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Yeah Belgium treat their colony very nicely, they really admired the hands of the native people there
don't forget about industrialization. Belgium made DRC developed
@@bowser3017 bro seriously? 💀
@@createyourownfuture5410 Yeah, the native population boomed, in fact the colony barely wanted to leave but Belgium gave it to them anyway!
@@bowser3017 and the educative system they brought to Congo was really advanced. Even today the best Congolese schools are the ones left by Belgium
The DRC is the epitome of development
The handoffs approach of belgian Congo seems much better on paper than it was in reality.
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The map, at least for Romania, is wrong.
Romania became independent from the Ottoman empire officially, not from Russia/the Soviet Union in any way shape or form. Unless it's trying to say that being Soviet occupied in WW2 means we gained independence from them - which would mean Germany would also be from the Soviet Union and stuff like that.
Same with Poland. We celebrate our independence from German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russian Empire, not Soviet Union. Indeed we were occupied by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, but this happened AFTER we officially re-gained our independence.
On the note of the USSR, shouldn’t Russia and Colombia have Soviet and Gran Colombian flags since that is who they gained independence from in 1991 and 1830? Why to him is South Korea getting independence from the US a stretch, but not North Korea from the USSR? Kim il-Sung was not a Soviet puppet, he was an unreliable ally who often disagreed with them and took different sides in conflicts like Afghanistan and Kampuchea. All of Korea should have been marked as the Japanese flag.
@@holdenennis was colombia not the administrative capitol of gran colombia?
@@higbort the capital was Bogotá, which is in modern Colombia. But Colombia back than was called Nueva Granada, and it was a part of the Republic of (Gran) Colombia. Nueva Granada changed its name to Colombia in the 1860s because the Colombian Liberal Party admired Christopher Columbus and they also wanted to claim to be the true successor of Gran Colombia. Gran Colombia was actually just called Colombia, and the “Gran” was added later by historians to differentiate her from modern Colombia. So what happened was Nueva Granada gained independence from Gran Colombia in 1830 when it dissolved, and changed their name to Colombia thirty years later in a bid for legitimacy and claim to be the true successor.
Germany now, the one in the map, is supposed to be west Germany (since obviously the west Germans were on the winning side of the mildly room temperature war)
i guess it is debatable whether West Germany did or did not gain independence from the allied powers
Seeing Andrew's body-less floating head on the green screen made me laugh a little bit too much
He needs to green screen the chairback too 🤔😅
Can we appreciate it they took the time and added that San Marino became independent from the Roman Empire?
England/uk became independent from the Norman’s [or romans] lol
As for Thailand idk if they counted it as gaining independence from Japanese empire
Was the Vatican Italy?
@@irenaveksler1935 the papal state were integrated into Italy during the unification period and later on the vatican was granted a small part of rome as an independent "country"
@@juanmendez3290 yeah Mussolini granted Vatican
@@irenaveksler1935 between 1870 and 1929 it was part of italy.
The Pope did not recognized italy and stated that no catholics should have taken part in any italian election, this was called the "Roman Question".
In 1929, Benito Mussolini solved this situation with the Lateran Treaty that still regulate the complex political and economic relations between Italy and the Vatican, to the Holy See is granted control over the churches, they recives money (officially for mantaining the churches) trought italian taxpayers, and Catholic religion is obligatorily learned in the schools since young age, the Holy See can still "de facto" influence italian politics when they feel the Catholic values are in danger, last year they blocked a pro LGBT+ law.
Israel's independence day is calculated using the Hebrew calendar.
May 14, 1948 was Iyar 5 , 5708 , on the Hebrew calendar.
We don't celebrate every year on May 14 , we celebrate on Iyar 5.
That Hebrew date can happen anywhere between late April and mid May , depending on the year.
P.S. the differences between The Hebrew and Gregorian calendars , is why Chanukah is sometimes right around Christmas, and other times , the holiday can start as early as the end of November.
Isn'treal 🇮🇱
This
The sabbath bit was about a specific case when they moved the date a bit when it happened to fall on the sabbath during a certain year
@@squirrelwithabanana Yes , the day does get moved around in some years, but only by a day or two.
The sabbath issue alone wouldn't push our independence day into April.
@@marysartr cringe
Adjusting death by inflation so casually is the most ibx2cat thing to do
It really puts the scale to the carnage.
@@Tethloach1 what one could do is take the percentage of the population who died at that time, and find what that same percentage would be with the current population
The flag up in Sweden & Denmark is the Kalmar Union!
What's the flag on top of Finland?
Thought they got there independence from the Russian Empire.
The flag looks completely red so is the hanmer and sickle out of view or is it the flag of the brief Finnish communist state?
I'm confused.
@@concept5631 Finland gained independence from the soviet union
@@kaiserslavaniaashur1623 i see
@@kaiserslavaniaashur1623 It didn't. Soviet Union didn't exist until 1922 and Finland gained its independence in 1917. Russia was in the middle of civil war and that red flag was used by Lenin's government.
@@Latska Oh shit yeah I forgot, Finland used the momment of unstability to break free
Toycat doing a little trolling and doxxing himself by revealing he lives in Buckingham Palace made my day.
I wouldn't say that Denmark got independence from the Kalmar Union.
The Union basically ended with Christian II. in Denmark murdering over 50 Swedish politicians in Stockholm because Sweden felt that Denmark had too much to say in the union (which we probably did). The Swedes celebrate the election of a new King in 1523, where as Denmark doesn't even have a national day. We celebrate our Constitution day, but that was made in peaceful conditions with support from the King at the time.
yeah, its straight up an incorrect map. Denmark ran the Kalmar union.... so it didn't gain independence from it.
yes its like saying russia/moscow get independence from ussr
Same as saying Great Britain gained independence from England, sure one went from smaller -> larger, and the other from larger -> smaller but still
The map is wrong in many aspects. Czechia and Slovakia got independence from Czechoslovakia? LOL
We even celebrate our "Day of independent Czechoslovak state" on 28th October. It was independence from Austria-HUngary in 1918.
1.1. 1993 is "day of restoration of Czech independent state". But if anything, we got independence from 1989 from commies, not from Czechoslovakia - that was peaceful separation, not independence fight / protests etc.
@JohnSon
In Sweden we celebrate our “independence day” or nationaldag (national day) as we call it because of the constitution of 1809 which regulated the king’s power that was signed at the 6th of June by Karl XIII when he was crowned. You can also say that it’s celebrated because Gustav Vasa was crowned at the same day in 1523 after Sweden left the Kalmar Union.
France didn’t “colonize” England. It was conquered by a guy who happened to be French. There’s a huge difference there. England was still independent after the Norman conquest and if anything was more anti-French than ever since the Norma conquest is the reason why England and France have been at war for centuries afterwards. There’s actually a better argument that England was under French control during the first barons war when the prince of France conquered England and then the English successfully fought them off and “gained independence.”
He wasn’t even French, he was a Swede who spoke French
@@moonshinei Basically French then, French itself isn’t an ethnicity in the same way German is as the French are a combination of Celtic people, Latin culture and a Germanic elite. So a Nordic nobleman speaking French isn’t out of place
On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region. (Colonizing other peoples, regardless of the justification, is wrong. The people being colonized are robbed of their land, resources, and freedom.) Leopold financed development projects with money loaned to him from the Belgian government. The king’s stated goal was to bring civilization to the people of the Congo, an enormous region in Central Africa. (Believing one people is more civilized than another is wrong.) Leopold’s reign over the Congo Free State, however, has become infamous for its brutality. The people of the Congo were forced to labor for valued resources, including rubber and ivory, to personally enrich Leopold. Estimates vary, but about half the Congolese population died from punishment and malnutrition. Many more suffered from disease and torture. Among those who weren't killed, many were punished by having a hand and/or foot amputated. The people of the Congo did not suffer these injustices without fighting back. Several rebellions were mercilessly put down under Leopold's direction. As the realities and suffering within the Congo Free State became more widely known, many European people spoke out against these abuses. Demonstrations and protests demanded that Leopold end human rights abuses in the Congo Free State. In 1908, international pressure forced the king to turn the Congo Free State over to the country of Belgium. The newly named “Belgian Congo” remained a colony until the Democratic Republic of Congo gained its independence in 1960.
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@@dylanmurphy9389 and what?
Toy cat asked if somebody could list a six page paragraph for why Belgium did something to Congo
@@irenaveksler1935 oh I missed that part, I thought it was just random lol
Fake liberal Russian propaganda in my book
I was having a rough day but seeing the map of dry counties is the usa really brightened my day
Yeah, Czechia is the colony of Czechoslovakia
lol, I know. This map is a poorly crafted joke.
Maps are great
Map fap
So true !!!!
That map is kinda controversial like how didn't Iran get its idependence it was invaded and occupied by Alexander's Macedonians, Arab Caliphates, Turkic and Mongol Dynasties,... and that for millennia
Thanks for doing this in a shirt matching your background colour.
It went white for a few seconds around 5:05
Andrew's Halloween costume is the beheaded head of an Anglo-Saxon (at the hand of a Norman conqueror during the battle of Hastings) who never got to experience an independence day afterward.
I was in Aarhus Denmark recently, and the pedestrian "walk" sign showed a green viking with an axe, shield and helmet.
you cannot count the amount of countries on one hand (unless you are from somerset)
count in binary
What country is France supposed to have "gained independence" from? _Itself?_ Same question for Russia, though in that case there's an argument to be made that Russia _as a separate country_ gained it's independence from the USSR, just like every other post-Soviet state.
Also, both the DPRK and the ROK should really have Japanese flags. Certainly they became _satellites_ of the USSR and USA respectively, but they were never _colonized_ during the Cold War as Korea had been prior to 1945.
Theres 3 differant pov to see this for France, 1, 1789, the French population freed itself from the french King and his familly absolute rule, indepandance from absolutism.
2. indepandance from the Frankish empire, which technically didnt happen since West Francia was the last Frankish state existing and is where the Empire essentially comes from (not the frankish themselves but the empire original base of power to conquer everything comes from Gallia first). This is not an indepandance and more of a direct continuation like when the French republic took over the monarchy, the Carolingiens King of West Francia Charles le Téméraire who was under Nominal rule from his brother Lothaire the technical emperor of the Frankish empire that ruled both Italy and Lotharingia then quickly his nephew, just decided to not even say he obey anymore, the empire was already no more in everything but name anyway so there was nothing to gain indepandance from, especially since it originates from succession right, while theres the concept of taking indepandance from your parents, well thats not litteral when talking about a country.
3rd would be the indepandance from Rome's nominal rule over the Frankish (And Syagrius's Latin domination over northern Gallia), but again less indepandance when it was a conquest
@@Freedmoon44 France as such didn’t get independence from anyone, it was just a centuries long process of a Frankish elite and Gallo-Roman population forming a centralized country
@@sebe2255 yup
Okay:
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until 1960. The colony was established after the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, when the European powers divided Africa among themselves. King Leopold II of Belgium was the sole proprietor of the Congo Free State, a private venture.
The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II through a holding company, the Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie (CCCI). The state included the entire area of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo and existed from 1885 to 1908, when the government of Belgium annexed the area. Leopold II ran the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom. He used it to extract ivory, rubber, and other resources, to finance infrastructure projects in Belgium, and to enrich himself and his friends. He ran the colony with an iron fist, using forced labor, terror, and brutality to achieve his goals.
The regime was notorious for its abuses of the Congolese people. Forced labor was widespread, with Congolese men, women, and children being forced to work in the mines, on plantations, and on infrastructure projects. They were paid little or nothing for their work, and were often treated brutally. Thousands of Congolese died from exhaustion, disease, and malnutrition.
Leopold II's regime was also responsible for widespread atrocities. His private army, the Force Publique, was responsible for numerous massacres and other atrocities. In one notorious incident, the Force Publique killed and mutilated Congolese villagers in order to terrorize the population into submission.
The regime's abuses finally came to light in the early 20th century, thanks to the efforts of journalists, missionaries, and human rights activists. The resulting public outcry led to an investigation by the Belgian government, which resulted in the annexation of the Congo Free State by Belgium in 1908. Despite the change in ownership, little changed for the Congolese people. They continued to be exploited for their labor and resources, and subjected to brutal treatment. It was not until 1960, when the Congo gained independence from Belgium, that the people of the Congo finally regained control of their country.
The Belgian Congo was a dark chapter in the history of both Belgium and the Congo. The colony was founded on exploitation and brutality, and the Congolese people paid a heavy price for Belgium's greed. The legacy of the Belgian Congo is one of suffering and exploitation, and its history is a reminder of the dark side of colonialism.
The israeli one is made like that because holidays, memorial days, etc. are celebrated on their date on the jewish calendar. We don't simply move the holiday, we celebrate it on the same date on our calender. another problem is that the Israeli memorial day is one day before the independence day, and both of them cant take part on Friday or saturday (in the bible, days are considered as the time period between one sunset and another sunset. the memorial day cant take place on Friday because religious people won't be able to participate or watch the ceremonies that take place at night and they can't take place at Saturday either because they won't be able to arrive to the ceremonies before the night, and the same thing applies for the independence day)
Bro I literally would not give one literal fuck about global geography if it wasn’t for you toycat. You’re one of my favorite channels to watch due to your humorous delivery and informative content. I appreciate you educating me over the past couple years
Correction regarding Israeli independence day: While it is true that it moved around because of the Sabbath, it can only move by 1 or 2 days, so that's not why it can be in April despite Israel gaining independence on May 14. The reason for that is that Israel uses the Hebrew calendar for it's national holidays, and the Hebrew calendar moves around relative to the Gregorian calendar
Exactly this ^^
About the Israeli independence day, it is mentioned according the Hebrew calendar so it is changes a bit every year, usually May and sometimes Aprial. However according to the Gregorian calendar the date is in May so Israel should be on May column. Thank you for the video!
So they show the USA getting independence from the UK, but I’d argue that the western part should show Spain, and the middle from France. At the time of American independence, the USA was only the east.
I didn’t even notice the shirt but your strategy still worked because I commented anyway
One piece of fun fact for you guys, you can notice that there is a part of South American in purple, that is france. Or at least part of it, it is part of the french oversees territories that includes many different islands around the world, like the british oversees territories.
Belgium did many good things in Congo. Large plantations (growing cotton, oil palms, coffee, cacao, and rubber) and livestock farms were developed. In the interior gold and diamond mines were established. By the end of his life, Leopold was unpopular with his people, but, ironically, that had much less to do with his actions in Africa than with his conduct of his personal life. He spoke contemptuously of Belgium’s small size, could not speak proper Dutch, the native language of more than half of its citizens, spent long winters in luxurious quarters on the French Riviera, despite his strong dislike of the french, and was estranged from two of his three daughters. Moreover, he had a well-known penchant for teenaged girls, and, when he was age 65, he began a liaison with a teenaged former prostitute who bore him two additional children.
Hello, based department?
The flag in Sweden is Kalmarunionen, which was a Union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Similar to if Scotland would get independence form UK
No because they were allowed to have their own laws, the Kalmar Union was complicated, and Sweden had a large amount of Autonomy, however were unfairly taxed and had atrocities committed on their land
The question is whether breaking away from a union can be considered gaining independence... Does being in a union with another country mean your country isn't independent?
I guess there are so many factors that affect that, including for example, if it was possible to easily leave that union.
The Israeli independence day celebration doesn't move it's just that it's celebrated using the Hebrew calendar which doesn't line up with the regular calendar 👍
Absolutely great green screen mate. Loving it 👌
I love your shirt! It changes color to camoflage!
He got you
South Korea technically got independence from Imperial Japan
Belgium and the DRC had a great relationship they really treated the natives well and like humans. the explorers were not cruel and loved the place 👍
Thank you for such a nuanced take on this, this is exactly why I come to this channel!
“I wonder what Belgium did in the Congo” he asks
technically Leopold as it was his private state.
I didnt even notice you weren't wearing a shirt until you mentioned it lol
I really admire the natives response to the Belgians. They were always willing to lend a hand.
Stealing is just borrowing, but you can't give it back, because the people you borrowed it from died... because people aren't live forever
UK got independence from Roman empire, Germany from napoleonic france, you can find an answer for any country (except, maybe, for some random island)
The UK didn't exist as an entity back then and Germany didn't exist either under Napoleon I. It's all relative tbh.
@@ToastieBRRRN Yeah lol the English weren’t even on the island yet when Rome left. And I wouldn’t connect Britonic post roman kingdoms to the UK
If we go by last stable occupation, Germany got independence in 1990 and the UK in 1066
10:54 toycat deviating from the colonisation topic and going all philosophical 💀
One of my good friends is from Belgium, and let me tell you as an American who only learned about Belgium's waffles and chocolate, I was s h o c k e d
All of the European nations west of Germany did horrific things to African people
@@Jordan-X not ireland 😊
@@jimmilton6644 True, my mistake. Free Northern Ireland!
@@Jordan-X The Netherlands didn't?
@@dumbgameboys618 You’re joking right? The Dutch empire colonized and subjugated South Africa, Ghana, India, Indonesia, South America, and many more nations.
Technically you can argue that Germany recently got its independence from the USSR, USA, UK, and France.
When a lot of the countries that gained independence in those "summer months" are in the southern hemisphere
the bit at around 11:57 is hillarious
1:33 i'm actually learning about all the wonderful things belgium did in the congo in world studies right now! 😄
oh no xD
I listen to most of these map videos on my phone with the screen turned off, and somehow I get the feeling that I'm not really missing anything!
Thanks for wearing a green tshirt, so I can see new zealand through you 😍
The map at 5:54 should have chosen colors with better contrast. I'm partially colorblind, and the color for countries that were colonized by Europe looks just like the color for countries that were never colonized by Europe.
Korea should be under the 'Partial European control or influence'. Russia had swathes of influence over Korea until the Russo-Japanese war.
Also if not the USA flag, then South Korea should have the Japanese flag on the first map
Thank you for this video floating head man
South Korea has a really tragic past with Japanese imperalism and is still a lasting scar for many elderly alive. Hence the great political tension between the two today. To say it might be under the category of 'never colonized' is a huge understatement
In Algeria our independence day (5 july) is also the colonisation day and it was made on purpose to erase it.
You guys would be better a colony tbh
@@dumbgameboys618 in some ways, it's still a colony
Cool video.
3:50
I don't know where that Polish standing-pengiun icon is from. On traffic lights and road signs there is a left oriented icon of walking man.
Love from Denmark
"this is my house right here" *zooms in Buckingham Palace*
3:19 for people who don't know the hammer and sickle represent the worker and the farmer
The hammer being the worker
And the sickle being the farmer
The big line graph really opens the question what the terms of independence are. Does a country has to be part of a different country and separate? Is being occupied enough?
when he realizes he has a green shirt
To say that Denmark, of all places, was a colony of the Kalmar Union is taking it a bit far. They controlled the Kalmar Union.
3:54 everyone is walking away from Poland
Belgium was doing great in the Congo. The king himself gave everyone a highfive!
I thought the UK got their independence from Rome or the EU or something
They didn’t get independence, the romans just left and the EU a isn’t a country, it’s an alliance so both aren’t correct.
im pretty sure we got independence from the hotdog man
Finland was never a part of Soviet union. Never under communism and never an eastern bloc country. Finland gained it's independence from Russia's Empire of tsar 1917.
Chile's independence day it's February 12th, and nobody celebrates it. What we celebrate in September 18th it's the first formation of a national goverment.
Chile also has 2. In february (1818) it's our official independence for Spain, but in septembre (1810) we celebrate "Primera Junta Nacional" that was a group of people that swear loyalty to the Spanish crown during Napoleon's occupation of Spain
The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo[a]) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century. King Leopold II of the Belgians attempted to persuade the Belgian government to support colonial expansion around the then-largely unexploited Congo Basin. Their ambivalence resulted in Leopold's establishing a colony himself. With support from a number of Western countries, Leopold achieved international recognition of the Congo Free State in 1885.[7] By the turn of the century, the violence used by Free State officials against indigenous Congolese and a ruthless system of economic exploitation led to intense diplomatic pressure on Belgium to take official control of the country, which it did by creating the Belgian Congo in 1908.[8]
Belgian rule in the Congo was based on the "colonial trinity" (trinité coloniale) of state, missionary and private-company interests.[9] The privileging of Belgian commercial interests meant that large amounts of capital flowed into the Congo and that individual regions became specialised. On many occasions, the interests of the government and of private enterprise became closely linked, and the state helped companies to break strikes and to remove other barriers raised by the indigenous population.[9] The colony was divided into hierarchically organised administrative subdivisions, and run uniformly according to a set "native policy" (politique indigène). This differed from the practice of British and French colonial policy, which generally favoured systems of indirect rule, retaining traditional leaders in positions of authority under colonial oversight.[clarification needed]
During the 1940s and 1950s, the Belgian Congo experienced extensive urbanisation and the colonial administration began various development programs aimed at making the territory into a "model colony".[10] One result saw the development of a new middle-class of Europeanised African "évolués" in the cities.[10] By the 1950s the Congo had a wage labour force twice as large as that in any other African colony.[11]
In 1960, as the result of a widespread and increasingly radical pro-independence movement, the Belgian Congo achieved independence, becoming the Republic of the Congo under Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and President Joseph Kasa-Vubu. Poor relations between political factions within the Congo, the continued involvement of Belgium in Congolese affairs, and the intervention by major parties (mainly the United States and the Soviet Union) during the Cold War led to a five-year-long period of war and political instability, known as the Congo Crisis, from 1960 to 1965. This ended with the seizure of power by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu in November 1965.(Not six paragraphs but close)
King Leopold of Belgium just commited massacres and forced people to work 18h every day to collect rubber
"Homo sapiens cannot be trusted." I think that's an accurate summary of the video tbh.
The yellow and red flag was the old danish kingdom Kalmar union, but I wouldn’t say Denmark got its independence from Kalmar since we declared it our self and I would say we got our “independence” from Germany in ww 1
Technically Britian has never gained independence from Norman rule
that moment you realise his chair is a part of the green screen
i love the point that its like perspective because that was exactly my point why the video sounded weird to me at first
Actually, Poland never gained independence from the USSR, because it never was a part of it
Finland didn't gain independence from the USSR but the Russian empire.
jew here
the reason we celebrate our independence in different dates is because for some reason we use a different calendar (28 days a month) for some things like holidays so the date stays the same on the jewish calendar
The flag on sweden and denmark is the Kalmar union which existed in the… 13th century? I think?
The Polish independence day is not from the Soviet Union, but the time Poland got independence after 123 years, after the Great War, in 1918. We celebrate it November 11th
I guess it wouldn't be easy to put the flags of three countries from which we got independence then on the map...
And I guess it just depicted the most recent event of regaining independence, not necessarily the one celebrated during Independence Day.
We can obviously discuss if we were an independent country or not between 1945 and 1989... Which boils down to the question, to what extent the Polish communist government had to follow the orders from Moscow.
By the way, the "independence" we got in 1945 was also technically from Soviet Union, after they conquered Germany (or more accurately, simultaneously with that process). Similarly to West Germany which got its independence from the US, UK and France after the allies conquered Nazi Germany. Though West Germany's independence was doubtlessly true. In case of Poland it's the matter of discussion.
Nazi Germany didn't sign any pact that gave us independence, they just got conquered and stopped existing...
So we have two events one of which you would consider regaining the independence by Poland (either in 1945 if you are pro-Russian, or in 1989 like probably most Poles), both more recent than 1918, both from Soviet Union. Or you can look at it in such a way that we got some extent of the independence from Soviet Union in 1945 and the full independence in 1989.
@@kpc211 We should also remember, that after Poland capitulated in 1939, there was hosted goverment-in-exile which refused to return to post-war communist regime in Poland and stayed in the UK until 1990 when it was resolved. But either way, our latest ,,gain of indepence'' was from the Soviets. Either by dissolution of the Soviet Union, or by ,,liberating'' us form capitalists in 1945
That map at the beginning is kinda wrong. Poland doesn't celebreate independence from the ussr, but from Austria, Germany and russian tsardom
Turkey did declare its independence from the Ottoman Empire but the war of independence was fought against Western European powers that were trying to split the land between them while the Ottoman royal government tratiorously supported the invaders instead of playing an active role in the war so there are several Turkish national holidays called the National Sovereignty and Children's Day, Republic Day, Victory Day instead of one explicitly called independence day.
2:49 No, they still got their independence from Japan
6:30 I love how according to this map french Guyana is part of Europe. Yes it's a part of France, but Europe...?
The reason Israel's independence day moves around on the standard Gregorian calendar is the same reason all other Jewish holidays seem to move around. Israel uses the Hebrew calendar and it's a lunar calendar. It's always the 5th of Iyar, (that's a capital I not a lowercase L) so to a European perspective it moves around, but to an Israeli perspective it remains stationary. Because of the Sabbath, independence day can only move one or two days, but largely, it's always the same day.
Fun fact, Denmark has the flag of the "Kalmar Union" (The yellow flag you didn't recognnize on Sweden). Which it became "independent" from, however the Kalmar Union was de facto just a Danish monarch rule of all of Scandinavia. So in a way the rest of scandinavia became independent from Denmark trying to cover it up by calling the ruling something else than "The Kingdom of Denmark".
Lebanon, which is in Europe, is missing in the chart of European countries,.
I mean I kinda get ur point but like at the same time the only two major non european colonizers were japan and america. Japan w korea and china and America with manifest destiny and all the shit we stole from the spanish. it was mostly europeans. Not tryna downplay American colonialism tho that was some of the most brutal colonialism period.
Belgian king Leopold II, used the Congo (DRC) for rubber, (industrialization, needed rubber for car tires). He forced the locals to find rubber trees, if they couldn't find them their hands were chopped off...
i'd tell you what belgium did in the congo, but i can't type without hands
Italy doesn't have an indipendence day but we have a liberation day from when we were liberated from the nazi-fascist troops
“What did Belgium do”
Me knowing rubber history: oh…oh no…
(It was privately owned by their monarch, not the country, and they cut off people’s hands for disobeying their slavery to the rubber industry)
"Do you wanna see my house?" (he zooms to Buckingham palace)
I didn't know your royal! XD
1:43 Oh you don't want to know that history...
I had three screens going, my phone and computer and TV.
Haha mate I just love watching you talk about maps and history, it makes me laugh how your brain goes into tangants, really enjoy it!
that first map triggered the shit out of me
3:11: Napoleon.
Israeli independence day is defined according to the lunar calendar, so it is roughly 3 weeks after Easter or 9 to 13 weeks after Chinese New Year.
9:14: American website wants you to believe Liberia was never colonised. Liberia was operated as a de-facto US colony, but the Americans didn't want to own up to that since they were opposed to colonisation on principle.
10:05: The northern half of my family tells me off if I leave a negative review of something. I believe this to be related to characteristic Scandinavian humility.