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"Did the Army reject you for your various mental problems?" "Have you ever wanted to see an exotic land where you can live off your pocket change?" "Is your criminal record preventing you from getting ahead in life?" "Do you want a free FAL?"
Answer is fuck yes to all of these.... Should have added "Are you an outcast of society and is just waiting for a bullet with your name on it to terminate your contract with life?"
@@woodendoor8854 Italian documentary called Africa Addio. The Original Italian version with English subtitles is the best, someone uploaded the whole thing on RU-vid. Avoid the English/US dubbed version, it's cut down heavily, has bull$it commentary, and is just generally worse in every way.
@@borys1960 what kind of ant is that? a communist ant? very intersting, never knew animals could understand economycs. Anyway, no soviets didn't offer them more, they in fact didn't offer them anything. Plus this were mercs, so, while they may also be motivated by ideological hate, if you didnt pay them, they wouldn't be fighting for you
A lot of those guys were WW2 vets who didn't fit into normal life after the world war. Strange to see 60 something year old guys as mercenaries. The guys who were around 20 in 1945 when the war ended would be around 40 in this footage.
Yea ... on the other hand the average age of a guerrilla fighter is around twelve to fourteen years old. Some were forced to shoot their parents before being 'recruited'. In the rebelling Simbas their leader gave them chicken bones and feathers to wear that would stop bullets. The iconic image of a fighter was a young kid with an AK-47 with a plastic garbage bag for a rifle strap. While the number of mercenaries varied at times from three hundred to a thousand the Simbas were in the thousands who had no conscience maiming their hostages, ie. scooping out eyes with a spoon or, eating them. Many commentators on this blog forget or don't know 5 Commando rescued many of these hostages. Not all but many.
@@vincentgoupil180 Surprised this false rumour somehow still stay true to some people, like you for example. Rather ironic its 2022 and you still fall for this shit. Reality is always a little more complex than "bad guy did bad things"
If i was in charge of coordinating the commercial id literally inform the audience that theyd be equipped with a state of the art reliable modern assault rifle the FN-FAL at your side
@@MnemonicHack I think you're being a over-dramatic here. These mercenaries had plenty of material support. I think most of them expected to make a bunch of money and get out just fine. They might be adrenalin junkies but many don't have overt death wishes.
@@MnemonicHack Check out this list for example and see how few mercenaries were killed or wounded among the many listed. It was a fairly safe occupation. They weren't stupid. mercenary-wars.net/congo/list-of-congo-soldiers.html
My uncle Jimmy Calderhead fought with Mad Mike Hoare in the Congo as a merc. He later dispappeared and was considered KIA leaving a wife and four kids to fend for themselves. Twenty years later through my cousins persistent efforts, Europol located uncle Jimmy residing in Spain in total luxury owning his own nightclub, airfield and two tigers as pets living on his terraced roof of his mansion. He relocated back to South Africa where he once more got acquainted with his kids and apologised to my aunt Enid for dropping her high and dry. Long story short, over the last year he suffered immensely from Alzheimers and recently passed away in death. Another chapter of life finished.
Great story. I just recently re-read Mike Hoare's book, Congo Mercenary (first read it back in the early 70s). Worth a read to those who have not and are interested in the Congo campaigns.
@@tomonaut I stumbled across these videos this morning for no apparent reason as as anyone with a love for history and politics was hooked and now you are telling me that this legendary figure I just learned about literally died on February 2. merly 1 day ago ?! What a crazy thing...
@Forallofus Plenty There is plenty of evidence to suggest this isn't staged. I'm not sure how you could possible stage, high velocity automatic small arms fire buzzing past your head. Regardless of your political views, this is an event that happened in history, learn from it, don't try and censor it
@Forallofus Plenty pretty sure the shirtless got tagged crossing in front of the door. If you watch the actual documentary....actually on second thought, that document is probably beyond your PC addled brain.
It's from the 1966 Italian documentary 'Africa Addio', about the decolonialization of Africa and the human and ecological catastrophes that ensued. One of the most horrific things put to film, it is sobering to say the least. It can be found in its entirety here on RU-vid.
The two dudes who filmed this were shot at over a hundred times and literally lined up against a wall and were almost massacred. Massive respect to the lads
@@tannertaylor9432 If I recall correctly, isn't it when they were about to be executed, but the rebels (the people that captured them) discovered that they're Italians, not Americans, not "white". That shit was mad crazy.
@@derekobeirnes482 if you are talking about mercenaries, probably yes, some of them died, some of them pulled through, I was trying to find info, but I only managed to find about few of them. Their leader, became a movie director and died last year iirc.
The "pirate" is Tiv wasalenko. Tried to find more on him because he came up on a friend's ancestory but there wasn't a lot of info. I did find comments from an elderly man who fought with Tiv. He said he went out the only way possible for a man like himself. Said he passed away in combat and he swears he saw him smiling til the very end.
@@Eric-vs2he Also looks similar to “Tim Dreyer” there is a photo of him on that page with all the mercenary’s names. Fine job dude, i know you have been researching
I'm assuming the Game's part of your name indicates that you play video games. Guns in a video game are not the same as how guns work in real life 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😂😂😂😂💯💯👍
The guy getting dragged off at 2:36 burned 26 white children to death in their school and is promptly shot in the chest and head by the dude popping off his 1911 from another scene
Cold War Africa is the most interesting part of 20th century history for me. idk about the rest of you. But it is horrifically misrepresented and not payed enough attention to. Fascinating time of decolonisation and politics turmoil.
I think it's over looked because all those conflicts were so morally ambiguous with all sides committing unspeakable atrocities, which meant they never fit in the political and national narratives of either the Capitalist or Communist nations which tried to portray their system as morally superior to each other.
@Mialisus Its desperation. Any conflict where both sides are atleast vaguely equal is a desperate fight and desperation always leads to brutality. Especially considering that losing a war in Africa but retaining independence often just led to a second war.
@@tdab3883 No, they didn't. This was the mid 60's, good luck getting coke in that time period in the congo. Also, find out the background of these men, and you'll know they never touched a drug, other than alcohol, in their lives. Sad, & annoying that people think anyone with energy is on drugs, like how boomer used to say an artist that made a weird painting must have been on LSD.
Yeah I knew from the start it was real but there was just something about it. I watched the documentary and I finally understand the conflict and what’s going on more.
All those footages look like a movie because they were filmed with film cameras. Unlike TV cameras where it plays in a different way, like watching it through your own eyes. That's what makes the difference.
If my memory correct, that's mad Mike O'hare. He was a legend around the scene, proper captain Jack type of guy. He died earlier this year at like, 100 years of age.
Kinda debunks the buffed tattooed bearded bad ass stereotype Hollywood portrays as mercenaries. These guys were raw killers, fit as fuck and tough as nails. Roaming the jungle is not for the weak.
They were brutal bastards but being more raw than the Hollywood solder of fortune i would put good money on the mad mike types instead of mr badass cause they won't do any stand offs or speeches they are shoot on sight types who will use an entire mag and then pull a damn machete out and scalp a MFr
I met a Merc from back then at a bar in Ireland he had some good stories. He talked about how the Africans killed a ton of nuns and missionaries and his group hunted their killers down and slaughtered all of them.
I talked with a guy from the Congo who was living in Maryland in 2009 that told me his father was killed in the wars of 1965-66. The man I spoke with was about 14 years older than me and when I said I was born in 1966 he said: " wow, seeing someone who was coming into the world when my father was going out really puts it all into focus. I mean to see a man almost 43 years old really shows me how much time has passed".
My 80 year old Great Uncle once enlisted as a mercenary to fight in the congo. The pay was good, very good. It was like double our country's soldier's salary plus the local soldier's salary AND like a few thousand dollars up front. He said that he did it because he was young and "felt invincible and feared nothing". Luckly, the dude who was hiring them or something died or was overthrown or he something because he never came back and he never went to Africa to fight. To this day I joke to him on how he narrowly avoided dying of malaria while fighting a guerilla XD.
Ofc it's up! Mercenaries aren't just people, they're the few who can take orders, handle alot of blood and gore with a great fighting strength and mentality
@Nachonen17 they supported the criminal state of katanga and later the awful regime of mobutu. Do some research. Mercenaries committed awful crimes during the congo crisis.
@@stealthiestboy no... they ended up there cause you know they had no family. Many had family in africa and lost it all with the expulsion and hunting of whites (ever wondered why there aint whites in most of africa appart from humanitarian aid?)
Definitely more "intense", as you describe it. Under the terms of the Geneva Convention, you can kill mercenaries, even if they surrender. Hence the tension.
"Le ironic" racism, by someone who is only allowed to get away with because he is actually a member of the tribe. Gay. You are literally a member of a Merchant's guild I hope you know.
@@gamerito100 Do we need "them" to entertain us? Doesn't that invalidate such a political stance, if it is earnestly held? Anyways, what about the current situation is actually fun? It seems damn awful and nothing to laugh at, especially when it "them" doing the laughing. I guess being committed to one's political values, and not wanting them co-opted, means being a party pooper.
@@gamerito100 Ill add that I dont actually want to ruin everyone's good time, but Seth's BRAND of humour seems especially dangerous, making light of a movement that, for all its humour, is genuine and organic. People should remember what the stakes are here... our future.
For those of you that are concerned about timing and command of these events. This was Major Mullers command, advance party circa 64 July, the 4 Germans and rest French that he speaks about in his interview, the laughing man. Specifics can be found there, he especially covers the skulls.
There they go, one of god's own prototypes. A highpowered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too wierd to live, and too rare to die.
That guy with eyepatch reminds me of a guy in my old unit. You might know the sort... Raving lunatic that you wouldn't trust with a dull spoon out in the normal life but in the thick of it he was incredible. He might have been stark raving mad but he was our madman and worth all the fuzz.
In his autobiography, Carl Jung says that one must not let himself be hypnotized by the beauty of Africa, as his spirit could be entranced by its wildness.
I had a buddy who was an Infantry officer and a French Equitorial African Foreign Area Expert. When he retired in '96 or '97 he became a 'security adviser' to several companies with oil interests in West Africa. Three to six month tours with about a month home with his wife and two kids. Lots of money but .... His biggest worry, no medivac.
Is it really worth it to have a wife and kid if you spend most of the year away from them? Or did he get married just to fit in with societal expectations? In my view if your job keeps you away from your family for most of the year there's really no point in getting married. Lets be frank here you'll cheat on your spouse and vice versa. Your kids will barely get to know you and vice versa. In my view if you chose such jobs don't get married just stay single. Marriage is for guys who spend more than 50% of the time with the spouse. Otherwise its just someone wanting to not stick out as single.
@@florinivan6907 different people live differently. Some families are perfectly content with this arrangement (can't argue with the money). Some not so much.
@@TheNaitsabes96 he was a legend in the Cav. We were both in the same unit for a very short time in Germany, we did Caravan Guard, and a gunnery, he PCSd shortly after. Ok, three stories - 1) he deserted the US Army in Vietnam because the Army wouldn’t extend him. He hooked up with French Foreign Legionaries, and fought along side them until the MPs found him. Apparently he was enough of an asset, all was forgiven. He may have had a break in service. 2) The story around Squadron was he was playing poker late into the evening, had a nice hand, and also needed to defecate. Rather than fold, and go to the latrine, he lifted a leg and crapped himself. I don’t know if he was an 11Bravo, or a 19Delta, but he was assigned to our Squadron in Germany. I’ve shared this clip with men from my former Unit, and it’s him. His mustache was legendary, and way outside AR670-1 regs, but no one cared. When I knew him he was an E7 SFC, don’t think he had a platoon. 3) At our gunnery, he was the NCOIC of the MaDuce range. He was beating me on the helmet with a big spoon screaming “Gooks in the wire, Gooks in the wire, Down a piaster!” I don’t know his nom de guerre, and I won’t share his born name, but it’s him.
More likely a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, with service against the Communists in Indochina and/or Algeria. The Congolese "Simbas" were Communists funded by Moscow and Bejing. One of the "advisors" with the Simbas was Castro's Communist henchman Che Guevara.
I met a real mercenary that fought in the Congo in the beginning of 1970. After a year and a half he told me he was leaving as he got hired. No other info. I got one postcard from him saying he was heading in. Odd that the card had no postmark. Never heard from him again.
@@macn122 I forget. This was back in the early 70s so my old mind cant pull it up. Besides, I'm bad at remembering names. But his pictures were certainly proof enough. Plus his action against a loud drunk in a bar one night proved it.
@@macn122 from the pictures and stories he told, no one with a sane mind would want to be one. This is what he told me. As an example, he was with a bunch of mercenaries and natives from the guys that hired him. One night a native who happened to like him because he treated him well, woke him up at night, whispered, leave. So he quietly snuck out. Days later he found that all the mercinaries there were killed. So yes, you have to be a special kind of person to be one.
This is from the Italian movie Africa Addio, for those interested. A real (and grim) movie about Africa during the decolonization wave of the 60s. Lots & lots of mayhem in that movie, worth a watch (if you can stomach it)
"They've hired out themselves and the planes for $500 a month which no one has paid for six months and a life insurance policy that up to now no insurance company has underwritten. This time, as always, before leaving they've filled out the forms at the airport in the usual manner. Destination: Hell. Reason for Flight: Personal matters." Great video but the original music actually works better. The name scrawled on their base? "Alamo".
Just seeing him walk up to his aircraft with the sun behind him, and like the seriousness in not only his face but his walk, really epic, man had prowess.
@@JacobN-hg8tv Their families had been butchered by black rebels in Angola according to the docco, they had reasons to be serious. I love how it put it, all the mercenaries were exiles, ex somethings, the last of an old age of exploration who had been pushed to the edge of the world. Its like watching a western only in real life.
@@MichealCollins-vr1zo Africa Addio, Italian documentary ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q1Nxl4YokmE.html . Its a lifechanging video, without its precious footage the history of generations of white civilization in africa might have been entirely forgotten.
I've been binge-watching your channel for...probably hours now, I came here via a Rhodesia doc/interview, and found myself enthralled; however this is perhaps your best edit so far!
Former cop signs up for the congo to earn some extra money. He comes home, “War is hell” he says. 2 years later: its 1967 and he has been drafted into vietnam. “Aw shit, here we go again” he says.
The draft was only for men ages 18 to 26 with the vast majority 18-20.The minimum age to be a cop in most police departments is 21 so a former cop would be somewhat older add 2 years and not drafted for anything.
This is beautiful. The camera angles, the "funky" music sync in with the chaos. Overall, i like this music video. My second favourite just after "who will save the world" by Mauzer.
This film makes the mercenaries seem almost like pirates. But much this film also appears in the liberation of Beontre. An incident where the mercenaries interrupted and stopped an ongoing massacre that included women and children and would have resulted in hundreds of innocent deaths if not stopped. Mercenaries have a bad reputation in the West, but these men were employed by a Black African government who’s regular forces were not up to the task.
From what I understand about this situation from the original film I saw was that a girls school had been taken hostage and the Congolese army was unable or unwilling to free them after 9 months. The mercenaries hired did it about 15minutes.
0:44 Bruh I thought that was an SU-2 for a moment! Didn't even question these crazy fuckers flying around in a ww2 vintage Soviet light bomber.. But it's a T6g Texan I think, judging from that characteristic triangle tail-fin. Which come to think of it is about the same vintage!
Aye, Sad that the soldier of fortune is a rapidly dying business, Now its the private army. No fun to be had. No wars to be fought. Just the dirty work of nations who dont want their hands dirty.
Not a merc in Congo, but my Grandfather fought in the Sidi ifni war, against Moroco. He is from south Spain, and he told me about how the berebers hide themselves behind the sand and hunted them in the roads, or how they didnt have water or food (it was in the sahara desert). He also tell me the horrorific thing he saw, like a lot of little villages slaughtered by the leagionares, or how one of his comarades were shoot for killing another comarade while he was drunk or other shits. Since then, he always say me one thing, never trust any moor, he say that until you actually know they are dead you cant turn your back, because the can use a knife or something to stab you in the back
@@MrAwrsomeness i know nor do I blame anyone on the colonization of morocco We got colonized because our country got weak so we deserve it But you know nobody should blame the Moors for defending their country
It"s actually 1964, libreration of Stanleyville by Belgian paratroopers and international mercenaries during the Simba rebellion. Simba's were a tribe and their rebellion was led by marxist's and supported by the USSR. They fought the Congolese national army under Mobutu, a cruel corrupt dictator supported by Belgium and the US. When Simba’s began starting slaughtering whites there was a intervention to relief them.
@big K k Africa blood and guts is a very bad edit of Africa addio. You need to watch Africa addio because Africa blood and guts it's a shitty edit of the Italian documentary to be more splatter and cutting away many historically relevant scenes.
@John Macmillan yeah the US believes in self determination only if it leads to privatization and a capitalist class of overseers so wealth can be funneled out of the country. This is true even when the government is elected traditionally AND is western and liberal (as was the case with Iran in the late 50s, after the election they put the Shah in and that went well).
@@budgetmicro5387 not all of them, I don’t know if you know this but the people they fought were actual war criminal, burnt kids alive and stuff like that.
watching solders lighting cigaret with the banknote is quite a peaceful yet shocking moment... you don't need a historian to tell you that the country is basically fucked..
Wrong. The mercs did a lot to alleviate the hellishness. The assault shown in this video is on a Catholic school, were rebels were holding the teachers (nuns) hostage, and slowly eating them. They were savages.
My grandpa had a neighbour that fought as a mercenary for South África, working for some PMC at that time. He looks to be the most interesting old man in the world.
