Tank Files: The NI Tank of Odessa, A Soviet Bob Semple

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 17. 06. 2024
  • Head to www.squarespace.com/potential... to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code potentialhistory.
    Earth ( Земля) Soviet Film Written and Directed by Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko (Олександр Петрович Довженко) 1930. Uploaded on CZcams by All soviet movies on RVISION: • Earth (1930) movie
    Try saying that five times fast. - fecklessman
    • Try saying that five t...
    The Two Sources I felt I could trust by good authors on this Tank
    Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles by Steven Zaloga, Arms and Armour Press
    Armored tractors. Part 3 by Kolomiets, Maxim Viktorovich
    armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/WWII/tract...
    If anyone speaks Russian and would be willing to translate the page, send me a message. The auto translation is rough and I’d love to read a version that’s not butchered and put it up somewhere the english speaking internet can find it.
    This video has been super rough to get through, finding reliable information was difficult resulting in about three total script rewrites with many more partials trying to find a good balance between reliable information (which because there is so little meant a very broadly defined video) and good details (that are iffy on weather or not they are true) and it was a nightmare. After that the issue of footage became a problem. Luckily,
    Will Kerrs (Channel Link and video Link below) uploaded all NI footage that could be found which saved me some time but the real challenge came with finding any footage at all of Romanian troops in ww2. I am shocked how little there is. The few bits I could find were maybe 30 seconds in a few German propaganda reels per reel for like 5 reels and most of it is really uninspiring, I have no Idea what I am going to use for the Minor Axis Allies Tank Meme video, because there is literally nothing out there and it was maddening. Then I decided to do that Histories Mysteries intro, that I’m super proud of, but it was really really hard and time consuming to do. I’m a better editor as a result, but it took more days and restarts than I would like to admit. There were also a lot of facecam reshoots as I would rewrite the script. The bits that made the video were probably the third and a few times fourth time I had filmed those segments. I thought because it’s a tank with a short story, it wouldn’t be too difficult but boy was I wrong. This was tough. Anyways, I heard that tags on youtube don’t do much anymore and the best way to keyword your videos is to do it in the description. So feel free to skip this bit. Tank files, Germany Could Not Win WW2, Bob Semple, Barbarossa Series, Meme Tanks, Eastern front, Siege of Odessa. IDK if that helps any but I guess we will see. Thank you for watching the video and if you’re one of the five people that bothers to read the description, thank you for reading it. Hope to have a few more vids out before the end of the month and finally be on a normal schedule. 2019 had been kind of rough for me, and I’m working on making 2020 a lot better. Have a good holiday season (Reeee no merry christmas!!!!!) and I’ll see you soon.
    P.O.Box:
    Potential History
    P.O. Box 524
    Beech Grove, IN,
    46107
    Support me on:
    Patreon: / potentialhistory
    PayPal: potentialhistory@gmail.com
    Connect with me on:
    Twitter: Tank_Memes?lang=en
    Facebook: PotentialHis...

Komentáře • 1,3K

  • @RefinedRetroReviews
    @RefinedRetroReviews Před 4 lety +3244

    The comrades who say Ni.

    • @Bizmarckus
      @Bizmarckus Před 4 lety +62

      Refined Gentleman Your name fits such comment!

    • @umontortle
      @umontortle Před 4 lety +28

      Ah Dang you beat me to it comrade

    • @wasntprepared
      @wasntprepared Před 4 lety +23

      XD have to watch Monty py again

    • @thegoose5294
      @thegoose5294 Před 4 lety +77

      *sees enemy tank*
      "Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni!"
      Enemy tank: *explodes*

    • @rachard
      @rachard Před 4 lety +27

      Gibe shrubbery

  • @kast7n336
    @kast7n336 Před 4 lety +2207

    What if Bob semple faced it ..... end of the world

    • @cg9256
      @cg9256 Před 4 lety +219

      *Duel of the Fates plays*

    • @kast7n336
      @kast7n336 Před 4 lety +87

      Top 10 anime duels

    • @sirshotty7689
      @sirshotty7689 Před 4 lety +91

      Little did the Nordic people know, it wasn't Sköll and Hati that would cause Ragnarok but Bob Semple and NI

    • @waluigi3807
      @waluigi3807 Před 4 lety +73

      unstoppable force meets unmovable object

    • @leehongjin6884
      @leehongjin6884 Před 4 lety +24

      *MENACING*

  • @vasilikozhushner7208
    @vasilikozhushner7208 Před 4 lety +1380

    there are tales that the NI tank and the Bob Semple met and mated. they would lay an egg that would find its way to America. it would lay dormant until 2004 when it would hatch into the mighty killdozer.

    • @thewarden6050
      @thewarden6050 Před 4 lety +88

      The most op tanks in the world mated and created THE KILLDOZER!!!!!, for now on we must address the killdozer as THE KILLDOZER!!!!!

    • @misschauchatcultistbernie2740
      @misschauchatcultistbernie2740 Před 4 lety +108

      *Legalise Recreational Killdozers*

    • @sebastienmonette6659
      @sebastienmonette6659 Před 4 lety +31

      Can't believe you made much a reference, legendary

    • @bobsempletank
      @bobsempletank Před 4 lety +8

      No comment

    • @jamesgroccia644
      @jamesgroccia644 Před 4 lety +11

      bob semple tank Must be proud of your killdozer child, you monstrous beast of strength

  • @stastu6484
    @stastu6484 Před 4 lety +1303

    Workers of the world urinate!

  • @cromwell4029
    @cromwell4029 Před 4 lety +862

    I fear no man, but that thing
    *picture of soviet bob Semple*
    It scares me

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment Před 4 lety +709

    Bob Semple: FINALLY a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!

    • @frenchsoldier8485
      @frenchsoldier8485 Před 4 lety +25

      Tsar Tank: *Rolls out of the mud after the mud season ends* You thought Soviet Russia would go into battle without numbers?

    • @yousefseed1874
      @yousefseed1874 Před 4 lety +6

      Like your Exeter pfp

    • @huntclanhunt9697
      @huntclanhunt9697 Před 4 lety +7

      I would pay good money for this to become an animated movie.

    • @tobyharrison4702
      @tobyharrison4702 Před 4 lety +2

      You do get around a lot.

    • @Chujoi0
      @Chujoi0 Před 4 lety +5

      French Soldier , but Tsar tank is Tsarist. It would use earrape pro-tsar propaganda audio while firing all cannons at NI

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 Před 4 lety +479

    "And a layer of wood behind that."
    So you're saying it had composite armor?

  • @jacka1472
    @jacka1472 Před 4 lety +895

    Bob semple tank but it’s communist

  • @PanzerPicture
    @PanzerPicture Před 4 lety +391

    Now we all know how the Soviet army really won the war.

    • @rocket_sensha4337
      @rocket_sensha4337 Před 4 lety +15

      i was looking for this comment, didn´t expect it from you. merry christmas sir!

    • @chrisca
      @chrisca Před 4 lety +8

      pp hard

    • @J-Kabar
      @J-Kabar Před 4 lety +1

    • @PanzerPicture
      @PanzerPicture Před 4 lety +3

      @@rocket_sensha4337 Merry Christmas to you too.

    • @PanzerPicture
      @PanzerPicture Před 4 lety +5

      @@chrisca PP always hard.

  • @aneesh2115
    @aneesh2115 Před 4 lety +450

    German army : its over odessa, I have the high ground. You are surrounded. Surrender.
    Odessa : no I don't think I will

    • @titouanlange396
      @titouanlange396 Před 4 lety +27

      Aneesh Sahu *Odessa : your underestimate my tractor !

    • @legoanakin730
      @legoanakin730 Před 4 lety +1

      Hey i remember something like this but it was obi wan

    • @achilles_kbab
      @achilles_kbab Před 4 lety +3

      @@titouanlange396 *our tractor

    • @neizvesni2714
      @neizvesni2714 Před 4 lety +4

      Actually Romanian not german)

    • @homersimpson3595
      @homersimpson3595 Před 3 lety

      The Bob Semple Tank is so tall that it will always have the high ground.

  • @nihil2157
    @nihil2157 Před 4 lety +232

    NI means "Na ispug" which is translates as To Fear, they are literally were used for scaring enemies

    • @thekornwulf
      @thekornwulf Před 3 lety +8

      The whole series of improvised tanks were known as Terror Tanks. More or less because they were made in the face of the terror of the German advance

  • @pkman947
    @pkman947 Před 4 lety +498

    We are the tanks who say.......NI

  • @walkerfilms6917
    @walkerfilms6917 Před 4 lety +1342

    I summon Yukari

  • @dabbinghitlersmemes1762
    @dabbinghitlersmemes1762 Před 4 lety +333

    This is how you convince everybody that Germany never had a chance.
    Even the mightiest wehraboo cannot withstand the NI!

    • @acceleration4443
      @acceleration4443 Před 4 lety +25

      Derzkitorpedoessuck the virgin Tiger tank vs the Chad Bob Semple tank

    • @maustank5224
      @maustank5224 Před 4 lety +6

      Am depressed maus, help me.

    • @poikoi1530
      @poikoi1530 Před 2 lety +1

      the knights of NI!

  • @bears_in_the_house_3285
    @bears_in_the_house_3285 Před 4 lety +170

    Moral of the story: Romanians are scared of tractors

    • @misschauchatcultistbernie2740
      @misschauchatcultistbernie2740 Před 4 lety +14

      Wtf, I love reading the Comments before watching..

    • @someturkishguy8638
      @someturkishguy8638 Před 3 lety +1

      Hmmm. I'll take that into account if I ever have to fight a Romanian

    • @beefyblom
      @beefyblom Před 3 lety +20

      There was a tractor on Communist Romania's flag after the war (IIRC), Which can only mean one thing
      Romania pulled a Batman and adopted their fears

  • @bobdahcrusader6977
    @bobdahcrusader6977 Před 4 lety +390

    bob

  • @berser4ina
    @berser4ina Před 4 lety +325

    Google translator can't handle anything but simplest sentences and phrases when translating from Russian into English and vice versa. Sometimes it's better to look for translations of single words and choose the most appropriate meaning

    • @dp-2835
      @dp-2835 Před 4 lety +42

      That's mainly because of the fact Google translate is a learning AI. I think it learned pretty terribly with how off some of the translations are.

    • @kokofan50
      @kokofan50 Před 4 lety +36

      Google is terrible with any inflected language because the algorithm can’t understand the context of the sentence.

    • @nicecupoftea7102
      @nicecupoftea7102 Před 4 lety +29

      I don't see why wouldn't he just ask some of the Russian viewers to help with translations

    • @masarutas
      @masarutas Před 4 lety +6

      Or you can use DeepL instead of Google Translate. It often than not gives a contextually better translation than google.

    • @WhyIs.ThisHere
      @WhyIs.ThisHere Před 4 lety +3

      I’m pretty sure it was the “google has translated this page” thing google has

  • @Hans-hy5jp
    @Hans-hy5jp Před 4 lety +522

    Germans would've won if we had a Bob Semple of our own

    • @kyedamant1323
      @kyedamant1323 Před 4 lety +19

      What about the flammenwerfer

    • @Hans-hy5jp
      @Hans-hy5jp Před 4 lety +42

      @@kyedamant1323 thats the thing, we would've put flammenwherfers all over it innl place of machine guns

    • @preussen4983
      @preussen4983 Před 4 lety +36

      they have, it's the Großtraktor

    • @Hans-hy5jp
      @Hans-hy5jp Před 4 lety +32

      @@preussen4983 shhh that's classified information

    • @Kelekky
      @Kelekky Před 4 lety +28

      Hans They did but it was scrapped so that the parts can be used to make the space battleship so hitler can make a moon base

  • @st3vorocks290
    @st3vorocks290 Před 3 lety +135

    "When one side brings tanks, and the other doesn't, the side with the tanks usually wins."
    -Nicholas Moran, speaking in defense of Japanese tank designs

    • @aceous99
      @aceous99 Před rokem

      and Italian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @accountname9506
      @accountname9506 Před rokem +1

      not really true anymore

    • @st3vorocks290
      @st3vorocks290 Před rokem +5

      @@accountname9506 How many examples can you give where this was not true? Obviously, the clusterfuck that is the modern Russian military has managed to do quite a bit of losing, but the Ukrainians have tanks too.
      It is also worth noting that this quote refers to conventional battles, not asymmetric warfare.

    • @accountname9506
      @accountname9506 Před rokem +4

      @@st3vorocks290 It's not always true anymore. Obviously, having tanks is good, but gone are the times where you needed to set up established antitank positions or drag around a tripod mount for a ATGM. Anyone can lug around AT weapons now. The tank isn't obsolete, of course, but whether it's asymetric or conventional tanks are long past the stage where infantry was completely and utterly fucked if they met a tank.
      Now they're only mostly fucked.

    • @st3vorocks290
      @st3vorocks290 Před rokem +1

      @@accountname9506 The first man-portable anti-tank weapon was deployed in 1919 or 1920, I think. Certainly well before WW2. Sure, the newer ones are better by far, but so is the active protection that wealthy nations are putting on their tanks. Tanks have always been vulnerable. That is why when Rommel requested reinforcements in North Africa he asked for infantry to support them, NOT more tanks.
      Also, I cannot stress enough that the quote says the side with the tanks *usually* wins. There are several instances in WW2 where tank destroyer units stopped armored units dead in their tracks(pun intended lol).

  • @grimwaltzman
    @grimwaltzman Před 4 lety +55

    I dont know who wrote the words on that board, but that person did a pretty good job, except that in the comissar bubble *пописать* should rather be *писайте* . Then it would be just right.

    • @grimwaltzman
      @grimwaltzman Před 4 lety +17

      @staplerusHominem comissar says *Pee faster, comrades* and the lino on top means *we did it, boys*

    • @atransarcticfox
      @atransarcticfox Před 3 lety +1

      They got it awful, not good.

  • @PAWTeamUnited
    @PAWTeamUnited Před 4 lety +48

    Bob semple With Soviet Bias

  • @FieldTestedSemenKun
    @FieldTestedSemenKun Před 4 lety +37

    *_"The armored cars were vulnerable from the front because the ramps were broken [REDACTE--] and drive the cars in reverse"_*

  • @mr.waffentrager4400
    @mr.waffentrager4400 Před 4 lety +124

    Uncle Bob

  • @GrimgoreIronhide
    @GrimgoreIronhide Před 4 lety +10

    There seems to actually be a common thread of improvised tanks, being that someone with limited resources takes tractors, armors them and installs some machineguns and then calls it done. And this has been shown several times to be moderately effective when supporting an infantry force, both in world war 1 and 2 and in small town america with the Killdozer. There really isn't anything to laugh at, these machines work.

  • @edinjahjefendic4962
    @edinjahjefendic4962 Před 4 lety +190

    Nice

    • @gaving5246
      @gaving5246 Před 4 lety +1

      Edin Jahjefendić simpatico👌

    • @hanz2904
      @hanz2904 Před 4 lety

      183 fucking likes......

  • @justmerc1642
    @justmerc1642 Před 4 lety +4

    My first Christmas gift of the year is a Potential History video.
    This is nice.

  • @Schtinklenuts
    @Schtinklenuts Před 4 lety +1

    You know it's a good day when there is a new potential history video. Merry Christmas and good vid!

  • @jerryjohnson5545
    @jerryjohnson5545 Před 4 lety +2

    You are my favorite youtuber. All of your videos are enjoyable to watch. I hope you keep up the good work. Well done.

  • @theless-than-goodhunter7019

    The bob semple rocked the world so badly it was only a matter of time before other governments started their own bob programs.

  • @bobmcbob49
    @bobmcbob49 Před 4 lety +25

    Germany: "We have an army"
    Russia: "We have a NI-"

    • @thegoose5294
      @thegoose5294 Před 4 lety +3

      Russia defeated Germany by repeatedly saying "Ni!"

    • @kaybevang536
      @kaybevang536 Před 5 měsíci

      @@thegoose5294No Not The Comrades Who Say Ni

  • @thetourettesgamer8851
    @thetourettesgamer8851 Před 4 lety +2

    Thanks potential history! And merry Christmas!

  • @trevorcook9868
    @trevorcook9868 Před 4 lety +2

    Really appreciate the honesty in the research! Thanks for sharing and proving you did all you can, and why you were vague! Really showed you do know what you are talking about, and are proud of your content to not hyperbolize, even for the memes

  • @nebufabu
    @nebufabu Před 4 lety +36

    I still wonder just what exactly made Google Translate to mess up so badly...
    EDIT: And I found it. The primary source cited used a very archaic/jargon term for "car wheel (and axle)" and used it incorrectly (basically it said "wheels of wheels.") The word can also mean a half-dozen other things.
    Броневики в бою оказались уязвимы с передней части, так как разбивались скаты колес. Пришлось с задней части сделать надежную защиту и водить броневики в бой задним ходом.
    As close to original as I can: Armoured cars in combat proved to be vulnerable from the front, as the wheels of wheels were shattering [sic]. A reliable defence for the rear of the cars had been made and the cars were driven in combat in reverse.
    It doesn't sound like combat damage, maybe front axles/suspensions weren't sturdy enough to carry armour, but the rear ones were?

    • @nebufabu
      @nebufabu Před 4 lety +8

      I'm actually impressed with what Google Translate did here, I mean this sentence can be baffling even to a human native speaker. The most common meaning of "скат" is "ray" (fish, as in "manta ray") but it went with "ramp" which is much less frequently used, but at least kind of can appear in this context. It's almost as if GT is gaining some ground on the frame problem...

    • @LeninPolimorfed
      @LeninPolimorfed Před 4 lety +7

      @3dent «скат» was used correctly in the original text. It is not the wheel itself, it referrs to the wheel's rubber coating or a tire. Basically, if we're talking about railcars, then yes, скат would most likely be used as a synonym for a wheel, but hardly here.

    • @nebufabu
      @nebufabu Před 4 lety +4

      @@LeninPolimorfed Well, you're right, it's the most common usage today, but I frankly can't imagine how the rubber can be "разбита," (bashed/broken/shattered) they'd use a different verb if they meant that... Some Googling and dictionary search made me think that back then it might have meant "wheel and axle as an assembly" which is something I could imagine being shattered.

    • @nebufabu
      @nebufabu Před 4 lety +3

      @@LeninPolimorfed Another possibility is, of course that those cars didn't have pneumatic tyres at all, that it was some kind of a hard rubber shell with soft rubber filling (I remember reading somewhere that Germans occasionally did that with some vehicles to prevent punctures in combat) but even such a thing would be torn, not shattered if damaged...

    • @nebufabu
      @nebufabu Před 4 lety +2

      Another thing against it meaning "tyre rubber" here is that it's very unlikely that whatever kind of damage it was, front tyres were more vulnerable to it than the rear ones, while it's easily imaginable with axles or suspensions... Or even disks themselves, I guess...

  • @christianfernandez6999
    @christianfernandez6999 Před 4 lety +66

    Christmas GIFT!!!!!!!

  • @jacobabrisz9272
    @jacobabrisz9272 Před 4 lety +2

    I just wanna say this was a solid video; saying what something isn't is often as important as saying what something is. This video was very informative and it's totally fine that some of the information is "we don't know". Cheers and happy holidays

  • @razgriz4978
    @razgriz4978 Před 4 lety +1

    I was originally going to sleep, but my nose decided to bleed like crazy. After fixing that I went downstairs and saw this video in my feed, as usual I clicked and watched enjoying every second of it. Thanks for the early Christmas gift Johnny, and I hope you have a merry Christmas as well!

  • @MRKapcer13
    @MRKapcer13 Před 4 lety +6

    Reminds me of Kubuś armoured car, which was a Chevrolet truck with an armour shell welded onto it and a machine gun on top of it. It was used in the Warsaw Uprising and still survives at the Polish Army Museum. It's a really cool piece of history.

  • @gottesdominion4018
    @gottesdominion4018 Před 4 lety +60

    We are the Soviet Engineers who say... NI!

  • @TheGruntPerspective
    @TheGruntPerspective Před 3 lety

    One of the reasons I love this channel is the editing is hilarious 😂

  • @skymmer7601
    @skymmer7601 Před 4 lety +2

    First of all,thank You for this video and Merry Christmas to You and enjoy your holidays! And secondly I would love to see a video about tank like these from the pre WW2 to WW2 eras that weren't based on chassis of a tank. Like the tank You mentioned in the video or the Bob Semple, ZiS30 and others.

  • @scrambledlemons8465
    @scrambledlemons8465 Před 4 lety +22

    i see potential history i click
    merry Christmas every one

  • @sigmar2331
    @sigmar2331 Před 4 lety +71

    Merry Red Christmas Comrades

    • @sirshotty7689
      @sirshotty7689 Před 4 lety

      Sig mar my lord, is that really you? The great Emperor of Man?

    • @sigmar2331
      @sigmar2331 Před 4 lety +2

      @@sirshotty7689 No definitely not using 4th dimension warp magic to watch this thing called youtube

    • @A-Forty3707
      @A-Forty3707 Před 4 lety +1

      @@sirshotty7689 the emperor of man? HERESY CALL IN THE INQUISITION

    • @kyokyoniizukyo7171
      @kyokyoniizukyo7171 Před 4 lety

      Sig mar
      Uraaaa!!!!

    • @pubcle
      @pubcle Před 4 lety +2

      >Christ
      >Religion not worshipping glorious leader
      TO GULAG WITH YOU.

  • @AtheAetheling
    @AtheAetheling Před 4 lety +1

    I like the casual chat aspect of this video! Very Lindybeige. And a fascinating topic too!

  • @BettycrockerConfettiCake
    @BettycrockerConfettiCake Před 4 lety +2

    Your videos are awesome! Keep it up

  • @thegoose5294
    @thegoose5294 Před 4 lety +21

    The NI tank, the tank with a cannon that shouts "Ni!"
    Nierly no information for those who see it seldom to live to tell the tale.
    Those tanks are the Tanks that say "Ni, Peng, and Nee Womp".

  • @rnpola9408
    @rnpola9408 Před 4 lety +48

    Comrade 1: Comrade, I have idea.
    Comrade 2: What is idea comrade?
    Comrade 1: Pee in tractor for save water.
    Comrade 2: Good idea comrade.

  • @theblueknight9746
    @theblueknight9746 Před 4 lety

    Holy shit FINALLY. I've been waiting with desperate hope for this video.

  • @da_BemBem
    @da_BemBem Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for the big loud warning, that was really nice of you

  • @user-tj9vp8re4d
    @user-tj9vp8re4d Před 4 lety +42

    "Мы сделали это МАЛЬЧИКИ"
    гачи комми клуб объявляется открытым

    • @Valeriy1004
      @Valeriy1004 Před 4 lety +11

      И НКВДшники, орущие в мегафон "Писать быстрее, товарищи!"

    • @SamuraiAkechi
      @SamuraiAkechi Před 4 lety +7

      На испуг из фри хандред бакс.

    • @rhTESATYH
      @rhTESATYH Před 4 lety +8

      Факинг слейвс, писать в радиатор

  • @kommandantkillcode
    @kommandantkillcode Před 4 lety +6

    Now I want you to talk about the Zis-30 Tracktor that you had a picture of. It’s probably the most devastating of all the improvised soviet tractors that eventually became more like a standard production vehicle.

  • @linnharamis1496
    @linnharamis1496 Před 4 lety +1

    Fascinating story about a topic with very limited information - thanks for your time👍

  • @District1991
    @District1991 Před 4 lety

    The absolute madman, posting in the early morning on Christmas Eve.

  • @andreimorar5249
    @andreimorar5249 Před 4 lety +29

    Can't believe we ran from the battlefield when seeing what is basically a Soviet Bob Semple. Yeah, we were lacking AT weapons, plus many of the conscripted peasants (since this was basically the Romanian Army in both World Wars) had no idea what a tank is. Interesting reaction though.

    • @andreimorar5249
      @andreimorar5249 Před 4 lety

      Also, what movie is the one with the Romanian soldiers vs NI tanks?

    • @kaletovhangar
      @kaletovhangar Před 4 lety

      @@andreimorar5249 It's some Soviet movie from 1980s,made by Odessa film studio.I can't remember what,but I did watch it.I'l try to find it's name.

    • @andreimorar5249
      @andreimorar5249 Před 4 lety

      @@kaletovhangar alright. Thank you

    • @kaletovhangar
      @kaletovhangar Před 4 lety

      czcams.com/video/JkyIBSBMXe8/video.html
      "Feat of Odessa,part 1"
      In part 2 you can see NI tank and Romanians fighting (somewhat).

    • @andreimorar5249
      @andreimorar5249 Před 4 lety

      @@kaletovhangar thanks

  • @TheSecondVersion
    @TheSecondVersion Před 4 lety +31

    This tank would have survived the radiation on Roof Masha.

    • @messerschmittme-2623
      @messerschmittme-2623 Před 4 lety +5

      It wwould've survived Chernobyl even if it was right next to the reactor when it exploded.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Před 3 lety

      Chernobyl would've been too scared to go off to avoid entailing the wrath of the NI.

  • @Dhepburn634
    @Dhepburn634 Před 4 lety

    Giving this a like because FUCK, the amount of effort that must have gone into this video is amazing. Thank you for this info

  • @chesterzimmerman1479
    @chesterzimmerman1479 Před 4 lety

    i love to new videos from you its so funny how comedy can be matched into history

  • @icecold1805
    @icecold1805 Před 4 lety +25

    Ok but seeing you talk of your effort to find only true info on this tank gave me the idea: why not an episode were you cover hilariously stupid misconceptions or myths. Instead of finding the truth find what is not.

    • @PotentialHistory
      @PotentialHistory  Před 4 lety +15

      I actually have a video planned for something along these lines focusing on the phrase "History is written by the victors" and how absurd that is given the true historical process, so stay tuned!

    • @Bone8380
      @Bone8380 Před 4 lety

      In a way he kinda did that a bit in the "Germany could not win WWII" videos.

    • @icecold1805
      @icecold1805 Před 4 lety

      @@Bone8380 yes but I want more absurd. Nazis on the moon. Hitler is in Argentina. Roosevelt was a hidden nazi. And so on.

  • @notlistening6499
    @notlistening6499 Před 4 lety +28

    I believe it is somewhat safe to infer that these vehicles were *militia* and not milit *ary* and that would contribute to the difficulty of finding information about them

    • @benismann
      @benismann Před 3 lety

      kinda

    • @notlistening6499
      @notlistening6499 Před 3 lety +1

      @@benismann factory workers assembled these tanks by using boiler plates and tractors. Since they are not soldiers they are not military. If they failed to use soviet insignia and follow the orders of a recognized military authority, under the Genova Convention they would be terrorists. However this is where the water gets murky since the Soviet Union never signed it!

  • @A-Forty3707
    @A-Forty3707 Před 4 lety +1

    My favourite tv channel potential history

  • @czubs6978
    @czubs6978 Před 4 lety +1

    Great vid. I loved the part where you tired to hide the guys at the bottom of the board. Again great vid.

  • @mr.dakkadakka2845
    @mr.dakkadakka2845 Před 4 lety +5

    So there is a book I have called "allied tanks of ww2" by David Porter, the book makes mention of this tank and other improvised vehicles, the sources about it having a bigger cannon might have been confused with the KhTZ based off of the STZ-3 tractor hull which had a 45mm.

  • @vladimirhenderson3854
    @vladimirhenderson3854 Před 3 lety +6

    So the modern equivalent would be the fighters in the middle east straping a zedru quad cannon on the back of a Toyota van

    • @danielm.595
      @danielm.595 Před 3 lety

      And it would be worse, you can pierce a Toyota with bullets, but, based on what I heard here, you can't pierce a NI tank low caliber bullets.

  • @john7092
    @john7092 Před 3 lety

    It's the thoughtfully added noise warning for me

  • @prakashghumaliya2002
    @prakashghumaliya2002 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for video sir

  • @wilhelmofcharlotte772
    @wilhelmofcharlotte772 Před 4 lety +3

    I’m now glad I’ve woken up at 5am this morning.

  • @frenchhonhon
    @frenchhonhon Před 4 lety +9

    5:21
    ,,Ei bine, suntem dezosati"
    ,,Well, we're boneless"
    Extra points for that one!

  • @batmanandy
    @batmanandy Před rokem

    love your couch! I used to have that couch. it was a good one

  • @evancrum6811
    @evancrum6811 Před 4 lety +1

    Interesting and great job.

  • @flipmanlet8982
    @flipmanlet8982 Před 4 lety +17

    Bob Semple: *Finally! A worthy oponent!*

  • @rovenspodie4804
    @rovenspodie4804 Před 4 lety +4

    Fun fact, two letters (NI or НИ in Russian) of tank’s name probably stand for На Испуг or To Frighten in English. So they were ment to frighten enemy and force them to abandon their positions. I’m from Russia and heard that on one of our historic TV channels.

  • @mathieugariepy2948
    @mathieugariepy2948 Před 4 lety

    Kudos for honesty about the shaky informations. Looks like this video was a lot like diging for dinosaur bones.

  • @amk4956
    @amk4956 Před 4 lety +1

    What a great Christmas gift

  • @chicanodwane37
    @chicanodwane37 Před 4 lety +8

    *Bob* *Semple:* Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be _Legendary!_

  • @user-ff9xb7ds9y
    @user-ff9xb7ds9y Před 4 lety +16

    USSR: hey can i copy your homework?
    New zealand: sure, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look suspicious
    USSR:

  • @zacharymohammadi
    @zacharymohammadi Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for the Christmas present

  • @WarReport.
    @WarReport. Před 4 lety

    Arthur Kent! Excellent journalist from Canada, I was fortunate to have him as a reference for a job with a huge Dutch company! Funny to see him here :)

  • @mrwri
    @mrwri Před 4 lety +31

    Reminder that it cost the Soviets less to make a T-34 than it currently costs to make an Iphone.

    • @EmergencyChannel
      @EmergencyChannel Před 4 lety +4

      If it costs $25,000 and 25,000 man hours to build a IPhone, then yes.

    • @Shinji_1943
      @Shinji_1943 Před 4 lety

      What's the price comparison?

    • @mrwri
      @mrwri Před 4 lety +5

      @@EmergencyChannel I meant in terms of human lives lost to industrial accident my bad.

    • @martijn9568
      @martijn9568 Před 4 lety

      @@mrwri Probably because Iphones are made in China

    • @r.p.4756
      @r.p.4756 Před 4 lety

      @@mrwri cuz Soviets upped their worker union game.

  • @Roketsune
    @Roketsune Před 3 lety +9

    I learned from this video that tractors can operate on urine rather than water, and that in Soviet Russia, farmers patriotically pissed into their tractors.

  • @MaxwellAerialPhotography

    That was a bit of a bummer ending.
    Merry Christmas.

  • @RacerM53
    @RacerM53 Před 4 lety +1

    Is it my birthday? Because Potential History just put out a new video!

  • @lshdd7795
    @lshdd7795 Před 4 lety +20

    a little tip, "Мальчики" thought can be translated as boys, almost always mean "Little boys" a.k.a children

    • @therealcaesar3157
      @therealcaesar3157 Před 4 lety +5

      Would you say something like пацаны instead?

    • @TheAnonimKO
      @TheAnonimKO Před 4 lety +10

      @@therealcaesar3157 "пацаны" is way too informal, "парни" would be a way better translation.

    • @therealcaesar3157
      @therealcaesar3157 Před 4 lety +1

      @@TheAnonimKO спасибо

    • @yosefyonin6824
      @yosefyonin6824 Před 4 lety +2

      @@therealcaesar3157 it just makes the whole meme even funnier imo

  • @justsomepotato6160
    @justsomepotato6160 Před 4 lety +3

    Can you do another pop history? Love the historical references in movies.

  • @owen2886
    @owen2886 Před 4 lety +1

    Love the video, in the spirit of the beautiful tank can you make a video/series on improvised weaponry

  • @brandonhuynh4528
    @brandonhuynh4528 Před 4 lety

    Perfect Christmas Eve gift

  • @user-xr9ic7kx1r
    @user-xr9ic7kx1r Před 3 lety +5

    American pop-art: "pop-art"
    Soviet pop-art: "PeEiNg PrOpAgAnDa"

    • @yegorgribenuke6853
      @yegorgribenuke6853 Před 2 lety +1

      "No guys, the soviets arent happier than us. They are just forced to look like they're happy"

  • @ANoobIsOver
    @ANoobIsOver Před 4 lety +19

    Ayyy 5AM boiz where we at

  • @scarface_deb
    @scarface_deb Před 4 lety +2

    Epic intro :D

  • @wilshire36
    @wilshire36 Před 4 lety +1

    Yay Christmas Eve gift!

  • @vladmamula4532
    @vladmamula4532 Před 4 lety +4

    Could you please do a video about the Romanian Army in WW2? I feel that too little is spoken about it. Thank you, keep up the good job!

  • @silver_dem0n525
    @silver_dem0n525 Před 4 lety +7

    *Bob Semple in title*
    Me : *heavy breathing*

  • @FieldMarshalYT
    @FieldMarshalYT Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for this Christmas gift dad.

  • @stevewadman4166
    @stevewadman4166 Před 3 lety

    Wow I haven't seen Arthur Kent on the history channel in like 20 years it's bringing me '90s nostalgia, (I watched entirely too much history channel during my childhood)

  • @nobleman9393
    @nobleman9393 Před 4 lety +37

    Hello there

  • @GS-md1ex
    @GS-md1ex Před 4 lety +7

    Neat

  • @ritualduke8825
    @ritualduke8825 Před 4 lety

    A good lesson on what it’s like to do your channel.

  • @k-874
    @k-874 Před 4 lety +1

    *Best Christmas Gift*

  • @brendanblack7659
    @brendanblack7659 Před 4 lety +9

    N.I. tank- No Information tank

  • @genericname3206
    @genericname3206 Před 4 lety +4

    There's a mission on Men of War: Red Tide that has NI tanks

  • @jamesmortimer4016
    @jamesmortimer4016 Před 4 lety +1

    CZcams why don't you notify me of glorious video?

  • @danielmerkoulv7432
    @danielmerkoulv7432 Před 4 lety

    its a shame you didnt do this earlier . i recentley was in odessa and saw many of these