The Cold War Wasn't Supposed to Happen

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So my generation probably remembers the Cold War as the chapter at the back of the history textbook that we never had enough time to learn about in any detail. But we know the long and short of it: America and the USSR pretended to like each other just long enough to give Germany a good whooping, and then they both held the world hostage with the threat of thermonuclear armageddon. But as inevitable as it may seem, having a Cold War wasn’t part of the plan. As a matter of fact, hopes were very high that the rest of the century was going to be nothing but roses.
After all, with the Axis in ruins, and, well, with most of Europe in ruins too, the Allies were looking at a clean slate. Fascism was gone (mostly), and while capitalism and communism were radically different, in theory both the USA and USSR were opposed to the militarism and expansionism that had driven the Germans to war, and they had the opportunity to quite literally create a new world order, to change the rules to make the world a safer place. That’s what they wanted to do. The problem, of course, is that their ideas of peace looked very different.
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@JackRackam 11 месяцев назад

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@josephbrainard441 11 месяцев назад

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@Spino2722 11 месяцев назад

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@Samm815 11 месяцев назад

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@coreypatton6290 11 месяцев назад

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@lazarpetrovic8340 11 месяцев назад

Yugoslavia was not part of the Eastern bloc. It was the issue of Greece(and Tito's desire for independence from Moscow and the informbiro) that led to the Tito-Stalin conflict, until Stalin's death Yugoslavia cooperated with the West and was in its own little cold war with Stalin.(I felt the need to say this because the video gives the impression that Yugoslavia was a Soviet satellite)

@lazarpetrovic8340 11 месяцев назад

Yugoslavia and Tito wanted communism in Greece so that Greece and Albania would be controlled by Belgrade, not Moscow.

@antonikudlicki1100 11 месяцев назад

Yugoslavia was in fact the leader of non-aligned countries of the cold war. I visited Tito's mansion in Croatia (it was turned into a museum) and it was mostly filled with hundreds of photos of Tito and different political leaders from all the continents. He must have been a great diplomat to successfuly create and expand an alliance like that

@lazarpetrovic8340 11 месяцев назад

@@antonikudlicki1100 The "non-aligned" were very irrelevant, most members tried to lobby for one of the two sides in the cold war they supported. It can be compared to the League of Nations, or perhaps even the Commonwealth. The only benefit was propaganda for the governments in their own countries. And Yugoslavia itself, when Stalin was succeeded by Khrushchev, decided to strengthen economic and political ties with the Soviet Union. (Most of those deals and trades were bad for the companies of both countries, and since the companies were state-owned, it hurt both countries; only a few corrupt people really profited from it). That's why I focused only on Stalin's Soviet Union in my comment. As for Tito, he was a true pragmatic politician rather than a die-hard communist. As for his reputation in the world, he could thank the effectiveness of the Yugoslav partisans who were the most successful and effective (although not the largest) resistance movement in WW2, and they say he was charismatic as well.

@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 11 месяцев назад

@@antonikudlicki1100you have to be a great diplomat if you can manage to bring a culturally diverse region such as the Balkans together and cooperate with each other for decades without huge problems.

@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 11 месяцев назад

@@lazarpetrovic8340the non aligned movement was mostly just a club where said countries didn't want to take a firm side in either camp, like India not wanting to be part of the western bloc mostly because England was in the club. Many African nations for similar reasons.

@bazzfromthebackground3696 11 месяцев назад

"So buried in quote[s] it began to look like razor wire." Damn this line is genius. I'm stealing.

@emptank 11 месяцев назад

Stalin: watchya gonna do? Just endlessly fly supplies into the city? Truman: you know we own Boeing right? Stalinv fuck! I forgot they own Boeing.

@goldenfiberwheat238 11 месяцев назад

Goering would’ve creamed his pants

@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 11 месяцев назад

The only thing unrealistic is Stalin being genuinely sad the USA 🦅 is burning through its war budget.

@capitaljushman5756 11 месяцев назад

when the soviets are asked to build a plane that isnt a mediocre low-altitude fighter

@dieptrieu6564 11 месяцев назад

@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana It doesn't really matter, because USA and it's allies are way richer than USSR.

@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana 11 месяцев назад

The USA 🦅 won't have the budget for an invasion if it spends all its money 💰 on stuff like this. @@dieptrieu6564

@prettypic444 11 месяцев назад

Okay, but i would TOTALLY watch a UN security council themed cop show

@julianshepherd2038 11 месяцев назад

Churchill never trusted Stalin or stopped seeing Russia as Britain's Great Game opponent.

@ravanpee1325 8 месяцев назад

Churchill was a warmongerer himself and got voted out of office for that

@mjbull5156 8 месяцев назад

The Soviet murdering the Polish officers in Kapteyn Forest and Stalin joking about it afterward kind of made Churchill realize he was in bed with a monster.

@kerim.s8801 7 месяцев назад

@@mjbull5156 No, Britain and the Soviet Union never trusted each other.

@bulletking2645 25 дней назад

@@mjbull5156 the same Churchill that was buddy buddy with mussilini

@ChristianDall-p2j 8 месяцев назад

The American basiclly also used “”””democracy”””” to get non-European countries to be capitalist as well.

@greenoftreeblackofblue6625 11 месяцев назад

Yet I doubt it would of gone any other way.

@wrightkaneradio4918 11 месяцев назад

Yeah it's not like everyone hated everyone for like fourty years beforehand. Not like most of the world funded the white army and the USSR funded communist rebels across the world after the 1920's.

@MilkMan7300 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, especially given how the these ideologies greatly oppose each other

@prestonjones1653 11 месяцев назад

@@MilkMan7300 Yes, although both sides thought the other was going to naturally fall to their side over time anyway, so it could have been nothing but a waiting game.

@dan_38 11 месяцев назад

There is a chance it might've worked if none of the then current heads of government were in charge. All 3 were the direct catalysts to the war, even happening when their respective countries went full proxy conflicts to avoid direct nuclear Armageddon

@anh413 11 месяцев назад

@@MilkMan7300 Not necessarily. The US voted for the Khmer Rouge and Khmer Rouge dominated force to stay in the UN representation for Cambodia UN seat until 1993. The Khmer Rouge which have human rights violations list that would make Hitler atrocities look "humane". We see this time and times again is that the Cold war is not ideology based but simply two emerging world super power vying for power. Both "democratic" and "peaceful" nations that support or backed dictators, extremism and violent groups. Sometimes even against their "morale code", the moderate and liberal US would turn a blind eye to or even promote religious extremists inside the Mujahideen as long as it is directed toward the Soviet or even dictatorships that was sponsored and backed by the US. The Soviet didn't do much better either but they have been talked to death since they lost the cold war.

@tedparkinson2033 11 месяцев назад

The Berlin airlift was amazing. British rationing actually played a huge part in it, along with sheer US air muscle, and experience gained through the airlifts to China during the war. I think at its peak, a C-47 was landing every 30 seconds or something.

@TGACmapper11 11 месяцев назад

1:09 this is the most chaotic intro ever

@fedoramaster6035 11 месяцев назад

0:38 I love that he’s playing in the mood. I love that song soooo much. Swing is a magical genre

@danielsantiagourtado3430 11 месяцев назад

0:40 you should do a video on franco sometime!

@daughterofscars5068 10 месяцев назад

Hi! Jack I don't know if you're going to see this but I think you will be really interesting if you consider talking about Simo Häyhä (the white death) He was Finnish sniper in the winter war of 1939 Just an idea to throw out there in the future. :> All right have an amazing day :-)

@its_n8_again588 11 месяцев назад

Putting "In the Mood" at the beginning messed with me, it's my ringtone and I kept thinking I was getting a phone call lol

@AsserKortteenniemi 11 месяцев назад

USSR wasn't against mitarism and expansionism. They annexed the baltic countries, started a war agains finland and jointly invaded poland with germany.

@throwfascistsintopits3062 11 месяцев назад

Oh let me guess "We fought the wrong enemy"? Because if USSR hadn't done all that, Germany would have a much bigger upper hand in the war and millions of slavs would be slaughtered and/or enslaved according to Generalplan Ost. Is this what you'd prefer to happen?

@ciii4361 11 месяцев назад

And the allies had the two biggest colonial empires in history of mankind. Only USA were against expansionism because they had already achieved the perfect borders

@throwfascistsintopits3062 11 месяцев назад

@@ciii4361 Yeah.... how do i explain this bud en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America

@ciii4361 11 месяцев назад

@@throwfascistsintopits3062 I said they were against expansionism not that they didn’t intervene in foreign countries

@throwfascistsintopits3062 11 месяцев назад

@@ciii4361 Yet they still actively expanded throughout their history, same manifest destiny. Not always by borders, but economically and politically. That's what capitalism and imperialism are.

@flavi9692 11 месяцев назад

My grandpa needed to shot a fridge during the cold war😢

@idkuwutdou8155 11 месяцев назад

Heartbreaking 💔😞

@dimitrijearsenijevic5597 7 месяцев назад

Important note, Yugoslavia was socialist and was actually kicked out of the soviet block because of their differences with Stalin's SSSR, their wish for greece to join them was because historically the southern slavs, especially Serbs, have been close to Greeks for centuries and wanted to try and merge with them.

@locuraromantica 7 месяцев назад

Mackinder's doctrine and true liberalism doctrine. Big industrialized countries can't compete with USA, USA can't allow to exist competitors or equal powers, hegemony is hegemony. Marshall's plan only existed to compete with the USSR, at the begining they wanted Morgenthau's plan for Europe, wich would condemn Germany to be a rural country.

@redmafiapanda 9 месяцев назад

I love history and holy shit was this informative entertaining and comprehensive rather it just shoved down your throst like a smoothie

@Preaplanes 10 месяцев назад

My guy, the gulags were a thing WAY before the end of WW2. Peace was never an option.

@MrFriendlyCsgoContent Месяц назад

you think your country is so virtous that you would go to war over that? pull your head out.

@aruakise9803 11 месяцев назад

The Stalin bean had me dying.

@michaelbread5906 11 месяцев назад

The art in this episode had me rolling!

@WWFanatic0 9 месяцев назад

Some timeline stuff is a bit muddled here. West Germany was formed on May 23, 1949 which was 11 days after the 11month long Berlin Blockade/Airlift. The US didn't "escalate" by making West Germany. The creation of West Germany was a response to Soviet escalation. A unified, neutral Germany wasn't out of the question until Stalin ordered the blockade. On Korea, the plan was to have international governance until Korea could self-govern. The Soviets accepted the proposal of a division along the 38th parallel for Soviet-US occupation zones. Moscow agreed to the 5 year trusteeship. The Soviets refused to cooperate and hold elections in the north, fearing that the people wouldn't be so fond of communism after a few years of Red Army occupation (considering in jointly occupied countries like Austria Soviet troops committed the majority of all crime, including that of the civilian population, and over 90% of the crimes by occupying soldiers...yeah I wonder why they might be unpopular). Also we need not forget that the DPRK invaded the ROK. The invasion was only successful at first because the US refused to let the ROK be more than a constabulary force, basically a militarized police and border guard service that could deal with insurgency and domestic unrest. As a result it had basically no tanks, aircraft, or artillery of any note. This was done to signal that the US wanted peace and to not provoke the Soviets. The Soviets responded by heavily arming the north, greenlighting the invasion, and providing air support. This feels like you had a desire to "both sides' the issue a bit even though at every step it was Stalin who broke agreements and provoked escalation.

@aliabdallah102 6 месяцев назад

No alliance that includes the British will ever stand for justice. Unless there's no one else in that alliance, then it's the British Empire and it stands for money.

@MatthewCaunsfield 11 месяцев назад

Such optimistic beginnings!

@revinhatol 11 месяцев назад

BAD NEWS: Matt Baker from UsefulCharts is not feeling good.

@adnamaster9973 11 месяцев назад

Good stuff hope this is a long series haha

@mathieuleader8601 11 месяцев назад

Glenn Miller's In The Mood you might say really set the mood for this video

@Calvinwhight 4 месяца назад

ah the worlds most aprehensive sponsorship

@Amantducafe 11 месяцев назад

Also one thing to high light. It wasn't cold for all the people that burned with Napalm

@cmdrdyland 25 дней назад

damn...

@Memento_Mori3210 15 дней назад

I love how no one understands that Canada got involved in the beginning of the cold war by having the RCMP capture a soviet man in Canada.

@mariolis 9 месяцев назад

4:51 Are you a voice actor for SAO: Abridged ? the voice sounds so similar its uncanny

@srdjan455 24 дня назад

Wait I'm pretty sure that China was added to the Council to be a soviet ally. That France was the wild card

@delta7619 Месяц назад

Why does the thumbnail kinda look like a game theory video 💀

@morfloxis 11 месяцев назад

Jolly good show!

@stealth42blade 11 месяцев назад

Oh my god Illuminati !!! It’s happening!!! 😂

@jackhardy3905 8 месяцев назад

If its difficult to say who started the first one at least we easily can say that US started the 2nd cold war

@juanmanuelsarasa6360 26 дней назад

Truman did it

@liamnevard1591 11 месяцев назад

True! We didn’t have time for it either lol

@Ksescel 11 месяцев назад

4:00 I’m gonna write a short story like this

@dator36 11 месяцев назад

The part of East Germany is actually incorrect. Stalin was strongly opposed to the idea of splitting Germany in half. It started off just as a part of the occupation effort of Germany up until the USA declared West Germany independent against the will of, well, everyone concerned. Also to note that Stalin disbanded the Comintern and even wanted to join Nato, but with rising hostilities from the west and being rejected from joining, the Warsaw pact was eventually formed

@willevensen7130 11 месяцев назад

Wrong Stalin was dead by then, he absolutely wanted Germany split in two and the USSR bidding to join NATO was just a ploy to have an excuse to tighten political control over the eastern bloc.

@dator36 11 месяцев назад

@@willevensen7130 what are you on about? That Stalin wasn't alive during the forming of the Warsaw pact? Yeah no kidding. The USSR was scared as heck of the idea of a rearmed Germany and wanted to keep the nation neutral. But the west said that "in order for Germany to be reunited they'll have to join the European defence comittee and rearm itself" This didn't fly well with the soviets so negotiations continued until West Germany was declared, joined Nato and started arming itself. This made poland and Czechoslovakia shake in their boots and they worked together to bring about the Warsaw pact.

@KaiserFranzJosefI 11 месяцев назад

@@willevensen7130 Stalin offered no fewer than four times to reunite Germany between 1948 and 1953. He wanted to minimize his shared border with NATO as much as possible and leave Germany impotent and without a military. The DDR was viewed by Soviet leadership as being little more than a parasite and a drain on Soviet resources

@hirocheeto7795 11 месяцев назад

NATO was formed as a pretty explicit counter to the Soviet Bloc. Though it wasn't explicitly stated in big bold letters, that's pretty much what it was. To allow the Soviets into NATO would completely defeat the entire purpose of the alliance. It'd just be a second layer under the UN, minus China, and with far fewer agencies and a far narrower scope. The Soviets petitioning to join NATO wasn't a serious ask, nor was it taken very seriously.

@herzog1857 11 месяцев назад

This video is full of irregularities that slowly indicate that the Soviets are the ones who started the cold war, which is totally wrong. The European part of the Soviet Union was totally destroyed in WW2 with millions of losses, the Soviets desperately wanted peace and stability so they could rebuild the country. On the other hand, the US came out of the great depression thanks to ww2. Even Eisenhower, in his last speech before leaving the office of president, warned against the American military industrial complex. As a one NATO general once wisely said: "NATO serves to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down". I hate communists with all my soul, but in this case, the west is to blame.

@CliffCardi 10 месяцев назад

Being Rhode Island born, I see no problem with this.

@elperrodelautumo7511 8 месяцев назад

Blame it on the Draka 🐉. A nation of slavers and slaves. Founded by former British loyalists who lost North America and settled in a former Dutch colony and turned it into a slavocracy. With some twisting of words and speech about society within and outside of their nation. A modern day Sparta. Located on the south of South Africa.

@tonyg9775 11 месяцев назад

You could argue that right now we are in the Second Cold War after 9/11, or alternatively, that it never ended in the first place

@henryfleischer404 11 месяцев назад

I don't think so. The cold war involved two peer powers, and since the Soviet Union collapsed, the US has been the only superpower. I think we're likely to see another one as China becomes more powerful, but we're not there yet.

@RedCommunistDragon 8 месяцев назад

@@henryfleischer404China has been a superpower for more than a couple years by now and Russia is still one, along with Iran slowly becoming another. They may not be as powerful as the United States, but they sure have the power to destroy many populations of the earth.

@certifiedreptilian5653 11 месяцев назад

Ah yes the inaction of the UN on a major issue seems to be a continuing theme

@antonikudlicki1100 11 месяцев назад

Of course it is. There is no globalism without imperialism, because only common goals/values between nations can lead to it and big geopolitical blocks will always push them on nations to at least unite a part of the world

@AL-lh2ht 11 месяцев назад

@@antonikudlicki1100globalism just means trade and sharing of info between nations. Saying that is evil is nonsense. It has brought untold prosperity to the world.

@technobloode9709 11 месяцев назад

@@AL-lh2htif you ignore unequal exchange and exploitation sure it is good 👍

@Rubia376 11 месяцев назад

@@technobloode9709 well i mean... eirther this and what? that the question what is altertive of globalism?

@IAkaksjdjtjeidi 4 месяца назад

2 bullets,2 wars

@darekfodor2168 11 месяцев назад

6mins early! What a luck

@pietpanzerpanzer5335 8 месяцев назад

The issue is that capitalism needs marked expansion. Also brutally dishones to picture the west as peacefull good guys. Like which side occupied more than half of the world?

@TehFlush 11 месяцев назад

That little bit about the cold war not being covered is so true. We spent so much time on Jim Crow, we didn't even get to touch the cold war which I was looking forward to

@TheStickCollector 11 месяцев назад

Interesting

@IneaFaedyn 11 месяцев назад

And wouldn't you know it, it's still going on today!

@雷-t3j 11 месяцев назад

No, the PRC-USA cold war is not a continuation of the first one, its separate, and Russian imperialism is just Russian imperialism, same as the last 500 years

@sahilhossain8204 10 месяцев назад

Lore of The Cold War Wasn't Supposed to Happen momentum 100

@lionheartfilms793 4 месяца назад

"I was only joking. Come back. Stalin is not a man who solves his problems with purges" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@DeathMetalDerf 11 месяцев назад

BOOBIES!!!!!!!

@tryingmybest206 8 месяцев назад

0:27 can we collectively agree to not fall for this a third time during the third world war? Please? thank you everyone

@GibbotheGibbon 11 месяцев назад

🎉

@Tom_Cruise_Missile 11 месяцев назад

The cold war started when the USSR decided conquer Poland rather than liberate it in 1944.

@extrusdnterre1485 11 месяцев назад

Bro, nobody cared about Poland after 1945

@cobaltcorsair592 11 месяцев назад

The USSR decided that if they were going to overthrow far-right autocracies anywah, they might as well save the surviving Polish people from their old government while they were at it.

@Tom_Cruise_Missile 11 месяцев назад

@@cobaltcorsair592 what a pathetic justification for blatant imperialism by your so-called "anti-imperialist" autocracy.

@Tom_Cruise_Missile 11 месяцев назад

@@cobaltcorsair592 honestly I was going to edit my other comment to say more, but I'll just make a second one. Are you seriously using the line that "They don't know what's best for themselves, therefore it's our responsibility to save them from their own backwardsness"? You know, the original colonialist justification from the days of the conquistadors? Are you seriously telling me that you support world powers intervening in smaller nations to remove governments they find disagreeable? Is that what you're telling me? Are you ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you want to go down that road? Are you COMPLETELY SURE you want to start saying it's ok to do that? Do you think the people of Northern Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s would agree with you on that? Do you think the people of Cuba would appreciate that concept? Let me guess, it's ok when you do it, because you're the "good guys!" Yeah, not like every colonial power in history said, and perhaps even believed the exact same goddamn thing. You are identical to the people who want to bring back the British Empire, or justify the Vietnam War, or tell us Putin has a right to rule over "ethnic Russians." What a fucking joke.

@markuskristersson4663 11 месяцев назад

The liberators had to stay in the land they liberated otherwise the ungrateful polish would become a Nazi country and invade the glorious motherland

@michaelhurley3171 8 месяцев назад

Han Solo shot first!!!

@OmegaTrooper 27 дней назад

The United Nations is practically as impotent as the League of nations

@Hamdog74 8 месяцев назад

Literally one minute in, you’ve already failed to understand the main cause of the cold war. In reality a cold war scenario of some sort between the communists and capitalist was inevitable as soon as the Bolshevik’s won the Russian Civil War. If you look at after WW1 ended the entirety of Europe was in a state of panic of the Communist treat, due to Marxist ideology calling for an international revolution. If you look at the internal politics of the Soviet Union they where in a conflict of how communism should be implemented, mainly ideology of permanent revolution, pretty much extremely aggressive military invasion of capitalist nations to free the proletariat from capitalism strictly following Marxism , and the ideology of communism in one state, calling for the Soviet Union to seek international political recognition and rapidly industrialise to be able to fight any who oppose the Soviet Union. After the failure of the invasion of poland in 1919-1921, permanent revolution and its main advocate Leon Trotsky lost its popularity so when Lenin died Iosif Stalin, an advocate of the Communism in one state system, with some political manoeuvring and manipulation, took power. Due to the system of Communism in one state the Soviet Union was inevitable to be seen as a threat to the Capitalist nations once it built up strength enough, it just so happens that the NSDAP party rose to power from the fear the threat of communism posed and started the 2nd world war first. So after that was dealt with it was rather a continuation of those fears from before the war, just with an even larger communist bloc in the form of the Warsaw Pact. That is also part of the reason why the cold war never went hot, Communism in one state was an ideology that the Communist state would build up UNTIL powerful enough to fight capitalism, but it just created an arms race with the bar always rising, even after destalination under Nikita Khrushchev, the Communism in one state ideology was still mostly in effect. It wasn’t until perestroika and glasnost under Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet Union moved away from this policy enough to stop the arms race, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union the Cold War ended.

@1998topornik 5 месяцев назад

At least UN performed better than LoN.

@12vscience 11 месяцев назад

@antonslavik4907 11 месяцев назад

1:08 Lies. Iron curtain was british idea 100%.

@razinghavoc7419 10 месяцев назад

Wrong. Most not all

@theburgerboy5936 10 месяцев назад

They literally didn't.

@le0rganism Месяц назад

The Iron Curtain started as a phrase used by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's unwelcome and unlawful puppeteering of Eastern Europe and the creation of a bloc against the West. It was called the Iron Curtain because there was less freedom of movement.

@Nagria2112 10 месяцев назад

a pay to win mobile game with a league? this is genius. now the whales want to spend to get on top of the leaderboard xDD

@sarven5974 11 месяцев назад

mf made the best propaganda piece against Russia and painted Churchill as if he was cooperative lmao. He wanted the Nazi's to Destroy the USSR and he was the first to think of a plan to wage war against them.

@iamkulit1cs735 11 месяцев назад

20 seconds

@alfrancisbuada2591 11 месяцев назад

Guess Politics are the real enemy

@hereLiesThisTroper 11 месяцев назад

Han Solo shot first.

@Pikkabuu 11 месяцев назад

Using a map of the MODERN Europe in 8:10 to stand in as the map of the Cold War Europe...hopefully someone got fired for that blunder.

@matthewsilfer2010 11 месяцев назад

If it wasn't on purpose, the cold war was a very convenient way to justify the maintenance of a large military....very very convenient lol

@finnmichaelexplorer 8 месяцев назад

Your arms must be really stiff, I suggest bending your elbows every so often.

@AncientRylanor69 8 месяцев назад

@joshuamitchell5018 11 месяцев назад

If you've somehow gotten here and are reading this as a somebody with genuinely positive views on socialism, that having good people being selfless and caring about the people would make the world function better...I want to really let it be said plainly that IF communism was a scientific experiment, it has been tested in every single climate, civilization or income range. It's had all kinds of alternatives such as "Trotskyite", "Stalinist", "Maoist", Islamic/Arab", "Ukrainian anarchism" or Third World with all being a basketcase of miseries. Communists always cite being an underdog, that their systems failed due to a lack of support/Hostility from the liberal capitalist world. However the great irony is that for most of the Cold War, the communists controlled a larger geographic area, a third of the human race and far more people than the bougies as well as the vast untapped resources of asia as it's base of resources. And the thing is, if you control a third of the human race and that's not enough for your ideology to succeed over the course of the better part of a century of peace...then your ideology is just ass. Because those are incredibly optimal conditions and communism manages to grasp failure from the jaws of a map blob that screams for success.

@ShinigamiInuyasha777 11 месяцев назад

Yeah Thats sounds like a bunch of reactionary BS . Latin americas has been the forefront of the great capitalist experiment and every time we tried to change it we got couped or sanctioned. Yet we dont get that sweet pie of capitalist miracles but of being colonies of the US. So politely go to hell

@Post_and_Ghost 11 месяцев назад

Well the most religiously devoted ones will tell you true communism has never been tried and they are technically correct. True communism can only come about if it’s global and total. Their religion only works if they succeed in killing all non-believers and having no dissenting opinions. The fields of bones and teeth in places like Cambodia (worth the trip) are not a problem with communism it’s the method. I suppose they have a point though. Every religion is perfect if all other religions are erased at the barrel of a gun.

@comradesillyotter1537 11 месяцев назад

My man had a copy pasta ready to go for this vid, dude been hitting the refresh

@DestW114 11 месяцев назад

Two Words, Salvador Allende Edit: Actually, I don’t trust you to comprehend the actual Importance of that name, or you won’t bother to look it up, so I feel obligated to return and explain. Allende was the first, truly Democratically Ellected Socalist-Marxist President of Chile, which I also don’t trust you to comprehend the importance of so basicaly his people chose for them to go down this path, and you might say it could have been doomed to fail, but it was different, a socialist revolution that didn’t come to power by the force of the sword, the people used the democratic system to bring the revolution. It wasn’t stained by dictatorship, a blood civil war, it could have Survied the soviets unions fall Becuase it didn’t rely on their power. He died, though, not to his hungry people, not to the enraged masses, but by a airstrike in his parliament from Millitary exiles, who would have never had a chance nor the firepower to lead a coup if the United States of America had not helped them. It lead to a dictatorship that oppressed the people, who immediately executed 3,200 people, and Interned 80,000. He continued to torture and kill 3,095 more people. He then initated operation Condor, a Us-Supported Terror operation within all of South America. That sounds like a flaw in the ideology, if you ask me.

@Tom_Cruise_Missile 11 месяцев назад

As an anti-communist, I'd argue that Stalin especially wasn't ideological at all. He only cared about power, and he would have done it however he could've.

@isthissomesortofmeme8932 11 месяцев назад

FDR died you can blame truman saved you 10 minute

@thomaskalbfus2005 8 месяцев назад

The first shot was the Korean War in 1949 shortly after the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb and felt safe to start a war against the West!

@woom_y 10 месяцев назад

This is an insanely capitalist pro-western reductionist view of history. Nothing more then thinly veiled propaganda. It was American aggression in the Korean war and Trumans hawkish anti-communism which drove the US and Soviet Union to be enemies; FDR and Stalin had an almost friend-like attitude towards eachother. You are funny and the content is otherwise good, but frankly, the history you portray is horrible.

@BeardofBeesPool 10 месяцев назад

Did the US forcibly occupy its neighbors after WWII?

@timothytumusiime2903 11 месяцев назад

There's a very real possibility that if Hitler hadn't risen the Soviet Union would have been an enemy of the Allies, coz they also wanted foreign land as evidenced by Poland. (I forget why the Brits and French didn't declare war on the Soviets but eh....)

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 месяцев назад

The reason the France and Britain didn't declare war against the USSR in 1940 is practicality. How can those two countries hurt the USSR when they are on literal opposite parts of Europe while they are at war with German which is at the center? Besides, Britain sees something in the USSR that can be useful to them: Hitler's rabid anti-USSR stance. He sees it well that Hitler is too dogmatic to let an actual beneficial peace between Germany and the USSR continue and he would eventually do his "crusade" at some point...

@ciii4361 11 месяцев назад

No because the USSR would have avoided conflict at all coast, Stalin was paranoid remember

@theburgerboy5936 10 месяцев назад

They didn't declare war on the Soviets in 1939 because they had no obligation to. The treaty promising for Britain to defend Poland from foreign invasion was only to defend Poland against Germany, and Germany alone. Along with that, the British were already at war with the greatest military power on the continent at the time, and adding the Red Army to the list of armies to fight would've been a horrible idea. The last reason was that the land the USSR had invaded Poland for, were lands that the Polish government had invaded the Soviets for during the Russian civil war.

@RexIXXXX 11 месяцев назад

Soviets literally concluded an agreement with Nazis to divide Europe. Colour me sceptical about your claim how Soviets opposed military expansionism.

@julius6803 11 месяцев назад

He said USSR claimed to be pacifist and anti-expansionist

@wormwood8352 11 месяцев назад

and the allies split europe with germany by giving hitler austria and czechia. the soviet union attempted multiple times to form anti-fascist alliances with the western powers prior to world war 2, all times being rejected. the molotov ribbentrop pact was simply a matter of self preservation for the ussr, and an incredibly understandable one given the context.

@ciii4361 11 месяцев назад

Well Britain and France had literally colonial empires so…

@julius6803 11 месяцев назад

@@ciii4361 at least they didn't claim to be anti-Imperialist

@ciii4361 11 месяцев назад

@@julius6803 they claim to care about self-determination of people. And cry about Baltic states, whose annexation by USSR was criminal, but incomparable with those empires

@mandoreviews7245 11 месяцев назад

Your entrapment tactics for ads are as cruel and calculated as Stalin. Bravo Sir👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@richardque1036 11 месяцев назад

Cold war actually started in 1939,the soviet nazi pact..

@ciii4361 11 месяцев назад

Which was caused by Munich conference

@jamesflowers1295 11 месяцев назад

If they just listened to Patton, we could have saved alot of time money and lives

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 месяцев назад

Ah yes, let's listen to George "I slapped more than 5 soldiers suffering from PTSD for no reason at all to the embarrassment of the entire US military and betrayed the one who saved my ass back in WW1 to the authorities when he was arrested for being part of the Bonus Army during Macarthur's cleanup back in 1932" Patton. You do know nearly every US commander hated him, Omar Bradley being the most vehement...

@fmbmnvzjnvrjz3927 11 месяцев назад

To be slightly „fair”… how what Stalin was doing with the Slavic states different from what Britain, France, Belgium etc did just before the wars with colonialism? To him it must have looked stupid to go and „conquer” lands far away, at least in his twisted mind he was rallying up similar nations together under one banner. Not saying Stalin was right or the other powers shouldn’t have stopped him, but it’s funny how it’s always rules for thee and none for me.

@2tiddies404 8 месяцев назад

the us did end up doing a lot of coups too.

@TheTrueAdept 11 месяцев назад

Actually, France almost didn't get the Marshal Plan money... because France wanted to keep its empire. Hell, the current Republic was basically installed via a military coup.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 11 месяцев назад

With the 4th Republic falling into pieces, a military coup was the least worst choice out there. At least De Gaulle didn't overstep his powers too much; he is popular enough that he could have turned France into something akin to Francoist Spain or Estado Novo Portugal...

@TheTrueAdept 11 месяцев назад

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 it would have... if the threat of financial annihilation hadn't steadied de Gaulle's hand.

@SiPakRubah 11 месяцев назад

France is always the wild card of Europe, besides Germany They even were kicked out from NATO from the 60's until 90's shows how problematic they're

@aze94 11 месяцев назад

@@SiPakRubah Kicked out? You mean when they willing left?

@SiPakRubah 11 месяцев назад

@@aze94 Oh wait, I forgot the details

@SeruraRenge11 11 месяцев назад

The League of Nations failed where the UN didn't specifically BECAUSE the LoN tried to have the power to supercede national sovereignty. As a result...no one really wanted to buy into it in case that power got wielded against them. When the UN said from day 1 "yeah we can't really do anything beyond giving you a harsh recommendation to knock it off", people warmed up to it as an institution.

@nexeos 11 месяцев назад

And it's been utterly and completely useless ever since. Like how they elect Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan on the UN human rights council.

@marknystrom1984 11 месяцев назад

And that is the reason why the UN seems completely useless.

@SiPakRubah 11 месяцев назад

So you're saying that LoN was a bit overpowered then Same as the early UN during WW2, but now they aren't

@512TheWolf512 11 месяцев назад

Un is a huge scam. A gigantic waste of taxpayer dollars worldwide

@SeruraRenge11 11 месяцев назад

@@SiPakRubah No, the UN was specifically designed such that if any one member of the permenant 5 members of the security council votes against something, the measure falls through. This was by design as a stopgap in the system.

@deathmourne1 11 месяцев назад

Mt grandfather was a pilot on plane #45 as he told me during the Berlin Airlift! He told me how nerve wracking it was because they could see soviet planes and air defenses pointing at them the whole time

@GamerX13X 11 месяцев назад

"You can't leave, the doors are locked." Jack knew exactly how to handle a raid sponsorship. Be funny, don't be overhyped, and say Doom Tower in a silly voice.

@KaiHung-wv3ul 11 месяцев назад

There are but a few bastions left, and they will fall over time....alas, how the mighty has fallen.

@tomlxyz 10 месяцев назад

That gives me vibes of getting a time share presentation

@encompassthyeclipse7278 10 месяцев назад

Or just skip through the fuckin ad that shouldn’t be there in the first place. Remember RU-vid 15 years ago

@DavidNaval 9 месяцев назад

@@KaiHung-wv3ullet him get his bag 😊

@youtubecommenter4213 8 месяцев назад

actually set through the ad with that funny opening.

@Catmint309 11 месяцев назад

I think I’m a little younger than Jack, cause growing up we did manage to get to the Cold War but I was always left asking “so why does everybody always seem so concerned about Serbia”

@lukaswilhelm9290 11 месяцев назад

Ah yes, the good 'ol classic "i have different kind of peace than yours so let's start a war". Happens very often in history.

@kristofevarsson6903 11 месяцев назад

10:02 Despite all the bravado, sabre-rattling, and loudspeakers, this is how both sides sounded for nearly 50 years.

@LEFT4BASS 11 месяцев назад

When I clicked the time stamp, an ad started playing beginning with a cannon blast. I think that was the opposite of what you were going for

@kilo1012 11 месяцев назад

I feel like the thumbnail should have Truman instead of FDR

@curranfrank2854 11 месяцев назад

Yea, FDR didn't even survive WW2

@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 11 месяцев назад

Yeah if anything if FDR actually lived out his third term we probably wouldn't of had a cold war. Truman had a very itchy trigger finger towards the Soviets while FDR was very pragmatic and was willing to be cooperative with them.

@samdherring 11 месяцев назад

Doesn't matter how cooperative FDR was when Stalin was so uncooperative. Eventually this would have happened either way.

@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 11 месяцев назад

@@samdherring id disagree. A half a year would have changed a lot. Hell Stalin and FDR even had secret agreements that were definitely not followed thru under Truman.

@mladen5140 11 месяцев назад

@@samdherring Stalin was very cooperative with FDR

@robmclean4352 8 месяцев назад

As a 70s kid, it seemed our history teachers would say, "And then we dropped the bomb on Japan! Have a great summer...!"

@DomLaBeau 8 месяцев назад

And then Osama Bin Laden had 2 planes crash into the World Trade Center. Have a great summer!!

@gawkthimm6030 11 месяцев назад

the first Cold war conflict of goals between the Soviets and the west took a turn for the worse when in 1944 when the Polish Warsaw uprising against the Nazi's was disowned by Stalin and refused help, when Stalin refused to cooperate with the Polish government in exile in London.

@Trump2024asw 11 месяцев назад

Also the genocide an mass killings in Katina Poland.

@Tsuruchi_420 11 месяцев назад

Warsaw uprising was staged without Soviet help on purpose, I'm not gonna say it wasn't the first bout of tension, but the polish leadership did it to their own people on the ground

@gawkthimm6030 11 месяцев назад

@@Trump2024asw I never heard that was brought by allied commanders during ww2??

@nestormakhno9266 11 месяцев назад

It was a little more complicated, Stalin hated the prewar polish government which was a right wing anti communist dictatorship. That said the Soviets did drop supplies for the polish in the city (though the Germans captured most of these) and tried to take the city but their logistics were stretched too thin. They weren’t able to cross the Vistula since the Nazis were too well dug in and as already mentioned the Soviet units that were present weren’t capable of further offensive action.

@gawkthimm6030 11 месяцев назад

@@nestormakhno9266 as far as I know, those "Attempts" at aiding the Warsaw uprising was put on for show to the western allies and not allocated enough resources to be a real attempt

@misterperson3469 11 месяцев назад

Its worth noting the US wasnt just the most industrialised country on earth whos industry had gone unmolested during the war, they also had drained the coffers of a lot of its future allies during the cash and carry portion of involvement. The marshall plan went beyond just giving it back but had they not dumped big ol piles of capital back into European economies they would likely have been very dysfunctional from having no cash/gold reserves AND being bombed to rubble. It was equal parts a bribe to stay in the US sphere of influence as it was training wheels for their economies. The reasoning being that if their economies were failing and uncertainty ruled the communists would have much more support than if economies were booming and people felt like their lives were getting better.

@ravanpee1325 8 месяцев назад

Also who would buy all the American stuff with what money?

@sgabig 4 месяца назад

Interesting economics - Europe buys supplies - gets the supplies - but then "wants their money back"

@aaroncabatingan5238 22 дня назад

@@sgabigEurope bankcrupted itself during the war. They needed money to keep buying more stuff from the US so the US gave them a metric f u c k ton of money and then proceeded to sell them everything they needed.

@liamnevard1591 11 месяцев назад

Don’t get me wrong, I love these videos but I’d love some Life and Times too!

@aaronkrucoff5181 11 месяцев назад

Life and times of Molotov! Especially when Harry Truman screaming at him basically helped kick start all the tension after the war.

@CollinMcLean 8 месяцев назад

With easter coming up maybe a video on the life and times of times of some Irish republicans. Or maybe even just figures important to Irish history like Brian Boru.

@surge1229 11 месяцев назад

in some alternate reality I am guessing that utopia of a world happened and the whole world was peaceful with only minor problems

@soundwavegamer2321 11 месяцев назад

Ya that’s a world where the White Army won and the Soviet Union never happened.

@magdavillafuerte 11 месяцев назад

That's just not realistic.

@Lucretia916 11 месяцев назад

@@magdavillafuertenot with capitalism existing

@jameshargrave118 11 месяцев назад

@@Lucretia916It was the communist that broke the treaty first.

@angelcabeza6464 11 месяцев назад

or communism for that matter@@Lucretia916

@radkamerad 23 дня назад

Why are you showing Roosevelt on the thumbnail? He didn't see the Cold War. He didn't even live enough to see the fall of Berlin

@CiderVG 21 день назад

He's wondering what spawned it, likely around FDR Not who was there when it "officially" started

@ethribin4188 11 месяцев назад

"During the war, people were hopefull the rest of the century would be nothing but roses" I mean,they nearly got it right. It just took half a century longer then they though. Aka 1-2 generations. Which is about the normal amount of time for a society to fully adapt to a new situation.

@VioIetShift 11 месяцев назад

Uh, were you asleep in February 2022? The "peace" at the end of the Cold War was just a momentary blip before a return to chaos. Cold wars and their ensuing conflicts on the periphery seem to be an inevitability in a world with nukes.

@thelouster5815 11 месяцев назад

Bruh you’re tripping.

@ethribin4188 10 месяцев назад

@@VioIetShift even including ukrain, afghanistan, israel and the pandemic, we still live in a wat more peacfull age then back then. And it IS compairable to a good age to live in.

@philguer4802 11 месяцев назад

4:10 Feels like you're missing someone buddy

@MrPromethee 11 месяцев назад

Not really. France wasn't a part of the initial plan for the security council, mostly because the country was in ruins and ruled by a provisional government. On top of that the americans really didn't like them, Roosevelt hated De Gaulle. One of the main reasons they were added is that the british didn't want to be the only western european member on the council. That way they wouldn't be expected to play the "world police" in the region by themselves and wouldn't have to be too involved in continental Europe.