27 million people were not Russian casualties, they were total of Soviet Union. Ukrainians, Belarusians, Georgians, Kazakhs etc. Ukraine alone lost 8 million people. Belarus lost 25% of its population.

He kept saying Russian deaths in WW2 they were Soviet deaths and a percentage Ukraine lost more.

Putting Stalin on a pedestal and his 'achievements' in WW2 is like putting the Butcher of Teheran on the same pedestal. I think the Polish nation would thank you for setting history 'straight'

"You cannot negotiate with a tiger, with your head in his mouth ", Churchill .

It was English intelligence, American industry and Soviet blood that won WW2 Stalin himself has said that the Soviet Union would not have survived if it was not for Lend Lease.

Putin the Master Strategist…. ‘Everything is going to plan”!

Since when was J. Dimbleby an expert on anything other than nepotism and being pompous?

What WWII should teach us - and the guy seems to have no clue about that - is that certain types of “peace” are worse than a war. As they equal graveyards, after the dictators won

That casualty disparity speaks more to Soviet/Russian tactics and their lack of value of human life.

Ukraine freedom won't be stopped 💙 💛

Wait, when did he say the Baltics weren't in NATO? They've been NATO since 2004.

5:18 it wasn't just russians soldiers and civilians lives it was soviet soldiers and civilians lives including ukranians, belorussians, kazahs etc.

You can tell Dimbleby worked with a Russian on this - load of BS

If after 2 years rushns' can't even take 10% of Ukraine, the 2nd poorest country in Europe, they are losing in slow motion.💯

How about the US land lease for USSR?? Soviets were totally dependable on US land lease. I'm afraid this historian's interview is a blunder big time..

So, this old apologist said: 1. That thing in the Kremlin will be in power for a long time. 2. "Borders in that part of the world are always changing." 3. We are hurting ourselves by supporting Ukraine. 4. There should be a negotiation with russia. 5. The russians "won't give up Crimea." ...which isn't theirs. 6. We need a "temporary solution" with russia. Do you think he gets paid directly in rubles? Or do they allow him to get dollars or pounds from the Kremlin coffers to write that whole book? At least there's 1100 pages or babbling I don't have to read. blah blah blah. Next.

If Germany was fighting on one front it would have helped their Russian campaign, but they had forces scattered from Norway to Italy. Also the British and Americans supplied Russia with tens of thousands of vehicles, plane's and ammunition.. lastly British Intelligence gave Russia the information it needed to help them ie Kursk etc.

Negotiations? With Russia!?! Yeah, after Bucha negotiations will work! Very naive fellow.

Amazing how people just lose their mind when describing a royal figure. Dimbleby didnt describe a person he described a fekkin fantasy saint

Q: What’s the difference between the border crisis in America and the border crisis in rusha? A: In America people are trying to get in, and in rusha they’re trying to get out.

We would be speaking German now if he instead of Churchill was pm.

Johnathan Chamberlain?

Russia doesn't want to give up its gains-but we don't always get what we want in life.

Did Jonathan work out the percentage of USSR soldiers that lost their lives who were Ukrainian?

Great man Jonathan D.!!!!!

Pootin has fantasies. This is his problem...well more the problem of his army really.

I would not give 2 pence for his book or his opinion.🙃

Russia was facing a genocidal enemy in WW2, of course they were willing to take so much punishment. The same people have lost many wars across history. Including the 1st chenchain war. ATTACKING PROPLE IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING STTACKED BY A GENOCIDAL POWER!!! Russia doesn’t always do like they did in WW2; in fact most of the time they don’t.

At 5:18 "The Russian casualties in the war, 27 million..." Again and again and again: those were SOVIET, not Russian casualties. There were even more Ukrainian casualties than Russian ones, aside from the casualties from all the other nations enslaved by Moscow in the Russian Empire.

Interesting, since Stalin was an allie of Germany while Britain (with her natural allies of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) was the only European country fighting Germany. No D day? Lots more troops and tanks to oppose the red army.The battle of the bulge would have been fought in Poland.

Has a bad judgement these people who claim to know putin should stop this mess cause clearly they don't know what they are talking about

BRILLIANT conclusions !

In the west, we see Russia losing half a million soldiers in Ukraine as a failure of the Russian military; in Russia, they see this as more success. I'm fairly sure that Putin would be happy with 2 million Russian soldiers lost. That would be a legacy.

Oh, we CAN defeat Russia. This guy has done poor history research.

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛

It would have been very interesting if he transcribe present day videos from the Russian and Ukrainian soldiers and compared to history. The differences between the the two countries’ present day soldiers is astounding.

He quite openly bribed the tories; didn't need any secrecy.

Great review

Wait, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. You mean to tell me "Kyiv in three days" Putin has bad judgement? Say it ain't so! We need to get the news on this one! Biting sarcasm aside, none of that is to denigrate the points being made (nor the person. except for Putin, who I very much mean to denigrate), because Jonathan is clearly right.

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Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Dimbleby is not an historian. We heard all this 'Russia won the war' stuff a few years back from that other non-historian, Oliver Stone.

The French had the right idea about how to deal with the monarchy

Putin has bad judgement does he ?? Well F me I never noticed.

Putin listened to Trump about NATO. Trump strengthened NATO by default.

Autocratic behavior...🧠

1943/44 the bombing of Germany had removed Germany as an industrial nation along with transportation, communications, research, development, etc. WWII cannot be judged by looking at the fronts and what happened to soldiers. The „glory“ of the Soviet Union winning WWII is a myth. The Soviet Union could just as easily taken JAPAN! After the U.S. destroyed Japans industry and Navy.

Two teenager guys tried to mug me by showing me they had a gun (which was in a jacket inside pocket which they flashed ) . I had about £15 at the time But it was a public place with plenty of witnesses. I very rapidly - instantaneously concluded they had poor strategic judgement. And were thus unpredictable. I concluded that there was no time to give them my wallet, though they were 'welcome' to it . I knew there were enough hard obstacles to get me out of their firing line in less time than it took first them to de- pocket the gun . I was a competitive athlete so I knew that by then time it could be deployed - IF they were super decisive , I would be 100 feet away at least in a space instructed by hard objects and then within a second or two around a corner. Then I would be rapidly round corners and opening the distance way beyond any accurate shooting. Perhaps I was wrong I'm no expert. I say this as if I planned it . I was only conscious of the plan after I left the area. It came together in about 0.75 of a second. I remember their surprise as I quit the area. I think they may have thought the deal was You show the universe a gun and the universe yields to your will . Wheras in reality you show the universe a gun and the universe gets very scared and unpredictable, and you may not have a say in what happens next.

Madam, Dimbleby was forming an interesting point about Putin being clever yet strategically incompetent, when you cut him off to challenge his assertion that Putin is clever. Do you really think that a dullard could rule Russia? Does the notion of a brutal man being clever offend you? I daresay it does. And that is itself a not very clever thing.

Putins done pretty well with his brexit plan, I wouldn't describe him as strategically inept next to our own pathetic leadership.

I have watched the five episodes of Jonathan Dimbleby's 'Russia' that he recorded for the BBC in 2007/2008 and have those episodes on DVD (2 discs) as well as his book to accompany the series. I have watched the episodes over and over again. I am disappointed that he thinks the collective West and USA has the slightest brain power or strategic thinking compared to Putin. Vladimir Putin has been reasonable with the West ever since he started his presidency, wanting to join the EU and being rejected by the idiots that run it. Whether Dimbleby likes it or not, Putin should go down in history as the greatest world leader of our era.

Temporary! .. the Korean ceasefire was over 65 years ago 😮

A complicated game of chess Too many pwns

100 percent

I wonder if the Russian historian that helped Dimbleby access the Russian texts for this book research wasn't ,by any chance, Mr Putin's personal research assistant or even an FSB researcher

If his judgement is bad where does that leave Ukraine & the West 🤔

Nothing in warfare "has" to be. If the Ukrainians (and their backers) have sufficient resolve, they can get the Russians out of their country. If not, they won't. But this guy is just as much an armchair general or president as the rest of us.

Soneone else who has written a book without asking the Ukrainians what they want for the future.....shameful.

Entrenched in Donbas?! Aha ha…. It is RUSSIAN land, my guy. People like there - not ENTRENCHED - everything here is single sided POV

That's why he's still at the post. He's a good thing for Ukrainians and the E.U. A hated horrible individual living in the past taticly. Why ruin a possible regime change?

at least Putin had the decency not to sanction the icc, not like our shameless genocidal President Blinken.😂😂😂

It's incredibly ignorant to constantly speak about Russia when actually you mean the Sowjet Union. Or to equal the Russian Federation to it. Stalin himself wasn't even Russian, but hey for Jonathan that's probably all the same ...

this man is indeed silly or Russia operative

BS

You are very much wrong dear admirer of russians. Russia is an artificial state forcefully built in 17-19th centuries out of hundreds of different nations. Let's see where this empire ends up, having in mind where other empires did.

This dude is wrong on both counts. 😴

I agree with most of what Dimbleby is saying here wrt. WWII but you can't join the dots in a straight line to the current situation. He's making the mistake of conflating the Soviet Union with the current situation in the Russian Federation. Territorial boundaries with people who are fighting for their liberty and way of life. A generation that grew up after the Soviet Union and don't want to go back. Russian elites in Moscow may very well feel the way that he states about history and have a passionate sense of nationalist patriotism but the majority of soldiers in the front are doing it for a pay check as it's their most lucrative option. Virtual mercenaries, an exploitation of the poor. Reluctant cannon fodder. There is great dissatisfaction in the regions. No other way of finding employment. Mass exodus of the most qualified and financially able people. A real chance that the federation could collapse if it continues. Internal sabotage of railways, factories and recruitment offices etc. going on. Most are aware that they are not fighting an existential threat as with the Nazis. Furthermore a large part of that pool of human resource being referred to were Ukrainians in WWII and we were supplying the Soviets with military aid, not the other way around. The Russian Federation is by comparison a house of cards begging China, Iran and North Korea for help.

Ain't a thing worth a dime in russian world

No need for the preview

NATO hasn't been particularly "resilient" Jonathan it's been unexpectedly "belligerent". This has actually demonstrated how unresilient NATO is to an industrial war of attrition. NATO is losing this proxy war because it can't keep up with Russian arms production and hasn't the will to take the level of casualties that Ukraine has suffered.

Dim blabbing.

She’s got that seriously wrong - we the British people can’t stand Harry and def do not want him back.

Funny that Harry and Meghan is mentioned in this serious broadcast. I can tell you that if Harry comes back and ask for en new chance the King and we all will Welcome him.

Ah the old BS line pull a dinosaur if you need a spin on a situation who seriously is he to talk about Putin in this time 50 years ago may be but know when your time has passed

Well, Putin lives in a bubble so it’s hard to make good decisions. He has no internet or phone.

The Ukrainians lost nearly as many as the Russians in the 2nd world war . Let's not forget this

Putin sure judged the duplicitous western leaders correctly.

-thus guy is clueless, the russians aren’t fighting (from moscow and st pete’s), putin is recruiting from siberia and third world countries)

Fkn boring

This interviewer asks very probing questions of another celebrity (once upon a time) commentator. Where do they drag these experts from? Suddenly he knows everything there is to know about what Putin is thinking? What a total waste of airspace just to fill the void of silence, instead of interviewing people who may actually know something and who could shed some real light on the subject, perhaps even some truth!

Give me one reason why I should listen to this man, that doesn’t know what he is talking about. To tired of these “experts” pushing ruzzian talking points👎

This guy mixing russians with soviets a lot

No question our Royal family is dysfunctional.

Westerners like to talk and boast. It’s tiring

Russian war cinema is EXTRAORDINARY. Lots of phenomenal books are written west just ignoring as usual

No no NATO is not a threat. West was never a threat to anyone 😅

Putin's fantasies are the key to his popularity but he is not nearly as realistic as Stalin was🎉🎉🎉

How do you think he got from a junior figure in St Petersburg to leader of Russia for over two decades by having bad judgement. Objective evaluation does he usually get what he wants answer yes. He is a wily and intelligent guy not a fool with bad judgement. The Russian military did a rushed invasion with too few resources in the wrong place. Lets be honest Kyiv surrounded and Polish border closed from Belarus, basically game over. Invasion in the east and every day no trade, no supplies for Ukraine. Is his economy growing strongly? yes, is he winning in Ukraine, yes slowly. So far has.not been ideal.but suffers from bad judgement is more like Zelenskyy. Cut defence spending prior to invasion, denied it up until the day before, had no defenses in Kharkiv border area. That is bad judgement. Churchill we be examining the border personally two years into a war and making tanks Ukrainian or western designs. Not producing zero. Putin makes mistakes but Zelenskyy is good at PR but less so at military leadership.

This channel specializes in defeatism. This guy is a dinosaur defeatist.

Putin judged and played the Brexiteers perfectly.