In 80 Blunders Around The World - The Russian Baltic Fleet

My first KZbin Video. This is the astounding story of a group of Russian farmers traveling to Japan - and everything that happened in between.
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[A Disclaimer shamelessly full of tags]: This is of course an oversimplified version of the original story. Some of the smaller details I have of course left out (e.g. the sam onella in the food). I have casually explained some of the context surrounding the time frame, but of course I couldn't do an unboxing of the whole history of japan. There is no mention of Pewdiepie or fortnite in this video.

[@MelkorPT]

I love how it starts as a shitshow and then relentlessly gets worse until the climax.

[@chaotic110]

I heard another part were when they finally got there, the first actual Japanese ship they encountered, basically they told them “we are here to sneak up on you”

[@chrisahearn789]

Be really cool if they made a Death of Stalin-esque farcical comedy about this

[@bobdidahthing]

Idk how I found this Idk how I’m here But I know that I am proud to be part of this moment.

[@howistoast]

welcome to the basement

[@alex33211]

@@howistoast how is this not more popular?! wat

[@andscifi]

Luckily nothing embarrassing has happened to the Russian navy since.

[@morgothra4483]

🤣

[@godzillatoons3947]

Except when they did

[@lolroflroflcakes]

It's sort of like a naval version of the hangover where everyone dies in the end. The moral of the story is you don't need to be exceptional if your opponent is really shit.

[@seanbigay1042]

Which is the insult added to this fleet's injury. They were the worst fleet on the seven seas ... and in the Straits of Tsushima they encountered one of the best -- and were duly slaughtered.

[@Snowthree]

Russia: For when losing your flag ship to an enemy that doesn't even have a navy and you, somehow, feel it's less embaressing to say that it WASN'T sunk by the enemy but, rather, an accident... And it isn't even a blip on your long list of blunders.

[@olenstriker]

This was the most funny video I've watched in some time! Brilliant work! Keep it going!

[@zacharyelliott7161]

It's even more funny considering that it actually happened.

[@the.april.]

A good story to explore would be Brazil's attempt to fight during World War I. It was literally a series of unfortunate events that lead the Brazilian troops to arrive in Europe a day after the amnesty.

[@seanbigay1042]

Oh God. Is this for real? Oh God, my head hurts ...

[@LordDarthHarry]

3:02 not much has changed on this front in over 100 years....

[@lajoyalobos2009]

118 years later and Russia still hasn't learned a thing. This incident needs to be a movie.

[@skywillfindyou]

Why do you have to be this delusional. It's almost a clische.

[@Sithoid]

watching the video that absolutely roasts the Russian fleet right after April 14th 2022 is an absolute delight

[@emmajilavu5182]

i really like your style of illustrating/editing :D i didn't know i needed this story in my life! keep it up ;) p.s Toast is adorable!

[@howistoast]

Thanks a lot, that is very kind of you to say!

[@Grisu1805]

Funny how half of this video basically were actions by the repair ship, the Kamchatka. May here incompetence never be forgotten.

[@seanbigay1042]

The Kamchatka: the best Japanese ship that didn't actually serve in the Japanese navy.

[@hannahzwanikken16]

I want to know more about the Africa trip... Any autobiographies elaborating on those wild adventures? Really friggin interesting and entertainingly told! Keep them coming please how is toast!

[@bkjeong4302]

The Africa-Madagascar misadventures included Aurora getting a pet Nile crocodile that ate some of her crew. Not a joke.

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[@howistoast]

Thank you very much for that!

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[@tranceorkester]

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[@howistoast]

Glad you enjoyed it, Esa! Thank you for subscribing!

[@jamesdreads7828]

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[@finnyliverpool89]

hilarious and informative mate!

[@93MANIAC]

Nice video there are very few things in history that can top the disastrous voyage of the Second Baltic Fleet I'm already pretty familiar with it thanks to BlueJay's own amazing video about it but I did not know that he left out details like the opium laced cigarettes and Admiral Rozhestvensky ditching the captain that was criticizing him in Spain who got revenge on him by backing up the fleet with the worst ships that he could get his hands on because to him having a pissing contest was way more important then winning a fucking war and after what happened to the Moskva back in April I can see that very few things have changed since 1904

[@johncunningham6928]

Fun fact: Those 'worst ships he could get his hands on' were about the best that the Baltic fleet could muster anyway... Yes, it was that bad

[@seanbigay1042]

​@@johncunningham6928Which is what turned Rozhestventsky otherwise by all accounts a very competent and conscientious officer, into "Mad Dog." I defy even the purest-hearted saint to deal with Rodhestventsky's problems without Hulking out.

[@magni5648]

Another fun little detail: One of the two ships that got friendly-fired at Doggerbank was also the same ship that then got friendly-fired again by Kamchatka off of Madagascar. Said ship? The cruiser Aurora. Yes, the one that would go on to fire the first shots of the October Revolution. Also, funny little detail about the battle of Tsushima? Aboard the bridge of one of the japanese cruisers there, a young japanese staff lieutenant lost two fingers to shell fragments. If he had lost a third one, he would have been forced to retire from military service according to regulations. Which would have been quite the little butterfly effect. Why, you ask? Because the name of that young lieutenant was Yamamoto Isoroku.

[@titaniumdiveknife]

Such detail, much wow!

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[@howistoast]

Thank you very much!

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Your work is hilarious!

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Really interesting info and great execution. Subbed!

[@howistoast]

Thanks and welcome aboard!

[@sandracassandra9020]

Masterpiece 😀❤️

[@jonas.motion]

loved it! video about vodka prohibition in russia next?

[@burtan2000]

This is great. It needst to be a movie

[@xtechnica4198]

You had me at the Dwarf Fortress sounds

[@xoxoxo5286]

I can tell there's massive potential in your talent, with a little polishing to the audio and just a little bit beefier video catalog, you'll hit a milly in a flash.

[@howistoast]

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[@howistoast]

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[@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269]

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[@petrichor6562]

The snakes onboard apparently took a liking to vodka

[@slayertx]

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[@howistoast]

It's a pleasure! Welcome aboard!

[@inkms]

Cool video!

[@howistoast]

Thank you, for the comment!

[@aryanparekh8119]

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[@AndyZach]

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[@howistoast]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@rensrain3926]

Just got an ad for your video. If you wanted to know how I got here haha.

[@StrifeOnizuka]

... but what happened to the animals, did they die fighting off japanese or become prisoners of war?

[@howistoast]

They became Japanese citizens. One of them co-founded Nintendo if I remember correctly.

[@azmodanpc]

@@howistoast I'm still laughing

[@dariogirolamo6722]

good stuff! I didn't know that there were boats back then - very informative, kinda funny too

[@howistoast]

they literally invented boats for this story in particular

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[@howistoast]

thank you very much, that's very nice of you to say!

[@aryanparekh8119]

Gr8 story

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[@howistoast]

aww thanks a lot man!

[@johncunningham6928]

I thought that burger was spoilered, not spoilt...

[@artursbondars7789]

Wow! I knew they lost big time and then revolution kicked in, but I did knew they had such a fun experiences. 😂😂

[@Trouchy]

How is this 1000 views only

[@BTheFuck]

1:35 bro... you wouldn't believe.....

[@alecdeter1999]

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[@abhishekshah67]

I wonder if you and the channel Bluejay have some common platform where you do your research. Two of your video themes is quite similar.

[@DMS-pq8]

Keep waiting for someone to make a movie about this voyage of the damned

[@93MANIAC]

Wow that joke aged very freaking well 12:40

[@skybluskyblueify]

April 2022 Suddenly history could repeat itself?

[@AndriyMaydan]

Hi! I am from Ukraine, thank you for such a fun graphic story, which even in such a difficult time made me laugh. These Orcs, also known as the russians, do not change...You can already make similar stories about current events. Some russians come to us to commit genocide of Ukrainians, others get acquainted with the toilet bowl and washing machine for the first time, and then try to steal them to Russia.

[@LauftFafa]

with all respect you were part of these orcs in the past and you cant denie it . you fought side by side in the crimean war , you fought side by side in ww2 (even tough a portion of you joined the axis) and you both spilled your blood for that land . millions of russians died for crimea and ukraine in these wars , you were both aiming your nukes on the rest of the world ready to destroy it or die trying to defend it together like brothers . you both had nukes for the common cause . so dont split your history from theirs just because you are independent now . even the Kievan Rus is a Rus/Russian and dont be offended by this , many times in the past that state was known as Russia of Kieve , so dont denie it , dont change it , you are one people and one nation . you are like kosovo and serbia, like iraq and kuweit, like the 2 koreas , like morocco and algeria , like idian and pakistan . 1 history , 2 different mentalities . see your actual war as a civil war , dont hate everything about them because when you do it you do hate yourselvs too because your history was shared troughout most of your existence .

[@AndriyMaydan]

@@LauftFafa You know very little about our history, Ukraine is a descendant of Kievan Rus, Cossack Hetmanate and Ukrainian People's Republic. Russia is a descendant of the Golden Horde and Muscovy. You can read how Western researchers in the 15th-17th centuries described Ukrainians and Russians. Ukrainians were already described as literate, tidy and freedom-loving at that time. At the same time, the Russians were slaves, illiterate, lived in the swamp and could not use a fork. The Russians are not even ethnically Slavic, they descended from Finno-Ugric peoples and tribes such as the Merya and the Moksha. Enough to read Russian fakes, we have never been brothers with them and fought almost our entire history. The goal of Ukrainians is to live and prosper among equal European nations, at the same time the goal of Russia is to drag everyone into its swamp of degradation.

[@LauftFafa]

@@AndriyMaydan wow the propaganda here . Calling russians as uncivilised and you as civilised . Even calling them descendants of the golden horde as if it wasn't them who defeated ans annexed them . Like it or not the country ukraine didn't appear until recently , Rus is the name that the name Russia was made from while Ukraine only mean land of the extremity or far land and probably have turkik origins . Also funny how you mention a date where kieve was nothing more but a border city between Poland and muslim crimea and the already established russia. Funny even mire you mention the cossak state that in case you didn't know was vassal of russia .

[@AndriyMaydan]

@@LauftFafa Russia has the same relation to Kievan Rus as the Roma to Rome. The old ethnonym of Ukrainians is Ruthenians, but Russians are Muscovites. They simply stole our name in the 18th century, when Ukraine-Rus was occupied by Muscovy. And that is why the Ruthenian intelligentsia had to adopt a new ethnonym - Ukrainians, which came from the name of the territory - Ukraine. It's funny about Kyiv in general. Kyiv is 700 years older than Moscow, when Moscow was just founded Kyiv was one of the three largest cities in Europe.

[@jarate8076]

@@AndriyMaydan Could you post some sources?

[@geckel2145]

Another proof how long slavs can endure hard times.

[@seanbigay1042]

If you're new to the strange tale of the 2nd Pacific Squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy, Drachinifel has a somewhat more coherent take on the same subject elsewhere on KZbin. But I can't really blame the narrator of this video for yukking it up. It's the kind of story where you either laugh or cry.

[@adamkurekak]

Toronno boy eh

[@notdeath2151]

Is level six lazar lotus from community, the show?

[@LauftFafa]

those paintings of the fleets are fully drawn by you or is it a filter or comission made by someone or what ?

[@sprokopc]

As a Ukrainian, this warmed the cockles of my cold dead heart.

[@DeathRex88]

Did the extremely sinkable reinforcements manage to make it to the meet-up point with less trouble and losses? I hope they did

[@seanbigay1042]

Dude, it's ADMIRAL Roshestvensky. He'd throw his binoculars at you for that if he were still around.

[@Hysterion]

Hmm, this sounds familiar 🤔

[@skywillfindyou]

One should understand such stories are pumped with myths.

[@BrettJamesSuperRoach]

how do you have so few subscribers?

[@Para_Noos]

Nothing better then some coal, exotic animals and some well selected std's

[@howistoast]

don’t forget malaria!

[@viliamklein]

Now do Maurice Benyovszky!

[@howistoast]

Thanks for the suggestion - I will look into him!

[@TomFynn]

In the battle the young Japanese midshipman Takano Isoroku lost two fingers. Had he lost three, he would have been invalided out. So he went on to become Yamamoto Isoroku, the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. PS: "Was zur Fick" is not a phrase a German would use, but as a German, I will now undertake to introduce it into the German language.

[@corissatussey9741]

You didn't add the best part! That when they finally encountered the Japanese they thought they were just fishermen and told them of their plan to attack the japanese...and then got annihilated lol... awesome video though

[@avirosner2300]

Can I hire you for freelancer work?

[@dave199010]

yup sounds like the Russian navy

[@styrishfernando1849]

In the night, thick fog blanketed the straits, giving the Russians an advantage. At 02:45 on 27 May Japan Standard Time (JST), the Japanese auxiliary cruiser Shinano Maru observed three lights on what appeared to be a vessel on the distant horizon and closed to investigate. These lights were from the Russian hospital ship Orel, which, in compliance with the rules of war, had continued to burn them.[34] At 04:30, Shinano Maru approached the vessel, noting that she carried no guns and appeared to be an auxiliary. The Orel mistook the Shinano Maru for another Russian vessel and did not attempt to notify the fleet. Instead, she signaled to inform the Japanese ship that there were other Russian vessels nearby. The Shinano Maru then sighted the shapes of ten other Russian ships in the mist. The Russian fleet had been discovered, and any chance of reaching Vladivostok undetected had disappeared

[@maxdilcon5679]

You couldn’t make this shit up 😂😂😂

[@clashwithbunniesandrewsava4846]

The map of Russia is wrong in 1905.

[@generalmarcao2002]

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[@abhishekshah67]

I wonder if you and the channel Bluejay have some common platform where you do your research. Two of your video themes is quite similar.

[@generalmarcao2002]

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