"Wenn Die Soldaten" (East German Version) - East German Communist Song 

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@@Chujoi0 Good, ethnic diversity, very good!

Plus one F

Yeah, German needs a lot of sounding-out. Wass-er-stoff-melonen.

How WW3 Start American: hm... I like watermelon East Germans and Soviets: so eat this.

Bus stop melanin

Nobady East germany: Hydrogen *MELON*

Waymen, you're not allowed here

The 1st version is more happy

Wrong place my gracious desert fox

the imperial/nazi version is much happier and brighter than this.

@my mom As a German I can confirm it. It doen't sound like a marching song at all.

fur weltkrieg drei trainieren

The song is about preventing the world from WWIII - Sorry you didn't get that.

@@DanielKonate I agree. They accused the West of trying to provoke a WWIII, not the Warsaw Pact.

Yeah because it's the cold war and people were afraid of a potential WW3. This song describes the horrors of such a war to say it should be avoided.

Und kein Soldaten hier durch die Stadt marschiert, FÜR U.S.A ZUM HELDENTOD!

ハンターhunter pffft Ok Ngl that actually made me laugh as I was looking through the comments XD

@@simplemusketeer7421 Same

Actually it would be: Alluh Akbar

Pretty much summed up the entirety of the 1949-89 period

@Денег нет, но вы держитесь !1!1!!1!1!1! huhuuu I don't like something so I will declare it everywhere because my will is supreme

Germans ey

@Vulture 1943 lmao it really isnt

@Asad Babil This is not the original song. This is creepy!

@Gregory Johnson It's quite strongly implied.

Gregory Johnson It talks about bombardments.

Yea,but I still love this song *:v*

I Believe that was Intentional.

I only feel that caz theres still a National Socialist under there

HAHHAHAHA

Milllenial soyboy

wAsSeRsTofFmEloNeN

D:

Wasserstoffmelonen though

But why, Becuase, but why because.

@Kingdom Of Yugoslavia Countryball wouldn't be if americans didn't support the soviets

How cartoons try to explain and sing stuff that’s evil

@@Maulstrum97 And in turn the US would never have to if the Allies hadn't taken the fascist threat seriously

@@lordcawdorofmordor2549 there wasn't any more of a fascist threat then an imperial threat from any other country. At the time the right of conquest was legal. It was just to settle a score against germany. It could have been reduced to a regional war rather then a world war however the allies insisted on war against germany as both the germans and soviets violated the allied guaranteed sovereignty of poland but the allies didn't declare war on the soviets. Multiple peace offers were extended by germany all were shot down by the allies. The standards and international law of the time was very different then modern times which many forget when looking back at historical events.

Its an anti america song

@Buttrape Bill it was

Rightfully so.

@Homo Erectus ...but the DDR aped old Prussian militarism in style. That was one way to show that the DDR really was German, to contrast with the Americanized Bundeswehr, and perhaps to give people with conservative values an outlet in the "National People's Army". The DDR did not want to be seen as aping the Red Army. So even if the army of the DDR served the defense of "socialism" it could offer continuity of old German traditions (Nazism of course rejected).

@@paulbrower4265 Tradition was not important for Soviet Union, unless for political aplications. East Germany was soo poor that they needed to use old Nazi uniforms. If they cared for tradition, Stalin would respect Tito's choice for a independent Yugoslavia. But he didn't, and instead, sent spys to try to kill Tito.

Yep, Ernst Bush 1953

Who else but him for a song such as this?

This guy was such a radical left wing even by Ddr Standards

@Slavic Doggo Ernst Busch was based

@Slavic Doggo About what?

Tanks dud

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@@loxres4640 lol

Loxres Lmao ahahahah

Sigh

Split in half between two occupies both wanting to kill each other

@@TonyBustaroni one major hole in that entire thing the very end they only avoided war because of nuclear annihilation. Not because they were scared of each other. Both were threats to each other and neither had the ability to remove each other because of nukes.

Stalin wanted to trasform the war in Korea in WW3

@@TonyBustaroni "Didn't want Germany communist", he wanted the world to be communist as we are internationalists and Communism is a global, international idea. Communism involves a stateless, classless, moneyless society with the means of production held in common. The nations which you would most likely classify as having featured or established "Communism" were only Socialist, most of the time, State-Socialist, Marxist-Leninist nations which were merely in the transitory stage between Capitalism and Communism. Socialism has done many good things such as improve literacy, healthcare, education, housing, standards of living, qualities of life, increased lifespan such as in China, turned feudal backwaters into economic superpowers, won the Second World War, industrialized nations, increased rights for minorities and women, improved democracy, etc. According to the study from 1986 by S Ceresto and H Waitzkin PhD called "Capitalism, Socialism, and the Physical Quality of Life" given equal levels of economic development, Socialist nations on average had higher standards of living than Capitalist nations, also, according to that same study, given equal levels of economic development, Socialist nations had higher levels of caloric intake, meaning contrary to popular belief, people in socialist nations actually eat more food than capitalist ones. Socialism has evidently greatly increased prosperity. We live in a society where greed is heavily related to and influenced by the mode of production and property relations, human nature changes, changes all the time due to certain material conditions. People are greedy under capitalism because capitalism makes you have to, you have to outcompete your competitors if you're a business owner, you have to outcompete your co-workers if you're a worker, etc. If you went back in the feudal time period and told them about capitalism they most likely would've laughed at you, so of course you laugh at me telling you about one of the next stages of societal development after socialism, how do I know capitalism isn't the last stage and that socialism and eventually communism WILL replace it, well due to contradictions within capitalist society whether they are class or otherwise, we analyse these contradictions through what is known as dialectical materialism. History is primarily influenced by class struggle, class divide, and conflict between these classes bourgeois or proletarian. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" - Karl Marx

Melonen

and then it turned into a giant hot mushroom

@@infochan6096 what they literally start again just that you add "one hundred and" before

@@metelmax8597 i dont know English

Americans: "lemon grenade"

We gotta bring the gdr back 👀

not as much as your ideology

@my mom I'm an atheist. Go steal someone's money, that's what communism does.

@Vulture 1943 dont worry since he's atheist isis coming for him.

@my mom HAHAHAHA even better, iss scheiße nazi

Fucking EU NA always bring fucking religion in the comments. im atheist, im Muslim, im Christian, im Jews, im buddha. No matter what your religion, your just a idiot ppl who bring religion to a problem.

More realistic than the original

my mom Nothing here sounded Communist to me

@@earthspace8666 In the case of the DDR rather more hyprocritical.

@@TonyBustaroni The SED incessantly sounded off about freedom and justice and yet there were people imprisoned and even executed for political "crimes". No contradiction for you?

We put nouns together. Wasser-Stoff-Melonen Wasser = Water Stoff = stuff/fabric Melonen = Melons Wasserstoff = hydrogen Another example: Rind-fleisch-etikettierungs-übertragungs-gesetz

@@NotraceOfRay sehr interessant

@@NotraceOfRay Watermelon Bomb...noice :v

@@NotraceOfRay water sutff because hydrogen is the stuff in water

I don't know how people find a song like this that talked about the reality of nuclear war worse than the original, which was an upbeat song celebrating the same German soldiers who rushed off to ultimately die for nothing in two world wars. Maybe it's because they're people living in comfortable homes who love the aesthetics and music of war but have never had to know what the reality looked like firsthand, unlike Busch and millions of other Europeans east and west who lived through it. So they don't completely understand the dissonance of 'happy' war songs.

@kurt Knispel Just wait for it.

@@dornierdo1724 why wait?

@@dornierdo1724 Well east Germany is already irrelevant

@The Wehrmacht General I’m not talking about East Germany, I’m talking about World War III.

@@dornierdo1724 Leave them, they won't understand

I feel like that could not be anything closer to what actually happened in history and the political worries at the time...

Yeah, and the children in the choir make it feel pretty dystopian. That's what makes it interesting though

East Germany: The biggest and meanest among the Eastern Bloc's three weirdos (with Romania and Albania)

@@KameradKorona Thx for the uploads!

@@KameradKorona yeah it is really much more grim than expected my comrade

@@KameradKorona It Is Pretty Grim...Gotta Nice Ring To It Though.

It's also the truest version of this song you'll ever hear

Warsaw Pact Socialist that’s fair. War isn’t what the old lyrics said it was.

Sap , guys like you are so not funny , that nobody even replies to you.

@@warsawpact1548 Hydrogen Melons is realism?

@Sap lol no wignat

Der Heimliche Aufmarsch would disagree

@@mauer594 ah Der Heimliche Aufmarsch, one of two NATO disstracks made by the GDR (other being Der Offene Aufmarsch)

@@ichigo9919 those are pretty much the same

1. The intended audience may have been NATO countries through communist or fellow-traveler 'peace' movements. It sounds as if a warning to peoples in NATO countries, including the Bundesrepublik, that their governments were intent on invading the Warsaw Pact countries with resulting mass death that could escalate into nuclear war. 2. Ernst Busch was a regime toady. The propaganda exploits children (and propaganda from totalitarian regimes usually do) who will do anything to curry favor with teachers, parents, etc.

A communist working independently from the state? You, sir, have been properly brainwashed.

Metro 2033 is the closest thing you can get to that.

Контрреволюция там произошла раньше 1989. А в 1989 она дошла до своего логического конца (окончательное разрушение завоеваний рабочего класса).

Schön, wenn die Ami da sind! Denn dann kracht es "WELTWEIT"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because communism never started a war or a genocide.. oh wait it did.. and it was worse than capitalism and sometimes even worse than fascism.

It's an anti american song, I've heard this choir singing official east german songs, and they wouldn't sing anti war parodies

@@Tundra1919 I'm sure neither the Americans nor the East Germans wanted _hydrogen melons_ or the _bomb rain_ to drop on them.

@@raphuscucullatus7845 You obviously didn't undestand the text of song, they are not singing that they want someone to bomb them, the "soldiers marching through the city" are meant to represent american attack on DDR and the "hydrogen melons" and "bomb rain" are just what they thought americans are going to do to the DDR and rest of communist europe. So yeah not really anti-war, more of "anti-american aggression" song.

Why not anti american?Im with them 🙂

@@pettko9384 ayyyyyy

I mean... s o v i e t p r o p a g a n d a

@@drgojira6044It's basically an anti war song from people who suffered in 2 WW's but yeah... Totally Soviet Propaganda

Tbh, this is more realistic, what I find grim is when people try to make war sound like a fun party.

@@jensschreckenderhiesigenha144 It's about America wanting to bomb Europe with atomic bombs for the sake of profit. It's both anti war, anti American and anti capitalist in general.

The original was fake af

wasserstoffmelonen has been explode in dream

Kinda the point, considering this is how people felt during the cold war.

Raider Fox indeed especially when everything went to a all time high in the 80’s and shit went south for the ussr in the 90’s causing its collapse and oddly enough puttin is actually trying to bring a part of the ussr back today

@Fjj Yeah

no idea. sounds a bit creepy/nostalgic but i need it too

True

And from bombenregen

@@staylo4033 lmao

It's kind of funny how censorship works these days, what is that game where you kill nazis? Oh look it's a swastika! Banned! Oh it's old sounding german song, must be something nazi related!

But the ting is they only sing about the Americans and not about themselves so it is at least an Anti War song with a bit of anti American propaganda

​@@osiriscrafter2267 well it was the Cold War period so some propaganda moments were normal back in the days, especially when we are talking about anti-war songs

I'm sure it's him.

It is him

Какой то эффект зловещей долины получается чтоли.. Только то что в песне поется может стать явью или уже(

What do you mean?

Why does it seems sarcastic?

They mean what they said especially when it comes to them saying when the soldiers march through the city again meaning that they want to take Berlin back and cause a war made this very very eerie especially when things were supper unstable back then

@@simplemusketeer7421 lol what no

@@simplemusketeer7421 No they are saying that war brings misery and is bad. It's literally a pacifist song...

Hello Malay Person

It is Ernst Bush, he was pacifist and communist, so, probably, yes

Yeah, except while “Kinky Boots” directly mocks the British soldiers themselves, this song is more of a commentary about the American military-industrial complex.

@ElectroPea15 Technically communism is stateless.

What song?

Ok, hadn't I read your comment, I would still not understand that last part. It makes much more sense now.

Nikola Stanojić most of the time a American soldier just gets the hero treatment when he or she dies and it’s kinda disrespectful even though people have other opinions on this I think the American military glorifying the death of its soldiers is fucked up and wrong

I think landser is a term for west german soldiers

It implise that all the soldiers killed each other and that they didn't die for their country(west germany) but for the USA

Its basically "Get away from Truman and his puppets so that no American Soldiers march through German Towns for their (the American Soldiers) heros death"

Tries and succeeds