Why Did the Bay of Pigs Invasion Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

If you look at the US and Cuba on paper, the US should have easily dominated Cuba. But when John F. Kennedy ordered Cuban Exiles to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, it was a major failure. But why did it fail? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@magnetospin]

I can never get enough of the prancing character across the field of flowers.

[@WolfenX4]

That's my favorite animation

[@mrballs8091]

Followed by chalk board full of ? ? ? ?marks lol

[@WolfenX4]

@@mrballs8091 that's a good one. And the shuffling with signs get me every time

[@JenniferinIllinois]

It's the best.

[@fur1us556]

we need a compilation

[@cdcdrr]

Kennedy: So you can assure me that the moment the exiles land, there will be a popular uprising that does the job for us? CIA: Yes, they're crying out for freedom from communism. Just a small group of them will be enough. CIA: [whispers] Did anyone ask the Cubans for their opinion on Castro? Exile: I'm Cuban, and I hate Castro. CIA: 100% of Cubans interviewed agreed Castro needs to go, Mr. President.

[@anderskorsback4104]

I wouldn't be surprised if this scene would repeat with North Korea at some point in the future.

[@kko5779]

@@anderskorsback4104 the North Korean government is not nearly as good as the Cuban Bad wording, the North Korean government is not good at all

[@anderskorsback4104]

@@kko5779 true that, but even so, it would be a mistake to discount the possibility that a significant fraction of the North Korean population are true believers in the Juche ideology. Or think that North Korean defectors are a representative sample of North Korean popular sentiment.

[@m18bodepudimayank40]

@@kko5779 Ya, but their military is stronger than Cuba though

[@Thaddeus2007]

@@anderskorsback4104 I agree, there has been North Korean defectors who've came back to North Korea because they didn't like the way of The South.

[@CaptainFellowship]

The whole “welcomed as liberators” schtick has never really worked out that well

[@robjohnson339]

Uncle Sam found out he can play that card about once per generation.

[@vtvincent4893]

Nor has handing other people weapons to fight your own war

[@notthatgerry]

Putin should have taken notes

[@surrealresonance3426]

As an American, id kind of welcome china or Russia as liberators at this point from this gae, woke government

[@notthatgerry]

@@surrealresonance3426 let me guess. A fan of Trump...

[@mikeappleyard1898]

I love how you refuse to directly point out the ineptitude of the CIA, yet we can all see it glaringly for ourselves by listening to your description. Brilliant.

[@princeps5541]

Cuban Exiles: So you will assist us right? The CIA: *perhaps*

[@sambeck2510]

"You're gonna back us up, right?" "Sure thing bro"

[@saitamapunch8035]

Yeah this surely will never happen again.. *looks at Kurds in northern Iraq

[@halo8119]

*Otis intestifies

[@Ake-TL]

@@saitamapunch8035 Erdogan: It’s free real estate

[@Marinealver]

@@sambeck2510 I think this is the more accurate answer. Their assurances must always have a back out clause, but still interpretable as affirmation.

[@scanida5070]

“Bay of pigs” Why invade that one? Just invade a shoreline which is called, I dunno “Bay of Victory” or “Bay of Expansion”.

[@sambeck2510]

CIA wanted that bacon

[@captainsponge7825]

or "Bay of Freedom"

[@davidcervantes9336]

I would have invaded “Bay of another puppet State that won’t be a threat to us and will give us basically free access to all its resources”.

[@Zachomara]

Going the ironic route, I'd say it should have been named the Bay of Capitalist Pigs. (Don't yell at me, I am most definitely a capitalist)

[@mariano98ify]

@@davidcervantes9336 here we have commie mates, are you satisfied with the way the Castro family had exploited the land in your country? what resources have Cuba besides... plants??? And stuck Cuba in the middle of the XX century??

[@travispenner3048]

When we’re gone two thing will have preserved history: 1. Libraries 2. James Bissonette

[@marcrolf7640]

except for the one in Alexandria

[@travispenner3048]

@@marcrolf7640 They didn’t have a Paetreon

[@Crick1952]

@@travispenner3048 *sad library noises*

[@ThatGuyNicho]

James Bissonette is the real reason the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. He personally convinced Castro not to send air support. He also wrote the reports for the CIA saying the Exiles had it in the bag. James Bissonette is history's greatest monster.

[@jamesbissonette8002]

@@ThatGuyNicho ouch

[@VegasViking420]

I like to think this universe of square people waddling around communicating only with picket signs actually exists

[@AsbestosMuffins]

[You Suck!] -Every country/kingdom in history upon declaring war

[@seasdiamond1926]

a society of where everyone is Ramna's dad.

[@the_kombinator]

FITE ME IRL!

[@Rudepenaltyoffside]

Sigh,if only.😞

[@markvlogandgaming1133]

And "your mother" is the only insult

[@KenWojcik]

Lol I’m just imagining thousands of Cuban rebels landing in Trinidad and Tobago and just being very confused

[@jabber1990]

I mean the British invaded the wrong country that one time...just saying

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Imagine what would happen if somebody felt the need to invade 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic and landed on 🇩🇲 Dominica instead. And over in an entirely different part of the world, there are two different cities named “Tripoli”, one in 🇱🇾 Libya and the other in 🇸🇾 Syria.

[@agenericonlinename8698]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 or Tripoli in Greece or Michigin

[@bat_hunt7185]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 this other Tripoli is in Lebanon , not Syria😅

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

@@bat_hunt7185 Beg pardon. Greetz to anybody in 🇱🇧 reading this!

[@febopennyficari8716]

Imagine the CIA’s shock finding out that maybe the Cuban people didn’t really want to go back to the brutal dictatorship that sold out their country

[@amiscellaneoushuman3516]

Who would ever imagine such a bizarre concept

[@Sofus.]

why!!!!!!!

[@andremacedo8463]

Americans dont know the concept of freedom of choice for other people than them

[@andrefarfan4372]

Yes

[@andrefarfan4372]

However as such history

[@JarrodFrates]

Correction: Guantanamo Bay is still technically a part of Cuba, leased by the United States in perpetuity as a naval coaling base. The 1934 Cuban-American Treaty of Relations requires that both countries agree to terminate the lease. Cuba has wanted to since Castro took over and the US, of course, refuses. Every year, the US sends a check for $4085 for the lease payment and every year Cuba refuses to cash it (except for right after the revolution in 1959 when things were still muddled and Cuba cashed it in error). Fidel Castro reportedly kept all the uncashed checks in his desk drawer. Cuba's position is that since the US doesn't use coal anymore and its ships and planes are all really capable of traversing thousands of miles between refuelings, the base no longer serves a purpose and the US should abandon it. On the other hand, the US position is "No."

[@theshlauf]

The lease is only $4k a year and the landlord never cashes the check? That's a pretty sweet deal!

[@liambeamer1883]

The history of the Cuban exiles after the Bay of Pigs is incredibly interesting, and worth looking at. They had a lot of involvement in shady CIA shit and a lot of them ascended to power and influence in a Cuban-American organized crime enterprise active in the New York area and Miami

[@tedmccarron]

Yeah go ahead and blame the victims here. There were little old ladies, young children and hard-working poor people all amongst those who fled on inner tubes and rafts to escape the hellhole known as Communist Cuba because they couldn't stand living like starving slaves anymore. Meanwhile Castro's goons were involved with shady KGB shit and international drug dealing.

[@KingJohnMichael]

Sounds like a video game

[@antal4s]

There's an inaccuracy in this video: Fidel Castro's beard and hair weren't grey yet when Ernesto Guevara was still alive.

[@somebodyoncetoldme5203]

Impossible!

[@calus-superiorjackass3906]

Yeah lol

[@kortans_]

I think it's for him to be easily recognised and differenciated from Guevara that he has an older look

[@andreasimoncini2793]

@@kortans_ ah no I'm pretty sure that's it's like that because of the fact that he reuses assets from his other videos. Which is absolutely fine since it makes things more streamlined and efficient.

[@emucitizen5892]

Wait was it not che Guevara?

[@aaronsakulich4889]

Between the Corn that shows up every time Kruschev is around, or the "sneaky bois", the little easter eggs are my favorite parts of these videos!

[@Dave_L913]

Thank you! I was wondering who the corncob portrait was

[@aaronsakulich4889]

@@Dave_L913 I saw it in a couple of videos and was like, oh, that's odd, and then one day I was like... RIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

[@brettsh.2545]

@@aaronsakulich4889 I don't get it... :/

[@aaronsakulich4889]

@@brettsh.2545 I might be off in some of the details, but basically: In the 60s or 70s Kruschev, the leader of the Soviet Union, became convinced that Corn was a wonder crop. So every where he went he was telling people to plant more corn, eat more corn, grow more corn... he had corn mania! There were a lot of jokes in the Soviet Union during these years about Kruschev being a corncob.

[@aaronsakulich4889]

from wikipedia: "Khrushchev became a hyper-enthusiastic crusader to grow corn (maize).[154] He established a corn institute in Ukraine and ordered thousands of acres to be planted with corn in the Virgin Lands.[155] In 1955, Khrushchev advocated an Iowa-style corn belt in the Soviet Union, and a Soviet delegation visited the U.S. state that summer. The delegation chief was approached by farmer and corn seed salesman Roswell Garst, who persuaded him to visit Garst's large farm.[156] The Iowan visited the Soviet Union, where he became friends with Khrushchev, and Garst sold the USSR 5,000 short tons (4,500 t) of seed corn.[157] Garst warned the Soviets to grow the corn in the southern part of the country and to ensure there were sufficient stocks of fertilizer, insecticides, and herbicides.[158] This, however, was not done, as Khrushchev sought to plant corn even in Siberia, and without the necessary chemicals. The corn experiment was not a great success, and he later complained that overenthusiastic officials, wanting to please him, had overplanted without laying the proper groundwork, and "as a result corn was discredited as a silage crop-and so was I".[158]"

[@alabamaal225]

The Bay of Pigs operation is a classic illustration of "group think." As reported by numerous sources afterwards, by the time the operation was launched few among the organizers privately thought it had much chance of success. But no one had the fortitude to assert that the whole operation should be canceled, especially after so much time, effort, and resources had already been expended. So in the end approximately 1500 men were sent to land at the Bay of Pigs; an event of which the Cuban security apparatus had full knowledge beforehand. The invasion was crushed by Cuban forces within three days; the invaders lost 118 men killed in direct combat, 360 wounded, and almost the entire remainder of the invasion force was captured. In the following months, hundreds of those captured were executed.

[@tacoman5121]

"If surviving assassination attempts were an olympic event, I would get a gold medal." Fidel Castro

[@ThatGuyNicho]

JFK: "Hey that looks fun, let me tr-"

[@dylanroemmele906]

Tito: “You dare challenge me mortal?”

[@cubanreemachine9592]

true but fidel like a true cuban had inflated the numbers of attempted deaths.

[@sweettea3879]

@@ThatGuyNicho YOOOO😂😂😂

[@andyigwe7119]

Lol! Did Castro actually say that

[@everettlethem6747]

0:56 “Sneaky bois” I love this channel

[@kevinmendoza6386]

Don't we all

[@Brennus2010]

Totally missed this!

[@Fruitsmymainispomgranates]

Same

[@chaseinyourface87]

I watched with subs so it was blocking that. Thanks for letting me know.

[@AaA-ry2zs]

JFK: *Refuses to give the exiles air support* Also JFK when the invasion fails: *Surprised Pikachu Face*

[@rumkeg919]

JFK was that girlfriend that wanted a dress but relied on you to pay for it.

[@engineergaming5989]

Not one of Jfks good moments

[@seytanuakbar3022]

They had american air support by A-26B, flown by CIA payed pilots. But, Cuban pilots defeated them using few training aircraft and bombed ship with ammunition.

[@am1017]

@@engineergaming5989 "I ran Cuba from the sixth floor of the US embassy. The Cubans’ job was to grow sugar and shut up." - Earl T. Smith, US ambassador to Cuba, 1957-59 when Kennedy got salty about the failed bay of pigs invasion he said this "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind. "

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

@@am1017 that was what got him offed.

[@OleOlson]

It's 2021 and the torture facility at Guantanamo Bay is still in operation.

[@DarkMatterX1]

Fortunately there are no people being tortured there, so all's well.

[@That_GuyYouTube]

@@DarkMatterX1 yup and everyone lived happily every after :)

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@That_GuyKZbin Yes

[@capncake8837]

@@DarkMatterX1 Yeah, they’re just being interrogated using enhanced methods.

[@DarkMatterX1]

@@capncake8837 You're not hearing me. Amjads aren't people.

[@matthewshipley739]

USA to Cuban Exiles: "We'll give you all the support you need." Cuban Exiles after the Bay of Pigs Invasion: "Those bastards lied to me."

[@Denseus]

To paraphrase Yes, Prime Minister “we will give them all support, short of help”

[@matthewshipley739]

@@Denseus Ooh I like you 🤣

[@Chris-hp9be]

They were sending thoughts and prayers from DC 😂

[@matthewshipley739]

@@Chris-hp9be Ooh you're awful! 🤣🤣🤣

[@samdumaquis2033]

@@Denseus haha exactly

[@dunbrine47]

Heh, Sneaky Bois.

[@seriouspain4136]

Who would win, a country with its own country and military, or some sneaky bois

[@eliaskjrbo8142]

@@seriouspain4136 YOU DARE UNDERMINE THE SNEAKINESS OF THESE BRAVE MEN. they were called the super sneakers or SS for short.

[@lakeblackBLM]

@@eliaskjrbo8142 they were actually behind 9/11 I can’t believe they actually did 9/11 in 1973 in Chile when they elected someone like Castro

[@eliaskjrbo8142]

@Phani teja i enlightened you so sneakily, you didn’t even notice it

[@Harminder1]

@Phani teja If you look at the seal at 00:55 It say's sneaky bois , it's just another name for the C.I.A since for the most part they where sneaky.

[@ashtonkhan8763]

When i heard Trinidad(🇹🇹) i thought, "Woah we almost got invaded", i was soon corrected 😂😂😁

[@sovietbear5829]

Same lol

[@rayanchtt]

y‘all have oil?

[@tamanduamirinho3747]

Man,tobago is almost in venezuela.

[@sovietbear5829]

@@rayanchtt yea we have

[@danielgreen1475]

I paused and was like I never new Trinidad got invaded 🤣

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

It was a Bay of Pigs alright... *Bay of Capitalist Pigs*

[@That_GuyYouTube]

Respect that your country never became like a US military base like USA Korea, Japan, Kuweight, and Germany.

[@amanshukla8758]

First of all, I wanna meet these guys - James Bisonette, Kelly Moneymaker, Rob Waterhouse and Moe.

[@benjamindavidovichwaals2899]

they are the LEGENDS

[@Void_Dweller7]

James Castenda, Meggy Packenskowski

[@archer1949]

Spinning 3 Plates

[@gkm2928]

Where in the hell is Phil de oink oink?? Did he turn into bacon or something??

[@davesy6969]

@@archer1949 used to be spinning five plates, then spinning four plates.

[@nathanngumi8467]

It was a disaster! Pres JFK later famously said in a Senate hearing: "Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan." But JFK learned from his mistake not to trust the CIA/Military too much, and he showed this a year later during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123]

Then he tried to control the power of the feds then thats the moment he was assassinated

[@TheArklyte]

Why don't you want to trust CIA? It's not like it was caught red handed inventing shit on the spot just to get more funding and power several times... OH, WAIT~

[@CharDhue]

At this point I think CIA just wanted to screw jfk so they give wrong information and when jfk wanted to retaliate we know what happen to him

[@lakeblackBLM]

@@CharDhue seems like the only way to beat cia is a communist revolution

[@Corwin256]

Yeah, and look what happened with that.

[@M0R3gOfF]

Explain the Nigerian Civil War/Biafran war next! That should be an interesting history lesson on why the world was so split on supporting either side!

[@Marinealver]

Or the African version of WW1.

[@SixthFonist]

I don't know anything about the Nigerian Civil War, so I'd love to see that.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Very complicated. North is muslim thus christain area wanted their own country. It turned into civil war

[@BountyFlamor]

There is a channel called New Africa that covered that conflict in detail.

[@odishikaprime6900]

Up Nigeria

[@poneyenshort9616]

Castro : *has a huge support from Cuban population* CIA : "Yeah the people will rise to help us, what could go wrong?"

[@92HazelMocha]

Just like in Iran, where everyone hated democracy and definitely wanted a CIA to install a monarchy. Y’know for an organization with intelligence in the name, you’d think they’d be more, errr, intelligent.

[@Corwin256]

@@92HazelMocha My brother worked in Military Intelligence, and during training his instructor asserted that RADAR waves do not move at the speed of light. My brother insisted that they do (they ARE light, just at a different wavelength that we can't see with our eyes), but his instructor defiantly said my brother had no idea what he was talking about. My brother tried to show them actual textbooks and information showing what exactly RADAR waves are and after looking at all the data, the entire group, instructor and students, just didn't believe it. My brother was laughed at for the rest of training for being this 'idiot who thinks RADAR moves at the speed of light".

[@alexmoore9580]

@@Corwin256 America is too arrogant about its democracy. Americans struggle to understand that not all societies need/want democracy to function properly, something that has led to many issues in recent decades.

[@kingt0295]

@@alexmoore9580 and more importantly they dont want a government friendly to American businesses stripping them of resources

[@caspramio]

The first mistake americans do in almost everything outside their land is to think that everyone will hear and agree anything they say, it's like the USA-person in Hetalia: he always see himself as a Hero, no matter how bad, mad, bad, cruel or illogical his ideas and actions can be.

[@humansvd3269]

Folks, If James Bisonette wants to fund this man's content, that's his decision. We all benefit from the Bisonette.

[@nandinhocunha440]

All Hail James

[@pladderisawesome]

Worth mentioning that the Soviets (and thus the Cubans) knew just about everything about where, when, how many, what equipment, etc. the invasion would consist of, thanks to superior intelligence. When the gusanos rocked up the Cubans had already been waiting with MGs and fortifications ready for a bit.

[@TheByrd]

Well they knew when not where. Not sure where you got your source that they knew what their equipment and number were but anyways... They landed and secured the beach but kept getting counter attacked. Also a phony landing took place that diverted some troops so that may have helped. In the end they were all captured and executed. That's what happens when you try to take a country with 1,500 soldier against 150,000-200,000 soldiers and militia. And I wouldn't say they had "superior intelligence". The invasion wasnt exactly airtight and a lot of the exiles talked about it. Supposedly the CIA knew that they knew but didn't tell the president. Probably because they thought the invasion would be successful anyways

[@Chickenbowser]

The Bay of Pigs, proof that the CIA can make whoopsy-poopsies too.

[@somebodyoncetoldme5203]

The CIA were generally incompetent in anything involving Castro

[@Mollygan]

@@somebodyoncetoldme5203 They were incompetent other times too, they did alot of dumb moves and wasted alot of tax money in stupid projects (many of wich come to bite them in the ass). The CIA is just good at hidding their failures

[@zacharynetzer819]

@@Mollygan Frankly, the CIA was only really powerful towards the beginning of its existence. The more people and funding they received, the more they were crippled by infighting and bureaucracy. Obviously I have no evidence on its modern activities, but I would not be surprised if they’re just a massive intel firm these days instead of a regime toppling power.

[@balazskovacs-fazekas295]

at least they are still the most highly regarded institution to give out journalism awards

[@lukesalazar9283]

@@balazskovacs-fazekas295 lol

[@tomaszzarnowski3944]

As a Polish person, I really appreciate the Stańczyk jester in the credits

[@ecurewitz]

I was windering who that was

[@tommykawaii]

Who is him, tho?

[@MrBritishNinja]

Is it some kind of reference to the video, or just a random historical illustration?

[@tomaszzarnowski3944]

@@MrBritishNinja If it's a reference, I don't know about it haha

[@Koevoet19]

I thought it had something to do with the Latvian colonization of Tobago, which is a part of the country Trinidad and Tobago. In this one, there is also a Dutch portion and William of Orange can be seen on the right! But idk

[@finnhackapell6560]

I was thinking of this today and suddenly History Matters has a video. I swear, this guy is from the future.

[@seatray_real]

Cmon. Do this. Say that they havent got support of James Bisonette.

[@leotachy1042]

or Kelly Moneymaker

[@Magyar_patriot]

Or gustav swan

[@wrjtung3456]

He didn’t have the support of the mr dr prof puce juiposa josh Kay. Rastro. Michael tucker Juilia Augusta. Billy chaput. Floris bob van elzelingen. Dylan JB mcfeld. James baker. Juan rosario. etc

[@fillyourasswithfireanddest4875]

Or moe

[@vuchaser99]

Of course it would fail, Bay of Pigs and no longer supported by Phil de Oink Oink?!

[@bobbie3713]

"Havana gleefully noted the wealth of the captured invaders: 100 plantation owners, 67 landlords of apartment houses, 35 factory owners, 112 businessmen, 179 lived off unearned income, and 194 ex-soldiers of Batista." - Life magazine

[@optimalkarma3960]

Very good

[@guillemedina7908]

Commie

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

Cappie.

[@shawnv123]

@@guillemedina7908 cappies

[@syrialak101]

I'm starting to notice a pattern here that I'm not so sure I like...

[@callmecloby8365]

It amazes me how often a country can mess up a perfect chance to overthrow an enemy so often.

[@HowWeGotHere]

I love all your videos, as a History buff I love how you take topics and explain them in short easy to digest parts, and make them entertaining and informative. I would love to see one done on the Scottish Clearances as often not a lot is taught in Schools about this period and as a Canadian in was an important event that lead to a lot of the early settlers of my country and I believe you would be able to do a bang up job with it.

[@Nachoto]

CIA: Installs a military dictatorship in Cuba Castro: *Overthrows it* CIA: yeah they'll definitely rise up against him so we can install another

[@Nachoto]

@Luís Andrade Eh. It's not like Castro came out of nowhere, there was a popular support for the revolution, since the Batista Regime was so unpopular. Nobody wanted Batista (besides mob bosses), but many wanted Castro instead of Batista

[@jimbobbob3308]

Stalin being a piece of corn when the Soviets are mentioned always gets me lol

[@sausagewater6699]

Is there a joke I'm missing, plz help

[@462Designs]

@@sausagewater6699 It is a reference to Nikita Khrushchev obsessions with corn. Something of which is very important.

[@sausagewater6699]

@@462Designs thx

[@truedarklander]

Khrushchev, not Stalin.

[@shutout951]

@miguel laurito is right. Stalin was already dead. It was kruschev

[@Canhistoryismylife]

Castro: hey JFK want to hear a joke JFK: sure Castro: assassination JFK: I don’t get it Castro: You will

[@dukenukemfromdukenukem1180]

I didn't do it, it was the CIA agent Lee Harvey Oswald

[@MouldMadeMind]

@@dukenukemfromdukenukem1180 bold words for somebody who can't take criticism against your cheese.

[@dukenukemfromdukenukem1180]

@@MouldMadeMind its good cheese god damnit!

[@Jay-qb9gi]

Okay buddy

[@empollonamericano328]

Bruh this chat ☠️

[@waffle6376]

1:48!Your right , that the cutest dog I have even seen

[@filipeamaral216]

Also worth mentioning was that Kennedy denied the third bombgin run by the exhiled air force, thus keeping the Fidelista air force (part of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, FAR) in the fight bombing not only the landing force but the naval task force. One of the FAR planes bombed exactly the ship carrying all the supplies to the beachhead; since the CIA didn't have experience conducting amphibious landings they placed all the ammo for the invading brigade (plus the weapons for a whole unit that was yet to land) in one single ship. This alone garanteed they runned out of ammunition after 3 days (since that's the usual combat load for an initial force). The FAR air force also sunk a communications ship, isolating a whole beach from the operational control of the brigade, plus the paratroopers that dropped far ahead. The Americans also didn't properly communicate with guerrillas in Cuba, so they could block the bridges leading to the beach and ambush the armoured columns. That's something Fidel Castro antecipated and started anti-guerrilla sweeps the days prior to the landing. There was later an internal guerrilla in the Escambray, but it was crushed ruthlessly with the use of helicopter-borne troops by the Cubans.

[@RUBENS9645]

There's an inaccuracy in this video: The cuban revolution wasnt socialist at first, it was anticolonial/anti-imperialist. It became socialist when (among other things) the US quite idiotically refuse to legitimize/aid the new government, so in the best cold war way Castro went directly to the soviets, possibly thinking "if they are not helping me i know who will", and the soviets were all too happy capitalizing on a US mistake

[@promethium-145]

@Paul Gauthier If America helped Cuba become a republic or something, I think things would've gone better.

[@beausheffield1895]

Didn’t the same thing happen with Ho Chi Minh?

[@gorbachevspizzahut2809]

@Paul Gauthier whenever someone resorts to a derogatory term like Yankee when discussing history i can't take them serious. Also shame on you for trying to shovel out quick jabs at others

[@shoelessbandit1581]

@@beausheffield1895 yeah the whole vietnam war could've been avoided if the French just gave the vietnamese independence

[@charlierivas6864]

@@promethium-145 brotha Fidel Castro was a assassin and a pig. Communism will never work and never has. We should’ve taken that shit back. Look at my Cuba and my people. They been suffering since 1959 from Fidel. Fidel took out all the American companies from Cuba and wanted nothing to do with capitalism.

[@joshualayton6926]

I stop whatever I am doing to watch History Matters everytime a new one is posted. Please never stop doing these. They are fantastic.

[@davidjacks9880]

I absolutely love all your videos. Amazing. I binge watched them all the other day and am now feeling smarter. :)

[@greatermad8288]

1:20 lol got me good. As I live in Trinidad

[@adamkerman475]

The Island or the city?

[@SarudeDanstorm]

I remember reading how the presence of Groupthink was so strong in the administration that they did not for a second consider if the Cuban people would react in any way other than full support for the US

[@shanemize3775]

Sneaky Boiz is a new classic. Lol. Great video on a good subject that I have often wondered about. I love your videos. Great learning with awesome humor thrown in. Too darn cool! Keep them coming, please!

[@tomthetinker1024]

Other interesting things - 1.) The Bay of Pigs is located in a swamp. The Cuban exiles got literally bogged down in a bog. Castro had landed his invasion against Batista in South and dispersed into the mountain terrain for guerilla warfare. 2.) Cuban exile air force was split into 2 groups based in EST and CST timezones. They didn't realize the CST planes had to adjust to EST time for attacks until most planes had been shot down in smaller groups. 3.) Exile forces were former upper class Cubans and ex-Batista officers. They spoke a very noticeable posh language that was apparent to all the Cubans. Batista was universally hated among Cubans and when they encountered the posh sounding exiles with American equipment, they made obvious connection they were Batista goons supplied by America, civilians warned Havana and began fighting against exiles. 4.) Castro super popular. Castro and his M-26-Julio movement had overthrown a brutal dictator Batista and proceeded to implement reforms the helped the poor and average Cuban. Land reform finally gave tenet farmers a plot of land. Castro carried out literacy campaign that wiped out illiteracy in Cuba within 2 years (illiteracy before was over 60%). Also under Che's direction, sent out doctors in countryside to provide medical care to every Cuban, vast majority had never seen a doctor. Even Castro's hesitancy with elections was popular. Cuba had parliamentary elections since independence but were routinely rigged, exploited, or worse by America or some strong man in Havana. Cubans were wary of 50+ years of electoral bullshit and accepted and even supported Castro's hesitancy for open elections. 4.) CIA had been staging covert terrorist attacks on Cuba between 1959-1962. CIA routinely dropped napalm on sugar plantations. They orchestrated the Le Coubre arms ship explosion in 1960, killing 100 in Havana harbor. CIA tried assassinating Castro often involving powerful bombs, which killed alot of innocent bystanders. This had the effect of INCREASING Castro's popularity and galvanizing Cubans against US. 5.) Cuba was not communist at the time. M-26-Julio (M-26-7) movement was left wing but was bitter rivals of the actual Cuban Communists. They constantly exchanged stinging criticisms with the communists calling Castro and the M-26-7's moderate reform proposals a watered down sellout and too much of a compromise. Average Cuban who was supposed to rise up against Castro saw Communists as the biggest critics of Castro for being too soft. When exiles landed and told them to rise up against communism, the average Cuban would had been baffled. If your plan hinges on a popular uprising or support, you should do research into what the public thinks and how they feel. The CIA was seeing Red behind every bush, every moderate reform and in every anti-colonialist leader. The Exiles parroted this line but it was paranoia and completely removed from how actual Cubans saw thing. If a leader wanted to do a moderate reform that even leaned slightly to the left, CIA immediately labeled as communist. For example in Cuba, M-26-Julio did a land reform capping holdings at 600 hectares with land owners receiving fair compensation. This affected the United Fruit Company and was seen as communist. By comparison, US occupation forces in Japan after WW2 supported a much more stringent land reform that capped holdings at just 100 acres. This jumping at supposed Red flashes had the unfortunate effect of removing the leaders and movements who were moderate, open to compromise and popular among people, clearing the way for radical hard-core Communists to fill role of Independence freedom fighter. It created more communists than there would even been and just that fear turned into a real fear by their actions. Other example - under FDR's good neighbor policy towards Central and South America, he removed US troops from region and didn't intervene in their affairs. He allowed and even supported Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas when he nationalized Mexican oil in 1938. The result was a more stable and prosperous Mexico that had no room for radical Communists or others.

[@guilhermespindler5145]

Yes.

[@sujaynadkarny6099]

A lot of this apply to the US world view today as well. There is no room for grey.

[@highadmiraljt5853]

I spotted a mistake in your comment, you put 4) twice.

[@finnl6887]

Fantastic summary. Can't fault a word of it. Sadly, US tends to still look at everything in such terms

[@DevinDTV]

@@sujaynadkarny6099 ??

[@NotaTechGuy177]

I can see some significant steps taken here from an animation perspective. Congrats, and keep up the great work!

[@pedrotrianirodriguez3825]

I love your videos! They are so informative and funny, and your drawing style is amazing. I hope one day you do a video about Brazil or some Brazilian/Portuguese monarch (I suggest D.Pedro II).

[@christophercervantes9411]

Love being at school and randomly checking my phone to see a new video that I can watch when I get home

[@adamallen8787]

Ah I love these short videos that go in depth but not to far as to bore you

[@georgethemaker]

I liked the "sneaky Bois" twist

[@S-Fan2006]

I just came up with a new idea: “How did Argentina react to Brexit?” I ask because Argentina and Britain hate each other because of the Falkland dispute, but the EU is Argentina’s second largest export market (for anyone curious, Argentina’s largest export market is Brazil), and the UK was the second most powerful EU member prior to Brexit, so how would Argentina react to Brexit?

[@blackhawk4ful]

i can answer you: at first we where like "why? sounds like shooting yourself in the foot" then we saw that could mean scotland could gain independence and ireland could be united again so we were happy for those nations, then as the negotiations drag on and on and on we basically didn't care that much (because contrary to what you might find on the internet, we have more important things to deal with than what people are doing in britain. And when it was official and the problems started to pile on we were like "hahaha suck it" and that's it, althought we felt sorrow for all their deaths in the pandemic, thats not funny. that is in an overall common people opinino, politically the government pushed for the EU to not recognise british overseas territories (which include the south atlantic islands) as part of the european economic block, therefore making things harder when trading. Honestly we only talk about them in a negative way when they make a display of strength in the south or when Johnson announced an increase in budget for arms and nuclear capability to defend the islands (which you can imagine we didn't took very well) and thats responded with a formal complain from government and the popular equivlent of "who the fuck cares, look how am tremblnig in fear you cunt". in conclussion: we were surprissed, hopefull that the union would crash and burn and then we didn't care anymore.

[@S-Fan2006]

@@blackhawk4ful Thank you. I was curious to know. Thank you for answering, even though you didn’t have to, it’s quite useful information. While I don’t see Wales leaving the UK anytime soon, I do surprisingly enough, see London as more likely to leave both England and the UK than Wales is to leave the UK at all. Yes, London Independence is an actual proposal because most Londoners voted against Brexit.

[@blackhawk4ful]

@@S-Fan2006 glad to answer, i always wondered why wales doesn't have an independence movement as strong as the scotish (could you help me on that?). I heard on the internet the possibility of london becoming a city state but is too improbable to me, that would an eventful day if it happened though. Thank you for reading my answer and go to the trouble to answer me. Our leaders may disagree in some aspects and some of our people might be too reactionary or promp to confrontation but it makes me happy to have a civil conversation with someone from over there. Take care, cheers from the far south.

[@florianluo8131]

absolutely no one cares about Argentina, sorry mate :D

[@S-Fan2006]

@@florianluo8131 You do know how selfish that sounds, right? Of someone is personally curious about something, you don’t just say ‘oH, WhO WoULD EvEN BoTHeR tO ANSwEr YOur QuEStioN’, instead, you should respect their curiosity and let people ask anything that might interest. It’s not just about what you’re curious about.

[@philipplinke5492]

Great job you are getting better with every Video you Loading up

[@TheXMlol]

Props for actually taking the time to draw the actual aircraft that were held in reserve at the time

[@makeromaniagreatagain9697]

Kennedy: "good by guys, I wish you luck" Cuban exiles: "thanks, but we'd prefer some planes instead"

[@lakeblackBLM]

They almost got global nuclear war cause Kennedy threw a fit

[@Jose04537]

@@lakeblackBLM Maybe it was because Kennedy put missile on Turkey?

[@robertrichard6107]

@@lakeblackBLM No it was the nukes Ike had on USSR's border with Turkey.

[@MatijaCG]

Can you make a video about why did Russia want to sell Alaska to the Liechtenstein?

[@spanishboysmodels2876]

Excuse me what

[@heinzlilio4612]

What

[@reeledmermaid8555]

Yeah what

[@akaSmth]

Was?

[@AaA-ry2zs]

What?

[@gravityskeptic8697]

How does this channel do it? Everytime they come up with an interesting topic, and always tells me exactly what I want to know?

[@samgill8183]

'Sneaky Bois' That had me dying

[@morgwai667]

US (CIA especially) has really a great record of underestimating their enemies and even greater record of underestimating enemy leaders popularity among their people.

[@lewiscarroll4145]

Idk if you’ll see this but your videos stopped my anxiety attack I really really am thankful you saved me from a very very long flight

[@kraftybead8724]

I watch these for fun and was so surprised when one about medieval kings showed up in my history lesson.

[@Hyperion_100]

Next do a video on Operation Downfall or Unthinkable

[@arid1233]

Clearly the CIA never heard of the quote made by General Moltke the Elder, “No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

I prefer his other saying, "Strategy is just a series of contingencies"...

[@shaka7302]

As another saying also goes: (insert name) has a plan, (insert name) always have a plan.

[@arid1233]

@@shaka7302 you mean Bismarck?

[@arbyjack2552]

I love these video’s. Keep them coming!!

[@nocontentnocomment2166]

Yessss thanks for uploading!!!

[@JJMHigner]

You might want to do a video on why , when World War I was being lost and the Empire collapsed the various German states, or even just two or three of them, did not preserve their monarchies and societies and declare independence? Bavaria attempted something like that but couldn't the old and smaller regimes break off by Oct 1918 and re created the old Confederation? This idea could have been past the point of bothering with but its an interesting thought.

[@Joshua_N-A]

"You're ready Mason?" *Aussie slipping* "Today's the day"

[@Tooxie11]

Okay so... Literally just yesterday I was searching for a bay of pigs video from this creator.. and was pissed there wasn't one.. what timing!

[@lactosefreesalad8566]

You need longer videos, but I still love you

[@user-Jay178]

Love your animations and the facial expressions they do. Great history channel. Great video

[@Numba003]

That corn portrait in the USSR is just so comical I can’t bear it lol. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends.😊

[@YouBroger]

Why corn? Is there a particular reference? I understand they suppressed the Stalin portrait, but why with corn in particular?

[@ThePikminCaptain]

@@YouBrogerKhrushchev liked corn

[@WalterWhite1911]

Your short animations are a form of art: interesting and informative content in a simple and enjoyable format! Thank you! :) If I may add my 5 cents of personal experience, in this case: I was there, I was young, I was volunteering for the Revolution to cut sugar cane, I fought at the Bay of Pigs. Without resorting to complicated geopolitical elucubrations, the Cubans fought off the invasion for a simple reason, which I could witness with my own eyes: the Cubans fought to the extreme, like possessed tigers, to defend the Revolution, that is, their first real hope for a better future, for a more just and humane society, after centuries of colonialism and decades of American exploitation under dictatorships, one more brutal and bloody than the other. It's that simple. They kicked the "gusanos" butt. :)

[@professor__m]

The corn portrait gets me every time.

[@asgardplays7139]

Note: "Can't be killed "..👌👌👌✔✔✔

[@Marinealver]

Still can die

[@Joshua_N-A]

Grin Reaper: You're coming me old man!

[@serendipitousslim1529]

The book “The Devil’s Chessboard” by David Talbot touched a bit on the subject of the Bay of Pigs invasion and offers some pretty unique insight as to why it went so wrong. The director of the CIA at the time, Allen Dulles, was not a fan of JFK, and the feeling was mutual. The book tells it that the team Dulles put together for overseeing the Bay of Pigs was almost purposefully unqualified for the task at hand. Dulles was heavily in favor of Plan A; supporting the exiles with air support and other direct military assistance as needed. But when Kennedy nixed that, the book theorized that Dulles put together a rag tag team to supervise the operation out of spite in hopes that either 1) once the invasion went poorly, Kennedy would cave into pressure and call in the Navy and Air Force or 2) if he didn’t do that, the failure of the invasion would make JFK look bad and show him that Dulles’ decisions should be trusted. On the day of the invasion itself, Dulles wasn’t even at the CIA headquarters. Unfortunately, when 1 failed to happen, 2 only halfway happened (JFK certainly took flak for the invasion) but it also led to secret option 3,, that being JFK forcing Dulles to resign from the post that he had held through several continuous presidential administrations at that point.

[@everythingman987]

2:11 the "series of numbers" on the back of Navy/Marine Corps aircraft are the Department of Navy Bureau Numbers (BuNo). They're literally just the order the aircraft were purchased in, and the Navy uses a 6 number system. A4D's from the Early 60's usually had a BuNos from the high 14s to the mid 15s.

[@sp0ckz0mbi3]

Glad to see the good guys win one for a change.

[@idek6585]

2:49 "You see the top left of Castro's portrait son? *That's called forshadowing"*

[@fillyourasswithfireanddest4875]

"Note: can't be killed"

[@timesnewlogan2032]

“I don’t trust these cigars... they might explode.”

[@theresgottabeagermanwordfo903]

@@timesnewlogan2032 funny enough cubans make the best cigars

[@lardthing7417]

@@theresgottabeagermanwordfo903 I think he's referencing the Many times the CIA tried to kill Castro.

[@shashwatsinha2704]

*foreshadowing

[@kacperk7872]

2:52 respect for "Stańczyk"

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Where and why?

[@kacperk7872]

The painting at the end of the video is called "Stańczyk" by polish artist Jan Matejko.

[@markshortall3384]

God i love how this channel is just no nonsense

[@tollboothjason]

0:26 nice touch of detail leaving Guantanamo Bay blue.

[@claypidgeon4807]

Imagine how differently it’d have gone they’d been financially supported by James Bisionette, Kelly Moneymaker, and Spinning 3 Plates...

[@promethium-145]

Castro wouldn't stand a chance against James Bisonette!

[@winnienguyen4420]

Also Booglie Wooglie and PartyBoyCo

[@eddiewhistler7472]

0:50 what's in the portrait on the left side. I've seen this on lots of History Matters videos.

[@adamkerman475]

It’s a joke about Khrushchev’s obsession with corn.

[@SkyenNovaA]

Thanks for being a good non-biased source

[@SwedieYT]

you can't stop impressing me with all this learning and fun videos

[@lakeblackBLM]

Hopefully they’ll cover what happened on the real 9/11 in Chile Spoilers basically this video but successful

[@davesy6969]

You should go run through a sunlit field of flowers. 💐

[@SadFloridaMan]

Cuban exiles: do you have your homework? CIA: let me look in my bag I’m sure it’s in there

[@JoshofAstora07]

Sneaky bois on the rug was too perfect

[@vinayakiyer8334]

2:25 "Its gonna be a while." it says. Thats putting it lightly

[@johannjones2011]

Love or Hate Castro, you have to admire what he did

[@sviatoslavs.1305]

"D- for the effort, at least we tried." - John "Press F to pay respects when I accidentally get shot" Kennedy, 1960/1, perhaps.

[@Arjun0905]

2:49 I love that the floor says SNEAKY BOIS

[@nik65stgt60]

Great content!

[@darthdimmbol9365]

CIA: Communism is bad, the people will have to rise up against it The people: *No*

[@lancedelgado5541]

No joke. I was learning about the bay of pigs in class literally when I got a notification for this video. History Matters is divine.

[@williamjeffery6326]

Fax

[@cuthbertshepherd1403]

Same. One day ago

[@riiitch]

When I can't sleep, History Matters is there for me

[@LeavinMyTown]

New History Matters? Exactly the kind of birthday present I'd asked for Also, I absolutely love the homage to Stanczyk in the end card

[@yacine778]

"The cuban ppl will rise up" 😂😂

[@n3v3rg01ngback]

It failed because the pigs couldn’t fly.