East German Rebellion 1953 - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY

[@davidwise1302]

I had a summer job in West Germany in 1974. When I reported for my first day of work, I was surprised to find the company closed for the day. Back at the Gasthaus I was told that it was a holiday commemorating a workers' uprising in East Germany. I hadn't heard of that before and now I know the story. Thanks!

[@PearComputingDevices]

I would have celebrated it too!

[@charlesphillips430]

Don't let it happen here. Run socialism out of America

[@davidwise1302]

@@charlesphillips430 Run FASCISM out of America.

[@davidwise1302]

The point of my post a year ago was that whenever we travel to another country, we are subject to their holidays even if we don't know what they are. For most travelers, that mainly causes inconveniences because things are unexpectedly closed. When my friend and I arrived in Vienna a few years ago, it was late on a Saturday -- my older experience was that shops close mid-afternoon on Saturday (except for "long Saturday"), so after getting over jet-lag most businesses were closed. On Sunday almost everything is closed (I was surprised with some grocery stores being open). Monday should have been good for shopping, but it was 01 May, May Day, an international holiday. Our arrival in the Continent was ill-timed.

[@Nathan-jh1ho]

The irony of a capitalist company commemorating a workers uprising in a socialist state

[@TheDoctorMD]

I particularly enjoy how the portraits in the backdrop change from Truman and Stalin to Eisenhower and Malenkov.

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

There was a minor rebellion in Czechoslovakia in 1953 as well. It was about currency reform. Many people were upset because they lost large amounts of money.

[@oscarromarioflorezcamargo6342]

The death of Stalin is a great dark humor movie, everyone should see it.

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

Im pretty sure comrades Malenkov, Brerija and Khrushchev would agrre with you. But really - I should watch that movie.

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

Well, um, no, problem.... I mean when i said no problem, i'm not able to see the movie legally so it become a problem Ignore me.

[@SofaKingShit]

To laugh at death is a very noble and fine thing, however to laugh at other people's deaths is generally much better. Far safer.

[@RolfHartmann]

In the movie the riots in Moscow were made up to compress the events in geography and time, the real event used to get rid of Beria was the East German uprising. Other than that almost everything from his arrest to execution were drawn from accounts from the time. Death of Stalin was one of the best comedies of the last decade, and no Soviet planes do not crash and Stalin's son does not fuck up!

[@annescholey6546]

Except the casting look nothing like the duds they were meant to portray apart from Michael Palin as Molotov.

[@csfelfoldi]

6:03 soviet leader picture ninja change in the background 😃

[@TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN]

Communism: We support the workers! Workers: We don't want Communism. Communism: Say sike right now!

[@erikkr.r.m7380]

nothing could be more true

[@dmctztv3842]

capitalism: we support democracy! vietnam: we want communism. capitalism: yeah well we dont want that for you.

[@Wickedonezz]

@@dmctztv3842 Heard of South Vietnam? And did you hear of Soviet influence

[@FrankyXG]

dmctztv that’s not fair statement the Vietnamese we’re fighting against imperialism, to them it was never about communism versus capitalism

[@HodgePodgeVids1]

Francisco Gonzalez why do people forget that South Vietnam existed and it wasn’t US vs Vietnam?

[@luisdergroe8944]

June the 17th became the national holiday of western Germany. So if someone asks how the relationship between east and west Germany were in the early days... we made their failed Revolution our national holiday...

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Really? Then we shared a national holiday. At least for a little while ;)

[@abrahamwilberforce9824]

Until it became October the 3rd.

[@TheMrownage23]

Well, that was great I guess but it did not do a thing for us in East Germany except we tried harder to find a way to escape to the West which we finally accomplished in October 1955. My mother got permission to visit her brother in West Germany who had recently been released from a Russian pow camp. My brother and I escaped next. I turned 14 in a West Berlin refugee camp, my brother was 9. My stepfather got caught but did manage to escape a week later. I don't believe any of my grandchildren would have the nerve to try this nowadays. Fear is a powerful incentive.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

No Gestapo, only Stasi...

[@oldegrunt5735]

tomato tamato

[@davidyoung2111]

Love the portrait of Napoleon, he's my favorite historical figure.

[@oldegrunt5735]

@cody sonnet wow, a powerfully worded reply like that sure showed me the error of my ways! While few historians believe the Gestapo was an unchained death machine anymore, neither do they think it was a police force overly constrained by what Germans of the time or many others in the world thought of as law as we know it. It had the power of life or death over the conquered people of Europe and while not quite as out of control as the NKVD (later the KGB) it was deadlier than the Stasi. What all of these forces shared was both an ability and willingness to use whatever means at that disposal to fulfill their 'duties'. I have researched it, apparently more than you and I am under no illusion that one was markedly better than the other. I'll assume your passion for your position causes you to forget how to at least try to convince others if you disagree w/them

[@Sturminfantrist]

@cody sonnet such a nonsense, the Gestapo was far more brutal and ruthless then the STASI, i was 3 month in a STASI prison in 1988 in Erfurt they were paraniod assholes, nitpickers , they played lil dirty games but noone was beaten or tortured there now look what happend in the Gestapo torturecellars When Gestapo and SS safeguarded jewish buisnesses in the Kristallnacht then only because the wanted the buisnesses confiscated intact

[@kaderpdi1982]

@cody sonnet they also arrested the jews and political opposition and oppressed the people like the stasi

[@hanzup4117]

Congratulations on the 100k to everyone at The Cold War channel!

[@TheColdWarTV]

Thank you :)

[@hanzup4117]

@@TheColdWarTV You're welcome :D You'll be hit 1 million in no time!

[@internetexplorer9066]

199k at the time of viewing

[@johnpayne498]

You said "they reacted like a French farmer who just found out the price of wine and baguettes is going up: they took to the streets." But actually that would benefit farmers LOL. Good video. I'm just nit-picking a metaphor.

[@blitzhill9533]

Of course not, not all farmers produce wheat. (Wine makers are not considered farmers because they produce and transform their products) even so that won't affect their income

[@11Survivor]

They're not wrong though. I'm French and I've seen people riot over a 50 cents increase.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@11Survivor Thats not a bad mindset though it might be a little exageration with the 50 cent,the goverment needs to be kept in check to provide or a more appropiate term would be surrender better standards of living. You should be proud of the yellow vests protests,here they dont protest or atleast not enough for major things.

[@robertfeinberg748]

And when the French do it, they burn cars. The French hate cars.

[@11Survivor]

@@mojewjewjew4420 the yellow vest protests were for the dumbest fucking reason. I'm not particularly proud of people who don't think about the environment and decide to riot over a small tax on petrol designed to make people use public and environmentally friendly transports. Then when the government revoked the tax, they kept protesting just because why the fuck wouldn't we stop inconveniencing everyone? A sensible protest is good, but violent protests just because "boohoo they increased gas prices to promote eco-friendly energy" is a pretty bad goal. And before you say it was everyone in France, nah man, it was only 5% of the population according to surveys.

[@oldegrunt5735]

Interesting to see even in the DDR revolt, some Soviet troops either sided w/the Germans or refused to take part in the actions against them. The same thing happened on a large scale in Hungary but there more than a few Soviet troops actively aided the people in revolt. Did that also happen in the crushing of the Czechs or other eastern Europeans later?

[@benedeknagy8497]

No only some Soviet troops, but even North Korean students supported the Hungarian revolt. Many of them were veterans of the Korean war, and their experience with small arms and urban warfare was key in organizing the resistance. hungarytoday.hu/unlikely-alliance-north-koreans-and-hungarians-teamed-up-to-fight-communism-in-1956/

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

I am surprised that the West was blind to these opportunities! But then again, Moscow was using it's agents in the West to paint a rosy picture of "cooperation" amongst the unwilling subjects of the Soviet slave Empire.

[@antonindanek9294]

Given the misinformation they were fed, the soldiers of different nationalities and origins that made up the invasion force in 1968, had NO idea of what events were transpiring during the 1960s and especially in 1968 in the whole of Czechoslovakia. So no, no sympathy nor empathy from the occupants in 1968.

[@benjaminalbright4003]

From what I had heard, in the case of Prague, the Soviet soldiers were told that they were helping the government put down a counter revolution

[@George_M_]

The Death of Stalin movie really is great - it's a farce ofc, but it depicts the subtext of what was really happening very accurately, just exaggerated for comedy. Also, those Soviet troops executed for refusing to attack the protesters deserve to be remembered.

[@matheusvillela9150]

No It doesn't. Even if we ignore the historical innacuracies for the sake of satire, in 1953 the purges were long gone, with the last being in 1941.

[@answerman9933]

@@matheusvillela9150 So the Doctors' Plot, which was being was dismssed by Beria after Stalin's death, was in 1941?

[@matheusvillela9150]

@@answerman9933 No one was killed over the Doctor Plot and Stalin was never really convinced by it. 37 people were arrested over 5 years, yet the movie makes it seem like political enemies were being killed left and right in 1953. They weren't.

[@matheusvillela9150]

@@answerman9933 Like, imagine russians made a movie about JFK and depicted America as if there was still a depression going on and the segregation was as bad as in the 20's and 30s. Would you say that is a valid "poetic license"?

[@answerman9933]

@@matheusvillela9150 I never said anything about poetic license. I only brought up the Doctor's Plot of the 1950's because you suggested that such persecutions had stopped in 1941. Even many Soviet soldiers who became prisoners of the Germans in WWII were persecuted for surrendering.

[@TXnine7nine]

2:32 If you are going to call East Germany “DDR” (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) then the correct initials for West Germany would be “BRD” (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) or “DBR” (Deutsche Bundesrepublik). “FDR” was not a term used to refer to the West German state. “FRG” was and still is an acceptable term but that was an english initialism for “Federal Republic of Germany”.

[@jimjones1130]

I traveled east Germany with my swiss college for a week in -82. We went to Erfurt, Weimar Jena and Berlin. It was fantastic, they set us up with the freie Deutsche jugend whom we spent two days with at a youth festival in Weimar.

[@YukimuraSanadaEmpires]

Such a weird map at 2:24 pointing out such grand cities like Mühlacker, Eilenburg, Bad Düben and Krefeld??? Just weird

[@MrGrevanar]

Also, East-Berlin shown as smaller than West-Berlin...

[@skamazbg5675]

Please make a video about the armies of the socialist countries like Bulgarian army,Polish army,Hungarian army,Romanian army,East German army and Chechoslovakian army.

[@meganoobbg3387]

You know the story bruh. Elhovo, Grudovo, Zvezdec, also known as "the triangle of death." Thats where war with NATO was most likely to start.

[@skamazbg5675]

@@meganoobbg3387 Wasn't it in 1962 in the Cubian missile crisis.

[@meganoobbg3387]

Missles cant say "Твойта мама" on the border thou.

[@davidyoung2111]

Oh man good point I would love to see those videos.

[@skamazbg5675]

@@davidyoung2111 me too especially since I am from 1 of them. It will be interesting because in my country we had a army that was the strongest on the Balkans and army that was so strong that half of the European countries didn't stand a chance. Now we are one of the weakest armies in Europe and a colony of the US.

[@danielwolfgang8234]

Between 2000 and 2400 facilities of all types of industry as well as 11.800 km of railway lines were dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union between 1946 to 1953. You have also forgotten to mention that the estimated value of $14 Billion Dollars was by currency standard of the Dollar from 1938. Considering the inflation from 1938 to 2020 this sum would be much higher by todays currency standard. Otherwise a very good video. Keep up the great Work!

[@Septimus_ii]

It sounds like the DDR in a good position to be the most prosperous part of the whole Eastern Bloc, providing consumer goods to countries with underdeveloped consumer goods production, and taking advantage of well developed raw materials and industrial goods production. It was only the directives from Moscow that prevented this potential from being realised.

[@jmw-be6fl]

Also consider that the West embargoed the DDR and actually didn't even recognize it at first.

[@jurisprudens]

Well, DDR becoming too prosperous was exactly against the interests of the rest of the Eastern Block. And against the interests of socialism: growth was seen a more important than consumer satisfaction.

[@Mark-yy2py]

Sooner or later, the DDR would have ran out of gas. Socialism is incompatible with economic progress.

[@kasugaryuichi9767]

Communist bandits are going to communist bandit

[@HELESPONTify]

Buy ticket and go ex Socialist Europe country, and speak with People, Surprise, many wants Socialisam back

[@Game_Hero]

Love the show! I don't know if you guys read comments in this five-days old video, but as a college student that will soon graduate with a degree in history and civilization, the amount of efforts deployed in the research, stock footage/pictures and in the variety of presented events (including many unheard or in less-looked parts of the world) makes me admire the professionalism and overall quality of this series. I'm wondering if you could make episodes during the 40s-early 60s era (the time period you're set for right now from what I've seen) based on these suggestions because they would make awesome episodes: -Many episodes about Canada in the late 40s and 50s . Contrary to popular belief, Canada played a crucial role in the Cold War and the post WW2 period is fascinating as the country itself changed direction in how it organized itself after demobilizing enrolled soldiers and changing the war economy to a peacetime one. This led to the country affirming itself on the international stage in a way never seen before at the risk of colder relations with the United States (especially under the rule of prime minister John George Diefenbaker who frankly deserves a video of his own). Not only did Diefenbaker played a crually understated role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he also was one the masterminds behind the creation of NORAD, the DEW line, the Pinetree Line, the cancellor of the Avro Canadian Jet program as well as the construction of Emergency retreat locations for the government in case of a nuclear war (nickamed «Diefenbunkers»). Many Soviet spies where caught or defected in Canada due to its proximity to the United States inside and outside the war and also due to its more diplomatic stance during the conflict. The premier of the Quebec province at the time, Maurice Duplessis, was an ultraconservative elected authoritarian ruler who hated communism to the bone to the point of brutally repressing journalism, modern art movements, critics of the strong catholic church grip who controlled the province in almost all domains at that time, as well as syndicates and workers on strike. His death in 1960 and the opposition to his iron fist traditionalist rule led to the rise of Quebec nationalism (and later independance mouvement) following the Quiet Revolution that led to the secularization and international openness of the isolationist province. This is important to the Cold War as Duplessis and those that followed him started accentuating a political gap between Quebec and the rest of Canada that would lead to the 1980 independence referendum and the October Crisis (one of the least talked Cold War moments) where a terrorist communist group named FLQ took hostage the British diplomat and a legal representative, leading to the Canadian army taking fully control of Montreal and arresting any suspected sympathizer on sight without trial in a totalitarian manner. And that's not all (the World Fair 67 having both a Soviet and an American pavilions facing each other near the US border in Montreal, many curious americans having a first glance at the soviet life there)! -An episode about the 40s--60s World Fairs when they were cultural battlegrounds for the Cold War. -The french fourth republic and the postwar France under De Gaulle. -Post WW2 Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg episode(s). -Post WW2 Fascist Spain and Portugal that survived WW2. -Postwar Italy (that will be exiting to see post-Mussolini's, post-monarchy's Italy) -Postwar Austria (there was a movie at the time talking about the social consequences of allies occupation and control of Austria, they even projected the start of de facto independance negociations only beginning in...2000) -And finally, an episode about the Cold War's influence on popular culture during the 40s and 50s episode. It's crazy how it affected television, cinema and others. Albert Weinberg, comic book author, had such a close relationship with the Canadian military for his comic book series Dan Cooper (wich truly reflected the Cold War cultural influence on its own) that he could visit and photograph at will top secret military bases and planes to help him make its universe realistic-looking. They had to put blankets on top of too much top-secret computers in the control rooms by fear of soviets agents reading the comics in search of secret technology leaks XD Thank you for reading this comment! I hope you will one day cover all these topics if you didn't already cover them. Would love to hear what you think! Anyway I'm very excited about the episodes to come! Good job!

[@bordersonbudgets]

This is the most detailed KZbin Comment I've ever read. Riveting! And I have never made all the connections to Canada during the Cold War. Who says "we" don't have sexy history? Permit me to share my 10-minute condensed version of the Cold War, from a museum in Berlin. Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZ7SmYqcg92Vjac

[@davidfinley6708]

Stop trying to polish a turd 💩. If Canada was that great it’d be a state.

[@Game_Hero]

@@davidfinley6708 Canada is a turd, you got that right. They had a great role in the Cold War however and videos would be interesting. Also, don't confuse Canada with Québec, it's very different.

[@apalahartisebuahnama7684]

In Russia : "Oh My God, our General Secretary is lying in a puddle of indignity" In Germany : *"Achtung Mobilisieren!!!"*

[@northernlegolas]

I love the end music, it makes each video very epic and dramatic at the same time.

[@LukeNasti]

KEEP THIS UP YOUR VIDEOS ARE INCREDIBLE AND BELOVED!!!!!!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Underrated event. Thank you for covering it!

[@leventkandemir1686]

portraits of leaders changed half way thorught the show nice touch keep up the great work

[@LAM_AUT_ECU]

I first learned about this during my first visit to a still divided Berlin as a teenager in 1983 and upon pondering this strange street name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straße_des_17._Juni

[@nikeayuiop]

6:04 Stalin portrait faints

[@cthoadmin7458]

Strange that for another 8 years after this, you could simply walk into the western sector of Berlin to escape. It's a testament to the courage of the east berlin, and for that matter east german people that they didn't all go. Suspect I wouldn't have had their courage, being worked like a slave, then being met by russian tanks would have been enough for me to get the hell out of Dodge.

[@Preuen-zs1fz]

8:25 that dude ain't havin a great time

[@Kabutoes]

Quỳnh Lưu uprising in North Vietnam 1956 would be an interesting topic

[@stg4434]

did you mention main reason of East German uprising??? stalin ordered to shot 200 east German workers for strike,, and this was moment of explosion of uprising. also workers was forced to work 70 hours a week . and next when soviets enter the streets of German cities , and begin to shoot the demonstrates , 18 soviet soldiers refuse to shoot innocent demonstrations. and NKVD shot them in spot.

[@user-pf3kv4bv5s]

Stalin was dead in those days And the NKVD has not existed since 1946

[@ulteamracing1]

Great work by the channel, always a pleasure to watch!

[@Ivan_StandWithUkraine]

So, no that many countries occupied by Soviets favored Socialist paradise, and preferred to escape to the "rotten West" as it was often referred in USSR :)

[@csm5040]

Are you Russian?

[@kasugaryuichi9767]

Who wouldn't? People who live under communist bandits don't like it usually.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

In Venezuela we had massive protests in 2015 and 2017, crushed by the Bolivarian National Guard and goverment armed civilians (the "colectivos"). With the economic collapsed resulting of massive confiscations, price controls and draconian regulations, scarsity and inflation became ever present by 2013, high oil prices had allowed the regime to mask the collapse of internal production with imports but the predatory corruption that devoured the national oil industry plus the downfall trend of oil prices meant that the ruse was over and chavismo's economic crimes emerged. The sanctions are not the cause just more fuel for the fire.

[@frankdenardo8684]

It happened on June 17th 1953. A street is called Strasse 17 Juni

[@dolabanerjee8825]

Please make a video on the Naxalbari Movement a Maoist movement in India which shook the government.

[@elemperadordemexico]

It's still going on

[@dolabanerjee8825]

Yes , Kaiser it's still going on but it's been defeated by the government forces.It exists only in some pockets.

[@Torus2112]

I'm assuming not many jurisdictions in the Eastern Bloc had a ready made consumer goods industry, seems like the best thing to do would have been to switch the inputs to Soviet sources and make East Germany the consumer goods producer for the whole bloc.

[@jurisprudens]

The whole point of economy in the Eastern block was growth above everything. "More steel for the sake of more coal, more coal for the sake of more steel, etc". According to Marx, capitalism creates artificial demand for the luxurious goods which the people do not really need - e.g., people buy bourgeois clothing and furniture for the sake of prestige, to look like bourgeois. This was the deficiency to be rid of under socialism. Thus, under socialism, the consumer sector was tasked mostly with producing bare necessities. Even when they started producing TV sets, vacuum cleaners, etc, this was always done as a secondary function by the plants, the primary function of which was to switch to military equipment production when the war comes.

[@CB-py1xh]

The 17th of June was in commemoration of the uprising our Western German national holiday until reunification.

[@mikhailv67tv]

Who else thinks that upto 125 is way to small an estimate of deaths..?

[@mojewjewjew4420]

They are communist estimates after all....

[@britisheastindiacompany6031]

Da. In Soviet Russia you don't call death until the number reaches 5 digits. Like "40,000" or "70,000" I believe you get the idea.

[@csm5040]

@@britisheastindiacompany6031 Wrong. In Soviet Russia, one diseased person is a death. 40 000 or more is just a statistic. According to uncle Stalin

[@familyandfriends3519]

@@mojewjewjew4420 good riddance 🇺🇲🤜🇩🇪

[@MyLateralThawts]

A mere 8 years after the war and everyone forgot how to make Molotov cocktails.

[@genesorianoautor3973]

Hi David. I'd like to see more about those radio broadcasts from Western Nations into Warsas Pact ones. That sounds like fodder for some juicy stories.

[@jurisprudens]

Yeah, the "Voice of America" and "Radio Liberty" were being constantly jammed.

[@Daruliable]

Great video guys

[@lovablesnowman]

Why and how haven't I heard of this before?

[@jangelbrich7056]

Because it is too long ago and it was not in Your country maybe? I realize the same thing for myself many times I see history documentation on KZbin and other channels. History at school sux ever since.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@jangelbrich7056 It doesnt suck,that would require it to be accidental but its quite intentional because they cant have you thinking straight through their propaganda and corruption. A stupid man is easier to manipulate right?

[@mixererunio1757]

So Poznań Uprising next?

[@philipcunningham4125]

At the train station in east Berlin after the wall went up, the soviets put up a barrier resembling the Berlin Wall itself. As Soviet troops mustered through the train station they had opportunity to climb over the what they thought was the “Berlin Wall”. The soldiers that made a run for it went over the wall and were arrested immediately. 😢 -Soldier, Berlin Brigade ‘79

[@andrewbarron7690]

Thanks,I had never heard of these events.

[@niahma3494]

Hi David, when you said DDR paid 14 billion, I had no frame of reference. So that bit of info meant nothing to me. Maybe we could get a comparison of what that can do during that time?

[@maarten9272]

I assume that was in us dollars. Which is something like 100-200 billion dollars now.

[@VisibilityFoggy]

For a relatively small country of 51 million people who had just lost a war and had their infrastructure destroyed, this was absolutely devastating. Stalin was truly a vicious pig of a man.

[@matheusvillela9150]

@@VisibilityFoggy That's pocket change compared to how the IMF and World Bank destroy whole nations with debt

[@sunnyinfinite]

6:04 Did anyone note the change of portrait from Stalin to Malenkov.

[@hanro7430]

Lol i just did

[@thomasmarren2354]

I like how the pictures changed from Truman to Eiesnhower and Stalin to the other guy. Next it will be JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan for USA and Khusinev and Gorbachov for USSR, right? Sorry for misspelling the Russian names.

[@adiebob4632]

"We've defeated the wrong enemy" - Genaral George S. Patton

[@jesseberg3271]

Paton was always a brilliant tactician but a poor strategist. That's why he could never measure up to Eisenhower. The Soviets were relatively easy to contain, all things considered, and eventually collapsed under the weight of their own flawed economic system. The NAZIs proved impossible to contain, and they basically followed the same economic system we did. Allying with the Soviets to stop the NAZIs, and then containing them afterwards was clearly the best solution available.

[@kuwait_grips1312]

Ok fascist sympathizer

[@andrewphuck9795]

I wouldn't necessarily call myself a "fan" of the cold war era 😂

[@granskare]

I flew to west Berlin, landing at Templehof. I recall the odd elevators in which one would get on an elevator that was hinged on the center and we just got on and hopped of the thing.

[@matts.179]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKCWd5aVrqxmppI

[@mecha7419]

Make a video about stalins death and succession

[@Og_Phrank]

He doesn't take a drink for the entire episdode

[@edmundgerald9627]

Nice clearly explained history video

[@Zadrigo]

Its so funny to read (mostly American, I suppose) comments how this wouldn't have happened if citizens were armed, as if that would stop Soviet army. Also, only several years prior to this event, every single man, woman, old man and child were armed, and that didn't stop Soviets from taking Berlin in 1945, remember?

[@Dave_Sisson]

There is almost no support for allowing guns in any country where they are illegal. In a Australia guns were banned by a centre-right government in 1996 following an "American style" massacre. Today that is viewed as one of the greatest actions by any government to improve public safety and living standards since the Second World War.

[@Zadrigo]

@Manley Nelson Man, you are mistaking demonstrations in capitalist societies vs demonstrations in communist societies, so you think those things could just happen because whatever. Communists never surrender without the fight and they are extremely self-confident regarding the might and being right. 20.000 people is nothing to them, especially since we are speaking about East Germany soon after the end of WW2. Who would support that rogue movement even if it managed somehow to thwart those in power? And can you imagine the reaction of the Soviets? The only imaginable thing is they would come with full scale army/invasion and kill the protesters to the last. And then they would proceed to capture their friends, family members, coworkers, everybody with the slightest connection to the protesters, and send them to Siberia, and they would require very little evidence. You know, like what Americans did to Japanese Americans during WW2. And if you think "what if they had guns to shoot at the government" just look at the Uyghurs today and what they have to endure because a small portion of them took up arms against China during Arab Spring. What happens now is the consequence of them shooting at government, not the other way around.

[@varana]

@Manley Nelson What would have happened had the people have guns? Thousands dead. The Soviet army had just conquered Germany. The idea that people with guns could have withstood them, is utterly ridiculous. As ridiculous as having a rifle in your closet will allow you to resist the American military...

[@TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN]

You're cherry picking. Not "Every single man, woman, old man and child" were "armed" the Wehrmacht tried to press a great many into service many however fled. And still then the will of the people (Germans) at that point had been broken most didn't have the "fighting spirit" left after years of bombing and warring. Look at the American Revolution. A small highly motivated forced threw out the largest Empire. And when you talking about the War of 1812 depending on whos history you want to hear is who won. BUT its undeniable that America cemented its self an a sovereign nation, against the mightiest Empire in the world. Then you have the Estonian War of Independence. Same thing, a band of small, highly motivated forced were able to defeat a much larger enemy and cement there selves as a sovereign nation. Same with Poland, Same in Vietnam, same in Afghanistan during the 80's and today to a lesser extent. Then you have the Irish War of Independence, and The Texas War of Independence.

[@varana]

@Manley Nelson I was born and raised in East Germany. So while I certainly don't harbour any love for its government, I will certainly not be lectured by random morons about a topic they don't have a fucking clue about. Please do yourself a favour and actually learn about these places, instead of assuming stuff. And please let the people living in countries like that to decide for themselves what is an "honourable sacrifice" and what not. Because they're the ones dying and losing families and friends, and not you keyboard revolutionaries sitting safely in your basement. Second, there was no armed German military at the time that could have been overwhelmed by the protesters. The East German government had to ask the Soviets to interven precisely because they didn't have the forces to do it themselves. Your sentence "they were able without guns only 20,000 people to overpower the police and the military that day" makes absolutely no sense. Again, go read something to educate yourself. You need it.

[@johnsnowkumar359]

Marshall and Truman had difference of opinion. Marshall knew that he was of European national origin, and wanted to feed Europeans, even if the Soviets had already been feeding Germany for over three years since May 1945. Marshall used to think that nearly everyone in the western hemisphere including America was of European national origin. Truman wanted tAmerican food and aid to go to both Germany and Japan. Marshall felt that American aid should only go to people of European national origin. This was why Marshall wanted to feed Berlin and Sweden, as he felt that they were racial brothers, unlike Africans and Asians.Marshall never wanted aid to go to Africans and Asians, as he felt that he waas of European national origin.. By the time the blockade had started, in 1949, the Soviet Union had already been feeding the local population of Berlin for nearly four years and re construction of Berlin in all zones had begun, including in the Soviet zone. East German construction workers were to be paid in East German marks, said east German officials who were aligned with the Soviets. Germany had surrendered in may 1945. Even Germans were dancing ballroom dances with Soviet officers in town halls and on the streets and in town in many towns except Berlin. It becomes the duty of the ruling party or ideology or country to feed the local population: There were atleast a couple of incidents which made the key decision makers to never re- start a war or think in those lines: Some historical documentary of the Berlin blockade in black& white that I had seen in the Boston area in about 1987 either in the history channel or National geographic or a similar channel in the late 1980's clarified that : 1) The Soviets were Distributing a Soviet new food stamps in order to alleviate hidden hunger to quickly distribute food among the the hungry residents of Berlin. The Russian leadership claimed that with this new food stamp program they introduce will win the hearts and minds of the Germans in Berlin. Western officials allowed in requested the Berliners to turn down the food stamps even if they go hungry, as Berliners may be possibly be brainwashed into thinking that communism is a good concept.

[@matiasd5216]

Awesome video. No, i'd never heard of this riots before. The closest story I can tell is that of the movie "The silent revolution".

[@owlman6240]

Please make videos of the cold war and african liberation wars

[@parkercushingable]

@3:41 I'm not making excuses for gdr, but thanks for reminding everyone that GDR actually paid their war reparations while the west just collected that sweet sweet Marshal money. Not to say there weren't other problems but yes, it was neither as bad nor as good as people are taught. GDR is largely considered one of the best socialist states to have existed.

[@TheWilferch]

@Parker Cushing.....Having had relatives in post-war East Germany, ( and other relatives throughout the WWII period too, for comparison)...and also having visited East Germany prior to 1989.....that is damning with faint praise. Spoken from personal and direct relative perspecive.....East Germany was nothing to write home about.

[@werdw4849]

Just hit 200k :) woot. Great Channel!!

[@deanbuss1678]

Ahh, if only we had smart phones back then.

[@donovandownes5064]

2:16 who decided on which cities to put on this map??

[@adamfrazer5150]

Death of Stalin, one of the best films and loaded with satire and wit. Iannucci strikes again !

[@granskare]

Angela Merkel was in the DDR in a far corner of the DDR with a chemical engineering degree. We traveled by train in the 1970's I believe. We traveled thru the DDR to Czechslovakia. We were on the Vindobana, so we left at Dresden, and got on the next train to Prague (which was a communist).

[@kevlarburrito6693]

Am I just going crazy or is his head slightly elevated so that he's looking down ever so slightly?

[@shashikantdhusia692]

appreciable work on post war history horay

[@colinreisser4568]

2:35 - "FDR and DDR" - you're looking for either BRD (German language equivalent to DDR, Bundesrepublik Deutschland) or FRG (Federal Republic of Germany). FDR is a president, not a country 🙂

[@justsomeguy3931]

"The Death of Stalin" has been added to my watch list, thanks. Red Son is my favorite Super Man comic, because of the points it proves. 12 hours later, the pod falls on a collective farm in the Ukraine instead! History goes differently. Great work, as always

[@TheColdWarTV]

Thank you

[@victorcabanelas]

"Red Son"'s the only comicbook I really like from Millar. And "The Death Of Stalin"'s an amazing movie.

[@kurzeful]

Although I admire the Soviet Union and miss them so much, I believe they were too heavy-handed when dealing with the Eastern block countries. Some of their policies were too harsh and caused suffering in those countries. I think they could have done better. But the USSR was the only country that fascinated me then and now. Regret they had to break due to stupid Gorbachev and his naive policies. Opinion from a Caribbean national.

[@deprogramm]

Lmao

[@M.5543.F]

I have one question to you, do you like human rights?

[@kurzeful]

@@M.5543.F of course I do. When Iraq, a sovereign country thst was invaded by the two biggest bullies and dictators of the 20th century, I let my voice be heard in my country with protests. Their citizens were subjected to human rights abuse and many of them died. When my beloved Caribbean country was destabilized, sanctioned, threatened of invasion, and guns flooded my country with consequential violence from the biggest bully of the 20th century in North America, I was upset. My country was the richest English speaking Caribbean country for 200 years, until thst country caused mischief for us and we lost our spot. 40 years after we are still reeling from the abuse and disrespect of our human rights. When a small Caribbean country, called Grenada, was invaded by the biggest bully of the 20th century in north America, I was outraged because human rights was not respected nor their sovereignty. So from a English speaking Caribbean native, we all do respect human rights, sovereignty and non interference into political affairs of other nations and democracy and capitalism is not for everyone and dont force down the throat of others who dont agree with you. Same question to you, rude bwoi!!

[@ShinobiHOG]

I'm interested in hearing more about the stasi.....

[@ramiusrosin8363]

Watch " The lives of others ". Very good movie about them.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

In Soviet Germany STASI HEARS ABOUT YOU

[@wtfbuddy1]

Nice video David - you would have loved visiting West Germany.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

Brave East Germans! Tragically West Germany did little to boost the living standards of the East after unification. Makes one wonder if the USSR suffered from revolts which were quickly shushed up by the Communists.

[@kasugaryuichi9767]

They certainly did and this channel has a few videos about them. Communist bandits are always the same...

[@farhanrahman7119]

High quality content,I like it

[@Scurge237]

imagine those soviet soldiers who didn't want to put down the riot "Seems like a German problem."

[@SomasAcademy]

There's something really beautiful about the working class rising up against their labor value being exploited by the USSR.

[@varana]

And about forming revolutionary workers' committees in a revolution against the Party claiming to represent the revolutionary working class.

[@capriracer351]

10:02. "The protesters, unarmed, stood no chance. It's estimated that anywhere between 55 and 125 people were killed as the protests were forcibly put down". Remember that quote, citizens of the USA, as you slowly allow your Government to take away your 2nd amendment rights.

[@DeHerg]

Armed citizenry of little East Germany against the Soviet Union, sure that would've turned out well.

[@capriracer351]

@@DeHerg Seemed to work out pretty well for little North Vietnam and also little Afghanistan against the U.S..

[@DeHerg]

@@capriracer351 Because the US had to take their elections at home into account and could therefor neither go full genocide nor accept more than minimal losses. The Soviet union 1953 had no such compunctions. Also Vietnam fails at a comparison because there the US couldn't(in full force) get too close to the Chinese border without risking another Korea, which hampered their options.

[@KofteG61]

@@capriracer351 Yeah because Afghanistan is such a good place now, that will totally not be a mess for the coming 50 years.

[@mathiasbartl9393]

Hungary '56

[@glsapp23]

wouldn't a french farmer want the price of baguettes and wine to go up????

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Gerald yeah but if they go up less people will buy them

[@glsapp23]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 well wine perhaps. But grain?

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Gerald clearly they didn’t think that joke through

[@XxLIVRAxX]

It's about an optimun, sufficiently attractive to both produces and consumes, of course that's an ideal and the optimun is in a permanent flux

[@steveelmes9273]

3 How about something on the Polish revolts?

[@csm5040]

You are Polish?

[@RapidSteve]

Please do a video talking about beria and his fate

[@Mr.Nichan]

8:03 That's a weird analogy, because French FARMERS would make more money if wine and bread got more expensive.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Well played with the Soviet portrait morph.

[@fabianherrmann6398]

The events are know in german as "Volksaufstand in der DDR"- people's uprising. I was born in Magdeburg in 1986, still live here, and there is monument at one of the major cemeteries with all the names of the protesters killed in the city. There are a lot. To this day they hold a ceremony at June 17th to remember them. Here is a nice multimedia project about the events in the GDR: 17juni1953live.wordpress.com/for-english-speakers/

[@thomasophiagoldap]

Through the history of humanity, people fought for freedom, not because their oppressors was weak, but for their honor. Stalin success to conquer so many european countries after the WWII, would be not possible, without total terror combined with communist sympathizers. Propaganda machine as 'workers paradise liberators' and recruitment to 5th column secret service in form of Stasi was very similar in Poland, Hungary and Chechoslovakia. In exchange for their service lowlife trators received from Moscow power to manage the country until 'Gorbi perestroika'. Solidarity from Poland.

[@GenghisVern]

never heard of this. wow

[@petercole8798]

Vids are great ...

[@DanMcLeodNeptuneUK]

The Death of Stalin (The Movie) is highly underrated! I agree, it is very worth watching! It even really pissed off the current Russian government! (the humourless buggers)

[@juleslandry7585]

Hello, Ideas about Future video (Suggestions): Algerian Independence War, Cyprus crisis, United Kingdom Nuclear Weapons Programm, 1948 Italian elections, Austria in Cold War.

[@11Survivor]

Algerian War = Demonetised.

[@juleslandry7585]

@@11Survivor strange, even in France we use to speak more freely about this bloody and shameful war.

[@11Survivor]

@@juleslandry7585 used to, being the key words.

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@11Survivor What changed?

[@11Survivor]

@@mojewjewjew4420 KZbin.

[@willhelmberkly3025]

Not even communists can do communism right. If I had been there...

[@onlyhereformoney175]

well, the only reason the USSR fell was because of Gorbachev, he was a capitalist.

[@annescholey6546]

They called Ulbricht the Grey Fox.

[@davidyoung2111]

I love your show, but I'm stunned that you never once mentioned that the main reason West Germany was superior to the East was CAPITALISM. It's a far more better economic system then Communism or Socialism. Just the fact that there's competition in a free market. Even China had to dump the economic version of it. Your show is AWSOME and Kings & Generals Rule too.

[@quisqueyanguy120]

@@joek600 Even the regulated german market is a better alternative that the cancer that is the "marxist-leninst dictatorship of the proletariat" or whatever the fuck the communists want to call their commie forms of government and economical organization.

[@markschoning5581]

joe k Bullshit!

[@onlyhereformoney175]

maybe it was because that's a very, very biased way of putting it.

[@hanro7430]

Lol look at stalins portrait at 06:05

[@unityostara6380]

Not east Germany, central Germany. East Germany got given to Poland.

[@kimchan6887]

Blame everything on USSR which is an evil empire

[@onlyhereformoney175]

what

[@Brian-zo1ll]

"just cant make some people happy", he says.

[@enesakhan4032]

can you make a video about Kardak crisis between Turkey and Greece ...well its not really have anything to do with cold war but its an interesting content

[@kostis2849]

"Kardak" ?

[@enesakhan4032]

@@kostis2849 its greek name should be imia i believe (not sure tho wikipedia says that)

[@kostis2849]

@@enesakhan4032 Correct!

[@giojacycadalzo752]

When did the portrait of the US leader change from Truman to Eisenhower?

[@kaderpdi1982]

Because succession

[@qwerty9035]

the 14 billion dollar estimated amount of payment on which year is about?

[@LtHavoc1983]

One of my Uncles was a police officer in Berlin around the time of the East German Uprising, he was stationed in East Berlin and from what I am told, he was ordered to shoot at the Demonstrators and refused. He later quit and move to West Germany.

[@KristerAndersson-nc8zo]

his name was Ulbricht not Ulbrecht.

[@OkamiiSenpai]

When your whole trash ideology is based around the worker revolting and taking power but the worker revolts against you

[@derrickbonsell]

Communists: "Power to the workers! Death to the Bourgeois!" Also Communists: "Do more work for less wages to own the Capitalists!"