Comments by "SpaniardsR Moors" (@spaniardsrmoors6817) on "The Abyssinia Crisis" video.

  1. 1st war ethiopia was aided by russia , italy was a new country of just 30 years and in final battle outnumbered italians 10-1. second war ethiopia aided by germany, france, uk, others and was saved only after 5 years of occupation by massive allies aid and italy losing war II.
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  2. squashed what? 1st war ethiopia was aided by russia , italy was a new country of just 30 years and in final battle outnumbered italians 10-1. second war ethiopia was saved only after 5 years of occupation by massive allies aid and italy losing world war II.
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  3. italy was developing, modernizing ethiopia during occupation. before occupation ethiopia was stone age and after not much better. look at your country today, much worse than during occupation.
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  4. nonsense, they were also aided by uk, france and some others
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  5.  @sanitar-otti320  After Italian objections to the Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria, Germany sent three aeroplanes, 10,000 Mauser rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition to the Ethiopians.[38] The serviceable portion of the Ethiopian Air Force was commanded by a Frenchman, André Maillet, and included three obsolete Potez 25 biplanes.[39] A few transport aircraft had been acquired between 1934 and 1935 for ambulance work, but the Air Force had 13 aircraft and four pilots at the outbreak of the war.[40] Airspeed in England had a surplus Viceroy racing plane, and its director, Neville Shute, was delighted with a good offer for the "white elephant" in August 1935. The agent said that it was to fly cinema films around Europe. When the client wanted bomb racks to carry the (flammable) films, Shute agreed to fit lugs under the wings to which they could attach "anything they liked". He was told that the plane was to be used to bomb the Italian oil storage tanks at Massawa, and when the CID enquired about the alien (ex-German) pilot practices in it Shute got the impression that the Foreign Office did not object. However, fuel, bombs and bomb racks from Finland could not be got to Ethiopia in time, and the paid-for Viceroy stayed at ita works. The emperor of Ethiopia had £16,000 to spend on modern aircraft to resist the Italians and planned to spend £5000 on the Viceroy and the rest on three Gloucester Gladiator fighters.[41] There were 50 foreign mercenaries who joined the Ethiopian forces, including French pilots like Pierre Corriger, the Trinidadian pilot Hubert Julian, an official Swedish military mission under Captain Viking Tamm, the White Russian Feodor Konovalov and the Czechoslovak writer Adolf Parlesak. Several Austrian Nazis, a team of Belgian fascists and the Cuban mercenary Alejandro del Valle also fought for Haile Selassie.[42] Many of the individuals were military advisers, pilots, doctors or supporters of the Ethiopian cause; 50 mercenaries fought in the Ethiopian army and another 50 people were active in the Ethiopian Red Cross or nonmilitary activities.[43] The Italians later attributed most of the relative success achieved by the Ethiopians to foreigners, or ferenghi.[44] (The Italian propaganda machine magnified the number to thousands to explain away the Ethiopian Christmas Offensive in late 1935.)[45]
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  6.  @sanitar-otti320  Son, you're missing the point. First Italy had already conquered other African countries, were involved in the Spanish civil war which Italy was the main contributor in winning vs. Communist supplying the Nationalist with massive supplies and troops Italy couldn't afford since they were shorthanded to begin with, (search The Consequences of Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War) then had to logistically send massive amounts of troops and supplies nearly 3000 miles to Ethiopia. All the while Ethiopia has every advantage fighting on home soil, jungles, etc., then supplied by Germany and receiving tactical and other advice, help by major powers and others. Think that's easy son?
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  7.  @sanitar-otti320  Get some other facts straight that are rarely mentioned. Italy then went into another hostile country (very mountainous terrain) and defeated Greece (yes, 90% DEFEATED before German intervention) also. All this and not fully prepared and definitely not for WORLD war when the back stabbing Germans drew them in then broke the Pact of Steel promising Italy 3 more years to prepare. Virtually all the countries Germany defeated were near German soil, low flat plains and/or had large German ethnic populations that sympathized, fought for and welcomed them. Italy fought all hostile populations, most were long distance and very hostile terrain: Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Albania, Greece, Libya.
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  8.  @amdetsion3256  Few guns...100,000's rounds of ammo and more.
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  9.  @DWEthiopia  Enlighten me, Einstein.
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  10.  @lopsideduser-lz1bg2oc7r  Sanctioned by who? Italy was later sanctioned for the invasion...learn history dude.
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