What if the Whites won the Russian Revolution?

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  • @idioticcontrarian7083
    @idioticcontrarian7083 Рік тому +193

    Pretty decent video, but I just wanted to mention a handful of flaws (mostly based around common misinformation surrounding the Russian Revolution, of which there was obviously a lot- fog of war also applies to things like this).
    Firstly, although not universally so, the majority of the top leaders of the White Army were Pro-February Revolution, but not Pro-Kerensky, as you may have known. This is to say, the White Army favored war with Germany (like Kerensky did), but were opposed to his socialist tendencies. The February Revolution was launched as a pro-war one, with the mob going against the German Tsarina (who was accused of sympathies for her homeland), which was quickly turned into anger against the Monarchy as an excuse for Kerensky and his allies to take power.
    This is to say, the whites didn’t want peace, were very slavic nationalist, but they weren’t… uh, for lack of a better term, Juntaist. Kolchak himself didn’t even want to rule Russia, he was forced into the role by those who supported him, and I doubt that he was unwilling to lead Russia in, what he likely viewed its most desperate hour, it’s highly improbable he’d continue to do so. Denikin, Wrangel, and other such leaders mostly favored the restoration of a Semi-Constitutional Monarchy, just one with less liberal influences and the military having more strength than the parliament.
    The Romanovs had significant support amongst the whites’ top generalship, with the majority of them being Monarchists as mentioned (although far more nationalistic than the old tsarist aristocracy, see, for example, Kornilov: Who was a nationalist first, but a tsarist second).
    I’d say it’s likely that, assuming Nicolas II and his family are still shot (likely, given the Bolsheviks would have all the reasons to do so). Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich (“Big Nick”), or as he’d probably be coined, Nicolas III, would be restored as a commitment to restoring the “pre-war paradigm” that would be favored by the public. Many of them would just want an end to the stability that started with the February Revolution, after all.
    Immediately upon the whites entering Petrograd, it’s more likely they’d re-declare war on Germany as the war closed, than move towards development- remember, pro-war above all else. Fortunately for them, the Entente was already closing in on the Germans, so this just gives them an excuse to retake their old lands, of which you forget to mention that the Baltics would be retaken.
    OTL, the Baltics only maintained independence due to both Polish and Entente support. Even Estonia, which was far more independent in its own campaign than, say, Lithuania or Latvia, couldn’t have possibly expelled Russian forces for good without the Polish counterattack after Warsaw. Although I can see the Anglo-French Entente demanding Russia stop at Congress Poland, I can’t see them having substantial care for Lithuania. You mention the Poles don’t control Western Belarus and Lvov, so that means they wouldn’t even have enough of a border to launch an effective attack into the Baltics, even assuming they had the capability to do so.
    Although it is true Pilsudski favored military expansion for Poland’s benefit, I can’t see the Entente backing the Poles here, especially since the White Army would likely see Entente favor, vs. the Entente’s vehement Anti-Sovietism.
    You also forget about Turkey. In our own timeline, the Soviets didn’t attack the Turks and instead partitioned Armenia with them, since they saw the Kemalists as a “fellow revolutionary government.” However, the Russian Empire saw the Armenians as their Orthodox Brethren, and would no doubt join the Turkish War of Independence on the Entente side. Given how far Yudenich got in our timeline, I can honestly see the Turks losing and being cut down to their tiny state in Anatolia, with Sevres implemented as first aimed, giving Russia control of Greater Armenia and Constantinople. Also leading, sadly enough, to the mass-deportation of Turks and Kurds from the region, and probably reprisal killings by local Armenian militants as a response to both the Hamidian Massacres and Armenian Genocide.
    Speaking of, secondly. The Bolsheviks wouldn’t just “capitulate” when Moscow fell- they knew that if the whites won, they’d have Lenin’s head, no question about it. It’s likely that Lenin would keep the fight going from Leningrad/Petrograd/St.Petersburg until it was besieged, from there he’d probably try to flee to Sweden, where several Soviet sympathizers held power and/or local influence. Whether this succeeds or not is really irrelevant, to be honest, although given the British blockade on the Baltic Sea against the RSFSR, I can see them catching Lenin and deporting him back to Russia for “trial” (see, show trial and execution).
    Now, this rolls back to government. Again, Kolchak didn’t want to rule, but the whites just giving up power to Nikolai is unlikely. We’d likely see a weird blend of Kemalist Turkey and Pre-Revolution Russia, with the Tsar, Army, and Parliament all vying for power- kind of like Thailand, I guess. This likely means a maintenance of the old Tsarist State Capitalist programs initiated under Stolypin and Witte, along with the maintenance of the Stolypin Reform, making Russia, holding up a mirror to our own timeline, the breadbasket of Europe.
    I don’t agree that Russia would industrialize faster than in our timeline, Russian industrialization, although catastrophic on the humanitarian scale, certainly was blazing fast. Although it’s often given too much credit by Soviet sympathizers, since a lot of it was just a more command-based variation of pre-revolution tsarist economics. We’d likely see a slower, but far more stable version of that in this timeline.
    As for how the Great Depression would impact Russia, I’d say it would be damaged, but probably not as much as the West, which favored Laissez-Faire economics and was strongly antagonistic to diverting course when they realized they were on a sinking ship. The Russian Tsardom, especially in its later years, had no issue with State Capitalism, and thus I can likely see Russia recovering within a few years or so, in a fashion somewhat similar to (although obviously not identical to) the Nazis.
    So that is to say, by the potential German invasion (which I agree would happen, the idea of lebensraum was not purely based off communism, and after the Chaos of the November Revolution, there still would be avid fear of Communism within Germany, enough for Hitler to fabricate something and bring the NSDAP to power), Russia would be less… but also more prepared.
    See, you forget something extremely crucial: The invasion of Poland. There’s no way that a restored Russian Empire would agree to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Not only did they have less designs (only having lost Poland, Besserabia, and Finland), but also they affiliated far more with the West, even if embittered by them, and given German mobilization, and likely no military purge, Russia would be far more prepared, even if slightly less industrialized in this timeline.
    This likely means WWII would mirror WWI far more, that being Germany, Italy, and Hungary probably immediately spark a war with the Triple Entente come the invasion of Poland. Even if Russia wouldn’t like Poland much, they’d see the Germans as a far larger threat, and given their Slavic Nationalist leadership, they would see the threat of a “Second Hun Invasion” as quite worrying.
    Although, as critical and essayist as I have been, I have to say, for a person with only 49 subscribers, this video was edited quite well and had pretty great sound quality. Most of the errors you missed were something that many people would overlook, and you did at least have a pretty decent idea on the Russian Civil War, other than it just being “the anti-communists vs. communists, i guess.”
    So, uh, overall, nice job, just missed some stuff.

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +36

      Wow you make some great points! I didn't even think about the Ottoman Empire or the relationship between Russia!
      I agree I didn't research that much on the Baltics, when I made this video I mainly thought "Well if the Soviets didn't invade the Baltics(interwar period I mean) then I guess the Whites wouldn't either".
      I appreciate the work you put into making this comment and I'll certainly be more careful when making other videos! :)

    • @idioticcontrarian7083
      @idioticcontrarian7083 Рік тому +12

      @@Historicalsidequests Happy I can help.

    • @vladpoleac120
      @vladpoleac120 Рік тому +2

      vai trazitear cat ai scris

    • @jeremysolano398
      @jeremysolano398 Рік тому +1

      L

    • @truwu8177
      @truwu8177 Рік тому +14

      This is a great comment, and shows you know a great deal about Russian history. However your point about laissez-faire economics and the great depression was completely false. Laissez-faire capitalism was out of favor in the West by this point, and had nothing to do with the Great Depression.
      The Great Depression was the culmination of multiple economic factors beginning in the USA. It started with the roaring twenties, which was in part the result of artificially high credit expansion by the newly-established Federal Reserve. It should also be noted here, that the Federal reserve was a state capitalist institution, and not one which emerged from a laissez-faire economy.
      However, because of high consumer confidence and ever increasing demand, the increased supply of credit did not lead to inflation. On top of that, the country still operated under the gold standard, which helped keep inflation down. This was only good in the short-term because the increased amount of credit meant that businesses that normally wouldn't have gotten credit due to their poorer quality of services or products suddenly did. In other words, more credit meant more investment, but also more investment in bad firms.
      On top of that, the agricultural situation in the United States was dire because of the said lack of inflation. Farmers were making very little money for decades now and did not have the same level of access to credit as people in urban environments. This meant that they were especially vulnerable if an economic recession or depression were to happen.
      The USA at the time was also led by Republicans, both during and briefly after the roaring 20s. The Republican party at the time supported protectionist trade policies, which were clearly not laissez-faire by the way. This helped create a very insular economy that while reliant on foreign trade, did help prop up domestic businesses that would have otherwise failed if they encountered foreign competition. In other words, not only did artificially high credit contribute to the poor quality businesses getting money, but so did tariffs, which artificially limited the amount of businesses available to be invested in.
      Eventually, as we all know, the roaring twenties would come to an end as the credit bubble burst. And the nation would go from an economic boom right down into an economic bust. The stock market crash of 1929 would send ripples through the economy, and all the previous factors mentioned all come around to rear their ugly face. Farmers were hit hard and many farms failed, leading to many bankruptcies. Unable to keep up with the sudden surge in bankruptcies and failed investments, many banks would also fail, and even more people would go bankrupt.
      The Republicans, under Herbert Hoover, would sign one of the worst acts in American history, the smoot-hawley tariff act, which would increase tariffs the highest they have ever been in American history. This completely crippled trade in America and would cause sudden economic downturns all across the world. Countries with that install reciprocal tariffs which would only increase the amount of economic downturns across the world.
      In desperation and a desire to maintain a balanced budget, Herbert Hoover would demand that the Entente countries of France and the United Kingdom pay back their massive war time debts. They of course would say no and this would only worsen trade relations. Nancy's America was the economic powerhouse of the world at the time, but without trade partners, it had lost a huge portion of its economy.
      All this is to say that laissez-faire economics did not cause the Great Depression. This isn't even to mention the fact that the rest of the West also did not operate under laissez-faire economics. France, the United Kingdom, and the UK's various dominions all operates under mixed market economies, Italy had a heavily statist and socialistic one, Nazi Germany operated under a State corporatist economy, much of Eastern Europe operated under similar state capitalist systems, and the rest of Europe either had just as statist or mixed market economies.
      America, following the stock market crash of 1929 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, would take over a decade to recover fully from the Great depression. This is in part not surprising, because the majority of the economic damage done by the Great Depression was towards the United States after all. What is surprising, is the fact that this recovery period was prolonged by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which did little to help alleviate the economic distress. Many economists and historians agree that while it did help America recover in many ways, the New Deal did not truly end the Great Depression. Practically all economists would agree that it was only in the aftermath of world war 2 that the US economy would actually recover. This is proven by observing GDP growth, spending, and inflation, as well as many other economic metrics.
      While there's still some debate about how much the New Deal played in this, most economists either agree that full recovery from the Great depression was experiences following world war II. And the debate is over whether this was because of the exceptionally high government spending during world war II (the interventionist or kenysian view) or the culmination of a slow recovery and the reopening of world trade and lowering of taxes and spending following world war II (the free market or Chicago school/Austrian/neoliberal view) that ended the Great Depression.
      Truth be told, I agree with the latter option because the high government spending during world war was not at all sustainable. After all, how could the deaths of half-a-million working age young men combined with the destruction of millions upon millions of dollars of equipment and resources in war ever help an economy? The massive spending would basically only help the economy in the short-term, and could not last forever, as the amount of destruction done to the labor pool and resources never added anything to the economy in the first place, and could only take away from it. What did ensure a long-term recovery from the Great Depression however, was the fact that the United States of America was now a quarter of the world economy because it was not left in ruins like the rest of the world and was now fully committed to fee trade. This meant that every other country in the world essentially relied on the United States if they wanted a quick recovery.
      In conclusion, laissez-faire capitalism had absolutely nothing to do with the Great Depression and state capitalism and statist economic policy was already very popular and dominant in the West. On top of that, state capitalists and statist economics do not necessarily help an economy recover, and were not the reason the United States recovered from the Great Depression.

  • @DLAbaoaqu
    @DLAbaoaqu 5 місяців тому +27

    In this timeline, there’s an urban legend that Lenin faked his suicide and fled to Argentina.

  • @TimMatterSnorri999
    @TimMatterSnorri999 Рік тому +105

    Long live the Great Holy Russian Empire!!!!! Long live the Tsar!!! Long live the white Army!!!!!

    • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox
      @MaximusAugustusOrthodox 7 місяців тому +8

      Amin ❤️🇷🇺☦️

    • @Jordano_Brun0
      @Jordano_Brun0 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@medea6137так он не коммунист

    • @medea6137
      @medea6137 7 місяців тому

      @@Jordano_Brun0 так я тоже . Но меня удивляют взрослые люди дрочащие на человека и государства сдохшево миллионы лет назад . Как нужно жить чтоб. Дрочить и прославлять царька и возвращения монархии . Что за рабское мышление .

    • @mexicaniguana9126
      @mexicaniguana9126 6 місяців тому

      It's been 100 years move on

    • @McHog
      @McHog 5 місяців тому +2

      Remain calm. The Regent endures. Alexei lives. The Holy Russian Empire shall endure. There is much to be done.

  • @ToonStory-fh4gn
    @ToonStory-fh4gn Рік тому +156

    *Instantly launches HOI4 to recreate this scenario*

    • @LuizHenrique-zw5su
      @LuizHenrique-zw5su 11 місяців тому

      Witch mod?

    • @ToonStory-fh4gn
      @ToonStory-fh4gn 11 місяців тому +2

      @@LuizHenrique-zw5su Kaiserreich? Or Fürrereich maybe

    • @alessandroroccaforte4515
      @alessandroroccaforte4515 11 місяців тому +1

      @@ToonStory-fh4gn no no

    • @alexkermias
      @alexkermias 8 місяців тому +1

      @@ToonStory-fh4gn best mod to do that is probably Great War Redux

    • @gabrieleitor280
      @gabrieleitor280 13 днів тому +2

      @@alexkermias Test Dreams of a White Russian Victory Mod better, its literaly this scenario but a litte different

  • @maxryabokon1515
    @maxryabokon1515 Рік тому +250

    Reds would never capitulate. They would just go underground and launch a long guerilla style campaign, but never capitulate, because they know , what would happen to them.

    • @miniaturejayhawk8702
      @miniaturejayhawk8702 Рік тому

      If the reds can purge the whites then the whites can purge the reds.

    • @greece_stronk523
      @greece_stronk523 Рік тому +1

      commie

    • @jesusisloved888
      @jesusisloved888 Рік тому +13

      L

    • @Kardia_of_Rhodes
      @Kardia_of_Rhodes Рік тому

      Sounds like a job for some German war veterans now out of a job but still looking to get paid.

    • @Bandog23
      @Bandog23 Рік тому +44

      @@greece_stronk523He is just realistic, but i wish The Whites won then Ukraine and Chechnya would have not happened.

  • @lavortriziska
    @lavortriziska Рік тому +52

    Gave me goosebumps, hits hard. Want part 2 so bad

  • @WFHermans
    @WFHermans Рік тому +36

    The ending is abrupt, I hope there will be a second part.

  • @denaturov69
    @denaturov69 4 місяці тому +11

    More realisticly the whites could have won by getting the poles to push on in exchange for some concessions
    They were doing pretty well overall in polish bolshevik war
    But that would cost them to grant independently to Ukraine and Belarus as Poland wanted them as bufer states
    Even if everthing went well for them it is unlikely they would manage to finish the war before the end of 1918 so I believe the polish scenario is more realistic
    Also its unlikely they would capitulate just by loosing moscow there is also sankt Peterbrough after all

  • @GrumpyAboutEverything
    @GrumpyAboutEverything Рік тому +13

    Even though you are new, This channel is underrated

  • @King_of_Railways
    @King_of_Railways Рік тому +68

    No Bolsheviks no Hitler!! Easy

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +12

      Why do you think that?

    • @projectforce3727
      @projectforce3727 Рік тому

      There would still be Hitler

    • @rok9344
      @rok9344 Рік тому +27

      One of the main reasons why hitler came to power was the fact, that people were afraid of the bolshevik rise in Germany as well. Before hitler came to Power this was a real possibility (pro soviet communist sympathizers were a huge problem not just the nazis). If there was no communist treat in the east people can't be scared to march east to destroy "judeo bolshevism"
      The conservative government probably survives and among other things the nazis never get to Power. There might be some hightend nationalism to take back Elsass and the polish strip, but nothing like in our time line.

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +14

      @@rok9344 quoting another comment "After the Chaos of the November Revolution, there still would be avid fear of Communism within Germany, enough for Hitler to fabricate something and bring the NSDAP to power", I don't think that Hitler's rise to power here is that far-fetched, as the humiliation of Germany still happens and the people are still going to be somewhat revanchist even without the communist threat.

    • @VaishnavENK
      @VaishnavENK Рік тому +6

      @@Historicalsidequestswithout Bolshevik victory, there won't be any spartan uprising and the SPD-KPD split might not have happened. This would mean a stronger German left to resist the Nazis (+ repeated attempts by the communists to start a revolution in Germany was a major cause of the destabilisation of the Weimar Republic).

  • @patternrecon5271
    @patternrecon5271 Рік тому +31

    Kalergi plan
    Minimum replacement birth rate: 2.1
    Israel birth rate: 3.00
    EU birth rate: 1.53
    Canada birth rate: 1.47
    USA birth rate: 1.70
    Australia birth rate: 1.66
    Russia birth rate: 1.50
    Ukraine birth rate: 1.23
    Moldova: 1.28
    Belarus: 1.38
    Serbia: 1.48
    Bulgaria: 1.56
    Romania: 1.60
    Albania: 1.58
    Loxism
    Noel Ignatiev, George Soros, Peter Sutherland, Wesley Clark, David Schwarz, Robert Aschberg, Peter Wolodarski, Barbara Lerner Spectre, Kier Starmer, Anthony Lester, Barbara Roche, Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw, David Miliband, Lajos Bokros, Emanuel Celler, Jacob Javits, Norbert A. Schlei, Elizabeth Holtzman, Chuck Schumer, Laurence Fabius, Harlem Désir, Bernard-Henri Levy, Josef Schuster, Gregor Gysi, Anetta Kahane, Walter Lippmann, David Manne, Alan Schatter, Ronit Lentin, Franca Eckert Coen, Job Cohen, Ervin Kohn, Richar von Coudenhove-Kalergi

    • @Слышьты-ф4ю
      @Слышьты-ф4ю Рік тому

      So, Israel will replace the world by year 3000, if everything somehow stays the same, all countries remain geopolitically in same alliances and nobody will invent anything like mass cloning or AI or newer energy sources that make oil less useful

    • @Слышьты-ф4ю
      @Слышьты-ф4ю Рік тому

      Also if countries like North Korea or Eritrea will not breed even faster in response
      (Srsly, NK breaks all the secret globalist plans, because there are _no_ unified organizations. Humans are ever-fighting greedy bastards who control nothing, and nothing implies aliens would not be the same)

    • @lollllolll.
      @lollllolll. День тому

      Screenshotting this real quick, thank you kind sir, remember the US liberty my friend

  • @tormfury7376
    @tormfury7376 Рік тому +8

    You have a major missed point here with the western territories.
    Firstly, the Northern Corps (later renamed Northwestern Army) of the whites was active in both Estonia and Latvia.
    The Entente involvement post WWI was motivated by seeking to curb the spread of communism.
    If the Whites had won, being imperial Russian supremacists, they would never ever have accepted the independence of the newly created Baltic, Belarusian and Ukrainian states. And the Allies who supported these states against the reds would have sided with the whites. Why? Because all of them were imperial colonial powers at the time, and had no interest in fostering independence ideas in their own colonies and territories. And no, even the idea of weakening Russia as a power would not have been an appealing enough an idea to change their stance on this.
    That is exactly why when the Estonians and the Northwestern Army were about 10km from Petrograd (St. Petersburg), which as the former capital of the Russian Empire was for the imperialists far more significant than Moscow, the Estonians had no motivation to continue fighting further and instead sought to make peace with the reds ASAP. Hell, the Tartu Peace Treaty signed in 1920 is basically the birth document of RSFSR, as it is de jure the first time it was recognized as a state. Signing that treaty was wildly opposed by some Entente members, because once again, they were imperial colonialist powers, and they also wished to keep the reds internationally isolated.
    So the major plot hole is that none of these states, with the exception of Poland, which is the only one that might've had the power to resist militarily, (and which while partitioned, was mostly out of Russian control before the Russian civil war kicked off), would have been allowed their independence.

    • @tormfury7376
      @tormfury7376 Рік тому

      It occurred to me I should probably specify what I meant was that the Tartu Peace Treaty was the first one signed with a country that didn't end up on the losing side of WWI, as there was also the Separate Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
      Either way, I highly recommend reading the doctoral thesis of prof. Karsten Brüggemann, titled "Die Gründung der Republik Estland und das Ende des 'Einen und unteilbaren Rußland': die Petrograder Front des russischen Bürgerkriegs 1918-1920", or "The Foundation of the Republic of Estonia and the End of 'Singular and Indivisible Russia': the Petrograd Front of the Russian Civil War 1918-1920".

  • @Deltasquadformingup
    @Deltasquadformingup Рік тому +4

    Wow! Your voice is amazing fits this so well!!!!! New subscriber!!!

  • @DanielSofa
    @DanielSofa Рік тому +8

    We need part 2

  • @TimMatterSnorri999
    @TimMatterSnorri999 Рік тому +6

    Hey
    I Love your Videos.❤❤❤
    You have a new subscriber!!! 😊😊😊

  • @CoreyStudios2000
    @CoreyStudios2000 10 місяців тому +2

    Would love to see this timeline’s version of WW2

  • @dumnylach7292
    @dumnylach7292 11 днів тому

    you deserve a sub

  • @MaSvDe
    @MaSvDe Рік тому +6

    After 30 years from this video: ”What if Whites won in the USA and Western Europe?“

  • @moncefecw3131
    @moncefecw3131 Рік тому +1

    Amazing vid even amazing info

  • @GeorgeRamsey22
    @GeorgeRamsey22 Рік тому +15

    Great video! Do you think world war 2 would have played out differently? Maybe because white Russia would be allied with the Allies, Russia joins the war much sooner, for better or worse. What do you think?

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +12

      They would definitely join sooner, maybe even enter the war together with Poland. If that’s a good or bad thing, I don’t know. Could be possible that Hitler doesn’t even annex Czechoslovakia, because White leaders were very pro-slavic and would defend them when Germany would try to take the Sudetenland.

    • @kruggmichaels8958
      @kruggmichaels8958 Рік тому +3

      @@Historicalsidequests I'm not sure why you insinuate that only the "Allies" were engaged in conflict with the Reds. Germany had a decades long Communist insurgency and multiple civil wars in the period between 1919 and 1932. Including the Spartacus Revolt and the overthrow of the Bavarian government by the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1923.
      In fact, the German Heer was engaged on multiple fronts with Red Army forces in these years as well. Fighting against Red Army troops in the German client states of Lithunania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Ukraine.
      Germany was the frontlines of the war. It should probably be called the Soviet-German Cold War.

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +5

      @@kruggmichaels8958 Because the Entente actively supported the Whites, meanwhile the German Army just left when after they lost WW1, so it was kind of irrelevant to mention them. And as you can see, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states are not mapped when the animation for the civil war is rolling. Also I don't really see the point of mentioning German civil war as this was a video about Russia, not about the fight against communism around the world.

    • @kruggmichaels8958
      @kruggmichaels8958 Рік тому

      @@Historicalsidequests How are you presuming to make videos about history if you don't know anything about interwar Germany? A horrific historical blindspot.
      Everything I just told you happened after WW1. So Germany didn't simply "just leave". Are you serious dude? Germany was the European major power that was closest to Russia, they couldn't "just leave". Ridiculous xD
      The Red Army attacked Heer garrisons in the Baltics multiple times throughout this decade. As far as I'm aware Germany was the only major power in open conflict with the Reds in 1919.

    • @kruggmichaels8958
      @kruggmichaels8958 Рік тому +1

      @@Historicalsidequests You probably think Hitler and Stalin were allies, until Hitler betrayed Stalin. The truth is that Germany and the Soviet Union (then the Soviet Republic) had been at war since 1919.

  • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox
    @MaximusAugustusOrthodox 7 місяців тому +2

    There is a small error in the map. In 1918 Crimea was Russian land so when Ukraine would have get its independence in 1918 after the civil war, Crimea would have belonged to Russia because it was first given to Ukraine in the 1950s/60s by the soviets

  • @Рандомныйчел-ф3м
    @Рандомныйчел-ф3м 11 місяців тому +2

    Belarus SR (Wouldnt Exist due to Soviet Capitulation) *Uses RSFSR flag*

  • @ThePawsketeer
    @ThePawsketeer Рік тому

    4:38 why does this part sound like some mobile game ad lol

  • @Слышьты-ф4ю
    @Слышьты-ф4ю Рік тому +3

    What if Trotsky came to power and started eternal revolution (quite possibly failing it)?

  • @krazyspartanodst
    @krazyspartanodst Рік тому +3

    Very cool

  • @MaximusAugustusOrthodox
    @MaximusAugustusOrthodox 7 місяців тому +13

    Long live the Tsar and the Russian Empire 🇷🇺☦️

  • @Alternate.-Historybuff
    @Alternate.-Historybuff 7 місяців тому +2

    ok,so i may be a party breaker,but i don't think that hungary and romania would have joined the axis

  • @Maltheus_
    @Maltheus_ Місяць тому

    Few things I want to point out:
    - Not sure if Hitler would even rise to power in Germany in the first place, due to the Bolsheviks obviously not being in power in Russia. Maybe Germany would turn communist here even.
    - Greece would likely win the Greco-Turkish War in this timeline, since Russia would likely be happy to aid their Orthodox brethren in Greece instead of aiding the Turks to spite the West like the Bolsheviks did irl. Russia could maybe even directly invade Eastern Turkey to take all of Greater Armenia using the Armenian Genocide and them still being the "protector of Christians in the Ottoman Empire" as an excuse to take control of the territory. Russia would likely not give up the title of "Third Rome" either in this timeline, giving them another reason to have interests in aiding the Greeks and reconquering the old Byzantine lands in Anatolia. Thus the Treaty of Sevres would be enforced in this timeline, since the Western Powers would use this as an opportunity, while the Turks are fighting enemies on two fronts, to take their respective sphere of influence according to the peace treaty. Turkey would be a rump state by the Black Sea.
    - Maybe there would be a WW2, but depending on who rules in Germany, Russia could maybe even be an Axis member in this timeline, with them here having a similar nationalist ideology and a dictator.
    - Russia would reach its full potential in this timeline unlike irl and Russia could maybe even become the richest country on earth rivalling the USA later down the line in pure economic might. Basically, imagine a USSR that isn't completely retarded.

  • @overdriveoutershaxson1837
    @overdriveoutershaxson1837 Рік тому +9

    Best timeline

  • @mohamedelhaddade6371
    @mohamedelhaddade6371 Рік тому +1

    you still have a long way to go in term of quality but am sure you will become more professional as time goes

  • @ericjustasinner5695
    @ericjustasinner5695 Рік тому +3

    I knew how to make videos I always have a new alternate history has never been done before. Thinking about putting it into a book format

  • @bobcraycraft7195
    @bobcraycraft7195 10 місяців тому

    Only stream for 2-3 seconds before stopping. Anyone else?

  • @pilot_seven_b3011
    @pilot_seven_b3011 5 місяців тому +1

    There is many factors we need for victory
    Now there are many things could happen but first we need make Soviet weaker
    so in our time line
    - Lenin dies making reds to fight each other
    - Wrangel begins to command Don army earlier also whites become more closer to each other making things like land reform more posible
    - UK and France actually do something
    - Great Soviet commanders like Trotski are dead
    After Civil War many thing can happen. We can have military dictatorship or democracy

  • @TheReaper569
    @TheReaper569 4 місяці тому +1

    Wouldnt the romanovs be back in charge*

  • @anoopkumarg3393
    @anoopkumarg3393 Рік тому +2

    USSR supported us in old wars which we would be lost

  • @ricebro7044
    @ricebro7044 Рік тому +1

    Good content subbed, and im your 100th sub

  • @Vlad_Ibarr
    @Vlad_Ibarr 3 місяці тому +1

    My general Peter Wrangle 5:17

  • @YodaDaJeezy
    @YodaDaJeezy Рік тому +1

    You had me at Gunna😂

  • @gugundy3013
    @gugundy3013 Рік тому +4

    nice

  • @JaroslavStachml
    @JaroslavStachml 2 місяці тому +1

    yeah,I am also a Czech,🇨🇿👍

  • @raincloud8025
    @raincloud8025 3 місяці тому

    As someone who played battlefield 1 alot, honestly find it interesting that the White army lost even with the defender heavy maps....
    Guess the Red Army have better gaming chairs compared to the Whites

  • @JoeSmith-sl9bq
    @JoeSmith-sl9bq 9 днів тому

    There is no way Ukraine would had had Crimea and Donbas. That was given to them by Nikita

  • @Aiyapmaster
    @Aiyapmaster 8 місяців тому +1

    If They win,kerensky will end as national hero of russian republic(kerensky was guy who owertrew tsar and made him under house arest,Lenin used this and declared revolution and killed tzar under house arrest,after loose he leave to usa and kerensky complain all his live he wasnt a why revolution began)and also father of russia and russian democracy

  • @rogeliovaldez6594
    @rogeliovaldez6594 Рік тому +1

    Wouldn't they own Constantinople and eastern anatolia(armenian highlands)

  • @mememanbehindtheshadows546
    @mememanbehindtheshadows546 6 місяців тому

    After what tsar did? No way also they need a allied military support which they were lacking due to all resources was spent in ww1. The Germany had advance to the east.

  • @Foxarium
    @Foxarium 5 місяців тому

    "The war was primarily fought between by the reds against the whites"
    Native Americans: First time?

  • @Piciji_Grip
    @Piciji_Grip Рік тому +12

    I feel like in this timeline Russia would definetely align itself with Germany in WW2 or at least stay neutral. There's no reason for Germany to attack Russia because there is no Communism. From what I can tell, Russia would soon after civil war transform into Fascist-like state similar to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary etc. Just like in our timeline, Germany and Russia would divide Eastern Europe and now when they are ideologically similar states, both strong anti-Communist states, I can see that cooperation being even more strengthened. Definetely interesting topic, great video!

    • @AryanDubs-y3f
      @AryanDubs-y3f Рік тому +1

      Germany would still had its racist policies towards the slavs so I dont think russians would want to join them. One of the main goals of the nazis was to make a living space for the aryan people so they would propably invade Russia anyway

    • @jspujmi9396
      @jspujmi9396 Рік тому +1

      Germans will still attack them. They "needed living space".

    • @alexjsj3313
      @alexjsj3313 Рік тому

      Germany was always going to invade Russia and other Eastern European Slavic countries as it was required for Germany to claim their Lebensraum or "Living space". This was the core of Nazi expansion doctrine and was the reason why they invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and was the main reason why they attacked the Soviet Union among others

    • @Phoen1xGen
      @Phoen1xGen Рік тому +16

      Though you need to remember Hitler’s mad hatred of Slavs.

    • @VaishnavENK
      @VaishnavENK Рік тому

      It is actually improbable that the Nazi party would have even come to power in Germany in this timeline. Not only b/c of the butterfly effect and how only a really specific series of events allowed them power, but also b/c of how it would change the mindset of socialists, communists and even anti-communists, who would now not have the example of Bolshevik Russia.

  • @The_Devil_Chariot
    @The_Devil_Chariot Рік тому

    Sequel?

  • @gunsfordays9932
    @gunsfordays9932 Рік тому +2

    General kappel is my favorite white army general

  • @1magine_name
    @1magine_name Рік тому +1

    Caucasus and Central Asia left the chat

  • @abcjuniormilton
    @abcjuniormilton 4 місяці тому

    Serfdom had been abolished back in 1861. The Whites would have done better to let Ukraine and Belarus be independent.

  • @anomynoususer2358
    @anomynoususer2358 Рік тому

    Part 2?

  • @nmjerry
    @nmjerry Рік тому

    How did Reds get any territory

  • @CrimeonZ
    @CrimeonZ 2 місяці тому

    Basically, a better world.

  • @lordraydens
    @lordraydens Рік тому

    what if ukraine had joined poland during the polish-soviet war?

  • @milmex317th
    @milmex317th Рік тому

    As someone who isn't a speedreader.

  • @Xtian982
    @Xtian982 Рік тому

    Anyone get Snatch vibes from that intro?? 🤣🤣🤣

  • @vasiliypoopkeen7954
    @vasiliypoopkeen7954 Рік тому +3

    They actually won, first at 1977 then at 1991...

  • @mememanbehindtheshadows546
    @mememanbehindtheshadows546 6 місяців тому

    I would give you the benefit of the doubt, since it's a domino effect This Russian state republic would be assumably to be longer than Ussr however given it's big are the they function like US ww2 would happen but Germany became socialist instead of Russia, what if this Russian republic became a axis power, are the territory were willing to stay of to seceded but much more forgiving than the once in the Ussr in 90s? We don't know the answer, of course no cold war so Socialism revolution will not end and might become stronger, colonialism will not end as well since there is no ideology to clash with imperialism ideals specially to the west, and republicanism isn't much of a big deal. Unless this Russian republic committed to help to become a liberator of new world or what if instead of socialism ideals they spread radicalism like what the frech revolution had done, and spread it like one, without something to challenge the new world, the world would remain how it was before. I mean even colonialism is over there is still a political one who replaced it. Not sure of This Russian state didn't want to get involved and focused on strengthen itself, no PRC would be form either, but China would not be in agood state since no one could dissolve quing due to lack of sympathy and support sun yat sens revolution.

  • @apoolplayer278
    @apoolplayer278 Рік тому +2

    A lot of reds, or bolshevics, were jewish. For no reason, if you ask me.

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +5

      For no reason? There were multiple reasons actually:
      Jews historically were peresecuted all around Europe, and many decided to take merchant jobs which were seen as “lowly” jobs by Christians.
      This over time led to generational wealth and when the industrial revolution came to Europe it meant that Jews we’re usually among the first to enter in the middle, and upper(capitalist) classes which meant that they could afford better education -> more communists. Now does it mean that when you get better education you automatically become a communist? No. But in those times you must remember that not all Russians could read, so this simply meant that because of their previous wealth, Jews could get educated and have the access to communist ideas first.

    • @Apes_Together_Stronk
      @Apes_Together_Stronk Рік тому

      They were all Atheist so in the end,the jewish part is meaningless and only used to fund conspiracies.

  • @anoopkumarg3393
    @anoopkumarg3393 Рік тому +1

    And Russia is also our friend 🇮🇳🇷🇺

  • @Jordano_Brun0
    @Jordano_Brun0 7 місяців тому

    Слава героям Белой армии!☦️🇷🇺
    Царствие небесное последему легетимному правителю России и его семье

  • @LokiSutton
    @LokiSutton 2 місяці тому

    Now heres the question would he still make a deal for half of poland attack funland and the baltic and half of berserabia i would think yes to most but maybe not beserabia then we have the second question would he fight the nazi as a non communist state the nazi dont have that extra reason to fight them and if the nazi dobt fight then would russia instead h
    Join the axis many important thing that would shape what that nation becomes

    • @LokiSutton
      @LokiSutton 2 місяці тому

      And if they do attack filand I would imagin the to win as in our timeline the great purge weakened the Russians well this time the military is in power and has presumably steng in order to solidi there control

  • @DK-ig8zi
    @DK-ig8zi Рік тому

    In my opinion they would make a deal With poland to partition the baltics along the Daugava river or poland take only Lituania and russia take the rest

  • @Jaqfie
    @Jaqfie 7 місяців тому

    Imo its pretty unrealistic

  • @aggrillmane2094
    @aggrillmane2094 2 місяці тому

    Me choosing between communist and tsarist russia cuz both are good

  • @horatiuscocles8052
    @horatiuscocles8052 Рік тому

    This looks like AI generated content

  • @burgundian_system
    @burgundian_system 9 місяців тому

    russian state
    new text

  • @SergeiKurenkov
    @SergeiKurenkov Рік тому +1

    Да

  • @BroskoiiYtb
    @BroskoiiYtb Рік тому +1

    🤔

  • @patternrecon5271
    @patternrecon5271 Рік тому +2

    Russia population 1917
    91mil
    Palestinians
    5mil
    Out of 545 Bolshevik commissars, 447 were Palestinians.
    The Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party was made up as follows:
    Bronstein (Trotsky) - Palestinian
    Apfelbaum (Zinovief) - Palestinian
    Lourie (Larine) - Palestinian
    Ouritski - Palestinian
    Volodarski - Palestinian
    Rosenfeldt (Kamanef) - Palestinian
    Smidovitch - Palestinian
    Sverdlof (Yankel) - Palestinian
    Nakhamkes (Steklof) - Palestinian
    Ulyanov (Lenin) - Quarter-Palestinian
    Krylenko - Russian
    Lounatcharski - Russian
    “The Council of the People’s Commissars comprises the following:
    MINISTRY NAME NATIONALITY
    President : Ulyanov (Lenin) - Quarter-Palestinian
    Foreign Affairs : Tchitcherine - Russian
    Nationalities : Djugashvili (Stalin) - Georgian
    Agriculture : Protian - Armenian
    Economic Council : Lourie (Larine) - Palestinian
    Food : Schlichter - Palestinian
    Army & Navy : Bronstein (Trotsky) - Palestinian
    State Control : Lander - Palestinian
    State Lands : Kauffman - Palestinian
    Works : V. Schmidt - Palestinian
    Social Relief : E. Lelina (Knigissen) - Palestinian
    Public Instruction : Lounatcharsky -Russian
    Religion : Spitzberg - Palestinian
    Interior : Apfelbaum (Zinovief) - Palestinian
    Hygiene : Anvelt - Palestinian
    Finance : Isidore Goukovski - Palestinian
    Press : Volodarski - Palestinian
    Elections : Ouritski - Palestinian
    Justice : I. Steinberg - Palestinian
    Refugees : Fenigstein - Palestinian
    Refugees (assist.) : Savitch - Palestinian
    Refugees (assist.) : Zaslovski - Palestinian
    “The following is the list of members of the Central Executive Committee:
    NAME NATIONALITY
    Sverdlov (president) - Palestinian
    Avanessof (sec.) - Armenian
    Bruno - Lett
    Babtchinski - Palestinian
    Bukharin - Russian
    Weinberg - Palestinian
    Gailiss - Palestinian
    Ganzburg - Palestinian
    Danichevski - Palestinian
    Starck -German
    Sachs - Palestinian
    Scheinmann - Palestinian
    Erdling - Palestinian
    Landauer - Palestinian
    Linder - Palestinian
    Wolach - Czech
    Dimanstein - Palestinian
    Encukidze - Georgian
    Ermann - Palestinian
    Joffe - Palestinian
    Karkline - Palestinian
    Knigissen - Palestinian
    Rosenfeldt (Kamenef) - Palestinian
    Apfelbaum (Zinovief) - Palestinian
    Krylenko - Russian
    Krassikof Sachs - Palestinian
    Kaprik - Palestinian
    Kaoul - Lett
    Ulyanov (lenin) - Quarter-Palestinian
    Latsis - Palestinian
    Lander - Palestinian
    Lounatcharski - Russian
    Peterson - Lett
    Peters - Lett
    Roudzoutas - Palestinian
    Rosine - Palestinian
    Smidovitch - Palestinian
    Stoutchka - Lett
    Nakhamkes (Steklof) - Palestinian
    Sosnovski - Palestinian
    Skrytnik - Palestinian
    Bronstein (Trotsky) - Palestinian
    Teodorovitch - Palestinian
    Terian - Armenian
    Ouritski - Palestinian
    Telechkine - Russian
    Feldmann - Palestinian
    Froumkine - Palestinian
    Souriupa - Ukranian
    Tchavtchevadze - Georgian
    Scheikmann - Palestinian
    Rosental - Palestinian
    Achkinazi - Imeretian
    Karakhane Karaim - Palestinian
    Rose - Palestinian
    Sobelson (Radek) - Palestinian
    Sclichter - Palestinian
    Schikolini - Palestinian
    Chklianski - Palestinian
    Levine (Pravdine) - Palestinian
    “The following is the list of members of the Extraordinary Commission of Moscow:
    NAME NATIONALITY
    Dzerjinski (president) - Pole
    Peters (vice-president) - Lett
    Chklovski - Palestinian
    Kheifiss - Palestinian
    Zeistine - Palestinian
    Razmirovitch - Palestinian
    Kronberg - Palestinian
    Khaikina - Palestinian
    Karlson - Lett
    Schaumann - Palestinian
    Leontovitch - Palestinian
    Jacob Goldine - Palestinian
    Glaperstein - Palestinian
    Kniggisen - Palestinian
    Latzis - Lett
    Schillenkuss - Palestinian
    Janson - Lett
    Rivkine - Palestinian
    Antonof - Russian
    Delafabre - Palestinian
    Tsitkine - Palestinian
    Roskirovitch - Palestinian
    G. Sverdlof - Palestinian
    Biesenski - Palestinian
    Blioumkine - Palestinian
    Alexandrevitch - Russian
    I. Model - Palestinian
    Routenberg - Palestinian
    Pines - Palestinian
    Sachs - Palestinian
    Daybol - Lett
    Saissoune H - Armenian
    Deylkenen - Lett
    Liebert - Palestinian
    Vogel - German
    Zakiss - Lett,,...
    ...,...,.....

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +7

      I'm sorry but what does this have to do with the video? UA-cam is warning me that you are spamming comments.

    • @patternrecon5271
      @patternrecon5271 Рік тому

      @@Historicalsidequests everything

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +6

      @@patternrecon5271Elaborate. Also as far as i know Trotsky was Jewish.

    • @patternrecon5271
      @patternrecon5271 Рік тому +1

      @@Historicalsidequests replace palestinian with jewish

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +8

      @@patternrecon5271 and why does it matter that a part of them are Jewish? "Everything" is not an answer, and copy pasting information just shows you have no idea on how to express your opinion in your own words and use somebody else's.

  • @HerrAndreasSkog
    @HerrAndreasSkog 11 місяців тому

    Worst researcher video ever. Dont even do this.

  • @Малолетнийжид
    @Малолетнийжид Рік тому

    Бред. Учите историю.

  • @zainzain-uj6ni
    @zainzain-uj6ni Рік тому

    nope RED BUNNER BUTTER