Good Video If you're covering the territory changes after ww2 you shouldn't forget that the USSR also annexed the northern part of east prussia from Germany. Which is still part of the Russian Federation today.
Well it least not that many people died during the Soviet collapse. Although if you count the people that perished in conflicts that unfolded in the aftermath of the Soviet Union collapse then unfortunately there were deaths.
History Hustle great explanation though , do more videos on the internal politics and conspiracy theories lead to the collapse of the USSR and its global effect on countries like India , china as such !
USSR consisted of what is now Russia for the large part, but also the Baltic states, many -stan nations in Central Asia as well as the Caucasus nations.
@@HistoryHustle Of course, there has been no border redrawn on the "sacred" WW2 borders, except for Russia's benefit. I think the Russian government still owns buildings in Romania, sort of like that former military base in Finland but low key (for their agents). A military historian, ex-colonel in the military intelligence, Mircea Dogaru, was saying that's how they sent "tourists" in '89 to help overthrow Ceaușescu - he was also saying years before the Russian annexation of the Crimea that the US and Russia are preparing to split the Ukraine and warned the Ukraine to be aware of the Russian buildup in Sevastopol.
Stefan, very nice history video on Russia throughout history, imagine Russians still owning Alaska, fighting Japan1905, Germany1914 , themselves 1917 to 1922, , loved the Russian civil war explanation, brilliant, then the rise of the ussr or Stalin, punch up in Europe, Finland kicked the ussr hard, for such a little country, etc so much info so nicely done
Long answer: Video Short answer Russian empire (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Krgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic states Lithuania latvia estonia, finland, Poland, Alaska, Russia) Soviet Union: (Union of the 11 Soviet Socialist Republics of the Soviet union) Russia, ukraine, belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Krgyzstan) Russian Federation: The Republics of the Russian federation. Russian empire: from Poland to alaska. Soviet Union: From lithuania to Kamchatka in the Russian Sfsr. russian federation: Streching from Moscow to kamchatka.
They were not "separatists" or "independists" in the Donbass that's not true. They were not seeking to separate from Ukraine, but to have status of autonomy guaranteeing them the use of the Russian language as an official language. Pro Russian implies Russia was involved in the conflict, Russian speakers is the accurate description. The referendums of "self determination" or "autonomy" in 2014 that were held, went against the advice of Pres Putin.
13:40 My respect for you just boomed. Before Covid, I travelled a lot of Western Europe and the media is generally really harsh to us and tries to portray us as the bad guys. We are not. In fact most of us love Western Europe and the US not the politics of it, as again I think you guys are harsh e.g. with sanctions against us. But in terms of food culture music and art you Western European nations definitely are talented. This video for me felt a little oversimplified to be honest I think you should also do a video of us from when we started in 862 as a nation by King Rurik of the Rus and the Duchy of Moscow and how we under our Tsars took over the most amount of territory over time. Second, you missed out when we annexed Tannu Tuva in 1944 (the country between us and Mongolia) Then I still think you should of covered border changes of our country during WW2 so for example, how we changed the Polish Soviet border in 1945 and then how we annexed Kaliningrad from the Germans in 1945. Then how we occupied the northern half of the Korean peninsula until the DPRK was established. (North Korea, most Russians including me are embarrassed from this to be honest but it still needs to be mentioned. The only mistake I can see in this video was that Finland surrendered in March 1940 not February 1940 as you said. You should of also talked about the disputed Russian Kuril Islands with our Japanese neighbour and Crimea with Ukraine. Both of these cases I strongly see as Russian but please try to be neutral and just tell the facts. E.g. We entered WW2 against Japan in August 1945 and took the islands legally and how Crimea is majority Russian and they had a vote and it voted overwhelmingly as part of Russia. Overall, this video was great and I really enjoyed it, but I think you should make a much more detailed version of this video right from the start of our country when we got founded by Vikings and we were called Rus all the way to how we legally took over Crimea which voted to join us. Keep up the good work History Hustle. The more videos I watch from you the more I seem to regret my other comments calling your channel western propaganda and saying you are wrong. For that I apologise.
For some reason your comment just appeared in my 'to judge' section. Thanks for taking the time to write it down. This was an overview episode and indeed it missed some information and should've been more indepth on certain aspects. Funny you mention the Tannu Tuva region. I have a new map of Russia on my wall (you'll see it next week in the background) and it is noticed on it. I will cover the period 1914-1922 extensively in the upcoming month, so stick around :)
Don't buy the official Ukrainian stance on the famine in USSR (Holodomor)! In fact, people died everywhere, most in the Volga region, not Ukraine! Also, the famine could not have been anti-Ukrainian/nationalist because Ukrainian nationalists (wester Ukrainians / Galicians) were still part of Poland at the time...
The first map i completely wrong. Russia never existed in this shape. Russia lost Alaska in 1867, and at that point of time Turkestan was not a part of the Russian Empire yet. It had been included later.
That's a good question which actually deserves an episode of its own. In short: Hungary cutting down the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin Wall led to Soviet republics (Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine and central Asian countries) declaring independence and thus the Russian federal republic was left and continued as the Russian Federation.
@@HistoryHustle Russia de facto gained independence from the USSR when it denounced the 1922 treaty on the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Russian SFSR renamed itself as the Russian Federation.
USSR collapsed because the leaders of Russia, Ukraine & Belorussia did not want to collaborate with each other & Gorbachev; in short, they wanted absolute power in their jurisdictions & did not care about the misery they were about to unleash. There was a clause in the constitution that gave them the right to break up USSR, but people voted against the breakup in a referendum...
@@HistoryHustle *what I meant was that I think it should be called Democratic People's Republic of Soviet Union or People's Republic of Russia if you just read what I wrote you would better understand*
Crimea is part of russia in 2014 because russian troops annexed to Crimea the Crimean people want part of Russia then vote for join to russia then Vladimir putin declared new federal subject of russia is crimea and Sevastopol
Yeah yeah, fairytale for inner listeners. Sure. "Crimean people" - are a bunch of russian pensioners? Or maybe "Crimean people" - is the army of RF? No, man. Crimean people - are Crimean Tatars. And they did their decision many years ago. Much before your bald violent bloody bastard.
