Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Mark Felton Productions" channel.

  1. "The first non-monkey American astronaut, Alan Shepard..." Funniest thing ever in an MFP video.
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  2. Puts me in the mind of the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, a (monoplane) Canadian counterpart also of 1940s vintage. Versatile, strong, reliable, well-suited to both military and civil utility roles. The US Army bought hundreds. A Canadian icon, the last of more than 1,600 was built in 1967. A great many are still in service, including Harrison Ford's. It's his go-to plane, which he flies more than any other. (That's right, Harrison Ford adores his Beaver.)
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  3. As usual, Mr. Felton tells us more about the lesser-known aspects of military campaigns. I find him illuminating on anything he turns his attention to.
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  4.  llewellyn evans  I see no reason to use the word cruel in light of the care and expense they went to in outfitting the return modules with parachutes. Mechanical failure was obviously not expected, so the monkey deaths were accidents, certainly sad ones. The noise, vibrations, and acceleration at launch and descent could have been distressing, I grant you. Whether such distress, if any, were passing and mild, emotionally shattering, or in between, I cannot guess. As for weightlessness, I'm not sure the Alberts would have sensed it, strapped in as they were, or if it would have bothered them if they did. On the whole I would say, because of the deaths being accidental, that if you want to talk about human failings and cruelty you could easily find much worse very near at hand. (Not that I find what you say ludicrous.) One could say things were more clear-cut in the case of Laika, the Russian space dog. She was never meant to return alive, and died up there.
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  5. I found this a very sensitive and interesting treatment of a touchy subject. Well handled. (Well conceived and thought-through, written, edited, narrated, and all the rest...)
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  6.  @aleksazunjic9672  Ok, Slobodan.
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  7. Get it out of there. Dismantle it carefully, exhume the buried respectfully, load it all on trains and return it to Russia where it belongs. In its place erect a monument to something else, the end of the Soviet subjugation of East Berlin and East Germany perhaps.
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  8.  @trackdusty  Feldman? Where do you get yours?
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  9. The modern world indeed has many serious problems. But is the lack of a Mutterkreuz program really one of them? It seems to me that besides unfairly penalizing through taxation those wishing to have fewer or no children, it might well incentivize some of the worst people to have the most children without due regard for their unbringing.
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  10.  @yostupidmama1  I was truly amused for a moment, thinking What is the worth of a piece of paper bearing a signed affirmation that something like that never happened? To any sensible person it's nearer to convincing evidence that it did happen! But then I realized it could be adduced in a court martial and land the guy in prison. Ah, lawyers and their ways.
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  11. How interesting. As usual it's something I'd never heard about—yet a subject arguably deserving of a shelfful of books.
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  12. ​ @LTPottenger  "They were killed by the allied bombing though, they don't tell you that part LOL" This seems a childishly simplistic 14-year-old's point to make. A great many German industrial workers died from Allied bombs and we can safely assume many of them were thoroughly decent human beings, plenty of whom had voted against Nazis in earlier elections. You could say something similar about numberless Wehrmacht conscripts, too, for that matter. So what were the Allies to do? Ought they to have said "Oh, no, we mustn't make war on Germany. We can't know if we're killing Nazi enthusiasts, reluctant participants, or innocent bystanders. Best to write letters to the Reich Chancellery instead, denouncing them in strong language and pleading with them to leave off'? Dresden may count as an atrocity, but bombing armaments factories cannot.
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  13. Notice the title: "Putin—KGB Agent," not "Putin: His Life."
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  14. ​ @sonjagatto9981  It hits you nicer in the French version, Adolphe. The French associate it with a masterpiece of fiction by Benjamin Constant having the name as its title. The eponymous character was decidedly interesting and a romantic figure, good-looking and of interest to cultivated women, as I recall. Stormy, brooding, etc., a bit of a French counterpart to the model of Byron if you ask me. (It was based largely on Constant's very difficult relationship with Mme. de Staël.)
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  15. Note that the Red Star is the emblem of the Russian armed forces to this day. A red star is not exclusively a communist symbol, but it of course was always the symbol of the Soviet armed forces, called the Red Army. Thus its use recalls—and seemingly honours and glorifies—the immense atrocities committed by the Soviet regime, including murder and genocide on a scale greater than that of the Nazis. If this has occurred to those who vilify Ukraine here, they omit to mention it for some reason.
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  16. Yet Switzerland, too, is a small country in central Europe. Thanks at any rate for an informative, interesting and perceptive comment.
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  17. He strikes me as someone from the era of wars himself. I think he's got a great deal of 1910-1950 in him, which is exactly what I respond to. Human society and character left something to be desired at the time, to be sure, but now it's something people back then would've considered a nightmare. I like to spend idle moments and spare time there.
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  18. It's incredible that it even makes a fearsome gunship for low-altitude ground attack, fitted out with numerous cannons and cruising at only 7k feet. It even has a Howitzer.
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  19.  @scsi_joe  Estimates are very difficult but, in like manner, the atomic bomb saved millions of lives, maybe over ten million, by obviating the need for an invasion of Japan. (See the Paul Fussell essay Thank God For the Atom Bomb. )
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  20. In the interview she revealed herself as rather charming. "Those Ukraine girls really knock me out," a man once said with considerable justice.
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  21.  @РулонОбоев-н9ъ  I guess you forgot the video you just watched.
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  22. In my view one should think long and hard before raising the subject of private or family matters with any stranger, and then not do it. Will he not say what he likes, when he likes, without any nudging? For my part, I like the creator-viewer arrangement on this channel as it is—fittingly impersonal, concerned only with things of historical significance.
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  23. It would be nice to think there are numerous young people here not just learning history, but also listening carefully and absorbing his example.
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  24.  @Barbara-ld4ug  You raise an excellent point. Why waste any of your life imagining anything at all when you can spend every moment just stewing over German atrocities? Nothing else really matters, does it? I think we're all better for being admonished by you. I think I'll spend my day contemplating your profound decency.
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  25. If he were a peer, Lord Felton would be a correct style. But for a knight the given name must always be used. Thus, Sir Mark, or Sir Mark Felton.
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  26. There is some reason to doubt all these figures, as the vast majority of people lose height after youth, most between 1 and 3 inches. The chief cause is compression of the 23 discs which separate most of the vertebrae, but bone loss also contributes. Thus, when the height of an older person is given based on a much earlier measurement, it is very likely incorrect.
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  27.  @archstanton6102  I was mildly astonished when in my mid-20s I entered a Buddhist temple newly constructed near where I lived, to find it adorned with a row of hundreds of swastikas along every inch of the perimeter of the main room.
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  28.  @РулонОбоев-н9ъ  Ok buddy. You're lying about what I said and my posts are right there for anyone to see. And you're minimizing Stalin's atrocities! Omg. Time to mute you.
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  29.  @PanzerBuyer  In a recent 30-country survey of happiness, Hungary ranked 30th. He's been in power for 15 years, so maybe he should resign and more births would follow without the need to bribe anyone.
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  30. If she was born in 1795 then she was 94 the day her grandson was born (1889). That's a rather uncommon sort of thing.
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  31.  @quintrankid8045  Oh my god, why are you replying to that putz so seriously? He's just someone who thinks he's clever, but his leading propensity is foolishness. Eminently ignorable.
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  32. Why does the lookout point appear spacious and somewhat sizeable in the old footage (5 :31) and cramped and small today? Strange, isn't it?
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  33.  @infinite8382  Oh please. But even if your 'The Rothschilds are in league with Disney and Soros and the Masons and the Deep State and Tom Cruise' mentality were correct here, there's still all that time before the BIS founding when Switzerland kept the integrity of its borders. Speaking of the BIS, it isn't even a large outfit by global standards (it would only rank, for example, a distant sixth among Canada's banks by assets) and its main purpose is to act as a discussion forum for staff of the world's central banks. I think it's a good idea for them to talk to each other.
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  34. Dr. Felton didn't say Hess edited it. He said Hitler dictated it to Hess.
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  35. Interestingly, there was a highly-decorated Oberleutnant in one of the Panzer brigades named Karl-Heinz Churchill.
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  36. Another successful raid on gaps in our knowledge by Mr. Felton.
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  37. The roof of a nearby building, as Mark stated.
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  38. 'Sir' plus a last name is never a correct form. Never. It must always be Sir plus either the first name alone or the full name. You're thinking of 'Lord' plus last name. (Lord is an aristocratic title which may be hereditary, while Sir indicates a knighthood, which is never hereditary. A knight is not an aristocrat, but a commoner.)
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  39. Watch other videos of the Second World War in order to have what you know confirmed. Watch Mark Felton in order to be surprised.
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  40. 1:36 Here an estimate of the value of the Merkers treasure is quoted, $7 billion. At the current gold price of about $1,850 per troy ounce, a ton of gold is worth $53.9 million. Thus $7 billion will buy 129.8 tons. And as a ton of gold can be cast into a cube measuring a mere 14.75" on a side (1.86 cubic feet), the pictures would seem to call the estimate into serious doubt. There is little in them besides the light bulbs and the ceiling height to give scale, but it appears unlikely the gold in all those bags could be formed into a cube measuring only 6'3" on a side. It appears, I stress. Maybe each bag contains only a single bar, and a small one at that. But maybe the cache amounted to many thousands of tons, not 130. At any rate, the estimate wasn't Mr. Felton's own. 12:50 At the current price of about $1,850 per troy ounce, 10.5 kg of gold is worth not $1,772,000 but around $625,000. I know I am picking nits, but there you have it. Of course the video is marvellous, just as we always expect!
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  41. Yes, notifications are broken...or more likely throttled on purpose, under some belief it helps raise profits or advances their social agenda. Next to nothing these companies do is what it appears. It's all to accomplish things they don't want known.
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  42. What you say is striking and evokes pity in us all. But I must strongly disagree with your respondents who claim that the Allied attacks there constituted an immorality on those grounds exactly. Say a Wehrmacht unit of a hundred kills ten people in a Dutch village. The unit, having left the village, is then encircled by Allied troops and a firefight begins. Is the Allied commander obliged to estimate the German casualties as it proceeds and then at some point say "Right, cease fire! We've now killed fifteen of them and that's more than enough. It's not right to go on, since they only killed ten. We move out now."? No. It is right to battle them until they are wiped out or surrender. In like fashion, it is in my view right to bomb armaments factories in a war without qualms specifically about the record of destruction of the devices made there. It is right in the same sense that makes it wrong to bomb factories where uniforms are sewn together. Bombing the bomb factories is very much an act of self-defence, an effective one at that, which also might save more enemy soldiers and civilian lives than civilian lives are lost at the time, by ending the war earlier. And, not to seem hostile, but tell me, are there statistics enumerating war deaths which are not awful to contemplate?
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  43.  @himoffthequakeroatbox4320  Yes, but in defense of his beloved old Beaver, he was flying another plane at the time.
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  44. YouTube ads, Mark Felton ads. Soon the ads will have ads. You know, Dr. Felton, it's a thin line between noble academic historiography and being a ghoulish Naz-trepreneur.
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  45. The video title is sadly incorrect, for Luna 9 was only the first moon landing of a certain type, namely a soft landing. It was not the first craft to land on the Moon. Not mentioned here is the actual first moon landing, that of Luna 2. The Soviet craft made a hard landing on September 14, 1959.
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  46. ​ carl hartford  And the trick is to uphold the latter without being the least bit ashamed of the former, as much as you can. Don't forget your manners; don't savage your nature.
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  47.  @RodCorkin  It's possible that, across the West, the bill for it all and the wealth destroyed will mean the pandemic (which has some way yet to go) will ultimately rival the Second World War for sheer expense. It's already in the tens of trillions and could still mushroom much higher if it tips asset prices downhill. Let 200m houses lose $100k in value and that's $20t. A 30% haircut to the world's stock markets would be $30t. You get the idea.
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  48. The 'hof' in words ending in -hof (meaning yard, courtyard, station, etc.) rhymes much more with 'oaf' than 'cough.'
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  49.  @quintrankid8045  A group of TAs probably ordered him to.
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  50.  @rinkashikachi  The victory of Stalin and the USSR over Hitler and the Nazi regime was just that. It was not the world being saved. It was the Soviets saving themselves —with Western aid, by the way!—and then conquering about a dozen countries themselves.   One monster slew another monster, that's all.
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