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The fact that most people will know this more as a ‘real life battle royale/squid game’ than the death of a near absurd amount of people in a brutal manner.
I didn't quite get the significance of "battle royale" in this situation. More like "put people here with nothing to work on and let them surprise you with the results."
I don't get the "Squid Game" art too, that's just a brutal manner to kill thousands of people, or let them on their own and watch them die alone, that's all.
Exactly. Squid Game was about choosing to play with your life for money. The people at Nazino island didn't have a choice. Simple history is just using the Squid Game title for popularity and attention. 🙄
It may just be paranoia but, the fact that squid game is a series readily available to the world that depicts fictional atrocities in a game setting is concerning to me. The reason? Well would it be too much of a stretch to think that those who back the network may be seeking to desensitize the world to the idea of such atrocities in the eyes of the world in preparation of future planed real world events? Like I said, it may just be paranoia but I think that people probably would have never considered that similar such events could have taken place in history, until they did. Until 9/11 happened we enjoyed a blissful ignorance of thinking that no outside power could attack us so easily on our own soil, just as I'm sure we did before pear harbor. On second thought, it could be taken as a warning I suppose.
I live in Tomsk and actually never beard of this tragedy, It's quite surreal that it actually happened when you think about it. And it happened right in the place I call home
Imagine how terrifying it is to be one of those people sent there. You managed to survive it all and got rescued but you had trauma for years due to seeing the terror of people killing each other.
“We’re going to release a bunch of you from the Gulags to fight the Germans. For the most part, it will somehow be worse. But don’t worry. Once the war has ended a lot of you that survived will be sent right back here.”
Then you have to watch college students praise the government that sent you there. Saying they truly cared for the poor and were fighting against injustice
@@ok-ep1il mostly, yes, he just menaged to do more 'cause he ruled longer. Lenin basically didn't rule Russia at all, he just got it in the bloodiest civil war in the history of the country
@@nicholasarnold8028 it isn’t at all like the hunger games, fighting amongst players is not required and you can straight up just stop playing if most agree
Makes you wonder why the Russians didn't take advantage of such unique history they had and spin it for an entertaining TV show of their own. Pretty sad really.
I’m pretty left leaning myself but I absolutely hate Stalin. Sure I might have looked up to him in the past but he is nothing but a tyrant who is up there with Hitler
@@froggymusicman 16% believe it’s impossible for aliens to have the technology to have engineered the creation of a new species (a possible explanation for the theory of creation). Sorry to burst your bubble but aliens exist. It’s simple but if you want me to explain basic math to you I will.
@@dogsdreamtoo8427 Aliens surely exist and they could be either more advanced or less advanced than us but believing we were "created by aliens" still wouldn't invalidate the theory of scientifical evolution, since these aliens also had to pass through an evolutionary process similar to ours in order to do what you're saying. It would be nothing but further complication of an already complicated topic. In this case an Occam's razor is preferable.
Stalin approved a resettling plan, not a mass murder,and when he got wind of what was happening he sent orders to bring everyone back until further notice, he didnt know what was happening at Nazino until the report was submitted because comunications at the time in Russia were still slow, and he never personally visited the piace obviously. The people at fault were imprisoned and the thing was covered up, that's not the best way to go about the problem obviosly but look at what was happening at the same time in the rest of the world, Soviet Russia wasnt that different from other countries. And even now, we dont hold our presidents directly at fault when we find out about the mistreatment of prisoners in a particular prison, why should we do it to Stalin?
Tell that to all the lefties in America voting for socialist stuff and how California is turning out with gangs robbing stores with no repercussions, huge homeless crisis, mass exodus of citizens, high housing cost, etc
If this was the average day then the Soviet Union would have been utterly depopulated in a matter of decades. This was a rare occurence. That's like saying concentration camps are the average life for Americans because Japanese-Americans were interned.
This is probably the saddest part of human history I've ever heard of. I've heard of many gruesome things but this tops it all for me. I feel overwhelmingly depressed now.
Thank God someone knows of that great Japanese battle royale movie. All these millennials only talk about squid game like that’s the only movie like that to exist
@@comradekenobi6908 True. The goal of gulags was to brainwash dissidents while inhumanely exploiting them. The goal of German lagers was just extermination with occasional slavery.
I know people have their opinion, but Solzhenitsyn, really? The guy who literally "was ready to sell his own mother" for the overthrow of communism in USSR. Of course, half of the soviet people were in prison camps, another half was watching them as early as in 1976 Solzhenitsyn said in an interview to a pro-western TV that the exact number of those repressed added up to 100 million despite the fact that the population of the country in the 1939 was 170 million. "Mr. Solzhenitsyn probably saw it better from GULAG camp, it is a custom in prisons that prisoners count each other and they obviously have the right numbers that can obviously be trusted
Вот только Архипелаг Гулаг это художественная литература полнлстью основанная на вымысле и не имеющая никакого отношения к реальной истории. С тем же успехом вы можете изучать историю по комиксам про бетмена. XD
They only used "Squid Game" in the title to get clicks. In reality, this is nothing like Squid Game. Squid Game had rules; it was done with the express purpose of the people killing each other for entertainment. This was people forced into desperate circumstances and did unspeakable things
So incredibly tragic. Treating humans like unwanted animals by stranding and trapping them on an island with no resources for survival. It's monstrous to think that families were sent here with the prisoner.
The part in 7:50 about the woman sounds cruel. Until you realize that in reality, they cut pieces of the soft parts of her body without killing her. Breasts, calves, thighs and belly were sliced while she was screaming. When the soldier she was having a relationship with arrived, she was still alive while tied to a tree. Needless to say, she died shortly after.
My grandmother's nuclear family was exiled to Siberia because someone lied about my great-grandfather being an anti-communist. That ironically saved them from being victims of the holocaust, since a couple months later, the nazis captured Riga and killed the rest of her family
My grand grandmother was from Korea, and moved to Russia before WW2. When the war began, because of Japanese spies Stalin ordered most Koreans in the far east to be deported to Kazakhstan. Later, after Soviet Union fell my grandfather and grandmother moved to Canada, and I moved to US with my parents. I don't like Nazis, and I also don't like Stalin.
Thank you for making this as violent as possible to truly express how horrific this whole event was. The Soviet Union was among one of the MANY evils on the world at the time. It’s about time more people were educated about it.
@@kaaseter16 there is a book called: Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag by Nicholas Werth This video summarises it quite well also: ua-cam.com/video/CaOwcYLGTMo/v-deo.html
Jesus Christ... this has got to be one of the more brutal and darker episodes you guys have done... and I appreciate it. We must never forget our history, no matter how dark and brutal it may be... lest we are condemned to repeat it again.
Colonization Level: Extreme Very little food No building materials Low morale High chance of death Ironman mode: On Ranger mode: On Benefits of playing on this difficulty: None
Benefits : a 0.02% achievement you have to spend a week getting and when you do get it it just says congratulations you got it now play on this difficulty again.
Jesus Christ, I was joking. I was telling a guy on discord who was fed up with the recent Squid game craze that'd we would eventually see UA-cam documentaries go "The real Squid Games" in their titles. I said that last Wednesday. Still a nice video I was just certain this would happen.
@@SlurryNoises I guess, but I was saying that in the sense that the title would be an exaggeration. Like they're only saying it's like Squid game for views.
@@SlurryNoises Lack of food = murder, it is on squid game, and the island, OMG, WHAT A COINCIDENCE, GONNA SAY SQUIDGAYM WAS BASED OFF OF THIS ENTIRELY!
"...The Soviet Union was a miserable place to live..." Yikes a lot of people are gonna get triggered even before I point out that this is why you never give government too much power, including not letting them take our freaking money.
@@outermiddlegamer2591 do you think that imperium of russia during tzar times was weak? Meh. Commies were not strong, they were devastated after the war and before. That's why they fallen because this was a giant on wooden legs
@@flavio0004 The truth of the matter is that most people survived the gulags. Less than 2 million died in the gulags, out of the 18 million who were sent there between 1930-1956. Take Solzhenitsyn, who survived for years in the gulag system until his eventual release. In truth, it was the political executions and mass-starvation that killed the most. Those were Stalin's greatest atrocities.
@@revanofkorriban1505 Yes, the majority of the prisoners was released. When they were near death or were sick with incurable diseases. So, their deaths are not counted because they died as "free citizens".
My grandmother's orphanage in Finland was attacked by a russian prop plane during WW2. She fled into the snow and put a white blanket over her to hide from the gunner. It caused her to get gravely sick with fever and it nearly cost her life, and she almost lost both her feet due to the cold she endured in the snow while hiding in fear. Fortunately a caring doctor put some effort into to saving her, and she survived with both her feet intact. She met my grandfather from Norway during a dance in Sweden, got married and had children. Her kind soul died a bit too early in the 90's, partly due to the punishment her body had taken when she was younger. I still miss her and wish we had more time together to talk about her life experiences. F**k communism.
Its not because of communism. First of all The Soviet Union wasnt communist, but socialist on their way into communism. Second socialism is a spectrum and Stalinism is far more brutal and authoritarian than the Ideas of Marx, Luxemburg, or even Lenin. Next to the soviet union we also got many good examples for working implemented socialism, for example Cuba or the Paris Commune. And no, Iam not making excuses for the USSR, the Stalinist system and cruelties are definetely not defendable, but that isnt due to communism, but due to the authoritarian Ideals of Stalin and his successors (Those successors failed miserably in undoing Stalins bullshit).
2:51 What?! Ok, this is another level of Stalin that I never expected from him. One thing is capture adult soviets who critized his regime, insulting him or just they don't follow the rules. But a little girl that doesn't have anything to do to critizize his regime, that she don't even know what was exactly the politics or how the system works, that is very cruel, absurd and ridiculous, even becoming from Stalin himself.
Jesus Christ. This wasn't a fucking battle royale, this wasn't squid game. This was a fucking crime against humanity, perpetrated by the USSR. Don't compare it to movies made for entertainment. That's so fucking disrespectful to the people who actually lost their lives on that island. This should be common sense, I don't know why I'm having to say this.
Playing ”The Blue Danube Waltz“ over the Great Purge really was a great idea. It reminded me about ”The Death of Stalin“. Comedy and Tragedy one in one.
What was not explained why soldiers took random people is that because they had quotas , and if that quota was not fulfilled they were going to be punished themselves. Hence, they ended up kidnapping random people just to fill that Battle Royale.
they call this place cannibal island but I was pretty sure it was Nazinsky Island. Maybe a translation issue. Either or read the book Cannibal island to get a way better understanding.
It's amazing that this is more horrifying than any fictional survival-horror movie. And not for the obvious reason (that, of course, this is real) but because it shows that communist leaders are less hesitant to do this to people in real life than writers would do to fictional characters on a sheet of paper.
Writing fictional characters requires understanding of the human species, and that requires some degree of empathy. "I can't write this too horrible, because people would think I'm a monster."
I mean, the person in charge of this already canceled the plan for this “experiment”. The guards on the island just didn’t find out. The people in charge on the island were sent to prison and or demoted afterwards.
Communists convince gullible people to let them commit atrocities in the name of wealth redistribution. It’s an ideology of hate that attracts violent and envious people.
Every evidence of deadly nature of communism - summons people saying that someone need to taste it one more time. Why dont you just go to North Korea and try it yourself?
Communism has been tried but not achieved as it is impossible to do so. But that does not mean we should just twist its definition. Communism still refers to a stateless classless moneyless society which is why it does not work.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor Communism has to be enforced. It doesn’t work if you have any people that aren’t communists in your ranks. So what do you do with those people? Get rid of them.
@@fishingmasterstudios9481 it'll be very hard to make people understand this , because the USSR was the "victor" , and u know "History is written by victors"
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Would anyone else be interested in learning how the us army was organized in ww2 such as how the regular army, the reserves,the national guard, and the army of the United States (draftees and enlisted during the war) were originally formed and how they worked in ww2?
There is a channel called Battle Order which does stuff like this. I'd go to then with this idea. Simple History is more for telling tales rather than as a in depth documentary.
It is interesting as everyone became "Active Duty" and the State Guard is what replaced the National Guard for the time being. It's why the National Guard has more Medal of Honor than any other component of the Army thanks to units like the 28th, 29th, 30th, and 36th ID who were some of the most engaged and ferocious units of the Army. The State Guard is the most unknown components as they are a government militia more or less.
Communism and socialism doesn't equal autoritarian state. It just happened to be like that in history. This said, those are terribly stupid ideas which would work only in an utopian world
The only reason I'd root for the Soviet Union in WWII is because Hitler wanted to kill *all* of them. Every other time, the USSR can go hang out to dry.
@@Thepietro5000pp they are separated concepts but a planned economy requires either utopian levels of altruism or authoritarianism to ensure its structure.
@@imyourdaddy5822 you can also have a country who entirely believes in the idea and is 100% altruistic. Yet, this is impossible. Which I stated in the first comment
This isn’t even a resemblance of a Squid game, because these people were only fighting for survival on that island. Those fictional characters in the Squid game were fighting for prize money (with survival just being the topping of their goals).
I would just like to point to a historical mistake in the animation. Shoulder pads were abolished in Russia after 1917, and were not re-introduced before 1943 for both civil and military ranks. Instead, ranks were denoted with gorget patches, in the similar way as the Italian Army uses them.
@@agentgamingchannel. No. Epaulettes are completely different in appearance and history. They look like this: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D._Lu%C3%ADs_I_-_escola_portuguesa.png
Would you rather the Nazis had won? Their plans for Eastern Europe with Generalplan Ost would have eventually resulted in 100+ million people dying over 20 yrs if put into action.
@@dmanjones7946 The "rest of the left" consigns itself to an eternal betrayal of its own making as it supports policies and movements which inevitably turn authoritarian. There is always a peculiar alliance between them and power-hungry elites, even as they vocally denounce said elites.
@@joseph_bunnyman318 Ah yes USSR Democracy you can vote for who ever you wanted as long as the candidates were pre approved by the one and only party allowed in the country.
The animation is incredible (but kind of funny), but the reality of it and the narration, music is like a literal horror movie. When you take in what actually happened this is absolutely demented and unimaginable.
Communism has been tried but not achieved as it is impossible to do so. But that does not mean we should just twist its definition. Communism still refers to a stateless classless moneyless society which is why it does not work.
Netflix show, stripped of all your possessions and forced to fight for survival. USSR gulag, stripped of all your posessions and forced to fight for survival
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@@theulmateunit648 wat
@@armordeth wat
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“Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction.”
MrBallen
"National geographic wild"
Quote by GK Chesterton
Dang, that's a lotta likes for an unoriginal quote.
"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to probability, and the truth ain't."
-Mark Twain, along with one Google search
Animators had some fun making this one as brutal as they could get away with.
fr 😭
Brownie points to them
As they should.
And we thank them for it.
Oh yeah I didn't realize
The fact that most people will know this more as a ‘real life battle royale/squid game’ than the death of a near absurd amount of people in a brutal manner.
I didn't quite get the significance of "battle royale" in this situation.
More like "put people here with nothing to work on and let them surprise you with the results."
I don't get the "Squid Game" art too, that's just a brutal manner to kill thousands of people, or let them on their own and watch them die alone, that's all.
Exactly. Squid Game was about choosing to play with your life for money. The people at Nazino island didn't have a choice. Simple history is just using the Squid Game title for popularity and attention. 🙄
Victory Royale!
It may just be paranoia but, the fact that squid game is a series readily available to the world that depicts fictional atrocities in a game setting is concerning to me. The reason? Well would it be too much of a stretch to think that those who back the network may be seeking to desensitize the world to the idea of such atrocities in the eyes of the world in preparation of future planed real world events? Like I said, it may just be paranoia but I think that people probably would have never considered that similar such events could have taken place in history, until they did. Until 9/11 happened we enjoyed a blissful ignorance of thinking that no outside power could attack us so easily on our own soil, just as I'm sure we did before pear harbor. On second thought, it could be taken as a warning I suppose.
I live in Tomsk and actually never beard of this tragedy, It's quite surreal that it actually happened when you think about it. And it happened right in the place I call home
Я тоже буквально сегодня об этом узнал. Хотя казалось бы такая трагедия, что каждый житель ТО должен знать от ней
Settler 1: "Comrade, lend me a hand making dinner"
Settler 2: "Sure, Comrade....wait... Noooooooo!"
...
Some dark humor comrade
@@Lrayp_47642 Well Dark Humor is like food... not everyone gets it XD
@@Rebelcommander6 nice one.
Literally lending hand without giving him back.
Imagine how terrifying it is to be one of those people sent there.
You managed to survive it all and got rescued but you had trauma for years due to seeing
the terror of people killing each other.
well, it is the 1930s USSR, so theese guys were not to suffer too long anyway
Imagine surviving that and then WW2 starts.
“We’re going to release a bunch of you from the Gulags to fight the Germans. For the most part, it will somehow be worse. But don’t worry. Once the war has ended a lot of you that survived will be sent right back here.”
I think suicide is better than living there
Then you have to watch college students praise the government that sent you there. Saying they truly cared for the poor and were fighting against injustice
"I don't like Stalin. He's too mean" - Lenin
Lenin I think Stalin was more than mean
Well, actually both of them were not good guys
More like a devil
@@cyberretard2192 Stalin still worse than lenin.
@@ok-ep1il mostly, yes, he just menaged to do more 'cause he ruled longer. Lenin basically didn't rule Russia at all, he just got it in the bloodiest civil war in the history of the country
To be fair, Lenin died before Stalin did all those stuff
Their tolerance for incompetence is just amazing.
Everyone saying Squid Game when this is CLEARLY Lord of the Flies
A truly cultured being
More like hunger games
@@nicholasarnold8028 I see what you did there
@@TheEnabledDisabled hunger games is trash
@@nicholasarnold8028 it isn’t at all like the hunger games, fighting amongst players is not required and you can straight up just stop playing if most agree
South Korea: **Makes Squid Game**
Stalin: _“AMATEURS!”_
Stalin: copyright strike
I'm sure North Korea is making a better one than the Soviet one
Makes you wonder why the Russians didn't take advantage of such unique history they had and spin it for an entertaining TV show of their own. Pretty sad really.
North Korea's squid game is still ongoing but so far it is good.
@@whenthe531 *as long as you’re not the players*
I love that every time Simple History shows a gulag he always hides Sergei or Reznov in the background.
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I love your avatar
I noticed that too! They were Pushing the coal cart. Gotta love the Easter eggs
@@wattsnottaken1 time?
Time stamps?
2:00
Massacre performed by nazis = horrible tragedy
Massacre performed by soviets = dark humor, classical music, popular show reference
Actually just replace prisoners with high school children and it's actually similar enough in spirit to the original Battle Royale.
Battle Royale... The book/film that started it all
Wait highschool students… or high school students
@@Niiiiith Not school students that are high. But in English it is inaccurate to have high school as one word even as an adjective.
The real Battle Royal, japanese movie...
Or the Stephen King novel The Long Walk which came before Battle Royale.
And there are still people out there romanticising Stalin's leading
I’m pretty left leaning myself but I absolutely hate Stalin. Sure I might have looked up to him in the past but he is nothing but a tyrant who is up there with Hitler
@@froggymusicman 16% believe it’s impossible for aliens to have the technology to have engineered the creation of a new species (a possible explanation for the theory of creation). Sorry to burst your bubble but aliens exist. It’s simple but if you want me to explain basic math to you I will.
@@dogsdreamtoo8427 Aliens surely exist and they could be either more advanced or less advanced than us but believing we were "created by aliens" still wouldn't invalidate the theory of scientifical evolution, since these aliens also had to pass through an evolutionary process similar to ours in order to do what you're saying. It would be nothing but further complication of an already complicated topic. In this case an Occam's razor is preferable.
How can you not
This place looks cool
Stalin approved a resettling plan, not a mass murder,and when he got wind of what was happening he sent orders to bring everyone back until further notice, he didnt know what was happening at Nazino until the report was submitted because comunications at the time in Russia were still slow, and he never personally visited the piace obviously. The people at fault were imprisoned and the thing was covered up, that's not the best way to go about the problem obviosly but look at what was happening at the same time in the rest of the world, Soviet Russia wasnt that different from other countries.
And even now, we dont hold our presidents directly at fault when we find out about the mistreatment of prisoners in a particular prison, why should we do it to Stalin?
Stalin: *doing his absolute best to make sure communism is remembered as the worst thing ever*
Stalin made it more based
I really wish it was. High school historians and soyed presenters brush past it while arguing the real threat is from the "fascists."
Tell that to all the lefties in America voting for socialist stuff and how California is turning out with gangs robbing stores with no repercussions, huge homeless crisis, mass exodus of citizens, high housing cost, etc
@@Gdsryrox oh they want all of us to be equal alright. Equally miserable that is....
Communism is a temporary setback on the road to freedom
All this due to Stalin's iron fist. And then people want to bring this back.
"Do you know of the tragedy of Nazino Island"
"No of course you wouldn't, it's not something the Communists would tell you about."
Instead they brainwash you with our,we memes
Based
Im somwhat a commi but were is the Problem whit telling ppl historicaly facts?
"Do you get to nazino island very often? Oh what am I saying, of course you don't! I'll have you know that there's no tragedyyyyyyyy!"
The remaining National Socialists will be hunted down and defeated! The first ... NEW WORLD ORDER!
Under Communism, we're all equal. Some are just more equal than others
Equally poor, equally starving and equally severely punished
This isnt about communism its just weird why?
and we die equally
Animal farm?
animal farm...
*PTSD flashbacks to school
Squid Game in South Korea: *death game*
Squid Game in USSR: *average day in the Soviet Union*
little more then avarege but you have a good point
Extend it to other commies too
If this was the average day then the Soviet Union would have been utterly depopulated in a matter of decades. This was a rare occurence. That's like saying concentration camps are the average life for Americans because Japanese-Americans were interned.
@@wojszach4443 Why? Because of your irrational hatred? Get real
@@slickrick2420 and thefefore it was just monday
This is probably the saddest part of human history I've ever heard of. I've heard of many gruesome things but this tops it all for me. I feel overwhelmingly depressed now.
Ohh, you clearly haven't heard of the siege of suiyang. That one is absolutely psychotic, you'll question your sanity after reading about it.
You heard about the nanjing massacre ?
@@DrunkenMaster420 yes, and that's not the saddest, that's the most diabolical.
Squid Game Gameplay: Netflix, Korean Drama, Dalgona candy
Squid Game Lore:
Lol
We should put on meme video or I should do this
@@AkumuNyaaaa Dew it
No
*Insert somebody i used to know
To be honest, this is pretty close to the original "Battle Royale" novel by Koushun Takami
Far worse I bet
I love that movie by Kinji Fukasaku
Thank God someone knows of that great Japanese battle royale movie. All these millennials only talk about squid game like that’s the only movie like that to exist
squid game wasnt even battle royale lmao
@@808ghostMiller think millennials would talk more about hunger games lol
Germany: We put the political prisoners in camps.
Russia: AMATEURS!
Russia: We have roving bands of ne'er-do-wells terrorize political threats.
China: AMATEURS!
Fun fact: Somehow you have a higher percentage surviving a gulag than an Eastern front German camp
@@comradekenobi6908 True. The goal of gulags was to brainwash dissidents while inhumanely exploiting them. The goal of German lagers was just extermination with occasional slavery.
Squid Game
@@Vampyre_Scythe yes
The Gulag Archipelago is an incredibly hard book to read, but it changed my life. Anyone who thinks Communism is a good idea should have to read it
I know people have their opinion, but Solzhenitsyn, really? The guy who literally "was ready to sell his own mother" for the overthrow of communism in USSR. Of course, half of the soviet people were in prison camps, another half was watching them as early as in 1976 Solzhenitsyn said in an interview to a pro-western TV that the exact number of those repressed added up to 100 million despite the fact that the population of the country in the 1939 was 170 million. "Mr. Solzhenitsyn probably saw it better from GULAG camp, it is a custom in prisons that prisoners count each other and they obviously have the right numbers that can obviously be trusted
Вот только Архипелаг Гулаг это художественная литература полнлстью основанная на вымысле и не имеющая никакого отношения к реальной истории. С тем же успехом вы можете изучать историю по комиксам про бетмена. XD
It wasn't real communism.
@@aopt471 It doesn't really matter. History has proven communism will never work.
300 of the 380 Commissars wore very small hats.
Audience: "The Squid Game can always happen in a capitalist society"
USSR: "Hold my vodka"
its less of squid game and more of desperate comrades killing each other for food.
@@Moved506 still a squid game but food instead of money
@@yukimegumi8925 And they didn't even get that.
Χαχαχαχ 😂😂
They only used "Squid Game" in the title to get clicks. In reality, this is nothing like Squid Game. Squid Game had rules; it was done with the express purpose of the people killing each other for entertainment. This was people forced into desperate circumstances and did unspeakable things
So incredibly tragic. Treating humans like unwanted animals by stranding and trapping them on an island with no resources for survival. It's monstrous to think that families were sent here with the prisoner.
@@Suspicious-Carl true human are waste
Welcome to communism.
Thank communism
THEY WEREN'T HUMANS, THEY WERE ANTIREVOLUTIONARY CAPITALIST SPIES
SEEING WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM REALLY WARMS MY HEART
@Moisei Uritsky The Butcher Of Petrograd GLORY TO REVOLUTION, DEATH TO CONTRREVOLUTIONARY REACTIONARY CAPITALIST PIGDOGS ✊
Throw every single "character" you guys ever had in this series into the Squid Game, including such legends as Mad Jack for good measure.
£500 bet on Simo Hayha and the Canadian one man army who liberated a Town
*Ramen*
mad jack was the best episode
Fly me too the moon
The oldest soilder that was in ww2
The part in 7:50 about the woman sounds cruel. Until you realize that in reality, they cut pieces of the soft parts of her body without killing her.
Breasts, calves, thighs and belly were sliced while she was screaming.
When the soldier she was having a relationship with arrived, she was still alive while tied to a tree.
Needless to say, she died shortly after.
I assume they didn’t die quick after the soldier got a hold of them
I mean, that IS cruel...
And that isn't cruel...?
My grandmother's nuclear family was exiled to Siberia because someone lied about my great-grandfather being an anti-communist. That ironically saved them from being victims of the holocaust, since a couple months later, the nazis captured Riga and killed the rest of her family
Basically a crime against humanity saved her from another crime against humanity
*Wild*
Wait they’re from Latvia because I am
@@chasesstuff6010 yeah, but she, most of her family, my grandpa, mom and aunt left to Israel in 1973, never learning a word of Latvian
My grand grandmother was from Korea, and moved to Russia before WW2. When the war began, because of Japanese spies Stalin ordered most Koreans in the far east to be deported to Kazakhstan. Later, after Soviet Union fell my grandfather and grandmother moved to Canada, and I moved to US with my parents. I don't like Nazis, and I also don't like Stalin.
@@markmitin7397 amen, brother. Tyranny should always be challenged and condemned, no matter where on the political spectrum.
Thank you for making this as violent as possible to truly express how horrific this whole event was. The Soviet Union was among one of the MANY evils on the world at the time. It’s about time more people were educated about it.
This video didn’t even cover everything that happened - I read stories that much worse things occurred there
@@lukmat839 Then this video servers an even greater purpose of making people look into the events.
@@lukmat839 what else happened?
@@kaaseter16 there is a book called: Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag by Nicholas Werth
This video summarises it quite well also: ua-cam.com/video/CaOwcYLGTMo/v-deo.html
Just like Britain and France.
Media: "Squid Game is a perfect critique of Capitalism"
Simple History: Do you know the history of the Soviet Union?
Which is why the media is stupid af lol
@@GuyInBlackClothes the media is the cancer of society.
Soviet onion
“But that’s not true communism”
Yeah in capitalism people have a choice, not so much in communism
Jesus Christ... this has got to be one of the more brutal and darker episodes you guys have done... and I appreciate it. We must never forget our history, no matter how dark and brutal it may be... lest we are condemned to repeat it again.
We’ll repeat it eventually. History simply teaches us about our own nature and we’re stubborn creatures.
@@thebigenchilada678 In my opinion, I think we are cursed to repeat these events.
@@oblivious108 we’re not cursed, we’re just animals.
@@thebigenchilada678 That too. But like I said, just my opinion.
@@oblivious108 and then he names it “battle royal”
Bruh, why i didn't expect this, the soviet union is basically a battle royale country
America*
The smartest american:
@@rocksolid4597 cope commie
Was
@@Freshline_ Cope with what free healthcare
Everyone gangsta till the squid game credits say: "based on a true story"
Lol
😬 why this facts tho 😂
They didn't do game though they just fought, more hunger games
Colonization
Level: Extreme
Very little food
No building materials
Low morale
High chance of death
Ironman mode: On
Ranger mode: On
Benefits of playing on this difficulty: None
Thanos mode: IMPOSSIBLE
"You just died of dysentery!"
Benefits : a 0.02% achievement you have to spend a week getting and when you do get it it just says congratulations you got it now play on this difficulty again.
your a man of culture aswell, I see
@@AddMoreQuarters lies I died of exposure
I've never heard of this. Thank you, Simple History for publishing content like this so that free individuals may educate themselves.
What a nice back ground music partnered with PEOPLE GOD DAMNED DYING
It's not called mood music for no reason
\m/ I blast doom music as I play animal crossing
@@NekoWinters lol
@@joseph_bunnyman318 ok thanks?
@@rottingravensblood9106 The Blue Danube
@@rottingravensblood9106 i believe its blue danube
You know what they say, Reality is a lot scarier than Fiction.
Simple history should do a Collab with Mark felitin!
Agreed
Good idea
Well said mate
@@scottishgaelic6096 thank you scottsman
Absolutely!
It blows my mind how monsters like Stalin existed
Jesus Christ, I was joking. I was telling a guy on discord who was fed up with the recent Squid game craze that'd we would eventually see UA-cam documentaries go "The real Squid Games" in their titles. I said that last Wednesday. Still a nice video I was just certain this would happen.
You know what they say, some of the wildest of stories come from real events.
@@SlurryNoises I guess, but I was saying that in the sense that the title would be an exaggeration. Like they're only saying it's like Squid game for views.
I don’t understand what’s so special about it and even the Koreans are puzzled why this show is popular here.
Choose NOT to watch(pollute my mind with) Squid Games, all these comments are helping to solidify that earlier decision...
@@SlurryNoises Lack of food = murder, it is on squid game, and the island, OMG, WHAT A COINCIDENCE, GONNA SAY SQUIDGAYM WAS BASED OFF OF THIS ENTIRELY!
You didn't have to throw "squid games" in to get clicked. History is actually more interesting than fiction alot of the times
Well. Gotta get that extra viewers!
History is boring most of the time ngl
@@cheezyballz i like your stop motion projects 👍
It was a Squid game, except no prize money for anybody and it’s cold af. Also disease outbreaks.
People watching "Squid Game" get told that it's about capitalism, this helps set the matter straight. Plus topical.
*Stalin Watch Squid Game*
Stalin: “Let’s put these people here to see what would happen?”
Ah yes Stalin watches squid game
No man, Squid game watches Stalin
@@bigmoniesponge they're more beholden to the lgbtq+ than the cccp.
Stalin was dead when squid game was realized
Squid game final boss should be Stalin but if so I don't think you're guaranteed to be alive
There is no way you just called this irl squid game
"...The Soviet Union was a miserable place to live..."
Yikes a lot of people are gonna get triggered even before I point out that this is why you never give government too much power, including not letting them take our freaking money.
So is N. Korea
and europe since 2020
When will you people learn that TAXES ARE NECESSARY
@@Evannnnnnnn2 I unlearned that bullshit after Duterte's cops nearly killed me and got a bonus for it, you Statist knucklehead.
Ah yes, because government and SJW is when communism
Squid Game: 456 players
Russia: Those are rookie numbers
And no money for the winner. That would be… capitalism…
this convinces that russia is its own world.
It's not Russia. It's the commies who killed Russia.
@@outermiddlegamer2591 George Orwell seal of approval.
@@outermiddlegamer2591 do you think that imperium of russia during tzar times was weak? Meh. Commies were not strong, they were devastated after the war and before. That's why they fallen because this was a giant on wooden legs
Churchill once said, “Russia is a riddle with a mystery wrapped in an enigma”.
@@outermiddlegamer2591 75 percent of Russian citizens say USSR was the greatest time in countries' history
this needs a movie
Just when I think I heard all of the terrible things about Stalin I learn more. What a cruel heartless monster.
Although he *did* cancel it.
@@revanofkorriban1505 and did start it
@@revanofkorriban1505 also send people to gulags to work to death with full consciousness
@@flavio0004 The truth of the matter is that most people survived the gulags. Less than 2 million died in the gulags, out of the 18 million who were sent there between 1930-1956. Take Solzhenitsyn, who survived for years in the gulag system until his eventual release. In truth, it was the political executions and mass-starvation that killed the most. Those were Stalin's greatest atrocities.
@@revanofkorriban1505 Yes, the majority of the prisoners was released.
When they were near death or were sick with incurable diseases. So, their deaths are not counted because they died as "free citizens".
My grandmother's orphanage in Finland was attacked by a russian prop plane during WW2. She fled into the snow and put a white blanket over her to hide from the gunner. It caused her to get gravely sick with fever and it nearly cost her life, and she almost lost both her feet due to the cold she endured in the snow while hiding in fear.
Fortunately a caring doctor put some effort into to saving her, and she survived with both her feet intact.
She met my grandfather from Norway during a dance in Sweden, got married and had children. Her kind soul died a bit too early in the 90's, partly due to the punishment her body had taken when she was younger. I still miss her and wish we had more time together to talk about her life experiences.
F**k communism.
What does that have to do with anything about communism?
@@TheAxeaman The collectivist hive mind centralist government and autocratic nature of communism allowed for the loss of 100 million lives.
@@DrakesdenChannel What are you talking about 😂 you just added some words in a sentence and tried to make sense.
Its not because of communism. First of all The Soviet Union wasnt communist, but socialist on their way into communism. Second socialism is a spectrum and Stalinism is far more brutal and authoritarian than the Ideas of Marx, Luxemburg, or even Lenin. Next to the soviet union we also got many good examples for working implemented socialism, for example Cuba or the Paris Commune. And no, Iam not making excuses for the USSR, the Stalinist system and cruelties are definetely not defendable, but that isnt due to communism, but due to the authoritarian Ideals of Stalin and his successors (Those successors failed miserably in undoing Stalins bullshit).
Get ready for all the communist simps to explain WhY iT wIlL wOrK nExT tImE
A lot of people are gonna flip out about this one
A'lot of people (*Twitter*)
like who
@@cisco8257 like the thumbnail title relating to squid game
The juicy fruit people
@@hotpopcorncake The fucking who?
2:51 What?! Ok, this is another level of Stalin that I never expected from him. One thing is capture adult soviets who critized his regime, insulting him or just they don't follow the rules. But a little girl that doesn't have anything to do to critizize his regime, that she don't even know what was exactly the politics or how the system works, that is very cruel, absurd and ridiculous, even becoming from Stalin himself.
We getting a video of when Caligula declared war on the Ocean?
I’m still hoping they cover guerrilla warfare like they’ve covered hull down, foxhole and creeping barrage tactics
the one time Caligula wanted to fight Poseidon?
It was more a symbolic thing. Still funny tho
Was that before or after he MARRIED his horse..?
@@veng3r663 he never did that
This is terribly, terribly sad.
Agree... And i just knew it
Humans suck
Kim Jong Un: “Quick quick write that down!”
Jesus Christ. This wasn't a fucking battle royale, this wasn't squid game. This was a fucking crime against humanity, perpetrated by the USSR. Don't compare it to movies made for entertainment. That's so fucking disrespectful to the people who actually lost their lives on that island. This should be common sense, I don't know why I'm having to say this.
But it literally was squid games..
The animator be like:
_time to express my repressed anger_
The repressed anger of being in our house, and having this raging bona.
Settler: "You newbies need to do ALL the work on the island"
Newbie: "Eat me"
Settler: "No problem."
Playing ”The Blue Danube Waltz“ over the Great Purge really was a great idea.
It reminded me about ”The Death of Stalin“. Comedy and Tragedy one in one.
That movie with all the British accents
@@alexmurphyhughes7973 yes
What was not explained why soldiers took random people is that because they had quotas , and if that quota was not fulfilled they were going to be punished themselves. Hence, they ended up kidnapping random people just to fill that Battle Royale.
This is very interesting 🧐 that’s why I love Simple History
Sadly they deactivated subtitles, why?
@@Nombrenooriginal That’s how it is with new uploads. It can take hours or a day or two for them to load.
they call this place cannibal island but I was pretty sure it was Nazinsky Island. Maybe a translation issue. Either or read the book Cannibal island to get a way better understanding.
Simple history should improve their animation
@@navyseal1689 stop complaining and enjoy the show
Reznov Has gotten more time in simple history clips, then the games he’s been in 😂
That’s just sad
What reznov isn't in any of these videos
@@cr33p3rninja4 Because you are blind
@@cr33p3rninja4 mine cart part In the beginning.
@@cr33p3rninja4 1:58
It's amazing that this is more horrifying than any fictional survival-horror movie. And not for the obvious reason (that, of course, this is real) but because it shows that communist leaders are less hesitant to do this to people in real life than writers would do to fictional characters on a sheet of paper.
Writing fictional characters requires understanding of the human species, and that requires some degree of empathy.
"I can't write this too horrible, because people would think I'm a monster."
I mean, the person in charge of this already canceled the plan for this “experiment”. The guards on the island just didn’t find out. The people in charge on the island were sent to prison and or demoted afterwards.
@@redsky4038 sounds like scapegoating to me.
Would be a good horror film huh?
Communists convince gullible people to let them commit atrocities in the name of wealth redistribution. It’s an ideology of hate that attracts violent and envious people.
I love how the music is so peaceful but the video is crazy
Every time people tell you real communism hasn't been tried....
Where did Marx write any of this in his books? The purges sprang entirely from the mind of Stalin for reasons of personal gain
Every evidence of deadly nature of communism - summons people saying that someone need to taste it one more time. Why dont you just go to North Korea and try it yourself?
Communism has been tried but not achieved as it is impossible to do so. But that does not mean we should just twist its definition. Communism still refers to a stateless classless moneyless society which is why it does not work.
@Agastya Meanwhile western powers slaughter everyone who disagrees. As long as they're poor and brown.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor Communism has to be enforced. It doesn’t work if you have any people that aren’t communists in your ranks. So what do you do with those people? Get rid of them.
The U.S.S.R has done so many horrible things but this is unbelievable!
Yet the right is what’s shamed the most..
As did - and still do, most empires, sadly.
Stalin was worse dictator than Hitler.
@@teemuhotari7422 don't forget Mao Zingdon !
@@g.i.azilla3557 yeah he killed many than them
1:54 The guy has a *BLUE* book saying *”456”* on it.
Meaning ?
@@ommsterlitz1805 Its a reference to Squid Game, the main character wears a jacket with the number 456.
@@somethingcool9606 oh ok thx
omg gi hun
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
South Korea: *Develops Squid Game*
Stalin: (rolls eyes) "Please, I can do better."
North Korea: *Father, can I invent my own?*
Stalin: I'll allow it!
And I still wonder why people see Soviet Union as "Hero" , when this happens in their own land , communism was no better than National Socialism
and it's stupidly hard to get rid of, the more people know of its real horror, the more people can give the middle finger to this stupid ideology
@@fishingmasterstudios9481 Simple History's doing good job u know : )
@@rooseveltingudam6354 yep it is and many other channels as well
@@fishingmasterstudios9481 true
@@fishingmasterstudios9481 it'll be very hard to make people understand this , because the USSR was the "victor" , and u know "History is written by victors"
Squid game: You get to pay for college if you risk your life in these dangerous challenges
US army: *Sues Squid Game
USSR: *sues squid game for copyright infringement*
And you don't even get college entirely paid for.
Hooah
@@Marinealver post 911 GI bill bruh I get paid an extra grand almost a month cash for.my.housing.cost if youre a vet get in touch with the dav they will show you to $ and your degree hooah you just got to show up or.log.in to class hooah get in there troop
Everyone talks about Hitler but not enough about Stalin.
"we were forced to literally fucking kill each other"
"Oh wow just like Squid Game!"
“Oh yeah and we got a cash prize at the end too”
@@klm9440 U don't have cash prize in the USSR man
@@tientrinh8184
sar·casm
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noun
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
Would anyone else be interested in learning how the us army was organized in ww2 such as how the regular army, the reserves,the national guard, and the army of the United States (draftees and enlisted during the war) were originally formed and how they worked in ww2?
There is a channel called Battle Order which does stuff like this. I'd go to then with this idea. Simple History is more for telling tales rather than as a in depth documentary.
It is interesting as everyone became "Active Duty" and the State Guard is what replaced the National Guard for the time being. It's why the National Guard has more Medal of Honor than any other component of the Army thanks to units like the 28th, 29th, 30th, and 36th ID who were some of the most engaged and ferocious units of the Army. The State Guard is the most unknown components as they are a government militia more or less.
@@jamalwilburn228 Quite right, also The Chieftain has a good video on it.
@@jamalwilburn228 ah my brother you know well. Then again were all sweet home alabama so sup bruders!
1:45 it simply baffles me that there's people so down into fighting fascism while defending this.
Communism and socialism doesn't equal autoritarian state. It just happened to be like that in history. This said, those are terribly stupid ideas which would work only in an utopian world
The only reason I'd root for the Soviet Union in WWII is because Hitler wanted to kill *all* of them. Every other time, the USSR can go hang out to dry.
@@Thepietro5000pp they are separated concepts but a planned economy requires either utopian levels of altruism or authoritarianism to ensure its structure.
@@Thepietro5000pp it inherently does though, a there's no way to redistribute wealth or seize production without an authoritarian state
@@imyourdaddy5822 you can also have a country who entirely believes in the idea and is 100% altruistic. Yet, this is impossible. Which I stated in the first comment
Well, that's a happy way to start my Sunday.
The winner got chicken dinner.
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This isn’t even a resemblance of a Squid game, because these people were only fighting for survival on that island. Those fictional characters in the Squid game were fighting for prize money (with survival just being the topping of their goals).
Ikr the click bait lmao
For the views yknow
Lord of the Flies is a better comparison
Calm down! It just a click bait! Don’t get serious, lmao
but more like battle royale
Nerds: OMG squid games is such a perfect commentary on capitalism!
the communist party: yes....on capitalism. *slinks away while whistling*
Nah it just show everyone is just a acchole to each other in the name of survival to the fitness
@@jrickducking6685 yes fitness
@@manstermanman08
in our today society most couch people will not make the cut that include me
@@jrickducking6685 *fitness*
To me it just shows that human life is priceless and no one deserves to end a human life over a social construct
That thumbnail is actually terrifying…
Koushun Takami had the best Battle Royale imo.(best fictional anyways)
When you get vote to kicked just for saying "this game needs an update"
I guess the saying "The Strong Eats the Weak" really embeds it self in ur mind
But what about parasites?
This sounds like your average Rimworld let's play
Stalin: hears about squid game
Stalin: "hey I've got an idea"
Stalin OG he read battle royal first
I would just like to point to a historical mistake in the animation.
Shoulder pads were abolished in Russia after 1917, and were not re-introduced before 1943 for both civil and military ranks. Instead, ranks were denoted with gorget patches, in the similar way as the Italian Army uses them.
Epaulettes are the name for the shoulder pads btw (if you didnt know)
@@agentgamingchannel. No. Epaulettes are completely different in appearance and history. They look like this: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D._Lu%C3%ADs_I_-_escola_portuguesa.png
@@agentgamingchannel. I believe what he's referring to are shoulder marks
Damn! This tragedy makes the Hunger Games look calm
But why though? Like, after every sentence the guy in this video says, my brain went "WHY?"
MrBeast: *hosts a UA-camr battle royale*
Stalin: amateurs.
Life was miserable in Soviet union, sadly it still existed after the great war.
Would you rather the Nazis had won? Their plans for Eastern Europe with Generalplan Ost would have eventually resulted in 100+ million people dying over 20 yrs if put into action.
Ask some old guy in russia about how was his life in soviet union and he will say it was great.
@Algotnis everything.. It's literally a response
@@Barabel22 the Great War was ww1
@Algotnis... The one guy.. Wanted it to not exist after ww2.. Wich only possibly would have happened by german victory in ww2
I like how the song is genuinely positive across the video.
Crazy to think that someone actually thought this might be possible way to start a settlement somewhere.
"The director of _Squid Game_ said it's about capitalism, you can't compare it to communism!"
Virgin Director vs. Chad Historian
You can criticize capitalism and also criticize the authoritarianism of the Soviet Union. These things are not mutually exclusive.
@@Camilothegodfather This. There's a huge difference between tankies and the rest of the left.
You know their are pro socialist historians right?
@@dmanjones7946 The "rest of the left" consigns itself to an eternal betrayal of its own making as it supports policies and movements which inevitably turn authoritarian. There is always a peculiar alliance between them and power-hungry elites, even as they vocally denounce said elites.
@@joseph_bunnyman318 Ah yes USSR Democracy you can vote for who ever you wanted as long as the candidates were pre approved by the one and only party allowed in the country.
The animation is incredible (but kind of funny), but the reality of it and the narration, music is like a literal horror movie. When you take in what actually happened this is absolutely demented and unimaginable.
"Real communism has never been tried"
"Capitalism kills more by the way"
@@seneschalorcberg1338 "Yeah sure USSR did something but America..."
@@seneschalorcberg1338 Well, communism is younger than capitalism...... So it makes sense if capitalism kills more.
@@lukayaroslav9914 Yeah, that makes sense.
Communism has been tried but not achieved as it is impossible to do so. But that does not mean we should just twist its definition. Communism still refers to a stateless classless moneyless society which is why it does not work.
The origins of black Friday.
"Squid game" "Inspired by real events"
Oh dip yea! I've read this on a horrible history book. It's great to see it being animated and placed into a spotlight
Comparing a gulag camp to a Netflix show, we reached peak simple history.
Netflix show, stripped of all your possessions and forced to fight for survival.
USSR gulag, stripped of all your posessions and forced to fight for survival