World in 1948 - Cold War Documentary

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a review of the year 1947, as we go through the main events of this year, including:
00:00-00:44 - INTRO
00:51-1:26 Partition of India and Pakistan
1:26 - 2:38 Gandhi and his Shooting
2:38 - 4:01 Tito and Stalin - Leaving USSR?
4:02 - 5:48 South Africa and Racism
5:48 - 7:46 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
7:46 - 9:04 British Nationality Act 1948
9:04 - 10:03 Turkmenistan earthquake
10:03 - 11:43 Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift
11:43 - 13:25 Marshall Plan
13:25 - 14:54 Israel Independence and consequences
14:54 - 16:20 Doctor's Plot in the USSR
16:20 - 16:51 Solomon Mikhoels
16:51 - 18:48 Alger Hiss
18:48 - 20:57 Proposal for Global Abolishment of Nuclear Weapons
20:57 - 22:12 The Big Bang Theory
22:12 - 23:42 Alfred Kinsey and Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male
23:42 - 24:25 Polaroid
24:25 - 25:49 Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik
25:49 - 27:08 1948 Winter and Summer Olympiad
27:08 - 27:28 Football (The Original)
27:28 - 27:37 Baseball
27:37 - 27:45 Ice Hockey Toronto Maple Leafs ❤
27:45 - 27:51 Horseracing
27:51 - 28:11 Puma and Adidas
28:11 - 28:20 The Red Shoes
28:20 - 28:29 Hamlet
28:29 - 28:53 Music
28:53 - 29:06 Musical Kiss Me, Kate
29:06 - 29:54 - Ending/OUTRO
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[@clairenollet2389]

One of the sweetest stories coming out of the Berlin Airlift was "Uncle Wiggly Wings," aka "The Berlin Candy Bomber," aka Gail Halvorsen, one of the American pilots bringing in supplies to Berlin. He came across a group of Berlin children while his plane was being refueled, and he discovered that they hadn't seen candy in years. He gave them the gum in his pockets, then promised he would drop candy out of his plane the following day -- they would know it was him, because he would wiggle his wings as he was landing, and as he was tossing the candy out of the plane. From these humble beginnings began "Operation Little Vittles." Tons of candy was donated by US citizens, and it was dropped in a more organized manner., to the delight of crowds of children who gathered every day Halvorsen even dropped some candy on the Soviet sector, figuring those kids deserved candy, too, and almost started WWIII as a result. Halvorsen is still alive at age 100, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

[@TheColdWarTV]

The Cold War Conversations Podcast has a great interview with Gail Halvorsen...well worth a listen! coldwarconversations.com/episode56/

[@armyofninjas9055]

Didn't know that. I'm in Salt Lake!

[@twicebang4556]

This is a lovely bit of information!

[@mikaelbohman6694]

😪

[@farqitol]

@@lozloz7418 Did he know Sheldon?

[@lorensims4846]

George Orwell said that in writing 1984 he was actually commenting on 1948.

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Ah yes 1948 what a good year, Berlin, Middle East and Indian Sub-continent. Nothing could go wrong

Also the Balkans, for the cherry on top of the Cold War cake 👀

[@SabaRaba1913]

i mean, in Israeli and Jewish eyes, 1948 is one of the important years in whole Jewish history. finally, after 2000 years of exile, jews could return home to the land of israel and be secured there. and all of that, exactly 3 years after the end of the holocaust, where 6,000,000 Jews were killed because of their religion.

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

@@SabaRaba1913 Well yes there were tears in the eyes of my grandparents as the heard the news around a radio, not since Bar Cosibah have we had a state, but for many it wasn't till Israel had the western wall was the dream fulfilled.

[@jfrancefl325]

In 1948, the Indians beat the Red Sox, Red Sox! Sound to me like that latter team was sympathetic to the communists! Where was McCarthy when we needed him?

[@rodchallis8031]

You guys are just trying to take the shine off the Leaf's winning the cup.

[@jankopransky2551]

Is it just my impression, or did you forget to mention communist coup in Czechoslovakia? I mean, it wasn't a worldwide event, but it was for sure quite important for cold war in europe...

[@user-dl3nc4jx7k]

You are like a child, Europe was divided in Yalta in 1945 between Stalin. This is a well-known fact by Roosevelt and Churchill. The one who won was the one who got everything, no one ever asks the losers remember this, this is the truth of life, it was so, it is so, and it will always be so

[@LordVader1094]

@@user-dl3nc4jx7k Try again in English, please.

[@RobinTheBot]

@@user-dl3nc4jx7k You write like a child, anyway.

[@B727X]

@@user-dl3nc4jx7k I completely agree but it doesn’t change the fact the Czechoslovakia revolt was a big part of history

[@DavidJGillCA]

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia and the murder of Jan Masaryk! How could you miss that?

[@GOTCONNOR]

Czechoslovakia Shmechoslovakia

[@sudarshanpujari5503]

Yes, its in most basic books like Norman Lowe

[@tizfrreecharm]

@@GOTCONNOR schmuck

[@gabrielmenezes2761]

or the 1948 election

[@r.michaelklimes6731]

Because je is mental Communist, most likely Russian extraction !!!!

[@ghostwriterj9421]

Famous last words of empire: "We're going to start in South Asia"

[@Weeboslav]

Stalin:I'm a man of steel Tito:I have balls of steel

[@utbdoug]

Tito to Stalin: "Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second." Legend

[@nicegan8902]

As an Australian I honestly can't comprehend how you could go through all that sport without mentioning the 1948 Ashes with the 'Invincibles" Australian team and the retirement of Don Bradman.

[@arwon2227]

All this sport talk and no mention of the Invincibles tour! Probably the most famous cricket series of the era. It is notable as it was the farewell tour by Donald Bradman (cricket's Gretzky, Pele, Jordan, etc), and the only time a side went a full months-long tour of England undefeated.

[@accent1666]

I really like those videos that analyze the events of each year! I'll be waiting for the next one, year 1949!

[@tpxchallenger]

Love this channel! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 We know you are Canadian, so how about some home team stories? The Gouzenko defection, Fred Rose, Quebec's Padlock Law, communist "infiltration" of the Cominco heavy water facility at Trail, the first Canada/USSR hockey series, among many I'm sure you'll dig up.

[@TheColdWarTV]

we did an episode on Gouzenko! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnfQdqatqaufl7M

[@nickc3496]

You do a really great job with these videos, good job dude!!!👍

[@deanbuss1678]

Another great year in review.👍

[@jordibellon8165]

Your channel is lovely , is very well documented .

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

IIRC the original operation name for the RAF's involvement in the Berlin Air Lift was Op Carter Patterson. This was deemed to be giving g the wrong impression to the Soviet Union as Cater Patterson were a well known UK removals company. The name was changed so that Soviets didn't get the impression the British were leaving.

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

Not gonna lie .. those shades worn by Tito 2:45 look cool as hell, did it contribute to the souring of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union? I love these clips by the Cold War though, very educational

[@nikola_tomic]

That was the main reason, Stalin was jealous 😎

[@hanzup4117]

Just commenting for the algorithm. Great video :)

[@matiasd5216]

Great video. You only forgot to mention Argentine Delfo Cabrera won the Maratjon 🏃 race in London summer games. Greetings from Córdoba, Argentina.❤❤❤

[@haenselundgretel654]

Again an extremely well made episode. Man! If I had this as history class...

[@davidp.7620]

Didn't expect chess references on this channel. Wasn't diappointed

[@PhillyPhanVinny]

KZbin is really not liking your channel anymore. I have been subbed to your channel with the bell button clicked since you created this account. Yet even with that KZbin never puts your videos on my recommended videos list on the KZbin home page. Even though I watch your videos every Saturday when they come out. I will scroll down the list through hundreds of videos and your video will still not show up in the list for me. I have to search for your channel to find your videos every Saturday. And searching for "Cold War" doesn't even bring your channel up on the first few pages of videos. I have to search for "Cold War channel" to be able to find your new video every Saturday.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video. Maybe you can do something like this for 1953 or maybe some other great year in the Cold War. I would love to hear what you would have to say abut 1989. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@joeb7373]

1948- Harley Davidson introduced the Panhead.

[@thedysfunctionalbiographer3314]

1948 - when the Malayan Emergency was declared in reaction to the communist insurgency in that British colony.

[@josephbolcome5462]

This is how I remember the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948..... "Oh! Oh, yeah a little bit now. Earlier, uh, today Amnesty International announced a worldwide tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Declaration Of Human Rights (cheers). The Declaration Of Human Rights is a document that was signed by every government in the world 40 years ago, recognizing the existence of certain inalienable human rights for everyone regardless of your race, your color, your sex, your religion, your political opinion, or the type of government that you're living under. I, I was glad to be asked to participate and I'm proud to join Sting, and Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour, Tracy Chapman, in a tour that's gonna begin in early September, and is gonna run for about six weeks (cheers). So, I'd like to get a, dedicate this next song to the people at Amnesty International and their idea. So when we come to your town, come on out, support the tour, support human rights for everyone now, and let freedom reign." - Bruce Springsteen, July 3rd, 1988, Stockholm, Sweden This was before he performed a cover of Bob Dylans' "Chimes of Freedom".

[@sirwolfnsuch]

''I can't be satisfied'' by Muddy Waters is my favorite 1948 song

[@SRT-8]

This channel is an entire Encyclopedia

[@hrv8008]

Of half-baked information.

[@iDoTechOK]

I really like the mention of the non-aligned movement during the Cold War. There could be focused effort on just that at some point if you're looking for ideas for future topics. Content around Tito and his working in helping to lead non-aligned nations.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I'm not ashamed to say I never knew Gandhi was assassinated! I am genuinely surprised and almost in shock learning about it just now.

[@agnyr]

I'm quite surprised that you completely missed the communist coup in Czechoslovakia ("Vítězný únor") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[@blackpanda7298]

30 min, ouuuu i'm so happy rn

[@LanChiaoPeng]

Great summing-up episode! The Communist Emergency in Malaya deserved a mention, too. If it hadn't been contained, the dominoes would have fallen in the Pacific.

[@sa-lt8ks]

Love you bro. Thanks for the good history videos. I've gotten my girlfriend slightly interested in history.

[@seancraig7773]

Great work overall! Just one quibble. Maybe it's just my conspiratorial mindset, but the way the video talks about the "controversy" with Kinsey seems to me to suggest that the criticism is an outgrowth of prudish sexuality. Probably should emphasize that a large portion of the criticism is methodological; when we teach survey research, we use Kinsey as the archetypal example of selection bias in sampling. Thus, if we're going to mention the findings in detail (e.g., 10%) we should probably also mention that the findings, especially their magnitudes, are probably less than reliable. Then again, I'm probably one of a very small minority who triggered by selection bias. ;) Love the channel.

[@mtatarko1]

No mention of "Victorious February 1948" in Czechoslovakia? I know you cant mention everything from 1948, but I was really expecting this coup to make a list, as it made my country communist for the rest of the cold war. The most of 19X8 years were important for our history.

[@bluestrife28]

It was a weird time I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. Before the internet you just believed everything they told you. And it was a climate of like very quiet, subtle fear, like everything was fine on top but you always wondered if a huge bomb would take out your hometown. I do miss the spy movies though. The best thing to come from the Cold War imho is the many great spy flicks.

[@Larkinchance]

Queen's Gambit? yeah, it was very good, especially the musical score..

[@remybien3277]

Dewey defeats Truman

[@Marinealver]

I am looking forward to the 1989 episode but I also know that would be the last episode, or will it?

[@chrisvickers7928]

Alpher and Gamov recruited theoretical physicist Hans Bethe to make some theoretical; calculations that it became the Alpher, Bethe, Gamov theory.

[@Numba003]

As a chess fan, I appreciate your mentioning chess lol. Thanks for another interesting video on some of the global concurrent events of the time. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

[@tonylove4800]

And he got it right.

[@tylerbozinovski427]

Those voicebreaks though.

[@tangjian234]

Actually . Greatest missing part is Chinese civil war reach it climax in 1948. Millions of troops fought 3 giant campaign. The fate China as a Communist giant was decided on 1948.

[@free_shortvideo]

Why there is not possible to click multiple LIKE?

[@raedwald-red]

Heart beside Toronto Maple Leafs duly noted, though scarcely earned of late.

[@TheColdWarTV]

Producers choice to put the heart there, not the host's ;-)

[@mslr2003]

For the first time there are no subtitles ...

[@YiannissB.]

Good video but no mention of Greek civil war.

[@alexd9735]

Yugoslav socialism was truly something else, feeling privileged for experiencing it, although briefly. Just to know that different system and world is possible feels awesome. Not without its flaws for sure. The biggest mistake was that as apposed to Italy or Germany, Yugoslav identity was suppressed instead to be nurtured. Yugoslavija do groba.

[@jcwoon78able]

7:12 China voliateing human right and changing the dfinition of it.

[@razormc954]

1948 in sports would also see the founding of NASCAR and the Cleveland Rams moving to Los Angeles

[@aetiussecularus8891]

Kinsey’s research was definitely not a leap forward unless it is interpreted in the Maoist sense

[@hrv8008]

I realised one thing from this episode is that never believe anyone blindly on what they're saying, especially when it comes to history! 🙄

[@AdriLeemput]

Big Bang Theory: what about Georges Lemaitre?

[@johnmullen7775]

The success of KIss Me Kate and the Cleveland Indians victrory in the World Series more than makes up for all the bad stuff.

[@ligayamatira2164]

We Wish to feature about the The Death of General Francisco Franco

[@ligayamatira2164]

@@daveanderson3805 franco died in 1975

[@mikaelbohman6694]

Maybe put on some shoes for the next episode?

[@vietphan3767]

Waiting for World in 1972 video after 24:26 - 25:49

[@deny.nurdin]

1948, unrest in Indonesia also known as "Madiun Affair" by Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). The government of Republik Indonesia then destroyed this rebellion and this action affected to international diplomacy in next year. Also in same year, Operation Kraai launched by Dutch. This action well known as "Dutch Military Aggression II" in here.

[@vanodne]

Please, less background music! It's distracting and more than a bit annoying. For instance, apartheid in SA is interesting and important, but it's not a battle scene and doesn't need a stirring music score. Really.

[@chris-qe4yc]

is Funny how Turkey took the same amount of loan as Greece with the Marshal plan when Turkey did not even participated in the 2 WW not before the end of it . This says a lot for the relationship of western powers and Turkey that led to the todays attitude of Turkey towards the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Turkey-American relations that we wideness lately. More will come ,as still the events of the past drive further forward this relations of Turkey and the rest of the world.

[@uzoma1541]

So this is the history or marcus Rashford , Raheem Sterling, or Dwight Yorke?

[@TheColdWarTV]

I don't know the particular family histories of those three, if they are descendants of the Windrush generation or part of other waves of immigration but Windrush is widely recognized as the start of the large BAME communities in the UK.

[@uzoma1541]

@@TheColdWarTV to be honest, I just assumed they are descendants of that generation.

[@jamesorth6460]

Ah, the year 1984 began

[@imtiazhossain6559]

During 1948 Thomas Mantell a pilot for the kentucky air national guard crashes will pursuing a UFO.

[@gregcampwriter]

Gamow included Hans Bethe in the list of authors of the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper as a joke. Nerds have the best sense of humor.

[@ReaperCH90]

2021: Second year of Corona. It sucked.

[@rodrigofonseca6241]

After watching almost all of this episodes i sollidified my conclusion that the Soviet Union was always on the right - Left - side of history.

[@achistorian6978]

The UN hasn't really done it's job of enforcing the declaration. Cough Rwanda, Myanmar, China !

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

You mean, two out of three of them were vetoed by one of the 5 Permanent Members...

[@ilyanwevers7093]

But what can they do? They basicley have no power.

[@geetee2694]

Myanmar is a little more nuanced. China allowed the Saudis (imams) to visit the reduction camps, they had a different take. Also, it's not like our MSM and govt would lie to us. But you forgot The Killing Fields. The UN recognized the genocidal govt as legitimate. The west even supported Pol Pot in his campaign against Vietnam. And for Rwanda, there is evidence France and Israel supplied the genociders. The French leader even said it was good because it would help them in the balance of power in the region.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I hate to burst your bubble, but Gamow and Alpher did not originate the 'Big Bang Theory' in 1948. They were building on the work of Fr Georges Lemaître, a physicist who taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, who proposed the theory 21 years before in 1927. Even Wikipedia says of Gamow, 'He was an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory'. Oh, and about the Winter Olympics. There are only two sports that count, hockey and curling. Canada RULZ!

[@geetee2694]

Even though it would come many years later, The Big Suck Theory is still overlooked. (Gotta love BBS)

[@lessthanpinochet]

The first 5 directors of Gosbank (the soviet union's central bank) were all jewish and Stalin had them all murdered before WW2. Also all the jewish Lenin era Bolsheviks were imprisoned or executed by Stalin.

[@PhillyPhanVinny]

I always find it annoying when people complain about American Baseball, Football (American) and Basketball leagures calling their champion's the "World Chapions". They are called the World champions because they are the best teams in those sports in the world and those claims are uncontested. If another league wants to be created and call themselves the best team in the world it can lead to those teams playing against each other to see who is actually the best team in the world. This happened in Football (American) when the AFL was created. The AFL contested the NFL's claim that their champion was the best team in the world. For awhile everyone knew the NFL teams were the better teams but as the AFL started to get some better players people started to question if the AFL champion could actually beat the NFL champion. This eventually is what led to the Super Bowl to determine which league actually had the best Football team in the world (the NFL won the first 2 Super Bowls). The creation of the World Series in Baseball also has similar roots. There were 2 American baseball leagues that were far better then all other baseball leagues in the US and the world. This led to those 2 leagues playing against each other at the end of their seasons to see who was actually the best baseball team in the world. So if another country wants to start up a league in any of those sports and they actually get to the skill level to compete with the American leagues teams they then should play against each other to see who the real best team in the world is for that sport. But in reality what happens is the best players from each country just come to play in the American sports leagues because that is where they are going to get paid the most money. So when there are great baseball players or basketball players in South America, Europe, Japan, the rest of Asia or anywhere else in the world they all almost always come to play in America eventually for some period of their playing time.

[@ilijas3041]

As much as '48 was cool, it pales compared to its 100 years older namesake

[@jozef_chocholacek]

Was about to scold you for not mentioning the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, but others did that already. A nice summary otherwise.

[@blackhatfreak]

You forgot to mention Korea

[@scottkrater2131]

You'd think a country that spent so much time playing and studying chess, would have applied those principles to it's invasion of Ukraine. Guess they aren't as good as they thought.

[@anarcho-boulangistllamaent2023]

For how long will this channel post videos? Because you havent even covered the Cuban Revolution yet so not even a third of the timeline of the Cold War. At least another five years surely, right?

[@TheColdWarTV]

are you in a rush for us to finish? ;)

@@TheColdWarTV “Mr Gorbachev, upload these videos” Oh wait, that's not how it goes 🤔

[@anarcho-boulangistllamaent2023]

@@TheColdWarTV No, just asking out of curiosity because it would be kind of weird having a channel cover a conflict on a weekly basis for like ten years.

[@TheColdWarTV]

Only ten years?? I'm already preparing my children to take over hosting duties so that I can retire from this in 15 years and then can finish the last half of the Cold War...

[@run2fire]

@@anarcho-boulangistllamaent2023 There is a lot of stories and history from 1945-1990

[@utbdoug]

Tito be like: "Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second." Now that's how you deal with death threats! lol

[@newtonwhatevs]

Nice socks.

[@georgeking1581]

"We didn't start the fire"... wait sorry wrong video

[@utbdoug]

Ahh Gandhi.. The Indian peace warlord! If you know, you know!

[@jimmyryan5880]

The UK is not an island.

[@overlord165]

The Big Band Theory was created by George Lemitre, a Catholic priest from Belgium.

[@DerDop]

Anti semitism in URSS? NO WAY

[@ferdinanddaratenas3447]

They call it anti-Zionism, but it's the same garbage. The nzis at least were honest.

[@szymonskoczylas5225]

@@ferdinanddaratenas3447 Soviet antisemitism from that time was based on doubts about the loyalty of the Jewish intelligentsia while the nazi antisemitism was based purely on biological racism, you can't compare these two things.

[@ferdinanddaratenas3447]

@@szymonskoczylas5225 Of course not. Every antisemite compared to a nzi looks like a joke. Having said that, Stalin was planning to deport the entire Jewish population of the USSR to Siberia shortly before his death.

[@thechekist2044]

@@ferdinanddaratenas3447 pathetic lies. Can you give a source for it? Or are you just going to talk from your behind

[@nihalbhandary162]

@@thechekist2044 Read about Doctor;s plot, I think the channel had even made a video about it.

[@jfree925]

Put on some shoes

[@overlord165]

Weird how they left out George Lemitre from the Big Bang Theory part, the guy who literally came up with the idea... ...is it because he was a catholic priest?

[@hamobu]

You totally glossed over massacres and ethic cleansing of Palestinians that happened in the months prior to establishment of the state of Israel.

[@joshpayro4068]

Tito the great

[@gourabbhattacharya4622]

sorry brothers... there are historical errors that have been made by Britishers that the Gandhi was behind the Independence of India. It was Netaji S.C Bose who fought against "British Raj" and thus then rest of the royal indian army started mutiny. and if you ask why Britishers spread this, then it's simple. that they wanted to show them-self's very kind and Nobel to ther rest of the world that they left without fighting. huh what a horse shit. anyway can't blame you, it was political matter of that time.

[@Ukraine26666]

辽沈战役打响

[@MisterOcclusion]

7:14. The right to property, but apparently not if that property includes privately owned firearms.

[@brandonk.4864]

…yes? Do you think the right to property means the right to all forms of property? Should there be a right to own all drugs? What about nuclear weapons?

[@britisheastindiacompany6031]

Very sad, No one thanked the British East India company for their role is proper management of the Indian subcontinent. But anyways, it doesn't matter whether people mention it or not we all know how the British empire took care of the Indian subcontinent. But the ungrateful people chose freedom over chivalry.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

You mean how you botched in suppressing the Indian Mutiny that led to one of the three Presidency Armies to join with the mutineers and led Britain to take away your administration rights by 1858?

[@britisheastindiacompany6031]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 take away ? Nonsense . BEIC left on her own will and the empire came forward to fill up the power vacuum . After 100 years of prosperous rule it was the responsibility of the BEIC to let Indian people live happily. Which they did. But we were never thanked for this period. May be good deeds are often unnoticed .

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

@@britisheastindiacompany6031 In May 1948, the Pakistani army officially entered the conflict, in theory to defend the Pakistan borders. Interestingly, both the armies were under joint British command at this stage.

[@rudramahakaal7176]

@@jussim.konttinen4981 and was defeated in 1948 but Jawaharlal Nehru was a stupid leftist who let rest of it go away to Pakistan. Interestingly Mountbatten played a major role in defeat of Pakistani troops both strategically and diplomatically. And Pakistan invaded not defended it.

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

@Ranjit Tyagi Did they have border controls during colonial times?

[@manuelvirgulti6757]

1948 was also the year of the creation of the Italian Republican Constitution

[@dzejrid]

Did he have a cold or something? He sounds different.

[@prem27mndl]

The only thing this documentary got wrong is by saying Gandhi was against Partition. In truth Gandhi gave the go ahead with the partition. Please correct this fact.

[@TheColdWarTV]

Gandhi was opposed to Partition, even offering to make Jinnah viceroy in an attempt to maintain one state. But the popular will of the Khalsa was for two states and Gandhi didn't feel he could stand in the way of the will of the people, especially since that would have meant trying to maintain one unified state by force. As such, he reluctantly accepted partition in the hopes that once the British had left, the Muslim League would realise what he deemed "their mistake" and would rejoin a unified India.

[@prem27mndl]

@@TheColdWarTV How could the Sikh Khalsa support Partition? The Sikhs have to face genocide like conditions during India's Partition. And You are saying this. Again Please correct your facts.

[@TheColdWarTV]

to quote Gandhi from a June 4th 1947 prayer meeting: "“The demand has been granted because you asked for it. The Congress never asked for it…. But the Congress can feel the pulse of the people. It realised that the Khalsa as also the Hindus desired it.”

[@prem27mndl]

@@TheColdWarTV Will you please mention the place also? If you do it will be helpful. And thank you for your prompt response.

[@thelakeman2538]

Gandhi's primary objective was always keeping India united while simultaneously ensuring such an arrangement is not communal in nature, the fact that he wanted a United India is repeated constantly in statements of his contemporaries including Jinnah numerous times, for instance during the cabinet mission, (this was around 3rd April 1946) Gandhi expressed to the British delegation his wish to even let Jinnah form the interim government and pick whatever ministers he wanted, on the condition that there would be only one constitution making body and the government that would be answerable to a central assembly, Sardar Patel even told Wavell in 12th June that Gandhi had tried to convince the Congress Working Committee to accept the cabinet mission plan. And Nehru informed him that it was only on Gandhi's intervention that the Congress didn't flat out reject the idea of making a coalition government with the Muslim League. While simultaneously he wanted to maintain the secular nature of congress by maintaining Congress's right to nominate a Muslim Congress member, something which Jinnah was completely against. Even as late as April 1947 Gandhi was ready to let Jinnah form an all muslim government with Jinnah at his head if he gave up on his demand for a separate muslim state. Gandhi would only accept a partition if there was a popular will for it and if it could prevent violence, for instance he supported the C.R formula which allowed for a plebiscite in Muslim majority provinces once the British left India, letting the people choose for an independent Pakistan, something which the Muslim League and Jinnah flat out rejected as they did not want universal franchise and especially non-muslims to vote in a plebiscite that would partition the provinces themselves.

[@jankowalski3496]

Who cares about Canada? :)

[@TheColdWarTV]

Canadians, mostly.

[@jankowalski3496]

@@TheColdWarTV kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIOVXoqOocycrJY

[@jankowalski3496]

@@TheColdWarTV At 4.20 - most canadian story ever. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpfGZnSlqJlngck

[@vetabeta9890]

Lick

[@user-lj9zf9ds1m]

worst year ever

[@SchultzHISTnPOL]

Youre thinking of 1789

[@jedetraktor_cz]

1948...and no mention of communitst takeover of czechoslovakia :-/

[@sandeeptiwari7157]

Your videos are full of indoctrination. I have never seen a single video on internet that mentions that the British held election in 1942 in order to partion of india.

[@pankajbhardwaj5920]

Gandhi is not our Hero. Real heroes are Shubhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh.

[@J__C_]

Nathuram Godse Zindabad. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@hashthehammer3726]

Jaldi se Gandhi ko hate karta hoon fir cool bhi to bana hai