Comments by "Ying Yang" (@yingyang1008) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. "We killed altogether about 400,000 Germans, one third of them in the two fire storms in Hamburg and Dresden. The Dresden fire storm was the worst. But from our point of view it was only a fluke. We attacked Berlin sixteen times with the same kind of force that attacked Dresden once. We were trying every time to raise a fire storm. There was nothing special about Dresden except that for once everything worked as we intended. It was like a hole in one in a game of golf.Unfortunately, Dresden had little military importance, and anyway the slaughter came too late to have any serious effect on the war." Freeman Dyson
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  2. If deliberately creating a firestorm in a city in order to incinerate as many civilians as possible isn't a war crime - then what is?
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  3. No one even knew - even Churchill didn't know, so why would CHLDREN know?
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  4. So you'd be OK with someone from Vietnam or Iraq incinerating an entire US city, and all your family? Because your children reaped what they sowed?
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  5. It was necessary to give Stalin half of Europe - what a victory for freedom
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  6.  @norbitcleaverhook5040  I've seen the film - it's not only good, it's artistically brilliant However, at any point in that film, would a viewer be aware that the Russians were fighting for a Georgian psycopath who had murdered tens of millions of Russians and sent millions more to the gulags? Would a viewer be aware that those very same villages were conquered and ravaged by Stalin and that they originally celebrated the arrival of the Germans as liberators? Do you not think these are perhaps important points?
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  7.  @norbitcleaverhook5040  you find the fact that those very same villages were massacred by Stalin to be completely unimportant?
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  8.  @306champion  and this was one?
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  9.  @306champion  yeah I'm not here to defend Germany and Japan Just pointing out that we also committed attrocities - and that this good vs. evil thing is just dumb propaganda Remember, we allied with Stalin and gave him half of Europe
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  10. I don't think there were any death camps in Germany, they were all liberated by Soviet troops in eastern Europe
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  11.  @Pyotyrpyotyrpyotyr  The USSR killed tens of millions of its own citizens before the war even started
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  12. Germany repeatedly tried to make peace with Britain - it was Britain that declared war on Germany, not the other way round
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  13.  @dennisweidner288  You mention the Nazi extermination camps - but there was no mention of such a thing in 1939, they didn't exist nor did anyone think they would ever exist So to claim we fought a war against Germany because they had extermination camps makes no sense It makes even less sense given that Stalin did actually have forced labor camps and had killed tens of millions of people BEFORE the war had started As for Solzhenitsyn - his most interesting work is 'Two Hundred years Together' - which still hasn't been translated into English (wonder why that might be)
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  14.  @dennisweidner288  I know your kind - you watch documentaries like 'The World at War' and think it's not propaganda Let's go back to 1939....... Germany united with Austria with the consent of the vast majority of both populations. They then invaded a small part of Czechoslavkia full of German speaking people. They then made it clear that they wanted the Danzig corridor back from Poland - an area full of German speakers that had been taken away from the country after WWI and which connected Germany to the North Sea - search for Danzig corridor and see how ridiculous the situation was. Germany clearly wanted some colonies in Africa and war with the USSR seemed very possible. Now let's take the USSR: It had already killed tens of millions of people in the most horrendous circumstances imaginable, constructed a network of hideous gulag camps where people were worked to death and had created the a truly horrifying police states. It was hated by everyone that had the misfortune to live there. Furthermore, the USSR had invaded and occupied numerous independent countries (including Finland) and had clear expansionist aims. And remember, the USSR invaded Poland at the same time as Germany - but we decided to let that go for some reason. Now let's take Great Britain: It had the world's largest ever empire, most of which had been taken militarily. Throughout most of the empire, democracy was forbidden, mostly on racial grounds: if you were white you got democracy, if you were brown you didn't. The empire was the most powerful force in the world at that time and wanted to keep things that way. Now let's look at the result of WWII - Britain and the US allied with the USSR and allowed it to enslave half of Europe - and they called it a victory for freedom - lol Germany made it very very clear that they had no desire to fight Britain or its empire or France or any other Western nation - we declared war on them, not the other way round The result of WWII was an annihilation of freedom for half of Europe and tuning the world's most horrific police state into a super power WWII had nothing to do with fighting for democracy or freedom - it was a war fought by superpowers for strategic motives, like all wars All the rest is propaganda to make the sheep feel happy and warm and to get them to enlist Wake up - our crimes in that war were horrific
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  15.  @dennisweidner288  I just wrote a massive reply to your comment - and that;s all you can come up with We live in an age of mass propaganda - that extends to what supposedly happened during WWII and why - the idea that we were the good guys fighting for freedom and were therefore justified in burning hundreds of thousands of German women and children and allowing the USSR to enslave half of Europe has to end Rise above the propaganda - give it a try
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  16. lots more quotes just like this one that mysteriously don't make it into these discussions
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  17.  @spartanparty3894  Russia was conquered by a foreign force in 1917 - that's what Russians have to realise
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  18. Did your economics degree reveal who the secret shareholders of the FED are?
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  19.  @kennedymcgovern5413  Right - let me get this straight You have an economics degree and are interested in economics and finance Yet you are unaware of who runs the Federal Reserve and have no interest at all in finding out Lol, Ok - the absolutely definition of ignorance Good luck with that
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  20. Belarus was occupied by Stalin
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  21. I don't think Hitler ever deliberately created firestorms in cities with the aim of killing as many civilians as possible Maybe he would of though I guess
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  22.  @black-uh1df  The USSR invaded Poland at the same time - yet we allied with them and helped them enslave half of Europe Britain itself had taken over much of the entire world via conquest If you think WWII had something to do with protecting Poland I think you need to step away from the History Channel
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  23. No one mentioned anything about death camps until after the war
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  24. Black dudes are real good at basketball
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  25.  @jesusjohnny8286  no, but enough to completely dominate the league
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  26.  @jesusjohnny8286  well I think they're good at it for a physical reason, not because they choose to be But I guess your ideology stops you from seeing why
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  27.  @jesusjohnny8286  just coincidence that the 100m final is dominated by dudes of west African heritage Ok thanks
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  28. He was Jewish
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  29. War crimes are only committed by those that don't write the history books
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  30. Cause tens of thousands of civilians were incinerated
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  31. Yeah, incinerating tens of thousands of women and children is a war crime
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  32.  @patriciabrenner9216  So you admit now that it was a deliberate tactic - in one day you have completely reversed your position Maybe you should stop spamming the comments seeing as you don't know anything about the subject
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  33. "We killed altogether about 400,000 Germans, one third of them in the two fire storms in Hamburg and Dresden. The Dresden fire storm was the worst..... Unfortunately, Dresden had little military importance, and anyway the slaughter came too late to have any serious effect on the war." Freeman Dyson
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  34. So war crimes don't exist?
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  35. Imagining the death of children and being happy about it - what a disturbed psycho you must be
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  36.  @phlm9038  Nope - Churchill didn't even mention it once in his massive book on WWII If they has known it would have been used as propaganda constantly to justify the war
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  37.  @warhead_beast7661  And the British invented concentration camps in the Boer War
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  38. So why even have a court for war crimes? Just let anyone incinerate entire cities of people
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  39.  @asafb1984  helping Stalin was a good thing?
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  40.  @bakters  nice, we don't hear much about it for some reason I think it's perhaps because we like to think we saved Europe from tyranny
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  41. Tommy Robinson's real name is: Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon
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  42. People do actually argue that believe it or not
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  43. best comment on this thread
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  44. 400 people died in Coventry, not really comparable is it
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  45. Only a few hundred people died in most of the towns you listed We're talking about deliberately incinerating hundreds of thousands of civilians and refugees
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  46. England was taken over by the money lenders in 1688, the Bank of England was formed in 1694
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  47. "Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book called , or  about the Dresden raid. For many years I had intended to write a book on the bombing. Now I do not need to write it, because Vonnegut has written it much better than I could. He was in Dresden at the time and saw what happened. His book is not only good literature. It is also truthful. The only inaccuracy that I found in it is that it does not say that the night attack which produced the holocaust was a British affair. The Americans only came the following [p. 29] day to plow over the rubble. Vonnegut, being American, did not want to write his account in such a way that the whole thing could be blamed on the British. Apart from that, everything he says is true." Freeman Dyson
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  48. "Of course, Germany started the war and were the aggressors" - you sure about that?
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  49.  @dirgsuite5546  the USSR attacked many countries and murdered tens of millions of people before the war even started They attacked Poland at the same time as Germany Yet we allied with them and gave them half of europe History is lies agreed upon The war had nothing to with fighting evil - that kind of nonsense is just how you sway the masses
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  50. His entire channel relies on ignoring these facts
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