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"I spit hot borscht when I'm crushing these beats"
Borscht is a soup made with... crushed beets.
Not "borscht", just borsch.
@@SoSolars Sorry. My Russian great-grandparents are ashamed of me now.
@@SoSolars with how many Slavic countries have borsch as one of their national foods, I bet somewhere, that is a correct spelling. :D
Oh, i wish id googled that before at any point. I had no idea how good that line was, i knew it was good but i didnt realize it was also beets
DAMNNNN
No one else has seemed to catch it, but President in my prime is a double. After all those years as president he graciously accepted that he'd reached his term limit, then spent a few years as prime minister, during which he changed the law so he could be president again, but he was effectively still in control during those years anyway.
"Graciously" lol
I never even caught that. You taught me something. Thank you!
A double?
You mean an entendre, yeah?
A double is how I order scotch.
Thank u
and then xi jinping thought that was a good idea, why not be the president forever.
"Took Trotsky out of the picture" is a double because Stalin maneuvered to take over, but he also doctored photos and literally took Trotsky out of them.
One of histories first photoshops
Trotsky wasn't the first one he did that to. The first one the suffer that fate of being erased was Yezhov who was head of the NKVD from 1936-38, during the Great Purges.
Which when you study graphics was sonlaazinflybwellndonrso amazingly well done. Essentially manual photoahopping on a teeny tiny negative of an analog photo. He was staking surrounded by people so they had to create the background.
Stalin had Trotsky assassinated, so he took him out of the picture in every sense.
I know.
"Lived a half-life" refers to Russian defector Alexander Litvenenko who was posioned with Polonium 210.
Yes, radio active half-life (of Polonium).
The "Man of steel" line - "Stalin" literally translates as "made of Steel" in the Russian language
Eh Same thing
Yeah, and kryptonite is Superman's weakness.
No ? Stal' = steel, but definitely not "made of Steel". "Made of steel" would be "sdelan iz stal'ee".
no it translates to man of steel (i think)
@@BLAHAJ_enjoyer I'm a native Russian. Stalin (Сталь - Ин) is made of steel)
1:20 the Tsar's heir had hemophila (uncontrollable, non-coagulating bleeding) and Rasputin was the only man who could calm the boy down enough to slow the bleeding down to the point where the boy's poorly condition could begin to heal up. This was actually why Rasputin was kept around, as the only healer who could help the Tsar's heir. (This condition was not publicly known while the Romanovs were alive.)
And it turns out all he really did was have him quit taking his aspirin.
The tsar’s son inherited hemophilia from Queen Victoria
@@artembentsionov Hemophilia was also known as "the royal disease", as several European royal houses had family histories of it. Largely due to inbreeding and only marrying other nobles (which is a fairly limited gene-pool.)
Rasputin was also rumored to be sleeping with the Tsar's wife.
Wasn't he kept around because he was the Tsar's wife's lover??
For Stalin's son you're right, but he's refering to the other one who got caught as a POW with the German Army and he refused to negociate for him in exchange for Wermacht officers and left him to die.
In Stalin's defense on this (there are many other things for which we can villify him), any other world leader whose nation is at war, including FDR or Churchill, would have had to refuse also. You would immediately lose all loyalty from your military and most civilians too, and a nation can't afford that in wartime.
He supposedly said that “one does not trade a Lieutenant for a field Marshall”. It’s true, you don’t. And you can see him as an uncaring father or as a leader who made a tough choice for his country. He was still a monster, to be sure
@@artembentsionov he alegedly also said: "One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."
@@fredericlatreille Another quote attributed to him: "Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."
Oh, well, good riddance
"See the soul of the man who made Mother Russia his bitch."
*looks to camera. Shrug. Nod. Continues video*
No joke. Peak commentary. Dead serious. Had me absolutely rolling
The last verse...
1. Should've been a dead give-away that he showed up shirtless. There's a collection of internet-famous photos he's had taken of him shirtless doing various "manly" things.
2. He's got like a sixth-degree black belt in judo. The rank is, I would guess, somewhat inflated, but from some videos we've seen of him training he's definitely legit in a very tough combat art. (Two presumably--a lot of sambo is derived from judo, and he would've had training in that while working for the KGB.) Allegedly he even trained with the Cuban national team while he was in Cuba, and their judo is very good.
3. He's known for disappearing and assassinating political opponents. When they're assassinated they tend to use a radioactive poison that, while it's denied by Russia, basically the global intelligence community accepts as almost a Russian government "signature" toxin.
3.(a) Supposedly the Toxic Martial comes from the Ruins of Chernobyl, which if I remember right, the radiation was half decayed when Putin came to Power, or something like that.
@@otlan2724 The "half life" reference is also because the poison(s) used are radioactive, such as polonium. Hence, Putin's opponents only live half lives.
while your all correct that line about the last man who attacked me lived a half life so come at me is in direct refference to numerous Russian defectors most notably was ex Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who was assasinated in 2006 on the streets of London by two FSB agents by way of radioactive poisoning . I believe this is who they are refering to as after his death negative reports and storys about Putin droped off dramatically as to be nonexsistent from any Russian sources. Believe it or not Putin later ordered the assasination of political rival Boris Nemtsov 27 February 2015 at 23:31 local Moscow time on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow by way of an unknown assailant firing seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol at Nemtsov hitting him four times, in the head heart liver and stomach killing Nemtsov almost instantly. This was believed to have happened Due to Nemtsov and his Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya who is the ONLY known living witness to the shooting. So yeah dude not only knows who's dead he knows where all the bodies are his KGB years are very informative and literally mirror Bush senior but from a russian aspect.
1. Not everyone knows about that
2. Not everyone knows about that
3. Lots of Russian leaders did that
@@Kristenkore I know. I added that information for those people.
The tried to poison Rasputin and it failed, they then shot him and it failed, they then castrated him and it failed. So by the end they rolled him in a carpet and threw him in the river.
Even then after the body was found, there were clear signs of him clawing deeply into the carpet before dying.
If i remember corectly there was more fails. I am 100% for the hanging on the outside fence wall and a sword stab.
IIRC his official cause of death was hypothermia
Almost correct. The removing of his junk happened after death not before.
There's a lot of made up theories but the 3 commonly accepted ones are the poisoning, shooting, and river throwing.
There's no actual evidence of how he died though so all of it is legend folklore hearsay.
Rasputin was beloved by the Tsar because he “healed” his sons hemophilia. All he did was take him off his prescription aspirin - which is a blood thinner and the last thing a severe hemophiliac should have.
I'm gonna have to look that one up because everything I've ever read seemed to imply nobody knows why the boy's health improved, nothing I've ever read suggested he directly effected any medication the boy might be on. I did read instead things like him encouraging the mom to get the doctors out of the way and that it might have decreased the boy's stress and helped in that way though.
@@FallingGalaxy Rasputin was also allegedly very funny and kind with children despite how he was with adults, so there are also theories that he simply alleviated the kid's stress to help with his symptoms - we know now that anxiety can exacerbate hemophilia bc of the raised blood pressure
@@JBWinter Oh, I didn't knew that Rasputin was funny and kind woth children! That's nice to know!
@@gabrielesolletico6542 His daughter's biography of him, particularly, mentions that for all his many faults he was very good with kids and enjoyed kid-appropriate humor and games. That was his way into adults' good graces sometimes, and not just nobles he needed to manipulate. She also recalled him playing with her neighbors kids, at least partly to escape his adult responsibilities.
It's a theory that he took him off his meds. No one actually *knows* how he did it.
"I even crush mfers when I'm laying in state"
It's a pretty direct reference to his coffin falling and hurting people.
I thought it was the statue thing
they were moving his tomb and it fell on someone
plus wasnt it a stampede as well
@@MortanAMrk
There was a lot of crushing involving Stalin's death.
The "crush MFs when I'm laying in state" actually has two separate meanings: the first being a famous incident where, during Stalin's funeral, a bunch of old enemies tried to pull down one of his statues, only for it to fall onto a crowd, crushing said fools. The second being,on Stalin's deathbed, the man had a number of potential successors assassinated--claiming that nobody was worthy of replacing him.
I'm not sure that second one is real. While it definately sounds like something Stalin would do, when he was dying of a stroke he was totally mute at the time and basically in and out of consciousness.
Also, laid at state means that he was in public for mourners to see his body. There was a crowd surge were it was documented 109 people were stamped, but people there said thousands died… Russia is known to hide secrets.
1:54 - "How many dictators does it take..." - "One, two, three... nine, I've got it!"
Holy, that's impressive xD
I'm Ukrainian, and Ukraine is, you know, a former USSR republic, so even if we have the decommusization going on currently, still most of the people know quite a lot of our recent history... And YET I doubt anyone here (except historians lol) can name all 9 gensecs without any preparation (especially someone like Rykov and Malenkov). So yeah, nice history knowledge over there!
6:30 - "My own son got locked up in prison, and I didn't save his life"
Well, this is quite straightforward, but I wanted to point that out anyways.
During World War II, Joseph's younger son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, was taken prisoner by the Germans. There is a version that the German command wanted to exchange Yakov for Field Marshal Paulus, taken prisoner by the Red Army in Stalingrad, to which Stalin allegedly replied: "I do not trade a soldier for a field marshal." Although no documentary evidence has been found, this version is very popular and was even taught in schools until recently.
Lboyd acts like he doesn't know Russian history but he knows more than like 99% of everyone not from the former Soviet Bloc lol
I love your ERB reactions because you actually know something about history and the characters. A few things: 1) You missed the "man of steel/I spit kryptonite" reference from Rasputin -- Stalin's real last name was Djugashvili, but he changed it to Stalin which means "man of steel" in Russian. 2) "CYKA" (can't do Cyrillic characters on my computer) is Russian for 'bitch." 3) Putin's reference to the man who attacked him living a "half life" is a reference to the radiation poisoning death of ex-KGB Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, who drank tea that had been laced with polonium-210. Litvinenko said before he died that he believed Putin had been behind this.
He actually knows nothing about russian history.
@@zenithfgc6091 He knows a hell of a lot more than most others who I've seen react to this.
@@kck9742 1) Stalin's wife killed herself 2) Number of people who died of starvation is around 5 million and something around 2 million who got killed in prison 3) Story about Stalin's son is not true, His son got captured by germans during the war and they wanted to trade him for some big dude, but Stalin said NO. 4) Rasputin and son of some woman, It wasn't just some woman, it was Tsar's Nicolas II son and his wife, and his son was born with haemophilia, so not what he said. 5) The story about Rasputin body it's just simply not true, they called him a frankenstein probably because he survived 4 assassination attempts. 5) Red and White wasn't a political parties, people who's been white fought for Tsar and Empire, Red people fought against empire and for revolution.
This guy is wholesome but his history knowledge is debatable.
@@samedelman5187 Yep, but like I said, compared to most others who just stare blankly and don’t even bother to do some preliminary research beforehand, he at least knew something.
@@samedelman5187 Ironically your "facts" themselves kind of need correction. 1) First off you say his wife like he had only 1, in fact he had 2 openly and possibly a 3rd late in life. Only the 2nd one killed herself and it was because she was sure that Stalin was cheating on her despite a history of not being a womanizer his whole life! 2) Not sure what you are trying to correct here, the guy in the video seemed to just pull a number out of his head, not stating it was close to precise. 3) No, the story about his son almost killing himself with a gun shot to the chest is a story that most historians accept has some basis in reality, although yes he was captured by Germany and was most likely killed while trying to escape (details are not clear, but suicide was not likely). 4) His story is closer than most people who only were told about him in your average American High School! 5) You are right that the post mortem part is wrong, the story by the main assassin does have a thrice shot Rasputin rising up alive from the basement floor hours after being left for dead when his body was inspected. After which that the generally accepted cause of death occured which was his lungs filling up with water after he was thrown into the Malaya Nevka River in a sack! 6) Your definition of political parties is overly narrow, it is fair to say that at it's most basic level a political party is a group of individuals that agree on a certain generalized political ideology, a definition that by anyone's point of view both the pro-loyalist Whites and the pro-revolutionist Reds match.
Putin’s ‘cyka ’ is a curse word.
it's bitch, bitch.
Yeah, it literally means "whore".
I think it's the Russian version of B***h
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 Same thing, different choice of words. LoL
stalins son was a sergeant in the red army, he was captured by the wehrmacht and stalin was offered a prisoner exchange. they'd give him back his son in return for a cptured wehrmacht general. stalin replied: "i don't trade general for a sergeant."
paulus, i think, in particular.
Wasn't his son a lieutenant? But you're right here, details apart.
Lieutenant. He was a lieutenant.
Stains verse is my favorite in this one. The unbridled aggression in the delivery and the lyrics always gets me especially when it comes to anyone who sold him pierogi...they can all get the smoke, Gunsmoke that is.
Totally makes sense for him to be that way too he was a power mad paranoid fuck who would indeed have everyone you know shot if he even so much as thought you were a threat to him.
I love it lol. This was the first ERB I saw back in 2013 and I've been a fan ever since
Damn that gunsmoke that's savage 21 minutes in and I like this dude's break down
A Russian leader comes in shirtless with a little cross around his neck and you don't recognise him as Putin? 😄
the part about his son in prison refers to when the germans captured stalins son. The germans thought they could trade stalins son for some of their captured officers and when they sent the request Stalin was like nah you can keep him.
"he was not really known as a family man" that was hilarious
I was going to call that out too, glad I'm not the only one. Understatement level 9000
He got his wife cheating, so yeah. But about the story of his son that he didnt want to trade him for field marchal was something i never geted. On one side if he traded him, he is trading soldier for field marchal showing abuse of his power favorable to his family, if he dont trade him he is an asshole. No winning situation. But if he belived his wife cheated long ago and that is not his son ..
Fun fact: The supposed pickled "penis of Rasputin" was eventually examined and tested. It turned out that it wasn't his member at all. It wasn't even human tissue, it was literally just an old sea cucumber.
Actually you’re referring to the one discovered in an American storage locker in 1994. The famous “pickled” one is located in Russia and has never been tested (though it likely didn’t belong to Rasputin).
18:11 The actual meaning of this line references Alexander Litvinenko (I assume) because he was a Russian defector who was killed via polonium (which is where the half--life line comes from)
I used to do corpse removal. The first time a corpse sits up on you at 3am on the way to the morgue, you remember to strap them at the legs and the chest from then on out.
What do I do when they start walking around?
Oh my goodness, I came here after hearing your reactions to Roy Clark and Johnny Cash, I was not prepared for you to flex your muscles with all the knowledge of Russian history (at least from a western perspective). I have to say I was incredibly impressed all in all.
Cyka is basically the B word in russian
Ok this by far is my favorite video of yours so far. Someone who understands the depth of something like this is great for me! I'm no genius or anything but I love any type of education and learning. I have much more built up knowledge than I will ever use so I love hearing you react and understand the lyrics. You also take the time to educate and its amazing.
“Cause the Tsar's wife can't do shit tonight!”
Rasputin was very close with Tsar Nikolai II's wife, and it is thought that they had an affair. Lenin is calling him out for hiding behind a woman.
The ones with multiple characters are usually awesome lol this one is eh 🤷🏻♀️
It's fun to see how people's tastes really differ. You say it's "eh", it's one of my favorites. :D
I have to disagree, I thought this was an epic cascade battle!
I love that you guys love it! I mean, honestly all the ERBs are just varying levels of awesome, so even the ones that aren’t my favorites are still good 🖤
Fun fact about the "Pride of Lenin took Trovsky out of the picture" line.
He did. He really did take a photo with Trovsky in it, and essentially Photoshop himself in Trovsky's place.
He did shit like that numerous times actually I believe, mainly for propaganda. The dude was a walking Photoshop tool DECADES before that word really meant something.
You are right about Stalin’s left hand. If you notice when Lenin mentions it, Stalin looks at his right hand like “this one is completely fine” while his left hand is behind him. 😉 I had to pay close attention to that myself. I noticed Stalin looks at it, but now just noticed his left hand is behind his back, hiding it from view. It’s clever.
The line about the tsars wife, wasnt he known for basically... influencing the women he was sleeping with? Its a call back to the "end you with a whisper to your wife" line. I think rasputin had the ear (and other assorted orifices) of the tsars wife
Yeah, he bolted right upward, but also, when they killed him, the bastard WOULD NOT DIE, they poisoned him, stabbed, shot him, and then out of desperation, carved a hole in the ice over the volga and slipped him in. The pathologist recorded his cause of death as...drowning.
Beeing from Queen Victoria's bloodline, the Tzar's son was always ill ... Raputin somehow convince the Tzar and the Tzarine that he could cure his bleedings ... which ultimately led to their downfall in the events of WW1
Yeah, I remember one of my history teachers asking the question of how Queen Victoria led to the fall of the Russian Tsar, as a way to show how even things that don't seem connected somehow are.
The other one was he asked was how French Settlers in the Ohio Valley led to the colonization of Australia.
@@SH-qs7ee well the second one is obvious, 7 years war, revoloutionary war, 2nd british empire
british colinization of australia was going on during the reveloutionatybwar
Your level of knowledge in these reviews is impressive. Very interesting. I learn from watching your reactions. Thank you!
The White was the color of the Russian Empire, the red was the color of the Communist Party.
The line about the Czar's wife is because Rasputin apparently "healed" the Prince, who suffered of anemia, and got really close with his mother afterwards.
Rasputin was just rapping
Stalin was just threatening
Lenin actually rapped against 2 people and had points
Gorbachev just talked about what he did, didnt need to be there.
And Putin was just a meme
Lenis wins.
You’re too good at this. I didn’t know half these stories. ERB is always on point.
Still can't believe they got pewdiepie to do the dancing as Baryshnikov.
The Half-Life referred to the polonium poisoning that several "attackers" suffered from.
Did you miss a big one, "...a man of steel, I'm Kryptonite." Stalin wasn't his born name.
He changed his name to the Russian word for steel, Stalin.
Original name: Joseph Vissarionovich
Stalin was previously, a general Secretary of the Communist Party in Russia, under Linin,
declaring himself, Soviet dictator after the death of Vladimir Lenin.
Before Linin's death, he told his inner circle of govt. officials,
When he passes, under no circumstances were they to allow Stalin to replace him.
He said, when controlling the population for good or advancement of society,
There will be many deaths, no way around it. Problem with Stalin is, he enjoys this aspect way too much.
Stalin didn't slap Hitler or work with him. Stalin & Hitler met to form a nonaggression treaty, don't
attack me & I won't attack you. Stalin knew this was a trap & Hitler wouldn't honor it.
Russia had an small army only basically trained & almost no military hardware.
Stalin agreed with Hitler only to by time. He went back to Russia & devoted everything they had
to the military. By the time Hitler decided to attack, Russia had been building a useful military for the past year.
If he had not agreed to the nonaggression treaty & Hitler invaded at that time, Stalin knew
Russia would have no chance at all.
vissarionovich is his middle name, which is really a patronym - russians use their middle names to say who their father is. his surname at birth was dzhugashvili.
Something to remember, Stalin grew up during the reign of Tsar Nickolas. The reign of Tsar Nickolas was a total shit show and Stalin grew up covered in it. Rasputin's effect on Russia, perceived or other wise did effect Stalin.
Both the Red and White parties were Communist. Red were Bolshevik and White was Menshevik.
Whites wasn't communist
the mensheviks and white army were not one and the same. the bolsheviks were lucky to get in power; they wouldn't have if the tsar or kerensky's provisional government had gotten the hint and got out of the war. the bolsheviks won the civil war because they were better organized and more cohesive. the whites were absolutely not communist.
12:00 you’re pretty much right about the parties. Red was the colour of the Bolshevik party, and white was the colour of the imperial loyalists, who supported the Tzar.
A (not very) interesting fact: The first Mc Donald's in the Soviet Union was actually Canadian. Mc Donald's Canada Limited is not actually owned by Mc Donald's Corporation, but is a privately owned franchise that then sub-franchises. This is likely due to Canada not having so much of a "Red Menace" attitude as the US did, and so when the Soviet Union started to allow for private business, Canadian businesses were less cynical and took advantage of the opportunities quicker. So arguably Mc Donald's going to the USSR was less an Americanisation of the USSR as being made more Canadian.
For Gorbechov when he says "I'm the host with the most Glasnost" it refers to his foreign policy of Glasnost, opening to the non-communist world. Then talking about meeting with western leaders and allowing foreign companies into the USSR are all part of that same policy.
"Harder than I Bitch slapped Hitler" is referring to the Battle of Stalingrad, which is generally considered Germany's greatest single loss of the whole war.
The comment about the tsar's wife is a reference to an alleged affair with the wife of tsar Nicholas II.
And yes "cyka" does sound like sucker...but it also is the term for a femaile (not literal) dog...
Lenin wanted Trotsky to lead after him and when Lenin died Stalin rushed to pick up after him before Trotsky could do anything, Stalin also knew about Lenins fondness for Trotsky so right after Stalin hugged the power he wanted Trotsky assassinated so Trotsky went into exile until his death if my mind serves me right
Can't really call out Stalin for siding with Hitler in any fair manner. Every major power was allied with Hitler in one form or another. Either directly or through negligence they let him do a whole bunch of stuff. Hell if Hitler had not jumped the gun so fast a lot of other countries were on the verge of fascism as well. With the depression and everything nothing sells quite as well as blaming the out group for all the problems and uniting around it.
Sure, but the entire mindset of Nazism was based on expansion and the extraction of resources. The only way Nazi Germany could keep doing what it was doing was by invading surrounding countries, plundering their resources, and using POW and captured civilians as slave labour. Basically, the Nazi ideology was colonialism and imperialism on steroids. If Hitler had hold off, he would needed a totally different ideology and that would mean he would not have been who he was.
Also, many people doesn't know that Stalin offered England and France to invade Germany in 1939. They refused the offer. Stalin knew that the war against germany would come. So after Hitlers rise to power Stalin did what he could to create buffert zones between Germany and Soviet. Which is why we have the war on Poland and Finland and other countries in eastern europe.
@@Kramplarv did not know about this, but as for the buffer zone, this fits quite well in the imperial attitudes Stalin had. The buffer zone tactics by the USSR are typical of the post-WWII era because of the humongus deaths the Soviets endured. I think many people don't know that in terms of soldiers lost, the USSR was definitely the greater loser and shows how important they were in defeating Germany.
@@SpiderJerusalemJr Interesting thing about Stalin is that he had no imperial attitude, if we mean imperial as in expanding the country. Soviet under Stalin did not expand nor exported communism or communist revolutions like it did under Lenin and Trotsky. Stalin was a lot of things but an adventtureous foreign politician he was not. He actually got along very well with Roosevelt and USA.
Stalins foreign policy was an isolationist one, which is why he wanted the buffer states. Soviet/Russia had been invaded several times already by the rest of europe. It was only some 20 years ago SOviet had been invaded by 16 countries which tried to eradicate it from existance. So he was very paranoid that it would happen again. He kind of saw Hitler as proof of that thought being correct.
He offered France and UK that Soviet could invade germany and wage war on hitler before he signed the MR-pact.
Point here being that nothing in history, especially not that time in it, is simple and easily catagorized in good/bad, right/wrong etc.
because everyone has done horrific things to other, and everyone has done great things to others. We always have to see it from the context of the time it happened in.
Was Stalin a major asshole? yeah. probably. Did he killed a lot of people? yes. he did. Were all he killed innocent etc? no, they weren't. Did he kill millions upon millions? No, not really. How dow e know that? because Soviet had continously rising population number during Stalins era. So it is impossible for millions and millions of people being killed. Unless of course Soviet had a very secret way of creating new people out of thin air :p
Stalin is a prime example of a very complex person, doing complex things in a very complex time. So we can't easily say things about what happened and what didn't happen. And we should not categorize people based on lack of knowledge
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@@Kramplarv I will start by acknowledging that, while I am a trained historian, I am not an historian of Soviet era, so I am what I say should be taken with a grain of salt and I would encourage anyone reading this exchange to read specialists in order to get a more accurate understanding of the history of the Soviet Union. I am still working from what I learned during my training from historians of the USSR, but am mostly working from memory, so my apologies if I get some of the details a little wrong.
I would challenge the idea that Stalin had no imperialist attitudes as, towards the end of his reign, he was starting to rehabilitate the imperialist Russia (and by that I mean the Czarist era). Perhaps this was simply a political tactic to further cement his control over the USSR, but I think there are other hints that what I am saying is not inaccurate. The treatment of other socialist republics, Ukraine for instance, shows quite the imperial mindset. Now I 100% agree with you that some of that what influenced by the trauma of losing so many people during both WWI and WWII, for instance the entire idea of having a buffer zone shows some degree of paranoia (though somewhat justified due to the aforementioned conflicts and their death tolls). Nevertheless, I think those two things can be true simultaneously.
As to your point toward categorizing things as good/bad or right/wrong, I will have to slightly disagree. I agree that there is always nuance to any historical figure or event. Now where than nuance falls, that's a different story. The way I like to articulate it is that there are always shades of gray to anything, but how dark or light that gray is, now that's where the question lies. All historical figures are complex and contain multitudes. Regardless, there are things that are universally wrong, even though they might have been more tolerated in the past (and even today, if we are honest). Where I will disagree with you, is that there is plenty of evidence to show that Stalin was, like you said, a major asshole (though that framing is quite problematic is downplays the atrocities that happened under him, either through his direct command or in his name). Your argument concerning the "debunking" of the millions of death that happened in the USSR is very much flawed. It is possible for a birth rate to be high enough to negate a death rate, so that more people are born in the end, particularly after a major war (baby booms). I will also remind you how MASSIVE the USSR was and how it englobed so many republics. While in one region there might have been more deaths than births, in other republics there might have been a birth rate high to negate that. Therefore, it is very much possible for people millions of peoples to have died. And I am not even getting into how gathering information can affect the number we have access to and how that will affect the estimates we can come up with.
To you point about not categorizing people because of lack of knowledge, if that were the case, we wouldn't be able to say very much about anything that happened in the past. A little bit of historical theory for you to clarify my point: when you analyze the past, you never have access to everything, either because some sources were lost or hidden or simply because there too much accessible and reading everything is impossible. As a result, we ALWAYS lack knowledge because it is impossible to know everything. If we were to work by the logic that we can't make judgements on people because we lacked knowledge, then we should just abandon analyzing historical figures and never consider if their actions were good or bad, and would contribute to erasing historical wrongs.
Like I said, people are multitudes. So yes, Stalin did some good things in his reign. Not a lot of people only do bad things during their existence. But he also did monstrous ones and they do not cancel each other out. Hitler was a vegetarian, but we don't see him as anything less than a genocidal maniac. There are no beings of pure evil in this world, it's much more complicated than, and it's not because we can find redeeming qualities for someone that we should not judge them on the bases of the atrocities they committed.
"The last man who attacked me lived a half life so comrade come at me"
This bar refers to alexander litvenenko who publicly detested Stalin and sought asylum in Britain. After a while living in Britain he was killed by radiation poisoning by two men believed to be sent by Putin. "Half life" refers to the fact that litvenenko's life ended early and the half life of radioactive substances
Karloff starred as Rasputin in an old film called "The Mad Monk"
"Im a presidnt in my prime" is a reference when he bcame a prime minister after 2 terms. Medvedev (dude ewho become president) had no real power, basically Putin find a loophole in the election system and make a comeback on next election.
"The last man who attacked me lived a half-life" also refers to the method with which they were assassinated, using radioactive polonium.
The story does go that Rasputin died HARD. Poisoned, beaten, shot, emasculated, and finally drowned. Took them most of the night and he almost got away a few times.
Ok, my guy, listen...I've only watched 2 of your Epic Rap Battles of History reactions so far (among MANY others unrelated) and I'm needing a Q n A or a Ted Talks on history or SOMETHING to gain more of your knowledge. How do you know literally everything so far??? I love this channel
do Alexander the Great vs Ivan the Terrible next I beg of you
When he says “the Tzars wife can’t do sh*t tonight” he’s referring to how Russians thought he was her lover and influenced Russia through her
I always thought that the bar about his right hand was kind of like a joke about being from Russia and that it is very cold. If you catch my drift.
Great video and reaction. You should really check out Babe Ruth vs Lance Armstrong. It’s a banger with extreme savagery
love these reactions for you :) have to check which ones you've done so I can recomment hahaha (some favorites are philosophers, artists vs tmnt, mozart v skrillex.... but gotta check if you did them hehe)
The judo line referenced Putin's love for judo.he wrote a book on it and I think filmed some instructional videos
I'm bingeing your reactions to the ERB videos, and man your historical knowledge blows my mind. I'm learning so much just from what you're saying.
Same, I'm picking out ERB videos like "gonna learn some stuff today, boyes"
jfc dude.. listen to the verse before you deconstruct. the fact that you paused right before dude literally said he was putin and went "i have no idea who this is"... i had an anger management moment.
Rasputin was poisoned, beaten, shot repeatedly, and thrown into an icy river where he finally drowned, His member was removed and preserved by his followers, who thought that it was an impotence cure.
I like what they do with Stalin where he literally rewrites himself to fit the rap
It's sad that the moment is so short, that people never notice, but Baryshnikov is played by Pewdiepie, and that will never not be funny to me XD
The russian "Suka" is basically the equivalent of "f**k", most commonly used in "Suka Blyat".
Playing Basketball I made a number of russian and eastern european friends and have heard that A LOT :P
it's bitch, bitch.
@@doaftheloaf Oooooooohhh, ok, got confused on the order, my bad, bitch :D
"сука" means "bitch." Usually see it in the longer form "сука блять", or cyka blyat, pronounced sort of like suka blat, which translated literally is "bitch fuck," but is often used as just a general expletive.
The Tsar's wife reference with Rasputin is because he was known to be her right hand man in court and theone who would influence her decisions (many think that it was because they were lovers). SO really the power he had in court was by influencing the Tsar's wife and thats the reason hy he was kept around for so long
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Stalin believed in Three Degrees of Guilt. If someone committed an act deemed to go against the Motherland, there were three degrees through which that guilt would permeate. First, it was the individual. Second, it was his entire family - extended and all. Third, it was anyone who knew any member of that family on a fraternal, non-familial level; so basically any family that was family-friends with the offending individual and his family.
Now this is the one I've been waiting for!
This is one of my ultimate favorite ERBoH! I was hoping you'd do this one.
I seemed to instinctively noticed, but I finally checked for once, and Rasputin’s line about “how many dictators does it take to turn an empire into a union of ruinous states” is exactly 9 beats in the music/flow if you go by 4/4.
I am in total awe of your intellect. Just amazed.
“I don’t know a lot about Russian history”
Proceeds to tell us about Russian history
Rasputin healed a sick boy who had hemophilia by refusing to allow him to consume Aspirin. Aspirin is a blood thinner and so when the boy stopped taking the aspirin, his blood thickened and it "cured" his hemophilia.
12:16 Tsar Nicholas Romanov- his wife. The people circulated gossip in forms of ‘political cartoons’ that detailed what they believed was going on- an affair. When she believed Rasputin was the only person who could save her son who suffered from Hemophilia, a condition that ran in her family’s genetic history.
Didnt see anything about this one, so the tsar's wife reference goes back to when Rasputin was able to "heal" their son and he got in good with the family but mainly the tsarina. She continued to back Rasputin through the years as he gained more influence.
"The last man who attacked me lived a half-life"...
I think it was some journalist or whatever, he fled to London and was under supervision of MI6. And right there, in England, in front of so many agents he suddenly got ill and died... As it turned out, radiation poisoning killed him (polonium). Half-life is a nuclear term...
Sorry I haven't read all the replies, but Rasputin was (besides the supposed penectomy) also subject to hanging, shooting, drowning, and additional shooting when his body was still (supposedly) moving - as acted out in the wrap.
Great reaction as always :D
I really love the story of Rasputins death... Jealous people call him to a party and serve him poisoned food and booze but after hours Rasputin thanks and walks away.
Horrified people shoot him and he falls down but then raises up again trying to crawl again but then fall unconcios. Then they put his body to a wooden box locked with chains and throw it to river.
Day later when they fished up the box allegedly the inside of the box was full of scratches as Rasputin had tried to claw his way out before dying hand stuck to prayer.
The pickled cock thing is apparently a hoax... One university bought it from black market but later it was found out it was just overgrown vegetable.
Diggin' the shirt dude - much love to you. You rock, you're the only reaction host I watch. Just love your vibe all around.
Rasputin’s story is fascinating. He was a mujik, he couldn’t read or write. He had an unusual physique. After his son died in front of him, he left everything, he became a mystic. He really had a gift of healing. One day he was called to the Romanovs, the last czar of Russia, to treat their only son who was suffering from hemophilia. He became their personal doctor, very close to the family, he tutored them and called the tsar 'dad' and the tsarina 'mother'. He was particularly close to the tsarina... The tsar listened to the advices of Rasputin (a man of the people and very intelligent). He embarrassed many people and was murdered (poisoned, shot several times, one in the head but still alive he was drowned).
He tried to dissuade the tsar from going to war, he almost prevented the First World War!
The whole Romanov family was killed by Lenin who created the Soviet Union.
Love the longer reactions! I know you couldn't help it on this one, but it allowed me to sit back and enjoy before having to click on the next one of your videos. Lol
Stalin called HIMSELF the "Pride of Lenin." Part of that rewriting of history he did. He knew Lenin would have hated what he did, but he needed that legacy to solidify him first taking power.
he had a moustache like wario, fact! *moves on*
on the "red over white" part, you're right. It was the Bolsheviks (red) vs. the Mensheviks (white), iirc.
Rasputin was poisoned, but it didnt kill him fast enough, due to rasputin walked away. the men followed. then shot him, but he survived the shooting. so they threw him in a river.
Man, I've been waiting forever for you to get around to the greatest hits - loved this :)
The thing you say on crowd accident really looks like confused with the "Khodynka'' accident that took place in 1896, in Tzars epoque
"My Russian history isn't great. Sorry."
-> Immediately starts telling a folk tale about Rasputin in detail.
:D :D :D
I think the "red and white" not doing stuff tonight was also a reference to menstruation, often used as a reason for abstinence and Rasputin was sleeping with the tsarina.
The woman he was so close to was the Czar's wife, and the boy he helped was her son, Alexei, who had hemophilia. Rasputin was the only person who could ease the child's pain, which is why he had so much respect and influence among the royal family.
Reminder that the USA also "sided with Hitler" on many if not more occasions than Russia and American culture still postures about beating the Nazi's as if solely responsible.
Stalin actually loved his wife very much so much so that when she died, not because of him, his hart turned to "steel" and he became emotionless
Yeah, Stalin was a bastard, but he did seem to legitimately love his wife (his first one who died as well).
Stalin was a cold, evil piece of shit, and his wife dying is not why
@@justinstewart4889 I never said that it was, i simply responded to a comment he made about Stalin not loving his wife whil he actually did very much. Pleas read before you type.
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Stalin's son was a political commissar captured by the Germans and used as potential leverage to concede to an early peace with the Soviets (Operation Barbarossa was still wildly successful at this time). Stalin saw right through the "diplomatic" "overtures" of the Germans and, being the man made of ice that he is, simply refused to make any effort to rescue his son from a German labor camp.
I'm unsure of the ultimate fate of Stalin's son, but I do know that the Germans _absolutely_ told him that his father didn't want him back.
One area where your history knowledge is a little lacking is in Stalin's role in WW2. He didn't really "side with Hitler" on pretty much anything, but rather he did sign a few pacts with him when none of the Allies would sign any with him. Not defending signing pacts with Hitler, just pointing out that signing a pact with someone is definitely different than siding with them.
Also, he did bitch-slap Hitler. Russia was by far the biggest factor in the defeat of the Nazis. Like it's not even close. They put in more work than everyone else combined.
The bit about red over white and the tsar's wife is a reference to how the red army(communists) beat the white army(tsarists). Lenin is telling Rasputin how they tore down the source of his political power
its almost chronological. Rasputin, Lenin - Stalin, Gorbatschow/Gorbatchew.... and the unimportant rest.
Personally i like the Verse of Lenin the most.
The last participent was really bad.
The tsar's wife can't do shit tonight: The kid you mentioned that Rasputin healed was the Russian prince (who had haemophilia), and healing him got Rasputin in with the Tsarina, giving him massive influence at court.
But, obviously, come the revolution, the royal power and influence kind of got shot...
12:15 That is because he was the Tsar's wife special "friend" her confidant and consort for everything. So when the Tsar went to war it is believe that he manipulated the Tsarina to do thing he wanted.
Nice reactions man! I like your insights