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The Russian Election of Mar. 1918 (4th Soviet Congress) | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
In this series I will be outlining every election in Russian/Soviet history. In this episode, we will discuss the debate surrounding the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in the lead-up to the Fourth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.
Timestamps
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 00:45 - Debate on Peace
- 02:00 - Left Communists
- 03:22 - "Neither Peace Nor War"
- 04:02 - Operation Faustschlag
- 04:28 - Vote on Brest-Litovsk
- 05:09 - Treaty Aftermath
- 06:42 - Election
- 07:00 - Results
Inspired by the following series:
- Mr. Beat (American Elections): czcams.com/play/PLHtE7NbaKRefBOp4I9e4NLY_1_d4Csf_w.html
- Sam Aronow (Israeli Elections): czcams.com/play/PL8Bhn80b5UU73USC-E9mkN2srsKvoapQP.html
Visual sources:
- Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library: www.prlib.ru/
- Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), directed by Dziga Vertov
- Kinonedelja, no. 1-5, directed by Dziga Vertov
- Colorized photos: klimbim2014.wordpress.com/
Music source:
- www.allmusic.com/album/prokofiev-summer-night-seven-they-are-seven-the-meeting-of-the-volga-and-the-don-etc-mw0002177568
Noj links: linktr.ee/nojraps
Instagram: nojraps
Music Channel: www.youtube.com/@nojraps
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Primary Sources:
- Archives of the following newspapers: Izvestiia, Vechernii chas.
- Bukharin, N., ed. Leninskiy sbornik, vol. 11. Moscow, 1929.
- Lenin, Vladimir. Collected Works, 45 vols. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1960-70.
- Saveliev, M. A., ed. Protokoly Tsentral'nogo komiteta RSDRP. Avgust 1917-Fevral' 1918, Moscow: State Publishing House, 1929.
- Sed'moy ekstrennyy s"yezd RKP(b): Stenograficheskiy otcheta. Moscow: State Publishing House, 1962.
- Shestoy s"yezd RSDRP: Protokoly. Moscow, 1958.
- Stenograficheskiy otchet 4-go chrezvychaynogo s"yezda sovetov. Moscow: State Publishing House, 1920.
Secondary Sources:
- Brovkin, Vladimir. The Mensheviks After October: Socialist Opposition and the Rise of the Bolshevik Dictatorship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
- Daniels, Robert V. The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia. Boulder: Westview, 1988.
- Draper, Hal. Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Vol. 2. Delhi: Aakar, 2011.
- Duval, Charles. "Iakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov: Founder of the Bolshevik Party Machine." In Reconsiderations on the Russian Revolution, ed. Roger E. Kanet, 211-240. Cambridge: Slavica Publishers, 1976.
- Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution. London: The Bodley Head, 2017.
- Georgdaze, M. P., ed. S"yezdy Sovetov RSFSR i avtonomnykh respublik RSFSR: Sbornik dokumentov, 1917-1922 gg. Vol. 1. Moscow: Jurizdat, 1959.
- Häfner, Lutz, and Hannu Immonen. "Russian Political Parties in the Russian Revolution of 1917-18." In A Companion to the Revolution, ed. Daniel Orlovsky. Hoboken, Wiley, 2020.
- Kotkin, Stephen. Statin. Vol. 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. New York: Penguin Press, 2014.
- Kowalski, Ronald I. The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991.
- Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
- Rosenberg, William G. “Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power After October.” Slavic Review 44, no. 2 (1985): 213-238.
- Sakwa, Richard. Soviet Politics in Perspective, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1998.
- Swain, Geoffrey. "A Soviet Government?" In A Companion to the Russian Revolution, ed. Daniel Orlovsky, 337-346. Hoboken: Wiley, 2020.
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Komentáře

  • @trkuak
    @trkuak Před 23 hodinami

    It's funny that they could have fixed this perfectly just by asking the country's history teachers.

  • @karaltar7914
    @karaltar7914 Před dnem

    As an Austrian I can confirm that I do not give a shit.

  • @jasperkok7079
    @jasperkok7079 Před dnem

    Why xvideos bro 0:06

  • @festival4101
    @festival4101 Před dnem

    This explains why Russia remained dangerous to lead, and it shows it was difficult to lead that place and hence Stalin behavior

  • @dustin2423
    @dustin2423 Před dnem

    Bro really said: 🤓☝️

  • @The_Gokturk
    @The_Gokturk Před 2 dny

    WHAT IS HAPPENIIIIING

  • @CorvunArmedCarDriver

    austia hungary got that flag after 1967 leteraly 2 years after italian union and changed the name and flag from hasburg empire to austrian empire and it got chnaged edit: but the official of all the land was the austria hungary

  • @benlee822
    @benlee822 Před 2 dny

    I mean if it is a civil flag then it is supposed to be used this way as in the past

  • @real.MinatoYellowFlash

    I love this channel ngl.

  • @Khyrid
    @Khyrid Před 3 dny

    He may have been a criminal and a mass murderer, but he had great hair.

  • @PETRIXXXX
    @PETRIXXXX Před 4 dny

    what is this garbage background music LOL

  • @Anonymuskid
    @Anonymuskid Před 4 dny

    Imagine making a 11 minute video complaining, instead of simply correcting it your self in one lol

  • @arivandiver7580
    @arivandiver7580 Před 4 dny

    lol, this video is sourced on the Flags page for Austria-Hungary

  • @Simurated
    @Simurated Před 4 dny

    dude, please release this song

  • @PasiguenoMapper
    @PasiguenoMapper Před 4 dny

    Wikipedia also has the pasig city flag wrong, the background is supposed to be dark green, not lime, i saw the real flag in person since i live in the city.

  • @rocknrollmilitant
    @rocknrollmilitant Před 5 dny

    How do you decide what colors to use when you make your diagrams?

    • @nojrants
      @nojrants Před 5 dny

      If they had an official or associated color I'll try to use that (although that no longer works well at this point in the series, since virtually everybody uses red). I'll also consider the general rules of associating certain colors with ideologies (blue for conservatism, green for agrarian parties, etc). Then I adjust as needed to ensure the colors are different enough and somewhat aesthetically pleasing (e.g. making the Mensheviks different shades of red/orange so there's a gradient).

    • @rocknrollmilitant
      @rocknrollmilitant Před 4 dny

      Have you considered uploading your diagrams to Wikipedia Commons? They don't seem to have any for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

    • @rocknrollmilitant
      @rocknrollmilitant Před 3 dny

      @@nojrants I'd do it myself but I'm not sure which colors to use.

    • @nojrants
      @nojrants Před 2 dny

      @@rocknrollmilitant I've considered that (as well as editing the Wikipedia election pages in general), but it seems to me like it's difficult to get such things accepted on there. The seat counts for all these early Soviet elections are pretty loose, and Wikipedia tends to not accept seat charts for elections unless the counts are strongly substantiated/agreed upon.

  • @Choicexband
    @Choicexband Před 5 dny

    the west literally rigged the yeltsin election

  • @illiteratethug3305
    @illiteratethug3305 Před 5 dny

    Around the world, around the woooo-ooorld

  • @ronmackinnon9374
    @ronmackinnon9374 Před 5 dny

    Misleading headline for this video. '...was brought to court' makes it sound as though Stalin was the defendant in the case, rather than the plaintiff.

  • @ronmackinnon9374
    @ronmackinnon9374 Před 6 dny

    What's that about 'spiriot' at 0:33? The newspaper was called 'Vpered' ('forward').

    • @nojrants
      @nojrants Před 6 dny

      Yes the name of the newspaper is spelled "Vpered", which is pronounced like that (at least as best as I can say it).

    • @ronmackinnon9374
      @ronmackinnon9374 Před 5 dny

      @@nojrants 'Vperyod' would be the more phonetic transliteration. Just pretend you're saying 'peer-YOD,' while sticking a 'v' sound at the very beginning (or an 'f' sound if that's easier -- but not an 's').

  • @wilhelmbittrich88
    @wilhelmbittrich88 Před 6 dny

    Now tis is a little bit of history that doesn't ever get mentioned.

  • @RaidersDnB
    @RaidersDnB Před 7 dny

    Everyone listening with todays ears get the Beatles wrong The reason the Beatles were so big, popular successful and revolutionary was that they appeared with new innovations and sounds and technological revolutions. you would have to acclimatise to all and only the music that came before each album or event and then listen again to have a chance at grasping what it sounded like at the time First would be the Ed Sullivan show - everyone I speak to (I work in the Beatles industry in Liverpool but I’m only 36) from America who saw that show said it was like nothing they’d seen or heard up to that point Then the mania The humour - and the completely unpolished media interactions Then the songwriting on rubber soul and revolver Then the kaleidoscope of sgt pepper - which will unfortunately never ever have the same effect on people ever again (case in point it continues to slide down the GOAT albums lists each decade after at least two decades glued to the number 1 spot as it was so fresh in the minds of the public) Unfortunately future generations are not going to understand- and will have to take the word of the people - like me who weren’t there but spoke to those at length who were there

  • @MK-jc6us
    @MK-jc6us Před 7 dny

    Your single source of truth seems to be Brovkin ? All your videos are almost exclusively based on Brovkin's work (which is not brillant, judging by his videos on youtube). Btw your framing of the whole scene is very partial and hardly related to a judicial case. OK we got this is a pro-Martov and anti-Stalinist video. You don't need to pretend any half-baked objectivity.

    • @JB4489-nu2qs
      @JB4489-nu2qs Před 5 dny

      Do you have a substantive example of how the video is biased or unobjective? On what grounds are you calling the framing wrong? Or are you just assuming that it's wrong because it's not positive for Stalin?

    • @MK-jc6us
      @MK-jc6us Před 4 dny

      @@JB4489-nu2qs Well judging not only by this video, but many of the videos the same author already posted. It is always the same basic framing. Bolsheviks are bad and we do not even see criticisms on everyone else. I guess all Mensheviks, SRs, Anarchists, or even Kadets were flawless dudes. All accusations enjoy the benefit of doubt but in favour of those accusing the Bolsheviks. I already commented on ohter videos that fact that most of the newspapers quoted here are from émigrés and they were not even based in Russia. Hard to believe they had all the details they claimed to have. Another use said that the papers are indeed Russian, I asked for evidence that suggests that, but I am still waiting for his reply.

    • @JB4489-nu2qs
      @JB4489-nu2qs Před 4 dny

      @@MK-jc6us What about in the very first episode where he pointed out the right-wing massacred thousands of people?

    • @user98344
      @user98344 Před 3 dny

      ​@@MK-jc6usIs Pravda anti-communist?

    • @MK-jc6us
      @MK-jc6us Před 19 hodinami

      @@JB4489-nu2qs I believe you are ignoring the basic framing of not only this, but all his videos as a whole. The Bolshevik framing is essentially negative and the other forces are practically not mentioned or framed as not so bad when compared to the Bolsheviks. But well, each one is entitled to have his own opinion on those videos. For me it is clear that the intent is to portray the Whites as a better "what if" alternative to the Reds.

  • @The_Gallowglass
    @The_Gallowglass Před 7 dny

    Stalin was the biggest crime lord. Period.

  • @inabruzzowithme7877

    Ah, I've left Wikipedia a while ago but miss the whiffs of napalm coming off the edit wars about obscure topics.

  • @user-ld7lp5oy1i
    @user-ld7lp5oy1i Před 8 dny

    What? Corruption in communism?

  • @senerzen
    @senerzen Před 8 dny

    Isn't this already in use? Value of existing money deprecates when Central Banks increase the money supply. If you hoarded 1000 dollars 50 years ago, you hoarded a lot of money at the time but now that money isn't much. No need to collect stamps to tell you that. Seems to be just a cumbersome method. What am I missing? How is that any different?

  • @ReboursCVT
    @ReboursCVT Před 8 dny

    lmao Finnish "Gulag rape roleplay" Bolshevik tried making a response to this video.

    • @panoskatrin4910
      @panoskatrin4910 Před 8 dny

      finnishbolshevik is making a 7 video series on the early history of the revolution which also adress the sources and agruments of this video using liberal communist and anticommunist sources not just an article by an anticommunist like this video has.All of the sources he writes in the description of the video is just a copy paste of the sources the article cites.The video is not a response its actually trying to educate people like you who have read 1984 and now think its an actual historical source about the ussr

    • @ReboursCVT
      @ReboursCVT Před 8 dny

      @@panoskatrin4910 Hop off my dick

    • @jsmedia-ww6gb
      @jsmedia-ww6gb Před 8 dny

      @@panoskatrin4910 Imo FinBol was just trying to poison the well by writing-off the sourcing of this video, but his comments can be easily shown to be untrue. For the claim that all the sources are just copy-pasted from one article, you can check that in five seconds by opening the article yourself and seeing that most of those sources aren't in the article...or the fact that some weren't even written yet when the article was published. He dismisses the book Mensheviks After October as just the article reprinted, even though MAO is an updated and expanded version with information before and after (350 pages versus 40 pages). Why does he focus on the earlier article? Because the later books/articles include new evidence, and FinBol is trying to frame this video as lacking any "real" evidence. For example, FinBol uses a quote from Brovkin's 1983 article about how he didn't have access to the Soviet Archives, ignoring the fact that Noj's other sources published later DID use the Soviet archives (Melancon, Smith, etc, who were building off Brovkin's initial thesis). Basically every book in the description published after the 1980s uses Soviet archives. He dismisses all the newspapers and such as just copy-pasted from Brovkin, even though again, not all those newspapers are mentioned in Brovkin's article (some are to be fair). He also completely ignores the fact that there are a bunch of other primary sources, including the actual documents published by the Soviet oblasts (the "Ustanovleniye sovetskoy vlasti" series). It's clear to see that Noj used a mix of anti-communist and pro-communist authors, such as Mints for the latter (who FinBol also uses).

    • @ema20236
      @ema20236 Před 8 dny

      I doubt FinBol's response will mean much. He gets half the views of this channel, despite having almost 4x the subscribers. FinBol's channel lost a lot of steam after he was caught doing that sexting with a minor.

    • @user98344
      @user98344 Před 7 dny

      ​@@ema20236Really?

  • @user98344
    @user98344 Před 9 dny

    I just want to to know that a guy called the Finish Bolshevik responded to your video about the Soviets.

  • @parallax9084
    @parallax9084 Před 9 dny

    Your dishonest video was destroyed by FinBol 😂

    • @parallax9084
      @parallax9084 Před 8 dny

      @@Autrevml yeah, but those are merely the details

    • @ema20236
      @ema20236 Před 8 dny

      @@parallax9084 Yeah the details don't matter. It's about owning the libs, Comrade Autrevml, not about the facts themselves.

    • @justren-mn8br
      @justren-mn8br Před 8 dny

      I hate how "dishonest" has become an insult for videos that we dislike, rather than well, when there's dishonesty. I came to check out this video after seeing the response, and I don't see what suggests Noj is "dishonest", even if you think this video is wrong. On the other hand, while I watch FinBol and agree with many points he makes, if anyone is a dishonest actor it would be him. There's no denying his bias (it's in the name), and he will misquote/misrepresent things to that end. He dismissed a bunch of sources as not credible, while misrepresenting or selectively quoting others, and it seems like he plays around with the timeline (talking about actions in Arkhangelsk that occurred in August 1918 or after, in reply to a video about the Spring of 1918). He might not even be wrong about a point, but I'm just saying he additionally manipulates information to make it, which I consider being dishonest.

    • @parallax9084
      @parallax9084 Před 7 dny

      @@justren-mn8br both you and Noj are dishonest. And you are pretending to be a "socialist" while spreading some kind of anarchist menshevike self-own about the Bolsheviks being putchist and anti-soviet. You are Nojs manipulative little lackey and moderator and I can clearly tell that you know that Finny indisptuably disproved and disspelled effectively all of the dishonest claims you and Noj made. You have also deleted my comments before. And you also claimed that most of Nojs video wasnt text to speech of Brovkin which was curbed as well. You are merely grapsing at straws in something you dont even believe in. And you are fueling an opprutinist infantile disorder which seeks to mud the history of the peoples revolution against the very same Opprutunists and Traitors that you are successor to.

    • @justren-mn8br
      @justren-mn8br Před 6 dny

      @@parallax9084 Are you ok bro? I was just giving my opinion of both channels, as a subscriber of both. I'm not anyone's lackey or moderator. Idk what half of your comment means but good luck with that.

  • @hyungsubshim
    @hyungsubshim Před 10 dny

    "Ehn-zine" is killing me. Ehn-son or ehn-sign please.

  • @stooge389
    @stooge389 Před 10 dny

    There is no line in how far one should go to criticize Stalin. Criticism, constructive OR destructive, is the basis for all political communication. Without criticism, progress in ANY direction is impossible, let alone deciding what direction to progress in, LET ALONE actually MAKING any progress. The diversity of opinions naturally tends towards working itself out, no matter how disparate and antithetical- IF everyone can agree to let speech that is not inherently dangerous- (like, if you're at a football game and you start shouting "BOMB THERE'S A BOMB" so everyone panics- people literally can and probably will die in the ensuing chaotic stampede; this is the quintessential example of limits on free speech in the US, often referred to as shouting "FIRE!" in a movie theater- but honestly movie theaters aren't that big, they all have emergency fire exits at the back end, there's the front entrance, and much more advanced fire suppression systems than existed when that case was adjudicated, so I think the bomb example is a better one for the present day, even though it's not a case that's been tried- it's inherently MUCH worse of an example than fire in a Movie theater. Another example is direct threats of violence, such as that Indian lady who told Republican senators "we will come to your house and kill you"- that's ABSOLUTELY unacceptable. She did it in public, to their faces, too. That's literally what the officer-of-the-law is there for. I mean, he's also there to shoot terrorists and stuff, but usually no one just walks up to a Senator and goes "I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU", so she got arrested, she'll stand trial, and will do serious prison time, because it's illegal to do that to ANYONE- it's just WAY easier to prove when she did it at a public forum, in front of a police officer, in front of an audience and the Senators themselves, at a forum that was literally being live streamed, MUCH easier to get a conviction (read: "literally as close to guaranteed as any criminal case can ever be in America") than if she confronted her neighbor in the alley and did the same, because in the latter case, it would be a "he-said-she-said", and there ARE ways of working out who's telling the truth, but it's just a lot more work than if someone is stupid enough to literally tell a senator they're going to kill them in front of a police officer. THESE are the kinds of limits that exist on Freedom of Speech. Fairly narrow, aside from slander, defamation, and libel laws, which, due to abuse by people like Donald Trump, who use frivolous litigation to silenc- sorry, USED to use frivolous litigation to silence anyone that he doesn't like(he can't afford it anymore lol) have ubiquitously become narrower and narrower over time since their passing. That's why it's SUCH a big deal when someone is found guilty, like Trump was, of Defamation- because there are REALLY, REALLY FUCKING HIGH standards of what it takes for that kind of judgement. [Sidebar: Anti-BDS laws are COMPLETELY unconstitutional; that is almost literally the definition of an unconstitutional law limiting freedom of speech, expression, and choice.]) be spoken, and all parties involved can agree to disagree, AND all parties involved both choose not to do violence because of speech, and, when they get angry (because politics almost ALWAYS makes SOMEBODY angry- it's literally so fucking important it'd be weirder if you DIDN'T get angry about it sometimes) restrain themselves from making bad choices, you get to a place where you begin to understand why Churchill said: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for every other kind of government". Because governing is never easy. It's so unimaginably complex at the highest levels that the average person LITERALLY cannot understand what's going on, even if the leader just says it all straight-up, there's ALWAYS missing context, ALWAYS room for backroom manipulations, and most importantly- even when speaking the same dialect of the same language with someone you've known your entire life, with whom you agree on basically everything- there is ALWAYS room for misunderstanding and misinterpretation.

  • @stooge389
    @stooge389 Před 10 dny

    7:05 This is outrageous! It's unfair!

  • @user-uh8fu3mb9l
    @user-uh8fu3mb9l Před 10 dny

    Whatever the cost, the Bolsheviks fulfilled their promise of immediate land redistribution, industrial nationalization, and an end to war. Yet the cost turned out to be too much for everyone...

  • @adamgadbaw7747
    @adamgadbaw7747 Před 11 dny

    Nothing a commie fears more then honesty and a free press

  • @MrCram
    @MrCram Před 11 dny

    Lots of questions incoming: Do you know any good books on the development of the red guards from its antedecets to the fundation of the red army? How they came to be, how were theh organized, etc. . . Also, do you know if the bolcheviks still engaged in mass work by this point? Are there any writen cronichel on thw regular functions and workings of a soviet before 1917? Like a worker explaining what was talk on a meeting, for example.

    • @nojrants
      @nojrants Před 6 dny

      A good book to check out for the emergence of the Red Guards is "Red Guards and Workers' Militias in the Russian Revolution" by Rex A. Wade. Allan Wildman also has a two-volume work that might be helpful, called "The End of the Russian Imperial Army". The second volume in particular talks about the early formation of the Red Guards. Yes the Bolsheviks engaged in mass work heavily in this period, spearheaded by the party's growing propaganda department. As for chronicles about the Revolution and the inner-workings of a soviet, one of my favorite accounts is Nikolai Sukhanov's "The Russian Revolution", although it gives more of a top-down view since Sukhanov became a leader in the Soviet Congress. There's a memoir by Nikolai Podviosky called "God 1917 [Year 1917]" which might be helpful for the formation as the Red Army as well, since Podviosky was an early Soviet military leader, although I'm not sure if it's been translated into English. You might also find interesting "A Sentimental Journey" by Viktor Shklovsky, who was a soldiers' deputy to the Petrograd Soviet. Thank you for the questions, I hope that helps!

  • @columbiayore2522
    @columbiayore2522 Před 11 dny

    "Are they booing me?" "Ugh, no comrade Lenin, they're saying BOOO-lsheviks!"

  • @jaccopor8585
    @jaccopor8585 Před 12 dny

    Stalin was a Saint. To say he did anything bad is pure slander!

  • @billiem2372
    @billiem2372 Před 12 dny

    Lenin was a dictator who corrupted the very clay of the revolution against tsarist oppression into a throne. In simple words, he didn't want progress, he just wanted to be the one holding the whip

    • @SwePol
      @SwePol Před 11 dny

      Well said.

    • @parallax9084
      @parallax9084 Před 7 dny

      Watch FinnishBolsheviks response to this video. This video is nothing but Historical revisionism and dishonesty.

    • @Wishowni-zq3su
      @Wishowni-zq3su Před 6 dny

      @@parallax9084 Lmao I'm sure a guy named "FinnishBolshevik" is definitely not biased toward the Bolsheviks or engaging in any historical revisionism

    • @parallax9084
      @parallax9084 Před 4 dny

      @@Wishowni-zq3su this is historical revisionism. Obviously Finny is biased? Though Finny never states any of his opinions. He states historical truth. And debunks Brovkins historical revisionism

    • @ema20236
      @ema20236 Před 4 dny

      ​@@parallax9084 What a coincidence, the guy who is a Bolshevik and you agree with just so happens to be the one stating historical truth on the Bolsheviks!

  • @svihl666
    @svihl666 Před 12 dny

    9:41 / 9:41

  • @carlgrundy5243
    @carlgrundy5243 Před 12 dny

    I thought that the cival flag was the national flag when I was a bit smaller but I have understood that it isn't for many years now and I like to see that people actually care.

  • @lukaswilhelm9290
    @lukaswilhelm9290 Před 13 dny

    The consequence of Habsburgs inbreeding has been disastrous for wikipedia community.

  • @Winslinator
    @Winslinator Před 13 dny

    Guy needs to be banned, I don't care if he's a admin

  • @Gooberpatrol66
    @Gooberpatrol66 Před 13 dny

    Inflation caused by fractional reserve banking already effectively accomplishes this

  • @northatlanticcommonwealth1188

    What was the song at the beginning?

    • @nojrants
      @nojrants Před 3 dny

      The song at the very beginning is called "Time, Forward!" It was the opening theme for a 1980s Soviet television program called "Vremya", which the introduction is parodying. If you're talking about after 0:17, that's me doing a cover of "Computer Love" by Kraftwerk.

  • @lightnightpod173
    @lightnightpod173 Před 13 dny

    bro hit us with the jason unruhe intro.

  • @bostonbosniadetroit5723

    This video is reddit

  • @depressedmidlifecrisistimm3043

    Just imagine if Bukharin was the leader of the Soviet Union

  • @Korona_1
    @Korona_1 Před 15 dny

    Have you ever considered or done anything on the Makhnovists?

    • @nojrants
      @nojrants Před 14 dny

      Yes I wouldn't be opposed to making a dedicated video on them. Perhaps when the election series reaches that point, it'll likely be warranted.

  • @U.Inferno
    @U.Inferno Před 15 dny

    A particularly fun Wikipedia War is Maize vs Corn on the English wiki. There have been 6 different discussions over the past 17 years about if the page should be called Corn. Oldest June 2007. Newest is February 2023.