How did the USSR React to JFK's Assassination? (Short Animated Documentary)
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- When JFK shook off his mortal coil not much is discussed about the international reaction to it, specifically that of the USSR. So how did America's rivals in the Cold War react to his death? Find out more in this short and simple animated documentary.
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REACTION OF SOVIET AND COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS TO JFK ASSASSINATION by Edgar J. Hoover (01/12/1963)
I thing I found that was humorous when some of the JFK papers were declassified was a statement from the USSR to the Cuban ambassador.
"Stop looking so happy in public."
It's a slavic thing. It implys that you are being disingenuous as there really is no reason to be that happy all the time.
Jared Isley-Oliver
Or that there’s really never a reason to be that happy
Whatever the time period, Russians had the best poker face.
@@AudieHolland And they don't even have Katy Perry singing a whole song about it.
@@zhouwu wasn't it Lady Gaga?
On this episode of "Questions you never thought about before but actually find interesting"
One time i actually did look this question up along with how the USSR reacted to the moon landing
I would’ve liked if you never used the extremely unoriginal “On this episode”. Perhaps something remotely original such as “I never thought of this...” etc. But no. Unoriginal format yaaaaay. Let’s like the comment like the little sheep we are
@@MichaelJ44 wow someone has lockdown frustration. Don't worry what more on reality could go wrong.
@Jay Blake ссср гаи
Literally the first thing I thought when seeing the video 😂
I absolutely love the fact Russia's first thought was "was this us?" "did we do this? God I hope not"
"And I had that thought, that only Blackout drunks... and the USSR could have.
Did I do that?"
To be fair, the US asked exactly the same questions when certain people died.
Often times the top echelon of government simply give a nod for programes that cover a broad range of tactics, and goals.
The top tier of the intelligence services delegate them to sections lower down.
Those sections create task forces that then recruit agents
Those agents handle field agents and assets that are doing the actual things.
Daily, weekly or monthly reports are demanded, which come from this ground level, back up to the highest levels of Government.
If something like this happens between those briefings on those reports, the first question larger powers leaders ask is "Was it us at all?".
To be fair I think most 'intelligence' services think this when something goes down, it's hard to keep an eye on all your 'assets' and people recruited due to their usefulness at a given time aren't often reliable or loyal, and tend to have their own agendas too.
Best example for this is probably Orlando Bosch, a Cuban exile and terrorist, the CIA helped him and his cadres as a means to hurt communist Cuba but then he went and blew up a Cuban plane full of children/teenagers (I think it was a fencing team flying back from Mexico?). I very much doubt the upper echelons of the US govt wanted such a heinious act to happen but it was 'their guy'
@@Apis4 sounds like a line from yes minister.
@@meneither3834
*Sir Humphrey Appleby wants to know your location*
The American spy Morris Childs (Operation Solo) was able to report back to the FBI that the Soviet leadership was genuinely shocked by the assassination. That helped to quell suspicion that the KGB was behind it.
That and the fact that it was a coup orchestrated by the CIA and the FBI had knowledge of it.
Easy to believe.
They weren't actually shocked. The bolshevik ussr (is) was controlled by the same tribe that controls the west through the central bank system. The Rothschild family has been steadily marching to get us where we are today since the 17th century when they managed to take control of England
Was that followed up by "Operation Chewbacca"? 😜
Should've asked CIA instead.
In short:
U.S.S.R: Oh crap that wasn’t us was it?
USA: No
U.S.S.R: Oh good, so anyway
Best country ever: Oh shit, did we do that!?
USA: No... yes.
Best country ever: Oh good!! Phew.... wait what!?
Best country ever: *Collapses*
@@ALaughingMan "Best Country Ever"
@@ALaughingMan "Best Country Ever"
U.S.S.R: Oh good, so anyway... * gets obliterated from existence *
@@ALaughingMan "Best country ever"
Love how the USSR had to investigate the KGB:
"we've got so many plots against america I can't remember if this one was ours or not"
well spies and agents frequently operate in far flung areas with minimal communications back to HQ. That's the nature of "spy" work. Quite hard to assess if one of your agents took a opportunistic shot and went rogue.
More like the KGB had to investigate themselves :v
@Sirius Stark Al Ghul sadly
"An assassin here to see me? I don't remember ordering one."
Drab Bard You know how big the Soviet Union was, don’t you?
USSR: You're unreliable
Lee Harvey Oswald: I'll prove you! I'll prove you all!
LOOOL
*Three fatal gunshots later*
Oswald: "Told you so!"
The most hilarius part is that he ended up marrying the daughter of a KGB officer
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777
Marina was her name.
@@TheCimbrianBull Cute name, I would like to call a daughter like that if I ever have one.
The fact that they shared Oswald's file instead of saying they never heard of him is enough for me.
True... they were straight about telling America that they recognize this guy as unreliable and had nothing to do with him.
I still love how Nikita Khrushchev first reaction was to double-check with the KGB and make sure that they hadn't done this.
@@angelwhispers2060 "alright comrades who did it? I'm not mad I just want to know"
I've watched too many movies to even believe that one.
I do not understand you. In that situation, full transparency is crucial. If you lie and that is uncovered later, how would that make you look like?!
It would of looked really bad had it come out that they withheld information.
that's serious level spy shit, when you have to investigate yourself to see if you did it
I know...and for some reason i absolutely love it 🤣🤣
Yeah
@@acidmack1041 the scary part is in a movie, it would only work in a comedy....but it was real life
@@stijnvdv2 it's the dems they been on Russian bots since 2016 and they can't get around it. China however they will let have their way
it makes sense though.. no? might have been a rogue agent thinking he's doing the right thing.... They had many zealous people working for them across the U.S.
Khrushchev: Alright, this sounds a bit fishy. I didn't kill him, did you?
Castro: I didn't, did you?
Mao: Wasn't me, did you?
Ho Chi Minh: I dunno, can't've been me...
*this proceeds for quite some time*
Suddenly Osweld appears
hahha
Couldn’t have*
Tito enters room: Guys, what the hell?
@@Ake-TL Tito: I told you that Stalin was the last one.
JFK: *dies*
USSR: *sweats nervously*
JFK never died, he got killed. Fking tool!!!!!
Lol the USSR didnt want to have to use their TSAR bomb
@@velcranoxofficials9970 hmmm US has close nuclear bombs near Moscow though
JFK: dies
USSR: "Shit, who was it? Did WE kill him? Quick, somebody ask the KGB!"
😂
@@MichaelJ44 that's...the same thing
Fun fact: JFK's funeral was the first live satellite tv broadcast from the USA on the Soviet Television
1:15 I love how Khrushchev is just watching the nuclear blast mildly annoyed.
The clip stops before he takes off his shoe and deflects the blast wave with it.
He wasn't worried. He had a fridge handy.
I love how there is a portrait of corn in another scene of his
To be fair, nobody really wants nuclear war
@@scottydu81 if fallout is to tell about nuclear war and what it can do I agree with you
So basically;
USSR: Not it
USSR*
USA was the nation JFK was the prime minister for. USSR President was Josef Stalin
@@MichaelJ44 wtf?
Hanji Zoe
JFK*
@@hanjizoe2648 idk what he's been snorting or smoking but I want It
@@MichaelJ44 This is your brain on drugs
USSR: it wasn’t me!
CIA: yes we know
USSR: 👀
CIA:
yea cause they killed him lol
@@Iason29 why though? I once read that because JFK was about to shut down CIA/FBI. Furthermore years earlier JFK refused to execute Operation Northwoods recommended by the CIA.
The CIA or fbi can't really do something on the ground like killing a politician because it gonna create tension
The world is sperated in 2 block
1 USA and NATO
2 Russia and China
So if cia or fbi act it gonna regret it in the long run
Like the iran general now iran is one of many USA enemy
So all this CIA and fbi stuff are just for TV and movies
Not really a threat to worry about .
Sir, you have won the internet today.
@@ikhone9805 Ok to make this clear, so there is no more debate, what happened was a conspiracy, like the word means conspiracy is when multiple groups conspire treason and this is what happened. The CIA wasn't alone in this. To begin with the CIA was an expert with experience gained in the Cold war in removing leaders through Black ops by indirect methods in using any looney they can find to get the result they want.. Ideologists, Socialists, it really doesn't matter... Doing the black ops against Kennedy in the US was way way easier since they are the ones controlling security, but in foreign countries they don't., so just imagine what a field day that was.
The point is that it doesn't matter who killed Kennedy directly, all that matters is they got the result they wanted. Nobody will ever know the real truth in detail obviously, but in Kennedy's operation, it is rumored the loonies they found in his case, were Mafia, perhaps from Chicago. Kennedy's father was in the Mafia and was one of those shady profiteers from bootlegging and made money in the 1920's. The mafiosi have a mentality of their own with a so called brotherhood cult, which you probably know from the movies. Once you are in with them, they feel a privilege to own you and control you. I do not know much about Kennedy's father's attitude to this idea, perhaps Kennedy didn't know either, But the point is he was not his father and the mafia thought they had some sort of claim to control the son of someone who used to be in with them. When a son of an ex mafiosi suddenly becomes president is a BIG deal. This is what a documentary on JFK explained which I watched years back, and very likely for JFK this was out of date old 20's history and an affair of his father, so he obviously must have ignored any attempts to be approached by them after he got elected. This was the motive for the mafia to want him dead..
Bingo, now the CIA had the loonies, which if you think about it, perhaps there would have been no assassination possible if Kennedy's father had such a past, so food for thought. All the CIA had to do is order their men to take a blind eye or simply not even assign them on that day, in other words simply provide the opportunity. Some who protected Kennedy that day might have known something, but it is highly unlikely. Even today you can see how every aspect of personality has been sucked out from military, policemen, securities.. and today we just have human robots. Back then the agency dudes were the first of such robots while the police for example back then still held some traditions of humanity, so they were obviously oblivious and were the only ones who genuinely reacted to the shooting and went out of their way to catch the person or persons involved..
There is really not much else to explain on how it was organised, the rest you can pretty much guess yourself. All this was an executive CIA order to organise a Black Op, get in touch and coordinate with the mafia, the mafia then used three shooters of their own that day, with guaranteed get away and light security , while using Oswald as a scapegoat. The three shooters were necessary to make sure Kennedy is dead, because assassinations are always chancy affairs, and if the president somehow managed to survive he would be literally the only person who would be capable of hunting down the conspirators. Oswald was necessary to direct public and media outrage to his person. But because he had candidates in his mind of acquaintances who might have been involved in his frame up, he might have been the result of a new trail of evidence in the following days, so he had to be eliminated as well, and also to end the trail of outrage with his death. The other main issue was the president's autopsy, which has been debated all the way up to 1998 and still things remain inconclusive. At least 60% percent of americans in polls to this day believe the autopsy was manipulated in showing the death came from one direction and to cover up the fact that the 2 fatal shots that killed him from at least the 2 out of the 3 gunmen present, came from different directions. Despite the fact that all 3 official investigative commissions up to 1998 that occurred concluded to reject the idea. The first autopsy was attempted by Rose in Dallas who tried to do things by the book, which was interrupted by agents who basically broke the law and took the body away by force so another autopsy can be conducted in Washington. The autopsy there has also been fuzzy with a so called doctor removed and replaced during the autopsy to new evidence added constantly over the years every time the assassination comes in to question, such as "out of the blue" confessions of doctors involved, speaking out 28 years later and supporting the one gunman theory instead of coming forward much earlier.
Now the why is even more uncertain, and could be discussed forever as it can also be quite philosophical as well, but I can tell you one thing though, the Conspirators wouldn't be able to answer your question well either. They are murderers after all, it's like trying to ask a husband on why he killed his wife. But the general essence of this is that it mostly has to do with American history and how in reality out of all the presidents, very few actually made a stand and attempted to genuinely lead their country with their own good heart. Like Lincoln and Washington for example, and Roosevelt obviously who ended isolationism and made military dominance possible. The Cold war took a nature of its own, thanks to Nuclear power which you can agree with me such power was never held in the hands of humans for all the thousands of years since we existed. Now you can understand this immense power is unlikely NOT to have SOME psychological repercussions. That is what happened to the US military or war hawks as many would call them, nuclear weapons can change a person's personality. They became drunk with power and after WW2, for the first time the US was on the top of their game and were the first to be truly masters of the world, just cause they achieved in holding the world hostage with a giant gun barrel pointed at it for the first time ( which is pretty much what a nuclear weapon is). And in this regard we could say they were as drunk as the USSR. All this I explain to you to understand how it was so easy for these people to feel nothing when taking the decision in wanting to kill the president. They wanted to have someone to control. Presidents to such people, are just the faces of the democratic farse which come and go every 4 years to keep up appearances for the people. In reality the people who rule are the ones with permanent positions.
Kennedy would harass them all the way on multiple matters and was no push over, and when Kennedy was making the plans to pull the US out of the Vietnam War, for them it was the final straw, the president simply had to die. This is why his successor ended up increasing the troops sent to Vietnam and escalated the war, the exact opposite. There may be no direct evidence but it was suspected some CIA and government officials were also directly involved with war industry giants who stood to lose a great deal had the war been discontinued. So there were billions of dollars involved in the matter as well, not just an ideological stance towards the spread of communism and the pacifist approach.
In my opinion Kennedy, with a slight exception for Obama, was the last great president the United States has seen so far. But since his death, politics changed forever, now that we can kill presidents, all sacred respect for the position evaporated on its own and lead to successive puppets. The warhawks opinion that democracy is a farse with presidents being reoccurring actors for every 4 years has by now become the norm. This is their legacy, and this was made possible by society's disunity on hunting down their national leader's murderers and serving justice.. Unfortunately people aren't into history which is why most were completely surprised when Trump became president, despite even losing the vote and being a blithering idiot. It's once again the signs, or side effects of this drunkenness of power. Since Kennedy's death they worked hard on keeping up appearances for the masses that what they are living is a democracy and their presidents aren't puppets, but after all these years and society prioritising individualism , privacy and self-servitude and a complete disinterest to politics as long as they live "happy" lives, have made this hard work ever more slack. The need to keep up appearances seems less and less necessary as we move into the future, now that these people know that even rubbing it into the face of the masses that they have no rule of the people, still would never jeopardize their positions of power.
I'm sorry for the long explanation, but I hope I helped you out in understanding what happened.
It's nice to see the USSR not portrayed as cartoon villains for once.
But what about Marshall Maize?
it helps that they didn't do something evil for once
Well, that's the difference between history and cartoons for you.
@@milliondollarmistake as if they ever did anything iniquitous
@@zts3902 ... Like Trotsky's assassination the gulags holodomore or occupation of eastern Europe?
JFK: gets assassinated
USSR: oh god did we do that? please say we didn't do that.
This video summed up nicely.
I love this picture of all the communist leaders looking concerned at one another, thinking that one of them commanded it without notifying anyone and collectively shitting their pants
how could the government not be aware of intelligence operatives
that is more CIA reaction
the CIA is GOAT STFU
Oswald: *A Marxist who lived in the USSR*
Khrushchev: HE WHAT.
KGB: IVAN, START DIGGING THROUGH THE FILES *NOW.*
Correction "through our files"
Lmao
Da tavarish
Lmaoo this was gold
"Reznov, please tell me we didn't recruit this man"
The more I learn about Nikita Khrushchev the more I realize how much credit he deserves for keeping a lid on things during the height of the Cold War.
Well Khrushchev is getting more of my respect, next to Birthmarks that is
Khruschev was probably the best at realpolitik among Soviet leaders
When the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, Khrushchev publicly withdrew his missiles from Cuba and allowed the USA to secretly remove its own missiles from Turkey. That was the deal, but in public, it was a Soviet retreat not an American one even though in real life both sides had retreated. Khrushchev gave Kennedy a face-saving solution that the Soviet establishment never forgave him (Khrushchev) for. That was one of many reasons the Politburo voted him out of power just a few years later.
Khruschev knew war, from first hand experience.
Didn't Kruschev order that they try to cover up the Chernobyl disaster? I may be wrong, but I think he was in command at that time
Edit: just going to go ahead and say this; I've already been informed that Krushchev was *NOT* the one in power when the Chernobyl incident happened.
A long time ago I read a biography of Castro. One chapter opened with a description from a former US ambassador about having lunch with Castro when they got a phone call. Castro answered and faked “ What news?” then he went stark white she asked “Seriously?” He turned on the nearest radio to hear reports of the assassination, then turned to the ambassador and said “ There goes your whole reason for being here,”
Castro was meeting with Jean Daniel, a French journalist (not an ambassador) when they heard the news from Dallas. They were discussing restarting US Cuban diplomatic relations. Daniel had met with JFK and was their intermediary.
USSR: “WAIT GUYS WE DIDNT DO THIS”
CIA: “yeah we know”
USSR: “...”
This
CIA: "But we'll blame you anyways to get the public excited for war in Vietnam."
USSR: "Oh, thank goodness! To be frank, we had no idea if it actually was us!"
Oh boy
@@justinb864 except they didn’t.......
JFK: Gets killed*
KGB: Why are you all looking at me?
well cold war...
CIA: *slowly backs out of room*
Even KGB was looking at themselves
@@bryanmartinez6600 looking themselves , how *start trying to watch my backbody
KGB sus
Yeah, I can see how they would panic. That's kind of how WW1 started.
It was crazier back then. People had more lead in their blood streams from car exhaust. The shooters were way down on the food chain, no radios for them, umbrella man gave signals et.
Great comparison man. never thought of it like that.
raven lord
Yeah, some random Serbian nationalist who had nothing to do with the Serbian government shot an archduke, Serbia got blamed and it started a whole lot of shit,
Robert Richard Not to mention increasing nationalism
@@trollface1054 the guy shooting the archduke played the minorest of roles in causing WW-I. at that point the war was happening, everybody knew and accepted the fact that the war was happening, they were just waiting for an excuse to start it.
I like how you portray nations at war by one leader calmly walking up to his enemy with a picket sign that says “die please”
So Russia went thru a real life "Panik, Kalm, Panik" meme moment.
😂😂😂😂 it appears that way!
Jfk assasinated: panik
KGB confirms no connection: kalm
Oswald was a Marxist who lived in ussr: panik
@@penguinsrockrgr8yt216
Who would have thought that American Marxists could cause the USSR so many problems?
@Bdjs Hdhdus is that what we call: "Self sabotage"?
Grammar
The big question that needs anwsering: How Did James Bizonett react ?
and whether he'll continiue to support our beloved historian?
James Bizonett was on the grassy knoll
@@yeeyeeass he had the umbrella
i don't know why but I freaking love this man
What about a man of culture?
When Soviet leadership found out that Oswald had been in the Soviet Union they freaked. They were terrified it might have been a rogue KGB plot.
Instead it was a rogue communist plot involving Americans and Cubans. Lee Harvey was part of a communist terrorist group.
So basically, the lesson we can learn from the Cold War is that intelligence agencies are absolute cancer.
David Stinger: Hear, hear! 👍
@@davidstinger1134 I wouldn't go this far but their rogue operations such as MK Ultra, executing opposition leaders in broad daylight and fighting against as well as financing all of the 100 tribes in Afghanistan was a pretty bad idea.
maybe it was, but that would ment actual war, wich non side realy wanted unless they were certain of victory, so they just pretended they didnt see nothin
I always say, when Lee Oswald went to the Soviet Union, the Soviets assessed him as a mentally unstable adventurer and made no attempt to use him as an intelligence asset. This becomes germain because the Department of the Navy downgraded Oswald's Marine Corps discharge from honorable to the administrative category of undesirable based on the presumption that he had provided information about the U-2 program that he had learned during his assignment in Japan to the Soviets. He hadn't.
Texas Gov. John Connally had been secretary of the Navy when Oswald's discharge was downgraded. It has been theorized that Oswald's primary resentment was against Connally and that his intended target originally was Connally. Theorized. In any case, the downgrading of Oswald's military discharge very well could have been a source of resentment whatever the focus of that resentment was.
Sure, if oswald actually did it
@@920WASHBURN He had resentment. No doubt about that. Whether he committed the crimes attributed to him is still an open question.
Oswald thought that communist Cuba was the ideal place on earth to live.
He hated Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba. This is why he shot Kennedy. (There were 3 witnesses within 10 feet of Oswald when he shot Kennedy)
@Anonymike Maybe open for the NPCs.
You really think ozwald did this? Alone?
Khrushchev personally stopped calling him just "John Kennedy" and decided to use "F" to pay respects.
We live in a society!
I am ashamed at how long it took me understand this comment.
I wish Khrushchev's son, the Colonel became the Federation of Russia President after Putin.
*John* “ press *F* to pay respects” *Kennedy*
Sviatoslav S.
Scout!
Its both funny and terrifying the Soviet leadership had no idea if one of their own spies did it or not.
It makes sense. The KGB was a large and rather secretive organization. People were only told what they needed to know and not a single thing more. Its not impossible that somewhere in chain of command there was a rogue actor that got overzealous with the anti-America campaign. Any organization that's too large for anyone to remember everyone's name has a risk of a rogue actor using the organization's resources for something that the overall organization doesn't support. The KGB was worried that one of their agents may have decided to make a personal sacrifice believing it was best for Russia.
The fact that they had to do so implies that the KGB assassinate people without the top knowing otherwise they could have just known a hit on JFK wasn't in their memo and therefore couldn't be them.
pretty much like things are with CIA
@@ilyanizhnik6874 haha I was about to say.. Americans would be horrified if they knew what the CIA and NSA do without their governments knowledge.
@@lovepeaceandlive people who make statements like that don't know how the intelligence agencies actually work. NSA doesn't actually deal with people at all, it's all device/communication related.
when the KGB is so secretive that they dont even know if they had planned on killing JFK
jony prepper israel well no one knows what dumb agents could do
When the NKVD became the KGB, most of Stalin's boys were purged. Soviet leadership always worried about the ones they possibly missed going rouge
@@jamesricker3997 dude it's hilarious to read
*Something bad happening in the West EU/ USA*
USSR Government: IS IT WE?
it won't made sense since nuclear war is not everyone want..they all act hard but in the end.. they only care about their power...
That would be the Soviet Union. After the fall of Communism, the Russians discovered that their maps of their own country were so full of misinformation (to confuse foreign invaders trying to find their way around Russia) that they had to go to the West to buy accurate maps of Russia because all our maps were based on accurate satellite images.
JFK: *dies*
USA: JFK is dead
USSR: Oh blyat w-we didn't do it!
USA: We know
USSR: ??
CIA: *devilish laughs quietly*
Russia actually liked Kennedy in our history books he is described very positively.
Really? Vs other presidents what is the difference?
@@mega4363 Being shot when he was.
There are fair to good odds if he had lived out his life he would have failed the American public in one way or another, and we would remember him as a total prick.
People who die - at least good people who die - are generally remembered far more generously than good people who live on and fade into obscurity.
If Elvis hadn’t died when he did, he would not be remembered half as well as he was.
If John Lennon hadn’t been murdered, he would not be remembered half as well as he was.
If Jesus hadn’t died when he did, he would not be remembered at all.
And if JFK hadn’t been assassinated, he would be just another in a long line of former Presidents that most people couldn’t remember the name of. But since he was murdered, he gets remembered as great, despite the fact he was almost certainly only somewhere in the middle.
@Harry Quellings Except he was the one who caused the missiles to be stationed on Cuba in the first place.
Bay of pigs, remember?
CIA sponsered killings in South America and East asia?
JFK wasn't the peace maker, people make him out to be.
@@Orcawhale1 Russian missiles weren't able to reach most of the US during the cold War but then a new Cuban dictator took over and suddenly there was a big problem because if the ussr used communist Cuba to set up their missiles then they would easily be able to cover the entire US. They would've put the missiles there regardless striking first was the right way to go but jfk decided he wanted to be discrete about it and pulled half the troops that were planned to go which caused the invasion to fail
@@Orcawhale1 The C.I.A. was at odds with Kennedy because Kennedy was what they considered a "rogue" president. Kennedy often did what he pleased despite what his advisors told him to do. Some of his actions in office might have declared him a threat to Homeland Security. I can't honestly say whether he was doing good or causing a possible harm to our country.
When you realize that the Cuban Missile Crisis happened almost exactly a year prior to his death, it adds another level of ‘oh shit’ and panic to JFK’s untimely demise. It’s easy to see how the USSR panicked and so many conspiracies arose around who took JFK out. The poor guy had enemies foreign and domestic in nearly every corner around him.
He fucked up when he let Diem get killed in South Viet Nam. Other'n that he didn't have any foreign enemies.
I say the world got lucky that it was a lonely loser and not someone in an organisation payed by moscow. The latter was more or less like the situation in 1914 and I bet the US would have reacted exacly like Austria did (with extreme vengeance) if Oswald was an agent from foreign & hostile power.
@@SuperAerie Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, even Congress admitted it's a conspiracy, but they don't have any power over the conspirators. But, the organizations still have to pay to cover that up. It's like what William Casey said, you know.
@@robertrichard6107 But lots of enemies within our own government who saw him as a traitor when he tried to ease Cold War tensions with Russia and pull back from Indochina.
@@zyrrhos actually, the USA pulled out of the Vietnam War because it became very unpopular among the U.S, combined with the fact it was becoming increasingly un-winnable, which allowed the North Vietnamese to do what the confederacy couldn’t get them to do in the American civil war, which was to demoralise the U.S to the point the U.S government had no choice but to give up, thus ensuring that, to the U.S, the war just wasn’t worth it, and had to end.
_US News: The President has been assassinated..._
*USSR: Oh no, was that us?!*
_US: ...by a US citizen..._
*USSR: Phew, not us. Nice.*
_US: ...who loved Karl Marx and lived in Russia for a time!_
*USSR: Ready the nukes quietly, and help the Americans publicly...NOW!*
Lmaooo
US News: The President has been assassinated...
USSR: Oh no, was that us?!
US: ...by a US citizen...
USSR: Phew, not us. Nice.
US: ...who loved Karl Marx and lived in Russia for a time!
USSR:NANI?!?!
fixed it
@@rikilamaru 😐
You forgot the last bit where LBJ accuses the USSR of orchestrating the assassination.
@@rikilamaru
But they weren't Japanese though...
I absolutely love the guys carrying around signs everywhere and the blank expressions on their faces 😂
Just like the far left, now!
...And, "@@infiad1275"?
@@infiad1275What?
"DID WE KILL HIM???" I shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did
Mick Jagger says so in 'Sympathy for the Devil'.
it not funny at the time...
You're like the first female I have seen on this channel, though, I am not sure if you are female
@@robertrichard6107 What Jagger and Richard were saying was the hatred in the U.S. and world resulted in it. Rod Serling even referred to it in a Twilight Zone episode. The hatred has unfortunately returned today.
@@erenliebert4576 definetly a boy
USSR: “We didn’t do it!”
CIA: “We know.”
USSR: “Oh ok, goo- wait what?”
I like how everyone started getting suspicious of the CIA around a year ago.
@@garybrown2039 a year ago? it's a super old (conspiracy) story about JFK hating masons.
@@ilyanizhnik6874 no I’m talking about how the majority of the public started asking questions.
But hilariously the CIA didn't even know that the USSR was going to collapse in the days leading up.
@@garybrown2039 Anyone who wants to know about the CIA should just look-up "MKUltra"
An aid in the Kremlin: JFK is kil
Khrushchev: no
dumb
@@PANZERFAUST90 no u
sory for bad english
where were u wen keneddy is kil?
i was in moscow eating semechki wen fone is ring
"jfk is kil"
"no"
@@yoavmor9002 nope you
Putin: yes
Two points.
1- I generally love that the KGB was seen as so powerful and unruly that the higher ups in Moscow genuinely thought one of them did it. Tells you that the KGB at this point had debatably more power than the government.
2- Prior to Putin closing off old Soviet Documents cause, I guess to him they were like embarrassing high school moments rather than a chance to heal relationships, they reveal that the USSR despite public image, was more avid war at all cost than the US was.
more "avoid war at all costs" than* There! FTFY 😊
Throw back to the time Marshall Zhukov literally made the head of the KGB turn white after bursting into a meeting saying "WHO THE FUCK MOVED *MY* TROOPS" (the kgb replaced all the normal soldiers at the kremlin)
I just like the idea of the head of the kgb just panicking thinking “oh shit did we do that!”
Krushchev: "Ok who did it? I'm not mad, just disappointed"
So the USSR know the war crime?
This actually made me burt out laughing thank you
it was more like what the fuck.... who try to start a nuclear war...?
Summary: For a brief moment everyone was united in the fact they didn’t want to die in a nuclear holocaust
Then that fear subsided and Vietnam happened
Materialistic dreams of Viet Nam rubber on Lincoln Mk V sedans won out!
Vietnam was already going on.
Lyndon escalated the Vietnam War. Although he also did other things which eventually reduced hostility to Socialism in the USA.
Yea that's actually a good summation of it.
@@markhenley3097 Well, LBJ knew he'd loose in '64 if he didn't escalate, so he had to orchestrate Tonkin Gulf.
I find it surprising that the Soviet Union was not only worried about JFK's assassination but they even apologised to his family despite the fact that JFK was essentially the governmental leader of their enemy nation
Imagine starting a world war due to some guy killing someone from the opposite side...
This meme was created by the Serbo-Austrian gang
Wait service Austrian? Now I imagine Austria-Hungary except it isn’t Hungary but Serbia,
Cursed
I get it
Imagine having a leader create anime
This meme was created by the japo-hirohito gang
Double curse
"I understand that reference."
All I can think about is Steve Buscemi freaking out asking the KGB, "This wasn't us right?!?!?"
Omg they need to make a sequel around this.
@@Celeste__ch. No, a sequel when Khrushchev was in power.
@@Celeste__ch. Yea, the film should be called the Death of JFK and focus around the panic that USSR government had during Kennedy's death. I think it would be the perfect sequel.
Thank you, I was looking for this reference. A sequel about the Cuban Missile Crisis and JFK’s death would be just comedy gold.
@@Celeste__ch. well if you didn't notice sequel to cold war already started
@@mattbader9480 OMGG A SEQUEL TO DEATH OF STALIN WITH Steve Buscemi☠☠☠
JFK: killed by a marxist who used to live in the USSR
USSR: (chuckles) I'm in danger
He trained in USSR with Italian Manlicker rifle.
@@robertrichard6107 Carcano rifle you mean, Manlicher is Austrian
@@robertrichard6107 He was a marine, in the USSR he worked in a factory in Minsk
*we're
Liberty Prime don’t be that guy
People overlook that Khrushchev was actually way more scared of nuclear war than even the top American officials. He really did seem to be adamant about deescalating the tension.
You cant grow corn in a nuclear wasteland after all
So basically: “Oh my god that’s so horrible!... we didn’t do that did we- oh we didn’t thank god”
Legit though, when I had jobs as a teenager, I would sometimes get blamed for things, and then deny and defend that I didn't do it, but as I walked away, I was really thinking, "crap, I really hope I didn't"
Sometimes I would get get so preoccupied I would do things without thinking
"Premier! We have news coming from the United States! J.F.K is dead!"
"..Who?"
"..ЖФК."
"Oh goodness!"
Privet, добри вечер
“..кто?” *
Does it matter? Im just a student from saint peterburg ,и Да я незнакомец, но ето не остоновить скемто разговаривать.
Marco De Pril grammar is poor, but generally understandable and good enthusiasm, keep it up👍
ŽFK?
US: SOVIETS!
USSRA: What??
US: oh sorry, force of habit
What does USSRA stand for?
@@crumpets8875 Unions of Soviet Socialist Republics. I think the A is a typeo.
@@nightraven2975 ah ok thanks
@@nightraven2975 nah mate, is: Union Soviets Socialist Republics Ass
Union of Soviets Socialist Republics Associates
0:50 imagine doing so much assassinating that you hear somebody got shot and you have to be like: '... Was that us?'
“somebody”???
Who is James Bizanet? WHO IS HE?!
i imagine his surname is write more like... Byzanette
He killed JFK
james biz nasty
Whoever they are, they have been around for a long long time.
James Bissonette serves as History Matters' buffer state.
"Castro was also sad."
"Damn, they stole my kill" -Castro
2:54
Adrian Martinez “even though we were rivals I expected his death to be better, goddamn it!”
Oh don’t be so sad Castro. Where Kennedy couldn’t even get a medal for surviving assassinations , your going to be getting the Olympic Gold by the time you die.
@@garybrown2039 Olympic gold? Pfft. Try "World Guinness record holder by a country mile and very unlikely to ever be surpassed even ten thousand years from now". There were 638 of 'em.
How is it possible that the infamous James bizinett has never been seen the in the comments, he has a following
He is somewhere around here, lurking in the shadows, studying our every move. He's basically the Martians from War of the Worlds.
Dude, I'm a straight guy, and I'd go gay for James Bizonette... or a 1980s-era Val Kilmer...
@@Icanhasautomaticcheeseburger have you heard of the term "bi"?
He probably is here, just under a different username.
I want to know where the hell Partyboyco went, that was always most interesting name to be read out but for some reason, he withdrew his support.
Imagine doing something that singlehandedly causes the entirety of the USSR frantically scramble to deny involvement in what you did, out of sheer and raw panic
The part where the KGB launched an investigation... in to the KGB, to check if this was not their doing is officially my favorite history trivia.
* propaganda.
@@joshduthie3401 no that’s whatever you where fed these are real facts.
@@shaynemhopkins You are taking the word of a youtube blogger who has quoted no sources whatsoever. He also states that the Soviet union knew nothing at all about the American vice presidents stance and opinions. I have my doubts.
@@Hereford1642 The vice president is most of the time not importend
That picture of Khrushchev "not being too keen on the idea of nuclear war" killed me. Legit the funniest thing I've seen all day, thank you.
Uh , we ALWAYS had more nukes than they did .
@@akfreed6949 Having more nukes means very little, even a few hundred nukes could easily level a few nation states. You imagine 300 or 400 nukes flying at the USA? Whether it's 300 or 3-4000 nukes means absolutely nothing.....you are still getting your country leveled in short order.
Cause he is the great Cornholio
The more I learn about the Cold War the more I realize that the USSR were trying to avoid war more than the US
Same thing is still going on with places like Cuba that actively seek peaceful and healthy relations with the US while they are placed under embargo and countries like Saudi Arabia instead get massive support.
It is not surprising that after how many wars in the XX century, we Russians do not want more war. In those years, we often said, "лишь бы не было войны." (That means, in a simplified translation, no more war.)
that's an absolute bs statement. They definately wanted to capture the west.
Nobody wants to fight a war they know they'll lose.
@@MarkSKristensen That will end in nuclear destruction of both sides really
Interestingly, that JFK was a rather popular person in the USSR, despite all tensions and confrontations of the cold war. I'm pretty much sure, the panic reaction was not in the gov. offices only, lots of folks were kinda "shit, did our assholes murdered him? what a dumbasses", so the politburo had to calm down internal public as well.
The USSR did the equivalent of looking through there Snapchat story after getting hammered the night before
The fact their country is stereotipically associated with drinking vodka like water just makes this analogy even better
@@Gambito99100 yes
USSR: You’re unreliable.
CIA: You’re a reliable scapegoat.
yep, and it persists to this day. russian hackers, election, anything. tired of that, western world is full of lies and deceit, i wouldn't want to live there if i was offered a US green card
@Karl Marx they also used to call us "EVIL COMMIES", but now, you know.. Life is full of surprised indeed
"JFK dies"
The world: Idk USSR kinda looking sus
USSR: we are not the assassin... are we KGB?
USSR: "we couldn't have killed him we were in the vent"
@@Leviathis_Krade "They are right it was me. I killed JFK becuse he was sus."
@@anthonythomas FBI: you mean the wires in the hotel?
*USSR was not the impostor*
haha funny among us
I love this channel, the balance of dry witted humour with accessible snapshots of important historical events is genius.
JFK: *dies*
USSR: "Wasn't me"
Also USSR: "Alright who tf did it?"
CIA: nevermind, mate
Castro's reaction was also interesting. Despite JFK and Castro being supposed enemies during thr missile crisis, Castro was actually worried for JFK's safety when he got the call that Kennedy have been seriously wounded. He said to the people near him "This is bad news."
Castro actually thought it was a KKK member or a Vietnamese person, not a Soviet sympathizer.
He was also quoted as saying that he was vehemently against assassination, and that it was the worst way you could go about doing away with a president. Coming from a guy with experience in getting rid of presidents.
Castro also said that JFK couldve been the greatest president in US history, and that if he continued there couldve been peace between socialists and capitalists. In his eyes, Kennedy was a man he and Kruschchev could talk to.
After also having wtitten some trash talk against Kennedy's policies the day before, he went later and changed it so it was speaking not against Kennedy's policies, but the United States'.
Castro ordered that Cuba go into mourning for their fallen foe, completely unexpected from America's evil Communist neighbor.
Castro actually supported North Vietnam, among other communist thugs in the third world. He spent his entire regime blaming America for communist wars he was either causing or contributing to, when he wasn't oppressing his people Joe Stalin-style.
Castro was also meeting with Jean Daniel, a French journalist who was a backchannel negotiator between Castro and JFK. They were discussing restarting diplomatic relations. Castro understood that Oswald was a patsy and the CIA did it.
@@markrobinowitz8473 Castro was so busy backing up communist revolutions throughout the third world, or hooking himself up with others that were already going on, he never was interested with improving relations with our government. Wooing our media on the other hand, he was okay with.
so in other words... castro's reaction was to be extremely long-winded and have foolish expectations, exactly like his response to everything from the jfk assassination to milk cows
Well he didn't assassinate Batista did he? An ousting is totally different.
I imagine the Russians were like “lmao the CIA killed their own president”
Maybe not the lmao part, more like, 'Hey guys, don't get any ideas.' But yeah, they knew.
Nah I got 20 on a long running bet that it was the Mafia, though the CIA were probably also involved
Imma be honest though when it comes the that assassination you could read a book saying it’s mafia, cia, kgb, or a lone assassin and by the end of either book you’d be convinced it was whoever the book was about
@@mcr2dcr348 This is true. But after reading several books, you can draw your own conclusions. It's speculation of course. Well-coordinated conspiracies are like that. I was involved in a low-level crime when I was a teen, charged with conspiracy, and I was surprised when I saw the dossier the detectives had on it to see there were people involved that I didn't even know or know were involved. I thought it was just me and a handful of others. There are several keys facts that lead me to believe Oswald didn't act alone, but beyond that... who knows. My best guess is that Allen Dulles was involved. And I imagine it was a large network of conspirators with those involved not knowing who else was involved. Did you know there were 60 conspirators involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar?
Bearded Jagger damn I didn’t, who was the dude that one of Kennedy’s mistresses boyfriend was a head of one of the mafia families? Was that Dulles? Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve actually look at the Kennedy thing. I know the mafia didn’t like him because they wanted their casinos back in Cuba and then after paying the unions they had control over to vote for Kennedy they were told they wouldn’t be investigated, and then they were, and the KGB didn’t like him because well, you know, and then the CIA didn’t like him because they didn’t want to not be a thing anymore, lot of shady people with motives to kill him, and I don’t doubt at all that multiple entities were involved, but idk I just feel like at the end of the day the mafia had the like, final say and they like actually killed him. Main thing I look at is just because of the dude that shot Oswald and his connections to the underworld. But as you said, all speculation, couldve been fuckin Canada for some damn reason
@@mcr2dcr348 Dulles was head of the CIA during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He was dismissed by JFK over it. And when you consider everything Dulles was involved in before that - he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, the Lockheed U-2 spy aircraft program, the Project MKUltra mind control program and the Bay of Pigs fiasco - he was a nefarious bastard with motive. Not to mention, elements within the Pentagon and CIA saw Kennedy as a traitor when he started to try and ease tensions and improve relations with Russia. And you know what that meant. No Cold War bogeyman to justify increased military spending. And how 'bout this? Dulles was one of the members of the Warren Commission. Wtf.
USSR: *watches CIA kill its own country's president*
"Ok - blyat - everyone on high alert. These guys are next level psycho."
Ok grandpa, let's get you back to bed
I love how the KGB was like "shitttt did we kill him??!"
Cuban, North Korean, East Germany, CCP :
Who else?
I love Krushev's look of mild annoyance in the face of a nuclear explosion
To be fair, I think Khrushchev's response to a nuclear explosion would be to hit it with a shoe until it went away.
Khrushchev about Oswald, 1963 press conference:
"I *did not* have sexual relations with that man"
HAHAHHAHA
That was good, hahahah!!!
Why is that actually the goddamned truth about what he was saying, the first two months after? Why were people in general this fucking stupid, that such things had to be proven wrong before they even got to debunking more realistic false theories of what happened?
OMGGG AHAHAHAH
Oswald didn't kill the president. Watch the minute of video we have of him being interviewed before he was killed.
Thank you for making an amazing video without extending it into a 10-minute long VIEW TRAP. Creators nowadays are horrible and not many are like you! Keep up the great work 💪💪💪
*JFK gets Assassinated*
USSR: Then I had that thought. The thought that only flat out drunks and Steve Urkel could have...
USSR: D-did I do that?
Ah, I love John Mulaney..and communism.
@@Techno_Idioto I, too, love John Mulane
Black-out drunks
"However, international politics waits for no man"
*DAMN RIGHT*
JFK: *Dies*
USSR: We didn’t do this, but we can see why you’d believe we did.
RFK jr tells the story of how the CIA Director at the time was a close family friend of his dad who was the Attorney General of the United States. And the CIA Director would come over to their house and swim almost every day after work. When the assassination occurred RFK Sr asked the CIA Director if the CIA had anything to do with the assassination of JFK and the Director said “I don’t know…”
USSR Publicly: Fine dining and breathing.
USSR Privately: WE THREW OUT HIS NAME!!!!!
Lmao this is one of the better ones
I like to think Khruschchev is the “come on baby whats the name whats the name!”
JFK: *dies
USSR: Was it us?
KGB: no
USSR: CASTRO! You?
Castro: no! Why would I?
Vietnam: no not us
USSR and US: Aha! Internal job!
Castro had many reasons to
@@nang9484 You're right
@@nang9484 Not really, not only would this be extremely foolish for Castro but a lot of the socialist countries viewed Kennedy as more open to dialogue than the ones prior. Also LBJ was more hostile to them which made JFK better in hindsight.
@@dannielpreto yeah, there would be no point for other countries to assassinate the one American leader that is actually open to discussion with them
@@nang9484 Joke about how many times the US tried to assassinate him? xD
Mason: “you even tried to make me kill my own president!” Dragovich: “hehe tried?”
Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner. These "men" must die!
@AManNamed2 It's genuinely one of the best games ever made.
@@julianusvictor327 preach
I was hoping someone commented this. So, uh, WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN MASON!
Alex Mason in the canon black ops universe killed JFK
khrushchev to the US: Of course we never assassinated JFK…
khrushchev to the KGB: *did we?*
1:14 don't know why, but I laughed way too hard from that dead inside Khrushchev.
"Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys"
Whaaaa
Gotta love clone high man
I admire their commitment to community service.
HAHAHAHAH
"My day be so fine, then boom!"
We love James bizonnette
All my homies love james bizonette
who is he i hear his name everywhere
@@TheMr5x james bizonnette balls
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@@TheMr5x The first patron supporter of this channel.
@@TheMr5x History Matters' sugar daddy.
Just summed up the storyline of „The Sum Of All Fears“ in 3 minutes. Perfect
Time traveler: what year is it?
KGB Agent: 1963
Time traveler: before or after Kenedy’s assassination
KGB Agent: Before
Time traveler:🤔
Other KGB Agent: "Wait what"
*REAL SHIT?*
They just sat there like "THIS IS A *COLD* WAR. I DON'T ACTUALLY WANT TO GO TO DAMN WAR"
*JFK Assassinated*
USSR: "Oh shit was that us?"
"I'll look into it"
shit
Understood, we are looking
We aren't sus.....are we?
Nikita standing in the middle of the street as a nuclear war breaks out with a face saying “ah f*ck” is one of the funniest things and i dont know why
JFK: Dies
USSR: WE DIDN’T DO IT PLS DON’T NUKE US FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Also, communists are atheists XD
Roughman, Neither side wanted nuclear destruction, just because you kill other people doesn't mean your own people aren't dead. 100,000 killed on each side doesn't leave a balance of 0, it leaves a total of 200,000 killed.
@Roughman sure, because having a huge thermonuclear arsenal makes total atomic anihilation much more pleasing event
@Roughman mutually assured destruction. Neither side could truely "win" and it would horribly irradiate the planet.
@Roughman I'm pretty sure the Soviets didn't have the range to nuke continental America at the time. Europe would be the target, it would become a Nuclear Wasteland in a matter of minutes
Ussr : *kalm*
Ussr after: *PANIK!*
Raygio Vanno No it’s a version of the Stonks meme. A quick Google search should explain what I mean.
@@raygiovanno8657 Jan ke Ge-eran bro.. itu tidak keren :v
1:02 We've all been there. Shit hits the fan, you check your own paper work and are relieved to see that you are in the clear.
I was literally telling myself before the video started that Russia was probably really worried that they some how were involved without fully knowing and probably played the nice game by giving the US their sympathy
*JFK gets shot*
KGB: Was that you, Alexei?
Alexei: Nope
KGB: Good.
I love the detail of Oswald having bandages around his wrists, because he threatened to cut his wrists if the Soviets didn't let him live in the USSR
He actually did cut his wrist in a suicide attempt from being despondent over the USSR's initial rejection.
So the USSR was basically was like:
Press F to pay respect
*JFK
You need to press R for respect. F is different...)
Normie
Normie
This kind of reminds me of a high school band nerf war I was in not too long ago. (Albeit not as serious)
So the trumpet section (which I’m in) were-facing off against the trombones in the science hallway. A few weeks prior, a bunch of project posters were put all over the walls. Well during the nerf war, a bunch got knocked down and we’re getting pretty ripped up. One of the upperclassman trombones called for a ceasefire and to put the posters back on the walls. After all the posters were fixed, we went back to our previous positions and resumed like nothing happened.
When you have such a competition with your enemy that "Did we kill him?" is a valid question (8
I love it
How am I suppose to do my online classes with this quality content existing
I bet you missed this 2:54
lol
Nope
Oh don’t be so sad Castro. Where Kennedy couldn’t even get a medal for surviving assassinations , your going to be getting the Olympic Gold by the time you die.
@@garybrown2039 more than 300 according to usa intelligence, according to cuban intelligence over 600 XD
Big John!
KGB: “WE PROMISE WE DIDNT DO THIS”
CIA: “don’t worry we know”
KGB: “oh thank god.. wait what?”
Aahhh..
FINALLY *somebody who got this mEmE riiighhht.*
Thanks for your joke I've only read it 10 times already in this comments section thank you