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The Cold War the greatest and largest staring contest in human history with literally tens of thousands or millions looking each other in the eyes each holding their breath waiting for the other to blink.
I'm actually happy that most of the time all they did was looking. Personally I think one of the reasons there was never a third world wars in Europe was because of the high border security, which probably made it really difficult for the NATO to invade the Eastern bloc
Firearm collectors already know this, but the DDR made some of the best AK rifles and Makarov pistols. They're highly sought after, compared to the Soviet models.
@@karlshorstzwei German quality nowadays is a myth. Our cars are made by czech and polish people, at least the end of assembly. Punctuality and drill are a prussian thing, not a German thing. The only high quality we have left is in arms production.
A former student of mine served in the NVA intelligence branch. According to his evidence - and I do believe him as he was able to describe systems and sub-systems, operation, and capabilities in considerable detail - the DDR had an electronic warfare and intelligence-gathering ability (EW & Elint) that could not only track and trace the movements of every aircraft in and out of NATO airspace, but due to the specific configuration spread throughout three such facilities in the former East Germany, could also triangulate their exact locations down to a factor of tens of sq. m. This intelligence was, of course, shared with the Soviets. In other words, had the Cold War turned hot, the Warsaw Pact would’ve been able to degrade and negate NATO’s aerial advantage rather rapidly. After the Cold War, these facilities were stripped down and moved to the West where this chappie was called in to rebuild its systems because the Bundeswehr had no clue how it was supposed to be built or operated. Crazy stuff.
As the wall felt many bunkers in the GDR came to day light and all the former Bundeswehr Generals had no clue there were those massice Atomesafe bunkers xD
omg another communist brainwashed by soviet fake story's.. 🤣🤣🤣 similar stories we had in USSR and when it did end turn out 99 % of this was a crap imagination of some idiots and everything what USSR had was low technological compared with western countries... so go tell such story's to some idiots....
Oh man, I absolutely love this. This video serves as a perfect mirror to your Panzergrenadier video and the less upbeat music exemplifies the difference between the two Germanies. You're making art here and I love all of the effort you put into your videos. Keep up the excellent work!
@@SwedishEmpire1700 there are different types of view. I can say: "From Wermacht to Soviet warriors, a part of a Great Soviet Army!" So, what is the deference between me and you, and why you may think that you are right?
My uncle was 1RTR (a uk tank regiment) based at Hohne (what was Bergen Belsen), a few miles from the East border. He tells me some very funny stories, one of which included his tank driving a bit fast at a point on the border just to watch those on the other side flap about. It all stopped when one of the tanks breaks failed however and only just stopped at the wire.
@@k3kboi665 I remember one of my squadmates decided to go Cocky once and we cut his hair so that the "ears were exposed" (as by the hair standards of the army said) while the rest of his head was left uncut. Yliluutnantti wasnt happy lmao
My Grandpa served at the Grenztruppen in the early 60s. He hated being a soldier. At his last day in the army he ripped the uniform jacket from his chest and the buttons flyed away. He's now 83.
I was paintballing with a combat vet friend while I was wearing an NVA uniform in Germany. He said he had trouble spotting me if I stopped moving. Even if it's just a grey-green with small brown stripes, that uniform is very effective in Europe
A professor of mine served in the West German Navy between ‘85-‘86 and he once told me they had a BBQ and party on the deck and played Def Leppard on the sound speakers because there was a Soviet warship 100 km away and they could hear it
My dad fucking went to jail and locked away for fucking 8 months beacuse he tried to get out of east germany, his family died, brother commited sucidie, and he had ptsd from the army. Not so the good ol' days isnt it.
Spent 84 to 87 on the west side of the wire watching these guys watching us...both watching for IBCs, and everybody expecting the other side to start WWIII...
Border guards are supposed to stop people from illegally entering or leaving the country, not just in east Germany. If they don't look both directions they don't do their job right.
The 'enemy' that were separated by a mere wall from my dad for his first day's of service in 88/89. And yes, was there to see these dudes in person legally when the Wall fell. Even today he says he loved his time in Berlin, despite it being a possible start point of a war.
I served in the US Army on the other side of that Iron Curtain in 1965. My home post was at Merrell Baracks back in Nurnberg. The night patrol was cold , dark and very ghostly quieted with spirits of 200 years of dead soldiers.
Awesome! Please do something about the Polish Army if you find any material! Served back in the days in that formation and there should be plenty of cold war material.
They came out of the Same company in Thale at the Harz Mountains. The helmet was designed for the wehrmacht in 1945 and since this factory was still in east germany in 1949,they produced it.
@@TheLocomotionFan Thanks for the info! Did you say the East German helmet design was originally designed by Hitler's Wehrmacht?? Towards the end of the war in 1945??
The M-56 is actually based on a Third Reich helmet design. The Nazis were planning to phase out the M-35 in favour of something very similar. So if shows like The Man in the High Castle were more accurate, their soldiers would look more like East Germans.
Talked to some East German border guards on 1980: “what happened to you Joes in Vietnam? “ he asked. “What happed to you in 1945? “ I asked. “Why do you make war with all small nations?” “You can’t be too tough, you couldn’t beat the French” this went on and on until he offered me a cigarette and had a laugh.
@@tictac2therevenge291 I don’t think so. The Bundeswehr would’ve easily obliterated the NVA due to its size, equipment and overall moral. I’m pretty sure that there would’ve been thousands of deserters from the NVA…
@@barbarapitenthusiast7103 With all of the Eastern Block behind it and with a surprise invasion? Probably. But alone? Never, not even in their dreams. The NVA was always meant as a defense army, not an offensive one. It would’ve definitely put up a fight but it would’ve never even made it past the Fulda gap. Furthermore, the NVA was (at its peak) 170.000 men strong, the Bundeswehr was 500.000 men strong and had way more equipment and heavy machinery. If it would’ve come to a realistic fight, then the Bundeswehr would’ve been the one pushing into the East, not the NVA into the West. Some German general once said something along the lines of: „I remember that we split the NVA up in three parts. 40% we saw as potential deserters, 20% as dead and 40% as capable. Those 40% we took very serious.“
@@scanida5070 the NVA was acording to NATO AND BUNDESWHER estimates far better than The bundeswher and a far more capable fighting force, but Hey if you still believe the cold war era propaganda from the West then so be it
Sir you are a master, not only at digging up incredible footage, but matching it to AMAZING music as well!!! Oh how I had hoped that you would have included the artist/title of this track in the description, because Shazam failed me!!! 😪😭😭
Habe 3 bei den Grenztruppen gedient .Stadioniert war Ich in Mönchhai im Huy , Kompanie ,,Schneewittchen . Unterstellt waren wir dem Grenzkommando Nord . Zum Frühsport Dauerlauf nach Röderhof und zurück
This music is a sample from the original Brazilian musician Djavan, the name of the song is Samurai. And it's better when comes to you that the music features Steve Wonder in the keyboard!
I heard border guards in dictatorships woth hostile borders ( East Germany, N.Korea ) are also partly chosen for their looks so that outside observers see the standard of living better than it is inside
So why they not show the Disco Party at the end HAHA looking forward to being on the Dance Floor- anyway great background music very chill unlike these dudes boring task!
a great cycle ride is the old east German border , however their patrol roads are hellish , blocks that used to be easy to replace, but bone jarring on a bike , however their is an alternative route running close to the border , also lots of towers and other structures still in place to see
The Grenztruppen weren't part of the NVA after 1971. They were shifted to the MfNV (defense ministry) and were essentially paramilitaries like the KdA from that point onward. Hair styles were also more lax back then, I believe the standard in the USSR at the time was your hair couldn't cover your ears, while the rule in the US now is your hair can't TOUCH your ears.
You know people think that you didnt have western music then, or western culture, people smuggled dvds and music and even played it across speakers in the town to upset the police.
