Stay Behind Organizations: Training and Exercises

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with another video on the Gladio - the stay-behind organizations in Europe, and how they were trained and exercised to fight off a possible Soviet invasion.
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[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out" - Anton Chekhov

[@arthas640]

People tend to view attacks, defense, invasions, and resistance movements as just a singular event when they're really more of a long grind. Ths first day can be really easy with all the adrenaline and preparation you've done. The next week or month are when things get really hard and it's only the strongest that can last even as the dead start to outnumber the living

[@jonathankessler7436]

This was actually a line by Bing Crosby in the 1954 film The Country Girl.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Facts

[@HSMiyamoto]

Jumping from a helicopter to a moving boat sounds very James Bond. One wonders if their training include tuxedo wearing and martini recipes.

[@jonathankessler7436]

hopefully

[@rlosable]

Tuxedo wearing skill are a prerequisite to admission. What requires training is to wear a Tuxedo under your scuba gear without getting any creases!!!

[@giladpellaeon1691]

Show up at a certain train station with an obscure newspaper? I wonder if some unwitting rando got picked up because that by chance had that paper at that station at that time. I remember in my hometown a couple decades ago a pot dealing ring running out of a fast food place got busted because someone actually ordered the obscure combo item that was their code phrase at the drive thru.

[@paulcock8929]

lol, the "the sound of music" analogy was really funny!

[@ghostwriterj9421]

This is kind of my favorite series on this channel

[@cCiIcCo]

P2 or Propaganda Due was an Italian Freemasonic Lodge that also was involved with Gladio

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

The Cold War, when are you gonna upload a video on West Germany's post-war economic miracle?

[@stc3145]

Yea

[@chriss780]

i mean the us poured a shit ton of money into subsidizing it, not that complicated

[@kawaylao2956]

@@chriss780 and ww2 was just a bunch of people shooting at each other right? Everything isn't that complicated when you ignore nuances.

[@chriss780]

@@kawaylao2956 i know writers who use nuance and they're all cowards

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

@@chriss780 In what way are those writers cowards? Please explain to me. I really want to know.

[@MrTryAnotherOne]

For the german part of Gladio, I can recommend "Die Organisation Gehlen und die Neuformierung des Militärs in der Bundesrepublik, Band 6". It's full of details.

[@comsecone]

Another great episode. Y’all are awesome.

[@tym7267]

Love the videos on stay-behind networks!

[@rosswebster7877]

I’d love to see a Garth Ennis comic book series on Gladio like his recent WWII comics.

[@markmierzejewski9534]

Great video keep them coming!

[@miguelb.655]

Gladio and P2 were part of the stay behind armies.

[@beachboy0505]

Excellent video

[@williamwimmer5473]

the US: "betcha never guessed what we were going to do with all those Nazis we picked up and babysat, and all of those Gestapo and Abwehr officers we kept on the payroll!"

[@karlmuller3690]

William Wimmer - Aww gee, let me think now ... send them to old "Wild" Bill Donovan to be "trained" by Reinhard Gehlen, but I dunno, it's just a wild guess, really .... !!

[@chriss780]

i mean nato had high level ex nazis at like the highest official levels of leadership, it was always a nazi infested organization, and west germany was a nazi rump state

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

@@chriss780 I fail to see how West Germany was Nazi.

[@chriss780]

@@EuropeanQoheleth their secret police was descended from the gehlan organization en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization

[@williamwimmer5473]

@@EuropeanQoheleth a substantial portion of west german leadership in their police, military, judicial system, and political officers were "former" (lol) Nazis. Including heads of almost all government branches and military units at various points in time. There's a reason every single Nazi military unit which had any mobility left at the end of the war fled to the US and UK as fast as their legs would take them, the western allies never gave a damn about "fighting fascism" lol

[@Borep_Yano]

Just wanted to say thank you , and that I learn so much interesting and new stuff from almost every single video you upload :) and I'm sad that your videos' view counts are criminally low :(

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nice video.

[@AldoSchmedack]

MORE SBO VIDEOS!

[@deanbuss1678]

Love these

[@Aaron.Keener]

Will we get video coverage on the Warsaw Pact equivalents?

[@commandophoenix605]

They had an equivalent ?

[@Aaron.Keener]

@@commandophoenix605 Yes, they did. The most "well known" and researched one is the one of East Germany.

[@commandophoenix605]

@@Aaron.Keener what its name ?

[@Aaron.Keener]

@@commandophoenix605 Dang, I managed to wipe a longer answer. Short version: "Arbeitsgruppe des Ministers Aufgabenbereich S". Search für "Stasi Arbeitsgruppe des Ministers S". See both the english and german version as there some differences.

[@commandophoenix605]

@@Aaron.Keener Do you have a name for it ?

[@andregabrieltimcang8182]

Very good

[@padawanmage71]

One wonders if that secretary who suffered mental health issues after her training, was from the training itself…or the soldiers themselves?

[@AldoSchmedack]

Never thought of that. Could have even been unrelated even.

[@lionofjudea4146]

This is all very nice and academic. But to understand Gladio and stay behind ops? You have to understand Italys version. Which included a myriad of characters, not least of which were Borghese and his Decima X Mas.. )10th Flotilla... aka Fascist Frogmen. (And Borghese ties to USN CDR Francis Douglas Fane (Original UDT CDR) and OSS..

[@thethethemososoki4555]

nice got this one early

[@Dan-kr9bm]

Thats great training footage in the beginning. Can you reference it?

[@TheRuiRei]

It would be awesome to have an episode on Bandung

[@greenkoopa]

You should've seen Operation World 4, it was HUGE

[@paulbasaur]

diggin it

[@user-bi7kt9fm4j]

when is the next episode coming out?

[@texasforever7887]

13:12 More importantly, what about the chocolate and brandy? Where did they go?

[@AB-ov1zm]

Italian arm was known as p2 and swiss p26 so how many were there

[@ShinobiHOG]

Unless you talk about Detachment A you're missing a major part of the picture......

[@ShinobiHOG]

@wulpurgis you won't be disappointed. There was also Detachment K in Korea.....

[@nathannewportgay2963]

Can you also cover the British stay behind network. It’s been alluded to a fair bit but you have yet to go into any details.

[@reconscout2238]

İn turkey gladio was also widespread .

[@josedavidgarcesceballos7]

In memory of Nicos Poutlanzas?

[@tomjanik4671]

I never knew......

[@ggbpartystarter5958]

I was lookimg for those reps, to see which parts of the body do the exercisis works on.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

If European stay-behind networks had been used for their ostensibile function, it would have been all ok with that, it seemed a reasonable precaution. But they weren't, or, not always.

[@danieltsiprun8080]

Was there an equivalent of this in the warsaw pact?

[@jansliwa4881]

We, Poles, would be happy to be liberated, finally. As a soviet colony, no reason to defend it.

[@danieltsiprun8080]

@@jansliwa4881 I know a lot of poles hated the Russians but there must have been some polish communists who were loyal to the soviets. Form which the soviets can form some sort of partisans

[@jansliwa4881]

@@danieltsiprun8080 But how could they get popular support? You need villages where you can get shelter. For years after 1945 there was resistance against the soviets. Old anti-German resistance. They were chased by communists as potential enemies, many were killed.

[@CavalierHorseman91]

I think the Soviets spent more resources on secret police units who hunt down Gladio like orgs on their end rather than establishing them, especially in the satellite states. Besides, the nukes would fly first before the Sovs would let NATO gain ground in Eastern Europe, thats your red Gladio I guess.

[@Marinealver]

The KGB would have activated the local COMOSOL, but they were not exactly held in secret.

[@Seouldrift7]

Operation Urgent Fury (1983)

[@wa318]

Just FYI , ack-o-lites, not al-co-lites

[@swedishfarmboy]

Sweden hade this to but not based from Nato.

[@TheJamieRamone]

Mmm...a full plate of acronym salad, delicious!

[@Skibike69]

I enjoy your channel. Could you kill the background music during your presentation? It gets annoying.

[@jaishriram8874]

3rd 👍

[@arealbigboss]

Pretty bad ass

[@benkamelmayssem5780]

I am quite sure these organizations are still active today. But, how far are they involved in the riots today especially in countries with active left-wing parties and activists?

[@cptrelentless80085]

Proud Boys are all right wing. Those racists with the tipi lamps that Trump was a big fan of were all KKK wizards and very much right wing. That kid who shot people at the protests in the US was right wing. That Aussie who shot up those Mosques in NZ was right wing. Andres Brevik is pretty right wing. Both those countries are left leaning socialists. Which riots are you talking about?

[@benkamelmayssem5780]

@@cptrelentless80085 I am writing about political assassinations of left-wing politicians in my country.

[@Amshraw]

Very good butyl, Yall are dragging this one along. Videos on this topic could have been condensed

[@oceanmadrosci3381]

10'th😀

[@andrejmucic5003]

It is funny that the KZbin algorithm promotes this site after I have watched tons of proper leftist content. It is not in keeping.

[@ShamanKish]

There is no such war as Cold war.

[@ChadwickTheChad]

Except for the one that happened between the 1940s and the 1980s.

[@ShamanKish]

@@ChadwickTheChad It's a very prolonged advertisement campaign. Good for business.

[@AldoSchmedack]

​@@ShamanKishOh brother

[@ShamanKish]

@@AldoSchmedack Isn't it too obvious that MIC has hijacked US economy?

[@milmex317th]

Mama mia, that's a spicy meatball. Brandy and chocolate. No German porn. Boring.

[@imthatninja7669]

They really should have done this here in the states to protect us not just from invasion but from the enemies here at home

[@ChadwickTheChad]

There weren't any trump cult members back then.

[@imthatninja7669]

@@ChadwickTheChad I think you got the wrong person

[@ChadwickTheChad]

@@imthatninja7669 they're the biggest enemy at home we've ever had.

[@imthatninja7669]

@@ChadwickTheChad what is?

[@ChadwickTheChad]

@@imthatninja7669 Haha, you were right - I definitely have the wrong person

[@timothyhairston2051]

Ah jeez did we sponsor terrorism again?! Why does this keep happening?!