Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "History Hustle" channel.

  1. When you take off that helmet, forty seconds in, you give us one of the greatest "Whew! What a relief!" moments in all of YouTube.
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  2. Urgent Warning: speaker is wearing a silly hat, is probably nutsy the squirrel crazy. The claim that the KNIL was to protect against rebels is a sort of halff-truth: colonial armies always exist to put potential rebels on the colonizers' payroll, to distribute part of the profit of the exploitation as pay in order to head off, not combat, rebellion.
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  3.  @vladimirnikolskiy  The crossover point is minus 40: forty below Celsius is the same as forty below Fahrenheit -- perfectly normal January in Eastern Ontario if you're twenty kilometres away from the Saint Lawrence.
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  4. One of the projects my late father, a weapons chemist, worked on was the "Churchill Special." This was a rudimentary pistol with a few bullets in a cardboard box, shovelled out of Sterling bombers over France before the re-invasion. The intent was that it was to be used gainst the Germans by Partisans. Some of these may even have existed. Instead, it was used by Gaulists and Communists after D-Day, ("Les communistes aussi, ceci c'est la France," -- deGaulle) in a sucession of nights of the long knives, slaughtering collaborators. After their possibility of collaboating had ended. Let it never be forgotten that DeGaulle had only two real military victories: against the Algerians and the Vietnamese in 1945.
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  5. You've got to cover Mongolia: More funny hats! More funny hats!
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