple of months and even more if it gets rainy in May and June.

[@ඩඩඩඩඩඩඩ-ප7ඹ]

Slip slip

[@romanmorozov6974]

Not to mention that winter doesn’t end til like April anyways

[@SavageIntent]

Regarding the very first meme in this video, my grandfather's father was a German nazi, and my grandmother's uncles fought against the Germans in the Norwegian resistance, so my granny's family refused to come to the wedding when she married my grandad.

[@CoolBluBoi]

"Former foes now friends" -Sabaton Cliffs of Gallipoli

[@zaldycanto8736]

Enemies to Lovers❤

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

...and we have another Trump parallel.

[@BaksBaksBaks]

You can't start an offensive against Russia in Spring, because that's when the snow starts to thaw an everything is muddy. Early June is the earliest you could try.

[@m.c.martin]

Drew always saying the US instead of us, for some reason, never seizes to stop being funny 😂

[@TheFinalMeowntdown]

An enlightened Yank, but a Yank all the same. 😜

[@slovakvillageboi5635]

8:42, fun fact: the blue in the Czechoslovak flag is suppose to represent Slovaks, while the white are bohemians and red are moravians/silesians

[@hannibal-rb3go]

The Czechs were also forbidden from using that flag anymore, but they did any way lol.

[@EmperorProtects1]

I mean... they could just slap the Slovak coat of arms over the czech flag and boom, represents both!

[@lucashfaria98]

So, with the Slovaks gone, the Czech Republic flag should look like this: 🇵🇱

[@nickname-1416]

Im czech And thé red represents hell, thé Blue represents thé world or a river And thé White represents heaven. Thats what we learned in school

[@filipbitala2624]

@@nickname-1416i learned it meant blood, water, and freedom, that the blood we sacrificed was for the freedom we have now, no idea about the water tho

[@Federalrepublicofsprout7263]

My respect for Drew leaving my soul after he refers to Bismarck as "this German Guy"

[@yannischupin7787]

6:30, So, I am French and the small town (Chavagnes en Paillers) I was born in, was a Na** hot spot during ww2, they even built a Hospital there. Yet in the mean time, many of the town's elite managed to hide Jewish children from the soldats. Most of the elders think that the Catholic Church is to thank for that since the priest had seemingly convinced the town to resist the way they could.

[@samael3398]

Drew believing germans are allowed to have a private tank is the most american thing ever. Like of course, why shouldn't you be allowed to have one?😂

[@vorerstniemand]

Im pretty sure you can actually own one. It just has to be disarmed and you may need a special license

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

The gummamint can take my tank if they can get past the 88 I have in my front yard.

[@kreepr]

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music just as the founding fathers intended

[@STURMLEITER]

5:59 As an bavarian myself i can confirm that this is 100% for real. Average Otto von Bismarck Based moment.

[@johnwotek3816]

Whenever someone bring up the whole deal about french resistence, I think it's necessary to ask them what exactly they are talking about... because there is a reason France is considered one of the big five winner of WW2 and it isn't just because Churchill and Roosevelt felt particulary generous.

[@ShieldYoung]

Yes Drew there were Few Indo-Greek Empires throughout history and a lot of cultural influences are there in both countries

[@Bacopa68]

There's even a Rudyard Kipling story that the remnants of these empires still survived and awaited a new Alexander.

[@Bacopa68]

"The Man Who Would Be King" is really a microcosm of Kipling's understanding of Britain in India, including that it was founded as a crime, and that it would fall once the colonizers imagined they were god. They still did good things in a few cases.

[@ShieldYoung]

@@Bacopa68 👏

[@stefankatsarov5806]

The statue of Buda ( in general his likeness ) is made by greek artists.

[@ShieldYoung]

@@stefankatsarov5806 there were few schools that depicted budhha in different ways like Gandhar, and Madhura Shaili etc

[@ilariadonati5363]

Petition for Drew to put the Roman Empire flag- Day 165

[@FullOfMalarky]

Roman empire didn’t really have a flag. But the SPQR flag is lit

[@Arrosticini_Enjoyer]

Where can I sign ?

[@MatthiasDrinksH20]

Let me sign that too

[@Boretheory]

@@FullOfMalarkyTHE EAGLE 🦅 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@hakabaka2048]

My brother in Christ, he’s in Spain rn.

[@xenotypos]

France did have one of the largest resistance movements during WW2, I believe only Poland and Yougoslavia exceeded it (and for good reasons, the Germans were far more brutal on the east and were more moderate with western/northern conquered territories, in the name of their racial theories). People just bash the french resistance movement mindlessly nowadays, it's just a trend nothing factual. Though I'd admit its role was a bit exagerated decades ago.

[@thatonejoey1847]

France bashing is common because are historically illiterate. Belgium was the cause of the fall of france, that rebellious franco Dutch province

[@gregkerna7410]

nowedays it's just normalized xenophobia

[@k.v.7681]

@@thatonejoey1847 France dug it's own grave with Belgium when their plans to invade Belgium in advance to counter Germany leaked.

[@jozefkozon4520]

I'd say it is a typical reaction, when overly romanticized Idea gets plowed by reality. Humans tend to push till it breakes, and trash it with no negard to previous sentiment right after.

[@ZS-rw4qq]

Greeks were pretty big too, even Italians after 43

[@jennifersalt3194]

Drew, we had telephone operators *way* after the end of those crank phones. I was taught as a child to dial “O” for operator in an emergency-no 9-1-1 then, but you could reliably reach an operator. Later on, in college, everyone called home by dialing the operator on a pay phone and saying “Collect Call, please.” The operator would then dial the number you gave her and ask if they would accept the call. Or, no one would pick up and the operator would relay that information to you. When I called my grandmother collect, I would explain to the operator that she was “elderly” and ask that they give her more time to get to the phone.

[@MiguelBrito1139]

"in europe you cant go outside without seeing something roman" my brother in christ if i go north i have 20.000 yr old structures, if i go south i see the biggest roman arena of iberia.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Not that old, but I will toast with 400 year old wine in a 600 year old establishment on that.

[@Lacteagalaxia]

Iberia:LAND of IBERIANS the roots of etnicithy and Spanish culture

[@lukasrentz3238]

"I don´t think you can go Outside your House in certain Parts of Europe without seeing something Roman". Absolutely. The closest Trainstation to me is called "Roman Theater" becaus eits next the its Ruins. I live next to the Green Belt called which consits of medieval and ancient fortification called Römerwall and Drususwall. Also Severeal Streets in the Neighbourhood are named after Romans (Augustus, Drusus, Trajan, Agrippa)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Imagine living in cities like London or Cologne, places literally founded by the romans.

[@lukasrentz3238]

@@HappyBeezerStudios My Hometown, which i desctibed above, too

[@deutschegeschichte4972]

Very cool. I presume you live in Mainz, Germany? I am going based off of your description lol. More specifically the Rhineland side,

[@thatonejoey1847]

Or you can live in Segovia and see the Aqueduct every day, damn is it a beautiful piece of architecture

[@lukasrentz3238]

@@deutschegeschichte4972 Correct,. Btw. Mainz lost its boroughs on the right side of the Rhine in 1945. Even though three of them are still called "Mainz-..." they belong to the City of Wiesbaden now.

[@thechronicler1453]

France did fight hard after the country surrendered! French resistance was literally why the Germans couldn’t capture the British at Dunkirk. Italian resistance was much more though

[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

The italian one was basically guerriglia.

[@Wertzuio]

and dont forget the french resistance in the reichstag!

[@thechronicler1453]

@@El.fish.the.chocolate that’s a good thing, what else is resistance supposed to do?

[@El.fish.the.chocolate]

@@thechronicler1453 exactly mate

[@crismaster7498]

Yugoslavia liberated itself unlike everyone else.

[@nichtthunder]

4:10 Bruh when he said "The U.S." instead of just the word "us" I lost my mind

[@RubberToeYT]

Lotharingia is so interesting ngl although kings causing wars for having too many sons happened so often

[@lnomsim2]

I think that the main difference is that the French resistance operated both in and outside of the country, had a professional army, helped other countries in their operations, managed to help the allies to open beachheads in Europe, and also liberated and kept our country free after the war. Compared to other countries where... oh well... Not saying the other resistance movements were insignificant, but we know how it ended. And it's not the same story.

[@jozefkozon4520]

Interesting that you talk about the results in the context of the resistance movement of the Colonial Empire and the hegemon of the Treaty of Versailles, which retained a significant portion of its own territory, military, treasury and government outside the zone of occupation. All the more so because none of the other resistance groups were in an equally privileged position. Even more so taking into account the directions of movement of the front and which side of the Elbe River Paris is located on. Especially since the areas on the eastern bank were donated to an oppressive regime that actively murdered any similar ventures as its troops advanced. For example, the Alliance was racing to save Paris from the smallest scratch. In turn, the Soviets not only had a viewing party while Warsaw was burning, they patiently waited for the Germans to murder everyone, plunder whatever they found and slowly and methodically demolish all the buildings on the western bank of the Vistula. Everyone likes to brag about their performance in a game rigged to their advantage. You won't find any meat or fat under all those feathers. With all these benefits, the French Resistance is mediocre at worst and barely better at best. And that's not the end. Well, maybe for France, because they didn't have to continue fighting after '44. At least, not as an underfunded resistance movement actively pursued by the political police. Some continued the fight until the 1960s. Compare with that.

[@ABK-uj4un]

I was on Holliday to Norway, and went to the place where the heavy water factory was, it was quite wonderful to see it and experience something like that,

[@studiosraufncingr6965]

4:06 pretty sure that the meme is saying US, the people that we live now, and not US the country bruh

[@maturepopcorn]

My thoughts exactly lol

[@HTS123RK]

I don’t think it really makes a difference

[@maturepopcorn]

@@HTS123RK I mean I guess? It’s almost a 250 year difference but compared to thousands of years it’s the same… But like, I’m not from America so to me it just kinda… Rude? Idk maybe I’m just dumb

[@thetimelapseguy8]

Fr drew is so into geography when he sees "car" he might read "central african republic"

[@captainphoton1693]

wait. by what metric do they determined rankings for resistance? 6:25

[@wybrany1448]

On saura jamais, comme dhab avec un peu tout 😂😂😂

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

mostly BS. This is a meme ;)

[@Eagle-rv3iy]

My wife asked me over the weekend.... and my response was similar. Rome shaped Europe in so many ways

[@Germanycopy]

The thing is I have Latin in school so yes even as a girl I think about Rome at some point at the day just because of my homework,tests and vocabulary that I study almost each day it is hard to leave the circle if you are in it

[@romanmorozov6974]

“Late winter, like February” as a Russian (not living in Russia anymore granted), the winter ends in April xD

[@MatthiasDrinksH20]

And then the mud takes over

[@sourendranarayanroy5239]

One way or another I think of the ancient greeks everyday. I am fascinated by the greeks.

[@malta_ball701]

Petition for drew to get a malta flag (Day 32)

[@damndanielthesuctioncupdan]

im gonna bite your fingernails off

[@malta_ball701]

​@@damndanielthesuctioncupdanI don't have fingers I'm a country ball

[@WhiteStarLineX]

@@malta_ball701yea same

[@august7191]

brh

[@creationstation6035]

I’m gonna draw Malta flag for you

[@Zhizn_Null]

I feel kind of bad for the German man with the tank. When they went in they both damaged his basement and the tank and never paid it back. I think they took it to a museum or something in the end

[@JKa244]

Cleopatra actually attempted to go join some of the greek kings in India to flee before the siege of Alexandria. They attempted to carry some of her fleet overland but the boats were destroyed by Arabian camel riders in retaliation for Anthony's shenanigans in the eastern empire

[@aldgate]

Invading Russia in late winter would mean you would have to go through the spring mud, something that would ruin the invasion.

[@rizzlexic_]

4:08 no way he pronounced "us" as "The US"

[@crusaderanimation6967]

3:40 "There's so much influence" would be understatement, if you read this you know and use English to some extent, and there's chance your native language also uses latin alphabet, and like think about reading this comment on youtube you look at legacy of battles that happen more than thousand years ago.

[@amadistalavera2086]

6:20 Well, the french resistance was the biggest and the one with most influence and capacities. Technically, it have been the one who most helped the allies. This meme isn't very true, even if I agree that, in general, people always forgot (or ignore) about all the others resistances who fought in Europe during ww2... 😢

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

True, French resistance allowed Operation Dragoon and Overlord to be fully successful, but the other resistance movement are rarely mentionned :/

[@domdabomb2033]

I don’t understand why Albanian resistance was so high on that chart. They literally surrendered almost immediately while so many things went wrong on the Italian side in the invasion. And then most Albanians supported Italy after that too

[@HorrridTomato]

As a German i do not know how you don’t know bissmarck

[@ManiKind]

7:46 There are still some villages in the Middle East that speak a Greek dialect, which is closer to ancient Greek than Modern.

[@RC-xl8se]

8:20 9 september? I guess those planes took 2 days to land.

[@Ayyuna_chan]

Drew calling Bismarck "this German guy" lmaoooo (also he didn't bash on his own country, since he was talking about literal monkeys)

[@sheriffsis1146]

6:30 As a Yugoslav: Why on earth is Albania in second place and Poland so low? Poles rebelled where they could and their people paid an insane price for that, slightly more hellish than we did..

[@lagjescuni5482]

@sheriffsis1146....because Albania is the only country that was liberated with its forces in WW2...instead Yugoslavia was not a country but a confederation of many countries which was also helped by the USA with the Lend-Lease operation....anyway, how do you exist considering that Yugoslavia no longer exists, you have returned from the past..?? wtfff

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

That's a meme, not history

[@sheriffsis1146]

@@lagjescuni5482 Dude, you are either on some serious substances or you are straight up living in your own delusion.

[@PandAlex]

5:13 I was waiting for this to come up and Drew’s voice crack at the “WW2 tank” made my day and this is only 1 pm

[@nimrodvass7274]

1:44 Drew really got a hungarian map for some reason.

[@Noperare]

6:57 you know what is crazier? The scientists at unit 731, the japabese lab that was developing bioweapons, that killed around 100 thousand people in human experiments faced no punishment.

[@friczadam6322]

1:48 why bro pulling out a Hungarian one.

[@gordanamarkovic5586]

The most famous battles fought in the territory of the former Yugoslavia during the Second World War are- Kadinjača, Kozara, Neretva, Sutjeska, Drvar. During World War II, more than 1.5 million Yugoslavs died.

[@stargazer-elite]

2:09 fun fact horses where from North America (modern horses not including older versions) and then when back over the bering strait before the end of the ice age then where used by Asians and Europeans for a long time before they’d come back home via Spain If they had stayed in North America history would be very different

[@veasnatdm4861]

0:40 Well, fighting in a swamp is just as hellish as fighting in the snow, after winter most of the ice will take month to melt, and dried up enough for heavy equipment to be ale to go trough.

[@chipband8812]

Well there's a legend about Alexander that a part of his army moved south in India and settled there. That area is known as coorg and has many similarities to Greece and even Persia.

[@villagernumber7882]

Day 19 of petitioning Drew to hang the flag of the glorious "United Republics of Jämtland-Herjeådalen and Ravund," in the background.

[@ItsMeAttilaGameplay2018]

1:45 Just suddenly seeing a Hungarian map, that actually was in my history book in 5th grade.

[@benedekkovacs3230]

We learned this in the last week! Jó, hogy vannak magyarok🇭🇺 is itt!

[@thehoi4standard8915]

I died a bit inside hearing the way you pronounced "influence" 3:48

[@Liggliluff]

(4:10) Just a note that it's "us" as in "our time" and not "USA"

[@kamilagonda9993]

1:00 Poland: First time?

[@The_doper]

3:20 the masculine urge to rebuild the Roman Empire never left us

[@RC-xl8se]

I mean, there is a reason if people kept pretending for centuries to be the next roman empire: -Bizantium -The Ottomans -The HRE -Russia -Napoleon -Mussolini Damn in WWI both the kaiser and the zar were translations of Caesar!

[@dairallan]

0 .There's a pretty well known film about the HEavy Water Plant raid called Heroes of the Telemark, with Kirk Douglas, RIchard Harris and loads of other big names. Its pretty good too.

[@botatobias2539]

6:28 Romania didn't even have a resistance movement. Look in the list of WW2 resistance movements, you won't find Romania.

[@georgios_5342]

4:12 bro not closer to the USA, he said closer to us 💀

[@Grautwok]

Regarding Operation Gunnerside: It was not a nuclear facility they sabotaged, but rather a power plant that produced nitrogen for fertilizer, that had been repurposed to produce heavy water (D2O) which was used as a fissile material.

[@teodorbalhar37]

Fun fact: sweden did infact planned to invade germany but the operation could be Launched on 1946

[@J_A]

atleast finland had a reason to collaborate with the bad guys

[@joeyrobertson9523]

They continued to support nazi germany after the ussr brokered a peace deal..

[@thatonejoey1847]

When you join the mafia to get back at the thugs that stole your car kidnapped your children and shot your dog. Was it correct? No but alliances of convenience sure are funny to see

[@thatonejoey1847]

@@J_A wut? I'm not against you, I agree with you, I just find it funny how alliances of convenience are very weird like the romans and the Persians vs the Arabs or western rome and the germanic kingdoms vs the Huns.

[@J_A]

@@thatonejoey1847 in that case, i am sorry. i read your comment just before going to bed and it seemed different to me then.

[@J_A]

@@thatonejoey1847 i understand it now though.

[@Turkeynator25]

1:46 bro just pulled a hungarian map out of a text book lmao😂

[@hyperion4510]

Oh yeah my Chemistry teacher taught us about Operation Gunnerside when we were talking about heavy water last year

[@lawden210]

6:02 Otto Von Bismarck: Drew: This german guy

[@kulkuljator]

Not only I think daily about the Roman Empire, but also about Alexander Macedonian, Julius Caesar, Hannibal Barca and Napoleon Bonaparte. They were so cool...

[@bunkerkorpf1440]

yet none of them founded any durable empire, or an empire at all (caesar didnt)

[@Pospolite-Ruszenie]

All military genius tho, also saying Caesar didn’t form the Roman Empire is true, but a technicality

[@Hallo85000]

Horses were originally native to North America and immigrated naturally to other continents. Then they died out here…

[@Lacteagalaxia]

its crazy horses introduced in North America and rest for the Spamiards lol

[@Momo_Kawashima]

I live in Rome. I HAVE TO think of the roman empire on a daily basis

[@philosotree5876]

1:09 There's a diference between cultural appropriation, and one culture adopting aspects of other cultures.

[@Darwidx]

Don't worry Drew, In Europe we aren't teached about any of catastrophes of 9 September.

[@DiegoF1ores]

0:22 probably because is not important as people think, Germany was never really close to produce their atomic bomb, Germany already lacked many materials and minerals by 1943, they invaded the USSR on 1941 to secure a good portion of resources but obviously that didn't go well

[@TheMultiVerse64]

Petition for drew to hang up the flag of Iowa on his wall (revenge for him calling Iowa Arkansas) Day 235

[@Squareptune]

Dedication

[@Sam-qp7st]

Drew irl is gonna be awesome

[@officalchanneloffrill]

1:44 A MAP IN HUNGARIAN😳😳😳

[@jakubhostinsky4482]

3:40 Everytime I eat out and there is Romerquelle water on offer, I imagine I'm the Roman warrior from the logo :-) + everytime I see a road I also think about Roman roads + everyday on the toilet or in the bathroom. Yes, you are right, everyday :-)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

But do you use a sponge on a stick or has your area already moved on to the three seashells

[@haisenbergwisnia135]

In Poland we think of The Commonwealth instead of Roman Empire

[@hunnic_warlord1771]

1:47 Hungarian map detected conversion seems to be effective for now

[@Certifiedwaterdrinker7492]

Petition for drew to make a skit with his plushies (2)

[@lawden210]

6:18 Atleast in the case of Otto Von Bismarck, it's equivalent to like a US president bashing the south, or a specific region with it's own culture unique from the rest of the country

[@Kokila_Parag_Modi]

Or for india If someone were to say "telegus are the transition between tamils and humans"

[@viper2help]

You should check what happened in Bulgarian on September 9th 1944, couldn't get worse.

[@Mr_miner12]

4:02 geogueser time. The painting is made in Lithuania, Vilnius, cathedral square.

[@markgalanter1171]

Caesar salad.... invented by a Mexican chef named Caesar Cardini in 1924....

[@andredulac4456]

well... if he was named Caesar I would bet it was after Julius Caesar, so indirectly... it is about Rome :p

[@stargazer-elite]

1:50 Not gonna lie that’s an awesome alternate history idea imma suggest it to possible history, alt history hub and a couple others

[@themrqbz]

when he was talking about jericho i thought he was talking about the jericho missile from the first iron man movie lol

[@NeverwascooL]

Today I learned my birthday is the anniversary for the start of Operation Barbarosa

[@ItalianCountryball11]

Drew, I recommend you to watch Sabaton, the history version so you can learn about the Norwegian team that blew up the factory that was storing the heavy water.

[@WKogut]

Unfortunately not all of Europe has Roman stuff, here in Poland we weren't part of the empire, but still there are classicist buildings inspired by Roman and Greek architecture.

[@Friendlyplushyadventures]

I love whenever Drew does it mean review it’s awesome😂

[@DavidLodgeclassof]

"He's probably thinking about other girls" Him: Rome. It's a true meme.

[@k.arusso5002]

5:33 How did he get it in the basement?! 😂

[@lsthero5863]

Fun fact: there were Horses in america before europeans brought them in, but they went extint.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Another amazing video and play countryball at wars

[@DefTheG]

"Somewhere in early spring" "Late February"

[@ABtheButterfly]

So the tank story is from 2021 and he was 84 meaning he would have been born in 1936 or 1937 meaning he was only 8 years old when the war ended. Makes you wonder where he got it

[@freekouwerkerk4246]

Drew: 'I dont even think you can go outside your house in certain parts of Europe without seeing, something roman' Rome ( a certain part of Europe):😂

[@jinx8624]

this felt like being at a party i wasn't invited to

[@jeffreyw901]

1:47 Unexpected Hungarian cameo

[@ZS-rw4qq]

6:30 Three vacant spots after Yugoslavia please

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It is simple Norway: fighting to the last human being Sweden: nordic Switzerland Denmark: keeps their government in power as thanks for not causing trouble Finland: fighting Russia is more important

[@NeverwascooL]

3:39 Sounds like someone needs to be taught the glory of ROME!

[@catanana]

Mauryans were married to Greek Princesses and even had Greek historians in their court