In 80 Blunders Around The World - The Russian Baltic Fleet 

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@@howistoast how is this not more popular?! wat

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Except when they did

Which is the insult added to this fleet's injury. They were the worst fleet on the seven seas ... and in the Straits of Tsushima they encountered one of the best -- and were duly slaughtered.

It's even more funny considering that it actually happened.

Oh God. Is this for real? Oh God, my head hurts ...

Thanks a lot, that is very kind of you to say!

Why do you have to be this delusional. It's almost a clische.

The Africa-Madagascar misadventures included Aurora getting a pet Nile crocodile that ate some of her crew. Not a joke.

The Kamchatka: the best Japanese ship that didn't actually serve in the Japanese navy.

with all respect you were part of these orcs in the past and you cant denie it . you fought side by side in the crimean war , you fought side by side in ww2 (even tough a portion of you joined the axis) and you both spilled your blood for that land . millions of russians died for crimea and ukraine in these wars , you were both aiming your nukes on the rest of the world ready to destroy it or die trying to defend it together like brothers . you both had nukes for the common cause . so dont split your history from theirs just because you are independent now . even the Kievan Rus is a Rus/Russian and dont be offended by this , many times in the past that state was known as Russia of Kieve , so dont denie it , dont change it , you are one people and one nation . you are like kosovo and serbia, like iraq and kuweit, like the 2 koreas , like morocco and algeria , like idian and pakistan . 1 history , 2 different mentalities . see your actual war as a civil war , dont hate everything about them because when you do it you do hate yourselvs too because your history was shared troughout most of your existence .

@@LauftFafa You know very little about our history, Ukraine is a descendant of Kievan Rus, Cossack Hetmanate and Ukrainian People's Republic. Russia is a descendant of the Golden Horde and Muscovy. You can read how Western researchers in the 15th-17th centuries described Ukrainians and Russians. Ukrainians were already described as literate, tidy and freedom-loving at that time. At the same time, the Russians were slaves, illiterate, lived in the swamp and could not use a fork. The Russians are not even ethnically Slavic, they descended from Finno-Ugric peoples and tribes such as the Merya and the Moksha. Enough to read Russian fakes, we have never been brothers with them and fought almost our entire history. The goal of Ukrainians is to live and prosper among equal European nations, at the same time the goal of Russia is to drag everyone into its swamp of degradation.

@@AndriyMaydan wow the propaganda here . Calling russians as uncivilised and you as civilised . Even calling them descendants of the golden horde as if it wasn't them who defeated ans annexed them . Like it or not the country ukraine didn't appear until recently , Rus is the name that the name Russia was made from while Ukraine only mean land of the extremity or far land and probably have turkik origins . Also funny how you mention a date where kieve was nothing more but a border city between Poland and muslim crimea and the already established russia. Funny even mire you mention the cossak state that in case you didn't know was vassal of russia .

@@LauftFafa Russia has the same relation to Kievan Rus as the Roma to Rome. The old ethnonym of Ukrainians is Ruthenians, but Russians are Muscovites. They simply stole our name in the 18th century, when Ukraine-Rus was occupied by Muscovy. And that is why the Ruthenian intelligentsia had to adopt a new ethnonym - Ukrainians, which came from the name of the territory - Ukraine. It's funny about Kyiv in general. Kyiv is 700 years older than Moscow, when Moscow was just founded Kyiv was one of the three largest cities in Europe.

@@AndriyMaydan Could you post some sources?

Thank you very much for that!

Thank you so much, that's great to hear!

Fun fact: Those 'worst ships he could get his hands on' were about the best that the Baltic fleet could muster anyway... Yes, it was that bad

​@@johncunningham6928Which is what turned Rozhestventsky otherwise by all accounts a very competent and conscientious officer, into "Mad Dog." I defy even the purest-hearted saint to deal with Rodhestventsky's problems without Hulking out.

Another fun little detail: One of the two ships that got friendly-fired at Doggerbank was also the same ship that then got friendly-fired again by Kamchatka off of Madagascar. Said ship? The cruiser Aurora. Yes, the one that would go on to fire the first shots of the October Revolution. Also, funny little detail about the battle of Tsushima? Aboard the bridge of one of the japanese cruisers there, a young japanese staff lieutenant lost two fingers to shell fragments. If he had lost a third one, he would have been forced to retire from military service according to regulations. Which would have been quite the little butterfly effect. Why, you ask? Because the name of that young lieutenant was Yamamoto Isoroku.

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Careful how you say his name dude

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They became Japanese citizens. One of them co-founded Nintendo if I remember correctly.

@@howistoast I'm still laughing

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they literally invented boats for this story in particular

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I thought that burger was spoilered, not spoilt...

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thank you very much, that's very nice of you to say!

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