The Russian Revolution (Part 2) - Oversimplified // Historian Reaction

[@itsdantaylor]

7:04 Fun fact, people were so paranoid about Rasputin they dug up his grave to cremate his remains. However those who were cremating him failed to sever his tendons. As he was burning his tendons shrank causing him to sit up in the pyre and scare the living bejessus out of everyone in attendence.

[@farzanmunshi8054]

Right outta a horror movie 😂😂

[@painvillegaming4119]

Are we sur he wasn’t actually magic ?

[@InspiredRyanDelta4Zer0]

I can't find more than just the one source for that info. Can you share a link or something? I literally have to know if this is true

[@shadowguy321]

@@InspiredRyanDelta4Zer0 can't remember the link but that is how tendons work. He legit sat up in his pyre from tendon shrinkage, which added to the myth of wizard who just wouldn't die

[@fullmovies9024]

Why did I laugh so much

[@joshuahunt3032]

“Battalion of Death. You can imagine how that’s gonna go.” Oversimplified: “...who immediately gave up.”

[@hellothere1216]

Perfectly timed

[@xtender5]

Not that it's relevant to an Oversimplified video, but there were actually several units there. One was this kamikaze brigade (which is what the death reference is in this case). One of the other was a unit made up of officer cadets. The cadets were the only ones who fought.

[@MollymaukT]

*looks up* "I did not see that coming"

[@AndyHoward]

John Cleese: "And now for something completely different"

[@5thdawg917]

😂😂👏🏽

[@CORALLLLLLLLL]

Fun Fact: Lenin's last words were "Good Dog." because his dog brought him a dead bird on his deathbed

[@hydr0lava225]

Good boy, now carry on my communist legacy

[@mr.mandelta522]

@Hydro0lava LMFAO

[@walnzell9328]

Here dog. You will take Mosin. It is good rifle.

[@minedoimperija]

That's kinda sad

[@MarmoMossBoll]

@Tyler Benintende no, it was "BLEH BLEH BLEHH"

[@red9delta877]

Fun Fact: Someone asked Kaiser Wilhelm what Queen Victoria would have thought about WW1, since they were all related, and he responded that if she had been alive, she simply wouldn't have allowed it.

[@LAKD]

It was gonna happen inevitably

[@doublepoet7852]

@@LAKD didn't otto von Bismark predict it almost to the year

[@doublepoet7852]

@Axiom Steel bismark always has a plan

[@doublepoet7852]

@Axiom Steel everybody in that time was a racist to our standards. Even people like Abraham Lincoln.

[@noble_hermit2133]

@Axiom Steel Everyone before 1960 is considered a white supremacist by todays standards

[@supersasukemaniac]

"The Battalion of Death... who immediately gave up." I did not see this coming.

[@goosegame3857]

@Nooby it was a shame indeed

[@superburnur]

Yeah, ik right?

[@Boyakishan]

@Nooby yep totally

[@painvillegaming4119]

1000 likes

[@Peas_and_Carrots]

Well they were a bunch of women soldiers, so not much of a surprise

[@JSprad9]

My second great uncle was Alexander Guchkov who was one of the politicians who convinced the tsar to abdicate. He is in the famous picture of Tsar Nicolas II sitting on the train next to the abdication papers. It’s cool seeing you talk about the Russian Revolution because it had such a big impact on my family.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

oh wow...what a legacy and a cool connection to history in your family.

[@stevebenigsen]

My parents were friends with Vasiliy Shulgin (living in Vladimir in exile so to speak at the time) who along with Guchkov persuaded Nikolas to abdicate.

[@callmeforwinter]

Yeah and my parents are Leon Trostky and Stalin

[@hwiatslgeord2887]

r/thathappened

[@callmeforwinter]

@Paul Thomas Yes.

[@finnhe6020]

Fun fact: Kaiser Wilhelm and zar Nikolas actually wrote each other letters, where they adressed each other as Niki and Willi.

[@krivosheinnikita]

Well they were cousins.

[@livispuzzled]

@@brendenmccool1165 i thought it was Tsar

[@chill-lady-brook]

@@livispuzzled it is. There are multiple spellings.

[@mats7492]

WWI was a war between cousins that even looked the same

[@FoxLosst]

Hoped to stop the bombs But they weren't worth the paper they written on

[@TheLibermania]

I love how Stalin is a couple of times in the picture. Simply standing without saying anything.

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Always watch out for the quiet kid. It might just save your life.

[@brianclemons3979]

Lenin thought Stalin was dumb but it came to bite him because Stalin was a dangerous psychopath and that’s why Lenin hated him

[@Taschip]

Stalin impregnated a 14 year old

[@brianclemons3979]

@@Taschip Stalin a rockstar lmao😂

[@Taschip]

@@brianclemons3979 He was a horrible person

[@shadowrfox]

Funny thing about Rasputin was that the poisoning surviving could be explained. It said that Cyanide can be countered with sugar. And what they did put out for Rasputin to eat, lots of desserts and pastries that was heavy in cream and sugar. Less about magic and more about these guys didn't know how to poison people properly.

[@TheAngryXenite]

As for him surviving the gunshots, scratching at the ice and dying of suffocation under the water... that stuff is most likely just the men responsible playing up his "unholy witch" reputation. If memory serves he almost definitely died after being shot twice.

[@shreberry5164]

Ahh yes. The absolutely necessary art of poisoning people

[@Visplight]

@@TheAngryXenite Nah, they were probably as bad at shooting as they were at poisoning, and didn't hit anything vital.

[@joelcastro-reyes1667]

@@TheAngryXenite the gunshots did kill him, but exactly what happened in between the shots has been disputed cuz the assassins couldn't maintain a consistent narrative

[@danniton9831]

So in other words, chemistry happened.

[@Chooopy]

This period in Russian history is so fascinating to me. A mythical wizard, a royal family well into the 20th century and their massacre, social uprising, the culture of music and dance and theater at the time. I don't know how to explain it, but it's so intriguing as a turning point in history.

[@Gary-jd8rv]

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[@trivikram4962]

@@Gary-jd8rv E

[@realconquerorchen1609]

@@trivikram4962 E

[@littlekuribohimposte]

The Battalion of Death "Oh we know what's gonna happen" "Who immediately gave up" Shocked Pikachu face

[@ЯАга-я4л]

Fun fact: as you said, Stalin's actual last name was Dzhugashvili, he was a georgian, but in georgian language this last name still basically meaned "Son of the Steel" and he actually was "Joe Steel" as you put it, he just translated it into russian.

[@fullmovies9024]

"Joe Steel" is so could it could be a meme

[@perciusmandate]

The Romanov assassination was a crap show. Not only were the firing squad blind drunk and the Romanovs essentially wearing blinged out bulletproof vests, the basement they did it in had no lights and the guns they were using filled the room with smoke after the first few rounds. It was such a fiasco that they weren't even sure if they had killed everyone by the end of it. Which is what eventually led to the myth of Anastasia's survival and escape.

[@aerialmacaroon6312]

Seriously that is how that myth came about; I knew about the firing squad but did not know it was that insane

[@LoyalHistoryBuff]

Actually, only one of the firing squad was drunk. That drunk guy's drunk friends were at the mine, waiting for the dead bodies(I said that, but they thought that they would kill the Romanovs)

[@aerialmacaroon6312]

@@LoyalHistoryBuff still the circumstances surrounding the deaths are strange to say the least

[@LoyalHistoryBuff]

@@aerialmacaroon6312 that’s true

[@Dragonite43]

That's a video online about what would happen if the Romanov's survived the assassination attempt. Pretty interesting!

[@jamesfranken8676]

Love this dude, feels like one of my history professors. You know, the ones that teach a WW2 class and they love talking about the intricacies of that war more than they love anything else on this earth. That’s what this channel feels like.

[@hunterlandry9918]

"General secretary" who had that job again? Oh wait, oh no...

[@Semordnilaps]

Fun fact, as the name implies, the party secretariat was originally mostly concerned with secretary, that is to say, admin work. I mean the title of General Secretary wasn't even a thing until Guess Who

[@maximilianbeyer5642]

@@Semordnilaps it put him in charge of hiring and firing, so it enabled him to put his friends where he needed them

[@fooopy7562]

@@Semordnilaps Cc

[@Yo-ps2pf]

the 2nd most effective leader for the ussr, stalin

[@jakob642]

Came for Sabaton, stayed for Oversimplified and Extra Histroy!

[@Syndicalistwallower]

SAME.

[@badcornflakes6374]

Came for Oversimplified, stayed because I love history

[@FoxLosst]

Sabaton is so good.

[@Hidensee]

Well, they are historians too... Or modern days bards?

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

SAMEEE

[@christianconciatore8246]

Love the vids mr general secretary

[@IulianYT]

*comrade general secretary

[@IowanMatthew683]

Fun fact: A pretender of the Romanov throne (and relative of Nicholas II), Paul Illyinsky, was Mayor of Palm Beach, FL for a good chunk of the 1980s and 1990s.

[@musikbox83]

Saying "Look it up. It's...... 'something'" is the way I tell people to look up something they probably shouldn't, lol

[@rubymosquito763]

I looked it up it’s disturbing

[@nickkonkle541]

I love how he always just happily sits through the sponsorships

[@mistertwister2000]

“You can imagine how that’s gonna go” That was perfectly timed

[@TheJohnPaulJones]

Ong 😂

[@RamdomView]

32:21 Mao learned from this event, and specifically asked that Puyi, last Emperor of China and later puppet of the Japanese be kept alive to reap the PR benefits of reeducating the epitome of China's imperial past into a communist.

[@23StundenGamer]

KZbin recommended me your Chanel and i absolutely love it. I only watched your videos the last couple of days. Great work and keep going. Greetings from Germany

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Always glad to have another citizen of one of my favorite countries on board. Welcome!

[@yellowhd2414]

hello my fellow german

[@samuelbenefiel5362]

@@VloggingThroughHistory going back to your rasputin's fate statement: he was shot, stabbed, clubbed, castrated, and finally drowned, as stated by Professor Broom in the first Hellboy movie.

[@WolfpackPodcastOfficial]

Oh my... first the "our channel" thing, now the "General Secretary"? I can see you're a man of culture, comrade

[@t5hammer871]

Roses are red, Capitalism is bad This channel is ours, comrad

[@WolfpackPodcastOfficial]

@@t5hammer871 Ha! Good one!

[@nathanburnham6337]

A past teacher I had put Russian history as, "Hi, meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

[@forgottenfamily]

Re: tie ins: there's actually two scenes in this that originally aired in the Cold War Pt 1 video, one of which being the one where the guy goes "whoa, deja vu"

[@supersasukemaniac]

second is Kaiser Wilhelm crashing through the wall.

[@lonniebailey4989]

@@supersasukemaniac WHO WANTS TO START A REBUBU… I MEAN REVOBU… I MEAN REVOLU… DANG IT!!!!

[@Necromanzerrr]

Even though I've watched the videos you react to already, you add your own interesting facts to it. Love your content, and keep it up!

[@craigmoore7007]

Chris: " I'd love you come out and meet me on the battlefield" Me: "Very well" *picks up zweihander*

[@navajoguy8102]

Fun Fact, the Battalion of Death was made up almost entirely of female soldiers

[@jeffbenton6183]

I was wondering why Oversimplified drew them the way he usually draws women. I figured that might be the reason.

[@awesomelegion9950]

They were led by Maria Bochkareva.

[@Bendyrulz]

No wonder they gave up

[@shreberry5164]

#femalerights

[@shreberry5164]

@@Bendyrulz rude

[@normal-potato05]

welp, the Battalion of Death wasn't... that impressive

[@MrVlad12340]

Thing is. They were not named that because they were deadly. They were expected to die in the war.

[@anairconditionermother7537]

They didn’t specify which one will die in that name

[@Davey-Boyd]

Most of them were female. That to me probably meant they had more sense than fight for a lost cause.

[@dantecaputo2629]

They actually were pretty impressive in WWI, particularly the Kerensky Offensive of 1917 where they lived up to there name and then some

[@David-fm6go]

12:00 Nicholas was indoctrinated by reactionary tutors from a young age. Several times he could have accepted a"responsible government" that is a Prime Minister that also shared the confidence of the Duma. As late as I think December 1916 he momentarily entertained the idea but backed away from it. He was just incapable of compromising on his belief that God made him Tsar and he had a duty to his predecessors and successors to maintain that power.

[@Har0Id]

This guy is much more entertaining and educational than my history teacher.

[@dylantrashmint8379]

The Russian revolution is one of my favorite chapters in history, love the video

[@spookyboi8446]

As people from northeast Ohio we know how debilatating winter can be. I can only imagine even MORE snow and cold

[@adrianhoraciosantanavaldes1908]

The batalion of death "You know how thats gonna end up" Oversimplified: "and they immediatly gave up" 🤣

[@infinity3016]

I actually never watched part 2 somehow so watching this for the 1st time and with your reaction and extra info this has been one of the most enjoyable videos i've watched on KZbin

[@filipnielsen1000]

Actually, the sister of Nicholas, Olga, fled to Denmark and lived at a farm a few hundred meters from my house. We have a stone in her memory in the park.

[@aydenlaughter5846]

Hey man I love your history videos, I’ve studied it for YEARS and it’s great to see stuff like this still alive

[@f_ha6601]

I was waiting all day for this lmao

[@n0us.]

lol its noon rn here

[@benjaminabbott8675]

It is 4pm here and same

[@samdaman2939]

25:04 This was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in a reaction video, it’s so perfectly timed 😂

[@Architraz_PHX]

You're the Commissar of the channel and our hearts!

[@juancelis6331]

Man I love your videos as I love oversimplified's videos, keep it up. I just want to say be careful when giving your location and stuff, there are a lot not so kind people out there so I hope you stay safe. Love from Colombia :D

[@ramarblood7697]

11:25 Anakin Skywalker should take notes.

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

He really should, but didn't.

[@jeffbenton6183]

So true.

[@rhel373]

To be fair, and somewhat in Lenin's defence, the national assembly elections were... a bit iffy in themselves. Not enough to justify shutting it down in my opinion, but it wasn't exactly a clean-cut autocrat/democracy dichotomy either.

[@dc-wf4tb]

I love this type of reaction videos and content overall! I found one of your reactions randomly and before I knew it I was subscribed and had watched a bunch of them. Love your commentary on these videos. Keep it up!

[@Guyonnn]

I love the random shout outs sprinkled in with all the info. We get minutes of awesome historical knowledge and then, out of no where, I hear, “Is that the guy from Tiger King?” 😂😂😂 So effin funny!

[@farzanmunshi8054]

"let's face it, Russia is a huge country" I thought it was a continent

[@josephperez1832]

You make learning history all the more interesting. I plan to be a History Major in the future and I find this extra information from you great! Keep doing your great work my guy.

[@PHNX-ls5bt]

Love the channel, probably learned more about history here than I did back in school lol. As for your upcoming travels, I know it's not to pivotal to U.S. history, but here in Niagara, Ontario, Canada, we have some nice spots/battlefields from the War of 1812 that could make for some nice content :)

[@jeffbenton6183]

Maybe not pivitol, but it is a rather important event in US history.

[@Archerfish1977]

If you're planning on heading to Kentucky during one of your trips, the Patton Museum at Fort Knox is getting ready reopen on April 1. I know you've said before that he was one of your favorite individuals from WW2.

[@SigmaName]

I was waiting all day and night for this. Love ur vids btw.

[@joaquingarciameschio9582]

Thanks for reacting to this! I´v been taking notes the whole video! Your channel is amazing :D

[@frootsalad7699]

You should react to Extra History’s Bismarck series

[@joshclark9423]

That would be great if he did

[@blainev1189]

Great content! Was happy to come home to your reaction. Love this!

[@Bluebb8]

Ngl when i heard that heirs to the russian throne live in california my first thought was; "*sigh* Of course they do."

[@SushiReversed]

*Commiefornia

[@Jason_Altea]

@@SushiReversed *Hellifornia

[@DeathfireCaps]

@@Jason_Altea pleasegetmeoutofherefornia

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@SushiReversed Uhhh... the Romanovs were anti-Communits

[@SushiReversed]

@@jeffbenton6183 r/whoosh

[@williamellis8593]

It wasn't the poison, the bludgeoning, the bullets, or drowning that killed Rasputin. It was the temperature. He was killed during the Russian winter. It was found, after his body was pulled from the river, he had died of hypothermia.

[@sirdookie8948]

Hey! I think your videos are great! I'm a history admirer myself and I cant get enough of this! My main field of study was mainly WWII but I'm expanding! Keep up the good work!

[@innav4874]

I'm Russian, so I know all this things already.... But, gosh! How painful to hear the story again. That was DARK time for my country and even darker would follow.

[@dracolupus0217]

Please react next to "The Three Kingdoms" by Oversimplified.

[@sethhansen4454]

I think he’s more specialized with recent history, but it would still be fun to see his thoughts

[@bigd8924]

YES! THIS!^

[@大砲はピュ]

@@ShuffleUpandDeal32 Ummm, normal people care?! YOURE in the VAST minority of you don’t CARE get OUT!!!

[@JB-mf9is]

My absolute favourite channel right now! So happy I came across your videos. I've learnt so much already and I've only been subscribed a week :D

[@FluppiLP]

9:45 since you mention Germany, I always find it fascinating that the moderate government that eventually took control of the Weimarer Republic did not want to proclaim the republic and they did not want to get rid of the German Kaiser. But if I remember correctly the leader of the moderate party called Philipp Scheidemann heard that the communist party in the hands of Karl Liebknecht was about to proclaim the "free socialist republic" (or however you would translate that :D) and only then Scheidemann decided that they had to proclaim the "German Republic" at the same time or earlier just to prevent the communist from taking control. Up to that point the moderate government did not even want to proclaim any republic but would have prefered a division of power between the Kaiser and the parlament.

[@alonsofrancescutti4956]

The social democrats did not want to piss off the nobelty. The country by that point was essentially a military dictatorship run by the generals (Ludendorff especially). Some thought that keeping the king was gonna make them more popular to the troops and cool down right wingers. Besides, Great Britain was a constitutional monarchy and everybody thought it was the most advanced country on Europe and probably on Earth. France was a republic and had a bunch of problems. This also was compatible with the evolutionist ideology of social democracy where step-by-step reforms were deemed superior to sudden and all-out changes.

[@Tactical_Teo]

His reaction to the battalion of death is the reason why I started watching this channel.

[@marciimeris503]

Didn't know the fact that they identified the remains and gave them a proper burial service. That actually makes me smile because, say what you will, Nicholas didn't seem like an evil dictator who did things out of malice. But more so a scared individual who was afraid of this exact thing happening to him. It had happened in France only a few decades prior, it happened to his grandfather as well while he was young and impressionable. Even with the petitioning priest he fled and left his troops to protect the place. He feared revolutionary changes as a slippery slope that would lead to his death. Which you can see he wasn't wrong. Even though he abdicated, even though the revolutionaries were in control, the radical reds came in kicked up a civil war because they weren't happy with how it all settled in the moderates favor, and executed him and his entire family. I can sympathize with him, while he wasn't a good leader by any definition of the word, he was not an evil person. He was murdered in cold blood along with his entire direct family, most of whom were children, for really no reason at all. So it's nice to hear they gave him a proper burial years later with his family like that.

[@redred212]

Unfortunately, not all of his children are buried with him. Because they found Alexei and Anastasia after the initial burial, the Russian Orthodox Church “doesn’t believe” that the remains belong to them. I say this in quotations because there’s some possible political influence from Putin causing this. Their remains are in a drawer in a lab waiting for more dna testing

[@jaypandya7441]

Quite right. Nicholas wasn't an evil man. But he and his wife's incompetence, indifference and outright delusion ensured their deaths

[@soxnation1000]

So it was OK for him to allow peacefully petitioning citizens to be murdered, and appoint a brutal minister Stolypin who again murdered people suspected of being against the tsar, because he was fearful of what might happen to him? By that logic, the romanov murderers could say they were fearful of what might happen to them if he wasn't killed, aka that the white armies would have a unifying symbol or force, and possibly Nicolas could return to power one day and kill them all off. IMO They were all evil in their own ways, both Nicolas and the communist leaders.

[@joaobrito2653]

11:30 that is very very true. star wars was literally built upon that premise. anakin's fear of losing his wife was what ultimately led to him losing her

[@coffee-_-gamez6355]

Uploaded 12 minutes ago? I'm slackin

[@X-SPONGED]

11:25 As the olden saying goes, "One often meets their destiny on the path to avoid it"

[@zapan101313]

25:05 - Battalion of Death: Are we the baddies?

[@dmitriyrozhdestvenskiy2826]

35:18 we have a joke among comedians: "😊 Lenin, last days, sitting ill: "(Coughing): Comrade Stalin, here you are!" Stalin: "How do you feel?" Lenin: "Not good enough, pal. I think I will pass soon... Whom do you see as the next leader of the Soviet Union?" Stalin: "I think it would be me." Lenin: "I'm afraid people won't follow you." Stalin: "Well, in that case, they'd follow you". Lenin: "Good-goo...wait, WHAT?!?"

[@t1kit0ki56]

So happy another video is here! I personally love the way you make your videos, you deserve many more subscribers!

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Indeed

[@jojo_da_poe]

7:55 Just as a note, World War One wasn't actually the deadliest war at the point. I believe it was actually the three kingdoms war in ancient China

[@patrikburton7915]

Y would anyone dislike the best history teacher on KZbin

[@williamsturrup8713]

As Jermaine said, "Can't be everything to everybody."

[@bthsr7113]

15:00 I forget, was this Lutendorf's blunder specifically, or am I remembering mistakes he didn't do? I feel safe saying he was the one who initiated unrestricted submarine warfare, but I can't remember if that was all.

[@Cyge240sx]

Seems like you really approve of OverSimplified's content. Maybe you could narrate a video with him in the future that would be cool AF.

[@KnightShadowsong]

"battalion of death. You can imagine how that's goanna go..." Oversimplified: "Who immediately gave up" *Critical Error* *CRITICAL ERROR: MIND BREAK*

[@adamdepratti2110]

Rasputin was infamously a tripod

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I can't unsee the picture you just painted in my mind.

[@adamdepratti2110]

Vlogging Through History I’m deeply sorry. My APUSH teacher taught me this so I feel I must spread the word 😂😂😂

[@dawsonbradshaw16]

Been waiting for this! I’ve been binging your videos the last week, as I just found you. Love the videos, keep it up!

[@sxntx7052]

2:35 the original Schlieffen plan I think it was that they shouldn't start a two front war, and then Moltke changed it, but I'm not sure, can anyone confirm?

[@awesomelegion9950]

The original plan included invading the Netherlands. Moltke streamlined it to remove the Netherlands.

[@anderskorsback4104]

That's true, one of the premises of the original plan was that Russia would be so slow to mobilize that no troops at all would be needed on the eastern border. That was changed, and furthermore, additional troops were diverted away from the Western Front during a crucial point in the advance on Paris.

[@musikbox83]

@25:07 Don't worry, VTH, we've all been there. But that was funny as heck, lol.

[@Longshanks1690]

15:25 In fairness to General Ludendorff and German High Command, they didn’t actually expect Lenin and the Bolsheviks to succeed long term. They wanted to depose Kerensky’s Liberal Government, who was utterly opposed to stopping the war, and ensure the subsequent Russian government would accept the terms of Brest-Livtosk as they believed they were on the cusp of victory and, in the long term, would be able to dispense with the Soviets and restore a Russian Monarchy with a German puppet on the throne as they would be the dominant power in Eastern Europe once the war in the West was won. Then the Spring Offensive happened and the future of Eastern Europe kind of spiralled out of their control, to put it mildly.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

That's a fair point.

[@LC-sc3en]

This feels like the same old same old. It seems nearly every time in history one government empowers a radical to help topple a regime they don't like and hope to replace it with a more friendly rulership it comes back to bite them. Heck even France was left with the short end of the stick after the American revolution. You think humanity would have learned at some point. Or at least people who are in charge of making geopolitical policy.

[@Stego1819]

@@LC-sc3en How was France left with the short end of the stick after the American revolution? The americans supported the french in pretty much every war since then and saved them in ww1 and ww2. One could even argue it was one of those few times where support for a revolution worked out in the long run.

[@dew9103]

So here's how I think of connected events in oversimplified videos: US revolution war -> War of 1812 -> Numerous border dispute with US and Britian -> the Pig war |-> the french revolution -> the napoleonic wars -> WW 1 -> the Russian revolution ↓ |-> WW 2 -> the cold war The american civil war

[@sovietonion8264]

Yay we were waiting for this

[@doctorscrubb2538]

Was never great at history but our channel and Over Simplified got me into it and I love every minute of it also Carol Baskins in the back ground 😂😂😂

[@vladniestierov6649]

my greatgrandfather was bolshevik, who sort of helped Lenin in 1917. quite ironically, I was named Vladlen which stands for VladimirLenin (one of many "artificial" names created in Soviet Union, even though my mam wanted to have her son named Vlad, but there were too many Vladislavs when I was born, so she went for sort of fancier option). even more quite ironically, my ggdad was killed in 1937 as part of Stalin's effort to eliminate the Old Red Guard. moral of the story kids: don't ever think that Lenin and Stalin or USSR in 20s and USSR in 30s are somehow similiar. while the image may look alike, those are in a way two opposite ends of the stick.

[@vladniestierov6649]

mom* (sorry mama, never meant to hurt you)

[@ronyyyyyyyyyyy]

Wow cool story

[@Bigrago1]

25:23 despite their name the battalion that day was not the original Women's Battalion of Death. In all there were 7 battalions with only one(the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death) seeing combat in the Kerensky Offensive and was on the frontlines during this event. If anyone is interested I would recommend the book Yashka by the commander of the battalion, Maria Bochkareva and it's about her life before and during her time commanding the battalion.

[@blaisegirl420]

When I was in high school my world history told us the story of Rasputin and his death and I was so captivated. Now 10 years later I'm finding out more like his D*** was kept in a jar. Apparently at first it was being "worshipped by women in France" and then Rasputin's daughter claimed it and kept it privately until her death. .. Yes, I saw a picture of it and let's just say it fits his legend lol

[@Kriegter]

i'm pretty sure Rasputin (probably) didn't die until he drowned because first, the poison was faulty, the gunshot wounds were not fatal (Yes, there are instances of people surviving a shot to the head), and the adrenaline kept him alive until he finally drowned.

[@Hammoud_420]

I'm so happy you randomly showed up on my YT page and now I'm in love with all your videos.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Thanks Mahmoud! Glad you found it too!

[@Hammoud_420]

@@VloggingThroughHistory GUYS HE REPLIED

[@meginmd]

The guy setting himself on fire at 9:03 LOL

[@frgal1336]

“You could consider me the general Secretary of the channel.” You didn’t… You didn’t just… _you just called yourself Stalin didn’t you_

[@exoels]

Off to gulag

[@angelserenade]

25:08 I love the comedic timing of this part.

[@ricsiihorvath7425]

Hey, i love your videos. I am from Hungary and i think you should make a video about Hungarys history. There was lot of important thing just like the 1848 revolution, or the treaty of trianon what is almost bigger humiliation then Versailles for germans. Hungary lost all major war in last 500 year but we are still here, and we are still proud of our nation🇭🇺❤

[@ricsiihorvath7425]

Ohh and sorry for bad english. I learned german in school

[@CommanderTavos99]

15:20 they maybe gave it a speed boost but it was already happening anyway

[@nunogarces1628]

Came for Sabaton, stayed for all the wonderful content. Thank you comrade secretary 😁

[@sld1776]

The Schlieffen plan is a misnomer; the General Staff used its own right hook strategy, and Schlieffen's plan was a hypothetical used for arguing in public.

[@aredjayc2858]

"Yes this is our channel but I'm still the guy in charge" So normal communism then? Alright Comrade

[@ByteReview]

I love these videos. I had no idea Russia was this messy for this long, it must have been hell for the average person.

[@BlueOrion-dc9yk]

I just watched the 1st part and said to myself hmm when will next part be

[@tamiwatchesstuff]

Poor Monopoly guy gets abused again in the factory. 😂😂 I love Oversimplified's running joke here. He needs to be in like every video.

[@corinna007]

Nicholas's sister Olga lived in Denmark for many years, and then in WW2 her family moved here to Canada. She died in Toronto a few years ago, and I believe her children and grandchildren still live there.

[@saranemcova5448]

... Let's put them on the Russian throne 😏

[@bla5102]

Rasputin did not drown. The dochter declared there was no water in his lungs. Though the official report got lost.