Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1916-17 

Meanwhile on the video of the Western Front.. "Look at the millimeter moving there.. and there.. wow.. such gains in one year" :O

Surely that Lenin guy will make peace asap.

It always amazes me how forgotten the Brusilov Offenisive is. It was literally the bloodiest battle of WW1 with over 2 milion casualties on both sides. The only other battles that are comparable in this respect are: Kaiserschlacht Offensive, Moscow, Rzhev, Leningrad and Stalingrad. It's also fascinating from a millitary point of view. The Russians used tactics that revolutionized the battlefield. It also creates great opprotunities for what if scenarios. This offenisve could have failed completely as many other russian offensive in the Great War. Is such scenario Russia may have collapsed sooner with grim consequences for the Entente. It also could have succeeded and gave Russia a complete victory in the war. Unfortunately, it is really hard to find any really in depth sources on this topic. If you know any please tell in the comment section.

Very informative, easy to understand, love your frontline-approach. Greetings from vienna. On 21th of November 1916 Franz Joseph I., emperor of austria, apost. king of hungary, passed away. He sat on the throne for more than 67 years. A grace of god spared him from seeing his realm rammed to wreck.

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Fantastic, I'm sure the research and analysis was exhausting, so well done, and we can't wait to see and hear in more detail how the fronts of the red terror moved back fore in the hell that was the soviet takeover of the poor Russian and "Stan" people.

It's amazing how excited I get every time I see a new Eastory upload. Way more than anything else I'm subscribed to. Instant watch, every time.

Great video! The sound/music balance seems back to being very very nice, this time Thanks for having spent the time to make the video for us

This is best video man thanks for uploading it Edit: wow ty for 109 likes!

Romania was like: the risk I took was calculated. But boy, I'm bad at math

Great video as always! Thanks for your tremendous effort!

Loved this series East, took me back to the old Great War channel (which in fact might warrant a rewatch since ww2 is ending)

I love your vids! Keep up the excellent work.

thank you for this amazing video

Was so eager for this video. Very detailed and didatic as the previous ones. Congratulations for the exceptional work. It would be great if you could also cover the WW1 Western front in a future video.

So happy you posted again love all the work you do dude.

Excellent video as always. Thanks for the post. Cheers from Tennessee

Great video! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Great video as always

Love your videos man. Very informative and entertaining!!

Love your videos😊

Always here to enjoy those videos

Great content! Love it!

Another amasing job by Eastory.

It's a good day when eastory uploads

oh nice finally i had been waiting for this for soo long

Simply epic. Thank you!

another good vid, keep up the work!

Keep up the good work! Don’t be tied of producing great work even if it doesn’t pay well and is exhausting!

I would like to thank you for your great job.

What!? I always get excited when I wake up to a new Eastory video

Fantastic, thanks a.lot for all your efforts

Can't get enough of your content over here in America. Your perspective, presentation, and research are phenomenal. Thank you.

Amazing, thank you!

I love your video good work

Thank you for this amazing video! Im waiting for Italian Front (;

Thank you very much

Thanks for sharing this! It’s rare to get the perspective of the Eastern Front. I had no idea that the north was so stagnant!

It's always great when Eastory uploads, who else agrees?

Thought you had hidden a subliminal message at 10:54, but was just a single frame of "Pogrom of the Winter Palace." Excellent painting, btw.

My grandfather had fought in 1916 within Ottoman VI th Corps in Dobrudja, I am excited to see him as a dot on the map. I hope you will make another animated series for Ottoman fronts in the future

@Eastory Thanks for the another great video! I hope you plan to cover Polish-Soviet, Estonian-Soviet and Latvian-Soviet wars as well.

Hype morning upload

Wow thanks!

Son buenísimos estos videos

Good video

You´re the best. Can you make a video about the Winter war or the frontline of Finland in the WW2? Thank you.

Great video.But i was wondering if you have any future plans for Caucasus campaign?

I remember a few years back I asked you about doing a video detailing the Russian civil war, and you replied that there was not enough information to make one. I guess it took you that long to do all the research lol great job, love your videos

Finally the next Part

Luv me Eastory. Simple as

It's so weird. In WW1 and WW2 when the enemy broke through Central Powers/Axis lines or couldn't success an attack, Germany sent reinforcements and the front stabilized lol Feels kinda like an OP weapon in a strategy game

Nice video regarding the developments on the Russian front, although the coverage of the Romanian front was very rushed and sparsed, as the video completely ignored the fighting in the Carpathians, the siege of Turtucaia, the counterattack on the Arges river, the retreat at the end of 1916 and the campaign and battles in the summer of 1917.

Awesome video. It would be so cool if u did one of these videos on the russian civil war. Ofc thatd be a nightmare, but u could probably just cover the southern front against the armed forces of south russia, and the esstern one against Kolchak. Idk lol

Begins of Legend

Now I know there is a very low chance you will see this, but where do you get your maps from? They are so high quality and well made. Did you make them yourself?

Excellent video, idk how they dealt with constant losses and no gains. Must have been maddening.

You should cover the Napoleonic Wars to.

You can see the military mismanagement clear as day in how they did their offensives. Lessons learned: 1. Don't go on offensives without a clear numerical superiority. 2. Concentrate numerical superiority against the weaker foe, and don't attack at all against the stronger foe. 3. Attacking the weaker foe forces the stronger foe to shift troops to help him, which is just as effective as attacking him and for far fewer casualties. 4. Don't expand the frontline when it forces you to go on the defensive and stretch your lines even thinner. 5. Don't go on pointless offensives, since defeats sap national morale worse than the continued presence of the enemy on your soil does.

Wow! I’ve been waiting for 1916-1917 forever! Can’t wait for the Eastern Front in 1918! Appreciate the videos! Edit: Weren’t there also three battles in Romania, that defended Romania against Germany?

great!

But lets not forget that in the same time, Russia fought also in Caucasus Front against Ottoman Empire.

Will you also make more videos about the Russian inter-WW period after you're done with WWI on the Eastern Front?

Nice

Can you do a video of the Italian front ww1 and ww2

World Conqueror soundtrack ❤️💪😎

This may be one of the most frustrating videos I've ever seen

10:54 what is the that one frame?

Millions of men died for not any progress at all. Being there must've been truly terrifying.

There was also a strong offensive in July - August 1917, launched by the Germans and the Austro-Hungarians against the Romanian Army, who was defending what was left of Romania. It resulted in several bloody battles. Overlooking the Central Powers forces was general August von Mackensen, at that moment one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders. That offensive was supposed to crush Romania, then to stab Russia from the south, through Romania. The Romanian Army hold the front line. As result, Romania survived to live another day. Romania surrendered in May 1918, two months after Russia sued for peace under Lenin. At that moment it was the only Ally country still functional on the whole Eastern Front. The Central Powers threatened Romania that they will focus on it all their might from the East...

Lenin is that one grandpa and uncle looking guy, nothing bad would happen, right?

can you do ottoman front pls

I'm so happy that u included Romania in one of ur videos :D

Could you guys cover the Napoleonic Wars to?

Need Eastory to narrate my Hearts of Iron playthroughs

Good luck on civil war video! It won't be easy to adapt your style (with frontlines and divisions) to a war full of insurgencies, switching sides, multitude of factions and general lawlessness

WWI was main factor in development of internal situation in Russia. Even relatively succesful 1914 took tens of thousands of most trained and motivated Russian soldiers. As the war prolonged two flows of discontent started to grow. The first one was among part of ruling class that wanted to succesfully win the war and was more and more disillusioned with imperial government's and Nicholas II's inability to build an effective war economy and command. This flow of discontent concentrated in the parliament that demanded to form new effective government since 1915. As I know, reluctance of N-II to press commanders of the northern and central fronts to attack together with Brusilov's southern advance to "seize the opportunity of knocking A-H out of the war" made most of general staff completely disillusioned with N-II. In february 1917, Parliament bonded with High Command finally forced N-II to abdicate and formed new government, the Temporary one. But it was far too late and new government proved itself ineffective just the old one. Because not only big men of ruling class determine history. The other flow of discontent was popular one. Tremendous inequality, lack of opportunities and decades of oppression, both social and political, made majority of population disillusioned with existing state years before WWI. Already during Rus-Jap war, when in addition to mentioned above common men started to be drafted en mass to fight and die for goals obscure or alien to them, this popular discontent grew to the point when people started to ignore or overthrow imperial authorities, replacing them with local self-governing councils, the soviets. Back in 1907, this revolution was supressed, but this exact situation repeated itself during WWI, only on larger scale. In 1917, as N-II abdicated, people started to openly organise soviets once again, including the central one in Petrograd. One of its first decrees was organisation of soldier soviets on the front, that let soldiers to democratically decide if they want to execute officers' orders instead of blind obedience. This was this "lack of discipline" shown in the video. As Temporary government commited itself to continuing the war, and situation continued deteriorating both on front and inside the country, the soviets started to take more and more socially radical and anti-war stance, as the revolution loomed. That's on this stage Lenin and Bolsheviks came in, and took power months later, promising most clear and radical solutions among other revolutionaries, that resonated in majority of the people: peace as soon as possible, complete abolishment of previous regime and transfer of all authority to the soviets, redistribution of land among peasants who work on it, worker's control in factories, etc. etc.

Fun fact : J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, famously took part in the Brusilov Offensive on the Entente side during that time.

The intro music to the video? What is that?

Your videos are better than sitting in a classroom. Thanks!

Great work as usual. So interesting from a strategic perspective. From a human perspective, this probably led to 100+ year of continuing tragedy, death, and suffering in the Russia and Europe. Not that the land of Russia was lacking in human suffering before this, but so much more added since.

One of the prettiest roads in Transylvania built in 1916 by the Germans to cross the Carpathians is the Transalpina road it is still in use today.

I am quite dissapointed of you not explaining the Russian revolution, the German offensives over Bolshevik forces or the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty. However, this was a great series, I loved it, good job

Fun fact: The Romanian royal family was actually Hohenzollern. A branch of the German imperial family. So, when king Ferdinand I betrayed them, the emperor angrily had them erased from the family tree.

Are you okay? You sound like you experienced the war yourself!

The numbers are mind boggling! And all for nought. It’s hard to believe it actually happened. Fact is truly stranger than fiction.

The Central Power forces also shifted their eastern forces off to the Western Front as a result of the peace agreement with the new government in Petrograd. How many actually were moved would have been a nice finale to the video, but otherwise it was nicely done overall.

Romania got it's shet owned by the central powers 💀 To think only quantity will do the work is pitiful 😔

lets just hope the civil war video is not biased

5:26 Interesting Fact: The corps numbered 15 which can been seen in the north is actually an Ottoman corps which came to help Austria Hungary.

What's in the frame flashing briefly in 10:54?

I would love to see the Russian Civil War - as I know so little about it. Thank you for this wonderful video. I had no idea Bucharest was taken during WW1. ☮

Can you include a link w/ the map?

What about the battles of Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz in Romania in 1917? They were significant as well. In the summer of 1917, a Central Powers offensive began in Romania under the command of August von Mackensen to knock Romania out of the war. Resulting in the battles of Oituz, Mărăști and Mărășești where up to 1,000,000 Central Powers troops were present. The battles lasted from 22 July to 3 September and eventually, the Romanian army was victorious advancing 500 km2. August von Mackensen could not plan for another offensive as he had to transfer troops to the Italian Front. Following the Russian revolution, Romania found itself alone on the Eastern Front and signed the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers, which recognised Romanian sovereignty over Bessarabia in return for ceding control of passes in the Carpathian Mountains to Austria-Hungary and leasing its oil wells to Germany for 99 years. Although approved by Parliament, King Ferdinand I refused to sign it, hoping for an Allied victory in the west. Romania re-entered the war on 10 November 1918 on the side of the Allies and the Treaty of Bucharest was formally annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

How exactly you measure war exhaustion in Russia? It mobilized and lost the least percentage of its population amongs all of great powers.

Thank you for covering in such great detail the Romanian Debacle of 2016. It was a national disaster having to fight 4 enemies at once, but thankfully it was the right call and in the end we got a seat at the negociating table, because the Allies did not forget our sacrifice - nearly 9.1% of the pre-war population died for the Allied cause. Please keep in mind for the 2017 WW1 video to also cover the Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz battles. It was a Romanian counter-offensive that stopped Mackensen from conquering the whole country, but it's often forgotten during the broad Kerensky Offensive. Fantastic work as always, Eastory!

Can you make the yougoslav wars pls?

Is there a link for the corps colours and abbreviations? What's the red 15th corps? Abbr for Me, He, Ko, Sz, Be, Ha, Sn, Kra, Bes etc

It would be amazing to see your mapping skills on Russian civil war

Excuse me, what city is ther instead of Wrocław or Breslau? 0:44 BRBBEARN???