How did Communist States React to the USSR's Collapse? (Short Animated Documentary)

We all understand that the western world was over the moon at the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. But how did the rest of the Communist world react? How did Cuba, China, Vietnam, North Korea and Yugoslavia feel about it? Find out by watching this short and simple animated documentary.
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Sources:
Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism by Mark R. Beissinger
THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN THE USSR AND EASTERN EUROPE AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINA AND NORTH KOREA by VERNON V. ASPATURIAN
VIETNAM 1991: Still in Transition by Frank C.H. Huynh
CUBA AND THE COLLAPSE OF WORLD SOCIALISM IN THE 1990s by Anton L. Allahar
The Chinese Communist Party and the Collapse of Soviet Communism by John W. Garver

[@f2pguy438]

Yugoslavia is the type of person to laugh at other countries for screwing up, then screw up in the exact same way

[@DacLMK]

*10 times worse.

[@mochalo4912]

*worse way

[@mr.8-bit604]

this comment made me spit my coke 🤣

[@Pattnaa]

@@mochalo4912 you won

[@bluerisk]

They did it via war and got the ass kicked big time.

[@guilhermelcb3873]

Kind of missed the fact that North Korean economy completely collapsed after the USSR dissolved and without soviet support and supplies they went through a 5 year famine

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Shh

[@budwyzer77]

@Pedro Rodriguez You can't forget about his parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and cousins either!

[@brandonlyon730]

@@apgames8497 Wasnt most of the flooding because of a poorly thought through Dam the government created?

[@walterwhitegaming8830]

Stop spreading fake news.

[@anxietywave8735]

No no no, see that all was North Korea's fault. The collapse of the USSR had nothing to do with it.

[@thestonedabbot9551]

Actual joke from the USSR: Why do the secret police go around in groups of 3? One does the reading, the 2nd does the writing, and the 3rd keeps an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals

[@tazoomturret377]

The perfect joke

[@daymenpollet4202]

Ok

[@foxbox6016]

@Harry Balls its not, chill

[@foxbox6016]

@Harry Balls stop being ignorant and hilariously boring

[@danc7934]

Well, it was well known in the USSR that the KGB didn't pick the smartest of individuals, or as my mom said it to me: "The KGB-ists don't really need brains"

[@davidmuttillo2806]

You guys always do a great job. But there is one major error here. I have studied North Korea for a decade and the effects of the USSR's collapse on the DPRK were actually substantial. North Korea had not distanced themselves from the USSR to the degree this video asserts. The USSR provided almost all of the below market cost fuel that the DPRK used to run most of its industry at the time. The loss of communist brotherhood fuel prices and other major pieces of economic assistance that the USSR gave North Korea combined with the loss of trade with the USSR played a significant role in exacerbating the effects of the North Korean famine of the 90s. The loss of below market cost fuel left the country without the power supply necessary to fuel its factories and industry. The loss of trade with the USSR left them without the means to exchange goods for food with the USSR. The loss of these and other assistance from the USSR led directly to collapse of industry in the DPRK. and left them without their major benefactor at the time of the famine. THE DPRK was one of the nations to suffer the most at the time from the collapse of the USSR.

[@mayajacobssen5187]

Thank you for pointing this out

[@bartoszmarkiewicz6766]

Well said.

[@icommentalots]

When I heard the part that North Korea successfully weaned themselves off, I was waiting for a "just kidding" afterwards, specifically because I remembered the great famine that occurred only a few years after Soviet support disappeared

[@KaotikBOOO]

You studied it for nothing then...

[@davidmuttillo2806]

@@KaotikBOOO Based on an answer like that you clearly haven't studied it at all.

[@AHEM1313]

Soviet Union: 7.8 Fidel Castro: "Too many reforms." Jiang Zemin: "Not enough reforms."

[@Drachepower]

AHEM1313 Jiang Lives!

[@detachsoup6061]

3.8*

[@neeljain6273]

Not Great Not Terrible

[@abuhammad]

Okay, in Chinese stand point of view, it's too much reform. Tian'anmen Square Massacre is what China is proud of. Since then China continued to reform economy, but politically nothing was reformed in China. Ask the question: how the Soviet ceased to exist? Because they reformed to let people vote for the parties they preferred, people in Soviet Union client states and Soviet Union member States voted out Communist party, Soviet Union did not respond by massacre to reverse the tide as early as possible like the Tian'anmen Square Massacre whose demands were exactly allowing people to vote other parties for government. So Gorbachev believed in the benevolence of communism, but people had already had enough of this brutal dictatorship model of governance around the world. If China reformed the way Gorbachev did, there would be no communists China today.

[@silencelamp9210]

Abdullah Muhammad astonished a foreigner could know China so well. Ps I am a Chinese.

[@i05CrafterGames]

Everybody talks about James bizonette, but nobody remembers “A Man of Culture”

[@PANZERFAUST90]

People just love the attention...

[@luminescentcore]

And Fridah Oinkoink😅

[@elcompagenito3250]

True

[@Brahmdagh]

"Kelly Moneymaker" is the real sugardaddy

[@marcopolo2395]

or James Castaneta or whatever

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

This channel educates so much about history, truly a gold mine for quality information

[@ghostofachance8727]

62nd Count of seeing you on Random KZbin Videos.

[@winchesterchua7600]

Hi

[@sunclonkt7839]

no shit sherlock.

[@zubair-rp1ie]

why the hell do I see you on every comment section

[@fahdyunguoughtu2132]

True

[@elliottprats1910]

I love your slight dig at 2:48 “A theory they themselves would put to the test not long afterwards.”

[@iGamezRo]

Video idea: What did the Soviet Union and the United States taught about each other before the Cold War.

[@darkkiller_2127]

Yes. Definitely. ABSOLUTELY!

[@k0mentator507]

"You stink" "Your mother" Pretty much

[@iGamezRo]

@@k0mentator507 :)))))

[@TheNutmeg33]

More specifically before WW2

[@yourneighbourhooddoomer]

Soviet Union: "Our ideology is superior and our enemie's collapse is inevitable." USA: "Our ideology is superior and our enemie's collapse is inevitable."

[@markio1105]

Communist states: *REACTING TO USSR COLLAPSE* *_(NO CLICKBAIT)_*_ _*_(GONE DEMOCRATIC)_*_ _*_(GONE VIOLENT)_*

[@k0mentator507]

POLICE CALLED

[@yourneighbourhooddoomer]

@@k0mentator507 *OMON CALLED

[@crossloveslife]

GONE SEXUAL

[@butjustwhy4018]

GOT GULAGED SOMEHOW

[@threat3071]

KGB CALLED

[@marny3559]

The Cuban economic problem was an interesting one. When one of my high school teachers went on holiday there after the USSR collapse, the hotel's food got progressively more and more simplistic as the week went on. At the start, lobster, steak and other gourmet luxuries. By the end, bread, butter, cheese and maybe grapes. She's not Cuban btw. Like me, she's British.

[@Sakattack2023]

Your teacher was a commie.

[@TuanBe-ni2ud]

Wait, i thought Cuba is an isolated country, you could visit it!?

[@gladys2563]

For a second I thought the hotel was in Britain.

[@hazardouscube0878]

@@TuanBe-ni2ud You can vacation in Cuba. I'm pretty sure tourism is one of their biggest markets.

[@Distress.]

​@@TuanBe-ni2ud only america has restrictions on Cuba

[@CytotoxinK]

2:15 _“North Korea had been weening itself off of Soviet support so the collapse wasn't too damaging."_ Umm... _what?!_ The collapse of the Soviet Union (and the subsequent end of aid/subsidies from the East Bloc) is widely regarded as one of the main contributing factors to NK's economic collapse and the 1990s North Korean Famine. NK was _infamous within the East Bloc_ for its chronic aid-dependence!

[@Admiral45-10]

It had close ties with Eastern Block, that's for sure. You won't imagine how big party it was, when in 1980's general Wojciech Jaruzelski, 1st Secretary of Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party at the time, visited North Korea.

[@idek6585]

He meant in the sense that North Korea was more than just a Soviet puppet (anymore). Although yeah he completely missed that part

[@Nikki-tx6kh]

Serbian Yugoslavia: That happened because the Russians didn't have things as well tied up as we do. Croatia starting a fire on the background.

[@iuliusconstantcornelio2018]

Serbia: I am going to do German WW2 stuff now.

[@outerspace7391]

Croatia: Imma form Commie Yugoslavia, but when the Croatian influence ends, I will secede from the union

[@look7236]

@@iuliusconstantcornelio2018 Did you really compare Serbs to Nazis? Don't you see who started Yugoslav wars?

[@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621]

@@look7236 serbs started war wym?

[@wewuz1970]

@@dontsearchdocumentingreali9621Now if you think you're so smart, why don't you explain us HOW Serbs started Yugoslavian wars, mastermind?

[@jaythizzle1969]

one of the best channels on youtube.

[@inactive2580]

Agree

[@trollinape2697]

Underrated, quick and easy

[@chrisscerbo5731]

definitely... this is the only developed channel I saw every video.

[@Patrick-dx3oq]

Most definitely

[@asianlifter]

C G how so

[@SP-rt4ig]

Speaking of Yugoslavia, it would be great to have a 10 minute video on the Yugoslav Wars (or multiple, since it's quite complicated).

[@lightningstrike5024]

+ kosovo war maybe

[@Queen_Miku]

war is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other… - serbian guy that was in the yugoslavian wars

[@trongnghiachu1977]

​@@Queen_Miku GTA 4 reference, I see.

[@Queen_Miku]

@@trongnghiachu1977 yup lol

[@the0ne809]

YUGOSLAVIA TO USSR/RUSSIA: why didn't you keep everything together like us? 0_o

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Video Idea: How did Stalin and the USSR react to Japan attacking America during Pearl Harbor in WW2?

[@solocca5436]

That’s a good one. I’d like to add, how did they react to America declaring war on Germany?

[@brandonlyon730]

@@solocca5436 Technically America didn’t declare war on Germany after Pearl Harbor, Congress declared war on Japan but only Japan. President Roosevelt wanted war with Germany but that was outside his power as it's Congresses authority to declare not the president and they didn't want war with Germany. It was Germany who declared war on the U.S, forcing them in anyway using there war declaration on Japan as an excuse to go to war with U.S since they were still technically allies with Japan due to the Axis pact. Hitler wanted war with the US for years due to the fact they kept supplying their enemies during the war (Britian and the Soviet Union.). So now they were at war Hitler can destroy all the U.S supply ships (or well try to).

[@torva360]

"Thank God for Pearl Harbor." -Epic Rap Battles of History, Theodore Roosevelt vs. Winston Churchill

[@MushroomTherapy28]

About the same time they also fought some wars against the Empire of Japan.

[@chaosXP3RT]

@@solocca5436 the USA didn't declare war on Germany. Germany declared war on the USA. Where did you learn about WWII?!

[@DragonActual]

Always fun to see those characters either skipping across the field or sneaking up behind another

[@Yora21]

"Soon."

[@jesseberg3271]

Loved Yeltsin doing the skipping without the field of flowers.

[@TheWaffleman54]

I love it when one of them dies because they just simply fall over.

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

@@jesseberg3271 yeltsin has a punchable face

[@vincedibona4687]

I like that the noise associated with a death is just a microphone tap.

[@n.k.v.d3533]

You forgot to mention that the USSR was one of North Korea’s biggest trading partners and shortly after the collapse there was a famine due to insufficient amounts of food. That along with crippling sanctions from the west.

[@cnk9822]

A great example of why communism does not work

[@RandomGuy-rc6vd]

CNK 98 more like a great example why isolationism and protectionism don’t work

[@cnk9822]

@@RandomGuy-rc6vd That's literally communisim

[@TheThundercow]

@@cnk9822 It literally isnt

[@cnk9822]

@@TheThundercow protectionism is not a socialist only measurement, true; it can be applied to several economic models, but protectionism plays a huge part in socialist economy since socialists/communists are against free market of every kind.

[@bronzedisease]

China's reaction was also a huge sigh of relief. After nixon the country has diplomatic relationship with the us. Its main military threat was its hegemonic northern neighbor. Huge projects were enacted to prepare for a Soviet invasion. For example a small islet was emptied out near my home town to store weapons and supplies in case we have to go back being partisans. Countless underground tunnels amd bunkers were made in northern china. People dont even remember some of them anymore

[@pachacutiincayupanqui2239]

Please make video about the little-known and potential allies of the Axis (Iran, Egypt, Iraq)

[@goealshafay425]

wait iraq and egypt was under british protection i guess

[@pachacutiincayupanqui2239]

@@goealshafay425 formally, they were independent and wanted the axis to get rid of British influence. But then the British brought troops there

[@mostafamagdy7117]

Iraq had a coup and went to war with Britain for a bit (and lost) WW2 channel covered it in detail so go check it out

[@mohdadeeb1829]

Spain ?

[@fahoodie1852]

Professor Shibe They were pro allied until a coup occurred in 1941 and Rasheed Gaylani (yes that’s actually his name) became the president and installed a pro-axis government

[@LookBackHistory]

"Everybody was worried about the nukes though" Yeah, Ukraine was momentarily the world's third most powerful nuclear-armed state...

[@IrishCarney]

Big mistake letting those nukes go. Ukraine would still have Crimea and its eastern areas

[@daviddennen7479]

@@IrishCarney I understand what you are trying to say but giving up there nuclear weapons was one of the concessions that Ukraine had to make in order for Russia to grant them their independence. If they had tried to keep them then Russia would have had to use force and so would Ukraine meaning Civil War in the U.S.S.R and a Nuclear Holocaust.

[@walterbrunswick]

@@IrishCarney As a Ukrainian born in Canada, I disagree. Ukrainian politicians are corrupt and nothing good would have come of it.

[@kirillkrugliakov1463]

@@IrishCarney no. Ukraine had no choice. First of all they were technically incapable of taking over those nukes. The maintenance infrastructure, supply chain and control infrastructure, were outside of Ukraine and totally under Yeltsin's control. If Ukraine kept the nukes it would be just a pile of useless poorly maintained bombs. The country would inevitably become a nukes black market. The USA had a very clear picture of this situation and threatened Kravchuk to destroy Ukraine economically if he don't let Russa to take away all their nukes.

[@IrishCarney]

@@daviddennen7479 Ukraine was already independent. In those days with collapsing economics and military morale and a newly democratic Russia it's highly questionable whether a war on Ukraine would have been feasible let alone sustainable. The major driver to de-nuclearize Ukraine was actually the USA and the West, who also wanted Belarus and especially Kazakhstan to give up THEIR nukes too. And while the Ukrainians lacked launch codes and other necessary things, they should have insisted on getting them in exchange for handing over Crimea and majority Russian areas in the East. That way they would not only have removed the excuse for future Russian intervention but also removed the means. Either lose the nukes or lose the territories. But as it turned out, Ukraine lost both.

[@theJboat]

1:26 -999 social credits, supreme leader is displeased

[@zacharynunley9677]

0:43 I absolutely love how detailed this channel is!! If you look at the image of Cuba, you can see that the detail was enough that he included the American holding at Guantánamo

[@Achillez098]

2:32 Madagascar was Communist???!!!! (Looks at King Julian) Makes sense...

[@hippitybob2362]

*King Julian brutalized and executed thousands of innocent Animals i'm glad hes gone...*

[@opai1821]

@@hippitybob2362 😂😂😂😂

[@pacoramon9468]

@@hippitybob2362 Long live Mort the I

[@enzobatista8467]

King Julian was a monarch not a commi.

[@awesomelegion9950]

@@pacoramon9468 I support King Maurice.

[@liamwilson5670]

"Vietnam believed it was due to ethnic tensions" me: uh oh "but that did not apply to them" me: *sigh of relief*

[@PANZERFAUST90]

dumb

[@ernstschmidt4725]

well there are minorities in vietnam but they haven't been a problem since the american withdrew.

[@obscureoccultist9158]

@Mail Fraud Rome survived 2000 or so years with a diverse set of cultural and religious groups of people living within its borders. I'm sure it can work if you know what your doing.

[@eri.ssddseff]

@@obscureoccultist9158 people in rome times had no concepts of nationalism . i mean you can't be a nationalist if nationalism isn't invented yet

[@obscureoccultist9158]

@@eri.ssddseff but the people of antiquity did have the concept of regionalism which is just a smaller scale version of nationalism but with the potential to be just as violent and powerful motivator, coupled with the fact that most of Romes subjects consisted of non Latins from it's provinces such as Iberia, Egypt, Greece, Anatolia and Gaul you'd be amazed just how long Rome lasted with such a large population that probably didn't even speak the same language of the people in the neighbouring province, let alone the Roman's.

[@xanderx2523]

Finally the "characters happily running through a field of flowers" part is back, always makes me laugh XD

[@cringedetector442]

Watching your videos is GREAT when you already know the topic quite well, but forgot a part or need more context. I struggle with topics I have no idea about, because talking very fast while only providing the most essential information seems to be your channels general theme. It's less about teaching and more about recapitulating, so if that's what you're going for you're pretty much nailing it anyway.

[@rileysmith9843]

Vietnam’s relationship with China is strained because of the South China Sea conflict.

[@thethirdman225]

Yep. Both have claims on places like the Spratly Islands.

[@HAnh-qd8sx]

@Alex The Awesome also more than 2000 years china spent trying to invade vietnam

[@silverdeathgamer2907]

@Alex The Awesome Wasn't that when Vietnam intervened in Cambodia also?

[@AngelSnowGlitch]

Well, vietnam wasnt invade Campu, the guy keep poking and killing vietnam ppls in the border in order to reclaim a part of a south vietnam(they lose it in the war with vietnam a long time ago, when ppls still use bow and arrow). Anyway, Vietnam asking for help but Nixon went to bed with China so they both ignore what the Red khmer was doing in there own country(killing there's own ppls like china ofc). They also kidnap about 500 vietnamese on an island of Vietnam. So Vietnam wass pissed off and over throw the red khrme. Fun fact, alot of khrme ppls still living in vietnam after they run off to vietnam during the war. China also pissed off because Vietnam over throw Red Khrme, basically a gov that China created to control the South East Asian. So they attack Vietnam in the north border. And Vietnam basically has to fight with two country at the same time. And they won both of them. After the red khmer is gone, vietnamese just leave and not taking anything from Campu, they also found out that 500 vietnamese that being kidnap is dead. A small quite dude in the class beated up all the big boi who messed with him, tbh. Til' now, vietnamese still hates China pretty bad. But the country is more freedom than China, ppls allow to speak up to the Gov if they not like what the Gov is doing, they also got Google and Facebook, which they can use to conected to the rest of worlds and talk about the bad and the good in vietnam. All stuff that Chinese cant do.

[@NextFuckingLevel]

@Negativland this true tho, before the chinese coast guard infiltrating natuna water, indonesia is like "ok, lmao" after they got their ship inside natuna economic zone.. things has turned 180 degree

[@pohiena2666]

Cuba: "This could have been avoided if you were not incompetent" China: "Oh no, anyway" Vietnam:"Well, I guess China is the big boss now" North Korea: "I gonna die" Yugoslavia and the rest: "Who cares?" Edit: Changed the Vietnam one.

[@johnwayne2898]

Yugoslavia: adios

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

@@johnwayne2898 On fire

[@Tzar1]

Yugoslavia afew years later: Time to go boom

[@bismarck6093]

I don't think Vietnam approached china since they had a war and china also embargo Vietnam

[@pohiena2666]

@@bismarck6093 So the approach didn't work.

[@josephreynolds2374]

So essentially they almost all reacted with: "Oh no... *anyway"*

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Honestly, china does socialism better due to having the failures of the soviet union to learn from

[@sooryan_1018]

@@qwertykeyboard5901 Vietnam is even better

[@krokuke]

@@qwertykeyboard5901 *Capitalism

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

@@krokuke Ok liberal

[@krokuke]

@@qwertykeyboard5901 So only liberals can tell facts? Okay

[@-Osiris-]

I love this channel for having concise and information-dense videos, if I have 5 mins before a meeting I can watch a really interesting video with no fluff or filler and still make my meeting on time

[@MegaHalofan11]

"Everybody was worried about the nukes tho' " Yea, whose idea was to put nukes all over the place?...... did they?

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

Mega The Chieftain Ukraine and I think Kazakhstan I think had a massive left over nuclear arsenal that caused quite a stir

[@Ake-TL]

Captain Kei Kazakhstan gave it up, would have more problems than benefits at that point in time

[@garmenlin5990]

Ukraine should have kept the nukes.

[@arturturkevych3816]

@@icecoldpolitics8890 all nukes were inherited by Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

[@JarrodFrates]

@@garmenlin5990 The nuclear warheads all had permissive action links (PALs) for which Ukraine didn't have the codes. They were therefore worse than useless, as keeping them meant having to pay for maintenance and security, and the refusal could have been a casus belli for Russia to invade and reunify, a very real fear of all of the former republics who had declared independence since there were still politicians in Russia that called for it.

[@heirofptah]

The Chinese government was also relieved, as with the collapse of the USSR, there was less risk of a conflict with their rival in Asia, the main reason they sought better relations with the US was to counter the Soviet threat

[@makemap]

China knew USSR was screwing China militarily, you can tell by Soviet-Chinese clash where China was force to steal USSR military tech such as T-62. That is why USSR collapsed because they pissed off the Chinese which allowed USA to help China block USSR in an alliance. If USSR wasn't fking with China like USA doing today. There wouldn't be a problem. Also, USSR is not like China, they are an empire of merger that is why USSR failed, they tried to force merge every country into the Union. China never did any of that to neighbouring countries that are not in the historical dynasty maps. That is why we have NK and North Vietnam.

[@NextFuckingLevel]

@@makemap how could you say that.. they don't fkin care about empire map, even the ccp is puting their on the north pole for trade route and maybe surprise surprise they claim it as the part of the long lost empire you think russia don't have strategy for that?

[@nguyenhoanglong420]

@@makemap True ! SOVIET UNION WAS THE BEST COMMUNISM STATES EVER ! BECAUSE IT merge a lot of countrIES TO COOPERATE AND DOING BUSSINESS

[@zurinarctus1329]

Fuck no! Many Chinese Communists really despised the West for the fall of USSR. This is why Xi Jinping and his ardent Communists have been formulating plans to take down the West and fund socialist influence across the world.

[@Samuel-wm1xr]

@Jacob Wilson go bring up any 19th century vintage map from western printers and check your theory

[@dxkaiyuan4177]

1:10 How dare you draw Jiang Zemin without his glasses!

[@economicsinaction]

Another fantastic video pal! Keep up the good work :)

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

Ussr: collapses as a result of economics/ethnic issues Yugoslavia: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH *continued screaming*

[@merrittanimation7721]

Yugoslavia: "Country collapsed because of of ethnic and economic strife? Ha could never happen to us."

[@mrbisshie]

Yugoslavia: Let me tell you about how ethnic tensions killed your empire! Russia: ...

[@silverhost9782]

Ethnic issues destroying a country? *scared United States noises*

[@icecoldpolitics8890]

United States: my race relations are well under control 2020: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT

[@tommydoez]

Russia: So what did we do wrong? China: Not enough economic changes Cuba: Too much economic changes YugoSlavia: Ethnic majority is weak. Russia: Funny you should say that. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia: Sup. Yugoslavia: Fuck.

[@sarpbakrsoy8125]

"F." -All Communist States after the fall of the USSR, December 27, 1991

[@cameronburke8002]

China : Leave an F in the chat bois China : F Vietnam : F Cuba : F Laos : F North Korea : F Venezuela : F China : Who are you? Venezuela : I'm the new guy. China : Ok.

[@AdmiralBonetoPick]

Press X to pound.

[@k0mentator507]

Ф

[@jumpvelocity3953]

F

[@glennmandigo6069]

@@cameronburke8002 AFGHANISTAN: F

[@alexverde7506]

You produce wonderful content, thank you for the channel👏🏻

[@kevinlonsdorf5440]

Small detail I just noticed. If you pause and look closely at Cuba at 0:43 you can see that Gitmo is in blue. These videos are such Hugh quality and packed with tiny but highly relevant details

[@benji9870]

Series idea: the collapse of Yugoslavia into its many states and the wars fought between them. Would love to learn more about this period of history!

[@PANZERFAUST90]

for sure

[@attiepollard7847]

Man. We need a 5 part mini series to explain that conflict

[@thegreatafrican3367]

History Matters: uploads Everyone: *waits for James Bizonette's name*

[@leonardoe9883]

Love your channel dude, please keep up the good work.

[@Zircillius]

*sees history matters vid in recommendations* *clicks on it before reading title.* This channel is so dope.

[@JohnYossarian]

After all of these videos I find myself wishing they'd been ~30 seconds longer. They're wonderful overviews of specific parts of complex issues and I love them, but I somehow walk away feeling like another sentence or two would somehow be a gamechanger in the information delivered.

[@hello-cn5nh]

Communist reaction to USSR collapsing in a nutshell: "B - b - but, iT WuZnT REEEEL CoMuNiZms REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"turns out it was nothing" well besides the fact the CIA was constantly trying to get him

[@dinis8271]

Avery the Cuban-American stop following me stalker

[@superloleo7160]

@@dinis8271 Dinis Fernandes stop following him stalker

[@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986]

That happened when the USSR existed so that’s nothing new Fidel knew how to beat the CIA every time

[@brandonlyon730]

The U.S.S.R tried similar things with Tito at Yugoslavia, especially during Stalin’s reign he really hated the guy.

[@gilbertmcglurk2591]

I swear, I see you everywhere

[@pyrotechnick420]

0:43 Oh you KNOW that little blue speck in Cuba is Guantanamo Bay lol

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

Nice catch!

[@jonahmeyerpeter3385]

you make some good videos, thanks for informing everyone!

[@angusfrost4791]

1:24 absolutely nothing happened there

[@k0mentator507]

What are u talking about? I don't see anything there, just painting of glorious chairman Mao

[@merrittanimation7721]

All I see is a black screen.

[@iseokk]

I just see a military parade a with some nice plants and clean soviet tanks

[@tempestmars123]

Fun fact. All Chinese know the Tiananmen Square massacre as it is taught in our high school history class but most foreigners are deceived by their media to believe that we don’t know.

[@k0mentator507]

Tempest Liu we're just memeing chill

[@pachacutiincayupanqui2239]

thank you very much for making a video of my suggestion P.s. thanks to James Bizanett too

[@dmytrokozello474]

1:38 Why the Kuril Islands are part of Japan, if the whole world has recognized that it is part of Russia?

[@LuisAldamiz]

1:50 That bouncing Yeltsin will be the matter of my evil clown nightmares from now on. LOL

[@linkofvev]

So a pretty similar reaction to many peoples' during the current pandemic: "But what about the economy?"

[@walsh9080]

A fairly valid reaction tbh. Not much point trading one crisis for another.

[@linkofvev]

@@walsh9080 Oh it wasn't a criticism, just a funny observation. Communists and capitalists aren't so different after all.

[@brandonlyon730]

@@linkofvevWhen you have bills to pay and mouths to feed it's hard to forced these people to do nothing and allowed there houses to be foreclosed and allow there families starving to death, and a 1,200 check from the government isn't always going to be enough.

[@Average_meat_popsicle2263]

Video idea: why Korea didn't unite after the fall of communism (like Germany did) Yeah I know why but I still want a video on that.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

because neither side collapsed..... the end

[@somethingsecretsteersus5115]

"Because CHINAA!!!!111" * Donald Trump joined the chat

[@clemenx]

Because Seoul is in the biggest hostage situation in the world, even without nukes. NK won't ever be touched because of that.

[@peterlonergan]

Isn't North Korea still communist?

[@yashjoseph3544]

@@peterlonergan Yes

[@noelgomez7197]

Wait, isn't the fall of the USSR one of the reasons of the 1990s North Korean famine and economical collapse? I was surprised when you said that North Korea wasn't too concerned. A video about that would be great.

[@brendanchoi8889]

Thank you! I've always wondered about this.

[@jpfl14999]

Congratulations on 500K! Keep up the good work!

[@daddy-odizzy5180]

Communist States: At least have support on Twitter.

[@k0mentator507]

Negativland Marxburcks

[@Admiral45-10]

Poland had probably the most successful Communist reign. No one was dying of starvation. It doesn't mean it was great back then, though.

[@IncaWarrior.]

@@Admiral45-10 So great that workers in Warsaw protested the end of Soviet rule in the country? Lol

[@Admiral45-10]

@@IncaWarrior. not only on end of Soviet rule. I would say, that they were happening at least once in every 10 years. But in 1989 there were no massive protests, though - there were only presidential free elections, which Lech Wałęsa won, and so the Communism in Poland ended. Look, I'm not saying Communism is any good ideology (as someone from country that was Communist I know, that it's just as bad as Nazism (or worse, who knows), but if you look on other Communist regimes (e.c. in Soviet Union, China, Romania, etc.) every time the famine appears, due to poor redistribution of food there. However, it wasn't a problem in _Polish People's Commonwelth_ (also known as PRL), and here's how my mum (who lived there) describes it: _To be honest, in Socialist Poland you could eat how much you only wanted and surely no one was dying of hunger there. Only problem was diversity in every-day diet_ How we made it? It's simple: even Polish Communists weren't that stupid to believe, that state can feed everyone. Even during _6-year Plan_ in 1950's government didn't nationalise everything, only those companies, which were actually making any profit. In 1960's Poland made special economical reforms, and from then Polish government liked to call itself ,,Socialist" and not ,,Communist" (also from that moment on citizens were talking with government officials per ,,Citizen", and not ,,Comrade" as during Bierut's regime). Those reforms allowed companies, after some messing around with new law, to avoid exporting goods to USSR. And in 1970's and 1980's Polish economy looked like Soviet one during NEP policy - small level of street and farming trade was allowed (something like: you go to National farm (PGR), and buy from peasant whatever he was selling (but it wasn't that much)), and including fact that illegal trade was there all the time (and whatever government tried to do, it couldn't suppress it), we avoided such situation.

[@kingt0295]

@@Admiral45-10 doesn’t poland have a social democratic government now? Id say the communist influence kept a relatively leftist government in power which is good

[@theresgottabeagermanwordfo903]

Yugoslavia: You guys are running your states wrong i'll show you how to not Collapse Also Yugoslavia: **Disintegrates and Proceeds to fight the Bloodiest war in Balkan History** USSR: Are you sure this is how we're supposed to do this? China: Hey i've done this one before its a Classic

[@ChrisN3992]

That shatter sound effect at 0:59 is my new favourite after the famous death *thud*

[@lordbrain8867]

I like these kinds of videos. We get so caught up in what happened in history that we fail to see how so many different people reacted to it. I want to know how the world reacted to the Easter Uprising in Dublin during WWI.

[@deshaunmurry1214]

This was a great video as always. Maybe for the next part we could focus on the weird side of history like the dancing plague or the sweating plague that popped up in Europe at some point. Another is the 1561 ufo celestrial phenomenon over germany. Just to name a few.

[@leminjapan]

You're great at picking those questions I've always had in the back of my mind but never thought about asking

[@terryc6858]

The conclusion by communist party of China is actually “ too many political reforms, too less economic reforms. Economic reforms must go ahead of political reforms.”

[@nanikasan_]

My history teacher suggested me this channel and I Love it!

[@nanikasan_]

@Andre Guitard i dont really understand what you mean by this comment?

[@nerdstar101]

love the little itty bitty bit of blue there at 3:22 where guantanamo is lol.

[@landgsmith]

I love it when one of the characters runs through the field 😁

[@mannyphantom0]

i yearn for more videos man keep em coming

[@dead-ishchannel6212]

USSR: falls Former communist nations: We were bad but now we're good

[@iseokk]

We're gonna do the ex Communist state shuffle

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

Good?

[@dogedoger2606]

We're moving in the capitalist neighborhood

[@fromfareast3070]

@@iseokk excommunicte

[@martinbogado4924]

@@flimpeenflarmpoon1353 Russia:I'm the good guy now

[@martinprince7728]

Like how this guy answers the questions we all have from time to time but are too lazy to actually look up for ourselves

[@hieniemic]

The Vietnam communist leader at the time (Nguyễn Văn Linh) had been pushing cultural reforms after the economic reforms (Đổi Mới) in 1986 and his trip to Romania to meet with Gorbachov. He was about to let the newspaper go free, when the news of the collapse came. He was like: Nope, stop that, it's no time for reforms, need to protect the Party now.

[@therealalksdj]

This channel answers questions I never asked but now I want to know the answer too

[@AnotherLuckyStar]

2:22 New animation of a guy walking backwards while waving, never seen before! :O

[@aldotorres1983]

I'm guessing they were sad to lose their sugar daddy.

[@thekhans2823]

@ Aldo Torres , No we Mongolians 🇲🇳 had mixed feelings

[@SUPERUNKNOWED]

Tejas Misra ok commie

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@daddy_1453 communist detected

[@IrishCarney]

Heh in Cuba's case that was almost literal. Cuban sugar was its major export to the USSR, and the Soviets generously paid a huge markup for it, up to 11 times the world market price. After the USSR collapsed and took the Cuban economy with it, prostitution skyrocketed.

[@phuct4980]

The USA will soon ended up like USSR but I and many others around the world don’t know what effect or how it gonna happen. Either like USSR and split up to into different countries or end up like Yugoslavia with civil war, a lot them. If the USA want to survive they will have to make a lot of big changes in the coming elections and no more stupid shit happening in the US by the end of the year ( this statement will not age well tbh). But from what I see the USA conditions is prom more to the USSR way, slowly and surely there would be another coup or civil war ( let hope just one). A new American Civil war this time we still have little information about what gonna happen so this is speculation.

[@matheusdossantos5053]

Vietnam is the best country ever! Much love from Brazil! 🌹🥰😊❤️ 🇧🇷🌹🇻🇳

[@Cacowninja]

Why do you think it's the best country ever?

[@ecclesiasticman4417]

0:44 epic that there's a blue part on the country.

[@vilena5308]

Kinda awesome how everyone had their own, vastly different conclusions.

[@jebatevrana]

That`s socialism. All of it.

[@TheGreatCooLite]

Yeah. Yeah, North Korea wasn't impacted much, yeah *1990s famine*

[@Wrongemboyo]

I love this channel, mate.

[@31ll087]

The ad I got at the start of the video was literally Adventure Communist

[@Intreductor]

HM: Finishes video with Yugoslavia. *Angry balkans start typing in comments*

[@Cjnw]

Normie Иогмје

[@k0mentator507]

Maršal Dženan shouldn't it be "нормje"?

[@k0mentator507]

Maršal Dženan I know it might albo be painful sorry, I don't know much, but 1 thing I know 4 sure is that "и" is not an "n"

[@Amelos1494]

@@Cjnw you just wrote "iogmje"

[@thedwightguy]

and immediately apply for asylum..........to Canada. (oh, heck, we need more people any way).

[@chrisdelagarza8048]

FUN FACT::: I love you put the tank guy in there. I remember that. No Mandela affect here... But I imagine myself that the guy is James Bissonet. With the fight me sign

[@stephenseputra9897]

Woah the screen blacked out from 1:24 to 1:26 for some reason

[@eddierichmond8316]

I like how im subbed but it hasn't told me you uploaded in months

[@monikhadka]

USSR: “falls” Communist states: freedom my lads!

[@declannewton2556]

China: Not on my watch!

[@TheHeston83]

If The CCP was smart theyd reforn it was once a great Empire

[@Feffdc]

Eastern europe:Poorness my lads

[@edgarratsep3631]

@@TheHeston83 their great empire was destroyed in 17th century. To this day the chinese were living under dictatorial regimes. I doubt any of them know how is it to live a good life

[@thenewmisterwehrmacht893]

Edgar Rätsep *early 20th Century, Qing Dynasty. Also, if not for the Japanese deciding to invade China for no good reason at all, the China today would not be communist. Also, Nixon who opened China to the world just to piss USSR off.

[@alanz4819]

Next: How did Lichtenstein react to USSR’s fall?

[@PANZERFAUST90]

lol get out

[@mattbowdenuh]

*Lichtenstein looks for Russian oligarchs finances*

[@jesseberg3271]

I think they just kept on lichtensteining.

[@rajeshpraghavan7629]

How did Vatican react to the fall of USSR

[@NextFuckingLevel]

@@jesseberg3271 wow this is a potential dank meme material righ there

[@frankiebortolussi7628]

Love your content🧡

[@joshuasepeda3289]

1:26 I know what this is referencing but it's still hilarious to see that fight me sign.

[@pyrotechnick420]

1:56 OH YOU KNOW THATS UNCLE HO IN THE PORTRAIT

[@imalwaysbluffing]

You really should have gone into the massive economic problems in North Korea that were caused by the collapse of the USSR. NK was reliant on USSR selling them oil at a subsidized price that allowed their entire agricultural sector to flourish. When the oil stopped flowing in the 90s it caused a massive famine that was worse than anything that happened to Cuba.

[@fclp67]

This guy asks the most interesting questions I'd never ask

[@lahoku]

I LITERALLY can’t stop laughing about the part in every video where the characters are frolicking through a field of daises! 😅🤣🤣🤣❤️🌿🌿

[@masquegoria8617]

1:24 "Since China was dealing with it's own issues." Why show a depiction of a totally normal military parade where absolutely nothing happened?

[@minirick69]

in a square that nothing was happening in there

[@OGVade]

@@minirick69 With a man that never existed or did anything.

[@minirick69]

@@OGVade with a man that wasn't facing a tank that either never existed and did anything

[@foutrelusmagnus3002]

What are you talking about this is just a black screen

[@headcanon6408]

1:24 What problems? Surely you won't tell me that there were massive student-led protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989 calling for democracy and freedom of the press, which were brutally suppressed by the government, who killed and injured many protestors, and then subsequently covered it all up; that would be crazy and also strangely specific

[@alfredoyelisa]

True, or glorious PRC isn't capable of doing that to his compatriots

[@isocrates0001]

Great video. You should extend analysis closer to present day.

[@itsblitz4437]

You should do a video on the Collapse of Yugoslavia. It be interesting to see in your unique animation.

[@dewittbourchier7169]

It also depended on the Party member in China. Some were smug and satisfied to see what they regarded as an enemy fall. Others, who had always hoped for a reconciliation, and believed to some extent in Socialism, were crestfallen.

[@scaper12123]

Tank Man: "fight me" Me: who? The tank or China (at this video)

[@pipzchan]

"A theory they themselves would put to the test not long after" is such a chilling line NGL

[@JC-eo2qe]

Lol, of course they had to show Tank Man in this video. That “Fight Me” sign summed his reaction to tanks in front of him.