How to Win the Cold War - Blue Jay Reaction
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I highly recommend you watch blue jays “history worst Olympic marathon in a nutshell” the 1904 Olympics you’d think was a cartoon event except it was real life. You’d die laughing
Either it or Jon Bois' Pretty Good about the same event
Yeah, I'd love to see you take this one on myself. It's so tragically funny.
I've also enjoyed Watcher's Puppet History version about the marathon.
@kix4635 Man, Puppet History would be a whole other Rabbit hole to go down.
I also would like to see him react to “How to worship like ancient Egyptian”
"Celebrating Hitler's first GOOD painting"
That is the best history joke ever. Fight me.
Just to add to the Mathias' story. As a pilot, 50 flight hours is nothing (you need at least 200 -250 hrs to get commercial pilot license depending on the country). The first 50 hrs you barely got any experience flying solo. So the fact that he flew that long distance and landed in the freaking red square is amazing to me as it is lol.
Edit: Also to add another aviation fun fact, KAL007 misnavigation into Soviet Airspace causing it to be shot down is what causes Ronald Reagan to make GPS technology available for use in commercial planes and later improved to be used in cars, now in our pockets!
I was thinking it could be compared to a surgeon- you really wouldn't want to be operated on by someone with only 50 hours of training!
I don't remember where I read this (and I don't really know anything about flying), but from what I remember, those 50 hours were after he'd already gotten a private pilot's license. Still not a lot of experience, but he didn't just spend 50 hours training before immediately going to Moscow. Pretty sure he'd never flown internationally, though.
I also remember reading that part of the reason he flew to Iceland was to practice flying a longer distance before heading to the USSR.
@@gguy3600 very helpful bit of information, thank you! Yes, you get to have a private pilot license at 50 flight hours, but in some countries you still need to have an instructor with you.
Makes sense that he chose to fly that route to gain more experience, my initial thought was he tried to avoid airspace in the eastern bloc. The hardest part about flying is the landing phase, and it amazes me how he managed to land in the red square with that limited flight hours. At 50 hours I barely manage a half decent landing 2/10 times haha.
Alittle off topic, but I always find myself watching Jason Isaacs performance as Zhukov all the time too. His entrance, his “talk” with stalins son, the secret convo with Khrushchev, and so much more. Underrated actor
I love when Stalin's son yells "Medic!" the second he sees him.
Wel thats me told@@VloggingThroughHistory
@@gerriekipkerrie6736 I'll be off to represent the Red Army at the buffet then, you girls have fun
@@VloggingThroughHistoryFun fact: Zhukov had so many medals in real life they had to tone them down in the movie because they thought it wouldn’t be believable if Zhukov’s entire dress shirt on this uniform consisted of almost nothing but medals
@@Shadowchaser_of_UnitrexI’m gonna have to report this conversation threatening to do harm to a member of- look at your face!
"All problems will be solved in Dallas" had me rolling for like 5 minutes.
It's such a DARK joke but it's fucking hilarious.
It took me 10 minutes to realize 😂
The Soviets were so concerned with the "unauthorized use" of Tu-22 coolant that they considered replacing it with some kind of non-consumable industrial coolant. Air force people pointed out that the coolant leaks into the cockpit, so using such coolants would certainly kill the pilot. They even demonstrated it by having some party officials sit in a cockpit, where they acknowledged a strong alcohol smell. What they didn't know is the crews stuffed rags soaked in vodka into the ventilation system. The pilots really liked that coolant, it was the only redeeming quality of a plane that would try its best to kill you.
Bluejay's comedic timing is so great. He's really found a really fun and unique voice.
Is Bluejay the replacement for Oversimplified?
@@FirestormX9 no he's just the filler for the other 364 days of the year oversimplified doesn't upload on
@@kosmic_kamui6699 LOL that was a good one
@@FirestormX9 He's honestly more similar to Sam O'Nella
@@kosmic_kamui6699 you're optimistic if you think oversimplified will upload once a year in the future 🥲
A channel called Paper Skies does historical videos on aviation, with a focus on the Soviet Union because the channel creator was born there and his father was in the Red Air Force. He has a more detailed (but still humorous) video on the “Supersonic Booze Carrier” that’s worth checking out.
His videos are great!
"Jesus you look terrible."
"My name is actually Vlad but thank you sir"
Had me rolling for 5 minutes
There’s a funny Cold War story during the Korean War.
Us soldiers fighting in the cold were stuck with there vehicles. They were low on ammunition and ordered a care package.
Since they didn’t want to risk being deciphered they used the code word tootsie roll to confuse the communist, unfortunately for the US troops the radio operator was also confused
So the radio operator sends in a cage package through airdrop but he dropped a package load of tootsie rolls, the amercians once they saw this were angry and confused but realized they can use the tootsie rolls to fix the pipes in there vehicles and were able to escape the area
In the second grade, we practiced air raid drills by dropping under our desks. The Cold War was normal for me until it was over.
Now kids practice dropping under desks for lone gunmen. Second verse, rhymes with the first.
@@Oddricm Only in the US they do.
@@dawoifee I live in New Zealand... I'm pretty sure lockdown drills are mandatory same as fire drills.
@@DankSwegSkuxxXhayel Are they? Do you have such issues there?
@@dawoifee It's also true for Australian schools, and the last time we came close to a school shooting was 1972.
My dad who was a RAAF pilot pointed out to me after watching this that the downward ejection seat was also used on a number of western aircraft at the time too. In aircraft with engines above the wings or other hazards it just made more sense to engineers, it wasn't until later that the ejection mechanism was redesigned to fire hard enough to clear obstacles that the design was abandoned. The problem with the TU-22 ones was the shockingly bad soviet build quality that led them to failing or just firing at random.
Already saw this vid, absolutely funny and historically accurate, and its nice to see more historical context ✌😁 keep up the great work
Colonel Selfridge of the US Army was the first person to die due to an airplane crash. He was testing the Wright Flyer with one of the Wright Brothers.
In Mt Clemmons, MI, there is a USAF base named after him.
"All problems will be solved in Dallas" 💀💀💀💀
Bluejay comedic non common humor is amazing and your reactions and added jokes as well is no less 😂❤
Absolutely amazing reaction to an amazing video Chris, you make even the simplest of videos so fun and entertaining let alone incredible ones from bluejay and others
Keep it up ❤
i’m a Texan physics teacher…props to the Rice University in Houston, TX where JFK made his famous speech announcing our intention of getting to the moon
Have you ever read the script they had written up in case the Apollo 11 mission failed? Chilling as hell.
Can you imagine a grieving nation relying on the comforting and nurturing words of _Richard Nixon_ to see them through?
Or maybe he would've surprised us all and handled it with perfect statesman grace. In an alternate history, it could be remembered as the finest hour of his presidency.
He was a complicated figure.
I remember learning that the Korean airlines incident is what led to the US military making GPS available to the public to prevent the navigational error from happening again.
It's not that Hitler's paintings were bad, they were just bland and unoriginal. He was so stuck in the past and hated modern art, and so his paintings reflected that. But the joke's funny.
yeah using animals for spies is stupid just using dogs as tank destroyers like the russian did in ww2 but in training the russian used thier own tanks as targets so on the battlefield the dogs did what they where trained for
Part of the problem with Korea Airlines 007 is that the Soviet ballistic missile test range is headquartered on the Kamchatka peninsula, so the paranoia about spying took over that night.
Hitler's paintings are disturbing; they were landscapes, both urban and rural, but people were painted without a face😧
Don’t worry, the Kamchatka was just taking a break from spotting Japanese torpedo boats, in the Baltic…
So close to 1000th like I was 999 but nobody cares I'm just leaving this for engagement 👍
Georgy Zhukov being such a fan of coke is great, the dude was a legend. He had so many medals that when he wore his full uniform he may as well have been wearing plate mail armor.
The anime/manga “Full Metal Panic” is technically a Cold War show because it’s a Cold War between the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but it also takes place in 2003 with mechs first invented in the 1980s.
I'm subscribed to both your channels (and BlueJay, of course). Keep up the great work 👍🏻
Chris, I know this is a little off topic, but do you know of any good books on union civil war economy and production? I have looked and they seem to be non existent.
Can confirm, if you're flying unauthorized to the Soviet Union from a NATO country, making your last stop before Soviet airspace in Finland is probably a good idea for increasing the chance to make it without getting shot down. Finland was officially neutral but had very friendly relations with (and at times a very submissive posture towards) the Soviet Union, and benefited greatly in the commercial access it brought. Part of which was allowing Finnair, the national airline, to use Soviet airspace. Which is why for a long time, most of European flights to the Far East went via Helsinki. A situation that continued for quite a while after the Cold War, since there weren't that many commercial aircraft around with enough range to make it to East Asia from a major Western European capital.
Nice video and always a big fan of BlueJay.
If you want to keep up some cold-war spy reactions, I can recommend a video where the former Chief of Disguise of the CIA, Jonna Mendez breaks down spy-gadgets they used during their operations.
The video is called "Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down Cold War Spy Gadgets | WIRED"
Jonna and Tony Mendez were amazing. Their bios read like a movie
@@johnconner9149 Well, they did make a movie out of one of Tony's operations.
"But much like an Activision Blizzard employee Mathias wasn't going to take no for an answer."
BROOOOOOO the fucking shots fired. Holy crap I can't lmao
You mentioned countries that don’t exist anymore. I think it is very interesting to think about Yugoslavia and how their Olympic basketball team would be a perennial favorite for a gold medal if they still existed.
Lmao I never heard of the “Pepsi Navy” before lol ⚓️
I wouldn’t give the military part at all; the military they did have wasn’t paid or fed or trained
At the VERY least .... the H man dident go for chemical warfare.... just chemical everything elce.....
Hitler's problem as a painter was that he was shit at painting people. He did almost entirely architecture, which he was good at. But when you are applying to art college, you need to be better at more than just buildings. Hence why he got rejected.
I actually thought the reason why it was called the Cold war, is because America and Soviet Russia were being cold and hostile towards each other but not actually getting into a fight
Love the original video and reaction video. but technically, the Korean war is still going. We never signed the peace treaty..... again.
Blue Jay is just fantastic. Subscribed to both your and his channels.
I think a more succinct way to inform people on the cold war in a sentence, would be something like "An Ideological war between the US and Soviet Union, via methods outside of direct war with each other"
If I could make one correction, technically speaking we did fight a war against the USSR but that was during the Russian Revolution and we sent troops in as did a lot of other countries to support the White Army
Acoustic Kitties and Laser Dolphins are some of the funniest experiments ive ever heard of.
How dare you compliment Hitlers paintings.. unsubcribed.
Jk
4:00 If its the same flight Im thinking of, one of the planes passengers, Larry Mcdonald, was a sitting congressman when the plane was shot down.
Love some more Blue Jay! Telling history in at times a humorous, sarcastic way can help keep an audience.
In Bluejays director commentary, he notes that Reagan and Gorbachev were in Iceland for a meeting and Raust was trying to meet them there originall.
The good with blueJay is that he is inspired from OverSimplified but not copy or imitate. Good humour and even in the same topic they are not overlapping
34:30 For you fantasy gamers, imagine something very similar to the tranquil in Dragon age, but actually worse somehow.
Even though it was hilarious the acoustic kitty but was horrifying, i love my cat
Mathias Rust tried to pull a Rudolf Hess and ended up in the clink all the same.
I've got a couple of managers at work that are in their mid 20s so joking around I actually brought this up. I was five in 1987 so I was talking about how I was born in a world where the USSR and Berlin Wall were still a thing. It may not have been the height of the cold war, but it was still a thing then.
There's no booze a true Russian wouldn't at least attempt to drink.
You need to watch “One, Two, Three” which stars James Cagney. Cagney plays an executive for Coca-Cola in West Berlin before the close of the Brandenburg gate. This movie was filmed the summer before the gate closed and there are scenes filmed in East Berlin. It’s very funny and a unique look at the time period.
I grew up in the Southwest, where any carbonated beverage was called "Coke". I came here to Western NY for college and we are right on the pop / soda dividing line. There were seriously arguments about what to call it. My husband is native to the area and calls it "Pop". I usually tell him that's what the weasel does.
My cousins all used to live in NW Ohio, and I'll never forget the confusion while visiting back in the 90's the first time one of them asked me if I'd like a 'pop'. I thought she was asking whether I'd like to literally burst, which is only slightly more confusing than me describing how to ask for a 'coke', only to order a Dr. Pepper.
@@airborngrmp1 "Hey can you bring some Cokes to the party?" "Sure, what kind?" 😆
From what I remember from the Civilian airliner shoot-down in a documentary, The Soviet Fighter Pilot that Shot down the passenger jet to this day staunchly believes that what was in front of him on that night was a U.S military Aircraft. Since the U.S did have converted passenger jets with Spy and military equipment on board at the time and from what he saw and from what information he was given, an American Spy Aircraft of some kind violated Soviet airspace and did what he was trained to do without hesitation. Soviet recovery teams would very quickly find the Passenger jets black box recorder and kept hidden from the world for years with agency's in the west investigating the disaster believed it was lost to time or was taken the the U.S.S.R, until near the end of the cold war the Black Box was Returned and the final moments of the Aircraft before it was intercepted would finally be known after years since the disaster happened.
Was born 10 years before you. My "generation" was pretty much resigned to nuclear war - especially with movies such as The Day After and Testament. The fall of the Berlin Wall still stands out as one of the most remarkable events of my life.
29:46 He dominates every scene he is in. Amazing movie!
35:26 ahh yes, I don’t know about you guys but nothing would boost my morale and mental health quite like seeing a nuclear explosion on the moon. People love fireworks!
😂
If you want to know WHY he chose that flight route: At the time there was a conference which failed between the Soviet Union and the USA about the reduction of nuclear missiles.
He attended the conference and was angry when it came to no consensus to he immediately flew from Iceland where the conference was held to Moscow.
Don't invade afganistan.
I was born in 94, so a couple years after Germany was united. I've always found this era fascinating. From a cultural perspective, but even in my world of racing, the effects were felt. BTW, there was an East German motorcycle grand prix for years.
25:38 The RUclipsr Joe Scott (who does well researched videos on science related topics) did a hilarious parody of the moment showing a bunch of NASA engineers reacting in disbelief, horror and shock to JFK's man on the moon pledge.
In my opinion space race is a tie, because both sides still competed with each other after, until USSR launched a Canon in to space and then fired it. After that both sides realized that it is better to cooperate than to fight ( at least in space ). And that started the ISS project
The Space Race was not a who-gets-it-first kind of race, (If so, the Soviet Union was winning: The first satellite, the first animals in space, the first man in space) but a who-gets-the-farthest kind of race. And with the moon landing, the triumph literally went to the United States.
Don't think I have ever been this early in watching a VTH release.
17:30 It kind of makes it harder for the West in that sense because the very nature of the free system they are struggling to preserve, kind of inadvertently acts as unilateral disarmament. The same dynamic is at play today with the mostly economic rivalry shaping up with China. The more freer your system is, the more opportunities they have to leverage it to their advantage, especially if they have no qualms about it themselves.
It kind of boils down to dynamic that pits idealism against practical realism. Do you opt to be as free as possible, or do you sacrifice some elements of freedom to facilitate survival/victory. This is an often overlooked element in the battle over the ratification of the constitution, the First and Second Party Systems. Should the gov't work to strengthen and preserve the system as the best defense against a foreign power undoing the Revolution, or should we stick to our principles, leave people as free as possible, and accept the risks this entails. US has always managed to strike just the right balance, and/or pull itself back when it went too far (The Articles of Confederation and the Alien & Sedition Acts on the other extreme).
In the years immediately after WWII, you had the crack down on Soviet Spies in reaction to the lax approach prior to that point, but then you had this morph into the red scare in the 1950s.
"From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic.. An iron curtain has descended across the continent." - Winston Churchill. (Post war speech in a college in the US)
Btw, my favorite CIA thing has to be when they wanted to poison Castro using a divingsuit that one of his friends were to give him. The friend however refused to do it.
Just watched The Death of Stalin last night and couldn’t agree more!
As far as I know we call it Pop in Canada.
Seriously teen manifesto screams disaster waiting to happen.
Guten Abend Meine Freunde.
:3
I know “malicious hooliganism” well!
I need to see you react to Puppet History. The Emu War, The Grisly Journey of The Donner Party , The Great Molasses Flood, The Bloody Life of England's Fastest Surgeon, America's First Black Aviatrix are just some of my favorites off the top of my head.
10:50 some people have done analysis of Hitler's paintings (watch them). Hitler really messed up perspective.
*Takes notes* Hitler had a really messed up perspective.
@@Chooopy I mean, yes, but also he sucked at sizing things correctly in his paintings.
Blue Jay makes entertaining videos, but I've heard other History RUclipsrs point out that his sources are somewhat questionable, in particular his Golden Age of Piracy video has been debunked by the channel Gold and Gunpowder.
People in meetings, "Pass the LSD."
More war hospital pls!!
About the Tu-22 and it's Vodka cooling system, it's actually common place for Soviet crews to use various aircraft fluids and turn them alcohol. Pretty much anything was used from landing gear hydraulic fluid, to even brake fluid, and it wasn't just exclusive to the Tu-22 as pretty much any Soviet aircraft from the small MiG-21 to the monstrous MiG-25, all use some various form of alcohol in their operation.
For a more in-depth video I highly recommend the youtube channel Paper Skies and his latest video "How Soviet Pilots Drank Alcohol From Planes". A genuinely great channel that really shows just how dysfunctional the Soviet Air Force was.
Love how the "docking" joke seems to be going over everyone's head. 😂
If you actually want to understand how the Cold War came to an end (instead of this silliness), I suggest The End of the Cold War by Robert Service..
If the Soviet Union had a leader like Putin, the Soviet Union would have collapsed into famine and revolution. The Soviet Union was economically failing, Gorbachev came to power because it was absolutely necessary for reforms and changes.
Yugoslavia was a communist state and was influenced by Moscow earlier on - but not for long. Tito kept them neutral in the Cold War. And the Soviet Union was often quite hostile to Yugoslavia right up to its collapse in 1991. Tito was attacked in Soviet propaganda and I believe the Soviets also excluded them economically (they never had full membership of COMECON).
Well regarding the Tu-22, the West had its own version of it in the F-104 Starfighter-affair (part of the larger Lockheed Scandal). From 916 F-104 the Westgermany ordered a third crashed killing 116 German pilots.
10:50 If only the art critics of the time agreed with you. Would have been a lot better if he were able to express himself through just ok paintings.
31:25 That was indeed Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. Richard Milhous Nixon sayed in an interview on May 12th 1983 I think that he did not recognise him but Brezhnev recounted the day.
As someone who joined the Air Force during Reagan’s first term, the Cold War title really peaked my interest. Huge fan of VTH, but I was greatly disappointed in Blue Jay’s presentation. There’s a fine line between educational entertainment and buffoonery IMO. Guess I’m just a grumpy old vet. Would love to see some VTH Cold War original content.
9:08 well, i think, to win the cold war with another country/alliance of countries, you need to wait for degradation of the elite of your enemy, so the next generation of elite would want to get rid of the obstacles to their luxury live style, and also make enemy's economy dependent of the exports of natural resources. That's, what happened in USSR, old elite got well... Old, so much, that in the USSR, after the death of Brezhnev, started a joke - coffin race, because next two leaders died of the old age in span of 2 or 3 years, if i remember it correctly. And the new elite, who grew in luxury (thank to the 2nd half of Brezhnev's rule, wich lead to grow of nepotism and corruption) were dissatisfied with communism (because it would from morally side truy and stop that debauchery, but there were some, who believed in the possible reform of the state, but again, most of the elite just tiered of communism, and their supposed equality and moral code) so when Gorbachev started Perestroika and Glasnost, the collapse became inevitable. And the elite of the USSR and it's Soviet Republics just overthrew Gorbachev and dissolved USSR, even though the majority of people on the referendum woted for it's preservation.
Sorry for some grammar mistakes, English is not my first language.
Love your videos, and reactions. Wish you luck in all endeavours
here in east texas all “soft drinks” are “cokes” as in you go to a fast food place and they’ll ask “what coke do you want?”
Multiple Blatant assassinations have happened in the last decade. It's why it's so surprising that it happened in the US, it's not something that's common here compared to the many different cultural and ethnic challenges Europe faces.
10:45 With all due respect, I disagree. When someone goes as horrifically far as him in terms of being an awful person, everything they touch looks horrific. Edit: and I draw about as well as a newborn.
I love that I was born in 87 but still had maps in school that had the USSR on them
As insane as acoustic kitty might sound, I once went to a CIA recruitment event at my college (yes it was weird) and they told us about how they’d made a robotic fix to eavesdrop on a conversation.
I'm enjoying your "Stories of the Great War" channel. Have you thought about doing a similar "Stories of the American Civil War" channel?
If I ever find the time, it's a possibility.
Predicted the future lol
I absolutely think we are still in the Cold War. The fall of the USSR was a low point, but it has been built back up with new allies of Russia. We are now just seeing the rekindling of all that. All the wars and tensions going on now are not all separate occurrences.
The book The Right Stuff is a great read. I have an interest in all things vehicular.
We all call it Pop too here in Yorkshire where I'm from.
Sorry bud thats not true they dont just call it coke. That being said its my experience and not yours but thats just taking to mucu away from ppl n assuming
I don't know what they thought about putting vodka in a plane. During those times in the Eastern Bloc even drinking jet fuel was a thing.
Blue Jay w some great one liners. Comedy classic!
The Soviets only won the early space race because they had gotten the weight of a nuclear warhead wrong when building their ICBM
Why the umbrella thing remind me of Hagrid’s umbrella in HP (he doesn’t have the right to use magic so he hide his wand in his umbrella)
Just a side note but Gorbachev is not remembered fondly in Russia. I doubt any other post soviet states sing his preises either. So i doubt he has played any significant role in ending cold war besides being poor leader.
Lobotomy was used to treat mental illness. Now we treat mental illness with bottoms surgery. Talk about progress.
Germany nowadays is still two countries.
But not as you think.
I mean Germany and Austria^^