I could watch this all day. God bless America and God bless our troops for protecting our way of life, and ensuring that freedom and democracy - not tyranny and oppression- reign unchallenged throughout the world. Though we might not always be completely right, we're very rarely completely in the wrong.
am i the only one who finds it ironic that the 1812 overture was about the battle of Waterloo and was composed by aq russian... yet no russians took part in the battle? lol
@@@ YouTube user Qu1rk89 >>> I like this video and how well you placed the historical events together. For me; It gave the Aw shucks / wow !! feeling and I wished I had this material in my American History class. The study would have been much more easier.
Why not find some American music to celebrate your heroism in, for instance. attacking a tiny country that was trying to reunify itself and dropping more bombs on it than had been dropped in the whole of WW11, when you routinely killed prisoners of war and threw kids out of helicopters, and used napalm against civilian villages, and sprayed so much agent orange on the jungle that the Vietnamese tiger is now extinct and birth defects in the area are double the global average, and you still lost??
Considering that the music is Russian, isn't it more likely that the dislikers are the small percentage of intellegent Americans who think that their nation should be honoured with more capitalistic tunes?
ALL borders are being crossed. The only countries that aren't of interest for immigrants are those currently bombed. Swedes go to Norway to work when the pay is better there, Pollacks g to Sweden - heck if I knew who's immigrating what way when it comes to Finland or Denmark, you could just as well wipe out the borders right away. That's NOT mentioning the /war immigrants/ or the German tourists. We're all targeted so it's really not a US only thing ;)
It's hard to understand how a nation like the USA, with such solid foundation roots and the high intellectual level of its Founding Fathers, who were once the admiration of the whole world, could end up with a guy like George W. Bush in office and a mob like the Tea Party Tribe making the country the laughingstock of the whole world. To me it's very sad to see the first signs of the decadence of a great nation.
@odalrich I understand me im a history buff of my school and family; get paid for helping my grandpa catelog, write reports of photos and artifacts and it baffles me how such leaders like benjamin franklin, the adams', and george washington among others fought for the foundation of a country of freedom, peace, justice, and rise up like a mighty phoneix from the ashes of the American Revolution... remarkable yet look at us now... if any country wanted to invade us we would break like a toothpick
I don’t think any country can invade the USA and break it like a toothpick, as no country in the past could invade the Soviet Union when the crisis in that country reached its peak, back in the 1980’s. It is not a military problem but a problem of a system showing the first signs of exhaustion and with a political class incapable to find solutions or unwilling to control the speculative forces that are ruining the nation.
Today nobody wants to invade a country to inherit its problems.
@odalrich How about the liberal agenda That Obama trys to push on us, how's that working for you? Obama is the laughing stock of the whole world! I almost want to puke every time he speaks to the nation. I have never heard anything inspiring ever come from his lips. The Tea Party has it right - smaller government, LESS spending - we don't need to become a nanny state, like those we see all over Europe. Look at England, riots all over the place, cause their "free entitlements" are being taken...
@bluebelly07 The entire economic disaster we are experiencing is due to the erroneous policies implemented by governments in the U.S. mainly Republican (Reagan and Bush, senior and junior). These policies have infected the rest of the world, particularly Europe. The current occupant of the White House inherited this chaos, but is not guilty of that mess. The social unrest in England has been caused, mainly, by the government cuts of welfare policies.
@odalrich Exactlly my point, Obama, with his "Obamacare", failed stimulus plans, unprecedented regulations against US industries, is leading us down the socialistic road to become a nanny state. We are now seeing this all over Europe, who wants to go there? He has doubled our debt in only 21/2 years, it is now his economy, and can blame no one else. He tries to divide us into classes, when's the last time you got a job from a poor person? The American dream is to become rich! 2012- HE IS GONE!
@odalrich Oh, and don't forget Freddie and Fanny and the Democrats like Barney Frank, who thought every American should own a house, even though they could not afford it! That's what led us into this mess more than anything else. "Hope and change", "Yes we can", do what? Destroy this nation, that's what! If we allow this madness to go on. Please tell me how Bush and Reagan policies infected the world. Look what Obama is doing (or not doing) now! It's quite obvious he's no leader!
@bluebelly07 1) We all want to become rich, but, as you say, this is just a dream (even if it’s American). There aren’t enough resources in the world for everybody to become rich. Only 1% of America managed to get rich during these years of neocon economics.
Nanny states? Scandinavia and some other European countries are precisely this, and their inhabitants enjoy a higher standard of living than Americans. No one wants to come here? Our borders and coasts are being overrun •••/•••
@odalrich So are ours! Just look what is happening at our Texas borders! It certainly is not Americans fleeing to Mexico! I've been to Europe, complements of the US Navy and would chose to live nowhere else in the world, but the good old USA. I used the term "to become rich" to counter Obamas belief in "redistribution of wealth." Why, he's promised the Brizalians 3 billion dollars so they can exploit their offshore oil reserves so they sell them to us! He's off his rocker! We have our own...
@bluebelly07 •••/••• 2) by illegal immigrants. We have American “tourists” in our hospitals here in Spain because they just can’t afford a decent medical treatment back home. Here is free. The Reagan reforms gave too much power to banks and financial institutions and they made a mess of it. The national debt went sky-high with Bush Jr- too much expenditure on arms when terrorism was a police and intelligence problem, not a military problem.•••/•••
@odalrich American hospitals are among the best in the world, believe me, I know! Our hospitals, here in Michigan, are full of Canadians whom can't get proper care at home, due to their screwed up system! Oh no, your health care IS NOT free, somebody pays...Again "redistribution of wealth." You are probably taxed to death!
@bluebelly07 1) Sometimes nations have to contribute to the development of other nations if they want to obtain "soft power". China could pay the 3 billion dollars to Brazil and get influence in this country at the expense of the US; this is part of the foreign policy of all nations; the US will be in a better position to obtain Brazilian oil. The US lost much of this power when Bush Jr was in office and the influence of the US in the world diminished. •••/••·
@bluebelly07 •••/•••and 2) I've never doubted the quality of US hospitals, but many Americans can't afford them. The maintenance of a health system is much lower per capita, when the whole society pays for it, and at the same time everybody has access to full medical care, not only the very poor but also people with seriouschronic diseases. My taxes to finance my health care are much lower than the premium I'd have to pay to an insurance company for a more restricted service.
@bluebelly07 •••/••• and 3) Socialistic road? Bankers and capital didn’t complain when they received Federal financial aid: Socialism for the rich. I do not know if Obama is doing right or wrong policies, I don’t live in the U.S. and in Europe we are with the water up to our necks to worry about that, but the Republicans made a mess of the economy.
@LaNationQuebecoise Honestly, who gives a damn about the French. All that they are good for is their bread and their dominance in the market of producing white flags.
"The only thing the french are good for nowadays is surrendering like Colonel
Washington defeated and captured at Fort Necessity on july 03 1754,
by french army from Quebec "
more laugh please....french people are the first discover of North America 200 year before the red necks came ,and italian,greek,chinese,deutsh,japanese, spanish,portuguese,cow boys and martian,etc...☺
Tchaikovsky was commissioned by Nicolas Rubinstein in 1880 to write a festive and patriotic piece to coincide with the Moscow Cathedral of the Savior(built to commemorate the liberation of the Russians from the 1812 Napoleonic invasion), there already existed a body of precedent for the use of brass band, church bells, and cannon together with symphony orchestra. Plans seems to indicate open-air performance in the great square before the Kremlin,
@MaisterM68 Napoleon didn't invade Germany. He invaded the Holy Roman Empire, with over 200 individual states. Nothing like a united Germany, therefore he had less resistance than a whole country.
@MaisterM68 you clearly said "typically American" your saying i'm not american and at the same time you said i have an American reaction ? ???????????
@cmekill64 Throughout the History of France, they have had the largest, and second most organized military in Europe for over 500 years. It was not until the 1700's that their army started to weeks (drastically) but when Napoleon took over, they had a small spike and were number one again, until the Invasion of Russia, and the Battle of Waterloo. Then the French suffered a fate similar to Germany after WWI and WWII. Also I consider the Napoleon wars WWI, WW1 is WW2, and WW2 is WW3.
Some poorly educated Americans think that Tchaikovsky was a great American composer and his famous 1812 Overture was written specifically to glorify events of American history. Regretfully, this video is yet another contribution to this historical and cultural deception.
@pianist2011able unfortunately, this is true. im not sure why we picked this song to play on independence day all the time when it commemorates Russia's defeat at borodino (which eventually led to napoleons defeat). but it's still a really awesome song, and i guess it just appealed to americans b/cof its grandeur
Good video. Any true American would put aside their political opinions, as I'm sure none of us here are politicians, and agree that this truly puts America in a very good short overview of our history.
@SleepingSun1985 For almost 75 years after we became a country, defending ourselves was all we could do. Even during the civil war, Britain was considering joining the confederates.
As for helping our neighbors, we do it all the time, but the publicity goes to when we get ourselves caught in wars that don't accomplish much. Anyway, look at both world wars, where brits and frenchmen were getting their asses kicked until we showed up.
I realize that this was NOT written for America - HOWEVER I believe the composer's genius is big enough to share and I appreciate his music. And, for those who think Americans think the song was written for our Civil War they need to check the dates of the Civil War -it was WAY after 1812.
Thank you Mr. Tchaikovsky for music that cannot be improved upon
The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major, Op. 49,[popularly known as the 1812 Overture or the Overture of 1812 (French: Ouverture Solennelle, L'Année 1812, Russian: Торжественная увертюра «1812 год», Festival Overture The Year 1812), is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino in 1812. It’ not an American military march, but a Russian opus
Can I just ask if you think it is kind of ironic that you have taken a piece of music from 1812? The same year that has given its date to a war where the British burnt Washington D.C. (the Capitol building, White House and so on) to the ground? I'm sorry just as a Briton I see incredible irony in celebrating your military history (and prowess) while citing a date that would have lived in infamy in the minds of your ancestors (P.S. you spelt "neighbours" wrong).
so to celebrate american wa rhistory you use a peice of russian music celebrating the russian defeat over napoleans army??? i should make a russian war history video using the star spangeled banner lol
I come from a long line of American soldiers. I recently discovered that I am a direct descendant of a man who was at Valley Forge and Yorktown with Washington's troops. My father was a Captain in the USMC in WW II and Korea. As much as I love the USA, and this production, I think war is a terrible waste. WE have been manipulated and lied to for years in this blood ritual which is hardly ever justified. I guess Vietnam and our current wars really woke me up to how much we are self deceived.
As an American citizen, i'd like to say that our military stopped being helpful after the 1950's and we could easily bring our education level up to par if we spent half of the money we now spend on weaponry and wars on schools instead.
@Truth118 Well said, I totally agree. Ive heard American military spending exceeds $1 Billion Dollars, where as on the otherhand the Chinese only spend £190 Million Pounds worth on their military. The British Armies budget is a meger £60 Million but we still manage to keep a presence around the world. I guess thats the cost for being part of the infamous 'Pax Americana'.
Ya some Russian dude wrote this music from his dacha outside Moscow commemorating America's war with Britain......kinda like some American dude named Francis Scott Key wrote some music commemorating Russia's victory over some French dude........
Tchaikovsky es ruso ,los cuales le ganaron alos nazis ironia del video,y lo peor enaltecer la guerra ,seguro que el que hizo este video nunca a estado cerca de una guerra idiota
I think it's some subconscious American thing, I keep coming across hints of it even in academic literature written by Americans.
Or maybe it's just because America simple is that visible that no matter what subject or what geographical nook of the world, America is omnipresent. Glaring down at the rest of us. With Americanism.
(no, this was not a serious comment, not fully serious at least - people outside of the states might see what I'm getting at)
"If you know your history well then the photo montage will appeal much more." Actually no, because the naval images of the Revolutionary period of this video's chronology depicts battles of the War of 1812, not the war of independence. Why not put an image of the fight between the Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis?
@Faxe90Swe Wrong. You are the worst, politicians don't say it, but entire world despises your warring empire of terror and carnage. You still need more red on your flag, for all the innocent blood you spilt and are yet to. Europe despises your disgusting occupation of other countries, i am ashamed that your empire is an offspring of the Europe i live in. Bloody mob of murderers is what you are.
I'm Swedish. I don't agree on everything America has done, but no country is perfect! In the end of the day, America still remain the only part of the Western world that actively tries to uphold our integrity and prestige against non-Western influences and threats. They're the only ones not committed to this post-colonial apologistic attitude that rules Europe and relegates us to a position were we're told what to do by third world countries.
Oh, you're not part of the western world... you're from one of those third world countries... then your stand makes perfect sense to me, you probably long for a new Soviet Union. as well.
@Faxe90Swe Wrong. They invade other countries , meddle in others business, steal natural resources, and economically ruin others. What European country does that? Even in the time of cruelest colonizations we were not like that. P.s. im from central Europe...
Except for Germany and Austria, central Europe is just a mess of third world countries, especially Croatia. And if you read up on subjects such as South African history, Indian history and North African history etc. etc. you'll find that France and Britain have a long record of doing the stuff you indict America of doing.
Also, how awful were the Americans when they defeated the nazis, when they helped protect western Europe from the Soviets?
@Faxe90Swe Allright, according to you, we are a scum beneath notice. Thank you, mr. swedish man, i will not complain, but thank you for your insight. Besides, i respect Sweden to my utmost, and i will not be swayed by your opinion. But realistically, the allmighty USA could have intervened much much earlier. But no, they waited for the best possible moment that would position them over europe. Cheers mate. I am against any kind of totalitarism...
America had this thing called isolationism, they didn't want to get involved in the bloody business of Europe. WW1 taught them to stay away. Instead, they followed the Monroe doctrine which called for them to invest all their attention and resources to the Western hemisphere. It was a policy laid down a long time before world war 2, and their late participation in ww2 depended on that attitude, not some agenda to rule Europe.
Hundreds of thousands? Hardely. Stealing their oil? Please tell me how. Illegally invaded? If you think it's illegal to invade totalitarian regimes (I thought you didn't like totalitarianism?) that truly are responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands, I think that while I may lack morals, you have none at all.
This discussion was over before it begun, because Ï'm the only one discussing! You rant and throw indictments and libels hither and dither without grounds.
@Faxe90Swe No matter the regime, it is wrong to invade other countries. You are in fact defending totalitarian regime, justifying agression, theft, and murder, and while some people are passive to such matters, you in fact defend it? Nice job. I guess you would likewise defend Hitler's invasion of Poland. At least you show your true colors.
So it was wrong to invade nazi Germany? Ok, I guess that establishes your allegiances.
Again, you completely go off topic when you can't argue... Let's say this: I'm a nihilistic scoundrel without any morals. Now that we have that cleared out, would you please stop handing out moral cookies and start to actually answer my arguments?
It is very hypocritical by Europeans to bash America, when it was the war-mongering of their own grandfathers that put America in that spot in the first place! Now that Soviet is gone, America can, and should, try to reform back into its pre-ww2 state of affairs. That's the America I defend and hope for. But such changes doesn't happen over-night, so we just got to be patient and let that bear go back to sleep. Given the public sentiments in America, we're soon there.
And no, they wouldn't have been able to intervene earlier: fact is that 1941 was too early too. America's army was smaller than most European ones and lacking in both equipment and training. America hasn't always been a military superpower, not before ww2.
That you indict America of totalitarianism just goes to show how an unreasonable bigot you are. Maybe take a break from the European propaganda? Maybe try and read up and form an opinion of your own?
It's quite ironic that people used to hate America because they were isolationistic and didn't care for the outside world, that they only cared about their own business; now when America is playing the role everybody wanted them to, they just get a lot of shit for it.
@Faxe90Swe I am stating my opinion, i don't care about propaganda. And you, you defend country that illegaly invaded Iraq, with no valid excuse, steal their oil, and are responsible for hundreds of thousands dead in that conflict? You have an interesting set of double standards. But things you clearly don't value are justice and liberty, as an affront to fascism, so our discussion is over.
You are stating the opinion given to you by slightly more intelligent leftists and European supremacists; you´re only part of a mindless mob. This is proven by your dodging of my counter-arguments - instead of giving valid arguments in defense of your own statements, you rant about fascism and other irrelevant libels and turn it into a question of my morals. When I answer one indictment, you just line up another one, not caring to argue on the previous - because you can't
@Faxe90Swe I am hardly a leftist, actually far from it, i dont care about idiotic politicians and their mindless rant. And i would much rather be a part of a mindless mob, then defend such regimes like you do. And ofcourse it is all one big question of morals, and if you stand your ground defending such agressive violance and invasions, than it speaks more then enough about your moral values.
I defend America, not its "regimes". It is true that America has been hijacked by an imperial presidency and the invasion of Iraq was illegal. All true, but who's fault is it in the long run? The problem with you guys are that you curse without knowing your history. Pre-ww2 America was the embodiment of liberalism and peace with the world. America could afford being such in those times. But then came ww2, the recession of the European nations and the ascension of Russia...
as the Soviet Union. Europe, half of which had already been "liberated" by the Red Army, was weary after the war; the old superpowers of France and Britain relegated to second place, leaving a power vacuum. Who could muster the strength and resolution to fill this vacuum and save Europe, and consequently the whole world, from total Soviet domination? America. In that way began the story of America as a militaristic empire -to safeguard our integrity towards the Soviet Union.
What utter rot - the 1812 was nothing to do with America i it was Russia ejecting Napoleon the same way Canada ejected the invading US armies
ljlpreston 1 week ago
if usa and russia were alied in ww2 to fight germany we can be allied to fight today peaxe to the world love america
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I could watch this all day. God bless America and God bless our troops for protecting our way of life, and ensuring that freedom and democracy - not tyranny and oppression- reign unchallenged throughout the world. Though we might not always be completely right, we're very rarely completely in the wrong.
wrstshot18 3 months ago
3:17 ENEMY AC130 ABOVE
wangster732 4 months ago
wow a bunch of Americans killing poor people in foreign countries, real patriotic... goooofs
joeyride7 4 months ago
@joeyride7 fuck you
ryantherock1 4 months ago
@ryantherock1 Tough truth?
aryllia 4 months ago in playlist Liked
@joeyride7 Not sure what you're talking about. Care to explain?
Ocelllian2 3 months ago in playlist Patriotic Music
@Ocelllian2 well most of this History is americans invovlving themselves in conflicts that they shouldnt be in
joeyride7 3 months ago
@joeyride7 exactly!!!!!
joeyride7 2 months ago
@joeyride7 pearl harbor 1942 wtc 2001 they deserved it they shook our country we shook the world
phoenixbrown108 2 weeks ago
@Ocelllian2
go to the top of this screen and type: adam kokesh last generation of combat veterans
oorah!
elfkind1 1 month ago
Hooray to American heritage. Where we fought everybody that wanted to, and everyone that didn't.
BreatheMySmile 4 months ago in playlist Writing Stuff
am i the only one who finds it ironic that the 1812 overture was about the battle of Waterloo and was composed by aq russian... yet no russians took part in the battle? lol
nastrael 4 months ago
@nastrael Ironic is the presence of the Russian Empire's national anthem "God save the Czar" in this piece.
mizukami999 4 months ago
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@nastrael Actually it was written to commemorate Russia's victory over napoleon at Moscow.
sir0zeke 4 months ago
@nastrael its not about waterloo -.- its about the siege by napoleon on moscow
recapdrake 2 months ago
@recapdrake the sieg on moscow didnt take place in 1812
nastrael 2 months ago
SO GOOD!
swissarmyjack 5 months ago
@@@ YouTube user Qu1rk89 >>> I like this video and how well you placed the historical events together. For me; It gave the Aw shucks / wow !! feeling and I wished I had this material in my American History class. The study would have been much more easier.
64Albere 5 months ago
World Bank, Federal Reserves, Pentagon, Wall Street NYSE building, NATO headquarter or maybe the Big Four banks in U.S.
All artillery. Fires away! Blast those institutes to dust.
ltmikepowell 5 months ago
1:36 thru 3:03. the awesome. then the end is great, too. but that minute and a half is spine tingling.
dirtydishboogie 5 months ago
Why not find some American music to celebrate your heroism in, for instance. attacking a tiny country that was trying to reunify itself and dropping more bombs on it than had been dropped in the whole of WW11, when you routinely killed prisoners of war and threw kids out of helicopters, and used napalm against civilian villages, and sprayed so much agent orange on the jungle that the Vietnamese tiger is now extinct and birth defects in the area are double the global average, and you still lost??
MichaelDPorter 5 months ago
i want to know wat communist douchebags dis liked this
ryantherock1 5 months ago
@ryantherock1 The same communists that can actually spell correctly.
Tomshwom 5 months ago
@Tomshwom Ohhhh, burned. Nice one haha.
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Considering that the music is Russian, isn't it more likely that the dislikers are the small percentage of intellegent Americans who think that their nation should be honoured with more capitalistic tunes?
aryllia 5 months ago
epic mushroom clouds
crazypickachu678 5 months ago in playlist overture 1812
Oh, and about the crossing of borders...
ALL borders are being crossed. The only countries that aren't of interest for immigrants are those currently bombed. Swedes go to Norway to work when the pay is better there, Pollacks g to Sweden - heck if I knew who's immigrating what way when it comes to Finland or Denmark, you could just as well wipe out the borders right away. That's NOT mentioning the /war immigrants/ or the German tourists. We're all targeted so it's really not a US only thing ;)
aryllia 6 months ago
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Cost of M16 - $10000
Cost of Stinger Missile - $38000
Celebrating America with a Russian Song - Priceless.
sir0zeke 6 months ago 7
@sir0zeke well they are the two greatest nations soo why not =]
nkatashuk25 4 months ago
@sir0zeke Many Americans are Russian. Sikorsky ring a bell. also the Russians at that time where Allies of the USA
Dogmeat1950 4 months ago
V for Vendetta
TheHeretor 6 months ago
trash
arthurcad 6 months ago
It's hard to understand how a nation like the USA, with such solid foundation roots and the high intellectual level of its Founding Fathers, who were once the admiration of the whole world, could end up with a guy like George W. Bush in office and a mob like the Tea Party Tribe making the country the laughingstock of the whole world. To me it's very sad to see the first signs of the decadence of a great nation.
odalrich 6 months ago
@odalrich I understand me im a history buff of my school and family; get paid for helping my grandpa catelog, write reports of photos and artifacts and it baffles me how such leaders like benjamin franklin, the adams', and george washington among others fought for the foundation of a country of freedom, peace, justice, and rise up like a mighty phoneix from the ashes of the American Revolution... remarkable yet look at us now... if any country wanted to invade us we would break like a toothpick
Rolfchoppa007 6 months ago
I don’t think any country can invade the USA and break it like a toothpick, as no country in the past could invade the Soviet Union when the crisis in that country reached its peak, back in the 1980’s. It is not a military problem but a problem of a system showing the first signs of exhaustion and with a political class incapable to find solutions or unwilling to control the speculative forces that are ruining the nation.
Today nobody wants to invade a country to inherit its problems.
odalrich 6 months ago
@Rolfchoppa007 i know dude i say we overthrow our leaders and get new people who follow rules of the constitusian
navySEALteam5 6 months ago
@navySEALteam5 Better yet have people know how to spell constitution
Sentho 6 months ago
@Sentho Sorry dude I must of hit some of the wrong letters because i type FAST
navySEALteam5 6 months ago
@odalrich How about the liberal agenda That Obama trys to push on us, how's that working for you? Obama is the laughing stock of the whole world! I almost want to puke every time he speaks to the nation. I have never heard anything inspiring ever come from his lips. The Tea Party has it right - smaller government, LESS spending - we don't need to become a nanny state, like those we see all over Europe. Look at England, riots all over the place, cause their "free entitlements" are being taken...
bluebelly07 6 months ago
@bluebelly07 The entire economic disaster we are experiencing is due to the erroneous policies implemented by governments in the U.S. mainly Republican (Reagan and Bush, senior and junior). These policies have infected the rest of the world, particularly Europe. The current occupant of the White House inherited this chaos, but is not guilty of that mess. The social unrest in England has been caused, mainly, by the government cuts of welfare policies.
odalrich 6 months ago
@odalrich Exactlly my point, Obama, with his "Obamacare", failed stimulus plans, unprecedented regulations against US industries, is leading us down the socialistic road to become a nanny state. We are now seeing this all over Europe, who wants to go there? He has doubled our debt in only 21/2 years, it is now his economy, and can blame no one else. He tries to divide us into classes, when's the last time you got a job from a poor person? The American dream is to become rich! 2012- HE IS GONE!
bluebelly07 6 months ago
@odalrich Oh, and don't forget Freddie and Fanny and the Democrats like Barney Frank, who thought every American should own a house, even though they could not afford it! That's what led us into this mess more than anything else. "Hope and change", "Yes we can", do what? Destroy this nation, that's what! If we allow this madness to go on. Please tell me how Bush and Reagan policies infected the world. Look what Obama is doing (or not doing) now! It's quite obvious he's no leader!
bluebelly07 6 months ago
@bluebelly07 1) We all want to become rich, but, as you say, this is just a dream (even if it’s American). There aren’t enough resources in the world for everybody to become rich. Only 1% of America managed to get rich during these years of neocon economics.
Nanny states? Scandinavia and some other European countries are precisely this, and their inhabitants enjoy a higher standard of living than Americans. No one wants to come here? Our borders and coasts are being overrun •••/•••
odalrich 6 months ago
@odalrich So are ours! Just look what is happening at our Texas borders! It certainly is not Americans fleeing to Mexico! I've been to Europe, complements of the US Navy and would chose to live nowhere else in the world, but the good old USA. I used the term "to become rich" to counter Obamas belief in "redistribution of wealth." Why, he's promised the Brizalians 3 billion dollars so they can exploit their offshore oil reserves so they sell them to us! He's off his rocker! We have our own...
bluebelly07 6 months ago
@bluebelly07 •••/••• 2) by illegal immigrants. We have American “tourists” in our hospitals here in Spain because they just can’t afford a decent medical treatment back home. Here is free. The Reagan reforms gave too much power to banks and financial institutions and they made a mess of it. The national debt went sky-high with Bush Jr- too much expenditure on arms when terrorism was a police and intelligence problem, not a military problem.•••/•••
odalrich 6 months ago
@odalrich American hospitals are among the best in the world, believe me, I know! Our hospitals, here in Michigan, are full of Canadians whom can't get proper care at home, due to their screwed up system! Oh no, your health care IS NOT free, somebody pays...Again "redistribution of wealth." You are probably taxed to death!
bluebelly07 6 months ago
@bluebelly07 1) Sometimes nations have to contribute to the development of other nations if they want to obtain "soft power". China could pay the 3 billion dollars to Brazil and get influence in this country at the expense of the US; this is part of the foreign policy of all nations; the US will be in a better position to obtain Brazilian oil. The US lost much of this power when Bush Jr was in office and the influence of the US in the world diminished. •••/••·
odalrich 6 months ago
@bluebelly07 •••/•••and 2) I've never doubted the quality of US hospitals, but many Americans can't afford them. The maintenance of a health system is much lower per capita, when the whole society pays for it, and at the same time everybody has access to full medical care, not only the very poor but also people with seriouschronic diseases. My taxes to finance my health care are much lower than the premium I'd have to pay to an insurance company for a more restricted service.
odalrich 6 months ago
@bluebelly07 •••/••• and 3) Socialistic road? Bankers and capital didn’t complain when they received Federal financial aid: Socialism for the rich. I do not know if Obama is doing right or wrong policies, I don’t live in the U.S. and in Europe we are with the water up to our necks to worry about that, but the Republicans made a mess of the economy.
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LaNationQuebecoise 6 months ago 21
@LaNationQuebecoise Honestly, who gives a damn about the French. All that they are good for is their bread and their dominance in the market of producing white flags.
:/
Just sayin'.
ANDl23W 4 months ago
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@LaNationQuebecoise Last time i checked, everyone in the world, including you, speaks my language, so why should i care to learn urs?
wrstshot18 3 months ago
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◄♦►johncisney15 ◄♦►
this fag said :
"The only thing the french are good for nowadays is surrendering like Colonel
Washington defeated and captured at Fort Necessity on july 03 1754,
by french army from Quebec "
more laugh please....french people are the first discover of North America 200 year before the red necks came ,and italian,greek,chinese,deutsh,japanese, spanish,portuguese,cow boys and martian,etc...☺
LaNationQuebecoise 6 months ago 12
it's amazing how Americans pay homage to the Russians to choose their music for this video but as usual they think they are artists from all over
kukulcan64OME 6 months ago
Tchaikovsky was commissioned by Nicolas Rubinstein in 1880 to write a festive and patriotic piece to coincide with the Moscow Cathedral of the Savior(built to commemorate the liberation of the Russians from the 1812 Napoleonic invasion), there already existed a body of precedent for the use of brass band, church bells, and cannon together with symphony orchestra. Plans seems to indicate open-air performance in the great square before the Kremlin,
kukulcan64OME 6 months ago
@MaisterM68 Napoleon didn't invade Germany. He invaded the Holy Roman Empire, with over 200 individual states. Nothing like a united Germany, therefore he had less resistance than a whole country.
ripchuckshuldiner1 6 months ago
From 3:02; the downfall of the USA
karkelkhan 6 months ago
Dios que bonito esos sonidos
yesica917 6 months ago
@MaisterM68 you clearly said "typically American" your saying i'm not american and at the same time you said i have an American reaction ? ???????????
cmekill64 7 months ago
@MaisterM68 just because i speak English doesn't make me American,typical Dirty French.
cmekill64 7 months ago
@MaisterM68 Napoleon invaded Russia with 500,000 and history knows the rest......
cmekill64 7 months ago
@MaisterM68 Hitler invaded France and they gave up in 6 weeks.
cmekill64 7 months ago
REMEMBER THIS: FRANCE HAS THE BEST MILITARY IN HISTORY ( sarcasm)
cmekill64 7 months ago
@cmekill64 Throughout the History of France, they have had the largest, and second most organized military in Europe for over 500 years. It was not until the 1700's that their army started to weeks (drastically) but when Napoleon took over, they had a small spike and were number one again, until the Invasion of Russia, and the Battle of Waterloo. Then the French suffered a fate similar to Germany after WWI and WWII. Also I consider the Napoleon wars WWI, WW1 is WW2, and WW2 is WW3.
inailboards 7 months ago
Some poorly educated Americans think that Tchaikovsky was a great American composer and his famous 1812 Overture was written specifically to glorify events of American history. Regretfully, this video is yet another contribution to this historical and cultural deception.
pianist2011able 7 months ago
@pianist2011able unfortunately, this is true. im not sure why we picked this song to play on independence day all the time when it commemorates Russia's defeat at borodino (which eventually led to napoleons defeat). but it's still a really awesome song, and i guess it just appealed to americans b/cof its grandeur
demonhunter5502 7 months ago
jaja me hacen reir los gringos pendejos, ponen su historia con una cancion muy famosa de un Ruso jajajaja
hadow1234 7 months ago
@hadow1234
pues yo no le veo nada de pendejo, tal vez un poco ironico, pero nada mas...
IronCoredKnight 7 months ago
Good video. Any true American would put aside their political opinions, as I'm sure none of us here are politicians, and agree that this truly puts America in a very good short overview of our history.
DieGlocke51 7 months ago
THIS IS REPUBLICAN BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA
CAPITANFREAKY 7 months ago
@CAPITANFREAKY If it is then why id Franklin Delano Roosevelt there you idiot.
folt56 7 months ago
you sick people
petitgregoire1170 7 months ago
"The United States has had to defend itself and help its neighbors for 230 years"
Nice joke dude.
SleepingSun1985 7 months ago
@SleepingSun1985 For almost 75 years after we became a country, defending ourselves was all we could do. Even during the civil war, Britain was considering joining the confederates.
As for helping our neighbors, we do it all the time, but the publicity goes to when we get ourselves caught in wars that don't accomplish much. Anyway, look at both world wars, where brits and frenchmen were getting their asses kicked until we showed up.
zanderaw 7 months ago
Why are the best comments french?
KvdGiessen 7 months ago
@KvdGiessen
Why not?
They're a huge reason why we won the revolution! XD
japanesepoptart 7 months ago
Brilliant!!!
Bronco46tube 7 months ago
I realize that this was NOT written for America - HOWEVER I believe the composer's genius is big enough to share and I appreciate his music. And, for those who think Americans think the song was written for our Civil War they need to check the dates of the Civil War -it was WAY after 1812.
Thank you Mr. Tchaikovsky for music that cannot be improved upon
MsBasketmaker 7 months ago
Hail satan.
DuykRuyk 7 months ago
@DuykRuyk
wtf.
japanesepoptart 7 months ago
@DuykRuyk LOLWUT
erererer2 7 months ago
This is AWESOME.
RayLRiv 7 months ago
Excellent and well done video. Happy 4th of July America!!
Lee05211 7 months ago
outstanding!
etsmanny 7 months ago
Great Work !
freeman893 7 months ago
The Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major, Op. 49,[popularly known as the 1812 Overture or the Overture of 1812 (French: Ouverture Solennelle, L'Année 1812, Russian: Торжественная увертюра «1812 год», Festival Overture The Year 1812), is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino in 1812. It’ not an American military march, but a Russian opus
elgor89 8 months ago
@elgor89 wow did you wikipedia that all by yourself?
dembkomj 7 months ago
@elgor89 Don't waste your time. Americans are too stupid to know that. They think the song was made for their civil war.
thegreendestiny 7 months ago
@thegreendestiny
Gee... thanks for the label...
japanesepoptart 7 months ago
3:13 ASPLOSIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
583302 8 months ago
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Can I just ask if you think it is kind of ironic that you have taken a piece of music from 1812? The same year that has given its date to a war where the British burnt Washington D.C. (the Capitol building, White House and so on) to the ground? I'm sorry just as a Briton I see incredible irony in celebrating your military history (and prowess) while citing a date that would have lived in infamy in the minds of your ancestors (P.S. you spelt "neighbours" wrong).
fishbob1193 8 months ago
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fishbob1193 8 months ago
I noticed during the WWII segment, there were a lot of pictures of Hitler which weren't exactly American history, more like German.
Iliac2112 8 months ago
'help its neighbors for 230 years " FUCK YOU! The music is amazing, but the images are ridiculous!
rafagrego5 8 months ago
so to celebrate american wa rhistory you use a peice of russian music celebrating the russian defeat over napoleans army??? i should make a russian war history video using the star spangeled banner lol
mik0logy 8 months ago
Wonderful montage! God bless the USA!
TheAndyOf1 8 months ago
I enjoy Tchaikovsky's piece. I find war incredibly interesting, but incredibly useless at the same time. There are other options besides waging war.
jacobwaynethorington 8 months ago
he aqui la estupidez humana, los que se enorgullecen y vanaglorian de su propia ignorancia.
1DownUpRightLeft1 8 months ago in playlist overture 1812
I come from a long line of American soldiers. I recently discovered that I am a direct descendant of a man who was at Valley Forge and Yorktown with Washington's troops. My father was a Captain in the USMC in WW II and Korea. As much as I love the USA, and this production, I think war is a terrible waste. WE have been manipulated and lied to for years in this blood ritual which is hardly ever justified. I guess Vietnam and our current wars really woke me up to how much we are self deceived.
WillSee11 8 months ago 2
As an American citizen, i'd like to say that our military stopped being helpful after the 1950's and we could easily bring our education level up to par if we spent half of the money we now spend on weaponry and wars on schools instead.
Truth118 8 months ago
@Truth118 Well said, I totally agree. Ive heard American military spending exceeds $1 Billion Dollars, where as on the otherhand the Chinese only spend £190 Million Pounds worth on their military. The British Armies budget is a meger £60 Million but we still manage to keep a presence around the world. I guess thats the cost for being part of the infamous 'Pax Americana'.
2ndSSBggydbluds 8 months ago
Ya some Russian dude wrote this music from his dacha outside Moscow commemorating America's war with Britain......kinda like some American dude named Francis Scott Key wrote some music commemorating Russia's victory over some French dude........
lukebccb 8 months ago
@lukebccb not even close
JdmTheMilitaryMan 8 months ago
best russian music
bg24955 8 months ago
O_o WTF?
RodionRotaru 8 months ago
USA!USA!USA!
skyofcastle 8 months ago
Tchaikovsky es ruso ,los cuales le ganaron alos nazis ironia del video,y lo peor enaltecer la guerra ,seguro que el que hizo este video nunca a estado cerca de una guerra idiota
hewoke02 9 months ago
exelente me encato el video ! sobretodo la parte del final!!
dzul50 9 months ago
i love how american love to boast stuff like "this is the oldest bar, 1849" the school i went to was est in 1499
tbrowniscool 9 months ago
@tbrowniscool Who does that?
sgtSqeegee119 8 months ago
@sgtSqeegee119 im generalising to make my point. im british so i have horrid teeth and live with the queen..
tbrowniscool 8 months ago
@tbrowniscool really though who does that.... i have never meet any 1 who does that
36000flip 8 months ago
@36000flip
I think it's some subconscious American thing, I keep coming across hints of it even in academic literature written by Americans.
Or maybe it's just because America simple is that visible that no matter what subject or what geographical nook of the world, America is omnipresent. Glaring down at the rest of us. With Americanism.
(no, this was not a serious comment, not fully serious at least - people outside of the states might see what I'm getting at)
aryllia 6 months ago
Tchaikovsky was russian.
You should use miley cyrus.
perfectimbalance 9 months ago
@perfectimbalance It is in the French nation anthem xD
MrRuckaRuckaFan 9 months ago
@MrRuckaRuckaFan Really? I though this overture was partially celebrating the epic fail of a French invasion into Russia?
perfectimbalance 9 months ago 19
@perfectimbalance It is, weird huh? Just listen to the French Nation anthem.
MrRuckaRuckaFan 8 months ago
@perfectimbalance Russia helped fund the War against the British
Dogmeat1950 9 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 not sure what that has to do with anything... but I'll let you have that. ^^
perfectimbalance 9 months ago
OH ME GOD THIS IS REALLY AMAZING.!!!!!EXPRESSION AND FORCE IN PURE CONDITION
fullgorer 9 months ago
Music is for peace, not for war
13beerschot 9 months ago
@13beerschot True the cannons dont really help though
mceldowneycole 9 months ago
Epic at full sound.
MrRuckaRuckaFan 9 months ago
REMEMBER THIS :
Washington was defeated and captured at Fort Necessity on july 03 1754,
by french army from Quebec !
LaNationQuebecoise 9 months ago 5
@LaNationQuebecoise lol and?
icanmyshoetie 9 months ago
@LaNationQuebecoise yeah but we still won remember that
36000flip 8 months ago
@LaNationQuebecoise The only thing the french are good for nowadays is surrendering.
johncisney15 6 months ago
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LaNationQuebecoise 9 months ago
you should make anew millitary vidoe because bin laden is dead
happelb 9 months ago
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I didn't see any Mao's photo in this film.
abist23 9 months ago
I didn't see any Mao's photo in this film.
abist23 9 months ago
"If you know your history well then the photo montage will appeal much more." Actually no, because the naval images of the Revolutionary period of this video's chronology depicts battles of the War of 1812, not the war of independence. Why not put an image of the fight between the Bonhomme Richard and HMS Serapis?
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe Wrong. You are the worst, politicians don't say it, but entire world despises your warring empire of terror and carnage. You still need more red on your flag, for all the innocent blood you spilt and are yet to. Europe despises your disgusting occupation of other countries, i am ashamed that your empire is an offspring of the Europe i live in. Bloody mob of murderers is what you are.
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
I'm Swedish. I don't agree on everything America has done, but no country is perfect! In the end of the day, America still remain the only part of the Western world that actively tries to uphold our integrity and prestige against non-Western influences and threats. They're the only ones not committed to this post-colonial apologistic attitude that rules Europe and relegates us to a position were we're told what to do by third world countries.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
Oh, you're not part of the western world... you're from one of those third world countries... then your stand makes perfect sense to me, you probably long for a new Soviet Union. as well.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe Wrong. They invade other countries , meddle in others business, steal natural resources, and economically ruin others. What European country does that? Even in the time of cruelest colonizations we were not like that. P.s. im from central Europe...
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86 By the way, why would i want a soviet union? Its a bloody militarist dictature, i believe in freedom, not opression.
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
Except for Germany and Austria, central Europe is just a mess of third world countries, especially Croatia. And if you read up on subjects such as South African history, Indian history and North African history etc. etc. you'll find that France and Britain have a long record of doing the stuff you indict America of doing.
Also, how awful were the Americans when they defeated the nazis, when they helped protect western Europe from the Soviets?
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe Allright, according to you, we are a scum beneath notice. Thank you, mr. swedish man, i will not complain, but thank you for your insight. Besides, i respect Sweden to my utmost, and i will not be swayed by your opinion. But realistically, the allmighty USA could have intervened much much earlier. But no, they waited for the best possible moment that would position them over europe. Cheers mate. I am against any kind of totalitarism...
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
America had this thing called isolationism, they didn't want to get involved in the bloody business of Europe. WW1 taught them to stay away. Instead, they followed the Monroe doctrine which called for them to invest all their attention and resources to the Western hemisphere. It was a policy laid down a long time before world war 2, and their late participation in ww2 depended on that attitude, not some agenda to rule Europe.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
Hundreds of thousands? Hardely. Stealing their oil? Please tell me how. Illegally invaded? If you think it's illegal to invade totalitarian regimes (I thought you didn't like totalitarianism?) that truly are responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands, I think that while I may lack morals, you have none at all.
This discussion was over before it begun, because Ï'm the only one discussing! You rant and throw indictments and libels hither and dither without grounds.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe No matter the regime, it is wrong to invade other countries. You are in fact defending totalitarian regime, justifying agression, theft, and murder, and while some people are passive to such matters, you in fact defend it? Nice job. I guess you would likewise defend Hitler's invasion of Poland. At least you show your true colors.
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
So it was wrong to invade nazi Germany? Ok, I guess that establishes your allegiances.
Again, you completely go off topic when you can't argue... Let's say this: I'm a nihilistic scoundrel without any morals. Now that we have that cleared out, would you please stop handing out moral cookies and start to actually answer my arguments?
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
It is very hypocritical by Europeans to bash America, when it was the war-mongering of their own grandfathers that put America in that spot in the first place! Now that Soviet is gone, America can, and should, try to reform back into its pre-ww2 state of affairs. That's the America I defend and hope for. But such changes doesn't happen over-night, so we just got to be patient and let that bear go back to sleep. Given the public sentiments in America, we're soon there.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
And no, they wouldn't have been able to intervene earlier: fact is that 1941 was too early too. America's army was smaller than most European ones and lacking in both equipment and training. America hasn't always been a military superpower, not before ww2.
That you indict America of totalitarianism just goes to show how an unreasonable bigot you are. Maybe take a break from the European propaganda? Maybe try and read up and form an opinion of your own?
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
It's quite ironic that people used to hate America because they were isolationistic and didn't care for the outside world, that they only cared about their own business; now when America is playing the role everybody wanted them to, they just get a lot of shit for it.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe I am stating my opinion, i don't care about propaganda. And you, you defend country that illegaly invaded Iraq, with no valid excuse, steal their oil, and are responsible for hundreds of thousands dead in that conflict? You have an interesting set of double standards. But things you clearly don't value are justice and liberty, as an affront to fascism, so our discussion is over.
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
You are stating the opinion given to you by slightly more intelligent leftists and European supremacists; you´re only part of a mindless mob. This is proven by your dodging of my counter-arguments - instead of giving valid arguments in defense of your own statements, you rant about fascism and other irrelevant libels and turn it into a question of my morals. When I answer one indictment, you just line up another one, not caring to argue on the previous - because you can't
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe I am hardly a leftist, actually far from it, i dont care about idiotic politicians and their mindless rant. And i would much rather be a part of a mindless mob, then defend such regimes like you do. And ofcourse it is all one big question of morals, and if you stand your ground defending such agressive violance and invasions, than it speaks more then enough about your moral values.
sadailinikada86 9 months ago
@sadailinikada86
I defend America, not its "regimes". It is true that America has been hijacked by an imperial presidency and the invasion of Iraq was illegal. All true, but who's fault is it in the long run? The problem with you guys are that you curse without knowing your history. Pre-ww2 America was the embodiment of liberalism and peace with the world. America could afford being such in those times. But then came ww2, the recession of the European nations and the ascension of Russia...
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
@Faxe90Swe
as the Soviet Union. Europe, half of which had already been "liberated" by the Red Army, was weary after the war; the old superpowers of France and Britain relegated to second place, leaving a power vacuum. Who could muster the strength and resolution to fill this vacuum and save Europe, and consequently the whole world, from total Soviet domination? America. In that way began the story of America as a militaristic empire -to safeguard our integrity towards the Soviet Union.
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
Tremendous tribute and wonderful synchronization! Thank You qu1rk89! Loved it!
blawlor100 10 months ago
ESTUPIDO GRINGO IGNORANTE, ESTO NO ES NADA THE USA, ES DE EUROPA
marygny 10 months ago
min 2.15 is glory
cingac 10 months ago
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LaNationQuebecoise 10 months ago 15
@LaNationQuebecoise um,don't Forget about Spain
Dogmeat1950 9 months ago
@LaNationQuebecoise
You regard that as special knowledge hidden from the world? lol When you say "most" American cities, you exaggerate a bit (understatement).
Faxe90Swe 9 months ago
Am I the only one that finds with strange that this excerpt starts with the French national anthem and is used for a USA Military History?
bassisbetter31 11 months ago
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@bassisbetter31 ..and that this was written by a russian to celebrate their victory over napoleon
prussianjaeger13 10 months ago