Black Army of Ukraine - Togoland in WW1I OUT OF THE TRENCHES

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Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013.
Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008.
Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000.
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[@ghostgrovyle4249]

Mother Anarchy loves her children

[@HUNDmiau]

Mother anarchy is not for sale

[@cassius_at]

Mother Anarchy is with us

[@austinbundrick3192]

We'll follow the enemy, and with lead, destroy him!

[@infra8466]

@@austinbundrick3192 MOTHER ANARCHY IS WITH US!

[@e-cuauhtemoc]

Okaaaaay, keyboard revolutionary warrirors.

[@Sharyf]

"Beat the Reds until they whiten, beat the Whit's until they redden" - Such a legend, and his swag is unbelievable for 100 years old photos.

[@darnfrick3354]

Man of the future 🏴

[@sergeontheloose]

Ahh, Nestor Makhno, the famous creator of Tachanka - horse-driven machine-gun carriage.

[@user-ks5vm8ht7v]

Not quite. Makhno invented the tactic of using a wheelbarrow

[@cyceryx]

the original technical

[@tezismith8795]

the bolsheviks had gifted the anarchists one of their armoured trains, which they adorned with flags reading "Power Breeds Parasites" and "Anarchy is the Mother of Order". Look up Maria Nikiforova and the Free Combat Druzhina.@@d1g1tvl-0hretor1c

[@hidekitojo6903]

*anarcho-communism intensifies*

[@northernknight7787]

Nope makhnoist anarchism not anarchi communism

[@mr.goldfish1530]

@@northernknight7787 He was anarcho-communust. He was one of the people who wrote the book "Organisational Platform of Libertarian Communists" (also known as "The Platform"), which proposed a general union of anarchists with anarcho-communism as the goal.

[@Zen-rw2fz]

You people are morons, first of all ancommunism is the only proper form of abarchism and makhno was a communist!

[@pogi-si-boni]

@@mr.goldfish1530 i think you don't see the fact that N. Makhno Faught the bolsheviks, and created the said, Makhnoist Anarchist.

[@mr.goldfish1530]

@@pogi-si-boni That doesn't mean anything. Makhno wrote "Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists" not long after his defeat in Ukraine. He was an anarcho-communist.

[@apokos8871]

Makhno, the first true rock star before it was cool

[@mkphrakleio]

I love how only half of the video is about Nestor Makhno but ALL of the comments are about Makhno the Black Army and the anachism Anarchist truly love their mother.

[@emPtysp4ce]

And Mother Anarchy loves her sons

[@jacobedward2401]

I'd love more on how the Black Army was organized

[@GeneralBongmeister]

Democratic

[@lazcentral4828]

@@GeneralBongmeister thats like saying congress is organized democratically. technically yes but more information would be nice

[@GeneralBongmeister]

​@@lazcentral4828 idk then all I know is that no conscription and kinda democratic

[@dylanrodrigues]

Yeah, I’d love to see more sources on the Black Army in general

[@ethanmontgomery6099]

Rest In Peace comrade Makhno

[@theawkwardotter2091]

Mother Anarchy is with us!

[@strongdanaspiringstrongman2877]

MAKHNO!! 🏴

[@void.defender]

Absolutely based

[@peperlover99]

MAKHNO WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!

[@lost1ns0und]

Thanks

[@bakazan4497]

Glory to makhno!

[@0th_Law]

@@bakazan4497 Well, glory to nobody. Despite that, Makhno was pretty chill.

[@gspaulsson]

I once wrote a biography of a guy who was born in a town called Lanovits/Lanowitz/Lanovtse/Lanowice during WWI. It was in Austria-Hungary when the war started; then it fell to the Russians, then the Germans; then the Ukrainian Rada, then Makhno, and finally ended up in Poland. So by the time he was 5, he had lived in 6 countries under 7 governments, without ever leaving home.

[@hoangkimviet8545]

In Russian empire, the armies were so colorful: Black Army, White Army and Red Army :-0

[@mariocassina90]

Green Army too

[@brightworld1148]

Hoàng Kim Việt I see what you did there

[@martijn9568]

And there is the blue army, but that one isn't in the Russian Empire.

[@mothra727]

like power rangers

[@LightFykki]

They are like Tolkien wizards. It would be interesting if one army became rebellious and named themselves, the Many Colours Army.

[@bigtoast1138]

So happy to see Makhno. Been waiting since like the beginning for him!!

[@philstory2556]

Mother Anarchy is not for sale!

[@absimvolizmkolyasik8951]

Hello from Ukraine! Thank You for this video! Makhno is our national hero!

[@lvandubenetz7303]

Da

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

He's A hero for all Anarchist as well 🏴Ⓐ

[@nobelissimos8719]

@@DefinitelyNotBender Yes he is a great figure and shows the true colors of your kind. Slaves to communists, never to be trusted.

[@MonadTransformer]

Not only to Ukrainians. I'm Russian, and he sounds pretty cool to me. Made a big mistake allying with the commies though. Many anarchists already understood at the time that Marxism is the opposite of anarchism. Hope one day the last government falls, and our grandchildren will have a chance at a peaceful life free from any wars and government control.

[@freak293]

​@@MonadTransformerit's not the opposite, they are two faces of the same coin, both strive to the same goal, but, the thing is that, marxists believe that they need a state to fight against reactionary movements, anarchists don't, the problem here is that, authority and power ends up corrupting people

[@ottovonbearsmark8876]

If you want to know more about the Russian Civil War and the inter-war period, Indy has another channel called Time Ghosts doing a series called between two wars, it’s really great and is leading to their eventual WW2 series.

[@richbarr5959]

Just commenting so maybe more people see this.

[@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123]

He also host few episodes on Its History

[@andypants1000]

Indiana Neidell a shame you haven't promoted this! Subscribing now.

[@OldFellaDave]

stop making sense Indy! ;)

[@sajukkhar]

Needs to go viral

[@mikeromadin8744]

Nestor Makhno was more famous from the beginning of 1919 rather than during The Great War times. Perhaps in 1918 he mostly been involved in the battles with Mennonite selfdefence troops in Katerinoslav governorate.

[@bowzist]

I was born and raised in Togo and learned this in primary school. Crazy 🇹🇬

[@Zen-rw2fz]

5:31 that footage is gold

[@AReservoirDog]

Mother Anarchy Loves her Sons

[@ruutiperse9223]

Title got me confused, i started thinking what did Makhno do in togoland.

[@flakafazliu4776]

Why isn’t this even mentioned in all the Books I have read in school since 5th grade.

[@TJ5897]

Same reason they don't tell you about Blair mountain

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

History is written by Tyrants

[@castillogrande8926]

Rest in Power Nestor Makhno, One of the best freedom fighters to ever live

[@nopasaran191]

Nestor Makhno was a great martyr that will not be forgotten! 🏴🚩

[@christiandaugherty6339]

How is he a martyr? He died of tuberculosis.

[@makhnoslava]

@@christiandaugherty6339 His poor health was a result of tsarist imprisonment before he was released in the revolution.

[@historicstudios2708]

WW1 is my favorite war to research, your channel has been a big help in helping me learn more about it. keep up the great videos.

[@-et37-]

Makhno from Kaiserreich anyone?

[@castillogrande8926]

Anarchiste gang!

[@vanillaboy4514]

Anarchists have entered the chat.

[@lkb1952]

Another excellent show!! Thank you for this entire effort!

[@thetatn1113]

Mother anarchy is with us!

[@stupidturntable]

Happy for Indy getting to yap about Makhno, but he was a Ukranian anarchist. Russian anarchists, and there were many, had had a long and vivid history already at the dawn of WW1. So how about another go at answering the question on Anarchism in Russia? :-D

[@lsarenkir]

Anarchist and communist dont get along since days of the Spanish Civil War when they decided to kill eachother first before the fascist

[@stupidturntable]

That hate was cemented already before the Russian Civil War had ended, mate.

Well it makes sense for them to hate eachother. One ideology holds you should be free to do whatever you want (including to other people) and the other ideology wants a totalitarian dictatorship of one political party. They're natural enemies. The chaos of anarchy and the totalitarian dictatorship of socialism can never co-exist.

[@joshblustein1374]

@ i don't think you much understand either ideology my friend

[@mr.goldfish1530]

@ Anarchism is an opposition to hierarchy. If you are allowed to do what you want to others, you are unnecessarily imposing hierarchies upon those people.

[@awolpeace1781]

Makhno for life

[@milanesi6725]

You should make a special episode about the Black Army

[@humanoblivion2968]

Nestor is hot, also Mother Anarchy loves all her children

[@infra8466]

Can you talk more about black army?

[@JenniferinIllinois]

SO many shenanigans going on in Russia. The addition of the Black Army just added to those shenanigans. :)

[@alekshukhevych2644]

Ukraine friend, UKRAINE. It was called the UKRAINIAN BLACK ARMY, and it fought all sides, including SOviet reds, Imperial whites, and the newly proclaimed Ukrainian Peoples Republic.

[@sergeontheloose]

It is not shenanigans. It is many nations of Russian Empire looking to break free and self-determination. Finland and Poland managed to do so. Ukraine not so much. Ukrainian Black Army didn't succeed because it was fighting with the Petlyura Ukrainian People's Republic government and didn't expect russian bolscheviks treachery. Have they united with Petlyura and had polish and british backing - who knows, we might have independent Ukraine much much sooner.

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

Thanks a lot for this video !

[@dieguito3422]

Time to reunite Russia with the Siberian Black Army. Mother Anarchy protects us all!

[@theonemantrainwreck]

Thanks so much you did an episode on both my favorite revolution's of this periods

[@baron_von_brunk]

The White, Red, Black, and Green Armies combine to form. . . MEGACZAR!!!

[@alekshukhevych2644]

It was called the BLACK UKRAINIAN ARMY, NOT RUSSIAN. Although there were some ethnic Russians within his army!

[@yaldabaoth2]

GO GO RUSSIAN ARMIES, YOU MIGHTY MORPHING RUSSIAN ARMIES!

[@doughnutsandcoffee8622]

COMRADES! WE HAVE COME TO BLESS THE RAINS DOWN IN *AAAAAAAFFFRICAAAAA* !

[@nunyabisness7055]

Hey got so excited when he got to talk about Makhno. Is- Is he a Platformist?

[@kevindoyle1884]

That was amazing brilliant episode

[@Elneco1]

A video about Makhno? Time to look for some infighting...

[@robertmunoz1133]

Finally been waiting for this one

[@mahatmagamgee1831]

You guys should do a special on the blacks!

[@suckalamink]

Anarchia mama is not for sale!

[@Mr_Fancypants]

I read the title as legoland.

[@nikitasmekhov2420]

Hello, first of all I absolutely love you channel and can not even imagine how much work you are putting into those videos! Can you please talk about how to do history research properly and how to start a history channel? Thanks!

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@onewhoseeks17]

Nestor Makhno did nothing wrong 🏴

[@YoshiTheyosh123]

He trusted the bolsheviks, big mistake. That's mostly it.

[@testiculartorsion3489]

@@YoshiTheyosh123 I was gonna say it 💔

[@imdead1922]

After rona I wanna make a modern black army

[@lost1ns0und]

Ye

[@ananthakrishnangopakumar3626]

I really appreciate your efforts to make these videos awesome. I guess you guys should really make a series of videos on WW2

[@tan0476]

Thanks so much

[@pikey1618]

Long live the Free Territory!

[@Jishy2415]

fun fact Mahkno was also basically a femboy, I thought he could only be so based, but everyday he grows more based.

[@supernimo739gaming7]

He was straight

[@JaceCz]

Слава батьке Махно! Слава свободе !

[@Vedmed88]

Слава Порошенко!

[@user-ws7ig4mb4d]

Слава Порошенко-Вальцману выкресту🇺🇦🇮🇱

[@gethyper770]

@@user-ws7ig4mb4d "Вальцмана" придумала российская пропаганда в 2014 г.

[@ChrisHutchison]

Thank you! excellent documentary! I already knew about Makhno's Ukraine, but learned a great deal from you about how Germany lost Togoland,

[@pivs]

Makhno was very based

[@thyde9535]

This show rocks!

[@Tyler2055]

Hello Indy and Team! I've been a fan of the show since late 2016 when one of your videos was randomly recommended to me on KZbin. My question for Out of the Trenches: Is there a plan for making a special episode about the American "Lost Battalion" incident during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October of 1918? If not could you speak briefly of the event on Out of the Trenches? Keep up the amazing work!

[@janwacawik7432]

Howdy, Indy and crew! Mighty thanks for your amazing work! I have a question for OOTT: what were the patriotic slogans and popular battle cries of the waring nations? I mean the things along the lines "for King and country" and such. Once again, thank you. Also, just to clear things out, my last name is pronounced "Vatslavik", cause Indy kinda screwed it up last time, but no offence taken.

[@wulfric58]

If anyone wants to read a book about the Makhno movement, I suggest " Anarchy's Cossack", by Peter Skirda (I think). He was an anarchist, but when it came down to it he was connected to the Ukrainian soil as strongly as any nationalist. He lived a miserable existence in Paris with other exiles, trying to work out what the f**k happened in the Ukraine. The Bolsheviks screwed the anarchists over, as the anarchist Gregori Maximov writes in "The Guillotine at Work", which describes the red terror campaign against those on the left, Excellent video!

[@patrickholt2270]

It just shows how popular the revolutionary sentiment was, and how unpopular the White anti-revolutionary sentiment was. It's just a tragedy that the dialectical materialism of both the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks insisted on the imposition of a one party dictatorship as the manifestation of the hegemony of the exploited classes, rather than allowing the spontaneous, democratic, pluralist expressions represented by the multiple revolutionary parties in the soviets before Lenin annexed the soviets into his bureaucratic rule.

[@tasillk2824]

well said

[@patrickholt2270]

@@tasillk2824 Thank you.

[@christiandaugherty6339]

I don't think you know what Dialectical Materialism means.

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

🏴Ⓐ Makhno

[@thatworksmedia]

Nestor

[@revoltaiignoto3881]

There is a big special awaiting about Makhno.

[@justagi119]

I think it would be interesting if you did seperate episodes dedicated to the Black and Green armies.

[@klobiforpresident2254]

#OOT Indy, recently I noticed your relationship with the chair of wisdom becoming more distant. Is everything alright?

[@jamestang1227]

The chair is sad Indy isn't doing anything insane for the intro.

[@klobiforpresident2254]

James Tang I, too, am concerned about that. Did Indy and crew run out of ideas?

[@haiduong8055]

Hi Indie, please do an episode on Vietnamese colonial troops in the french army! Or maybe one about french indochina at the time. I'd love to learn more about it as its almost always glanced over in Vietnamese history.

[@AzeriDervish]

You should do a Russian civil war week by week, that war is one of the most ignore but interesting wars as there were around 50+ parties fighting each other in the war!

[@missadventuresmotorcycledi2773]

A longer video please.

[@SovietDoge]

Hey Indy and team! I would love to know Indy's top 5 World War One books and literature. Thanks in advance and keep up the great work

[@reivax654]

Hey Indy and team, I have a question for Out of the Trenches. How were musicians used during The Great War? Were they used like in the Napoleonic wars or were they more just soldiers keeping themselves busy? Also, are there any iconic songs that came from the trenches? Love the show, greetings from Canada!

[@sambeech6771]

Can you discuss what pay was like for the soldiers of the various nations on the next out of the trenches please??

[@withDefiance]

Avery interesting read on the happenings is the 3rd part of the book 'The Unkown Revolution' by Volin or the official anarchist reading 'The history of the Makhnomovement' by Peter Arshinov (who wrote the official chronicler of the Makhnovshchina). Both were involved in the anarchist movement in the Ukraine and Arshinov was a close trustee of Makhno.

[@Gibby42069]

Hey this came out on my birthday

[@endielp6180]

Could you do a video about the Behemoth tanks k-wagen and char 2c

[@lynnshell78]

When will the spanish flu special be out? Love your video thank you indy and the great war crew for all you do.

[@eddied.5156]

This needed to be way longer

[@TheGreatWar]

we changed up the format a bit now with our new host, if you want to check the last video we uploaded. We will also go into much more detail on the Russian Civil War soon

[@thegentleman2554]

Could you please do a episode on the Czechoslovakian Legion during the war? Thank you.

[@utahraptor4729874]

Is Indy /ourguy/?

[@Vox_Popul1]

GopnikRaptor hopefully

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

Getting hammered in the Caucasus must really hurt.

[@hun6444]

OOTT question. Thanks to this show I did some research on my grandfather. I found his draft card and also his military records. He was drafted in September 1918 and mustered out in December 1918. During that time he was assigned to Camp Sherman in Ohio and was assigned to a Depot Brigade. My question is what was a depot brigade and what was its function in the US Army?

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

In case they don't get to your question, they were mustering-in points for draftees. The depot brigade would provide uniforms and equipment, initial military training, and then shipped the soldiers off to france. They also received soldiers mustering-out from the war. Kinda analogous to modern boot camp, but not so long or as intensive.

[@hun6444]

Thanks Jon for the quick response.

[@shalaby8968]

The history repeats itself

[@radicalrazel9156]

L'CHAYM KHAVER MAKHNO! Drive out the Bolsheviks and Pogromists! Anarkhia Za Nas!

[@Vecinu86]

last episode was the first one I've seen with its comments disabled, why?!

[@KiwiForce123]

Well now I reeeallly want to know about The Greens.

[@localcrazyrussian4511]

Nestor “Gaming” Makhno

[@soso-zz9qf]

My father is from Burkina Faso which was a part of French West Africa during the first world war. What role did this colony play during the war and what, if any, contribution did Burkina Faso have on the war effort?

[@mikkokorperich4151]

Q&A about Free Territory of Ukraine starts at 2:55.

[@kurt53641]

How about a special episode about Ukraine during the war.

[@dylanrodrigues]

Makhno and anarchism mentioned ‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@christianjeruscantela6602]

Please make a video about Private Tomas Mateo Claudio, a Filipino US soldier fought in WW1.

[@reesekitkatpeanut]

i need my own chair of wisdom

[@funnybone7705]

He said: This chair of wisdom. So there is more than one?!?

[@burntsavvy8299]

I have a small question: We know that Bernard Montgomery participated in the Great War,but he was critically injured in 1914 that forced him into back line duties. What battle was he actually injured in and what did he do for the rest of the war?

[@rustyshackleford2797]

When will you du a special on the german asia corps? You promised that in an episode ages ago

[@origionalk.boakye8750]

Can you do something on Ashanti wars with the British during the colonial era?the Sagrenti war,the Battle of Nsamankuo etc

[@asd36f]

For anyone interested in the fighting in Africa during the Great War, I can recommend Bryan Farwell's book "The Great War in Africa", which covers the campaigns in Togoland, the Cameroons, German Southwest Africa, and German East Africa.

[@claclawolverine]

hi, could you tell me something about the brigata sassari? i'm sardinian but everything they ever told me about it is that it was a special brigade that was most feared by the austrians because of their ability with the knife. i would like to know some more about it. thanks and keep up with your work