Convicts Recruited into the Russian Army

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In times of war, desperate measures are sometimes needed to be taken and nations would turn to the criminal elements of society to swell the ranks of their Armed Forces. Whether coerced, motivated by patriotism or by a sense of redemption, or something darker, those convicted of crimes have played an important role in warfare even to the current day.
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@hauntingblock3620 Год назад

At age 17, R Lee Ermey was arrested for criminal mischief. He was given two options: One, go to jail, or two, enter the service. You all know he chose to enter the US Marines during the Vietnam War. Edit: Wow I wasn't expecting to have 1.5k likes. Thanks guys.

@TheMandaloreFett Год назад

And then we got Fullmetal Jacket, he made the best choice afforded to him😌

@cheshirecynic3061 Год назад

I'm originally from the same town as him, and was lucky enough to meet him while I was doing security at a Veteran's Day event. I was astounded by how friendly and personable he was, but slightly disappointed he didn't scream at me lol

@DeNihility Год назад

The Marines made him a man, and the man made the Marines famous. He's the face/icon of the Drill Instructor and the Gunnery Sgt when someone thinks of those.

@SteamCheese1 Год назад

@@DeNihility True... He's the embodiment of a Hardass D.I.

@matthewskudzienski888 Год назад

R.I.P R Lee Ermey✝️☮️🕊🇺🇸🎖

@FROST76608 Год назад

I worked with a guy who was sentenced for robbery(3 year term),assault(2 years) and murder(10 years).So apparently he fought in the soviet -afghan war, First nagorno-karabah war,yugoslavia,first Chechen war and Russo-Georgian conflict.He was jailed in 2009 for murder and paroled and based on he's past combat experience send to fight inDobass (2014).Every time I questioned some the wild stories he was telling, he'd show me some old photo. The dude in question was 52 years at the time , he was covered in scars and tattoos and was still jacked as a mutafaka. At the start of the Russian invasion this year apparently he was wounded so he called me and joked that the doctors told him that his Rambo days are over. BTW dude in question is ukrainian.

@jacaredosvudu1638 Год назад

I know i shouldnt but this guy is based

@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Год назад

You sure it was murder? How do you get ten years for murder?

@jebise1126 Год назад

@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 yes 10 years is a lot... probably double murder

@FROST76608 Год назад

@@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 I'm writing down what I was told!Idk how stuff work in Ukrain,but in Bulgaria my grandfather stabbed a guy 16 times and severed his head off ,and he didn't serve a day in jail . Money and clinical insanity work wonders some times. Edit:The one that got killed was shot dead because he was trying to force his killer's daughter into prostitution..

@konstantinosnikolakakis8125 Год назад

@@FROST76608 Hmmm, in my home country (Canada), the sentence for murder is life, which means twenty five years with a chance for parole after twenty five.

@Lupinthe3rd. Год назад

convicts can be effective in combat especially if they have combat experience. I once watched this documentary about this convicted group of commandos who in 1972 promptly escaped from a maximum security military stockade to the Los Angeles area. they survived being on the run by working as soldiers of fortune; if you needed help and could find them, you could have hired them.

@Drater-the_slow Год назад

Sounds like a bunch of alphas. An A-team if you will.

@paramagician Год назад

This is the best comment of the day

@CountMeOut33 Год назад

Better then them rotting in a cell. “Chance to redeem themselves"

@alexanderwalker3906 Год назад

_Wait a second…_

@jessicalacasse6205 Год назад

more shooting and gun death in usa in last 50 years than in most modern war ...

@butters1273 Год назад

I served with a few who had this option, most cleaned up there lives and contributed greatly.

@Frosty_tha_Snowman Год назад

Where did you serve with them?

@lordfisting4327 Год назад

@@Frosty_tha_Snowman sounds like the usmc (marine corps)

@nikoc8968 Год назад

"most" is the key word. the ones who didnt are now criminals with combat training...

@nikoc8968 Год назад

@engineer gaming far more crime happens in south America and the middle east than anywhere in America...besides Socialist/Democrat cities of course.

@ns-nf9pi Год назад

but is it worth it? to watch your friends die, and to even take another life?

@magicpyroninja Год назад

Turns out that some of the people that don't fit within polite proper peaceful society make amazing soldiers

@tofuchicken2 Год назад

And it turns out a lot of the time they're more of a liability on the battlefield than an asset. If you have problems with authority, cooperating with others and being a thief, you probably wont make a good soldier and the other soldiers will probably hate you.

@ksmith7729 Год назад

@@tofuchicken2 or somebody just grew up in a crappy environment and the military would straigten em out. food for thought

@taramaforhaikido7272 Год назад

@@tofuchicken2 Justice is a mask for hate and fear. At lesat the honest monsters aren't pretending.

@christiandauz3742 Год назад

Mcnamar's idiots disagree

@samgyeopsal569 Год назад

@@tofuchicken2 if they were in a gang then they would be good at following orders

@RealKorean Год назад

Wasnt the French Foreign Legion founded on convicts?

@nebojisatomic1681 Год назад

Yup.....

@TankieC Год назад

🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵

@ericsuarez834 Год назад

Yes

@funfact8660 Год назад

The current Administration in Washington DC certainly is

@nicholasdigaetano Год назад

@@funfact8660 amen

@bcamp6088 Год назад

The US military has a history of using criminals during wartime as well. I'm pretty sure every major country has done this

@blackwatertv7018 Год назад

Yes but they aren’t currently doing it…

@Irewiking88 Год назад

@@blackwatertv7018 well, Kinda, As some can join the military instead of do prison time. At least when I was in, around 2008 I knew a couple.

@TheSlayer. Год назад

@@blackwatertv7018 It used to back in the surge days of the Iraq war however is not a thing anymore.

@miroslavtordaji1675 Год назад

@@TheSlayer. right...now they go straight in Blackwater or some other PMC

@TheSlayer. Год назад

@@miroslavtordaji1675 da comrade BOTarish

@Cybonator Год назад

I remember watching a US documentary about a group of convicts being recruited in WWII for a particularly dangerous mission. If I recall there were about 12 of them and they weren't the cleanest of chaps.

@agent45625 Год назад

Wouldn't that actually be the movie called the Dirty Dozen?

@arthas640 Год назад

@@agent45625 did actually happen a fair amount. Sometimes they ended up in special forces since they were more independently minded and more used to hard living than your average conscript.

@EvilPaladin11 Год назад

*The Dirty Dozen theme intensifies*

@taramaforhaikido7272 Год назад

Good movie.

@Menaceblue3 Год назад

@@agent45625 I understood that reference!

@orthocatsr.8723 Год назад

My father told me about the ethos of Korean marines. That they were 80 percent prisoners and orphans and had nothing to go back home for and started to basically love the open world of combat to alleviate uncommon aggression

@BLACK_STONE-187 Год назад

"In desperate times, conscripted criminals refill our ranks. Sometimes however, you find a diamond in the rough"

@josegloria6108 Год назад

I see what ya did there fellow warrior 😏

@ivanstepanovic1327 Год назад

One major down factor of using them, especially shown in WW2 with Nazis... They committed so many crimes and atrocities that only solidified the will of the opposing side to fight. If the enemy knows they will be butchered if they surrender, that will only motivate them to fight even harder, to the bitter end. And if the tide of war turns (as was the case with Nazis), the other side after seeing the atrocities, will want a payback and commit them themselves. So, once again, a lot of innocent civilians will pay a horrible price for something they haven't done...

@sketchygetchey8299 Год назад

I’m immediately thinking of Come and See.

@xedaslopes3975 Год назад

oh really the nazis those bielorussians and others civilians would also be under show trials and executed if they didnt submit to the rules and ordes of the soviet partisans who would acuse anyone they wished of being in league with the germans; they also killed a lot of their own civilians

@libertyoverbondage Год назад

USSR conscript soldiers surrendered in large numbers, many even fought for the Germans against the USSR, who commited far worse crimes against them. Ukrainians/ Lithuanians/ Kazaks/ White Russians etc

@kitongtai Год назад

@@libertyoverbondage you forgot to add United State of America they committed one of the worse war crimes in vietnam,feance(during ww2) etc

@arthas640 Год назад

It's worth noting yhat the US did this with petty criminals, not serious criminals, while the Einsatzgruppen were specifically chosen from murders, rapists, and psychopaths. The US mainly did this as an option to avoid prison rather than forced into it. The USSR penal battalions were mostly people convicted of cowardice or were chosen arbitrarily and those battalions were treated as disposable, the men knew it and so did the commanders so joining the enemy was usually a more pleasant choice during the early stages of WW2 and only later once the evils of the concentration camps became widely known did Soviet penal battalions stop surrendering en mass at the first opportunity.

@christosvoskresye Год назад

Back in the late 1970's, a cousin of mine was arrested on drug charges and given a choice between the US Navy and jail.

@Frosty_tha_Snowman Год назад

"Hey you, want to earn back your honor for this country?" "Yes, comrade, what do I do?" "Walk in front of me."

@dimsum947 Месяц назад

Ukrainians now doing the same thing. Whatever Russia does, Ukrainians just copy

@cocacola4blood365 Год назад

The Dirlewanger Brigade was so disgusting even the SS regarded them as evil. In 1945, Oskar Dirlewanger was captured while trying to escape disguised as a civilian. He was recognized and turned in by a concentration camp survivor. He was imprisoned at the Altshausen prison camp and beaten to death by the guards. A story with a happy ending.

@leme_1 11 месяцев назад

I did not blame the Soviets Taking these mf's as prisoners of war Before the End of the war

@kristi4113 2 месяца назад

They are the Nazis portrayed in Come and See. I don’t recommend that movie if you have a weak stomach.

@SobaYatai Год назад

Ah yes the entirety of Australian armed forces

@maxbaincross3165 Год назад

@@joshlyon1315 I Agree this Bosow brain isn’t from Australia and no the entire Australia armed forces are not prison inmates or criminals he is just a horrible person talking about another country he knows nothing about people like him make me sick

@WissHH- Год назад

@@joshlyon1315 wasnt Australia a penal colony?

@maxbaincross3165 Год назад

@@WissHH- He was talking about the modern armed forces of Australia

@jebise1126 Год назад

australia was made as prison colony anyway

@sovietagent9303 Год назад

@@joshlyon1315 Bro Australia was literally a Prison Colony LMFAO

@enjoyer9525 Год назад

"Over time, Joe and I got to be best friends. And since we were both poor, and there wasn't much work around, we started a little business of our own..." "Well that one time it didn't work so good. The year was 1943. America was at war and the Army was lookin' for guys who spoke the language to help with the invasion of Sicily." "I was eighteen, and anything seemed better than jail. Who says you can't go home again?"

@RavenGuardian Год назад

Not sure if it counts, but during the height of the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the US military recruited gang members and ex-cons in order to fill in the gaps. A lot of waivers were handed out left and right.

@tacotuesday2489 Год назад

No wonder the Americans caused so many blue on blues..

@bishop51807 Год назад

@@tacotuesday2489 the British had a few Friendly Fire incidents also

@mghegotagun Год назад

@@tacotuesday2489 And other atrocities.

@MarkMuhammad190 Год назад

@@mghegotagun as fked up as it was at least they tried to be careful. The Soviets on the other hand literally recorded videos of bombing entire cities.

@charriot9666 Год назад

@@mghegotagun so the usual

@SlyCooper1920 Год назад

Vito Scaletta's a perfect fit for the story

@coleman4840 Год назад

I see you’re a man of culture. Love mafia two.

@Ozzy08018 Год назад

"Let's send the guy that was convicted of wire fraud to the meatgrinder on Hill 87!"

@MasterLu2 Год назад

Suicide Squad lowkey is based on a true story.

@josiahbrand9724 Год назад

Gives a whole new meaning to Prisoners of War.

@ZeroFoxtrotGolf Год назад

If you find the idea of Convict Soldiers interesting, look up the "La Legion Noire", and the Battle of Fishguard.

@CountMeOut33 Год назад

Edit: Soldiers ready for death. Damn. Even the watered RU-vid documentary’s training is extreme. dudes are mercs & no joke.

@SashaFoxfort Год назад

Didn't Ukraine also drafted their prisoners during battle of Kiev?

@tamimi9231 Год назад

Yeah, a prominent group is the Tornado battalion due to many members being molestors, pedos, etc. Vice verse for the Wagner PMC group in Russia.

@Tonyx.yt. Год назад

yep, but wont fit western propaganda so they skip this part

@user-ww8iy5jo5z Год назад

Да. Но зачем об этом говорить когда Русские всегда должны быть плохими

@donaldhysa4836 Год назад

@@Tonyx.yt. Almost the whole video is about western armies using prisoners

@MrChewie1138 Год назад

They drafted former servicemen with combat experience who were imprisoned for crimes, Wagner takes in regular convicts and on a large scale, in thousands.

@mrfacestab5758 Год назад

Two choices during the war Do you want to stay in prison forever? Or do you want to join the war?

@RonJeremy514 Год назад

"Well I have only two weeks left behind bars so..." "You are hired" "NO W-W-WAIT!"

@blaircolquhoun7780 Год назад

German penal battalions were also used in North Africa. The prisoners at Camp Stark, in Stark, New Hampshire, were from penal battalions.

@unknowncommenter6698 Год назад

Afaik Germans had entire penal divisions at some point. They were few, but definitely had times when almost entirety of their manpower was just wiped. Oh and the SS battalion mentioned in video turned out to be terrible against real military, for they had zero real tactics and instead just ran/walked at their enemy and hip fired their guns. What also didn't help them was the fact they had no armored vehicles as a support.

@vbadimothebadassjackass8011 Год назад

Criminals becoming war-criminals.

@StevenCodeBlack Год назад

What this describes sounds quite a lot like the premise of The Dirty Dozen movies that had Lee Marvin and Telly Savalas in them. The only major differences regarding the premise of the film, is that some of the war criminals selected were also considered to either be dangerously mentally ill or extremely violent as well as having been sentenced to death or long term imprisonment. And additionally instead of just being put on the frontline alongside other infantry units, they were assigned on high risk or suicide missions that the military wouldn't be willing to risk expending their main infantry units for. The criminals in the Dirty Dozen were assigned the job and retrained for it instead because of the fact that it wouldn't be a huge loss to the high brass if they failed, and in exchange for accepting the mission, it also puts the possibility of remission of what they were initially sentenced to in exchange for fulfilling their end of the agreement.

@slavicvasenin6685 Год назад

I heard about convicts in Wagner's Group as a second chance or alternative to fully serve 8 years of incarceration

@elijahtiemens5532 Год назад

And Ukraine’s Tornado Group.

@tamimi9231 Год назад

Yup, both sides in the war are using convicts to their advantage.

@jordanmince7613 Год назад

@@tamimi9231 its clever

@joshlyon1315 Год назад

Wagner Group is even worse than black water when it comes to it's contractors

@RonJeremy514 Год назад

@@jordanmince7613 Not really. Some veterans argue that granting weapons training and combat knowledge to thugs can backfire.

@GlamorousTitanic21 Год назад

Dirlewanger’s Brigade has always stuck out to me due to the fact that they were so violent that even other SS commanders wanted them tried and hung.

@E55666 Год назад

Virtue signal flag

@TheBearInTheChair Год назад

@@E55666 sorry, but it's something when you can even make members of the Thrid Reich go "Bruh"

@Tonyx.yt. Год назад

the same SS folks fighting under your pathetic flag took inspiration from?

@CyBerCat6410 Год назад

Other SS? What a load of crap

@catholicracialist776 Год назад

The Catholic Ustasha were even more

@clifbradley Год назад

I studied the use of prisoners by Germany and Russia during WW2 and then later in guerilla wars in Africa. Some of these guys were hard core belligerent violent and had a loose moral code. This idea was floated to the US during Vietnam too. Soldiers with skills in burglary, forgery, racing, torture, and various other 'skills' were used to train US special forces and Navy Seals. Particularly by Richard Marcinko in the 80's when Team Six was first formed.

@user-bu2wd2rm1s Год назад

In fact, in the United States, prisoners were used during the war between the north and the south. So it is their experience that Germany and the USSR applied at home.

@HumanButcher150 Год назад

@@user-bu2wd2rm1s prisoners were used in wars even before that, Prygozhyn’s bytch 😁

@therealspeedwagon1451 Год назад

The moment I saw this video pop up in my recommendations I just knew you had to talk about the Dirlewanger brigade. You should’ve talked more about their crimes though but I understand why you wouldn’t. Many of their crimes are far too graphic to be put on any RU-vid video and would’ve made this video age restricted.

@elg9492 Год назад

Age restricting actual history is so stupid I hate it.

@ParkingLotGod Год назад

I read the Wikipedia page on them and was horrified and angered but not surprised

@chrismorel8613 Год назад

Look for the book "The black Hunters" It's probably the most in depth history on Dirlewenger

@fredo0084 Год назад

2:46 is that a dirty dozen reference,? Nice

@cactuscrook Год назад

The warsaw uprising needs its own video, so does witold pilecki, surprised this hasn’t been done yet

@MrDragos360 Год назад

If you have life time or 10-15+ years it's worthy to try your luck in conflict. Better die fighting than in prison room.

@unknowncommenter6698 Год назад

8:44 and in footage Prigozhin himself said "if you kill, rob or rape civilians, you will be shot. Deserters will be shot too" and yes, there were news of deserters in Wagner PMC, who got shot.

@unknowncommenter6698 Год назад

9:20 that feels like a bullshit, tho. They didn't even send all 300k mobilized reservists into Ukraine yet (they're still in training centers and some will only go to Ukraine in 2023), so why would regular army go and do whole penal battalion thing? Prigozhin himself is just getting more manpower for his small army (like Kadyrov has his own guard regiment, tiktoker company and etc. btw there's no more tiktoks of those, I wonder where they went...)

@charlesderosas5577 Год назад

basically the real suicide squad.

@johnrandolph1989 Год назад

Ah, so The Dirty Dozen wasn't just fiction then.😲

@christopherdempsey3878 Год назад

Great movie by the way.

@charlessaint7926 Год назад

My Grandfather was arrested, along with his cousin, for shoplifting when he was 16 or 17. The judge gave them two options, the Army or jail. They chose the Army. Grandpa was sent to Guam in 1945. He and his buddies captured two Japanese holdouts. After his discharge, Grandpa went back home around 1947, but ran into trouble again. Left with no other recourse he rejoined the Army and made it a career, up to 26 years of service. World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. About half of that service was sober. We think.

@Arturino_Burachelini Год назад

A thug is an unsuccessful king... An easy access to violence-accustomed human resorce PMCs is a topic of its own...

@chesterpanda Год назад

My great uncle was an U.S. Air Corps navigator on bombing runs and a POW twice between WW2 and Korea. After surviving that he became an Officer, he was emplaced with Russian immigrants, learned Russian, and then worked at Norad before it was public. When he was about to retire they wouldn’t promote him to Lt. Col. Not sure if it was with the changing of times or someone didn’t like him, but they wouldn’t promote him because he had a violent crime on his record. He joined Army the age of 17 because of this reason, go to prison or join the service. He survived two wars, learned a new language, became an officer and got to work at a top secret base for the times, all because he beat someone up. They promoted him to Lt. Col. only after he passed away of old age, so at least Uncle Sam did that.

@aslan_kz_97 Год назад

Interesting story, can make a movie.

@TheCrazyyGamer Год назад

United States Marine Corps used to have a convict program sort of recruitment aswell but since has been dissolved.

@DarkTemplarKain Год назад

Penal Battallions Often thrown on suicide missions

@lovepeace9727 Год назад

Someone gotta storm beaches of Normandy, better not be a good guy.

@benjauron5873 Год назад

I know it's not quite the same thing as a "penal battalion," but I know that in the old days, at least through they Vietnam era, young men convicted of minor crimes were given the option of military service as an alternative to imprisonment. I heard that's how Jimi Hendrix ended up in the 101st Airborne Division. He got caught, like, stealing a car or something, and the judge said he could either go to jail or go to the army. That's not a hard choice...

@moritamikamikara3879 Год назад

I've spoken to a number of people who've had that happen to them. That still happens today, trust me.

@406kal Год назад

I never knew there were so much prisoners recruited by armies!

@kubglo7502 Год назад

That last line hit extremely deeply

@zacharyknight3012 Год назад

Your pumping videos out fast and its actually shows you just how much history there is to learn that's why I love this channel I've been watching for years

@THE_IRS0 Год назад

"This is gulag in here you fight to win your life back"

@cookieninja1472 Год назад

love this video way better then tv shows

@marcusmvpgoat1236 Год назад

Ikr this channel is amazing

@ArcticWolf00Alpha0 Год назад

Now we need an entire video on the Dirlewanger brigade. The most ruthless barbaric and evil Waffen SS Unit of WW2.

@Tonyx.yt. Год назад

when fellow SS from other units call you extremist and want you to calm down a little bit...

@catholicracialist776 Год назад

The Catholic Ustasha WW2 group are confirmed to be even worse

@christiandauz3742 Год назад

Didn't they inspire Hannibal Lecter

@TheEllUMO Год назад

I like it how this channel keeps going with the news flow. It's really amazing to watch the historical channel make videos about historical events in action. There is really no need to wait for facts, and let historical events fully finish and project the results on the world, when you can make something that grabs the attention, no matter the objectivity. Cool videos, keep on.👍👍👍

@dont_stop_the_war Год назад

people got a chance to prove that they aren't lost for society i think its a good step

@mlembrant Год назад

when I was younger, i couldn't understand how can tens of thousands of people get killed without deffending themselves.. as I grow older, I learn about the world and I now know that the way to make that happen is ===> compliance ... DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES COMPLY TO ANYTHING THAT IS INHUMANE!! EVER!!!!

@LibertyJefferson Год назад

My uncle was given the option of jail or the military (he shot up a Burger King he worked at after closing hours). He ended up making a career of it, and we think he did some spooky stuff after he retired in the early 2000's, but we don't know for certain. He recently retired from being a contractor for the Navy. My theory is that some people just need structure, and they'll go crazy without it. The military (or prison I suppose) can provide that.

@Mister.45 Год назад

He shot up a burger King and they let him join the military?I got a felony for drug possession(1 xanax) and they still wouldn't let me join instead of doing time

@Thecubel21 Год назад

Сдаётся мне, есть правда в твоих словах.

@badsporttrolln5658 Год назад

@@Mister.45 I’m sure if we were at full blown war like a Vietnam scenario that they would let you join the military. We’re not at full blown war right now.

@alexknaus4511 Год назад

Cool Video! Thx

@CesarGarcia-nd5xz Год назад

This video was so well made 💯 👌🏻 ✅

@nickyboy22071989 Год назад

WW1 Britain: *Calls Australia.*

@blue146.2 Год назад

awesome!

@azimisyauqieabdulwahab9401 Год назад

Like The Dirty Dozen

@BigBangAttack-mt6pz Год назад

Attention seeker

@RehnanCT- Год назад

Another great video as always Great job with the music 🎶

@michelmoreno8233 Год назад

You guys are on fire lately, uploading vids everyday

@SleepyWolf Год назад

Honourable Mention Michael Corleone

@brett4264 Год назад

LMAO! That dog barking at 9:16. I didn't expect that. LOL!

@shakescan Год назад

Outstanding!

@Bigstarrocker9 Год назад

I'm seeing some reference from The Dirty Dozen in this one

@ImperatorZor Год назад

"The day's work are done my candlesticks, silverware, fancy glasses and kitchen knives have been left out on the table in plain view and the doors have been left unlocked. Time to go to bed."

@cheshirecynic3061 Год назад

"Ah, excellent. A fabulous display from which to steal. I shall individually place each of these things into my satchel in the most delicate manner possible."

@ImperatorZor Год назад

@@cheshirecynic3061 That actually makes sense. You don't want to make noise when you're robbing.

@cheshirecynic3061 Год назад

@@ImperatorZor I mean, the smart move would be not to burglarize an occupied building (especially a home, since that's a higher-level felony). The smartest move, of course, would be just not being a burglar lol

@seanpalmer3982 Год назад

I love that you guys showed the Russian prisoner using the homemade crossbow from the prison weapons episode. Your attention to detail is amazing and that was a great Easter egg!

@OPgamingstyle Год назад

Why did I see the thumbnail and immediately think of "think fast chucklenuts"

@Autobotmatt428 Год назад

2:45 love the dirty dozen reference

@ThatCountry_Boy Год назад

Great video! Also at 3:02 is a reference to the movie “Dirty Dozen”! It’s a great movie

@joeerickson516 Год назад

"Filthy thirteen?"

@davidodonovan1699 Год назад

Great video. Well done man. Legend. Also, merry Christmas

@obi0914 Год назад

Your guys animations getting really good

@TireekELane Год назад

4:05 - Simple History, I think you're supposed to say "Order 227" as a correction.

@notspacedarlings Год назад

Real life Suicide Squad… lol

@dudu8la162 Год назад

great vid

@TheRarook Год назад

Almost surprised that the French Foreign Legion was not mentioned

@Soodixace Год назад

NOT the Russian army, but а Vagner

@alextherussian7366 Год назад

One thing this video forgot to mention: Ukrain first tapped into their prison population using a lot of prisoners at the front lines, however they where used in siege warfare, meaning a lot of them are pretty likely to be dead, used as cannon foder for Russian artillery. Some fought with international volunteers, a lot of them finding death together.

@brandonhampton5945 Год назад

Man I love tht simple history is putting more videos out faster lol I don't have wait as long to see s new one lol

@joebentley2803 Год назад

Love the replay of the animation at the end of your videos, not sure why

@Michael_OBrian Год назад

Any chance of a video on the Battle off Samar?

@carloherrero9161 Год назад

Cool videos!!

@WorkOvertimeOrElse Год назад

Not only criminals, but traitors to their country. What do they deserve?

@emrekocak1602 Год назад

Nice vid

@nickvinsable3798 Год назад

This reminds me of _StarCraft_ ‘s Terran’s Infantry, especially the ones used by the Confederacy & later the Dominion…

@jebise1126 Год назад

that should remind you of this

@christiandauz3742 Год назад

Most Terran infantry ARE NOT convicts In Sc2 the Dominion is less reliant on convicts

@nickvinsable3798 Год назад

I technically disagree, @@christiandauz3742: < ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VSGmPpidDvo.html > & < trying to find a UNN broadcast about this in _Wings of Liberty_ >…

@christiandauz3742 Год назад

@@nickvinsable3798 The Marauders are mostly non-convicts unlike Firebats

@nickvinsable3798 Год назад

Ah, so if you’re going by the different kinds of infantry, such as marines vs ghosts, I would agree with you, @@christiandauz3742. However, don’t assume that the numbers of individual units on the battlefields are exactly the same & such…

@eduardonajera9736 Год назад

I'm sure Ukraine is doing the same tho, i remember the 3 killers of the hammer had life sentence, but i wonder where are they now

@jelly_bean6518 Год назад

Love the video man keep it up, Can we get some videos on the middle eastern war?

@christopherfriend7402 Год назад

The Russian made movie series Penal Battalion is well worth watching.

@sheledsky Год назад

I like how the animation has gotten better over time

@PROVOCATEURSK Год назад

Meanwhile a certain country uses prisoners for making money...

@olekcholewa8171 Год назад

5:48 "Durlewagner brigade" Bro come on 😭😭

@jbthestoner5504 Год назад

We still do this. I've known multiple people that ended up with a criminal charge and were offered to either join the army or go to prison.

@penzlic Год назад

In Yugoslav wars in 1990's, criminals (some of them even worked for secret services before wars, operating in west europe) were not only drafted, but probably encouraged to lead so called "volunteer corps", that were in fact vultures whom came and just loot and killed. Since they were covertly state sponsored, they were often portraited as heros.

@sonofkarma5461 Год назад

This actually sounds pretty clever if you ask me

@jabber1990 Год назад

a veteran I work with had a great idea people who are in prison for small offenses, Drugs, theft, tax evasion, some SO's, send them on an 18 month deployment, and if they survive, they walk off the plane as free men that's his same solution for illegal immigrants

@Natedawg38 Год назад

They have me three options - prison, the army, or apologise to the judge. Had I known a war was going on, I probably would've just apologised.

@johnyboy268 Год назад

Hey simple history, I love your content! Is there any chance you may need a voice actor for your animations? Id be happy to help! :)

@artkl494 Год назад

russian "wagner" is not into redemption judging by their sledgehammer videos...

@joeerickson516 Год назад

"Like the dirty dozen?"

@zulkifligumilang3155 Год назад

We now coming in age where something that happen few month ago recorded into history documentary now

@chrismichael6048 Год назад

In 1968, South Korean intelligence established the assassination squad UNIT 684 in which the recruits were the petty, lowly street criminals as well as ordinary people where they were lured and tricked with money. UNIT 684 was a response for failed North Korean assassination attempt on President Park Chung Hee. UNIT 684 was shrouded in secrecy in South Korea for many years due to controversial nature of the recruitments sources and inhumane commando training that would make nowadays' special forces training look like a kindergarten. UNIT 684 recruits were pushed to the limit until they launched rogue uprising in 1971 by killing their trainers and hijacking the public bus on their way to Seoul, but they were stopped by the ROK Army. Realizing no way out, the recruits committed mass suicide with hand grenades.

@donny8593 Год назад

it silmido movie right? i watch it on tv as a kid but i dont understand too much about the movie, but as i grew up its darker than how i imagined it back then

@chrismichael6048 Год назад

@@donny8593 yes, that movie is SILMIDO. I've watched them on YT. The movie portrayed 31 recruits as death-sentence convicts that got secretly smuggled into uninhabited Silmido island to be trained as commandos. The training method portrayed in the movie is just part of the horrendous inhumane method imposed on the real life 31 recruits. I believe the reason was to dehumanize the recruits into a ruthless killing machine waiting to be sent to assasinate Kim il Sung. The Silmido recruit uprising in 1971 was indeed the darkest moment in South Korean history.