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@TheArmchairHistorian Год назад

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@Val0rrr Год назад

Funi game

@hetticsoldier8835 Год назад

Now that's a lot of sponsors.

@russiauncensored7788 Год назад

Griffin is going to start making videos with blackface

@nationalist464 Год назад

I have a request , Can you please make videos on greats like Caesar and Napoleon . And some on military strategy

@stevetownley5480 Год назад

I hope you don’t give into leftist's revisionist when they criticize your video.

@dylanking6960 Год назад

It's insane how much more intricate the animations got between now and just a year ago. Well done.

@MrPaxio Год назад

@Austrian Painter ur last fight, Austrian painter, was with cyanide pill

@Official_Kezzie Год назад

I love this topic, and it’s a shame that it hasn’t been discussed as much as other things. The Armchair Historian has once again delivered valuable historical knowledge!

@delarkaBCN Год назад

you are not immune to propaganda

@themouthofsauron6926 Год назад

@@delarkaBCN what propaganda?

@TheMetalfreak360 Год назад

@@delarkaBCN I mean, nobody is. But I am guessing from your comment you are aiming at something specifically? And that is?

@choreani Год назад

The velvet revolution and the Romanian Revolution were stand outs to me

@luke.4317 Год назад

valuable bias

@MW-dd8vk Год назад

Great video. It would be interesting to see a part 2 on how the collapse of the Soviet Union had an effect on former states in Central Asia such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan etc.

@rosesprog1722 Год назад

Easy: Because of their immense potential in natural gas reserves, the US hurried and made alliances with them but the only way to get this gas to international markets easily was a pipeline through Afghanistan. The US started to negotiate with the Taliban in the name of the company Unocal for the rights to the pipeline. Originally the Taliban had agreed but suddenly, they decided they were not getting enough in that deal so they asked for way more, too much for the US hence the 2001 invasion and the subsequent war that lasted 20 years, Bin Laden only became part of deal later. Therefore, those states were the cause of the war in Afghanistan! : )

@augusthoglund6053 Год назад

It seems that the Caucus States became embroiled in ethnic conflict; no genocides, but a Russian invasion of and a couple of wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Georgia had a peaceful revolution to improve ties with Western European powers, and the quality of life and governance has improved. As for Central Asia, Belarus-style dictatorship have taken over excepting Kyrgyzstan, but Kazakhstan is showing some cracks in the old dictatorial system. No major ethnic conflicts have broken out into war, at least not within the boundaries of the former Soviet Union. Pakistan, India, China, Russia, and the U.S.A. were all in a position to compete for influence in the region, but I'm not sure who's winning where. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline

@alphasurge Год назад

@@rosesprog1722 your theory conveniently omits September 11th. When your theory has such a major omission perhaps you should rethink your theory? Maybe, or maybe easier to believe a lazy conspiracy?

@rosesprog1722 Год назад

@@alphasurge Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, the US government used that event to settle affairs unrelated to this horrific event. If you want to know who did 9/11 ask yourself who would have advantage to have Arabs blamed for that event and to have Iraq neutralized. Just look into Operation Opera, also known as Operation Babylon. By the way, most of the supposed hijackers were Saoudis, why didn't the US attack them instead?

@alphasurge Год назад

@@rosesprog1722 I like your points several are thought out. Iraq I would agree with you but Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden based in Afghanistan admitted that Al Qaida (who were being hosted in Afghanistan) performed 9-11. He admitted it, the Taliban refused to stop hosting and hand over the self admitted perpetrators. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_September_11_attacks#:~:text=On%20February%2011%2C%202003%2C%20Al,direct%20link%20to%20the%20attacks. There are hundreds of sources stating who performed 9-11 not least from the black boxes. But the audiotape by OBL admitted 9-11 and he never denounced this audiotape as a forgery and Al Qaida has never distanced itself from it. Saudi Arabia also agreed to superficially co-operate with the west and stop exporting terrorism. Agreed though Saudi Arabia has a case to answer for numerous abuses but these are in addition to and distinct from those of Afghanistan.

@facundomouly9446 Год назад

Love the detail that the Romanian soldiers have "G" model AKs, also known as "Romanian dongs". Great video as always!!

@mpondachongo1138 Год назад

I also noticed. The animators did there research

@sourrrrrrrr Год назад

I love dongs, they are versatile, many different ways to grip, they let you control your shot well, and are overall just amazing.

@dachavanderlinovo413 Год назад

@@mpondachongo1138 Not only animators

@OperatorMax1993 Год назад

I loved that detail too! And i do like the wooden dongs on the Romanian AKs

@teoborges3949 Год назад

@@sourrrrrrrr altough thei main disvantage was you can't strap a GP Underbarrel grenade laucher, but you can ditatch and switch with a standard AK handguard

@janekduda7548 Год назад

I understand that Bulgaria didn't have a sparky and flashy civil war, but i would've liked to see them get the spotlight. Seeing as how their country's former communist security services (like most other former soviet states) really still rule the country to this day.

@KALAENARUDA Год назад

Bulgaria's worst time was 90s early 2000s bcs after one regime was changed with another the country fell apart not being ready for that, the mafia took all after that until nowadays and they still rule and dont care about the mass protests, they do oppressions occasionally

@r_rumenov Год назад

My thoughts exactly - we're still being ruled in a see-saw pattern between the children and grandchildren of the same people who had the power during the communist era, and their bodyguards...

@thetheoreticalphysicist5852 Год назад

Same in Romania

@philmitchellboxing8661 Год назад

Nothing flashy about war

@reintaler6355 Год назад

Also the Macedonia problem

@DraftTheHippies Год назад

This video started out as a casual history video, then it evolved into a dark report of what led to current events. Good job as always

@jacob4920 Год назад

I mean, isn't that what all of history really is? How did humanity get from Point A (then) to Point B (now)?

@BaikalTii Год назад

as long as you realize this video is a summation of the West's justification to achieve hegemony over Russia. so it's not actual history.

@Vulkanprimarch Год назад

The shift in tone certainly left an impression!

@DraftTheHippies Год назад

@@jacob4920 let me rephrase. To put it simply, that got dark-er

@mariasirona1622 Год назад

Yup

@EstoniaballAnimations Год назад

Great video! Only addition that should’ve definitely been mentioned was The Singing Revolution in the Baltics 1987-91; It was a trigger to the Soviet collapse from the inside as from there on even more separatism took off, and also showed how weak Soviet authority was with not even the ability to suppress people who were just upfront singing banned national songs until independence. There was also the Karabakh conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan that occurred around a year after the Baltic revolution started which also fuelled Soviet collapse. Otherwise, everything was mentioned and I loved it!

@D.A.R.89 Год назад

Nice you are here :)

@cooljackster7390 Год назад

Well the Baltic nations were republics of the Soviet Union not exactly members of the Eastern Bloc

@souvikrc4499 Год назад

@@cooljackster7390 not to mention that they were illegally annexed into the Soviet Union during World War II

@cooljackster7390 Год назад

@@souvikrc4499 as were the other eastern bloc countries only difference is the Baltic States became republics of the Soviet Union but the eastern bloc states were their own countries (in name mostly)

@reginaldcopperbottom1738 Год назад

Man that's so sad,I miss ussr

@MrAlcoholicKoala Год назад

Your content is out of control dude, seriously amazing stuff. Crazy that we’re really watching this story continue to unfold today.

@Newdivide Год назад

Mikhail Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader to be born in the USSR. ie after the Russian empire

@mayogamer2800 Год назад

-History matter

@Newdivide Год назад

@@mayogamer2800 hell yeah

@theawesomeman9821 Год назад

Poetically, he was also the last Soviet born leader

@nathanhiggers4606 Год назад

He hasn't seen capitalism so that's why he was dumb enough to support it. And now he's scared to appear in Russia cuz 75% of people would kill him with bare hands immediately. This dog lives too long.

@mide8845 Год назад

Rather the last soviet-born soviet leader

@cardboard_kitten Год назад

I love the animation style you guys do, it really brings the history to life!

@dlaainejay4570 Год назад

The wordplay, the background music, the memes and of course telling of the context of history is so well done, I wish you were my history teacher.

@AlexMappingHD Год назад

Romanian: My grandfather was going to buy groceries that day...he was waiting in the line when shootings started to erupt. He left in panic and dropped his bags - when he got home, my grandmother asked him in an angry tone: -Where de hell are the bags?? my grandmother said. -Forget about the stupid bags! They are shooting outside! grandfather said. I don't know what happened after, but: I know that my grandfather burned his party id. When Ceausescu's execution ended and was radioed, my grand-grandmother started to cry. Why? She was actually enjoying her life (maybe because she was living in a village...), by her words: "I was working on the fields with other villagers, I was getting paid, I was also receiving some crops so I could cook, my house was my house, I was only paying for the medicine...".

@nainiciatatapeviata22341 Год назад

This happend the same thing with my father and my aunts and more familiar aparts,the only thing is that the former military Romanian socialist army wasnt forced to fire over the people,its was like an sneaky attack,its wasnt an automic fire over the civilization on the streets (i can say that they were killing them hidden,not in public more). Abt the fire,the gun fires that were happening its were just to keep people back,cuz the civilization democracied were used to use the violence against socialist army,but its a lot of lies thats the thing. Im not an communism,but im gonna say this cuz a lot of people think that in the eastern front people were killed like in China Lmao.

@theengineer5320 Год назад

Funny story, when Ceausescu visited Syria he was met with a row of school girls greeting him with flowers. One of those girls was my mother, we joke that her touch was the start of his demise

@RK-cj4oc Год назад

So he was your father? Got it.

@theengineer5320 Год назад

@@RK-cj4oc LOL

@ianokan9120 Год назад

As a bulgarian i can say that we basically went "all in" on the capitalism, instead of taking it slow and steady and that lead to both large scale corruption and western companies buying then closing our industries so that they kill the competition.

@trey5747 Год назад

I think that would still happen if captailism was brought in steadily, because capitalism brings in more corruption and corporatism anywhere

@sisyphusvasilias3943 Год назад

and break up Unions... anything to drive down the value of labour. Same for Yugoslavia. Same for every expansion of the EU

@someguy4512 Год назад

same can be said on Russia under Yeltsin or any eastern block country.

@zzzz7217 Год назад

My favourite part is how Bulgarians under US siege cancelled construction of Rosatom nuclear plant and then stopped South stream) nation of wisdom)

@someguy7723 Год назад

Your problem is slavic corruption. You made your own mess

@roygaisser9230 Год назад

You did a great job of condensing what well could have been a 4-hour mega video event. You can get 40 more detailed shows from this one master. There was SO MUCH happening in that region of the world in such a compact time frame. Good job of hitting the high points.

@cristianghidireac7628 Год назад

As a Romanian I must say that the presentation of the Revolution and the show trial and execution of the Ceaușescu couple was spot on and the animation was incredible

@bogdanscripcariu6501 19 дней назад

Sure... typical western propaganda on this channel! And Ceaushescu didn't rule for 15 years, as he says, but for 25 or so!

@mukhademonyo6449 Год назад

This video is unique amongst the ones you've made so far. It's very modern so as a random it feels weird to put in retrospect that we are currently at a point where history is currently in the making. It is scary to think about for me. What brought the weight of the situation down for me is the fact that this was a snowball like effect which has lead to the current situation happening right now as I write this comment. In the future I will look back at this and realise: Sheet this happened in my lifetime.

@KapnKrowe Год назад

That is exactly what made me become obsessed with learning history in middle school. I still remember hearing the news in the morning at my dad's small apartment as Kosovo officially declared independence in 2008. Only then did I realize that history was being made all around me- it kind of "elevated" my worldview from then on.

@eutropius2699 Год назад

Currently Sri Lanka is in a state of anarchy. The Presidential Palace was overrun and occupied. We really be living in some insane history rn

@plumbcrazy4391 Год назад

Wat h roses have thorns explains what happened in 2014 including the Odessa massacre

@originalpost1925 Год назад

2022 is certainly a very eventful year in the modern era in terms of warfare, however, I feel like the modern events going on right now is just a little step towards something bigger.

@JDRL96 Год назад

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” - Ironically, Lenin

@PakBallandSami Год назад

"After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive" - Lee Kuan Yew

@stevemc01 Год назад

Let's be honest: the US and China are in essence (for lack of a better term) frenemies. Politically, the two nations wanna be at each other's throats and maybe begin cutting them to all hell, but economically and culturally (somewhat culturally in the USA anyway) they are dependent on one another to almost the very core. A war done by either one of the two sides would absolutely demolish the other without a single act of military aggression.

@tylerclayton6081 Год назад

No, it’s our burden to bring freedom to China. It’s the only right thing to do. 1.4 Billion humans shouldn’t have to live in a dystopian hell hole

@dulguunjargal1199 Год назад

Well china is taking the thrive thing haif Haif "You're my puppet or be harased" Haif "You're So agressive!"

@justacommonman5935 Год назад

@@dulguunjargal1199 nobody nation on this World Are Saint at all,not even Those 5 BIG BOSS In U.N Those SuperPowers Always Hungry For Powers,Thats Right Im talking bout You too U.S.A and U.K ...Don't just talking like Its just China & Russia the Main Antagonist on this world,Several Dictator Or Most of Dictator on this World Came to Power Under U.S support and those Dictator gonna kill Bunch of innocent lives.See? Nobody Good guy In this World,Not even "Land of freedom" are free from Bad behavior.

@looinrims Год назад

Sounds like Mr Yew has never heard of politics

@jjt1881 Год назад

This is probably one of the best if not the best documentary about the topic that I've seen. RU-vid is fast becoming the best alternatives for history lovers. And this one is one of my favorite channels. You and your crew put an extraordinary effort into these videos and it tells. Thank you. Keep it on, Armchair Historian!! 😎👍

Год назад

Kudos from Czechia, thanks for interest in our history. Some mistakes though: Our police is "Policie, not policja (sounds balkan). Also, the main reason for the split of Czechoslovakia is to have 2 hockey teams at the world cups and the olympics. When The Czech team is eliminated, we cheer for the Slovak team and vice versa.

@blase777 Год назад

Policja je polske slovo, pro americany jsme vsichni stejna banda :D

@john.jai.sullivan 11 месяцев назад

You gotta be joking, smh

11 месяцев назад

@@john.jai.sullivan not at all, I mean it was a good joke and that's why we had to do it

@john.jai.sullivan 11 месяцев назад

@ ohhh I was so confused, because I’m learning more about your history. So let me ask you friend? What were the reasons for the split of Czechoslovakia? If you don’t mind.

11 месяцев назад

@@john.jai.sullivan Well, the true reason was, the slovaks were not happy in the union. The country was artificially created without the ppl really knowing how it all hapenned, and we're still like broethers, but if one has the government and the other one has much less ruling power, somebody is unhappy. And you wouldn't want the ppl that are so similar to you be unhappy, so our prime ministers had a chat and announced how we'll split and it was for the better. Sorry for late answer, been on vacation.

@iGamezRo Год назад

8:20 Romanian here. The exccution of the Ceausecu and his wfie Elena are, still to this day, the last death sentence in Romania.

@kidfox3971 Год назад

Super based btw, his wife was especially awful

@SKa-tt9nm Год назад

I love that it happened on Christmas morning.

@bogdanscripcariu6501 19 дней назад

@@SKa-tt9nm What a mo ron you must be to say that... typical western muppet

@familyrics2919 Год назад

I'm recently binge-watching your videos. Your narration improved a lot, besting your 4-year-old videos. Im happy that I got a chance to learn history in a fun and engaging way like this.

@zenxel 11 месяцев назад

*Czechoslovakia:* Peaceful Ending. *Poland:* Neutral Ending. *Belarus and Ukraine:* Bad Ending. *Yugoslavia:* Genocide route 💀

@xavithecat8330 10 месяцев назад

Neutral ~ it's not so simple

@napoleonbonaparte4776 Год назад

I just wanna note 2 things: - the JNA ceased to exist since 1992; the Army of Yugoslavia (VJ) was it's replacement within FR Yugoslavia - FR Yugo didn't withdraw due to military losses, but general political pressure from bureaucrats and other officials at home. This percieved treason however, as making peace was seen like amongst the Serbs, only led to a revolution down the line instead of appeasment

@lolofblitz6468 Год назад

Don't agree with this as native Croatian ( I have lot of family members who participated in Croatian Homeland war )

@napoleonbonaparte4776 Год назад

@@lolofblitz6468 And I am a Serb so. . .?

@luketompkins6509 Год назад

I've been through a majority of the former Yugoslavian countries in the summer of 2018, mostly by van or bus. Would love to see the history covered. Entire villages disappeared, with locals pointing out to places where graves are still discovered today. That, and Sarajevo, where while hiking up the mtn that overlooks the city, where the new gandola and old 1980s Olympic luge track are, we encountered the occasional old spent brass, amongst other things. Bullet holes and remnants still coat the city as a constant reminder.

@dankovac1609 Год назад

A lot of rural areas are like this. It's a sad reminder of that time. I'm thankfully young enough that i haven't experienced it but a lot of the war's lingering effects are still felt. Plus it's a reminder of what is to come if current world events go haywire and that we should be prepared for tough times. In this part of the world tough times can exponentially grow into war times if given the right political and geopolitical tensions. And those seem to be becoming rather concerning not too far to the east from us.

@yespls4184 Год назад

I've only been to Croatia and Bosnia, but they were the most amazing countries to visit. Sarajevo is a very beautiful city, so it was such a stark contrast to see the millions of bullet holes that remain in the buildings and the markings of shells-- let alone the massive cemeteries dotted throughout the city. The scars of history in that city are very dramatic, but still it's a very modern and culturally unique city. Never been anywhere quite like it before. Might be my favorite city in Europe.

@mihaibelu3912 Год назад

my father (Romanian) was told on the night after the rebelion in timisoara to go at the local trainstation where he saw many others from the city. They were given crossbars and sent to beat the guys in timisoara. The force they met and were supposed to beat however gave them ham and meat, which at tat time was a luxury, so, naturally,, they defected. The timisoarans were famous for their meat

@jmontign1 Год назад

Thank you for the detailed backstory. it helps connect the things we've heard and seen into a timeline.

@naty_sie 10 месяцев назад

Breathtakingly well done video. Thank you for your work, I’ll share it with my friends

@ebinboiz8914 Год назад

We need more eastern bloc videos. Can't find enough on youtube

@luke.4317 Год назад

no u can find real videos with real sources sonwithout propaganda

@bt4670 Год назад

Don't cry because you were born too late to help tear it down. Smile because you don't have to live under it.

@wingedhussar5528 Год назад

I was born in Lodz Poland in 79.. I still remember those days even though I was a kid.

@bradyportwood9398 Год назад

@@wingedhussar5528 what was it like fi you don’t mind asking

@nate32396 9 месяцев назад

Based

@sH-ed5yf 9 месяцев назад

@@damobuns7639bullshit. It took literzly weeks for the UdSSR to fall. If the citizens are happy this would not happen

@Arpi982 9 месяцев назад

That's kinda a controversial statement because there are a lot of crypto tankies nowadays.

@ForelliBoy Год назад

one of my favorite historical tidbits about the collapse of the Iron Curtain is how Otto "Yes, that family" Hapsburg decided to hold a picnic/BBQ near a portion of the border between Austria and Hungary that was to be ceremonially dismantled...and dozens of East Germans looking to escape "just happened to be nearby."

@akosbarati2239 2 месяца назад

He was a figurehead, the decision was done between the Németh government, and Austria, Germans got wise to it by rumors. By 1988, Hungarian passports allowed free travel to most countries, including, but not limited to, visa free travel to West Berlin. East Germans were so kept in the dark by Stasi they weren't even aware there were other ways to leave.

@itsblitz4437 Год назад

Well this is news....Mikhail Gorbachev last leader of the Soviet Union has passed away on Tuesday, August 30th, 2022, at the age of 91.

@72badry Год назад

Another one gone. Good!

@72badry Год назад

@@itsblitz4437 another commie gone. Clearer?

@itsblitz4437 Год назад

How is that good?

@ihavetowait90daystochangem67 Год назад

If only the Romanian Communist Leaders played Conflict of Nations (which is available for free in the description), they would've crushed the rebellion with little casualties

@dauzlee2827 Год назад

Indeed

@ChineseGlobalism Год назад

Me watching this just days before Gorbachov’s death got me feeling strange

@kingstar5494 Год назад

11:40 If you look closely in this scene you can see the outline of Yugoslavia

@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Год назад

RIP to all the geography students in the late 1980s and early 1990s

@reginaldcopperbottom1738 Год назад

Yeah,I miss the ussr especially because it was anti lgbt

@theonlynoob2939 Год назад

They added idk 14 ish extra countries for me to remember

@voner8602 Год назад

3:50 Small correction: "Solidarity" trade union was banned in 1981 during the announcement of martial law on 13 of December aimed at swiftly destroying the movement. 1980 was a year in which the August Agreements were signed, giving some concessions and rights to workers and generally people, also legalizing the organization.

@dunnowy123 Год назад

What an amazing summary of events. I hope educators use this video to help give context to recent events

@r_rumenov Год назад

Wow, what a somber conclusion... ang great video, as always!

@sonnywong5885 Год назад

"You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator."

@mou6854 Год назад

rip Paulie

@SKa-tt9nm Год назад

His house looked like sh*t 😂😂

@simonh6371 3 месяца назад

Which was predicted by Quasimodo, the Quarterback of Notre Dame.

@NoName-sb9tp Год назад

It’s amazing how you merge the internet meme culture with the history of the world. Great job!

@lovromiljan7822 Год назад

Best topic so far. Thank you Griffith !

@historyforlife1072 Год назад

The killing of Romanian Communist leader was brutal. Did not even wait for order to shoot.

@autocrat9791 Год назад

The final words gave me chills (the calm before the storm) We don't know how things will develop and how it will end.

@GreyWasteTim Год назад

"Stern acts of finger wagging at anyone massacering civilians or committing genocide" You already killed him dude! Did you have to desecrate the body too?

@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle Год назад

*I hope there will be more videos about world history and Vietnam. Thank you team, every video is good 👏🏻*

@Vinter927 Год назад

As a Hearts of Iron 4 player, I love your videos and map design, is like if the game is showing me the history and the animation and sound, you implement in your videos is amazing! You've come a long way with the maps and animation and I love it! Keep up the amazing work!

@bazsamester Год назад

Fortunately, here in Hungary there weren't any agressions when changing governments. The leading communist party also knew that the people had enough and they can't reign anymore peacfully, so they negotiated with the opposition and then peacfully handed over the power to them, in a free election. Fun fact: from all of the Eastern Bloc countries, Hungary was the best to live in under communism. People had the most freedom there, and there wasn't a big poverty there. But still, for obvious reasons, people had enough of it.

@marcbuisson2463 Год назад

It's sad that you guys are starting to fall behond the other eastern european countries economically. Hope you'll manage to get rid of the corruption that is appearing in your country ^^.

@bazsamester Год назад

@@marcbuisson2463 yeah, Hungarian economy is pretty bad rn. Inflation is huge. Literally 1 euro equals to 400 in local currency (forint). So yeah it's bad, but let's hope it will be better

@gergelyhangodi9008 Год назад

@@marcbuisson2463 Who exactly is it that we're "falling behind economically? The Romanians with their biblical-scale emigration, or perhaps the Estonians with their 20% inflation?

@marcbuisson2463 Год назад

@@gergelyhangodi9008 nah, the czechs, the slovaks and poles. You guys were doign better than them for a while. And yeah, to an extent, the baltics. We'll see how it will compare at the end of the current struggles of course. Let's not compare with Romania or Bulgaria, it's not comparable at all. But you guys should be richer than all the countries previously mentioned. And you started to fall behind already before the pandemic :

@marcbuisson2463 Год назад

@@bazsamester I hope you'll manage though. It's temporary, and we have to help each ther in Europe. Hungarians are great people and definitely have the capacity to get out of this, if they manage to be flexible enough.

@azure664 Год назад

This has to be one of my favorites done by this channel. keep up the amazing work.

@juliuszkocinski7478 Год назад

Fun fact about that. Poland has NONE of the bordering countries it had just in 1985 thanks to this process. Past 2000 neighbors: Germany (RFN), Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukrainie, Belarus, Lithuania, Russian Federation. Pre 1985 neighbors: GDR (east Germany), Czechoslovakia, USSR

@jamessear4388 Год назад

Fantastic content as always mate!

@charliewrx1878 Год назад

I can't thank you enough for all of your videos, all of the content made of history. This is my favorite history channel of all channels. Thank you so much!

@Dusty338 Год назад

Another fantastic video. Thank you for all of the great work that you do!

@HenryFrederick Год назад

Excellent narration and graphics. Liked & subscribed...

@Roketsune Год назад

Man, I feel really badly for Gorbachev. It's really unfortunate that he and his new system/doctrines didn't prevail in the end.

@MacTac141 Год назад

Not really, Eastern Europe and all the Soviet countries who were stuck under the Russian boot finally got their freedom. Tens of millions of people controlled by an empire were now being lead by their own people. It truly was an amazing thing

@jeromebarry1741 Год назад

"Stern acts of finger wagging". Excellent and precise.

@Minboelf Год назад

That ending is the darkest episode in Armchair Historian so far

@saulgoodmanKAZAKH Год назад

Because it's relevant

@pyromania1018 Год назад

And now Gorbi's dead.

@sonicboom6893 Год назад

This is such an amazing video and I love the fact that you reserved some time to present the tragedy that happened in Romania in 1989 in detail. My father was sent there by the communist authorities when he was actually supposed to be home celebrating Christmas with his family, he almost got shot and he unfortunately lost some of his military colleagues, who died as heroes. You are doing a lot of justice for Eastern Europe in helping people understand why our countries are the way they are. The revolution in Romania was especially violent but truly nothing compared to what happened in Yugoslavia. Regardless we still have open wounds from what happened, many rumors about what actually went down, and still no real justice for all the young people who died. we still have loads of ex communists and ex Securitate running our government and institutions. Thank you thank you thank you!!! truly

@lacanian1500 Год назад

thank you dostoevsky

@tat17fotball Год назад

In pare rau pentru tata tau 😢😢😢

@czechoslovakpatriot4773 Год назад

An outstanding video on a topic that is frequently overlooked. This would make great educational content in the former Eastern bloc countries if it had subtitles.

@dragonlukasmapping805 Год назад

Is there way how to translate it in to other languages? i would like to translate it in to czech language. :3

@raketny_hvost Год назад

Well, eastern Europe already knows, what it led to, on their own life experience and some documental publications. it is more educational for some liberal market believers

@czechoslovakpatriot4773 Год назад

@Samar3n I ment for education in schools, you'd be surprised but often students don't know much about this period. Content like this could get them more engaged in the topic.

@Fred-tz7hs Год назад

"educational content"

@bunkerbusterbob1372 Год назад

Great video as always! I only would have liked to hear a few words about the fall of communism in Bulgaria and Hungary.

@Menckenperson Год назад

Really great video. Nice to have a break from warfare and tackle something slightly different. Always nursed hopes he would do the second part of the life in imperial Japan series from years ago.

@drznadvago Год назад

Greetings from Poland! One detail i liked a lot in your video was Ceausescu appearing on a Rubin TV set exactly like the one we used to have.

@SpikEh2918xa Год назад

I love these animations so much! Thank YOU Armchair Historian!

@compatriot852 Год назад

Hope we get to see more Cold War content. The Forest Brothers guerilla war in the Baltics is definitely a subject I would like to see in the future given it spanned both across WW2 and the Cold War

@benjaminleonard9588 Год назад

Or operation condor

@Zelein Год назад

There was no real mention of how Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania handled their post-soviet period. Would have liked to know more about them and their history.

@ChrisSmith74627 10 месяцев назад

Your narration and animations are amazing!!!!

@angrytengri7829 Год назад

Amazing video, though it's a shame you guys didn't dwell a little bit on the other end of the block. The Caucasus and Central Asian countries had a lot going on in the 80s and 90s, from Jeltoqsan protests to armed conflict straight after resolution.

@IB-xk5se Год назад

Yeah I'd like to see a video like this on the Caucasus and Central Asia. There's a lot of interesting history to cover there too.

@frenlyfren Год назад

Yeah I was bummed that that interesting history was left out. All that still ruminating and echoing today, and things aren't very happy or looking good over there especially with the russian invasion.

@bobbobby3085 Год назад

Great video Griffin been watching long time love how you have been continuously improving keep it up👍

@ShengYu1995 Год назад

US & EU forced Bosnia to declare independence since they want to break up Yugoslavia since it is a communist country. They put sanctions on Yugoslavia. But they told Bosnia if you declare independence, we will lift the sanctions.

@marekvavrecka1446 Год назад

Quick language note: "Policja" (as featured on Czechoslovak riot police shields 5:42) is neither Czech nor Slovak word. It is in fact Polish. Additionally Czechoslovak law enforcement at the time was using the name "Veřejná bezpečnost" (Public security) instead of Police

@Vitalis94 Год назад

I think the sign is saying „Milicja”, though. :P

@marekvavrecka1446 Год назад

@@Vitalis94 Didn't think of that, but I guess it's possible. But it's still neither Czech nor Slovak

@saiien2 Год назад

@@Vitalis94 Even if it was "militia".. in Czech and Slovak language it's called "Milice" not "Milicja"

@user-lm7th9hv7b Год назад

The video is amazing! I thing there is need for more detailed episodes about the subject - like the whole circus with German reunification or the wars after Yugoslavia wars. There is a great lesson in the mostly untold hystory of the economic colapse of countries like Bulgaria in the 90's and of the economic limbo of the East Germany afther reunification.

@billballbuster7186 Год назад

The fact was that the Eastern Block or Warsaw Pact hated Russian oppression and as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed they joined the West. Almost all became members of NATO as no way did they want the Russians back

@user-yq5tz6yt8z Год назад

As we know in the 90s and 2000s Yeltsin and Putin were sooo aggressive.

@Visgirtas Год назад

It's obviuos today why it happened

@user-yq5tz6yt8z Год назад

@@Visgirtas and why happened what's happening today?

@Visgirtas Год назад

@@user-yq5tz6yt8z russian war crimes

@billballbuster7186 Год назад

@@Visgirtas Europe has not seen this level of war crimes since the NAZIs in WWII. The invasion of the Ukraine will be a stain on Russia for many years.

@captainobvious7153 Год назад

I always love grabbing a snack sitting back and watching the new videos.

@benedict9508 Год назад

Your content keeps getting better

@napoleonibonaparte7198 Год назад

Needs a part 2 for places like the Baltics.

@eliasziad7864 Год назад

Baltic dwarf states?

@MrAsianPie Год назад

19:32 I remember I was in a debate with a Russian nationalist about Ukraine, and he was going on about how democracy failed Ukraine and how "prosperous" it was under Russia Wish I knew about this before hand

@user-yq5tz6yt8z Год назад

Yes, democracy failed. Idk at what point struggle between oligarchs became "democracy" but it hasn't changed since then. Doesn't mean that Russian oligarchs are in any way better.

@jeffchristensen9076 Год назад

Good clear explanation of a complex situation. Well done.

@taylor1052 Год назад

Awesome job like always

@jeromebarry1741 Год назад

Ceaucescu's hasty trial was not so much a show trial, even though televised, but an exceedingly hasty pretense of a trial in which no defense counsel was present and no defense testimony was permitted.

@josephcro2138 Год назад

And I don't blame them one bit

@wingedhussar5528 Год назад

The Romanians were way too kind to even give that POS a show trail..

@ancientwarrior3482 Год назад

Good riddance.

@akosbarati2239 2 месяца назад

"My fellow Romanians, it is I your beloved president, Donald... sorry, wrong script. It is I, your beloved leader, Nicolae Ceacescu, the father of the nation, talking to you from this unjust trial. As you know my beloved wife, the world renowned author and genius physicist did nothing wrong. We must be released immediately!"

@bogdanscripcariu6501 19 дней назад

@@josephcro2138 It's easy to talk, like any other typical bot, when you know close to nothing or even nothing!

@therealBosnianBallPlayz Год назад

I have to be honest, Griffin Johnson makes the best thumbnails about many of his history videos, the way how it describes an interesting image of history. Edit: I mostly like his video about the Yugoslav partisans, that how they were effective.

@dachavanderlinovo413 Год назад

Artist drawing thumbnails, not Griffin

@TrailBlazer5280 11 месяцев назад

Its crazy to think how recently so much of Europe lived under a dictator. Violent oppressive ones too, we are barely out of that period

@thefirstkingdogo1126 10 месяцев назад

A new Era for Europe and the World The Western one

@ChrisCVW Год назад

The Romanian style AKs in the animation are one hell of an attention to detail

@marcinzysko1653 Год назад

90's eastern europe was a wild -west- east. With rampant coruption, overwhelming criminal activity, and evenly wild capitalism - it was every anarcho-capitalists wet dream.

@akosbarati2239 2 месяца назад

Bonus, some assassinations from the late 90s are still being tried in court.

@Daniel-jm7ts Год назад

why didnt you mention what happened in bulgaria during the fall of communism. noone ever talks about them

@emersonoh7477 Год назад

Great vidoes! Appreciate all the hard work your putting into these. Was curious if you had any videos reviewing the Black Hawk Down incident? Thanks.

@brtecson Год назад

this content is so captivating and i dont even know why haha thanks for the uploads i'm going to continue my sunday night binge :D

@Koupip Год назад

i always hated how everyone blames gorbachov for the ussr's colaps while all he did was "let's make the money less worthless and lets not send the entire russian army to beat to death anyone who is against us" what made the ussr colaps was an entire generation off brutal atrocities commited by everyone in charge starting at stalin and ending before gorbachev came in power its not hist fault the entire system colapsed when he decided "hey let's not have the entire world's future depending on if or not we shoot nukes at each other"

@dr.veronica6155 Год назад

This. It seems a lot like Gorbachev's biggest mistake was trying to do too much too quickly and trying to quickly make changes that were too big for the angry authoritarian elites to accept. Not to mention that the entire situation was kind of FUBAR already and there wasn't much anybody could do to fix it since the current system was unsustainable but the people in charge of it weren't going to let it go without trying to start a coup over it.

@Aaron-no3ne Год назад

It annoys me that the propaganda machine in Russia pushes that narrative that the USSR collapsed because of Gorbachov s incompetence. The USSR leadership looked at the economic and political situation and came to the conclusion that it was unsustainable. Gorbachov and his ideas wouldn't have gained traction if the situation wasn't already dire. The reforms were an attempt to salvage a tenuous economic and political situation. Russia didn't let the ship sink because the captain said it was the right thing to do. They abandoned a ship that was already sinking because all the attempts to fix it only showed how weak the ship hull actually was.

@reek4062 Год назад

The system was rotten to the core; the soviet people and the soviet ruling class had lost faith in the system; and Gorbachev was unauthoritarian.

@ShubhamMishrabro Год назад

You don't see to understand the Russians. They're angry why did ussr broke even during Ukraine invasion many are remembering past when russian empire and ussr were big

@kristian9014 Год назад

His economic policies killed the union. All the changes were so unnecessary. The soviet union was top 2 in the world in so many economic aspects.

@Butter_Warrior99 Год назад

Vlad, as Soviet: Happy. Vlad post collapse: Am big sad.

@saifchowdhury7467 Год назад

It seems that post cold war Hungary, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, and the Central Asian states, have been glossed over or ignored.

@Mal_Abd Год назад

Incredible video, honestly very well done. I was disappointed that you didn’t mention the Bosnian gennoacide while speaking about the break up of Yugoslavia but other than that really informative and well presented

@uros3701 Год назад

There was no genocide in Bosnia.And if there was,then all 3 sides committed genocide on each other.I was disappointed that he didn't mention more than one sentence about how Albanian mobs and "authorities" to this day attack Serbian civilians in Kosovo and Metohija,but unfortunately we can't get everythung we want in one RU-vid video.But what we got was at least mostly good.

@bluruckuscrx8124 Год назад

@@uros3701 imagine refusing to believe history

@mojewjewjew4420 Год назад

@@bluruckuscrx8124 imagine making up history to justify present day policies.

@BasedEddie Год назад

As a Bulgarian kind of disappointed you didn't mention anything about us 🥲

@yochaiwyss3843 Год назад

Unfortunate that there was little mention of how much of a devastation Russia went through during the 90s. Modern Russian attitudes to Western Policies and Ideals can be understood once you see just how horribly they were implemented by the 90%-of-the-time drunk Boris Yeltsin. Putin's "Concentrating Powers" was not merely solidifying his legal rule, but also pressing down on Corruption - Not of the goodness of his heart, but because he hates competition.

@raketny_hvost Год назад

Wisely admitted. All these clowns celebrating fall of mythical communism they don't even know about ignore the fact that it was social, cultural and financial crisis hunting us till nowadays. I don't think people like politics of Putin because of his reverences to western businessdumbs but it's still better than xenopatriotism, nationalism and bloodhungry kleptocracy cultivated by US

@SKa-tt9nm Год назад

Russia’s attitude towards outsiders - not just the west - have been solidified for centuries. Russia and its people are a deeply distrustful culture, prone to conspiracy theories and wary of outsiders.

@yochaiwyss3843 Год назад

@@SKa-tt9nm Although I disagree with you on that, on count of such phenomenon being common across Rural Cultures in general, my main point was that whatever flicker of openness and will for understanding that was in the start of the 90s, was smothered by the conditions and circumstances by the time of late 90's