5 Countries That ALMOST Existed
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*Burundi exists*
Toycat: "Burundi just exists"
I had to do a school project years ago on Burundi so it holds a place in my heart.
Jacob Hogan my relationship with Malawi be like: “a fellow soldier”
@@stephen9381
I have a Malawi shaped hole in my Malawi shaped heart... Iove Malawi for some odd reason
It's nice to see that other people love countries for not much of a reason. I like East Timor like that.
I like Hungary because it's one of my ancestry countries
The sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now.
That's just where he lives.
meta jay 404 r/commedycemetery
*History of the entire world I guess*
Maybe he discovered it when looking for another way to India...
*i guess we’ll have to find a new wat to india*
r/unexpectedbillwurtz
20:08 In a survey the French even saw themselves as being the most arrogant country in the world. So that's another level of arrogant, knowing you are and not trying to change.
True, although a more recent poll showed that Indians have the biggest disconnect between how "great" they think their country is versus the reality.
hemmper well it makes sense .. their symbol is the rooster, the only animal that stands proud even when standing in shit .. at least that’s what one of my (French) teachers used to say
@@Iramico - LOL!
(My French teacher had a rather large ... bosom. Her nickname: Madame Beaucoup de Balcon)
They're now in a month-and-a-half long strike because they want to be able to retire at 52... even after already having some of the best workers rights / conditions in the world
@@SuperSMT 62. It's 62.
BoganVille, new holiday destination for the aussies
Bruh
Is it just me, or will that be the first country to have ville in its name?
Bougainville
@@jeremyaugustine2838 Not sure it will be named after the island though
LMAOOOOOOO
Fun fact: Simon Bolivar (South American independence leader in the 19th century) wanted there to be a United States equivalent in South America
With The countries of Venezuela Colombia Ecuador and Panama, thats why all except for Panama have similar flags nowdays
Brazil:
Yes I know they are talking about the whole continent not just one country
Basically José de San Martin say that he shouldn't be a big douche, so that's why there's a statue of him in New York. Basically Argentina kinda do that but give the chance to each part of the colonies to be their thing or join, instead Bolívar wanted a big giant thing and be on charge.
Think at the national team of football 🤤 (MSN)
Well, there was Gran Colombia. There was also the Federal Republic of Central America.
One word for this channel: Underrated
ok
@@raxu3660 no u
He has another channel which is much bigger
I’m not talking about he’s first channel
@@HOVANA namely THIS channel is underrated, not first
That jab at Burundi tho
Hahahhaa truee
The main problem with slavery and the Confederacy in the US is once you have a tiger by the tail, it is very hard to just let go without some very serious repercussions. Conflict over Slavery was almost guaranteed as soon as the Constitution was ratified, and every single US President up until Lincoln, did not want to be the one in office when the Civil War erupted.
Lincoln didn't want ro be the guy who oversaw the war either which is why he took almost 2 years to propose ending slavery in the territories STILL REBELLING, it wasn't until the end of his term that he began moving for full abolition, ie once the war had been well won.
@@jeremiahblake3949 Well, lets not forgett Lincoln didn't even finish the civil war because he, uh, got shot in the back of the head.
But furthermore, while it is said it was over 'states rights' even that is a blantent half truth: The civil war did not start because the north tried to fight slavery or anything. Rather, is was due to the fact that the south was attempting to expand slavery and, and the north, realizing this would put them at a political disadvantage, said no. After that, the south literally started taking forts before open war had even been declared. It is VERY safe to say the south fired the first shots in the civil war in nearly all accounts.
@@BeyondtheBlade of course the South started the war. And it was about the states right to safeguard slavery which they thought the North would end once free states were the majority.
My point is that it was likely an overreaction since even the abolitionist president didn't immediately end slavery when the war started
@@jeremiahblake3949 I mean we don't have slavery in the US anymore so it probably wasn't an overreaction. Not condoning their actions, just disagree that they overreacted to political/social events. I mean, they were kinda right in their fear that the US government would end slavery cause it did.
whenever I watch one of these videos I end up with 15 wikipedia tabs open and a google maps tab open to a weird region of the world
19:53
,, They're like our closest neighbor ."
Ireland: Am I a joke to you?
shhhh the more british people consider ulster irish the quicker we end up uniting.....
Toycat hates northern Ireland confirmed 😔
Don't you get the British? They hate Ireland because they know they can't take control of it.
I never noticed Switzerland is keeping their long running record of neutrality going not joining the EU
They are voluntarily part of the EU suburbs, the EEA, meaning the have to comply just as a normal EU member, but don't have the veto on regulations that normal members have. It is membership without the sovereignty that comes with real membership, sort of being colonized by choice. There is a lot of unease about that with Swiss citizens who actually understand full membership compared to EEA brings more sovereignty.
Fun fact: Even though arabic is technically on language, people from saudi arabia can't understand people from algeria and morocco
Yeah but at least we all know how to speak formal arabic
@@Thedimensionalwarrior ofc
As a saudi, can confirm 🤣
Just remember 1995, Québec independence was WAY closer than any of those one, check Wikipedia on how it came close to becoming a country, even France was willing to recognize the independence😇
It really shouldn't say: 'Even France' it should day: 'ESPECIALLY FRANCE'
@@beu9245 But to be fair getting recognized by one of the Security Council countries is a BIG DEAL
True
50.6 to 49.4 or something like that
If Canada didn’t do shady things like spending much more money than allowed Quebec would be Independent today…I’m sad
Hello, thought I'd let you know. I found this channel in the last couple weeks and it's since become one of my favourite channels. I've been binging through the entire channel. Keep up the great work, happy I've found it
Me too
4:10 I'm no Confederate supporter, but I wouldn't say they were destined to lose. They had some smart generals and could overcome to barriers of being less industrialized. Had Lincoln not be as smart about his hiring and firing decisions and not utilized his technology like telegraphs and railroads correctly, the south could have made the civil war longer or even won independence.
Also if Lincoln didn’t make the war about saving slaves some time in the war, the European powers would’ve joined the CSA in the war.
Also if the confederates had better manpower and more supplies. They would have probably taken Washington. They got very close during the battle of Gettysburg.
It could honestly be argued that the South lost as soon as they lost New Orleans in 1862, or at least lost in the west with that.
Basically if the winner didn't do the things they did to make them win, they would have lost?
Imagine my shock!
The North had a much bigger population and was industrialized it was pretty much always going to win. The North really fucked up a lot of the early civil war with bad leadership. The Only way the south wins is with intervention form another country.
United Arab empire: is no
Toycat: is yes
Toycat is always yes
Toycat is no cuz he is a bad kommiekat
@@badryaalamri3627 You are no
@@badryaalamri3627 really!!!
I remember during the 2015 New Zealand flag referendum, everybody thought it was a huge waste of time and money, and a poll showed that more people were willing to discuss New Zealand becoming part of Australia, than were willing to discuss getting a new flag. So someday there might be the Commonwealth of Australasia.
New Zealand should join Austria instead, that'll show them
@@chienbanane3168 Then finally unite the Kingdom of Australia-Hungary
@@Random_UserName4269 that made my day 🤣🤣🤣
"It's seven people"
Shows a picture of eight people.
In a picture of eight people, surely it is undeniable that there are (at least) seven people in the photograph. Besides, one of them could be an alien.
@@graeme011 Well if there's a possibility that two of them are aliens then it's not quite undeniable that there's at least seven people.
Those are giants and the people are to small to be seen
The Coat of arms of the Netherlands also has French on it. And our passport is in English, Dutch and French as well.
"There WILL be an independent Bougainville"
Not necessarily. If Papa New Guinea doesn't want to let them go, they won't.
The UN will most likely intervene if they try to stop it, like they did with East Timor.
They have formally agreed to honour the result. If they don’t the UN would step in.
@@harsimaja9517 the UN are a joke. What would they do
@@eyesup4156 not related, but the UN wasn't made to stop all wars, it was to keep peace, not peace enforce
@@ancsuther Yes I know. That's precisely why it is a joke
You make geography soo interesting. All those little tid-bits of information about different countries makes me realize how diverse a place the world actually is.
Thank you youtube for recommending this channel! Idk why but I love all of these geography videos. Can you do one on overseas dependencies/Caribbean constituencies of European countries? There are soo many little islands and it's all so confusing yet interesting. Keep up the great work toycat!
"things that have hapened in the last 100 years"
* moves mouse over germany *
lol
0:51 i love how he says another one instead of just One. it’s little unique things like that which i notice and appreciate.
I have no idea why you keep on mentioning california for independence. The movement never really gained any support out of slight media buzz.
I'm kinda uncomfortable with his strong knowledge of the u.s by 4 mins in
Long live the cali republic
yeah exactly, no one actually took the California independence thing seriously, California is a huge part of American identity no matter how different it might be from the other 49 states
Also, with the US constitution in the mix and revoking citizenship to those who vote no would never fly with the US.
It’s on their state flag and everything. They were really going for for a while. Now everyone just brings it up every few years.
What about the imperial federation, Intermarium or the Kalmar Union
Empire of Toycat: Fantastique.
You could have mentioned how the south of Brazil (at the time, Brazilian Empire) actually became independent and started the "war of the Farrapos" (Guerra dos Farrapos), essencially like an American civil war.
Yes. It's way more real than California independent 😂
Mas que barbaridade, tchê
To be fair, Riograndense Republic got to be de facto independent from Brazil for some time, it was just unrecognized
i really enjoy this channel. your main channel i haven't seen.
Would be cool to see another video like that
16:40 and uh Burundi exists
Don’t forget Canada in 1995
The 1995 Quebec independence referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian-French-speaking province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim national sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada.
93.52% of the 5,087,009 registered Quebecers voted in the referendum, a higher turnout than any provincial or federal election in Canada's history. The proposal of June 12, 1995 was rejected by voters, with 50.58% voting "No" and 49.42% voting "Yes".
This. I'm still salty
Portgas D. MinHee that’s a bruh moment if I ever see one
Yo toycat love ur vids keep making these
Astounding video as always
This is quality content i love it
"France, our closest neighbour. Closest ally."
Ireland: *Cries in post-unionism*
Arabia: Unites
Israel: **Laughs** I'm in danger
Israel: *Sigh* Here we go again...
It's actually very sad because a lot of Arab countries are now supporting Israel, so the hope of the Arab countries uniting to eliminate the neo-settler colonial state of Israel is gone.
This video does a good job of being different from most videos of its kind
Yay! 😍 a new toycat video!
Likelihood of some you mentioned: ind. Scotland (medium); ind. Catalonia (medium); one or more ind. Canadian provinces (low, but rising); one or more U.S. ind. states (almost zero).
Quebec is possible but another canadian provinces? how?
@@naa5972 - Alberta & Sas aren't too happy these days; Trudeau's party doesn't have a single MP from either one.
i live in Spain and all the media outside Catalonia report that it is most definitely not likely to become independent in the short or medium term. The politicians who attempted a breakaway were convicted in abstentia. The rest of Spain will not allow the region to separate.
@@lycian123 Why aren't they allowing catalonia to secede???? Isn't that just colonialism at this point
SilvanaDil I would put 🏴 high.
0:07 fond memories of playing Malaysia on the NES.
Love these videos
Bougainville has an interesting language called Rotokas, (just thought I'd mention it)
To equate California's discontents with the U.S. and secession movements elsewhere is ludicrous.
There are no real secessionist movements at least in the actual states. Texas and California are memes and the Native Hawaiians who actually want sovereignty make up like 10% of the Islands population even if they all agreed.
Why can't Africa be one country?
*Gaddafi enters chat*
*Malcolm X enters chat*
Malcolm X had nothing to do with Africa and Gaddafi wanted to be king of Africa.
@@edgelord8337 Malcolm had everything to do with Africa, and Gaddafi was a Ba'athist, we are Socialist Republicans
The same reason why Europe can’t be one country
rct3LP Europe can’t unite because of ideology
Africa however is different with Culture being the reason
Edit: what i meant by different is the difference of reason why they cant unite
KirbyFan3210 - and also thousands of different languages
"All Arab countries speak the same language", I mean, technically yes, but also no.......
Just speak fusha lol
I don't recall if you talked about this but sense Canada's most recent election there's gossip about western Canada breaking off which may cause a snowball effect with Quebec leaving and possibly Newfoundland too because Newfoundland had 3 options after WW2 and ended up joining Canada.
98%... If only 98% of the world could agree on everything.
My home was ALMOST a country, the United Nations just failed to recognize me :(
Molossia?
I think that EU will become a federation. It might take another 10-20 years but we have no other choice if we, as europeans, still want to have influence in the world. I think the European Federation will be a great thing.
In 10-20 years, the median age in Europe will almost equal the retirement age (unless you count Middle Eastern and African migrants).
@Stacey Raven no we're not stupid, we need sovereignty over our lands, cos fuck a Euro empire
@@maherhamadouch2005 To be honest, your nation will have no sovereignty as a small, puny state. The only way to save your people is to unite with others. Take it from an American: a federal Europe will be a superpower.
@@KenrickBrown75 right. No sovereignty when it is it's own state? You don't know what the word means.
@@KenrickBrown75 I won't take lessons from any American: 1 you began life as a colony, then began colonising other lands 2 the US is too diverse to stay as 1 nation
How did I not find this channel until now?
Great video,
I was waiting for you to do Scotland.
Speaking of the confederacy, fun fact: Robert E. Lee was actually related to George Washington. His wife was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, George Washington's wife.
damn our founder was grandson couldn’t win a rebelling
By your own words, that doesn’t make him related to George Washington. Only his wife would be related to George Washington (assuming he was the father of the line of children that Robert E. Lee’s wife supposedly descends from). There is a stark difference between having a distant family member and being related by blood.
I visited Nairobi back in 2018 and it seemed like there was a lot of Chinese influence and investment in Eastern Africa
Anybody up for the Free Federated State of Yorkshire?
Yorkshire party for the boys
YeeeeeAaaaaaah
Anybody from Yorkshire who might be able to help me on this - why is "Yorkshire" such a strong identity marker? I find this particularly strange as the counties of North Yorkshire (rural, middle-class) and South Yorkshire (post-industrial places that haven't recovered from Thatcher) are very different from each other.
@@alexpotts6520I think it's just because it's historic.
It must have taken a long time to complete this map, did you use the elyktra?
For some reason I always get recommended his second channel videos and not his main channel.
i love your 2 channels
u should do a video on 5 "countrys" that want to exist like Seborga
The green screen makes the map part of your shirt
A United Skandinavia would had been intresting. With Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.
Well that existed, it was the Kalmar Union
16:50 even DR Congo is looking to become a member of EAC
Any chance of doing a Video of possible countries that could merge.
Tasmania would be a great country! I know nothing about Tasmania and I've never been there, I just think they should be their own proud country.
7:30 what? No they don’t. Australia, usa and the UK also all speak the same language. Doesn’t mean they want to merge
Do you know what I never should expect to see on headlines “ Saudi Arabia and Israel team up against Iran”
Shia verse Sunni
This guy used to play Minecraft is now teaching geography stuff, great man
~17:25 Australia technically IS a continent, though the continent of Australia includes the country of Australia, the Island of New Guinea, and the islands in between, not just the country. Oceania is not a continent, but is rather a geographic region which includes the continent of Australia and a number of surrounding islands. I know, stupid, but that's the way we officially break things down in the Anglosphere.
Soma Hanikeri the continental plate of Australia also includes India. But I don't think that stops us being a continent in our own right. There's a lot of sea bed between us and them!
@@tealkerberus748 Actually India is on its own plate. The Australian plate only includes Australia, New Guinea, the north island and part of the South Island of New Zealand, and the smaller islands in between those landmasses. You are right that tectonic plates don't define continents, though; Europe and Asia are considered different continents, but they mostly share a plate, and India and Arabia are each on their own plates, but are considered part of Asia.
14:45 tbh as an albanian-american i wouldn't say albania was basically a puppet state, albania had varied foreign relations during its time as communist. they were allied with the ussr, but in the late 50's albanian dictator enver hoxha pretty much decided that khrushchev wasn't a real communist and just a revisionist, so they split with the ussr. albania then allied with china, but hoxha ended up thinking china was too accepting to the west and split with them too, pretty much leaving albania all alone until they got rid of communism in the 90's.
i love this guy
There's actually a party started recently to separate the north and south of England. NEIP (Northern England Independence Party) if anyone's interested. It's come around because the British politics is so South centric and I think it's a great idea
I am from the south of England and i do think the north and the Midlands sucks but England is stronger United both halves need eachother im sorry your area sucks like a 3rd world Welsh town
@@niensaddestofthesad8151 England, in my opinion, is stronger when the entire country is looked after, as oppose to just London, Kent and Essex being looked after, because the politicians live there. Not that I can hold them entirely responsible, I'm sure they see the problems further South more because they're based their, as I'm sure I do in the North, but if the North and South both raise their own money and attend to their own problems, I feel it works out better and fairer for all parties really
@@lewisblackwiththenicehair Places are better when the people look after themselves and don't look to politicians. The North didn't move out of raw materials because London softened the blow, it needs businesses to take advantage of the lower wages and for government not to get in the way.
@@jwadaow I believe they're looking to put a 0.5% increase on large corporations while reducing it for small and medium businesses
I clicked this video not even realizing this was your second channel. I was like: why no minecra- oooooooooh
Some part of me thinks that ibx is just doing this on his own and that someone else is secretly recording these and uploading them to this channel.
You implied California is it's own country! LMAO
Berkeley, California would be an independent country too FYI
California would annex Baja California if it could. Mexicans would hate that.
@@paulhartson1 yeah ever heard of the border war?
Australia is a Continent. Oceania is a geographic region. Australia is a continent.
you discuss a new country like your reading the changelog for a new Minecraft update.
19:10 south america homogenous? Looooool even the Brazilian states are all too different one from another, imagine all the other countries. It's not because we speak mostly the 2 same languages (and a bit of French, a bit of Dutch, a bit of English) and we were colonized by the same people that we are homogenous.
i don't think i put the right timestamp here because CZcams changed its app and it's all weird but anyway
Its Homogenous compared to Africa or Eurasia
In comparison to other continents (mainly Asia and Africa), the Americas are significantly more homogeneous. That doesn’t mean there are no regionally distinct ethnicities, but these differences are nowhere near as pronounced as those in places like Asia and Africa.
epic win thank u andrew
A successful CSA might indeed have been interesting, but the USA and CSA would have been inherently adversarial, and likely would have been on opposite sides in the world wars, which likely would have led to a different outcome. Probably not worth it, even if interesting.
As a Canadian who watches and reads both French and English media and has no dog in the race, I can safely say that the British obsession with slagging France and seeing it as a rival isn't really mutual and hasn't been aside from the Anglo-Norman period and parts of the colonial era. British media (including CZcamsrs) constantly slag the French while French media ignores the UK for the most part. It's glaringly one-sided and the only ones who seem to think this rivalry exists are Brits. The whole thing is so weird when viewing both sides. The French distrust the British (the perfidious Albion trope) but they spent long centuries focused on German-speaking powers (Austria, Prussia and especially the unified Germany). Britain was a threat to colonial possessions but it alone hasn't been a threat to mainland France since the 14th century. The Germans have been viewed as France's real concern for centuries.
Today, you'll hear French political types and media bemoan Anglo-Saxon influence on culture and the world stage and such but they really mean the broader English speaking world and especially the United States. It's Hollywood and Washington, not charming little Brit shows or a sudden wave of tea-drinking, that they're talking about. Despite that, their core foreign policy for over 150 years has been obsessed with containing Germany, these days by keeping them in a strong alliance. The Germans are by far more important to them.
The French aren't terribly focused on the UK and the stereotype of the Brits is mostly of boring, tradition-bound, stuffy yet insufferably contrarian people with awful cooking. In short, the French think the Brits are dull. I have never heard a French comedian ever bother to make a joke about the UK outside of Brexit (the Belgians, sure, Italians and plenty of others but never Brits) but British TV, film and even CZcams rarely resists a jab at the French (even the Germans get less grief).
It's a bit like how Canadian comment on the US a lot but Americans just think Canada's kind of dull.
As a Belgian I can confirm that both sides are right, the brittish people as well as the french are arrogant :)
I'm not arrogant :(
La france iz ze land of ze hairy baguette and the UK is land of the stuck-up tea drinkers
Maybe you should learn how to spell ‘British’ before you affirm that entire nations arrogant.
@@Aarontlondon they're talking about people from Brittainy, what the fock you mean.
Velkayne of Lorvaesch Nojaeiro People from Brittany aren’t called ‘British’ or ‘Brittish’ you fucktard. Get your facts straight before getting involved in shit you don’t know
i actually met the us ambassador to the un and the way she talked about her work sounded like she was the leader of a country
To be fair, lingua franca is an Italian word for the language of the Franks (overlapping but not equal to France), and modern English also borrows heavily from Latin (Franks' language vs lingua Franca doesn't sound entirey alien).
Fun fact : there are some concepts of uniting india more than it is now, and some more about dividing it into further pieces.
"Akhand Bharat" is a concept of combining all the countries that were the same country in ancient world, like, india, pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, srilanka, Myanmar, Bhutan etc.
And there are Independence movements to make tamilnadu a seperate country, Kerala a seperate socialist country, making a seperate country for entire south india called "Dravida Nadu" Punjab and surrounding states want to make a seperate country called "Khalistan" for Sikhs, Sikkim wants to be seperate, bengal wants to be united as a seperate country combined with Bangladesh, kashmir wants a seperate country etc...
NepL srinlanka Myanmar was never part of india.
Nepal was independent when india was under British rule
@@Hananmarwah with that definition,
India with current borders was never under the control of a single ruler.
Almost all of India was under a single ruler during mourya. Gupta, rashtrakuta, moghals, Shivaji, and British.
Nepal was part of many Indian kingdoms, srilanka was part of Tamil kingdoms, Myanmar was also under control of various indian kings, and even British.
Toycat: there is 190 2,4,6,8 countries
UN’s 193:Am I a joke to you
*Vatican city left the chat
I don't know if you know but that England+France thing almost became a fact several times. The Angevin empire under Richard I controlled most of France and all of England. During the 100 year war England controlled most of France too for a long time.
There were some countries that existed by breaking from Brazil, outside uruguay, the longest lasting lasted 10 years, it was the Farropilha Republic in the deep south. Nowadays some people in south still want independence
Is it just me or does ToyCat look like a british anime protaganist
20:40 The UK passport is in English and French, because *_every_* passport is in English and French, as well as the official language of the country, if it's different.
closest thing to a french-british union is brittany n normandy splitting fron france and joining the uk
This guy views a lot of things as wacky. Takes one to know one, i guess. I met a Liverpudlian once, he was annoyingly serious. Anyway, I'm loving these geography videos!
When everyone has something to give to the EAF.
Burundi: I'm a freeloader.
there was an attempt to make argentina & chile into one country during the 50s there's also a flag about it.
california will never be independent
Don't forget about Republic of Upper Silesia, that almost come to existence in 1918
Romania was not "basically a puppet state" of the soviet union. A split occured mainly due to ceausescu's ideology of national communism (a weird mix of nationalism and communism).
Quoted wikipedia below in case anyone wants to read into it
"After coming under communist control in 1948, Romania was closely aligned with the international policies and goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. But after mid-1952, when Gheorghiu-Dej had gained full control of the party and had become head of state, Romania began a slow disengagement from Kremlin domination, being careful not to incur the suspicions or disapproval of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Soviet troops left Romania in 1958, no Warsaw Pact troops were allowed on Romanian territory after 1962, and Romanian forces essentially quit participating in joint Warsaw Pact field exercises in the late 1960s. At the same time, Ceausescu announced that Romania would no longer put its military forces under the Warsaw Pact's joint command, even during peacetime maneuvers. By that period, the Soviet Union and Romania established SovRoms, which were the new tax-exempt Soviet-Romanian economic corporations that helped the reconstruction of Romania until they were dismantled in 1956: albeit, some lasted until 1975 with the main focus to assure Soviet access to resources like Uranium.
In 1976 Ceausescu received Leonid Brezhnev in Bucharest-the first official visit by a Soviet leader since 1955. The final communique of the meeting reflected continuing disagreements between the two countries, as Romania refused to side with the Soviets in their dispute with China. In 1978, after visiting China, Ceausescu attended a Warsaw Pact summit meeting in Moscow, where he rejected a Soviet proposal that member countries increase their military expenditures. On his return to Bucharest, Ceausescu explained the refusal by stating that any increase in military expenditure was contrary to the socialist countries' effort to reduce military tensions in Europe.[13]
Perhaps because of Ceausescu's uncooperative attitude, a 1980 Romanian attempt to secure supplies of energy and raw materials from the Soviet Union and other Comecon countries failed when those countries demanded world market prices and payment in hard currency. Nor would the Soviet Union guarantee that it would increase or even maintain existing levels of oil exports to Romania for the following year.
Dumitru Prunariu and Leonid Popov with Leonid Brezhnev in 1981
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan caused Romania to distance itself further from Brezhnev. When the UN General Assembly voted on a resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Soviet troops, Romania broke with its Warsaw Pact allies and abstained. And one month later, at a meeting of communist states in Sofia, Romania joined the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in refusing to endorse the invasion.[13]
During Yuri Andropov's brief tenure as Soviet leader, relations remained frigid. The wording of the communique following a meeting with Ceausescu in Moscow suggested that Andropov intended to pressure Romania to bring its foreign policy into line with the Warsaw Pact. The Romanian leadership appeared to suspect Andropov of pro-Hungarian sympathies because of his close personal friendship with First Secretary János Kádár of Hungary. Romanian disagreements with the Soviet position on intermediate nuclear forces in Europe also surfaced during the Andropov period. "
Onion Guy shut up
I came from school at the right time :o
Plot twist: you came TO school.
@@artham94 At 1pm or something like that? xd
19:06
Ethiopia:that was not very cash money of you
The Bougainville referendum was non-binding though
"Depends on which countries you're counting and which ones you aren't."
*immediately puts Taiwan on the screen*