Did the USA and USSR always hate each other? (Short Animated Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- We all know the USA and USSR weren't the best of friends during the Cold War. But how did they see each other before this from the Russian Revolution to the beginning of World War 2? Did the United States and Soviet Union always hate each other? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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0:48 The world revolution has no chance against Luxembourg.
Lux had lvl 10 forts and lvl 4 engineer company
Ironically Luxembourg did have a communist revolution but it failed horribly.
Stalin played HOI4, he knows how annoying it is to justify war goals.
North Africa and Iran are still there though
I opened the comments to mention that and the top 3 comments are all that.
0:48
Europe: Falls to Communism
Luxembourg: Nee.
Bro thinks he’s Switzerland💀💀
Thats dutch luxembourg is german
@@Dracovenatrix Letzeburg is German
@@GwainSagaFanChannel that what i said dummy
@@Dracovenatrix no, it's Luxembourgish
I like how Luxembourg is the only one that Soviets ignored
they forgot about that one
As mighty Luxembourg, also Persia and Iraq persevered in the end, my colleges
They knew it was better to not provoke Luxembourg.
You went to college in those two countries @@Lorathwise
the only one that the soviets feared*
1:35 I can imagine Stalin responding with a letter just saying
“Your”
@@abbyalphonse499The letter says 'you're country'.
Or even with one stating: "yes, I am country; thank you for acknowledging this self-evident fact."
@@abbyalphonse499Stalin loved to read. Im talking like 1000+ pages per night, and his library was full of books with spelling corrections written in them
These videos have a lot of these kind of errors in them.
I think the first "you're" in the letter is a mistake because there is no use of the article "a" before the noun "country", and therefore to use "you're" as an abbreviation of "you are" in this context is not correct. If there was an article before country then you're in this context would also be correct. Unless of course someone with better grammar knowledge than me corrects me.
1:29
Europe: I guess you exist
Netherlands: What….kind of animal are you…
Based Netherlands
Based Holland
Dutchlander
@@FrankSinatraTheSecondHollander
Nope!
0:48 Luxemburg standing against the soviets, truly a Hoi 4 moment of all time
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Be me as Austria in EU, 3 Electors backing LUXEMBOURG FOR THE EMPEROR...
Nothing spells blatant war of aggression quite like 3 30k+ stacks marching on a OPM
0:45
The Soviets probably thought that Luxembourg was already controlled by Luxemburgism
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Much worse - by the Luxembourgeoisie!
Nice one
@@finnguy1549 And the funny thing is that if you are from Luxembourg & want to say your national equivalent to "I am french/German/American" in the most widely spoken of your three official languages, you actually HAVE to describe yourself as a "luxembourgeois" (if male) or "luxembourgeoise" (if female). Must be annoying for local communists.
(Bonus absurdity: I know that there at least used to be Luxembourgeois communists because back in the day, when pre-1989 we visited East Berlin as West berliners, we had to exchange 20 West German Marks into Eastern currency upon crossing the border. Now given that East Berlin wasn't exactly a shopping paradise, it was always a hassle to spend that money (you weren't allow to take it out of East Germany either), and so you could count yourself lucky if you found books or records to buy with it. On one of these occasions I bought a Russian-German & vice versa dictionary only to be, when belatedly browsing it back home in West Berlin, very annoyed upon realisinge that all kinds of historical terms that weren't compatible with USSR ideology were missing; the specific case had me ranting at nobody in particular "So you don't give me the word for [the noble title of] count (where, retrospective note, the joke was on me - the Russian word for that is actually identical to the German one anyway) but you had enough space to waste it on the Russian abbreviation of 'Communist Party of Luxembourg!?' ")
@@chevalierdupapillonHaha that was a good one, made me actually laugh😂
There was also a time when the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran declared itself to be not aligned with either side, just in time for Iraq to attack. Both the US and the USSR backed Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War.
Yep, and Iran was one of the very few countries that boycotted both the 1980 (Moscow) AND the 1984 (Los Angeles) Olympics.
Yes, we(USA) were still pissed they did not like our choice of ruthless dictator for their county, and kept all his military toys we let him play with.
@@Chris-ut6eqLol, "ruthless dictator". 😂 The Shah was ghandi compared to the ayatollah. But good job getting rid of that king so that you could have a ruthless religious nut as the head of state.
@@Chris-ut6eqThe Shah was ghandi compared to the basket cases that Iran has now.
@@CedarHunt He was objectively a ruthless dictator and backed by the CIA, the amount of money that they spent to keep him in power in spite of his lack of popularity was amazing.
1:28
Netherlands: “I don’t even know what communism is”
Based Dutch 🗿
So based
Silly capitalists
Basically invented capitalism as a country, so yeah, there's that.
Soviet Unie....nog nooit van gehoord pft
"Hey, you still owe us a whole lot from that sale a decade ago and we expect you to honor the deal...anyway, can we sell you more stuff?"
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Ey Kim Jong Un about those Volvos
Honoring your agreements is the basis of civilization, yes. Where "you" as a recognized state begins is so often where "you" as organized bandits ends.
“Ask the Tsar” is brutal
1:28 The Netherlands refusing to recgonise Communism
Belgium in 1985: "Fine..."
Moscow.
Based
Let's not forget, the Dutch are cannibals.
The Netherlands only recognized the USSR in 1942 because the UK and US put pressure on the Dutch government in exile.
TLDR: Rocky Start, Tried not to hate each other for a while, fought a common enemy for four years and then Cold War time
Ha! Rocky, amirite?
The boldheviks always hated the US. Because of ideologie and the fact that the USA intervened in the russian civil war on the side of the whites.
*TL;DW but great summary. 🙂
Americans helped a lot during the Volga famine and played a major role in Stalin's industrialization (just read about Albert Kahn or Magnitogorsk). There was a Soviet 'embassy' Amtorg in the US. Anastas Mikoyan visited the country and, for example, took the idea of fast food from there. Even ideologically, although Americans were religious capitalists, they still were a young revolutionary industrial society that showed new ways of life to the monarchic, traditional, imperialist Old World; you can find a kind of fascination even in Communists' works. So I wouldn't call the 1920-1940 period as 'tried not to hate each other,' there certainly was some amity between the two nations
TLTLDR: Yes
2:01 I like how he tried to sneak in E.T. Game Cartridges💀
Stalin, falling into one of those damn pits for the 57th time: "CURSE YOU IMPERIALIST DOGS!"
The USSR never forgave them for this dirty trick
Atari did say they sent them to a garbage dump, just didn't specify where.🤣
@@korbell1089I mean, the Atari E.T. game was released during the Cold War
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The dump became a archaeology project. Yes the dump has been found in New Mexico. Yes I checked. I had to do a memory repair as it was telling me Arizona.
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Revolutions come and go, Luxembourg is forever 🇱🇺
Until Germany occupies them in two world wars without any casualties. But I know where you’re going with this.
I love the new "Ask the Tsar" running joke :)
1:10 "Ask the Tsar" had me cackling.
During the 1921 Russian famine, the ARA (American relief administration) provided the most food and medical relief for the Russians.Feeding 11 million people.Just an interesting fact.
Source ?
Herbert Hoover was involved in that
not to mention the whole Lend Lease act that saved them from the nazis and the US send food when they were standing in lines for food 30 years ago
@@TheSMR1969 you don't know how google works?
@@ezefinkielman4672 Yes he was!
The vital crates shown sent include "MAPS OF AUSTRALIA"; "E.T. GAME CARTRIDGES"; "MELON BALLERS"; "COWBOY HATS"; "PALM TREE SEEDS".
The sixth crate on the bottom left is somewhat undetermined. However, I think it likely that crate is labeled "BANK RECORDS".
I was assuming "pink records" because if we can send them E.T. game cartridges, we can send them pop music.
@@BoldWittyName Yeah, I think it's Pink records (P!nk records?), too
I really need to know what it actually is
They went to all the trouble of time travelling for those game cartridges and look what they got in return
And then we got one of the most popular video games of the 90s from the Soviets. Who didn't even know how to sell it to us.
A thing I noticed with FDR is the small metal that is sticking out of his legs, fdr would be in a wheelchair but in the public eye he is often standing
Yup, he wore leg braces during his public appearances, so he could walk to the podium and stay standing during his speeches.
2:00 the fact that the US aid crates are "maps of australia", "E.T. Game cartridges" (which is a reference to how hated that game was), "melon ballers" "cowboy hats" and "palm tree seeds" (which wouldn't even grow in russia) all very hilarious
Fun fact: Mexico was the first nation in the Americas to recognize & establish relations with the Soviet Union, in 1924.
Furthermore, the Soviets appointed in 1926 Alexandra Kollontai as ambassador to Mexico. She was the first female ambassador in the World.
Remarkable. Nearly 100 years later we almost have the first female POTUS.
Curious to know which lady will replace Russia's head.
After a failed attempt to have Trotsky murdered in March 1939, Stalin assigned the overall organization of implementing the task to the NKVD officer Pavel Sudoplatov, who, in turn, co-opted Nahum Eitingon. According to Sudoplatov's Special Tasks, the NKVD proceeded to set up three NKVD agent networks to carry out the murder; these three networks were designed to operate entirely autonomously from the NKVD's hitherto-established spy networks in the U.S. and Mexico.[225]
There's more. The Soviets also sent Trotsky to Mexico, as well as the guy who killed Trotsky.
The "first" Mexican president, Lazaro Cardenas, was basically a leftist who had communist sympathie
I will have you know that that woman had a more prestigious role in government and was promptly booted by Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.
I have been watching these videos for years and I just want to take a moment to acknowledge how hilarious the details are in every video. Those "ask the Tsar" and "Ew" had me burst laughing! Great work.
0:15 Okay, already off the bat, America had good relations with Russia in the mid 19th century, but it quickly soured after 1886 when George Kennan (not to be confused with his similarly named cousin with a similar interest in Russia, George F. Kennan) became critical of the Russian autocracy, and those opinions soon spread across the country.
Also, while the romanovs and federal government have mostly gotten along with shared foreign interests. Ever since large migrations of ethnic minorities in the Russian empire, mainly jews and poles, to the United States, in part because of their treatment by the empire, as those immigrants became voters, the government and public became much more critical of russian autocracy. With The kishinev pogrom being one of the lower points of us-russian empire relatations
The governments of both countries had good relations because each saw the other as a counterweight/potential ally against Great Britain (especially after the Crimean War for Russia and tensions concerning the Juan de Fuca islands and the Trent Affair for the US). As relations became more cordial between the US and UK after 1870, the American perceived need for allies lessened and consequently the American people became less willing to turn a blind eye to Russian tyranny. By the time of the Russo-Japanese War most Americans who bothered to pay attention at all were on the side of the Japanese.
@@baraxor Oh, the imperial Japanese, now those are some good guys that America can get behind!
It's hard to ignore how many international problems were made 1000x worse because the Americans decided to meddle. That's how we got Putin in charge of Russia.
@@Heike-- What?
@@Heike-- brother the rise of Japan has nothing to do with Isolationist America lmfao
1:21 "As the decades rolled on the previous loss of money was overtaken by the desire to make new money"
Bro just explained gambling addiction
The way he said it though
Love your work!
In an episode we often forget Leningrad was gripped by famine around 1920. Americans privately donated millions to a relief fund and US volunteers went to Leningrad to distribute food. Didnt know about the 1922 deal. Thanks for the tip.
I scrolled down to find this comment. It really should have been mentioned in spite of, but also because of, the fact that it was quickly forgotten in both countries.
@@bjhale The informal American Soviet links are easy to forget and hard to categorize. Something I hope to help with in my ( eventual ) book Bubbles & Ripples: 3 Tales of the Cold War...Retold.
Thanks for the video.
1:30
The dutch rlly went "Better Dead than Red"
The tune changed quite fast once the Fire Nation attacked, however.
The Netherlands only recognized the USSR in 1942 because the UK and US put pressure on the Dutch government in exile.
I didn't know the Dutch were so based
2:01- "ET Game Cartridges" Bruh 😆
The US had a very complicated relationship with Revolutionary Russia. At the start, Wilson wanted to let the Revolution take its course. On the eve of getting into WW1, Wilson addressed Congress, saying that the Russian people had their right to self determination, but that opinion changed after the October Revolution. Wilson sent the ill-fated Polar Bear expedition to the Arctic (the only time the US and Russia have ever directly fought each other) to intervene in the war but it basically achieved nothing. The war correspondence of John Reed (ultimately culminating in the book “10 Days that Shook the World”) was widely read in the US and somewhat softened the American hostility towards the early USSR. Future American President Herbert Hoover provided massive economic aid and food relief to ordinary Russians as head of the American Relief Administration, effectively ending the direct hostility between the Americans and the USSR. Although it’s important to note that the US went through a red scare in the wake of WW1, an ominous prelude to McCarthy’s Red Scare of the 1950s.
McCarthy was right about everything and didn't go far enough
I know the U.S. supplied the Whites brand new Remington rifles by 1916-17, and other troops too. (I think I read about that Arctic expeditionary force once to Archangel wasn't it?
Now USA is heading / has landed into communism, while Russia and other ex-communist countries are trying to reverse the aftermath of such disastrous course..
@@robertrichard6107 They also supplied a MASSIVE lend-lease effort throughout WWII.
"ominous prelude" This isn't a True Crime documentary lol. Besides, McCarthy did nothing wrong.
The soviets bought almost all of their factory plans from the private american sector in the 20’s and 30’s
They bought it with art, straight out of the collections the old tsars had
Well that an selling food as they starved Ukraine
@@cgmason7568didn’t they also starve Kazakhstan? Honestly Stalin USSR was one of closest things to hell
@@guycrew3973 and the volga as well
The Moscow Gold (Spanish: Oro de Moscú), or alternatively Gold of the Republic (Spanish: Oro de la República), was 510 tonnes of gold, corresponding to 72.6% of the total gold reserves of the Bank of Spain, that were transferred from their original location in Madrid to the Soviet Union a few months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. This transfer was made by order of the government of the Second Spanish Republic, presided over by Francisco Largo Caballero, through the initiative of his Minister of Finance, Juan Negrín.
@@cgmason7568You are quick to believe propaganda. Ukraine used to be just a poor village, but since they joined the Soviet Union, they became industrialized and became a strong socialist country. Research history from accurate sources.
James Bisonette fuelled the American-Soviet rivalry.
Please do a video on the following subjects!
1. Why did the People's revolution of 1848 fail in Spain and in the German states?
2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?
I don't know Spain, but in Germany, it failed in 1848 because of Otto von Bismarck helping the Kaiser
For the second question, it is basically countries that were colonised by Britain (or hired British engineers to design their highways, like the Japanese did) and the countries that were not colonised by Britain.
As to why the Brits drive on the left. Because traditionally that was the 'correct side of the road.' When you were on horse and risked a bandit attack, you had to draw your blade, and since most people were right-handed, it would've been much easier to draw it and swing it in the opposite direction. Walking on the left side was seen as a sign of the aristocracy by revolutionaries, and as they wanted everything related to the monarchy gone, they force everyone to walk on the right side of the road. And French influence spread massively after the Napoleonic Wars, so there's that...
@@Drave_Jr. I am fairly sure Bismarck had a rather minor role during the events that transpired in 1848-1849.
In answer to 2. In all countries you find people driving on *both* sides of the road. EG USAF diplomatic wives who live on UK airbases.
@@David_Crayford And cause the deaths of minors by careless driving.
Thanks for doing what you do!
Nikita Krushchev: Leave West Berlin or else lose I’ll be really made at you.
John F Kennedy: Yeah no, we’re gonna stay. West Berlin is ours East Berlin is yours, that’s just the way it is.
Also John F Kennedy:Phew! Let’s hope that’s the biggest crisis of my presidency.
*Later*
Robert McNamara: Prime minister Castro, this missile crisis has been the last straw. We almost blew ourselves up! Now we invited you here in good faith to sort this thing out.
Luckily Nixon got the Ray Gun so everything was good.
Is that a black ops reference? Because I recently watched a video of them geared up to fight zombies
Also JFK saying "East Berlin is yours" basically gave the USSR the diplomatic wiggle room/incentive to build the Berlin Wall. That combined with the Bay of Pigs really exposed JFKs inexperience in dealing with the Soviets that first year of his presidency.
"And why's he here? HE Lost!"
@@floyd0604 the couple million soldiers they had in the east gave them room/incentive to build the wall
I just thought earlier today it was about time for a new history matters episode. Perfect timing
Another awesome video HM 👍👍
Another amazing video
USA and USSR in the 1920s: ⚔️
USA and USSR in WW2: 🤝
USA and USSR in the cold war: ⚔️
And it didn't get any simpler more recently, either.
@@CuratorOfReality - It likely never will
@@CuratorOfReality two different entity
A physician of mine from when I was a kid, had visited the Soviet Union in the 50s and learned about a rudimentary form of surgical stapling from them. He brought the process back to America and made improvements of it and is considered a pioneer in America for the usage of surgical staples here.
Thank you James Bizzonet
Love the videos
1:21 this is why your channel is so great
Great video as always
Something to note- the US wasn't really all that mad over the Tsar being overthrown, in fact they were excited. A lot of people saw the initial February Revolution to be the triumph of a new Democracy over the old absolute Monarch. The US really was hopeful to reach out to the new Russian Republic, which the Soviets then promptly overthrew and established a Dictatorship.
Any evidence of that? I don't know either, but the whole situation in Russia was so chaotic at the time, I can't imagine ANY firm opinion forming beyond "get back to fighting the Germans, you jerks!"
@@MM22966 The US hoped that the "White Russians" would win the Civil War, and was pretty confident that they would... until, of course, Trotsky proved to be THE ABSOLUTE WORST MILITARY LEADER in human history, and lost to the Soviet Red Army, in spite of having said enemy completely surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned.
I wouldn’t say excited. The US wasn’t exactly pro-monarchy sure, but they also weren’t pro-authoritarian. Basically, Russia was reading in an absolute monarchist for a dictatorial collection of madmen. I wouldn’t be a fan of Tsar Nicholas II, but I would rather have him than the Soviet regime. I think the US was more hoping that Russia would remain a monarchy but become a constitutional monarchy or a democratic republic that gave its large minorities like Ukrainians, Belarussians, and the like autonomy or semi-autonomy. Unfortunately, neither happened.
@@oilersridersbluejays The poster above is talking about Russia after the first (February) revolution, which established a republic. The second (October) revolution overthrow this republic and established a communist régime.
@@edmerc92February Revolution caused the deaths of millions in a few short months, with Kerensky’s egotistical Keresnky Offensive - as well as many authoritarian repressions of groups that he didn’t like - like the Bolsheviks, who were left with no choice but to revolt - immediately granting rights to a 7 hour work day (compared with 14-18 hours in Russia beforehand), equality between men and women (established international womens day too), racial and ethnic equality, and more.
An answer to an obvious question I didn't know I had. Great video.
Great stuff.
I love how the portraits of people on the background wall in certain scenes are always just...off somehow lol.
Luxembourg survives Communism 0:48
You have such good low key humor
The height of positive relations was 1862, when the Tsar sent the Russian fleet to NYC, which was seen as a show of support duing the American Civil War. However, the pogroms of Alexander III and Nicholas II, along with the massacre of protestors in 1905, increasingly soured first the public's and later the government's view of the Tsarist regieme.
thankfully we're all good friends now and love each other in full!
Well, since the USSR no longer exist, we can't be good friends with something that doesn't exist. I assume you mean Russia, and we were only cool with Russia until Putin came to power. We really aren't cool with them anymore with the exception of the Trump administration. I wonder what Putin did to get his favorite Trump to win the election with a popular vote.
Curious that you left out the Polar Bear expedition. Especially considering it's on the map shown 52 seconds into the video....
As WW1 was coming to an end, the Allies launched multiple invasions of Russia. One was the Siberian expedition, mentioned in the video, to prevent Japan from seizing Russian lands... but there was also one in northern Russia around the White Sea. The Allies, especially Britain, hoped to help the Whites take control of Russia from the increasingly victorious Bolsheviks. They convinced the Americans to join in too, and the US sent about five thousand soldiers, which would be called the "Polar Bear Expedition".
As it dragged on, it pretty quickly became unpopular back home. Allied efforts to strengthen the anti-Bolshevik forces failed, and the Bolsheviks were becoming too powerful to be stopped by the relatively small Allied forces. The Allied failed, and they withdrew their forces in October 1919, over a year and a half after the initial invasion.
Although it was a relatively small and short "intervention", it's important to note because the Bolsheviks didn't much like that it happened. The Bolsheviks featured it in propaganda as proof that the West was hostile towards Communism (which... yeah, the West totally was). This was an additional factor contributing to the frosty relations between the USSR and USA until the thaw in the 1930s.
When I saw "E.T. Game Cartridges" I couldn't stop laughing! God I love this channel!!!
One history fact I never hear spoken is that the US food donations fed tens of millions of Soviet citizens daily in the years following WW1. This saved countless lives from the famines brought on by war and Soviet policies. Not a peep about this though, not even from Russians. It’s probably been written out of their history.
I can confirm it was not written out of Soviet history. People still talk about how important the canned food and trucks from that era were. However it is rarely acknowledged in the US that the US helped the whites during the civil war. It wasn't even mentioned in this video. I know that some Americans from older generations remember that, but it was not taught when I went to American high school.
The much more unacknowledged fact was that the Soviet Union under Stalin was keen on friendly relations with the West. It’s the saber rattling by western powers due to their fear of socialism that caused the tensions and eventually the cold war.
@@Pacemaker_fgcmmm depends on the school ig because I was taught about our involvement
It was before the Soviets took power. You know just enough about the matter to be confident in being ever-so-slightly wrong in the worst way.
@@CoralCopperHead Oh so they weren’t the same people that would become Soviet citizens. What are you talking about. You think that’s actually a good point lmao
Great one as always HM!
0:47 Luxembourg 🗿
That fully explains all the bad decisions between disputes
0:46 All of Europe? No, a small village in Luxembourg...
These Bolsheviks are crazy!
This is the first time i watched a history matters video that isnt 3 years old
0:48 Luxembourg kind of locked out of the loop on this whole communism thing.
I really love how the style of animation adds to the humor. It reminds me of the early reaction to South Park.
2:00 "PALM TREE SEEDS" "COWBOY HATS" 💀💀💀💀💀
Thanks for clarifying it.
1:28 Netherlands when everyone acknowledges ussr’s existence: 🗿
The Netherlands only recognized the USSR in 1942 because the UK and US put pressure on the Dutch government in exile. The Swiss were the last European democracy to do so in 1946.
It's criminal how the contribution of those ET game cartridges has gone unreported by history. Thank you, History Matters!
One of the best Cold War moments was when President Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, bragged that he was the first Pole in 300 years to be in a position to stick it to the Russians. In the end, he was right.
0:48 Reminds me when the French, English, Swedes and Austrians forgot about Luxembourg during the Treaty of Westphalia
If Henry Wallace was VP instead of Truman when he died, would have had better relations going out of WW2
I would really like to see an alternate history scenario based on what if that happened
Well kindoff communism could spread
Didn’t Wallace become a communist after visiting the USSR and seeing how it was? Pretty hilarious to me, and a good rebuttal to “only people who’ve never experienced communism like it”
@@socire72 no Wallace was a Social Democrat like FDR, high regulation form of capitalism.
@@MilosiaSecondAcc I don’t get why Wallace has a “soft on communism” anchor to him, if you read and watch videos of him. He was a non-interventionist, he will fight only if it was the last resort. To be fair he still to his principles up until the war started, so there’s always respect for that. It’s his brilliance with Commerce that most military personnel got fed, so he in a way out commie the communist.
Everyne forgets that the US and Russia were allies longer than they have been enemies. They gave us Alaska, they helped in the Civil War. We only started to hate each other because of opposing ideologies and government policies. And its possible that one day, we could be allies again. Let us hope that is in our future 🙏
I think they sold Alaska to US. And current management want it back again.
It wasnt the soviets that help you though, and saying opposing ideologies is a small factor is pretty funny considering the whole point if socialism
@@lightningstrike5024 I mean, I never said it was. They were the Russian Empire back then. But since you mentioned it, the Soviets did help us a few times, like when they gave a rural West Virginia town a bridge they desperately needed. And lets not forget WW2
Video idea: How come Portugal gained practically nothing from ww1?
I was confused as to what Portugal *did* gain from the war, so I looked it up. They got the Kionga Triangle, a piece of the former German East Africa that was reassigned to Mozambique.
The Mouse that Roared comes to mind in relationship to Luxembourg v Russia. Good book & movie 👍
Dang even Switzerland faced a Revolution 😔
got this notification while watching oversimplified’s cold war. perfect timing.
Because James Bizonette controls the whole world and he wanted a laugh
Betting against Kelly money maker
Might be the only time patreon name listings have stuck in my mind
@Klaus-t5k Kelly Moneymaker is no joke, trust me.
@Klaus-t5k No idea, but its become a running gag in this channel
Why does James Bizonette allow bad things to happen to good people?
when is the multi-hour fully animated video about the entire Cold War?
“This deal was great!”
“I know! I still can’t believe you believed everything I promised!”
“Yeah!…wait…wait wha-“
Nice vid. You should do another Q&A sometime
Also, Herbert Hoover fed many in the newly formed USSR in the 20s. He prevented millions from dying of hunger
No, it was Russia. USSR wasn’t formed yet, the aid was in 1921, USSR was founded 30 december 1922. Not sure if the aid went to the White government or the RSFSR (Russian socialist federative soviet republic)
Great vid
Starting with Lenin, the Soviets always referred to the United States as “The Main Enemy.”
Well no sh1t, the United States, with Britain and France invaded the Soviets during the Russian Civil War and were the first countries to do so
Nice video!
The only thing worse than the E.T. Game Cartridges were the Maps of Australia
0:48 Luxembourg just chilling in the middle of chaos
Just found out the Netherlands did not recognize the USSR untill 1942 when them being part of the allied forces made it unavoidable. Pure badass.
Why is it badass to not recognize the nation that saved your nations destiny from nazi tyranny?
Childish expression.
Even then it was only because the UK and US put pressure on the Dutch government in exile.
What do you expect from the capitalists?
@@socire72 Yes, because the communists totally don't feed all of their resources up to the top and then refuse to distribute them properly the way they promised. At least capitalists are honest about it.
Hi amazing Chanel I love it and I have learnt a lot ❤
I thought the Whites and US had more of a military relationship. Troops weren’t just there as a deterrent, but actively battling the Reds. Or am I mistaken?
The white army together with the US soldiers were killing the revolutionaries. What else did you expect to happen? The USA hates socialism because it is capitalist.
Yeah, this was weirdly left out. Americans invaded the RSFSR in the Russian Civil War in the White Sea, along with UK and France (many other nations like Japan and Poland also invaded the RSFSR /-USSR)
(it became the USSR in 1922)
Also is partly the reason why the USSR had bad relations with the western capitalist countries - why be friends with someone who invaded you?
Also, I’m pretty sure Winston Churchill was a sort of Naval commander or something at the time, while Stalin was a general I think? So maybe they fought on opposite sides and would go on to become world leaders. Pretty interesting if its true
From what I've heard, 29th President, Warren Harding wanted to do business with the Soviet Union, or Russia as it was at the time, but he was advised by his Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes, that they couldn't recognise the Balshevik government they had.
0:47 I love that apparently Lichtenstein is powerful enough to hold off a revolution that took over the rest of Europe.
That's Luxembourg.
"Lichenstein" 💀
@mikewalker678 yep, I got that one wrong. 😅 In my head I thought lichtenstein was the more northerly one for some reason.
Fascinating!
"They gave women the right to vote! No civilized country would ever do that!"
I mean, the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, and states had started to enfranchise women in 1889, so that doesn't really seem relevant.
@@viktor7475 Okay, so men and women were equally stripped of their rights.
ETA: You don't even have your facts right; the Wyoming Constitution of 1889 explicitly that political rights would be enjoyed "without distinction of race, color, sex, or any circumstance or condition whatsoever other than individual incompetency, or unworthiness duly ascertained by a court of competent jurisdiction."
@@viktor7475 You said "first constitution in the world," and you were wrong.
No wonder the Soviets hated us 2:00 We gave them E.T. game cartridges. That's a reason to go.
It’s because they couldn’t agree on who would have James Bisonette
You cannot own James Bisonette. James Bisonette owns both US and USSR
James Bissonnette is my bro
“Stalin agreed not to interfere in American affairs”
whew that was lucky, imagine if he never agreed to that
The Soviet Union employed US companies pre-war to build factories and other key infrastructure (e.g. that dam on the Dnieper that Russia blew up a year or two ago). A lot of Soviet industrialization came courtesy of American industrial experts. This was not something that either the Soviet Union nor the US was anxious to advertise, but it's nonetheless true.
interesting, precursor to how PRC built up its industry later?
Even in the US state archives, it is written that the Soviets have surpassed the US economically many times.
@@minikyabgu There was a lot of communist infiltration in the state department. And the US Military often vastly over estimated USSR capabilities due to lack of knowledge.
I wouldn't consider the record valid, due to biased observers, propaganda distorting the numbers, and lack of accurate knowledge.
Kind of. During the Great Depression many refugees from the USA came to the USSR and began working as designers or experts in order to help the Five Year Plans. Machinery was purchased from the other nations as well.
@@socire72 Also during the Great Depression, the Poljot watch factory was started with the USSR purchasing the Ansonia Clock Company and shipping over a lot of equipment.
You should do a video on how those ET game cartridges helped us win the war.
Lol 1:25 changing the lettering to dollar signs
To make a short story even shorter: yes, they pretty much always hated each other