Why Ukraine and Poland Went to War in 1919? (Polish-Ukrainian War Documentary)

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Lviv or Lwów are two names for the same city that was known as Lemberg until 1919. The Poles considered it as one of their most important cultural and political centers, the Ukrainians too. And so, in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the question of who would control this city led to conflict: The Polish-Ukrainian War.
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@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

Support for this episode also came from Game of Trenches, a free mobile game out now for iOS and Android: bit.ly/GameOfTrenches * *Ads like this help us with the production of this show, for example we were able to hire someone in Kiev this month who was able to get us pictures from the Ukrainian National Archive. This included a lot of analog bureaucracy and of course that kind of work doesn't come for free.

@user-qq9rh 4 года назад

Do us a favour and bayonet charge on

@jackapgar5824 4 года назад

Jan Rudnicki shut up

@snakeking101 4 года назад

Will you guys do an episode on Lithuania

@chervon5773 4 года назад

Jan Rudnicki No one was completely innocent in these times. Not Poles, not Ukrainians, not Russians, no one

@janrudnicki6111 4 года назад

@@chervon5773 We have documents that speak differently.

@chervon5773 4 года назад

Also the whole conflicts in the East were insane. In 1919 alone, Kyiv changed hands over a dozen times. Imagine living there and being part of a different country every month.

@TheTimer81 4 года назад

That is interesting to know. Can you give me some reference for further studing?

@zapelen 4 года назад

TheTimer81 read some Bulgakov books, for example "White Guard" it's about White officers in Kiev in that time

@Newbmann 4 года назад

@@TheTimer81 It's probably like living in Stalins Italian city STALINO ops I ment donensk today. That's just as insane

@john_smith_john 4 года назад

@@Newbmann wtf are you on about

@toyvoobrygan2926 4 года назад

zapelen Bulgakov was pro-white and all his memories directed to praise all that dedicated to russian empire

@lordsteppergod7269 4 года назад

History class never talked about this war

@QALibrary 4 года назад

mine too, that talked a lot about the Russia civil war and a very small part about Allied troops being used to help the Whites vs the Reds

@MajorCoolD 4 года назад

Indeed... I guess it disrupts the 'easy' black and white morality that made the Germans the bad guys in the initial stages of the following great war. Afterall, a poor, unprepared and innocent Poland is probably more sympathethic than a Bellicose Nation, hungry for power and filled with a sense of superiority, that almost immediatly after it's conception started to wage war on it's own neighbours. But then again so is war, so is politics. The rich and powerfull give the tune and the little man can do little more than to dance the jig and make the best of it.

@threaruscamuwundra7417 4 года назад

I mean, in the grand scheme of the entire history of the planet. You wouldnt see this one covered as it hasnt that much of an impact as other wars. But still interesting nonetheless

@historycenter4011 4 года назад

Irrelevant to world or american history. History class isnt gonna talk about every bloodly little conflict.

@Shivom.Parihar 4 года назад

Shut up you toxic anti semitic fool.

@marsoz_ 4 года назад

I'm so glad someone is covering the post-WWI conflicts in-depth. Only recently my only knowledge of anything after WWI was the Spanish Civil War, now I have a whole new period of history to study!

@neilwilson5785 4 года назад

Yes, I was thinking that during this video. I've seen the same history repeated over and over on TV, but not THIS history. It's a chance to learn new things.

@williestyle35 4 года назад

You really don't hear much because that is the Western narrative. In the East, war fighting never really came to an end. After the Russian Revolution things accelerated. Just look how much has already been covered by this channel.

@marek2853 4 года назад

In the same time was Czechoslovak And pole war about silesia..or Czechoslovak And hungarian war about slovak land ...romanian army join ...And Many more

@marek2853 4 года назад

And Czechoslovak legions war in the russia against red army...it was blood time... Incredible story about our legions in the russia...

@estebanjimenez420 4 года назад

Check out thr Rif War.

@HS-su3cf 4 года назад

The War to End All Wars ended November 11th 1918. Somebody obviously didn't get the memo.

@MusicandGamesandStuf 4 года назад

The War to End All Empires seems to fit better

@justinbeath5169 4 года назад

@@MusicandGamesandStuf in that case Britain, France, and Japan didn't get the memo

@conveyor2 4 года назад

@@justinbeath5169 And the USA.

@justinbeath5169 4 года назад

@@conveyor2 America isn't an empire

@2x2leax 4 года назад

@@justinbeath5169 But had colonies, like the Philippines or Puerto Rico.

@JasonSputnik 4 года назад

I never knew about TWO different Ukrainian states and armies. Thank you guys, this channel keeps getting better!

@OchotaJack 4 года назад

And in Kharkiv had its own capitol and government soviet Ukraine..

@marcinmalczewski310 4 года назад

Probably even more than that. Ukrainians anarhists and their warlords where also force to be recon with. Thats why western powers didnt consider Ukraine as serius nation.

@alekshukhevych2644 4 года назад

Those were Russian puppet states though..The Donets republic and the newly founded soviet Ukraine!

@user-hb4fc8be2w 4 года назад

Ukraine would cease to exist in the not to distant future. More than 30 millions see themselves as Russians and would eventually rejoin Russia.

@alekshukhevych2644 4 года назад

@@user-hb4fc8be2w if that were true Ukraine would never exist. In 2013 they did a survey with 91% of the 42 Million Ukrainian citizens considering themselves Ukrainian. Ukrainian is a nation whose seperation from Russians and Poles is very clear. Our languages are different, we have different last names, wear different national clothing, have seperate history and have different traditions. Ukraine is a mono-ethnic country, over 90% are ethnic Ukrainiand. U are brainwashed my Serbian friend! If that were true Ukraine would have ceased to exist kn 2014 with the Russian spring..which by the way was pretty small..Biggest pro-Russian demonstrations had only 10,000 ppl in Donetsk...

@SamIAmSXE 4 года назад

Happy Birthday, TGW! Been watching since year one.

@neilwilson5785 4 года назад

I was late to the war (1915/2015), but not as late as the yanks. Just kidding, we love what you did for us.

@Dany94256 4 года назад

*hears Prezmysìl Fortress and Lemberg mentioned* "Hello darkness my old friend..."

@neilwilson5785 4 года назад

I love the different pronunciation of the city by Indy and Jesse. I am British, and just say 'Przzmshlll' I can't do it.

@Dany94256 4 года назад

@@neilwilson5785 I can relate, Neil! Being Italian, the tendency is to beat down on the z and have it as PR(E)MIZEL, but it's not correct. Try after try, I got around an half decent "premishil", but huge props to both Indy and Jesse for being so polyglot versatile

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

the secret for Przemysl is that the word has only two silibels when you pronounce it.

@Dany94256 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar isn't that the secret for the whole polish language? XD

@aerodynamism5438 4 года назад

Well you also may name Prezmysil on ukrainian (Peremyshl) or german (Premissel)

@ReidHenderson 2 года назад

I'm absolutely baffled by the number of wars from 1900 to 1944 it's insane. And they definitely never went through it in public school history classes! I find it extremely interesting.

@Akhjar7161 Год назад

Because they want to tell you the rest of the world outside of Europe is uncivilized and always at war with each other, specially the African tribes. And it's not just from 1900 to 1944. Remember 100 years old, thirty years war, thirteen years war?

@mikefay5698 Год назад

Censorship of History was intense in my day and continues. The Internet makes us free!

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 Год назад

It doesn't fit the narrative of 1914 -18 and 1939 -45 the British are used to as the wars because they were ours the others well that's nothing to us, what is remarkable is how restive eastern Europe west Asia was until the early 1920's violence begats violence in one way people get fed up with it all in another it's like aftershocks from an earthquake

@cuzi123 9 месяцев назад

Not covered in school because they are too busy convincing children they are trans or showing drag queen shows

@vibranium-riprich314 5 месяцев назад

You mean 1914-1945?

@andregurkenstein9192 4 года назад

Wait we gonna get four more year of this. You're a blessing

@OptimusShr 4 года назад

There probably is four more years worth of material due to all the fallout from the war.

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 4 года назад

Between the German Revolution of 1919 and the solidification of everything in Europe by 1925 there is a lot of stuff to uncover in between...

@ethank.6602 4 года назад

Thats the job of between two wars

@oldesertguy9616 4 года назад

I never paid much attention to the period right after the war. It's really fascinating how the fighting never stopped.

@LuvBorderCollies 4 года назад

When you dig deep into European/Mediterranean/Near East history you see that war never ended. For small areas there would be "peace" but it was only temporary. The crazy thing is much of the fighting and wars was over who gets to sit on the throne!!

@oldesertguy9616 4 года назад

@@LuvBorderCollies I "luv" your screen name. One of the best dogs I ever had was a Border Collie. They are amazing.

@LuvBorderCollies 4 года назад

@@oldesertguy9616 Best dog a person could ever hope for but they are a little challenging as puppies. LOL

@GuinessOriginal Год назад

Still hasn’t

@horsefish2525 4 года назад

I`m impressed how honest and clear way you have pictured complexity of political and military situation during Polish-Ukrainian War of 1919.

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

Thanks!

@Ivan_StandWithUkraine 4 года назад

As a Ukrainian, I can confirm that this viseo is objective and neutral. Thanks.

@oleksandrshulvinsky7812 4 года назад

I am Ukrainian and I also share pan's Wojciech opinion about honesty and clarity of this video. It is imporant to look back reasonably for both nations.

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

To all three of you: I am very glad you chose to comment. We knew this episode dealt with a topic that is still sensitive for many people, and we put a lot of effort into the research and the writing (down to discussing some individual words we used) to make sure we told the story but also did so in the most objective balanced way we could. Of course many people will criticize (and that's okay, it's youtube comments), but I am glad you saw our effort!

@volodymyrbondarenko9471 4 года назад

I agreed. Peace

@dogukanyel1391 4 года назад

Are you make a video about Polish-Soviet war ?

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

we will make several

@dogukanyel1391 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar thank you

@kev492001 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar I can't wait to watch! Thanks for shining more light, on not well known wars and events.

@TheCimbrianBull 4 года назад

*a young angry Stalin wants to know your location*

@alehandro393 4 года назад

In this war Ukraine is ally to Poland :D

@hqlife5128 4 года назад

I cannot believe how incredible it is to finally hear about this war from an outsider perspective. I never heard this conflict told not from the point of the combatants

@Marinealver 4 года назад

Ukraine: We are surrounded by enemies Polland: So are we Lets Fight!!!!! Ukraine has been eliminated.

@BatkoMahnovets 4 года назад

As you noticed there were 3 ukraine’s and poles fought on with the smallest of them.

@OrkosUA 4 года назад

Poland had only enemy to the east, while Ukraine had them on all sides.

@OrkosUA 4 года назад

@Sigillum Militum against Lithuania you waged aggressive war, thus it dows not count. And with Czechs you only fought for one city. Thus it also cant be considered equal to Ukrainian situation. Poland only got freedom because of luck and that bolsheviks had to deal with Ukraine and were far away.

@sergeontheloose 4 года назад

Poland has it easy - they don't have to fight the russkies every day, because Ukraine is in between.

@Adrivius 4 года назад

@Sigillum Militum Don't worry, OrkosUa has the kind of knowledge about the history that the Ukrainian government will allow him hehe

@tomm9963 4 года назад

Western Ukrainians Peoples Republic and the Ukrainians Peoples Republic? Next you'll be talking about the People's Front of Judea and the Judean Peoples Front

@neilwilson5785 4 года назад

Monty Python were well educated, and knew about history. In the UK we joke in order to tell the truth.

@tomm9963 4 года назад

@@neilwilson5785 You don't need to tell me how we joke in the UK, I'm from there

@TheCimbrianBull 4 года назад

What have the Romans ever done for us?

@UVtec 4 года назад

Splitters!

@Pantsinabucket 4 года назад

Thomas McDonnell those might as well have been factions in these wars, Lwow, Odessa, and Kiev were all majority or plurality Jewish.

@PatrickBoylanWriter 4 года назад

Jesse is much more comfortable in front of the camera. Bravo!

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

Practice makes perfect ;)

@john_smith_john 4 года назад

@@jessealexander2695 What were you doing before you signed up for the show?

@salluna1957 4 года назад

Uber

@TheCimbrianBull 4 года назад

@@salluna1957 ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

@@john_smith_john Watching the show! (and working for a university)

@maciek_k.cichon 4 года назад

Funny how the German name of the city is politically neutral in this case. Great to have you guys for all these years!

@readisgooddewaterkant7890 3 года назад

@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki poles where the ones who tried to asimilate ukrainians austrians did not

@GuinessOriginal Год назад

@zx yeah west Ukrainians certainly always have collaborated with Germans

@GreatPolishWingedHussars Год назад

That's nonsense to call the city German-Austrian! This is the term used by the occupiers and is certainly not the name of this city in English! Incidentally, the city should be called Polish Lwów in this context, because the majority of the population was Polish at the time and the city then properly belonged to Poland after this war.

@renemagritte8237 Год назад

Yes, it is apparently politically neutral for an outside observer. For those, who are emotionally involved like Poles and Ukrainians, it's most certainly not.

@maciek_k.cichon Год назад

@@GreatPolishWingedHussars Lemberg was official Austrian name and it was printed on maps like that up to 1918. Google some.

@electricink3908 Год назад

Great show . May Ukrainians and Poles never fight again!

@512TheWolf512 Год назад

We today stand united in our hatred of russian fásçísts. Poland and Ukraine are the real brothers

@titanuranus3095 4 года назад

Makhno and the Anarchists surely deserve an episode of their own?

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

give us two more weeks

@DuffmanIRL 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar Excellent! Thanks for all your hard work!

@TheCimbrianBull 4 года назад

Makhno was quite a character to say the least. He was the original gangsta!

@titanuranus3095 4 года назад

@@TheCimbrianBull Arguably, he invented the drive by.

@game2game275 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar Maybe a video on the contributions of Ukrainians during ww1? The Sich Riflemen, Tsarist Ukrainians, Hetmanate and People's republic forces and their deals with Germany? Please?

@lesiamelesia 4 года назад

Thank you for this video! My grandfather's uncle was a soldier of Western Ukrainian People's Republic. He has never came back from the war und my family doesn't now, what has happend to him. I hope he rest in peace as all participants of this war.

@concept5631 3 года назад

A shame that they never returned. I hope they found peace, wherever they are.

@jjdelft3216 3 года назад

@@concept5631 He will have a martyrs death for his land

@louisecorchevolle9241 2 года назад

@@jjdelft3216 which land it was 2 republics ten dialers lemma a mess first ukrainian should have united and stop making pogroms

@GuinessOriginal Год назад

@@jjdelft3216 if that’s how you think I hope you’re doing the same now

@wielblad1344 Год назад

zdechł jak pies... ci ludzie popełnili wiele zbrodni! nie zasługują na szacunek... tfu!!!

@adriangoodman8901 4 года назад

Jesse well done, your coming of age on youtube has flourished, as you seem every bit as confident and enthusiastic as Indy. I'm happy to continue watching this channel even after the great war

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

Thanks!

@Mszaanisko 2 года назад

This channel is a gem! I've watched a lot of history channels and how it's that I just found it so late!

@chaseskalon3622 4 года назад

Love this video and this channel so so much! Keep up the great work everyone!

@adamczajkowski2665 Год назад

Polish moustaches used to be glorious.

@Delzona 4 года назад

Another great and informative episode!! Again I have to state that I had no idea there was so much conflict going on after the war was “over”! It really seems that for some regions the end of the war was more a pause in fighting so the different groups could now focus on fighting each other!! These videos also help me better understand how and why parts of Europe still have issues to this day!

@d0maupa59 4 года назад

Slav 🇵🇱✝️☦️🇺🇦

@obamavrat671names 2 года назад

One love fellow brother

@jona.scholt4362 4 года назад

Really been enjoying this series on the fallout of the Great War. Topics I had only a cursory knowledge of (or in some cases near none) I now find incredibly interesting.

@kupchyk 4 года назад

Дуже Вам дякую за цей епізод та його виважений зміст!!! (Thank you very much for this episode)

@mambacosplay2790 Год назад

мало інформації - таке відчуття що спеціально так мало

@obamavrat671names 3 года назад

As a Ukrainian, I had to thank you for your work, I wish I found this channel before I started to learn about this period of history

@joannazywotko7753 2 года назад

My family is from Lwow an they have never made distinction between Pols and Ukrainians weird

@GuinessOriginal Год назад

@@joannazywotko7753 have you seen Wolyn? It’s been banned in Ukraine for 5 years

@magdaty1815 Год назад

@@joannazywotko7753 that is weird since there is difference in language, religion, basic understanding of notions for example of the word nationalism

@obamavrat671names Год назад

@@Xavry2115 the first: how can you guarantee it? The second: why would we need Rostov? The third: how is that Lviv a Polish city? I'm not sure if you're the bot or quite a silly person. When someone, especially in the modern world, tries to redraw the country frontiers by war which is claiming to be national liberation and fair it brings nothing but more grief, intransigence and discord beyond the peoples.

@obamavrat671names Год назад

@@GuinessOriginal what been banned and why?

@gokraw Год назад

these videos are great, i'm really glad i found them. thanks a lot

@dmytrodymydyuk3378 4 года назад

My hometown is Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg and thank you so much for this great video!

@louisecorchevolle9241 2 года назад

Lvov in English you can admire an unique stall in memory of war criminals ukrainian SS Galizien division No body but ukraine has a Stella in memoriam SS

@GreatPolishWingedHussars Год назад

That's wrongto call the city German-Austrian Lemberg! This is the term used by the occupiers and is certainly not the name of this city!

@ninjagamers2659 Год назад

Lwów

@SuperMookles Год назад

@@louisecorchevolle9241 What a stupid comment, even by the standards of social media.

@WangAiHua Год назад

@@louisecorchevolle9241 The city is LVIV in English! (Ukrainian transliteration). In Ukrainian it is "львів". It is sooo..... Putlerish of you to continue to push the RuZZian transliteration instead of the Ukrainian one! I do not believe that you are against war criminals, since you do not mention any of the Butcha(ry) , murder, torture and rape going on by your RuZZian friends who have cross the border to kill Ukrainians.

@celdur4635 2 года назад

Sad that they couldn't agree on the bigger threat being the Soviet Russians, if West Ukraine and Poland had reached some sort of agreement, they could've had a chance to at least have -some- Ukrainian government. They did know that the Soviets wanted ALL of the Russian Empire territories back right?

@LOKa-bg6qn Год назад

In fact, there was an alliance between Petlura and Pilsudski and a formal treaty which fixed the border between Ukraine and Poland on the river Zbruch. And the joint forces kicked the Soviets out of Kiev in 1920.

@Bravo-oo9vd Год назад

AFAIK the whites were the ones who wanted to restore the Russian Empire with its past borders while the soviets claimed smaller territory, at least during the civil war.

@celdur4635 Год назад

@@Bravo-oo9vd Well ofc, it made sense at the time. The Reds failed at keeping the old Russian Empire borders. But they accepted peace with smaller borders instead of suiciding into war, the whites should've promised the same, and they did, to the Poles at least.

@wingedhussar1453 Год назад

It's truly sad .Ukraine if all of them joined on Poland side could have fought back Russia and perhaps Germans much better.unfrotunately nationalistic ukrainans we're to stubborn and naive

@celdur4635 Год назад

@@wingedhussar1453 Nationalistic Poles too, they were fractured internally, Poland was. Some wanted pure national state others, the military, wanted a Commonwealth.

@agvb5749 Год назад

Romanians and Polish = brothers. Cheers from Romania

@AndrD1406 Год назад

Erdely is Hungary

@FAKos-np7rh Год назад

amazing production thank you!

@Phoenix-bw9rj 4 года назад

This is by far the Best history channel on RU-vid

@JerzyFeliksKlein 4 года назад

The city of Lwow has very strong Polish roots just like Vilnus. I actually have an Ukrainian friend who is from Lwow who speaks fluent Polish because he grew up there (though he cannot write or read in Polish which I only found out later when he emailed me and it turned out he was writing in Ukrainian and using google translate to translate his messages). There is a level of complexity of Polish-Ukrainian relationship which this video didn't delve into, but overall it was an accurate description of the actual conflict.

@josehernandezmartinez8719 4 года назад

What a interesting friend you have.

@stvitus12 Год назад

You probably meant links, not the roots. As you put it here, it would be the same as to claim that Warszaw has very strong Russian roots, referring to the fact that it was a part of the Russian Empire for an extended period of time.

@Darko-fo9hz Год назад

@@stvitus12 The first university was wounded by Russians

@googleto1881 Год назад

it all goes back to slavic tribes my friend

@zbigniewbialczak1692 Год назад

@@stvitus12 Warsaw has never been a Russian city,has never had Russian roots and the same applies to Lviv/Lwow/Lemberg which was founded in 1250 by king Daniel of Galicia and became the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, region was also called Ruthenia, between 1272-1349, it was then conquered by Casimir III of Poland in 1340, which moved Lviv under Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule between 1349 and 1772 when Poland was partitioned for the first time, which moved Lviv under Austria, Austrian-Hungarian Empire rule, then for a short time under West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918, then under Poland, Polish Second Republic until 1939, and then under Soviet Union from 1945 until 1991. It's utter bonkers man😀. Poland or rather, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned by Prussia, Austria, de facto Habsburg Empire and Russia three times and wiped off the map between 1795 and 1918. Warsaw became a provincial city. Poland's borders have changed so much since the Polish baptism in 966 through centuries to such an extent, that it's mind boggling it still exists now. Read this, 1795 Warsaw was annexed by Prussia, 1806 city is occupied by French forces under Napoleon, 1809 Austrians in power between April and June, 1813 Russians in Power. The history of Poland is crazy complicated, with too many wars, battles, conflicts, uprisings, unions, alliances, rebellions,civil wars, twists and turns, foreign rulers, invasions and it would take me moths to explain it all here.

@polskiziemniak9776 4 года назад

Thank you very much for this particular episode. Greets from Poland!

@piniu1986 4 месяца назад

Jezu człowieku właśnie przykladnołeś gościowi który pokazuje mapę że zasięg zamieszkania Ukraińców ciągnął się aż do Krakowa włącznie.

@9gENJOYER 4 месяца назад

Po prostu jesteś debilem

@timex513 4 года назад

thank you for making history interesting.

@americanexcursions3542 4 года назад

Great video. I thought that channel stopped posting in November 2018. Now I have to catch up on all the videos. Thank you for continuing.

@thomasrozen 4 года назад

Fantastic as always!

@kalabancjusz 4 года назад

It's not entirely true what you have said that there never were Ukrainian elites- they did exist as former Kievian Rus boyars who become Polish nobility after the Union of Lublin of 1573 with Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently most assimilated into Polish culture. Many famous people know as Poles were in fact at least partially of Ukrainian or Belarusian origins. For example Tadeusz Kościuszko or Jan III Sobieski. Even the famous (or infamous) fighter against the great cossacks uprising in XVIIth century - Jeremi Wiśniowecki was raised in Ukrainian language and orthodox Christianity but later decided to convert to catholicism and become a Pole. Later his son become an elective king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

@kopernikuspolackus5148 4 года назад

Honestly back then there wasnt anything like national identity, they were all just "citizens of Rzeczpospolita", just language and faith were different

@dantheman3378 4 года назад

Oh and I forgot to mention Ukraine was created after the first world war .

@horsefish2525 4 года назад

And it was a big problem: the polonisation of Rusin elites. They left most of the nation in opposite to Commonwealth. They were similar to today Ukrainian oligarches: egoistic, stupid and and creating anarchy in political life.

@Szakal_zlocisty-Canis_aureus 4 года назад

its sooo funny when you use XX perspective when you try write about past before XX-XIX nationalism:P and you write about smt funny like Ukrainian or Belarusian -.- "king is country, country is king" the king's subjects are a nation-.- and peasant called himself "local"... gl with roll foam from the mouth about XXw bs:P Dont forget read about austro-hungarian idea/project "ukraine"... Divide and Conquer you fools:P

@GreenRatel 4 года назад

@@kopernikuspolackus5148 That's a blatant lie. Populations just didn't interact with each other as much and didn't have the knowledge and means of transportation to even care about different ethnicities that lived in the same state. That being said wealthy people were very much aware of mosaic that was the society of Commonwealth and that's why many of them polonised voluntarily over time.

@AleksanderK12 4 года назад

I love how you guys calling that city "Lemberg". Very... diplomatic I guess

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

It felt like that best action for this hot potato issue

@bergener8659 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar you "forgot" to add the russian trancription of the city :)

@jakubkuberski448 4 года назад

@@bergener8659 Lwów, Lviv, Lvov, Lemberg, Lemberek, Lavov, Liov, Ilbav, Ilyvó, Leopolis, Leopoldstadt etc

@DragonR333 4 года назад

@@bergener8659 Russian has nothing to do with this city. It sounds the same like you can also add Chinese transcription of the city.

@bergener8659 4 года назад

@@DragonR333 you don't say:)

@brokenbridge6316 4 года назад

A nicely informative video. Great job.

@christopherellis2663 4 года назад

Yet the Turks would still deny the matter!

@jankubiak324 4 года назад

Blame the turks!

@Rodzyniastyyyy 4 года назад

Lemberg je Serbia!

@obamavrat671names 2 года назад

@@Rodzyniastyyyy REMOVE VODKA

@MrTTar 4 года назад

Thanks for covering these conflicts in such detail. The Polish-Ukranian war is often overlooked compared to the Polish-Lithunian and Russo-Polish conflicts. I'm British, and even the Third Afghan War (1919) is given much more coverage in academic history.

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

We will cover all these three as well in some capacity

@raceris7309 4 года назад

Polish-Lithuanian war isn't widely discussed about from what I've seen, except in the respective countries. (Poland and Lithuania)

@mikefay5698 Год назад

And they are still fighting the Russians. What a Gas!

@WangAiHua Год назад

General Haller was specifically told by the British NOT to attack Ukraine but only the Bolsheviks. First thing he did was head south and attacked Ukraine.

@stanlomas 4 года назад

Brilliant summary Thank you.

@vacysmotuzas4267 3 года назад

Thanks for the great video. It was very interesting to see ...

@Zamolxes77 4 года назад

"Neutrals ... they sicken me, with an enemy you know where they stand, but with neutrals ? Who knows ?" - Zap Branigan

@MyUnoriginalUsername 4 года назад

its like when your crush ghosts you for no reason

@walterweiss7124 Год назад

futurama :)

@thesljivo4101 4 года назад

Brilliantly pronounced Slavic words! You have my respect and admiration

@MrMaxlines 4 года назад

Not at all. For example, "Zbruch" is not pronounced as "Zbrookh", and "Chortkiv" is not "Khortkiv"

@oleksacrowley9580 4 года назад

Not really. The host pronounces Ukrainian names with some Russian accent when the spelling they chose for the video clearly states Ukrainian spelling (transliterated for English speakers).

@jameskelman9856 4 года назад

AAA - Awesome As Always ! Thanks !

@DragonR333 4 года назад

Thanks for the great video. It was very interesting to see. Somehow it is not that easy to find much information about this war at school.

@cassubia 4 года назад

This is good stuff - accessible, clear and pretty objective - congrats.

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

Thanks!

@Oxtocoatl13 4 года назад

I read from War in Peace that the Ukrainian soldiers were a pain for all armies fighting in the region as they would volunteer any force that was dominant in their home region and when that force was moving away they would desert and join someone else. Peasant militiamen have different priorities from politicians and generals I guess.

@Baltasarmk 4 года назад

We were doing this for centuries and it worked. We did not lose our identity despite not having an independent state since the 12 century. and in the end, we achieved or goal - independence. What do you know about Silesians? Probably nothing, they are weaklings who were consumed and assimilated by Poland. They did not manage to do what we did.

@toyvoobrygan2926 4 года назад

Oxtocoatl you're right, but only if you talk about different armies of ukrainian anarchist otamans.But In the regular(as it called "effective army") army of Ukrainian People rep. lead by Directoria, soldiers were self-motivated and true to ukrainian national goals till the end

@fafarcop9579 4 года назад

Если бы русские обращались с украинцами так , как поляки с силезцами, то и следа бы от украинцев не осталось...

@pawedobosz4356 4 года назад

@@fafarcop9579 Then please explain how "Golodomor" apperaed? Russian soviet NKWD confiscaded all crops from Ukrainian peasants whad led to several million deaths in Ukraine of famine.

@fafarcop9579 4 года назад

@@pawedobosz4356 Ukrainian soviet NKWD.....it will be more accurate

@shawngilliland243 4 года назад

@The Great War - Thank you for clarifying which languages' names you use for cities and regions. The situation at the time there in Poland, two Ukraines, and two Russias - all overlapping - seems to me to rival that of the Balkans in its complexity and intensity. Add the Slovaks and Romanians, and "witches' cauldron" seems like an appropriate adjective!

@louisecorchevolle9241 2 года назад

2 Russia Bolcheviks were Russians ?

@just_kidding_kid 4 года назад

Thanks for your video. Regards from Lviv

@maxv3247 2 года назад

As being ukr I wish only love, friendship and cooperation betwin Pl and Ukr.

@crhu319 Год назад

Merger, even. Border at Dniepr? Khytomyr?

@maxv3247 Год назад

@@crhu319 Kazakhstan

@magdaty1815 Год назад

and Russians, and Hungarians, and Greek.

@mikefay5698 Год назад

@@crhu319 How about a Socialist United Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostock and perhaps Peking?

@dogpoochogenius 4 года назад

I learned a lot about polish history from this channel.

@trevocity5589 4 года назад

just found this channel today i love it!

@rafaeltaleisnik4129 4 года назад

Great chanel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Regards from Brazil

@acosorimaxconto5610 4 года назад

Great narrative Jesse. Thanks for showing how WW1 did not end in 1918. What happened post 1918 is even more complex than what happened '14 - '18, you do a great job of making it (almost!) understandable

@josephstalin9357 8 месяцев назад

Not a world war anymore

@jacksharpe2148 4 года назад

Loving these longer more indepth videos. It fits in well with the Chaos of Post WW1. BTW you should make all your Russian Civil War/border conflicts into one playlist once you finish covering the conflict.

@fload46d 4 года назад

Very interesting and thank you.

@adamsmith1300 4 года назад

The best foreign presentation of Ukrainian history after the Great war I ever saw. Greetings from Lemberg)

@bhangrafan4480 4 года назад

Excellent video. Most people in western Europe have a grossly over-simplistic view of history and politics of Eastern Europe and really do not understand the background to the region.

@arandomuseroftheinternet8003 4 года назад

Five years later, and you're still my favorite history channel ❤

@icecoffee1361 4 года назад

Another amazing episode 👍🏻

@perrydear6306 2 года назад

Wonderful stuff! I thought a scale ( however approx.) on your maps would be most useful/informative, thanks!

@DuffmanIRL 4 года назад

World class video, as always. Thank you.

@neilwilson5785 4 года назад

Ha, waiting for the anarchist black flag video.

@Rickeeey1 4 года назад

During the partitions the Austrians supported Ukrainian conflicts against the Poles. They essentially wanted to reduce Polish influence in East Galicia (or more correctly in Małopolska Wschodnia).

@samuraiace454 4 года назад

Yeah, you are occupied these territories in ancient times. But anyway, polish in more time better people than ukrainians and russians. IMHO. I'm ukrainian.

@AndrD1406 Год назад

Yet the number of Poles only increased. Wonder why?

@RomaInvicta202 Год назад

Great stuff, very objective, very knowledgeable - I'm Polish, although my mum was Galician Ukrainian and it's horribly complicated issue I wish we (Polish and Ukrainians alike) learn to live together in peace

@JustAsPlanned1 Год назад

I think we are on a right path these days

@scandited2763 Год назад

Yeah, there were many controversies, but that's what makes Ukraine and Poland different from russia. While Ukraine and Poland learned a lesson from a hisotry and continue living on, russia keeps living in a past, trying to rebuild greatness it had once. Spoiler, it never had.

@Cortesevasive Год назад

@@scandited2763 its not that simple, anglosaxons bribe jewlenski to wage war

@mikefay5698 Год назад

@@scandited2763 That is why the end of the Soviet Union was so catastrophic for all the Workers of the Planet. There would be no wars in Central Europe or the Middle East. But the Soviet Union of the Planet will arise as long as Capitalist callapse continues into decrepity run by obsolete Geriatrics and Clowns!

@florianmarcelmaca8785 Год назад

Așa trebuie sa fie. Noi români am ajutat și vom face tot ce putem in continuare. Să nu mai conteze ce vecin avem,,,kongolez, daca este înțelegere, prieteniei și respect reciproc. Trebuie sa ne educam pe noi și neapărat copiii noștri, să Nu mai sufere in viitor, să existe iubire, înțelegere, dar și toleranță multa.

@davidknox5929 2 года назад

Thx.Never heard of these wars before.

@plKleczek 4 года назад

Jesse, you've said that "both sides executed civilians, took hostages, and killed prisoners" and I'm pretty sure that was indeed the case. However, could you list some exact examples of such atrocities, for each of the sides (both Ukrainian and Polish)? I'd like to read more on this topic and I need somewhere to start the search :)

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

Hi Pawel, You can have a look at the sources in the video description as well, but one that cited extensively from primary sources was: Böhler, Jochen. Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2019).

@artu3296 4 года назад

Thanks for the video!! This war after the war waas unknown to me. However, it is sad that after years of war between the allies and the axis, the fight did not really stopped in other fronts, leaving more suffering to people.

@sspiby Год назад

very informative a thumbs or hands up for you

@Canadian789119 4 года назад

Great Episode.

@pacthug4life 4 года назад

Could you maybe do a video about the Polish-Ukrainain Kiev offensive?

@ScythianGryphon 4 года назад

Poland and Ukraine are destined to live side by side, so we better learn to cooperate or at least respect each other. Let's leave history to professional historians and live in peace! 🇺🇦🤝 🇵🇱

@volodymyrbondarenko9471 4 года назад

Agreed.

@atsekoutsoube 4 года назад

Never heard of this war before. Many Thanks indeed Great War

@nnvist 4 года назад

Poles and Ukrainians in Lemberg wasn't a real enemies for himself. Sometimes they declare a little ceasefires and go back to homes in night. It's possibly to find a photos of this events. PS. Today, in Poland, we're celebrating 75th anniversary of Warsaw Uprising.

@prodbymao 4 года назад

@stephan daoust Warsaw uprising and communism? Whaaat

@heroe480 4 года назад

@stephan daoust WTF man???

@fusslowski 4 года назад

75th year Puppet of the "victorious powers" ..lol

@user-iz4pt2ro3e 4 года назад

beautiful video Hello from Lviv

@hebl47 4 года назад

I don't know. I don't trust you guys. Only someone who IS trying to rule a part of Ukraine in 1919 would say they're not trying to rule it.

@owensthilaire8189 4 года назад

Well done bro. Love the desk/steamer trunk. Where'd you unearth that? People think i'm weird 'cause i carry a pocket watch some times.

@QALibrary 4 года назад

History is very interesting - have you been to any schools etc talking about your work/channel and what new history and thinking that you come up with your work? and is the video archive being released on to DVD?

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

We cannot afford to do DVDs at the moment, but maybe in the future.

@pacthug4life 4 года назад

Poles were the majority in Galicia even by Austrian census "In Galicia as a whole, the population in 1910 was estimated to be 45.4% Polish, 42.9% Ukrainian, 10.9% Jewish, and 0.8% German. This population was not evenly distributed. The Poles lived mainly in the west, with the Ukrainians predominant in the eastern region"

@wojciechkowalski8061 4 года назад

Did said census spoke about entire Austrian partition(Lesser Poland and Galicia) or just Galicia? This is a very improtant question in this context.

@TheGreatWar 4 года назад

And what did the 1919 census say? I mean all sides used whatever data it could find to make a case in Versailles. Basically nationalist geography.

@dekametr 4 года назад

And what about Polish census of 1931? east of river Bug Poles was minorty

@pacthug4life 4 года назад

@@TheGreatWar There was no census in 1919 is that your point? Even if so, all data we have is Austrian census from 1910 and Polish one from 1921. In both cases Polish and Ukrainian population is close to 50%, and that makes the whole situation even more complicated.

@aerodynamism5438 4 года назад

But there was two Galicia - Western (Poland with Krakow) and Eastern (Lviv), who was mixed in one province by Austro-Hungary. That's why national ratio 50:50 of polish and ukrainians.

@deathrow1009 4 года назад

Could you in future do more videos on Ukraine during the post war fallout/ Russian civil war? I'd love to learn more, particularly regarding the Makhnovists role in said period.

@jessealexander2695 4 года назад

Just wait for our next episode!

@deathrow1009 4 года назад

@@jessealexander2695 Yes mate! Keen as a bean! 👌

@TelosBudo 4 года назад

Great content

@uncletorino2645 4 года назад

Truly enjoyed. Thank you very much.

@Venedict77 4 года назад

I love this show ! Thank you !

@tomweiss9600 Год назад

Imagine being born in eastern Europe around 1900 and living for 80 years or so. The things you'd have seen...

@javierkucharskycortez4463 8 месяцев назад

Lo hizo mi padre y por escaparon por toda Europa y llegaron en latinoamérica, saludos..

@KarlDMarx 2 года назад

I love the closing statement!

@danisawesome4214 4 года назад

Love the show! Wish I could contribute on Patron but I’m broke af

@snowmanflo 4 года назад

Maybe together we can raise a penny and send it over...

@Shivom.Parihar 4 года назад

@NaumRusomarov 4 года назад

sell your plasma and become a patron of the show!

@snowmanflo 4 года назад

I wish I had one...

@steveguild871 4 года назад

@@NaumRusomarov and/or bone marrow :-D

@user-ts5wk3ed4x 4 года назад

That was great. You are doing an awesome job.

@LangeE612 4 года назад

As a historian I have never heard of these wars, while they had such an impact on the local population and the course of history in general. Thank you Great War for enlightening me again and again!

@Tom-2142 4 года назад

Tomasz Szypulski a western one perhaps, we in the west do not hear about these Slavic eastern matters much at all.

@marcod7347 4 года назад

I love this channel. My addictive personality has a found something satisfying.

@marcod7347 4 года назад

As The Great Cactus Jack would say....BANG BANG

@MikeB04 Год назад

My great-grandfather was one of the West Ukrainians who were taken prisoner by the Poles and died of typhus. My grandfather fought in the West Ukrainian Army against the Poles and Bolsheviks.

@hipokrytus2920 4 месяца назад

and very well, do you know what the Banderites did to us?

@NoGodsNoMasters1885 2 года назад

Never again between brother nations.

@maximilianemusterfrau1265 2 года назад

Never again between any nations!

@magdaty1815 Год назад

brother nations like Russians and Ukrainians?

@NoGodsNoMasters1885 Год назад

@@magdaty1815 Ask a Ukrainian which "brother" they'd prefer to do business with these days. I'd argue the one that recognizes their right to exist.

@VEAFY Год назад

@@magdaty1815 ah guys that almost all Ukrainian history tried to occupate them and their history:/ i don’t think that how “brothers” do

@magdaty1815 Год назад

@@VEAFY One thing is - you need to learn more history. Second thing is (just in terms of your reasoning) - do you imply that countries of Latin America should turn against Spain? Tribes in Australia against white Australians? And so on?

@snakepisscan4041 4 года назад

Thanks as the grandson of a Ukrainian solider .. I am learning my Ukrainian history from this .

@MrMaxlines 3 года назад

Could you tell more about your grandfather please? Was he from Western or Eastern Ukraine?

@unknownuntitled5341 Год назад

@@MrMaxlines he was from division ss galizien, i guess

@MrMaxlines Год назад

@@unknownuntitled5341 or a soldier of Ukrainian People's Republic who fled from a Red Terror in 1920's

@JagMan78 Год назад

Love that 1920s office you got.

@igorbednarski8048 4 года назад

I'm Polish and I don't think I have ever heard of the war in history classes. As a history buff I was aware of the conflict taking place before watching this video, but there was just so much stuff going on at that time around Poland alone (fight for independence, Uprisings in Greater Poland and Silesia, war with Bolsheviks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians...) that I never really looked into this particular war in detail. Thanks for that very informative video.