The USSR - Summary on a map

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
  • The history of the USSR on maps, from the eve of the First World War, until the fall of the USSR in 1991.
    This video is the third and last part on the history of Russia:
    The Origins of Russia: • The origins of Russia ...
    The Russian Empire: • The Russian Empire - S...
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    English translation & voiceover: Matthew Bates www.epicvoiceover.com/
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    Original French version: • L'URSS - résumé sur c...
    Russian version: • Советский союз - истор...
    Arabic version: • الاتحاد السوفيتي
    Spanish version: • La URSS - Historia y r...
    Portuguese version (Brazil): • URSS - UNIÃO SOVIÉTICA...
    Japanese version: • ソビエト連邦の歴史
    German version: • Die UdSSR - Zusammenfa...
    Corean version: • 소련 (소비에트 사회주의 공화국 연방) ...
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    Music: Made for Geo History by Ledge End: www.beatstars.com/ledgeend
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    Software: Adobe After Effects
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    Chapters
    00:00 Situation before WWI
    01:17 World War I
    02:12 The end of the Romanov dynasty
    03:18 The October Revolution
    04:56 The Russian Civil War
    07:38 Stalin
    08:57 International Destabilization
    11:00 World War II
    12:40 The Great Patriotic War
    14:20 Turning Point
    15:55 The Cold War
    17:35 Khrushchev
    19:26 The United States
    21:09 The dissolution of the Soviet Union
    #geohistory #ussr #coldwar #russia #history

Komentáře • 2,3K

  • @danielbaldwin5510
    @danielbaldwin5510 Před rokem +886

    “In the balkans, tensions rise”
    I swear I’ve heard this one before

    • @sigh7731
      @sigh7731 Před rokem +57

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    • @Codename_Hunter
      @Codename_Hunter Před rokem

      @@sigh7731 da Fucl

    • @uchihawarrior8546
      @uchihawarrior8546 Před rokem +7

      ​@@sigh7731 coc fan😂

    • @sigh7731
      @sigh7731 Před rokem +8

      @@uchihawarrior8546 🤨

    • @uchihawarrior8546
      @uchihawarrior8546 Před rokem +1

      @@sigh7731 wrong comment

  • @ShizukuShipper
    @ShizukuShipper Před 2 lety +2491

    I find it interesting that before its dissolution, Kazakhstan was the entirety of the USSR, even for a few days

    • @johnsMITHhhhhh88
      @johnsMITHhhhhh88 Před 2 lety +296

      Technically yes, but it's not like the USSR central government moved there or anything. It was just that they still called themselves the Kazakh SSR and hadn't got around to passing a law saying they were independent yet even though they already were because the union didn't exist anymore.

    • @ShizukuShipper
      @ShizukuShipper Před 2 lety +18

      @@johnsMITHhhhhh88 Yeah, I guess so

    • @markosan2525
      @markosan2525 Před 2 lety +6

      Kazahstan did not want to have CCCP dissolved. Nursultan was taken by surprise when he gets the news that CCCP is no more by the will of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus...

    • @walker35548
      @walker35548 Před 2 lety +28

      @@markosan2525 no one want it in the USSR - people vote against it

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz Před 2 lety +30

      Like the last part of the Western Roman Empire was Realm of Siager around Paris... a technicality that Clovis (King of the Franks and Roman vassal) "solved" by invading and annexing it a few months later. Curious anecdote but mostly irrelevant.

  • @gold_real_money
    @gold_real_money Před 6 měsíci +18

    I am not anti-history, but hearing my teacher in school explaining about history, I quickly fell asleep in just about 2 minutes. But I can watch the entertaining videos about history like these for 6-7 hours marathon videos a day

  • @andreylebedenko1260
    @andreylebedenko1260 Před rokem +66

    9:45 The figure of 800k deaths (799,455 to be precise) is the total number of all death sentences for all sorts of crimes from 1921 till 1953, not just in 2 years.

    • @ASlickNamedPimpback
      @ASlickNamedPimpback Před 9 měsíci +3

      still doesn't refute the genocide

    • @theonioneater9307
      @theonioneater9307 Před 9 měsíci

      @@ASlickNamedPimpback 25k a year doesn't seem as bad as 400k though does it

    • @ASlickNamedPimpback
      @ASlickNamedPimpback Před 9 měsíci

      @@theonioneater9307only if you ignore the fact that most estimates put the death toll at 700k - 1.1 million

    • @theonioneater9307
      @theonioneater9307 Před 9 měsíci

      @@ASlickNamedPimpback the 700k-1.1 million in the two years claimed would be 400k a year at least but when the stats are for 20 years it doesnt seem as bad that is what he original comment is about

    • @MrPom6
      @MrPom6 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@ASlickNamedPimpback genocide of who?

  • @suspicioustomato253
    @suspicioustomato253 Před 2 lety +142

    I like how you can see the Aral sea change, nice detail

    • @GeoHistory
      @GeoHistory  Před 2 lety +65

      Thank you, I was wondering if someone would notice it

    • @afrodiy6539
      @afrodiy6539 Před 2 lety +14

      Forgive us, I live in the city of Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan, my city is located 500 kilometers from the Aral Sea. My history teacher spoke about how our people quickly depleted this sea, at the moment there is nothing left of the sea. As a Kazakh, I apologize;)

    • @Thegagagaha
      @Thegagagaha Před 2 lety +14

      @@afrodiy6539 apologize for what? Aral Sea is mainly used by Uzbeks, and Kazakhs saved their part of water

    • @suspicioustomato253
      @suspicioustomato253 Před 2 lety +6

      @@afrodiy6539 no need to apologise for the actions of others

    • @rezthefan
      @rezthefan Před 2 lety +2

      @@Thegagagaha what? I'm an Uzbek, but we didn't use Aral Sea so much in the past but USSR government forced us to use it for more cotton harvest. Pay attention to your own disinformation

  • @FrizzelFry
    @FrizzelFry Před 2 lety +932

    Outstanding - clear and to the point without oversimplifying

  • @sanderverhage8331
    @sanderverhage8331 Před rokem +26

    Incredible job making this video. This taught me a great amount of the world history during the last century and it's so valuable in understanding the world today. Thank you so much for this.

  • @user-od4yl3rf4n
    @user-od4yl3rf4n Před 2 lety +91

    Love how the Rybinsk reservoir is filling up during war. I'm seeing it right now through my window. My ancestors lived on territories that were flooded.
    Great job by the way, love your vids. History loves to repeat unfortunately.

    • @user-ur9ru5iy3s
      @user-ur9ru5iy3s Před rokem

      Ахуеть реально они нарисовали как блять... Вот это внимание к деталям! 👍🏿

    • @Auberge79
      @Auberge79 Před rokem

      however in different video about history of 1000 years ago there was Rybinsk reservour already :-) What a miss!
      czcams.com/video/qUgzqkCW6A4/video.html

    • @flowerpower2067
      @flowerpower2067 Před rokem +2

      Thank you for sharing such an awesome detail I would have never noticed.

    • @yellow01umrella
      @yellow01umrella Před 11 měsíci

      History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.

    • @user-gq4hs7xx7w
      @user-gq4hs7xx7w Před 3 měsíci

      ​@yellow01umrella it changes across times

  • @nomastersnogods9303
    @nomastersnogods9303 Před 2 lety +790

    Let’s take a moment to appreciate Geo History and his hard work, especially during times like these. Bravo Sir 🙏🏽

    • @marekhavrlik9851
      @marekhavrlik9851 Před 2 lety +8

      If this channel has a point to educate someone who is not so in touch with topic, it is nicely done. If it aims to be serious work with history... sheeesh it has a space for improvement. Yet pictures and maps are always cool for boys, when there are flags and soldiers.

    • @SuperEssenceOfficial
      @SuperEssenceOfficial Před rokem +1

      @@marekhavrlik9851 what are some examples you would wish a viewer to learn beyond what is shown?

    • @SuperEssenceOfficial
      @SuperEssenceOfficial Před rokem +6

      @@marekhavrlik9851 it seems good as long as you keep in mind that it is a vague summary.

    • @glennrasmussen56
      @glennrasmussen56 Před rokem +4

      Haha if you take a education you will fast see how propgandist this video is. Read a book instead.

    • @PershingOfficial
      @PershingOfficial Před rokem +6

      @@glennrasmussen56 Give examples instead of spewing general statements

  • @SuchDarkness
    @SuchDarkness Před 2 lety +423

    Despite the US and USSR being a few miles away from eachother in Alaska and the Far East, there were never any positions of nuclear warheads in Alaska, at least, that the public knows of.

    • @airatgimaev6821
      @airatgimaev6821 Před 2 lety +140

      Because no many people was in the east of USSR so it is unprofitable to put rockets there. The distance to the central part of the USSR where many people live would be approximately the same - from Alaska or from main USA territory.

    • @StreetDrilla
      @StreetDrilla Před 2 lety +72

      funny how two different worlds were so close to each other. In 1987 an American Woman swam across.

    • @SuchDarkness
      @SuchDarkness Před 2 lety +25

      @@airatgimaev6821 yea but remember, the Russian port of Vladivostok, along with North Korea and China, were right across there as well

    • @lahhtoota
      @lahhtoota Před 2 lety +66

      That's because both countries avoid direct confrontation and rather play the puppet game by aiding other states whoever supporting their ideology.

    • @kanedafx
      @kanedafx Před 2 lety +3

      Ours was in Palin's backyard.

  • @r.a.d.h.4260
    @r.a.d.h.4260 Před 2 lety +14

    Small correction on the League of Nations graphic (9:32): Germany was still in the LoN until 1935, even though they had decared they'd leave in 1933. The LoN allowed countries to leave but there was a 2 year transitioning period (similarily to say Brexit after its vote).

  • @David-ln5mg
    @David-ln5mg Před 2 lety +5

    what the hek this is amazing, one of the best overviews I've ever seen - throughout the 3 series & without the BS of bias.

  • @Taifun2
    @Taifun2 Před 2 lety +906

    Could you do something like this for Germany? That would be interesting

    • @Taifun2
      @Taifun2 Před 2 lety +22

      @@universo5564 i mean why cant he fo this in english for germany

    • @Taifun2
      @Taifun2 Před 2 lety +2

      Do*

    • @pallasathena7372
      @pallasathena7372 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Taifun2 Because its not that interresting probably.

    • @1w598
      @1w598 Před 2 lety +32

      @@universo5564 You misunderstood. He's requesting a video ABOUT Germany, not in German.

    • @1w598
      @1w598 Před 2 lety +1

      @@pallasathena7372 Kind of an ignorant & relative statement.

  • @stardust8464
    @stardust8464 Před 2 lety +209

    I'm telling you, this was worth the wait. Love your video's Geo History.

    • @Robert_H.
      @Robert_H. Před rokem +2

      All people outside Germany: Yes. Germany clearly caused the First World War. That a group supported by Serbia killed parts of the royal family of Austria-Hungary, and Austria-Hungary then attacked Serbia, has nothing to do with the First World War. And the fact that Germany was dragged into the war as an ally of Austria-Hungary, was attacked first by Russia and then only defended itself, is also completely irrelevant. Germany is to blame for the First World War. That's why the war winners had to take away 1/3 of Germany's land, occupy their most important economic center and send a bill of any amount in billions every year, which Germany has to pay, although the Treaty of Versailles didn't specify any amount about the reparation payments. No idea why Germans started hating their neighboring states and minorities so much that they elected a man who brought them a better economic situation and who started a new war 30 years after the end of the war against the war winners of WWI. Germany evil. And only through the Americans, Germany learned democracy. America! Fuck Yeah! Land of the Free!

    • @sigh7731
      @sigh7731 Před rokem

      The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hit points, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a quick building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage.

    • @asbest2092
      @asbest2092 Před rokem

      the video of a really trash quality. It's better it didn't exist. It makes it worse by its existence.

  • @rbizla
    @rbizla Před 2 lety +16

    These are fantastic. I hope to see more. Subscribed!

  • @simyuzehpps9094
    @simyuzehpps9094 Před 2 lety +11

    I personally feel that I like all its videos and find them interesting. Can you post more in the future?

  • @raymondqiu8202
    @raymondqiu8202 Před 2 lety +121

    Everytime Geohistory uploads, it's a guaranteed banger

  • @user-hd7hk8is9n
    @user-hd7hk8is9n Před 2 lety +50

    Love this channel. Great content as always, easy to understand and to the point.

  • @jay-mw7ry
    @jay-mw7ry Před 2 lety +4

    Excellent work mate 💯

  • @Sweatcheck69
    @Sweatcheck69 Před 2 lety +6

    This was the most informative and to the point video I've watched on youtube this week

  • @outerspace7391
    @outerspace7391 Před 2 lety +351

    Many important Cold war proxy conflicts that had huge Soviet involvement were not mentioned, aside from the Arab-Israeli of course. I won't complain more about it though because I believe it might have been intentional to make separate videos on them. Good work!

    • @TRtraybloxeey
      @TRtraybloxeey Před 2 lety +21

      The video is 20 minutes, they can’t fit much in there, only the main points each decade basically

    • @smash3394
      @smash3394 Před 2 lety +7

      не думайте, что они настроены на советскую сторону.
      они объявили основной причиной победы над Германией в 1941- подкрепление с востока страны
      однако с начала и до конца война в Сибири находились 40 дивизий на случай нападения Японии
      это грубо

    • @outerspace7391
      @outerspace7391 Před 2 lety +2

      @@smash3394 true point

    • @smash3394
      @smash3394 Před 2 lety +6

      @@outerspace7391 want to know the real reason for the victory near Moscow? this is a choked blitzkrieg in the desperate resistance of Soviet soldiers in the summer and autumn of 1941: the Brest fortress, the Vyazma ring and other
      blitzkrieg just simply choked🤷‍♂️

    • @smash3394
      @smash3394 Před 2 lety +1

      @@outerspace7391 not true, but false

  • @guywithnoname9302
    @guywithnoname9302 Před 2 lety +18

    Been waiting for this video for so long glad it is finally released :D

  • @HenryFrederick
    @HenryFrederick Před 11 měsíci +1

    Excellent narration! Liked & subscribed...

  • @monaoconnell5650
    @monaoconnell5650 Před 2 lety +24

    This is a very good summary of what happened. I would recommend it to anyone especially to teachers or aspiring diplomats or to members of the military. I hope you do more of these. Great job!

    • @sancalisto2371
      @sancalisto2371 Před 2 lety +4

      I would advice against it. The all-important transition period from monarchy to socialist revolutionary rule in Russia, is at best lenient.

    • @MrAsynchro
      @MrAsynchro Před rokem

      @@sancalisto2371 He's not going to explain that in full detail.

    • @HollowHusk
      @HollowHusk Před 6 měsíci

      @@sancalisto2371what did he get wrong?

  • @justinjames2436
    @justinjames2436 Před 2 lety +3

    Was waiting for this new video!!! You guys should upload more often

  • @juliancoenen4917
    @juliancoenen4917 Před 2 lety +35

    Great video!
    Of course there are details I wish would have been in the video, but for an overview, is this a great video!

    • @silverace08
      @silverace08 Před rokem

      yes exactly feel same, i wouldnt have known many of this without this, but more detail.

    • @user-gb3hm1rq8b
      @user-gb3hm1rq8b Před rokem

      They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...

    • @bondgabebond4907
      @bondgabebond4907 Před rokem

      In my personal view, these "headlines" of world history guide me to sources of far more detailed information. As we can gloss over WW2 in a video, it does make us aware of events that we can further study on our own. That's the magic of shows like this.

  • @mikimiki3310
    @mikimiki3310 Před rokem

    Very good video! Keep the work up.

  • @egorpanfilov
    @egorpanfilov Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent video! Thank you!

  • @raulito321100
    @raulito321100 Před 2 lety +11

    Its a good day when Geo History uploads

  • @lekan1
    @lekan1 Před 2 lety +59

    Quality content... Geo history, been a long time for your long video

  • @vadimshishev9304
    @vadimshishev9304 Před 2 lety +8

    Very interesting and easy to follow. Thank you!

  • @willswilliams902
    @willswilliams902 Před rokem +12

    Would love to see a video on the Romans!! Enjoying the videos thanks 👍

  • @sarmadali7191
    @sarmadali7191 Před 2 lety +15

    I was literally trying to learn something about the USSR yesterday, and today you uploaded a video about it.

    • @Ragulenschaft
      @Ragulenschaft Před 2 lety +1

      You want to learn something about USSR? So Russian Empire's popultaion on 1913 (without Finland) was about 171 millions, in january of 1923 USSR's population was 137 millions. Yeah there was a territory loss of western so-called belarus & ukraine, also of baltic states, but obviously population of those regions wasn't reaching 34 millions, so what happened then? Bolshevik party happened. During WWI they talked about the need to start a civil war, and as a result, they started it. There are at least 10 million of loses during civil war in Russia, which was started by communist. Those loses include victims of the red terror and «prodrazverstka» (confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants) politics arranged by the bolsheviks. The second one resulted in the famine in volga river region which was very horrifying: around 2 millions of deaths, some cannibalism incidents. There was some tries to help victims of the famine including from abroad ones, but they all were supressed by the bolshevik party, moreover they started campaing of destroying russian culture by eliminating remaining parts of the russian orthodox church in region that suffered from the famine. So how then bolsheviks won in the civil war with those to put it mildly unpopular politics? Because of the red terror, which resulted in at least 1 million and up to 2 millions of deaths, especially because of the hostage taking politic: bolsheviks was taking hostages not only to get a ransom, but also to force the officers of the former imperial army to serve in the red army. Also bolsheviks had a conscription army, and the white army was a volunteer one. And there is also a myth that the Whites were supported by the Entente, this is true, but this assistance was extremely limited, and sometimes help went into the hands of the Bolsheviks, for example, when the entente left the port city of Arkhangelsk, then the entire huge arsenal that was stored there went to the Bolsheviks, a similar situation was in Odessa. The Entente believed that the worst outcome for the Russians, the victory of the Bolsheviks, was the best outcome for it, but it was mistaken and the red plague began to spread rapidly to the surrounding countries. So after the end of the civil war there was NEP (new economic policy) which was basically capitalism and this was the best economic development of USSR for all of its history - this is the only fact you need to know about planned economy. But if new economics were the best option for the russian people, the cultural they were suffering a cultural genocide policy called «korenizatsiya» which was a policy of destroying russian identity and making from russians the so-called ukrainians&belarussians in western regions by rewriting russian history, destroying the russian cultural heritage (such as destroying the church as i said) and eliminating russian intelligentsia by killing them or forcing to flee from country. But in 1929 there was a moment of the «great brake» and all of 30s were a new huge wave of genocide of russians policies: in the period of 1930-1934 died about 8 millions in all of the USSR, most suffered region was the «middle-volga kray» and all of the volga, don and kuban rivers regions with saved russian majority and not the ukraine, but ukraine also suffered a lot and actually as i said majority of so-called ukrainians had a russian identity before the 1920s, so this golodomor tradegy is not genicide of ukrainians, but the genocide of russians. Also kazakhstan suffered but not mainly kazakh people but the russian nation: in ural river and north kazakhstan regions there were a russian majorities, but all russian population of those regions were deported and only in north kazakhstan this majority was restored (nowadays it is opressed by kazakhstan authoritarian xenophobic regime minority), but to the ural river region russians never returned. So, only to the 40s there were at least 20 millions of deaths that were mainly a russians, but this genocide never stopped to this day in the territories of former Russian Empire, it just remains unnoticed not only in the West, but also among the Russians themselves, but this is another conversation. Obviously USSR is not Russia, for the Russian nation USSR is something like Nazi Germany for the Jews (but don't forget that nazies also wanted to destroy the Russians, not only the Jews and Poles). Please share this information with your people, world must know about this.

    • @adhprakash
      @adhprakash Před 2 lety +7

      @@Ragulenschaft did you srsly type that to answer his question

    • @Ragulenschaft
      @Ragulenschaft Před 2 lety

      @@adhprakash as i said, world must know the truth about the fate of the Russian nation, about its tradegy, as world knows about holocaust. Maybe it is nothing, but at least you know now.

    • @HelloEdits613
      @HelloEdits613 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Ragulenschaft did you copy and paste the ussr wikipedia page lol

    • @The-Third-Rail
      @The-Third-Rail Před 2 lety +3

      @@HelloEdits613
      Oh, mind you, he's just writing russian propaganda.
      Nothing new.

  • @adolf_08
    @adolf_08 Před 2 lety +58

    Gran video, cómo me encanta este canal. De mis favoritos!

  • @Aditya7Cruise
    @Aditya7Cruise Před 2 lety +2

    Great Video. Thank you!!

  • @CartoonHistory
    @CartoonHistory Před 2 lety +9

    Love these videos. Really great way to understand complex issues

    • @silverace08
      @silverace08 Před rokem

      yes as long as we also go into the details to verify some facts that seem to be missing

    • @user-gb3hm1rq8b
      @user-gb3hm1rq8b Před rokem

      They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...

  • @cageybee7221
    @cageybee7221 Před 2 lety +87

    "Let's take Poland and _PUSH IT_ somewhere else!" -Stalin

    • @zabiden5822
      @zabiden5822 Před 2 lety +1

      Гениально давайте

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 Před 2 lety +5

      That somewhere else is almost exactly the borders from 1000 A.D. Stalin undid the german pushing on the east expansion lasting over 900 years with one decision.

    • @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757
      @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 Před 2 lety +4

      @@crank1985 I don't really see the point you're making. Many Poles have long settled in that region by then. Imagine if someone came to your home and forced you to move on the basis of some random historical context.

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 Před 2 lety

      @@guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 "your house used to be over there, so now it is. youre welcome 😊"

    • @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757
      @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 Před 2 lety +5

      @@jonathanodude6660 "Sorry officer, but I think you've mistaken me for my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, an understandable mistake."
      *Closes door*

  • @SirCegi_TheMangnificent
    @SirCegi_TheMangnificent Před 2 lety +3

    FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! MAN ITS A GOOD DAY IF GEO HISTORY POSTS

  • @DonatoPanico-km2jq
    @DonatoPanico-km2jq Před 10 měsíci +1

    I like how you included the Aral sea draining

  • @mikeor-
    @mikeor- Před 4 měsíci +3

    My great-grandfather, Yaakov Pevzner, lived on the outskirts of Leningrad when the Germans invaded in 1941. His house was repossessed by the Soviet government to use for the war effort. This resulted in him moving into the center of Leningrad, which was now blockaded by the German Navy. Throughout 1942, my great-grandfather suffered through the worst of the Blockade of Leningrad. He was evacuated in 1943, after the victory at Stalingrad. He was taken to Kyrgyzsia (Kyrgyzstan), where he first met my great-grandmother. One year later, in 1944, they had their first child, my maternal grandma. At the same time, Yaakov's cousin, Sacha, was shot down by the Luftwaffe. He was lucky to survive, but his legs were shattered. He, a member of the Soviet Air Force, should have been given military awards for his bravery. Instead, once the war was over, Stalin put him in a gulag. Sacha survived that only because Stalin died in 1953. One of Georgy Malenkov's first acts after Stalin's funeral was to release all prisoners in gulags, which included my great-grandfather's cousin. Sacha died in 1971, without receiving any military awards from Malenkov, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev. However, my great-grandfather received three Thank You Letters: one from Gorbachev, another from Yeltsin, and a third one from Lukashenko. He also got military awards from Andropov and Chernenko. Yaakov was NOT in the Red Army, Navy, or Air Force. He was simply a factory director who survived the blockade in Leningrad. Furthermore, he lived long enough to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, Putin, and Lukashenko, and long enough for me to actually know him. He was born in 1919 and passed away in 2012. He was born before the Soviet Union was and died after the Soviet Union did.

  • @coyote4237
    @coyote4237 Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you. This was great.

  • @joseluismoralestoro2820
    @joseluismoralestoro2820 Před 2 lety +4

    Excellent video, thanks, Kind regards!

  • @SuperZebra45
    @SuperZebra45 Před rokem +19

    Its SUPER hard to summarise a whole country's history but this guy just did it! Most underrated CZcamsr.

  • @dadthelad
    @dadthelad Před 2 lety +1

    Fabulous, thank you!

  • @real_comrade_jb
    @real_comrade_jb Před 2 lety +6

    The way it's told simplifies a complicated subject and puts opinions and singular facts as major deals that in itself made major changes

  • @brianfarmer858
    @brianfarmer858 Před 2 lety +119

    I am surprised you didn't bring up the Regan operation to deny the USSR any debt financing. That had a huge effect on the stability of the USSR. Otherwise great summary. other

    • @civlyzed
      @civlyzed Před 2 lety

      Don Regan? :D

    • @historyeditz8326
      @historyeditz8326 Před 2 lety +17

      It's not the Reagan,it's incompetency of Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

    • @bondgabebond4907
      @bondgabebond4907 Před rokem

      Star Wars, of more properly known as Strategic Defense Initiative, really helped ruin the USSRs economy. Star Wars could have totally fake, but when presented to the Soviets, it was real. That was one of the elements that brought down the Soviet Union.

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 Před rokem +1

      That really didnt do anything or else that would be mentioned.

  • @LawpickingLocksmith
    @LawpickingLocksmith Před 2 lety +1

    Real nice! Thank you!

  • @denigster
    @denigster Před 9 měsíci +1

    thank you so much for maybe the first time that i ever heard the right countries starting the war

  • @rainbowtimes2022
    @rainbowtimes2022 Před 2 lety +3

    I love this channel and its trilogies

  • @HowDoU24
    @HowDoU24 Před 2 lety +5

    1:06 bro how is nobody talking about that fire beat 🔥🔥

  • @KoroPro
    @KoroPro Před rokem +2

    I like how at the end of the video, you can see Finland's borders but no one else and it also has its old borders

  • @Artgz
    @Artgz Před 2 lety +28

    Очень хорошо, товарищ, вы награждаетесь поездкой в Болгарию

    • @besmart2350
      @besmart2350 Před rokem +2

      who are you to grant free travel to Bulgaria?

  • @Masterfootballer23
    @Masterfootballer23 Před 2 lety +4

    Thanks to this video I will never forget the meaning and pronunciation of the word Rapprochement ;)

  • @Tribune_of_Italia
    @Tribune_of_Italia Před 2 lety +10

    11:55 lol it's kinda funny to see the Axis as pink

  • @adrianonoli
    @adrianonoli Před 2 lety +73

    Guys, these videos are so great! I use them in my Geohistory class, I'm a teacher in Italian secondary school system (11-13 years old students), we just love your work. I would like to start a cooperation to translate them in Italian, how can I contact the owner? I didn0t find any contact detail in the profile.

    • @BloodshotEight0
      @BloodshotEight0 Před rokem +4

      You might have to join their Patreon?
      You might get some contact information then

    • @scpmr
      @scpmr Před rokem +9

      I thought teachers should use information from proven sources, not from youtube videos created by some unknowns

    • @RealLordRemy
      @RealLordRemy Před rokem +8

      @@scpmr Im pretty sure most teachers do use youtube in some cases.

    • @elijahking519
      @elijahking519 Před rokem +5

      @@scpmr CZcamsrs can often be better than the proven source and can be just as reliable

    • @asbest2092
      @asbest2092 Před rokem

      he video is lying trash

  • @MsRustynuts
    @MsRustynuts Před rokem +10

    A great video explaining a very difficult to understand history of Europe and Asia.
    Goes to show our histories, origins and cultures are never as clear cut and straight forward as we like to think.
    It gives us some understanding of why we will always have wars in this part of the world unfortunately, and why the borders of Eastern Europe were always changing, and sadly always will.

  • @still_resume
    @still_resume Před 2 lety +7

    This is going to age like fine wine...

  • @TheGeographyBible
    @TheGeographyBible Před 2 lety +9

    Incredible video, literally like something you'd see on Nat Geo or Netflix!

  • @CoffeeSuccubus
    @CoffeeSuccubus Před 2 lety +15

    I love how with the USSR dissolution, you did it one by one, and did Kazakhstan last rather than Russia being first.

    • @user-xm2hg3xy7l
      @user-xm2hg3xy7l Před rokem +4

      Россия освободилась от Казахской окупации

  • @wappa2832
    @wappa2832 Před rokem +4

    I like the detail of the Aral Sea evaporating.

  • @maxkrause7678
    @maxkrause7678 Před 2 lety +5

    This is a superb video!

  • @marcelohidalgo7713
    @marcelohidalgo7713 Před 2 lety +11

    Me who has already watched The Original French version: I am four Pararel Universes ahead of you.

  • @ocudagledam
    @ocudagledam Před rokem +14

    The actual reason why Russia mobilized as Austria-Hungary was about to invade Serbia was that the Russians caught wind of just how big an army the Austrohungarians were assembling and concluded that it was A LOT of soldiers if you only wanted to have a war with Serbia. Without going into too much detail, by that moment, a continental war had been looming for some time, e.g. see the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.

  • @Petar_Savic
    @Petar_Savic Před 4 měsíci +1

    This is very simplified history, but correct.

  • @CLIF5758
    @CLIF5758 Před 2 lety +4

    I'm currently teaching world war today to my students today. I taught the two Russian revolutions and the abdication of Nicholas II as well as the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk

  • @joeshar.
    @joeshar. Před 2 lety +9

    I didn't know Austria was about to be partioned between West and Soviet Union as happened in Germany. Exactly the same case for Vienna as in Berlin, also.
    Kruschev withdrew their part in 1955.
    That's why that region (Lower Austria) was in red color between 1945-55.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah, they agreed to make the country neutral by treaty, what is still formally a thing. Then they tried to do the same with Germany but didn't work.

    • @marijn211
      @marijn211 Před 2 lety

      Its quite interesting that it took so long for Austria to be re-established, I forgot the details on whether the early socialist government had influence across all occupation zones

  • @johnmieczkowski5171
    @johnmieczkowski5171 Před 2 lety

    Please UPLOAD MORE. LOVE UR VIDS

  • @alexandervaltsev6937
    @alexandervaltsev6937 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is an incredibly balance view of the history of the USSR

  • @sheeba4169
    @sheeba4169 Před 2 lety +10

    23:40 hehe... Russia and USSR existing at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @manioqqqq
      @manioqqqq Před rokem

      In foresight, ussr should be the 🇰🇿 Emoji, not the 🇷🇺 Emoji

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 2 lety +6

    Fact:
    Austria/Hungary didn't immediately go to war with Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
    They were of the opinion/thinking that Serbia was directly involved in the whole thing,so they sent a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia.
    Serbia went along with 8/9 points of it,they asked for the 1 or 2 points they didn't agree with be submitted to the international tribunal at the Hague.
    Austria/Hungary considered this to be a rejection of the whole ultimatum,so war was declared.

    • @charlie8344
      @charlie8344 Před 2 lety +2

      because the ultimatum was literally impossible

    • @colindaniels945
      @colindaniels945 Před 2 lety +2

      @@charlie8344 Austria could've just as easily negotiated with Serbia over the sticking points of the ultimatum.
      Austria wanted to go to war.

  • @ChannelRandomMy
    @ChannelRandomMy Před 11 měsíci

    Wow that video was amazing

  • @lijasspijkerman5804
    @lijasspijkerman5804 Před 2 lety +8

    I still remember when kazakhstan was the ''soviet union'' for 4 days straight. , I still remember also when the nuclear disaster happened it was terrifying.

    • @AndreiBerezin
      @AndreiBerezin Před 2 lety +1

      When it happened I was 8 and didnt understand shit. I only knew people had to leave a certain zone near Kiev, it was so far away from me (Siberia) that I didnt care until I got to know the aftermath of the disaster

  • @crook7493
    @crook7493 Před 2 lety +14

    I love this channel, I get to enjoy history on a map while bopping my head to sick ass beats

  • @IllyrianMapper
    @IllyrianMapper Před 2 lety

    GEO HISTORY IS ALIVE AGAIN!

  • @HistoricalJudgmentDays
    @HistoricalJudgmentDays Před 2 měsíci

    video great . thanks you so much

  • @reorioOrion
    @reorioOrion Před 9 měsíci +3

    You didn't mention:
    1. 1961, the USSR launched the first man into space - Yuri Gagarin.
    2. The economic crisis in the USSR was caused not by the actions of Brezhnev, but by the economic policy of Gorbachev, who abruptly switched from a planned economy to a market one.
    As a result, the plan for the supply of food and products was disrupted, which caused a total shortage of goods and a catastrophic increase in prices.
    For the economic catastrophe of the USSR, Gorbachev and his mediocre transition to a market economy are responsible.
    No matter how terrible the planned economy of the USSR was, this did not prevent it from existing and achieving significant success.
    The reason for the collapse of the economy was precisely the reforms of Gorbachev.

    • @tukmur0912
      @tukmur0912 Před 9 měsíci +1

      A planned economy is a good idea, but in the wrong hands it stops working

    • @reorioOrion
      @reorioOrion Před 8 měsíci

      @@Wirsindimmernochhier
      Yes. She conquered space, built a nuclear power plant, won the largest war in the history of the planet, became a nuclear superpower ..
      Oh, No. In reality, it was the USSR.
      You know, even if we take the rights of women, then in the USSR a woman became equal to a man in 1918.
      In Nazi Germany, a woman was not at all equal to a man and was considered solely as a mother and wife.
      This was the official doctrine of Nazi propaganda.
      When the Nazis invaded the USSR, they were extremely surprised and puzzled by the fact that, together with Soviet men, Soviet women fought on equal terms against them.
      What many wrote in their memoirs.
      And this is only a small part of the achievements of the USSR.
      Nazi Germany without a doubt has a huge number of achievements.
      I think she has collected all the anti-records of statehood.
      After all, in just 12 years, she managed to destroy herself.

    • @reorioOrion
      @reorioOrion Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@Wirsindimmernochhier
      1. No. You're lying.
      90% of the troops of Germany and its allies (with the exception of Japan) were concentrated on the eastern front.
      The battles between the USSR and Germany amounted to a million people on each side. And there were not one, not two, and not three such battles:
      Battle for Moscow:
      Germany - 2 million soldiers. USSR - 1.2 million soldiers.
      Total losses - more than a million soldiers.
      _
      Battle for the Dnieper:
      Germany - 1.2 million soldiers. USSR - 2.6 million soldiers.
      Total losses - more than a million soldiers.
      _
      Battle of Kursk:
      Germany - 900 thousand soldiers. USSR - 1.9 million soldiers The largest tank battle in history. In general, almost 10,000 tanks took part in the battle.
      Total losses - almost 1 million soldiers.
      _
      Battle of Stalingrad:
      Germany - 1 million soldiers. USSR - 1.2 million soldiers.
      Total losses - almost two million soldiers
      If we take the largest battles on the western front, then these are:
      USA - D-Day (Normandy landings)
      USA - 150 thousand people. Germany - 50 thousand soldiers.
      Total losses - 25 thousand soldiers.
      And
      Battle of Britain
      Britain - 1900 aircraft. Germany - 2.5 aircraft.
      Total losses (military) - 6 thousand soldiers.
      After the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, the USSR adopted the plan of "ten Stalin strikes".
      These are 10 major battles designed to free the Soviet land from the Nazi, brown plague.
      This:
      Leningrad-Novgorod operation
      Dnieper-Carpathian operation
      Odessa operation (1944) and Crimean operation (1944)
      Iasi-Kishinev operation and Romanian operation
      Baltic operation (1944)
      East Carpathian operation and Belgrade operation
      Petsamo-Kirkenes operation
      Each of these battles is 5-10 times larger than the biggest Allied battles - D-Day and the Battle of Britain.
      It was the USSR that won the victory over Germany.
      He would have done it without allies.
      Also, the USSR in 1945 launched the Manchurian operation, during which the Kwantung Army of Japan was destroyed, numbering a million people (~ 600 thousand Japan and ~ 300 thousand Korea)
      It was this event that forced Japan to capitulate, and not at all the launching of nuclear strikes.
      2. I don't care about your friend's grandmother.
      In my judgments, I rely on facts, not the stories of your friends.
      A woman in Nazi Germany was forbidden to teach at universities, work in the medical field and hold political positions in the NSDAP.
      Propaganda in Nazi Germany viewed women as exclusively mothers and domestic workers.
      There were certainly exceptions, but the general agenda remained unchanged.
      Women in Nazi Germany were EXTREMELY infringed in their rights. And a similar attitude towards women persisted in Germany for a long time after the defeat of Nazism.
      In the USSR, the woman was completely equalized in rights with men in 1917.
      Nazi Germany never achieved such equality between men and women, which was in the USSR.
      3. Germany was extremely technologically advanced.
      Her achievements were stolen by the United States during Operation Paperclip
      So what?
      Did the United States develop nuclear weapons with the help of Germany? Or maybe the internet?
      It will be news to you, but discoveries like this don't happen in a vacuum.
      This happens in the course of an intellectual, economic and political race between powers.
      Germany stole from the USSR, the USSR from Germany, the USA from Germany, the USSR from the USA, and so on.
      This is the normal form of things.
      The fact is that technologically advanced Germany has LOST.
      She's over.
      The fact is that space was conquered by the USSR and the USA, not by Germany.
      Germany is now conquering the expanses of multiculturalism and patience in relation to pedophiles, gays, migrants.
      You can say thank you for this to your Nazi Germany, without which this would not have been possible.
      It doesn't matter how well built you are if you've been losing in a fight.
      4.
      a) Don't tell me what works and what doesn't.
      There was no communism in the USSR. In the USSR, there was socialism, which was building communism.
      You clearly don't understand the issue you're talking about.
      Communism comes with the withering away of the state. There was a state in the USSR.
      b) "Holodomor" is a myth of Ukrainian and American propaganda. His goal is to quarrel the peoples according to the Roman rule "divide and rule"
      There really was a famine in the USSR. It was all over the USSR and was a consequence of the global financial crisis (Great Depression), the first world war, the civil war, and yes - mistakes on the ground.
      "Holodomor" is presented by Ukrainian and American propaganda as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
      I have one question for you:
      If Stalin wanted to destroy the Ukrainian people....who prevented him?
      This is the most uncomfortable question, to which none of the propagandists can find an answer.
      Maybe you will find.
      c) "In fact, Germany won the war, not the USSR"
      Yes. Everything was so. Yeah. And it was not the Soviet flag that flew over the Reichstag.
      For your information, Germany has developed an OST plan. In the course of this plan, in the event of a German victory, the genocide of 70% of the Soviet people was envisaged, the rest was planned to be enslaved.
      It doesn't matter what kind of victims the USSR turned white in the war.
      If the USSR had lost this war, it would have literally lost everything.
      So it was the USSR that won the war.
      d) "elections in the Russian Empire"
      The Russian Empire did not have the USSR.
      On March 17, 1991, an all-Union referendum on the preservation of the USSR was held in the USSR.
      77% of the citizens of the Soviet Union in all the republics were in favor of preserving it.
      This referendum was provided for by the constitution of the USSR and was necessary for the legally justified withdrawal of the republics from the composition.
      He failed. The people did not want to secede from the USSR.
      Then the referendum was ignored, forgotten, and instead illegal referendum were held in individual republics.
      In new, separate referendum, "the numbers converged" and the oligarchy gained power.

    • @reorioOrion
      @reorioOrion Před 8 měsíci

      @@Wirsindimmernochhier
      🥳🥂 Happy reading.

    • @reorioOrion
      @reorioOrion Před 8 měsíci

      ​@@Wirsindimmernochhier
      1.
      a) Of course, Germany's war on two fronts weakened her army. However, not only Germany fought, but also its allies.
      All of Europe fought against the USSR under the heel of Germany.
      The USSR also fought on several fronts simultaneously.
      The USSR fought against Germany, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Bulgaria.
      Do you know who the RSFSR (the future USSR) fought against in the civil war in 1917?
      He fought simultaneously against the British Empire, the USA, Canada, Austria, India, France, Italy, Greece, Romania, Poland, Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Germany, the UNR, the BPR, Finland, the Whites (supporters of the constitutional monarchy ), Greens (supporters of anarchism)
      And I'm sure I missed someone else.
      Study the foreign intervention of the Entente in Russia, in 1917.
      Do you want to whine about how poor Germany fought on two fronts?
      Well... find someone else. I am Russian.
      It is normal for us to fight on 2, 3, 10 fronts at the same time.
      You either win or you lose. And if you lose fighting on 2 fronts, this is exclusively your problem and no one else. There was no need to start fighting on two fronts.
      And I repeat once again: the USSR defeated more than 600 divisions of Germany and its allies.
      The British Empire and the United States, together, defeated only 170 divisions.
      The USSR won the war against Germany.
      With the support of the USA and Britain.
      This is exactly the same as if the Second World War was won by the Axis countries.
      In that case, it would have been won by Germany, with the support of its allies.
      Because in the Second World War, in Europe, the main, most large-scale, key, important and bloody battles fell precisely on the eastern front.
      There was nothing like it on the western front.
      b) You are talking about Lend-Lease, which was supplied by the USA to the USSR.
      Yes he was. It amounted to approximately 6% of the total military spending of the USSR during the war.
      This is a lot. But this is not the determining factor.
      The Soviet Union would have won without Lend-Lease. There would just be more victims.
      But that's all.
      2.
      What does Nazi Germany have in common with gays, pedophiles and migrants?
      Don't you understand?
      In Russia, this is indicated by the proverb "out of the fire and into the frying pan"
      From one extreme to another.
      It is precisely because of the radical position of Nazi Germany regarding migrants, sexual minorities and other things that now, in Germany, there is another extreme, where all this is categorically welcomed, causing irreparable damage to Germany. Destroying her nation.
      Radicalism is never good.
      Extreme always leads to excess.
      And kinks lead to collapse.
      3.
      a) During the collapse of the USSR, an oligarchy came to power in the future republics, the goal of which was one idea - hedonism.
      The oligarchy plundered the heritage of the USSR and plunged their republics into poverty.
      The only justification for this was nationalism, which blamed not the current elite, but the USSR for what was happening.
      Hatred for the USSR is imposed by the modern oligarchy in the countries of Eastern Europe.
      A dead lion can be kicked by any hyena.
      I do not argue with the fact that hatred in the former countries of the Warsaw Pact towards the USSR takes place. I have already given reasons for it.
      However, in your words there is no factual evidence.
      This is a personal assessment and nothing more.
      In my own words, on the contrary, there are facts.
      Namely, the referendum on March 17, 1991 on the preservation of the USSR.
      This referendum was the most honest possible since it was carried out by those oligarchs who wanted the collapse of the USSR.
      This referendum showed that 77% of the inhabitants of the USSR are in favor of its preservation.
      As for the population of the former republics of the USSR, we can refer to their demographics during the Soviet era and after.
      During the time of the USSR, the demographics of the republics grew at a rapid pace. The increase was from 30 to 90%.
      Under the European Union, after the collapse of the USSR, most of the republics have either zero population growth or a decline of 30% or more.
      Here are some examples:
      Latvia.
      1946 - 1,550,000 population.
      1991 - 2,650,000 population.
      Over 45 years, an increase of 58%
      2023 - 1,890,000 population.
      For 32 years, the population decline is 29%
      Lithuania.
      1950 - 2,570,000 population.
      1991 - 3,700,000 population
      in 41 years, an increase of 69%
      2023 - 2,860,000 population.
      For 32 years, the population decline is 23%
      Georgia.
      1950 - 3,520,000 population.
      1991 - 5,450,000 population.
      For 41 years, an increase of 64%
      2020 - 3,700,000 population.
      Population decline 33% over 29 years
      And so on.
      We clearly see that under the "totalitarian" USSR, the population of the republics grew and prospered. And with "blooming" Europe, these republics are dying out.
      And the reason is the oligarchy, which does not care about their country. Which turned their countries into the periphery of US capitalism.
      That is why nationalism and propaganda against the USSR flourishes in these countries.
      Because this is the only way to explain why they used to be doing well, and now they are bad.
      They need to find the culprit, but they themselves do not want to be guilty.
      According to this, the Soviet Union was appointed guilty.
      b) The reason why the Berlin Wall was destroyed is that the USSR allowed the GDR to unite with the FRG.
      Only instead, the FRG absorbed the GDR; together they became a colony of the United States, which before that was the FRG.
      The USSR gave the GDR freedom.
      The Germans did not want to live under socialism. The USSR was not opposed. The Germans got their freedom.
      And what did you do with her?
      You handed her over to the United States.
      c) How do you feel now in Germany?
      Or is it not Germany anymore?
      I don't think it's Germany anymore.
      I think your German nation no longer exists.
      Where is the new Wagner, Marx, Hegel, Faerbach, Kant? Where are the great German achievements and discoveries? Where are they?
      There is none of them.
      Because your nation is destroyed.
      And who did it?
      4.
      You do not know the history of Russia.
      The Great October Socialist Revolution passed almost without casualties.
      Blood began to flow later, after the start of the civil war, which was sponsored and supported by supporters of the Whites - the United States and Britain, also after their invasion of Russia in 1917.
      The bloody civil war in Russia was unleashed by Western imperialism and this is a fact.
      If the Entente had not taken the side of the White Guards, the civil war would not have happened because the people were for the Bolsheviks, and this was proved by their crushing victory over the whole world.
      I already wrote above how many countries the Bolsheviks fought in the civil war.
      5.
      "The Nazis came to power not by force, but by election"
      Yes, and the massacres of communists, Jews and gypsies were just fun games, not violence.
      Apparently, you do not really know the history of your country.
      First, you forgot about the 1923 beer putsch.
      This is precisely a violent attempt to seize power.
      He failed.
      That is why the Nazis did not seize power in 1923, but not because "they did not need to seize power by force"
      That is, the reason is not in the Nazis' humanity or democracy, but in the fact that they simply did not succeed.
      Secondly, Hitler did not become Chancellor by election.
      President Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor.
      As chancellor, Hitler began to implement a policy of terror and dictatorship.
      Hindenburg died in 1934, which allowed Hitler, who at that time had already completely seized power, to hold a fictitious referendum on the unification of the post of president and chancellor - that is, to appoint himself the leader of Germany.
      There were no democratic elections.
      Presidential elections are when there are candidates, when there are debates.
      This is not a referendum.
      And Hitler took over as head of state bypassing the elections.
      Appointing yourself as a ruler bypassing elections and through a referendum in a country in which you already control power is not a democracy -)
      6.
      "The victory of the USSR was pyrrhic"
      In the last post, you claimed that Germany won, not the USSR.
      Now, I still managed to convince you that it was the USSR that won, and not Germany.
      I'm glad even this promotion-)
      Victory in the war, the USSR got monstrous sacrifices and losses.
      True, it must be clarified here that for Germany this turned into a complete collapse.
      Nevertheless, if we are talking about whether the victory of the USSR was pyrrhic or not, it is necessary to start from the meanings of victory and defeat.
      What would happen if the USSR lost.
      And we know the answer.
      With regard to the USSR, the OST plan, which was approved by Nazi Germany, would have come into effect.
      I already wrote about him.
      The OST plan provided for the genocide of 70% of the citizens of the Soviet Union and the complete destruction of the USSR as a state.
      What should be sacrificed on the altar of war in order to defeat such an adversary?
      All.
      Because losing is losing everything.
      Therefore, the victory of the USSR was not pyrrhic.
      By the way, if you forgot, after the victory, the USSR became the second nuclear superpower, conquered space, atomic energy and made many more discoveries and achievements.
      So the victory over Germany did not completely exhaust the USSR.
      But even if these achievements weren't there...
      The victory was still worth it.
      Because Russia is everything. And the rest is nothing.
      The Germans have forgotten what it means to love their homeland.
      You must now love gays, pedophiles and migrants.

  • @xalkerwar6628
    @xalkerwar6628 Před 2 lety +45

    I wonder if people will actually think while watching this. Isolation is always a way to a war. Isolation of a big power results in great wars. There will be always small conflicts, but isolation will only escalate everything. I wonder what will happen if EU and NA will further isolate Russia right now. At least China and India is smarter i guess.

    • @x-hale2899
      @x-hale2899 Před rokem +3

      Certain European countries should isolate themselves from the US. The problem is on the one hand you have big angry American NATO... on the other you cause friction with the EU. By the way, I meant Germany and France and the Nordic countries.

    • @waylon6241
      @waylon6241 Před rokem +1

      Nato brought piece and unity in Europe as there was always war between countries. Every addition to nato means a country living in peace. In the history of Russia we can clearly see they will take every opportunity to conquer other countries. Unfortunately for Ukraine and Georgia the NATO membership came too late. But fortunately for Finland and Sweden it openend their eyes.

    • @firemangan5024
      @firemangan5024 Před rokem +3

      @@waylon6241 Taking the opportunity to annex/conqure a country when given is a trait for every nation it ain’t only a Russian thing 🥴

    • @user-tt4hy1yx4d
      @user-tt4hy1yx4d Před rokem +4

      @@waylon6241 NATO was created as a military alliance against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is no more, but the alliance remains, and this makes you think about who is now NATO's rival. after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was an agreement between Gorbachev and Western leaders to stop the expansion of NATO, and what we see is seias, a huge "army without a goal" at our borders

    • @motiv3949
      @motiv3949 Před rokem

      @@user-tt4hy1yx4d Meanwhile, Russia threatens the NATO countries - Poland and the baltic countries, and not vice versa. This is Russia attacking other countries for the purpose of occupation, not NATO.

  • @unchainedsoulsubs1371
    @unchainedsoulsubs1371 Před 2 lety

    Very good video.

  • @buivisss
    @buivisss Před 2 lety +7

    Interesting, here shows ussr like rusia, but ussr was created from some different respublic. So ussr is not rusia, but unated respublics together and rusia was only part of ussr

    • @thejudge6453
      @thejudge6453 Před 2 lety +2

      Russia was the largest republic in USSR, 50% of the population of the USSR lived in Russia, the capital was in Moscow and all other republics were subordinate to Moscow. In Western countries, this is an established tradition.

    • @buivisss
      @buivisss Před 2 lety +1

      Just USSR was 15 different respublic, take out 14 respublic and you will see how Russia her self is big...
      you say 50%?
      I am not sure..
      just all 14 respublic was for feed Russia with capital Mascow

  • @ExoticD
    @ExoticD Před 2 lety +32

    Not so fun fact: my great grandpa served in world war 1 fighting for the Russians. He was a medic and he would help injured soldiers in the trenches. He would say how the shrieks of pain as they amputated limbs with nothing but a shot of whiskey or vodka still rang in his ears. Eventually he had enough and he deserted back to his home where he hid in his hayloft till the war was over

    • @rezthefan
      @rezthefan Před 2 lety +5

      Dislike for your great grandpa

    • @gurshansingh6868
      @gurshansingh6868 Před 2 lety +18

      @@rezthefan dude, tf is wrong with u

    • @ExoticD
      @ExoticD Před 2 lety +2

      @@rezthefan /:

    • @applejuice9468
      @applejuice9468 Před 2 lety +3

      @@rezthefan Lmfao why you gotta disrepect the croaked

    • @Anonymous-qj3sf
      @Anonymous-qj3sf Před rokem +2

      My great-great-grandfather fought in the First World War and was an artilleryman

  • @jonathan_careless
    @jonathan_careless Před 2 lety +14

    So well narrated you forget you're just staring at a map for 24 minutes.

    • @sancalisto2371
      @sancalisto2371 Před 2 lety +1

      Uncomfortably close to Russian propaganda. Which is also 'beautifully' narrated.

    • @TheFloatingBartender
      @TheFloatingBartender Před rokem +2

      @@sancalisto2371 can i ask how is this propaganda?

    • @stevenrockney8556
      @stevenrockney8556 Před 9 měsíci

      @@sancalisto2371can we ask how this is propoganda¿

  • @eugenkollmoravec7506
    @eugenkollmoravec7506 Před 2 lety +2

    would like to see such a presentation of the crusaders area

  • @Rogaliki
    @Rogaliki Před rokem

    I don't know, I'm not English, so I watched all 3 parts without sound. I do not know what you were doing there, but the pictures are beautiful. Waiting for part 4 )

    • @yidouyidou5012
      @yidouyidou5012 Před rokem

      В нынешнее время автоперевод очень хорош.

    • @Rogaliki
      @Rogaliki Před rokem

      @@yidouyidou5012 это была шутка про то как плохо перевёл переводчик или он действительно хорош? Не зная языка сложно даже проверить правильно ли перевёл переводчик. (

    • @yidouyidou5012
      @yidouyidou5012 Před rokem

      @@Rogaliki для общего понимаю сойдёт, со временем он будет становиться только лучше.

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami Před 2 lety +22

    Eastern Europe: your freed us
    USSR: i wont say "free" more like under new management
    Eastern Europe: oh sh*t

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 Před 2 lety +1

      Nobody believed in freeing from the same people that started the war as Hitler allies.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Před 2 lety

      @@crank1985 USSR agreed to let democratic elections occur, so everyone did. Also, USSR was Hitler's ally right up until they invaded.

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 Před 2 lety +1

      @@stephenjenkins7971 USSR and democratic elections... choose one...

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 Před 2 lety

      @@crank1985 Not within the USSR, in the occupied nations, genius.
      And again, it's what everyone agreed on. Which was my point.

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 Před 2 lety +1

      @@stephenjenkins7971 still my point stands. USSR didn't allow free elections until it was too weak to enforce control over them. Whenever a country fell under USSR control the election became more rigged than rather last in Russia, when frequency was above 100%...

  • @jobvanhetkaar8848
    @jobvanhetkaar8848 Před 2 lety +12

    Very accurate, interesting and in depth for the length of the video. Well done

  • @tomodero8738
    @tomodero8738 Před 2 lety

    History has it, I love Geo

  • @maqchannel257
    @maqchannel257 Před rokem

    Very Good and informative

  • @ajaykrishna4542
    @ajaykrishna4542 Před 2 lety +4

    As usual, a awesome video

  • @HelloEdits613
    @HelloEdits613 Před 2 lety +8

    Fun fact: in the soviet union, archeologists discovered the tomb of timur, the founder of the timurid empire of central Asia, who's invasions killed 17 million people, and on his tomb was inscribed: "whomever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I"
    That was on June 20 1941, two days before the start of Operation Barbarrossa 😬

  • @s0012823
    @s0012823 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Great video thnx!

  • @daddy_1453
    @daddy_1453 Před rokem +7

    I wish you showed the geographical defence sectors of the country. (E.g, Transcarpathian mountains in Ukraine, Manchuko region, Deserts of Central Asia, Ulgar mountains etc).

  • @chad5461
    @chad5461 Před 2 lety +9

    Love your narration ❤️

  • @serioustalkwithbhudax
    @serioustalkwithbhudax Před 2 lety +4

    After continuously watching video after video. I have accepted there shall always be a rise and fall of nations. Peace is not a guarantee but rather just a short-term agreement between one government to another.
    When a population rises against the ruling class there are always nations waiting, willing to finance a coup d'etat. I hope citizens could see this as I do. The weakness starts internally.

  • @shahaman5694
    @shahaman5694 Před rokem

    Thank you!

  • @vitalymihaletsky7655
    @vitalymihaletsky7655 Před 2 lety +4

    Loved the detail with Kazakhstan being the last state leaving USSR 🤙🏻

    • @user-ti6xm4rz4f
      @user-ti6xm4rz4f Před rokem +1

      В Казахстане был председателем умный политик Назарбаев,он знал,что при развале страны будет плохо всем народам страны.И до последнего сопротивлялся.Все беды начались с Горбачева,слабый,некомпетентный политик.Хотя были проблемы в стране ,Россия надорвалась всем помогать , русский народ устал тянуть историю империи .К сожалению,нас опять тянут в это ярмо.

  • @marekhudec4781
    @marekhudec4781 Před 2 lety +5

    Thank you for nice video. Me as Slovak found out, there is a small mistake. The border between Slovakia and Hungary during the WW2 was different as result of occupation of Horthy's Hungary.

  • @user-je2vg4gq9p
    @user-je2vg4gq9p Před 2 lety +34

    Thank you very much 😊! Было классно посмотреть и на русском, и на английском.

  • @user-ct2ys7tv7n
    @user-ct2ys7tv7n Před 2 lety +2

    When will this video be released on the Russian version of Geo History?

  • @DyneTyrreal
    @DyneTyrreal Před 2 lety +20

    Very cool, now do one Europe and especially Asia if you can. I am curious to see how much of roman culture survived, seems Italy and Germany kept Western Rome alive and it's been battling Eastern Rome who escaped to Russia for almost a couple thousand years now.

    • @user-vs9cz9pm1n
      @user-vs9cz9pm1n Před 4 měsíci

      That's really weird way to put it. Roman culture is long dead. Reneissance isn't a thing anymore. Etc. Noone speaks Latin or Greek koine anymore. Even Eastern slavic languages are divided into 3, not a single one resembling what was used in times of ERI.

  • @lavaleopard2961
    @lavaleopard2961 Před 2 lety +8

    This is literally the first time I have heard the Russian emperors called that instead of the Czars/Tsars.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz Před 2 lety +3

      Tsar, like German Kaiser is nothing but a variation of Caesar and has always got the meaning of "Emperor" or similar.

    • @afrodiy6539
      @afrodiy6539 Před 2 lety +5

      Царь)

    • @afrodiy6539
      @afrodiy6539 Před 2 lety +4

      In russian)

    • @user-hz2zh2ns7z
      @user-hz2zh2ns7z Před 2 lety

      "First time"😂 😂 😂 век живи - век учись, дурень