Bay of Pigs Invasion - US vs Cuba - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Bay of Pigs invasion.

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[Seouldrift]

Yes, interested in more on the Escambray rebellion. And attempted invasion of Panama in 1959, and Bolivia in 1967, and Operation Pico in 1977, and Operation Urgent Fury in 1983.

[Knight]

'Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

[garyfrombrooklyn]

I loved this episode! As soon as I saw the notification I was like, I need a cup of coffee and some free time to watch it. I’ve dispatched six cells to various locations in Eastern Europe and Central America to recover a cipher needed to uncover the last known whereabouts of a deep cover operative who has the Swiss Banking information needed to pay of three former FSB officers who each have a portion of the further encoded message to click the bell button. What could possibly go wrong.

[robertortiz-wilson]

I would be very interested in learning about the Escambray Rebellion!

[mjstbnsn]

I would like to see an eventual story on Cuba's intelligence service, the DGI, I think one secret of Castro's long rule was his intelligence services work among the exile community in Miami, as a matter of fact I would like to see a story on those intelligence servivces other than the CIA, MI6 or KGB. (like the East Germans, Czechs and others)

[Mjolknirn]

I IMPLORE you to listen to the Blowback podcast - genuinely the best podcast I've ever listened to. Season 2 is all about Cuba. 🇨🇺

[johnsteiner]

I just love the bell button descriptions we get every time. 😁

[JohnSmith-jjyd]

The graphic for the B-26's incorrectly use B-26 Marauders, not the A-26 (later redesignated B-26) Invaders. This is ironic as the visual distinction between the version provided by the CIA (solid nose) and the one used by the Cuban air force (glass nosed) was the thing that scuttled the deception, led to public humiliation and cancellation of the subsequent pre-invasion airstrikes.

[jessehamm]

7:03 That diagram depicts a Martin B-26 Marauder, not the Douglas B-26 Invader that was utilized during the invasion.

[HistoryMonarch]

I just hope one day we can finally have more positive relations with Cuba. We are both just vibing. The embargo at this point is just out of spite

[callenclarke]

Your little bell-button tags at the end are hilarious! Love this channel!

[creatoruser]

Funny how you closed with a Kennedy quote when the episode is about a humiliating failure that happened under his administration.

[ShubhamMishrabro]

Have you guys done videos on 1)Hundred Flowers Campaign
2)Iran crisis of 1946.
Please do if you guys have not

[sebastianucero]

It never fails to amaze me how even narrating the actions of a sepoy, terrorist forces created by the CIA as heroic.
Even mention the cuban forces as "militias, revolucionaries"
2 years had passed since the expulsion of US drug cartels and mafia rulers of the island, cuban forces where the military (the same that protect the island today) of a sovereign state.
The revolucionary period was over in JAN1, 1959.
This attack against a sovereing state by the USA was just another step in the terrorist wave of the CIA against the free people of the world.
Good video. Great work, weird narrative. But is the prism you use i guess.

[ThatGuyWhoLivesinChina]

Nike-Hercules missiles (long range, high altitude) and Hawk missiles (short range, low altitude) were deployed to Florida shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. I served at a Hawk site in 1977 and 1978. Their mission was to protect Homestead AFB.

[owenmichaels]

Very interested in the rebellion story!

[jankowal]

I appreciate the work of the graphic designers every time, but from 7:05 there is an error in the drawing. Namely, the drawing shows a B-26 Marauder bomber, and the bomber that was used by both sides of this conflict was the A-26 Invader (or B-26 Invader, as it was called from 1948). This is a minor error, but unfortunately a very substantive one if we want to be extremely precise in what we present.

[robertortiz-wilson]

The excellent visuals are extremely helpful, thank you!

[bikkiikun]

You're wrong about one thing... Cuba wasn't a close ally of the US. The Cuban government was.

[achistorian]

Do a video of the Escambray Rebellion, Seems a pivotal conflict in Cuba's history.