Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Mongolia? (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • It's not often a country asks to be annexed and even rarer that the answer is no. Yet this is what happened when Mongolia asked the USSR for just that. So why did the USSR say no? To find out, watch this short and simple animated documentary.
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ความคิดเห็น • 4.6K

  • @Kevin3dp
    @Kevin3dp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15993

    Imagine going back in time and telling Genghis Khan that his descendants will one day beg the Rus to rule over them.

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3433

      And the only reason they say no is because they don't want to piss off the chinese.

    • @bonkerS605
      @bonkerS605 3 ปีที่แล้ว +394

      Nah only Tsedenbal wanted and people refused lot

    • @AmogusAbobusAutobus
      @AmogusAbobusAutobus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +479

      POV: he already got the sign about this and thats why he started conquest of Rus )

    • @mohammadrezaazadi1208
      @mohammadrezaazadi1208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +333

      Angry Mongolian noises

    • @Aryan54575
      @Aryan54575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

      Not Rus, but russia.
      Kiyevan Rus and russia are absolutely different.

  • @legolas-xu6ou
    @legolas-xu6ou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5267

    Monglia: annex me like one of your polish girls
    USSR: uh, thanks, but no thanks

    • @Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm
      @Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +425

      I laughed too hard at that being Polish myself

    • @markoscream8466
      @markoscream8466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm HAHAHAHAH YOU AND LEGOLAS ARE LEGENDS

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +279

      Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia: trust us, it’s not as fun as it seems.

    • @victorwagner2423
      @victorwagner2423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      USSR didn't annex Poland

    • @victorwagner2423
      @victorwagner2423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Fritz No.7 the video you just watched is about Mongolia's puppet government desire to be annexed and how USSR didn't, cause the arragment was beneficial to them. Similar with People's Republic of Poland.
      I mean

  • @dy7296
    @dy7296 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    Mongol to Rus 1240: "Bark for me."
    Mongol to Rus 1920: "Woof."

    • @Suksass
      @Suksass ปีที่แล้ว

      There was no Rus in 1920. Rus is long since dead.

    • @somedesertdude1308
      @somedesertdude1308 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      pretty much
      always kinda funny how the master becomes the pet in the end

    • @coinyfrombfdireal
      @coinyfrombfdireal หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@somedesertdude1308like with uk and america

    • @darkenedpp
      @darkenedpp หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@coinyfrombfdireal You are undoubtedly the best instigator since Serbia in WW1. You are about to start the second War of 1812 in the comment section. 💀

  • @andtheinternettkills
    @andtheinternettkills 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2739

    When I was in Mongolia a few years back I had some great discussions with my tourguide who used to be an officer during the communist regime (He even went to a military academy in Moscow). The mongolian military was structured to fight a war against the Chinese with massive arms transfers from the USSR, and so an additional reason it was never annexed was that it effectively functioned as a buffer between China and the railway infrastructure towards Irkutsk / Ulan-Ude. In a conflict the chinese would have to fight their way through Mongolia to stop soviet reinforcements from arriving by train. There is also the matter of the relatively short distance between Beijing and Ulan-Bator, so having Soviet troops massed at the border with Mongolia rather than southern Mongolia was probably a good compromise in terms of maintaining a degree of deterence and avoiding escalating tensions.

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      During the Sino Soviet break, the Soviets maintained about 1 million troops on the border between Mongolia and the Sino Soviet Union (600000-700000 according to the Russian data), which led China to maintain 7 million troops in order to prevent the Soviet Union, the largest record in the number of non wartime troops.

    • @maolo76
      @maolo76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@user-cx1ki8li4t well im sure the USA was ready to back China against the Soviet in a war. 7 million with US support. The Soviet knew that's a fight they not willing to take.

    • @naoyanaraharjo4693
      @naoyanaraharjo4693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@maolo76 the USA would choose to sit down while having a popcorn party with everyone laughing to death at the stupidity

    • @maolo76
      @maolo76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@naoyanaraharjo4693 i dont doubt that. The US is good at providing logistics and directing countries to fight her enemies.

    • @goatface6602
      @goatface6602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Russia ALWAYS wants a buffer state on its borders. You know, like Ukraine. Russia doesn’t want and can Ill afford a war. But if the USA keeps pushing them they MUST fight. This is madness.

  • @aldotorres1983
    @aldotorres1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8394

    "Hey Russia, remember when we conquered you in the 1200's? How about you return the favor?"

    • @justacrow9847
      @justacrow9847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +240

      There was no Russia in 1200s.
      edit:The spread of Slavs into Siberia happened only after 1600s so they were on the west of Urals and the Kievan Rus was a small state in the north of Black sea. Kievan Rus did not lead to current day Russia. And Russians had not reached much of the land they inhabit today. It's ridiculous to attribute one to another.

    • @joelp7665
      @joelp7665 3 ปีที่แล้ว +667

      @@justacrow9847 Kievan Rus did exist and it was pretty much filled with what we could call today "Russians, Ruthenians(Ukrainians), and White Ruthenians(Belarusians)".

    • @arthurfisher1857
      @arthurfisher1857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +593

      @@justacrow9847 "there was no Russia in 1200s" he says with a derisive snort while adjusting his monocle

    • @AidenClaws
      @AidenClaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol

    • @user-te7rf8ik7z
      @user-te7rf8ik7z 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      truly the best comment i've ever seen

  • @michaelrizka
    @michaelrizka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3756

    Mongolia: why don't you annex me :(
    Soviet: *having flashback about Mongol invasion

    • @Ghost12314
      @Ghost12314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Well you right bro.

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      China: so why don't you join me instead then?

    • @Manuel-gu9ls
      @Manuel-gu9ls 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      @@joetrump2983 Mongolia: no way you have issues with Uighur people for no apparent reasons or is that you hate people of different culture because we lived in your state thought we’re in violation of invasion of property like the Americans had towards Mexicans...

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@Manuel-gu9ls Also china:LMAO as if the Soviets welcomed you into their lands, look at how they treated the Ukrainian and the central Asian republics, besides you are historical part of our qing dynasty and completely unrelated to the Russians

    • @WILLIAN_1424
      @WILLIAN_1424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@joetrump2983 I know its a joke, but considering that the Qing dynasty was MANCHU instead of Chinese i dont think it gives China a rightful claim even if China is the sucessor state of the Qing.

  • @caesar6733
    @caesar6733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +978

    If you didn't notice, the sign at 1:31 said "Annex me (daddy)".
    Legendary.

    • @whenweeb6471
      @whenweeb6471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      We live in society

    • @alpha17arctrooper16
      @alpha17arctrooper16 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@whenweeb6471 where honor is a distant memory

    • @Oof-th5hz
      @Oof-th5hz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Mongolia, used to be the most powerful warrior, became a kinky simp for the Rus

    • @JustmeRenzo
      @JustmeRenzo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I had to turn my quality to 1080p to see that.

    • @donramondeltasig
      @donramondeltasig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I LOVE IT

  • @Burboss
    @Burboss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    Fun fact: Mongolia was one of the largest (if not the largest) economic supporters of USSR in WWII, beating USA is several categories (e.g., food and raw materials).

    • @phelyxz
      @phelyxz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Albeit not war gear...

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Imagine comparing Mongolia to by far the largest economy of the world at the time.

    • @juozasmartinkus8033
      @juozasmartinkus8033 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      That's true, Mongolia supported USSR heavily at war time. Russians remember it.

    • @brandonfrank5799
      @brandonfrank5799 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@phelyxzfood? They donate cheese from horsemilk? 😅😅 ain't never heard of a Mongolian farmer

    • @LaVaZ000
      @LaVaZ000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@@AFT_05GThe other way around, Mongolia is secretly the number one economy

  • @kaiserwilhelm1843
    @kaiserwilhelm1843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5505

    Because they didn’t have the right dlc

    • @lucasbeck1391
      @lucasbeck1391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      @gas your profile pic is perfect

    • @tejasbharadwaj7830
      @tejasbharadwaj7830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      Soviet Mongolia DLC the most popular and most purchased DLC

    • @0d138
      @0d138 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      *cries in Paradox Interactive 😭

    • @daniel6009
      @daniel6009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Lacking the mission tree

    • @stc3145
      @stc3145 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      The Soviet Economy could not afford the Season Pass

  • @ZearthGJL
    @ZearthGJL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9845

    Mongolia: Tries to join a country and gets rejected.
    Singapore: Tries to join a country only to get kicked out afterwards.

    • @harveybeaver9731
      @harveybeaver9731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +891

      Malta: Tries to join the British Empire only to be passed over.

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +393

      @@harveybeaver9731 technically some former SSRs also tried to remained but was also forced to be independent when USSR collapsed

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Probably worked out better for both of them in the long run.

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      @@seneca983 there are actually talks in Mongolia to rejoin china but so far nothing out of it, even china doesn't want to Annex them

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@seneca983 For Singapore, it won't be good for them in a long term judging by how those bureocrats in the ruling party keep on milking on the past achievements of their predecessors and being dependent on them too much, it's not surprising SG might one day faced a leadership crisis and rejoined malaysia somehow as the stupid people here keep voting them, thinking they are the best option instead of looking at an alternative party to take over as next government

  • @mrvk39
    @mrvk39 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Actually, USSR was giving Mongolia far, far more than what Mongolia was giving USSR. USSR had it's own beef production and margins were thin for agricultural products. Yet, USSR provided Mongolia with power stations, trains, automobiles, engineering, medical equipment, medicine, education - all high value-add, high margin products and services. The balance of it was clearly in favor of Mongolia's development and overall success.

    • @antonivanov3142
      @antonivanov3142 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      USSR was paying off for the great deal of wartime food supplies from Mongolia in 1941-1945. Mongolians really saved lots of Soviet people from starvation during the WWII

    • @mrvk39
      @mrvk39 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@antonivanov3142 Interesting! I wasn't aware of it. I know it was closely allied but didn't realize they had so much food supplies to give. I presume meat?

    • @mosesracal6758
      @mosesracal6758 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was one of the Soviet Union's pet projects, like a model city for people to see how benevolent the Soviet Union could be. Also Mongolia served as a good detour for the Trans-Siberian Railway (which actually became the Trans-Mongolian Railway) and connected it to the Chinese Eastern Railway for direct access to Beijing by 1959. This is important as next year, the Sino-Soviet Split happened and the Soviets controlling direct access to their capital gave them enough leverage to threaten the Chinese.

    • @mrvk39
      @mrvk39 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@mosesracal6758 I learned something new from you. Thank you!

  • @nickmacarius3012
    @nickmacarius3012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    *Mongolia:* "Please annex us."
    *Soviet Russia:* "Oh how the tables have turned."

  • @akihikosakurai4013
    @akihikosakurai4013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3514

    Americans: "the Soviet Union was terrible and no one wanted to live there"
    Mongolia: "LET ME INNNNNNNN!!!!!"

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +402

      Anything to get away from China.

    • @Badbuzzy
      @Badbuzzy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      @Mike Hunt They don't. They basically recognized Mongolians independence like in 2002.

    • @namelessking8905
      @namelessking8905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      @Mike Hunt - Communism is always progressive. This is why leftists in the West hate the West. They want to destroy it to remake it in their own binary vision. From gender studies to extreme race theory. it's all part of it.

    • @nabo1871
      @nabo1871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +230

      @@namelessking8905 "What the fuck are you talking about Jesse."

    • @diddlypoop4722
      @diddlypoop4722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@namelessking8905 Communism doesn't woorrkkkk

  • @passionofthecrust9173
    @passionofthecrust9173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4430

    "Don't worry, i'll annex you as soon as Paradox updates my focus tree . . ."

    • @conejodemercurio6301
      @conejodemercurio6301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      pootis bird

    • @batataacelerada4698
      @batataacelerada4698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +252

      So Monday 4th of never?

    • @matejkubala7221
      @matejkubala7221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @Per Capita I mean the tactics are pretty shady but they still make god-tier games.

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Per Capita what better ones in example then? ea games? or should be still laugh at the barely mediocre stain that cyberpunk made, and everyone pulled down there pants to receive an ass fucking and got told to like it whether they wanted to or not, oh yeah remember that was from cd project the only and only company people still jerked off for being the good guys, well that worked out well.
      paradox still make legit games, its just they followed everyone else in bleeding dry the special needs or gullible customers they have.

    • @Dockhead
      @Dockhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Per Capita all i was getting at is people create this illusion that some companies or brand of games care about them, or they make games for the people instead of the corps blah blah type of mentality.
      sadly its all business and i agree, past games probably have so much more genuine fun in them, people mix the idea that something new is something fun, when in reality after your brain is done exploring you see the real shit that the game actually is. aka cyber punk.
      same mentality of people who scream at EA but also buy every battlefield and every fifa game but also complaining how shit and minimally changed they are from the last, whilst saying ill not buy the next, whilst also checking when the next one will release.
      i wouldn't consider myself a gamer anymore its just a gullible market and a one that does deserve laughing at, like heck look at the frenzy of rgb colour spectrums coming into peripheral products and hardware, makes my skin crawl. but of course its always personal preference.
      i know thats a ton of blah blah from me but do you not feel like gaming was actually fun once upon a time? im thinking the priority of multiplayer might of destroyed the concept of most games. who really knows.

  • @zacknelson7839
    @zacknelson7839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I love how like 80% of this channels videos are questions to which my reaction to is "I've never thought about that or asked it before but now I need to know." Prime example here.

  • @miketackabery7521
    @miketackabery7521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thank you: you answered all the questions I've had on the subject for many years!

  • @thekeystoneconservative
    @thekeystoneconservative 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1335

    "Monday the 4th of Never" lmao.

  • @waIdemar44
    @waIdemar44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1746

    Tsedenbal: Asked to be incorporated into the USSR at least 6 times
    Genghis Khan:Shame

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Genghis Khan. As one of my hundreds of millions of heirs, I am shamed by this.

    • @zealousdoggo
      @zealousdoggo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      This is shameful behavior of a Mongol Prince!

    • @Monster-cj7kf
      @Monster-cj7kf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yeah Genghis will be died in stress like kublai if he lived on that time

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Vlad lmaooooo

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Zealous Doggo he wasn’t a prince, lol

  • @martindimov289
    @martindimov289 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It's kinda the same with Bulgaria - 2 times the Bulgarian government offered the USSR to annex Bulgaria but it refused because Bulgaria was their most trusted ally in the Balkans anyway.

    • @darwinism14
      @darwinism14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not to mention the strange plan of Triumvirate Tito - Dimitrov - Hoxha to make a Balkan federation, until another criminal, way bigger, Stalin, intervened.

  • @justanotheranimeprofilepic
    @justanotheranimeprofilepic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Everyone: why wouldn't Russia take Mongolia?
    Russia: why would we?

    • @birgbirg111
      @birgbirg111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mongolia? Nyet.

  • @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it
    @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2781

    “Why did the Soviet Union refuse to annex Mongolia”
    Me: *I don’t need sleep I need answers*

    • @Psytinker
      @Psytinker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      The same thing happened with Bulgaria, btw.

    • @nurulkarim6525
      @nurulkarim6525 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Same here. From Dhaka, Bangladesh. It's 4.11 am.

    • @OfMiceAndMegabytes
      @OfMiceAndMegabytes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same but just woke up and knowledge is my coffee☕

    • @phoenix7319
      @phoenix7319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OfMiceAndMegabytes oh hi lol

    • @arthas7
      @arthas7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ditto 1:32am

  • @saggybones
    @saggybones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3564

    I guess bald and bankrupt will still be able to say “Soviet” a million times if he visits Mongolia

    • @lucasbeck1391
      @lucasbeck1391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Mind explaining?

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide 3 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      @@lucasbeck1391 he always says "soviet architecture", "soviet buildings", "soviet era equipment", "in the soviet times people came here", "in the soviet times this was better", and asks old locals about life under the soviets.

    • @joaoostroski4778
      @joaoostroski4778 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      Wow, look at these horseman invading all of Asia, kinda soviet ngl.

    • @andrewjohnson1467
      @andrewjohnson1467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      @@OCinneide you've missed out Soviet bus stop

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      "Almost Soviet" or "Soviet Subsidized" perhaps.

  • @hanswust6972
    @hanswust6972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Short but very informative video, thank you for sharing your work.

  • @Flyzo.0
    @Flyzo.0 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    These videos do a good job of making it feel longer than it actually is in a good way

  • @daveb.4268
    @daveb.4268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4786

    I always laugh whenever they show the cartoon man (or woman) bounding through the daisies.☺

    • @smilingearth5181
      @smilingearth5181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      My favorite thing is how some people look nonplussed when they're on fire

    • @igottwopeepees
      @igottwopeepees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      I like it when they smile at whatever the other person's sign says.

    • @joshuahoover6841
      @joshuahoover6841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I sent a link of one of these videos with that happening to my new girlfriend with a time code telling her where to go to. The idea being that was how I felt about her

    • @icharneco29
      @icharneco29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      This and when they hold up the sign that says "Soon" always crack me up.

    • @Silver-hg8iz
      @Silver-hg8iz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joshuahoover6841 👍

  • @air9music
    @air9music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3218

    Mongolia said marry me but Russia said no because it was already getting everything it wanted without the marriage that would infuriate Mongolia's exes.

  • @jasonhorton7084
    @jasonhorton7084 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This man’s video’s just keep getting better and better 👍

  • @kf9346
    @kf9346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was super informative, thank you!

  • @ThePinkMadcap
    @ThePinkMadcap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4831

    So basically, it was safer for Mongolia to be a part of the USSR than to be an independent state. Gotta love this planet.

    • @harbl99
      @harbl99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

      Mongolia: "M8, we've had a bad case of the Ungern-Sternburgs recently. Please annex us."
      Russia: "Erm, yeah, nah. We're good. Had our own mess to deal with."

    • @markusmarkus7683
      @markusmarkus7683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +279

      Well, just remember that half the planet wanted, and was until overthrown by the us, part of or friends with the USSR. Just a “fun” fact for people thinking the Soviet’s was some internationally despised thing. It was, and by its ex-citizens, is still greatly loved and missed.
      Just a history buff.. I do not cater to politics.

    • @thetexancrus2036
      @thetexancrus2036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@markusmarkus7683 Man, gotta love masochistic nations.

    • @jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493
      @jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@thetexancrus2036 why would i love the united states?

    • @thetexancrus2036
      @thetexancrus2036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493 Lmao every nation is a masochist.

  • @khukri_wielderxxx1962
    @khukri_wielderxxx1962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1737

    I love how this channel answers the most odd yet obvious questions that we always and yet never think about

    • @GEO_ANIMATOR
      @GEO_ANIMATOR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Exactly and I rather watch this guy then look it up in boring wikipedia

    • @PantherJaguar
      @PantherJaguar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yep! This is why this is one of my favorite history channels inn TH-cam.

    • @Borzasnyul
      @Borzasnyul 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And then gives misleading answers, deceives.

    • @ThatPianoNoob
      @ThatPianoNoob 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My favourite part is still that russia wanted to show everyone that it is anti imperialist by only annexing regions that were part of the russian empire. Does that make sense to russian people lol

    • @zoomedcheese
      @zoomedcheese 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Borzasnyulwhat do you mean misleading answers?

  • @wackyruss
    @wackyruss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Fascinating. I’ve always wondered why Mongolia never was a part of the Soviet Union. They even used the Cyrillic alphabet.

  • @christian19701
    @christian19701 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I have finally come to the realization that this is my all time favorite TH-cam channel. Crazy considering how shallow and immature I've always been. This is a channel about real stuff that actually happened, but condensed into small segments my ADHD mind can handle. Bravo, you guys rock.
    Ps- I especially love the little signs they hold up at key points in the videos. As you Brits say, brilliant. Whoever does that deserves a raise. That is all carry on! 😁

  • @l3monl1me78
    @l3monl1me78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +765

    “Monday the 4th of never”
    I laughed way harder than I should of at that.

    • @albartros98
      @albartros98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nah, it was a good joke

    • @h.n.vangarde1597
      @h.n.vangarde1597 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm keeping that one myself! When are you going back, Monday the fourth of Never!

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I liked "and it all went, to use a technical term, to Hell."

    • @Bosscheesemo
      @Bosscheesemo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've heard Monday the 4th of Septober before...
      ...the guy actually accepted it as a legitimate date

    • @dannypipewrench533
      @dannypipewrench533 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bosscheesemo I like Septober, it is probably among my five favorite months.

  • @Robbstark2024
    @Robbstark2024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3154

    Russia and Mongolia are like two people in a relationship but they don’t want to say their dating so they just say friends with benefits

    • @josh3658edwards
      @josh3658edwards 3 ปีที่แล้ว +434

      Mongolia was doing wife duties at girlfriend prices :/

    • @MeinungMann
      @MeinungMann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@josh3658edwards well said

    • @PANZERFAUST90
      @PANZERFAUST90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      they're*
      ffs😑

    • @noxli8454
      @noxli8454 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      " countries are like people..." please somebody call an ambulance

    • @rogermoyo3451
      @rogermoyo3451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Mongolia was like a thot being bounced around between USSR, China and Japan. Despite being strong and independent.

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca4851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fascinating stuff. I had absolutely no clue about this. It's not often I hear or read something absolutely brand new to my brain!

  • @flawyerlawyertv7454
    @flawyerlawyertv7454 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't know this. Thank you!

  • @hfreddy127
    @hfreddy127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    “Monday the 4th of Never.” Lmao

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Eight days before the end of disco!

    • @wandaperi
      @wandaperi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      **Jesus is coming back…*
      *on the 666th of Never!**

  • @sharielane
    @sharielane 3 ปีที่แล้ว +682

    So it was a "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" situation.
    Mongolia needed to play hard to get.

    • @akimfritz1905
      @akimfritz1905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Pantelis Tzimas A Mongolian can only hope😩😍

    • @passingshadow8934
      @passingshadow8934 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Pantelis Tzimas Hey, it's still a win.

    • @BozesanVlad
      @BozesanVlad 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@akimfritz1905 They seem to played better than China and Russia: they got away inependent, with all the perks.

    • @marcosrua7223
      @marcosrua7223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's landlocked

  • @warrenreid6109
    @warrenreid6109 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks. I always wondered about that.

  • @colinp2238
    @colinp2238 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the animations in this series.

  • @cbplays3436
    @cbplays3436 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1346

    Where is Russia? here *points to map*
    Where is China? here *points again*
    Where is Tannu Tuva? *puts hand over heart* Here....

    • @user-po4rf7ls7l
      @user-po4rf7ls7l 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I wish the people in Tannu Tuva the best

    • @evanyangfan
      @evanyangfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      and ofc 唐努乌梁海

    • @drinkyourwater1039
      @drinkyourwater1039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Tannu What?

    • @MrTTuguldur
      @MrTTuguldur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Tuva is annexed by Soviets from Mongolia

    • @BijiMustardGas
      @BijiMustardGas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Gotta love how youtube is 4 years late to memes. I really hope everyone who likes this shitty comment gets their brains thrown into a blender.

  • @literallyme6306
    @literallyme6306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +711

    1:32 Annex me (Daddy)
    Whoah there-

    • @Joseph_Stalin1940
      @Joseph_Stalin1940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      What the fu-

    • @Freak-px9uk
      @Freak-px9uk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      lmao, girls are into that.

    • @nomadictanker8100
      @nomadictanker8100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      dude what

    • @Gibi354
      @Gibi354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@nomadictanker8100 yall are young you wont get it

    • @nomadictanker8100
      @nomadictanker8100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@Gibi354 nah i got it, i was just shocked cuz I'm from Mongolia lol

  • @kbo8029
    @kbo8029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Even knowing most of this, I still love watching this channel.

  • @SledgerFromTDS.
    @SledgerFromTDS. ปีที่แล้ว

    I really liked this History Channel as its Entertaining to me (IMO).

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1446

    The USSR was like a married man having a mistress that was already giving him everything he wanted from her.
    Mongolia: marry me.
    USSR: Nah, we're fine.

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      I promise baby, I'll split with China once the Warsaw Pact is all grown up and out of the house.

    • @DellDuckfan313
      @DellDuckfan313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      "You lose the wife, you lose the mistress also" -Žižek

    • @slamdunktiger
      @slamdunktiger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      DellDuckfan313 dayamnnm details details, this man Soviets

    • @Zfast4y0u
      @Zfast4y0u 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ''too old'' xDDD

    • @livics610
      @livics610 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Loooool

  • @nicholaskelly6375
    @nicholaskelly6375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    Bulgaria also asked to become a Constituent Republic of The USSR.
    Apparently Khrushchev was very much against this idea for similar reasons. As like Mongolia the USSR was able to acquire anything it required without having to govern the country. Khrushchev is also believed to have commented over the Bulgarian request in the following terms "We already have enough "Turkeys" (ie "Difficult Territories") in the USSR. We do not need anymore!" I suspect that this also applied to Mongolia as well.

    • @kts437
      @kts437 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      MONGOLS ARE NOT TURKIC PEOPLE. MONGOLS ARE PROTO-MONGOLIC PEOPLE WHO ARE LINGUISTICALLY, GENETICALLY, CULTURALLY, AND RELIGIOUSLY DIFFERENT FROM THE SO-CALLED TURKIC AND TURKISH PEOPLE!!!!

    • @maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa
      @maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      that's not exactly true. It was Todor Zhivkov who did it and not just once but twice. Just like all other communist leaders of eastern european countries during the cold war he was a bootlicker, if not the biggest one. The only reason he got to the sweet spot of leader of the BCP is all thanks to his bootlicking

    • @nicholaskelly6375
      @nicholaskelly6375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa I know that Todor Zhivkov might have wanted Bulgaria to become a constituent republic of the USSR. However Supreme Soviet certainly did Not! That is why the Bulgarian-Soviet Joint Companies were in the favour of the USSR! The point was that the USSR did not want to get lumbered with more economic problems.
      As effectively they had control politically and that is what mattered.
      Also you had Romania between Bulgaria and the USSR
      This could have caused potential problems.
      As it was the USSR was in effective control Why make things more complicated.

    • @dan4461
      @dan4461 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bulgaria and the ussr didn't have a direct border. you don't need anything else

    • @nicholaskelly6375
      @nicholaskelly6375 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@bbaker7467Mr Khrushchev didn't mean it in an ethnic sence at all.
      As the term "Turkeys" was meant in a political sence harking back to imperial Ottoman times when Turkey was "The Sick Man of Europe" and the word "Turkey" was used as a "cover all' describing any and all manner of corruption and incompetence on a governmental level!

  • @defaultkoala2922
    @defaultkoala2922 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:31 love the Divine Comedy reference! Such a great and detailed tiny joke that so many people will overlook. It took me 3 times watching this video to spot it.

  • @jmalko9152
    @jmalko9152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Informative!

  • @staffan-
    @staffan- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +547

    Let me guess before watching the video: In order to not cause tension with China.

    • @altairibnlaahad6593
      @altairibnlaahad6593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Dont be crazy it’s because nobody wants to mess with the descendants of Genghis khan

    • @staffan-
      @staffan- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@altairibnlaahad6593 Of course, how did I fail to realize this.

    • @nerdorama009
      @nerdorama009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      USSR 🤝 CDPR

    • @tron1852
      @tron1852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      DIng ding ding

    • @monkeydetonation
      @monkeydetonation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@altairibnlaahad6593 But they did mess with Genghis' descendants - by refusing to annexing them

  • @schnibbelhenry1232
    @schnibbelhenry1232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    In today’s episode of “something I’ve never thought about but now am extremely Interested in”

  • @mailfergal
    @mailfergal 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🤣 I missed the “card it could hold” bit the first time around. Great vid as always 👍

  • @sdaiwepm
    @sdaiwepm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So interesting! I have visited Mongolia, but did not know this.

  • @number1kenyan
    @number1kenyan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1627

    If the USSR annexed Mongolia it would mean that the Mongol empire would’ve kinda reformed

  • @dmeads5663
    @dmeads5663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1632

    Texas: “can we join you?”
    USA: “no”
    Texas: “because of the slavery thing?”
    USA: “yes.... but check back later, we might change our mind.”

    • @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587
      @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      USA: " You cool Texas sure you can join, I sure hope this doesn't cause any issues within the union."

    • @GeneralSmitty91
      @GeneralSmitty91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      Mexico: 👀

    • @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587
      @i_dont_know_any_good_names5587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      @@GeneralSmitty91 We've sponsored your rebels in California, oh and we're at war now.

    • @llamadaroja6972
      @llamadaroja6972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Texas "We wont let go the freedom to enslave other humans. The mexicans didnt get it and look what happened"

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      To be fair Mexico at the time was under the dictatorship of Santa Anna, and he had been enforcing his dictorial powers around that time and restricting the rights of all Mexican citizens. Texas wasn’t the only group that rebelled against his rule in Mexico at that time

  • @HMSHyde02
    @HMSHyde02 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mongolia: Annex us
    USSR:No
    Mongolia: ANNEX US
    USSR: NO
    Mongolia: AW COME ONNN
    ((Please get the Oversimplified joke 🥲))

  • @Teoras
    @Teoras 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That short Lithuania reference legit made me chuckle :))

  • @toptenguy1
    @toptenguy1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    Most countries: "LEAVE US ALONE! WE WANT OUR INDEPENDENCE!"
    Mongolia: "Oh come on, why don't you love me? Am I too fat??"

    • @SledgerFromTDS.
      @SledgerFromTDS. ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Actually I want to Chat to you about something.

  • @afterburnerfox
    @afterburnerfox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +614

    When you are Kelly MONEYMAKER but still can't make enough money to beat James Bissonet

    • @Ayy_Doll_Fiddler
      @Ayy_Doll_Fiddler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      [laughs in Spinning 3 Plates]

    • @plugandsocket500
      @plugandsocket500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Izzie?

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Well, obviously Kelly is MAKING a lot of money, whereas James is SPENDING a lot of money.
      Maybe they're married, and the money James is spending, is what Kelly made.

    • @NineWorldsFromDrew
      @NineWorldsFromDrew 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Faux BoJo has also had some old names turn up behind him! This makes Faux BoJo a bit despondent ☹️

    • @james_baker
      @james_baker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Tjalve70 Intriguing theory. Perhaps they all belong to the same extended family.

  • @mishacol
    @mishacol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Its safer to keep pro-soviet buffer countries at your borders than to have direct border with hostile neighbors. Unlike today, when Russia is getting surrounded by pro-western regimes. Gotta love Soviet geopolitics. Very wise and clever.

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It worked until the entire soviet bloc became pro western. Geopolitics is temporary but borders only change by force.

    • @bjornborg4849
      @bjornborg4849 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@googane7755 there are plenty of examples where borders did not change by force. Think of Austria (Nazi Germany) or recently, Crimea. No war was fought in any of these cases. It was more of a show of force that was sufficient.

    • @MontyGumby
      @MontyGumby 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "very wise and clever" ? my senile 80+ year-old mother can easily come to that

  • @nik65stgt60
    @nik65stgt60 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super content!

  • @moralfagov
    @moralfagov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    -"Please annex me, daddy"
    -"WTF no"

    • @domsjuk
      @domsjuk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Not into the whole daddy thing, but “please annex me” sounds kinda hot. xD

    • @beaub152
      @beaub152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@domsjuk LMAO and your name is dom, suree

    • @MrMediator24
      @MrMediator24 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beaub152 he is such a con

    • @lancegideondiokno1774
      @lancegideondiokno1774 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@beaub152 whats wrong about it

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sounds kinky and pornographic

  • @rogerbak
    @rogerbak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    In relationship terms and from the Soviet perspective......
    Mongolia : the girl you love to sleep with but never want to marry

    • @artanisplays3982
      @artanisplays3982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So mongolia got friendzoned?

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@artanisplays3982 You don't really have s*x with a friend....

    • @whenweeb6471
      @whenweeb6471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@BatCostumeGuy ayo watch your words

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@BatCostumeGuy Mongolia was a friend with benefits

    • @DiscipleSneaky4134
      @DiscipleSneaky4134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BatCostumeGuy Friends with benefits?

  • @dogeclanleader1
    @dogeclanleader1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mongolia then: i will take over the known universe
    Mongolia now (kind of) : annex me daddy uwu

  • @scottstallings5029
    @scottstallings5029 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    GREAT SHOW 👍

  • @aturkishgamer9790
    @aturkishgamer9790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    The ussr denied the annexation when Mongolia’s chairman called Nikita Khrushchev daddy instead of Premier of the Soviet Union.

    • @gabrieldnchf2822
      @gabrieldnchf2822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      If that was me I would’ve annexed them right away

    • @ultra-papasmurf
      @ultra-papasmurf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Da sea pickle of justice *oh no Step Comrade i've been so naughty, please send me to your gulag*

    • @lesscringeymapperdude
      @lesscringeymapperdude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      daddy, why arent u responding, i sent u my food stock pictures

    • @ultra-papasmurf
      @ultra-papasmurf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Oh secretary of the communist party is that an bread line in your pocket or are you just happy to enjoy our conservative socialist thinking~?

    • @chipwalter4490
      @chipwalter4490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh!......wtf?

  • @ichkaodko7020
    @ichkaodko7020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +963

    Mongolian here. For contex: It was only puppet leader mini tyrant Tsedenbal's wish, even most high office holders were disgusted at idea of joining USSR. People of Mongolia also would rebel if it came true. Also, Tsedenbal not only gave the Tuva to Russia but also some other land too which is happen to be birth place of Tsedenbal himself. Tsedenbal promoted to his position because as you may guessed here, was a total pleaser. In the end, Tsedenbal was removed by same KGB which put him in that position in the first place.

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Yes, once I drank too much and told a Chinese Mongolian that the Soviets were handsome, so their behavior in Mongolia was right. He was very angry and asked me to apologize after I recovered my mind. After I sincerely apologized, he gave me a brief introduction to the beautiful words of Mongolia and forgave me.

    • @ichkaodko7020
      @ichkaodko7020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@user-cx1ki8li4t what has your drunken night to do with our discussion here? are u drunken again? objectively speaking, yes Soviet are more handsome than all asians including you and me only man who exceeds soviets in beauty was a chairman Mao, alas, he's gone now but still don't get what it has to do with anything here?

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @ichka odko:I tell my story to support your point. Some people don't support the Soviets, such as my friend. He repeatedly stressed to me how beautiful the previous Mongolian characters were as a reason to oppose the Soviet Union. In order to show that my mind is against the Soviet Union, I put his Mongolian name out.ᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ ᠨᠤᠲᠤᠭ ᠤᠨ ᠬᠥᠪᠡᠭᠦᠨ 。

    • @user-cx1ki8li4t
      @user-cx1ki8li4t 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      this story can refute the wrong view of the video that "the Soviet Union rejected Mongolia's accession because of China". In fact, the Chinese have no influence. But the Mongols (although my friend just is Mongol in spirit and blood) are very resistant to the Soviet Union.😓😓😓

    • @ichkaodko7020
      @ichkaodko7020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@user-cx1ki8li4t well, technically speaking, yes, china has considerable amount of influence in this matter. Keeping Mongolia a separated both from russia and china was an interest of both china and russia. In the face of zero-sum struggle with capitalist bloc, last thing ussr wanted was to spend resource to protect its border with china along the long border line of russia, mongolia and china so keeping Mongolia independent was a one way to reduce that border protection cost. So same goes for china as well about border protection, plus china didn't want to get into zero-sum struggle with ussr, and in case, china fights with ussr, china wanted same thing as ussr, a buffer zone between them, not only it would give them arena to fight but also time to prepare.

  • @donaldmac1250
    @donaldmac1250 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks...i like your style.

  • @hxcvocalist
    @hxcvocalist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Mongolia in 1200 : We will invade the entire universe
    Mongolia in Cold war : Please invade us, we have throat singers and cookies.

  • @DrFish547
    @DrFish547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    Mongolia in 1206: Annexes you
    Mongolia in 1940 : Annex me daddy!

    • @Joseph_Stalin1940
      @Joseph_Stalin1940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Нет Нет, Cursed Cursed Cursed.
      And Soviet is MOTHERland

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Doritos gaming

    • @duolingoowl8207
      @duolingoowl8207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Joseph_Stalin1940 alrighty then
      Annex me mommy

    • @Joseph_Stalin1940
      @Joseph_Stalin1940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@duolingoowl8207 No Duolingo no.

    • @duolingoowl8207
      @duolingoowl8207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Joseph_Stalin1940 *yes Duolingo yes*

  • @jaflob6610
    @jaflob6610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    I always just thought it was a buffer state between China and the Soviets

    • @garmenlin5990
      @garmenlin5990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It's not a buffer state if the Russian and Chinese borders meet in so many places!

    • @asdf-fl1ib
      @asdf-fl1ib 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it is. Which keeps the balance as is between Russia and China so everyone's happy, well mostly. You also have Inner Mongolia in China proper which is another story for another video.

    • @plugandsocket500
      @plugandsocket500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@garmenlin5990 a buffer need not always imply geographic or militaristic.. there are also economic, strategic, diplomatic and many types of buffers. In this case, Mongolia is a strategic buffer that can/could be used as a pawn.. uh, i mean, "insurance" against China.

    • @CDang-ms6dc
      @CDang-ms6dc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It stopped to be a buffer already when it was virtually part of USSR and was only independent in name

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@plugandsocket500 but tbh Mongolia have a VERY good relationship with Russia

  • @Ignisan_66
    @Ignisan_66 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mongolia be like: Annex me comrade, harder comrade!
    Soviet Union: What?
    Mongolia: What?

  • @doflamingo1360
    @doflamingo1360 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mongolia: Russia senpai please annex me!! 🥺
    Russia: No
    Ukraine: Yamete kudasai Russia senpai! Please dont annex me! Onegaishimasu!
    Russia: xaxaxaxaxa let's the annexation begin 😈

    • @a.c6761
      @a.c6761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cringe 🤮

  • @SwissSareth
    @SwissSareth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    One of these days, the list of people to thank will be longer than the rest of the video.

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn't it loop sometimes?

  • @TailsIsDisappointed
    @TailsIsDisappointed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Alternate reality, the USSR capitulates to Mongolia and the Mongol Empire comes back.

    • @lutherstein1928
      @lutherstein1928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      *This is false. >:^(*
      *Everyone knows that Tannu Tuva would've conquer the world before the Mongolians even had a chance to take the USSR.*

    • @rachard
      @rachard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *THROAT SINGING INTENSIFIED*

    • @Feffdc
      @Feffdc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sounds like what could happen in HOI4 somehow

  • @deaansugee
    @deaansugee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "the USSR was under a new mustache of leadership and chose to postpone the meeting the monday the fourth of the month of never"
    I am now subscribed. Lol'd nicely.

  • @Killzoneguy117
    @Killzoneguy117 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the portraits of corn in the background.
    Nice little call back to Khruschev's fascination with corn.

  • @Mr101spb
    @Mr101spb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    “It was already giving the USSR everything it wanted”
    Sounds like a desperate dude showering a woman with gifts only to be directly told by her “I’m not going to sleep with you because you’re just going to keep giving me all this stuff either way”

    • @1blackice1
      @1blackice1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Mongolia biggest commie simp of the 20th century.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @888GRM your way round makes much more sense.

    • @davecullins1606
      @davecullins1606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Fuck's sake, I hate women having in that kind of power.

    • @ElBandito
      @ElBandito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Actually the alternative of not doing SU's bidding was death, as Stalin's purges killed 1/30th of the Mongolian population during 1930s.

    • @HeadsFullOfEyeballs
      @HeadsFullOfEyeballs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ElBandito That's how it worked under Stalin, who just generally liked to kill people, sure. But it doesn't apply to the post-Stalin period, when you had to do a proper uprising like the Hungarians for the Soviets to come murder you. Eastern Bloc states like East Germany frequently went against the Soviet Union's wishes and no-one got killed.

  • @HVACSoldier
    @HVACSoldier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    “Sell us beef.” I’m sure some people will miss the joke.

    • @narendraii2139
      @narendraii2139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      what is the joke?

    • @Sexysendeli
      @Sexysendeli 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If someone tells it im replying to get notified

    • @HVACSoldier
      @HVACSoldier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@narendraii2139 Mongolian Beef.

    • @leonardofranzinribeiro4220
      @leonardofranzinribeiro4220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah i didn't get It either

    • @James-un8io
      @James-un8io 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Sexysendeli Include me in that

  • @playwars3037
    @playwars3037 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:05 I love the fact that they went through the trouble of making a calendar with the four first squares greyed out just so they could make it match to monday the 4th XD

  • @lw9954
    @lw9954 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Basically Mongolia created a buffer state of the USSR, in case the European countries decided to declare war on the mongols.

    • @lpatryk2004
      @lpatryk2004 ปีที่แล้ว

      since when China or Japan are European

  • @ramen_9588
    @ramen_9588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    *Legend has it that China and the Soviet Union is still waiting for the meeting to this day.*

    • @ValWasTakenWasTaken
      @ValWasTakenWasTaken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Soviet Union last online 30 years ago

    • @Andrew9908
      @Andrew9908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😔

    • @utkarshg.bharti9714
      @utkarshg.bharti9714 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good luck with that 😆.

    • @Kirillissimus
      @Kirillissimus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They have waited long enough. Both sides officially given up on it around 20 years ago and accepted the independence.

  • @Spieler521
    @Spieler521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    1:25 LMAO I don't blame you I wouldn't even know where to start with that name.

  • @dmitrygaltsin2314
    @dmitrygaltsin2314 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The portrait of a corn cob in a saucer cap is my favourite.

  • @Exotic3000
    @Exotic3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I learned a lot!

  • @enderreaper1482
    @enderreaper1482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    “Monday the 4th of never”
    I like that line

    • @davideborroni3875
      @davideborroni3875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's every girl's answer when I ask them out...

  • @SYDSYMA
    @SYDSYMA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    it's always "James Bissonnette this" or "Kelly Moneymaker that", but only day one subscribers will remember Party Boyko...

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Spinning 3 Plates and CopperTone disagree

    • @pikilic4481
      @pikilic4481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mark Asazna is never mentioned in the comments ever. But for some reason, I think his name sounds great.

    • @Nomenooooo
      @Nomenooooo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      you guys forget...
      ''Moe''

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      E

    • @Theporkchopsandwhich
      @Theporkchopsandwhich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I always liked three spinning plates

  • @HaventheDemoness-vy9lx
    @HaventheDemoness-vy9lx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    1:32 Oh my god I laughed XD
    That guy next to Nikita: *uncomfy vibes*

  • @user-dd5bb9ho3k
    @user-dd5bb9ho3k ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The main reason is geopolitical: until 1949, Mongolia was not recognized by anyone except the USSR.
    In 1949, the PRC (they themselves were recognized only in 1971) recognized the Mongolian People's Republic;
    Only in 1971 Mongolia was admitted to the UN;
    Taiwan recognized Mongolia's independence only in 2011 (!!!) year.

  • @hfar_in_the_sky
    @hfar_in_the_sky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    The fact Mongolia also made a convenient and expendable buffer state in the event China decided to become outright hostile towards the USSR was also just a added bonus, I'm sure.

    • @linshitaolst4936
      @linshitaolst4936 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Chinese once had the opportunity to annex Mongolia again, but China wasted it. It was during the period of the division of warlords in northern China that Mongolia took the initiative to ask China for help, because the Mongols were fed up with the oppression of the Russians. However, when the Chinese warlords entered their territory, they found that these warlords were more cruel than the Russians, even more than their ancestor Genghis Khan, which made Mongolia completely fall to the Soviets

  • @daveirwin6903
    @daveirwin6903 3 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    1:01 Joseph earns his name: Stallin’.

  • @historicrecord
    @historicrecord 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating !

  • @Temuulente
    @Temuulente ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I wouldn’t say being under soviet control for 30 or 40 years is terrible idea. I mean like look at the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmens. They all got the basic infrastructure, factories, facilities that were crucial to build a nation back in 90s. What we had left with is dozens of empty soviet military bases, one railway, one copper mine. If we had soviet powered factories and infrastructure, i’d say we’d be doing great by now. Lol now this country is at least 30 years behind our Kazakh and Uzbek counterparts.

  • @chikafujiwara9889
    @chikafujiwara9889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    so basically your telling me Mongolia had a crush on USSR

  • @Joker129
    @Joker129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    1:00 that part killed me🤣

  • @Nishkid641
    @Nishkid641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    People keep saying that Manchukuo was a puppet of Japan - simply because Manchukuo no longer existed. But Mongolia under communist was also just a Soviet puppet, yet today historians would only foolishly use the term "client state" simply cuz Mongolia still exists till this day. Double standard and hypocrisy much.

    • @ReSSwend
      @ReSSwend 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There are many gradations of puppet states.

  • @p__b__3749
    @p__b__3749 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:26: Totally awesome. :D

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 3 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    "Annex me (daddy)"
    *I see you're a man of culture as well*

    • @Nietabs
      @Nietabs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok.

    • @waddysoap4868
      @waddysoap4868 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Why are you everywhere?

    • @dy7296
      @dy7296 ปีที่แล้ว

      Man of culture?
      What Culture?
      Child Predator?

  • @machiavelli9121
    @machiavelli9121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Thank you again, for answering a question, which I have never thought of but interested in.

  • @Tark_
    @Tark_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Never realized how small the population of Mongolia is.
    It only has a population of 3.2 million as of today

  • @DomoArigatoRobot0
    @DomoArigatoRobot0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Yes, let's meet again."
    "Great! When is a good date for you?!"
    "How 'bout Monday the 4th of Never?"
    Many more gems throughout y'all's videos. Thank you for all these chuckles.