Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "History Hustle" channel.

  1. In the US in school we are given the impression that the Soviet Union invaded Poland simultaneously with the Germans (i.e. September 1, 1939). In fact, Stalin waited two whole weeks, a long time by early WWII standards, before ordering Soviet troops into Polish ruled territory. Polish ruled because it was primarily populated by East Slavic speaking Orthodox people...i.e. not Poles.* The Polish government was heading to exile by that time, the army had collapsed with remnants heading to Romania, and the Soviets met zero resistance. *Even today the territory 'invaded' by the Red Army is mostly in the Ukraine (Orthodox, East Slav) and a bit is in Bielorus (Orthodox, East Slav).
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  2. @stephanottawa7890 Poland itself had a non-aggression pact with the Germans. What is more they cooperated with the Germans to pressure Czechoslovakia in the run up to the Munich conference. They massed troops on the border and also gave notice they gave notice they would prevent any Soviet help for Czechoslovakia by blocking transit, even air transit, of Soviet forces. The Poles get way too easy a ride in Western historiography.
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  3. Yes that is the most egregious think about this. He hasn't been asked about the incident even AFAIK
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  4. Ooooh Canadian and other Anglo-Saxon liberals are soooooo mad they got caught praising a Nazi.
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  5. You ever think that maybe the people under 'the rival government' don't consider themselves Borderlanders?
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  6.  @HistoryHustle  The West, as say this as an American, promoted Kurdish separated in Syria and the partition of Sudan plus helped with the dissolution of Yugoslavia.
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  7. @jaylowry Not crazy. The British hated the Russians and then the Soviets and always tried to limit their power in any way.
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  8. The Soviet famine was widespread and not limited to the Ukraine. Also imperial Russia created the first Finnish state...before that you were serfs to Swedish overlords.
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  9. @mikebrase5161 Well, when you are tiny nations that manage to furnish whole SS divisions (plus outdo the Germans in judenreining your 'country'), there are consequences. It didn't help that the local N*zis kept fighting a few years after the war.
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  10. And went on to get a really good headstart on...well, what the N*z*s were known for.
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  11. @sherrillwhately7586 Russian volunteers went to help their fellow ethnic Russians who had been voting for autonomy from 'Ukraine' since 1994.
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  12. @daveweiss5647 Kicked out the N*z*s, stopped their own bad apples from k*ll*ng more you know who, industrialized, gave them a power system they were using until this month, 35 years after 'independence'. And of course the Baltics had their own commies too. One of them, Jeronimas Uborevičius, was instrumental in putting down the Russian peasant rebellion in Tambov in the early 1920s.
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  13. Why? Odessa is like 99.9% Russian speaking. Even Kiev, from what I've heard from videos on the streets, seems to be about 2/3 Russian speaking. But even more so, we don't say or write 'Muenchen', or Torino, or Moskva. The names of those cities came into English via Russia ('Ukrainian' wasn't even standardized when they were brought in).
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