The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2)

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  • Опубліковано 16 сер 2020
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 25 тис.

  • @OverSimplified
    @OverSimplified  3 роки тому +9678

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  • @dmitriyromanov791
    @dmitriyromanov791 3 роки тому +6468

    the most influential human in russia:
    1900 - Rasputin
    2000 - Putin
    2100 - Tin

    • @matt_v_photo
      @matt_v_photo 3 роки тому +287

      2200 -

    • @dmitriyromanov791
      @dmitriyromanov791 3 роки тому +405

      @@matt_v_photo 2200 - President "N"

    • @matt_v_photo
      @matt_v_photo 3 роки тому +394

      Dmitriy Romanov 2300 - Nit
      2400 - Nitup
      2500 - Nitupsar

    • @dmitriyromanov791
      @dmitriyromanov791 3 роки тому +143

      @@matt_v_photo 2400 - President Nitup
      2500 - Tsar Nitupsar. Ressurection of Rasputin 👻👺 and return to monarchy 👑

    • @runa2604
      @runa2604 3 роки тому +20

      @@dmitriyromanov791 that. Is dark

  • @Vistroh
    @Vistroh 3 роки тому +26985

    Things everyone loves:
    Food
    Water
    UA-camrs who post a part 1 and 2 on the same day.

    • @alinek2289
      @alinek2289 3 роки тому +651

      Let's be honest, it's cut into 2 parts because of sponsorships reasons, lol.
      edit: too many of you think i give him shit cuz hes sponsored. i already wrote a reply about how this wasn't meant to be shitting on him, but some people still respond with "its okay that he's sponsored."
      yes, im aware, i support his decision, now please stop telling me.

    • @Miguel-ci5cc
      @Miguel-ci5cc 3 роки тому +76

      Alinek he chasing da bag😜😜😜

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 3 роки тому +289

      @@alinek2289 in their defense youtube pays basically nothing

    • @whendgg9718
      @whendgg9718 3 роки тому +181

      Alinek it’s not a bad thing, the guy posts like 5-6 vids a year

    • @mnkkyluffy9830
      @mnkkyluffy9830 3 роки тому +120

      @@alinek2289 if this video gets demonitized that means he wont get any money *which would suck*
      so he accepts sponsors

  • @mackinbox
    @mackinbox Рік тому +2608

    Trotsky: “surprising military genius”
    Also Trotsky: “let’s stop fighting and see what happens”

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales 10 місяців тому

      And then the central powers charged into more land and punished Russia even more severely

    • @staticalelectric
      @staticalelectric 10 місяців тому +200

      It's called oversimplified for a reason dawg, it wasn't that simple

    • @JoSheperd
      @JoSheperd 9 місяців тому +43

      ​@@staticalelectricPhew atleast someone gets it...

    • @heynowur9146
      @heynowur9146 8 місяців тому +3

      @@staticalelectricso why did he stop fighting

    • @staticalelectric
      @staticalelectric 8 місяців тому +150

      @@heynowur9146 not for military, but for political reasons. The bolsheviks saw that revolution was on germany's doorsteps ans wanted to accelerate the process. One of the things they had to do for this was to show the true imperialist ambitions of german capitalism in pursuing this war. At that time the german generals didn't say it was a war for the conquest of land, but for peace and the self determination of nations. So if they stopped fighting without signing a treaty, one of two things could happen: either the germans didn't advance, which would mean that the situation in germany was already so unstable that the generals were afraid of attacking, that would have boosted morale in Russia enormously. The second option was that the germans would advance, but in doing so would reveal their real intentions, which were not peace and the self determination of nations, but brutal imperialist conquest. This revelation would have massive effects in the consciousness of the german masses. Lenin and Trotsky thought that if germany advanced they would still be able to quickly sign the original peace treaty. This calculation was mistaken, and they paid the price, but the main intention, of revealing the brutality of the german ruling class was achieved, and a few months later on the 3rd of november 1918, the german revolution broke out, effectively bringing world war 1 to an end. Sadly the german revolution failed, but that is a separate matter.

  • @user-sl4ep8tw1s
    @user-sl4ep8tw1s Рік тому +4849

    Those assasins made a misstake about Rasputin: they've poisoned a cake with a cyanide, while sugar is known to neutralize it.

    • @theonering2966
      @theonering2966 Рік тому +328

      They weren’t very smart

    • @doubleflores8350
      @doubleflores8350 Рік тому +1

      According to extra history, the assassins were so bad at their job that they bought fake cyanide from a scammer and non of them had ever fired a gun before that night. That’s how botched Rasputin’s assassination was.

    • @rimfire8217
      @rimfire8217 Рік тому

      Wow really.
      Sugar Neutralizes Cyanide.

    • @ovtkm
      @ovtkm Рік тому +784

      @@theonering2966 or it simply isn't a common knowledge
      Especially it wasn't 100 years ago

    • @donovanulrich348
      @donovanulrich348 Рік тому +230

      Rasputin called their bluff
      He was aware of the poison, and already knew he wouldnt be affected.
      He didnt expect everyone in the room to turn into savages when the passive attempt failed

  • @kfizzledizzle8467
    @kfizzledizzle8467 3 роки тому +3782

    Oversimplified: Starts talking about World War 1
    Everyone else: Hey, I've seen this one. It's a classic.

    • @newaccount7.5bview3seconds4
      @newaccount7.5bview3seconds4 3 роки тому +10

      Actually the class serves a specific group of people. This video is designed for all groups >:3

    • @ponyboycurtis506
      @ponyboycurtis506 3 роки тому +26

      I think it's so cool how many of his other videos are referenced in this one and the previous one

    • @primaabelou4695
      @primaabelou4695 3 роки тому +10

      is this a back to the future reference

    • @emmanroyhippy6859
      @emmanroyhippy6859 3 роки тому +6

      He also stated Cold War. Which is also classic.

    • @patience__8051
      @patience__8051 3 роки тому +2

      Fizzledizzle is a man of culture

  • @markyv2295
    @markyv2295 3 роки тому +4389

    What order to watch Oversimplified in:
    Three Kingdoms
    Battle of Hastings
    War of the Bucket
    Henry VIII
    American revolution part 1
    American Revolution part 2
    French Revolution part 1
    French revolution part 2
    American civil war part 1
    American Civil war part 2
    Hitler part 1
    Russian Revolution part 1
    WW1 part 1
    WW1 part 2
    Russian Revolution part 2
    The Emu War
    Hitler part 2
    WW2 part 1
    WW2 part 2
    Cold War part 1
    Football war
    The Falklands
    Cold War part 2

  • @foulplayer7812
    @foulplayer7812 6 місяців тому +563

    If anyone's curious about what became of Alexander Kerensky after he fled Petrograd, he managed to survive the Russian Revolution and lived a relatively peaceful life, outliving many of the significant figures of the Russian Revolution.
    Oversimplified didn't cover this, but after Kerensky escaped the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution, he fled to Pskov, where he rallied some loyal troops in an attempt to re-take the city. They managed to capture Tsarskoye Selo but were beaten the next day at Pulkovo. Kerensky narrowly escaped again and spent the next few weeks in hiding before fleeing Russia for good, eventually arriving in France. During the Russian Civil War, he supported neither side, as he opposed both the Bolshevik regime and the White Movement.
    Eventually, after Germany invaded France in 1940, Kerensky fled to the United States, where he spent the remainder of his life. He lived in New York City with his wife but spent much of his time at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, where he contributed to the Institution's huge archive on Russian history and taught graduate courses. He wrote and broadcast extensively on Russian politics and history.
    Kerensky eventually died of heart disease in New York City on June 11, 1970. At 89, he was one of the last surviving major participants in the turbulent events of 1917, having outlived Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and all the other prominent figures who had overthrown him.

    • @flynnhunter416
      @flynnhunter416 4 місяці тому +73

      I love the irony of all of it. He out lived all the people who tried to kill him, in a country that ended up being those people's greatest enemy.

    • @hrsmp
      @hrsmp 3 місяці тому +39

      He also had requested a permission to visit USSR, to see his country one last time, but that request was denied.

    • @IsaiahRichards692
      @IsaiahRichards692 3 місяці тому +3

      @@hrsmpNearly destroy your country?: Never see that country again!

    • @hwuilee
      @hwuilee 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@hrsmpThat's so sad . . . Just one more look at the motherland . . .

    • @GorillaUnicorn
      @GorillaUnicorn 2 місяці тому +1

      Damn

  • @rodmunch6865
    @rodmunch6865 Рік тому +557

    I absolutely love how completely random the introduction of Rasputin was to the Russian Monarch, and how crucial his role was to the collapse of Czarist Russia, despite the fact he was some weird horny and overall batshit crazy guy who just did whatever he wanted, like a literal college student. It's random shit like this that makes history so fascinating to me, and it shouldn't be that way lol

  • @Caliell
    @Caliell 3 роки тому +14547

    Just to point out Rasputin did not die from being poisoned, shot, beaten up, and from being thrown into the river. He died from hypothermia after he broke free and crawled out of the river.

    • @bettyunicorn6132
      @bettyunicorn6132 3 роки тому +1002

      Holy

    • @sakthipriya9388
      @sakthipriya9388 3 роки тому +698

      WHA-

    • @sososhru4478
      @sososhru4478 3 роки тому +3414

      Imagine surviving poison, gun and being thrown in a river, only to die because *I'm cold*

    • @Bigdickulous
      @Bigdickulous 3 роки тому +826

      I knew those cakes were totally not poisoned!

    • @Lorddacenshadowind
      @Lorddacenshadowind 3 роки тому +422

      I thought he had drowned in the end, but yeah its a crazy story.

  • @seanwalsh9814
    @seanwalsh9814 3 роки тому +5525

    For some reason I feel Oversimplified doesn't like his mother-in-law.

    • @PALATA-Gaming
      @PALATA-Gaming 3 роки тому +628

      Maybe.
      But i think it's another joke about russians.
      I'm from Russia, and it's very popular in russian culture to joke about the mother-in-law (how annoying they are mainly)

    • @BlaudracheLP
      @BlaudracheLP 3 роки тому +224

      @@PALATA-Gaming That's also a european thing. At least I know those jokes also in austria

    • @seanwalsh9814
      @seanwalsh9814 3 роки тому +46

      @@PALATA-Gaming Ah, thank you! Have no idea about those things.

    • @papimana4332
      @papimana4332 3 роки тому +68

      @@PALATA-Gaming It is also an American thing!

    • @misterfelix5816
      @misterfelix5816 3 роки тому +205

      @@papimana4332 it's a worldwide thing😂 😂

  • @schishne7546
    @schishne7546 11 місяців тому +144

    15:03 "The palace was defended by a force known as: "The Battalion of Death" who immediately gave up."
    love it

    • @tesseract5569
      @tesseract5569 24 дні тому +2

      Well what do you expect. They were the battalion of death not the battalion of the dead lmao

  • @rob-karryhunt817
    @rob-karryhunt817 Рік тому +247

    “The peasants were getting more peasanity, the workers were getting more workery, all the while Germany was getting more Germanery.” 😂

    • @YalokIy
      @YalokIy 9 місяців тому +2

      Loved this joke 😂

    • @Bangladeshi_Edits
      @Bangladeshi_Edits 4 місяці тому

      Fr

    • @Sippy6447
      @Sippy6447 2 місяці тому +4

      As I German, we do get more Germanery as we conquer people

  • @thisisrey8
    @thisisrey8 3 роки тому +6959

    lowkey, history is addictive when it's like this

    • @Cilvathorne
      @Cilvathorne 3 роки тому +224

      Lowkey? You mean Highkey.

    • @Sebowsky_
      @Sebowsky_ 3 роки тому +191

      They should show this at school instead of trash quality and boring ass educational videos made only for money

    • @aria_11
      @aria_11 3 роки тому +70

      I got an A+ just by binge watching them

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 3 роки тому +5

      Yes

    • @circleubuntu
      @circleubuntu 3 роки тому +3

      Ja

  • @TheLUCKGOD1
    @TheLUCKGOD1 3 роки тому +3613

    Lenin: Don't make Stalin the leader.
    Stalin: *How about I do it anyway.*

    • @aldihamzaraj4795
      @aldihamzaraj4795 3 роки тому +58

      NoiceX I uNdErStopOoD tHaT rEfErEnCe
      Bill wurtz

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому +32

      Stalin was more before being secretary
      During the revolution he was in charge of lenin's newspaper and during the civil war, he was the commander of the armed forces

    • @Ake-TL
      @Ake-TL 3 роки тому +5

      Claudiu Toea and then he was in charge of ethnicities department, I think

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 роки тому

      @@Ake-TL nyet

    • @Ake-TL
      @Ake-TL 3 роки тому +1

      Claudiu Toea “Народный комиссар по делам национальностей РСФСР” , don’t know how to translate that properly.

  • @mrawesome6504
    @mrawesome6504 Рік тому +350

    the fact that oversimplified does better Rise Of Kingdom ADS then the actual game, OverSimplified should just be the media manager for them

    • @frustationoverloaded5976
      @frustationoverloaded5976 Рік тому +7

      no we want him to keep making history vedios

    • @adityaanuragi6916
      @adityaanuragi6916 Рік тому

      @@frustationoverloaded5976 *videos

    • @somememer356
      @somememer356 Рік тому +10

      @@adityaanuragi6916 thank you for correcting him, i was honestly so lost reading that sentence, but you kind sir, you thankfully helped me make sense of it all

    • @tesseract5569
      @tesseract5569 24 дні тому

      @@somememer356 I'm so glad they decided to help. I thought they were talking about Oversimplified career as an astronaut. Boy was I wrong

  • @NorthernL1ghtProductions
    @NorthernL1ghtProductions Рік тому +564

    The fact that communism started out as a way to make things better then became a way to dictate and control is actually pretty fascinating to me

    • @nigelbaddock
      @nigelbaddock Рік тому +137

      Revolutions always start off like that. Charismatic leader who offers hope to the oppressed. Past Oppresive government is overthrowed. New oppressive government installed.

    • @joshuakim5240
      @joshuakim5240 11 місяців тому +77

      This is pretty much the path that the extreme majority of movements devolve into if they become successful. When the preservation of the faction takes priority, it discards its values to survive at the expense of everyone else. Power corrupts super hard.

    • @CABRALFAN27
      @CABRALFAN27 10 місяців тому +65

      I think a good point of comparison is the French Revolution. You have an oppressive, outdated government, you a massive and certainly justified popular revolt led by people with radical new ideas for what to replace the oppressive government with, some of whom were no doubt true believers and some of whom just saw it as a path to power, you have massive resistance from surrounding conservative/reactionary governments fearing the threat to the status quo, which leads to the Revolutionaries being further radicalized, and you have the failures of the Revolution projected onto the the entire Ideology as proof of its failure.
      It's interesting, then, looking at the histories of the respective Ideologies, where you see that Liberalism was, indeed, synonymous with the chaos and bloodshed of the French Revolution for many years in Europe, allowing the reactionary Absolute Monarchies to stay in power, but eventually, a somewhat more moderate version of Liberalism did triumph, sometimes even through peaceful means. I imagine we'll see Communism/Socialism take a similar path in the coming century, especially with many people once again growing justifiably dissatisfied with the status quo. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes, as the saying goes.

    • @TheChadls
      @TheChadls 9 місяців тому

      That's why they're trying to ruin everything now

    • @pessimistkai5569
      @pessimistkai5569 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@joshuakim5240well said.

  • @TheDreamLeaf
    @TheDreamLeaf 2 роки тому +7373

    "You've probably been wondeiring what Nicholas has been up to this whole time"
    I forgot he even existed

    • @bobing1752
      @bobing1752 2 роки тому +90

      @Tsar Nicholas II oof

    • @rebelgaming1.5.14
      @rebelgaming1.5.14 2 роки тому +102

      @Tsar Nicholas II Return to the grave buddy. Go see your Cousin Wilhelm.

    • @myles3856
      @myles3856 2 роки тому +16

      Lol

    • @Bombsbombsbombs
      @Bombsbombsbombs 2 роки тому +13

      @Tsar Nicholas II you is ded.

    • @British_navy
      @British_navy 2 роки тому +11

      @Tsar Nicholas II Shiit so I shouldn’t send those twelve battleships that can go on land to liberate you or???

  • @patricksinger6119
    @patricksinger6119 3 роки тому +24968

    The fact you posted both at the same time... this is why people love you

    • @captainobvious5016
      @captainobvious5016 3 роки тому +279

      Boonie Bound More views

    • @plum1405
      @plum1405 3 роки тому +495

      Boonie Bound more place to put sponsors, not more views, do the math

    • @anagay1372
      @anagay1372 3 роки тому +128

      Boonie Bound eh maybe cause it would be a big mush of almost an hour owo or money like that other guy said-

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 3 роки тому +77

      Yes! No "To be continued" and waiting a week.

    • @mapleshade2913
      @mapleshade2913 3 роки тому +33

      @@plum1405 it is actually for more views.

  • @KennyMcCormick99
    @KennyMcCormick99 Рік тому +133

    THESE VIDEOS AREN'T JUST EXTREMELY EDUCATIONAL...
    But they also have that PERFECT touch of satire and comic relief!!
    AWESOME JOB!!

    • @arkadianmc2917
      @arkadianmc2917 3 місяці тому +1

      As a university history student I'd argue with the "extremely educational" part, they're good satire for sure, with many liberal biases I'd say, but from an historical POV they're good for passing a middle school test at best, they're inaccurate and don't bring any source.
      So yeah, while they're good for having a laugh over history they shouldn't be taken as historically accurate at all

    • @johnny.V03
      @johnny.V03 2 місяці тому

      I find most of the comedy to be lame but he does do an excellent job of breaking down every historical event he covers.

  • @vis_viva
    @vis_viva Рік тому +28

    So old family story. My great grandfather was a train station master in Lithuania (but he was of German origin). He spoke Russian, German, & Lithuanian. Trains in Russia had a different gauge then the rest of Europe, so his station was somewhere trains were swapped. As the station master and knowing those languages, he sometimes was an "independent" interpreter. At one point he was aware of the some of the intrigues regarding German plots involving Lenin. I don't know how much of that is TRUE, but those are the stories my father and grandfather used to tell after a "few" beers.

  • @marysmith7765
    @marysmith7765 3 роки тому +31596

    I’m looking forward to “OverSimplified : 2020”

    • @Danijay19
      @Danijay19 3 роки тому +949

      Pretty sure we gotta wait for 2020 to end first

    • @hotdog6523
      @hotdog6523 3 роки тому +277

      You have my support

    • @DianA-mf3dr
      @DianA-mf3dr 3 роки тому +74

      Soon

    • @every_username_is_taken
      @every_username_is_taken 3 роки тому +58

      gay

    • @dapper3322
      @dapper3322 3 роки тому +152

      Yes can't wait till he gets to the part where a giant monster that killed half of the earths population

  • @qorso
    @qorso 3 роки тому +725

    "is he dead?"
    Rasputin: *summons satan*

    • @mrtzarangamer1708
      @mrtzarangamer1708 3 роки тому +24

      I know he was the anti-christ

    • @yumm186
      @yumm186 3 роки тому +21

      Bold of you to assume he himself wasn't satan

    • @zmanprodigy
      @zmanprodigy 3 роки тому +11

      *demonic screeching*

    • @thedevilsadvocate788
      @thedevilsadvocate788 Місяць тому

      @@yumm186 My client has nothing to do with this. Back then, we were in hell playing poker.

    • @Random20106
      @Random20106 Місяць тому

      @@thedevilsadvocate788 Do you have proof? If you don't, your argument is ineffective.

  • @dvoynoytroynik
    @dvoynoytroynik Рік тому +112

    23:45, i love this transition so much

  • @ismaelnehme379
    @ismaelnehme379 9 місяців тому +17

    21:31 Stalin was actually very intelligent. He had a great knowledge of history, a great understanding of the political game, had an amazing memory, had a great understanding of tactics (though he would make occasional catostrophic blunders, like in Poland) and would read constantly. Stalin was many horrible things, but stupid was not one of them

    • @smik2518
      @smik2518 8 місяців тому +2

      Beside being intelligent he wasn’t much worse than 70% of rulers at that time. The fact that he was a tyrant is just a propaganda pushed by western countries just to distract people from the horrible stuff they did

    • @PurooRoy
      @PurooRoy 6 місяців тому +6

      @@smik2518 not to mention literally every European ruler was a tyrant at the time, so it's not right to cherry-pick him.

  • @danieloray5649
    @danieloray5649 3 роки тому +2858

    Man in 1900’s: doesn’t have moustache
    Literally everyone: yeah, there’s gonna be a tax for that

    • @Lacks-intelligence
      @Lacks-intelligence 3 роки тому +10

      What

    • @Armorion
      @Armorion 3 роки тому +50

      @@Lacks-intelligence it's a reference to the French Revolution Episode.

    • @Armorion
      @Armorion 3 роки тому +10

      @Joshua Lor You'll never catch me alive!

    • @theodoreprovencio9097
      @theodoreprovencio9097 3 роки тому +6

      I made this post have 667 likes

    • @danieloray5649
      @danieloray5649 3 роки тому +4

      Theodore Provencio you have my thanks

  • @code6499
    @code6499 3 роки тому +4680

    Such a missed pun
    “The Germans were getting more Germany” 😔

  • @Pick.0
    @Pick.0 Рік тому +92

    I love that oversimplified makes history funny

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 9 місяців тому +22

    Not gonna lie, having just watched every OverSimplified video the past 2 days, 1:51 is easily my favorite scene he's ever done.

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 9 місяців тому

      Okay, that Trotsky joke at 12:31 comes close!

  • @lukeyuan9741
    @lukeyuan9741 3 роки тому +2785

    When Oversimplified doesn’t include a "dude...uncool" scene:
    *Dude...uncool*

    • @rishi7629
      @rishi7629 3 роки тому +106

      He did "Dude... Super cool" instead.

    • @stop8576
      @stop8576 3 роки тому +43

      i expected Rasputin to say "Dude.. uncool" when he gets shot

    • @d1nesh._223
      @d1nesh._223 3 роки тому +14

      Or the kid when he stole the lollipop

    • @slepyjestrab
      @slepyjestrab 3 роки тому +4

      That´s the magic of a good sidekicks... when you abstain from them, the more you value them

    • @sharilshahed6106
      @sharilshahed6106 3 роки тому +1

      in -Soviet- Russia, it becomes dude, so cool.

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer 2 роки тому +3575

    "The palace was guarded by a force named "Battalion of Death"..."
    "...who immediately gave up"

    • @user-ol4jf6wh2m
      @user-ol4jf6wh2m 2 роки тому +180

      Technically their name was "Women's Battalion of Death". These were all-female units created by the Provisional Government, mainly for propaganda purposes - to raise the patriotic mood in the army and to shame the male soldiers who refuse to fight. Despite their propaganda role, they took a limited part in the war at the front (yes, in Russia in 1917 everything was so bad).

    • @TheHeavyshadow
      @TheHeavyshadow 2 роки тому +58

      Why does noone use their full name? "Battalion of Death by Old Age"

    • @kingethanthegreat2681
      @kingethanthegreat2681 2 роки тому +33

      The Battalion Of Death Who Immediately Gave Up

    • @burney7998
      @burney7998 2 роки тому +36

      @@TheHeavyshadow Battallion of death by starvation

    • @ManofPeel
      @ManofPeel 2 роки тому +16

      @@TheHeavyshadow Battalion of death by Stalin.

  • @oliviadavis3638
    @oliviadavis3638 5 місяців тому +16

    2:50
    fun fact: basically, they did try to poison Rasputin. But the guy who was supposed to put the poison in ended up feeling bad and didn't poison it, so Rasputin was fine. Then they sh0t him and, just to be safe, dumped him in the river, but they ended up finding scratch marks underneath the ice, like he'd been trying to claw his way out.
    Basically, the dude was next to immortal, and for that reason I have a cat named after him that looks and acts like the female cat equivalent of a crazy homeless guy.

  • @juliadagnall5816
    @juliadagnall5816 3 місяці тому +9

    King George V, Czar Nicholas II, and Kaiser Wilhelm II were all first cousins. In fact, George and Nicky looked so much alike when they were young that they were sometimes mistaken for each other at family gatherings. George is sometimes criticized for not doing more to try and save Nicholas and his family, but if he (a constitutional monarch) had tried to bring his (extremely unpopular and autocratic) cousin to England in the middle of a war… yeah, that wouldn’t have gone over very well. In any event, it’s not likely that Nicholas and Alexandra would have agreed to go, at least not until it was too late.

  • @I11Vanon
    @I11Vanon 3 роки тому +3396

    Yes that sums up about everything

    • @shawnezekiel7727
      @shawnezekiel7727 3 роки тому +29

      yes

    • @mikethearchangel11
      @mikethearchangel11 3 роки тому +112

      how’s hell, pretty toasty right?

    • @bruhmomento6112
      @bruhmomento6112 3 роки тому +39

      @@mikethearchangel11 why hell

    • @issstrops843
      @issstrops843 3 роки тому +32

      Bestie, how u out here, babushka Anastasia baked u some pirozhki s kapustoi

    • @keesdriesen9256
      @keesdriesen9256 3 роки тому +13

      Ah, yes. Vladimir Illyich Lenin. The man behind the Russian Revolution. And the Red Terror.

  • @hunterkiller1440
    @hunterkiller1440 3 роки тому +7143

    Here's a crazy idea. How about a video about the Chinese Civil War?

    • @Johnathan04
      @Johnathan04 3 роки тому +707

      Or if he’s truly insane. The entire history of China.

    • @Niko-kp6pk
      @Niko-kp6pk 3 роки тому +375

      What Chinese civil war? There's a lot, he already posted the Three Kingdoms one too

    • @Godmfingdamn
      @Godmfingdamn 3 роки тому +304

      @@Niko-kp6pk The Communist one

    • @Godmfingdamn
      @Godmfingdamn 3 роки тому +209

      @@Johnathan04 Hey.... That’s Bill Wurtz’s job

    • @jeff1liam2
      @jeff1liam2 3 роки тому +75

      Or the Mongol invasion

  • @lily8261
    @lily8261 Рік тому +32

    I love Rasputin's animation in this. It is so funny. I start giggling everytime

  • @WanukeX
    @WanukeX Рік тому +16

    5:30 in fairness, the initial plan was for his brother to be regent for his son if his son was made king. But Nicholas changed his mind to straight up just making his brother king when he was reminded that when he had to go into exile his son wouldint go with him if he was tsar. And given his son’s condition, that would have almost definetly meant he would never see his son again as he would very likely die young.

  • @marvelgeek9577
    @marvelgeek9577 2 роки тому +3802

    Rasputin: *eats a butt ton of poisoned cakes
    Russians: Were you killed?!
    Rasputin: Sadly, yes. But I lived!

    • @andreasanchez9453
      @andreasanchez9453 2 роки тому +34

      I understood that reference.

    • @pog16384
      @pog16384 2 роки тому +18

      @@andreasanchez9453 don’t r/whoosh me but a fun fact
      The wine was poisoned
      I laughed at the joke for34 mins

    • @Abbad1579
      @Abbad1579 2 роки тому +3

      😂😂

    • @deeznoots6241
      @deeznoots6241 2 роки тому +34

      @@pog16384 fun fact, nothing was poisoned, the assassins literally forgot to poison the wine, that is the real reason Rasputin didn’t die from poisoning.

    • @Reagan1984
      @Reagan1984 2 роки тому +24

      @@deeznoots6241
      That's one reason, another is that the poisoned they used was old and less potent.

  • @adityas3587
    @adityas3587 3 роки тому +1923

    Oversimplified: **uploads both parts at the same day**
    Everyone: "Dude... VERY COOL"

    • @deepdaddy1208
      @deepdaddy1208 3 роки тому +11

      "Everyone liked that"

    • @pepcore
      @pepcore 3 роки тому +3

      I saw part 1 thought ah uploaded 4 days ago. Guess I need to wait. Was a nice surprise indeed.

    • @masternobody1896
      @masternobody1896 3 роки тому +1

      very chill indeed

    • @Bangladeshi_Edits
      @Bangladeshi_Edits 4 місяці тому

      Very cool

  • @paulagyeiboakye8211
    @paulagyeiboakye8211 9 місяців тому +11

    The killing of Rasputin was so funny that I cried while laughing and almost lost my breath

  • @jondobbs69
    @jondobbs69 Рік тому +8

    8:35
    Ah, the old "Dual Power Conundrum".
    We've all been there, eh?
    I, myself, have been married for 11 years....

  • @xMovieManiacx
    @xMovieManiacx 2 роки тому +3760

    Actually they didn't put poison in cakes. They put some poison into his wine. And he was also Russia's greatest love machine.

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore 2 роки тому +133

      I understood that reference.

    • @quuaaarrrk8056
      @quuaaarrrk8056 2 роки тому +312

      And he was in fact the lover of the Russian queen.

    • @exoels
      @exoels 2 роки тому +54

      And he was the lover of the russian queen

    • @quuaaarrrk8056
      @quuaaarrrk8056 2 роки тому +165

      @Joseph Koranyi Plus, there was a cat that really was gone

    • @Cbrmkn98xs
      @Cbrmkn98xs 2 роки тому +23

      N o s t a l g i c r e f e r e n c e

  • @spacerace1448
    @spacerace1448 3 роки тому +7709

    Okay so no one is gonna talk about how much his art style and attention to detail has improved over the years?

    • @gracehuang2406
      @gracehuang2406 3 роки тому +253

      and his voice acting!!

    • @gallantcavalier3306
      @gallantcavalier3306 3 роки тому +272

      And the fact he makes a new joke every video, and referencing old and good ones.

    • @happycamperds9917
      @happycamperds9917 3 роки тому +26

      Grace Huang *Why does he have to be so mean?*

    • @Loganopeta22
      @Loganopeta22 3 роки тому +10

      Bro ur literally not the only one seeing it as well good job

    • @mzkilla2715
      @mzkilla2715 3 роки тому +22

      It’s almost as if people get better at things they practice as time goes on.

  • @stellajuuno995
    @stellajuuno995 Рік тому +37

    18:20 Technically, this list would be ;
    Capitalists, liberals, social revolutionaries, national separatists in Poland, Finland and Ukraine, independent warlords setting up chiefdoms, anarchist rebels, the "Green Peasant Army", the Cossacks, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ossetia, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the British, the French, the Americans, the Japanese, the Mongols under a White Russian warlord from Brandenburg (Ungern Sternberg), Tannu Tuva, China and a legion of Czechoslovak soldiers who captured the Trans-Siberian Railway and stole the Imperial gold reserves. ..

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 11 місяців тому +3

      Damn

    • @stellajuuno995
      @stellajuuno995 11 місяців тому +8

      @@lucasnelson2649 and also Perjola, Belarus, Makhnovshchina, the Altai Duchy, the Alash Orda, the Basmachi Rebellion, Khiva, Bukhara, Ottoman Generals setting up Imanates in the mountains, the Crimean Khanate and the Free Matroses of Estonia.

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 11 місяців тому +4

      Damn x2

    • @misfitgaming2935
      @misfitgaming2935 10 місяців тому +3

      So basically he pissed everyone off

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 10 місяців тому +3

      You can say that again

  • @CaptainFacts-kr8fb
    @CaptainFacts-kr8fb Місяць тому +3

    2:09
    "I said they are not poisoned!"
    Meanwhile Rasputin: *Eats everything including the candlebra*

  • @jmcelhinny
    @jmcelhinny 3 роки тому +4729

    “The Russian Civil War was extremely intricate and would really need its own video.”
    Yes please!

    • @m1k3y48
      @m1k3y48 3 роки тому +57

      Funny story, Lindybeige did a video about that division of Czech soldiers who took over the trans-siberian railway. Fascinating bit of history

    • @BajanEnglishman51
      @BajanEnglishman51 3 роки тому +13

      M1k3y Czechoslovak legion

    • @Amandor2011
      @Amandor2011 3 роки тому +27

      It was actually, there were like 4-5 parties in this conflict and it wasn't clear which side will come victorious for 3 years
      Betrayals, civilian deaths, breaking up families, shooting down peasants for some bread-all that good stuff

    • @fixsationon7244
      @fixsationon7244 Рік тому

      In Estonia we wall russian civil was à
      "freedom war" and we came out pretty good. In the war there were à lot of schoolboys. People were afraid of Red terror. We got pièce of it. It was horrible. And many estonians thought that nazi Germans are going to save us. After the red terror. And it was good. Until we were occupied

    • @jay24176
      @jay24176 Рік тому +4

      mans still waiting after 2 years

  • @anushkaranjan259
    @anushkaranjan259 3 роки тому +14393

    A guy who can draw, likes history AND has a sense of humor.
    It must be heaven

  • @cannongaming7695
    @cannongaming7695 Рік тому +13

    "Leon trotskii was finger-licking good at organising" got me 😂

  • @timojek
    @timojek 11 місяців тому +10

    I feel like leaving out the white terror which was the reason for the red terror is a pretty big mistake. But pretty good music

  • @leodarkholme8383
    @leodarkholme8383 3 роки тому +2603

    ....and when the world needed him the most, he returned...

    • @justjam2177
      @justjam2177 3 роки тому +137

      But everything changed when comunisim attacked

    • @fortune3911
      @fortune3911 3 роки тому +10

      The lord has returned.

    • @trulyfog
      @trulyfog 3 роки тому +20

      He didnt leave, its just this animation takes this long

    • @alex-wn2cb
      @alex-wn2cb 3 роки тому +6

      Foogle doesn’t really change the fact the he uploaded, hence he returned

    • @cassy121
      @cassy121 3 роки тому +6

      I love this meme but don't you think it's beginning to outdated

  • @memeapproved446
    @memeapproved446 3 роки тому +1801

    “Tsar Nicolas failed to be a good tsar”
    This enraged his father, who punished him severely.

    • @rhyscallinan203
      @rhyscallinan203 3 роки тому +22

      Nah, he dead. Also, he'd just call him a girly girl

    • @abdallahibrahim2277
      @abdallahibrahim2277 3 роки тому +14

      Not funny I swear it got old stop making the same joke every single video

    • @jonnee1234
      @jonnee1234 3 роки тому +6

      Haha this joke never gets old

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 3 роки тому +11

      “Tsar Nicolas failed to be a good tsar”
      This enraged the bolsheviks, who punished him severely.

    • @soggychip3784
      @soggychip3784 3 роки тому

      old joke

  • @JoshuaC923
    @JoshuaC923 Рік тому +145

    Being born in Russia is playing life on veteran difficulty

    • @EclipseINF
      @EclipseINF Рік тому +9

      This video is so rewatchable that it's not uncommon for VERY recent comments to appear near the top

    • @JoshuaC923
      @JoshuaC923 Рік тому +2

      @@EclipseINF yep it is

    • @AmirSatt
      @AmirSatt 11 місяців тому +5

      Can confirm

    • @lifewithnicko
      @lifewithnicko 11 місяців тому +6

      imagine north korea lol, thats playing life on impossible mode

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales 10 місяців тому

      @@lifewithnickobalance change: fixed bug where you earn paper money

  • @Chong688
    @Chong688 Рік тому +6

    Watching Lenin have those consecutive strokes 22:18 over an over again might be my favorite moment in youtube history

  • @YOMAMAXXL
    @YOMAMAXXL 3 роки тому +2166

    I live near the bridge where Rasputin's body was dumped.

  • @wolfieplays3365
    @wolfieplays3365 3 роки тому +1338

    The battalion of death
    They gave up immediately
    I did not see that coming

    • @ishanafondekar6334
      @ishanafondekar6334 3 роки тому +67

      this angered their fathers, who punished them severely

    • @kodys1492
      @kodys1492 3 роки тому +45

      They were called that for their extreme fear of death

    • @JWP-56
      @JWP-56 3 роки тому +9

      Wow that was anticlimactic

    • @masterxicon2453
      @masterxicon2453 3 роки тому +3

      @Brotherhood of steel knight ha.

    • @yeetusmeatus2241
      @yeetusmeatus2241 3 роки тому +2

      I did NAZI see that coming

  • @MKM_2002
    @MKM_2002 Рік тому +9

    19:47 There's something eerily disturbing seeing only real life photos (instead of the digital animatics) during this grizzly moment . . . . . .

  • @MasterClassComments
    @MasterClassComments Рік тому +8

    "2+2=lettuce. I'm so smert" 😂😂😂💀💀

  • @Anglomachian
    @Anglomachian 3 роки тому +849

    Funnily enough, when the Soviets came to power, they dug up Rasputin and burned his body. Unfortunately no one had prepared the body properly, so when his ligaments shriveled in the flames, he sat up and scared the crap out of everyone.
    Good times.

    • @mauz791
      @mauz791 3 роки тому +64

      Thanks science

    • @johnnyapplesmith
      @johnnyapplesmith 3 роки тому +40

      He was also alive days after being shot and left outside in the snow.

    • @snanoopis6584
      @snanoopis6584 3 роки тому +12

      AtheismDies actually the autopsy showed that rasputin had died from being shot in the head which happened before he was dumped in the river

    • @oraclex2976
      @oraclex2976 3 роки тому +2

      Maybe Putin will do the same.

    • @MatrixWorxs
      @MatrixWorxs 3 роки тому +1

      @Marissa Lopes, I see the comment you wrote so many times... SO really. You're the one copying someone else's comment.

  • @Justin-pe9cl
    @Justin-pe9cl 3 роки тому +1368

    Funny story regarding Rasputin, after his assassination he was buried in a church cemetery which was later broken into by red army soldiers. They took the body to a forest to burn him and when they set him on fire he sat up and allegedly tried to walk lol. The reason for this was because you're supposed to cut the tendons when you cremate which shrink when they burn hence the "sitting up" part. I would have SHIT if I saw that guy sit up in his fire pit.

    • @kf338
      @kf338 3 роки тому +107

      Would have ran and never looked back

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 3 роки тому +90

      I bet those atheist communists didn’t expect that

    • @JustSomeGuy7613
      @JustSomeGuy7613 3 роки тому +31

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar you do know that the communist dictators were atheists right? Just in case you thought he was making fun of athesits

    • @JustSomeGuy7613
      @JustSomeGuy7613 3 роки тому +57

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar are you... okay?

    • @sailoroftheinternet3290
      @sailoroftheinternet3290 3 роки тому +57

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar "cultist trash" says the person advocating for communism

  • @dragskcinnay3184
    @dragskcinnay3184 4 місяці тому +4

    two-part Russian revolution into two-part cold war, and two-part French revolution into two-part Napoleonic wars. Such symmetry...

  • @dersteve4240
    @dersteve4240 3 місяці тому +4

    I love Rasputin's story because it's completely bonkers. If you would release a film today about the queen of one of the largest countries on Earth being influenced by what's basically a giant unkillable sex wizard, no one would take it seriously because it sounds completely made up

  • @davidn7685
    @davidn7685 3 роки тому +3504

    Please bro, Do the ,,Stalin Oversimplified” just like u did with Hitler

  • @anandaa6980
    @anandaa6980 2 роки тому +1863

    "throughout his entire reign, he had done everything he could to keep all the power for himself, and in the end, that's exactly what left him with none"... That hit deeper than expected.

    • @fly_youmper_
      @fly_youmper_ 2 роки тому +3

      +

    • @fly_youmper_
      @fly_youmper_ 2 роки тому +16

      but as a Russian who has studied history well, it infuriates me that he exposes the EMPEROR (just in the video of the tsar) with his dibil, although he has done a lot of great things.

    • @alex2005z
      @alex2005z 2 роки тому +2

      Next time you try to be a tzar on a massive empire make sure to have a brain

    • @anothershellcialistturtle8568
      @anothershellcialistturtle8568 2 роки тому +5

      The more you take the less you have-oogway

    • @mathias5980
      @mathias5980 2 роки тому +3

      Me when there is no toilet paper: 16:36

  • @Matt_from_Florida
    @Matt_from_Florida 9 місяців тому +5

    14:26 Anybody notice that's exactly how Yevgeny Prigozhin's armed revolt happened? (Including all the _"bigwigs"_ fleeing Moscow) Until Prigozhin just decided to call it off, that is.

  • @RDY736
    @RDY736 3 місяці тому +3

    7:54 “Who wants to start a Rebubublution!”
    “I mean uh”
    “Rebublu…”
    “Revoluti-“
    “Dangit!”

  • @InsanityPlea100
    @InsanityPlea100 3 роки тому +624

    That Rasputin death scene was hilariously accurate to the way it was originally reported. Although, i agree, it was likely done to make him look more like a threat, and less like a group of men ganged up to kill an unarmed guy with a very picklable pickle.

    • @SpecterVonBaren
      @SpecterVonBaren 3 роки тому +16

      From what I understand, the part about the poisoning not working could very well be true due to low quantities and poor quality.

    • @InsanityPlea100
      @InsanityPlea100 3 роки тому +2

      @AR - 09UR - Heart Lake SS (2462) all valid options, but I guess we shall never know. Unless Rasputin comes back, again, to tell us.

  • @Vehxx-
    @Vehxx- 3 роки тому +499

    Poisoning and Gun wounds: *Exist in Rasputin*
    Rasputin: *Dies from Hypothermia*

  • @lunettasuziejewel2080
    @lunettasuziejewel2080 Рік тому +9

    I have my history documentaries on a playlist, and I order the videos by rough chronological order of the topics. OS's WWI videos are sandwiched in between the Russian Revolution Parts 1 and 2, and it's so interesting to see the evolution of his videocraft in such stark terms. That said, I like that he opens this video with the same visuals for the archduke's assassination that he used in the WWI video. It feels like he's giving a high-five to an old buddy he hasn't seen in awhile.

  • @Cherryfxmls
    @Cherryfxmls 11 місяців тому +5

    This is a perfect revision introduction:) I haven't been revised the Russian revolution in quite a while and my exam is tomorrow so this is a great refresher!

  • @elliepoli2871
    @elliepoli2871 2 роки тому +10058

    Rasputin wasn't just 'a homeless wizard', he was Russia's Greatest Love Machine, come on people
    👏🙄

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 2 роки тому +121

      Oversimplified,
      the Commentary on the Past.
      HBomberguy,
      the Commentary on the Present.
      Sci Show, Veritasium, and others,
      the Science UA-camrs that cover the Future and comment on it.

    • @udhavvarma7097
      @udhavvarma7097 2 роки тому +514

      Don't forget the fact that it was a shame how he carried on. There was no mention of the cat that really was gone in the video, sad.

    • @mochalo4912
      @mochalo4912 2 роки тому +248

      the guy that perfromed that song (bobby farell)died on the same day Rasputin died on the same month , in the same city ... think about it

    • @assassinabhya
      @assassinabhya 2 роки тому +78

      tar-tar-tartaglia and ra-ra-rasputin

    • @keanuh8203
      @keanuh8203 2 роки тому +115

      It was a shame how he carried on

  • @jcrmakesshorts8656
    @jcrmakesshorts8656 3 роки тому +585

    UA-cam: You are not on trending
    Oversimplified: ya, there is gonna be a tax for that

    • @sophiad548
      @sophiad548 3 роки тому +24

      youtube: not trending
      father: enraged
      oversimplified: punished severely

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 3 роки тому +4

      Oversimplified isn’t trending, the Vikings are

    • @shrekoof722
      @shrekoof722 3 роки тому +2

      Out of date joke there's a tax for that

    • @TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv
      @TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv 3 роки тому +1

      Using an overused joke?
      There's a tax for that.

    • @ItzChocolateChipz
      @ItzChocolateChipz 3 роки тому +1

      @@TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv you're using one too
      There's gonna be a tax for that

  • @c.lynnmiller5677
    @c.lynnmiller5677 Рік тому +4

    Lenin: “Simple people! I’m here to liberate you from your Tsarist oppressors.”
    Russian Peasants: “WOO!!! YES!!! “ 😃
    Lenin: “And replace them with Bolshevik ones!”
    Russian Peasants: “ohhhhhh” 😢

    • @user-bk7vy1rk4q
      @user-bk7vy1rk4q Рік тому +2

      Well, well, fuck, how I adore foreigners who don't understand the history of Russia, but judge our life by such idiotic videos with a bunch of anti-historical stuffing).

  • @kukuikai2
    @kukuikai2 Рік тому +19

    stalin was not in the background 10:15

  • @dominickeijzer5844
    @dominickeijzer5844 3 роки тому +796

    Rasputin was a cat in Human form
    • Completely crazy
    • Looked and acted permanently high
    • Had like 9 lives

    • @annandres8483
      @annandres8483 3 роки тому +7

      I'm a cat too-

    • @evanv7420
      @evanv7420 3 роки тому +27

      He was a cat that clearly was gone

    • @rinalde7121
      @rinalde7121 3 роки тому +9

      @@evanv7420 Ra ra rasputin

    • @melanieavakin8550
      @melanieavakin8550 3 роки тому +11

      Ra ra rasputin
      There was a cat that really was gone

    • @evanv7420
      @evanv7420 3 роки тому +5

      Rinal De Russias greatest love machine

  • @icel8828
    @icel8828 3 роки тому +732

    “My German wife and a homeless wizard”
    Never in my life did I think I’d hear that

  • @ashsomething
    @ashsomething 3 місяці тому +1

    My great great grandfather was actually a top general to tzar Nicholas during the war and the revolution. Our family is German but we moved to Russia during Catherine’s land promise. Anyway our family got into the military and my great great grandfather helped Nicolas. He ended up quitting and fleeing to America when Nick made himself top general. He moved to North Dakota and helped America with learning about Russia and many other countries (he spoke around 11 languages)

  • @marciimeris503
    @marciimeris503 Рік тому +13

    What the reds did to Nicholas and his family was just heartbreaking
    Autocrat or not, bad or not.
    Murdered the family and scattered the remains so they couldn't rest together.

    • @url7167
      @url7167 Рік тому +9

      Yet no one gives a damn on the countless people, including children, who perished under the Tsar's rule. The kids' death was terrible but I just can't bring myself being devastated by the death of these imperial, privileged children.

    • @marciimeris503
      @marciimeris503 Рік тому +1

      @url lol. Death is death. It's tragic regardless. If you can't see that you're a psychopath. Your not sad that people died under him, you're just sad because people tell you that's what's right.
      In fact let's be real, your comment was completely unnecessary and was only made to make yourself look better than me.

  • @Ksanthecat
    @Ksanthecat 3 роки тому +1348

    Nobles: How are you not dead!?
    Rasputín: I HAVE NO IDEA!

    • @indj3712
      @indj3712 3 роки тому +27

      it must be the magic (go with plan b)

    • @elizabethgraunstadt
      @elizabethgraunstadt 3 роки тому +18

      Lenin: Oh, give me a big fat break

    • @creativecreeper2860
      @creativecreeper2860 3 роки тому +5

      LOL 😂

    • @iqbalnurfaizi548
      @iqbalnurfaizi548 3 роки тому +1

      Nanomagic SON !

    • @Iota-15
      @Iota-15 3 роки тому +4

      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
      He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
      Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
      But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
      He could preach the Bible like a preacher
      Full of ecstasy and fire
      But he also was the kind of teacher
      Women would desire
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      There was a cat that really was gone
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      It was a shame how he carried on
      He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
      But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
      In all affairs of state he was the man to please
      But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
      For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
      Though she'd heard the things he'd done
      She believed he was a holy healer
      Who would heal her son
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      There was a cat that really was gone
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      It was a shame how he carried on
      But when his drinking and lusting
      And his hunger for power
      Became known to more and more people
      The demands to do something
      About this outrageous man
      Became louder and louder
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
      "This man's just got to go", declared his enemies
      But the ladies begged, "Don't you try to do it, please"
      No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
      Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms
      Then one night some men of higher standing
      Set a trap, they're not to blame
      "Come to visit us", they kept demanding
      And he really came
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      They put some poison into his wine
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      He drank it all and said, "I feel fine"
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Lover of the Russian queen
      They didn't quit, they wanted his head
      Ra ra Rasputin
      Russia's greatest love machine
      And so they shot him 'til he was dead
      Oh, those Russians

  • @zebruh5930
    @zebruh5930 3 роки тому +1643

    How to watch the Oversimplified videos in order:
    The First Punic War (Parts 1 & 2)
    The Second Punic War (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
    Three Kingdoms
    Battle of Hastings
    War of the Bucket
    Henry VIII
    American Revolution (Parts 1 & 2)
    French Revolution (Parts 1 & 2)
    The Napoleonic Wars (Parts 1 & 2)
    The Pig War
    American Civil War (Parts 1 & 2)
    Russian Revolution (Part 1)
    Hitler (Part 1)
    World War 1 (Part 1)
    Russian Revolution (Part 2)
    World War 1 (Part 2)
    Hitler (Part 2)
    Emu War
    Prohibition
    World War 2 (Parts 1 & 2)
    Cold War (Part 1)
    Football War
    The Falklands
    The Cold War (Part 2)
    Correct me if I’m wrong

    • @gabrielcaceres4375
      @gabrielcaceres4375 3 роки тому +108

      first the football war and then the falklands,
      everything else is fine

    • @justjoshuaaa
      @justjoshuaaa 3 роки тому +78

      This needs to be a playlist

    • @caf-rs9hp
      @caf-rs9hp 3 роки тому +9

      Wowie

    • @emoegotin2886
      @emoegotin2886 3 роки тому +33

      @@justjoshuaaa I made the playlist, but in Bulgaria the hitler videos were blocked so i included a re-upload

    • @wandefter
      @wandefter 3 роки тому +7

      THANKS

  • @evolvebtw1672
    @evolvebtw1672 Рік тому +6

    Kornilov marched on Petrograd in allegiance with the Provisional Government, in order to be prepared for another people's uprising. However , Kerensky panicked and armed the Bolsheviks - consequently leading to their seizure of power

  • @Timmy_Bob_Jr
    @Timmy_Bob_Jr Рік тому +1

    At 4:15 I love how the one of the revolters throws a torch and it bounces off the wall and hits him

  • @_thirtyseven
    @_thirtyseven 3 роки тому +1811

    Everybody gangsta until Rasputin resurrects himself in 2020.

  • @filthy_westerner1053
    @filthy_westerner1053 3 роки тому +565

    "is he dead?"
    *Cue Rasputin becoming a Deadite from Evil dead*

  • @anomalocaris2593
    @anomalocaris2593 9 місяців тому +2

    I always had trouble understanding why people saw Lenin as a evil tyrant ( which is difficult when his place in history is right next to Stalin ), thanks to your video I can finally understand what people mean about it

  • @anthonyboylan3410
    @anthonyboylan3410 3 місяці тому +5

    Oversimplified: there is a lot of mystery around his death !
    Commenters: thats not how rasputin died!

  • @crystalrubydiamond
    @crystalrubydiamond 2 роки тому +3850

    The way how you made Rasputin into that flying thing was scary and hilarious at the same time!

    • @JDFrank20Diaz
      @JDFrank20Diaz 2 роки тому +24

      See Boris i told you he was the Anti Christ

    • @alexanderkarvos1361
      @alexanderkarvos1361 2 роки тому +18

      @@JDFrank20Diaz Can you shut up for one minute and help me roll him up?

    • @JDFrank20Diaz
      @JDFrank20Diaz 2 роки тому +69

      @@alexanderkarvos1361
      Are You Sure He's Dead

    • @alexanderkarvos1361
      @alexanderkarvos1361 2 роки тому +69

      ​@@JDFrank20Diaz i don't know... but i'm suppose to be hosting a charity auction right now. can we get this over with?

    • @JDFrank20Diaz
      @JDFrank20Diaz 2 роки тому +53

      @@alexanderkarvos1361
      👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻💀💀

  • @fullmetaltheorist
    @fullmetaltheorist 3 роки тому +2401

    When Nicholas called Rasputin a "Homeless wizard" I spat out my water.

    • @henrygustavekrausse7459
      @henrygustavekrausse7459 3 роки тому +56

      That wizard's just a crazy old man.

    • @samuelkim1827
      @samuelkim1827 3 роки тому +18

      i would call him "raggedy ass drunken homeless wizard with a delusional mind"

    • @SeanIceCream
      @SeanIceCream 3 роки тому +2

      Ew

    • @camilleremiano8463
      @camilleremiano8463 3 роки тому +12

      I would call him ''Booze liking,delusional mastermind,who got his hands on the power,but was also homless and liked by the people''

    • @Raptorkilleriscool
      @Raptorkilleriscool 3 роки тому +2

      sophiet union

  • @Marlowgris
    @Marlowgris 10 місяців тому +8

    I didn't think this video would become pertinent again in 2023, but I guess history does repeat itself.

  • @cogito919
    @cogito919 8 місяців тому +1

    Wow, this was a great and funny outline of an incredibly incredibly complex period of history. For a more detailed account of the Russian Revolution, I highly recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast.

  • @chowder4656
    @chowder4656 3 роки тому +949

    you forgot the part where Anastasia escapes and Rasputin comes back to life and have an epic showdown in Paris

    • @taloscal
      @taloscal 3 роки тому +86

      or where Ivan the terrible returns as a giant mammoth emperor... also everyone in Russia is now a furry for some reason.

    • @trajan6879
      @trajan6879 3 роки тому +38

      An epic showdown with fire, pyrotechnics, guns and modern dance

    • @colvamoon6962
      @colvamoon6962 3 роки тому +7

      @@taloscal wait, what story is THAT from (sarcastic grin)

    • @ezelfrancisco1349
      @ezelfrancisco1349 3 роки тому +31

      You forgot about his talking bat sidekick

    • @eloramaxwell7020
      @eloramaxwell7020 3 роки тому +32

      He also forgot to cover that jazzy Rasputin song and dance number.

  • @dusty2318
    @dusty2318 3 роки тому +1563

    Oversimplified's Animation and Editing is Getting better over time, Seriously

    • @asht7815
      @asht7815 3 роки тому +6

      Other than the complete fuck up at 19:00

    • @IKEASoderhamnSectional4-seat
      @IKEASoderhamnSectional4-seat 3 роки тому +17

      @@asht7815 what's wrong here, I don't see it

    • @417Owsy
      @417Owsy 3 роки тому +14

      i also loved the anti christ rasputin at 2:20 it was hilarious

    • @asht7815
      @asht7815 3 роки тому +6

      @@IKEASoderhamnSectional4-seat just watch from like 18:50 to 20:00 and listen to what he's actually talking about, he flashes up the end of the section about the family being killed and then fades to black before actually talking about it and then that end bit plays as normal

    • @p0rt64
      @p0rt64 3 роки тому +3

      and 19:27

  • @sameersingh3383
    @sameersingh3383 4 місяці тому +2

    best channel in youtube for history. Really appreciate the efforts. Please keep make more videos on different topics.

  • @johnwise7244
    @johnwise7244 3 місяці тому

    holy shit at 1:47 that's Dostoevsky, I recently read his book the brothers karamazov and wow what an experience that was. It was at least part of why I clicked on this video. I remember struggling so much to remember all the dates of the russian revolution in high school I think I got a C on that unit. Thanks for all the passion that goes into each of these videos I hope you change the landscape of learning for many young people.

  • @JDB-tc5rs
    @JDB-tc5rs 3 роки тому +698

    Rasputin used magic to survive in Siberia until the time was right to return. Only he couldn't use his name. So he removed the first 3 letters and ruled Russia forever more.

  • @Holesale00
    @Holesale00 3 роки тому +713

    Guys, I don't think Lenin was up for this whole "Revolution" thing. He literally failed upwards until he stroked out.

    • @Akshit.vats.
      @Akshit.vats. 3 роки тому +1

      guys I think I am a hot dog

    • @NajwaLaylah
      @NajwaLaylah 3 роки тому +8

      He had massive help from the Germans even getting *to* Russia.

    • @henrimourant9855
      @henrimourant9855 3 роки тому +4

      Pretty much sums him up. He lucked out with the Germans.

    • @munchenonyou3774
      @munchenonyou3774 3 роки тому

      Ehhh

    • @Sergio-ml3gl
      @Sergio-ml3gl 3 роки тому +1

      @@NajwaLaylah There wasnt any help from Germany.

  • @guywhocantgrowabeard
    @guywhocantgrowabeard Рік тому +1

    Wow. This was actually an amazing watch. We had the Russian revolution in history class in school but i didn't learn squat there.

  • @thegoldavenger.3829
    @thegoldavenger.3829 11 місяців тому +12

    If I had a nickel for every time a revolution had an event known as “the terror” I’d have 2 nickels, it’s not a lot but weird it happened twice

    • @Angelosanto
      @Angelosanto 4 місяці тому +1

      I mean it's not that weird considering that one was based on the other, and also that revolutions based on untested theory are unstable and tend to require violent suppression in order to sustain themselves.

    • @ink2812
      @ink2812 2 місяці тому

      Wouldn’t it be three due to the French “Great Terror”

    • @thegoldavenger.3829
      @thegoldavenger.3829 2 місяці тому

      That was the other terror I was referring to, there’s a third?@@ink2812

  • @deeznoots6241
    @deeznoots6241 2 роки тому +1403

    11:25 funny thing about Trotsky’s imprisonment was that he had only recently became a Bolshevik and so he wasn’t on the list of Bolsheviks to be imprisoned, so he went and outright demanded they imprison him as well.

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 2 роки тому +192

      Not gonna lie, that's based.

    • @leonardmccoy4797
      @leonardmccoy4797 Рік тому +1

      Trotsky: Hey man. Did I do something wrong? I mean, you arrested all the Bolsheviks but me,like…?”

    • @Aceshot-uu7yx
      @Aceshot-uu7yx Рік тому +32

      Huh, civic virtue in Russia was still a thing.

    • @thepizzafoogle5481
      @thepizzafoogle5481 Рік тому +20

      Russian guy moment

    • @LendriMujina
      @LendriMujina Рік тому +43

      _"Stop ignoring me!"_

  • @Bored_Overthinker
    @Bored_Overthinker Рік тому +1546

    Nick: "Complains about his failures to his son"
    Alexi: *BLEEDS PROFUSELY*

  • @queenratiganthefirst5442
    @queenratiganthefirst5442 Рік тому +9

    My aunt put it in a good way when she said "Communism is a good idea on paper, but not such a hot idea played out."

    • @KravenTheHaunter
      @KravenTheHaunter Рік тому +5

      What the Soviet Union became is hardly communist by any means

    • @joshuaslawson9125
      @joshuaslawson9125 10 місяців тому

      ​@@KravenTheHaunternot really... If you actually read up on Engles and Marx you would find scary parallels when they wrote about how a communist nation would work. And also the fact Marx literally said Communism can't work because even he knew it was a pipe dream.

    • @Stien58_
      @Stien58_ 3 місяці тому +1

      exactly!!@@KravenTheHaunter