The Krasny Kavkaz - Soviet Naval Tales 

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I have no idea what awaits me but knowing it's Soviet navy it's gotta be hilarious

"Stalin is now god-emperor of Soviet Onion". LOL Nice!

Loosing one propeller and having the second one damaged, with 2000 tons of water in an already overweight 9000 ton ship and somehow staying afloat and making it back to port is seriously impressive. That must have been some extremely skilled damage control crews. That's the kind of survival story you would hear about the US Navy in the Pacific, not the Soviet Navy in the Black Sea. I completely agree with what you said. Not a good ship by design, but she performed really well for what she was asked to do. (PS, love that you mentioned the Georgios Averof. I visited her a few years ago and she's such a pretty ship with an amazing career.)

Saying the Warspite had plot armour is inaccurate. She had the power of God and anime on her side. She was a floating Deus Ex Machina

MOM THE SOVIET NAVY IS UTTER SHIT AGAIN!

'The Soviet Empir-, er, Soviet union. It was totally a soviet empire.' 'Stalin is now the God-Emperor of the Soviet Onion" My guy out here just firing round after round like he's got a ballistic skill of 2+ and never missing!

I’m sure this ship had a normal and uneventful service :)

Your ability to somehow reference an anime body pillow in a historical video about a Russian warship is absolute mastery. I'm proud to be subscribed to you. 💯

You should talk about the Soviet K171 nuclear ballistic missile sub incident. The crew just bumbled into a room with a LIVE reactor because that is such a Russian thing to do..

y'know, being completely unknowledgeable on ships in general, i usually don't understand a single one of the things you say in these videos. so, it's always fun when i hear something and actually realize how bad it is. "the barrels could only shoot a few dozen rounds before they needed to be replaced," what the HELL???

"being slapped around by Admiral cunningham and HMS warpite with her never ending plot armour": I spat my tea out of my nose at that deadpan delivery. Bravo sir.

Ngl this ship, kinda got my respect I think it’s quite incredible that the ship performed so well, we’ve seen where some of the potentially best ships in the world get absolutely bodied by aircraft or on maiden voyages, the fact it not only survived but fought on during the opening months andf the war is honestly quite amazing and my hat goes off to its crew

I never knew Horatio Nelson was 100 ft tall and could shoot lasers out of his eyes🤔

If there is one single consistent aspect across the history of Russian navies, it is how appallingly bad the level of maintenance and shipboard cleanliness and house keeping standards have been.

Hell yes! HMNZ Leander! I've scuba dived it's wreck too. It's got quite the story of its sinking and how we did a better job when sinking a couple of our other old scrapped warships. I've swum past crayfish having a shag in the forward magazine. Through the bridge full of tiny Anemones. It was a great dive and I wish I could go back.

Most of the world's great Maritime Powers have stories about phenomenal Admirals outstanding acts of seamanship tales of heroism from single vessels to tasks groups to entire fleets. In Russia they have this one ship that heroically didn't sink while not being shot at by enemy ships.

literally watching this after a 16 hour shift dealing with customers and this is hilarious! good job again dude

For those who struggle with the Soviet/Russian nomenclature. The Soviet Union _was_ a Sovereign state comprising fifteen national entities. While Russia was vastly the most populous, and dominated the USSR politically, Russia was not at all the same entity, even though most Russians falsely or erroneously said it was. An interesting parallel is the UK. The UK is a Sovereign state comprising four national entities. While England is vastly the most populous, and dominates the UK politically, England and the UK are not at all the same entity, even though many falsely or erroneously say it is.

The Soviet Union and now Russia never really figured out how to properly use and maintain a surface navy. Oh they did great with submarines, but their surface navy was largely left to rot, with things breaking down and not being fixed.

"Neverending plot armor" describes Warspite pretty damn well.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the micro heavy cruisers, despite most of them being really bad; but this thing, the Furataka, the Aobas, and I guess you can also throw HMS Furious and her half-sisters on the pile as micro-battlecruisers.

Our minds are firmly __riveted__ to the gutter...

4:50 but ah yes, conditions were clearly improved during the Soviet times vs Czarist times (assuming I'm not misinterpreting the footage) were in the Empire I mean Union you finally got to mine coal using such improved tools as...literally your bare hands. And the coal carts were powered by such Soviet communist magic space technology like...literally being chained to you.

Kind of curious if people think the Admiral Nakhimov will ever actually enter service again?

I mean: In fairness to the soviet navy, the idea, at least, made sense. Make do with what you have while you try to spin up actual naval manufacturing infrastructure. Considering the likely opponents in the Black Sea, up-gunning the ship made some sense as well: really the only ship that could've outgunned her was the old Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex-SMS Goeben), but if she came up against that, she actually had the slight speed advantage, and in any event you can just run to Parizskaya Kommuna at that point. And she definitely outgunned anything the Turks other than Yavuz. That doesn't make the thing a good design...I mean, far from it. However, it does make it a good design, *for what they had to work with.* I think that's the biggest takeaway here: when your country had been blown up, imploded, and turned inside out, and you not only want but NEED to re-arm, you make do with what you have until you get something better. If anything, Kavaz gets more of a pass then the damn Kirovs, that's for sure.

Wooooooooo! I'll be waiting patiently, although I'm home with a broken leg anyway. 🤣

That sailor that threw himself onto the powder bags to snuff the flames is an absolute Chad.

wow is that a video about a ship? You do videos about ships? I am so happy rn. I just didn't know you made those. Today is a good day

Firing a gun with a few dozen rounds lifespan “in anger” is so Russian I kinda got to respect it

"... Jeune École..." [nods in Drachinifel viewer]

*Kamchatka!* The Russians didn’t know what maintenance was before the revolution either.

14:54 Something that people fail to mention and that sadly appears to be the case here is that the soviets also invaded the baltics, which truly never wanted to do anything with them in the first place.

All these comments about the Russian navy being bad are just plain wrong. I know because I've played World of Warships.

"Warespite and her never ending plot armour" - I'll admit that's going to also need some explaining.

The “Soviet Onion”, I love that

Once again another stellar video from HistoryOfEverything. I hope you see my suggestion to do a video on the attempted mutiny by the political officer of the frigate Storozhevoy and the response by the Soviet navy and Air force. It served as inspiration for 'The Hunt for Red October'

'Waltz of Flowers' on the background for a Soviet history video? I guess that checks out 🥴

Damn I randomly decided to check your channel for a new video and behold a fresh video still warm from the oven. Keep up the good work mate.

"Like this but more floaty."

The most brilliant video series ever epic👍

You little tease! 'Premieres in 30 hours' indeed! Now I shan't sleep...

Interesting that Chervona Ukraina means "Red Ukraine" in ukranian and got renamed to Krasny Kavkaz that means "Red Caucasus" in russian, huh.

Soviets: land in kerch and gain ground, fighting their way forward. Manstein next year: It seems its time for a Trappenjagd.

"God emperor of Soviet onion" :D

11:52 It’s sad she was able to survive World War II only to be destroyed in the nuclear lizard incident

Soviet navy tales is the Duck Tales of my adulthood

Single turret cruiser looks like large standard type destroyer

Anyone else feel like he's just randomly saying get your mind out of the gutter 😆

I love it, and want my own nearly heavy battle cruiser.

My favorite part of Call of War is how "USS Idaho" is written in the extremely historic font of one being invented specifically for MS Word because no joke Bill Gates has a pathological hatred of Times New Roman

Great story, never heard of this boat before. Thanks for sharing

I know that you cannot put bigger main guns on existing hull because Rule The Waves 3 told me so.

im pretty sure despite the crew doing its best if they actualy got into a fight with german surface ships even a prewar destroyer could have sunk her with just gun fire. and some of those prewar destroyers were older than the kavkaz.

Admit it. You only do this series so you can show us the picture of Aurora again

Always glad for a good laugh with a story from the Soviet/Russian navy

Can't wait to see the Arkhangelsk/Royal Sovereign get covered.

This ship seems like something I would build in FTD

Always exiting to see you upload

Missed the first 5 minutes, but it was probably "Russia thought this was a good idea..." 👍

lets be fair, that 0.9 inches are important in more than simple shell diameter.

Great video just one suggestion when comparing numbers have them on screen

Not mincing words but genuinely curious what the practical difference between empire and union is? Keep up with the great content. I really enjoy the mellow editing and calm tempo.

Oh lord what now

Mom, can we have a cruiser? No! only Khlav Kalash!

Both the Italian Navy and Japanese Navy operated armored cruisers in WW 2 as well as the Greek Averof. The Royal Navy stopped making heavy cruisers before WW 2 to concentrate on light cruisers as they could make more of them (note - they were inferior to USN light cruisers built in the same time period and absolutely no match for USN heavy cruisers). I have a soft spot for this ship as well. Yeah, it was a jury rigged mess, but there was something cool about, though I am not quite sure what!

Red Caucasus takes the spotlight in the video game "Men of War: Red Ride", which I strongly recommend!

Russia does know that running a navy like 40K orks isn’t the best??!? They don’t have the boyz warp power….. Russian Mek boyz really need to up their game.

3:10 same turrets as on 30 coastal battery in Sevastopol.

16:58 wow average Soviet citizens were built different. Ever heard of that guy preformed surgery on himself?

Awesome thanks

Thanks for the discussion on twitter yesterday. You know..

I don't like the stereotypes, usualy bad generalizations, bu this seems the usual Russian way of trying to have a better naval force with smaller and fewer ships that the big powers: put a lot of firepower in it...only that. At least on paper it's very powerful.

Looks like something I would build in UAD

Suggestion: When you mention stats of ships, especially comparisons, show a data table of the ships. Would make it much more easy to follow the comparison.

Premiers in two days!?! I'm an American, I could be worked to death or killed by my shitty healthcare system or thrown in debtor's prison by then!

Back at it again at the Krispy Kream

Another episode of "Lowered Expectations" otherwise known as Russian Military History.

Wasn’t there for the premiere, this’ll be good

"Look a bit *how do you do*" ? Not sure of the use of this expression here.

"Get your mind off the gutter" had such great delivery and pacing, but then you had to repeat it cause a joke is only funny if you say it twice

Doctrine and circumstance. National naval development is fascinating.

Gonna go 100% smooth. Sure no death will occur

This is a great one. I love naval history.

That thing is sad even in war thunder. I can't imagine how awful it was irl

I had an argument with someone once because I called the USSR imperialist

When a video about russian naval infantry you made everything but that about russian navy

It's easy to knock Soviet warships of the interwar years as being inferior to other nations of the time but one has to bear in mind that, at that time, the Soviet Union was a nation surrounded by hostile or potentially hostile nations, including Britain and the United States, and was handicapped by economic embargoes imposed by most of those nations. The Soviets famously acquired J. Walter Christie's tank suspension design, which was later applied to the famous T-34 tank, by having a couple of examples of them shipped out of the country falsely labeled as "farm tractors" and without any gun turrets on them. In addition, the Soviet government was far more interested in building up the Red Army than the Navy. That was partly because the Soviet leadership viewed the nation as far more likely to become engaged in a land war than a naval war. However, it was also because the Navy had become politically untrustworthy as the result of an anti-Bolshevik mutiny committed by some of the Navy's personnel stationed at Kronstadt during 1921. As a result of those factors, during the 1930s one sees the Soviet Union developing and manufacturing large numbers of tanks, but virtual stagnation in the Navy. Thus, the Soviet Navy leadership was placed in the position of having to make due with whatever it had available, which consisted largely of attempting to update WW-I or pre-WW-I era vessels of questionable value. An attempt finally was made to develop new battleships, cruisers and destroyers during the late 1930s, but that effort was initiated too late to have much effect on the Soviet Navy during WW-II.

Dont bully my kirov clads baby

That’s brutal man you make it like the Soviets had anything other than pig iron. Yeah didn’t go.

Not gonna lie, I tried saying your title out loud and ever up just saying Homer's lunch in NYC. Without the crab juice.

Good upload, thank you !! I have several 1:700th scale WWII Soviet model warships in my stash.... 1.TASHKIENT 2. CHERVONA UKRAINA 3. PARIZKAYA COMMUNNA Unique looking vessels, aesthetics-wise.... That's all I can say, as they were never of true significance, mainly bombardment duties across the board- possibly difference makers in that regard- a few miles off shores that needed support for troops inland.... If they were ever worth a damn, so it seems ? The reds would have employed them to help the Republican forces in Spain- which they did not. Why not ? The impetus was there, as Germany & Italy were helping Spanish Nationalist forces, via "non-intervention"?... Maybe it was better the Soviets kept away, where their own crap warships could float another day & look cool doing it !?! Lol 🚬😎👍

6:30 Soviet onion Still a great video though

The Soviet Navy really was a thing to behold. It's up there with the Kriegsmarine and the IJN, at the peak of the competency roller-coaster. It's like rolling a d20 on a Warhammer Ork play: it's either going to be an extraordinary tale of innovation and technical success (see: hydrofoils, ekranoplans, Shkval torpedoes) or a comically atrocious shitshow (see: sailing from the Baltic to the Sea of Japan and getting absolutely SMOKED by the Japanese Navy, building a cursed aircraft carrier, losing your flagship sub due to insisting on loading shitty torpedoes in it)

18:50 You have to put the word "modern" in air quotes for that sentence.

I saw the video title and read it as Lenny Kravitz. Man I could really go for a Milky Way right now.

I can’t wait!

Russia has never been a competent naval power, but they certainly have come up with interesting ship designs over the years. Often they're *bad* designs, but still interesting.

Hey, 6in is plenty enough for my wife thankyouverymuch

I don't care what you say, I WANT to like the Kirov class 😢