The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2)

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  • @OverSimplified
    @OverSimplified  Před 3 lety +9678

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  • @Vistroh
    @Vistroh Před 3 lety +27006

    Things everyone loves:
    Food
    Water
    CZcamsrs who post a part 1 and 2 on the same day.

    • @alinek2289
      @alinek2289 Před 3 lety +651

      Let's be honest, it's cut into 2 parts because of sponsorships reasons, lol.
      edit: too many of you think i give him shit cuz hes sponsored. i already wrote a reply about how this wasn't meant to be shitting on him, but some people still respond with "its okay that he's sponsored."
      yes, im aware, i support his decision, now please stop telling me.

    • @Miguel-ci5cc
      @Miguel-ci5cc Před 3 lety +76

      Alinek he chasing da bag😜😜😜

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 Před 3 lety +291

      @@alinek2289 in their defense youtube pays basically nothing

    • @whendgg9718
      @whendgg9718 Před 3 lety +182

      Alinek it’s not a bad thing, the guy posts like 5-6 vids a year

    • @mnkkyluffy9830
      @mnkkyluffy9830 Před 3 lety +121

      @@alinek2289 if this video gets demonitized that means he wont get any money *which would suck*
      so he accepts sponsors

  • @dmitriyromanov791
    @dmitriyromanov791 Před 3 lety +6488

    the most influential human in russia:
    1900 - Rasputin
    2000 - Putin
    2100 - Tin

    • @matt_v_photo
      @matt_v_photo Před 3 lety +290

      2200 -

    • @dmitriyromanov791
      @dmitriyromanov791 Před 3 lety +406

      @@matt_v_photo 2200 - President "N"

    • @matt_v_photo
      @matt_v_photo Před 3 lety +395

      Dmitriy Romanov 2300 - Nit
      2400 - Nitup
      2500 - Nitupsar

    • @dmitriyromanov791
      @dmitriyromanov791 Před 3 lety +143

      @@matt_v_photo 2400 - President Nitup
      2500 - Tsar Nitupsar. Ressurection of Rasputin 👻👺 and return to monarchy 👑

    • @runa2604
      @runa2604 Před 3 lety +20

      @@dmitriyromanov791 that. Is dark

  • @user-sl4ep8tw1s
    @user-sl4ep8tw1s Před rokem +4874

    Those assasins made a misstake about Rasputin: they've poisoned a cake with a cyanide, while sugar is known to neutralize it.

    • @theonering2966
      @theonering2966 Před rokem +331

      They weren’t very smart

    • @doubleflores8350
      @doubleflores8350 Před rokem +1

      According to extra history, the assassins were so bad at their job that they bought fake cyanide from a scammer and non of them had ever fired a gun before that night. That’s how botched Rasputin’s assassination was.

    • @rimfire8217
      @rimfire8217 Před rokem

      Wow really.
      Sugar Neutralizes Cyanide.

    • @ovtkm
      @ovtkm Před rokem +793

      @@theonering2966 or it simply isn't a common knowledge
      Especially it wasn't 100 years ago

    • @donovanulrich348
      @donovanulrich348 Před rokem +232

      Rasputin called their bluff
      He was aware of the poison, and already knew he wouldnt be affected.
      He didnt expect everyone in the room to turn into savages when the passive attempt failed

  • @mackinbox
    @mackinbox Před rokem +2638

    Trotsky: “surprising military genius”
    Also Trotsky: “let’s stop fighting and see what happens”

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales Před 10 měsíci

      And then the central powers charged into more land and punished Russia even more severely

    • @staticalelectric
      @staticalelectric Před 10 měsíci +204

      It's called oversimplified for a reason dawg, it wasn't that simple

    • @JoSheperd
      @JoSheperd Před 10 měsíci +45

      ​@@staticalelectricPhew atleast someone gets it...

    • @heynowur9146
      @heynowur9146 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@staticalelectricso why did he stop fighting

    • @staticalelectric
      @staticalelectric Před 9 měsíci +153

      @@heynowur9146 not for military, but for political reasons. The bolsheviks saw that revolution was on germany's doorsteps ans wanted to accelerate the process. One of the things they had to do for this was to show the true imperialist ambitions of german capitalism in pursuing this war. At that time the german generals didn't say it was a war for the conquest of land, but for peace and the self determination of nations. So if they stopped fighting without signing a treaty, one of two things could happen: either the germans didn't advance, which would mean that the situation in germany was already so unstable that the generals were afraid of attacking, that would have boosted morale in Russia enormously. The second option was that the germans would advance, but in doing so would reveal their real intentions, which were not peace and the self determination of nations, but brutal imperialist conquest. This revelation would have massive effects in the consciousness of the german masses. Lenin and Trotsky thought that if germany advanced they would still be able to quickly sign the original peace treaty. This calculation was mistaken, and they paid the price, but the main intention, of revealing the brutality of the german ruling class was achieved, and a few months later on the 3rd of november 1918, the german revolution broke out, effectively bringing world war 1 to an end. Sadly the german revolution failed, but that is a separate matter.

  • @kfizzledizzle8467
    @kfizzledizzle8467 Před 3 lety +3803

    Oversimplified: Starts talking about World War 1
    Everyone else: Hey, I've seen this one. It's a classic.

    • @newaccount7.5bview3seconds4
      @newaccount7.5bview3seconds4 Před 3 lety +10

      Actually the class serves a specific group of people. This video is designed for all groups >:3

    • @ponyboycurtis506
      @ponyboycurtis506 Před 3 lety +26

      I think it's so cool how many of his other videos are referenced in this one and the previous one

    • @primaabelou4695
      @primaabelou4695 Před 3 lety +10

      is this a back to the future reference

    • @emmanroyhippy6859
      @emmanroyhippy6859 Před 3 lety +6

      He also stated Cold War. Which is also classic.

    • @patience__8051
      @patience__8051 Před 3 lety +2

      Fizzledizzle is a man of culture

  • @Caliell
    @Caliell Před 3 lety +14606

    Just to point out Rasputin did not die from being poisoned, shot, beaten up, and from being thrown into the river. He died from hypothermia after he broke free and crawled out of the river.

  • @foulplayer7812
    @foulplayer7812 Před 7 měsíci +571

    If anyone's curious about what became of Alexander Kerensky after he fled Petrograd, he managed to survive the Russian Revolution and lived a relatively peaceful life, outliving many of the significant figures of the Russian Revolution.
    Oversimplified didn't cover this, but after Kerensky escaped the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution, he fled to Pskov, where he rallied some loyal troops in an attempt to re-take the city. They managed to capture Tsarskoye Selo but were beaten the next day at Pulkovo. Kerensky narrowly escaped again and spent the next few weeks in hiding before fleeing Russia for good, eventually arriving in France. During the Russian Civil War, he supported neither side, as he opposed both the Bolshevik regime and the White Movement.
    Eventually, after Germany invaded France in 1940, Kerensky fled to the United States, where he spent the remainder of his life. He lived in New York City with his wife but spent much of his time at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, where he contributed to the Institution's huge archive on Russian history and taught graduate courses. He wrote and broadcast extensively on Russian politics and history.
    Kerensky eventually died of heart disease in New York City on June 11, 1970. At 89, he was one of the last surviving major participants in the turbulent events of 1917, having outlived Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and all the other prominent figures who had overthrown him.

    • @flynnhunter416
      @flynnhunter416 Před 4 měsíci +74

      I love the irony of all of it. He out lived all the people who tried to kill him, in a country that ended up being those people's greatest enemy.

    • @hrsmp
      @hrsmp Před 3 měsíci +39

      He also had requested a permission to visit USSR, to see his country one last time, but that request was denied.

    • @IsaiahRichards692
      @IsaiahRichards692 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@hrsmpNearly destroy your country?: Never see that country again!

    • @hwuilee
      @hwuilee Před 2 měsíci +2

      ​@@hrsmpThat's so sad . . . Just one more look at the motherland . . .

    • @GorillaUnicorn
      @GorillaUnicorn Před 2 měsíci +1

      Damn

  • @schishne7546
    @schishne7546 Před 11 měsíci +150

    15:03 "The palace was defended by a force known as: "The Battalion of Death" who immediately gave up."
    love it

    • @tesseract5569
      @tesseract5569 Před 27 dny +2

      Well what do you expect. They were the battalion of death not the battalion of the dead lmao

  • @leodarkholme8383
    @leodarkholme8383 Před 3 lety +2604

    ....and when the world needed him the most, he returned...

    • @justjam2177
      @justjam2177 Před 3 lety +137

      But everything changed when comunisim attacked

    • @fortune3911
      @fortune3911 Před 3 lety +10

      The lord has returned.

    • @trulyfog
      @trulyfog Před 3 lety +20

      He didnt leave, its just this animation takes this long

    • @alex-wn2cb
      @alex-wn2cb Před 3 lety +6

      Foogle doesn’t really change the fact the he uploaded, hence he returned

    • @cassy121
      @cassy121 Před 3 lety +6

      I love this meme but don't you think it's beginning to outdated

  • @adityas3587
    @adityas3587 Před 3 lety +1926

    Oversimplified: **uploads both parts at the same day**
    Everyone: "Dude... VERY COOL"

  • @rodmunch6865
    @rodmunch6865 Před rokem +562

    I absolutely love how completely random the introduction of Rasputin was to the Russian Monarch, and how crucial his role was to the collapse of Czarist Russia, despite the fact he was some weird horny and overall batshit crazy guy who just did whatever he wanted, like a literal college student. It's random shit like this that makes history so fascinating to me, and it shouldn't be that way lol

  • @rob-karryhunt817
    @rob-karryhunt817 Před rokem +255

    “The peasants were getting more peasanity, the workers were getting more workery, all the while Germany was getting more Germanery.” 😂

  • @lukeyuan9741
    @lukeyuan9741 Před 3 lety +2787

    When Oversimplified doesn’t include a "dude...uncool" scene:
    *Dude...uncool*

    • @rishi7629
      @rishi7629 Před 3 lety +106

      He did "Dude... Super cool" instead.

    • @stop8576
      @stop8576 Před 3 lety +43

      i expected Rasputin to say "Dude.. uncool" when he gets shot

    • @d1nesh._223
      @d1nesh._223 Před 3 lety +14

      Or the kid when he stole the lollipop

    • @slepyjestrab
      @slepyjestrab Před 3 lety +4

      That´s the magic of a good sidekicks... when you abstain from them, the more you value them

    • @sharilshahed6106
      @sharilshahed6106 Před 3 lety +1

      in -Soviet- Russia, it becomes dude, so cool.

  • @seanwalsh9814
    @seanwalsh9814 Před 3 lety +5535

    For some reason I feel Oversimplified doesn't like his mother-in-law.

    • @PALATA-Gaming
      @PALATA-Gaming Před 3 lety +630

      Maybe.
      But i think it's another joke about russians.
      I'm from Russia, and it's very popular in russian culture to joke about the mother-in-law (how annoying they are mainly)

    • @BlaudracheLP
      @BlaudracheLP Před 3 lety +226

      @@PALATA-Gaming That's also a european thing. At least I know those jokes also in austria

    • @seanwalsh9814
      @seanwalsh9814 Před 3 lety +47

      @@PALATA-Gaming Ah, thank you! Have no idea about those things.

    • @papimana4332
      @papimana4332 Před 3 lety +68

      @@PALATA-Gaming It is also an American thing!

    • @misterfelix5816
      @misterfelix5816 Před 3 lety +205

      @@papimana4332 it's a worldwide thing😂 😂

  • @mrawesome6504
    @mrawesome6504 Před rokem +353

    the fact that oversimplified does better Rise Of Kingdom ADS then the actual game, OverSimplified should just be the media manager for them

    • @frustationoverloaded5976
      @frustationoverloaded5976 Před rokem +7

      no we want him to keep making history vedios

    • @adityaanuragi6916
      @adityaanuragi6916 Před rokem

      @@frustationoverloaded5976 *videos

    • @somememer356
      @somememer356 Před rokem +10

      @@adityaanuragi6916 thank you for correcting him, i was honestly so lost reading that sentence, but you kind sir, you thankfully helped me make sense of it all

    • @tesseract5569
      @tesseract5569 Před 27 dny

      @@somememer356 I'm so glad they decided to help. I thought they were talking about Oversimplified career as an astronaut. Boy was I wrong

  • @KennyMcCormick99
    @KennyMcCormick99 Před rokem +136

    THESE VIDEOS AREN'T JUST EXTREMELY EDUCATIONAL...
    But they also have that PERFECT touch of satire and comic relief!!
    AWESOME JOB!!

    • @arkadianmc2917
      @arkadianmc2917 Před 3 měsíci +1

      As a university history student I'd argue with the "extremely educational" part, they're good satire for sure, with many liberal biases I'd say, but from an historical POV they're good for passing a middle school test at best, they're inaccurate and don't bring any source.
      So yeah, while they're good for having a laugh over history they shouldn't be taken as historically accurate at all

    • @johnny.V03
      @johnny.V03 Před 2 měsíci

      I find most of the comedy to be lame but he does do an excellent job of breaking down every historical event he covers.

  • @danieloray5649
    @danieloray5649 Před 3 lety +2866

    Man in 1900’s: doesn’t have moustache
    Literally everyone: yeah, there’s gonna be a tax for that

  • @TheLUCKGOD1
    @TheLUCKGOD1 Před 3 lety +3621

    Lenin: Don't make Stalin the leader.
    Stalin: *How about I do it anyway.*

    • @aldihamzaraj4795
      @aldihamzaraj4795 Před 3 lety +58

      NoiceX I uNdErStopOoD tHaT rEfErEnCe
      Bill wurtz

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety +32

      Stalin was more before being secretary
      During the revolution he was in charge of lenin's newspaper and during the civil war, he was the commander of the armed forces

    • @Ake-TL
      @Ake-TL Před 3 lety +5

      Claudiu Toea and then he was in charge of ethnicities department, I think

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 Před 3 lety

      @@Ake-TL nyet

    • @Ake-TL
      @Ake-TL Před 3 lety +1

      Claudiu Toea “Народный комиссар по делам национальностей РСФСР” , don’t know how to translate that properly.

  • @NorthernL1ghtProductions
    @NorthernL1ghtProductions Před rokem +568

    The fact that communism started out as a way to make things better then became a way to dictate and control is actually pretty fascinating to me

    • @nigelbaddock
      @nigelbaddock Před rokem +137

      Revolutions always start off like that. Charismatic leader who offers hope to the oppressed. Past Oppresive government is overthrowed. New oppressive government installed.

    • @joshuakim5240
      @joshuakim5240 Před 11 měsíci +77

      This is pretty much the path that the extreme majority of movements devolve into if they become successful. When the preservation of the faction takes priority, it discards its values to survive at the expense of everyone else. Power corrupts super hard.

    • @CABRALFAN27
      @CABRALFAN27 Před 10 měsíci +66

      I think a good point of comparison is the French Revolution. You have an oppressive, outdated government, you a massive and certainly justified popular revolt led by people with radical new ideas for what to replace the oppressive government with, some of whom were no doubt true believers and some of whom just saw it as a path to power, you have massive resistance from surrounding conservative/reactionary governments fearing the threat to the status quo, which leads to the Revolutionaries being further radicalized, and you have the failures of the Revolution projected onto the the entire Ideology as proof of its failure.
      It's interesting, then, looking at the histories of the respective Ideologies, where you see that Liberalism was, indeed, synonymous with the chaos and bloodshed of the French Revolution for many years in Europe, allowing the reactionary Absolute Monarchies to stay in power, but eventually, a somewhat more moderate version of Liberalism did triumph, sometimes even through peaceful means. I imagine we'll see Communism/Socialism take a similar path in the coming century, especially with many people once again growing justifiably dissatisfied with the status quo. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes, as the saying goes.

    • @TheChadls
      @TheChadls Před 10 měsíci

      That's why they're trying to ruin everything now

    • @pessimistkai5569
      @pessimistkai5569 Před 8 měsíci +3

      ​@@joshuakim5240well said.

  • @dvoynoytroynik
    @dvoynoytroynik Před rokem +112

    23:45, i love this transition so much

  • @patricksinger6119
    @patricksinger6119 Před 3 lety +24969

    The fact you posted both at the same time... this is why people love you

    • @captainobvious5016
      @captainobvious5016 Před 3 lety +279

      Boonie Bound More views

    • @plum1405
      @plum1405 Před 3 lety +495

      Boonie Bound more place to put sponsors, not more views, do the math

    • @anagay1372
      @anagay1372 Před 3 lety +128

      Boonie Bound eh maybe cause it would be a big mush of almost an hour owo or money like that other guy said-

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 Před 3 lety +77

      Yes! No "To be continued" and waiting a week.

    • @mapleshade2913
      @mapleshade2913 Před 3 lety +33

      @@plum1405 it is actually for more views.

  • @memeapproved446
    @memeapproved446 Před 3 lety +1802

    “Tsar Nicolas failed to be a good tsar”
    This enraged his father, who punished him severely.

    • @rhyscallinan203
      @rhyscallinan203 Před 3 lety +22

      Nah, he dead. Also, he'd just call him a girly girl

    • @abdallahibrahim2277
      @abdallahibrahim2277 Před 3 lety +14

      Not funny I swear it got old stop making the same joke every single video

    • @jonnee1234
      @jonnee1234 Před 3 lety +6

      Haha this joke never gets old

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 Před 3 lety +11

      “Tsar Nicolas failed to be a good tsar”
      This enraged the bolsheviks, who punished him severely.

    • @soggychip3784
      @soggychip3784 Před 3 lety

      old joke

  • @Pick.0
    @Pick.0 Před rokem +92

    I love that oversimplified makes history funny

  • @ismaelnehme379
    @ismaelnehme379 Před 9 měsíci +21

    21:31 Stalin was actually very intelligent. He had a great knowledge of history, a great understanding of the political game, had an amazing memory, had a great understanding of tactics (though he would make occasional catostrophic blunders, like in Poland) and would read constantly. Stalin was many horrible things, but stupid was not one of them

    • @smik2518
      @smik2518 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Beside being intelligent he wasn’t much worse than 70% of rulers at that time. The fact that he was a tyrant is just a propaganda pushed by western countries just to distract people from the horrible stuff they did

    • @PurooRoy
      @PurooRoy Před 6 měsíci +6

      @@smik2518 not to mention literally every European ruler was a tyrant at the time, so it's not right to cherry-pick him.

  • @thisisrey8
    @thisisrey8 Před 3 lety +6958

    lowkey, history is addictive when it's like this

    • @Cilvathorne
      @Cilvathorne Před 3 lety +224

      Lowkey? You mean Highkey.

    • @Sebowsky_
      @Sebowsky_ Před 3 lety +191

      They should show this at school instead of trash quality and boring ass educational videos made only for money

    • @aria_11
      @aria_11 Před 3 lety +70

      I got an A+ just by binge watching them

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 Před 3 lety +5

      Yes

    • @circleubuntu
      @circleubuntu Před 3 lety +3

      Ja

  • @marysmith7765
    @marysmith7765 Před 3 lety +31598

    I’m looking forward to “OverSimplified : 2020”

  • @vis_viva
    @vis_viva Před rokem +29

    So old family story. My great grandfather was a train station master in Lithuania (but he was of German origin). He spoke Russian, German, & Lithuanian. Trains in Russia had a different gauge then the rest of Europe, so his station was somewhere trains were swapped. As the station master and knowing those languages, he sometimes was an "independent" interpreter. At one point he was aware of the some of the intrigues regarding German plots involving Lenin. I don't know how much of that is TRUE, but those are the stories my father and grandfather used to tell after a "few" beers.

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson Před 9 měsíci +23

    Not gonna lie, having just watched every OverSimplified video the past 2 days, 1:51 is easily my favorite scene he's ever done.

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson Před 9 měsíci

      Okay, that Trotsky joke at 12:31 comes close!

  • @qorso
    @qorso Před 3 lety +725

    "is he dead?"
    Rasputin: *summons satan*

    • @mrtzarangamer1708
      @mrtzarangamer1708 Před 3 lety +24

      I know he was the anti-christ

    • @yumm186
      @yumm186 Před 3 lety +21

      Bold of you to assume he himself wasn't satan

    • @zmanprodigy
      @zmanprodigy Před 3 lety +11

      *demonic screeching*

    • @thedevilsadvocate788
      @thedevilsadvocate788 Před měsícem

      @@yumm186 My client has nothing to do with this. Back then, we were in hell playing poker.

    • @Random20106
      @Random20106 Před měsícem

      @@thedevilsadvocate788 Do you have proof? If you don't, your argument is ineffective.

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer Před 2 lety +3576

    "The palace was guarded by a force named "Battalion of Death"..."
    "...who immediately gave up"

    • @user-ol4jf6wh2m
      @user-ol4jf6wh2m Před 2 lety +181

      Technically their name was "Women's Battalion of Death". These were all-female units created by the Provisional Government, mainly for propaganda purposes - to raise the patriotic mood in the army and to shame the male soldiers who refuse to fight. Despite their propaganda role, they took a limited part in the war at the front (yes, in Russia in 1917 everything was so bad).

    • @TheHeavyshadow
      @TheHeavyshadow Před 2 lety +59

      Why does noone use their full name? "Battalion of Death by Old Age"

    • @kingethanthegreat2681
      @kingethanthegreat2681 Před 2 lety +33

      The Battalion Of Death Who Immediately Gave Up

    • @burney7998
      @burney7998 Před 2 lety +36

      @@TheHeavyshadow Battallion of death by starvation

    • @ManofPeel
      @ManofPeel Před 2 lety +16

      @@TheHeavyshadow Battalion of death by Stalin.

  • @lily8261
    @lily8261 Před rokem +32

    I love Rasputin's animation in this. It is so funny. I start giggling everytime

  • @oliviadavis3638
    @oliviadavis3638 Před 5 měsíci +16

    2:50
    fun fact: basically, they did try to poison Rasputin. But the guy who was supposed to put the poison in ended up feeling bad and didn't poison it, so Rasputin was fine. Then they sh0t him and, just to be safe, dumped him in the river, but they ended up finding scratch marks underneath the ice, like he'd been trying to claw his way out.
    Basically, the dude was next to immortal, and for that reason I have a cat named after him that looks and acts like the female cat equivalent of a crazy homeless guy.

  • @chowder4656
    @chowder4656 Před 3 lety +949

    you forgot the part where Anastasia escapes and Rasputin comes back to life and have an epic showdown in Paris

    • @taloscal
      @taloscal Před 3 lety +86

      or where Ivan the terrible returns as a giant mammoth emperor... also everyone in Russia is now a furry for some reason.

    • @trajan6879
      @trajan6879 Před 3 lety +38

      An epic showdown with fire, pyrotechnics, guns and modern dance

    • @colvamoon6962
      @colvamoon6962 Před 3 lety +7

      @@taloscal wait, what story is THAT from (sarcastic grin)

    • @ezelfrancisco1349
      @ezelfrancisco1349 Před 3 lety +31

      You forgot about his talking bat sidekick

    • @eloramaxwell7020
      @eloramaxwell7020 Před 3 lety +32

      He also forgot to cover that jazzy Rasputin song and dance number.

  • @_thirtyseven
    @_thirtyseven Před 3 lety +1811

    Everybody gangsta until Rasputin resurrects himself in 2020.

  • @juliadagnall5816
    @juliadagnall5816 Před 3 měsíci +9

    King George V, Czar Nicholas II, and Kaiser Wilhelm II were all first cousins. In fact, George and Nicky looked so much alike when they were young that they were sometimes mistaken for each other at family gatherings. George is sometimes criticized for not doing more to try and save Nicholas and his family, but if he (a constitutional monarch) had tried to bring his (extremely unpopular and autocratic) cousin to England in the middle of a war… yeah, that wouldn’t have gone over very well. In any event, it’s not likely that Nicholas and Alexandra would have agreed to go, at least not until it was too late.

  • @paulagyeiboakye8211
    @paulagyeiboakye8211 Před 9 měsíci +11

    The killing of Rasputin was so funny that I cried while laughing and almost lost my breath

  • @code6499
    @code6499 Před 3 lety +4681

    Such a missed pun
    “The Germans were getting more Germany” 😔

  • @TheDreamLeaf
    @TheDreamLeaf Před 2 lety +7378

    "You've probably been wondeiring what Nicholas has been up to this whole time"
    I forgot he even existed

    • @bobing1752
      @bobing1752 Před 2 lety +91

      @Tsar Nicholas II oof

    • @rebelgaming1.5.14
      @rebelgaming1.5.14 Před 2 lety +103

      @Tsar Nicholas II Return to the grave buddy. Go see your Cousin Wilhelm.

    • @myles3856
      @myles3856 Před 2 lety +16

      Lol

    • @Bombsbombsbombs
      @Bombsbombsbombs Před 2 lety +13

      @Tsar Nicholas II you is ded.

    • @British_navy
      @British_navy Před 2 lety +11

      @Tsar Nicholas II Shiit so I shouldn’t send those twelve battleships that can go on land to liberate you or???

  • @WanukeX
    @WanukeX Před rokem +16

    5:30 in fairness, the initial plan was for his brother to be regent for his son if his son was made king. But Nicholas changed his mind to straight up just making his brother king when he was reminded that when he had to go into exile his son wouldint go with him if he was tsar. And given his son’s condition, that would have almost definetly meant he would never see his son again as he would very likely die young.

  • @JoshuaC923
    @JoshuaC923 Před rokem +145

    Being born in Russia is playing life on veteran difficulty

    • @EclipseINF
      @EclipseINF Před rokem +9

      This video is so rewatchable that it's not uncommon for VERY recent comments to appear near the top

    • @JoshuaC923
      @JoshuaC923 Před rokem +2

      @@EclipseINF yep it is

    • @AmirSatt
      @AmirSatt Před 11 měsíci +5

      Can confirm

    • @lifewithnicko
      @lifewithnicko Před 11 měsíci +6

      imagine north korea lol, thats playing life on impossible mode

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales Před 10 měsíci

      @@lifewithnickobalance change: fixed bug where you earn paper money

  • @spacerace1448
    @spacerace1448 Před 3 lety +7709

    Okay so no one is gonna talk about how much his art style and attention to detail has improved over the years?

    • @gracehuang2406
      @gracehuang2406 Před 3 lety +253

      and his voice acting!!

    • @gallantcavalier3306
      @gallantcavalier3306 Před 3 lety +272

      And the fact he makes a new joke every video, and referencing old and good ones.

    • @happycamperds9917
      @happycamperds9917 Před 3 lety +26

      Grace Huang *Why does he have to be so mean?*

    • @Loganopeta22
      @Loganopeta22 Před 3 lety +10

      Bro ur literally not the only one seeing it as well good job

    • @mzkilla2715
      @mzkilla2715 Před 3 lety +22

      It’s almost as if people get better at things they practice as time goes on.

  • @wolfieplays3365
    @wolfieplays3365 Před 3 lety +1338

    The battalion of death
    They gave up immediately
    I did not see that coming

    • @ishanafondekar6334
      @ishanafondekar6334 Před 3 lety +67

      this angered their fathers, who punished them severely

    • @kodys1492
      @kodys1492 Před 3 lety +45

      They were called that for their extreme fear of death

    • @JWP-56
      @JWP-56 Před 3 lety +9

      Wow that was anticlimactic

    • @masterxicon2453
      @masterxicon2453 Před 3 lety +3

      @Brotherhood of steel knight ha.

    • @yeetusmeatus2241
      @yeetusmeatus2241 Před 3 lety +2

      I did NAZI see that coming

  • @cannongaming7695
    @cannongaming7695 Před rokem +13

    "Leon trotskii was finger-licking good at organising" got me 😂

  • @CaptainFacts-kr8fb
    @CaptainFacts-kr8fb Před měsícem +3

    2:09
    "I said they are not poisoned!"
    Meanwhile Rasputin: *Eats everything including the candlebra*

  • @xMovieManiacx
    @xMovieManiacx Před 2 lety +3760

    Actually they didn't put poison in cakes. They put some poison into his wine. And he was also Russia's greatest love machine.

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore Před 2 lety +133

      I understood that reference.

    • @quuaaarrrk8056
      @quuaaarrrk8056 Před 2 lety +312

      And he was in fact the lover of the Russian queen.

    • @exoels
      @exoels Před 2 lety +54

      And he was the lover of the russian queen

    • @quuaaarrrk8056
      @quuaaarrrk8056 Před 2 lety +165

      @Joseph Koranyi Plus, there was a cat that really was gone

    • @Cbrmkn98xs
      @Cbrmkn98xs Před 2 lety +23

      N o s t a l g i c r e f e r e n c e

  • @anushkaranjan259
    @anushkaranjan259 Před 3 lety +14391

    A guy who can draw, likes history AND has a sense of humor.
    It must be heaven

  • @stellajuuno995
    @stellajuuno995 Před rokem +37

    18:20 Technically, this list would be ;
    Capitalists, liberals, social revolutionaries, national separatists in Poland, Finland and Ukraine, independent warlords setting up chiefdoms, anarchist rebels, the "Green Peasant Army", the Cossacks, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ossetia, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the British, the French, the Americans, the Japanese, the Mongols under a White Russian warlord from Brandenburg (Ungern Sternberg), Tannu Tuva, China and a legion of Czechoslovak soldiers who captured the Trans-Siberian Railway and stole the Imperial gold reserves. ..

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Damn

    • @stellajuuno995
      @stellajuuno995 Před 11 měsíci +8

      @@lucasnelson2649 and also Perjola, Belarus, Makhnovshchina, the Altai Duchy, the Alash Orda, the Basmachi Rebellion, Khiva, Bukhara, Ottoman Generals setting up Imanates in the mountains, the Crimean Khanate and the Free Matroses of Estonia.

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Damn x2

    • @misfitgaming2935
      @misfitgaming2935 Před 10 měsíci +3

      So basically he pissed everyone off

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 Před 10 měsíci +3

      You can say that again

  • @Chong688
    @Chong688 Před rokem +6

    Watching Lenin have those consecutive strokes 22:18 over an over again might be my favorite moment in youtube history

  • @jmcelhinny
    @jmcelhinny Před 3 lety +4728

    “The Russian Civil War was extremely intricate and would really need its own video.”
    Yes please!

    • @m1k3y48
      @m1k3y48 Před 3 lety +57

      Funny story, Lindybeige did a video about that division of Czech soldiers who took over the trans-siberian railway. Fascinating bit of history

    • @BajanEnglishman51
      @BajanEnglishman51 Před 3 lety +13

      M1k3y Czechoslovak legion

    • @Amandor2011
      @Amandor2011 Před 3 lety +27

      It was actually, there were like 4-5 parties in this conflict and it wasn't clear which side will come victorious for 3 years
      Betrayals, civilian deaths, breaking up families, shooting down peasants for some bread-all that good stuff

    • @fixsationon7244
      @fixsationon7244 Před rokem

      In Estonia we wall russian civil was à
      "freedom war" and we came out pretty good. In the war there were à lot of schoolboys. People were afraid of Red terror. We got pièce of it. It was horrible. And many estonians thought that nazi Germans are going to save us. After the red terror. And it was good. Until we were occupied

    • @jay24176
      @jay24176 Před rokem +4

      mans still waiting after 2 years

  • @sleepy5975
    @sleepy5975 Před 3 lety +837

    Let’s be real here. Peace, land, bread is easily better than *live, laugh, love*

  • @jondobbs69
    @jondobbs69 Před rokem +8

    8:35
    Ah, the old "Dual Power Conundrum".
    We've all been there, eh?
    I, myself, have been married for 11 years....

  • @MasterClassComments
    @MasterClassComments Před rokem +8

    "2+2=lettuce. I'm so smert" 😂😂😂💀💀

  • @Justin-pe9cl
    @Justin-pe9cl Před 3 lety +1368

    Funny story regarding Rasputin, after his assassination he was buried in a church cemetery which was later broken into by red army soldiers. They took the body to a forest to burn him and when they set him on fire he sat up and allegedly tried to walk lol. The reason for this was because you're supposed to cut the tendons when you cremate which shrink when they burn hence the "sitting up" part. I would have SHIT if I saw that guy sit up in his fire pit.

    • @kf338
      @kf338 Před 3 lety +107

      Would have ran and never looked back

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 Před 3 lety +90

      I bet those atheist communists didn’t expect that

    • @JustSomeGuy7613
      @JustSomeGuy7613 Před 3 lety +31

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar you do know that the communist dictators were atheists right? Just in case you thought he was making fun of athesits

    • @JustSomeGuy7613
      @JustSomeGuy7613 Před 3 lety +57

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar are you... okay?

    • @sailoroftheinternet3290
      @sailoroftheinternet3290 Před 3 lety +57

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar "cultist trash" says the person advocating for communism

  • @marvelgeek9577
    @marvelgeek9577 Před 2 lety +3803

    Rasputin: *eats a butt ton of poisoned cakes
    Russians: Were you killed?!
    Rasputin: Sadly, yes. But I lived!

    • @andreasanchez9453
      @andreasanchez9453 Před 2 lety +34

      I understood that reference.

    • @pog16384
      @pog16384 Před 2 lety +18

      @@andreasanchez9453 don’t r/whoosh me but a fun fact
      The wine was poisoned
      I laughed at the joke for34 mins

    • @Abbad1579
      @Abbad1579 Před 2 lety +3

      😂😂

    • @deeznoots6241
      @deeznoots6241 Před 2 lety +34

      @@pog16384 fun fact, nothing was poisoned, the assassins literally forgot to poison the wine, that is the real reason Rasputin didn’t die from poisoning.

    • @Reagan1984
      @Reagan1984 Před 2 lety +24

      @@deeznoots6241
      That's one reason, another is that the poisoned they used was old and less potent.

  • @MKM_2002
    @MKM_2002 Před rokem +9

    19:47 There's something eerily disturbing seeing only real life photos (instead of the digital animatics) during this grizzly moment . . . . . .

  • @timojek
    @timojek Před 11 měsíci +10

    I feel like leaving out the white terror which was the reason for the red terror is a pretty big mistake. But pretty good music

  • @JDB-tc5rs
    @JDB-tc5rs Před 3 lety +698

    Rasputin used magic to survive in Siberia until the time was right to return. Only he couldn't use his name. So he removed the first 3 letters and ruled Russia forever more.

  • @dominickeijzer5844
    @dominickeijzer5844 Před 3 lety +797

    Rasputin was a cat in Human form
    • Completely crazy
    • Looked and acted permanently high
    • Had like 9 lives

  • @lunettasuziejewel2080
    @lunettasuziejewel2080 Před rokem +9

    I have my history documentaries on a playlist, and I order the videos by rough chronological order of the topics. OS's WWI videos are sandwiched in between the Russian Revolution Parts 1 and 2, and it's so interesting to see the evolution of his videocraft in such stark terms. That said, I like that he opens this video with the same visuals for the archduke's assassination that he used in the WWI video. It feels like he's giving a high-five to an old buddy he hasn't seen in awhile.

  • @dragskcinnay3184
    @dragskcinnay3184 Před 4 měsíci +4

    two-part Russian revolution into two-part cold war, and two-part French revolution into two-part Napoleonic wars. Such symmetry...

  • @Anglomachian
    @Anglomachian Před 3 lety +849

    Funnily enough, when the Soviets came to power, they dug up Rasputin and burned his body. Unfortunately no one had prepared the body properly, so when his ligaments shriveled in the flames, he sat up and scared the crap out of everyone.
    Good times.

    • @mauz791
      @mauz791 Před 3 lety +64

      Thanks science

    • @johnnyapplesmith
      @johnnyapplesmith Před 3 lety +40

      He was also alive days after being shot and left outside in the snow.

    • @snanoopis6584
      @snanoopis6584 Před 3 lety +12

      AtheismDies actually the autopsy showed that rasputin had died from being shot in the head which happened before he was dumped in the river

    • @oraclex2976
      @oraclex2976 Před 3 lety +2

      Maybe Putin will do the same.

    • @MatrixWorxs
      @MatrixWorxs Před 3 lety +1

      @Marissa Lopes, I see the comment you wrote so many times... SO really. You're the one copying someone else's comment.

  • @icel8828
    @icel8828 Před 3 lety +733

    “My German wife and a homeless wizard”
    Never in my life did I think I’d hear that

  • @dersteve4240
    @dersteve4240 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I love Rasputin's story because it's completely bonkers. If you would release a film today about the queen of one of the largest countries on Earth being influenced by what's basically a giant unkillable sex wizard, no one would take it seriously because it sounds completely made up

  • @marciimeris503
    @marciimeris503 Před rokem +13

    What the reds did to Nicholas and his family was just heartbreaking
    Autocrat or not, bad or not.
    Murdered the family and scattered the remains so they couldn't rest together.

    • @url7167
      @url7167 Před rokem +10

      Yet no one gives a damn on the countless people, including children, who perished under the Tsar's rule. The kids' death was terrible but I just can't bring myself being devastated by the death of these imperial, privileged children.

    • @marciimeris503
      @marciimeris503 Před rokem +1

      @url lol. Death is death. It's tragic regardless. If you can't see that you're a psychopath. Your not sad that people died under him, you're just sad because people tell you that's what's right.
      In fact let's be real, your comment was completely unnecessary and was only made to make yourself look better than me.

  • @Vehxx-
    @Vehxx- Před 3 lety +499

    Poisoning and Gun wounds: *Exist in Rasputin*
    Rasputin: *Dies from Hypothermia*

  • @InsanityPlea100
    @InsanityPlea100 Před 3 lety +624

    That Rasputin death scene was hilariously accurate to the way it was originally reported. Although, i agree, it was likely done to make him look more like a threat, and less like a group of men ganged up to kill an unarmed guy with a very picklable pickle.

    • @SpecterVonBaren
      @SpecterVonBaren Před 3 lety +16

      From what I understand, the part about the poisoning not working could very well be true due to low quantities and poor quality.

    • @InsanityPlea100
      @InsanityPlea100 Před 3 lety +2

      @AR - 09UR - Heart Lake SS (2462) all valid options, but I guess we shall never know. Unless Rasputin comes back, again, to tell us.

  • @Cherryfxmls
    @Cherryfxmls Před 11 měsíci +5

    This is a perfect revision introduction:) I haven't been revised the Russian revolution in quite a while and my exam is tomorrow so this is a great refresher!

  • @Timmy_Bob_Jr
    @Timmy_Bob_Jr Před rokem +1

    At 4:15 I love how the one of the revolters throws a torch and it bounces off the wall and hits him

  • @markyv2295
    @markyv2295 Před 3 lety +4412

    What order to watch Oversimplified in:
    Three Kingdoms
    Battle of Hastings
    War of the Bucket
    Henry VIII
    American revolution part 1
    American Revolution part 2
    French Revolution part 1
    French revolution part 2
    American civil war part 1
    American Civil war part 2
    Hitler part 1
    Russian Revolution part 1
    WW1 part 1
    WW1 part 2
    Russian Revolution part 2
    The Emu War
    Hitler part 2
    WW2 part 1
    WW2 part 2
    Cold War part 1
    Football war
    The Falklands
    Cold War part 2

  • @jackcrossems
    @jackcrossems Před 3 lety +563

    Lenin is up against literally everyone: I sleep
    Mother in Law is coming over: Real shid

  • @queenratiganthefirst5442

    My aunt put it in a good way when she said "Communism is a good idea on paper, but not such a hot idea played out."

    • @KravenTheHaunter
      @KravenTheHaunter Před rokem +5

      What the Soviet Union became is hardly communist by any means

    • @joshuaslawson9125
      @joshuaslawson9125 Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@KravenTheHaunternot really... If you actually read up on Engles and Marx you would find scary parallels when they wrote about how a communist nation would work. And also the fact Marx literally said Communism can't work because even he knew it was a pipe dream.

    • @Stien58_
      @Stien58_ Před 3 měsíci +1

      exactly!!@@KravenTheHaunter

  • @RDY736
    @RDY736 Před 3 měsíci +3

    7:54 “Who wants to start a Rebubublution!”
    “I mean uh”
    “Rebublu…”
    “Revoluti-“
    “Dangit!”

  • @dusty2318
    @dusty2318 Před 3 lety +1563

    Oversimplified's Animation and Editing is Getting better over time, Seriously

    • @asht7815
      @asht7815 Před 3 lety +6

      Other than the complete fuck up at 19:00

    • @IKEASoderhamnSectional4-seat
      @IKEASoderhamnSectional4-seat Před 3 lety +17

      @@asht7815 what's wrong here, I don't see it

    • @417Owsy
      @417Owsy Před 3 lety +14

      i also loved the anti christ rasputin at 2:20 it was hilarious

    • @asht7815
      @asht7815 Před 3 lety +6

      @@IKEASoderhamnSectional4-seat just watch from like 18:50 to 20:00 and listen to what he's actually talking about, he flashes up the end of the section about the family being killed and then fades to black before actually talking about it and then that end bit plays as normal

    • @p0rt64
      @p0rt64 Před 3 lety +3

      and 19:27

  • @jcrmakesshorts8656
    @jcrmakesshorts8656 Před 3 lety +585

    CZcams: You are not on trending
    Oversimplified: ya, there is gonna be a tax for that

    • @sophiad548
      @sophiad548 Před 3 lety +24

      youtube: not trending
      father: enraged
      oversimplified: punished severely

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 Před 3 lety +4

      Oversimplified isn’t trending, the Vikings are

    • @shrekoof722
      @shrekoof722 Před 3 lety +2

      Out of date joke there's a tax for that

    • @TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv
      @TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv Před 3 lety +1

      Using an overused joke?
      There's a tax for that.

    • @ItzChocolateChipz
      @ItzChocolateChipz Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv you're using one too
      There's gonna be a tax for that

  • @Matt_from_Florida
    @Matt_from_Florida Před 9 měsíci +5

    14:26 Anybody notice that's exactly how Yevgeny Prigozhin's armed revolt happened? (Including all the _"bigwigs"_ fleeing Moscow) Until Prigozhin just decided to call it off, that is.

  • @ashsomething
    @ashsomething Před 3 měsíci +1

    My great great grandfather was actually a top general to tzar Nicholas during the war and the revolution. Our family is German but we moved to Russia during Catherine’s land promise. Anyway our family got into the military and my great great grandfather helped Nicolas. He ended up quitting and fleeing to America when Nick made himself top general. He moved to North Dakota and helped America with learning about Russia and many other countries (he spoke around 11 languages)

  • @davidn7685
    @davidn7685 Před 3 lety +3504

    Please bro, Do the ,,Stalin Oversimplified” just like u did with Hitler

  • @anandaa6980
    @anandaa6980 Před 2 lety +1863

    "throughout his entire reign, he had done everything he could to keep all the power for himself, and in the end, that's exactly what left him with none"... That hit deeper than expected.

    • @fly_youmper_
      @fly_youmper_ Před 2 lety +3

      +

    • @fly_youmper_
      @fly_youmper_ Před 2 lety +16

      but as a Russian who has studied history well, it infuriates me that he exposes the EMPEROR (just in the video of the tsar) with his dibil, although he has done a lot of great things.

    • @alex2005z
      @alex2005z Před 2 lety +2

      Next time you try to be a tzar on a massive empire make sure to have a brain

    • @anothershellcialistturtle8568
      @anothershellcialistturtle8568 Před 2 lety +5

      The more you take the less you have-oogway

    • @mathias5980
      @mathias5980 Před 2 lety +3

      Me when there is no toilet paper: 16:36

  • @kukuikai2
    @kukuikai2 Před rokem +19

    stalin was not in the background 10:15

  • @greenapple9477
    @greenapple9477 Před 9 měsíci +1

    This could sound really bad, but Raspuin in that art at 1:39 looks pretty fire.

  • @Ksanthecat
    @Ksanthecat Před 3 lety +1348

    Nobles: How are you not dead!?
    Rasputín: I HAVE NO IDEA!

    • @indj3712
      @indj3712 Před 3 lety +27

      it must be the magic (go with plan b)

    • @elizabethgraunstadt
      @elizabethgraunstadt Před 3 lety +18

      Lenin: Oh, give me a big fat break

    • @creativecreeper2860
      @creativecreeper2860 Před 3 lety +5

      LOL 😂

    • @iqbalnurfaizi548
      @iqbalnurfaizi548 Před 3 lety +1

      Nanomagic SON !

    • @Iota-15
      @Iota-15 Před 3 lety +4

      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
      He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
      Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
      But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
      He could preach the Bible like a preacher
      Full of ecstasy and fire
      But he also was the kind of teacher
      Women would desire
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      There was a cat that really was gone
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      It was a shame how he carried on
      He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
      But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
      In all affairs of state he was the man to please
      But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
      For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
      Though she'd heard the things he'd done
      She believed he was a holy healer
      Who would heal her son
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      There was a cat that really was gone
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      It was a shame how he carried on
      But when his drinking and lusting
      And his hunger for power
      Became known to more and more people
      The demands to do something
      About this outrageous man
      Became louder and louder
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      "This man's just got to go", declared his enemies
      But the ladies begged, "Don't you try to do it, please"
      No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
      Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms
      Then one night some men of higher standing
      Set a trap, they're not to blame
      "Come to visit us", they kept demanding
      And he really came
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      They put some poison into his wine
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      He drank it all and said, "I feel fine"
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      They didn't quit, they wanted his head
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      And so they shot him 'til he was dead
      Oh, those Russians

  • @Gabowsk
    @Gabowsk Před 3 lety +1053

    Germany when funding communists to take Russia down:
    *_THIS IS THE GREATEST PLAAAAAAAAN!_*

    • @squidydabeast2159
      @squidydabeast2159 Před 3 lety +32

      You know charles is dead

    • @FonVegen
      @FonVegen Před 3 lety +20

      Does that make Lenin the bold-action man?

    • @radec5437
      @radec5437 Před 3 lety +39

      Charles no!

    • @asvenson5267
      @asvenson5267 Před 3 lety +15

      me goongaga Only in one ending my friend, and I won’t accept that one

    • @R3elTalk
      @R3elTalk Před 3 lety +27

      RIP
      Charles
      Loved By All
      "He always had the Greatest Plan"
      -Henry Sticmin

  • @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle
    @LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Před rokem +9

    The channel releases videos regularly, with an easy to understand and interesting historical recap. Hope the channel produces more interesting historical videos☺☺

  • @c.lynnmiller5677
    @c.lynnmiller5677 Před rokem +4

    Lenin: “Simple people! I’m here to liberate you from your Tsarist oppressors.”
    Russian Peasants: “WOO!!! YES!!! “ 😃
    Lenin: “And replace them with Bolshevik ones!”
    Russian Peasants: “ohhhhhh” 😢

    • @user-bk7vy1rk4q
      @user-bk7vy1rk4q Před rokem +2

      Well, well, fuck, how I adore foreigners who don't understand the history of Russia, but judge our life by such idiotic videos with a bunch of anti-historical stuffing).

  • @ZeroneAngel
    @ZeroneAngel Před 3 lety +1102

    Germany in the 1910's: Lets fund these soviet fighters in russia, it will be great for us in the long run.
    USA in the 1980's: Lets fund these Muslim fighters in Afghanistan, it will be great for us in the long run.

    • @antongebhardt3924
      @antongebhardt3924 Před 3 lety +8

      Nice one!

    • @Palora01
      @Palora01 Před 3 lety +43

      Overall it went a lot better for the USA. They got some good casus beli to invade a nation just next door to another rival nation (Iran)

    • @joelwilcox5424
      @joelwilcox5424 Před 3 lety +26

      * *Curb your enthusiasm theme* plays *

    • @FreeHashbrown
      @FreeHashbrown Před 3 lety +35

      Imperialism doesn’t change, just evolves. Toppling governments for political and/or economic gain

    • @Palora01
      @Palora01 Před 3 lety +10

      @@FreeHashbrown how is that evolution, nations have been doing that to other nations since antiquity. The tools evolve, the objectives remains unchanged.

  • @YOMAMAXXL
    @YOMAMAXXL Před 3 lety +2166

    I live near the bridge where Rasputin's body was dumped.

  • @cogito919
    @cogito919 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Wow, this was a great and funny outline of an incredibly incredibly complex period of history. For a more detailed account of the Russian Revolution, I highly recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast.

  • @johnwise7244
    @johnwise7244 Před 3 měsíci

    holy shit at 1:47 that's Dostoevsky, I recently read his book the brothers karamazov and wow what an experience that was. It was at least part of why I clicked on this video. I remember struggling so much to remember all the dates of the russian revolution in high school I think I got a C on that unit. Thanks for all the passion that goes into each of these videos I hope you change the landscape of learning for many young people.

  • @Xyfen1
    @Xyfen1 Před 3 lety +813

    This whole oversimplified history is like a cinematic universe

  • @SudhuJ
    @SudhuJ Před 3 lety +474

    To be honest, Oversimplified has the smoothest sponsor transitions

    • @SP-ft4ir
      @SP-ft4ir Před 3 lety +6

      According to me, Internet Historian has the best sponsor integration transition

    • @Chiinkayy
      @Chiinkayy Před 3 lety +1

      Nah i was about to click off from the video honestly

    • @user-ek9dd1cc2b
      @user-ek9dd1cc2b Před 3 lety

      Add thyme

    • @averagecat4220
      @averagecat4220 Před 3 lety +1

      Shubham Parulekar nah, Internet Historian has the funniest ones, so funny, that they feel like he’s not really being sponsored

    • @christianwyman7052
      @christianwyman7052 Před 3 lety +1

      nah it be Linus Media Group

  • @thegoldavenger.3829
    @thegoldavenger.3829 Před 11 měsíci +12

    If I had a nickel for every time a revolution had an event known as “the terror” I’d have 2 nickels, it’s not a lot but weird it happened twice

    • @Angelosanto
      @Angelosanto Před 4 měsíci +1

      I mean it's not that weird considering that one was based on the other, and also that revolutions based on untested theory are unstable and tend to require violent suppression in order to sustain themselves.

    • @ink2812
      @ink2812 Před 2 měsíci

      Wouldn’t it be three due to the French “Great Terror”

    • @thegoldavenger.3829
      @thegoldavenger.3829 Před 2 měsíci

      That was the other terror I was referring to, there’s a third?@@ink2812

  • @guywhocantgrowabeard
    @guywhocantgrowabeard Před rokem +1

    Wow. This was actually an amazing watch. We had the Russian revolution in history class in school but i didn't learn squat there.

  • @googlenotgoogle2171
    @googlenotgoogle2171 Před 3 lety +851

    German Empire: I’m beating the Russians cause I funded communists
    Nazi Germany: I’m losing to the communists I funded 3 decades ago
    Mission failed successfully

    • @abcd-du3tf
      @abcd-du3tf Před 3 lety +5

      Copied comment

    • @epsilon1563
      @epsilon1563 Před 3 lety +29

      Germany and Nazi Germany are two very, VERY different things.

    • @wiiam4
      @wiiam4 Před 3 lety +74

      Reagan: I'm beating the Russians cause I funded the Afghan Freedom Fighters
      Bush: I'm losing to terrorists I funded 3 decades ago
      Mission failed successfully

    • @gabeg9855
      @gabeg9855 Před 3 lety +2

      Blowback.

    • @acatthatlookslikehitler1277
      @acatthatlookslikehitler1277 Před 3 lety

      abc d no

  • @jacobcomeaux203
    @jacobcomeaux203 Před 3 lety +837

    The entire Rasputin death scene is perfect

    • @kadewoodtechfolder
      @kadewoodtechfolder Před 3 lety +46

      Ra-Ra-Rasputin, thrown into a river because he died, then some ghost came out of the corpse!

    • @venomsnek1857
      @venomsnek1857 Před 3 lety +34

      @@kadewoodtechfolder you tried and thats what counts

    • @perhentzepetersen9310
      @perhentzepetersen9310 Před 3 lety +11

      It does not have to be perfect to be good. At the 14:30 mark they talk about a huge battleship. It was NOT a battleship, but the armoured cruiser Aurora. A cruiser that was about the sole survivor of the massacre at the Tsushima strait back in may 1905. A historic ship that even today is floating.......!

    • @Wet_Sandwich
      @Wet_Sandwich Před 3 lety +12

      2 officers: *poisons cake
      Rasputin: nice stuff.
      The two officers: shoots rasputin to death*
      Rasputin: GETS RESURRECTED AND CONTINUE AND RIPS ROOM APART

    • @Wet_Sandwich
      @Wet_Sandwich Před 3 lety

      @Pewdie Pie u mean the Sepoy Mutiny?

  • @Marlowgris
    @Marlowgris Před 10 měsíci +8

    I didn't think this video would become pertinent again in 2023, but I guess history does repeat itself.

  • @anthonyboylan3410
    @anthonyboylan3410 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Oversimplified: there is a lot of mystery around his death !
    Commenters: thats not how rasputin died!

  • @ksj2936
    @ksj2936 Před 3 lety +743

    Lenin: Tell whoever is in charge of giving people jobs not to let that jerk Stalin become the next leader.
    Me: hey, I've seen this one before!

    • @jayjaybee
      @jayjaybee Před 3 lety +24

      TheSovietBedrock “Dejà vu.”

    • @tsczar0
      @tsczar0 Před 3 lety +16

      What do you mean? It’s brand new!

    • @keszelll
      @keszelll Před 3 lety +34

      Hey, should we tell him about the ABomb?
      Yeah tell him about the ABomb, that will scare him

    • @aviz8590
      @aviz8590 Před 3 lety +1

      qckdxter irrelevant

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 Před 3 lety +11

      By the way, who is in charge of giving people jobs?

  • @osberswgaming
    @osberswgaming Před 3 lety +8003

    Fun fact: You will watch this more than once, and have watched every oversimplified video over once

  • @airblade812
    @airblade812 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Me after realizing that Oversimplified hasn’t uploaded in a year since the first Punic war: I did not see this coming.