Valley of Death: exhumation of missing in action WWII soldiers at Mjasnoj Bor (Original version)

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The updated version of this video can be seen here: • Digging in the "Valley...
Russian diggers from the Sniezhni Desant group explore the so called "Valley of Death" battlefield in the Mjasnoj Bor area, south of St Petersburg, in April and May 2014, in order to exhume the bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in battle in the swamps 1942.
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Plus de renseignements sur la recherche des soldats disparus: findthemia.blog...
Des "creuseurs blancs" russes recherchent les corps de soldats portés disparus près du village de Mjasnoj Bor, région du Volshow, St Petersbourg, en 2014.
Pour plus de détails sur la recherche de soldats portés disparus: findthemia.blog...
Bergung von vermist und gefallene Soldaten in der Umgebung von Mjasnoj Bor, Russland.
A Crocodile Tear productions documentary film.
Best comments posted:
"Only the birds sing for these fallen soldiers in the quiet woods,"
"and the wind whispers their names at night...."
Darre King: "If you want to know why Germany couldn't conquer Russia watch this all the way through,"
Spaz6996: "Vodka, Bread and Cigarette ....all a man needs in the after life."
Nathan Hardee: "Russians don't fuck around. They show up in a kickass battle vehicle ready to fucking turn those trees to toothpicks!"
Jozsef Nyisztor: "The Soviet women in the video, who were eating the Toblerone, are the most beautiful women in the World. They should be fashion models, and not grave robbers."
Kent Churchill: "These folks know how to have fun, even when doing a tough job like finding lost countrymen. If I fall in battle.....I hope that my bones get found by woman as beautiful as these girls!!!!....Oh yeah...thats right, grab my femur.......oh yeah!!"
Scott Summers: "If i was to fall in combat.I wouldnt want my corpse to be moved away from where I was at.Its like an honor to die among my fellow soldiers with my remains there instead of some goddamn museum or preserves.I want someone to chance upon it and go like damn.These people faught for us.Gave the ultimate price.Hell i would be happy to stay there."
"All I can think when watching is that those same wet, soggy and miserable swamp-like conditions they're digging in were probably as it was when the poor soldiers were fighting there all those years ago. It must have been sheer hell on earth. Waterlogged and tangled underfoot, difficult conditions to navigate when not fighting all out war, but crawling through that undergrowth with bullets flying and shell exploding all around, trees falling, mud flying... sheesh! Cold, wet and no doubt very tired, punctuated by sheer terror. "
"Only GOD and the earth of Mother Russia KNOW the TRUE number of the fallen!!"

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@darreking2516 9 лет назад

If you want to know why Germany couldn't conquer Russia watch this all the way through,

@JoeNathan42420 4 года назад

Russia has never been conquered. The people of Russia during the last days anyone able enough to carry an shoot a gun, women, children the elderly everyone. Did.. and Soviet military practice was to shot anyone coming you direction including any Russian man woman or child as they were considered deserters or traitor's and not many people had an issue with killing these people therefore not many people turned around an ran from the fight. People out of ammo would do anything possible to take out at least one more enemy. An Germany never had a chance during their invasion of Russia. Fighting on two fronts one with the allies an the other with people who are literally willing to die for their country. So to answer your question. That's why

@D3cyTH3r 4 года назад

@@JoeNathan42420 The Mongols conquered Russia, and I also disagree with the statement that "Germany never had a chance during their invasion of Russia". This is naive, revisionist, jingoism. A Nazi victory looked all but certain in the Autumn of '41, it was only the weather that stopped them taking Moscow. If they had, Stalin's brutal regime would've likely collapsed. I do agree with everything else you've written though. Mr Taylor may point out strategic hypotheticals, but in the end, it was ultimately Soviet determination that prevented the Nazis from winning. And as you also point out: retreating wasn't an option after Stalin's Order No. 227.

@D3cyTH3r 4 года назад

@The Fibler This is a fantastically naive and stupid comment. If you knew your history, you would know that Hitler planned the mass eradication of the native Slavs. The lucky few who looked Germanic (blonde) would've been kept as slave labour and had their children taken from them. Russia wouldn't even exist, it would've been renamed. Please explain how that would've been better for the average Russian?

@ericbarr2589 4 года назад

@Christian Taylor keep dreaming nazis lost cauase they were inhumane animals

@theogdirkdiggler 4 года назад

Mud?

@prillewitz 9 лет назад

Only the birds sing for these fallen soldiers in the quiet woods.

@jamesrivis620 6 лет назад

Peter Stegman Very beautiful sentiment. Perfect. My heart was moved watching the video.

@pfdrtom 5 лет назад

And me, here in Texas. Maybe the allies would have won without Russia but it would have taken three more years and millions more dead.

@sanarroyos5501 5 лет назад

Nice Poem... i really want to cry

@adamhavelock2104 4 года назад

Very well said. Very poetic.

@compoturn1029 4 года назад

How many birds sang or sing for all the people gassed by the Nazis?

@seamusgriffey8738 6 лет назад

Seventy plus years on and we are still looking for them. I have a personal experience in something like this. I have an uncle who was a B-24 pilot. In March of 1944 his plane was shot down over Toulon Harbor in France. The Germans recovered the crew, buried them and recorded their deaths. They failed to record where 3 of the crew were buried one being my uncle. Three years ago some remains were found, somehow the Army found me and asked for a DNA sample. After 71 years we had finally found my uncle and laid him to rest next to his parents, my grandparents.

@gondolin12 6 лет назад

Seamus Griffey wow what a story. I’m still looking for my great grandpa who was in 416 division. we know when and where he died but can’t find his burial site. hoping to find him in my lifetime

@oa8885 6 лет назад

My grandfather is from New Zealand who fought in world war2 in the 28th Maori Battalion....I watch all these and have always been interested in the past wars...I always get sad when bones of a body that has been buried for many years gets found....I would love to do something like this and bring closure for families....so many unmarked buried graves... too many

@goonigoogoo5868 5 лет назад

this one time ,,,,at band camp........

@Paleoman 5 лет назад

Thats a great ending to a sad story.

@jamiestewart48 5 лет назад

I'm glad he can rest with his family finally.

@jakeroth3879 3 года назад

First of all thank you for doing this video in English so I could follow along. Second, 3 generations since the war and you guys are still looking. It shows you’ll never forget and that is more than awesome! You have my respect. Closure for the families of the fallen is important to me. Third, your camp food looked very interesting along with your campfire songs in that more than creepy forest swamp. Good job you guys!

@otiebrown9999 4 года назад

Friend, who walks quietly by me, remember this: I gave up all my tomorrows, for your today! I am 80 years old. I remember rationing, and air raid black outs. This was our reality.

@powerstroke304 4 года назад

It takes your lifetime to forget, to be turned to this again

@allthingsharbor 4 года назад

@Joseph Mcbride For one thing, the rationing did not immediately end with the war. Nations which were devastated by war had to be rebuilt. Some items, in some war damaged countries, were rationed for years. Remember also the many lives lost, and the many maimed or injured, so productivity of these nations was decreased. Hell, there were even "debris" sites remaining in Croyden (south of London) when I lived there in 1987. 1987! Just a year or so after I returned to the US, rebuilding on one site found an enormous unexploded bomb. I had been walking past that site almost daily ! Egads!

@andrewallen9993 4 года назад

@@allthingsharbor Bread which was unrationed during ww2 in the UK was rationed afterwards in order to supply wheat to the Germans to prevent them from starving.

@Useaname 2 года назад

8 years ago. All those young people have grown up and hopefully are following their careers, hopes and dreams. Thank you for your hard work in the swamp.

@kaiharris9675 4 года назад

My father was a ( canadian) black pilot - during WW2, and his father was in ww1 and his father was in the slavery war. We found all of this in a lock box after daddy died. He never spoke about his experience. God bless daddy

@CrocodileTear 4 года назад

I have never heard of Black Canadian pilots during World War II before. What was your father's name and what squadron did he fly with?

@IB2EZ2C 9 лет назад

Politics of the time aside, every soul who never came home from that place deserves to be brought out and returned to those that have wondered for so long.... This is a great service. God Bless

@Dr.Gunsmith 5 лет назад

Absolutely

@Clintreid75 5 лет назад

Wonderful to see these people dedicating their time to find missing soldiers and possibly bringing closure to families of lost soldiers, well done and keep up the great work :)

@ronanrogers4127 4 года назад

I was quite close to Myasnoy Bor, about 10-20km, when I rode my motorcycle on a 4 month journey from Germany to St Petersburg when the World Cup was on (I didn’t visit for the cup, just a coincidence). I visited many battlefields and memorials nearby (Veliky Novgorod, Pskov, and many sites in the Baltic states and Poland), but not here. My wife was born in Leningrad. My parents in law were children during the siege and have suffered health problems their entire life from the malnutrition they experienced as children. My wife’s grandparents all fought, amazingly all survived (one grandfather lost both legs), and the two grandmothers only died in the last 5 years, in their mid 90s. Lovely people. Solemn, respectful, two were doctors, two were engineers. When you visit any former Soviet city in Europe miserable history is never far away. Lest we forget the enormous sacrifices born of utter madness.

@tomservo5347 4 года назад

I like how the Russians gather round the campfire and sing folk songs-it could be Americans aside from language. Just shows people are people regardless of what our governments try telling us. I would love to come on one of these excavations/camping trips. Love your channel!

@labrat748 8 лет назад

Nice to see such an organized & respectful effort into such important history.

@MsAbolo 4 года назад

100%

@granskare 9 лет назад

it is amazing to see these young people interested in digging in such a swampy area to find the dead and inform their relatives...it is a fine thing that they do...

@OlSgtLove Год назад

That Track vehicle is perfect for that situation to get around and to accomplish the mission . Thankyou for what your doing to bring these Soldiers home to their families and get them buried in a place of Honor .

@talshiarjapan112 6 лет назад

What a wonderful thing this group is doing - I never knew about it. I also liked the video not only showing the finds, but also the camping and camaraderie surrounding the expedition. Nice work!

@mastrofnone8025 6 лет назад

there are some many similarities between Americans and Russians when politics is out of the way.

@deamonfly6 6 лет назад

They both honor their armed forces greatly.

@royupchurch8679 6 лет назад

i agree

@dubb8510 5 лет назад

Yea too bad our politicians have to be dicks

@bubblepuppie6341 5 лет назад

Yes, very true.

@materiaparticulata 5 лет назад

Because we are one big family?! ;) Thera are just some Guys, that won´t see us (I´m German) united...

@rinaldianwar15 5 лет назад

I love how he video the whole journey. It just shows how a place can be such a horror and warm in 70 years different

@centerice 5 лет назад

9:40 and 10:16. The ways of youthful, beautiful happy girls. What fresh air they always bring.

@kevinhofer5911 4 года назад

I am a retired American soldier. I wish I could be there helping find your fallen comrades with you. I honor all soldiers who have fought in the defense of their country. I have great respect for what you are doing for your fallen.

@egay86292 2 года назад

you like Nazis?

@dmitriyivanov4688 5 лет назад

it is with us Russians have since pagan times preserved this custom. To the dead, dead always pour vodka, cover a glass with bread. Cigarettes were later added. Thus treating the deceased, appeasing his soul. On Parent's Day, every year, sweets, cigarettes are left on the graves of the deceased, and vodka is poured.

@jaguar3248 8 лет назад

Love how they deal with a grenade. ""Yes its a grenade" then casually throws it away! Stay safe people.

@cnon. 6 лет назад

it cannot explode anymore after being in water for 70 years

@T4Cification 5 лет назад

Cnon so the whole idea of granades exploding under water is a myth?

@T4Cification 5 лет назад

How to hell do these guys know how long its been underwater....have they got a 70 year geological record of the whole area....there's a saying...rather safe than sorry

@jaguar3248 5 лет назад

@@T4Cification Exactly the point I was trying to make. Yes most of what lies their has been their for a long time but they cant be sure of that and that's why a regular Army would treat the ammo differently.

@MrWeAllAreOne 5 лет назад

@@T4Cification no but after rusting and soaking for 70 odd years there's no chance of it being live.....are you really that stupid?

@alexanderalbach468 4 года назад

One cannot emphasise enough how important this work is. Thank you!

@geraldpena5895 3 года назад

This brings tears to my eyes and saddens my heart that it takes so long to recover lost loved ones and bring a closure to families

@sciencebeartimberwoods7610 6 лет назад

Very nice to see people with respect for the dead and not just hunting for treasures.

@jamesrivis620 6 лет назад

I found this expedition into ground where many soldiers remains are buried where they fell , very moving and was quite emotional thinking about the relatives of the dead. I am British by (1943) birth, a Canadian citizen and living in the USA now and realize that if the Russian army had not been so brave and sacrificed so much, then we may not have won the war against Hitler and the Nazis. I shed tears watching this film. Thankyou for what you are doing.

@Ferreal92 5 лет назад

So brutal. They even shoot your morning coffee.

@pieter7722 4 года назад

lol

@SoapMcCallister 3 года назад

Lol

@alexsani3340 3 года назад

Nothing to lol about it..

@SoapMcCallister 3 года назад

@@alexsani3340 damn it was a joke bruh

@alexsani3340 3 года назад

@@SoapMcCallister in that case it flew over my head, unlike that morning coffee drinker.

@prowner2777 6 лет назад

I am impressed, especially with the way these young people are doing something rather noble and for how well they do setting up a working camp and keeping a very positive attitude. No spoiled millennial brats here. Also it's good to see such acquired skill in searching methods, low-tech but it works.

@mpk6664 6 лет назад

Pr Owner I'm surprise at how well you found the comment button.

@thecluckingassassin 5 лет назад

Shut the fuck up boomer

@boofydoo4458 4 года назад

The clucking assassin you mad huh? Cuz he was spitting straight facts

@GatorMike79 Год назад

Lots of respect to those people out there giving their time and effort to do this.

@glennbrymer4065 5 лет назад

As a retired Soldier, Contemplating the conditions that those Russian men & women were fighting in and the terrible amount of death everywhere. I can only stand and give them all an honorable Slow Salute.

@bluehorizons8913 4 года назад

I like how joyful these men and women are despite working on such sad history. It’s bitter sweet, but they are lost reuniting family members.

@MURDOCK1500 4 года назад

It's just my opinion but I'm sure the souls of those lost soldiers are lifted by the joyful singing of these young people who are trying to find their remains and put them to rest

@CrocodileTear Год назад

Some people were complaining that the singing was disrespectful. Cant make everyone happy.

@badmonkey2222 4 года назад

Thank you guys for doing this all soldiers are supposed to go home, not lay in the middle of nowhere all alone, war is hell to bad we humans will never learn our lessons, may these soldiers finnaly rest in peace.

@stevewilson6390 8 лет назад

Respect to you guys, Quite clearly you are educated by the simple fact you all speak English. I believe you are doing a noble thing well done.

@coldwaterhunter8176 8 лет назад

I grew up speaking Afrikaans but we moved to the states when I was 12. After living here all these years I'm not sure being able to speak English is the height of being educated. By the way, are those butt protectors so the excavators don't have to squat in the mud?

@stormwarning1693 7 лет назад

Coldwater Hunter ...Who claimed it was?

@codycrawford7274 6 лет назад

The spirit s of the dead I am sure like hearing laughter and singing again

@codycrawford7274 6 лет назад

May God bless you young. People for what you are doing very honorable

@Mercmad 6 лет назад

I spent time in Russia a very long time ago and found a lot of Russians spoke English,as it was a school subject. Also ,the singing reminded me that the Russians and the balts are very musical people.

@cw2gtc 4 года назад

Gotta say, these young kids were impressive. They looked like they truely enjoyed being together as friends as well as comrades. They seemed commited to their mission, took it professionally, and anxious to offer up closure to affected families. (Hopefully it is closure and not ripping open healed over scar tissue). “War, HUH! , What is it good for? Absolutely NUTHIN !!!”

@brycehenderson8371 6 лет назад

I've read that many of these battles around Leningrad took place in difficult terrain. That certainly is true. Hell of a place to die.

@timwilcox4972 3 года назад

Good people finding there missing, what an appalling place to fight it would of just been a mud bath

@granskare 4 года назад

this is good that soldiers from each side are returned to their families for proper burial. With modern ways, DNA can be used to find families that way...thanks for what you are doing !

@geraldpena5895 3 года назад

What a wonderful thing these college students are doing the following soldiers and bringing peace to their family members

@treywest268 3 года назад

Considering the ground water I am surprised that you didn't find more remains with adipocere. .

@gondolin12 6 лет назад

my great grandpa died during the crucial fight that turned the course of the war in 1943. remember when germans had to give up southern front? that was my great grandpa’s division 416 taganrog. still to this day can’t find his burial site. praying 🙏🏻 and hoping to find him. rip

@vegasbattleborn1594 4 года назад

@i. rob - It's Christmastime a year after your touching comment. Still rings true & I wonder if the OP has been able to locate him yet. Merry Christmas across the pond.

@elenaproperzi2376 Год назад

Which battle exactly and where? I live between battlefield. Maybe I can leave a flower. Hugs

@AmandaClark-sw6ch 4 месяца назад

I appreciate this. My great grandfather is still missing. Don’t know where or what branch he was in

@1978JonBullock 6 месяцев назад

Imagine being on patrol 80 years ago and having to live in those woods during the winter without modern materials to keep you dry and warm. The russian people defending themselves truly hard savage times.

@anibalcesarnishizk2205 3 года назад

Matsuo Basho wrote a haiku that could be dedicated to every fallen soldier:Summer grass, that's all what remains of soldiers's dreams.

@fedupnow61859 5 лет назад

Thank you and all the people that helped with reunification of the remains with the families or gov't. It doesn't matter which side the men died were from a formal burial would be proper.

@desertrat2655 6 лет назад

There is something really touching and admirable about the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of these fallen soldiers taking the time and expending the considerable effort to find and inter, with honor, those who died in that terrible war. While Stalin's regime was fully as vile as Hitler's these men fought and died, not for the lunatic in the Kremlin, but to defend their homes and families from murderous invaders. The Russians did most of the fighting and dying in that war and won out despite horrendous losses and the devastation of their homelands. I contrast these people with those in the U.S. who topple the statues of Confederate dead and would (and sometimes do) desecrate the graves of Southern soldiers who fought just as hard and gave just as much as the Russians of 1942 to defend their families and lands from invaders who, in the end, proved to be ruthless vandals that devastated the richest lands of the Old South in order to starve and terrorize the people into surrendering.

@BlackdogRRT 5 лет назад

This is amazing. Nice work.

@creepysabrina9629 6 лет назад

einst waren wir feinde heute trauern wir um unsere toten und sind freunde . mein opa liegt auch irgendwo bei stalingrad , ich freue mich auf den tag wo er gefunden wird . ich trage den russen nichts nach beide seiten verloren geliebte menschen .

@keithbradley4224 4 года назад

Special people doing a special job. Thank you from Florida USA.

@MSM4U2POM 8 лет назад

Excellent video. Thanks, and keep up this good work. It matters.

@rickym49 6 лет назад

Very respectful. Some of the other videos are nothing but grave robbing. Great respect for your work.

@dellybellylyons9700 6 лет назад

Respect to you guys ! Good on you.

@themainproblem 9 лет назад

That was a great video and an equally great expedition! I wish that I could have went along. :-). I bet the food was really good after spending all day out there. Greetings from Arizona.

@hazelwoodgarage 5 лет назад

amazed at how good the Russian students English is

@aldilette 2 года назад

32:14 what a beautifull poem

@paulgrimm7842 5 лет назад

I hope the spirits of the fallen soldiers can here the singing and laughter

@c.s.7266 4 года назад

Thank you for honoring your fallen soldiers. I'm sure their families are truly grateful. Love from America.

@ANTINUTZI 5 лет назад

... Honouring The Dead helps heal the Soul.

@davisworth5114 6 лет назад

As a Vietnam veteran ,I find these comments to be infantile and pathetic.

@stevendeitrich6933 4 года назад

Why?

@DVincentW 4 года назад

I am thankful to have access to this channel. Be well.

@fimbles1015 2 года назад

How sad all these young men died. War sucks.

@nadsak1 6 лет назад

Excellent video and thanks for posting it

@beaugeste2899 5 лет назад

Thanks for the interesting video. Good luck.

@bobcuster8930 9 лет назад

Interesting work and a well down video--great work!

@hoosierdaddy2308 9 лет назад

Great video. Very sad all the people that died in that awful war. Great job they are doing with this work. How do they know the soldiers are there? I take it records or from eye witness accounts of the battles and dead bodies? Great work. Thanks so much for sharing.

@omgitsjoetime 4 года назад

Jesus it amazes me how every other culture other than The US people know multiple languages.

@ronanrogers4127 4 года назад

Too many Muricans can’t even speak English well, and I’m not talking about hispanics, but white Muricans

@jontisdall6248 4 года назад

@@ronanrogers4127 I echo your sentiments but not of Americans, of whom I have only had extremely positive experiences in my limited time in the US of A. I speak of us British, not of the many and varied regional accents but of the barbarous mangling of our language so often encountered in our cities. To call it a Patois would be to unfairly ennoble it. I travel frequently to northern Europe and like to explore off the normal tourist track, I'm often amazed at how fluent other peoples are in my language whereas I am only able to pass the time of day or order a drink and a meal in maybe three different languages.

@jean-francoissaliou690 5 лет назад

Qui sont les personnes qui parlent francais?? Je suis également français, je pratique la détection en France, depuis des années et je regarde assez souvent des videos provenantes souvent de RUSSIE, car je suis passionné par le militaria. Les trouvailles faites la bas, sont incroyables. La zone de combat, et le nombre de belligérants expliquent, les resultats de leurs fouilles, c'est certain!! Mais egalement passionant. Mais est ce qu'il est possible a des français, d'aller participer a ce genre de fouilles en russie???? Merci d'avance!!!!

@alaindonnell8924 6 месяцев назад

Based on my reading, the Eastern Front is all one giant graveyard. Perhaps this area even more than other battlefields. Considering this was a nearly 900 day siege I can onl;y imagine how unimportant interment of soldiers remains may have become. I've viewed many "lost bunker" videos and in all of those the remains were found quite deep in the ground. I'm struck by how shallow the remains in this video were found. As if bodies were left where they fell, as well they might have considering the fluid nature of the battles around St. Petersburg before the Germans settled into their seige lines. I'm also always surprised by how wet the ground is in this video and many of the others I've watched. I don't imagine this was any different for those who fought here. Simply hell on earth.

@mnpd3 9 лет назад

I'd hate to throw a track in that kind of terrain.

@wiltdijk9592 5 лет назад

Respect, keep on the good work.

@chun_ting 3 года назад

German : road to rusland Russian : road? What road?

@billycampbell854 3 года назад

They speak the international language of caring for their dead.

@jmaz1971 8 лет назад

thank you for sharing

@HoodedLum Год назад

Absolutely incredible work! What precautions do y’all have to take regarding any unexplored ordinance? I was a little worried when y’all were handling old grenades! Keep up the fantastic work! :) Edit: not to mention y’all actually find an unexplored shell later in the video!

@CrocodileTear Год назад

The precautions are to handle them as little as possible and to not try to dismantle them.

@HoodedLum Год назад

@@CrocodileTear that sounds very reasonable! Thank you for the great work- stay safe!

@granskare 4 года назад

it is good that soldiers of all sides are found and returned to families for proper burial. The Russians only had tubes on which they wrote their names. Not so good compared to "dog tags".

@sau002 5 лет назад

Very evocative. I am not in anyway connected to this episode of history. But, I believe everybody must know about WW2 , especially the Eastern Front. Thank you for this video.

@voodoodolly 6 лет назад

Hmm, wonder if they have a data base of extracted DNA from bones , so that it can be matched (familial DNA) against genealogy websites...

@CrocodileTear 6 лет назад

No, there is no such database. With the number of Soviet missing, it would be a huge project, that no one is willing to finance. The Commonwealth war graves comission, as well as the French, Japanese and Germans also do not use DNA for their old war dead. Only the Americans and Dutch use DNA as part of their regular proceedure as far as I know.

@voodoodolly 6 лет назад

CrocodileTear ahhh I see. Yes it would be a huge undertaking indeed. Thank you for ur information. Keep up the great work you guys :)

@georgebanuelos1 3 года назад

@@voodoodolly the United States has a organization that dedicates itself to its MIA Russia wouldn’t be able to finance it with the sheer number of MIA

@boundsgeorge 5 лет назад

I respect you all for what you are doing .

@littlebull8881 6 лет назад

Respect that all I need say

@madzen112 Год назад

If you go to war, remember to write your name on metal!

@CrocodileTear Год назад

Of even better, on your condom.

@Max-vp8bz 4 года назад

My socks are cold and wet, from just watching this!

@robertv8851 5 лет назад

God bless you people.

@ScottCyclops 9 лет назад

If i was to fall in combat.I wouldnt want my corpse to be moved away from where I was at.Its like an honor to die among my fellow soldiers with my remains there instead of some goddamn museum or preserves.I want someone to chance upon it and go like damn.These people faught for us.Gave the ultimate price.Hell i would be happy to stay there.

@ScottCyclops 9 лет назад

But highly likely you won't get to your hometown as seen in the video as the push and pull of territories.So you might be a German in a Russian museum...

@trevorispimpn 9 лет назад

+Jay Pak theres no way they will be able to tell who there are are where they came from unless they have there dog tags and most of the time there war friends take them home to there family i would be pissed if they dug me up i would hunt the shit out of them leave them alone they died over 70+ years go and died for there county

@mnpd3 9 лет назад

+Scott Summers Perhaps the best measuring rod of the morality of this kind of work is the appreciation of the family after they learn conclusively where ---- and often how ---- their relative died. They often receive mementos in addition to burial in a known location.

@Mpell73 9 лет назад

+trevorispimpn I would tend to agree with you my friend. Leave me where I fell. But I think there main goal is to return the remains to any next of kin and have a proper military burial. Either way 70 + years later and fallen soldiers from the great war are still being returned is sad!!

@trevorispimpn 9 лет назад

+Michael Pelletier yeah your right it is sad 70 years later but most of there famliy is dead if u thank about it my great grandpa was in ww2 and hes dead his wife and his kids my grandpa so if u thank 3 gens later the grandkids probly dont care

@kerylholt1921 8 лет назад

Really good film, this would make a fantastic holiday!

@Marka2401 6 лет назад

While with the 5th Special Forces in the Nam we would deploy out of our A-401 camp for 30 days. There would be two NCO’s with every company of Cambodian soldiers; each company would have at least 110 men. My 43rd Company had 112. When we deployed we went sterile no ID Tags, no patches nothing that could link us to the Special Forces (Green Berets). During what would have been a massacre Greg the other American with me told me to carve my Army serial number on the sheath that they would take the knife but leave the sheath for it’d be to much trouble to remove the sheath from my pistol belt. At the last moment the operation was called off. If I had been KIA’d I would want my remains returned to my family.

@CrocodileTear 6 лет назад

Hi Mark. Thanks for your comment. I dont understand why you didnt wear an ID tag though. US army ID tags are made so as to give no indication of age, unit, etc, just the name and serial number. So how would an ID tag have linked you to the special forces?

@paulmanson253 6 лет назад

Deniability. Plausible deniability. Probably not supposed to be in Cambodia. Even though he was visibly European, if dead ,hard to prove as American. It was quite common amongst Special Forces,not just Green Berets. In the late 1970s I had several friends who had spent various amounts of time in Vietnam. If together,they would speak amongst themselves. Most stories are now long forgotten, but some stuck with me.

@donfulton5765 5 лет назад

Mark I supported the 5th SF in Tien Phuc RVN in '68-''69 and all the guys were great, no bragging etc. I do not recall the name of the camp but the operations center was built by the French while they occupied VN. The operation center was designed in the shape of a wagon wheel with different functions in the various spokes. I was with the 2/265th RRU, 101st Airborne at the time.

@mattkaustickomments 5 лет назад

CrocodileTear, he was working covertly, US Personnel were not supposed to be in Cambodia at the time. Secret mission. Mark, thanks for your service. It’s a shame and a sin the politicians Would not let US work overtly in Cambodia and Laos - we could have severely hampered Ho Chi Minh trail activity.

@jasonnester9514 Год назад

Shocked all ww2 batte sites haven’t been picked over already

@T4Cification 5 лет назад

Seems like a horrible place to fight and die

@EliMarszalek 3 года назад

I pray soldiers may have felt at peace.

@markohynninen2553 10 лет назад

Good camp life and looks intresting.

@Voice8008 5 лет назад

Where are these people from? I mean are they studentes in history or medical students (pathologist) so they learn about bodies or are they some kind of religieus persons? I really respect this!

@YourFriendNate 8 лет назад

Russians don't fuck around. They show up in a kickass battle vehicle ready to fucking turn those trees to toothpicks!

@CrocodileTear 8 лет назад

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@thebigdilf3483 8 лет назад

your fucking right

@54what 7 лет назад

Danny Branderson You really don't read much history do you? The Russian Generals were mostly wiped out by Stalin, being afraid of any competent general starting a coup against him. What were left were on the whole incompetent, using 19th centurey tactics and caring little for the slaughter of their own men. Their equipment was sub par and their morale even worse. The soldiers were sent into battle without weapons, shot by their own officers if they retreated or even tried to use cover. later in the war with better equipment, a few competent leaders and once again bad tactics they started winning and actually started lowering the kill ratio. But the Russian generals never equaled thr Germans on tactics and just plain intelligence, not Even Zukov came close. Please do not impune brave soldiers doing their best in circumstances you would probably crap your pants repeatedly in,

@tripcunningham2502 6 лет назад

Nathan Hardee they are German

@HighlanderNorth1 6 лет назад

Charles Nichols All good points. I am sure that the area where they are excavating was just as cold, soaking wet, muddy and miserable in the early to mid 1940s as it is now. That is, when it wasn't winter, and everything was frozen solid. The Russian soldiers had to spend every day and night in those types of conditions, while being shot at and bombed! If they didn't endure that particular hell on Earth, they knew that the Germans would have killed them all anyway, along with their families back further east. But they stayed there, fought and died in the worst possible conditions, in order to defeat the German army. By doing so, they not only saved their own country, they made life a hell of a lot easier for the rest of us! Imagine if our soldiers had to face the ENTIRE German Wehrmacht in western Europe, on a 1 front war! Millions more westerners woulda died, and they may have lost! So anyone who criticizes these regular soldiers is an idiot. Oh yeah, and what about the comment that he made about black people being the world's worst soldiers? I'd tell that moron to go pick a fight with a black guy and see if he doesn't kick your butt! Some people...

@chrisnicholl6078 3 года назад

These young Russians are doing wonderful things, but what did they do to be followed and interrogated by this witless Frenchman? He has all the personality and charm of a piece of wood.

@CrocodileTear Год назад

Thanks Chris, that would be me.

@brandonthomas303 4 года назад

What a job!! Good work guys!

@inightflight712 4 года назад

I wish I could be part of their group. I would get flash backs as if I was there at the time

@TheMosinCrate 6 лет назад

MG34, the 42 if memory serves me right has the rear sight in the center not the side, also the barrel shroud is totally different on the 42 and is more of a rectangle than a round shape.

@james-im1sj 6 лет назад

Bring them all home 😢

@HowlinWilf13 4 года назад

This is where the Soviet 2nd Shock Army was destroyed while trying to open a relief corridor to the besieged city of Leningrad. Apparently there are the remains of 250,000 - 300,000 fallen soldiers (German, Spanish, Flemish and Russian) and Russian civilians still lying where they fell in the forests and swamps of the region.

@bobapbob5812 6 лет назад

My Russian language professor at Duke University along with his wife survived the siege of Leningrad. He told us that his group fought the Spanish Blue Division.