now thats irony :D

Ooh jeez

He missed one of the most historically significant events in the 20th century

While studying history, he accidentally misses history being made.

oh damn- the pain of that happening when studying to become a history teacher

@@No-mq5lw nice

But not safe from hockey pucks.

@@rustikreign9798 *fuzes loudly in the distance*

@@No-mq5lw back then he still had his ACOG as standart equipment.

Talk about a normal day turning into a pivotal moment in history.

Yes

Accuracy 10000000000%

... just going for cigarettes honey!

*millions of blitzkrieging jerry boy sounds in the distance*

It’s weird seeing memes on a history channel

Dr. Santiago I mean the wall coming down so quickly was a mistake, but by that point the Eastern Bloc nations were about 110% done with this communist shit.

I think you mean 'terrible.' Or 'evil.' Not good.

@@your_averageboi9083 He's saying the cold war was a bad thing I think. Cause the OP accidently said "As all good things do"

@@your_averageboi9083 Basically what Cursed Fate said.

@@cursedfate838 I thought he was making a comparison that it ended the way something good would

#stormeastberlin

I see what you did there😆

Ight let's go

Chances are, if they wanted they probably could've stopped all of them.

Surely if we naruto run it will work, right ?

And all Californians who clapped too hard

Most people are just blokes like you and me.

No more like 100 percent

"-would toil the Balkans for over a decade" well yeah 30 years is technically over a decade.

@@kingmac6638 needs another 0

Edit: All I really want out of people is for them not to suck. I don't feel like it's a lot to ask.

@@josephschultz3301 Sadly... the ones who suck (the deliberate assholes and antagonists) are reacted to like they're "just telling it like it is" and "just being real" Meanwhile, the ones who don't suck (the open, honest, friendly, and considerate ones) are treated with suspicion, like "no one can be that nice, it must be an act" and even called "creepy" ... what a world we live in...

Internet corrupted humanity, those were other times, plus hard times make strong people, and these time sure are creating weak, sensitive individuals

ReNixMaR OK Boomer

I thought u said flamethrowers and champagne.

well either way it would have ended with a blast

I'm not. :/

@Andrew J Colby Because death is a preferable alternative to capitalism.

ImperatorKnoedel May you find your own efficacious “Give me liberty or give me death” circumstance then. If it is any comfort, you are not alone in your status as the downtrodden. Your life may be like many throughout history: Potent suffering slowly collected into a critical mass until it finally undermines confidence in the leadership, and all the protections from those they’ve wronged & those that would rather run the show either mysteriously stand aside or convincingly threaten to do so.

I don't know studies have shown that radiation is better to animals than humans.

for over a century

@@Joso997 The breakup of Yugoslavia was 30 years ago

@@mpitt0730 yea and people are still not ower it.. people either miss yugoslavia or are nationalistic and consider every other nations of YU as lazy pople who exploited them and in the end tried to kill them...

@@mpitt0730 It'll be unstable for 70 more years. Count on it

FreeStyle lol

Rush C! Rush C!

To quote a famous Bowl of Petunias, “Oh no, not again”

I would rather see melons.

For once they actually can’t stop them all.

We should talk about your user XD

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Take that commies

The proto-Raid of Area 51, right?

What about D-Day

@@DC2007A That was troops "they can't stop us all" is civilians storming giver ant facilities or buildings

The Inca fighting the Spaniards, at Cajamarca forty-five to one.

@@Leadvest i would say Zulu's but they did stop them

@UCSHzKs1BS0a0nwNt5_23vrg It's a common 'fact' that a Berliner is a German jelly-filled pastry. People keep translating 'Ich bin ein Berliner' as 'I am a jelly-filled donut'. It's actually more complicated than that; JFK probably misread a line. Though I read somewhere that he said it correctly; it's everyone making the donut joke that's wrong. EDIT: Yep, confirmed BS. Snopes confirms he said it correctly, it's an urban legend he said it wrong. www.snopes.com/fact-check/jfk-doughnut/

"Ich bin ein Berliner" - His translator a few seconds later without an accent

What is the ch sound in Berlin? I heard it varies on the region. I learned it as ç and a rolled k, and my teacher had lived in Baden-Würtemburg.

@@protester2706 As dane living in Berlin, I can say: I am a danish.

...the whole sentence was "...2000years ago, the greatest you could say was: "I'm a Roman", but today it's the gratest to say "Ich bin ein Berliner"...!"

Oh yeah!!

OHHHH YYYEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

You two need yoga, you need a shower

OH Yeah (fire my big guns) 💥🚢

@@StevenFox80 and all of you need to learn how to handle real power

Lucky person !

Really sad what socialism does

@@aryaaswale7316 i belive they were communist, and communisem can work....... on the most miniscule of scales. the problem is that its just not a system built to handle large populations

@@aryaaswale7316could you just not be American for 5 seconds

That's beautiful!

@@ankaplanka it really is isn't it

Yet.

Now we do it because nobody else is allowed to be desperate for a better life. The so called line takes years and very fat checks and perfect paperwork.

Moritz Nesbigall 😅

@@leokennedy7624 Moritz is right

In fact, it's been suggested that we build a wall to keep people who want to take advantage of our society out... Oh, but that opinion is politically unpopular and offensive... 😜

：）

@Whozaper lmao loser

Respect to your parents, Boney.

@Whozaper Hi, from Europe. Still here, doing great all things considered.

Bruh my dad was one of em with the sledge hammers 😂😂

that's because canada and mexico aren't walking distance

@@sabotabby3372 Don't see too many people moving from Taiwan to mainland China.

@@sabotabby3372 Depends what state you're in.

Preston Jones Yeah because you'd have to swim for DAYS. Also I don't see many people moving into Africa. Does that make them communist as well? No. It's just because they're poor. So when you have two germanys, one having shoved money into their asses through the marshall fund to make them a buffer zone against soviet russia, and the other one reduced to a agricultural society by stalin out of fear that germany will rise a third time and invade russia again (a fear americans and britains probably can't relate to because they didn't constantly get invaded by their neighbors with millions killed, citys and villages burned down etc.) where they even unbuild the factorys that were undamaged by the war, packed them into boxes and transported them out of germany elsewere. So if you have two germanys like this, one richer, one poorer, even when they have the same political system what do you think how will migration turn out?

Dominique Martinez I live in Detroit it literally is in Walking Distance, every state that borders Canada or Mexico has towns and sometimes cities in walking distance. But still for some reason no one ever really wants to leave the US, in fact we have issues of too many people wanting to come in... huh? It’s like we live in a society that offers opportunities to those willing to put the effort in.

Which I'd love to see

Yeah, I would be interesting to see more episodes about historical events in Central and Eastern European countries.

This is some charismatic shit rigth there

and then global warming ruined everything about 50 years later....

Merkel:

'Muricah, take notes please!

I wonder if that’s what China will have to do...

I admit I teared up a little at that point

Unfortunately, the mess that came afterwards is still causing suffering today.

Everytime I hear about the Berlin wall, I can't help but be reminded of my many friends living outside Venezuela, and about how similar it feels to me. There's no literal wall, but there's a whole bunch of miles separating us.

i likee your style :)

Meanwhile in the third world families are torn appart thanks to the still ongoing crossfire between capitalists and communists.

RIP Sophie.

Didn't Someone ram a tank through the wall?

Gorbachev at January 13th 1991 in Lithuania be like: ,,This night was sponsored by World of Tanks get your body crushed by one today !”

The divisions were already there. Yugoslavia was just the Serbs being so brutally repressive that they achieved the illusion of unity.

But the man who led Yugoslavia and kept unity and brotherhood wasn't even Serbian. Don't pin this on us. Most Serbs were supportive of the monarchy, not the communist state.

@@misterkrazy8401 Frankly I don't know what he's on about, the unity we had wasn't an illusion it just takes a bit longer to erase hundreds of years of idiotic national pride we just didn't last long enough cause we're pathologically allergic to success.

@Luís Filipe Andrade That's... a gross oversimplification of a very complex clusterfuck.

One doesn't get the nickname "the powder keg of Europe" without deserving it...

Well spotted! :'))

License plate at 10:10 as well

He has a vanity plate, too, at 10:09

Walpole was never gone

I had a little time to myself to doodle a bit. ;)

The Communist one ended, but the overall Russia US Cold War is still going on

@@Abdirahman_Mohamed Communist China is very much in a cold war with the US.

@@juanmam.2113 It's better than the very real threat of a WW3. Even though there is still some threat of that, it's much less than before.

Ww2 ended with a party too.

We’re ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

Hopefully the teacher watches the Lies episodes to explain what they didn't get right.

This puts a smile on my face!

@@dankdreamz or better yet, checks in on historians discussing the episodes. Even with the corrections episodes, EH does not have a very good reputation. They are very engaging storytellers, but poor researchers.

@@neeneko they condense and sometimes heavily trim the subject they're presenting, because it's just way to complex to explain every detail in such a short time. KZfaq is *NOT* an educational institution, neither is this channel (nor do they claim to be!!!), it's there to spark interest in history and give some basic and rough summary of a historical subject. Which I think they do pretty well. If you want a 100% correct deep dive, grab a book or research papers from a historian who specialises in the subject. If only 5% of the children who watch this channel are inspired to learn some more because of these videos, they've done a good job.

It isn't just the condensing. The criticism I've seen from professionals is, besides not being willing to actually cite their sources (even when asked), for several of their series they seemed to have gone from a single 'accessible' but known problematic text. So they do not seem to be consulting historians about which source materials are respected vs iffy. The lack of citing is borderline unacceptable at this point since other edutainment channels, even ones with much smaller staffs, have moved over to including references in all their videos.

The original (and much more successful) "they can't stop us all"-movement.

make this one of the 10 most liked comment's on youtube!

Well, America stormed all of western Germany and many walls and barriers.

Südlicher Nachbar hier, und ja, wir haben auch wie gebannt auf die Mattscheibe gestarrt, als die ersten Feuerwerkskörper aufflammten. Es war..surreal, fast wie ein Märchen, eine wahrgewordene Utopie. Es war ohrenzerfetzend laut und doch irgendwie verhalten und ruhig, dieses symbolische Ende des Kalten Krieges. Ich denke es ist an der Zeit, die nächste Mauer niederzureissen.

Thanks for sharing your story!

Samwiz?!

This is genuinely hilarious omg

Extra history getting something wrong? That’s never happened Every flag ever

It is true that Walter Ulbricht was in office when the wall was build, but (as far as I know), Honecker was at that point already a high figure in the SED. He was one of the main driving forces behind the idea of building a wall, and further was the person in charge of overseing the construction.

I think they meant the 3rd phase of the wall

"Niemand hat die Absicht eine Mauer zu errichten. (Nobody has the intention to build a wall.)" ~ Walter Ulbricht, shortly before the wall was built.

Ah, Walter Ulbrich, the Second-worst dictator Germany has ever seen. A lot of people don't remember him, for the same reason that no one knows what Buzz Aldrin said when he stepped on the moon. He (Ulbricht) did beat down peaceful protests with frikkin tanks tho

Me too. Its an emotional fucking story.

Nice catch

and also as graffiti on the wall

@@aednil You're right I can't believe I missed that!

Woop, woop, woop!

@@johncao6516 Thats because you didnt had a plan

It shows how much they "care" for the people...

And Communists accuse the powerful people in other societies of being detached and indifferent to the lives of the people... 😒

@@TopsideCrisis346 The 1% is the same everywhere. They just use different names to confuse the 99%. :)

@@TheAtb85 Maybe. But the 1% in Capitalism got there through competence, diligence, and wisdom. The 1% in Communism got there because they stole what everyone else had worked for. Capitalism at least makes joining the ranks of the 1% a viable goal, y'know, so they won't be just 1% anymore. Communism automatically casts wealth as evil, and then proceeds to wonder how it made everyone equally impoverished. The moral of the story: you get what you pursue.

@@TheAtb85 Truer words were never spoken.

The 80(ish) years of horror would start with a sandwich and end with many

Sandwich? could you elaborate?

Lol

It's hard to judge his reforms. On the one hand, they utterly failed to save the Soviet Union, and in truth hastened its demise. On the other hand, it was likely the best outcome, as the USSR was likely beyond saving by the time he came to power.

Gorbachev quite possibly saved the world. If he wasn't the premier of the USSR the collapse f the Soviet institutions would have been a hundred times more bloody.

I feel like it would've been quiet interesting to see a USSR where his reforms were actually put into place without collapsing the entire country. I'm not some Soviet fanboy, but its cool to think about

Ich bin Berliner

😂

Custard fried dough ball

The DMZ when it falls,Will probably be the greatest thing in the whatever decade

It would be a public service for America but it would need to be in like 10 parts.

We're rooting for you!

Bismarck is Walpole

Well sledgehammers have iron in them and even Bismarck wouldn't scoff at sweat instead of blopd so yeah

And a Walpole license plate

@@acebalistic1358 Thank you. I was not awake enough when watching this to figure out why I had a lightbulb moment over the plate. xD

@@Cemi_Mhikku no problem

justin thomas Pink Floyd’s Mother

Americans always have a lot of trouble differentiating IE from EI, i found.

hmmmm yes i too like licking the boot

@@infamedepatates2502 Admittedly, East Germany was a Communist state with all the messed up economics involved, and the Stasi were one of if not the worst secret police on the planet. I am not defending that. Yet the reunification was effectively done on West Germany's terms. East German currency was canceled soon after with little to no recompense, many jobs in the East flat out disappeared, and the West Germans just bought out everything and ran things their way, shutting out East Germany. For a good sense of what Ostalgie means, I'd recommend watching 'Goodbye Lenin', a great German movie that covers the reunification period.

It's absolutely delusional nostalgia, but that's more symptomatic than causal; as it's exacerbating a pre-existing situation that...let's say "could have been better handled"...rather than the root cause of why 30 years on, the east continues to lag so far behind the rest of country by so many metrics. The reunification process was certainly much smoother than similar events/processes have been elsewhere and I'm not suggesting that the west has done nothing to help make up for the hole that 40 years of repression put us in...but that doesn't stop the results from feeling awfully punitive to an oppressed people -- which is what the citizenry of the DDR had been for a generation -- even if we're no longer oppressed. Especially to people who haven't been able to take advantage of reunification / thrived in the places they emigrated to, and so feel even more marginalized by the current system than they actually are. It's sick but the way our species uses other people as measuring sticks for our own lives has this paradoxical effect where the universality of how the DDR screwed everyone except for the people that us plebs would never meet, made people less-frustrated/more-content with being screwed. Whereas after 30 years of people seeing folks around them starting to thrive once no longer screwed as hard by the system -- or worse, taking advantage of the system to thrive -- they started feeling more like they were being singled out and so got a lot more frustrated by conditions that are objectively better than the conditions that they had been content enough with when they felt like 'at least everyone else is getting screwed too, and it's not just me.' I suspect that this phenomenon is why so many revolutions have occurred when conditions started to improve following a bottoming-out point, rather than when everyone needs to "come together because we're all screwed." But I dunno if there's any compelling research on that.

Yep. And many East Germans lost their jobs and homes after the fall. A fairly recent study found that 57% of people who lived in the GDR want it to return. The Stazi was bad (Obviously) and the GDR obviously had its problems, but it wasn’t some horrible hell like people tend to think.

@@benjaminvonstein Actually, what you wrote reminded me of something from Easy Rider: ".... But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em." George Hanson/Jack Nicholson; Easy Rider

you mean the things described were the only things that happened?

Oh I know *REEDACTED* happened in that year

Well yes because of course it was. East Germany was a failed state. Furthermore it had been a tyrannical puppet state of the USSR. Kinda hard to argue for keeping any of its institutions around when a big chunk of the population had spent decades wanting to flee.

Yeah, the aftermath was handled very poorly politically and economically. The mentioned brain drain continued in the years after, as basically all of east german industries were subjected to hostile takeover by west german companies, who had no interest in keeping any competition around. Many jobs were lost and now, three decades later, salaries and pensions still haven't reached the same level as in the west. The east germans that stayed are angry, rightfully so, and start voting national-socialist again (less rightfully so). It's a total shitshow.

Considering that East German Communist government actually had to build a 12 foot wall to keep their people in because life under capitalism is simply better, it is a strange form of annexation indeed.