The Cold War & Decolonization - History Summarized
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August of 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. So I wanted to make a video about that. That was a bad idea...
What do you get when a Classically-Minded historian ventures about 2,000 years outside of their comfort zone? A mess. A well-intentioned mess is what you get. BUT a mess that we can learn from! So join me as we dig into the aftermath of the Second World War to analyze the origins of the Cold War and the decolonization of European Empires.
SOURCES & Further Reading: "The Cold War" by Gaddis, "The Wars of French Decolonization" by Clayton, "British decolonization, 1946-1997" by McIntyre, "The Cold War's Killing Fields" by Chamberlin, "The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction" by McMahon, and "Crash Course European History [Parts 42-47]" by Green.
This video was edited by Sophia Ricciardi AKA "Indigo". www.sophiakricci.com/
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Some clarifications:
North Africa did of course see conflict, the pacific did get occupied - even the places that *didn't* (eg: India) still paid for the war. Damn double-negatives.
That weird Romania-Hungary-Russia border is a holdover from WWII. The border lasted until 1946 and was changed in 1947. Later in the video you'll see the more familiar borders.
Indonesia declared Independence in 1945 (Like Vietnam), but the Netherlands didn't withdraw until 1949, hence my mention of '49.
Don't read my username.
Ok Now Overly Sarcastic Productions, please and I say again PLEASE do some History on Australia or atleast Oceania as a whole
@@hydrogenatom4624 IT'S A TRAP
Man modern history gets difficult, I prefer to just have one source and that’s all we have to go of, some monk writing in his shack about king x being a dumb dumb and now king x will be remembered as the dumb king for all of human history, way more fun
Overly Sarcastic Productions
Yeah, I was confused when you said North Africa didn't see any conflict; like hello "North Africa Campaign." But nice to see you out a clarification.
Vampires hate crosses and garlic
Blue hates modern history, and anything not Venice
I mean who doesn't?
I hate Venice
VENETIA DELENDA EST
They must pay for there crimes against Romanity
@@byzantineboi8345 Understandable have a nice 1400s
Don’t forget ninjas. Blue hates Ninjas
@@desmond1751 He hates them so much he refuses to admit that they did infact exist
This feels very modern and I don't now how I feel about that. I prefer my history to be a long time ago -in a galaxy far, far away.-
But what about the Droid attack on the Wookiees?
@Unknown gacha woosh
@Unknown gacha my man is literally probably from a muslim country which got rekt by colonized judging by everything he knows by islam
I like how Obi-wan is a reoccurring character in these comments. Lmao
@@newboland4664 Well thank you! I do my best and quite enjoy being a reoccurring character!
“I’m going to go bother my pet kitten with fun facts about Florence”
“Why Father?”
I died at that
One can only imagine how Cleo lives with Blue.
A mountain of catnip?
I wish he'd bother me with fun facts about Florence :(
He has become a father, it is only a matter of time before the Cold War and WWII obsession invades his brain. You can see it happening even now!
I was looking for this comment
Vietnam: We declare independence
France: No you don't
Vietnam: D I D I S T T U T E R
Quote from the Vietnamese to the French: *WELCOME TO THE RICE FIELDS MOTHERFRICKER*
China: I agree with France.
"We have learned from Vietnam.... STAY OUT OF VIETNAM."
You're about to!
“You’ll be back”
You can hear the discomfort in "modern" :D
I remember in a much older video her mentioned he didn't like morden history as much.
He mentioned it in passing and I can't recall which video this was in although it's most likely either trope talk miscellaneous mythology or history summary.
Id check the first 2 I listed first back then I didn't watch the history videos as much as I do now
Yeah Blue sounds very uncomfortable 😆
Jo Ed wasn’t it the Japanese Imperial part that made him uncomfortable or was that just in the comment section?
Yeah I was shocked when I saw this video as he hated talking about modern events
@@brytonwallis4817 what are you talking about?
I didn't make any reference to imperialism.
US and USSR: There’s no actual fighting going on, so we’re just gonna call it a Cold War.
All the 3rd world countries caught in the middle: Ah that’s hot! That’s hot...
Angola and Mozambique: 40 years of straight war from 1961 to the 2000s.
@@markhenley3097 Guatemala: 40 years of war and genocide.
People care less when non-white people die
Vietnamese here, yeah, it's hot, alright.
US and USSR : We're against colonialism.
_laughs in wilsonian interventionism and revolutions_
"Instead these conflicts played out via a series of proxy wars"
"Peru: '80 - "
I'm guessing this was just meant to be '80 but I like to imagine there's an ongoing Cold War proxy going on in Peru to this day that everyone just kind of forgot about
I don’t know how nobody is commenting or liking this comment yet
Quite like, Peru had the Sendero Luminoso guerrila aterrorizing the country in FARC-leves until mid-90s
I mean technically it’s true of Colombia so I could see that happening to Peru...
Sendero is still active, although it's nowhere near as powerful as they used to be
The '80 - means 1980 to present. Plenty of would be dictators are still clinging to Communism because it's a great front to hide behind so they can murder anyone they want, kidnap anyone they want, and steal anything they want in the name of state security and nationalism. In a true communist society no one would be a politician.
It always gives me immense joy when I think about how 30 years or so plus years in the future some poor history undergrad is going to do a project on 2020 and loose their damn mind
*the entire '20s
will they? i mean there are two big events so far: pandemic and ukraine invasion
at least for western historians
others will probably cover shit in their respective continents
@@shronkler1994 Dude - the comment was before both happened
“I will need a much bigger world map” Well I have the perfect solution for you!
How do you feel about the soviets not directly controlling Moldavia?
OSP: “We need a bigger map.”
EmperorTigerstar: “Now this looks like a job for me.”
@@lilholm9446 wtf how did you time travel
edit: nvm
Go, my Map Emperor! 👍👍👍
Emperortigerstar what are you doing here?
9:12
English: Gasp
French: *LE* Gasp
This is the kind of high quality intellectual comedy I subscribed for 😂
Sacre Blue
@@mathieuleader8601 non sacre bleu a l'Minecraft server
I'm personally a fan of what I'm pretty sure was Nazi Germany saying "haha, I'm in danger" in German
@@raiknightshade3442 you're right :)
It would be really fun if Blue went through every event in "We Didn't Start the Fire" and explained each event.
6:56 is that the opening chords to 'you'll be back'?
Genius
I think so, it's brilliant
omg I thought I was the only who thought that!!
YOULL BE BACK SOON YOULL SEE 🎶🎶🎶🎶
"Today I'm going to make a terrible mistake..."
Ah so it's going to be an absolutely amazing video, got it.
Natamyron
I can only imagine Blue beating his head against the wall after recording this.
Sorry, Blue.
Yeah simplify modern history in all it complexity
Don't read my username.
"I will need a much bigger worldmap"
Hopefully not with all the detail of Venice/Italy, that would kill you amd Indigo
Don't read my username.
@@hydrogenatom4624 mist epic rick roll ever
@@DJ-ks4kq spoilers
(Laughs in MBAM)
"Europe is, inconceivably, at peace."
*Glances furtively at Ukraine
Me (a liberal Brit): looks worriedly at his own house.
This comment did not age well at all
@@willphoenix5464 indeed.
@@willphoenix5464 It really didn't age well!
Captain Science it has aged like a glass of fine milk
"Europe is inconceivably at peace" in this particular context hits differently a year and change later.
Aged like abandoned chemical weapons.
The Cold war, the world's most intense staring contest.
this is oddly accurate
Since the USSR and USA are 2 sides of the same coin, how can they state at each other when they are facing in opposite directions?
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 large mirrors
@@coreytaylor447 and spies, one of which could be a triple agent playing both sides like a fiddle
@@granmastersword Not just spies, the entire ruling class cooperated to get more for themselves.
Growing up during the Cold War was... difficult. Not to say other generations had it better, but it definitely changed the way you thought. It was drilled into you that nuclear war was inevitable, that the leaders on both sides were too stupid to understand what they were playing with. At any moment, you would hear the sirens or the radio/tv go emergency broadcast. And *that noise* meant the missiles were already on their way and you had 10 minutes left. Any moment you could hear it, and everything will be dead...
10 minutes from now.
10 minutes from now.
10 minutes from now.
"This is the emergency broadcast network. This is not a drill. God help us all."
That is one of the things I'm genuinely thankful for as a millennial/gen z( the distinction is really fuzzy) like, I know the climate is fucked and capitalism doesn't really give a fuck about anything but itself, but at least I'm not gonna get nuked
What is even the point of giving out that warning? 10 minutes is not enough time to get away from a missile strike. "You're about to die, have fun panicking and crying about it." Like if I'm about to die from a nuke, please just let me die in peace. Don't torture me with letting me know I have a few minutes left. Are older gens pissed about this? I would be.
@@FS-qk5uq You can survive if you can get to an underground cement bunker within those 10mins, shelter in there for the next few weeks so the radiation levels cool down from fatal to possible long term damage (depends on how far you were from the center) then you're good money
@@FS-qk5uq Honestly, the *prior* gen, the one that was actually in control of the nukes, were still of the mindset that if you got underneath a metal desk (or into a refrigerator, that thing with Indiana Jones actually came from a real belief back in the 60's) you'd be fine. In the 70's primary schools in Canada were still shown black-and-white films in history and science class about 'shelter in place and everything will be fine', while the teachers (and TV) were a lot more 'don't bother, you're all dead already. We're just waiting to be told when to stop moving.'
@@agustinvenegas5238 Sorry to spoil the dream, but the political agreements (START) that ended the nuke-arms race and minimized the risk of nuclear holocaust are null and void, and have been for close to a year. Thank Trump and Putin for that one. and now trump wants to start Nuclear tests to build bigger nukes again. Buckle up, Its cold war 2.0! xD
I can't believe you didn't cover the thing at the place! It's my favorite part of modern history!
That little hint of Hamilton's "You'll be back" was just what I needed
Ah modern history, where as a Canadian, I have to mentally add "and Canada" to the list of participating nations
Well, you're just automatically included as America's Hat.
Same!!
Same except its “and Australia” (WORK WORK)
I think that section was supposed to be countries that were still actively British colonies. Although Australia and Canada did absolutely fight for the Brits, we were both technically independent and fought as their allies, not their colonies.
Yea, sorry aboot dat, eh?
“Most people’s living memory” *laughs in generation z*
same here
Yup lol, this video covered about 4 months of my life lmao
I was 6 in the year 2000. I remember basically none of this too.
Hey, isn't it past your bedtime? At least here in formerly British-German sector.
The Soviet Union only fell in 91!
I love how you guys consistently use story terminology in history like "plotlines".
To make things even more complicated, throughout much of this period there was a "Non-Aligned Movement", which was more-or-less an effort to try to tell the USA and USSR "We're not playing your game!" Players in that faction included India, Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Indonesia.
The USA and USSR largely ignored those declarations whenever it suited them.
We're going to need some Neolithic history to maintain balance now
The funny thing is neolithic trade routes would need just as big a map.
Ooooh I'm all for this!
You know what? That would slap
Considering we call that Pre-History, I'm picking they'd need a third presenter; named either Grey, Brown or Ochre.
I'd love a video on the first cities we know about or on early Aboriginal history
A lot of people seem to forget that the Japanese emperor is still the head of state, while his removal was a proposed surrender demand, it wasn't in the final version.
I've also heard a lot of people (including one of my former history professor TAs) try to say the Allies built the Berlin wall and were the ones putting up guard towers and barbed wire.
"Spain and portugal had their own things going on..."
ahh, Salazar, the man that ruled portugal with an iron fist, ruling by fear of the secret police, PIDE,
"trust no one" wasn't just a line back then, speak badly of the regime, or make one enemy too many and someone would report you,
never mind if it was true or not, you would't be seen again.
He's also, now better know to the outside world, as the inspiration for Slytherin's first name in the Harry Potter books.
At this point, it's very easy to forget that fascism in Europe lasted longer than 1945. (And ironically survived due to their anti-Communist stance) Even Japan democratized earlier than Spain/Portugal did.
@@HenryMidfields in general the history of Iberia, both modern and ancient, is really because they have "their own thing going on" a lot. From the Moors to Francisco Franco, they are sort of like the rest of Europe, but not quite.
@@michaelhibbard654 True, we may be fellow Latin Europeans, but we have a notable Muslim heritage. It was moorish naval knowledge that led the Portuguese and later Spanish to innovate in the field and sail across the world unchallanged for two centuries. Go to notably the south of Portugal and maybe also Spain and you'll see many places with Arabic origin of name, notably the "Al-" prefix. This also applies to wording, I rest my head in an almofada when I go to sleep. I study algebra at school and go eat alface with alfarroba for lunch. Al al al.
Then yeah, when becoming democratic was hip, we stayed isolated from Europe as the last authoritarian western European states, which the Portuguese dictator Salazar put to words: "Orgulhosamente sós", meaning proudly alone.
It is, admittedly and literally, A LOT. Your courage is admirable, as is your patience.
ORORORORO!!! I spend half of my day sleeping! ORORORO!!! Then I sometimes get up and tell you that I am a famous content creatorORORORORO!!! Please don't sleep while driving, dear mike
@@AxxLAfriku Keep the long-game in mind. Impossible to see the future with tears in ones eyes.
^above also applies to driving metaphor.
@@AxxLAfriku it's pronounced "ORA!". MUDA! Heh.
@sluttyMapleSyrup MUDA! RODDARORRER-DA!
My favorite thing to think about is remembering that this all happened so absurdly recently, and yet it feels like a whole other world
In our grandparent's lives Britain still controlled over 20% of the World. Crazy to think.
Even though I wasn't born in the 90's, I feel like the end of the war is very recent....
Yeah, this part of history is so close that you can reach out and touch it. It's wild
For sure. I'm in my 40s and have several uncles who fought in WWII. My late father (1921-2002) was a radio operator on the USS Nevada when Pearl Harbor was bombed in December '41. He was reported missing for about a week.
On a side note, I used to wonder how anyone could allow such an obviously psychotic madman like Hitler to take power... but then Trump came along and unfortunately I don't have to wonder anymore.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 economic pressure and unfair rules for germans after ww1 at the time made sure the majority were in need of a saviour. When Hitler showed up with his speech skills and hopeful promises it makes sense why majority of germans supported him, add to the fact that anyone who doesn't support him were humiliated and insulted.
I'm crying at 9:50 where Blue sayd "influence was the new hotness" because it reminds me of when people online say shit like "I'm not a celebrity, I'm an _~influencer~_ "
"So the theoretical aim of “everything belong to everyone” looked a little more like “E V E R Y T H I N G B E L O N G T O S T A T E ! " Was hilarious, blue needs to do more accents. that was soooo~ funny!
The pain in Blue's voice when he said 'modern history' 😂😂 it's okay bud, we got you
Great video!
The history books are going to be interesting in 20 years time, won’t they...
Depends on which history book will be sold where you're at vs elsewhere.
@@Argacyan if the book even has a price....
"So around the first week of 2021 is when 'full-body hazmat suits' became mainstream fashion, when Smallpox found a way to escape the labs that had previously been containing them for research."
The Syrian refugee crisis, global warming, president Trump, the rise of neonazis, gas attack in the UK, Ukraine invasion, rise of ISIS, terrorist bombing in Bastille square of Paris, the fire of Notre Dame de Paris, Brexit, the Rona plague... and that’s just what comes to mind!
"The phrase "wrong side of history" was thrown around a lot between 2003 and 2025 [CE], but modern scholars believe that most of them were a bunch of assholes and just begging for the Great Disaster that disastered the hell out of those jerks." ----------Fragment of a history textbook that fell through a wormhole from the far future
The sprinkled in two seconds of "You'll be back" are such a nice seasoning...
Props to Blue's Dad for helping out. For as much flack as people like to give their Boomer family members, they do have the benefit of having lived through the Cold War. Imagine your kids born after the 2020 pandemic trying to write a book report on the subject in high school or college and you'll get an idea on how that feels. I know that will be my sister in a few decades.
Modern history. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL BLUE????
It's still the same blue, you can hear the pain in his voice doing modern history
This is old history to be because to me everything before 2003 is old
@@ravenpotter3 ok zoomer
Ninjas.
He's travelled back to Renaissance Venice.
He needs a break.
Blue: **Starts naming countries**
Yakko: "Hey, that's my bit!"
Oh my God! The loving tone in your voice when you said thanks to your dad at the end of the video is so precious and wholesome it hurts.
The Greek civil war (1946-49) wasn't a proxy war, as the USSR did not help the communists (albeit only to help them escape the country) while the UK actively supported the Greek government and the army, even going so far as to install Nazi collaborators and sympathizers in key positions in the country.
The war left a very big mark in Greece which started healing only in 1981, with the then newly elected center-left government adopted a policy of national reconciliation.
When Blue listed all those proxy wars Yakko's World popped into my head.
For those reading that comment, back in the 1990's, there was a television show called the Animaniacs. One of the character, Yakko, sings a song listing all 206 countries of the world. And he does it accurately. I'm not kidding.
Fastest click in the west
HELP!!! Everybody at my school cyberbullies me because they say my videos are extremely BAD!!! Please help me, dear henry
My fastest click in the east is *faster*
I can't believe Blue didn't mention the attempted assasination attempt of Jimmy Carter by a giant rabbit. Really disappointed.
In all seriousness, this was a huge topic to cover in 14 min but he did a good job covering the basics. A mention of the non-aligned movement would have been nice, to understand that some countries wanted to go their own way and not fall into the orbit of either superpower.
2:24 some mention must also be made that despite what Anime tries to tell people, the Japanese weren't exactly angels before or during the War, and the US wanted to ensure the Militarist elements (you know, the ones who STARTED THE WAR in the first place) had been purged from power or otherwise removed from office. This was compounded by the need to establish friendly relations in Asia once it became obvious that the Chinese Nationalists were going to lose the Chinese civil war, and leave a bloc of Communist or Communist-aligned states stretching from the Baltic sea to South East Asia.
Hence when people ask why the Allies didn't clamp down on nationalism in Japan like they did in Germany, the simple answer is "politics." The USA had more than enough regional allies in Europe to stand against the USSR that a shamed and cowed Germany could be accepted (and even then, by the mid-50's West Germany was already rebuilding its military) but the same could not be said for the Pacific, so they needed a re-armed Japan on side.
"Fwoof" just went from a whimsical sound effect to a horrifying euphimism. Thanks, Blue.
Finally, the ultimate historical red v blue!
Firing for this channel lol
"Wait, It's *all* very complicated?"
*"always has been"*
I love the “you’ll be back” for Vietnam
Why does France's colonies in Africa look like the Finnish Flag
How?
@@markhenley3097 looks like a shaky Nordic cross, blue on white
Britain wanted to make a road from North to South
France wanted to make a road from West to East
There's a 'slight' issue you might see here
After that all bets were off and you just snag whatever you want
+ my memory is poor, but Germany lost its few spots of Africa and those were redistributed if I don't remember too wrong (like, transferred hands instead of the nations given independency)
But ay, I get your joke too
Torilla Tavataan, Tortilla Avataan
Cos they weren't Finnished.
"Wait, it's all Finnish colonies?"
"Always has been"
**bam**
"Who is that handsome devil?"
Gee, I _wonder._
Oh, I know, that's Indigo (Unless I'm mistaking, and Indigo is a girl)
@@carlosroo5460
I do believe Indigo is a girl, yes.
Neat overview of this history! Thanks for uploading!
This video is actually exactly what I've been looking for recently. Great timing, Blue!
Blue blink twice if you’re in danger.
We all are at the moment...
@@bjornseine2342 I was gonna say
With the emergence of Indigo, I gotta know: how many fuckin colors are there?
We got Red and Blue, obviously
Red's brother, Magenta
Blue's fiance, Cyan
Now apparently their editor, Indigo
There is also Yellow a friend of theirs, and Green who if I remember correctly is actually multiple people
@@randomperson2078 He's the 'servant' in their 1mil sub vid and plays with them in some old video game stuff. He's a good bit younger than Red so he doesn't really do much other than be there sometimes.
@@blackvial I believe that Green is just "Everyone else"
I just realized you guys are right about "Green" - it's their shorthand for a guest who wants to preserve their anonymity, or just has a long online name.
My first memory of Green was in a super early video of Blue's (something about steampunk Romans???) and she was a college friend of his
But I've seen Green be used for Hello Future Me's guest appearance
I heard a rumour that six fingered man killed Indigo's father... >.>'
Red - "Today I'm going to make a TERRIBLE mistake."
Me - *rubs hands together* This gon be goooood.
6:56
"You say the price of my war's not a price that you're willing to pay..."
You cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by~
Why so sad?
Remember we made an arrangement when you went away
Now you're making me mad
Remember, despite our estrangement, I'm your man
Blue Decides to cover modern History
"So you have chosen Death." - Sauruman
6:57 WAS THAT YOU'LL BE BACK PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND OR AM I HEARING THINGS AGAIN
Oh that was DEFINITELY You'll Be Back
I heard it too
“I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!”
It was and the implementation was perfect.
Gab Gonzales I squealed. I think I scared my dog.
6:56: You say, the price of my love’s not a price that you’re willing to pay!
Yay Hamilton reference!
I'm happy you did a video like this! It's super well made. Cold War era history is my jam, and I'd love to see more videos on this subject, but hey, preferences are preferences, make whatever videos yall want.
New term for anything in a blazing inferno: Fwoof
Building on fire = building went fwoof
Australia wildfire = Australia went fwoof
Someone suffers a verbal burn = they just got fwoofed
The Cold War- a staring contest between Red and Blue while they both hold the means to blow up the house.
Red blinked first.
I know that was supposed to be a joke for the US and the USSR but I just had a vivid image of Red and Blue's animated personas glaring and pointing tiny toy pistols at each other
10:15 please don't say "total nuclear annihilation" while pointing at cuba. the cuban missile crisis was the one thing that got the US to sit at a table and negotiate nuclear disarm. it might have saved the world.
That might have been its effect but it wasn't its intention.
Holy crap you listed Newfoundland and Labrador in still British Colonies. NO ONE DOES THAT! THANK YOU! My island is often just forgotten in history despite how much history happened here.
5:00 the problem was: eastern europe had waaaaaay fucking worse starting point than the western one. When France and England were drinking kongoese chocolate with haitan sugar writing about skull shapes, Poland and the balkans had insurection after insurection, building their national concioussness on the slave-master dialectics. So Rebulding Paris meant rebuilding 1.5% of the capitol, and poland had to rebuild 50 FUCKING PERCENT, atop on the rebuilding Warsaw was the top priority of mid-war Rzeczpospolita. Also our superempire had also suffer shitload of loses, instead of having convinient economical moneysink.
So, yeah. Cold war was fucking scrap fight.
Fair point. It's telling, though, that Stalin wanted to extract as much value as it could out of East Germany, so they won't ever be an enemy ever again.
in his defence he never said that the soviet union was bad, he just stated that the soviets were much less successful and outcompeted by the marshall plan
I initially misread the title as 'the cold war & demonetization."
...could still fit.
Despite knowing about the aftermath of WW2, or at least the general aspects of it, seeing Blue's perspective on this has been incredibly enlightening.
Amazing video. Videos of channel helps linking so many little historical anecdotes together and interesting✨😎‼
Blue doing modern stuff? Who are you and what have you done with Blue?
This is strange well I'm going enjoy this
@mozamioo _ must be his clone
USS Anime DD24 Dark Blue :D
The Suez Canal crisis itself deserves its own video. It is an interesting event in regards to the history of America, France, and the UK's foreign policy. I've noticed that prior to the crisis The United states had a tendency to defer to what Britain and France wanted. Iran is an example of this. As is Vietnam surprisingly. This was partly spurred by the fact America's intelligence agencies were poorly developed and weren't the behemoths they are today and the Red Scare permanently crippled America's intelligence gathering for decades by kicking out most of America's non European history experts. The Suez Canal Crisis was one of the first times America really put its foot and made it clear that it called the shots on the world stage. France and Britain also learned from this event. Britain learned they were no longer a major power and retired to being America's close ally. France learned they were no longer a world power and were subservient to the whims of bigger countries. So they worked to preserve what was left of their empire by tying their former colonies in debt to them. America learned you can't always trust your allies and you have to keep tabs on them to ensure no one does anything stupid.
"Britain learned they were no longer a major power and retired to being America's close ally." They should have instead of beding to the USA made their own faction and started rebulding the empire for the recources to once again become a superpower once more.
"France learned they were no longer a world power and were subservient to the whims of bigger countries." They should have instead of beding to the USA made their own faction and started rebulding the empire for the recources to once again become a superpower once more.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 You're a child. Not a bright one.
@@TathD Not a child, and of the top 10% in inteligence and knowlage.
@cak01vej I see no reason why anyone would be humble.
Im not a genuis, having met multiple I can say that they are on an entirely diferent level.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Thats what I said France did. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
ha! it was nice to actually see you guys for once, thanks for all the great content!
My husband is a school teacher and I really appreciate you guys trying to give back to kids that are being forced to go back to school! Definitely will be purchasing a mask!
Worth mentioning that China and Yugoslavia would eventually leave the Soviet Sphere, with China and the U.S mending relations and Yugoslavia just vibing
Same with Albania too
Yugoslavia vibing by creating Unaligned Movement which somehow everyone in the west just forgets.
"Today I'm going to make a terrible mistake for your educational benefit."
As a wise, psychotic mad purple alien one said: "The hard choices require the strongest wills."
Haha omg 😂 I love this
Finally watching this after far too long and... wow. Blue. Talk about maximum effort for what must have felt like not much reward.
Thank You Blue, and Thank You Blue's Dad! Also to Indigo for editing.
Already bought my Volante mask!! SO excited to see you partner with them
Note: Yugoslavia became communist on its own, as it was the Communists who spearheaded the partisan movement, and aside from some border areas, there was no Soviet troop presence there.
6:58 did I just hear a chord from King George “You’ll be back”?
You really did a pretty good job in your overview! Super neat!
This is literally my area of historical expertise, I’ve spent years studying this. I’m VERY EXCITED to see OSP covering this now!!!!
Omg hi, I'm been meaning to learn about this topic, do you perhaps have any recommendations or suggestions for me 😅 hopefully something simplified and easy to read ?
I want to make a communism joke, but it doesn't work unless everyone gets it.
Hmm.. This joke was copied so its probably from communist china
Don’t worry as long as the state gets it it’ll be fine
It would work better if humans were actually good.
You again?
Jokes come from each according to their ability, to each according to their need!
Wait, blue talking about something my highschool history classes never got too? Is he going insane in quarentine because this is out of character.
Ikr
Same! We didn’t get the the end of WWII
Probably because it gets super political. Especially with things like the Communist uprisings in Africa, Israeli-Arab Wars, Hungarian Revolt/Prague Spring ect.
Ah. Regular or ap/ib world?
@@aidoll3692 regular for me, had too many other classes, but I heard the ap classes didn't get as far as the normal class, which... is troublesome. Only reason I know anything is cause I was friends with a boy who was obsessed with WWII, you know the type, and I couldn't not learn with that
Nothing gets mass doses of overly dry historical facts over better than a healthy dose of sarcasm! Loved this!
Blue: "Europe is inconceivably at peace"
that didn't age well
Your sincerity in thanking your dad at the end is heartwarming. It's cool that you two have a similar passion.
You know the scariest part about this kinda history is... How close it is. I was born in the year the Yugoslawien civil war ended. My cousin was born on the day of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Those are things that happened in years that are so close to us that we act like they are LONG TIME AGO because they are history. And right now stuff happens and I feel like we don't really look at it the same way. And while I am super thankful for Austrian education in particular to focus strongly onto WW2 and what was going on, I am left wondering if there should have been more of a postamble about talking about what came after. Cause if anything, that is the part of history that hits us harder... cause it was stuff we might have experienced and if only indirectly.
And the even scariest part is that it isn't over. We're living as history is playing out, but most of the time we don't realise it.
Tell us about your student struggle. I just graduated with two degrees, one in environmental engineering and the second in anthropology so it would really be a treat to hear about what you're specifically studying and how that is treating you.
Blue has a very good Russian accent.
Also, don't freak out about doing modern history. This was great!
My Military History class just covered the cold war this week and I just finished writing my paper about it a week ago....impeccable timing is impeccable....
As an Austrian, I'd like to point out that my country also spent a large chunk of time under foreign occupation by the allies, most of which was very much not fun for the people subjegated to that mess... We only got our freedom via contract 10 years later on the 15th May 1995 and the last soldier didn't leave until the 25th October, which is why that is our national holiday now...
Europe was being readied to be a battlefield, both sides were acting as occupants
@@andrygugli1928 Readied to be a battlefield for which war?! It was 1945, the war was over, the Nazis had lost and the allies just decided they had the right to take their anger out on the largely innocent populace. And I'm not aware of Germany or Austria doing any of the occupying after 1945, because again, THEY HAD LOST THE WAR!
Blue, I know it was out of your fave period of history, but this was REALLY good content!
I thought about reading a good summary on this era and then blue makes a video on it, perfect!
11:48 "some people who really should've known better" you can say francis fukuyama, it's okay
Wait... The Berlin Wall came down in '89??? And Germany only re-unifed in '90??? Why did I think this all happened like 30 years before I was born, instead of 10?!?!?!
Thank you so much for making me somehow question my existence just because I'm more aware of the timeframe for all of this?!?
Have fun
Even though re-united you can still see the difference between western and eastern Germany. It's getting less, but it is still there.
Nice touch, playing the opening bars of "You'll Be Back" at 6:56
LOVE your use of the piano chords of “You’ll be back” 😍😂
Geez, this is really modern for Blue. I'd recommend that he rest at home for a while, but COVID-19 is still running around so he probably already is.
Blue, you're killing me with the waiting here. Wheres my Byzantine Empire Part 3 man?
I pray for it every time a Blue video is uploaded.
Props to the editor cause those little musical cues throughout the vid were great!
This is the newest history Blue’s ever done, im impressed