Korean War 1950-1953 - Stalemate and Armistice - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY

South korean here. The DMZ is quite a weird place. Its the largest unofficial natural preserve here. Of course, Human presence did left its marks: Anti-personnel landmines do still litter the land, and the local boars here sometimes grow big enough to trigger them. The result? Bacon rains from the sky.

There is one rather funny anecdote behind the Russians pilots involvement in the Korean War. My grandfather was a mechanic of one of the MIGs squads and he told me that story. Soviets were so obsessed not to reveal their true identity, that they dressed their pilots into the Chinese uniform, MIGs carried Chinese insignia ( that part is well known). But then they pushed one step further and ordered their pilots to communicate in Mandarin during the missions. Every pilots had a table of the basic commands in Russian and its Mandarin translation, pasted to the windshield. So imagine you are in the height of a dog-fight, you have to coordinate your planes and you have to do it in Chinese , you don't know the word of. After the first mission when they lost 4 planes because of miscommunication, they burned all those tables and communicated in Russian since

I met a Korean War veteran last week here in Colombia which is not common, he had a cap identifying him as a Korean War veteran, his story was so cool he was the gunner in a Sherman 76, he told me about facing a Iosif Stalin tank, "we hurted him" he told me.

Glad you pointed out that this was the only example of direct combat between American and Soviet troops during the Cold War. The only other instance of American combat vs the Soviet Russians was when the Americans and British sent aid to the remnants of the Russian Empire/Republic in 1918 but quickly pulled out, plus that was against just Soviet Russia not the Soviet Union.

Quality content about and time period that doesn't get to much light shed on it, keep up the good work

David, you and K&G have made this episode of the cold war both interesting, and enlightening. Thank you for your efforts.👍

Do the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953

It was one of the last glorious air wars where it was the pilot which decided the fate of an air battle rather than the radar and missiles and stealth aircraft with dogfights happening beyond visual range

Hey man, we hope that the comment of changing Truman and Stalin into Eisenhower and Khrushchev becomes a reality as soon as you talk about politics in 1953! I'd like to see their portraits over the next few weeks or months to come, it'd be awesome.

I think this channel should make a video about the Soviet-Afghanistan war.

An episode on Rhodesia would be cool

I feel like the Korean War was a bit glossed over maybe a couple of extra videos might have been a bit better?

Great work, as always. I still feel like you left a lot out (on both channels) by focusing a lot on politics and not much on the battles or common dynamics of the fighting.

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One of the weirdest wars in history.

I take it the pictures on the wall will be changed when another era of the Cold War begins.

my grandad flew as a navigator doing recon.... a couple close calls with migs drove him crazy...took him decades to recover

The Soviets didn’t provide air support, which means ground attack. They flew air defense along the Chinese/North Korean border, well away from the front and only for the first half of the war.

Please cover the Miracle at the Han River, and the “Yulgok Plan” of the Republic of Korea (their armament program).

As of 2018? Did you mean 2019 when you recorded this? Or did you just do this that far in advance?