The USSR - Summary on a map

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  • @danielbaldwin5510
    @danielbaldwin5510 2 роки тому +1113

    “In the balkans, tensions rise”
    I swear I’ve heard this one before

    • @sigh7731
      @sigh7731 2 роки тому +70

      The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hit points, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a quick building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage.

    • @Codename_Hunter
      @Codename_Hunter 2 роки тому

      @@sigh7731 da Fucl

    • @uchihawarrior8546
      @uchihawarrior8546 2 роки тому +9

      ​@@sigh7731 coc fan😂

    • @sigh7731
      @sigh7731 2 роки тому +11

      @@uchihawarrior8546 🤨

    • @uchihawarrior8546
      @uchihawarrior8546 2 роки тому +1

      @@sigh7731 wrong comment

  • @ShizukuShipper
    @ShizukuShipper 2 роки тому +2656

    I find it interesting that before its dissolution, Kazakhstan was the entirety of the USSR, even for a few days

    • @johnsMITHhhhhh88
      @johnsMITHhhhhh88 2 роки тому +311

      Technically yes, but it's not like the USSR central government moved there or anything. It was just that they still called themselves the Kazakh SSR and hadn't got around to passing a law saying they were independent yet even though they already were because the union didn't exist anymore.

    • @ShizukuShipper
      @ShizukuShipper 2 роки тому +18

      @@johnsMITHhhhhh88 Yeah, I guess so

    • @markosan2525
      @markosan2525 2 роки тому +6

      Kazahstan did not want to have CCCP dissolved. Nursultan was taken by surprise when he gets the news that CCCP is no more by the will of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus...

    • @walker35548
      @walker35548 2 роки тому +31

      @@markosan2525 no one want it in the USSR - people vote against it

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 2 роки тому +33

      Like the last part of the Western Roman Empire was Realm of Siager around Paris... a technicality that Clovis (King of the Franks and Roman vassal) "solved" by invading and annexing it a few months later. Curious anecdote but mostly irrelevant.

  • @suspicioustomato253
    @suspicioustomato253 2 роки тому +231

    I like how you can see the Aral sea change, nice detail

    • @GeoHistory
      @GeoHistory  2 роки тому +94

      Thank you, I was wondering if someone would notice it

    • @afrodiy6539
      @afrodiy6539 2 роки тому +20

      Forgive us, I live in the city of Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan, my city is located 500 kilometers from the Aral Sea. My history teacher spoke about how our people quickly depleted this sea, at the moment there is nothing left of the sea. As a Kazakh, I apologize;)

    • @Thegagagaha
      @Thegagagaha 2 роки тому +21

      @@afrodiy6539 apologize for what? Aral Sea is mainly used by Uzbeks, and Kazakhs saved their part of water

    • @suspicioustomato253
      @suspicioustomato253 2 роки тому +8

      @@afrodiy6539 no need to apologise for the actions of others

    • @MGEGEREZ
      @MGEGEREZ 2 роки тому +3

      @@Thegagagaha what? I'm an Uzbek, but we didn't use Aral Sea so much in the past but USSR government forced us to use it for more cotton harvest. Pay attention to your own disinformation

  • @sanderverhage8331
    @sanderverhage8331 Рік тому +33

    Incredible job making this video. This taught me a great amount of the world history during the last century and it's so valuable in understanding the world today. Thank you so much for this.

  • @gold_real_money
    @gold_real_money Рік тому +63

    I am not anti-history, but hearing my teacher in school explaining about history, I quickly fell asleep in just about 2 minutes. But I can watch the entertaining videos about history like these for 6-7 hours marathon videos a day

  • @FrizzelFry
    @FrizzelFry 2 роки тому +941

    Outstanding - clear and to the point without oversimplifying

  • @nomastersnogods9303
    @nomastersnogods9303 2 роки тому +807

    Let’s take a moment to appreciate Geo History and his hard work, especially during times like these. Bravo Sir 🙏🏽

    • @marekhavrlik9851
      @marekhavrlik9851 2 роки тому +8

      If this channel has a point to educate someone who is not so in touch with topic, it is nicely done. If it aims to be serious work with history... sheeesh it has a space for improvement. Yet pictures and maps are always cool for boys, when there are flags and soldiers.

    • @SuperEssenceOfficial
      @SuperEssenceOfficial 2 роки тому +1

      @@marekhavrlik9851 what are some examples you would wish a viewer to learn beyond what is shown?

    • @SuperEssenceOfficial
      @SuperEssenceOfficial 2 роки тому +6

      @@marekhavrlik9851 it seems good as long as you keep in mind that it is a vague summary.

    • @glennrasmussen56
      @glennrasmussen56 2 роки тому +4

      Haha if you take a education you will fast see how propgandist this video is. Read a book instead.

    • @PershingOfficial
      @PershingOfficial 2 роки тому +6

      @@glennrasmussen56 Give examples instead of spewing general statements

  • @SuchDarkness
    @SuchDarkness 2 роки тому +448

    Despite the US and USSR being a few miles away from eachother in Alaska and the Far East, there were never any positions of nuclear warheads in Alaska, at least, that the public knows of.

    • @airatgimaev6821
      @airatgimaev6821 2 роки тому +147

      Because no many people was in the east of USSR so it is unprofitable to put rockets there. The distance to the central part of the USSR where many people live would be approximately the same - from Alaska or from main USA territory.

    • @StreetDrilla
      @StreetDrilla 2 роки тому +74

      funny how two different worlds were so close to each other. In 1987 an American Woman swam across.

    • @SuchDarkness
      @SuchDarkness 2 роки тому +25

      @@airatgimaev6821 yea but remember, the Russian port of Vladivostok, along with North Korea and China, were right across there as well

    • @lahhtoota
      @lahhtoota 2 роки тому +66

      That's because both countries avoid direct confrontation and rather play the puppet game by aiding other states whoever supporting their ideology.

    • @kanedafx
      @kanedafx 2 роки тому +3

      Ours was in Palin's backyard.

  • @РэйЧехов
    @РэйЧехов 2 роки тому +108

    Love how the Rybinsk reservoir is filling up during war. I'm seeing it right now through my window. My ancestors lived on territories that were flooded.
    Great job by the way, love your vids. History loves to repeat unfortunately.

    • @КИМ-х5у
      @КИМ-х5у 2 роки тому

      Ахуеть реально они нарисовали как блять... Вот это внимание к деталям! 👍🏿

    • @Auberge79
      @Auberge79 2 роки тому

      however in different video about history of 1000 years ago there was Rybinsk reservour already :-) What a miss!
      ua-cam.com/video/qUgzqkCW6A4/v-deo.html

    • @flowerpower2067
      @flowerpower2067 2 роки тому +2

      Thank you for sharing such an awesome detail I would have never noticed.

    • @yellow01umrella
      @yellow01umrella Рік тому

      History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.

    • @Omarmualim-p7u
      @Omarmualim-p7u 10 місяців тому

      ​@yellow01umrella it changes across times

  • @mikeor-
    @mikeor- 10 місяців тому +9

    My great-grandfather, Yaakov Pevzner, lived on the outskirts of Leningrad when the Germans invaded in 1941. His house was repossessed by the Soviet government to use for the war effort. This resulted in him moving into the center of Leningrad, which was now blockaded by the German Navy. Throughout 1942, my great-grandfather suffered through the worst of the Blockade of Leningrad. He was evacuated in 1943, after the victory at Stalingrad. He was taken to Kyrgyzsia (Kyrgyzstan), where he first met my great-grandmother. One year later, in 1944, they had their first child, my maternal grandma. At the same time, Yaakov's cousin, Sacha, was shot down by the Luftwaffe. He was lucky to survive, but his legs were shattered. He, a member of the Soviet Air Force, should have been given military awards for his bravery. Instead, once the war was over, Stalin put him in a gulag. Sacha survived that only because Stalin died in 1953. One of Georgy Malenkov's first acts after Stalin's funeral was to release all prisoners in gulags, which included my great-grandfather's cousin. Sacha died in 1971, without receiving any military awards from Malenkov, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev. However, my great-grandfather received three Thank You Letters: one from Gorbachev, another from Yeltsin, and a third one from Lukashenko. He also got military awards from Andropov and Chernenko. Yaakov was NOT in the Red Army, Navy, or Air Force. He was simply a factory director who survived the blockade in Leningrad. Furthermore, he lived long enough to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, Putin, and Lukashenko, and long enough for me to actually know him. He was born in 1919 and passed away in 2012. He was born before the Soviet Union was and died after the Soviet Union did.

  • @raymondqiu8202
    @raymondqiu8202 2 роки тому +123

    Everytime Geohistory uploads, it's a guaranteed banger

  • @stardust8464
    @stardust8464 2 роки тому +213

    I'm telling you, this was worth the wait. Love your video's Geo History.

    • @Robert_H.
      @Robert_H. 2 роки тому +2

      All people outside Germany: Yes. Germany clearly caused the First World War. That a group supported by Serbia killed parts of the royal family of Austria-Hungary, and Austria-Hungary then attacked Serbia, has nothing to do with the First World War. And the fact that Germany was dragged into the war as an ally of Austria-Hungary, was attacked first by Russia and then only defended itself, is also completely irrelevant. Germany is to blame for the First World War. That's why the war winners had to take away 1/3 of Germany's land, occupy their most important economic center and send a bill of any amount in billions every year, which Germany has to pay, although the Treaty of Versailles didn't specify any amount about the reparation payments. No idea why Germans started hating their neighboring states and minorities so much that they elected a man who brought them a better economic situation and who started a new war 30 years after the end of the war against the war winners of WWI. Germany evil. And only through the Americans, Germany learned democracy. America! Fuck Yeah! Land of the Free!

    • @sigh7731
      @sigh7731 2 роки тому

      The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hit points, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a quick building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage.

    • @asbest2092
      @asbest2092 Рік тому

      the video of a really trash quality. It's better it didn't exist. It makes it worse by its existence.

  • @Taifun2
    @Taifun2 2 роки тому +909

    Could you do something like this for Germany? That would be interesting

    • @Taifun2
      @Taifun2 2 роки тому +22

      @@universo5564 i mean why cant he fo this in english for germany

    • @Taifun2
      @Taifun2 2 роки тому +2

      Do*

    • @pallasathena7372
      @pallasathena7372 2 роки тому +4

      @@Taifun2 Because its not that interresting probably.

    • @1w598
      @1w598 2 роки тому +33

      @@universo5564 You misunderstood. He's requesting a video ABOUT Germany, not in German.

    • @1w598
      @1w598 2 роки тому +1

      @@pallasathena7372 Kind of an ignorant & relative statement.

  • @andreylebedenko1260
    @andreylebedenko1260 2 роки тому +91

    9:45 The figure of 800k deaths (799,455 to be precise) is the total number of all death sentences for all sorts of crimes from 1921 till 1953, not just in 2 years.

    • @ASlickNamedPimpback
      @ASlickNamedPimpback Рік тому +7

      still doesn't refute the genocide

    • @theonioneater9307
      @theonioneater9307 Рік тому +4

      @@ASlickNamedPimpback 25k a year doesn't seem as bad as 400k though does it

    • @ASlickNamedPimpback
      @ASlickNamedPimpback Рік тому

      @@theonioneater9307only if you ignore the fact that most estimates put the death toll at 700k - 1.1 million

    • @theonioneater9307
      @theonioneater9307 Рік тому +1

      @@ASlickNamedPimpback the 700k-1.1 million in the two years claimed would be 400k a year at least but when the stats are for 20 years it doesnt seem as bad that is what he original comment is about

    • @MrPom6
      @MrPom6 Рік тому +5

      @@ASlickNamedPimpback genocide of who?

  • @r.a.d.h.4260
    @r.a.d.h.4260 2 роки тому +19

    Small correction on the League of Nations graphic (9:32): Germany was still in the LoN until 1935, even though they had decared they'd leave in 1933. The LoN allowed countries to leave but there was a 2 year transitioning period (similarily to say Brexit after its vote).

  • @outerspace7391
    @outerspace7391 2 роки тому +353

    Many important Cold war proxy conflicts that had huge Soviet involvement were not mentioned, aside from the Arab-Israeli of course. I won't complain more about it though because I believe it might have been intentional to make separate videos on them. Good work!

    • @TRtraybloxeey
      @TRtraybloxeey 2 роки тому +21

      The video is 20 minutes, they can’t fit much in there, only the main points each decade basically

    • @smash3394
      @smash3394 2 роки тому +8

      не думайте, что они настроены на советскую сторону.
      они объявили основной причиной победы над Германией в 1941- подкрепление с востока страны
      однако с начала и до конца война в Сибири находились 40 дивизий на случай нападения Японии
      это грубо

    • @outerspace7391
      @outerspace7391 2 роки тому +2

      @@smash3394 true point

    • @smash3394
      @smash3394 2 роки тому +8

      @@outerspace7391 want to know the real reason for the victory near Moscow? this is a choked blitzkrieg in the desperate resistance of Soviet soldiers in the summer and autumn of 1941: the Brest fortress, the Vyazma ring and other
      blitzkrieg just simply choked🤷‍♂️

    • @smash3394
      @smash3394 2 роки тому +1

      @@outerspace7391 not true, but false

  • @Drevo-1219
    @Drevo-1219 2 роки тому +49

    Love this channel. Great content as always, easy to understand and to the point.

  • @cageybee7221
    @cageybee7221 2 роки тому +92

    "Let's take Poland and _PUSH IT_ somewhere else!" -Stalin

    • @zabiden188
      @zabiden188 2 роки тому +1

      Гениально давайте

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 2 роки тому +5

      That somewhere else is almost exactly the borders from 1000 A.D. Stalin undid the german pushing on the east expansion lasting over 900 years with one decision.

    • @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757
      @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 2 роки тому +5

      @@crank1985 I don't really see the point you're making. Many Poles have long settled in that region by then. Imagine if someone came to your home and forced you to move on the basis of some random historical context.

    • @jonathanodude6660
      @jonathanodude6660 2 роки тому

      @@guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 "your house used to be over there, so now it is. youre welcome 😊"

    • @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757
      @guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 2 роки тому +6

      @@jonathanodude6660 "Sorry officer, but I think you've mistaken me for my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, an understandable mistake."
      *Closes door*

  • @David-ln5mg
    @David-ln5mg 2 роки тому +5

    what the hek this is amazing, one of the best overviews I've ever seen - throughout the 3 series & without the BS of bias.

  • @ocudagledam
    @ocudagledam 2 роки тому +17

    The actual reason why Russia mobilized as Austria-Hungary was about to invade Serbia was that the Russians caught wind of just how big an army the Austrohungarians were assembling and concluded that it was A LOT of soldiers if you only wanted to have a war with Serbia. Without going into too much detail, by that moment, a continental war had been looming for some time, e.g. see the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.

  • @guywithnoname9302
    @guywithnoname9302 2 роки тому +17

    Been waiting for this video for so long glad it is finally released :D

  • @raulito321100
    @raulito321100 2 роки тому +14

    Its a good day when Geo History uploads

  • @sarmadali7191
    @sarmadali7191 2 роки тому +16

    I was literally trying to learn something about the USSR yesterday, and today you uploaded a video about it.

    • @Ragulenschaft
      @Ragulenschaft 2 роки тому +1

      You want to learn something about USSR? So Russian Empire's popultaion on 1913 (without Finland) was about 171 millions, in january of 1923 USSR's population was 137 millions. Yeah there was a territory loss of western so-called belarus & ukraine, also of baltic states, but obviously population of those regions wasn't reaching 34 millions, so what happened then? Bolshevik party happened. During WWI they talked about the need to start a civil war, and as a result, they started it. There are at least 10 million of loses during civil war in Russia, which was started by communist. Those loses include victims of the red terror and «prodrazverstka» (confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants) politics arranged by the bolsheviks. The second one resulted in the famine in volga river region which was very horrifying: around 2 millions of deaths, some cannibalism incidents. There was some tries to help victims of the famine including from abroad ones, but they all were supressed by the bolshevik party, moreover they started campaing of destroying russian culture by eliminating remaining parts of the russian orthodox church in region that suffered from the famine. So how then bolsheviks won in the civil war with those to put it mildly unpopular politics? Because of the red terror, which resulted in at least 1 million and up to 2 millions of deaths, especially because of the hostage taking politic: bolsheviks was taking hostages not only to get a ransom, but also to force the officers of the former imperial army to serve in the red army. Also bolsheviks had a conscription army, and the white army was a volunteer one. And there is also a myth that the Whites were supported by the Entente, this is true, but this assistance was extremely limited, and sometimes help went into the hands of the Bolsheviks, for example, when the entente left the port city of Arkhangelsk, then the entire huge arsenal that was stored there went to the Bolsheviks, a similar situation was in Odessa. The Entente believed that the worst outcome for the Russians, the victory of the Bolsheviks, was the best outcome for it, but it was mistaken and the red plague began to spread rapidly to the surrounding countries. So after the end of the civil war there was NEP (new economic policy) which was basically capitalism and this was the best economic development of USSR for all of its history - this is the only fact you need to know about planned economy. But if new economics were the best option for the russian people, the cultural they were suffering a cultural genocide policy called «korenizatsiya» which was a policy of destroying russian identity and making from russians the so-called ukrainians&belarussians in western regions by rewriting russian history, destroying the russian cultural heritage (such as destroying the church as i said) and eliminating russian intelligentsia by killing them or forcing to flee from country. But in 1929 there was a moment of the «great brake» and all of 30s were a new huge wave of genocide of russians policies: in the period of 1930-1934 died about 8 millions in all of the USSR, most suffered region was the «middle-volga kray» and all of the volga, don and kuban rivers regions with saved russian majority and not the ukraine, but ukraine also suffered a lot and actually as i said majority of so-called ukrainians had a russian identity before the 1920s, so this golodomor tradegy is not genicide of ukrainians, but the genocide of russians. Also kazakhstan suffered but not mainly kazakh people but the russian nation: in ural river and north kazakhstan regions there were a russian majorities, but all russian population of those regions were deported and only in north kazakhstan this majority was restored (nowadays it is opressed by kazakhstan authoritarian xenophobic regime minority), but to the ural river region russians never returned. So, only to the 40s there were at least 20 millions of deaths that were mainly a russians, but this genocide never stopped to this day in the territories of former Russian Empire, it just remains unnoticed not only in the West, but also among the Russians themselves, but this is another conversation. Obviously USSR is not Russia, for the Russian nation USSR is something like Nazi Germany for the Jews (but don't forget that nazies also wanted to destroy the Russians, not only the Jews and Poles). Please share this information with your people, world must know about this.

    • @adhprakash
      @adhprakash 2 роки тому +8

      @@Ragulenschaft did you srsly type that to answer his question

    • @Ragulenschaft
      @Ragulenschaft 2 роки тому

      @@adhprakash as i said, world must know the truth about the fate of the Russian nation, about its tradegy, as world knows about holocaust. Maybe it is nothing, but at least you know now.

    • @HelloEdits613
      @HelloEdits613 2 роки тому +3

      @@Ragulenschaft did you copy and paste the ussr wikipedia page lol

    • @The-Third-Rail
      @The-Third-Rail 2 роки тому +3

      @@HelloEdits613
      Oh, mind you, he's just writing russian propaganda.
      Nothing new.

  • @Artgz
    @Artgz 2 роки тому +30

    Очень хорошо, товарищ, вы награждаетесь поездкой в Болгарию

    • @besmart2350
      @besmart2350 Рік тому +3

      who are you to grant free travel to Bulgaria?

  • @IanChristopher-b7c
    @IanChristopher-b7c 4 місяці тому +1

    Who else agrees that this guy's videos are ALWAYS interesting? Your historical presentations are among the best, and you inspire me to achieve my dreams of becoming a historian in future. Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!

  • @lekan1
    @lekan1 2 роки тому +59

    Quality content... Geo history, been a long time for your long video

  • @juliancoenen4917
    @juliancoenen4917 2 роки тому +34

    Great video!
    Of course there are details I wish would have been in the video, but for an overview, is this a great video!

    • @silverace08
      @silverace08 2 роки тому

      yes exactly feel same, i wouldnt have known many of this without this, but more detail.

    • @ФреддиКрюгер-й1н
      @ФреддиКрюгер-й1н 2 роки тому

      They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...

    • @bondgabebond4907
      @bondgabebond4907 2 роки тому

      In my personal view, these "headlines" of world history guide me to sources of far more detailed information. As we can gloss over WW2 in a video, it does make us aware of events that we can further study on our own. That's the magic of shows like this.

  • @brianfarmer858
    @brianfarmer858 2 роки тому +119

    I am surprised you didn't bring up the Regan operation to deny the USSR any debt financing. That had a huge effect on the stability of the USSR. Otherwise great summary. other

    • @civlyzed
      @civlyzed 2 роки тому

      Don Regan? :D

    • @historyeditz8326
      @historyeditz8326 2 роки тому +19

      It's not the Reagan,it's incompetency of Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

    • @bondgabebond4907
      @bondgabebond4907 2 роки тому

      Star Wars, of more properly known as Strategic Defense Initiative, really helped ruin the USSRs economy. Star Wars could have totally fake, but when presented to the Soviets, it was real. That was one of the elements that brought down the Soviet Union.

    • @eliasziad7864
      @eliasziad7864 2 роки тому +1

      That really didnt do anything or else that would be mentioned.

  • @alexandervaltsev6937
    @alexandervaltsev6937 9 місяців тому +1

    This is an incredibly balance view of the history of the USSR

  • @Sweatcheck69
    @Sweatcheck69 2 роки тому +6

    This was the most informative and to the point video I've watched on youtube this week

  • @adolf_08
    @adolf_08 2 роки тому +57

    Gran video, cómo me encanta este canal. De mis favoritos!

  • @HowDoU24
    @HowDoU24 2 роки тому +5

    1:06 bro how is nobody talking about that fire beat 🔥🔥

  • @monaoconnell5650
    @monaoconnell5650 2 роки тому +23

    This is a very good summary of what happened. I would recommend it to anyone especially to teachers or aspiring diplomats or to members of the military. I hope you do more of these. Great job!

    • @sancalisto2371
      @sancalisto2371 2 роки тому +4

      I would advice against it. The all-important transition period from monarchy to socialist revolutionary rule in Russia, is at best lenient.

    • @MrAsynchro
      @MrAsynchro Рік тому

      @@sancalisto2371 He's not going to explain that in full detail.

    • @Hollow-u8t
      @Hollow-u8t Рік тому

      @@sancalisto2371what did he get wrong?

  • @Petar_Savic
    @Petar_Savic 10 місяців тому +2

    This is very simplified history, but correct.

  • @denigster
    @denigster Рік тому +1

    thank you so much for maybe the first time that i ever heard the right countries starting the war

  • @Homies_fr
    @Homies_fr 2 роки тому +19

    Its SUPER hard to summarise a whole country's history but this guy just did it! Most underrated UA-camr.

  • @xalkerwar6628
    @xalkerwar6628 2 роки тому +48

    I wonder if people will actually think while watching this. Isolation is always a way to a war. Isolation of a big power results in great wars. There will be always small conflicts, but isolation will only escalate everything. I wonder what will happen if EU and NA will further isolate Russia right now. At least China and India is smarter i guess.

    • @x-hale2899
      @x-hale2899 2 роки тому +5

      Certain European countries should isolate themselves from the US. The problem is on the one hand you have big angry American NATO... on the other you cause friction with the EU. By the way, I meant Germany and France and the Nordic countries.

    • @waylon6241
      @waylon6241 2 роки тому +2

      Nato brought piece and unity in Europe as there was always war between countries. Every addition to nato means a country living in peace. In the history of Russia we can clearly see they will take every opportunity to conquer other countries. Unfortunately for Ukraine and Georgia the NATO membership came too late. But fortunately for Finland and Sweden it openend their eyes.

    • @firemangan5024
      @firemangan5024 2 роки тому +5

      @@waylon6241 Taking the opportunity to annex/conqure a country when given is a trait for every nation it ain’t only a Russian thing 🥴

    • @МаксимЛитвинов-н9н
      @МаксимЛитвинов-н9н 2 роки тому +5

      @@waylon6241 NATO was created as a military alliance against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is no more, but the alliance remains, and this makes you think about who is now NATO's rival. after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was an agreement between Gorbachev and Western leaders to stop the expansion of NATO, and what we see is seias, a huge "army without a goal" at our borders

    • @motiv3949
      @motiv3949 2 роки тому +1

      @@МаксимЛитвинов-н9н Meanwhile, Russia threatens the NATO countries - Poland and the baltic countries, and not vice versa. This is Russia attacking other countries for the purpose of occupation, not NATO.

  • @crook7493
    @crook7493 2 роки тому +14

    I love this channel, I get to enjoy history on a map while bopping my head to sick ass beats

  • @DonatoPanico-km2jq
    @DonatoPanico-km2jq Рік тому +1

    I like how you included the Aral sea draining

  • @CLIF5758
    @CLIF5758 2 роки тому +4

    I'm currently teaching world war today to my students today. I taught the two Russian revolutions and the abdication of Nicholas II as well as the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk

  • @simyuzehpps9094
    @simyuzehpps9094 2 роки тому +11

    I personally feel that I like all its videos and find them interesting. Can you post more in the future?

  • @real_comrade_jb
    @real_comrade_jb 2 роки тому +6

    The way it's told simplifies a complicated subject and puts opinions and singular facts as major deals that in itself made major changes

  • @still_resume
    @still_resume 2 роки тому +7

    This is going to age like fine wine...

  • @willswilliams902
    @willswilliams902 2 роки тому +12

    Would love to see a video on the Romans!! Enjoying the videos thanks 👍

  • @wappa2832
    @wappa2832 2 роки тому +4

    I like the detail of the Aral Sea evaporating.

  • @Masterfootballer23
    @Masterfootballer23 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks to this video I will never forget the meaning and pronunciation of the word Rapprochement ;)

  • @jay-mw7ry
    @jay-mw7ry 2 роки тому +4

    Excellent work mate 💯

  • @rbizla
    @rbizla 2 роки тому +17

    These are fantastic. I hope to see more. Subscribed!

  • @HenryFrederick
    @HenryFrederick Рік тому +1

    Excellent narration! Liked & subscribed...

  • @se4side376
    @se4side376 2 роки тому +4

    Holodomor wasn't only ukrainian treat. Holodomor was in most agrocultural parts of USSR. My ancestors from Altay run to Tashkent to survive.

  • @vitalymihaletsky7655
    @vitalymihaletsky7655 2 роки тому +5

    Loved the detail with Kazakhstan being the last state leaving USSR 🤙🏻

    • @ЕленаВасильева-н7щ
      @ЕленаВасильева-н7щ Рік тому +1

      В Казахстане был председателем умный политик Назарбаев,он знал,что при развале страны будет плохо всем народам страны.И до последнего сопротивлялся.Все беды начались с Горбачева,слабый,некомпетентный политик.Хотя были проблемы в стране ,Россия надорвалась всем помогать , русский народ устал тянуть историю империи .К сожалению,нас опять тянут в это ярмо.

  • @joseluismoralestoro2820
    @joseluismoralestoro2820 2 роки тому +4

    Excellent video, thanks, Kind regards!

  • @joeshar.
    @joeshar. 2 роки тому +10

    I didn't know Austria was about to be partioned between West and Soviet Union as happened in Germany. Exactly the same case for Vienna as in Berlin, also.
    Kruschev withdrew their part in 1955.
    That's why that region (Lower Austria) was in red color between 1945-55.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah, they agreed to make the country neutral by treaty, what is still formally a thing. Then they tried to do the same with Germany but didn't work.

    • @marijn211
      @marijn211 2 роки тому

      Its quite interesting that it took so long for Austria to be re-established, I forgot the details on whether the early socialist government had influence across all occupation zones

  • @KoroPro
    @KoroPro 2 роки тому +2

    I like how at the end of the video, you can see Finland's borders but no one else and it also has its old borders

  • @CartoonHistory
    @CartoonHistory 2 роки тому +9

    Love these videos. Really great way to understand complex issues

    • @silverace08
      @silverace08 2 роки тому

      yes as long as we also go into the details to verify some facts that seem to be missing

    • @ФреддиКрюгер-й1н
      @ФреддиКрюгер-й1н 2 роки тому

      They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...

  • @maxkrause7678
    @maxkrause7678 2 роки тому +5

    This is a superb video!

  • @lijasspijkerman5804
    @lijasspijkerman5804 2 роки тому +9

    I still remember when kazakhstan was the ''soviet union'' for 4 days straight. , I still remember also when the nuclear disaster happened it was terrifying.

    • @AndreiBerezin
      @AndreiBerezin 2 роки тому +1

      When it happened I was 8 and didnt understand shit. I only knew people had to leave a certain zone near Kiev, it was so far away from me (Siberia) that I didnt care until I got to know the aftermath of the disaster

  • @ExoticD
    @ExoticD 2 роки тому +32

    Not so fun fact: my great grandpa served in world war 1 fighting for the Russians. He was a medic and he would help injured soldiers in the trenches. He would say how the shrieks of pain as they amputated limbs with nothing but a shot of whiskey or vodka still rang in his ears. Eventually he had enough and he deserted back to his home where he hid in his hayloft till the war was over

    • @MGEGEREZ
      @MGEGEREZ 2 роки тому +5

      Dislike for your great grandpa

    • @gurshansingh6868
      @gurshansingh6868 2 роки тому +18

      @@MGEGEREZ dude, tf is wrong with u

    • @ExoticD
      @ExoticD 2 роки тому +2

      @@MGEGEREZ /:

    • @applejuice9468
      @applejuice9468 2 роки тому +3

      @@MGEGEREZ Lmfao why you gotta disrepect the croaked

    • @Anonymous-qj3sf
      @Anonymous-qj3sf 2 роки тому +2

      My great-great-grandfather fought in the First World War and was an artilleryman

  • @Aditya7Cruise
    @Aditya7Cruise 2 роки тому +2

    Great Video. Thank you!!

  • @jonathan_careless
    @jonathan_careless 2 роки тому +15

    So well narrated you forget you're just staring at a map for 24 minutes.

    • @sancalisto2371
      @sancalisto2371 2 роки тому +1

      Uncomfortably close to Russian propaganda. Which is also 'beautifully' narrated.

    • @TheFloatingBartender
      @TheFloatingBartender Рік тому +2

      @@sancalisto2371 can i ask how is this propaganda?

    • @stevenrockney8556
      @stevenrockney8556 Рік тому

      @@sancalisto2371can we ask how this is propoganda¿

  • @marcelohidalgo7713
    @marcelohidalgo7713 2 роки тому +11

    Me who has already watched The Original French version: I am four Pararel Universes ahead of you.

  • @marijn211
    @marijn211 2 роки тому +7

    In addition to the Japanese non-aggression pact the Soviets knew they were in no position to attack

  • @TheGeographyBible
    @TheGeographyBible 2 роки тому +9

    Incredible video, literally like something you'd see on Nat Geo or Netflix!

  • @Mark-yy2py
    @Mark-yy2py 9 місяців тому +2

    Kirov was killed under Stalin’s orders. Stalin feared Kirov as a competition for power.

  • @РаисатМагомедова-и9й

    Thank you very much 😊! Было классно посмотреть и на русском, и на английском.

  • @serioustalkwithbhudax
    @serioustalkwithbhudax 2 роки тому +4

    After continuously watching video after video. I have accepted there shall always be a rise and fall of nations. Peace is not a guarantee but rather just a short-term agreement between one government to another.
    When a population rises against the ruling class there are always nations waiting, willing to finance a coup d'etat. I hope citizens could see this as I do. The weakness starts internally.

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 2 роки тому +6

    Fact:
    Austria/Hungary didn't immediately go to war with Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
    They were of the opinion/thinking that Serbia was directly involved in the whole thing,so they sent a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia.
    Serbia went along with 8/9 points of it,they asked for the 1 or 2 points they didn't agree with be submitted to the international tribunal at the Hague.
    Austria/Hungary considered this to be a rejection of the whole ultimatum,so war was declared.

    • @charlie8344
      @charlie8344 2 роки тому +2

      because the ultimatum was literally impossible

    • @colindaniels945
      @colindaniels945 2 роки тому +2

      @@charlie8344 Austria could've just as easily negotiated with Serbia over the sticking points of the ultimatum.
      Austria wanted to go to war.

    • @godlikelaw
      @godlikelaw 3 місяці тому

      @@colindaniels945why Austrians so aggressive man? Why can’t they chill

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami 2 роки тому +24

    Eastern Europe: your freed us
    USSR: i wont say "free" more like under new management
    Eastern Europe: oh sh*t

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 2 роки тому +1

      Nobody believed in freeing from the same people that started the war as Hitler allies.

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 2 роки тому

      @@crank1985 USSR agreed to let democratic elections occur, so everyone did. Also, USSR was Hitler's ally right up until they invaded.

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 2 роки тому +1

      @@stephenjenkins7971 USSR and democratic elections... choose one...

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 2 роки тому

      @@crank1985 Not within the USSR, in the occupied nations, genius.
      And again, it's what everyone agreed on. Which was my point.

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 2 роки тому +1

      @@stephenjenkins7971 still my point stands. USSR didn't allow free elections until it was too weak to enforce control over them. Whenever a country fell under USSR control the election became more rigged than rather last in Russia, when frequency was above 100%...

  • @s0012823
    @s0012823 Рік тому +1

    Great video thnx!

  • @mikimiki3310
    @mikimiki3310 Рік тому

    Very good video! Keep the work up.

  • @chad5461
    @chad5461 2 роки тому +9

    Love your narration ❤️

  • @vadimshishev9304
    @vadimshishev9304 2 роки тому +8

    Very interesting and easy to follow. Thank you!

  • @stevedolesch9241
    @stevedolesch9241 2 роки тому +8

    This is more than we were taught in schools. I saw all three episodes starting with how Russia was created. I was born in Budapest in 1955. Immigrated to Canada in 1965.

    • @silverace08
      @silverace08 2 роки тому +1

      yo cool, i too saw all three, starting from the origins, russian empire, and ussr, amazing

  • @egorpanfilov
    @egorpanfilov 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent video! Thank you!

  • @IllyrianMapper
    @IllyrianMapper 2 роки тому

    GEO HISTORY IS ALIVE AGAIN!

  • @marekhudec4781
    @marekhudec4781 2 роки тому +5

    Thank you for nice video. Me as Slovak found out, there is a small mistake. The border between Slovakia and Hungary during the WW2 was different as result of occupation of Horthy's Hungary.

    • @fredjkiller4198
      @fredjkiller4198 2 роки тому

      Что такое during, скажи по братски

    • @danielgeller7629
      @danielgeller7629 2 роки тому

      @@fredjkiller4198 в течение

  • @adrianonoli
    @adrianonoli 2 роки тому +73

    Guys, these videos are so great! I use them in my Geohistory class, I'm a teacher in Italian secondary school system (11-13 years old students), we just love your work. I would like to start a cooperation to translate them in Italian, how can I contact the owner? I didn0t find any contact detail in the profile.

    • @BloodshotEight0
      @BloodshotEight0 2 роки тому +4

      You might have to join their Patreon?
      You might get some contact information then

    • @scpmr
      @scpmr 2 роки тому +9

      I thought teachers should use information from proven sources, not from youtube videos created by some unknowns

    • @RealLordRemy
      @RealLordRemy 2 роки тому +8

      @@scpmr Im pretty sure most teachers do use youtube in some cases.

    • @elijahking519
      @elijahking519 2 роки тому +5

      @@scpmr UA-camrs can often be better than the proven source and can be just as reliable

    • @asbest2092
      @asbest2092 Рік тому

      he video is lying trash

  • @buivisss
    @buivisss 2 роки тому +7

    Interesting, here shows ussr like rusia, but ussr was created from some different respublic. So ussr is not rusia, but unated respublics together and rusia was only part of ussr

    • @thejudge6453
      @thejudge6453 2 роки тому +2

      Russia was the largest republic in USSR, 50% of the population of the USSR lived in Russia, the capital was in Moscow and all other republics were subordinate to Moscow. In Western countries, this is an established tradition.

    • @buivisss
      @buivisss 2 роки тому +1

      Just USSR was 15 different respublic, take out 14 respublic and you will see how Russia her self is big...
      you say 50%?
      I am not sure..
      just all 14 respublic was for feed Russia with capital Mascow

  • @محمدالعتيبي-ت2ق4ذ

    Where was this videos when I was at work

  • @DyneTyrreal
    @DyneTyrreal 2 роки тому +21

    Very cool, now do one Europe and especially Asia if you can. I am curious to see how much of roman culture survived, seems Italy and Germany kept Western Rome alive and it's been battling Eastern Rome who escaped to Russia for almost a couple thousand years now.

    • @ВасилийБлаженов-ж9е
      @ВасилийБлаженов-ж9е 11 місяців тому +1

      That's really weird way to put it. Roman culture is long dead. Reneissance isn't a thing anymore. Etc. Noone speaks Latin or Greek koine anymore. Even Eastern slavic languages are divided into 3, not a single one resembling what was used in times of ERI.

  • @ajaykrishna4542
    @ajaykrishna4542 2 роки тому +4

    As usual, a awesome video

  • @almo3250
    @almo3250 2 роки тому +8

    Thanks for the content. My biggest takeaway from this is mostly all of these leaders are treacherous and a treaty ain't worth shit.

    • @asbest2092
      @asbest2092 Рік тому

      the video is a shallow lying in a lot of aspects trash by the way

  • @wm-j1344
    @wm-j1344 2 роки тому +10

    An insanely interesting video in this style would be the history of the Holy Roman Empire

  • @tomodero8738
    @tomodero8738 2 роки тому

    History has it, I love Geo

  • @ВераГусакова-ъ1с
    @ВераГусакова-ъ1с 2 роки тому +1

    Отлично Жду русскую версию СССР история на карте

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami 2 роки тому +10

    “We drove across the Red Square past Lenin's Mausoleum and the towers and domes of the Kremlin--and stopped a block away at the Grand Hotel.
    Our rooms were ready for us--clean and comfortable, with hot and cold water, homelike settees and deep roomy chairs. Courteous attendants were there, baths and elevator, a book shop and two restaurants. Everything that a hotel for white folks at home would have--except that, quite truthfully, there was no toilet paper. And no Jim Crow.
    Of course, we knew that one of the basic principles of the Soviet Union is the end of all racial distinctions. That's the main reason we had come to Moscow.”
    ― Langston Hughes,

    • @crank1985
      @crank1985 2 роки тому

      Advertisement visit...
      Just like Reagan meeting random German tourist on Red Square... named Vladimir Putin...
      In USSR there was no race discrimination because everyone was discriminated....

  • @Tribune_of_Italia
    @Tribune_of_Italia 2 роки тому +11

    11:55 lol it's kinda funny to see the Axis as pink

  • @lavaleopard2961
    @lavaleopard2961 2 роки тому +8

    This is literally the first time I have heard the Russian emperors called that instead of the Czars/Tsars.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 2 роки тому +3

      Tsar, like German Kaiser is nothing but a variation of Caesar and has always got the meaning of "Emperor" or similar.

    • @afrodiy6539
      @afrodiy6539 2 роки тому +5

      Царь)

    • @afrodiy6539
      @afrodiy6539 2 роки тому +4

      In russian)

    • @Змеяющаякуса
      @Змеяющаякуса 2 роки тому

      "First time"😂 😂 😂 век живи - век учись, дурень

  • @LawpickingLocksmith
    @LawpickingLocksmith 2 роки тому +1

    Real nice! Thank you!

  • @juanchov876
    @juanchov876 4 місяці тому

    6:52 It´s amazing the fact that they sign a threaty that includes that Poland gets some part of Lithuania and Lithuania has not even been in the war

  • @CrazyDe3r
    @CrazyDe3r 2 роки тому +10

    There's a major oversimplifying of the conditions that lead to the October Revolution. No mention of the important revolution of 1905, also lead by the Bolsheiviks and the Mensheiviks that started the creation of soviets (traduction of workers council) mostly in Saint-Petesburg and Moscow. These councils formed the base for political organization of the russian working class all through the war. Lenin didn't create another revolution, it was already well on its way before 1917 and when the Kerensky government lost all support from the population, Lenin held the motto "All power to the soviets!" and placed them in power.

    • @nathanviebranz9111
      @nathanviebranz9111 2 роки тому +1

      I believe some of this is mentioned in the Russian Empire summary video.

  • @pimcramer2569
    @pimcramer2569 2 роки тому +8

    I'd like to see the Russian version to see the differences in how history is told

    • @YourCRTube
      @YourCRTube 2 роки тому +13

      It is more about nuance. For example Lenin declared/"agreed to" forming Belarus, Ukraine and other republics simply because he thought Communism is more powerful, global idea then nationalism (and he was wrong). About the dissolvement - Gorbachev was against it and was literally done behind his back.
      Edit: Needless the to say, they have a different view of how the WW2 started. USSR tried to from a pact w/ the "good guys", but they really wanted a war b/w Germany and USSR and did not made any real effort. Also notice how the video ignores how Germany gained the territories in 10:05

    • @Macion-sm2ui
      @Macion-sm2ui 2 роки тому

      @@YourCRTube Is that true, that in Russia there is very little said about Soviet agresion on Poland in 1939 and they say that WWII started in Russia in 1941 (as Great Patriotic War)? We in Poland always say that WWII was started by Germany AND Soviet Union and even correct some foreigners which saying that WWII was started by Germany (while ignoring Soviet Union)

    • @smashinistom
      @smashinistom 2 роки тому +1

      @@Macion-sm2ui Yes, mostly true. This war is well studied in schools, everyone knows about Molotov-Ribbentrop, but the details are not so common. The Soviet-Nazi war is more important, so it is more well-known. The history of the USSR is an endless war, and many things pay less attention (for example, the Soviet invasion of Xinjiang or the details of the civil war in Russia). It's hard to study all the conflicts.

    • @ЕленаВасильева-н7щ
      @ЕленаВасильева-н7щ Рік тому

      ​@@Macion-sm2ui а правда,что в Польше злобные люди,которые ненааидят Россию и русский народ так,что спать и кушать не могут?Почему Польша постоянно лезет к русским и напоминает о себе?Вы в курсе,что мы о Польше вообще редко вспоминаем,и то,когда она опять начинает визги как ее все обидели.А скажите:кто такой король Сигизмунд?И почему мы о нем знаем?Не потому ли,что он напал на Россию и залез на русский трон в кремле,пока его пинками не выгнали?Вы же невинные овечки.

    • @Macion-sm2ui
      @Macion-sm2ui Рік тому

      @@ЕленаВасильева-н7щ It's kinda funny because we learn in school about king Sigismund and False Dimitries, but most of our people are proud of that (we are proud that we achieve what even Hitler and Napoleon can't - conquer and hold Moscow). We learn about Żółkiewski, who defeted russians in Kłuszyn and thanks to that polish troops entered Moscow. Generally Russia is seen historically as our archenemy, alongside Germany, but Germany only in medieval and modern times (to WWII), and Russia from XVI c. And polish hatreness toward russians is also a fact. Now probably over 90% of polish people have very negative attitiude towards Russia and russians. I belongs to this 10% that don't hate Russia but this is rather rare in my country.

  • @shr-p6c
    @shr-p6c 2 роки тому +14

    23:40 hehe... Russia and USSR existing at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @manioqqqq
      @manioqqqq Рік тому +1

      In foresight, ussr should be the 🇰🇿 Emoji, not the 🇷🇺 Emoji

  • @dadthelad
    @dadthelad 2 роки тому +1

    Fabulous, thank you!

  • @000DAAN000
    @000DAAN000 Рік тому

    Great videos!!!! Thank you

  • @drelee7669
    @drelee7669 2 роки тому +189

    Wow Soviet Union give so much territory to Poland after WWII. Basiicly they created today Poland

    • @calculuslover2078
      @calculuslover2078 2 роки тому +30

      Soviet Union divided Poland with Germany before that.

    • @diongibbs312
      @diongibbs312 Рік тому +50

      You mean they gave the lands which they stole from Germany to Poland 15 million German civilians not Nazis but Germans were raped murdered and drove out of our lands by ethnic cleansing and yes I said our lands because my grandfather my great-grandfather sorry him and his family for hundreds and hundreds of years maybe even a thousand years lived in the area which is Silesia, Southwest Poland today. In Beslau and its still largely Germanic near Berlin and Brandenberg.
      I want to add that agreement was made in support with Churchill and FDR to give German East Germany to Poland that was east of the odor- Neissen line however you still managed to take hold of Stettin and Stettin is according to the Arts and agreement German territory cuz it's west of the of the Border.

    • @Peglegkickboxer
      @Peglegkickboxer Рік тому +12

      @@diongibbs312 the same was done with the Poles. Poland was further east and a huge part of Belarus and Ukraine were Poland and they brutalized the Poles before the Germans came in and did it.

    • @diongibbs312
      @diongibbs312 Рік тому +3

      @@Peglegkickboxer true.

    • @stovolbelinche3178
      @stovolbelinche3178 Рік тому

      and we gabe polan poland yes and the arguement is we you killed them and raped so yea but think
      we didnt HAVE TO let poland exist WE dont becouse we DECIDED to and it the choice that matters

  • @MeagainstYT
    @MeagainstYT 2 роки тому +11

    5:30 there were no ways for him to regain the throne. I would say Yanukovich had more chances to regain in 2014 than Romanov in 1918.

    • @MeagainstYT
      @MeagainstYT 2 роки тому +3

      The closer to the present it gets the more propaganda arrives.

  • @HelloEdits613
    @HelloEdits613 2 роки тому +8

    Fun fact: in the soviet union, archeologists discovered the tomb of timur, the founder of the timurid empire of central Asia, who's invasions killed 17 million people, and on his tomb was inscribed: "whomever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I"
    That was on June 20 1941, two days before the start of Operation Barbarrossa 😬

    • @Ypog_UA
      @Ypog_UA 2 роки тому +2

      It's a myth.

    • @charlie8344
      @charlie8344 2 роки тому

      @@Ypog_UA no it was a coincidence

  • @CharlesAmericanus
    @CharlesAmericanus Рік тому

    Wow that video was amazing

  • @LocalBroYT
    @LocalBroYT Рік тому +2

    I found an Easter egg at the end. At the end, Finland’s borders became the pre-WW2 borders