Comments by "lif3andthings" (@lif3andthings763) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. Stalin: Guess What? Hitler: What? Stalin: Capitulation Hitler: I don’t get it. Stalin: Exactly.
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  2. The Germans really fucked them over. Especially during Case blue after Barbarossa. The put them on the flanks without decent armor support and anti tank weapons. Minor Axis generals even complained that they wouldn’t be able to hold the hundreds of kilometers they were assigned but the Germans ignored them.
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  3. Spartan 506 No Iron smelting was independently invented in West Africa the most widely accepted date is 1500 BC some say 2000 BC. Low carbon steel a bit after that.
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  4. General Goldy yes the soviets would have definitely won the war by themselves.
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  5.  @snowfall1771  Enemies sold enemies. There were rival kingdoms and during conflict prisoners of war were used for labor. These slaves had social mobility and could be come part of their new community, and have free children. Europeans just exploited this system that was a around for centuries just made it a lot more cruel.
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  6.  @Ixtzalit  Germany was massively outproduced by the Soviets from the beginning. Lend Lease only really began in 1943 Germany already lost the war by then. Where the hell are you getting this info from? So when do you think the Germans win the war since lend lease begun in 1943?
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  7. Do life in former Rhodesia next? I trust you will be accurate.
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  8.  @robertmaybeth3434  The Wermacht committed many crimes on the Eastern front. More than 3 million pows never made it back.
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  9.  @hackboigamer8249  Uhhhh they definitely knew what was going on lmaooo. ESPECIALLY IN THE EAST.
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  10. Finally some Eastern Front videos!!
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  11.  @balanced2482  they had international trading in east Africa since 100 BC there was African elephant tusks in Emperor Wen tomb (South China). In West Africa there was trade with Amazigh since antiquity. But real global trade started with the trans sahran trade in 600 AD. Africa was not as isolated as you think. There were highly developed urban cities and communities.
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  12. Arnav Bhagwat And Pierogi.
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  13.  @dirckthedork-knight1201  he is clearly right wing.
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  14.  @myrealnamewontfi7289  Using clay and wood to build impressive palaces and houses is definitely intricate to me. What is your definition of intricate?
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  15.  @szeverholdosi8099  They had most of Europe on their side and it would take the Soviets and the US time to to build up forces. Especially the Soviets If the war in the east had happened in 1943 the Germans would have got stomped.
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  16.  @gamerdrache6076  Not really Germany pushed the Austrian ultimatum against the Serbs even though they really had nothing to do with the assassination.
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  17. Big Loo You know the backstory of the Rwandan genocide? Belgian colonists placed the tutsis in a racial hierarchy over the hutus and this created the tensions that eventually led to the genocide beforehand the tutsis and hutus had lived together for thousands of years in general peace as “one” people and were almost indistinguishable from each other.
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  18. Is that necessarily a war crime though? The captain dies in battle and the man took his skull as a cup. Just seem brutal to me not war crime worthy.
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  19. Brodown 64 technically they were never colonized.
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  20. Lavish00 hell no we would have got clapped without the Training, French Navy and Supplies they helped us so much they went bankrupt and it caused the French Revolution and then Napoleon. We fucked France up for helping us.
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  21.  @MrRinoHunter  imagine talking about k to d ratio in the real world lmaooo.
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  22.  @QWERTY-gp8fd  That was mainly Britain sending stuff but it was nothing substantial. Thats when it officially started but materials didn’t start really coming in until 1943 not when the Soviets needed it the most.
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  23.  @A.N.E.  For the white settlers. Now do to that it became what it is today.
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  24.  @dirckthedork-knight1201  So are you not going to answer my question? So wood can not be intricate is basically what you are saying?
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  25.  @dirckthedork-knight1201  but you are though. You literally just wont admit it.
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  26. @Fabian Kirchgessner Yeah they should have retreated directly back to the pre polish war borders instead of doing counter attacks upon counter attacks and overstaying in loss causes.
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  27. Queen Elizabeth II Russia also fought Italy Romania, Hungary, Finland, and other I don’t even remember. How many men did the US face?
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  28. joker Africa has no industry they only export raw materials thats not industry they need to manufacture goods at home.
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  29.  @movietroll2303  Operation Barbarossa was a horrible plan they almost had no chance of actually winning as soon as they got counterattacked at Moscow the war was over. Army group center was their most powerful force and outnumbered the Soviets for much of that year and they failed.
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  30.  @Ixtzalit  What does quality mean in a attritional war.
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  31.  @aurelian2641  it wouldn’t have mattered you talk as if the allies wouldn’t have just thrown more fighters at them.
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  32.  @beeseChurger8949  No because he was able to control the trade of gold and salt and other items within the borders of his Empire.
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  33. Only if the Ashanti secretly allied with another European power like the Ethiopians they could have won due to their numbers.
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  34. Bradders - The Ethiopians got weapons and money from Russia. Britain gave Egypt a fully modernized army and helped them to invade Ethiopia they still lost. Ethiopia is a very defensible nation. Also keep in mind the Italians could not even get full control over the country think of it like the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan they held most of the cities but the populace still resisted in the mountains.
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  35.  @thanos_6.0  By then the Soviets had encircled Stalingrad and the Germans failed to to take Moscow and the Caucuses. War was over by then.
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  36.  @nono-kr7um  Zimbabwe
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  37. It’s because they got a lot of free coltan the stuff in phones during the chaos still getting cheap from rebels they supply to this day.
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  38. There was no fucking way they were breaking through all the defensive lines around Kursk.
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  39.  @gabrielsim6340  Africans were in contact with Europeans since the 1400s. And the rest of the world even longer. Did Europeans actually try to educate their colonial subjects in the Belgian congo they only had 14 college graduates at independence. I bet other countries experienced the same things. The things that really benefited Africans was new medicine besides that they could have developed further by themselves. Also what do you think West Africa, East Africa and some parts of central and southern Africa were like?
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  40.  @ianismapping2915  Nah USSR still stomps the Axis.
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  41.  @sclice8680  I think when they got counter attacked at Moscow. Center was their most powerful force not even going up against the strongest Soviet force in the front which was in the South at the beginning.
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  42.  @andreasbonaparte8171  bro just stop.
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  43. Ahte The Mali Empire collapsed in the 16th century pretty sure Britain was practicing slavery then.
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  44. Hersir Ivarr It’s interesting that a lot of Western European states either depended on or where founded by or because of the Roman empire. Its interesting that ALL of European states relied on contact or was founded by Asian or African states.
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  45.  @somesketchydude7813  The Germans mainly used horses lol.
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  46. Forgot the CIA assassination of Mbutu dont know if that is the write spelling
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  47.  @build2270  They just didn’t have the oil or pilots to fly them lmaooo.
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  48.  @nicovinas  What dumb point. Botswana was one of the countries least colonized and is now one of the best countries in Africa. Vast Majority of that infrastructure is long gone. Also how much infrastructure do you think they left except for South Africa?
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  49. Why were Soviet spies so good? They even got the atom bomb from the US.
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  50. Common Tree Egyptians, Nubians, Ethiopians? I think that’s a reason why most of the the kingdoms and empires are even more amazing.
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  51. Tattle Boad What European religion? Christianity is European?
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  52.  @zimovkakia  cool
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  53.  @kousukemuto1890  In some cases you can definitely do that.
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  54.  @pecadodeorgullo5963  They certainly knee how to farm as most of the population was doing before. But not how to operate industrial farms that need tractors because the government before hand never really allowed that.
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  55.  @Tricksngiggles  You could make multiple better defined “races” out of the African populations though they usually are far from each other.
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  56.  @raudigerrudiger9713  Not necessarily. Hutus didn’t Tutsis before colonization. The Hausa Igbo and Yoruba didn’t hate each other as much either. The Yoruba and Igbo definitely hated the Fulani though similar to how Europeans hate the gypsies.
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  57.  @derwunderwaffe3653  Actually it was more like 3.5 million axis and 2.5 million soviet at the beginning of Barbarossa.
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  58.  @theinternetsavedmylife  Selassie had actually gone senile in the latter times of his life. If Ethiopia could have become a constitutional monarchy things would be a lot different.
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  59.  @GAZAMAN93X  Yeah they did.
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  60.  @fatdaddyeddiejr  The lost the initiative as soon as Case Blue failed. They no longer could dream of ever having the resources to continue the war and had lost tons of equipment in the Caucuses and at Stalingrad.
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  61. Hell Yeah
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  62.  Justus Immelmann  no
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  63.  @lesdodoclips3915  I mean what do you think the Atlantic Triangular Trade was? It was mostly peaceful trade between African kingdoms and European countries. During that period Africans learned gun technology and other things. Why do you assume that Ideas dont diffuse?
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  64. Tom New They were not stone age. They were iron age for quite a while.
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  65. Chillin' Africa was not as densely populated and still isn’t. Africa is fucking huge.
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  66. caif4 Slavery did not end at all in those places also when it “ended” it was placed with basically colonial enslavement labor where you literally were made to work for your freedom.
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  67. Logan Dublin University No it was not. Iron was independently smelted at 1500 BC.
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  68. Deborah Meltrozo Slavery is still going on there and as a matter of fact everywhere in the world . Also keep in mind the slavery they ended was replaced with colonial “coerced” labor basically slavery.
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  69. Jormangandur83 For the last fucking time slavery did not end and they added colonial slavery.
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  70.  @Andrea-1998  The spring as well when the rains came the roads became clogged with mud and the blitzkrieg stopped.
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  71. He probably won’t.
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  72. Have no idea where you are getting 3 times from.
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  73.  @Vsauce1016  The war with the soviets were bound to happen.
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  74.  @Vsauce1016  By somehow conquering Britain lmaooo
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  75.  @bna919  what exactly? The tax cuts? Made permanent for the rich but temporary for the middle class?
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  76. @Alberto Fuijimori Hitler blew his brain out and lost the war. Why bring that up? I don’t think your comprehension skills are that high.
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  77.  @lucassmith2517  no.
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  78.  @gunneryorkson1259  How? Those countries you see on the map aren’t real. Its not tribalism when they were literally separate entities not more than 150 years ago and less.
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  79.  @nick56677  yeah just land troops in Britain with your non existent above water navy and no air superiority.
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  80. Thats a very wrong assumption.
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  81.  @gerald1495  Did Germany colonize France? The Ethiopians never surrendered and a resistance movement continued throughout the occupation.
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  82. He made one already.
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  83. If the boers allied with the natives could they have pushed the British back?
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  84. Damn only if they did not despise each other.
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  85.  @QWERTY-gp8fd  On the lend lease? Well here is this video by Tik. I dont have all the sources on hand but he has. https://youtu.be/usBKGE4w5NI
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  86. There are 54 countries most of the continent is at relative peace.
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  87.  @killraven123  no
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  88.  @ecksdee1637  The Germans also killed 3 million Soviet pows.
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  89.  @killraven123  Why saying Germans? It was the Axis.
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  90.  @killraven123  Wrong they also killed 3 million Soviet pows.
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  91.  @ethanedwards422  Nazis were literally still worse.
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  92.  @efffvss  Why are you leaving out the rest of the axis? But not saying just Russians for the Soviets?
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  93. The “Serbs” did not kill the Duke it was a group called the Black Hand who had little connection with the actual government.
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  94. Ahte Thats just 1880.
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  95. Hersir Ivarr Which ones were founded by Muslims?
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  96. Hersir Ivarr The scientific method in its basic form was invented by muslims I believe.
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  97. 8jij Joo They adopted Arabic they have records some are still being translated to this day.
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  98. Hersir Ivarr What writing did the British invent again?
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  99.  @flaviusbelisarius7517  Nigeria got raped if the south was split from the North it would be in a much better place and with better funds could probably beat the North if they ever invaded.
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  100.  @wallstreetzoomer  Without lend lease war would have lasted longer it didn’t decide the war it shortened it. The Nazis were using horses for logistics for godsakes.
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  101. marios gianopoulos Like when the boers enslaved the Africans oh.
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  102. Dan source?
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  103. Who said it was me? Pretty smart.
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  104. Xx_NOSESCOPER_xX Yes it did.
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  105. Shawn Harris It was about slavery simple as that.
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  106. Amin N.S Feres To end the enslavement of Christian when monarchs had absolute rule. By the time of which you speak of Britain was a constitutional monarchy.
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  107. Fist time im hearing of a 3 million German KIA. Thought it was 5 million German and 1 million for the rest if the axis? You also have the myth Stalin had a panic attack or something he actually worked quite alot when the invasion began.
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  108.  @thxcaze1416  Well no Operation Barbarossa was bound to fail.
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  109.  @Scottx125Productions Please stop with their “own people” As you can clearly see today all Africans aren’t the same and are extremely diverse. Enemy Kingdoms who spoke different languages and had different customs were as different to them as the European powers.
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  110.  @jukebox_heroperson3994  it isn’t China mostly. 80% of Africas debt is with the west.
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  111.  @Dorkeydaze  Bro nobody with any real influence or the vast majority of all people believe that.
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  112.  @angrypepe7615  The thing is modern Racism is new it has been apart of humanity forever. You can see this by how mixed the world is even before the Age of Discovery migrations occurred left and right. Back to Africa, Across Asia, Across Africa. No population is completely pure.
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  113. Jason Voorheese nah
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