Together with The Tank Museum, located in Bovington (UK), we will cover all sorts of tanks that played a part in World War Two. The first tank we cover is the T-26, which saw action during the Winter War in both Soviet and Finnish service and during the Second Sino-Japanese war in China's army. For those of you who watch our regular episodes, the fact that the T-26 played a big part in the Winter War is not a surprise anymore. For those of you who didn't: get over there and binge them! As Indy says in the end of the video, we could really use your financial support on Patreon. While this video was shot by the Tankmuseum, it still needs editing, image research and factchecking from our side. We plan on doing more of these with the Tank Museum in the future - since we think they're awesome and the top experts in their field, but also with other partners, historians, experts and museums. See you next time! Joram
@valcha6156
5 жыл бұрын
In the video, the historian said that those Germans said: "to buy some Panzer off of Germany, ok thats normal, but they also said to buy some tanks off of Britain, their enemy (the German enemy). How did that happen? BTW your show is amazing, keep up the great work, love from Latvia
@TheIfifi
5 жыл бұрын
So now a Chieftans into the hatch video? Good job. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
@backtothefutureman1
5 жыл бұрын
World War Two when you post the episode for February 9th can you give me a shoutout? Cause that’s going to be my 18th birthday and my real name is Matthew Share.
@Unknown1355
5 жыл бұрын
@@valcha6156 Germans didn't say "buy stuff from Britain". Word "they" at 13:28 refers to the Chinese buying tanks from the British at later time. Also, at this time WWII hadn't begun, so UK wasn't an enemy to Germany.
@valcha6156
5 жыл бұрын
@@Unknown1355 Fair enough
@indianajones4321
5 жыл бұрын
It’s here, the first special
@luigibellini811
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah finally
@jakubzeml1377
5 жыл бұрын
i wanted to write it, but i am too late here :(
@Feldmrschl
5 жыл бұрын
The long-awaited, and much-appreciated, first special!
@Masada1911
5 жыл бұрын
You're the first special.
@archstanton6102
5 жыл бұрын
And a bow tie (Unless you were already talking about the bow tie)
@astrobot4017
5 жыл бұрын
I think every episode is a special episode
@Masada1911
5 жыл бұрын
Astro Bot you're a special episode.
@Crazybawrks
5 жыл бұрын
You're a special episode ❤
@sherk3286
5 жыл бұрын
I'm having a special episode rn
@stephengalindo6340
5 жыл бұрын
You're a special episode
@Alex-ni2ir
5 жыл бұрын
It's the only channel I really look forward to watching every weekend.
@bobbleheadelvis6607
5 жыл бұрын
While attacking a country a fraction of their size was very unsportsmanlike from the Russians, it was very kind of them to bring enough tanks for both sides.
@chaplainjamesthicc305
5 жыл бұрын
I've often said that Stalin was our best ally during those times.
@TaaviSimson
5 жыл бұрын
It was a serious training camp for Soviet army.
@johnw5761
5 жыл бұрын
You mean like how you Americans invade small countries they can find?
@smygskytt1712
5 жыл бұрын
@@johnw5761 It's not called invasion when you are spreading FREEDOM to the rest of the world.
@TotalRookie_LV
5 жыл бұрын
@@smygskytt1712 It's still technically an "invasion" and there is also "occupation" (like occupation of Germany after WWII, or Iraq after 2003), but what is no there, what Americans do not do, while Soviets did and Russia still do are those: annexation, incorporation (or Anschluss, like that of Krimea) and colonisation.
@PateRiot
5 жыл бұрын
I don't know any other KZitem channel that works so professionally.
@Wallyworld30
5 жыл бұрын
Forgotten weapons might disagree. It's a shame though because I love them both.
@Ricky-jr7io
5 жыл бұрын
I know one. It's called The Great War.
@nice_toes_xx
5 жыл бұрын
You should check out epic history tv, another amazing history channel!
@ahmedbassam400
5 жыл бұрын
@@nice_toes_xx It tskes ages for them to produce a video. So no. Even though the quality is good, I do not like huge delays between vids..
@Wallyworld30
5 жыл бұрын
Here is a list of the best WW2 original content creator I've found out KZitem. Tank and AFV News, TIK, both Military History Visualized channels, Military Aviation History, The World War Two channel in real time, The_Cheiftain, Montemeyer, Forgotten Weapons, The Tank Museum , Greg's Planes and Automobiles, the Stalingrad Battle Data, Mark Felton Productions, Armchair Historian, WW2 AudioBooks and Potential History are the best of the best. Please copy, paste, share this and update if I've missed some.
@mortenulp7503
5 жыл бұрын
Yay, a special episode! Can't wait until Out of the Foxholes!
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Soon
@archstanton6102
5 жыл бұрын
@@WorldWarTwo Sat in the Red Throne of Wisdom
@moosemaimer
5 жыл бұрын
@@archstanton6102 Chair of Secret Intelligence
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Its named even cooler than that
@colinkelly5420
5 жыл бұрын
I love that you have both David Willey and David Fletcher in the video. I like Willey for his precise details of history he lists, and Fletcher for his very English delivery of facts.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Make sure to check out David Fletchers Tank Talk on the T-26 too! He has some more facts about it!
@PalmelaHanderson
5 жыл бұрын
They are both some of the most English men I have ever laid eyes on, for different reasons.
@gijstubben9403
5 жыл бұрын
This is so much more interesting than my exam material
@kinga6347
5 жыл бұрын
Can't agree more
@Masada1911
5 жыл бұрын
Aflevering kijken en weer aan het werk;-)
@victorbruant389
5 жыл бұрын
What is your exam about?
@gijstubben9403
5 жыл бұрын
@@victorbruant389 agribusiness models, so yeah... Not as exciting i'd say
@sovietturtle9881
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah totally agree most of my subjects are bad!!Although next week i will give 3 histories!
@MemeMaster-bg4mf
5 жыл бұрын
So glad we’re gonna have hundreds more of these specials for the next six years.
@LightFykki
5 жыл бұрын
I was actually starting to ask myself, when we are going to see the first special from the WW2. Really glad to see it out now.
@simpai941
5 жыл бұрын
Didn't they already do one with the chieftain?
@kglguy
5 жыл бұрын
@@simpai941 Two of them. One on German, and one on British, tank development preceding the war.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
The Chieftain did 2! But this is the first on our the World War Two channel.
@LightFykki
5 жыл бұрын
@@WorldWarTwo True, I actually asked myself if I missed something, which would have been definitely a shame. Really looking forward to more episodes, you are doing an amazing work as always!
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@TheCimbrianBull
5 жыл бұрын
Indy looks mighty dapper wearing that bow tie! 😀
@spencershaw7818
5 жыл бұрын
Give indy a leather whip and 38 Smith and Wesson model 10 too;)
@TheCimbrianBull
5 жыл бұрын
@@spencershaw7818 *Indiana Jones theme intensifies*
@jarmokankaanpaa6528
4 жыл бұрын
The picture of the "Molotov cocktail" also shows the other primary Finnish anti-tank weapon that was actually more effective than the cocktail: the satchel charge or "kasapanos". They came in several sizes, from two to six kilos (c. 4.5 -- 13 lbs) of TNT fastened to a German-style potato masher hand grenade handle complete with fuze, but field-produced versions could have a simple stick handle and a simple blasting fuze. A two-kilo charge was enough to break a tank's track while a six kilo charge would destroy the tank if thrown onto the engine deck. They were also used against bunkers. The main drawback was that you had to get in close to throw the thing and -- particularly with the bigger charge -- you might lose your hearing at least temporarily when it went off. As for the Finnish Vickers 6-tonners, they were first armed with WW1-vintage short-barreled 37mm Puteaux guns from the old Renault FT's and only later with the 37mm Bofors AT guns.
@WorldWarTwo
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the addition!
@gianlucaborg195
5 жыл бұрын
Special! Great! Thank you! Thanks DW and DF from TTM and thanks to WW2 channel for posting!
@bbcmotd
5 жыл бұрын
Just finished watching the T-26 video on the museum's channel, great to see them here! Hopefully Kubinka museum can be collaborated with too, they've got a lot of awesome tanks including the Maus.
@rvail136
5 жыл бұрын
Very much appreciate that you coordinate with Bovington on this topic.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
So do we
@bustead2
5 жыл бұрын
Nationalist China operated German, Soviet, British and American tanks in the war against Japan... Weird times indeed.
@auguststorm2037
5 жыл бұрын
They basically used that they had. Plus they didn't have homemade tank at that time so they had to import them
@Joshua_23
5 жыл бұрын
@@auguststorm2037 OOF. that would've been expensive, especially considering that they were insanely poor at the time
@zidan1hao917
5 жыл бұрын
and some Italian CV33, yep
@scottklocke891
5 жыл бұрын
Certainly true
@artificialintelligence8328
5 жыл бұрын
They also operated captured Japanese tanks.
@sassypenguin723
5 жыл бұрын
YESSS!! A special! You guys just made my day!
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
we're happy to!
@rossmac8743
Ай бұрын
Just when i think i cant get any more impressed you pull out the tank museum in bovington and just up your game again . I am very impressed by these presentations , they should be on the curriculum of every school which still teaches the second world war . Too msny people hsve forgotten theor history and are doomed to repeat it. Thank you
@jkwo2007
4 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed that this curator narrated our country's early tank usage history in a concise and accurate manner. Usually that piece of Chinese history is ambiguous and confused to foreigners. So this curator does his job very well. I appreciate it and wish he keeps up good work.
@kingsofserbiangameplay1623
5 жыл бұрын
Two of some of the best history KZitem channels doing a collaboration. It just can't fail
@TheCatpirate
5 жыл бұрын
*Potential History wants to know your location*
@pessiruuska
5 жыл бұрын
Meme Tanks 78 Tibetan tanks
@giulioaprati338
5 жыл бұрын
😂
@creighton8069
4 ай бұрын
I look forward to watching this series all the way through
@FrazzP
5 жыл бұрын
Sick stuff! Here's to many more specials!
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Cheers!
@Buffalax
5 жыл бұрын
This episode is really amazing. I love how in depth it is, from the story behind it to how well it actually did.
@zulubeatz1
3 жыл бұрын
This guy is one of the best Curators ever. Passionate about his subject and easy to understand. I love the Tank Museum.
@Redchrome1
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for doing this, the T-26 is one of the most overlooked tanks in history relative to its importance. I really like seeing more about it. (I asked Nick Moran/The Chieftain once [when I met him in person] to do an 'Inside the Hatch' episode on it, but it hasn't happened yet).
@TheChieftainsHatch
5 жыл бұрын
The one in Bovington is apparently empty... I do need to get to Parola one day
@A.J.K87
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome special. When it comes to tank history you guys have it made. First the Chieftain and now the Tank Museum. It could not be better :)
@Ali-gk3xy
5 жыл бұрын
Loving your tank videos. Keep it up!
@philsosshep4834
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent I'm glad you joined up with the tank museum my two favourite KZitem channels
@egororeshkin5581
5 жыл бұрын
But Tukhachrsky was not shot in 1938, but in 1937. It was Marshal Blucher, who was shot in 1938. I know, hardly matters, but anyway, it is also good to know the right dates. Nevertheless, thanks for this special, it has been great.
@lesliefranklin1870
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant example of "what goes around, comes around."
@Getoffmycloud53
4 жыл бұрын
Leslie Franklin meaning?
@RoboticDragon
4 жыл бұрын
So glad you have the folks from the Tank Museum here again.
@ICULooking
5 жыл бұрын
Mr Willey is a fantastic collab. Here's to more.
@sirbillius
5 жыл бұрын
This was really interesting not just about the tanks but also a pretty good summary of the Winter War so far from the perspective of a tank. Really cool!
@artoriastheabysswalker
5 жыл бұрын
Tukhachevsky joined the red army, not because he was forced to but rather because he thought that Lenin was the only leader at the time to be able and unit the leftovers of the Russian empire.
@daru5002
5 жыл бұрын
Many of the Tzarist officers have joined the Bolsheviks side voluntarily
@generaltom6850
24 күн бұрын
@@daru5002 Most of the Red Army officers were former Tsarist officers. Zhukov, Rokossovskt e.t.c
@TacoSallust
5 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man. I see David Fletcher, I hit Like and Subscribe.
@lowtierhuman69
5 жыл бұрын
wow, the first special of the war. I 'member the first one from the great war. I was thinking "oh man, how r they gonna handle all the extra content". I love how impressive TGW turned out. Stoked AF for the next 6 years of history. :D
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
We're not yet able to deliver one special every week. We're getting there though thanks to our still growing community and support on Patreon! This episode was edited by myself for example, because we can't get editors for all episodes. But we couldn't wait to start doing these so we made it work!
@syyhkyrotta
5 жыл бұрын
Great episode! Hello from Finland! :D
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Hello to you as well!
@BrorealeK
5 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised the Spanish Civil War wasn’t mentioned.
@derekenaiche5885
5 жыл бұрын
Same, T-26 gave Republicans a lot of fire power in comparition with the Pz. I and Italian tanketes.
@Bogdan_Sarasek
5 жыл бұрын
I agree with you
@xboxstudent
5 жыл бұрын
What did you expect from Britbong historians? They will always devalue the Russian on every aspect (could be lightly or heavily, depend on the expert) while lifting their side up, no matter how hard the Russian tried to be better tbh.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Hữu Quyền Đinh, can you back that statement up with some concrete proof instead of blanket bias accusations?
@jmbrosendo
5 жыл бұрын
It would have been nice especially to demonstrate the contrast from a feared weapon in the battlefield to completely obsolete in a few years.
@harrisdoshay3430
5 жыл бұрын
While this guy clearly knows a lot about tanks, I think he may have never heard "Qing Dynasty" said out loud ;)
@Defenestrationflight
5 жыл бұрын
He is British, and probably old enough to have learned the flawed British transcription from XIXc. There are still ppl around who call bejing peking.
@harrisdoshay3430
5 жыл бұрын
@@Defenestrationflight I would think the 19th century official transcriptions would have used the Wade-Giles romanization method which would be "Ch'ing." But then again in my reading of 19th century documents nobody who spoke English could decide how to spell anything from Chinese, anyways!
@bbcmotd
5 жыл бұрын
Indeed! It should be pronoun sed tsing at least
@klobiforpresident2254
5 жыл бұрын
@@Defenestrationflight In some countries that's still official name of the city. Just saying.
@DeHerg
4 жыл бұрын
@@Defenestrationflight "There are still ppl around who call bejing peking." Honestly when I first heard the more accurate pronunciation I thought the Chinese had changed the name of the city (the difference being so remarkable that the thought, of the reason being a mispronunciation, didn't even occur at first).
@arulshankarum2512
5 жыл бұрын
So specials every week?? + Will there be a special on the white death? The Finnish sniper?
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
We don't have the production capacity yet to publish weekly specials. For now, they are still produced and published sporadic, but once we get a little more Patreon income, we will be able to upscale our production. Something on Simo Häyhä is being worked on ;) Stay tuned!
@barsakncoglu5847
5 жыл бұрын
Not just Simo Hayha. Please do about the Pilot aces too...
@VonArmagedda
5 жыл бұрын
Only one Finn surpasses the fame of Simo Häyhä, and that is Lauri Törni, Larry Thorne, the legendary soldier of three armies
@angusyang5917
5 жыл бұрын
@@VonArmagedda Yes, but one of those three armies was during the Vietnam War, out of the scope with this channel. Therefore, Torni only served in two armies, not unlike Joseph Beyrle. What World War Two really should do a special examination on Yang Kyeongjong, who supposedly served in three armies during WWII.
@sammydavis4218
5 жыл бұрын
@@angusyang5917 He served in three armies.
@jonasantley9705
4 жыл бұрын
It's a special !!!!!!!! I love it !!! Way to go Jones way to go !!!
@bolloggfisch1100
5 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that if you look hard enough, you would be able to see Lindybeige still roaming around somewhere in that museum
@chaplainjamesthicc305
5 жыл бұрын
Probably still in the Churchill with Chieftain.
@TheChieftainsHatch
5 жыл бұрын
@@chaplainjamesthicc305 No, he went back to his home in the S-tank.
@realrock333
5 жыл бұрын
Having both David's talk in this makes this video so much more special!
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Make sure to check out Davids Tank talk on the T-26 as well (though you only get one David)
@gijoe41688
5 жыл бұрын
SO HAPPY you guys have Specials... love this channel
@CZ350tuner
5 жыл бұрын
The T-26B also played a big part in the Spanish civil war, becoming a prized item to capture for the Fascist forces as it totally out gunned the Italian and German tanks they were using. In fact the fascists modified some of the Pz.I.A light tanks to mount the Italian Breda 20mm. L.65 autocannon AA gun in the turret to give at least a minimal anti-tank capability against the T-26. The Spanish also based their own manufactured tanks on the T-26, after the end of the civil war. These were still in service as late as the 1960's.
@Armorius2199
5 жыл бұрын
Finally the first special episode!
@MandalorV7
5 жыл бұрын
Military advisor: “Well the first thing you need to do is purchase tanks from my country...” lol
@luigibellini811
5 жыл бұрын
The Finnish soldiers are ready with some molotov cocktail!
@ottohonkasalo9303
5 жыл бұрын
National Spain is the original country burning T-26s with molotovs
@ExecutiveSonda
5 жыл бұрын
@@ottohonkasalo9303 Joo, ehkä polttopulloja käytettiin Espanjassa ensin, mutta nimi Molotovin cocktaili tulee suomalaisilta.
@ottohonkasalo9303
5 жыл бұрын
@@ExecutiveSonda Toki, en vaan saanut mieleeni polttopullon englanninkielistä nimeä.
@TheSuspectOnFoot
5 жыл бұрын
@@ottohonkasalo9303 The Spaniards didn't use them for an anti-tank purpose or any sensible purpose in general. It's also a different mixture
@bbcmotd
5 жыл бұрын
Finland ready to sue for peace and lose the war*
@Muzza-ij5lw
5 жыл бұрын
I'm loving this series so far keep up the good work
@AdamMGTF
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic collaboration! Thank you :D
@jrv128
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic crossover, two of my favourite channels and presenters.
@papaaaaaaa2625
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you all for your Work to teach us WW 2 History. But Not like in school. It's fun to listen Mr Neidell and your guests.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, good to hear you're finding it rewarding!
@papaaaaaaa2625
5 жыл бұрын
@@WorldWarTwo It's Not only rewarding, it's like a History lesson but with tension. And Mr Neidell is a really good narrator. I know how it ends...but I'm curios for every new Episode! Keep Up this great Work.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks:)
@stuartb9194
5 жыл бұрын
Very special. Great way to start a week 👍
@akillerpacman1709
5 жыл бұрын
The first of many! I look forward to more in the future.
@MrTeeri4
5 жыл бұрын
i like how he get straight to the point no wasting time
@SuperCompany007
5 жыл бұрын
David Willey is honestly so cool. I really hope we get more of him :)
@thegrandbeef
5 жыл бұрын
Wow, this was enormously informative! Super fucking interesting. Thanks guys! Keep kicking ass, please.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Will do!
@zionmolina7819
5 жыл бұрын
One of your most Informative Videos by far.
@PeterGriffin-gx7yl
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome Episode! These kind of episodes make this and the WW1 channel even more amazing!
@harrisaqeel
5 жыл бұрын
I love how the concepts of "the war of destruction" and "the war of attrition" from the books was mentioned. I have not seen so much soviet logic being mentioned. Hope to see more of this in the future )))
@JagerLange
5 жыл бұрын
Vickers: "Are you sure you don't want the guns? We're not going to charge you very much more for them." Finland: "We're good thanks."
@carbonara2144
5 жыл бұрын
Original low velocity 47mm that brits offered was poor. Finns wanted 37 bofors with german Zeiss optics. Nazi Germany had a pact with USSR and to the surprise of finns refused to sell optics. That and delays in british tank production and finnish gun production is why tanks were not ready when winter war started. Finns later installed captured russian 45mm guns to brit vickers 6 ton tanks. Jaegerplatoon, an excellent source to finnish ww2 weapons: www.jaegerplatoon.net/TANKS2.htm Vickers in finnish use
@jonnyleonard6448
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent video!
@randomclouds4404
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Can't wait for more specials.
@kostasastro
5 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, can't get enough from the tank museum keep 'em coming guys.
@stephenwood6663
5 жыл бұрын
6:38 T-28s! I love that tank - it's such a characteristic example of the excesses of 1930s Soviet engineering. Also, in some ways, the T-28 can be thought of as metaphor for the early-war Soviet tank arm as a whole: that is to say, in 1933, when it was new, it was one of the best medium tanks in the world; in 1941, when Operation Barbarossa hit, it was showing its age.
@vishnusnair5817
5 жыл бұрын
Yaaaay a special episode
@dustingagnecleroux6767
5 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad these two channels are collaborating. Love watching these videos. Already subscribed to both.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! We like working with The Tank Museum too!
@christopherjustice6411
5 жыл бұрын
Yay! Some more World War 2 content. This should hold us over until Saturday.
@ethanhatcher5533
5 жыл бұрын
For special episodes about aircraft, you should really get in touch with the National Air Force Museum in Dayton
@johnschmit6815
4 жыл бұрын
An excellent explanation.
@nasosnikolopoulos4176
5 жыл бұрын
I loved the WW1 special episodes and now I can't wait for more WW2 specials! Keep up the excellent work (I'm 100% sure you will)!
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks, we'll keep it up for sure! But in a slower pace for now. We can't start making weekly specials just yet because we are at the TOP of our production capacity right now.
@Lixidros
5 жыл бұрын
Yay a special episode! Hope you can get rid of that cold soon!
@Melanrick
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing material. Thanks guys. I really needed this.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@xclonejager6959
5 жыл бұрын
Very informative, loved it
@xxioutlawixx2294
5 жыл бұрын
ive been loving your Hard Ware coverage ,love learn about the back rounds of the tanks and how nations got them and stuff .love the channel,ill say it again its amazing .
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@nerdothn892
5 жыл бұрын
Finally the first special!! I can't wait for more knowledge about ww2. I still somehow miss the great war.
@jewoGRFS
5 жыл бұрын
I think collaboration with museums is a bright idea. Very interesting episode. Thnx 👍
@cannonfodder4376
5 жыл бұрын
Nothing like having lunch at school and watching another informative video. Time well spent.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
Good on you!
@2headedtasman200
5 жыл бұрын
Yay! A special. These were my favourite in the The Great War series.
@PMMagro
5 жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO!
@glocksblocks819
5 жыл бұрын
What a treat wasn’t expecting this today
@Bogdan_Sarasek
5 жыл бұрын
The picture with Indi is much better than before! This video is great.
@stihlhead1
4 жыл бұрын
Great and detailed as always. You look good with a bow tie!
@WorldWarTwo
4 жыл бұрын
Good to know you liked it! Credit for Indy's tie goes to Astrid ;)
@axwell3466
5 жыл бұрын
Does this mean we will see a return of Who did what in ww2?
@marcusbierman5310
5 жыл бұрын
We should be getting one on Simo Häyhä in a few weeks.
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
That is right
@afs101
5 жыл бұрын
Everyone did everything
@BigSmartArmed
5 жыл бұрын
It's always funny to hear people accusing Staling of getting paranoid. Given multiple assassination attempts and that finally he did get assassinated with poison, he wasn't paranoid enough.
@Ashfielder
5 жыл бұрын
The first special! And it goes to the mighty T26! Splendid.
@34toony77
5 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was in the northern African campaign in the royal gloucester hussars and fought in nearly every tank battle in the lib/egy northern African campaign from 1940-45, I was wondering if you would do a "behind the trenches" type thing on the battles that happened across the Egyptian and Libyan fronts?
@WorldWarTwo
5 жыл бұрын
We will definitely cover those fronts as well! We'll do it in the regular weekly episodes instead of a sub-series.
@gamingcollection270
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting information. Till now I didn't knew that much about the T-26. But I now know more about the subject. Thank you @World War Two.
@BlueVentricle
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome the tank special episodes have started. Will you all be able to do a special for the aircraft and ships used as well? Just curious. I personally think it would be an awesome addition to the channel
@gwiazdapioun2127
4 жыл бұрын
10:31 - this is one of the examples of why I've always been a staunch opponent of calling all Soviet citizens "Russians". The fact of the matter is that there were many Ukrainians and Belorussians fighting in the Winter War, because of the losses suffered by the Soviets in the early stages of the conflict, and partially because of Stalin's distrust towards people of the northern parts of the Russian SSR - the Soviet leader feared that, since they were their "neighbors" for years, they might sympathise with the Finns, and therefore went on to send people from Belarussian and Ukrainian SSRs to this front. The tragedy was that these people, especially ones from southern Ukraine, were even less adapted to the cold climate encountered in Finland, leading to thousands of soldiers freezing to death or losing limbs, toes and fingers to frostbite. But, because of the tendency to generalize all Soviet people as "Russians", the tragedy of other East Slavic nations forced to fight Stalin's war is often omitted. In fact, I've only learned about it after a meeting with a reenactement group specialised in Finnish Army during the Second World War, a lot of publications on that topic never mention this chapter of the Soviet-Finnish conflicts. A somewhat similar situation would repeat itself 40 years later, when the Soviets entered Afghanistan: initially they'd sent in the troops from Central Asian districts, but after a wave of defections to the mujahideen side by Uzbeks, Tajiks and other Muslim soldiers, these forces were withdrawn and replaced by people from western parts of the USSR, such as the Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States.
@Shurikova666
4 жыл бұрын
For your information, southern Ukraine is open steppes. In winter, there are piercing winds with snow. And there are many cases of death of lost and frozen people in the steppe. The defection of Uzbeks and Tajiks to the Afghan Mujahideen is a bias. There were individual cases, of course. But the Soviet Asians showed themselves very well in the Afghan war. Stalin's distrust of the inhabitants of the territory near Finland-I agree.
@Shurikova666
4 жыл бұрын
@Joseph Lisitzayou forget that for about 70 years, Soviet Asians absorbed European culture in half with Communist ideology. Most of the inhabitants of Central Asian cities were already industrial workers in the third generation.And they looked at their village relatives as Laggards in their development. Look at the photos of Soviet Asians living in cities. They are dressed in European fashion. (Unfortunately, many Europeans are victims of wild stereotypes about the USSR. )
@Shurikova666
4 жыл бұрын
@Joseph Lisitza I understand you. I also want to remind you that the selection of recruits for the war in Afghanistan was carried out. (and of course we took into account the personal characteristics and biographies of recruits from the Central Asian republics of the USSR.) As an example of this, the so-called "Muslim battalions" subordinate to KGB combat units. One of them participated in the storming of Amin's Palace with special forces units and performed well. And I am convinced that the combat characteristics of a soldier are influenced not by their ethnic origin, but by the environment in which they were raised.
@willjohnson3299
5 жыл бұрын
Cheers Indy greetings from Kentucky! Love the tank museum their videos as well as the Great War and your new channels videos are always well done! 🍻
@dflatt1783
5 жыл бұрын
Cool vid. Thanks for the upload!
@radioguy1620
5 жыл бұрын
This man"s knowledge is amazing, great story , well told.
@ScooterWeibels
5 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for specials on aircraft, and possibly later specials on naval hardware.
@ivan6919
5 жыл бұрын
hooray!new special
@IndeeshMukhopadhyay
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting look into a niche topic! Hopefully more collaborative videos to come!
@auguststorm2037
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent ! Just you could mention their use in Spanish Civil War where they get upper hand against Panzers 1 and 2. And Barbarossa too they were underarmed and generally obsolete against Pz 3 and 4
@Milos89kv
5 жыл бұрын
It's the same feeling like on The Great War channel when tank special comes. I think, it's a long episode about tanks, it must be boring. But then I start watching and it's super interesting.
@archstanton6102
5 жыл бұрын
With a bow-tie for the specials, looking forward to seeing what Indy dresses in for "Out of the Foxholes".
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