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@TheColdWarTV Год назад

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@concept5631 Год назад

Second

@nigeh5326 Год назад

David and team I’ve been watching your videos since you started in 2019. You always produce great content and even though I did study some areas of the Cold War in the mid nineties at university I still find out something new in every video you make. Thank you all for your hard work and quality content 👍 Also a while back some criticised David and he addressed those comments, took note and improved from v good to bloody great imo 😊

@thenewjord50 Год назад

Are going to do Patrice Lumbama and the Cong Crisis

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Год назад

And USA in pasifik

@carkawalakhatulistiwa Год назад

western countries created a hole in the ozone and produced 80% co² during the cold war. and lead into the air

@edwartvonfectonia4362 Год назад

Thanks for covering this, hello from Kazakhstan!

@fluffypants Год назад

How Kazakhstan Treats Nuclear Tests?

@Vegas_Des Год назад

Very nice! Great success 👍👍

@balabanasireti Год назад

No one asked

@LD-wm7jm Год назад

borat

@edwartvonfectonia4362 Год назад

@@balabanasireti average turkish commentator

@bethmarriott9292 Год назад

For the last one and a half to two years, I've been making my way through each video posted by this channel. Today, I'm finally all caught up, and it's amazing to see how much has been covered and how much is still to come - I can't wait! Thank you for this amazingly detailed content and the enthusiasm behind its presentation, David's narration is a genuine highlight and the suspense i have over every video's F***, Marry, Kill instructions for the bell button is great and i look forward to it every time

@TheColdWarTV Год назад

This has actually given me an idea for a bell button outro! And thank you for the kind words and support!

@bethmarriott9292 Год назад

@@TheColdWarTV that's the highest honour i could ask for 🥺😍 that poor bell button needs some therapy

@aaronrocs Год назад

The good ol' days, huh? lol

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

@@TheColdWarTVYou re turk and american? If you turkish thank you Supporter kazakhs The Russian girl named Kristina Pimenova surpasses the American

@mattanderson6336 Год назад

13:35 ‘Carelessness was built into the Soviet system from its inception.’ Best quote about the Soviet Onion I’ve ever heard! Why worry about safety in a society that’s perfect.

@DobroDed76 Год назад

Ye, its so true. Too bad it has no proofs

@Longshanks1690 Год назад

Soviet 🧅

@Sniperboy5551 Год назад

Soviet Onion? I think I had one of those at Outback Steakhouse once

@michaelfodor6280 Год назад

Soviet Onion? Well once you start peeling back the layers, you will cry.

@TheColdWarTV Год назад

Gorbachev (probably): Onions have layers. The Soviet Union has layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers. Reagan (probably): Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions.

@Game_Hero Год назад

We don't talk enough about the Qazaqs and the Soviet dissidents, I never even heard of the Asharshylyk, the 1986 replacement of the first secretary by a Russian and the protests that went with it. I even barely heard of Zukholov, so seeing his evolution as an anti-nuclear activist was really interesting.

@martincarlson2565 Год назад

Fellow RU-vidr Bald and Bankrupt visited Mayluu-suu a few years ago. It's very interesting to see a closed city opened up in modern times. Sadly, the last three decades haven't been kind to the residents of Mayluu-Suu.

@mattanderson6336 Год назад

12:46 The Communist Party always regarded the general public as nothing more than cattle. ‘Does a cow complain when it gets milked? So should the residents of Kazakhstan rejoice when scientific achievement brings glory to the Communist Party!’ Remember under communism the Party doesn’t serve the State. The Party IS the State. V.I. Ulyanov.

@magellantv Год назад

Timely as ever 👏

@anon_bast Год назад

Hello David, I love your channel and have watched it for several months. Great job you are doing! I was born in the USSR (not that far from Semipalatinsk) and witnessed many of these things with my eyes, but I still could learn new facts from your videos. That would be absolutely fantastic if you pay a bit more attention to pronouncing key toponyms and surnames. With all respect to the fact that it is impossible for a non-native speaker to fully comprehend correct intonation, please at least pay attention to where the stress goes. It is killing my ears to hear how you say "Saharov" in a way as if he has something to do with the Sahara desert. The stress in his surname goes on the first vowel. The same way as in many English words. Same for Glasnost. Thank you a lot!

@D3xt3rity Год назад

I love your content, please keep it up!

@jeremyhodge6216 Год назад

Any land The Soviets touched was always devastated 🤨

@markmierzejewski9534 Год назад

Great episode!!

@beachboy0505 Год назад

Excellent video 📹 All Imperialism is the same.

@Mrgunsngear Год назад

Thanks

@thelondoner1526 Год назад

Regarding the legacy of Semipalatinsk, I'd like to add a good note and a message of hope, not just to Kazakhstan, but to mankind as a whole: There has been an effort to free mankind from nuclear weapons and one of the manisfestations of that is the development of so-called "zones free of nuclear weapons", they are established by treaties, which usually are signed in places that bear a symbolic weight in the fight for de-nuclearization. Central Asia has become a zone free of nuclear weapons in the 2000s, throught the "Semipalatinks treaty". The choice of the city is self-explanatory. For the record: Antartica (since the 50s), Latin America (60s), Oceania-Pacific (80s, a continent that suffered greatly under western powers' nuclear tests), South East Asia and Africa (both in the 90s) are also zones free of nuclear weapons. As a matter of fact, the whole southern hemisphere, half of planet Earth, is a zone free of nuclear weapons since the 90s (it only takes you to add up all the regions up to Africa and you'll see).

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

And on the other hand, the situation could be looked at as the elitist members of Nuclear Club preventing developing nations from acquiring the means to protect their independence and sovereignty

@jakegarvin7634 Год назад

I think that might be your new Best-Button yet

@mattanderson6336 Год назад

19:32 Did Sakharov really die of a heart attack in 1989 or was he silenced due to the fear that under Glasnost he might reveal too much.

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

Yes, it was heart attack. He was in poor health condition after his exile to Gorky and had multiple heart surgeries prior.

@Redneck2393 Год назад

Me watching from 22:49 to 23:40 - "Fifty-thousand people used to live here, now it's a ghost town".

@thedevilneveraskstwice7027 Год назад

During Yeltsin period there was this partial opening of information channels regarding the legacy of Semipalatinsk. Definitely not a material for faint hearted ones. Its horrendous and does no hold any comparsion to anything other. But such are many links in soviet puzzles. Its actually interesting and quite sad that Kazakhstan does not pursue any form of official reparation.

@davidgenie-ci5zl Год назад

Reparations from who? The USSR is long gone. Do you want reparations from the people alive today that had nothing to do with the nuclear testing?

@TheBucketSkill 3 месяца назад

@@davidgenie-ci5zl Bro it wasn't that long ago LOL. People are absolutely alive today that had to do with it. Don't you have grandparents?

@davidgenie-ci5zl 3 месяца назад

@@TheBucketSkill Perhaps the people of kazakhstan can pay themselves reparations , after all they were part of the USSR. Their own nation did it to them. They can tax themselves to pay themselves.

@AaronKloecken Год назад

I love your content 💛💙 you do a wonderful job at presenting information in a way that is entertaining, but not just garbage and fluff like the History Channel.

@SuperpowerBroadcasting Год назад

Just a note that the thumbnail is the Hood test in Nevada, USA, not the USSR.

@oldesertguy9616 Год назад

The more I hear about the Soviets, especially Stalin, the more I hate those guys.

@BadJimmiZ 11 месяцев назад

Great video,, a French journalist did a documentary about the local village s around the "Polygon",, it shows how horrible it really was,, so many Sick people & Birth defects,, the one local hospital has Fetus s in jars,, it looks like a Horror movie,,

@robertortiz-wilson1588 4 месяца назад

Thank you, I was curious about this.

@Skipping2HellPHX Год назад

Loving the lack of music. The loop being significantly shorter than the video has always been a distraction

@twistedyogert Год назад

They also launched the first spaceflights from there. I think Russia still does send up their Soyuz and Progress missions from there too. I consider that much more interesting and much more worthwhile.

@TheColdWarTV Год назад

You may be thinking of the Baikonour launch site? It is on the opposite side of Qazaqstan, almost 2K kilometers away.

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

Sloyka is a type of layered pastry. Sloy indeed means layer

@oslonorway547 Год назад

Could you guys make a video on how the USSR viewed reports of Americans being abducted by UFOs, and if there was any race to contact alien life or harness superior tech that had seemingly being discovered outside the earthly realm? I'm sure there was some UFO race during the Cold War.

@jliller Год назад

Was there a "Soviet Roswell" i.e. allegations that the USSR recovered a crashed spacecraft and dead aliens at a specific location on a specific date?

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

Officially UFO abductees reports were ridiculed as bourgeois nationalistic bullshit propagating by the capitalistic governments in attempt to distract proletarians of the West from revolutionary struggle.

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

@@jliller No, there were no Roswell. There were of course a lot of yellow rag crap in the early 90s to sell newspapers. Nothing came out when the archives were semi-open for a short time under Yeltsin. If there was something it would have been sold to the West already

@conradsz Год назад

There wasn’t. These “inductions” were a thing pretty much in the US only. Notice how since cameras, media streaming and video became ubiquitous, they’re no longer a thing too.

@Burnthealphabetpeople Год назад

@@conradszexpect navy sailors and military pilots they see the real shit

@DanielBlancarte 5 месяцев назад

Thanks love from mexico 🇲🇽

@bmp456 Год назад

No wonder Borat was so messed up

@smhorse 10 месяцев назад

Cultural Learnings For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan 😂😂😂

@Gyrffos Год назад

All voice and no BGM makes me a dull boy.

@papazataklaattiranimam Год назад

Ultra sad Kazakh noises💀

@Vegas_Des Год назад

Wawaweewah

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

@@Vegas_Des Soviet union Islamophobia country

@Game_Hero Год назад

Soviets : "Let's build lakes from radiation-filled nuclear bomb craters! What could possibly go wrong?"

@nomobobby Год назад

To be fair, the US atoms for peace program did seriously talk about using nukes to crave out a new harbor in Alaska. Nothing like a nuclear slushy going out to the Pacific

@Game_Hero Год назад

@@nomobobby seriously talk, but didn't do anything in the end contrary to this

@juslitor Год назад

@@Game_Hero project plowshare definitely made craters in the ole u s of a

@Game_Hero Год назад

@@juslitor not with the intent of making lakes out of them.

@ekmalsukarno2302 Год назад

The Cold War, can you please make a video on the history of Portugal during the Salazar regime. Can you also please make a video on the history of Macau during the Cold War. Please accept my requests.

@Game_Hero Год назад

or else...

@stephen9869 Год назад

7:48 - Wasn't the first H bomb explosion Operation Ivy (U.S)?

@TheColdWarTV Год назад

Ivy Mike was the first thermonuclear explosion, but it wasn't weaponized, given it was the size of a warehouse. The Soviets achieved weaponization first.

@JohnMDickey Год назад

What's going on in Russia? Wagner.

@bartfoster1311 Год назад

It is crazy to think that humanity has set off over 2000 nuclear weapons!

@patrickhamos2987 Год назад

Is it?

@padawanmage71 Год назад

Great video! But no background music?

@cgabbard_8702 Год назад

It's much better this way

@sourabhmayekar3354 11 месяцев назад

Nice

@coletrain6545 Год назад

Soviet union destroyed its central Asian countries

@quinnard9750 Год назад

nope

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

FUCKING KIRISTINA PIMENOVA FUCKING BEAUTIFUL RUSSIAN FUCKING MOUTH!!

@thenewjord50 Год назад

Kazakhstan was the entire USSR for 9 days til its complete deletion in 1991

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

And no one cared.

@ernar8926 Год назад

@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 shut up

@gook5219 Год назад

Yes yes yes... So what?

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

@@gook5219 occupation russian empire!!!

@michaellynes3540 Год назад

Skip to 1:38

@roy1299 Год назад

More like rushitsky devastation of Kazakhstan

@skylineXpert Год назад

wonder If there Is a depot outside of kuczek...

@Haradin32 Год назад

lol why no backing track. The video is weird without one

@DobroDed76 Год назад

I want a video about American Neuclear Devastation of Nevada and Mojave...

@sankarchaya Год назад

and bikini atoll!

@Game_Hero Год назад

feel good about the whataboutism?

@mysticonthehill Год назад

@@Game_Hero Not whataboutism at all but very healthy concern about a public health issue and government malfeasance. Some issues transcend nations, sides and identities and are the interest of all of humanity.

@Game_Hero Год назад

@@mysticonthehill He denied the genocidal suffering of the Qazaq people in another comment, this is very much a tankie whataboutist, only caring about issues if the ones behind them don't have hammers and sickles.

@hantykje3005 Год назад

David@The cold war: could you do a similar episode on the British test is Australia, US tests in the Marshall Island and continental US, and French test in Polynesia?

@juslitor Год назад

The french tests would indeed be interesting material

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

@@juslitor kiristina pimenova cold war problem in america!!!

@glenoaksdigitalinclusion6871 Год назад

And from the irradiated sand.............. ..........Borat was born!

@scottkrater2131 Год назад

Can any one explain why Little Boy is estimated between 15 and 23 kilotons? Depending on the source?

@bizbe4465 4 месяца назад

Little boy produced 15kt I don't know where you got 23. Fat man produced 21kt.

@pinpunk13 Год назад

The documentary sounds weird without the background music.

@Vegas_Des Год назад

The Manhattan project off wish 🤣

@miscellaneoushistory Год назад

It is very interesting to say the least that the producers chose to spell it as ‘Kazakhstan’ in the title but spell it consistently as ‘Qazaqstan’ (the decolonized, native way of pronouncing the country name) in the subtitles. I assume this has to do with the fact that in English and other languages, the Russian name for it is far more popular and thus, has more search results.

@pyeitme508 Год назад

OOF!

@berkleystreetcapital3588 Год назад

Will you be doing india pakistan nuclear race as well as Nort korea.

@Game_Hero Год назад

Wasn't the nuclear program of North Korea after the Cold War? Myanmar supposed attempts on the other hand could be interesting.

@Numba003 Год назад

This sounds like it was a mess all around, but I appreciate those who stepped forward to call for transparency. I would be interested in a video on US and other nations' nuclear tests and their effects too. Thank you for this one. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@michaelturri2254 Год назад

Nah man. Why bring god and religion into this? We are working in the realms of reality here not fiction from a fictional book.

@Numba003 Год назад

@@michaelturri2254 My closing sentence is a general well-wish informed by my beliefs. Just because you don't share those beliefs doesn't mean you have to be mean. Having said that, I would contend that there is a logical argument to be made for the reality of God and, subsequently, Christianity.

@michaelturri2254 Год назад

@@Numba003 lol evidence of what? Proven housing of child predators? Gay conversion therapy causing increased suicide rates? Your religion being used to murder thousands during multiple inquisitions? The evidence is pretty clear. Ever heard of the council of Nicaea? They made up the Bible there.

@juslitor Год назад

@@Numba003 No logic in make believe characters.

@Numba003 Год назад

@@juslitor What makes you think God is imaginary?

@faenethlorhalien Год назад

They couldn’t even be a full Palatinsk? Only Semi????

@user-kw9eq4zt7x Год назад

Are u too wiity? Semi means seven, in Russian, palata - ward

@user-jk8ur7sj3t Год назад

This is so hard that believe but I believe it. So awful

@yvpetkov Год назад

What's with the closeup shot? Why?

@qwertyuiopasdfgh6680 Год назад

Very nice! *Borat intesifies*

@dimamatat5548 2 месяца назад

Who knows, maybe Borat's eccentric behavior was caused by radiation poisoning? (jk)

@bigsarge2085 Год назад

👍👍

@JoshuaFawns Год назад

Hello

@luislealsantos Год назад

Cold war, burning in ice 🧊

@caad5258 Год назад

Why does this video seem topical all of a sudden?

@JamesBarometer-jv9kk Год назад

Wonder was is the environmental impact today, not only in the former USSR but also the USA and other regions? Makes you think if North Korea was to do open atmospheric nuclear testing today, what effects it would have on neighbouring countries? Would it be a justified green light to invade them?

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

And who would invade them? George Bush?

@JamesBarometer-jv9kk Год назад

@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Would China not be upset at radioactivity coming over the border and affecting its citizens and natural resources? Surely China have the capacity to invade, and would do so if they felt diplomacy had failed and were justified to do so?

@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Год назад

@@JamesBarometer-jv9kk Kim is not stupid to try open atmospheric tests. It would mean the cancelation of humanitarian aid from international funds and their neighbors they have been receiving from the 90s. It would also mean severe trade sanctions from China and death of the economy because China is still DPRK's main trading partner. Why do that if undergrounds testing and sporadical missile launches are working work fine.

@mattsingh_ Год назад

20:03 Putin?🤔

@mysticonthehill Год назад

Atomic technologies should have never been developed. Humanity is way too irresponsible not just in the USSR but everywhere.

@beepboop204 Год назад

@DeVitar 10 месяцев назад

it`s funny to hear all those russian words mispronounced:) anyway thanks for fresh eye on history

@Primetime94 9 месяцев назад

It would have been helpful to put the word "Semipalatinsk" on the map next to the location. Or, you could have said, "indicated by the red area on the map here." It also would have been helpful to put the word "Semipalatinsk" on screen instead of just saying it. The map making on this channel definitely is on a much lower level compared to your sister channel.

@JWZ44 Год назад

the US atomic bomb testing also had very negative effects on civillians, not just russia

@bizbe4465 4 месяца назад

Yes. The difference is America learnt from what happened to these civilians. Rather than just go "da dey die, is okay. Continue."

@ahannageoffrey9509 3 месяца назад

Wat about the United States nuclear test in the pacific Islands

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

Thank you for in cold war I m support USA and NATO and Turkey 🇰🇿🇺🇲🇹🇷

@saulocpp Год назад

Soviets... LOL

@GeistInTheMachine Год назад

Borat is most displeased.

@damirmamanbay8947 Год назад

KIRISTINA PIMENOVA LOSER

@Highlarryous Год назад

Verrry Nice!!! NOT!

@gerhardbenade5869 Год назад

Which is the only country that have killed people in war with nuclear weapons?

@bizbe4465 4 месяца назад

There is no "only" America dropped the bomb knowing it would kill thousands. The USSR dropped nukes knowing it would kill thousands. North Korea dropped nukes knowing they would kill thousands. America's was only different in that it was used this way in a war. Where as the USSR and North Korea dropped bombs right next to villages and towns.

@screww2701 9 месяцев назад

If you look at the nuclear tests on a map compared to the us , you will notice that the Soviet Union actually spread out their tests over the country unlike the west wich nuked islands .

@bizbe4465 4 месяца назад

Yeah the US generally chose very unpopulated areas. Some cases beg to differ. But by in large America was more responsible with their testing than the USSR was.

@MissNebulosity Год назад

That is a very strong lisp. Hurts my ears. I'm out.

@concept5631 Год назад

Third

@josecipriano3048 Год назад

If only the soviets had a true desert inside their borders, some Alaskan island or some Japanese cities to test their bombs...

@ArifAkhundzada Год назад

And the US and UK literally smashed Pacific Ocean atolls between them in this process...I suppose they were tiny and insignificant, so it was alright anyway, eh??

@bizbe4465 4 месяца назад

Yeah considering the atolls were evacuated and mostly uninhabited aside from a select few islands. These select few islands were military bases/research labs. This area of khazakstan was only a few hundred kilometers away from a large population of people. One does not equal the other.

@TheBucketSkill 3 месяца назад

I mean yea they were small and almost insignificant. Kazakhstan is the big daddy of central asia.