Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Mongolia? (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • It's not often a country asks to be annexed and even rarer that the answer is no. Yet this is what happened when Mongolia asked the USSR for just that. So why did the USSR say no? To find out, watch this short and simple animated documentary.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 4,6 тис.

  • @aldotorres1983
    @aldotorres1983 3 роки тому +8374

    "Hey Russia, remember when we conquered you in the 1200's? How about you return the favor?"

    • @justacrow9847
      @justacrow9847 3 роки тому +240

      There was no Russia in 1200s.
      edit:The spread of Slavs into Siberia happened only after 1600s so they were on the west of Urals and the Kievan Rus was a small state in the north of Black sea. Kievan Rus did not lead to current day Russia. And Russians had not reached much of the land they inhabit today. It's ridiculous to attribute one to another.

    • @joelp7665
      @joelp7665 3 роки тому +667

      @@justacrow9847 Kievan Rus did exist and it was pretty much filled with what we could call today "Russians, Ruthenians(Ukrainians), and White Ruthenians(Belarusians)".

    • @arthurfisher1857
      @arthurfisher1857 3 роки тому +593

      @@justacrow9847 "there was no Russia in 1200s" he says with a derisive snort while adjusting his monocle

    • @AidenClaws
      @AidenClaws 3 роки тому +3

      Lol

    • @user-te7rf8ik7z
      @user-te7rf8ik7z 3 роки тому +19

      truly the best comment i've ever seen

  • @Kevin3dp
    @Kevin3dp 3 роки тому +15968

    Imagine going back in time and telling Genghis Khan that his descendants will one day beg the Rus to rule over them.

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 3 роки тому +3431

      And the only reason they say no is because they don't want to piss off the chinese.

    • @bonkerS605
      @bonkerS605 3 роки тому +393

      Nah only Tsedenbal wanted and people refused lot

    • @AmogusAbobusAutobus
      @AmogusAbobusAutobus 3 роки тому +478

      POV: he already got the sign about this and thats why he started conquest of Rus )

    • @mohammadrezaazadi1208
      @mohammadrezaazadi1208 3 роки тому +333

      Angry Mongolian noises

    • @Aryan54575
      @Aryan54575 3 роки тому +222

      Not Rus, but russia.
      Kiyevan Rus and russia are absolutely different.

  • @andtheinternettkills
    @andtheinternettkills 2 роки тому +2739

    When I was in Mongolia a few years back I had some great discussions with my tourguide who used to be an officer during the communist regime (He even went to a military academy in Moscow). The mongolian military was structured to fight a war against the Chinese with massive arms transfers from the USSR, and so an additional reason it was never annexed was that it effectively functioned as a buffer between China and the railway infrastructure towards Irkutsk / Ulan-Ude. In a conflict the chinese would have to fight their way through Mongolia to stop soviet reinforcements from arriving by train. There is also the matter of the relatively short distance between Beijing and Ulan-Bator, so having Soviet troops massed at the border with Mongolia rather than southern Mongolia was probably a good compromise in terms of maintaining a degree of deterence and avoiding escalating tensions.

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 роки тому +105

      During the Sino Soviet break, the Soviets maintained about 1 million troops on the border between Mongolia and the Sino Soviet Union (600000-700000 according to the Russian data), which led China to maintain 7 million troops in order to prevent the Soviet Union, the largest record in the number of non wartime troops.

    • @maolo76
      @maolo76 2 роки тому +19

      @@user-cx1ki8li4t well im sure the USA was ready to back China against the Soviet in a war. 7 million with US support. The Soviet knew that's a fight they not willing to take.

    • @naoyanaraharjo4693
      @naoyanaraharjo4693 2 роки тому +20

      @@maolo76 the USA would choose to sit down while having a popcorn party with everyone laughing to death at the stupidity

    • @maolo76
      @maolo76 2 роки тому +46

      @@naoyanaraharjo4693 i dont doubt that. The US is good at providing logistics and directing countries to fight her enemies.

    • @goatface6602
      @goatface6602 2 роки тому +13

      Russia ALWAYS wants a buffer state on its borders. You know, like Ukraine. Russia doesn’t want and can Ill afford a war. But if the USA keeps pushing them they MUST fight. This is madness.

  • @dy7296
    @dy7296 Рік тому +265

    Mongol to Rus 1240: "Bark for me."
    Mongol to Rus 1920: "Woof."

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass Рік тому

      There was no Rus in 1920. Rus is long since dead.

    • @somedesertdude1308
      @somedesertdude1308 3 місяці тому +8

      pretty much
      always kinda funny how the master becomes the pet in the end

    • @coinyfrombfdireal
      @coinyfrombfdireal 26 днів тому

      ​@@somedesertdude1308like with uk and america

    • @darkenedpp
      @darkenedpp 26 днів тому

      ​@@coinyfrombfdireal You are undoubtedly the best instigator since Serbia in WW1. You are about to start the second War of 1812 in the comment section. 💀

  • @legolas-xu6ou
    @legolas-xu6ou 3 роки тому +5257

    Monglia: annex me like one of your polish girls
    USSR: uh, thanks, but no thanks

    • @Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm
      @Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm 3 роки тому +424

      I laughed too hard at that being Polish myself

    • @markoscream8466
      @markoscream8466 3 роки тому +55

      @@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm HAHAHAHAH YOU AND LEGOLAS ARE LEGENDS

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 роки тому +277

      Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia: trust us, it’s not as fun as it seems.

    • @victorwagner2423
      @victorwagner2423 3 роки тому +47

      USSR didn't annex Poland

    • @victorwagner2423
      @victorwagner2423 3 роки тому +22

      @Fritz No.7 the video you just watched is about Mongolia's puppet government desire to be annexed and how USSR didn't, cause the arragment was beneficial to them. Similar with People's Republic of Poland.
      I mean

  • @kaiserwilhelm1843
    @kaiserwilhelm1843 3 роки тому +5501

    Because they didn’t have the right dlc

    • @lucasbeck1391
      @lucasbeck1391 3 роки тому +161

      @gas your profile pic is perfect

    • @tejasbharadwaj7830
      @tejasbharadwaj7830 3 роки тому +125

      Soviet Mongolia DLC the most popular and most purchased DLC

    • @0d138
      @0d138 3 роки тому +93

      *cries in Paradox Interactive 😭

    • @daniel6009
      @daniel6009 3 роки тому +29

      Lacking the mission tree

    • @stc3145
      @stc3145 3 роки тому +60

      The Soviet Economy could not afford the Season Pass

  • @caesar6733
    @caesar6733 3 роки тому +969

    If you didn't notice, the sign at 1:31 said "Annex me (daddy)".
    Legendary.

    • @whenweeb6471
      @whenweeb6471 3 роки тому +78

      We live in society

    • @alpha17arctrooper16
      @alpha17arctrooper16 2 роки тому +35

      @@whenweeb6471 where honor is a distant memory

    • @Oof-th5hz
      @Oof-th5hz 2 роки тому +45

      Mongolia, used to be the most powerful warrior, became a kinky simp for the Rus

    • @JustmeRenzo
      @JustmeRenzo 2 роки тому +16

      I had to turn my quality to 1080p to see that.

    • @donramondeltasig
      @donramondeltasig 2 роки тому +10

      I LOVE IT

  • @Burboss
    @Burboss 2 роки тому +430

    Fun fact: Mongolia was one of the largest (if not the largest) economic supporters of USSR in WWII, beating USA is several categories (e.g., food and raw materials).

    • @phelyxz
      @phelyxz 2 роки тому +11

      Albeit not war gear...

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G Рік тому +40

      Imagine comparing Mongolia to by far the largest economy of the world at the time.

    • @juozasmartinkus8033
      @juozasmartinkus8033 Рік тому +65

      That's true, Mongolia supported USSR heavily at war time. Russians remember it.

    • @brandonfrank5799
      @brandonfrank5799 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@phelyxzfood? They donate cheese from horsemilk? 😅😅 ain't never heard of a Mongolian farmer

    • @LaVaZ000
      @LaVaZ000 11 місяців тому +16

      ​@@AFT_05GThe other way around, Mongolia is secretly the number one economy

  • @ZearthGJL
    @ZearthGJL 3 роки тому +9843

    Mongolia: Tries to join a country and gets rejected.
    Singapore: Tries to join a country only to get kicked out afterwards.

    • @harveybeaver9731
      @harveybeaver9731 3 роки тому +891

      Malta: Tries to join the British Empire only to be passed over.

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 роки тому +393

      @@harveybeaver9731 technically some former SSRs also tried to remained but was also forced to be independent when USSR collapsed

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 3 роки тому +122

      Probably worked out better for both of them in the long run.

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 роки тому +224

      @@seneca983 there are actually talks in Mongolia to rejoin china but so far nothing out of it, even china doesn't want to Annex them

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 роки тому +72

      @@seneca983 For Singapore, it won't be good for them in a long term judging by how those bureocrats in the ruling party keep on milking on the past achievements of their predecessors and being dependent on them too much, it's not surprising SG might one day faced a leadership crisis and rejoined malaysia somehow as the stupid people here keep voting them, thinking they are the best option instead of looking at an alternative party to take over as next government

  • @passionofthecrust9173
    @passionofthecrust9173 3 роки тому +4430

    "Don't worry, i'll annex you as soon as Paradox updates my focus tree . . ."

    • @conejodemercurio6301
      @conejodemercurio6301 3 роки тому +37

      pootis bird

    • @batataacelerada4698
      @batataacelerada4698 3 роки тому +252

      So Monday 4th of never?

    • @matejkubala7221
      @matejkubala7221 3 роки тому +36

      @Per Capita I mean the tactics are pretty shady but they still make god-tier games.

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead 3 роки тому +12

      @Per Capita what better ones in example then? ea games? or should be still laugh at the barely mediocre stain that cyberpunk made, and everyone pulled down there pants to receive an ass fucking and got told to like it whether they wanted to or not, oh yeah remember that was from cd project the only and only company people still jerked off for being the good guys, well that worked out well.
      paradox still make legit games, its just they followed everyone else in bleeding dry the special needs or gullible customers they have.

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead 3 роки тому +7

      @Per Capita all i was getting at is people create this illusion that some companies or brand of games care about them, or they make games for the people instead of the corps blah blah type of mentality.
      sadly its all business and i agree, past games probably have so much more genuine fun in them, people mix the idea that something new is something fun, when in reality after your brain is done exploring you see the real shit that the game actually is. aka cyber punk.
      same mentality of people who scream at EA but also buy every battlefield and every fifa game but also complaining how shit and minimally changed they are from the last, whilst saying ill not buy the next, whilst also checking when the next one will release.
      i wouldn't consider myself a gamer anymore its just a gullible market and a one that does deserve laughing at, like heck look at the frenzy of rgb colour spectrums coming into peripheral products and hardware, makes my skin crawl. but of course its always personal preference.
      i know thats a ton of blah blah from me but do you not feel like gaming was actually fun once upon a time? im thinking the priority of multiplayer might of destroyed the concept of most games. who really knows.

  • @mrvk39
    @mrvk39 Рік тому +118

    Actually, USSR was giving Mongolia far, far more than what Mongolia was giving USSR. USSR had it's own beef production and margins were thin for agricultural products. Yet, USSR provided Mongolia with power stations, trains, automobiles, engineering, medical equipment, medicine, education - all high value-add, high margin products and services. The balance of it was clearly in favor of Mongolia's development and overall success.

    • @antonivanov3142
      @antonivanov3142 Рік тому +33

      USSR was paying off for the great deal of wartime food supplies from Mongolia in 1941-1945. Mongolians really saved lots of Soviet people from starvation during the WWII

    • @mrvk39
      @mrvk39 Рік тому +8

      @@antonivanov3142 Interesting! I wasn't aware of it. I know it was closely allied but didn't realize they had so much food supplies to give. I presume meat?

    • @mosesracal6758
      @mosesracal6758 2 місяці тому +2

      It was one of the Soviet Union's pet projects, like a model city for people to see how benevolent the Soviet Union could be. Also Mongolia served as a good detour for the Trans-Siberian Railway (which actually became the Trans-Mongolian Railway) and connected it to the Chinese Eastern Railway for direct access to Beijing by 1959. This is important as next year, the Sino-Soviet Split happened and the Soviets controlling direct access to their capital gave them enough leverage to threaten the Chinese.

    • @mrvk39
      @mrvk39 2 місяці тому +3

      @@mosesracal6758 I learned something new from you. Thank you!

  • @zacknelson7839
    @zacknelson7839 2 роки тому +31

    I love how like 80% of this channels videos are questions to which my reaction to is "I've never thought about that or asked it before but now I need to know." Prime example here.

  • @michaelrizka
    @michaelrizka 3 роки тому +3753

    Mongolia: why don't you annex me :(
    Soviet: *having flashback about Mongol invasion

    • @Ghost12314
      @Ghost12314 3 роки тому +32

      Well you right bro.

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 роки тому +66

      China: so why don't you join me instead then?

    • @Manuel-gu9ls
      @Manuel-gu9ls 3 роки тому +92

      @@joetrump2983 Mongolia: no way you have issues with Uighur people for no apparent reasons or is that you hate people of different culture because we lived in your state thought we’re in violation of invasion of property like the Americans had towards Mexicans...

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 роки тому +26

      @@Manuel-gu9ls Also china:LMAO as if the Soviets welcomed you into their lands, look at how they treated the Ukrainian and the central Asian republics, besides you are historical part of our qing dynasty and completely unrelated to the Russians

    • @WILLIAN_1424
      @WILLIAN_1424 3 роки тому +65

      @@joetrump2983 I know its a joke, but considering that the Qing dynasty was MANCHU instead of Chinese i dont think it gives China a rightful claim even if China is the sucessor state of the Qing.

  • @thekeystoneconservative
    @thekeystoneconservative 3 роки тому +1332

    "Monday the 4th of Never" lmao.

  • @nickmacarius3012
    @nickmacarius3012 2 роки тому +89

    *Mongolia:* "Please annex us."
    *Soviet Russia:* "Oh how the tables have turned."

  • @martindimov289
    @martindimov289 2 роки тому +33

    It's kinda the same with Bulgaria - 2 times the Bulgarian government offered the USSR to annex Bulgaria but it refused because Bulgaria was their most trusted ally in the Balkans anyway.

    • @darwinism14
      @darwinism14 Рік тому +2

      Not to mention the strange plan of Triumvirate Tito - Dimitrov - Hoxha to make a Balkan federation, until another criminal, way bigger, Stalin, intervened.

  • @saggybones
    @saggybones 3 роки тому +3563

    I guess bald and bankrupt will still be able to say “Soviet” a million times if he visits Mongolia

    • @lucasbeck1391
      @lucasbeck1391 3 роки тому +17

      Mind explaining?

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide 3 роки тому +262

      @@lucasbeck1391 he always says "soviet architecture", "soviet buildings", "soviet era equipment", "in the soviet times people came here", "in the soviet times this was better", and asks old locals about life under the soviets.

    • @joaoostroski4778
      @joaoostroski4778 3 роки тому +129

      Wow, look at these horseman invading all of Asia, kinda soviet ngl.

    • @andrewjohnson1467
      @andrewjohnson1467 3 роки тому +109

      @@OCinneide you've missed out Soviet bus stop

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 3 роки тому +28

      "Almost Soviet" or "Soviet Subsidized" perhaps.

  • @air9music
    @air9music 3 роки тому +3215

    Mongolia said marry me but Russia said no because it was already getting everything it wanted without the marriage that would infuriate Mongolia's exes.

  • @wackyruss
    @wackyruss 2 роки тому +118

    Fascinating. I’ve always wondered why Mongolia never was a part of the Soviet Union. They even used the Cyrillic alphabet.

  • @justanotheranimeprofilepic
    @justanotheranimeprofilepic 2 роки тому +18

    Everyone: why wouldn't Russia take Mongolia?
    Russia: why would we?

  • @daveb.4268
    @daveb.4268 3 роки тому +4785

    I always laugh whenever they show the cartoon man (or woman) bounding through the daisies.☺

    • @smilingearth5181
      @smilingearth5181 3 роки тому +186

      My favorite thing is how some people look nonplussed when they're on fire

    • @igottwopeepees
      @igottwopeepees 3 роки тому +75

      I like it when they smile at whatever the other person's sign says.

    • @joshuahoover6841
      @joshuahoover6841 3 роки тому +32

      I sent a link of one of these videos with that happening to my new girlfriend with a time code telling her where to go to. The idea being that was how I felt about her

    • @icharneco29
      @icharneco29 3 роки тому +57

      This and when they hold up the sign that says "Soon" always crack me up.

    • @Silver-hg8iz
      @Silver-hg8iz 3 роки тому +3

      @@joshuahoover6841 👍

  • @waIdemar44
    @waIdemar44 3 роки тому +1746

    Tsedenbal: Asked to be incorporated into the USSR at least 6 times
    Genghis Khan:Shame

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 3 роки тому +79

      Genghis Khan. As one of my hundreds of millions of heirs, I am shamed by this.

    • @zealousdoggo
      @zealousdoggo 3 роки тому +34

      This is shameful behavior of a Mongol Prince!

    • @Monster-cj7kf
      @Monster-cj7kf 3 роки тому +18

      Yeah Genghis will be died in stress like kublai if he lived on that time

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 3 роки тому +6

      Vlad lmaooooo

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 3 роки тому +2

      Zealous Doggo he wasn’t a prince, lol

  • @miketackabery7521
    @miketackabery7521 2 роки тому +9

    Thank you: you answered all the questions I've had on the subject for many years!

  • @christian19701
    @christian19701 Рік тому +28

    I have finally come to the realization that this is my all time favorite UA-cam channel. Crazy considering how shallow and immature I've always been. This is a channel about real stuff that actually happened, but condensed into small segments my ADHD mind can handle. Bravo, you guys rock.
    Ps- I especially love the little signs they hold up at key points in the videos. As you Brits say, brilliant. Whoever does that deserves a raise. That is all carry on! 😁

  • @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it
    @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it 3 роки тому +2780

    “Why did the Soviet Union refuse to annex Mongolia”
    Me: *I don’t need sleep I need answers*

    • @Psytinker
      @Psytinker 3 роки тому +28

      The same thing happened with Bulgaria, btw.

    • @nurulkarim6525
      @nurulkarim6525 3 роки тому +18

      Same here. From Dhaka, Bangladesh. It's 4.11 am.

    • @OfMiceAndMegabytes
      @OfMiceAndMegabytes 3 роки тому +5

      Same but just woke up and knowledge is my coffee☕

    • @phoenix7319
      @phoenix7319 3 роки тому +1

      @@OfMiceAndMegabytes oh hi lol

    • @arthas7
      @arthas7 3 роки тому +3

      Ditto 1:32am

  • @ThePinkMadcap
    @ThePinkMadcap 3 роки тому +4830

    So basically, it was safer for Mongolia to be a part of the USSR than to be an independent state. Gotta love this planet.

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 3 роки тому +253

      Mongolia: "M8, we've had a bad case of the Ungern-Sternburgs recently. Please annex us."
      Russia: "Erm, yeah, nah. We're good. Had our own mess to deal with."

    • @markusmarkus7683
      @markusmarkus7683 3 роки тому +278

      Well, just remember that half the planet wanted, and was until overthrown by the us, part of or friends with the USSR. Just a “fun” fact for people thinking the Soviet’s was some internationally despised thing. It was, and by its ex-citizens, is still greatly loved and missed.
      Just a history buff.. I do not cater to politics.

    • @thetexancrus2036
      @thetexancrus2036 3 роки тому +71

      @@markusmarkus7683 Man, gotta love masochistic nations.

    • @jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493
      @jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493 3 роки тому +119

      @@thetexancrus2036 why would i love the united states?

    • @thetexancrus2036
      @thetexancrus2036 3 роки тому +17

      @@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493 Lmao every nation is a masochist.

  • @Flyzo.0
    @Flyzo.0 Рік тому +4

    These videos do a good job of making it feel longer than it actually is in a good way

  • @hanswust6972
    @hanswust6972 2 роки тому +5

    Short but very informative video, thank you for sharing your work.

  • @Robbstark2024
    @Robbstark2024 3 роки тому +3149

    Russia and Mongolia are like two people in a relationship but they don’t want to say their dating so they just say friends with benefits

    • @josh3658edwards
      @josh3658edwards 3 роки тому +434

      Mongolia was doing wife duties at girlfriend prices :/

    • @MeinungMann
      @MeinungMann 3 роки тому +38

      @@josh3658edwards well said

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 3 роки тому +25

      they're*
      ffs😑

    • @noxli8454
      @noxli8454 3 роки тому +47

      " countries are like people..." please somebody call an ambulance

    • @rogermoyo3451
      @rogermoyo3451 3 роки тому +62

      Mongolia was like a thot being bounced around between USSR, China and Japan. Despite being strong and independent.

  • @akihikosakurai4013
    @akihikosakurai4013 3 роки тому +3513

    Americans: "the Soviet Union was terrible and no one wanted to live there"
    Mongolia: "LET ME INNNNNNNN!!!!!"

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito 3 роки тому +402

      Anything to get away from China.

    • @Badbuzzy
      @Badbuzzy 3 роки тому +126

      @Mike Hunt They don't. They basically recognized Mongolians independence like in 2002.

    • @namelessking8905
      @namelessking8905 3 роки тому +123

      @Mike Hunt - Communism is always progressive. This is why leftists in the West hate the West. They want to destroy it to remake it in their own binary vision. From gender studies to extreme race theory. it's all part of it.

    • @nabo1871
      @nabo1871 3 роки тому +230

      @@namelessking8905 "What the fuck are you talking about Jesse."

    • @diddlypoop4722
      @diddlypoop4722 3 роки тому +66

      @@namelessking8905 Communism doesn't woorrkkkk

  • @jasonhorton7084
    @jasonhorton7084 Рік тому +2

    This man’s video’s just keep getting better and better 👍

  • @kf9346
    @kf9346 2 роки тому +1

    That was super informative, thank you!

  • @l3monl1me78
    @l3monl1me78 3 роки тому +765

    “Monday the 4th of never”
    I laughed way harder than I should of at that.

    • @albartros98
      @albartros98 3 роки тому +9

      Nah, it was a good joke

    • @h.n.vangarde1597
      @h.n.vangarde1597 2 роки тому +4

      I'm keeping that one myself! When are you going back, Monday the fourth of Never!

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 роки тому +3

      I liked "and it all went, to use a technical term, to Hell."

    • @Bosscheesemo
      @Bosscheesemo 2 роки тому +1

      I've heard Monday the 4th of Septober before...
      ...the guy actually accepted it as a legitimate date

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 роки тому

      @@Bosscheesemo I like Septober, it is probably among my five favorite months.

  • @khukri_wielderxxx1962
    @khukri_wielderxxx1962 3 роки тому +1737

    I love how this channel answers the most odd yet obvious questions that we always and yet never think about

    • @GEO_ANIMATOR
      @GEO_ANIMATOR 3 роки тому +43

      Exactly and I rather watch this guy then look it up in boring wikipedia

    • @PantherJaguar
      @PantherJaguar 3 роки тому +10

      Yep! This is why this is one of my favorite history channels inn UA-cam.

    • @Borzasnyul
      @Borzasnyul 11 місяців тому

      And then gives misleading answers, deceives.

    • @ThatPianoNoob
      @ThatPianoNoob 10 місяців тому +1

      My favourite part is still that russia wanted to show everyone that it is anti imperialist by only annexing regions that were part of the russian empire. Does that make sense to russian people lol

    • @zoomedcheese
      @zoomedcheese 10 місяців тому

      @@Borzasnyulwhat do you mean misleading answers?

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca4851 2 роки тому +2

    Fascinating stuff. I had absolutely no clue about this. It's not often I hear or read something absolutely brand new to my brain!

  • @mishacol
    @mishacol 3 роки тому +50

    Its safer to keep pro-soviet buffer countries at your borders than to have direct border with hostile neighbors. Unlike today, when Russia is getting surrounded by pro-western regimes. Gotta love Soviet geopolitics. Very wise and clever.

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 2 роки тому +4

      It worked until the entire soviet bloc became pro western. Geopolitics is temporary but borders only change by force.

    • @bjornborg4849
      @bjornborg4849 Рік тому +3

      @@googane7755 there are plenty of examples where borders did not change by force. Think of Austria (Nazi Germany) or recently, Crimea. No war was fought in any of these cases. It was more of a show of force that was sufficient.

    • @MontyGumby
      @MontyGumby 11 місяців тому

      "very wise and clever" ? my senile 80+ year-old mother can easily come to that

  • @sharielane
    @sharielane 3 роки тому +682

    So it was a "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" situation.
    Mongolia needed to play hard to get.

    • @akimfritz1905
      @akimfritz1905 3 роки тому +6

      @Pantelis Tzimas A Mongolian can only hope😩😍

    • @passingshadow8934
      @passingshadow8934 2 роки тому

      @Pantelis Tzimas Hey, it's still a win.

    • @BozesanVlad
      @BozesanVlad 2 роки тому +13

      @@akimfritz1905 They seem to played better than China and Russia: they got away inependent, with all the perks.

    • @marcosrua7223
      @marcosrua7223 2 роки тому +2

      It's landlocked

  • @literallyme6306
    @literallyme6306 3 роки тому +711

    1:32 Annex me (Daddy)
    Whoah there-

  • @kbo8029
    @kbo8029 2 роки тому +2

    Even knowing most of this, I still love watching this channel.

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv7454 Рік тому +1

    I didn't know this. Thank you!

  • @hfreddy127
    @hfreddy127 3 роки тому +298

    “Monday the 4th of Never.” Lmao

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 3 роки тому +2

      Eight days before the end of disco!

    • @wandaperi
      @wandaperi 3 роки тому +2

      **Jesus is coming back…*
      *on the 666th of Never!**

  • @cbplays3436
    @cbplays3436 3 роки тому +1345

    Where is Russia? here *points to map*
    Where is China? here *points again*
    Where is Tannu Tuva? *puts hand over heart* Here....

    • @user-po4rf7ls7l
      @user-po4rf7ls7l 3 роки тому +38

      I wish the people in Tannu Tuva the best

    • @evanyangfan
      @evanyangfan 3 роки тому +7

      and ofc 唐努乌梁海

    • @drinkyourwater1039
      @drinkyourwater1039 3 роки тому +27

      Tannu What?

    • @MrTTuguldur
      @MrTTuguldur 3 роки тому +10

      Tuva is annexed by Soviets from Mongolia

    • @BijiMustardGas
      @BijiMustardGas 3 роки тому +3

      Gotta love how youtube is 4 years late to memes. I really hope everyone who likes this shitty comment gets their brains thrown into a blender.

  • @defaultkoala2922
    @defaultkoala2922 2 роки тому

    0:31 love the Divine Comedy reference! Such a great and detailed tiny joke that so many people will overlook. It took me 3 times watching this video to spot it.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 3 роки тому

    I love the animations in this series.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 3 роки тому +1446

    The USSR was like a married man having a mistress that was already giving him everything he wanted from her.
    Mongolia: marry me.
    USSR: Nah, we're fine.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 роки тому +130

      I promise baby, I'll split with China once the Warsaw Pact is all grown up and out of the house.

    • @DellDuckfan313
      @DellDuckfan313 3 роки тому +73

      "You lose the wife, you lose the mistress also" -Žižek

    • @slamdunktiger
      @slamdunktiger 3 роки тому +5

      DellDuckfan313 dayamnnm details details, this man Soviets

    • @Zfast4y0u
      @Zfast4y0u 3 роки тому +2

      ''too old'' xDDD

    • @livics610
      @livics610 3 роки тому

      Loooool

  • @nicholaskelly6375
    @nicholaskelly6375 3 роки тому +440

    Bulgaria also asked to become a Constituent Republic of The USSR.
    Apparently Khrushchev was very much against this idea for similar reasons. As like Mongolia the USSR was able to acquire anything it required without having to govern the country. Khrushchev is also believed to have commented over the Bulgarian request in the following terms "We already have enough "Turkeys" (ie "Difficult Territories") in the USSR. We do not need anymore!" I suspect that this also applied to Mongolia as well.

    • @kts437
      @kts437 2 роки тому

      MONGOLS ARE NOT TURKIC PEOPLE. MONGOLS ARE PROTO-MONGOLIC PEOPLE WHO ARE LINGUISTICALLY, GENETICALLY, CULTURALLY, AND RELIGIOUSLY DIFFERENT FROM THE SO-CALLED TURKIC AND TURKISH PEOPLE!!!!

    • @maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa
      @maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa 2 роки тому +20

      that's not exactly true. It was Todor Zhivkov who did it and not just once but twice. Just like all other communist leaders of eastern european countries during the cold war he was a bootlicker, if not the biggest one. The only reason he got to the sweet spot of leader of the BCP is all thanks to his bootlicking

    • @nicholaskelly6375
      @nicholaskelly6375 2 роки тому +5

      @@maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa I know that Todor Zhivkov might have wanted Bulgaria to become a constituent republic of the USSR. However Supreme Soviet certainly did Not! That is why the Bulgarian-Soviet Joint Companies were in the favour of the USSR! The point was that the USSR did not want to get lumbered with more economic problems.
      As effectively they had control politically and that is what mattered.
      Also you had Romania between Bulgaria and the USSR
      This could have caused potential problems.
      As it was the USSR was in effective control Why make things more complicated.

    • @dan4461
      @dan4461 Рік тому +1

      bulgaria and the ussr didn't have a direct border. you don't need anything else

    • @nicholaskelly6375
      @nicholaskelly6375 Рік тому +7

      @@bbaker7467Mr Khrushchev didn't mean it in an ethnic sence at all.
      As the term "Turkeys" was meant in a political sence harking back to imperial Ottoman times when Turkey was "The Sick Man of Europe" and the word "Turkey" was used as a "cover all' describing any and all manner of corruption and incompetence on a governmental level!

  • @warrenreid6109
    @warrenreid6109 2 роки тому

    Thanks. I always wondered about that.

  • @SledgerFromTDS.
    @SledgerFromTDS. Рік тому

    I really liked this History Channel as its Entertaining to me (IMO).

  • @number1kenyan
    @number1kenyan 3 роки тому +1627

    If the USSR annexed Mongolia it would mean that the Mongol empire would’ve kinda reformed

  • @afterburnerfox
    @afterburnerfox 3 роки тому +614

    When you are Kelly MONEYMAKER but still can't make enough money to beat James Bissonet

    • @Ayy_Doll_Fiddler
      @Ayy_Doll_Fiddler 3 роки тому +66

      [laughs in Spinning 3 Plates]

    • @plugandsocket500
      @plugandsocket500 3 роки тому +25

      Izzie?

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 3 роки тому +61

      Well, obviously Kelly is MAKING a lot of money, whereas James is SPENDING a lot of money.
      Maybe they're married, and the money James is spending, is what Kelly made.

    • @NineWorldsFromDrew
      @NineWorldsFromDrew 3 роки тому +7

      Faux BoJo has also had some old names turn up behind him! This makes Faux BoJo a bit despondent ☹️

    • @james_baker
      @james_baker 3 роки тому +12

      @@Tjalve70 Intriguing theory. Perhaps they all belong to the same extended family.

  • @Teoras
    @Teoras 3 роки тому +2

    That short Lithuania reference legit made me chuckle :))

  • @HaventheDemoness-vy9lx
    @HaventheDemoness-vy9lx 3 роки тому +11

    1:32 Oh my god I laughed XD
    That guy next to Nikita: *uncomfy vibes*

  • @staffan-
    @staffan- 3 роки тому +547

    Let me guess before watching the video: In order to not cause tension with China.

    • @altairibnlaahad6593
      @altairibnlaahad6593 3 роки тому +89

      Dont be crazy it’s because nobody wants to mess with the descendants of Genghis khan

    • @staffan-
      @staffan- 3 роки тому +39

      @@altairibnlaahad6593 Of course, how did I fail to realize this.

    • @nerdorama009
      @nerdorama009 3 роки тому +5

      USSR 🤝 CDPR

    • @tron1852
      @tron1852 3 роки тому +5

      DIng ding ding

    • @monkeydetonation
      @monkeydetonation 3 роки тому +6

      @@altairibnlaahad6593 But they did mess with Genghis' descendants - by refusing to annexing them

  • @toptenguy1
    @toptenguy1 3 роки тому +214

    Most countries: "LEAVE US ALONE! WE WANT OUR INDEPENDENCE!"
    Mongolia: "Oh come on, why don't you love me? Am I too fat??"

    • @SledgerFromTDS.
      @SledgerFromTDS. Рік тому +5

      Actually I want to Chat to you about something.

  • @mailfergal
    @mailfergal Рік тому

    🤣 I missed the “card it could hold” bit the first time around. Great vid as always 👍

  • @HMSHyde02
    @HMSHyde02 Рік тому +7

    Mongolia: Annex us
    USSR:No
    Mongolia: ANNEX US
    USSR: NO
    Mongolia: AW COME ONNN
    ((Please get the Oversimplified joke 🥲))

  • @schnibbelhenry1232
    @schnibbelhenry1232 3 роки тому +97

    In today’s episode of “something I’ve never thought about but now am extremely Interested in”

  • @moralfagov
    @moralfagov 3 роки тому +313

    -"Please annex me, daddy"
    -"WTF no"

  • @jmalko9152
    @jmalko9152 2 роки тому

    Informative!

  • @sdaiwepm
    @sdaiwepm 2 роки тому +2

    So interesting! I have visited Mongolia, but did not know this.

  • @aturkishgamer9790
    @aturkishgamer9790 3 роки тому +337

    The ussr denied the annexation when Mongolia’s chairman called Nikita Khrushchev daddy instead of Premier of the Soviet Union.

    • @gabrieldnchf2822
      @gabrieldnchf2822 3 роки тому +34

      If that was me I would’ve annexed them right away

    • @ultra-papasmurf
      @ultra-papasmurf 3 роки тому +22

      @Da sea pickle of justice *oh no Step Comrade i've been so naughty, please send me to your gulag*

    • @lesscringeymapperdude
      @lesscringeymapperdude 3 роки тому +17

      daddy, why arent u responding, i sent u my food stock pictures

    • @ultra-papasmurf
      @ultra-papasmurf 3 роки тому +14

      Oh secretary of the communist party is that an bread line in your pocket or are you just happy to enjoy our conservative socialist thinking~?

    • @chipwalter4490
      @chipwalter4490 3 роки тому +1

      Oh!......wtf?

  • @rogerbak
    @rogerbak 3 роки тому +214

    In relationship terms and from the Soviet perspective......
    Mongolia : the girl you love to sleep with but never want to marry

  • @lw9954
    @lw9954 Рік тому +6

    Basically Mongolia created a buffer state of the USSR, in case the European countries decided to declare war on the mongols.

    • @lpatryk2004
      @lpatryk2004 Рік тому

      since when China or Japan are European

  • @deaansugee
    @deaansugee 2 роки тому +11

    "the USSR was under a new mustache of leadership and chose to postpone the meeting the monday the fourth of the month of never"
    I am now subscribed. Lol'd nicely.

  • @dmeads5663
    @dmeads5663 3 роки тому +1632

    Texas: “can we join you?”
    USA: “no”
    Texas: “because of the slavery thing?”
    USA: “yes.... but check back later, we might change our mind.”

    • @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587
      @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587 3 роки тому +180

      USA: " You cool Texas sure you can join, I sure hope this doesn't cause any issues within the union."

    • @GeneralSmitty91
      @GeneralSmitty91 3 роки тому +114

      Mexico: 👀

    • @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587
      @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587 3 роки тому +75

      @@GeneralSmitty91 We've sponsored your rebels in California, oh and we're at war now.

    • @llamadaroja6972
      @llamadaroja6972 3 роки тому +30

      Texas "We wont let go the freedom to enslave other humans. The mexicans didnt get it and look what happened"

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 роки тому +50

      To be fair Mexico at the time was under the dictatorship of Santa Anna, and he had been enforcing his dictorial powers around that time and restricting the rights of all Mexican citizens. Texas wasn’t the only group that rebelled against his rule in Mexico at that time

  • @ichkaodko7020
    @ichkaodko7020 3 роки тому +963

    Mongolian here. For contex: It was only puppet leader mini tyrant Tsedenbal's wish, even most high office holders were disgusted at idea of joining USSR. People of Mongolia also would rebel if it came true. Also, Tsedenbal not only gave the Tuva to Russia but also some other land too which is happen to be birth place of Tsedenbal himself. Tsedenbal promoted to his position because as you may guessed here, was a total pleaser. In the end, Tsedenbal was removed by same KGB which put him in that position in the first place.

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 роки тому +35

      Yes, once I drank too much and told a Chinese Mongolian that the Soviets were handsome, so their behavior in Mongolia was right. He was very angry and asked me to apologize after I recovered my mind. After I sincerely apologized, he gave me a brief introduction to the beautiful words of Mongolia and forgave me.

    • @ichkaodko7020
      @ichkaodko7020 2 роки тому +24

      @@user-cx1ki8li4t what has your drunken night to do with our discussion here? are u drunken again? objectively speaking, yes Soviet are more handsome than all asians including you and me only man who exceeds soviets in beauty was a chairman Mao, alas, he's gone now but still don't get what it has to do with anything here?

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 роки тому +10

      @ichka odko:I tell my story to support your point. Some people don't support the Soviets, such as my friend. He repeatedly stressed to me how beautiful the previous Mongolian characters were as a reason to oppose the Soviet Union. In order to show that my mind is against the Soviet Union, I put his Mongolian name out.ᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ ᠨᠤᠲᠤᠭ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠥᠪᠡᠭᠦᠨ 。

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 роки тому +6

      this story can refute the wrong view of the video that "the Soviet Union rejected Mongolia's accession because of China". In fact, the Chinese have no influence. But the Mongols (although my friend just is Mongol in spirit and blood) are very resistant to the Soviet Union.😓😓😓

    • @ichkaodko7020
      @ichkaodko7020 2 роки тому +8

      @@user-cx1ki8li4t well, technically speaking, yes, china has considerable amount of influence in this matter. Keeping Mongolia a separated both from russia and china was an interest of both china and russia. In the face of zero-sum struggle with capitalist bloc, last thing ussr wanted was to spend resource to protect its border with china along the long border line of russia, mongolia and china so keeping Mongolia independent was a one way to reduce that border protection cost. So same goes for china as well about border protection, plus china didn't want to get into zero-sum struggle with ussr, and in case, china fights with ussr, china wanted same thing as ussr, a buffer zone between them, not only it would give them arena to fight but also time to prepare.

  • @nik65stgt60
    @nik65stgt60 Рік тому

    Super content!

  • @user-dd5bb9ho3k
    @user-dd5bb9ho3k Рік тому +2

    The main reason is geopolitical: until 1949, Mongolia was not recognized by anyone except the USSR.
    In 1949, the PRC (they themselves were recognized only in 1971) recognized the Mongolian People's Republic;
    Only in 1971 Mongolia was admitted to the UN;
    Taiwan recognized Mongolia's independence only in 2011 (!!!) year.

  • @SwissSareth
    @SwissSareth 3 роки тому +89

    One of these days, the list of people to thank will be longer than the rest of the video.

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 роки тому +1

      Didn't it loop sometimes?

  • @jaflob6610
    @jaflob6610 3 роки тому +69

    I always just thought it was a buffer state between China and the Soviets

    • @garmenlin5990
      @garmenlin5990 3 роки тому +24

      It's not a buffer state if the Russian and Chinese borders meet in so many places!

    • @asdf-fl1ib
      @asdf-fl1ib 3 роки тому +3

      it is. Which keeps the balance as is between Russia and China so everyone's happy, well mostly. You also have Inner Mongolia in China proper which is another story for another video.

    • @plugandsocket500
      @plugandsocket500 3 роки тому +19

      @@garmenlin5990 a buffer need not always imply geographic or militaristic.. there are also economic, strategic, diplomatic and many types of buffers. In this case, Mongolia is a strategic buffer that can/could be used as a pawn.. uh, i mean, "insurance" against China.

    • @CDang-ms6dc
      @CDang-ms6dc 3 роки тому

      It stopped to be a buffer already when it was virtually part of USSR and was only independent in name

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 3 роки тому +2

      @@plugandsocket500 but tbh Mongolia have a VERY good relationship with Russia

  • @dmitrygaltsin2314
    @dmitrygaltsin2314 2 роки тому

    The portrait of a corn cob in a saucer cap is my favourite.

  • @Kefkaownsall
    @Kefkaownsall 3 роки тому +22

    Fun fact Xinjiang also wanted to be annexed but the USSR said no

    • @redkraken6516
      @redkraken6516 2 роки тому +1

      Couse considering China's population, it's China who is annexing USSR.

    • @arne1021
      @arne1021 2 роки тому

      @@redkraken6516 Xinjang at this time should not have had that many people

    • @redkraken6516
      @redkraken6516 2 роки тому +1

      @@arne1021 he had at least 500 mil. That's more than enough.

    • @iamgreat1234
      @iamgreat1234 2 роки тому +1

      Most countries don't like Chinese because their treatment of minority

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 2 роки тому +5

      Unlike China, ethnic minorities in russia are treated better and actually have some degree of autonomy.

  • @Mr101spb
    @Mr101spb 3 роки тому +486

    “It was already giving the USSR everything it wanted”
    Sounds like a desperate dude showering a woman with gifts only to be directly told by her “I’m not going to sleep with you because you’re just going to keep giving me all this stuff either way”

    • @1blackice1
      @1blackice1 3 роки тому +96

      Mongolia biggest commie simp of the 20th century.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 3 роки тому +8

      @888GRM your way round makes much more sense.

    • @davecullins1606
      @davecullins1606 3 роки тому +9

      Fuck's sake, I hate women having in that kind of power.

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito 3 роки тому +2

      Actually the alternative of not doing SU's bidding was death, as Stalin's purges killed 1/30th of the Mongolian population during 1930s.

    • @HeadsFullOfEyeballs
      @HeadsFullOfEyeballs 3 роки тому

      @@ElBandito That's how it worked under Stalin, who just generally liked to kill people, sure. But it doesn't apply to the post-Stalin period, when you had to do a proper uprising like the Hungarians for the Soviets to come murder you. Eastern Bloc states like East Germany frequently went against the Soviet Union's wishes and no-one got killed.

  • @HVACSoldier
    @HVACSoldier 3 роки тому +246

    “Sell us beef.” I’m sure some people will miss the joke.

  • @Killzoneguy117
    @Killzoneguy117 2 роки тому

    I love the portraits of corn in the background.
    Nice little call back to Khruschev's fascination with corn.

  • @scottstallings5029
    @scottstallings5029 2 роки тому

    GREAT SHOW 👍

  • @hfar_in_the_sky
    @hfar_in_the_sky 3 роки тому +39

    The fact Mongolia also made a convenient and expendable buffer state in the event China decided to become outright hostile towards the USSR was also just a added bonus, I'm sure.

    • @linshitaolst4936
      @linshitaolst4936 2 роки тому +7

      The Chinese once had the opportunity to annex Mongolia again, but China wasted it. It was during the period of the division of warlords in northern China that Mongolia took the initiative to ask China for help, because the Mongols were fed up with the oppression of the Russians. However, when the Chinese warlords entered their territory, they found that these warlords were more cruel than the Russians, even more than their ancestor Genghis Khan, which made Mongolia completely fall to the Soviets

  • @ramen_9588
    @ramen_9588 3 роки тому +137

    *Legend has it that China and the Soviet Union is still waiting for the meeting to this day.*

    • @ValWasTakenWasTaken
      @ValWasTakenWasTaken 3 роки тому +47

      Soviet Union last online 30 years ago

    • @Andrew9908
      @Andrew9908 3 роки тому +2

      😔

    • @utkarshg.bharti9714
      @utkarshg.bharti9714 2 роки тому +1

      Good luck with that 😆.

    • @Kirillissimus
      @Kirillissimus 2 роки тому +1

      They have waited long enough. Both sides officially given up on it around 20 years ago and accepted the independence.

  • @donaldmac1250
    @donaldmac1250 2 роки тому

    thanks...i like your style.

  • @playwars3037
    @playwars3037 5 місяців тому

    1:05 I love the fact that they went through the trouble of making a calendar with the four first squares greyed out just so they could make it match to monday the 4th XD

  • @DrFish547
    @DrFish547 3 роки тому +90

    Mongolia in 1206: Annexes you
    Mongolia in 1940 : Annex me daddy!

    • @Joseph_Stalin1940
      @Joseph_Stalin1940 3 роки тому +3

      Нет Нет, Cursed Cursed Cursed.
      And Soviet is MOTHERland

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 роки тому

      Doritos gaming

    • @duolingoowl8207
      @duolingoowl8207 3 роки тому +2

      @@Joseph_Stalin1940 alrighty then
      Annex me mommy

    • @Joseph_Stalin1940
      @Joseph_Stalin1940 3 роки тому +4

      @@duolingoowl8207 No Duolingo no.

    • @duolingoowl8207
      @duolingoowl8207 3 роки тому +3

      @@Joseph_Stalin1940 *yes Duolingo yes*

  • @daveirwin6903
    @daveirwin6903 3 роки тому +161

    1:01 Joseph earns his name: Stallin’.

  • @Tark_
    @Tark_ 2 роки тому +4

    Never realized how small the population of Mongolia is.
    It only has a population of 3.2 million as of today

  • @enkhbaatartserendendev8354
    @enkhbaatartserendendev8354 3 роки тому +5

    Can you mention the sources? As a Mongolian, I have never heard these annexation requests.

  • @SYDSYMA
    @SYDSYMA 3 роки тому +142

    it's always "James Bissonnette this" or "Kelly Moneymaker that", but only day one subscribers will remember Party Boyko...

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 роки тому +12

      Spinning 3 Plates and CopperTone disagree

    • @pikilic4481
      @pikilic4481 3 роки тому +7

      Mark Asazna is never mentioned in the comments ever. But for some reason, I think his name sounds great.

    • @Nomenooooo
      @Nomenooooo 3 роки тому +9

      you guys forget...
      ''Moe''

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 роки тому

      E

    • @Theporkchopsandwhich
      @Theporkchopsandwhich 3 роки тому +3

      I always liked three spinning plates

  • @enderreaper1482
    @enderreaper1482 3 роки тому +40

    “Monday the 4th of never”
    I like that line

  • @Temuulente
    @Temuulente Рік тому +6

    I wouldn’t say being under soviet control for 30 or 40 years is terrible idea. I mean like look at the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmens. They all got the basic infrastructure, factories, facilities that were crucial to build a nation back in 90s. What we had left with is dozens of empty soviet military bases, one railway, one copper mine. If we had soviet powered factories and infrastructure, i’d say we’d be doing great by now. Lol now this country is at least 30 years behind our Kazakh and Uzbek counterparts.

  • @RailSuleymanov
    @RailSuleymanov 3 роки тому +2

    1:31 a video author pictured soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev as corn, lol

  • @Spieler521
    @Spieler521 3 роки тому +27

    1:25 LMAO I don't blame you I wouldn't even know where to start with that name.

  • @LegendStormcrow
    @LegendStormcrow 3 роки тому +266

    When Texas first asked to be annexed to the US it was told no.

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow 3 роки тому +2

      @CipiRipi00 The US or Spain?

    • @LegendStormcrow
      @LegendStormcrow 3 роки тому +2

      @CipiRipi00 I thought you were saying Mexico tried it too, which knowing their history and culture would be surprising. Spain did them dirtt.

    • @Cabbage22927
      @Cabbage22927 3 роки тому +13

      @CipiRipi00 it wasnt just war with mexico, other states didnt want to add another state below the dixie line.

    • @IsraelCountryCube
      @IsraelCountryCube 2 роки тому

      @@Cabbage22927 ah racist democrats! Yes yes the dixiecrats!

    • @IsraelCountryCube
      @IsraelCountryCube 2 роки тому +1

      @@LegendStormcrow im hispanic and have mexican parents my mom legal and my father illegal lol. Personally dont care about other peoples opinions thats of the past who cares if Spain did Mexico dirty. All those people are dead todays different now. I love All Spanish Countries. Mabye except for salvador but theyre all great.

  • @Ignisan_66
    @Ignisan_66 Рік тому +3

    Mongolia be like: Annex me comrade, harder comrade!
    Soviet Union: What?
    Mongolia: What?

  • @hxcvocalist
    @hxcvocalist 2 роки тому +12

    Mongolia in 1200 : We will invade the entire universe
    Mongolia in Cold war : Please invade us, we have throat singers and cookies.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 3 роки тому +226

    "Annex me (daddy)"
    *I see you're a man of culture as well*

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 роки тому

      Ok.

    • @waddysoap4868
      @waddysoap4868 3 роки тому +9

      Why are you everywhere?

    • @dy7296
      @dy7296 Рік тому

      Man of culture?
      What Culture?
      Child Predator?

  • @joelaldodiaz
    @joelaldodiaz 3 роки тому +141

    I can already hear my mother telling my sister who just moved in with her boyfriend “see? This is why you don’t give the boy all that he wants because then you don’t ever get married !”

    • @neckreth
      @neckreth 3 роки тому +6

      Nice comparison

    • @michellezeng8107
      @michellezeng8107 3 роки тому +16

      Unexpected life lesson from historic content lmao

  • @Wfalen
    @Wfalen 10 місяців тому +2

    Fun fact: Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria asked the same from the Soviets. They saw Zhivkov as the worst kind of brown nose and ruling something that didn't have a land connection was seen as too much of a hassel. Also it would have brought incredible instability with a hostile Yugoslavia and Greece as neighbours. Not to mentoon that Ceausescus Romania was now distancing himself from the Soviets.
    So the Soviet leadership basically laughed Zhivkov off.

  • @Nishkid641
    @Nishkid641 2 роки тому +6

    People keep saying that Manchukuo was a puppet of Japan - simply because Manchukuo no longer existed. But Mongolia under communist was also just a Soviet puppet, yet today historians would only foolishly use the term "client state" simply cuz Mongolia still exists till this day. Double standard and hypocrisy much.

    • @ReSSwend
      @ReSSwend 2 роки тому

      There are many gradations of puppet states.

  • @Joker129
    @Joker129 3 роки тому +48

    1:00 that part killed me🤣

  • @samuelbaugh5975
    @samuelbaugh5975 3 роки тому +14

    1:32 I completely believe that is what he actually said on the sign

  • @doflamingo1360
    @doflamingo1360 2 роки тому +6

    Mongolia: Russia senpai please annex me!! 🥺
    Russia: No
    Ukraine: Yamete kudasai Russia senpai! Please dont annex me! Onegaishimasu!
    Russia: xaxaxaxaxa let's the annexation begin 😈

    • @a.c6761
      @a.c6761 2 роки тому +2

      Cringe 🤮

  • @dogeclanleader1
    @dogeclanleader1 Рік тому +5

    Mongolia then: i will take over the known universe
    Mongolia now (kind of) : annex me daddy uwu