How was Russia defeated in 11 days? ⚔️ Operation Faustschlag

🚩 Time for some World War I action! I'm happy to share with you the Operation Faustschlag, 1917, a strategic overview of the rapid German advance in the East that overwhelmed Russia. This video was made in collaboration with History Experience

📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎵 Music:
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#ww1 #russia #germany

[johnquach]

Russia: Implodes politically
Germany: It's marching time

[neptune]

This video is so fascinating.
1918 was the craziest year in human history.

[Ghost-viqm]

It's crazy how fast the Germans and there allies advanced into the Russian empire. Even faster then in WWII.

[OptimusNero]

The humiliating defeat of the Russian army during the First World War was brilliantly portrayed in the film "Nicholas and Alexandra". At the end of the first part of the film, the soldiers in Saint Petersburg salute the Tsar and march to the front in a very epic scene full of patriotism and pride, which ends with the patriotic music slowly fading out and the screen going dark, but the sound of military footsepts is still heard for a while in a concerning haunting way. After the intermission, we only watch from this point military commanders taking their own lives, teenagers and old men on the front lines, and soldiers killing their superiors just to eat a rabbit in peace instead of fighting the germans.

[canadious]

I believe the armies were stripping the grain and food because of the famine in Germany caused by the blockades of England during the war.

[JohntheJuan]

What an amazing video. I love WW1 and the eastern front in this time period is largely forgotten or ignored. An excellent analysis of the conflict

[briandenison]

This is why Hitler thought Barbarossa would be a walk in the park.

[robbabcock_]

Terrific video! There's such a rich and complex history in that region.

[mohammedsaysrashid]

A Wonderful Historical Coverage ...always History Marche channel sharing Informative history Episodes

[TheLocalLt]

This is arguably the most underdiscussed cause of WWII, that many in German Army felt they had finally reconquered the Baltic “Wild East” (where the Baltic German settlers had remained the nobility for 700 years even under the Swedish and Russian Empires), along with establishing a presence in the breadbasket of Ukraine and the fought-over-for-millennia Crimea, and that it had all been taken away from their victorious army by the surrender of the republican government in 1918.

Then to add insult to injury, in 1919 when the Bolsheviks threatened the Baltic Germans in the newly independent Baltic states, including a Soviet takeover over of Latvia and Riga, the old Germanic Order and Hanseatic city, Germany recaptured Courland and Livonia with the promise of settlement for a volunteer force which was joined by Baltic German forces, and installed a Baltic German government in Latvia. However they were then defeated by the Classicalist Estonians and Latvians, who had already ejected the Soviets from Estonia, at the Battle of Cesis and Latvians regained power in Riga, although the Baltic German nobility remained significant under the new government, but they were stripped of a large portions of their landholdings which was given to Latvians.

This all was seen as a revitalization of the old “East Settling”, the original German settlement of Prussia, Riga and the Baltic, and was later characterized as the beginning of a new “Drive to the East", with the Baltics, Ukraine and Crimea forming the heart of the German “Living Space” idea.

[PascalSWE]

Great video. This is a part of Modern history I know pretty little about so this helped me alot in building a clearer picture

[KHK]

Didn't expect a WW1 video! A great surprise

[ianfitzpatrick]

I like to use this major turning point in world war 1 to remind my friends how dynamic and fluid the political landscape was towards the end of the war. Things changed a lot for some groups and those changes set the stage for the hostility that would rise in WW2. We often all of the sudden realIe there’s a Soviet Russia, and Germany has become nazis and that’s the story of the eastern conflict. American education am I right? Well thank you guys for you hard work and beautiful story telling!

[samvodopianov]

It was not defeated in 11 days. The operation was successful in 11 days. This title is a bit over simplified.

[Denek_]

@HistoryMarche awesome, great intro for 1919/1920-1921 polish - bolshevik war, wuld love to see you cover that

[ievimonkey]

I think adding the year/time-line of the event in the title would help a lot. I didn't know this was a video on WW1 until I started playing it. Same with the videos on say the Scottish clan system or Egyptian fatimid video. It also piques my interest more.

[randomlyentertaining]

As I recall, a large part of the reason the Germans advanced so quickly because they encountered very little resistance since Russian troops had just stopped fighting for the most part. They still manned the front line but when the Germans would move forward, they would just retreat without a fight.

[adamwolfe]

Love the content, please keep up the work.

[nazgulring]

Amazing video as always i hope u could do some WW2 videos as well !!!

[guitarguy]

I love to see you covering WW1. As of now, I am writing an essay on the topic, so it's great to see someone like you make a video on it.