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  • @jmasters7515
    @jmasters7515 5 років тому +1437

    The main thing I learned from this video is that Russians aren’t born, they just spawn in the middle of a field wearing an Adidas tracksuit

    • @karandullet380
      @karandullet380 5 років тому +5

      J Masters holy shit why is this so funny 😂

    • @historyrhymes1701
      @historyrhymes1701 5 років тому +24

      That is so racist
      All of us eastern europeans are created that way not only the darn Russians !

    • @zekessrover922
      @zekessrover922 5 років тому

      ROFL 😂

    • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116
      @misanthropicservitorofmars2116 4 роки тому

      The track suit is earned after spending a week naked in the frozen marsh with only a bottle of vodka.

    • @501ststormtrooper9
      @501ststormtrooper9 4 роки тому

      No. Soviets are born in bunches of 100 by 1 woman and there were a total of 100M woman doing this a little before WWII. That’s how they had more manpower.

  • @jakobidelgado5592
    @jakobidelgado5592 2 роки тому +197

    "Did you know that there are Russian troops in Ukraine right now" aged like fine wine

    • @thomasboi2255
      @thomasboi2255 2 роки тому +11

      they've been there since 2013 so

    • @therealhistorybuff990
      @therealhistorybuff990 Рік тому

      @@thomasboi2255 Yes but it was only now that the media picked it up and a large scale Russian operation was actually underway. They practically, like Connor said, snuck troops into Ukrainian separatist/government territory.

    • @nikolozgilles
      @nikolozgilles Рік тому +1

      💀💀💀💀💀

    • @Eazy-ERyder
      @Eazy-ERyder Рік тому +1

      IKR

    • @Zacharoni4085
      @Zacharoni4085 Рік тому +3

      @@thomasboi2255
      Sadly, the average Westerner didn’t know what Ukraine was until their TV told them they should care about it.

  • @KonEl-BlackZero
    @KonEl-BlackZero 5 років тому +630

    Also in Norilsk there are 40 days without daylight and according to a documentary there are invisible fogs without oxygen that can suffocate you on the street.
    You cant get more russian than that.

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  5 років тому +79

      I know! It's crazy!

    • @SuperGman117
      @SuperGman117 5 років тому +94

      That shit's straight out of STALKER

    • @kryzys904
      @kryzys904 5 років тому +17

      sounds like Half-Life 2 Beta

    • @misanthropicservitorofmars2116
      @misanthropicservitorofmars2116 4 роки тому +35

      How do you even get an oxygenless fog? That’s easily the most badass weather phenomenon I’ve heard.

    • @a.morphous66
      @a.morphous66 4 роки тому +6

      Now we know where the inspiration for Pathologic came from.

  • @techyn8502
    @techyn8502 5 років тому +609

    "The average person in Norilsk live 10 years less..."
    Me: that's bad
    "than other Russians"
    Me: Oh, that's really bad

    • @jamescrab4110
      @jamescrab4110 4 роки тому +14

      Because America fucked all the healthcare after the fall of the USSR

    • @theArab__
      @theArab__ 4 роки тому +4

      Coconut Crab true

    • @mrluk-ci4os
      @mrluk-ci4os 4 роки тому +11

      @@jamescrab4110 vodka did

    • @straydog3799
      @straydog3799 4 роки тому +24

      @@jamescrab4110 That make no sense. Prior to the collapse, women would avoid pregnancy because they didn't want to end up in a Soviet hospital.

    • @straydog3799
      @straydog3799 4 роки тому

      @Cegesh I've literally read that from multiple sources.

  • @edgelord8337
    @edgelord8337 5 років тому +296

    Stalin: if you don't like you room There's always more space in the gulags.

  • @theirishshane
    @theirishshane 5 років тому +414

    Good god these city’s sound dystopian. There is a vice documentary about these artic circle cities

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  5 років тому +49

      I think I heard about those, but I never ended up watching the,.

    • @raygiordano1045
      @raygiordano1045 5 років тому +25

      The USSR was communist. That makes a dystopian nightmare a lead pipe cinch.
      I consider just about any history from the USSR nightmare fuel. My nightmares borrow freely from reading too much about commies.

    • @sarahfeel8646
      @sarahfeel8646 4 роки тому +6

      What's the documentary called?

    • @daneal9443
      @daneal9443 4 роки тому +1

      @@sarahfeel8646 man never answered

    • @haroldsen4238
      @haroldsen4238 4 роки тому

      @@daneal9443
      Never.

  • @watermelonmaleesha2042
    @watermelonmaleesha2042 5 років тому +198

    4:26 ''the river turned red'' SOVIET ANTHEM PLAYS

    • @_pruna
      @_pruna 4 роки тому +1

      Slava Rusiaaa

    • @lazyidio
      @lazyidio 4 роки тому

      -test-

    • @studijasymrov7630
      @studijasymrov7630 4 роки тому +1

      Sojuz njerushymyj rjespublik svobodnyx Splotila navjeki jedinaja Rus'...

  • @nathanboeke838
    @nathanboeke838 4 роки тому +61

    4:26 “the nearby river has turned red”
    That is the most Soviet thing I have ever heard

  • @g1ngerrobot794
    @g1ngerrobot794 4 роки тому +28

    "No trees grow natrually"
    >Its the Russian arctic, trees dont grow there anyway.

  • @dapeepingreaper6266
    @dapeepingreaper6266 5 років тому +61

    Russia: no one will know *OUR* secrets
    UA-cam: is that so

    • @Cr84u4eva
      @Cr84u4eva 4 роки тому

      Reaper the peeper 😆

  • @colonelstriker2519
    @colonelstriker2519 5 років тому +80

    This guy is Sam O’nella but historical and uses more color

  • @angelwashere8864
    @angelwashere8864 5 років тому +55

    You can't get demonized if you don't put ads!

  • @TheServitor01
    @TheServitor01 5 років тому +12

    This video was like an old work experience. There are entire towns in Russia that have no power, no water, and almost no industry but maintaining, re-purposing, and salvaging failed factories. To see the people get up at dawn and leave at dusk every day in a near silent town is amazingly surreal.

  • @dominickdoesstuff
    @dominickdoesstuff 5 років тому +65

    This channel is literally so entertaining to watch, good work on the videos!

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  5 років тому +8

      Thank you! It means a lot!

    • @thekhans2823
      @thekhans2823 4 роки тому +1

      @ History House Productions , Yes hey do one on the Mongol 🇲🇳 conquests

  • @murica3024
    @murica3024 5 років тому +25

    “The KGB wants to know your location.” -KGB

  • @comrade53507
    @comrade53507 5 років тому +15

    This channel needs more recognition. I'm a new subscriber by the way.

  • @Ialsohaveanopinon
    @Ialsohaveanopinon 5 років тому +67

    Funniest history video to date. Love it man. Keep it up
    "Its 1945 and--"
    *nuke*
    🤣🤣🤣

    • @stix4768
      @stix4768 5 років тому

      INRI INRI behemoth \m/

  • @Ma_ksi
    @Ma_ksi 5 років тому +81

    6:00 wrong borders

  • @crywlf9103
    @crywlf9103 5 років тому +16

    “Pthot twist: That thake ith radioactive!”

  • @midge_gender_solek3314
    @midge_gender_solek3314 4 роки тому +2

    I met a guy from Norilsk a coule years ago. He said it was fun living there, because they didn't have to go to school a large chunk of the year due to extreme weather conditions.

  • @alexandersifuentes5097
    @alexandersifuentes5097 5 років тому +3

    Man i gotta say. You have one of the best history channels ive seen in a while. Keep it up!

  • @AidanMartin
    @AidanMartin 5 років тому +36

    in soviet russia the secret keeps you a secret!

  • @gerogegerog5926
    @gerogegerog5926 2 роки тому +4

    0:15 boy did this age like fine wine

  • @officerbeenadd
    @officerbeenadd 5 років тому +5

    I found this channel today and i am already in love! Keep up this awesome work!

  • @bluchickenstudios9957
    @bluchickenstudios9957 5 років тому +32

    How did you find out huh?
    KGB will be on our way

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  5 років тому +7

      *runs away screaming*

    • @KeystoneRecce
      @KeystoneRecce 5 років тому +4

      History House Productions you see comrade, you can never escape kgb. we will give you radiation sickness

    • @lazyidio
      @lazyidio 4 роки тому +1

      @@HistoryHouseProductions i kil ur turtle

  • @foxfoster1
    @foxfoster1 4 роки тому +4

    Him: most polluted city
    Me: Adds to Travel list

  • @sypan3205
    @sypan3205 5 років тому +2

    Last week you are starting to get recommended something you deserved all along keep doing the great content :)

  • @Ispeedymg
    @Ispeedymg 5 років тому +3

    Good luck and god speed on your finals comrade. Thanks for giving me a brief moment of happiness during mine!

  • @almasbestembek
    @almasbestembek 4 роки тому +4

    History House Productions: *makes this video*
    The news the next day: "A young youtuber has died in an accident"

  • @abdokorib8898
    @abdokorib8898 5 років тому +6

    I just love this channel it's amazing. Thank god I found it.

  • @BajanEnglishman51
    @BajanEnglishman51 5 років тому +6

    Radioactive lakes aren’t a plot twist in the Soviet Union

  • @pawep5492
    @pawep5492 5 років тому +78

    Ruusian secret city is gulag

  • @chkelly17
    @chkelly17 5 років тому +40

    Someone's has been watching sam o nella

  • @thebatstory6451
    @thebatstory6451 5 років тому +3

    I found your channel off of recommended and I’m subscribing cause of the epic content

  • @yukikaze-117
    @yukikaze-117 5 років тому +9

    5:25Subtitles: I live in this little town called Italy :gunshots*

  • @thegnomewarlordix8742
    @thegnomewarlordix8742 3 роки тому +4

    "The lake was so radioactive that it could kill you within an hour, making it a popular tourist site for people how had recently listened to kardi b"
    R/murderedbywords

  • @blakjak8443
    @blakjak8443 4 роки тому +3

    Is it weird that I just had this in my recommended videos after I watched Tenet, a movie in which the macguffin and final battle is located in one of these hidden cities?

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 роки тому

      Really? I haven't seen the movie.

    • @blakjak8443
      @blakjak8443 4 роки тому

      History House Productions Yeah, I think it’s a fictional closed-city because I can’t find anything about it, but it was called Stalsk-12. It was the hometown of the main antagonist and some nuclear accident has caused it to become abandoned.

  • @pewpewman._.3415
    @pewpewman._.3415 5 років тому +48

    You know too much... *TO THE GULAG !*

  • @Thecommander248
    @Thecommander248 2 роки тому +3

    How are you not more popular by now?

  • @tavish4699
    @tavish4699 2 роки тому +6

    this didnt age well....

  • @medusa_jeepwrangler
    @medusa_jeepwrangler 2 роки тому +4

    The beginning aged terribly 😭

  • @Shadypigeon225
    @Shadypigeon225 2 роки тому +2

    I think he kind of predicted what just happened in the beginning

  • @LydiaMoMydia
    @LydiaMoMydia 2 роки тому +4

    0:12 damn that aged bad

  • @FaoujiMaoru
    @FaoujiMaoru 5 років тому +18

    7:25 Putin teach how to love motherland

  • @ayyy_jayyy117
    @ayyy_jayyy117 5 років тому +8

    Why study for your finals when the KGB is gonna get you anyway?

  • @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146
    @gheorghitaalsunculitei9146 5 років тому +1

    If you suddenly dissappeared we all know that you decided to relocate to Norilsk

  • @snoogkies
    @snoogkies 4 роки тому +19

    2 Truths And a Lie, Russia Style.
    America: “Alright, Russia, your turn.”
    Russia: “Okie~… My name is Russia...”
    America: “Yeees...?”
    Russia: “It’s very cold where I live.....”
    America: “Of course....?”
    Russia: “Annnnnd.... The cities on this list exist~...”
    America: “...So they don’t exist?”
    Russia, with a gun to the head: “Uhhh.... Да?....”
    America: “...”
    Russia: “...”
    America: “...Sure...”
    Russia: “Yep......”
    America: “...”
    Russia: “...”
    America: “Mind if I visit you later-“
    Russia: “PLEASE DON’T-“
    America: “...”
    Russia: “...not visit.”
    America: “...Kay.”
    Russia: “Yup...”
    America: “...See ya.”
    Russia: *”O k A y~”
    America: “......Can’t wait to see those cities~”
    Russia: “NO, THEY DON’T EXIST-“

  • @theclockworksolution8521
    @theclockworksolution8521 4 роки тому +3

    I legitimately haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. Great work.

  • @mubasharjama6522
    @mubasharjama6522 5 років тому +77

    Ya gotta like your comment to start somewhere

  • @8bitorgy
    @8bitorgy 4 роки тому +1

    your knowledge on russian and polish history deserves a fucking medal of some sort

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 роки тому +1

      Haha! I’m not that great. I just read a lot.

    • @8bitorgy
      @8bitorgy 4 роки тому +1

      @@HistoryHouseProductions well in my book you get the adidas gold 🏅 medal

  • @stephenbrand5661
    @stephenbrand5661 4 роки тому

    The secret, closed cities that nobody would ever want to go to anyway.

  • @YAH2121
    @YAH2121 4 роки тому

    Norilsk sounds like some forbidden, cursed land that you only heard about in legends.

    • @hsalf2188
      @hsalf2188 4 роки тому

      Yeah... I living here

  • @Wanking_wanker
    @Wanking_wanker 4 роки тому +1

    Fun fact norilsk is one of the most dystopian looking places on earth

  • @giorgos6099
    @giorgos6099 5 років тому +4

    "Oversimplified would like to known your locasion"(new subscriber)

  • @Julio_Or_Something
    @Julio_Or_Something 4 роки тому +1

    So... Norilsk only gets a break day on a leap year?

  • @craftypiggy8128
    @craftypiggy8128 5 років тому

    You channel is about to blow up

  • @geofisika8838
    @geofisika8838 4 роки тому

    I was a frequent visitor in Ozyorsk! My grandparents used to live there, but as they retired, they moved away. Sadly, I can't visit the town anymore.

  • @ashdsf_
    @ashdsf_ 4 роки тому +1

    The intercontinental missile joke was good

  • @varangianguard7102
    @varangianguard7102 5 років тому +6

    2:39
    Chernobyl: "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @PhysicstIsaac
    @PhysicstIsaac 5 років тому +8

    Do we respawn once we die because we spawn in Russia, not get b o r n

  • @DutchSemmie
    @DutchSemmie 5 років тому +1

    You are so under rated i love your content

  • @thebirdmapper357
    @thebirdmapper357 5 років тому

    I just discovered your channel and right now marathoning your videos,you're a really underrated channel and the only one to make me laugh while watching,I hope they will discover you some day and wishing you good luck not getting assassinated.

  • @hewas_chewasky
    @hewas_chewasky 2 роки тому +4

    First 10 seconds I thought this video was made im 2022

  • @creamCarnivalJones1234
    @creamCarnivalJones1234 5 років тому +14

    *the KGB did not like that*

  • @Mythyc
    @Mythyc 4 роки тому

    OK, so at 4:06 you mention that trees don't grow naturally within a 19km radius of Norilsk, but I literally just went on google maps satellite imagery to see that trees were very much surrounding the entire city along a 19km radius. I stopped watching after that.
    Maybe the emphasis was on the "naturally" part, but you should have been more specific on that point.
    Cheers,

  • @cookiemom8817
    @cookiemom8817 5 років тому

    Love your videos. I learn so much. And I think I recognized some of the music you used 😆😉

  • @SKY_7766
    @SKY_7766 5 років тому +4

    3:39 when did the Russians have adidas BTW in the top left corner

  • @tesserious1231
    @tesserious1231 4 роки тому +1

    "It's the third worst nuclear Oopsie" hahah :) I like it

  • @BluetheRaccoon
    @BluetheRaccoon 4 роки тому

    Your lisp is *adorable*, and makes your Russian pronunciations even more impressive. Subscribed!

  • @alinsansu3010
    @alinsansu3010 5 років тому

    Great video.U are such an underrated youtuber,hope more ppl will subscribe to you!

  • @susanlee594
    @susanlee594 2 роки тому +3

    0:14 well that didn't age well

  • @claysoggyfries
    @claysoggyfries 5 років тому +1

    I subscribed. Glad I came across your videos. Truly a hidden gem 💎 🔥

  • @darry-garry
    @darry-garry 4 роки тому

    Are they visible with google earth?

  • @quillinkhistory9539
    @quillinkhistory9539 5 років тому

    How do you even find out about these topics?

  • @marshaltito7232
    @marshaltito7232 5 років тому

    Recently found the channel, really fun content keep up the good work!

  • @dubuyajay9964
    @dubuyajay9964 5 років тому

    Will you ever cover Three-Mile Island?

  • @oliverfm3263
    @oliverfm3263 5 років тому

    For some reason I can’t access YTLC music and it makes me really sad because we have a yearly tradition of blasting Puff a Swisher in the guys changing room on closing night after the performance. Please do something papa Cladwell.

  • @noobmaster-no3yq
    @noobmaster-no3yq 4 роки тому

    Keep up the good work Connor. You are one out of 3 Americans who knows history!!!

  • @ЮрийУшаков-ъ9п
    @ЮрийУшаков-ъ9п 5 років тому

    As a citizen of a closed city, things here in my hometown are a lot better than in surrounding cities lmao.
    Oh by the way most of the forests and lakes nearby are heavily irradiated by Ozyorsk lads, but whatever.

  • @TwitchyTopHat1
    @TwitchyTopHat1 4 роки тому

    At least Japan knows how to clean up after their nuclear disasters. Russia just does the thermonuclear equivalent of sweeping it under the rug

  • @manbun5194
    @manbun5194 3 роки тому +1

    The way he said Chelyabinsk had me seizing up

  • @jabko3380
    @jabko3380 4 роки тому

    Actually. The "secret" cities were in poland too. Like borne Sulinowo which in poland is known from its city history and some kind of military event

  • @grandmahasagunandwontletgo9846
    @grandmahasagunandwontletgo9846 3 роки тому +1

    They Aren’t so Secret Now Are They?

  • @jackmclaughlin648
    @jackmclaughlin648 5 років тому

    My favorite history channel. Do good on your finals.

  • @luri_aden4920
    @luri_aden4920 5 років тому

    How do you spell 6:52

  • @RhmnLego
    @RhmnLego 5 років тому +1

    Can you do a video on the three false Dmitris and Dmitri of Uglich, I think the weirdest events that happened there would make for a funny episode

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  5 років тому

      Maybe!

    • @MrVlad12340
      @MrVlad12340 5 років тому +1

      History House Productions its one of the funniest and yet dumbest and yet seriously historical events in pre-USSR Russia. Or pre-Imperial. Literally a polish prank that went too far.

  • @Sam-ph1fk
    @Sam-ph1fk 5 років тому

    These are the best videos I have ever seen I just found this channel and I love it

  • @tish6587
    @tish6587 5 років тому

    How do you know they exist if they are secret?

  • @dominikkirigaya9408
    @dominikkirigaya9408 5 років тому

    Omg i watched only 2 of ur episodes for now but i fucking love them :V keep making ur job

  • @Galland780
    @Galland780 5 років тому

    You should have more subscribers... All of your video quality are beyond amazing.... Hope your channel will be monetize soon.

  • @stephenbrand5661
    @stephenbrand5661 4 роки тому

    I was 6 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed and my family had a subscription to National Geographic. This German photographer named Gerd Ludwig did a story about pollution in the former Soviet republics and it scared the living shit out of me. Another story about pollution in Eastern Europe was almost as bad and it planted the seeds of my environmentalism. That and visiting my grandparents in New Jersey.

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 роки тому

      Ah yes. New Jersey.

    • @stephenbrand5661
      @stephenbrand5661 4 роки тому

      @@HistoryHouseProductions My grandmother’s house was in a town called Kearny that’s less than 10 miles outside Manhattan, close enough that we could see the Empire State Building out the window. I did a little research when I was living there and found evidence of there being at least 43 EPA Superfund sites in that one small town 🤢🤮No wonder N.J. has so many cancer clusters!!

  • @theunitedstatesofamerica3556
    @theunitedstatesofamerica3556 5 років тому +2

    _I’m confused_

  • @petartoshkov2076
    @petartoshkov2076 5 років тому

    Actually if you go to google maps and want to see the cities you can't because the barriers blocked the street view car NO GOVERNMENT PERMISSION TO THE CAPITALIST COMPANY

  • @thatfamiiiarnight3665
    @thatfamiiiarnight3665 2 роки тому +2

    0:19
    well this aged poorly..

  • @MaytayMaya
    @MaytayMaya 2 роки тому +1

    0:13 this aged well

  • @richardsuggs8108
    @richardsuggs8108 5 років тому

    Actually the Russians just started dumping the waste in another nearby lake.

  • @luri_aden4920
    @luri_aden4920 5 років тому

    I played this video at lunch when I was at school and forced some people to watch it with me

  • @OWMANez
    @OWMANez 4 роки тому

    thx so much for helping me... i needed that for the school : )

    • @HistoryHouseProductions
      @HistoryHouseProductions  4 роки тому +1

      You're learning about secret cities in school?

    • @OWMANez
      @OWMANez 4 роки тому

      @@HistoryHouseProductions nah 🤣 its the radioaktive Materials and that stuff ") thx again ^^

  • @charlessmith263
    @charlessmith263 Рік тому

    Glad I did not actually go to "Gorkyii" (or "Gorky") in the USSR times. It was a closed-off city where regular Soviets and all foreigners were all forbidden to visit there. The reason - they had something like spies and was a place where details of Russian nuclear missile secrets ("classified stuff") were disseminated that would be extremely dangerous for the CCCP if anything like that leaked outside Gorky's walls. If I were to go there unannounced, I would be arrested by the KGB, and spent hard time in a Russian gulag or labor camp, and be fined a massive amount of Rublii (or "rubles").

    • @charlessmith263
      @charlessmith263 Рік тому

      It is so sad that this video doesn't cover the forbidden city of Gorky like I thought it had.

  • @bunkerratte_
    @bunkerratte_ 5 років тому

    The FSB wants to know your location. I'd check twice before turning the ignition on my car :D