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

[@electricVGC]

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What is the background music?

[@garrettredding2837]

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

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@@FalkyRocket2222 it was something like that lol, admittedly not the sauce

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Not anymore!! HOORAY FOR TF2!

[@aasante3437]

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

[@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?

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338]

In Poland and pretty much every other post Soviet country has this same group of old people that remember communism positively because how simple and secure the average person life was, even though they lived in much lower quality products and limited products like electronics or clothes. They say “ we didn’t have much but there was no such thing as homelessness “ which is a valid reason despite the downsides .

[@magnificentname]

Interesting, do they have a certain pull on the politics of these countries? Like an appeal to more socialistic policies?​@@grzegorzbrzeczyszykiewic3338

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Fantastic video mate, really enjoyed that

[@aimanmarzuqi4804]

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

[@StankoAx]

They had to cozy up to the big red boy. Now, without him, they cozy up to Allah

[@crocodileguy4319]

I just realised this series is gonna be extra LIT when the last parts roll around

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[@hellachan8080]

That video would be the greatest of youtube history.

[@hazchemel]

Appreciate the solid spadework that underlies your videos, thank you for the info.

[@azeke8]

Amazing video series. Very interesting time period.

[@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

[@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 .

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[@bcvetkov8534]

Can I i just say hiw great of a job you've been doing with this series. I think this is better than the scramble for Africa ine you did before. Great job all around m8. 👍

[@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.

[@ConservativeArabNet]

Amazing marathon of information and history

[@zhcultivator]

Please make a video series* on the colonial history of Southeast Asia...

[@AR-qk3mg]

Please add chapters to your video

[@prestondobber]

Ngl from an American perspective it looks like such an own goal to support Nasser in the Suez Crisis… they gained literally nothing from it.

[@beri4138]

It was done to cripple Britain and France which at the time were still empires. I agree it was a narrow minded decision that in the grand scheme of things was an own goal.

[@joshuaalach9431]

They miscalculated. They expected to be able to generate goodwill with newly independent postcolonial states while maintaining their NATO alliance with France and Britain. In other words, to have their cake and eat it too.

[@zhcultivator]

Please Jabzy make a video series about the colonial history of Southeast asia.....and also please put in lists of sources in your videos like in the comment sections or video descriptions..

[@ShikenPluckr]

You da man Jabzy!

[@zhcultivator]

please make a video about the Anglo-Mysore wars.

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i looove these videos

[@zhcultivator]

Please create a video series about the colonization of southeast asia.

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[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

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

[@dylantrashmint8379]

Not necessarily

[@k.umquat8604]

​@@dylantrashmint8379In the Marxist interpretation,yes it does

[@Psyxic_Crimes]

People will follow anything, regardless if it completely contraficts their "beliefs".. Ie. White Nationalists worshipping a Jewish Carpenter Or American Captalists being Christians, a religion which at its core despises wealth accumulation.

[@tesserae-c2y]

Secularism was a strong movement in the middle east, so it was still possible

[@zhcultivator]

39:59 to 40:12, Damn Nehru was spitting facts.

[@kensearle4451]

Any ideas for the next bulk series?

[@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

[@oooshafiqooo]

both likely

[@mehmetfatihcetin5932]

Russian influence. We had good relation with Lenin. But Stalin wanted to take lands. So Turkey had to join Nato.

[@zhcultivator]

39:59 to 40:12, Damn Nehru was spitting facts. And it's ironic for Turkey to do that.

[@onatdeveci5502]

39:29 All General Inspectorates have been abolished by 1952; since you are talking about the 1960s here, this is entirely false. And I'm talking about real abolishment, when all were functionally abolished even prior to this point: - 1st General Inspectorate was functionally abolished in 1943 - 2nd General Inspectorate was functionally abolished in 1948 - 3rd General Inspectorate was functionally abolished in 1940 - 4th General Inspectorate was functionally abolished in 1943

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The top two comments are these identical comments. The bots are trying to flip the script.

[@thekinghass]

Don’t get wrong though as an Iraqi I hold nothing but hate toward and abd alkream quesem no matter who much of pro western he was he still sacred the legtemsy of every government that come after it and result in the annotation of modern day Iraqi national identity

[@organiccomposition]

I remember my grand uncle telling me he was almost lynched when the monarchy fell in Iraq. He had to take a two day jeep ride through the desert to Jordan to escape.

[@thekinghass]

@ classical Iraqi moment

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

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[@Munthasir123]

You should look up “Red Mawlana of Bengal”. He was religious yet advocate of secular state and extremely popular amongst farmers since the British days. He was never openly communist but rather preached and hanged out with communist leaders. His interpretation of communism was that he wanted to abolish all private property because according to him all earthly property belongs to God and all of God’s creations are equal therefore deserving of equal share of God’s property.

[@vinfacts11]

No discussion of Afghanistan?

[@SirLotzz]

Parades in the Middle East are lit fr fr lmao😂

[@TeeTee-zm2re]

Lit?

[@aarontheamazing1985]

Hi middle eastern people

[@stevenkies802]

62 years to go!

[@rocknrollkid90]

You said “domination,” instead of, “dominion.”

[@shhfydhdhdb9762]

Where's the south Yemen?

[@saud5044]

They diden't kill عجيل he died because of heart attack

[@jackhardy3905]

South Yemen says yes

[@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

[@beri4138]

Nasser lost to Israel twice and would've lost again. He was a horrible inept leader with no military leadership skills.

[@moderatetuber3845]

@@beri4138 Read about the war of attrition he was leading like FDR. Pre the 6 days war, Hakim was keeping him away from the military Hakim was the one who got Egypt into the defeat

[@beri4138]

The Soviets tried very hard and failed to defeat Israel with their disgusting imperialism. Israel will never forget and never forgive.

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[@ashen1921]

Hell ya

[@theMOCmaster]

32:00

[@madizo9056]

Tahia djazair🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@Ur_local_Hamad]

Islam dislikes communism

[@asirry3144]

*Communism dislikes Islam (religions in general)

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[@kuroazrem5376]

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?

[@bodycornflower]

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

[@yja496]

Communism 🤜🏻🤛🏻☪️✝️✡️ doesn't mix well.

[@ZS-rw4qq]

Depends

[@MrPek-fe9fp]

Both are something we don't need here in Northern Europe. Both are growing though 😂

[@ZS-rw4qq]

@@MrPek-fe9fp How is communism growing in Northern Europe?

[@yja496]

Are Karl Marx's books popular in Northern Europe?

[@Rummelb0xer]

​@@ZS-rw4qq When you are so far right that every centrist seems like a communist...

[@bradbradson4543]

If only

[@PurplePinkAndBlack]

Imagine the middle east but women, minorities and lgbt had rights

[@kushdmg]

Ah yes even more minorities, ethno partisan militias, giving rights that already exist and sexual confusion even though we are in absolute crisis. Thank you western Zionist maoist. Your ideas will inspire our government to lower the little stability we have left if thats even possible 🙏

[@asirry3144]

It's just the normal middle east with minorities having rights

[@k.umquat8604]

Maybe in 3000 AD

[@asirry3144]

@@PurplePinkAndBlack it is the normal middle east with with tie bi Hamas fighters in hijab lol

[@PurplePinkAndBlack]

@@k.umquat8604 socialist Afghanistan had women's rights and didn't need to wear hijabs until merikkka had to fight communism by arming and training the now called taliban

[@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

[@beri4138]

Egypt and Syria were puppet states of the soviet union for decades.

[@WJ4321]

france did nothing wrong in algeria

[@kintetsubuffalo]

Based Nasser

[@beri4138]

Based Israel that won every war against him. Ben Gurion celebrated Nasser's death.

[@Sootsfiles]

46:00 to 48:50 is Crazy

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Any gay boys in bursa?

[@BaronEvola123]

Once Nasser failed to unify the Arabs, it was the beginning of the end for Socialism. By the time it got to OPEC with The Saudis taking the lead, them pushing religious fervor was the alternative to the Communist Arab Sphere.