Beneš sold carpatian rhutenia to soviet union so Stalin acknowledged him as a leader of resistance. Although all western countries acknowledged him as a leader

Why are you making videos only on European Cold War history? When will you cover the rest of the continents?

are you gonna do the yugoslav's and bulgarians?

And the son of László Rajk, László Rajk jr. was one of the founder of SZDSZ (Alliance of Free Democrats) a liberal party on paper.

I agree. However he could've at least mentioned that in the last elections where people could vote only for parties from the national front, the democratic party has won in Slovakia, however thanks to the higher population of Czechs, communists have won as the result. Just an interesting fact I think.

@@Michalesd actually, in Slovakia, communists got 30% of vote, in Czechia they got 40% percent. So communists did not get majority in either country/region. The only difference was there were three other parties in Czechia and just one in Slovakia. The voting pattern, the results of the elections were not significantly different in both parts of the country. And communist takeover of government happened in Slovakia some four months before Prague (November 1947) .... so its quite clear that election results were not that important. Key factor was the communists were determined, organized,ruthless and active.... qualities that the democratic parties in either Czech or Slovak part of the country lacked in the key moments

@Kyril J BS- votes for the communists in 1946 elections: Bohemia:43%,Moravia 35%, Slovakia 30.5%..... what means "voted largely for" is very relative. Nowhere Communists got majority. And it MUST be noted that communists run the election with slogans and programm mirroring the social democratic programm, not 'introduction of the communist system'

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I didn't know that, it's interesting because the same is the case in Austria, not surprising though as just over 100 years ago you were 1 country together.

@@simonh6371 opposite name order in Austria? Are you sure? I am sure it is not so.

@@BiharyGabor Sure I'm sure, although it's possible it's just a regional thing, I lived in Steiermark in the 90s and even in conversation people used to say 'der Hofbauer Frans' or 'der Mayrhofer Kurt' instead of the other way around. Also dates were written reverse to here in the UK i.e. year/month/day so today is 20/08/11. In the English language it's confusing as the Americans write month/day/year but we Brits and our Commonwealth cousins (Aussies, Kiwis, South Africans, Jamaicans and so on) write day/month/year. For us, 9/11 would mean 9th November.

@@simonh6371 really strange. These are indeed the Hungarian name and date conventions. But I don't think any Hungarian influence could affect it, Hungarian language and culture has never been so influent in the Hapsburg empire or in Austria. Anyway, family name + surname is much more natural for any language that normally places modifiers before nouns - including English 😊 Also, year-month-day sequence is more natural as it mirrors the way we write numbers with positional notation 😉

@@BiharyGabor Erm well please don't take this the wrong way, but under the KuK monarchy (which in English is known as Austria-Hungary), Austria was dominant so I had assumed that it had been Austrian influence upon Hungary, rather than the other way around. And yes I'm fully aware that it was in fact a dual monarchy and both constituent countries were equally on top, with other regions/countries such as Croatia subject to one or the other (i.e. Hungary for that example). Also I was surprised when I first heard Hungarians greet each other with ''Servus'' as people do in Austria too. I'd imagine the same is the case i.e. it is Austrian influence upon Hungary and not vice versa, since Servus is Latin and originates from the Roman Empire, which was obviously geographically closer to Austria.

yeah but the host is boring af

Hannibal Barca Trump voice: *WRONG*

"Stalin, stop sending assassins to kill me. We already captured five of them. If you continue, I will send an assassin to Moscow and I won't need another" Tito to Stalin

some western author is calling it a "mock" split .Mabey these scholars can bring some new perspective on these events?

@@petroskotsomytis5016 If only the next generation of Yugoslavs had Titos resolve. Looking your way Milosevic, Tudman, Itzetbegovic, and Karadic.

Czechoslovakia wasn't in the Balkans

@@whiteeagleboneguard I know I had just edited the error before you commented! cheers!

Didnt Checkoslovakia dissolved like inmediately after the end of the Cold War?

@@pizzapicante27 It dissolved in 1993, therefore roughly 4 years after the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and 2 years after the dismantlement of the USSR in 1991

@@gianlucaborg195 Ok, nice

interesting....

He did a Poland one.

Will be interesting to see those other coutnries come up, as I know very little of each and their immediate post-WW2 history. In fact, the immediate post-WW2 history of my own country (Finland) is just a step above the rudimentary basics, so here's a small hope that part of cold war history will be highlighted in a future episode.

And post purges in soviet!

It would also be nice to see a video about the Greek Civil War, it’s probably the first proxy war of the whole Cold War Era.

Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is the piano piece At the end, those are Brahms - Hungarian dances? Can't tell.

It is Dvorak - Symphony 9, Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody 2 and Brahms - Hungarian Dance 4

@@TheColdWarTV thought I recognized the New World Symphony in the background

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How is that possible? US army in east Europe in ww2?

@@navidkarimi2552Nah, it was Patton and his divisions that liberated the west of Czechoslovakia by fighting through the entirety of Germany and splitting it in half

@@navidkarimi2552 Pilsen is about as far east as Berlin or Salzburg. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_contact .

Czechoslovakia was central european country ...

Ha thats exactly what i said. They will fit well

Yes. We will cover all countries in the Eastern Bloc.

@@TheColdWarTV 👍

And Liszt for Hungary.

We will

Brahms - Hungarian Dance no. 4

We will. We will cover every single country in the Eastern Bloc. Also partition of India, creation of Israel, Indochina, decolonization of Africa and so on.

Clearly everyone should listen to you, with your 100,000 subscribers. Tell us, how can they maximise their channel?

@@cptrelentless80085 i was just saying how in the comments of last episode ppl were criticizing for being too biased BUT in my opinion thos episode is greatly improved

Really!? How is it called?

It is Dvorak, Liszt and Brahms.

@@TheColdWarTV thank you!

isn't it Germany's peace music?

Its bit late answer, but the inflation of the hungarian currency (at the time the so called "pengő") are the largest inflation in the history - the new government printed the money like a lunatic, its very easy to find 200M pengő banknotes even today, and if u are lucky u can even find so called "B pengő'S" too (the M mean "million" or "billion" - depend on the time when the banknote printed, in hungarian language we say "billion" as "milliárd" while milion are the same - so the shortcut are the exact same - and the B shortcut are the billion, which is "worth" 100x more than the "milliárd" pengő's when their printed - but all of them become worthless in the next day). Trading at the time de facto happened at the exact same way as its happening today in Venezuela (so either bartel or based on the weight of the currency). We even had an ironic joke from that time, which is "régen zsebben vittük a pénz és kosárban az árut, most kosárban visszük a pénzt és zsebben az árút" - which in my buchered translation mean "once we carried the money in our pockets and in basket the goods, now we carry the money in basket and in our pocket our goods" - i think this dark humor describe the best how its felt like to live that time. There is many reason for this - first, hungary used the gold standard at the time, which mean the value of the currency are the same as how much gold u can literaly buy for it from the banks inside the country (aka how many gold we had). Due we held many gold mine before the first world war hungary had a large gold reserve before the 2nd world war, but during the nazi occupation (which happened becouse Hungary tried to switch side) the germans first seized our gold and then in early 1945 their transported into germany - and we didnt get back for a long time. Second, the soviets taken everything from us what the germans left behind as part of "war reparation", their literaly seized our locomotive's and every machine from the Ganz heavy industry complex (which has been the 3rd largest factory complex in the continent at the time) in Csepel (this same complex renamed into Rákosi Ironworks when the puppet government installed and today knows as Csepel Ironworks). Third, the collectivization attempts caused mass starvation thoughout the country, so combined with the hyperinflation the value of food increased at the same time - god know how many ppl starved to death, we have records about how many ppl ended up in concentration camps or in "Malenkiy Robot" but we have no idea about that - the communist make a very good job to cover it. The government as final desperate attempt tried to solve the problem with introducing a new currency without the gold standard (its our currency even today), the so called "forint". Their somehow managed to keep it stable by dont print to much money, making the exchange rate with the old "pengő" literally 0 and due the collectivistation and industrial nationalization already on the way the communist party already reached the true equality between the ppl's - nobody had anything anymore which worth anything. Industrialist lost their factory's, ordinary ppl's lost their saving, peasents and the nobility (including my family) lost their land and the merchant already bankrupted due the hyperinflation. True socialist paradise - no wonder to their got only 17% in 1947 despite the inflintration into the Freeholders Party, the de facto takeover to the Socdem Party and the election itself (which become knows as blue ballot election becouse if u wanted to vote for any other party than the COmmunist party u needed to vote with a blue ballot while the pro communists voted with a red one, and sovitet soldiers stationed where the election took place just in chase if some "fascist" try to disrupt it - sound fair and free election, isnt it? And even with all of this 17% sounds pathetic....

@@attilaedem101 Szépen összefoglatad!

Papa Tito. Great guy.

@@aroundhere1200 well you guys had a bit of an argument

@@alexwallachian7720 one that doomed us greek communists as well. But still a cool guy.

@@alexwallachian7720 he can be just one "Iosef" in this world and that would be me. The next time i would beat him on pocker. 1953 will be my year.

@@greekcommie621 consider yourself lucky. You don't to have a communist government like the above countries. It destroyed the economy but worst of all it destroyed the spirit and wiped out the educated people in gulags. This put these countries back decades and they will likely never recover. Greece was very lucky to escape that and develop. Even with the financial crisis greece is still more developed than them.

100% correct, thank you mikke

Yep, mostly because Slovakia is (or was) far more religious country than Bohemia and Moravia. Its logical that in a religous country such an antireligion thing as communism could not be a thing people actually wanted. I mean its not like communists won in Bohemia and Moravia by playing fair - killing politicians and anyone who stood in their way was a very popular thing.

Nope, Benes's Czechoslovak goverment was restored because it was legitimate goverment, not because Stalin said so. He probably didnt even give a fuck abount Slovakia.

Actually, it is backward. Beneš needed Stalin’s help to obtain his objectives. And he could only reach those objectives with the Soviet Union’s help. Beneš could have pushed the US to get the Czech lands into the western allies sphere, but that would 1 have left Slovakia out in the cold. As a Czechoslovakian “nationalist” that wouldn’t do, but he was forced to hand over Carpathoukraine to the USSR. 2 to reach the goal of kicking the 1/3 population out of The Czech lands namely the Germans - could also only be reached under Stalin’s wing. No European democracy would have been able to keep the Germans out after WWII. To call Beneš a social democrat is to stretch it, he was translated a people’s socialist. But in the end, the Czech lands is what interested him, all the Germans were kicked out of Sudetenland and also most from Slovakia; yet the Hungarians in Slovakia were not all booted out only a part. So Slovakia couldn’t be saved from communism, the Czech lands could - but Beneš wanted no “Germs” in his lands so better be a fellow traveler. In my opinion he sold out the Czech lands to get rid of the Sudetenland Germans. The infamous Beneš decrees carry his name to this day. Some Czechs will scream murder now, prove me wrong. He licked Stalin’s boot from 1942.

Bjarke L. That's a questionable view of the facts. Your view of Benes is not accurate. Forced relocations happened all across Europe after WWII. The forced removal of the Germans from the Czech lands seems unfortunate and perhaps ultimately regrettable but the justifications for this plan can't be ignored. It was more clearly deserved than can be said of those Poles and Germans pushed West just so Stalin could take more territory for the Soviet Union.

@@bjarkel.993 you're wrong about Sudeten Germans - it was an UK proposal to clear Eastern Europe of German minorities to prevent new war. Czechs didn't ask for it but when it was proposed by the allies they didn't protest as they had no reason to. Czechs also didn't ask for war reparations and Czechoslovakia was one of the first countries who re-established political connection with both German states.

Great points there, exactly this as you said.

Or the army. But everyone should have already guess it in 1921.

And don't accept the resignations of the non-Communist members of the cabinet when they resign in protest of the coup!

@@larmencio889 Thats a lot of speculation, you could say it the other way around and would still be speculation. But the facts are that both had something to win out of a settlement, and that Stalin offered that settlement, which Truman refused.

pizzapicante27, speculation? No. Stalin was known for reneging “deals”. No chance Truman should have accepted such an offer.

@@markpapenfuss1111 Its funny that you call something that happened speculation and then you speculate on wether Stalin would've kept a deal or not.

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We will get there. We are still setting up the stage.

@@TheColdWarTV ok

Jo tady

And i'm czech

Before ww2.

Damn, I thought British Empire was richer.

because it was done before the Countries turned communist

@@typiclyjohny5114 They were becoming communist at that time though, and they continued even after the communists had successfully seized total power in their respective countries. Also, communist officials in these immediate postwar governments had openly expressed their support for these events, meaning that they had played a role in them, and it had even helped them rise to power.

Lol

Found the commie

Indeed. They did not mention important issues Czechoslovak - Soviet treaty of 1943, grain shippments 1946, cessation of Carpathian Ruthenia also in 1946 and of course coup d etat in 1948 was unconstitutional...

Wrong

As far as i can tell the reason the term exiled goverment exist is because for one reason or another the goverment fled. But the new goverment is not recognized by the international community and the previous goverment itself since they were removed by force. An exiled goverment also appriciates the support of their host country (obviously). So Maybe they are not the de facto controllers of a nation. But they are usually the legitimate goverment. (this depends on your perspective)

Deeming something too progressive;should have something like that in the US. LMAO

It might be a good time for you to read the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence.

@@knutdergroe9757 funny enough I have lol. I only made a joke here captain.