The Khodynka Crush | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- "On the 30th of May, 1896, a lavish public banquet was laid on for the citizens of Moscow, Russia, to celebrate the coronation of their new Emperor, Nicholas the Second..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Background
04:04 - The Khodynka Crush
09:15 - The Aftermath
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► "The Khodynka tragedy: A coronation ruined by a stampede" by Yulia Afanasyenko, published by Russia Beyond, July 2023. Link: www.rbth.com/history/332466-k...
► "Khodynka" by Lev (Leo) Tolstoy. Available via: archive.org/details/Khodynka_...
► "The Memoirs of Alexie Volkov" by Alexei Volkov, translated by E Semenov and R Moshein. Available via: web.archive.org/web/201108091...
► "Diary of Nicholas II, 1917-1918, an annotated translation" by Kent de Price, published by The University of Montana, 1966. Available via: web.archive.org/web/201911081...
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"I survived khodynka and all I got was this stupid cup."
Shut up
All I got was this blood soaked t-shirt
That cup would be very valuable now, if kept intact.
All I got was this stupid t-shirt -- KHODYNKA 96
Gimme that cup! It’s mine!
7:48 "clear the area and remove the bodies so the festivities could continue as planned"
holy shit
Better to do that then try and send home 500k peasants without thier free beer.
Meh, it's Russia after all.
Similar things happened in the 1960s. A Formula One driver would be left burning in his car while the race continued. Because, you know, the show must go on..
@@deeayenn 1955 LeMans racing crash.
That's typical r*ssian thing. They would do the same now.
This is why crowd management is an important topic of study
I avoid crowds. I’m just a home body. That’s my happy place. But I have nieces and nephews that I love to pieces and take them to our local amusement park often. During the Halloween festival last year, for some reason they were only allowing ppl to come in 50 or so at a time and had the gates barred and weren’t telling us anything. So there were ppl literally jostling each other about vying for a better place bc there wasn’t an actual line. It was chaos. It could have gone very badly. My twelve year old niece and I scooted over to the side where a group of ppl were trying to stay out of the way like us, and eventually we were able to spread out our little group so that we were in a tight line. I put my 12 yo niece in front of me and held onto both of her shoulders elbowing anybody who tried to push in between us.
Right. That's why I read Crowd Management For Dummies. Quite illuminating.
I was trampled under the crowd at a rock concert when I was younger which left me with a broken spine and permanent damage to my back. It was truly the most terrifying thing I have every experienced, the way I fell meant my head was between my knees and people were stood on my back. My throat was crushed into me so I couldn’t scream, all I could do was tug at peoples trousers until they pulled me out. It’s been 20 years and I still can’t do big crowds.
I'm sorry you went through that
Oh wow that sounds truly terrifying. I hope you’re managing well today. huggggg…
Yikes! But then judging from ur name, you found a way to move forward and live your interests. My name would've been stuckrelivingthepasteveryday. Im always caught offguard by the strength resolve I come across in yhe YT comment section.
Oh my gosh that's awful! I can't believe you survived, but glad you did✌️
That is absolutely horrific. I want to say something nice but I’m just sat here 😮
As a boy in 1970’s Glasgow, it was a ‘normal’ thing to be carried along in a football crowd crush..feet not touching the ground and arms pinned to one’s side by the pressure. Thrilling at first, but soon very scary indeed. It is so easy to die in such circumstances and, from time to time, many did😞. To this day, crowd control is a huge challenge to event organisers and it is only a matter of time until the next big tragedy.
Worth remembering that almost 200 people died in Seoul just over a year ago from a crush like this. As always, the problem was poor crowd control + police looking for criminals instead of watching for general safety.
@@maxhuibregtse4319Yup.
@@maxhuibregtse4319Poor crowd control can be seen right up to the present day. I avoid crowds for that reason.
I've experienced that at some music events
Wasn’t there a crowd crush in the UK in the 80’s?
I did not like crowds before I found this channel, but now I actively avoid them.
What just happened in Kansas City was the end of crowds for me.
It happened again last year during Halloween in South korea.. people crushed to death
That’s kind of sad that you avoid them. This was over 100 years ago. Today there are many spaces that can handle crowds safely.
@@harrymeepharry The very last comment before you just mentioned the South Korea crushing incident that happened just last year. It is better to only choose events with smaller crowds or stay in the outer edges of the crowd where you can escape easily in case anything serious do happen. The rule of the thumb of safety is wherever you go, you must know the escape route for swift exit in case an emergency do occur. If this channel teaches you anything that is complacency can lead to your demise. Safety rules still getting updated and written in blood even in modern times.
_-My Friends:_ Let's go see a rock concert!
_-Me:_ No thank you! You go ahead
Started this story looking at Nicholas like a fool but:
"What is going to happen to me... to mother, to all of Russia?
I am not prepared to be a czar. I never wanted to become one.
I know nothing about the business of ruling."
That genuinely hurts my heart, and that caliber of unpreparedness is terrifying.
Poor fellow never had a chance. It's heartbreaking.
Nicki2 was a babygirl 🥰
What happened to him and his family genuinely saddens me to my core whenever I remember it.
Glory to the Last Tsar of Russia, and shame on those who killed his beautiful homeland so _brutally_ afterwards....
Catherine the Great shakes her head in disappointment. Greatness is not something you are born into, it is something you strive toward. Nicholas was weak-willed and indecisive.
@@NearlyH3adlessNickI mean he was still an asshole who’s responsible for many deaths. His children, however, and the servants killed with them should not have been part of it.
The numbers killed and injured is staggering, and for free gifts plus rumours of grand prizes.... what a tragedy. Another well done doc Kristian.
Consider this though, probably 75%of the crowd could count on one hand how many times they got something nice for their b-day or Christmas. There excitement was at 10 when they heard they were giving away prizes, and they had to get there soon before they were all gone
@@dansweda712one of the saddest things is that last illustration of the man standing by a coffin and mourners, presumably his family and he's just holding that precious gift cup up and thinking to himself all for THIS?!?
Of course it's probably worth millions now
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large crowds.
Pff, millions? Unlikely. You can buy actual treasures belonging to Romanov royalty for just a couple thosand dollars at auction. The Imperial Romanov Easter Eggs sell for millions, unlikely that a random cup for a peasant would sell for even close to that.
Yeah . . . but a free commemorative cup ? C'mon, we all know we'd do the same. I love commemorative cups.
I kind of figured when the gifts were said to be "bread rolls" that it might not go well. Obviously if those are the gifts intended to excite the populace, then the populace is in a state of poverty. Desperation leads to ugly things.
Can happen for many reasons, not just desperation.
Take the Haj, for example. Crowd management is now their #1 priority.
Just too many people in the same place can "randomly" reach a tipping point where a crush is the end result.
people trample each other for free stuff anywhere anytime
Yeah, there was a HUGE line for edible cups. The free alcohol wasn’t a factor
Yeah but, commemorative cup
well said man…just makes it all the more sad
Usually when I think of crushes they're in part caused by some sort of bottleneck. A building, wall, or fence. This was in a wide open area, it's hard to imagine the size of the crowd to cause so many deaths. Crowd control is an underappreciated safety measure, until something goes wrong.
I get so uneasy in overly large crowds because of these stories. If I can avoid them, I do.
I just... don't like crowds like that at all. fear of trampling isn't even the main reason.
If I'm around a crowd, I try to stay at the edges.
As you should.
Same here!
Is it because of your size?
The more I learn about Tsar Nicholas, the more it becomes clear that his rule was a comedy of errors. As early as his coronation, the Revolution was already inevitable.
It didn’t help that his father didn’t immediately start training him for his eventual rule or that the family legacy had been that the absolute “divine right of kings” mentality when other monarchies had become constitutional. Nicholas was completely out of touch with his people and Alexandra was just as bad. They actually believed that their people loved them *just* *because* they were the tsar and tsarina without ever actually finding out for themselves.
@@ItsJustLisa Yeah not training him was probably one of the single dumbest moves in history. No wonder they would take advice from any rando who sounded confident about it.
As Nicholas himself said he knew nothing about how to rule Russia. On the other hand he thought God had appointed him to rule & so began his reign with dire consequences
@@jetblackjoy yes training him "in the business of ruling," as he put it, was what I meant. I know he had an education. even if none of his predecessors had been trained in how to rule, after generations of experience there should have been *something* to pass along.
@@christinetitus6388 Fate is a fool's game!
The crush was definitely a symbolic omen for things to come of Tsar Nicolas' reign for sure, considering what would later happen.
what happened later? is he the guy who’s family got murdered
@@rileyparsons621yep. Including Anastasia, sorry Disney
@@maryeckel9682 Disney? Anastasia the animated movie/musical was produced by 20th Century Fox. While 20th Century Fox was bought by Disney in 2019 Anastasia however was made in 1997 when the Fox Animation Studios tried to compete with the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
@@Praxics0815 And FOX and therefore Anastasia are now owned by Disney
@@rileyparsons621Yes. Tsar Nicholas the Second, his wife Alexandra, and their five children (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik Revolutionaries in July of 1918.
It's like Mardi Gras when they're throwing out the krewe's new doubloons and cups for that year.
People will maul anybody else on earth for a bit of plastic beads, so i can only imagine the fuss over a king's cup and refreshments.
"Wellllllllllll get these bodies out of here and then we'll serve the pretzels"
Get with the program
Sounds like Russia 2024
You won't see me near a large crowd. It draws the worst of humanity.
the Russian royalty is like cursed or something, bad stuff keeps happening to them till Nicolas and his family were murdered.
It's not easy being the ruler of a big country that spans two continents and has a vast population consisting of many different ethnicities.
Up until him tzars basically alternated between competent evil and failed reform. He was both brutal and incompetent.
His "close family" refused to save him. They could have done.
@@kellygoodfellow1316 You have no idea what you're writing about. He was a better ruler than the Provisional Government or, in particular, the Soviet Union. There was no gulag in Tsarist Russia and if the Romanovs still reigned in a now constitutional monarchy, we would not have Russia as our perpetual enemy, as with the treacherous Putin. The world lost a great deal in October 1917.
@@fritzbasset8645 You're speaking in defense of a time period and ruling class you know nothing about either. Stalinist Russia was a nightmare, Putin's Russia is trying to regain a never-was glory days and reawakening fascism in the process, but Tsarist Russia was a period of abject poverty and practical serfdom for the overwhelming masses while an obscenely wealthy few reaped the benefits. Arguing which government system in the last 150 years of Russia's history is best is an ultimately pointless effort; you can sing the praises or point out the miserable deficiencies of each.
People don't change. These crushes still occur. In the U.S., every Black Friday, a crowd somewhere will go crazy.
All the while the same products they fight, push, and clamor over are available online. Sheep.
You buy sheep online?! My family would rather see the sheep before we buy, get a good look you know.@@saladbreath607
And the random The Who Concert
yeah, call me callous but for real, i find it pretty funny the people got all pissy at Nicholas for attending a ball in the wake of a 'tragedy' they brought on themselves by getting carried away and blinding their own situational awareness and self control. they weren't even really confined, they just became a crazed herd rabid for free stuff. it's like someone going to a concert well known to have mosh pits, wandering stupidly into one and getting beat up, then blaming the band.
Felt this at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting and never attended again
Just a little more context and history, Tsar Nicholas also resembles his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Also Nicholas was raised in England in the palace alongside both his cousins Wilhelm, George V, though George V and Nicholas had a contentious relationship with the Kaiser. Which was one factor of many why Germany declared war on Russia and started WW1.
Chinese Imperial Ambassador over here saying "A Chinese Emperor would never attend a ball after such a tragedy" is hilarious bc of course they wouldn't be attending they would be the one Throwing the ball!! 🤷
Right? Considering the death tolls whenever China would get into a civil war, or peasant uprising, or famine...
'Resembles' his cousin? They looked like identical twins, if memory serves.
@@ilikemitchhedberg Indeed, there is a very famous photo of them together. U literally cannot tell the difference except from their uniforms.
Wow that is an incredible bit of history
resembled Wilhelm II abit, but he could pass for George V twin
Tragic indeed! That last image is haunting: man standing on top of the roof with others who had pulled themselves to safety, glaring at the commemorative cup (at least, that's what it looks like to me), clenching his fist in anger while thousands of people struggle in front of him.
"At least I got this sweet cup!"
Please do a video on the many crushes that have occurred during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. They have some of the most horrific and astounding death tolls each time it has happened, yet it's very difficult to find any videos on any of these events.
Do you think any of the children got trampled by the women too?
@@KingOfBunionswhat an extremely weird question...
@@anniestumpy9918I disagree, it's actually a pretty good question
UA-cam won’t allow you to criticize Islam. They’re a protected class despite their history of intolerance towards others
YES! After the Halloween crush in Seoul in 2022, I read up on crowd crushes and was absolutely floored by the immensity of Hajj crushes. They’ve happened recently and they happen often! Would love to see a Fascinating Horror on this topic.
Stay away from big crowds. Stay away from big crowds. Stay away from big crowds.
Amen.
Exactly - now, 1949, or 1896!!!!
Words of wisdom
This is why I hate leaving the house on Black Friday.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
A reign that begins with death and ends with death.
That can be said of almost any monarchy. Crowns and thrones don't just appear out of thin air.
OFF-TOPIC: I remember when I first found your channel with around 11k subs and I joined. So proud that you're over 1 MILLION subs. I, along with my elderly parents, love your channel. Thank you for all of the interesting and fascinating historical stories. Thank you for your dedication and your hard work. I hope you make it to 2 MILLION subs! Excellent video as always!
Gosh so many people killed, how awful. I like the victim-oriented reporting, and how the difficulties posed by having a ruler so far removed from the reality of those who are ruled. Good job
Nicholas was indeed clueless. His father deliberately didn’t teach him how to rule and kept him out of state business. Where his grandfather had been making steps toward a constitution, he never got to never got to release them to the Russian people. He had been set to just that two days after his assassination.
Instead his son Alexander III completely abandoned his father’s reforms and chose even greater autocratic power which Nicholas also embraced.
@@ItsJustLisaI mean, if you need to oversimplify, sure.
Alexander was definitely a hard a**, but there were two reasons:
1. He also wasn’t the original heir to throne and had the responsibility thrust on him after losing his beloved brother.
2. He became tsar because his reforming father was blown in half by anarchists, who during that age, were even murdering presidents, let alone liberal monarchs (ask President McKinley if you don’t believe me).
Alexander was clear that he was so reactionary because he WAS being reactionary. He didn’t want a repeat for him OR his family and thought autocracy was how to do it. (And he also wasn’t alone in that. Nations from Japan to America were putting up defenses against liberalization and ideologies challenging their status quos. It’s very rare, historically speaking, to find many governments that roll out the welcome mats for what they view to be terrorist outliers).
So, Nicholas, already feeling like the crown was too heavy and his father’s shoes too big, had these uncles who tell him they know EXACTLY how his father would have run the empire. And he listens. This tragedy is actually a really good example, because they held a ball that night for the French ambassador and his uncle INSISTED it would be compounding a tragedy to snub the ambassador. He and his wife (she in tears) spent the minimal time there, barely talked, and then immediately went into prayer.
The next day, he and the empress visited people at the hospital, paid for coffins and gave each family 1,000 rubles, but all people remember is that he went.
And Alix, who loved Nicholas with all her heart and he in return, and who was terrified of being seen as the infiltrating German in the Empire pushed him in the direction she thought Russians wanted: The autocratic tsar with a fist of iron. She wasn’t about to tell him to give in to dismantling the Russian empire, that’s what her birth empire actually wanted!
Not to mention the war.
Not to mention the best prime minister anyone could have hoped for was also assassinated (because pre-Soviet anarchists were especially certain that open revolution would create a utopia).
Not to mention that Rasputin complicated matters.
And while I don’t believe Nicholas frequented advice from the aristocracy overall (Louis’ downfall), Like I mentioned, he did from his uncles, and some of them were almost cartoonishly conservative and out of touch.
The Khodynka Crush sounds like a wrestling finisher from the 80s.
Bahahahahaha! 🙈🤣
Or a vodka mixed drink
😂😂
500,000 man free for all, falls count anywhere.
Nikita Kolov is sitting somewhere, wondering why he didn't think of that.
I kinda feel sorry for Nicholas... He seems a relatively harmless sort who just was too easily manipulated by others.
The sheer evil of the people who spread the rumors about a few special prizes is breathtaking. I wonder if they survived the crush 🤔
Not to mention the fact that he never even wanted to be an emperor.
I wouldn't call the people who spread the rumors to be evil.
it was probably as simple as someone joking about winning a house.
Someone overhearing it, repeating it to himself in confusion.
and someone else overhearing that and taking it as legit information.
Rumors are easy to create by accident.
yea but no thought to the constant level of sustained brutality that comes from keeping czars in place lol? do you think monarchs stay in power through generatjons by asking politely?
He was committed to absolutism unfortunately. He never did let go of that. He chose advisors who reinforced it and he was the the death of his family and the fall of the empire.
@@George_M_ yes... this. Just proof that birth is not a sufficient qualification for leadership.
Gifting cows and horses, those would have at that time been seen as very valuable items. One source I found stated that the crush was also caused by rumors of shortages of beer and food that were to be distributed as well, given that everyone was to be given food and drink. That being said....reading the Tsar's response just has me very much trying to understand why he showed, by all accounts, no emotion towards the tragedy
Weil er keine Emotionen dem Volk gegenüber hatte! 😢.
Skrupellos und machtgierig, dazu inkompetent.
Basically this didn't happen to him... He was so far away from the site that he didn't know what happened until later, and when he did go later the tragic horror of the event had been essentially erased ... Put that along with the indifferent attitude of the average Russian nobleman towards the serfdom and other lower class people, and you get his reaction. It didn't help that the nobility at the time was encouraged to view foreign as better and more important... No wonder they didn't cancel their dinner date.
What an ill omen that was for Nicolas and his family...
Nicolas II: "I'll wear the green hat."
News headline: Tsar puts on hat! Hundreds dead!
With a track record of damn if you do damn if you don't like Nicolas, it's no wonder he became ineffectual.
Use your brain. Maybe the system of having a tsar was fucking brain dead idiocy
Thank you so much for this video.
I really enjoy that you finally did video about Russia. I hope this will be not the last video about my country, we have a lot of other disasters/tragedies in our history to tell about.
And human rights violations, don't forget the human rights violations!
@@WobblesandBean let's of countries have this, not just Russia. China and pol pot spring to mind.
I was very excited to hear about Russia, as well!
@@WobblesandBean make it political sure. When to you it's nothing but a movie
@@WobblesandBean So should human rights violations be mentioned every time he does a video about America too? America has committed plenty of human rights violations to talk about.
As soon as I heard "Large gathering (paraphrasing)" I knew it was gonna get messy. Love your vids, bro!
Incredible. Simply incredible. I have never once heard of this. Thank you, Kristian.
WHY do i love this channel so much??? What's wrong with me? It's beautifully done, the narrator's voice is excellent, it's been researched -- but it's disaster disaster disaster disaster disaster -- and i'm there for it 100%.
I belive what you think about it's called morbid curiocity.
@@ComissarYarrick it aint right
I heard a fright podcaster say it’s because people love to get the sympathetic adrenaline rush of terror while being actually safe.
@@lemarch57 thats cheating tho. if i'm going to be scared cuz my plane fell from the air I should have the decency to be on the plane.
@@cocoaddams4502 Yes, that’s honorable! 😅
When it's 4:21am in Texas and I can't sleep, nothing is better then a FH. Lull me to sleep with your amazing voice. I promise if I don't see the whole video I will as soon as I regain consciousness.
3:24 in Utah. Ditto.
Same here in north Texas.
Same here, sleepless in Seattle
2:33am here in SoCal
When it's 4:21 in Connecticut and I have to get up against my will FH makes the ordeal bearable ❤
When I read Animal Farm back in high school, there was never any discussion of this event. I am surprised that it never came up given its role in the eventual October Revolution.
Adding nuance to the discussion of the Great October Revolution might put a dent into *"GRRR! GOLMUNIZM BAAAD!! MORBILLION DEAD CHRISTIAN BABIES TO PAINT RED BANNERS WITH THEIR BLOOD!!!"* narrative
🙄
Really makes think what else they aren't telling you about. 🤔
@@NucleaRaptorwho is they?
@@chrisbarrett8377 Those in charge of us.
The divide between the haves and the have nots. Some today traveling in private planes while some go hungry. (As my stomach growls.) Some things never change.
Thank you for another great video, with my #1 favorite voice and theme music.
Yeah my wife likes to bring up celebrities and their millions and I’m just like wtf! So many struggling people out there including us I don’t need to hear about the lifestyle of the rich and famous.
@@bswihart1Why would I wanna hear bout struggling people? I'm struggling people. I don't need to hear bout how I'm doin'. I already know, I'm strugglin'. Lemme fantasize. I know I'd never get an invite to the island, but I get a Tijuana lady boy and I can atleast pretend.
wow I didn't realize just how cursed his reign really was. you only ever hear about the end.
This video is weirdly timely as I just rewatched The Last Czars on Netflix. From what I understand, one of the few things they got categorically wrong in the doc was saying that Nicholas made no attempt at all to visit the injured in the aftermath. The definitely lean into the interpretation of Nicholas being pressured into joining the festivities, in large part by Sergei, and downplay Nicholas' involvement with the investigation. It isnt made clear at all that Sergei was dismissed as a result. This video is a much more accurate representation of the events of that day, and Nicholas' response to them as far as we can verify now
Everything on Netflix has an agenda. Sometimes the truth is just as fascinating.
in the 19th century russia went through a terrible turmoil, they alternated reform czars and reactionary czars because the reformers never went far enough for radicals and so were often killed due to laxer powers, this wouldbe followed by reactionary leaders, determined not to be assassinated so they clamped down making people even more upset.
The theme song goes so hard. Wish you would let it play for longer at the end of the vid.
Search "Glass Pond" by Public Memory for the full version (found in video description)
Insane.
Fate did Nicholas so dirty.
This seems emblematic of the desperation of much of the Russian populous at the time.
Not a lot changed 😂
They were poor peasants. The chance to get a cow was life-changing.
Thanks for covering this! This one still blows my mind.
Hey Texas, me too! Houston. Happy to find a new one! They’re never long enough. I could listen to his voice for hours.
What, like it's hard to find people in Texas? 😂 JK have a great day ❤
Thank you for bringing this tragedy to light. RIP to the fallen.
it's good to watch stuff like this, just for awareness. The first time I heard of a crush, well, the next time I was in a big crowd I was suddenly aware of that potential danger and worked my way to the outer edge just in case. lol. I wouldn't have thought of that before.
Crushes are terrifying to hear about.
As opposed to..?
Excellent early Tuesday morning upload FH. Love the content
This is why crowd control was invented. Also this is why I don’t like crowds. They can be deadly and scary.
So can bacteria but I don't live in a bubble
I always feel badly for Nicholas. Instead of being the power greedy,fame grasping ruthless character we all recognize from history (many many other monarchs and autocrats from all parts of the globe (and current day as well)... He wanted nothing more than to hang out with his beloved and their children
Him and Lous XVI
After the 1905 revolution and the creation of the Duma, Nicholas had his chance to hand over some of his power and responsibility to the people but he chose to just cripple it and make it useless as a legislative body.
Same. Nicholas II, Louis XVI and Charles I were all remarkably similar personalities. They were all three of them naturally timid, easily swayed, and yet unbelievably stubborn. All three of them were somewhat neglected during their childhoods, and all three of them inherited serious financial and political problems from their predecessors' misjudgements.
Yeah this is cap. He wanted to have his cake and eat it too. Unsurprisingly, when he took control of the army and kept losing against the Germans, that was the last straw.
He was incompetent and still power hungry. As far as I'm concerned, he had what was coming to him. Not his kids, though.
Imagine being like “yeah this guy who’s policies opulence and inaction starved thousands just wanted to live with his family so sad” what a freak you are
I always look forward to a Tuesday morning video by FH
I read about this a few months ago! Thank you so much for discussing it. :)
Sure ya did
Good morning y’all
Is this the largest crush in history?? I was shocked hearing the number of casualties that occurred as a result
The 2015 Hajj crush in Saudi Arabia *probably* killed over 2000. I say probably, because according to Saudi it was less than 1000. But they probably aren't telling the truth.
I love your channel! Always perfect, in my opinion.
Great delivery, images, and pacing.
I love your content!
Ty for the uploads.
The original, "The Who concert".
Just want to say I’m a long time listener and I really enjoy your consistent videos. I always listen in while I am getting dressed for work on Tuesday mornings.
This tragedy is profiled very well in the book, Nicholas and Alexandra. It's a must-read for a close, intimate look at Nicholas and the family, and the events before and after that terrible day.
Fascinating Horror… Let’s go!!
Your videos are always beautifully scripted and crafted. I’m a sucker for this kind of content and it tickles me that you cover so many stories I have never heard of. Well done. The tone is always respectful. The scripts reflect that you are conscious that you are talking about tragedies, and real lives and it shows. Thanks for such quality content.
Amazed you find these events. I enjoy history and read a lot but so many of these I have never heard about. Well done.
These aren't well kept secrets, you're just uninformed.
This is why I now have the ability to study Crowd Control
It's such an important science
Lol and what does your ability enable you to do? Avoid good times?
Learned something new! Thank you!
I was in a crowd situation once going to a Kiss concert. They only had one entrance and the crowd pressed forward not knowing that there was a crush going on. I didn’t realize the danger until I could no longer move and my feet were off the ground. The person I was with got moved in a different direction and I was alone. I grabbed on to some guy and held on to him because I was afraid I would get pushed behind the entrance door and get injured. He helped me get in the door and the usher or whatever he was was just standing there making sure nobody came in without showing him their ticket. I told him he needs to open the doors because there was a crowd surge but he was an idiot. He did nothing. There were no deaths reported in the news so that was good. The was at the Orange show in Southern California in the 80’s. I’ve since learned that I need to prevent getting into a situation like that in the first place. I try to be very aware of potentially dangerous situations and know where exits are etc. Every person should inform themselves regarding crowd dynamics and safety.
Very interesting! I have never heard about this before
At the museum in a nearby big city here, there's one of the porcelain giveaway cups on display - apparently they're called "cups of sorrow" in some places, and for a good reason.
Hearing how this young Tsar was struggling to be a ruler reminded me of King Solomon in the Bible. When the kingdom passed to his son Rehoboam, the son did not listen to the officials and advisors of his late father, but instead gathered his young friends around him and listened to them. Long story short, the kingdom of Israel, after having been at its biggest and mightiest point in its history, was split. Rehoboam was left ruling the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, while the rest of Israel chose a different king.
Both this Tsar and Solomon's son made a similar mistake: they did not really put the welfare of the people first. The Tsar tried to put on a nice party for the people, and did a little bit to help them after the disaster, but did not understand the best courses of action. Solomon's son considered the people's request to lower taxes, then came back and harshly replied that he would make things worse for them. Not at all wise! The account of Rehoboam's actions is told in 1 Kings chapter 12.
These videos are all great. All of them.
0:46 Absolute picture of joy and beauty. No divisive sickening dark evil around.
Yet.
You do great content, thank you.
Have you done a video on the Koh Pich stampede? If not you should! Great video as always!
Once again something's broken on you tube. Tonight the like button won't work. So instead, I'm commenting and I hope that helps the channel too. Great work.
A breadroll, sausage, and gingerbread, is actually more than youd get now
I remember reading about this in Nicholas and Alexandra when I was in high school but I didn’t realize how horrible it was and how many died.
Wow! I’d never heard or read anything about that event. Thanks for the great history lesson!
You well versed in Russian tragedies?
3:57 decent grab bag, honestly!
This channel is another reason to be thankful Monday is over.
His reign started how it ended... bloody
Nicholas II: What the hell happened?
Minister: We’re not sure, but you’re scheduled to party with The French at 8 o’clock.
Nicholas II: Shouldn’t I…stay here out of respect for the people?
Minister: When have Russian Tsars ever respected the people?
Nicholas II: Hmmm…
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉(PARTY TIME)🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I obviously don't know his personality and it's entirely likely that that was pretty much the attitude, but it is technically also possible that it was more like "Shouldn't I stay here out of respect for the people?" "And piss off the French as a brand new ruler? Are you mad?" Who knows, really. The truth is probably lost to time, a lot of writings from that period would have been pretty highly biased considering the tipping point that Russian politics was coming to.
Oversimplified FTW!
Oh, so many parallels with so many subsequent events, including in particular the events of the last four years...
First I want to say, I love your videos. I always look forward to them and am subscribed so I always get the notification. Second, after seeing you cover this case I would love to see you cover the Travis Scott concert crush. Hear me out, I know it's super recent and you cover older cases throughout history but I think your viewers would really enjoy your take on it. I also think it would be interesting to see this crush case compared to others in the past.
Keep it up Kristian your stories are always great.
One of the best channels
You cant make a bad video, can you! Great work as always
Great for another video.
This is a crazy thing. Something of such magnitude in that era is incomprehensible.
These days event services have this thing down to a science.
Back then? No way. Where are these people going to simply take a pee? That’s merely a small issue, having to do the other thing, that’s simply not a thing that thousands or even hundreds of people can be doing in a public gathering.
Had the event gone as planned, it still would be a disgusting stench, I’m not even addressing the garbage alone that would be left behind.
Love these vids i swear man i work 13hr backshifts and they help me sleep bigtime 😂
Ty for amazing spooky content.
Sadly, this reminds me of a Black Friday sale (on steroids, of course.) There was no crowd control measures that would have had a snowball's chance in July of maintaining order in such a mass of humanity. It is astonishing how fast rumors flew in the crowd and how a commemorative cup became a cup of gold coins and a cow, a horse or a house. Modern day football matches and such events have seen tragedies like this but not on this huge scale. It's not surprising that the monarchy crumbled. The young czar was in over his head and he knew it. Rasputin would have been the final blow. Nicholas must have been desperate for guidance and turned to the wrong people. The whole family paid the ultimate price.
I haven’t heard of this tragedy. So thanks for educating me.
Thank you.
This reminded me of the crowd disaster at the 2010 Love Parade
To think that Woodstock had a half-million attendees too and no one died at the event.
@@isabellind1292 I’m sorry to say that Woodstock had a couple deaths, actually, and a birth or two if I’m not mistaken. One death was someone got run over whilst sleeping in their sleeping bag on the ground. Still, amazing that a crowd of that size was so peaceful overall.
@@ahill4642 Oh, I stand corrected, thank you. How sad. But it's a testament to peace & love that the police and residents spoke so well about the hundreds of thousands who descended upon their little, farming community. ☮✌💓🎵
Oversimplified Nicolas: what the hell happened?!
This is fascinating, I had no idea
A tragedy. Too many people invited.
The tragedy is that there were that there were so many poor and hungry people a crowd of that size showed up and would stampede for free food, beer, and prizes.
Good morning 🌞 FH!
This just goes to show the dangers of gossip.
Even though Nicholas was raised as the heir, when his father died suddenly, Nicholas was pushed into a job he neither wanted nor was prepared for, at the age of 25. His father had believed that he had plenty of time to teach his oldest son everything that he needed to know about being a tsar. . .but sadly, it turned out that he didn't. As a father and husband, Nicholas was fantastic. . .as a ruler, not so much. Even though he genuinely cared about the Russian people, he made some very bad decisions during his time as tsar. One of them was appearing at the ball put on by the French ambassador after the tragedy. Nicholas and Alexandra seriously considered not attending, but their advisors talked them into it, saying that the French ambassador had spent a lot of money, and they would be greatly offended if Nicholas and Alexandra backed out of it. So sadly, the new Russian royal couple gave in to the bad advice and went to the ball. Apparently, they could be seen with eyes red from weeping while they were dancing, and they looked obviously distressed about the tragedy, but sadly, their presence at the ball left a very bad impression in the minds of ordinary Russians. Nicholas and Alexandra tried to do "damage control" afterwards, but the impression of the new tsar and his wife dancing while so many people were mourning, is the memory that stuck with the public, even though the tragedy was the result of people's greed, and was mostly beyond the control of the new tsar. And sadly, this would also indirectly lead to the Russian Revolution two decades later. Perhaps if Nicholas had been allowed to be an ordinary family man like he wanted to be, perhaps things might have been different for him, his family and for Russia.