Plenty of Rasputin's family, including his grandchildren, were alive when Boney M released their famous song about him in 1978. Imagine turning on the radio and hearing a song about your grandpa boinking the Empress of Russia.
Not - really - fun facts about the death of the Romanov family: - The Yekaterinburg house the family was murdered in was formally called Ipatiev House, but secretly called The House of Special Purpose, and was demolished at the end of the 20th century. Now an orthodox cathedral stands in its place as a monument to the massacred imperial family, who have been canonized by the orthodox church as martyrs of the faith. The altar was strategically constructed right above the room they were murdered in. - The Soviet soldiers guarding the family began to pity them and treat them with kindness, one going so far as start a romantic tryst with Princess Maria, which got him killed. The Bolshevik government feared that the soldiers would eventually help them escape, so they exchanged the guards for Yakov Yurovsky and his men, who imposed a stricter and harsher rule over the family. - To add to the gruesome atmosphere of this tragedy, Yurovsky placed the young Prince Alexei on his knee and asked him how he was, already knowing that the boy would die that night. The family were made to believe they'd be transported out of Yekaterinburg to escape the White Army, but had to hide in the basement until the White Army passed. At around 2 am, Yurovsky positioned them all as if they were taking an official state photograph before unvailing and reading the document sentencing them to death and shooting the czar. What followed was an utter bloodbath, with soldiers quickly losing composure and firing madly. -The ones who suffered the most and died last were the 4 princesses, Olga, Tatyana, Maria and Anastasia. Since they thought they were going to be exiled, they sewed the imperial family jewels to their clothes so that they had some financial security once they were out of Russia. But instead they ended up creating history's most expensive bulletproof vests since the bullets ricocheted off the jewels, forcing the Soviets to bayonet them to death or shoot them in the head. Some say the last one to die was Princess Anastasia, whom the survival myth is attributed to. The only survivor was the family dog. - Along with the family were also their loyal servants, a maid, a valet and a cook if I'm not mistaken. These 3 were also murdered with the family and buried with them in the state funeral. - Since the White Army was nearing Yekaterinburg (reason behind the Romanov massacre), the Soviets tried to quickly dispose of the bodies by burning them and dousing them in acid. When that didn't work, they tried throwing them in a shallow mine shaft which proved incapable of holding all their bodies. Finally, they separated the family and buried them in 2 separate plots of land to make it harder to find them all. In the 1970s, the majority of the bodies were found although it took until the 1990s for Russia to exhume and identify them. Once they were identified as the bones of Nicholas II and the royal family (with help from Prince Philip of England, who is a distant relative) they were given a state funeral with full honors. However, the bones of the once - Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria weren't found until later in the separate burial sight (there was some doubt about whether the body was Maria's or Anastasia's since the 2 girls were so close in age). While the bones have been identified they have yet to be buried with the rest of the family because politics and religion. - The Soviets were afraid of the consequences should the people realize that they had brutalized innocent children, so they only revealed that former Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra were killed, but not their children, which gave rise to the myth that they had survived. This is what led to the myth of Grand Duchess Anastasia surviving when a woman in a German asylum claimed to be her. The surviving Romanov family couldn't not prove it wasn't her, so she migrated to the United States, married and became Anna Anderson, believing she was the princess until her death. Later, DNA testing confirmed that she was in fact a Polish factory worker, not Anastasia. Sharing a name with the second princess, Tatyana, I became fascinated with her and the Romanov family so I researched a lot about them. Edit: Wow, this the most attention a comment of mine has gotten. I'm flattered. Thanks, guys. Please keep the discussion civil! 😁😁😁
@@shocktroop843 Foreign governments would've staged an intervention in the Soviet Union, claiming the children were rightful to the throne, and attempt to reinstate the Tsar.
@@pawchasescapitalists7773 no they were innocent and Nicholas wasn't really out to punish or supress anyone. Woefully incompetent but a deeply religious man living in a idealized version of russias past and detached from realities thinking that the people will always love their tsar no matter what. The people had had enough and he abdicated as a consequence. Russia needed reform and change but the slaughter of the romanov family was a tragedy and the thuggery of bolshevism palpable. They didn't deserve to die just because they were upper class and born into wealth, that would be ideological fanaticism.
There a Soviet-era joke about an older Russian filling out a form: Where were you born? St. Petersburg. Where did you go to school? Petrograd. Where do you live now? Leningrad. And where would you like to live? St. Petersburg. I had a history teacher in college that I liked... up until the point he said that after the end of the USSR, the capital of Russia switched back to St. Petersburg. Dude, the Internet is a thing
Dyslexic Batnam no, he specifically said that Moscow was the original capital, then Peter the Great built St. Peterburg and moves the capital there, then the Soviets made Moscow the capital, and then, after then collapse of the Union, the Russians made St. Peterburg the capital again. Nothing to misinterpret there. The guy also said that he visited Moscow during Soviet times and got to see Lenin in the Mausoleum. Except only members of the party were allowed into the Mausoleum back then, so I seriously doubt they’d let an American in
@@artembentsionov Everyone could visit Mausoleum back in Soviet times, you didn't even need a ticket, just to stand in a huge line (which went really fast because It was not allowed to stand and watch, just to have a quick look and pass by). I visited it 2 times in 1980s when I was a kid.
The story of the Czech legion trying to get home is an amazing story in its own right. They got stuck on the other side of the battlelines with Germany and decided to go East to the Pacific, seized the railways, fought off revolutionaries, took the gold reserves, and had to avoid a whole civil war to get all the way back to western europe.
Ah yes, the Czechoslovak legion. Who would win? The terrible conditions in Siberia and a fuckton of bolshevik soldiers, or 70 000 czechoslovak bois trying to get home to their newly created country? Such a cool story.
@@TheCsel can’t blame them for this intention. They also did some share terror along the way, but in my eyes they redeemed by killing this pesky jerk Kolchak.
The thing is. I always believe if the nobles did not kill Rasputin. Likely the Revolutionaries would have killed him instead. All because of his connection to the crown and also being a priest. Rasputin was doomed no matter how you looked at it.
@@kaihinton6623 Well, that would have been smarter. Really the whole royal family should have attempted to fled but I guess they didn't have that many loyal people after all.
@@MrDoggysmut Still, doesn't matter. The general public believed he was and a wizard and all that. So he was a dead man regardless. Unless he was smart enough to just run but then again he would have been killed by some angry religious idiot mob for being a Wizard or something.
Rasputin's death story is so cool. Poisoned with literally enough cyanide to kill a rhino, shot three times in the chest and once in the jaw, he ran, was beaten, thrown into a river, and died of hypothermia, not drowning. He was an absolute badass. Imagine if he survived after his escape and fled to Greece or Britain or something.
Hello, I'm from Russia, and I found your channel by accident when I was looking for reactions to sabaton. And i found. After two your reactions i m started looking another videos on your channel and it interested me. You are good man, thanks for your videos and sorry about my English, I'm 15 years old and i just learning English. Hello from Russia 🖐️ (Реально, хоть я немного и не понимаю, хотя нет, вру, я почти 90% всего не осознаю, но смотреть вас интересно) )
Everytime I see a non-native speaker apologize for their English, I just think, _"Your English is better than my Russian."_ I can't speak of behalf of all my countrymen, but I think it's safe to say most Americans don't speak any foreign language with any appreciable fluency, and there's not a very strong motivation for English speakers to learn other languages, except in school. By contrast, or so I've been told, English is the lingua franca of the world, so there is strong motivation to learn it among non-native speakers. All that to say I understand the difficulty of learning another language and try not to take for granted that a non-native speaker doesn't have a mastery of my native tongue, because in most cases, they've put a lot more effort into learning my language than I have into learning theirs. In other words, "Your English is better than my Russian."
Dude, I think your english is quite good, tbh. I'm colombian and, obviously, my native tongue is spanish, but I love watching at this kind of channels, 'cause they help me at practicing my listening and understanding. Then, I come to the comment section to practice my reading and, once in a while, I respond or comment something to improve my writing. There's no shame about using a language other than yours, I think, so keep doing it. You're doing it really good for a 15 year old, btw.
The German’s sending Lenin home caused the biggest domino affect. The sons of the German officials who allowed Lenin to return home would be embroiled in a fight for survival against the nation that Lenin would create.
Not to mention Stalin forced modernized the country would lead to USSR out producing germany in the long term thus winning them the war thru attrition.
Well what about a german revolution in 1919? German had it''s own strong communist party, german soldiers and workers had the example of revolution in Russia, so...
The Czar's execution was even more of a hack job than OS touched on. Not only was the firing squad drunk, the basement they chose to do the job had no lights, so none of the soldiers could see what they were aiming at. What's worse, the Romanovs had hidden a bunch of gold and jewelry in their clothes for safekeeping, thinking they might be able to bribe their way to freedom. So essentially, you had a bunch of drunks shooting people wearing bulletproof vests in a pitch black cellar. It was a nightmare. It was so bad that afterwards the soldiers weren't even sure if they had actually killed the entire family. Thus leading to the infamous Anastasia situation.
Bravo! GREAT vid! About Rasputin's death - it gets weirder: He'd survived a gruesome stabbing (by a deranged woman with no nose) that caused him to lose a huuuuge portion of his guts. This, combined with his alcoholism, left him producing almost no stomach acids afterwards. Cyanide only works when it interacts with the gastric acids. Many feel this is the reason he lasted so long after eating the poisoned cakes, merely feeling sick. Or maybe he really WAS a homeless crazy, drunken, beardy, horny, scandal-ridden magic wizard man antichrist!
sugar fights off cyanide probably something they didn't know back then, but putting cyanide in a cake(which uses a lot of sugar) made it nearly ineffective
I think the ending, where you spoke on informing your students about Communism, its intent and what actually happened, is one of the most open thoughts I've heard as a reaction to it. As a teacher, I always felt you are supposed to inform the facts without opinion, especially when it comes to history. Letting your students learn and come to their own conclusions based on all the information is a fantastic way to approach learning.
I’ve been watching his videos for months, and I have to say, watching him gain more confidence and charisma in front of the camera is so amazing to see!!
I like this guy, he doesnt skip sponsors, he gives his thoughts and other things. Hes not a person who "reacts" to videos by watching them and talking a little bit each time
You are my favorite "reaction" channel by far, because you actually add to the videos and further encourage learning and understanding, you are awesome man, keep up the amazing work
My 11 year old daughter is obsessed with your reaction videos and she's learning so much when she always complained about not understanding what the teachers were teaching in school before. I'm really greatful to channels like Oversimplified and yours, them for making such interesting and knowledgeable videos and you for explaining so much in details, god bless you good sir
It is myth. Historians have zero actual evudence about German money and other bullshit. Besides, radical socialst Lenin was dangerous for Germany himself, because hard war made their own people ready to revolt too.
I mean the hangings, dictators, civil war, starvation, and killing of the king are kinda similar. Even Rasputin and the Queen of France could be compared with how much the people hated them and said they were calling the shots
People felt that at the time; comparisons to the coalition wars were often made to oppose less authoritarian communist trends(anarchist,social democrats, ect.) would form a government too weak to oppose foreign powers; Fears of the Romanovs being returned like the Bourbons were led to people feeling exterminating the family a necessity for stability, even into the 30s with the military purges Stalin used the shadow of Napoleons military take over as proof that a established professional officer corps separate from political loyalty as a danger
@@neem377 I mean, it could be said that remembering Napoleon's loses as a leader, instead of his victories, particularly in Russia, could have been a propaganda campaign to boost Russian moral as Stalin of all people would be quick to see that 3 Fascists might come and knock a blow to Russia (although he was unprepared with Barbarossa)
When the old order is suddenly and violently thrown down, the power vacuum it creates and the social upheavals do tend to follow a pattern. It also happens in post-colonial era after WW2, when the former European colonies in Africa and Asia gained their independence. You have the removal of the old power, followed by the revolutionaries taking over, then followed by those revolutionaries turning on its own people to purge any counter-revolutionaries, which often results in civil war. Dictatorships often arise from revolutions, because an iron fist is necessary to maintain order in the chaos.
Whether it's monarchy, fascism, democratic, or communism, it doesn't really matter. In the end, GREED and RUTHLESSNESS makes every form of government "evil".
Capitalism is the true evil. Money corrupts everything it touches... build technology that makes money useless, and 98% of the corruption dies. We can work on the last bit afterwards.
@@dragonmaster613 Can you elaborate your ideology? can you justify your claims that 98% of the corruption will die if money will be useless? and how does capitalism turns out to be the true evil?
Today is a fine day for learning! Great to see another video from O.S and mr Terry. It’s always good to get more knowledge in the subject! Looking forward to more content from both of you
Hey, Mr Terry. On the topic of Tsar Nicolas's death. Monsieur Z, another history RUclipsr who also makes alternate history videos made a video about Nicolas surviving. Though it reads more like an alternate historical epic rather than a scenario, it's a great vid. The video's thumbnail is badass, too.
It’s awesome to see how mr Terry got more and more comfortable on RUclips and in front of the camera over a short time. Been here since like 30K and have watched a ton of vids. Keep it up!
No one likes to talk about it because historically it’s insignificant and can seem unnecessary, but the royal family wasn’t just simply slaughtered. Their executors used black-powder loaded firearms, and did not make the first shots clean kills. As the basement filled with smoke from the first volley of shots, unable to see their targets clearly, they fired wildly and randomly, hitting non-vital areas several times over for each victim, prolonging the execution and suffering with poorly-aimed pistol shots. When the smoke cleared, some victims were still alive, and were finished off by stabbing, strangling, or finally aimed headshots.
The election part of the video is slightly misleading: the Bolsheviks won a huge amount of votes in the most crucial areas of the country, ie urban centers and among soldiers they had something like 80%. The party that won the most votes, the Social Revolutionaries, which was the leading socialist party was popular among peasants living in marginal rural areas.
Fun fact: on his trip to Russia Lenin overnighted at the Savoy hotel (a luxury hotel today) in Malmö, Sweden. He was also gifted a fur long coat to keep his revolutionary balls and brains warm. I learned that in school when we had a field day getting a tour of the city's old historical square. I think there is a photograph of Lenin in the fur coat along with his liaisons.
I wish school subjects were centered around what teachers who were passionate about the subject found interesting, maybe with a handful of things that help you think in general (context, research, sources, ability to change one's mind when confronted with new evidence). It's so cool seeing someone who enjoys history talk about it. I had PE teachers and coaches for history teachers lol.
I wish you could have been my history teacher! While my teacher was pretty chill and cool, he just fed us info and made us regurgitate it (he made the questions verbatim which the study sheets/books), you sincerely rekindled my love of history and now I finally am learning things I wish I could have before!
I am from Romania, hopefully you guys will do something about my country as well! Love your videos, very funny and also kinda inspirational for who wants to start YT channels themselves, keep it up, in your own time!
This where people get confused and fear communism and socialism without being educated in it. Russia was never a communist country; it was a dictatorship in all but name. China was also never communist; it was authoritarian and still is but it has capitalism mixed in there as well. Do your own research on these. The fact is a full communist or full socialist government doesnt work in reality. Its best to mix different government forms like social democracies. But utilizing socialism and communism on their own doesnt work because that isn't how human nature works. They sound great on paper and arent "evil" in any way but its extremely difficult to implement. A mixed government works best.
I am from Mongolia back then we were communist nation heavily influenced by the Soviets so my parents and grandparents spoke very highly of Lenin and Stalin especially Lenin they even called him master Lenin in sense of teacher and quoted him a lot and taught children to be like him
@// well the old folk still see them in positive light but the newer generation know what they are. All the Lenin and Stalin monuments in Mongolia are taken down now
02:35 In some cases, feeling was quite mutual. Peter III, husband of Cathrine the great practically hated his position as russian czar and disliked the empire he was supposed to rule. Even as a prussian herself, Cathrine found her husbands fixation to prussia be embarassing. Well, that his quirks of playing soldier. 06:35 the one explonation to Rasputin's reputation as indestructible what I heard was that one of his followers attempted to murder him (years before he ever arrived to St. Petersburg) by disemboveling. He somehow survived that and it got him reputation as "the man whose soul is stiched to his body by the devil himself." 13:08 Another of these gambles that "sort of worked" was their involvement in Jäger-movement: a plan to train volunteers from finland to form a sovereing country(under german sphere of influence, probably) of grand duchy of finland, so that the ensuing conflict would drain Russia's resources to conduct war. "Sort of" because Finland's status as duchy was tied directly to the czar and after Nicholas abdicated, grand duchy pretty much ceased to exist. So the army eventually wasn't used as a fight against Russia. It did see action in civil war afterwards, though. Ultimately, as German empire also ceased to exist any plans that Kaiser Wilhelm or OHL might've had to use Finland as way to distract Russia or expand their influence north-east didn't come to fruition. Then again, you could say this about Lenin-gamble: he did achieve all that Germany hoped for and they gained massive lands out of it: unfortunately for Germany, they couldn't keep any of it.
People often say Lenin was a much better leader compared to Stalin, and while there is some merit to that it does not mean he was a good leader either.
He was a great leader.He was extremely hard working and was working non-stop for the improvement of russia and its people.He wasnt corrupt at all and truly believed that his system was the best for russia which proved to be right.He was the best russia had
@@Feffdc Did you miss the part of the video where he ignored the elections, bolstered the secret police, banned the opposition and had people shot like those before him?
demon2441 He also laid the basis for Russia to turn from a feudal autocracy into a global superpower. We can make moralistic arguments against Lenin, but idk about him being a bad leader in a results based analysis of Russia.
@@jfrazorofficial7355 The same could be said for Stalin and many other figures throughout history. I do think it is appropriate to have a balanced perspective when looking any person from a different time, but many think that one's accomplishments absolve wrongdoings whether from a historical or modern context. It is those people who do so for Lenin that I refer to in my initial comment.
I think its not who lead russia made it successful, i think its how they extracted and found their natural resources. Im sure those who lead had some efforts in, but i doubt it
I will point out a few things. First of all, like someone else said here, the Bolsheviks won a major portion of the constituent assembly's elections in the urban areas, soldiers, industrial workers... the proletariat of Russia. The social "revolutionaries" won major rural areas, etc. giving them a major portion. Lenin was not an absolute dictator it was still run by Soviet worker councils, alongside the fact that he and a portion of what Marx said, a dictatorship of the proletariat was needed in a time of socialism, until the world was ready for communism. You cannot use communism and socialism interchangeably, as the Soviet Union was socialist, communism means the abolishment of the state itself, and well, the Soviet Union was a state, therefore not communist.
No war no peace worked against Napoleon because of the coming winter, so I hypothesize Trotsky just assumed it would work again like it worked for Alexander i
Didn’t they... FIND the burial sight where the Czar and his family was buried after they were murdered? Like that was entire thing in the news for a while?
20:00 I always understood Bourgeois to refer to like the upper-middle class; people who owned large local businesses and who controlled the local economies in their area, but who weren't quire wealthy enough to be considered "elites"
@@imperatormaximus8952 correct me if i am wrong but i think it was a war between the netherlands and the isles of Scilly which never ended because they forgot to sign the end war agreement
that's a problem on this video OverSimplified say that Leon Trotsky He spent the rest of his life in exile in Europe and was assassinated in 1940 in Mexico City and got kill not in Europe
@@jordandiazparks exacly Diego Rivera and frida kahlo were good friends OverSimplified say in the original video he was in Europe on exile and got kill but he got kill in Mexico
Lenin was what you'd call at that time, an "Orthodox Marxist", as such he believed firmly that people are divided more by class that by nationality, therefor he never had any loyalty to Russia per se, he only saw in it the ultimate opportunity of achieving his dream of establishing a socialiste state which would be a first step in a larger process, that of establishing communism, which as another social system it requires a degree of internationalism, because the transition from socialism to communism requires an international worker's revolution. For Lenin that only meant using Russia as a point from which socialist revolution would to be exported to the world, in essence he was an internationalist, but he couldn't pursue this objective as he found himself busy actually running a country that's going through a civil war. He did hope for a socialist revolution to take place in Germany after it lost the war. Soviet Nationalism would only become a thing after Stalin took power, as he advocated a policy of "Russia first" instead of internationalist marxism, this in its turn was the reason of Stalin's ideological dispute with Trotsky, whose advocacy of internationalism would come to be known within marxist mouvements as Trotskyism.
@jose tapia The Nazi party was not a Marxist party, as a matter of fact, Marxism-Leninism was an enemy ideology of the Nazis, and they persecuted the marxists when they came into power. The revolution that Lenin wished for to succeed was the Spartacist uprising of 1919 which was led by social democratic and socialist elements of German politics. The uprising was led by major German communists like Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht against the Weimar republic in Berlin and it was completely suppressed by the government.
I got a couple of recommendations for digging in deeper to the civil wars and revolutions in between the world wars: "A People's Tragedy" by Orlando Figes is a great, in-depth look at the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War (basically the whole time frame that Oversimplified's video covered). Warning: the book is huge! "The Vanquished" by Robert Gerwarth looks at the inter-war period in eastern Europe, focusing on the violence that never really ended in the ashes of the defeated empires.
I think Oversimplified started dropping all parts same day with the American Revolution videos. I consider it the greatest humanitarian act on RUclips them not making us wait for multiple parts as they drop videos monthly multi-parts would be horrible! Like Overly Sarcastic's Journey to the West series, a series now spanning like 3 or 4 years lol
The murder of the Romanov family is a really sad story. Sure the Tsar was what I would say really bad. But the children. There are plenty of pictures and videos one video where all the 5 children. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and little Alexei are dancing in a circle on a ship during their visit to England. That video is really sad knowing how the innocent children that looked so happy in that video suffered.
Let's not forget the highly unlikely legend that Rasputin really was a magical figure and survived the multiple assassination attempts, and went into hiding.
It's so Interesting because looking at current russian politics, you see the influence of older models. The actual government made a democratic facade but still listening to this, you see a huge resemblance
I think bourgeoisie means people who make money by OWNING stuff (landlords, buisness owners, stockbrockers?) As opposed to making money through wage labour.
Love your videos and the extra context you provide to these videos. I feel like my knowledge of world history has been slipping the further I get away from my college/high school years - do you have any books you recommend for general world history or just books you would recommend in general?
Hi there! First of all I want to congratulate you for this great video, you are truly amazing. I want to suggest to you this game: Valiant Hearths: The Great War. It’s a heavy story game in the cartoon style of the World war 1. I know it’s kinda’ old, but i think it’s still a solid game, that can touch feelings. I for one like it, and I would love to see you playing it, but the rough part is that i don’t know how many would watch it. Keep up the good content.
Russia actually did take back alot of that territory lost to Germany once the Germans surrendered, just not all of it. They managed to take back Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus, but they lost the western portions of Belarus and Ukraine to Poland after they failed to take Warsaw and were pushed back.
@@joemcg3420 Yeah, all those conflicts throughout Europe that happened right after WWI ended were insane, and usually just get glossed over because they're so convoluted and all over the place. Polaand has my respect for managing to halt the Russian tide like that. If only Ukraine and Belarus had managed it too.
Yeah our Czechoslovakian Legions were stuck in the eastern Russian front and many of them had to escape through the transsiberian railroad all the way to Vladivostok in order to leave Russia. They were caught in the middle of a civil war and both sides wanted from them to fight or die for their side with false promises of letting them go after the war. Most of them didn't believe them and they had to fight off both sides through out the entire Russia. Last of them came back in 1920.
It's a great video, although I was a little disappointed that Oversimplified didn't mention the myth of Princess Anastasia being the sole survivor of the assassination of the royal family, as there was a story of this woman who claimed to be the long lost princess, but it turns out she was just a Polish peasant. Still, that myth persisted for several decades. Great reaction video, Mr. Terry. Looking forward to your next one. I hope that you'll react to another episode by ExtraCredit
Oversimplified has certainly improved a ton. He was always great, the info, humor, animation but they've all just gotten so much better, especially the animation. It's top notch. As you noted Tsar Nicholas looks exactly like him here. He also throws in so many little humorous thins, this is certainly his best video yet. With WWI, II, Cold War now this I wonder what to do next? The other biggies, American Revolution and US Civil War done, French Revolution, even the Norman Conquest of England, I'd love some more historical ones like perhaps the thirty or hundred years war? Perhaps the actual Napoleonic Wars themselves? The conquests of actions of Charlegmene? Maybe more non European history (I love it but often forget there is so much more) like the history of Japan, or the "African World War" I know little of it just it was a brutal mess. Naturally the Russian Civil War I hope he gets into. You're right Mr Terry it's not talked about often. Even in college it got a paragraph, basically "It was horrible and a mess and Trotsky somehow managed 20 different fronts and won the end" but it seems like it was one immensely complicated event. Like all of Russian history! Personally, I didn't hear this version of Rasputin's death. I heard a prostitute stabbed him, but he managed to recover then ya know others were like "oh hell we better kill him" but perhaps that video was misinformed.
I'd say OS can go for Napoleonic Wars. He already made the French Revolution vid so it would be a great tie-in on Napoleon's conquest and how he stabilized French society. Would love to see a collab between Mr. Terry and Oversimplified. Great vid as always. :)
I am writing this in 2022, so when this was made we all thought that this can't happen here. But now there are so many things echoing from the commentary that happening now. It just goes to show "If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it."
One probably has to define the proletariat first in order to define the bourgeois rigorously. Ernest Mandel gives the most widely accepted (and obviously correct) definition: you're a member of the proletariat if you have no method of survival except for selling your labor to someone else for subsistence. Then one can just say that you're in the bourgeois if you aren't in this position. The confusion arises because then there are substrata within the bourgeois, notably the petite bourgeois, i.e. the middle class. The petite bourgeois are bourgeois but because the distinction exists sometimes people reserve the word bourgeois for the class ABOVE the middle class, which is murkier and harder to separate.
@@MalekitGJ it's a word used literally everywhere in the social sciences, and was used to refer to ownership of the means of production long before Marx. the meanings of all words change over time.
Plenty of Rasputin's family, including his grandchildren, were alive when Boney M released their famous song about him in 1978. Imagine turning on the radio and hearing a song about your grandpa boinking the Empress of Russia.
That would be cool.
Hey ma! They’re singing about Grandpa! Yes they are Ma! Listen to this!
One of her granddaughters is buried in Angelus Rosedale in L.A.
This is getting out of hand now there are two of us.
@@DippyDeNut Impossible! We're still coming through!
Lenin's last words were "good dog". Because just before he died, Lenin's dog brought him a dead bird.
Really?
That’s a really cute story
What was his dog's name?
Good boi
*Salutes*
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Not - really - fun facts about the death of the Romanov family:
- The Yekaterinburg house the family was murdered in was formally called Ipatiev House, but secretly called The House of Special Purpose, and was demolished at the end of the 20th century. Now an orthodox cathedral stands in its place as a monument to the massacred imperial family, who have been canonized by the orthodox church as martyrs of the faith. The altar was strategically constructed right above the room they were murdered in.
- The Soviet soldiers guarding the family began to pity them and treat them with kindness, one going so far as start a romantic tryst with Princess Maria, which got him killed. The Bolshevik government feared that the soldiers would eventually help them escape, so they exchanged the guards for Yakov Yurovsky and his men, who imposed a stricter and harsher rule over the family.
- To add to the gruesome atmosphere of this tragedy, Yurovsky placed the young Prince Alexei on his knee and asked him how he was, already knowing that the boy would die that night. The family were made to believe they'd be transported out of Yekaterinburg to escape the White Army, but had to hide in the basement until the White Army passed. At around 2 am, Yurovsky positioned them all as if they were taking an official state photograph before unvailing and reading the document sentencing them to death and shooting the czar. What followed was an utter bloodbath, with soldiers quickly losing composure and firing madly.
-The ones who suffered the most and died last were the 4 princesses, Olga, Tatyana, Maria and Anastasia. Since they thought they were going to be exiled, they sewed the imperial family jewels to their clothes so that they had some financial security once they were out of Russia. But instead they ended up creating history's most expensive bulletproof vests since the bullets ricocheted off the jewels, forcing the Soviets to bayonet them to death or shoot them in the head. Some say the last one to die was Princess Anastasia, whom the survival myth is attributed to. The only survivor was the family dog.
- Along with the family were also their loyal servants, a maid, a valet and a cook if I'm not mistaken. These 3 were also murdered with the family and buried with them in the state funeral.
- Since the White Army was nearing Yekaterinburg (reason behind the Romanov massacre), the Soviets tried to quickly dispose of the bodies by burning them and dousing them in acid. When that didn't work, they tried throwing them in a shallow mine shaft which proved incapable of holding all their bodies. Finally, they separated the family and buried them in 2 separate plots of land to make it harder to find them all. In the 1970s, the majority of the bodies were found although it took until the 1990s for Russia to exhume and identify them. Once they were identified as the bones of Nicholas II and the royal family (with help from Prince Philip of England, who is a distant relative) they were given a state funeral with full honors. However, the bones of the once - Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria weren't found until later in the separate burial sight (there was some doubt about whether the body was Maria's or Anastasia's since the 2 girls were so close in age). While the bones have been identified they have yet to be buried with the rest of the family because politics and religion.
- The Soviets were afraid of the consequences should the people realize that they had brutalized innocent children, so they only revealed that former Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra were killed, but not their children, which gave rise to the myth that they had survived. This is what led to the myth of Grand Duchess Anastasia surviving when a woman in a German asylum claimed to be her. The surviving Romanov family couldn't not prove it wasn't her, so she migrated to the United States, married and became Anna Anderson, believing she was the princess until her death. Later, DNA testing confirmed that she was in fact a Polish factory worker, not Anastasia.
Sharing a name with the second princess, Tatyana, I became fascinated with her and the Romanov family so I researched a lot about them.
Edit: Wow, this the most attention a comment of mine has gotten. I'm flattered. Thanks, guys. Please keep the discussion civil! 😁😁😁
They all deserved it. Each and every one of them. Except the dog :>
@@pawchasescapitalists7773 But did they tho , even the children?
@@shocktroop843 Foreign governments would've staged an intervention in the Soviet Union, claiming the children were rightful to the throne, and attempt to reinstate the Tsar.
By the way, Ipatiev House was demolished in 1975 by future first president of Russia - Boris Yeltsin.
@@pawchasescapitalists7773 no they were innocent and Nicholas wasn't really out to punish or supress anyone. Woefully incompetent but a deeply religious man living in a idealized version of russias past and detached from realities thinking that the people will always love their tsar no matter what. The people had had enough and he abdicated as a consequence. Russia needed reform and change but the slaughter of the romanov family was a tragedy and the thuggery of bolshevism palpable.
They didn't deserve to die just because they were upper class and born into wealth, that would be ideological fanaticism.
There a Soviet-era joke about an older Russian filling out a form:
Where were you born? St. Petersburg.
Where did you go to school? Petrograd.
Where do you live now? Leningrad.
And where would you like to live? St. Petersburg.
I had a history teacher in college that I liked... up until the point he said that after the end of the USSR, the capital of Russia switched back to St. Petersburg. Dude, the Internet is a thing
Dyslexic Batnam no, he specifically said that Moscow was the original capital, then Peter the Great built St. Peterburg and moves the capital there, then the Soviets made Moscow the capital, and then, after then collapse of the Union, the Russians made St. Peterburg the capital again. Nothing to misinterpret there.
The guy also said that he visited Moscow during Soviet times and got to see Lenin in the Mausoleum. Except only members of the party were allowed into the Mausoleum back then, so I seriously doubt they’d let an American in
@@artembentsionov
I think he was bullshitting to sound cool.
@@artembentsionov Everyone could visit Mausoleum back in Soviet times, you didn't even need a ticket, just to stand in a huge line (which went really fast because It was not allowed to stand and watch, just to have a quick look and pass by). I visited it 2 times in 1980s when I was a kid.
outsideride2011 didn’t know that. Just went by what my dad told me. Thanks!
pyropulse it was a mistake, not a lie. But why should I care of anyone believes me on a RUclips comment thread? It’s hardly important
The story of the Czech legion trying to get home is an amazing story in its own right. They got stuck on the other side of the battlelines with Germany and decided to go East to the Pacific, seized the railways, fought off revolutionaries, took the gold reserves, and had to avoid a whole civil war to get all the way back to western europe.
Ah yes, the Czechoslovak legion. Who would win? The terrible conditions in Siberia and a fuckton of bolshevik soldiers, or 70 000 czechoslovak bois trying to get home to their newly created country? Such a cool story.
the thing they stole gold is a myth
@@kristofingaming9888 they took it hostage but you are right I don't think they ended up stealing it in the end.
@@TheCsel can’t blame them for this intention. They also did some share terror along the way, but in my eyes they redeemed by killing this pesky jerk Kolchak.
The thing is. I always believe if the nobles did not kill Rasputin. Likely the Revolutionaries would have killed him instead. All because of his connection to the crown and also being a priest. Rasputin was doomed no matter how you looked at it.
I suppose if he survived the assassination attempt and seeing the bad position of the country, he would just try to flee to somewhere else
@@kaihinton6623 Well, that would have been smarter. Really the whole royal family should have attempted to fled but I guess they didn't have that many loyal people after all.
Or rasputin might end up like a gentleman in Moscow situation
Raspuntin wasnt a priest....at least oficially
@@MrDoggysmut Still, doesn't matter. The general public believed he was and a wizard and all that. So he was a dead man regardless. Unless he was smart enough to just run but then again he would have been killed by some angry religious idiot mob for being a Wizard or something.
Wonder if Oversimplified would invite Mr. Terry’s voice for a character in a future episode ^^
That would be awesome!
Sure, after he hands over all the lost ad money 😂
Imagine if they had him do one of the "oOhH nOoOoO"s and never tell anyone 😂
Yeah. But he doesn’t do voice overs with others.
Ohhhh yes
Oversimplified: oversimplifies conflicts
Terry: Overcomplicates it
Oversimplified: Dude...uncool
Rasputin's death story is so cool. Poisoned with literally enough cyanide to kill a rhino, shot three times in the chest and once in the jaw, he ran, was beaten, thrown into a river, and died of hypothermia, not drowning. He was an absolute badass. Imagine if he survived after his escape and fled to Greece or Britain or something.
What if rasputin is the emperor of mankind?
Ra Ra Rasputin lover of the brittish queen...
Or maybe even... ARGENTINA
He is alive.
We've still got his pickled "Big E"
Hello, I'm from Russia, and I found your channel by accident when I was looking for reactions to sabaton. And i found. After two your reactions i m started looking another videos on your channel and it interested me. You are good man, thanks for your videos and sorry about my English, I'm 15 years old and i just learning English. Hello from Russia 🖐️ (Реально, хоть я немного и не понимаю, хотя нет, вру, я почти 90% всего не осознаю, но смотреть вас интересно) )
Hello from Latvia (Latvija)
Everytime I see a non-native speaker apologize for their English, I just think, _"Your English is better than my Russian."_
I can't speak of behalf of all my countrymen, but I think it's safe to say most Americans don't speak any foreign language with any appreciable fluency, and there's not a very strong motivation for English speakers to learn other languages, except in school. By contrast, or so I've been told, English is the lingua franca of the world, so there is strong motivation to learn it among non-native speakers. All that to say I understand the difficulty of learning another language and try not to take for granted that a non-native speaker doesn't have a mastery of my native tongue, because in most cases, they've put a lot more effort into learning my language than I have into learning theirs. In other words, "Your English is better than my Russian."
The English is good. Certainly better than mine at 15.
Dude, I think your english is quite good, tbh. I'm colombian and, obviously, my native tongue is spanish, but I love watching at this kind of channels, 'cause they help me at practicing my listening and understanding. Then, I come to the comment section to practice my reading and, once in a while, I respond or comment something to improve my writing. There's no shame about using a language other than yours, I think, so keep doing it. You're doing it really good for a 15 year old, btw.
Reactions to Sabaton...a noble quest indeed
The German’s sending Lenin home caused the biggest domino affect. The sons of the German officials who allowed Lenin to return home would be embroiled in a fight for survival against the nation that Lenin would create.
Mr.555 Germans: you became the very thing you swore to destroy
Not to mention Stalin forced modernized the country would lead to USSR out producing germany in the long term thus winning them the war thru attrition.
Well what about a german revolution in 1919? German had it''s own strong communist party, german soldiers and workers had the example of revolution in Russia, so...
kinda like that british soldier who didn't kill Hitler in WWI
Let's be fair here, the same sons probably worked with Germany to force the USSR to fight for their own survival in a quite literal sense.
The Czar's execution was even more of a hack job than OS touched on. Not only was the firing squad drunk, the basement they chose to do the job had no lights, so none of the soldiers could see what they were aiming at. What's worse, the Romanovs had hidden a bunch of gold and jewelry in their clothes for safekeeping, thinking they might be able to bribe their way to freedom.
So essentially, you had a bunch of drunks shooting people wearing bulletproof vests in a pitch black cellar. It was a nightmare. It was so bad that afterwards the soldiers weren't even sure if they had actually killed the entire family. Thus leading to the infamous Anastasia situation.
You know, when the worst enemy of your own country tries to get you to do exactly what you want, some alarm bells should be going off.
Bravo! GREAT vid! About Rasputin's death - it gets weirder: He'd survived a gruesome stabbing (by a deranged woman with no nose) that caused him to lose a huuuuge portion of his guts. This, combined with his alcoholism, left him producing almost no stomach acids afterwards. Cyanide only works when it interacts with the gastric acids. Many feel this is the reason he lasted so long after eating the poisoned cakes, merely feeling sick. Or maybe he really WAS a homeless crazy, drunken, beardy, horny, scandal-ridden magic wizard man antichrist!
Other theories are that the poison they used was so old it had lost its potency and that's why it didn't work
sugar fights off cyanide probably something they didn't know back then, but putting cyanide in a cake(which uses a lot of sugar) made it nearly ineffective
He was possessed by demons
@@joe-xs7wr I see you are a man of culture as well. Addition reactions ( αντιδράσεις προσθήκης in greek) in sugar.
Yet another one claims that one of the schemers had a change of heart, so he didnt actually poison the food
This guy must be a Good teacher
@George Washington wow, getting praise from Washington himself, he must be a really good history teacher!
I think the ending, where you spoke on informing your students about Communism, its intent and what actually happened, is one of the most open thoughts I've heard as a reaction to it. As a teacher, I always felt you are supposed to inform the facts without opinion, especially when it comes to history. Letting your students learn and come to their own conclusions based on all the information is a fantastic way to approach learning.
I wish every history teacher was like this guy
Having watched OverSimplified's vid first, I do love the way you expand upon the concepts
I’ve been watching his videos for months, and I have to say, watching him gain more confidence and charisma in front of the camera is so amazing to see!!
I like this guy, he doesnt skip sponsors, he gives his thoughts and other things. Hes not a person who "reacts" to videos by watching them and talking a little bit each time
You are my favorite "reaction" channel by far, because you actually add to the videos and further encourage learning and understanding, you are awesome man, keep up the amazing work
"I'm hungry"
"Hi, Hungry, i'm Martha"
Oh man :-)))
My 11 year old daughter is obsessed with your reaction videos and she's learning so much when she always complained about not understanding what the teachers were teaching in school before.
I'm really greatful to channels like Oversimplified and yours, them for making such interesting and knowledgeable videos and you for explaining so much in details, god bless you good sir
13:43 Russian here. It is widely known here that Lenin had some Western help with his stuff.
It is myth. Historians have zero actual evudence about German money and other bullshit.
Besides, radical socialst Lenin was dangerous for Germany himself, because hard war made their own people ready to revolt too.
This is in a way similar to the French Revolution. Difference is the Russian revolution is a lot more let’s say strange but funny.
There was allegedly a running gag between Lenin and Trotsky referring to each other as Jacobins as well as passing mentions of Robespierre.
I mean the hangings, dictators, civil war, starvation, and killing of the king are kinda similar. Even Rasputin and the Queen of France could be compared with how much the people hated them and said they were calling the shots
People felt that at the time; comparisons to the coalition wars were often made to oppose less authoritarian communist trends(anarchist,social democrats, ect.) would form a government too weak to oppose foreign powers; Fears of the Romanovs being returned like the Bourbons were led to people feeling exterminating the family a necessity for stability, even into the 30s with the military purges Stalin used the shadow of Napoleons military take over as proof that a established professional officer corps separate from political loyalty as a danger
@@neem377 I mean, it could be said that remembering Napoleon's loses as a leader, instead of his victories, particularly in Russia, could have been a propaganda campaign to boost Russian moral as Stalin of all people would be quick to see that 3 Fascists might come and knock a blow to Russia (although he was unprepared with Barbarossa)
When the old order is suddenly and violently thrown down, the power vacuum it creates and the social upheavals do tend to follow a pattern. It also happens in post-colonial era after WW2, when the former European colonies in Africa and Asia gained their independence. You have the removal of the old power, followed by the revolutionaries taking over, then followed by those revolutionaries turning on its own people to purge any counter-revolutionaries, which often results in civil war. Dictatorships often arise from revolutions, because an iron fist is necessary to maintain order in the chaos.
Whether it's monarchy, fascism, democratic, or communism, it doesn't really matter. In the end, GREED and RUTHLESSNESS makes every form of government "evil".
True.
Well as they say, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Capitalism is the true evil.
Money corrupts everything it touches... build technology that makes money useless, and 98% of the corruption dies. We can work on the last bit afterwards.
@@dragonmaster613 Can you elaborate your ideology? can you justify your claims that 98% of the corruption will die if money will be useless? and how does capitalism turns out to be the true evil?
Id like to introduce direct democracy to you
Deja'vu was referring to when Oversimplified first introduced Lenin in Cold War video.
Just finished watching part 1, then part 2 came out, perfect timing!
Today is a fine day for learning! Great to see another video from O.S and mr Terry. It’s always good to get more knowledge in the subject! Looking forward to more content from both of you
This is actually one of the most wholesome channel I’ve ever seen
Hey, Mr Terry.
On the topic of Tsar Nicolas's death. Monsieur Z, another history RUclipsr who also makes alternate history videos made a video about Nicolas surviving. Though it reads more like an alternate historical epic rather than a scenario, it's a great vid.
The video's thumbnail is badass, too.
It’s awesome to see how mr Terry got more and more comfortable on RUclips and in front of the camera over a short time. Been here since like 30K and have watched a ton of vids. Keep it up!
No one likes to talk about it because historically it’s insignificant and can seem unnecessary, but the royal family wasn’t just simply slaughtered.
Their executors used black-powder loaded firearms, and did not make the first shots clean kills.
As the basement filled with smoke from the first volley of shots, unable to see their targets clearly, they fired wildly and randomly, hitting non-vital areas several times over for each victim, prolonging the execution and suffering with poorly-aimed pistol shots. When the smoke cleared, some victims were still alive, and were finished off by stabbing, strangling, or finally aimed headshots.
The election part of the video is slightly misleading: the Bolsheviks won a huge amount of votes in the most crucial areas of the country, ie urban centers and among soldiers they had something like 80%. The party that won the most votes, the Social Revolutionaries, which was the leading socialist party was popular among peasants living in marginal rural areas.
Fun fact: on his trip to Russia Lenin overnighted at the Savoy hotel (a luxury hotel today) in Malmö, Sweden. He was also gifted a fur long coat to keep his revolutionary balls and brains warm. I learned that in school when we had a field day getting a tour of the city's old historical square. I think there is a photograph of Lenin in the fur coat along with his liaisons.
bourgeoisie in a marxist context means those who own capital and the means of production. factory owners or business owners.
I love this channel so much now, whenever someone asks me who my history teacher is, I say Mr Terry
Not gonna lie, when I saw that Oversimplified had uploaded, my first thought was "I can't wait to see Mr. Terry's take on it"
20:02 bourgeoisie refers to people who make money by owning stuff
" Hi Hungry, I'm Martha" that's funny shit I think he missed it
asdf reference m8
The eye 24 actually it isn’t
I wish school subjects were centered around what teachers who were passionate about the subject found interesting, maybe with a handful of things that help you think in general (context, research, sources, ability to change one's mind when confronted with new evidence).
It's so cool seeing someone who enjoys history talk about it. I had PE teachers and coaches for history teachers lol.
Good job sir. Being a historian is never been easy. Love to hear ur opinions
When they exhumed Rasputin to burn his body years after his death, he sat up in the flames as well...
Lenin & The Boys sounds like a sick name for a classic rock group
Stalin is what TV Tropes would call “from nobody to nightmare”, similar to a certain slave boy from a desert planet
I wish you could have been my history teacher! While my teacher was pretty chill and cool, he just fed us info and made us regurgitate it (he made the questions verbatim which the study sheets/books), you sincerely rekindled my love of history and now I finally am learning things I wish I could have before!
2:22 So much so, when they were filming “Der Untergang” (2003), they used St Petersberg as location for Old Berlin.
I am from Romania, hopefully you guys will do something about my country as well! Love your videos, very funny and also kinda inspirational for who wants to start YT channels themselves, keep it up, in your own time!
This where people get confused and fear communism and socialism without being educated in it.
Russia was never a communist country; it was a dictatorship in all but name. China was also never communist; it was authoritarian and still is but it has capitalism mixed in there as well.
Do your own research on these. The fact is a full communist or full socialist government doesnt work in reality. Its best to mix different government forms like social democracies. But utilizing socialism and communism on their own doesnt work because that isn't how human nature works. They sound great on paper and arent "evil" in any way but its extremely difficult to implement. A mixed government works best.
Communism doesn’t work. Never will. It always will lead to autocracy
Who else thought that the Tsarship ending with a train slowly rolling to a stop to be PALPABLE irony?
I am from Mongolia back then we were communist nation heavily influenced by the Soviets so my parents and grandparents spoke very highly of Lenin and Stalin especially Lenin they even called him master Lenin in sense of teacher and quoted him a lot and taught children to be like him
@// well the old folk still see them in positive light but the newer generation know what they are. All the Lenin and Stalin monuments in Mongolia are taken down now
"This is one the most favourite stories to tell my class, because people heard of Rasputin from ... things." .... Boney M. intensifies.
7:34 “who needs food?” This reminds me of my favorite Stalin meme as well as dark humor meme. “Dark humor is like food...not everyone gets it.”
02:35 In some cases, feeling was quite mutual. Peter III, husband of Cathrine the great practically hated his position as russian czar and disliked the empire he was supposed to rule.
Even as a prussian herself, Cathrine found her husbands fixation to prussia be embarassing. Well, that his quirks of playing soldier.
06:35 the one explonation to Rasputin's reputation as indestructible what I heard was that one of his followers attempted to murder him (years before he ever arrived to St. Petersburg) by disemboveling. He somehow survived that and it got him reputation as "the man whose soul is stiched to his body by the devil himself."
13:08 Another of these gambles that "sort of worked" was their involvement in Jäger-movement: a plan to train volunteers from finland to form a sovereing country(under german sphere of influence, probably) of grand duchy of finland, so that the ensuing conflict would drain Russia's resources to conduct war.
"Sort of" because Finland's status as duchy was tied directly to the czar and after Nicholas abdicated, grand duchy pretty much ceased to exist. So the army eventually wasn't used as a fight against Russia. It did see action in civil war afterwards, though. Ultimately, as German empire also ceased to exist any plans that Kaiser Wilhelm or OHL might've had to use Finland as way to distract Russia or expand their influence north-east didn't come to fruition. Then again, you could say this about Lenin-gamble: he did achieve all that Germany hoped for and they gained massive lands out of it: unfortunately for Germany, they couldn't keep any of it.
"unpatriotic" is like an American version of "counter revolutionary"
Hey brother just want to tell you it's a joy looking at your vids keep doing your thing. ✌️👋
I just want to see his reaction to oversimplifieds ad about rise of kingdoms
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Are you a dentist
Jeanette Cabrera could you answer a oral related question
@@Gussyboy06 wait what
JTxXPHANTOMXx no it’s not, I have been getting Tonsil Stones and I need a person with oral expertise to give me advice
The deija Vu was because in the cold war video they had the same conversation
People often say Lenin was a much better leader compared to Stalin, and while there is some merit to that it does not mean he was a good leader either.
He was a great leader.He was extremely hard working and was working non-stop for the improvement of russia and its people.He wasnt corrupt at all and truly believed that his system was the best for russia which proved to be right.He was the best russia had
@@Feffdc Did you miss the part of the video where he ignored the elections, bolstered the secret police, banned the opposition and had people shot like those before him?
demon2441 He also laid the basis for Russia to turn from a feudal autocracy into a global superpower.
We can make moralistic arguments against Lenin, but idk about him being a bad leader in a results based analysis of Russia.
@@jfrazorofficial7355 The same could be said for Stalin and many other figures throughout history. I do think it is appropriate to have a balanced perspective when looking any person from a different time, but many think that one's accomplishments absolve wrongdoings whether from a historical or modern context. It is those people who do so for Lenin that I refer to in my initial comment.
I think its not who lead russia made it successful, i think its how they extracted and found their natural resources. Im sure those who lead had some efforts in, but i doubt it
31:08 You heard it here, folks: Mr. Terry says size doesn't matter!
Yeah, quality is the one that matters. If quantity really matters, Russia would be a very powerful country. But, Russia is not that great today.
This dude is the best history teacher like ever
Hey Mr. Terry, love the content man keep it up
"Sending Lenin to Russia was one of the few which succeeded". . .*looks at WW2* Idk about that
Jason Barrera it was about ww1 not ww2
it succeeded short term
I will point out a few things. First of all, like someone else said here, the Bolsheviks won a major portion of the constituent assembly's elections in the urban areas, soldiers, industrial workers... the proletariat of Russia. The social "revolutionaries" won major rural areas, etc. giving them a major portion. Lenin was not an absolute dictator it was still run by Soviet worker councils, alongside the fact that he and a portion of what Marx said, a dictatorship of the proletariat was needed in a time of socialism, until the world was ready for communism. You cannot use communism and socialism interchangeably, as the Soviet Union was socialist, communism means the abolishment of the state itself, and well, the Soviet Union was a state, therefore not communist.
@@joemcg3420 u are hugely mistaken that worker councils hadnt power.just read about NEP and worker counculs,how they were ruling the country's economy
@@joemcg3420 well,i can try to find an english links,but i think it will be hard for me because i dont know any of english links,only russians:D
No war no peace worked against Napoleon because of the coming winter, so I hypothesize Trotsky just assumed it would work again like it worked for Alexander i
Didn’t they... FIND the burial sight where the Czar and his family was buried after they were murdered? Like that was entire thing in the news for a while?
I will say, you know it's a pretty heinous act when the normal Overly Simplified shenanigans stop to describe the murder of the Tsar and his family.
20:00 I always understood Bourgeois to refer to like the upper-middle class; people who owned large local businesses and who controlled the local economies in their area, but who weren't quire wealthy enough to be considered "elites"
Hey Mr. Terry, are you going to make a video about 335 years war?
335 years?
@@abbashousseiny9580 Yes
Can you please elaborate?
@@imperatormaximus8952 correct me if i am wrong but i think it was a war between the netherlands and the isles of Scilly which never ended because they forgot to sign the end war agreement
no1fanofthepals I never heard of that but that’s cool I guess gonna investigate a little.
that's a problem on this video OverSimplified say that Leon Trotsky He spent the rest of his life in exile in Europe and was assassinated in 1940 in Mexico City and got kill not in Europe
0MichiganExotics0 he didn’t say he was killed in Europe, he just spent the rest of his life in exile.
A. Nice grammar
B. He said he lived in exile not exiled to Europe
JTxXPHANTOMXx yes but he fled to europe so
he later moved to mexico
@@jordandiazparks exacly Diego Rivera and frida kahlo were good friends OverSimplified say in the original video he was in Europe on exile and got kill but he got kill in Mexico
I like your explaining in the videos
Nice job 👍
When I learned about Rasputin's death I read that the autopsy said he died of blunt force trauma to the head as opposed to drowning or hypothermia...
Lenin was what you'd call at that time, an "Orthodox Marxist", as such he believed firmly that people are divided more by class that by nationality, therefor he never had any loyalty to Russia per se, he only saw in it the ultimate opportunity of achieving his dream of establishing a socialiste state which would be a first step in a larger process, that of establishing communism, which as another social system it requires a degree of internationalism, because the transition from socialism to communism requires an international worker's revolution. For Lenin that only meant using Russia as a point from which socialist revolution would to be exported to the world, in essence he was an internationalist, but he couldn't pursue this objective as he found himself busy actually running a country that's going through a civil war. He did hope for a socialist revolution to take place in Germany after it lost the war.
Soviet Nationalism would only become a thing after Stalin took power, as he advocated a policy of "Russia first" instead of internationalist marxism, this in its turn was the reason of Stalin's ideological dispute with Trotsky, whose advocacy of internationalism would come to be known within marxist mouvements as Trotskyism.
@jose tapia The Nazi party was not a Marxist party, as a matter of fact, Marxism-Leninism was an enemy ideology of the Nazis, and they persecuted the marxists when they came into power. The revolution that Lenin wished for to succeed was the Spartacist uprising of 1919 which was led by social democratic and socialist elements of German politics. The uprising was led by major German communists like Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht against the Weimar republic in Berlin and it was completely suppressed by the government.
I got a couple of recommendations for digging in deeper to the civil wars and revolutions in between the world wars:
"A People's Tragedy" by Orlando Figes is a great, in-depth look at the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War (basically the whole time frame that Oversimplified's video covered). Warning: the book is huge!
"The Vanquished" by Robert Gerwarth looks at the inter-war period in eastern Europe, focusing on the violence that never really ended in the ashes of the defeated empires.
All I can think about after watching this video is ERB Rasputin vs Stalin video.
this is even more epic been here for you since 100 subs maybe
I think Oversimplified started dropping all parts same day with the American Revolution videos. I consider it the greatest humanitarian act on RUclips them not making us wait for multiple parts as they drop videos monthly multi-parts would be horrible! Like Overly Sarcastic's Journey to the West series, a series now spanning like 3 or 4 years lol
The murder of the Romanov family is a really sad story. Sure the Tsar was what I would say really bad. But the children. There are plenty of pictures and videos one video where all the 5 children. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and little Alexei are dancing in a circle on a ship during their visit to England. That video is really sad knowing how the innocent children that looked so happy in that video suffered.
6:39 they also reported seeing him dead under the ice then for him to be pulled out frozen
I'd imagine seeing
Joseph Stalin will return in Oversimplified's The Cold War
The woman hid and sewed all their jewels in their dresses, making a bulletproof suit it just took them longer to die
Let's not forget the highly unlikely legend that Rasputin really was a magical figure and survived the multiple assassination attempts, and went into hiding.
It's so Interesting because looking at current russian politics, you see the influence of older models. The actual government made a democratic facade but still listening to this, you see a huge resemblance
“How many times are we going to see this in history?” 👀
I think bourgeoisie means people who make money by OWNING stuff (landlords, buisness owners, stockbrockers?) As opposed to making money through wage labour.
Love your videos and the extra context you provide to these videos. I feel like my knowledge of world history has been slipping the further I get away from my college/high school years - do you have any books you recommend for general world history or just books you would recommend in general?
Hi there! First of all I want to congratulate you for this great video, you are truly amazing. I want to suggest to you this game: Valiant Hearths: The Great War. It’s a heavy story game in the cartoon style of the World war 1. I know it’s kinda’ old, but i think it’s still a solid game, that can touch feelings. I for one like it, and I would love to see you playing it, but the rough part is that i don’t know how many would watch it. Keep up the good content.
Russia actually did take back alot of that territory lost to Germany once the Germans surrendered, just not all of it. They managed to take back Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus, but they lost the western portions of Belarus and Ukraine to Poland after they failed to take Warsaw and were pushed back.
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Yeah, all those conflicts throughout Europe that happened right after WWI ended were insane, and usually just get glossed over because they're so convoluted and all over the place.
Polaand has my respect for managing to halt the Russian tide like that. If only Ukraine and Belarus had managed it too.
Well they were never annexed into Russia proper again though. . . Though Russia is trying to Eat Russia and Ukraine it seems.
Yeah our Czechoslovakian Legions were stuck in the eastern Russian front and many of them had to escape through the transsiberian railroad all the way to Vladivostok in order to leave Russia. They were caught in the middle of a civil war and both sides wanted from them to fight or die for their side with false promises of letting them go after the war. Most of them didn't believe them and they had to fight off both sides through out the entire Russia. Last of them came back in 1920.
It's a great video, although I was a little disappointed that Oversimplified didn't mention the myth of Princess Anastasia being the sole survivor of the assassination of the royal family, as there was a story of this woman who claimed to be the long lost princess, but it turns out she was just a Polish peasant. Still, that myth persisted for several decades.
Great reaction video, Mr. Terry. Looking forward to your next one. I hope that you'll react to another episode by ExtraCredit
I know right
Oversimplified has certainly improved a ton. He was always great, the info, humor, animation but they've all just gotten so much better, especially the animation. It's top notch. As you noted Tsar Nicholas looks exactly like him here. He also throws in so many little humorous thins, this is certainly his best video yet.
With WWI, II, Cold War now this I wonder what to do next? The other biggies, American Revolution and US Civil War done, French Revolution, even the Norman Conquest of England, I'd love some more historical ones like perhaps the thirty or hundred years war? Perhaps the actual Napoleonic Wars themselves? The conquests of actions of Charlegmene? Maybe more non European history (I love it but often forget there is so much more) like the history of Japan, or the "African World War" I know little of it just it was a brutal mess.
Naturally the Russian Civil War I hope he gets into. You're right Mr Terry it's not talked about often. Even in college it got a paragraph, basically "It was horrible and a mess and Trotsky somehow managed 20 different fronts and won the end" but it seems like it was one immensely complicated event. Like all of Russian history!
Personally, I didn't hear this version of Rasputin's death. I heard a prostitute stabbed him, but he managed to recover then ya know others were like "oh hell we better kill him" but perhaps that video was misinformed.
I'd say OS can go for Napoleonic Wars. He already made the French Revolution vid so it would be a great tie-in on Napoleon's conquest and how he stabilized French society. Would love to see a collab between Mr. Terry and Oversimplified. Great vid as always. :)
Man, Mr. Terry spittin some History!!!
Oversimplified is one of the best channels on RUclips
Waiting for this all day! :D
Hey love your videos hope you have a good day!
I am writing this in 2022, so when this was made we all thought that this can't happen here. But now there are so many things echoing from the commentary that happening now. It just goes to show "If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it."
33:15 It's lika a Cromwell revolution too
5:38 "Tarrare!" 🤣🤣
Sam O'Nella fans where you at??
One probably has to define the proletariat first in order to define the bourgeois rigorously. Ernest Mandel gives the most widely accepted (and obviously correct) definition: you're a member of the proletariat if you have no method of survival except for selling your labor to someone else for subsistence. Then one can just say that you're in the bourgeois if you aren't in this position. The confusion arises because then there are substrata within the bourgeois, notably the petite bourgeois, i.e. the middle class. The petite bourgeois are bourgeois but because the distinction exists sometimes people reserve the word bourgeois for the class ABOVE the middle class, which is murkier and harder to separate.
Isn't bourgeois a french word for people that isn't part of the clergy or noble families?
@@MalekitGJ I mean maybe but that's certainly not the definition which applies in the modern day
@@TexTalksSometimes well, we can thank communism for another brutality against language.
@@MalekitGJ it's a word used literally everywhere in the social sciences, and was used to refer to ownership of the means of production long before Marx. the meanings of all words change over time.
2:04 that's a SUPER long arm!!!