Pu Yi Proceeds To His Enthronement

[@nni9310]

I am amazed that footage of this was both taken and survived.

[@EmpireProductions1]

My great-grandfather’s family lived in Harbin until the fall of the empire in 1945.

[@bahhumbug9824]

Trying to play the old "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" tactic led him right into the hands of the Japanese.

[@envitech02]

I feel so sad for this man. Born into riches, became emperor at age 3, spoilt, used and abused by foreign power. It's a tragic story.

[@rodponcedelrosario6873]

I feel sad for this man. He became emperor at a very young age, yet in modern times, it would appear he was imprisoned inside the emperor's palace. When he came of age, he was manipulated and made into a puppet by a foreign invader.

[@stevenbaksh5545]

​@@ecoro_ maybe the nationalist government had much bigger problems to deal with at that time

[@stevenbaksh5545]

​​@Ellie5621 The USSR wanted to kill him after they captured him at the end of WW2 but Mao saved him Mao's reasoning was when the Russian tsar and his family were murdered it casted a shadow over Russia

[@jarrodyuki7081]

yes manchukuo.

[@y.m.3114]

0:24 GAS GAS GAS

[@pwn3r1]

haha, those old cameras always film something wrong!

[@Brandonhayhew]

That man is a fool, the japanese used him as a pawn

[@RoxieKrolette-it3hr]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@wong1030]

British man: says the emperor as PoO-yAi
Literally everyone else: Pūyì

[@НиколайРоманов-л6ю]

Looks rather like a 13th Century Mongol ceremony in a steppe

[@anacletwilliams8315]

Long live the Emperor!

[@sebastianm1901]

The puppet