EmperorTigerstar, explain please, what does the grey coloring of some republics within the Russian Federation's territory mean on your video just after USSR's final death? Were they technically "independent" from Russian Federation up until 1993 (besides Tatarstan)? This is something what is hard to understand even for me.
@@juanchoalbertonity4730 In December 1991, Russia and other 10 republics dissolved the Union treaty of 1922. So, this denouncement act, establishing CIS instead of the USSR, actually is the "declaration of independence" of all the soviet republics (except Georgia, which signed the pact later).
That was the year I started high school. I had the opportunity to do a study-abroad trip (3 weeks) in the Soviet Union, but my parents couldn't afford to send me. A friend did go. They were in one of the Republics when it declared independence. Their Soviet "tour guide" quickly got them in the morning and put them on a train to Moscow. The coup attempt happened as they were on their way to Moscow. They were supposed to visit farm towns in a couple more republics (that hadn't yet declared Independence) for the remaining week of their trip, but instead were sent to Eastern Russia and stayed in one small village that had basically no connection to the outside world - they knew none of what was going on until the day they were to fly back to the US, they got on a train to Moscow, and flew directly home. Only on getting home did they find out what had happened while they were there.
Big Daddy Russia/Soviet leadership was largely in denial until it was too late. Gorby didn’t officially step down until MONTHS after his position was already meaningless/powerless.
@@cloroxbleach9222 they were waiting on a loan from the west, that was guaranteed if they didn't interfere with the liberalization of their Warsaw pact members. But when they moved tanks into the baltics which were part of the ussr proper of course the US decided they had enough justification to deny the loan. Then the 100 billion dollars they were counting on to keep their country afloat dematerialized and yeltsin made his move to destroy the workers republic. Russia would go on to be run by criminals with the western powers using Russia and the former ssrs like colonies, extracting raw materials at dirt cheap prices and shutting down huge numbers of factories.
I just wait till the people rise and send my army there or I treat them harsh, or just wait till it goes away, increasing autonomy makes it only worse.
@@hirocheeto7795 yes that's a good one for small countries, but I always play as Portugal, Morocco or Castille, so I don't have problems with the size of my army.
Thank you so much for such a detailed representation of USSR's collapse. It does deserve a lot of attention since not much behind the boundaries of post-soviet countries understand how messy it was for us.
The soviet union in the breakup, an area that didn't have a real crash since ww1, was crashed back to ww1 levels of poverty. When it was on par with or more wealthy than the US at times.
If you are confused why Kazakhstan declared independence before Russia, it actually did declare independence before russia but was not recognized as nation until later.
No, that's totally wrong. Russia actually left much earlier than what's shown here. USSR still had _de facto_ control over Russia until it collapsed _ex officio_ with the map reflecting that. USSR was still a sovereign entity of international law just with no control over any land after Russia and Kazakhstan's departure, so the map could not show it except as maybe a tinted dot over Moscow and other remaining administrative headquarters.
@@sovietheart3883 What a shame that he tried to save the economy, gave people rights to express themselves and just wanted the Soviet people to be happy instead of suppressed with his policies of Perestroika and Glasnost, right?
The irony is that Gorbatchev demanded a referendum in the soviet territories to ask if they wanted to maintain ussr and every country that hold it received above 70% in favor of the yes, in some cases it was even 98% like in Kazakhstan .
@Fancy Living Because the referundum was about the creation of a new soviet union basicly, but it represent well how many people wanted to stay in a political system of communist union. But the creation of this new union has been canceld by a failed coup. This failed coup allows Boris Elstin and high politician to declare independance of thei country.
To be fair the only difference between pre-91 and post 91 era that I feel, after long consideration, is that the union is gone. We're still in an ideological war between a billionaire funded far right and a few socialists, with the far right controlling a lot of places now and murdering people while blaming them for their own murder. We still have nuclear standoffs (most prominent is India-Pakistan) and now treaties for denuclearization running out which were signed during the cold war. We still have regime change coups and american invasions and so on and so forth but just not a soviet union to supply people who defend themselves against it - China's just economically colonizing africa. In other words the cold war has merely shifted from being fought between different countries to being fought by governments plus far right militias against their own growingly impoverished parts of their populations (plus refugees etc).
@@Argacyan "We're still in an ideological war between a billionaire funded far right and a few socialists" The establishment left and the establishment right are bough under the control of the billionaires.
@Gunārs Miezis That's why I explicitly wrote about a few socialists on the left, not who's establishment left. It's true that the establishment in most countries are just bought - the most blatant example being maybe Germany (not the US, in the US the democrats are centre-right not left...). I could also write a dualism between nazis vs communists instead to give it more of an emphasis on non-establishment leftists but most people would write it off as hyperbole even with the growing stats of neonazi terrorism in the west and state policies by the countries like the US that are 1:1 nazi policies etc. Rather than thinking about it most people would brush it off.
@@Argacyan I dont deal in left and right there are too many definitions. Try this one for example ruclips.net/video/p6LUjUbikkk/видео.html I bet its not yours.
Gorbachev : I'm going to save the USSR Yelstin : I'm going to end this man whole career. *Russia leave the USSR* Others countries : Wait it's illegal this whole project was your idea
Eh but after the coup they were basically already done for. Pretty much everyone else already left after it so there was no point in even keeping it around at that point.
@I'm Your President It's not even the right wording. It should be "Hold on, this whole operation was your idea." Also, all memes in the comments section are played out. That goes without saying.
The ussr technicly still exist until Gorbatchev dissolve it's own political party the 21 december 1991, 7 after the declaration of independance from Kazakhstan
Actually, Georgia is considered as the last soviet republic. Although they declared the independence already in 1990, the Gamsahurdia's government did not sign the CIS pact denouncing the Soviet Union treaty of 1922. Georgia joined the pact only in 1993, so, technically, Georgia was a soviet republic up to 1993.
@@EmperorTigerstar If I were to guess, they were hedging their bets. After all, when there was movement towards national sovereignty before like during the late 60's, the USSR did a 180 and clamped down on it and reasserted its power. In fact the KGB almost took control of the government, had their coup succeeded it probably would've at least started a Soviet civil war, or wars of independence, depending on how you look at it. So, the Kazakh leadership was first trying to placate domestic nationalists and democracy activists, while also maintaining good relations with a potential KGB coup. Complicating this further is the massive Russian population in Kazakhstan.
A couple of details I feel I have to point out: The first SSR to declare its sovereignty was Estonia, on 16 November 1988. Other SSR's followed suit in 1989/90. Your description says "the Soviet Union slowly crumbled from within" and "slowly reformed as the Russian Federation". In my opinion, a collapse that took about 5 years and reforms that took even less (since 1991) is very fast. Compare it to the centuries-long crumbling of other empires, such as the Roman, Ottoman and Qing Empires. It's still a good video overall, but I just couldn't let these details slide.
There's several wars going on, but most of the time nowadays they involve non-state actors serving as proxies for regional and great powers who refuse to attack each other directly.
@@loganwilliams9104 Because Yeltsin was dumb. He was president of Russian SFSR, and if any Soviet republic did not broke out, then Union is still exists, and Yeltsin is not supreme leader of Russia.
Imagine going on a little trip inside of the Soviet Union to a different republic and suddenly being unable to return home because you're in a new country now.
@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564I disagree, Gorbachev's reforms introduced dissent which enabled the secession of the SSRs and the end of the Warsaw Pact. Especially true as Gorbachev was unwilling to crackdown on dissent, the opposite of his predecessors.
@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 what? gorbachev's privatization, that is what it was, destroyed the soviet economy and plunged everyone into crippling poverty. if not for gorbachev the USSR would have continued to exist for the foreseeable future.
It was not, since the 1970’s the Soviet Economy had been stagnating, corruption was everywhere, inflation was getting high, and resource shortages everywhere unable to keep up with the west. Even if Gorbachev wasn’t in charge, I doubt the Soviet Union would’ve last much longer. There was also the costly invasion of Afghanistan and the nightmare of dealing with the Chernobyl disaster that cost the Union a arm and leg trying to clean up and contain the damage from it. And that’s not getting into the already destabilizing Warsaw Pact that had the population growing tried of there regimes especially in places like Romania. So the collapse was enviable, perhaps it could’ve reformed like what China and Vietnam did but by Gorbachev’s time it was to little to late.
@@brandonlyon730 Whilst the economy was stagnating, it was still growing. Gorbachev's incoherent reforms led to the reintroduction of capitalism and the creation of a new oligarchical class who sought to accelerate the Soviet Union's collapse to protect this new status. The main issues for Union's ecomomy was the lack of intensive growth (effective use of capital), outdated capital (average age being about 10-15 years and expected to last about 25), poor economic co-ordination between sectors and an overfocus on heavy and military industries at the expense of the consumer sectors. Ultimately, rejuvenating the union would require overcoming these issues, which depends on the Soviet leadership. Who knows what they would've done in the 21st century of globalisation and the internet.
Glasnost and perestroika had already done a lot to decentralize the governments of the massive swathes of land the USSR controlled. That happened in the 1980s beyond the scope of the video and that might be why it appears complicated. The American version isn't so different from what actually happened. The breakaway states got the signal from Chairman Gorbachev that the USSR would not come swooping down to crush any popular revolts that occurred, so people revolted and threw out their Soviet-adjutant rulers. There is a lot of fascinating history behind the Soviet Union and its inglorious end right here on RUclips from sources that witnessed it, highly worth checking out.
@@Veishan lol, most of local Soviet party rulers became presidents or premiers of newly independent states, like Kravchuk of Ukraine or Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. Muh revolutions.
@Roughman "Relatively high standard of living" - This is where I already know that you are plain ignorant. The Soviet Union had only decentralized both Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although Azerbaijan wasn't as hit severely due to its massive oil economy and fairly good geography, Georgia and Armenia were crippled due to the oppression of the Soviets. If you are not aware, it wasn't the first time that the Soviets had decapitated heads of Caucasian people and threw them into rivers and ponds just for revolting. Georgia and Armenia wanted to leave because they had enough of countless massacres, suppression and Tiananmen Square-like responses from the Soviets, and so they opted to leave immediately, so why are you surprised according to your "but were quick and eager to leave the USSR"? Also, here is the commie expert who apparently knows everything that happened every single hour in the regime, amirite?
World War Countries Select your country : 1. USA Rarity : Rare Power : Strong Special Power : Ability to sent 1000 Missiles to enemy countries, and also Intelligence Agency placed around the world 2. United Kingdom Rarity : Common Power : Strong Enough Special Power : British SAS Commando, has the ability to sneak to a country without being caught up, and also cuts their electricity or even Assassinate their leader 3. China Rarity : Super Rare Power : Strong Special Power : Can produce alot of army man, High quality of technology 4. Russia Rarity : Super Rare Power : Strong Special Power : Russian tanks can rush into other country in no time, the power of Slavs make the army an ability to get stronger COUNTRY UPGRADES: 1. British Empire Rarity : Legendary Power : Extremely Strong Special Power : United Kingdom and its colony Will fight together, making it stronger 2. USSR Rarity : Mythical Legendary Power : Extremely Superpower Special Power : Power of Will and Brawn of the Soviet Union makes it country get the ability to sent a million soldier in no time to the battlefield
So you tell us of this comment... This makes me think like If a game has characters and based on history but difference... That does sound f#ing great!
@@albanian_barcelona_fan In your fantasy: yes In reality: no Russia had no resources and reason to fight ~6 million civilians and have almost no economy.
The real reason was Yeltsin and his « democrats », all the republics that wanted to leave such as the Baltics were allowed, while those who wanted to remain just stayed but Boris Yeltsin and his crew had different plans, they declared independence regardless of the will of the people in order to « liberalise » former ussr Which only resulted in one of th worst economic crash (gdp almost divided by 10), while the remaining sectors of the economy were privatise, resulting in a tiny portion of American monopolies and oligarchs taking control of almost the whole economy
Also, the Korean monarchy also sucks. Even if there was no Soviet Union, the surviving Russian Empire(survives world war 1 and is now in the second world war) might even influence the North. This will probably still cause the Cold War.
@@АлександрДьяков-к4н I don't need you to do heavy research pal. Search Ukrainian famine and be happy that you Russians lived on the good side of history.Also comparing population shows you how ignorant you are about the topic.
@@Manwithavan12 under the Soviet Union, the number of Ukrainians steadily grew, with an independent Ukraine, their number is declining... somewhere here your logic died
It shows more than just which countries declared independence, which is why there's an overcomplicated and confusing key, notice how even as Russia has declared independence, it's shown in a light red color, indicating that it was still controlled by the Supreme Soviet
0:45 - You missed a day (22 April 1990), but thanks for the video regardless. It's still quite surprising to see the sudden changes on the map at the end of August 1991.
Thousands of people in Korea starved because of the end of oil subsidies from Stalin’s time. Contrary to propaganda North Korea could generally feed its population but agriculture depended on energy subsidies which China could not replace.
Interesting fact: the last partisan of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was Ilya Stepanovich Obereshin, he spent more than 40 years underground. And after the news on the radio about the referendum on the independence of Ukraine, where 80% voted for independence, he surrendered to the Ukrainian Army on December 3 (the referendum was held on December 1).
Shame on you for having pleasure to watch this, 10 millions people died as a result and all the survivors became some of the poorest people in the whole world, capitalism is truly glorious and successful
@@noname-jr4hf the black book of communism has been disproven as a source and been debunked even by the authors themselves so using the "100 million" number makes you look dumb
I think Tigerstar made Russia leave last because Gorbachev resigned on the 25th of December, 1991. So technically, he was still in control of Russia until he resigned.
Damn, my parents must have been rally sad to see their home country where they grew up and had a nearly perfect life to just collapse in 2 years and begin starvation and force them to move.
@@consciouscactus A majority of americans feel nostalgic of the cold war USA. Whats your point? Humans will always be nostalgic of the days of their youth.
For those who might wonder, the conflicts in the Caucasus such as Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechenya will get their own video. :)
Chechenya was the only oblast who didn't accepted to join Russian Federation in 1992, or there were others?
EmperorTigerstar Chechnya should be an independent country but Russia...
Artsakh*
ESTONIA!!!!!! YEAHHHHH!!!!! Fine this video is good enough!
EmperorTigerstar, explain please, what does the grey coloring of some republics within the Russian Federation's territory mean on your video just after USSR's final death? Were they technically "independent" from Russian Federation up until 1993 (besides Tatarstan)? This is something what is hard to understand even for me.
Watching these videos as a colorblind man is a real struggle
Time to buy chroma lenses now I supposed if yoy have money.
Sad
I wonder, do you see blue instead of red?
Chess-Playing Skeleton BRUH NO! you see brown instead of red, same with green lmao
It is also for non color blind
I’m pretty sure Kazakhstan was the last to leave
They declared independence ten days before the USSR totally dissolved, i believe.
loyal to the end.
Except that Russia never had a Declaration of Independence in 1991
Karthik KV he also got the dates for South Ossetia and Tartarstan wrong
@@juanchoalbertonity4730 In December 1991, Russia and other 10 republics dissolved the Union treaty of 1922. So, this denouncement act, establishing CIS instead of the USSR, actually is the "declaration of independence" of all the soviet republics (except Georgia, which signed the pact later).
comrade I don't feel so good...
ypaaaaa
*we dont feel so good
Comrade, why are you in gulog?
@@fristnamelastname5549 why are we in gulog?
lol
In case anyone is wondering, that last independent territory at the end is Tatarstan
I was just going to ask if anyone knew!
Thank you!
@@necromancer803 Really? That's interesting! I might have to look up their history.
the most important country in victoria 2
@@thedamntrain Tatarstan still has a president
That was the year I started high school. I had the opportunity to do a study-abroad trip (3 weeks) in the Soviet Union, but my parents couldn't afford to send me. A friend did go.
They were in one of the Republics when it declared independence. Their Soviet "tour guide" quickly got them in the morning and put them on a train to Moscow. The coup attempt happened as they were on their way to Moscow. They were supposed to visit farm towns in a couple more republics (that hadn't yet declared Independence) for the remaining week of their trip, but instead were sent to Eastern Russia and stayed in one small village that had basically no connection to the outside world - they knew none of what was going on until the day they were to fly back to the US, they got on a train to Moscow, and flew directly home. Only on getting home did they find out what had happened while they were there.
How sudden was the collapse of the USSR, if you remember? I wasn't born long enough to remember anything so I wanted to ask someone like you.
Surely they knew the Union was at risk of collapse/conflict when Lithuania and others declared independence?
Big Daddy Russia/Soviet leadership was largely in denial until it was too late. Gorby didn’t officially step down until MONTHS after his position was already meaningless/powerless.
@@AnonymousFreakYT What republic was it?
@@cloroxbleach9222 they were waiting on a loan from the west, that was guaranteed if they didn't interfere with the liberalization of their Warsaw pact members. But when they moved tanks into the baltics which were part of the ussr proper of course the US decided they had enough justification to deny the loan. Then the 100 billion dollars they were counting on to keep their country afloat dematerialized and yeltsin made his move to destroy the workers republic. Russia would go on to be run by criminals with the western powers using Russia and the former ssrs like colonies, extracting raw materials at dirt cheap prices and shutting down huge numbers of factories.
0:57 when you have a lot of unrest in eu4 and you increase the autonomy of your provinces
I just wait till the people rise and send my army there or I treat them harsh, or just wait till it goes away, increasing autonomy makes it only worse.
lol
@@EASportsEets Yes, best option, crush the rebels!
@@heroe480 hehe
@@hirocheeto7795 yes that's a good one for small countries, but I always play as Portugal, Morocco or Castille, so I don't have problems with the size of my army.
Thank you so much for such a detailed representation of USSR's collapse. It does deserve a lot of attention since not much behind the boundaries of post-soviet countries understand how messy it was for us.
Sorry for the joke, but...
*Stares at Caucasus*
it was already a mess for caucasus nations before the Soviet Union collapsed.
It was not a collapse. The USSR disbanded; there’s a difference
"What happened to the Soviet Union?"
Gorbachev and Yeltsin: Gone reduced to atoms
Yeltsin: I used the Soviet Union to dissolved the Soviet Union
real story was:
soviet union: i'm gonna conquer Afghanistan
Afghan Jihadists: I'm about to end this empire's whole career
soviet union: *collapses*
Gennady Yannaev: *looks away conveniently*
@@petartoshkov2076 are you kidding? Afghanistan is literally the major reason why the ussr collapsed. lol. get some crisps moron
@@siegfriedia9986 lol Afghanistan had absolutely nothing to do with the fall of the USSR. You're delusional.
People died of that too. It was not peaceful
THIS PENCER all the deaths from privatisation are also consequences
@THIS PENCER I am from Azerbaijan. We are still suffering from the consequences of the war..
The soviet union in the breakup, an area that didn't have a real crash since ww1, was crashed back to ww1 levels of poverty. When it was on par with or more wealthy than the US at times.
Rainer m yup. Mass death, led to civil wars and conventional wars to this very day. This is the worst thing that ever happened in my life.
@Satariel No. There was never a referendum to keep or desolve the USSR.
2:15 probably meant 1991 instead of 1990.
It’s left
@LASHA "leaved" lol
No iam from georgia and we learned that we got independence from 1991
No, they all started to leave the union in 1990. The USSR was officially dissolved by December of 1991.
As the last date mentioned before is 9th April 1991 he certainly meant 1991. :)
If you are confused why Kazakhstan declared independence before Russia, it actually did declare independence before russia but was not recognized as nation until later.
No, that's totally wrong. Russia actually left much earlier than what's shown here. USSR still had _de facto_ control over Russia until it collapsed _ex officio_ with the map reflecting that. USSR was still a sovereign entity of international law just with no control over any land after Russia and Kazakhstan's departure, so the map could not show it except as maybe a tinted dot over Moscow and other remaining administrative headquarters.
@@OkanZagorfinally someone that says what actually happened. It would've a bit hard to show the USSR when it had no territory anymore
Anglo-Zanzibar War:
Every 30 seconeds
German invasion of Denmark, every minute.
@@abandonedchannel72929 that’s real, not on this channel tho, but I remember watching it
Hundred years' war: every nanosecond
Every 0.00000000001 Сесоиds
"The reign of Boris Yeltsin is only remembered for His drunkenness"
And gorbachev for his bad policy
HRASTOV LIST I smell eu4 culture quotes
Yeah, but he still got Russian independence.
@@sovietheart3883 What a shame that he tried to save the economy, gave people rights to express themselves and just wanted the Soviet people to be happy instead of suppressed with his policies of Perestroika and Glasnost, right?
@@sovietheart3883 His policies weren't bad the soviet union was crumbling because of Brezhnev
The irony is that Gorbatchev demanded a referendum in the soviet territories to ask if they wanted to maintain ussr and every country that hold it received above 70% in favor of the yes, in some cases it was even 98% like in Kazakhstan .
Probably because no one went to vote
@@Pietro-Smusi There were nearly 200 million registered votes.
@Peter Smusi
There was 80% turnout iirc lol
@Fancy Living Because the referundum was about the creation of a new soviet union basicly, but it represent well how many people wanted to stay in a political system of communist union. But the creation of this new union has been canceld by a failed coup. This failed coup allows Boris Elstin and high politician to declare independance of thei country.
@Fancy Living hete is the wikipedia's link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Sovereign_States
Someone will make "The history of the Soviet Union: Every hour"
Every OUR
*WE* will make
@@ra_alf9467 OHHHH YEAHHHHHH, I'm sorry, comrade, take me to Siberia.
@@ithinkipoopedmypants4663 take US to siberia
Every second xd
The end of an era.
And the start of another.
To be fair the only difference between pre-91 and post 91 era that I feel, after long consideration, is that the union is gone. We're still in an ideological war between a billionaire funded far right and a few socialists, with the far right controlling a lot of places now and murdering people while blaming them for their own murder. We still have nuclear standoffs (most prominent is India-Pakistan) and now treaties for denuclearization running out which were signed during the cold war. We still have regime change coups and american invasions and so on and so forth but just not a soviet union to supply people who defend themselves against it - China's just economically colonizing africa. In other words the cold war has merely shifted from being fought between different countries to being fought by governments plus far right militias against their own growingly impoverished parts of their populations (plus refugees etc).
@@Argacyan "We're still in an ideological war between a billionaire funded far right and a few socialists" The establishment left and the establishment right are bough under the control of the billionaires.
@Gunārs Miezis That's why I explicitly wrote about a few socialists on the left, not who's establishment left. It's true that the establishment in most countries are just bought - the most blatant example being maybe Germany (not the US, in the US the democrats are centre-right not left...). I could also write a dualism between nazis vs communists instead to give it more of an emphasis on non-establishment leftists but most people would write it off as hyperbole even with the growing stats of neonazi terrorism in the west and state policies by the countries like the US that are 1:1 nazi policies etc. Rather than thinking about it most people would brush it off.
Argacyan China isn’t imperialist. China is picking up where Stalin left off in Africa and Asia.
@@Argacyan I dont deal in left and right there are too many definitions.
Try this one for example ruclips.net/video/p6LUjUbikkk/видео.html I bet its not yours.
Gorbachev : I'm going to save the USSR
Yelstin : I'm going to end this man whole career.
*Russia leave the USSR*
Others countries : Wait it's illegal this whole project was your idea
Gorbachev
Is his name
Kazakhstan
Eh but after the coup they were basically already done for. Pretty much everyone else already left after it so there was no point in even keeping it around at that point.
@I'm Your President It's not even the right wording. It should be "Hold on, this whole operation was your idea." Also, all memes in the comments section are played out. That goes without saying.
Actually not quiet. Ukrainian And Belarusian SSR, RSFSR and ZSFSR were co founders of the Soviet Union in 1922
The RSFSR declared independence BEFORE Kazakhstan so Kazakhstan should be the last Soviet Rupublic standing
The ussr technicly still exist until Gorbatchev dissolve it's own political party the 21 december 1991, 7 after the declaration of independance from Kazakhstan
not kazakhstan, the last was transinistria
They declared sovereignty but they withdrew from the USSR later. It’s weird.
Actually, Georgia is considered as the last soviet republic. Although they declared the independence already in 1990, the Gamsahurdia's government did not sign the CIS pact denouncing the Soviet Union treaty of 1922. Georgia joined the pact only in 1993, so, technically, Georgia was a soviet republic up to 1993.
@@EmperorTigerstar If I were to guess, they were hedging their bets. After all, when there was movement towards national sovereignty before like during the late 60's, the USSR did a 180 and clamped down on it and reasserted its power. In fact the KGB almost took control of the government, had their coup succeeded it probably would've at least started a Soviet civil war, or wars of independence, depending on how you look at it. So, the Kazakh leadership was first trying to placate domestic nationalists and democracy activists, while also maintaining good relations with a potential KGB coup. Complicating this further is the massive Russian population in Kazakhstan.
You know the USSR dissolving was SOMEONE'S Christmas wish.
Yelstin's wish
@@AdawaShiwani Who Is Yelstin?
@@daiwikbiju4485 Boris yelstine former president of russia he was the cause of the collapse of the ussr. Luckily he died in 2007
@@AdawaShiwani Thanks
@@AdawaShiwani Luckily? Tf is wrong with you
A couple of details I feel I have to point out:
The first SSR to declare its sovereignty was Estonia, on 16 November 1988. Other SSR's followed suit in 1989/90.
Your description says "the Soviet Union slowly crumbled from within" and "slowly reformed as the Russian Federation". In my opinion, a collapse that took about 5 years and reforms that took even less (since 1991) is very fast. Compare it to the centuries-long crumbling of other empires, such as the Roman, Ottoman and Qing Empires.
It's still a good video overall, but I just couldn't let these details slide.
Sulps yeah but the first independent was Lithuania hehe
Honestly a five year collapse is still a mid-ranger some countries have collapsed in hours sometimes even quicker then that.
@Mistiry Hey someone always has to be the first and it is much easier to be second because you know whats going to happen
@Mistiry alright nice. Which date do you celebrate more, sovereignty or independence declaration?
And Kazakhstan was the only part of the USSR for 4 days until it seceeded from the USSR
Damnit Tuva, that was your chance to make an empire!
Soon Tigerstar's gonna have to start declaring wars on random nations just because he's ran out of wars to make videos on.
World war 3 intensifies
There's several wars going on, but most of the time nowadays they involve non-state actors serving as proxies for regional and great powers who refuse to attack each other directly.
European middle ages war, Ancient and Middle China wars, a lot of stuff to do.
next up, 2077 soviet reunion video
Yep, sounds like Shadow Clan
The sneeze of the 90's
_HWEEEECCCCHHH-_
And yugoslavia was the fart of the 90’s. lol
@@galaxyred7 pop
Slovenia
Pop
Croatia
B&H and Serbia
You suck
No u
No u suck
Pop
Montenegro
Pop
North Macedonia
And pop
Kosovo.
@@Pikachu-sc1yc lmao
Kazakhstan, loyal to the soviet union till the very end.
Why they leave then
@@loganwilliams9104 *till the very end (lol)
@@loganwilliams9104 Because Yeltsin was dumb. He was president of Russian SFSR, and if any Soviet republic did not broke out, then Union is still exists, and Yeltsin is not supreme leader of Russia.
@@eraserstp That's cool and all but there's just one thing..... The u.s.s.r still collapsed
@@loganwilliams9104 The people didnt want the soviet Union to collaps.US did it with Gorbachev
Imagine going on a little trip inside of the Soviet Union to a different republic and suddenly being unable to return home because you're in a new country now.
Gorbachev: Took that glass, Yeltsin. It represents URSS. Don't brake it or the entire country will break too.
Yeltsin: no prob, comrade
Boss: The USSR
Boss but when it is unlocked as the playable character: Kazakhstan
3:02 Soviet Union: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, its gone"
Austro- Hungarian Empireball pls stop the soviet union isn’t cool ok?
Austro- Hungarian Empireball so gulags are also wastern propoganda? How about my grandfather? Did he just go on a vacation until stalin’s death??
Bill Wurtz or Oversimplified Refference???
@@jokubas3391 how many gulags existed in 1980s? None. So STFU
@@ГеоргийМурзич lol no. At least 10 for politic prisoners I'd say
Gorbachov: Exists
Soviet Union: I don't feel so good
tbh, the sovier union was allready doomed to die under Brezhnev, while Gorbachovs reforms probely stoped the collaps for a few years.
@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564I disagree, Gorbachev's reforms introduced dissent which enabled the secession of the SSRs and the end of the Warsaw Pact. Especially true as Gorbachev was unwilling to crackdown on dissent, the opposite of his predecessors.
@@hailgiratinathetruegod7564 what? gorbachev's privatization, that is what it was, destroyed the soviet economy and plunged everyone into crippling poverty. if not for gorbachev the USSR would have continued to exist for the foreseeable future.
It was not, since the 1970’s the Soviet Economy had been stagnating, corruption was everywhere, inflation was getting high, and resource shortages everywhere unable to keep up with the west. Even if Gorbachev wasn’t in charge, I doubt the Soviet Union would’ve last much longer. There was also the costly invasion of Afghanistan and the nightmare of dealing with the Chernobyl disaster that cost the Union a arm and leg trying to clean up and contain the damage from it. And that’s not getting into the already destabilizing Warsaw Pact that had the population growing tried of there regimes especially in places like Romania. So the collapse was enviable, perhaps it could’ve reformed like what China and Vietnam did but by Gorbachev’s time it was to little to late.
@@brandonlyon730 Whilst the economy was stagnating, it was still growing. Gorbachev's incoherent reforms led to the reintroduction of capitalism and the creation of a new oligarchical class who sought to accelerate the Soviet Union's collapse to protect this new status.
The main issues for Union's ecomomy was the lack of intensive growth (effective use of capital), outdated capital (average age being about 10-15 years and expected to last about 25), poor economic co-ordination between sectors and an overfocus on heavy and military industries at the expense of the consumer sectors.
Ultimately, rejuvenating the union would require overcoming these issues, which depends on the Soviet leadership. Who knows what they would've done in the 21st century of globalisation and the internet.
Damn. That was a lot more complicated than we ever heard about over here in America.
Glasnost and perestroika had already done a lot to decentralize the governments of the massive swathes of land the USSR controlled. That happened in the 1980s beyond the scope of the video and that might be why it appears complicated.
The American version isn't so different from what actually happened. The breakaway states got the signal from Chairman Gorbachev that the USSR would not come swooping down to crush any popular revolts that occurred, so people revolted and threw out their Soviet-adjutant rulers. There is a lot of fascinating history behind the Soviet Union and its inglorious end right here on RUclips from sources that witnessed it, highly worth checking out.
Good info, thanks. Russia is always an interesting place.
@@Veishan lol, most of local Soviet party rulers became presidents or premiers of newly independent states, like Kravchuk of Ukraine or Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. Muh revolutions.
@@Veishan You basically proved that you know nothing about it.
@Roughman "Relatively high standard of living" - This is where I already know that you are plain ignorant. The Soviet Union had only decentralized both Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan. Although Azerbaijan wasn't as hit severely due to its massive oil economy and fairly good geography, Georgia and Armenia were crippled due to the oppression of the Soviets.
If you are not aware, it wasn't the first time that the Soviets had decapitated heads of Caucasian people and threw them into rivers and ponds just for revolting. Georgia and Armenia wanted to leave because they had enough of countless massacres, suppression and Tiananmen Square-like responses from the Soviets, and so they opted to leave immediately, so why are you surprised according to your "but were quick and eager to leave the USSR"?
Also, here is the commie expert who apparently knows everything that happened every single hour in the regime, amirite?
Kazakhstan and Russia: NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
Moments in musical history: 1:08 Roger Waters and many others preform "The Wall" in the reunited Berlin.
can't wait for The Collapse of the United Kingdom: Every Day
That will be soon
Hopefully
@@insulam821 Because Brexit.
Disunited Kingdom
I blame Cameron
3:03 USSR ended after Christmas
That was a Christmas gift!
But... In Russia Christmas in January
World War Countries
Select your country :
1. USA
Rarity : Rare
Power : Strong
Special Power : Ability to sent 1000 Missiles to enemy countries, and also Intelligence Agency placed around the world
2. United Kingdom
Rarity : Common
Power : Strong Enough
Special Power : British SAS Commando, has the ability to sneak to a country without being caught up, and also cuts their electricity or even Assassinate their leader
3. China
Rarity : Super Rare
Power : Strong
Special Power : Can produce alot of army man, High quality of technology
4. Russia
Rarity : Super Rare
Power : Strong
Special Power : Russian tanks can rush into other country in no time, the power of Slavs make the army an ability to get stronger
COUNTRY UPGRADES:
1. British Empire
Rarity : Legendary
Power : Extremely Strong
Special Power : United Kingdom and its colony Will fight together, making it stronger
2. USSR
Rarity : Mythical Legendary
Power : Extremely Superpower
Special Power : Power of Will and Brawn of the Soviet Union makes it country get the ability to sent a million soldier in no time to the battlefield
You misspelled Texas in the last bit
Clash Royale but its replace with countries?
So you tell us of this comment... This makes me think like If a game has characters and based on history but difference... That does sound f#ing great!
Where's Germany though?
German reich
One of the most satisfying videos lately.
Best Christmas gift ever!
Soviet Union: *exists
Lithuania: I'm about to end this country's whole career
Hahaha yesss
Funny xaxaxa
Had the coup not happened the USSR would become a new union and would just retake the baltics control through the police or army.
@@albanian_barcelona_fan In your fantasy: yes
In reality: no
Russia had no resources and reason to fight ~6 million civilians and have almost no economy.
@@5Penkets The second largest army in the world cant take back a bunch of rebel baltic states?
The Chernoybl disaster and the war in Afghanistan was one of the cause that brought down the USSR
The real reason was Yeltsin and his « democrats », all the republics that wanted to leave such as the Baltics were allowed, while those who wanted to remain just stayed but Boris Yeltsin and his crew had different plans, they declared independence regardless of the will of the people in order to « liberalise » former ussr
Which only resulted in one of th worst economic crash (gdp almost divided by 10), while the remaining sectors of the economy were privatise, resulting in a tiny portion of American monopolies and oligarchs taking control of almost the whole economy
Ussr wouldn’t have collapsed if Yeltsin did not backstab Gorbachev for his own economic interests
Ah, the other Boris.
U mean Scherbina?
@@sovietheart3883 Pretty sure OP means Yeltsin.
@@chronikhiles Maybe
Interesting to note, there was also a short lived Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic in southeastern Azerbaijan
Some much emo-commies in the comments...
That is the YT of 2019.
Yeah kinda sad.
Imagine thunking everyone is serious in youtube comments
It was pretty sad that almost 300 million lost their homeland against their will because there were no official refferendums
A free helicopter ride should help to cheer them up.
As a Korean, I agree to dismantling USSR.
If there was no USSR, there was no Korean War too.
Yeah understandable
@@Konmonachi The USSR is bad, I agree. But are the Russian Empire and the Federation any better?
Also, the Korean monarchy also sucks. Even if there was no Soviet Union, the surviving Russian Empire(survives world war 1 and is now in the second world war) might even influence the North. This will probably still cause the Cold War.
Korean war its korean choose. North korea wants to chill and drink vodka, while south requires money and work to pay credits until death.
Top 10 Most Satisfying Anime Deaths
На фон надо было поставить "Лебединое Озеро" Чайковского!
where girls cry: titanic
where boys cry: endgame
where legends cry:
They are crying of joy then~
@@suckonfatman6027 well yes, but actually no
It's like watching poetry in motion. All those people who died due to communism did not die in vain when it eventually failed spectacularly.
It's 2019 and there's moron who loves and show sympathy to communism. History seems to repeat itself, again.
China is still around, sadly.
Handsome Orc Nazi
Kohan Karasu it’s 2019 and Nazis are still raping and killing Russians with swastikas and lighting bolt tunes on their helmets.
ok 13 year old communist i have a weapon you cant resist:
Cite Your Sources Twat
And the world had a very merry Christmas in 1991!
except for you know, all the millions of people who would die as a result of the dissolution...
@@stoopidapples1596 Except for you know... thousands of Ukrainian men dying each day during the ussr reign
@@Manwithavan12 by the time of the collapse of the USSR , the population of Ukraine= 50 million, now = 34 million... No comments
@@АлександрДьяков-к4н I don't need you to do heavy research pal. Search Ukrainian famine and be happy that you Russians lived on the good side of history.Also comparing population shows you how ignorant you are about the topic.
@@Manwithavan12 under the Soviet Union, the number of Ukrainians steadily grew, with an independent Ukraine, their number is declining... somewhere here your logic died
So the USSR only lasted *69* years..🤔
*70
@Peruvian Potato I don’t think from 1922 to 1989 is 70+
@@PeruvianPotato First of all! The USSR collapse 1922-1991... How can it be 70?
@@Konmonachi It formed in 1921, it was in political hell between 1921 and 1922
@@PeruvianPotato So you are still wrong though, That does not make the USSR be 70.
Great video! 😊
KGB: why you not cry enough
Happy 30th Anniversary! 🎉🎉
Thats a good video its fantastic! I hope you make more Keep going man!
What a happy video. Every second the world just gets a little better
-Average People in the comments: Buaaww!! Soviet union can't collapse!!!
-Me: this map is gorgeous and very well detalied
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Very much
I love how there were all these independent states at the beginning of 1992.
Capitalism pigs
Great video
The most relaxing and soothing vid
100/100 the music "song of the boatmens", i prefeer the cover of the Civ 4 but this is good by the way
New challenge: post how many days you lasted without crying, I failed after reading the title.
Does crying in general count or specifically about this?
We failed*
Comrade 😭
:'(
O7
Had a depression attack upon viewing thumbnail. Worst thing that ever happened in my life hands down.
Mistake: Kazakhstan was the last republic to leave the Soviet Union, not Russia.
It shows more than just which countries declared independence, which is why there's an overcomplicated and confusing key, notice how even as Russia has declared independence, it's shown in a light red color, indicating that it was still controlled by the Supreme Soviet
0:45 - You missed a day (22 April 1990), but thanks for the video regardless. It's still quite surprising to see the sudden changes on the map at the end of August 1991.
*Hey guys, it's another top 10 moments here and this is, top 10 gamer moments in history*
Remember berlin
@@russianbadass4140 remember collapse of USSR :D
@@LøvæFråNordn remember Vietnam
@@LøvæFråNordn remember berlin
@@LøvæFråNordn lol USA got destroyed in Vietnam and lost to Canada when Canada burned down the white house in 1812
Her: why didn't you cry at Titanic? Do you have any emotions? Have you ever cried?
Me:
Collapse of USSR is music to ears
@@Dariusz_1.618 *SO U HAVE CHOSEN,GOOLAG*
@@Dariusz_1.618 GULAG time
@@Dariusz_1.618 The crying of your mom to me is Music to my ears
@@Zopiexx
lol
my mom wasn't crying when USSR collapsed XD
The Soviet Union, one of our allies. We miss them
You fat ill-bred boy
oh hello Rocket man :D
Hello comrade
Thousands of people in Korea starved because of the end of oil subsidies from Stalin’s time. Contrary to propaganda North Korea could generally feed its population but agriculture depended on energy subsidies which China could not replace.
@@Wobbothe3rd r/woooosh
Best year ever
Me: watches video
My dad downstairs: why are you crying so damn loud?
Spartan X5 you’re crying because ssrs fell?
@@vincentas1 it's a joke
Lol
Interesting fact: the last partisan of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was Ilya Stepanovich Obereshin, he spent more than 40 years underground. And after the news on the radio about the referendum on the independence of Ukraine, where 80% voted for independence, he surrendered to the Ukrainian Army on December 3 (the referendum was held on December 1).
Beautiful :)
Shame on you for having pleasure to watch this, 10 millions people died as a result and all the survivors became some of the poorest people in the whole world, capitalism is truly glorious and successful
The best christmas gift of all time.
True
See you tomorrow, comerade
*last online 32 years ago*
Really make me cry
Cold War: Good Ending ( You won the war and the USSR collapses )
Nice
you mean bad ending?
@@solidslfy2879 no its the good ending communism killed 100 million people over a span of a few decades
@@noname-jr4hf the black book of communism has been disproven as a source and been debunked even by the authors themselves so using the "100 million" number makes you look dumb
@@solidslfy2879 it did kill 100 million people you cant get over the fact that it killed more people than fascism
Very interesting, thanks!
Good
Good!
Si
Nice
Love the multi colored maps you do
*latvia and lithuania staring at estonia*
Lithuania and Latvia : So are you going to do anything?
Kazakhstan was the last one to leave. Russia left before Kazakhstan.
Yes
RIP Gorbachev
RIH
just incredible, nothing more to say
Top 10 saddest anime deaths :((((
I looked away from the screen for a few seconds in August, 1991. I was very confused for a moment.
2:16 Shouldn't it say "10 April to 30 June 1991"?
Terribly sad...
:(
@@dylan2478 lol
A nice version of Volga Boatmen
I think Tigerstar made Russia leave last because Gorbachev resigned on the 25th of December, 1991. So technically, he was still in control of Russia until he resigned.
Inaccurate, Russia seceded before Kazakhstan, meaning that Kazakhstan was the entire USSR for 4 days. Russia was not the last SSR.
it was a merry Christmas in 91
Best merry Christmas in history
Christmas in orthodox countries on january 7🗿
@@vpolerosaaaa it was for the rest of us
Fax
And thank god it collapsed ^.^
@Uncle Sam's *triggered commie sounds*
@Uncle Sam's Hello fellow soycalist
You have absolutely no idea how much people were suffering because of the collapse idiot.
It was no good for russian people.
@@Пальцерезка But it was good for baltic people
"Big and strong Country can't fall. Never" Never say "Never"
Damn, my parents must have been rally sad to see their home country where they grew up and had a nearly perfect life to just collapse in 2 years and begin starvation and force them to move.
Remember what kravchenko said
"The soviet union is dying,money is all that matters"
USSR: *collapses*
Us: You will live forever, in *OUR* memory.
DOODLYDOO and never forgotten for the atrocities done by it
@@jokubas3391 yes
the US literally caused the collapse of the SU tf u talking about lmao
@@pewdiepiesubber7879 I meant "Us" not the United States
@@doodlydoo3935 oh lol, that was confusing. Funny how a country based on selfishness is called "us" (Yes I know it stands for united states haha)
what a great video , especially the end with no more ussr
Yes
N o
@@AdawaShiwani cope
@@blagoevski336 Screw the Russian monarchy restoration, we need another Lenin
@@blagoevski336 Rostislav is quite ugly lolol
fantastic. congratulations.
Incredible video! 👍😎
Top 10 saddest anime endings
You fool, if you had lived in the USSR you would not be sad its gone.
This might surprise you, but people aren't always serious on the internet.
@@gunarsmiezis9321 a majority feels nostalgic to the ussr and large portions feel life was better back then.
Gunārs Miezis es piekrītu! Latvieši ir pret psrs
@@consciouscactus A majority of americans feel nostalgic of the cold war USA. Whats your point? Humans will always be nostalgic of the days of their youth.