East German Rebellion 1953 - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the East German Rebellion of 1953.

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[davidwise]

I had a summer job in West Germany in 1974. When I reported for my first day of work, I was surprised to find the company closed for the day. Back at the Gasthaus I was told that it was a holiday commemorating a workers' uprising in East Germany. I hadn't heard of that before and now I know the story. Thanks!

[TheDoctorMD]

I particularly enjoy how the portraits in the backdrop change from Truman and Stalin to Eisenhower and Malenkov.

[oscarromarioflorezcamargo]

The death of Stalin is a great dark humor movie, everyone should see it.

[LocalHeretic-ckkd]

There was a minor rebellion in Czechoslovakia in 1953 as well. It was about currency reform.
Many people were upset because they lost large amounts of money.

[luisdergroe]

June the 17th became the national holiday of western Germany. So if someone asks how the relationship between east and west Germany were in the early days... we made their failed Revolution our national holiday...

[George_M_]

The Death of Stalin movie really is great - it's a farce ofc, but it depicts the subtext of what was really happening very accurately, just exaggerated for comedy.

Also, those Soviet troops executed for refusing to attack the protesters deserve to be remembered.

[oldegrunt]

Interesting to see even in the DDR revolt, some Soviet troops either sided w/the Germans or refused to take part in the actions against them. The same thing happened on a large scale in Hungary but there more than a few Soviet troops actively aided the people in revolt.

Did that also happen in the crushing of the Czechs or other eastern Europeans later?

[TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN]

Communism: We support the workers!
Workers: We don't want Communism.
Communism: Say sike right now!

[skamazbg]

Please make a video about the armies of the socialist countries like Bulgarian army, Polish army, Hungarian army, Romanian army, East German army and Chechoslovakian army.

[csfelfoldi]

6:03 soviet leader picture ninja change in the background 😃

[Septimus_ii]

It sounds like the DDR in a good position to be the most prosperous part of the whole Eastern Bloc, providing consumer goods to countries with underdeveloped consumer goods production, and taking advantage of well developed raw materials and industrial goods production. It was only the directives from Moscow that prevented this potential from being realised.

[johnpayne]

You said "they reacted like a French farmer who just found out the price of wine and baguettes is going up: they took to the streets." But actually that would benefit farmers LOL. Good video. I'm just nit-picking a metaphor.

[YukimuraSanadaEmpires]

Such a weird map at 2:24 pointing out such grand cities like Mühlacker, Eilenburg, Bad Düben and Krefeld??? Just weird

[TXninenine]

2:32 If you are going to call East Germany “DDR” (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) then the correct initials for West Germany would be “BRD” (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) or “DBR” (Deutsche Bundesrepublik). “FDR” was not a term used to refer to the West German state. “FRG” was and still is an acceptable term but that was an english initialism for “Federal Republic of Germany”.

[hanzup]

Congratulations on the 100k to everyone at The Cold War channel!

[ulteamracing]

Great work by the channel, always a pleasure to watch!

[danielwolfgang]

Between 2000 and 2400 facilities of all types of industry as well as 11.800 km of railway lines were dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union between 1946 to 1953.
You have also forgotten to mention that the estimated value of $14 Billion Dollars was by currency standard of the Dollar from 1938. Considering the inflation from 1938 to 2020 this sum would be much higher by todays currency standard.

Otherwise a very good video. Keep up the great Work!

[LukeNasti]

KEEP THIS UP YOUR VIDEOS ARE INCREDIBLE AND

[northernlegolas]

I love the end music, it makes each video very epic and dramatic at the same time.

[leventkandemir]

portraits of leaders changed half way thorught the show nice touch keep up the great work