How Germany and Russia Conquered Europe Together - World War II 

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Did you know the blue in Polands flag represents reliable allies?

"This is not peace, this is merely an armistice for 20 years." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch, signing the treaty of Versailles 1919. Germany: *declares war on Poland in September 1939* Me: He was so right.

Finally hoi4 lore video

Polish command: All units need to evacuate from Poland Major Hubal: the fuck we will

Nazi’s to the left of me, Soviets to the right, Here I am, Stuck in Poland with you

Being sunk by Austrian-Hungarian bombs in 1940 is crazy

"Oh, you were expecting us to be mechanized? Yeah..sorry, we just have horses and meth"

Ah yes the greatest ally of Germany until 1941

It‘s truly astonishing how much luck the Nazis had. They were incompetent, their plans and goals were obviously crazy, and on paper the deck was stacked against them from the moment Hitler first got into politics. That they even managed to make it to 1945 is quite a miracle.

It's still mind boggling how the war could have been over by 1941, had France and Britain just.... walked forward.

3:09 as a Lithuanian, I can tell that’s not our flag at the time: someone flipped the green and the yellow colours (Yellow at the top, green in the middle and red at the bottom is the correct one)

Ireland: I have the worst neighbor ever! Poland: Hold my vodka.

Whats crazy is that in Russia to this day, they don't consider the combined Nazi and Soviet attack on Poland the start of WWII. In fact, they start counting not in 1939 (when they attacked), but in 1941, when operation Barbarossa started and don't call it WWII, but the Great Fatherland War or something similarly self centered. They try to erase not just Ukrainian, but also Polish history from the books. Don't let them do it

And thus begins the story of why Poland in 2024 hovers its finger over article 5

Tankies get big mad when you point out that WW2 could have been averted if not for the red brown alliance. And yes, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was an alliance to divide eastern europe between the two empires.

4:12 Don't worry, I'm subscribed, so the bullet missed me and hit my mom

Hmmm... it seems Putin 'forgot' about that part at his interview with Tucker. :P

I can't believe how tankies have 4D chess mindgamed themselves into believing that the USSR was somehow against the Nazis "from the beginning". Stalin had several opportunities to deny or delay the Germans from achieving their strategic goals (even accounting for realpolitik), not pressuring the Allies to negotiate peace, not proving port to that tanker for Norway's invasion, not providing raw material, not providing tank and aircraft experts, etcetera.

I have a lot of knowledge about Nazi occupied Poland, but not Soviet occupied Poland

I respect Ismet Pasha because of this. Guy hold up as neutral while being completely surrounded by fighting parties for almost the entire conflict and hold up the turkish straits and chromium mines during this time.

Before the Dark times Before The Empire...

I knew the Soviets and Germans had a weird relationship prior to Barbarossa, but I definitely didn't expect/know the Soviets were this involved in helping the Germans.

This is what people who are nostalgic for a "Multipolar World with Spheres of Influences" want again.

Man the tankies are gonna be mad if they learn how to read a history book

3:10 im Lithuania Meanwhile Ethiopia: 😢😢😢

The fact that America is pretty much related to almost all nations is AMAZING, BUT WILD.

Nobody expected for this war to last for 50 years for Poland.

Funny how Russia nowadays doesn't talk about this, instead they're like "waaaaah we're fighting nazis!!!! 1111!! Yap yap yap"

there are no morals ​​in geopolitics Only interests

Постой братишка, побудь со мной. Отдохни. Отдохни от Кремль ботов и комуняк. Они живут в своём закрытом мире, далёком от реальности, их уже не переубедишь. Ты ведь не телевизор. Не трать на них своё время.

Zoomer Historian after seeing this: “Aktually, the Germans totally accidentally navigated into Poland, and the Allies were actually super evil and wanted the war, trust me bro.”

Not enough time to smoke brisket on account of the rain

0:05 why dose he say it so wholesome!?!😂

Very fascinating, I never heard of Operation Wäserbong

I love India running in like "Oh goody a war, WAIT FOR MEEEEE"

Germans: Weserübung Ezekiel: Weserban Reminder that W is pronounced as a V in german, so Weserübung is pronounced "Veh-Zeh-Ru-Bum", with the stress in the Ru Ps. Stress on the "Weh" actually

I love how conveniently Twitter tankies nowadays forget that they actively aided the nazis in their conquests until they became the target

The quality of these videos gets better and better! I’m blown away by the production quality! Great job to all those involved

From what I’ve heard the USSR and Germany both knew the peace wouldn’t last

i hate myself for knowing these damn sound effects by heart

Watching comments and video in first 24 hours of upload is nicest, you dont see any russian bots

TURKIYE BEST NATION GERMANY DIDN'T EVEN DARE TO ATTACK GLORIOUS TURKIYE lol

In Sweden we helped dannish jews to escape nazis My grandma father was a soilder guarding our border with Norway

Fun fact: Tonga was first country(from my info) to respond on German aggresion of Poland and was able tp buy 2/3 Spitfire planes

as a Polish person the intro went pretty hard

Did the Soviets help the Nazis early so that they could conquer Eastern Europe as heroic liberators, rather than as spreaders of revolution? All their legitimacy thereafter stemmed from slaying this monster that they had fed to begin with.

3:16 that is NOT a Lithuanian flag... ...yellow and green are switched

The sinking of the Blücher is actually quite a cool story, the commander at the fort should have fired a warning shot first (another ship had already done so, but he didn't know that). However, he decided that whoever was sailing a warship into the Oslo Fjord was there to invade Norway, and he wouldn't risk giving them time to respond, so he ordered accurate fire onto the ship. I've also heard that the people at the fort didn't know whether they were firing at a British or a German ship until they heard the panicked shouting coming from the ship as it got lit up.

Commies are gonna love this one

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31:22 Quisling was minister of Norway, not Germany. Just an honest mistake I'd say

Title very unaccurate it should says the Soviets not the Russians

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Tankies getting angry at history always hilarious to see

So... is anyone going to mention how they got the colors of the Polish flag wrong or am I missing something?

Yet another wonderful masterpiece made by your channel! Also, I was the first comment not made by ezekiel

The quality here is astonishing for a youtuber so small!

3:06 Those aren't the Lithuanians, those are the Lethalanians Also 7:55 Poland litteraly is his own grandfather😅

The Norwegian king was the biggest gigachad ever

5:35 This is not true. - Given, you do mention that fact afterwards. The Polish government did not delay mobilization because it wanted to. But because the "allies", eg France and Britain, kept telling Poland to not mobilize as it could be seen as an act of aggression against Germany. And allied help never came. The war doctrine of interwar Poland was to either defend against West or defend against East. One stupid thing that was done, was to leave troops stationed at exactly the border... though at the same time it probably was for the better to prevent another Sudeten event. 11:25 Not simply the country, but the Polish civilization basically. The Germans (and Russians) decided to systematically kill off all higher educated Poles to prevent a Polish state from re-emerging anytime soon. And they kind of succeeded, as we can see nowadays. It's a good video. Despite the lack of some details.

Seething Tankies incoming

9:48 the India one is accurate

Germans on land: 😈 Germans on sea: 😅

I love the moment that you point a gun at me to subscribe. It worked

Germany in 1940: Slavs??? Not in my Europe! Ussr: WAIT WHA-

Ezekiel ready to throw hands over subs is a greater demonstration of his values than 99% of youtubers.

Years of failed attempts to form an anti-German alliance by the Soviets under foreign minister Litvinov over distrust and unwillingness to allow the Red Army to cross through Poland made the pact with Germany the next available option. Remember that the Soviets were not invited to Munich in spite of their defence treaty with Czechoslovakia and stated willingness to defend it given an agreement with Britain and France. Fine, that was their calculation, but how short-sighted it was that they didn't see that an agreement with Germany would be a possible consequence of that? The pact was an example of skilled double-politics on the Soviet's part. They could happily settle with advancing their positions without them and with a more desperate and needy partner. Why should the Soviets have thrown themselves into a war they weren't ready for to protect their own enemies? It is a mystery why it is so confusing to people today that have hindsight. Why is it assumed that the USSR owed Britain and France anything? They had to a score to settle with the Baltics, Poland, and Bessarabia after their interventions in the Russian Civil War as well. I don't find it so mysterious. Your political stance will determine your moral judgement on it. Either way it can't be denied that it was an excellent diplomatic manoeuvre. They advanced their positions, settled some of their scores, secured their neutrality for a time (though they had clearly expected it would last longer), broken a possible double invasion by Germany and Japan, and opened the room for further diplomatic manoeuvres. Stalin was maybe the world champion of politics and conspiracy in his time. A scary opponent to have.

A tear comes to my eye every time i hear "Poland is not yet lost", i just hear again and again that last radio announcement before the german capture of warsaw. The... desperation, fuck iam crying gain, wtf is wrong with me

HA Jokes on you Im already Subscribed

do you have planned film about soviet ocupation on estern europe in 1945-1991 in the future?

There are historical issues with the video. Especially about 1939 and allied approach to Poland. Late mobilisation wasn't only polish idea but it was mostly enforced on us by UK to not provoke Germany. We did organise one mobilisation, it had to be cancelled after british pressures and just before the war we announced another mobilisation but soldiers nor weapon didn't have time to arrive on its positions. French did attack saarland and did stop before Zigfrid line. If they pushed further they would meet heavy defensive possitions, iirc TWO armies and luftflotte. The french thesmelf also attacked before they fully mobilised and before they finished army reform. Poladn was suppose to hold for 3 weeks to give french time for mobilisation, but Wehrmacht was already at gates of Warsaw after a week. Both British and French DID NOT gave up on Poland and went along "we will restore you after the war" line. French started sending supplies to Poland quickly but it didnt arrive on time, britishquickly abonded idea of dropping leaflets and switched to bombs. How they seid "their first line of defence was on Rhine" Germany wasn't planing to conquer Norway right away, nor they didn't plan to conquer Sweden. They had quite fruitful cooperation WITH Swedes and Narvik in Norway was best prot to shit iron ore to Germany. Turkey didn't sign any alliance with west until 1945. Their position made them dangerous to both allies, axis and soviets and everyone was trying to get on the good terms with them. Romania GAVE UP besarabia to soviets.

That intro WAS FANTASTIC

I can't believe you shoot me with an ad bullet in the middle of the video

This is so good, subbed 🎉

Tell the pre WW2 America that Poland is the Texas of Europe and they’ll be faster at getting over there t help

That Canada joke was gold

Based using Cittadini Irresistibile at the Intro. 1:00 honestly one my most favorite Hoi4 OST's from by Blood Alone.

Another banger as always 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hey good video just like all the rest you make. But I'm not going to subscribe as when I did I got spammed with notifications for livestreams and teasers. Don't want to get spammed, just want to watch good ball content that will inevitably be recommended to me.

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Omg 😳, also wish for video about history of mercenaries plus the 2018AD Battle of Khasham 🥺

Нет Молотов!

The war entrance scene of india killed me xDDDDDDDDDDD

Wasn't Molotov-Ribentrop a non-agression pact?!

Wasn't the allied plan before the Soviets invaded to actually invade Germany? I've always thought that the "blockade Germany to peace" plan was developed aftwr Poland fell quicker than expected.

Hello Ezekiel. I dont have any membership or annything. But I would still like to ask if you would consider making a video about hypotetical "Munich War" between Czechoslovakia and the Reich. It is a tricky topic with many if's but I just wanted to ask.

WW2 happenned because the soviets chose to honour the molotov-ribbentrop pact instead of the Franco-soviet pact.

Polska is not yet lost!!

omgggg germany got a gf how cute!!!!!!11!!

USSR didn't start WW2 neither was ally of Nazis

9:47 The fkin Indian music, I'm ded 💀

Great video never knew of the Kreigsmarine's losses in the invasion of Norway.

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Based Prussian-Russian alience. My favorite anime shipping.

i aint subbin cuz i took ur gun buddy boy

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26 hours till release, but great video. Im sure ^^

Well, the thing is that France and the UK didn't betray Poland or allow the Germans to conquer it. The Polish campaign was practically resolved in two weeks, and by that time France hadn't even finished its mobilization. Germany had air superiority, a bigger army, and its own western fortification line, while the British army in France numbered only four divisions (five in December). By the time war started, sitting and waiting was the correct strategy for the Allies, as their combined economies were bigger than Germany's, so in time they would have the upper hand.