Marshall Plan - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY

Our series on the history of the Cold War period continues with a documentary on the Marshall Plan and how the USA was able to help in the rebuild of the post-War World and gained valuable allies while doing it
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[@Palios33]

Hells march

[@user-df1ek5rc1h]

What's the next video? Formation of West Germany? The Korean War?

[@pirsicolatortellini3801]

"The defeat of fascism in 1945" Franco: *laughs in Spanish*

[@DouglasEdward84]

Franco and Salazar in Portugal morphed into standard Right Wing Authoritarians over time and ditched most of the Fascist philosophical mumbo-jumbo.

[@HetkiPieni]

Franco wasn't strictly speaking a fascist

[@pedrosampaio7349]

@@DouglasEdward84 >Right wing authoritarianism So... Fascism? Franco and Salazar were never so hot on all the race stuff; Salazar being a nationalist and Franco allying himself with the church more than anything. I, as many Marxists do, see fascism this way: capitalism + collaboration with banks and industry + intensified state violence + idealism (nationalism, religious zealotry, tradition, race, etc; big ideas which are not material but make some people feel good)+ intense rejection of anything against that ideal ('untermensch', Communists, foreigners, etc). Once fascism is thoroughly entrenched, and threats to capitalism and the fascist regime at large have been subdued (as in the cases of Salazar and Franco), the usual fire and brimstone of the fascist orator is no longer needed. Hitler (and I guess Mussolini?), being at war with 1) Communists (USSR) and 2) strategically opposed capitalists (Allies), still needed all that mumbo jumbo about race, and the Thousand year Reich, and so on.

[@jimtroy4380]

@@pedrosampaio7349 Same thing in the Greek civil war. The British supported Nazi collaborators to fight the communist ressistance. An that a coincidence that all of the Mediterrenean dictatorships from the early 30's to the late 70's were backed by the US. What a coincidence.

[@pedrosampaio7349]

@@jimtroy4380 I have heard about the case of Greece before, and also about the USA being prepared for an invasion of Italy in case the reds got in power, eventually just opting for rigging the elections in Italy and France so that conservative anti-communist governments won. But it seems like a stretch to say all the Mediterranean dictators between 1930 and 1945 were set up the Americans. But I'm not exactly very educated on that so you tell me.

[@stalkinghorse883]

In 1946, General Electric built 20 large electric locomotives for the Soviet Union. Before they were completed and exported the state department interceded and stopped the sale. General Electric eventually sold the locomotives to 3 different railroads: Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad got 3, a railway in Brazil got 5 and the remaining 12 went to the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific (Milwaukee Road). The locomotives on the Milwaukee Road were given the nickname "Little Joe".

[@alswann2702]

Good.

[@thomasbest8599]

Perhaps it makes up for their cooperation with Nazi Germany during the world war

[@Nikolay_Milenkov]

Yes I feel like you took the feedback about speaking too slowly and passively! Keep it up! Great content as always!

[@Dozeji]

Never noticed it, actually

[@Nikolay_Milenkov]

Dozeji personally it was really bugging me as I had to put the speed at 1,25 or even 1,50 to keep listening. Now that he speaks a bit faster and ,hopefully soon, more enthusiastic, I and I think many others are going to be much more engaged and will have easier time following the otherwise great videos

[@LukeBunyip]

@@Nikolay_Milenkov Dave's just getting into his stride 😉

[@Marechalkev327]

He was getting into champ. He seems like he's almost warm.

[@theparadigm8149]

Hey, just keep putting the videos at 1.25x speed! I do it, too! 👍 I don’t have a problem with it!

[@vojislavl6665]

Love how this video gave such quality context to the Marshall plan. And I never realized that it was used to basically buy goods from the US. Wow. Really eye opening this episode, as is your whole channel. Love the work!

[@THX-bz8bi]

Thats a over exaggeration it was to rebuild europe and for them to not be communist.

[@BubblewrapHighway]

And that 5% of the cash went to the CIA to counter the soviet spread.

[@sharadowasdr]

"destruction of Europe" ..shows pictures of Japan..

[@pacificblue5461]

Editing videos is hard work and I need to get back to drinking

[@olbradley]

@@KawaiianArgument ?

[@gerdforster883]

@@olbradley The distinction between Europe and Asia is political and historic rather than based on geography. In geography, it makes sense to talk about Eurasia. So in a purely geographical sense, Berlin and Tokyo are on the same continent.

[@ReviveHF]

The Marshall Plan = original one belt one road initiative.

[@Schmidty1]

Belt and road. But yeah.

[@pedrosampaio7349]

Interesting comparison. Indeed these two strategies do have a lot in common: build up weaker economies to grow US/Chinese influence. But there are still some just as interesting differences between the two. For starters, the countries that partake in the B&R initiative are mostly poor countries from the global south, the world's economic periphery. These countries, many even after their independence, struggle to keep western influence away. Their markets being forcefully opened to western Multinationals for the exploitation of both plentiful natural resources and cheap human labor. The looming climate crisis, which will most strongly affect these (sub-)tropical regions, also does not make their lives easy (droughts, rising sea levels, climate refugees, etc) Europe during the Marshall Plan, on the other hand, was the former imperialist core of the world, the guys who exploited the global south. Even after losing their colonies, many in (Western) Europe were and still exploit these regions by collaborating and being in friendly terms with the main imperialist daddy, the USA). Now, I consider China to be socialist, which even among fellow socialists, is a controversial opinion to hold. Essentially, their strategy is to: 1) Integrate into the global capitalist framework, instead of accepting isolation (done) 1.5) temporarily hold back worker rights and the such to accommodate western industry (done) 2) Use this industry to and integration to form a sort of soft power, a power based not on military might makes right but on trade and diplomacy. (In progress, though very far through) 3) Use the industry to advance your own technology and native industry (arguably done) 4) Take down the US and the west as the world's sole hegemons, making at least some space for China, from they can work ahead towards socialism and communism and reduce some of their more restrictive measures. (Close to beginning) If you see here, whereas the USA with its Marshall Plan wanted to keep a capitalist order by quickly rebuilding Europe, China wants to follow through on its socialist path through a more peaceful, but slow and steady, partially by building up exploited third world countries. So that's just a take on it which I thought might be interesting to share.

[@michaelosterman7752]

@@pedrosampaio7349 An excellent argument, but I disagree on a few points (mainly, China's motives). Based on China's history, namely regarding the British, I would contest they are building up their infrastructure and industry to combat another series of opium wars. China's history with the Western European nations has taught it that in the international market, isolationism only weakens and retards the economy. What they are attempting with the other nations under their sway is to establish their own sphere of influence. This way, the Chinese government will have a reasonable chance of preventing another such episode. As to what form of government, I don't think it matters very much, as the Chinese have laboured under autocratic rule in all forms for the entirety of their cultural memory in one form or another. The Chinese tend to play the long game, as such they are most likely building themselves up to either deter or win future international confrontations.

[@Legitpenguins99]

Except the marshal plan wasn't a dept trap

[@cbrtdgh4210]

Don't forget that China itself was a recipient of huge investment in the 1990s from Japan, the USA, Germany, Singapore... Taiwan... many factories were relocated there. Has everyone forgotten this? How else would China's economy have risen so quickly if not for foreign investment and interest in its market.

[@omgponies111]

I think that the Marshall Plan was a overall good thing for Europe but that heavily depended on how the receiving countries spent the money. UK wasted most of the money on trying to keep the colonies and that was mostly a waste of money where as the countries that spent it on rebuilding the industry it had an impact.

[@THX-bz8bi]

You are correct as there is a persistent myth in the uk were they think that amercia bankrupted them. Yet they wasted their money on other things.

[@ahmedbassam400]

Great job lad, this channel has significantly improved. Hope this quality keeps on increasing.

[@annehersey9895]

To be fair, with Europe devastated and the UK broke, even without the Marshall Plan, Europe would have had to buy American to rebuild because there simply was no other country yet able to export. So it did benefit everyone to get Europe up and producing as soon as possible. The reason the Allies made sure West Germany became strong and producing as opposed to keeping it totally dependent was to lead a strong Europe to counteract the Soviets. that was the same reason that the US helped Japan recover quickly because by then the Chinese Communists had won the war for the Chinese mainland.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

The British portion was originally called Operation Carter Patterson. Carter Patterson was a well-known British removal company. The name was changed because it was thought that it was giving the Soviets the wrong message.

[@aengusmaguire9751]

Fantastic channel with a great idea, please don't stop!

[@MrMilosevicPavle]

Good content. I am from exYugoslvia country. You did great job on that episode. I really appreciate your work and looking forward for new episodes.

[@ilejovcevski79]

This channel needs more views!

[@ColdHighway7]

Nice drop of a Command and Conquer reference

[@medicann_coping]

awesome video. i am slovak. we can feel the aftermath of all this to this day

[@giorgosbookhunter4215]

a good episode!

[@davidbissig9216]

I love your vids man, they keep getting better! I only have one recommendation - standardize your intro tag line. It seems to change a lot, I would suggest you stick to "I am your host David, and this...The Cold War" - that flows really well and comes right off the tongue. Some times you give the show name first, then your name, and on this one you just gave the show name. Much like how you always say catch you on the next one at the end. Keep up the great work dude!

[@raizanskywalker6969]

This channel need more sub! Love it

[@andraslibal]

Marshall Plan (4 ops points): allows the play of NATO Add one US influence in each of seven non-USSR Controlled Western European countries.

[@Cyberspine]

One of my favourite board games.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Cover the “Marshall Plan” for Asian countries

[@robertewalt7789]

Especially Japan

[@erikstenmark6445]

well done hhaha i found this quite interesting, thanks much dan!

[@JMRolf1]

Curious lack of sources in the description

[@shawnrileywest2826]

Agreed

[@forgetfulfunctor1]

"Curious"? Surely u aren't insinuating these facts are unreliable? Granted I agree, citations >> not

[@baikalatongaseal1146]

A video about the greek civil war would be great and most interesting

[@TheColdWarTV]

We will cover it.

[@TheMrPits]

An unfortunate downside of the Marshall plan was the Blackfoot confederation requested money from the BIA to develop mineral and oil leases on their reservation. This was denied as the BIA money had been sent to Europe and the chance for the blackfeet to invest passed by the time the funds were yet available again.

[@penfold9540]

Did the Marshall work? I am no economist, but would suggest looking at the countries on the eastern side of the iron curtain and those on the western side.

[@ex6tance132]

This IS some good content TBH

[@jimtroy4380]

Very nice video! And you have impove your vocals and speaking a lot. You are much more clear. Now that you touched the Marshall Plan and mentioned the Greek civil war, could you please elaborate on it? Also in the future, operation Gladio would be very interesting as well.

[@karlbrundage7472]

So........ No judgement as to whether the Marshall Plan succeeded? I look at West Germany v. East Germany and can draw a pretty clean line.

[@gerdforster883]

That is a way to simplistic view. East Germany was mainly hamstrung by two things: 1. They kept paying reparations way past the point West Germany did in the immediate post-war years. Sure, West Germany would later resume payments, but by then, her industry was in full swing again and could easily afford the payments. East Germany paid at a time when they really couldn't afford to. 2. East Germany had almost no natural resources, bar some uranium (that went straight to the Soviet Union as reparations until the mid fifties) and low-grade lignite. Most of Easte Germany also had been way more rural than West Germany, so from the start, they lacked both the industry AND the skilled workforce.

[@kayvan671]

As a West German, i agree.

[@Androrac]

Thumbs up for the Red Alert reference

[@cmLMolde]

HELLS MARCH

[@stevep5408]

Don't know about the economics but the quality of life in Europe has a lot of appeal. More time off with your family and friends!

[@TheLocalLt]

Do the Iran crisis of 1946!

[@TheColdWarTV]

We will

[@marcushuang4671]

Do a video on the Bretton Woods system please

[@buryitdeep]

Has there been any years since year dot that people haven't killed each other? I think if there were only one race left they would then start picking on height next or eye colour?

[@damienkeewh43]

Thanks for your amazing videos! Are you planning to do one on COMECON btw? That would be awesome!

[@josepnebotrius872]

Will you make a documentary on the Mutual Defense Assistance programme, to rebuild European military, that replaced MarshalI plan?

[@Marinealver]

There needs to be an Episode of both the formation of the CIA and the KGB.

[@edmundgerald9627]

Nice economic history video...US mind dealing with this economic issue most cleverly and winning the struggling at end 1989

[@brokenbridge6316]

I like to think that the Marshall Plan certainly had positive effects on the world. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.

[@zidorovichburblyatya2862]

Not really. Europe only is the receiver of the plan and much of the world didn't receive aid like that from the US so world is still underdeveloped.

[@TheLoneTerran]

Goddammit, we can't even be the good guys correctly. 200ish billion dollars and trillions of calories of food and we still botched it by being greedy. It's likely that Europe bounced back like it did because there was already some political stability because the Axis was gone. That's a pretty huge and uniting factor. And because the Europeans had give up colonies, especially ones that were now much better equipped and trained than at the beginning of the century. The Marshall Plan was nothing more than a salve for the conscious of our citizens. Plus we can't pretend that the UK still wasn't receiving aid from Canada and Australia either. Neither nation was something to sneer at. If the US had truly wanted to make life better for as most people as possible and keep them from being radicalized, we would have ended segregation after the war. Oppressed, second class citizens are ripe for radicalization and we did exactly jack and squat for them.

[@duolingo0552]

Thanks Americans 🙂

[@Marechalkev327]

The Marshall Plan by itself shouldn't get all the credit. It was the mobilization of all necessary aspects needed to pull the plan off that made it work. The CIA in this case being a necessity to prevent the stifling factionalism that cripples progress in the third world. I feel what is important to note is that the plan was put in place to REBUILD Europe, not build it. The industry and institutions responsible for the economy and security of the nations being rebuilt did actually exist prior to being wrecked by the war. This is why aid and loans hardly make noticeable differences in the current third world. The institutions and industries do not exist. They must be built rather than rebuilt.

[@THX-bz8bi]

That was the plan...to rebuild europe (and it worked) Your comment is stupid and highly unessaary.

[@THX-bz8bi]

@Kaecilius um...no anericagave aid to china and to turkey however america was for pro independence.

[@ilahiadalet9502]

*Whatever the weather we must move together*

[@viliussmproductions]

God bless!

[@azkrouzreimertz9784]

so does this channel have a cooperation with The Great War channel and World War Two channel? because you seem to be copying their format. also links to the materials your are using for the videos would be awesome. besides that though i appreciate your videos, great content!

[@tylerjerabek5204]

The World War 2 channel wants absolutely nothing to do with this one

[@jackthorton10]

I see, thank You for clearing that up

[@emilmoserasmussen8668]

My neighbors build a new pig shed with the help from the marshall loans

[@sebastianhartung4407]

8 people have not yet received Marshall aid

[@TheMagicLemur]

What about Comecon / the Marshall Plan?

[@r.a.monigold9789]

How about some of the unintended consequences - Ford turns down German factory in 1945 and by 1950 cars from that plant were beginning to threaten GM for market share and Ford for total car models sold (VW Bugs vs Model T). There are many more, but it's your channel, I'm just enjoying it. Thanks for sharing...

[@hoeater6155]

I’m back to learn

[@fayesutanto521]

You forgot that indonesia was in a revolution independent but the Netherlands was trying to colonize when America try stopping it, it was ignore and threaten them like no financial

[@alswann2702]

Learn English Abu.

[@Notpies]

Hi. From Indonesia, i say that we already forgive the Dutch (btw I don't understand what your saying)

[@vincentstockx]

What is Sean Penn doing in 4:35 ? :-)

[@otgunz]

Remember donkeys for Greece, milk powder and margarine for Turkey under Marshal plan? Yeah both went well I guess. 😁

[@THX-bz8bi]

It was more than that and it workedm

[@richardburns420dale3]

Turkey had timber because guys were burning wood because they was no infrastructure to get coal into market marshall plan built and rebuilt roads

[@alswann2702]

We should have sent pork to Turkey.

[@yotoronto12]

11:23 to 11:44 Damn I never knew Toronto was a part of the USA.

[@augustusaurelius2628]

It is now, commie.

[@dimitri7857]

0:34 on the right is my favorite Russian food

[@clanpsi]

4:00 Those are some great shots of Japan... while you're talking about Europe. ;p

[@pacificblue5461]

I can't believe they missed that

[@TacticalGAMINGzz]

Was there a rebuilding plan for Asia?

[@chrisdrivesasubaru457]

TheRedBaron I would have assumed Japan received aid,sense was under U.S control for awhile... MacArthur was pretty much the leader of that country during that time...

[@jackthorton10]

Now that’s a thought 💭

[@tammcd]

11:24 Toronto?

[@BasedAhmed]

Anyone from CIS?

[@ti-cebiohazard758]

Molotov Plan next?

[@franciscomm7675]

Greek civil war next?

[@zagreus1249]

For some weird reason the video doesn’t play for me

[@Davitofrito]

But what if the soviet union or allies had taken marshall plan aid? It would make an interesting video. Beria was certainly in favor of such a move .

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

Stalin knew it was a tiger they couldn't ride. So did Marshall, which is why he extended the offer in the first place. In the end, I'd say the Marshall Plan did more to end Soviet totalitarianism than nuclear weapons ever could. People want to believe they can have at least some control over their destinies. Marshall wasn't just offering it; he was making good on it. Compared to liquidations and gulags, who wouldn't take him up on it? Unless, of course, you had a Makarov pistol at your neck!

[@jlstout7807]

It's weird that the U.S. paved the way for many policies to integrate the European economies, yet now, many Americans do not like the E.U.

[@navidkarimi2552]

Please a video about gulags

[@CARL_093]

bec of that it had become a real red alert reality version ussr treat this as a treat especially eu did not let ussr join

[@stephenwright8824]

The so called Turkish Straits are the Dardanelles. Honour Winston Churchill by calling them that.

[@lvd8122]

1/20 of all Marshall aid to the obscure European nation of... The central intelligence agency. Taht killed me:D

[@alswann2702]

CIA!! CIA!!

[@hoponasu2471]

Marshall plan was great idea and did put germany back on map. However it was not even offered for all. I mean notably finland was left out and equally notably THE only nation to pay its war depth/compensation in full to bolth US and Soviets.

[@williamwalters6803]

That is literally something the CIA would do when it comes to have a back door in the Marshall plan😂😂

[@deinvater797]

Please dont take this personally, but i way prefer to to see background information/footage/maps/stats than a talking person infront of these "historic paraphernalia". besides: Great work

[@joem1668]

1:58 oh no, not the Pinkerton capitalist pigs

[@Palios33]

Hells march

[@jackiecooper9439]

$200B still isn't too much considering USA's current military budget.

[@bretbarnett6024]

Alfred Nossig claims that the J's have a historic mission to fulfil: "The community is more than a people in the modern political meaning of the word. It is the trustee of an historic world mission, I would even say cosmic mission. . . . The conception of our ancestors was to found not a tribe but a world order destined to guide humanity. . . . Gesta naturae per Judeos, this is the formula of our history. And the hour of its accomplishment is approaching." (A. Nossig: Integrales Judentum, pp. 1-5) From the book: Architects Of Deception by YurI Lina.

[@thelonestarpelican9343]

I gott asay a word here about Social Democracy vs Communism. Communism favors abolishing private ownership of ALL "means of production", i.e. property used to generate profit/income. Social Democracy does not - it's basically, to paraphrase Alexander Dubcek (you'll see him later in an undoubted later video of the 1968 Czechoslovakia revolution) "capitalism with a human face". That means basically capitalism regulated to mitigate against the worst effects of the pure capitalist system. SD systems put higher taxes on the wealthy in order to abundantly fund key services regarded as a human right (banning unsafe food and drugs and unsafe consumer goods, education, health care, unemployment and disability insurance, family leave for childbirth and caring for sick relatives). Another aim is to tax wealthy so as to prevent huge inequalities of political power (money often equals power, after all).

[@ianirungu3659]

The Marshall plan also inadvertently aided in propping up some of the existing European colonial empires. The Dutch, for example, spent the vast majority of their aid in military expenses, suppressing insurgency in Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-49)

[@Languslangus]

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[@vespa9566]

“The Marshall plan worked immediately and effectively” I’d say that was the sole purpose. job well done America!!!!

[@46-uzairali49]

Please... Make a video on fall of USSR

[@martinsancheztorres9021]

A little early man.

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

Dollar Imperialism intensifies

[@deprogramm]

Napoleon Bonaparte l'Empreur de la Francois cry more mohammed

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

@@deprogramm What?

[@THX-bz8bi]

Thats not imperlisim scumbag it money to rebuild westrn europe.

[@vik4487]

@@THX-bz8bi it's actually called national debt in ''translation''

[@THX-bz8bi]

@@vik4487 its really called foreign aid

[@Number1FanProductions]

to be fair, disrupting corrupt dictatorships is more in favor for the peoples freedom then allowing such govts to oppress there people.

[@zachofalltrades8714]

KEYNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Sorry, you mention that monster's name and I'm prompted to scream into the deep, where he now resides. Lord bless us that he may never return, as our economy is already about to collapse, thanks to his "economic theory."

[@drewsimone100]

LOL you're a de facto idiot

[@guyguy7634]

You mean because of the neoliberal economics of Freidmen and Hyack is what is creating a huge gap between rich and poor and is making companies go abroad to countries with poor labor conditions and depriving the lower class of wealth

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

Keynesian economics do fine when it comes to recovering economies, it's just they suck at dealing with supply shock inflation. Even the "Supply side economics" is just a form of Keynesian economics. Fact is that other than a brief stint under the Carter Administration, Keynesian Economics, in one form or another, dominate for good reason.

[@andersonandrighi4539]

I doubt that without The Marshall Plan Western Europe would remain capitalist. Propaganda, most in the form of comics and movies made us believe that the United States and capitalism won the war against the Nazi regime, but as the video said people saw the Soviet Union as the winner. Some countries would end up electing communist or socialist leaders after the war. Not Portugal or Spain though. Those countries were under fascist dictatorships. So much about fighting fascism am I right?

[@dimpap3847]

Most western European countries did have socialist governments for periods during the cold war (Mitterand, Brandt, Ulof Palme are some examples).

[@paolosciarpuccio]

I doubt without Marshall Plan Europe would have ever recovered.

[@MrPigeonaids]

200 billions todays money? so 1/4th of current defense budget :P Imagine what could be done with todays budget if used for similar things

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@Stephen Jenkins The worst thing is that the West comes in thinking they have all the answers, rather than looking for local solutions to fix issues. It's the main reason we're mired in so much BS all around the world.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@Stephen Jenkins And what was our response? To replace them with people who had no experience with the reins of power and were part of a group that was dedicated to the destruction of the other religious group. Say what you will about the Baathists, they did keep order. I'm fortunate enough to work with someone from there, and yes, in our conversations, the "cure" was far worse than the disease.

[@James-rl5tj]

The obscure European nation of the central intelligence agency

[@yunnoxxsrbenglish1694]

Yugoslavia (especially Serbia within it) and the USSR were devastated the most, not the Western European countries

[@ben5056]

YunnoxxSRB [English] Germany and France got pretty messed up. City near where I was born was razed to the ground. However I will concede that the population of the countries you mention where much more affected.

[@yunnoxxsrbenglish1694]

@@ben5056 Industrially sure, that's because those countries were and today are way more industrialized. However, the populations in Yugoslavia and the USSR suffered greater oppression and a lot of, if not all industry in the occupied areas were dismantled and brought to Germany. I don't like to mention this, but Yugoslavia was stabbed in the back when the Allies started supporting Tito, an enemy soldier that later became a war criminal that washed minds of the people for at least a century to come

[@ben5056]

YunnoxxSRB [English] not the first time the allies supported tyrants unfortunately. Germany definitely abused Eastern Europe

[@chaddixon3973]

Whats up with the "grumpy Republicans" comment? Hope you guys dont put your own politics into these history vids. They are pretty damn good. A thing like that would ruin them. Not to mention you cant swing a dead cat without hitting someone screeching about the other side. Tired of it all myself.

[@RickyBobby_USA]

And YET, we have $22+ Trillion in debt and hundreds of trillion in unfunded liabilities for all these "plans" and reconstruction. Everyone just sits around hoping the next crash doesn't effect them...saying better someone else than my family. How about govt balancing it's books such that we don't go through these crashes.

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

Um that debt is mainly because of the bailouts from the Great Recession, Medicare and the military budget. Foreign aid for reconstruction is minuscule.

[@RickyBobby_USA]

@@TheDirtysouthfan Great Recession: a problem create by govt Medicare: a problem created by govt(govt spent that pool of money for their pet projects) Never Ending Wars: a problem created by govt. Govt creates the problems/victims. Govt blames the problems/victims on others to conflate, obfuscate, and create a "guilty party." Govt then says it needs more money and more govt programs to fix the problems it created and to punish the "guilty party." Wash, rinse and repeat. Govt is the problem. Always.

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

@@RickyBobby_USA Great Recession: No this was problem caused by the private markets. In fact it was because the government deregulated them that it happened. While partly it was because the government helped people get home loans, the real problem was when companies like AIG and Goldman Sachs consolidated bad loans into derivatives, to which they payed off the credit rating agencies to label as good despite being bad, and sold them to make a profit. They knew exactly what they were doing and that they would crash the economy, and they did so, they also bet on holding the entire country hostage so they could then get bailed out. Medicare: I wouldn't say the program itself is a problem. Without medicare, millions of people would be without healthcare and without the means to pay for it. Never Ending Wars: Agree here, to some extent.

[@RickyBobby_USA]

@@TheDirtysouthfan Never a consideration of pay as you go? Govt promises, overspends, prints, devalues, borrows bc it doesn't want the ppl to lose faith in it. We're $22trill in debt and Govt is bigger than ever and has always been in charge. If private companies caused the problem it is with the knowledge that govt will reign them back in and bail out whoever. Govt wants their cut, they have the monopoly of violence. I think many ppl criticize the "free market" as the culprit when they really should stop saying, "We can do all things through govt." Govt subsidized itself and there is nothing that it will improve upon with that business model.

[@tcorangemen]

RickyBobby BobbyRicky “govt wants their cut.”...?? Govt corruption comes from politicians handing out taxpayer money to wealthy private interests, not from funding programs for the masses! In fact, that’s the whole point of Medicare - no one can profit from it. And public debt doesn’t matter. Private debt is what’s crushing the average American.

[@rusoviettovarich9221]

'blank' Marshall - he gave China to Mao - left it in chains

[@ben5056]

Starvation or hamburgers what a difficult choice ...

[@mrbrainbob5320]

Hamburgers are awesome

[@maxheadrom3088]

Keynes 1 x Friedman 0

[@nirfz]

You mentioned Austria as example that the covert actions and sabotage helped keeping it from the influence of the Soviets while it beeing mostly surrounded by socialist countries. (like west germany in the north west, switzerland in the west, italy in the south?) The "Staatsvertrag" of Austria which made it a neutral soverign country (the quote there is a bit like "neutral in the swiss form") after WW2 was only signed by the USSR after the neutral clause was added. So basically the USSR signed its own ideology out of the treaty. And any change in the countries constitution to this day that would change something that is covered by the treaty still needs the approval of all 4 signing countries or their "inheriting countries". Thus, the mention at 10:55 surprised me a bit. So maybe not the political example, but I think it is true for the economy, which benefited geatly from the Marshall Plan. (During the occupation between 1945 and 1955 the USSR shipped all factory equipment in their occupation zone "home"....)

[@nickhambly8610]

You oh by chance forget that the 200b adjusted for inflation was debt securtaised to the American population. Thus entrenching the privately owned banking system. And how can you talk about the cold war without ever mentioning this???

[@genghiskhan5701]

The next time you see a European makes fun of America, be sure to remember that they own the very existence of their way of life to the US

[@genghiskhan5701]

Gaël Scarselli Europe screwed itself by voting in Fascist dictators.

[@kayvan671]

@@genghiskhan5701 Germany didnt vote Hitler in office. Mussolini was also not elected. So why are you lying? Or is it that you don't have any knowledge about history?

[@bluestrife28]

Republicans in the minority. God I wish that was forever .

[@zersky495]

“My party good, their party bad”

[@iraqimapper8625]

The USA saved western Europe and rebuild it

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

And turned her into a debt-slave

[@iraqimapper8625]

@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 Bonaparte was the man who lead to the increasing power of wealthy banking families in Europe

[@oliver9815]

They just wanted strong allies against the Soviet Union.

[@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676]

@@iraqimapper8625 Instead of addressing my point and the fact that I ended feudalism, you talk about my Profile Name... Wow

[@iraqimapper8625]

@@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676 they were already debt slaves since 19th century And why do you claim Napoleon work at the begin then criticize me for confusing him with you in the end ?

[@desmondsiebrecht]

This is a nice ripoff of the Great War Channel

[@jshous]

Too much of your face and not enough maps, graphics, maps, pictures and maps. Did I mention maps?

[@anzaca1]

Not socialism, communism. The distinction must be made.

[@firstnamelastname-tz1dp]

The USSR was a socialist state and it has deemed itself as one many times. The Soviet Union developed socialism . The difference here is that communism is the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which has nothing to do with the system put in place inside the Soviet Union. Its very name states its socialist nature since USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. To make it even more clear communism seeks the abolishment of the state and the transition of factories to the workers while in the USSR a planned economy was used and factories belonged to the state, that's why the USSR is often called socialist, not communist.

[@MaximosKouzalis]

Anzac-A1 Communism is the end goal of most socialist ideologies. The USSR could not have been communist, because in a communist society, things like the state, currency, the police force, the army, do not exist, yet the USSR had all of those. The USSR was a state socialist country, although I’m sure socialists more versed in socialist theory than I am will prove me wrong, or provide an alternative.

[@cptrelentless80085]

Trotsky was funded by Wall Street Money. He was arrested in Canada during WW1 for being a kraut after he got a load of cash from America. The Yanks insisted he was freed. Off he went. The US invented communism. With the Germans, who gave all their money to Lenin.