"He came down with a case of being shot." That's a very fatal disease.

@cyberdiver7076

4 жыл бұрын

Lead is a helluva drug

@TroelsF87

4 жыл бұрын

that’s not great but it isn't horrifying

@rock3tcatU233

4 жыл бұрын

Just walk it off.

@samuelmmmk181

4 жыл бұрын

Also an effective preventative. Tends to ward off other potentially aggressive males

@TotallyOriginality

4 жыл бұрын

The Courier would like a word

Fun fact: For 10 days, Kazakhstan was the USSR

@icecold1805

5 жыл бұрын

As in, Kazakhstan was ALL of the USSR for those 10 days?.

@Orrma

4 жыл бұрын

Correct. Kazakhstan wasn't "The USSR," it was simply an SSR. The Union was dissolved and all the other member states had declared independence. Kazakhstan remained, for 10 days mind you, the only Soviet Socialist Republic left over from the Soviet Union.

@cageybee7221

4 жыл бұрын

@@Orrma Not True, Transnistria technically still exists and claims to be part of the USSR still. in practace though they do not have the old institutions of communism such as Gosplan (the economic planning agentcy) or the actual soviet governmental system. they did get left with a boatload of old guns though.

@aguy3664

4 жыл бұрын

The Doo-Wop Stop so you could call it soviet union

@abbad707

4 жыл бұрын

Cool thx

"He transfered Crimea from the Russian authority to his native Ukrainian one" Yeah, sure, that won't cause problems later. No way....

@kieranwalsh2058

2 жыл бұрын

No problems whatsoever. None at all

@kohrenhund

2 жыл бұрын

Hyup. Nothing in particular.

@jj70098

2 жыл бұрын

He was Russian apparently not Ukrainian

@isyraf9989

2 жыл бұрын

This age like a milk

@marcrohden8300

2 жыл бұрын

the problems are still not visible

3:23 Entire world: *communist* Madagascar: BETTER DEAD THAN RED

@auritro3903

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@MrScruffels

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@kennethnwebb

2 жыл бұрын

hahahahahhaha

@casperhammerich356

2 жыл бұрын

No No, the collective communist states of earth made Madagascar into a big psychiatric hospital

@looinrims

2 жыл бұрын

@@casperhammerich356 playing Pandemic? I can believe it

"If we keep changing the name of the secret police, it will remain a secret."

@ursa_margo

3 жыл бұрын

You've got to admit that a "Ministry" sounds weird for a secret police. A "Committee" sounds much better

@hitemhard1991

3 жыл бұрын

Suupper seccret!

@merlin2935

2 жыл бұрын

You are a god damn genius

@weebishusername9288

2 жыл бұрын

3:10

@henrik3291

2 жыл бұрын

@@ursa_margo In the beginning all the ministries were called People's Commisariats, but Stalin decided that it sounded weird an renamed them ministries, with that all People's commissars were renamed ministers. NKVD renamed MVD (NK stands for Narodna Kommissariat somehting, which means Peopls's commissariats). VD actually stands for internal affairs, and so MVD was the ministry of internal affairs, and that kind of ministries are not that uncommon in the world.

People: the ussr dissolved because of an unstable economy Gorbachev: I want McDonald's.

@smartcaja6681

4 жыл бұрын

Pizza hut.

@ln7929

4 жыл бұрын

Pizza hut

@quisqueyanguy120

4 жыл бұрын

"Za Gorbachova!"

@gabagooom

4 жыл бұрын

Pitza Chwut

@Gia1911Logous

4 жыл бұрын

You mean PIZZA HUT?

Khrushchev: "Let's implement freedom of speech!" Civilians: "You suck!" Khrushchev: "Not like that!" Gorbachev: "Let's implement freedom of speech!" Civilians: "You suck!" Gorbachev: "Yeah... I guess you're right."

@salahabdalla368

2 жыл бұрын

He was so naive, what works in the US wont work with everyone

@lefroggy6233

Жыл бұрын

Tbh Gorbachev has a humiliation fetish

@lcdream4213

Жыл бұрын

@@lefroggy6233 nah dude I blame boris yeltsin, he's the reason it all went to shit, Gorbachev was just trying to do his best to make the country better

@ThePikminCaptain

Жыл бұрын

@@lcdream4213 I agree Yeltsin took advantage of Perestroika and Glasnost and dissolved the USSR

@-ragingpotato-937

Жыл бұрын

For his own good Gorbachev should have made things improve or suck less before implementing freedom of speech.

8:38 Ahh, yes, the two famous Baltic nations: -Lithuania -The Others

@TheRightGayGuy

2 жыл бұрын

It's true

@goodluckokereke

2 жыл бұрын

I hear more of Estonia that Lithuania

@anon3631

2 жыл бұрын

based

@skat0rzZzz

2 жыл бұрын

@@goodluckokereke depends on where you went to school

@chrissy9469

2 жыл бұрын

Latvia

"We will bury you" wasn't actually intended as a threat. "Bury" was used in the sense of "be present at your funeral" e.g. "We buried my grandmother last week." It was based on a Russian saying and essentially meant "we will outlast you."

@billvolk4236

5 жыл бұрын

A great example of a tiny translation error/misunderstanding that had effects on a global scale. Props to the interpreters at the UN who have to translate speeches in real time and catch every cultural nuance perfectly in one go.

@brandonlyon730

5 жыл бұрын

Still a bit of a ironic statement considering the exact opposite had happened in 1991.

@fenrirgg

4 жыл бұрын

"I will dance on your grave" is less confusing.

@bear8ful

4 жыл бұрын

@@fenrirgg nah not really

@johnw5584

4 жыл бұрын

Then why bang his shoe on the table? No one did that when grandma died.

I'll never forget a sign that a little old lady held during a protest in Moscow as the USSR disintegrated: "70 years on the road to nowhere".

@grrumakemeangry

4 жыл бұрын

oww :/

@kevinbyrne4538

4 жыл бұрын

@tu tu -- Time magazine featured a photo of a large demonstration in Moscow during the death throes of the Soviet Union. In the photo was a little old lady with a sign, "70 years on the road to nowhere". A very fitting epitaph for the USSR.

@thomasmaiolino

4 жыл бұрын

@tu tu you buy it

@comradewildcat1770

4 жыл бұрын

@tu tu Whenever people say life in the Soviet Union was bad, they are often exaggerating it. The Soviet Union saw many achievements in increasing the standards of living for everyone, especially compared to Tsarist Russia. What ultimately led to it's demise was it's extremely inefficient bureaucratic mess and lack of light consumer industry, it couldn't compete with the capitalist rest of the world. I should ask you to consider why so many in the former USSR actually miss it, and also not believe all the things said about the USSR at face value.

@MemeMaster-bg4mf

4 жыл бұрын

Comrade Wildcat Most people that miss the USSR are the elderly that miss receiving their state pension and bitter Russian nationalists. They don’t miss the USSR itself per se, they just don’t like what came after it.

RIP Mr Gorbachev, for your contribution in ending the cold war. ...and of course Pizza Hut.

@aperson6242

Жыл бұрын

Pizza Hut? How?

@NickIsSlick698

Жыл бұрын

he put the first pizza hut in the ussr

@beans00001

Жыл бұрын

All hail to Gorbachev

@thewafflehouse841

Жыл бұрын

A man who is revered by some but to some seen as the man who destroyed a great nation but to the man himself in his final few years he saw the many freedoms he had given to his people be stripped away and to be seen as a terrible leader he wasn't perfect sure but he genuinely believed he was helping and out of the few notable figures I would have wanted to meet and ask him about really his time in office and his ideas he had implemented and things he wish he could do differently may the man rest peacefully and I hope for the Russia people to have the freedom they had

@richieflores6617

Жыл бұрын

​@@NickIsSlick698 He was even in a Pizza Hut commercial only aired in the USSR.

I was in a grocery store back in 1992. A group of Russian sailors were there when one of them went beserk and starting shouting in Russian. He repeated one phrase over and over. I asked one of his friends what he was saying. He replied, “They lied to us! They said the line ups here were twice as long!” The sailor had grown up on a farm, and had never seen so much food for sale.

@loganb7059

Жыл бұрын

IIRC part of the reason Yeltcin started his reforms was because he made an impromptu visit to a grocery store while on a diplomatic visit to the USA. As the story goes, he was stunned by the fact that it not only was fully stocked, but with multiple competing brands, and the products weren’t crap. Don’t know how true the story is. Edit: corrected, it was Yeltcin, not Gorbachev

@jamespaquin5639

Жыл бұрын

What city ?

@johnearle1

Жыл бұрын

@@jamespaquin5639 Stephenville, Canada.

@anzelatoleikyte2083

Жыл бұрын

@@loganb7059, Yeltcin, not Gorbachev.

@loganb7059

Жыл бұрын

@@anzelatoleikyte2083 thank you.

Kazakhstan was the last to officially declare independence from the USSR (yes, even after Russia).

@russiaball7447

4 жыл бұрын

Russia: The Union is dead. Kazakistan what are you doing? Kazakistan: I AM THE SOVIET UNION

@michaelweston409

4 жыл бұрын

They wanted to be masters of the new empire

@eliasheikkila8307

4 жыл бұрын

@@russiaball7447 Is it a union then? Though, "I AM THE SOVIET" doesn't have the same ring to it...

@russiaball7447

4 жыл бұрын

@@eliasheikkila8307 yeah, you are right, i did it just for the joke

@iron60bitch62

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you think

Interesting side note, the secret speech and the Soviet communist party turning against the legacy of Stalin made Mao incredibly paranoid about his legacy and was a big part of what led to the Sino Soviet Split

@SoulDuckling126

3 жыл бұрын

Well, china change a lot but even deng xiaoping and pooh never touch him. PRC a Communist county with billionaires & millionaires!

@dickmonkey-king1271

3 жыл бұрын

Is his legacy that he is a complete twat too?

@robbieaulia6462

3 жыл бұрын

@@dickmonkey-king1271 I mean to be fair, if there is anyone who deserves "The highest kill count record" it would be Mao. Just think about it, he directly responsible for 55 million death meanwhile Hitler is only directly responsible for 12 million death.

@dickmonkey-king1271

3 жыл бұрын

@@robbieaulia6462 Reminds me of the 'bodycount' wars between Arnie and Stallone in the eighties. But you're right... no-one touches Mao. He was supreme dick of the 20th century.

@hgos7211

2 жыл бұрын

@@robbieaulia6462 Hitler launched wars, invasions and genocides. Mao was partly responsible for a famine that had a very high body count. Still very different.

To sum up, things that led to the decline and dissolution of the USSR: 1. Economic stagnation 2. Corruption and overspending 3. James Bissonette

@Void_Wars

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the US

@kindadumb916

2 жыл бұрын

@@Void_Wars yeah, James Bissonette is going to burn the country down.

@StraightEdgeSieghart

2 жыл бұрын

4. Kelly Moneymaker

@bsadewitz

2 жыл бұрын

One thing led to the dissolution of the USSR: Gorbachev ordered the government to stop threatening/killing citizens.

@stevenmaginnis1965

2 жыл бұрын

The USSR was the old Russian empire in a new package. The communists set up separate soviet socialist republics in four ethnic homelands in the old empire - Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and Transcaucasia. Russia and Transcaucasia were federations of numerous ethnic groups. These first four soviet socialist republics were united to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ethnic enclaves in Central Asia within the Russian Federation were formed into union republics, then the Transcaucasian Federation was split into Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, then the Baltic States were annexed and made union republics, and then Moldavia was created out of Bessarabia, which Romania was forced to annex to the Soviet Union. After the war, Karelia (along the border with Finland) was demoted from union republic status to a republic within the Russian Federation, bringing the final number of union republics to fifteen. These ethnic homelands had long wanted to be independent from Czarist Russia and the Russian-dominated USSR, and Lithuania got the ball rolling. Karelia will never be an independent country, though. I don't think there are that many Karelians left.

Would love to see a sequel to this video showing Russia’s evolution from post USSR reform to Vladimir Putin’s rise. Your ten minute histories were the best and most entertaining historical content on KZread and I’d subscribe to the patreon to get them back

@Godslayer5656

2 жыл бұрын

Would as well, but feel that may be too recent, really the last marking point we’ve had in history 1991, we’re still in a US dominanted world, maybe after another firm point in history has been marked.

@brettsnyder5858

2 жыл бұрын

yesssssssss! i was looking for one

@anguswaterhouse9255

2 жыл бұрын

We going to need one about pitons fall soon

@probablysomedingus75

2 жыл бұрын

@@Godslayer5656 lol we'll see how the year goes...

@mckenziestrib9187

2 жыл бұрын

@@Godslayer5656 i think we've had one now.

It's a bit ironic that the Brezhnev character here doesn't have eyebrows.

@WG55

5 жыл бұрын

That bothered me. "Where are the eyebrows?!"

@POCLEE

5 жыл бұрын

Or medals.

@theworldoverheavan560

4 жыл бұрын

@Judy G. Lol

@oilersridersbluejays

4 жыл бұрын

Brezhnev eyebrows were visible from Helsinki.

@nigeh5326

4 жыл бұрын

Ludwig van Beethoven ‘visible from Helsinki’ they were visible from space wobbling round the Kremlin

When Kruschev visited the US in 1959, he requested to specifically make a stop in Iowa so he could see some American farmland and how we do it. This is because Iowa has a fairly similar climate to places throughout the USSR, and so Kruschev thought he could gain valuable insights by visiting.

@headcanon6408

Жыл бұрын

No wonder he became obsessed with corn

@pokemaster123ism

Жыл бұрын

I mean, he did say that corn initially did very well, and it was the bad weather that did it in, so Khrushchev was definitely onto something

@gengis737

Жыл бұрын

@@pokemaster123ism Monoculture is a sure way to disaster when you try to adapt foreign agriculture. A soviet joke says that Kruschev identified the four problems of soviet agriculture: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

@Nerad137

Жыл бұрын

He stayed in a particular room at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. My wife and I stayed in the same room on our honeymoon. Because we couldn't possibly not...

@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit

Жыл бұрын

He should have also paid a visit to Ireland. Maybe he could have figured out why your entire country relying heavily on a single crop for food and trade was a bad idea.

"Back in the USSR" and shows Paul McCartney in the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band uniform. Just too good man, just too good

@the1sponge

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr I thought I was the only one to notice that

@nerfherder4284

2 жыл бұрын

Got that one too. The animations are hilarious 😂

@MikeMorton

Жыл бұрын

Loved this.

I love the funny phrases like "came down with a fatal case of being shot," and "a little bit assassinated." Brilliant writing.

Khrushchev actually said “we will see you be buried” but his translator was a little special in the head

@sandygehrmann6309

5 жыл бұрын

*Khrushchev

@sonicbro6446

5 жыл бұрын

@@sandygehrmann6309 Dank Kushchev

@masadda7

4 жыл бұрын

What I've heard is that it was meant to say we will outlast you as in communism will outlast capitalism but the original translation stuck in the heads of everyone.

@kles44

4 жыл бұрын

That means something different than what is quoted in English.

@zoedanforth7932

4 жыл бұрын

@@yousefghuniem5575 bro why are you unnecessarily throwing a tantrum?

"He came down with a fatal case of being shot." This is why I love this show.

@sabribeser2268

3 жыл бұрын

communism takes over the world madagascar:no

@georgeamesfort3408

3 жыл бұрын

"We don't do that here "

@Custerd1

2 жыл бұрын

A fatal case of lead poisoning.

@josephD32

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, killed to death.

@feonor26

Жыл бұрын

Another politician accidentally cut his own head off while shaving.

2:25 Joe Biden, is that you?

@garrisonnichols807

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing 🤣

The fact that Brezhnev's eyebrows didn't make it into the animation is disappointing...

The Death of Stalin was hilarious, Zhukov stole every scene he was in.

@kastiloshepherd1892

5 жыл бұрын

Fact ^

@ComradeHellas

5 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about the movie?

@KCJ1999

5 жыл бұрын

I fucked Germany I think I can take a fucking fleshlump in a waistcoat

@Erik-ko6lh

5 жыл бұрын

Zhukov had balls.

@MrBolas33

4 жыл бұрын

“Saddle up cowboy!” 🤣

Fun Fact: NYET

@mecha7419

5 жыл бұрын

Пет

@classic952

5 жыл бұрын

*no*

@darthXreven

5 жыл бұрын

another fun fact Nein

@jakartagamer6188

4 жыл бұрын

@@darthXreven jajajajajajajajaj

@rookieodst1376

4 жыл бұрын

jakarta gamer - superintendent!!!

You said that a couple of tanks led to the construction of the Berlin Wall, which would have made it a defensive structure. That’s not at all what most historians would say. 4 million Germans had fled from East to West Germany between 1949 and 1961, a quarter of the population. This ruined the economy and social infrastructure (think doctors and engineers). The Berlin Wall was built to lock up the remaining population, not to protect it from Western tanks. Important distinction.

@davespiller684

3 жыл бұрын

'Fled'. They moved because pay was better in the West, because the East spent its (far more limited) money on maintaining jobs and services for the poor. It's like saying Indian doctors in Britain 'fled' here.

@looinrims

2 жыл бұрын

It’s more the case of communist citizens had a way to compare their life to western life and the communist governments realized it was way worse so they had to stop them

@davespiller684

2 жыл бұрын

@@looinrims The citizens who were doctors and engineers, yes. For the people at the bottom of German society, the West was arguably worse.

@looinrims

2 жыл бұрын

@@davespiller684 the west wasn’t arguably worse How many people fled to the east? How many people make garbage rafts to escape capitalism and go to socialist or communist nations? Which system gets the ‘refugees’ of places? Exactly, as the quote goes “we don’t need to build walls to stop our people from leaving”

@davespiller684

2 жыл бұрын

@@looinrims You should maybe think about which nations went socialist and why, and then look at which capitalist countries people migrate to. Venezuelans aren't heading to Liberia.

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR It's shocking that throughout its eighty ish history they only had 7 leaders !

@Suksass

Жыл бұрын

Well, it existed for less than a hundred years so no surprise there.

@martinmorles1

Жыл бұрын

@@Suksass most countries have at over a dozen leaders by then or more the USA had 23 presidents by the time it reached 100.

@Suksass

Жыл бұрын

@@martinmorles1 USA was a democracy where no president could serve for longer than two terms, 4 years each. USSR was dictatorship.

@matthewmiller6987

Жыл бұрын

@@Suksass western rome in the fifth century only lasted 76 years and had 11 rulers (2 of which ruled for a combined 50 somthing years” the Soviets had pretty good stability once a leader actually took power

@Suksass

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewmiller6987 which leader? Cause Soviet Union had to contend with uprisings for entirety of its existance. Soviet Union was a powder keg of instability.

All the thuds when they die are hilarious.

@nigeh5326

5 жыл бұрын

And the Sgnt Pepper reference, although 'back in the USSR' is on the white album not Sgnt Pepper

@TheBluetwo26

4 жыл бұрын

I want a video of just reading off a date and name of a person followed by “ was dead.” Just like that but for like a thousand different leaders through history.

@livethefuture2492

3 жыл бұрын

The thud when Stalin died was probably the most wonderful sound ever heard by the people of the USSR and the world.

@aninditapaul9291

3 жыл бұрын

@@livethefuture2492 *saddest

There is one MASSIVE omission in your representation of Soviet history: You ommited Brezhnev's monobrow

@ruturajshiralkar5566

2 жыл бұрын

Unibrow

@Hannodb1961

2 жыл бұрын

@@ruturajshiralkar5566 Uberbrow.

@ruturajshiralkar5566

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hannodb1961 His Brows merged to become a one Supreme Being

@Hannodb1961

2 жыл бұрын

@@ruturajshiralkar5566 It must've complicated negotiations. Brezhnev: I must protest against the increasing presence of the US military in West Germany! US diplomats: Mooonsteeerbrooow!

@ricardokowalski1579

2 жыл бұрын

So unfair. Stalin got a mustache, but Brezhnev got his epic eye brows ommited.

3:22 I'm glad to see madagascar is immune to communism.

@Konmonachi

2 жыл бұрын

Based madagascar

The first 1/10 of this video is hilariously depicted in the recent 2017 movie, "The Death of Stalin." People should definitely watch it. Khrushchev was quite the sneaky schemer...

3:23 With communisim spreading through the earth, Madagascar is the last bastion of hope for the worlds capitalists

@amerain1729

3 жыл бұрын

MysticSharp And it is the global center of exonomy

@arthas640

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Hearts of Iron and similar Paradox Games. Sometimes you can take over a country and their government will be relocated somewhere random, I'm currently at war with England and after I took the British Isles their colony of Pakistan became the leader of the free world, ruler of the global British Empire, and Karachi became the global hub for trading. Luckily for me Goa is a friendly port and I have all these lovely Marines sitting around...

@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero

2 жыл бұрын

SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN

3:23 Madigascar would never submit.”, *King Julius Holds the Line*

@joshuajoe1419

3 жыл бұрын

lol Madagascar reference

@HaxeRoxas13

3 жыл бұрын

Julian >:(

@kdarkwynde

3 жыл бұрын

*Julien

@yakuisa6558

2 жыл бұрын

@@kdarkwynde you're*

@GamingWithChf

2 жыл бұрын

James Bissonette protects Madagascar.

I'm almost surprised that the video didn't end with Kazakhstan standing around confused as the last (and only) member state of the USSR for a brief period

1922 Dec 30th ~ 1991 Dec 26th = 68 years 360 days We were on the edge of perfection, we were this close to 69

Lol 3:41 Stalin's picture was replaced with corn 🌽

@antonzhdanov9653

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty accurate and a joke itself. Khrushev was a conductor of destalinization policy and of intensifying of extensive agriculture by planting of corn and cultivating of more land for corn fields. Actually that provoked the biggest anthropogenic disaster till Chernobyl happen. - Devastation of millions square meters of fertile soil in Russia, Kazakhstan and other middle Asian countries. Bcs, Stalin actually supported very correct farming policy of correct irrigation and mixed tree/fields agriculture areas. But Khruschev was kinda obsessed with doing everything not like Stalin and when you do something in area where you are not expert and don't listen actual experts..... Khruschev by first profession was a farmer but not an expert in agronomic area. Well, this would end ugly if you don't know what you do. And, oh, it turned ugly.

@charliespurr7325

3 жыл бұрын

@@antonzhdanov9653 I know that's why it's so funny 😂

@Kiwoeoe

3 жыл бұрын

yeah its Khrushev we called him Kukuruznik meaning Cornman xD

@charliespurr7325

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kiwoeoe that's great 😂

@StLouis-yu9iz

3 жыл бұрын

@@antonzhdanov9653 not to mention the draining of the Aral Sea :(

Fun fact: My mom was in Lvov in Ukraine during the Chernobyl disaster and only found out when her freaked out brother called From the US (Both had emigrated)

@Bartonovich52

5 жыл бұрын

I still think it’s amazing that the first the western world heard of the Chernobyl disaster was when radiation alarms went off in a Swedish nuclear power plant 1000 km away.

@freddy4603

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bartonovich52 that's what happens when you have an authoritarian government.

@eksdee2170

4 жыл бұрын

Fun (maybe not so fun) fact: My mom lived in Ukraine as it happened (since we're from Ukraine) before we moved to Sweden in 2004 and my grandfather was called in to help dealing with the disaster, he declined thankfully orelse he would be dead much sooner. Nothing serious happened to my mom tho or the rest of the family, but some nerve damages. Was born in '98 with slight mental problems, such as autism but not sure if that's related or not.

@slappy8941

4 жыл бұрын

He was delusional, because RBMK reactors don't explode.

@eksdee2170

4 жыл бұрын

Slappy Not great, not terrible, I’ll still rate your comment 3.6/69 roentgen

Gorbachev didn't make the country worse. A freer press simply reported what was previously suppressed on how really bad things were, so for people used to believing the lies of the previous governments that "all things are good", to be made to realize that they were horrible, would unfortunately and unfairly, make Mikhail Gorbachev's government look "bad". The same happens in many other, including "democratic" countries, when a new president from a different party allows the press to uncover the shit. He will be inevitably be blamed for "ruining the country ". People just don't think. They react.

"1953 and Joseph Stalin... is dead." The most thoroughly satisfying thing you've ever said.

@amir-ng6jv

2 жыл бұрын

It's a sad reality that he could only die once

@aceofr3ap3r21

2 жыл бұрын

It is a big relief

Mikhail Gorbachev also opened Pizza Hut in Russia. All hail Gorbachev!

@szahmad2416

3 жыл бұрын

Also went on a commercial for Pizza Hut because he needed money.

@suomi5475

3 жыл бұрын

All hail Gorbachev!

@Memelander

3 жыл бұрын

*Oversimplified

@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt

3 жыл бұрын

hey ive seen this before...

@nishiharach.

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt you have, yes.

Soviet history in nine words: "He came down with a case of being shot"

@arthas640

3 жыл бұрын

Replace "shot" with "had an accident and instead of cream he added cesium 137 to his tea" and you've got modern Russia in a nutshell

@anonUK

3 жыл бұрын

"Severe case of hypothermia due to a prolonged stay anywhere North or east of Moscow."

@SportyMabamba

3 жыл бұрын

Russian history in 4 words: “Then things got worse”

@skeletonjanitor

3 жыл бұрын

@@SportyMabamba sadly trye

@robbieaulia6462

3 жыл бұрын

@@SportyMabamba Yeah the Russian empire before the Crimean war is pretty much Russia at the height of it's power.

"A fatal case of being shot." One of the greatest lines ever

The Paul McCartney appearance when he says “back in the USSR” is AWESOME!

Corn wasn't Khrushchev's only secret weapon for food success. He also had red king crab specimens brought from the Pacific and were introduced to the waters around Murmansk.

@shipaskof8371

2 жыл бұрын

Never knew hed a case of the crabs

In the end, it's always economic failure that makes countries fall. Not lack of democracy, not riots and revolts, not bad press. When there isn't enough money, that's when everything comes crushing down.

@MrHAH-cd9ku

3 жыл бұрын

@@SaintGuyKenny The government’s incompetence made the country poor and the poor country promptly died.

@starwarzchik112

3 жыл бұрын

Unless you’re North Korea.

@MrHAH-cd9ku

3 жыл бұрын

@@starwarzchik112 North Korea was actually doing better than South Korea in the beginning. It was Famine that mainly led to it becoming one of the shittiest places to ever be born in, though losing the respect of fellow communist countries made it even worse.

@robbieaulia6462

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrHAH-cd9ku Yeah if anything most Decolonized country are better off staying as colony of Europe since most European empire after WW2 decided that their colonies require just as much living standards as Europe itself.

@SeanUCF

3 жыл бұрын

You can't really have one without the other. Bad economies lead to dictatorships and dictatorships lead to bad economies.

Fun fact, Gorbachev blamed the TV show Dallas for the collapse of the Soviet union more than anything. He said in just that half hour where someone snuck the show on the air caused viewers to think thats how Americans were living.

“You weren’t shot, you just lost your jobs” sounds very familiar to a similar country that was a rival with the USSR

@jacobtanner486

3 жыл бұрын

@@Godslayer5656 actually they’re mega corporations, all owned by 6 different companies, and all of them help influence political candidates and ideologies, selling not only products but their ideas, an oligarchy and communism are one in the same, except in communism the elite are supposed to give back, which never happens, so they are both the same thing, all the power Is owned by 6 people and the government, and the 6 people work with the government to increase their revenue while screwing the average person over, the difference is that we don’t have a planned economy, if we did we’d be starving rn, but the private sector is not private, it sure as hell isn’t a free market, it can never be a free market with 6 people producing about every single product we use

Gorbachev is really very underrated He is by far the most pro-democratic leader that Russia ever had Glasnost Perestroika may have eventually caused the break up, but as Gorbachev said once, "Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences." Truly the most progressive man in Russia's bloody history

@ufhb6649

4 жыл бұрын

I find it kind of stupid that the Soviet Union could have become a big powerful democratic state but everyone decided to go « screw you everyone, I’m going my own way now ».

@looinrims

Жыл бұрын

@@ufhb6649 half of them weren’t apart of the nation by choice, if you recall their histories

@Themehsofproduction

Жыл бұрын

I hate him with every cell in my body

@falconlewitteducation4941

Жыл бұрын

If Yeltsin never did a thing and if those communist hardliners never staged a coup d'état, the USSR would have survived and it would have followed Democratic Socialism. And citizens of all non-Baltic republics would not have faced such immense problems like poverty and and war.

@photlam9769

Жыл бұрын

@@Themehsofproduction Why? He literally gave people freedom of speech to which people formed there own states

I thought you were gonna try something twisty at the beginning like "Its 1953 and Stalin... is still alive"

@levus_

5 жыл бұрын

This video was underscoring and unfunny..

@ahmedabokar4786

5 жыл бұрын

Eeeeeey ur back! Keep makings vids man, I loved them

@maximusmedia8412

5 жыл бұрын

BadMouseProductions hello there comerade mouse

@DaisyGeekyTransGirl

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, hey, comrade, you a fan too?

@bulldogmadhav5762

5 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn’t expect to see you here

"Back in the USSR" I loved this Beatles reference!

The quick thump of the dying cartoons crack me up every single time xD

Madagascar stays capitalist whilst the whole world becomes communist? Damn imperialist Malgache !

@jimmytang8131

3 жыл бұрын

god bless madagascar

@carso1500

3 жыл бұрын

King Julien will not cede his throne to those filthy comunists

@torgeirstrnnes6487

2 жыл бұрын

It's just proof that communism is an infectious disease :D

@anonymousdetective3786

2 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 Gold comment, made my day. :)

@tkraccoon1368

Жыл бұрын

So what is the joke?

God damn I hate these premieres. You get excited for a video only to discover it doesn't exist yet.

@trisha6161

5 жыл бұрын

Top 10 anime plot twists

@jalmaritammela8642

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Its annoying.

@HistoryMatters

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I wanted to see what the fuss was about but it only seems like an excuse for regular creators (non-streamers) to get Superchats. I won't be using them again. Silly idea.

@jalmaritammela8642

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@cronoros

5 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryMatters you could have said it was a premiere for the soviet premier

I love how Khrushchev frolics through corn instead of daisies.

Madagascar will never fall.

Everytime an animated character waddles out with a sign saying something different I die of laughter. Well done man haha

@adamromero

3 жыл бұрын

The characters are hilarious!! 🤣

I laughed for some reason "Kruschev was a little obsessed with corn"

@karolmorales9027

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@aninditapaul9291

3 жыл бұрын

(Not so) fun fact: I am a little (very) obsessed with wheat.

i’m not sure if you will see this but i really enjoy your videos! they are so educational and interesting and your channel made me inspired to learn more about history! keep up your really brilliant work!!

2:28 Khrushchev looks like he’s about to make a pun straight out of CSI Miami with those shades.

@themightyranger6321

5 жыл бұрын

It's time to... Make reforms *puts shades on*

@azh698

4 жыл бұрын

He should hold up a sign saying: YYEEAAAAAAH!

Wasn't the "we will bury you" thing a mistranslation or miscommunication or something?

@sceerane8662

5 жыл бұрын

I think the intended meaning was "We will live to see you buried"

@themightyranger6321

5 жыл бұрын

@@sceerane8662 kruschev was saying that socialism would bury capitalism, not that they would nuke the usa

@robertjarman3703

5 жыл бұрын

He was referring to a phrase Marx used in which capitalism inevitably sows the seeds of its own collapse. He had in mind that the American working class would overthrow the American government and substitute a Marxist state in its steed.

@themightyranger6321

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertjarman3703 exactly

@serioussamosa3780

5 жыл бұрын

@@sceerane8662True, what khrushchev meant was along the lines of "we will outlive you"

4:48 - 'He did get to live though. So that was nice.' 🤣

@missrakshakeller

Жыл бұрын

And later he died on September, 11, 1971

It was an expensive 10 year disaster USA: Hold my beer

*YOU’RE TEARING ME APART LISA*

@huge7800

5 жыл бұрын

Oh hi Mark

@themightyranger6321

5 жыл бұрын

@@huge7800 *hai dogi*

@louisjohnson3888

5 жыл бұрын

I did not hit her. It's bullshit! It's not true! I did not hit her! I did not.

@themightyranger6321

5 жыл бұрын

@@louisjohnson3888 i wish you could have ruled the ussr

@louisjohnson3888

5 жыл бұрын

@@themightyranger6321 so do I, comrade. So do I.

Brezhnev without eyebrows is not normal.

In 1964 Khrushchev was ousted from power. "He did get to live though, so that was nice." Love this channel for those clever quips.

This content is so good; I can go on History Matters rabbitholes for hours!

0:00-0:44 main story of "The Death of Stalin" movie

3:22 Ahh, Madagascar... always so defiant.

3:18 "The March of Progress would inevitably end with capitalism losing out to communism" *Madagascar proceeds to defeat communist expansion*

I LOVEEE your videos!! Please keep them going

Great touch ‘back in the USSR’ and the character wearing a Sergeant Pepper Beatle uniform 😊

8:30 You don't know how lucky you are, boy.

@androzani

5 жыл бұрын

An Unlikely Whale, The Moscow girls really knock me out.

@PhilWood82

5 жыл бұрын

@@androzani Leave the West behind.

As always, this was a great video!

When I was first learning about the Berlin Wall back in middle school I didn’t quite know where Berlin was… and I didn’t notice that West Berlin was completely surrounded by Eastern Germany And so I just assumed that the Berlin Wall stretched from the Baltic, down along the Eastern and Western German border, and ending at Austria So the fact that the Berlin Wall was set up so quickly astounded me a lot more than it really should have 😅

@Choppytehbear1337

6 ай бұрын

You're not alone.

The Cuban missile crisis was actually more the other way around. It was the Americans who were aggressive by putting ICBMs in Turkey, the Soviets only followed suit by placing nukes on Cuba. It also stopped thanks to the Soviet's accepting the short end of the stick to preserve world peace.

@docsavage8640

2 жыл бұрын

Total b.s.

@Burning_Dwarf

Жыл бұрын

@@docsavage8640 why do you think that?

Khrushchev was actually a pretty good leader as far as communist leaders go. Censorship was lifted considerably so twist and jazz have surged in popularity and comedy nights ran entirely unchecked, in theaters or television. He started the most successful housing program in the history of Europe. Consumer goods such as radios, fridges, TVs, clocks and decent furniture became accessible to the common public. (It was under Khrushchev my grandparents got their first TV sets) So I don't see why would you say the collapse started in 53' when between that and around 1970 Soviet Union was booming through the ceiling.

@guardiadecivil6777

4 жыл бұрын

it started declining from there thanks to the secret speech (actually not so secret), majority if not all of people in the USSR were shocked of what stalin actually did and some commited suicide, suffered heart attacks or passed out after hearing it and some communist party in the world even started losing a shitton of members after this was put out to the public. this is also started the sino-soviet split due to china seeing that ussr stopped murdering people. main reason it started from here is due to the fact people were losing faith for the communist party, decline doesn't just have to include the economy

@weirdshibainu

4 жыл бұрын

Booming? They were at best about a second world economy and still controlled by thugs.

@CountArtha

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you can make a lot of progress in a short time when you're willing to sacrifice ~50 million people to starvation and political repression.

@ROFLobster4884

4 жыл бұрын

The systemic corruption that entrenched itself during his rule is what would eventually cause its collapse. Hell, if you want to get really technical, because Communism is such a terrible political system, you could say that the beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union was the moment it was born....

@ochoahighs98

4 жыл бұрын

He also killed thousands in Hungary

I'm old enough to remember all this as it was happening. I grew up during the Cold War, constantly afraid of nuclear annihilation. When Gorbachov started his reforms we became hopeful. When the Berlin Wall came down we were all ecstatic. No more cold war fears. No more B-52s flying over our house (we lived near a SAC base). We all assumed that they'd become a democracy and that would fix everything. We thought they'd turn into another Germany, France or Britain. Just another free, prosperous nation. I was young and naive then, but I still don't completely understand how things went so horribly wrong. It seems like one of the biggest missed opportunities in human history. For a brief moment between Stalin and Putin a window opened for Russia to have peace, freedom and prosperity. I wish things had gone differently. Could you do a video on how they managed to mess it all up?

@desertphnox

10 ай бұрын

They MIGHT have been able to be prosperous if the person who came after Gorbachev wasn't a incompetent drunk like Yeltsin. Russia has plenty of resources and enough farmland and people to be a world power on the same scale as the USSR but Yeltsin caused a recession, hyperinflation, and the rise of Putin simply stamped Russia's fate

@looinrims

4 ай бұрын

You need only look at France to see what it would take for Russia to be anything remotely nice, France had to suffer not one but two humiliating politically destructive military defeats, one with Napoleon the 1st and the other with Napoleon the 3rd, and even still it took an enemy more powerful than it very close to it (Germany, Soviet Union) to keep it in line, knowing it couldn’t weather the storm alone Germany and Japan if you recall had to be destroyed, literally, to discredit to everyone with a pair of eyes and two brain cells their expansionist revaunchist ideals. Russia has not suffered any consequences until its second invasion of Ukraine to its revisionist history and aggression, and frankly these consequences have not bothered the elite of Russia so much which is where it would need to happen. Proles can get riled up about anything and forget about it just as quickly. Until Russia is humiliated in some radical way that sees political downfall for its then ruling elite, only then can we hope for any form of change for the better…more likely they’ll just end up a Chinese puppet state

@Lew114

4 ай бұрын

@@looinrims Good points. If I had to bet on Russia’s future, I’d put my money on some form of subservience to China.

Gorbachev believed in communism too much, and he was such a legitimately good man that when he found out nobody wanted Communism anymore, he let everyone leave the USSR and disbanded it. He was the first USSR president born to the USSR, and the first and only one who wasn't running a country with the mentality of the early 1900's. He thought if he legit made communism less oppressive, less evil, and more progressive that it'd lead to the best of both worlds. If the USSR were in a far better position/place to begin with then it probably would've. But a policy that requires you to be doing great already given at a time where you're worse than ever before doesn't seem so good in hindsight for the survival of the USSR.

@SH-uv5kv

3 жыл бұрын

He was an idealist. He read too many books on social democracy, not something the USSR was pursuing.

@heliosdik1931

3 жыл бұрын

Not exactly I'm afraid. He just miscalculated, those reforms were ment to silence discord people felt towards government, it just went out of control. When Gorbachev saw it, he himself postulated for introduction of martial law to regain control over the situation similarly how it went in Poland in 81 (Lets remember that armed intervention in democratic minded Georgia and Baltic nations was his doing). Further more the August Coup was led by officers loyal to Gorbachev whom he placed in the high ranking positions in the first place. The Coup leaders wanted to introduce the same martial law that Gorbachev wanted, and arrest and most likely execute Jelcyn - political opponent of Gorbachev who was more popular amongs the people than Gorbachev. It failed because Jelcyn slipped away and barricaded himself in the White House. Also, the Gorbachev story of being home arrested by Coup officers was muddy at best so it is not unlikely that he orchestrated everything and just stayed behind in the case coup was unsuccessful. Maybe he wanted to return to Coup occupied moscow as a hero, and dismiss some of the more radical reforms of Coup leaders but not the martial law itself, this way he would gain in the eyes of common people while regaining control over collapsing Soviet Union and also "avoided civil war" by "compromise" with Coup leaders. Unfortunately we will never know for sure, but looking at previous power plays in the Red Empire, its educated guess.

@dova238

3 жыл бұрын

@@SH-uv5kv Gorbachev was going for a better lifestyle of everyone in the ussr sadly at that time everyone just had enough of it. Although my grandparents told me the lifestyle wasn’t bad in their Middle Ages maybe cuz they were living in a town in Moldova

@KekusMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

His reforms did nothing to improve the quality of life but they did make it easier for everyone to revolt and complain. What he needed to do was work to steer the politburo towards fixing the economic stagnation caused by incompetent old geezers from the Brezhnev era and to clamp down on the widespread corruption. What's really important to note is that most higher-ups in the Soviet Union had the same mentality as Khrushchev at 3:17 where they believed communism would prevail no matter what and that any setback or problem was only temporary. This is why soviet leader's primary concern was always to keep NATO at bay (which was no small task), and that everything else could be "solved later when the US inevitably collapses on itself". We now know this was a terrible mistake

I really like how you do these videos fast enough and stating facts. They're short and go right at what matters concerning the truth of what happened. It isn't entertaining but is actually pretty helpful. I've lost count how many times I came back here whenever I had an insight watching something else or reading and wanted to go for full facts.

To show you the power of flex tape I dissolved the USSR and repaired it with only flextape

@TryinaD

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t think Phil Swift was pro socialism

@vaimantobe3034

3 жыл бұрын

Not even flex tape could fix the 90s version of the USSR

7:00 Of course, I believe that.

The thing that definitely didn't help was Gorbachev's mishandling of economy. One spectacular flop was his attempt at tackling alcoholism - he ordered much of the production halted and vineyards were actually destroyed, wiping out a surprising chunk of USSR's budget (as alcohol was one of the things that were not subsidized and the state was actually making a ton of money off it) and, more locally, completely devastating the economies of certain agricultural regions. He would reverse his decisions after a couple of years, but, by that point, a huge amount of damage had been done, inflation had started etc.

"Back in the USSR." I see what you did there.

@winchesterchua7600

3 жыл бұрын

Timestamp?

@MisterKnightly

3 жыл бұрын

@@winchesterchua7600 8:29 I believe

@MisterKnightly

3 жыл бұрын

@@Account-jn7xu Made a Beatles reference.

@MisterKnightly

3 жыл бұрын

@@Account-jn7xu Oh well, check out Back in the USSR, great song. You won't regret it.

@hans3000

2 жыл бұрын

You dont know how lucky you are, boiiiiiiiiis

He was 1 second away of getting another add opportunity... this channel has gained so much respect from me

RIP Gorbachev

I wonder if we would be better off if Gorbachev had won reelection. He seems more competent then Yeltsin and less evil than Putin.

0:51 "Please move my body"-Stalin to Khrushchev

@TheologyChad22

4 жыл бұрын

I was why his corpse was still lying around till then 😂

Thank you for all your research and everything you do. I really appreciate this channel a lot. I for one half study some history but I forgotten so much of it and I don't think I really have looked that deep into history. I appreciate when guys like you do a ton of research and keep us well informed.

6:40 scared the heck out of me haha

What I learned from this channel is that everyone in history communicated by holding up various signs

Khrustchev in his famous speech actually said an ideomatic phrase meaning "We'll show you!", it was just misinterpreted and the wrong translation stuck.

@danielfried4896

5 жыл бұрын

FlymanMS I don’t believe so because he would latter on embrace the line saying in other speech “I once said we will burry you, and got in trouble with it. Of course we will not burry you with a shovel. Your own working will burry you”. This implies he wasn’t threatening nuclear war though he was implying that socialism will triumph capitalism and that we (socialist) will destroy capitalist nations from with in.

@docsavage8640

2 жыл бұрын

False

You should have given Brezhnev bushy eyebrows just for jokes...p.s I loved the video, great work!

Outstanding. Also, extra points for the "Back in the USSR" gag. Brilliant

Gorbachev sacrificed everything to end tyranny. The absolute stones of that man.

@allisondoak9425

4 жыл бұрын

Urban Meadows didn’t end tyranny tho

@cornguy1514

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah about that...

@kensukefan47

3 жыл бұрын

People from Russias 90's will absolutely agree (no)

@davis4555

3 жыл бұрын

He was really just kinda inept and didn't understand that communism relies on everyone acting as an arm of the government at all times. That why they would brutally crush any dissenting ideas and people. If people are allowed more freedom (as the should be) they are free to NOT act as a hivemind, and they will fall away. He was raised in the USSR, and I think he really believed that people would all choose to stay commie. Well, they didn't.

@kensukefan47

3 жыл бұрын

@@davis4555 well they didn't want to stay commie so much that they wanted to bring it back in 1993.

Dude your vids are gold, and snappy humor holds attention.

Your Doing the world a great service by making these videos.

Great video. One minor point of constructive criticism though. It’s pronounced’ ‘Gah-GAH-rin,’ not ‘GAH-garin.’ The first human in space deserves that much respect.

This is excellent. Great job! Glad KZread finally let you post something like this. Keep up the great work man! :D

6:00 Criticises USSR, gets kicked out: Task Failed Successfully