@peekaboo15753 years agoImagine living through all the horrors of ww2 only to end up in a communist dictatorship. 44
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@argplutoniumman3 years agoThank you for bringing this up, many people in the us dont even know about this. Its something good to learn about, unfortunately 2021 communism is id="hidden2"being embraced, we should never forget the brave people who fought against communism. ...Expand57
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@countenanceblog3 years agoI can understand, she doesn' t want germans getting ideas and thinking for themselves. Anything but that! 43
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@europeofnations3 years agoIn 1953 many bulgarians decided to undertake military struggle against the communists. Instead of fighting in the towns like the germans and the hungarians,. ...Expand23
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@ottersirotten42903 years agoThis gives me some tiananmen square vibes. 13
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@Lightofdavid813 years agoI am a younger born united states of america guy i really enjoy learning about different countries and ideas though great video! 17
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@cernejr3 years agoGermans took way too heavy losses in ww1 and ww2, their best people died in large numbers. 1953 was their last stand, in a way. For me the take home message. ...Expand17
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@eugenetswong3 years agoThank you for sharing your history with us! I' m from canada. 3
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@patrickcloutier68013 years agoOne of the most impressive photos i ever saw, was of two german workers throwing stones at soviet tanks. The photo was captioned: " armed might against raw courage. " 5
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@LeedsUnitedJohn3 years agoI remember your video about merkel that you made a couple of years ago. its amazing how she was able to fool so many people. 12
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@patrickcloutier68013 years agoI remember my first experience with german unity day: i was not aware of the holiday and had gone to sleep. Then i woke up to explosions and flashes of. ...Expand4
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@hiddenporcupine9323 years agoThank you rpg for telling me this. will tell about this day to my friends and acquaintances along with the others uprisings put down by the communist. 7
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@AnthroGuitarist2 years agoAs an american who lived in alsace 2018-2019 and visited germany every couple of months with a host family, i love your videos. I used to be very blue. ...Expand
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@daveallentown68683 years agoThis is a superb video. I know far more aboutdangers than average americans choose to know, but was unaware of this uprising. It serves as a reminder of how fragilehold over us is, despite appearances. Many thanks for this. ...Expand2
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@superleetmegapunx3 years agoThanks for sharing the stories. History is all too often reduced to dates and labels but we more often than not forget that it was people, just like us who made it, and we can make it again. 2
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@prostytroll3 years agoIn my experiences, just by observing the historiography of the people from the solidarity movement in poland, i would take any witness story with the large grain of sand.
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@O.Shawabkeh3 years ago" he came as a refugee from east germany, the true east of germany" that part was hilarious. 2
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@kenwenman95793 years agoI' m afraid that here in the usa the fourth of july may be headed in the same direction. 4
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@nationalsocialist83823 years agoShould interview someone who understands article 146 of the german basic law too then. 1
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@x3lander3 years agoWell, rpg, she doesn' t want this day to be remembered because there was somebody else who rose against the communists, successfully at that, and turned capitalism and communism both ultimately destroy society, they just approach it from a different angle. I' ve always been aware of the latter, since i grew up in eastern europe, it just took me some years living in the west to recognize the former. ...Expand1
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@O.Shawabkeh3 years agoMeanwhile today on dw: president steinmeier commemorating the upcoming 80th anniversary of op. Barbarossa, he said the suffering of the former now, mr. Steinmeier, and to everyone else, would please read the speech of hit. On why did he take that extremely hard decision at the time and the claims he presented, to stop twisting that critical history. ...Expand1
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@effervescentsoliloquoy9143 years agoDidn' t you guys revolt against communism a bit before that? Sometime in 1933? Gee i wonder why we don' t talk about that anymore. 13
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@KingofEuropa073 years agoCould you interview some of these people on your channel? 1
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@imperialgamer69693 years agoWhat' s that book? and the numbers, what do they mean? 8
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@midmichiganrr24gp93 years agoDidnt the hungarians revolt in 1953 as well? 7
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@user-uh8fu3mb9l2 years agoJune 17 is more like former kpd communists against the merged sed ruling party.
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@arcadia10813 years agoBeen in germany 20 years. The lack of individual free thought here is enervating. The hive mind is oppressive. There is zero enterprise here. Sorry bad day today. 4
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@jesuschrist8723 years agoAlso on 17th of june, at 3am, hitler woke up and learnt that the french are willing to surrender.
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@BlimGlim3 years agoSwitzerland is the only country that isn' t a dictatorship, most people are livestock.
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@proudtobewhiteprivileged95303 years agoCapitalist pig wouldn' t be happy have to wait 20 years for there mercedes-benz delivery.
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@europeofnations3 years agoBut all of you know and remember that we, currently the poorest country in the eu did it in this way.
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@beckvitt29973 years agoSheesh, my comments are being purged to oblivion.
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@pierren___3 years agoDont fall into the trap of liberalism though. Ussr becamesince stalin.
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its amazing how she was able to fool so many people. 12
will tell about this day to my friends and acquaintances along with the others uprisings put down by the communist. 7
that part was hilarious. 2
president steinmeier commemorating the upcoming 80th anniversary of op. Barbarossa, he said the suffering of the former now, mr. Steinmeier, and to everyone else, would please read the speech of hit. On why did he take that extremely hard decision at the time and the claims he presented, to stop twisting that critical history
and the numbers, what do they mean? 8