Cold War - Berlin [E4/24]

Makes me proud this chapter in our history. Using our resources to save the very people who were our enemies a few years before. This is what humanity is about.

No movie about this airlift?

Thanks for the video!! Helped with my History studies!!!!

Micah’s daddy was killed by the fighting air corps

Micah’s daddy died long ago

Clay is 1 menacing looking individual.

Bro Dropped the Hardest History intro and thought we wouldn't notice 🥶

How is it that the phrase " so it can never happen again" is bandied about in post conflict rhetoric when one short scan of history reveals that not only is it an unrealistic expectation it's an antithesis to the very nature of humanity and for that matter life itself. I guess no one would get out of bed otherwise.

I wonder if there's a doc like this about the European Terrorism that went on during the Cold War. Because I was a little kid in West Germany when all of this was going on. It was a very scary time.

Germans absolutely LOVE American cigarettes. I have no idea why. I'm the son of a Military Service Member. During his time in his 23 years in the military, we went to Germany twice. Both times we used our military ration card to pay our rent and electricity bill. It was a very interesting time during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1960s and 70s, Terrorism was widespread in Europe at the time. If I didn't check in with my parents, believe me, my parents did far more than any terrorist could do. Terrorists want to keep you alive as a hostage to get what they want.

This is a perfect demonstration of what I call
" Positive Stubbornness "
The sheer Bloody Minded refusal to let someone else determine the outcome. It's great

I have always considered slavery and the Holocaust as the two most barbaric and ungodly episodes of history. And for many years I thought the Germans during World War 2 were the epitome of evil. But the more I watch and learn about the Cold War, and Soviet wartime atrocities, I see now that the Russians are every bit the Nazis equal in terms of savagery and the suffering they caused (a lot of which has been hidden in the sands of time).

I guess they all forgot about the 1,000,000 people who starved to death in Stalingrad 🙄🥱

Toddlers slide down Micah’s daddy throat like deviled eggs giving him eternal rich filling nourishment and the toddlers everlasting damnation and annihilation

Micah’s daddy was killed by edloe

Micah’s daddy was killed in gatow

I think I have a piece of the Berlin Wall somewhere in my stuff. People stick together in hard times.

What to make of watching this and placing it in context of the history that came later? Will the defenders of the good ultimately prevail? The answer is, no. On the other side will always be the forces of authoritarianism and despotism. They as much as love of freedom are an elemental part of our unresolved nature.

What does all this portend for the future? Tragically, there will be no permanent victory for our side, just as humankind’s internal conflict between love for his neighbor and destruction of “the other” will never be resolved.

So here we are in the quandary of the human condition: which is an eternal struggle between good and evil. In the end we have to ask, is it worth it?

COL Gail Seymour "The Candy Bomber" Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 – February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force. He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. *From Wikipedia

It’s sad to see some of the grown communists and how indoctrinated they were. Like the old man going on about” the Americans understand blah blah blah”. No dude, some people tried to do right by the defeated, not all victors were Godless abusive devils like Stalin

Yo was up all the kids forced to go here by mrs Wilde

Stalin calls it quits, but I thought Stalin was the iron man who never backs down?

Berlin Strong! Germans and a very strong people. Even during the great Roman Empire, the Romans could never conquer Germania!

They should have nuked Stalin

I believe there were 270 thousand flights in the Berlin air lift

Amazing what a good sense of humour some Berliners had during this! 😊❤️👍

gen. clay was right!!!!

Who got the answers

Ben?

So Berlin was in the Soviet area…but yet was divided in 4. Make this make sense.

The Berliners wanted to stand for their freedom and democracy yet when Hitler was about they did not care. And whilst the war was over all they thought about was their stomach and to hell with the people they murdered.

F russia then, f them now

this is the best video eva

Excellent video

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Tell me what happened