Potsdam 1945 - Post-World War Division of Europe 

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I feel like perhaps the voice level is really low, especially when compared to the music.

Will you be going into individual Soviet states? We don't hear much about the contributions and conflicts that happened within those states much. Thank you for the amazing work so far.

It's great that there's more content from you guys. However, i feel like the format is a bit off. Having the narrator speak directly at us with no graphs/info-graphics feels awkward. I much prefer the style of your other channel. Excited to see this channel grow.

all those japanese soldiers in manchuria overwhelmed by only 1.7 soviet soldiers. Wow!

The only thing I feel was left out of these Potsdam videos is the weakened influence Great Britain had. Prior to the war it was the World Power in Economic and Military stregth, but by 1945 was Bankrupt and was over shadowed by the other Allied members. This made Britain the third wheel in negotiations and forced in many aspects to follow the American lead rather than push its own agenda as much as it wanted.

one thing catches my eye, the lack of emotion of the speaker. No eye movement, no emotion shown. In the "Great War" channel, the speaker was passionate and did not act like he was simply reading from a text. That I believe personally is a must in channels like this...

Looking forward to more videos of this channel. Interesting topic, great visualization and most importantly a clear and engaging delivery.

I admire how you guys are responding to honest criticism and quickly adapting. Videos are getting better and better, and will be impeccable soon! This one was really good already.

Austria was also divided into four zones - US, Great Britain, USSR and France. And like Berlin, Vienna was also similarly divided. It was not until 1955 did the allied occupation of Austria end.

Polands border changes really make a man cry

I want more! Nice work Fellas.

"After the end of World War II, the world was split into two -- East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War"

Wait. 500.000 German civilians died *after* the war? That is more than just an uuupsi!

Guys what is happening with your map? Bucharest is north of the danube not south

Love the red "nuke" phone.. Keep up the good work!

Getting better, keep it up!

I am liking what I am seeing. I am wondering why you have music playing through the entire video?

It would be great if he spoke quicker and louder, but overall it's great content.

i agree with others that while the narration is good it lacks the feel of the other channels. i really enjoyed the graphics and animations of the other channel and it often helps to provide context and information. i understand they are probably one of the more expensive aspects of production, but even spacing a few throughout the episode would go a long way. That aside, it seems the lighting was different in this episode, very blue. Overall great content and well explained! Keep up the great work, i will be back!

Love this channel! I've been watching them in order but the playlist goes from newest to oldest. Is it possible to switch it over so it can just roll to the next one? I keep losing my place!

I just read the book Savage Continent. It shows clearly that while not as industrial as the Nazis, ethnic cleansing and worse took place after WW2 in Europe. What if any these effects where caused by the Potsdam conference?

Good video. Watching it twice!

This channel is as underrated as the actual cold war.

Hei, super excited for the future of this channel. Just a note about you’r map. Finlands capital city Helsinki is coastal city. Thank you.

Hello. Great video ! I wanna say that Bucharest is not correctly placed on the map shown at the minute 1:03. It is placed in the south of the Danube Rivier, but in reallity is placed north of the Danube.

Another reason Stalin might have backed down on Hokkaido in the end was that the Soviet Union did not have much in the way of landing capabilities, and that Hokkaido would be even more heavily defended then many of the Islands the Americans had been fighting for with overwhelming naval dominance. Meaning it might have ended poorly for them by getting repulsed.

correction: 500.000 germans died in Czechoslovakia (pre-38) alone. the total amount of Germans that died during the deportation after WW2 was much higher. the total amount is unknown, as the deaths were roughly reported only in Czechoslovakia and the regions controlled by the western powers. many massacres were also blamed on combat during the end of the war, so even these rough estimates are rough at best.

Look how they massacred my boy.

More confidence and rise your voice and it will work imo!

I love your content bro.

Soviet steals tech from Mercedes Benz goes back home makes trabant and Lada 😂 But gets rolls Royce engine for su7

Merci. Please, continue

This conference helped shape a lot of the Cold War for decades. My compliments to those who made this video a realty.

I love this new channel and, following the podcast, I really like David's speaking cadence but... please, turn a bit down the volume of the music, raise accordingly the volume of the voice, raise the volume up overall and change the microphone so that your really nice diction comes out clearly. It sounds muffled sometimes. Thank you for considering this.

Great video!!

Can we get louder volume? Other than that, this series has lots of potential.

You can see how much The Great War channel inspired the other history channels

What is the name of background song? Thank you !

What are the musics you are using in this video?

If in Potsdam the big 3 agreed to "resettlement", why did the Czechoslovakia Pres Benes get criticized for expelling the Germans out of Sudetenland after the war? (Those Germans were used as the excuse for the pre-war "peace in our time" Sudetenland betrayal, and the Czecks wanted them out.) (President Benes was allowed the run Czechoslovakia a year or so, before the Soviets wanted control and he had to leave, again as he did in 1939....)

so does this channel have a cooperation with The Great War channel and World War Two channel? because you seem to be copying their format. also links to the materials your are using for the videos would be awesome. besides that though i appreciate your videos, great content!

Congratulations on the series! I'm already subscribed and looking forward to all episodes. Are you going to cover the effects of the Cold War in other regions of the globe like Latin America? Cuban revolution, Coups d'état in Brazil, Argentina, Chile (Pinochet), etc?

Looking forword to more of the cold war videos 😄

would be great if you could do an episode on operation unthinkable :)

Will you cover operation "Unthinkable", about turning west Germany along with Allies to fight USSR? How much was it plausible? Or was it Churchill's own idefix that nobody took seriously?

Minor criticism: Could you please put this playlist in the correct order, not the reverse order? There is a plugin that fixes this but it is now broken, and I have no idea why so many channels mess this up as by default RU-vid puts things in the correct order if they are entered in as they are posted.

A very interesting channel following The Great War and World War Two, can't wait to see where it will go (subbed to your channel). But i have one suggestion, please remove the music (or at least lower its volume) while you are narrating, it is difficult to hear the narration and the it adds unnecessary overdramatic effect lowering the quality of the series (just like the modern documentaries and news stories from the tv)

Requesting subtitles. Thanks

Will you talk about the various dictatorship regimes in south america?

I love the new channel, and unlike a bunch of commenters, I think the new format fits well with the content. I do have a suggestion: the host is actually quite annoying and distracting in the way he's always upwardly inflecting his tone. I feel like he's trying too hard, and just needs to try acting normal. For an example of a really good host that uses this format, check out The Great War channel.

Love the content, would love it if the speaker would be a bit louder.

Great background. It's a shame you don't have an AKM and an M16A2 leaning in the corners lol. I love the retro style, like if they could make a TV that looked that way but was ultra HD etc. It's why people like Fallout games, I think. The host looks every bit the part of the "famous historian" from Monty Python's Holy Grail lolz, perfect! I aspire to reach that level... Seriously, A+ info, perfect.

Hitler has left the chat.

I like how they got nick frost narrating this. XD

really don't understand why Britain and the US treated the french like some sorts of equals

The idea of executing all the Nazi party members is a chilling one, with over eight million of them remaining the consequences and damage it would cause might well have irreparable. Even the smaller mass lynchings of collaborators like in Croatia never really healed or forgotten, formal and state managed mass executions of millions would have left so much more anger and hatred.

This channel definitely deserves more attention!

I have troubles hearing the voice at times, great content though!

Is this guy from the Indy Neidel? The Great War channel.

The battle lines are drawn.

This is good but the music is really distracting.

I am new, so I hope the quality of editing, mic, music and visuals will get better You need better map lines and more presentation of where was what You also need better oration

I think you should make some stylistic changes, particularly to the music. The bombastic action music doesn't fit the Cold War as well as some subtle, mysterious music would. Also the maps could be clearer and more specific.

Now this is epic

I would just like to say that the map without clearly defined borders just looks weird. A simple line representing borders would look more clean other then that great video

2:58 you include Transcarpathia in the blue Polish shade when it was never Poland, being a Hungarian territory given to Czechoslovakia, returned to Hungary between 1938-45 only to be annexed to Ukraine after WW2.

I never knew 1 and a 0.7 of a soviet soldier could overwhelm about a million japanese soldiers. And soviets often get bad reputations for their soldier quality, hmph...

Love the video, but the audio is unbalanced. I can barely hear you I’m full volume, and had to use headphones. Before watching this, I had just got done watching a kings and generals video where the audio was fine, so I know it’s not just me

Were it not five occupation zones? The one that Poland occupied and then just annexed?

This is highly kino

Not sure if I’m a fan of your microphone in this, it was kind of hard to hear you

Never forget: Königsberg.

FYI the map of WE is actually wrong. Ireland should be in white, like Sweden, as it was officially neutral.

I don't think that It would hurt if the host was a bit more energetic, Like Indy Neidell

Good info for understanding what's been going and is going on today, thanks.

I have to agree with others that the narrator isn't cutting it right now. Having obviously Indy in mind, this narrator is worse in every aspect and lacks any kind of personality. Don't know if anyone can live up to Indy though so it might just be something you will hear either way but I have the feeling a lot of improvements can be made here!

Great video hope to see some battles from korea, vietnam and afganistan.

MAYBE YOU HAVE DOCUMENTS ON THE BASIS OF WHICH THE BORDER WAS CHANGED IN POTSDAM?

It's Kind of Like the Great War Channel.

Please arrange your playlist in chronological order, not the reverse

loving the series , but please improve the map if you can

You've just ripped off the Great War!!!!!!! That was an amazing, wellresearched show.......................

I personally think this would work better with a focus on animations like on your other channel, with narration. I don't really see the need for a speaker

What have you done to indie, wait this isn't WW2.

The background music is really annoying. making it difficult to clearly hear the speaker who swallows the ending parts of ever sentence he speaks.

effectively, the UK stood alone against Germany to enforce the Soviet part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and won. Well done. Good show.

I really like your style of narration keep going❤

Is this post ww2?

Bad as the cold war was - and now again is - it was SOME improvement over the regional conflicts after WW1

This could have been good, but it's basically Penfold from Danger Mouse in monologue mode. It's just not interesting, there's no spirit to it.

Great, but could you just make videos louder?

Why is Bucharest south of the Danube?

Look at that Moustache! STALIN OOOO! A Bad man you were but a great moustache you had!

It would be better to not split berlin for soviets

I hope you can collaborate with Indy Neidell at some point.

Please, fix the voice

Great history, great channel. Please lose the music...

Is the half million ethnic Germans killed during their "re-settling" by the Soviets the low end of estimates? Polish historians Witold Sienkiewicz and Grzegorz Hryciuk maintain that civilian deaths in the flight and evacuation were "between 600,000 and 1.2 million". I think their figure is much nearer to the truth of it.

I really hope you can do balanced videos. These topics are not easily explained in 5 minute videos. For example the beginning of the conflict in Korea. Do you start with the provisional government of the People's Republic of Korea? Or do you start after the imposed treaty by the USSR and the USA? Also, another wish I have is that you would use the correct terminology or at least add a short definition in at least one video. If f.e. media in the west talk about communism, they mean countries like the USSR - which, had an economic system which was not communist, but an official ideology of Marxism-Leninism which is part of the communist movement. So do you use the terminology they used themselves to describe their socio-economic system (socialism), or do you use the terminology which has no idea about communist theory? I really really hope you manage to remain unbiased, but I have my doubts that it can be done at all. Please prove me wrong.