Tibet uprising 1959 - Cold War DOCUMENTARY 

We were waiting for this one! Well done, as always 👏

The Cold War, can you please make a video on Françafrique, which is basically France's Monroe Doctrine approach towards Africa. I want you to make a video on this topic, since the concept of Françafrique dates back to the Cold War era.

The Australians had some interesting small cold war actions and big ones like Korea and Vietnam. Small ones include the maylasian emergency, Indonesian confrontation and a action in Borneo. Would be good to see videos on them.

Oh Tibet, my ancestoral land, even though we crossed the Himalaya and settled in this new land centuries ago, we never forgot you. The tibetic language is still in our lips and warmth of "Chupa" Still is the best comfort for us. What an tragedy has fall upon you my mother Tibet, we will keep you alive in our memories, lips and heart like we did for centuries. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

The justification i see from some pro prc people for tibet annexation is ridiculous. They would be first to remind usa and europe for its imperialism while justifying china imperialism in similar way. When coloniser used to say white man burdern it was seen as racist but when prc do its liberation

Would love to see you cover the Philippines in some way in the future ❤

I love the host of this show and the way of presentation.. Absolutely, amazing 🎉❤

I loved to watch your channel. It's informative and I learned more. Thank you.

Super informative documentary coverage about Tibet issues during cold War 🥶 period

Despite its flaws, this video maker's explanation of Tibetan history is the most fair explanation I have seen so far. The author of the video breaks away from the standpoint of ideology and social systems, and his research on historical details is very thorough!

Thank you for another interesting episode! I know very little about Tibetan history in general, but specifically about before the Chinese annexation. Does anyone have any good resources they might recommend for further viewing / reading? Thank you in advance! God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

“It’s reductive to call it a feudal slave society” *describes one*

Then the PLA came in to commit atrocities against the monks to quell the uprising much like the Uyghur uprising.

Tibet needs to become indipendent again.

Long live Tibet

Wait a minute. Before the PRC took power in mainland china, the ROC aka Taiwan, already included Tibet in their territories officially. It even included ‘Outer Mongolia’ since it is the legal successor of the Qing empire which ruled over these territories. So what if PRC didn’t win the Chinese civil war in 1949, would the west still insist that ROC to release Tibet as an independent country? Very unlikely if you ask me.

Damn you all have been covering some good topics. As of late. I'd love to see more videos on things like this were the likely western audience watching it will not be very familiar which the circumstances or possibly even the occurrence at all.

By the way, in 1956 the Khamba Tibetans were already launched a rebellion. The PLA had send their Tu-4 bomber to strike Tibetans during the rebellion. The rebellion directly led to the rupture of the relationship between the CCP and Tibetans, which in turn led to the great suppression of Tibet in 1959. To give an example to illustrate why the Tibetans in the Khampa area launched a rebellion: In 1949, the Kangding area, the capital of Khampa during the Kuomintang rule, had to collect about 35 tons of grain tax a year. By 1955, the total amount of grain tax collected by the CCP in Kangding reached 325 tons (In just six years, the grain tax has increased nearly tenfold! ). The total grain output and population of Kangding area (the county's population is only about 100,000) have not increased significantly in these years, but the grain tax increased enormously that led to a great famine. Absolutely, the rebellion caused by heavy taxation by CCP. If the Tibetans did not want to starve to death, they had no choice but to rebel. The insurgency led to a crackdown to all Tibetans not only Khampa but also Amdo and U-Tsang by the CCP. For example, Gao Feng, the Secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee of CCP, was calling for "Smothering the rebellion before Tibetans premeditated" in 1959 - we all know what that means. Judging from the results, the 1959-1962 repression was extremely cruel. One county lost 60% of its population in the most brutal area of the crackdown - including executions, forced migration, etc. To be honest, the efficiency of killing is much higher than Pol Pot's(well, Elon Musk) Khmer Rouge. Repression in some areas has resulted in a 2:8 male-to-female ratio in Tibet (Then came the influx of Chinese male immigrants and intermarriage with these Tibetan women who had lost their fathers and husbands to "promote ethnic integration" - we have to recall the brutal story of the slaughter of men and the ravages of women during Genghis Khan's conquest). According to some internal battle reports of the PLA, when the "rebels" were suppressed, a "rebel army" of more than 10,000 fighters had only more than 3,000 knives, spears and firearms combined - it is not difficult to imagine that most "Rebels" are unarmed farmers and herdsmen. The so-called "liberating serfs and overthrowing serf owners" is even more ironic. In order to suppress the Tibetan people, the Tibetan people are generally designated as "serf owners". In the most exaggerated part of Hainan Prefecture, Qinghai Province, 90% of the population is classified as "serf owners"-- It is completely unimaginable how 90% of the slave owners enslaved 10% of the serfs! Under the bloody repression, Tibet achieved "complete liberation". But we must admit that not all Chinese are bad people. A senior commander of the VFF appearing in the video is a PLA Major. He was unwilling to implement the CCP's policy of suppressing the Tibetans and chose to join in VFF. Also, these information above is from the book "When The Iron Bird Flies" by Li Jianglin, who is a daughter of a senior CCP official. Its information is derived from the CCP's internal reports, statistics, official confidential documents, etc. She hopes to let the world know CCP's persecution of Tibetans.

The Chinese in the comments are offended.

I always like to watch your channel as you are telling the truth in history, not propaganda driven by ideology and not biased at all.😄👍

David, excellent video again. I would really like to have you include sources in the description for further reading. Also, you’re clearly an expert on these topics. Any chance we could get a bio in the video/channel description?

#FreeTibet

Wow I had no idea this happened. Crazy.

Thanks

Thank goodness there are videos interviewing former serfs who’s lives greatly improved after the Chinese invasion. It’s not surprising because what person would choose to be a slave?

What's the name of the autro song? It's so iconic.

May the Dreams and Aspiration of Tibetans come True

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PRC claims of liberating Tibet during invasion was absolutely ridiculous

I think something similar also occurred back in the 80's.

It is not a surprise if you are on the side with the Tibetan ruler and slave owners

Long Live His Holiness! Free Tibet ☸️♥️

What is the name of the track playing at the very end of each video? I've been trying to find it for ages, but can't even Shazam it because the app gets thrown off by the voice in the foreground.

free tibe

#freetibet

It's pronounced Qin Shrr Huangdi :D

“Well Tibet was considered pretty independent, how’d that work out?” -the Simpsons

Plz make a video about the Portuguese colonies fight for independence that surged during Portugal’s own independence war and down of their dictatorship which ended up helping the former colonies to get their freedom.

My God the rewriting of history in this video is beyond me. Political Tibet had absolutely nothing to do with Qinghai province or western Sichuan after the fall of the Qing dynasty. The map of tibet you used is false, as Qinghai and Tibet border was the ROC tibet border then. Jesus the lies in your video gives me migrane.

The People's Republic had every right to put down this Chinese Vendée.

i had watched that drama documentary i recommend fo you all to watched it

Whips were used...

My grandfather fought with chushi gangdruk

Now I know why 1962 China and India war .

Was there anything good going on in China during this time? YOW

After seeing the lama recently people should understand we don't want people like that in charge of a country

Very soon PRC's commanders of keyboard forces will see this video and come to suppress rebellion on RU-vid aswell 😂

The Cold War channel cashing in on the latest Dalai Lama sucking tongue scandal👍

Very soon PLA's commanders of keyboard forces will see this video and come to suppress rebellion on RU-vid aswell 😂

Surely make a video on the Sikh Genocide in 1984 by the Indian state

The Chinese did a favor to tibeten people .the Tibeten people were serfs (slaves)to a few Tibeten religious people.they treated their people like crap

When it comes to the "People's Liberation army", liberation tends to look a lot like repression

Qinghai province has being its own entity for ages before the fall of the qing dynasty, it was officially made a province by the government of the Republic of China in 1923 with Ma bufang as its governor. Qinghai province even went to war with the unrecognized Tibet at thier border several times with the Qinghainese crushing them on several occasions, then how the heck is Qinghainese territory shown as part of Tibet territory in your video with you claiming Qinghai Gansu boundary as the Tibet china official boundary? my God your propaganda is tooo much😂😂 i remove my hat for you.

#freeTibet

Tibet and Uyghurs will be free together as brothers in arms.Inshallah

Soo.. I generally only comment on the thumbnail picture, so- hey did that white guy from the movie free tibet, already? Had alla that gear ready after the last dharmic KarmaKomeleonQuake? He made a lot of money that rich white amrikan. Stealing money from Sherla. Sherla Chopra-Vote Daal- harhar made youblook .

Great video, as always, Cold War Channel! Too bad due to the recent Dalai Lama news, the tankies are flooding the comments section.

How have you not done a vídeo on Portugal, it was one of the 2 dictatorships that survived ww2, had a colonial war in 3 different fronts (portuguse guinea, Angola and Moçambique) and it was a higly anti comunist state

The PRC was just jealous of Tiberians' superior skull shape

The uprising of Tibetan slave owners

CIA :-)

I urge you to be more specific in describing the makeup of the resistance. You state that land reform caused tension. But from which group? I imagine the landowning aristocracy was very much against it, while the serf who would benefit was for it. What about other social groups and organizations? The language used in much of the video make it sound like the Tibetan population was more or less of the same mind-which may make an easily presented and understood narrative, but presumably simplifies the conflict beyond what's reasonable for a history channel.

The key problem for Tibetan independence is that Tibet didn't become a sovereign nation in 1911. They declared independence but it wasn't recognised by anyone, certainly not by the Chinese government. As a historian you should know that it therefore wasn't technically an annexation, which describes taking another sovereign nation's territory. It was a failed war of independence. You don't become a sovereign country by declaring it. Tibet needs permission from the central government or it needs to win a second war of independence

Most people in tibet don't care about independence. There are 50 something ethic groups in china. India 400+. Should all of them have their own country? Tibet and china today is 100x better than 50 years ago. Tibet pays only 10% tax to china, all the schools Universities bullet trains airport are free from china. Tibet people are the same as chinese people. They go to school together, work together live together. Some became doctors , celebrities, singers,teachers, scientists, government officials. Most people in china speaks mandarin + 1 mother language. Tibetian, uyghur, hui， han ,Manchu,，mong,Mongolian do have a country call China. US has 10x more ethic groups, Why don't they have their own country? Because they do call USA

Free Tibet !! ✊🏼 China shame on you !

2:40 put is simple, it was slavery.

Full of lies.

Sees video title. (EVERYBODY KEEP YOUR TONGUES IN YOUR MOUTH)

problem is China says Tibet has already been part of their dynasty since old ages when you look history you clearly see tibet has been catptured 2 times by Mongols and then 1 time by Chinese dynasty.All the other times Tibet was independent and especially 6-10th century AD when Tibetan Empire was at it's prime.After that Tibet didn't bother with outsiders and remained silent and as mentioned in video refused modernisation.Slavery never existed in Tibet as they they didn't have lot of wars after fall of Tibetan Empire.Tibetans were most if not all farmers.

Perfect timing at the Dalai Lama's tongue scandal

不知道为什么西方总是把中国在西藏的统治归为负面，西藏这60年的发展是有目共睹。人均寿命提升超过100%，修建了数千公里的铁路和数万公里的公路，经济与社会实现了大发展，这些难道是错误吗？

FREE TIBET!

TIL many Tibetans today use iPhone in Tibet because Apple has much better Tibetan language support than Android.

Wait a sec... Lake Laogai... it all makes sense now lol #atla

I hope for a multi-part special on the Cultural Revolution, including the one in Tibet when the PRC turned ironically on Tibetan party cadres.

But everything changed when the CCP attacked

Oh boy your losing some social credit score for this video bud!

Here for all the monkey-logic comments from Han imperialists.

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Crazy to think Tibet was basically under serfdom until 1959. There are people still alive in Tibet today who were treated like human cattle.

Farcry 4 in real life

"From the 1951 Seventeen Point Agreement to 2003, life expectancy in Tibet increased from thirty-six years to sixty-seven years with infant mortality and absolute poverty declining steadily" The Tibetans traditionally depended upon agriculture for survival. Since the 1980s, however, other jobs such as taxi-driving and hotel retail work have become available in the wake of Chinese economic reform. In 2011, Tibet's nominal GDP topped 60.5 billion yuan (US$9.60 billion), nearly more than seven times as big as the 11.78 billion yuan (US$1.47 billion) in 2000. Economic growth since the beginning of the 21st century has averaged over 10 percent a year. By 2020 the GDP of the region surpassed 190 billion yuan (US$29.2 billion)

Hey guys the DL might be a creep, but don't go all ProChina on this issue cause of it.

Just an inconvenient fact. The Chamdo area hasn't been under the control of Dalai Lamas since the 18th century. Same as Amdo, the birthplace of the current Dalai Lama. Technically, the CCP was still honouring the agreement respecting Tibetan social structure in 1959. Land reform movements were carried out in the Amdo and Kham areas, just as in the rest of China.

Hello Chinese prisoners forced to spread CCP propaganda

4:22 I’m not a pro-PRC source, but “oppressive and backward” meshes quite well with my understanding of the country.

Such good timing especially the tongue sucking scandal and the real slavery system of old Tibet been exposed

The fact that we will never have a "The Troubles" style movie about the Tibetan occupation is sad.

Every Asian country was no different in social structures than Tibet. Tibetans never bound their women's feet or women treated as second class as Chinese did.

India 🇮🇳 Stands with Tibet

CIA largely instigated this, sending weapons and volunteers, then left the Tibetans to suffer the consequences to this very day. Little known is the fact that small quantities of plutonium(!) were left, and lost, in Himalayan glaciers on the Indian side to keep radio communications functional. Kham and Amdo had always been very troublesome areas to the Chinese, considered "wild" and uncontrollable, and the Muslim Ma clique Nationalist armies had conducted ghastly massacres there in the Thirties and Forties. The Communist regime simply inherited the same view of the question as the Nationalists.

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numerous points stated here have absolutely no evidential basis. It exposes the poor level of research in writing these scripts as only secondary and tertiary sources have been used without verifying the evidence and sourcing of the secondary historical claims. This makes this series pure infotainment and not a credible historical text. It also means the channel is producing out right lies for the sake of clicks.

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“Suck my tongue” Makes you wonder what were they doing behind the cameras

Can you please say CIA involvement? It's not antisemitic to mention that right.

those priests and monks had it coming.

Gotta protect the DL’s right to creep on children.

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