Rasputin vs Stalin. Epic Rap Battles of History (Reaction)
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when stalin died, his body was put on display for citizens to pay respects, which was known as "laid in state" and the line was saying that even while he was dead and on display, his regime was still getting rid of his enemies, since they were until khruschev took over
also, "red over white" is red army (bolsheviks) over the white army (Czar loyalists) and seeing as Rasputin wanted control over the Czar, he would be on the white army side
Wasn't there also something about people being trampled during the public viewing?
And lots of people got trampled to death trying to see his body.
Ye people got trampled
Is it Czar or Tsar, I’ve seen both, I’m guessing it’s a different spelling.
@@red_robot1056 Tsar is the Russian spelling, Czar is the more western spelling. The term came from "Caesar" (hence Czar) but it's also a different language so either one is right
Fun fact: The name ''Stalin'' itself also means ''Man of Steel''
Definitely something ERB team knew when writing this ^^
@@embran8486 Not We Skeem, though. Sadly
@@nathanieldiaz5254 He wasn't prepared and often states memory and attention span not what it was. Pandemic likely something to do with it too.
@@embran8486 He jokes about memory loss that's all.
@@embran8486 He's more knowledgeable than most people I see react to ERB, but that doesn't mean he knows everything. I mean, how many people actually speak enough Russian to know that? But it's not a big deal though, sometimes you just don't know things that other people would consider common knowledge. Hell, sometimes it's better that way, after all, if he knew everything about every video, We Skeem subscribers wouldn't have the Jason Todd meme.
"The last man who attacked me lived a half life" is a reference to a political figure that publicly attacked Putin's ruthless practices as a leader. The man "mysteriously" died of radiation poisoning later, hence the "lived a half life" part of the line.
Also because it was radiation poisoning the half life also refers to the rate of decay in the radioactive material
@thomasqwerty101 Yeah, I watched the Buzzfeed Unsolved episode about that too
The same thing happened to a reporter had called out that a family being blamed for murder likely didn't do it as there was no evidence and the trail wasn't fair. And then pointed the finger at what would have essentially been a government nark. Italy did something similar a long time ago where they tried to take the blame of a murder off of drug addict because he would sometimes spy for them and they tried to blame an American student for it. What made it worse was that their forensics team was a joke, they tracked blood all over the place, weren't taking pictures, sometimes someone would pick up an item (one namely being a bra) and dropping it in another room and that item would be picked up and treated as evidence. They tried to say that a steak knife made the injuries on the woman's body even though the wounds were clearly from a much much larger knife. And the Attorney general of the area just kept throwing out a claim that it was all caused by a satanic sex game, his favorite excuse to throw out when there was little evidence and motive. Every time the girl gets deemed innocent because again no evidence, poor crime scene handling, etc. They still try to get her brought back to be retried.
"And stopped the greatest revolution since the birth of Marx!" "Did someone say 'birthmarks'?'" Still one of the most clever walk-in lines. Ultimately I'd personally have to give the win to Lenin, but everyone had some solid bars
Best Disses: Lenin
Best Flow: Gorbachev
Best Bragging: Putin
Best Facial Hair: Rasputin
Best Mustache: Stalin
Best Dancer: PewDiePie
Nah Rasputin gets award for Best Peen
A solid breakdown
Lenin has best facial hair fite me
Winner:Pompey
@@AlexanderAzarov Fight*
The story about Stalins son for those who care: During the war his son was captured by opposing forces and they thought to use him as leverage to have a certain prisoner of war. When Stalin received the message he is rumored to be "keep him. Why would I trade a major for a private?"
Even better he tried to commit suicide by shooting himself and failed. Stalin commented that he couldnt even shoot straight
No, he became alcoholic and they arrested him and sent him to a prison camp, and he died there
His son was a lieutenant and they were trying to trade him for a field marshall.
Also, before that, his son tried to commit suicide and failed. Stalin reportedly said that he couldn’t even shoot straight
ERB Rasputin vs Stalin: Opens with a Wario joke
Me: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Stalin literally means "Man of Steel", since Superman is also the Man of Steel which is why the Kryptonite line comes into play
“Whisper to your wife” Rasputin is credited or blamed with helping the downfall of Tsar Nicholas by gaining influence over his wife
If memory serves, part of the reason for Rasputin's murder/assassination was because during World War I Tsar Nicholas had a spontaneous decision to personally command the Russian military or something in spite of having no military education. When he left his capital, he left his wife and Rasputin in charge, which led to a growing belief that Rasputin had gained immense influence over the royal family through the Tsar's wife and was using it to control the Empire.
Sentinel That’s absolutely correct
When Stalin died, during his funeral there were thousands of people trying to pay their respects, apparently over a thousand people were crushed to death and trampled in the process.
"Pride of Lenin took Troskty out of the picture" I think also refers to the fact that when Stalin took over he had pictures editied/changed where Troskty and him were with Lenin originally but removed Troskty to show only him(Stalin) and Lenin to show he is the legit successor of Lenin and not Troskty who he had ousted.
yea heard of that.
I love how Gorbachev preemptively dissed Putin.
If your name end with "in", time to get out, so he's referring to Rasputin, Stalin and Lenin obviously but then someone else whose name also end with "in" (Putin) enters the rap battle after Gorbachev's verse so Gorbachev essentially told Putin to gtfo before he even *started* his rap.
Rasputin was neither a monk nor an ordained priest, he was a lay preacher.
He certainly did the laying.
6:58 Which is funny, given that when his first wife died, he said: "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died, and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."
"Took Trotsky Out Of The Picture" is a double reference. First, to Stalin having Trotsky first exiled, then assassinated. And second, to the common soviet practice of editing official histories, documents, but especially *photographs* to remove the various political figures who appear in them but were later removed from power or killed.
Indeed...I am actually impressed someone here have knowledge
::sees Putin::
"Ahh, shit."
That's a fairly typical response, I'd say.
"Might end up mysteriously unalived"
Algorithm i want that face reveal
if i remember correctly, he needed 1 million subscriber to do it
Pagomenos or 100k if it’s by the end of 2020
@@casht.4067 ohh, yeah, 100k i though 1M XD
Fun fact: during ww2 Hitler and Stalin were allies at one point, until Hitler let his pride and arrogance get the best of him and betrayed Stalin, but due to the harsh environmental weather of Russia and the scorched earth tactics the Germans were at a severe disadvantage and it didn't help that their tanks were too specialized that when they broke down, they couldn't be fixed
It really wasn't Hitler's pride. The Germans quite simply needed the oil fields from Ukraine to supply their tank based blitzkrieg tactics. Hitler had no choice. Yes attacking Russia ultimately lead to Germany being utterly destroyed. Though he was going to lose without access to vast a mounts of oil.
Same reason why he was attacking british territory in the middle east. And why England was viciously defending the middle east more then the French western front.
Even before WWII, Russia and Germany had a sort of thing going where their troops trained together. Hitler's plan was all along to invade Russia, but it wasn't until he felt brave and confident enough to send in other peoples' sons (the "pride and arrogance" fits quite well in that comment you made) that he pushed ahead with his betrayal.
If he didn’t do anything you think Stalin would not invade Germany it was just a wait game who’s gonna do it first Stalin didn’t cuz he wasn’t ready
Part of what caused Hitler to lose was Stalin's use of corpses to block off major thoroughfares. To ensure this happened he employed the use of Commissars, or officers with field execution authority, to ensure that if nothing else the roads would be blocked off using the dead. This forced Germany to have to constantly change to less viable routes leading to consumption of resources and harsher terrain that rapidly wore down the tanks and other vehicles. It also allowed Russia to extend limited supplies by removing a large portion of the population while being able to ambush broken caravans. A brutally efficient yet cruel tactic that saved(?) Russia from Hitler but at an inhuman cost.
They weren't really allies, all they did was sign a non-aggression pact, because neither Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union was ready for an all out war although both knew it was gonna happen, they just didn't know when or who would start it.
Always glad to see a premiere! Def needed a great skeem video to cheer me up
When Stalin's body was put on display(called layed in state) there were so many people at his funeral that according to some accounts there were several people crushed to death at his funeral. That's what that line was about.
I’ll help out with the algorithm. If you want another one with surprises, Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible is another good one
Three rap battle reactions in 6 days. Ya boy Skeem really pushing for that subscriber boost. I'm here for it, gotta get that face reveal.
Hold on was the “half life” line by Putin also a reference to radioactivity?? Like atomic bombs and shit??
If my memory serves me right, Putin poisoned someone by sticking some radioactive element in this man's chair. So yeah, it could be a radioactive reference but not nuclear.
edit: I look it uyp and Russia, with Putin as a commander of the operation, was only a suspect. My bad and I am sorry for spreading misinformation. The man in question, according to Wikipedia, was Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, and was poisoned by radioactive polonium-210.
Fatball ohhhhhh I didn’t know that ok.
Actually it was a Russian dissident who fled to the uk and got injected with a radioactive isotope thru an "umbrella gun" into his leg... Nobody officially knows who did it but this is said to be a very common tactic by Russian government assassins.
@@uwekirschling9757 Was he the only one? I seem to remember talk about Uranium being put in someones tea.
@@TheHortoncrow Yes, he also allegedly had a critic's tea poisoned with a trace amount of radioactive material. It's a relatively common tactic employed by Putin to poison defectors with radioactive materials. I think I remember 3 or 4 possible events in my life of it happening.
Stalins coffin was being paradrled through the streets when one of the legs broke and crush like 3 people... So yeah... Thats what he meant
No when Stalin died he was laid in state, thousands of people went there and because it was to crowded hundreds were crushed by the crowd
the line "you got off easy when they pickled that moose €@€k" refers to the ledgend of Rasputin's death were he was supposedly poisoned, stabbed, shoot, hung, castrated, then dumped in the Niva river only to succumb to hypothermia (freezing to death) crawling out of the river so ya he was a tough one 😋
I must offer my most humble apologies 🙏
I believed I had already subbed but in actuality...i had watched a fair amount of your channel before i eventually figured out on this video that I hadn't subbed.
My Bad Skeem...My Bad!
I have been looking forward to this ERB for a long time. Another epic reaction!
"I even crush mother fuckers when I'm laid in state" is a reference to how several people (official number was 109) were trampled and crushed to death while trying to pay their respects to Stalin at his casket after the funeral.
You have to watch Alex The Great vs Ivan The Terrible after this
So happy Skeem did this one. It's one of my original fav ERB battles
Gimme a pound everytime skeem pauses. Boy i am basically bill gates at this point.
Oh and i also subscribed
Do you mean the currency of the weigh unit?
@@fernandobanda5734 money. GBP. And this comment is all in total
Right, a number of things here:
The "took Trotsky out of the picture" line is actually has a few meanings. The first is that Stalin forced Trotsky into exile before he was assassinated by an ice pick to the head in Mexico. The second is a reference to Stalin's habit of "un-personing" people. Basically, anyone who even mildly displeased him had a high chance of disappearing and vanishing from all official records. There's a few infamous instances of close friends/acquaintances of Stalin failing or angering him so much so that he ordered their images removed from any photographs or paintings that they appeared with him in, literally taking them out of the picture.
The "pride of Lenin" line and Lenin's initial response may be references to the belief that Lenin had no intention of Stalin replacing him. See, after the Russian Civil War, Stalin was given the position of General Secretary in the Communist party. This was (at the time) a fairly unprestigious position that simply determined who was a member of the party, who wasn't, and what their duties were. Trotsky, if memory serves, was made one of the top generals after his part in the war. Stalin started to use his power to install his supporters into positions of power, slowly and subtly growing his own influence and authority. According to stories, Lenin caught on and made plans to have Trotsky instated as his successor (or at least have him deal with Stalin) before he died. The message was intercepted and, allegedly, destroyed by Stalin, who then did whatever was necessary to remove Trotsky from the equation. To Lenin, Stalin's blatant attempts to grow his own power would likely have been entirely contrary to the revolution's purpose, which would explain his lines about Stalin ruining everything.
Regarding Putin's "President in my prime" line, it's a semi-known fact that Putin actually kind of stole a lot of the responsibilities of the Russian President while he was Prime Minister, then stole the Prime Minister's powers and responsibilities when he was elected to the position of President.
Lastly, the ex-KGB and ex-CCCP was a reference to Putin's time serving in the KGB, the Soviet Union's secret police, during the time when Russia was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is abbreviated as the USSR in English speaking countries. In Russia/the Soviet Union itself, the name was actually abbreviated as the CCCP and a bunch of symbols I doubt I could pronounce.
I just loved this one. Suprises everywhere.
Great vid Skeem!
Loving the new theme for the outro
"That's it?" - what, it wasn't enough? xD
Love love love these videos!!!
Am I the only one who watches all these breakdowns multiple times? This man is too good.
"I even crush motherfuckers when I'm laid in state"
"Lying-in-state" is when the coffin of a deceased person is placed in view, so the public can pay their respects to them. After Stalin's death, he was laid-in-state for 3 days. Thousands of people lined up to see him, but it was so chaotic outside that people were crushed and killed underneath the crowd. About 500 people lost their lives during this event.
Damn, you stay busy mr skeem! Appreciate that👌
A few Notes for your and everyone else's knowledge....
1. "Stalin" means "Man of Steel" in Russian, hence the Superman reference.
2. The "Red over white" line is also a nod to the Russian Civil War, where the Bolshevik (Communist) "Red" Army, defeated the Imperial "White" Army.
Yessir I was waiting on this one
I DID enjoy this history lesson. Skeem for Teacher of the Year!
yo my man nice to see you doing ERB again
I’m surprised they didn’t wedge a Chernobyl bar in there on Gorbachev.
The funny thing is... Lenin actually hated Stalin later in his life... Stalin called Lenin's wife and just started cursing and yelling at her at one point over the phone and stuff... Lenin even also said that he didn't want Joseph Stalin taking power after him... And it's said that when Lenin was on his deathbed struggling to stay alive, Stalin was there either weeping when he thought Lenin was going to survive, or grinning whenever he thought Lenin was going to die (though I'm not sure how accurate this is, some things about Stalin are made up like that quote attributed to him about 1 death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic... That wasn't him who said that most likely... Fits his image kinda like Marie Antoinette allegedly (but not likely) saying the "Let them eat cake" quote...)
10:09 Hitlers goal was always the destruction of the communist state in Russia. He also always had to invade Russia because he needed its oil something he and his allies lacked. (Oil wasn’t discovered in Libya till the 50’s) Hitler was destined to lose the war after he lost the Battle of Britain. Even if it was just the Empire against the German reich Britain could out wait Germany. The german war doctrine was centred around quick movement using tanks.
Weskeem giving a history class would be nice with his commentary 👁👁
By the way, when Stalin said "Took Lenin and Trotsky out of the picture", he literally means that. He used to have people he didn't like removed from pictures that were taken of him, basically one of the earliest forms of photo-shop. There are actually pictures taken of him where you can find the exact same picture with prominent figures that he didn't agree with removed.
Damn Skeem, got so much going on lol. Respect the hustle. 😄
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
Stalin called himself the "pride of Lenin," then Lenin stepped in and said, "I have no pride for you."
Ive beeennn waiting for this one
Also: Half-life refers to Putin trying to assassinate some dude with some kind of radioactive substance.
This rap battle carried my ass through history in school when it came out
Here's a nerdy explanation for part of Putin's last bar:
"Ex-CCCP" is referring to what used to be the Soviet Union that's now Russia. The acronym (which I can't type because I don't have Russian on my keyboard) was CCCP.
So to sum it up he was basically bragging he's the best soldier and spy in what used to be the Soviet Union
I love how we know what cyka means Simply by playing counter strike 😂
I don't think that the arm in the coat pose was necessarily because of Stalin's hand, or that that alone was the reason he did the pose anyway... It's a pose that sort of makes you look scholarly and so tons of people have pictures of them with an arm in the coat since it basically harkens back to the days where the Ancient Greeks would do it with their togas... You can find pictures of Karl Marx doing it, I think also Adolf Hitler and a ton of other important historical figures really...
"red over white" probably refers to the Red Army (the Bolshevik/Soviet army) vs. the White Army (the tsarist loyalist army which fought against the Bolsheviks on behalf of Tsar Nicholas II...)
This is one of my favorite rap battles
This has probably been asked a million times. But where is the Shakespeare vs dr. Seuss video?
Omg when he said he was a rapist, like most religious types I went DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN hahahhahah that alone was worth watching this video!
Factually inaccurate but still funny
@@magnenoalex2 the god they worship is a rapist. And most religions have huge problems with pedophilia.
KGB is for State Security forces
MC -Master of Ceremonies
EX-CCCP - Soviet Union.
red and white from lenin was about the red faction (communists) and the white faction (imperial loyalists)
that was a really long PLUG!.... BUTTSTUFF!!... joking a side if Skeem does catch this post i have wanted to ask if their was any way to get like a Hurray for memory loss patch. I'm Fluffy and as much as I would love to support with a skeem hoodie well.... I fat! and their are no sizes so i figured maybe a patch might be possible in the merch some time in the distant future? maybe? if not cool! thanks for a great show!
The "crush mofos when I'm laid in state" refers to when Stalin's body was being paraded through the streets of the USSR. It got so overcrowded with people wishing to pay respects to him that the tall platform that carried his transparent coffin collapsed, killing a few dozen people. Oh, the irony! 😂😂😂
The red over white line is a reference to the Russian Civil war. Red over white means that the Red army beat the White army
They guy who played Putin at the end sounded alot like Sylvester Stallone towards the end 😆
The man of steel line was a reference to Stalin being called a man of steel because he had a heart as cold as steel.
This was the season 2 finale and was highly requested by everyone
I think people would love your reaction to things DanBull does. He raps about games and it’s awesome. My favorite is his GTA V rap.
Who thought this man history the Germans were starving way before they invaded Russia.Invading Russia was a last dich effort to get the oil they needed from the Caucuses mountains,and invading the British was impossible because the German Navy wasn't strong enough to provide naval superiority in the British channel. And the luftwaffe lost the Battle of Britain so that they didn't have aerial superiority over the British channel. In conclusion all of the German victory where do to speed of the German army but against the Allies and Russia in a dragged out fight they lost because they did not have the resources that they needed to maintain the army.
Hitler invaded Russia also because of Lebensraum. His hatred to Russia and communism was yet another reason for the invasion.
@@ManUtdBoy13 very well but lebensraum and his hatred of communism was not as important in the short term.
Algorithm shout out; well-done as usual, sir.
In reference to 'crush motherfuckers when I'm laid in state': "In the public's efforts to pay their respects to Stalin's casket, a number of people were crushed and trampled to death. Khrushchev later provided an estimate that 109 people died in the crowd, although the real number of deaths may have been in the thousands"
I'm ready for the awkwardly fire lyrics
“Crush motherfuckers when I’m laid in state”
If I recall correctly, story goes is as the pallbearers we’re taking Stalin to be laid in state, an accident happened (grip slipped or something) and Stalin’s massive coffin crushed one or two of the pallbearers to death.
EDIT: also cyka means bitch
'Took Trostky out of the picture' is also a literal reference to removing Trosky from a picture when he left the USSR. Stalin had him taken out of a group photo
Red over white is probably a reference to the art work "Beat the whites with Red Wedges" which was a pro communism piece of art from about that time, also a really well designed work.
It’s a reference to the Russian Civil War where the Reds(Communists) fought tbe Whites(Loyalist).
5:56 also if memory serves this is a play on one of stalins nicknames being a man of steel
For the algorithm! Also Skeem, you might like the channel oversimplified it sums up all that history stuff with funny cartoons. Not requesting a reaction to it or anything just saying you might find it funny
Completely off topic but Mrs Skeem just dropped some beautiful 🔥🔥
Yes she did!
It’s actually not urban legend, Rasputin did have his junk cut off and it is still preserved in a museum today.
Balls, hour too late. Sweet vid tho, been waiting for this, so many bars I knew I wasn’t getting
"Laid in state" is a term used when a former national leader dies, and is laying in his coffin. Legend has it that Stalin's coffin fell on some of the soldiers carrying his coffin, and killed them (I even crushed mothafuckers when I'm laid in state)
Can't wait to hear what you are going to do with Deshawn Washington :O!! HYPE!
Putins “half-life” line night also be a reference to the fact that radioactive materials have been used by Russia in assassinations.
Wait for it the greats are comming
Borscht is made from beets lol love that line
The idea that communism would've worked, but it was ruined because of greedy and authoritarian leaders is kind of a misconception. The way that it manifested in Russia was on purpose. There are two main reasons why they did it like that:
1) According to Marx and most other left wing economists communism is the economic system that comes after capitalism (in fact it is inevitable). But you have to industrialize via the capitalism first. You can't just go from a feudal farming society (which Russia at the time was) to communism.
2) According to Lenin, as long as the capitalists are the dominant force on earth, a communist revolution is vulnerable to attacks from both inside and outside the country. So you have to use the state to defend the revolution from these reactionary forces, by all means necessary.
Communism, by definition, is a stateless society. But because of these two reasons, according to bolsheviks, and many other communists, a transitionary period where a workers' party rules over the country and suppresses the bourgeois class, and quickly industrializes the country until the material conditions allow a stateless society, is necessary (libertarian marxists and anarcho-communists reject this idea).
In short, power hungry leaders didn't corrupt the revolution in Russia. It was the plan all along. People like Stalin did make some mistakes but it wasn't because they betrayed the revolution. USSR was never a communist country, it was (arguably) a socialist country that were in a transition period. Also, USSR lasted 69 years (nice), and in its last 59 years there were no famines and its people were well fed. It industrialized really quickly (it was the first spacefaring nation) and if it wasn't for the cold war and aggression from the US, it might have been a truly communist society (at some point).
USSR was state capitalist at best. There were efforts to make it socialist in the early 20th century, but Lenin and his followers turned out to be anti-revolutionists at heart.
@@elu9780 I wouldn't say Lenin is anti revolutionary but Stalin's defunct ideology of Stalinism certainly was.
@@giancarlocaballero7684 Lenin just reformed capitalism, going against his own writing. I'd say that's pretty anti-revolutionary.
Putin's half-life line also references his famous use of polonium to poison his enemies via radiation.
Also, Lenin calling rasputin Frankenstein is because he was so hard to kill. They tried to poison him, he didn’t die. Then they shot him point blank range and left him to die. He tried escaping after that where they chained him to a huge rock and threw him into a river. They found his body 4 days later.
It’s only just hit me but the red over white could be a reference to poland or the civil war that went on in Russia - the reds triumphed against the white and that’s when Lenin got power.
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Yes skeem that is pewdiepie.
About " Trotsky out of the picture " he really used people to "photoshop" all the pictures of trotsky appeared and erase him
No, the "Tsar's wife can't do shit tonight" had more to do with Rasputin being the only one who could calm the ill Tsarinas son. That's one of the reasons Rasputin was murdered, he had too much influence and access to the Tsar and Tsarina. Marxism is socialist, not communist, although communism is socialism, they differ in what form the government takes.
I'm learning more about Cold War Era Russian politics in this comments section than I ever did in school
10:29 The soviets contributed a lot more to the war then the Americans. It was the Russians who took Berlin, the Russians who encircled hundreds of thousands of men in the Baltic. The Russians who served the Germans their first major land defeat. The Russians who scared German soldiers so much that many when being told they were being moved off the western front to the eastern front would end themselves. The Russians crippled the Luftwaffe. I hate to say it but of the major three against Germany. America by far did the least.
I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but that Georgia reference is for the Country in asia, not the american state. Also Stalin was born in Georgia.
"crushed mfers when I'm laid in state" I believe is a reference to a crowd stampede at his state funeral that resulted in the deaths of a few dozen people or something.
Cynical Historian touched on it in his one of his Death of Stalin vids.
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