He really needs a new cohost. No offense to the guy, but I don’t even know his frickin name. He didn’t bother to tell rudyard his screen was frozen. He’s supposed to be “us,” but he never engages with the conversation. Even when asked if he has questions, I feel like he hardly ever has any… why is he even here?
Soviet cinema was excellent. Really. Because they needed to justify their world project and also needed to motivate and distract the masses. If you speak Russian you can see it. Soviet cinema was excellent. Was.
the fun parts Russian history totally has fun parts! "Napoleon has arrived. We must burn Moscow to the ground!" And then come the cossacks to cut off the invaders supply. "Hitler has arrived. We must burn all the grain!" And then come the cossacks to cut off the invaders supply. And then the Russian army reaches Paris. Or Berlin. 1. NEVER attack Russia! 2. LET RUSSIA ATTACK YOU. They suck at offensive war but holy shit they cannot be defeated when invaded, Mongols are the ONLY example and that was something like "we want you to help us keep those other russians down". I guess inventing the Kalashnikov is also a happy moment!
@@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd Suvorov won 60 battles and never lost any, keep coping with your western propaganda that "Russia only wins because of the winters, I swear!"
Tatar is actully uncertain in denoting a specific ethnicity. The areas inhabited by what was called Tartary/Tartaria in English and suchlike in other Western European languages are ethnic Turks. They are not the same language group as Mongols. Russia is also larping as Rome. Tsar is derived from Caesar (so is the German word Kaisar).
Hi. Long time fan. Can you discuss why Russia and cossack's hated Jews. Where the Europeans and Muslims hated Jews, they did there best to make sure not to attack the Jews if they had an economic benefit. But Russia attacked Jews even if it destroyed their economy
I am not Russian or Jewish but really aware of both cultures. Basically Russia/ns have a love-hate relationship with Jews and what it comes down to is pretty ugly, Jews rightfully scared of being chased around and killed Again gather money and as a result gather jealousy/fear/distrust and get chased around in a stupid vicious cycle. But the Russian leaders know the Jews are literate, productive, useful and so try to instigate tolerance BUT and this is a big but they also know any time they want they can and do stop protecting the feared alien minority and that's when the pogroms start. It's more or less that plus the urbane mercantile culture versus the wilde and free possibly illiterate rural culture. Similar issues confront mercantile nomads/exile nations such as parsees, Armenians and overseas Chinese you just never confront them since they are distant cultures. Man is man's worst enemy.
@@christiankalinkina239 everyone doesn't like them. The Russians took it to a different level because they would deliberately destroy any economic opportunities that would benefit themselves as well
The interchanging of Mongol & Tatar stems from at the time of Genghis Khans expansion, the Mongols were relatively obscure while their western rivals - the Tatars - were much more renowned. Genghis conquered and incorporated them. As they continued to expand, many people mistakenly called the invading host “Tatars”
This much is certain: alcoholism. Because it paid taxes. The Tsar had a monopoly on it, and it kept the serfs down. Yes, there are many parallels between the USA and Russia HOWEVER they diverge on economics and Russias had next to know democracy excepting Novgorod and that was really a bunch of vikings imo. Russia also had no human rights / freedoms / liberties / fundamental rights. USA had rule of law, fundamental rights, democracy, and an entrepreneurial economy. Russia had NONE of that. So it's like looking at the fun house mirror. Crazy Ivan loves his guns too! IT IS TOTALLY IMAGINABLE WE COULD HAVE A WAR WITH RUSSIA.
most communist repressive measures in Russia were inherited/derived from the Tsars. Okhrana became CheKa, the prison camps became GuLags. The 1917 revolutions changed very few things in fact.
@@bertrecht913 Do you mean the Tsars, Alcohol(ism), or the Kommissars? There is much greater continuity than difference between them: these were rival factions within one culture fighting tooth and nail for state power. Had the Romanov's reestablished themselves in 1919 their industrialization would likely have resembled Stalins, and probably would have included a war against Ukrainian rebels e.g. and consequent famines.
@@QuizmasterLaw I know the many similarities but the core of Ideology and many other aspects are totally different. Damn communists took everything from my family and with Communism life for most people were even worser than before.
We mistake having the illusion of choice (everything is really owned by just a few corporations) as freedom... Is it really freedom if you are forced to participate? Like... I am 32 and I am only just starting to realize how insane our system is... We live in a system that requires you to keep buying... this is why they release a new iPhone every year. This is why every vehicle gets a new model. There is virtually 0 difference in what it actually does (other than the time it ends up sucking out of our lives). Not only is it designed to sell you a new phone every year or two (instead of every 4 or 5 years), but they know that when users get a new phone, they are more likely to spend even more time using it than they did the precious model.
This is going to be a controversial one for both pro russians and anti russians I bet... Spanish *was* modern Rome, though... I haven't seen any of the other larpers creating unique nations of its own, not to mention in even a shorter amount of time than Rome itself.
Peter the Great us probably one of the most fascinating figures you can study in history. Goated achievements that stand as a measuring stick for all Russian leaders past and present.
I have mixed views on Tsarist Russia, but it was definitely better than the Soviet period. I recall listening to a Teaching Company series called, “History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev.” Lecture 22 is entitled, “The Modern City and its Discontents.” Hearing the degeneracy from that time period, circa 1900 is reminiscent of the present-day U.S. Dr. Steinberg quotes from the press clippings, looking at the crime, death, disease, and hooliganism of the era. Furthermore, there are descriptions of dramatic suicides where people just threw themselves in front of trains. I think that it can be found on Pirate Bay. It’s worth a listen.
The difference between those events is that Ukrainian people have their own language and a Ukrainian speaker will not understand Russian speakers without an interpreter. It happens for the people form western Ukraine where there are regions that most people don't know Russian language at all whereas in eastern Ukraine most people know both Russian and Ukrainian.
Since 1889, the same elite in Brazil has simply not had any project for the nation, unlike yours, which has a well-defined ideological direction. Ours supported the slave owners, then they changed to the economic elite, then the coup in the 1930s, the military in 1964, and during the regime tô today they still support the communists of the Workers' Party, because there was no way they could not support the Granxist process that socialists carried out in universities, and these communists became part of the elite. It is a very strange case where the majority of the population hates the communists, but the university class (where the useful idiots of the party are trained) and the bureaucracy want socialism and do not respect the will of the taxpayer against him and impose it down our throats with the force of the state. As you said, it is a minority that rules everything (note: the federation here is only in name because the states have almost no autonomy for laws or governing, everything is centralized in the capital).
These are more interesting to me than the alternate history videos. I like that I don’t have to sift through a bunch of videos. I’m not interested in to find the ones I like.
All existing biological and genetic studies have rendered obsolete or pseudoscientific all hypotheses on the interbreeding of ethnic Russians with non-European ethnic groups. Among the Russians of the North, there is a Baltic contribution which is greater than the Finno-Ugric contribution which for the latter is lower than previously thought. The Russians were formed from East Slavic tribes, and their cultural ancestry is based in Kievan Rus'. Genetically, the majority of Russians are very similar to their East Slavic counterparts, unlike Northern Russians, who belong to the Northern European Baltic gene pool. The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. The Russians share many historical and cultural traits with other European peoples, and especially with other East Slavic ethnic groups, specifically Belarusians and UkrainiansThe Russian people in Russian русские/russky namely Eastern slaves of Orthodox culture or religion, pagan Slavic 'rodnovers'; not to be confused with a Russian pоссиянин / rassinine which designates both a Russian and a person of another nationality or ethnic group native to the Russian Federation such as a Tatar, Komi, Mordvian, Chechen etc... these other peoples live in their own autonomous republics with their local languages, customs, constitutions. The Russians live mainly in Russian countries, namely the very large major part of Western Russia, heir to the Rus' of Kiev and also a good part of Siberia, the Russian Far East and even, for example, the Krai of Altai which is almost entirely Russian (not to be confused with the Republic of Altai which is populated by the Altai people who are a Turkic people) with landscapes that evoke Austria, a good part of the Urals.All existing biological and genetic studies have rendered obsolete or pseudoscientific all hypotheses on the interbreeding of Russians ethnic with non-European ethnic groups. Among the Russians of the North, there is a Baltic contribution which is greater than the Finno-Ugric contribution which for the latter is lower than previously thought.Ethnicity is nationality in Russia and is distinct from citizenship which is rather civic. On the Russian passport, it is written Citizenship: Russian Federation and not Russian because being Russian is determined at birth, namely those who are born of Russian parents, therefore slabes. To return to the ethnic level, according to the works of Viktor Valerianvitch Bounak published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR or those of Mikhail Vladimirovitch such as, Anthropological data as a source on the history of the colonization of the Russian North published in Moscow by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997 and in many other scientific works of course; the Russian people actually appears to be relatively “homogeneous” and at least fully European in the sense of worship as well as ethnicity and genetics. The Russian populations do not differ from the native western European populations at the level of the phenotype, or anthropology in any case. In reality, within populations of the Russian ethnic group or so-called ethnic Russians, there is an almost zero or even extremely low frequency of genetic characteristics of Mongoloid populations. The frequencies of East Eurasian markers in Russians correspond to average markers in the rest of Europe.Moreover, a study of autosomal markers also approximates northern Russians (i.e. the area from present-day Saint Petersburg to Velikiy Ustyug) to other European peoples and casts doubt on the Finno-Ugric migration stratum within Russian genetic fund of this region. These data make it possible to put forward the hypothesis of the conservation in these territories of the Paleo-European substrate of the protohistory of antiquity which subsequently experienced the intense migrations of the Slavic tribes.This was confirmed during the genogeographic expeditions of the Medical-Genetic Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences between 2000 and 2008, more than 10,000 DNA samples were collected and analyzed from people of Russian nationality and all are genetically fully European.MALYARCHUK, B., DERENK, M., GRZYBOVSKY, T., Differentiation of Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomes in Russian Populations, Detroit, 2004, vol 76 p. 877-890 During the Mongol rule, the Russians lived in the grasslands and wooded regions, while the Mongols themselves lived hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away in the steppes to the south of present-day Volgograd, in Tartary, which would later become part of Tatarstan and also the region corresponding to Kazakhstan, but not within Russian territory. The capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai or Sarai Batu, founded in 1240, was located in the present-day Astrakhan Oblast.The Mongols did not live among the Russians but rather kept to themselves and lived at a considerable distance. When the Mongols came to Russian territory, it was usually the Khan and his court for tribute purposes, or there were tax collectors. There was little intermingling, except perhaps in Tartary. The majority of present-day Tatars have a European appearance, often with light hair and light eyes. Furthermore, Russia played a crucial role in saving the rest of Europe from the Mongols, especially the victory of the Russian principality troops under the command of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy in the Battle of Kulikovo on September 8, 1380. Just as the French have Charles Martel, Russia has Dmitry I.Many testimonies support this, including that of Archdeacon Paul of Aleppo, who visited Russia and specifically Muscovy between 1654 and 1656. He left detailed descriptions of Russia, noting that in every man's house, there were ten children or more with white hair on their heads, and for their great fairness, they were called old men. He also mentioned that the women in the land of the Muscovites were beautiful in appearance, and their children resembled those of the Franks but with rosier complexions. During the time of Herodotus in antiquity, the European world sometimes extended as far as the Ural Mountains, or even to the gates of Altai, as the entirety of the Scythians (an Indo-European people) was often integrated into the European world. In the 15th century, Western European geographers established the boundary of Europe beyond Nizhny Novgorod, in the present-day Kërzhenskiy Nature Reserve. To the east was Tartary, although some Volga Tatars were Scythians (i.e., culturally Turkicized Europoids). The current geographic division between Europe and Asia in Russia was established 300 years ago in the Ural Mountains, and at that time, it made sense according to the geographer who drew the border, namely Vassili Tatitchev, who reasoned from an ethno-civilizational perspective. This delineation was first confirmed by the Swedish military officer of German origin, Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg. So, from a geographical standpoint, considering the geography of Peter the Great's era, Russia lies between two continents, although this was genuinely the case 300 years ago. Now, when you travel to Irkutsk or Novosibirsk, you find yourself in Europe in terms of population, mentality, architecture in Irkutsk, and so forth. In my opinion, if we consider the logic of Greek geographers like Herodotus or 18th-century geographers, today we should speak of Europe from the Atlantic to Vladivostok.
Tsraist Russia is based Russia. Only if it underwent society modernization, semi-liberalization and rapid industrialization. Could you imagined a three-way Russo-Anglo Alliance. The United States, Britain, and Russia Empire imagine it. We could have created a true global partnership. But it wasn't to be.
Ironic cause your name But yea, if Russian never became communist, the world would of been such a better place Not just in Russia obviously But even in Korea, Middle East, Vietnam etc etc
@@awesomestevie27 It's called a multipolar world. They deliberately created enemies. It's called balance of power created Greece and Rome. LOL. Now go do my bidding son.
Yes Russia would be doing a lot better but I really doubt there would be a 3 way alliance. Russia and Britain really didn't like each other before WW1, and the US-UK relationship of our timeline is also basically a hostile takeover of the UK. I don't see why 3 of the greatest powers on earth would be allied to each other with no sufficient external threat forcing them together.
I prefer the league of the 3 emperors. Or at the very least I wished german empire had chosen russia over austria, things would've been much better for both. Granted it would be at the expense of France and Britain, which is even better.
23:56 Brazil doesn't have a strong government? What are you talking about, bro? The brazilian government encompasses every single aspect of private life; there are laws for every small thing you can imagine, the majority of the population lives on welfare aids given by the government, there is no economic freedom, property rights or freedom of speech at all, because everything belongs to the central government, incluiding our liberties, and all the administration is concentraded on the capital, even though our country is bigger than the contiguous US. This guy knows nothing about Brazil at all!
fwiw mongols were only deadly brutal if they met resistance. All any city had to do was surrender, pay tribute maybe send some hostages and slaves and after the horde got paid off it rolled on to the next village which resisted and was genocided. and then the next, same thing. But these mass murders were operational: if they got their pay the really moved on, which is why they were able to hold russia as a satrap for about 200 years.
Long time fan here man. What the point of your sided kick? Think you’d be better off investing in a recording set, lights, and mics. Also some new fit no disrespect but if you button one more button or wear an under shirt youd look much more stylish lol
Following Russian conventions, I prefer to say, “Kiev, the Ukraine,” as opposed to “Kyiv, Ukraine.” I noticed that a map in the early part of this video referred to the “Kyivan Rus.”
Kyiv was a city 500 yrs before Russia existed. Ukraine 🇺🇦 is a place that Russia grew up and from. Today’s Russia is not genetically Rus. Rus doesn’t equal Russian today.
@@Nylonscheme While we are at it, isn’t the designation of “Ukrainian” a modern invention? I thought they were known as Ruthenians until the nineteenth century.
@@aasifazimabadi786 They were, but the term "Ukraine" has existed since the kyivan rus, where in some records there are mentions of Ukraine as the territory roughly equating to modern northern Ukraine (kyiv, Chernihiv ans sumy oblasts) . So Ukraine in itself isn't a modern invention, it's just that until the 1800s Ukrainians called themselves the people of the Rus (Ruthenians) Meanwhile, Russia was called Muscovy at the time and they called themselves muscovites.
I would debate that the Mongols were the most brutal. The Assyrians would be a contender for top spot since their whole strategy was to be so cruel and barbaric to the defeated that it would psychologically effect any other potential opponents from trying to go against them. Yet, the Mongols did practice this as well so the only difference is the Mongols came in the scene much later and went much further with their conquest than the Assyrians.
Same reason ukranians are like the only immigrant group in Sweden that actually is lawful and a net positive economically, compared to somalians they have like 20 extra iq points. That's the lesson folks
Russia: Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, it did! Supplementary, Russian expansion was pretty heavily defined by 'othering' religiously. Rather than in America, where it was race (whites vs reds), Russia mostly utilized the Orthodox Church and used heavy pagan/satanic language when referring to unconverted Tatars. This ties in nicely to your emphasis on Russian religiousness, because it's sort of like American race obsession: It's baked into their national myth, top to bottom, and thus a core issue in politics and culture.
If the winters were not so brutal, I might consider moving to the Russian Federation and learning the Russian language. It’s so sad how NATO throws its weight around; the West has basically been begging the Rus for a world war since at least 2008. I think that the way Russia has been characterized by ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, NBC et al is incredibly false. I really wish there was more of an attempt to understand where Putin is coming from. A couple of months ago, I heard the Russian anthem and reflected on the English meaning of the lyrics, and it was so beautiful.
"It's not unimaginable that the US and Russia could have a war in the near future" That would be the most one sided mogging the US inflicted on anyone since Desert Storm.
@@dolphadomian4762 The russians seem like they can't handle our tech from 45-65 years ago. I can't imagine what it would be like against the modern american military
29:29 We have gone into CurioNation territory. Seriously, though, I have seen the Muslim peoples of the former Sovyetski Soyuz (e.g. Uzbeks, Chechens) or at least some members of their diaspora; very lovely women. As it is said in Urdu and Farsi, borrowing from Arabic, “Subhanallah!” May God be exalted.
Russians and Ukrainians don't even speak the same language or have the same alphabet nor did they all immigrate into one big country and then have Ukraine leave, less then a minute before you said its like the North/South of the US you pointed out Poland had Ukraine........so are Ukrainian's actually "little poles"
@@shawnwilson8256 Poland and Russia divided Ukraine in half after Ukranians attempted to form their own state. This division is seen even today, with western Ukraine being pro USA and the EU and eastern Ukraine being pro Russia.
Sorry to dispute you, Russia is not the first country China acknowledged, that would be Rome, which they called Daqin, as in "the other China" (true, you do have like 15 centuries in between)
This guy, as a historian, is equal in his toxicity to modern journalists. 80% of what he said here is an absolute garbage that has nothing to do with reality
That's, overall, a knowledgeable, inciteful, nuanced assessment of Russian development and history. Its better than I expected here. Good job, Rudyard. One caveat set for clarity- the Tartar or Tatar group, same thing, is not one homogenous people but rather a transitional heterogenous mix and blend of various Turkic or Mongol peoples, though thought of as one, but aren't really all the same. I was penpal friends with a Tartar woman decades ago. Due to our differences in geographical origin, I tried hard to understand her social context. She was superficially attractive, but every bit as whimsical and flighty as any lower class Western female - drastic changes of her hair color, week to week, from natural darker color to jet black or then to bleach blonde appearance, was literate, but not sophisticated, rather poor, a Second World society - better than Third World but not much better, definitely not a very intellectual person. Due to the awful influence of communism, there among other things, the ex Soviet people, due to communisms persecution of religion and ethics, ended up with a fairly immoral character of its people there. That may be slightly changing, recently, but I doubt very much change. All sorts of cheating - in business, mocking infideity in personal relationships, of fraud, scams, violence, false witnessing in courts, post mail are commonly stolen by post workers, cars and even whole buildings (!) are stolen and other criminality, shockingly unethical horror stories are more common in Central Asia than in much of the world. Its a rough place with few positives. Many Tartars are Muslim, but generally not devout. The implication is that a person would be wrong to think of the region as a kind or romantic place. Don't think it's some wonderland. Its not. Another, a different, central Asian woman I also knew was well familiar with Tartars, and Tartar women, and said Tartar females are, in their personal relationships, known as being b-tchy, complaining, argumentative, and demanding towards their husbands and being rather low class, even underclass, compared to white Russians. Lets say, not an admired nor highly respected group. Thats the context. Whatever else is true, female nature, female bad, conniving behavior, is still female nature, there, as much as or more so, than everywhere else in the world.
I don't take your views seriously because you are zoomer Peter Zeihan aka "everyone will collapse except USA, especially Russia, now. Ok, now. In 15 mnutes. Ok tomorrow" guy. Might as well add Francis Fukuyama to your mix..
I think you guys would get a lot more views if you got better backgrounds and better cameras/microphones. No hate, I love the show.
This!
That!
I second this.
Nah. Keep it 💯.
Oh what ever. If people need that they deserve to die ignorant
This podcast in a nutshell: 🗿 🤓
Love nerding out
He really needs a new cohost. No offense to the guy, but I don’t even know his frickin name. He didn’t bother to tell rudyard his screen was frozen. He’s supposed to be “us,” but he never engages with the conversation. Even when asked if he has questions, I feel like he hardly ever has any… why is he even here?
It's a nerd thing.
@@bridezilla3758 In this one it was to type and make his laptop shake so that I had to take it off full screen.
@@bridezilla3758I like the dynamic
I love the fact that he gives spoiler warnings for history, I don’t need them but I find the idea amusing
Russian history be like:
"We need access to the sea."
"Not that sea."
"We need access to the sea."
"No, this one is frozen."
"No, this one is controlled by the turks."
"Fine, i guess i have to become the bad guy."
I only learn my Russian history from the Tucker Putin interview.
He knows his history you gotta admit.
The only accurate Russian history broken down into a concise 2 minutes
Lol.
I watched that from beginning to end, and I learned more from that than in an entire course on Russian history I took at SUNY Stony Brook.
Putin is somewhat biased, but overall correct.
It wouldn’t be a history 102 video without audio and video glitches
Soviet cinema was excellent. Really. Because they needed to justify their world project and also needed to motivate and distract the masses. If you speak Russian you can see it. Soviet cinema was excellent.
Was.
the fun parts Russian history totally has fun parts! "Napoleon has arrived. We must burn Moscow to the ground!"
And then come the cossacks to cut off the invaders supply.
"Hitler has arrived. We must burn all the grain!"
And then come the cossacks to cut off the invaders supply.
And then the Russian army reaches Paris. Or Berlin.
1. NEVER attack Russia!
2. LET RUSSIA ATTACK YOU.
They suck at offensive war but holy shit they cannot be defeated when invaded, Mongols are the ONLY example and that was something like "we want you to help us keep those other russians down".
I guess inventing the Kalashnikov is also a happy moment!
Real. Napoleon wouldn't stop scoring victories on the Russians when they kept invading him on his turf, with the exception of Eylau perhaps.
Crimean Tatars with the Ottomans managed to burn down Moscow
@@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd False, Suvorov was one of the best generals of all time
@@theotheagendashill818 Austerlitz: LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd Suvorov won 60 battles and never lost any, keep coping with your western propaganda that "Russia only wins because of the winters, I swear!"
Tatar is actully uncertain in denoting a specific ethnicity. The areas inhabited by what was called Tartary/Tartaria in English and suchlike in other Western European languages are ethnic Turks. They are not the same language group as Mongols.
Russia is also larping as Rome. Tsar is derived from Caesar (so is the German word Kaisar).
Hi. Long time fan. Can you discuss why Russia and cossack's hated Jews. Where the Europeans and Muslims hated Jews, they did there best to make sure not to attack the Jews if they had an economic benefit. But Russia attacked Jews even if it destroyed their economy
Hate? How do you know where the source of hate began? The elite Js want you to hate the plebian Js. It keeps them afraid and motivated.
I think the Muslim hatred of Jews doesn't really go all that far back
I am not Russian or Jewish but really aware of both cultures. Basically Russia/ns have a love-hate relationship with Jews and what it comes down to is pretty ugly, Jews rightfully scared of being chased around and killed Again gather money and as a result gather jealousy/fear/distrust and get chased around in a stupid vicious cycle. But the Russian leaders know the Jews are literate, productive, useful and so try to instigate tolerance BUT and this is a big but they also know any time they want they can and do stop protecting the feared alien minority and that's when the pogroms start. It's more or less that plus the urbane mercantile culture versus the wilde and free possibly illiterate rural culture. Similar issues confront mercantile nomads/exile nations such as parsees, Armenians and overseas Chinese you just never confront them since they are distant cultures. Man is man's worst enemy.
Jus dun like em simple as
@@christiankalinkina239 everyone doesn't like them. The Russians took it to a different level because they would deliberately destroy any economic opportunities that would benefit themselves as well
The interchanging of Mongol & Tatar stems from at the time of Genghis Khans expansion, the Mongols were relatively obscure while their western rivals - the Tatars - were much more renowned. Genghis conquered and incorporated them. As they continued to expand, many people mistakenly called the invading host “Tatars”
This much is certain: alcoholism. Because it paid taxes. The Tsar had a monopoly on it, and it kept the serfs down.
Yes, there are many parallels between the USA and Russia HOWEVER they diverge on economics and Russias had next to know democracy excepting Novgorod and that was really a bunch of vikings imo. Russia also had no human rights / freedoms / liberties / fundamental rights. USA had rule of law, fundamental rights, democracy, and an entrepreneurial economy. Russia had NONE of that. So it's like looking at the fun house mirror. Crazy Ivan loves his guns too!
IT IS TOTALLY IMAGINABLE WE COULD HAVE A WAR WITH RUSSIA.
most communist repressive measures in Russia were inherited/derived from the Tsars. Okhrana became CheKa, the prison camps became GuLags. The 1917 revolutions changed very few things in fact.
@@QuizmasterLawChanged much and destroyed the soul and culture of real Russia.
@@bertrecht913 Do you mean the Tsars, Alcohol(ism), or the Kommissars? There is much greater continuity than difference between them: these were rival factions within one culture fighting tooth and nail for state power. Had the Romanov's reestablished themselves in 1919 their industrialization would likely have resembled Stalins, and probably would have included a war against Ukrainian rebels e.g. and consequent famines.
@@QuizmasterLaw I know the many similarities but the core of Ideology and many other aspects are totally different. Damn communists took everything from my family and with Communism life for most people were even worser than before.
We finally made it to Russia.
Mother Russia
Woooo more knowledge! 💪
Awww
You forgot two European frontiers: South Africa and Australia/New Zealand.
In Comiefornia, you don't adopt communism, communism adopts you #FortRoss
Look at that bruise on your neck. I knew you were in the bdsm, but don't worry. This just makes me so much more into this channel.
Yo Rudyard read this shit lmfao
Lmaoooo
@@ethank.3201 he hit himself with the play sword
What's the worst thing to come across while surfing the web .....
The keyboard
Could you put a bibliography in the episode notes?
We mistake having the illusion of choice (everything is really owned by just a few corporations) as freedom...
Is it really freedom if you are forced to participate?
Like... I am 32 and I am only just starting to realize how insane our system is...
We live in a system that requires you to keep buying... this is why they release a new iPhone every year. This is why every vehicle gets a new model. There is virtually 0 difference in what it actually does (other than the time it ends up sucking out of our lives). Not only is it designed to sell you a new phone every year or two (instead of every 4 or 5 years), but they know that when users get a new phone, they are more likely to spend even more time using it than they did the precious model.
37-seconds and no comments? You guys have really fallen off.
Don’t worry, if Rudyard said the right key phrases the Russians will show up, en masse.
That's because most people are looking at Alt-history. But for me I like delving more into RL history.
People on this channel probably actually watch the video before commenting lol
@@delfean2666 Just jokes. Whoosh.
@@josephstalin839 it's called jewish history
This is going to be a controversial one for both pro russians and anti russians I bet...
Spanish *was* modern Rome, though... I haven't seen any of the other larpers creating unique nations of its own, not to mention in even a shorter amount of time than Rome itself.
Colonization isn't really at all a meaningful medium in which to compare Rome and Spain. Next.
Rome didn't as much create colonies as they made the invaded land Rome, like Russia makes places it invades Russia.
Thanks guys
38:40 I’ve seen that kind of temperature change in the winter in Denver before
Thanks for return the opening. It primes my brain the HYPE of history.
i hate how left wingers say russia is not autocratic due to mongols they try to ignore tartar yoke even though it makes perfect sense
U should make a video analyzing england 🏴 and its history
My new favorite channel
Peter the Great us probably one of the most fascinating figures you can study in history. Goated achievements that stand as a measuring stick for all Russian leaders past and present.
I have mixed views on Tsarist Russia, but it was definitely better than the Soviet period. I recall listening to a Teaching Company series called, “History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev.” Lecture 22 is entitled, “The Modern City and its Discontents.” Hearing the degeneracy from that time period, circa 1900 is reminiscent of the present-day U.S. Dr. Steinberg quotes from the press clippings, looking at the crime, death, disease, and hooliganism of the era. Furthermore, there are descriptions of dramatic suicides where people just threw themselves in front of trains. I think that it can be found on Pirate Bay. It’s worth a listen.
The difference between those events is that Ukrainian people have their own language and a Ukrainian speaker will not understand Russian speakers without an interpreter. It happens for the people form western Ukraine where there are regions that most people don't know Russian language at all whereas in eastern Ukraine most people know both Russian and Ukrainian.
Explaining french revolution?
8:06 EDGED 🫢😳😱🤯
Since 1889, the same elite in Brazil has simply not had any project for the nation, unlike yours, which has a well-defined ideological direction. Ours supported the slave owners, then they changed to the economic elite, then the coup in the 1930s, the military in 1964, and during the regime tô today they still support the communists of the Workers' Party, because there was no way they could not support the Granxist process that socialists carried out in universities, and these communists became part of the elite. It is a very strange case where the majority of the population hates the communists, but the university class (where the useful idiots of the party are trained) and the bureaucracy want socialism and do not respect the will of the taxpayer against him and impose it down our throats with the force of the state. As you said, it is a minority that rules everything (note: the federation here is only in name because the states have almost no autonomy for laws or governing, everything is centralized in the capital).
YAY THE CULTURE SONG IS BACK!!!!!!
These are more interesting to me than the alternate history videos. I like that I don’t have to sift through a bunch of videos. I’m not interested in to find the ones I like.
I love the intro music for some odd reason😂
I love these.
All existing biological and genetic studies have rendered obsolete or pseudoscientific all hypotheses on the interbreeding of ethnic Russians with non-European ethnic groups. Among the Russians of the North, there is a Baltic contribution which is greater than the Finno-Ugric contribution which for the latter is lower than previously thought.
The Russians were formed from East Slavic tribes, and their cultural ancestry is based in Kievan Rus'. Genetically, the majority of Russians are very similar to their East Slavic counterparts, unlike Northern Russians, who belong to the Northern European Baltic gene pool. The Russian word for the Russians is derived from the people of Rus' and the territory of Rus'. The Russians share many historical and cultural traits with other European peoples, and especially with other East Slavic ethnic groups, specifically Belarusians and UkrainiansThe Russian people in Russian русские/russky namely Eastern slaves of Orthodox culture or religion, pagan Slavic 'rodnovers'; not to be confused with a Russian pоссиянин / rassinine which designates both a Russian and a person of another nationality or ethnic group native to the Russian Federation such as a Tatar, Komi, Mordvian, Chechen etc... these other peoples live in their own autonomous republics with their local languages, customs, constitutions.
The Russians live mainly in Russian countries, namely the very large major part of Western Russia, heir to the Rus' of Kiev and also a good part of Siberia, the Russian Far East and even, for example, the Krai of Altai which is almost entirely Russian (not to be confused with the Republic of Altai which is populated by the Altai people who are a Turkic people) with landscapes that evoke Austria, a good part of the Urals.All existing biological and genetic studies have rendered obsolete or pseudoscientific all hypotheses on the interbreeding of Russians ethnic with non-European ethnic groups. Among the Russians of the North, there is a Baltic contribution which is greater than the Finno-Ugric contribution which for the latter is lower than previously thought.Ethnicity is nationality in Russia and is distinct from citizenship which is rather civic. On the Russian passport, it is written Citizenship: Russian Federation and not Russian because being Russian is determined at birth, namely those who are born of Russian parents, therefore slabes. To return to the ethnic level, according to the works of Viktor Valerianvitch Bounak published by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR or those of Mikhail Vladimirovitch such as, Anthropological data as a source on the history of the colonization of the Russian North published in Moscow by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997 and in many other scientific works of course; the Russian people actually appears to be relatively “homogeneous” and at least fully European in the sense of worship as well as ethnicity and genetics. The Russian populations do not differ from the native western European populations at the level of the phenotype, or anthropology in any case. In reality, within populations of the Russian ethnic group or so-called ethnic Russians, there is an almost zero or even extremely low frequency of genetic characteristics of Mongoloid populations. The frequencies of East Eurasian markers in Russians correspond to average markers in the rest of Europe.Moreover, a study of autosomal markers also approximates northern Russians (i.e. the area from present-day Saint Petersburg to Velikiy Ustyug) to other European peoples and casts doubt on the Finno-Ugric migration stratum within Russian genetic fund of this region.
These data make it possible to put forward the hypothesis of the conservation in these territories of the Paleo-European substrate of the protohistory of antiquity which subsequently experienced the intense migrations of the Slavic tribes.This was confirmed during the genogeographic expeditions of the Medical-Genetic Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences between 2000 and 2008, more than 10,000 DNA samples were collected and analyzed from people of Russian nationality and all are genetically fully European.MALYARCHUK, B., DERENK, M., GRZYBOVSKY, T., Differentiation of Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosomes in Russian Populations, Detroit, 2004, vol 76 p. 877-890
During the Mongol rule, the Russians lived in the grasslands and wooded regions, while the Mongols themselves lived hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away in the steppes to the south of present-day Volgograd, in Tartary, which would later become part of Tatarstan and also the region corresponding to Kazakhstan, but not within Russian territory. The capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai or Sarai Batu, founded in 1240, was located in the present-day Astrakhan Oblast.The Mongols did not live among the Russians but rather kept to themselves and lived at a considerable distance. When the Mongols came to Russian territory, it was usually the Khan and his court for tribute purposes, or there were tax collectors. There was little intermingling, except perhaps in Tartary. The majority of present-day Tatars have a European appearance, often with light hair and light eyes. Furthermore, Russia played a crucial role in saving the rest of Europe from the Mongols, especially the victory of the Russian principality troops under the command of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy in the Battle of Kulikovo on September 8, 1380.
Just as the French have Charles Martel, Russia has Dmitry I.Many testimonies support this, including that of Archdeacon Paul of Aleppo, who visited Russia and specifically Muscovy between 1654 and 1656. He left detailed descriptions of Russia, noting that in every man's house, there were ten children or more with white hair on their heads, and for their great fairness, they were called old men. He also mentioned that the women in the land of the Muscovites were beautiful in appearance, and their children resembled those of the Franks but with rosier complexions.
During the time of Herodotus in antiquity, the European world sometimes extended as far as the Ural Mountains, or even to the gates of Altai, as the entirety of the Scythians (an Indo-European people) was often integrated into the European world. In the 15th century, Western European geographers established the boundary of Europe beyond Nizhny Novgorod, in the present-day Kërzhenskiy Nature Reserve. To the east was Tartary, although some Volga Tatars were Scythians (i.e., culturally Turkicized Europoids).
The current geographic division between Europe and Asia in Russia was established 300 years ago in the Ural Mountains, and at that time, it made sense according to the geographer who drew the border, namely Vassili Tatitchev, who reasoned from an ethno-civilizational perspective. This delineation was first confirmed by the Swedish military officer of German origin, Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg. So, from a geographical standpoint, considering the geography of Peter the Great's era, Russia lies between two continents, although this was genuinely the case 300 years ago.
Now, when you travel to Irkutsk or Novosibirsk, you find yourself in Europe in terms of population, mentality, architecture in Irkutsk, and so forth. In my opinion, if we consider the logic of Greek geographers like Herodotus or 18th-century geographers, today we should speak of Europe from the Atlantic to Vladivostok.
So what is your point?
Ah yes... Stalingrad...
Tsraist Russia is based Russia. Only if it underwent society modernization, semi-liberalization and rapid industrialization. Could you imagined a three-way Russo-Anglo Alliance. The United States, Britain, and Russia Empire imagine it. We could have created a true global partnership. But it wasn't to be.
You mean just not turned communist ? Lol!
Ironic cause your name
But yea, if Russian never became communist, the world would of been such a better place
Not just in Russia obviously
But even in Korea, Middle East, Vietnam etc etc
@@awesomestevie27 It's called a multipolar world. They deliberately created enemies. It's called balance of power created Greece and Rome. LOL. Now go do my bidding son.
Yes Russia would be doing a lot better but I really doubt there would be a 3 way alliance.
Russia and Britain really didn't like each other before WW1, and the US-UK relationship of our timeline is also basically a hostile takeover of the UK.
I don't see why 3 of the greatest powers on earth would be allied to each other with no sufficient external threat forcing them together.
I prefer the league of the 3 emperors. Or at the very least I wished german empire had chosen russia over austria, things would've been much better for both. Granted it would be at the expense of France and Britain, which is even better.
23:56 Brazil doesn't have a strong government? What are you talking about, bro? The brazilian government encompasses every single aspect of private life; there are laws for every small thing you can imagine, the majority of the population lives on welfare aids given by the government, there is no economic freedom, property rights or freedom of speech at all, because everything belongs to the central government, incluiding our liberties, and all the administration is concentraded on the capital, even though our country is bigger than the contiguous US. This guy knows nothing about Brazil at all!
At 18:16 it becomes my grandparents breaking out the Kodak Carousel to show us their vacation photos. The speaker is more interesting though.
fwiw mongols were only deadly brutal if they met resistance. All any city had to do was surrender, pay tribute maybe send some hostages and slaves and after the horde got paid off it rolled on to the next village
which resisted and was genocided.
and then the next, same thing.
But these mass murders were operational: if they got their pay the really moved on, which is why they were able to hold russia as a satrap for about 200 years.
Bro you need to stop clipping your mic
As far as I know, it was almost always illegal to kill your surfs
12:17 Spain-Portugal and England-Scotland seem like better comparisons to me.
Can't believe you mentioned russian Alaska, Eritrea and California but not Russian Hawaii
Long time fan here man. What the point of your sided kick? Think you’d be better off investing in a recording set, lights, and mics. Also some new fit no disrespect but if you button one more button or wear an under shirt youd look much more stylish lol
Make a video about Greater-Finland
The viking Khazars
Don’t apologise. Rule of cool is the most important rule.
Following Russian conventions, I prefer to say, “Kiev, the Ukraine,” as opposed to “Kyiv, Ukraine.” I noticed that a map in the early part of this video referred to the “Kyivan Rus.”
Kyiv was a city 500 yrs before Russia existed. Ukraine 🇺🇦 is a place that Russia grew up and from. Today’s Russia is not genetically Rus. Rus doesn’t equal Russian today.
@@Nylonscheme While we are at it, isn’t the designation of “Ukrainian” a modern invention? I thought they were known as Ruthenians until the nineteenth century.
@@aasifazimabadi786 They were, but the term "Ukraine" has existed since the kyivan rus, where in some records there are mentions of Ukraine as the territory roughly equating to modern northern Ukraine (kyiv, Chernihiv ans sumy oblasts) . So Ukraine in itself isn't a modern invention, it's just that until the 1800s Ukrainians called themselves the people of the Rus (Ruthenians) Meanwhile, Russia was called Muscovy at the time and they called themselves muscovites.
@@felinogaming3778 Thank you for sharing your perspective.
I would debate that the Mongols were the most brutal. The Assyrians would be a contender for top spot since their whole strategy was to be so cruel and barbaric to the defeated that it would psychologically effect any other potential opponents from trying to go against them. Yet, the Mongols did practice this as well so the only difference is the Mongols came in the scene much later and went much further with their conquest than the Assyrians.
23:38 i'd say the reason Russia is not Brazil is that it has extra 10-15 iq points over it population wise, good leadership is a consequence of that
Same reason ukranians are like the only immigrant group in Sweden that actually is lawful and a net positive economically, compared to somalians they have like 20 extra iq points. That's the lesson folks
You should talk about how communism changed russia.
it went from a feudal monarchy to a secular dictatorship. what's different?
@@tuckerbugeater is it really that simple?
Napoleon, Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler all larped as Rome too
What's the deal with the camera swinging on the left, very distracting
Why is the guy in the left even part of this show? He is just staring at the screen lmao
Probably not even listening.
27:14 i like films from andrei tarkovsky: my name is Ivan, andrei rublev
i also liked father of a soldier (georgian film)
This series is pretty good even though I don't always agree with the speaker's politics.
Mosc-ow, not mos-cow.
Please do a history of Canada 🇨🇦
Russia: Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, it did!
Supplementary, Russian expansion was pretty heavily defined by 'othering' religiously. Rather than in America, where it was race (whites vs reds), Russia mostly utilized the Orthodox Church and used heavy pagan/satanic language when referring to unconverted Tatars. This ties in nicely to your emphasis on Russian religiousness, because it's sort of like American race obsession: It's baked into their national myth, top to bottom, and thus a core issue in politics and culture.
Just a fantastic channel.
Russia post Berlin Wall falling…
The Russians also had a fort in Hawaii.
If the winters were not so brutal, I might consider moving to the Russian Federation and learning the Russian language. It’s so sad how NATO throws its weight around; the West has basically been begging the Rus for a world war since at least 2008. I think that the way Russia has been characterized by ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, NBC et al is incredibly false. I really wish there was more of an attempt to understand where Putin is coming from. A couple of months ago, I heard the Russian anthem and reflected on the English meaning of the lyrics, and it was so beautiful.
"It's not unimaginable that the US and Russia could have a war in the near future"
That would be the most one sided mogging the US inflicted on anyone since Desert Storm.
What dumb overconfidence
@@dolphadomian4762 The russians seem like they can't handle our tech from 45-65 years ago. I can't imagine what it would be like against the modern american military
see you on the frontline 😂
29:29 We have gone into CurioNation territory. Seriously, though, I have seen the Muslim peoples of the former Sovyetski Soyuz (e.g. Uzbeks, Chechens) or at least some members of their diaspora; very lovely women. As it is said in Urdu and Farsi, borrowing from Arabic, “Subhanallah!” May God be exalted.
Make a video on the celts 🍀
Russians and Ukrainians don't even speak the same language or have the same alphabet nor did they all immigrate into one big country and then have Ukraine leave, less then a minute before you said its like the North/South of the US you pointed out Poland had Ukraine........so are Ukrainian's actually "little poles"
It's not called Borderlands for nothing.
The reason why it's not called little Poland is because the Rus had a greater influence on Ukraine.
@@shawnwilson8256Little Poland (Małopolska) is a completely separate region around Cracow (Kraków).
@@shawnwilson8256 Poland and Russia divided Ukraine in half after Ukranians attempted to form their own state. This division is seen even today, with western Ukraine being pro USA and the EU and eastern Ukraine being pro Russia.
24:41 facts
I know no history of russia so this should be fun
Algo boost
Sorry to dispute you, Russia is not the first country China acknowledged, that would be Rome, which they called Daqin, as in "the other China" (true, you do have like 15 centuries in between)
Gangish Kahn good
36:36 Sounds like a bunch of freedom loving guys. So sad the government did the same exact thing to them 😒
Why guy on left keep slappin his willie
Finishing prior business
You guys need better mics and cameras
I think they use Zoom or something for the video, lol.
2003 audio
This guy, as a historian, is equal in his toxicity to modern journalists. 80% of what he said here is an absolute garbage that has nothing to do with reality
@nojrants has a video on Russian history where he dismantles Kraut's narrative. Kraut and Rudyard had the same corrupted sources.
You should make a Slavic civilization video
russia is a based country
Only in the eyes of a degenerate
Russia has never been able to supply their armies. We did it for them in WW2
Why is the dude on the right even there he didn't utter a single word through out the whole video lmfao
He's there to let Rudyard know if "that makes sense".
Right? Left
@@cefalopodo5717 thanks good thing you're there to point these things out for us keeping it real you'll go far
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No, you mix up ton of stuff.
how?
hi
how bout Jewish Civilization?
They traded with the vikings. And then the vikings(goths) conquered Europe. Go figure!
Who cares.
You failed to understand and explain Eastern Rome you cannot explain Tsarist Russia
That's, overall, a knowledgeable, inciteful, nuanced assessment of Russian development and history. Its better than I expected here. Good job, Rudyard.
One caveat set for clarity- the Tartar or Tatar group, same thing, is not one homogenous people but rather a transitional heterogenous mix and blend of various Turkic or Mongol peoples, though thought of as one, but aren't really all the same.
I was penpal friends with a Tartar woman decades ago.
Due to our differences in geographical origin, I tried hard to understand her social context. She was superficially attractive, but every bit as whimsical and flighty as any lower class Western female - drastic changes of her hair color, week to week, from natural darker color to jet black or then to bleach blonde appearance, was literate, but not sophisticated, rather poor, a Second World society - better than Third World but not much better, definitely not a very intellectual person.
Due to the awful influence of communism, there among other things, the ex Soviet people, due to communisms persecution of religion and ethics, ended up with a fairly immoral character of its people there.
That may be slightly changing, recently, but I doubt very much change.
All sorts of cheating - in business, mocking infideity in personal relationships, of fraud, scams, violence, false witnessing in courts, post mail are commonly stolen by post workers, cars and even whole buildings (!) are stolen and other criminality, shockingly unethical horror stories are more common in Central Asia than in much of the world. Its a rough place with few positives. Many Tartars are Muslim, but generally not devout.
The implication is that a person would be wrong to think of the region as a kind or romantic place. Don't think it's some wonderland. Its not.
Another, a different, central Asian woman I also knew was well familiar with Tartars, and Tartar women, and said Tartar females are, in their personal relationships, known as being b-tchy, complaining, argumentative, and demanding towards their husbands and being rather low class, even underclass, compared to white Russians. Lets say, not an admired nor highly respected group. Thats the context.
Whatever else is true, female nature, female bad, conniving behavior, is still female nature, there, as much as or more so, than everywhere else in the world.
Bro, i gotta ask why havent u debated that groyper loser fuentes. didunt u declare war on the internet?
I don't take your views seriously because you are zoomer Peter Zeihan aka "everyone will collapse except USA, especially Russia, now. Ok, now. In 15 mnutes. Ok tomorrow" guy.
Might as well add Francis Fukuyama to your mix..
Bro mention Serbia some time
Lmaooooooo