Temporary Countries of 20th Century Russia 

*Do you know any other temporary countries in other time periods or regions?*

Russia: Battle Royale

My great grandmother told me they never knew what country they'd wake up in or what religion they'd be when they went to church on Sunday.

The russian revolution is so messy and interesting.

Me and my friend made up a country called “Odessa” based on the Ukrainian city, had no idea it was an actual country at one point lol

3:37 Black flags with skulls were also typical of anarchists in those times in post-Russian Empire. Also, the inscription on the flag says _"Death to the bourgeouis"_ 6:07 Well, the flags of ZUNR (Western Ukrainian People's Republic), and this one, slightly differ from the current Ukrainian one in that they use a darker shade of blue. But the flag of UNR (Ukrainian People's Republic) is indeed the same. 8:18 Again, flag typical of anarchists. The inscription says _"DEATH to those who uppoze (sic!) the achievement of freedom of working people"_ Also, as has been mentioned by other commenters, you have left out quite a few of the temporary republics. I'm slightly disappointed that you said nothing about Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic (Донецко-Криворожская Республика) or even about all the stuff that was going on in the main parts of Ukraine with UNR, ZUNR, Skoropadsky's Hetmanate, and so on.

The story of the Czech Legion is also a very interesting story form that time

Facts General Knowledge could have added about the Basmachi movement: - When the rebels were defeated in Central Asia by the reds, the Muslims crossed the border to Afghanistan for protection. There they managed to get involved in a civil war situation Afghanistan had at the time and in the end Afghanistan allowed the USSR invade it just to take down the Basmachi. - At some point, Enver Pasha was the leader of the movement. Enver was openly a supporter of Pan-Turranism, an ideology supporting that the Ottomans should form an empire stretching from the Balkans to Yemen and even up to Siberia, uniting all the Turkic Siberians, Central Asians and the Arabs. After the developments in Turkey and the rise of Kemal, Enver moved to Central Asia and kept fighting there, if I'm not wrong he died in Tajikistan or Afghanistan.

Russia almost turned into that TNO map at the end of the First World War huh?

I just heard about this! So glad you've made a video of this

Every country is technically temporary. 😂😬

This channel doesn't have the recognition it deserves! Love from Brazil 💕

Thank you so much for making the video!

3:40 Type on flag "Death to rich!" 8:15 "Death to everyone, who stay in the way of workers' freedom" I hope I understood this strange dialect(neither Russian, nor Ukrainian).

Another awesome video! Greetings from Brazil, General Portuga 🇧🇷🇵🇹

I've been waiting for a video about this for years

Imagine how many countries would there be if Russia didn't exist or if they had a regular size

3:42 Maybe you didn't mention it because of the demonitization, maybe you missed it, but FYI the writing on the flag means "death to bourgeoisie" 8:15 I'm not good at Ukrainian or pre-revolution Russian, but the writing on the flag roughly translates to "death to all who stand in the way of gaining freedom for the working people"

Maaaaaan....I just looooove these videos! Maybe a video, or videos, on all the different states before we had a united Germany, should keep you busy for a wee while! 😉 Keep up the fantastic work! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🏆🥇

Awesome work about one of the most crazy episodes in history.

Great video! Congrats

I think you missed Tuva which bordered on lake Baikal

I can't imagine the pain it was to try make maps of that conflict, that wasn't trenches, those were abandoned lands filled with chaos, one day you are fighting one the next they join together to fight you, when you retreat destroying land, they start a revolt so you have to go again to make a push in the destroyed land, then you get help, then they abandon you, so total caos during years.

This was one of the craziest videos of all. Great!

crazy information. thank you!

There were way more than that... Off the top of my head: Belorussian People’s Republic, Georgian Democratic Republic, Ukrainian People’s Republic, First Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus

Where is Moldova that proclaimed its independence in 1917 until 1918 when it united with Romania

Thanks for the share

“Makhnovia” was, conceptually, the best idea among all these experiments.

Nice video ! Please link the map that was your inspiration, I would love to see it in detail !

This is just a wild video. Never knew about any of this.

Id like to mention that there were way more nations that weren’t mentioned or included in this map

Great video!!

I actually learnt a lot of this from reading Doctor Shivago. If you haven’t read it, do it. It’s a long read but worth it.

You forgot about Green Ukraine near Vladivostok

Fantastic video

Parents: leave house for one second Kids:

There's a slight mistake in the video, more precisely the short lived mountain republic didn't have any control over the region of abkhazia, but rather simply claimed the territory. Abkhazian region was under the claim and control of transcaucasian federation and later on Georgia's first republic.

Nice! Pity you didn't take a few seconds to mention in regard of Transcaucasia the three parts Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan existed in a temporary form for a few years after the Caucasus union broke up: until 1920 for Azerbaijan and Armenia, 1921 for Georgia. And that Georgia, like the Baltic States was recognized by the Soviets in 1920 as an independent country, but still got absorbed into the USSR in 1921. But alas...

Interesting crazy fact: Courland had Carribean and African colonies! In the 1650s Trinidad and Gambia were colonial outposts of the Duchy of Courland.

It's amazing the number of things we learn from you that we didn't even know exist...

11:06 I love that that flag looks like a smiley face 😀

And the 1# happiest flag goes to: The North-Caucasian Emirate!

im surprised you haven't mentioned chechnya itself considering the 90s and 2000s, was not long ago..

Gilan wasn't ruled by Russia, it was in their sphere of influence in Iran and later occupied during the war. Also the official names for the state were Republic of Persia and Persian SSR, the leadership mostly had intentions of conquering the capital Tehran.

2:25 There is a historical error: the communists who started the civil war were a faction in the social democratic party, and the party itself didn't align itself with the victorious White Finland. White Finland was mostly made of nobility, burghers, land-owning peasants and others united by anti-communism, like the clergy. Ideologically White Finland wasn't social democrat, but more authoritarian, nationalist, religious and conservative. Only some parts of the social democrats were on the side of the Whites, but mostly on the losing Red side

AWESOME maps! Where did you find them???

14:15 Last sound in the word "basmach" is not the K- sound

Lemko republic : has blue yellow and green on the flag. *"Where culturaly closer to russians"* Of course!

Things you cannot unsee: the flag at 11:08 is a smiley face lol

Russia’s awkward puberty years

Russian revolutions of 1917: we have towns, proclaiming themselves as independent countries Russian revolution of 1905: pff, we have neighbourhoods, proclaiming themselves as independent countries

The Kars Republic? I guess that's just what I needed.

great video

What sources do you use for this I would like to do some research on some of these nations

Interesting fact: Crimean, Kuban and Don republics all had negotiations with Ukrainian State to join it as autonomous republics, but only Crimean reached an agreement before being overrun by the red army (this was the reason for Germans and Ukrainians invading it)

Very cool video! mad how russia was that big

Do a video on bengal presidency and bongo/vengas please!! These are amazing to watch. Thank you

nice!how about an episode about flags of soviet republics?

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Kars Republic: exists Jojo fans be like: *Aztec dubstep starts*

In short: nothing new under the sun -- nations forming and reforming like there's no tomorrow. Super interesting video.

AMAZING VIDEO I LIKE IT 👍👌👌👍 :!

fitting video now huh ?

The free territory wasn't a state, that's why it was anarchist, but I guess being on the map makes you a state

Please make video about carribean and Pacific nations

i smell a hoi4 mod where all of these succeed on the horizon

13:26 i've never saw that alash flag before isn't it yellow crescent and star on the red base?

Everything is interesting about Russia

Btw on that first black pirate flag of Estonian island the words are Death to Bourgeoisie

Can you do some videos about China? Like their Civil war?

You forgot about the Belarusian People's Republic!!!

5:59 In reality the region had a referendum if they want to join new czechoslovakia state, there were no invasions of czechs, and most of the old people remember these times in czechoslovakia as the most prosper one. Also Ukraine didn't recognize their language or ethnicity even is there really different dialect, so their population is in decline and the biggest minority of these people are actually in Slovakia and they are recognized there as an ethnic group and they have few schools in their language. plus one fact - My boyfriend have mom which were born to the rusyns in slovakia and lived there in childhood. Her grandmother told her that during wwII a soviet bomb fell in to their house, but don't explode. How lucky they were... People there were in just few years under so many countries.. But they have really beautiful woden churches and nature, I recommend it!

Cool video! The various separatist and nation-building experiments that arose surrounding the break-up of Austria-Hungary and during the Russian Civil War is one of the most fascinating historical events to me.

hey can you tell me the map you used for the video to show Temporary Countries of 20th Century Russia

How on earth do you go from "we don't want conscription" to "we want independence for central asian muslims"?

Russia battle royale isn't real and it can't hurt you Russia battle royale:

Also, there was a rebel town republic in 1905 in Povolzhye. It's name was Republic of Ruzayevka

11:14 shoutout to them making their flag a smiley face

3:07 Ingrian isn't Finnish either. Calling these peoples Finnish is like calling Estonians for Finnish... They're all in the same language family. But it's separate languages.

What would happen if Korea United to one country????

Good material. I myself as russian had know like 4 of this just because Im a bit enthusiastic of history.

Is there a link to the map you mentioned?

The word on top of those “pirate” flags, the one that looks like CMEPTb, is actually Cyrillic for SMYERT, which is Russian for DEATH. I think the first one (on the island off Estonia) reads “Death to the bourgeoisie.” My Russian isn’t anywhere good enough for me to try the second one.

Basmachi should be read as in the word "match"

This is actually crazy 😂

It reminds me very strongly a story about hunters trying to get the best pieces of a bear, they were ready to shoot..... Bear was nearby too......

Why didn’t you mention Ukrainian People’s Republic and Belarusian People’s Republic? They were major back then.

10:19 I like how Azerbaijan just surrounds Armenia

Perloja is a village now in the south of Lithuania.

Temporary countries are so interesting

Fun fact: Odessa didn't get Moldavia, because it was independent thats how it united whit romania.

"Anarchist State" lmao.

World: So how many Civil Wars do you want to have? Former Russian Empire: I'll take all of them...

Idel Ural is so good-looking thing

The Russian Revolution is basically everyone saying "Look at me, I am the captain now"

What's about a cascade of Ukrainian states?

On the right side of the thumbnail: Kokand KokandBallTorture

2:26 I never knew that🤯 Even after the War my Men were brave enough to fight for others🙏🇩🇪

Shame that these countries met their end. Some of them had some really cool flag designs