Why Kazakhstan is Insanely Empty
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I live in Kazakhstan and I can tell you the reason: in the 17th century there was a hundred-year war between the Kazakh Khanate and the Dzungaria, where more than 30% of the country's population died, then the Russian Empire came from the colonization, the Kazakhs rebelled, but nothing happened, then when the Reds came, that is, the Soviet Union of Kazakhs there were 6 million but because of the famine there are 2 million of us left
brutal !
Goddamn
and still you got a great future ahead of you and a good growing economy. got some good stocks from your country.
Do you guys fear China or Russia ever coming in to your country today? Culturally, is there anti-Russian or Chinese sentiment? I've never met someone from Kazakhstan before, though I think Borat comes from there (joking).
@@SconnerStudios i have read that they are very Western oriantated but maybe the og commenter can say more about this.
You know its bad when "the most nuked place on Earth" is only the second worst environmental disaster in the country's past fifty years.
Yeah I had heard about the Aral Sea shrinking but I didn’t clock how massive the environmental implications would be until this video
@@GrimDoesMineCraft aral sea gone after Soviet collapse
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa They started it.
Veh-wee Nyee---ice
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Soviets did irreparable damage to sea, which lead to disaster
Cried several times during video. Similar history, know the pains Love and support to amazing people of Kazakhstan from Ukraine ♥️🇺🇦
Yes, Ukraine and Kazakhstan are a victims of Russian colonialism
🇰🇿❤️🩹🇺🇦🫂🫂🫂
I have always loved Kazakhstan. You have the coolest and most beautiful flag! Love from Brazil 🇧🇷🇰🇿
For anyone curious like i was: That circle in the middle of Kazakhstan is the Baikonour Cosmodrome, where Russia launches its spaceships from. It's not de jure russian land, but it is rented basically indefinitely by Russia
Why don’t Russia and Kazakhstan reunite
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 maybe because kazakhs and russians are culturally different people?
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 thats a stuoid question to ask
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Why are you asking me?
@@aparadisebird realax bruh I was just curious
Respect and love to our Kazakh brothers from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿🇰🇿
to you too bro. we should develop further our trade relationships for mutual profit. also you are welcome to come to our country to work or study, its better for you than going to russia (we only ask to do everything in legal way).
Assalam yalekum 👋 бауырым
I thought you all hated each other (at least that’s what Borat said).
@@always-alicia it is propaganda, russia wants a conflict between them and always wants to control them
@@always-alicia non khazak civillians when an arabic looking english actor makes a movie in a state called Romania (formerly a subject) and calls it kazhakistan
my point is because of that accursed(funny guy btw) our nothern bretherns in east africa are called walwdwiya or smt
Kazakhstan has a big potential. 99.8% literacy. Many students are sent abroad to study. No enemies. Friendly to all countries. Vast natural resources. Time will show if Kazakhs will be able to use these advantages or not.
As a Kazakh while I agree that my country has a lot of potential its also has a lot of problems
Nearly all of Government is corrupt
Profiting from land and people not giving anything back
First president was in power for 30 years second one is following in his footsteps
We have Russia and China as our neighbors depending on them for our economic stability and with no hope of defending if they attack us
Where did you get ur stats? It’s false
Your country has a bright and prosperous future as long as there is no corruption and the money is invested properly.
@@rebeli-argum Is it really flirting with NATO? Kazakhstan seems to be doing a pretty good job leveraging its useful neutrality at the intersection (physical and cultural) of Russia, China, Turkey/Muslim World, and the West. (Xi Jinping guaranteed its territorial integrity after Putin invaded Ukraine!) Whereas, say, Austrian or Swiss neutrality after the Cold War is just depraved free-riding, Kazakh geography still makes sense for it to play all sides. Call it a giant Qatar.
@@jcliu swiss are not really neutral anymore. Macron wants Kazakhstan on the side of the west and to stop them trading with Russia because sanctions and all of that.
Kazakhstan tries to be Turkey with two chairs strategy but i'm not sure how are they going to do this. They want to be cool with Russia and also want to be cool with the west
As a individual adopted from Kazakhstan I can attest that the Kazakh history is sadly forgotten and not looked into. Thank you so so much for sharing apart of my families history. People just think of us as a Borat joke but we have a deep history that needs to be told!
I’m happy for Kazakhstan’s recent growth. They have the coolest flag 🇰🇿. Love from 🇺🇸
Thx bro ❤ USA 🦅🦅🦅
DEF have the coolest flag. I agree 💯
@@plastelina_ytb I am always surprised that a lot of people find our flag to be beautiful :D imo it looks very average
that flag is mad ugly imo
@@IX-fc4poIt has a nice blue to it, looks unique
We've met so much injustice and struggle through the centuries. Despite that we keep moving forward! Greetings from Kazakhstan 🖐️
You are a brave people! Love from India 🇮🇳
My friend, heed the warning of Ukraine, don't let yourself fall victim again to Soviet styled thinking....
Love from Türkiye
You seem like a country with a dark past and a bright future!
@@createdforthemoment6740 they are smart enough not to fall into your traps,what happened to Irãq?to libyå?Ukrāine was attacked because they betråyed us and put our national security at risk at the cost of them getting the benifits of joining NÄTO.
Thank you for sharing the history of Kazakhstan with so many people, our country has suffered a lot and only now have started getting back up, love from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 the most hospitable country in the world
He didnt cover it here, but are there plans to undo the cotton fields irrigation and canals and let eh syr daya flow naturally into the aral again? i know nothing can be done about Uzbek's southern river, but i figured since cotton isnt necessary anymore because of the oil then why not get rid of all the irrigation?
@@SombreroGato And what will they eat? Sand???
@@user-cv2lh3wu2q
...you don't eat cotton...iirc it is one of the only major crops with zero edible parts.
@@merlinious01 🤦♂ Rice, vegetables and melons are grown on this water.
Thanks to the drainage of the Aral Sea, agriculture appeared in this region, and local residents stopped starving
As a Kazakh resident I should say that this is one of the most accurate video about Kazakhstan I've ever seen. Thanks from Kazakhstan
I did NOT expect my favourite channel about geography make a video about my native country 😭 Бәрібір, видеода үшін рақмет брат!!!
Айтпа
Is it wrong to make a video about Kazakhstan
I loved this video. Very instructive. So sad to see what happened to Kazakhstan but I’m happy to see that it’s recovering. I would love to discover the Kazakh culture and language.
Btw what language do people speak in general?
@@mautida9998 yeah its not a bad country nowdays, a quite good gdp per capita, human dev. index etc. people speak russian as lingua franca (only 71% are kazakhs) and kazakh. If you plan to visit it, I recomend you Almaty - the most important region historically and economicaly.
Damn dude sorry to hear. At least by the looks of it, you don’t live there anymore.
On April 1 you need to release a 45 minute video about why the Moon is so empty.
lmao yes
Moon Nazis rule it !
May for now people don't live in moon
But in future people will
@@strategistaow3520😂
@@KeepItSimpleSailor even now, some people behave like they live on the backside of the moon.
Like "so far, no one got it right. BUT next time, socialism will work"
I have a good friend of mine at work from Kazakhstan, he’s actually there visiting family right now, and he and his family are some of the kindest people I’ve ever met
very nice
yeah because all kazakhs pretend to be kind
@@smd5020 Why?
@@smd5020you yt
@@smd5020noone is pretending
The Kazakh famine from 1930-1933 is something I was aware of, but only as the Soviet Republic hit hardest by the nationwide famine apart from only Ukraine, who experienced the horrors of the Holodomor, today widely considered a genocide. Learning the specifics of the Soviet policy towards Kazakhstan during this period, I am now of the opinion that we aren't using strong enough language to describe what took place. It was not a mere famine, nor was it an anthropogenic catastrophe-it was genocide.
For what reason?
Чё ты несёшь? Вы шизойды хотя бы можете мне сказать на кой черт СССР решил совершить геноцид целого народа?
Colonization@@standom2390
@@standom2390The communists launched a satanic program called “collectivization,” the essence of this program was this: everything you have belongs to the state! Thus, the communists took all the livestock from the Kazakhs, the only source of food in the harsh steppes of Kazakhstan, and the famine began!
You left out an important part of Kazakh history, the Kazakh-Dzungar wars which started in the 1600s. The Dzungars were a western Mongol tribe that controlled a large portion of Xinjiang and southern Siberia and subjugated the Kazakhs, gaining territory as far west as Lake Balkhash. This wiped out a huge portion of the Kazakh population. Then from 1755-1757, the Manchus (Qing dynasty) sent an expedition out west and massacred 90% of the Dzungars with the help of the Turkic Uighurs and Kazakhs. As a result, Xinjiang today is home to mostly Turkic Muslim people rather than Mongol Buddhists and the Kazakhs never expanded past the Tian Shan and Altai mountains. The Russians swept south during their conquest of the steppe with little resistance.
You can't blame Russians on that so it's out of the scope of this video 😅
@@mastersafari5349 i gotta say his videos are heavily western propaganda and biased. quite frankly im suspecting he's secretly paid by US government
they want to blame Russia
so that not helping 🤣
@@mastersafari5349 Yea seems the CIA found its next target.
Actually, the Kazakhs took part in destruction of Dzungar khanate by Qing empire, not Uyghurs. Uyghurs in fact accepted quite a few Dzungarian refugees.
I was on a recent vacation in Kazakhstan during the Labor day week 2024. (1) Weather experience: When I arrived in Astana, 1st of May at 12 midnight, it was snowing with the weather or temperature at minus 1 Celsius. This was May. And when I asked my tour guide friend the next day, he informed me that temps in Astana can easily drop minus 40 degrees Celsius during winter. (2) Land Area: Driving to Burabay National Park, the tour guide told me that Northern Kazakhstan is similar to Siberia in Russia - a vast land with a lot of birch and pine trees wherein winters are the harshest. We also drove near the steppes, and it was very flat and you cannot see civilization, only grazing horses! Overall, it became one of my favorite countries that I have visited as there are NO crowds in their touristic places 😊
Personally, I don’t think now that this is a Russian tree after what I recently heard. On the other hand, we also have birches in Kazakhstan
Қош келдің!
You wanted to say Siberia, not Serbia, right?
@@ljubexns Indeed. I corrected it already 😅😅😅 Thank you.
Fantastic. This part of the world in general has always fascinated me, partly because you've usually had to go out of your way to find out about it in years past, at least where I've lived.
Where I live possibly adds to the interest too. I think it's said that in the UK you're never further than 70 miles from the coast. Somewhere so different beyond my everyday experience just blows my mind.
I hope Kazakhstan will continue to develop and become truly rich and influential.
I hope that terrible soviet and russian past will remain only in history.
Best wishes from Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Алга Казахстан! 🇰🇿
Slava Ukraine 🇰🇿❤️🩹🇺🇦🫂
In college, I had a privilege to talk with a now-famous startup's CEO, when they went to give a lecture to our students. I vividly remember a very interesting thing he said to us:
"If there was like a Civ V game about the modern world, with all the resources, politics, and stuff, the most OP country would be Kazakhstan! Look at all the resources we have: oil, gas, iron, copper, uranium. Look at our geography: 9th biggest country, so many arable lands, crossroads between Europe and Asia. Look at our politics: no enemies, neutral in every aspect, friendship with Russia, China, Europe, US etc. Even if we talk about space exploration: the biggest spaceport and all the best space infrastructure, maybe second only to US, is all in Baikonur!"
Russia and China are not friends to anyone at all. These are two crazy empires. Thank God, their population is declining and all the technology is in developed countries, so it is physically difficult for them to occupy Kazakhstan.
Literally just got into yt to find something to watch while eating, and find out RLL had posted something 32 seconds ago...
came looking for copper, found gold
You found superior potassium
Copper is pretty expensive these days, that's a dated expression
Same these videos are prime eating content
I was thinking the same but this episode is so bleak I might have lost my appetite
This is me now ..
Actually, Kazakhstan was the last Soviet state before the USSR fully dissolved, so Russia "broke away" from Kazakhstan in a sense.
yeah technically we could claim to be the heirs of the USSR, but that would be dumb because at the time of its collapse the USSR had accumulated HUGE debts($100 Billion) that needed to be paid to the US and other Western countries and only Russia was able to repay them
Thats because if Kazakh government would break away from USSR before Russia, ethnic russians in Kazakhstan wouldve rebelled.
Thats why kazakh government was waiting for Russia to break away first, so not to cause a rebellion that was stirring in the North.
@@sickpoet2865 but what about the other former SSR states, minus maybe Transnistria in Moldova and Belarus (who remains an ally of Russia to this day)? Wouldn’t the ethnic Russians in those states have rebelled too?
@@leonardowynnwidodo9704IN northern Kazakhstan, russians comprised like 70%-80% of the population. In all other republics russians were a minority, except eastern ukraine, where russians eventually rebelled.
There is Kazakh saying: Men - qazaqpyn myñ ölıp, myñ tırılgen.
I’m a Kazakh, I have died and risen thousands of times.
Thanks for such a detailed video 🇰🇿❤
Cool
@@eyey7070turkish is in latin
@@eyey7070Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Azerbaijan, Uzbek language very similar
@@eyey7070 don't be such a sore loser, 'hopefully better than turkey" have some pride
"Ben Kazakım bin ölüp, bin dirildim" in Turkish of Türkiye 😊
There are 3 million Hazaras in Afghanistan who are originally from Kazakhstan. Hazaras used to be a huge population but in 1892 Afghans Pashtuns killed 62% of Hazaras.
The Hazaras who were Kazakhs under the Mongol rule were sent to modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
This is suuuuuuuch a good work brother. I am kazakh and this is the most detailed video about kazakhstan's geography and demography I have ever seen. Yes, some things were forgotten like kazakh-dzhungar wars but for english viewers I believe its more than enough to know.
Тағы тіл мәселесін көтергенде ғой
Indeed. A fascinating presentation for us Yankees. I learned a lot!
And that part left intentionally!
We see the desert. That's the reason.
selamun aleyküm kardeṣ 👋 greetings from turkey
Friend: "Don't be sad. There's plenty of fish in the sea."
Me: "Tell that to the Khazakh fishing industry."
There are a lot of fish there now. The Northern Aral Sea has been restored
SAD
You mean kazakh?
@@geosimp3889 it's written Cazaque in my language
@@FADNaR It has. Unfortunately the dam wasn't built quite tall enough for the water to reach Aralsk like it used to, but it's leagues better than Uzbekistan caring more about its insane cotton industry than toxic dust storms
I appreciate that you call our people 'Kazak'. The term was distorted to differentiate Russian Cossacks, although the actual name was initially Turkic and nomadic, meaning 'people without rulers' or 'free people'. The first Kazaks were nomadic people who were left without a ruler due to the disintegration of the Golden Horde. With the establishment of serfdom in Muscovy, serfs began to flee to the nomadic steppes and join the nomadic Kazaks. Gradually, ethnically Kazaks predominantly became Slavic. Later, during the expansion of Muscovy, these Slavic Kazaks started to serve Moscow and became part of Muscovy, playing a significant role in further expanding the Russian Empire into Siberia and Central Asia.
Respect landlocked country 🇰🇿 from Landlocked country 🇳🇵🇳🇵 . We know how hard it is to survive as a landlocked country.
Don't forget that the Kazakhs have managed to save the Northern Aral. If Uzbekistan could detach its economy from cotton, there's a chance that the full Aral could be restored.
I sure hope so. Bringing the fishing industry and agriculture back would put Kazahkian a major world bread basket and will be able to provide food for all Central Asia.
Russia has to mind their own business and let Kazakhstan run their own business.
But the snowfall upstream has diminished hugely?
Uzbekistan werenʼt problem on that time. Soviets
Өзбектер тәуелсіздік алғаннан кейін де Арал теңізін сақтауға тырыспады
@handyvickers not to late to change it
A chilling reminder of how the lack of care, forethought, and hubris of mankind has devastating consequences on the innocence of life and land. Bless the folks that have endured.
Mostly just Russia being evil.
Very well said
Communism
@@MU80085 eh, it’s not really confined to any political system. It’s human nature to some degree.
@@MU80085 communism doesn't do anything, the people in power do. And they're the worst in every single system. Or maybe you think that the environment isn't getting destroyed anymore, now that communis doesn't exist.
Truly great job! Speaking as kazakh who knows my history, you did awesome in summarising 20th century for Kazakhstan. And especially for a westerner.
they don't generally teach us falsified history here in the West, so that shouldn't really come as a surprise
Fascinating, I learnt so much. I had not realised what the Kazakhs had suffered during the USSR/Stalin years. I hope their future is all peace and prosperity, and free from Russian interference. Is there any chance the Aral Sea will one day return? Will the rivers regain their flows?
Если бы быль на готове каналый при вчерашном потопе, можно было увеличить границу нынешного арала. Но есть не мало шансов увеличить поступающие кубометр воды.
36:12 There is saying in kazakh: we have died 1000 times, and 1000 times more resurrected
Мың өліп мың тірілген елім ай. Қаншама азап шектік, неше апат көрдік. Алла жар болсын, отанымыз көркейсін. Бізді жәбірлеген дұшпандар өзі бәлелерге батар.
@@siratshi455 "the enemies who have oppressed us will be in trouble" love thy enemy no less
My own uncle built this railway in 1970 in the Kostanai area.
Then he returned home to Kyiv with a lot of money and bought an apartment😎
He told me that it was very difficult there and the climate was bad
Wait, wasn't it illegal to buy and own private property in the USSR?
Haventbyou read animal farm? Some ppl were exempt hence the Revolution
@@thermn8r 👌🤌🤏💸)))
i think he meant rent
@@no-sq2pnThere was such thing as a cooperative apartment you could buy and own.
My dad did his army service in Semipalatinsk in 1990. He went there with full hair but came home with almost all of his hair falling due to the radiation(his father and his 2 brothers have full hair). I am 27 and almost bold due to the modified genetics, so I guess the Soviets are still f*cking up some of our lives
Bro my dad served there too, and he s bold 😂. Thankfully ihave hair, but i was definitely born with radiation in my dna 😢
@@sickpoet2865 I have almost the same case, my brother who is 2 years older than me has full hair, but the fate decided to make me hairless😂
sorry to hear that bro
Its Bald not bold! Bald = no hair. Bold = Brave.
@@shaverdesign sorry, i mispelled that
7:30 They didn't "begun settling". They were forcibly moved. That's why there's a big Polish diaspora in Kazakhstan.
Before watching this I knew they got a raw deal, but had no idea it was on this scale. There are no words 😢 Thank you for opening our eyes. I hope we can all learn from this to prevent this from ever happening again.
I camped where the Alatau range in Kazakhstan meets the Tian Shan range. We drove 6 hours on dirt roads from Almaty and mostly saw herders, yurts, 1 mosque and 1 shop. The herders are so nice and they gave us Kumis to drink (fermented horse milk). A friend I know there is a descendant from Stalin’s German to Kazakh diaspora, and German is still spoken in his family. It’s true that the demographics are complicated there due to the USSR. But love for the country’s cultural heroes like Abai Qunanbaiuly is strong. The country and her people are beautiful. Ох, как скучаю по тебе, Казахстан 🇰🇿 💛
❤
Were there alot of Germans who came to Kazakhstan after the war? I know there were alot of forcible migrations in the Stalin days, but in school they only talked about migrations internal to the USSR, like the Crimean Tatars.
There were many Germans who where drawn in by the Russian Empire as settlers. They even had their own autonomous region within the USSR right next to Khazakstan around the lower Volga river. Shortly after the start of the war in 1941, Stalin accused them all (baselessly) of collaboration with Nazi-Germany. The Volga German ASSR was dismantled and ethnic Germans were deported to Siberia or Khazakstan. From the latter there are storys, that the German people were basically dumped in the middle of nowhere without any belongings. Not unlike the Crimean Tartars. Wouldn't call that "migration".
@@RastiGan "Forced migration" doesn't mean anything like what just "migration" means. English doesn't really have a phrase for things like those population transfers, because we don't have a word for "half-deportation, half-genocide".
Enjoy the info
Thanks for the video 😊 Love and Respect from Almaty, Kazakhstan🇰🇿 ❤
Yaşasin Qazaqlar
Biz bir millatmiz, Özbekistandan salamlar bolsun 🇰🇿❤️🇺🇿🐺
For anybody wondering why some maps here of the country have a weird circle cut out in the center, that would be the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is leased to Russia, so Kazahk authorities have only limited power there, as far as I know.
thank you! I was trying to find what that was up with that!
@@zacherysaucier6747the principle is similar to US military bases
Baikonur was like Subic and Clark Airfields before the volcanic eruption in 1991, local laws don't apply to them.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa I can count on my hand how many host nations are happy with having Russian bases on or around their land. Meanwhile nearly all American ones are by the grace of the host countries. That concept baffles the Russians to this day…and they wonder why their former “allies” couldn’t wait to flee the second the USSR collapsed🤦🏼♂️dümbässes
@@abel_underwateredit: why is the dumbarse below talking reuniting on military base topic
kazackstan wanted to stay in USSR and voted to keep it running when everyone voted out.
You are spreading horrible misinfo they also like and by grace keep russians in
I am from Uzbekistan and I can tell you that Central Asia is the unluckiest region on earth. We were subjugated and conquered by the Chinese (during the Tang), and later the Russians. And both of them wanted to depopulate us long ago, hell there were even eradication of Western Turkic population (it was the Tang that a massive Turkic population fled west), and then Russian imperialism. We were so lucky to survive today.
EU: soon
You are a very tough people. Surviving two evil empires altogether demonstrated that.
So convenient of you to forget the fact that these empires were so hostile because they were ravaged by Central Asians for centuries. The Mongols and the Huns ransacked China more times than you could count and slaughtered people and the Russians were severely impacted by such raids too, so much so that the entire reason Russia exists was because they had to unify the Kievan Rus into a tsardom to increase their level of power to stop being massacred, sold into slavery and having their cities burnt down.
I just find it hypocritical that people complain about the "white man" and conveniently forget about WHY they do stuff like this in the first place. The Mongols almost annihilated the Kievan Rus from existence it was so bad, you thought the Russians would let that happen again?
Russia is so paranoid about war and invasions that they conquer the world in order to not be conquered because you burnt them so bad. The entire reason Russia took over Central Asia was to stop the barbarians from ransacking their nation.
@@user-ug6qu9se3e They aren't "evil." You forget China and Russia were annihilated by Genghis Khan as well as other Central Asian nomadic peoples who crippled them so badly that both China and Russia turned the tables as soon as they could and expanded into those lands to prevent it from ever happening again.
War is natural for all societies. Stop acting like some moral crusader, there is NO such thing as good or evil, they are all convenient labels humans just make up in their head and throw at whatever, at whenever time they please.
@@maozedong8370
Now the moskhols have become these barbarians instead, Chairman Mao
As a Kyrgyz born in Kyrgyzstan and now residing in Kazakhstan, I deeply appreciate this insight into Kazakhstan's history.
It's a reminder of the resilience and strength of this nation, which I'm proud to call my second home. Thank you for sharing this powerful video.
As Kyrgyz and Kazakhs, we are brothers, sharing a bond that transcends borders🇰🇬 🇰🇿
I mean your both closely ethnically related, basically were same people until 600sAD, and used to reside in the same location close to modern Tuva.
exactly
i love videos like these, especially after just finishing ap human geography this year!! political geography, international relations and history is so interesting to me! its so sad hearing about all the struggles kazakhstan has gone through but its also so informative and really cool to learn about
I was born and have always lived in Almaty, the largest city in Qazaqstan. Always knew that my country is 9th by size, but it was a piece of abstract information for me. Only after I decided to drive 1200 km from Almaty to Astana I realised how huge and beautiful my country is. 18 hours on the road. Borderless steppes, arid lone hills, distant mountains, dense northern forests and this lead-coloured heavy sky (as we say in russian). I had to see it to undestand that I truly love this land all that it bears
I'm American and I've driven across the vast empty stretches of this land under skies lead, cobalt, yellow and every shade of desert pastel. It's true, being by yourself across such an immense and glorious landscape does bring about love for the land.
Central Asia is a criminally underrated part of the world, so thank you for making yet another video about them 🇰🇿🇰🇬
Because y’all are not important
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 uneducated 😉😉
Wtf???
@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 no one:
Absolutely no one:
You for some reason: ur worthless
Why bro? Why be a terrible person?
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 tell that to the west who are increasingly meddling in with us as to avoid russian and chinese dominance in the region
Simon did an extraordinary documentary about the Aral Sea. I rarely get upset over planetary/ Climate change topics, but Simon's video absolutely devastated me for days after watching it. The arrogance of a few men destroyed not only the lives of millions of people, but also turned a verdant paradise into a dystopian desert hellscape, just for a short-term unsustainable gain. But the effort humans took to save the Aral Sea gave me so much hope for humanity.
One of the best videos I have seen about my homecountry, and mostly accurate. Thank you for sharing.
As a Kyrgyz i remember my grandfather told me how the Russians starved the Kazakhs and they fled to us and we helped our brother nation
Иә, Жүсіп Абдрахманұлына мың рақмет
Полное враньё
Typical Russia
@@57ar7up типичный западный зомби.
Сколько тебе платят за это враньё?
World Records of Every Central-Asian Country:
Kazakhstan: The largest land-locked country in the world
Uzbekistan: The cheapest country in the world
Kyrgyztstan: The furthest country from any major oceans of the world
Tajikistan: Has the highest average elevation in the world
Turkmenistan: The weirdest country in the world
and kurdistan the biggest non state opp in the middle East .
the stan is a curse bro 💀
@@samankucher5117 oh man, you haven't heard about "Sovietistan", :)
Pakistan?
@@aksamhuda7does anything need to be said about pakistan? We all have eyes lol
You mean Turkmenistan, the country with a leader that has the smallest pipi in the world
A hard video to get through, yet it always warms my heart to see people recovering.
I am from Uzbekistan and it is similar issue. Soviet union destroyed ecology of the country, colonized the population, instilled the practice of using child labor to work on cotton fields... everything soviet union ever did resulted in famine, death, ecological disasters, wars. Current russia is trying to keep the traditions of destroying everything good around them.
Alternative title, ''History and Geography of Kazakhstan''
Thats not how you get millions of people to click on all those videos.
He often does this just to make video longer he never jsut gets to the point he easily could make this a 10 minute video but he is greedy
I guess historical context just flies right over your head@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334
@@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 fully agree
Wondering how much of a role plays that the country is settled on a salt basin, between the Black and Caspian Sea?
Sedimentation on these sills started before 10,000 years ago and continued until 5,300 years ago.
Salt and sand (sodium and silica) do not make for great fertile lands.
Such a deep and correct analysis of Kazakhstan. Big respect to you from kazakh!
hope it goes well for you guys in there. I doubt the west can manage to muster as much support as it lends to its neighborhood, but you are definitely in the right here. wishing unity and prosperity for you.
I'm really grateful to you for covering our history to a wider audience. Words cannot describe the amount of nerves i lost arguing about my own history. I really hope more people will look into this
Great job! I will recommend this video to everybody who wants to know more about KZ
I never realised how similar the history of Kazakhstan is to the history or Ireland
Айтпаңыз, кейін сіздер секілді тілімізді ұмыта жаздадық
Bí sábháilte, mo dheartháir cinniúint Éireannach! Beannachtaí ó an Kazakh tír
...sooo...does this make Borat the original Florida Man ?
Yup. As Kazakh, I’m always surprised, how many similarities there are.
Especially with famine, anti-colonial revolts and loss of native language.
However things are much better with the later issue in Kazakhstan.
Actually North Qazaqstan is like North Ireland...
Hello from Kazakhstan, I am your subscriber
Salām from Pakistan
@@shashlek5751 😂 the largest province of Pakistan is mostly empty
Hello from Ukraine.
Wawa we wa
Пока не появится ролик про твою страну и не узнаешь что так много подписчиков из Казахстана.
Wouldn't describe Australia's 26 million as SIGNIFICANTLY larger than Kazakhstan.
Its just add to Kazakhstan population Kyrgyzstan population. Will be exactly the same population. Australia is very interesting nature. Any kind of creation want to kill you. But we have mountains.
My brother used to be the ambassador to Kazakhstan, and he told me that the country is incredibly beautiful, the people are absolutely friendly and welcoming and the food is fantastic, I'm hoping to visit Kazakhstan someday especially the Bayterek Tower in Astana/Nursultan and the Baikonur Cosmodrome
6:50 Places like Guryev were built at or near older existing cities, with Guryev specifically being near Sarai-Jük which had been one of the major cities of the Golden Horde, the main capital of the Nogai Horde and one of the main cities of the Kazakh Horde.
Жазғаныңыз жақсы болды, әйтпесе кейбір орыстар өздерін сүттен ақ, судан тазамыз деп әңгіме соғып отыр, бізді ақымақ көрсеткілері келіп
this shows how ecologically sensitive some areas are.......
Soviets fricking tried to grow water intense semi-tropical cotton crop in desert like arid climate......complete madness..
That's what happens when people who know absolutely nothing about an industry or sector of life interfere with it.
As the Ancients said, no water, no people. The Aral Sea was destroyed deliberately. To contain the growing violence of the Kazakhs and Uzbeks.
Actually, this cotton was vital for the USSR to wage war against Nazi Germany. It is needed for the production of weapons. Perhaps the Soviets had to wait for supplies from the United States, a country that for a long time did not recognize the USSR at all? And then Churchill started the Cold War altogether. But the author of this video, of course, won't tell you that. He needs to make Russians look like fiends.
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@@rusya_ufa1201ok Russian bot
Super and informative video. Thank you for sharing!
Amazing video, I've learnt so much, I can't believe how little I knew
Went to Kazakhstan on holidays a few years ago, it was a great place to visit, I highly recommend it.
Seriously didn't expect such a great video about my country and people by the thumbnail. But wow, this was really awesome. The points are accurate. Just another fact for the ones interested: because of such a diverse population dynamic, different ethnic groups are coexisting in a very friendly manner these days. I had German, Tatar, Uyghur, Armenian, Georgian, Russian, and Ukrainian friends growing up in Almaty. These days you can see a partial polarisation of the Russian ethnic group living in Kazakhstan, as some embrace Kazakh language and identity in protest of the Russia's policy, while some others get influenced by Russia's rhetorhic. I have seen people organising Kazakh language courses for russians and making reels where they try to speak Kazakh, and there was a small attempt of declaring independence for russia in the north (all of the perpetrators of the attempt are already in jail)
I looked at the ethnic makeup map and noticed it being all over the place. Aren't there many mixed families these days as well?
@@retro5014 Yes. A lot of us are mixed, especially in the cities. My great granddad literally yoinked a german girl from Germany during WW2. In the old days, christian white group usually intermixed between themselves. However, nowadays the ethnic and cultural lines are becoming more blurry between Kazakhs and other ethnic groups. Kazakhs are more homogenous, but there were frequent instances of intermixture, as shown by my great granddad
It wasn't "small attempt of declaring independence for Russia in the north", organization which did it is banned in Russia. Russia and Kazakhstan have history of joint operations against Kazakhstan separatists.
@@everus8558 You mean communists? I think we are speaking about different events here. I am talking about most recent one, with a proletariat thingy
I am thankful that you got to distribute crucial information about my country. It is really nice to know the history of my homeland in such an informative way
5:54 "What are you doing, Steppe-Empire?"
...I'll see myself out.
Love Kazakhstan from USA 🇺🇸❤️🇰🇿
Great success
Borat is that you
You keep your dirty american handa away from kazakh oil😊😊😊
Very nice
Everything the Soviets touched either went to sh*t or to space
I'm dying of laughing 😁😂😆😆😆😆
Well it was a lot of shit that predated the Soviets too in this, and in several ways what came after too, though some of that may still be their fault, at least in parts.
Communism and Nazism is the same thing but different angles. Just as evil.
@@autarchprincepsRussians in general
Fully agree.
such a well detailed video, i salute you
Very well spoken and interesting information thank you
Good God. This country is like the poster child for why environmental impact studiest are necessary.
The case study on how stupidity, cruelty and recklessness can terraform a country in a century.
This is the kind of story I wish was taught in social studies classes in school. Holy hell.
Actually, this cotton was vital for the USSR to wage war against Nazi Germany. It is needed for the production of weapons. Perhaps the Soviets had to wait for supplies from the United States, a country that for a long time did not recognize the USSR at all? And then Churchill started the Cold War altogether. But the author of this video, of course, won't tell you that. He needs to make Russians look like fiends.
Well done job. Thank you for covering this topic. Despite all this geographic disadvantages and historic catastrophies Kazakhstan's fertility rate has been high lately, and ethnic Kazakhs now comprise more than 71 percent of total population, unlike 29 % earlier.
And I want to mention the history of my family. That in the 1950s and 1960s my grandparents just like many other rural Kazakhs were able to have 13 and 8 children respectively to change Kazakh demography after previous enourmous losses, fruits of which we see today.
My mother's mother died in her 50s in a car accident having 13 children left, so I have never had a chance to see her alife, but she is my hero..
а теперь подумай, что вы будете делать через 5-10 лет с 2-3 миллионами безработной молодежи? Учитывая нарастающую исламизацию и национализм. Беспредел 2022 в году покажется вам цветочками. Отвечу заранее - они станут питательной средой для ИГИЛ, а учитывая близость Афганистана.....
@@rusya_ufa1201 Не твое дело. Это лучше, чем свой народ на мясорубку отправлять. Заимись своим терроризмом и национализмом.
@@rusya_ufa1201будем счастливо смотреть как распадается россея 😂
@@Jade-ju1qs скорей уж южный Казахстан станет новым Сомали, а север станет Россией, которая огородится от варваров с юга минными полями. 🤭🤭
I'm glad someone finally made a video on this topic! As a history and geography teacher, I know everything that is said in this video - but I want every ordinary Kazakh people to know it .
Thank you for the video :3
Really interesting. Kazakhstan is one of the top countries on my bucket list, awesome to learn about it.
A few mistakes I should point out:
Guryev and Vernyi aren't Northern forts, Guryev is the modern-day city of Atyrau located in the West, and Vernyi is the Soviet name for Almaty, located in the South-East
Also, it would've made sense to mention the forceful relocation of ethnic Koreans to Central Asia by Stalin during WWII
Other than that, a solid video 👌
Am I the only one who has the impression that the history of humanity is the scariest horror story ever written?
Thank you a lot for making a video about Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 ❤️
Wow. I had a friend from Kazakhstan. She was awesome.
Holy shit!? I've never seen this talked about in history. My Grandfather was one of the Volga Germans. We fled to Canada.
Себебі біздің тарихты орыстар жойып жіберді :(
@@abylai8kerim seems like Russians are always in the business of destroying things. I wish they’d keep to themselves and leave everybody else the hell alone!
@@abylai8kerim안타깝네요. 😢
I've never seen the actual Volga Germans history covered. They've had such a unique history of being deportated here and there, seen so much injustice, and still preserve their cultural roots. Respect
I've never seen the actual Volga Germans history covered. They've had such a unique history of being deportated here and there, seen so much injustice, and still preserve their cultural roots. Respect
I remember reading one of the articles by Kazakh scientists explaining what would be hypothetical population size if not for the artificial famine caused by collectivisation that was brought by communist. They explained that approximately population size should be around 30-40 million instead of current 20 million (2024). I also heard stories that back in 1920s there used to be more Kazakhs than Uzbeks, but again due robbery from the communist of all the cattle that nomads like us possessed and never being taught farming (communist had plan to do that but “conveniently” they never did) caused death of approximately 2-3 million people eventually becoming minority in own country
A lot if information! Great job
Thwnk you for fixing microphone
As a Turkish person, Kazakhstan is endearing for us. I feel sorry for their geography though.
Yeah, bro, you've got luckier than us in that way. Also you have the best cousine 🇰🇿❤️🇹🇷
Türik bauırıma salem!
Түрік бауырыма сәлем!
love Kazakhstan from Bangladesh. You guys have enormous land and beautiful landscape.
Thank you for improving your mic. It sounds great.
Thanks!Good work!🇰🇿
The suffering endured by Kazakhstan is mind-boggling and demonstrates that human cruelty and selfishness know no limits.
Its always "human cruelty" when men did it innit?
@aruwhat6714 Ok, patriarchal cruelty. Is that better ?
@@aruwhat6714 but women supported that cruelty too. Also, don't forget that Russia was also ruled by women who also desired kazakh land no matter what it will cost to conquer it
"why Kazahstan is empty"
20 million Kazahstan people: "aight imma head out"
You have to head out first
not u😭
Title should be why Kazakhstan is so big yet so under populated
Because the Russians destroyed us in the Soviet Union, the famine of 1932 was severe
WHY ARE U EVERYWHERE
Very informative video
Awesome Video 👍 we left pavlodar in 1997 and for most of my life the thing i remembered about my bithplace was how non native and native people there lived next to each other but acted like enemys to each other. After my First visit 15 years later i was in awe how things changed. It Seemes like at least in our City everyone especially the younger generations live as one Nation no matter the ethnicity
Thanks for covering our country's complex history and situation, we were crippled by outside forces and geography and could as well disappear but our kindness and resilience kept us going into the 21st century with proud steps towards recovery. We value our multipolar economy and policy and hope to stay on the right track to prosperity🇰🇿❤️
Thanks for the video! It was a nice surprise to see Kazakhstan covered!
This video basically summarizes the entire syllabus of my HST 100 - History of Kazakhstan course in college :)
I’m a Kazakh, I have died and risen thousands of times.
Amazing job, thank you for this video. catched every moments!
mic sounds a lot better
Im from Ukraine and the greatest population oor country ever had was 52 million and just before the war it was about 42 million. And, similarly to Kazakhs, we have a great amount of agricultural land +a dense river network and almost the entire terrain being flat. And we had the famines of 1921 and 1932 too together with both world wars. I heard that Ukraine would now have about 65-75 million people if not our miserable 20th century history.
Moscow hates not only their own people, but everyone else
Ukraine had more people under Russia than when governing itself 😂😂
I love Ukraine 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇦
@@just_a_turtle_chad You are actually a russian propaganda bot, haha
Same.
It would be great if Kazakhstan becomes as Wealthy as South Korea or Singapore 🇸🇬 🇰🇿 🇰🇷 in the future.
Amazing video, but also so sad..