Look at that: Blue discussing topics that happened THIS YEAR and he didn't even break out in hives. I'm proud of you!

@arribalaschivas91

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought after finishing the video was “it was weird hearing him saying ‘2022’ in a video”

@Punaparta

2 жыл бұрын

@@arribalaschivas91 Frankly, this is the reason I'm hoping for Red to make a video on Tamamo no Mae in the near future. Because there is no way for her to bring up what happened _just this year_ that wouldn't be funny as hell.

@Petrico94

2 жыл бұрын

Still kept it to mostly history, but it is nice when it lines up with current events and you can trace the line from when a people start and their attitudes to what's happening. Though it's fine to keep a rule of not going into detail of what happened 40 years ago since the context could change very soon, case and point Ukraine is independent aaannd now Crimea is being stolen, glad that's ov-INVASION. At the same time he should avoid making videos like Hong Kong where he puts them off until major events start up.

@wilemelliott

2 жыл бұрын

@@arribalaschivas91 its hard not to when we are watching historically relevant actions currently taking place...

@FeignJurai

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, history in the region really barely took time to breathe from the medieval period to today.

Blue: "The 2020s are a wild ride." Person from the future: "Wow, he sounds exhausted, that must have been a heck of a decade for him." Blue: "Oh, that was only 2 and a half years in."

@darthslain

2 жыл бұрын

2000's=1900's part 2

@aulvinduergard9952

2 жыл бұрын

@@darthslain 1900's part 2: Slavic Boogaloo.

@luthfihar3211

2 жыл бұрын

@@darthslain if that's really the case the 2030's gonna be wild

@Bluecho4

2 жыл бұрын

I am really, _really_ tired of living in interesting times. Please tell the hag-witch that cursed us all to please relent.

@nathanseper8738

2 жыл бұрын

OUCH....

"Longer story, the 2020's are a wild ride." Preach. It's been 2 years and I feel like I've aged decades.

@HrabiaVulpes

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, last two years were a strange decade.

@AegixDrakan

2 жыл бұрын

Same, yo. The last two years have both been insanely fast, but also unbelievably long. The fact I've had my dream job (Narrative Designer at a game studio I really respect) for two years feels like it's only been like half a year, but the pandemic and all the other miserable stuff? Feels like it's been a solid decade. x_x

@nttea

2 жыл бұрын

I remember occasionally wishing i was living in more interesting times and now i realized i definitely do not wish that.

@queensdontbow

2 жыл бұрын

@@nttea There's a reason "May you live in interesting times" is considered a curse.

@theslavbeing335

2 жыл бұрын

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Have you guys heard of Kokum scarves? They were made by Ukrainians traditionally, and were traded with northern Native Americans for a long time, so now they are a part of our culture as well! You will commonly see them at powwows worn as a scarf, at the belt, or just held. It feels awesome to know we have some direct ties to Ukraine.

@annalisasteinnes

2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@MrTigracho

2 жыл бұрын

When this trade happened? I wanna know

@laneydaniels1936

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTigracho they were mainly traded when Ukrainian immigrants were settling in Canada in the late 19th century as far as I know, but I would recommend doing some research if you’d like to know more

@thegrandberry4418

Жыл бұрын

@@MrTigracho In the late 1800’s Canada was trying to settle the great plains of what are now Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, particularly to prevent US expansion into the area, as well as your standard resource and territory reasons. However they had a hard time getting people to move there because the region was rather inhospitable, being undeveloped and cold as shit. They advertised to many European countries, primarily wanting Northern and Western Europeans (British, Nordic, German ect.) However a group they got a large attention from were Eastern Europeans, many of who were the subjects of empires and were pretty willing to deal with the harsh conditions of prairies if it meant a better chance at prosperity. In particular, Ukrainians from the areas of Galicia and Bukovina were drawn to this news. Ukrainians by this point in time had been shuffled through many empires and were frequently oppressed. The Ukrainians of Galicia and Bukovina under Austro-Hungarian rule, while enjoying some benefits relative to the conditions of other foreign rulers, were still pushed into poverty, had no aristocratic class and so outside of the clergy, lacked major political representation, and because of the landowner system, frequently couldn’t get their own land (and subsequently, resources like lumber). Ukrainians first came to know of Canada’s promise from their German neighbours. From there, many from Galicia and Bukovina started immigrating, with the first settlement being the Edna-Star settlement east of Edmonton. Many Ukrainians faced significant difficulty when they arrived: the weather was harsh, many were illiterate and didn’t speak English, and many faced xenophobia and racism when they arrived. However, many Ukrainians received help from the Indigenous peoples they encountered when they arrived, particularly the Plains Cree. There’s many anecdotes you can find online, but basically, the many Cree helped Ukrainians survive the harsh winters, identify plants for foraging and medicinal use when Ukrainians weren’t familiar with the local flora, and the two groups began trade, with Ukrainians introducing many recipes that are still popular in Indigenous communities, such as pirogies, cabbage rolls, and poppy seed rolls. While the relationship of course has a lot of nuance, history, and complications as history often does, Ukrainians and Cree (and other Indigenous groups) had often amicable relationships, especially when compared to that between other groups and Indigenous peoples. Among the objects traded was what is often called a “koukum scarf” or grandma scarf in Cree. The scarves are generally decorated with floral patterns and bright colours, and were worn as shawls and head wrappings by Ukrainian women, particularly in church and as a marker of marriage (they had other purposes too but that’s the most relevant one to Ukrainian Canadian history as far as I know). These were traded and gifted to Indigenous (mainly Cree) people, and many of the women adopted the practice of wearing them around their heads. It has since spread across North America as symbol of Indigenous resistance as well as a connection to one’s ancestors (namely grandmothers) and is incorporated into Powwow regalia in a variety of ways by both men and women. So anyway, to answer your question: roughly the 1890s to the mid 1900’s

@MrTigracho

Жыл бұрын

@@thegrandberry4418 Interesting. Thanks for your explanation

Comment "Bayraktar" to dunk on pro-war Russian-Propaganda trolls -B

@assassain0425

2 жыл бұрын

I procrastinated till a war, like damn.

@ommnis598

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

@yabe-kfptentacultist

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

@salixalba6536

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

@kelvin3057

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

"The 2020s are a wild ride" "Man, it's been a tough decade" "Dude, we're not even halfway done"

@vericulum6810

2 жыл бұрын

there is global famine on a horize and a reccession.

@Zaire82

2 жыл бұрын

*not even a quarter-way done

@eljanrimsa5843

2 жыл бұрын

@@vericulum6810 perhaps world war iii will start before the famine hits

@b10productions24

2 жыл бұрын

The 2020's as of 2022: -I wanna get off the ride already! -But the ride hasn't even started yet...

@AegixDrakan

2 жыл бұрын

@@b10productions24 To continue your ride analogy: "But we've barely gone through the first corkscrew loopdeloop!" "Yeah, but the guys in front of us have puked over everyone on the ride, six people flew out to their doom, and I can clearly see that there's some vandals throwing rocks at the trolleys, AND I See an even WORSE cockscrew loopdeloop coming up! I am fully justified with hating this ride already!"

The Cossacks were so badass that even to this day, in Polish, _Kozak_ in slang means "cool" or "cool guy"!

@pantuternik

2 жыл бұрын

@Tin Watchman Really? ehh, ...what form of genocide this time?

@runakovacs4759

2 жыл бұрын

@@pantuternik Khmielinsky uprising.

@LutsikArch

Жыл бұрын

😄 Cool, I didn't know that

@LutsikArch

Жыл бұрын

@@runakovacs4759 unfortunately true.

@yevhendykyi3937

Жыл бұрын

@Tin Watchman It is important to understand that the pogroms were committed against the Polish local elite, who humiliated and oppressed the rights of Ukrainians (Rusyns), and Jews were simply part of that elite, like some Ukrainians. Therefore, the attempt of the Jews to suck out hatred for them as an ethnic group is at least dishonest. Ukraine still has the lowest rate of anti-Semitism in Europe - this is not an accident, but a historical inheritance. Jews were also on the side of Khmelnytskyi and their status did not differ in any way, no one was interested in their ethnicity. Yes, it turns out that the Jews destroyed the Jews. Because in fact, this story is not about Jews at all. Ethnicity did not matter on either side. Jews were simply on both sides.

As a Ukrainian I'm happy to say this is one of the best videos on Ukraine I've seen from an English-speaker. I'm impressed.

@Bruhman_15

7 ай бұрын

Слава Україні героям Слава

@user-fe6yy1ok5v

2 ай бұрын

це якщо не враховувати маячню про так званого "рюрика" особу якого неможливо підтвердити, і Новгород якого в 862 році ще не існувало

I don't envy Blue the position of "if i had a nickel for every time i accidentally procrastinated a video into wartime for the subject state, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's terrifying that it happened twice", but i do appreciate the look into a history that quite frankly i had no knowledge of other than "probably did not have a fun time during the Russian empires" Edit: eyyy i got a (very vague) shout out in the podcast, my life is complete 😅

@utubrGaming

2 жыл бұрын

This is gonna result in Blue going into Sweatshop Mode for the sake of world peace, right?

@tbotalpha8133

2 жыл бұрын

Every other country on Blue's to-do list: *loud sweating*

@Znwarp

2 жыл бұрын

So what Blue's saying is- we need to get into more wars to get "History Summarized" videos out quicker?

@playdoughmaster808

2 жыл бұрын

If we get a world war we’ll get almost every country in like a few months to a year

@Corvus772

2 жыл бұрын

What was the first one?

If only some people could look at history and say: "Ah, yes. We could learn something from that."

@biswasbudhathoki8144

2 жыл бұрын

People do learn. They are just arrogant to think that they could make the same mistake and carry on.

@shadowldrago

2 жыл бұрын

@@biswasbudhathoki8144 Ah. So, hubris.

@Luffy453

2 жыл бұрын

@@biswasbudhathoki8144 Some, yes. Others just plainly don´t learn (plus they think that was then and now is different...but humans are animals of habit)

@biswasbudhathoki8144

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadowldrago yeah

@vaclavjebavy5118

2 жыл бұрын

half of all our problems are because of people not learning from history, the other half is because of people having learnt from history

Mad respect for calling the prince who baptized the Rus "Volodymyr" and not "Vladimir". That's what the name was, according to the sources, and that's how it survived in Ukrainian language.

@RedXlV

2 жыл бұрын

One thing to remember is that Volodymyr's trident has been a symbol of Kyiv (and by extension Kyivan Rus'/Ruthenia/Ukraine) for a thousand years. Russia never adopted that symbol at any point in their history. Which nicely debunks Russia's self-serving mythology that *they* are the direct continuation of Kyivan Rus'.

@WeAreAHorde

2 жыл бұрын

ukrainian is modified russian developed in the 19th century by academics cope and seethe

@lolnoobus

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes, ancient sources written in ancient Ukrainian language, about.... how some kid from Novgorod came with scandinavian merc gang on territory of ancient Ukraine, taked Kiev, killed his ruler, who was, i guess, ancient Ukrainian, and that how ancient Ukraine was occupated by evil russian occupants?

@lolnoobus

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegoodhornet Well, i didnt invoke anything. Vladimir run from Novgorod to Scandinavia, after that he return with some scandinavian boys to make his vengeance. It a chronics, it has nothing to do with yours fantasies about Kremlin. And genocide, so calm down.

@lolnoobus

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegoodhornet Listen, we talk about history. Quite ancient history. I react to the post that i found ridiculous. Because writing about something like "Ukrainian source from 9th century" is ridiculus (as much as others claims from other modern contries but there a video about Ukraine, right?). And here suddenly we have you, another ridiculous person, who come in creaming like religious fanatic your religious chant "Kremlin-Putin-genocide!" Thats funny, really. Now, lets return to Vladimir and separate cultures. Of course, they WAS separate. Culture of Novgorod was different from culture of Kiev. How they even can be same? It was different tribes, different religious, trade influences, they contacted with a very different cultures. I repeat again, if some Russian ultramegasupernationalist hurt you somewhere, it has nothing to do with me, ok? So, how different was Vladimir from his brother from another mother? Well, not so much, if we believe that they both ruled with help of viking mercenary gangs. But they was different if we put kievans, novgorodians, and some tribes around in this calculation. (By the way, i dont do "exactly what Putin does", i mean, i dont have a missiles, fuck, i dont even have a gun. Stop seeing Putin everywhere, it is creepy ).

Recent events have made this video age like the finest of wines

Hello! Taiwanese viewer here. Hope you all take a good look at Ukraine, because if China has anything to say, it would be that the concept of Taiwan is entirely imaginary. Thank you.

@smokesakimbo6322

2 жыл бұрын

Taiwan is fake country

@user-to2yk7jy6e

2 жыл бұрын

Aren't you guys still calling yourself China? Jokes aside, this is very very true.

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-to2yk7jy6e pretty much this days the position of the taiwanese people is pro independence and since Taiwan is a democratic nation that means that the people are free to decide their own destiny and as such they have the right to become an independent nation state Fuck the CCP

@stumblepuppy606

2 жыл бұрын

by "China", do you mean West Taiwan?

@AmanKumarPadhy

2 жыл бұрын

Obvuously

Not so fun fact: despite both Holocaust and Holodomor seemingly having the same prefix, they have different root words, where "Holodomor" comes from the Ukranian words "Holod" and "mor" meaning "hunger" and "extermination" respectively (online Britannica), whereas "Holocaust" comes Greek, with "hol" and "kaustos" meaning "whole" and "burnt" (Merriam Webster dictionary). Ugly coincidence.

@kjj26k

2 жыл бұрын

Woah.

@richardaubrecht2822

2 жыл бұрын

"Mor" is more like death than extermination. Morit' means "to die". In some Slavic languages (like mine) mor also means pestilence.

@electricangel4488

2 жыл бұрын

Holocaust is a old term for scoring or scowering in english if i am not mistakrn

@darkwarriormaster9644

2 жыл бұрын

So “Holocaust” roughly means “whole burnt” or something similar?

@redline841

2 жыл бұрын

Really neat coincidence

Fascinating. I never realised Ukraine was the country of the Cossacks, I thought they were from further east. Recontextualizes a lot for me, including the background for this war - non-Soviet Russia has been culturally conflated with the Cossacks a lot, so this is definitely a partially ideological war.

@Cecilia-ky3uw

2 жыл бұрын

Me too until like a year ago I realised Ukraine was basically just a bunch of Cossacks

@FedulAis

2 жыл бұрын

Well, there was many different cossacks, as word cossack was probably borrowed from turkic languages (it means free people, word Kazakh is of same origin) Btw it's common knowledge in ex-ussr, that cossacks weren't exclusively Russian thing, so there no ideological disputes about that.

@thesquishedelf1301

2 жыл бұрын

@@FedulAis What I mean by ideological is that it became Russia’s brand. As such it makes sense for Putin to want to subjugate other cultures that could claim Cossacks as their brand, to establish Russia as the only remaining heir to the Cossacks in the eyes of the rest of the world. Only one small part of the multitude of reasonings, but a glaring one nonetheless, especially with the rhetoric a while back of “Ukraine was a mistake”.

@runakovacs4759

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesquishedelf1301 Not sure it holds much water. Cossacks were a thorn in the side of the russian empire, and later the USSR too.

@FedulAis

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesquishedelf1301 Tbh I don't watch tv, so not quite sure if they are branded as exclusively Russian thing, but world media don't take much intrest in eastern Europe if it's not about unnecessary Russian aggresion, so it's just probably general lack of coverage about history of Ukraine and Russia. Today's cossacks mostly larpers on government roll, and mostly don't taken seriously, but I live in a far east so maybe in western Russia they are bigger deal.

As a Ukrainian, I've noticed a resurgence of similar videos on the topic of my own country and there is a trait in them that I really like. The new videos seem to mostly ditch the russian state line that was so popular just up until recently. While understandable due to the sheer power of soviet and then russians propaganda, it still were very diminishing for us. And I'm really thankful that the change is happening and that we finally get our own agency in the eyes of other countries. In a globalising world, it's really important to be recognized as a legitimate actor and such videos really help even if those have some simplifications. I'd not expect anyone to fit in our whole history in a ten minute video. P. S. Loving your videos for a long time, especially ramblings about Italy and it's art!

The ending bit about the warship quote is especially funny given that the very warship they were referring to just got sunk the other day.

@wheeliebeast7679

2 жыл бұрын

It didn't literally F itself, but it did go down on itself.

@keirgomcginlay2044

2 жыл бұрын

'Fine! If you won't f*** yourself, we'll come over there and do it for you.'

@a-drewg1716

2 жыл бұрын

and the Russian flagship and pride of the fleet the Moskva was just sunk as-well after getting hit by 2 Ukrainian anti-ship missiles.

@shk0992

2 жыл бұрын

And to top it all off, they put that quote, along with said warship, on a stamp for Ukraine Post. It's already sold out

@festethephule7553

2 жыл бұрын

@@a-drewg1716 That is the ship being talked about, yes.

Thank you, as a childhood immigrant from Ukraine to the United States, I never learned much about the history of my homeland. It's nice learning about, and seeing others acknowledge Ukraine as it's own history, not just as a part of russia.

@maxfowler9476

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

@cllncl

2 жыл бұрын

@@cppdeveloper I'm Ukrainian, over 90% of the things shown in this video are correct. Obviously, there are some inconsistencies, and a lot more that even I don't know of, but it's accurate.

@paulvalor8022

2 жыл бұрын

@@cllncl and the biggest is to call it "borderlands". Makes me mad.

@stormshadow5283

2 жыл бұрын

There is no history of Ukraine cause there was no historical Ukraine until quite recently. It is like talking about ancient US history, or ancient Pakistani history or ancient Australian history etc. Its ridiculous frankly that you are trying to appropriate the ancient history of Russia and present it as the history of an artificial state like Ukraine.

@cllncl

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 Average Russian bot

Novgorod (a city adjacent to all of this) has a very interesting history that you would probably enjoy. We have a treasure-trove of their written documents - Novgorod had a fairly high literacy rate, they wrote on birch-bark which was preserved by the local soil. And among these is Onfim, one of my favorite historical figures. Onfim was a bored schoolchild who liked to doodle on his homework. So we have pages of practicing letters with little doodles of Onfim as a monster yelling "I AM A WILD BEAST" or Onfim as a knight fighting some kind of creature, or going on imaginary adventures with his (probable) teacher. Even one of "GOD PLEASE HELP YOUR SERVANT ONFIM" It's all great.

@thugcoffin6204

2 жыл бұрын

What does the history of Novgorod has to do with Ukranian history. It's literally was always a town of Russian descendants

@alexisastrovsky3102

2 жыл бұрын

так росиияне новогород то вырезали и практически уничтожили, кек

@andrewmelnikov292

Жыл бұрын

@@thegoodhornet ^this.

@kyrab7914

9 ай бұрын

You know I've wondered about that bc Onfim could be close to one of the Nordic legends I believe.

Great video, although there's one thing I want to point out: At around 2:27, you represent the slavic culture with the "kolovrat" symbol. While the symbol is very prevalent in its depiction online as some sort of piece of folk history, there is actually zero ethnographic evidence of it being an old traditional symbol. The symbol first appears in a early 20th century polish artist's works, but neither were his works historical, nor was the symbol named "kolovrat" at that point. In fact, it seems like the symbol was first named and openly used by russian neonazi orgs in the 90s, and later popularized by neopagans (although there are plenty of nationalists within slavic neopaganism, neopagans are at least not inherently evil, but their usage of the symbol is still not backed up by history). One could argue that, since swastika-like symbols are quite old, simple and were wide-spread before the nazis, there's no reason that slavic people couldn't have used the kolovrat symbol. While this is correct, at that point there is no reason to actually use it as some sort of main traditional slavic symbol, since we have actual evidence of other, much more prominent ones. In either case, you can read about this yourself, and I hope that you understand that this symbol shouldn't really be used to represent slavic culture and that it has some strong associations with neonazis. By the way, I really don't want to imply that you are malicious or anything, there is a *lot* of misinformation out there concerning slavic culture and paganism, it's very easy to be misled when it's the first thing that appears when you google it. I myself struggled with this problem when trying to do research for worldbuilding a universe inspired by slavic folklore.

@bragunetzki

Жыл бұрын

@@Liminal-Lagomorph See, just because the kolovrat looks like a swastika/sun wheel, which are simple symbols that were used by different cultures throughout history, doesn't change the fact that, in this case, the nazis literally invented both the name and the meaning. If it was an actual old symbol that was appropriated by nazis, I might agree, but again, we have no evidence of kolovrat being historical. Also, while I'm sure that, in general, many Rodnovers acknowledge that they are filling a lot of the blanks, the unfortunate state of the internet right now is that elements made up by Rodnovers are very often presented as historical knowledge. Also, while nationalism often serves a purpose against imperialism, I wouldn't go as far as saying that there's "literally nothing wrong" with it.

@simon8242

Жыл бұрын

What do you think is a good symbol to use to represent ancient and/or just very old Slavic culture? I've have not seen many Slavic symbols in general and it would be interesting to know one, I've seen one for the Romuva religion in games such as EUIV and Crusader Kings 2 which uses the representation of the world tree, but I don't know how fitting that is for early Slavic culture in general.

@vermilionrubin

8 ай бұрын

@@simon8242 Maybe Perun's Axe?

I'm a ukrainian from Odesa, been following the channel for a while. I'd say that among all the westerners trying to condense our history in an approachable and user-friendly 10 to 15 minutes video, you've done a good job. A bit too condensed on some "controversial" XX century events that define our relations with the neighbors to this day. But knowing the author's aversion to the modern history, that's understandable. Also bonus points for trying to pronounce our new military motto in the end, you've managed better than most politicians. XD

@betelgayze

2 жыл бұрын

i just wanted to say that uhh omg?? im from odessa too! :0

@ACey96

2 жыл бұрын

I'm Irish not from Ukraine but when living in Moldova I visited Odessa 4 times and what an amazing city, it is beautiful and the people seemed so genuine And i will be back again I even liked it more than Kiev Maybe it was the smaller city/population that made it just seen so much more familiar

@macanaeh

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, as a Ukrainian I wanted to ask you something. What's up with Stepan Bandera? I heard different accounts of his life, some portraying him as a monster and a collabo, some as a freedom fighter and a true Ukrainian hero. What's your take on him? I'm not sure what to believe

@cultistofsomething3517

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know where you got the info, Bandera is considered a hero in Ukraine. There is literally a song with lyrics "Our father Bandera, and Ukraine-mother"

@elSidUA

2 жыл бұрын

@@ACey96 True, Odesa is a much more "chill" city overall. Many people move here from Kyiv to rest from the fast tempo of the capital. Even now, during the air alarms, most people just accept the fact, "keep calm and carry on" style. Kyiv, IMO, has much more stuff and more things happening there, but in Odesa we have the sea and that's important XD

I noticed that I kept saying "the ukraine" when discussing current events and couldn't figure out why for the life of me. Thanks for explaining and proving it wasn't a localised Mandela effect!

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

I keep seeing people call it that as well!

@BradyPostma

2 жыл бұрын

The phrase "the Ukraine" is how the Soviet Union referred to the area as a constituent part of itself, denying its sovereignty or nationhood. During the Cold War, the first world and second world both mostly used that phrasing. "Ukraine" without the definite article "the" is how nationalists have referred to themselves, and has been the official and proper phrasing continually since Ukrainian independence was recognized in 1991. Saying "the Ukraine" is almost like saying "You should be part of Russia again."

@suedenim

2 жыл бұрын

@@BradyPostma I am still confused by some of this, particularly since Russian (and I think Ukrainian too?) don't even HAVE definite articles! Maybe "the Ukraine" was used by the Germans?

@Alias_Anybody

2 жыл бұрын

@@BradyPostma They actually displayed a ton of patience about that already. Imagine for example saying "the Scotlands" once and not gaining an enemy.

@kavky

2 жыл бұрын

Because that's what Russian speakers have been calling it "the krai", and English speakers have transliterated it. It's name means The Borderland, because it's on the side of the Russian heartland.

Я був підписаний на цей канал досить довгий час і був дуже здивований побачити історію України. Дуже дякую Тобі Синій і всім хто працює над цим каналом. Бажаю вам всім удачі! I was subscribed to this chanel for quite some time and i was werry surprised to see history of Ukraine. Thank you werry much Blue and everyone who works on the chanel. Wish you all good luck!

@DonetskiLetsplayshik

7 ай бұрын

Тепер його звати Тобі Синько)

They've never called themselves "the Ukraine" because Slavic languages don't have articles. Edit: Except Bulgarian.

@magister343

2 жыл бұрын

The real change was in the kind of proposition used to say that someone is "in Ukraine" or "on the border"

@RedXlV

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, it's simply that translating it to English as "the Ukraine" instead of "Ukraine" is seen as insulting by Ukrainians. Kind of like how they want their capital written in English as Kyiv rather Kiev.

@sana3843

Жыл бұрын

The is only used before couturiers if they are in plural, if a country has a political title in its name, or if it refers a group of islands or territories. It makes no sense to say the Ukraine unless you imply that it’s not a country but a part of different entity.

@slook7094

Жыл бұрын

@@sana3843 The Gambia is singular.

@QualityPen

Жыл бұрын

@@RedXlV Who is “they” exactly? A little less than half of Ukrainians use Russian as their primary language, and only several decades ago that was the majority of Ukrainians, before Ukrainization kicked into gear in the school curriculum there and speaking Ukrainian became the patriotic thing to do. In other words, the majority used to say Kiev, not Kyiv, and many in the country still call it Kiev. There are cities in Ukraine where this difference is even more ridiculous. Kharkov was changed to Kharkiv, except basically nobody living in Kharkov calls it Kharkiv. While we’re correcting English pronunciations of foreign names: Moscow -> Moskva Russia -> Rossiya (Ethnic) Russian -> Ruskiy Crimea -> Krim Though I suspect you won’t be as enthusiastic towards correcting your pronunciation of those…

I’m glad that your helping to educate the people on the past to help them have a better grasp on the present. Thank you Blue.

@frownyclowny6955

2 жыл бұрын

Love your pfp and name

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

I HATE people that HATE other people. The comment I respond to did not spread HATE. That is good. BUT! I get a lot of HATE comments on my amazing videos and I HATE it. Please don't start spreading HATE. Do I have to HATE you too, dear dri

@carlosroo5460

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

@stormshadow5283

2 жыл бұрын

There is no history of Ukraine cause there was no historical Ukraine until quite recently. It is like talking about ancient US history, or ancient Pakistani history or ancient Australian history etc. Its ridiculous frankly that you are trying to appropriate the ancient history of Russia and present it as the history of an artificial state like Ukraine.

@drilltotheheavens1695

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormshadow5283 Bayraktar

What makes that iconic ending quote even better is that said battle ship actually did sink couple days ago. Oh, and said ship costed like billion euros and Russia only had 3 ships of such class

@alhemicarka

2 жыл бұрын

It's even better (or worse, depending on the side)! The ship cost some 1.3 billion euro in 2010. Right how that would be just about 3 billion. Plus, the ship, Russia's one and only, currently irreplaceable warship in the Black Sea, got mauled by a nation with no navy to speak of. They hit them with the Neptune missiles from land.

@alyssaagnew4147

2 жыл бұрын

If there's one thing I've learned about Ukrainians since this whole war started, it's that they're no pushovers.

@xenon4888

2 жыл бұрын

It is also ironic that this ship was built in Ukraine.

@Revenante_of_Asylum

2 жыл бұрын

Fool, the ship is not sunk, it has merely engaged its top secret improvised submarine mode!

@luigicampo4008

2 жыл бұрын

On the anniversary of the Titanic's sinking no less.

6:02 - I can just imagine the absolute mirth and glee that was had as suggestions were shouted out, and included alongside their dictation, followed by uproarious laughter in the draft of that letter.

Best summary of our history from a foreigner on youtube! All the names are correct, like "Kyivan" and "Volodymyr", along with other details. Dyakuyu!!!

As a Ukrainian it's still kinda crazy for me to see how my favorite channels all talk about my homeland. All this support makes me feel like me and my country are an integral part of the wider world. I really, really appreciate that. This is something worth fighting for.

@t3chkn1ght

2 жыл бұрын

I just hope you and your loved ones are alright. Let's hope that peace arrives soon. Проклятий Путін! Слава Україні!

@gunterxvoices4101

2 жыл бұрын

It is because it is important to money smuggling and recently got outed in the Pandora Papers. The US never defends anything unless there is money involved.

@vytczka

2 жыл бұрын

Hold on, brothers! Lithuania will never forget or forgive them for what they are doing to you. Valhala may soon run out of place for the heroes in Mariupol.

@Don-ck1ot

2 жыл бұрын

I’m jealous no one cares for my country :(

@cloudstrife4534

2 жыл бұрын

@@Don-ck1ot Whichever country you’re from, it’s worth caring about, and I’m sorry it doesn’t get brought up much :)

As a Russian I thank you dearly for uploading this video and talking about this important topic. I never was interested in history, knew only the basics of it, though from literature classes and my grandfather being from Ukraine it felt like they were different people. And then I started university, and nearly the first history lesson I had there was basically about how Ukraine is nothing but extension of Russia. A month ago we had this lecture repeated, to hummer down the point -- the war is good, and thinking otherwise is stupid... Thank you for talking about it, and reminding me once more what I already know -- everything that my official teachers say about it is total and complete bullshit.

@alsy6813

2 жыл бұрын

@Idontknowmynamelol 17 thank you. And I really hope it will be. You know -- if I may talk about my personal story here -- propaganda is so strange. My family is sure that *I* am the one who was brainwashed by Western propaganda. I've been called a traitor of my homeland for expressing my views, saying that any war is unacceptable, and being part of LGBT. My grandmother, in the heat of an argument, told me people like me should die because we destroy our country. I remember being a child who liked daydreaming. One of the stories I came up with was about a war, Russia against the whole world, and I remember imagining myself being a hero, saving my homeland from the Western countries that had attacked us. I remember thinking about this and believing it could happen, and now I find myself watching a real war, and my country is the one who has started it, the one attacking and taking innocent lives and committing crimes that I have only before seen in films about German Nazis -- those films that talked about how my country has defeated them! And now I can't help but wish for my country to lose, so this madness can end, so there's no more death and destruction -- all while fighting with my family. Arguing with my grandmother, whose husband is Ukrainian, over whether or not Russian soldiers are saving people there. And how can I argue if to anything I say they have quick answers -- that I'm too young, that I know nothing, that I'm brainwashed by the internet? And how can I not question my sanity if all around me is this -- Zs (which is the symbol of the war) on banners and windows of cars, obligatory propaganda lessons and god save me from ever seeing a TV screen, if even the word *war* is banned from any official news, and medias using it banned as "foreign agents"? Videos as this one, comments under them are so damn important, because it reminds me that it's not me being crazy for saying that a war is wrong. And that maybe this will actually end one day. I no longer believe I can wake up from this nightmare to the reality where my country hasn't sacrificed thousands of lives, Ukrainian and Russian, for nothing but stupid ambitions. But maybe there is the future in this crazy reality where the war ends, and Putin is gone, and new people lead Russia, those who actually show remorse for what's been done and help fix this, and that maybe I can hope that one day Russia will be accepted back in the world as a friend, not an enemy, and will be a friend, not... this.

@mycorner7894

2 жыл бұрын

@@alsy6813 hi, Ukrainian here. I'm so glad I stumbled upon your comment. Everyday while reading the news it seems like my hate for Russia hits a new high, and I feel like there's almost no hope left in me for the Russian people. But reading your comment returned me to the reality. Russian government wants us to think, that everyone supports the war, but it is not true. I feel your pain, and I'm sorry for what you have to go through, you deserve to be in a much better situation, just as a lot of other conscious people in your country do. I won't lie, from the look of things I don't think that Russians are going to rise up to defeat the evil, but I wholeheartedly hope, that they do, for the sake of saving innocent lives on our side and yours.

@Servo_M

2 жыл бұрын

@@alsy6813 Keep a good hold on the hope, God bless you all.

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

@@alsy6813 Remember: they're telling you one thing, but the rest of the world is demonstrating that what they are saying is completely different. Anyone who insists they are right and the world is wrong has malfunctioned. _They_ have malfunctioned. You are not the problem. Also: I've been worrying about my fellow LGBT+ folk in Russia since 2014. Please keep safe!

@alsy6813

2 жыл бұрын

@@mycorner7894 thank you for your answer and understanding. In return, I'd like to tell you a few things, if I may. Firstly, there are much more those who don't support this war than it seems. I talked about my family in these comments, about the older generation, because these are the once affected by propaganda the most. I've got a few cousins. They understand what's happening, they are scared and grieving just like I am. The youngest one had a close friend in Ukraine; he hasn't wrote her back since the invasion started, and she has spent the first month barely sleeping from worry. She's not the only one. Many of us have people we know in Ukraine and, true, there are those who believe propaganda more than words of actual human beings, but there are those who understand and want to help. I personally know a few people, who has sent money to Ukraine to the military funding before it was made impossible, and even then -- I have found a way to do so again, and maybe others have, too. I know those who are angry and scared and want this to end, but are too scared to speak up about it where they can be heard; this is the thing -- speaking up now is a dangerous idea that gets punished harshly but leads nowhere. Until more people understand what's going on and are ready to act, it's a sacrifice that won't change anything. I hope the time will come, with sanctions and the defeat in war hurrying it, when there will be a chance. I want to also tell you that, even if it hurts to know that the hate between our countries exists, I understand it fully. You have every right to hate us. Our army is the one who came to your land and started killing your people. I would hate us if I'd not be stuck on this side, too. I thank you for seeing beyond this emotion, for sharing your empathy with me. I hope that this understanding will exist after the war, too; that, if not now, if only in years, when the war is over and Putin regime is, too; when Ukraine is rebuilt and Russia admits its crimes and pays for them, when we pay for the crimes committed by some of us -- I hope there will be understanding and forgiveness after that. My grandfather and mother described me what Kiev looked like when they were there, and I have dreamt of visiting it one day. I hope there will be a day when this happens, even if it will take years of work to get there. To end this message, I want to tell you one last thing. In 2018, when Putin was elected for the last time, I was too young to vote. I have the right to do so now, but nobody seems to want to listen to me; they will have to eventually, though. My youngest cousin will turn eighteen in two years, and thousands more people will with her. People who don't support these atrocities, people who want change, people who will be old enough to act for this change to happen, all while those in power now will die whether they're helped or not. Russia will change, and I know it. Its only the matter of time. And... yes, it's not of much help to you. Its already too late for too many Ukrainians, and those fighting a war cannot afford a few years of waiting. Those deaths will never be undone, but when you win the war, -- and brave people like you will, -- we'll try our hardest to sort out things in our country so this can never happen again. Stay safe.

Як Українець, ставлю свій Лайк. As a Ukrainian, I give my Like.

i cant wait for more videos on my country and culture, especially the myths, we have so many that got a bit lost but it would be amazing, i was waiting for one day for my favorite channel to do a video on it! bc there's just so much and im sad people didn't really care till now, we have a super cool culture! so even tho the timing is a bit im really thankful! thank you so much!!!

I’m so glad you had time to mention Saint Olga, she’s such a legend. How many saints do *you* know that buried men alive and burned a city to the ground with pigeons. (Even if the story is probably greatly exaggerated if not 100% BS.) Edit: Also small thing and I know the Cossacks are complicated but they weren’t just Ukrainian Orthodox, there were Catholics, Tatar Muslims, the fact they were so multicultural was apart of their appeal to basically anyone who wanted to flee their serf lives and take to the open steppe, as one Cossack leader said “Cossacks aren’t a culture, it’s a lifestyle.”

@teekaa2520

2 жыл бұрын

Saint Olga of Kyiv, a f***ing legend!

@BoojumFed

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Cossacks were as multicultural as they could be for the time. Anyone and everyone escaping serfdom from the surrounding areas was welcome. Orthodox or Catholic? Get on the horse. Muslim? Horse. Get on it. Jewish? [*hands them a saddle] Ride, man. Ride!

@arshiaarjomandi6279

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that is not what saint are supposed to do

@seanmcloughlin5983

2 жыл бұрын

@@arshiaarjomandi6279 what’s your point person within fire pigeon distance?

@carlosroo5460

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

As a long time subscriber, I want to say: thank you. Thank you for bringing light to our long and complicated history. Ukraine has some historical stuff that is absolutely unique while also being absolute bangers, such as Cossacks which I believe deserve to be better known to the world. The spirit of freedom, strong will and desire to be absolutely cheeky is in our blood and history. And I would like to thank you for shedding some light onto it. Much thanks from Ukraine. We WILL prevail.

Thank you for this video. You did a good job! Maybe a litttle condensed and skipping over interesting details, but the narrative is very much Ukrainian. You get it. Thank you, among a lot of other "historians" this is a very much needed presentation of topic. Bonus points for calling genocide a genocide and war a war. 💙💛

Thank you for pushing this up in your release schedule. I found it very entertaining and educational.

My mom's entire side of the family is Ukrainian, with her grandparents all coming from Ukraine. I'm really happy that you did this video. Thank you for also acknowledging that it isn't "the Ukraine". 💙💛

@johnwagner370

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too!

@HenshinFanatic

2 жыл бұрын

Hej tam gdzieś z nad czarnej wody, siada na koń kozak młody, czulej żegna się z dziewczyną, jeszcze czulej z Ukrainą. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku. Wiele dziewcząt jest na świecie, lecz najwięcej w Ukrainie, tam me serce pozostało, przy kochanej mej dziewczynie. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku, hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń Żal żal za dziewczyną, za zieloną Ukrainą, żal żal serce płacze, już jej więcej nie zobaczę. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku, hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń. Wina wina wina wina dajcie, a jak umrę pochowajcie, na zieloną Ukrainie, przy kochanej mej dziewczynie. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku, hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń. Sława Ukraina! Do piekła komunistów i inny socjalistów!

@eshbena

2 жыл бұрын

@@HenshinFanatic Even Google translated into English, that's beautiful.

@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus

2 жыл бұрын

I don't really get why this is supposed to be offensive? Plenty of other countries have this little "the" prefix too, like the Netherlands or the Philippines. In my native language (German) we always say "die Ukraine" (the Ukraine).

@Tatianna1143

2 жыл бұрын

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus The reason it is considered offensive is because when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, it was referred to as "the Ukraine". Ukraine is it's own country, not just a territory

4:10 fun fact, this is where the element of Ruthenium on the Periodic Table got its name, it was discovered in Ukraine and as such was named after the country's Latin name

@wingedhybrid16

2 жыл бұрын

That's so cool! :D

@Sedobreev

Жыл бұрын

Lies, it was opened by a German-Russian chemist Karl Claus in Kazan, and was named after his mothetland, as he said - Russia. In the international language of science, The Latin - Ruthenina. no one separated the history of the only east slavic state of the past and the only east slavic state of their present

@ulphilas4953

Жыл бұрын

Wikipedia: 1) Russian-born scientist of Baltic-German ancestry Karl Ernst Claus discovered the element in 1844 at Kazan State University and named ruthenium in honor of Russia. 2) Choosing the name for the new element, Claus stated: "I named the new body, in honour of my Motherland, ruthenium. I had every right to call it by this name because Mr. Osann relinquished his ruthenium and the word does not yet exist in chemistry."

Hi! Thank you so much for making this video. I am a Ukrainian who lived abroad for a while and when in previous years I wanted to find English-speaking content about Ukrainian history it was a baren desert, which always hurt, as I saw so many nation's histories being told, but not ours. Knowledge is what empowered our ancestors to fight, it is what today allows us to stand and speak that we are our own country, so thank you for spreading it!

It is also important to point out that despite the rocky situation, Cossacks had one of the earliest written constitutions in the world claiming independence: "Agreements and Constitutions of Laws and Freedoms of the Zaporizian Host was written in 1710 by Pylyp Orlyk, hetman of the Zaporozhian Host. with only San Marino's constitution being earlier at 1600 (as far as I can find)

@SimonAshworthWood

2 жыл бұрын

The Magna Carta was written centuries before that and Hammurabi’s laws were written millennia before that.

@willydawiller

Жыл бұрын

@@SimonAshworthWood Magna Carta can hardly be called a constitution as it only governs relations between the king and his immediate subjects, not the whole realm barring the one clause about freemen. Shiluks claim holds true if we only consider 'democratic' constitutions

Fun fact: As of this writing, the Russian warship told to perform anatomical improbabilities is on special extended deployment to the Black Sea Artificial Reef Project.

@dansmith1661

2 жыл бұрын

Sunk by the ghost of Kiev and funded by biolab researchers.

@dogcarman

2 жыл бұрын

Epic crossreference there. Well done.

@martinnovacek9151

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... It's not "sinking", it's "special submarine conversion" :D

@robinviden9148

2 жыл бұрын

It’s on a special underwater operation.

@sailiealquadacil1284

2 жыл бұрын

Poetic justice.

I have been wondering when this video would appear for 6 weeks. Finally, it's here! Let's do some history...

@tananario

2 жыл бұрын

Finally? Really …

Thanks for your work; it's a pretty brief explanation of our history, but one of the most accurate for 12 minutes

I'm Kazakh, kinda a neighbor, but there're so much I didn't know about Ukraine, especially the letter about fricking off to a Sultan. I absolutely enjoy this type of format, even if it's not ment to be a full educational video. For me it's easier to learn everything from the surface level than learn 1 half of the century per semester in smallest detail, and trying to remember everything at the end. За Украину!

4:27 An important sidenote can be made here about the origin of Russia's name. "Russia" came into being when Ivan the Terrible of Muscovy (ie: Moscow) declared himself "Tsar of All Rus'" in 1547, in effect claiming that his realm was the successor state to the old Kyivian Rus', and therefore that Belarus and Ukraine were his rightful land. This idea, that modern Russia is the heir of the Rus', and therefore that Belarus & Ukraine are sub-units of Russia as a whole, was the basis for a lot of Tsarist and Soviet propaganda, and Putin's current rhetoric that Ukraine is part of Russia. That's also why you will often see 19th and 20th century Ukrainian nationalists refer not to "Russians" but to "Muscovites", because in Ukrainian eyes the government in Moscow has no right to refer to itself as such.

@JacksonJinn

2 жыл бұрын

Context. Sweet, glorious context.

@carlosroo5460

2 жыл бұрын

Bayraktar

@cristianvillanueva8782

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely based.

@WastedEfforts

2 жыл бұрын

Ivan the Terrible was Rurikid, thus in full right to the title. He's just one of the Rurikid princess who succeeded in reunification of Rus lands.

@stormshadow5283

2 жыл бұрын

There is no history of Ukraine cause there was no historical Ukraine until quite recently. It is like talking about ancient US history, or ancient Pakistani history or ancient Australian history etc. Its ridiculous frankly that you are trying to appropriate the ancient history of Russia and present it as the history of an artificial state like Ukraine.

based cossacks randomly becoming European cowboys is definitely the best part of Ukrainian history

@gamer228r

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah russians hate it absolutely , they say that we (ukrainians) have 0 relation to cossacks and that cossacks were just some "class" who began serving the tsar , which isnt true

@ketsugi8167

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamer228r funny how when there's something cool the ukrainians did, they're just gonna take it and claim it as theirs or just deny their existence overall. really sounding like a salty ex

@Cybernaut551

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, Europe & the Americas' cowboys would be cool to ride together.

@Alkarasu

2 жыл бұрын

​@@gamer228r well, it's rather funny how you rebuke one mistake with another. While cossacks only became a "class" sometime after they came to serve the tzar, their relation to modern Ukrainians are about the same as to the modern Russians. Cossacks first came to be as Orthodox Christianized nomads of the Wild Field, mostly keeping the culture and customs of the Steppe. Same as their non-Christian neighbors, they led the life of looting and pillaging, but preferred to raid Muslim and Catholic cities, which made them a natural ally to Orthodox Russia (and a natural enemy of Poland and the various Tatar khanates). Later they became a popular destination for the peasants running away from their masters (both Russian and Polish), and then were integrated as a sort of a warrior class into Russian Empire. But in any case, any attempt by Ukraine to claim them as their ancestors is funny, since if it was true, Ukraine would have to be moved to various places of Siberia and Kazakhstan - where most of the actual cossacks were resettled when their service as a border guard in Ukraine became obsolete. What remained was heavily diluted by Russian settlers pouring into the finally safe Wild Field, and the descendants of those settlers consist the vast majority of the current Ukrainian population (with the exception the part that was Poland up until the WW2).

@gamer228r

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alkarasu Well , that points would be true if that wouldn't be later which you already say in ur comment , they still were on land of ukraine , they still wanted to create a state which included ruthenian ethnic territory

"Longer story, the 2020's are a wild ride." Yup, that's an _entire_ mood right there.

Great video, Blue! Thanks for shedding light on this history. To any Ukrainians in the comments reading, your indomitable strength is nothing short of admirable. The people of the world have your back against tyranny. Your spirit is unbreakable. Slava Ukraini!

Blue: If I had a penny for everything I procrastinated a video on a country so much that said country went to f***ing war. I would have 2 pennies. Which isn't a lot but is weird that it happened twice

@spacepillow

2 жыл бұрын

What was the other one that he made go to war?

@me0101001000

2 жыл бұрын

@@spacepillow Hong Kong

@potatoguy8970

2 жыл бұрын

@@me0101001000 hong Kong when to war?

@me0101001000

2 жыл бұрын

@@potatoguy8970 you could say that. China passed the security act and invaded, violating "One Country Two Systems"

Have to say as a Ukrainian, this video ROCKS. I still don't quite understand how you managed to make a 12-minute video so detailed, and at the same time so entertaining. You are amazing.

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

He completely ignored all evil and Nazi shit you Khokhols love so much that's how!

Thank you so much for starting the episode with the work "the". I have been judging every KZread talking about Ukraine based on that word. You made me so happy.

I knew none of this before I watched this, this was a interesting video. It definitely helped me understand more about current circumstances

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

And it's missing all the Nazism, pogroms, and so on. It's pure Nazi apologia.

I am Ukrainian-American and there is alot of history and stories that I would like to share if that is alright. :) So most of my ancestors are Ukrainian all the way back to the Cossacks. There is...lets say alot of things about a state trying to become independent and what happened to our people along the way. There was always war, usually every generation there was always a major conflect. Which explains why compared to most European contires, we do not have many permanent and historical architecture. Other than Kiev, there are few noticible old landmarcks. Great great grandfather got married at age 18 because there was no woman to deal with the household chores. All the slightly older and stronger men usually die before marriage. Grandfather was interesting. He lived in Poland to have a better life, but WW2 came around. The german army did not couse much problems acutally because they were just kids, young me of 18-21. (Fun fact, that is when he first tasted chocolate) However when the gestapo came by, he fled. Came to the town of Obischi (North-West of Ukraine). He barley survived. People, like him, went to the food bins where pigs are fed, that's how much poeple were starving. The apologized to the people about intruding on the land and continued walking. But he eventually found a place to stay. His specialty was carpentry so he made a little living. Married my grandmother (Only Russian side in the family), and had my father. Now, this was the time during the Soviet Union. God, it was horrible. Stalin was horrible, it was a geniside. People were starving to death, it was a dying of a culture. Funnily enough, I would not say he was the worst. The guy after him, Nikita Khrushchev, was smart. He knew how to get to people and snag everything from them. First we supported people to celebrate Ukrainian culture, find out what made people tick, and the did the same as Stalin. He did this multiple times to take everyything down. Eventually when my father was born, things died down but still bad. Mind you this was a small town, not much happened. (Btw, you guys should watch Death of Stalin, very good comedy and alot of hiden truths) My father made a bet to a news-stand worker that if the Soviet Union fell, that he could get his bible on the rack. Few years later, it did. It was something people never considered nor belived. Another thing, people actuallyt believed that the American could bomb them. Hand to think but what other information do you have on the outside of the world? Not much. However since they were close to the border they could get some radio signals from the West and listen, lost of music btw. Also, everyone pronounces the satelite Sputnik wrong, even TO THIS DAY. Sorry, little banter there. Once the USSR fell, Ukrainian culture could be taught oncer more. They printed the first textbooks on newspaper because it takes time to make books and stuff. We lost alot of stuff, from music to poems, what practices we did, ect.. One of of my favorite things that got passed along is about marriage. If a woman did not want to marry a man, even if the families approved, she can hand him a pumpkin and there is nothing anyone can do. (To this day, my parents joke the reason why they got married is that they ran out of pumpkins that season.). Anyway, there are alot of stuff. As hard it is to say, we lost alot over the last two generations, something that can never be found. I am a man of music, playing in an orchestra, it is shocking how little music survived. I do not want to talk about the war here, too many things. But I think it time to finish this post. I hope you all enjoyed my ranting, not everday you can ask and talk to a Ukrainian-American. (Excuse my poor grammar) :) P.S. Blue, your Ukrainian is spot on btw, not bad :)

@slithra227

2 жыл бұрын

What instrument do you play?

@thecrazyukrainian1335

2 жыл бұрын

@@slithra227 The contrabass :)

@WildFyreful

2 жыл бұрын

I love the pumpkin bit. That's actually very cute. Man: "I want to marry you!" Woman: *hands dude a pumpkin and walks off* Do you have any idea where that practice originated?

@gavind351

2 жыл бұрын

I like it how it can't be any other gourd. Has to be a pumpkin. What other practices were handed down if you don't mind me asking? And how do you pronounce sputnik?

@oofshapedhuman4974

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Bless you Blue, for this video. We. NEEDED. This.

@brightonic

2 жыл бұрын

Okay Kaneko render of Aspharus.

@jamesmmcgill

2 жыл бұрын

Better call Saul, your neighborhood friendly lawyer.

@ContinentTurtle

2 жыл бұрын

If you needed this I'm afraid you have a terminal case of "I need shit fed to me and cant do research on my own"

@RichMitch

2 жыл бұрын

@@ContinentTurtle bayraktar

@yobaugst3369

2 жыл бұрын

@@ContinentTurtle This implies you are good enough to do research on your own, if that's the case, then what are you doing here?

Wow, glad to see this video. Thx! It’s not deep dive in history but a postcard of it. But this is a good one postcard thx again!

Really appreciate the informations , and the time you spend to make this vid happens

long time Ukrainian viewer here, just want to thank you for everything you're doing, your videos had actually provided me with some of the much needed distraction during the bombings

@t3chkn1ght

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you're safe

@johnproctor5314

2 жыл бұрын

Stay safe, friend. Slava Ukraini.

@DonPeyote420

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnproctor5314 thank you I'm trying to :) Героям слава!

Wow it’s like different cultures have their own history and right to self determination. How shocking!!!

@Stormwave6

2 жыл бұрын

A surprisingly hard concept for some to understand

@cllncl

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stormwave6 Not pointing fingers here, but...

@drakez3287

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Free Palestine!

@BlackLotusVisualArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Plus let's entertain the idea that Ukrainians are just "confused Russians". Even so, they deserve their own country. The idea you have to be a part of a country just because of your ethnicity is imperialism. By that logic Mongolia could invade Kalmykia since the Kalmyks are Mongols

@nicholaspaat7302

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackLotusVisualArchive they are NOT "confused Russians". They are Ukranians. Get that straight, and don't reduce their historical and cultural identity.

I have always enjoyed your content as the perfect mix of real educational perspective, humor, style, and brevity. As a Ukrainian-American, I have never felt more connected to the history of those who came before me than I do during this abomination of a war. I enjoyed every moment of this video, I donated (and thank you very much for that opportunity) and you brought tears to my eyes at the very end. You could have ended the VO at "worth fighting for" and it would have been tight. But that little extra bit just adds so much. I appreciate you. Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!

You did a very good job talking about a topic that we all need to learn about right now.

ukrainian viewer here, I'm so glad to see you make a video about our nation! thank you!!!

@UltraDonny5000

2 жыл бұрын

I hope Russia doesn't have to destroy too much more now that the Azov surrendered

I watch OSP more for the mythological "coverage", but it was a great video. I come from Poland and God only knows we had our difficulties, but you would be hard pressed to find many Poles who are not firmly on Ukraine's side right now. Slava Ukraini!

@stretopovermind9680

2 жыл бұрын

- I come from Poland - Slava Ukraini! A _Pole_ willingly typing a _banderist_ slogan. What a time I found myself in -_-

@ogladaczr.t.3168

2 жыл бұрын

@@stretopovermind9680 jesus christ. i have the same discussion under every other comment. THEN was THEN. NOW is NOW. Help the DYING people dont neckbeard about 80 years ago like us polish people do. its dumb

@CryptidFlame

2 жыл бұрын

@@stretopovermind9680 slave ukrani a banderist slogan lmao. Just cuz it was used by him last time in that context, doesn't mean the context can't change given the current situation.

@lucidnonsense942

2 жыл бұрын

@@stretopovermind9680 the slogan pre-existed being used by Banderites, it hasn't been used in that context for best part of a century - so you're really stretching here.

@stretopovermind9680

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucidnonsense942 The swastika pre-existed being used by Nazi, yet when some nationalist uses it - we all understand the allusions. And what do you know about the "current situation"? Are you aware of parades with Bandera's portrait in Ukraine these years? Are you aware of glorification of banderists in Ukrainian school History textbooks? No, I am not stretching here at all.

Blue, are there any other videos you're postponing? We need to know if any more wars are gonna break out.

i knew we'd hear from you on this ;) thank you - and masterfully done!

I'm kinda surprised you didn't start with Odessa and some of the other coastal cities getting their start as Bronze Age Greek City-states.

@OverlySarcasticProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Almost did, but cut for time

@tangentreverent4821

2 жыл бұрын

@@OverlySarcasticProductions because the nerds, myself included, who watch your videos get bored by details 🙄

@aulvinduergard9952

2 жыл бұрын

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Clearly you underestimate how long a video we're willing to watch.

@kjj26k

2 жыл бұрын

@@aulvinduergard9952 I think he meant _their_ time, as in he'd worked on this video long enough already.

@FellsApprentice

2 жыл бұрын

@@OverlySarcasticProductions very understandable, besides it gives you another video at some point in the future.

"Bayraktar" Still cant get over the fact that Ukraine was able to sink the flagship of the Russian black sea fleet, right on the anniversary of the titanic, but also conceived of the ultimate twitter roast: "Russian ship, what are you sinking?"

@Mac15001900

2 жыл бұрын

It's not sinking, it's conducting a special underwater operation!

@Its_Shio

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mac15001900 It's been promoted to a submarine for its honorable service, clearly.

@miguelpadeiro762

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mac15001900 Putin would do the world a favour by initiating special white banner procedures

@AegixDrakan

2 жыл бұрын

This thread has some REALLY hilarious jabs, I love it. XD

@paulgibbon5991

2 жыл бұрын

No, they didn't sink it, it blew up on its own. Also, Russia has sworn revenge on those responsible!

Thank you so much for the video! Just enjoying listening about our history from different people ^^ And this "Slava Ukraini" at the end...I just melted x)

@User58105

Жыл бұрын

Just keep it in mind. With that slogan" Slava Ukr. ..". Half of my family was wiped out... Thats history that should be taught too.

Probably the best video about Ukrainian history I've seen (including videos in ukrainian) Thank you for your hard work and for searching for such deep topics like Crimea's russification)

"Please invade us, we are having trouble with invaders" has happened a surprising amount of times throughout history.

@lysanamcmillan7972

2 жыл бұрын

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly I don't know why she swallowed a fly I guess she'll die

@letsomethingshine

2 жыл бұрын

"Your culture/etc is more like ours than theirs! Take everything so they do not!" Sounds about human.

@r3dp9

2 жыл бұрын

That sums up how I play Risk Online. "Hey, that guy screwed me over, so I'm gonna suicide my remaining armies against that guy and let you take all my stuff."

@rotomfan63

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the related and still shockingly common "We will invade you so they don't invade you weather you like it or not"

@eddthehead123

2 жыл бұрын

@@rotomfan63 "You are my brother/sister/friend/pet. Only I can bully you"

Accidentally procrastinating your way into a war-twice-has to be either the worst or the best luck.

One minute in and the most important thing has already been said. Real historians do not just dismiss hundreds of years of historical development.

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

Meaning they can ignore anything smaller than the century, explaining how they ignored all the Nazi shit, Holocaust involvement, Bandera, Azov, discrimination against Russians, the genocides in Crimea and Donbass...

Hey blue, could you make a video about Romani history? It would mean a lot

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

You don't have history since you can't steal it.

The Cossacks deserve they're own video too, Blue! They're essentially Vikings who learned to ride from the Mongols, and acted like Caribbean Pirates. They established their own communities where they didn't have to pay taxes called a Sloboda (Yes, I am pitching this because I am very likely a Cossack descendant )

@DaDunge

2 жыл бұрын

The tartars deserve one too.

@slobodatom96

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaDunge Might as well include the Cumans as well

@Howells13

2 жыл бұрын

Perfect description of Cossacks.

@mdjey2

2 жыл бұрын

Yarmak has cool rap song Voin about Cossacks. There is english translation as well.

@no_fun8294

2 жыл бұрын

And they live in literal Borderlands. This ain't no place for no hero, as it says

Its nice to see all my favourite history creators of various platforms unite to prove certain amateur Russian historians wrong that Ukraine is a country

@kevinhofman8369

2 жыл бұрын

Could you name some other ones so i can check them out for myself?

@Itcouldbebunnies

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevinhofman8369 TimeGhost History comes to my mind.

@kittykittybangbang9367

2 жыл бұрын

Wish people would do the same for Taiwan

@cllncl

2 жыл бұрын

@@kittykittybangbang9367 The thing about Taiwan is that it never 'formally' declared independence from China, although it's fully sovereign. I agree with your point though.

@sharwama992

2 жыл бұрын

@@kittykittybangbang9367 tiawan is China

10:00 You skipped over the part where Stalin deported almost all the Krim Tartars to Siberia and only like 1 out of 10 of them ever returned to Crimea, those who did found Russians had been moved in to replace them. This is the reason for Russian being the majority language not only in Crimea and but the entire south of Russia east of Ukraine. They simply wiped out the peoples who lived there and built Russian cities on the ruins.

As a Ukrainian I am very excited to see so many cool channels that are making interesting content on my motherland. Thank you for bringing the attention to details of our history and our culture in such harsh times and for your support as well! As for this particular video, it is well designed and structured and insanely informative as for only 10 minutes format. Good job! 🇺🇦

Nice to see you guys doing an event for this! Be careful out there! The Russians are not happy with these kinds of efforts. An online group I play video games with got DDoS’ed after we did an event for Ukraine! Anyways, let’s help support the aid efforts! Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 !

@__________________________953

2 жыл бұрын

Quite the opposite, I think it's important to shed light on Ukranian history (before it gets altered). Keep up the excellent work!

@troublemaker1778

2 жыл бұрын

Probably shouldn't use the broad word "Russians" as it implies that all Russians don't support these videos and events. All countries are filled with diversities of views and people

@tananario

2 жыл бұрын

@@troublemaker1778 D’oh. Also: water wet.

@troublemaker1778

2 жыл бұрын

@@tananario Ok, but a lot of people do gloss over that fact so it is important to emphasise it

@eshbena

2 жыл бұрын

@@troublemaker1778 I'm pretty sure that the thousands of Russians who've protested and those that have fled the country serve as a stark reminder that not all Russians feel that way. However, when we say 'The (insert country name here)" we are referring to the government of that country, not the citizenry. No one is under any illusion that the Russian people are free to express their highly educated and informed opinions on this war. :/

tbank you, Blue, sincerely for treating our history with respect (and a bit of humor, haha) I can now completely understand all the people under all the previous videos, saying how carefully you handle each peoples' history and culture during your discussions and a separate thank you for the disclaimer at the beginning, explaining that there's no "the Ukraine" and kudos on your Ukrainian, haha!

The history podcast Something True did a fantastic telling of Princess Olga's interesting tactics and I'm so excited to see "throw a boat you were carrying into the giant pit dug into the royal court" depicted here.

@katherinalastname7077

2 жыл бұрын

thank u for the recommendation!

Really enjoyed this video, thanks for making it

This is a great example of why understanding historiography (the way we study history) matters. What Western European historians view as a takeover by the Russian Empire, Russian historians refer to as a reunification of the Rus’, the “Gleaning of the Russian Lands.” What one calls Russification, the other calls de-Polonization. It’s complex, and explains why it seems like rhetoric on either side of this conflict often talks past each other. It can get messy, but understanding how we understand history helps us understand each other. Well done.

@KingZNIN

2 жыл бұрын

But we can all agree with the obvious aka the Russian government is wrong.

@CasualNotice

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone writes the history that makes them look best.

@alexanderthegreat6682

2 жыл бұрын

@@CasualNotice yet we have books on the Trail of Tears and Osage Murders written by white Americans that do the opposite. There are still people who value the truth.

@CasualNotice

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderthegreat6682 And how long did it take to write them? I started school being told that Custer was ambushed and finished it hearing that he was an egomaniac who killed his men by marching open-eyed into an overwhelming defense. It wasn't until I happened to visit the historical site that I realized that both reads were wrong. If you asked Jackson, the resettlements of the Trail of Tears were absolutely necessary.

@stretopovermind9680

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderthegreat6682 As you should learn one day, Alexander, the opposite of a lie is not always the truth. All too often it is another lie.

Good video! I hope there will also be a similar one about Belarus & Lithuania. BTW Fun fact: the Dnieper (Dnipro) river wasn't actually that beefy for most of the history. A bunch of hydroelectric dams were built in the Soviet period.

Nice video, I hope those videos will help people more to educate themselves with history

This is golden. Keep up the good work.

"Iron willed legends in defense of their country." There's that line from Babylon 5 "There are groups on Earth for whom the phrase, never again, carries a certain special meaning." Ukrainians I think have a right to be one of those groups.

@fedorustimenko3057

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because we know ALL TO F*CKING WELL what happens when "it happens again"

@sehfisch2350

2 жыл бұрын

which episode is that from?

@ScorpionViper1001

2 жыл бұрын

Zelensky channeling G'kar, "No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power tyrants and dictators cannot stand. The [Russians] learned that lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."

@joneubanks9686

Жыл бұрын

Another brainlet take.

@Free_Palestine_419

Жыл бұрын

Ukrainian nationalists literally engaged in a genocide and butchered over 360,000 Poles in the worst possible ways. They also helped the Nazis murder Jews in the Holocaust!

Isn`t the whole ”ukraneans are russians” technically backwards. Since Kievan Russia was kind of the first draft of Russia. On that logic shouldn’t Russia become part of Ukraine? (Not being serious just making a point of how nonsensical the idea is.)

@troublemaker1778

2 жыл бұрын

Kievan Rus isn't really Ukrainian or Russian. More so a mixture or proto version of both

@aulvinduergard9952

2 жыл бұрын

Well, once they kick the Russians out of their land they can see about marching on Moscow.

@arwedrv7125

2 жыл бұрын

By that standard the french are german... if you look away from a few centuries or so of violent proof to the contrary.

@christianschwietzke8959

2 жыл бұрын

By Putin´s own logic, Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians should all be Swedish, since their nations were ultimately founded by Swedish vikings.

@KaiOsaki

2 жыл бұрын

@@troublemaker1778 Precisely, otherwise you could say every country that was originally part of the Roman Empire should now be part of Italy, which is in itself ridiculous. The Kievan Rus era is shared history an should be seen and celebrated as such.

Hey, Ukrainian here. Video is great, details are in place. Keep up the good work. And thanks for the good words in the end of the video)

Wow, you dipped your toe into recent history, even Current Events (TM)! You're a braver person than I ;)

As a Ukrainian, I thank you, Some mild things felt wrong (borderland bit particularly, as even that is a language trap for non-speakers), but I do not have the strength to engage on those anymore. You did a great job my good fellow. The ending though!

@wheeliebeast7679

2 жыл бұрын

Putin Khuylo!

@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo

2 жыл бұрын

Was that insult to the sultan at least real?

@Cheebzsta

2 жыл бұрын

@@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" - Whether it was real or not it clearly was an accurate representation of the Ukrainian people.

@t3chkn1ght

2 жыл бұрын

I know the words of some stranger on the internet don't mean much, but I do hope you and your people make it out alive and well. Путін Хуйло! Слава України

@adambielen8996

2 жыл бұрын

@@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo It can be real in our hearts even if it's unproven.

I have no idea how you get our histories on point so much when others fail so hard in Anglo sphere. First you did absolutely awesome job with history of Poland, now Ukraine. Keep it up!

This video is incredibly interesting, informative, informational, and damn important.

You make history so engaging, Blue.

I can’t wait until these years are over and osp does a video covering the basics of everything from 2020-2024ish

@shadowdragon3521

2 жыл бұрын

If you think 2020-2024 is crazy, just wait until you see 2025-2030

@shadowldrago

2 жыл бұрын

@@shadowdragon3521 Can we not and say we did?

I feel like all of eastern Europe has gone ignored by the history books. Also I can't help but pull at my collar when I hear 'Novgorod'.

@troublemaker1778

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on whose history books you read

@Vitalis94

2 жыл бұрын

It all depends on what you read. If you're from English speaking country, it is no wonder Eastern Europe is totally ignored in your Anglophone books. Those focus on either Britain/America/Australia, ancient Romanogreek civilization and maybe bits of Western Europe at best. And then again, how much of Western European history does average person get to learn? Only the parts deemed as important. Eastern Europe isn't discussed, because it is viewed as irrelevant to that view. And also because of the Cold War, most of the sources about the region weren't available to the Western public. So the average guy doesn't know anything about the region. There weren't any movies made about it, at least English speaking ones. EE's history just isn't as ingrained im Western psyche. Was it available during the most of 20 century, I bet it would be more widely known.

@HenshinFanatic

2 жыл бұрын

Hej tam gdzieś z nad czarnej wody, siada na koń kozak młody, czulej żegna się z dziewczyną, jeszcze czulej z Ukrainą. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku. Wiele dziewcząt jest na świecie, lecz najwięcej w Ukrainie, tam me serce pozostało, przy kochanej mej dziewczynie. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku, hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń Żal żal za dziewczyną, za zieloną Ukrainą, żal żal serce płacze, już jej więcej nie zobaczę. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku, hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń. Wina wina wina wina dajcie, a jak umrę pochowajcie, na zieloną Ukrainie, przy kochanej mej dziewczynie. Hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy skowroneczku, hej hej hej sokoły, omijajcie góry lasy pola doły, dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń dzwoneczku, mój stepowy dzwoń dzwoń dzwoń. Sława Ukraina! Do piekła komunistów i inny socjalistów!

@wheeliebeast7679

2 жыл бұрын

*And Central Europe Let's not forget that Russia itself contains roughly 40 percent of Europe's land area - by most definitions, the geographic center of Europe is somewhere in the vicinity of the western border of Ukraine or Belarus. Really only Russia (excluding Siberia & Kaliningrad), Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova can really be considered "Eastern Europe" by any rational definition. Logically IMO, Central Europe includes the following: - Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast (the Baltic exclave) - Lithuania - Poland - Czechia - Slovakia - Austria - Hungary - Maybe the former East Germany or northern Romania With the Balkans being South-Central Europe, not Southeastern Europe - which in a truer sense is the Caucasus. Calling everything east of Germany that isn't Nordic "Eastern Europe" is only true from both a Russo-centric and Anglophone view of things. It really needs to go away as fast as should Vladdy la Putain.

@cllncl

2 жыл бұрын

Most of Eastern Europe was the USSR, so just talking about hell got kinda boring.

This is a really good summary video of Ukrainian history. Thanks for the great work.

Spectacular summary! Cheers from Ukraine! And thanks a lot for the support both financially and in terms of informational coverage.

My family was made up of Germans who had been given land in Ukraine by Katherine the Great. During the Holodomor, my great great grandfather and other Germans from his village staged a protest against the Soviets. Unfortunately, they were all massacred. My family got their land taken from them and were forced to move to Kazakhstan. Those who stayed behind were butchered or were sent to concentration camps where they were worked to death. Thankfully, they managed to eventually get out thanks to my great-grandfather, who, after almost dying in the gulag, made it his life's mission to not let his children and grandchildren suffer under the Soviets like he did. Even though I'm not Ukrainian, I still feel attached to that ancestral home of my family. Slava Ukraini! Langes Leben zu der Ukraine!

@sonofcronos7831

2 жыл бұрын

Never ask what agreement there was between germans and ukrainians from 1941 until 1944

@benjamintin136

2 жыл бұрын

@@sonofcronos7831 My family never even saw the German attack, since they were all the way in Kazakhstan by then. All my great-grandpa remembers was the awful starvation he and his family faced during the war.

@sonofcronos7831

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjamintin136 yeah, caused by Nazi Invasion, not a attempt of the soviets to being "evil" or denying people food. 20 million people died in Soviet Union as a result of Nazi Invasion.

@benjamintin136

2 жыл бұрын

@@sonofcronos7831 I know that. My point is, my family has suffered because of both communism and fascism. Both are just as bad as the other.

@benjamintin136

2 жыл бұрын

@@sonofcronos7831 Wait, are you seriously saying that the Holdomor didn't happen?

The tired "Longer story, the 2020s are a wild ride" is a perfect snapshot of what the last 2.5 years have been... And what's on the horizon for the next 7.5. Thanks for breaking the Rule and covering this.

If I had a penny for every time these guys procrastinated on a topic until it literally broke out into war I'd have two pennies, which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice.

As Ukrainian, I would like to say that it was an epic ending to the video. Glory to the Heroes! Heroyam Slava!