How Did the Soviet Union Begin?
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A century ago, communism rose, but how exactly did the USSR begin in the first place? What events led to the rise of the Soviet Union?
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I like to imagine there's a village somewhere in the middle of Siberia that still thinks the monarchy is still in power
Demond Wilson I believe there are. I'm certain there were such villages during the Space Race.
There are. Some people fled procecution due to religious disgreement (look up "old belivers Orthodoxy") and as late as 1970 they have been seen around in siberia living as nomads.
some parts of it are so remote, that I wouldn't be surprised.
For a village somewhere in the middle of Siberia it wouldn't really matter anyway. They've got their own things to worry about one way or another. Doesn't matter if it's a Tsar or a """""President""""" pulling the strings.
I know that it's meant to be a joke but that was a genuine issue with the bolsheviks consolidating power because while Petrograd had been overtaken twice, there were still community leaders in remote areas put in power to be a puppet to the Tzar. It's also why the Civil war was bloody as it was because no longer was the revolution confined only to the city, it was now country-wide and both the Red and While army had to employ terror in these rural areas so their ideology could spread.
"So he was killed" is probably the most anti-climactic description of Rasputin's death I've ever heard.
God, I know right? The effort it took to kill Rasputin is a story all on its lonesome.
The details are amusing, but irrelevant.
seigeengine: I mean, I would have appreciated at least a, "Thoroughly" added to the end of the phrase. xD
I don't really ever see what relevance Rasputin had in regards to the revolution. Only ever feels like a side drama told to keep the real discussion about the revolution that bit further from the masses.
Cosmos Comrade of 1984 it makes for a great musical.
In Soviet Russia, revolution revolts against revolution..
Great video as always!
in other words: _a series of unfortunate events_
History With Hilbert in another words communism never existed
History With Hilbert hi there Hilbert!
omg hilbert i like ur vids :)
That moment you realise they both made video's about this topic in a short time
Soviet Union lasted from 1922 to 1991.thats 69 Years.
NICE
Nice
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Michael Schuster it really started in 1917 but to just say it
NICE
@@Someone-ji2gm he mean (i guess) the soviet union, the full one (СССР) in 1917 was the RSFSR
If You Google It It says That. Nice
In america, you find the party.
*_In soviet russia, the Party finds you._*
👍
literally a stolen comment LMAO
real
Man its really fact :D
bee In nowhere, you get to choose the individual ideas you want to support. Everywhere, you are not guaranteed that what you voted for originally will come true. Just look at Communist Russia and how it became corrupt.
In America you have the right to bear arms.
IN MOTHER RUSSIA YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO ARM BEARS.
In Soviet Russia, you rob bank
In capitalist America, bank robs you
Gameman659 but there's a lot bank robberies in america
red baron lol!!!!!!!!
thes e died in 2005
They come back in time as we speak.
Anyone else realize that the colors of the McDonalds logo are *RED* and *YELLOW* ?
makes me hungry heh heh thats a luxury
Radical Junior every noticed that the kfc logo is red white and black AND there rivals are Mac Donald’s
...mr why not,
Germany’s flag during WW2 (edit: scrap that they’re flag was red black and white during ww1
, in WW2 it was only red and black)was red, black, and white
The USSRs flag is gold and red,
And they’re rivals
Does that mean Germany and the USSR are still at war?
DOES THAT MEAN AMERICA IS A JOINT MONARCHY AND COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP?
Nah I’m just kidding.
@@thelastpewdiepiesupporter375 The Wermechts flag was red black and white. Depending on the year even flags of the Nazi Party were red white and black. Their are even a few party flags with dark royal blue as the outline.
COMMIES everywhere!
Some guy said: "sharing is caring"
And then proceeded not to share
-Karl Marx
And that was me
Sharing is caring until the guy doing the sharing is a dictator.
@@CBFan5000 and kill anyone who didn't want to "share" with him.
I like to imagine there’s a village somewhere in Siberia that still thinks the monarchy is going.
I stole the top comment, because it is ours.
You managed to make a repost a funny joke. I applaud you.
1945 Soviet Union anthem: *intensifies*
ROSILLA SVISCHEYA
*cough cough* mine* *cough*
@@Buvucyxfubvydrztcib i don't get it...🤔
How did the Soviet Union begin? Easy:
With thunderous applause.
it ended the same way
Yo this is so true
The applause kept going and getting quieter as the people died due to socialism leading to communism.
@@idget5 It was dictatorship...
Nazism also.
In capitalist America, you could always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The party always finds YOU.
ironically, America is a two-party system
It is a system that favours two big parties not a two party system only, big difference
Herr Kaese_Kuchen that is partly Americans own fault. I remember how people complained last election and when I told them to vote for somebody else I got "No... They won't win anyways" when you treat politics the same way you do a bet on a football game no wonder this is how it turned out.
matte drey the First-Past-The-Post system will always, inevitably, result in a two-party state. Be it intentional or not, for all intents and purposes the US is a two-party state.
Yeah. I'm sick of this current system. My parents and I went to vote in this election, and the three of us all voted for different people. My mom voted for Trump because she didn't want Hillary. I did the opposite and my dad voted third party. I hate being in the situation feeling like I have to vote for someone I don't like to keep someone I like less out of office, and the way that the current system works, it makes me feel like my vote doesn't matter much. I feel like things will change in the future, but for now, this system just feels broken.
...There was a great logical discussion in the comment section where we all acted like normal level-headed adults. Of course, this would never truly happen in our timeline, but it's fun to theorize...
Covfefe The IV dreams....
blasphemy!
king A lol
NewPaulActs17 lol
I dunno, I mean it's no great logical discussion but it isn't vitriolic either. It's mostly just memes.
2:10
Wait. Is Jacksepticeye a 19th century Russian revolutionary?
Jacksovieteye
I knew it!!!!
GLORY GREATEST COUNTRY!
Winston Churchill
What are you talking about?
Yes he is
I'm glad foreigners are interested in our history. It really means a lot, guys :)
who wouldnt be intrested in russians history!!!
Did you know that Stalin was actually Georgian? His real name is Ioseb Jugashvili. Stal (Russian) means steel in english. He was called Stalin later.
Stupid
@@thuglifesociety3416 he is right. A 3 second google search will tell you that
Unrelated, but WHY do so many people seem to have the same profile pic you have?
🇬🇪hell yeah he was a qartvevli 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
Mem3 it was a meme and I never bothered to change it afterwards
I can't believe I had to watch a 9 minute ad about the Bolshevik Revolution just to see a 1 minute video about the Great Courses Plus...
This is not an ad it is a retelling of what modern historians have put together from the sources available from that time period though be it not 100% accurate.
matte drey He was joking 😂
I like to believe that he was one of what I like to call the "deep shit." He actually believes that this was an ad for the Bolshevik revolution, and the Great Courses Plus was the real content.
That would make me happy.
Wait, you mean that stuff about Lenin and Rasputin was what people actually came here to watch?! Like, for fun?
I was interested in knowing how Cody learns stuff for his videos, but I guess I'm in the minority...
Sorry to say, dude.
I think it had something to do with Vodka, Lenin and a bear but I'm not too sure, I'll check up with you on that later.
Hey stop giving me shite luck.
Im pretty sure it was "linen", but I might have just misheard.
Álvaro Lopes you forget the magic wizard I think his name was Rasputun. He had something do with it right?
Oh, you're the victim of poor stereotypes)
Álvaro Lopes you know too much go to gulag
Loved the video as I usually do. One small correction towards the end. Lenin's testament was kept a secret by his wife, Krupskaya, and only presented after Lenin's death. Stalin and his allies (Kamenev and Zinoviev) freaked out, but they ultimately found a way to have released uncensored but in a staggered and limited way which allowed Stalin to keep power.
Also, Lenin wasn't the one to choose his heir.
Lenin left no testament, it was created by Trotsky
Lenin left no testament, Lenin naturally favoured Stalin as he was right-hand man. As for Kamenev and Zinoviev, they were Trotskyist traitors, and got what they deserved. Bukharin was the ally of Stalin but he was also a revisionist so he also got what he deserved.
Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen!
Edit: Thanks for 500 likes
There was a cat that really was gone!
Ra ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine!
IT WAS A SHAME HOW HE CARRIED ON!
THEY PUT SOME POISON INTO HIS WINE
H E D R A N K I T A L L A N D S A I D I F E E L F I N E
*rants about no mention of separate revolutions within Ukraine, Transcaucasus, RSFSR, and no mention of the New Economic Policy, nor the Allied Interventions (small, but more importantly notable) in the Civil War* Okay, I'm mostly nitpicking, but still :P those details help explain some key issues with how Soviet society, government and worldviews were structured :)
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archlinuxrussian r/iamverysmart
I agree. The video is oversimplified and incomplete.
It sounds like you have an intimate knowledge of the subject. Maybe you should make a video yourself!
bulletfreak I believe that state and revolution was not revisionist, although I hundred percent agree that Marxism-leninism is a revisionist abomination
1:00 the fawlt in our tsars?
Alpha Beta 🤣🤣🤣
solute commrads!
*claping*
Nice one.
Alpha Beta
If we’re making puns now, Soviet.
what's up comrades
off to the gulags
How Did the Soviet Union Begin?
it was a series of unfortunate events...
Send the Kulaks to Gulag.
To Tsar´s gulag or Soviet gulag??
I heard it's nice there this time of year.
Better dead than red
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CrazyGaming Tsar made 555 accounts to dislike this
CrazyGaming I'm not a sellout
Joseph Stalin hello Papa
Monsieur Z
OMFG ITS HIM
I had to laugh when Rasputin’s death was described so simply. That guy may have been of the most resilient people I’ve ever heard of.
How did the Soviet Union begin?
I don't know, that's why I clicked on this video
SpringBoob For Life they left out a whole bunch of stuff. (Mainly cause of bias but whatever) the green army, white terror, the kulaks burning their own food supply that lead to starvation. But hey history is written by the victor right?
There was also the pink army, the yellow army, the brown army, the sequins army, the too-cool-for-school army, the people's army, the rich people's army, the fire brigade (unrelated), and the seven nations army.
And also, who really won in the USSR? The rich got killed, the poor got the system that overthrew the rich taken away from them just as social reforms were a thing, the church feel from power, the church regained power, and the only person who seems to have come out on top (albeit missing a shirt) is Putin.
SpringBoob For Life I do I just want to watch
RA RA RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN
IT WAS A SHAME HOW HE CARRIED ON
THERE WAS A CAT THAT REALLY WAS GONE
He filthy bastard! She is quite literally a saint!
Their son was dying; no one could help, so they got desperate that is all.
Darken De la Espada she believed he was a magic healer who would heal her son
Hurp Durp
Ra Ra Rasputin , Russia 's greatest love machine
02:09 I didn't know Jacksepticeye was also a revolutionary
Lol i thought the same thing 😂
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It started when one Russian Man shared its vodka to another Russian Man
...
...Then it spread everywhere, that was the start of the Soviet Union.
"Soldiers were frustrated... or dead." LMAO
In Capitalist America bank rob you. In Soviet Russia you rob bank.
ehm, no you don't
No in capitalist America bank rob you. In soviet Russia every one rob you
*Conservative America
In Capitalist America, bank take some of your money. In Soviet Russia, bank take all of your money.
“His name was Rasputin”
...
*RA-RA-RASPUTIN*
No
UA-cam Demonetisation thank you for being 2 years late
_LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN_
@@Naomi-bs9bh THERE WAS A CAT THAT REALLY WAS GONE
Well, ok, you told us how the RSFSR begins, but not the USSR... Damn, why all Yankees think that USSR and Russia are the same?
Yes. It's called the Soviet UNION for a reason.
Oles Drow most modern post soviet nations were in the empire
@@formeraccount1529 Yes. But after empire collapsed, they all get independent: Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Belarus and exedra. If you're talking about USSR, but not only RSFSR, you must say at least about Ukraine (USSR), Belarus (BSSR) and Caucas (CSSR), which where founders of the union. Otherwise, it's like talking about the EU, saying only about Germany, or France.
They are the same
@@damianlillard2333 Nearly as same as USA and NATO
The success of Stalin - the man who used to boast that he conquered the United States "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as thorough proof with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself
Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows:
'At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. ' (Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death)
By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it!
In America you watch the TV.
In Soviet Union, the TV watches you.
Devin Rai Now in America, tv watch you.
This...this is just old
Thats(Cough)a(Cough)dislike(cough)
You missed out on kerensky, but fair play to you, you summed up 20 years of history in 8 mins really well. Keep up the good work :)
How can you not pronounce Aleksandr?
Because Anglophones are lazy and incompetent when it comes to language.
He can pronounce imperator aleksandrs name tho
MrWheelman82
Wow. As if Francophones or Hispanophones are any better.
GopnikRaptor It’s spelled Alexander Here. Aleksandr looks like an odd foreign name, and we assume it’s probably pronounced differently.
It’s literally just Alexander, fair enough in Cyrillic it would be written ‘Александр’ but when you stranslate it to the Latin alphabet it’s pretty much Alexander speller phonetically...
Well you forgot to mention that the Soviets were a LOT more liberal and "democratic" than the imperialists. And this is not just pro Soviet propaganda these are actual facts. Would have been great if you mentioned it and not demonised any of the sides.
Exactly. Before the USSR, imperial Russia was extremely backwards compared to Europe. When the Soviets took over, literacy rates and living conditions significant improved.
And now, after the so-called "Triumph of Democracy", living conditions in Russian and most other post-Soviet states have fallen significantly since the collapse of the USSR.
Yet you conveniently don't hear that ever being mentioned because it makes capitalism look bad.
Serbia: Help! The Germans are coming!
Russia: Hold my vodka.
Flamer stfu Serbia was in Yugoslavia bitch
*overwhelming Soviet anthem*
I've been asking nonstop for a Mexico-centric video.
Once we were a country whose youth aimed to communism, and was punished severly by the government in a massacre.
Trotsky came to live in Mexico after his exile. He was great friends with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and lived with them a while.
Peter Naranjo true
Yeah, and then his Mexican gardener shoved a mountain climbing pick into his skull.
Peter Naranjo he also kinda fucked Frida on a daily
Rasputin: mentioned
Everyone else: RAA RAA RASPUTIN LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN
Everything happening this year goes all the way to this
Hold up was stalin SMILING!?
да he was
When is he not
With more Vodka than they know what to do with
CHEEKI BREEKI🍾🍾🍾
You should really have mentioned that the democratically elected body he overthrew was run by an agrarian socialist party, and mention how Lenin dissolved the duma and kicked out all the parties other than his own. They just weren't some arisocracy, it was a fragile young democracy lead by a genuine leader whose primary platform was seizing the land of aristocrats and distributing it to the peasantry.
Erik Nielsen kerensky was an incompetemt pro-war dickhead tho
One thing that is very interesting about the Russian revolution and what makes it truly distinct from the coups and uprisings of the past, with the various proto kings and princes vying for power is that Lenin abolished the nobility and introduced a universal election system, of course with him having the ability to nominate all of the candidates to be presented for election. This was new, previously, almost all countries in the world had an elite class that was very stagnant, you could not change ranks. In the Soviet Union, you could. There was the small chance that you could rise up to become a party secretary from a common bank robber (Stalin included). This isn't as good as it sounds. It meant that the party loyalists were much more attached to the leader than before. You could be replaced pretty easily, any adult of decent competence could replace you, no need for the leader to pick from a few noble families. The mass purges of Stalin could never have happened without this.
Torma25 Not as bad as a dictator who wanted to ban all the opposition parties.
Robert Jarman This is a very good point and it shows the instability of the soviet system. Centralizing power lile that is extremely unstable. Instead you need a balance between different stakeholders in society and ensure that no one group dominates.
Erik Nielsen centralized direct democracy can be very effective. I also think it is the best way of representing the public desire, by them directly representing themselves.
EITHOPIA VIDEOOOOO
Steve Mcman it's about he make that video.
what?
Wrong channel. You're looking for iSorrowProductions.
dude, don't even bother! this channel is complite shit! and discostingly inacurate to the point of right out propaganda! Ethiopia deserves much better then this shit. i recommend you do so wiki research yourself.
>be Blob Dragon, 2017
>claim channel is inaccurate
>tell person to look for information on wikipedia
I recommend you to put subtitles ✨
there are none
@7:55 this is not exactly what happened. It's true that it was not shown to Congress, but the testament was read to the higher leadership. This included some members of the politburo and other high ranking leaders like Kaminev {hope I spelled that correctly}, Zinoviev and even Trotsky. The testament called for several people (don't remember if Trotsky was to be removed as well) to be removed from their positions, and many of them were very powerful like Stalin. Stalin wasnt singled out by Lenin nor did Stalin hide the testament. The leadership of the USSR did that, because they wanted to keep their careers and if Trotsky said anything about it, the Politburo would have been against him, since Trotsky would have been asking for the resignation of the most powerful people in the USSR. Ironically, this was part of the reason he was isolated by the rest of the party as the power struggle continued. Everyone had an interest in making Trotsky seem like an enemy of Lenin, since his resignation wasn't called for (explicitly or strongly I'm not sure) plus he controlled the army and this made people wary of him. It had more to do with corruption than Stalin, although he came out on top, because he was in such a position where he had a lot of power without it being noticeable, since he was a bad speaker unlike Trotsky who intimidated people. (for instance, among Stalin's many titles and hats, he was an anti corruption officer, but he looked the other way at times to gain allies).
Ahh another good video
Stalin You traitor!!
Stalin why did you hide the document?
Oh my God this is hilarious!!!! Who's the real Stalin?!?!?!
Headshot
your a capitalist pig, because communist pig doesnt work
One small correction. According to the Great War channel, the Czar didnt actually take command of the army in ww1. He only announced that he did, but then he largely stayed out of the decision making process. This was still a mistake though, since russian failures were blamed on the czar, thus further tarnishing his image.
This video omits all sorts of things. Like how the Tsar went back on his word and tried to destroy the political power of the socialists who made a compromise with the Nicholas II, leaving the radical communist Bolsheviks to be seen as the only credible alternative to opposing the Tsar. Not to mention all of the foreign influence (mostly from the UK and USA and other pro-royalist nations) on the creation and arming of the "White Army". It was the Reds who pulled Russia out of WW1 citing that it was a war of imperialists who saw it more as a chess game while millions of the poor were butchered brutally for their amusement, which is largely true considering how the Hapsburgs of Austria, the Bismarks of Germany, the Windsors of Britain, the Romanovs of Russia where all related. Even during the war they would still have tea with one another and bemuse their own nations military victories and losses at the hands of their cousins. To them, it was merely a game.
Btw Aleksey was the only son of Nickolas II. The Tsar also had 5 daughters. Aleksey had haemophilia and Rasputin was somehow capable of healing Aleksey's scratches and wounds. That's why he was so important to the royal family.
3:11 “war with Japan, the causes of which are not important”
Japan wanted to invade Korea and he got it
He also wanted to claim land west of Korea but Russia was building something there
Russia got angry at Japan and declared war
Russia lost
@پیر الکساندر خان Yep, they were starting to get militaristic at the time.
Past me got the info from "history of japan" by Bill Wurtz, which isn't exactly... detailed on the subject.
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Idea for an alternate history episode. What if Trotsky had been in charge??
Anthony Winship he actually made one where Trotsky became leader and ww2 was the West vs the USSR due to Trotsky funding revolutionaries
Another idea, what if Mikhail Frunze became the leader?
In the best case scenario there would have been no WWII because workers would have take power over all Europe, then the world. But even with Stalin out of the portrait, the bureaucracy was still rampant in USSR.
a timeline at the bottom of the screen would be extremely helpful to imagine the event in time, pleae consider ;)
It's January of 2022 and we're almost definitely going to hit 8 billion this year.
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You didn't mention that the czardom wans't always entirely centralized. It had been a more divided monarchy (like seen in the rule of the Norman dynasty in England in a much earlier time) but I suppose it's a little out of the scope of the video. Good job as always.
Next video: Why is the russian anthem so blyatiful?
ho shit sherlock
Reah, like ro shit, raggy
Unfunny
The Russian Empire lasted from 1721 to 1917. The Russian Empire extended from Europe and Asia and extended to Alaska, which is a part of North America.
I fill like your videos are 10x more interesting just because of Cody’s voice. It’s so soothing.
is that why Heavy from tf2 calls his gun Sasha, DOES THAT MEAN HEAVY IS GAY WITH A GUN
"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back, has no brain" ~ Vladimir Putin
Just hope Russia picks a better leader in 2018 elections.
Just hope its Putin again. If he will still run.
BOB more putin better russia
put in russia
He is running, it is confirmed comrade. Slava Putin.
please no more Putin he scares the shit out of me.
Evan Bogle: why ? im in africa and i honestly prefer russia & putin over usa/trumpy any day
Lenin's testament wasn't read because it was damning to Trotsky ironically
Trotsky was actually MORE authoritarian than any of the other Bolsheviks. He called for putting hot irons in the spines of Kulaks, the banning of factions, etc. The moment he was outmanuevered by Stalin and the rest of the Bolsheviks (Trotsky himself supported Stalin in the begining oddly enough lol!), he immediately called for the allowing of factions, and became a die hard democrat. Trotsky was only interested in power for himself
Honestly, Lenin avenging his dead big brother is a better revenge story than in most movies
This was far from your best. You never even explained what a Soviet WAS! How can one understand what the Soviet Union was intended to be at its inception if one has no knowledge of what the first word even means? Soviets were councils of workers and soldiers who were elected to represent those workers and soldiers, first in opposition to the Tsar, then to the Provisional Government, and finally as the engines that drove the October Revolution and then organized the new Russian state.
I understand that the goal here was to share the basics of this monumentally important event (from precisely a century ago) as quickly as possible, but how can you share the key points when you neglect actually explain those basics? You should have mentioned, for example, that Lenin was purposefully sent back to Russia to take up his key role in the Revolution by the German Empire in the hopes of knocking the Russians out of World War I?
Also glosses over way too much, for example, this video implies that the whites were just this diverse faction of nice liberals that disagreed with socialists, not a fanatical proto-fascist far-right genocidal movement that literally started the civil war by massacring minorities and Jews.
Also the events between Feb-October are way too important to be glossed over in 30 seconds. Lenin was sent back much earlier (April I believe) and actually wasn't that popular within the Bolsheviks, he was considered a delusional anarchist by much of the Bolsheviks for the April Thesis and is extreme anti-imperialist stance. The way Lenin rose to power is an astonishing story from a fringe Bolshevik to the countries leader.
Also ignores the fight between the Soviet and Provisional Government, the fact the Provisional Government had basically no support, and the Kerensky offensive which basically sealed the Provisional Government's fate. Also the race to power between the Soviets and Proto-Fascist groups that would make up the core of the Whites.
KironVB found the commie
Well if you care so much about it then make your own damn video
Honestly your not wrong, he could’ve explained what a Soviet was way better than he did, but that wasn’t the point of the video. The point of the video was to tell us how the Soviet Union started, and the events leading up to it. It was not meant to tell us the ideals and what it was.
He tamed the Soviet Union down a little. He could have went further in history to WW2. After the war, east and west Germany were divided, Berlin was "neutral". The Soviets then set up a razor fence, and then the wall after thousands tried to flee to the west. US and Britain had to airlift food to people on the eastern side. Half of East Europe was under soviet control, many fled Russia, then in 1989 the wall tumbled.
When you have two diamonds and your friend has 4:
"We need communism."
no mention of Ukraine -9999999999999/10
The whole video is a lie. It calls "USSR begin", but actually it shows the RSFSR begins
I know it's just a general summary and all but you can't just gloss over the entire Russian Civil War as well as the subsequent invasion of Poland and the Baltics like that. These were _extremely_ important events in the formation of the Soviet Union: during the former the Bolshevist regime was literally on the brink of collapse and it was only due to Denikin's failure to recognize an independent Polish state that they eventually managed to triumph over the Whites and during the latter, the Soviets were this close to engulf the entirery of Eastern Europe as well as Germany.
this was so concise but I learned alot in that 10 minutes. THANK YOU SIR
Papa, I'm so cold and hungry
*SUCH IS LIFE IN THE ZONE*
By order of comrade Stalin you are to immediately pin this comment failure to do so will result in being sent to the gulag
I think he was sent to a gulag.
3 days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine and trying to educate myself....this whole situation is so heartbreaking
*>Plots to assassinate the tsar*
*>Gets caught*
*>Refuses to take a lighter punishment*
*>Gets executed for treason*
Shocked pikachu face
The video would be better if you explained how the revolution and civil war led to the non-Russian SSRs as well.
So in theory, since there was a lot of inbreeding between the royal families of Europe and even though all of the royal family was executed in Russia shouldn't there still be a living heir?
You don't have to look for a foreign Royal Family. The current cliamant to the Russian Throne is the great-great-granddaughter of Alexander II, Maria Vladimirovna.
theokchannel There are a few claimants.Though the Russian Monarchist Party supports the claim of Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen, the grandson of Maria Kirillovna.
In soviet Russia, the video likes you
Stalin sure had a bone to PICK with Trotsky.
Eh? Too soon?
Green Mario Better keep that one on ice comrade
I wish all historians would start referring to the Soviet Union as just that, or what it was in the time of the czars and not Russia. Russia is a state. Sometimes they spew out something that happened in another state but still refer to it as Russia over all. Since I was a kid that had urked me. That's like referring to California as Washington D.C.
4:47 "-so he was killed-
Rasputin: I don't think so
This guy is gonna have to make a part 2 with the Ukraine situation
It's because the romanovs didn't wanna share their vodka
The Russians have only ever experienced two small windows of relative freedom, 1917-1924 and 1991-2000.
Oh, yeah, when Russia is on fire and completely destroyed, then Americans think that it's the best time
Yes..I love learning history on the Soviet Union for some reason
How did the Soviet Union begin?
Four words:
*Then things got worse*
Ra ra Rasputin. . .
Biji
Russia's greatest love machine
There was a cat that really was gone
Wait shit wrong line!
Stalin your suppose to be like Lenin!
A tsar is the same thing as an emperor.
You guys should do "What if Trotsky ruled the Soviet Union instead of Stalin" on your Alternate History channel!
This is now *OUR* video
short answer: 28 December 1922
long answer: WATCH THE VID
Zaxon 28th *
google is allwayscorrect
allways trust Wikipedia...
Or read the history Russian revolution by Trosky...
The Soviet succession is described incorrectly. First of all, Lenin appointed Stalin to the GS of the party implying he had broad approval of his way of doing things. Second, it’s likely Lenin’s last testament is a forgery by his wife looking to stop Stalin. Third, If Stalin was only obsessed with power, he wouldn’t have dropped his education to go underground for twenty years in a revolutionary cause unlikely to succeed.
This false history of the Soviet succession serves two purposes. First, it was useful to bitter Trotskyists who think he was robbed and second, it allows the modern left to disavow Stalin as a reactionary and not truly of the left.
So beautiful it makes me want to cry...
shut yo sensitive mouth up
never mind, i just cried
This sounds like an Anime with each season being focused on a specific thing with next being a follow up on the previous unlit it came full circle
Yo you just hit me in my obsession I will probably go take a look at Great Courses Plus
You hardly went over the Hilarious story of how Rasputin was killed 🤣