The Bloodlands: Ukraine in World War II. (10 Things Everyone Should Know About Ukraine) 

Rattrap, your comment isn't very appealing, it's more disturbing. Maybe one day your sensitive side might kick in.

forgettin that during WWII one million and six hundred jews were barbaric murdered by nazi Germany and the collaboration of the ukraine s gvt which till today they have not yet recognized and our victims are still waiting for justice not for vengeance or money....

Especially the polish people bodies and blood

Britain entered WW2 in 1939 NOT 1941. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. On September 3, 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning the START of WW2. German armies invaded and defeated Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France on 10 May 1940. After France surrendered on June 1940, Germany’s attention turned to Britain. The Battle of Britain, 10 July 1940 - 31 October 1940, when the British RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe. Germany couldn’t defeat Britain without air superiority because it is an island. Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941, for the Caucasus oil fields, Not for bread in Ukraine. The Ukrainians were Nazi collaborators and were wiling participants in the Pogroms.

All the atrocities… ????

Just as soil is transported worldwide from Slavic areas today, and even from Ireland to Egypt to grow potatoes which are then exported worldwide. Stealing good earth one way or another has always gone on, still is.

It would be easier to point out what Germans didn't steal.

@@ElleNoir. Serbian old folk told me how the Germans brought electricity to their village (generator), were always polite and if they committed the slightest misdemeanour, a report to the 'kommandant' and any soldier was in trouble and compensation made/paid. When they left, they handed everything over to the villagers in perfect order. They're not 'all the same', despite the awfulness of war.

@@gurglejug627 From my Serbian village, my grandfather, his two brothers, and most other adult men were taken to work in Germany.

@@sonjak8265 Sure I get it - same with my Polish grandfather who suffered more than I care to relate, and remained a gentleman to the end - he married a German lady and loved her till the day he passed. The point was only that there is human goodness everywhere, generally it's the psychopathic scum at the top who cause the rest of the world such pain. I wish you well, and sorry for what happened.

and collaborated to murder thousand of jews by collaborating with the nazi germany today totally forgotten.... m df

Yes and hundreds of thousands of Ukranians also died by the hands of Polish nationalists. 40% of the Soviet army was Ukranian, and more than 200k Russians fought for the Germans.

So russia divided Poland with Hitler, russians killed more than 8 millions of ukrainians, russians killed 3 millions of Kazakhstan people, russians killed 300 thousands of Crimean tatars, 500 thousands of Chechens, tens of thousands of Poles(Kathryn and other massacres)......... And you are trying to frame Ukraine as an "villain nation" just because of Bybyn Yar tragedy, that was orcestreted by SS, Germans, and the most radical ukrainian collaborators... Also, don't forget that what happened in Volunie was as much of a horrible crime as what Poles(Armia Krayowa) and Polish SS did during Operation Wisla to Ukrainians and what Armia Krayowa did to tens of thousands of peaceful Ukrainians during ethic cleanings... So in the end of the day, russia killed like 150 times more peaceful people than Ukraine. That's why Poland helps Ukraine and prepares to be ready to new coming of ruSSia's "peasful world". Also, you forgot to mention that despite some ukrainian collaborators there were ten times more families that hided jew's kids and after the war raised them as their own...

Germans preferred Ukraines to Poles, and used the former to eliminate the later. There were too many Slavic peoples. Part of Generalplan Ost and Lebansbaum.

In the annexed areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania by Poland (before WWII), did the population speak polish or their native languages?

Ukrainian SS battalion was the most fanatical and sadistic in waffen SS, even germans were taken aback by their brutality

The Nachtigall Battalion (English: Nightingale Battalion), also known as the Ukrainian Nightingale Battalion Group (German: Bataillon Ukrainische Gruppe Nachtigall), or officially as Special Group Nachtigall,[1] was the subunit under command of the German Abwehr special operations unit Lehrregiment "Brandenburg" z.b.V. 800. Along with the Roland Battalion it was one of two military units formed February 25, 1941 by head of the Abwehr Wilhelm Franz Canaris, which sanctioned the creation of the "Ukrainian Legion" under German command. It was composed of volunteer Ukrainians operating under Stephan Bandera's Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) orders.[2]

All true but more Ukrainians by far fought with the Red Army. The far right are a dangerous coercive force in the Ukraine, not the majority. The war has fed toxic nationalism on both sides. Only the US gains.

@@casteretpollux True. Moreover, among those about 1 million people from USSR who collaborated with Nazis Ukrainians where not the only ethnic group. Majority of those people joined Germans to feed their families or just to survive. Those volunteers who fought for Germany were not the majority. The issue is that how come all of a sudden those people appeared in the political mainstream at all? From my experience: I had relatives in western Ukraine, friends in all part of it, travelled across Ukraine for work and vacation, had lots of personal interactions with people of all ethnic groups, Russian and Ukrainian native speakers, some where Ukrainian nationalists who responded only in Ukrainian. Some of them did not hesitate to show discontent with the Soviet political and economical system, mentioned Stalin's deportations before and after the war. But I have never heard anyone who would be happy to have connections with volunteers who were willingly fighting for Nazis, not to mention German managed police forces. So leveraging those guys in all post-Soviet countries seems to be artificial. Looks like these "Ukrainian Studies" institutions are part of that problem.

@@casteretpollux Thank you, Katharine, for your reply. I absolutely agree with your conclusion about nationalism on both sides of the conflict and especially about the “beneficiaries” of it- USA

If we work hard to do something maybe it's not too late.

@@AD-gy6eq yeaaaa about that......kinda went sideways

Einstein: "The splitting of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking. Thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." Some movies that might help change our attitude: On the Beach Testament The Day After Dr. Strangelove...

I can't agree more. instead of fund the naturalists and decide the neighborhoods we all should together love each other, put resources to combat global warming, improve Healthcare, education. what are we doing ?

At the present - March 2022, there is the war raging in Ukraine. Men, politicians will never learn that being an aggressor will never be the way forward, especially in the 21st century. Nuclear weapons are a danger to the globe in the hands of a mad man, it is a real worry for every nation and any threats of using weapons of mass destruction, should be taken deadly serious. We all have to be on the defence, when evil forces try to reign.

Absolutely right.

Ukraine is Ukraine.

Dunkirk also seems a little weird, surely Hitler could’ve chosen to destroy the British forces but didn’t - strange. We don’t see any allies enter the war from the west until the Russians start pushing Westbound years later....

Thank you for making those points.

@@user-yk4ey3xl9s Gutless lying bastards that hid safely in Britain until the 6th June 1944 after Soviet forces had the Nazis in full retreat. Churchill the Treacherous Toad that he was, deliberately withheld the invasion of Europe after having promised Stalin that the attack would occur in 1942 - This bastard was also the person who proposed to Stalin where the Iron Curtain should fall on Europe. - The cause of over 500,000 deaths in Greece due to starvation and the Civil war. - The instigator of a plan to drop atomic bombs on Russia. The advocat for The Cold War. The list goes on and on for this War Criminal.

thank you for sharing

This appears to throw more light to the deep-rooted cause of the current conflict.

thks for your sincerety that I appreciate very much unfortunatly the ukraine s gvt has not yet recognized its past collaboration with the nazi as last year zelensky stopped the 80th anniversary of babi yar where numerous relatives of mine as jews were barbaric assassinated by the ukraine s policy..and police due to a sharp controversy inside the ukraine s gvt as a group of patriots were contrary to recognized their collaboration with the nazi by considering themselves victims of the nazi till today and our victims are still waiting for justice not for vengeance or money. Thks for your sensibility as we have today for the sufferences of the ukrainians.

Western Ukrainians are closer to Poles and West since they were under Austro Hungarians. Rest were under Russian empire. So their mentality is different. Hence they rose up when president they elected was overthrown by US sponsored coup in 2014 and brought to power Western Ukrainians /nationalists and nazis

@@uldos3193 I’m from the eastern part of Ukraine that was under russian empire but I’m Ukrainian and I’m the same Ukrainian as those who live in the western part of Ukraine. We have the same mentality and don’t want to be the part of russia. We are free people!

Far from excellent!

@@netzoned what do you think the problems are then ?

Surely the Holodomor (only four years earlier) is also very relevant.

@@wessexdruid7598 1932 around 8-10 years after the end of the Russian Civil war and is undoubtedly a major reason why a number of Ukrainians fought with Hitler after 1941.

@@nickbrough8335 You are correct, 1932-1933, not lasting to 1935, as was in my memory. My error.

Perhaps so, especially if it were less inaccurate, as you may have gathered from the comments

The Ukrainians saw the Nazis as a better alternative to the hated Russians and that the war forced them to make wrong choices. The Ukrainian civilians clubbed Jewish women and children to death. “When they arrived at Leviatin, there were already two huge, wide-open pits ready to engulf them. The Ukrainian killers ordered the woman and children to undress and to go down into the pits. There was a spray of machinegun fire and screams, as the shouted orders of the killers blended with screams and cries of the women and children, their bodies still breathing and choking, became dust.” How could the Ukrainians have been so evil. There are photos on google showing the Ukrainian killers smiling during the Pogroms. Many people including myself could never ever have done such an evil act.

Today's Ukraine's Nationalistic flag is red&black meaning blut und boden meaning blood & soil/land. A ww2 German Nazi concept.

Chronicles of quiet Lviv 1941-1943: - 1941 the entrance of the Wehrmacht to Lviv, greeting - - humiliation of Jews and pogroms - Jewish ghetto in Lviv - 1943 volunteers in the Galician SS Division. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7x1uRHc9Afs.html

​@@Petal4822have you ever heard how Ukrainians slaughtered civil Polish population in Volhynia? What were their sadistic methods?

No you may not say that. For the first 2 years of the 'war' the Brits did nothing -learn some history as this guy suggests

@@TheSebiestor Hi. Firstly, the 'may I just say' was merely a use of a written convention in order to be courteous. It was not a request for permission, therefore your purported denial of permission is neither valid nor relevant. Secondly, to say 'the Brits did nothing' for two years is absurd. Have a look at the Battle of Britain, simply to commence your study of this period, then at the support the Brits gave to Russia after the German invasion of June 1941. There's so much else of course, but those two points alone will demolish what you wrote. As someone a bit silly once wrote, 'learn some history'.

@@ysgol3 i used to live next door to a merchant salior who was twice sunk delivering munitions and food to Russia in that period. My mother endured the Bltz in London. The Royal Navy ruled the waves...my Father was in the Meditteranean Fleet when the French naval ships were sunk. My Great Uncle fought in Burma as a Sergeant Major. And my Aunts husband was on the Burma Railway as a prisoner. My Godfather was at Monte Casino. My Grandfathers employee helped liberate Belsen. Theres some history Iearnt as a baby boomer from men who were there and certainly did a lot for other nations.

@@buddhastaxi666 Hi, thank you for such a fascinating reply. I hope the person to whom I replied after he or she daftly wrote that 'the Brits did nothing' in the first two years of the war reads it too!

@@TheSebiestor This is untrue, both France and the UK declared war on Germany. This is a matter of public record.

He just explained to you that most Ukrainians viewed the Germans as liberators from Soviet brutality. Such as the Holodomor. Something, for reasons to be discussed another time, that most of the world has never heard about. Ukrainians, rightly, believed nothing could be worse than what the Soviet Union inflicted on them. You are judging them, retrospectively, with the benefit of hindsight. That is just ridiculous.

Heard of Molotov Ribbentrop pact?! Russia/soviet union was also a nazi collaborator.

@@markolcl4784 Yes, heard of that. A marriage of convenience. It's called real poltik. Similar to how Western democracies have "alliances" with many unsavoury nations today. Also, that pact raises the question of why we didn't declare war on the Soviet Union for also invading Poland. Instead, we decided to repackage the Soviet Union as our new partner and suddenly Stalin was rebranded as "Uncle Joe". Seems the allied powers could be just as hypocritical and duplicitous as the Axis powers. Oh, not to mention the fact that we declared war to regain Poland's freedom. At the end of the war that we "won" ended up with Poland and half of Europe under the boot of the communist dictatorship for nearly 70 years. Great result!

@@organismseven3700 Golodomor from the word "golod" which means "hunger" is thoroughly and quite successfully fabricated idea intended to increase hate and radicalize people. In reality, the rest of the USSR starved just as much if not more as "poor always complaining Ukrainians" did. If you look at the numbers in archives you would see that their "neglected, hand-picked and left to die areas" lost at least 2-3 times less people to the hunger than any given part of the USSR during those years. Not a single person is alive today who remembers the events or remembers the truth but the hate that this myth created burns oh still so strongly in the hearts of now fourth or even fifth generation.

@@ottilie9711 Fabricated by who?

Southern oil only became an aim AFTER the failure to take Moscow and things turned protracted. That was the beginning of the end. Lebensraum came first. Ukraine is the jewel in the crown and Vlad thinks it's time to bag it for Moscow.

Look up "lebensraum" in your encyclopedia before you pretend to lecture others

One thing history teaches us is that historians, such as the one in this film, indeed can be right about some things, but one should not be too quick to agree or disagree with what they say, whether in part or in total . . . because to do so without being omniscient is always dicey. The only rational decision I favor In regard to the Ukraine is one of neutrality. The fact that there are significant Nazi or neo-Nazi militias/groups like Azov and the Right Sector etc. in the Ukraine that wield significant power and influence is what bothers me the most about our military support. As many point out, the USA’s support for abusive, aggressive regimes like Saudi Arabia, or its support for the Israeli occupation of Palestine, or its attack on essential services like Iraqi water purification and power generation facilities during both the Clinton and Bush years (to name a few) disqualify the USA from making any kind of moral case for its role as a judge of Putin, or as part of an interventionist coalition. (There are many, many other examples of the USA’s support for repressive regimes throughout the 20th and 21st century, as well as its own tolerance for corporate collusion with bad actors - such as IBM’s collaboration with the Nazi Holocaust to name just one of many, that also should disqualify the USA as a “force of good in the world”) You might as well argue that Ted Bundy should have been a prosecutor of serial killers.

I love the quote that "History is the incomplete expounding upon the whole" I really thought that this tiny overview was nice and concise and dotted with key aspects of the historical context that most people are unaware of. To call him "wrong" seems unhelpful.

Have you read "Mein Kampf?" If so you know that Hitler wanted the Ukraine to be the "Bread basket of Germany." The rush toward the Crimea was out of necessity. Hitler's Wermacht and war factories were out of oil. Regardless, the populace of Ukraine was generally pro-Nazi. And the Russians suffered between three and five MILLION casualties pushing the Germans out of the Ukraine. BTW Google the definition of Ukraine. It's English counterpart is, indeed, Frontier.

WWII began for the ancestors of the British (Germans) in 1936 with Manchuria (Manchukuo).

Somehow the British didn't get involved in the war until much later. Poles pleaded for help that didn't come. Later on Polish pilots defended Britain.

@@renataoldziej5405 but Poland is the other side of Germany to Britain. No way of getting there directly. Troop ships would be sunk and aircraft shot down.

Britain entered WW2 in 1939 NOT 1941. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. On September 3, 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning the START of WW2. German armies invaded and defeated Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France on 10 May 1940. After France surrendered on June 1940, Germany’s attention turned to Britain. The Battle of Britain, 10 July 1940 - 31 October 1940, when the British RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe. Germany couldn’t defeat Britain without air superiority because it is an island. Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941, for the Caucasus oil fields, Not for bread in Ukraine. The Ukrainians were Nazi collaborators and were wiling participants in the Pogroms.

My dad and his family were also in Siberia, big story to tell his great grandchildren

The Ukrainians sided with Germany, they were Nazi collaborators.

@@Petal4822 Some of them yes, but hardly all. Many fought in the Red Army. And of the collaborators, some were Nazi sympathisers, but many chose sides as they preferred the Germans to the soviets.

Ukrainians savegly.tortured and murdered more then 100 K of Polish nationals, mainly woman and children...Even the Nazi Germans were shocked seeing this...They would also.kill those of the Ukrainians who tried to hide the Polish nationals... They have never repented or apologised, Bandera, the leader of UPA is still being recognised as the national hero and his monuments are all over Ukraine...That was a genocide...

LOL another looney that has no idea. The idea that Stalin would have welcomed an Western Army of several million men in the Soviet Union is laughable. In any case, we did not then have the logistical capacity to transport and them support than many men at that distance from the UK. As it was petrol shortages and air cover were major issues during 1944 as the advance extended away from the supply bases in Normandy. It was not until the large French ports (Marseille and Bordeaux) and the Belgium/Dutch ports were reopened (in 1945) that logistic issues started to decline for the allied force in NW Europe.

Thank you for writing this for all to see. The endless arrogant and condescending Western BS on how they saved the day just makes me sick. There is not even a drop of acknowledgement of the horror and suffering that people from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus went through.

@@ottilie9711 Why ? It is so much historical nonsense and well as being a complete fabrication. The war in France and Germany started in 9/39, whilst both Stalin and the Roosevelt sat in comfort minding their own business. Of course Roosevelt became a great supporter of the UK proving loans for the UK to buy weapons from US factories, but they certainly hedged their bets until the Battle of Britain was won (JFK"s father had quite a bit to do with that). The UK gave up almost all of its foreign exchange reserves and financial investments in the US to fund this. Lend Lease support (basically sale or return basis) came later. The UK barely had the troops to fight in North Africa, where we were often losing, after the Greek invasion in Spring 1941. The Home Army has been evacuated from Northern France (along with a large number of French troops. most of whom returned to France after the surrender) but without any of its equipment (tanks, artillery., vehicles, ammunition etc). France (the largest military power in pre-War Europe) had already been beaten before Russia was even invaded. Stalin even ignored warnings from Churchill and his own spy network before the Russian invasion commenced. Thats how much he trusted the UK. Neither would Stalin have allowed it. Just go and read how the Lancaster bomber crews from 617 squadron were treated on landing in Russia after the attack on th e Tirpitz or the Royal and Merchant Navy crews were confined to their ships on arrival at Murmansk and Archangel on the Russian convey route. Do you know the UK and US provide Russian with around 7,000 tanks, numerous jeeps and other vehicles (300,000 or so from the US), raw materials such as rubber and difficult to obtain alloys, including 15,000 aircraft provide by the US and a further 7,400 from the UK (3,000 of which were bought from the Americans). This contribution to the Red Army was rarely recognised though. Allied supplied equipment was removed from Russian wartime images though. Apart from the small quantity of material that was returned after the war ended, this military aid was given for FREE. Whilst preparing for the D-Day invasion of June 1944, the allies also invaded mainland Italy (after taking Sicily) in summer 1943 and did not have sufficient forces to beat even a small German occupying force of about 500,000 men. Of course, 40 % of US forces were deployed to fight on two fronts against the Japanese empire, with limited support from the UK and Australia and no support at all from Stalin's Russia. In fact the only Russian activity in the Pacific was to invade Japanese islands off the Russian coast after Japan had already been defeated, but before their official surrender. Russia still occupies this territory today. The final point is what money was made out of WW2. The UK only finished paying off the loans in 2006 and also endured WW2 style rationing until 1954, almost10 years after the end of the war itself. The US became the richest economy in the world based on its manufacturing might not out of war profiteering although they did make money from the UK between 9/39 and 12/41, before we became allies in a joint war against Germany and Japan. During the war the events on the eastern front and the sacrifices made by the Red Army were very well know and there was massive UK and French support for the Russian people. However, it was Stalin that decided to occupy eastern Europe and turn it into his sphere of Interest. The only countries the west occupied were West Germany, Japan and Italy and then not for that long. Stalin chose to make the Soviet Union the enemy of the west for his own purposes. The cold war was his creation as much as anyone else.

@@nickbrough8335 superb post, though is 500,000 really a small force?

@@aafgahfah In the context of WW2, yes, but 500,000 men is stall a massive number. My recollection may be off slightly, but I recall reading that the UK/US Strategic bombing campaigns resulted in around 2 million German men being tied up in the anti-aircraft defence of Germany. The fear of European invasion through 43/44 alongside the sabotage and resistance support from the SOE and OSS would have also ensure Germany had to keep larger forces in Europe. I also played down British and Empire forces fighting japan on the Indian Border and then through Burma and the Australian in in Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, which kept UK empire forces out of Europe theatre. Whilst none of us should minimise the achievement of the Red Army, the Allies fought on five fronts in 1944 (Atlantic, Bombing, Africa/Italy, France and Japan) not only engaging large German forces, but also tying down large forces in Germany and Occupied Europe, which could otherwise been deployed on the eastern Front. The equipment and raw materials aid much strengthen the Red Army and Russian manufacturing capability which certainly benefited the Red Army very significantly. That this contribution is seen as nothing much by some ignorant people is shocking really.

🤦‍♂?! my polish-ukrainian gran,aunt4yrs old& mother 6yrs were all sent to slave-death camps in Siberia as my grandad& great uncles were in the polish airforce&army fighting Nazis, then Stalins ally!, mum only survived as Hitler invaded his ally Stalin who approached Hitler to form his pact!. We had Russian relatives too& Russians paid a great price, but Russias death toll& that of soviet empire are vdifferent!, all deaths on the eastern front were as much due to fascistic dictators like Stalin as Hitler.😖

James Gruen I beg to differ with your description of the pact, because Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, and on Sept. 17 the USSR did the same. The two powers did NOT come to blows over this matter. This implies some degree of collaboration/collusion/cooperation/alliance. I think the left hand knew what the right hand was doing, or vice versa. The odd thing about this arrangement is that poor Finland got dumped into the 'Axis' camp after the fact, because it had to defend itself against Soviet attack. Meanwhile a halo was depicted around Stalin's head because Hitler attacked him. But they were birds of a feather. I once read that Stalin was initially devastated by Hitler's betrayal. Don't try to save the reputation of the USSR. It was founded upon evil and atheistic rebellion. 'The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." '

27 millions of 15 repablics of USSR were killed, not just russians, it's total number of losses, what are you talking about?

Europe should be grateful to the US and Britain, we liberated your cowardly countries in WW2.

The Ukrainians sided with Germany, they were Nazi collaborators.

Ukrainian Collaboration during the Holocaust resulted in the shooting and beating to death of 1.2 million Jews and Ukrainians today say it was done out of revenge for the Holodomor which starved to death 5 to 7 million Ukrainians during Stalins (and some of his Jewish henchmen) rule.

I think we are still in the barbaric dark ages of history..

What is the most tragic Polish civilans were hiding from Ukrainians under Russians and German troops.They were boths shocked of Ukrainians cruelity against woman and children.

As an Australian I am outraged at your assertion that the US is blameworthy for the barbarian Putin and his delusions concerning goddess Russia of yore. The US did not break up the USSR, it fragmented by the choices of the various people whose ancient homelands were spread throughout it and who threw off the tyrannical grip of the Communist nightmare.

@@Pacdoc-oz but the ukraine s gvt should recognized its past collaboration with the nazi by murdering thousand of jews as till today they have not and the victims of my relatives are still waiting for justice not for veangence or money....

Have no fear, people do not roll in their graves. Do you SERIOUSLY believe that Putin was 'obliged' to invade Ukraine on account of US policy? Let the man take responsibility for his OWN decisions, since he rejects the counsel and appeals of others. Putin may be wedded to Xi's ambition via their 'unlimited partnership', he may satan's dupe, but he is NOT a puppet of US/EU/NATO. If someone provokes us to anger in public and we slug him, and there are witnesses, we are still accountable before the law. We may still be tried and convicted of assault. We cannot say that we were 'made to do it'. Did you not hear Putin's speech on the eve of the invasion? He denied Ukraine's right to exist as a nation. It was an expression of absolute contempt. No wonder that Ukrainian public opinion has hardened considerably. Prior to that speech and the invasion, a negotiated territorial compromise still seemed remotely possible. Russian atrocities and brinkmanship have made it presently impossible. Guess what? The USA is NOT the centre of the universe. When US politicians lift the phrase 'city set on a hill' from Matthew 5:14, they are VIOLATING the sense of Scripture. Scripture makes no reference to America at all. Sometimes big nations suffer from a 'messianic complex'. There is only one Messiah, JESUS: (Psalm 2:6) 'But as for Me, I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain.'

If anything the US had been too apathetic about Ukraine. Russia invaded in 2014. And 2008. US barely did anything then. Russia was emboldened. This frankly seems suspiciously close to russian trolls which seem to be everywhere spewing the same lies.

I believe that you dishonor his memory and his sacrifice (and many others for that matter!) by your treacherous stance. I think you are right; he probably would be rolling over in his grave, but not for the reasons you think.

Because of Stalin. Sorry Soviets invaded Poland in 17 September 1939. Now historians provided better statistics for Polish losses. We lost 12 million people of 38 million of the whole population. You canceled our passports for millions of Poles and other nations, and made them Russians, you moved thousands to Syberia and Kazakhstan, simply leaving them in the nowhere or put in concentration camp ( lagry). Your sick leaders and politics murdered millions of innocent people. Your statistics are also fake, like all communistic statistics. Maybe in near future after some changes in your leadership you will know more true data.

@@urszulau.7687 You cannot place any blame on Mira, You keep saying your leaders, we don't really have a choice in our leaders, therfore they are not really our leaders, just a bunch of criminals running the world, causing trouble for the likes of you and me and Mira. Polish leaders could have allowed Germany to annex the Polish corridor, It belonged to Germany pre WW1, Germany tried many times with emissaries to Poland, but Poland colluded with Britain and ignored Germany,s request, thus starting WW2. Yeah well done Poland.

Europe should be grateful to the US and Britain, we liberated your cowardly countries in WW2.

NOT russians RATHER the 15 republics of the USSR ALL TOGETHER LOST 23 MILLION. Of that total UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE UKRAINE concrete undebatable facts from RUSSIAN, NOT Ukrainian archives, which were briefly opened under Boris Yeltsin in 1992 but then quickly re-sealed by Putin: ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FOUGHT IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII. OF THESE, 130,000- that 's one hundred thirty thousand RUSSIANS, fought in German Nazi Waffen SS units in WWII. The greatest contingent of foreign WAFFEN SS VOLUNTEERS WAS...RUSSIAN! Yet, the Neo Nä/zi CRIMINAL RUSSIANS continue to defame UKRAINE, smearing the entire Ukrainian people as "Näs/is! RUSSIANS WHO STATE IS A NAZI DICTATORSHIP IN ALL ASPECTS, call the legitimate elected democratic government of Ukraine a näsi Junta! At this very moment the russian parliament is 87% neo-näz/i, ultra right, nationalist- such as putin's very own brown shirt party "United Russia" formerly run by the self proclaimed neo-näsi Zhirinovsky, Putins dead buddy. Simply google up the russian parliament's own website to find this out in two minutes. Putin's spiritual Guru is Alexander Dugin, the self proclaimed neo-näz/i who passionately calls upon putin to carry out a FOURTH RUSSIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE and wipe them out entirely this time, where both lenin and stalin failed in this exact very plan. Only TWO NATIONS ON EARTH HAVE A JEWISH PRESIDENT & defense minister (and until 2020 consecutively also a Jewish prime minister)- ISRAEL and....?....UKRAINE! UKRAINE and its people LITERALLY GAVE MORE BLOOD THAN ANY NATION ON EARTH TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE from the Holocaust. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN WWII!!!!!! CHURCHILL WROTE THAT GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINIANS WHERE THE ENTIRE EASTERN FRONT OCCURRED AS OF 1943 There are 2240 UKRAINIANS honored among the RIGHTEOUS in Jerusalem for giving their lives to save Jews in WWII. There are a mere 220 “russians”. Let no one ever again serve you the libel, the SMEAR that Ukrainians are “anti-semites.” It is acknowledged that tens of thousands more UKRAINIANS were murdered by russians and Germans before they could be documented and recognized as “Righteous among the Nations.” THERE WERE 1000. 000 russian nazi collaborators in German Nazi in WWIIuniform 45 TIMES MORE THAN UKRAINIANS. France, Holland, Estonia, etc had FAR MORE - (and IDEOLOGICALLY CONVINCED TRUE NAZI SS COLLABORATORS than Ukraine. Ukrainians allied with Germany unwillingly to save UKRAINE from the russian socialist genocidal meat grinder. PEOPLE IGNORE the giant MASTODON in the room- ALL THE ALLIES COLLABORATED WITH....? A FAR MORE GENOCIDAL REGIME- WITH SOCIALIST RUSSIA. Yet not a single word is ever whispered in this regard. UKRAINE’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY AND the AXIS CAN NEVER BE OVERRATED. AS CHURCHILL WROTE, GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE, BY UKRAINIANS (NOT IN “RUSSIA”). 67% of All German forces (all German forces worldwide, not just on the Eastern front) including elite and SS troops were fighting & were DESTROYED in… UKRAINE, not in some “russia” or elsewhere. 1st UKRAINAN FRONT 2nd UKRAINAN FRONT 3rd UKRAINAN FRONT 4th UKRAINAN FRONT 5th UKRAINAN FRONT comprising 7.4 million troops THAT’S SEVEN-POINT-FOUR-MILLION UKRAINIAN NOT “Russian” TROOPS DEFEATED GERMANY and saved a certain “Russia” and the USSR FROM GERMANY. Ukrainians constituted about 24% of the Armed Forces of the USSR, or 8 million troops, yet UKRAINIANS were always at the very front. Russians came behind the first Ukrainian waves. The mass rapes of women were carried out by russians coming after the first waves made up almost exclusively of Ukrainians as of 1943. UUKRAINIANS SAVED RUSSIA’S Nazi A$$ in WWII & still today the RUSSIAN GENOCIDAL NEO NAZIS DEFAME UKRAINE UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS WAR OUT OF A SOVIET TOTAL OF 23 MILLION. (8 million military and 6 million civilian). WHICH MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS OF THE USSR ALL TOGETHER LOST A TOTAL OF 9 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE SAVED "russia's" backside in WWII and carried out the VAST MAJORITY of the defeat of Germany. It would have done so without the allied D-Day invasion. YET NEVER A WORD IS SPOKEN OF UKRAINE IN WWII, only the word, "russia, russia, russia, russia..." UKRAINE ALONE LOST 150% OF WHAT THE FIFTEEN OTHER SOVIET “REPUBLICS” LOST ALL TOGETHER 1. Armenian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) 2. Azerbaijan SSR 3. Byelorussian SSR 4. Estonian SSR 5. Georgian SSR 6. Kazakh SSR 7. Kyrgyz SSR 8. Latvian SSR 9. Lithuanian SSR 10. Moldavian SSR 11. Russian SFSR (Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) 12. Tajik SSR 13. Turkmen SSR 14. Ukrainian SSR 15. Uzbek SSR The USSR LOST A TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER SOVIET REPUBLICS plus “russia” LOST 9 MILLION PEOPLE IN TOTAL… WHEREAS UKRAINE ALL ALONE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE, AS OF LATE 1942 WAS THE WORLD’S EPICENTER OFWORLD WAR II. As of 1943 UKRAINE WAS THE STRATEGIC PRIORITY OF GERMANY IN WWII …AS HITLER ORDERED. 7200 UKRAINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES WERE RAZED TO THE EARTH. …THAT’S SEVEN-THOUSAND-TWO HUNDRED… World War two in Europe was essentially a genocidal Tsunami which devastated exclusively UKRAINE, NOT “russia” from West to East (up to Stalingrad on Ukraine’s eastern border) and back again from East to West. (It slightly overflowed Ukraine's northern border at Kursk) As this wave rolled back westward the Germans razed 7,200 Ukrainian towns and villages. They and their populations were obliterated… Yet IGNORAMUSES in the GERMAN GOVERNMENT want to APPEASE "russia" by slitting Ukraine's throat from behind and tossing it to "russia" out of eternal generational guilt for what they did to...(not Ukraine) but rather to the rogue, mafia, illegitimate, unelected, oligarchial, neo-nä/zi DICTATORSHIP of "russia."

@@vancouveruzbekistan5350 I have never encountered such a concentration of hate and disinformation on a single page. I cringe just by thinking where and by whom you were "educated." Thankfully, Ukraine and Russia are showing in real time what they stand for. The new multipolar world is growing on the "compost" of decaying neo-imperialism. Hate devours the haters, not the hated.

holy hitler could not tell a lie, eh?

This idiot hates russia so much that he makes crackpot history about hitler wanting Ukraine just to spit russia. This man snyder can only be understood in the context of russophobia. Even In this little video he said that jews were not bothered by the Invading nazis entering Ukraine and that the soviet union was worse . The first country to ban antisemitism in the world was so bad that nazis were not seen as worse. This is the type of shit that This man spews.

How many bombs english drop on germans heads in this september 1939 ? Probably ZERO.

Dave Watson. It may have started for Britain in September 1939 but except for a period of no more than 3 weeks Britain had no land forces on the continent until June 1944. Possibly they did not want to muddy their boots so they let the Soviets fight the war.

@@aesop8694 Mr Aesop, I would not for a moment deny that the soviet Union did the bulk of the fighting in Europe for some years but Dunkirk was was 9 months after the start, by which time the British and Commonwealth forces were engaged in North Africa against first the Italians then the Germans, in Greece march to June 1940 and then in Italy and France from1943, not to mention a huge naval conflict the whole time and a long and bitter campaign in the far East. During this time Britain was bombed continuously and massively as well. Malta never fell.

@@davewatson309 With all due respect I would not consider British retreats and defeats to numerically inferior forces as being evidence of Britains contribution to WW2. The period from September 1939 to approx the 10th May 1940 was known as the phoney war. There after less than 2 weeks of engaging the Germans in battle, the BEF retreated to Dunkirk and were then evacuated to Britain 26th May - 4th June 1940. This evacuation was called both a miracle and a victory. Did you know that Hitler was instrumental in the success of the evacuation? Check your history, Greece had already defeated the Italians well prior to the British victories in Africa. As regards Greece and Crete Britain was there in name only. They arrived in Greece too late and took positions 100 miles from the Germans to give them time to retreat. Crete was a British disaster right from the start. Successive British generals that were sent to prepare the defences of the Island failed to do so and once again a numerically inferior German force won the battle of Crete. Churchill said of Sicily that he believed that the allies had landed a Tiger on the beaches to fight the Germans only to find that the tiger was but a pussycat. The rest is history the Germans remained in Italy until wars end while Montgomery and Paton in their vanity held parades. The war in Asia was no different the leader of the combined allied forces Lieutenant-General Percival was bluffed into surrendering to a much smaller Japanese force. Look there is no criticism intended on the bravery of the British fighting man, however one must question the competence of their military leaders.

Britain entered WW2 in 1939 NOT 1941. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. On September 3, 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning the START of WW2. German armies invaded and defeated Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France on 10 May 1940. After France surrendered on June 1940, Germany’s attention turned to Britain. The Battle of Britain, 10 July 1940 - 31 October 1940, when the British RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe. Germany couldn’t defeat Britain without air superiority because it is an island. Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941, for the Caucasus oil fields, Not for bread in Ukraine. The Ukrainians were Nazi collaborators and were wiling participants in the Pogroms.

John Somebody As a historian I'm a nobody, but here is a suggestion regarding the strategic importance of Ukraine. Controlling it thoroughly might open up an avenue to the Caucasus, and via to the Caucasus to the Middle East. Apparently a few German troops did advance to somewhere around Grozny, which is past Ukraine and a sort of gateway to the Caucasus, before turning back. The port of Baku in Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, was one of the world's great hubs of oil production, coveted by all major powers. Further south lay the oil fields of Iran and Mesopotamia (Iraq), eventually the Persian Gulf and Arabia itself. To control the main arteries of oil supply would have been an Unholy Grail for Hitler's forces. Had a hook-up been [possible with the Japanese to the east.......... Fortunately that was NOT possible. Sometimes I wonder why God permitted the USSR to survive as long as it did. He is merciful. I guess that still worse evil would have ensued had the Axis powers won.

How could Britain have entered the war in 1941 when my great grandfather, a pilot was captured in 1940 by the Germans in Dunkirk when his plane was shot down. He was put in a Stalag POW camp in Poland for five years until his release in 1945.

@@Petal4822 Regardless what happened to your grandfather (and thank God that he survived), Britain was involved in the war from September 3,1939 onwards. However if you mean that British forces did not have a free hand to operate at will in every theatre of war, you are certainly correct. I don't think that any combatant had quite that capacity, although the Japanese came close in 1941, which made them exceptionally dangerous.

The Ukrainians and the Poles saw Hitler as a better alternative to the hated Stalin. Hitler classed the Slavic race as sub-human and put them just above the Jews. The Nazis forced them into slave labor factories with starvation rations.

@@Petal4822 Tragically, Hitler did see things that way. Btw Slavs are NOT a race. People often confuse 'race' and LANGUAGE. Of course all the Slavic languages are related, being part of the larger Indo-European group which includes tongues as diverse as Gaelic, Greek, and Bengali. Old-fashioned concepts of 'race', originating in 19th-century Romanticism, have been blown out of the water by modern DNA science, among other things. However aspects of Romantic thought do seem to persist in conservative Russia (e.g. in the philosophy of Alexander Dugin). Most Europeans nations, and Jews also, contain elements from various sub-races all mixed up together. 'Purity' only exists in isolated which have remained separate from the rest of humanity for thousands of years, and most of those isolates have now disappeared.

Politely, Transnistria did exist back then. The borders have changed throughout this region over time, especially regarding fought over territories such as this. It’s been under the umbrella of different countries and names, but the province existed in one form or another. I commented to say though, the inclusion of it specifically on this map is to signify its importance as an Axis controlled territory. I think you might be misreading it as an autonomous state/country equal in weight to that of adjacent Slovakia for example and thinking about it in regards to current status & issues. This a German War map, not a universally accepted map of the time. Slovakia doesn’t have ‘Reichskommissariat’ above it because they were a willing ally and not a forcefully occupied territory. This whole area (including Germany, but especially eastward) was a big mess over border disputes and change in control of territories for a long time. Not just where Nazi or Soviet control is concerned, but amongst themselves for ages. Sorry to be pedantic if you know that already. But so moving on, the German government was very administrative and didn’t just occupy but set up new ‘administrations’ (like German provisional government statehood names) as it expanded control. Hence Reichskomissariat Ostland and Reichskomissariat Ukraine. Re Transnistria- the landmass known as such was part of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1924-1940. Then it fell under Romanian control from 1941-1944. But more specifically than just being under Romanian control, it is likely referring to the ‘Transnistria Governorate’, which was a Romanian-administered territory that had its own specific land/borders. (Again with the administrations.) I don’t know your nationality/knowledge/exposure, but Romania is vastly underplayed as a vital and significant Axis ally (from my American experience). This map is zoomed in and limited, but Transnistria (as in the Axis Governorate) was of great importance on the German chessboard re invasion of Ukraine and as a key positional point on the front against the USSR. A pivotal fought over territory in the war. (Unfortunately, also substantial with Holocaust atrocities.) All that just to put into context why it’s relevant on this map and natural to be alongside the others here, particularly in relation to WW2 conflict affecting Ukraine. Forgive me. I’m a nerd who can’t sleep. I don’t mean anything argumentatively and didn’t agree with everything that was said in the video as far as scope/weight. But if you have interest in the region just thought it might be helpful. Could easily understand confusion given the modern breakaway republic combined with the fact that most everyone posting content has some kind of agenda or at least bias lean, and I’ve had to be so dissecting of basic info & images being shown myself.

UKRAINE concrete undebatable facts from RUSSIAN, NOT Ukrainian archives, which were briefly opened under Boris Yeltsin in 1992 but then quickly re-sealed by Putin: NOT " RUSSIA" but the 15 republics of the USSR lost a total of 23 million. Of that total. Ukraine alone lost 14 million. ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FOUGHT IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII. OF THESE, 130,000- that 's one hundred thirty thousand RUSSIANS, fought in German Nazi Waffen SS units in WWII. The greatest contingent of foreign WAFFEN SS VOLUNTEERS WAS...RUSSIAN! Yet, the Neo Nä/zi CRIMINAL RUSSIANS continue to defame UKRAINE, smearing the entire Ukrainian people as "Näs/is! RUSSIANS WHO STATE IS A NAZI DICTATORSHIP IN ALL ASPECTS, call the legitimate elected democratic government of Ukraine a näsi Junta! At this very moment the russian parliament is 87% neo-näz/i, ultra right, nationalist- such as putin's very own brown shirt party "United Russia" formerly run by the self proclaimed neo-näsi Zhirinovsky, Putins dead buddy. Simply google up the russian parliament's own website to find this out in two minutes. Putin's spiritual Guru is Alexander Dugin, the self proclaimed neo-näz/i who passionately calls upon putin to carry out a FOURTH RUSSIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE and wipe them out entirely this time, where both lenin and stalin failed in this exact very plan. Only TWO NATIONS ON EARTH HAVE A JEWISH PRESIDENT & defense minister (and until 2020 consecutively also a Jewish prime minister)- ISRAEL and....?....UKRAINE! UKRAINE and its people LITERALLY GAVE MORE BLOOD THAN ANY NATION ON EARTH TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE from the Holocaust. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN WWII!!!!!! CHURCHILL WROTE THAT GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINIANS WHERE THE ENTIRE EASTERN FRONT OCCURRED AS OF 1943 There are 2240 UKRAINIANS honored among the RIGHTEOUS in Jerusalem for giving their lives to save Jews in WWII. There are a mere 220 “russians”. Let no one ever again serve you the libel, the SMEAR that Ukrainians are “anti-semites.” It is acknowledged that tens of thousands more UKRAINIANS were murdered by russians and Germans before they could be documented and recognized as “Righteous among the Nations.” THERE WERE 1000. 000 russian nazi collaborators in German Nazi in WWIIuniform 45 TIMES MORE THAN UKRAINIANS. France, Holland, Estonia, etc had FAR MORE - (and IDEOLOGICALLY CONVINCED TRUE NAZI SS COLLABORATORS than Ukraine. Ukrainians allied with Germany unwillingly to save UKRAINE from the russian socialist genocidal meat grinder. PEOPLE IGNORE the giant MASTODON in the room- ALL THE ALLIES COLLABORATED WITH....? A FAR MORE GENOCIDAL REGIME- WITH SOCIALIST RUSSIA. Yet not a single word is ever whispered in this regard. UKRAINE’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY AND the AXIS CAN NEVER BE OVERRATED. AS CHURCHILL WROTE, GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE, BY UKRAINIANS (NOT IN “RUSSIA”). 67% of All German forces (all German forces worldwide, not just on the Eastern front) including elite and SS troops were fighting & were DESTROYED in… UKRAINE, not in some “russia” or elsewhere. 1st UKRAINAN FRONT 2nd UKRAINAN FRONT 3rd UKRAINAN FRONT 4th UKRAINAN FRONT 5th UKRAINAN FRONT comprising 7.4 million troops THAT’S SEVEN-POINT-FOUR-MILLION UKRAINIAN NOT “Russian” TROOPS DEFEATED GERMANY and saved a certain “Russia” and the USSR FROM GERMANY. Ukrainians constituted about 24% of the Armed Forces of the USSR, or 8 million troops, yet UKRAINIANS were always at the very front. Russians came behind the first Ukrainian waves. The mass rapes of women were carried out by russians coming after the first waves made up almost exclusively of Ukrainians as of 1943. UUKRAINIANS SAVED RUSSIA’S Nazi A$$ in WWII & still today the RUSSIAN GENOCIDAL NEO NAZIS DEFAME UKRAINE UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS WAR OUT OF A SOVIET TOTAL OF 23 MILLION. (8 million military and 6 million civilian). WHICH MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS OF THE USSR ALL TOGETHER LOST A TOTAL OF 9 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE SAVED "russia's" backside in WWII and carried out the VAST MAJORITY of the defeat of Germany. It would have done so without the allied D-Day invasion. YET NEVER A WORD IS SPOKEN OF UKRAINE IN WWII, only the word, "russia, russia, russia, russia..." UKRAINE ALONE LOST 150% OF WHAT THE FIFTEEN OTHER SOVIET “REPUBLICS” LOST ALL TOGETHER 1. Armenian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) 2. Azerbaijan SSR 3. Byelorussian SSR 4. Estonian SSR 5. Georgian SSR 6. Kazakh SSR 7. Kyrgyz SSR 8. Latvian SSR 9. Lithuanian SSR 10. Moldavian SSR 11. Russian SFSR (Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) 12. Tajik SSR 13. Turkmen SSR 14. Ukrainian SSR 15. Uzbek SSR The USSR LOST A TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER SOVIET REPUBLICS plus “russia” LOST 9 MILLION PEOPLE IN TOTAL… WHEREAS UKRAINE ALL ALONE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE, AS OF LATE 1942 WAS THE WORLD’S EPICENTER OFWORLD WAR II. As of 1943 UKRAINE WAS THE STRATEGIC PRIORITY OF GERMANY IN WWII …AS HITLER ORDERED. 7200 UKRAINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES WERE RAZED TO THE EARTH. …THAT’S SEVEN-THOUSAND-TWO HUNDRED… World War two in Europe was essentially a genocidal Tsunami which devastated exclusively UKRAINE, NOT “russia” from West to East (up to Stalingrad on Ukraine’s eastern border) and back again from East to West. (It slightly overflowed Ukraine's northern border at Kursk) As this wave rolled back westward the Germans razed 7,200 Ukrainian towns and villages. They and their populations were obliterated… Yet IGNORAMUSES in the GERMAN GOVERNMENT want to APPEASE "russia" by slitting Ukraine's throat from behind and tossing it to "russia" out of eternal generational guilt for what they did to...(not Ukraine) but rather to the rogue, mafia, illegitimate, unelected, oligarchial, neo-nä/zi DICTATORSHIP of "russia."

27 million russian? USSR≠Russia

Prof. Snyder always works for the ruling elite.

He literally says this on 1:09. What's with the nitpicking?

It's not the impression I got either, he does explain how Germany initiated WW-2 by invading Poland...

Exactly what's happening now: destabilization of the region with a possible overthrowing of Putin as a bonus.

Agree entirely. Wouldn't it be nice to get a full overview/facts about the history of Ukraine rather than snippets of information and opinions from experts.

NATO’s push into Ukraine? …Your cart is in front of your horse!

@@eefneleman9564 Da was no U Kraine befor 1918 ! For thousend years was Rusia , Poland !

it seems that u personally r a re-puked dog's breakfast & "crim/inally stu/pid"

Yes, they were send to UK and after to Canada and USA. Many of them were nazis and US used them as skys against Russia ( Like Mykoła Lebed). Here is full story ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UB_Gs-0dhOo.html

A simple wikipedia search will show you that the highest level of Soviet casualties for military and civilians in WW2 was Belarus, where's just under 25 % of the civilian population died. Ukraine is next highest at around 19 %. Russian casualties was "just" 9 % of the civilian population. You just forget that the Soviet Union was a Russian empire encompassing many different ethnic and cultural groups including Ukrainians and Belarusians.

@@nickbrough8335 First,had you read my comment correctly you would see I mentioned that about Belarus. Second,the figures I gave are from Wikipedia under Soviet casualties. Third how did I somehow forget the Soviet Union was multi-ethnic. As to it being a Russian Empire. If you mean the main language was Russian you are correct. But only a few of it's leaders in it's history were ethnic Russians. And the ruling class was very multi-ethnic at all times.

Anti semitism was common and accepted in all of Europe back then.

@@carolineleiden Yes. But in some countries it was worse than others. Ukraine was considered very bad.

@@Danielseven-ir2mq Considered by who?

@@andrewlight3239 considered by Nuremberg trials

@@carolineleiden That is also true. So I guess a better question could be: can we judge people by their history? Can we learn about a people based on their history or is every historical moment unique and not linked to the past?

and every one has an excuse not to recognize gthe collaboration with the nazi by murdering barbaric thousand jews thks to collaboration of the ukraine s gvt during WWII!!!! d

@@mariawolf5843 2 millions of russians fought for nazis, what are you talking about?🤦🏼‍♂️ Also, what about 7 millions of Ukrainians and 3 millions of Kazakhstan's people russian empire (USSR) starved to death?

@@chucknutz6269 2 million is still no where near the amount of volunteers from Ukraine that fought for hitler. Most of the guards at the German concentration camps were Ukrainians, the ideology is clearly still well alive in Ukraine today. Also it wasn’t ‘Russia’ that starved Ukraine in the holodomor, it was communism.

@@harambe7430 wtf are you talking about? 🤦‍♂️ 🤣 Yeah, in your sick delusions ukrainians were bigger group than russians who fought for the Hitler. The rest of the world knows that russians were 3 times bigger group in Hitler's army than ukrainians. Also, it's russia who starved to death 10 millions of Ukrainians and Kazakhstan people. We were occupied by russian communists, russian communists took all the food from Ukraine and Kazakhstan and russia felt itself very good in those times.

@@chucknutz6269 my delusions?? Their literally fact hahahaha. Also your profile picture speaks about who you support, far right extreme nationalism I see. Anyway you should be thanking the Russians cause if not for them and the British and the Americans you would be living under the worst regime in European history, but I forgot you’d probably like that since your country still celebrates a literal nazi in stepan bandera.

And entered a period called Phoney War

You do know that more Ukrainians were in the Red Army than there were supporting the Nazis and there were Russians who supported the Nazis

Europe should be grateful to the US and Britain, we liberated your cowardly countries in WW2.

Good question

I'll take a stab at this one. I read somewhere that Britain and France realistically could not take on Stalin and Hitler simultaneously, so they chose to fight the more immediate threat to the European continent and thus their (until then) hegemony: Hitler. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", as they say. It was a brief marriage of convenience that barely lasted until the end of WW2. That's how I understand it....

Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder. A classic.

Why don't you add some here?

@@rc.... Why don't you learn history? And, if you want me to be your tutor, you have to pay me. EDIT Get an education at Yale as he did. LOL!

Very, very interesting thought. Hitler started in 1919. Time Magazine in America named him Man of the Year in 1938. The U.S. got directly involved in the war in 1940. Plus, few of us know that Germany and Russia signed an agreement and they BOTH attacked Poland within weeks of each other. But the story is told that Russia saved the Jews in ww2. Go figure. But I have a question. If America wanted to defeat the Bolsheviks, then why did the U.S. President personally assist Trotsky in returning to Russia to lead the Bolshevik revolution?

Correct Germany were financially destitute after ww1 yet within 20yrs had the largest military best economy in Europe. Where did the finances come from...?

@@dreadrasta2481 Interesting. Now I have to do more research. But what is your theory about where the money came from? There are really only a few possibilities.

@@jerrysamuels8716 Hitler was the West's Bulwark to contain the Bolsheviks to the east. As usual the Western powers financed Hitler unaware of his secret nonaggression pact with Stalin... Sound familiar

@@dreadrasta2481 Thing is though, America also bankrolled the Bolsheviks. Trotsky, the leader of the red army, was even granted a pass back to the Soviet Union by Truman, I think? Plus, Hitler, later ignored that pact and attacked Russia, anyway, with the eventual goal, someone said, to take Ukraine. Thanks.

The SS group in charge of mass killings was the Einsatzgruppen, its members were mainly German and they enlisted the help of the Wehrmacht for logistic support. SS Viking was part of the Waffen SS, the combat arm of the SS, they may have helped the Einsatzgruppen, but Viking were not the troops tasked with mass killings of civilians.

Ukraine definitely suffered more than "russia". At first russia starved to death 7 millions of Ukrainians, than few decades later Nazis killed another 8 millions of Ukrainians. What are you talking about?

What makes these Ukrainian pogroms so shocking and horrific is that they happened in the 1940’s, in the midst of a civilised Europe, not back in the barbaric dark ages of history..

those are PROVEN RUSSIAN accounts to defame Ukraine. even Now Ukraine has a Jewish president & Defense minister... elected by 76% of ("nazi"?) UKRAINIANS UKRAINE concrete undebatable facts: ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FOUGHT IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII. OF THESE, 130,000- that 's one hundred thirty thousand RUSSIANS, fought in German Nazi Waffen SS units in WWII. The greatest contingent of foreign WAFFEN SS VOLUNTEERS WAS...RUSSIAN! Yet, the Neo Nä/zi CRIMINAL RUSSIANS continue to defame UKRAINE, smearing the entire Ukrainian people as "Näs/is! RUSSIANS WHO STATE IS A NAZI DICTATORSHIP IN ALL ASPECTS, call the legitimate elected democratic government of Ukraine a näsi Junta! At this very moment the russian parliament is 87% neo-näz/i, ultra right, nationalist- such as putin's very own brown shirt party "United Russia" formerly run by the self proclaimed neo-näsi Zhirinovsky, Putins dead buddy. Simply google up the russian parliament's own website to find this out in two minutes. Putin's spiritual Guru is Alexander Dugin, the self proclaimed neo-näz/i who passionately calls upon putin to carry out a FOURTH RUSSIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE and wipe them out entirely this time, where both lenin and stalin failed in this exact very plan. Only TWO NATIONS ON EARTH HAVE A JEWISH PRESIDENT & defense minister (and until 2020 consecutively also a Jewish prime minister)- ISRAEL and....?....UKRAINE! UKRAINE and its people LITERALLY GAVE MORE BLOOD THAN ANY NATION ON EARTH TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE from the Holocaust. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN WWII!!!!!! CHURCHILL WROTE THAT GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINIANS WHERE THE ENTIRE EASTERN FRONT OCCURRED AS OF 1943 There are 2240 UKRAINIANS honored among the RIGHTEOUS in Jerusalem for giving their lives to save Jews in WWII. There are a mere 220 “russians”. Let no one ever again serve you the libel, the SMEAR that Ukrainians are “anti-semites.” It is acknowledged that tens of thousands more UKRAINIANS were murdered by russians and Germans before they could be documented and recognized as “Righteous among the Nations.” THERE WERE 1000. 000 russian nazi collaborators in German Nazi in WWIIuniform 45 TIMES MORE THAN UKRAINIANS. France, Holland, Estonia, etc had FAR MORE - (and IDEOLOGICALLY CONVINCED TRUE NAZI SS COLLABORATORS than Ukraine. Ukrainians allied with Germany unwillingly to save UKRAINE from the russian socialist genocidal meat grinder. PEOPLE IGNORE the giant MASTODON in the room- ALL THE ALLIES COLLABORATED WITH....? A FAR MORE GENOCIDAL REGIME- WITH SOCIALIST RUSSIA. Yet not a single word is ever whispered in this regard. UKRAINE’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY AND the AXIS CAN NEVER BE OVERRATED. AS CHURCHILL WROTE, GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE, BY UKRAINIANS (NOT IN “RUSSIA”). 67% of All German forces (all German forces worldwide, not just on the Eastern front) including elite and SS troops were fighting & were DESTROYED in… UKRAINE, not in some “russia” or elsewhere. 1st UKRAINAN FRONT 2nd UKRAINAN FRONT 3rd UKRAINAN FRONT 4th UKRAINAN FRONT 5th UKRAINAN FRONT comprising 7.4 million troops THAT’S SEVEN-POINT-FOUR-MILLION UKRAINIAN NOT “Russian” TROOPS DEFEATED GERMANY and saved a certain “Russia” and the USSR FROM GERMANY. Ukrainians constituted about 24% of the Armed Forces of the USSR, or 8 million troops, yet UKRAINIANS were always at the very front. Russians came behind the first Ukrainian waves. The mass rapes of women were carried out by russians coming after the first waves made up almost exclusively of Ukrainians as of 1943. UUKRAINIANS SAVED RUSSIA’S Nazi A$$ in WWII & still today the RUSSIAN GENOCIDAL NEO NAZIS DEFAME UKRAINE UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS WAR OUT OF A SOVIET TOTAL OF 23 MILLION. (8 million military and 6 million civilian). WHICH MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS OF THE USSR ALL TOGETHER LOST A TOTAL OF 9 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE SAVED "russia's" backside in WWII and carried out the VAST MAJORITY of the defeat of Germany. It would have done so without the allied D-Day invasion. YET NEVER A WORD IS SPOKEN OF UKRAINE IN WWII, only the word, "russia, russia, russia, russia..." UKRAINE ALONE LOST 150% OF WHAT THE FIFTEEN OTHER SOVIET “REPUBLICS” LOST ALL TOGETHER 1. Armenian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) 2. Azerbaijan SSR 3. Byelorussian SSR 4. Estonian SSR 5. Georgian SSR 6. Kazakh SSR 7. Kyrgyz SSR 8. Latvian SSR 9. Lithuanian SSR 10. Moldavian SSR 11. Russian SFSR (Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) 12. Tajik SSR 13. Turkmen SSR 14. Ukrainian SSR 15. Uzbek SSR The USSR LOST A TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER SOVIET REPUBLICS plus “russia” LOST 9 MILLION PEOPLE IN TOTAL… WHEREAS UKRAINE ALL ALONE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE, AS OF LATE 1942 WAS THE WORLD’S EPICENTER OFWORLD WAR II. As of 1943 UKRAINE WAS THE STRATEGIC PRIORITY OF GERMANY IN WWII …AS HITLER ORDERED. 7200 UKRAINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES WERE RAZED TO THE EARTH. …THAT’S SEVEN-THOUSAND-TWO HUNDRED… World War two in Europe was essentially a genocidal Tsunami which devastated exclusively UKRAINE, NOT “russia” from West to East (up to Stalingrad on Ukraine’s eastern border) and back again from East to West. (It slightly overflowed Ukraine's northern border at Kursk) As this wave rolled back westward the Germans razed 7,200 Ukrainian towns and villages. They and their populations were obliterated… Yet IGNORAMUSES in the GERMAN GOVERNMENT want to APPEASE "russia" by slitting Ukraine's throat from behind and tossing it to "russia" out of eternal generational guilt for what they did to...(not Ukraine) but rather to the rogue, mafia, illegitimate, unelected, oligarchial, neo-nä/zi DICTATORSHIP of "russia."

Angela Nicholson. Your father was a brave and honest man. Those baying for blood now have no comprehension of what war is.

@@aesop8694 The absolute truth .

German leftovers? Unbelievable nonsense.

No Russian pretends Ribbentrop Molotov pact didn't happen.

Lol ussr was the last major european nation to sign a non aggression pact with germany westerners have completly forgotten that historical fact And brings up ribbentrop molotov pact to try to equate nazi germany and the ussr

@@marcuslarsson9548 As that pact redrew other countries borders and gave Germany a single front war, it was a collaborative aggression pact aiding the Nazi governments war aims. USSR also signed a similar pact with the Japanese early in 1941, which is the fact that is forgotten. The USSR were no liberators, they imposed a Stalinist terror on occupied countries, that lasted nearly 50 years.

@@RobBCactive well that’s your perspective the perspective from the ussr was to make the front with Germany as narrow as possibly by a preemptive occupation of eastern Poland.

@@RobBCactive Poland joined the aggression of czekoslovakia with Germany but a lot of people don’t remember that and they don’t say. That that created a one front lol

No... not balanced at all. He needs to go back school to understand what an alliance means. It's ramifications and consequences for formally being in one. And to know the difference between a formal alliance and a non-aggression pact. A huge difference. If the Soviet Union and Germany were in an alliance, not only would the West have declared war on Germany, after invading Poland, but by de jure... hell and de facto too, they would have also been at war with the Soviet Union. That's how an ALLIANCE works. This clown is rewriting history by saying as such. And so much more, Britain didn't see itself at war until mid 1940??? huh? Didn't mention "Lebensraum" once. Kind of an important word when it comes to Hitler's philosophy. It was also about oil too... and turns out even more so and the change in priority for Stalingrad. Oh... "but the Russian people didn't suffer nearly as much as the Ukrainians at the hands of the Nazis". Just to categorically isolate "suffering" as a quantitative value for either Russians or Ukrainians is just asinine. He has an agenda, it's obvious.

Balanced indeed . What justification is there for Ukranian collaborates to serve as guards at Nazi concentration camps and other atrocities they committed against civilians under the supervision of the Nazis ?

Britain entered WW2 in 1939 NOT 1941. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. On September 3, 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning the START of WW2. German armies invaded and defeated Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland and France on 10 May 1940. After France surrendered on June 1940, Germany’s attention turned to Britain. The Battle of Britain, 10 July 1940 - 31 October 1940, when the British RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe. Germany couldn’t defeat Britain without air superiority because it is an island. Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941, for the Caucasus oil fields, Not for bread in Ukraine. The Ukrainians were Nazi collaborators and were wiling participants in the Pogroms.

No, you're mistaken.

367 murder ways, and 200 of them were invented by ukrainians especially for polish people. Most brutal genocide that happened in the history, its proved

2 millions of russians fought for nazis, what are you talking about?🤦🏼‍♂️ Also, what about 7 millions of Ukrainians and 3 millions of Kazakhstan's people russian empire (USSR) starved to death?

@@chucknutz6269 Your remark made me believe that you don't even know what happened in Volynia in 1939-45 to Polish defenceless peasants, well, they were ruthlessly slaughtered and tortured by Ukrainian nationalists and the methods of torture were beyond cruel. I got literally traumatised when I learned what happened to that poor children, women and men. The golodomor has nothing to do with Volynia massacre.

@@matildesroka4471So russia divided Poland with Hitler, russians killed more than 8 millions of ukrainians, russians killed 3 millions of Kazakhstan people, russians killed 300 thousands of Crimean tatars, 500 thousands of Chechens, tens of thousands of Poles(Kathryn and other massacres)......... And you are trying to frame Ukraine as an "villain nation" just because of Volunya tragedy, that was orcestreted by SS, Germans, and the most radical ukrainian collaborators... Also, don't forget that what happened in Volunie was as much of a horrible crime as what Poles(Armia Krayowa) and Polish SS did during Operation Wisla to Ukrainians and what Armia Krayowa did to tens of thousands of peaceful Ukrainians during ethic cleanings... So in the end of the day, russia killed like 150 times more peaceful people than Ukraine. That's why Poland helps Ukraine and prepares to be ready to new coming of ruSSia's "peasful world".

@@chucknutz6269 what are you talking about? He was talking about ukraine, no russia. Also, the great starvation had place before war, not during it

the USSR had more than 20 mil deaths - which means Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, etc. It was not only Russians who died exclusively then.

@@andrewlight3239 I recall his claim that "Ukraine suffered far more than Russia, not just proportionately but in absolute terms" at around the 5:00 minute mark. He also went further with stating that "some" of the most decisive battles were fought in Ukraine as well... true. I guess Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow, for starters, were just hors d'oeuvres. Homey has an agenda.

@@wgreiter I mean, Belorusia and Ukraine did take the biggest hit from Germany, as it was the first war grounds of the USSR. Not to mention the persecution of people by Nazis. In a way, Russia managed to avert the same damage from its lands. Which is not to say that they had it easy. When Soviets retreated from Ukraine and Belorusia, they destroyed infrastructure to spoil Germany's plans. So, it might be not that far from the truth to say that Ukraine and Belorusia suffered more, considering all that I mentioned plus the famine after the war (again, it hit the entire USSR, but those two countries were devastated more from the war, having serious consequences). When you look at all of those things, it becomes less of a mystification.

@@andrewlight3239 Very valid points... I would have a hard time disagreeing with you. My issue is with the good professor's clear bias against Russia (imo). Not just in this regard, of "who suffered most" but with other points in the video. You can die as a Ukrainian and die as a Soviet, just like you can die as a Texan and die as a U.S. American. Why mutually exclude one from the other, unless you're attempting to trivialize one particular ethnicity's effort in said war? In WWII, the Ukrainians and the Russians had a common bond and they died together. To downplay that and subjectively count "coo" is just irresponsible as an educated historian.

@@wgreiter I think he wants to show something that many westerners don't know or heard of. There is a lack of understanding of the Eastern Europe and different people/ethnicities/nations living there. Like, how much did you know about Ukraine before the war 2014? And if you tell me that you know much, firstly I can give you a quiz, secondly and most importantly not everyone might be like you. From my experience, meeting people from the west - most of them saw the Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine or Belorusia, as just Russians named differently or something similar. The same as many people don't know much about the Middle East, Asia (not China, India, or Japan). And yet there are many unique cultures and histories, and their perception of themselves might vary significantly from the basic European/American point of view. I am from Ukraine, btw. And it happened so, that I studied international relations and history. Not my biggest interest, though. I am more interested in literature, fiction, and traveling. Yet, it is all kinda interrelated. You see, most stories and cultures we know are from either imperialist, most powerful nations, or from modern cultural influence. And the voice of those oppressed or weak or marooned in geopolitical madness is often not heard. So, while I agree that this video doesn't cover the half of what happened, I won't be so hasty to claim this person's motivation. Technically, it doesn't say anything wrong. Also, technically, it doesn't specify much. Maybe, it is a lack of time. Maybe, it is some political agenda. But what history and good fantasy fiction taught me is that judging without knowing all is rarely accurate. And even when you know enough, be cautious with conclusions where people are concerned. In the end, I am personally happy that Ukrainian history and culture crawls out of the shadows. And so, in a way, I am biased about this video. As it does show something new to people, not familiar with Ukraine. P.s. I agree that it could've been done better. Maybe, he has other more profound videos. I dunno.

No, they was waiting and thinking which part they going to take

Europe should be grateful to Britain and the US. After all we liberated your cowardly countries in WW2.

Battle of Britain in 1940!!

i dont think ukraine have the resources for a nuclear program. Only thing nato and US can do against a nuclear power as russia is funding islamic extremists and sanctions. A conventional war wil lead to a nuclear war..

This is what your deputy from the supreme council recently mentioned. He quotes, "If Ukraine had nuclear weapons, she could blackmail the West." Well, that clearly indicates that Ukraine with nuclear weapons would be like "North Korea". Mentent "Monkeys with a Pomegranate"

Ukraine invaded Crimea for 60 years; regarding International law Ukraines youchenko join the illegal war in Irak ; 1/2 deaths

Because the Iraqi Army are considered were considered a 3rd class Army and they had no nuclear weapon, totally opposite with Putin and the Russian Army, their much better ,are bigger,produce their own military weapons and are tied with the United States in the number of Nuclear Weapons, in the thousands, it does not take a Erwin Rommel or a Gustavus Adolphus to figure that out another words you don,t have to be a Military Genius just have Military Common Sense and under standing of your opponent,what he has and will he use it etc etc etc. If this was 1920, the deadliest military weapons countries had in ground warfare were Heavy Artillery,Heavy Machine Guns and Chemical Gas, than I would say """GO FOR IT""" the General with the best strategy and tactics and best trained and equipped soldiers ( numbers really have nothing to do with it, in history most often much smaller armies have defeated much larger armies) WIN!!!!

Fawk Ukraine

That's certainly another angle that doesn't get enough attention.

Conversely a broader set of facts can still be found , otherwise you could not make the statement , that some authorities rewrite historical events for their agenda.... propaganda. We can discern propaganda because authentic evidence usually does survive.

"History is always written by the Victors"... and the Jeremys and the Ruperts ;)

@@buddhastaxi666 survived but buried, hidden ..

in order to kill Polish civilians there was no need to cut off limbs. Just to cut off supply lines was enough.

you are perfectly right It is scandal that Ukrainian diaspora try to whitewash all the dark side of Ukrainian barbarism Ukrainian nationalists hated poles as much as the Jews The goal of Hitler was not by priority Ukraine but Baku an its oil because nazi Germany had blocade on purchase of oil by Churchill this historian is ridiculous Holomodor was in many places Soviet Union it was anit-koulak and in Ukraine one of the main organizer was Kaganovitch an ukrainian

@@louisecorchevolle9241 What do you mean when you say "Ukrainian nationalists hated poles as much as the Jews"? Do you mean the Ukranians hated The Polish as much as Hitler hated the Jews, or do you mean something else?

@@jerrysamuels8716 they hated Jews there you go

@@paulatreides0777 Look. I don't really care. But what is your point when you say they hated Jews? Do you mean like the Jews hate Palestinians?