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[@Geraduss]

There is just one phrase that sums up Russian history. "And then things got worse."

[@blauwbeer556]

How?? Russia went through a lot of ups and downs, if things truly only got worse then it wouldn´t have become a super power of the world during the cold war. Their armies would have only become weaker but it didnt, it only got stronger. the industry would have become non-existent but it was well established. their economy would have been on par with 3rd world nations but it was (for a while) the second strongest in the world. And if you were talking for the normal people, after ww2 things only became dramatically better for your avarage soviet compared to your avarage russian empire serf. Even if you think that during/after the civil war things became worse for your avarage russian it would only prove my point more because again; things became dramatically better after ww2 which would disprove the "And then things got worse" line. I am not saiying that the Soviet Union is good, in fact i am glad it is gone. But to say that ¨things only got worse¨ does not make sense to me, and that is only by looking at soviet history. If you were to look at the history of Russia at large it makes even less sense.

[@vaingloriant]

@@blauwbeer556 Show an average peasant in Tsarist Russia an average citizen of the Russian Federation. The peasant would probably envy them

[@dogmanreal6298]

AND THEN THINHS GOT BETTER ,MCDONALDS! Then things got worse…

[@emilymiller3362]

Well they had a good idea but failed to take in to account of human nature to only care about themselves.

[@Blazeit-rj3eb]

@@vaingloriantshow me an average person from 200 years ago. I bet people now are living better than them. What a surprise. It means nothing about how good, or in this case, bad the regime is. The Russian federation is fascist. Слава Советскому Союзу!

[@reygonzalez4719]

Just seeing how much he's enjoying it, is contagious I can't help but smile just seeing how much joy he has.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

Hi there. I am actually a Kazakh from the Kazakhstan. No joke. The thing with my homeland: For a some time, almost all victims of Stalin's repressions were exiled either to Siberia, or to the Russian Arctic, or to the Russian Far East. Politicians, criminals, objectionable military, random people. You know. But starting from 1934 Kazakhstan became the 2nd place where the repressed could be sent. In the modern Akmola region, there was a separate camp for repressed wives and lovers, who were forced to sew the infamous element of clothing of the NKVD employees - leather jackets. All manual labor, at least 50 thousand jackets per year. In total, about 6 million people went through labor camps in Kazakhstan. So the joke is informative. Even witty, but has a miraculous connotation.

[@raf.b]

They tested nuclear weapons on your territories?

[@almasbaibolov1446]

@@raf.b yes, unfortunately. The biggest one called Semipalatinsk Test Site (or STS for short). Long strory short, almost every nuclear weapon USSR ever made were test just about 180 km away from my home town... As well from other towns and villages in East Kazakhstan Region... 450 tests in total between 1949 and 1991... Yeah, it's shows enough how much Communist Party and Soviet Goverment care about there own people.

[@almasbaibolov1446]

@@raf.b yes, unfortunately. There is a place called Semipalatinsk Test Site. It's just 200 km away from my home town. Long story short, almost every type of nuclear weapons ever made in USSR were tested there. 450 in total. So you try to imagine how bad health of residents from surrounding area. As a result we got big territory in Northeast Kazakhstan with high concentration of radiation in ground. And this is a territory where about 4 million (of 18,6 milllion in Kazakhstan) people living for today. Well yeah, good luck to try change my mind about USSR in general. And there still hundreds of thousands if not millions people who protect THIS part of the Soviet past. P.S. Srew Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

[@raf.b]

@@almasbaibolov1446 yeah I know, was born in thier paradise in 1978, and when I was like 7 or 6yo banana was a big thing for a kid like me, I won't mention about stealing resources from my country.

[@assi1243]

And baikonur first kosmodrom.

[@izzyspell2629]

15:28 ,,He was drunk all the time." Me, a Czech: Lemme show you our president.

[@Essek]

Hahahahhahaha

[@swagremmy]

Sounds about right

[@sukanachuj1983]

Ano presne hahahaha

[@julianozaur444]

All slavs be like : First time ?

[@fishu8545]

Polish presidents also

[@SearedAhiTuna]

"Who would want to visit Russia?" WELL not for at least 10 years.

[@Tabrias07]

16:10 In the US we would normally refer to such countries as "Former Soviet Bloc" (or Eastern Bloc, though I think that's more common among older americans, as the soviet aspect seems to have taken more historical prominence than the region's geographical location.)

[@ashdabrowiak9407]

Some of us also call them "Comblock" countries, as in Communist Block

[@battleblaster4203]

Well that doesn't really apply to Yugoslavia (or shouldn't at least ) because Eastern bloc or Soviet bloc should really only include Warsaw Pact members and Yugoslavia was a communist nation caught between the USSR and NATO and Yugoslavia wasnt going to bat for either

[@wobbles3217]

Yeltsin infamously tried to get a cab in DC, in his underwear, at around 2am, because he wanted a pizza

[@keithpanton7486]

Honestly, if I were rich I'd likely be doing that all the time.

[@emeraldfinder5]

This. This is the kind of confidence you need

[@astroorbis]

5:42 "ok so the revolution happenned"

[@LordBaldur]

I know it's bad to stereotype, but Russia seems to go from one extreme to another, extremely greedy Tzar changes to far left Soviets and then they shed that and transitions into greedy mobsters. They have no chill.

[@paulchapman8023]

When did Russia ever thrive under any system of government other than absolute monarchy? (I consider the Soviet Union to be just another form of absolute monarchy.) I think you’d have to go back farther than Ivan IV to find an effective leader who wasn’t a tyrant. And maybe not even then.

[@LordBaldur]

@@paulchapman8023 A monarchy implies dynastic lineage. If a ruler got there by force, then they are a dictatorship.

[@paulchapman8023]

@@LordBaldur Hereditary monarchy indicates dynastic lineage, but not all monarchies are hereditary. And even hereditary monarchies trace their lineage back to a ruler who got there by force.

[@user-rg2up6xn7g]

We usually chill in Siberia

[@LordBaldur]

@@user-rg2up6xn7g Good point

[@bigidiotdumbstupidguy9329]

Kazakhstan was (I think) the USSR’s sort of big industry center since the Union was still mainly farmland and empty space. Like how Georgia and the Ukraine were used for oil and metal production. Plus the Soviets saw their satellite states as sorta subjugated or part of the USSR so whatever they produced “belonged to the people of the USSR” according to the leadership. At least I’m pretty sure that’s how it was. My “expertise” is with earlier European history. But I still know the European timeline from around 1900 ~ 1970. I need to study the USSR more.

[@Iike_tonk]

it was also the final remaining soviet state

[@amandamccaw9389]

I’m not Russian, but I know why. During that period of the song Germany has already invaded the Soviet Union and is referring to Russia relocating industry to Kazakhstan and nearby.

[@artsysabs]

Russia isnt on my list of places I want to visit in my life but if someone offered to pay for the trip then I wouldnt say no 😂

[@Jemini4228]

I wouldn't go until Putin and his regime is gone.

[@psymar]

I have to point out that the green and black animation of the rocket ship taking off at 12:05 is from the Game Boy version of Tetris which was the one that popularized this melody as being The Tetris Song -- NES tetris had Kalinka instead. Also, the latter part of the tune is the game over/enter your name for the high scores theme from GB tetris (although actually entering it was kind of pointless because the game boy version had no ability to save the scores through power off!)

[@WeirdGuy4928]

Clad to see more reactors do this. It's such a gem.

[@comradeotaku]

Also the Romanovs are still around technically. Multiple branches in fact. And speaking of Kirill Romanov, he was a supporter of this movement called the Mladorossi who wanted to combine the Bolshevik concept of workers' councils or Soviets with the Romanov monarchy. Their catchphrase was "For Tsar and Soviets". Pretty bizarre if I say so myself.

[@rextheroyalist6389]

ComradeOtaku that reminds me of the weird compromise government in post Napoleonic France where the monarchy briefly returned but under a defaced tricolour

[@pontifexurbanii1030]

Modern Romanovs sometimes visit Russia and participates in different events (they have good relationships with Putin). Monarchism is still popular in some parts of russian sosiety (orhodox, conservaties etc.). It is part of strange paradox in russian mentality - unity of sacred autocrat idea and desire for chaotic anarchy.

[@lettuceman9439]

Yes rusviet

[@emeraldfinder5]

Wouldn’t that just result in a split much like East and West Germany?

[@mmiYTB]

Basically the only thing this song doesn't have right is mentioning "Muscovites" when the bolshevik revolution happenened in St. Petersburg. But then "Muscovites" fits better within the song lyrics and rhymes.

[@soylentgreenb]

That early 90's camera quality is near perfect. Scan lines, crap resolution, a bit blurry and sort of sickly green tinge to the outline that looks like a badly done green screen. The only thing that gives it away as not being an old recording/recording with old equipment is the lack of tape artifacts like wobble and noise.

[@juhnsuhntuhncomics7911]

Got here from Mr. terry history and I love seeing your views on the videos greetings from Poland 🇵🇱

[@ComradeJosh_]

It is my understanding the reference to Kazakhstan is referring to the inefficiencies of the systems the Soviet Union used for their economy. Kazakhstan may have been just used as a lyrical reference but it was common for production lines to get tied up in beauracracy and stuff arrive late or disfunctional.

[@CapitalTeeth]

I love how this goes faster and faster like in a real game of Tetris.

[@WorldConquerer2295]

Kazakhstan was an autonomous republic within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the early years of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It later got promoted to “union republic” status so it was equivalent to be RSFSR (Soviet Russia) as well as the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Estonian SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, Azeri SSR, Uzbek SSR, Turkmen SSR, Kirghiz SSR, and Tadjik SSR. The Karelo-Finnish SSR also existed but later got absorbed into the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in the 1950s IIRC. There were a bunch of other union republics that got created and reabsorbed into different constituent union republics of the USSR. The RSFSR was one of 15 union republics that comprised the USSR for most of the Cold War years. There was a lot of reshuffling prior to the Cold War. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldavia got added after the Great Patriotic War (Second World War). The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic got reabsorbed into the RSFSR after a few years as the 16th union republic. During the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921 there were a lot of ephemeral union republics and many independent states. Some got conquered again by Soviet Russia. Some fully left (Poland, Finland, Baltic states, et cetera.). Others that were conquered, like the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (union of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic signed the Union Treaty on December 30, 1922 to create the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

[@alexandruianu8432]

10:10 - Mongolia wasn't a part, though.

[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

But they were pretty much a puppet, like Poland

[@alexandruianu8432]

@@comrade-princesscelestia4907 Puppet =/= part of USSR

[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

@@alexandruianu8432 I know, and i never said it did, the "But" was a stand in for the word "However"

[@vnrgnkv]

Это интересно, слушать то, как учитель истории рассказывает события в видео! :)

[@BOSS-jn3cc]

Yes comrade)

[@Polyglot_English]

Детерминизм это Свобода

[@shannonocelot7670]

I absolutely love this song cause I’m fascinated by the Soviet history. What I’ve learned though is that, yes the USSR has the most casualties in WWII, but half of them were because of Stalin himself. Which is terrifying. We don’t really see Stalin as awful as we do hitler, but Stalin was just as terrible. During WWII Stalin basically stated that if soldiers didn’t die fighting for the Union they’d die to stalins own gun. Yes, Stalin killed his own soldiers for basically “failing to fight”. The 1930s-40s were awful eras and I cannot imagine living through all that. I don’t know. Just a fact to know, Stalin killed his own soldiers which added to the casualties. Unfortunately

[@realburglazofficial2613]

It’s weird, Stalin was as bad as Hitler, but Hitler persecuted Jewish people. He killed a bunch of other people too, but the main focus was Jewish people. Stalin just killed everyone, it didn’t matter who they were or why, Stalin didn’t discriminate. That’s probably why the world just turned a blind eye to it.

[@emeraldfinder5]

@@realburglazofficial2613 pretty sure the world turned a blind eye to it because almost everyone was weak from WWII so there wasn’t much they could do to stop it. Plus, Stalin stopped most of this info from leaking, so they didn’t know the full severity

[@keithpanton7486]

The movie, "The Death of Stalin" is wonderful too, it's a satirical comedy, but it's fascinating too.

[@susangordon1153]

Excellent video today! Isn't it interesting how much easier it is to learn something when it is put to music? Hey teach, how about singing what you want to share with us! ROFL

[@thejestor9378]

The Soviet Space program suffered alot from internal sabotage for power, and being under Military command and funding, alot of their money was withheld from them.

[@justinmcgough3958]

It would be pretty cool to visit Russia, but as an American I feel like it wouldn't be safe to go there.

[@essimathews9056]

Call yourself Canadian. Virtually nobody prefers to interact with Americans over Canadians abroad, and unless you'r accent is obviously southern or jersey or something, most won't be able to tell the difference so long as you're polite.

[@ryanbaker2762]

That’s not even true, there’s a lot more tourists there than you’d imagine.

[@themaybemanfrom2008]

@@essimathews9056 Southern huh? Dang.

[@Falkriim]

Definitely one of my favourites

[@katzenbombercookie3416]

10:09 Mongolia wasn't a part of the Ussr

[@raven_1133]

Huh, an Austrian youtuber…that’s a new one.

[@cozmoknot]

I fucking love history

[@gwolfe333]

Of course I would love to go to Russia. But I've watched so many car crash videos I would be afraid to drive there. That was an awesome video.

[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

Fuck yea, my suggestion (along with others)

[@gilmadreth680]

Countries East of WWII Germany: You've freed us! Stalin: Oh, I wouldn't say 'freed.' It's more like 'under new management.'

[@marcodepril4888]

I live east saint petersburg and i would like to see the rest of russia

[@oleemalbon]

Did you say you are Croatian? So am I!

[@facelessforcamgaming2086]

wasn't the Tsar of Russia also related to king George V? correct me if I'm wrong.

[@goldenmosquito4093]

Yes the last tsar was a grandson of queen Victoria

[@kdgf7news195]

tetris

[@comradeotaku]

Around 24% of the Russian population was literate in pre-revolutionary Russia.

[@sparrowpelt20xx61]

I’d LOVE to visit Russia!

[@ryanbaker2762]

It’s cool, I went a few years ago and would recommend

[@Dav950]

You know that Mongolian wasn't part of the USSR? The Asian countries of the USSR are Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and maybe if I can say for some years Tannu Tuva.

[@Comrade_Che_1965]

Mongolia not USSR

[@gordychong8518]

MONGOLIA?!?!

[@marcodepril4888]

Hello im back i will soon finish cow ww2

[@bonobo9904]

There are a lot of GULAG work camps in Kazakhstan.

[@sciencewithraim208]

I am not russian, however i now russian language and also I am Kazakh from Kazakhstan,so here is explanation about Kazakhstan (It will be pretty long): Firstly, Kazakhstan It is a huge country,so we have a lot of resources, so we was one of the industrialized parts of USSR,mostly concentrated an mining resources. In periods of WW2 every 3rd cartridge prodused in USSR was maked from Kazakhs lead. I think u kan realized a sizes of Kazakhs production. Sad facts: Maybe you heard about holodomor in Ukraine. But not only Ukraine was injured from this, Kazakhstan also lost more than 2 million people, yea thats not so a lot as in Ukraine,but for that time in was HALF of KAZAKH population. Also, In world war 2 Kazakhstan lost 600 000man fighted with Nazis Its 1.5 time more than the same for USA Thats all :)

[@jasonsan6708]

10:09 slight correction Mongolia wasn’t actually part of the Soviet Union per say but it was a satellite state allied to the USSR but not part of the country: Mongolian People’s Republic.

[@PianoElipse]

That's cool that I can came in Moscow anytime I want just using a train or a car. It's nice to live in Russia

[@mandyogilvie686]

718 like

[@kommandantgalileo]

TO RUSSIA COMRADES!

[@dawletfled5803]

The no USSR people s. !!!!!!

[@apfelfreund6859]

I literally learned nothing new

[@eldargeldiev49]

USSR did not really have an economy!!! It was like,” we need money! Let’s make some more!!! And the economy won’t fall because we are a completely free state!!!” And in the late 1980s and 1990s, it was not a soviet state any more but was called a soviet state which meant that they could not have supported such a military!!!

[@alexcampanella7147]

Well it seems that I’m the first, good

[@marcodepril4888]

Azerbajan is not central asian

[@cocknose]

all of my history comes from several years of wikipedia/eu4/hoi4 and its great to see someone who is actually educated in history react to stuff lol