The Siege of School Number One: Chechnya’s Darkest Moment

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2 ай бұрын

Explore the harrowing events, murky politics, and devastating aftermath of Russia's deadliest terrorist siege. Don't miss this eye-opening account!
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@saltmerchant749 2 ай бұрын

Bringing flamethrowers to a hostage situation tells you all you need to know about Russia, Putin and the FSB.

@Theeight8b 2 ай бұрын

Those were not "flame" throwers, but more akin to RPG. Don't let the name fool you. xD And they used AFTER evacuation, not during, to smoke out terrorists.

@CPX723 2 ай бұрын

@@Theeight8bThey literally used flame throwers first, and then started storming the school. Most of the children were burned alinlve. Keep eating Putin's propaganda up.

@downeedles9249 2 ай бұрын

@@Theeight8b Yeah because using rocket to save hostages is a super idea , in both cases it's fucking stupid, as always when russia do something

@Theeight8b 2 ай бұрын

@@downeedles9249Again - it was used after evacuation.

@saltmerchant749 2 ай бұрын

The eyewitnesses say otherwise.@@Theeight8b

@nemeczek67 2 ай бұрын

In Russia, the deadliest part of a terror attack is "the rescue".

@aleksandralis9134 2 ай бұрын

I Will never believe that it was accident, not i side job 😢

@comettamer 2 ай бұрын

Sad but true. The FSB seemed so desperate to justify their presence on scene that they decided to attack the school in the midst of peaceful negotiations that were working fine, just to guarantee they didn't lose the opportunity

@PrimericanIdol 2 ай бұрын

C.o.m.p.a.r.e.-t.h.i.s.-t.o.-t.h.e.-L.o.n.d.o.n-E.m.b.a.s.s.y.

@user-nj5bd8ly1y 2 ай бұрын

absurd

@esteemedmortal5917 2 ай бұрын

Seriously, this makes Waco look like a successful, precision-executed operation when Waco is the very definition of a dumpster fire shit show.

@conorcane1211 2 ай бұрын

even Janet Reno said she handled it horribly and took responsibility for all deaths

@zachdelozier2133 24 күн бұрын

@@conorcane1211 Except her "taking responsibility" amounted to somewhere between fuck and all She never saw disgrace, demotion, prison or anything else in relation to Waco.

@sjeason 20 күн бұрын

@@zachdelozier2133 Yeah Waco was a tragedy but seriously at least she took responsibility. What happened here is orders of magnitude worse, and not a signal official or person involved has even acknowledged that anything they did was wrong or expressed ANY remorse for it. These two incidents are not even comparable, and even thinking about this one makes my blood boil as hot as the sun, especially because this wasn’t the first or last time Putin’s regime would inflict acts of such horror on so many people.

@carpediem7654 13 күн бұрын

Waco didn't involve CIA funded and armed islamic extremists.

@conorcane1211 13 күн бұрын

@@zachdelozier2133 prison? are you serious?

@HellStompr2 2 ай бұрын

Dude you must do this literally all day long. I lost count how many channels you run, and I see your face every day, multiple times in my feed.

@Jauffre-innit 2 ай бұрын

he probably records a few days or weeks in advance and just does it in blocks like tv shows do

@kevinlkeys 2 ай бұрын

Simon is one of the best in the sector

@Hipporider 2 ай бұрын

@@kevinlkeysdon't forget the writers of the script and the researchers

@kevinlkeys 2 ай бұрын

@@Hipporider Exactly, Simon has a top notch team

@saltmerchant749 2 ай бұрын

Perks of having a team of people working with you.

@zjwmusic1936 2 ай бұрын

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."

@NBrioDaZueraRules 2 ай бұрын

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX3Tlotqh7eiaJo

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

it's like poetry

@harrier1830 2 ай бұрын

@@tsartomato a haiku

@madamsuna6434 Ай бұрын

Mark Twain.

@posticusmaximus1739 14 күн бұрын

Crocus City Hall

@raymondrogers4446 2 ай бұрын

It was two days ago that I realized Simon hadn't covered this and I was bummed to find out. Thanks Simon and crew!

@jujutrini8412 2 ай бұрын

Has he covered the Chechen terrorist attack on the theatre?

@Baddy187 2 ай бұрын

@@jujutrini8412 Not yet. I searched for it yesterday. There are others though.

@mammuchan8923 2 ай бұрын

It was covered quite extensively in my country, but when I have been looking for info since, there’s really not a lot of info out there. It was brutal. The images I saw all those years ago still haunt me

@unpeuconfusee 2 ай бұрын

I@m glad it was covered, but I wish he'd found out to pronounce the north Caucasian republics properly. its a small thing, but was someone with Ossetian blood and relatives still there, it feels disrespectful. Its Osse-T-ia. So little attention is paid to the still awful situation in the region, so I'm glad that he's brought more recognition to it.

@mammuchan8923 2 ай бұрын

@@unpeuconfusee I am so sorry for what you and your family must have dealt with. And still dealing with. I think with Simon, he makes so many videos and he doesn’t have the time to fit in looking up pronunciation. I think it’s better to get more videos out to bring these stories into the spotlight. Take care

@Baddy187 2 ай бұрын

"Hostages only work when your enemy cares if they live" -Commander Shepard If the Russians show no mercy for the hostages, that would make terrorist attacks less likely doesn't it? Damn that sounds dark.

@bassnoob8214 2 ай бұрын

Mass Effect reference?

@saya-mi Ай бұрын

My mom's friend, who came to my country in the early 90´s from Russia, always said "Nas mnogo" with such a defeated face, implying there are enough Russians for the government to not to matter if lives are lost...

@Baddy187 Ай бұрын

@@bassnoob8214 Mass Effect 2 Thanes loyalty mission with his son. I think it's a renegade action.

@WeOnlyEatSoup 2 ай бұрын

R.I.P. to those Innocent souls

@chiapets2594 2 ай бұрын

Nobody is innocent

@abiqaNbijaN 2 ай бұрын

@@chiapets2594 you and your mom may not but damn this world if children is guilty from birth.

@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971 2 ай бұрын

@@chiapets2594scumbag

@malbig2344 2 ай бұрын

I remember this well. A reporter was talking to a parent who was saying they were apprehensive about the special forces being there, at that point you could here the explosions starting.

@ReprobiCrucesignati 2 ай бұрын

If you ever get caught in a hostage situation in russia. You are more safe with you capturers than the rescue team

@fillosof66689 Ай бұрын

8:56 I hope that one day you will have more to add to a comment section than daft, glib remarks.

@ATFshootsdogs Ай бұрын

@@fillosof66689 Ruskis mad

@Afan-bm6hg 9 күн бұрын

😂

@fullsalvo2483 5 күн бұрын

1000%

@tonyvincent58 2 ай бұрын

There was a documentary follow up called something like '' what happened to the children of Beslan '' ...It was a year or so after. The trauma that many of the kids showed was horrific. The one that reduced me to tears was a little girl who had found her own way to cope with what she went through. She sat there and looked at the camera and said '' God came to our school and took the best ones for himself ''

@suprematica 21 күн бұрын

do you have a link to the documentary

@andyfoxy3140 16 күн бұрын

I'd just tell her that there is no God.....sorry sweetie.

@Aerotides 12 күн бұрын

@@andyfoxy3140 Very cool bro I bet that helps everyone out

@andyfoxy3140 11 күн бұрын

@@Aerotides Best to be truthful about these things

@redberry33 7 күн бұрын

@andyfoxy3140 most helpful comment section atheist

@bubbajenkins123 2 ай бұрын

Typical Russian autocratic procedure: show the challengers that they can’t scare those in power by demonstrating that it is THEY that are the most terrible

@Isaak941 2 ай бұрын

The amount of high quality content you put out on current and historical events, over multiple channels is super impressive

@cjbolan8059 2 ай бұрын

@Isaak941 He doesn't write most of these scripts. He just narrates them. I find his voice annoying and he talks way too fast. But the scripts are good, so I put up with Simon.

@piedpiper1172 2 ай бұрын

@@cjbolan8059If you listen a little faster he won’t have to slow down

@sullisen 2 ай бұрын

@@cjbolan8059 he doesn't write any scripts afaik, still he's responsible for what gets greenlit, who writes it, recording, who edits and then just the general management and day to day operations of a whole bunch of channels and he does an excellent job of it imo.

@tlozfreak888 2 ай бұрын

If anything I'm shocked the casualty count was as low as it was, with how hellish the situation ended up being.

@noth606 2 ай бұрын

Yep, I'm surprised there were survivors at all to a degree, but then I've a somewhat different view of Russia, Russians in general as well as putin specifically. I'm Finnish, ex army, and I remember these events as well as more specifically how it was covered in media. There have been other things since that have been messed up beyond any realistic possibility of finding out the truth of the events in a way that would be clear to demonstrate to a complete outsider, which unfortunately is par for the course in putins Russia. The saddest part that few people know is that Russians are the ones who get the worst deal in all of this mess in a wider sense. Collectively.

@LeiSnows 2 ай бұрын

With how Russia and Israel feels about human shields, you'd think they should be best friends. After all, Russia shoots hostages, Israel shoots hostages, so they have that in common!

@Legitpenguins99 2 ай бұрын

@ShakitaHamilton of shut up about Israel before you devastate the comment section. We've all seen the fucking news already, shut up.

@ultranecrozma7449 Ай бұрын

@@LeiSnowsbringing up Israel in something that has nothing to do about them to cry about something that didn’t happen? Gee, i wonder what you support 🤔

@themerchant9037 28 күн бұрын

@@noth606 well with russia's "counter terrorism" idea its always the threat themselves that take priority, and if the deaths of hundreds of children means you get enough time to bust in with otherwise real bad tactics from a objective standpoint its a common thing with putin's russia not consider the civilians as equal priority as the threat causing the situation

@PurpleMontez 2 ай бұрын

My own daughter had just started kindergarten a couple weeks before this happened. I was sick to my stomach when this happened and was terrified to even take my daughter to school. All I could think about was those poor babies who had been so happy and excited that morning and the terror they and their parents were going through.

@robinmangala3536 2 ай бұрын

I was a teenager & those videos/images of kids drinking their pee & others with torn apart limbs haunted me for years. Gruesome events.

@Masterhitman935 2 ай бұрын

I never heard of any footage of the hostage.

@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights 2 ай бұрын

@@Masterhitman935it did happen but there were no videos or pictures

@robinmangala3536 2 ай бұрын

@@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights tf you mean there was no footage of it? You mean I’m bullshitting now? There were literally videos on gore sites from Chechen rebels that captured everything. Troll

@BIFInvaider 2 ай бұрын

@@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights there is footages of this. In Sweden it was all over the news and they had some interview with a girl who managed to escape before the fire started

@zasmirko100 2 ай бұрын

why such hurry to liberate? Because answer is Aslan Mashadov, legal president of Ichkeria said he would get the children released and was ready to arrive Beslan, so famous Russian opposition journalist Anna Politkovskaya to intermediate talks. Politkovskaya was poisoned on plane fight to unconscious (drunk tea). That children will liberated by Putin's and Kadirov's personal enemy, Western-oriented "underground president" Mashadov was absolutely inadmissible for Putin, that would be colossal rating loss. So Putin decided to prevent such scenario and hurriedly gave order quickly make a storm using all military arsenal they had, using tanks, attack-helicopters and thermobaric weapons. Afterward appeared that most children got killed by "liberators". Putin's face was "saved".

@multiyapples 2 ай бұрын

This is incredibly tragic. Rest in peace to those that passed away.

@HistoryWithCoachT 2 ай бұрын

Oh man I'm glad you covered this. Crazy story

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

nah it's a common everyday story in these parts of the world

@mokeysamo3528 21 күн бұрын

Deploying Spetsnaz units for rescue missions are like cutting hair with a chainsaw

@nickna7387 2 ай бұрын

Russian fsb: so anyways i started blastin

@BruceFarcau-ke7oj 2 ай бұрын

Another brilliant and well supported analysis. I teach a course in the politics of international terrorism and still learned new angles.

@Stardustchild01 2 ай бұрын

I remember watching the events unfold at that time on tv when I was still a teen, going to school myself. I remember feeling extremely anxious. I cried many times. Feared that something like this might happen again. The memories that this documentary brought me back. I can't help but cry again.

@user-ju5ru3yg7n Ай бұрын

I cried after the Manchester Arena bombing. I was told to shut up and never make any comments about Islam or I might be arrested.

@themerchant9037 28 күн бұрын

@@user-ju5ru3yg7n sad that people have lost the idea of why we never give quarter to terrorists and their demands wether of islam, separatists etc, as a certain space pirate in a certain kind of plane related to a certain country once said "you give a mouse a cookie, it will ask for milk"

@choucreamsundae 2 ай бұрын

I'd just started university when this happened and read about it in detail a few weeks later. It chilled me to the bone. Taking hostages is already terrible, but children? And then on top of that, essentially murdering them? I'm not a parent, so I don't have the profound gut reaction parents would, but how can people be so cruel? Those poor people, victims both of terrorists and those who should have saved them.

@peterpanini96 2 ай бұрын

It's russian democracy... 😢

@Theeight8b 2 ай бұрын

@@peterpanini96Democracy have no say in this. Bad decision from higher ups (that are commonplace in world. 9\11 anybody?), and, well, this is fully on those dumbfucks, who decided that taking hostages and torturing them - is a good way to get their point across. And there lot of Alpha and OMON's guys who died, covering children during evacuation. Who covered them with their own bodies, cause those terrorist just shot in back of kids.

@zasmirko100 2 ай бұрын

@juliajs1752 2 ай бұрын

I remember the news coverage of the attack. It was just one horrific detail after the other, and then another worse one, and the next...

@VerminaeSupremacy 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for covering this.

@CPX723 2 ай бұрын

12:22 Aslan Maskhadov, the president of the Chechen Republic, agreed to come to the school and promised he would free all the hostages. He only had one demand - let him get to the school. He even was ready to give himself up afterward. Russian side of the negotiations declined his request. But Maskhadov replied, "We are not at war with innocent people, women, and children. I'm coming to save the children no matter what happens to me" (his official message was posted on the internet). A couple of hours after that, the Russians began storming the school. Watch Yuri Dud documentary about it, to understand why Putin didn't want Maskhadov to save the children: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHeUhnqjnpqgbtUsi=5PiuTKYGnfwJjtc_ Maskhadov was killed in 2005. He was hiding with several of his bodyguards in one of the Chechen towns. The Russian special forces surrounded the house he was in. We learned how it actually happened just last year. One of his bodyguards that survive told the story. When they realized they wouldn't be able to escape, Maskhadov gave his last order to his bodyguard. "Shoot me in my heart. Do not let them take the Chechen President in custody! They will never see a Chechen President on his knees!". When the Russians blew up a part of the house, Maskhadov fell on the bodyguard, at that moment, the bodyguard shot him in his heart and his head.

@garrycorrothers711 2 ай бұрын

This is one you should cover on The Casual Criminalist. I wanna know the whole story and go further in depth about it 👀

@user-so5tj4cp8u 2 ай бұрын

Beslan

@eviate9376 2 ай бұрын

Nonsense nothing casual about this sickening story, this is one for into the shadows.

@garrycorrothers711 2 ай бұрын

@@eviate9376 are you insinuating that the other stories on Casual Criminalist are light hearted? What was casual about the Pedro Lopez story? Got have several seats 💺

@garrycorrothers711 2 ай бұрын

@@eviate9376 are you insinuating that the other topics covered in casual criminalist are lighthearted? What about Pedro Lopez?

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

search vdud beslan

@ZhouMama69420 2 ай бұрын

Russians out here making ATF look competent

@Silver_Prussian 2 ай бұрын

Do you want a list of all the terrorist attacks that took place in europe and the us the last 20 years ? Where were the critics to accuse authorities for incompetence, back then ? Where were the investigators ? When it comes to investigating Putin's administration however these ,,Investigators" and ,,experts" use 100% of their brians. Along with the bias medias to boost their claims

@hikey7955 2 ай бұрын

@@Silver_Prussianwell there are many instances where american police were critizised for being incompetent and handeling situations wrong. But just like the comment said, the russians are trying their best to be even more incompetent.

@60sSam 2 ай бұрын

Given the way our alphabet soup routinely murders people I'd say that's a coin toss.

@MemoryOfTheAncestors 2 ай бұрын

70% of the hostages were rescued in Beslan, while only 35% were rescued in Waco. At the same time, the scale of the complexity of the operations cannot even be compared.

@piedpiper1172 2 ай бұрын

@@MemoryOfTheAncestors⁠Kinda odd to refer to Waco as having “hostages.” They were religious nuts that chose to hold up and fight the US Govt. Then they doubled down on that brilliance by rigging fire traps inside their own fortifications. And even today people are surprise pikachu that they sat themselves on fire, lol. Maybe don’t set fuel traps inside your own defenses during a gun battle, lol.

@uncverg 2 ай бұрын

Maskhadov didn't get on the plane. He requested permission to get to the scene so he can talk them down. He couldn't get to a plane because he wasn't in exile. He was in a forest waging war. He even said he is willing to hand himself over to Russians if they let him talk to the terrorists. The independent journalists were those who were poisoned and didn't get there.

@frankmccracken1160 27 күн бұрын

Thanks Simon

@jewels11189 2 ай бұрын

Your reporting is awesome. Keep it up for us. You are not biased. You report FACTS (something that is missing)

@mytruecrimelibrary 2 ай бұрын

Never thought you would cover this one.

@wy837 19 күн бұрын

Amazing work. Amazing work.

@hairy-dairyman Ай бұрын

Flame throwers? Thermo-barick missles? Heavy machine guns? That's an attack on a ww1 trench network, not a response to a hostage situation.

@t3hwaddledee 2 ай бұрын

Terrifying how much this was planned in advance, with explosives wired in the building and weapons caches under floorboards and such. Absolutely disgusting that they took children and their families hostage - that were just there for the first day of school. Randomly picking off people who looked strong, or the dude who was just trying to keep people who didn’t know Russian alive by translating. That sort of dehydration probably meant a lot of them were close to death already…it doesn’t take but a few days without water to die…and there’s a point where drinking your own piss isn’t helpful because the waste becomes so concentrated. Between this and them the tsunami a few months later…the amount of death from unprecedented events was just…it’s difficult to wrap my head around. So many innocents going about their business on a holiday that had no idea their lives were going to end.

@Theeight8b 2 ай бұрын

Well, proud Chechen "freedom fighters" for ya. TBH, they have bad rep in Russia for a reason.

@cjbolan8059 2 ай бұрын

@@Theeight8b That reason is called Kremlin propaganda.

@eeg-rh7jv 13 күн бұрын

@@Theeight8ball things considered the Russians were pretty nice considering they didn't commited a genocide and that they spend billions of rubles on chechenia when they don't bring much to the federation

@heffatheanimal2200 2 ай бұрын

Well written and put together vid. Theres a whole lot more political backstory behind this, and a lot of sources give an even more chaotic, confused and horrific account of events. If you're wanting even more information on this incident I recommend Tim Phillips book Beslan: Tragedy At School Number One or the 2 part series on the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast

@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 2 ай бұрын

There were scorch marks on the victims and hostage takers consistent with flamethrower usage. The goal was not rescue.

@Thegoldenaerobar2 2 ай бұрын

Damn

@Silver_Prussian 2 ай бұрын

This was said by a bias ,,historian" whos high on his own delusions just like many of the critics he did not provide solid or provable evidence for his claims.

@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 2 ай бұрын

@@Silver_PrussianKulayev’s trial and Sayelyev report prove otherwise.

@Silver_Prussian 2 ай бұрын

@@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 how so ?

@nicholasbrown668 2 ай бұрын

"consistent with flamethrower usage" wild considering Russia doesn't have flamethrowers at all bud or are you referring to the RPO Shmel which....isn't a flamethrower but more akin to an RPG

@vaclavdockal6272 2 ай бұрын

Thanks. These things has to be reminded.

@samurai215 Ай бұрын

Man, this made me tear up when you showed the pictures of some of the kids. Nothing bad should ever happen to children. Horrifying and heartbreaking. Ibremember when this happened. The same reaction as watching this video. Chills throughout my entire body.

@christophereichten9005 Ай бұрын

Come out and play meth boy

@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 2 ай бұрын

Simon, could you do a video about the 1995 Russian hospital crisis?

@rincontibio7664 2 ай бұрын

"See those hostages, I don't want to" -FSB officer, probably

@erykagrabowska3301 2 ай бұрын

i was a young child myself when this happened. i remember my grandparents were watching the news and i heard that the poor children had to drink their own urine to survive. it was so shocking to me that it stayed in my memory for years, and even though at some point i forgot where, when, and why that hostage crisis took place, i still remembered the photos of survivors and what they had to do to survive. i hope that all who were affected by this crisis find peace and comfort one day

@user-ul4xu5xy9w 2 ай бұрын

Very timely video…

@Dene181 2 ай бұрын

Didn't know about this, crazy stuff.

@johnsmith2869 2 ай бұрын

I remember this been shown live on tv. All the kids had stripped naked. Reporters on the scene were getting shot as well. Its was truly awful. How anyone could hurt kids like this is beyond me

@Reddotzebra 2 ай бұрын

It seems Putin has always had those cold, cold, eyes. The only difference is he looks tired and old these days.

@noneyabusiness4006 2 ай бұрын

Retired KGB Colonels probably aren't known for their smiling eyes !

@wavydavy9816 2 ай бұрын

When Simon says 'It was a day like any other' I go 'Uh-oh!' 😧

@calebbearup4282 2 ай бұрын

And Putin has proven to be even more brutal today due to being allowed to get away with previous brutalities

@sparkles9965 2 ай бұрын

Why does this not surprise me with Russia

@gooma7942 13 күн бұрын

Another channel let’s gooooo

@FleetAdmirable 2 ай бұрын

was looking for coverage of this a week ago cool

@chickenmcfuggits7985 2 ай бұрын

I remember watching the news. I’ll never forget the little girl that crawled out the window, took a drink from the water spigot, then crawled back in again. There was a movie/documentary. If I remember right it’s called THREE DAYS IN SEPTEMBER. Goes into greater detail and covers some individual events that will rip your heart out.

@gssthh 2 ай бұрын

You could take out the names of players and country, and you'd still be able to figure out it was Russia. It's a country that acts like it cares about its people, but it's state has sanctioned the death of tens of millions of its own people.

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

it never acts like it cares it always openly calls humans resources

@user-qp8js5ps5c Ай бұрын

You lie here. Russian people were sanctioned by USA and it's puppets, not by Russian government.

@mammuchan8923 2 ай бұрын

OMG i will never forget watching this unfold on TV, it was horrific. Those children 😶

@Doug.the.welder-hj6cq Ай бұрын

This is probably the most insane hostage situation I've ever heard of...... totally nuts

@javaks 2 ай бұрын

They even rolled out Panzer II!

@zasmirko100 2 ай бұрын

Why was such hurry to rescue? Because Aslan Mashadov, legal president of Ichkeria said he would get the children released and was ready to arrive Beslan, so famous Russian opposition journalist Anna Politkovskaya to intermediate talks. Politkovskaya was poisoned on plane fight to unconscious (drunk tea). That children will liberated by Putin's and Kadirov's personal enemy, Western-oriented "underground president" Mashadov was absolutely inadmissible for Putin, that would be colossal rating loss. So Putin decided to prevent such scenario and hurriedly gave order quickly make a storm using all military arsenal they had, using tanks, attack-helicopters and thermobaric weapons. Afterward appeared that most children got killed by "liberators". Putin's face was "saved".

@nadiaelpis 2 ай бұрын

Anna Politkovskaya worked for Novaya Gazeta at the time, she wrote an article called "She breastfed little hostages". Anna didn't make it to Beslan at the time of the siege (she was poisoned) but instead she visited Beslan several months later after and talked to the families who lost their children. It's such a gut-wrenching read but I can't recomend it enough.

@celter.45acp98 2 ай бұрын

This was a tragic story but if anyone watching was at all surprised by the russians complete lack of reguard for the lives of the hostages. then you haven't paid much attention to russian history.

@jannamwatson 2 ай бұрын

Oh boy, here we go

@whoisbriannab 2 ай бұрын

Sounds like this could also be an episode of Decoding the Unknown

@jenyaqua 2 ай бұрын

Love the ikea cacti in the background- great video, awful and completely avoidable tragedy

@yankchef4067 2 ай бұрын

Just when I thought things couldn't get any crazier. I come to find out, they already have

@gordonchard6243 2 ай бұрын

When this happened i remember my school did a special assembly for like an hour all about it and we should talk to teachers if we're effected by it. Most of us just thought god my legs ache as I've been sitting on a sport's hall floor cross legged for an hour. Unless you were the smug year 11s on the benches. Definitely age plus having your own kids makes you more emotional to stuff like this.

@robertsmith4681 2 ай бұрын

Putin doing what Putin always did ...

@woahblackbetty7691 2 ай бұрын

*Muslims doing what muslims do

@monk7946 2 ай бұрын

And I guess drone striking weddings,schools, hospitals no I'm not talking about Gaza though it is an example is all good then too am I right? Lol nationalism do people even know who's the bad guy here? Fuck Putin for sure but come on

@krayxeez 2 ай бұрын

Damn I talked about this with my schoolmate from Uni today.

@ThehulkGreen 14 күн бұрын

Born in 79 and from an intellectual and intelligent family, my favorite topic was Napoleon's time. The puzzle now makes sense. They are all working together. They use us. Or do they, do we not look to them for exciting stuff

@miliba 2 ай бұрын

I was 9 when this happened and remember seeing the footage of half-naked children running out of the school. Some of them injured and bloodied.

@thestevenjaywaymusic7775 2 ай бұрын

What sick, vile people. All the hostages were innocent.

@Greentree57 2 ай бұрын

How do you know?

@BusiMimmo 2 ай бұрын

@@Greentree57man, we're talking about children in the first day of school. Stop acting dumb, please. Who decided to free hostages with tanks and thermobaric weapons wasn't innocent

@tripsaplenty1227 2 ай бұрын

theyd grow up to be conscripts, they don't have a choice. shame the chechens lost their nerve and lick pootin's boots now.

@AncestorEmpireGaming 2 ай бұрын

@@Greentree57the fact that you asked that shows how evil you are.

@wilsthelimit 2 ай бұрын

@@Greentree57Were you dropped on your head? These were all children and their parents! I understand the need to question things, but there’s a time and place for that!

@natecody3305 2 ай бұрын

Two episodes in a day? I'll take it

@josephinesosingot-raisanen6743 2 ай бұрын

I thought about this after last week but I didn't know it was this horrid!!!!

@UNREAL30 Ай бұрын

USA: "Waco is the worst hostage response in history." Russia: "Hold my Vodka."

@iamjacksennui Ай бұрын

Waco was more of a standoff.

@thumpyloudfoot864 2 ай бұрын

You should cover The October Crisis, but that maybe more suitable for The Casual Criminalist....

@thisguyagain7857 2 ай бұрын

My brain going places. Its not outside the realm of possibilities that a young child survived this just to be sent to the Ukraine front. Makes me always remind myself it aint that bad.

@eadweard. 2 ай бұрын

Incoherent thoughts.

@bongchong7748 2 ай бұрын

How so@@eadweard.

@eadweard. 2 ай бұрын

@@bongchong7748 Well he seems to have somewhat depressed himself on the basis of something that took place entirely within his own imagination.

@cpi3267 2 ай бұрын

@@eadweard. "nothing ever happens"

@sennsational 2 ай бұрын

People: "school shootings only happen in America!" Russia: Hold my vodka, comrade.

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

crappy gun policy and widespread government encouraged bullying and having a half of population living under sharia law is not the same

@Theeight8b 2 ай бұрын

82 shootings in US in 2023. 5(!) cases in Russia in 2023. Give my vodka back.

@Gamer1990100 2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this on the news

@jordanclemens5842 2 ай бұрын

Its crazy to me that there's vets in Russia that have participated in these operations. Some are just in their 40s now.

@user-so5tj4cp8u 2 ай бұрын

Watch the documentary. Beslan. It's gripping and will make you feel like you are there with the kids.

@Kilanofficial 2 ай бұрын

Im so confused how many channels does he have lol i swear he keeps popping up on my feed on a new page

@sullisen 2 ай бұрын

~7 or so at the moment I think. Plus a few inactive / abandoned and he used to host a few more until quite recently

@Kilanofficial 2 ай бұрын

@@sullisen jeez lol busy guy

@sullisen 2 ай бұрын

@@Kilanofficial Well most of us need a job, might as well make that job running a bunch of KZbin channels if you have the chance ;) To be clear he neither writes nor edits his videos(generally speaking), he has (freelance) writers that get assigned jobs or suggest to him something they'd like to write about, Simon records it then sends it off to an editor. If he did it all himself then yea he'd be a REALLY busy guy lol.

@fhdjshegyshsbsbd 2 ай бұрын

Anything happens, Putin: 🗣️🗣️"Evil west did this"

@nesorrett 2 ай бұрын

To be fair Basayev and many other chechen commanders that become terrorists were at the time called "Freedom Fighters" in mainstream western media and openly given money by the West. Some of that money surely went into many of the terrorist acts they did in Russia.

@Xiuhcoatl_ 2 ай бұрын

I wasn't too young at the time this happened, but young enough to kind of not have this be related to me, but old enough to realize it's severity. It still genuinely haunts me to this day, it's such a disgusting tragedy and I genuinely can't even begin to convey the pain I felt watching this unfold. I have no clue how I watched this unfold since I was so young but I remember the feeling of dread I felt as it did. I still can't watch some of the scenes to this day.

@lstallings96 2 ай бұрын

Ohh that's tragic man.

@RecklessInternetting 13 күн бұрын

I remember this being on the news when I was about 13 or so. My teachers were talking about it in class a lot. Looking back, I feel like the teachers were trying to make sense of it for themselves. We were idiot children with not a lot of perspective. They were adults who had to worry about this every day, many of them with children of their own of various ages. Their lives revolved around potential war-zones, surrounded by future casualties and unfortunate statistics. All that might be left of them the day after tomorrow would be some worn etching on a stone memorial, only vaguely acknowledged by superficial ceremony. I regret being frustrated at the constant discussion of this in class. How time shapes you, hey?

@Notmyrealnameanymore 2 ай бұрын

We fuckin need a moment of peace now

@Thebananaman08 2 ай бұрын

Damn.

@dogsbecute 2 ай бұрын

Can we get the actual names of the songs? THis episode was full of bangers and you never source the music D:

@dovidstaples9985 2 ай бұрын

Example #243 of why Putin is a slimeball

@thealmightykumquat9379 2 ай бұрын

"A further one was lynched by an angry mob" 17:15. The only time I felt some shred of respect for my common ape so far. Fuck I'm in tears over what those kids had to experience it's so damn draining

@zasmirko100 2 ай бұрын

@theclandestinewitness 2 ай бұрын

Such an irresponsible response to the situation by the military leaders

@zasmirko100 2 ай бұрын

@nyfolkhero 2 ай бұрын

Simon is our favorite KZbin, let’s be honest

@horseman217 2 ай бұрын

Are you schizophrenic?

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

kurzgesagt

@jaydenmontgomery4140 2 ай бұрын

As messed up killing hostages is if you show you’re willing too kill hostages once then they lose all meaning and people won’t bother taking hostages it’s a brutal tactic

@pazsion 2 ай бұрын

jesus, so much more than what ibsaw on tv ornin documentaries inwatched growing up... i remember parenta and military and police taking kids out of the windows... and terrorists were seen tossing children oit of one side as parents stood on the other... that where many storie and videos ended at the time i looked into it... so, that explains why bullets were going through the buildings and not blowing up the building... it was friendly fire... 🥺

@Snowball042 Ай бұрын

15:58 is a video of WWII German troops using a self propelled gun in the 1940’s????? Please edit this appropriately.

@goncasworld 2 ай бұрын

Words cannot describe the sheer incompetence and chaos of the situation. If you dare to go and look for footage you see the real situation. The military and police cordons were very flimsy with locals armed with guns (probably former military personnel, reservists or on leave) joining with the special police units and military contingent. They weren't receiving orders and sporadic firefights erupted with the biggest one right after the explosion allegedly attributed to the russian army shooting directly at the gymnasium. burned victims, some naked, ran around the compound trying to flee the scene as multiple firefights erupted. The armed locals can be seen shooting randomly at the side of military personnel. The military tried to reach the gymnasium with medical personnel in their APCs but were stopped short because of the firefights. Ambulances were present and constantly coming and going with victims but they were insufficient in number, hence the need for random civilians or militaries to use their own cars. Bodies of deceased victims can be seen lying all around. In the back of the compound Aushev had previously filmed a pile of male victims killed selectively by the terrorists. It was a nightmare scenario, horrible and violent. All in all it was sheer chaos and incompetence from the authorities what led to such a disastrous outcome. I hope at least some of the victims have found some way to deal with what they went through.

@MrLeo2A6 2 ай бұрын

Ummm so why did you edit in a WWII vintage Panzer II complete with Balkenkreuz @ 08:12 when you mention tanks ?

@cjbolan8059 2 ай бұрын

@MrLeo2A6 Probably the same reason that he used the wrong photo when referring to one of the principal actors in this tragedy.

@danieljones7843 2 ай бұрын

Russia’s motto throughout history: “and then it got worse.”

@GEB_Rosee_PPS Ай бұрын

i played a russian videogame once, and there was a peculiar quote, in the english localization, it was: "Happily ever after... lasted for about a week and change.", and in the original version, you can translate it as "and it all ended well... and then began worse."

@millbean13 24 күн бұрын

Wow, the Russian military acts with complete disregard for innocent life? Then completely lie about it? How familiar sounding 🧐

@RonnieRawdawg 2 ай бұрын

Russian incompetence as usual

@rajaydon1893 2 ай бұрын

If that was incompetence God knows what to call 9/11, how can so many planes be hijacked so easily by a bunch of terrorists

@rjgaynor8 2 ай бұрын

Most incidents in Russia are false flags as far as I am concerned. They lie about everything. They took their citizens rights away saying it would keep them safe. Look at the bombing that just happened.

@enclaveslayer 2 ай бұрын

I think that with Russia this is more standard operating procedure than incompetence

@stamfordmeetup 2 ай бұрын

and Russian disregard for civilians

@tsartomato 2 ай бұрын

@@enclaveslayer pukin is frim kgb have you ever seen a sane kgb?

@bradoncampbell2626 2 ай бұрын

The whole thing lasted 3 days and dehydration was an issue, so much so that people were drinking urine? Baslan has an average high of 74 in September and 83 in August. I wonder why hydration was so prevalent.

@SeymoreJohnson 2 ай бұрын

Idk maybe hundreds of people crammed into a gym that likely didn’t have any air conditioning?