This also explains why whenever somebody asks me for an author recommendation, of late my answer is always "William L. Shirer."
This also explains why whenever somebody asks me for an author recommendation, of late my answer is always "William L. Shirer."
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There are quite a few videos on YouTube from the Bush War while it was happening along with current interviews with people who lived there and fought in it.
Can't recall the minute mark to jump to, but Smith mentions how Rhodesia was blasted as being white racists while simultaneously having a massive illegal immigration issue of non-whites fleeing their home countries for Rhodesia which sounds very similar to present day USA.
I like the shows about battles, be it Stalingrad, D-Day, the Bulge, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, etc. I just get annoyed with the endless droning about the Nazis themselves and their history/rise to power, etc., making entire series about them. It's like they have an obsession with it. As another poster suggested, it seems it is an effort in inundate the viewing public with "Nazi = Evil", as if we didn't know that already. I also tend to think this immersion in all-things-Nazi makes it much more easy and likely to have "Nazi" roll off the lips of someone who you disagree with politically. Worst part is those clueless libtard morons have no flippin' idea what a Nazi really was or how totally off-base their accusations are.
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F**k China!
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Chuck, we miss ya man.
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As several posts have pointed out...
Welcome to 2021. Seriously where have you been?
You won't see an end to it until the prevailing politikal winds change.
Personally, I like getting into the backstory of all that stuff, (and having watched several of the mainstream documentaries, I've noticed most of them suck, and are a bunch of wide-eyed gawping and over-buildup for little payoff, "but you guys like, that they were so evil and stuff, ermagherd". Ugh...), but even I am heartily sick of the endless parade of shitty recycled nonsense.
Oh yeah, those were great shows. I also liked "Ancient Tech" or whatever it was called, too, even if it was a bit speculative.
Yes, contemporary "history" also leaves out the part where Britain and the rest of the so-called anti-communist west shanked the Rhodies in the back by backing the Zanla/Zipra (sp?) groups that were raising the havoc in the first place, and sabotaging pretty much all reasonable attempts at political solutions. Sure, there was also direct Russian involvement, but hey, with friends like these, eh?
If you look into it, the politics we see overtly today were already WELL entrenched even back then...
Then there's the whole memory-hole of post WW2 "liberation" events, but that's another topic.
Much as I hate the way that site is going, youtube is freaking slaying on the historical front these days. A lot of the privately-produced history content has come a LONG way since the olden days. There are quite a number of channels providing as-good-as, or better-than (old school)history-channel level content.
The Great War/Great War is a great channel covering all the stuff about WW1 you thought you knew, and a whole lot of events regarding the fallout of that conflict that have been largely forgotten. A great break from WW2, if you still want to talk about a world-shaping conflict, but are tired of nawtzeez 24/7.
Also, Mark Felton is a great "variety-history" channel with everything from WW2 to Falklands content.
I'm also liking Sandrhoman and Schola Gladiatora for oldschool pike and blade era warfare.
There's also a great channel calle The Operations Room that does really neat minute-by-minute narrated animated battle maps of various battles.
I mean, I could go on for a while listing off current-production YT history channels, on top of the unsung heroes who've kept alive the ancient archives of decades past.
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I have really started getting in to Felton's clips. Usually short, but specific, informative, and new info for me that apparently the bulk of historians skip over.
Lance "The History Guy" Geiger and his wife. Fairly high percentage of military related topics, but not all and(similar to Felton) he digs up stuff not many others do.
A few years ago there was a one episode show about the start of "contractors" and their role in Africa. This happened in the 90s. Most of the guys were S. African/Rhodesian/Ausie SF. It was an interesting show. I saw it maybe 10-15 years ago
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yup on the youtube channels so many good ones on various things
from Roman history to other conflicts to WWI or WWII day by day or Korea or odd off stories not heard
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