Hoi4: Ruling the World as a Freakin Bear 

Honestly I trust Wojtek far more than any other politician

local homeless woman shows up, proclaims herself queen, conquers half of two continents in a brutal war, and is then deposed by a bear. honestly i hope she got a nice retirement, and long live the bear king

do not dishonour Wojtek. He literally served as artillery crew in the battle of Monte Cassino (he was carrying the shells)

What happened after that? Can he bear the weight? Did he end up ruling the world?

That is an absurd Easter egg, I adore that bear!

1) This is the way the world should be ran 2) Hope you had a good thanksgiving

Bear in mind how fun this achievement is! Btw, is there an option to change Berlin name to... Bearlin? 😂

If you release Lithuania as a puppet you can do the commonwealth focus and instantly annex and get the cores

I love how in real real he only became a corporal which to be fair for a bear is an astounding achievement but in this game you can loterally make him the king of half of Eurasia

Bruh I was so convinced this was a troll. Especially when you randomly said you needed the artillery focus for the event to trigger. Absolutely hilarious.

King wojtek deserves all of our beer

All hail King Wojtek, May his reign be prosperous and peaceful I'll expand this later, feel free to add your own line for King Wojtek Original Comment: The first monarch to fight on the front lines since Napoleon

*Sees a literal bear on the ballot* ............. ............. *shrug of approval* "Ok."

This is my mom’s worst nightmare in the most literal sense imaginable. she literally had a nightmare when she was young were an army of bears took over the world and ate everyone. She was in Yellowstone with her family and my dad, who she was still dating at that time, and they saw some bears nearby. They all got out to watch them while my mom was having a breakdown in the car because she thought they were gonna charge them and kill them all, she was screaming for them all to get in the car… the bears were several hundred feet away from them.

Of course a stereotypical Slavic Empire has a bear as Tsar. It's actually kind of funny.

The funniest thing is that wojtek actually existed and fought with the polish as a soldier in Italy like at the battle of monte cassino.

I would totally support a bear for the king of Poland. Huzzah for the King!

Stakuyi your recent videos have been extremely good and I think this video will be as chaotic and fun as the others

Fun fact: You can form Slavic Union in CK2, which is older than hoi

The isolated trade policy can be changed when you have another port, here it was when Lithuania was annexed. Also the new changes from the open beta which is now normal as of yesterday reduces the chances of spies getting captured SIGNIFICANTLY

If you dropped this video 2 seeks ago this would be perfectly paired with Polands Independence Day, but still great video as always. Also you read Polish names nearly perfectly, im impressed.

"I am not trapped in the eastern front with a bunch of Soviets! You're all trapped out here with me!"

The maniacal laughter mixed with “it’s fine, it’s fine”…hilarious!

Anastasia went from a homeless woman to a literal leader of the whole europe

having to listen to the same song (with WHISTLING AS ITS MAIN MELODY) for 30 minutes on repeat is actual torture

Fun fact ursus in the comunist block was one of the best farm machinery producers in the eastern block.

This... This is the proper way things should have ended in WW2.

Epic Poland moment and great content stakuyi

The polish bear now. Russia how the tables have turned

17:23 NKVD: Hippity hopity your spies are now dead.

I could hear Frederick II scream in agony, across the aeons, when you explained the Focus Tree option of going with the "Hollaholsen".

Only in Poland 🇵🇱

10:00 You can change trade law now because of Lithuanian ports Otherwise usually you only have Danzig as a port and hence the Embargoed Economy law

Pills are so spicy, it'll have you foaming at the mouth for more.

Well there IS also a Hearts of Furries mod.... just saying, more, than one way to put animals onto the throne...

That cavalry officer is a real person, and absolute legend. Look him up, Witold Pilecki; first man to give a report on the camps.

Imagine waiting whole 9 months just to name your child Wojtek Best mistake of one's life

17:50 hussars are a Hungarian thing. The polish, who had a lot of close ties with Hungary throughout history, stole the idea and added ornamental wings and called it their own thing

I was there this all happened

Wojtek the bear is one of a kind. He carried bullets, smoked cigarettes and was awesome

Hey Stakuyi, another great upload, I'm glad to have subbed to you. Your videos are always entertaining.

You can tell that he isn't used to Poland as he gets mobilization before the noble beaurocrat (+15% pp +15% stability) Edit: abolishing class segregation is better than nationalist education as for Poland stability is more important than war support that jumps to 100% the moment you're attacked and non core manpower is better than some bonus for attack and defence in core states.

Protip for getting cores on Lithuania quickly: annex them, release them as a puppet, and do the commonwealth focus, which will give you cores on Latvia and Lithuania, and will annex both if they’re your subjects.

I think animals would be better leaders than most people

In the history books this will look weird, 1936 some random homelss woemn becomes queen of poland after claiming to be romanov, proceeds to conquer eastern europe and then the entire soviet union and germany, they find she is a fraud and replace with bear

Some times you’re watching a video that really intrigues you and then you see the title ruling the world as a bear and then you just have to watch it BECAUSE ITS A BEAR RULING THE WORLD HOW CRAZY DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO COME UP WITH THAT

Honesly I love the idea of the Polish Resistance using the distraction of the Winter War to shove into the USSR. (Poland was captured almost exactly 1 month before the winter war began)

Don’t worry just ’bear’ with me BEST JOKE I HEARD Stakuyi

"SIR WHAT ARE YOUR ORDERS?" "Rawr" "Understood, sir."

I still need that achievement, so I might try this strategy.

I've laughed a lot during this episode! Thank you Stakuy

Ah yes, who could forget the Canadian royal family, the House of Holler-Hoser.

Good lord, posting a lot recently. Keep up the good work man, you are great.

I couldn’t bear the wait for the bear to become king

I didn't know that was there thank you, for telling us!

This challenge seems like a real bear but you bore it with unbearable courage.

I've been saying for years that bears should be in charge of everything. Long live King Wojtek!

i was not expecting... a literal bear ascending the throne. maybe as a way to transfer the royal powers elsewhere... but what just happened...?

King Wojtek Romanov Of Poland Shall "Liberate" The World

“ he is barley holding on” that pun was actually funny lol

I'll be honest, thus is probably one of the most fun runs you've done in _Hearts of Iron VI._ Even some of the Fallout: New Vegas and MLP runs pale in comparison to just how OP you made Poland and how quickly WOrld War II got resolved. I'm really hoping there's an alternate universe where, instead of the Soviet Union, there is now The Slavic Republic of Poland. That would likely end to a lot of Pollock jokes.

poland: big speedbump belgium: small speedbump

Wojtek is HOI's version of Glitterhoof

Wow. I've only seen short videos from this guy. I had no idea his main videos were full of Paradox games. Nice.

29:20 Considering history, probably a bullet...

You can remove the embargoed economy after getting a coastline any other than Gdańsk or Gdynia. you annexed Lithuania which gave you a coastline

9:50 so relatable 💀💀💀 litteraly nothing changed between cz and sk

Now you can use an Easter egg (Romanov) to unlock and Easter egg (Wojtek), to get an Easter egg (Wojtek on the thrown), to unlock another Easter egg (Funny polar bear land)

All Hail King Wojtek

The history books will be This is a video from the pre ww3 Era before Russia invaded the Baltic states About a video game about the ww2 Era truly a weird experience

Wojtek challenge Light artillery only Wojtek as leader No aerial No navy Only artillery

Wojack is probably the most honest politician.

If you go Cossack king and Germany goes for the kaiser, you can rush down Germany during the civil war,the wargoal should be ready as soon as the civil war ends and Germany should have practically no divisions

I could bearly handle the puns.

29:22 Well considering he was a random homeless man at one point he might be proud

This was so much fun.

I once again have to be astonished that Steve probably is the person in the world with the most eyebrow movement... And I am slowly learning to handle it

Bear.

Imagine conquering half the world only to be deposed for a bear.

28:50 What a laugh

honestly wojtek is probably the only polish leader to be able to be a good leader in poland

Say what you want, about Wojtek but he is the cutest king any country will ever have.

She upgraded the speedbump of europe into an even bigger speedbump!

I wish my country had a competent leader like the Slavic union

Lovely videos we don't have to bear to watch!

Poland + Slovakia + Lithuania + Latvia + Estonia looks like a bear riding another bear

As a Polish man, Wojtek is actually our leader and our president Andzrej Duda actually has Wojtek inside his brain with buttons and levers and switches

Imagine if this was historically accurate and Poland joins the Allies. Just picture the summits.

10:10 the reason why you could change from embargoed ecconmoy was that you got another port so you dont have to use danzig

it was not the bear puns that did me in- it was him pronouncing hohenzollern as hollerholzen

I like that people think that bears are russian Animals were meanwhile in Poland we Had 3 bears in the army Wojtek the Shell Carier Basia the Patriotic Dancer And the last one i dont rember

I can already tell these jokes are going to be un-*bear*-able

All hail the king of Poland

Weirdly not the first paradox game in which you can play as a bear

30:10 appearance of the bear

Obligatory "The Winged Hasurs arrived" reference.

To explain what was going on with the embargoed economy stakuyi Danzig was your only port, but they didn't want to be a part of poland, so they embargoed and completely blocked you from using your only port. in history, the Polish got around this by exporting through the baltic states (with a high tax) but by absorbing Lithuania, you also gained access to their ports, and you completely bypassed danzig, and basically gave the germans in the city the middle finger.

That was a lot of fun

That’s a good leader tho, amazing stats

I’m mean, Wojtek has my vote if he ran.