The Russian October Revolution 1917 I THE GREAT WAR Week 172

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6 жыл бұрын

After the turmoil of the past weeks in Petrograd, the Soviets and the Red Guards seize the opportunity and topple the provisional government under Alexander Kerensky. Their first goal is to pull out of the war. The Italians were still in full retreat during the Battle of Caporetto and the British Army was still advancing in Palestine.
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@OllieV__nl 6 жыл бұрын

When Indy said it began with a hook that has happened before, my first thought was, "What, there's another Battle of the Isonzo River?"

@jasonperry709 6 жыл бұрын

Cordona's gone now. It's okay.

@WastelandSeven 6 жыл бұрын

LOL You could be totally expected to think that given the history!

@thisnicklldo 6 жыл бұрын

Also, the Isonzo is a long way away now - too late now for a 13th battle. Cadorna might as well have resigned anyway.

@Zestyclose-Big3127 6 жыл бұрын

well isn't that pretty much what happened (being the 12th?)

@kadencalleberg 5 жыл бұрын

Jason Perry that’s only what you think 😏

@morkmeatshield5373 6 жыл бұрын

I have been waiting for this day to happen, the sacking of Luigi Cadorna.

@holly5234 6 жыл бұрын

Mork Meatshield Heresy! I Was clearly the best general Italy had, without me this war will end with a Austrian victory just you see....

@christopherconard2831 6 жыл бұрын

So were most of the soldiers in the Italian army.

@foresta-2684 6 жыл бұрын

Mork Meatshield I won’t miss him

@SigEpBlue 6 жыл бұрын

I have to wonder why the king waited so long to kick him out. Was 12 his majesty's "magic number"?

@jasonperry709 6 жыл бұрын

The man for whom the quote "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" was clearly coined.

@SirHenryMaximo 6 жыл бұрын

Attacked by 7 divisions, claimed it was 35... Trying to save face even when the country itself was nearing collapse. The Cadorna way...

@VladTevez 6 жыл бұрын

If Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin knew that, on December 25, 1985, Rocky Balboa would overthrow Communism, in Moscow itself, they would still proceed with the Revolution?

@SigEpBlue 6 жыл бұрын

It was all part of their 69-year plan to create The Zone.

@mnk9073 6 жыл бұрын

Heresy! Rocky Balboa had nothing to do with it, every child knows it was David Hasselhoff's concert 1989 in Berlin that ended Communism!

@VladTevez 6 жыл бұрын

+MNK 90 And John Rambo's tours in Vietnam and Afghanistan, of course!

@RolfHartmann 6 жыл бұрын

MNK 90 You're both wrong, the Cold War ended after the Soviet leadership watched a marathon of Chuck Norris movies on sattelite TV.

@exploatores 6 жыл бұрын

Why should they care, they hade their fun and are long dead, who ever ended comunism.

@mistakengaming_1737 6 жыл бұрын

"... Called for the resignation of Cadona and Luigi Capello" Omg, Thank you.

@gcircle 6 жыл бұрын

October Revolution AND Cadorna gets fired. Probably the craziest and most hyped episode of the series. Now, with Russia imploding, I'm sure Germany will be able to focus on the west, and win this war by Christmas.

@wayhip 6 жыл бұрын

I told you after the the Great Influenza Lichtenstein will develop super weapons and conquer Europe!

@zashazaikov 6 жыл бұрын

spoiler alert, germany loses and falls into an economic depression and a crazy guy with a weird moustaches leads them to repeat the whole thing all over again

@megalodon7916 6 жыл бұрын

Not quite. The main goal of the Germans by this point was to bring about a hasty peace with Russia (which had still not officially ended the war). Once this peace was achieved, Romania would be forced to surrender, and large number of troops on the Eastern Front could be moved to the Western Front. It would also mean that Germany could have access to the oil fields and farmland in the east, thereby alleviating the effects of the Allied blockade. So, the Germans would not only have more troops available for deployment on critical battlefields, but it would also have access to food and supplies which the Allies could not stop from reaching their troops.

@RJ_Productions316 6 жыл бұрын

gcircle lets hope.

@nusratparveen82 3 жыл бұрын

@@zashazaikov And then after World War 2, Germany gets split by the Allies for 41 years. (Occupied between 1945 and 1949)

@FrazzP 6 жыл бұрын

Finally the Italian Army has a commander that it both needs and deserves.

@James--Parker 6 жыл бұрын

After a string of stunning victories the Central Powers are rocked by the loss of their greatest general. Can they continue without their great hero Luigi Cadorna?

@tommasorucci4088 6 жыл бұрын

It was about damn time that the Italians acknowledged the incompetence of their general staff

@templar684 6 жыл бұрын

No, it was way too late, potentially the war could have ended so much sooner on so many occasions if not this egoistic moron.

@sarasamaletdin4574 6 жыл бұрын

It's odd that the king has been protecting Cardona so long. But at least he fired him in the end.

@shubh486 4 жыл бұрын

@TheRadPlayer 6 жыл бұрын

Seize the memes of Great War video production.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

please don't

@Procket12 6 жыл бұрын

Don't act like you didn't know this was coming Flo.

@thatguys773 6 жыл бұрын

TheRadPlayer would overthrow the Great War channel on November 9, 2017. At the great loss of subscribers, was it worth it?

@markcangila1613 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatWar Smh capitalism - I bet your workers don't get to democratically run the company, and they don't get part ownership

@1987MartinT 6 жыл бұрын

4:49-5:00 FINALLY!

@thecurlyheaddude 6 жыл бұрын

Amen

@morkmeatshield5373 6 жыл бұрын

It was a moment I was waiting for.

@useodyseeorbitchute9450 6 жыл бұрын

Well... he was an Italian version of Jar Jar Binks.

@anthonycabrera5474 6 жыл бұрын

This part of my life... This little part, is called happiness.

@thomaspaine3394 6 жыл бұрын

Three cheers for Commander Diaz. Huzzah!!! Huzzah!!! Huzzah!!! (Morale increase dramatically)

@MilitaryAviationHistory 6 жыл бұрын

35 divisions to an actual 7 divisions? Well it seems overclaiming is not just in the domain of the air force ;)

@MajinOthinus 6 жыл бұрын

Probably just seemed like it because the Germans took so few casualities that they could just keep going, whereas an equally long battle for the italians (for example at the Isonzo) would have incapacitade the frontline divisions so much they had to be replaced regularly.

@SampoPaalanen 6 жыл бұрын

that could be part of it, but I suspect part of was also an attempt to save face, to say "no we didn't get beaten by mere 7 divisions, no there was a lot more, like 35 or maybe even more".

@MajinOthinus 6 жыл бұрын

Of course.

@WastelandSeven 6 жыл бұрын

Northfield Stradford ~ this whole war is a failure of intelligence. (if you follow me)

@randomlynamed3353 6 жыл бұрын

They were too busy running in panic to count.

@gabrieloberleitner1799 6 жыл бұрын

List of things to lose: ⭕️ Property ⭕️ Country ⭕️ Family ☑️ Chains

@foresta-2684 6 жыл бұрын

Words can’t describe how much I’ve been anticipating this episode

@nocapcanavan1064 6 жыл бұрын

Me too

@michellearmstrong3938 6 жыл бұрын

As someone from a none soviet country I decide to live by there standards

@imperialguardsman8088 6 жыл бұрын

Enclave propaganda.

@steelhammer103 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, a lot of major events going on this week

@farenhite4329 6 жыл бұрын

2 years before the end.

@deitona06 6 жыл бұрын

No more Cadorna.. :( I`ve been waiting for the 13th (fatal )battle and now this chance is gone... Fist Conrad,now Cadorna...I`ll miss him soooo much,like I miss the word "Przemysl" and Conrad..

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

Times are a'changing

@deitona06 6 жыл бұрын

Lol first time you are answering my comment. Will you do a bio-special about General Vladimir Vazov? He is known as "The Winner from Doyran" and has a very special place in our history? I mean,Bulgarian history.

@Ashfielder 6 жыл бұрын

And there goes Cadorna, another Great War legend gone. Kind of sad really.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

and not even thumbnail material this week because of all the turmoil.

@Ashfielder 6 жыл бұрын

The Great War he really got hit hard didn’t he?

@arsonisart6850 6 жыл бұрын

+The Great War all power to the Soviets!

@Eastmarch2 6 жыл бұрын

He can go hang out with Hotzendorf

@dingo1547 6 жыл бұрын

Don't worry haig shall take up the rains as best chief of staff in WW1.

@Stef94pa 6 жыл бұрын

Must say I am surprised you guys reported one of biggest events in history in such a regular way. Nothing that has happened in this series is bigger than this, yet it seems its just a side note to the 12. battle of Isonzo. Its just a friendly remark. :) Love your work guys, keep going!

@WalterReimer 2 жыл бұрын

The fun bit was that Lenin let Trotsky run the actual coup, and then had to be forced to take the chair of the Sovnarkom (he at first refused, wanting to work behind the scenes).

@santiagocadavid5508 6 жыл бұрын

And so the final countdown begins. We have officially entered into the final year of this epic journey and with it, the rest of the twentieth century with all its ups and downs. Thanks so much TGW team, you have done a tremendous job giving us new perspectives into our troubled world, reflecting into the mistakes made by our forebearers and how little we have learned from them.

@religionofpeaceturningyoui3810 6 жыл бұрын

I miss cadorna already, another legend gone, who'll be next? Enver Pascha?

@waleed8607 3 жыл бұрын

What a sad life hating to live peace be onto you

@aaronkitzmann9419 6 жыл бұрын

Luigi Cadorna or Luigi from Mario Bros. Who would have been a better commander for Italy? because every episode that brought up Cadorna further convinced me the latter would do a better job.

@aaronkitzmann9419 6 жыл бұрын

Also, insert Soviet Anthem Bass boosted edition. While Lord Tachanka Mounts his LMG. (If you don't consider the fact that the Council had pretty weak defenses and the soviets and red guard just kinda walked in)

@aaronkitzmann9419 6 жыл бұрын

I'd forgotten how he is in that. First the death stare now an Assassin? yeah, something tells me Luigi might be preparing to lead his own revolution in the Mushroom Kingdom.

@BergquistScott 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant work, excellent episode. I cheered out loud when you said, "fired" re Luigi Cadorna. How much better the Italians would have done (and saved so many lives) had a sniper picked off Cadorna early in the war....oh, an Italian sniper would be ok in this case...!!

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

+Scott Bergquist and he left like he he led

@ioncerga7451 6 жыл бұрын

Despite the main topic being the revolution, so glad that that incomptent spaghetti chief of staff got fired, after all the devaststations he has done

@gunnarherzog5538 6 жыл бұрын

The end of an era. Goodbye Cadorna, we'll miss you

@thisTG 6 жыл бұрын

I think the comparison photographs at 8:18 really summarise the effect artillery had on the landscape during the war...

@trebah662 6 жыл бұрын

Could you guys do a full and detailed special episode on the Russian Revolution? I'm doing it (USSR 1917-90) for A level and having something like this I'm sure would be useful for students like me in the UK. Thanks Indy and team, great content as always

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

We talked about the build up to the revolution for the past 8 months, it's all there in the weekly episodes.

@FrazzP 6 жыл бұрын

By the way, i think Joseph Stalin was appointed Commissar of Ethnic Affairs. Just a hint Lenin, that's not the best job for him lol.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

+Fraz he would have been a much better commissar of ethic affairs

@gilbert2097 6 жыл бұрын

I think Stalin wrote a couple of well received peaces on the matter, hence the appointment.

@MM22966 6 жыл бұрын

You're forgetting, Fraz: Joe was Georgian. He was the minority hire!

@GNeves302 6 жыл бұрын

There was, in fact, a incentive to the rights of linguistic self determination in early year of Revolutionary Russia and the USSR, not to mention that appointing a Russian would not be well received. But don't let history get in the way of your memes.

@abelzatyko1513 6 жыл бұрын

Celebrating the 100th anniversary was truly a once in a lifetime opportunity

@scottmueller8869 6 жыл бұрын

I am finally caught up with the show. I love your work. Keep it up guys!

@espritboschero5673 6 жыл бұрын

THE BEST EPISODE SO FAR!! Indy&team,You're great! To me, it's really clarifyng. Better than any book I've ridden so far on these subjects. So Thank You!!

@kris8487 6 жыл бұрын

Finally! Cadorna is gone! It only took a massive defeat for that to happen... instead of the hundreds of thousands his offensives cost the Italian population.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

+Kristoffer Brandt and even that he was not at fault. according to him at least

@siddhantsharma7728 6 жыл бұрын

The Great War According to him a rock was more to blame for failure of Alpine front for entire time than him.

@thomaspaine3394 6 жыл бұрын

Finally Italy gets a great commander who thinks reality, great episode 👍 Indy and the crew. Thanks for all of you to spread knowledge in a sea of ignorant. "History doesn't repeat itself, it's just rhymes" Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

@MrSegrist 6 жыл бұрын

I'm just now getting caught up again (I've two months behind). I have to compliment Indy, Flo, and the team because the quality just keeps getting better and better. Two specific things which really impressed me are 1) the quality of the quoted-text-on screen selections. (There was one a few episodes ago about "We sold the same horse twice" and then the one from this episode about "...I thought I was the only one left alive. I was surprised to find we were the victors.") The quotes are gold, and 2) That overhead A/B comparison photo of just how much damage and destruction was caused from this senseless war. Keep up the good work! I've been a Patron supporter since 2015 and have never regretted spending a single dollar spent on this impressive and truly epic project you all have embarked on.

@andrewfingeret364 6 жыл бұрын

FINALLY caught up on everything! Such an awesome channel!!

@ahmetben8812 6 жыл бұрын

Holy cow, Cadorna was fired. If they had given him enough chance, he could have won 2864. Isonzo River Battle!!! Such a lose...

@akos2393 6 жыл бұрын

'At least there was not a great deal of blood..... for now.' *orchestral music in background*. That's a pretty epic foreshadowing of what is to come, very well done!

@telsah1 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@WAMTAT 6 жыл бұрын

You guys are awesome.

@AuburnDetroitTiger 6 жыл бұрын

Great episode!!!!

@newnewfew 6 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing! I've got a test on this on Monday. Thanks Indy.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

Good luck with the test.

@longnguyenson646 4 жыл бұрын

I thought he'd end the video @10:00 and advertise other episodes in the past. Totally not expected the last 2 words. Golden!

@mybutthasteeth1347 6 жыл бұрын

Been looking forward to this for so long

@americanexcursions3542 6 жыл бұрын

I finally caught up. Binged watched in a few spurts and today I will have to keep up every Thursday

@erikkjelland5719 5 жыл бұрын

Cool video

@justAlbert_ 6 жыл бұрын

Ive been waiting for this episode for a long time

@RoberttheWise 6 жыл бұрын

I'd really like for you to continue this show after the peace for the actual WW1 is signed. There is so much to cover with the Russian Civil War and generally Eastern Europe sorting itself out. The Latvian Independence War alone is beyond crazy and that was happening in parallel to similar insanity in Poland, Estonia, Lithuania... and all of those conflicts influenced each other. I would totally support you on Patreon for that especially since by that time I should be earning some real money as opposed to fake uni student money.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

We are definitely open to it but we also have some other ideas.

@RoberttheWise 6 жыл бұрын

As long as those ideas don't involve shutting down the channel and moving to Bahamas I'm for it ;)

@bretcousins2644 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Indy and Flo and Crew. I'm catching up slowly. (I'm on Week 172, doing two to three weeks a day). Just heard you might be coming over the pond in 2018. If you do a swing into Canada, There are two museums you HAVE to visit. There is the National War Museum in Ottawa, near our Parliament buildings. It has an excellent WW1 set of displays. The second museum is the Museum in calgary, Alberta. Also excellent displays and sits across from the Currie Barracks where many a Canadian regiment did their training. There is a hill there, called Signal Hill, where battalions, before they shipped off by train to Halifax, would spell out their battalion designation with white stones on the side of the hill. Some of the later ones are still there. Excellent series. Looking forward into moving on to 1918 and seeing the German spring offensive and the Allied Hundred Days offensive that ended the war. B.G. Cousins

@Adrian-ry6bm 6 жыл бұрын

Luigi Cadorna is bar none the worst general i have ever heard of.

@irondwarf66 6 жыл бұрын

Solanum Caput but you have heard of him.

@siddhantsharma7728 6 жыл бұрын

Hotznroff is not happy about being out incompeted be Cadorna

@josephstalin2829 6 жыл бұрын

At last! Workers of the world, unite!

@massassaultdoctrine2562 6 жыл бұрын

Glad to see I'm getting some notice lads

@stenrod2383 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, there were fewer wounded during the actual taking of the Winter Palace than there were when the scene was recreated during a movie, a few years later.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

+Stenrod that is definitely a fun fact of history

@CoqPwner 5 жыл бұрын

Bless Sir Currie. This attack might have been costly, but I feel it would have been so much worse if Currie had given in to Haig's crazy ideas.

@QWE2623 3 жыл бұрын

One of the most impactful episodes of the whole war for sure

@drpapa26 Жыл бұрын

Conrad von Hötzendorf, Enver Pasha and Luigi Cadorna - the trifecta of staggering incompetence

@KonradvonHotzendorf 9 ай бұрын

You forgot Protopopov

@mickyflange6123 6 жыл бұрын

Just found this channel, brilliant!

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the show.

@brokenbridge6316 4 жыл бұрын

This channel should've done a special on Armando Diaz. Because he was the Petain of the Italian army. It's criminal that he never got to see a special for him. Great job.

@zacharylewis2802 6 жыл бұрын

Man, after watching this video, I feel like going out and seizing the means of production.

@82dorrin 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Indie? Think you could do an episode about war poetry? Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, McRae, etc?

@OldDanTucker 6 жыл бұрын

I haven't watched this show in a while. I should watch it more.

@umjackd 6 жыл бұрын

I got to visit St. Petersburg a while back. It's pretty awesome to actually stand on the Aurora and visit the Winter Palace. Maybe something for the TGW team to do sometime? :D

@vice6996 6 жыл бұрын

How does incompetence grow and grow worse and worse after 3 years of war. My gosh, it’s horrible.

@thomaspaine3394 6 жыл бұрын

Commander Diaz sounds more safer then commander Cadorna. :D (same last name but not related) thanks Indy. :)

@andreascovano7742 6 жыл бұрын

Noooooo Cadorna pls

@NerevarOfficialReal 6 жыл бұрын

Andrei Skobtsov Who will we laugh at now?

@Omega0850 6 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jL-gl5Bjx9u1k2Q.html

@andreascovano7742 6 жыл бұрын

Nothing can console me now :(

@randomclouds4404 6 жыл бұрын

Harry S. Plinkett Haig maybe?

@aidansayshi123456789 6 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJePfsykmeCrk3U.html

@redblaze8700 6 жыл бұрын

The birth of the Red Scare!

@thurin84 6 жыл бұрын

more like red scar..........

@ryanbrown6335 3 жыл бұрын

@@thurin84 more like red sca.....

@josephstalin2829 6 жыл бұрын

The United Kingdom - advancing in Palestine since 1914

@martalover17 6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Stalin So how do you feel about your friend's (Lenin) death?

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277 4 жыл бұрын

@@martalover17 spoilers

@manuelapollo7988 6 жыл бұрын

it's incredible how you pronounced well Tagliamento, I think it's impossible to do that for 99,99% of english speakers

@lynxrufus2007 5 жыл бұрын

My grandfather, being at that time a young Polish man, was in the Winter Palace defending the Kierenski government. His mother had sent him to the Page Corps in order to save him from being drafted. Well, that worked out well ;) He survived of course, and years later as a phycisist he was visiting Leningrad and given a tour with other scientists of the Ermitage museum. Suddenly he disappeared but after a few minutes was back with the group. The frightened Soviet guide asked him where he had been and he asnwered he'd been to the bathroom. Then she asked him how he knew where it was and he said that he had been there in 1917. "Oh," exclaimed the overjoyed woman "you attacked the Winter Palace!" "No!" said he, "I defended it!" :D True story.

@ruusteriv Жыл бұрын

I loved this story. Thanks for sharing.

@andrejparunovic6888 6 жыл бұрын

The new guy in Italy sounds awesome, why didnt they replace Luigi 10 battles of the Isonzo ago ?

@Gunmasterx7 6 жыл бұрын

Andrej Parunović Because they would stupid just like this whole war... so many mistakes were made made in this war. So many had to die due to stupid Generals..

@musicisakindofloving1081 6 жыл бұрын

Best teacher ever...i want to know more!

@WhatIsSanity 5 жыл бұрын

@ 2:56 those huge machine guns. What on Earth are those things!?? I have never seen one before. It looks like a 20mm maxim machine gun. It's bloody terrifying.

@klavakkhazga3996 6 жыл бұрын

Begun the revolution has!

@altaccout 6 жыл бұрын

What a week!

@Delta2414 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! What a week

@glennpettersson9002 6 жыл бұрын

172 weeks of death, deprivation and misery, it is exhausting! And I'm only watching it on KZfaq.

@VaeVictisXIII 6 жыл бұрын

I always love the history of Russia during this period, such momentus change that would lay down the foundations for decades of future events and pivotal moments.

@dominict9325 6 жыл бұрын

Jesus, two huge weeks in a row. And there's only another year left in the war today. I'm genuinely not sure what I'll do with my life once this series ends. Probably rewatch it.

@vitabricksnailslime8273 6 жыл бұрын

Am amazed that Kerensky lived until 1970. I thought that he had been rounded up and chucked in the Lubyanka with all the rest. That little note caused me to look him up on Wikipedia. He certainly remained an active commentator. I suppose I really should be amazed that he didn't end up like Trotsky.

@stupidturntable 6 жыл бұрын

Kerensky was no theat to the Bolsheviks after October. Not like Trotsky became to Stalin and his cronies.

@thexalon 6 жыл бұрын

And in one final act of incompetence by Luigi Cadorna: When the king demands you resign, resign!

@papabearpaw5866 6 жыл бұрын

Take care

@thebenis3157 6 жыл бұрын

The day when Cadorna was fired, the day that really made the Entente win the war

@TheArbiter1721 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe

@dungeonmaster201 6 жыл бұрын

Ah yeah, here we go, into the final year of the war.

@j_geau 6 жыл бұрын

dungeonmaster201 but don't worry, it'll be over by Christmas 1914

@martalover17 6 жыл бұрын

Josh Geauvreau Goddamnit Josh-

@gotmilk606 6 жыл бұрын

Only two minutes of shelling before the creeping barrage, that's interesting. I want to further research this battle.

@dumptrump3788 6 жыл бұрын

Got a Prager U advert with Glen Beck before this episode....couldn't hit "Skip Ad" fast enough.

@Philtopy 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Indie! I love your show! I have a question/request for you: Can you make an episode about heroic actions of sodliers during the war? I came up with this idea after watching Dunkirk. *I wont spoiler, but you will know who I am talking about ;)* I wonder if there are any heroic actions covered in any war reports. ofc I know much is probably bushed up by myth and propaganda, but are there any true sources giving us info about things brave men and women did under incredible circumstances? Cant wait for your next episode. Keep em coming ;) cheers from Dresden!

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

We probably will do one or two episodes about them, but ultimately it's very difficult to go through the propaganda and myths, yes.

@indianajones4321 6 жыл бұрын

And the British continue to advance in Palestine

@wayhip 6 жыл бұрын

Three things I would like to see are episodes on The Artists Rifles, The USMC (Semper Fi), and the Foreign Legion. I hope I see those.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

We try to cover some of them in the future.

@MK-je7kz 6 жыл бұрын

I hope when you get to Finland's part in the war (and 100 years of independence in few weeks) and it's civil war (January), you find sources that are objective. The subject is still volatile both in extreme right and left. And do not forget Ståhlberg.

@TheGreatWar 6 жыл бұрын

We will.

@milankolarski8876 6 жыл бұрын

I like your channel and I am always very excited to see new episodes. I was wondering, can you do songs of WW1 ? I mean, the songs that where sung by the soldiers during the war. There are couple of songs in Serbia that where made by soldiers during the war. Pukni Zoro(it's hard to translate it on English) it's a song which where sung by the soldiers of the Serbian army while they where coming home. Tamo daleko(There, very far lliteratim translation) is a song made by soldiers while they where going across Albania. Krece se ladja Francuska(The French ship is moving away, literatim translation) also a song made by Serbian soldiers on a voyage to Corfu. Are there any other songs(British, German, French, etc) made by soldiers in WW1 ? I think it's interesting subject to this channel.

@ahmedhasankhan6498 6 жыл бұрын

Winter has arrived

@cocososupergeek 6 жыл бұрын

Luigi "for italian casualties i don't mourn-a" Cadorna

@derekenaiche5885 6 жыл бұрын

And so it begins. WORKERS OF ALL LANDS, UNITE!

@BlackOceanSociety 2 жыл бұрын

Private Andrew Ronald Gamble -- Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 21st Battalion, "C" Company Born July 10, 1899 in Perth, Ontario -- Died November 3, 1917 (Passchendaele) He lied about his age to enlist and turned 18 while training in England. His remains were lost to the mud.

@AnimeOtaku2 6 жыл бұрын

I might have missed it, but I’m a tiny bit sad there wasn’t a sneaky reference to the finale of Blackadder Goes Forth in this episode.

@fuzzydunlop7928 6 жыл бұрын

Workers of the world, rise! You've nothing to lose but your brains!

@ThaTerrorr 6 жыл бұрын

Revolution 2:Electric boogaloo

@KUDO1973 6 жыл бұрын

" - What is the best weapon of all times? - 6-inch gun of the "Aurora" Cruiser! - How come?! - One blank shot and - 72 years of decay!" - Looks like it is passed a full hundred now.

@stupidturntable 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but by the time it was fired, Russia was in such a state of decay after the Romanovs rule, all it needed was a blank charge to crumble.