Berlin Wall
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  • Churchill's 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech in the US was British propaganda which helped usher in the McCarty era and the Communist scare. Churchill was simply Great Britain's Joseph Goebbels. BTW, the use of the term "Iron Curtain" , in reference to Russia, was first used by Joseph Goebbels, towards the end of the war.

  • If we're going to be bombarded by commercials, then at least they can upload a better quality version then fucking 380p !!!!

  • oh and fuck russia

  • Man! Those guys shoot the tunnel digging and flying escape videos are truly awesome and braves and just kick the ass of 99.9% youtube kids shooting silly videos.....

  • fuck communism! even though I do not like germany

  • This is american propaganda at its worst...

    My parents lived in East Germany all their lives and never complained. It was clearly a paradise and americans are afraid to admit it...

  • @HepburnFlicks

    That makes two of them. They must have been Stasi rats, much like the Nazi informers.

    I was in East Germany. Nobody other than the privileged party members wanted top be there.

  • @HepburnFlicks

    That makes two of them. They must have been Stasi rats, much like the Nazi informers.

    I was in East Germany. Nobody other than the privileged party members wanted top be there.

    Did your parents support the murders of those trying to go to the other side of the "Anti-

    Fascist Protection Barrier"? I'm guessing you're jus a precocious little girl looking for attention. Get it elsewhere. Grownups are talking here.

  • @HepburnFlicks Which is why so many West Germans were shot fleeing to the East.

  • call of duty ? lol that was a random coment i know is not politics is that i dont know how to deal with retarts and i tell them in a dumb way for politics so they can shut up and it works and whats call of duty

  • okay guys, communism isn't bad, its the people that run it, okay, so don't go insulting communism when it eliminates class

  • @abspartanlaser Yes, Communism eliminates class. Just not the class that you have in mind.

  • Now the Germans got to feel what it was like to be a Jew in NAZI Germany. Germans didn't mind the walls when it was to was to create Jewish ghettos. It's kind of hard to feel bad for the Germans,they did it to themselves.

  • @christo930

    Not really... Nazi Germany killed 6,000,000 Jews but USSR Killed 50,000,000 and they didn't get a punishment... And if the Cold War really happened, it would be a lot worse than WWII...

    And it wasn't THEM who did it. It was their parents and grandparents.

  • @WindowsAndMacintosh They got pretty much the same punishment (their country was broken up), only permanently instead of 45 years. The only difference is that it wasn't something forced on them, it broke up on it's own. I do agree that Russia should have paid a bigger price. And it WAS THEM who ended up with the wall. Germany was broken up at the close of WW2 and that wouldn't have happened had NAZI Germany not attacked the SU unprovoked.

  • @CaptainCrunch35 what do Mexicans have to do with this?

  • This is a great documentary.

  • The Bolsleviks where paranoid MOFOs

  • We need a wall like that between the US and Mexico

  • @chroylikesfish haha, I think we just need our government to let our Border Guards accually be able to "shoot" and illegals.

  • im watching this because its a call of duty map

  • @steevenmalspima im watching because of wind of change by the scorpions

  • Just goes to show, if people want freedom, they will DO anything.

  • I truly enjoy this video.. Im 13 and this time in history fasinates me. Not as in i like to see people murdered. But how Dictators, Germany, Russia and etc actually pulled of these insane and crazy deeds.

  • @FragrantGinger ya read about kim jong ill he is a funny topic

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  • @albizu2010 Communism and Capitalism both suck as. So what is the point of trying to prove communism is great and capitalism is bad? The Cold War is over, move on dude.

  • Why is this video about a guy getting hit with snowballs?... OOOOHHH....

  • the germans deserve itt

  • hahaha and they say america is the bad country

  • isn't Berlin still a Nazi district?Mrceebees,I am so sorry you were put through that.

    Although communism is a terrible act,I think fascism is what Hitler believed in.

    I may only be 11,but I know what work you did them.Since I have autism,they would have taken me.What to do in the holocaust?Run.Hide.And my favorite part.Kill.

  • @ThePooeater2 If you happened to be born to rich parents, the communists would've killed you just as quickly as the Nazis killed autistic kids. And no, Berlin isn't Nazi...they'd be crazy to still be Nazis after what happened during the war...

  • What was the wall for anyway?

  • how to download the video???????????

  • @flylysun google how to downlaod youtube video

  • wow i would of nuked the area if i was there

  • @modernwarfare72000 XD What the FUCK?!No one told me there were bombs there! snake,their are bombs there. oh,thanks,bitch!

    oh,gosh,I hope a tank doesn't come out of nowhere and totally own me.*BOOM CRASH BANG* you know,I'm seriously getting a little fucking pissed off! hey,snake,there's a tank about to come out of nowhere and tottally own-

    SHUT UP!

  • This is what we need on the Mexican border. The only problem is that it's 2000 miles long, lol

  • @gguerra3 That is not funny at all.

  • @SWEETAgirl20 I live on the border, ha! I was being cynical

  • @gguerra3  tu puta madre de donde vino tu familia o eres ijo de indios puto gerra

  • @sanchez04301972

    Chingas a tu putisima madre cabron. Tu que eres? Mojado. Puedo adivinar eso por que no hablas ingles. Quedate en tu puto pais pinche mojado.

  • @gguerra3 muy gringo puto de mierda chinga tu fuck you madre mix para que veas pendejo apache

  • This is deserving of medals.

    Talk about applying yourselves.

    Damn smart Germans!!!

  • My family got out of there in 1952.

    And thank God.

    Fuck communism.

  • @mrceebees14 my grandma died trying to cross in 1963 but my grampa made it and all i have left of my grandma is a old cloth she knitted and her shoe

    i agree, fuck communism

  • @mrceebees14 Not communism the ussr was socialist learn somthing

  • @mrceebees14 capitalism is even worst so shut the fuck up dirty capitalist 

  • @mrceebees14

    Do you know that there has never been a real legitimate Communist country? Obviously not, you're fucking retarded. If you knew anything about REAL Communism, you would know that all of these dictatorship governments using Communism as a scapegoat, go against the basic principles of Communism. So, not fuck Communism, Fuck YOU for being ignorant.

  • @Blanch5443 cuba, vietnam, n.korea, china, & laos are communist countrys??

  • @Killer31st russia

  • @Blanch5443 Actually curse communism, it is the same everywhere. And if you say there has not been real comunism we have to conclude there have not been either any real communist party in any country in the world. All the communist and solcialist parties of Eurpoe, the Uninted States, and elsewhere support and protect the communist slavery regime in Cuba, they recognize it as its own.

  • @CubanodePlacetas Not all parties support it, and I do as well. With a little more support, and less assassination attempts, Cuba could have probably turned out okay. But America has to fuck over what's not in line with it's beliefs, and we've been slowly destroying them since.

    And Russia, Vietnam, Korea, China, and Laos are not Communists. They're using Communism as a scapegoat. Learn about Communism before you just trash it.

  • @Blanch5443 I know probably more about communist that you could every dream to know. I was forced to read all the bullshit that Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc every wrote as part of my education in Cuba and the Soviet Union and it is the same shit both in theory and practice. The evil practice is just the consequence of applying the theory. Communist is much different than the brain washing you have assimilated.

  • @CubanodePlacetas If you read it, you would know all Marx and Engels wanted to have was a workers paradise. Not the shit that came of Stalin, or Castro. If you read their works, you'd have taken out what they wanted, not evil.

  • @mrceebees14

    My American Indian ancestors didn't get away from your capitalist kind.

    Thank the Great Spirit some did.

    Fuck Capitalism.

    The majority of East Germans want Communism back.

  • @AtheismCentral There is no such thing as an American Indian.

  • @mrceebees14

    I don't get it, what are you saying?

  • @AtheismCentral I am correcting you, there is no such thing as an American Indian. 1) The natives to North America have been there not only well before Americano Vesbushi, but well before the Vikings who were there hundreds of years earlier and really discovered the land that Columbus gets the nod for discovering. What Columbus did was land in Nicaragua, he thought he had found a short route to India, hence he called the natives he saw "Indian," which is totally incorrect.

  • @AtheismCentral 2) Eastern Communism lasted from 1917 to 1991 and failed terribly, you are aware that it is dead and gone, the mother country that spread communism died and lost all of her territory with it. This while the U.S. has thrived under capitalism and has since 1783 and is the #1 super power in the world and has been since 1945. So your comment is totally incorrect, we are still here, communism is largely dead.

  • @mrceebees14 Is the US really thriving under capitalism? In 1945 we made just about everything we consumed. Today much of our manufacturing has been outsourced and those jobs are no longer available here in the US. We are now a nation of consumers who work in low paying service jobs. We do manufacture some damn fine weapons of war though, but if you are injured by one of these weapons, or in any other way, good luck getting proper medical treatment if you aren't already financially wealthy.

  • @AtheismCentral 3) the majority of Eastern Germans would laugh in your face like I am. You really don't have a clue what life was like behind a fucking wall with mines, attack dogs, machine gun towers, barbed wire etc to KEEP PEOPLE FROM LEAVING do you? West Germany had a top 5 economy under our democratic system. They could come and go as they please, get an education, be free of religious persecution, none of these things were evident in the communist system of East germany. You are a tool.

  • @AtheismCentral I agree with your sentiments about capitalism.

  • why did nobody try and fly over the wall

  • If you actually watched the video, you would know that people did try to fly over the wall.

  • Acually, Hitler had the best economic revival that Germany ever had

  • well hello, you have to be kidding, america had nothing to do with the berlin wall dooofis breath, its all germany and germanic past shithead

  • great shows always enjoy

  • peace love an hope for all mankind

  • In a way it reminds me of alcatraz I dont know why though

  • still have "berlin wall" in Terrorist country China,I hate all communist party .

  • China isnt true communism,so dont get the wall mixed with communism

  • Le finalement de le mur.

  • C'est magnifique! Je d'accord!

  • Americans always take something as simple as a video and involve and intwine ur selfs with something far from you.... this is a video of German History.. so stfu about Obama and stop ranting about ur stupid fucking rights.

  • The Berlin Wall was constructed by Stalins Russia to force the Americans out of Berlin. The Americans wanted to rebuild Germanys economy so Germany could become independent again. Russia wanted to punish the Germans. So the Americans began flying food to the Germans after the wall started starving them out. This caused relations between the USSR and US to sour. So, it's part of US history too. A major part, actually. It's their business also.

  • Thanks, I didn't know any of that, thanks for explain it to me! =D

  • No prob. But yeah, this is what started the Cold War and pent the East against the West.

  • "The Americans wanted to rebuild Germany economy so Germany could become independent again."

    You don't actually believe that do you? The Americans just wanted to be nice and help Germany be independent again....are you serious?

  • im surprised americans are considered stupid with idiots from other countries like this saying this crap

  • @ilandman11 why is there so much hating on america? is it because were better then u

  • @superzerohead no populace is "better" than another, each has a high amount of ignorant people (such as yourself) which has allowed a small amount of now powerful and manipulative men to control the world. Its because of people like you, that we cannot. have. nice. things.

  • @ilandman11 i have so many nicee things what are you jealous?

  • @superzerohead no because u destroy the world and the rest of the world has to pay for usa stupidity and we let get away with it.russia,china,north korea. they can tear up apart usa and nuke it so shut the fuck because they almost did in 1960s so u should thanks to kruchev that he stoped fidel castro from luanching a nuke to usa and kruchev was russian and allied to cuba so if i was kruchev i would say yes launch that shit the world would be like yes no more war and MORE FREEDOM.

  • @albizu2010 aww shuv ur nukes up ur ass. ill use fists

  • @superzerohead aww thats the best u could say.

  • @superzerohead You need to shut up. Its idiots like you that make America look like its mentally delayed. Slowly im becoming disapointed in my country because of fucking idiots trying to act like their all badass because they are american. I apologize to all people who think superzerohead is a casual American, he is infact a disgrace with his idiocy. But slowly im beginning to believe that more Americans are just as retarded as he is.

  • @albizu2010 here in america i hate mexicans who illegally immagrated here, retarded black people who think they are cool because they are in a gang, any racist rednecks, and bush.

  • hey everyone

    what was the point of checkpoints in the berlin wall? i mean couldnt the escapees just use those?

  • Its a military checkpoint. security was tight not like the U.S. /Mexican border.

  • How does Obama trying to achieve affordable Healthcare = Being locked behind a wall and under the control of a tryannical regime? If this = socialism, I'll take it. The only people who stand to lose are some Doctors, HealthInsurance Companies, and Politicians who take money from the first two. Don't fool yourself, True Democracy is a dream, that will never be realized. Ask the workers at GM and Chrysler (who still have jobs) if they think Obama is a socialist.

  • Because trying to fix problems by adding more government involvement = Bad idea.

  • i hate these damn ads in youtube

  • i know. tell me about it

  • Obama can only hope to be Ronald Reagan's golf caddie. Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest leaders in history.

  • Agreed!

  • And I hope any leader who is arrogant enough to try to force socialism on a populace get boiled in boiling blood in hell. May Stalin burn in hell forever. That man was more evil than Hitler.

  • I could see Obama and his socialist ideals turning into this.

  • Did you plan on providing reasoning for this bold assertion, or do you prefer to irresponsibly spread fear via outrageous, crude statements?

  • Do you normally troll around looking for political fights?

  • This is a great vid. Very mesmerizing and also educational. O_o;

    ^_^ Kudos to NG for making education fun!

    Must... watch... more...

  • This only has 306 views because its not age appropriate. LOL I watch worst stuff on Nick.

  • wow....I learned a lot from this....

  • im glad i got a piece of it as a present.

  • need to be in better quality..

    thanks for uploading it tho..

  • I'll have to watch this later.

  • me too, i have to wait till the video quality is at its best!

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