“In the balkans, tensions rise” I swear I’ve heard this one before

I find it interesting that before its dissolution, Kazakhstan was the entirety of the USSR, even for a few days

I am not anti-history, but hearing my teacher in school explaining about history, I quickly fell asleep in just about 2 minutes. But I can watch the entertaining videos about history like these for 6-7 hours marathon videos a day

Love how the Rybinsk reservoir is filling up during war. I'm seeing it right now through my window. My ancestors lived on territories that were flooded. Great job by the way, love your vids. History loves to repeat unfortunately.

I like how you can see the Aral sea change, nice detail

Outstanding - clear and to the point without oversimplifying

Incredible job making this video. This taught me a great amount of the world history during the last century and it's so valuable in understanding the world today. Thank you so much for this.

9:45 The figure of 800k deaths (799,455 to be precise) is the total number of all death sentences for all sorts of crimes from 1921 till 1953, not just in 2 years.

Let’s take a moment to appreciate Geo History and his hard work, especially during times like these. Bravo Sir 🙏🏽

Could you do something like this for Germany? That would be interesting

Small correction on the League of Nations graphic (9:32): Germany was still in the LoN until 1935, even though they had decared they'd leave in 1933. The LoN allowed countries to leave but there was a 2 year transitioning period (similarily to say Brexit after its vote).

23:40 hehe... Russia and USSR existing at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm telling you, this was worth the wait. Love your video's Geo History.

Despite the US and USSR being a few miles away from eachother in Alaska and the Far East, there were never any positions of nuclear warheads in Alaska, at least, that the public knows of.

what the hek this is amazing, one of the best overviews I've ever seen - throughout the 3 series & without the BS of bias.

My great-grandfather, Yaakov Pevzner, lived on the outskirts of Leningrad when the Germans invaded in 1941. His house was repossessed by the Soviet government to use for the war effort. This resulted in him moving into the center of Leningrad, which was now blockaded by the German Navy. Throughout 1942, my great-grandfather suffered through the worst of the Blockade of Leningrad. He was evacuated in 1943, after the victory at Stalingrad. He was taken to Kyrgyzsia (Kyrgyzstan), where he first met my great-grandmother. One year later, in 1944, they had their first child, my maternal grandma. At the same time, Yaakov's cousin, Sacha, was shot down by the Luftwaffe. He was lucky to survive, but his legs were shattered. He, a member of the Soviet Air Force, should have been given military awards for his bravery. Instead, once the war was over, Stalin put him in a gulag. Sacha survived that only because Stalin died in 1953. One of Georgy Malenkov's first acts after Stalin's funeral was to release all prisoners in gulags, which included my great-grandfather's cousin. Sacha died in 1971, without receiving any military awards from Malenkov, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev. However, my great-grandfather received three Thank You Letters: one from Gorbachev, another from Yeltsin, and a third one from Lukashenko. He also got military awards from Andropov and Chernenko. Yaakov was NOT in the Red Army, Navy, or Air Force. He was simply a factory director who survived the blockade in Leningrad. Furthermore, he lived long enough to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, Putin, and Lukashenko, and long enough for me to actually know him. He was born in 1919 and passed away in 2012. He was born before the Soviet Union was and died after the Soviet Union did.

Everytime Geohistory uploads, it's a guaranteed banger

Great video! Of course there are details I wish would have been in the video, but for an overview, is this a great video!

Очень хорошо, товарищ, вы награждаетесь поездкой в Болгарию

This is a very good summary of what happened. I would recommend it to anyone especially to teachers or aspiring diplomats or to members of the military. I hope you do more of these. Great job!

Been waiting for this video for so long glad it is finally released :D

Love this channel. Great content as always, easy to understand and to the point.

Who else agrees that this guy's videos are ALWAYS interesting? Your historical presentations are among the best, and you inspire me to achieve my dreams of becoming a historian in future. Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!

Guys, these videos are so great! I use them in my Geohistory class, I'm a teacher in Italian secondary school system (11-13 years old students), we just love your work. I would like to start a cooperation to translate them in Italian, how can I contact the owner? I didn0t find any contact detail in the profile.

I was literally trying to learn something about the USSR yesterday, and today you uploaded a video about it.

Many important Cold war proxy conflicts that had huge Soviet involvement were not mentioned, aside from the Arab-Israeli of course. I won't complain more about it though because I believe it might have been intentional to make separate videos on them. Good work!

Very cool, now do one Europe and especially Asia if you can. I am curious to see how much of roman culture survived, seems Italy and Germany kept Western Rome alive and it's been battling Eastern Rome who escaped to Russia for almost a couple thousand years now.

Its SUPER hard to summarise a whole country's history but this guy just did it! Most underrated KZfaqr.

Quality content... Geo history, been a long time for your long video

Its a good day when Geo History uploads

Would love to see a video on the Romans!! Enjoying the videos thanks 👍

Kirov was killed under Stalin’s orders. Stalin feared Kirov as a competition for power.

"Let's take Poland and _PUSH IT_ somewhere else!" -Stalin

Gran video, cómo me encanta este canal. De mis favoritos!

The actual reason why Russia mobilized as Austria-Hungary was about to invade Serbia was that the Russians caught wind of just how big an army the Austrohungarians were assembling and concluded that it was A LOT of soldiers if you only wanted to have a war with Serbia. Without going into too much detail, by that moment, a continental war had been looming for some time, e.g. see the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.

Holodomor wasn't only ukrainian treat. Holodomor was in most agrocultural parts of USSR. My ancestors from Altay run to Tashkent to survive.

I am surprised you didn't bring up the Regan operation to deny the USSR any debt financing. That had a huge effect on the stability of the USSR. Otherwise great summary. other

I personally feel that I like all its videos and find them interesting. Can you post more in the future?

This was the most informative and to the point video I've watched on youtube this week

Interesting, here shows ussr like rusia, but ussr was created from some different respublic. So ussr is not rusia, but unated respublics together and rusia was only part of ussr

I wonder if people will actually think while watching this. Isolation is always a way to a war. Isolation of a big power results in great wars. There will be always small conflicts, but isolation will only escalate everything. I wonder what will happen if EU and NA will further isolate Russia right now. At least China and India is smarter i guess.

11:55 lol it's kinda funny to see the Axis as pink

I love how with the USSR dissolution, you did it one by one, and did Kazakhstan last rather than Russia being first.

These are fantastic. I hope to see more. Subscribed!

I didn't know Austria was about to be partioned between West and Soviet Union as happened in Germany. Exactly the same case for Vienna as in Berlin, also. Kruschev withdrew their part in 1955. That's why that region (Lower Austria) was in red color between 1945-55.

This is going to age like fine wine...

There was hunger in 1932-33 not only in Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Kavkaz, but Ural, Povolzhie, Syberia. So nobody tortured Ukraine or Kazakhstan on purpose. And it was a complex of causes for that hunger, not only Stalin's desigion.

So well narrated you forget you're just staring at a map for 24 minutes.

Incredible video, literally like something you'd see on Nat Geo or Netflix!

Me who has already watched The Original French version: I am four Pararel Universes ahead of you.

I'm currently teaching world war today to my students today. I taught the two Russian revolutions and the abdication of Nicholas II as well as the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk

Thank you very much 😊! Было классно посмотреть и на русском, и на английском.

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! MAN ITS A GOOD DAY IF GEO HISTORY POSTS

1:06 bro how is nobody talking about that fire beat 🔥🔥

A great video explaining a very difficult to understand history of Europe and Asia. Goes to show our histories, origins and cultures are never as clear cut and straight forward as we like to think. It gives us some understanding of why we will always have wars in this part of the world unfortunately, and why the borders of Eastern Europe were always changing, and sadly always will.

I like the detail of the Aral Sea evaporating.

Some more tips (by the memory so some facts might be not very accurate): 1. Situation in Russian Empire during the WWI: The most of Russian industry belonged to foreign capital and hosts, the formal liberation of peasants wasn't enforced with any new law or orders - politics of Alexander The 3rd Peacemaker and Nicolas The 2nd - last imperator - were rather cold to peasants and workers. The lost "little victorious" Russian-Japanese war of 1904, The 1st revolution of 1905 wich was savagely shot down at the rising and the common status of reforms - all these tips became a soil for revolutionary charge. The last two things to brake all believe to Tsar are (1) Enter to WWI (this decision wasn't unescapable) and (2) the doll-position of a new-built state body - Legislature (rus. Земское Собрание - Lands Forum) - it was fully taken under the Imperator's will with no chance to pass it. Nicolas The 2nd since 1914 and till 1917 made the Legislature to deny all decisions and all deputats to leave back to homes 3 (!) times. After the kill of Gregory Rasputin before the February Revolution of 1917 (Tsar's adviser with reputation of both seduced Saint and an Oracle, who said that if Russia will take part in the war when everything will crumble down) lots of hidden revolutionaries of Marxist/Anarchy/Anti-Monarchy/pro-rich/pro-foreign/radical and forbidden politition unions began to call workers and peasants to deny power of legal bodies. After the lost Kornilov's riot and the attempt of him to take Russia under control of Tsar-loyal generals the "white' powers lost popularity in european Russia and were made to face "Reds" in a civil war under the music of people pain - poor harvest, maraudering of outskirts by all parties, savage diseases and so on. The level of chaos was so high that for example some northern-caucasus divisions were taken into reds and whites both same time and because of that were getting double salaries of both red and white armies. + The intervention was really deep and with its hepl huge parts of "Imperial property" was taken abroad by white armies, including the most of state gold reserve, royal property and treasures, banks and so on. None of these were given back to USSR or RF. + The rise of some local national and politition groups made the situation even more foggy. For example - appearing and short existing of Far-East Republic (rus. Дальневосточная Республика) wich isolated the east border till Reds to come at places and undertake this "state" to Soviets. And one more fact. The Soviet (rus. Совет) means The Forum or - if to be more accurate - The process of democratic voting and actions. 2. The Holodomor (rus. Голодомор - Hunger and Death of diseases) happened because a lot of reasons and the politics of Joseph Stalin (Joseph Djugashvili, "Stalin" - is a pseudoname) wasn't that matter. Very poor harvests and deny of peasants to work at fields for free, insufficient of food supplies in cities, lack of tools and an industrial-coursed economy at last - all in common made regions of european Russia, Ukraine and Belarus suffer the most of overs when the Test by climate has come (actually even today these lands aren't very great to gathering food if to compare 'em with France of USA for example). + contradictions of new thing - sovhoz/kolhoz (rus. Совместное Хозяйство / Коллективное хозяйство, shortened Совхоз/Колхоз - common/collective hosting) 3. The Great Purge of 1936 further turned into The Great Terror of 1937-1938 (rus. Большой Террор), wich was started by an order 00447 of NKVD and signatured by Nikolay Ezhov - director of this service (rus. Народный Комиссариат Военных Дел, НКВД - People's Commissariat of Military Cases.... ~close translation). Unlike the Purge task - to clean away too radical and "original" revolutionaries - the next one's task was originally - to give local powers (like city/district soviet etc) ability to judge weird or anti-soviet elements in "Triple court", made of NKVD member, local Administration head/member and a Procurator - they could blame anyone, arrest and judge without the regular procedures. One month later the taste of ability to arrest and send you enemies away or even to execute them has become "meta". The most suffering of this order were old/original KPoSU members. Stalin's step in the Terror isn't so large (unlike the Purge, wich ejected Trotsky and co. away of USSR as "radicals" who were fans of original Marx plan to wreck states apart), prolonged for a year this part of an operation against of "Kulacks" (rus, Кулак - Fist, the creditor in speaking russian) and counter-revolutionaries was criticised by Stalin and stopped with arrest of Nikolay Ezhov. A new director of NKVD - Beria Lavrentii (one of Stalin's old friends) - fired about 90% of NKVD workers because it was "overcrowded". So make your conclusion about the effectiveness of some early soviets bodies. Bonuses + In soviet (and modern russian) history "war for Khalkhin-Gol" in Mongolia of 1939 is a border conflict same as conflict for Khasan Lake in 1937 nearby. + Soviet Union is the last state who made a "peace" with The 3rd Reich, remarks: GB - september of 1938, France - december of 1938, then Romania, Lithuania, Italy, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and only then - USSR... This list misses more amendments though... some more to say if you like...

The way it's told simplifies a complicated subject and puts opinions and singular facts as major deals that in itself made major changes

Fact: Austria/Hungary didn't immediately go to war with Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. They were of the opinion/thinking that Serbia was directly involved in the whole thing,so they sent a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia. Serbia went along with 8/9 points of it,they asked for the 1 or 2 points they didn't agree with be submitted to the international tribunal at the Hague. Austria/Hungary considered this to be a rejection of the whole ultimatum,so war was declared.

This video contains many historical distorted inaccuracies. Also in this video there are not many important events. Аbout the attempt of the USSR to save Czechoslovakia from German aggression, when Stalin wanted to send troops to defend Czechoslovakia, but Poland refused to pass and eventually joined the division of Czechoslovakia itself. In the 70s, the USSR was not opposed to the reunification of Korea, but the United States was against it, which already had nuclear weapons near Seoul. By the way, it’s also a fact that North Korea then lived better than South. In this video, there is not a word about industrialization, although thanks to this, the foundation for the development of the country was laid, almost all large plants and factories, power plants were built. The removal of China began after Khrushchev learned Stalin's personality cult by heart, and Mao, as his follower, considered that the same could await him. And Khrushchev proclaimed the cult of personality in order to divert all suspicions from himself. They did not talk about Vietnam about how the United States carried out the genocide of the Vietnamese using chemical weapons, and left with nothing in the end. About Afghanistan - Afghans consider 10 years of the Soviet presence the most peaceful and fruitful time in the history of their country. About the fact that Gorbachev gave power to the national elites and what it led to, and then read lectures in America about the dangers of communism. What about repression? They were. So it was and is in all countries. But... Which country has the most prisoners now? Why isn't she being talked about in the same way? Those who read this message, you should read the story and look at it from different angles, and not just from the one you are shown. There are a lot of inaccuracies and lies in this video.

Was waiting for this new video!!! You guys should upload more often

Thanks to this video I will never forget the meaning and pronunciation of the word Rapprochement ;)

4:40 That map is flawed- Estonia got united into single administrative zone composing of largely modern borders by russian provisional goverment back in 1917. Same applied to Latvia. Also Belarus has *never* reached that far north. Not even close. Also bolsheviks werent *forced* to recognise independences of countries by treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

This is an incredibly balance view of the history of the USSR

Loved the detail with Kazakhstan being the last state leaving USSR 🤙🏻

I still remember when kazakhstan was the ''soviet union'' for 4 days straight. , I still remember also when the nuclear disaster happened it was terrifying.

Love these videos. Really great way to understand complex issues

thank you so much for maybe the first time that i ever heard the right countries starting the war

Excellent work mate 💯

Excellent video, thanks, Kind regards!

I like how at the end of the video, you can see Finland's borders but no one else and it also has its old borders

I found an Easter egg at the end. At the end, Finland’s borders became the pre-WW2 borders

I love this channel, I get to enjoy history on a map while bopping my head to sick ass beats

You got the Suez crisis all wrong. Both the US and USSR were publicly against the British, French and Israeli invasion of the Suez. It was Canada, specifically Canadian Minister of State for External Affairs, ( ie foreign minister) Lester B. Pearson, who negotiated a cease fire in the area and put peacekeepers ( with guns) in the area. He later received the Noble Peace prize for doing so, and was later elected Prime Minister of Canada. While I have always respected your videos and research, you totally dropped the ball on this event. Need to change that. Stay safe,Stay sane, Stay Strong Ukraine 🇺🇦

Thank you for nice video. Me as Slovak found out, there is a small mistake. The border between Slovakia and Hungary during the WW2 was different as result of occupation of Horthy's Hungary.

Not so fun fact: my great grandpa served in world war 1 fighting for the Russians. He was a medic and he would help injured soldiers in the trenches. He would say how the shrieks of pain as they amputated limbs with nothing but a shot of whiskey or vodka still rang in his ears. Eventually he had enough and he deserted back to his home where he hid in his hayloft till the war was over

I love this channel and its trilogies

This is a superb video!

8:53 finally someone who doesnt say holodomor was only in ukraine

This is very simplified history, but correct.

Thank you. This was great.

“We drove across the Red Square past Lenin's Mausoleum and the towers and domes of the Kremlin--and stopped a block away at the Grand Hotel. Our rooms were ready for us--clean and comfortable, with hot and cold water, homelike settees and deep roomy chairs. Courteous attendants were there, baths and elevator, a book shop and two restaurants. Everything that a hotel for white folks at home would have--except that, quite truthfully, there was no toilet paper. And no Jim Crow. Of course, we knew that one of the basic principles of the Soviet Union is the end of all racial distinctions. That's the main reason we had come to Moscow.” ― Langston Hughes,

I like how you included the Aral sea draining

After continuously watching video after video. I have accepted there shall always be a rise and fall of nations. Peace is not a guarantee but rather just a short-term agreement between one government to another. When a population rises against the ruling class there are always nations waiting, willing to finance a coup d'etat. I hope citizens could see this as I do. The weakness starts internally.

Weird how you completely skipped over the Korean War and the reasons why NATO refused admission to the USSR....

Old man, where were you born? St. Petersburg Where did you grow up? Petrograd Where do you live now? Leningrad Where would you prefer to live? St. Petersburg P.D Sadly mate is not your video anymore because it's OUR video now

I wish you showed the geographical defence sectors of the country. (E.g, Transcarpathian mountains in Ukraine, Manchuko region, Deserts of Central Asia, Ulgar mountains etc).

5:30 there were no ways for him to regain the throne. I would say Yanukovich had more chances to regain in 2014 than Romanov in 1918.

In addition to the Japanese non-aggression pact the Soviets knew they were in no position to attack

Love your narration ❤️

Very interesting and easy to follow. Thank you!

1914-1991. Wow they had a long run

You should also mention that Stalin was not all that evil. There were less in prisoners in entire USSR at any given time than in USA at the same time. Nobody ever mentions that. Besides economic growth of USSR under Stalin was 15% a year or more. During Holodomor, there was famine for a few consecutive years around the World. People died everywhere. USSR is the country that went from 0 electricity in 1922, 25% literacy rates and no heavy industries. To 100% electricity by 1930, 100% literacy by 1934, defeating Nazi Germany in 1945 and launching a person into orbit by 1961. So in a span of less than 40 years, USSR has achieved by far more than any other country in the history of Mankind.

There's a major oversimplifying of the conditions that lead to the October Revolution. No mention of the important revolution of 1905, also lead by the Bolsheiviks and the Mensheiviks that started the creation of soviets (traduction of workers council) mostly in Saint-Petesburg and Moscow. These councils formed the base for political organization of the russian working class all through the war. Lenin didn't create another revolution, it was already well on its way before 1917 and when the Kerensky government lost all support from the population, Lenin held the motto "All power to the soviets!" and placed them in power.

Excellent narration! Liked & subscribed...

Great Video. Thank you!!

Finland got back its pre-WW2 borders at 23:47. 🙂

Thanks for the content. My biggest takeaway from this is mostly all of these leaders are treacherous and a treaty ain't worth shit.

Ролик интересен с точки зрения штампов западной пропаганды. Понятно теперь,почему на западе все время делают одну и ту же ошибку в отношении России. А так - фактические ошибки есть, движущие силы событий тоже мимо во многом. Но было интересно. Местами

14:43 churchill flew in moskov in 1942. This was the first time when allies met. Not in 1943. Churchill for the uk, stalin for the ussr and harryman for the usa. And an interesting fact. After the meeting churchill said how he was astonished to see mountains of food and alcohol and a lot of servants stalin used everyday while the rest of the country starved. This kind of luxury wasn't found in the uk for years everywhere, even in the monarch's family. And stalin just had feasts everyday.