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Almost a Country
Czechia
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2018
Greetings, I'm David and I run a channel which is dedicated to the brave men and women who fought for their country and lost. I love how bizarre history sometimes gets and I want to share it while spreading the word of hopefully all failed attempts to start a country we know of.
History has always been something I was very passionate about, something I that would naturally soak into my brain as I, fascinated, read through historical atlases, old traveller accounts and chronicles. One day, I started toying with the concept of making videos about bizarre countries that almost nobody ever heard about, because they exited for only 6 months, or were so tiny governments literally forgot they even existed.
You would be surprised just how many of these "almost countries" were out there, overlooked by historians and sometimes forgotten even by the people living on what used to be their sovreign soil. I am trying to bring out to the light of day accounts of these "almost-countries".
History has always been something I was very passionate about, something I that would naturally soak into my brain as I, fascinated, read through historical atlases, old traveller accounts and chronicles. One day, I started toying with the concept of making videos about bizarre countries that almost nobody ever heard about, because they exited for only 6 months, or were so tiny governments literally forgot they even existed.
You would be surprised just how many of these "almost countries" were out there, overlooked by historians and sometimes forgotten even by the people living on what used to be their sovreign soil. I am trying to bring out to the light of day accounts of these "almost-countries".
Alash Orda - How Kazakhs Went From Nomadism to Modernism in 50 Years - Almost a Country - Episode 6
Colonisation remains to this day a topic of contention. Some see it as an utterly dreadful institution that can only bring expropriation, death and bloodshed. Others argue that it also comes with benefits, like education, technological innovation and social evolution.
The Kazakhs are a nation that lived through both the best and the worst of Russian colonial occupation. But was it essential to lay the groundworks for eventual creation of independent Kazakhstan.
This is the story of Kazakhstan's quickly and chaotically created ancestor - the Alash Autonomy, better known as Alash Orda.
The next episode will cover something I wanted to make for a long time - set sail to the Pirate Republic.
I made a PATREON and YOU can use it to help me spend more time talking about strange failed countries on the internet: www.patreon.com/almost_a_country
And now thanks to the generous Music Man:
At Launch by Kevin MacLeod
Disquiet by Kevin MacLeod
Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod
Virtutes Instrumenti by KevinMacLeod
Eastminster by Kevin MacLeod
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license
The Kazakhs are a nation that lived through both the best and the worst of Russian colonial occupation. But was it essential to lay the groundworks for eventual creation of independent Kazakhstan.
This is the story of Kazakhstan's quickly and chaotically created ancestor - the Alash Autonomy, better known as Alash Orda.
The next episode will cover something I wanted to make for a long time - set sail to the Pirate Republic.
I made a PATREON and YOU can use it to help me spend more time talking about strange failed countries on the internet: www.patreon.com/almost_a_country
And now thanks to the generous Music Man:
At Launch by Kevin MacLeod
Disquiet by Kevin MacLeod
Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod
Virtutes Instrumenti by KevinMacLeod
Eastminster by Kevin MacLeod
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license
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