"What did Trotsky do in exile?" Get exiled 3 more times

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

Got*

@yoloodevil4170

4 жыл бұрын

@@PANZERFAUST90 Thanks, I wasn't able to understand the joke before

@The-ct1xq

4 жыл бұрын

And then died

@Deadlyaztec27

4 жыл бұрын

That profile pick

@PANZERFAUST90

3 жыл бұрын

@@yoloodevil4170 I know you weren't.

"Trotsky was calling for the french workers to go on strike" well that shouldn't be too difficult

@CloudWalkBeta

2 жыл бұрын

XD I can imagine all the french hearing Trotsky saying basically amounted to EVERYDAY SHOULD BE A HOLIDAY.

@fullmetaltheorist

Жыл бұрын

Especially now.

@padriandusk7107

Жыл бұрын

And then scratch their head and say "So, we stop producing cereal and raising livestocks or....?"

@poletooke4691

Жыл бұрын

@@jihadonjihadnot really, tbh

@mell91349

Жыл бұрын

French are not sheeps like their cousins across the channel 😂

I love how this man if left unsupervised just has the ability to overthrow governments.

@AbbeyRoadkill1

4 жыл бұрын

lmao

@davianthule2035

4 жыл бұрын

David McDonald yes...sanders a man who obeys the rules of liberal democracy and has conceded electoral votes to his right leaning adversaries is a legendary revolutionary like Trotsky , your an idiot

@davianthule2035

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Jenkins by crazy you mean centre left right?

@lucabrasi3964

4 жыл бұрын

@Wise and Free okay then you right wing nutjob. I can't believe you tried to compare Bernie to Trotsky and Stalin lol give it a break man people might start to think you have an agenda

@jacintovski

3 жыл бұрын

@Wise and Free McCarthy smiling in the background whilst you speak

"Drake? Where's Trotsky?" "Dude, he was right here a second ago..." *Government being overthrown in the distance*

@frut_jooos

3 жыл бұрын

"break the chains"

@nicholaspatton5590

3 жыл бұрын

Running towards the distance. “OH GOD NO!”

@oracle8192

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholaspatton5590 HAHAHAHA OH GOD YES! TROTSKY YES!

@johnmccarthy6775

2 жыл бұрын

this reads like an oversimplified skit

@midshipman8654

2 жыл бұрын

well, to be more accurate, he was inciting people to overthrow governments. which he didnt really seem to quite get going in his exile.

"What did Leon Trotsky do in exile?" Stalin: Die.

@Gg-qx3vo

4 жыл бұрын

I mean he isn't wrong

@Salty-Doggy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gg-qx3vo that wasn't an answer that was a statement

@g8ymw

4 жыл бұрын

@martin corderoy That what comes of using the wrong thing to get the ear-wax out

@sviatoslavs.1305

4 жыл бұрын

He was recruiting penguins. All Hoi4 players will confirm that.

@ecurewitz

4 жыл бұрын

beat me to it

He wasn't in exile. He was on an extended vacation with no return

@BCrane-ej4iq

4 жыл бұрын

We Happy Few vibes here.

@brengun142

4 жыл бұрын

True

@ahyan14

3 жыл бұрын

Tsukal Klozetov I think you are right

@SomeGuy-sj1ly

3 жыл бұрын

Forced vacation * lol

@Ethan-cz8xq

3 жыл бұрын

He also wasn't assassinated. He was simply forcefully deprived of his brain

"More like Poo-SSR" "More like Stal-out" Priceless.

@zuhaidsamad

Ай бұрын

1.6k likes but no replies thats insane

@helenos_152

Ай бұрын

​@@zuhaidsamad fr bro💀

I love how one man with no direct power was such a concern for so many countries

@lalehiandeity1649

2 жыл бұрын

Really says something about the common working men of these countries and how unhappy they were (and maybe still are).

@CloudWalkBeta

2 жыл бұрын

From what I can tell, his philosophic goal was to decentralise power, so I guess he was keeping in character XD

@Rowlph8888

2 жыл бұрын

@@lalehiandeity1649 Still are.But true socialism, in its anarco-syndicalist form, has never been allowed to have even 5 minutes, to see what would happenn, if it was organised properly and the people reallly got behind it

@luisandrade2254

Жыл бұрын

He had many followers a man with no direct power can soon become the most powerful if conditions present themselves

@luisandrade2254

Жыл бұрын

@@lalehiandeity1649 he wasn’t THAT popular lol

Countries: Please behave. Trotsky: So anyway I started blasting.

@D00MMAST3R

4 жыл бұрын

Trotsky: So anyway I started trash talking

@adammazeli

4 жыл бұрын

Countries: so anyway I start deporting

@red_jars4776

4 жыл бұрын

Stalin: so anyway he started dying

@D00MMAST3R

4 жыл бұрын

@@cantutmez8854 For what? Why are you being an asshole over a history joke?

@417Owsy

3 жыл бұрын

@@cantutmez8854 lol why are you specifically target this guy. its so random and useless

Trotsky's address to the U.S. Congress would have been VERY interesting.

@Karifi

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@cumpanions8105

4 жыл бұрын

chances are very good

@nadie516

4 жыл бұрын

Even if he just moved along with the us' communist party agenda it would have still been VERY interesting

@chrismain7472

4 жыл бұрын

He would have been like Eugene Debs v2.0

@POCLEE

4 жыл бұрын

"All you cykas are capitalist pig-dogs but not as nearly low as Stalin!!!"

Trotsky meeting Ataturk is the weirdest yet most brilliant crossover I’ve ever heard.

@ahbabmuttaki1856

3 жыл бұрын

I know right!

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97

3 жыл бұрын

Soviet Russia supported Ataturk during the Turkish War of Independence

@ahbabmuttaki1856

3 жыл бұрын

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 coz Russians hated ottomans and also they were on opposite sides in ww1 so it's not much of a surprise. Actually when soviet Union was formed,they tried to back Germany but they eventually got out of the war by surrendering but still......

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97

3 жыл бұрын

@@ahbabmuttaki1856 They also thought Ataturk was a socialist and that he'd bring a socialist revolution to Turkey. They were mostly wrong in that regard, though.

@ahbabmuttaki1856

3 жыл бұрын

@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 kinda. Coz the Soviets were successful in their primary mission of removing the ottomans completely.

I like how Trotsky just looked mildly annoyed when being assassinated.

@NachoBearYeah

Жыл бұрын

That's kind of how it was. He then turned around, wrestled the assassin to the ground, broke his arm, and asked his guards not to kill him so he could testify.

@sandeepgill9975

Жыл бұрын

@@NachoBearYeah Wait Trotsky broke his own arm or?

@USSFFRU

Жыл бұрын

@@sandeepgill9975 He was merciful to the Assassin so he broke his own arm so the Assassin didn't look bad

@sandeepgill9975

Жыл бұрын

@@USSFFRU Oh ok

Can you do: What did Napoleon do in Elba?

@MCmao

4 жыл бұрын

Came back?

@TLOK1918

4 жыл бұрын

Dictate his memoirs, learn English, take long walks, stare into the horizon in remembrance of lost glories, tend to his garden, watch his attendents' children play, and have stomach pains, mostly. But yeah, perhaps a more detailed video is warranted.

@JosePineda-cy6om

4 жыл бұрын

@@TLOK1918 You forgot one important point: play chess. Lots and lots of chess matches, most of which he won - Ol' Shorty was really, really good at the game - something kinda to be expected seeing he was a military genious. I'm sure he'd fallen in love with Go, also, had he had the chance to know about it.

@LucidFL

4 жыл бұрын

Jose Pineda wasnt short dumb ass

@nb2008nc

4 жыл бұрын

He got poisoned

And France lived up to it's morals... Nope just kidding That was the best line

@someguy3766

4 жыл бұрын

France has morals? xD

@Collectorfirearms

4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy3766 that one time...

@hugosetiawan8928

4 жыл бұрын

@Soloman S what? Say it again?

@kaderpdi1982

4 жыл бұрын

@Soloman S Napoleon has entered the chat

@vladescu3g

4 жыл бұрын

Bla bla whatever you say in your little england.

Lenin: i was exiled once from my country Napoleon: hah! i was exiled twice! Trotsky: hold my vodka

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

@David McDonald Yeah it's pretty annoying.

@USSFFRU

Жыл бұрын

Exiled 3 more times simply because he existed

@tempejkl

2 ай бұрын

@@USSFFRUHe was literally forming anti-Stalin blocs within the USSR, inspiring division and mistrust.

If I remember correctly, Trotsky's assassin got a girlfriend who worked at Trotsky's place in Mexico City and over months he would drop her off and pick her up from work. He casually befriended the guards, never asking about Trotsky. In fact he never even asked his girlfriend about Trotsky. Eventually he gained their trust and was able to walk about the compound. After several more weeks of this, he sensed his opportunity, assassinated Trotsky and fled all the way back to Russia and was given a hero's welcome. I think I heard that story on "What we saw - cold war" podcast.

@guntugakgun1924

2 жыл бұрын

wasnt he a journalist? As far as I know he wanted to do a interview with trotsky

@thekraken108

2 жыл бұрын

He got caught by Trotsky's bodyguard and was nearly beaten to death before Trotsky told the guard to let him live.

@MatthewSchellenberg

2 жыл бұрын

@@thekraken108 Wait, so he killed Trotsky after getting caught?

@thekraken108

2 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewSchellenberg no he got caught after stabbing Trotsky

@vault6242

2 жыл бұрын

@@MatthewSchellenberg No no, Trotsky didn't die the moment he was struck by that pickaxe, he actually fought back and even managed to overpower his own assasin AFTER being struck with a pickaxe, his guards did beat the assasin and tried to kill him (after he managed to restrain him and called them) but he wanted him to live so he could confess to the press what he did. But he did eventually fall into a coma and died. (Its a bit more complicated than that but that's basically what happened)

Glad my favourite book, "More like Poo-s-s-r" got a shoutout

@petartoshkov2076

4 жыл бұрын

Poo-s-s-r? Oh you meant the degenerated workers' state of the Soviet Union

@maladetts

3 жыл бұрын

@@petartoshkov2076 It's more like you're the degenerate here, having no shame in writing something like this.

@maladetts

3 жыл бұрын

And why would that be your "favorite" book? What would make you so anti-Soviet? The deepest care for your fascistic oligarchy's agenda brainwashing you shamelessly about socialism that they deem a threat to themselves?

@shambosaha9727

3 жыл бұрын

@@maladetts A. Stalinist Russia was fascist and oppressive. The administration in the puppet states caused great famines and mass genocides. B. Capitalism is poo and leads a country to ruins. I would know because it lead my country to ruins, with famines killing millions of people and reducing our share in world GDP to a level that we haven't yet recovered from.

@maladetts

3 жыл бұрын

@@shambosaha9727 I don't know whatever you mean by "puppet states" and "mass genocides" and what is it concretely that you refer to, obviously trying to misrepresent the whole purpose of communism which is building a prosperous society for the no-longer-oppressed working people enjoying all social benefits freely, and why would you call a main enemy and defeater of fascism "fascist" (even with all the Stalinist crimes against mostly the communists in mind) - but I couldn't agree with you more on the genocidal murderous ruinous POO CAPITALISM and what it does to countries and people. The now-occupied and destroyed socialist world experienced it first-hand, I know. Along with many other currently burning countries.

Congress: Hey, you wanna come give a speech? Trotsky: Yes! It will be about Stalin Being evil and telling the workers of America to strike and overthrow the Capitalists! Congress: Aaaaand never mind.

@unocualqu1era

4 жыл бұрын

Also they'll overthrow you (the one inviting me)! I'm not sure if Trotsky was extremely in love with his ideology or just dumb

@mrbisshie

4 жыл бұрын

@@unocualqu1era I guess Trotsky never heard the saying "Don't shit where you eat" I don't blame the leaders for throwing him out of the countries that gave him refuge.

@nunyabeeswax9463

4 жыл бұрын

Trotsky early 1900's : Thats ok, someday the US will elect members supporting workers right and the overthrow of capitalism!! Congress early 1900' s: i bet you six pack of beer. Ghost of Trotsky 2020: Burp. Can i get an IPA?

@darkraven5106

4 жыл бұрын

Nunya Beeswax Trump: No, your fired.

@bobmcbob49

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrbisshie "shit where you eat" is the official communist motto

He wrote a lot communist propaganda and told the worker to revolt This enraged “insert country here” who exiled him severally

@melvinmerkelhopper5752

3 жыл бұрын

Oversmiplified lol/

@ahbabmuttaki1856

3 жыл бұрын

Oversimplified

@mrbisshie

2 жыл бұрын

"Don't shit where you eat!" I'm more surprised even those few countries took him in.

@jeffreyhutton1963

2 жыл бұрын

Dude uncool

Having Trotsky assassinated was a heads up move by Stalin. Because Trotsky would have ABSOLUTELY returned to Russia, when Hitler invaded, and used that as valid reasoning that Stalin was no good for the USSR, and that he would lead the counterattack against the Nazis. Whether or not he would be successful is up for debate, but he definitely would have tried to take advantage of the USSR's problem, and the party itself would have probably willingly given up Stalin for punishment, because Stalin was basically the reason Russia was losing the war (so far).

@Kaiserboo1871

2 жыл бұрын

Which is worrying because I don’t think Trotsky would have stopped with Germany, I think he would have kept marching all the way to France, even if it meant war with America.

@scottabc72

2 жыл бұрын

How would he have returned? Trotsky wouldnt have been allowed in German controlled territory and while there were a lot of people unhappy with Stalin, any kind of organized dissent had been killed or terrorized out of existence so Trotsky would have been immediately picked up in areas still controlled by Stalin.

@criram2968

2 жыл бұрын

@@scottabc72 Idk man Trotsky is just one of those people that this uncanny ability to rally people to a cause. And he could probably get Mexican communist help to ship him across the Pacific

@12jswilson

2 жыл бұрын

People also fundamentally misunderstood Stalin and Trotsky for decades. If Trotsky was in charge, it would mean war until every country was communist or he was dead. People thought Stalin was the same, but he was a much more paranoid and defensive communist who didn't want anyone messing up his communist state, but wasn't necessarily keen on spreading it elsewhere. Even the eastern block Warsaw Pact was mostly about a buffer state between capitalist western Europe that he viewed as a threat and the USSR. Stalin was responsible for 10s of millions of deaths in the Soviet Union, but Trotsky leading them might have been worse for the whole world.

@alexrandell5559

2 жыл бұрын

@@12jswilson thats a common but completely mistaken understanding of trotskyism, Trotsky was not in favour of endless war to spread communism everywhere, he was in favour of supporting revolutionary movements around the world, as was every Marxist until Stalin, but he was absolutely not in favour of invading countries to impose communism, in fact there's several records of him opposing invasions

"What did Trotsky do in exile?" If I remember correctly he tried to Outpizza the Hut...

@CommanderStupid

4 жыл бұрын

That's why Stalin ordered his assassination.

@Felishamois

4 жыл бұрын

?

@aegeanharrier6648

4 жыл бұрын

@@Felishamois meme

@jonyprepperisrael60

4 жыл бұрын

No no no,outsoviet the union

@aureavita8653

4 жыл бұрын

No, no. He tried to Outtaco the Bell

I hear he got a serious headache near the end.

@lavendervonstaro4004

4 жыл бұрын

The poor bastard actually survived the incident and died a day later in hospital.

@aegeanharrier6648

4 жыл бұрын

@Incognito He just did what he believed to be best for humanity.Not that I support him but...

@arianas0714

4 жыл бұрын

@Incognito Both were tironic maniacs

@lavendervonstaro4004

4 жыл бұрын

@@arianas0714 Kinda. Trotsky was significantly more liberal and was a strong critic of Lenin and Stalin for their Authoritarian tendencies. He even was a leading member of the menshiviks (if only briefly)

@smillingdooku8116

4 жыл бұрын

I see u an fellow EFAPPER in many places. How could this be?

1:40 "The prime minister (he changed every five minutes at this point)" I love how this one sentence could be a video in and of itself, but it's in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment.

Trotsky offering trade to countries be like I receive: Residency Safety from Stalin Personal security You receive: Revolution

@invidatauro8922

2 жыл бұрын

@Omar Khurshid With a side of shit policies that where literally what Stalin did.

@janosmarothy5409

2 жыл бұрын

Tbf his was personal security was *not* taken for granted. The Kremlin was sending the GPU after him and his supporters abroad for quite a while. the video makes a pretty big factual error when it claims Stalin "finally learned his lesson" in 1940 or whatever. This is false. Assassinating Trotsky was a goal right from the beginning of exile, as it wasn't politically feasible in the period leading up to 1929 when it was still "only" limited to censorship, propaganda campaigns and internal exile

@invidatauro8922

2 жыл бұрын

@Omar Khurshid Just pointing out that a lot of people say Trotsky would've been better for russia, when all the things that Stalin did where what trostky planned to do.

@kayjay5349

Жыл бұрын

@@invidatauro8922 Not even close. Stalin's economic policies were watered-down versions of a plan proposed by the Left Opposition several years before Stalin capitulated to those policies at all, which was in 1931. That plan was based on the economic conditions in 1923. Trotsky also heavily criticized Stalin's policies and also proposed the genuine Marxist (socialist) solution in his critiques. You should read The Revolution Betrayed, in it Trotsky outlines very clearly where he disagrees with Stalin and what ought to have been done instead to establish a genuine socialist state.

@henfencey5751

Жыл бұрын

@@kayjay5349 Based 😎

Countries keeping Trotsky: "You can stay but no revolutions." Trotsky: *U cAn StAy bUt No rEvoLUtIoNs*

@KamaAnthem

3 жыл бұрын

why I read the last one with Donald Turmp accent

@nicksnelson1231

Жыл бұрын

I read this so Sarcastically😂💔

"Introduced an ice axe to the back of Trotsky's skull" - Love the way you described his death

@esmariaquienpenaenlacalleees

2 жыл бұрын

zi

@nickmills8906

2 жыл бұрын

And apparently the Mexicans slightly felt responsible for the new hole in his head by turning his house into a museum

0:07 I love Trotsky's eye animation in that moment, Mercader plunges an iceaxe into Trotsky's head and Trotsky's like "Seriously?"

"What did Trotsky do in Exile?" Frieda

@tntimothyroditi1576

3 жыл бұрын

As in Frieda Kahlo?

@mattfitzgerald6067

3 жыл бұрын

@@tntimothyroditi1576 yes

@mattfitzgerald6067

3 жыл бұрын

@frank hargreaves you didn’t see the movie?

@mattfitzgerald6067

3 жыл бұрын

@frank hargreaves Frieda with salma Hayek and barbossa as trotsky

@kevinbergin2225

3 жыл бұрын

Before we start calling Trotsky a god, he didn't do Salma Hayek he did the real uni-browed Frieda.

Become leader of Mexico and inavde the Soviet Union

@sviatoslavs.1305

4 жыл бұрын

OOOOOOOOH

@armaholic5949

4 жыл бұрын

In HOI4 you can have Trotsky seize power in Mexico and attack the USSR XDD

@sviatoslavs.1305

4 жыл бұрын

@@armaholic5949 That's what he said.

@gimmethegepgun

4 жыл бұрын

Dolce Banana Yes that's literally what he was referencing.

@timesnewlogan2032

4 жыл бұрын

*STRIKE THE DEGENERATED WORKERS’ STATE!*

This is really interesting, my grandfather was one of his bodyguards while he lived in Norway.

@hollin220

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Petrie Did your Grandfather ever share any stories? I would love to hear those stories if you are able to share.

@proletariapricot2190

4 жыл бұрын

@@hollin220 seconded!

@hansolo5912

4 жыл бұрын

@@hollin220 count me in too

@johnrandall125

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, do tell! What did your grandad say about Trotsky?

@sharkestry1119

4 жыл бұрын

hollin220 comment bookmark in case of trotsky storytime

It is a more or less pointless detail, but I've always been curious: why an ice axe? That's NOT an ice pick, which was a very common tool for breaking up big chunks of ice in those days before ice cubes. What Mercador used is a climbing axe, designed for chopping foot- and hand-holds while climbing mountains. That's not the sorta thing one finds in Mexico City. Part of the speculation about it is that Mercador intended a silent assassination, which didn't work out: he didn't even kill Trotsky right away. The obvious MOTIVE for a particular weapon would have been concealment -- but if the guy figured he couldn't hide a boning knife (ideal for this sorta thing), how come he was able to sneak in THAT thing?

@henfencey5751

Жыл бұрын

If you look at the axe he used, most of the handle is sawed off so that it could be concealed in Mercader's jacket pocket. According to an article I read, the NKVD recommended using blunt force trauma to the back of the head to silently assassinate people, since apparently stabbing isn't as reliable of a killing method, but as you say, the assassination wasn't silent in the first place, so I guess that part went to the dogs. As far as why an ice axe was used, it's probably because it's what Mercader had on hand, right? The same article says he stole it from his landlord's son. There are surprisingly tall glaciated volcanoes relatively close to Mexico City, so it makes sense. If you were Mercader and you saw an ice axe laying around, you'd probably just use that rather than waste time going around the city trying to find a hatchet or whatever.

@pauldonnelly910

Жыл бұрын

@@henfencey5751 That Trotsky's assassin stole an ice ax from his landlord's son in Mexico City is the kind of detail that disproves all conspiracy theories. The truth simply doesn't need to be credible.

@henfencey5751

Жыл бұрын

@@pauldonnelly910 What conspiracy theories are you referring to?

@pauldonnelly910

Жыл бұрын

@@henfencey5751 All of 'em. As a rule, you can tell something is a 'conspiracy theory', instead of just an opinion, when random facts or outright contradictions are explained away as impossible.... UNLESS. The Mexican ice ax is an example. (It'd also make a good title for a novel, come to think on it.)

@kimobrien.

6 ай бұрын

@@pauldonnelly910 An earlier attemp by the Stalinists was lead by the painter David Siquerous machine gunning Trotsky's bedroom.

“What did trotsky do in exhile?” Me: “Frida kahlo for a little while”

@kevinbergin2225

3 жыл бұрын

Just saying, he didn't do Salma Hayek he did the real uni-browed Frieda.

@sho3003

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair her husband had already cheated on her

French: Come here. Also French: Stay there tho.

@jasonpost913

4 жыл бұрын

We had a very narrow definition of 'here' in mind when we offered to let you come here.

@mariano98ify

4 жыл бұрын

well, France wanted him under control so at least if he didn't stay in their country they will make sure Trotsky doesn't move so far away

@ChrisJones-ij3xp

3 жыл бұрын

We'll set you up in a nice villa on the coast as long as you stay away from Paris.

@Octagonal

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is underrated lmao

When he got to Mexico he was given a warm welcome with a banner (2:36) saying:"Welcome Lev!..Please don't overthrow the government"...😂

@BCrane-ej4iq

4 жыл бұрын

The Mexican government was already getting communist with the president at the time, expropriating oil and gas companies and keeping them controlled by the government. Maybe that's why they let him in.

@thedarkassassin0116

4 жыл бұрын

baruc kast Lazaro Cardenas was a socialist, but was still keenly aware of forming a democratic government to end the authoritarianism in Mexico (he was at least successful until PRI became corrupt).

@redcompanyINC

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kk-dy6bq nope, by this point the shifting of power in Mexico had stabilized, so much so that the political power remained on one party (PRI) for over 70 years.

@AlexVanChezlaw

3 жыл бұрын

Lazaro Cardenas purged the goverment from Calles and his followers (callistas, who were the '' ''facists'' '' in Mexico) and stabilized the country. What youre refering to was before Cardenas term, around the late 20s early 30s, when Presidents Carranza and Obregon were killled

@sunrisings292

3 жыл бұрын

@@BCrane-ej4iq The Mexican govt wasn't "getting communist". Just socialist, a lot more nationalist and pursuing Mexico's interests: it hated Adolf, and angered the Brits, US and Soviets at the same time... This approach worked, soon allowed Mexico to do fair business with all of them (except Adolf, of course).

"Oh, Trotsky...the problem isn't you, it's me" "Really?" "No, I'm lying, you're entirely the problem."

“He’s being a pain” By far the most underrated History Matters sign.

Video suggestions “How did Mongolia became a puppet under the Soviet Union? What was Mongolia like under Soviet influence and control?” “How come Austria never unified Germany?”

@tishafeed8085

4 жыл бұрын

austria never unified germany because they lost in a war against prussia

@thecyberpirate

4 жыл бұрын

I would really like to know what the 3 Baltic countries were like before the Soviets annexed them

@arianas0714

4 жыл бұрын

@@thecyberpirate In Lithuania, it was quite a golden age. In 1924, we yoinked Memel (Klaipėda) from the French by a peaceful "rebellion". Our economy was booming, and we were catching up to the nordic states(!). In 1926 (I believe) Antanas Smetona (Our first president) performed a semi-peaceful coup, and created an autocratic system, but Smetona was still (and still is) considered to be one of our greatest presidents. Everything was going really well until 1940. Some say that if the Soviets didn't attack us, we would have a pretty good economy in current times.

@mundogameplay1341

4 жыл бұрын

Mongolia was a puppet of Soviet Union because the Red Army troops invaded Mongolia,Its leader was Vorn-Sternberg(That Kaiserreich Guy) who invaded The Chinese Mongolia as a White Russian Warlord

@kalyka98

4 жыл бұрын

Austria was for centuries the leader of the HRE, so somewhat the leader of the germans, however during the napoleonic wars and after their weaknesses were put in full display and the germans turned to the prussians to unify

Last time i was this early Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky got together

@BoltonForTheNorth

4 жыл бұрын

Lenin and Trotsky never really got along with Stalin. Lenin just kept him around because he was effective at gathering money from the bourgeois for the revolution, and later crushing the whites during the civil war

@brandonlyon730

4 жыл бұрын

@@BoltonForTheNorth Lenin apparently did agreed a lot with Stalin when it came to some policy’s and ideas to run the nation, but he hated him as person finding him as a low life drunken slob. Though he did start to really hate him after Stalin insulted his wife at one point.

@supermanXL

4 жыл бұрын

Didn’t Lenin leave a note saying don’t let Stalin run USSR after he died?

@hecksters423

4 жыл бұрын

@@brandonlyon730 Duly noted: *Never talk shit about your waifu*

@BoltonForTheNorth

4 жыл бұрын

@@supermanXL yes he did

2:37 "Welcome... Please Don't overthrow the government" such a warm welcome

Trotsky: Stalin? More like Stal-out am I right!? Stalin: It’s ice ax time

"Capitalism, it's like really poo" - Leon trotsky

@Fr4ncM

3 жыл бұрын

"More Like POO-S-S-R" - Leon Trotsky

@arandomyoutubeaccount3166

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fr4ncM "More like Stal-out" - Leon Trotsky

@maxwelljarowey2612

3 жыл бұрын

His best work

@arandomyoutubeaccount3166

3 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Stalin Uhh, nyet.

2:25 - "Back in the USSR" .... good one.

Trotsky: *gets invited to live in a country while in exile* Also Trotsky: *proceeds to write about overthrowing the government*

@kimobrien.

6 ай бұрын

Trotsky abided by the laws of the country he was in. Stalin had him sent to Turkey as part of the Soviet diplomatic core to get him out of the Soviet Union. A revolutionary invited in to a Bourgeois Democracy is interviewed by the press. The world is being threatened by Hitlerism in Germany and Stalin is consolidating his rule murdering political opponents accusing them of Trotskyism. Was he supposed to stay silent to please people who sit in chairs writing drivel based upon rumors and Stalinist lies?

"...but if you don't know, it was ended in 1940 when a chap called so-and-so introduced a nice axe to the back of Trotsky's skull" - This is the reason why I am subscribed to this channel.

@c.a.savage5689

9 ай бұрын

"Ice axe" NOT a "nice axe". It certainly wasn't nice for Trotsky.

I like how Trotsky is just a little bit annoyed by an ice axe going through his head

@Fr4ncM

3 жыл бұрын

He was not upset, just disappointed.

@adamkotter6174

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, that's kind of how he actually reacted. According to the Wikipedia article on Trotsky, after being stabbed, he "spat on Mercader and began struggling fiercely with him, which resulted in Mercader's hand being broken. Hearing the commotion, Trotsky's bodyguards burst into the room and nearly beat Mercader to death, but Trotsky stopped them, laboriously stating that the assassin should be made to answer questions." Trotsky died about a day later from blood loss. The dude took an ice axe to the brain and tried to just walk it off.

Having the credits picture get photo scrubbed was a fantastic Easter egg

@mojewjewjew4420

4 жыл бұрын

Doubt many noticed.

@dant.3505

3 жыл бұрын

Probably half the viewers

It's also worth noting that Trotski was a "close friend" with Frida Kalo (a female mexican painter), and I think you know what I'm talking about Though to Frida's defence, her husband, Diego Rivera, also had a "close relationship" with Frida's sister, so it was more like a revenge than anything

@juanon_industries7256

Жыл бұрын

29/57, someone was a little bit more older💀, but as a trotski simpatizer, frida kahlo waz just doing it "to complete his manifesto"

Just want to say, the quality of these videos, especially their humour, seems to be at an all-time high lately. Keep it up!

I’m surprised Trotsky didn’t move to the USA at some point

@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876

4 жыл бұрын

the "overthrow American Capitalism" thing got in the way.

@LedosKell

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't Huey Long say he'd shoot him personally?

@slewone4905

4 жыл бұрын

His family is here. She actually is a director in a federal agency.

@ivar1543

4 жыл бұрын

@@LedosKell sounds like something he would say, but idk

@Cerberus-wd7ue

4 жыл бұрын

@@ivar1543 Considering how much of a loose cannon that Long was I could actually see him do it.

Best book titles ever! 1: Capitalism, its like really poo 2: More like Poo-s-s-r 3: More like Stal-out

“What did Trotsky do in exile?” Revolutionary communist things

You seriously deserve more subscribers. Your videos are informative, funny, the perfect length and just overall good. A perfect mixture of humor and knowledge. Outstanding work.

0:23 might want to specify that this is the 1941 borders of the ussr not when trotsky was exciled 1:30 here is what you should have use

You forgot the part where he had an affair with Frida Kahlo while in Mexico

@lamaahruloma4270

4 жыл бұрын

He had no affair with Kahlo..

@mydarlinggirlrachae

4 жыл бұрын

@@lamaahruloma4270 Trotsky was a goddamn genius, and while he did have an affair with Kalho, he admitted as much, only infantile wankers bring it to disparage him.

@digidragon02

3 жыл бұрын

@@lamaahruloma4270 hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahaha Not having sex with Frida Kahlo after meeting her was like never meeting her

@kevinbergin2225

3 жыл бұрын

Before we start calling Trotsky "the man", he didn't do Salma Hayek he did the real uni-brow Frieda.

@sunrisings292

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinbergin2225 LoL. Kahlo's moustache also was legendary.

“More like Sta-Out” damn Leon be handing out these burns

3:27 [Animation of ice axe to the skull.] "I hope you enjoyed this episode..."

The pace and information in your videos is absolutely spot on, mix in the odd “no just kidding” and each episode is a cultural masterpiece - kudos.

"(...) France because its prime minister who changed every five minutes at this point." Best summary of French politics in the interbellum period.

@frankieseward8667

2 жыл бұрын

How many Prime Ministers did they have?;

Fun fact : Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Tito all lived in Vienna in 1913 and actually very close to each other. So close, that they would often meet in a nearby coffeehouse.

@MrSniperfox29

3 жыл бұрын

Hitler and Stalin never actually met

@richardfreeman724

2 жыл бұрын

@sneksnekitsasnek just fyi NYC was the 'nyc' of the 19 and 20 century.

@Noperare

2 жыл бұрын

We need a sitcom of those guys hanging on the cafe.

@stormtrooper9404

2 жыл бұрын

Another neighbour was also Sigmund Freud! If any of them by chance seeked a help or even befriended him... Am sure milions of lives would have been spared ;)

@nicopavvi8494

10 ай бұрын

Damn, what a pub brawl...

Narrator: "I hope you enjoyed today's episode..." Trotsky: "I did not."

He was vibing till' he got a vibe check

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

'til*

Trotsky: Soviet Union: get him out of here Every country’s government: please don’t overthrow me

*Greatest. Animator. Ever.* I mean it, you always make me laugh! Thanks for all the fantastic videos!

For his alleged "intelligence", Trotsky really had no idea how to play both ends against the middle. Very short sighted.

@Mourtzouphlos240

3 жыл бұрын

You know who could do that? The guy who outmaneuvered him in government and won a popularity contest against him.

@CrashB111

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mourtzouphlos240 Always seemed like Stalin was more in it for the power, and Trotsky/Lenin were in it because they genuinely felt Communism was the right way forward for humanity. So Trotsky couldn't reign it in, because it wasn't an act. He was being genuine and felt Communism was the answer.

@TheCloud175

3 жыл бұрын

@@kms_scharnhorst Stalin the absolute genius who thought it’d be a good idea to get rid of all the successful farmers and let millions starve to death. Big brained indeed.

@dinmukhammadbekzhan9584

3 жыл бұрын

@@kms_scharnhorst bruh, let’s not overlook the fact that he was the one who actively used concentration camps which were filled with people accused of treason so that he could exploit millions of people as slaves. Soviet infrastructure was built in expense of their lives

@alicecooper5533

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCloud175 he also industrialised the country so that they could produce the tanks, plane etc that won ww2

1:39 "this was important to France because of its Prime Minister which changed every 5 minutes" Aye bro same 🇦🇺

@sviatoslavs.1305

4 жыл бұрын

"changed every 5 minutes" HOI4 with Road to 56 experience in a nutshell.

@pocketmarcy6990

Жыл бұрын

1930s France really be like 2020s UK

@davidfarrer4332

Жыл бұрын

Yep same here 🇬🇧

Eating Tacos. Maybe even with a spice of COMMUNISM.

@alfredashford5924

4 жыл бұрын

Panteleimon Ponomarenko I see you, Isorrowproduction memer. Come, we truck to Moscow together!

@timmccarthy872

4 жыл бұрын

CUMIN-ISM

@youraverageuser7039

4 жыл бұрын

Panteleimon Ponomarenko WE MUST HAVE ISORROW RETURN YOU TO POWER NEXT DLC

@octavian2381

4 жыл бұрын

are you funnymustacheman33? maybe funnyicepickman29?

@brettkane9175

4 жыл бұрын

Food spiced with communism is a bit of an oxymoron, no?

The sprinkles of humor are always perfectly timed and perfectly done 😂

2:43 Damn I laughed harder at that than I expected. Thank you for that History Matters

@15moners66

Ай бұрын

"More like EWW-S-S-R".

@frostyblade8842

Ай бұрын

@15moners66 I love that bit haha. Thanks for bringing me back here dude, I can't belive it's been 3 years

Trotsky: *exists* Police surveilence: WE'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

Stalin in a powdered wig is the sort of humor I love from this channel

@ArkadiBolschek

4 жыл бұрын

I'll never get tired of people making mildly annoyed faces as they're getting killed.

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

@@ArkadiBolschek lol right?

0:39 Édouard Daladier was the prime minister (or President of the Council of Ministers) of France. The president of the Republic was Albert Lebrun, but as with most French presidents under the Third Republic, he didn't actually exercise much power at all.

Trotsky: "I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism... SPACE!"

@jessicalynn2565

3 жыл бұрын

T I M C U R R Y

@firemangan2731

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! 😂

@kevinbergin2225

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicalynn2565 Do you mean Tim Leary? Or did Curry actually say that in "It" or in "Rocky Horror Picture Show"?

@guywhocantgrowabeard

2 жыл бұрын

I really thought you were gonna say heaven.

@anameyoucantremember

2 жыл бұрын

@@guywhocantgrowabeard Heaven is corrupted as hell ;)

I'd give my life savings to see Trotsky testify before Congress, that would absolutely rule

@kimobrien.

6 ай бұрын

FDR had 18 leaders of the Trotskist Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Teamsters union were put on trial for violation of the Smith "gag" Act. You can read Jim Cannon's court testimony in "Socialism on Trial"

"You can stay here so long as you don't call for revolution" "But that's, like, my thing"

Great video as usual: wise, informative and yet hilarious. I often even listen to the list of patrons, because they’re quite a varied bunch of namestyles, are they not?

I always have these weird historical questions and this man always has the videos for them.

Getting ice picked was his favorite past time

Imagine how history would have roll out if Trotsky had assassinated Stalin during the Civil War

@cantutmez8854

2 жыл бұрын

He wouldn't do it since he was not a power hungry traitor to working class

@blenderbanana

2 жыл бұрын

@@cantutmez8854 Trotsky was a Bolshevik. He was every bit as hostile to the "Working Class" as Lenin, and Stalin.

@altra1266

2 жыл бұрын

@@blenderbanana he was a menshevik. Yes he switch because he had to if he wanted to live but his ideas were still menshevik ones, so he would have been a better ruler than stalin that is for sure

@blenderbanana

2 жыл бұрын

@@altra1266 Trotsky organized and led the Red Army during the Civil War, and the first phase of the red terror. He was every bit as vicious as Stalin was, he was just bad at politicing. You have to understand, the "Nice Soviets" were all dead or retired by the time the Bolsheviks took Russia.

@altra1266

2 жыл бұрын

@@blenderbanana i did not said that trotsky was a good person, but he had menshevik idea, so more democratic idea and less terror and authority. And just think about the number of people that could have been saved (because no great purge, no famine and genocines). Some people would have still died of course but very less. So im just saying it would have been better

I love these cute little animations, someone holding a sign that just says "hello" is so silly

"They promptly put him under police surveillance". That seems to be a reoccurring theme wherever trotsky went...

If you got in really bad trouble in school; you'd get expelled. You had to be really bad to get expelled from more than one school. Trotsky's like four countries kicked me and still my first school came for me, a touch beyond just expulsion.

@kimobrien.

6 ай бұрын

Lev Davidovich Bronstein had been leader of the 1905 Soviet that had been crushed by the Czar and whose leaders were arrested. He escaped his Siberian prison camp using his guards name Trotsky. He was driven from a number of countries in Europe the last being from Spain to New York. Upon News of the 1917 February revolution he left New York for St Petersburg Russia but was detained by the British in Canada however the Kerensky government demanded his release. Upon which he proceeded to St Petersburg Russia. .You see Trotsky was invited in because he was very popular among the workers and labor movement. Stalin couldn't just boot him out of the Soviet Union either he had to be sent to the Soviet Embassy in Turkey. One day he just didn't return to the Embassy in Turkey. Police spies do more than just watch and report back they are actively looking for ways to disrupt legitimate political activity are like the 40 year FBI war on the Socialist Workers Party. The 1941 Smith "gag" Act trial testimony is still published today as "Socialism on Trial." And the landmark case Socialist Workers Party vs Attorney General put the FBI on trial after the watergate revelations.

Can we just stop to appreciate the genius of the title "More Like Poo-S-S-R"?

Great content!

I think of Leon Trotsky every time that I go into REI and see their ice ax door handles. REI's predecessor company was where Ramon Mercader was supposed to have purchased the fatal ice ax.

I understand why you aren't doing 10 minute videos any longer but I do hope you stretch ones like this out to at least 5 or 6 minutes because they're rather entertaining.

He went to exile and became colonel Sanders.

this has got to be one of the funniest videos you've made

I love the pictures in this.

your merch must have a mug that says "I

@PANZERFAUST90

4 жыл бұрын

That would be dumb.

@Cjnw

3 жыл бұрын

Peak James Bissonette

"Who changed every five minutes" Best line....

I do love your videos.

3:09 LOL

2:58 "Break the chains" Oh. Actually I was fighting those filthy Syndicalists as John Nancy Garner today. *But we clearly know he was recruiting penguins.*

Lol I love how it basically treats inciting revolution and criticizing Stalin as just a hobby of Trotsky’s

Aaah James Bizenet. Thank you so much

Fun fact: during the time he was staying in France, Leon Trotsky was snuck into Paris for a few days by philosopher and left-wing activist Simone Weil (sister of prominent mathematician André Weil). The story of his arrival is very funny, with Trotsky insisting that he go up to the Weils' apartment via the freight lift not to be recognised, and ending up stuck there, with Weil having to find a ladder to get him out. He stayed at least one night (maybe more but I'm not sure) during which he and Simone argued over anything and everything, and at the end of which he cried "We agree on nothing, why did you invite me here!". This story is told beautifully by Simone Weil's niece (André Weil's daughter) in an interview, which is to be found on KZread with the name "Sylvie Weil & Pierre Cartier : Chez les Weil, André et Simone". (it's in French however, and I don't think there are subtitles)

As a norwegian, I was *very* surprised when you said that Trotsky has lived here O.o I feel that's something I should've heard at some point in the past

@christophercrane5831

2 жыл бұрын

Trotsky writes about it. He was very unhappy with his treatment by the Norwegian government

Everyone asking Where's Trotsky but never 'How's Trotsky?'

@islandlanguage3349

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the NKVD asked "How's Trotsky" quite a lot. It's just that whatever anyone replied, they wrote down, "Thinks Trotsky's great".

Could say he got a splitting headache

Trotsky: Lol look at this idiot with an ice pick in Mexico. Assassin: ... Trotsky: Wait, why is he running towards me?