Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962 - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

[@يونساليمان]

The number of Algerians who were killed in the massacres of May 8, 1945 was 45,000 according to French statistics or 90,000 according to American statistics. In fact, France promised to give independence to Algeria, but after its victory in World War II, it broke the promise.

[@capricornegalaxy5393]

Le nombre de martyres algériens de 1830 à 1962 dépasse largement le chiffre de 5.400.000 martyres la France colonniale a exterminé tout un peuple.

[@smal750]

source

[@ahmedrezzig1101]

​@@smal750en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9tif_and_Guelma_massacre You can find all the information about it here (including sources)

[@alsa3ka166]

​@@smal750bro just google how many algerian died in 8 mays 1945 Its the first text that you will see

[@peaches5878]

@@smal750 It's a very known fact, you can find many sources about it anywhere on the internet and pick the one you like, just write 8th Mai 1945 Algeria

[@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500]

Love from Vietnam! 🇻🇳❤🇩🇿

[@mounamehellou577]

Love from Algeria ..Huchi Menh was a friend to my country❤

[@royale7620]

Broke ass socialist country

[@reycesarcarino4653]

They Beat the US though can't take that away from them​@@royale7620

[@Just.Man_Id2707]

​@@royale7620 You're just an unemployed idiot

[@alanywalany6460]

@@royale7620 Touch grass

[@hichemahmedsista6445]

Proud that my grandfather died fighting for his country . Long live Algeria 🇩🇿

[@tugrulgul570]

Rest in peace from Turkey

[@SOULAANI_]

Based grand father. Rip bro!

[@User-dyn]

اللهم آته جنة الفردوس

[@quitlying1948]

شهيد.

[@derubk859]

Be proud of that, now some algerian are proud that their grandpa fought for France to get french citizenship. Tahia El Djazair

[@abdelaziznoshy5658]

اكبر تحيه لأبطال وشهداء الجزائر 🇩🇿❤🇪🇬

[@gakkok3030]

اخوتنا المصريين اكثر من ساعدنا شكرا شكرا صح ان هذا ادى الى الهجوم الثلاثي على مصر وقتل شهداء منكم فشكرا💗💗

[@ParisAcacia]

Its cool , an algerien history totally inverse that is Just a mimétique of sexual dominancy for à neuro reinforcement , with teachers like that we Will finish to teach the history to the initiated officers of the us ar ....

[@ParisAcacia]

An algerian history by islamist Who hunts every historians that have to flu away in Europe in the 80s and 90s .... their director and searchers and réal doctors in eu are not saying différent but inverse .... apparently this bearbybarbie teddy bears massacres the farms workers and every intellectuals , all their doctors and scientist are in eu under the menace

[@ParisAcacia]

Man , why u need to menace scientist and historians and algerians doctors in Europe ?

[@ParisAcacia]

A big need , the psycho mass marocain algerian , one race since a year , and a lot of orders and command for the americans , algeria and marocco is starting à race and americans seems to help to prépare the mass ....

[@ramzimohamed3146]

38 members of my family died in this war. our elders talked about how cruel it was and im so proud of them .

[@comradekenobi6908]

That's a lot

[@ramzimohamed3146]

@@comradekenobi6908 some of them died in battle others been executed and few never been found .

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@ramzimohamed3146 God give them a good afterlife

[@ramzimohamed3146]

@@comradekenobi6908 i wish either. thanks

[@ramzimohamed3146]

@Mike J i never would but alot of us do. thats a fact and ashame of us . I even against immigration

[@shatterquartz]

The status of French Algeria was utterly hypocritical. On the one hand Algeria was officially not a colony but an integral part of France; yet on the ground it lived under a de facto apartheid regime, in which a minority of settler colonists confiscated all wealth and political power, and the majority of the population was not granted citizenship rights. Eventually the contradiction had to blow up, and blow up it did. The Pieds-Noirs were essentially the French Afrikaners.

[@juleslandry7585]

The irony is that the situation could have changed significantly before the Second World War, in particular with the Blum-Violette project.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

This. 👈

[@sonnysantana5454]

w o w another 1' who states the obvious you gotta thank god for google and wikipedia

[@the19thcentury81]

No it did not live after an apartheid regime. A middle-class Berber man could become a magistrate or a pharmacist if he wanted to. The ones who received the most condescension were the Jewish community not the Muslims. If you look up Max Regis and Gabriele Lambert then you will understand where I'm coming from.

[@the19thcentury81]

@@jacksonbando7952 Oh yes I'm right. Mouloud Feraoun was born into poverty into Kabylia and was able to become a teacher and writer due to the education system established by the French. That is social mobility.

[@theawesomeman9821]

True fact! The Vietnamese are the Algerians biggest cheerleaders!

[@weprintservice487]

and vice versa , the Vietnamese struggle is taught enthusiastically in algrian schools and hailed as the role model of their own revolution

[@comradekenobi6908]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if I never met the guy"

[@itsblitz4437]

Don't forget the Afghans.

[@laker_fanatic3985]

it takes one to know one the Algerians and the Vietnamese had the same battle and both pushed thro with the absolute force of courage and won easily the 2 greatest revolutions of the 20th century

[@pedrollex3308]

Philipines is better 100% vietnam worst kontry in asia

[@helloworld0609]

Last year I watched the movie "The Battle of Algiers", which is about this war. Highly recommended.

[@TheColdWarTV]

That is a phenomenal film! Highly highly recommended

[@juleslandry7585]

@VoltigeurFR It is an important film to understand the period, but like all films, books or stories, it must be placed in its context.

[@juleslandry7585]

@VoltigeurFR the amusing side is that the film ignored Algerian films dating from the 60s and 70s (about the Algerian war, of course) that were just as interesting.

[@sankarchaya]

@VoltigeurFR the fact that it was made by a communist doesn't impact its quality. I disagree with Clint Eastwood's politics but respect many of his films. And it doesn't simply lionize Ali la Pointe, it shows how he committed terrorist attacks too.

[@sankarchaya]

its one of the best movies on the topic of guerrilla war and anti-colonial struggle. It shows the spiral of dehumanization that colonialism inevitably causes, and also how colonialized people often regain their sense of dignity through revolt even if they suffer in the process

[@alexv3357]

"The war even collapsed an entire French Republic." Not exactly as high bar as one might expect

[@joeblow9657]

Some Frenchman on a Wednesday: smoke a cigarette 5 minutes later: political turmoil achieved.

[@1998topornik]

Indeed

[@kyleplatter8954]

@@joeblow9657 correction, some Frenchman on Wednesday did NOT smoke a cigarette. We all know they use their crippling nicotine addiction as a vice to control their crippling political instability addiction.

[@DarkBloa]

@@joeblow9657 correction, it was a Saturday 😁

[@MrPink1750]

*French empire, 12 African states gained their independence because of the Algerian independence revolution - And ended the 4th Republic.

[@paulfrank9047]

It's kind of insane to me that the French people (not all but many of them nonetheless), after having suffered harshly under Nazi occupation, did not collectively think that maybe their colonial subjects went through a similar oppressive experience under the yoke of French imperialism. Such self-reflection could've led to a more peaceful process of decolinization that would have saved countless lives and money. Rules for thee, but not for me is a cliché that comes to mind when thinking of this brutal war from the French perspective.

[@xx3768]

Actually they did, but the poor French also suffered under their government, even the French had to revolt against their authoritarian regime (1967 manifestations and the fall of the forth republic I guess)

[@xx3768]

Algerian was was like the Hunger game movie, the French opened a contest and the prize was Algeria (sadly fractions from the Algerian part sold out and made peace while others were still fighting, this allowed them to exclude the others and attain power for themselves, the winners were Oujda group)

[@thibaultmerlin]

The french public realised there was french armed forces in Vietnam when the government announced their retreat. For the public opinion Algeria didn't realy existed before the colonisation as it was an "uncivilised" region. That was the collective thinking... If you lie and manipulate people well enough you can justify anything. Colonisation, salvery, holocaust... truth is for most people who lived during these times, it was no big deal if not good things. Like the invasion of the Middle East by the US for oil. In 100 years people will not understand how american people could let this happen ; so much suffering and death of innocent people even childrens. But it was for freedom and anti-terrorism right ?

[@erikzelada5578]

​@@thibaultmerlinlike hamas using human shields for "liberation"

[@Z130U]

​@@erikzelada5578more like the IDF bombing civilian houses and schools because they are "terrorist breeding grounds"

[@manelbarat6566]

Glory to our martyrs and always freedom and peace to my beloved Algeria 🇩🇿

[@egay86292]

martyrs?

[@cheriefsadeksadek2108]

YES MARTYRS anyone that dies defending and fighting for his country for islam and for god is a martyr especially if you are fighting a brutal colonial occupation ​@egay86292

[@agrantharrison472]

Funny kind of freedom and peace you think you’ve got.

[@UserUser-ph4dt]

​@@egay86292 انت مغربي ، والمغرب محمية فرنسية منذ 1912 وإلى اليوم ، انتم لاتعرفون معنى الشهادة لانكم مازلتم محتلين من طرف إسبانيا منذ 600 سنة !!! لذلك لاتعرف منى الشهادة ولا معنى الشهيد لانك وغيرك من العبيد جبناء !!! والجبان مثلك ومثل بقية العبيد لايعرفون معنى الدفاع عن الوطن ، لان العائلة الهالكة بالمغرب علمتكم حب الاحتلال والمتاجرة ببناتكم واطفالكم في سوق السياحة الجنسية ومهرجانات الرقص والغناء !!! من الافضل لك ان تهتم بالمغربيات اللواتي تصدروهن بالآلاف إلى دول الخليج وإسبانيا وإسرائيل كخادمات في البيوت والفنادق وعاملات بمزارع الفرولة بإسبانيا التي تحتلكم من وراء البحر واشياء اخرى تعترف بها نساؤكم اللواتي صدرتموهن إلى خارج المغرب من اجل جلب لكم العملة الصعبة ولكن على حساب الشرف ههههههههه اهتم باختك التي ارسلتها للخليج بدون محرم من اجل ان تعطيك بعض الدولارات هههههههه

[@محمدحبيب-ظ4ش6ذ]

​@@agrantharrison472 🇪🇭🇪🇭🇪🇭 this will follow just wait sangouli

[@hibahiba7536]

The price of our freedom was a heavy one 💔 glory to our martyrs. Long live Algeria 🇩🇿

[@tucia8783]

You can be very proud of your people.

[@igorzkoppt]

I know that part of History very well, and I am really impressed at how you managed to summarise clearly such a complex story, in just half an hour. Excellent work!

[@droneanswers5476]

Except they totally forgot to explain why 1.5 million "pied noirs" and hundreds of thousands of muslims and Jews had to abandon their homes or die...

[@merlinbreaud7379]

@@droneanswers5476 They explained the role played by the Pied Noirs all along the war, making the result pretty obvious...

[@mikado6407]

@@droneanswers5476 they deserved it for opposing the revolution... they deserve to go back to their country or leave algeria if they don't uphold it!

[@droneanswers5476]

@@mikado6407 so algerian should also go out of France if we listen to people like you lol

[@droneanswers5476]

@@merlinbreaud7379 sure so the pied noir population was guity as all as the jews and harkis ? Beautiful ! 🤣 "They had it coming" as justification for massacres but crying if comited by French lol !

[@dzdz7818]

Long live Algeria my country and the country of my father and the country of my grandfathers who fought like brave men for our freedom ✌️🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿🇩🇿🇵🇸

[@grahamt5924]

It's an illusion. The whole thing is pointless. You are fighting for apartheid

[@bubu345]

Brace yourself for another ass whole nation trying to hold on to their illegal action

[@ناصرالحق-و4ن]

The Algerians did not adhere to the Crémieux Law of 1872, unlike the Jews. Who accepted French law to rule by secularism instead of ruling by religion. Then the Jews began to enjoy their full rights with the French, while the Algerians were subjected to racism. Until Ben Badis arrived and taught the youth the correct Islamic doctrine and disavowal of polytheism, disavowal of supplications to the graves, and disavowal of infidels, not as they were according to the Sufi doctrine. From that, this Salafist youth, whom Ben Badis had formed, realized the necessity of jihad for the sake of God.

[@nabilrise1551]

​@@ناصرالحق-و4ن1871 law was only offered to Jews

[@Procrastinators]

​@@ناصرالحق-و4نfum fact, the fln was mainly socialist

[@همامطارق-س4ذ]

My grandfather was one of the men who fought in this war, and he was arrested in the prison camps. He is now paralyzed as a result of torture in the prison camps. He told me many stories about what happened in those prison camps. The Algerians have never and will never forget what France did to their grandfathers, and a day will come when we will be held accountable.

[@thecitycook]

great way of moving forward m8. i guess all of europe should feel the same about germany then. Let's all happily perpetuate the cycle of hate instead of breaking it !

[@thepatriot1569]

And get nuked, want to talk about the genocides you did against some villages ? Want to talk about the very reasons why you got colonised ? Im for the fact that everything that happened in that war get taught so the world know as much what France did as the freedom fighters, it would maybe enlight people like you. The dictatorship that came after was worth it I guess

[@yafayafa9601]

"why u got colonised", no, this is justifying the colonisation (which brought torture to the Algerians, no matter how u try to twist it). As per the dictatorship coming next after colonisation, well, thats a diff chapter (which doesn't make colonisation better anyway).​@@thepatriot1569

[@thepatriot1569]

@@yafayafa9601 I m not making excuses, just saying you are not better than us. I agree colonisation is the worst thing we did but there is a difference between acknowledging that and accepting that some people deserve theyr revenge on the base they are better than us

[@Anonymous-pw3se]

​@@thecitycook Germans asked for forgiveness from Europe, french didn’t. So don't pretend to be innocent, neo colonialists

[@azizhwawi8776]

during the Algerian war of independence, the F.L.N national liberation front was treated as a terrorist organization by France and the rest of the world

[@kazakhdoge1822]

I think you should've touched 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians. While 200-400 dead protesters seems like a small death toll, compared to 1 million people dead in the Algerian war of independence, it was one of the most notable massacres in France as it was perpetuated by the French police and commanded by Maurice Papon, the chief of the police who was a Vichy collaborator responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to death camps.

[@juleslandry7585]

Yeah, it's a sadly forgotten aspect of Algerian War and highly controversial.

[@juleslandry7585]

@علي ياسر and why did the Ottomans massacre the Egyptian Mamluks when they shared the same faith? Congratulations, you discovered that History was controversial.

[@juleslandry7585]

@علي ياسر Exactly the same for France and Germany, you answered your question yourself!

[@fredericleroux8493]

It's rather 40 or 50 but for pro-algerian observers it was 200 or more. It's like Johny Depp and Amber Heard who is the bad guy and the liar ?

[@MayasYahou78]

exacly 1.5 million martyrs

[@Wkumar07]

This is a fascinating independence struggle that few outside of France or Algeria understand or know of. I have read about this struggle shortly after my college years, but I have not thought about this war since then. Watching this video reminded me of the complexity or Cold War colonial politics.

[@mmahmodi5155]

All the Arab world knows the struggle of Algerine for independent now you ask in one in arab country about the Milon shahed they say Algeria directly

[@Wkumar07]

@@mmahmodi5155 I don't understand

[@Dazzlefisher]

@@Wkumar07 The country is sometimes nicknamed « Watan al Million Chahid » which translates to the country of the million martyrs. It also became known following its independence as « the Mecca of Revolutionaries » as even Fidel Castro and Che Guevara had stayed there multiple times during their fights, inspiring the other Arab nations’ revolutionaries.

[@edvinasmeskauskas170]

Every country had their struggles your not special...

[@Wkumar07]

@@edvinasmeskauskas170 perhaps, but do all such struggles still echo down the corridors of history as do the struggles of the Cold War do today?

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Do not fight the French in large numbers, rather you must harass them, chase after them, cut off their communications, take their equipment and means of transport, deceive them, ambush them and conduct surprise attacks to create confusion and astonishment in them" - Abdul Qadir Al Jazairi

[@Abdal-RahmanI]

Spain agrees!

[@Monatio79]

As did Ho Chi Minh, Le Duan and Vo Nguyen Giap.

[@milominderbinder6209]

@@Abdal-RahmanI 😘

[@milotura6828]

@@Abdal-RahmanI oh yeah the peninsular war

[@Zakariya3603]

@@Monatio79 Fun fact: Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap studied Abd-el-Krim's tactics. Those tactics allowed them to score the victories of Route Coloniale 4 and Dien Bien Phu, in which the French suffered respectively 4,800 casualties and 10,000 Casualties.

[@tolgao.8033]

Selam from the heart, to our brave Algerian brothers. Türkiye loves you.

[@technetium9653]

Winning militarily and loosing politically will be a constant theme of the cold war

[@kamakiller1145]

@VoltigeurFR similar to greece

[@sirfrancis6058]

@@home68049 it had won militarily, De Gaulle wanted to negotiate from a position of military strength

[@TheBucketSkill]

@VoltigeurFR Gotta admit, Dien Bien Phu was pretty humiliating. Straight up surrounded and captured. I feel like that one was karma though, being that a recently subjugated France by Germany gets liberated and IMMEDIATELY attempts to contain there former colonies.

[@juleslandry7585]

@@home68049 Hi (nice to see you again), economically? clearly not, fun fact Algeria (like all the french colonial Empire) costed more than it brought to France in terms of currency, the wars of decolonization paradoxically played a major role in the economic development of France between 1955 and 1970, freeing up a very large sum of capital.

[@juleslandry7585]

@@TheBucketSkill Dien Bien Phu wasn't a stupid idea, the whole plan was to attire Viet Minh into a decisive battle in order to destroy his military potential, fun fact it's mostly failed due to China and indirectly USA, the fact that Viet Minh have former ROC 105mm howitzer (given by USA to nationalist China and later used by Mao as a way to support Ho Chi Minh).

[@madizo9056]

As an Algerian, I am honoured to have this being an actual video here. Algérie Algérienne !🇩🇿

[@flawlessbinary7449]

Respect. An Algerian Algeria and a French France. All native people deserve self-determination.

[@shanebrown2009]

@John Rock ever heard of tribal lands?

[@shanebrown2009]

@John Rock I bet you look at yourself as a tolerant person.

[@louisixlefourbe8075]

11, 12, 13, Algérie Française ! 🇫🇷👣

[@madizo9056]

@@louisixlefourbe8075 cope

[@zebraz3839]

I love these types of videos that show how each country gained their independence (Note I’m talking about countries that gained their independence during the Cold War)

[@mrmr446]

You mention the food situation but I don't think enough attention was paid to the famines suffered by Algerians denied access to the most productive land. The Jewish Algerian community was eligible for French citizenship, many emigrated to the mainland but this unsurprisingly exacerbated tension with the majority.

[@joeblow9657]

sheenies

[@DanielLLevy]

No, Algeria's Jews had been made French citizens by the Crémieux Decree in 1830, as the French colonial regime viewed them as an usable, culturally adapted interface between themselves and the Arabo-Berber majority.

[@mrmr446]

@@DanielLLevy Thanks for the correction they didn't even need to apply for citizenship, culturally they were just as Berber or Arab as their Muslim neighbours and belonged to a community that had been in North Africa for millennia but you're right about how they were viewed by colonial authorities.

[@johnhenry4844]

@@mrmr446 Didn’t need to worry about them creating self exclusionary, self segregating sharia law enclaves that cause ALOT of problems

[@mrmr446]

@@johnhenry4844 No one segregated in the area before the French your comment makes no sense.

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

800 bombs per month in early 1957! That is insane; even a tenth of that rate today would be considered extreme. And for it to happen not across a country but instead all in one city makes even more staggering. I can't imagine how anybody could live under that constant fear knowing that simply walking by a cafe could end your life horrifically.

[@F_imperialists]

That was the point. Make the french feel not at home and go back to their country.

[@ryan17920]

@@F_imperialists Algeria was their country (at that time)

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

@@ryan17920 They take it by force (Invasion) if they went there legally no one dare to say anything about them, there was always there Europeans/Jewish minorities in North Africa some still until today, playing big roles in the society .

[@F_imperialists]

@@ryan17920 It never was. Read up about the history. It wasn't peaceful until 1954. It was constant war. It slowed down around WW1. But after 1945, the sentiment of fighting the colonisers came back.

[@elinawaterson]

Well they weren’t in their country. Of course Algerians had to defend themselves!

[@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332]

My grandfather was drafted into this war, he spent most of it guarding the border with Tunisia. He was always really sad when talking about it, and always regretted the matter couldn't be settled peacefully.

[@adamcheklat7387]

Mine took part in Operation Dragoon. His unit even took part in the fight for Notre Dame de La Garde.

[@F_imperialists]

Wait, so he accepted the draft meaning he would have shot people, and regretted it not ending peacefully? This sounds contradictory. If he wanted it to be peaceful, he would have chosen to be jailed over participating in the war.

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

I can say simple word ISLAM, looks how shtty country is now Algeria people there hating their lives, most young dream is to immigrate to France, these rebels just sell illusion to their people, if they just agree to have fully citizenship, their country will be in better shape today .

[@Pantsugrenadiere]

@@F_imperialists i mean "regretting it not ending peacefully" doesn't mean he will not fight if it's needed, i mean almost every soldier would prefer not to go to War but will still go anyway not because they want to but either because they see this as their Duty for their country or because they don't wanna go into the trouble of getting labeled as a deserter and potentially ashame himself and his family, plus here it's not like he participate in massacre (otherwise yeah it would have Been contradictory) or anything he just guarded the border

[@F_imperialists]

@@Pantsugrenadiere Yeah the shame of not going to kill locals in the name of colonisers. Yeah, makes sense. Your grandfather was in the wrong for even going to colonise, it does5 matter if he wanted peace. Now at least in my eyes he's just like the Nazis. You know, many Nazis were just drafted and killed millions because that was "their duty". Imagine the shame of not committing holocaust in the name if your country. :)

[@billw1266]

Excellent summary and context. For those interested in this history, Frantz Fanon’s classic “The Wretched of the Earth” is a must.

[@Saad-ul6py]

Absolutely agree

[@dominik.g.7938]

Thank you for this episode about Algeria's people struggle for independence.

[@ParisAcacia]

This guys send us the familly Anjaouf to kill two historians in Paris man ! Now we have a salafist in the cimetery of Nanterre, man we have the cadavres and the names of the historians you are looking , charged for murdering and rapings in paris and in french tribunals , how the réal scientist can speak with a group of murderers skyzophrenian that never study the concequences in genetics of their sadic skyzophrenia ? ( ask the nrc of oxford ) 😮

[@ParisAcacia]

This People Just killed the most young head of psychiatrie service in Europe mister Thomas Louis roque , hos we can speak with peuples that are Killing the young europeans psychanalyst and scientist of this Last years ? But we Will speak of the murdering of this skyzophrenic islamix teachers , we can not put on you tube terrorist that arr attzcking and doing menace today in Europe !!!

[@wyattm1583]

If you’re into boardgames, Colonial Twilight is a fantastic two player game about this conflict. It’s pretty dense, but it’s deep/rewarding and a gateway to other games using the same system(COIN, or COunter INsurgency).

[@hamrite]

The "pieds noirs" were not only French, many were from Spain or Malta. During the coloration of Algeria, the French government had trouble persuading French Nationals to move to Algeria, so it opened for people from abroad. My grand father was born in the Kabylian part and lived after his studies in Paris, where he tried to persuade the French to drop the "Indigenous Law" that separated French Colons from Algerian Born locals, which was a complete apartheid, all this going sour in 1945 with the Setif events. Ten years later the war to kick the French out started .... people have to understand that the colons were ruthless and violent towards the locals. The war was cruel and Violent since the French also developed the skills for torture .... that were adopted by the US state department after 9/11 ... by George Bush and his idiots.

[@kwd3109]

Yawn

[@rickjames18]

Extra Yawn, the reason the US lost in Afghanistan was due to weak leadership, its inability to be as ruthless as the terrorist with the terrorist, and geography. Those assholes are cutting heads off and human rights groups are worried about their living conditions. You can't make this up.... The US military followed their laws, morals, and values and yet people like you love push anti US sentiment. The people taken were for the most part terrorist or sympathizers. The terrorist killed more civilians than the US did terrorist. All I will say is that people like you have no idea what you are talking about. You watch too much TV, listen to gossip, and propaganda. The US poured trillions in rebuilding, training, and democracy (which was a mistake). They should have just left after killing Osama. Fact is that the world ends up getting worse because people like you spread misinformation while ignorant.

[@tobuncs5261]

@@rickjames18 Lol the cope, they definitely did follow the rules of wars by droning weddings and babies and torturing innocent people to death. What can you expect from a country founded on genocide and slavery.

[@Cjephunneh]

The reason the US leaved Afghan is that they never intended to stay or 'win'. It was a false flag from day 1

[@hamrite]

@@rickjames18 So the point of your yawn is the fact that it was all useless, as predicted. The US could not and was not willing to change anything but inflict domination on a rural society in a completely asymmetrical warfare, and have US teenager masturbating over videos of apache choppers killing resisting farmers. Yes, nothing but that. So yawn, as expected. Read the war of the flea by Robert Taber, 60 years ago the man knew all attempts to invade any country meant hurting people for nothing .... as any domination of a country to the next can only be achieved by killing 100% of its original inhabitants. There was never any idea of bringing civilization to any of these countries because the US is not a civilization, its just a country with an industrial system so powerful , it can inflict a high rate of violence on its own population without a second of doubt : Fentanyl and Guns, great stuff.

[@nachgebaut4176]

My Grandpa was one of many Liberator of Algeria, he collected classified information from the French, and give it to the resistance. He faught for his people, for god and for freedom. Rest in peace Messaud Abdrehman.

[@leonidasthermopylae3378]

« Liberator » 😂. Your grandpa liberated nothing. The FLN got obliterated by the French army. It is Degaulle who betrayed the French of Algeria and decided to give Algeria to the FLN

[@r.a1301]

@@leonidasthermopylae3378 the military result was a stalemate for both sides. I'd hardly class that as "obliteration"

[@leonidasthermopylae3378]

@@r.a1301 it was not a stalemate. It is well documented that that the French army obliterated the ALN, the “ligne Maurice” prevented the ALN to cross the border while the battle of the casbah in Algiers was a total military victory from the French army. The French were the first to use helicopter in COIN operation. Paul Aussaresse developed the COIN technics in Algeria and even went on to train US special force. It is De Gaulle who betrayed the French and the French army by giving away algeria. This even led to a military putch by 5 French general because the army and the French from Algeria did not accept the decision of De Gaulle after having crushed the FLN and the ALN. The 1st REP from the French foreign legion was almost ready to jump over Paris. De Gaullle should have been put in front of a firing squad for treason.

[@AmirSatt]

@@leonidasthermopylae3378 The least butthurt frenchie

[@Zakariya3603]

@@leonidasthermopylae3378 You literally failed against the Turks in their war of independence Gayreek and got thrown out into the sea, the Algerians took exemple and did the same to the French, cope.

[@EUROSPORTS4TECH]

Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 our poets have poems taught us about Algeria 🇵🇰🇩🇿 in 1960 poem name is i think " muslims of Algiers" in English

[@oussama1811]

it's a great honour for me and my family that many of the constantinian north leadership meetings were held in my great uncle's home, and that zighoud youcef himself was present in his house, may they all rest in peace.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Can I just say I absolutely love when you put the years on your video titles or thumbnails, it helps me alot.

[@ParisAcacia]

We have a student Who ask dammage to the embassy of this bearnybearb teacher and speaks of their murderings on pur student and their ridicule menace

[@abdulrahmanmuhammad2497]

I am from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿. Long live the Algeria 🇩🇿 and all the Muslim nations 🤲

[@ramijihadarab6175]

My family revolted along side Amir Abdelkader when the French first came to Algeria but were unfortunately exiled, eventually ending up in Palestine. Many years later during the time period talked about in the video, my grandfather tells me people came to our family (now in Jordan after once again being exiled but by the Israelis this time around) to get recruits to go fight for Algerian independence. Interestingly enough, during the Second World War when our family was still in Palestine, they were considered French nationals even though they were exiled, so when Ottoman troops came to the city to draft men to fight they weren’t even allowed to enter their home. The neighbor’s sons would hide at our family’s house as to not be found by the Ottomans and drafted

[@lampegutt123]

Ottomans fought in ww1. By ww2 there was no Ottoman Empire anymore

[@99166696]

and some people still believe that france is a liberal free country that supports human rights

[@joahua122]

well they did

[@msaid993-j7u]

not in french algeria for sure

[@ML6103]

So Algeria today is....what exactly? A utopia?

[@shaider1982]

The french government seem to have forgotten how they suffered under the Germans.

[@juleslandry7585]

Not really, but France's international prestige played a big part in convincing the authorities of the Fourth Republic to continue hostilities with the FLN.

[@juleslandry7585]

@علي ياسر I have a little trouble understanding you, but if I understand you well, you ask me why the French committed such atrocities? why Europeans? why Colonization? I could quite simply say that History is full of violence, of the uncertain desire to want to dominate and humiliate others, it is not necessarily the prerogative of the Nazis, of the French or of Europeans in general, but rather of the whole humanity. Why did the Arabs set up and thrive on a slave trade on the East African coast for almost 10 millennia? Why do Shiites and Sunnis massacre each other? the list is very long.

[@Zakariya3603]

@@juleslandry7585 Which was useless anyway, the FLN was growing in number to the point where they reached over 200,000 men ready to fight in 1962, the French had lost over 30,000 men killed for nothing, it was impossible to win.

[@rexacion]

@Mira Moche if you're brutal and efficient the UN will sanction you, there will be more people against the regime and your government will collapse, (you will, infact, lose)

[@smal750]

then germany was violently crushed by the allies and is since then a b*ch country😂

[@curtisthomas2670]

Algeria's experience under French colonialism and oppression and apartheid led it to post independence positioning itself as a beacon of assistance and solidarity to oppressed people all over the world. Thousands of activists, rebels, freedom fighters etc from all parts of the globe were given asylum, refuge, training, education, military and guerilla training in Algeria or in neighboring countries with Algerian participation and funding, eg Black Panthers and Native Americans from the US, indigenous peoples from Latin America and Asia and the Pacific, lrish, ANC and other groups from South Africa, Palestinians etc. Many organizations eg the Panthers had an office in Algeria. Algeria played crucial roles in the pan African movement and in the movement for African unity. Blessings and love to Algeria from 🇹🇹

[@bhutochakrabarti4173]

Man as an Indian I'm shocked at the amount of blood the independence movements of other colonies had in that time.

[@Shre_k__]

Not really. Most British and French colonies in the 60s peacefully gained independence with little bloodshed against colonisers (relatively speaking ofcourse) in this period. Algeria was an exception because it was considered an integral part of France kinda like Kashmir with a Muslim majority population. Apart from South east Asia, it was mostly peaceful decolonisation. Except the Portuguese ofcourse (first ones in, last ones out 😂)

[@shayk4791]

I feel like the violence as a result of the partition was very bloody. Apparently up to 2 million people perished during that period.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Didn’t millions die in communal violence during the Indian partition?

[@Shre_k__]

@John Rock it was considered at that time under their narrative. I never said I personally believe so.

[@Shre_k__]

@Clyde Speed East indies is a part of south east Asia. Read again

[@DarkshadowXD63]

This is a conflict I've been really interested in. I'm glad the team has covered this.

[@ParisAcacia]

Times to be proud to be marocan algerian when i see the race to buy americans russians weapons they are starting ... you Will have a lot of americans promotion of vidéos like that .... algerian proud proud sexual dominant version and the marocan opposites, its represent directly in command works for so many americans industries in 2024 2025 2026 .. look the New orders of the marocan/algerian front lol

[@ParisAcacia]

Maroco and algeria is buying an army .... lol .... in the same times and à lot of vidéo of an opposite proud proud story ( ask an algerian what mean to prout prout some honnors )

[@ParisAcacia]

A team ? Now an islamic group , we have 50 years of research about it , u have an algerian u tube version for the americans hamsters

[@ParisAcacia]

Yes , no one in eu have historians , only the islamic Who have no one doctors anymore in the country , the algériens historians are in my university in Paris, not in algeria

[@ParisAcacia]

A team has covered this ? Do you know how lany hundreds of valid research are in the doctrines and force of proof front of à tribunal ? A you tube team ? My god , hamsters are thinking the closed algerians universities and their searchers all with an asileum in Europe and usa are historians ...

[@benkamelmayssem5780]

But, you´re missing some incidents, like the bombing of Sakiet Sidi Youssef in Le Kef where I was born, France bombed the weekly souk and local school, they even bombed the local bureau of the red cross. It was a decisive incident, Dag Hamerschold himself went to the village and condemned the crime.

[@stefanodadamo6809]

In independent Tunisia?

[@benkamelmayssem5780]

@@stefanodadamo6809 exactly, on the 8th of february 1958

[@theawesomeman9821]

I'm proud and happy for the Algerians being able to obtain their independence for their country on their own terms. Its the only former French colony where sovereignty isn't nominal and the French don't dare to impose their will on.

[@nomadnametab]

de gaulle stabbed his own people in the back and to curry favor with the muslim world when he pulled out and let them have it. after the military had won the war by blunt force. he had a bad habit of doublecrossing his own countrymen. but the french still have a system to keep real control of much of africa. they are independent states in name only. francafrique its called. algeria has been a political , social and economic disaster area since the french left.

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@nomadnametab just be happy for the native people

[@Perkelenaattori]

@@nomadnametab You are correct. The CFA Franc for example is clearly a tool for the French of exercising their control of the area. The new ECOWAS currency is definitely one way to get some of that control back.

[@dillonhillier]

How do you figure the sovereignty of Vietnam is nominal and the French can impose their will? How about Quebec, louisiana, Dominica, Grenada, Yemen, and Syria? The French has no say in these places, their sovereignty is well established, along with many other of their former colonies. That statement has zero truth to it.

[@6paths142]

@@dillonhillier I think he is referring franceafrique.

[@nacerhi5486]

Never been so proud of algeria our people fought the bloodiest battle and never surrendered and we will never surrender to any country

[@TheSeeker-B]

❤ to Algeria 🇩🇿 from a Moroccan 🇲🇦

[@berberechaouilamouchi5677]

swamp of prosti.tution, dru.gs and slav.ery stay away from us 👙🇲🇦🐷🤮🤮

[@abderrezakremini5492]

ربي يحفظكم 🇲🇦❤️🇩🇿

[@hok1437]

بلد الشهداء🇸🇦💕🇩🇿

[@rafaelchacon1782]

Superior editing in this episode! Love the motion graphics and camera movements.

[@milotura6828]

My father is Algeria and was part of the military after the war, he is still has antagonism towards France and he, as a older man, still itches for a fight every once in while because of his families experience during the war.

[@vodkaboy]

c'est normal. pour beaucoup de Français qui avaient connus l'occupation c'était impossible de pardonner aux "boches".

[@jameseddine8627]

I will never forgive France for what they did to my country .Plus is that adeptus mechanicus profile lol ??

[@milotura6828]

@@jameseddine8627 yes, Allah loves his demands we find knowledge and technology. The OmniAllah

[@grahamt5924]

@@jameseddine8627 What's the point. There is no difference between you except the delusional thoughts you have.

[@crashandersen602]

How's that fight going, now that your people have a foothold in France? One 17 year old boy was all you needed, it seems.

[@piro5916]

These map graphics are seriously impressive, you guys are awesome!

[@bishop6218]

To be clear : the French military's "counter-insurgency tactics" were experimented in Indochina, but they learned them from eager german "exchange students" during the early 40's (remember most of the French cadres were WWIi veterans at the time). They would later teach those tactics to the US and Latin America dictatorships. And none of them cared about its major flaw : it doesn't fucking work, in the long run...

[@juleslandry7585]

to tell the truth no, most counter-insurgency theories were developed by French officers in Indochina (where it must be said that the High Command was really flexible as to the initiatives of the officers on the ground). There is very little or even no direct exchange (perhaps indirect, it would require more research) between Germans and French on this subject.

[@bishop6218]

@@juleslandry7585 i'm sorry, i was sarcastic. The exchange was quite direct, as they developed the techniques the Gestapo and SD directly applied on their asses during the occupation 😉

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@juleslandry7585 there's a lot of members of the foreign legion that are German, might explain why

[@scratchy996]

@@comradekenobi6908 Not only German, but former SS.

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@scratchy996 yeah

[@budwyzer77]

Didn't the French Foreign Legion of this period contain a lot of former Waffen-SS? The "hearts and minds" strategy was never on the table.

[@nunbiz7328]

What does that have to do with anything?

[@nunbiz7328]

@VoltigeurFR wasn't responding to you bruv

[@noobster4779]

Which is ironic considering they were doing now the exact same in the name of France to the algerians that they had done to the french in the name of nazi germany before. The french militaries actions during this war basically read like a normal "anti partisan warfare" operation from nazi germany occupied countries done by the germans.

[@nunbiz7328]

@@noobster4779 Yeah maybe the rebels shouldn't have depopulated mining towns and smash infants against rocks.

[@joeblow9657]

Apparently that's a misconception. The Legion didn't allow Waffen-SS members to join and their SS tattoos made it very easy to spot them and reject them. However, a lot of former Wehrmacht soldiers were in the Legion and we know the Wehrmacht wasn't exactly clean either.

[@brianforry5524]

This is one of the most comprehensive and detailed channels on KZbin. Keep it up!

[@JohannPachelbel81]

Gửi lời chúc tới nhân dân Algieria anh em, hoà bình thịnh vượng, trường tồn ! 🇻🇳😘 Africa🎉🎉🎉

[@Abderrahman490]

🇩🇿🤝🇻🇳

[@KiaraJegar]

🇻🇳🍯❤💐🇩🇿

[@bwdavis4573]

Appreciate your work and the TV from my childhood there. Most comforting 🇨🇦

[@adamcheklat7387]

My dad was born in 1947 in Algeria. His home village was spared from the fighting.

[@souadbenali5668]

Mine died during the war, his village was destroyed by the French. About 60% of the Algerian population were displaced into camps, may I ask which village was it to be spared? It must be a Oasis in the deep south?

[@adamcheklat7387]

@@souadbenali5668 It’s to the southeast, in the mountains.

[@theunique1966]

The question is : what is the name of the village ? It’s your dad’s birth place , you should know that or go check his birth certificate , it must be there . I’d like to know what’s the name of that village that « was spared from the fighting « cause that would be a newsflash …

[@hassansoltani3069]

Both of my grandparents joined the revolution as soldiers in the FLN ... i still remembering their stories about THE war & their follows who died dreaming about the day they will be free ... i still remembering the stories of my grandfather how he get caught during the battle & the torture he lived through during the prison until he got free after independence.... we will not forget the crimes & we will tell the stories to our children too ... until the day France demeaned apology to the authorities that happened during the war Allah yarham elchohada🇩🇿

[@vicenteastrai5752]

It was the War!!! FLN also made some crimes against europeans settled in Algeria

[@hassansoltani3069]

@@vicenteastrai5752 their crimes far worse every action has opposite one ... France ruled by terror for 132 year millions of life lost it's a shame to compare some FLN crimes to the ones done by the French empire & France republic

[@vicenteastrai5752]

@@hassansoltani3069 yes it's true!!! Colonialism is a crime against humanity. But i think that Algeria could give Algerian nationality to the europeans settled in Algeria insted of making crimes against europeans population after the independance like in Oran

[@abdouu5300]

@@vicenteastrai5752 people who stayed here has their algerian id card unlike cowards who helped the corrupted colonialism

[@AhmedOmar-ul6wc]

good@@vicenteastrai5752

[@sancota1]

The animations are great, but the sound effects are a bit too loud. Just turning them a bit down would make them less distracting

[@MKfanmomo]

Self-determination and freedom is a basic right that should be honored worldwide. Always a pleasure to work and support our good neighbors, cheers from Tunisia.

[@Deadlybudz]

The like and bell button quips is what I wait for now at the end of every episode. I love it, keep it up!

[@Aristote16]

Freedom or death this was the slogan of our ancestors day after day we are proud of our revolution We lived through injustice and tyranny by gaining freedom we do not know freedom as a meaning but we know it as a meaning and a feeling 🇩🇿✌❤

[@abdoudz8486]

كان شعار المجاهدين :النصر أو الإستشهاد و ليس الحرية أو الموت

[@jakemyhill4985]

Excellent video about a part of 20th century that is often forgotten!

[@mab7727]

Fun Fact: PLO was largely based on the FLN in beginning, Given how similar both scenarios are.

[@jimayder7580]

Thank you for making this video I'm Algerian myself and i gotta say that i learned some new things about our war of independence. Although FLN won the war , their decent honest members who wanted to build a free democratic republic county were either assassinated , sent to exile or disappeared after the war . Now Algeria is still run by the FLN depleting Algerian resources into these people's pocket using the french government as a backup to their corruption in exchange for oil . But at the same time order and freedom is somewhat achieved it's better than a ruined nation like we're seeing in other arab countries or under a colonial government.

[@dude7803]

my great uncle was one of those men, he was the first minister of finance. in the end he had to leave the country and died in Switzerland

[@josephmccarthy7331]

If only Ferhat Abbas had been chosen to lead Algeria it would have been better

[@someoneyeah7683]

@@dude7803 Your great uncle is Ahmed Francis ?

[@Yellow.1844]

yep, my grandpa wanted nothing to do with politics after the war ended, he didn't take any benefits(except the ancient fighters pension when he got old with health problems), he couldve easily gotten a block appartement in downtown Algiers but refused, he said he did it for his country not for himself.

[@jacquesconstantine6521]

@@josephmccarthy7331 ferhat abbas the one who wanted une Algerie française !??

[@pierrelegendre8791]

I so proud to be an Algerian

[@tucia8783]

You really can! ❤

[@badrofed1112]

🇩🇿🇵🇸🇻🇳🇮🇪الجزائر. فلسطين. فيتنام. أيرلندا💪⚔️🌙

[@TamimProduction]

5:50 The numbers are between 6,000 and 30,000 according to Wikipedia, and up to 40,000 according to Algerian history books. I live in Setif, on of the cities with most casualties. by the way, yesterday was 8th of May! We never forgot and will never:)

[@augustin5611]

Algerian and History is like talking about cold fire. And the given number by now independent Algeria in 62 was 45.000.

[@TamimProduction]

@@augustin5611 Yes 45,000 is the common information discussed by our locals

[@Zakariya3603]

@@augustin5611 Lmao, your pfp was the name of an Algerian saint, your history started with Clovis, a foreign conqueror whereas ours started with Massinissa, a native Numidian.

[@FrankensteinDZWOT]

My grandma's Dad and her brother was killed during the war i remember her telling me stories of how the french military apprehended them and took them from their home 😢 may they RIP ❤.

[@sebbru8369]

your Vids, all of them, are what i've been dreaming of in keen moments of 'what could history teaching be' ... thx so much for your work and effort!

[@valrabellkeys9867]

My takeaway is the French had multiple opportunities to make this a LOT better and just set every opportunity on fire.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

France was paranoid and Britain was very, very smart

[@acosorimaxconto5610]

Great explanation of a complex period of French history. You answered a lot of questions I'd had, thanks.

[@DarkBloa]

Pieds Noirs were not "French from France", it was much more complicated. They came from all around the Mediterranean (Spanish, French, Maltese, Italians etc) as migrants and many of them had no ancestry or even had never been to the Metropole. Many soldiers also got lands in Algeria, soldiers were mainly from France but it was also possible to get through that way without being French. Also I do not know how you counted them but local Christians and Jews were given French nationality (divide and conquer, while having a local support in a population that knows the land) and may have been counted in your Million.

[@georgemetcalf8763]

Surprised you didn't mention the assassination attempt of DeGaulle by the OAS. Or a flash about Camus. It's a pity Larteguy didn't continue his contemporaneous novels about the French paras in Algeria so he could cover the events after DeGaulle came to power. I liked his first two novels, "The Centurions" and "The Praetorians." Also if any are interested A Savage War if Peace is a great history of this war.

[@chiensyang]

There were many information to cover, so David could not cover all of them. Another information not covered was the formation of the far-right party National Front. Many of the original party members were also part of OAS who were seething at France allowing Algerian Independence.

[@smokyondagrass2353]

i remember reading about how De Gaulle called Kennedy telling him that his CIA is trying to Overthrow him & Kennedy basically told him that he has no idea, cus he doesn't control what the CIA does

[@winddmmy]

the french paras in Algiers were the legions 1st para regiment who were disbanded after this attempt.

[@walidhammadou4605]

And the fan incedint

[@bbmtge]

@A The FLN targeted civilians and changed the war. If you can't handle reprisals against civilians, don't start them in the first place.

[@THENOAHMOU]

great video

[@CR7_2006Editz]

An Algerian was Here 🇩🇿,God Bless The 1.5 Million Hero's.

[@Beam_Teamer]

Allah yarham al shouhada

[@CR7_2006Editz]

@@Beam_Teamer ameen

[@Moor0077]

They were 200K not 1.5 million.

[@CR7_2006Editz]

@@Moor0077 give me a source that saying it was 200k, i dont believe you, i even know you are moroccan, but iam not into politics, you can try to make me hate your country,while i have closer moroccan families, that why i dont choose politics, i consider Morocco as my second country even if i dont have moroccan blood, i defend morocco as i do the same to Algeria, 🇲🇦🇩🇿

[@Moor0077]

@@CR7_2006Editz I am trying to start a fight here. Here is my question. Who was the first person who said the 1.5 million deaths?

[@chakalaka8661]

My grandfather ( a 12 year old boy) was being routinely interrogated and tortured using electrical charges, as he was supposed to disclose informations about his brothers ( family's surname : merad ), whom at that time were in charge of transporting weapons from tunisia, my grandfather who recently passed away continued to live a very difficult life, his relatives would say that he was never the same after those sessions. Imagine torturing a 12 year old wtf

[@wealthyman2303]

Nice doc pal, but, the fight started in 1832 and never stoped until 1962👍👍long life to Algeria and peace upon our martyrs💪💪🇩🇿

[@belabbesmeriem8997]

Both of my grandfathers fought in WW2 and both of them fought in algerian liberation war . I lost a grandfather and uncle during that war and m so proud now to be a descendent of such heros . Long live algeria and long live any movement that fights for freedome ❤

[@christianweibrecht6555]

To me it sounds like initially French Algeria was just like apartheid era South Africa then France started to treat it the same way the British treated Ireland

[@MrMEST]

It's notable too the French economical, cultural and even political leverage that persisted and maybe accentuated after the independence. Don't know if it was the same in Ireland...

[@HandleGF]

@@MrMEST In 1938 Eamon De Valera got Neville Chamberlain to give up the Treaty ports. This meant the Irish State could stay out of the war. Churchill could not invade and take them back again because he needed American help.

[@alioshax7797]

@@MrMEST While that may be true in some parts of Africa, it definitely wasn't in Algeria.

[@Numba003]

I knew Algeria's breakaway was a tense and bloody affair, but I didn't realize how much the war destabilized France. Thank you for another very informative video. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

[@Levi_o_Lusitano]

Great Video as ussual! Are you going to cover the Portuguese Colonial War of 1961.1974(5)?

[@CMDPromptify]

Appreciating this channel. My Cold War education was very limited and I'm trying to fill those gaps, as these events arent just the foundations of our times... They are the houses that are being lifted, lead mitigated, earthquake retrofitted. The house is intensely altered but not new.

[@Beam_Teamer]

this has nothing to do with cold war, this was jihad for sake of Allah

[@moundher4900]

08/05/1945 didn't result the death of some protestors, it literally resulted the death of over 45000 people. Some french historians say that the death were somewhere near 90000 people!!

[@alioshax7797]

45 000 people is the number publicly defended by the Algerian government. Truth is, estimations vary between 2000 and 90 000 people, so it's hard to say. Bloody event in any ways.

[@hotsprinkles]

Wow I got here early! Love the content

[@TheColdWarTV]

thank you, glad you are enjoying it!

[@taqarii2456]

05:29 the protest after WWII didn't cause the death of some protestors but 45k dead (martyrs) person in just 08 days. correct that please..

[@otman1186]

Love to Algeria from Pakistan

[@curiousmind_]

Love the Pakistani people always positive

[@karimboumelha7243]

Our independence is not complete until Palestine is free

[@kamz5]

Wrong sorry ... my grandpa and 17 other family members died for algeria and no one else ... it'll be complete when we have people in dz who say algeria and only algeria first

[@henktwerda9694]

The independence of Morocco an Tunesia happened in 1956, after the Algerian War of Independence had allready begun.

[@F_imperialists]

Yup, it was partly to focus solely on Algeria and not waste resources all over North Africa.

[@cracksmoker1506]

@علي ياسر vietnam isnt in north africa, what he said is true and backed by the french themselves, they wanted to keep algeria more then the rest

[@cracksmoker1506]

@علي ياسر I don’t know but they didn’t treat us like a colony as said in the video, maybe because our land is beautiful or maybe it’s because of resources I’m not sure

[@amafriends9152]

The most prideful thing about our country 😭thank you to All our Martyrs & friends of Algeria May Allah Bless you and Reward you with Jennah ❤😢

[@artrobinson9310]

A consistently informative series!

[@bouchennirrafik106]

This is our history that we are proud of. We liberated our land with blood and bullets to enjoy freedom and a decent life🇩🇿

[@damagelethal7171]

My grandfather was on the wanted list he fled to morocco by train in the horses and sheeps wagon he desguised himself as an employe and in the interance there was a police officer that knew him personally he didn't recognize him he was very lucky

[@darthbanana7]

accidentally clicked on this video and wound up thoroughly enjoying it and learning a lot of new stuff

[@emkayyyy3358]

My dad's great grandmother was part of the war, she told us about how women played such a major role in helping our men fight against the enemy and how they didn't care of their lives more than the independence of my beloved Algeria. Thank you for this video!!

[@VoxHispania]

Been waiting for this for a long time

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Great video. Do a video on Britain war in Vietnam (1945-1946) also called operation masterdom

[@Slayer777.]

You took the Algerian war of independence, censored all the atrocities that france did, didn't mention the atrocious genocides they carried out, didn't mention how the leaders of independence where killed like "El-Arbi Ben Mhidi" etc.., and Algeria didn't get born in 1962, It just took independence from the colonizer and It was there for centuries and centuries before the french, before the Americans. The Algerian History spans centuries Even B.C so please don't dilute the atrocities they did and don't insult our history.

[@semsemoussamatayebi8923]

Glory to our martyrs 🇩🇿❤

[@nypdnono7634]

My grandfather was in the FLN he was the leader of the 3rd region in wilaya (city) number 5 from 1954 to 1962, he had a famous saying "in the mountains there's snakes, scorpions but most importantly there's the french and the harka", they used to refer to battle fields with mountains because that region was mostly mountains and hills and apparently theres a lot of scorpions and snakes in that region till this day, and the 'harka' basically means the traitors that are algerian born and raised but they sided with the french during the war, after the independence Algeria even denied entry to those who betrayed the war and one of them was my neighbor's grandfather. Thank you for making this very informative video, it almost feels like when my grandfather used to tell us stories about those times. May God rest him in peace.

[@guerrillaradio1]

One of your best videos.

[@oussamanaimi4372]

My Grandfather is called Abbad Bouziane and he was a martyr in this war.