Explaining Russian Civilization
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Reading List:
A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia part 1 by David Christian
A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia part 2 by David Christian
Europe a History by Norman Davies
A History of Russia by Orlando Figes
The Rise of the West by William McNeil
Europe's Steppe Frontier 1500-1800 by William McNeil
The Story of the Russian Land by Alexander Dmitrevich Nechvolodov
Atrocities by Matthew White
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
The Dictators by Richard Overy
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
Disunited Nations by Peter Turchin
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
False Economy by Alan Beattie
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
The Reformation by Will Durant
The History of Western Warfare part 2 by JFC Fuller
Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
End Times by Peter Turchin
War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar
Forces of Change by Henry Hobhouse
Poland by Adam Zamoyski
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
The Origins of Ideology by Emmanuel Todd
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Bruh
Wow I didn't expect video Rudyard, it's quite concerning you being productive?!!(Should I worry)
No
Only reason why we have tarkov
Wait Althist how do you know the Masons think the next great civilization will come from Eastern Europe? Aren't they a secret organization?
I'm also from Nebraska. When Dad and I read about Stalingrad, we kept thinking the land and climate sounded like home
when i passed this region on a train i kept thinking this looks just like america and now i see why
I never realized we were so similar. now i wanna go visit.
What part of nebraska?
@@maniac50ae14 north of Omaha by Fremont
Nebraska is a wonderful state with so many beautiful landscapes and wonderful people. It is definitely a place worth visiting.
The civilization of the single most wasted potential of a country ever.
what else do you expext from an inferior race?
Agreed
Everyone knows you don't go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line, and you don't get into a land war in Asia. Ps Joe Biden is a f*ckin idiot.
Joint most wasted nation along with China
unfortunately
A couple of incorrect statements I'd like to point out here:
1) The sentence about Slavs being economically isolated needs qualifying: the group you're relating to there are the so-called Eastern Slavs. They're the group that's largely definded by the proximity of the Eastern Hordelands, resulting in a very war-like, isolationist and relatively non-mercantile community. Western Slavs are usually defined by their relationship with the central european, Germanic neighbors and were more trade-oriented, maintaining historically significant trade routes such as the Amber Road or the Via Regia.
2) The word "slave" is actually based *on* the descriptor that the Slavic people used to identify themselves: "Slowian" comes from "Slowo" - translating literally to "word", as well as "slawa" meaning glory. Esentially, the Slavic tribes called themselves "Those who speak words" or "The glorious ones/ones being praised". It was later corrupted into the greek "sklavenoi" and latin "sclavus", later associated with slavery due to the south-western tribes being a major source of slave labour, both as capturees and (more often) participants in the slave trade.
Yes, most of the people fall in this Folk-etymological explanation, when actually Slav- means "word, speech". This is reinforced by the application of "dumb" to Germans (Nemecky) speaking people.
@@pierocavolino1057 "Mute" rather than dumb, but the point stands.
@@GFortz dumb sometimes means mute, not just low in intellegence
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Do more civilization videos. They're goated. Do Japanese, Jewish, Tibetan, Iranian
Wasn't he working on a Jewish civilization video?
@@duncanharrell5009 I hope so.
Ethiopian would be interesting too.
@@Mbrace818true, to me is one of the most confusing civ
@@Mbrace818 Yes absolutely.
"Let's talk about cultural influences that shaped historical russian lands"
"Oh you mean the norse legal code, byzantine traditions, dutch innovations and french court-"
"Mongols. I will make 12 more videos on this subject."
I still don't get why so few people care about its Byzantine traditions, the Tsars literally proclaimed Russia the 3rd Rome by virtue of sharing the Greek orthodox church with them
@@alexer52Orthodoxy is Russia. It is essential to what makes Russia Russian and not something else. The country may try to reject this, but that doesn’t make it not so.
@@wolliveryoutube exactly, that's what I'm saying. I still don't get why so many people overemphasize the place of the Mongols in Russian history and overlook this
Russia not only has so much natural wealth, it has produced some of the most talented minds in history. It is hard not to lament what it could've been under a decent government.
When you say this you think of countries perhaps like Germany or Netherlands, but Russia is different. It is too big to be a minor partner in the western project and Ukraine war has put an end to any such ideas. Russia's current standing has nothing to do with the government type but rather the power distribution between civilizations (and empires).
After the dissolution of the soviet union, contemporary Russia (former world power) has lost almost all of its soviet manufacturing capabilities and was assigned a resource extractor role in the global distribution of labor, akin to the african dictator states. The oligarch class who took control of the extracting industries has sold their resources to the western states and/or China and moved all profits to the imperial core (mostly London and Switzerland). This was quite profitable for the western world, but it was not satisfied because Russia has not overgone its political transformation to 'demoracrcy', which would destroy Russia's great power aspirations for good. The idea was to capture control over Russia and to chop it down into smaller pieces until its great power status would be completely lost (Chechen wars as a clue). When the first plan did not work, they started focusing on the color revolutions schemes which had occured in all post-soviet countries in the periphery of Russia, even in Russia itself in 2011.
It's a long topic and it can be debated whether Russia has chosen correct strategy and whether their current decoupling would lead to a better future ... or not. But in order to have this discussion, both parties need to be open minded and not to spew ignorant nonsense like "government bad, corruption bad". Real life is 1000000 times more complicated than that.
That's the part I can't get over. The music, literature, science....
how so? all famous "russians" were foreigners
If "decent government" means Pro-Western, liberal then I think most Russians have pretty strong views on that topic.
And they left if they could. It is a cruel, sick, evil culture, where casual violence is laughed at. Picture blood, pain and laughter by tormentors, egged on by onlookers.
What a treat, 2 uploads in such a short time! Feels like Christmas
Depends on how you look at it. One is a look into a culture and history. The other is an exemption on why dudes can't score.
It looks like an educational informative treat!
Makes you wonder why he gets so desperate about the upload order.
@@onionfarmer3044LMFAO
I get it now.... he tells me all the reasons I'm single and mad (society) and drops a banger on the history of Russian culture. Priceless 😂😂
"There is more Russian money outside Russia than inside it."
Somewhere in Douglas Smith's "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy," he states that Russian aristocrats were very patriotic during the First World War, keeping and even repatriating their funds back to Russia from abroad.
Which hurt them big time after the war, when the Bolsheviks easily confiscated all that wealth that had been so helpfully brought back to the country.
So now when I hear about Russian oligarchs keeping their fortunes abroad, it makes a lot more sense. Lesson learned, I guess.
Still not patriotic though and should be discouraged.
@@Katsura-San124 Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I love oversimplified history.😂
lol in your sad fascist world everything is Russia's fault no matter what. In reality you simply stole Russian funds through "Russian" oligarchs that you installed in 1953-1991.
Russians never learn ANY lessons. That's why they're still Russians.
6:50 The "taiga" is neither "arctic", nor "uninhabitable". You're mixing up the Taiga with the perfmafrost "tundra" region, rookie mistake.
He's clearly aware of the tundra since he put it on the map.
@@spoonerreligionandpolitics apparently not since in one of his next maps he puts "Siberia" above the "Steppe" and labels all of Siberia "uninhabitable" in brackets.
@@4grammatonit may be habitable, but it’s inhospitable for agriculture. So yes, basically uninhabitable.
@@TaylorWilmes Interesting, you learn something new every day. I didn't know as a Finn that even though basically our entire country is made up of taiga and is sub-arctic that we haven't had agriculture here for thousands of years.
@@AttilaKattila Don't worry about it. That ignorance is why they constantly attempt to invade Russia and help fertilize our black soil belt.
Slave developed from slav, we call ourselves Slované (and variationas) it means something like "Word people" since we could understand each other and why Germans are called Němci by all slavs, literally "mutes"
That's basically every single human group ever. The insiders are "humans", the aliens are "barbarians". And it's usually related to language; the outsiders don't "talk", they "bark". Like dogs. Gaijins, gentiles, barbarians.
Slave in Swedish is just slav no difference in pronunciation or spelling. because that is what they were for the longest time.
and the word Russia comes from the word Ryssland translated means ruffly the people that attack without thinking it thru
@@antonsamuelsson1317Russia comes from the word Rus', which in turn is derived from the Norse word for rower or rowman, dumbass. It's cognate with Roslagen, which is the area where the Rus' Varangians intially came from.
It stuck to Germans but niemcy started as umbrella term for non-slavs
@@antonsamuelsson1317 I thought that "Rus" was the Old Norse word for "the men who row."
I think it’s a misnomer to describe Siberia as undeveloped, sure in comparison to more temperate Europe, but in comparison to Canada, Siberia is arguably more developed, ignoring the differences in living standards. They both have roughly 40 million people. Furthermore Siberia is crucial to Russian history in the fact that Siberian furs financed Russia’s imperial rise. Many people make the argument that without Ukraine there is no Russian Empire, however it is really Siberia that fuels Russia’s strength. Without the natural resources of Siberia Russia would’ve never had the finances to conquer Ukraine from the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth in the first place.
I will concede that Russia’s far east/pacific coast is hugely underdeveloped and can easily support a larger population, but the rest of Siberia is fairly well populated, considering how far north it is.
Novosibirsk (55°03′N): 1,635,338
Yekaterinburg (56°50′08″N): 1,539,371
Krasnoyarsk (56°00′32″N): 1 196 913
Chelyabinsk (55°09′17″N): 1,182,517
Omsk (54°59′N): 1,110,836
Tyumen (57°09′N): 855,618
…
Surgut (61°15′N): 396,443
Yakutsk (62°01′48″N): 361,154
…
Norilsk (69°20′N): 174,453
In comparison the northern most major city in North America, Edmonton, is only at 53°32′04″N at 1,010,899 people. If you consider Anchorage a major city, it’s at 61°13′00″N but with only 287,145 people.
I do think he means the southern, fertile bits of siberia. especially far eastern siberia. afterall its something he like to highlight when ever he covers russia.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 where do you think those 1 million plus cities I just listed are located? In the southern fertile regions. Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia. That being said, I did mention that I concede that the Russian far east/pacific coast is very underdeveloped/underpopulated. Vladivostok with a population of only 597,237 should have a population that is easily twice as much for being the major pacific port.
From a lecture by Russian-born professor: they expanded into siberia (colonising and later forcefully russifying local people) because they killed all local animals and there were no more animals for fur
@@wayhome5 yes, Russia colonized Siberia in a similar manner to the way the French and British colonized Canada, and in the same time period. Quebec was first settled in 1535 and then founded in 1608. Tobolsk was founded in 1587.
Haters will say this is just a summary of Putin's interview with Tucker
That’s why greatest enemy of politicians are historians
The interview was just a propaganda piece with partial takes on the Russian perspective WHICH ULTIMATELY GIVES NO RIGHT FOR THEIR RECENT ACTIONS. The Putin regime has to lose, simple as.
Except he argues why Kievian Rus should win over the Muscovites.
@@EarthForces Ukraine had been ethnically cleansing Russians in the Donbas for years. To say there is no reason is NPC-level ignorance.
@tterp4228 nice propaganda talking point we got there. It's not like the fatality counts were recorded to like 25-27 deaths per year on that 8 year period. Holodomor on the other hand is a myth while the population count of having at least 3 million less people after it, checked out. Dear vatnik. 🤡
I believe it is also important to add the Napoleonic Era, because it is rather important for most modern states:
1) Prof. Lieven writes that Russia had the best horse industry and logistics at that time.
2) It is also the time, were Russian warfare started to deviate from Western Europe's, by focusing more on attrition (see Clausewitz).
3) Lieven also explains why the Czar's power was only absolute on paper: because if the Czar thought he can do whatever, like Paul I., he got a knife in his back. The Czar needed the aristocrats for the bureaucracy, military and courts. If the Czar ruined his relationship with the aristocrats, they would not implement his orders, collect taxes, recruit peasants etc. And often one aristocrat had multiple tasks.
4) The reason why peasants were in the army for live was that these people were given to the army, because they were a mouth too much too feed. So even after they served their time and returned home, they would not be very welcomed. So most stayed in the army.
5) Regarding the Russian nobility speaking French: Russia's first university was founded in the 18th century, but by then you already needed higher education as officer. So Russia imported Western professors who ofc spoke French, not Russian. Additionally the Czar had to promote non-Russians into higher positions to keep the loyalty of certain population groups. For example the army had 7% Baltic Germans, who kept the Baltics under control. Those non-Russians also spoke French, but even though the Russian nobility, including all the non-ethnic Russians, did not speak Russian, most were loyal to Russia and the Czar nonetheless.
"Slavs didn't do much trade in antiquity"
completely omits the Amber Road
Wasn’t more of a german thing?
@Leo-ok3uj it was only a German thing in the German lands to to the south
It was baltic-germanic trading network, slavs only occasionally were a miniscule part of it
Baltic-bizantia trade route, actually. I dont know how you history books call it, but it was economical incentive for the fist russian cities to grow.
@@Leo-ok3uj
Depends on the period of antiquity. The earliest periods certainly went through Germania, but there was an increasing push to use the river networks of Russia, especially as the land fell into the hands of more cohesive authorities like the Goths.
You know the feeling when you know more than the average person on a specific topic and that said person gets half of the stuff completely wrong, and that makes you question everything they've been saying on other topic you're less informed of, well this is the video lol.
Agreed, my thoughts exactly.
Yeah. 13:40 in, keeps conflating Slav with Russian and Russian with the Medieval Rus.
I could spend a good 13+ minutes doing a bullet point type outline of all that's ass backwards and/ or modern Soviet-Russian Histriography( Moscow approved mythical Ethno-Genesis/ Propaganda) but doing so would waste another full 30+ minutes of life.
Whatifalthist is more a big picture guy. Ask him to describe a forest, and he can tell you which way it grows. Ask him to describe the trees, and many things he says will contradict what you have read in books.
Then again, history is a debatable topic; written by the victors, and interpreted by the ivory tower who are funded by the powers that be. And that is true in academia in general.
For example, in the last ten or so years, due to changes in who funds them, scientists are now saying biological sex does not exist. Even though scientists knew ten years ago that a body that ever produced seed is unambiguously male and a body that ever produced eggs is unambiguous female. That is all down the drain because that offends people.
Because this guy is usually just basing all of his views on vibes and massive generalizations. He doesn’t actually know what he is talking about
Yeah
The word "slave" is actually based on the descriptor that the Slavic people used to identify themselves: "Slowian" comes from "Slowo" - translating literally to "word", as well as "slawa" meaning glory. Esentially, the Slavic tribes called themselves "Those who speak words" or "The glorious ones/ones being praised". It was later corrupted into the greek "sklavenoi" and latin "sclavus", later associated with slavery due to the south-western tribes being a major source of slave labour, both as capturees and (more often) participants in the slave trade.
Western absolutism, French and Spanish monarchies, and Hitler and Franco dictatorships are laughing together at your argument about “authoritarism and dictatorship is only in Russia, we are very democratic in the west bla-bla”. Dude, history and mentality is not your subject))
Not the first time he has made such outrageous claims.
He reads random popbooks and makes assumption. I mostly follow him because of the discourse and topics. He's unable to stick to one subject and research it deeply.
Yeah, those were embarrassing claims, don't like to think he's for real with them as he's usually so penetrating on social issues.
the point should be that in western europe dictatorships are either episodes or they interleave with other systems while in Russia from the start till today till the the forseeable future there are no episodes of non-dictatorships taking place, and here it is unique
Freedom won over slavery in US so much it was abolished 4 years LATER then serfdom was abolished in Russia. Also you have missed near 300 years where russian emperors were russo-germans. Peter the Third who did the most for serfdom was german
In the United States slaves were only a fraction of population which were ethnically African and overwhelmingly lived in the South. In Russia it was the other way around the majority of population of Slavic peasant serfs were controlled by a small class of nobility of many different ethnic origins (Russians, Poles, Germans, Tatars etc.)
@@mastersafari5349 serfs were 40℅ at the moment of cancellation of serfdom which it substantial but not a majority
@@zagadkazakafresko5409 And yet the US never had 40% of it population as serf or slaves. Certainly not as late as the 19th century. Interesting. Must mean Russia was far more progressive.
@@mastersafari5349the “fraction” in question was 1/7th (4.5 million out of 31.5 million), and 1/9th of the slaves actually lived in the north, where slavery was still legal until December 6, 1865, more than six months after the war’s end (ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment).
@@RealLifeIronManfunny you were still segregated until the 60s. So much freedom in yank land lol
28:07 Rudyard: "The great difference is that freedom eventually won out in America."
I think the jury's still out on that one chief.
We're just in the next round.
There is no such thing as freedom, there is only the length of the leash the central authority gives to the individual.
For a brief period, I'd say.
I mean yeah, but if you want to maintain an empire and country as big as the US you'd need some form of authoritarianism to be involved. Every massive country needs this authoritarianism in some form to exist, but the main concern of everybody is what it is used for exactly.
@@zmajooovGreat Quote
You should do an “Understanding Zoroastrian Civilization”
I.e. what was Ancient Persia (550 BC - 651 AD) like as a civilization.
It is a nice idea
Honestly seems like something he'd go for, I know I would.
Extremely difficult to research I think
That would do very poorly tbh. Videos about past civilizations aren't what draw views.
No one would care except for some second-third generation iranian refugees from the iranian revolution who now larp over worshipping fire (Zoroastrians) instead of Allah and try their hardest to connect Iran and Europe because they wish they were white (even though they are brown, on par with indian).
Please do an “Explaining Mormon Culture” video. Considering how much religion influences culture, I think such a video would be very interesting.
Knowing betters video about that is very interesting.
That would be an interesting one, lol.
Magic underwear
I can explain it. Some christian guy got mad he couldn't have multiple wives because of his religion and cultural attitudes, so he invented a brand new version of Christianity so he could bang multiple women.
@@darksu6947 almost makes me want to become one myself
Egypt came up on a poll a while back but it got beat out by something pretty nutty. I’d love to hear your run down on it, considering the civilization is so old and shrouded in an aura of mystery
Fall of Civilizations did an excellent one on the collapse of Ancient Egypt. However, modern Egypt since 12-13th century is basically just another Arab state right? Pretty boring actually?
Almost thought this was a history 102 channel video lol. Appreciate the quick uploads
"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
Bro is telking the 501st journal 🗿
"It's a good thing we were wearing helmets because none of us could bare to look her in the eye."
Imagine if WIAH did a video titled "Explaining civilization during the Clone Wars"
@@retromountains
Explainig Courosantian
Explaining Corintian
Explaining Hutt
Explaining Sith
@@SolarDragon007 and she was a good friend
My father was a cartographer at Defense Mapping Agency. I used to be fascinated by the maps he brought home, especially the topographic maps. I think your maps are well done!
Hello, St. Louis.
hey bro, it was Koneczny (Konechnee)
Yea he also wrote that the best civilization is Latin (Western) and Poland is the highest form of it lol :D
But many people on polish right like to refer to his theories.
Based Konieczny
Everybody likes to think of themselves as the center of the world. Everybody with ambition, at least
And The current situation proves Koneczny right. Not with Poland being the highest form of the Latin civilization, but with Latin being the best civilization and Russia being Turanic.
a'sabia means "anger" in arabic
calling russia "too angry to die" is so hillarious to me and i got no clue why, but i love it
“Most of America doesn’t have an interconnected river system.”
Wutt
The Mississippi River and its connected tributaries are indeed massive but limited to the eastern side of the US.
@@RealLifeIronMan First of all, that alone makes the US far, far more interconnected by waterways than Russia.
Second, that is only the beginning.
Zeihan shakes his head. “You have destroyed Torah.”
One day he explains why young men are single and angry, the next day he drops a BANGER on the history of Russian civilization. It's society's fault I'm single. I'm not a nerd 😂
What do you mean?
@@belroise they are insinuating that his video about the 'incel revolution' is personal cope about being a nerd resulting in being single. MyronT3 is infact the one coping, ignoring the massive undeniable trends.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I see... The most sad of this it's that I saw the other video and WhatIfAltHistory was complaining about the lack of empathy and the use of certain word to attack everyone who talks about male problems
Be a nerd doesn’t disqualify you to marry in a promarriage society.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 HAHA bro. i have a gf. it was a joke
You should debate Monsieur Z on who would win a second Civil War
Edit: American Civil War
Most likely a Nationalistic coalition of states.
National guard is right-wing.
That's so funny I barley watched one of his videos.
They should talk but it shouldn't be a debate. Just a good discussion.
@@crusader2112 ^^This^^
Yeah they should have a debate about an upcoming civil war.
I think there are few point that should be made in regards on your stance with Russia.
1. "Russia will be done in 5/10/15/50/insert-your-number-here years" is somewhere in the same cohort with: "Sanction will kill Russian economy. Any second now!". Broad, over-generalized, overdone. Its far from the most likely outcome for the very reason you've well-described in this video. Sheer tenacity of Russian mindset that basically goes: "Screw it! We'll pull through odds be damned!" is enough reason to doubt purely catastrophic outcome. Rallying behind flag and going on in spite of pressure is what Russians are good at. And current international climate all but ensures the pressure won't recede.
2. As you've pointed out, Russia currently exists in kind of idea vacuum. There are some nascent ideas floating around, sanity of which is varying, as well as traces of both Orthodoxy and Communism (the latter is diminishing though). And Russia is under pressure from inside and outside. This means two things:
a) the rallying behind the flag becomes an idea enough due to pressure alone;
b) it fastens the process of ideological development. We are yet to see its fruits, since its still developing, but some things can be seen emerging even now.
And now to a part most will find surprising. Putin's clique in power is probably the best possible outcome we ALL can hope for. Which is ironic from Ukrainian, but I'll explain. The ideological vacuum in Russia will most likely be filled with some Christian-leaning right-wing ideology, radicality of which is yet to be defined. Outside pressure from the war and sanctions as well as inside pressure from migrant crisis pushes Russia right. Rallying behind the flag is intuitively easier when the flag is shared between at least likeminded individuals, if not outright members of the same nationality. Hence the almost inevitable hostility towards outsiders. There lies a real possibility of outright right-wing Russia, and none of us will want it, trust me. It may not be overtly xenophobic, but it will no doubt be imperial to the max - and very aggressive.
3. One of the reasons the abovementioned scenario is possible is general disenchantment most Russians feel towards the West. Pro-Western people are now a dying breed there - and largely not because of state censorship, but because less and less people see the point in following the West. Get woke get broke? In more ways than you'd think. Current western ideas are no-sellers abroad. Even a complete fool could point out sheer idiocy of what people in the West engage in nowadays - and the fact the West is literally not breeding anymore. More and more people see the West not as kind of promised land, but as a land with no future. And who in their right mind would wager their future on following someone who looks like an idiot slowly destroying himself? People laugh at new BRICS members, pointing out how those countries have too little in common and how their economies are meager. Yet many ignore the fact that those countries were the same who followed West for decades - but less so now. And people in Russia are no different. Many may not like Putin, his clique, his actions - but less and less people like the West. For an average Ivan modern West is a bunch of nosey cretins who gone down the crazy alley with the stuff like LGBTQ+, radical ecologism, the way racial topic is handles nowadays, general anti-natalism and the tendency to meddle with everyone everywhere. Not the icon of progress it once was: a kind of fallen hero, a soured greatness, the mighty who grew senile and weak - at best. People are growing hostile to the West - and to its ideas.
Which is good. I am one of those people who no longer see the the West as an idea to follow. More of a warning on what not to do with your society. We need new ideas, so desperately you can't even express it in words. And I really hope anyone would come with something worthy - be it Russia, Latin America, Africa, Iran, Israel. Just anyone with good explanation on what to do with this world except gorge yourself on your own whims and call it a day.
I generally agree with your first point. Although temporally there might be a rapid collapse, but that doesn't mean that Russia will disappear as a country or civilization.
I completely agree with your third point. I am a Pro-Western Russian, but even for me modern Western civilization looks failing. I hope it will recover from this some time in the future, but right now it doesn't look great.
But I have a lot of doubts about your second point. As far as I can tell, Christianity (Orthodox or otherwize) isn't that popular in Russia, and ideological vacuum is filled with lots of different ideas from Communism to Libertarianism and from Nazism to Islamism (and with weird mixes of those ideas). It is very hard to predict any future development, but both a pluralistic parliamentary democracy and a civil war among many different parties seem more likely than a unified Christian empire.
@@user-yy5xs6xj7r People mistake faith and allegiance. Orthodoxy is part of nation's cultural code. Even people who do not count themselves among the faithful may still align themselves with the people and the Church because it still speaks to them. They may not visit churches every Sunday, but still at least have respect for the faith and its tenants. Orthodoxy seats too deep in our cultural code to ignore it. So deep, in fact, we rarely even notice its influence. But do say - how often when you see some outright lunacy in the West, something stirs deep in you? Calls to you in terms and emotions not quite rational or secular? Have words like "blasphemy", "sin", "ungodly" or "immoral" ever crossed your mind when you see something like a girl aged 28 deciding to get euthanasia with full state approval? Or just raw emotions of wrongness or revulsion that would perhaps be more fitting for someone living in times of Crusades who had in-hand experience of religious exaltation? It certainly crossed mine.
As for the different ideas - with things the way they are now, Fascism will win most likely, I think. Not ru-propaganda or soy-people kind - the OG one: "power to the state - power to the people" kind, which had less to do with nationalism and more with sheer authoritarianism. You can see it - it defines everyone pro-current course. Some lean right, some lean left, all lean imperial. And Christianity would be a good fleur for them.
Besides, if the Big Guy goes, who replaces him? Schmele, who unironically went: "finish off the survivors!" in his rhetoric?
There are no noticeable non-imperial figures either among officials, or activists. When the liberals waste their time on stuff like: "lets beat the casseroles at 10 am or something", right and left have actual fighting squads with now years of experience. And if Prigozhin showed us anything, is that little to no one wants the boat rocked. So I won't count on infighting either.
Simply put, the bellicose imperial course suits everyone with balls, organization and manpower to be worth accounting for. Yes, there are other ideas and other people, but sludge hits the fan and they won't have firepower or manpower to do squat.
Too much text to Say You are a far right conservative that admires Putin and Russia because gay people there can be imprisoned or forced to live a "quiet hidden" life and feminism is not tolerated. You could have just said it..
That part about Russia being expanded by Cossacks escaping the government, then the government moving in, enserfing them and establishing little incentives for development reminded me heavily of Argentina.
The way into Patagonia was paved by Gauchos, many of whom lived semi-nomadic lives. When the government moved in it basically forced the Gauchos into conscription in the military or into underpaid rural labor under rich landowners that divided the newly conquered Patagonia amongst themselves after virtually exterminating the Indians. Despite all its profitability, Patagonia today is terribly underpopulated, with the entire territory having less population than the city of Buenos Aires (2,7 million to 3 million)
"Falling Down the rabbit hole with Rudyard and Friends," I like it
I think there's a few misinterpreted ideas within this video.
1. Vladimir Putins justification for invading Ukraine is not that they're the same people and belong together. Although this seems to be an idea he holds, he explicitly stated that the reason he invaded was due to security concerns for the state, NATO expansion, and a concern for ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine. Whether or not someone believes him or agrees with the justification, that's what he's clearly stated from the day the war began and all the way up to today. With very little deviation from what I've seen throughout it. His deep and complex explanation of the history of the Rus is him shedding context on the events of today. He sees the very long history of his nation and its relationship to Europe to be relevant as far back as Russias conception. He even very clearly stated in the interview that he is willing to accept an independent Ukraine, should the Ukrainians insist on being a sovereign nation. He would not, however, accept NATO on his largest land border in Europe, especially with what he saw as an increasingly hostile Ukrainian population. Whether he's right or wrong in it is beside the point. But he does not use the shared history as justification for the invasion. He uses NATO expansion, nazism, and strategic defense as his justification.
2. Collectivism/family structure is a bit of an oversimplification of Russian culture in contrast to that of the west. Although relative individualism could be linked to productivity and certain values, it's a bit more complex than that. Even a private company has collectivist ethos of their own, and require them to be successful. Lower classes, especially those in poverty, will very often be relatively unproductive whether they own something or not. I think it takes more incentive and a lot of influence to compell lower class laborers of any sort to do more than the bare minimum 90% of the time. Communism certainly was not a good thing for them, but having more collectivist outlooks on ownership in small communities is something even western peasants had. And collectivist thought is not inherently bad on its own when accompanies by individual responsibility (think of every successful professional military). There's a few things that are even deeper in the Russian mindset and outlook that contribute greatly to stagnation in some areas but massive accomplishments in others. It's difficult to describe without the Russian Language but there's a term in Russian sometimes used to label it "Русский Характер" which roughly translates to "the russian character". If you look it up on CZcams you'll probably find a video of some old Russian dude talking about it. Subtitles should work.
communism was the most successful period in the Russian history
Those river systems freeze over a good portion of the year, and are super dangerous when they melt causing big floods. Not good for trade or even settling on the banks
I mean they are 'good' for trade compared to alot of alternatives, just not as great as river systems found in say western europe. its not like african river systems which are basically useless for practically the whole year and even more dangerous.
Would be interesting to see an understanding of British Civilisation - I notice stuble similarities between Britain (or at least Modern Britain) and Russia as presented here.
Yeah we need a video just on Britain alone
Chess is a lot about patience, predicting behavior, and knowing how and when to sacrifice pieces to trap your opponent and make a decisive move. Aside from simply the geographic origins of the game likely allowing it to reach Russia sooner, if you’re describing Russian culture as one about bearing hardships, sacrifice, and still viewing yourself as a victorious people, seems to me to fit right in
In poland, as the king was elected by vote, prospectibe kings promised the nobility more and more privileges. Weakening the power of the king and worsening the situation of the farmers.
As mostly foreign nobels were elected as kings, most of them weren't interested in the country and let the nobility do as it pleased.
With due respect, you could not legally kill a serf as their master. But if you had ordered to lash your serf and they died on the next day, you wouldn't be responsible for their death. For example the Saltychiha who self handedly killed hundreds of her serfs, ended up imprisoned for life, but as long as "killing wasn't the intent", you wouldn't suffer any legal consequences as a master. Also Poland never in its history conquered Russia. Its true, that a polish nobleman was the Russian emperor, but he was crowned as the Russian emperor, not and in fact was supposed by a large chank of Russian nobility as the empress recognized this polish dude as miraculously survived her deceased son. So Moscow nobility did believe he was Prince Dmitriy. In Russian history this man is called False Dmitriy 1. There was a second pretendor, who also claimed to be prince Dimitri (False Dmitriy 2, but he didn't have as much luck
Lucio Caracciolo, an Italian expert of geopolitics, says that to know a culture one must read its classic authors. Reading Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Gogol etc. gives a good glimpse on how Russians see themselves, life and what they think of the rest of the world.
Are those classic authors recent enough to understand current day Russia?
@@mesa9724 knowing some Russians, I would say that the foundational traits are there. Like reading 1800 American literature still gives you glimpses of American people's mind and attitude today.
You have to skim the details and keep the core, tho.
@@leaningtoweravenger Yes, I can’t see it for Russia because I don’t know much about them but that is certainly true for Americans 👍
Nah, mainly focus on communism, and so he misses the boat.
Good suggestion on authors.
We'll, the Ukrainian nation didn't fully form until the end of 19th. In mid 19th centuries when the government decided to find out the ethnical composition of the empire about 20% of people in mosern Ukrainian borders answered that they were "locals" and about 30% when asked about their nationality named a close large city, so they had more attachment to the people of one land, than the people of one nation. In the end of 19th century most claimed they were Ukrainians.
Those commies granted a bunch of Russian lands to UA. Z SMO is undoing that
I thought this must be an old video when it autoplayed. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that you uploaded twice in a week. No pressure of course. Take all the time you need brother.
Slav is not related to "slave". It is derived from the Slavic linguistic root "slov" (pick a vowel for o) which relates to the modern Russian word "slovo" (word). Slav derives from the concept of "people who are intelligible"
Compare to the Russian word for Germans ("nemets") which has the original meaning of "mute", relating to how those people were unintelligible.
It is related to slave. They are a nation of skates to their tyrannical government.
Yes, it is definitely related to "slave" in most Western European languages. It's just that the word "slave" originated from "slav" and "slovo" rather than the other way around.
Thomas Sowell had a great alternative term to Geographic Determinism and that was Geographic Limitations. Geography won't completely define your destiny, but it will present limits and opportunities that a people will will have to deal with and adapt to culturally, but within those confines anything can happen.
Great video! Your perspective on things is really refreshing and changed drastically my tale on the world (which i am very thankfull for). Cheers mate!
“There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed; and whilst the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly placed themselves in the front rank among the nations, and the world learned their existence and their greatness at almost the same time.
All other nations seem to have nearly reached their natural limits, and they have only to maintain their power; but these are still in the act of growth. All the others have stopped, or continue to advance with extreme difficulty; these alone are proceeding with ease and celerity along a path to which no limit can be perceived. The American struggles against the obstacles which nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russian are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter, civilization with all its arms. The conquests of the American are therefore gained with the ploughshare; those of the Russian by the sword. The Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centres all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
That didn't age well...
Now this plot has a lot of holes in it, akin to swiss cheese. Nice fantasy though.
It was published in 1835. It's really good. You should read it. I think, yes, it reads differently today now that the US is in steep decline, but during the 1950s for example, it would have been a shock to come across that.
But the Russian half the the text certainly jives well with the video. He's read it I'm sure.
You know, it does starts to make more sense after a while. USA has a different approach, always at a war (military intervention they call it), trying to topple democratically elected goverments, does that make them a better civilization?
"Slavs from word Slave" - man, are you serious? Not to mention that in that time there was no word "slave" among neither swedish, nor slav population, from which we can trace direct correlation, but more over, Romans the one who calls barbarians on the east of germany and nort of daccia "Sklavs" or "Sklavens", by the name of they'r tribe.
Whatifalthist please make a video on the future of space travel.
Heck yeah I want him to study how civilizations will handle space colonies and what new civilizations will rise.
That'd be highly, highly speculative.
It will be most likely the founding of united states part 2 space boogaloo. But with the potential of earth getting destroyed. 😂😂😂
First we colonise the moon, then we start extracting resources from asteroids and refining them on the moon or in space, then we build a Dyson swarm, we use the energy from it to colonise Mars and Venus. Then after that perhaps we colonise the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Then once that’s done we become an interstellar civilisation and expand outwards towards other star systems.
In short, there is no future. The vast distances are physically insurmountable. That's why every sci-fi requires literal magic as it's basis. Whether that be Star Trekkian warp drives which just outright ignore physics, or completely different planes, like 40k using hell itself as a highway.
Even if we could overcome the vast distances with some sort of warp technology, what would be the point? There's so little out there that is usable. The myriad of things that had to happen in perfect unison to make the earth happen, would reach odds in the 1 in a billion range or more. The idea, that a perfectly sized planet (thus have the correct gravity) would be a perfect distance from it's sun (so that temperatures would be livable) and have the perfect mix of gasses in it's atmosphere (for heat retention, radioactive protection, and breathability) alone are so astronomically rare, if we looked hard, maybe, just maybe, we could find one planet that wouldnt just immediately kill us in the entire galaxy. Finding one single sign of "earthlike" just isnt going to cut it, if it's gravity is 10 times that of earth, or it's temperatures reach near boiling during the day, or -100c during the nights, or it's atmosphere is 80% ammonia... then we can do nothing with it.
And dont even try to think we could build atmospheric domes or space ships/stations to support a population for any length of time. We cant even build bridges to last more than a couple decades let alone intricate electronics and machinery that could survive a year or two without a catastrophic failure. I mean have you even seen how temperamental a modern automobile is? ...and we've "mastered" those. It would take centuries of the harshest eugenics plan to breed out enough human falibility to find a work force capable enough to build and maintain any sort of colony ship that would leave the earth completely bereft of any capable people which would immediately descend into chaos and starvation when those "perfect" workers flew away.
This is all why modern NASA is just used as a pet project to keep a few women employed doing ridiculous busy work.
I liked one idea which you mentioned that reform for autocracies are the worst things you could do. I kind of see it in perspective now. The 90s were very terrible time, we didnt know neither how capitalism works nor democracy for that matter. And that is the tragedy of it all because people have an opposite reaction now to these forces. I maybe could argue against such an idea but it really fits here at least
hey did ur most recent vid just get striked?
What happened to the incel revolution video? Glad I watched it twice before it disappeared.
Agreed for instance upper and lower Egypt were totally different and had different Gods.
21:56 You finally cited Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson), one of my favorite books besides Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) and Clash of Civilizations (Samuel P. Huntington). You already cited the latter two books in previous vdeos.
I am so glad you will return to making civilization videos because this genre, along with your alternate history videos, are my favorite Whatifalthist videos. Here is my wishlist for the remaining civilizations:
Mesoamerican Civilization
Andean Civilization (I am a Peruvian-American. This video should not stop with the Spanish conquest because Andean cultures are very much alive and well. Quechua is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas, with 7 million speakers (more than Danish or Slovak speakers). It should also cover the emperience of Quechua and Aymara peoples under the Spanish empire and Hispanic republics, and rise of indigenism/Andean socialist with Evo Morales and Pedro Castillo.)
Sahelian Civilization (Please make a separate Sahel video instead of lumping it in with the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahel had a much longer history of state-formation compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. It has also been an interconnected cultural sphere even before Islam)
Sub-Saharan African Civilization (Emphasize the linguistic and genetic diversity, the relative lack of pre-colonial state-formation, Coastal West Africa, African Great Lakes, Kongo, Zulu, European colonial experience, Christianization, explanation of post-colonial common themes of civil wars/coups/democratization, explanation for the region's relative poverty. Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly resembling a new "civilization", European languages of English, French and Portuguese filling the role of Latin in the West, Arabic in the Islamic world, Sanskrit in ancient India, or Chinese in pre-modern East Asia.)
Ethiopian Civilization (Separate due to its 3000 year history, 3rd century AD adoptation of Christianity, its unique Coptic-based Orthodox Church, and its resistance to being colonized).
Jewish Civilization (Start with Biblical Israel, then proceed to the Babylonian Captivity, Cyrus freeing the Jews, the Hasmonean and Herodian Kingdoms, the expulsion from Judea by Romans and subsequent Jewish diaspora, experience of Jews in medieval and early modern Europe, differences between Adhkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, mention of other Jews such as Beta Israel (Ethiopia) and Cochin Jews (south India), experience of Jews in Islamic Civilization, tge Spanish Inquisition, 19th century modernity affects on Jewish life and secularization, Jewish philosophers and scientists, Zionism, the founding of Israel, and post-1948 Israeli history)
Persian Civilization (Not just ancient/Zoroastrian Persian Empires, but also the cultural influence of Persian-speaking Muslim Empires in Central and South Asia).
Tibetan Civilization
Japanese Civilization
11:25 the word slavs might not come from slaves, but from the word slovo, which means word, so thus slavs means people who can speak or understand
Well, slave does come from slav because of how many slavs were enslaved in the middle ages. They were the last to convert to Christianity and the Christians are only allowed to enslave non Christian pagans (ofc they would ignore that rule in the early modern period). And islam forbid enslaving Muslims, it must only be non Muslims. So the word definitely comes from there. But the word slav itself does come from слово, as you said, meaning word, as in the slavic tribes can understand each other as слово is where the words for hear слышать, слышал and слушание and so on are derived from.
Up next please explain Iranic civilization. Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. Including other iranian peoples like Pashtuns, kurds, baloch etc. i think its very unique and distinct from turkic indic and Semitic civilization despite the Islamic nature.
Iranics have had influence from Catalonia in spain all the way to Indonesia. They had an empire in north africa (rustimids), and a once had a decent population in hungary. Theres also a massive amount of persian speakers in Uzbekistan. They have influenced india to a massive extent that most of north Indian peoples like urdu speakers can understand Persian decently if they tried. They have influence iraqi and omani Arabic, and even influenced the north Caucasus, with the Alans and tats. And ofc you can talk ab the Persian empire and other iranics like the scythians and sarmatians and later khwarezmians.
Quite a lot of Iranic cultural dissemination came with the help of Turkic peoples. Indeed, the Khwarazmian Empire was Turkic-Persian, along with the Ghaznavid Empire and the Safavids. But indeed, Iranic peoples have an impressive spread; don't forget the Ossetians of the Caucasus, too.
@@SacClass650agreed 100%. And yeah I mentioned the Alans of the Caucasus who are the Ossetians.
@@SnowLeopard-lt1vf Forgive me, I scanned through and missed it!
@@SacClass650it’s okay lol
The Indo-Iranian civilizations should be analyzed together. Buddhism and Manichaeism for example were spread by these people to almost all of Asia. Central Asia and Afghanistan were interesting places of merger of the Indo-iranian civilization. The Indo-Iranian civilization had a huge impact in history. Lesser known civilizations like the Kushans and Sakas are also interesting.
The Indo-Iranian people also had a huge role in the ethno genesis of the Turkic people. The earliest Turks for example the Xiongnu (Huns) and Gokturks both had heavy Indo-Iranian paternal lineages (haplogroup R1a). This means that the iconic Turkic nomadic pastoralism (which the Mongols alsorelied upon) was spread to Asia by Indo-Iranian people like Sakas. Their genetic contribution is still evident in Turkic peoples like Uighurs and Kyrgyz
Two videos in two days is damn near a record
It goes to show how much quality and effort he puts in
@@yanbarbosa8092 lol, tru tho
Looks like the previous video got taken down or is now private. Hopefully just a copyright issue and not a censorship issue from CZcams.
30:47 - BTW: Moscovia is the political and geographical name of the Russian state in Western sources, used with varying degrees of priority in parallel with the ethnographic name Russia. Initially, it was the Latin name of Moscow (for comparison: Latin Varsovia), later in a number of states of Western and Central Europe it was transferred to a single Russian state, formed around Moscow. Various researchers believe that the use of this name was facilitated by Polish-Lithuanian propaganda, which deliberately preserved the terminology of feudal fragmentation, denying the legitimacy of the struggle of Ivan III and his successors for the reunification of the lands of Rus'. The Latinism Muscovy was not used as a self-name.
Great job as always my friend!
I have some suggestions:
1- Please put the CZcams adds only at the start and end of the videos as they are really big distractions and mess with the continuity of the video. Also they are annoying. I know you have to make money but your videos will be flawless without adds in between.
2- Please also make a video about Iranian/Persian empire. As an Iranian I think we cannot fully understand both western and eastern civilizations without understanding the Persian culture and its vast influence on other cultures through trade,art,war and religion.
Thanks for your great work and helping us better understanding the world around us.
Agree on the 1st point.
Do Ethiopian civilization.
yessir, muh brotha
He said he was going to do it a long time ago I think, though this is not the first time I thought that and couldn't find him saying it in the old videos. Mandela effect is real. But I always imagined he said that in a vid where he introduced Orthodox Civilization and that Ethiopia needs its own vid.
Do one explaining Jewish Civilization pls
We don’t need Rudyard permabanned for saying the wrong words.
Jewish history is already well understood. Outside of former sultanates, at least.
Judaism and its followers began as a branch off of the Caanite peoples. They worshiped the caanite god El (later known as Yahweh). Their sect spread (often through conquest), and Yahwehism became the predominant religion in the Levant. Then Babylonia conquered them. Then Assyria conquered them. Then Rome conquered them. Then they scattered all over Eurasia and northern africa. Then, a branch of messianic Judaism became the state religion of Rome. That is the history.
What is Jewish civilization? Never heard of it.
you can read qoran for that.
Civilization? They have only attached themselves to already exsiting civilizations
For what they achieved, and their exploits in general, the Turkic people are criminally underknown in the West - for example, the Mongol Empire could accurately be called a Mongolic-Turkic Empire given the amount of Turkic peoples crucially involved in it.
Then Jenk Ugar and his nephew Hasan ruined the reputation of Turkey.
I dont think these steppe peoples are underknown at all amongst people in the west who are interested in history. Ofcourse the general population whose knowledge of history ends short of what they were tried to be taught at school knows nothing of the history of any people or nation, they mostly know some fables about the nazies and ww2.
I was surprised to learn that todays Tatars are descendants of the Mongols? I'm an American who learned Turkish while teaching in Istanbul in the '90s. When I visited Ukraine in 2016 I was pleasantly shocked to find I understood Tatar language/dialect. Its basically Turkish with some Slavic loan words and accents, just like Uygur is basically Turkish with some Chinese loan words and accents.
@@juniorjames7076 not really, but close. Also they were basically a core population of a former mongol empire.
Tatars are turkic, they were fighting mongols in the past@@juniorjames7076
Hey WIAH, I'm currently studying for a history degree and love watching your videos, at 25:40 you mention how russia has called itself the third rome, or a continuation of the first roman empire from byzantium, which I have such a surface level knowledge of but did known this before watching the vid. If you made a video on how this came to be i think itd be really cool, i should do some self research on it but its a really interesting concept us westerners dont usually think about.
Look for the youtube channel Apostolic Majesty. They have a series on Byzantium and Russia.
Oh ffs. I was about 3/4 of the way through your Incel Revolution video (JUST got done reading the text wall explaining why clubs/bars are popular, especially for the women that attend) when the video got removed “due to a copyright claim by Sigmund Ehrlich”
I will add, while I’m here, if you edit the video and re-upload it, could you leave out the B-roll of the lesbians kissing? Doesn’t bother me, but I want to show this this to my Boomer parents. They are VERY against such taboo (especially my mom lol) and a simple 4 second clip like that would simply invalidate everything you said in the video.
Love your content man, can’t get enough of it. Really appreciate you speaking up for us young men who are struggling so heavily
i'm on the same boat, was cleaning up the house while suddenly the video cut off... Who the hell is this "Sigmund Ehrich" person anyways
@@TheLemming1337 I'm not suprised it went down so fast. Politicians would prefer to stick their heads in the sand and pretend this shit isn't happening.
The incel video is now missing ! It was my favorite!
Im drinking coffie and watching this, giving creator virtual marks for understanding the subject. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. I am a russian
This is the best of your last 3 imo bro
I was going to workout for the first time but can't miss a new vid
Where did the Incel Revolution video go?
He deleted it, I didnt see it either
Or it got reported into oblivion, that could be probable as well, I hope he addresses it if thats the case
Wayback machine bro, its there
Jewtube.
Goes to show they are afraid, and know the revolution will come.
YT deleted it
Could you please reupload "The Coming Incel Revolution"?
Lovely pictures and maps. BTW, if you look carefully, Donetsk and Lviv first time became part of same state in 1945. Poles were mever in Donetsk and Lviv was in Poland or Austrian Empire. Also Crimea and Kiev came under same government only on 1960s.
I disagree with the Slav-slave etymology more in line with Sklabenoi, and also with the emphasis of Norsemen on the generation of that population too.
Taiga uninhabitable? I disagree. I've been grown and raised in it. It's habitable. Only there's one growing season so you have to store grain instead of using it all at once.
American with Russian/Eastern European heritage here, you did a swell job. I can nitpick and say some things, but I can't dislike. I really appreciate honesty on this topic, and actually comprehension, not simply "understanding". One thing though:
It's Volgograd, not Stalingrad. I got a good laugh out of that. The naming war in the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War is also hilarious, because the naming patterns are contradictory to both sides.
What's with the name war?
Your comment is cringe and doesn’t make any sense.
@@zombopanda Identity markers. Ukraine wants to change names of cities/streets to either pre soviet (example Bakhmut) or new (city of Dnipro), Russia want to return to the Soviet idols.
0:21 this somehow not only perfectly sums up russian history but also how most people probably saw the russian kid in their school.
Did they delete his video about the incel revolution?
As a huge enjoyer of Russian history, there are a few inaccuracies I want to clear up. First, the Russia (as a whole) does not have good soil for farming. The area around Kiev is very rich, but most of Russia has poor soil. One of the popular farming methods involved burning the trees in the vicinity, using a the ashes as a fertilizer, and farming the land for the next 2-3 years while the soil remained nutrient rich. Another issue is the temperature. Russia is incredibly cold, so most grains cant survive. America was able to capitalize on its temperate climate by farming wheat, which is a very productive grain. Meanwhile, Russia was forced to farm Rye, which is the only grain that would grow in Russia’s harsh climate. Rye is far less economical, but it is certainly a very robust and durable option. I haven’t gotten too far into the video, but those are some of the reasons why Russia lagged behind their neighbors in terms of food production.
Did bro just say Kiev is part of Russia?
Then how did Tzarist Russia and later the now Russian Federation become such huge wheat exporters?
@@virn333Yes. Questions?
Dude thinks Rus and Russia are the same thing 🤡
The concept of European development was based on robbery. Because she could afford it. All coastal countries within the reach of European ships were controlled (to varying degrees, of course) by Europeans. As the capabilities of the Europeans grew, they moved deeper into the continents, and in a number of regions they retain influence to this day. In its justification, it must be emphasized that it was an economic necessity. To behave differently would create too many risks. There is also a threat of death in case of unfavorable conditions. There is also a threat from neighbors who will not behave well; they will bring resources with which they will prepare a strong army and capture you. There is also a banal lag in the civilization race, which you will get if you do not export resources from the colonies for your development. Therefore, Russia was constantly losing civilizationally, because we could only obtain additional product from our own economy.
In general, everything is true, but as a Russian patriot living in Russia my whole life, I would just like to add a couple of comments for some more balanced point of view on things, since I am a big fan of ur content.
1) Russia is not a poor country. Even if you look at all the international rankings (for example, GDP per capita by PPP or HDI), Russia is somewhere in 55th place out of 200, while the other top 40 are tiny European countries with a population of a couple millions, or tax-heaven Caribbean islands.
In general, Russia is poorer than all major European countries, as well as the United States and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, but richer than all other countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Russia is also richer than most of the countries that were part of the USSR (Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus), which, accordingly, are culturally closest to us.
Russia is the 3rd country in the world in receiving migrants, not that it is good for us, but it illustrates the standard of living, and more importantly, about the prospects for development in the country.
There are 2 mega cities in Russia, St. Petersburg and Moscow, which compete with London and Shanghai in terms of standards of living, infrastructure, capabilities, etc. There is nothing close to this in neighboring Slavic countries.
2) Communism was the worst thing that happened to our country. But thanks to him, most Russians own their own property now, apartments were simply given away for free back then, respectively, we do not have such a housing crisis as in the West.
In general, thanks to the industrial base left from the USSR, Russia is technologically and productively independent from the rest of the world, we produce everything in the country: from diamonds and oil to refrigerators, software, televisions, tanks, medicines, ice cream, etc.
That's why, when the West announced sanctions in the 22nd year, the Russian economy did not collapse within a couple of months. Like, Russia is a modern country with a developed IT sector, Russia has its own analogues of all the largest American apps, and they are more convenient for the local user (well, since they were created in Russia for Russians lol). There is no such thing even in Europe, where everyone uses American software.
So when you combine all the factors (such as Russia is a very cheap country that produces ALL kinds of products domestically, there are very low taxes here, and no rent to pay), it turns out that the life of an ordinary Russian is not much different from an ordinary British or German.
3) Regarding the lack of an idea and the suicide of the nation that is 100% on point.
That is why I do not udersatnd how people in the West cannot see why we love Putin so much.
He gave the people this goal again, he restored faith, stopped the cultural and economic decay of the nineties, proclaimed himself a defender of Christianity and an opponent of Western "degeneracy", while we Russians were proclaimed as the carriers of real Christian traditional values.This is becoming even more obvious to ordinary Russian people in connection with recent cultural shifts in the West.
4) That is, in general, yes, Russia is a more backward country than the United States or, for example, Japan in some aspects.
That is, we also recognise this wasted potential by studying the history of the late Empire times or the Stalinist USSR, but the 20th century for us is like centrury of humiliation for China, that is, it was an attempt to do at least something when the whole world is against us (WW1, WW2, then Cold War, in all these crises, Russia played a central role), and in this context, we did a good job, I think. This is not an excuse, but rather a rationalization that is relevant among Russian people when we talk about our history.
A real effortpost.
Fascinating perspective. I wish the best for you people.
"the life of an ordinary Russian is not much different from an ordinary British or German", Bro have you ever even been in these countries? The contrast is insane.
1) The Russian Empire even paid off Ukraine’s debts after the Soviet Union fell! Yes, Russia has money
2) Europe is azz backwards and behind America and “the East” in technology. The US is carrying the West
London is a failed society. Dirty and dangerous.
3) I once azzked a Belarusian man why Russia built back better after the Soviet Union while Ukraine got worse. He credits Russia’s recovery to a strong capable leader in Putin. Ukrainian leadership were too eager to hoar the country out at the expense of the people
4) Every country is backwards compared to Japan including the US
@@john_2589 i lived in uk for a year. as i said, russia is less developed than those countries, but tbh for a normal working-class dude its kind of the same. with russian salary u cant go to cyprus for holidays or buy a LV bag, but if u spend money on ordinary things and do what normal people do, it the same. like lvl of infrastructure, how cities look, the goods u can afford, availability of education & healthcare, tech. etc
Where is the young men rebel video uploaded on April 9th?
Its on the wayback machine
How to access? What the heck is a Wayback machine??
@@andylu6150 Manually copy and paste the link, the video is there
@@andylu6150 1. Google "wayback machine"
2. Copy paste the link from his channel
Another book I would recommend for a cultural and anthropological exploration of Russia is "The Icon and The Axe" by James Billington. For those who have read "The Chrysanthemum and The Sword" on Japanese culture, it's a book much in the same vein.
Next Video "How Incels will revive Russian Civilization"
Смерть вагинокапиталистам!!!
Don't leave out weebs and furies from the equation!
Billions must rebuild the Empire
Polish serfdom was actually less tyranical than Russian.
Russians made fun of Polish serfs for "being soft" due to "lack of beatings" and similar stuff.
Polish system allowed for teoretically more tyrannical treatment, but inner-nobility conflict, high level of land splittage in nobility, culture og human independence in nobility and higher urbanization, in practice serfdom in Poland was not far away than historical western european serfdom. That never had actual slavery to fill in the gaps.
The "actual tyranny" was uncommon and happened mostly on property of magnates in eastern Lithuania and western Ukraine. Those were exceptions under conditions that the Polish system wasn't really designed to work in.
"The tyranny of nobility" is by vast margin lies by bolshevik communists that hated Polish culture and cherry-picked most extreme examples that were either punished by royal courts or by pure luck were hidden from them.
I won't sugercoat, the lack of exact protections made invidual cases of extreme harm happen, not to mention constant civil wars between nobles that mostly affected peasants, but on avarage peasant in Kingdom of Poland wasn't mkre opressed than a Polish citizen in currently in Poland under EU.
-The "actual tyranny" was uncommon and happened mostly on property of magnates in eastern Lithuania and western Ukraine.
so the majority of Poland Lithuania by landmass, and certainly the vast majority of eastern slavs. can't call it uncommon when it happens in the majority of territory and the vast majority of the territory the russians had contact with (in respect to time).
@@matthiuskoenig3378 my dude, that vast majority was at best 20% of the land and maybe like 30% of eastern slavs under PLC and I'm giving here A LOT to you.
Like, it did happen in the amount to be meaningfull, but it's still a minority stuff that happened in PLC and mostly by Lithuanian nobility. Polish nobles in Rhutenia also were a part of it, but as I wrote, it was mostly due to Polish laws not being structure to those vast land owenrships.
It's like trying to judge USA purely by the Wild West period and extrapolating it to whole USA, including Eastern Coast.
Don't ignore the religious aspect as well. Russians within Rzech Pospolita kept to orthodoxy and were often oppressed by catolic polish nobles on the basis of religion.
@@kindlingking They didn't, they were actually very small minority by the time of split of Poland, 95% of eastern slavs in Poland were Uniats by that time, which is a mix between catholic and orthodox created specifically to integrate western Rus into Poland. Russian Empire really drove this process all the way back into orthodox/catholic hatred, since that was beneficial at a time to put a claim on that land.
@@likeAG6likeAG6 don't try to be sneaky and present things like everything was great until Russia.
very sneaky. Unfortunately i correct.
For one, Brest Union of 1596 actively trampled over orthodox bishops' demands for autonomy under the unified church. Instead king Sigismund tried to forcibly push orthodox christians into uniatism by limiting their rights, closing their churches and giving away their land to uniats. Which of course lead to more unrest and in many case bloodshed as catolic nobles used the situation to weaken their orthodox opponents and strengthen their own power.
Oh, btw, have you heard about Bohdan Khmelnytsky? One of the reasons for his revolt in 1648 was unfair treatment of orthodox christians, which goes to show the only thing Union was meant for was dissolving orthodox church and establishing catholicism as the dominant religion, not to resolve social issues.
And that's only talking about orthodoxy, things were much worse for protestants as catholic jesuits (you know, "burn heretics!") grew more powerful within Poland-Lithuania.
I just finished your last video, read the comments, went to the homepage and another video to watch. I respect the grind and effort in these and I am interested to see your take on Russki Mir as a Slav myself.
as a russian I say fuck russki mir, it's a phony play.
God bless you and your work sir Whatifalthist 💙respect from Croatia Europe 😇😇😇
People in Russia are also fairly worn out by bloodshed from past revolutions and other related events. Even if it’s the case that majority of Russians were tired of their government, they’d rather not try anything in order to avoid millions more dead.
They don't seem worn out, look to the numbers that volunteered for the latest war/operation. Them being the sick man of Europe doesn't fly well.
@@The_Custos *whoosh*
Who else came here to ask where did the Incel Revolution video go? I was half way through when it got removed.
Hm, many things new to hear here, quite informative.
Rudyard, like the writer Kipling, eh? If you ever find yourself in the south-slavics, there's an equivalent name Ruđer (like the 18th century's famous scientist from Dubrovnik Ruđer Bošković) you can use if the original is hard to spell correctly by the locals, mr. Lynch. Keep up the good work, and a question - would you do a south-slav civilisation video as well, if not already done here?
As always, your civilizational videos are the best, or at least the most enjoyable. Way better than any other history lesson and cuts to the heart of things without the pedantry or (too much) bias.
also are you ever going back to Alternate History or not??
I mean, we've diverged onto the "clown world" timeline. You go back to 2004 and explain 2024 and people wouldn't believe it at all. We're living in one of those moments where history is in flux, where you branch off "alternate historys" from. So the Alt history is "what branch will history follow from here?". It's a pretty interesting time to be alive, living during one of these "crux" points in history, where humanity is at a crossroads.
@@Lusa_Iceheart It's becouse globalist elites failed in their strategy, that's why world seams so "clownish". In 10-15 years everything will be normal
@@Lusa_Iceheart Well said
@@Lusa_Iceheart Yep, I agree
Do the Imperium of Man.
This video is about emerging Imperium of Man lmao
Seconded
Nah bro we all know how that fake dune rip off works
W40k factions:
- Imperium of Mankind - Russia;
- Eldar - European Union;
- Dark Eldar - Great Britain;
- Chaos - USA;
- Orcs - countries of the Arab world;
- Tyranids - China;
- Necrons - Japan;
- Tau Empire - India.
@@Chaldon-hl6yk I would put the Arabs as the Necrons, they have infighting, but not in the barbaric way the orcs have, no civilisation has that (that's why it's called 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹isation).
Hey I’d like to get ahold of you, I’m a college student that double majors in political science and economics and I’d like to start work on a project that establishes that anti-Natalism and in turn falling birthrates is catastrophic to society and then coming up with methods to increase birthrate to mitigate this issue. I’ve seen some of your content and I would really like to have your input. Like this so he can see it.
I’ve done a decent bit of travelling and always been scared of going to places like china and Russia, it’s weird, but now, of all times, I feel more inclined to visit just to see what it’s actually like
Why China? Chinese neighborhoods in the West are low crime
My guy drops two vids so close to one another. One before and after my birthday, lucky me 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
We're eating good this week bros
Wow,i didn't expect that
This was incredibly insightful!
There is little to no collectivism in russia. It is EXTREMELY individualistic right now with anyone but your closest friends and family being outsiders not to be trusted. Don't listen the nonsense russian government is spreading about traditional values and collectivism.
Yeah I got a good laugh out of collectivism claims
As a Russian, that's true - both sadly and thankfully.
you are right about individualism, but I haven't heard any claim from russian government that russian society is collectivistic from. Usually it comes from the west, and this is because majority of people in the west (video's author incldued) know very little about Russia
Would be cool if you talked about the Caucasus
Chechens the Russian Empire’s Special DLC Character Pack. Pure White Muslims
@@LeadLeftLeonthey are white but still behave like blacks
I searched “Thrones of Decay” and this video was the tenth search result
what happened to the last video?