Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1916-17

1,5 years into the Great War Russia began to suffer from increased war exhaustion. In 1916 it mobilized all of its resources to launch an offensive to end the war before it was crippled from war weariness.
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Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918
Österreich-Ungarns letzter Krieg 1914 - 1918
"Брусиловски: прорыв. Кампания 1916" - Нелипович С.Г.
""… Фронт сплошных митингов". Обобщённые архивные данные об июньском наступлении 1917 года войск Юго-Западного фронта." Нелипович С. Г.
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[@KonstantinValentix]

Surely that Lenin guy will make peace asap.

[@ChobeVelyasha]

Even though o didnt like it still Ussr is the best and Lenin and Stalin too best leaders for Russua

[@KonstantinValentix]

@@ChobeVelyasha Are you high?

[@ChobeVelyasha]

​@@KonstantinValentixwhy would you said that

[@KonstantinValentix]

@@ChobeVelyasha Stalin was one of the worst humans to have ever existed.

[@ChobeVelyasha]

@@KonstantinValentix he was the best ruler for Russia,It would be cool if we had another one that will bring us the land,well we have Putin but its not quite the same

[@AdrianDeer]

Meanwhile on the video of the Western Front.. "Look at the millimeter moving there.. and there.. wow.. such gains in one year" :O

[@anderskorsback4104]

"As a result of this successful offensive, General Haig was able to move his drinks cabinet five feet closer to Berlin".

[@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334]

seriously why didnt the front move

[@againsttheleftandright4065]

@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Large number of troops per mile of front line, more machine guns and artillery, more trenches. Also, mountain terrain in Eastern France.

[@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334]

@@againsttheleftandright4065 then why was ww2 so mobile they had all the things ww1 had was it the vehicles that mad war mobile again

[@againsttheleftandright4065]

@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 World War Two saw the rapid advancement of low-echelon radio communication, mobile armored vehicles, pure motorized combat units, and accurate close air support. It was simply easier to get thousands of troops to a breakthrough location, and support them with trucks, tanks, and aircraft. This benefitted Germany, which had a numerical superiority in troops and aircraft over France. When we look at other parts of World War Two, such as in 1939 Poland or 1944 Italy, many of the issues of World War One are still apparent.

[@josefrietveld219]

Very informative, easy to understand, love your frontline-approach. Greetings from vienna. On 21th of November 1916 Franz Joseph I., emperor of austria, apost. king of hungary, passed away. He sat on the throne for more than 67 years. A grace of god spared him from seeing his realm rammed to wreck.

[@ShadowDragon1848]

Yeah really poor guy 😂😂😂

[@chissstardestroyer]

Yeah, that's what happens when your country adheres to arisocracy and monarchy: it gets badly dismantled and overrun, as inevitably will happen; Franz Joseph's heir, as it turned out, tried to surrender to Wilson, but relying on the idiocy of "divine right' really did it: that alone ended his ability to keep *any* holdings and ensured the near-total-demise and complete wrecking of his country. What the Hapsburgs' domains were rightly subjected to way exceeds that of which Germany was subjected to, the reason for this really amounts to the views and history of the Hapsburg empire, which was really the HRE evolved, that emphasis on God's vicar having a close connection *alone* was a justified major cause of its complete total and utter demise; this's not jealousy nor envy at all- it is simple and something far wiser: the complete, total, and utter demise of anything derived from "above" and all that biblical nonsense of how to structure a government!

[@poneyenshort9616]

"his realm" => the prisons of the people of central europe, the dissolution of this abomination was one the greatest outcome of the first world war.

[@ShadowDragon1848]

@@poneyenshort9616 The good thing is, KZbin and similar online locations are the only places where an monarchist can get 98 likes.

[@josefrietveld219]

Sorry, i‘am neither a monarchist nor a catholic. Just a older human being that isn‘t that harsh in his historical judgements.

[@wotevert4679]

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[@jasperedwards7029]

Babe wake up it’s another bot comment

[@wotevert4679]

@@jasperedwards7029 im not a bot

[@jasperedwards7029]

@@wotevert4679 Then why did you copy and paste this comment?

[@wotevert4679]

@@jasperedwards7029 because I like it when eastory uploads?

[@FirstLast_Nba]

Fantastic, I'm sure the research and analysis was exhausting, so well done, and we can't wait to see and hear in more detail how the fronts of the red terror moved back fore in the hell that was the soviet takeover of the poor Russian and "Stan" people.

[@ChobeVelyasha]

Shot video bias against Russia in brusilov enemy lost way more than Russia

[@Precutlion.9]

Why does it says it's been commented 15 hours ago?

[@martinnemeth6909]

you'll find that all factions of the russian civil war comitted atrocities and terror on a large scale, not just the reds...

[@thecommunistparty1917]

​@@ChobeVelyasha Casualties-wise both sides lose about the same including dead, injured and PoWs

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[@janrolka557]

It always amazes me how forgotten the Brusilov Offenisive is. It was literally the bloodiest battle of WW1 with over 2 milion casualties on both sides. The only other battles that are comparable in this respect are: Kaiserschlacht Offensive, Moscow, Rzhev, Leningrad and Stalingrad. It's also fascinating from a millitary point of view. The Russians used tactics that revolutionized the battlefield. It also creates great opprotunities for what if scenarios. This offenisve could have failed completely as many other russian offensive in the Great War. Is such scenario Russia may have collapsed sooner with grim consequences for the Entente. It also could have succeeded and gave Russia a complete victory in the war. Unfortunately, it is really hard to find any really in depth sources on this topic. If you know any please tell in the comment section.

[@insane5375]

ye, one of the meat assaults that actually did some difference, or didn't?🤔

[@ChobeVelyasha]

Its bias info about brusliov in this video

[@jordanpdoesstuff1688]

​@@ChobeVelyashaso do you truly believe the only war tactic russian's know is mass assault?

[@insane5375]

@@ChobeVelyasha yep, russians never lost tens of thousands in just weeks. Total bias :)

[@konstantinriumin2657]

@@insane5375 Well, WWI was all about meat assaults. Even tanks were very rare and rarely influential until late in the war in the western front

[@HongKongBallEditz]

This is best video man thanks for uploading it Edit: wow ty for 109 likes!

[@ChobeVelyasha]

Bias against Russia

[@maciekGTR]

fascists go home

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[@kousikdhar9031]

@@ChobeVelyashaHow?

[@ChobeVelyasha]

@@kousikdhar9031 casualties wrong

[@ramiromen6595]

Loved this series East, took me back to the old Great War channel (which in fact might warrant a rewatch since ww2 is ending)

[@SNOUPS4]

Great video! The sound/music balance seems back to being very very nice, this time Thanks for having spent the time to make the video for us

[@NewVegasNerd]

It's amazing how excited I get every time I see a new Eastory upload. Way more than anything else I'm subscribed to. Instant watch, every time.

[@alexanderpozdnyakov3189]

Great video as always! Thanks for your tremendous effort!

[@LuisPereira-xh6st]

Was so eager for this video. Very detailed and didatic as the previous ones. Congratulations for the exceptional work. It would be great if you could also cover the WW1 Western front in a future video.

[@rc59191]

So happy you posted again love all the work you do dude.

[@Hillbilly001]

Excellent video as always. Thanks for the post. Cheers from Tennessee

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

Thanks for sharing this! It’s rare to get the perspective of the Eastern Front. I had no idea that the north was so stagnant!

[@azara9305]

I love your vids! Keep up the excellent work.

[@plavsk]

thank you for this amazing video

[@aserehuehue]

Always here to enjoy those videos

[@Ahmet-no7po]

My grandfather had fought in 1916 within Ottoman VI th Corps in Dobrudja, I am excited to see him as a dot on the map. I hope you will make another animated series for Ottoman fronts in the future

[@MrDoob-xo3sm]

Great video! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@robrot404]

I remember a few years back I asked you about doing a video detailing the Russian civil war, and you replied that there was not enough information to make one. I guess it took you that long to do all the research lol great job, love your videos

[@MrBlue66]

Love your videos man. Very informative and entertaining!!

[@jt1976jt]

Keep up the good work! Don’t be tied of producing great work even if it doesn’t pay well and is exhausting!

[@ron3252]

Simply epic. Thank you!

[@drogotoadfoot6606]

Another amasing job by Eastory.

[@user-eu3kh6rb1r]

Great content! Love it!

[@gemusefachlummel6467]

Romania was like: the risk I took was calculated. But boy, I'm bad at math

[@Tovalokodonc]

Yeah, and they beat their chest that they held onto Moldavia... The Russian army did.

[@metodiusm428]

@@Tovalokodonc You again? 💀

[@Tovalokodonc]

@@metodiusm428 Idk you , i guess, sure

[@thieph]

​@@TovalokodoncTransylvania is Romania, we did the math correctly

[@Tovalokodonc]

@@thieph Something must have been lost in translation

[@antonhunt]

oh nice finally i had been waiting for this for soo long

[@IrisKatzur-mr6bc]

Love your videos😊

[@zotfotpiq]

Can't get enough of your content over here in America. Your perspective, presentation, and research are phenomenal. Thank you.

[@lisakeitel3957]

I would like to thank you for your great job.

[@tartinocacaverdi6486]

Fantastic, thanks a.lot for all your efforts

[@ermanay11]

Great video as always

[@ilikenothing488]

another good vid, keep up the work!

[@shadeitplease7383]

What!? I always get excited when I wake up to a new Eastory video

[@gangstarappa]

It's a good day when eastory uploads

[@UlanyUlan102]

Thank you for this amazing video! Im waiting for Italian Front (;

[@paullunsford8921]

Thought you had hidden a subliminal message at 10:54, but was just a single frame of "Pogrom of the Winter Palace." Excellent painting, btw.

[@classit8248]

same lol

[@evgeny2141]

Amazing, thank you!

[@il.nullacosmico]

I love your video good work

[@Usulovski]

@Eastory Thanks for the another great video! I hope you plan to cover Polish-Soviet, Estonian-Soviet and Latvian-Soviet wars as well.

[@FabienLeMans]

Thank you very much

[@AB16CM20]

It's always great when Eastory uploads, who else agrees?

[@berme6858]

You´re the best. Can you make a video about the Winter war or the frontline of Finland in the WW2? Thank you.

[@Superlegend56]

Hype morning upload

[@Ren3gaid]

It's so weird. In WW1 and WW2 when the enemy broke through Central Powers/Axis lines or couldn't success an attack, Germany sent reinforcements and the front stabilized lol Feels kinda like an OP weapon in a strategy game

[@eminmerttezcan6120]

Great video.But i was wondering if you have any future plans for Caucasus campaign?

[@pyeitme508]

Wow thanks!

[@scottishbananaclan]

Awesome video. It would be so cool if u did one of these videos on the russian civil war. Ofc thatd be a nightmare, but u could probably just cover the southern front against the armed forces of south russia, and the esstern one against Kolchak. Idk lol

[@pedroangelfernandezavendan4238]

Son buenísimos estos videos

[@4sakenreaper42]

Good video

[@berserker4940]

Luv me Eastory. Simple as

[@thesenate990]

good luck preparing the civil war video there were many factions within the russian civil war and the amount of chaos that unfolded from it is intense

[@adoge1175]

Now I know there is a very low chance you will see this, but where do you get your maps from? They are so high quality and well made. Did you make them yourself?

[@Camel-from-Arabia]

But lets not forget that in the same time, Russia fought also in Caucasus Front against Ottoman Empire.

[@peep39]

Need Eastory to narrate my Hearts of Iron playthroughs

[@FlorinSutu]

There was also a strong offensive in July - August 1917, launched by the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians against the Romanian Army, who was defending what was left of Romania. It resulted in several bloody battles. Overlooking the Central Powers forces was general August von Mackensen, at that moment one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. That offensive was supposed to crush Romania, then to stab Russia from the south, through Romania. The Romanian Army hold the front line. As result, Romania survived to live another day. Romania surrendered in May 1918, two months after Russia sued for peace under Lenin. At that moment it was the only Ally country still functional on the whole Eastern Front. The Central Powers threatened Romania that they will focus on it all their might from the East...

[@milerman6712]

You should cover the Napoleonic Wars to.

[@hashkangaroo]

You can see the military mismanagement clear as day in how they did their offensives. Lessons learned: 1. Don't go on offensives without a clear numerical superiority. 2. Concentrate numerical superiority against the weaker foe, and don't attack at all against the stronger foe. 3. Attacking the weaker foe forces the stronger foe to shift troops to help him, which is just as effective as attacking him and for far fewer casualties. 4. Don't expand the frontline when it forces you to go on the defensive and stretch your lines even thinner. 5. Don't go on pointless offensives, since defeats sap national morale worse than the continued presence of the enemy on your soil does.

[@pax6833]

Well it's not that Russia was going on "pointless" offensives. Eastory doesn't cover it but many of Russia's actions were in conjunction with the Chantilly conferences, which were an attempt by the Allies to coordinate their war effort. If everyone conducted offensives at the same time, it would overstretch Germany. The issue is that the central powers went launched offensives first, and countries like France and Italy were demanding their allies do attacks to relieve pressure on them (arguably before they were ready).

[@hashkangaroo]

@@pax6833 The timing wasn't pointless, but each offensive could've been done differently. 1:21 Should've concentrated more forces on the Austrians, taking some from the center and north (as they would do in later offensives). 1:42 Instead of attacking the Germans, why not attack the Austrians in greater force? A big enough breakthrough will force the Germans to send troops to help the Austrians. This will have better results (some regained land and less casualties) than OTL (no land, a lot of casualties). 2:30 Offensive in the north is not going to achieve anything, not even tie down extra German troops, because of the defenses there. Instead, why not attack in the middle to split the Austrian and German lines, or concentrate all forces against the Austrians? 4:33 Should've held still or sent some troops to join the southern offensive to give them a numerical advantage. 5:18 Alright, but after all the previous defeats it was a bad idea to go on the offensive anyway. 6:22 The Romanians would've done much better if they'd joined in 1915, before the Bulgarians had joined the war and when the Russians were still deep in Galicia. As it was, them joining late only weakened the Russians.

[@ConradJD777]

>I have 500 hours in hoi4, trust me bro 🤓

[@hashkangaroo]

​@@ConradJD777 Bruh, you only need basic reading comprehension to get this shit as the video plays. Use your brain for once instead of envying those who use theirs.

[@RegiGiygas]

@hashkangaroo Bruh, you only need basic reading comprehension to get this shit as the video plays. Use your brain for once instead of envying those who use theirs.

[@juliansickmann9379]

Finally the next Part

[@thebacondefender1622]

Lenin is that one grandpa and uncle looking guy, nothing bad would happen, right?

[@lorenzogiuliani9144]

Begins of Legend

[@kousikdhar9031]

Wow! I’ve been waiting for 1916-1917 forever! Can’t wait for the Eastern Front in 1918! Appreciate the videos! Edit: Weren’t there also three battles in Romania, that defended Romania against Germany?

[@94Miker]

Yes, the battles of Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz, were part of the Romanian Front after the Kerensky Offensive. The events take place at around 9:20

[@Dr_Koenigsberg]

World Conqueror soundtrack ❤️💪😎

[@treatyofwindsor]

Do you know what the soundtrack is called?

[@fisheyefilms2512]

Will you also make more videos about the Russian inter-WW period after you're done with WWI on the Eastern Front?

[@BattleSyth]

Excellent video, idk how they dealt with constant losses and no gains. Must have been maddening.

[@HatredOfMephisto]

great!

[@MenteMaestra91]

Millions of men died for not any progress at all. Being there must've been truly terrifying.

[@nikitakunitz3335]

WWI was main factor in development of internal situation in Russia. Even relatively succesful 1914 took tens of thousands of most trained and motivated Russian soldiers. As the war prolonged two flows of discontent started to grow. The first one was among part of ruling class that wanted to succesfully win the war and was more and more disillusioned with imperial government's and Nicholas II's inability to build an effective war economy and command. This flow of discontent concentrated in the parliament that demanded to form new effective government since 1915. As I know, reluctance of N-II to press commanders of the northern and central fronts to attack together with Brusilov's southern advance to "seize the opportunity of knocking A-H out of the war" made most of general staff completely disillusioned with N-II. In february 1917, Parliament bonded with High Command finally forced N-II to abdicate and formed new government, the Temporary one. But it was far too late and new government proved itself ineffective just the old one. Because not only big men of ruling class determine history. The other flow of discontent was popular one. Tremendous inequality, lack of opportunities and decades of oppression, both social and political, made majority of population disillusioned with existing state years before WWI. Already during Rus-Jap war, when in addition to mentioned above common men started to be drafted en mass to fight and die for goals obscure or alien to them, this popular discontent grew to the point when people started to ignore or overthrow imperial authorities, replacing them with local self-governing councils, the soviets. Back in 1907, this revolution was supressed, but this exact situation repeated itself during WWI, only on larger scale. In 1917, as N-II abdicated, people started to openly organise soviets once again, including the central one in Petrograd. One of its first decrees was organisation of soldier soviets on the front, that let soldiers to democratically decide if they want to execute officers' orders instead of blind obedience. This was this "lack of discipline" shown in the video. As Temporary government commited itself to continuing the war, and situation continued deteriorating both on front and inside the country, the soviets started to take more and more socially radical and anti-war stance, as the revolution loomed. That's on this stage Lenin and Bolsheviks came in, and took power months later, promising most clear and radical solutions among other revolutionaries, that resonated in majority of the people: peace as soon as possible, complete abolishment of previous regime and transfer of all authority to the soviets, redistribution of land among peasants who work on it, worker's control in factories, etc. etc.

[@svaert]

This may be one of the most frustrating videos I've ever seen

[@elmerelles9542]

The numbers are mind boggling! And all for nought. It’s hard to believe it actually happened. Fact is truly stranger than fiction.

[@cengizsogutlu]

can you do ottoman front pls

[@_N3M3S1S]

The Central Power forces also shifted their eastern forces off to the Western Front as a result of the peace agreement with the new government in Petrograd. How many actually were moved would have been a nice finale to the video, but otherwise it was nicely done overall.

[@GWManin]

I was waiting for the moment for disastrous Christmas battles, but oh well!

[@konstantinriumin2657]

Good luck on civil war video! It won't be easy to adapt your style (with frontlines and divisions) to a war full of insurgencies, switching sides, multitude of factions and general lawlessness

[@xxxburke]

Your videos are better than sitting in a classroom. Thanks!

[@begemod1743]

Romania got it's shet owned by the central powers 💀 To think only quantity will do the work is pitiful 😔

[@metodiusm428]

What quantity? The Central Powers outnubered the Romanian forces by 30%, it had no chances from the start

[@thieph]

We double our teritory, lol. We survived alone in East after Russia collapsed, our only ally in the region. So central power are the suckers

[@iamthe1337est]

Nice

[@PanSzrama]

Excuse me, what city is ther instead of Wrocław or Breslau? 0:44 BRBBEARN???

[@jt1976jt]

Great work as usual. So interesting from a strategic perspective. From a human perspective, this probably led to 100+ year of continuing tragedy, death, and suffering in the Russia and Europe. Not that the land of Russia was lacking in human suffering before this, but so much more added since.

[@meyers6975]

Should have done 1918 too, Operation Faustschlag, but nice video overrall

[@hko2006]

10:54 what is the that one frame?

[@theog8891]

Nice video regarding the developments on the Russian front, although the coverage of the Romanian front was very rushed and sparsed, as the video completely ignored the fighting in the Carpathians, the siege of Turtucaia, the counterattack on the Arges river, the retreat at the end of 1916 and the campaign and battles in the summer of 1917.

[@SrTicMC]

I am quite dissapointed of you not explaining the Russian revolution, the German offensives over Bolshevik forces or the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. However, this was a great series, I loved it, good job

[@raresduban9315]

I'm so happy that u included Romania in one of ur videos :D

[@catalinmarius3985]

What about the battles of Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz in Romania in 1917? They were significant as well. In the summer of 1917, a Central Powers offensive began in Romania under the command of August von Mackensen to knock Romania out of the war. Resulting in the battles of Oituz, Mărăști and Mărășești where up to 1,000,000 Central Powers troops were present. The battles lasted from 22 July to 3 September and eventually, the Romanian army was victorious advancing 500 km2. August von Mackensen could not plan for another offensive as he had to transfer troops to the Italian Front. Following the Russian revolution, Romania found itself alone on the Eastern Front and signed the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers, which recognised Romanian sovereignty over Bessarabia in return for ceding control of passes in the Carpathian Mountains to Austria-Hungary and leasing its oil wells to Germany for 99 years. Although approved by Parliament, King Ferdinand I refused to sign it, hoping for an Allied victory in the west. Romania re-entered the war on 10 November 1918 on the side of the Allies and the Treaty of Bucharest was formally annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

[@milerman6712]

Could you guys cover the Napoleonic Wars to?

[@1enemyturn]

Thank you. Waiting for the Russian episode.

[@TenOrbital]

Is there a link for the corps colours and abbreviations? What's the red 15th corps? Abbr for Me, He, Ko, Sz, Be, Ha, Sn, Kra, Bes etc

[@Eastory]

The red is the Ottomans. The corps with letters are usually the same type as the numbered corps, the only difference is in the name. (Usually named after the corps commander).

[@TenOrbital]

@@Eastory - thanks for the response. I would be interested in a link to a key for unit colours and abbreviations (some of your other videos have this). I don't think the information is readily available anywhere else.

[@AtlasAugustus]

The intro music to the video? What is that?

[@McRocket]

I would love to see the Russian Civil War - as I know so little about it. Thank you for this wonderful video. I had no idea Bucharest was taken during WW1. ☮

[@Markfr0mCanada]

The numbers are truly horrific, and yet leadership kept calling for more attacks. Small wonder that they had discipline problems.

[@andraslibal]

One of the prettiest roads in Transylvania built in 1916 by the Germans to cross the Carpathians is the Transalpina road it is still in use today.

[@ImpreccablePony]

Look how dense the railroad network was. Look how they butchered my boy!!

[@PotionSeller721]

What's in the frame flashing briefly in 10:54?

[@Republic_on_March]

It would be amazing to see your mapping skills on Russian civil war

[@bbenjoe]

Fun fact: The Romanian royal family was actually Hohenzollern. A branch of the German imperial family. So, when king Ferdinand I betrayed them, the emperor angrily had them erased from the family tree.

[@dapperbunch5029]

And because of this failure around 60 million innocents will perish.

[@Markomilic205]

The war exhaustion didn't come from those defeats or territorial losses but from burocatic mismanagement and lack of transport which led to rise in food prices and shortages of commodities.

[@WillN2Go1]

Good video. Maybe in the future Russian Civil War videos cover the routes, methods, the 'White Russians' and others took getting away from the fighting, and leaving the country; and where they ended up. (& Maybe make a graphical display of all the major Bolshevik leaders during this early period and the year Stalin had them killed.)