Nikita Khrushchev - The Man Behind the Missile Crisis

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  Před 5 lety +201

    Thank you War Thunder for making this one possible! Check out here: v2.xyz/BiographicsWarThunder

    • @TheKing60210
      @TheKing60210 Před 5 lety +8

      You guys should do something on J Edgar Hoover, he was the Head of the FBI for Decades and there was rumours of him being in a gay relationship despite condemning homosexuality in public.

    • @turbowolf302
      @turbowolf302 Před 5 lety +61

      Boy, that's Gaijin's other game, Crossout. You might want to doublecheck your footage.

    • @meta4101
      @meta4101 Před 5 lety +2

      @@TheKing60210 I just can't believe that J Edgar was gay ... scandalous ... impossible.

    • @joe090309
      @joe090309 Před 5 lety +10

      So uhh you got a couple things crossed. There was cross out footage in the Warthunder promo and there was no audio during the warthunder clips.

    • @diojamal9128
      @diojamal9128 Před 5 lety +3

      Muhammad Ali of Egypt👌

  • @karlp8484
    @karlp8484 Před 5 lety +420

    Minor vignette: Khrushchev didn't take off his shoe and bang it on the table at the UN. He had an extra shoe with him and intended to make the scene all along. It worked, we are still talking about it.

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 Před 2 lety +16

      A crazy gesture for a world leader

    • @Elainerulesutube
      @Elainerulesutube Před 2 lety +5

      I remember it!

    • @secretbaguette
      @secretbaguette Před rokem +9

      Man brought a shoe with him into the UN.

    • @geovonnie69
      @geovonnie69 Před rokem

      Those old commies were actually funny. Unlike the cringe, green haired college communists we have today.

    • @bezllama3325
      @bezllama3325 Před rokem +11

      Reminds of when someone threw their shoes at Bush

  • @ChrisCVW
    @ChrisCVW Před 5 lety +1654

    “We will bury you” was a bad translation, i understand the Russian phrase is better rendered “we will stand respectfully at your graveside”, which is commonly used to describe not intervening when someone else sets their course on disaster.

    • @dougplemons3640
      @dougplemons3640 Před 5 lety +75

      Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

    • @Zeruel3
      @Zeruel3 Před 5 lety +245

      So it's more akin to "okay, it's your funeral buddy"?

    • @JeanLucCaptain
      @JeanLucCaptain Před 5 lety +42

      That's SOOOO Badass 😎

    • @bobbybobberson3374
      @bobbybobberson3374 Před 5 lety +15

      I learned that from Ken Follet's book Edge of Eternity. Did you see it there too?

    • @ChrisCVW
      @ChrisCVW Před 5 lety +17

      I must confess to you I don’t really absorb information from books. I think it came from a CZcams video or a podcast.

  • @analien8497
    @analien8497 Před 4 lety +1730

    U.S: *sets up missiles in turkey*
    USSR: *sets up missiles in cuba*
    U.S: Wait, that's illegal.

    • @Protoman85
      @Protoman85 Před 4 lety +347

      Ah the grand US tradition of "it's only bad when YOU do it"

    • @bgbeck55
      @bgbeck55 Před 4 lety +47

      Damn straight.

    • @maxnikolenko2302
      @maxnikolenko2302 Před 4 lety +86

      Just like today with nato in ex USSR countries. Yet, if Russia sets up a site in Petersburg, america and nato will scream aggretion

    • @TacDyne
      @TacDyne Před 4 lety +86

      @@Protoman85 This is due to the US being the good guys. And as the good guys, the US can do anything it wants with impunity. God bless the USA, and no one else! \0

    • @brya9681
      @brya9681 Před 4 lety +15

      @Dumbo Octopus now you're getting it

  • @darter9000
    @darter9000 Před 5 lety +1388

    So... in the Russian Game of Thrones, only the jester survived.

    • @robschumann9665
      @robschumann9665 Před 5 lety +27

      darter9000 All hail is Grace, Samwell of the House Tarly, First of his name, King of the Andals and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, Protector of the Realm.

    • @bydloshkolnik
      @bydloshkolnik Před 5 lety +23

      @@planetarian3080 Except it's a comedy and have nothing to do with reality of that succession, which was fast and gory.

    • @Michael-590
      @Michael-590 Před 5 lety +37

      ‘A very small man can cast a very large shadow’. That seems to adequately describe Khrushchev.

    • @kimmoreels7950
      @kimmoreels7950 Před 5 lety +1

      lmao your funny :)

    • @Packless1
      @Packless1 Před 4 lety

      ...kind of...!

  • @JeffTheHokie
    @JeffTheHokie Před 5 lety +516

    "We will bury you" was a mistake by his translator. He was trying to say "we will dig you in" an expression which in Russian meant "We will outlast you".

    • @carpediem6568
      @carpediem6568 Před 5 lety +28

      Amazing. It was never corrected to the American people as far as I know. That explains a whole lot. I remember when it happened. Really scary.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 Před 4 lety +5

      Maybe Natika was trying to say "We dig you"

    • @laierr
      @laierr Před 4 lety +36

      No, "we dig you in" is a double mistranslation of an incorrect translation.
      The word he used ("похоронить") undoubtedly refers to a funeral.
      But yeah, in the context it undoubtedly (for Russian speaker) means something like "we will outlast you" or "you're legacy" or "we'll live to see your funeral". And he was talking about ideology as in "we will bury capitalism", not "we will bury all of you".

    • @hassetjifrebro8222
      @hassetjifrebro8222 Před 3 lety +3

      I thought it was more like “It’s your funeral” basically?

    • @Binstone
      @Binstone Před 3 lety

      The way you say that.... means the same thing. Like when you bury some one you, you dig a hole and then you put them in.... ie bury them

  • @MidnightMan5001
    @MidnightMan5001 Před 5 lety +298

    Just remember.
    "Only 75% of the room is conscious!"

    • @eamonwright7488
      @eamonwright7488 Před 5 lety +20

      IgnitedSage “My heart feels sick....Like it’s going into battle!”

    • @joshuaescopete
      @joshuaescopete Před 4 lety +14

      Are you wearing pajamas?

    • @anngo4140
      @anngo4140 Před 3 lety +6

      "Our general secretary is lying in a puddle of indignity!"

    • @Soyofdarknes
      @Soyofdarknes Před 3 lety +4

      "Oh no! This is calamity... calamity!"

  • @randomlyentertaining8287
    @randomlyentertaining8287 Před 5 lety +123

    It's really depressing when you know videos like this that teach real deep history are demonetized.

    • @football42241
      @football42241 Před 2 lety +2

      What is the reason that this video would get de-monetized? Is it some kind of bad blood between Google and Russian History?

    • @jd4278
      @jd4278 Před 2 lety +8

      @@football42241 Advertisers dislike recent history since most people get emotional about them

    • @vindictaetmortem748
      @vindictaetmortem748 Před rokem

      Well considering Simon has told a blatant lie at least once in this video why shouldn't it be? The Nazis didn't kill 7 million Ukrainians.... whereas the Russians (Stalin) killed 4 million Ukrainians in the 30's.

    • @jasonfreak99
      @jasonfreak99 Před rokem +5

      @@football42241 Because educational CZcams videos are viewed as hate speech or whatever. I miss the old CZcams.

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@jd4278 There is hilarious irony in capitalism demonetizing 20 minute videos dispassionately discussing facts.

  • @docyagamikiko
    @docyagamikiko Před rokem +32

    At this point in time, a Mikhail Gorbachev featurette is a must.... Rest in peace.

  • @brianrunyon266
    @brianrunyon266 Před 5 lety +180

    "When Stalin says dance, a wise man dances." A complex character. He knew the CPSU still had to work, but knew the worst of Stalinism must not be part of it any longer.

  • @aaronbonogofsky4463
    @aaronbonogofsky4463 Před 5 lety +399

    Do Brezhnev next, great job on Kruschev.

    • @ryan-nl8bp
      @ryan-nl8bp Před 4 lety +6

      I second this recomendation

    • @alastairward2774
      @alastairward2774 Před 3 lety +1

      He's pretty boring though isn't he?

    • @ruturajshiralkar5566
      @ruturajshiralkar5566 Před 3 lety +1

      @@alastairward2774 Actually he is far more interesting. I would recommend watching the Doc "Brezhnev's Kremlin".

    • @toonlink1723
      @toonlink1723 Před 3 lety +1

      Even though his reign was very short Andropov was the head of the KGB so he could be interesting

    • @ruturajshiralkar5566
      @ruturajshiralkar5566 Před 3 lety +1

      @@toonlink1723 Andropov was also an Anti-Corruption crusader.

  • @musicman399
    @musicman399 Před 5 lety +36

    "Our great leader is lying in a pool of indignity"

  • @kentgrady9226
    @kentgrady9226 Před 5 lety +102

    A fluent Russian speaker may correct me, but it's my understanding that the phrase "We will bury you!" is misunderstood.
    I was once told that the Russian verb "to bury" as used by Khrushchev is properly translated as "to attend (another person's) funeral" or more colloquially, "to outlast" or "to outlive (another person)". It was further explained to me that there is a different Russian verb altogether, meaning to bury in the sense of digging a hole, putting something or someone in it, and filling it back up with earth.
    If true, that would certainly cast a different light on Nikita's famous rant. Not having any knowledge of Russian beyond a few basic words, I cannot confirm the assertion.

    • @Zeruel3
      @Zeruel3 Před 5 lety +21

      I've heard something similar, Khrushchev meant it as "we will outlast you" not "we will kill you", the problem was the phrase didn't translate very well and it gave a great opportunity for the west to paint him as a murderous maniac

    • @fredkruse9444
      @fredkruse9444 Před 5 lety +2

      Makes sense to me. Interesting. (As a child at the time, I well remember the contemporaneous reports on that statement, portraying him as pure evil.)

    • @akezimak
      @akezimak Před 5 lety +6

      As a native speaker living in XXI century... it sounds more like "we'll left you behind in a race" to me when used figuratively (as he obviously did). It can also be taken literally though, as in "bury". It's like that UK pair who got arrested for jokingly saying "I'm going to destroy America" in Twitter before a trip to US. So it's not the best choice of words in Russian either, especially for a politician of that caliber talking through an interpreter who might miss the subtlety.
      > It was further explained to me that there is a different Russian verb altogether, meaning to bury in the sense of digging a hole, putting something or someone in it, and filling it back up with earth.
      It's probably закопаем instead of похороним? Both mean bury in English, but похороним (what Khrushchev said) is for people burial, and закопаем is for anything else.

    • @waverider8549
      @waverider8549 Před 5 lety +6

      As a Russian speaker I can confirm that you are 100% correct

    • @mlgerab
      @mlgerab Před 4 lety +1

      I had heard he merely meant “bury” in an economic sense. No?

  • @MillRunner
    @MillRunner Před 5 lety +350

    You gotta do Gorbachev.
    Who woulda thought the Soviet Union would be defeated by Pizza Hut?

    • @matiasgazzarri4959
      @matiasgazzarri4959 Před 5 lety +21

      He should do Brezhnev to. Not sure about Andropov and Chernenko, I don't think they're very interesting

    • @brentgranger7856
      @brentgranger7856 Před 5 lety +5

      Where did you read that? I see it more as Pepsi began the downfall of the USSR, but Coca-Cola rose from the ashes.

    • @MillRunner
      @MillRunner Před 5 lety +17

      @@brentgranger7856 It was more of a joke based around that Pizza Hut commercial he was in.

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 Před 5 lety +3

      @@brentgranger7856
      It was a lot of companies. I think he meant Pizza Hut as stand in for any and all American franchises that turned Russia capitalist. Don't get hung up on the particular brand when it was the capitalist ideology that's important. You're correct tho, it seems that Pepsi started the conversion but the specific company is just incedectal and the larger issue of private industry and a consumer driven market was the meta transforming catalyst.

    • @Mr-yj4qz
      @Mr-yj4qz Před 5 lety +3

      @@matiasgazzarri4959 Andropov ran the KGB so I think it would be interesting to cover that and his later leadership.

  • @robertbritton4772
    @robertbritton4772 Před 5 lety +594

    Been hyped for this since I watched Death of Stalin

    • @Jshaw6614
      @Jshaw6614 Před 5 lety +63

      I like that movie. Mix of comedy and seriousness. All around good film.

    • @gipsydanger7379
      @gipsydanger7379 Před 5 lety +41

      That film was hailrious. And it had a great cast.

    • @matttucker3
      @matttucker3 Před 5 lety +10

      saaaaaaame

    • @acetate909
      @acetate909 Před 5 lety +12

      Everything by Armando Inuchi is great. _In The Loop_ is one of the best movies of the last 20 years. _Death of Stalin_ is a classic as well. He created the HBO show _Veep_ as well for anyone interested.

    • @rockthered8706
      @rockthered8706 Před 5 lety +2

      Robert Britton same here

  • @runwiththewind3281
    @runwiththewind3281 Před 5 lety +60

    Well done.
    I was born in 57, and remember listening to my dad talk about events you covered.
    Accurate and precise.
    Today I have friends and colleagues from Russia.
    Think about that.
    I wonder what could have been and observe what is.
    The oxen are slow but the earth is patient.
    There is hope.

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious Před 11 měsíci

      There's no hope. We fucked up the earth. Well, there's hope for the earth once we strangle ourselves.

  • @oberstul1941
    @oberstul1941 Před 5 lety +42

    Also, that movie, The Death of Stalin, has Kruschiov being played by Steve Buscemi and is a total eye opener and a funny flick too.

  • @dolanusduk693
    @dolanusduk693 Před 5 lety +638

    Can you make a video about Josip Broz Tito?

    • @gipsydanger7379
      @gipsydanger7379 Před 5 lety +36

      I heard he was the head of Partisan forces in Nazi occupied Yugoslavia. He seems like an interesting character.

    • @matttucker3
      @matttucker3 Před 5 lety +21

      i agree one on Tito would be amazing! also check out Tooky history's video on him its funny as hell XD

    • @BHuang92
      @BHuang92 Před 5 lety +22

      Very interesting figure. Controversial in opposing Stalin but was the head of a communist regime of the Balkans. Until his death, he was the reason the region was under a single nation of Yugoslavia.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  Před 5 lety +130

      yes

    • @emelgiefro
      @emelgiefro Před 5 lety +20

      @@BHuang92 the only things that still function in ex yugoslav countries were built by tito and austro hungary
      You dont need to agree with him on everything but he loved every person in the country he created and everyone loved him (huge part not everyone)
      He would get glowers thrown at him when he visited towns/cities unlike bullets and granades many got and still get

  • @princetonnobelofficial4286
    @princetonnobelofficial4286 Před 5 lety +256

    Kim Jong Un: I have the most powerful nukes which can destroy the US
    Nikita Khrushchev: Hold my Vodka

  • @LinkTheSamurai
    @LinkTheSamurai Před 5 lety +72

    Loved the video, but I feel as though it should have been mentioned that Vasily Arkhipov prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis from going hot.
    The US Navy was dropping depth charges at his sub, and they had no idea if WWIII had begun or not. Vasily made the call to surface and radio Moscow, rather than give his clearance to fire nuclear torpedoes.

    • @VisibilityFoggy
      @VisibilityFoggy Před 4 lety +12

      That's a very interesting story. The US Navy crew had no idea that sub was armed with nukes, and the depth charges they were dropping were only the size of small hand grenades and could do no damage at all to the ship. They were purely being used to signal it. Of course, the Soviet Navy had no way of telling this either. Vasily Arkhipov absolutely saved the world that day.

    • @samgemsgems7571
      @samgemsgems7571 Před 4 lety

      @@VisibilityFoggy nuclear bombs are under control of heartless killer wild animals.these criminals ready to kill all people and world.curse for these miserable idiots.

    • @DontCriticMyTecnique
      @DontCriticMyTecnique Před 4 lety

      Samgems Gems nininn

    • @DontCriticMyTecnique
      @DontCriticMyTecnique Před 4 lety

      D 349 no

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 Před 2 lety +14

    In a hundred years, when historians are trying to figure out what people were thinking in the 1900s, I think they will see Khrushchev in a mostly good light. He dismantled the engine of fear Stalin built in Russia and led a super-power into space. Nikita, imperfect, yet he did so much, it isn't hyperbole to say he changed the world. Largely for the better, at that.

  • @whatamalike
    @whatamalike Před 5 lety +63

    "the man behind the missle crisis" that's a bit harsh...besides it takes two to tango.

    • @cptant7610
      @cptant7610 Před 5 lety +14

      Seriously, the USA basically forced the crisis with their failed bay of pigs invasion of Cuba and their stationing of nukes in Turkey. Also just letting the missiles be stationed would have done nothing as mutually assured destruction was/became a reality anyway.

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 Před 3 lety

      Yeah it was che who started it, he convinced Castro who at first flatly refused to accept the Soviet missiles.
      Xtra Credit CZcams channel does a much better job at explaining the entire situation

  • @YosefCardoso
    @YosefCardoso Před 5 lety +322

    talks about war thunder doesn't show war thunder hehehe

    • @harmen4436
      @harmen4436 Před 5 lety +5

      Yosef Cardoso what game was that

    • @malemute4378
      @malemute4378 Před 5 lety +20

      Harmen crossout

    • @ottovonbismarck7541
      @ottovonbismarck7541 Před 5 lety +14

      I was looking for someone to say that

    • @DayZeroGaming
      @DayZeroGaming Před 5 lety +1

      War thunder I haven't played or the other one..

    • @Aenonar
      @Aenonar Před 5 lety +4

      it's not a very "realistic" game anyway... they've been chewing away at that for ages ^^' the physics might be fairly realistic.. but then they just put it in a pretty silly gameplay style which ruins any sense of realism...

  • @bigbroauctions
    @bigbroauctions Před 5 lety +175

    Why is a history lesson demonitized?...inquiring minds want to know.

    • @RaymondTracer
      @RaymondTracer Před 5 lety +89

      Because the past is scary and CZcams has to protect the special snowflakes from reality.

    • @NefariousKoel
      @NefariousKoel Před 5 lety +38

      Talking about the USSR, Communism/Socialism, etc is a quick way to get flagged by the CZcams censors. Many of whom are, ironically, Socialist sympathizers and apologists.

    • @mereanochheart7050
      @mereanochheart7050 Před 4 lety +2

      @@RaymondTracer 100%

    • @L1b3rta
      @L1b3rta Před 4 lety +1

      @Frederick Röders Net neutrality = communism? Net neutrality isn't the redistribution of bandwidth, numbnuts. What a stupid comparison. Net neutrality is solely about only having one lane, and not multiple lanes for the same bandwidth at different tariffs. Communism = slavery of labour; Net Neutrality = freedom of access to information (with the same bandwidth you're already paying for to your capitalist ISP).

    • @liamcanavan5970
      @liamcanavan5970 Před 4 lety +1

      Frederick Röders Communism would lead to more diversity than capitalism (Marxist communism anyway) to say it would neutralise society shows you do not have an understanding of the theory only how it has been misunderstood by Stalin; it is a difficult theory to grasp nowadays due to all the mutations

  • @cherylabellar2311
    @cherylabellar2311 Před 5 lety +200

    Wow! To mask his genius to survive Stalin oppressive regime,
    He had to act the fool.

    • @bcfairlie1
      @bcfairlie1 Před 3 lety +9

      Just like Claudius had to for Caligula

    • @okmate724
      @okmate724 Před 2 lety +3

      stalin hid his genius to in the early days of the Bolsheviks

  • @BlackGreenDragon7
    @BlackGreenDragon7 Před 5 lety +87

    Maybe you guys shoud separate War Thunder footage from Crossout footage ;)

  • @StephenSchaal
    @StephenSchaal Před 5 lety +157

    Stalin made him dance like a jester? That is amazing, and hilarious.

    • @matthelme4967
      @matthelme4967 Před 5 lety +3

      SW Stalin also killed every single person with a power base.

    • @Zero-lm7iv
      @Zero-lm7iv Před 4 lety +3

      Stalin made him dance the gopak. He said he looked like a “cow on ice”.

    • @dkupke
      @dkupke Před 4 lety +25

      Fun fact: a lot of Stalin’s henchmen died of liver issues. He was fond of having them to all night feasting vests during which they had to get shitfaced; they were afraid that saying “nah, I had enough” would make him suspicious, as if he thought they were hiding something and didn’t want the booze to loosen their tongues. He did it deliberately to keep them cowed and humiliated.

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy Před 3 lety +6

      Krushchev was once asked about his dancing for Stalin. He replied" When the Boss tells you to Dance......YOU DANCE!"

    • @temuujintsc3648
      @temuujintsc3648 Před 3 lety +4

      Kruschev was asked about the dancing he replied "When Stalin told you to dance "smart" man dances"

  • @stevenwebb3634
    @stevenwebb3634 Před 4 lety +13

    Stalin: "Comrade Khrushchev get drunk and dance for me"
    Khrushchev: "I'll be a one man conga line"

  • @georgemalenvisch3133
    @georgemalenvisch3133 Před 5 lety +56

    Big big question. How come anything to do with the Soviet Union and russia have been recently getting demonitized? What is with this censorship. I watch a person who lived and was born in 1970s Ukraine SSR, and he constantly get demonitized for simply talking about how life was back then. This really worries me...

    • @georgemalenvisch3133
      @georgemalenvisch3133 Před 5 lety

      @Ruturaj Shiralkar yeah i don't get it. He said 25% of his videos

    • @georgemalenvisch3133
      @georgemalenvisch3133 Před 5 lety +1

      @Ruturaj Shiralkar huh..? Monetary and demons are two completely different things.

    • @georgemalenvisch3133
      @georgemalenvisch3133 Před 5 lety

      @Ruturaj Shiralkar i mean youtube made it so he couldn't get money from his video... So

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 Před 3 lety +1

      Because of the infamous "companies are individuals too" and the CZcams Vs Prager U court case
      Seeing as how you are not forced to use CZcams that means CZcams doesn't have to respect your rights of free speech, and if you want to make $$ on CZcams you better play by their rules

    • @susanhubbart5494
      @susanhubbart5494 Před 3 lety +3

      Because Silicon Valley is run by a bunch of rich socialist(so long as the bad consequences of it don't affect/effect them) who don't want the idiot snowflakes of today to understand how truly bad things can get.

  • @MrMustangMan67
    @MrMustangMan67 Před 5 lety +31

    Extremely interesting. I hope a Gorbachev episode is coming too!

  • @brentgranger7856
    @brentgranger7856 Před 5 lety +8

    Thanks for finally releasing the video about my favorite leader of the USSR. As a guy who studied the USSR and the Soviet system at the university, I feel that Khrushchev is highly misunderstood and under appreciated.
    The "Kitchen Debate" displayed not just a kitchen, but an "affordable" American home of the 1950's filled with conveniences like a dish washer. Soviet citizens were shown the debate, but much of the American house and Nixon's words were censored.
    Khrushchev was initially opposed to the idea of sending Sputnik into orbit and eventually relented. Upon seeing the shock from the West of the successful launch, Khrushchev turned the launch into a huge propaganda program and immediately demanded a second launch to best Sputnik 1 and coincide with the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. The idea morphed into launching Laika, the space dog, into orbit for Sputnik 2.
    His son, Sergei, stated that President Kennedy proposed a joint USA/USSR moon program, but Khrushchev turned him down because he felt America wanted access to Soviet rocket technology. Sergei has stated that his father later reconsidered Kennedy's offer, but Kennedy's assassination and his removal from office the next October prevented this.
    Sergei also spoke that Operation: Anadyr, the movement of Soviet missiles to Cuba, was inspired by looking across the Black Sea from his father's dacha in Yalta and thinking of the danger that American missiles in Turkey posed.
    In recent times, gentrification in Moscow has resulted in a controversial program to replace Soviet-era apartment complexes called "Khrushchevkas" (little Khrushchevs). These were cheap concrete apartment complexes to help accommodate Moscow's rising population during Khrushchev's time as premier.

  • @Eazy-ERyder
    @Eazy-ERyder Před rokem +6

    This episode made me want to rewatch the fantastic movie "Thirteen Days" with Kevin Costner. Probably the BEST film ever made regarding the Cuban Missle Crisis.

  • @CeticWales
    @CeticWales Před 3 lety +11

    Khrushchev's ridiculousness was part of his act to survive and fly under the radar by not appearing as a serious rival to anyone. Once he had the opportunity, the mask came off and he acted.

  • @bear499
    @bear499 Před 5 lety +9

    You've come such a long way Simon. Congratulations for all your success, you deserve it.

  • @refusefntk
    @refusefntk Před 5 lety +26

    Do one on Gorbachev's birthmark, that thing needs it's own bio

    • @thereforeayam
      @thereforeayam Před 4 lety +3

      does this narrator not have a small tribute version on the left side of his prestigious dome?

  • @1waychild
    @1waychild Před 5 lety +16

    I really enjoyed this. An incredibly refreshing view of Nikita Khrushchev.
    It was fate.

  • @DarqueQueen7
    @DarqueQueen7 Před 5 lety +16

    This was BRILLIANT, Simon! I really learned a lot today!

  • @rooseveltbrentwood9654
    @rooseveltbrentwood9654 Před 5 lety +8

    Simon, please always wear a matching sport coat in every video. Im loving the purple check over the solid darker purple button down.

  • @frankreads8618
    @frankreads8618 Před rokem +2

    Khruschev did what the emperor Claudius did nearly 2000 years before: he survived by making everyone underestimate him.

  • @jasonremy1627
    @jasonremy1627 Před 5 lety +37

    Some of the graphics are wrong. You've got 1960 on two of the dates that should be 1962.

  • @craigporter8873
    @craigporter8873 Před 5 lety +22

    Simon- The USSR's most controversial premier Nikita Khrushchev...... did he just forget about Stalin ?

    • @Shinji_1943
      @Shinji_1943 Před 5 lety +2

      Depends who you are asking but yeah most if not all Soviet leaders were controversial in some shape or form if you ask hard-line Marxists/Communists about their opinion on Gorbachev many would call him controversial. Stalin is arguably the most controversial even Khrushchev critiqued him at the XX Party Congress and followed a policy of de-Stalinization.

    • @craigporter8873
      @craigporter8873 Před 5 lety +1

      @Qowkdjnd Xiwjsjd Oh nothing at all like being responsible for millions of people dying/being killed... totally not controversial. Wind your neck in and learn some history.

    • @annaz940
      @annaz940 Před 5 lety

      Qowkdjnd Xiwjsjd, controversial means causing disagreement, so yeah, Stalin was pretty controversial

    • @grza4911
      @grza4911 Před 5 lety +15

      @@craigporter8873 That's the point, MOST people agree that Stalin was bad. So he isn't that controversial. With Nikita it's less black and white, more grey, more disagreement, so he is, some would argue, more controversial. Controversy means dissagreement, not, "bad".

    • @python808
      @python808 Před 5 lety +2

      Andrew Griffiths Stalin might not be controversial in the west. But Russians are still torn on the topic.

  • @johnnymittens77
    @johnnymittens77 Před 5 lety +3

    This is my favourite one for a while. Good long run time, packed with good information. More in this vein for sure 🤘

  • @maxnikolenko2302
    @maxnikolenko2302 Před 4 lety +2

    I love these biographys. Great way ro learn information in a short and straightforward way. Thank you

  • @williamblack1729
    @williamblack1729 Před 3 lety

    Another great video Simon. Thank you and the Biographics team.

  • @Hector_O713
    @Hector_O713 Před 5 lety +42

    Do a video on Yuri Gagarin, what happened to him?

    • @carpediem6568
      @carpediem6568 Před 5 lety +6

      Didn't he get killed in plane crash? And, believe he is the cosmonot who said about his space voyage, "I looked and looked and saw no God."

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis Před 5 lety +6

      Yeah, that would be great. Gagarin and the team behind him changed the face of Humanity. The man who won the space race and opened up the universe to us all. There's a statue of him here in London UK.

    • @michaelm6045
      @michaelm6045 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Naptosis Gagarin was chosen by Soviet Government because he was less rebellious and more devoted to ideology. There were dozen other Cosmonauts in preparation, for example Komarov, who was quiet opposite to him and was ostracized by the government, but he was considered a strongest candidate before. If Simon will do the video, he should touch that subject too.

    • @no.8466
      @no.8466 Před 4 lety +1

      Died a sad booze bag cause he knew it was all fake. Rumored kid diddler too

    • @BlackPantherFTW
      @BlackPantherFTW Před 4 lety +6

      After volstok one, he was awarded the USSR's "Hero of the Soviet Union" (essentially their medal of honor) He quickly became a international celebrity and was then permanently banned for any further missions due to Soyuz One, which killed one ot his friends, Vladimir Kamarov. They did this out of fear for his life. Ironically, he convinced the government to let him fly planes, which he died during a test flight at the age of 34. He rests in the Kremlin Necropolis and is considered one of the Soviets greatest achievements.

  • @johgu92
    @johgu92 Před 5 lety +24

    A biography on Rosa Luxemburg would be nice.

  • @Bra-a-ains
    @Bra-a-ains Před 5 lety +1

    Wow! This is one of your best, yet. I like how you were able to explain the who, what, where, and when and show how they influenced each other to give a unique narrative.

  • @camilocienfuegos2866
    @camilocienfuegos2866 Před 4 lety

    I'm so appreciative of your channel. Thank you for all the great information and knowledge!

  • @ZuluComander
    @ZuluComander Před 5 lety +8

    wasn't that whole "we will bury you" quote a mistranslation?

  • @themightyranger6321
    @themightyranger6321 Před 5 lety +4

    Finally a biography on *CORNBOI*

  • @krishnangaklittlemachines2631

    Simon, your way of speaking is sooo beautiful

  • @rexterry4722
    @rexterry4722 Před 4 lety

    I stumbled across Biographics by accident and I am glad I did! Informative, well organized, and easy to follow. Bravo!

  • @thexalon
    @thexalon Před 5 lety +11

    Khrushchev, the world's most famous shoe percussionist!

  • @rockthered8706
    @rockthered8706 Před 5 lety +22

    I really like it when you do biographies on people in the Soviet Union, it’s such a mysterious and enigmatic part of history to so many of us in the west that it’s often I misunderstood. I enjoy the deep dives into the facts of what happened. It’s unfortunate that simply because you are talking about a well known communist your video is certain to be demonetized. It’s not right

  • @salt7598
    @salt7598 Před 5 lety +1

    Thank you Simon, I've been learning about Khrushchev for A-level History and this video came out in perfect timing as the exam is next month. Thank you for making educational videos interesting and entertaining :)

  • @charlesachurch7265
    @charlesachurch7265 Před 3 lety

    Fantastic presentation. Thankyou Simon.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 3 lety +12

    1:35 - Chapter 1 - War & revolution
    5:15 - Chapter 2 - Power & purges
    9:05 - Chapter 3 - Secret speeches
    13:00 - Mid roll ads
    15:05 - Chapter 4 - The winds of change
    18:30 - Chapter 5 - Crisis
    22:45 - Chapter 6 - Goodbye to all that

  • @hewhoneverdies001
    @hewhoneverdies001 Před 5 lety +9

    Your best biography so far. Thank you.

    • @artemesaulkov2010
      @artemesaulkov2010 Před 3 lety

      Biased, false facts and propaganda. Not reliable. A proper historian would piss on him

    • @hewhoneverdies001
      @hewhoneverdies001 Před 3 lety

      @@artemesaulkov2010 I am a proper historian.

    • @artemesaulkov2010
      @artemesaulkov2010 Před 3 lety

      @@hewhoneverdies001 proper historians don’t study history with youtube videos...

    • @reeeeeeeeeeeeeeman6757
      @reeeeeeeeeeeeeeman6757 Před 2 lety

      @@artemesaulkov2010 okay what about some examples?

  • @ddoyle11
    @ddoyle11 Před 5 lety +1

    One of your best videos yet Simon. Well done.

  • @danielrobinson4795
    @danielrobinson4795 Před 5 lety

    Awesome vid Simon!Keep up the great work!

  • @amateurastronomer9463
    @amateurastronomer9463 Před 4 lety +7

    I was born in 1970. I remember Brezhnev. Learned about Khrushchev from school and parents. Yours is the most fair depiction of Khrushchev. And from what I remember from my parents description, this is the most honest as well.

  • @Adam-wl8wn
    @Adam-wl8wn Před 5 lety +31

    I love the USSR biographies!

  • @sgt345
    @sgt345 Před 3 lety +2

    This might be one of my favorite episodes. Well done.

  • @jonathanrigby5924
    @jonathanrigby5924 Před 4 lety +2

    My new favorite! I learned more in this 20 minutes, then i have in a long time!

  • @UCSPanther20
    @UCSPanther20 Před 5 lety +5

    Khrushchev became enamored with US cornfields in the 1960s, and put together a half-baked scheme to make all collective farms grow corn, regardless of how it do in the climates around the USSR.
    The result was food shortages, and after two years "Cornfield Khrushchev" was forced to scrap his scheme.

    • @PongoXBongo
      @PongoXBongo Před 4 lety

      They wanted the bountiful results of the Green Revolution without putting the time and study into applying it properly for their climate, soil, and systems.

  • @hawaiianr6
    @hawaiianr6 Před 5 lety +44

    When is Margaret Thatcher coming

    • @leechristy7003
      @leechristy7003 Před 5 lety +14

      The old bag died frustrated. Could you blame her husband for not even trying?

    • @hammondswiss247
      @hammondswiss247 Před 5 lety +1

      Lee Christy so fucking underrated!

  • @michaelbatts5655
    @michaelbatts5655 Před 5 lety

    Excellent presentation! Professor Whistler does it again! Like always!

  • @jaredsires5219
    @jaredsires5219 Před 3 lety +2

    What a savior this channel is! Helped me through an entire final report🙏🏻

  • @potdog1000
    @potdog1000 Před 5 lety +6

    you left out the U2 incident with Gary Powers

  • @Dylan-hq4qt
    @Dylan-hq4qt Před 5 lety +4

    Hello! You should do a Biographics on Georgy Korelev, he's rarely talked about but he went through terrible treatment but ended up leading the CCCP, he'd be a great watch!

  • @EezySeven
    @EezySeven Před 5 lety

    I love your Biographics so much!

  • @ivandinsmore6217
    @ivandinsmore6217 Před 7 měsíci

    Splendid video. Fascinating from beginning to end.

  • @DayZeroGaming
    @DayZeroGaming Před 5 lety +8

    Do a video on George Orwell.

  • @DanielDwightMusic
    @DanielDwightMusic Před 5 lety +3

    Dig it! God Bless Simon! Since seeing the movie "Death of Stalin " its awesome to have this video. Best video to follow up after watching that movie.

  • @dimitriusjulius497
    @dimitriusjulius497 Před rokem

    Really great video ! Thank you

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse Před 5 lety

    Another excellent presentation, many thanks.

  • @TacDyne
    @TacDyne Před 4 lety +4

    "Mr. Khrushchev said we will bury you. The question is who buried whom?"
    -Mr. Dave

  • @glenchapman3899
    @glenchapman3899 Před 5 lety +24

    Nice bio - Good to see some balance rather than foaming rhetoric so common in others. Might be worth mentioning Walt Disney banded him from Disneyland during the US trip

    • @Marcus51090
      @Marcus51090 Před 5 lety +5

      Glen Chapman yes the old nazi hated communists

    • @TalairanPerigord
      @TalairanPerigord Před 5 lety +5

      I was going to say something similar. A nicely-balanced portrayal of a man who genuinely did his best, given the opportunity.

    • @carpediem6568
      @carpediem6568 Před 5 lety +1

      Believe that to be incorrect. It was the Secret Service who couldn't assure his safety. I know he wanted to go. And I think Central Park in NYC the same. Just what I remember. I was around when he visited the USA. They sure didn't want him dying starting off WWIII.

    • @VisibilityFoggy
      @VisibilityFoggy Před 4 lety

      @@carpediem6568 - Yes, my understanding was always that the Secret Service said they could not guarantee his safety in a place as large and open as Disneyland and they suggested he not attend. I also read somewhere that he took this as a gigantic insult, saying his counterpart could walk anywhere in Russia and be fine.

    • @carpediem6568
      @carpediem6568 Před 4 lety

      @@VisibilityFoggy Sort of pitiful that Khrushchev could guarantee safety in his poor country, and we in rich America, couldn't. And especially sad about Disneyland because Khrushchev played the clown in Stalin's court to save his own life. Disneyland would have been a joy for him and helped improve our relations.

  • @kevinkissinger9462
    @kevinkissinger9462 Před 5 lety +1

    KEEP IT UP SIMON! I LOVE ALL YOUR STUFF!!!

  • @valentinloew
    @valentinloew Před 4 lety

    great video thank you simon !

  • @hana-ng4ql
    @hana-ng4ql Před 5 lety +5

    can we have a biographics on alexander dubček, since you mentioned the prague spring?

  • @jackdunne1462
    @jackdunne1462 Před 5 lety +8

    A biography of Albert Speer would be interesting

  • @bettinagunn4160
    @bettinagunn4160 Před 4 lety

    Hello Simon, I want you to know I really appreciate your voice and your style of commentating and your impartiality to any people group or country. Keep up the good work.

  • @plc007
    @plc007 Před 5 lety

    That was sensational. One of the best. Thank you.

  • @diffsmasher4824
    @diffsmasher4824 Před 5 lety +9

    "when Stalin says dance, you dance"

  • @snorf525
    @snorf525 Před 5 lety +7

    You should do Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin if you haven't already

  • @williamkholmes
    @williamkholmes Před 5 lety

    An excellent presentation, as always. I love history.Your stylistic study of history using historical biography is highly engaging and a super effective method of teaching. Keep up the great, truly great work. I have watched much of your fabulous work. I can assure you that I will continue to do so. Thanks much.

  • @williamshelley1533
    @williamshelley1533 Před rokem

    Bro you are rocking these videos. They are endless.

  • @SuperTechno2012
    @SuperTechno2012 Před 5 lety +10

    Do one on Chandragupta: the leader of the Gupta empire and the founder of the Indian golden age (300AD)

  • @nicoleneilabela1191
    @nicoleneilabela1191 Před 5 lety +8

    He didn't make the Cuban missile crisis, in fact the U.S.A started it when they put missiles in Turkey so to coincide the Soviets put missiles in Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev actually wanted to de-escalate the crisis

    • @BHuang92
      @BHuang92 Před 5 lety +3

      As much I would disagree with the regime, I'm glad he was one of the figures that had some sense to negotiate so to de-escalate the crisis.

    • @RobertIsMusic
      @RobertIsMusic Před 5 lety +1

      The missile in Turkey were NOT NUCLEAR, in fact they were old.

    • @nicoleneilabela1191
      @nicoleneilabela1191 Před 5 lety

      @@RobertIsMusic thank you for telling me, I appreciate it

    • @farirairoserwasoka274
      @farirairoserwasoka274 Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you for pointing that out. Everybody seemed to omit that.

  • @richardpaskey7192
    @richardpaskey7192 Před 3 lety

    Loved the video ~ spot-on.

  • @matthewarnold7946
    @matthewarnold7946 Před 5 lety

    Outstanding video. I enjoy your channel very much.

  • @dazc
    @dazc Před 5 lety +3

    0:56 but there was much more to him than that - CORN!!

  • @AnEggInTryingTimes
    @AnEggInTryingTimes Před 5 lety +6

    Fancy covering Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko and Dmitry Medvedev? Would love to see the research and more facts about them, even though I know a little bit. More Eastern European figures please!

  • @TheSteveinNY
    @TheSteveinNY Před 4 lety

    All of your channels are outstanding. I hope you're making a fortune.

  • @ASardinhola
    @ASardinhola Před 5 lety +1

    Great work, thanks :)

  • @Fox1223
    @Fox1223 Před 5 lety +5

    Good vid. Wernher Von Braun would be a good one too

  • @LordMarcus
    @LordMarcus Před 5 lety +6

    Do the colors used in the thumbnails of these images have some meaning? I've seen red, blue, yellow, a few cyan, one green, and one purple so far.

  • @deselis
    @deselis Před 5 lety +1

    My dad used to live in Iowa and actually saw Khrushchev when he came to visit the state.

  • @jackcoleman8086
    @jackcoleman8086 Před 4 lety

    This was the best information I have found on here about this man.