MAD World - The History of the Cold War | Episode 6: Cold War II | Free Documentary History

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In this episode: Just as détente seems to be the 'new normal', the West is outraged when the Soviet military moves into Afghanistan. The US immediately offered arms and support to the anti-government rebels. Boxer Muhammad Ali led an Olympic boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Fear of global annihilation causes mass ‘No Nukes’ protests.

[@armand_v_cpt]

Absolutely loved this M.A.D. World series

[@DL-ij7tf]

If you haven't seen The Cold War series that Ted Turner made/paid for. Narrated by Kenneth Branaugh. It's excellent, I think I like it better than MAD world but both are good.

[@NDAGR-]

These are S tier documentaries. The whole series is outstanding

[@MiRiccardo]

thanks for sharing. looking forward for the other 2 episodes

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

if you click on “more” underneath the video, you’ll see a link to the next episode. And then underneath that episode to the next etc etc 😀

[@MiRiccardo]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory true but it says that the last 2 episodes are private and they can't be watched unfortunately

[@miloradulemek9969]

​@@FreeDocumentaryHistory last 2 episodes are private bro

[@petermaclean9326]

I love how the most holy do the most damage

[@fabrizzio234]

Well you know it goes broski; men been slaughtering men since the dawn of time in some name or religion.

[@ComradeDt]

If there is a God, everything is permitted.

[@deepbludude4697]

Excellent!

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Many thanks!

[@seantalmadge6209]

Tried to link to episode 7 in description. It says it's private.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

I set it to unlisted. Should be available now for you.

[@mattwilliams1751]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory works now 👍🏻

[@PhoenixAscending]

Everyone should watch the movie "Charlie Wilson's War". Great movie, true story, and it greatly pertains to the Afghan-Russo war. And it has Tom Hanks, so you can't go wrong

[@icemule]

Great movie, loved that guy, there's also a documentary which is just as good if not better.

[@DL-ij7tf]

Fine I will.

[@PhoenixAscending]

@@DL-ij7tf and you get to see emily blunt half naked, so you can't go wrong

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Love that movie. I've seen it 9 times at least. And I agree that everybody should see it.

[@ReiGon-gl5ro]

Phillip Seymour Hoffman 😢.. What an actor

[@nigellawson8610]

What I find ironic about American involvement with most extreme Muslim elements in Afghanistan is that it set the stage for the 9/11 attacks.

[@phdupont2500]

Turns out if you have secret death squads destroy any organized political movement to the more compassionate side of hunting kids for sport, the country is left with nothing but hardcore fundies, fascists or both.

[@souravkumarpandey6691]

Us also had the same fate

[@sagebiddi]

EXACTLY...but please be careful when you speak with mature mental fortitude and intellectual prowess because some of us Americans possess the educational prowess of a child... with sibling parents. Fortunately the fact that we have and still do breed our own terrorism is already overwhelming but this whole new extra spicy situation with not being fully privy to the atom and molecule theb could GAF how their indoctrinated feels ,

[@benkelly8376]

Scripted

[@billpugh58]

You can’t trust Islam.

[@andrewdeen1]

if you switch the last two videos from 'private' to 'unlisted' we could see them, we can't right now

[@judyevancic4926]

People were angry how we left and I get it. But for 17 yrs we supported the Afghanistan people. Both with equipment and training along with troops. They needed to take this over. We don’t occupy countries. We support to help give them democracy… Obviously there are not enough will. Among those who get it to know they have to want it bad enough to keep.

[@Tahliljr]

America don’t occupy countries? Keep lying to yourself 😂😂

[@dr.perfectsmile4175]

No, you destroyed their country same you did in plenty of other countries!!!

[@vickomen333]

I recommend one reads Caught in The Middle. Talks about the war from a first-hand experience with amazing photo gallery.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

About 25 percent of Soviet servicemen in Afghanistan were Ukrainian, numbering 160,000 of which more than 3,000 died and dozens more went missing.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

😮

[@dusanniskanovic6793]

Whats is the point ukraians was 25 prosent off ussr populacion

[@toserveman9265]

They fought for Communism then as they do today. Russian Christian Orthodoxy has replaced socialism today

[@FenderBender5150]

@@dusanniskanovic6793 You know, just trying to be hip and cool and all....

[@Seouldrift7]

Ahmad Shah Massoud fought the Soviets around the Panjshir valley but did not join the Taliban. The Anti-Soviet resistance was made up of all sorts of groups even had Maoist groups who fought against the Soviets and speaking of which due to the Sino-Soviet split the communists in Beijing gave some support to some of those fighting the Soviets.

[@jcameronferguson]

Al-Qaeda assassinated Massoud as a hit for the Taliban on 9/10/2001. He prominently led the Tajik faction of the Northern Alliance. The Taliban were fearful of his popularity - being a war hero and all that - and his potential to lead the nation if their regime were deposed. Instead, we gave Afghanistan Hamid Karzai. Almost as bad of an appointment as Babrak Karmal!

[@Seouldrift7]

@@jcameronferguson Yes that seems about it. After throwing the Soviets out and help overthrow the PDPA regime there is to some no doubt that Massoud would be seen as a national treasure did not get the name lion of the Panjshir for nothing. I think he may have also warned of suspicious activity just months before the assassination.

[@balozhende5727]

Humans will eventually destroy themselves as a spiece.

[@chadczternastek]

I don't think anyone has better protected their country than Afghanistan. It's sad cause most of the country is barren and mountains. Without a formal army or force it's armed rebels who fought off the USSR as well as the USA. Both countries regret dearly trying to invade that country. All the technology and soldiers in the world were able to complete their objectives.

[@justmai2476]

I mean, it's just that the environment is so austere. They're local, they've been living in those mountains for centuries. The Ethiopians are worthy of such recognition, Afghanistan just isn't geographically conquerable.

[@plugshirt1762]

@@justmai2476 Its actually insane that they're the only African country that managed to avoid being colonized

[@username7274]

At the same time didnt we install the Shah of Iran 😂😂😂 calling the kettle black 😂

[@EnriqueGavel-m8d]

And what do you know, the same ppl we supplied weapons, we ended up fighting in late 2001. Now they are armed just as good as US troops now.

[@justmai2476]

Nah, Bush sent troops to Iraq first and foremost. Afghanistan was an afterthought, justification for a factice War On Terror that had nothing to do with Sadam Hussein.

[@amadeusagripino6862]

"This Film Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters Of Afghanistan"

[@SLRok]

Imagine how many lives would have been spared if the US didnt wage a jihad against communism.

[@Wizardof]

"How many John Walker's are out there...?" Whelp, there's at least THREE....Barsky, the Wild Catholic FBI agent, and then uh Orange.

[@rohansawant6317]

Turns out that this war was more costly to the americans than to the soviets who only lost their government but americans much more than that

[@adamfrazer5150]

Highly recommend The Dead Hand by David Hoffman - as nuts as some of the Allied doomsday plans might have sounded, there is something terrifying about such a deadly system being.......semi-autonomous 😮

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

thank for the reco! I will check it out.

[@adamfrazer5150]

Definitely the least I could do - again, many thanks for all your efforts 👍

[@Cain_Murd0ch]

Rule #1 NEVER sell military weaponry to insurgents, terrorists or "freedom fighters"...no matter how hilarious it may be to piss off the Soviets

[@freedomtocomment5075]

Recently an "unarmed" balloon was shot down by America. You said it right sir. 👏

[@ShanGamer1981]

please make episode 7 not private cannot view

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

👍🏻 done

[@Grimnir_x]

Next episode is private, none of us can view it. Love the series though!

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

I’ve switched it to unlisted so the link should work now.

[@Geojr815]

Honestly I think America should have just allowed Germany to takeover the Soviet Union

[@rodionkorpusov]

They did, and it didn’t work :)

[@kobepfannes4071]

@@rodionkorpusovbecause of allied support 😂

[@KarlCruz655]

​@@rodionkorpusov13 billion dollar american support

[@N7-WAR-HOUND]

@@KarlCruz65513 billion in 1940s values nonetheless

[@kylegoodreau2170]

general Patton felt the same way

[@nigellawson8610]

Boy' hitting a small island like England with 200 megatons would constitute preposterous overkill. There would be nothing left standing. Everyone would either be dead or wish they were! Of course, the Government would advise people to remain calm and keep a stiff upper lip.

[@jcameronferguson]

There's a whole subgenre of English media from the early 80's that more or less offers that point. The movie Threads by Mick Jackson is the most striking, terrifying, and well-known of these; the animated movie Where the Wind Blows is equally disquieting and tragic. An episode of the science programme Panorama ran a special on Protect and Survive that featured particularly stark images and special effects to depict a theoretical nuke strike on London. It's grim! Not good stuff to watch if you like to sleep soundly, but immensely fascinating.

[@EnriqueGavel-m8d]

If no one caught it by the US finally admitted what really happened to the USS Scorpion. The guy said there are widows in Norfolk that John Walker was responsible for giving navy ship’s positions away.

[@colinstewart1432]

He may have given that information. But it's the kind of information you cannot act upon unless you want to reveal its source. The positional information John Walker gave was only to make use of in the event of war, to negate the American nuclear triad.

[@alexgunawan98]

income inequality really screw us. 😢

[@bigchief4044]

Damn … Dude’s drunk ex-wife messed up his gig … lol

[@chil3355]

All is well presented. But the Afghan human Rights activist who got so much time lack knowledge of the Afghan conflict and society.

[@raphaellavictoria01]

Afgan, freaking saavges. Why would anyone care to go there, always a mistake.

[@indianastan]

Boycotting the Olympics in 1980 was wrong

[@Chip_in]

Why can't you watch tv in Afghanistan? Telly ban 🤣⛳

[@bobtowncarguy82]

Russia moved out and the US moved in for 20 years.

[@carlplz00001]

Now The US moved out and China move in, the last without a single shot, just investment to take away all the richness from that country, China is the real winner.

[@NarayanaPai-]

Uff 🙄

[@adamwhite3584]

Listen to these smug western "officials" they just ooze purity don't they..

[@eagle7757]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV, Jesus Christ is the only way.....

[@Kardashev1]

Reagan caused so much harm to the world.

[@MrHmjg]

essan now lives in australia. you backed the wrong thugs...

[@Harris.S]

Who was the wrong thugs?

[@stephenwright8824]

Tidal whatshisname doesn't even speak English, he speaks Disfluency. More "ahhs" than real words. Loosen your tie, fella! 🙂

[@geetee2694]

4.58 Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine. But no outrage from US govt.

[@RuemondHueckle-gw4qq]

That's y USA didn't boy yaht china Olympics

[@tdb19872]

The Soviets (and Americans sadly) were giving women choices and roles that are not their's to make or to have. This causes nothing but extreme garm to both women and society at large. This is once again a case of the Afghan fighters being on the side of justice.