The point about post-Stalin Soviet leadership being consensus-based is absolutely spot-on. There's a tendency in Western historiography to just assume that Soviet leaders of the 1950's and onward were basically just Stalin without the moustache. But it is, as you say, a situation where consensus and group leadership prevailed. The big reason for this was that nobody wanted to go back to the Stalin Era. The leaders who had lived through Stalin's purges and autocratic rule had no desire to go back to that era in Soviet politics. The other reason was that Soviet politics had become a lot more institutionalised. Organisations like the Red Army, intelligence services, the Politburo, etc. had all emerged as powerful actors with their own interests and agendas, and they couldn't just be purged into obedience in the way that Stalin had been done.
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
like! Kruschev's speech condemning Stalin's cult of personality was the symbolic end to political concentration in a single person in the USSR. In the end that speech was used to undermine and remove Krushchev. Consensus governing of the Politburo is likely the single biggest reason for USSR collapse, the Bureaucracy made such a large country ungovernable. Brezhnev used the consensus to hold on top power at the expense of increasing economic stagnation and the expansion of the military
@heinrichb3 жыл бұрын
Just a tiny correction - there was no Red Army after 1946. It was reorganised into the Soviet Army, which was a bit more than a simple name change.
@SMGJohn2 жыл бұрын
Whats ironic is how you assume Stalin somehow controlled every aspect of the government and the trials.
@TheBucketSkill2 жыл бұрын
@@SMGJohn We get it, you like the tanks.
@SMGJohn2 жыл бұрын
@@TheBucketSkill The T-34? Or the King Tiger?
@napoleonibonaparte71983 жыл бұрын
All I can think about when all these clips of Khruschev with members of the council, is the movie...
@totallynotalpharius22833 жыл бұрын
The suit doesn't really work without the belt
@SofaKingShit3 жыл бұрын
How l Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.
@trizvanov3 жыл бұрын
"Death of Stalin" ?
@Patrick_37513 жыл бұрын
I think the post-Stalin succession crisis may have also played a role in the transfer. Gaining support and legitimacy was one of the new regime's primary goals after Stalin died and Beria was removed. Given that Ukraine was Khrushchev's traditional power base and the breadbasket of the USSR, handing over Crimea probably made logical sense.
@sarven59743 жыл бұрын
+another of many reasons, thx for the info never thought of it like that
@HellqueenRoz3 жыл бұрын
Khrushchev had also been personally assigned as a military commander to deal with the postwar insurgency against Soviet rule in Ukraine. The Soviet government was understandably REALLY unpopular in Ukraine after the Holodomor and there were a lot of armed anti-Soviet partisans that still existed in Ukraine after the war, so it was necessary for the Soviet government to devote *considerable* military resources to suppressing this uprising. Khrushchev's decision to transfer the Crimea to the Ukrainian CCP was LIKELY motivated at least in part by this situation and the fact that Khrushchev was trying to build goodwill among the Ukrainian populace.
@AK-74K3 жыл бұрын
@@HellqueenRoz Communist party always had several power factors. Khrushchev was from the power factions which had many Ukrainians in it (centred around a lot of people from Dnepropetrovsk). So that was probably a factor too
@louisecorchevolle92413 жыл бұрын
@@HellqueenRoz Holomodor was also organized by Kaganovitch, Ukrainian half Ukrainian Krutshev, Georgian staline with lavrenti beriaalso Georgian Ukrainian have been enourmouslyinvolved in the crimes ov Soviet union
@HgHg-yp6ft3 жыл бұрын
@@HellqueenRoz Holodomor was not that devastating as presented in the late years to fuel the Ukranian national agenda though tragic it was without doubt, Moreover it affected the south and the southeast of the newly minted by Lenin pseudo state entity overwhelmingly populated by russians plus the adjacent regions of south Russia. It was never a problem in the North and North West namely Galicia which was not a part of Russian Empire till the WWI and the reasons for the insurgence in those regions were always nationalistic not based on ideology or anything else.Those ethnic differences are at play constantly in very destructive way in the Ukranian politics since the creation of this country till those days.
@pmccord93 жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis. You captured the Soviet processes accurately and insightfully.
@louisecorchevolle92413 жыл бұрын
just melting Soviet Union with russia with the Georgian gang Stalin-Beria A red star of mediocrity
@bobmcbob98563 жыл бұрын
Well I have to say it’s hardly as if this is the first time since the 1940s that territorial integrity was ignored
@HannarrMontannarr3 жыл бұрын
Yup, russia still occupies Konigsberg, Sahkalin, the Kurils, Karelia, Salla, Petsamo, Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
@bobmcbob98563 жыл бұрын
@@HannarrMontannarr I don't consider Kaliningrad, Sakhalin, the Kurils or Karelia occupation (jesus christ man, what are you a Japanese imperialist with some of those claim?), personally & I wasn't just talking about Russia, but yeah some of those are good examples. Imma go out on a limb & guess that you're Ukrainian & just support the secession of any region in Russia that could vaguely be claimed by a neighboring state. I get having beef with Russia, but Sakhalin has more business being part of China than Japan, but honestly unless you give all of Siberia independence, it fits best within the broad idea of the Russian far East.
@Taranchuk11003 жыл бұрын
GDR, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Serbia, USSR etc. All these dont count I suppose...
@BiharyGabor3 жыл бұрын
@@Taranchuk1100 Actually, there is no border change on your list. USSR Republics left the Union according to the USSR Constitution. The case of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia is similar even if their constitutions did not allow secession: their internal state borders remained unchanged basically. Neither the GDR bordar changed; this state simply merged into the FRG. The case of Crimea is really unique: there was no internal state border where Russian occupation ends now.
@bobmcbob98563 жыл бұрын
@@BiharyGabor Well, there being an internal border doesn't quite justify a piece of a country being taken away, but yes, Crimea & Ossetia & those areas are certainly special in some ways.
@HistoryOfRevolutions3 жыл бұрын
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month" -Fyodor Dostoevsky
@ergun99803 жыл бұрын
Some have never called himself as fool, but they act as one everyday; take a look at Bill vonGates, Elon O'Musk, Jeff McBezos and the whole bunch of world politicians :-)
@ned9003 жыл бұрын
@@ergun9980 Get yourself some original lines, yours are well worn and tatty.
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
“The Golden Horn and Constantinople - all of this will be ours" (russian's Chauvinist Dostoevsky)
@arty58763 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm clever!
@arty58763 жыл бұрын
I'm jerk...
@DerFoerderator3 жыл бұрын
My dad told me that gift story all the time. Now it's time to educate him thx ^^
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
want somebody take a desert without water like a gift?..
@ImPedofinderGeneral3 жыл бұрын
@@wladjarosz345 I am ok, give me your desert
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
@@ImPedofinderGeneral you must live in russia and there take you all...
@ImPedofinderGeneral3 жыл бұрын
@@wladjarosz345 how about Israel? ;-P
@Kkaffeine2 жыл бұрын
Exactly the same here 😂😂😂✌
@georgiosiosifidis59993 жыл бұрын
very interesting and enlightening, but also really sad when, by the end, you fast forward until today and understand what depressing a situation the people are left in...
@grantchallinor52633 жыл бұрын
What people and what depressing situation? The majority of Crimeans are (and always have been) Russians or are of Russian descent - something like 90% of the Crimea's population. The result of the local vote was something like 97% in favour of joining Russia with about an 83% voter turn-out. Both percentages clearly sends a very strong message about how the locals felt. Unless you haven't noticed, the Ukraine has stumbled from one crisis to the next: after leaving the Soviet Union, it remained fairly independent, then moved towards closer relations with the EU, then back towards closer ties with Russia, and so on and so on. There's been no stability in the country for decades and its economy is a complete mess. The "depressing situation" the people are left in is that at least Russia has been putting a bit of investment into the region. It does have some economic activity (agriculture and tourism) and the tourism industry is now thriving - which really helps to support local people.
@deadmanriding1118 Жыл бұрын
@@grantchallinor5263 They also have fresh water again💥😜 no thanks to Ukr. Also, a direct connection to mainland Russia. Huge investments.
@grantchallinor5263 Жыл бұрын
@@deadmanriding1118 I've met Ukrainian refugees coming across the border into Western Russia because their homes have been shelled/destroyed by their own government. This has been going on for nearly 9 years now. The Ukrainians have even been "bulk" firing petal/butterfly mines into residential areas for years - which (very sadly) young Ukrainian children try to pick up - thinking they are toys or something.
@lostintashkent3 жыл бұрын
Nice video! Why didn't you mention more about the emotional importance of the 19th century Crimean War and the terrible Second World War battles over Crimea in Russian collective memory among the bases of their claim to the peninsula?
@AugustusOmega2 жыл бұрын
Because the American education system is sponsored by Oreos cookies and Coke diet
@MooseMeus2 жыл бұрын
@@AugustusOmega and weed!
@wildfire92802 жыл бұрын
@@MooseMeus it would be much better off it was but sadly no
@seventyfive7597 Жыл бұрын
Because this channel focuses on the cold war era.
@jerichostevens27113 жыл бұрын
the thing about land is that it belongs to whoever has the power to hold it.
@badluck56473 жыл бұрын
That is a very 19th century view of sovereignty
@lexbor35113 жыл бұрын
@@badluck5647 That is the real formula. Was and always will be.
@friedzombie43 жыл бұрын
@@badluck5647 Yet it plays out today regardless, a prime example is the normalcy of Chinese planes going over Taiwan in regular drills.
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
The realpolitik answer, true. Personally I think Crimea is great example of how stupid it is to try and assign fundemental ownership rights of land to any one people group... Not only do people groups move but their make-up evolves over time. Much better universal principals that don't specify race or ethnicity be used to regulate governing of territory.
@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available3 жыл бұрын
That's right. Vae victis.
@igorsmihailovs523 жыл бұрын
This great video focused on the events of 1954, but did you know that already in 1993 then-nationalist-dominated Russian parliament voted to assert Russia's claim for Crimea (also, there was some unrest in the peninsula, too, which allowed them to bargain for certain autonomy with Kyiv). Neither lasted long, though...
@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available3 жыл бұрын
My mother always complained how Russia had so easily given up Crimea during the breakup of the USSR. And we emigrated over 30 years ago when it was still the Soviet Union, so it's not like it was of any real concern to us.
@louisecorchevolle92413 жыл бұрын
Kiev in English
@seneca9832 жыл бұрын
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Kiev and Kyiv are both used in English.
@myronsamila74932 жыл бұрын
@@louisecorchevolle9241 it's Kyiv in English - Київ in Ukrainian.
@ОттоГагеншплянген2 жыл бұрын
@@myronsamila7493 а я думал, что вы только русских можете учить их родному языку, а вы оказывается и на хозяев лаять смеете.
@mikhailv67tv3 жыл бұрын
Great content. I traveled to the region in 2007 when it was a part of Ukraine. It was very much ethnically Russian from conversations I had with local people. At the time you could see many Russian and a few Ukrainian warships. NB Sevastopol is pronounced easiest if you make it 2 syllables Sevas -topol not the way we English speakers pronounce it as Sev-as- ta- Pol. Simferopol the same .
@mikhailv67tv3 жыл бұрын
I cannot find the comment replying to my pronunciation lesson. Thank you
@razrazrazthisishbass3 жыл бұрын
in conversation everyone used Russian language indeed as it was post-imperial lingua franca for numerous tatars, ukrainians, greeks, armenians. they had no other choice.
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
100-200 years ago, Prague: mostly everybody spoke German... and? is it Deutschland? no!
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
@Юрий Чумаков your "frish" mention about old history is curious... and very important for Czechs!
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
@Юрий Чумаков to deny what: that Czechs are not the Germans? sorry, not "frish" (it was from an other language), but which another fresh ideas do you have?
@ibrocn2 жыл бұрын
Very informative and easy to follow. Thank you for the great (and timely) content.
@chrisd9973 жыл бұрын
Bro you forgot the Greeks , most of the cities were founded by them and even city names including Crimea itself are greek
@ShubhamMishrabro3 жыл бұрын
When he said roman I think he meant east roman
@chrisd9973 жыл бұрын
@@ShubhamMishrabro thanks but I meant even before Roman times 8 century bc
@ShubhamMishrabro3 жыл бұрын
@@chrisd997 ohh
@clementl.95663 жыл бұрын
I thought of the same thing though it is not a huge error per se.
@chrisd9973 жыл бұрын
@@clementl.9566 it was not like a critic at all just some additional info 😀 channel content is State of the Art
@olgajoachimosmundsen46473 жыл бұрын
Great video! Would love for you to share more on how power/authority of leadership was distributed/executed within the Soviet leadership.
@louisecorchevolle92413 жыл бұрын
absolute nil historacly
@ThePacificWarChannel2 жыл бұрын
So proud to be part of #ProjectUkraine =) amazing videos by all the great content creators! 🇺🇦
@fistingendakenny87813 жыл бұрын
Wunderbar, another upload comrade
@TheCat484883 жыл бұрын
Went from german to russian in one sentence
@ergun99803 жыл бұрын
was it supposed to be german or what? :-)
@mjstbnsn62943 жыл бұрын
Great education of the crisis thank you
@gedalyahreback21332 жыл бұрын
Curious to know how your traffic to this video has changed in the last three months?
@danieldmelniki88342 жыл бұрын
Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!
@simonbolivar69603 жыл бұрын
wowwwww where is that beautiful painting from reminds me of ilya repin's
@internetpleb48543 жыл бұрын
Under Stalin Abkhazia was stripped of its autonomous status as a SSR and latched it to Georgia laying the foundation of future conflict.
@SMGJohn2 жыл бұрын
Conflict that never happened, until the destruction of USSR. Ironic do you not think? You would think they rise up sooner when people who were actually alive to remember their loss of autonomy.
@nugzarmikeladze2 жыл бұрын
it was not stripped of Autonomy, it changed status from Union Republic in union with Georgian SSR to Autonomous Republic within Georgian SSR. also Abkhazia was under control of Georgian Democratic Republic until Bolshevik occupation when it was given SSR Status.
@thehun12342 жыл бұрын
@@SMGJohn Uprisings very rarely happen during strong autocratic rule. They generally start after the pressure is reduced on the population and people start to feel that they are allowed to voice their opposition. This is how the 1789 French, 1956 Hungarian and other revolutions started. When you know that if you do not applaud enough a politician's speech the secret police will take you away (like during Stalin's time) you dare not start organising a protest.
@videonofan4 ай бұрын
Same for Artsakh/Karabakh and Azerbaijan
@andrek46192 жыл бұрын
In addition to the Crimea, in 1922, Donbass was assigned to the administration of Ukraine. There were other territories around USSR. But the most important thing is that the local population has never been asked in all these territorial assignments.
@AlexeyProkharchyk3 жыл бұрын
First comment! Great series. Tough topick that can get a lot of people's feelings hurt.
@iliasfilip21103 жыл бұрын
KZbin says that the video was uploaded 13 minutes ago yet your comment is presented as "9 hours ago". Wow😂
@TheColdWarTV3 жыл бұрын
Patreon membership has it's advantages...
@iliasfilip21103 жыл бұрын
@@TheColdWarTV Oh.... I see😏
@basichistory3 жыл бұрын
This video is full of fascinating information
@nikolakorbar3 жыл бұрын
0:22 - it didn't. That was called into question when NATO wrested the region of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia.
@andrejmucic50033 жыл бұрын
I would like a citation of the "15 minute" 2009 article please.
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
"Just trust me bro" - OP
@mafteim55562 жыл бұрын
Well, at the beginning when you talked about the 1793 defeat of the Ottomans and Crimeea entering under the rule of the Tzar of all Russias you've presented in fact a painting presenting the surrender of the Ottoman forces of Danube fortress of Nikopol (today Bulgaria) to the Russian Imperial armed forces at the very beginning of 1877 - 1878 Russian - Ottoman war.
@brokenbridge63163 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Russia always seems to be making headlines one way or another. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
@louisecorchevolle92413 жыл бұрын
this vdeo is systematicely pro-Ukrainian standings ( at least the radicals ukrainian who infests the countries ideology) It forgets to emphasize that Khanat of Crimea under Ottoman protectorates one of the biggest center of save trade and woman aspecialy tor the harems The center of this trade was Feodossia. It was one of the reason of the war between Russia and Ottoman Empire, Catharina the great won an in the treaty of Koutchouch 1777 Russia won sovereignty one Crimea tHis is a state treaty the only guilty How could you take legitimate internal affairs of the Bolcheviks a totalitarian regime issued from a "coup d'Etat" who made 80 millions deaths . It is well known the Krutchev wal mentlay sick il; to take his shoes on on the pupitre of United nation, to put soviet missiles 120 km from USA, to genocide his own people under Holomodor as Political it is well known not only by humorists that he signed the Crimean oukaze completely drunked
@rockybalboa92743 жыл бұрын
is there any story about oman to Cover?
@garrettallen74273 жыл бұрын
There’s the Oman civil war but that happened in 1963-1974 and we are still covering the 1950’s
@ergun99803 жыл бұрын
small fish in vast volume of the ocean. I suggest do you research privately.
@Martijn_Steinpatz3 жыл бұрын
The other popular myth is that Khrushchev was drunk when he made the decision.
@macariomatira32343 жыл бұрын
Do the Video about the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos
@noanyabizniz43333 жыл бұрын
It was basically the same as Trump's presidency. Tons of rape, corruption, murder and incompetence. The only real different is Trump added fascism to the mix.
@eduardoribeiro383 Жыл бұрын
watching this in Oct.22. Eight moths into the renewed invasion of Ukraine by Putin. Amazing. Good work.
@mrmr4463 жыл бұрын
That principle of international law was abandoned when Serbia was forced to cede Kosovo.
@bosanski_Cevap3 жыл бұрын
The people of kosovo didn't want to be part of a totalitarian fasisct regime like "Yugoslavia" under Slobodan. The majority of the country (albanians) had a right to cede from "Yugoslavia"
@eldermoose79383 жыл бұрын
Can you explain? I don't know much about the Kosovo war.
@larslundandersen77223 жыл бұрын
The Serbs could have chosen to not go down a genocidal road when dealing with the rebellion in Kosovo and Kosovo would likely still be Serbian. So Serbia was not forced to do anything. Serbia DECIDED to shoot itself in the foot, and some Serbs are still unhappy that there were consequences to their own actions.
@bosanski_Cevap3 жыл бұрын
@@larslundandersen7722 There were already ethnic tensions in 1990. 8years before the rebellion. One major reason why Slobodan was popular in SR Serbia was duo his solving and promises in kosovo Every serb with a brain should despite Slobodan for ending Yugoslavia with his "genial" centralzied nationalsitic politics. I mean he is one big reason why there isn't a serbian majority in Croatian Kraijna anymore, losing all of Kosovo, ending the domination of serbs jn SR Bosnia and kinda losing their ally Montenegro
@mrmr4463 жыл бұрын
@@eldermoose7938 According to international law until that intervention dealing with a rebellion was an internal matter under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
@Norg13 жыл бұрын
this reminds me of Guantanamo bay land so valuable for its navy base usa does not wanna give it up
@ergun99803 жыл бұрын
Yeah sure... Maybe there is another reason? Can it be the sh.ite that US government does in there just away from eyes of mainland? Maybe they do not want you to know that crap or smell of it. Lol. Open your eyes wo/man.
@HannarrMontannarr3 жыл бұрын
Maybe, If the US had ethnically cleansed Guantanamo bay, then given cuba Guantanamo bay, then signed a binding agreement acknowledging it as part of cuba, then invaded.
@HannarrMontannarr3 жыл бұрын
@@ergun9980 That's the pot calling the kettle black. Turkey has such a great track record.
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
It's functionally more valuable to NSA, NRO and CIA than the NAVY but yes to US Security.
@Ktaurus263 жыл бұрын
Guantanamo was never part of the USA though. Crimea has been Russian for 300 years.
@reanimationeas3422 жыл бұрын
I like this video. Good and pretty much unbiased
@Arthur_Pint Жыл бұрын
The point is that Crimea being ‘given’ to Ukraine in 1954 was no more than a ‘name change’ as in any case Russia controlled Ukraine and Crimea, as they did all the Soviet territories. By way of an admittedly crazy example, if the UK were to ‘give’ part of Shropshire in England to Wales then leaving all else aside, it would change the administrative name of the area, but as the UK is essentially dominated by England, it would from an overall sovereignity point of view be completely inconsequential.
@peterhann97483 жыл бұрын
Rock one David!
@veritasetcaritas2 жыл бұрын
Saving this for later; I wasn't aware of this history.
@spyczech3 жыл бұрын
My father coded the bell icon, and his fathers father coded the daily motion subscription system so I am justified in seizing it for myself
@johnl5316 Жыл бұрын
The UPPER PENINSULA of Michigan has no land border with the main (lower) part of Michigan. It does have a significant land border with the state south of it, Wisconsin
@V8_screw_electric_cars3 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that Kaliningrad was always part of Russia never transferred to belarus or Latvia.
@louisecorchevolle92413 жыл бұрын
staline was winner of the war and wanted a poetin Baltic BElaruss soon reintegrated to Russia under a supra national body as treaty says
@risannd2 жыл бұрын
They actually planned to transfer it to Lithuanian SSR, but Lithuania refused.
@artur24able2 жыл бұрын
Why would it be transferred to countries that do not border the territory? Unless there is a joke that I am missing.
@gediminaskucinskas69522 жыл бұрын
Actually they wanted to transfer it to Lithuanian SSRs but Lithuania refused.
@theoutlook553 жыл бұрын
The continuing impact of Crimea in international relations, ah, how the world seems so similar decades later.
@badluck56473 жыл бұрын
With the exception of Palestine, Ukraine is only the country that had its territory stolen by military means within the 21st century. This makes the situation in Crimea much more unique then it was decades ago.
@ilyasasilgaly27443 жыл бұрын
@@badluck5647 well, there was Tibet that was completely annexed by China
@badluck56473 жыл бұрын
@@ilyasasilgaly2744 That was done in the 20th century. You could describe the China's expansion in the South China Sea as stealing territory though.
@a12shotman3 жыл бұрын
@@badluck5647 Armenia too tbf
@paulpopescu2757 Жыл бұрын
13:56 "By 'divide and conquering', Moscow tried to maintain control over the peripheries". That's the most logical explanation.
@ernestbatiy10703 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was born there. I hope to one day visit after freedom is restored.
@orson_krennic8313 жыл бұрын
Ask any "real" citizen in Crimea, they have freedom! I've been there every summer for the last 2 years and people are happy, business is booming and they have a popular tourist trade!
@ernestbatiy10703 жыл бұрын
@@orson_krennic831 If by real you mean Russian then probably
@ernestbatiy10703 жыл бұрын
@@orson_krennic831 Crimea was annexed over a naval base.
@orson_krennic8313 жыл бұрын
@@ernestbatiy1070 Then you don't have to wait for this "Freedom" then huh
@ernestbatiy10703 жыл бұрын
@@orson_krennic831 I will wait until the restoration of Crimea to its Rightful state. Ukraine. Now be gone troll
@Mrgunsngear3 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@douglinn58243 жыл бұрын
You're a man of culture and education as well =D Stay well
@PabIoLang3 жыл бұрын
1:12 What movie it is?
@kitpesec15363 жыл бұрын
This is not movie, it’s a game
@antonionotmyrealnamo63333 жыл бұрын
@@kitpesec1536 Really? It looks like live-action footage and it looks really cool.
@PabIoLang3 жыл бұрын
Oh, indeed. I guess I'm old already...
@angrycookie60903 жыл бұрын
Russian historical movie "Viking" (2016) although it's rather some kind of fantasy than real history.
@halilekici6173 жыл бұрын
A little bit addition to the history of Crimea: Prior to the second battle of Vienna in the war council of the Ottoman war camp, Khan of Crimea Murad Giray presents his opinion but Grandvizier Kara Mustafa Pasha ignores him. Therefore he becomes really resentful and decides to "teach a lesson" to the Ottomans thinking that They do not show enough gratitude to Crimea. During the siege, he was assigned to stop the Polish army but instead he watches John Sobieski and his army meanwhile they are crossing the danube river. After that everybody knows rest of the story. Due to the fire from the spark of his "lesson"; Ottomans were defeated massively, Crimeans fell under Russian power eventually and most ironically, Poland was partitioned between Austria and Russia, after the decline of Ottoman power on that region.
@seneca9832 жыл бұрын
Do you have a source for that. I tried googling but I didn't find mention of something like that. (I did see mentions that the Crimean troops performed badly in the battle but that's a different thing.)
@edenender2 жыл бұрын
@@seneca983 Crimeean Tatars had light cavalry and where not capable to match the polish husars
@seneca9832 жыл бұрын
@@edenender I wasn't asking about that. I guess my question wasn't worded the best. I was asking for a source for Murad Giray refusing to do what he was tasked with due to being offended.
@edenender2 жыл бұрын
@@seneca983 I don t think something like that really happened. Crimeean Tatars fought bravely when ever asked by Otomans. The Otomans were not capable to mantain the crimeean péninsula and support Tatars against russia
@seneca9832 жыл бұрын
@@edenender "I don t think something like that really happened." I was skeptical of that claim by OP (Musa Onur) as well.
@AngelSonevski2 жыл бұрын
The west sort of broke the whole "sanctity of the territory of sovereign states" thing when they backed Kosovo splitting off Serbia along ethnic lines, and so Putin cited the same thing when he advocated for Crimea splitting off, along ethnic lines, a pretty important precedent.
@AngelSonevski2 жыл бұрын
@@CrocodileWhispers After Milosevic was deposed there was no reason to pursue some weird nation building instead of just making Serbia put constitutional rights to the Kosovo Albanians or something, basically supporting the independence of a region only based off the ethnicity that live there in Europe opens a door for Putin to say hey look Crimea is inhabited by Russians it belongs to us, same with Tyrol in Austria, Basque country, Catalonia, Transylvania, Wallonia/Flanders and many others, basically you shouldn't support this in Europe if you don't want chaos, territorial integrity should have been as preserved as possible
@AngelSonevski2 жыл бұрын
@@CrocodileWhispers Not a Russo apologist, I'm literally advocating for respecting territorial integrity of all nations in Europe, so don't take pieces of Ukraine, don't take pieces of Serbia, don't split up Bosnia or whatever the fuck, so it's the opposite of what Putin wants, even if Ukraine was discriminating Russian speakers (hypothetically) then Russia should have pressed them economically or diplomatically which they can since they're their biggest trading partner and a huge economic influence, but instead Putin decided to invade because he's unhinged or smth, I don't support it lmao I love Ukrainians and most other Slavs, just saying that if NATO didn't support Kosovo independence Putin couldn't annex crimea, btw p sure I left my original comment before the invasion of Ukraine, I didn't even think it can ever happen for real
@alexchopov3 жыл бұрын
visited Crimea in 2015 - it really felt like going back to the USSR - everything falling apart - for 23 years the only thing Ukraine invested in were the oligarchs' dachas, while pumping money out of it. Visited last year - Russia spends more on it in a year, than Ukraine did in 23 - and its starting to show. Crimea is almost caught up to 2021 by now
@ilyasasilgaly27443 жыл бұрын
Tbf, except for major cities, most ex-Soviet states still look like the Soviet Union.
@artursnikitenko73333 жыл бұрын
Crimea is receiving insane funding from the Federal government for this very reason, they want to show everyone that Crimea is better under Russia but it is not due to the Russian government being less corrupt or more efficient than Ukranian, for them it is simply an image question ( показуха). Russia has a big problem with regional inequality Moscow and St Petersburg is wealthier than London while the rest of the country is sinking into poverty and are living in commie blocks that have not been properly maintained since the 90s. If it was not for the oil revenue I think there would not be much of a difference between Russia and Ukraine, since both face very similar economic hardships.
@artursnikitenko73333 жыл бұрын
@Юрий Чумаков Government must bring prosperity to everyone not just to selected few. Even if some one in Crimea is much wealthier now than 5y ago, what difference does it make to average russian? Russia is a bit better off than Ukraine but it is still a poor country with limited resources that should be spent on improving the life of russians not on pointless conflicts just to boost domestic nationalism and allow the Putins regime to stay in power. Crimea has problems with water, electricity and small businesses are closing down due to the lack of tourists, not to even mention the tatars and remaining ukranians living there. Large infrastructure projects such as the new airport, kerch bridge will boost the GDP numbers for the region but it does not mean that the quality of life has improved for anyone there.
@mpravica3 жыл бұрын
@@artursnikitenko7333 The West started this conflict between the Ukraine and Russia when it supported the illegal coup/putsch against an elected government. President Biden was heavily involved in this.
@yoursleepandrelaxation69482 жыл бұрын
@@artursnikitenko7333 а кто воду то перекрыл, а, Мыкытенко?
@greenkoopa3 жыл бұрын
Please forgive me for upsetting the balance of 420 comments, but I'm dropping in to say *THANK YOU COLD WAR, BUT THE "PRINCESS" IS IN ANOTHER BLOC*
@SofaKingShit3 жыл бұрын
I just feel sorry for the fellows in the Change of the Light Brigade because at the time they would have carried coal gas lamps as a light source and I'd imagine that those lamps must have been quite dangerous to carry in the heat of such pitched battles. I really don't know why they simply didn't want to fight in the daylight anyway.
@jamessmitgaming90913 жыл бұрын
Would love for you to go back to Africa at one point, particularly the Angolan War
@kylebritt12252 жыл бұрын
Pertinent today 3/4/2022 helps perspective a little for background.
@MTWolfgang3 жыл бұрын
Please never stop doing jokes on the bell bottom
@Marinealver3 жыл бұрын
Ukraine: You gave it to us Russia: But back then you were our puppet so our intentions was to give it to ourselves!
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
Stalin: Georgian. Trotsky: Ukrainian. Brezhnev: Kazakstani. Krushchev:Spent majority of his life in Ukraine. Beria: Georgian...... Russia was the largest, most populace and economically powerful Republic but it did rule the rest of the Republics as Puppets.
@lanagrossman4892 жыл бұрын
People who hate Russia hate to hear this and in addition USA drunk puppet Eltzin gave away anything US wanted.
@dpro22972 жыл бұрын
the last theory, about a minority cluster is very viable. And the deportation of the Crimean Tatars actually aided in creating such a cluster: 1939 census shows 49.6% of russian ethnic group vs 71.4% in 1959 according to wiki page. Had the Crimean Tatars remained on the peninsula, simple lower level projection of enthic group popuplation growth based on the other ethnic groups data predicts around 21% of Crimean Tatars in 1959 and would have lowered the russian share to 56%
@lanagrossman4892 жыл бұрын
Crimean tatars we’re deported because 20 thousand of them fought with Nazi and were very brutal!! Not for some imaginary ethnic cleansing
@ValiantB23 жыл бұрын
The 2014 coup in Kiev was not theoretical
@badluck56473 жыл бұрын
It was fictional
@georgioszampogiannis10543 жыл бұрын
there was no coup in Kyiv in 2014. A coup is made by force. There where no tanks and army taking control in ukraine. Yanukovich fled to rostov one day with his team. no one arrested him, no one shot at him
@badluck56473 жыл бұрын
@@georgioszampogiannis1054 You forgot to mention the embezzled $ billions that Yanukovych took with him.
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
The NATO Govs/Media account of it is theoretical.... in fact it's literally a Conspiracy Theory.
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
@@georgioszampogiannis1054 That's a military coup specifically. It was a coup, organised and staged by a Foreign Government (and it's vasals). But you could also describe it as a Putsch.
@jimm60953 жыл бұрын
Crimea was never Ukrainian except for its addition by the Soviets in the 1950s! Few Ukrainians ever have lived in Crimea and the majority of Crimea's population has always in the last 500-1000 years been Tartars and ethnic Russians!
@constantine45293 жыл бұрын
>in the last 500-1000 years >ethnic Russians lost it here
@reanimationeas3422 жыл бұрын
Going by your logic, I can say that Crimea belongs to Greece or Turkey. Both countries held control of Crimea.
@Hyperpotamus7772 жыл бұрын
Greece never did. The was acncient greek colonies but it has no relation to national state of Greece. Ottomans conqured it and then lost, never colonized. More than 60% of population is ethnic russians. Crimea's cities, resorts, civil and military infrastructure was built on Moscow's money/resources. The only reason Ukraine has some claims on Crimea is single person's (Khruschev) whim.
@lanagrossman4892 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Yalta and Ukrainians were small minority and we had well known NAMES FOR EAST UKRAINIAN AND WEST UKRAINIAN!
@dangerouslytalented3 жыл бұрын
Khrushchev was able to rise during the time of Stalin, and think very tactically. He most likely thought a great deal about the pros and cons of the deal and made very deliberate strategic moves including this one.
@skatei3 жыл бұрын
Okay... What a pointless comment..
@mladenmatosevic45912 жыл бұрын
First precendent was Kosovo in 2008, followed by South Sudan in 2011. And Helsinki accords were not ammended because decision on the West Bank would then need to be made. Regardless, I do not see any referendum in Crimea which would return it to Ukraine, unless Ukraine becomes successful EU member and role model for Russians.
@ringbearer9473 жыл бұрын
Slavs of the world Unite!
@user-nn3pz1ef2n3 жыл бұрын
The movie scenes....which movie is it from?
@interestinglife9343 жыл бұрын
Lion king
@user-nn3pz1ef2n3 жыл бұрын
@@interestinglife934 could you please send me a link from a trailer or something similar, beacuse all Iit pops up is the disney movie
@JenniferinIllinois3 жыл бұрын
1954 Russia: Hey Ukraine, we want to keep on being friends so here's Crimea Ukraine: We don't want to be friends anymore 2014 Russia: I'm taking my Crimea and going home My bell button has been transferred and I thus no longer have access to it
@evilmanua3 жыл бұрын
Last time I check "friends" don`t keep "friends" in collars.
@kevinbourke18473 жыл бұрын
It 2014 not 214
@wladjarosz3453 жыл бұрын
1954 take this peace of desert and make it suitable to live there! 2014 i take it back because we are the "brothers"... no terrorussia - no problems!
@OakInch3 жыл бұрын
So basically, Ukraine has no historical or factual basis for claiming Crimea, except a USSR law. Sounds legit to me. Maybe Russia can claim all of Ukraine based on the 1654 treaty as well.
@vladimirc4223 жыл бұрын
hm blatantly failed to mention the Kosovo precedent...
@6thsavage3 жыл бұрын
I took a class in grad school taught by Nina Khruscheva. Fun to see her mentioned, cool lady. I learned a lot. Now I realize I have no witty quips and have lost track of watching....so eerrr...URA!
@gmicg2 жыл бұрын
Russia will never give back Crimea.
@michaellynes3540 Жыл бұрын
🇷🇺: I’ll annex Crimea. Yoink!😈 🇺🇦:😮😢 🇺🇸: That’s not cool, Russia.😠 🇪🇺: Yeah, that’s not cool.😠 🇷🇺: Hey, we did it democratically.😏 🇺🇸🇪🇺: Bullshit.😠
@wilhelmheinzerling5341 Жыл бұрын
I would wager to guess it is a combination of many of these theories on various levels, or better yet, different theories for different events.
@maxheadrom30882 жыл бұрын
I heard the USSR had a policy of mixing populations of different ethnicities that lived in on single republic. The recent Armenia/Khazakistahn conflict was on a region with those characteristics. Thanks for the video!!!
@슬라바우크라이나헤로2 жыл бұрын
Armenia Kazakhstan conflict? That's news to me 😂😂
@IrishPartizan3 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the Kaliningrad Oblast - how the USSR took it from Germany in 1945, forced expulsion of the German population and Stalin's proposals to divide it up.
@sisyphusvasilias39433 жыл бұрын
Why specify Kaliningrad? Millions of German refugees were deported from all Central European states. The transfer of sovereignty happened as part of the Potsdam Conference, supported by all Allied Countries. It was a collective Allied action. If that was "taken by the USSR" why not focus on the Rhine, Alsace or any of the territory "taken" from Germany by NATO countries as part of the same agreement? Kaliningrad simply isn't controversial because so few people were deported on transition of Sovereignty. The reality was that nearly the entirety of the local population vacated Koninsberg ahead of the Red Army's arrival during the war. East Prussia was the heartland of German Nationalism and the citizens feared reprisals for their countries massive crimes against Humanity and multiple programs of Genocide. The larger controversy of German post war deportations is about those in Sudetenland and the Rhine region.
@Texeq3 жыл бұрын
Bottom line is that this internal 'transfer' to a republic (not a soverign, indendent nation) was on pretty thin grounds to begin with, compounded by bureaucratic malaise and ineptitude during the USSR break up. For context, Crimea was part of Russia since about the time the United States was formed. It was never actually part of Ukraine. The west and US like making the issue bigger to destabilize Russia.
@stischer473 жыл бұрын
So if Germany were to "reoccupy" Kaliningrad, that would be OK since the region was part of Germany since 1255, well before the founding of the USSR.
@@stischer47 Reason for Germany's loss of East Prussia - war crimes against people of the Soviet Union. Reason for Russia's loss of Crimea in 1954 - whim of a single person.
@HistoryandHeadlines2 жыл бұрын
It is interesting to watch both videos from this channel on Ukraine's history in succession!
@SnabbKassa2 жыл бұрын
Russia is sticking to the mindset that some European power is always preparing to invade it, when in reality, Germany refuses to even defend itself or its allies, and refuses to believe Russia is a threat.
@andrewj44262 жыл бұрын
In the end they gave the US the perfect excuse to destroy one of its two main rivals economically for the next 30 years. All they can really do now is offer Germany the world in the hopes of them breaking from Nato. Of course the US will never allow this.
@TheLocalLt3 жыл бұрын
Could another reason possibly have been as part of a rapprochement to the Ukrainian people after the Soviet security services brutal guerrilla war against Ukrainian nationalists which was just finishing up around 1954?
@caenterprisellc69222 жыл бұрын
Request to submit this video to the US Supreme Court.
@guritamarctiberiu15673 жыл бұрын
I think it is also worth stating that the transfer was not constitutional at the moment as the Cvorum was not met that day. The decision being made when a good portion of the commitee members were not at work. This right here being largely the main issue that drags the matter on up until today.
@AllPileup2 жыл бұрын
Russo Ukrainian War, Day 1
@MrRenegadeshinobi3 жыл бұрын
You take my life, but, I take yours too.
@piotrmacc87933 жыл бұрын
What is this melody on the end?
@matickon Жыл бұрын
Why didn't the Soviets ever think of building a bridge from Crimea to Russia itself?
@عليياسر-ذ5ب Жыл бұрын
they did
@ergun99803 жыл бұрын
I have been a sub of your channel since the day 1 with ring-sign as on. You release your videos once everyweek but I have never gotten the alarm of your channel's release when it is up. I want to let you guys know. There is an A..hole as an admin on youtube's command chair, just FYI. Greetings from Istanbul.
@charlesmitz52393 жыл бұрын
We set the precedent when we carved Kosovo away from Serbia. Can't blame Russia from following your lead.
@harri62143 жыл бұрын
What nation conquered and annexed Kosovo?
@xandervk23713 жыл бұрын
Right on, and the Kosovo crisis probably helped to force Yeltsin to retire by the end of 1999, with Putin as his replacement. The rest is history, as they say.
@koshchey_vg3 жыл бұрын
@@harri6214 No nation conquered it but I think he’s referring to the referendum that took place in Kosovo which wasn’t provided for by Serbian law but was seen as legitimate by the West. This set the precedent for Crimea where an illegal referendum was held in the same exact way as the Kosovo referendum and 93% of the people voted for independence from Ukraine and to join Russia. The Western countries didn’t recognize this referendum thus demonstrating double standards. Recognizing Kosovar independence opened Pandora’s box and allowed Putin to point to these double standards to justify his annexation.
@reanimationeas3422 жыл бұрын
Kosovo was not conquered by anybody and there is little strategic value for most countries to support Kosovo independence. By the way, Russia refuses to recognize Kosovo while citing the precedent. When Russia recognizes Kosovo as an independent nation, then they can bring up the precedent. Until then, Russia can shut up
@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е2 жыл бұрын
1) Why you translate "oblast" as "province"? How about Moscow oblast? ))) 2) It is steressed on the first syllable.
@ck91032 жыл бұрын
'Oblast' has the same definition as 'province' in English.
@nickashton35843 жыл бұрын
Russia will never give up Sevastopol
@qarljohnson49712 жыл бұрын
Another possible theory of why Crimea AND several Russian oblasts (now called "Novorus") of the Donets Basin were added to Ukraine, was to ensure there were enough patriotic voters in the Ukraine to prevent any embarrassing elections or actual uprising. Western Ukraine regions that had been part of Poland in the interwar period were very pro European and had many pro German sympathizers during the Nazi occupation in WW2. It has been forgotten that the CIA used the Gehlen Org (recycled Nazi/Wehrmacht Intelligence, rehired for the CIA) to run insurgency operations from the late '40s into the mid '50s.
@gediminaskucinskas69522 жыл бұрын
Yeah and I think this theory makes a lot of sense because Soviets tried to do the same with Lithuanian SSRS when they tried to add Kalliningrad to Lithuania.
@mktdul20959 ай бұрын
Why more explanation needed than the official info. Is explanation needed to put your glasses from one pocket to another. There were no road connecting to RSFSR, nor water.
@LightCrasher2 жыл бұрын
Good job. Other channels make factual mistakes left and right, but here I only spotted one. Holodomor was not a genocide. It was a humanitarian disaster spread across both Ukraine and Russia, but it was "privatised" by Ukraine as a leverage to pressure on Russia politically and diplomatically. As for the history of the question, as good of an analysis you have made, it does not matter much for the current situation, since the majoriry of Crimea already made their choise, and, to no surprise, they got protection and some Major economic upgrade conpared to Ukraine. As for Russia, it was quite a problem, but all things considered, It was worth it.
@Thecrownswill3 жыл бұрын
Can you talk about how Muslims were treated and felt about being in the USSR?
@badluck56473 жыл бұрын
It would be an interesting video to see how the atheist Communist Party suppressed religious groups.
@ergun99803 жыл бұрын
Bro, no one could tell that honestly but muslims.
@videonofan4 ай бұрын
He talked about it in another video
@videonofan4 ай бұрын
@@ergun9980He talked about it in another video
@edenender2 жыл бұрын
Crimeea is the land of the Crimeean Tatars
@yoursleepandrelaxation69482 жыл бұрын
Crimea is the land of Greeks
@ppss.63022 жыл бұрын
Not transfer but land swap between two soviet Republics.
@vasilerogojan45203 жыл бұрын
Long story short, the annexation of Crimea in 2014 in the aftermath of that ,,referendum" in which the subject was until the last moment the independance of Crimea, then changed to the union with Russia was a response to the Ukrainian Euromaindan in which Putin's Ukrainian president was forced to resign, a way to ,,tsar" Putin to increase its popularity, the existence of Sevastopol that he uses to send troops to Syria, the potential resourses around the peninsula among others.
@AK-74K3 жыл бұрын
There are no resources around the peninsula that matter. It's all 100% about Sevastopol
@667crash3 жыл бұрын
One blatant error in this guy's commentary, is that the Russian controlled Crimea from 1793 onwards. There a little incident known as the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856, that pitted the Russians against the coalition of French, British and Ottoman Empires. There were nearly 900,000 soldiers on both sides killed with an additional 750,000 wounded. The Russians in the end were kicked out of Crimea, with control of the Crimea being handed to the Ottomans, by the French and the British. So you wonder why the Russian's feel so strongly Crimea. The French and British support for Ottamans is a classic example of "Miss-Guided Geo-Politics".
@danielforeroc3 жыл бұрын
The invasion only took from Eupatoria to Sevastopol and Balaklava, only a fraction of the peninsula.
@OstapVasilevschi3 жыл бұрын
*Dnipro, not Dniepr
@unclebuildy70302 жыл бұрын
Tatars provided 20,000 soldiers for the Nazi "Tatar Riech". They were commented on by the Nazi officers as shockingly brutal and sadistic. It was not for revenge on Soviets. The mayor of Yalta was a Tatar. Stalin may have exiled them for their own protection. Crimea was given to Ukraine for the same reason the entire Donbas was given to them by Lenin. Gerrymandering. It was to Ballance the anti Russian Polish and German population of Western Ukraine
@birchtreez4402 жыл бұрын
the 4th theory seems like a stretch to me
@rupes3618 Жыл бұрын
Why is bureaucracy always good or unquestioned by academics and teachers?
@joelgagnon13 жыл бұрын
Could it be just another Soviet attempt to create a frozen conflict? Congratulations comrades!
@airvlad7773 жыл бұрын
Treaty of Pereyaslav was not the treaty between Ukraine and Russia, but a decision of Autonomous Cossack Hatmanate to unite with Moscow. Cossacks consider(ed) themselves ethnically Russian.