Soviet Conspiracy Theories - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video in which we discuss famous Soviet conspiracy theories.
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[@martinstent5339]

One nice urban legend I heard in Moscow in the 1980s was about the foreign engineer who checked into a Moscow hotel. He had heard all about how the KGB was bugging every foreigner, so he started to look for microphones. He noticed a lump under the carpet. Rolling back the carpet he could see a small metal box. Getting his tools he opened the box and could see a hexagonal nut with 2 wires coming out of the top. He unscrewed the nut and then heard a crash in the room below. The chandelier had fallen to the floor.

[@currypablo]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@colombianguy8194]

That's a good one!!! 😂

[@discopot]

Oh no Del Boy

[@AlexRokutov]

Инженер, блядь..

[@sdhubbard]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lumpydark6173]

Necro-communists sounds like a faction to play in Stellaris lol

[@MatthewCampbell765]

Amusingly in my D&D setting there's a group of necromancer communists. They're a cult, but in the vein of The Peoples Temple/Jonestown (Jim Jones was a Communist who believed religious trappings could create a socialist society), and view the undead as some sort of guardians of their cult.

[@JamesHillman-sirzethio]

Or Call of Cthulhu 😁

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

The Corpse of Stalin rises to face the Galaxy 🏴🏴🏴

[@theduckcompany]

All are equal in death, comrades.

[@AckzaTV]

Sounds anti semantic

[@queenofdramatech]

My parents spent a wonderful evening in the early 90's with our Czech friends sharing the lies our countries told us about each other. The one I remember was that Americans lived in log houses. Like log cabin style. My dad explained that our houses were wood, but not log cabin style. Years later when they came and we had some construction going on my dad showed them the wooden studs and said, "See, we do live in log houses!" Everyone laughed!

[@slay2525]

Dad joke.

[@OllamhDrab]

Though log houses are available, they are actually very expensive and usually *posh.* Not even sure how that was supposed to be a dig in the first place. :)

[@AckzaTV]

Show him Abraham Lincoln house. That's why he thought this

[@AckzaTV]

​@OllamhDrab log houses are more popular in Russia so that story doesn't make much sense

[@seansanchez1245]

So well written

[@hrolfthestrange]

It's good to hear the USSR/ Russia has its own version of sovereign citizens

[@-VOR]

I'm not driving I'm TRAVELING! 😂

[@obsidianjane4413]

Stupid knows no borders.

[@romanzusman2892]

​@@-VORconsidering your nickname it is actually "travelling" (a very "one way" one indeed but the "travelling" nonetheless 😂)

[@vonPeterhof]

One interesting series of Russian conspiracy theories that people outside former Soviet states hardly ever hear of is the idea that the sale of Alaska to the US was rigged or otherwise illegitimate. The most widely known variant of this theory is that the sale was originally intended to be a 100-year lease similar to the Hong Kong deal between the UK and Qing China, but Catherine the Great (who, by the way, had been dead for 60 years by the time of the sale), not being a native speaker of Russian (and yet personally authoring contracts for some reason), misspelled the phrase "на век" (for a century) as "навек" (forever). How popular is this theory? Well, in the early 90s Putin's supposed favorite band Lyube had a hit song based on this premise, and my own middle school history teacher, a Russian woman in Kazakhstan, presented it as fact. A more obscure version of the theory is that the sale was always intended to be a sale, but that Russia never actually received the gold payment due to the ship carrying it disappearing under varying mysterious circumstances. As for the apartment bombings, it's been curious to watch the theory transform from being essentially the equivalent of 9/11 trutherism among even the most vehement opponents of Putin to becoming something close to a mainstream belief among the anti-Putin crowd in the past couple of years.

[@jordanpeters5502]

I feel like 9/11 is now accepted as an inside job by a large percentage of the US now instead of being the fringe theory it once was. I would guess 10-20% or more believe there was a conspiracy.

[@relaxedsack1263]

"Russia has begun fabricating a claim on your province"

[@romanzusman2892]

Well, I remember this to be a real "thing" back then and after Basaev had said that he was not responsible for the bombings (and he would have had always claimed it before even if he was not behind a terrorist attacks that had occurred at that time) a lot of people had actually blamed Putin... 😅

[@AckzaTV]

Apartment bombings being a false flag is so funny, everyone in america knows its true and you yourself call it a 911 thing... which is a mirror...you just proved that you believe 911 is a false flag....you meant to say false flag....the idea you use 911 as an adjective is hilarious like wow that's like me saying 911 is like the putin apt bombing... in america we say putin learned about the apt bombing strategy from Bush and disk Cheney... or who was first? One learned from the other is the point... but yeah americans all know this... all people know governments do false flags...its not a conspiracy theory its called real life... if you've ever been in power in any organization you would know how easy it is to commit crimes and blame your enemies...I've seen it done I've done it myself, it's been done by militaries lol...to think the apt bombings or 911 aren't false flags is silly...what did the video say? Something about sugar? Never heard about that. Don't need to know anything but there was a terror attack in Russia that let putin look strong and start his own war on Chechnya or whatever.... just like 911 and iraq... don't act like the trillion dollar iraq war wasn't a scam created after 911.... that's not a conspiracy it's just a fact of history...we are an evil corrupt people... humans are just bad...we have no more morals we never did....

[@leisti]

8:40 "...a different well to hell..." That's it. A Well to Hell is the name of my next band.

[@leisti]

As the undying, tortured ghost of one of the combatants on the Finnish side, I can confirm that the hyperwar definitely happened.

[@user-lz5xf8gp1b]

Greetings from Ryazan! I lived in one of the houses where the sugar story happened-the red house, to be precise. I was born in 1998, so I don’t remember much, but my mother told me how my godmother went out into the street with me during the evacuation. I love your channel and thank you for the wonderful videos :-)

[@eruno_]

*New Chronology* is probably among most wild and crazy Soviet/Russian conspiracy theories. It also influenced Dugin.

[@daniel.stasinski]

Regarding the terror attacks that Putin blamed on Chechen separatist & the explosives found in Ryazan; there is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko (yes, the same guy that was killed in London using polonium-210) and Yuri Felshtinsky, titled "Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within. It's an interesting read that covers the Ryzan incident in detail.

[@scooter06rb]

Worked for US government and intel had tons of evidence that Putin was behind apartment buildings blowing up across Russia. Recorded calls, operation caught in the act by residents multiple times, and insider leaks.

[@crhu319]

Which now appear just as likely to be CIA.

[@romanzusman2892]

​@@crhu319yeah, sure. Foookin Volgodonsk and Budennovsk were a Company's work, right? 😂

[@prevost8686]

@@crhu319you give the CIA far too much credit.

[@marcusayala6933]

I love hearing about the Moscow Metro legends. There's quite a few of them in the Metro series, and Glukhovsky's opulent writing brings them so beautifully into the imagination. If anyone's looking for a dark psychological and political tale in a post apocalyptic world, I highly recommend metro

[@user-en5do9ol8q]

There's s popular joke in Russia: Dallas' Plan doesn't exist, but it does work! Also, I knew a guy, who was a digger, and he claimed to have been to Moscow Metro 3 (!). I asked him if maybe he meant Metro 2, but no, he insisted it was 3, because he knew Metro 2 quite well, having expored it many times. Of course, that guy drank heavily. Also, that the former Soviet elites just became the oligarchs living at the expence of the citizens of the post Soviet countries, is not a conspiracy theory. It's a fact. It's what really happened.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

That thing about Metro 2 and/or 3 might be stories born out of misunderstanding. Metro stations can have several levels, depending on various factors. Some lines run deeper than others in some intersections. So, people first talking about Metro 2 might have actually be just mentioning some lines that run deeper than others, and then it being twisted. Same as Metro 3. I think I remember Paris metro having lines running at various depths as well. You'd get off on one station, then take a staircase to a lower level to board another line. As for Russian leadership having a dedicated rail system for government officials and between important buildings - that's not really a theory. It might not be proven beyond a doubt, but it would make complete sense. USA has one in Washington and its existence is well known, US Capitol subway system. In my country, which is poor and does not have a metro, government buildings and command posts in the capital have underground tunnels connecting them. So it would make complete sense that Moscow has something very similar to US Capitol subway for its political leadership. It would be very strange if they DIDN'T have one.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Yeah to the first part.

[@gojo76]

Ayooo, the comeback, let's go, I missed you guys :D

[@zaper2904]

The Cold War is Finno-Korean Hyperwarpilled 😤

[@daveacbickford]

One of your best Bell Button gags yet 😂

[@bethmarriott9292]

I've been feeling weirdly off without my weekly video from you guys so YAY conspiracy theories 😍

[@eftalanquest]

is there a reason why you showed us a picture of the mirny mine while talking about the kola superdeep borehole?

[@johnpeterson8674]

Maybe the pics are auto fetched by AI?

[@Daniel-vw7mw]

There is nothing to see, just looks like a plugged and abandoned gas well

[@kuroazrem5376]

Up until today I had no idea about the Finno-Korean War. Thanks for enlightening me. Also, you forgot to mention the conspiracy theory that Lenin was a mushroom.

[@TeutonicEmperor1198]

There is only a country between them, of course Finland and Korea had fought one another in various cases!

[@TJ-el5tm]

To be fair “demonic tool” is a pretty apt description of Stalin

[@kenrankin5814]

I will be honest with you, I will never tire of the Dyatlov Pass story, life needs a little mystery! Great video!

[@Eric-pz1iv]

It was an avalanche. Mystery was solved while ago. Radiation wasn't as high as people say, was caused by thorium gas lamps, and popular at the time. Wounds were caused by scavenger animals. Damage was completely consistent with avalanche damage

[@JamesLee-mp8hk]

I was watching one of Warlockracy's videos and he translated a theory about how cigarettes aren't bad for you and how Queen Elizabeth II secretly rules the world.

[@JamesLee-mp8hk]

@@thecityissleeping I see you're a person of culture and refinement.

[@frenzalrhomb6919]

​@@JamesLee-mp8hkAnd also has a wonderful command of the English lexicon.

[@ktrimbach5771]

@@JamesLee-mp8hk I thought these were supposed to be fake? 😁

[@the_christopher]

Welcome back! Still love the videos, but I'm personally not a fan of the thumbnail style the team has been using recently. I attributed the historical collage style thumbnail with this channel, and the new stuff seems AI generated. In any case, great to see more content from you folks

[@WhitexFeatherx]

I'm still upset that background is a green screen. I want to build a study in my home that looks like a time capsule of a KGB office in lubyanka. I cant seem to find any info on what furniture was used

[@obsidianjane4413]

Seamless entry into the subscribe and bell button call to action. Bravo.

[@williestyle35]

7:42 for those that think the "urban legends" surrounding the Kola Superdeep Borehole would make a good horror movie - a Russian film director beat us to it. 2020's _The Superdeep_ by Arseny Syuhin is out there waiting to torment your immigration, heh.

[@yasintamer1547]

Good movie indeed

[@dendostar5436]

This was fun. Except for the horrifying bits.

[@amarpritsingh3122]

Wait, no Rasputin conspiracy theories?

[@tekinfomedi]

Until around Y2K, when Russian researchers found a report dated around 1918-1919, written by an intelligence operative to Lenin, understanding of the real origins of Rasputin, was somewhat limited, even within the cold-war USSR. People sort of knew he appeared in St Petersburg around 1905 and quickly gained access to high society. Not enough info back then to inspire conspiracy theories. 🙄🙄

[@gezblair]

I heard it’s pure propaganda that he was Russia’s greatest love machine. Top Five sure, but number one? Trotsky all the way baby.

[@amarpritsingh3122]

@@gezblair What do you mean "love machine"? The guy looked and was probably a hobo in every sense.

[@gezblair]

@@amarpritsingh3122 Gen Z loves the hobo look. It’s all over Tik Tok

[@amarpritsingh3122]

@@gezblair I’m Gen Z but i think there’s double standards. Most people would find the hobo life “cool” as long as they don’t have to marry one.

[@roihanfadhil2879]

I couldn't stop laughing from beginning to end listening the story....LMAO 🤣🤣.

[@andreawallenberger2668]

Yep. I started laughing when I saw the headline

[@donaldpetersen2382]

The US/USSR rotating nuclear sites under under the polar ice is my favorite. I also like the nuclear engine powered missile. It would fly around for a few months in a kinda low atmospheric orbit waiting for its nuclear payload to be used or just fly low over the ground to irradiate things. It would fly at 2-4 times the speed of sound and the radiation would kill you before you could even catch site of it. Never heard of a more terrifying machine.

[@Wustenfuchs109]

Those are not conspiracy theories, those are, sadly, facts. During the Cold War, both sides had projects that included nuclear powered engines, with several designs working exactly as you described - its job being to just fly over a territory and spread the fissile byproducts out of its nozzle, poisoning everything it flew over. Nuclear powered rockets were designed in USA under the name Project Pluto, in Russia they are developed right now under 9M730 Burevestnik. Some of the things you heard might have been conspiracy theories, but the 90% of it is actually true and is not even contested.

[@richardcostello360]

That nuclear rocket (Project Pluto) was a real project........except it was the Americans who developed it 😂

[@OllamhDrab]

@@richardcostello360 Well, I dunno about 'developed' but plans existed. They wanted to use reactors for all kinds of applications that didn't turn out to be worthwhile.

[@dacian.dan.13]

The nuclear scramjet missile was a real project, with an actual research team behind it, and definitely only about a 7/10 in terms of Cold War madness.

[@user-kq5jz9oi2n]

A really nice overview

[@MeirJavedanfar]

Love your channel.

[@Kurtlane]

There is a really old theory about Peter the Great being killed abroad and replaced with a different person. The place of killing is "Stekolny" (Glass City), which is a reference to Stockholm. In reality, Peter the Great never visited Stockholm. There were some theories in the Soviet Union which came from abroad, but took a great deal of attention, way more than in the West. Numerous books were written about them. In particular I remember the Bermuda Triangle and the Abominable Snowman.

[@elrafa5845]

Stallin died because his guards were to scared to go into the room

[@andreasfranzgass8525]

No, not true. He died because he had all the physicians imprisoned at that time. He thought they were behind a "physicians-conspiracy" in order to murder the dictator. So no one could prescribe him the medicine for his heart condition.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

I still think it was probably Beria. If anyone could kill Stalin, it would have been him.

[@alex4863]

Could you please do an episode on “Mongolia” the places is never talked about in a Cold War context. Like an Egyptian tomb might be an unknown gem.

[@jimjames4875]

Love the coldwar podcast shoutout on the left of screen!

[@WildBillCox13]

Worthy work. Shared.

[@lisakeitel3957]

But the idea about a maritime power vs land power is from before Dugin, and he is not even his greatest exponent. That's a geopolitical idea pretty used till today.

[@leowilliamson1573]

I decided to write a paper comparing Dugin to an American neocon political theorist for a polisci course donkey's years ago and noted both how easy it is to see once you do even superficial research that Dugin is a completely unoriginal theorist who is saying absolutely nothing new to Russian political thought for whom you actively waste ink and oxygen discussing (I regretted making him my subject since I only first heard of him a few months prior from the weirdly glowing Caspian Report review of his at the time latest manifesto, but hey, can't be fucked to change topic) and how bizarre it is that everybody discussing modern Russia seems like they should know this yet still pretend he is relevant.

[@robmclaughjr]

Regarding the Dyatlov Pass incident, I felt convinced by the snow slide theory forewarded recently. Makes sense.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

10:56 TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TICK TOCK

[@mangonel]

ALEXEI LIVES!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@@mangonel THE REGENT ENDURES

[@amb163]

I had to play back one part when I thought I heard "killer yeast", only to realise I hadn't misheard it. Wow.

[@dr.victorvs]

It's important to explain to people why conspiracy theories come about, but it's more vaccine than treatment. To the victims, CTs form a system of knowledge that is, somehow, strengthened by contrary evidence. It becomes emotional scaffolding in their lives.

[@timschmid4125]

Your introduction does a better job at explaining how conspiracy theories work than any of the videos made for this purpose I've seen👍

[@rzpogi]

7:48 Sounds of Hell is popular among Christian conspiracy theory circles. 18:00 The Dulles Plan has a Philippine version. Edward Lansdale used the rural Filipinos fear of aswangs (scary humanoid creature with wings that suck blood and/or internal organs of people) to make the locals wary of supporting the Huks and report Huk activity.in random rural places, the CIA and their local contacts would place dead Huk bodies with bite marks matching the description of an aswang. Since most Huks hid in the mountains, it made sense to avoid going to the mountains to avoid aswang attacks.

[@dhararry7929]

11:05 The Holy Russian Empire shall endure.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

ALEXEI LIVES

[@antonioconeglian5688]

Thanx for the informations

[@josephahner3031]

I think the idea that most conspiracy theories originate in the US is a very anglocentric one. I highly doubt that this is the case and I am confident that such theories exist in every country and language.

[@toddbrackett4277]

You disappeared for about a month, what happened 😕 glad to see you back!

[@josegers5989]

Could you talk about the threat from the SU during the Cold War compared to the present polemic of Russia towards the west and Europe strengtening their defence?

[@gmalsa]

Please do a video on the Years of Lead in Italy

[@MichaelStrick9]

PRO TIP: Just because "voice isolation" tools exist in video editing software doesn't mean you have to use them. In your normal studio environment with a proper lav mic right on your lapel, you don't need it at all, and in videos like this it's just distracting as your dialogue goes from muffly to crisp and back again over and over and over. "Voice isolation" should only be used for situations where there's some kind of disaster and for whatever reason the original good audio is somehow lost and you have to use the camera's internal scratch mic audio to salvage a project.

[@arnbo88]

I'd like to start a conspiracy theory on what is hiding underneath David's beard.

[@QuietFromMetalGearSolid]

A third hand?

[@arnbo88]

@@QuietFromMetalGearSolid You're thinking of Chuck Norris' fist.

[@BIGBOPPER41]

You have no idea how much i lit up when you mentioned the Moscow metro. I love Glukhovsky's Metro series. And i just got all goddy.

[@breakingblocnews]

Can someone provide me with the name of the poem he talks about in the beginning?

[@shade221]

the "well to hell" hoax isn't soviet in origin at all. it's finnish, and wound up gaining popularity among american evangelicals. the most popular sound clip also uses audio from the movie "baron blood", so it's provably false. all of this is on the wikipedia page.

[@leeroyspacecowboy]

@The Cold War on theories of the fall of the USSR, did the CPSU post 1945 ever regard it as even theoretically possible there could be a return to capitalism in Russia?

[@Adept893]

For that outo comedy gold, I'll leave a youtube upvote thing.

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating.

[@rickm5654]

Biggest conspiracy theory of them all: Yakov Smirnoff was funny.

[@lukapendelj8054]

That picture on 7:58 is not the picture of Kola Superdeep Borehole. It is a deserted mine. The actual hole has about 1 meter radius.

[@bendafyddgillard]

that's an interesting point about the conditions in which conspiracy theories thrive... he says, looking around at the present day.

[@johnjimmies8256]

I am one of those people and im still going to watch this video HA!

[@yourneighbourhooddoomer]

2:11 zogbot meltdown lol We might have our differences, yet I am still going to enjoy your well-made content and don't take that rant to my heart.

[@aidanpysher2764]

You dare question the validity of the Finno-Korean Hyperwar? My father died a proud Finngolian.

[@thomascharles2897]

They said when they got to the bottom of the bore hole the material they hit has the consistency of plastic

[@LJW1912]

17:24 a few extra goosesteps?

[@user-le4tl5fw7c]

Personally, I always liked the theory that Kosygin was actually the survived Tsarevich Alexei, the son of Nicholas II And of course there can be no serious discussion about Russian politics without discussing why the Banquetny insisted on the arrest of shaman Gabyshev, while the Udmurt could not do anything about it. And where the fuck is Govorun? We all pray that he didn't end up like Kuchma (the brightest and the most pro-western one, brutally murdered in 2013)

[@Katyusha666]

7:47 I'm sorry I have a dirty mind, I've been replaying this part and laughing my heart out. Especially the part about the screaming people.

[@isaacshaver6218]

Thank you.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

8:57 no, those are in new york

[@j.c.denton2060]

🤣

[@hanyam9684]

Thank you for opening my eyes to all these truths!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

I enjoyed this episode indeed!

[@skyview2145]

I am an avid supporter of your channel but I am not sure about your comments about Allan Dulles. I have done alot of research and he was a piece of work.

[@m.a.118]

Cold War: "Let's about conspiracy theories, but first let's take a minute to explain the history...."

[@alphamikeomega5728]

An important conspiracy theory today in Russia is that the US backed the Colour Revolutions by paying a large number of protesters to overthrow the government in places like Ukraine. The Russian Government believed this, and so after Euromaidan, they did the same, paying people in cities like Odessa to protest against the revolution. However, these protests either petered out, or became violent and were subdued. Thus, Russia moved onto supporting separatists in the Donbas, thus starting today's war ten years ago. Sarcasmitron goes into detail on this in his "Part 4" video on Ukraine. I recommend the whole series.

[@yasarmajid134]

As a westerner even my right wing friends accept it was a western based coup. History revision is peak here...this channel appears to be a base of unintelligent nonesense.

[@alphamikeomega5728]

@@yasarmajid134 It was pro-Western, because it was about EU membership. But it wasn't the West which made Yanukovich flee. 1. People elected Yanukovich, in part because he supported EU membership; 2. Russia warned Yanukovich that EU membership was contrary to Russia's interests; 3. Yanukovich pulled out of membership talks; 4. Ukrainians protested, because Yanukovich had broken a key election promise; 5. Ukrainian security services shot and killed protesters; 6. Yanukovich agreed to support prosecution of the perpetrators; 7. The security services felt betrayed, so they forced Yanukovich out of the country; 8. Those who remained formed a new government. There's no need for the West to be involved for this timeline to work. All you need is for a decent proportion of Ukraine's population to support EU membership, which they obviously would do looking at how it had helped Poland etc. in the previous 10 years.

[@tekinfomedi]

@@alphamikeomega5728 Perhaps not so straightforward, when looking at the MSM coverage of Putin. From 1999 to 2003, the MSM tone was largely neutral, sometimes perhaps grateful that the President was not Zyuganov or Zhirinovsky. Then from the Beslan incident of 2004 onwards, systematic -ve portrayal of Putin began. It was also around this time the question of NATO Ukraine and Yuschenko v Yanukovich came into existence. From then on, the MSM portrayed Russian-friendly Ukrainians as the bad guys. That was 10 years before Maidan. The MSM also began actively pushing a historic Russia v Ukraine narrative, significantly uplifting the status of the Stepan Bandera. What I had written was merely a few points. You can do more detailed objective research into post-1991 Ukraine with an open mind and judge for yourself.

[@salt27dogg]

Conspiracy theories are also in some cases not being a sheep listening and believing what the mainstream media or govt lies

[@alexander8257]

Fun bit of real-life lore that sounds a lot like a cold-war era conspiracy theory: I live in Washington D.C. In the city there is a certain structure that is very, very tall, with an area near the top of it that isn't usually accessible to the public. In it you will find several large black boxes about the size of cabinets, with "GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. DO NOT TOUCH." written on the side. A bit confusing, but makes a lot more sense when you realise that just a couple blocks downhill is the Russian Embassy, making that location ideal for spyware. (If, of course, those black boxes are actually spyware, which for legal reasons I'm not saying they are.)

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

15:07 ok that is a sick idea for a fantasy series

[@Ihateironyanddumbusernames]

Plenty of conspiracies have graduated from theory to conspiracy fact

[@Aettaro]

A part of me wonders if President Dugan from Red Alert 2 was a reference now.

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

To David and the entire Cold War crew, it would mean a lot to me if you made these following videos: - Argentina during the rule of Juan Peron - Thailand's on-and-off military governments and lese-majeste laws - Gastarbeiters (foreign migrant workers) in both West and East Germany - The Paris massacre of 1961 (related to the Algerian War) - Two Korean organisations in Japan (the pro-Pyongyang Chongryon and the pro-Seoul Mindan) - Bantustans (black homelands) in Apartheid-era South Africa - The history of Mongolia as a communist state during the Cold War - The history of Macau during the Cold War and how it contrasts with Hong Kong's Cold War history Thank you very much and please accept my requests.

[@shaeker]

kind of a shame rasputin did not get a mention lol

[@L.CROSS0]

Nice video!

[@jessemays9427]

So Catherine never copulated with horses?

[@juanf5391]

For me, conspiracy theories were cool back in the 90s when I was a teen watching the X-Files. Then I grew up.

[@Jacob-sg7xq]

The image you have up during the Kola super deep borehole segment isn’t of the Kola borehole or it’s structure, its an unrelated diamond mine. Also there’s a Mountain Goats song about it

[@peterpienczuk2664]

i like how financial crisis is considered " Unexplainable"

[@olgajoachimosmundsen4647]

David, who does Königsberg belong to? And who should it belong to?

[@TheCoyote808]

My personal favorite is that NATO is a hostile alliance intended to be offensive in nature to take over Russia.

[@prevost8686]

Nobody wants Russia… except the Russians. Looking at the condition of my own country (USA) I think the same holds true for it as well.

[@chicanoklushkov3157]

... I wonder why they didn't let the ussr join

[@Noah-ww5kx]

@@chicanoklushkov3157their imperial instincts is my guess

[@ted356]

Hey, I subscribed…where is the secret room?..

[@lostlandmarks8305]

You're the best in the biz 🚬👑

[@soliitudegaming7275]

Tbh saying you don't want to cover content that would actually serve the world in a positive way because of some losers in the comments.... thats a bad reason imo. That should be your incentive to push even harder and cover those conspiracy theories to further disprove them so other people can learn and share accurate information that helps reduce the spread of such antisemitic ideas.

[@matthewsmith5916]

Was... was that anthony blinken talking to Dugen!?!

[@user-od5nq8bc9z]

Where you been?

[@Soundbrigade]

There was another odd incident like the Dyatlov pass incident, that took place in Altai (?), where a group of hikers got suddenly ill and all, but one died mysteriously. The theft the the Russian gold reserve was a theme in the Russian crime series Russkiy Tranzit (Русский транзит). It is actually a really good and nail-biting TV-series - if you can find it, watch it. The Russian rockband DDT is playing the intro, btw. The leader of the band, Yuri Schevchuk said at a concert something that Russia is an old women selling potatoes at a railway station and not kissing the ****hole of the president.

[@tf2scoutpunch175]

11:08 "Which some members of audience might recognize" HE KNOWS

[@hisvin]

There is the russian Setarko chanel (in english) who has some videos about conspiracy in Russia/URSS...

[@moosemaimer]

I saw a news clip in the late 90s from somewhere in the former Soviet Union where a sinkhole had opened in a lake and all the water had drained away... They interviewed one of the locals who said "the Americans, they finally got us!" like some secret weapon stolen from Cobra had been unleashed.

[@Phil-D83]

The poles used to joke that foreign visitors were spies before communism ended. A sharky joke was that if someone had shoes other than Adidas, they were a spy...😅

[@pyeitme508]

WOW!

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

10:05 If I had a nickel for every time a Soviet tragedy happened involving the name dyatlov I’d have two nickels

[@angryeugeneofsavoy7353]

Viktor Tsoi lives?