Is that strictly true.
The Russian meat wave myth.
A bit of digging shows that Alexander Robert is a Serb, the channel is blatantly pro Russia
Meat wave attacks are real in the sense that groups of novice Russian soldiers were sent in daily in Avdiivka to advance but they ended up getting stuck in minefields and everybody getting killed.
Sure “meat wave” is a media headline term, but the death rate on the Russian side was massive
after following
Alexandre Robert and his channel
HistoryLegends for some time now, it is obvious that his informations towards the ukraine conflict are intelligently covered propaganda. And covered it is. Information on him as a private person are rare but findable.
To better understand why his channel is pretty much a pro russian propagnda channel you have to understand and know his background.
"Alexandre Robert", I imagine this is not his real name, at least partially, is located in Quebec, Canada. At least it seems that way. I assume that choosing an north american last name is supposed to make it not too obvious to connect his propagandistic content to a pro russian agenda.
Based on his accent, it seems pretty clear that he is not french. And he is not. I have french friends who have a strong accent when speaking english and it sounds definetly nothing like Alexandre´s. Though I have the cultural background and can determine with the highest certainty that he is from the balkans.
At this point you should know where this going at.
The last indicator, if not proof, bringing light into this I found on his pinterest profile. It´s a profile with an image of a younger Alexandre. He is or was collecting and resharing military content. If you look through his collected content, you will also find images of serbian ultra nationalist ("cetniks") and other serbian natinalist related links like some kosovo related content.To be fair, there are all kinds of military content there, but finding a cetnik is pretty much only of serb interest. A uniqhorn so to say that not many people would stumble upon if you do not specifically search for cetnik images. But his pinterest walls is not what conviced me of my assumption towards Alexandre.
You can find his profile here:
https://www.pinterest.ca/alexRS1818/
I would like to ask you to focus on his accountname:
alexRS1818This is what conviced me that Alexandre is a serb.
Let me break it down for you:
Alex- Shortform for Alexander. Seems this part of his name is somwhat legit even if it was a bit "frenchised".
RS- Shortform for "Republica Srpska" (Located in Bosnia & Hercegovina)
1818- A historic date for serbs. It represents the date when the city of Kraguljevac became the capitol of serbia after the ottoman empire left that part of serbia. Belgrade later became the new capitol.- It is also the year when the serbian cyrillic alphabet was created by serbian linguist Vuk Karadzic.
So by creating such a username, Alexandre relied on cryptic coding of nationalist, or at least patriotic messages used by many nationalist in serbia and embedding those into his username. You need to understand that being a serbian patriot is seen different then in other parts of the world. It pretty much equals to being a nationalist, often with militant values, who are very driven by historic dates.
Based on his LinkedIn profile he is a software engineering graduate and has no professional history education. Though many nationalist serbs have a high interest in the history of serbia/the balkans and grow up with a high focus on serbian historic dates. If you are born in such surroundings, you learn to know history and important dates even in young ages. This is how nationalist ideas are being passed from one generation to another. So his interest in military history is very understandable.
Taken everything into account,
it can be said with certainty, that Alexandre is a nationalistic serb.
The tight connection and relation between serbia and russia would fill whole books and you can research it very easy on your own if you are interested in.
A simple fact: At least in the crimea conflict in 2014 there were serbian militant nationalists, so called "cetniks", fighting on russian side versus ukraine. You can also find more than enough youtube content on this.
So if you want to know if the youtube channel "HistoryLegends" is biased, then let me tell you:
it is.
It is more than that. It´s not as obvious as stoopid cheering for russia. It´s somwhat thoughtfully covered and shady propaganda driven by a pro russian agenda. By covering up his background he underlines this very much. This is exaclty why it makes it even more dangerous