Learn about the MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9uIgLVpt6qqn6s.html
@zachbocchino55013 жыл бұрын
This question has nothing to do with the video but I can't get any results and thought I'd ask. Where can I find myself a ww2 Dutch uniform? and if there are online militaria stores that make or sell them do they ship outside of the Netherlands? I can't seem to find any and or make my own becuase I can't find any good uniforms that look similar to the Dutch Uniforms.
@daveberntson40813 жыл бұрын
@@rosesprog1722 Thank you for your comment. I recently saw a video which gave information on Molotov-Ribbenthrop Pact. In that video, it was focused on the "secret protocols" of the Pact. Unfortunately, I could not understand these secret protocols, which were discovered in American archives, and, eventually produced in Russia as well. It was suggested that these discoveries were a big part of the eventual break up of the ussr.
@adamradziwill3 жыл бұрын
edition: Western Belarus (BPR) and Ukraine , and Bielastok
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
@@el_Litwin Still a debate...
@05KAR3 жыл бұрын
Criminally underrated channel.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Feel free to share :)
@anonymousdetective37862 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@David-oo9ip3 жыл бұрын
Can we just take a second to appreciate the amount of work that went into this video and channel?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks! :)
@kenbaumann5973 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle Would you be able to dedicate a whole video to Katyn ? Thank you. Great research
@farajaraf3 жыл бұрын
We took 8 minutes and 44 seconds to appreciate it all.
@mikefay56983 жыл бұрын
This was simply anti Soviet Junk. The Author should think that without the Red Army's victory in WW2. Holland would have suffered incorporation into Nazi Germany. Nice rail tracks though!
@Twisted_utopia3 жыл бұрын
I love this channel
@gaditya46253 жыл бұрын
This is one of my most favorite topics, well framed video mate. In my view Poland is one of the most difficult to defend terrain, for the past 200 years, it was only fully independent for very less time. After Soviet collapse did Poland achieve its complete independence. No wonder their national song says "Poland is not lost yet"
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply!
@rabidrabbits9258 Жыл бұрын
i bealive the sweedes held polish lands for about 200 years and even ukrainian lands for 50 :)
@jiritichy7967 Жыл бұрын
Jeste Polska nezginiela.
@johnryder17133 жыл бұрын
Thank you Stefan for helping us to remember the terrible times for the brave people of Poland
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply!
@_MegasAlexandros_3 жыл бұрын
Hi, im french-polish and your Chanel is very good, you speak a lot about poland history, its rare and i appreciate. Thanks you 👍
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Welcome to the channel. There is much about Poland to be found.
@_MegasAlexandros_3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle but can you make french subtitles please
@ulvjakt15323 жыл бұрын
Highly underrated channel. Between you and Mark Felton, I can't get enough content
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Feel free to share :)
@mind-blowing_tumbleweed2 жыл бұрын
Mark Felton steals his content and never shows his sources
@luxembourgishempire28263 жыл бұрын
Very interesting topic. And very well done video! Keep it up!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Cheers! :)
@samleone26673 жыл бұрын
Yes keep up the good work
@robertbennett99493 жыл бұрын
The Soviet Union in 1939 advanced westwards to the Versailles Treaty border of Poland That is the present eastern border of Poland and it is called the Curzon Line...give or take a few kilometres.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Indeed, the current borders are like that. Only Bialystok was returned to Poland after WW2.
@tomaszzap95743 ай бұрын
Well, Curzon line had several versions and was based generally on ethnic borders (which were very vague and population was mostly mixed). Still in most of version of Curzon line Lviv and Grodno were on the Polish side. I mean that current eastern border of Poland is a Curzon line with lots of corrections in favour of the Soviet Union. Besides Curzon line was not a part of The treaty of Versaille. Soviet Russia was not even present at the peace conference. They only signed separate peace treaty with Germany i Brest-Litovsk several months before...
@Digmen13 жыл бұрын
very well done It was so sad what happened to all those Polish people. I am British and ashamed of how Britain and France did not invade Germany in 1939!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply! Actually, there is a video on that topic. I didn't make it. I recommend it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5yTeMirzuC-Ypc.html
@stephengoodwin64033 жыл бұрын
it was no better under the Soviets for those poor people,in some cases it was even worse
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@Artur_M.3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for spreading the knowledge about this topic!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
@Cjnw3 жыл бұрын
Especially the #Katyń Massacre!
@johnh.tuomala43793 жыл бұрын
Needless to say, this is never mentioned in US ( public) schools. Everyone knows that the Germans invaded Poland from the west, but It's rare to find anyone who knows that almost at the same time, the Soviets invaded Poland from the east. That was why Poland collapsed as quickly as it did. It was "caught in a vise". One would think that a nation of 40 million people could have held out longer, and if they'd had only the German to fight, they most certainly would have.
@islamgaziev17173 жыл бұрын
Hope one day everyone connected to communist crimes will be also tried.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Most of them are dead by now.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
What about capitalists?
@jcrass23613 жыл бұрын
What about the crimes of liberalism? What about the people that starve and die in our market based economy today?
@islamgaziev17173 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle True, but also you know many people glorify communism-stalinism these days.
@islamgaziev17173 жыл бұрын
@@jcrass2361 I never said that liberals are good or naything of this way. By saying something is bad, doesn't mean something else is good. Bad thing remains bad irrespective of whether other things are good or bad. Shall also say maybe as a system communism isn't bad, but what was in 30-50 in Soviet Union was bad.
@nikkibaugher24272 жыл бұрын
Poland was the "Red Headed Step-daughter" of Europe, but they refused to be the "victim"...this is why Poland is respected in the US, while France is reviled.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
I understand.
@jakubiszon64953 жыл бұрын
Respect for saying "Lwów". We hear the things like "We say Danzig because that's how the city was called at the time" from people who would only refer to Lwów as Lviv - You know, because they're historically accurate :)
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I do. Thanks for pointing out, Jakub!
@Cjnw3 жыл бұрын
It is actually *L'viv* , the Ukrainian has it as #Львів!
@goscodfilmow3 жыл бұрын
@@Cjnw Humans say Lwów. "l'vyv" is for nazis and banderites
@mikemancuso25263 жыл бұрын
My Polish relatives told me terribles stories about it. Greetings from Canada.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@igorbrille82223 жыл бұрын
The Sovjets deported 1and a half million Polish to Siberia. After the German invasion they became 'Allied' and many made their way back through Iran which was occupied by England and Sovjet Union.On 18 August 41 the Polish Army was formed in Sovjet Union,more than 120 000 Soldiers were armed and formed the Anders Army to join the British forces. 18000 civilians were send to India,Mexico and so on
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Didn't know Poles went to Mexico.
@Christmas-dg5xc3 жыл бұрын
The Nazis attacked Poland on 9/1/1939, and the Soviets attacked on 9/17. This must be the stupidest thing the Nazis ever did, apart from later declaring war on the US. There otherwise may not have been a war with the west at all. How were the Nazis not aware of the risk of being seen as having "started WWII" by being the first to attack? I have rarely seen this talked about.
@anonymebreze42593 жыл бұрын
I dont get it either maybe a big plan in the background to destroy germany
@E.Wolfdale3 жыл бұрын
Hitler without firing a shot take over the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia with Poland was different, but France and England did not have the means to wage an offensive war or even have an idea how to help Poland, they just waited whats next.
@Christmas-dg5xc3 жыл бұрын
@@E.Wolfdale "France and England did not have the means to wage an offensive war..." Not right away, they didn't, but the Nazis still had no use for such a war. Why did they risk it, when they could have attacked later than, or at least at the same time as, the Soviets? Right away, Goering openly said, "if we lose this war..." See toward the bottom of this account: www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ultimatum.htm
@E.Wolfdale3 жыл бұрын
@@Christmas-dg5xc German plan was crazy(suicidal), and perhaps that surprise element made them so successful until 41.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Hindsight...
@xvsj-s2x3 жыл бұрын
Great research and narrative 👍
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, mate!
@CHAR0N_193 жыл бұрын
how is it possible that you have 40k subs and still just such a low amount of views for this high quality content? wish you the best!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@rejekt23 жыл бұрын
I am German and live in Białystok, I go to train my dog exactly where you were standing (behind the Sybir Memorial Museum). It's amazing the work you are putting into these videos (who comes to Białystok???), really enjoying your content. Thanks! Thankfully we live in other times nowadays, you are helping us to remember to appreciate what we have.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for your reply, Thomas!
@villanovakid843 жыл бұрын
I recently discovered your channel. I thoroughly enjoy your videos.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Great! Welcome to the channel.
@mikehydropneumatic25833 жыл бұрын
Another great hustle!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
👍
@rebralhunter60693 жыл бұрын
Yo Stefan, I love all ofbthese videos on Poland. Really cool to see people covering some lesser know events. Do you have an idea of what country is next or if you do another country like this? Id imagine its a lot of work.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your message. This autumn I would have went to Prague but that's off the table... I have no concrete plans. I might cover some stuff in my own country: the Netherlands.
@E.Wolfdale3 жыл бұрын
If you are interested in these topics, take an interest in ethnic cleansing in Soviet Russia. By 1941, hundreds of thousands of people from various minorities had been displaced from the 1930s. Only in the years 37-38 '100.000 people were murdered and 150.000 were resettled as part of the "Polish NKVD operation" - Польская операция НКВД.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I've heard of it. Many people groups were targeted by Stalin. In a few weeks more about these.
@T3nMiDGET57113 жыл бұрын
I feel bad for the Polish they had their country Annexed/Occupied or a puppet state into late 1990s
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Italy, france, greece? No? Never heard americans making up the election there, or using violence against the voters? No? Okey
@T3nMiDGET57113 жыл бұрын
Nikita Prigodin What do you mean I an confused nor am I American I am from guerro
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
T3nMiDGET5711 Your saying that Poland was a puppet regime from 1948 to 1990, and most probably you don’t know that the Italian, french and greece elections were falsified too.
@T3nMiDGET57113 жыл бұрын
Nikita Prigodin Okay thanks for clarifying
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Poland suffered greatly indeed.
@pacthug4life3 жыл бұрын
Contrary to the popular opinion Eastern Poland was inhabited in large portion by Poles, in 1939 lands annexed by USSR were inhabited by: Białystok Voivodeship Poles 71,1% Wilno Voivodeship: Poles 59,7%, Lithuanians 5,24% Lwów Voivodeship: Poles 57%, Ukrainians 33% Nowogródek Voivodeship: Poles 54%, Belorussians 37,7% Tarnopol Voivodeship: Poles 44,98%, Ukrainians 49,98% Polesie Voivodeship: Poles and Poleshuks: 28,7%, Blearusians 42,6% Wołyń Voivodeship: Poles: 16,8%, Ukrainians 68,4% Also Stalin "fighting" for well being of Ukrainians after Holodomor is highest level of hypocrisy
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. Oh, people, you make me laugh. “Stalin made holodomor” witnesses is here. Now, I’ve seen it all.
@pyotrbagration24383 жыл бұрын
Why did the Ukrainians massacre the Poles in Volyn if it was sunshine and rainbows in Poland?
@pacthug4life3 жыл бұрын
@@Mounstrum There are two books you should read, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum and Starving Ukraine: the holodomor by Serge Cipko. Holodomor is very well documented, your bias just doesn't let you keep an open mind. Unfortunately I see more and more revisionism coming from Russians after the recent change in historical narration forced upon Russian historians by Putin.
@pacthug4life3 жыл бұрын
@@pyotrbagration2438 I don' know, you tell me since it is your claim
@islamgaziev17173 жыл бұрын
Great material. Thank you. Very important to show people that Soviets were not very good either. That is also what also was interesting to me as why Nazi's attacking Poland is bad, and Soviets attack was neglected in the end neglected.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Maybe if back then the “attack” was neglected, there was a reason for it
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Islâm! Glad you found the video interesting.
@russochypriota3 жыл бұрын
There were tensions (and even open conflict and according to some, genocide) between Poles and its Eastern neighbours in the inter-war years, so it was a grey area..
@justynagorka39723 жыл бұрын
West needed Stalin on their side at any prize.
@justynagorka39723 жыл бұрын
@@Mounstrum what do you call attacking a country, murdering and deporting its citizens and forcing an unwanted regime on them?
@marcelgroen62563 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing again of this partly unknown piece of history, Stefan. (how) can we help increase your viewers?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Feel free to share my content! :)
@DavidJones-oc3up3 жыл бұрын
Another great video. I live in the Czech Republic, and knew a couple from Lviv. The wife told me she has Polish relatives even though she and her husband are Ukrainian. I started to visit Lviv two years ago, because I want to see the city, and the couple offered to contact their friends to look after me, but my money was stretched rather thin and I couldn’t. With US passports not welcomed in so many places now, I think I will wait a bit. But I enjoyed your video.😀
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your message!
@filipkogut85333 жыл бұрын
Dude, the American passport is one of the strongest in the world, you don't need a visa to go to Ukraine.
@lindapolle16652 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle I am in the same position as this person. Perhaps one day you will take a tour group of us who care.
@Tsvenom61463 жыл бұрын
Wow great content why are you so underrated this is just sad...btw love ur content
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for your reply, feel free to share of course! :)
@ELARTEDELAMOTO3 жыл бұрын
The territory given to the Polish Republic after WWI and taken by the Red Army in 1939 was part of the Russian Empire during WWI and given to the Germans in an exchange for them not to bother the new Soviet revolution, called the Pact of Brest-Litovsk. Lenin sent Trotsky to deal a pact of no aggression in exchange to give that part of the Russian Empire. After several attempts to came into a Treaty of military assistance between England, France, Poland and Russia, against a possible attack by Germany. the soviets came into a Non Aggression Pact with Germany to by time, for what it was evidently to come, the war against the USSR. Such agreement was called the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The pact agreed for the Russians to recuperate the Brest-Litovsk line and incorporate it into the Soviet border. The whole idea was to create a buffer space for the imminent attack (remember that the Russians fought against the Nazis in 1937 helping the Spanish Republic against Franco)
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
More on the first paragraph in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7iFfJd43cq0d2w.html
@mammuchan89233 жыл бұрын
The hapless Poles, always caught between a rock and a hard place, with the worst yet to come😿. Great work as always Stefan👌👌
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
So poor, that the even partition Czechoslovakia and aren’t allowing the soviets to pass through there territory so that soviet could help Czechs. Do you know how polish government reacted on soviet wish to help Czechs? The said that if the soviet would try to help czechs by passing through there territory, they will declare war on soviets. WAR ON SOVIETS IF THEY WOULD TRY TO SAVE CZECHS AND SLOVAKS INDEPENDENCE.
@E.Wolfdale3 жыл бұрын
@@Mounstrum What planet are you living on? It is ridiculous for any country to agree to march through its territory by troops of an openly hostile country.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Wolfdale E8400 “Openly hostile country” are you seriously? Have you even read my comment, i wrote that the intentions of soviets was TO HELP CZECHOSLOVAKIA FROM BEING PARTION BY GERMANY, HUNGARY AND POLAND. And by a very “unknown” reason, polish government didn’t allow soviets to help Czechoslovakia. Soviet union throughout all of 1930s were trying to make a alliance in eastern europe to neutralise hitlers aggression(read about Eastern Pact), based on mutual assistance system. Soviets were trying to negotiate with poles, but they always broke the negotiations for such an alliance. And you still claim soviets to be “aggressive”
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
You're Spying Does it any how change the decision making reasons of polish government? No, it isn’t. And don’t tell me about this “poor poland” that was “forced” to partition Czechoslovakia. They were betrayed by western allies, but not soviets. Which were sooo aggressive that didn’t went into war with poland even though those were threatened them with war FOR HELPING THEIR ALLY
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
You're Spying Little entente wasn’t a thing when Munich betrayal was happening.
@adrianzajac46752 жыл бұрын
Thank you Stefan for your work ❤️🇵🇱👍
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thay, Adrian!
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
It is inappriopriate in 8:15 to called the soviet entry “liberation”. In reality it was another occupation that this time lasted until 1993 when soviet troops were withdrawn. This occupation was very bloody in its first decade or so.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Please try to understand facial expressions. My facial expression says "liberation", which means: Soviets claimed it was liberation, but in reality it wasn't.
@jurkoning2243 жыл бұрын
Keep the good work going! Lekker bezig!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Bedankt!
@dennisfischer48383 жыл бұрын
Red Army was horrible
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, sure. There army which fought and died for the ideas of equality, and believing that all the people in the world, independently from there race or gender, are made equal, which fought against the regime that believed that people were made unequal and that some of them are even are unworthy to live, is BAD.
@saulenfischbearn74703 жыл бұрын
@@Mounstrum You are indeed very intelligent
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Säulenfisch [Bearn] Is it sarcasm? If it isn’t, than thanks.
@dennisfischer48383 жыл бұрын
Red Army and US have this in common claim “equality “ treat you like 💩
@dennisfischer48383 жыл бұрын
I know the Axis comited atrocities but the red Army is equally guilty
@LeftistUprising2 жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of yours and the Cold War Channel. Your knowledge base is amazing.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Great!
@713devereux3 жыл бұрын
I have never really have ever heard a a good reason why France and England didn't declare war on Russia as they did with Germany. I realize that France and England probably had few military options other than blockading maybe some Black Sea ports, Archangel and perhaps Vladivostok in the Pacific.
They almost did declare war on the Sovjetunion. In June 1941 the Germans found documents in Charite sur Loire which included plans to bomb the sovjet caucasian oil industry via Syria/Irak by air. But due to the rapid collapse of France this plan was never carried out. It would have changed the course of WW2.
@prakashghumaliya20023 жыл бұрын
Thank you for video sir 👏👏👏🌺🌺🌺💐💐💐
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply!
@cheechierocks2 жыл бұрын
My great grandad worked at Bialystok train station during this time. He lived in Slonim but left during the war when he heard information that German soldiers were entering schools and abducting children, to take back to Germany and work as housemaids. He worried for his daughters and it simply wasn’t safe for the whole family to stay anymore. I think that was around 1941 or 42 …they left the area and travelled across Austria into North Italy, back into Austria, when it got unsafe, then back into Italy and was allowed on a ship for entry into the U.K. Quite a remarkable story really, tho, I think lost to history. Good video. Thank you.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this with us.
@yuliaschannel62882 жыл бұрын
Wow I was borne in Slonim. My grandparents are from Poland. Grandmother was borne and lived in Bialystok. I live in Sydney Australia now.
@andrewegan70113 жыл бұрын
The painter seems tame by comparison.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
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@rudolfkraffzick64211 ай бұрын
Good documentary! Missing: the overall losses (complete number of killed persons, including those who died in the Gulag) of polish population in sovjet occupied Poland until the Wehrmacht occupied this territory. You should have mentioned the NKWD massacre in Lvow in late June 1941 with thousands of victims.
One main thing people struggle to grasp. This was a war between classes, borders were secondary. People on the Eastern Poland (previously rus lands) were mostly peasants that were oppressed by the poles for centuries, subjected to polonisation, and were basically their serfs. Lithuania too. Bolshevik movement actually started in these lands, with local peasants gladly joining Red Army to get from the oppressors boot. Once you comprehend that, the whole polish suffering narrative crumbles.
@HistoryHustle6 ай бұрын
Pro communist narrative.
@esvedra24196 ай бұрын
@@HistoryHustle Thanks for your response. I enjoy watching your channel. While Stalin's expansionist policies led him to annex more land than justified, it's important to note that much of the territory in question was originally inhabited by Rusyns with historical ties to Kievan Rus', albeit being temporarily occupied by Polish and periodically falling under the rule of the Tsar. The Polish acquired this territory back during the Riga Treaty, and they also unfairly annexed Vilnius, historically Lithuanian region. During the interwar period, the local population endured forced Polonization, language suppression, and exploitative labour conditions, as extensively documented in literature (incl. belarussian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian). Stalin's actions, while controversial, can be understood from another perspective. It's worth noting that many national minorities in the region were drawn to communist ideas and actively participated in movements for equality and social change. Consequently, numerous divisions of the Red Army in the area were composed of Ukrainians and Belarusians for a reason, and Lithuania was somewhat divided. It's just worth recognizing the nuances that Polish problems with soviets may stem from their own imperialistic ambitions, challenging the notion of their innocence in the complex historical context.
@HistoryHustle6 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@wojtekpolska10133 жыл бұрын
Well i guess gulags were better than concentration camps soviets also didn't oppress specific ethnic groups as much as germans did
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
No. I believe some Gulags had near-extermination capacities.
@semkoops3 жыл бұрын
Ik krijg het idee dat je tijdens je vakantie in Polen en Duitsland continu voor ons filmpjes hebt geschoten! Hopelijk heb je ook een beetje kunnen uitrusten en kunnen genieten? Zoals altijd, goede video's!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Er zijn 15 video's geschoten. Maar omdat ik alles goed gescript had en de locaties al vast stonden, was het camera opzetten, geluid checken, filmen en inpakken. Was een topreis verder. Nog 7 reisvideo's moeten online komen.
@rainaldempire94933 жыл бұрын
can you make a video about emirate of north caucasus, in the next short lived states episode please. It was in north caucasia Reigon during the russian civil war ...
@rainaldempire94933 жыл бұрын
Also can you make a video about greco turkish war
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I do mention it in an upcoming video.
@agrameroldoctane_663 жыл бұрын
September of 1939... when socialists from Germany and socialists from Soviet Union together attacked and split young Republic of Poland.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
National socialist from Germany, communists from the USSR I'd say, but yes, that's where it came down to.
@agrameroldoctane_663 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle yep... and to be fair Poland was at that time ruled by military who grabbed power by coup, and even had their own concentration camp for political oposition.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Yes. But this oppression doesn't come close to that of its neighbours.
@agrameroldoctane_663 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle agreed.
@tomk37323 жыл бұрын
One has to point out that there is no nationality called "Jewish" even today, so Jews in Poland were predominately Poles, just with different religion then most of Poles.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Interesting point. I've noticed that historians often talk about Poles and (Polish) Jews as different groups. Perhaps this is to differentiate the fact that Jews were more targetted. Perhaps this also has to do with the fact the Jews from Eastern Europe were less assimilated and formed a distinct group. It's not only religious. Ethnically you can also be Jewish. If it was only religious Jews get swear this off and escape prosecution, but this wasn't the case.
@adamradziwill3 жыл бұрын
edition: Western Belarus (BPR) and Ukraine , and Bielastok
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
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@ThatGuyNamedR0b3 жыл бұрын
My Great grandfather Stanislaw and Great Grandmother Sophie came to America from Wasiliszki (then Poland) which has made doing Genealogical research different because I just learned that my Ancestors home is now Belarus
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I see, thanks for sharing.
@horsefish25253 жыл бұрын
Probably this is the same place where the great Polish singer and songwriter Czesław Niemen come from: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKx-q6SX3pzIko0.html
@adamben-shimon75132 жыл бұрын
This is a great video, as always. I would like to know what happened to the Polish people that lived in the territory that the USSR took away from Poland.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Adam. More of that here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rt54o5R7vdzOlYE.html
@presenttomato10603 жыл бұрын
I would love to see the growth statistics for this channel, I remember when there were only a few comments on each video!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
It's amazing. Early 2020 I had 5,000 subs.
@haroldgodwinson8323 жыл бұрын
Very interesting.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@jasonharryphotog3 жыл бұрын
good video thanks
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for you reply, Jason!
@fergar92642 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure the Bielorrusians dont like this video , 1,5 million had to abandon their homes when Poland took over their lands after the brest-litosky peace . in very conflict always there are forgotten refugees . Anyway I never seen so much work in youtube channel , the best history channel in youtube congratulations
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
@gandhithegreat3283 жыл бұрын
Soviets in 1944: Don’t worry Poles we are here to save you from the Fascists! Poles: Oh yay, my hero...
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Not a liberation indeed.
@claudermiller2 жыл бұрын
Poland, "here come the Russians, here come the Germans, here come the Russians again. We'll survive this!" Americans, "I can't breathe wearing this mask. I'm going to die." Lolololol
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
lol
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
Aside from a few moments where I wouldn’t agree with the author it is a good video. It discusses a subject that is little known in the West. Unfortunately it also perpetuates some common in the West cliches and taboos about the subject because this subject can become very, very sensitive among certain groups in USA. In Poland it is discussed freely but it causes a lot of tension and heated debates between countries of Poland and Israel.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I see.
@mikespike39623 жыл бұрын
Stefan, Recently I read that youtubers get paid more money if viewers watch the advertisements for longer before "skip ad". Is this true for you? I have been letting the ads play out for youtubers I like so that you gain more. If this is true please mention it in a video as a way to passively support you. Regards from Wuppertal.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I believe so! Thanks.
@zarkomodric65093 жыл бұрын
How bout the Polish occupation of parts of Ukraine and the Polish occupation of part of Czechoslovakia?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Sure something for the future. I cover it briefly in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qZ6impainL3DnYk.html
@t.jjohnson63173 жыл бұрын
Great vid. have you ever been to Overloon to militracks? What was the battle of Overloon? Thank-you
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
I've been to that museum as a kid. I cover the battle in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gc1leqh2stqno30.html
@t.jjohnson63173 жыл бұрын
Opps i must have missed ,,i will watch again..and thank-you
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
@johnsnowkumar3593 жыл бұрын
The ethnic Ukrainians in the Soviet Union and ethnic Ukrainians of East Poland claimed that one province in eastern Poland was mostly populated by by ethnic Ukrainians, especially in the years leading up to ww2. this eastern province of Poland, ethnic Ukrainians may have claimed that:: they are the dominant ethnicity in the rural heartland of one eastern province of east Poland prior to ww2, away from the towns. We all agree that Stalin was likely a villain. But he made certain moves in order to appease ethnic Ukrainians, a very powerful ethnicity in the former USSR United Soviet Republics. Such claims of ethical domination in certain areas may not be entirely true, and even Stalin initially had some doubts, with good reason:: If Stalin grabs a province in east Poland and gives it to republic of Ukraine, then the nation of Poland will forever become the enemy of Stalin. In a province in eastern Poland, town populations were supposedly dominated (40 percent) by Poles, while surrounding villages were populated by almost entirely by ethnic Ukrainians supposedly, according to another likely somewhat true claim. Towns of East Poland had 40 percent Poles and 30 percent ethnic Ukrainians, supposedly in east Poland province. All ethnic Ukrainians of the two countries (USSR and Poland) were able to arm-twist Stalin to do what they felt was the right thing (for ethnic Ukrainians) to do:::: to grab eastern most province of Poland and give it to republic of Ukraine. So:: ethnic Ukrainians (OF BOTH COUNTRIES) were no angels in this land grabbing part of the history of that area. A study of Lviv city now in Ukraine, may clarify the matter on ethnicity of the area around Lviv. Towns of on east Poland province had more Poles (40 percent), they claimed, while surrounding villagers were nearly all Ukrainians, the claims went by ethnicity. There is a twist: For instance one in 5 supposedly ethnic Ukrainians of east Poland prior to ww2 claimed that they were actually ethnic Russians that time in east Poland. . No one knows who is telling the truth. Similarly villages outside of Lviv and all of east Poland was predominantly supposedly ethnic Ukrainian, they claimed. It's besides the point that one in five ethnic Ukrainians of East Poland also claimed to be an ethnic Russian in that area currently administered by Poland after ww1, and given to Ukraine during ww2. Ethnic Ukrainians of the Soviet Union pressured Stalin to sign an agreement with Nazi Germany so that east Poland becomes part of Ukraine. This was supposedly a Ukrainian dominated area of eastern Poland where the ethnic Ukrainians claimed lived in nearly all rural villages. Eastern Poland, was heavily Ukrainian, as claimed by ethnic Ukrainians.There is no proof though about which ethnicity dominated which area of that one province which went to republic of Ukraine. Finally Stalin had no choice but to act (gift the area to republic of Ukraine), if he were to stay in power, as ethnic Ukrainians were a politically powerful ethnic group in the former Soviet Union. Why did Stalin have no choice? Because he was an ethnic Georgian and not an ethnic Ukrainian. Later after acquiring this area, ethnic Ukrainians of east Poland falsely claimed to be the victims, well after acquiring that province in east Poland.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't able to reply earlier. Thanks again for taking the time to write this down.
@bigboizism3 жыл бұрын
What is that body armour that the Soviet troops are wearing at 8:03?
@generalleedle68833 жыл бұрын
Soviet sapper /combat engineers
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
More about that in this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNyUbMaI39DQqas.html
@lindapolle16652 жыл бұрын
The Russians made a mission of trying to "russify " the bordering states of Poland. To fight back Poles told this joke: A town was given a big memorial statue of Soviet heroes. The town's people hated it so much, that they would dump garbage there. Finally a guard had to be stationed there to protect the memorial. So, Polish wife had to go to the police station to get her husband out of jail. Police commisar asked the wife, "Do you know what your husband did? He went up to the guard, and ask if he could buy the statue!" Wife answered seeming to ask for the police official's help. " Yes, yes, I have this problem with him. He is always buying junk!"
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
lol
@dalekeys74472 жыл бұрын
God bless Poland
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
The Poles are better of today :)
@danielm812 жыл бұрын
YT algorithm that is keeping this channel so underrated and limits its reach to the broader public should... Well... This algorithm should be sent to one of those NKVD prisons. For a vacations of course. And there there is a very professional NKVD animations team - they'll do some funny games with the algorithm, and eventually the algorithm will say everything: reasons, methods, and every some names... 😄😄😄
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Interesting comparison! Thanks for the compliment. Feel free to share my content and make the channel grow!
@lessthanpinochet3 жыл бұрын
This is probably a very controversial thing to say but Communism under Stalin scares me way way more than the Third Reich. A lot of people in the West are completely ignorant on the many atrocities and crimes of Stalin and I can't help but feel that the hammer and sickle would be considered a hate symbol on the same level as the swastika if WW2 was fought against the Soviet Union and they lost.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
As for western Europeans we would be "better off" under the Reich, yet for people in the East and other people the Germans of that time deemed inferior it would be another story. Under Stalin everyone had to risk to be deported...
@Boyar300AV3 жыл бұрын
''Soviet Occupation of Eastern Poland'' did you mean liberation of Western Russia? Poles annexed those lands in 1920's they used Russian Civil War.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
No, there were no Russians living there.
@Boyar300AV3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle Russian Empire as well as Soviet Union was land of Russians and Belarusians and they are culturally connected to Russia than Catholic Poland.
@Boyar300AV3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle By the way those Belarusian areas were joined to already existing Soviet Belarusian Soviet Republic. So you should make some research.
@Juan-wx5xz3 жыл бұрын
@@Boyar300AV Belarussians and Ukrainians are ethnic Russians, so you are correct👍
@Digmen13 жыл бұрын
Its amazing that so many of the buidlings are still there in 2020!
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
True. The Poles did rebuilt much very well. Contrary to the rebuilding in Germany.
@Rose-zf9md Жыл бұрын
17.09.1939 🇵🇱 Moj Dziadek ze strony Mamy Jan Zyzniewski zostal zabrany przez Sowietow z domu rodzinnego - Plebance (dzisiaj Bialorus) K. Wilna. Jego los jest do dzisiaj nie znany. Zamordowany albo wywieziony na Syberie?
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
83 years ago..
@AndreasAntoniusMaria3 жыл бұрын
Inhoud zeer sterk, helaas vreselijk dik Nederlandsch accent. Als je daaraan gaat werken zou het kunnen dat dit kanaal een groter bereik krijgt.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Nah, ben al ruim tevreden met mijn 80K subs.
@AndreasAntoniusMaria3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle qua inhoud goed genoeg voor meer dan miljoen subs, ga werken aan je Engelse uitspraak en je zult het bereiken! Maar dan moet je echt aan je extreme vette Hollandsche accent gaan werken!
@user-le8md3xv5m2 жыл бұрын
From Russia with love and slavery
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Pretty much yes. Without the love I think..
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
Jewish population FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY was maybe 8 percent, like you say, or probably somewhat higher. However, Eastern Poland, including the city of Bialystok, was heavily Jewish. Many localities were over 50 percent or almost entirely Jewish. This composition was very significant during the soviet invasion for the reasons I mentioned in my other post that was mysteriously deleted.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
YT does delete comments and I understand why. I get this comment a lot. I always quote Orlando Figes (A People's Tragedy): "It must never be forgotten that while many revolutionaries were Jews, relatively few Jews were revolutionaries. It was a myth of the anti-Semites that all the Jews were Bolsheviks." Your comment comes across an insinuating semi-antisemitic assertion I'd like to distance myself from.
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
At 6:15 you submitted a soviet propaganda movie that showed how soviet “justice” system worked. The soviets mentioned names of various people in the system and they were all Jewish. In my comment I didn’t say all Jewish people were soviet collaborators, but that the system was heavily Jewish. Exact numbers are hard to establish. The debate on complicity of various groups in various crimes is still going on. One of the recent chapters of it was a joint Russian and Israeli historical conference in Israel in January 2019 to which the Polish president was invited as a guest but not a speaker where the soviet and Jewish sides of the story were being pushed with Putin and Israeli officials as speakers. Ultimately the Polish president refused the invitation and did not attend. This shows you how raw these wounds are to this very day. Also it seems it is so easy to accuse any group of misdeeds these days. But the exempted groups would be minorities. The only thing is if we censor debate like this we distort it and cannot get to the bottom of things. At the same time the Jewish side doesn’t hesitate to hurl accusations left and right towards many Eastern European nationalities or groups.
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
And in the case of Poland those accusations are followed by demands of multi billion dollar monetary compensation. Mike Pompeo discussed these issues with Polish officials during his visits to Warsaw in recent years much to the indignation of the Polish side. So, I think, quite by accident and probably not intentionally you touched a very sensitive and important subject. But discussion of it should be open and honest. Even if someone disagrees with his opponent. My question is can you talk to YT to restore my deleted comment?
@eralasch3 жыл бұрын
Well, they had to give Brest, Lviv, etc. to the soviets, because the soviets have been allies. Not to insult the polish gyus, they have given them a part of Germany till the Oder river, just instead of the eastern territories they have lost.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Poland was compensated indeed.
@1joshjosh13 жыл бұрын
Once again held my attention more than that Mark F guy. A topic that really matters. Instead of some obscure thing, most likely Nazi German (more popular) that truly doesn't matter.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Great to hear, thanks!
@ConorMcgregor3223 жыл бұрын
What do you have against Mark Felton? He's a great youtuber!
@1joshjosh13 жыл бұрын
@@ConorMcgregor322 Your question is legitimate. A little bit too hyper focussed on the Nazi stuff. Picking random obscure things that really have no impact on anything. Maybe it's even I'm jealous. Super smart guy that's good at something. I don't know. Something about it all is bugging me lately. I know he's good.
@ConorMcgregor3223 жыл бұрын
@@1joshjosh1 He focuses on the more uknown stories of ww2, something we should all learn about.
@1joshjosh13 жыл бұрын
@@ConorMcgregor322 I know
@albertarthurparsnips51413 жыл бұрын
I’m a huge fan of your apparently endless, beautifully produced work,..to mention but one deeply impressive aspect, you manage to provide us, frequently, with contemporary footage a great deal of which I’ve never seen before. Or had a clue about its existence. But with regard to this piece, I can only express a good portion of intense disappointment. Frankly speaking, your veering off into some the crudest anti-Soviet hysterics sounded frighteningly close to the Russophobia of far right fanatics in Ukraine and Poland. Much of your rhetoric might as well been taken verbatim from ‘ The Black of Communism ‘, or the ravings of the John Birch Society.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your honest reply. I did not use ‘The Black of Communism ‘ as a source. Nor do I support 'far right fanatics'. Most of my information I got from well acclaimed historians. See sources below the video.
@albertarthurparsnips51413 жыл бұрын
History Hustle I apologise if I caused you any aggravation or upset. Frankly speaking, I watch your work on almost daily basis, and adore it ! I have only one request to make of you : I do so wish your marvellous videos were long ( or longer ! ). Would it be at possible for you to talk to your fans for as long as, say, TIK does !? And, no, don’t worry, I’d never expect to do anything as jaw-droppingly long as the North African campaigns ( nine hours ! ), or his Stalingrad series.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Albert Arthur Parsnips The source is in the description, and one of them is pseudo historical “Bloodlands” from Snyader
@albertarthurparsnips51413 жыл бұрын
Nikita Prigodin Yes, you’re right to point out Snyder being continually referred to, as a sort of contemporary Robert Conquest l. I highly recommend Professor Grover Furr’s ruthless dissection of Snyder’s Nazi-leanings in ‘ Bloodlands ‘.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Albert Arthur Parsnips Oh wait, your talking about “Blood lies”? If yes, than this is the exact reason why I criticise this video, there is blood lies to debunk bloodlands
@sochaoracza15062 жыл бұрын
My grandpa fought the Russians.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Where if I may ask?
@Thomas-wn7cl3 жыл бұрын
These videos including national demographics are great. It seems multicultural overlapping areas will always be a battle ground, even if it just an excuse. The Russian Federation annexation of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea comes to mind. The Baltic states also seem to be nervous due to their large Russian minority that the same may happen to them. Colonies in Africa and the Middle East divided ethnic groups and grouped ethnically dissimilar people. The Kurds come mind. Also the ethnic cleansing of the Greeks and Armenians in Turkey, although they were a multi cultural empire not a colony. It makes me wonder if the new focus on neoliberalism, migration, and multiculturalism might not be the best idea if these tend to be the results historically. No doubt this time will be different.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Actually, after WW2 Stalin initiated a proces of homogenization in which (due to the shifting borders, mainly of Germany and Poland) millions of people had to resettle. Now the way this was carried out, was terrible - many people died in this - yet it for example prevented future wars between nations like Germany, Poland and Ukraine.
@_grzehotnik2 жыл бұрын
and people are wondering why poles hate russia
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Think it's obvious.
@rudithedog75343 жыл бұрын
Does KZfaq censor the comments I can't seem to read any of the replies, i click but do not get access to them
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Didn't do it, so it must be the platform.
@trustyjuul48333 жыл бұрын
Will you do history about Poland under forced communism rule in 1945 to 1989? It is not very well known, especially the building and influences left to nowadays like famous Palace of Culture and Science that once was gifted and build by Soviets to Poles. However it's not well known history and I would love to learn more about it.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
In the future yes. I do talk about the Poznan protests in this short video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7OcZZV8mtTQgmg.html
@PlushHIT2 жыл бұрын
Ok, you told what happened, know tell us the bad parts
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
I did.
@abhirajnayal54143 жыл бұрын
I wish u were my history teacher 😂😂
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your reply!
@jeroenkoeleman43483 жыл бұрын
Weer een duidelijke uitleg uiteindelijk zijn zij van de ene knoet overgegaan naar de andere knoet en Stalin had uiteindelijk aan het begin een mooie springplank om verder west waards te gaan
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Er is geen bewijs dat Stalin van plan was West-Europa te veroveren aan het begin van WOII. Zelfs niet later al zou hij opkomend communisme in West-Europa verwelkomen.
@jeroenkoeleman43483 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle maar was het doel niet wereldwijd communisme te verspreiden
@darthplagueis34882 ай бұрын
Here before the pro-Z historical revisionists spam in the comments
@HistoryHustle2 ай бұрын
Video is already some years old...
@darthplagueis34882 ай бұрын
@@HistoryHustle yeah, but there are still other trolls awaiting activation by their zoid master, Zladimir Zutin.
@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available3 жыл бұрын
Lvov, Rovno and Ternopol rightfully belong to Poland, no doubt, and should be returned immediately. But Poland should also take responsibility for the theft of Czechoslovakian lands in 1938 and give them back to the respective countries. On the other hand, formerly German cities, gifted to Poland by Stalin after WW2, don't have to be given back.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Don't think it would be wise to return cities, since barely any Poles live there any longer.
@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle Poles don't live any longer in Lvov, Rovno and Ternopol because of the ethnic cleansing and genocide carried out during German occupation of the Galicia and Volhynia regions by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with the specific objective of preventing the post-war Polish state asserting its sovereignty over those areas. Not returning them to Poland would in effect reward UPA's war crimes.
@Josdamale3 жыл бұрын
There is a bit of naughty nonsense here and misrepresentation. The Belorussians were the majority ethnic group (and had been for centuries) in the areas that were joined to Belorussia in 1939, all the way to Brest. It was only for a short period that Poland had claimed these territories after WW1 from the Russian empire that had not been recognised by the Soviet Union, the successor state. Why are you misrepresenting the ethnic population of Belorussians? This was not rightfully Poland in the first place.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
More about Belarus in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qc17fs-FtNK4moU.html
@lessthanpinochet3 жыл бұрын
Great video. Btw would you consider doing a video on the Kolyma gulag were over 3 million people were exterminated in the gold and lead mines? I think the city of Magadan was founded to transport prisoners there in the 30's.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Love to travel to Magadan someday but not anytime soon I'm afraid. I did visit the former Gulag near Perm. Please check: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKuXfd16yd7Rk2w.html
@lessthanpinochet3 жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustle nice, I'll check that video out.
@jcrass23613 жыл бұрын
Why do videos like this never talk about the situation for the USSR just before WWII. Abandoned by the west, Stalin signs a non aggression pact with Nazi germany. Stalin then, seeing the complete collapse of the military dictatorship inside Poland from German aggression, knowing that the Germans will now be that much closer to Moscow, tries to reason with the poles. But they instead collapse and their leaders flee to Romania. Several thousand Belorussians and Ukrainians live inside eastern Poland after the polish right wing dictatorship conquered these lands in the treaty of 1920. So Stalin occupies eastern Poland. For all it’s faults, the USSR was not some world-conquering empire, Stalin simply saw the writing on the wall. All of these territorial moves in 1939 and 1940 were mitigation’s to the bloodthirsty, fascist Germany, which the West hoped would crush the Soviets. On the western front, the French and British refused to move on Germany, even after its attack into Poland. So much so, the news reported it as the “Sitskrieg” or the “sleepy war”. Edit: just saw you used the Snyder’s “blood lands” as a major source for this video. That is less a tool for actual historians and more a crowbar for western propaganda. It begins on a false premise and continues from there.
@jcrass23613 жыл бұрын
You're Spying so your premise is that the non right wing government of Poland had two international allies (Hungary and Romania) and yet, these two countries were allied to Fascist Germany? Also, the non right wing government joined the Anti-Soviet pact, a pact created by Nazi Germans and its FASCIST allies? Tsk tsk u have to try harder then that comrade
@jcrass23613 жыл бұрын
You're Spying the Hungarians were also the most brutal to the Jews inside their own capital as the Soviets were closing in. Also, no one brings up polish territorial gains from the acquisition of Czech territory. No matter, I’m not that familiar with Romanian politics. You could be correct, but still, if the Polish government wasn’t conservative, they were still more friendly with hitler’s germany that soviet russia. The truth of the matter is, I do not buy into your first premise that Poland was neutral and/or not right wing. I don’t think the actual history aligns with that assumption.
@Kopyrda3 жыл бұрын
" fascist Germany, which the West hoped would crush the Soviets" Oh, so that is why Americans kept supplying the Soviets with Lend-Lease? And why Brits and French declared the war only on Germany in 1939, not the Soviets? " government joined the Anti-Soviet pact" What are you mumbling about, bub? Poles had never joined Anti-Comintern Pact.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
More about the Russian perspective right here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbN8rJeGzMubZoE.html
@daniels12633 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@user-no9eg5ho5c3 жыл бұрын
This guy has a very superficial history. Very loose statement of events. Why this would-be historian did not tell that in September 1939 the red army took only those lands that belonged to Soviet Russia under the Versailles peace Treaty, signed by the victorious countries after the first world war, according to which the Western border of the USSR passed along the so-called Crezon line. But in 1920, Poland, with the support of Britain and France, occupied these territories. At the same time, the poles captured and later destroyed more than 100,000 citizens of the USSR. Let's be objective about history. Let's admit that the death camps are an invention of the Anglo-Saxons, widely used during the Boer war. And before the Nazis in the 20s of the 20th century, death camps were adopted by the poles to destroy the citizens of the USSR.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Lot of anti-Polish anti-Western rambling here. Sorry.
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
It is not true the Polish army was falling apart like he says at 2:05. The Polish army was retreating but not FALLING APART. The plan was to retreat into eastern Poland where large distances, weak network of roads, swampy terrain would allow further effective defense until France and Britain, as Poland’s allies, fulfill their obligations and attack from the West. The coordinated with Germany soviet attack from the east made this plan completely impossible to implement, aided Germany greatly, and effectively ended the war as the Polish army found itself cut off from its reserves in the East. The author, like many Americans, seems to be under the influence of both German and Soviet propaganda that lauded the supposed great superiority of the German army and inferiority of the Polish army. In reality the 1939 German army wasn’t really all that great and the Polish army all that bad. The German army became much more powerful in the later years of the war. The author would need to read up more about the war from decent sources. I would suggest Steve Zaloga’s books on the subject to begin with.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an interesting read. Thanks for taking the time to write this down. Think we disagree on what 'falling apart' means. I never stated the Polish army was bad. The Germans didn't have an easy time, but by the time the Soviet made their offensive the German victory was imminent.
@kolezka1613 жыл бұрын
The German victory wasn’t imminent at all. It was the soviet attack that made it imminent. This is what I am talking about. You are under the influence of German and soviet propaganda. If you read into Polish sources you will find significant reserves existed in Eastern Poland but the soviet offensive destroyed those reserves as they were attacked from the rear. Also, I submitted a post about the role of eastern Polish Jews in aiding the soviets. This post is now deleted. Did you or KZfaq delete it? It is impossible to discuss history if some sort of censorship takes place.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Highly doubt it. I didn't delete it. But since you mention Polish Jews a lot in a negative light I can imagine why YT does it. If you continue these semi-antisemitic assertions I will block you from the channel. Free speech is allowed here; hate speech isn't.
@pwc_uk3 жыл бұрын
@@kolezka161 your statement that Polish defeat was not imminent is simply groundless as on 17 September Germans already conquered half of the country and started to besiege Warsaw. Also, there were little military reserves in the East as Polish commandment was afraid of revolt of Ukrainians and Belarussians in that region, who might capture the weapon and begin a civil war. The poor condition of infrastructure in the East would contribute not only in slowing down the German advancement but also making extremely difficult the logistics of Polish army as well, making it even harder to fight. There were also no supply lines from Eastern direction, and you won’t fight long with large army in swampy terrain without regular supplies. Thus, indeed Polish defeat was imminent.
@321imperator3 жыл бұрын
As a historian (well, actually both of us are) you might be interested in colored photographies of Polish people and events of this country during WWII? I put the URL address below. I am sure you will love it! (there is always an original photo (black and white) as a comment from an author) facebook.com/KolorHistorii/photos/ This one especially touched my heart!! facebook.com/KolorHistorii/photos/a.659360804233671/1189454424557637/?type=3&theater Two sisters, one is dead, the second girl did not see any dead human before (this is the beginning of luftwaffe bombarding Warsaw) She tries to wake her sister up, because she does not understand that she is dead. She says: - Please, talk to me! Please, please! What will happen to me without you! (The second girl survived, there is even her portrait as comment after years)
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@andrejmucic50033 жыл бұрын
you love Polish gentry?
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Haven't met them.
@ispeaku7592 жыл бұрын
It wasn't the occupation. When Poland reemerged after the WW1 they started to capture the territories of the Russian Empire. Minsk, Kiev, Vilnius. The former Austrian Galizien with Lwow also was east to the Curzon line and also fell to Poland. There was a policy of polonization and catholization of the local Orthodox, so Curzon had a reason to draw the line between Poland and the other Slavic nations on the East. When Germans had won several battles against Poland the Polish government escaped from the country. The Riga agreement was no more valid and Russians could reclaim the former Russian Empire territories and Galizien. And were on time to do that because the Germans had already crossed the Curzon line and were about to capture major cities there. People like to tell tales about the joint and co-ordinated Nazi-Soviet attack on Poland but what they don't tell is that The USSR hadn't intervene until the Polish govenment fled and left the country to the Germans while their soldiers kept fighting. And there wasn't any co-ordination between the Soviets and the nazi. There was even a skirmish between them at Lwow with casualties. The only area which can be considered as occupied was Galizien which fell to Austria after Poland was divided. Even Churchill the most infamous russophobe in history admitted that in his speech On 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill stated in public: ... That the Russian armies should stand on this line was clearly necessary for the safety of Russia against the Nazi menace. At any rate, the line is there, and an Eastern Front has been created which Nazi Germany does not dare assail.
@HistoryHustle2 жыл бұрын
Whataboutism. Surily the people back then felt it as such. Even non-Poles who endured much more harships under Stalin than under the Polish government.
@pupsiuspupuliukas23943 жыл бұрын
Uhh all those lands belonged to someone else before Poland occupied them.
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Think that applies for all the land in the World.
@user-qh1ep2wf4c Жыл бұрын
Не было никакой оккупации, СССР вернул свои исторические территории, которые были оккупированы поляками во время гражданской войны в России
@HistoryHustle Жыл бұрын
People back then DID experience it as occupation. Please watch the video if you haven't.
@user-qh1ep2wf4c Жыл бұрын
@@HistoryHustleпосмотрите как белорусы встречали своих освободителей Красную армию в 1939 году
@zbena70443 жыл бұрын
Mama Rosiya always threated free Europe
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
You said something before I believe.
@putlerkaputt92013 жыл бұрын
The soviet occupation of Eastern Poland had one big positive outcome-Vilnius had been returned to its original owner-Lithuania.
@marcinterlecki60213 жыл бұрын
Have you ever checked the numbers? In 1916, there was some 2.5 % of Lithuanians in Vilnius (sic!). Read something, comment later, pal ....
@HistoryHustle3 жыл бұрын
Was Vilnius historically Lithuanian or was it Polish. Different people use different measures. Like: who founded the city? Who developed the city? Or which people dominated the city at the eve of WW2?
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Bloodlands? Seriously? So, this is your source. This book is wrong on sooooo many levels. Comparing Nazis and Soviets is peak stage of delitantism and lack of even basic historical knowledge. Are you trying to be biased or not? If you don’t, than your doing a bad job with it. Claiming Stalins claim for the invasion of Poland is an absurd or nonsense, even though the claim was absolutely logical. I might shock you, but neither the soviet union or any of its institutions or stalin ever, wished to start a genocide on half of Europe, there is no prove of such things. I repeat, the whole thesis of bloodlands is an absurd. It doesn’t have any historical base and the only way to possibly to equate this two states and there systems, is by using logically fallacies, or being someones political agenda.
@islamgaziev17173 жыл бұрын
I would assume you are a man who does not believe any European/ American historians.I would recommend you to read books of Viktor Suvorov and Mark Solonin, who used Soviet archived documents in their research.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Islâm Gazi Suvorov? Seriously? Thats even better. I would admit, he is great comedian. Remember his thesis about hilter’s “preemptive strike”, hah, that was a great joke. Problem is not “american or russian”. Problem is in facts over lying. Never heard about second, or maybe heard but just forgot.
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Islâm Gazi “soviet archives” Soviet archive: And stalin said “we attak u tumorow” Hitler: no u
@islamgaziev17173 жыл бұрын
@@Mounstrum Well, he references to archive data that was open. If you could give me some reference to any historians saying Stalin/communist system did not commit any of its atrocities, I would really appreciate.Further, it seems you are either a devoted communist or a big fan of Stalin. Stalin / communist system in Soviet Union/ Russian Empire/ Russia committed atrocities not only with other nationalities(Poles, Ukranian, Qazaqs, Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, North Caucasus nations, etc.) but even to Russian people themselves. Its surprising to me how so many Russians still believe in "good ol' Stalin". He obviously did a lot of good for the country(industrialization) but at all costs? In your comments above you referred to Hitler a few time... You know Hitler droped the unemployment and increased the GDP of Germany?(Source Statistisches Bundesamt). As you can see Germany keeps their archive open about Hitler. Russian government closed Soviet archives after Putin became president as far as I know, maybe even earlier. Why would they if most documents are usually kept top secret for 50-70 years. British for instance opened their war related documents recently if I am not mistaken.But anyway,does it make Hitler good, not so sure about that. To finish, in no way I try to diminish the input of Soviet PEOPLE in the victory over Nazism. People however is not the same as government, many seem to mix up Russian people and Stalin government. Are Russian people bad, most of them not. Is Stalin bad? Well I judge him based on how many people died while he ruled(even excluding war casualties)
@Mounstrum3 жыл бұрын
Islâm Gazi Stalin had his problems, but the things you say is pearls. “Soviet PEOPLE won the war, not soviet GOVERNMENT” are you seriously mate? Thats a big logic problem here. So people, ON THERE OWN, started:industrialisation, collectivisation, moved factories from european part of russia to the urals, on there own they plannes the operations, on there own they got themselves armed. Is that is? Thats what you to say?