Compare news coverage from diverse sources around the world. Take advantage of their *Black Friday sale to get 40% off unlimited access* by going to: ground.news/paperskies. Sale ends November 30.

@wojszach4443

6 ай бұрын

nato expansion in the 90s, wasnt as much as expansion as it was opening borders to refugees who were kicking the fence to get in with fear in their eyes

the fact that the entire world's fate was once put into the hands of the likes of Yeltsin proves this is a forgotten timeline

@CakePrincessCelestia

6 ай бұрын

Just try to find some documentaries on Yeltsin and "his" era specifically. It's basically impossible.

@fffUUUUUU

6 ай бұрын

I'm truly impressed that a briefcase guy found Yeltsin sober and conscious😂

@robgrey6183

6 ай бұрын

Yeltsin may have been a drunk, but he didn't have dementia, and wasn't wearing a diaper, like the leader of the free world.

@_Ello

6 ай бұрын

@@robgrey6183 what?

@thatguyoverthere9634

6 ай бұрын

​​@@robgrey6183you know what's funny, we don't have to or want to defend our leaders unlike how russians have to defend their authoritarian "president". Unlike in Russia where elections are blatantly staged to enforce Putin's legitimacy, in the west for the most part, you just have to wait a few years for things to get better meanwhile in Russia, things haven't been good since the 70s. Oh and Biden might be an absolute nutcase, at least he isn't a midget who has to wear platform shoes to match the height of other world leaders due to his fragile ego. Biden just wears his fragile ego on his sleeves

"Comrade General, NATO have launched a first strike against us!" "What? What size? How many missiles are incoming?" "Just one sir. One really small missile. From Norway." "Go back to sleep you idiot"

@mattl3729

6 ай бұрын

EXACTLY.

@SnakebitSTI

6 ай бұрын

In a sane world... In this world, however, it resulted in three Russian leaders on a teleconference discussing whether or not to end the world.

@DogeickBateman

6 ай бұрын

Anyone who thinks a single missile being sent out would be a nuclear first strike should not have any seat of power frankly, I mean what's the one missile going to do? Incinerate once city? Hit the president? Hit a silo? There are backup systems and backup structures that would be missed and could easily continue functioning for retaliation. EMP? Russia's a massive landmass, even with a good burst it wouldn't reach the Siberian silos, or western Russia if vice versa. Absolutely bizarre logic some leaders come up with.

@veganbutcherhackepeter

6 ай бұрын

😂 Right? But the scary thing is that there was a completely shit faced drunk Yeltsin on the button. Almost as bad as a deranged Orange Orang-Utan having control of the US nuclear codes. Oh, wait...

@slopedarmor

Ай бұрын

ah, comrade general! have you also played red alert games in the past? : D

The attitude of Putin reminds me of a story from the Irish writer Paddy Crosby's autobiography. His mother intervened when she saw two little boys fighting and asked who started it? One of the little boys answered "He started it when he hit me back."

@Archangelm127

6 ай бұрын

That is such a guy thing to say 🤣

@fffUUUUUU

6 ай бұрын

​​@@Archangelm127woman, this is such a sexist comment. Typical ruZZian

@fffUUUUUU

6 ай бұрын

​@@Archangelm127here 15:05 that's a typical russian "antifascist" for you. But remember, these guys are fighting against the mythical fascists in Ukraine😂

@chesterhiggens

6 ай бұрын

Thankfully Putin is currently the best leader in the world.

@robgrey6183

6 ай бұрын

@@chesterhiggens I wouldn't go that far. But, he doesn't have dementia, and doesn't wear a diaper, like Biden. That's not nothing.

It's chilling to know there were at least 8-10 times when we were minutes from nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis produced at least five such events. In one, a curious bear shook the fence of a US airbase in the middle of the night, triggering an alert. The alert system was connected to other bases, and the sirens went off in the entire state. At one base, the wiring was incorrectly connected. The warning light was supposed to indicate an intruder alert, but a different lamp lit up, indicating a nuclear attack. The base immediately scrambled nuclear-armed jets to attack Cuba. Only one officer didn't lose his nerve, and called the other bases to ask if they also received a nuclear attack alert. When he learned that they didn't, he rushed to the parking lot, jumped into his Corvette, and drove down the runway, blocking the takeoff route. This was the only way to stop the planes, as they turned off their radios to operate in complete secrecy. Now imagine if this guy parked the car in the far end of the lot, or his wife dropped him off on that day, or... yeah, scary. Brezhnev also saved us from a war once, however not in such a tight situation. When the Conrad spy ring, a group of US Army turncoats supplied the Soviets with the exact locations of the nuclear mine shafts on the inter-German border, they provided the Warsaw Pact with an enormous advantage in case they launched an attack on NATO. The mine shafts were secret locations where nuclear charges would've been placed in case of war, and detonated when Soviet troops crossed the border, creating a death zone by covering a wide area with radioactive dust. As the Soviets now knew where these were, they could've landed Spetznaz units to prevent their use, and thus open a passage for their tank armies. Brezhnev looked at it, and simply said: "nyet". It's just not worth.

@forbidden-cyrillic-handle

6 ай бұрын

There were some very responsible people on both sides of the cold war. And we are alive because of them. Alternatively the nuclear holocaust happened and this is hell, which sounds like more and more reasonable option with every day passing.

@Vindsvelle

3 ай бұрын

@@forbidden-cyrillic-handle"For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it." - Schopenhauer

@turtleofpride4572

Ай бұрын

It's scary and hilarious how we almost annihilate ourselves as a species.

It's quite hilarious (and scary) that both the Soviet Union and later Russian Federation have loads of events in history marked by "wierd coincidences". A mirror flight that happened due to similar geographical features in both directions, a mutiny that ended peacefully due to a delay in decision-making, and now the world coming close to nuclear war due a rocket that *just* so happened to fly in the direction of a Nuclear state's capital (at least for a while). I've been watching this channel for a while, and this might be the first video I've seen where you get into rocketry. I'd say keep it up; rockets and the history behind them are just as interesting as aircraft.

@Archangelm127

6 ай бұрын

I'm sure there's a few whacky stories along those lines from any military if you look. I'd love to hear them all. :D

@augustuslunasol10thapostle

6 ай бұрын

@@fffUUUUUU the facist in Ukraine are real mind you they just died so early in the war because like so few of them actually existed and were a joke to ukrainian politics im sure some Ukrainian facist coward is hiding somewhere but they aren’t that many

@SirFloofy001

6 ай бұрын

I just watched the mirrored flight a few days ago, that was an insane amount of coincidences. The locations, the bodies of water, the fact that there happened to be an earth quake in that area at that time which is why they didnt get intercepted... the two soviet fighters chasing each other at the end because one of them forgot to update their IFF and they each thought the other was an enemy. That one made me laugh.

@KannabisMajoris

6 ай бұрын

There have been several close calls with the US nuclear arsenal as well. There is a book, Command and Control, about the topic.

@Archangelm127

6 ай бұрын

@@KannabisMajorisThanks, I'll check it out!

With time, people tend to forget and grow more accustomed to the horrors of the current day accepting them as something common, part of their everyday life which happens "somewhere there". Only by constantly reminding it is possible to keep the minds from growing ignorant. You are one of the few who keeps doing so. Thank you.

@tommytwotacos8106

6 ай бұрын

In fact, our government is incentivized to promote this process because it makes it look like they're actually solving problems that in reality, we're just getting bored with and moving on from. An added bonus is that a happier and comfortable population is more likely to spend money and feel free to waste their time and gains on frivolous interests and pursuits.

Minor nitpick about the Black Brant: it cannot in fact carry 400kg to 1500km. There are payload/altitude charts in the manual and it can only achieve that maximum altitude when flying with a minimum payload closer to 100kg. As you add payload, unsurprisingly, max altitude decreases. (Not that this impacts any real substance in your video, just thought I'd clarify)

@mikeb3539

6 ай бұрын

That is an impressive failure rate though, especially for the technology of that era.

@alienbeef0421

6 ай бұрын

​@@mikeb3539the Black Brant (and most sounding rockets used up until today) is a really simple machine. Sans the payload, it's essentially a rocket motor with fins. That helps with the reliability 😊

@dmacpher

6 ай бұрын

@@alienbeef0421still impressive considering it’s multistage! Most recent one can have up to 5 stages

@alienbeef0421

6 ай бұрын

@@dmacpher can't go wrong with drag staging... Ignition is computer-controlled, but separation is caused by aerodynamic forces. I love me some delayed ignitions!

@nematolvajkergetok5104

6 ай бұрын

100 kg is still enough to launch any of my exes into space.

PaperSkies. My guy. You are on that grind! Absolute banger yet again.

@Chaz_Enjoyer

3 күн бұрын

Thoughts on F-102?

Ahhh, the 90's. When both Russia and the United States had "fun" presidents.

@robgrey6183

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, bl*w jobs in the Oval Office. Now, all we have is diapers and pudding.

@lashlarue7924

Күн бұрын

yeah I'd like to see a mashup of Bill Clinton playing the saxophone and Yeltsin dancing. I miss them both.

I'm surprised that a briefcase guy found Yeltsin sober and conscious😂

@fffUUUUUU

6 ай бұрын

15:05 that's a typical russian "antifascist" for you. But remember, these guys are fighting against the mythical fascists in Ukraine😂

@douro20

6 ай бұрын

If it weren't for his ineptitude we probably wouldn't have the problem of Putin. To think this habitual drunkard was a credentialed civil engineer...

@krishthakar6661

6 ай бұрын

@@fffUUUUUU Spam

@trumpsextratesticle8590

2 ай бұрын

The whole world knows Ukraine has openly professing "Nazi" units fighting for it. . Which makes it even more funny that the Communists in the US send money/arms to those Fascists to fight The Communists in Russia...LOL . fucking clown world.

"On that day, the fate of all mankind hinged on the decision of just one person: Russian president Boris Yeltsin." Me: * remembers that news about Yeltsin getting drunk in a state visit to the US and wandering onto the streets in his underwear, trying to get a pizza. *

@callsignapollo_

6 ай бұрын

*remembers that time Yeltsin got pulled out of a river after falling in blackout drunk, by a local homeless man*

@extragoogleaccount6061

Ай бұрын

That local homeless man: a drunk Boris Yeltsin

If I had a nickel for how many times Russians have almost brought the world to an end, while also saving it from said end, I would have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but its strange it happened that many times...

@ThatPianoNoob

6 ай бұрын

To be fair the Cuban missile crisis was the US fault. It should be called the Turkey missile crisis after all. So just 2/3 which is still too much.

@christopherderasmo5041

6 ай бұрын

3 that were declassified

@copter2000

6 ай бұрын

Cuban, this video's. What's the third one? Checkpoint Charlie?

@The_Stumbler

6 ай бұрын

@@copter2000 Vasili Arkhipov in the cuban missile crisis, Stanislav Petrov and this video.

@femboyshitposter676

6 ай бұрын

I could say the same about the US or the times they lost their atomic bombs.

I'm not surprised Yeltsin made the right choice. He did, after all, possess a healthy amount of common sense. But this story does elevate my opinion of him even higher than it was.

@andro7862

6 ай бұрын

He was an alcoholic that ruined the nation's economy, shelled the parliament for making the “wrong” decision, enabled the rise of Putin and finished term with a hitherto unseen approval rating of 2%.

@singleproppilot

6 ай бұрын

We all made fun of him back then, but just look at the douchebags we have running both sides of the globe, now.

@scaryclouds1403

6 ай бұрын

the guys was an idiot and incompetent president, this event is just a broken clock moment

@DogeickBateman

6 ай бұрын

Yeltsin was the crazed grandpa everyone thought weird and senile but now misses

@migmit

6 ай бұрын

@@DogeickBateman Not everyone.

FANTSTIC editing and pacing, your videos only get better, you are a great story teller, thank you. Also, your choice of period video references is perfect.

its always nice to just open youtube to find a Paper Skies video, keep it up bud!

I love your work man! Thanks for all these great videos

Thanks Paper Skies, the quality of your videos is normally great, but this one was so insightful and analytical that I think you just raised the bar. Thanks

Whaaaat? The norwegian rocket incident is FINALLY getting attention???

so this proves that yelstin, though a blind drunk, could take good decisions under stress

This is such an excellent channel, I hope you continue making videos about aviation but also go beyond with more nuclear and near-miss videos!

Thanks for the vids man!

@James-ly3rx

6 ай бұрын

No problem Mr woodwelder

Damn so that’s why Belka detonated seven nukes on their own territory?

Great video Paper Skies. Im a big fan of your videos, thank you for sharing these interesting stories!

My brain could not handle having computer chronicles at the beginning and it not actually being a computer chronicles video!! Can't wait for this one, always a pleasure watching your content! 🙂

Great video as always. Hope you are staying safe!

I still think that Able Archer 83 was the most perilous moment. (This is also remarkable for combining a slow build-up with a very short actual decision span. It may be a coincidence or not that we don't hear much about this one and that NATO is still officially in denial of the implications.)

@jaspergood2091

6 ай бұрын

The Soviet armed forces never believed it was a nuclear threat, and they had the final say, so I don't think it was nearly as dangerous as those moments where one man had to make a very quick choice

@noland65

6 ай бұрын

@@jaspergood2091 Mind that in the GDR bombers were standing on the runway with running motors, ready to counter strike, and the response time was minimal. (About 2-3 minutes from detected launch to destruction.) Also, fleet and mobile forces had already moved into their assigned ready areas. (That NATO should have missed this, with all the tapped command lines, satellites, etc, is hard to believe.) This was the two blocks facing one another, both on high alert, NATO in its maneuver and the Warsaw Pact at DEFCON-1. NATO issued the nuclear strike command and it was on the Warsaw Pact side to decide in no time, if this was for real or really just a test (against all indications). This was not a lone data point or a single blip on a screen, this was based on general awareness. And it appears the RYaN model was fed somewhat deliberately: all stars seemed to align for the USSR's worst nightmare…

@DuRoehre90210

6 ай бұрын

Who knows. Crazy training operation in crazy times. It was blunt, and IMHO stupid to pull this off.

@jwenting

6 ай бұрын

the Soviet armed forces in eastern Europe were well aware of that exercise, having been informed beforehand. So was the Soviet leadership. If some in the Kremlin chose to think that it wasn't an exercise, that too was nothing new. And it wasn't the exercise itself that caused the tensions around it, it was the Soviet actions prior to the exercise.

@noland65

6 ай бұрын

@@jwenting The point being that the USSR was pretty much expecting a Western strike to be started under the cover of a maneuver. Their scenarios pointed this way. And, as it happened, just then RYaN had predicted a Western first strike to be launched in the next few weeks, based on a variety of data, and there was a also a peculiar time window with the new missiles already in Europe, but still exclusively under US control. (And there was more, like a build up in mock attacks to test Soviet defenses, etc. And all this, while rhetorics were also building up. This was pretty much the hottest phase of the cold war - and the USSR was in panic.)

Such a great channel. The stories are excellent

17:15 Great video and outstanding quote sir. I should have found that clip on my own.

I really enjoy your videos and I hope you will continue to make them!

I knew of this, but I didn't know the test rocket matched a D5 launch profile. That makes the Russian response a LITTLE more understandable. Not excusable, but understandable.

@mattl3729

6 ай бұрын

Well that's what they say- I'd be surprised if it were true. Remember, Russians lie. About everything.

@CativaBR

6 ай бұрын

I mean, the radar operators did a stellar job, not their fault no one told them about the rocket launch.

@jwenting

6 ай бұрын

it didn't, only the launch site and initial course somewhat did. D5 has completely different staging and speed profiles for example, and a much flatter trajectory.

@MM22966

6 ай бұрын

@@jwenting Oh. Then they were still panicky idiots then?

@MM22966

6 ай бұрын

@@CativaBR Yeah. Individual capability & grit has never been the Russian's problem, it's always been how they used it (or don't) and their incredibly messed up governments. "There are no bad soldiers, there are only bad officers". (Not 100% true, either, but descriptive to this situation)

Operation Able Archer in the early 80's almost kicked it off too!

Excellent analysis! Respect!

Thank you for these very interesting videos!

@paperskiesaviation, you are a really smart guy. Respect, and best regards from Lithuania 🇱🇹 Slava!

This added another dimension to the Yeltsin era in Russia. I particularly appreciate the way you ended the episode.

At the back of his mind, Yeltsin had to be asking himself what America's motivation could possibly be for launching an attack now? Thankfully, a bit of vodka might have also slowed his reflexes a bit lol.

@fffUUUUUU

6 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that a briefcase guy found Yeltsin sober and conscious😂

@thatguyoverthere9634

6 ай бұрын

I honestly think a nuclear attack could have taken place and Yeltsin's thought would have been "what's the point of fighting back now?" Putin could see a bird flying over the Norwegian sea on radar and think it's Armageddon. When it turns out to be a false alarm he'd probably have the radar crew assassinated and blame the whole scare on NATO in one big coverup. For a man as tiny as he is, he has one massive and fragile ego. Im sure according to him, he could never do anything wrong or ever possibly over react to anything.

@RangerB66

6 ай бұрын

@@thatguyoverthere9634that's hilarious, I love it.

@mattl3729

6 ай бұрын

Exactly. That's why this isn't actually as 'special' an event as it seems- it couldn't have been hard for any level-headed, reasonable person to think 'this doesn't make sense- there must be something wrong.' Just one rocket, when the Cold War is essentially over, and everyone seems to be getting along better than ever- what sense does it make for this to be a Trident, of all things?

@nathanclark2424

6 ай бұрын

@@thatguyoverthere9634I’ve asked myself this question many times in regards to other possible scenarios. Like, what if one of our allies accidentally launched a rocket at us? Would we, or even should we, accept an apology? Although I’m also making an assumption that said ally would have gotten to the point where institutional problems have gotten so bad that one misfired rocket almost triggers a nuclear response, and I cannot think of any of our allies as been on the same level as Russia, 90s or otherwise.

I have been watching your videos for some time now, Your English is improving. Great video very informative. Keep up the great content.

Keep up great work!

Thank you, Boris.

Wooo new paper skies post!!!

It confuses me why Russia was so surprised that east Europe turned away from Russia, even if they aren’t the same entities people are still going to see it the same

@deathsheadknight2137

6 ай бұрын

The west played them when they sided with them in WW2. Let them get away with murder (literal mass murder) then pulled the rug out from under them, lol. serves them right for trusting the west.

Wow, just realized Paper skies is technically Ukrainian channel, Thanks for your videos!

@mikoto7693

6 ай бұрын

This is a Ukrainian channel? Cool!

I am happy you did not end up deciding to hire some over the top American to mispronounce all these Russian names when you got some random comment about your accent 🙂 Love your storytelling, somehow with a personal touch

I love your work. Cheers from Chicago

Very nice video! Maybe next time you can tell the story about that German guy who landed a Cessna in the red square! Cheers

Easily one of my favorite youtube channels

1995, fond memories, life was simple and peaceful. Didn't know we narrowly missed a nuclear war.

@guyk2260

6 ай бұрын

Yup it was all the war between Oasis and Blur in the UK .

@RumbleFilthskin

6 ай бұрын

Yeah man we e missed a bunch actually. I forgot the name of this submariner who was told that an ICBM was being launched from the states and this guy was responsible for immediate response but when he looked at his readings and input, he had a gut feeling it was mistake and this was at the height of the Cold War and if he had authorized a launch , it would have triggered a M.A.D event

Yes the former Russian president Boris and his rendition of the dance move known as The Twist😂

I like how the thumbnail depicts an S-125 surface to air missile system for a video that's talking about nukes

Good stuff.

I actually find it reassuring that even in situations like this humanity chose not to kill itself.

J...just another Tuesday?.... *snaps to attention* I'll follow you anywhere, that's a vibe I can live by!

We really came close to an "IT'S TIME" moment there

@robgrey6183

6 ай бұрын

The Norwegians would have suffered some initial setbacks, but I think they would have beat the Russians.

"For the Ukrainians, it's just another Tuesday" Great quote and sadly so true. Good video of a little known event. Might have wanted to include a few Americans in that clip about "crazy" leaders.

@alexturnbackthearmy1907

6 ай бұрын

And the saddest part is...this is a reality. World wouldn end after nuclear strikes, just a new, much darker world will be born. No country will collapse, no leadership will disappear and no war will be ended.

@lucasokeefe7935

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, agreed

@janchovanec8624

6 ай бұрын

Trump was surprisingly tough on Russia. He was the only US president in like 60 years who sanctioned use deadly force against Russians in Syria, where they wasted around 250 Russians. During Obama era, Russians learnt the US troops in Syria were ordered to just take it in the ass and retreat when fired upon, Trump chose not to appease Hitler... I mean Putin. Also, Putin called Trump a "gay clown", which got translated into "bright and entertaining" by an incompetent translator :D Trump now thinks Putin respects him, which is only half the truth, for Putin respects strength and the US military is that strength.

Thanks!

@PaperSkiesAviation

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your support!

VERY smooth transition into sponsor. Well played

It is not the fall of the Berlin Wall that launched the end of the east block... The collapse was already well under the way over one year already... The wall was just spectacular

that is one clean ad transition

Missile fired 3 minutes away from the main Russian ICBM-bases around Murmansk. But what do I know, I only went to school with a member of the Norwegian team who launched the missile.

@djendjendjendjendjen9442

6 ай бұрын

whoah

@Ganiscol

6 ай бұрын

What are you trying to say? With a little more effort, you certainly can express your train of thought - if it hasnt derailed already.

@RangerB66

6 ай бұрын

There's no ICBM's on the Kola Peninsula. Murmansk is a Naval Base and Polyarnii is their strategic missile carrying submarine base.

@RangerB66

6 ай бұрын

@@IvanDmitriev1 Afrikanda was an air defense base, along with Kandalaksha. I'm just a fountain of useless Cold War trivia. Or a fountain of something... But I think I know what you were going for; at one time between Murmansk and Archangelsk, that area was the HQ for the Red Banner Northern Fleet and concrete igloos all over the Kola held nuke warheads for the various shipboard systems. Then there's the SLBMs and their warheads so that the way I'd always heard it put, was the Kola was a super sensitive area to the Russkies, with the largest concentration of warheads in any one place. This probably wasn't exactly true either (define a "place"?) but you know how we Americans love our idioms, one liners and quips. It matches our short attention spans.

Opening with the Computer Chronicles as your period reference was perfect.

I put it to you that there was ten years or so after 1949 when nuclear weapons were considered a part of any general war, rather than being a separate class of things put aside for a different type of war.

@deathsheadknight2137

6 ай бұрын

considered by some

@alexturnbackthearmy1907

6 ай бұрын

@@deathsheadknight2137 Not by some. All armies that had access to nuclear weaponry included it in their army: Heavy artillery with "special" ammunition on top of regular HE shells, short range mobile launchers with regular and nuclear warheads, ready to be swapped in minutes, nuclear AA missiles, chemical and nuclear warfare units to protect troops from weapon of mass destruction, modifications towards tanks and ifv`s to include filtration system, as well as radiation shielding...even more compact warheads that could be used by regular artillery or even by single person. These "more affordable nuclear options" were withdrawn very recently, and some might still be in service.

8:20 uf, that quote goes hard

"A whole nation wickedly urging nuclear war." What??? That's absurd.

@Shaun_Jones

5 ай бұрын

If you don’t value your brain cells, watch some Russian news stations. They are constantly advocating for nuclear weapons to be used on literally anything and everything that inconveniences Russia, from Kyiv to the White House to just demanding that the entire UK be tuned to glass.

4:23 The ISS orbits at 250 miles, GEO is at 22,000 miles. Well within normal orbit ranges but still quite high for a broomstick.

Such things happen when you are capable to see a missile, but your uncertainty in it's position is some 200+km...

Disarray is a very generous word to describe complete corruption and ineptitude.

Fun fact, this is why the iconic red phone is on the presidents desk. There are similar ones in most nuclear powers offices. That way they can call each other and be like “hey dude! What the fucks going on? Please tell me some idiot didn’t inform us that you were doing tests?!”

@SnakebitSTI

6 ай бұрын

The "iconic red phone" does not exist. It is an invention of fictional media meant to represent agreements and protocols to allow rapid communication between the leaders of nuclear states in an emergency.

@mikoto7693

6 ай бұрын

I wondered about that. It reassures me.

Never heard of the norwegian incident till now. Wow!. It seems Boris was at least on this day sober, luckily for us!

Great job, specially at the end, I also come from the right and feel like that

4:20 that's a misleading statement, since a "1500km height" of that rocket is still a ballistic suborbital one, which is not directly comparable to orbital heights - because of very different kinematics, velocities and energies involved. But what's more relevant - a 1500km ballistic height is quite comparable to ones of ICBM trajectories.

oh boy this gonna be epic!

Well, that was a really great video in my oppinion, the hunt for the storozevoy was also a good one, but in a more funnier way, whereas this was is good while staying serious. I first heard about this story thanks to The History Guy channel, your videos complements it by giving hindsight into the state of Russia during the event. I am amazed by the quality of your videos, and I don't understand why KZread doesn't support more good-quality content creators, it would improve the platform a lot I think. And it's such a shame that there ins't a comment section on Nebula, I find this platform way more convenient to find precise and good quality content thanks to it's simplicity, but it's a bit lacking in interaction with rhe audience in my opinion

There's different divisions amongst left and right leaning people. Right leaning people in one country, may have big differences to right leaning people in another, and the exact same applies to the left as well. So online statistics regarding left v right are, well, weird and not really reliable, especially since typically such media outlets just output whatever views are of their bosses, or the writers, which can skew things even further. Some people, from both sides, are incredibly susceptible to propaganda, not necessarily out of incompetence, but it could be anything, the desire to be 'different', something pathological, or even peer pressure, or because they are from the location of origin and want to fit in. All you can really do is just try to ignore everyone else's input and just analyse the hard facts as they are, try to think like a robot basically. I find that doing so, the whole left v right thing starts to fade away and you realise, actually, maybe these labels are just made up with the intention of dividing people.

The clip of the concert (14:46) sent chills down my spine as an American. It’s an awesome song, to be fair, but it’s troubling that that sentiment probably persists to this day in the Russian national identity (particularly the one that continues to support Putin). Also, the sponsor was a 100% match for this video. High quality content, as always.

@hollister2320

6 ай бұрын

Same, it frustrates me how Russia can’t come to their senses man, we could’ve been such great allies like England and Canada, but every step of the way they’ve stepped on their toes. Now after this war in Ukraine, I’m certain that door has closed forever. What could have been 😒

@user-gl1hk3qz9d

6 ай бұрын

As Russian I think that it's cringe. Many talented artists had to leave the country

@cursdtoeatpsywheneverimaskedto

6 ай бұрын

Also what is this nazi ass band at 15:07? 😂

@0katze

6 ай бұрын

this is literally no different to american shows on sports where they fly american flags / jets to showcase their pride to be citizens of their specific country, there is nothing bad about it

@krishthakar6661

6 ай бұрын

@@hollister2320 Get off your high horse , west isn't a saint and Russia isn't interested in being a puppet of US and handing their nukes so US could use them to strike Chinese.

Missing the US Misisile Command incident where they played a war game tape by accident and no one told them- it is was very close to nuclear apocalypse

Congrats on not using 99 Luftballons meme

1983 was a year when we were really close a couple of times too.

Its quite amazing honestly how many times 1 person has "avoided nuclear war" the most memorable one for me that comes to mind whenever i hear such things is of course Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov. And yes that was a copy paste but it just goes to show these things arent as uncommon as people think.

I appreciate you, Paper Skies and I think you are to the largest extent objective, neutral and generally marked by decency and common sense. I do believe, though, that reality is much more complex and (in my opinion) you are becoming progressively affected by the hardships your country goes through.

@ZaAllahRus

6 ай бұрын

Question what country is he from?

@SerbanOprescu

6 ай бұрын

@@ZaAllahRus - He is Ukrainian.

And again the world owes for the 3rd time a thank you

6:30 bro is waving those sticks like it determined whether or not he went to the gulags

I'VE BEEN LOOOOKIN FOR FREEDOM - slaps hard

Good introduction to a sponsor

my man puts so much time and effort into making these epic videos and still didn't put the ad in the start or the middle bro do you hate money or they didn't care wherever you put it

I'd argue Able Archer 1983 was closer than the 1995 event.

Most of these events seem to be defused by MAI. Mutually Assured Incompetence. When Soviet belligerence creates a problem, the Soviet method of thorough incompetence created just enough balance to stop it from escalating too far.

I would still say we were closer to the use of Nuclear weapons during the Whisket on the rocks incident in 1981

Oof...the realization that my life depended on the alcoholic Boris Yeltsin.

Thank god we got more Salma Hayek

Watched this video's thumbnail change 3 times before watching it

can we get the names and artists of the songs being used? Just linking the website isn't really helping to find the music.

2:52 Looks like old Billy boy might of shared one too many with Yeltsin

i would like the explaination too the great war in the Fallout series that started the nuclear war was something like this between china and the usa :P would be intressting twist that the nuclear exchanges that ended the world was just a misstake xD

The rocket shown at 10:11 is hilarious. Why bother building your own multi-stage rocket when you can just stack a bunch of military surplus rockets on top of one another?

Lets not forget that the us also nearly launched several nuclear attacks unjustified

Ти зараз вестернам виклав більше історії про кінець Холодної Війни ніж вони могли дізнатися за все своє життя. Good job!

15:15 He looks like reenacting 1930ies fashion.

@jeffreyskoritowski4114

6 ай бұрын

The red button setting off the sparklers was more than a little unsettling.

Couzin ~ WE want more aboot the Snake Dancing Lady !🇨🇦

I loved the ending of the video where you had the Reagan speech and talked about the modern political standings of the Right now a days. Me and my Father feel the same way. He was raised in the Cold War and believes strongly in kicking Russia in the teeth, but it’s hard now a days because our own political parties are now supporting Russia.

@chesterhiggens

6 ай бұрын

Russia is not our enemy and never has been that Cold War mindset is because of the military industrial complex brainwashing you.

@p_serdiuk

6 ай бұрын

​@@chesterhiggens Putin has been saying that NATO is his personal enemy for decades, you just don't understand Russian so you fall for propaganda in English.

@Idengard

6 ай бұрын

Yep that’s weird. I can’t quite comprehend it. People want peace by telling people to stop defending themselves

@cplpuddingpop

6 ай бұрын

The unfortunate truth is that the Republican party of old no longer exists. I've always been extremely liberal myself, but at least respected the ideology of the right up until the Obama era: at least I could tell that their ideals were always in an attempt to better the United States. The Republican party these days can't say that anymore. Moscow-funded politicians say and do whatever they can to get elected, so they can fill their pockets as much as possible before their term is up. Trump really was just the final nail in the coffin.

@deathsheadknight2137

6 ай бұрын

@@p_serdiuk Didn't he ask to join NATO a while back, only to get spitefully rebuffed and lied to about the continued expansion (with everyone but russia)?