I'd love to see about africa as a continent with the different countries

Mexico

Brazil

what if italy had never united?

España

*majority

We were there in December, the capital, Ellista is a very small city but it's really beautiful and nice. Russia is diverse and tolerant, in the caucasus as well there are several muslim republics as well as oblasts with orthodox christian majority, so many different religious and ethnic groups living together without fighting and so on

@@lucasresno2076 tolerant? ridiculous

@@eddiester I wouldn’t say tolerant although in my own opinion I do think they are slightly more tolerant towards minorities compared to America I’ve been in both countries im not trying to be a jerk or bash America either so you can attack me but I’m just sharing my honest opinion

@@eddiester How is it ridiculous ? There isn't much racism in Russia. People all live together without any issues.

That's very interesting! What year was this in?

@@General.Knowledge Apparently in the early 17th Century according to Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_Kalmykia

⁠​⁠@@General.Knowledge I remember right it was the 1650s but it was definitely the late 1600s early 1700s. It was within 25 years of setting the area. The Russians used the Kalmyk Khanate as a buffer state between them and the Islamic world while they dealt with European affairs.

Why you call Kalmikia a Cacuses? Kalmikia is flat with steppes and desert while Cacuses is snowy rocky mountains.

​@@robertosantiago1206yeah and less than 100 hundred years after that, when they didn't have to be afraid of the Europeans and decided to go after the Islamic empires, they simply gobled up the Kalmyks. Says a lot about them and their mentality.

exactly.

Except for Yakutia, it's pretty rich. I think it's simply because the life overall is more depressing. Alaska is also similar in this regard.

​@@ptero Crimes is main source of riches in Yakutia. Actually, as with Moscow and the whole Russia, all the money of any region are concentrated in it's main city leaves nothing to other towns and villages.

@@XJureth ??? I didn't get the first part

​@@ptero Mafia as form of government, with a godfather at the top...

True. "People still settle in agricultural regions", how unusual is that?

-30C is terrible winter. It is medium only by Russian standards (or Canadian for that matter)

@@yaturkenzhensirhiv We haven't seen -30C in central Russia for many years. Used to be quite common, not anymore. If it's what they call global warming, I'm 100% for it, thank you Greta.

@@yaturkenzhensirhiv -30C isn't common for majority of where Russians live. Usually it's around -20C which is actually not as bad as it sounds

@@benmm01 still terrible for most part of the world

The people are poor. Norilsk company is rich

@@lubricustheslippery5028 this isnt exactly the truth tho.. despite me not living in norilsk anymore, i still visit it from time to time and people here say that "golden times" have long since passed, but they are still able to earn a good amount of money and live relatively happy. but i agree, norilsk company is the one whos rich here🙂

@@lubricustheslippery5028 you can't be poor in Norilsk like you can't be poor in other cold regions. You either earn enough to fully sustain yourself there or you move to warmer more populated regions

​@@lubricustheslippery5028Google salary. They're not poor at all

@@zirlok3529 Google real expenses. Surviving in the North of Russia is like surviving in Mars.

it's indeed limited, just look at the density of it. you have only trans-siberian railway and "BAM" in Zabaykalsky Kray for example, and this region is HUGE

There's a railway that connects Europe with the pacific. Yeah, it's cool, but that's kinda it. Travelling through various territories in Siberia is a pain in the ass

@@risoi.originalwhy would you need to go elsewhere. What’s so important in a frozen shithole where no one lives?

Yes, the Trans-Siberian Railway was a massive engineering project-but it IS limited. It completely ignores Siberia except for a small area in the South. It doesn’t go anywhere NEAR Siberia’s largest territory, the Sakha Republic/Yakutia. In fact, a large part of north-eastern Russia is inaccessible by car, train, or boat-you actually have to fly there, although I suppose dog-sled might be another possibility.

They aren't mutually exclusive. Yes it was an incredible feat of engineering, even if built today. But, it also doesn't connect much of Siberia to European Russia; most only southern Siberia.

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@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война Nice try, but it doesn't work. Borussia stand for Prussia and has absolutely nothing to do with Russia or Belarus. The name comes from an ethnic group of Baltic citizens, just like the Ests, Lets and Lithuanians (amongst others). The only connection is that nowadays its former capital is in the hand of the Russians: Konigsbergen (I won't use the name of the massmurder that the Russians have given it). Their history lies with the Polish/Lithuanian and later on with Germany which was in 1870 70% Prussia. It was never part of Russia otherwise which ever way you want to twist it. But Russia never reached that far. Only in the 20th century did it gain controle over the last piece that was available. Belarus has more or less the same history as Ukraine, which also lies for a large part with Poland and Lithuania. Both languages are related to each other and can understand each other. Russian does not fit in with that and both languages are unintelligible for Russians.

@@telebubba5527 because russian language is artificial lingua franca of different asian and european languages

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война Ну что ты несёшь вообще. Украинский и белорусский это другая ветвь старорусского, маринованная в польском пару сотен лет в позднем средневековье, а остальные языки по своему возрасту зачастую старше начала русской государственности. Ну, с южными славянами там сложно, у них вообще скорее диалекты чем разные языки. Про Пруссию вообще херни наговорил какой-то. Соловьёва хватит смотреть, одно сжижение мозга

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война and sure you have a proofs for that, other then russian propaganda ? :D

True Rossiyane=citizens of Russia Russkie=nationality

@@GeorgeS360 типичная ошибка. Для англоговорящих nationality означает принадлежность к нации, т.е. стране, то же самое, что и гражданство. Правильно использовать термин ethnicity, этническая принадлежность. Rossiyane = nationality. Russkiye = ethnicity.

@@jamilya420 спасибо!

По-английски русских правильно называть "Ethnic Russians". В общем, всё верно. Ethnicity != nationality; гражданство != этнической принадлежности.

True. But the other issue, different from the US, is that the eastern territories were populated by convicts and ex-convicts.

@@jmi5969 That does make me wonder how many outlaws populated the western USA. I think there were some spacetime regions like Cochise county Arizona in the late 19th century where crime was like half the economy. That was much longer ago, of course, and we also got various other kinds of immigrants*, like the Mormons. *I think a lot of the criminals in Cochise county became criminals AFTER they moved there, though, not before. Also, the relevant point I know of in the USA was just that the law was too weak to stop them and other kinds of employment were hard, not that they came from prison camps like in Siberia or Australia (and Australia's case was even longer ago).

@@Mr.Nichan 19th Cent. Mormons. Oh, you mean people with an alternative lifestyle. So they went to Deseret Valley. /s

@Теле-вирус, ТикТок-война The first part of your comment at least was a good point. What people usually mean by "rural" is not any region with low population density, unless you mean on a much smaller scale than regions of a country. In terms of population in cities vs. not in cities, the southwestern USA is actually the most urban part of the country, because the land is too dry for much farming, so the population is mostly in cities, with very low population desert, ranch land, mountains, forests, etc. in between the cities. On the other hand, other parts of the country actually have significant rural populations, which is part of why they have higher population densities on the scale of entire states.

What criteria are using for crime rates being higher in rural areas, sounds like some skewed metrics being utilized, likely for some ideological perversion.

Напоминаю, что многих стран и национальностей не существовало до революции 1917 года. Такие национальности как украинец или казах буквально были созданы искусственно из местного населения. Почти вся территория украины (исключение небольшая территория западной украины) это бывшие российские территории, на которых проживали преимущественно русские люди. Города там построены по приказу русской императрицы Екатерины Великой, а именно князем Потёмкиным. В этом видео много подмены понятий, введение в заблуждение и откровенной лжи.

​@@user-yq1rc1ti2lпро ложь я не согласен - в этом видео видны некоторые заблуждения, присущие иностранцам, но они скорее берут корни из недопонимания, чем из злого умысла

@@user-yq1rc1ti2l Напомните себе, пожалуйста, посмотреть лекции возникновения украинского государства, а то мне как русскому россиянину стыдно такое читать...

@Soichy2 I'd like to say yeah you are right "it was not forced resettlement" but as a matter of fact my great great father died in jail in the area of Kazakhstan which is now Uzbekistan. He was a collective farm chairman (Romanian/Moldovan descent) - the reason was that his wife (Ukrainian) was rich and religious and he refused to divorce her and 'kill' their children; so he was sent as political enemy to the Central Asian jail. Wife followed and that was the reason why my family was 'relocated' there

@@user-yq1rc1ti2l зачем вам русским людям столько территории если вы то, что имеете не можете содержать? ***вопрос риторический, можно не отвечать...

Java is equal

Потому что холодно

Yeah, bigger countries have usually surprisingly low populations (except for US and China). Like Canada has less people than Tokyo

Population density really is interesting. How people live so sparsely in some places but so tight together in others. Real Life Lore's recent video on Mongolia is a good example.

That’s more due to Bangladesh and Java being some of the most densely populated places on Earth, rather than Russia being sparse. Bangladesh also has more people than Canada and the Western half of the US combined.

True, Russia's big size and big population makes it so that even a small percentage ends up representing a big group in absolute numbers.

IT IS due to the fact, that All nationalities are welcome in Russia, especially Slavic ethnicities. It is to be mentioned, though, that there is some prejudice against people from middle east and from Muslim regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, as they tend to be hot-tempered and even aggressive, commiting (I reckon) more crimes than the others. However, it is only an opinion among regular folks and not supported or imposed by the government

@@General.Knowledge I'm just pointing out that Russia is more diverse than many people think, but maybe I just get this impression because I live in a very big city. Also diversity in Russia doesn't mean lack of prejudice and outright racism, that's in no short supply sadly

@@General.Knowledge For today's standards though, Russia's population isn't that big anymore. And it will be considered less and less big in the future (Russia is projected to be only the 15th most populated country in 2050 if I'm not wrong).

​@@prokrastinatiawow what the Russians are currently doing to the Ukrainians do not support the opinion that Russia's is very welcoming other Slavic peoples.

Firstly it's strange that English comments put Kalmykia into Caucasas as K. is flat with steppe and desert while C. is rocky snowy mountains. Secondly it's not unique as Kalmyk and Buryat share same cultural and religious practices and often have mixed marriages while located on different continents and separated by thousands of miles.

I don't understand why so many people mention Kalmyk.It's not that unique.Kalmyk is not in the Caucasus,But on the Volga River, the western part of Kazakhstan.Before Kalmykia, it was inhabited by Kipchak Turks.Many Kipchak Turks, such as Kazakhs, Nogais, and Bashkirs, still live on the Volga River now.They are very close to the Kalmyks.And there are also Mongols and Buddhists live in Siberia, Russia, for example, Buryat is a Mongolian and Tuva is a Buddhist.

@@dickystrike6966 according to this logic, southern Dagestan is also not part of the Caucasus, because the whole south is a steppe - a desert

@@mrfayf this logic is twisted. First of all you are correct that it's not a Caucases (mountains) but populated with peoples (there are plenty) of mountain origin. Same with Chechen rep. as you cannot see mountains even from Grozny (and that city was founded as Russian emperial fortres on the road to Cacuses and btw named after Ivan the Terrible (as Grozny is (mis)translated to English). Twisted logic it is as Stavropol is somewhow considered 'the gateway to Cacuses' and it's completely flat and populated by both Kuban (aka Kossak) and Cacuses peoples.

⁠@@beauty-boyit’s not related to Kazakhstan. Why you spamming this comment? Kalmyks are Western Mongolians (Oirat tribes) that migrated from Djungaria (modern Xinjang, China) to the Volga region because of Khalha Mongolian arguments and Chinese wars.

Is that 4 per 100000 homicide rate statistic true? In a country with a high proportion of alcoholics and a lot of organisd crime?

​​@@carelgoodheir692 it depends on which maps you will look at. Russian, European, American or objective.

​​@@carelgoodheir692де вы алкоголиков то взяли? Вот живу в России, из родственников, знакомых, коллег никто этим заболеванием не болен. Бред какой то

​@@carelgoodheir692 Alcoholic and organized crime issues exist in movies only. In reality alcoholism is normal or even low if compared with equal habitats and religion proportion countries. Organized crime way more funny cuz its almost does not exist in a way movies shows. The main gang there is goverment probably cuz all the drugs and stuff under corrupted policeman officials. So no gangs, no territorial wars and shit like this. At least in big cities with over half of a million of population. Average citizen who is not searching for drugs prostitute or illegal weaponry never will face any organized crime structures in his life in Russia.

​@@carelgoodheir692alcoholics and gangs?😂😂😂 You clearly never been to Russia. It's such a 90s stereotypes. If in doubt, look up statistics - numbers don't lie. It's quite hard to encounter anything illegal, you have to actively dig for it. You have more chances to being shot in USA than to even see a gun in Russia.

oh it's nice to see a fellow living in the same region as me.. but yeah, the moment i heard him saying this, i said to myself: "thats not the truth. this area has been known for supplying russia and other countries with enormous amounts of gas and oil. its only natural for it to be that successful in those ratings".

Well, not really. Russia has relations with Taiwan, so i guess that's why it shown it as a nation.

You mean Taiwan and West Taiwan? Hehe

The Bad Boys List is not about countries sensu stricto, it's "countries and territories". So there is Taiwan, and also Isle of Man and Isle of Guernsey as separate entries.

Russia has relations with both China and Taiwan, as it does with both Israel and Palestine

Map not include Crimea as part of Russia, therefore made not by Russians

Very true! You could even add Brazil along with it, who also has a very unbalanced population density - especially in the interior.

Yea, but Russian population is 3.5 times lesser…

Except that Canada has 4 imes less population, and Hence much richer per capita

To an extent however Canada is blessed with two ice-free coastlines and has generally being on excellent terms with its neighbours, this letting it develop in peace without needing to spend huge sums on defence like Russia

Here is a worse comparison, but perhaps really shows how poorly developed Russia is: Russia had a GDP of about $1.78 Trillion (pre sanction) Tokyo $1.60 T New York City $1.59 T.

Да, верно вы подметили. Тоже устала править чужие карты. Постоянно пишу письма в компании, которые забывают про Калининград, кую область

Зато как переименовать, так сразу про вас вспомнили! 😆 Калининград, как вы там, кстати? Продукты, медикаменты, стройматериалы - нормально доходят? Вы же в начале прошлого года в блокаду попали. Сейчас, вроде, пассажирское сообщение есть. А всё остальное для жизни как?

@@bellflower7124 Да в принципе всё нормально, однако цены на продукты всё растут, а зарплаты не особо 😅 и работу всё так же сложно найти. Туристов всё больше, доставка из большой России дороже, да и на самолёте теперь дольше лететь. Ну а так живём, как и раньше

@@villidar6010 ну, хорошо, что у вас "плохо" наступает теми же темпами, а не опережает 😅

Это говорит лишь об одном - эти западные крысы хотят прибавить себе территорий

Thanks for watching! :)

Где и как я могу научиться марийскому языку? Я недавно узнал, что по отцу я мариец (всю жизнь думал, что по отцу я казах) и теперь хочу изучить вроде как родной для меня язык.

Oh, this is very cool!

I'm from Mari El as well. Not Mari though. It's always nice seeing sacred groves when you drive outside the capital. I have warm feelings towards the culture. I am just proud to live here.

Why do so many people mention Kalmykia?It's not that Special.Kalmyk is not in the Caucasus, But on the Volga River, the western part of Kazakhstan.Before Kalmykia, it was inhabited by Kipchak Turks.Europe is not white since ancient times.Many Kipchak Turks, such as Kazakhs, Nogais, and Bashkirs, still live on the Volga River now.They are very close to the Kalmyks.And there are also Mongols and Buddhists live in Siberia, Russia, for example, Buryat is a Mongolian and Tuva is a Buddhist.

@@beauty-boy I think it is special because it's the most Western Buddhist region

@@stvk99 Buddhism originated in India and was introduced into Mongolia through Central Asia.Central Asia used to be dominated by Buddhism, and it is not surprising because Volga is near Central Asia.

@@beauty-boy because the video creator asked what kalmykia is from the viewers lol

В общем да, я сам живу в Якутии, в 185 километрах от Якутска, поселок городского типа. Дача 180 квадратов, чистый воздух, есть газ, электричество, мобильный интернет даже быстрее чем в Якутске. Охота рыбалка прям хорошо обеспечивает мясом и рыбой)

@@patrik259 Неплохо

Actually, some food are 5 time expensive in this regions, so people at North don't have the profit. Also you should remember, all the money income goes to the center and then it is redistributed to regions.

Получают больше, но доход вырастает несущессвенно за счёт стоимости товаров

In fact, the regions in which natural resources are extracted are not as rich as they could be - in our country, the federation levies a tax on such activities, not the region, and therefore most of the benefits go to the general federal budget, although of course the regions are left with a corporation tax

Yeah, and for the same reason Indonesia is much larger than people think... and India is a whole continent with a lots of peoples and traditions

Ну и что что она меньше ? Что в моей жизни изменится от этого ? И Китай больше по размеру если его двинуть на север станет , что с того . То на то и выйдет.

С Магадана до Калининграда 11.463 км. Половину месяца ехать на машине. Александрия - Кейптаун 9.929,4 км

In Russia most common projection for the world map is not Mercator, but some version of polyconic projection (поликоническая проекция цниигаик). Sizes are much closer to reality, but still, stuff thats closer to the poles is too big.

@@user-ff5tm8ip7w так он просто констатировал факт, что у вас за реакция? Как будто у вас комплексы по поводу родины. Это довольно интересно, что Россия воспринимается многими гораздо в бОльших масштабах, чем она есть на самом деле. И касается это не только территории, но и населения, размера экономики, и тд. Как было показано на карте, малюсенькие Бельгия, Нидерланды и Люксембург сопоставимы с Россией по номинальному ВВП, хоть и в сотни раз меньше

Thanks for watching!

Call me cynical, but i would expect any official russian stastics to be tweaked one way or the other with intent. While im by no means economical professional, reading the 2023 russian official economic numbers about budged released by the state are very, erm, quite something. Lets just say it like that.

@@iivarilappalainen9836 they're degrading the quality of stats that they relaease and classify some of them, that's true.

@thorru sure buddy :D

Внимание, анекдот (изначальный текст просто закинул в гугл переводчик) An elderly Caucasian comes to the store and addresses the seller: - Sell me two suits. - Grandfather, why do you need two? You are already eighty years old. Take one, enough for the rest of your life. - I take one for myself, the other for dad. - Listen, if you are 80, then dad is probably 100-105 years old!? - Yes, you're right, we just want to be smart at our grandfather's wedding. - If the father is 105, then the grandfather is probably 130 years old!? Does he want to get married? - He doesn't want to, his parents force him to.

@@iivarilappalainen9836 do you have any idea how corrupt the US is? whats the missing pentagon buget again? 32trillion?

Good clarification.

Как житель ханты мансийска могу сказать, что уровень жизни не больше не меньше, так как здесь зарплаты высоки так же, как и цены. Но город ухоженный, красивый, дороги хорошие, это да, видно, что деньги вкладывают:) В якутии еще выше зарплаты, но люди там не богато живут, все по той же причине

Thanks!

The federal budget of Russia is not the budget of the city of Moscow.

@@Siberian_Bear72 someone forgot to tell it to muscowites

@@hirdbarding3399 , просто попробуйте почитать Бюджетный кодекс РФ. Узнаете много интересного о распределении налогов в России.

Indeed, also why no Russian like the Muscovy outside Moscow.

@@Siberian_Bear72 Юрий, не глупите, ваш вопрос подразумевает, что вы думаете, что ваша аудитория может быть достаточно непредубежденной, чтобы благосклонно относиться ко всему пророссийскому! Отличный шанс!! (Не уверен, что это клише переводится на русский!)

Просто ввп и ппс на душу населения составляется так ВВП номинальный/население. Там просто человек не много. Там и ИЧР тоже запредельный ~0.900, выше только в Питере и Москве

да херня все эти ввп и прочая срань, это объективно ничего не говорит об уровне жизни. Всё решает цены, зарплаты, социалка и прочее

Okay! South African maps is a good idea

That was intentional, Crimea isnt coloured either. Referendum will be held and Kaliningrad will be part of Czech Republic once again, under its former name - Královec.

@@Clint_Beastw00d why the hell is Czech Republic here? Are you good at geography, Mate?

@@alexivanov5433 Are you good at history m8? Bohemian King Ottokar II? Královec - Königsberg? No? I swear, you orcs these days...

@@Clint_Beastw00d dream on!

​@@Clint_Beastw00d California used to belong to Mexico. The Czech Republic used to belong to the Germans. You talk stupid

kind of explains why noone ever tried invading russia from the east, except for the mongols, they are built different

Steppe lies between Don and Volga river down to Caucasus mountains.

​@@realaurorien How come they invaded Russia if it haven't existed back then?))

I live in this "mountainuos" region and there r no mountains for thousands kms around. Its just a flat surface, thou high above 0 degree

@@realaurorien Yeah, except Mongols didn't invade Russia, because it became Russia way after the Mongol conquest. Rus was more or less the size of Poland back then.

Kroleviec, not kaliningrad

​@@nfdafds32423Every person has their own nightmare, every Russian has his own Pole.. This city was honestly given to the USSR under an agreement with the Allies because we fought and deserved it, I understand that our peoples are repugnant to each other, but to have basic respect for the enemy is to have self-respect. We have not yet stooped to renaming your cities and countries to Ivangorod, because it's just wild

@@scovronechko how russians can talk about respect during the war in Ukraine?

@@nfdafds32423 Ukraine is very dear to you, yes, yes.. You also attacked us and nothing - I can understand why and I don't lose my temper

@@scovronechko I attacked you, or what? You live in a bubble, you russians are taught by propaganda that everybody wants to attack you...

130 million maximum:)

@@user-fh6rl3hy3n ?

If so, do you think it's a causal effect of people settling there because the original silk road passed through? Or did the original silk road pass through there *because* there were significant population centres already?

@@General.Knowledge Outside European portion it is actually centered around trans-Siberian railway line, some of which kind-of sort-of in the vicinity of the old silk road. The railway is the lifeline - almost the only connection - for the cities along it as Russian roads tend to destroy cars that travel any significant distance along them. Its importance cannot be overstated. The railway was built to connect some of the cities that probably existed there because of travel routes such as the silk road and allowed them to flourish whereas the other ones faded away.

​@@General.Knowledge yes.

​@@General.Knowledge The Silk roads were created by Scythians (From Greece to Tian-Shan) and Turanians from Tian-Shan to Korea. Obviously through settlements which provided food, shelter and spare transportation enough for merchants and guards, but insufficient for an invading force.

Because everything to the north of it (in east Russia) is barely habitable

Thanks! :)

@@General.Knowledge Also from Russia. Thanks for unbiased and accurate info.

@@jwhite5008 Also from Russia. The video is not objective. Just another video about how big Russia is and how it should be divided. Видео не показалось мне объективным. Просто еще одно видео о том, какая большая Россия и как ее надо делить.

@@markparkhomenko6358 блять, чел, ты угрозу уже видишь в любом анализе

That's a bit niche, considering the amount of work needed to make that. But it does appear you found a hole in the market. I'm sure General Knowledge and Atlas Pro would be very grateful if you made it happen.

@@merijnfluitman5761 If I would be Elon Musk or Bill Gates I would definitely start a company developing something like this.

Check out "Felt map overlay"

Yep, when census went here my dad who is native siberian and speaks 2 languages said to the census worker that we all russians and speak only russian just because it was easier and faster to say, not because it's true. And everything in Russia you can divide on 3 easily. Statistics doesnt work in Russia. Even GDP doesn't show real economy situation. Shadow economy is approximately about 20% of official Russian GDP, but I think it's way more.

My ancestors are Germans/Russians and Udege people, passport is still marked as Russian ethnicity, even through I have a german surname and my russian dna contribute less than 20%. I still have right to change it but It's such a headache to be honest.

@@Eridelm ethnicity in a passport? how?

Yes! I did a video on the true size of countries a while back. But I can make an updated version if you want :)

I know, the map. Make it look bigger than Africa, when in actuality it isn't.

@@General.Knowledge if you have the time and think it could be interesting, go for it!

@@General.Knowledge I just rewatched your mercator video and it still holds up pretty well(all things considered, you improved since then, but it was still on a pretty good level).

@@General.Knowledge that'd be awesome! perhaps you can also mention the fact that Russia's relative proximity to the pole also causes it to have so many time zone. if Russia were located on the equator, it probably would have only around 6 time zone (which is still a lot). on the other hand, İndonesia would have around 7 time zone if it were located on such high latitudes as Russia.

Unfortunately, many people forget, including Russians themselves, that the Russian economy is not as old as the economy of other developed countries. Being the USSR, they were economically isolated from the rest of the countries for decades. And after the collapse of the USSR, its economy was completely destroyed, In the nineties many industries were abandoned, many people could not receive a salary for years and worked for free. The current Russian economy began to build up around the end of the nineties - the beginning of the two thousandth, so it is a little more than twenty years old. And for some reason, many people forget that it is harder to manage such a huge and diverse country than small states. And for a country of this scale, more human resources are needed to grow the economy. The twentieth century was very cruel to Russia: World War I, revolution, civil war, emigration, mass famine in the thirties, World War II, Stalin's repressions, the collapse of the USSR, followed by the hungry "dashing" nineties, in which robbery and corruption flourished. In this regard, there was a new huge wave of emigration from the country. Of course, Russia is incomparably calmer now than in those days, and of course, there are people who say that in the nineties there was complete freedom, in the sense that everything could be done, but even more people are afraid that something like this will happen again. This is only the main part of the traumatic events that happened to Russia not so long ago. During the twentieth century, Russia lost several hundred million people. This is just a small remark for reflection to your words that Russia could be the richest country in the world. And no, contrary to your words, people in Russia understand this very well.

@@santyel9580 I disagree with several of your points, in regards to the Russian economy not being as old well that is a tad of a misnomer, while it took a while to get it really kicked started under Peter the Great (technically speaking the Russian economy is older than the US's own) and while the USSR did hamper the growth, (being they isolated themselves not the other way around) being a post Soviet state likewise does not immediately negate the possibility for rapid growth if the will is there to do so Poland is a good example of this despite lacking the absurd natural abundance Russia has at its disposal. And to your point of a large and diverse state being hard to manage this isn't wholly untrue either, as scale does matter and plays a role in affecting growth however, I yet again point to the US here whom has everything from deserts to arctic tundra to contend with and was likewise large with largely untamed wilderness for the gross majority of its history (many could argue it still is), but they made it work and aside from the effects of the Great Depression has largely seen unhampered economic growth and exploitation of its natural assets for the majority of that history. To your point of the 20th century being very cruel to Russia again I counter with Poland, Poland didn't even exist on the map at the start of it (in no small part thanks to Russia) and had its territory divided by 3 nations, while facing the full effects of WWI being the primary location of combat for the eastern front and only regaining independence after cessation of hostilities. Not to long after which it was forced to fight a war with the Russians and not to long after that got likewise invaded on two fronts by the Germans and Russians and divided and wiped off the face of the map yet again during WWII, when in said conflict the country was both leveled and heavily depopulated only to be put under the Soviet jackboot upon cessation of hostilities. Thus being forced to rebuild from the ground up from its ashes while under communism, while dealing with famines and the repression by Soviet authorities throughout the duration of the Cold War. Only gaining its freedom and independence a mere 34 years ago from communism to transition into a market economy, just like Russia had to do not long after the only difference being is how they went about that transition is where Poland flourished and Russia stagnated and regressed and that is the key difference and where the corruption comes into play. In Poland's case the state came to a consensus on how to move forward, they held onto all the former state owned assets with the full intention of selling them all off and only gradually sold them off once prospective buyers and or investors showed interest be they domestic or foreign (a process which is still ongoing some 30 years later), conversely upon the dissolution of the USSR Yeltsin was fighting with the Supreme Soviet with the former wanting rapid liberalization and privatization, while the latter wised to retain more socialist policies and thus led to a breeding ground for economic chaos by not coming to a clear consensus on how to proceed. The system in which they chose to privatize as well was hampered by problems, as the voucher system they employed precluded any foreign investment into sectors to act as a counter balance to what became the oligarchs centralizing their own ownership and power over key sectors of the economy, whom now have a death grip on the current Russian economy and are something the current government has to contend with if it wants to get anything done and likewise make it near impossible to move forward in any meaningful way as nearly no competition exists to apply pressure for improvement, especially given that a gross majority of its economy was centered around its MIC during the USSR, Russia opted to keep that largely intact rather than let it die and invest money into more profitable civilian sectors, which likewise became a drain on financial assets as Russian arms became less and less sought after due to being outdated and lacking production quality and quantity. Suffice to say Russia is far less a victim of external or even internal circumstance, but rather a product of their own making and poor decisions. I say this as a response to your statement of implication that Russia could not have made better choices nor had the opportunity to do so, they simply just chose not to. However, I will grant you that the Russian people likely understand the wealth they stand on, that was merely a hyperbolic statement on my part regarding the minimal to near nonexistent exploitation of those assets and I apologize for the confusion if there was any to be had. I do also have a hypothesis, now that Russian populace is more familiar with the mechanisms of market economy these days than upon the dissolution of the USSR, if the populace could start another "revolution" to wrestle control of the government and economy away from the strongmen and oligarchs, which seems more viable now than ever before given the economic, military and political constraints Russia is currently facing which makes those individuals positions in power shaky and thus making slightly more viable to oust them, I see a better and more prosperous future ahead of them if they choose to do so.

Soviet/Russian marches as the background music... yuck1

This is a universal problem of the global North...

Firstly, in Russia, not the dollar, but the ruble, for example, bread is 10 times cheaper than in Canada. Therefore, it does not make sense to compare economies in dollars (this was invented so that the US could show its superiority, for fools). If we compare the price of bread, then Russia is 10 times richer than Canada and other countries. Let's compare economies by the price of bread, not by the number of dollars. Or let's compare economies by the amount of gold (bread and gold are a real valuable resource). How much gold do you have? Who are the leaders in gold? I can buy 10 times more bread (other goods as well). Secondly, Russia is under your sanctions. You imposed sanctions against Russia and after that you talk about the size of the economy, a very honest approach, bravo) But. Russia is a leader in space, in the nuclear industry, in rocket engineering and, in carbon fiber, Russian programmers are in high demand. Russians always win science Olympiads (now the Chinese have become strong, but you are not). All you can do is compare economies in dollars, this is the only field where you feel superior, otherwise you are losers.

@@user-xm6zs6ez6i What are you talking about? Are you even responding to the right comment? This is completely unrelated to what I was commenting on.

@@IusedtohaveausernameIliked The Anglo-Saxon remembered the rules, funny))). Me doesn't care about your comment, in the video itself they compare about your Saxon Canada. Fakes about the economy and fakes about everything else (including about crimes, because in Russia in any city children walk until late). Russia and Canada are not subject to comparison, and I briefly explained above why this is so.

@@IusedtohaveausernameIliked He is copy and pasting the comment saw it in another post

Check Caucusus on 5:30 map. It's huge mountain Kalmykia is Dune like sand desert with some steppe.

Oh I see! Thanks, and thanks for watching

Tatars were key migrated Mongols but were converted to Islam.

​@@dickystrike6966 tatars are Turkic, Also there was islamic Turkic people called "bulgar" way before Mongolic invasion

@@notfound9816 Gengis khan was 'black' Tatar and today Gengis is common Tatar name

@@dickystrike6966 just like iskander (alexander) is common name in Iran

Согласен, когда я только нашёл ресурс onlinerailroadmap или как то так, был удивлён системе железных дорог в разных частях мира)

As a Russian, I don’t notice this at all, it feels like we are in 100th place in terms of GDP. Forgive me if I wrote something wrong, I write through a translator.

@@PIGmalioun You are right, in alphabetical order, Russia is somewhere between Romania and Rwanda, about 100th place worldwide

@@aura4341 kek

Border of the Permafrost. Northern of that line ground is frozen for all or most of the time. Upper layer of soil is getting warm in the summer, but down below it's frozen all the time.

Only in your ill dreams.

​@@MichelleFreebird It actually Russia, u just dont keep true because you love poor country and sad country in Europe (Ukraine)

@@Govnovozblya Крим ніколи не належав рашці, це захвачені теріторії імперії, так само як більша частина сучасної расєї. Москва це московія, а россійська імперія це минуле. Британці не вважають своїми Індію, хоча вона і належала їм. Раша має до Криму таке саме відношення як слон до каліграфії.

@@MichelleFreebird The FACT is that Crimea was and is developing since 2014, unlike during Ukraine period since 90s. Also after several wars and post-war agreements in the past centuries it became the part of Russia, Russia, in which todays' Ukraine territories were not the "part" of the country, but also were territorries of indivisible Russia. So you, overseas, don't tell natives about their history. Odessa, for example, was founded by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. Not Ukraine.

@@A-Roz by Catherine who was a German and an Odessa that were build by Italians and Francis. Lol. Крым, который как бы российский, но на территории Украины, которая как бы неукраинская, а типа российская, потому что мы так считаем. Лолк х2. А еще это тот переод рос империи, когда белгоролщина и курщина опрелелялись как этническое украинские земли, лол х3.

😂😂😂😂😂

What about Tatars? 😅

@@dickystrike6966 they're muslim turks

Надо ли напомнить, что в Европе не зародилось ни металлообработка, ни обработка земли, ни животноводство, ни колесо, ни верховая езда? Почему европейцы все же вырвались вперёд в средние века? Германские племена основывали свои империи на основе уже существовавшей римской империи, беря от нее все идеалы! А идеал римской империи - захват и колонизация всех соседей. Колонизация земель Карфагена - это то, что дало толчок к развитию Рима. Колонизация - это настоящий ресурс Европы. Россию пытались колонизировать много раз. Частично преуспели. Именно поэтому бывшие и существующие колонии запада поддерживают РФ.

@@ethiop_frum а кто колесо изобрёл?

​@@user-fh6rl3hy3nпарни с Ближнего Востока, либо из Северной Африки

@@user-is1eq9jm2t не читал про радио Попова-Маркони? Многие вещи придуманы во многих местах, без знания о других разработках. В любом случае, это странное утверждение.

1. БВ и СА стали первыми очагами оседлой земледельческой цивилизации и крупных государств. Так что шанс на то, что они первыми это сделали, предельно высок. Отсылаю к С. Хантингтону "Столкновение цивилизаций" и Д. Даймонду "Ружья, микробы и сталь". 2. Переход на личность сразу делает твой аргумент невалидным, спор так не ведётся. Либо веди спор, чтобы действительно либо доказать свою правоту, либо принять правоту другого, либо завали 😘