Napoleon actually understood what kind of a person Paul was and played up to him. He gathered all the Russian prisoners of war in France, equipped them with fresh uniforms, and then sent them back to Paul without asking anything in return. Such a chivalric gesture appealed greatly to the Russian emperor, who soon withdrew from the anti-French coalition.
Russia fully embraced Western ideals, it's unfortunate that Britain eas hostile to Russia during the Great Game, eaged the Crimean war against them, refused to partition the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s, then finally German Empire sent Lenin bsck to Russia to finish the job.
@@rudrakshpainuly1294 nah Communist Rule Tsarist Russia had Buddhism ( In tuva, Kalmyia, and even Mongolia was for some time occupied by Russians) The Russians considered Hinduism similar to *Paganism*
Interestingly, the British Indian army went and invaded Bolshevik held Central Asia . It went successfully if you go by the kill ratio, but as with all allied interventions it was supremely confusing. This was the first time in history that an Indian force went into the heart of Central Asia and fought turks on their land and won !
I remember reading in Russian literature about Indian deserters in the service of the Red Army in those years. Such units were called international units.
By that time, Brandenburg region (Berlin and its surroundings) is already prosperous and strong. IMO even if Prussian/Brandenburg state lost East Prussia and Silesia, sooner or later the rump state that control Brandenburg (i.e. Prussia or its successor state) will rise again as the dominant power in north Germany.
The four Qing invasions of Burma in the late 18th century would make an interesting video. Considering how expansionist the Qianlong Emperor had been, how far would they have expanded if they had not been checked? How would Indian Ocean access shaped 19th century history? Would the Burmese Empire have expanded throughout all SE Asia without the drain and distraction of repeated invasions?
@@Riftrender im 99% sure that Russia completely regrets selling Alaska. Strategically it would be a perfect are for military bases and it has a lot of oil and gold
@@svenxavierniles9211 Well we know that now. At the time, colonies were for resources. Russia never lacked anything except for newer technologies that used tropical resources like rubber. They had all they needed and Alaska was mostly a base to expand to the pacific. But once the US and Britain expanded west, it was really useless. Oil wasn't a thing for industrialization at the time and in any case, they had Baku. They would have either had to really expand Alaska, spending more than it was worth to build it up or sell it.
Really enjoy your videos, always covering interesting and little known topics! As a side note, being a Maltese person, it is always nice to hear our little island getting a mention :)
Wouldn’t Kalmyks be “of the Northern Caucuses” and not “of Central Asia”? I know they’re Oirat, but the group known as Kalmyks live just north of Dagestan.
Too far to the north to be the Northern Caucasus, but also too far to the west to be Central Asia... just call it the lower Volga. Unless he used the term to mean the Western Mongolian (Oirat) tribes in general, which I believe some Russians and Europeans used to do back in the day. Ethnic nomenclature in the Mongol-Turco-Persian slice of Eurasia can often be confusing. Cossack/Kazakh is just the most well-known of these mix-ups.
If the VPN has a server in Hong Kong I would not recomment it, cause China will have access to its data thus depending on your nationality it can be an issue for you.
King Knud of Denmarks plan to invade England in 1086. He had his levy fleet ready, but failed to set sail for months. So the peasants got pissed about waiting, so they hunted him through half the Realm before they killed in a church in Odense (he was sanctified soon after for the killed-in-a-church-thing).
His son Charles died in the same way, talk about bad luck as Charles' mother took him away from Denmark after Canute / Cnut's death only for him to suffer the same fate in Flanders decades later.
I remember skimming through a book in a book shop in Canberra that showed Napoleon and Josephine's obsession with everything Australian. Josephine was even the first person to breed Black Swans (native to Australia) in captivity. And that despite being almost completely focused on the wars in Europe Napoleon had designs on Australia. It even had a section detailing just how easy it would have been for the French garrison on New Caledonia to sail to Sydney and seize it given the poor state of the colony back then. I regret not buying that book considering how interesting it was.
How exactly they will defend Sydney or the whole Australia from British counter offensive though? The British possess immense economic and militray power in India and the French were pretty much isolated in that region.
@Nathan Taffijn Lol. Don't be silly. Britain kick France's ass in the 7 years war (it was Prussia & Britain vs. France, Austria, and Russia in Europe and Britain vs. France in the Americas and India). Even when Prussia, Britain's main ally in that war, was beaten, Britain still untouchable. France need American rebels, Spain, and the Netherlands to beat Britain. Even then British isle and the rest of British colony was still pretty much intact/untouchable and British economy stay afloat when France (the winner) bankrupt itself. A situation which directly led to the French revolution.
@Nathan Taffijn France always had a better land army than Britain before and after Napoleon. Even the « weaklings » WW1 that ends up as the best army in the world in 1918 was better than Britain. But as long as you can’t surpass the british navy, I don’t see how you can invade the island. A problem that face the Nazis later on.
Russia capturing India?, that could be so important now and even in WWI and WWII. The logistics of this invasion resemble the larger than life ones of Barbarossa, no wonder it failed.
The existence of a plan didn't mean that it was logistically possible so I think the British feeling paranoid was the greater part of 'The Great Game.'
Disagree. If it wasn't possible, the existence of such a plan shows the British clear intent. People don't plan for things they have no intention of doing and are impossible. Nobody has plans to invade the moon for example. The British finding this out , have every reason to act first and are risking a great deal to do nothing.
@@walsh9080 it was only really possible if the Russians were as strong as they thought they were and their enemies in between Russia and India (the afghans and persians) were as weak as they thought they were. Neither of these were true.
@@mappingshaman5280 But isn't that under the assumption the British knew that? To call it paranoia I mean. If it seems possible isn't that just acting first? I'm not saying the British government was right per se, only that they didn't cause it because they had good reason to act. Plus, I can see why "Do nothing" is very hard advice to accept, even if it might have been the best course of action.
@@mappingshaman5280 Plus isn't paranoia by definition baseless? Finding evidence that they've at least thought about it, probably stops something from being called paranoid?
Actually soviet union was indias friend. Russia is just going along. Otherwise the Russian Empire was not really an ally to india. And just like the video said the invading army would've carried out plunder of Indian cities as well just like any other invaders. There could've been a huge chance if that happened then people of India would've been speaking russian.
The Russian threat proved real in 1885 Panjdeh incident, Afghanistan, when Russia seized a NW area, which British were supposed to protect according to 1879 Treaty of Gandamak.
This reminded me of one time I saw a map of russo-french plan to divide Ottoman Empire (not the Sykes -picot), I wonder if anyone knows where I can find that map again
At least some discussion between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander about those plans, happened at their diplomatic approach during and right after the Treaty of Tilsit where Napoleon tried to bring Russia to his Anti British embargo. The invasion against Russian happent in order to enforce Russia to participate in this embargo.
as exiting this sound i think it would highly unlikely maratha has leadership issue so they never united their strenth against british and defeated But northern india dominated but Punjabis they has great leader armies are battle harden by countless wars with afghans and some maratha they even Fought with qing empire. they has vast gorrilla warfare experience as they Estabilished by that with that they have support of british. also their army is by no mean outclassed they also has canon and muskets. Russo-French alliance if not completely defeated but at least get amount of losses and gorilla attacks which could made them retreat anyway
Genetically, Ukrainians, Russians, Belrus are similar (hybrids of slavs and vikings), but culturally, Ukrainians are independent like cossacks, and resisted islamic conquest/ conversion for hundreds of years. And, Russians submitted to conquest by mongols and have mongol cheek genes. Ukrainians, unlike chechens and circassians, did not convert to islam to escape domination by russia. Russia hired ukrainians, cossacks, to colonize south ( iran, india) and east lands. Stalin genocided millions of Ukrainians in HOLODOMOR GOLODOMOR, and then migrated ethnic russians into the vacant homes and villages of starveddeadukrainians, which is the genesis of the disloyal russianspeakers in Donbas. Ukrainians are distinct from Russians, and are entitled to remain independent of Russia.
The idea was the same, indirect fightings and supporting locals during civil wars. There were no ideological rivalery though, at least not as clearly as in the Cold War. Beside, the opposition was really local, while the Cold War was global.
India would have been like Central Asia atleast Indians would have spoken Russian instead of English And would have migrated more to Russia then to Anglosphere countries ( USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
There must have been similar plans at least regarding Khiva in 1830, however Russian-Polish war of 1831 stopped that. Cossack regiments has been sent to central Asia just to be recalled few months later to fight Poles instead.
@@Theworldsucks-kg5jv It may look like that now, but it was not like that at the time. Kingdom of Poland, as declared at Congress of Versailles, had it's own parliament, army, constitution and Monarch. That monarch was to be Tzar of Russia. Hence when parliament officially dethroned Tzar and declared war and there were regular large scale battles - I allowed myself to call it a war. There is a trend in some polish circles to consider entire 1830-31 situation as a British provocation to delay Russian expansion towards India (as you said they incorporated Khiva 40 years later). Interesting concept if nothing else. I personally think it is better for Indians that Russia never really took hold of any India.
@@andrzejadamowicz3753 Just as for Polish Russians are occupiers, for Indians British are also occupiers, if not worse than that I have heard that Tsar Alexander III, Had quite developed Warsaw city Warsaw was one of the Russian Empire 's best city But which was British Empire' s best city? Britain's capital London ( difference - some different city is better than capital city in case of Russian Empire) The British looted it's colonies Atleast Russians weren't looters ( yes when it comes to crush revolt they might be cruel but atleast Tsarist Russia was not a looter like British Empire) Sorry if you got offended but this is what I observed If I remember,Congress Poland didn't had that much famine ( despite famines being common in Imperial Russia) But famine was a common occurrence in British India and British African colonies But there had been no famines in British Canada or Australia
@@Theworldsucks-kg5jv Thank you for your honesty. I never intended any malice towards you. Also I am in no way offended. For me, history is to learn from, and "what ifs" are nice mental exercises. How different world would be if so called Great Game would see much more Russian gains, no one can really say. One is certain I never wish for India a fate of Kazakhstan. Place is crippled and peoples broken due to first Russian and finaly Soviet experiments (mostly Soviets). If I recall correctly Yurii Bezmenov defected to the west because he fell in love in India and couldn't stand seeing what commies were doing there.
@@ayush-lf8fi people think india has nothing but taj mahal, some random a s s h o l e on yt video comment was saying that if he was Hindu he should be ashamed that Muslim mughals build Taj Mahal hindus cant they would have build c o w d u n g huts , that makes me so angry.
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Imagine if the Russians hit the Indian Ocean... This would complete the task of searching for warm-water ports, second only to the capture of Constantinople, sorting by priority.
@@yangyigao8158 The Baltics aren't really warm water ports and the Russians are trapped in the Black Sea as the Bosphorus and Dardanelles can be easily blockaded.
With cost of “black gold” at 15-23 dollars per barrel, the USSR economy collapsed, and the sovok itself collapsed, and the "golden" horde ("russia") budget can only be fulfilled only with oil price at $ 42.4 and higher
The picture in your video background. "SPOLIARIUM " Painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. It has also become a picture of the propaganda movement during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.🇵🇭
@@eugenlitwin5887 "Original" name of Russia was the Rus. Later divided Russian principalities were conquered by the Grand principality of Moscow. "Moscovy" is a polish name of Russia just like Venaja is a finnish name of Russia. Later some Polish nationalists tried to install it worldwide, but they failed. Nobody uses "Muscovy" in modern day lol. Like some europeans used to call Siberia "Tartaria" but now nobody does that.
@@Admin-gm3lc Rus´ was name of ancient Ukrainian state which collapsed in 11c . Juchi ulus (Muscovy in northern part of it) was a despotic - mongol state (created in 13c. from 16c M. is de fact independent ) , Much like Muscovy today . try to read T Snyder before post nonsense here
@@eugenlitwin5887 Rus was the name of ancient Russian state created by Rurik in city of Novgorod, Russia. Ukraine was created by bolsheviks in 1917. The Kievan principality was part of Jochi along with Moscow principality, later absorbed in despotic pagan Lithuania lol. Try to read wikipedia first and history books to not shame yourself. There arent any "Muscovy" today. Modern russians and medieval citizens of Moscow principality are genetic successors of rus people, proven by DNA(Russian DNA 46% slavic, 21% finno-ugric, Ukrainian 43% slavic, 36% semitic(turkic)) and they look european, not mongol lol.
Lol Russia always was deeply connected with Europe. Why do you hate city of Moscow though? "Barbaric" russians invented a lot of things, you know. Russia even supported american independence and north in civil war, Russia sold Alaska and still was betrayed by America.
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1676 war was Muscovite -ottoman war checkout the documents
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You know during the second gulf war
Mongolia sent an army to support US because bush was the first prez to visit Mongolia
Not the first time Mongol troops entered Iraq.
Probably because they want to burn Baghdad again.
Based mongolians, reagan shouldve sent them to the berlin wall
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 😂😂
@@millero15 that is the best joke i've heard in a while
Vodka curry could have nearly become a reality.
More like caviar curry.
YES VURRY
@@theblackprince1346 no just no
@@zorbaz3940 yes
They probably have that somewhere in Mini Russia (Goa)
Napoleon actually understood what kind of a person Paul was and played up to him. He gathered all the Russian prisoners of war in France, equipped them with fresh uniforms, and then sent them back to Paul without asking anything in return. Such a chivalric gesture appealed greatly to the Russian emperor, who soon withdrew from the anti-French coalition.
Napoleon is just that guy huh
Russia fully embraced Western ideals, it's unfortunate that Britain eas hostile to Russia during the Great Game, eaged the Crimean war against them, refused to partition the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s, then finally German Empire sent Lenin bsck to Russia to finish the job.
Russian Tourist have already invaded Goa(India).
Blyat. :)
They also are the worst tourists
Jabzy that cool guy you can get drunk with and listen to him tell stories of the past.
pfffft.... you wouldn't say that if you were stuck listening to my drunken ramblings.
Cuban attack on the Dominican Republic in 1977.
Elaborate, please?
@@sirdorkster check out Kiskeya Life and you will understand.
If this happened I would be speaking Russian, Dance with the boys, wear Adidas track pant, Drink Vodka, and drive ladas
same
You wouldn't If you fought against communists.
you´d be in the same prison with novalny if you are a free man not a slave ....
What's stopping you now bro?)
@@Adam.G.Trapper "novalny" is not free. :D
Indian gopniks would've been cool.
On cost of Indian culture buried down under Orthodox Christianity that the Tsars would bring.
@@rudrakshpainuly1294 nah Communist Rule
Tsarist Russia had Buddhism ( In tuva, Kalmyia, and even Mongolia was for some time occupied by Russians)
The Russians considered Hinduism similar to *Paganism*
Jabzy always has cool stories
land: exist
european : it's free real estate
land: exist
Muslim Punjabi : it's free real estate
@@eugenlitwin5887 wut? Didn't knew Punjabi Muslims had a colonial empire.
@@AshGamer007 your PAKISTAN is a poor colonial empire.
*western European
@@LOL-cv9it edition, Indonesian, Muscovite, Persian, Ethiopian, etc
Interestingly, the British Indian army went and invaded Bolshevik held Central Asia . It went successfully if you go by the kill ratio, but as with all allied interventions it was supremely confusing. This was the first time in history that an Indian force went into the heart of Central Asia and fought turks on their land and won !
What are you refering to ? Was it during the Russian Civil war of 1917-1921 ? Never heard of an anglo-soviet open conflict past this date.
Which war
I remember reading in Russian literature about Indian deserters in the service of the Red Army in those years. Such units were called international units.
@@alioshax7797 yeah he is referring to *RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR 1917-1921*
@@ShubhamMishrabro Russian Civil war 1917-22
Damn, if Peter III pulled the trigger and killed Prussia, it wouldn't come back to bite Russia in the ass twice 150-200 years later.
By that time, Brandenburg region (Berlin and its surroundings) is already prosperous and strong. IMO even if Prussian/Brandenburg state lost East Prussia and Silesia, sooner or later the rump state that control Brandenburg (i.e. Prussia or its successor state) will rise again as the dominant power in north Germany.
@@ihl0700677525 either way they would've got crushed by the Russians and Western Allies
bose : hitler visit india
hitler : nein I'm busy invading france
bose : russians are here
hitler : say no more
The four Qing invasions of Burma in the late 18th century would make an interesting video.
Considering how expansionist the Qianlong Emperor had been, how far would they have expanded if they had not been checked? How would Indian Ocean access shaped 19th century history?
Would the Burmese Empire have expanded throughout all SE Asia without the drain and distraction of repeated invasions?
Lol as if Russia didn't need more land.
They want land that isn't freezing. Which is why they don't want Alaska back.
@@Riftrender im 99% sure that Russia completely regrets selling Alaska.
Strategically it would be a perfect are for military bases and it has a lot of oil and gold
@@svenxavierniles9211 Well we know that now. At the time, colonies were for resources. Russia never lacked anything except for newer technologies that used tropical resources like rubber. They had all they needed and Alaska was mostly a base to expand to the pacific. But once the US and Britain expanded west, it was really useless. Oil wasn't a thing for industrialization at the time and in any case, they had Baku. They would have either had to really expand Alaska, spending more than it was worth to build it up or sell it.
@@svenxavierniles9211 France was probably also regretting selling the vast Louisiana Territory for 342M, now worth 8.5B
@@eyb0ss313 france had no effective control over the territory anyways.
That is big list. I remember I use to support you during your travels across Asia and even ended up drawn into an episode
Me: YES PLEASE THIS IS ALTERNATE HISTORY CANDY
Really enjoy your videos, always covering interesting and little known topics! As a side note, being a Maltese person, it is always nice to hear our little island getting a mention :)
Wouldn’t Kalmyks be “of the Northern Caucuses” and not “of Central Asia”? I know they’re Oirat, but the group known as Kalmyks live just north of Dagestan.
Too far to the north to be the Northern Caucasus, but also too far to the west to be Central Asia... just call it the lower Volga.
Unless he used the term to mean the Western Mongolian (Oirat) tribes in general, which I believe some Russians and Europeans used to do back in the day.
Ethnic nomenclature in the Mongol-Turco-Persian slice of Eurasia can often be confusing. Cossack/Kazakh is just the most well-known of these mix-ups.
did you mean Kumyk? They are a different people and they are of Turkic origin.
The "Hague Invasion Act", does that count as an invasion plan?
If the VPN has a server in Hong Kong I would not recomment it, cause China will have access to its data thus depending on your nationality it can be an issue for you.
King Knud of Denmarks plan to invade England in 1086. He had his levy fleet ready, but failed to set sail for months. So the peasants got pissed about waiting, so they hunted him through half the Realm before they killed in a church in Odense (he was sanctified soon after for the killed-in-a-church-thing).
His son Charles died in the same way, talk about bad luck as Charles' mother took him away from Denmark after Canute / Cnut's death only for him to suffer the same fate in Flanders decades later.
I remember skimming through a book in a book shop in Canberra that showed Napoleon and Josephine's obsession with everything Australian. Josephine was even the first person to breed Black Swans (native to Australia) in captivity. And that despite being almost completely focused on the wars in Europe Napoleon had designs on Australia. It even had a section detailing just how easy it would have been for the French garrison on New Caledonia to sail to Sydney and seize it given the poor state of the colony back then. I regret not buying that book considering how interesting it was.
How exactly they will defend Sydney or the whole Australia from British counter offensive though?
The British possess immense economic and militray power in India and the French were pretty much isolated in that region.
@Nathan Taffijn Lol. Don't be silly. Britain kick France's ass in the 7 years war (it was Prussia & Britain vs. France, Austria, and Russia in Europe and Britain vs. France in the Americas and India).
Even when Prussia, Britain's main ally in that war, was beaten, Britain still untouchable.
France need American rebels, Spain, and the Netherlands to beat Britain. Even then British isle and the rest of British colony was still pretty much intact/untouchable and British economy stay afloat when France (the winner) bankrupt itself. A situation which directly led to the French revolution.
@Nathan Taffijn France always had a better land army than Britain before and after Napoleon. Even the « weaklings » WW1 that ends up as the best army in the world in 1918 was better than Britain. But as long as you can’t surpass the british navy, I don’t see how you can invade the island. A problem that face the Nazis later on.
The artstyle change caught me off guard, lmao.
Russia capturing India?, that could be so important now and even in WWI and WWII. The logistics of this invasion resemble the larger than life ones of Barbarossa, no wonder it failed.
It didn't fail it was canncled...
I'm getting some armchair historian vibes......and I like it
At last you should also mention about 1975 -1977 dictatorship rule where Indira Gandhi took help of USSR to strengthen her position
I wanna know more about Catherine's plans to invade Persia ngl.
The existence of a plan didn't mean that it was logistically possible so I think the British feeling paranoid was the greater part of 'The Great Game.'
Disagree. If it wasn't possible, the existence of such a plan shows the British clear intent. People don't plan for things they have no intention of doing and are impossible. Nobody has plans to invade the moon for example. The British finding this out , have every reason to act first and are risking a great deal to do nothing.
@@walsh9080 it was only really possible if the Russians were as strong as they thought they were and their enemies in between Russia and India (the afghans and persians) were as weak as they thought they were. Neither of these were true.
@@mappingshaman5280 But isn't that under the assumption the British knew that? To call it paranoia I mean. If it seems possible isn't that just acting first? I'm not saying the British government was right per se, only that they didn't cause it because they had good reason to act. Plus, I can see why "Do nothing" is very hard advice to accept, even if it might have been the best course of action.
@@mappingshaman5280 Plus isn't paranoia by definition baseless? Finding evidence that they've at least thought about it, probably stops something from being called paranoid?
Yeah if UK was afraid, then why Russia sold Alaska?
Another exceptional video, thanks!
Now Russia and India are friends. Huh.
Weird.
The invasion supposed to be against Britain not India. So even then they would be friends.
awww friends how cute
Well, countries aren't immortal single human beings, are they?
This happened long ago with one person
Actually soviet union was indias friend.
Russia is just going along.
Otherwise the Russian Empire was not really an ally to india.
And just like the video said the invading army would've carried out plunder of Indian cities as well just like any other invaders.
There could've been a huge chance if that happened then people of India would've been speaking russian.
The Russian threat proved real in 1885 Panjdeh incident, Afghanistan, when Russia seized a NW area, which British were supposed to protect according to 1879 Treaty of Gandamak.
Russian Raj
Also Indian Soviet Socialist Republic
"Sack their cities but tell them youre a liberator"
A russian special. Hell theyre attempting it again in ukraine rn
Again? Proofs?
@@Zapper-kq1zg If you’re on the Internet.
@@heijimikata7181 let him explain to me himself, anyone can use the Internet
@@heijimikata7181don't believe everything Internet says kid
Love your background, the painting. If I am not mistaken, is that The Spoliarium by Filipino painter Juan Luna? 🇵🇭
So... that is how the Orloff diamond came into russia
We were this close to greatness.
So Suworow trained the Russians in Switzerland for the Himalayas...
Hey Jabzy: why the move to Turkey?
Never thought i'd move here, but I love Istanbul
@@JabzyJoe Alright.
@@JabzyJoe I can sympathize.
@@JabzyJoe Enjoy my friend. Be vary of the food you eat here though :) If the store owner is Syrian than food is most likely extra extra hot :D
This reminded me of one time I saw a map of russo-french plan to divide Ottoman Empire (not the Sykes -picot), I wonder if anyone knows where I can find that map again
Here after Prashant Dhawan topic on Russian Empire tried to invade India 4 times on Study IQ
Lol
Muslim also watch Prashant Dhawan?
You hate Prashant?
Anecdote : Napoleon heard of this plan and thought to go to India to join French troups there
At least some discussion between Napoleon and Tsar Alexander about those plans, happened at their diplomatic approach during and right after the Treaty of Tilsit where Napoleon tried to bring Russia to his Anti British embargo. The invasion against Russian happent in order to enforce Russia to participate in this embargo.
@@Peristerygr Exactly, it makes a wider sense
Do India still have a crush on Russia?
yes
Yeah but we are now also flirting with france and isreal
@@thor1696 HAHAHAHA The more the merrier
@@thor1696 Sadly.
Yes we do :)
I really enjoy these videos! I really appreciate the work you put into them.
Thanks a lot
as exiting this sound i think it would highly unlikely
maratha has leadership issue so they never united their strenth against british and defeated
But northern india dominated but Punjabis
they has great leader
armies are battle harden by countless wars with afghans and some maratha
they even Fought with qing empire.
they has vast gorrilla warfare experience as they Estabilished by that
with that they have support of british.
also their army is by no mean outclassed they also has canon and muskets.
Russo-French alliance if not completely defeated but at least get amount of losses and gorilla attacks which could made them retreat anyway
i still like the old format better
The "Great Game",
I believe they called it... 🧐
Cool video, but please dont occupy one and half minute to a sponsor.
aahhhh European history a big merry-go-round of swapping friends every other year
Genetically, Ukrainians, Russians, Belrus are similar (hybrids of slavs and vikings), but culturally, Ukrainians are independent like cossacks, and resisted islamic conquest/ conversion for hundreds of years. And, Russians submitted to conquest by mongols and have mongol cheek genes. Ukrainians, unlike chechens and circassians, did not convert to islam to escape domination by russia. Russia hired ukrainians, cossacks, to colonize south ( iran, india) and east lands. Stalin genocided millions of Ukrainians in HOLODOMOR GOLODOMOR, and then migrated ethnic russians into the vacant homes and villages of starveddeadukrainians, which is the genesis of the disloyal russianspeakers in Donbas. Ukrainians are distinct from Russians, and are entitled to remain independent of Russia.
Kiev litteraly fell to Mongols
That would have gone great...
Great video, but you definitely could've improved the pronunciation of a lot of Indian words
Literally only the Brits thought that there is a game, the Russians weren't caring about them.
Strange invasion plan? Well the Athenian invasion of Siccily comes to mind. But that wasn't just a plan, they tried it and all died
how similar was the Great game to the cold war?
The idea was the same, indirect fightings and supporting locals during civil wars. There were no ideological rivalery though, at least not as clearly as in the Cold War. Beside, the opposition was really local, while the Cold War was global.
North India and Myanmar/Uttar Bharat and Burma Socialist Soviet Republic and Vichy French Colony of South India later
the fracopersian alliance had the same plan
Yo! . . . @Jabz, . . . VPN was so expensive in the 19th century, even governments couldn't afford it and hacking morse-code was much easier.
We coud have had desi comrades.
Raj Kapoorinski
Watching this after Russia fires at a Royal Navy wasrship. Things never really change…
If that happened Indian people instead of saying Yes they would be saying Da right now
India would have been like Central Asia atleast
Indians would have spoken Russian instead of English
And would have migrated more to Russia then to Anglosphere countries ( USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
@Theworldsucks-kg5jv facts and curry would be very common in Russia and vodka would be very common in India
@JDDC-tq7qm *Vodka is already quite common in India*
*Indiyskiy Karri would had been popular in Russia*
Nobody going to mention that smooth sponsor transition?
@7:06 why no Sicily
I refuse to recognise the island for political reasons.... or im just bad at making maps in this new way.
Same as Crete where did Crete went?
There must have been similar plans at least regarding Khiva in 1830, however Russian-Polish war of 1831 stopped that. Cossack regiments has been sent to central Asia just to be recalled few months later to fight Poles instead.
Well Khiva did became part of Russian Empire ( during 1873)
1831 was internal revolt
( Because Poland was part of Russian Empire)
@@Theworldsucks-kg5jv
It may look like that now, but it was not like that at the time. Kingdom of Poland, as declared at Congress of Versailles, had it's own parliament, army, constitution and Monarch. That monarch was to be Tzar of Russia. Hence when parliament officially dethroned Tzar and declared war and there were regular large scale battles - I allowed myself to call it a war.
There is a trend in some polish circles to consider entire 1830-31 situation as a British provocation to delay Russian expansion towards India (as you said they incorporated Khiva 40 years later). Interesting concept if nothing else.
I personally think it is better for Indians that Russia never really took hold of any India.
@@andrzejadamowicz3753
Just as for Polish Russians are occupiers, for Indians British are also occupiers, if not worse than that
I have heard that Tsar Alexander III, Had quite developed Warsaw city
Warsaw was one of the Russian Empire 's best city
But which was British Empire' s best city? Britain's capital London ( difference - some different city is better than capital city in case of Russian Empire)
The British looted it's colonies
Atleast Russians weren't looters ( yes when it comes to crush revolt they might be cruel but atleast Tsarist Russia was not a looter like British Empire)
Sorry if you got offended but this is what I observed
If I remember,Congress Poland didn't had that much famine ( despite famines being common in Imperial Russia)
But famine was a common occurrence in British India and British African colonies
But there had been no famines in British Canada or Australia
@@Theworldsucks-kg5jv
Thank you for your honesty. I never intended any malice towards you. Also I am in no way offended. For me, history is to learn from, and "what ifs" are nice mental exercises.
How different world would be if so called Great Game would see much more Russian gains, no one can really say.
One is certain I never wish for India a fate of Kazakhstan. Place is crippled and peoples broken due to first Russian and finaly Soviet experiments (mostly Soviets).
If I recall correctly Yurii Bezmenov defected to the west because he fell in love in India and couldn't stand seeing what commies were doing there.
US War Plan Red: America vs. Canada
This would have been amazing to see. What if the French and/or Russians had as one of their pretenses the restoration of the Mughals?
Jabzy is the guy who reminds you that you actually know almost nothing about history.
No offence but India represented by temple not Taj Mahal.
Not really. Also, especially for this video, the Mughuls still held the top prestige in the region in the 1700s, though this influence was dying
What's ur problem with Tajmahal.
well taj mahal was the last architecture holded by one of the most powerful and last empire of indian subcontinent , so yeah it basically represents .
@@opai1821 nope wrong
@@ayush-lf8fi people think india has nothing but taj mahal, some random a s s h o l e on yt video comment was saying that if he was Hindu he should be ashamed that Muslim mughals build Taj Mahal hindus cant they would have build c o w d u n g huts , that makes me so angry.
is it just me are everyone just go WAIT WHAT when they first saw the vid
Do the ottoman invasion of Italy
Best segue ito VPN advert ever.
I saw this video sandwiched between ones about the current Ukraine conflict and thought Putin's pulling some strange moves now
Interesting
Should retitle it to 'Russian plans to invade the British Raj', but what do I know.
Technically until 1814 Marathi empire was independent so yeah
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7:40 where's sicily?
Imagine if the Russians hit the Indian Ocean... This would complete the task of searching for warm-water ports, second only to the capture of Constantinople, sorting by priority.
Modern Russia already have warm-water ports, and the russian empire had more in the baltics and black sea
@@yangyigao8158 The Baltics aren't really warm water ports and the Russians are trapped in the Black Sea as the Bosphorus and Dardanelles can be easily blockaded.
Hmm nice
USA:OIL :: RUSSIA: WARM SEA
No Russia wants warm ports.
Wow It would be strange
Wish you had more maps
Use VPN private internet access unlike the Cossacks ...
Why are you in Turkey
Why do you always show off that you live in Turkey every video?
Russian Empresses are so strong, I dream of Catherine the Great slapping me every night
Dude wtf
💀😭 Bro what
It’s all games for some people. Peoples lives and sovreignty were lost. No one cares about vodka curry
Ok
With cost of “black gold” at 15-23 dollars per barrel, the USSR economy collapsed, and the sovok itself collapsed, and the "golden" horde ("russia") budget can only be fulfilled only with oil price at $ 42.4 and higher
Moskwa would be a 20million City with currey and cows and tamples...Indian culture into europe
Moscow, as agglomeration, is 20 million people city.. And it's too cold in winter for cows here :)
The picture in your video background. "SPOLIARIUM
" Painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. It has also become a picture of the propaganda movement during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.🇵🇭
What the FAA..
1676 war was Muscovite -ottoman war checkout the documents
I thought Russia warred with Turkey, not only city of Moscow
@@Admin-gm3lc Muscovy is the original name of "russia" was in use until 19-20c. Ottomans used it in 1914. the Muscovy neighbors are still use it daily
@@eugenlitwin5887 "Original" name of Russia was the Rus. Later divided Russian principalities were conquered by the Grand principality of Moscow. "Moscovy" is a polish name of Russia just like Venaja is a finnish name of Russia. Later some Polish nationalists tried to install it worldwide, but they failed. Nobody uses "Muscovy" in modern day lol. Like some europeans used to call Siberia "Tartaria" but now nobody does that.
@@Admin-gm3lc Rus´ was name of ancient Ukrainian state which collapsed in 11c . Juchi ulus (Muscovy in northern part of it) was a despotic - mongol state (created in 13c. from 16c M. is de fact independent ) , Much like Muscovy today . try to read T Snyder before post nonsense here
@@eugenlitwin5887 Rus was the name of ancient Russian state created by Rurik in city of Novgorod, Russia. Ukraine was created by bolsheviks in 1917. The Kievan principality was part of Jochi along with Moscow principality, later absorbed in despotic pagan Lithuania lol. Try to read wikipedia first and history books to not shame yourself. There arent any "Muscovy" today. Modern russians and medieval citizens of Moscow principality are genetic successors of rus people, proven by DNA(Russian DNA 46% slavic, 21% finno-ugric, Ukrainian 43% slavic, 36% semitic(turkic)) and they look european, not mongol lol.
They forgot about Sikhs I think
I really missed the 3 minutes history series
barbaric Asiatic Moscow has always been our enemy, and now we have bring it back to 1991 and not save it in empire format
The west is more barbaric. Since they destabilise countries and kill innocent civilians. Which is their tradition
Lol Russia always was deeply connected with Europe. Why do you hate city of Moscow though? "Barbaric" russians invented a lot of things, you know. Russia even supported american independence and north in civil war, Russia sold Alaska and still was betrayed by America.
@@Admin-gm3lc Juchi ulus is mongol empire, but the book "tsarev ulus "
@@shayaldwarka7907 Juchi ulus is mongol empire, but the book "tsarev ulus "
@@Adam.G.Trapper Golden Horde was mostly Turkic, my friend. And Russian were their tributary for some time.
You’re in Turkey right now? That explains your usage of a VPN since Turkey’s mental about internet censorship.
Russian Raj
(inserts nonsense cringe comment)
Output- gets 2 likes from 2 cringy people
@@anitathakur9340 just like British Raj
It would be Russian Raj from 1801-1917
And then Indian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1918 or 1922-91