The Soviet Bloc Unwinds: Crash Course European History #46

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In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, protests and unrest continued across Europe, and the Soviet Union was having increasing trouble holding its sphere of influence together. Today you'll learn about the labor strikes of Poland, the dissident punks of East Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the breakup of the Soviet Union, among other things.
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Sources:
-Ekiert, Grzegorz and Jan Kubik. Rebellious Civil Society - Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
-Kenney, Padraic. 1989 Democratic Revolutions and the Cold War’s End. A Brief History With Documents. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2010
-Kotkin, Steven. Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment. 2010.
-Krapfl, James. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.
-Mohr, Tim. Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall New York: Algonquin, 2018.
-Plokhy, Sirhil. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. New York: Basic Books, 2014.
-Sarotte, Mary Elise. Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, New York: Basic Books, 2014
-Smith, Bonnie G. Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
-Taubman, William. Gorbachev, His Life and Times. New York: W. W. Norton, 2017.
-Veldman, Meredith. Margaret Thatcher: Shaping the New Conservatism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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@jovanweismiller7114 4 жыл бұрын

John, I was 14 when the Berlin Wall went up. I never expected to live to see it come down. On the evening of 9 November 1989, I was at work when my wife called me. She said, 'You'll never believe what's happening!' She held the phone up to the TV so I could hear the audio. Tears came to my eyes. Soon, my desk was surrounded by co-workers as I relayed what I was hearing. It was an amazing night.

@MatthewGravens 4 жыл бұрын

Crash Course Punk Rock History when? I'm throwing my vote behind that right now.

@randyyy2609 4 жыл бұрын

You sounded so sad when you said you needed to leave musical history and get back to European history. Maybe make a Crash Course music history series soon? :)

@simonburda2021 4 жыл бұрын

John, every time you mispronounce something polish you do so in a new and exiting way I never hear anyone done before. I salute you my friend, this is a true talent :D

@schwarzroterose 4 жыл бұрын

This is a very VERY dense topic, but I do wish you guys would have mentioned the Baltic Way or Baltic Chain also known as Chain of Freedom.

@Magic_Ice 4 жыл бұрын

“Hey we should cut taxes on the rich so they can innovate more” “Ok so what should we cut” “Oh education. The thing that gets learning people to innovate”

@tarduserafettinaslanoglu9862 4 жыл бұрын

Then we cut healthcare so that talented and brilliant BuT nOt RIcH people can hardly innovate anymore.

@phoenixshadow6633 4 жыл бұрын

Education according to American politicians: Isn't that just our babysitting service? Why do we need to pay this much for babysitting? Cut! Cut! Cut! Also politicians: Why are we lagging behind our neighbors in Europe and Asia?

@Fangtorn 4 жыл бұрын

Well, if you're already rich, why would want a new generation of innovators to compete with? Better to slash education and crush people under student debt.

@Wolfenkuni 4 жыл бұрын

One interesting detail in the opening of the wall was, that it happened by mistake. The Spoke person for the East German government was giving a press conference, and they handed him a note saying the government is exploring ways to make travel to the west possible. However, it read as if this was a decision, not a discussion so he announced it as if the borders are open. And when asked when he looked at the note didn't find a date and said, "that must be now...." And little did he know how this opened the border.

@katherine6148 4 жыл бұрын

When Easter Berliners lined up to cross the wall, the guards weren't sure whether they were allowed to. They called that spokesperson, but he had gone home for the day. Said the guards, Heck it! and they let EBers cross.

@AnandKulkarniPlusOne 4 жыл бұрын

Did you also find this out while listening to Noam? : )

@OHYS 4 жыл бұрын

This is incredible, I never knew this.

@nathanseper8738 4 жыл бұрын

"Nothing is permanent in history." That's deep!

@zofiabochenska1240 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for mentioning Polish women. They are often neglected in our own narrative, while the textile worker strike was one of the biggest at the time, and countless women worked for Solidarity.

@rmdodsonbills 4 жыл бұрын

It's hard to overstate how unfathomable the breakup of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall were right up until they both happened. It's not that there were no signs but the signs weren't so different from the Prague Spring and such that had gone before and ultimately were crushed. I guess in some ways the "I can't believe this is really happening" factor wasn't so different from some of the things we're going through now, except the fall of Communism was quite a bit more removed from my day-to-day and seemed to reach a denouement quite a bit more quickly. Though come to think of it, the more removed-ness in those days might be why it seemed to be over more quickly. Perhaps those living under Communist regimes experienced those changes much the same way I'm experiencing our situation now. In any case, the end of the Cold War was really a relief for those of us living with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation and it was in the best sense of the words, interesting times.

@edfagan4251 4 жыл бұрын

Weird how different my perspective was: in my history class notebook in 1987 I wrote: "believe Germany will be reunified within the next 5 years". The wall fell in less than two.

@varana 4 жыл бұрын

@@edfagan4251 That's basically astrology - once in a while, someone is bound to "predict" something, just by accident. ;)

@varana 4 жыл бұрын

Yep - and not only the Prague Spring. The Tiananmen massacre in early 1989 was still fresh on people's minds. I still remember that the fear of such a crackdown was still a major concern for reformers when the protests began in autumn in the GDR.

@kevinsbott 4 жыл бұрын

Great point, and I always thought that Russia deserves a lot of credit for not sending troops in to try to maintain the Soviet territory. It is clearly the most peaceful dissolution of an empire in history of the world. Any resistance to it, or internal conflicts were not supported by Russia itself. Amazing that this all even happened. And I am a firm believer that everyone won the Cold War. Including Russia, Ukraine, the Baltics, Poland, etc.

@Trashplat 4 жыл бұрын

I so appreciated this little excursion to East German punk rock. 🤘🏼

@the1flym459 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot to include the greatest West German hero: David Hasselhoff, who played a concert while the Berlin Wall was falling and is still popular in Germany because of it

@Ugly_German_Truths 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, "sung down the wall"... on New Years eve, practically 2 months AFTER the wall was opened and free travelling became possible... And you seem to have missed the "ironically" in front of the popular there.

@karlkarlos3545 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody in Germany would even know who David Hasselhoff is, if it wasn't for Americans always making jokes about it.

@commanderkei9537 4 жыл бұрын

Some of that Russian music right before the dissolution was a jam. It’s got such a doomer atmosphere to it, I love it

@Artur_M. 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, for example Viktor Tsoi and his band "Kino" were awesome.

@sultansaywell4038 4 жыл бұрын

Punks in the church.😂 This killed me

@JohnVance 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize Gorbachev was still alive.

@EverythingScience 4 жыл бұрын

It's been years since I watched these in high school, but I have to say. The quality has gone up a lot since then!

@stacy1790 4 жыл бұрын

I'm calling it now. Your channels gonna blow up!

@katherinepagan4860 4 жыл бұрын

I was born in September 1991, and so it never fails to awe me that something like the dissolution of the USSR happened as I lay in my new nursery. My mom gave birth to me and then held me as history unfolded around her. It always gives me chills

@nrrork 4 жыл бұрын

The Eastern Bloc's fall was all but inevitable by the 80s, but it had about as soft a landing as anyone could've realistically hoped for and Gorbachev deserves a lot of credit for that. Not that it went perfectly, but it could've gone much, much worse. That whole area could've easily fallen into decades of civil war-- which in some areas it DID, regrettably, but I mean it could've happened EVERYWHERE in the former USSR.

@Poctyk 4 жыл бұрын

while fall of eastern block might've happened sooner or later, fall of soviet empire wasn't as solid. Except maybe Baltic states

@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 жыл бұрын

If you love music history so much, perhaps do a series about it! There's an idea.

@filosofuldecanapea2098 4 жыл бұрын

I am from Romania and my dad was in the capital during the 89' Revolution. It was a brutal revolution compared with what happened in other countries from the Eastern Block. Unhappily, even though the communist regime fell, after 45 years of communist many people didn't know what an investment is or that you are not allowed to sell things at random prices, because this will lead to an inflation. Many people sold their lands and properties for a six-pack of beer or a goat. My father happily didn't do that and now we earn some money from them.

@andymeyfroot1945 4 жыл бұрын

Without sarcasm: really? For a sixpack!?

@jakobraahauge7299 4 жыл бұрын

My goodness! You did this videp beautifully - thank you so much! I watched people silently protesting carrying torches through Leipzig in Danish television. And then - weeks? months after? - the miracle! The wall fell - I'm having tears in my eyes writing this!

@tomsmith5584 4 жыл бұрын

I was a freshman in college when the Berlin Wall fell. I remember my American history professor saying this was a dangerous time because no one knew the rules anymore, and had a general decided to use their military to stop the fall of communism, it could have gone nuclear. The reason the Berlin Wall fell as fast as it did was because of a miscommunication. An East German spokesman went on TV that night to announce new travel regulations that were supposed to be effective the next day, but they never told him the last part. When a reporter asked when the new regulations would be effective, he said immediately. Everyone then rushed the border checkpoints to find the guards, who still had shoot-to-kill orders for anyone trying to cross the border, literally hadn't got the memo. The guards tried to call their bosses to see what to do, but couldn't reach them because they were at a play. The guards decided that the crowd was too massive, so they just opened the gates and let everyone through.

@1brianm7 4 жыл бұрын

Great Video! Excited to hear about the Yugoslav wars!

@DannyBeans Жыл бұрын

I'm watching this just a few days after Gorbachev's passing. Do svidaniya, Gospodin Gorbachev.

@deepbllue 4 жыл бұрын

I am so happy that you give so much space to modern European history as well. Thank you so much :D

@christiella8233 4 жыл бұрын

graduated college, still watching. Love you CC

@Raphtyr 4 жыл бұрын

Now I want a music history series! It's surprising how little we know about the music of the ancient world.

@FunkyHonkyCDXX 4 жыл бұрын

John, the same thing happened to me when I saw the Berlin wall fall. I was a little younger and didn't have as good an idea of what was going on, but my parents made a point to drive home to me just how significant the event I was watching was. Something I'll never forget.

@arminvanmechelen6755 4 жыл бұрын

The 2 main interests in my life are history and punk rock music. So yeah, this was an awesome episode for me!

@johnmaxwell9966 4 жыл бұрын

I was six when the wall came down. My mother is German and I remember her crying and me asking her why. She said "We can be whole again. We can have a future. We can be safe."

@derekpearce4987 Жыл бұрын

I was a 16 year old high school student when the Berlin wall came down and it was just unbelievable that this was all happening so quickly-- and so quickly without violence no less. I worked alone a variety store in the evening part time and had my face buried in newspapers and magazines when I wasn't watching the news.

@FLUING 4 жыл бұрын

I was just binging this series earlier, good timing.

@rogerdotlee 4 жыл бұрын

Oh. My. God. I was 25 and working in California when this all went down. It happened at a hugely momentous time in my life (having just survived the Loma Prieta earthquake of 10/89). I remember watching this on the news and celebrated as if I was there. This brings back huge memories that to this day make the hairs on my arms stand straight out.

@rogerdotlee 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and Thacher was a tool of the first order and did more damage to the UK economy than the Communists could have ever contemplated.

@Beryllahawk 4 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the Wall come down too. I was 12 or 13, and what I remember most is, for some reason, David Hasselhoff in a leather jacket singing his heart out while people were hammering away at the structure and others were celebrating. And then, the next day, my mother and my Oma holding each other as my Oma wept and wept for hours, because she finally had been able to hear from a brother she hadn't seen in a decade by that point.

@dcbsmt 4 жыл бұрын

The chant wasn't "We are ONE people." It was "We are THE people." Meaning our voices and our will is stronger than those/that of the few in power.

@jeffeppenbach 4 жыл бұрын

Translation differences.

@munstergirl25 4 жыл бұрын

Both existed though arguably "we are the people "was the Slogan around 9th November 1989. Only after it quickly turned to "we are one people". Most east germans could hardly fathom the Wall coming down, never mind reunification. So "we are the people" was the chant of the peaceful Revolution.

@melonlord1414 4 жыл бұрын

That's actually interesting. It began as "we are one people" and later transformed into "we are the people " it shows how priorities within the protests shifted. It changed after a communist newspaper from Leipzig called the protesters "rowdys" in early October 1990. It was adopted by protests in all over eastern Germany in the following weeks.

@varana 4 жыл бұрын

The chant changed over time. "Wir sind DAS Volk" ("we are THE people") became more famous and was more widespread in the early weeks of the revolution. It was not only a declaration of strength but a rebuttal of the official line of "the communist party representing the will of the people". The other version ("Wir sind EIN Volk" - "we are ONE people") was there right from the start but became the dominating version in late 1989/early 1990 when the goal of toppling the SED regime was superseded by the goal of reunification.

@seleciaa 4 жыл бұрын

Great episode, John :)

@mihaylo_kovin 4 жыл бұрын

Great content!

@atlroxmysox98 4 жыл бұрын

PLEASE do a crash course music history!! It would make my musicologist heart so happy

@RDLFsama 4 жыл бұрын

The Gulag Archipelago is till this day one of the most unforgetful books I've read

@Ggdivhjkjl 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It's one of my earliest memories ☺

@mccoolguy1973 4 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to learn about how the Berlin Wall fell because of David Hasselhoff.

@dailydoseofmedicinee 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video.❤😀

@tomsakmens5571 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the link to the song! Btw, about the remark about punk music history - I believe I have previously suggested crash course: history of music :D

@beback_ 4 жыл бұрын

8:41 Wow they did a really good job depicting Dyatlov in that show didn't they

@RedBear535 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent. I have been going down a Soviet Russia dissolution rabbit hole this week. I’m absolutely fascinated.

@thegrimmarcher202 4 жыл бұрын

I love your work.

@verdatum 4 жыл бұрын

I was an ignorant child of 9 when the wall came down. Dad told me with great excitement that the war was finally coming to an end. I told him that I didn't know that we had been at war. Dad was an NSA employee. The state of that wall was symbolic of his mission. And keeping that war cold enough so that kids like me didn't need to know that we had been at war was exactly his mission. Not any sort of hero-worship just something I think about from time to time.

@karczameczka 4 жыл бұрын

2:44 This man carried by others is a corpse of 18 years old worker, shoted by commie police in his way to job *after the end* of protest in Gdynia Shipyard. This young death is a symbol of the Events of December '70 as we call it in Poland. He'd got memorial in the song "Ballada o Janku Wiśniewskim" - personaly I prefer this version of it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q91pibWfy9KdnqM.html (from quite good film "Czarny czwartek. Janek Wiśniewski padł." (The Black Thursday. Fall(death) of Janek Wiśniewski).

@LtNduati 4 жыл бұрын

Fun fact Namenlos also released a song called "Kräschkurs" which directly translates to "Crash Course" in english! I can't determine if it was originally released in the late 80s or in 2007/8 as a re-release, but it is serendipitous lol (double post)

@ganimhoward2705 4 жыл бұрын

“Nothing is permanent in history.” Very true.

@lyndseyg1013 4 жыл бұрын

Can we get a Punk Rock Crash Course... or maybe music in general if we have to be inclusive... though Punk Rock should have at least a month of episodes

@jamesbedwell4715 4 жыл бұрын

Me: I hope he talks about the Balkans conflicts John: We'll talk about this war in more detail in a later episode

@Harisankar-ce2vd 4 жыл бұрын

You look & sound exhausted Mr Green.

@OrbitalAstronaut 4 жыл бұрын

Seems like a perfect day for a picnic.

@yasinibrahim 4 жыл бұрын

Nice vid

@dudenoone1712 4 жыл бұрын

I barely remember the wall coming down. I was very young but the thing I am certain of was watching my dad cry. We apparently had family trapped in the soviet bloc. I got to meet them a few years later

@SeanFictional 4 жыл бұрын

That last part is sth my mother always says about the fall of the Berlin wall, that it seemed impossible and then it just happened, almost by accident. I was only four then and since we lived in the west I don't remember any drastic changes to our lives. But looking back at the event always gets me emotional. It's such an important part of our more recent history

@joaophilippe 4 жыл бұрын

The fact that a state as mighty and colossal as the USSR can fall apart without a single shot fired in the course of a few years still amazes me. I mean, when I was born in 1983 the Soviet Union seemed to be indestructible and here to stay for ages. When I was 10 this superpower was gone.

@johnburns9634 4 жыл бұрын

On May 25th, 1989, The Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup. in November the wall came down. Your Welcome, Eastern Europe. Seriously, I admired Gorbachev so much that when the attempted coup happened I was very worried for him.

@robabiera733 4 жыл бұрын

The big picture here is that the collapse of the Soviet hegemony helped usher in an expansion of economic freedom that enabled a revolution in living standards all over the world. World poverty fell from 50% to 10%. For more details I highly recommend Johan Norberg's "Progress: Ten Reasons To Look Forward To The Future." But I guess I'm jumping ahead.

@chaitanyakandwal7827 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited about John talking about the Yugoslav War also please talk about Brexit please

@katiecoyle8168 4 жыл бұрын

I wish Crash Course could focus on music. That would be awesome! History of Music?

@eoghan.5003 4 жыл бұрын

Getting in in the 48 hour window! This was really good, got through so much. Thatcher is here in Scotland still widely held responsible for the destruction of industry and the working class

@Eric-jb1ym 4 жыл бұрын

ahh yes. John Green and CrashCourse. My favorite.

@historyexplained916 4 жыл бұрын

Crash Course history of music. That is an idea that I will support lol

@danielpickton-allen8385 4 жыл бұрын

Now that you’re getting near the end of this series on european history, what is next for crash course history? Asian history perhaps? Or African history? Latin American History? In my opinion I think Asian History would make a great crash course. I’d like to see John and everyone who works on crash course tackle that long and well evidenced history. I’m a history student at university (in the UK) and I am focusing mostly on US history but I’d really like to see you tackle asian history as I’m interested in it but I can’t find podcasts or videos that deal with it in a very accessible way. Your history videos provide excellent introductions to topics, I just hope you continue to produce history content! Many thanks for what you do, Daniel Pickton-Allen

@ttmcl98 4 жыл бұрын

On a side note, a music history series would be incredible

@JV-the-Tossh 4 жыл бұрын

Shoutout to the picture of the book on Perestrojka which is totally a Danish translation for some random reason. Just about the most my country has appeared in this series :D

@Keade66 4 жыл бұрын

Would love a crash course music history!

@defneustunoglu291 4 жыл бұрын

I literally have an exam on this subject tomorrow. Not even kidding.

@gamebros5611 4 жыл бұрын

Prepping for AP Eruo next year

@dmc009 4 жыл бұрын

Been watchin you and your bro for a minute, now. I *never* would've pegged you as a punk.

@yetigriff 4 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to look at The Gulag Archipelago in CC Literature?

@Crasho327 4 жыл бұрын

I was 21 when the wall fell but I agree with your assessment that prior to that moment it felt like the wall would always be there and we'd always be fearing a nuclear war with the Russians. I don't know where I was when it fell but I do remember watching it on TV. It felt like a huge weight was lifted and we just might survive. My next thought was, when will Pink Floyd perform The Wall since Roger Waters said he wouldn't play it again until the actual wall fell. That's my sense of humor.

@PennyAfNorberg 4 жыл бұрын

When I was on a class trip, in sixth grade, to Iceland the tiamen square happened, or rather it started before we went but the military did their thing while away. Later the civil studies teachers had to tweek their course more of less daily.

@ilikedota5 4 жыл бұрын

So punk rock and churches... interesting bit I didn't know about.

@d.m.conroy6717 4 жыл бұрын

punk rock history sounds like a good Crash Course series

@jonasalinsunurin452 4 жыл бұрын

After this series, please do Crash Course Asian History.

@romanlegion5837 4 жыл бұрын

It’s important to note as well that Communism was still popular in the USSR even as it fell, the idea that republics wanted more independence but despised communism isn’t entirely accurate. Polls indicate a relatively strong support for the system they lived under, but believed reform was necessary and initially supported the idea of reform without an entire revolution to capitalism. Which to an extent explains why communist is still a party in Russia that would have more support if United Russia and Putin’s government weren’t suppressing political opposition

@traqndimtrov2163 4 жыл бұрын

please john do a series on music history

@mrb3nz 4 жыл бұрын

that ending is a chilling foreshadowing of our future

@CB-xk6ce 4 жыл бұрын

Best videos on youtube

@rubydragon4563 4 жыл бұрын

5:47 that strat head hurts my brain

@Skepticfornow 4 жыл бұрын

So when do we get crash course music history? Asking for a friend.

@fuliajulia 4 жыл бұрын

I hope they’ll at least touch on the history of Spain in the 20th century. It doesn’t necessarily fit into the larger narratives generally used to describe the last century of European history, but it’s so important and under discussed in the states.

@phelanii4444 4 жыл бұрын

I am glad that you will talk about the war following the falling apart of Yugoslavia. I don't know of any videos discussing that part of European history, nor the terrible slaughter of civilians, including the genocide in Bosnia.

@cd9962 4 жыл бұрын

Wait. This series is back?!

@lhfirex 4 жыл бұрын

Man, I was too young to really know what was going on when the Berlin wall fell, and it's cool hearing all these stories in detail. I knew about Solidarity, but only the name, since it was a topic on nightly news and I think in one of my elementary school social studies classes. I do remember when we came back to school after winter break in 1991, our social studies teacher was really excited about the USSR dissolving because it was so historically important.

@sonicgoo1121 4 жыл бұрын

"I regret we have to leave behind punk rock history and have to return to non-musical history." Well, I guess we know the subject of your next series. :)

@grantm6933 4 жыл бұрын

Your section of Margaret Thatcher is somewhat inaccurate. Public spending and welfare spending under the Thatcher government's increased almost year on year; further, while Thatcher's government did reduce the upper rates of taxation on the wealthy (causing revenues to increase. i.e. more taxes taken), her government also reduced income taxes on the lower end of the scale as well. As for your quote about poor people not contributing to growth - yeah, I've never heard this before and can't seem to find this quote. What is your source for this?

@emmaeb 4 жыл бұрын

CRASH COURSE MUSICAL HISTORY PLEASE!!! Start with the classics to jazz and even hiphop and Kpop! I would love this so much!! GREENS ASSEMBLE!

@rbb9753 4 жыл бұрын

And blues. You can’t talk about music in the 20th century without the blues

@jeffeppenbach 4 жыл бұрын

Right here, right now There is no other place I want to be Right here, right now Watching the world wake up to history

@gato-junino 4 жыл бұрын

I have a question: do we have crash course about South America, Africa, Oceania and Asia?

@Schneggie87 4 жыл бұрын

Can we eventually have a crash course : Punk rock history????

@Sordatos 4 жыл бұрын

There could be a musical or arts history course (unless there is one already)

@dominicissocool1244 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@thethirdjegs 4 жыл бұрын

I think you have a missing episode (#42?) What happened to it?

@tiborpejic2341 4 жыл бұрын

Let me first say I love Crash Course and other sister channels but I do have, what I consider to be, a constructive criticism. I don't speak Polish so I thought that might really be how Wojtyła is pronounced but a quick search showed me my original pronunciation was correct. Unfortunately, this is not the only such mistake in this very video. It's not easy learning how to pronounce foreign names and I would've understood a mistake during a conversation. I'm sure a significant amount of time went into production of this video so I don't understand why is it so difficult to spend a few more minutes (it won't take more than that, especially for European languages) learning how to pronounce foreign names that appear in the script. A first few times wrong pronunciation is funny but after a while it's just wrong, which shouldn't be the case for and educative video. This does not apply only to Crash Course, rather it is an appeal to many youtubers - please do a quick Internet search before making a video with names from languages you don't speak.