Can We Prove History?

[@nostalgicrubber]

Everyone named Victor : history can be whatever I want

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

As a Victor who is interested in history it is true

[@metalnut92]

I believe Iskall's real name is Viktor! We should keep an eye on him...

[@nostalgicrubber]

Yes 😂

[@thegreatteaman]

Probably one of my favorite examples of false history is the fact that, (at least everywhere I got my education) its always taught that America basically saved the day in both world wars. Especially World War 2. But what they always failed to realize, or at least teach us was the fact that the Axis were already fighting against too many enemies at once by the time America was brought into the war. The Japanese were still fighting the entirety of China, and had also attacked the British Empire on the same day they bombed Pearl Harbor. The Italian empire was fighting a losing war in Africa against the British, and Germany was fighting a two front war against the British Empire and the Soviet Union. By the time of the battle of Smolensk, Heinz Guderian had lost ~700 of his ~900 tanks in his panzer group. 2 months into Operation Barbarossa the Germans had lost 50% of their fighters in Russia, and 39% of all of their aircraft in Russia. The Luftwaffe couldn’t control the skies in Britain, and couldn’t control the vast Russian skies either. The Soviet Union also had a much larger industry and population pool to draw from than the Germans, and thus could fight a war of attrition. The Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks were the best in the entire world when Barbarossa began, and they were starting to be mass produced, along with modern soviet fighters, though it would still take time for them to be used everywhere in the red army. 80% of all German military casualties in WW2 were directly because of the Soviet Union, and after Stalingrad, the Germans were running out of resources, and even manpower, so it was only a matter of time before the Reich collapsed, with or without American involvement. And in regards to Japan’s surrender, it’s debated whether the Bombs even ended the war, considering that the fire bombing campaign had been going on for months, and had done significant damage, but whether you believe the bombs ended the war or not, you can’t deny that Japan was going to lose anyway. After all, China, America, Britain, France, and even Russia were all fighting the Japanese in those last weeks before the war came to its end, and the Japanese empire had lost almost all assets by the time Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. So to be quite honest, at least where I got my education, the way we were taught history was actually pretty bad, or at least it was pretty narrow and didn’t go into much depth. I find the topic of history fascinating and want to make sure that it is always correctly taught. This video was super interesting X! Edit: Also, I doubt you'll see this X, but the Soviet Union lost approximately 25 million people in World War 2, about 15 million being civilians murdered by the Nazi's. That was about 1 out of every 6 people in the country. China lost about 20 million people, most because of Japanese war crimes. Germany lost around 8 million, most of which were because of the Soviet Union, and Poland lost about 5 million, or one quarter of their population. Japan and British India both lost multiple millions, and Yugoslavia lost over 1 million mostly because of partisan fighting, and the German atrocities against the Slavic peoples. The Philippines, (Which were an american puppet at the time) lost about 1 million because of Japanese occupation. Greece lost about 800k, again, mostly because of Nazi war crimes, while France and Italy both lost around 500 thousand people. Britain lost about 450k, and America slightly less than that. Below them are smaller nations that had lower populations like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, and Denmark, who all lost thousands, and some losing tens of thousands. In total, World War 2 likely killed around 80 million people, considering how many unrecorded deaths there likely were due to Nazi War crimes against Jews, Poles, and Slavs, as well as Japanese war crimes against Chinese, Filipinos, and others. Final edit: one statistic that I remember that is extremely haunting is one about Soviet males born in 1923. If you were born a boy in the Soviet Union in 1923, you would only have a 20% chance of making it to your 23rd birthday in 1946. 80% of all of those boys born that year in the Soviet Union were dead by January 1st, 1946 because of World War 2.

[@nikhilgirish7314]

Damn bro, u actually spent a lot of time to even type these. Seems like u know ur history stuff. And yea, I do believe on the quote I learned from an anime(yea from anime, one piece) " justice always prevails, cause the one with the power can change the very definiton of justice and change the very history of the world."

[@albuagasmc]

Correct me if i were wrong but we filipinos are independent, were not anymore puppets to US, China or any country!, so dont say that were filipinos were puppet of the US at this time

[@thegreatteaman]

Rodferr Aquarius the Americans and Filipinos were starting negotiations on Filipino Independence in 1941, but would only become fully independent in 1946, after the war’s conclusion. Obviously the Philippines are independent now, and are an ally of the U.S and not a puppet, but they were still technically a puppet of the U.S. The US took the Philippines from Spain in the Spanish American war, and didn’t give them up until 1946.

[@albuagasmc]

@@thegreatteaman 👍

[@currypenguin]

As a history fanatic, kudos to you for writing this. Also damn never knew about the Soviet males fact, that is insane

[@BramVanhooydonck]

In Belgium we mostly learn that nobody won the war, as most of the focus goes to the lost lives. I think we don't talk enough about how the war played out on a social and civilian level. Most of us mourn the victims and spew at the "baddies" without actually taking the effort to understand both sides.

[@keshav9548]

History tends to always be biased and inaccurate and you're rarely going to get the pure straight facts unless you go to the past/someone from the past gets here. I really like these XisumaSays videos they really get me thinking.

[@fam5694]

Upload during world history lol!

[@Ferenc.]

Exactly

[@allandavids9284]

Same lol

[@blackout_ct1013]

Same 😂

[@thebagel3426]

Right before European history for me 😂

[@gabi3742]

Same!

[@elizabethv3116]

Hi Xisuma! Biblical Studies major here! The Dead Sea Scrolls are a fascinating topic, one I've had the privilege of diving into and reading, and I'm glad you enjoyed your podcast about them! More or less, they're important because they were several hundred years older than all previously discovered copies of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible , dating to about 100 BCE. Some of the other scrolls that the community itself produced also give a lot of insight into Jewish culture around that time, which is important to New Testament and 2nd Temple Jewish Studies. I've never heard anyone in Biblical Studies Scholarship say they were forgeries, even extremely theologically liberal scholars or atheist scholars who would have a motive to disprove their legitimacy. It is actually one of the most well-attested archeological finds in the last century. You can go see many of them in the Israel Museum, see pictures of them on the web, or check out a scholarly translation from your local library. I'd be curious to know where the person in your chat got their info from. Anyway, great video, Xisuma! I have a lot of respect for you. You are one of the most genuinely open-minded, non-judgemental, and respectful people I've ever seen. The internet needs more people like you; keep doing what you're doing!

[@lexiconikan3219]

I had done some research into them myself (not my area of expertise, so my thoughts on them don't carry weight), and was confused when the person said they were proven fakes. I did some searching and all i found was news articles from March 2020 saying a small collection at the Museum of the Bible of what were purported to be a portion of the dead sea scrolls was proven to be fake. So what it seems to boil down to is the dead sea scrolls are very much authentic, but at some point (according to the article, during the 20th century) someone made a small forgery, claimed it was a part of the scrolls, and from there it changed hands some amount of times before landing in the museum, where they were forced to have them tested due to some suspicions, and we found to be fake.

[@elizabethv3116]

@@lexiconikan3219 That makes total sense, thank you for the follow-up! Though how the person got from "there exist some forgeries" to "the entire collection is a forgery" I will never know. I would also hazard a guess that somewhere there may exist articles written immediately after the first few scrolls were discovered that question their authenticity, before experts had had time to date them and confirm it. I do know that it took some time for the full gravity of the discovery to become apparent. The story of how these scrolls were discovered is fascinating, and should be pretty easy to find if you're interested. :-)

[@dolly118-m7k]

"ThEy WeRE ForGED?!" No, there's plenty of evidence to show that they were in fact from the original time period. Carbon dating baby! Although I do have biases, I learned about the Dead Sea Scrolls from a source outside of the realm of people who share my bias. :)

[@driftinziggygaming7395]

Civilizations have existed much longer than given credit .. Gobleki Tepe is a great example.. Water erosion on the Sphinx, Pyramids on nearly every continent, the list goes on. We have no real knowledge of what the history of this planet is. Great topic.

[@feathersparrots1456]

I thank you, Xisuma. You thought me to see both sides of things with these small X-Says videos! I really apperciate all the work you do for us.

[@pixelman6193]

The Vatican archives and the library of Alexandria is two places I really want to either gain access to or see not be destroyed

[@martijn9568]

I'd have the same feeling around the Russian archives. Lots of stuff from the USSR is still there

[@Ismail-db1vj]

I don't really like this type of question personally, because it's almost impossible to prove anything.

[@gabrielspira2852]

You can't even prove that I wrote this

[@Tangental]

Gabriel Spira bett

[@ChillstoneBlakeBlast]

How can we prove death? If I were to Rip the heart of a living being, Will it die? I dunno man, I think There are Some information that is impossible to prove.

[@matsr_2279]

Its not about if something is true or false its more about the confidence you can say a thing is true or not true as you can never be 100% sure of most things.

[@grahamr2809]

How do i know that someone didn't hack your account to post that comment? I bet you robbed a store, I saw you. lol.

[@DarthMakroth]

8:48 I always just said that and presumed it, that we all put work in the war

[@sandwich2473]

I said to my teacher in english that you can't actually see the great wall of china from space and she gave me into trouble. I also mentioned that bananas are the most naturally radioactive fruit, but again she told me off. It's all true, and she even tried to prove me wrong with the great wall of china one, it's because she couldn't do it that she told me off.

[@blackout_ct1013]

"No longer sure that anyone wins a war, I am" -Yoda

[@OgreManGaming]

What about Liechtenstein?

[@austincampbell1297]

Watched an episode of Once Upon Time last night where they said history was written by the victors. Also, reminds me of the episode of airbender where Aang was learning fire nation history and he corrected the teacher.

[@masterbeta1089]

The “Britain won WW2” is at least slightly true. Without Britain, Enigma wouldn’t have been cracked and it would have made the war 2 years longer. Might have also changed the tide of the battle as well

[@CalebClif10]

Neil Armstrong didn’t walk on the moon. Xisuma did. Shakespeare didn’t write those words. Xisuma did. Xisuma is history. Just nobody knows it.

[@marrow5157]

Xisuma never diessss

[@Gamerkitty6274]

this hits different if you're into the hermitcraft space outlaws AU...

[@crazywyvern4704]

The queen is the one that has been covering it up since the 1500’s

[@masterbeta1089]

Xisuma’s skin for Minecraft 1.1 was the world and he’s kept that skin on since

[@gorillaxxxe]

explains a lot. :)

[@jjkthebest]

"If you're from somewhere there's a good chance you see WW2 in your favour." Well... unless you're from Germany.

[@Blechmamber]

A thing we have instead is a lot of shifting blame like "All the normal soldiers had absolutely no clue what was really going on" or "These high ranking officials where actually working against Hitler behind the scenes" so we can at least feel a bit better about it.

[@sakpie]

Im so excited for the next "podcast" stream!

[@erikabutterfly]

On history being written by the victors: I'm currently reading the "Martyrs Mirror" which is a compilation of court documents, letters and other solid accounts compiled 1660 by Anabaptists about their persecution from both large sides of the Reformation. Definitely puts some perspective to what I learned about the Reformation in school.

[@SurpriseTea]

Here in Russia, we have a similar perception problem in regards to "who won the WW2": while USSR was the main fighting force indeed, the impact of free supplies from other Allies is often downplayed. And while USSR probably _would_ win without the Second Front, it made it faster, and saved plenty of lives as the result. But if you think of it, maybe US is the actual _winner_ of WW2, or rather, the main beneficiary, since their economy has skyrocketed, Dollar has become the main international currency, and US' massive influence over the world has began.

[@thegreatteaman]

Didn't the allies only send most of the supplies in 1944 to the Soviet Union? I may be wrong about that, but i'm pretty sure most American supplies to the USSR came in 1944, as the Soviets were already beginning to steamrole the nazi's. Also, apparently the West only sent about 2,000 tanks to Soviet Russia, and most of them were inferior to the T-34 and KV-1 which were being mass produced by that point. (Not to mention the fact that russia made over 30,000 tanks over the course of the entire war, so 2 thousand isn't going to do too much.) I'm just curious though, since over here in America, we don't talk about the other combatants very much, so I'm curious about what you think of that, and if I'm wrong about that.

[@SurpriseTea]

@@thegreatteaman No. Supplies have started to arrive in late 1941, over a year before the turning point. And during that time every unit of resources was valuable. Also, food for the Red Army was mostly supplied by Allies, because most of the fertile land was located in the area controlled by Germany. And there weren't enough people available to work on it anyway.

[@thegreatteaman]

@@SurpriseTea I meant that i've heard that MOST of the supplies were sent in 1944. Again, I don't know a lot about allied shipping to Russia, so that's just what I've heard. Thanks for letting me know about that though. I'm super interested in WW2, so I wanted to make sure I wasn't spreading false info.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

There's plenty of ways to prove history and archaologists and historians use all those techniques. What you look for is corroborating evidence. or signs that what an account says is accurate. There's a LOT of critical thinking involved, along with a lot of evidence gathering. For instance. We know that Roman military campaigns happened and which ones they won or lost not just from reading the records written by the Romans, but by finding evidence of these campaigns, which leave marks all over the place, on the areas the campaigns happened in. For a modern example. Future people will know that the Moon landings happened because they'll be able to find our equipment on the moon. The astronaut's footprints. The wealth of video evidence, and all the technical manuals, equipment, and piles and piles of books full of data that were used as a part of the program. Not only that, we'll have records of the accomplishment in other countries like Russia, that would have no reason to make things up, and as a matter of fact would have benefited from the US NOT having landed on the moon. There reaches a certain point where the mountain of evidence makes things to have much more likely to have happened than not. There will always be history written by the victors, but that history will usually have some corroborating evidence in other locations that back it up.

[@hydro9028]

Also we can prove we have been on the moon, by using a laser. The laser hits the reflective material the astronauts placed down and it comes back to earth. At that point you can time how long it takes and work out the distance between the moon and earth.

[@faizalogwell_casual]

It's not really about victors writing history, it's about them propagating history that paints them in a positive light. Take for example Hitler and Winston Churchill, while Hitler was a horrible man Churchill was the same if not worse he caused the death of over 4.3 million in Bengal and not to mention the countless tortured for not accepting British rule but while throughout my life I've heard of Hitler and Stalin but never about Winston Churchill's misdeeds until I did my research into the history of my own country. There are several examples including the American treatment of natives and the fact that the people of Israel were sheltered by the people of Palestine before waging war and so on so forth. So while direct lying directly about history doesn't happen often lying by omission is commonplace.

[@danielbrown8556]

Churchill once said 'history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it'. It seems that, in Britain, his vision came true.

[@thelegend2776]

Yup, sadly in most of the western world we get propaganda motuh fed since we're little, but since this propaganda itself teaches us that we are "free", and "democratic" and "progressive", it's so difficult for us to comprehend that we are basically brainwashed about the rest of the world. This indoctrination also applies to the news, tv shows and basically all western media we consume. We consider Stalin to be a genocide and not Churchill not because one was necessarily worse than the other, but because the Soviet Union dissolved. Following the case of the USSR, we ignore all of the accomplishments it reached just because it lost the cold war. Communism literally took millions of people out of poverty and feudal work and industrialized the biggest country on earth in an unbielievable small amount of time, yet we think of it as an "unrealistic" and "inefficient" ideology, just because it wasn't as strong as dozens of already industrialized and imperialist nations working together with the sole purpose of counter attacking it. A lot of people tend to forget that the USSR went from being a feudalist and monarchist society to the second biggest economy in the world because of communism.

[@confidential5743]

@@thelegend2776 I think while some people forget the benefits that are possible with communism, you are definitely ommitting the cons of communisms. Millions of people have been slaughtered in communist regimes and been given just what they need to get by. Having a thriving economy does not equate to your civillians living happy, fruitful lives.

[@thelegend2776]

@@confidential5743 Well, the USSR had to fight in the 2 biggest wars in the history of hummanity WHILE it was in the process of changing it's entire political system, so you can't really blame the country. And, from a social perspective, people lived well under communism! Women gained rights and started being treated as equals, minorities were treated much better than under the czarist regime, people had better access to healthcare, food, education and shelter, religious extremism was greatly readuced, and overall quality of life improved massively, even without taking into account the absolute terrible state the russian empire was at the time of the revolution.

[@confidential5743]

@@thelegend2776 I don’t think I believe people lived better under communism. Maybe in a very specific time period but generally communism is associated with the civillian populace suffering greatly

[@TheSpeep]

As someone from Belgium, I'd say we are probably one of the (apparently) few countries who don't look back fondly on the World Wars. Basically every town here has a monument to them, none of which are made to glorify what happened, most are fairly simple stone pillars and the likes inscribed with the names of soldiers who died during them. For us this wasnt our chance to show how good and righteous our troops were, our country got ravaged and lots of people died. It's honestly crazy to think of the fact that the place I grew up in used to be a battlefield.

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

Yea it's a bit much to glorify the soldiers JA het is toch wel een beetje veel om de soldaten te vereren

[@TheSpeep]

@@mariellevandenborne2361 Oh I'm absolutely thankful for what they did to defend the country and its people, even if that did include killing others, but theres a big difference between remembering and thanking the people we possibly owe our lives to and glorifying the act of war itself. Because war is not a glorious thing, it is, at best, a necessary evil that ruins or ends the lives of far too many.

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

@@TheSpeep de monumenten zijn voor de soldaten niet voor de oorlog

[@TheSpeep]

@@mariellevandenborne2361 Nee exact, dat was mijn punt, daarom heb ik dus geen probleem met onze monumenten. Ik ben best wel fan van hun boodschap van "laten we dit niet opnieuw doen".

[@mariellevandenborne2361]

@@TheSpeep o ok dan had ik het fout begrepen

[@rootbeer6682]

World history here: "This man represents me!"

[@feathersparrots1456]

Timmy, I'm berry disappointend in you

[@carolinehusky]

Also, don't forget there is often so much happening at the same time that people only can progress so much of it. I remember how my teacher introduced us to the middle-east situation with: "It's complicated. Even for us...", and that was even before the Arabian Spring! It also depends on what environment you are in at the time. I was escaped to a small village in the middle of nowhere during the height of the pandemic, and we were together with some Austrian miners who were cut off from home, and saw the whole pandemic as a conspiracy theory. I don't share their opinion, but it will no doubt have influenced me, just like the fact that I run from an overcrowded place because I couldn't stand it, or how I drove through the country under false pretences as to get away. It is true that living in between two countries and/or two different environments gives you a lot of depth on certain "re-interpretations" on history...

[@partymaker653]

This makes me think about 1984 by George Orwell and this exact concept

[@andreeacat7071]

4:00 don’t watch this part with a four year old they’ll scream and cry

[@user-de8ue5cs6s]

IM CALLING IT RIGHT HERE X IS NAMING HIS FUTURE KID TIMMY

[@Periareion]

"Eloquence belongs to the conqueror"

[@blackout_ct1013]

Nice, i leave history class only to see that X has uploaded this 😂

[@user-fh1pu9os7n]

Same, lol

[@kob6912]

The thing about Shakespeare is that it is quite possible that he didn’t even exist- that it was a pseudonym of many authors.

[@eeli8295]

You could say that about pretty much anyone from that period though

[@user-de8ue5cs6s]

I’m taking AP World History this year. Not Advanced Placement, but American Programmed World History.

[@hubbeplays]

You are a very wise man not gonna lie

[@SurpriseTea]

Here's an example of how it's hard to find concrete information sometimes: I was trying to find some concrete info about Stalin and if his actions were bad and/or justified, you know, the whole idea of "Millions of people were imprisoned and executed by Stalin's orders"... And it happened to be extremely hard: some sources say that there weren't millions, only a couple of thousands; Other sources say that there were a lot, but the vast majority were the actual criminals (bandits, killers, war criminals etc); Other other sources say people were arrested for thinking wrong things. And the fact that there were two world wars, a Russian civil war, and a world-wide food crisis, makes things even more complicated.

[@AddinRoyale]

a few fays ago I was talking to someone on the internet, he said that his Parents grew up in the Soviet Union, He said that both his parents owned cars, had more than enough food and lived a normal life (whilst being teens). He said they the way the could afford these things was by doing normal chores in the neighborhood, i.e , stuff like wash their neighbor's cars, raking their garden Etc. He says that its weird seeing people say that the Soviet Union was living hell and that we are lucky that the Soviet Union fell. This sparked a lot of thought in me. For Example: Are the Chinese really bad for spying on us? Doesn't the Other World Governments do the same? Heck even Companies like Google and Facebook do it Nowadays. Is North Korea really a living nightmare? People say that the Soviet Union was bad, but is it really THAT bad , if their people say that its wasn't? I believe world Governments shoot out these types of propagandas through the media, in order to justify their doings to their people. Are Governments really doing Psychological/Mental warfare against their own people in order to gain support from their own people? For example: Iraq, America invaded Iraq after 9/11, Iraq didn't even do anything, the Soviet Union got a hold of Afghanistan, and the people from Afghanistan were attacking Pakistan because when the British divided the Indian sub Continent they just took a part of the Afghani's territory and gave it to Pakistan, Russia wanted to have more control there so they helped the Afghanis to attack Pakistan by doing acts of terrorism there, The Americans didn't want Russia to have control there so they started helping the Pakistanis by providing them weapons, so they could make a new group of people and provide them those weapons to attack Afghanistan, that group is currently know as the "Tal!ban", that group took control over Afghanistan, and then attacked America in 9/11. I don't see how Iraq had ANY fault in here. Basically Americans joined a game of shooting themselves in the foot and then Blamed the Iraqis. It doesn't make any sense to me. People agreed to invading Iraq at the time because of the tragic events on 9/11, And thats like the only reason people justified these actions. Was that planned? Many professional pilots reviewed the plane footage and say that those moves are VERY hard to pull of for a Professional Pilot, and I doubt that some people living in stone huts and caves could pull of these moves, especially without ever having even having SEEN a plan Cockpit, Does that mean that the Government was behind that all? and was all of that in order to Psychologically play the people so they can get support out of this? get support for stealing.. OIL ???!

[@MSTavares]

Yes we can prove histoey... Not by the scientific standarts for proving things, but we can prove history

[@pawekopis5729]

The Polsh helped England in WWII

[@Shadowchaser_of_Unitrex]

“History is written by the victors. History is filled with liars.” And “cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be the truth. But only if he lives, and we die.”

[@joemorton9200]

I've heard americans say they won the war. I'm English and I had to do my own research to really get a full grasp. You cant deny englands tenation in ww2, having all our European allies wiped out, having our cities bombed, managing to win the battle of britain. However people dont give france enough credit I think (the soldiers anyway). During the dunkirk evaction many French soldiers had to stay in dunkirk to hold off the nazi's for as long as possible, knowing they'd probably die. As you said russia endured a lot and we really would have struggled without the Americans, and Canada, australia, french African soldiers, the Arab tribes, and many more

[@thegreatteaman]

Yeah, Britain's role is downplayed SUPER heavily here in America even though they played a vital role in stopping the Nazi's. I mean, hell, the British destroyed the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, and that just made it even more difficult for the Luftwaffe to recover and fight the Russian Air force when Barbarossa began. And the British army wasn't even that bad, since they (along with Commonwealth soldiers and many others like Poles and Frenchmen) fought well in Africa against the Italians, and El Alemain was a decisive victory in Africa. And the french soldiers who escaped and the french resistance also played a pretty big role in the west as well, damaging supplies, communications, and even playing roles in battle against the Nazi's.

[@joemorton9200]

@@thegreatteaman yeah I never really hear it abroad. But even in Britain most people dont know even the full scope Britain played, most people dont seem to know about "dunkirk spirit" when British civilians went to rescue as many soldiers as possible. And then churchill sending the navy back to rescue as many French as possible

[@danielbrown8556]

The USSR won WWII, and there is really no question of this. There is a reason that the UK & USA seriously contemplated invading the Balkans rather than Normandy. Also, Dunkirk was a catastrophe, and it's only remembered as a triumph because of wartime propaganda.

[@thegreatteaman]

Daniel Brown yes, the USSR contributed the most out of any nation in Europe, but Dunkirk wasn’t a “disaster.” Considering that over 300 thousand British men escape. As well as a tens of thousands of French.

[@danielbrown8556]

The Gaming ACE it was a crippling defeat which prevented the western allies from having a presence in Europe for 3 years

[@hummingcloud9889]

One thing is the war of 1812, Canada says they won, while the US says they won

[@TheEmperor0000]

The British tried making Napoleon look bad. They believed he was gaining too much power and wealth and wanted to end him. They made tons of propaganda on him, but still to this day, many people including myself look up to Napoleon and are fascinated by his career and his ability to inspire his troops.

[@Ace_92]

This what happened to Chattrapati Shambaji Maharaj, a great king of Maharashtra in India of the Maratha empire. His greatness was written out by the brahmans (writers and sages and all) who hated him for not giving them kingship

[@niklasmaier2664]

The story in History stands for Story

[@lastedwizard9674]

It’s a big part of 1984 by George Orwell

[@OgreManGaming]

Xisuma, you need to sponsor my latest invention, a TIME MACHINE! Then we can prove the past (or disprove it)!

[@DavidPYoutubeChannel]

I havent watched the whole video yet but i agree history isnt always written by the victors Example: the 1916 easter rising in ireland, ended in a unconditional surrender to the brittish and all the leaders were executed yet the story is told from the irish POV most of the time.

[@SourHere]

I have seen this stream!

[@DarthMakroth]

You should have like 20 mil subs, this is funny and interesting lol

[@utkarshgupta810]

i think nxt time X should make a video with other hermits

[@ciarangale4738]

fyi a lot of these are just stuff hes talked about on stream

[@Jaydonutalt]

I’m in school and I can confirm that Americans are taught that it was a group effort.

[@thegreatteaman]

Josiah W not where I came from lol. It’s different at each school, since unlike some other countries there isn’t an entirely “uniform” system. In the north it’s taught different from the south, it’s taught differently in Texas than Oklahoma, it’s taught different in Houston than it is in Austin, etc.

[@Jaydonutalt]

The Gaming ACE I guess that’s a good point. Lol, why do we have to be like this???

[@Razer__]

What are your thoughts on the Ottoman Empire? and the Crusades Spain used to be dominantly Muslim, it took 400 years to wipe out the caliphate until the late 1400's

[@RBeesMusings]

This is like when everyone thought the New Testament was the og one and the only one cus Roman dudes

[@AnimilesYT]

I think that at right now almost everyone won the war. There are still veterans alive. Even my grandfather who was a kid during the war lost it because his dad got killed. But for most people who are alive we can say that we've won. The war was a huge boost in aviation technologies, communication technologies, calculation technologies, and many more things. We are able to live our lifes of (relative) luxury because of the war. The same can now also be seen in the development of green technologies to combat the climate crisis and other pollution crisis. It is all going really quick and I think that in 25 years we start to look at things like gasoline cars in the same way as we now look at steam engines. During the cold war we could've initiated a nuclear hell upon earth destroying most of humanity, but we didn't. We innovated and made a better world. The people who won the war are the people who were born long after the war.

[@Raffael-Tausend]

T in the chat!

[@nightblockprimecraft9284]

I find memory interesting

[@Gamerkitty6274]

Teony97 underrated reply

[@JaWadles]

Oh wow. I'm confused now😂

[@mally60]

This was uploaded whilst doing history homework. Now I'm not motivated so I'm gonna do some Minecraft.

[@masterbeta1089]

oh so Timmy, you decided to check multiple sources online to confirm that 2+2=4? They could still be wrong and were written by the same person. For God’s sake Timmy.

[@itsPlasma06]

I was just doing my History homework lol

[@savageraccoon787]

Timmy, I honestly expected you to do better but I guess you proved me wrong.

[@xobertoxo]

Timmmmmmmmmyyy

[@Sankalp-wz5sf]

Best xisumasays ever lol

[@icy2563]

No one wins a war

[@huggybear30]

Poor Timmy

[@crazywyvern4704]

We never know, the freaking ancient Greeks could have had magic and stuff or some crazy science but the romans were actually a resistance group that destroyed that Greeks and then wrote history as that

[@ciarangale4738]

this is really accurate. there could hypothetically have been a whole other civilisation rivalling the greatest in history, but they were defeated and the victors absolutely crushed any evidence of their existence into oblivion

[@SpiritualitySelfDev]

You can research that the ancient Greeks obtained their knowledge and wisdom from ancient Egypt AKA Kemet, a once leading and dominating civilization that had influence all over the Earth. They were a spiritually advanced people, happily teaching others their knowledge including the Greeks. Once the Greeks learned the really good stuff like sacred math, sacred geometry etc. was reserved for inner circle members of Kemet, they planned to pillage Kemet of it's seemingly divine knowledge. They were successful. Alexander the Greek played a large role in this, and the good stuff was recorded and stored in the Library of Alexandria, which we all know was burned down. (although, that doesn't mean that ancient knowledge was lost...the information could have been moved elsewhere but we don't know for sure.) A book that you can read to kick-start your knowledge of ancient Egypt is: Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization By Anthony T. Browder

[@knus1959]

Hi xisuma :) Everyone should dobbelt check everything..... but you have to look at the fact from a different perspective....... an exampel..... one person is looking at the number 6...... but the person on the other side can see number 9....... so some times it's very hard to say what's true and what's false. And i'm sure of that it is the biggest issue today about all the facts and news there is on the internet and even in every history book. :) You can believe what ever you want... but some times you may have to change your opinions. :)

[@molly_the_spy]

Oh X, Clear as swamp water. You have a way with words but I got the point anyway. To be fair you explain your views better than me.

[@bubblesmccarthy1069]

History is not often written by the oppressed though only when the oppressors are out of power will that happen. That can take decades and if the administration that committed these crimes are still viewed favorably those crimes will almost never get the recognition they deserve.

[@David-qr5sq]

Regarding the idea that history is biased, the way history is taught here in the US (or at least part of Texas) is (was) very much in favor of American exceptionalism. High school is a little different because we are required to learn about document sourcing (identifying possible biases and relating them to 'facts'). But even then, my World History teacher hated Columbus (not saying he was a great person) and may have highlighted his atrocities and let out the ones others commited. But yes, history is a human record of the past and due to that is subject to bending, omission and exaggeration.

[@bubblesmccarthy1069]

The French people in chat aren't having a good time

[@Cnut_the_grape]

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[@bubblesmccarthy1069]

@@Cnut_the_grape When Xisuma was talking about who won the second world war the French viewers didn't really have a stake in the discussion.

[@Cnut_the_grape]

@@bubblesmccarthy1069 I don't understand, were they mad?

[@bubblesmccarthy1069]

@@Cnut_the_grape No I was just assuming that being in a discussion where you didn't really have anything to say might have been annoying.

[@Cnut_the_grape]

@@bubblesmccarthy1069 yeah that's understandable

[@rudalph5923]

Ye

[@KyleBemmann]

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

[@hobrin4242]

see torogadude's first vid, very good, has everything to do with this vid: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYWTkGmwq5hlhLc

[@niftyfawn4768]

Here’s the thing though...as History becomes the further past, and then people change it. How can it be proven that those people aren’t changing it for their own selfish motives. My opinion will not be very valid though as you don’t know me and my intentions(although I do have the best intentions, I can’t really prove that). The point though is that if we start to change what parts of history has said; then we might be heading into a future where the past has been deluded by perception and lessons not learned by change in mind for the worse. However; if more people try to look at every factor possible that would result in the best outcome for all; then maybe there is a shot for the best in life for all.

[@niftyfawn4768]

Also when looking at many different sources, think about what the most practical action and impractical action that the person would come up with in order to get a sense of what had possibly actually happened instead of taking a word from a source. Xisuma kind of talks about this but doesn’t out right say it from the point of the video I am at currently.

[@niftyfawn4768]

Sorry for adding another text, but I am American and I realize that when it comes to a world war all countries are involved and many pay various prices. The partial reason that World War 2 had even started was because the treaty of Versailles as well and the amount of reperations Germany had to pay for and other factors of their government being limited when they had just been put in that unfortunate situation when no other country from that war was intact and on their side before hand. The hardships then leading to radical government getting the Nazi party. So many Americans do and don’t understand this because of how in depth and willing they are to comprehend or just listen to all the possible factors. This could be true for most countries as well.

[@niftyfawn4768]

One more side note, sorry about the last comment. I am currently watching the video and then typing my thoughts out as I don’t want to watch the whole video and then regret not typing it because I had forgotten it as I tend to do that a lot and end up not typing anything.

[@RBeesMusings]

Plot twist:2+2=22

[@mohammadtahir4410]

hello

[@thecatdragon589]

i don’t really know what to comment here, so i’ll just leave a t for timmy edit: war is a battle that no one wins.

[@turtle_7777]

If you dont know what to say, dont comment. He mentioned that 1 million times

[@Estarfigam]

British Grit, French Resistance, Russian Sacrifice, and American Ingenuity won WWII.

[@thegreatteaman]

Elf Spy Network “British brains, American brawn, and Russian blood.” -Joseph Stalin

[@tigrey2086]

Pfft France obviously won the war

[@adansoto4445]

The fact is haha

[@Ferenc.]

Not gonna lie, COVID-19 is writing history.

[@NoMercy8008]

Don't get me wrong here, I'm a long-time viewer of your Minecraft-/Gaming-Content and I love your videos, you are doing great work generally. But i must admit, I personally find what you are saying about "checking sources" rather dangerous. The thing is, you do have a comparatively large following, you are, want it or not, an influencer of some kind. And you are influencing potentially a lot of people here, especially since your audience is likely relatively young. In light of that influence, that impact that you do inevitably have with your words, I see it as your duty to at least properly fact-check the most important bits, especially when you're talking about these "larger" topics. You are in a way spreading information by talking about this, and if your information turns out to be wrong, you might find yourself responsible for great harm, greater than you think. And you strike me as the kind of person who really wants to cause no harm to anyone, which is why this is such an important topic. Words and information can be very powerful, much more than you might think, and if your words are spread far and wide, it is a very good idea to be very conscious about them, in my opinion. You might argue that everyone is responsible for their own fact-checking, everyone is responsible to check their sources before they trust what you say, etc etc. And that is totally true, but that does not relieve you from your duty to check your info before you spread it, quite the contrary I'd say. Here's an example: You have made a video about VPNs and why you find them necessary and so on. Based on the comments of that video, you seem to have influenced quite a lot of people to use a VPN service themselves, with a bunch of them probably paying for it. Now, if it turns out that your information about VPNs is actually wrong or too incomplete, that your assumptions about them are false, that'd mean that you were the reason that a lot of people have utterly wasted their money. Again, I don't think you would want something like that to happen. Which is why it is so important to be at least 98% sure that what you're saying is actually true and not some misinformation. Of course, being 100% sure is, in many cases, almost impossible, but usually there is some widely agreed upon consensus that most of the material you can find will reflect. If that is not the case or if you have a hard time finding that consensus or if it is difficult to interpret the sources, i personally find it incredibly important to mention that. And generally it is always a very good idea to directly mention the sources you are basing whatever you're saying on if possible, so that others have the opportunity to see for themselves if they want to trust you and your sources or not. Once again, you might argue that this is overkill, that your channel is so small and you'd only have time for that if this grows to something much larger. But this here channel currently has almost 100k subs and the video about VPNs that i used as an example has almost 10k views. that's not just a small discussion amongst a few interested people or anything like that. This is you informing and influencing a very significant amount of people, in my opinion.

[@essem2Plays]

If the war was won by anyone then 1/3 by Russia, 1/3 by the USA and 1/3 by the remaining and defeated Europeans. Each party on their own would probably have lost but together they won. Luckily the EU pretty much makes a new war in europe unlikely, that's why it is sad to see the UK leave.

[@MetDaan2912]

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[@lolbenz]

You uk guys bombed german cities first. Thats something of the case like winners write history, only one side had to pay for its crimes. (not to relativate any of the horrible things the nazis did)

[@houstonhampton2418]

A lot of the Dead Sea scrolls were proven to be falsified

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

This is for the record. History is written by the victor. I'm too lazy to type out the rest of the speech but if you know you know

[@howeee]

wtf is this video quality

[@neociber24]

The audio is what matters

[@Marlin123]

Jewish history is for guides of living, and in return he gave the jewish people the jewish land, christianity is similar but in the fact that people are convinced it is supirior, jewish bible isn't accurate is what i'm trying to say

[@lusmiipangya-6013]

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