The Fallen of World War II 

Thank you. Also many people are pointing out that you left out Mongolian deaths at Khalkin Gol.

Thankyou.

That's no excuse. Also Khalkin Gol was a major battle.

The fact remains that the Nazi Party was responsible for every German invasion, atrocity, and aggression of Germany before and during World War II. Your only mistake was calling the soldiers themselves "Nazis". But they still answered to the Nazi government, and in fact every one of them swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler, the Nazi leader, even if some of them were actually not registered members of the Nazi Party.

He mainly covers major campaigns over major, war altering battles like Stalingrad and D-Day. Not every battle.

Yeah and sadly many of them dies in vain because Stalin starve the country before the war, purging many of his general, and many more

Two soldiers use one gun

@@womble3383 germany will have defeated soviet if 5 year plan was put in action it cause a lot of life than ever but who survive live because of it

@@womble3383 And I think in every army are trained. Maybe the Soviet high command, not Stalin. And the war was not only the soldiers but also volunteers, who coached only 2 weeks or a little more.

My my great-grandfather survived. He fought from the beginning of the war from 1941 to 1942, in 1942 he was seriously wounded and went home from the hospital

And history

Ryan Munga Every single one of them was like you and me. Not anything else but humans. Even the darkest persons in this war could have been to live the most normal lives one could imagine. It all came from terrible mistakes and mental sickness, sadly forming an unexplainable product of destruction and death. What i want to say is, that people are people, and even if they happened to plan and do the most evil things imaginable, they could have also had luckier influences throughout their whole lives, which could have then lead to them questioning and hating such bad ideologies and dogmas.

I'm depressed now

That's the reason why its terrible?

Why does a person or animal need to have a name to be treated with compassion and respect. Surely the fact it is alive is enough to command that?

"People don't truly appreciate peace until they see firsthand its antithesis." - Quote I made on the fly

-@@concept5631 30 june, 2023

Looking back the wars seem inevitable but they weren’t…it could have gone much differently

@@faderzon1639 Yes thank you

Where is that quote from?!

Idk where you went to school, but I learned about the eastern front. Spent a whole week on it in high school and a month in college. Plus think of it this way. French people know tons about their own revolution, but little about the American one. And vice versa. Americans know tons about our revolution, but little about the French one.

@@uncannyvalley3190 Most of the world thinks that the Soviets just had an ineffective army which they used to just throw at the Nazis, which rarely happened. And also, people think that America brought both Germany and Japan to their feet, and no one even talks about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The Americans and the British were mostly responsible for the defeat of Japan and Italy. The Soviets were mostly responsible for the destruction of Nazi Germany. And the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the Japanese version of D-Day. I am Indian, and it was only when I turned 14 where I realized who did what to win this war, and before that I always felt the Americans were responsible.

Представьте , войска СС заживо сжигали деревни с мирными жителями, брали кровь детей для своих солдат.

A quote about Stalingrad during 1942 and 1943 「If Hell truly exist on this planet, it could only be here」

Both sides fought viciously in the eastern front, both nazi and Soviet propaganda were effective, the reason why the eastern front was so bloody is because of the viciousness, if it had fought like they did in the west, much less people would have died

We would have to have a moment of silence for like 70m people

@@alexkhaid 85 million actually

@@shanu3009 yeah around there

1 days have 86400 seconds. 983.8 days of total silence for those who have died or 2 years, 9 months and 18 days without ever saying any words to anybody. 😞🏳️

@Danni Chesney prove

it was way more deaths, more than 10 million only military.

URA!!

same but I cried

*G U L A G*

The Soviets lost in Stalingrad alone, double what America lost the entire war.

Wow

That really make you think, because, most of the them were just old Young's, so, with out a long life under they're shoulders... That's sad... A minute of silence for everyone that died in the war... Amen a tutti voi, brave anime.

@@electronicstudiodj could you give some examples? Not beefing, genuinely want to know.

@@electronicstudiodjit’s not inaccuracies it’s disputed facts. We don’t know.

War is worse than hell in hell the guilty suffer, but in war, the innocent suffer as well.

Max Hastings: the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure

All wars end but hell is for all of eternity

Chuikov is the only Soviet general, that wished to be buried on Mamaev Kurgan (mass grave in Stalingrad), instead of the Kremlin wall

​@@jsamc that's a pitty thing you people invented a nonexisting horror world to justify and belittle realexisting horror made by nothing but humanity

@@noranqey WTF

That Noranqe guy has no brain

I even can not imagine that！

🙁

@@botongyu8326 It's easy. Just imagine that you are sitting at home, do not touch anyone, and suddenly the fascists start walking through your city with weapons and killing everyone in their path. EVERYONE! City after city, village after village. Children, women, old people, everyone. Then you will understand why Russians hate fascists and racists and will be grateful to them for the fact that you do not know what it is and can not even imagine.

Mostly slave soldiers. Almost none of them wanted to be there.

@@pumpkinhill4570 Slave soldiers?! None of the combatants of any WW2 army was even a fractional amount comprised of slaves. And "none of them wanted to be there" is also very, very debatable. Sure, no one wanted to die in a war. But I can tell you for a fact that German soldiers, my Grandfather included, weren't opposed, some where even quite eager to fight. They had been pumped so chock full of propaganda, they went very willingly, at least in the early years of the war. Similarly, the Brits and Yankees fought with considerable enthusiasm. They had a black and white evil in front of them that needed to be stopped. Hundreds of thousands enlisted voluntarily. No one likes being shelled, but it's a lot easier to endure if you have something to fight for.

@@BoarhideGaming Majority were conscripts. You can debate whether you consider that slavery; personally I do. I'm quite proud that even with all the relentless propaganda most people don't actually want to go kill other people they've never met and have nothing against.

@@pumpkinhill4570 You can consider whatever you want, that’s not how words and their definitions work. And yes, most people don’t want to kill anyone and want to avoid wars at *almost* any costs, that is good. But when an army invaded your country and starts mass murdering civilians, stealing resources and destroying the environment, killing the invading soldiers is often the only way to prevent that and keep your liberties and save the lives of your loved ones. Not all wars are evil. All wars are terrible, but not all are evil. There are things worth fighting - and dying - for, even if our western, rose tinted pacifism glasses tell us otherwise. We have lived in the unbelievable luxury of lasting peace so long(wars were fought elsewhere, out of our individual spheres of interest) that we have forgotten that. Our pacifism has almost turned toxic. ‘Wars must be avoided *at ALL* costs, even if it means submitting to oppressors and murderers’. That is wrong, that is a dangerous mindset for the liberties we hold so dear. That is a fact that should be rather self evident and has nothing to do with propaganda.

@@pumpkinhill4570That's plain and simple false. A LOT of soldiers (specially germans) wanted to be there, and wanted a war. WW1 was filled with soldiers who VOLUNTARILY went to war, same with WW2. There were some that were forced? Definitely. But plenty of them wanted it.

... and since February of last year the government of your country brings war and death over another country. Many Russians don't forget the second World War and what loses it brought with it to their country. But certainly the leaders of your country have not learned from WWII - at all.

Russia is the largest country in the world by territory. Why? all the time since its inception, it has waged wars of conquest, conquered, assimilated, and destroyed nations. if many nations have outgrown this, empires have collapsed, then the Russian empire still wants blood, wants expansion. Burn in hell Russian orcs. putin huilo, ruzzkie pidorasi.

​@@qua3rotypical guy who has no friends. You came from a generation of cowards don't talk big when you didn't do crap. Or you can just admit you're a cringe bullied 10 year old boy who likes fascism. Cope harder seething and malding BANDERA KHOKHOL BOT.

​@@qua3rogo burn in hell with stepan bandera KHOKHOL it's a good thing are government stop sending you weapons and realized Ukraine will eventually lose and doesn't want to get involved with a sinking economy

​@@qua3rodid your mother left you for a Russian guy?😂

Lucia Greenwell you girl?

Mads Svender XD yes

@@masv1pe694 I would consider anyone who calls himself "Lucia" a girl.

Mads Svender XD simp

The crazy weeb it is my duty to identify and expose simps

Maybe they have better media..

The east was were Hitler's back was broken. By D-Day the German army was beat, and some say that's the only reason we landed in France in 44. Now take that information and imagine if Hitler would've have the 200 divisions he stormed Russia with on the Atlantic wall. I think Germany only had 5 divisions facing the D-Day beaches. Imagine if there wouldn't been 40 fucking divisions waiting. Hitler should should have went to Stalin and made a real pact.

@Ornate Orator They don't. But the point is here: WW2 in Europe was mainly about Soviets vs Germans. All the rest beeing side theaters. I don' t mean that these side theaters didn't matter somehow. I just say that without the soviets, the allies would have never beaten Germany. This is a story Hollywood is never going to tell you about... Same thing in the Pacific Theater: WW2 was mainly a war between Nationalist China and Japan, while the rest were side theaters, although the aeronaval fighting between USA and Japan was very determining for the outcome of the war. But if it hadn't been for the millions of Chang kai Tchek's soldiers dying in mass against the japanese armies and holding the big bunch of their armies, I hardly see who the allies could have defeaten the vast number of these same men in the Pacific islands. History is written by the winners. USA and the west won the une hundred year war tthat was the XXth century (1914-1989). Therefore Hollywood just tells you the story on the viewside of the winners. Which is a pretty deformed standpoint of view once you go and check out the facts in the history books.

@Ornate Orator If we're strictly speaking about the point you made, "it’s normal for a country to focus only on their impacts on certain events", then let me tell you that you are wrong. You're just justifying the attitude the medias are promoting in your own country and not aknowledging that this is not what's happening outside your borders. If you watch the documentaries on WWII made in european countries or in Russia, you'll see that they don't have a necessary self centered vision. They depict the war the way it went phase by phase, and no one denies the main theater of the entire war was the eastern front, the place where the fate of the conflict was decided. And no one overthere says that the western front didn't played any significant role in the outcome of the war, not even the russians (who actually were expecting the opening of this front ASAP in order to relieve the eastern front of several german divisions, which of course didn't really happen after all...) You may have some debates depending the countries on some specific issues such as, for instance: was the Germano-Soviet pact of 1939 a cynical scheme between Hitler and Staline do divide eastern Europe between them, or a mean for Staline to earn some time before an inevitable conflict to come? But you'll never hear nonsense narratives such as "the allies, gathered and united all together where to defeat Germany". Everyone agrees that Germany was already defeated by the end of 1942 (Churchill even knew they were defeated by january 1942, when they failed to take Moscow, reason why he took a plane and went visit Staline this same month in Moscow...). The only medias where the world ears of a narrative where the world was beeing defeated by the "nazis" (you never use the word germans, but always the word "nazis" where in Europe and Russia, everyone says Germans), untill the USA entered the war is someting that is beeing spread out by the Hollywood entertainment business. And unlike what you are saying, this isn't a narritive specifically targeted to the american people, but to the entire world, since Hollywood dominates each single cinema markets out there in the world. So basically what's happening is that the people who don't read books, or don't watch documentaries (mainly the young ones), are completely ignorant about WW2, and just believes that everything the Hollywood shows them as beeing the truth. And this is affecting every single average Joe that lives around this planet and who nows share's the USA's vision on what was this war. This isn't simple as saying that every country should only care about it's own business, and write down it's own version of his history no matter what the facts are, as long as it suits them. China for instance does this, since their regime has complete control on their medias and can tell all the BS to the population about the commies defeating the japanese, while it's the nationalists who fled to Taiwan in 49 who actually did all the job. But the main difference between the chinese propaganda and the Hollywood propaganda is that one is targeted to it's own people, whereas the other one is aiming nearly the entire humanity. One is using coercition and complete information control to promote it, while the other one is using entertainment medias and sensationalism imagery to make it look more believable. In the end the objective remains the same: build a narrative on which a suitable vision can be given to the people in order to pursue specific strategic goals. If you just examine this war just on the datas you have on the papers, the facts are here: -80% of the Japanese forces were located in China, Korea and Japan during the 1937-1945 period. -Germany was defeated by USSR (with the auxilliary help of allies forces). If you still doubt about this, just ask the Germans and they'll tell you who crushed them and who was their true Nemesis. Once again I'm not saying that the allies were cowards, or that what they did was irrelevant. I'm just saying that we weren't the central pivot of this war, despite taking part in it. Trying to tell something else is, in my point of view, an historical falsification.

@@MoreAwsomeMetal Chinese played a huge part in the Pacific war, absolutely no question. But they never would have defeated the Japanese empire itself. They best they could have hoped for would be be to reduce the Chinese territory Japan occupied. They didn't have the air power or naval capability of taking the fight to the Japanese. Had the US not destroyed their empire across the Pacific and south east Asia, they would taken a large chunk of Manchuria and kept it.

No war is just, they are just made by politicians, never by civilians , war is a business

​@@TheKeystoneChannelPoltcains lost sons in this war . This was down to a handful of nutters War is very bad for business

@@hannahdyson7129 Leaders of countries invaded each other even at the times of Roman Empire. Please, don't spread your "propaganda".

And now this war is used as propaganda... a case for new war...

That's fuckin Stalin for you. "Victory at any cost" was his motto. It's mind boggling how some russians are still worshipping him.

why am I wasting my time on this Stalin never said that, it was actually Oliver Cromwell

“One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” Whoever said it, it's a very astute observation. It means that the death of a stranger is not as meaningful to another person as the death of a loved one. And since it's simply impossible to know a million individual people, their deaths must experienced more abstractly, like a statistic rather than a tragedy that can be truly, personally felt.

@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis It isn't mind boggling at all. Stalin had serious flaws and made huge mistakes before and during the Soviet Union's conflict with Nazi Germany and its allies. However, it is also simply a fact of history that he led his nation during the entire time it struggled against that formidable, annihilating force, and that struggle for ultimate survival ended in decisive victory. It's therefore entirely understandable that Russians and other formerly Soviet peoples will always have conflicted attitudes toward Stalin's legacy.

JuanDeSoCal Really good and balanced evaluation there, I agree with you

I'm a Russian, but we live in Kazakhstan. I also had a great grandfather who fought in the war. He lived till 1995.

Im german, my grandfather invaded poland and stalingrad, was a prisoner of war for 6 years. After the war he became chainsmoker, he is 96 now.

Sorry man. Such a sacrifice

How could the Germans be so cruel

Im froma america and my grandpa died in the war :(

Sorry for your loss. Im also very privileged. I had one grandfather in the navy who was on the USS Oklahoma during Pearl Harbor, and was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Midway. He lived to be 97. My other grandfather was a marine who also fought in the Pacific Theatre, on Okinawa.

@@bart1950 the finest generation I have seen. I am sorry for your loss. May the LORD GOD bless them and keep them. We will never see such souls again in our lifetime. GOD bless mate. Hang in there.

@@bart1950 badass

Chatgpt

why did they enlist an 100 year old

You just try to get up and take each day one at a time. You stay on task and try to find something that makes you even briefly happy. And try to keep it out of your mind.

​@@MortabluntWhat flag is in your pfp?

@@concept5631 Lugansk People Republic. I have a bit of a personal connection to it. It's one of the regions in Ukraine that Kiev has been subjecting to genocide by artillery because it's Russian (identifying, speaking, ethnic) for the past 9 years.

@@Mortablunt ...I see. Hope the kool-aid tastes good.

@@concept5631 There's a few YT'ers you should watch 1. Patrick Lancaster - American independent war reporter, has been covering Donbass for years, has thousands of interviews with people living there 2. Willie OAM - Australian military veteran who covers news and does interviews with people on both side of the conflict. A recurring confession from Ukrainian supporters and auxilarie is the Donbas people are pro Russian and the Kiev forces are cruel.

Ironic that you have an american flag and your account is called United States of America.

@@MasonKLutz Why is that ironic?

@@thomasjess5029 usually in history, American as well, there are many people that we learn about, and saying about all of these people died in this war that we talk about it a lot and then we just forget about all of it.

bro your country is the master on getting in wars where we never called

Oil

@@BullRadu This was so edgy that i was cut just by reading the comment.

@@BullRadu I hope this is a joke

@@BullRadu A coward speaks upon those who died fighting and living a life the coward could not even imagine from the comfort of his home. The soviets will be remembered until the last human takes their last breath, and you on the other hand, are a nobody.

German P *Russian, my grandfather hated the Soviets but loved his people and his land

@@tapep225 the Slavs endured unimaginable suffering under the Bolsheviks. The World needs to know.

Well, 70 million people had to die first for that, apparently

Is that the words of Stalin?

@@charleswinters9567 Nope. It's from Remark's "Black Obelisk".

When the president does it its not illegal god bless America

Covid-19:

@@Literally-Brian it is though? somebody said exactly that before him, therefore its a quote.

Aiden The History Reporter sons

@@ncrranger6409 yeah I didn't realize that until I layed in my bed to go to sleep

The same number that died lol

@@lamborger I mean you're not wrong

@@lamborger actually not entirely true. Sometimes death wasnt reported to the family for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they couldn't be identified.

We'll figure it out and besides, you're drunk, what 85 million

​@@Zapper-kq1zgEveryone please ignore this disrespectful hater. I give my condolances to all then men, women and children who died in WWII, Russian, German, or any other country.

@@Glub_blub спасибо большое

This is true for most of the west, birth rates are abysmal everywhere.

yeah im lucky to live in ukraine where more than 1 thousand civians and more are being killed right now

@@rmnk_tm I hope the situation gets better in your area. At least it wasn’t as bad as ww2

Actual downgrade of USSR population from 1941 to 1945 was 30% of population. 52 millions. Diseases, hunger, bombs, etc

Correction, YOU are lucky to be living where you are right now in this era. There are billions of people right now living in war zones, genocides, oppressive regimes, being separated from their families, trapped in authoritarian governments with no way to escape. Some are starving, some are being forced to spend their lives working in factories, some are just being killed. We need to realize we are very lucky we were born on the “right” side of the earth

unique life and story and family story/history... think of the spider web of lives touched. Most probably had family/friends, kids (never had the chance to have kids). The fact of genocide means blood lines were forever ended. The world never to be the same... crazy

The most chilling part of the whole video. It really isn't appreciated in the west the sacrifice the Soviets made to defeat fascism. The war was won on the eastern front.

When the alternative is ethnic extermination by the nazis.. it is a worthwhile trade.

@@cowboydoggo6168 we can agree to disagree on the first point

@@LiterallyWho1917 about commie nism?

​@@josephpostma1787 Of course: all world wars and all invasions into foreign countries, genocide and enslavement of their population - were not committed by communism at all - but by capitalism.

My friend August Caccavone was in the 7th Army, He was in the Battle Of The Bulge and was a squad leader

I was looking to see how far I had to go to see this. Man, it was top notch!

Yea it probably took months to edit the whole thing

@@urmaker puts mine to shame ill tell u that 😂😭

It made me realise how time is valuable, and how we're lucky to keep this "new peace" for so long. I hope it continues for way more seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades and centuries. Forever, I hope.

@@PentaPW i hope so, but probably the nuke gonna kill us before we felt pain so i am not that worried

Legend Shibe Also hard to believe that all of them have a story to tell. 60+ million stories. I wish we never get this type of conflict again.

@@batmanbruce186 in future we will have even bigger one

KrakenCraft WW4

@@mattthelad4686 nah

Jeb Bush As the famous Einstein quote states “ I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

it for sure won't be a RU-vid video. For a very long time after WW3...

Hell, will there even be anyone left? We got friggin nukes that have like 300x the power of Hiroshima

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Nothing will survive that if it ever happen

That's going to be SW1 (Solar War One)

Yes but this is ww2 not the Korean war

@@Ant_111 The reason why he didn't see any Japanese men in that age range during the time of the Korean War is because they were all killed in World War II.

@@bigboineptune9567 Bingo!

@@noahwiebe2558 lol

@@Ant_111 boy you look stupid

Problem was when the Soviets "liberated" countries, they never left.

@@ashjones2627 that was the government that made that decision, not the soldiers

The soviets murdered and raped more civilians than the nazis did. Communism is a plague on humanity.

@@amamzing You're right, the soldiers just enjoyed the raping and pillaging that came along with their government's decision. The Soviet soldiers inflicted just as much pain and misery on the civilian populations of the places they occupied as the German soldiers did in Russia, perhaps more so.

Thank you for his service for peace.

Completely agree. I find it very annoying how glossed over the Chinese casualties are, especially given that China had the most civilian casualties in the war.

Actually, multiple Japanese leaders through the years have apologized and condemned the actions of leadership before.

@@Sentinel465 What you are referring to are statements by individual officials of the Japanese government or related persons in their private capacity expressing apologies, introspection, sorrow or regret for the war, which are not official and represent only him personally. The Japanese government has never apologized or been vague about starting the war and war crimes. Japan's invasion of China directly led to more than 35 million casualties among the Chinese people. The Nanjing Massacre, which occurred on December 13, 1937, was a six-week-long war crime of mass murder, looting, and rape of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war by the invading Japanese army in the urban and suburban areas of Nanjing, then the capital of China. The Japanese government and right-wing militarist forces have been denying this heinous crime. So Japan has not made any apology for the heinous crimes committed in Asia including China, Korea, Korea, and Southeast Asia in World War II. See what Germany did? Germany identified itself as the successor to the Nazi regime after World War II, and therefore engaged in a detailed and comprehensive public discussion of this history. Federal Chancellor Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenaue formally apologized to Israel and the Jewish people in a speech to the Reichstag on September 27, 1951, stating Germany's willingness to accept all responsibility. In addition, Germany made huge reparations to the victimized nations and peoples.

@@Sentinel465 no they haven't, only unofficially which a lot of people in Japan have which is unsurprisingly and not even praiseworthy. But the government hasn't.

@@user-gf2yz6kf2y Germany apologized to the Jews, but not to the Slavs or the countries they invaded lol.

Isn‘t it interesting how these 35k a day is still present? If you look it up you will see that we die at the same rate today as we did during ww2 but relative to the worlds population it has of course significantly decreased. Edit: it‘s actually 150k per day. But around 40k die of unnatural causes per day so we still have an interesting fact right here

Except not really. The numbers are terrible, don't get me wrong, but disease kills far more. Over 300 million deaths were attributed to Smallpox alone in the 20th century, and the Spanish Flu is estimated to have killed almost as many as all the men that died during WW1 over the same period.

Not to mention that back then there werde way fewer people ive, Not even 2 Billion If i am not mistaken

Rodler i think you mean billions

on average

That's frightening I'm really afraid of losing veterans and children of war

@@misc7446 well most of the people experiencing wars died so. Wars are old news.

Fortunatley there are channels that record stories from veterans, so that we may watch them even after their deaths. These people are literally doing amazing work, interviewing both sides

Personally, I find it more weird that this catastrophe happened within living memory. We’ve come so far since then, but in the grand scale of time its nothing but a tiny blip. We’re closer now in time to the end of WW2 than the end of WW2 was to the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic.

Don't. Go. There. Please. I'm not ready.

Ww2

More like www2

​@@internet_userrnot funny

@@internet_userr Unfunny asf ngl

The soviets invaded and annexed half of Poland and all of the Baltic states. They did not liberate anyone, they were conquerors.

@@broski4039 They tried to get the UK and France to fight against Germany and stop the invasion. Once they saw they wouldn't do it, they decided to invade Poland and create a buffer zone. Nothing wrong in that. Don't try to rewrite history, russophobe. I'm sure you would be gladly speaking German today if it were up to you, fascist f**k

@@broski4039 To say that the USSR conquered Eastern Europe, you need to find out the opinion of people who lived at that time, and not look at the words of modern politicians who create the image of an enemy.

You are the antithesis to Stalins "[...] a million deaths is a statistic"

​@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 This whole RU-vid channel is the antithesis to Stalin's quote

@@itsonlyafleshwound9024 lmao chill

Me to.

Yes

yo xo no it’s not. It’s a 100% chance. 110% does not make sense

@@BasicallyMatt i guess there's a 10% chance of dying twice

As horrible as it is, you're almost right. Few known facts about the Eastern front: 1. 80% of Soviet men born in 1923 (18 years old) did not survive the Great Patriotic war. 2. 4 of the 5 German soldiers who fought in world war II, died on the Eastern front 3. 95% of German prisoners of war did not return from concentration camps 4. Only in the siege of Leningrad killed more people (more than a million) than in America and Britain combined 5. Well, the most famous battle of Stalingrad - the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. 15 minutes - the average life expectancy of a Soviet soldier in combat. The battle on Mamayev Kurgan was unusually merciless. On the grain Elevator, the fighting was so intense that Soviet and German soldiers could feel each other's breath. The total power of all the bombs dropped by the Germans on Stalingrad was equivalent to the power of five nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You're right. Going to war on the Eastern front already meant death with almost 100% probability

@@lenacehova4760 Fucking hell. I'm actually speechless. 5 nuclear bombs...I have been actually reduced to someone incapable of speech like I dont have the mental capacity to know what to say other than this and fucking hell

Ben Jenkins Yes, it was the real hell on earth. So I really don't understand people who are frivolous about war. This is terrible. Today on Mamayev Kurgan is a memorial complex and the famous monument "Motherland calls", but there are periodically working sappers. If they find metal underground, they send a signal. More than 70 years have passed, but the shells of the great Patriotic war are still found there more often than ordinary metal garbage

add in civilian casualties and you get 312 days

@@teltos6817 almost a year

So wy they start this all storm with germany?

@@WhiteWolf-ow2mc Please don't listen to this trol. As a dutch person i am extremely thankful for the contribution the russian people have given to the world in eliminating fascism. Your soldiers were absolute heroes.

Max Orlemann as a Turkmen who’s great Grandpa died fighting Stalingrad, you don’t know anything. Have you ever been on a war front. It is truly horrifying and confusing. You don’t know what to do. Do you sit there with your comrades? Do you ask them if they want to start an attack. Do you just let the general decide. What if you don’t agree with what the general said? You are the true pussy.

Yeah any generation behind us seems terrible

536 AD goes brrr

I should be thankful I was born in this generation.

Why do all he comments have even number replies ._.

@@ihatebritain3942 70-80s is doable 90s sure awesome. But before that no thanks.

@александрт яковлев woah no need to get so aggressive

@александрт яковлев how the fuck was he racist?

@александрт яковлев seek help

My IQ is gone

My heart aches alone to the thought of how many would be designated “Unknown”. God rest their souls.

That ain’t happening probably at least 95% of people who have died in ww2 had there names lost

@Anna's randomness WhoCares u ruined the comment.

@@gras2121 ok

I always think about this. The human mind would never be able to comprehend this. Our minds are so feble and weak when it comes to comprehension of scale. When numbers like 70 million get thrown at you it's hard to mentally differentiate 70 million from 70,000 or even a few thousand. The sheer scope of the death is just unfathomable to human minds. It's like the scale of space. It's impossible to truely appreciate. We can only use numbers and a vague imagination of it.

Xi Peng's favourite was breastmilk, for that was the only food he's managed to taste.

Yoda

I love these comments

Anti-war libertarians were right. Every damned time.

To deep for me.

is that supposed to be smart?

My history teacher said that they were sent to war with incomplete equipment, and advised to scavenge from the fallen

@@VascoCC95 it's wrong

@@totti581 no ships sherlock

@@VascoCC95 yeah. The Russian soldiers were sometimes sent without a firearm. They were just advised to pick up the weapon from the man who died in front of you

@@VascoCC95 wrong. The Russian military was better equipped than the Germans. This is American propaganda. The Russian and the Germans just had fiece battles. But both were armed well

over? in what way is it over?

I wouldn’t say that the Ukraine invasion ends the long peace. By your definition you could say that Korea, or Vietnam, or the gulf war, or the war on terror was the end of the long peace.

@@sergeantswiss2401those where invasions from a large economy against a small economy. The Russia-Ukraine war is largely a evenly matched war with both sides fielding actual militaries, rather than insurgents doing guerrilla warfare

@@hd5783 The North Koreans fielded actual militaries, and china got involved in Korea. The whole thing almost went nuclear.

@@sergeantswiss2401 ok? They said “since 1956”

Louise X Why are you politicizing this shit? People are dying, and the first thing you people do is blame it on Trump.

I see that you are a fellow Canadian a? Fan of the jets?

@@mrsqueaker751 Thats right

The coronavirus already killed 25% of the WW2 USA casualties

@@samxu4928 because trump could have prevented it, but he didnt take it seriously, and now american lives are being lost.

sounds like a harem anime

@@nouser316 I el oh elled

I laughed when I shouldn’t

It sounds like the Pals' Battalions in World War I.

Imagine the amount of chicks you'd get tho. Just kidding, had to bring some light to a dark situation. It truly is horrendous, and still affects russia's population to this day.

Prefer2BePineapple I don't get it?

Survival of the fittest, right?

clever, both a pun and a fact in a single phrase. I love it

It only determines how many people they get to kill and how many land they get to keep

This quote doesn't work in german, maybe that's an explanation...

Why is Hitler?

David Bačák that is the start of a very strange question my friend... let’s not mess around here

what people are you talking to lol? also why should they know any of this but most of the basics?

Wait... you don't talk about WW2 in school??? I am german and WW2 and the Third Reich are the biggest topics in our history class

I live in nigeria I can confidently and sadly tell you that 70% have never heard about ww2 or even know who Hitler is, it's saddening at times cuz history isn't even taught here. RIP to the men who lost their lives.

Do you understand what Russia is fighting against now?

@@MultiNike79 yeah. themselves, their own brothers, and innocent civilians. Fuck off you absolute POS this is not the place or video to spread your stupid brainwashed bullshit. You make me sick.

@@MultiNike79 their European brothers

@@Juan-qu4oj the same nazies. Current Europe is the same, as with Hitler.

@@MultiNike79 I understand that Stalin’s alliance and joint-invasion of Poland with the Nazis, having military parades with them, supplying them raw materials, training the Luftwaffe pilots was foolish. As was his murders of Red Army generals in 1938. Which all led to Nazis rapidly taking over and devastating Russian Empire’s Western colonies like the Baltic States and Ukraine. And now survivors of the Nazis in Ukraine face once again a foreign power invading its land, torturing its civilians and raping its women. Fuck Hitler, Fuck Stalin, Fuck Putin 👍

To make it worse, this is only counting some of the countries. Countries like Brazil, Australia, New Zealand etc weren't included. The total death toll is 79-86 million, not 70 million,

@@jackaroo8867 Also the fighting in Africa.

@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 yea, you literally can see people from miles away, because theres no literally trees or things blocking your view

@@jackaroo8867 Brazil lost 2k ppl. The 86 mil would mainly come from India, Indonesia, Philippines (3 of them together almost making 10mil) and other directly occupied territories instead of the countries you mentioned. Not criticising, just letting ppl know.

oof...

And it also represents over a thousand suffering PTSD, losing limbs, going blind or deaf, organ damage from bullets and survivor's guilt for the rest of their lives :(

Now imagine for everyone of those soldiers there were even more woman children and old men that were, raped, shot, stabbed, starved set on fire, used as human Ginny pigs, crushed under bombed buildings, left orphans, homeless, and who lost everything. As bad as the soldiers have it, they're far from the only ones that suffer in war.

Thats why, the war is sucked! Imagine, who knows from that million who perished, it could've been future inventor, artist, or influential people who will help the world in better place. Sadly, they didnt have a chance to try.

wow your comment and the replies really put this into perspective. The deaths are a terrible thing, but that is really not even quarter of all the suffering that is in a war. All those who have lost relatives, friends. People who's lives are forever ruined by being injured, uneducated, traumatized, losing familiy, losing everything they have, raped and so on. Really makes you silent, and incredibly thankful for the long peace we have had here, but also makes you feel really sad about the war, and suffering that is going on everywhere else.

Lest we forget, in our lifetimes, we'll probably know around 1000 people. Another person will know 1000. That's one million people that can be reached just from one person's influence. One more person, and you're at a billion. These people could have effected others the world over, especially if they had the technology we have today.

Jaccub this is the fifth time i’m watching and it gets sadder every time...

Well... Uhh... You see... Well you have a point but... Uh... Yeah.

Yes 20 and makes me sleep his voice

I don't think you know how many people you're calling out right now haha

He be spittin’ facts tho

Provocateur what?

It is also biased in a leftward manner in some cases. But overall, not bad.

it's well made, although lies a lot.

Which parts? the statistics? just curious...

the parts justifying the Nazi and condemning USSR are all lies. mostly lies of omission and facts doctoring. for example, it compares military casualties of USSR and Germany, while USSR fought with forces from Germany, France, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Poland and others. if you compare actual numbers, USSR would not look this bloody, which is no-no. the GuLag numbers are plain fake, moreover, fake first voiced by Nazi ministry of propaganda. the comments on Leningrad are not just fake, they're highly insulting. the author might suffer serious injury if tries repeating that these parts nowadays.

The Russians provided the manpower, The US all the tools and the British... Churchill????

@@rosesprog1722 tea

Stalin pushed his people to death, through no sacrifice of their own. He is responsible for their high death toll

@@cfoster6567 Germany would have conquered Europe if Stalin didn't do it. 80% of Nazi forces were in the North.

@@cfoster6567 Yes, the first half of the 20th was particularly vicious for us, 2 world wars, 3 dictators, a pandemic, the 1929 crash, the depression, the prohibition, sickness, hunger... NOT good.

Wow, it goes to show you how horrible WW2 and all wars are. 😔

nah, more like 5 hours.

@@Yoo-Kang Average life span of kreigsman is 7 minutes, 6 of those are marching to the battle

@@kriegscommissarmccraw4205 lmao can't tell if ur serious.

@@apollojenkins4046 Its a warhammer 40k joke. In the warhammer universe though it is serious.

That would be the entire population of my *Country.*

Twice the population of my country

And even that is the low estimate...

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!! Mine too

that's about a third of the population of mine.........

Which facts? I'm actually curious

Which facts?

too bad its incorrect

How?

i would love to hear which facts were left out or mistaken as well

Marx was a bum who tried to steal people's wives!! He's basically responsible for 100+ million deaths!! Evil awful human

Ikr

why did karl marx steal your bike

damn

"and now we switch to civilian deaths..." *stomach turns*

So its not even the same amount of people who died though! Its a shame it isnt more makes me sad to think so many died and no one remmber them ever again.

Rest in the Peace All Soldiers And Civilians And Partizans ! War Never Changes ! Or Maybe Changes ! Changed ! Secondly Times ! Europe And All World ! +1 No Longer For Darkness ! For Lights Open To Freedom ! Forever ! +1

I agree but we need billions to see this if another great war happens this planets done mostly because (we're losing oh no time to nuke them)

@Flare I agree with you, but not sure what we can do as a country. I actively try to avoid buying anything made in China. I encourage more people to do the same.

@@edwelndiobel1567 lol this is happening to 99,999 of the population. after we die at some point we will be forgotten

I'm so glad that decent history is being taught somewhere. There wasn't much of it at my son's school.

@@thomidog9047 im sure its more of the teachers themselves that chose this instead of the lazy textbook examples

_¡¡¡"Espero se Muestre en Todas las Escuelas del Mundo, es Importante"!!!!_

Unfortunately, a serious study of history (real study, and not acquaintance with textbooks, "independent" media, religious sermons and other sources of information that are under the sensitive and careful control of politicians and corporations associated with them) indicates that the social processes of the emergence of wars have not undergone significant changes over the past couple of centuries. More ominous is that the civilized world has constantly adhered to these processes, considering them the pinnacle of the development of civilization, always striving for them. For example: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oyJTv_qLqsI.html Our common desire for peace deserves respect, but we should not hope that it will be taken into account. P.S. Oh yes, and I will boldly call this video anti-scientific and propaganda, and don’t worry, there are quite enough arguments for this.

Well one of my peers didn’t show the same respect.

-François Fénelon

Andy Phu most useless quote ever

@RoMMeL1337ak47 war is the natural state of human exsistins

*The Great Emu War Flashbacks*

Truth

The british evacuated their civilians in anticipation of continued urban bombing campaign. Their government values the life of those they govern. Hamas seems the opposite, and disturbs me greatly.

When i saw german casualities my heart dropped....then i saw this...

It's been quiet and cold, but it's most likely ww3 will soon happen if we don't get along and from many great relationships with another.

Ive watched it at least 10 times and on memorial day i come back to this video each year and i can still not watch that part without dropping a tear.

Weak comment.

@@ussenterprisecvn-8098 you jinxed us god dammit that might happen

deep

Almost every number left behind someone who loved them!

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin

that expression is hauntingly beautiful

Chill it was statistics

USA was still giving "democracy" to Muslim countries so no war hasn't end they destroyed Iraq Libya Lebanon Yemen

Think about it, a hand full of people decided to use civilians as soldiers to fight their battles to kill other civilians who did not willingly participate in it like soldiers did...CRAZY! And still today this happens! Without soldiers there would not be a war, there would be politicians stumping each other in the face, probably

Respect for your grandfather, mine escaped the siege of Leningrad when he was a boy

war is part of nature. thats like saying a lion preying on a deer is pointless. we have evolved this form of struggle into what we identify as war. it is just as necessary to have wars that can help propel and evolve humanity. it has existed for as long as humans have. Too long of a period of peace time and its like not being exposed to diseases for a long time... may sound good at first but ask how the native Americans feel about that.

@@Tiger_III we aren’t animals

@@andrewbay8891 aha... aha.

@@andrewbay8891 Pick up a science book someday buddy

Because we want to focus on the information the video has all the deaths and stuff. We don’t really care about the background

@@BreakingWhite 😢true

Unfortunately, most people don't realize how important a good soundtrack is.

Almost like the videos of lemmino

The sound effects, the bgm, and the narrator make this video beautiful! Sure the info and graphics are good, but the audio is what makes it perfect.