I highly recommend you watch blue jays “history worst Olympic marathon in a nutshell” the 1904 Olympics you’d think was a cartoon event except it was real life. You’d die laughing
Alittle off topic, but I always find myself watching Jason Isaacs performance as Zhukov all the time too. His entrance, his “talk” with stalins son, the secret convo with Khrushchev, and so much more. Underrated actor
@@VloggingThroughHistoryFun fact: Zhukov had so many medals in real life they had to tone them down in the movie because they thought it wouldn’t be believable if Zhukov’s entire dress shirt on this uniform consisted of almost nothing but medals
Just to add to the Mathias' story. As a pilot, 50 flight hours is nothing (you need at least 200 -250 hrs to get commercial pilot license depending on the country). The first 50 hrs you barely got any experience flying solo. So the fact that he flew that long distance and landed in the freaking red square is amazing to me as it is lol. Edit: Also to add another aviation fun fact, KAL007 misnavigation into Soviet Airspace causing it to be shot down is what causes Ronald Reagan to make GPS technology available for use in commercial planes and later improved to be used in cars, now in our pockets!
I don't remember where I read this (and I don't really know anything about flying), but from what I remember, those 50 hours were after he'd already gotten a private pilot's license. Still not a lot of experience, but he didn't just spend 50 hours training before immediately going to Moscow. Pretty sure he'd never flown internationally, though. I also remember reading that part of the reason he flew to Iceland was to practice flying a longer distance before heading to the USSR.
@@gguy3600 very helpful bit of information, thank you! Yes, you get to have a private pilot license at 50 flight hours, but in some countries you still need to have an instructor with you. Makes sense that he chose to fly that route to gain more experience, my initial thought was he tried to avoid airspace in the eastern bloc. The hardest part about flying is the landing phase, and it amazes me how he managed to land in the red square with that limited flight hours. At 50 hours I barely manage a half decent landing 2/10 times haha.
The Soviets were so concerned with the "unauthorized use" of Tu-22 coolant that they considered replacing it with some kind of non-consumable industrial coolant. Air force people pointed out that the coolant leaks into the cockpit, so using such coolants would certainly kill the pilot. They even demonstrated it by having some party officials sit in a cockpit, where they acknowledged a strong alcohol smell. What they didn't know is the crews stuffed rags soaked in vodka into the ventilation system. The pilots really liked that coolant, it was the only redeeming quality of a plane that would try its best to kill you.
A channel called Paper Skies does historical videos on aviation, with a focus on the Soviet Union because the channel creator was born there and his father was in the Red Air Force. He has a more detailed (but still humorous) video on the “Supersonic Booze Carrier” that’s worth checking out.
My dad who was a RAAF pilot pointed out to me after watching this that the downward ejection seat was also used on a number of western aircraft at the time too. In aircraft with engines above the wings or other hazards it just made more sense to engineers, it wasn't until later that the ejection mechanism was redesigned to fire hard enough to clear obstacles that the design was abandoned. The problem with the TU-22 ones was the shockingly bad soviet build quality that led them to failing or just firing at random.
There’s a funny Cold War story during the Korean War. Us soldiers fighting in the cold were stuck with there vehicles. They were low on ammunition and ordered a care package. Since they didn’t want to risk being deciphered they used the code word tootsie roll to confuse the communist, unfortunately for the US troops the radio operator was also confused So the radio operator sends in a cage package through airdrop but he dropped a package load of tootsie rolls, the amercians once they saw this were angry and confused but realized they can use the tootsie rolls to fix the pipes in there vehicles and were able to escape the area
Colonel Selfridge of the US Army was the first person to die due to an airplane crash. He was testing the Wright Flyer with one of the Wright Brothers. In Mt Clemmons, MI, there is a USAF base named after him.
Have you ever read the script they had written up in case the Apollo 11 mission failed? Chilling as hell. Can you imagine a grieving nation relying on the comforting and nurturing words of _Richard Nixon_ to see them through? Or maybe he would've surprised us all and handled it with perfect statesman grace. In an alternate history, it could be remembered as the finest hour of his presidency. He was a complicated figure.
I remember learning that the Korean airlines incident is what led to the US military making GPS available to the public to prevent the navigational error from happening again.
Georgy Zhukov being such a fan of coke is great, the dude was a legend. He had so many medals that when he wore his full uniform he may as well have been wearing plate mail armor.
Bluejay comedic non common humor is amazing and your reactions and added jokes as well is no less 😂❤ Absolutely amazing reaction to an amazing video Chris, you make even the simplest of videos so fun and entertaining let alone incredible ones from bluejay and others Keep it up ❤
i’m a Texan physics teacher…props to the Rice University in Houston, TX where JFK made his famous speech announcing our intention of getting to the moon
Was born 10 years before you. My "generation" was pretty much resigned to nuclear war - especially with movies such as The Day After and Testament. The fall of the Berlin Wall still stands out as one of the most remarkable events of my life.
"But much like an Activision Blizzard employee Mathias wasn't going to take no for an answer." BROOOOOOO the fucking shots fired. Holy crap I can't lmao
I've got a couple of managers at work that are in their mid 20s so joking around I actually brought this up. I was five in 1987 so I was talking about how I was born in a world where the USSR and Berlin Wall were still a thing. It may not have been the height of the cold war, but it was still a thing then.
I was born in 94, so a couple years after Germany was united. I've always found this era fascinating. From a cultural perspective, but even in my world of racing, the effects were felt. BTW, there was an East German motorcycle grand prix for years.
I think a more succinct way to inform people on the cold war in a sentence, would be something like "An Ideological war between the US and Soviet Union, via methods outside of direct war with each other"
I grew up in the Southwest, where any carbonated beverage was called "Coke". I came here to Western NY for college and we are right on the pop / soda dividing line. There were seriously arguments about what to call it. My husband is native to the area and calls it "Pop". I usually tell him that's what the weasel does.
My cousins all used to live in NW Ohio, and I'll never forget the confusion while visiting back in the 90's the first time one of them asked me if I'd like a 'pop'. I thought she was asking whether I'd like to literally burst, which is only slightly more confusing than me describing how to ask for a 'coke', only to order a Dr. Pepper.
31:25 That was indeed Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Richard Milhous Nixon sayed in an interview on May 12th 1983 I think that he did not recognise him but Brezhnev recounted the day.
Part of the problem with Korea Airlines 007 is that the Soviet ballistic missile test range is headquartered on the Kamchatka peninsula, so the paranoia about spying took over that night. Hitler's paintings are disturbing; they were landscapes, both urban and rural, but people were painted without a face😧
The anime/manga “Full Metal Panic” is technically a Cold War show because it’s a Cold War between the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but it also takes place in 2003 with mechs first invented in the 1980s.
You need to watch “One, Two, Three” which stars James Cagney. Cagney plays an executive for Coca-Cola in West Berlin before the close of the Brandenburg gate. This movie was filmed the summer before the gate closed and there are scenes filmed in East Berlin. It’s very funny and a unique look at the time period.
You mentioned countries that don’t exist anymore. I think it is very interesting to think about Yugoslavia and how their Olympic basketball team would be a perennial favorite for a gold medal if they still existed.
If you want to know WHY he chose that flight route: At the time there was a conference which failed between the Soviet Union and the USA about the reduction of nuclear missiles. He attended the conference and was angry when it came to no consensus to he immediately flew from Iceland where the conference was held to Moscow.
"From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic.. An iron curtain has descended across the continent." - Winston Churchill. (Post war speech in a college in the US) Btw, my favorite CIA thing has to be when they wanted to poison Castro using a divingsuit that one of his friends were to give him. The friend however refused to do it.
A great video to check out regarding the Space Race is History Buff's review of the Apollo 13 film. The first half of the video is a rundown of everything leading up to Apollo 13 while the latter half discusses the events of the movie and how accurate to history they were
Can confirm, if you're flying unauthorized to the Soviet Union from a NATO country, making your last stop before Soviet airspace in Finland is probably a good idea for increasing the chance to make it without getting shot down. Finland was officially neutral but had very friendly relations with (and at times a very submissive posture towards) the Soviet Union, and benefited greatly in the commercial access it brought. Part of which was allowing Finnair, the national airline, to use Soviet airspace. Which is why for a long time, most of European flights to the Far East went via Helsinki. A situation that continued for quite a while after the Cold War, since there weren't that many commercial aircraft around with enough range to make it to East Asia from a major Western European capital.
The good with blueJay is that he is inspired from OverSimplified but not copy or imitate. Good humour and even in the same topic they are not overlapping
From what I remember from the Civilian airliner shoot-down in a documentary, The Soviet Fighter Pilot that Shot down the passenger jet to this day staunchly believes that what was in front of him on that night was a U.S military Aircraft. Since the U.S did have converted passenger jets with Spy and military equipment on board at the time and from what he saw and from what information he was given, an American Spy Aircraft of some kind violated Soviet airspace and did what he was trained to do without hesitation. Soviet recovery teams would very quickly find the Passenger jets black box recorder and kept hidden from the world for years with agency's in the west investigating the disaster believed it was lost to time or was taken the the U.S.S.R, until near the end of the cold war the Black Box was Returned and the final moments of the Aircraft before it was intercepted would finally be known after years since the disaster happened.
The channel Paper Skies actually recently released a video regarding the different types of cocktails invented out of aviation fluids by Soviet aviation ground crews. He also talks about other historical events and incidents related to or involving Soviet aviation pretty interesting stuff.
About the Tu-22 and it's Vodka cooling system, it's actually common place for Soviet crews to use various aircraft fluids and turn them alcohol. Pretty much anything was used from landing gear hydraulic fluid, to even brake fluid, and it wasn't just exclusive to the Tu-22 as pretty much any Soviet aircraft from the small MiG-21 to the monstrous MiG-25, all use some various form of alcohol in their operation. For a more in-depth video I highly recommend the youtube channel Paper Skies and his latest video "How Soviet Pilots Drank Alcohol From Planes". A genuinely great channel that really shows just how dysfunctional the Soviet Air Force was.
Nice video and always a big fan of BlueJay. If you want to keep up some cold-war spy reactions, I can recommend a video where the former Chief of Disguise of the CIA, Jonna Mendez breaks down spy-gadgets they used during their operations. The video is called "Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down Cold War Spy Gadgets | WIRED"
The thing about the acoustic cat is that since the main issue was training the cat to stay near the people. But what is even more likely to be near humans?? Dogs. Though absolutely no information about acoustic dogs has ever been released
I grew up during the Cuban missile crisis, duck and cover drills. The bell would sound we would get under our desks and put our hands on our necks. Funny they never tried to scare us it was just something we had to do. The space race.. they would bring TVs into our classroom and we could watch the rocketship blastoff. They never tried to scare us. It was either soda or Coke growing up btw
24:50 It's actually far worse. He knew he was going to die before the rocket even launched. Their whole team knew it was shoddy as hell, they even wrote a letter to Brezhniev about it. It was all ignored. There were like three separate failures once he was in orbit. Despite all that he managed to reorient the craft properly and reenter earth, but the last part that failed was the main parachute.
Fun fact with the space race: the state of Ohio is in 4th place for the number of astronauts sent to space, biggest names being John Glenn from the Northeast (Cambridge) and Neil Armstrong in the Northwest (Wapakoneta). Of the 26 astronauts, most came from the NE and only 2 came from NW.
I actually thought the reason why it was called the Cold war, is because America and Soviet Russia were being cold and hostile towards each other but not actually getting into a fight
If I could make one correction, technically speaking we did fight a war against the USSR but that was during the Russian Revolution and we sent troops in as did a lot of other countries to support the White Army
25:38 The UA-camr Joe Scott (who does well researched videos on science related topics) did a hilarious parody of the moment showing a bunch of NASA engineers reacting in disbelief, horror and shock to JFK's man on the moon pledge.
Chris, I know this is a little off topic, but do you know of any good books on union civil war economy and production? I have looked and they seem to be non existent.
Hitler's problem as a painter was that he was shit at painting people. He did almost entirely architecture, which he was good at. But when you are applying to art college, you need to be better at more than just buildings. Hence why he got rejected.
My father was 8 years old when Sputnik I went into orbit and he told me he remembers listening to it on the radio in class and just being absolutely petrified about what it was meant to mean.
I'd like to add that NKVD(later KGB) used umbrella tactics since the 1930s. They were hunting political opponents with cyanide needles and sprays in umbrellas, before moving on to poisoned darts and bullets. It is said that Lenin, when coming to power, inherited the most advanced laboratory, which specialized in developing poisons, was later used to poison Lenin, and was never closed by any leader after that. Rumors say, Stalin may have also been poisoned by KGB chief Beria with the contents of this very same lab in 1952, and have one of the Stalin's doppelgangers take the helm till late 1953. Why? Because during autopsy, Stalin was missing several severe cases of his dysfunction, and had about 13 doppelgangers. At the same time, a revolt in the government rose, Khrushchev in the lead, who threatened Beria: "If you're not with us, you're against us". Beria got rid of the Stalin doppelganger, but was so feared because of his position, that he was arrested. Supposedly, he had a public trial. But how come a Georgian national did not understand his native language at all, spoken in court? I believe he was killed during arrest, because of fear, and replaced by one of a few doppelgangers Beria had himself, because he feared for his life.
As insane as acoustic kitty might sound, I once went to a CIA recruitment event at my college (yes it was weird) and they told us about how they’d made a robotic fix to eavesdrop on a conversation.
Well regarding the Tu-22, the West had its own version of it in the F-104 Starfighter-affair (part of the larger Lockheed Scandal). From 916 F-104 the Westgermany ordered a third crashed killing 116 German pilots.
They did the cat thing on the dollop. It kept kept walking up to the spies in the park and they would pet it and didn't seem to worry about what it was doing. too much.
In my opinion space race is a tie, because both sides still competed with each other after, until USSR launched a Canon in to space and then fired it. After that both sides realized that it is better to cooperate than to fight ( at least in space ). And that started the ISS project
The Space Race was not a who-gets-it-first kind of race, (If so, the Soviet Union was winning: The first satellite, the first animals in space, the first man in space) but a who-gets-the-farthest kind of race. And with the moon landing, the triumph literally went to the United States.
Korea Air Lines Flight 007 was not coming from Korea. It was coming from New York City, via Anchorage, Alaska. It's destination was Korea. This flight and it's shootdown, along with the Soviet hostility and uncooperativeness, were the reasons that the GPS satellites were made available for civilian use.
17:30 It kind of makes it harder for the West in that sense because the very nature of the free system they are struggling to preserve, kind of inadvertently acts as unilateral disarmament. The same dynamic is at play today with the mostly economic rivalry shaping up with China. The more freer your system is, the more opportunities they have to leverage it to their advantage, especially if they have no qualms about it themselves. It kind of boils down to dynamic that pits idealism against practical realism. Do you opt to be as free as possible, or do you sacrifice some elements of freedom to facilitate survival/victory. This is an often overlooked element in the battle over the ratification of the constitution, the First and Second Party Systems. Should the gov't work to strengthen and preserve the system as the best defense against a foreign power undoing the Revolution, or should we stick to our principles, leave people as free as possible, and accept the risks this entails. US has always managed to strike just the right balance, and/or pull itself back when it went too far (The Articles of Confederation and the Alien & Sedition Acts on the other extreme). In the years immediately after WWII, you had the crack down on Soviet Spies in reaction to the lax approach prior to that point, but then you had this morph into the red scare in the 1950s.
Just a side note but Gorbachev is not remembered fondly in Russia. I doubt any other post soviet states sing his preises either. So i doubt he has played any significant role in ending cold war besides being poor leader.
A new channel Map pack has a video why the US didn’t nuke Tokyo, lots of cool intro around it aswell. Would be good for a reaction video. Great Content, thank you Chris
"Celebrating Hitler's first GOOD painting"
That is the best history joke ever. Fight me.
I highly recommend you watch blue jays “history worst Olympic marathon in a nutshell” the 1904 Olympics you’d think was a cartoon event except it was real life. You’d die laughing
Either it or Jon Bois' Pretty Good about the same event
Yeah, I'd love to see you take this one on myself. It's so tragically funny.
I've also enjoyed Watcher's Puppet History version about the marathon.
@kix4635 Man, Puppet History would be a whole other Rabbit hole to go down.
I also would like to see him react to “How to worship like ancient Egyptian”
Alittle off topic, but I always find myself watching Jason Isaacs performance as Zhukov all the time too. His entrance, his “talk” with stalins son, the secret convo with Khrushchev, and so much more. Underrated actor
I love when Stalin's son yells "Medic!" the second he sees him.
Wel thats me told@@VloggingThroughHistory
@@gerriekipkerrie6736 I'll be off to represent the Red Army at the buffet then, you girls have fun
@@VloggingThroughHistoryFun fact: Zhukov had so many medals in real life they had to tone them down in the movie because they thought it wouldn’t be believable if Zhukov’s entire dress shirt on this uniform consisted of almost nothing but medals
@@Shadowchaser_of_UnitrexI’m gonna have to report this conversation threatening to do harm to a member of- look at your face!
Just to add to the Mathias' story. As a pilot, 50 flight hours is nothing (you need at least 200 -250 hrs to get commercial pilot license depending on the country). The first 50 hrs you barely got any experience flying solo. So the fact that he flew that long distance and landed in the freaking red square is amazing to me as it is lol.
Edit: Also to add another aviation fun fact, KAL007 misnavigation into Soviet Airspace causing it to be shot down is what causes Ronald Reagan to make GPS technology available for use in commercial planes and later improved to be used in cars, now in our pockets!
I was thinking it could be compared to a surgeon- you really wouldn't want to be operated on by someone with only 50 hours of training!
I don't remember where I read this (and I don't really know anything about flying), but from what I remember, those 50 hours were after he'd already gotten a private pilot's license. Still not a lot of experience, but he didn't just spend 50 hours training before immediately going to Moscow. Pretty sure he'd never flown internationally, though.
I also remember reading that part of the reason he flew to Iceland was to practice flying a longer distance before heading to the USSR.
@@gguy3600 very helpful bit of information, thank you! Yes, you get to have a private pilot license at 50 flight hours, but in some countries you still need to have an instructor with you.
Makes sense that he chose to fly that route to gain more experience, my initial thought was he tried to avoid airspace in the eastern bloc. The hardest part about flying is the landing phase, and it amazes me how he managed to land in the red square with that limited flight hours. At 50 hours I barely manage a half decent landing 2/10 times haha.
"Jesus you look terrible."
"My name is actually Vlad but thank you sir"
Had me rolling for 5 minutes
Bluejay's comedic timing is so great. He's really found a really fun and unique voice.
Is Bluejay the replacement for Oversimplified?
@@FirestormX9 no he's just the filler for the other 364 days of the year oversimplified doesn't upload on
@@kosmic_kamui6699 LOL that was a good one
@@FirestormX9 He's honestly more similar to Sam O'Nella
@@kosmic_kamui6699 you're optimistic if you think oversimplified will upload once a year in the future 🥲
"All problems will be solved in Dallas" had me rolling for like 5 minutes.
It's such a DARK joke but it's fucking hilarious.
It took me 10 minutes to realize 😂
The Soviets were so concerned with the "unauthorized use" of Tu-22 coolant that they considered replacing it with some kind of non-consumable industrial coolant. Air force people pointed out that the coolant leaks into the cockpit, so using such coolants would certainly kill the pilot. They even demonstrated it by having some party officials sit in a cockpit, where they acknowledged a strong alcohol smell. What they didn't know is the crews stuffed rags soaked in vodka into the ventilation system. The pilots really liked that coolant, it was the only redeeming quality of a plane that would try its best to kill you.
A channel called Paper Skies does historical videos on aviation, with a focus on the Soviet Union because the channel creator was born there and his father was in the Red Air Force. He has a more detailed (but still humorous) video on the “Supersonic Booze Carrier” that’s worth checking out.
His videos are great!
Acoustic Kitties and Laser Dolphins are some of the funniest experiments ive ever heard of.
"All problems will be solved in Dallas" 💀💀💀💀
My dad who was a RAAF pilot pointed out to me after watching this that the downward ejection seat was also used on a number of western aircraft at the time too. In aircraft with engines above the wings or other hazards it just made more sense to engineers, it wasn't until later that the ejection mechanism was redesigned to fire hard enough to clear obstacles that the design was abandoned. The problem with the TU-22 ones was the shockingly bad soviet build quality that led them to failing or just firing at random.
There’s a funny Cold War story during the Korean War.
Us soldiers fighting in the cold were stuck with there vehicles. They were low on ammunition and ordered a care package.
Since they didn’t want to risk being deciphered they used the code word tootsie roll to confuse the communist, unfortunately for the US troops the radio operator was also confused
So the radio operator sends in a cage package through airdrop but he dropped a package load of tootsie rolls, the amercians once they saw this were angry and confused but realized they can use the tootsie rolls to fix the pipes in there vehicles and were able to escape the area
In the second grade, we practiced air raid drills by dropping under our desks. The Cold War was normal for me until it was over.
Now kids practice dropping under desks for lone gunmen. Second verse, rhymes with the first.
@@Oddricm Only in the US they do.
@@dawoifee I live in New Zealand... I'm pretty sure lockdown drills are mandatory same as fire drills.
@@DankSwegSkuxxXhayel Are they? Do you have such issues there?
@@dawoifee It's also true for Australian schools, and the last time we came close to a school shooting was 1972.
Already saw this vid, absolutely funny and historically accurate, and its nice to see more historical context ✌😁 keep up the great work
Colonel Selfridge of the US Army was the first person to die due to an airplane crash. He was testing the Wright Flyer with one of the Wright Brothers.
In Mt Clemmons, MI, there is a USAF base named after him.
Have you ever read the script they had written up in case the Apollo 11 mission failed? Chilling as hell.
Can you imagine a grieving nation relying on the comforting and nurturing words of _Richard Nixon_ to see them through?
Or maybe he would've surprised us all and handled it with perfect statesman grace. In an alternate history, it could be remembered as the finest hour of his presidency.
He was a complicated figure.
Love some more Blue Jay! Telling history in at times a humorous, sarcastic way can help keep an audience.
I remember learning that the Korean airlines incident is what led to the US military making GPS available to the public to prevent the navigational error from happening again.
“Hitler’s first good painting” is hilarious 😂😂
In Bluejays director commentary, he notes that Reagan and Gorbachev were in Iceland for a meeting and Raust was trying to meet them there originall.
Georgy Zhukov being such a fan of coke is great, the dude was a legend. He had so many medals that when he wore his full uniform he may as well have been wearing plate mail armor.
And he was one of the few generals who we can say he earned all of the medals on his uniform.
Bluejay comedic non common humor is amazing and your reactions and added jokes as well is no less 😂❤
Absolutely amazing reaction to an amazing video Chris, you make even the simplest of videos so fun and entertaining let alone incredible ones from bluejay and others
Keep it up ❤
i’m a Texan physics teacher…props to the Rice University in Houston, TX where JFK made his famous speech announcing our intention of getting to the moon
Was born 10 years before you. My "generation" was pretty much resigned to nuclear war - especially with movies such as The Day After and Testament. The fall of the Berlin Wall still stands out as one of the most remarkable events of my life.
"But much like an Activision Blizzard employee Mathias wasn't going to take no for an answer."
BROOOOOOO the fucking shots fired. Holy crap I can't lmao
What perfect timing for this video. I just got through the director's commentary on this video, and now a reaction.
Mathias Rust tried to pull a Rudolf Hess and ended up in the clink all the same.
I've got a couple of managers at work that are in their mid 20s so joking around I actually brought this up. I was five in 1987 so I was talking about how I was born in a world where the USSR and Berlin Wall were still a thing. It may not have been the height of the cold war, but it was still a thing then.
I was born in 94, so a couple years after Germany was united. I've always found this era fascinating. From a cultural perspective, but even in my world of racing, the effects were felt. BTW, there was an East German motorcycle grand prix for years.
I'm subscribed to both your channels (and BlueJay, of course). Keep up the great work 👍🏻
I think a more succinct way to inform people on the cold war in a sentence, would be something like "An Ideological war between the US and Soviet Union, via methods outside of direct war with each other"
Blue Jay w some great one liners. Comedy classic!
Blue Jay is just fantastic. Subscribed to both your and his channels.
I grew up in the Southwest, where any carbonated beverage was called "Coke". I came here to Western NY for college and we are right on the pop / soda dividing line. There were seriously arguments about what to call it. My husband is native to the area and calls it "Pop". I usually tell him that's what the weasel does.
My cousins all used to live in NW Ohio, and I'll never forget the confusion while visiting back in the 90's the first time one of them asked me if I'd like a 'pop'. I thought she was asking whether I'd like to literally burst, which is only slightly more confusing than me describing how to ask for a 'coke', only to order a Dr. Pepper.
@@airborngrmp1 "Hey can you bring some Cokes to the party?" "Sure, what kind?" 😆
here in east texas all “soft drinks” are “cokes” as in you go to a fast food place and they’ll ask “what coke do you want?”
31:25 That was indeed Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Richard Milhous Nixon sayed in an interview on May 12th 1983 I think that he did not recognise him but Brezhnev recounted the day.
Love how the "docking" joke seems to be going over everyone's head. 😂
Part of the problem with Korea Airlines 007 is that the Soviet ballistic missile test range is headquartered on the Kamchatka peninsula, so the paranoia about spying took over that night.
Hitler's paintings are disturbing; they were landscapes, both urban and rural, but people were painted without a face😧
Don’t worry, the Kamchatka was just taking a break from spotting Japanese torpedo boats, in the Baltic…
The anime/manga “Full Metal Panic” is technically a Cold War show because it’s a Cold War between the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but it also takes place in 2003 with mechs first invented in the 1980s.
You need to watch “One, Two, Three” which stars James Cagney. Cagney plays an executive for Coca-Cola in West Berlin before the close of the Brandenburg gate. This movie was filmed the summer before the gate closed and there are scenes filmed in East Berlin. It’s very funny and a unique look at the time period.
You mentioned countries that don’t exist anymore. I think it is very interesting to think about Yugoslavia and how their Olympic basketball team would be a perennial favorite for a gold medal if they still existed.
If you want to know WHY he chose that flight route: At the time there was a conference which failed between the Soviet Union and the USA about the reduction of nuclear missiles.
He attended the conference and was angry when it came to no consensus to he immediately flew from Iceland where the conference was held to Moscow.
"From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic.. An iron curtain has descended across the continent." - Winston Churchill. (Post war speech in a college in the US)
Btw, my favorite CIA thing has to be when they wanted to poison Castro using a divingsuit that one of his friends were to give him. The friend however refused to do it.
4:00 If its the same flight Im thinking of, one of the planes passengers, Larry Mcdonald, was a sitting congressman when the plane was shot down.
A great video to check out regarding the Space Race is History Buff's review of the Apollo 13 film. The first half of the video is a rundown of everything leading up to Apollo 13 while the latter half discusses the events of the movie and how accurate to history they were
Can confirm, if you're flying unauthorized to the Soviet Union from a NATO country, making your last stop before Soviet airspace in Finland is probably a good idea for increasing the chance to make it without getting shot down. Finland was officially neutral but had very friendly relations with (and at times a very submissive posture towards) the Soviet Union, and benefited greatly in the commercial access it brought. Part of which was allowing Finnair, the national airline, to use Soviet airspace. Which is why for a long time, most of European flights to the Far East went via Helsinki. A situation that continued for quite a while after the Cold War, since there weren't that many commercial aircraft around with enough range to make it to East Asia from a major Western European capital.
Excited for the original content! Keep up the great work!
The good with blueJay is that he is inspired from OverSimplified but not copy or imitate. Good humour and even in the same topic they are not overlapping
From what I remember from the Civilian airliner shoot-down in a documentary, The Soviet Fighter Pilot that Shot down the passenger jet to this day staunchly believes that what was in front of him on that night was a U.S military Aircraft. Since the U.S did have converted passenger jets with Spy and military equipment on board at the time and from what he saw and from what information he was given, an American Spy Aircraft of some kind violated Soviet airspace and did what he was trained to do without hesitation. Soviet recovery teams would very quickly find the Passenger jets black box recorder and kept hidden from the world for years with agency's in the west investigating the disaster believed it was lost to time or was taken the the U.S.S.R, until near the end of the cold war the Black Box was Returned and the final moments of the Aircraft before it was intercepted would finally be known after years since the disaster happened.
29:46 He dominates every scene he is in. Amazing movie!
I love that I was born in 87 but still had maps in school that had the USSR on them
Just watched The Death of Stalin last night and couldn’t agree more!
5:13 he said "The Kamchatka".
Now it makes perfect sense
There's no booze a true Russian wouldn't at least attempt to drink.
Don't think I have ever been this early in watching a VTH release.
Suggestions for Cold war videos, The Fat Electrician has a couple, one on the Berlin wall, and one on the Berlin airlift that you should react to
I think it's Green Dot Aviation that have a great video explaining the Korean flight shot down in 83. Great reaction once again.
The channel Paper Skies actually recently released a video regarding the different types of cocktails invented out of aviation fluids by Soviet aviation ground crews.
He also talks about other historical events and incidents related to or involving Soviet aviation pretty interesting stuff.
About the Tu-22 and it's Vodka cooling system, it's actually common place for Soviet crews to use various aircraft fluids and turn them alcohol. Pretty much anything was used from landing gear hydraulic fluid, to even brake fluid, and it wasn't just exclusive to the Tu-22 as pretty much any Soviet aircraft from the small MiG-21 to the monstrous MiG-25, all use some various form of alcohol in their operation.
For a more in-depth video I highly recommend the youtube channel Paper Skies and his latest video "How Soviet Pilots Drank Alcohol From Planes". A genuinely great channel that really shows just how dysfunctional the Soviet Air Force was.
Even though it was hilarious the acoustic kitty but was horrifying, i love my cat
Nice video and always a big fan of BlueJay.
If you want to keep up some cold-war spy reactions, I can recommend a video where the former Chief of Disguise of the CIA, Jonna Mendez breaks down spy-gadgets they used during their operations.
The video is called "Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down Cold War Spy Gadgets | WIRED"
Jonna and Tony Mendez were amazing. Their bios read like a movie
@@johnconner9149 Well, they did make a movie out of one of Tony's operations.
The thing about the acoustic cat is that since the main issue was training the cat to stay near the people. But what is even more likely to be near humans?? Dogs. Though absolutely no information about acoustic dogs has ever been released
I grew up during the Cuban missile crisis, duck and cover drills. The bell would sound we would get under our desks and put our hands on our necks. Funny they never tried to scare us it was just something we had to do. The space race.. they would bring TVs into our classroom and we could watch the rocketship blastoff. They never tried to scare us. It was either soda or Coke growing up btw
24:50 It's actually far worse. He knew he was going to die before the rocket even launched. Their whole team knew it was shoddy as hell, they even wrote a letter to Brezhniev about it. It was all ignored. There were like three separate failures once he was in orbit. Despite all that he managed to reorient the craft properly and reenter earth, but the last part that failed was the main parachute.
Fun fact with the space race: the state of Ohio is in 4th place for the number of astronauts sent to space, biggest names being John Glenn from the Northeast (Cambridge) and Neil Armstrong in the Northwest (Wapakoneta). Of the 26 astronauts, most came from the NE and only 2 came from NW.
I actually thought the reason why it was called the Cold war, is because America and Soviet Russia were being cold and hostile towards each other but not actually getting into a fight
If I could make one correction, technically speaking we did fight a war against the USSR but that was during the Russian Revolution and we sent troops in as did a lot of other countries to support the White Army
25:38 The UA-camr Joe Scott (who does well researched videos on science related topics) did a hilarious parody of the moment showing a bunch of NASA engineers reacting in disbelief, horror and shock to JFK's man on the moon pledge.
We all call it Pop too here in Yorkshire where I'm from.
The book The Right Stuff is a great read. I have an interest in all things vehicular.
I know “malicious hooliganism” well!
34:30 For you fantasy gamers, imagine something very similar to the tranquil in Dragon age, but actually worse somehow.
YES I was waiting for this reaction
Anybody else notice by the end of this video, his eyes are looking like the edible is hitting pretty hard? 😂
In the UK we call it “fizzy pop” and we also just call all kinds of cola coke.
People in meetings, "Pass the LSD."
Chris, I know this is a little off topic, but do you know of any good books on union civil war economy and production? I have looked and they seem to be non existent.
Hitler's problem as a painter was that he was shit at painting people. He did almost entirely architecture, which he was good at. But when you are applying to art college, you need to be better at more than just buildings. Hence why he got rejected.
10:50 some people have done analysis of Hitler's paintings (watch them). Hitler really messed up perspective.
*Takes notes* Hitler had a really messed up perspective.
@@Chooopy I mean, yes, but also he sucked at sizing things correctly in his paintings.
My father was 8 years old when Sputnik I went into orbit and he told me he remembers listening to it on the radio in class and just being absolutely petrified about what it was meant to mean.
I'd like to add that NKVD(later KGB) used umbrella tactics since the 1930s. They were hunting political opponents with cyanide needles and sprays in umbrellas, before moving on to poisoned darts and bullets. It is said that Lenin, when coming to power, inherited the most advanced laboratory, which specialized in developing poisons, was later used to poison Lenin, and was never closed by any leader after that. Rumors say, Stalin may have also been poisoned by KGB chief Beria with the contents of this very same lab in 1952, and have one of the Stalin's doppelgangers take the helm till late 1953. Why? Because during autopsy, Stalin was missing several severe cases of his dysfunction, and had about 13 doppelgangers. At the same time, a revolt in the government rose, Khrushchev in the lead, who threatened Beria: "If you're not with us, you're against us". Beria got rid of the Stalin doppelganger, but was so feared because of his position, that he was arrested. Supposedly, he had a public trial. But how come a Georgian national did not understand his native language at all, spoken in court? I believe he was killed during arrest, because of fear, and replaced by one of a few doppelgangers Beria had himself, because he feared for his life.
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my fav is from the MK ulter test of let give 10mill to a drug addacit to study his fav drug
As insane as acoustic kitty might sound, I once went to a CIA recruitment event at my college (yes it was weird) and they told us about how they’d made a robotic fix to eavesdrop on a conversation.
Just want to see love the channel and the videos you keep making. Blue Jay his stuff is also top notch
1987 I graduated high school and joined the US Navy, I remember it well 2 different Germany's.
Well regarding the Tu-22, the West had its own version of it in the F-104 Starfighter-affair (part of the larger Lockheed Scandal). From 916 F-104 the Westgermany ordered a third crashed killing 116 German pilots.
The Death of Stalin is amazing!
And yes, Jason Issacs was the best part of that movie!!!
They did the cat thing on the dollop. It kept kept walking up to the spies in the park and they would pet it and didn't seem to worry about what it was doing. too much.
I'm glad Bluejay knows how to pronounce my name right!
I highly recommend you watch paper skies. Very good videos of soviet airforces!
I think government agencies need to have that one person on the board that will tell the others "This is a stupid idea".
Tito would make a fascinating subject for this series.
In my opinion space race is a tie, because both sides still competed with each other after, until USSR launched a Canon in to space and then fired it. After that both sides realized that it is better to cooperate than to fight ( at least in space ). And that started the ISS project
The Space Race was not a who-gets-it-first kind of race, (If so, the Soviet Union was winning: The first satellite, the first animals in space, the first man in space) but a who-gets-the-farthest kind of race. And with the moon landing, the triumph literally went to the United States.
Korea Air Lines Flight 007 was not coming from Korea. It was coming from New York City, via Anchorage, Alaska. It's destination was Korea. This flight and it's shootdown, along with the Soviet hostility and uncooperativeness, were the reasons that the GPS satellites were made available for civilian use.
17:30 It kind of makes it harder for the West in that sense because the very nature of the free system they are struggling to preserve, kind of inadvertently acts as unilateral disarmament. The same dynamic is at play today with the mostly economic rivalry shaping up with China. The more freer your system is, the more opportunities they have to leverage it to their advantage, especially if they have no qualms about it themselves.
It kind of boils down to dynamic that pits idealism against practical realism. Do you opt to be as free as possible, or do you sacrifice some elements of freedom to facilitate survival/victory. This is an often overlooked element in the battle over the ratification of the constitution, the First and Second Party Systems. Should the gov't work to strengthen and preserve the system as the best defense against a foreign power undoing the Revolution, or should we stick to our principles, leave people as free as possible, and accept the risks this entails. US has always managed to strike just the right balance, and/or pull itself back when it went too far (The Articles of Confederation and the Alien & Sedition Acts on the other extreme).
In the years immediately after WWII, you had the crack down on Soviet Spies in reaction to the lax approach prior to that point, but then you had this morph into the red scare in the 1950s.
Just a side note but Gorbachev is not remembered fondly in Russia. I doubt any other post soviet states sing his preises either. So i doubt he has played any significant role in ending cold war besides being poor leader.
Flight 007 going over Russia sounds like a huge misplay 😂
A new channel Map pack has a video why the US didn’t nuke Tokyo, lots of cool intro around it aswell. Would be good for a reaction video.
Great Content, thank you Chris
Hey I was 10 in 1987 too... we're sooo Gen X