Greek Resistance in World War II: Every Day (1941-1945) [4K Resolution]

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[@panthir6720]

In America they only tell us about the French resistance as if it was some glorified revolt even tho it failed meanwhile the Greek and Yugoslav resistances were more successful

[@Rydo416]

Panthir 67 The most fiercest fight for resistance was definitely the Soviet fight. Although it doesn’t technically look like a resistance like the French and Greek wars did, Stalingrad and Leningrad saw by far some of the most fiercest fighting in human history.

[@panthir6720]

Ryzerr yea I agree with that plus I think there’s rlly 2 main types of resistances one where ur fighting against occupation (French, Greeks, Poles, etc) and another where your fighting against an invading force while using both gorilla and tactical warfare (soviets)

[@ussrwrestling]

and the Resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece were much more powerful!!

[@ussrwrestling]

Both resistance movements in Yugoslavia and Greece were the most effective in Europe (if not to consider the Soviet resistance) and communist-dominated )))

[@iceshivoya2665]

yea but the balkans had revolts in which they would also kill their own population because of idealogy, while the french united with communists and republicans alike. it was carefully selected. If you read more into rebellions in the balkans during world war 2, you will find to dislike many of these so called liberators. but hey, thats the balkans for ya

[@CherepashkaShusha]

Amazing and very underrated video. Thanks to all Greek people for your heroism and perseverance

[@marianobosch04]

Lol, I found Mr. Cherepashka Shusha.

[@ComradeHellas]

Cheers lad

[@micahistory]

great video. I never knew the greek resistance was so effective

[@dystopian2153]

They actually trained some American soldiers as well....

[@bog_pepper]

with high morale everything is possible

[@ByZHellas]

Amazing video... we don't hear enough of the Greek losses of WWII. 10% of the population was lost. :( (Also, you forgot to mark the Kalavryta massacre!)

[@ByZHellas]

@National Posadist Yeah, the occupation caused famine and all that.

[@ComradeHellas]

Quite disgusting to learn that Greek collaborators were the vanguard forces that lead the SS in Kalavryta.

[@ByZHellas]

@@ComradeHellas U sure about that? I can’t find anything regarding that.

[@FLORATOSOTHON]

The population of Greece in the 1940 census was 7.344.860 so the loses were closer to 11.5%. of the population. Also during the great famine, many people were not declared dead, so that their relatives could use their food stamps for extra rations.

[@ussrwrestling]

very interesting and useful! Besides the Soviet Union - the only two countries in Europe which really resisted the Nazis-Fascists were Yugoslavia and Greece!

[@arsenvarelis2676]

Poland?

[@dolphindiverbct8297]

And the UK

[@ussrwrestling]

@@dolphindiverbct8297 UK was not directly under the Nazist occupation (thankfully!!)! Unlike the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Greece! ))))

[@ComradeHellas]

That's true

[@ussrwrestling]

@@arsenvarelis2676 There were two uprisings in the Warsaw Ghetto, but that were mainly Polish Jews. )))

[@TheGilliams]

Excellent job, we often forget the importance of these resistance movements in winning the war.

[@CostasMelas]

Congratulations. Excellent work. It shows a deep knowledge of this object. You could only mention and the Cretan Resistance

[@AegeaDotOrg]

I unfortunately wasn't able to find much information on the resistance in Crete.

[@grandly2214]

It’s a big irony that in the end they would fight each other

[@grandly2214]

Colonel McReisen guess you are right

[@xdx2653]

well this is why hellenic kingdom lost forever.greeks always fighting greeks.and history will repeat again.there is no cure or salvation for the greeks

[@ComradeHellas]

it happens when the ex-collaborators want to bring back the King and Monarchy after the liberation.

[@lessssssgooooo]

My great grandfather fought near the Bulgarian border im proud of him

[@DasBoot40]

Pareil pour le mien mais en 1917

[@ussrwrestling]

Besides the heroic Soviet resistance only Greece and Yugoslavia in Europe really resisted the Nazis!!!

[@-Faris-]

No? You also got the Polish, the French, and other resistance groups that gave the nazis hell.

[@gnas1897]

@@-Faris- yes, polish, Czechoslovak but the french didn't do much

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

@@-Faris- the greek, yogoslav and french was the most succecfull... ok maybe not franch but they do a lot of dmg in the nazis during the occupation

[@dr_Matt-nc3ne]

Great Video! I love how detailed it is. Moves the spotlight away from the more known French Resistance to the effectiveness of the Greek and Yugoslav partisans.

[@Kludgzenjammer]

There are so many of these 4K Descripitive WWII videos nowadays. There is nothing wrong with that, but man am I going to miss the days of simple low-rendered war slides from Emperor Tigerstar or Ollie Bye’s old History of the World video. This was a great video nonetheless, just the borders were a bit too thick. Cheers!

[@charisantonakis]

Λαέ θυμήσου το χώμα που πατάς Λευτέρωσε ο Άρης με το ΕΑΜ-ΕΛΑΣ!

[@Lefteris1283]

When you realise many Greek resistance teams desolved by ELAS and EAM because they denied the communist influence

[@stephmod7434]

εξαρτάτε σε ποια περιοχή ζεις ;)

[@_Mrrock]

Λαέ θυμήσου ποιοί σε έσφαξαν στο χώμα που πατάς Ο Άρης ο Ζαχαριάδης και το ΕΑΜ ΕΛΑΣ

[@rodrigocartacampos5229]

Good video , Aegean !

[@Koopinator]

Second Greek War of Independence

[@christos1698]

Thank u for the video! Greeks are born to live free or to die, its in the bloodline just look to the spartians! 🇬🇷💪

[@CrAz1m0nk3ii117]

Great video!

[@Thegreenmapper]

turkey just vibing. Nice video very good! You got terrain, all the factions and lots more! Amazing!

[@koprotheka6055]

Very cool! I would really like to see a video on the Greek civil war

[@billvilmezis5968]

There are many

[@gnas1897]

I would really like to see the comments under such video lol

[@_Mrrock]

@@gnas1897 Βίτσι Γράμμος

[@DionysiosPhryx]

Great job! Satisfying quality! But you should keep the intro shorter and the music quieter. I am waiting for more, especially for Byzantine vid. 👍🏻

[@user-fb2gb5ic9x]

And for that resistance Churchill was bargaing Aegean islands to Turkey and didnt deliver Cyprus after the war..thank you very much

[@DionysiosPhryx]

What song have you used for this video?

[@AegeaDotOrg]

Evan King - Guardians and Machinimasound - End Game

[@mkb6418]

Amazing video

[@PsyxikaNekros]

Όταν συνειδητοποιείς ότι το χώμα που πατάς το ελευθέρωσε ο Άρης με το ΕΑΜ ΕΛΑΣ

[@ComradeHellas]

Έτσι σύντροφε

[@comingafteryou5352]

Όταν συνειδητοποιείς ότι η Μακεδονία έμεινε ελληνική επειδή ηττήθηκαν οι κομμουνιστές...

[@PsyxikaNekros]

@@comingafteryou5352 Μόνο η Μακεδονία; Όλη η Ελλάδα θα εξαφανιζόταν απ'το χάρτη γιατί οι κακοί κομμουνιστές θα την βομβάρδιζαν με πυρηνικά όπλα..

[@comingafteryou5352]

@@PsyxikaNekros Εγώ σοβαρά μιλάω αλλά μάλλον δεν γνωρίζεις ότι οι κομμουνιστές για να νικήσουν έδιναν το οποιοδήποτε αντάλλαγμα...

[@ComradeHellas]

Strength: ELAS: 50.000 EDES: 12.000 EKKA: 1.500

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

yeah the tactics that they use was so successful!

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

Very impressive, thank you for the video ! Το ΕΑΜ μας εσωσε από την πείνα, Θα μας σωσει πάλι από την σκλαβία Έχει προγραμμα λαοκρατια, Ζήτω, ζήτω ζήτω το ΕΑΜ !!

[@stephmod7434]

Cringe.

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

@@stephmod7434 i agree

[@outerspace7391]

Μαλακίες

[@gnas1897]

EAM 💪💪💪 killed anarchists 🤢🤢🤢

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

@@gnas1897 mprooo eisai oso krintz

[@zyanego3170]

Wow, I didn't knew about that

[@alguemai6636]

Good video

[@giwrgoslos9343]

φιλε ελληνας εισαι ;

[@spaghettiking7312]

This is a wonderful service to humanity.

[@dennisavramop8589]

Amazing

[@Flutterzancelight]

Most accurate greek war in WW2

[@matijas7994]

were there any military groups that colaborated with the ocupator?

[@Kolokommouna]

The security battalions and the main liberal/conservative guerillas

[@ComradeHellas]

Organization X, Security Battalions, Gendarmerie. By 1943 EDES collaborated with N*zis selectivelly much like the Cetniks did in Yugoslavia.

[@_Mrrock]

The people that collaborated with the Germans and the Bulgarians were mostly the partisans when they started the civil war and had a very bad public figure. Then the security battalions that were made ONLY for the communists sometimes had to get support from the Germans just because the citizens in the village didn't want to get genocided by the Slavs(EAM-ELAS)

[@matijas7994]

@@_Mrrock sounds like the partisans were just stubborn and those who you mentioned after were colaborators

[@DionysiosPhryx]

Also use this site here for the committed genocides: www.greek-genocide.net/index.php/overview/documentation/331-list-of-massacres

[@National-Democrat.Ukrainian]

5:47 F for EDES(good guys). 2 of July 1942- 12 October 1944.

[@dimitrissimitzis6944]

are you fucking stupid? those were nationalists

[@National-Democrat.Ukrainian]

@@dimitrissimitzis6944 Yes and what?

[@National-Democrat.Ukrainian]

@@dimitrissimitzis6944 They are the good guys.

[@Kolokommouna]

@@National-Democrat.Ukrainian they were like the Chetniks, they even cooperated with the security battalions on some occasions

[@gio.2381]

f*ck you. F*ck. You. Edes was full of nazi collaborators. Luckily after the war the collaborators were executed, often in very brutal fashion. They deserved it. Long live ELAS and EAM

[@aballer2809]

Sad to see how frequent those massacres in Thrace were

[@imerror6224]

4:43 EAM Achievement unlocked: Start a civil war during a world war with the other resistence groups because they are not communists.

[@arsenvarelis2676]

and fight each other

[@fasolasuchustenax1420]

Also Yugoslavia (Partisans and chetniks)

[@Kolokommouna]

That also happened in Yugoslavia and despite that they were amongst the most successful ressistance movements of the war. The same can be said for Greece

[@sunfrog6105]

EDES literally cooperated with the Nazis in multiple occasions but ok.

[@avgerinosx3135]

@@sunfrog6105 proof?

[@kailanthecartographer2627]

yesssss

[@kaljic1]

There must be a way to show how the English fought with the Resistance during the War, but turned against them, provoking the Greek Civil War, once the War was over.

[@hellenicstrategist7561]

They only supplied before the Germans conquered all of Greece. Then the British left like a chicken and when we liberated (NOBODY LIBERATED US THE GERMANS RETREATED BECAUSE OF THE EASTERN FRONT) we also had Britain come in Greece and fight Communists.

[@kaljic1]

@@hellenicstrategist7561 Read Woodhouse. He was an English operative, working with the Antartes hand-in-hand. Wrote about the experience after the war called The Struggle for Greece. Writes about working with the Antartes, blowing up bridges, running ambushes, over-running Germans. Described how George Papandreou, Andreas’ father, tricked the Antartes to surrender their weapons and then mercilessly go after the Antartes, causing the Greek Civil War, all on Churchill’s bidding. To Papandreou’s credit he was repulsed by Churchill’s decision to shoot into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, Athens, December. Its all in his book written on personal experience. Woodhouse after the war became a noted Greek scholar, no doubt in an effort to repent for the sins of the War.

[@jordanquimby854]

​@hellenicstrategist7561 they had to leave the entire Greek army had surrendered, and the forces that were left were too small to resist

[@brm5844]

Great video dude! Love from Bulgaria! 🇧🇬❤️🇬🇷 We can trade Lukov's life for Thrace, what do you say?

[@stephmod7434]

Nahhhh

[@rationalwho]

All those massacres starting in Bulgarian zone of control? You saw them?? That's the last time you tried to bulgarize what isn't yours.. Stay within your borders because of we were like you plovdiv would be fillipoupoli by now...

[@brm5844]

@@rationalwho Cope and seethe

[@rationalwho]

@@brm5844 That's what I am telling you, I don't have any problem with Bulgaria...Bulgaria has a problem with it's self... You and people like you have a problem with Bulgaria not being a better version of it... Believe me though, having some extra land on a Bulgarian Thrace, won't save the poorest countries of the EU, with the highest decrease in population, or could in anyway help the situation be better had it been annexed all those years back 😊

[@brm5844]

@@rationalwho Cope. And. Seethe.

[@autumnoz8428]

Hey dude I know your european but you should probably do a map about the east asian conflicts during WW2 and some others in that region

[@AegeaDotOrg]

I likely will do that, especially in Indochina.

[@hall511]

Bulgarians were wild

[@apano100]

As a little child, I used to visit the taverns by the sea and sing to the Italian soldiers who gave me chocolates and food. Before they surrendered in 1943 they saved many people from hunger. On Sundays people from the cities would wait outside the church and offer their rings and expensive coats for a handful of sultanas because of the hunger in the cities. We ate the dandelions from the railway lines.

[@stephmod7434]

How old are you?

[@apano100]

85

[@stephmod7434]

@@apano100 are you Greek?

[@apano100]

@@stephmod7434 85

[@stephmod7434]

@@apano100 I asked if you are Greek not your age.

[@KiNGGAMESgr]

did a few mistakes in the north tho

[@fasolasuchustenax1420]

What mistakes?

[@KiNGGAMESgr]

@@fasolasuchustenax1420 great now i have to watch the video again to tell you

[@ImInsideYourHome]

Wait are the deaths just Greeks? is it only the axis? Is it both?!

[@AegeaDotOrg]

Greeks only

[@kaljic1]

George Papandreou --- ο Παπατζης.

[@wankawanka3053]

Italy was humilaiy in their war with the greeks and even after occupation it seems damn

[@alguemai6636]

6:25 sad part

[@MatejJokic-sw2kh]

I feel sorry for ELAS.They were the ones who liberatred the country.

[@stephmod7434]

The Germans were better than any of these plus the british

[@lilianatrofin2639]

If the communists were the most why Greece haven't turn communist???

[@AegeaDotOrg]

because of British interference that made sure that communists wouldn't take power.

[@belgianfabian2216]

Because it's false

[@ComradeHellas]

@@AegeaDotOrg exactly

[@outerspace7391]

Not all of them were communists though, the communists had managed to gain a very bad reputation due to their oppressive actions on the territories they occupied, like the mass kidnappings all over Greece forcing them fight for communist's subjective truth

[@theremapping3840]

@@outerspace7391 hight un-z

[@alguemai6636]

Fact: Greece was Communist in 1944-1945, and Western Allies and Communist Greeks came to fight each other at the end of the war, if the Allies did not land in Greece, the Socialist Greek Partisans would have taken power as they did in Yugoslavia, and would be supported by the USSR, being an even more violent enemy against Turkey, it could be a Soviet satellite or neutral state, in 1992 the communist regime would have collapsed, and Greece would have entered the EU and NATO in the 2000s.

[@outerspace7391]

No, that wouldn't have happened. The Soviet Union had already recognized Greece as part of Britain's sphere of influence way before the end of the war. Soviet troops retreated from occupied Greek Thrace willingly, unlike in Manchuria where the USSR gave them to the CCP. This is also the reason no western support was given to Hungary during its revolution in the 50's. Russia and America respected each other's zones unless they went to all-out war (in that case it would've been free game I guess) For your proposed alternative scenario to happen, you'd have to think of an alternative Yalta conference, where in this timeline the big three take different decisions. If the western allies were to agree handing up Greece to Russia, Britain would ask something else in return, and realistically, I don't see anything else they'd agree with. So yea, regardless of who won the civil war, Britain and Russia had made their plans clear and wouldn't change them unless Britain lost militarily, which was also unlikely considering Yugoslavia was the only real support EAM was provided with.

[@eane.4606]

Do a ww3 video

[@eane.4606]

@@ArcaniusMapping it will be real history lmfao

[@AegeaDotOrg]

The conflict has already cooled down. By no means would a third world war happen now.

[@eane.4606]

Aegea wanna bet

[@AegeaDotOrg]

Sure

[@eane.4606]

@@AegeaDotOrg ight bet how much

[@aalb1873]

The sacrifice of the Greek people was unbelievable: sad but pride at the same time.

[@fasolasuchustenax1420]

Great video!