Russian Naval Tales - The Last(ish) Stand of the Varyag

[@xxmattopsxx3931]

Say it with me. "And then it got worse"

[@stewm1267]

@xxmattopsxx3931 just like their Kharkiv "offensive" or their Black Sea Fleet.

[@airplanemaster1]

Do you see Torpedo Boats?

[@alfyryan6949]

“cue the Swan Lake!”

[@Ducaso]

And it certainly does.

[@JPR3D]

I understood that reference.

[@thechancellor3715]

"....sister ship, the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage site, the Moskva.' snort

[@dalob112]

Yeah, i was about the Comment the same ONE hell of an (accurate) Sentence!

[@Ducaso]

Sheeesh

[@pork_eater_Z666]

one ship in exchange for 4 regions. honestly, peremoga

[@holyfordus]

@@pork_eater_Z666Russia could take all of Ukraine and the sinking of the Moskva would still be an embarrassment because it simply shouldn’t have happened. *Ukraine doesn’t have a navy.*

[@Joesolo13]

@@pork_eater_Z666 To quote south park, "I didn't hear no bell"

[@liamcorcoran8575]

The tale continues and as with all things in the Russian navy it got worse.

[@LastGoatKnight]

And then it got worse. And worse. AND WORSE

[@matthewgubbins8515]

History doesn't repeat itself it often rhymes. Unless it's Russian history, it repeats and repeats and repeats and gets worse

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@matthewgubbins8515 then it gets better for 5 mins And then it goes worse

[@jdreyes3745]

​@@nikolaideianov5092Those 5 minutes are right before some guy with an "in" at the end of their name rolls in.

[@BLMVDV]

Highly intelligent jokes, but not everyone will understand them. The minimum requirement for understanding is an IQ of 140.

[@BjornTheDim]

Colossal stupidity requires the sacrifice of horrific numbers of people. Nothing is learned by political leadership. Somehow this gets turned into a patriotic legend. That certainly sounds like a Russian story.

[@FMJIRISH]

Love the Kamchatka reference with the doggo

[@weldonwin]

Kamchatka: Do you see torpedo boats? Admiral: What? No we don't see any... wait, do YOU see torpedo boats? Kamchatka: All the time... Laughing at me...

[@brenatevi]

"It's not like they were going to get shot at." I knew where this was going right there.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

no, no spoilers... they were shot at?

[@brenatevi]

@@RoamingAdhocrat Asia says hi.

[@lelanderickson1045]

Old Russian saying, "Dimwits to the army, drunkards to the fleet!"

[@ingvarjankowsky9363]

Dimwits to the infantry, wittys to the artillery, fops to the cavalry, drunkwards to the fleet :)

[@lelanderickson1045]

@@ingvarjankowsky9363 excellent. Thank you for the full quote! 😎👍

[@concretedonkey4726]

hay don't slander them , they have enough drunkards in the army as well

[@zacharylegaspi7594]

LIAONING MENTIONED🗣️🔥🔥 I have nothing else to add I like Chinese carriers for no reason

[@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821]

So who they send to the air force?

[@markusdanielsson498]

Some crewman on the Varyag, maybe: "I wonder if we'll encounter Japanese torpedo boats? If they are hiding, then I know that the Kamchatka, the Russian navy's best scoutship, will sniff them out."

[@Tuck-Shop]

With a detection range of the surface of the planet, she was the best. Shame she lacked precision though.

[@quentinking4351]

Ship's Doctor: SAVE ME! SCOTUS: No

[@wombatgirl997]

7:00 - I had to pause the video for a bit and take in the absolute majesty of all those faces.

[@UnitSe7en]

It's amazing how often Ruso ships ran aground - With or without a captain on board. It's like it's a feature.

[@crocadillius6418]

Instead of GPS they all have homesick pidgeons as guidance systems

[@harryballsagna4549]

It happened (and still happens) a lot more than you think. The Honda Point disaster is probably one of the most insane instances

[@BobdaButcher]

The ships know Russians don’t belong on water so they are just trying to return them to their natural habitat

[@airplanemaster1]

Admiral Rozhestvensky: "Allow me to introduce my binoculars to you."

[@mrfoxgamer4202]

He never used such civil language 😂

[@cavalierliberty6838]

​@@mrfoxgamer4202HEY SHITASS, WANT SOME BINOCULARS FUCKFACE? *hurls binoculars at mach fuck at the Kamchatka*

[@luxuryxcoffin]

i heard zero birds or roadworks in the background and I had it blasting on my TV, you either did a good job with editing or its not that big a deal x keep up the good work mate

[@SomeoneFromBeijing]

The only "Varyag" that works, TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE (disclaimer for obvious reasons), is now called the Liaoning.

[@snuscaboose1942]

and the Liaoning doesn't work that well... guess commie imperialists can't built complicated things.

[@mattes4929]

It might not fit but one amazingly weird tale of raiding at sea was done on the Norwegian Royal on April 23, 1917 by the German Zepplin LZ 66 aka L 23. Yes, a zepplin managed to capture a freight ship. It did happen.

[@jamesbrown4092]

The Russian Navy sails into the English Channel and sees British fishing boats. "Look! It's the Japanese navy! Open fire!" The Russian Navy sails into the actual war zone and see the Japanese navy. "Nyet, it'll be fine. They're obviously our ships."

[@sodadrinker89]

This is why you shouldn't drink on the job.

[@vojtechslezak4553]

7:30 Oh hell no, its the Kamchatka!

[@moronicnapoleonic]

Awesome! I loved the Russian navy sucks series and I’m looking forward to this one.

[@MordorsMadness]

Vatnik Tears 💙💛🇬🇧

[@Jaeger62]

7:21 I lost it. Did not expect that!😅

[@p.strobus7569]

Misery at Sea sounds like an excellent name for a video series whether it be Russian, Russian adjacent, or PQ 17.

[@jthencl]

The part where the British and the Italians were cheering for Russians feels like when your friends hype you up before a fight and you get knocked out immediately. It legit reminded me of that one scene from one punch man where that little girl was rooting for a Mumen Rider, and his punch did nothing aganst the fish monster.

[@davethompson3326]

Partly pro European sentiment, rooting for the little guy and no one expecting the Japanese to be horribly effective.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

​​@@davethompson3326well, today we know better. Today we europeans side with the japanese against the russians.

[@philly83]

When you have had a long week and see there's a new Russian Navy video. Need a good laugh.

[@AeSyrNation]

She wasn't named specifically for the guard. Rather, the guard (and ship) were named for what the east slavs and byzantines called the vikings/northmen from Scandinavia

[@TheRezro]

I think I don't need to say that Russians payed for racism there... twice. When they soldiers heard about "torpedo boat" they think about actual small boats. So they did attack many fishing vessels. Except when actual Japanese Torpedo Boats show up, they assumed that such large and advanced ships must be Russian.

[@alexsis1778]

If you look at the history a bit more the initial firing on a fishing vessel had absolutely nothing to do with racism. The vast vast majority of Russian naval crews were peasant conscripts who had often never even been on a ship before and thought they were going to be attacked almost immediately. Plenty of them couldn't even read and had no idea how far away Japan was. These issues were fanned even further by the fact that Japan was actually having several ships built in British ports. So it wasn't entirely inconceivable they could be harassed. After several waves of rumors panicked the crews, their admiral ordered that no vessel would be allowed to enter the fleet. Promptly a fishing vessel carrying a message for the admiral tried to enter the fleet. They were fired on and completely missed. Not long after this the saboteur vessel known as Repair Ship Kamchacta claimed to have been attacked by 8 torpedo boats from all directions which certainly didn't help matters. The Russians saw the well lit british trawler fleet off the coast of Dogger bank at night and thought they were torpedo boats. They started panic firing at the trawlers while several ships claimed they'd been hit and were sinking. On other ships there were several reports of peasants running around their ships with weapons in hand screaming they were being boarded. They even managed to shoot 2 of their own ships. This wasn't "racism". It was a bunch of raw conscripts who had often never been on a ship before much less in a combat situation, had absolutely no training (it was intended they were going to train enroute) and in fact didn't even have a choice about going to war in the first place.

[@razgriz9146]

Looking forward to yet another epic of the Russian Navy. Here's a suggestion for a topic of a future video, if you don't mind. The impact of oil on the outcome of WWII (if not on, say, the global naval balance of power post-WWI). In any event, I'm always glad to see even more samples of the long, illustrious, legendary history of the Tsarist/Soviet/Russian navies. Cheers.

[@wombatgirl997]

Honestly a whole video on the Washington Naval Treaty would be amazing. What the restrictions were and how pretty much nobody actually cared about them. One particularly amusing example I read about is that the treaty limited the weight of different classes of naval vessels, but allowed an additional amount above the limit for "future refits". I think it was an American ship class that was built, complied with all the weight limits of the treaty, sailed around the harbor, then immediately came in for "refit". The refit being putting the gun turrets on.

[@MrTylerStricker]

There will never be enough documentaries about the legend that was the Varyak

[@Iberis_Haze]

I hope this never ends.

[@davesnothere.]

Ah, story time. Thank you.

[@griffithberserk1367]

Love your stuff as always. Fascinating tales of naval tomfoolery :D Thanks!

[@tristanbentz224]

The US has a better museum ships then Russia has active navy

[@venomlink2033]

Even the USS Arizona probably stands a chance against the Russian navy

[@pork_eater_Z666]

usa black gay strong🦅

[@mikeprimm4077]

Yeah but we'll still kick your butt. With our gay black sailors lmao nice try chump

[@thelastTankers9931]

@@pork_eater_Z666that statement has me extremely confused to what it means but GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@cavalierliberty6838]

The best ship in the Russian fleet, ironically enough, is their oldest, the Avrora. Poor ol girl...

[@riffzifnab9254]

17:25 You vastly underestimate my predilection for useless trivia. However thank you for the addition to the repository (:

[@crissagram]

The torpedo boat is the BEST BOY

[@LostShipMate]

Japan attacks neutral harbor . . . I see nothing surprising here.

[@raa729]

No roadworks sounds, you have a good mike. Cardiode. Great episode thanks

[@Nipplator99999999999]

The splash screen for the torpedo boats scared the absolute he// out of me... I had autoplay on for white noise whilst I was sleeping through a thunderstorm at 1am, and for some reason it was louder than anything else.

[@ThomasCorcoran-w8c]

Nice pic of the Kamchatka when Japanese torpedo boats were mentioned.

[@LeCharles07]

7:08 "Do you see torpedo boats?"

[@stewm1267]

Thank you for the warning, I'll go get some more popcorn!

[@MsZeeZed]

0:52 - I don’t wish to dig out you specifically on this, I heard Bismarck make exactly the same vocal tic yesterday, but just in case you don’t know. The phrase is “without further ado” meaning without further fuss or delay. That’s what your subtitles say, but what’s in your script is “without further adieu” means without anymore goodbyes and makes no sense in context, unless this is a weird creator in-joke from somewhere, in which case lets move on, just the repetition is leaving me champing at the bit a little. (All - Horses champ not chomp because that restrictive bit in question sits behind their teeth just so they cannot bite it)

[@DraftySatyr]

Damn you and your precision of language! 🙃

[@Tuck-Shop]

Looks like someone has had a lot of exspresso.

[@SamSammy-cb8nr]

You should do a video about the great white fleet

[@Philomatt13]

"The Russian fire was very accurate..." This isn't my Russian navy.

[@timothyedge6100]

I can’t watch this now, I can’t wait until later so I can hear how after adversity, then it got better!

[@Aleksander1812]

Means nothing to a man without honor.

[@louiscarullo6034]

Super late because holiday BUT…huh! This…at first doesn’t make sense. Then made perfect sense.

[@slavkovalsky1671]

Oh, and about those gun shields: she was originally commissioned without any. Just a bare-barrel boat. The shields were latter added by the Japanese. The drawing in the video showing pretty rudimentary shields is for "Soya", the second, IJN incarnation of the ship. Source: Cruiser Varyag by Rafail Melnikov (at least his parents didn't call him Azrael... Thanks, mom?), Shipbuilding Publishing, 1975. The seond, 1983 edition of the book, is available online, but it tones down the mistakes made by the Russians, and plays up the supposed incompetence and corruption of the US shipyard. Might have something to do with the end of the detente. I was pretty sure (but could be wrong) that the original edition blamed the first Russian crew for running the ship at topsped for 24 hours and ruining the boilers, which made sure Varyag could never again reach the design speed of 23 kt, puttering along at 14 knots, on a good day. The new edition blames the shipyard, William Cramp and Sons, for installing faulty and poorly designed boilers and then pushing the ship beyond its limites in a demo trial, which allegedly reduced her speed to a more respectable 20 (or possibly 19) knots.

[@Bill0341xx]

I think a vid on the fire on the uss forrestal would be dope

[@michaelusswisconsin6002]

Oh boi, more Russo boat/ship tales. What are they going to mess up this time.😂

[@tadasdovii8262]

E V E R Y T H I N G.

[@moronicnapoleonic]

Amazing video

[@PedroCosta-po5nu]

Could you talk about the hoax ship the K1000 battleship?

[@IAmTheAce5]

_In Mother Russia, War wins YOU!_

[@maciek_k.cichon]

21:19 "Ukrainian cultural heritage site - Moskva" - a proper end.

[@TheCombatEditor62]

Just found out another addition you could make to this series: the Russian destroyer Otvazhny. all Wikipedia says about her is that she was sunk after she fired a defective anti-aircraft missile which set her on fire with 24 fatalities. definitely need more information about that.

[@Seph-u8d]

The Russian Navy. It is a gift that just keeps on giving.

[@LongPeter]

I didn’t get the reference of the Torpedo Boats dog nozzle bit, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

[@markiangooley]

RAISE THE VARYAG! And they actually did!

[@colindunnigan8621]

As an exception to the Russian Naval incompetence theme, Admiral Von Essen's squadron based out of Vladivostok did manage to sink a significant amount of Japanese shipping, including one transport carrying siege artillery bound for the siege of Port Arthur. The Japanese did finally manage to neutralize Von Essen's squadron, but only after they'd run amok.

[@sylent_viper]

I was listening on headphones while working and thought it was an ad...

[@JosephKano]

All the smoke stonks!

[@G36645]

The final part in the epic series Until Disney buys the channel and milks it dry

[@subsoniclight]

Do you have that ethnic-color-whatever map you have up @4:03? Love those kinds of maps.

[@jackpierce6864]

Birds and roadwork noises to you are like japanese torpedo boats to kamchatka lol😂

[@sj8184]

I feel I must point out that Very at was a protected cruiser. This was not an armored ship, so of course, its armor was poor. It was not a type intended to fight, well, other warships, but commerce protection and scouting. So that, cannot be held against it. Technically, of course, the ship should have remained in port and been interned. But, you know, Russians.

[@tadasdovii8262]

15:57 zombie ship taken from orcs??? And naming to Soya... Not bad, not bad...

[@kadenblanch6482]

Sailed East straight into the arms of des- sights of the IJN

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Incredible History Some Beautiful Humanistics Dear God; the Russian Navy Is just so Sad Great Wonderful presentation The Goodest work Such Amazing lessons in Inefficiency 16:52 This is very Explicitly a Useful History Trivia Fact My Man

[@danielmiller3781]

When it comes to the ship called Varyag, I thought of Kuznetzov-class aircraft carrier that Chinese bought from Ukraine and now refurbished as 001 "Laioning" (遼寧), not this. But good to know anyway, great video.

[@arizona-hunter6684]

Can you do a video on the RAN and in particular the Java Campaign? Good video, can you make a compilation of all your Russian Navy videos?

[@FPoP1911]

SWEET!

[@BobSaget69]

5:17 I was curious and looked up on modern maps looking for Chemulpo and it’s not longer there, wonder what happened

[@Daniels1185]

I love all this, great content. Pity the audio quality is so poor.

[@brandonclark435]

There is an argument about history being an upward thing. People who think that haven't read Russian history.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

We use your favorite sayings in chat 😂

[@whyjnot420]

Given that both Russia and Japan both had ships built in western yards, as well as their own designs that were heavily influenced by western designs. Combine that with how limited communication at sea was back then as well as how little training a lot of the Russian sailors had and I can understand all the misidentification.

[@cnlbenmc]

7:20 *DO yoU SeE TorPEdO BoATs!?*

[@anno-fw7xn]

thanks for you great works as always will be intersting waht russan navel tale will you finde next!

[@thorshammer8033]

Was a good ship to use in World O Warships

[@drdvrm]

You underestimate both the sheer volume and negative utility value of the random stuff I have sucked up over the years. So knowing some Pearl Harbour attackers were trained on the ship was definitely not the most useless one. Not even close. On the list, it's even below the grouping of 20 or so translations of the sentence "I know how to speak [random language], but not very well." And those I occasionally use. Mainly with taxi drivers. Without exception, they are positively surprised and start talking about something for the longest time. Then I "mhmm mhhmm" until the moment inevitably comes where I have to inform them that one sentence is all I know. It's a real downer and very awkward but I enjoy it somehow, I think because of the pattern. Ja mowie Popolski, ale bardzo zle. There I used one. Not useful, but not without use either. :-D Man farsi sohbat mikonam, too, by the way.

[@oganvildevil]

Man, you can really see how roddenberry got klingons out of the ruski navy

[@Ardox_the_fatebreaker]

I like to envision the ships of the other countries seeing the varyag off like that one meme with Michael Jackson eating popcorn

[@antonruss9116]

LET'S GO

[@SmileFile_exe]

Highfleet refrence

[@EligibleBubble]

Wait you’re telling me Varyag is a Philly girl like New Jersey? That explains a lot actually

[@thegalli]

I love that you do nothing but absolutely shit on the russian navy as an institution but still have a small amount of respect for the poor sailors and the few competent commanders.

[@keepyourbilsteins]

At 7:15 did you expect me to not die? None of us, your fans?

[@Mamorufumio]

Another fun episode, even if a bit sad, and thinking on it the only reason it likely lasted so long was because she was amaerican built, instead of..you know built by a team of serfs in Ukraine

[@Nostripe361]

It’s just weird that a failure for the Americans was still preferred by the Russian sailors than a successful Russian build

[@BoBnotThat1]

At least they're fixing your bloody road. 😂

[@BOKCGrizzlyWarlord]

Why not make a vid about the Kronstadt rebellion during the Russian civil war?

[@TheSilvert8008]

Ok so let me get this straight...the Baltic Fleet viewed all boats they saw when leaving their port as Japanese boats...however the Eastern Fleet (when in the Yellow Sea) kept mistaking Japanese boats as Russian boats (guess the same goes for the Baltic Fleet who did the same when they finally arrived to the Yellow Sea, WTF)...🤦🤣🤣🤣

[@edrickang2338]

21:41 only 2 Slava-class cruisers in Russian service*, 3 remain above the water

[@deezboyeed6764]

For future reference having the softer colour of the letter be yhe outline is bad idea makes it impossible to read.

[@mwalker9117]

You know something about Russia that I would like to know, but can't seem to find a video about? What the heck was perestroyka?

[@ilyaleytes1611]

Literal translation of this word is Restructuring. It was an attempt to make Russian economy more efficient. Along with Glasnost (openness) it was Gorbachev’s attempt to make Soviet Union, well, work.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

6:08 Varyag was being used as _what_ well you did say she was pretty

[@Curt_Sampson]

Most or all of those guns were in casemates, not turrets, no?

[@momoali007]

Russian navy is a tangable example of sodds law, whatever the situation, let's all say together "and then it got worse"

[@fabovondestory]

"Imperial japanese Empire"

[@doomdimensiondweller5627]

I am still a fans and no offense, I wish you didn't talk about the Russo Japanese war again, between your first Russian navy sucks video and all it's reuploads this is getting kind of redundant. I think either a Crimean war video or a Soviet Navy video would be a great addition to the lineup.

[@someoneyouknow9130]

Tell me I'm not the only one here after hearing the song about it?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Is the song video recommending mine now?

[@someoneyouknow9130]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannel Not directly, I listened to the song and this was recommended soon after

[@davidbrennan660]

It is the Russian way…… they understand this is the way of things.

[@aflyingrat3969]

Anyone know the names of the songs in the video?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Waltz of the flowers Swan Lake Yuki no shingun Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev And two generic eastern block backing music's