Could the Soviets have taken over the Middle East? History of the Middle East 1957-1962 - 21/24

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When I read this I heard that stupid gorgonzola noisemaker in my head 💀 you're bringing up traumatic incidents man

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Jabzy just made us wait three months so that he could drop as many videos possible back to back.

[@DanH-u3f]

The USSR had no intention of taking over the Middle East. They were more valuable as military client states that send billions to the USSR who desperately need the hard currency.

[@magnificentname]

There's an entire generation (aged 70-80 years old) that's very influenced by the communist ideology, and they have their own (kinda dead by now) politics and perspectives and even culture, separated in a bubble from everyone else. I wonder if it's like this elsewhere

[@INSANESUICIDE]

Well, there are equivalents in the post Soviet states, former Yugoslavia states as well as China and a smattering of other Asian nations. Meanwhile in the west it is the youth and college students that live in their own cultural and political pro communist bubble😂

[@hazchemel]

Speaking from Elsewhere, yes it is the same here. The dissolution of the USSR, triggered the dissolution of our national Moscow aligned communist party. It has been said that a large chunk of these disbanded party members joined the green party, which now ceased being an organisation for positive environmental action such as rehabilitating a ruined habitat, planting trees, enhance rivers and banks, etc etc, into a group of the elect with morbid suicidal and homicidal urges and a profoundly anti-human perspective. Does anybody, from wherever, know of this within their own region?

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I still remember a time when the majority of the members of the Palestinian liberation movements were ideologically socialist or marxist. Crazy to see how much things have changed now

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[@The_syncretist]

Interesting period of history, thank you! The middle east in the 1920s-40s would be valuable to be covered to this level, as well as the remainder of the 60s and 70s Thanks again

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Amazing video series. Very interesting time period.

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This is very unlikely since the principles of communism include materialism and atheism.

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[@jordanbell4736]

The video is about could Soviets "dominate" middle east, not "invade" middle east, which is what the title made me think.

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[@AltaicGigachad]

Lenin said: Despite being poor by ourselves, we can give financial support to Turkey. It is a necessity. Financial support, mercy (compassion) and friendship is a three times larger help. Turkish people should sense that they are not alone. " In his memoirs Aralov writes about the instructions Lenin gave him before he was dispatched to Turkey: "Turks are fighting for their national liberation. The imperialists have robbed Turkey naked, they are still doing it.. Mustafa Kemal Pasha is naturally not a socialist . But it is apparent that he is a good organizer . He is an able leader , leading the national bourgeois revolution . He is an intelligent , progressive leader . He has understood the importance of our socialist revolution , and is favorable toward Russia.. I believe he will destroy the I believe he will destroy the pride of the imperialists and liquidate the Padisah ( Sultan ) together with his lackeys .. Although we are very poor ourselves , we can materially aid Turkey . We must do it . This way the Turkish people will The Russian aid has been in three forms : money , arms and munitions . The precise quantity of this aid is still unknown . But considering that Russian economy was bankrupt at the time , and the country was ridden with warfare against the Allied powers and White Generals , the magnitude of this aid could not be as spectacular as it is sometimes claimed . Never- theless , this has come at the right time when it was most needed to furnish an otherwise poorly equipped Turkish army , and has been instrumental in the final victory. In round figurres the total Russian aid , according to the Turkish envoy Ali Fuad Pase in Moscow , was 10 million gold rubles ( paid in installments ) , rifles , bayonnets , machine - guns , cannons horses and relevant material to equip two divisions .

[@moderatetuber3845]

Not take over but I’d say win an alliance with us. You see what killed the USSR influence in TME is Egypt specifically Sadat. He shifted 180 at the first opportunity he got to the American camp. If Sadat continued Nasser’s policies USSR would’ve probably still around, yes I think that Sadat helped killing the ussr by fighting its influence in TME and Africa. Nasser had a plan to fully and without peace to liberate Sinai from Israel by 1971, I think if that happened and he won the war the next step would’ve been creating a pan Arabist socialist union with Syria, Algeria, Lybia , Sudan, iraq and Yemen. Nasser wins, Arab socialists win, Arab puppets if the west lose. That’s why Nasser had to go

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[@christianweibrecht6555]

was Turkey inherently opposed to communism or just Russian influence?

[@electricVGC]

kemalism was pretty violently anti communist as an ideology, and as mentioned in the video kemalism was core to most of the existing government institutions in turkiye at the time - especially the military and courts

[@christianweibrecht6555]

@ I wonder why exactly Kemal hated communism when he was so eager for government involvement in the economy

[@electricVGC]

@@christianweibrecht6555 probably because government involvement in the economy is not a tenet of communist belief, which advocates for the abolition of government, and he was an incredibly standard politician along the lines of your average American or French politician for the 1920s and 30s

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both likely

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24:27 That's alot of parade floats...

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Why you didn't talk about the OAS (Organization de l'Armée Secrète), a paramilitary French organization which attacked and massacred Algerians, and which was the blueprint for the founding of the FN (Front Nationale) party in France? What do you have against Muslims?

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he mentioned them in the last few minutes of the video, the secret army

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Depends

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[@malegria9641]

Ok I’m commenting literally 30 seconds after it uploaded so I definitely did not watch the full thing, but my opinion: hell to the fuck no. Soviets anti-religion policies and mistreatment of Muslim minorities with sizable diasporas in the Arab world (Chechens, Ingush, Circassians) wouldn’t have allowed it

[@TingTong2568]

But they did mess around the mid east till its effect can be seen till today

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True based channel also imagine Levant & egypt still Byzantine empire