Why did the Soviet Calendar fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Many revolutionary governments have attempted to reform the Calendar and the Soviet government was no different. In 1929 it brought in a five-day work week which soon became a six-day work week before being abandoned. So why did it fail? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@brandonlyon730]

What makes it funny for the Soviets adopting the Gregorian calendar is that now the October revolution happened in November and the February revolution happened in March. And despite this they never changed the names.

[@MrAlsachti]

That confirms my theory: October doesn't exist. The October revolution was in November and The Oktoberfest is in September.

[@cassianosobrinho]

@@MrAlsachti Brilliant!

[@luisdestefano6056]

Well, not the only ones... Great Britain only adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752! 1751 only had 282 days. We must understand that the British have difficulty in accepting some changes. Ostensibly the reluctance derived from the new calendar having been put forward by a pope. English (and later British) monarchs titled themselves also kings of France until George III in 1800-02, although they had ceased to be rulers in France by 1471 (Henry VI only ruled effectively a small portion of northern France). To save face from then they titled themselves kings of Calais for another century, until the French unceremoniously booted them. After 350 years, and with France a republic for quite some time they finally conceded to reality.

[@chrisgarrett6305]

@@MrAlsachti Halloween actually happens on November -1th

[@mrquirky3626]

@@chrisgarrett6305 No, All Hallows Day, the original Christian holiday, is on November 1st. Halloween, which is a contraction of All Hallows' Evening, is the day before on October 31st.

[@dameanebulia]

The French in 1793 : Every 100 secondes in France, a minute passes. The Soviets during WWII : Every 5 days in the USSR, a week passes.

[@kevinmendoza6386]

And in Africa every 60 seconds a minute passes.

[@samrevlej9331]

Napoleon in 1806/Stalin in 1940: "Together, we can change this."

[@jeremykraenzlein5975]

@@samrevlej9331 In fairness, the weird French calendar was adopted by the Jacobins, before Napoleon took control of France. Napoleon is just the guy who finally got rid of it.

[@SkeetontheverycoolSkeleton]

@@jeremykraenzlein5975 That’s the point of the joke that he wrote in his comment…

[@6-og2oy]

Glory to USSR

[@cdntrooper3078]

1:08 if you read the first article, he says that he once tried animating the mouths moving and it was creepy. But not as creepy as giving Stalin teeth and fingers though.

[@SpinningTurtle66]

Thanks for pointing this out

[@bluesbest1]

The newspapers always at least double the length of the video, since we will always pause the video to read. This is the first time the fourth wall has been broken, though.

[@cdntrooper3078]

@@bluesbest1 yeah. I love the newspapers they extend the video and they are always funny.

[@TheodoreServin]

"Weneemorshipscosuvarempur." "More on page 701" "In the year of our Lord 1929" These are so good XD

[@alexs_toy_barn]

i always read the pravda newpapers he comes up with

[@patrickplunkett9756]

"When the Russian Revolution was over, and the previous government was...unavailable..." This channel makes my day.

[@maddogbasil]

All our days

[@wayne9436]

94 likes and 1 reply only I’m here to fix thwt

[@RIFLQ]

i dont get it

[@grievetan]

@@RIFLQ unavailable means they either run away from country or was killed like Tsar family

[@marionhoward2939]

@@RIFLQ The Romanovs were killed, the Imperial family was technically the predecessor to the Russian Revolution under the Bolsheviks

[@amk4956]

These newspaper clippings are just pure gold… Like he only uses them for about two seconds but at least an hour was probably spent coming up with the idea and at least another hour in creating the animated slide. I appreciate the input and effort

[@karlwittenburg5868]

But also did you read the fine print? He slipped in a statement about attempting to animate mouths and said it was nightmare fuel History matters drops BTS content into the videos you just have to pay very close attention

[@chrisf1154]

I belly laughed at the "all of those one-use signs you all insist on using" line

[@sunburstshredder]

I know, I always pause to read them

[@bladfadsfblaadsfsadf900]

Love that he did the Churchill quote meme in the second story.

[@dannyarcher6370]

They are my favourite. An extra bonus is that you're forced to watched the video twice.

[@Jose-cy7od]

I like apples.

[@koesben9363]

Me too

[@kidwiththehat2016]

same

[@lasloapollo4312]

I like pears

[@BN-uh8cm]

I like orange

[@eeshkawumbathelogical4108]

I like lemon

[@benstrong4497]

The people who came up with the French Revolutionary calendar also tried reforming the clock system, with 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to an hour, etc. This was unpopular and fell out of style pretty quickly though. Also, when the Paris Commune took over, they reinstated the Revolutionary Calendar, making 1870 Year LXXIX (79). But the Commune only used it for 18 days.

[@AnaIvanovic4ever]

Mike Duncan has a great episode in his Revolutions podcast about the Republican Calendar. I am a big fan of the Calendar, I have a widget on my phone so I can see what date and time it is. 3 Sansculotides year 230, soon New Year's Eve!

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

true except that the Paris Commune lasted more than 18 days

[@morbidsearch]

I read this comment in Emperortigerstar's Southern drawl

[@BlackStar2161]

Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!

[@vulpes7079]

That would be cool tbh

[@trenchy_BOI]

Daily informative videos filled with content, also Props to James Bisonette for being the patreon forever.

[@jamesbissonette8002]

Merci

[@royalteluis623]

The richest man alive

[@arbyjack2552]

Bissonette works 7 days a week

[@P4Tri0t420]

Cali Moneymaker: *"Am i a Joke to you?!"*

[@Awesomewithaz]

Daily? What channel do you watch?

[@albevanhanoy]

"The factories which produce one of those signs you all insist on using instead of talking with your mouths." History Matters taking a jab at his own animation style: Fucking LEGENDARY.

[@jonbaxter2254]

There is meta within meta!

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I wonder here this was? I would like to see it, since it is quite funny!

[@tanker00v25]

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions in the neswpaper in the video on the left side

[@DJ_Force]

Every time I head "RAISES the question" instead of the incorrect "BEGS the question", I am so happy.

[@stevevernon1978]

its two different things

[@RUBBER_BULLET]

Pity he can't pronounce military.

[@mitchjohnson4714]

Thank you.

[@rigrag7876]

Did I have a burning desire to know the answer to this question? No Has History Matters (with a special thanks to James Bissonette) now thoroughly satisfied me in the last 3 minutes? Yes

[@Hungabrigoo]

Getting throughly satisfied in 3 minutes is TIGHT!

[@delrunplays2903]

Did I even know this was a question to be asked? No. Am I surprised that the Soviets did this? No. Is my answer to your second question different from yours? No.

[@quakethedoombringer]

Honestly most of the reformed calendars have been rather impractical. The only one that seems practical enough is the Hanke Henry one. The problem is that it's not worth the logistical effort

[@conserva-chan2735]

Nothing will ever be more practical than the Gregorian calendar.

[@LtLukoziuz]

Dave Gorman's calendar is very practical imo. 13 months of 28 days each (so 4x7day weeks, consistently), one or two (leap year) "intermission" days (basically, move the christmas/new years partying to that)

[@quakethedoombringer]

@@conserva-chan2735 the only reason it is "practical" because literally country officially uses it. It's not an inherently terrible design but I wouldn't call it good either (month with 30, 31 days all over the place, cannot divide into equal halves or quarters, first day of month or year begins randomly, etc.)

[@conserva-chan2735]

@@quakethedoombringer I mean having a calendar that works with the orbit of the sun makes the most sense and is easiest to read. It's not because everybody uses it it's because it makes the most sense.

[@iang0th]

​@@conserva-chan2735 I mean, getting the length of the year right is pretty much the bare minimum functionality for a modern calendar, and I assume every halfway serious calendar reform proposal keeps the year at 365 days long, with leap years when appropriate.

[@suorerbacha9426]

Every few years in the USSR, A Calendar passes

[@stevemc01]

1:05 "The new system will be implemented next year and will start in factories which produce all of those one-use signs you all insist on using instead of talking with your mouths. In all seriousness, I once tried animating moving mouths on some characters when reading out quotes and it was the creepiest thing. Not as creepy as the time I drew individual fingers and teeth on Joseph Stalin. Nightmare fuel that was." "Anyway, New Calendar" The Matters of History channel has suffered greatly in the production of these videos...

[@tech34756]

As someone who has constantly changing shifts and works most sundays, I'm finding this funnier than I should.

[@rowlganartamas2835]

Yeah I came to the comments to see if anyone else had noticed that current capitalism had found a way to do what Stalin couldn't. Finding a day when I can get everyone together is impossible because you can't assume anyone has weekends off anymore

[@sean668]

My literal two longest shifts are both weekends. My "hangout day" is Wednesday. I'm just as disgruntled as a five-week Soviet lol

[@jeffbenton6183]

I feel ya. Now I get weekends off, but I'm the only one at my jobsite who does.

[@Duck-wc9de]

In Portugal, the days of the week are called: "second-day" "third-day" "fourth-day" "fith-day" "sixth-day" "saturday" "sunday" this is because the portuguese catholic church thougth that calling it by the names of planets was pagan, so they kept the catholic names of the weekend and changed the names of the weekdays to be numbered instead. That is why in portuguese usually dates are like this: " 19th of September, 4th." it brings also a funny situation. "Sixth" in portuguese is written "sexta", when abreviated in phones and othe devices, it says "SEX"

[@donaldtrumpgaming7668]

Weird that the Church never seemed to care about this anywhere else.

[@brandonlyon730]

Funny enough most of the days of the week are named after Norse gods, like with Thursday named after Thor, “thor’sday”.

[@Duck-wc9de]

@@donaldtrumpgaming7668 it was the bishop of Braga, the most important figure of the portuguese catholic church at the time

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@brandonlyon730 in english,us others dont have day names after fairytales.

[@capitannerevar7792]

@@mojewjewjew4420 ouch

[@Noelll]

You know HM you are probably the reason many, many people have gotten into history. The topic/subject has been exploding in popularity lately. Nice work!

[@scintillam_dei]

The Bible, Age of Empires, Rome: Total War and the back-then occasionally History channel got me into it. No one asked, but no one asked for you to be born either, jerks who would say that.

[@Bramble451]

I love HM, but it's riding the tide, not setting it. Except for picking insanely obscure topics, that is! I think the OG of history channels would probably be the "Crash Course" videos by John Green. (I will be muttering "Unless you are the Mongols!" on my deathbed, much to everyone's confusion.) But several years back now there was an absolute explosion of good, animated history channels on KZbin.

[@christieap]

The best part BY FAR of the French decimal calendar was that they wanted to replace the saints of the traditional calendar as well. So they created the Rural Calendar with each day given something along an agricultural theme to replace them. You can go look it up and covert your birthday to discover if you’re a daffodil, the rose, a stately beech. I’m a dibber. My only gift is not being born on the 28th of December.

[@alanmalan3819]

So.. Change of working days wasn't change of calendar, lol.... I'm saying this like russian

[@mitchjohnson4714]

My birthday is special because it's the day Robespierre died. Sic semper tyrannis.

[@mission3479]

Imagine having the hubris to think you can just up and change a calendar that been used more or less for the last 2,000 years

[@KoitTamme]

Not many people know this, but actually the calendar was to be named after James Bisonette. He politely refused.

[@scintillam_dei]

If he were Spanish, his n ame would be Santiago Besoneto.

[@Prussiankings]

Pretty cool how their new calendar gave everyone the same day off, which just didn’t happen in the original one everyone else uses

[@Nathan-gs5tw]

If only we could have a few days off at the end of every week. A week end if you will

[@_Sammmy_]

This channel is really just things I had no idea I didn’t know, didn’t want to know, and now know and bring up in random conversations… I love this channel!

[@scintillam_dei]

See my video "Slavery isnt wrong."

[@micahbush5397]

Moral of the story: If you are going to reform the calendar, make sure it's because people widely agree that the current system needs improvement, not just because you want to weaken religious institutions.

[@Jotari]

The current system is shit to be fair.

[@absalomdraconis]

​@@Jotari : The current system is as good as we're going to get a human calendar. It accurately corresponds to the largest meaningful chronological cycle (the year), while factoring in the slightly incompatible cycle of the passage of the day. The can change the allocation of the months, but there's ultimately no better way to allocate months, because there's no good way to allocate months in the first place.

[@killman369547]

@@Jotari Lol just no. The Gregorian calendar is the most accurate calendar humans are ever likely to come up with. It drifts so little that in the 49th century the only thing future humans need to do to correct the drift is skip a leap year.

[@Jotari]

@@killman369547 Well that's not hard to do. You just have to make sure you have a calendar with 365.25 days.

[@scintillam_dei]

Atheists and logic don't get along.

[@jabbertwardy]

This is one of my favorite subjects. Thanks for the video! Both the First French Republic and the USSR discovered the hard way that breaking the widespread, millennia-old tradition of seven-day weeks is nigh impossible.

[@AuroraBoost]

Well technically they didn't discover the hard way since there were no big problems that happened during that situation

[@bananenmusli2769]

I love those news articles. I always read them and they are pure comedy. Thanks

[@kylec6676]

Would you happen to share or show the attempts at having the characters mouths move to speech or Stalin with teeth and fingers?

[@TOBAPNW_]

Stalin with teeth and fingers in this art style is a cursed image. I second this comment.

[@sirpixel7945]

I don't want a new sleep paralysis demon

[@scintillam_dei]

@@TOBAPNW_ I fourth this thread.

[@multiversepatriot3148]

The more I hear about post revolution history in the 20s and 30s, the more amazed I am that the Soviet Union bounced back so hard

[@347Jimmy]

From wooden plows to nukes in a single generation It's crazy

[@M167A1]

We had a big debate about this in history class years ago. The general consensus was that the USSR would have broken up without the second world war, once Stalin was out of the way. I think that's overly optimistic because it was so repressive and Stalin was so ruthless at weeding out opponents I'm not sure who at the time would make much trouble..

[@txorimorea3869]

Not really. Stalin took 510 tons of gold from the Spaniards, and they received lots of training and technology transfer from Germany as payment for resources before Hitler came into power. Most of their country stayed the same, those resources and knowledge were used to create their military machine. On top of that communism massively favors "optics" over substance, that is why the Chinese paint their mountains green.

[@mrbisshie]

I think someone would have assassinated him eventually, if WW2 didn't start, probably in 45 or 46. He didn't even last a decade after WW2 ended. I'm positive someone assassinated him. He was pissing off/scaring high higher ups.

[@bobmcbob49]

looking at China as well it's pretty bizarre how communist regimes tend to think it's a good idea to reinvent every wheel in the country all at once and expect it not to fail catastrophically. Like I get the whole "revolutionary government" thing but have these people never heard of test groups?

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Your the only channel who I stay right to end of to hear the patrons, I have no idea why 😂

[@frazzleboi2821]

another banger video from history matters 🔥🔥

[@BrammBass]

Another perfect video of which I never thought, but yet, it's super interesting. Thanks!

[@extrahomegrown]

love you video format

[@sskuk1095]

1:29 This is far worse than it should be! Love it! Keep up the good work!

[@srfrg9707]

This video was published on the 2nd day of the Without-Pants month of the year 230 of the French Republic. (Le 2 Sansculottide de l' An CCXXX de la République Française) The "Sans Culottes" (literally Without Pants) where the commoners. Culotte was the name given to the pants the nobles used to wear. The commoners used to wear striped trousers, not culottes.

[@absalomdraconis]

If they were wearing trousers, then "Without Pants" would be a bad translation. It would have some justification if the original word had been "Pantalones" or something similar, but even if "Culottes" is just the French word for pantalones, that difference combined with the commoners wearing trousers completely ruins the validity of the translation.

[@srfrg9707]

@@absalomdraconis Yes but it's a funny one. Culotte and Pants share the same funny ambiguity, meaning both underwear and trousers. Both pants and culotte were a lower-body garment that covers each leg separately down to to the knees. Noblemen used to wear them along with silk stockings. The trousers are just trousers.

[@jonathanwebster7091]

'Breeches' is the word you're thinking of. As opposed to trousers (British English)/ pants (American English). Pre-revolution, breeches were worn by the nobility and men in general when dressing up, only poor people (and farmers and sailors) wore trousers, because they were working garments that weren't supposed to be worn by upper class people. Hence the rejection of them in the revolution.

[@jonathanwebster7091]

And yeah, bit of a funny ambiguity as regards 'pants' in English because in American English, it means 'trousers', in British English (and much of the rest of the anglosphere), it's short for 'underpants'. Note to Americans: never tell your British friends you "really love their pants!" if they've bought a particularly stylish new pair: wouldn't go down well, and they'd probably think they were having a bad dream.

[@cobeer1768]

Intersting and entertaining. Thank you

[@leecrawford6560]

Thank you for your hardwork I just really love your little characters I just adore the art style It works so well, and plus The suttle backroom themes really bring life Than just listening to a PowerPoint Which would get boring over time

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

I did not know that I needed this, but I didn`t. The video was top quality as always though

[@emperornapoleon6204]

Soviet antics and this channel’s golden humor. What a way to cap an evening!

[@oliversherman2414]

Great video 👍🏻

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I've heard that the USSR had an odd calendar, but I didn't know just _how_ odd it was! 6-day weeks? Thanks for the video! Also, nice "unavailability" at 0:30-0:35, and what a funny edition of the English _"Pravda"_ at 1:06!

[@alabamaal225]

The solution to our present messed-up calendar is simple: Just slightly slow down the rotation of Earth, making the days 20 minutes 58 seconds longer than presently, so there would be precisely 360 days in the tropical year. Then we could have a calendar with twelve months consisting of five weeks; the weeks consisting of six days which would correspond with the seasons perfectly. (I didn't say the solution would be easy, just simple.)

[@quakethedoombringer]

Someone call Superman. We just find our solution

[@awddfg]

@@quakethedoombringer or we could put massive jet engines on the equator to make the earth slow down

[@stevevernon1978]

you could slow down the day, as you suggest... or shorten the year by 5 of our current days

[@R3stor]

or just you know, make 13 months, each with exactly 4 weeks with clasical 7 days, that is 13*4*7 = 364, and make one extra day (or two days in leap years) which will not be part of any month, week or a day. And not only that each e.g. 17th of March of each year will be on the exactly same day of the week (e.g. Thursday) but every 17th day of any month will be on the exactly same day (Thursday). So its like 17th of March 2030, 17th of May 2030, 17th of April 2045 and 17th of December 2071 will all be Thursdays. The most perfect calendar ever.

[@isidornimages]

@@R3stor Imagine not being born on a weekend. Always have to hold birthday parties in the middle of the week. But other than that, it does sound kind of convenient.

[@ianmetcalfe7389]

I love the expression's of the characters especially the ones watching others.

[@richardhauser1924]

I love your Channel

[@s.t.384]

These newspaper clips are gold

[@Elongated_Muskrat]

"Lenin and His Comrades" would make a good band name, it could also be called "The Beatles".

[@rubywest5166]

"*Lenin* and His Comrades" Nope, nope nope. To prison with you! Sorry, but I have to go all McCartneyist on you for saying that

[@semperfidelis9083]

North Korea still has its own weird calendar called the Juche calendar, which starts on the birth year of Kim Il Sung. and all of its holidays are based on the birthdays and dead days of their previous leaders.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

And Kim Il Sung is still their President.

[@TheMaster4534]

Itself a derirative of the traditional imperial calendar

[@Nathan-gs5tw]

It's not that weird of a calendar just because it starts in a different year. Same goes for Thailand. And giving holidays on birthdays or death days of national heroes isn't that uncommon either

[@Nathan-gs5tw]

Actually it is a bit weird when you land in Thailand and your phone tells you it's the year 2565

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@Marinealver]

When people tell me "Happy Friday" which means nothing to me since I work the weekends.

[@nicholastrudeau7581]

This topic brings up the question as to why our months are so weird and are not lined up with the 7-Day week, which history has shown is a foundational aspect of life.

[@anderskorsback4104]

The classical retort "it didn't fail, it was just not tried properly" would actually apply here. It sounds like the Soviet government didn't make a concerted push to implement it, nor do all the other changes such a change would require. Which is understandable, this was the time of Stalin's five-year plans, when development moved at (sometimes quite literal) breakneck speed and every change could add further disruption. Can't risk falling behind your production schedule and risk getting sent to gulag for wrecking. A six-day week with 30-day months is not functionally that different from the Gregorian calendar, all it does is it makes the start of months match up with the start of a new week. Which could be an advantage in some situations. A five-day week with rotating days off would have the intended effect on factory uptime, it would just require rescheduling of the actions normally done on Sundays. That's basically what capital-intensive industries are already doing. The social disadvantage of people having off-days at different times would remain though.

[@rizon72]

The problem is the social disadvantage is absolutely gigantic. And honestly, the positives, are not that great.

[@DoctorCyan]

I think you're underestimating the social impact of being assigned a random off day. You couldn't even coordinate it with your family, let alone your friends, and you couldn't solve it by letting people choose their off days without a cascading effect of bureaucratic oversight and evolving workplace chicanery. This is before the internet, remember, so you need new friends to pass the time with and your pool is now limited to 20% of your village or town. Can't even explain what this did to Soviet family structures. It's not really possible to amend in any meaningful way that you couldn't just do with the Gregorian calendar, which also tracks the seasons and was older than Russia itself.

[@mathewfinch]

@@DoctorCyan yeah, that would be absolutely horrible. *cries in service worker*

[@Kreuzrippengewoelbe]

Communists see people as means for the purpose. Disgusting belief.

[@alemfi]

@@DoctorCyan why did the 5 day work week need to be implemented with a random/not specific day off system? Couldn't it have been like the 6/7 day weeks, where the standard/expected was a fixed day of the week? eg. sat/sunday of the 7 day week, or the 1st day of the 6 day week? There's already places that are non standard in their work days from the sat/sunday working days, so it seems like a strange discrepancy for the 5 day work week to specifically be non-standardized.

[@nathanngumi8467]

Very interesting!

[@StardustAnlia]

I have my own calendar. It’s very easy to convert it to the Gregorian because it uses a 7 day week. It offers leap weeks when it gets out of line with the Gregorian instead of leap days ( called leap years). The hardest part of it to understand is its 4 based number system that replaces 10 based Arabic numerals. This is to make the units easier to visualize on a calendar wheel. It also respects the user’s grade level instead of Jesus’ age for the year. I use it mainly to map development and triangulate times for rituals, not coordinate plans with multiple people several years in advance, so this has never been an issue. Units are seasons ( starting on the week of the half quarter day), weeks, and days of the week.

[@RanRat717]

Niice.

[@scaper12123]

… you’re telling me the Soviets pulled a French Revo… actually, no. That checks out.

[@alparslankorkmaz2964]

Nice video.

[@marscaleb]

This is quite a fascinating subject. Do you have any more videos about people trying to change the calendar?

[@nickmacarius3012]

*Thinking Stalin guy meme:* "People can't go to church on Sundays, if you outlaw Sundays."

[@hlibushok]

1:07 August 19th In the Year of Our Lord 1929. *PRAVDA* *Printed in English, for some reason* *GENIUS CRACKS IT!* *Yuri Larin fixes the concept of months* Yuri Larin, local genius and man everyone here always supported, has come up with a brilliant new way to organise work weeks. The new system, which has less of that religious significance stuff, will change months from the mess that they currently are to 30 day periods containing six five-day weeks. The new system will be implemented next year and will start in factories which produce all of those one-use signs you all insist using instead of talking with your mouths. In all seriousness, I once tried animating moving mouths on some characters when reading out quotes and it was the creepiest thing. Not as creepy as the time I drew individual fingers and teeth on Joseph Stalin. Nightmare fuel that was. Anyway. New Calendar. *Britain opposes naval parity with USA* Negotiations between the United Kingdom and the United States have come to a halt after Winston Churchill and Hebert Hoover couldn't come to an agreement over how many ships their respective nations should have. "Britain needs to accept restriction of her surface fleet if peace is to be maintained" said President Hoover. In response to Hoover's blunt words, the British Prime Minister responded "Weneemorshipscosuvarmpur". Negotiations are ongoing but outsiders seem to hold little hope that both will come to an agreement reducing the size of their navies. It was a silly idea anyway. *more on page 6.* *League of Nations does a thing. World Confused* In an event which has left the world reeling an international organisation has done a thing. Like it intentionally sought to achieve something and then went out to do it. It wasn't an accident either. What did they do? They found a way to annoy the Spanish by setting up a tribunal for international disputes. This will see countries, like Morocco and France, take Spain to court because nobody wants them to have nice things. Even though everyone else can carve up other nations when Spain does it it's not cool. More to follow on these titanic events. *more on page 701.*

[@sour_789]

God I always love the content you put in the news

[@desiqti]

God i always love the pleasure i feel to put in you

[@retrigot2207]

great video

[@giladpellaeon1691]

I actually paused the video to read the Pravda clip and it was worth it! Thanks on that great detail. Now to stop Spain from having nice things before Franco takes over.

[@isidornimages]

It's always worth it to pause to read any newspaper clips shown in these videos.

[@RyanCoomer]

at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffy

[@IntrovertedOreo]

I have seen this comment almost everywhere.

[@TOBAPNW_]

@@IntrovertedOreo es ist ein Kopypasta

[@charliefoxtrott1048]

1:08 The Newspaper never dissapoints: "Weneemorshipscosuvarempur" is as Churchillian as can be!

[@Tjalve70]

True. But was Churchill really the PM in 1929? I think not.

[@gaborangecloud]

I like the animated mouth talk on the newspaper at 1:07. (Second paragraph)

[@medes5597]

"Although many sources state that 30-day months were used in the Soviet Union for part or all of the period from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet calendar with 5- and 6-day weeks was used only for assigning workdays and days of rest in factories. The Gregorian calendar (since 1918) remained for everyday use: surviving physical calendars from that period show only the irregular months of the Gregorian calendar." The "calender" was basically a rota for work. It didn't do anything outside of that and was never intended to replace the gregorian calender. Even within industry it wasn't used apart form assigning work. It wasn't really an attempt at reformation insomuch as it was an equally failed attempt at a national work rota system. Much of the public wasn't even aware it existed.

[@josephmagana6235]

The public wasn't aware which days they had off?

[@medes5597]

@@josephmagana6235 they were aware of that. They weren't aware that there was a seperate calender in use for industry.

[@noiihate213]

Best history Channel ever

[@MCsCreations]

Very interesting indeed.

[@privateeyety5735]

Once again the answers to question no one asked! Love it

[@monterrang1]

ngl I kinda want a "why did the french calendar fail" video next...

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

And the revolutionary clock.

[@Carewolf]

... because it was stupid. THE END

[@thenoobgameplays]

Could you do something like the european reaction towards the decaptation of Charles I of England or the rise to power of Louis Napoleon/Napoleon III? I love your videos.

[@Tjalve70]

Decapitating kings called Charles might not be a good video idea right now.

[@jamesquinton7070]

@@Tjalve70 😂😂

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I noticed one of the supporters called themself “Charles the First”.

[@thenoobgameplays]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 wym?

[@ThePikminCaptain]

New history matters upload = a better day

[@euivets2892]

I really like your cartoons

[@paultapner2769]

I thought one reason it failed might have been, in the words of a certain Monty Python sketch: 'because we think the whole thing's a bit silly.'

[@indiansfaninpa]

Ah, the notorious Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things.

[@Numba003]

I don't think I even knew the Soviets had tried to implement a new calendar lol. Thanks for another interesting and comical video as always! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

[@scintillam_dei]

The cross is a symbol for Satan as proven in my seriers on heretics.

[@Numba003]

@@scintillam_dei How so?

[@scintillam_dei]

@@Numba003 I said how where I said I proved it. If you don't want to see, don't.

[@isidornimages]

I know I didn't know about the Soviet calendar, so this was both educational and entertaining, like it usually is.

[@Numba003]

@@scintillam_dei Which video was it you said again? The original comment has been removed I guess.

[@MBP1918]

Incredible

[@sn3p3r]

Thank you

[@GuildsmanPirate]

The Soviet calendar might’ve failed, but glorious North Korea is living in Juche year 111

[@vottak5964]

What do you mean by "North"? There is only one Korea!

[@CryoByte115]

wdym north Korea? that's best Korea mate

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

@@vottak5964 Did you let them know that?

[@KaijinD]

I had never heard of the Soviet calendar experiment. This is why I support this channel.

[@cyarutchiii]

1:07 is a great way to give us information

[@bawicz0]

Good video

[@itzadam9359]

Video idea as a loyal Patreon Supporter: Why was Finland 🇫🇮 given autonomy in the Russian Empire ?

[@quakeknight9680]

As if they did to Poland Uzbekistan

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

It also partially failed because trying to base time off anything other than the rotation of the Earth, the orbit of the Moon around the Earth, and the orbit of the Earth around the sun is just silly.

[@neutronalchemist3241]

Actually our calendar is not that rational. For example, there is no astronomical reason for February to have 28 days. It's like that only because the Romans wanted to make an ominous month the shortest possible. A more rational calendar should have 7 months of 30 days and 5 of 31, one for season (two for summer) mantaining equinoxes and solstices in fixed dates. Or, like the ancient Greek calendar, you can have months alternatively of 29 and 30 days, and add a month every 3 years. This way the dates of equinoxes and solstices vary, but every month begins with the same lunar phase.

[@robertnomok9750]

Our calendar and time system doesnt do it either. Its full of band aids and reforms trough milenias.

[@mrpalaces]

The Churchill quote on the newspaper was so deep it made me cry

[@pierzak3680]

Charles the first, you’re a legend my man

[@iloveapple530]

Question: so knowing that there were numerous attempts to make a new calendar does that mean that a earth year is not 365 days? The Chinese one for example is relatively longer than the roman one not to mention the the 100s other Calender

[@jakob6271]

A year is the time it takes earth to orbit around the sun. This time period can vary. Not all years have the same length. A day is the time it takes earth to rotate around its own axis. Its length varies as well. Most years are about 365.25 days long, but the exact length isn't fixed.

[@ReeperRiopel]

Earth years in the international calendar are measured by a full revolution of the earth around the sun which takes ~365.25 days. Days are measured by a full rotation of the earth, which gives every side of the earth a veiw of the sun (morning - night). Various calendars have different reasons for being shorter or longer. In ancient egypt they used the mostly annual event of the nile river flooding to determine the length of a year, the mayans probably used other natural phenomena (the nile being on the other side of the world does that) AND their base 20 number system to decide there were 360 days in a year. Unfortunately I don't know other calendars and their reason for being, so I can't speak to the chinese calendar.

[@iloveapple530]

@@jakob6271 so your saying that the time earth takes to complete a orbit arround is ~365 in all calendar. If that's the case then people who try to change it were were only trying to change the order of days? My question was not about ' how long is the year' but more like how do we know is that time know what I mean?

[@iloveapple530]

@@ReeperRiopel the roman took the Greek or egyptian Calender I don't remember now, and with the help of astronomers and scientists they made the Calender we know today my question is more about how do we know that the earth takes ~365 days to make a year how did they know thousands of year ago?

[@DoctorCyan]

It takes approximately 365.24217 days for the Earth to complete an orbit around the sun (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds). If you calendar only has 365 days, like the Gregorian calendar, it will only take four orbits until you're a full day behind (technically just 23 hours and 15 minutes). The Gregorian calendar solves this by adding an extra day every four years, a leap day, on February 29th. This actually puts the orbit 45 minutes too far forward for every leap year, so every 100 years they don't observe a leap day. Other calendars, such as the Chinese calendar, track lunar cycles more carefully. The Chinese calendar consists of months actually denoted by the moon's phases, either 29 or 30 days long, and a 12 month year is only 354-355 days long. Chinese calendars will have a 13th leap month every 2-3 years, which keeps them roughly aligned with the solar year.

[@ashesandflames5951]

If only James Bisonett was there. He would have funded support for the calendar.

[@alessbritish228]

no u

[@devingraves8044]

I've started pausing on the news papers and reading them and ohhhh boy is it worth it

[@SnipDillard]

Really enjoying these short format informative videos. So many channels now would've turned this into a 20 min video of broadly related topics and commentary that by the end I question what the f*ck I just watched

[@scriptedsuper2740]

this is better than my history class

[@MrBones-ky6fb]

It's like the architects of the glorious workers paradise had no actual experience as workers...

[@anderskorsback4104]

It happens. Pretty much all revolutionaries are middle-class intellectuals.

[@refindoazhar1507]

5 days week used to be common in my country and operates similarly to the one in this video, although in a reversed kind of way. Basically, there are 5 type of market, each of which only open for a specific day in a week, so more people in various area can have their market day when the market is closer to home. The 5 days week is still commonly used to this day although mainly for religious reason and some market still bear the name of the day even though it's open all week long now.

[@Akirashiro407]

I don't even aware this was a thing in history and become interested in it after watching it.

[@rustyballs2050]

Kelly Moneymaker the singer?

[@citinox1778]

Me, not even knowing the Soviets had their own calendar: "Yeah, why DID it fail?"

[@Koellenburg]

lmao that news paper article is hillarious :D

[@Maxoverpower]

Do you render and upload your videos with a bit depth of 10 (10-bit color)? It seems that way since I am seeing some compression artifacts that often look like a checkerboard on what appears to be flat colors, and shouldn't be hard for KZbin to compress. I've experienced this issue when uploading 10-bit SDR videos, - KZbin doesn't handle them very well and creates weird artifacts.

[@shoredude2]

My friends love the idea of the Shoredude2 calendar. There are 12 months: eight months of 28 days and 4 months of 35 days. Every date is the same day of the week every year. The last day of the year is Bonus Day and isn't any day of the week or part of any month. Leap years also have a Double Bonus Day which again aren't any day of the week or part of any month. Bonus Day and Double Bonus Day are always holidays off from work.

[@esajpsasipes2822]

isn't this the hobbit calendar?

[@shoredude2]

@@esajpsasipes2822 since I have never read the Hobbit, if it is it's a coincidence.

[@esajpsasipes2822]

@@shoredude2 it's from the lotr universe, the calendar used by hobbits. It sounds very similar, the hobbit one also had some days that weren't part of any month, and all days in the week were the same date every year looking at it, it's not the same - the one from lotr has 30 days in each month (12 months) and the days that are not part of any month are: - one day at the beginning + one at the end of the year - 3 (4 on leap year) days in the middle of the year, one of these doesn't belong to any week

[@sophli64l48]

Should’ve counted from James Bisonette’s year of birth smh

[@giakhangnguyen1898]

Before I watching this video I had an idea for calendars EXACTLY as the Soviet 6 day week showed in the video

[@ravenwilder4099]

Lovely dark note to end with.

[@slanton7270]

I don’t like apples.

[@thegregorys7800]

Ah bapply