How the Soviets Blitzed Japan in WW2 | Animated History

[@TheArmchairHistorian]

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[@jackfish3792]

no

[@kgb1780]

Joe?

[@ashman8891]

Please do a video on the WW2 Burma campaign and/or the exploits of the Chindits. The forgotten war shouldn't stay that way. Would love a video on the exploits of the Flying Tigers too.

[@isarabualuang7152]

Can you do the video about the six day war from the arab nations perspective, please.

[@danielforcedtofilm8461]

Actually Manchuria was invaded in 1931

[@theactingace]

Most people don’t even know the Soviets fought the Japanese. The whole topic of the relations between the two countries even before WW2 is fascinating.

[@BHuang92]

And the fact that the Senkaku Islands dispute is still going on is interesting which technically that means WW2 is still going on between Russia and Japan!

Most western-centric people

[@KangaKucha]

Exactly mate :)

[@KangaKucha]

@@BHuang92 well kinda mate but it's kinda common over the world. Like Argentina still wants the Falklands for example.

[@crook7493]

@@BHuang92 not sure how I feel about that statement

[@HistoryHustle]

Ah yes, the Soviet invasion of Manchuraria. Often neglected when talking about the end of WWII. Thanks for covering it. You guys once again did a great job!

[@KangaKucha]

Ah Operation August Storm. It should be remembered like Operation Babarosa (sorry if misspelled) which is when Axis attacks in the USSR in 1941.

[@thunderbird1921]

Can you even imagine Operation Downfall? Nearly every major military power on earth would have converged on Japan's home islands. The scale and violence would have been unthinkable.

[@KangaKucha]

@@thunderbird1921 I bet millions would have died and Japan would have been divided like Germany was (Korea could have been just taken over by the Soviets and been communist but united). At least their be no atomic attacks.

[@glamrockbonnie5983]

@Thunderbird and they would've had to fight anyway it just go's to show the amount of patriotism they had

[@thunderbird1921]

@@KangaKucha The atomic bombs were honestly the MERCIFUL option from everything I've seen. They killed tens of thousands, but the Operation Downfall invasion might have resulted in TEN MILLION casualties. There were no good options. It's probably one of the most horrible decisions any US President has ever had to make.

[@omarmatouq3855]

On a different note, the reason Japanese tanks where utterly horrible compared to other allied or axis(specifically German)tanks is because they didn't really focus on them as much, as they focused more on naval and aircraft production, so what do you do as an infantry soldier with no good tanks or antique AT weapons? you become the AT weapon.

[@dillonc7955]

Their artillery capabilities went as far as their planes could reach, if you get what I mean ;)

[@charles_0017]

The tanks were of little use in the many Pacific islands that required extra effort for them to be carried from island to island constantly. And even when they got to the island it was often full of forests and jungles which is the kind of terrain that all tank crews fear. Also, by 1942 the US had achieved mostly air superiority in the skies and any tanks that were caught in the open were great targets for the American Air Force. In addition by the time the island hopping campaign started, the Japanese were fully on the defensive,something which tanks are not made for. Finally, Imperial Japan was, like it’s ally Nazi Germany, short on resources and manpower, meaning if they mass produced tanks, there would be not enough fuel to run them all.

[@اسكندرفكار]

Don't forget that thay had Bad light wepenry ( machin guns .. Rifles ..pistoles ) even so that thay did some Times demege to there owne users And thé armerd viecles couldn't even Penn thé side armer of t34s at all . In thé end even there airforce was infiriore to thé soviet one 🧐🧐🧐

[@soviet_doge1263]

@@اسكندرفكار Their airforce was really only worse because of lack of resources and having a lot of industry be destroyed. Also Japanese tanks had good cannons however their armour was worthless since it was quite thin all around or just wasn't good enough. They were designed to be able to easily transported for naval invasions.

[@اسكندرفكار]

@@soviet_doge1263 put there wepens honsltly were all bad and laking in tech and nempers even thé air craft despite thé zero bieng god in thé starting stage (1940-1943)but thay fall behind in thé end It was becouse of there weeke industry and laking of développement and fast enieshit of those New technologies

[@cavaliere5676]

Imagine being in Berlin, ending the war and then hearing: Comrade, we are going in Japan.

[@thinkingboi9508]

Americans hearing about the Fall of Berlin and hearing the victory speech while sitting in a muddy trench in Okinawa still trying to take that danm hill.

[@stevemc01]

@@thinkingboi9508 I remember the picture I saw in a book at one point. No excitement on their muddy, dusted faces. It's nothing but fatigue and resignation. But of also what I can only describe as "hardiness".

[@manmilk9437]

@@thinkingboi9508 beacause the americans are the only one pushing to japan while their allies in asia are liberating their country and not pushing to japan so its hard for the to push forward than in europe

[@jagerherten5008]

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[@UserName-rc6le]

My name is user name and I got everything to lose because I am exposed now. my comments are now run accross the entire and intrenet

[@revolter7094]

Vasylevsky is a quite underrated general of WW2. And this whole offensive in general is a very underrated in historical sense as it was a very large contributor of Japan's surrender, not just the two atomic bombs.

[@marktaylor6491]

I would have Vasilevsky up with Zhukov and Rokossovsky as the best generals of the war. No one did pure logistics better than him.

[@inovakovsky]

@@marktaylor6491 Vasilevsky desrved his position as a Marshall.

[@ernestous]

@@marktaylor6491 How Zhukov was one of the best generals? That's complete bullshit

[@marktaylor6491]

@@ernestous Khalkhin Gol, Moscow, and Stalingrad. That's why.

[@senorpepper3405]

Everyone wants to say it was the atomic bombs when they were just one factor. The US airforce burnt down central Tokyo in one night of napalm bombing in March of '45. Killing about the same as Hiroshima. And then, here come the soviets.

[@EeJee404]

One thing that was inaccurately depicted was, the lunge mine. The lunge mine could NOT penetrate soviet or american armor, it could only damage the vehicle, but even that was not enough to destroy vehicles, you had to use several lunge mines to destroy one vehicle.

[@FerretDealer]

I didn't know about that, but what got me was when they said Theodore instead of Franklin Roosevelt. (5:57) Mistakes happen, still loved it.

[@大砲はピュ]

@@FerretDealer Also Russo-Japanese war of *1904* again not the correct version of 1905

[@heccsclips3319]

@@大砲はピュ Russo-Japanese War Feb 8, 1904 - Sep 5, 1905 -from google

[@wattsnottaken1]

Lunge mine? Oh you mean “anti tank stick” JK 😂

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@piratamaia]

One of the most important events of WW2 that is really overlooked It led to the creation of the DPRK (and the division of Korea) and Mao's victory in the chinese civil war, leading to the creation of the PRC The moment the soviets stepped into Manchuria the future of east Asia for the next 70 years (at least) was settled

[@thunderbird1921]

And remember, Stalin set up North Korea without any free elections, the "Democratic People's Republic" was NEVER appointed by the people.

[@piratamaia]

@@thunderbird1921 of course, the name doesn't represent reality

[@JACK....2788]

Osea que gracias a la URSS existe Corea del Norte en dónde la gente se muere de hambre 🤔

[@letsgowinnietheflu5439]

@@piratamaia Winder why he was removed.

[@tng2057]

Even more overlooked, was the fact that Stalin actually turned Manchuria over to Chiang Kai Shek in 47, but not before passing on all captured Japanese hardware to the Chinese Communist Party and Kim Il Sung.

[@timurkoschachmetow3760]

Thank you for covering this operation! My grandfather was a lieutenant in the artillery units of the Red Army on this front as he was transferred from Karelia when Finland singed peace treaty in 1944 and now had to fight German forces in Lapland. It's quite interesting that the forces built up was gradual and started from early 1945. My grandfather father haven't talked much about the war, but from what my parents told he and several of his men were severely sick and some died as they drank from a water well that the Japanese soldiers had poisoned - cases like this were very common. As my dad told me, grandad never took part in victory day parades and did not go to veteran meetings and always kept his campaign medals stashed away. Most of his combat history we found out in an official file which we request ed from the military of defense archives, only after his death.

[@jagerherten4134]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@philipp5142]

So, your grandfather was a fascist who tried to occupy Finland and survived by a miracle, when 400 000 Soviet soldiers died during the winter campaign. And now, your son (probably), a fascist, is also trying to occupy Ukraine, while 200 000 russian soldiers are either 200 or 300. Good family tree.

[@taheraalam7692]

*Bro wtf is happening? Can't you all appreciate the soldier instead of goofing around?*

[@Alexander-t97l]

Your grandfather was saved by the Americans thank to the Lend-Lease supplies

[@Robbstark2024]

It’s been so hard to find anything about this campaign that isn’t 4.5 hours long told in the most boring way. Thank you armchair historian!

[@slick8038]

Trueee. They’re all old boring documentaries

[@whaleio9476]

A series called "Soviet Storm" has an episode on the invasion of Manchuria: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn-aqmuPlsSWe68

[@Minboelf]

There is a 45 min documentary called soviet storm maybe you can check that out

[@Crashed131963]

"Soviet Storm" is the best Russian ww2 series ever. All 50 min episodes. You're not learning much in 15 min no matter how well put together it is.

[@stellviahohenheim]

Or you could just read a book

[@sweetdreams5024]

Glad to hear about Marshal Vasilevsky. He was an underrated commander considering his experiences in the Eastern Front and the Far East.

[@kingnevermore25]

There is also Rodion Malinovsky he commanded the Transbaikal front

[@MarMar-nq9ii]

If he was underrated, it wasn't in the Soviet Union. Stalin's favorite and Minister of Defense.

[@大砲はピュ]

Vasilevskiy, Rokossovskiy, Zhukov - the greatest

[@kingofnoob1432]

No he is a shitty general. Yamashita would destroy him if he have to fight him.

[@juozasmartinkus8033]

Malinovsky took wolf hole in Prussia with half soldiers than defenders had. For months he traded small shtoorm groups.

[@asianperson104]

The second sino Japanese war was arguably as chaotic and interesting as the eastern front. The sheer amount of things Chiang Kai shek had to deal with ( the communists, the Japanese invasions, the loss of their capitals, rampant corruption, a famine, and the many warlords/cliques) was insane. I hope you can do more videos on China as there is a lot of unpack when looking at it.

[@bradanklauer8926]

China is where some historians believe the Second World War began, not in Poland on September 1, 1939.

[@tianhaoju4634]

@@bradanklauer8926 For us it is indeed. It began on when Manchuria was invaded. Chiang Kai-shek is a massive L in historical regard. Before, during and after the war, he is known notoriously for white terror which puts Mao to shame in the regard. Heavy taxation and corruption formed the mention famine, and creating massive wealth gaps, even to a stage where the Americans stepped in. Intentionally collapsing the dam of Huayuankou, spending money sent by overseas Chinese for personal enjoyments etc. In 1945 where the Allies were steamrolling in every theater, he managed to lose a few thousand kilometers of frontline on what was probably the worst allied offensive in the late-war. A film made regarding this was released a few years back, im not sure if it is available on youtube or netflix - 1942, quite a good one, and was not politically biased - the Communists played an insignificant role in the film. The situation in Henan was so dire, due to the taxation, forced conscription and corruption, that people believed going under Japanese occupation was more acceptable. Chiang is indeed an enemy of the Chinese race.

[@bradanklauer8926]

@@tianhaoju4634 I meant the Marco-Pollo Bridge incident on July 7, 1937. As where Chiang and Mao stood, they were equally as bad.

[@اسكندرفكار]

But thé chines was never able of buting ap a good faight to gapan.like thé russians did with nazi Germany

[@tianhaoju4634]

@@bradanklauer8926 Make your own judgement and I won't force a change. But no, we believed that it was on the 18th of september 1931 the war began.

[@Temuulente]

Thank you for mentioning Mongolian war effort. Mongolian people’s army sent almost it’s all power to battle Japanese. Even the numbers were small those people fought well.

[@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet]

"A Mongolian-Soviet mechanised cavalry division" sounds like some sorta badass dieselpunk thing.

[@miguelramirez7827]

As soon is i heard the mechanized calvary charge i knew the mongolian soldiers fought like hell imagine riding horses next to tanks into battle.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

One result of this victory not often discussed: the Soviet win basically handed Manchuria to the communists in the soon-to-resume Chinese Civil War, making their eventual victory over the KMT that much easier.

[@death2641]

And the creation of North Korea soon to invade South which started Korean war

[@peep3298]

A lot of Japanese equipment was given to the Communists who were originally poorly equipped compared to their American sponsored counterparts.

[@glennyoungkindid9116]

@@death2641 *invaded the south preemptively when the south was putting down union worker uprisings and blaming the communists.

[@VersusARCH]

Not just Manchuria but also the captured weapons and ammo of the Kwantung Army... A major factor in Mao's subsequent victory. Given that USA essentially joined the World War 2 (by embargoing exports to Japan thus largely provoking its attack) in order to maintain its influence in China, one could argue that it ultimately failed in its war aim (but expanded its sphere of influence in Europe).

[@juwebles4352]

@@VersusARCH not really in china but more to maintain its influence in the pacific which definitely succeeded

[@ScorpoYT]

Ah yes, the soviet blitzkrieg against anime

[@oasis1282]

I didnt laugh but ill just put this comment here stating that i didnt laugh because hes verified and all

[@duyanh4609]

Haha

[@warbrain1053]

@@oasis1282 if you knew him you would understand

[@armthecyborg4021]

Yo it's Scorpo

[@whathell6t]

@Scorpo What about Tokusatsu?

[@Brzerz]

My grandpa was a soviet tankman during this war. He was part of group of soviet forces that attacked japanese through Great Khingan mountains.

[@ethantham7292]

Cool

[@vivofoottheseventh7393]

Based

[@kidkous]

your grandpa sounds like a good comrade

[@klen7642]

Nice.

[@coleburns5497]

What was his view on the Japanese soldiers?

[@ОнуфрийНечепуренко]

My grandfather served in the Soviet army during the attack on Manchuria. He said that the Chinese were absolutely intimidated by the Japanese and were afraid of their own shadow.

[@kzr_1613]

Its understandable considering how unstable China was at that time and all of the crimes against humanity Japan committed

[@Jebu911]

I guess it was good then that after "saving the day" they could finish the work by filling the massgraves with the rest of the locals there. Hope your grandpa wasn't there to do what a lot of the red army did.

[@V.T.A.Z.]

@@Jebu911 опять, многие красноармейцы? Мне уже надоело разным индивидам (но ты вроде адекватный) рассказывать от том что они не правы, просто почитай не на антисоветских сайтах про количество вернувшихся из плена и про опыт над русской матерью в отряды Исси или Кама или более известно 731

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@SDluka]

It is strange that people do not talk about this, but when Soviets crushed German attack, they moved a lot army in the far east and destroyed japanese armies there, they were shocked. Soviets even captured the last chinese emperor.

[@UserName-om6ft]

the Soviets hardly did anything against Japan in comparison to the other countries, the Soviets only won against Germany thanks to the allies opening up other fronts in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa, and thanks to the American made weapons provided to the USSR through Lend Lease, the USSR was only responsible for a little over 1% of all Japanese casualties which is very minimal

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@theterriblepuddle1830 nothing was decided, Stalin, Zhukov, and Nikita Khrushchev all admit they would have lost the war had it not been for the US Lend Lease supplies, and if it wasnt for the US taking care of Japan in the Pacific (the US is the real winner against Japan not the Soviets) then Japan would have started helping the Germans in Europe

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@theterriblepuddle1830 Japan invading the USSR from the east and the USSR would have been crushed by both Germany and Japan from 2 sides but thanks to the US the US saved the USSR by winning in Japan and giving the American weapons to the USSR to save them against Germany

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@UserName-om6ft I see your back again haha

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@theterriblepuddle1830 yes they did actually

[@obamacrockadile2136]

I haven't learned much about this, glad to watch some more info on the unknown soviet blitzkrieg

[@JACK....2788]

los soviéticos se los copiaron a los Alemanes, Los Soviéticos no son originales.😂😂😂😂

[@h0lynut]

@@JACK....2788 i wonder where you copied your language from. Perhaps the Spanish conquistadors? What type of statement are you even making. This is a history channel.

[@motmot8879]

@@h0lynut let's Also ignore blitzkrieg Is a straight french invention that wqs ignored by command who focused on the defensive

[@vinz4066]

@@JACK....2788 The Germans Just copied from Napoleon.

[@kidgaminggaming5731]

You just ignorant ngl

[@chaizaeng9653]

Great video as always, your animations are getting better and better over time. Just one small hickup, at 6:00 that's Franklin D. Roosevelt not Theodore.

[@zacharyschwartz3715]

Nice catch was wondering if anyone else even noticed . . .

[@paulphanachet]

Was looking for this comment. But damn, what if Theodore Roosevelt was born later and participated in WW2 as the President of the United States

[@jamesbrowne1004]

Yes, I was going to add this if it wasn't caught yet. T.R. was involved in that he helped broker the peace treaty ending the 1902 war..

[@yunleung2631]

I DID

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@paulphanachet both Roosevelts were pretty similar on policy despite being of different parties so not much may change

[@n1k1george]

My uncle was stationed in Manchuria as a young lieutenant. Two weeks before the Soviets attacked, he was recalled to Tokyo as he spoke fairly decent English . The upper command had correctly predicted that his linguistic abilities may be needed there very soon. His fate would have been very different otherwise.

[@svpmvp2433]

And then you wouldn't exist...

[@visassess8607]

@@svpmvp2433 He would still exist. It was his uncle not his father or grandfather.

[@svpmvp2433]

@@visassess8607 xD

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@bullreeves1109]

By 1945 the 3 most terrifying things in the world were: Nuclear bombs, The Soviet Red Army, and the American Navy.

[@thunderbird1921]

Don't forget both the RAF and USAAF also. Hands down the greatest air forces humanity had yet seen by the last days of the war.

[@johncarter4956]

You should call it the "Allied" navy as British Royal Navy is still a force to be reckon with. Especially in the Indian Ocean where the largest naval battle prior to Leyte Gulf, The Battle of Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka), was fought.

[@bullreeves1109]

@@johncarter4956 Yes but at that point I also should have said "Allied" Army. As the American and British Armies were also forces to be reckoned with. The US had more of a Naval monopoly than even the Soviets had a ground force monopoly. This isn't to bash the Royal Navy either. They were great, and up until WW2 they were ahead of the USN. But the USN simply grew too much for anyone to compete with by 1945.

[@stephenheath8465]

@@bullreeves1109 The Americans had thirty Essex Class Aircraft Carriers by the end of the War.

[@zpetar]

@@stephenheath8465 24.

[@kovesp1]

This is a pretty strange approach. How can you not mention Khalkin Gol in 1939 where Soviet victory led by Zhukov (and his fellow commanders Smushkevich and Shtern) was a direct path to Zhukov's appointment to chief of staff in February 1, 1941 (Vasilevsky, BTW, was head of the Operations Directorate at this time with Vatutin as his deputy). That victory in 1939 was also the main reason Japan never engaged again with the USSR until the Manchurian Strategic Operation in 1945.

[@providedyeti1518]

Why would he need to? This is a completely separate event?

[@dillonblair6491]

Cause russia is nasty

[@mrsneakyburt]

He did mention Khalkin Gol, he said it was the biggest border conflict they had before the war, but since it was "undeclared" it doesn't count as a part of the Soviet invasion of Japan, that's why he didn't talk more about it.

[@kovesp1]

@@providedyeti1518 Because he does talk about the Soviet-Japanese non-aggression treaty ... a direct consequence of Khalkin Gol. Because what he doesn't say is that one of factors contributing to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was that the outcome in the Far East was still unknown. Because the direction of the entire war was influenced by Khalkin Gol. Saying there is no relation ... you might as well say there us no relation to WW2.

[@kovesp1]

@@mrsneakyburt I didn't notice the side note earlier. But Khalkin Gol was much more than that. It determined Japanese policy towards the USSR and it meant that Japan considered expansion toward the North infeasible. That was a factor in the decision to attack the US. There is a direct chain connecting Khalkin Gol. The connection I would say is at least as important, if not more than trying to connect the offensive to "revenge for 1905".

[@cyrilsuperkonar3422]

My great grandfather was a soldier who traversed the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. After the end of the war in the west he was dislocated and attacked Manchuria from Mongolia. For that exploit he got victory over Japan medal and the order of the Red Star.

[@forkliftcertifed123]

🧢

[@forkliftcertifed123]

@@LJMaxZ how do you know it’s not?

[@ppdd7975]

big deal ... the japanese imperial forces were already on death's bed due to the effort of American forces

[@cyrilsuperkonar3422]

@@ppdd7975 not in Manchuria but I guess the fleet was

[@ГрецкийОлег-щ3г]

This is a heritage to be proud of and to look up to. May he rest in peace as all the passed heroes of our Motherland

[@rogofos]

the battle of khalkin gol was a decisive defeat for Japan and is largely considered (by russian historians) to be a reason Japan decided to turn its attention to expanding southwards against allies, seeing that there will be no easy victory against USSR on land

[@UserName-om6ft]

Japan only used 20,000 soldiers at Khalkhin Gol and the Japanese were outnumbered 4-1 by the Soviets at Khalkhin Gol and that was in 1939, in 1941 Japan was planning an invasion of the eastern USSR called Operation Kantokuen and it was going to be the largest land invasion in Japanese history but because of the fuel and oil blockade on Japan and the rising threat of the great sleeping giant known as the United States Japan was forced to divert their attention to the US and the Pacific, and if it wasnt for the US then Japan would have crushed the USSR from the east while the USSR gest crushed from the west by Germany because even in Europe if it wasnt for the US Lend Lease supplies then Germany would have steamrolled the USSR but thanks to the US that didnt happen, the US is the one that did most of the work to defeat the Japanese empire the USSR had little to no involvement in the Pacific, the US did even more in Europe than the USSR in the Pacific

[@jagerherten4134]

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[@bydloshkolnik]

@@UserName-om6ft Your mom got used only by 20000 japanese soldiers. Those soldiers were a private military of the "northern faction" of the japanese military which was tied to the medieval samurai clans. Creme le crope. Also there were 60000 japs under their command but front got annihilated too fast for all of them to get involved. The northerners wanted to take sparsely populated Siberia, since japan was struggling in China, even though Chai Kai Shek being retarded. And those northerners were a staunch opposition of the Tosa clan which controlled the naval and air forces. Thus they tried to instigate the war between USSR and Japan and were humiliated. It led to Tosa getting control over all the military. Tosa wanted to expand towards European colonies of the south-east Asia.

[@MrDrow-bi9js]

@@UserName-om6ft there were many of those in the entire history of Russia who wanted to crush it, everyone was left to rot in the ground

[@comradeofthebalance3147]

​@@UserName-om6ftRising threat of the US was mainly because of the militarism in Japan. So militaristic that they argued against each other and did contradicting things. And no, without Lend Lease, the Soviets would not be able to launch counter offensives as much as they were able to, nor would they be able to push Germany back beyond Poland and Kiev.

[@peterkarpo1227]

Thanks for this part of history not often covered! Love it!

[@dodimiller1956]

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[@KerteBene]

I mean it’s rarely talked about and this led to many changes for years to come and it’s good that it’s getting the recognition it needs

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@blackfalcon1610]

I always thought it was General Zhukov who lead the invasion of Manchuria. Anyway great video. I really enjoy how you cover battles that arent discussed much. Keep up the great work!

[@zaynahub4729]

Shukov fought before ww2, 1939, this was a different fight

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@ShengYu1995]

I am Chinese born in one of the 3 mordern Chinese Northeast provinces formerly known as Manchuria. Soviets helped us liberate our land which is why even after the cold war disagreements and border clashes, Chinese and Russians always were more aliened since we knew they helped us even though they annexed some parts of outer mongolia (republic of tuva and republic of buryats) when Qing dynasty collapsed

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

Today tuvans and buryats is russians.

[@Н.Андреев_3131]

Тыва сама присоединилась к советам, самая последняя, не привирайте. А Бурятия издавна была, со времен Российской империи в границах страны. Возможно про Монголию это можно было бы сказать, но не про Бурятию. Это вам ответственно говорю как сосед бурятов из Якутии. Историю свою хорошо знаем

[@pingmichael3106]

@@Н.Андреев_3131yeah Russians r known for stealing other countries border that’s the reason why no one likes Russian whether it’s in the west or east ! Slavic’s greed over territories is endless !

[@philliplarose8570]

It is a damn impressive military feat. For perspective compared to the blitzkrieg of France; this is basically capturing twice the land area of ALL of France; in half the time, in an area with minimal infrastructure, against a seasoned army of near equal force numbers, with an army half the size.

[@kalle911]

a depleted army as well, as was mentioned.

[@richardstephens5570]

The Japanese were outnumbered almost 2 to 1 in this. And the Japanese army was depleted, most of it's best troops and equipment had been siphoned off to fight the Americans and Chinese.

[@philliplarose8570]

@@richardstephens5570 The reason I used the term "Near equal force" is for this exact reason. In WWII; it was generally thought that an attacking force required about a 3:1 advantage in manpower to accomplish the combat goal. The 2:1 listed here (1.5 million vs ~750k+) would put the numerical advantage to the defender. And I totally agree that the Japanese army was depleted; as was the Guard's Battalions that attacked. The Soviet population lost 25% of their fighting age population in WWII; I doubt that meant the cream of the army was doing the attacking; and I doubt the training the Soviets were giving their conscripts was much more than the training of the Kwantung. The Soviet did have much better equipment due to lend lease, and much better experience; due to the Wehrmacht. I'm not trying to prop up the Soviets or idolize them, just point out that even with the factors; I think it is still very impressive.

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[@AFT_05G]

Still German invasion overall was more impressive,French Army in May 1940 was still more advanced and much larger than Japanese Army in Manchuria. And don’t forget that Soviets outnumbered Japanese almost 10 to 1 in number of tanks in the area.

[@RedWinter21]

I remember what a Soviet soldier told his comrades in a ww2 documentary footage: "LET'S SHOW THEM THE MEANING OF UNCONDITIONAL (SURRENDER)!" as they poised another artillery barrage

[@awwee34]

Soviet Storm: World War 2 in the East by Star Media. Also, wasn't it about blowing up bunkers and not artillery?

[@Charliecomet82]

URA!

[@Wackaz]

People love to praise the UK and USA for the victory of World War II, but without the Soviets and Stalin in particular, we would all be living under fascism right now. The Soviets won us the war.

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[@twistedshrimp8239]

Just finished up my college research paper and used your video as one of my sources, this video actually helped me reach the topic I ended up choosing! Love your videos, super informational and brings the history to life

[@felicityc]

you should use the direct sources he links in the description instead of the video itself. this is sort of like sourcing another college research paper for your research paper at best.

[@remhk6672]

Why in the hell would you do that? You do know these youtube historians can and do get factual errors as well right? Do your own research. Your laziness in college will cost you in the long run.

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

The Soviets really crushed the Kwantung Army brutally. The Japanese army didnt know what hit them.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

To be fair the Soviets attacked a terribly equipped, untrained, unprepared, starving force of soldiers who were the exact opposite of an elite corps. 500,000 men surrendered to the Russians forces, compared to the battle hardened Japanese troops that were fighting all over the Pacific.

[@brandonlee934]

@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- ya japan was a third rate industrial power that was worn down by a decade of war with china/allies going up against the largest and most veteran military force to ever exist with material support from the US/UK. Not a fair fight but still impressive in the sheer scale and speed of the attack

[@rayyansagheer6]

The japanese, at the places where they had the required ammunition and supplies necessary for a military engagement, still fought ferociously to the very end, as is their nature. They even inflicted more losses on the soviets

[@rayyansagheer6]

@@rafaelgonzalez562 how much ignorant can you be?

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@@rafaelgonzalez562 It literally says in the video at 11:14 that the most experienced japanese soldiers of the Kwantung army were shipped off to the Pacific, leaving Manchuria defended by fresh recruits with little equipment. Quote" *as the war situation began to deteriorate for the Imperial Japanese Army on all fronts, the large, well-trained, and well-equipped Kwantung Army could no longer be held in strategic reserve. Many of its front line units were systematically stripped of their best units and equipment, which were sent south to fight in the Pacific War against the forces of the United States in the Pacific Islands or the Philippines. Other units were sent south into China for Operation Ichi-Go* "

[@kenny187ful]

Been to the tunnels on Okinawa where some of the last defenders committed mass seppuku rather than being prisoners. It was haunting, to say the least, to imagine what being in those tunnels during the war and what the last moments would've been like.

[@dantheman3022]

Imagine all the civilians these soldiers massacred !!!! those soldiers got what they deserved !!!! warcriminals every one of them !!!

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

@@dantheman3022 like how the us firebombed cities of refugees like dresden? Or nuked two cities of christian civilians?

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[@tng2057]

The Japanese government had been actively encouraging Japanese nationals to settle in Manchuria since setting up the Manchukuo puppet state in the early 30s, and the fate of those settlers after the Soviet invasion was very tragic. Many abandoned settlers’ orphans perished and some only managed to get repatriated to Japan in the 80s / 90s.

[@Captain_FAIL]

Tragic my ass,they were colonial settlers in a god damn slave state,no less as europeans in africa were.

[@themaniac2448]

The Soviets didn't massacre them suprisingly, tho when the chinese got there, well...

[@bosunbill9059]

@@themaniac2448 This is false, despite what Mao did after his rule, in military command he have a strict policy of taking care of POWs as much as he can in Korean War and during Civil War. Which is one of his main tactic to cause mass defections in the KMT. He even spared and rehabilitated Puyi and defeated a Hui Muslim Uprising incited by the Ma Clique Clan by causing the leaders to deflect and turn against one another then ended up swearing loyalty to the PRC. Stalin on the other hand, has a track of sheer calculative brutality. While Mao is not a saint, he is more pragmatic and manipulative.

[@Brslld]

@@bosunbill9059 I don't he was talking about Mao. Many Chinese civilians would do reprisal attacks on Japanese civilians and chinese collaborators. The soviets turned a blind eye though and also attacked Japanese Civilians.

[@jymscarlfamilar7661]

A taste of their own cruelty.

[@kgb1780]

I'll do it again

[@Camerynn10]

Uh oh

[@d1struct0rcodm50]

“Ever heard of the 1st battle of Kharkov 1941?” *starts Barbarossa”

[@xdglitch7963]

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[@yurabiletsky3870]

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[@BOT-MERC]

NO ❤🎉

[@nbewarwe]

Preferred anti tank methods of each nation: USA: Air strikes USSR: More tanks Germany: Repurposed AA guns Japan: Human bombs

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[@WiggleOcto]

Chiang Kai Shek: You’re gonna give Manchuria to me, right? Stalin: Chiang Kai Shek: You’re gonna give it to me, right?

[@terrypennington2519]

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[@Carewolf]

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[@InfinitePlain54]

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[@InfinitePlain54]

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[@stephendaley266]

Stalin: Comrade Chiang, care to explain why you've been murdering thousands of civilians accused of being Communists? Chiang Kai Shek: " " Stalin: Burn in hell, punk-ass fascist!

[@StubbornBishop]

Awesome work, great to see the lesser known fronts of WW2 get quality coverage.

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[@BOKCGrizzlyWarlord]

Like it when people talk about this forgotten Russo-Japanese War

[@itsblitz4437]

@саrwow Shorts 🅥 not gonna fall for that.

[@itsblitz4437]

The Japanese Soviet War doesn't get a lot of attention in World War II history. Hopefully that changes.

[@iattacku2773]

People also forget chinas involvement in the war.

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@itsblitz4437 because the Soviets were only responsible for 1-2% of all Japanese casualties in WW2, the Russo-Japanese war in 1905 should get more attention i liked how Japan won the war against Russia and embarrassed them

[@vinz4066]

@@UserName-om6ft You are quite russophobic arent you?

[@bobo9519]

at 6:12 there is a Map showing the eastern railway Network of the USSR, the map shows the trans Siberia railway in red but also the B.A.M. railway in green just above the trans siberian, the B.A.M. wasnt built until the 1970s under Brezhnev so i'd be quite surprised if Soviet leaders were planning such a railway in 1945 but its an interesting thing that i took note of. It could also just be an error on the part of the animators who might have used modern Maps as reference.

[@letsgowinnietheflu5439]

Good catch. Missed that one myself

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[@basenwagen]

Russian agression... What a strange collocation to use in the context of WW2

[@КонстантинМатвеев-д8ц]

What do you expect from the american? He accused Russia of fighting nazism in WW2, even though, Soviet Union declared war to Germany before them. Not to mention him talking about the vietnamese war "from the vietnamese perspective" and still bragging about american victory just because they have killed 3 millions of Vietnamese (but haven't managed to kill all of them) 😂 what a joke

[@GodEmperorEnjoyer]

@@КонстантинМатвеев-д8ц The USSR only declared war on Germany, because they were invaded by them. The USSR didn’t wanted war with Germany for the foreseeable future.

[@UserName-om6ft]

hes right though

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@КонстантинМатвеев-д8ц imagine being anti American and anti Western yet you sit here on western sites using everything invented by westerns and you still cry and cry

[@esenamanurazayev6796]

Самый объективный комментарий

[@МахамбетМамыров]

Aggressors? Liberators!

[@cameronnewton7053]

"you are being liberated, please, do not resist"

[@archimedesfromteamfortress2]

I am anticommunist but I'd take the Soviets over Imperial Japan any day

[@BaconLover100]

@@archimedesfromteamfortress2 Amen. Same with the Germans.

[@TheRealAwtoh]

The animations and graphics just keep getting better, keep it up!

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[@snakeplays_roblox9685]

Keep it up bro keeping me at the top of my history class

[@conserva-chan2735]

I would love a video about the Portuguese Colonial War. It's such an underrated and important War that is super fascinating.

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[@velich76]

My grandfather commanded a tank brigade just during this operation against the Japanese army

[@guy8834]

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[@AntonPavlovich2000]

My great-grandfather participated in Manjuria campaign, thanks for a vid!

[@jamesbrowne1004]

Good work on an obscure topic. You could have added how fighting the Japanese provided general Zhukov with valuable experience at Khalkhin Gol, and the subsequent truce and non agression pact freed that victorious army for the defense of Moscow.

[@sansaravir9442]

Yes very true

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[@JORMUNREKKR]

18:00 "on the Russian aggressors" - wtf? Like how many casualties have the defenders in Normandy inflicted on the American aggressors before the region fell? 🤣

[@emmyugwuoti6245]

Fr

[@yangold2007]

He is a Brit. Russophobia is in his genes

[@talzzz1546]

@@yangold2007Brits are worse they are literally pirates who r@ped the whole world

[@HealzHS]

I bet he calls Russians aggressors in Ukraine as well. He is just a propaganda mouthpiece

[@peg2legs90]

@@yangold2007 He's not British

[@darkalleyhoboii8264]

“Fortunately by this time Stalin had accepted the fact that competency in his officer corp was not the inevitable precursor to treason” Favorite ACH quote

[@WM-gf8zm]

quite oxymoron considering he never really had issue with competency, for example tukhachevsky kept developing doctrines until everyone got tired of his seering ultra paganism, reactionary views and plotting

[@theimmoralcode7639]

It's not a great quote in my opinion. Stalin's purges often went too far he isn't the sole actor or perpetrator in them. Nikolai Yezhov head of the NKVD for example admitted to unfounded arrests and was largely responsible for the reign of terror. Some purges were necessary with the fifth column, a fascist reactionary group operating in the USSR but Stalin's paranoia and being surrounded by people like Yezhov meant things got out of hand with disastrous consequences. I digress but competency was never Stalin's problem with people if it was the USSR wouldn't have been the second fastest growing economy in history or go from war-torn feudalist backwater to global superpower in less than 25 years.

[@WM-gf8zm]

@@theimmoralcode7639 im still waiting for the sources revolving paranoia, considering everyone mentioning it never bothered to dig deeper than some online blogpost. Would such a man be in moscow during siege? i highly doubt it. Anyway yezhov, genrikh yagoda and so on, lot of bad weed to be purged

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[@mrmr446]

Japanese conditions for surrender were that the Emperor should stay in his position, anything else was secondary, and this was accepted by the US after the bombs were dropped. The Korean peninsula only split because when the US suggested Red Army troops only occupy half Stalin surprised them by agreeing and withdrawal to the 38th parallel followed.

[@thunderbird1921]

Imagine if they hadn't settled for only half of Korea. All of that peninsula would be under the monstrous Kim dynasty today.

[@mrmr446]

@@thunderbird1921 Whatever the result it wouldn't be the same regime as the current one in North Korea without the siege mentality that followed the Korean War.

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

Keep in mind Japan sued for peace months before the atomic bombs with these same exact conditions. Nearly every US General and Admiral believed the atomic bombs to be unnecessary, as Japan had already lost the moment they lost air and naval superiority, and not to mention barbaric. America declined this peace and accepted it AFTER showing off their new toy to the world. Burning innocent children, elders, and women with a fiery ball of atomic flame should not be supported in any circumstance. Its insane to me people still defend this as the only way and try to justify it.

[@derpidius6306]

@@mrmr446 Tbh he probably accepted because at the time, since the USSR lacked atomic weapons of its own, its ability to dispute American claims were extremely limited, so the fact they were being allowed to have anything in Korea was probably an instant win they weren't going to provide much pushback on

[@mrmr446]

@@derpidius6306 That would assume that such a request would be backed up by force against a country that was then an ally. The US had no ground forces in area, they were surprised Stalin agreed as they had no leverage.

[@Monkechnology]

13:30 I can't imagine how ferocious the japanese resistance was to shock battle hardened men who fought in hellish battles in places like Stalingrad, Berlin, Kursk, or Finland.

[@大砲はピュ]

fair

[@russkayaimperiya4918]

It is more likely that they would find the Japanese resistance shocking because it was at the point of suicidal, the Japanese stood no chance at victory whatsoever.

[@ЕвгенийВойтенко-б7с]

Шокирующие были только камикадзе.

[@TheImperialSoviet]

@@ЕвгенийВойтенко-б7сSo like, 90% of all Japanese resistance?

[@HIS_MIL_GLOB]

Congratulations for this video, dear youtuber. Good luck from Perú. :)

[@dpink4832]

I just think it's amazing that the Japanese Empire began with the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 and ended with the Soviet invasion.

[@mayukhmitra5819]

Like French 3rd Republic, Began with Sedan and Ended with Sedan .

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[@Kazakov_Vasiliy]

Думаю, она всё таки началась с первой японо-китайской войны, а не с русско-японской

[@freezy8593]

This is the best, thanks for more informative and entertaining videos!

[@64_chances73]

I believe I read somewhere that between 1932 and 1934, there were 152 border disputes between the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan. Some were small and some were intentionally large.

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[@hondacity3210]

It could’ve just been a slip but at 6:05 you said Theodore Roosevelt was at Yalta but wasn’t it Franklin D. Roosevelt?

[@какой-тоноунейм-ы6ч]

7:04 "... a Greater Germanic Reich was crumbled by the Soviet *agression*..." (died choking on laughter from cringe)

[@JudgeBread.]

opression или agression? Я даже не разобрал, полез в комменты. В любом случае какой-то кукож.

[@какой-тоноунейм-ы6ч]

@@JudgeBread. Именно "agression". Хотя раньше автор допускал некоторые неточности, пороть подобный кринж он начал совсем недавно. Парень, очевидно, "на зарплате".

[@Tamère353]

​@@какой-тоноунейм-ы6ч ну он же американец. Они даже когда упоминают союз всегда должны его как-то обосрать, сказать что кто-то там кого-то изнасиловал и массово ссылал в Сибирь а вот доблестные американские солдаты всем всё прощали и вообще не совершали никаких военных преступлений на тот момент (ну в одном из его видосов про судьбу японских военнопленных это было)

[@wangity]

This is why Japan was so willing to concede anything to prevent a soviet invasion

[@explainatorylore799]

we want a north communist japan like north korea.

[@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants]

No it wasn't. The Japanese proved time and again that they were a match for Russian/Soviet forces. The Japanese were facing annihilation.

[@axelfoley1812]

@@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants before yes but during the end stages of WW2 Japan was significantly weaker and low on resources. The Japanese also knew that Stalin would most likely murder the emperor

[@GoogleAreEnemyCombatants]

@@axelfoley1812 when had the Russians/Soviets ever conducted a large scale blue water amphibious invasion of an enemy nation? Never happened. The Japanese would have gobbled up their whole force on inbound. By the end of the war in the Pacific, the Japanese were experts at amphibious defense and their Navy, while only a shadow of its former self, was still held in check by AMERICA'S navy. The idea of Japanese sailors and infantrymen quaking in their boots is clearly some sort of Russian propaganda. The Japanese of 1945 were not the Japanese of 1904. They were BETTER.

[@bogdangiusca7431]

Because the Soviets would have definitely removed the Emperor as head of state.

[@itsblitz4437]

I love it when Griffin covers World War II about Japan 🇯🇵 as they get so obscured and underrepresented in the history books when they should equally matter.

[@Bizanio]

It's because people don't want to admit that the Japanese during WWII were just as bad as the Nazis

[@vermillioncap8784]

Their warcrimes also got obsured and underrepresented in the history books.

[@oliverwortley3822]

are you really trying to be woke about this subject? seriously?

[@joshuabonilla3491]

@@vermillioncap8784 it’s starting to be talked about more , people will never forget what japan did. Unlike Germany they try to just pretend it never happened.

[@residentelect]

@@joshuabonilla3491 Many of Grandad's generation (ww2 veterans) were so badly affected by how the Imperial Japanese treated their adversaries, in particular POWs, that even upto the 1980s they point blank refused to purchase Japanese vehicles or electrical goods, both of which boomed in postwar Western Europe. I remember him point blank refusing to rent a Vega television set once he found out the company had been purchased by Sony...

[@historyforlife1072]

This is so good, thank you The Armchair Historian

[@anthonyminimum]

5:53 goes to say Franklin D Roosevelt, but ends up saying Theodore Roosevelt

[@johnchi1]

I was just going to say that is not "Teddy" Roosevelt in my comments ...

[@Mohamedistan_offical95]

Look at stalin's face lmao

[@c0nstantin86]

Have you noticed that ... by a slip of the writst, the American magicians can make it so it seem as they are the ones who decide what countries win and lose wars? So fascinating is the film industry... 17:28 here is one example: "Soviets ware pushing in desperate to goubble up as much territory as possible before Japan capitulated to the Americans" not "Battle hardened soviets ware deployed to deal with the other end of the Axis, and ware so efficient that Japan who initially started a war on oil with America, capitulated just to be saved from the Russians"

[@UserName-om6ft]

"so efficient" Lol Soviets were only responsible for 1-2% of all Japanese casualties in WW2, USSR did nothing against Japan except jump in at the very end in 1945 when the US had already won the war with Japan the Japanese already offered to surrender to the Americans before the Soviets even started advancing into Manchuria, the US is the one the war with Japan the USSR did virtually nothing compared to the US, in fact the US had more involvement in defeating Germany in Europe than the USSR did in the Pacific, and had it not been for the absolute vital military equipment the US sent to the USSR through the Lend Lease then the USSR would have been steamrolled by Germany, if it wasnt for US involvement in WW2 then WW2 would be a German-Japanese victory and a crushing defeat for the Soviets but of course the US saved the USSR stop defending the USSR in the name of anti Americanism you bot

[@c0nstantin86]

@@UserName-om6ft same thing about America in Europe!

[@stevemc01]

5:56 I don't even think Theodore was alive to see World War II at this point... just a small note. Other than that, superb job of covering an often overlooked theater of the war.

[@awwee34]

It's Franklin Roosevelt, he made a mistake lmao

[@pierrecurie]

@@awwee34 I thought something sounded wrong.

[@Bleakfacts]

Yes, that was confusing..

[@jagerherten4134]

My name is Jager Herten sometimes I talk to myself and I got Infected by User Name to do the the same thing with me. He got everything to lose including his reputation which he polish policing the comments, those are irrelevant now.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@noorur]

Soviets suffered the biggest losses during WW2 when they defeated the Nazis on one front, then turned their attention on Japan. We're led to believe Soviets are the enemy ?

[@RuosongGao]

Wdym "we're led to?" The beginning of the Cold War is extremely complicated, stop trying to oversimplify it.

[@UserName-om6ft]

Soviets would have lost if not for Lend Lease

[@brok1589]

​@@UserName-om6ft No, lol, the German army started to fall apart from the beginning of the war due to lack of fuel. Don't forget about the 1.1 million Soviet partisans. According to some sources, during the war, Soviet partisans killed, wounded and captured about 1 million occupiers, disabled over 4 thousand tanks and armored vehicles, blew up 58 armored trains and 12 thousand bridges, destroyed 65 thousand cars, carried out 20 thousand wrecks of enemy trains and disabled over 10 thousand locomotives, as well as 110 thousand cars and platforms. You're clearly wehraboo

[@scouttrooper7804]

Hey armchair historian, you should do a video explaining the Khalkin Gol battles, that would be very interesting as its a very untold campaign from Russia and Japan.

[@UserName-rc6le]

My name is User Name, again I was baited that I had to play in this child's game to save my face. I'm so mad at this insanity

[@jagerherten5008]

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[@jagerherten4134]

My name is Jager Herten sometimes I talk to myself and I got Infected by User Name to do the the same thing with me. He got everything to lose including his reputation which he polish policing the comments, those are irrelevant now.

[@americanprepper4206]

I think you meant Franklin Roosevelt not Theodore. Love the videos! Thank you for all you do!

[@jagerherten4134]

My name is Jager Herten sometimes I talk to myself and I got Infected by User Name to do the the same thing with me. He got everything to lose including his reputation which he polish policing the comments, those are irrelevant now.

[@EzekielDeLaCroix]

It really isn't that far fetched when you realize that there are few concentrated supply centers. Even if the total area is wide, most strategic and tactical locations are in predictable places.

[@rainmanslim4611]

The reason Japanese tanks sucked so much was because they weren't designed for anti-tank warfare. They were designed to be strictly anti-infantry since they were designed to fight China and China had no tanks, only slow, weak and cumbersome field guns and napoleonic-era cannons. Against China they were terrifyingly effective. But when faced up against industrialised powers fielding their own tanks designed to kill other tanks, Japanese tanks just didn't stand a chance

[@tnminhkhoi1398]

Well they have a lot of plans for making much better tank models but unluckily all of the resources were used for making ships

[@baptistebeardwood]

Great video! As a sidenote, at 5:58 you mention Theodore Roosevelt as being the U.S. President. It was in fact Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt having been dead for almost 40 years.

[@RBN1939]

great video on a topic as you have said doesn't get covered its always interesting learning about lesser know historical topics always enjoy the work of the channel and especially all of the animation really helps bring the history alive the one thing I would say is I think you should have the option of subtitles available for those who are deaf or who have other hearing impairments so they can enjoy these videos as well and learn about these topics otherwise great work keep it up

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@konstantinbush295]

Great video. But there are few inaccuracies. 1) 03:20 Tsarist Russia lost to Japan in 1905 (the surrender of Port Arthur and the collapse of the squadron near Tsushima), not 1904 2) 04:20 The main reason why Japan did not attack Soviet Union in 1941 was that Japan lost Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939 with heavy human casualties (you just have a small textbox about this in 10:31). This defeat and nonaggression pact between the USSR and Germany in 1939 caused the resignation of the Japanese government and signing treaty of neutrality between the USSR and Japan in April 1941 two month before Hitler invaded the USSR in June 1941. Japan changed its focus from Siberia to Southeast Asia, especially the petroleum and mineral-rich Dutch East Indies. Georgy Zhukov, who defeated the Japanese army at Khalkhin Gol, was subsequently appointed commander-in-chief of the Soviet army against Nazi Germany.

[@UserName-om6ft]

Japan would have actually attacked the USSR with Operation Kantokuen in 1941 if it wasnt for the US doing a fuel and oil embargo on Japan destroying Japans resources, it wasnt because of Khalkhin Gol, that was a tiny border skirmish and can hardly be applied to the wider war, it was thanks to the US doing the overwhelming vast majority of the work to defeat the Japanese empire thats why they didnt invade the USSR

[@konstantinbush295]

@@UserName-om6ft This is probably what is written in your American textbooks. But this is far from an objective story. During the 4 months of Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939, about 20 thousand people died on both sides, a lot of armored vehicles, aircraft and horses. Oil supplies to Japan were critical and number one priority. Japan received oil from the United States and from Indonesia. At that time, no one knew about the oil fields in Siberia. The closest oil to Japan in the Soviet Union was in the Caspian Sea. It was simply stupid for the Japanese to climb into Siberia and suffer heavy losses there without extracting critical resources

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@konstantinbush295 20,000? yea thats small casualties compared to the 3.1 million Japanese that were kiIIed in all of WW2, the US alone was responsible for over 70% of all the Japanese KIA in WW2, in WW2 the US conducted military operations in the Pacific in the Philippines campaign 1944-1945, Solomon Islands campaign, New Guinea campaign, Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, Mariana and Palau Islands campaign, Aleutian Islands campaign, Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign, battle of Okinawa, battle of Iwo Jima, battle of Midway, battle for Henderson Field, battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo, battle of the Komandorski Islands, battle of the Philippine sea, battle of Leyte Gulf, battle of Cape Esperance, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of the East China Sea, Guadalcanal campaign, naval battle of Guadalcanal, battle of Vella Gulf, battle of Ormoc Bay, Operation Starvation 1945, the US bombing campaigns of mainland Japan to destroy Japans industrial production and the Japanese air defenses failed to take out the US air force, the fact that the US single handedly destroyed the entire Japanese navy and air force, the fact that Japan was rampaging all through out Asia advancing and expanding their empire rapidly until the US showed up, the US would have defeated the Japanese without the USSR but the USSR would have lost to Germany in Europe if not for the US

[@konstantinbush295]

​@@UserName-om6ft 1) I hope you are not a chatbot spamming the list of US military campaigns against Japan. I don't know who you wrote all this for. 2) Estimates of Japanese military dead range from 2.5 million to 3.1 million. Most of them killed by Americans, but also by Britons, Aussies, Indians e t.c. In August 1945 700,000 Japan Kwantung Army was destroyed by the USSR. 3) Nazi Germany lost 6.9-7.4 million, mainly killed by the USSR. And also a million Axis soldiers allied with Nazi Germany on the eastern front. 4) The US single handedly destroyed the entire Japanese navy and air force - yes, it is a fact. 5) The USSR would have won against Nazi Germany in Europe without the help of the United States, but at a higher price. In early December 1941, the USSR inflicted a decisive defeat on the Germans in the battle for Moscow (and it was not a victory for General Frost). At that time, the USSR did not have any lend-lease and allied assistance, and the United States was just entering the WW2. By the time the US/UK/Canada landed in Europe, Hitler had already effectively lost the war to the Soviet Union. But with their landing in Europe and Lend-Lease, the Allies certainly brought victory in Europe closer. 6) Returning to the original topic. Already in 1939, after the Battles forKhalkhin Gol, the new government of Japan decided to conquer Southeast Asia instead of Siberia. Indonesian oil has become a priority for Japan. And no one needed to risk a war with the USSR without obtaining key resources in Siberia, the Japanese were not complete idiots. At that time in Siberia there were only forests, frost and evil Russians. The rich resources of Siberia were explored after the war. At the headquarters of every major military power there are various military plans for attacks on different opponents (including even allies), but this does not mean that they should be automatically applied. By the way, the United States imposed an embargo on oil supplies to Japan only in August 1941. So your whole theory that the United States saved the USSR with its oil embargo for Japan is no good. 7) Perhaps it is written in American textbooks that Americans are the only God-chosen exeptional nation that defeated Nazism all over the world. But in reality, you have to understand that this is not entirely true, and America is a rather young and still largely immature civilization.

[@UserName-om6ft]

​@@konstantinbush295 yes over 70% of the Japanese KIA were from the Americans, and with Germany 60-70% of the Germans were also kiIIed by the Soviets, even less if we count captured, without the millions of US and Western troops defeating the Germans in Western Europe, Italy, and North Africa plus without the US giving the USSR billions of dollars worth of guns, ammo, tanks, planes, trucks, jeeps, tractors, trains and locomotives, boxcars, train rail tracks, tires, steel, explosives, aluminum, wire, rubber, gun powder, fuel, food, clothes, blankets, cotton, army boots, radios, and other crucial military and logistical equipment through US Lend Lease then the USSR would have been steamrolled by Germany, 40-50% of the tanks the SOviets used in the battle of Moscow came from the west, you should realize theres a difference between defending Moscow vs advancing thousands of miles across the entire continent of Europe to Berlin, Paris, and even the western beaches of France, without the military and logistical support of Lend Lease sent to the USSR, the Soviets would have no chance of advancing across Europe, In total, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease, including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars which augmented the existing stocks of at least 20,000 American locomotives and half a million American railcars. Much of the logistical assistance of the Soviet military was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks, 1/3rd of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3/4th ton and Studebaker 2+1/2 ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations and clothing were also critical. Lend-Lease also supplied significant amounts of weapons and ammunition. The Soviet air force received 18,200 aircraft, which amounted to about 30 percent of Soviet wartime fighter and bomber production (mid 1941-45). About 13,000 Lend-Lease tanks were provided to the Soviet Union. A particular critical aspect of Lend-Lease was the supply of food. The invasion had cost the USSR a huge amount of its agricultural base, during the initial Axis offensive of 1941-42, the total sown area of the USSR fell by 41.9% and the number of collective and state farms by 40%. The Soviets lost a substantial number of draft and farm animals as they were not able to relocate all the animals in an area before it was captured and of those areas in which the Axis forces would occupy, the Soviets had lost 7 million of out of 11.6 million horses, 17 million out of 31 million cows, 20 million of 23.6 million pigs and 27 million out of 43 million sheep and goats. Tens of thousands of agricultural machines, such as tractors and threshers, were destroyed or captured. Agriculture also suffered a loss of labor, between 1941 and 1945, 19.5 million working-age men had to leave their farms to work in the military and industry. Agricultural issues were also compounded when the Soviets were on the offensive, areas taken back from the Axis had been devastated and contained millions of people who needed to be fed. Lend-Lease thus provided a massive number of foodstuffs and agricultural products. When the German army captured Ukraine, the USSR was on borrowed time because they had lost their breadbasket and food source, guess who kept the Soviets fed? The USA, during WW2 Lend-Lease data show that about 5.1 million tons of foodstuff left the United States for the Soviet Union. It is estimated that all the food supplies sent to Russia could feed a 12,000,000-man strong army a half pound of concentrated food per day, for the entire duration of the war. The Soviets couldnt even produce enough high octane aviation fuel for their planes so they had to rely on Lend Leased fuel, back to the Pacific, the Soviets made no difference in the outcome of the war against Japan, the US army, navy, and air force was already defeating the Japanese empire WITHOUT the Soviets, the Soviets were only responsible for a mere 1-2% of the Japanese KIA in WW2, When it comes to the battle of Khalkhin Gol. I don’t think you can extrapolate a border skirmish and apply that to the wider war. Especially when it was in 1939 and the Soviet war with the Germans was NOT ongoing at this time. The Japanese considered it a defeat, yes, but when you look at the actual numbers, the Japanese totally outclassed the Red Army by a wide margin. The Japanese went into the battle with only one third to one fourth the manpower the Soviets had (about 20,000 Japanese soldiers to the Soviets 74,000), and only 73 tanks compared to the Soviets 550!, and still suffered fewer casualties (Japanese suffered 18,000 casualties, Soviets about 28,000). By 1941 though, such an engagement would have involved millions of Japanese soldiers. With the outbreak of the Pacific War, Manchuria was largely a backwater to the conflict. However, as the war situation began to deteriorate for the Imperial Japanese Army against the United States, the large and trained Kwantung Army could no longer be held in strategic reserve. Many of its front line units were systematically stripped of their best units and equipment, which were sent to fight in the Pacific War against the forces of the United States. By 1945, the Kwantung Army consisted of 600,000 personnel, the quality of troops had fallen drastically, as all the best men and materiel were siphoned off for use in the war against the United States. These forces were replaced by militia, draft levies, reservists, and cannibalized smaller units, all equipped with woefully outdated equipment. The bulk of military equipment was developed in the 1930s, and very few of the soldiers had sufficient training or any real experience, you overhype Soviet importance far too much the facts prove otherwise

[@Stirling96]

Years before WW2 Russia lost to Japan, now the Soviet Union got its revenge and smashed the Imperial Army.

[@UserName-om6ft]

the Japanese army was already defeated by the US, the USSR was only responsible for a mere 1-2% of all the Japanese KIA the Soviets made no difference, US Lend Lease also saved USSR from Germany in Europe

[@rez4098]

3:13 I believe Japan's invasion of Manchuria started at 1931's mukden incident, not during 1939.

[@wolftamer5463]

5:56 Theodore Roosevelt?

[@SKKING10009]

6:15 did anyone notice that officer who got hit by the door🤣🤣

[@derkaiser420]

I will admit I don't have a degree in history but I am a huge history buff. Your channel is fantastic, I watch basically everything you put out. The animation and the commentary is awesome. Keep up the good work.

[@letsgowinnietheflu5439]

Not very observant are you he can't even get the type of equipment used correct he shows Soviet troops disembarking from landing craft at the 16:00 mark not to mention the wrong Roosevelt being named. 2nd rate at best.

[@UserName-rc6le]

My name is User Name, again I was baited that I had to play in this child's game to save my face. I'm so mad at this insanity

[@jagerherten5008]

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[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten4134]

My name is Jager Herten sometimes I talk to myself and I got Infected by User Name to do the the same thing with me. He got everything to lose including his reputation which he polish policing the comments, those are irrelevant now.

[@KommandoLando]

Interesting how it was mentioned that a factor in the decision to fight Japan was restoring Russia's damaged image from the previous war, and with that in mind, at 11:48 the background colors match the old Russian Imperial flag.

[@jagerherten4134]

My name is Jager Herten sometimes I talk to myself and I got Infected by User Name to do the the same thing with me. He got everything to lose including his reputation which he polish policing the comments, those are irrelevant now.

[@FNA27601]

They kinda restored it when they defeated the Japanese in 1939

[@matthewpeluso3914]

Loved this one! I knew very little about the Russian attack into the Japanese held territories!

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten4134]

My name is Jager Herten sometimes I talk to myself and I got Infected by User Name to do the the same thing with me. He got everything to lose including his reputation which he polish policing the comments, those are irrelevant now.

[@jagerherten5008]

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[@c0nstantin86]

6:13 ... guy at the door, chilling: BOOM! "I HAVE DECIDED WHAT TO DO NEXT!" casual blood splatter =))))

[@tagus100]

Gotta remember this happened after Germany had surrendered. The Soviets were battle-hardened and had a grudge against as well as prior experience in fighting the Japanese.

[@alehaim]

Next up I'd love to see a video on the Chinese front of WW2 in all the justice it deserves

[@johnbean4615]

Same I don’t know much about the Asian part of ww2 it would be nice to learn about it

[@Dmitri_Donskoy]

So tru

[@jagerherten4134]

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[@ashman8891]

Please do a video on the WW2 Burma campaign and/or the exploits of the Chindits. The forgotten war shouldn't stay that way. Would love a video on the exploits of the Flying Tigers too.

[@jagerherten4134]

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[@achilles9448]

as a history buff I really enjoy your videos and I love history and one of my favorite parts of the history is learning about the wars.. now I know a lot about world war II but I had no idea that the Soviets and Japan fought this much... after United States drop their second bomb on Japan is that Russia declared war on Japan but never realized that the interfere more than I thought well done and it's a part of history that I am looking forward to learning..

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@jagerherten4134]

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[@EnigmaEnginseer]

I think a mistake may have been made. Around 5:55 you said that Stalin won over President Theodore Roosevelt. Teddy had been dead for a bit now lol. Just thought I'd bring it up.

[@TaercEum]

Yes, T.R. died in early 1919.

[@LivonianGuy]

USSR: "We not gonna fight Imperial Japan, we got non-agression pact." USA: "You may have Manchuria..." USSR: "Alright capitalist b***h, say no more."

[@chilldude8003]

At the time, the soviets and Americans were friendly, so they won't call their own comrades b***h lol

[@LivonianGuy]

@@chilldude8003 More like frienemies.

[@lexus8018]

Imagine hearing Germany just got rolled by the soviets and still thinking you with your empty Arisaka will stand a chance

[@franciscosantiago5449]

It was Franklin Roosevelt Stalin negotiated with, not Teddy. Teddy was president 1901-1909

[@samsungtv4u]

My stepfather fought on the Russian side in Harbin I still have photographs of skulls stacked in piles about 12 ft high the Japanese had several of these skul mountains near their positions,, from what I understand they were Chinese skuls.

[@jagerherten4134]

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[@Bopkasen]

Many have argued that the bombing of Hiroshima was about saving American lives while avoiding the onslaught of Japanese's military and any would-be conscript defending Japan. Some, like myself, would argue that the bombing of Hiroshima was also meant to prevent Russia from invading Japan. The US have seen how fast the Soviet was occupying Germany. This became an advantage determining how fast the Soviet was mobilizing. If the American didn't bomb Hiroshima, the fighting and occupation would took a long time giving Russia time to "chip in" as ally. I can't express how much I loves our American history. But, part of me wants to know more about the truth more than the bias that distort the main idea.

[@UserName-om6ft]

the Soviets would have lost to Germany without Lend Lease, the US would still win against Japan without the USSR but the USSR loses to Germany without the US

[@russkayaimperiya4918]

@@UserName-om6ft Till mid-winter in 1941 all of our supplies were 85% self-made, we didn’t need your weapons or aid. We merely needed men and rifles, nothing more or less.

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@russkayaimperiya4918 Germany was still advancing until the very end of 1942 and start of 1943, and most of Lend Lease came in 1942, keep in mind your own Soviet leaders them selves Khrushchev, Zhukov, and even Stalin himself all admit that they would have lost the war if not for Lend Lease supplies, also keep in mind about the fact that the US built the Soviet industry in the 1920s and 1930s, without the American engineers, American architects, and American industrialists building the Soviet industry in the 1920s and 1930s then the Soviet industry in WW2 in the 1940s would have been a joke and the Germans would have steamrolled the Soviets but thanks to the US that didnt happen, how does it feel knowing your precious Russia is losing the war in Ukraine badly? who owns Kherson right now? 😂

[@Bopkasen]

@@UserName-om6ft What are you talking about? Russia didn't lose to Germany. They have their butt kick during the German's Operation Barbarossa invading Moscow. But, they never finish the job because the troops were not wearing winter clothes. Just like the Napoleon invasion invasion, they couldn't finish the job without proper thermal clothing. The battle of attrition would have been won if was not so. Many German troops have froze to death while some manage to get on the plane leaving for Germany.

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@Bopkasen the USSR would have lost to Germany if not for billions of dollars worth of American weapons and supplies given to the USSR through Lend Lease

[@andreidogaru3733]

05:57: I'm pretty sure it was Franklin Roosevelt, not Theodore, who took part in the Yalta conference. Poor Theodore had been dead since 1919.

[@thijsminnee7549]

Finaly a video about the Soviet-Japanese war, great job. If only you'd mentioned the Kuril islands dispute between Russia and Japan that came as a result and still lasts to this day, then it'd be perfect.

[@UserName-rc6le]

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[@jagerherten4134]

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[@jagerherten5008]

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[@alih6953]

Red Army was very mighty. They defeated Japan in 1939 also. Halder also ignored warning from Paulus about the failure of operation Barbarossa

[@UserName-om6ft]

the USSR did not defeat Japan the US defeated Japan and Germany at the same time

[@personnenestici]

@@UserName-om6ft go watch some more Hollywood, kiddo 😂

[@UserName-om6ft]

@@personnenestici It's not hollywood its historical facts, Russian propaganda doesnt fly anymore sadly.

[@AHTOIIIKA]

7:08 Nazy lose under Soviet agression? What? :\

[@TjZz]

Soviet fighting Nazis to protect their land but still got called aggression but when America lied and invaded Iraq , Afghanistan, Libya its called liberate 😂😂😂 woke mind

[@juanDE1703]

this channel is a gem

[@bernardli9514]

5:55 this isn't a big enough glitch to redo the video but... that was president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, not Theodore. Small glitch on an otherwise amazingly detailed video!

[@tjanderson5892]

lol the struggle for animators to create Asians w/o coming off as offensive is always fun to see 😂