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@jackelinesolano5086

3 жыл бұрын

ahmdjwSÃO PAULO

@majahorvat6279

3 жыл бұрын

Puppet you say of russia....STALIN[[ARMENIAN]] ,,HRUSCSOV[[UKRAIN]],,LEONID BREZNJEV[[UKRAIN]],,ANDREI GROMYKO[[BELARUS]]...ONLY LENIN GORBACHEV AN ANDROPOV WAS RUSSIAN ...ONE WAS MURDERED[[LENIN]] ONE RULLED 2 YEAR[ANDROPOV]] AN ONE DESTROYED USSR[[GORBACHEV]]...AND CHERMENKO 1 YEAR BEFORE GORBACHEV....ONLY 4 RULLED LONG STALIN,HRUSCHOV,BREZNJEV,LENIN[[AN ONLY HE WAS RUSSIAN AN HE LET FINLAND GO,,AN GIVE VOTE TO WOMANS[[AN SHOOT BY LADY HITMAN[IRONY]]]]

@majahorvat6279

3 жыл бұрын

AN 1 MISTAKE OF DATES YUGOSLAVIA KINGDOM START IN 1929 NOT IN 1918...IN 1918 START KINGDOM OF SERBIA CROATIA AN SLOVENIA...GJ BY THE WAY

@guilhermefeldens8831

3 жыл бұрын

My "country" the Riograndense Republic!!

@LHS_Shadow

3 жыл бұрын

7/10 I knew. Not bad, but wish it was better

Once I was watching "Captain Planet" when I was a kid and the show had a blond girl who was from the Soviet Union. I asked my father where Soviet Union was and he told me it was a country that didn't exist anymore. I imagine the whole country had submerged into the sea like some sort of Atlantis.

@sohopedeco

5 жыл бұрын

@@nielrelatado3076 Your dad did tell you the whole story. 🤷

@AE-hf7bg

5 жыл бұрын

78 Capitalist bois disliked

@AndyMiller_windskisong

5 жыл бұрын

@@nielrelatado3076 yeah, not quite the whole story. Many of the countries the Socialists conquered were freed when the USSR fell.

@Joe-hl2ts

5 жыл бұрын

No it's pretty much just that boris yelton went behind Gorbechov's back to Belarus and Poland and said that they were independent and the Soviet Union collapsed

@markmh835

5 жыл бұрын

The entire world would have been much better off if the Soviet Union had submerged into the sea -- in 1925.

You could probably get 50 nations by listing off former German states.

@godlovesyou1995

5 жыл бұрын

There's actually over 100. Historians still argue over exact number XD

@postacorona6746

5 жыл бұрын

Chinese civil war too

@JoeMama-el7wc

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. China + Germany =lots of ded countries

@simgenx5167

5 жыл бұрын

@@JoeMama-el7wc Not to mention India

@JoeMama-el7wc

5 жыл бұрын

@@simgenx5167 British Raj?

2:38 1845 not 1945

@whiteboygameplays6978

5 жыл бұрын

I noticed two mistakes

@General.Knowledge

5 жыл бұрын

You are correct! My mistake

@xidnaf529

5 жыл бұрын

Also nice vid as always

@tonytwinkletoes3149

5 жыл бұрын

Nah man Texas was 115% the 50th state who joined the second ww2 ended

@faegotte

5 жыл бұрын

there are more than just this one too😂

On the ottoman empire one he accidentally said ww2

@jeszgoddess

5 жыл бұрын

It's okay

@willstoltzfus5986

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I noticed that

East Germany, Confederate States of America, South Vietnam...

@markmh835

5 жыл бұрын

The so-called "Confederate States of America" was never a real country -- just states in rebellion against the USA. No countries recognized it.

@marcuskuhnert2105

5 жыл бұрын

Czechoslovakia

@kingam5268

4 жыл бұрын

@@marcuskuhnert2105 same with Poland-Lithuania

@RJFawlkes

4 жыл бұрын

@@markmh835 The UK made motions to recognise the Confederacy.

@andrj8844

4 жыл бұрын

@@ricardohoang8452 it existed

My bad for the 1 or 2 mistakes in the narration!

@auttp7458

5 жыл бұрын

fun with flags-#24 libya flag

@sanderskovly7641

5 жыл бұрын

What did you do wrong?

@mr.salimi563

5 жыл бұрын

1845 u silly goose

@MrRicohogan

5 жыл бұрын

Then edit the video and try again with the correct information

@maestroevil1467

5 жыл бұрын

Can u make a history about Iliria, Dardania, Dalmatia, Ardiania, Epirus, and other plave of Old balkan

2:57 Schleswig wasn't that far south. The southern area is called Holstein and was a different duchy, but through a contract from the middle ages had to have the same head of state. That's why the area was divided that way in 1866 by Prussia and Austria and why this Bundesland is called Schleswig-Holstein

@frankmitchell3594

3 жыл бұрын

And the eastern side of Schleswig is known as Angeln. Where the Angles came from.

1:20 Moldova: Am I a joke to you?

I really like your graphics. Great series of informative videos. Thanks from Ireland.

Almost 25.000 subs, congrats my friend! Still, you deserve so much more ^^ great video, like always :)

@sameeknowsitall

2 жыл бұрын

Welp.

Fun fact: the music in the background is called "Fairest of the fair" by Sousa :D

You showed the state of Schlewig-Holstein, when you were only supposed to talk about Schleswig. I would love to see more of these videos btw!

*cries in yugo*

@arianmartic7965

5 жыл бұрын

☺😂

@arianmartic7965

5 жыл бұрын

@@The_Gerry_Man 😂😂😂 hey thats true! Ahhaha

@vuki968

5 жыл бұрын

@That Bearded Guy im also austrian but ok xD

@vuki968

5 жыл бұрын

@That Bearded Guy im also croatian... im a croatian which lives in austria with austrian/german/croatian family

@homoculus

5 жыл бұрын

*cries in Shrek* Wait, ah sh*t. *cries in Upper Volta*

Poland-Lithuania maybe? What about Holy Rome?

@felixthecat0371

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure about Poland-Lithuania as Poland and Lithuania are both countries now

@kyomademon453

5 жыл бұрын

The holy roman empire was just a fancy name for germany and lands held by germans

@kingam5268

4 жыл бұрын

@@felixthecat0371 But Poland-Lithuania was together ruled by one king, so i think yea this was country (i can be wrong, if i am sorry)

Love your videos!

yay you talked about southern italy!!

9:03 that’s the flag of the Brazilian republic, not the Brazilian empire Also, they switch capitals due the still ongoing war

@howardthealien2606

3 жыл бұрын

*Empire of Brazil

@howardthealien2606

3 жыл бұрын

Valdir Bruxel Jr. and it’s very hard to draw the Empire of Brazil flag so give him some slack

@valdirbruxeljunior

3 жыл бұрын

@@howardthealien2606 compleixity is not an excuse, as he has drawn more complex things in the past. He didnt need to be 100% acurate, he could've draw some sketch of it, but showing the Brazillian republic's flag while talking about the Empire is kind of disrespectful.

I like these kind of videos. Good format.

How can you seriously claim that Gran Colombia "interestingly coincides with the Viceroyalty of New Granada" (which is not even true, since Venezuela had been separated from it since 1777 into the Captaincy General of Venezuela) and that that "might have contributed to the independent Union that followed"? With the main impulse of Venezuela, Gran Colombia was a DIRECT secession from Spanish colonial rule, there's zero coincidences here at all.

The first time around, I forgot about the Republic of Hawaii, which is now also a U.S. state. Czechoslovakia.

@coledavis5212

5 жыл бұрын

The Hand sorry for the r/wooosh reaction but *HaWaii WaS nEvEr A rEpUbLiC*

@thehand756

5 жыл бұрын

@@coledavis5212 That's the sound of your head imploding. Didn't last long, 1894-1898. Nor is it clear how much of an actual Republic it was. But that was the formal name of Hawaii when it was annexed by the United States. Now, let me guess, you think Bernie Sanders should be president. Right? www.revolvy.com/topic/Republic%20of%20Hawaii&item_type=topic

@bruhz_089

3 жыл бұрын

@@coledavis5212 it was a republic for a short time

6:27 you mean 1923 not 1922 right But great video though Can you make a video about company logos please Love your channel😁

The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies can be seen as a reunification of the Norman kingdom of Sicily, which ruled Sicily, southern Italy and Malta after Norman adventurers liberated these regions from Arab rule and restored the Roman Catholic faith. The kingdom was opposed by the popes, who saw it as being too powerful, and after the extinction of the Norman dynasty, became two separate kingdoms, both styled the Kingdom of Sicily. Sicily itself came under the control of Aragon, while Naples, the capital of the mainland region, was ruled by an Angevin dynasty. The Aragonese and the Angevins were at war for much of the period when these two kingdoms had their separate existence.

Very interesting,How about Zaire and Formosa?

Number ten is the soviet union *inhales*: Soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnykh Splotila naveki velikaya Rus'! Da zdravstvuyet sozdanny voley narodov Yediny, moguchy Sovetsky Soyuz!

@xidnaf529

5 жыл бұрын

Fiery Gaming this is Turkish not Russian

@xidnaf529

5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@Aprill264

5 жыл бұрын

FIST12 that’s the ussr anthem written in the latin alphabet

@xidnaf529

5 жыл бұрын

Looks very similar to Turkish

@xidnaf529

5 жыл бұрын

"Soyu" is the Turkish word for "family"

Love the “Milo and Otis” score playing in the background. Interesting choice of music. I can honestly say I haven’t heard that on any other channel on KZread. 👍😌

2:39 yeah, my grandpa remembers hearing the news of texas becoming the newest state when he was fighting in WW2.

Monarch unions you didn't know exist. Sardinia-Piedmont, for example

1845 December 29th of 1845 to be exact is when both sides The U.S. and The Republic of Texas enter in to a treaty of Statehood with the U.S. and In 2005 the Treaty was revamped, but yet It is still a treaty; therefore making Texas the only state which still has an active treaty with the U.S.

Are you going to do another Great Cities in History video at some point?

You might look into the lost German colonial empire (1888 to 1919) it included, it included, Togo, Cameroon, German South West Africa, German East Africa, German New Guinea, Marshall Islands, Samoa and the Marianas

Hello. I just discover your videos yesterday, so I've watched them all. Would you talk about the Peruvian flag in your next video, please? Btw Peru and Bolivia made a confederation from 1836 until 1839.

Look at that. First time I watched a YT video and actually find a sponsor that I am interested in. Well, outside audible of course, but I knew about that before it sponsored every single.podcast in existence.

Mention Texas, awesome Now mention the independent kingdom of Hawaii - and the debate that caused over what happened to it

@markmh835

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! The USA did end up "annexing" 3 different independent countries: Vermont, Texas, and the Kingdom of Hawaii.

@brotherimzee

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! Hawaii has the only royal palace on American soil :D

@Madikon07

3 жыл бұрын

markmh835 are you hispanic european? Why are you so jealous

@bruhz_089

3 жыл бұрын

@@markmh835 Vermont and Texas wanted to be annexed by the US

@scolipede1549

3 жыл бұрын

what about a short lived california country?

Love your videos

You might like to check the nine kingdoms in Malaysia which were independent kingdoms before being incorporated into the Federation of Malaya.

Curious about the enclaves and exclaves in Schleswig. Were they Danish? Also, I went to Serbia in 2006, just after the break up with Montenegro. Lovely place and very friendly. By the way, like the Riograndense Republic, my parents' village declared independence due to Elizabethan imposition of the Poor Laws and the locals' reluctance to pay for it.

Excellent thank you

Love these videos,what about Vichy France?

@himlingpatrice

5 жыл бұрын

That was not a distinct country. Vichy was supposed to be the official french government. France was officially divided into 2 zones. The area occupied by the Germans and the unoccupied area. But Vichy has authority on both zones and the french colonial empires. When the majority of french empire joined the "free french" and the unoccupied area was occupied by germans, everybody understood Vichy was a fiction. Anyway fiction or not, Vichy was presented as the french government. So, it was France and not a different country.

Litterally everyone: *You forgot poland-lithuania*

9:50 Gran Colombia didnt stop existing, it fragmented but Colombia is what is left of it. So technically it still exists

Do a video about countries that aren't recognised

@behindthefern2846

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@penguinlord-yt9xc

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@davidstoyanoff

5 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the comments? Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine Palestine.......

@cadi6487

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidstoyanoff Palestine is already a country but i am talking about state's that want to be free from their country

@lazarskrbic

5 жыл бұрын

@@cadi6487 Kosovo?

Hi, when did you find that Kingdom of the two Sicilies' flag? I remember a totally white flag with the crest that you are showing

100k subscribers! Yay! :D

Can you do a video on the flags of Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland

@jovanjovicic6030

5 жыл бұрын

Also cornwall, Britrany, Ireland and Isle of Man. Basically all the celtics

@jovanjovicic6030

5 жыл бұрын

@Chistes_Malos well, Celts do not actually live there.

@theraginginfernape9496

5 жыл бұрын

Sooooo Union Jack?

@mrhilla1438

5 жыл бұрын

TheRagingInfernape basically just rather then just explaining how it’s all of the flags combined (except whales) he could go into each one individually

@kyomademon453

5 жыл бұрын

@@jovanjovicic6030 theyre celts but they dont have a celtic or more specifically a gaelic language even tho Galicia is the mother of these countries

You forgot Hawaii, California, Kazan, Tibet, Manchuria, Sultanate of Sulu, and many more.

@jeremydurant8755

4 жыл бұрын

Eh I never get why people are always talking about the California "Republic" it was a "country" for like less than a month.

@praphulkumar5911

Жыл бұрын

And Abkhazia too

2:39 you mean 1845

Wasn’t the Soviet Union like the United Kingdom? Both are smaller countries united to join one bigger “country”

@johnvonshepard9373

5 жыл бұрын

Those small nation was force to join TSU. So no.

Can you do a video about Bavaria/ German federalism? Would be awesome !!!

It seems that the Schleswig duchy was a vassal state of the Kingdom of Denmark... The notions of "independance" as we know it today were a little bit different in the Middle Age, but if you go that way you could also speak of so many other Duchies and Counties and even Episcopal-Principalties in Europe which were pretty much independants...

@Nikolaj11

5 жыл бұрын

A distinction that historians will make is that it wasn't a vassal state of Denmark but a external possession of the Danish royal family. While the different dynasties were kings and queens of Denmark they were also Dukes of Schlesvig-Holstein. Direct integration of, at least the Schlesvig part, was what spawned the wars between the duchies and Denmark, and later supported Prussia and Austria. The Danish king approved a joint constitution, which the liberal nationalists supported, but along with German unification efforts the majority population of the duchies were opposed to this. Old established rules in the duchies, back from when they were initially inherited, guaranteed them seperate administration from the Danish kingdom. When the duchies were annexed by Prussia the same overarching dynasty, Oldenburg, that the monarchs in Denmark come from actually kept possession of the ducal titles of both territories, just from other branches of the family.

5:00 i started crying

@coledavis5212

5 жыл бұрын

Luka Cro I started a bar fight with 7 other random people

@howardthealien2606

3 жыл бұрын

ExplodingHam stop lying

Finally and advert I’m interested in.

08:52 South Brazil*

Ah the forgotten WW2 combatant. The Onion headed Ottomen Empire

In Elemenraty school we had an old geography textbook where sebria and montenegro was still called Yugoslavia

@SoooooWhatt

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my own experiences with Yugoslavia's later name on maps: I sometimes see maps at school (on walls and in textbooks) that were evidently released between 2003 and 2006, because they show "Serbia and Montenegro" as one country rather than two (or three, if you count Kosovo).

republic of zamboanga here in Philippines existed for about 3-4 years between 1897-1902 I think

Great would love to watch a part 3 with the Cretan republic or the Ponto-Armenian state.

( Thank you for the video ).👍👍👍👍😍😍

Good video, just a clarification, Gran Colombia did not separate in the countries as they exist today. Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador came from the dissolution, but Panamá was only independent after 1903 after U.S. intervention. There was also land on the Costa de los Mosquitos (today part of Costa Rica and Nicaragua) that were part of the old republic, these were finally territorial losses of Colombia. Many border disputes occurred, some still exist today, as there is no maritime border with Venezuela and a rocky border situation with Nicaragua. Many of the border definitions are still questionable and a bloody war with Perú also ensued.

0:30 already in tears.

@1tems

5 жыл бұрын

*cries in russian*

@sebs.3917

5 жыл бұрын

to call that union is already a joke..this countries was not united with russia..they was conquered and supressed by it..

@comradethegreat3599

5 жыл бұрын

@@sebs.3917 Stay with your mouth shut, capitalist pig. No one wants to hear your propaganda, go back to western europe. Or you'll be immediately reported to the glorious leader Josef Stalin, and you'll be sent to gulag.

@oleks7149

5 жыл бұрын

@FREE 3021 not cries, but smiles in Ukrainian )

For a group of countries that no longer exist, how about The Heptarchy which was a group of seven Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms which occupied Southern Britain up until 824 AD? Be interesting to see your take on them!

Great 👍🏻 video

Gran Colombia my favorite❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Umm, Texas did not enter the union in 1945, maybe 1845, but not 1945

@siratshi455

5 жыл бұрын

It did, it was in the alliance with axis, but since they lost, USA invaded Texas

I started crying at 5:00

Saar Protectorate. It was a ministate created by the French in 1947. It became a part of West Germany in 1957.

You need way more subs

That vid should also be named My B-Day special

Soviet Union: I don't feel so good.... Russia: Well, this is awkward..........

7:45 - Writes "World War 1". Says "World War 2".

It would be interesting to cover the numerous short-lived states formed after the Austro-Hungarian empire fell apart. For example, The Stare of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs; Banat Republic; West Ukrainian People's Republic etc. Similar for the aftermath of the WWII: Free Territory of Trieste; Saar Protectorate etc. Also, the most interesting history of Germany, or perhaps even more interesting one of Poland and neighboring states. I would suggest that you go into slightly more details, though, than you currently do.

Excellent

In the next one you could do the Croatian Independent Republic from 1940. Im not a pro - ustasha ( nazi) in any way, id just like to see what you can tell about it

@hrvatskidomoljub1502

5 жыл бұрын

*Independent State of Croatia It was never a republic though. (Btw I'm also not a fascist or communist)

@jovanjovicic6030

5 жыл бұрын

@@hrvatskidomoljub1502 fašisti i komunisti nisu isto iako su oboje totalitarni režimi. Činjenica je da Jugoslavija nije mogla opstati, ali je takođe činjenica da je standard bio bolji nego danas.

@jovanjovicic6030

5 жыл бұрын

@Džudžan da, i to je trajalo godinu dana-dve, i to posle titove smrti

@arianmartic7965

5 жыл бұрын

@@jovanjovicic6030 Istina, vrijeme srusi sve. Ako bog da biti ce bolje!

3:03 I think you meant 1866 not 866

2:39 Ummmm....You mean 1845?

U Forgot: -Prussia -Second Reich (German Empire) -Kingdom Of Italy -Italian Social Republic -Third Reich -Austrian Empire -Republic Of China (1949) -Czechoslovakia -United Arab Republic -Kampuchea -Polish People Republic -Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth -Romanian People's Republic -Bulgarian People's Republic -Hungarian People's Republic -Kingdom Of Serbia -Kingdom Of Montenegro -Independent State Of Croatia -Vichy France -Free France -East Germany -West Germany -British Empire -Spanish Empire -Kingdom Of Portugal -First Frech Empire -Second Frech Empire -Confederade State Of America -Brazilian Empire -Islamic Republic Of Afganistan (Currently) -Swedish Empire -Tsardom Of Russia -Russian Empire -Argentina Confederacy -Kievan Rus -Maratha Empire -Mughal Empire -Qing Dynasty

Soviet? Union Philip? Pines United? States South? Korea Hotel? TRIVAGO

@uselance1741

5 жыл бұрын

Unfunny, trying to hard

Soviet Union said Russia language But Russia have a relationship with my country(now)

all these napoleon war times states should have their own video since they all existed more or less for the same reason.

Oh...sir! Music in the background

2:10 I hope the taxes are not to high =D

The Raggamuffin War, which gave rise to the Riograndense Republic, is surely the Brazilian War with the most "romantic" stories. That's one of the reason why gaúchos (people from Rio Grande do Sul state) are so annoyingly proud today.

There's also one country that's no longer exist but the remain is still there. Like Sarawak Kingdom. It was founded by the English Soldier Man, James Brooke... He's a soldier and was in hurt, and when he and the few fellow soldier were trying to get back to Britain (Idk, somehow they were failed forgot why) and discovered Borneo island... Of course the island were ruled by someone and it's Brunei Sultanate and the English men were settling in west sarawak( I can't pin point where it was cause'you guess it, I forgot) and claim the land, just a tiny bit, it's like a micronation size kinda thing and blah-blah-blah, fighting the rebels in brunei blah-blah-blah Brunei gave the land to James Brooke, blah-blah-blah he's a king, blah-blah-blah OK, and then the country now, well, if you have seen the Sarawak state size right now that's how big it was right now 1.5/3 of Malaysia Land, And Sarawak kingdom were recognize by so many people including The United states and the UK, Sarawak kingdom has their own currency and it's a Sarawak dollar and have their own army, economy is growing, more english settled in their also have their own anthem (And it's bad) but still though, better than nothing am I right? And suddenly the Japanese kick the hell out of them after the US nuked the hell out of Japan the British take the land and sayin' hey mate, I take yer land and no, I'm here not to destroy your economy or somethin', alright? calm down, we kick yer ass and go back to idk, wherever you like and NOT Sarawak, okay mate? go. then, the Sarawak citizens heard about this news and protesting the hell out of britain which it takes awhile to calm them down because, OOF th-they love their kings and want the kings family back to Sarawak... Ok, do you know why I was talking about this country and not others? well, it is because brooke is like playing Tycoon games, and it starts from the bottom, a fricking micronation, who cares about micronation right? and Brooke just like hold my tea and starts from the bottom shitless to the fricking hightop...

10_ soviet union 9_ texas 8_ duchy of schleswig 7_ confederation of the rhine 6_ yugoslavia 5_ ottoman empire 4_ the united provinces of central america 3_ riograndense republic 2_ gran colombia 1_kingdom of the two sicilies

5:03 Serbs: *TRIGGERED*

More countries suggestion: Silesia Free Territory Of Trieste Nogai Trans Caucasian Federation North German Confederation Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Hejaz Tibet Aragon Scotland (as fully independent) East Germany United Provinces Of Rio De La Plata Bessarabia Sardinia Tuvan People's Republic United Kingdoms Of Sweden And Norway Bavaria (as fully independent) Republic Of Ragusa Confederate States Of America Papal State (not Vatican City)

keep on going...

I am only one who got confused of Honduras,Nicaragua,El Salvador,Guatemala's Flags

O love your Chanel Portuguese fellow

South Vietnam?!

The notion of independent nation states is a relatively modern concept dating from the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 which ended the Thirty Years War and was taken up again largely after World War One and the Treaties after that conflict -with the collapse of the four great multi-national empires during and after that war there was a partial attempt to give all the different ethnic groups from those former empires there own homelands -some like the Kurds were missed out and of course the idea didn't apply to the victorious empires like the British and French who still held on to their multi-national empires!

@MultiGreety

5 жыл бұрын

Was kurds left out because turkey won its independence war, maybe? They already have a state in Iraq that won't even fight after trying to get their independence...

This is a part 2 right?

7:41 I know you messed up but its "ww1"

Elbonia? The duchy of Gran Fenwick?

Idk if they added the siamese country i forgot the name but that got erased quickly

Also Constantinople is a Greek word. Constantinos and polis(Constantinos and City). Byzantioum was an Athenian colony. The Byzantine empire was ruled by Greeks, the emperors ware Greeks and most of the citizens and the lows were written in Greek . In same letters of other kingdoms they call it Hellenic Empire. Greek empire.

Who is here just for Yugoslavia? :p

@arcticmonkeysEEEEE

4 жыл бұрын

• It'z Wolf • Im Here For Soviet Union

You forgot United Arab Republic

I straight up thought USSR meant United Soviet States of Russia.

Con-tri-BUH-ted lmao