What Happened to The Eastern Bloc After Soviet Collapse? | Animated History
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Now that's a lot of sponsors.
Griffin is going to start making videos with blackface
I have a request , Can you please make videos on greats like Caesar and Napoleon . And some on military strategy
I hope you don’t give into leftist's revisionist when they criticize your video.
I understand that Bulgaria didn't have a sparky and flashy civil war, but i would've liked to see them get the spotlight. Seeing as how their country's former communist security services (like most other former soviet states) really still rule the country to this day.
Bulgaria's worst time was 90s early 2000s bcs after one regime was changed with another the country fell apart not being ready for that, the mafia took all after that until nowadays and they still rule and dont care about the mass protests, they do oppressions occasionally
My thoughts exactly - we're still being ruled in a see-saw pattern between the children and grandchildren of the same people who had the power during the communist era, and their bodyguards...
Same in Romania
Nothing flashy about war
Also the Macedonia problem
It's insane how much more intricate the animations got between now and just a year ago. Well done.
@Austrian Painter ur last fight, Austrian painter, was with cyanide pill
Great video. It would be interesting to see a part 2 on how the collapse of the Soviet Union had an effect on former states in Central Asia such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan etc.
Easy: Because of their immense potential in natural gas reserves, the US hurried and made alliances with them but the only way to get this gas to international markets easily was a pipeline through Afghanistan. The US started to negotiate with the Taliban in the name of the company Unocal for the rights to the pipeline. Originally the Taliban had agreed but suddenly, they decided they were not getting enough in that deal so they asked for way more, too much for the US hence the 2001 invasion and the subsequent war that lasted 20 years, Bin Laden only became part of deal later.
Therefore, those states were the cause of the war in Afghanistan! : )
It seems that the Caucus States became embroiled in ethnic conflict; no genocides, but a Russian invasion of and a couple of wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Georgia had a peaceful revolution to improve ties with Western European powers, and the quality of life and governance has improved.
As for Central Asia, Belarus-style dictatorship have taken over excepting Kyrgyzstan, but Kazakhstan is showing some cracks in the old dictatorial system. No major ethnic conflicts have broken out into war, at least not within the boundaries of the former Soviet Union. Pakistan, India, China, Russia, and the U.S.A. were all in a position to compete for influence in the region, but I'm not sure who's winning where.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline
@@rosesprog1722 your theory conveniently omits September 11th. When your theory has such a major omission perhaps you should rethink your theory? Maybe, or maybe easier to believe a lazy conspiracy?
@@alphasurge Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, the US government used that event to settle affairs unrelated to this horrific event. If you want to know who did 9/11 ask yourself who would have advantage to have Arabs blamed for that event and to have Iraq neutralized. Just look into Operation Opera, also known as Operation Babylon. By the way, most of the supposed hijackers were Saoudis, why didn't the US attack them instead?
@@rosesprog1722 I like your points several are thought out. Iraq I would agree with you but Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden based in Afghanistan admitted that Al Qaida (who were being hosted in Afghanistan) performed 9-11. He admitted it, the Taliban refused to stop hosting and hand over the self admitted perpetrators.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_September_11_attacks#:~:text=On%20February%2011%2C%202003%2C%20Al,direct%20link%20to%20the%20attacks.
There are hundreds of sources stating who performed 9-11 not least from the black boxes. But the audiotape by OBL admitted 9-11 and he never denounced this audiotape as a forgery and Al Qaida has never distanced itself from it.
Saudi Arabia also agreed to superficially co-operate with the west and stop exporting terrorism. Agreed though Saudi Arabia has a case to answer for numerous abuses but these are in addition to and distinct from those of Afghanistan.
Love the detail that the Romanian soldiers have "G" model AKs, also known as "Romanian dongs". Great video as always!!
I also noticed. The animators did there research
I love dongs, they are versatile, many different ways to grip, they let you control your shot well, and are overall just amazing.
@@mpondachongo1138 Not only animators
I loved that detail too!
And i do like the wooden dongs on the Romanian AKs
@@sourrrrrrrr altough thei main disvantage was you can't strap a GP Underbarrel grenade laucher, but you can ditatch and switch with a standard AK handguard
This video started out as a casual history video, then it evolved into a dark report of what led to current events. Good job as always
I mean, isn't that what all of history really is? How did humanity get from Point A (then) to Point B (now)?
as long as you realize this video is a summation of the West's justification to achieve hegemony over Russia.
so it's not actual history.
The shift in tone certainly left an impression!
@@jacob4920 let me rephrase. To put it simply, that got dark-er
Yup
I love this topic, and it’s a shame that it hasn’t been discussed as much as other things. The Armchair Historian has once again delivered valuable historical knowledge!
you are not immune to propaganda
@@delarkaBCN what propaganda?
@@delarkaBCN I mean, nobody is. But I am guessing from your comment you are aiming at something specifically? And that is?
The velvet revolution and the Romanian Revolution were stand outs to me
valuable bias
Great video! Only addition that should’ve definitely been mentioned was The Singing Revolution in the Baltics 1987-91; It was a trigger to the Soviet collapse from the inside as from there on even more separatism took off, and also showed how weak Soviet authority was with not even the ability to suppress people who were just upfront singing banned national songs until independence. There was also the Karabakh conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan that occurred around a year after the Baltic revolution started which also fuelled Soviet collapse.
Otherwise, everything was mentioned and I loved it!
Nice you are here :)
Well the Baltic nations were republics of the Soviet Union not exactly members of the Eastern Bloc
@@cooljackster7390 not to mention that they were illegally annexed into the Soviet Union during World War II
@@souvikrc4499 as were the other eastern bloc countries only difference is the Baltic States became republics of the Soviet Union but the eastern bloc states were their own countries (in name mostly)
Man that's so sad,I miss ussr
Romanian: My grandfather was going to buy groceries that day...he was waiting in the line when shootings started to erupt. He left in panic and dropped his bags - when he got home, my grandmother asked him in an angry tone:
-Where de hell are the bags?? my grandmother said.
-Forget about the stupid bags! They are shooting outside! grandfather said.
I don't know what happened after, but:
I know that my grandfather burned his party id.
When Ceausescu's execution ended and was radioed, my grand-grandmother started to cry. Why? She was actually enjoying her life (maybe because she was living in a village...), by her words:
"I was working on the fields with other villagers, I was getting paid, I was also receiving some crops so I could cook, my house was my house, I was only paying for the medicine...".
This happend the same thing with my father and my aunts and more familiar aparts,the only thing is that the former military Romanian socialist army wasnt forced to fire over the people,its was like an sneaky attack,its wasnt an automic fire over the civilization on the streets (i can say that they were killing them hidden,not in public more). Abt the fire,the gun fires that were happening its were just to keep people back,cuz the civilization democracied were used to use the violence against socialist army,but its a lot of lies thats the thing. Im not an communism,but im gonna say this cuz a lot of people think that in the eastern front people were killed like in China Lmao.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader to be born in the USSR. ie after the Russian empire
-History matter
@@mayogamer2800 hell yeah
Poetically, he was also the last Soviet born leader
He hasn't seen capitalism so that's why he was dumb enough to support it. And now he's scared to appear in Russia cuz 75% of people would kill him with bare hands immediately. This dog lives too long.
Rather the last soviet-born soviet leader
I love the animation style you guys do, it really brings the history to life!
You did a great job of condensing what well could have been a 4-hour mega video event. You can get 40 more detailed shows from this one master. There was SO MUCH happening in that region of the world in such a compact time frame. Good job of hitting the high points.
The wordplay, the background music, the memes and of course telling of the context of history is so well done, I wish you were my history teacher.
As a bulgarian i can say that we basically went "all in" on the capitalism, instead of taking it slow and steady and that lead to both large scale corruption and western companies buying then closing our industries so that they kill the competition.
I think that would still happen if captailism was brought in steadily, because capitalism brings in more corruption and corporatism anywhere
and break up Unions... anything to drive down the value of labour. Same for Yugoslavia. Same for every expansion of the EU
same can be said on Russia under Yeltsin or any eastern block country.
My favourite part is how Bulgarians under US siege cancelled construction of Rosatom nuclear plant and then stopped South stream) nation of wisdom)
Your problem is slavic corruption. You made your own mess
Funny story, when Ceausescu visited Syria he was met with a row of school girls greeting him with flowers. One of those girls was my mother, we joke that her touch was the start of his demise
So he was your father? Got it.
@@RK-cj4oc LOL
Your content is out of control dude, seriously amazing stuff. Crazy that we’re really watching this story continue to unfold today.
This is probably one of the best if not the best documentary about the topic that I've seen. UA-cam is fast becoming the best alternatives for history lovers. And this one is one of my favorite channels. You and your crew put an extraordinary effort into these videos and it tells. Thank you. Keep it on, Armchair Historian!! 😎👍
This video is unique amongst the ones you've made so far. It's very modern so as a random it feels weird to put in retrospect that we are currently at a point where history is currently in the making. It is scary to think about for me. What brought the weight of the situation down for me is the fact that this was a snowball like effect which has lead to the current situation happening right now as I write this comment. In the future I will look back at this and realise: Sheet this happened in my lifetime.
That is exactly what made me become obsessed with learning history in middle school. I still remember hearing the news in the morning at my dad's small apartment as Kosovo officially declared independence in 2008. Only then did I realize that history was being made all around me- it kind of "elevated" my worldview from then on.
Currently Sri Lanka is in a state of anarchy. The Presidential Palace was overrun and occupied. We really be living in some insane history rn
Wat h roses have thorns explains what happened in 2014 including the Odessa massacre
2022 is certainly a very eventful year in the modern era in terms of warfare, however, I feel like the modern events going on right now is just a little step towards something bigger.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” - Ironically, Lenin
"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive"
- Lee Kuan Yew
Let's be honest: the US and China are in essence (for lack of a better term) frenemies.
Politically, the two nations wanna be at each other's throats and maybe begin cutting them to all hell, but economically and culturally (somewhat culturally in the USA anyway) they are dependent on one another to almost the very core. A war done by either one of the two sides would absolutely demolish the other without a single act of military aggression.
No, it’s our burden to bring freedom to China. It’s the only right thing to do. 1.4 Billion humans shouldn’t have to live in a dystopian hell hole
Well china is taking the thrive thing haif
Haif "You're my puppet or be harased"
Haif "You're So agressive!"
@@dulguunjargal1199 nobody nation on this World Are Saint at all,not even Those 5 BIG BOSS In U.N
Those SuperPowers Always Hungry For Powers,Thats Right Im talking bout You too U.S.A and U.K ...Don't just talking like Its just China & Russia the Main Antagonist on this world,Several Dictator Or Most of Dictator on this World Came to Power Under U.S support and those Dictator gonna kill Bunch of innocent lives.See? Nobody Good guy In this World,Not even "Land of freedom" are free from Bad behavior.
Sounds like Mr Yew has never heard of politics
Kudos from Czechia, thanks for interest in our history. Some mistakes though: Our police is "Policie, not policja (sounds balkan). Also, the main reason for the split of Czechoslovakia is to have 2 hockey teams at the world cups and the olympics. When The Czech team is eliminated, we cheer for the Slovak team and vice versa.
Policja je polske slovo, pro americany jsme vsichni stejna banda :D
You gotta be joking, smh
@@john.jai.sullivan not at all, I mean it was a good joke and that's why we had to do it
@ ohhh I was so confused, because I’m learning more about your history. So let me ask you friend? What were the reasons for the split of Czechoslovakia? If you don’t mind.
@@john.jai.sullivan Well, the true reason was, the slovaks were not happy in the union. The country was artificially created without the ppl really knowing how it all hapenned, and we're still like broethers, but if one has the government and the other one has much less ruling power, somebody is unhappy. And you wouldn't want the ppl that are so similar to you be unhappy, so our prime ministers had a chat and announced how we'll split and it was for the better. Sorry for late answer, been on vacation.
Breathtakingly well done video. Thank you for your work, I’ll share it with my friends
8:20 Romanian here. The exccution of the Ceausecu and his wfie Elena are, still to this day, the last death sentence in Romania.
Super based btw, his wife was especially awful
I love that it happened on Christmas morning.
@@SKa-tt9nm What a mo ron you must be to say that... typical western muppet
Don't cry because you were born too late to help tear it down. Smile because you don't have to live under it.
I was born in Lodz Poland in 79.. I still remember those days even though I was a kid.
@@wingedhussar5528 what was it like fi you don’t mind asking
Based
@@damobuns7639bullshit. It took literzly weeks for the UdSSR to fall. If the citizens are happy this would not happen
That's kinda a controversial statement because there are a lot of crypto tankies nowadays.
Thank you for the detailed backstory. it helps connect the things we've heard and seen into a timeline.
As a Romanian I must say that the presentation of the Revolution and the show trial and execution of the Ceaușescu couple was spot on and the animation was incredible
Sure... typical western propaganda on this channel! And Ceaushescu didn't rule for 15 years, as he says, but for 25 or so!
I've been through a majority of the former Yugoslavian countries in the summer of 2018, mostly by van or bus. Would love to see the history covered. Entire villages disappeared, with locals pointing out to places where graves are still discovered today. That, and Sarajevo, where while hiking up the mtn that overlooks the city, where the new gandola and old 1980s Olympic luge track are, we encountered the occasional old spent brass, amongst other things. Bullet holes and remnants still coat the city as a constant reminder.
A lot of rural areas are like this. It's a sad reminder of that time. I'm thankfully young enough that i haven't experienced it but a lot of the war's lingering effects are still felt. Plus it's a reminder of what is to come if current world events go haywire and that we should be prepared for tough times. In this part of the world tough times can exponentially grow into war times if given the right political and geopolitical tensions. And those seem to be becoming rather concerning not too far to the east from us.
I've only been to Croatia and Bosnia, but they were the most amazing countries to visit. Sarajevo is a very beautiful city, so it was such a stark contrast to see the millions of bullet holes that remain in the buildings and the markings of shells-- let alone the massive cemeteries dotted throughout the city. The scars of history in that city are very dramatic, but still it's a very modern and culturally unique city. Never been anywhere quite like it before. Might be my favorite city in Europe.
I'm recently binge-watching your videos. Your narration improved a lot, besting your 4-year-old videos. Im happy that I got a chance to learn history in a fun and engaging way like this.
I just wanna note 2 things:
- the JNA ceased to exist since 1992; the Army of Yugoslavia (VJ) was it's replacement within FR Yugoslavia
- FR Yugo didn't withdraw due to military losses, but general political pressure from bureaucrats and other officials at home. This percieved treason however, as making peace was seen like amongst the Serbs, only led to a revolution down the line instead of appeasment
Don't agree with this as native Croatian ( I have lot of family members who participated in Croatian Homeland war )
@@lolofblitz6468 And I am a Serb so. . .?
What an amazing summary of events. I hope educators use this video to help give context to recent events
If only the Romanian Communist Leaders played Conflict of Nations (which is available for free in the description), they would've crushed the rebellion with little casualties
Indeed
We need more eastern bloc videos. Can't find enough on youtube
no u can find real videos with real sources sonwithout propaganda
Really great video. Nice to have a break from warfare and tackle something slightly different. Always nursed hopes he would do the second part of the life in imperial Japan series from years ago.
Wow, what a somber conclusion... ang great video, as always!
my father (Romanian) was told on the night after the rebelion in timisoara to go at the local trainstation where he saw many others from the city. They were given crossbars and sent to beat the guys in timisoara. The force they met and were supposed to beat however gave them ham and meat, which at tat time was a luxury, so, naturally,, they defected. The timisoarans were famous for their meat
3:50 Small correction: "Solidarity" trade union was banned in 1981 during the announcement of martial law on 13 of December aimed at swiftly destroying the movement. 1980 was a year in which the August Agreements were signed, giving some concessions and rights to workers and generally people, also legalizing the organization.
Greetings from Poland! One detail i liked a lot in your video was Ceausescu appearing on a Rubin TV set exactly like the one we used to have.
Excellent narration and graphics. Liked & subscribed...
It’s amazing how you merge the internet meme culture with the history of the world. Great job!
RIP to all the geography students in the late 1980s and early 1990s
Yeah,I miss the ussr especially because it was anti lgbt
They added idk 14 ish extra countries for me to remember
@@theonlynoob2939 and balkans?
Great vidoes! Appreciate all the hard work your putting into these. Was curious if you had any videos reviewing the Black Hawk Down incident? Thanks.
*Czechoslovakia:* Peaceful Ending.
*Poland:* Neutral Ending.
*Belarus and Ukraine:* Bad Ending.
*Yugoslavia:* Genocide route 💀
Neutral ~ it's not so simple
The final words gave me chills (the calm before the storm) We don't know how things will develop and how it will end.
"You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator."
rip Paulie
His house looked like sh*t 😂😂
Which was predicted by Quasimodo, the Quarterback of Notre Dame.
*I hope there will be more videos about world history and Vietnam. Thank you team, every video is good 👏🏻*
To sum up, the Eastern Bloc countries have become a bunch of authoritarian oligarchies whose industries are dead, the population is poor and embittered, and politicians are pushing an ultra-right agenda to redirect the anger of the population from the state apparatus to their neighbors. At the same time, the most democratic and free countries of the former Eastern bloc live, at best, like in Argentina. This whole situation reminds me of a similar one in the countries of the former African colonies.
This has to be one of my favorites done by this channel. keep up the amazing work.
I can't thank you enough for all of your videos, all of the content made of history. This is my favorite history channel of all channels. Thank you so much!
As a Hearts of Iron 4 player, I love your videos and map design, is like if the game is showing me the history and the animation and sound, you implement in your videos is amazing! You've come a long way with the maps and animation and I love it! Keep up the amazing work!
this content is so captivating and i dont even know why haha thanks for the uploads i'm going to continue my sunday night binge :D
Another fantastic video. Thank you for all of the great work that you do!
Fortunately, here in Hungary there weren't any agressions when changing governments. The leading communist party also knew that the people had enough and they can't reign anymore peacfully, so they negotiated with the opposition and then peacfully handed over the power to them, in a free election.
Fun fact: from all of the Eastern Bloc countries, Hungary was the best to live in under communism. People had the most freedom there, and there wasn't a big poverty there. But still, for obvious reasons, people had enough of it.
It's sad that you guys are starting to fall behond the other eastern european countries economically. Hope you'll manage to get rid of the corruption that is appearing in your country ^^.
@@marcbuisson2463 yeah, Hungarian economy is pretty bad rn. Inflation is huge. Literally 1 euro equals to 400 in local currency (forint). So yeah it's bad, but let's hope it will be better
@@marcbuisson2463 Who exactly is it that we're "falling behind economically? The Romanians with their biblical-scale emigration, or perhaps the Estonians with their 20% inflation?
@@gergelyhangodi9008 nah, the czechs, the slovaks and poles. You guys were doign better than them for a while. And yeah, to an extent, the baltics. We'll see how it will compare at the end of the current struggles of course. Let's not compare with Romania or Bulgaria, it's not comparable at all. But you guys should be richer than all the countries previously mentioned. And you started to fall behind already before the pandemic :
@@bazsamester I hope you'll manage though. It's temporary, and we have to help each ther in Europe. Hungarians are great people and definitely have the capacity to get out of this, if they manage to be flexible enough.
one of my favorite historical tidbits about the collapse of the Iron Curtain is how Otto "Yes, that family" Hapsburg decided to hold a picnic/BBQ near a portion of the border between Austria and Hungary that was to be ceremonially dismantled...and dozens of East Germans looking to escape "just happened to be nearby."
He was a figurehead, the decision was done between the Németh government, and Austria, Germans got wise to it by rumors. By 1988, Hungarian passports allowed free travel to most countries, including, but not limited to, visa free travel to West Berlin. East Germans were so kept in the dark by Stasi they weren't even aware there were other ways to leave.
Good clear explanation of a complex situation. Well done.
"Stern acts of finger wagging". Excellent and precise.
"Stern acts of finger wagging at anyone massacering civilians or committing genocide"
You already killed him dude! Did you have to desecrate the body too?
Best topic so far. Thank you Griffith !
I always love grabbing a snack sitting back and watching the new videos.
I love these animations so much! Thank YOU Armchair Historian!
Amazing video, though it's a shame you guys didn't dwell a little bit on the other end of the block. The Caucasus and Central Asian countries had a lot going on in the 80s and 90s, from Jeltoqsan protests to armed conflict straight after resolution.
Yeah I'd like to see a video like this on the Caucasus and Central Asia. There's a lot of interesting history to cover there too.
Yeah I was bummed that that interesting history was left out. All that still ruminating and echoing today, and things aren't very happy or looking good over there especially with the russian invasion.
Your narration and animations are amazing!!!!
Fun fact about that. Poland has NONE of the bordering countries it had just in 1985 thanks to this process.
Past 2000 neighbors:
Germany (RFN), Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukrainie, Belarus, Lithuania, Russian Federation.
Pre 1985 neighbors:
GDR (east Germany), Czechoslovakia, USSR
Great video as always! I only would have liked to hear a few words about the fall of communism in Bulgaria and Hungary.
An outstanding video on a topic that is frequently overlooked. This would make great educational content in the former Eastern bloc countries if it had subtitles.
Is there way how to translate it in to other languages? i would like to translate it in to czech language. :3
Well, eastern Europe already knows, what it led to, on their own life experience and some documental publications. it is more educational for some liberal market believers
@Samar3n
I ment for education in schools, you'd be surprised but often students don't know much about this period. Content like this could get them more engaged in the topic.
"educational content"
Fantastic content as always mate!
I absolutely love the usage of swan lake in the background. Laughed really hard when I heard it
19:32 I remember I was in a debate with a Russian nationalist about Ukraine, and he was going on about how democracy failed Ukraine and how "prosperous" it was under Russia
Wish I knew about this before hand
Yes, democracy failed. Idk at what point struggle between oligarchs became "democracy" but it hasn't changed since then. Doesn't mean that Russian oligarchs are in any way better.
Great video Griffin been watching long time love how you have been continuously improving keep it up👍
11:40
If you look closely in this scene you can see the outline of Yugoslavia
7:45 the TV set is a Russian "Rubin" which I remember from my childhood. Congratulations for detailed reflection of that times.
The video is amazing!
I thing there is need for more detailed episodes about the subject - like the whole circus with German reunification or the wars after Yugoslavia wars.
There is a great lesson in the mostly untold hystory of the economic colapse of countries like Bulgaria in the 90's and of the economic limbo of the East Germany afther reunification.
The fact was that the Eastern Block or Warsaw Pact hated Russian oppression and as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed they joined the West. Almost all became members of NATO as no way did they want the Russians back
As we know in the 90s and 2000s Yeltsin and Putin were sooo aggressive.
It's obviuos today why it happened
@@Visgirtas and why happened what's happening today?
@@user-yq5tz6yt8z russian war crimes
@@Visgirtas Europe has not seen this level of war crimes since the NAZIs in WWII. The invasion of the Ukraine will be a stain on Russia for many years.
Well this is news....Mikhail Gorbachev last leader of the Soviet Union has passed away on Tuesday, August 30th, 2022, at the age of 91.
Another one gone. Good!
@@itsblitz4437 another commie gone. Clearer?
How is that good?
Glad I found this channel. My schools here in the US didn't give me much insight on things like this.
That ending is the darkest episode in Armchair Historian so far
Because it's relevant
I have to be honest, Griffin Johnson makes the best thumbnails about many of his history videos, the way how it describes an interesting image of history.
Edit: I mostly like his video about the Yugoslav partisans, that how they were effective.
Artist drawing thumbnails, not Griffin
US & EU forced Bosnia to declare independence since they want to break up Yugoslavia since it is a communist country. They put sanctions on Yugoslavia. But they told Bosnia if you declare independence, we will lift the sanctions.
Lol I love the sarcasm and understatement in the script. It makes m love history just that much more
i always hated how everyone blames gorbachov for the ussr's colaps while all he did was "let's make the money less worthless and lets not send the entire russian army to beat to death anyone who is against us" what made the ussr colaps was an entire generation off brutal atrocities commited by everyone in charge starting at stalin and ending before gorbachev came in power its not hist fault the entire system colapsed when he decided "hey let's not have the entire world's future depending on if or not we shoot nukes at each other"
This. It seems a lot like Gorbachev's biggest mistake was trying to do too much too quickly and trying to quickly make changes that were too big for the angry authoritarian elites to accept. Not to mention that the entire situation was kind of FUBAR already and there wasn't much anybody could do to fix it since the current system was unsustainable but the people in charge of it weren't going to let it go without trying to start a coup over it.
It annoys me that the propaganda machine in Russia pushes that narrative that the USSR collapsed because of Gorbachov s incompetence. The USSR leadership looked at the economic and political situation and came to the conclusion that it was unsustainable. Gorbachov and his ideas wouldn't have gained traction if the situation wasn't already dire. The reforms were an attempt to salvage a tenuous economic and political situation. Russia didn't let the ship sink because the captain said it was the right thing to do. They abandoned a ship that was already sinking because all the attempts to fix it only showed how weak the ship hull actually was.
The system was rotten to the core; the soviet people and the soviet ruling class had lost faith in the system; and Gorbachev was unauthoritarian.
You don't see to understand the Russians. They're angry why did ussr broke even during Ukraine invasion many are remembering past when russian empire and ussr were big
His economic policies killed the union. All the changes were so unnecessary. The soviet union was top 2 in the world in so many economic aspects.
Unfortunate that there was little mention of how much of a devastation Russia went through during the 90s. Modern Russian attitudes to Western Policies and Ideals can be understood once you see just how horribly they were implemented by the 90%-of-the-time drunk Boris Yeltsin. Putin's "Concentrating Powers" was not merely solidifying his legal rule, but also pressing down on Corruption - Not of the goodness of his heart, but because he hates competition.
Wisely admitted. All these clowns celebrating fall of mythical communism they don't even know about ignore the fact that it was social, cultural and financial crisis hunting us till nowadays. I don't think people like politics of Putin because of his reverences to western businessdumbs but it's still better than xenopatriotism, nationalism and bloodhungry kleptocracy cultivated by US
Russia’s attitude towards outsiders - not just the west - have been solidified for centuries. Russia and its people are a deeply distrustful culture, prone to conspiracy theories and wary of outsiders.
@@SKa-tt9nm Although I disagree with you on that, on count of such phenomenon being common across Rural Cultures in general, my main point was that whatever flicker of openness and will for understanding that was in the start of the 90s, was smothered by the conditions and circumstances by the time of late 90's
Your content keeps getting better
Me watching this just days before Gorbachov’s death got me feeling strange
90's eastern europe was a wild -west- east. With rampant coruption, overwhelming criminal activity, and evenly wild capitalism - it was every anarcho-capitalists wet dream.
Bonus, some assassinations from the late 90s are still being tried in court.
Hope we get to see more Cold War content. The Forest Brothers guerilla war in the Baltics is definitely a subject I would like to see in the future given it spanned both across WW2 and the Cold War
Or operation condor
The background music at the end of the video really put me in a sense of suspense. Give your sound engineer a raise!
The killing of Romanian Communist leader was brutal. Did not even wait for order to shoot.
Love your content so much :D
Can you make a video on the boxer rebelltion?
55 days at Peking starts blasting
Incredible video, honestly very well done. I was disappointed that you didn’t mention the Bosnian gennoacide while speaking about the break up of Yugoslavia but other than that really informative and well presented
There was no genocide in Bosnia.And if there was,then all 3 sides committed genocide on each other.I was disappointed that he didn't mention more than one sentence about how Albanian mobs and "authorities" to this day attack Serbian civilians in Kosovo and Metohija,but unfortunately we can't get everythung we want in one UA-cam video.But what we got was at least mostly good.
@@uros3701 imagine refusing to believe history
@@bluruckuscrx8124 imagine making up history to justify present day policies.
Awesome job like always
This is one fantastic channel with so much valuable content. In this video, Serbia was mentioned on a couple of occasions for various participations during the turbulent 1990s and their impacts can still be felt to this day. But if we go back in time to say the years leading up to WWI, there was a Serbian catalyst, with the assasination of Franz Ferdinand. Also in those early years of the 20th century, a very similar narrative between Europe and Russia shared the same tone as of today (i.e. in France for example Jean Jaures, accusing Poincare of being under Russian influence etc. ) and then some years later a Russian Revolution etc. During the cold war, there was a similar narrative, but driven by American assertion perhaps, and now again, but with different pawn pieces. Extremely complex, yet fascinating. Would love to see a generalist video of 20th century events that have lead up to todays issues, in a history repeating itself sort of way? Any thoughts?
This is such an amazing video and I love the fact that you reserved some time to present the tragedy that happened in Romania in 1989 in detail. My father was sent there by the communist authorities when he was actually supposed to be home celebrating Christmas with his family, he almost got shot and he unfortunately lost some of his military colleagues, who died as heroes. You are doing a lot of justice for Eastern Europe in helping people understand why our countries are the way they are. The revolution in Romania was especially violent but truly nothing compared to what happened in Yugoslavia. Regardless we still have open wounds from what happened, many rumors about what actually went down, and still no real justice for all the young people who died. we still have loads of ex communists and ex Securitate running our government and institutions.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! truly
thank you dostoevsky
In pare rau pentru tata tau 😢😢😢
Needs a part 2 for places like the Baltics.
Baltic dwarf states?
Thanks for a great video, very interesting
Literally the best history channel in youtube
Also I love the subtle meme references kek
why didnt you mention what happened in bulgaria during the fall of communism. noone ever talks about them
“You’re in with the host with the most glasnost. A******* made a mess and the world got cold. Torn down that wall like the Kool-Aid Man. Oh Yeah!You need yoga(Da) , you need a shower (da). You need to learn how to handle real power!” Mikhail Gorbachev
Hey AH, i just wanna say thank you for making your videos with the WIIIIIDDDDDEEEE format. It fills up my phone screen perfectly, lol. usually videos never match my phone screen right.
Awsome video, hope you make a video purely about the breakup of Yugoslavia. Keep up the good work
Glastnost itself was not the problem. That’s literally saying “hey talking ABOUT my incompetence is the problem... not that I actually caused multiple major nuclear disasters bungled multiple proxy conflicts and routinely and brutally crack down on my cictizens”
Like sure... talking about it caused major social conflict... but there had to be something for the media to talk about. The soviets had to be criticizable for glastnost to be a problem
And the local elites, who immediately used glasnost for nationalist propaganda which led to ethnic conflicts and wars
Awesome video! Can you do a video on the Soviet Union of 1941 versus 1944-45? I've always been fascinated how remarkable their turnaround became instrumental to ending WWII.
Well they’re an enormous country with an enormous population and at that particular time a lot had no education (a vocabulary of around 500 words,they thought a toilet was for cooking) and the NKBD had a lot of guns and transportation and threw em in front of the Germans to buy time to rebuild their factories behind the Ural mountains,with slave labor pretty much,which is ironic because that’s what the west was trying to defeat,but the reds just had more money and they had the support of the western allies, and the Germans couldn’t compete with all the resources of everyone else,that’s somewhat close to how it went,or that’s what I’ve gathered
@@Swellington_
"a vocabulary of around 500 words,they thought a toilet was for cooking"
and you yourself believe in it?
@@reyzhehal yup,you don’t?
@@Swellington_ I have been learning Russian for 15 years and I can say for sure that 500 words are not enough to go to a clothing store. the average vocabulary of a European is 15,000 words. How do you think it is even possible for a person to know 30 times less? 500 words is the level of a 4 year old child.
@@reyzhehal youre missing the point
Solid work Sir thank you