Does anyone else look at the dates of death on the people when they pop up to see if they witnessed WW2 ?
@Jack29245
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I always do that and I pay more attention if they died in 1945 because it makes me wonder if they lived to see the end of the war.
@PetarJovanovic993
7 жыл бұрын
Von Mackensen comes to mind.
@ZayanK
7 жыл бұрын
evolutionzFTW omg yes, every time.
@mattgaston2976
7 жыл бұрын
Vicky Illingworth doesn't matter either way tbh, by 1945 it was only going one way
@Jack29245
7 жыл бұрын
Of course but more the point of David Lloyd George, for example, he died in 1945 and my point was did he live to see his nation emerge victorious from the second great war? Just looked it up and he didn't, of course the war was only going one way but I pay attention because I like to know if they saw the end and died knowing their people whatever side they were on could live in peace,
@WookieSwagga
7 жыл бұрын
The tsar should have used his extra admin points to stab up. Shame.
@SeinenNinja
7 жыл бұрын
Ezzolino da Romano or get a Theologian advisor. Or not accept that call to arms that Serbia sent.
@Gh0stClown
7 жыл бұрын
This would be Vicky 2 by this point and you can't do that.
@KitteridgeStudios
7 жыл бұрын
And how would a 0/0/0 get these admin points?
@kryska1345
7 жыл бұрын
P.S. Just demand it from the clergy :D
@chrismcbride3209
7 жыл бұрын
JayCat maybe he doesn't have the DLC, Rasputin probably told him not to
@officerchad1213
7 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early, Rasputin was still alive
@silvioevan11
7 жыл бұрын
Political correctness - Thank God it doesn't exist in this channel ;-)
@DaniTheDeer
7 жыл бұрын
Preston Zhukov You should be leading the frontline, comrade, not watching videos.
@JarthenGreenmeadow
7 жыл бұрын
Political correctness has no place in modern war.
@officerchad1213
7 жыл бұрын
Joseph Stalin understood sir, I shall destroy Army group North
@bbcmotd
7 жыл бұрын
sir? Boris, catch him, is american spy. Tovarisch Stalin! not sir
@danielbat9887
7 жыл бұрын
Well, so it begins. Buckle up boys, this story is 70 years long....
@StevenEveral
6 жыл бұрын
* Grabs Xtra Large tub of popcorn * 🍿🍿🍿
@sss1029
3 жыл бұрын
70 + years of torture that goes on to this day
@vaziralramin4565
2 жыл бұрын
@@sss1029 as a Russian I agree
@KaiserMattTygore927
5 жыл бұрын
"Modern war had become unprofitable" Never has a man been so wrong before...
@dejacavu6259
3 жыл бұрын
True, And Access to water for their ships was huge. They needed Constantinople, Hence fighting with the Turks over land.
@DASagent
2 жыл бұрын
The rest of the quote turned out correct.
@annacostello5181
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunate
@wrednax8594
2 жыл бұрын
It's true today
@figby189
29 күн бұрын
That's why they don't do wars in the West anymore
@MrAnonymousRandom
7 жыл бұрын
The problem with Russia back then was its government refused to acknowledge how far behind they were and modernize. Japan on the other hand knew it didn't stand a chance against industrialized countries and worked overtime to catch up. The Russo Japanese war demonstrates how much of a difference modernization can make.
@LAFC.
8 ай бұрын
"Japan worked overtime to catch up". What a nice way of saying Japan was failing so they just decided to steal other countries resources and land LOL. Hail Capitalism.
@thegreatgreenmenace4050
7 жыл бұрын
I love you, Great War production team.
@GECKOZFTW
7 жыл бұрын
The Great Green Menace Who doesn't?
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+The Great Green Menace we love you too
@Pikkabuu
7 жыл бұрын
Hötzendorfs and Cadornas estates who don't like how the Great War team puts those two down so much?
@MrDucehands
7 жыл бұрын
The Great War Any thoughts about doing an episode on the origins and adoption of the different insignias (like the one in thumbnail photo for this episode) for the participating nations? I find it very interesting.
@Johnny-Thunder
7 жыл бұрын
I think I'm gonna miss this show when it eventually ends next year.
@rubbishdump09
2 жыл бұрын
It has never been mentioned enough that just prior to WW1 Russia had the fastest growing economy in the world (that includes the U.S, which was actually in recession in 1914 and might have remained so had it not been for increased foreign war demands). This Russian growth spurt would have continued under the Kerensky government as armaments had already turned the corner by 1917 while simultaneously consumer goods production began to tick up . Unfortunately for Russia they had the Bolsheviks appear on the scene ( ~1% support, despite their false claims of popularity) These Bolsheviks promptly did what Mao was later to do in China, - drove growth through the floor for decades! Moral of the story: the last thing any country needs is self appointed " intellectual revolutionaries" making any decisions on anything. Whether they are left of centre or right of centre these delusionary quacks are equally incompetent and have always a net negative to the growth and success
@romainperello554
Жыл бұрын
On pure economical terms, Bolsheviks were better than Mao and they did modernized the country. But in a horrible way, and the result was likely inferior to the one you could have got if the civil war had been avoided.
@SheepFilmsMC
7 жыл бұрын
"oh i know, lets collapse a nation with the worst government type ever in the middle of a world war" -soviet revolutionaries
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Roll of Tape hindsight is 20/20
@wierdalien1
7 жыл бұрын
Roll of Tape its not lenin's fault it went bad its stalin.
@wierdalien1
7 жыл бұрын
Roll of Tape its not lenin's fault it went bad its stalin.
@ilpazzo1257
7 жыл бұрын
Soviets quit the war tho. Also they had a civil war going on after that, which makes messes more messy
@Solaxe
7 жыл бұрын
they quit the war after a crippling treaty
@NeoYgdrassyl
7 жыл бұрын
This video means that the Russian Revolution starts this week!!!
@Gew219
7 жыл бұрын
NeoYgdrassyl But the democratic revolution, not the communist one, mind you.
@NeoYgdrassyl
7 жыл бұрын
The comunist one sarts in octeber, isnt?
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+NeoYgdrassyl the first one, yes
@Duke_of_Lorraine
7 жыл бұрын
with the Russians still using the Julian calender, it's a bit confusing. For example the February Revolution hasn't started yet and we're in March
@richardshort3914
7 жыл бұрын
*+Duke of Lorraine* In 1805 the Austrians had a firm commitment from the Russians that their armies join up on a specific date. The Austrians assumed the Russians had set the rendezvous based on the Gregorian calendar, not the Julian. The result (known as the _Ulm Campaign_) was a disaster for the Austrians who had to face Napoleon alone.
@Isildun9
7 жыл бұрын
You know, his policies and lack of ability to rule aside, from my research, Nicholas II wasn't a bad guy at heart, he just wasn't the man that Russia, and the Imperial Dynasty, needed to at the time. He did ok, in peace time, but wartime was too much for a man like him. His flaws aside, and his wife's, they didn't deserve what happened to them in Yekaterinburg, and his children especially didn't. No one deserves that.
@kirillassasin
5 жыл бұрын
He did, his family not.
@ShadowSumac
5 жыл бұрын
He was an inept idiot. It might sound cruel, but he absolutely deserved everything that had happened to him. His family, obviously, did not. He was the man, who lead to collapse of the Russia and rise of the USSR.
@paungabriel9360
4 жыл бұрын
@@ShadowSumac Lenin actually wanted to keep the tsar as a political figurehead.
@tarasivashchuk1973
4 жыл бұрын
An unfortunate necessity caused by their families claim and exercise of divine rule. Leaving any of them alive would create potentially insurmountable legitimacy problems for the new Soviet leaders.
@Mourtzouphlos240
3 жыл бұрын
You do know he was a monstrous racist who sent other monstrously racist militias out to butcher his subjects right?
@dandhan87
7 жыл бұрын
Had Tsar Alexander II survived, Russia may had been transitioned into a constitutional monarchy
@dandhan87
7 жыл бұрын
spacecadet28 I am talking about Nicolas's grandfather
@Gew219
7 жыл бұрын
dandhan87 One of the greatest irony of the history is that he was murdered by people who wanted more freedom to people, as he did. But all they have done was to cement the autocracy.
@dandhan87
7 жыл бұрын
Gew219 sadly it's true, had he survived, Communism could have been dead on arrival, anyway we can't expect anarchists to think straight. Russia is a good example of the wheel of time every civilization rise and fall, a new one rises from its ruins
@bwcmakro
7 жыл бұрын
Alexander II was one of the greatest, if not THE greatest Russian monarchs. He really could have laid down the foundation for a much more free and modern system of government in Russia. He was actually killed because he didn't want to leave his wounded men - his carriage was ambushed by a bomber, but the Tsar was unhurt. However, a few of his guards were. He refused to leave, saying that "military dignity demanded he converse with the wounded men" and then a second bomber, which was set up on a different route, made it to the scene and killed the Tsar.
@agentshadow5
7 жыл бұрын
Makro catherine the great? peter the great?
@tacticalpasta6691
7 жыл бұрын
It's pretty ridiculus how hard the anarchists despised Alexander II and how badly they wanted to kill him. At one point, they even criticised Michael Bakunin (a famous anarchist activist) for being not radical enough. It's even more ridiculus when you see how much they hated and desired to kill Alexander II (7 assasination attempts), meanwhile Alexander III, the actual tyrant and despot, wasn't so "popular" among them (only ONE assasination attemp). They didn't want any reforms. They desired chaos.
@IncomitatusExcelsior
5 жыл бұрын
They wanted to head off any co-option of socialist reform by the state. Basically, they didn't want the Tzar to pull a Bismark, which they knew was a real possibility because Bismark had done it in Germany and totally took the wind out of socialism's sails there.
@jangrosek4334
5 жыл бұрын
Alexander III began to destroy the anarcho revolutionary groups.
@treehugger3615
4 жыл бұрын
Russia can only be ruled with an iron fist.
@mazadancoseben4818
4 жыл бұрын
@@treehugger3615,it's a tragedy then. One dictator after another
@treehugger3615
4 жыл бұрын
@@mazadancoseben4818 Indeed...
@FireAssayDevil
7 жыл бұрын
80% of all foreign investment coming into Russia was from France (Niall Ferguson's "The Pity of War: not my favourite author or book, but still an interesting fact). This was funding the prewar economic boom to a fair extent I estimate.
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact indeed.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
Probably that as much as any formal treaty explained the alignment with the Entente. Also why France (and Britain) wanted to keep Russia in the war even after the October Revolution.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
French, British and to a lesser extent US investors had sunk a lot of money in the Tsarist Empire (one town in Ukraine, Yuzovka, was even founded and named after a British investor called Hughes - it was later renamed). The October Revolution spelled goodbye to the investment, and Western support for the Whites and a lot of subsequent history had less to do with "freedom" and more to do with investors wanting their money back.
@rohiths3554
3 жыл бұрын
Figures the alliance
@alexanderpavlovichromanov3065
7 жыл бұрын
The saddest moment. When the 304 years of Romanov rule, came to a bitter end. In the 24 years that I ruled Russia(1801-1825), I defeated Napoleon, defeated Turkey, ceded Poland and Finland, confirmed Russia as a major superpower of the world, but in the end... nothing was left, it was all... gone...... --Czar Alexander I
@immanuelsugar6209
5 жыл бұрын
Shut up, you were a terrible emperor.
@marcnassif2822
5 жыл бұрын
@@immanuelsugar6209 You were on the wrong side of history
@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
5 жыл бұрын
@@immanuelsugar6209 He never even "Defeated" me. His generals and the physical field conditions did.
@immanuelsugar6209
5 жыл бұрын
Napoleon Bonaparte l'Empreur de la Francois Exactly
@napoleonbonaparteempereurd4676
5 жыл бұрын
@@immanuelsugar6209 In any case I'm still the best general of the time period
@tylerwood9844
7 жыл бұрын
Two questions, can you do an episode or an "out of the trenches" on the following questions: What was Siam's role in the war? How were the national currencies affected by the war, and why did so many countries get off the gold standard? Good job with the show.
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Tyler Wood two questions that will be answered with special episodes
@qasemsoleimani9443
7 жыл бұрын
The antisemitic pogroms in 1905 were not a coincidence. The Tsarist regime intentionally encouraged them, so that the enraged peasants would get distracted from something else than the failures of the monarchy.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
The Black Hundreds paramilitary organisation that organised them was in any ways a precursor of fascism.
@qasemsoleimani9443
7 жыл бұрын
After all, the secret police, Okhrana, and its head, Pyotr Rachkovski were responsible for the creation of the Protocols of the Sages of Sion.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
There were pogroms right after the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, based apparently on one of the more marginal participants in the conspiracy, Jessya Helfman, being Jewish. Large-scale Jewish emigration to the USA and Western Europe resulted. By 1888 a fair part of London's Whitechapel area was inhabited by Russian Jews, leading to rumours that Jack The Ripper was one of them. The tactic of blaming Jews for revolutionary acts was well established by the time Nicholas became Tsar in 1894 - minority groups were in fact well represented in socialist, anarchist and separatist circles. Alexander II had survived an assassination attempt in the 1860s. When the attacker, Karakozov, was brought before him, the Tsar's first question to Karakozov was "Are you a Pole?" The Tsar had trouble believing that an ethnic Russian, as opposed to members of troublesome minorities, would try to kill him. There was a Polish rebellion in 1863 - abolishing serfdom did not end discontent in the Empire.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
The successful assassin in 1881, Hryniewiecki, who was himself mortally wounded in the explosion that killed the Tsar, was a Belarusian Pole, although most participants in the conspiracy were Russians. Despite this, Poles were not particularly victimised for the assassination afterwards.
@qasemsoleimani9443
7 жыл бұрын
Yes, we do, in contrast to Nazis, who blame weak minorities for their failures.
@olegvegan
2 жыл бұрын
The fact that we have actual footage of these people blows my mind
@VladTevez
7 жыл бұрын
_"Oh, those Russians"_
@AriGold134
7 жыл бұрын
Who is this giant dude (general) who almost always walks next to the tsar?
@sryan9547
7 жыл бұрын
Ha, I just thought the Tsar was short. That dude is huge!
@Geobacter
7 жыл бұрын
It should be Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia (1856-1929).
@aritakalo8011
7 жыл бұрын
+Irishman Actually they were apparently known among family as Nikolas the Tall and Nikolas the Short. Since the taller Nikolas is Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich Romanov of Russia and was a cousin of the short Nikolas, Tsar Nicholas II
@Lagunabeachbikini
7 жыл бұрын
According to internet Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich of Russia was 6′ 6″ while Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was 5'7". Tsar Nicholas II's father, His Imperial Majesty Tsar Alexander III, was 6'3" and a mighty man. Alexander III looks like he could be a WWF wrestler.
@TukozAki
4 жыл бұрын
That's one noble who reaally deserved his title, for once!
@MichaTheLight
Жыл бұрын
The Tsars reluctance towards modernization produced their violent demise. Bolscheqiks would be never able to grap power when an decade before an constitutional monarchy would have done the necessary reforms to "entschärf" social bomb lungering into Russian society.
@FunSizeSpamberguesa
5 жыл бұрын
Man, these anarchists always do seem to pick the worst possible target to assassinate.
@lordhamster9452
2 жыл бұрын
wow 2017? I remember watching this channel in my free time when I began to study history a while back. now that I need to grind for exams, this digestible rundown is super useful. fantastic!
@agentshadow5
7 жыл бұрын
i just hate it the fact when the allies refuse to grant nicholas II a refuge to their countries, yes i get it that there's a huge revolutionary fervor in UK or France if he would take refuge to those countries but come on, russia suffered 10 million casualties in the Great War and yet these "allies" of russia have no sign of respect to the fallen Romanovs
@fairhurst101films
7 жыл бұрын
Northfield Stardford 7 million Russians were dead or wounded by the start of 1917 after the two and a half years of war. Sorry, not taking a side but I like to put out the numbers
@elmaleko1990
7 жыл бұрын
he and his wife had it coming, but not their children tho.
@LukeHaslerMusic
7 жыл бұрын
The Blur The Russian Peasantry called Nicholas "Nicholas the Bloody" after his army's had suppressed peaceful protests with massacres. He refused to allow democratic rule and since Britain was demanding democracy and constitutional monarchies around the world it would have been seen as very, very counterintuitive and ridiculous. Remember that the only monarchy to survive WW1 is the British monarchy. They had to be very careful in every choice to protect themselves and so although the British offered the Tzar and his family a home in England and the offer was later withdrawn after the family couldn't leave Russia due to the children getting the flu it was a fair judgement on the West's part. The Tzar had murdered his own people and caused unimaginable suffering. They had no idea that the Communists would execute the family and in such a cruel way.
@ndalum75
7 жыл бұрын
I'd say it was very unpragmatic in the long term. Having the Tsar still alive would have given the White Army a key figure to rally behind, no matter how controversial he was.
@adamfrisk956
7 жыл бұрын
He didn't murder people. He didn't even know about it. He was away from the city atm.
@pyrosauria7444
7 жыл бұрын
Will we get a Lenin and Stalin during the war episode? :o
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Pyroskies Lenin for sure. But Stalin did less than nothing in this war.
@CochoSGO
7 жыл бұрын
Actually Stalin was in charge of the bolschevik party during the february revolution, as Lenin was on the exile, yet he did nothing of value during that time, to the point to being in talks about integrating the transitional goverment which would've been ruinous to the bolschevik cause.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
I think Stalin was still in Siberian exile at the time of the February revolution, being released after it. He had been jailed and then sent to Siberia a little before the outbreak of war.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
He appeared before a draft board after the outbreak of war but was found to be unfit for military service, as one arm was shorter than the other (this is clear in some photos) and this meant he could not align a rifle properly.
@Sasuri
7 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video of the Railways, Steam Engines, and Trains during the Great War? I would love to see that in a Special.
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Louis Mendoza coming in about two or three weeks.
@Milos89kv
7 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@stephen9869
7 жыл бұрын
Great idea.
@Railhog2102
3 жыл бұрын
There were a number of steam locomotives meant for Russia which we built here in the US but when revolution broke out many of them were never sent there and got assigned to American railroads
@Duke_of_Lorraine
7 жыл бұрын
During the Napoleonic Wars, the Russians famously made a gross timing error when trying to help the Austrians : due to the offset between their calender and the gregorian calender, they arrived on time... according to their calendar so that means 2 weeks late, and during that time Napoleon had already kicked most of the asses in Austria (meaning that almost no Austrian troops were left to fight at Austerlitz). Did the Russians have similar problems when trying to coordinates with their allies in WW1 ?
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
Perhaps. Russian commanders could not seem to coordinate with one another, let alone allies on the other side of Europe. By WW1, Russian desk calendars gave the Julian and Gregorian dates on the same page (note that at the end of the 1927 Soviet film October, such a desk calendar is shown, with the date October 25/November 7).
@DrewTidwell
7 жыл бұрын
I love what you all do, and I have to say, this is one of your best episodes yet.
@milesransweiler70
7 жыл бұрын
Ra Ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
I remember that being played at a disco at my school not long after the song was released.
@oscarfellows6709
6 жыл бұрын
There was a cat that really was gone!
@eriktillman8114
6 жыл бұрын
It was a shame how he carried on!
@0hn0haha
6 жыл бұрын
That song is so historically inaccurate, honestly... I cringe whenever I hear it.
@renel8964
5 жыл бұрын
Oh those Russians...
@adaw2d3222
7 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget the utmost backwardness of the Russian ex-serfs. They were very tradionalist in nature and hated almost any advancement in the failed reforms of Stolyupin, which tried to create a new class of capitalists of the new land owning class of peasants, since by now, the knights had sold off their lands and agriculture suffered as the former landowners(the capitalists) were left destitute. A lot of modern thinking literate peasants who tried to mechanize their plots, make a business out of agriculture, etc. were murdered by the people who wanted to preserve the traditional Russian serf way of life. One of the reasons which caused this was the baby boom caused by the freeing of the slaves resulting in huge purchases of noble lands by the ex-serf communities. The serf way mandated, that once a man took a wife and had children, the plot was split, and thus since, every generation created more and more peasants, plots became smaller and smaller. The traditionalists saw these new capitalist-peasants as a threat since they had the most money(They even had a new agricultural bank) to buy new land and till it with efficiency with their modern agricultural machinery. Source: A people's tragedy: A history of the Russian revolution by Orlando Figes.
@gspaulsson
7 жыл бұрын
Alexander II wasn't assassinated by anarchists, but by the populist group Narodnaia Volya (The Nation's Will), which was vaguely socialist and eventually became the Socialist Revolutionaries, Kerensky's party, which formed the government after the Tsar abdicated and won the elections to the Constitutional Assembly in 1917. By then, they had become a western-style social democratic party.
@stevekaczynski3793
7 жыл бұрын
Bakunin, a key Russian anarchist, had had some influence on the group's development. Anarchists had some influence on a wide range of movements and individuals who were not exactly anarchists. Gavrilo Princip was for example a Serbian nationalist, but some of his writings and reported statements suggest anarchist influence.
@morganlewis6605
7 жыл бұрын
Would you consider doing a special on the Russo-Japanese war? as a sort of prelude to the Russain revoltuion, essentially, just get into more detail about it.
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Morgan Lewis sorry, if we did that, we would need to cover a lot of other wars too.
@morganlewis6605
7 жыл бұрын
No need to be sorry! Thanks for getting back to me! Love what you guys do, keep up the great work! :)
@mariusstana
7 жыл бұрын
I recomend to all of you Orlando Fige's books on the Russian revolution and Civil war and Richard Pipes's books ! Thank you for this episode, Been expecting this !!
@foobloo101
7 жыл бұрын
Damn. It's crazy to see how the history unfolds. Like watching a never-ending tapestry be woven together.
@CrapeCraft
7 жыл бұрын
The Russian Revoltuion has always perplexed me. They fought so hard to replace and autocratic monarchic government... Only to replace it with an even worse Autocratic Dictatorship.
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+CaptainCrape you will see that it's a pretty complex matter. Some also call the second revolution a coup.
@MrDudenaldo457
7 жыл бұрын
Twenty five million people dead in less than a century, pre-decided occupations, lack of food, Brutal squashing of all dissent, near complete outlawing of theism, selective starvings, control on travel, no right of voice or assembly and etc. Communism was Tsarist rule on steroids, with far more murder of course.
@digitalbrentable
7 жыл бұрын
Except that the population, literacy, and life expectancy all grew under the USSR. Not only that, in two short decades the USSR revolutionised Russia from agrarian serfdom into industrialised 'war communism' capable of taking on, and ultimately defeating, Nazi Germany (a highly industrialised, fully developed western military power). After saving the Russian people from wholesale genocide at the hands of Nazis, the soviets then went on to pioneer satellite technology, put the first man into space, and even landed a probe on Venus. Not saying the government of the USSR is beyond reproach, but the idea that communism was a disaster for Russia is obviously muddled, cold-war-era propaganda. The soviets bore the brunt of the German military might, they weathered it, and they won; yet they did this after two decades of destroying their own country?
@CrapeCraft
7 жыл бұрын
But whats worse? The Nazi's or Stalin's great purge, forced famines and appalling war strategy? 23 million died under Stalin, and that's still outside of WW2 millitary deaths, and still excluding the huge number of minorities slaughtered or replaced under his authority.
@CrapeCraft
7 жыл бұрын
Roland Wiggensbach en.m.wikipedia.org
@LeftToWrite006
2 жыл бұрын
So many times, the people who will benefit the most from a change kill the people who try to implement that change.
@nostradamusofgames5508
7 жыл бұрын
"modern war had become unprofitable..." oh how wrong he is
@michaeldiebold8847
7 жыл бұрын
fantastic job, sir. thank you. as always, your understanding of history is factual and clinical yet entertaining, as it should be.
@jortikkaa568
7 жыл бұрын
Hi TGW team! I vaguely remember my junior high school history teacher saying something like this: Germany wanted to beat Russia, before it could industrialize, and especially before there was a proper railway network in Russia. So the war had to happen in 1914, and not later. Is there anything to it? Thanks for the great show. Keep up the good work!
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+jortikka a that is absolutely correct. for the same reason the Germans couldn't focus on Russia first, not enough railways in East Prussia and beyond to transport enough German troops quickly.
@jortikkaa568
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for speedy reply :)
@MikaelKKarlsson
7 жыл бұрын
The last four tsarist loyalists in the world found this video surprisingly fast.
@Gorboduc
Жыл бұрын
Imagine if Alexander III lived. He'd only have been around 70 when the war began, a veritable spring chicken next to Franz Josef. 🤔
@Kr0zBoNE
7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!! So this was how they were like. Thanks once again for making it easy, fun and interesting to absorb.
@justinholland9844
3 жыл бұрын
"Modern war has become unprofitable." How mistaken was this guy?
@mikhailbychkov5042
7 жыл бұрын
Ra-ra-Rasputin lover of the Russian queen...
@pedroledoux9779
5 жыл бұрын
In 1914 80% of Russian empire's population was rural. When a country makes the transition from a rural society to urban and industrial one it's economy has a huge boom. UK, France and Germany had did this transition before 1914. Russia not yet, this process was ongoing. Some economists predicted that Russia would become the Europe's greatest economy after this transition, they would be something much bigger and powerfull than UK, France and Germany.
@AFT_05G
5 жыл бұрын
Pedro Ledoux Anyway Russia’s economy was larger than France during ww1.
@napoleonibonaparte7198
7 жыл бұрын
If only the idiot anarchists didn't assassinate Alexander II, maybe, the monarchy can be saved... Fun fact: The armoured carriage was a gift from my nephew, Napoleon III. The carriage was used by Alexander II during the last assassination attempt. He was saved by the carriage from the explosion, BUT, he wanted to see the assailants. He died from another explosion from the last assailant. From then on from his first few assassination attempts, the Tsars would always have guards. Before, the Tsars would roam freely, people wouldn't bother, neither the Tsars will.
@darth254
7 жыл бұрын
Russia gets a lot of flak for their performance during World War 1 but they did pretty darn good against Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans, and they did just enough over the 3 or so years they were in the war for the Allies to win. The Germans were simply on another level than anyone else. I'm probably more impressed with Germany's World War 1 performance over their World War 2 performance...the Germans just sucked diplomatically so hard though during this war to offset their military achievements.
@abbanta3002
5 жыл бұрын
Russia never lost the Crimean war the french wrote a peace treaty and Russia accepted it and singed it because the french and the English we’re starting to lose a lot of soldiers. Russia lost about 5k and the allies about 7k or 8k
@phambaolam7980
6 жыл бұрын
Wow Tsar-Nicholas II die and he family die the Soviet police shot he and he family in 1918
@CONCERTMANchicago
4 жыл бұрын
You know I think it was cool experiencing the Great War day-by-day with Indiana Neidell a hundred years later. _But did we have to experience that whole world virus pandemic thing too?!?_
@redheadrusskie
7 жыл бұрын
Спасибо большое за ваше предоставление этой исторической информаций без политического уклона.
@TranscendianIntendor
5 жыл бұрын
I made care to define myself as a Godwin Anarchist, and I continue to hold to Godwin's definition of what the duties of any legitimate government are. The two duties of any government are Defense & Education. My own novella "The Revolutionary" (amazon, audiobook being best version) taught me anarchy leads to isolation & despair. Philosophy matters a great deal. "I am my ideas." and the Russians get really passionate about it from all I can tell. What we have now is Russian Rand Dystopian Objectivism in conflict with waning, or ground down by numerous factors & beliefs American Ethical Eclectic Pragmatism. in short.
@BFFredo
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Indy, love the channel and have been catching up with all the specials. one quick question: when did the terms "The Great War" and "World War" enter the lexicon? Keep up the great work!
@charleslaine
7 жыл бұрын
Please do a special on August Von Mackensen's amazing hat!
@Jarod-vg9wq
6 жыл бұрын
Adapt or die, something the romanovs didn’t figure out at all in the last years of the war.
@didacclivilleoriol7057
4 жыл бұрын
The only thing I have not understood is how Japan beat Russia
@senichars777
Жыл бұрын
Логистика.
@onrr1726
7 жыл бұрын
I have an original Tula arsenal M1891 Mosin - Nagant rifle with the 1914 date stamped on the receiver. The royal coat of arms is still visible. it's a nice shooter for being 102 years old. The receiver has a 4 digit serial number with a letter before and after the number, the bolt has a 3 digit serial number and the box mag 6 digit serial number and the stock has an aluminum tag with 2 digit number on it. There is no import stamp on the rifle.
@michaelhudson3445
3 жыл бұрын
these stories are broken up and too short.
@officialpymical3966
7 жыл бұрын
here comes the russian conservative long nightmare sadly :(
@eruno_
7 жыл бұрын
Do a special on Japan before and during WW1!
@oJoJo
7 жыл бұрын
Alexander II was the good Czar
@Than3Dane
3 жыл бұрын
When one declines a central bank
@rivacat1971
3 жыл бұрын
Who else is here for class ⬇️
@randomcrapstudios5918
2 жыл бұрын
Online Class.... Yup
@Oupii313
7 жыл бұрын
Maybe a video about countries gaining independence from the Empire. Yeey Finland! *This year, 100 years free!*
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+MrLepola in December
@Oupii313
7 жыл бұрын
6th of December?
@dimitarkondev5522
7 жыл бұрын
Hi Indy. Could you tell us more about the situation of Bulgaria in WW1? Best wishes to you and your crew from Bulgaria. Keep the good work!
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Mitko Kondev there will be more about them soon.
@rockfan1865
7 жыл бұрын
Well... I'm not the first, but at least I'm the 52th viewer :D
@YTPoljo
7 жыл бұрын
Rock fan 52th?
@rockfan1865
7 жыл бұрын
yeah
@smolski9122
7 жыл бұрын
fifty-twoth
@rockfan1865
7 жыл бұрын
FinKicks Ok, I wrote ,,52th" so what?
@jimbenson3926
7 жыл бұрын
52nd
@sirierieott5882
6 жыл бұрын
If only... What a different world it could have been.
@gideonhorwitz9434
4 жыл бұрын
Russia was the last truly medieval autocracy in Europe. The blood and violence of the 1917 revolution was a tragic yet in hindsight an inevitable consequence. If a political system is unable or unwilling to embrace reform the only way it can go is to be violently overthrown.
@Syndie702
7 жыл бұрын
"Modern War has become unprofitable, and a drawn out conflict has become impossible. Industrialized economies are so bound together by trade that a conflict of any duration would lead quickly to collapse, starvation, and revolution." That literally sounds like it could have been written in the early 2000s. I'm not saying there's going to be another Great War, but it's not nearly as far-fetched as people think it is (and it probably won't be nuclear.)
@kaiserhr16
7 жыл бұрын
The best history show on the internet. You should do an episode on subjects of Austria-Hungary as Kingdom of Croatia, Kingdom of Hungary, Bosnia and what each of them did in the war.
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Dominik Hikari we intend to
@hentehoo27
7 жыл бұрын
Suomi mainittu!
@hentehoo27
7 жыл бұрын
minnekään torille *ei edelleenkään* mennä, vaan _saunaan_!
@Jarod-sm5rf
5 жыл бұрын
It seems the romanovs forgot what happened the the French royals when they filed to change with the times.
@mkd2839
7 жыл бұрын
Seize the means of production HYPE
@LuizAlexPhoenix
6 жыл бұрын
MEANS THE PRODUCTION SEIZES!
@raginald7mars408
5 жыл бұрын
Sleepwalkers are walking today ever more sleeping...
@feldwebelhahn8703
7 жыл бұрын
hey indy and crew i love this channel you all put in good work and now my question for out of the trenches did you wake up one day and decide to do this series or has is been a planned out for a while thanks guys for the 3 years of entertainment and knowledge
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Feldwebel Hahn check the interview episode with indy
@thenoosewasthebestinventio9180
7 жыл бұрын
Are you guys ever going to make a Finland special?
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+the noose was the best invention December
@richardkajander1126
7 жыл бұрын
I look forward to it. In one respect, the former Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, led by Carl Mannerheim, could be considered (from one limited angle) as the only "White Russian general" to succeed and survive the Russian Revolution.
@dubiouswatermelon159
7 жыл бұрын
Richard Kajander good point
@piiparinen3456
7 жыл бұрын
Finland will celebrate its 100 years independence anniversary at december 6th....
@yukikaze3436
7 жыл бұрын
Indy The Russian Peasants were not that thrilled about going to war. In Nicholas II defense he had to replace Grand Duke Nicholas N because the man was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He assuming command did help improve his armys morale and the Russian army command system did work better under him. Nicholas often ignored Alexandras advise see the Book "The Last Tsar" Oldenberg
@jeffcrowtherjr.7861
7 жыл бұрын
Of course Russian agriculture was in dire need of mechanization.
@flyforce16
7 жыл бұрын
Was that a Mitchell and Webb reference I heard? :)
@jeffcrowtherjr.7861
7 жыл бұрын
Yep!
@johnboguszewski8316
7 жыл бұрын
Jeff Crowther Jr. 8
@thebigenchilada678
7 жыл бұрын
Durachyok no any leader with a brain could've provided it 100x better than the way in which Stalin did
@Mazetism
7 жыл бұрын
Hey Indy, new History Teacher here from Houston. Love your show, been watching these past 3 years. I'd like you to know, I'd be showing your videos when I discuss the Great War.
@derekbastinck811
7 жыл бұрын
That moment when you're hit with a 2 minute ad but there's a popup above the skip button saying ads support your favorite content
@sharkfinbite
7 жыл бұрын
I remember when I first found out about Russia still having serfdom during those eras he referenced. It was during high school and I was doing research for something regarding the US civil war. I didn't know much about serfdom until looking at this. It's arguably just as archaic and bad as slavery. Heck the US's colonial era actually had a system of serfdom more than slaver in the past at one time and it actually had a extremely high risk if you worked as one. What was so messed up about it this system was it had white, black, and any other kind of race to choose to come here and work as a serf.
@vincecavanaugh1242
7 жыл бұрын
Dear Indy, first My daughters and I are huge fans of you're channel and want to thank you for what you are doing. Second I'm very curious about the issue of substance abuse during the war. What did the soldiers use and how was the issue handled, were they punished, did they receive help, or did the officers just look the other way due to the situation. thank you for your time and could give a shout out to my daughters Haliegh and Sara and their 5th grade class which has been using your videos as a learning tool in their study of the Great War. Thanks again Vince Cavanaugh
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
+Vince Cavanaugh Hi vince, glad you all like the show. we already talked about cocaine etc. in the war in another out of the trenches episode.
@axpro1118
7 жыл бұрын
(for OOTT) Hi Indy and crew was there ever an instance of both sides charging at once?
@shoopdawhoop8730
7 жыл бұрын
hey indy and team. I heard a story that in ww1 on the eastern front the germans and russians lost a lot of people to wolves. They were stop fighting to kill wolves cause it got out of control. Any idea if that story is true? Sounds crazy to me.
@ivan6919
7 жыл бұрын
febuary is only beggining of decade of civil war,communist dictatorism,famine,ww2,cold war,downfall,republic federation and cold war 2.0 to this day
@Depipro
7 жыл бұрын
A great look behind the scenes of late imperial, wartime, revolutionary and early Soviet Russia is offered by the autobiographical novels of Konstantin Paustovski (6 parts). Hereby warmly recommended!
@keonsanavandi7034
3 жыл бұрын
Hey a bit of nitpicking but Alexander II was actually killed by People's Will, a narodist group. Narodism was a uniquely russian ideology based on agricultural villages
@nelsonnoname001
7 жыл бұрын
Long live the Tsar
@didacclivilleoriol7057
4 жыл бұрын
Muda muda muda muda
@dylanrodrigues
Жыл бұрын
I would recommend Mike Duncan’s final season of the Revolutions podcast for more an in-depth and even more fun look into Russian Revolution
@AwesomeIAm15
7 жыл бұрын
So Indy while talking about the Russian Revolution and ensuing civil war are you going to touch on Makhno and his "black" Army in Ukraine?
@senichars777
Жыл бұрын
С половиной не согласен, но писать посты в комментах на ютубе на английском мне лень, конечно. Если вкратце, некоторые вещи утрированы чрезмерно, а некоторые попросту некорректны в силу недостатка тонких нюансов. Но фигли, факт, беда пришла. Страдаем 116 лет блять.
@whatthefrack1220
7 жыл бұрын
VIVA MEXIC-....OPPS wrong revolution.
@josephericksberg7197
7 жыл бұрын
Hello Indy, I'm very interested in learning the different factors and aspects of the Great War. I'm also an armchair Russian historian, particularly interested in the rise of Marxist-Leninism and the USSR in general. I wanted to thank you for the contribution to my knowledge about Russian history prior to the February and October Revolution!!! You run a very interesting and thought-provoking channel that I appreciate and learn from every day. Keep up the good work!!! I did want to ask you a question though, and hopefully (in my wildest dreams) that it will be featured in Out of the Trenches. What was it like for the average soldier during the dissolution of the Russian Army in 1917? What were the general sentiments, fears, or hopes of the average soldier during that time? I'd love to hear your answer. Sincerely, Joseph Ericksberg
@TheGreatWar
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for your kind words! That is indeed a good question for OOTT.
@PeterTikhomirov
6 жыл бұрын
Why have you done Serbian and Chech subtitles and not the russian?
@awolpeace1781
7 жыл бұрын
People have same view war today, as it being too unprofitable, as reason for war not to happen. I hope history doesn''t prove to be cycle.
@josephd.5524
7 жыл бұрын
A living hell of a revolution, all because one dude failed his saving throw.
@KitteridgeStudios
7 жыл бұрын
So Nikolas II. basically was as shitty at running his country as me when I play Victoria II.
@iarba
3 жыл бұрын
‘A few years’ of serfdom was like 49yrs, no? So not in any serf’s lifetime...
@JagerLange
7 жыл бұрын
Another great special - I did want to mention a curiosity I'd encountered about pre-Revolution history, specifically from a UK perspective - I did a module (semester) of Russian history at school and Stolypin featured only briefly, and even then as an example of repression as if him being assassinated was to be expected (the main take-away being the 'Stolypin necktie', the euphemism for capital punishment by hanging). However, a few years later I was surprised and a little confused to read that in "Name Of Russia" (a popular poll for the greatest Russian, similar to Great Britons in the UK), Stolypin came second behind Alexander Nevsky - Stalin came third, which was slightly less understandable (and I say "understandable" loosely...) In short, there appeared to be a lot missing with regard to Stolypin's role in events, either he was misrepresented/misinterpreted and Russians remember him far differently, or simply he isn't/wasn't considered to be as important a figure as people remember him. I'd be happy to have any anyone down here in the comments add more.
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