The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2)

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  • @OverSimplified
    @OverSimplified  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9687

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    • @laggedxx
      @laggedxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +331

      no

    • @gocommitdie7359
      @gocommitdie7359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Neow

    • @alph-lj3uy
      @alph-lj3uy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      No

    • @2Hatzzz
      @2Hatzzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      Unification of Germany?

    • @fret1
      @fret1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      When’s the Vietnam episode?

  • @dmitriyromanov791
    @dmitriyromanov791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6611

    the most influential human in russia:
    1900 - Rasputin
    2000 - Putin
    2100 - Tin

    • @matt_v_photo
      @matt_v_photo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      2200 -

    • @dmitriyromanov791
      @dmitriyromanov791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +408

      @@matt_v_photo 2200 - President "N"

    • @matt_v_photo
      @matt_v_photo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +400

      Dmitriy Romanov 2300 - Nit
      2400 - Nitup
      2500 - Nitupsar

    • @dmitriyromanov791
      @dmitriyromanov791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      @@matt_v_photo 2400 - President Nitup
      2500 - Tsar Nitupsar. Ressurection of Rasputin 👻👺 and return to monarchy 👑

    • @runa2604
      @runa2604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@dmitriyromanov791 that. Is dark

  • @Caliell
    @Caliell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14813

    Just to point out Rasputin did not die from being poisoned, shot, beaten up, and from being thrown into the river. He died from hypothermia after he broke free and crawled out of the river.

    • @bettyunicorn6132
      @bettyunicorn6132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1027

      Holy

    • @sakthipriya9388
      @sakthipriya9388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +709

      WHA-

    • @sososhru4478
      @sososhru4478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3468

      Imagine surviving poison, gun and being thrown in a river, only to die because *I'm cold*

    • @Hollywood2021
      @Hollywood2021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +841

      I knew those cakes were totally not poisoned!

    • @Lorddacenshadowind
      @Lorddacenshadowind 3 ปีที่แล้ว +426

      I thought he had drowned in the end, but yeah its a crazy story.

  • @user-sl4ep8tw1s
    @user-sl4ep8tw1s ปีที่แล้ว +4948

    Those assasins made a misstake about Rasputin: they've poisoned a cake with a cyanide, while sugar is known to neutralize it.

    • @theonering2966
      @theonering2966 ปีที่แล้ว +335

      They weren’t very smart

    • @doubleflores8350
      @doubleflores8350 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      According to extra history, the assassins were so bad at their job that they bought fake cyanide from a scammer and non of them had ever fired a gun before that night. That’s how botched Rasputin’s assassination was.

    • @rimfire8217
      @rimfire8217 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow really.
      Sugar Neutralizes Cyanide.

    • @ovtkm
      @ovtkm ปีที่แล้ว +805

      @@theonering2966 or it simply isn't a common knowledge
      Especially it wasn't 100 years ago

    • @donovanulrich348
      @donovanulrich348 ปีที่แล้ว +238

      Rasputin called their bluff
      He was aware of the poison, and already knew he wouldnt be affected.
      He didnt expect everyone in the room to turn into savages when the passive attempt failed

  • @mackinbox
    @mackinbox ปีที่แล้ว +2693

    Trotsky: “surprising military genius”
    Also Trotsky: “let’s stop fighting and see what happens”

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And then the central powers charged into more land and punished Russia even more severely

    • @staticalelectric
      @staticalelectric 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +207

      It's called oversimplified for a reason dawg, it wasn't that simple

    • @JoSheperd
      @JoSheperd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      ​@@staticalelectricPhew atleast someone gets it...

    • @heynowur9146
      @heynowur9146 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@staticalelectricso why did he stop fighting

    • @staticalelectric
      @staticalelectric 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +154

      @@heynowur9146 not for military, but for political reasons. The bolsheviks saw that revolution was on germany's doorsteps ans wanted to accelerate the process. One of the things they had to do for this was to show the true imperialist ambitions of german capitalism in pursuing this war. At that time the german generals didn't say it was a war for the conquest of land, but for peace and the self determination of nations. So if they stopped fighting without signing a treaty, one of two things could happen: either the germans didn't advance, which would mean that the situation in germany was already so unstable that the generals were afraid of attacking, that would have boosted morale in Russia enormously. The second option was that the germans would advance, but in doing so would reveal their real intentions, which were not peace and the self determination of nations, but brutal imperialist conquest. This revelation would have massive effects in the consciousness of the german masses. Lenin and Trotsky thought that if germany advanced they would still be able to quickly sign the original peace treaty. This calculation was mistaken, and they paid the price, but the main intention, of revealing the brutality of the german ruling class was achieved, and a few months later on the 3rd of november 1918, the german revolution broke out, effectively bringing world war 1 to an end. Sadly the german revolution failed, but that is a separate matter.

  • @seanwalsh9814
    @seanwalsh9814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5561

    For some reason I feel Oversimplified doesn't like his mother-in-law.

    • @PALATA-Gaming
      @PALATA-Gaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +633

      Maybe.
      But i think it's another joke about russians.
      I'm from Russia, and it's very popular in russian culture to joke about the mother-in-law (how annoying they are mainly)

    • @BlaudracheLP
      @BlaudracheLP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +227

      @@PALATA-Gaming That's also a european thing. At least I know those jokes also in austria

    • @seanwalsh9814
      @seanwalsh9814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@PALATA-Gaming Ah, thank you! Have no idea about those things.

    • @papimana4332
      @papimana4332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@PALATA-Gaming It is also an American thing!

    • @misterfelix5816
      @misterfelix5816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +205

      @@papimana4332 it's a worldwide thing😂 😂

  • @marysmith7765
    @marysmith7765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31607

    I’m looking forward to “OverSimplified : 2020”

    • @Danijay19
      @Danijay19 3 ปีที่แล้ว +948

      Pretty sure we gotta wait for 2020 to end first

    • @hotdog6523
      @hotdog6523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +277

      You have my support

    • @DianA-mf3dr
      @DianA-mf3dr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Soon

    • @every_username_is_taken
      @every_username_is_taken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      gay

    • @dapper3322
      @dapper3322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      Yes can't wait till he gets to the part where a giant monster that killed half of the earths population

  • @foulplayer7812
    @foulplayer7812 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +592

    If anyone's curious about what became of Alexander Kerensky after he fled Petrograd, he managed to survive the Russian Revolution and lived a relatively peaceful life, outliving many of the significant figures of the Russian Revolution.
    Oversimplified didn't cover this, but after Kerensky escaped the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution, he fled to Pskov, where he rallied some loyal troops in an attempt to re-take the city. They managed to capture Tsarskoye Selo but were beaten the next day at Pulkovo. Kerensky narrowly escaped again and spent the next few weeks in hiding before fleeing Russia for good, eventually arriving in France. During the Russian Civil War, he supported neither side, as he opposed both the Bolshevik regime and the White Movement.
    Eventually, after Germany invaded France in 1940, Kerensky fled to the United States, where he spent the remainder of his life. He lived in New York City with his wife but spent much of his time at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, where he contributed to the Institution's huge archive on Russian history and taught graduate courses. He wrote and broadcast extensively on Russian politics and history.
    Kerensky eventually died of heart disease in New York City on June 11, 1970. At 89, he was one of the last surviving major participants in the turbulent events of 1917, having outlived Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and all the other prominent figures who had overthrown him.

    • @flynnhunter416
      @flynnhunter416 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

      I love the irony of all of it. He out lived all the people who tried to kill him, in a country that ended up being those people's greatest enemy.

    • @hrsmp
      @hrsmp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      He also had requested a permission to visit USSR, to see his country one last time, but that request was denied.

    • @IsaiahRichards692
      @IsaiahRichards692 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@hrsmpNearly destroy your country?: Never see that country again!

    • @hwuilee
      @hwuilee 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@hrsmpThat's so sad . . . Just one more look at the motherland . . .

    • @GorillaUnicorn
      @GorillaUnicorn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Damn

  • @rodmunch6865
    @rodmunch6865 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    I absolutely love how completely random the introduction of Rasputin was to the Russian Monarch, and how crucial his role was to the collapse of Czarist Russia, despite the fact he was some weird horny and overall batshit crazy guy who just did whatever he wanted, like a literal college student. It's random shit like this that makes history so fascinating to me, and it shouldn't be that way lol

  • @Vistroh
    @Vistroh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27111

    Things everyone loves:
    Food
    Water
    TH-camrs who post a part 1 and 2 on the same day.

    • @alinek2289
      @alinek2289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +651

      Let's be honest, it's cut into 2 parts because of sponsorships reasons, lol.
      edit: too many of you think i give him shit cuz hes sponsored. i already wrote a reply about how this wasn't meant to be shitting on him, but some people still respond with "its okay that he's sponsored."
      yes, im aware, i support his decision, now please stop telling me.

    • @Miguel-ci5cc
      @Miguel-ci5cc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Alinek he chasing da bag😜😜😜

    • @notlucas6859
      @notlucas6859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +291

      @@alinek2289 in their defense youtube pays basically nothing

    • @whendgg9718
      @whendgg9718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      Alinek it’s not a bad thing, the guy posts like 5-6 vids a year

    • @mnkkyluffy9830
      @mnkkyluffy9830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      @@alinek2289 if this video gets demonitized that means he wont get any money *which would suck*
      so he accepts sponsors

  • @kfizzledizzle8467
    @kfizzledizzle8467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3848

    Oversimplified: Starts talking about World War 1
    Everyone else: Hey, I've seen this one. It's a classic.

    • @newaccount7.5bview3seconds4
      @newaccount7.5bview3seconds4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Actually the class serves a specific group of people. This video is designed for all groups >:3

    • @ponyboycurtis506
      @ponyboycurtis506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I think it's so cool how many of his other videos are referenced in this one and the previous one

    • @primaabelou4695
      @primaabelou4695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      is this a back to the future reference

    • @emmanroyhippy6859
      @emmanroyhippy6859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He also stated Cold War. Which is also classic.

    • @patience__8051
      @patience__8051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fizzledizzle is a man of culture

  • @schishne7546
    @schishne7546 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    15:03 "The palace was defended by a force known as: "The Battalion of Death" who immediately gave up."
    love it

    • @tesseract5569
      @tesseract5569 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Well what do you expect. They were the battalion of death not the battalion of the dead lmao

  • @rob-karryhunt817
    @rob-karryhunt817 ปีที่แล้ว +264

    “The peasants were getting more peasanity, the workers were getting more workery, all the while Germany was getting more Germanery.” 😂

    • @YalokIy
      @YalokIy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Loved this joke 😂

    • @Bangladeshi_Edits
      @Bangladeshi_Edits 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fr

    • @Sippy6447
      @Sippy6447 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      As I German, we do get more Germanery as we conquer people

  • @leodarkholme8383
    @leodarkholme8383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2613

    ....and when the world needed him the most, he returned...

    • @justjam2177
      @justjam2177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      But everything changed when comunisim attacked

    • @fortune3911
      @fortune3911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The lord has returned.

    • @trulyfog
      @trulyfog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      He didnt leave, its just this animation takes this long

    • @alex-wn2cb
      @alex-wn2cb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Foogle doesn’t really change the fact the he uploaded, hence he returned

    • @cassy121
      @cassy121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I love this meme but don't you think it's beginning to outdated

  • @patricksinger6119
    @patricksinger6119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24977

    The fact you posted both at the same time... this is why people love you

    • @captainobvious5016
      @captainobvious5016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +279

      Boonie Bound More views

    • @plum1405
      @plum1405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +495

      Boonie Bound more place to put sponsors, not more views, do the math

    • @anagay1372
      @anagay1372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Boonie Bound eh maybe cause it would be a big mush of almost an hour owo or money like that other guy said-

    • @Ry3n590
      @Ry3n590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Yes! No "To be continued" and waiting a week.

    • @mapleshade2913
      @mapleshade2913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@plum1405 it is actually for more views.

  • @mrawesome6504
    @mrawesome6504 ปีที่แล้ว +357

    the fact that oversimplified does better Rise Of Kingdom ADS then the actual game, OverSimplified should just be the media manager for them

    • @frustationoverloaded5976
      @frustationoverloaded5976 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      no we want him to keep making history vedios

    • @adityaanuragi6916
      @adityaanuragi6916 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@frustationoverloaded5976 *videos

    • @somememer356
      @somememer356 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@adityaanuragi6916 thank you for correcting him, i was honestly so lost reading that sentence, but you kind sir, you thankfully helped me make sense of it all

    • @tesseract5569
      @tesseract5569 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@somememer356 I'm so glad they decided to help. I thought they were talking about Oversimplified career as an astronaut. Boy was I wrong

  • @ismaelnehme379
    @ismaelnehme379 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    21:31 Stalin was actually very intelligent. He had a great knowledge of history, a great understanding of the political game, had an amazing memory, had a great understanding of tactics (though he would make occasional catostrophic blunders, like in Poland) and would read constantly. Stalin was many horrible things, but stupid was not one of them

    • @smik2518
      @smik2518 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Beside being intelligent he wasn’t much worse than 70% of rulers at that time. The fact that he was a tyrant is just a propaganda pushed by western countries just to distract people from the horrible stuff they did

    • @PurooRoy
      @PurooRoy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@smik2518 not to mention literally every European ruler was a tyrant at the time, so it's not right to cherry-pick him.

  • @thisisrey8
    @thisisrey8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6969

    lowkey, history is addictive when it's like this

    • @Cilvathorne
      @Cilvathorne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +224

      Lowkey? You mean Highkey.

    • @Sebowsky_
      @Sebowsky_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      They should show this at school instead of trash quality and boring ass educational videos made only for money

    • @aria_11
      @aria_11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      I got an A+ just by binge watching them

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes

    • @circleubuntu
      @circleubuntu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ja

  • @markyv2295
    @markyv2295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4446

    What order to watch Oversimplified in:
    Three Kingdoms
    Battle of Hastings
    War of the Bucket
    Henry VIII
    American revolution part 1
    American Revolution part 2
    French Revolution part 1
    French revolution part 2
    American civil war part 1
    American Civil war part 2
    Hitler part 1
    Russian Revolution part 1
    WW1 part 1
    WW1 part 2
    Russian Revolution part 2
    The Emu War
    Hitler part 2
    WW2 part 1
    WW2 part 2
    Cold War part 1
    Football war
    The Falklands
    Cold War part 2

    • @Momo-po5tn
      @Momo-po5tn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      Excellent, my friend

    • @Momo-po5tn
      @Momo-po5tn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +210

      I hope they do one about mao in china

    • @THEWOMBATRULES
      @THEWOMBATRULES 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      You put hitler part one twice

    • @jasminewat2662
      @jasminewat2662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Right that's my weekend sorted

    • @ChaseMcCain81
      @ChaseMcCain81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      K

  • @NorthernL1ghtProductions
    @NorthernL1ghtProductions ปีที่แล้ว +572

    The fact that communism started out as a way to make things better then became a way to dictate and control is actually pretty fascinating to me

    • @nigelbaddock
      @nigelbaddock ปีที่แล้ว +139

      Revolutions always start off like that. Charismatic leader who offers hope to the oppressed. Past Oppresive government is overthrowed. New oppressive government installed.

    • @joshuakim5240
      @joshuakim5240 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      This is pretty much the path that the extreme majority of movements devolve into if they become successful. When the preservation of the faction takes priority, it discards its values to survive at the expense of everyone else. Power corrupts super hard.

    • @CABRALFAN27
      @CABRALFAN27 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      I think a good point of comparison is the French Revolution. You have an oppressive, outdated government, you a massive and certainly justified popular revolt led by people with radical new ideas for what to replace the oppressive government with, some of whom were no doubt true believers and some of whom just saw it as a path to power, you have massive resistance from surrounding conservative/reactionary governments fearing the threat to the status quo, which leads to the Revolutionaries being further radicalized, and you have the failures of the Revolution projected onto the the entire Ideology as proof of its failure.
      It's interesting, then, looking at the histories of the respective Ideologies, where you see that Liberalism was, indeed, synonymous with the chaos and bloodshed of the French Revolution for many years in Europe, allowing the reactionary Absolute Monarchies to stay in power, but eventually, a somewhat more moderate version of Liberalism did triumph, sometimes even through peaceful means. I imagine we'll see Communism/Socialism take a similar path in the coming century, especially with many people once again growing justifiably dissatisfied with the status quo. History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes, as the saying goes.

    • @TheChadls
      @TheChadls 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's why they're trying to ruin everything now

    • @pessimistkai5569
      @pessimistkai5569 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@joshuakim5240well said.

  • @KennyMcCormick99
    @KennyMcCormick99 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    THESE VIDEOS AREN'T JUST EXTREMELY EDUCATIONAL...
    But they also have that PERFECT touch of satire and comic relief!!
    AWESOME JOB!!

    • @arkadianmc2917
      @arkadianmc2917 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a university history student I'd argue with the "extremely educational" part, they're good satire for sure, with many liberal biases I'd say, but from an historical POV they're good for passing a middle school test at best, they're inaccurate and don't bring any source.
      So yeah, while they're good for having a laugh over history they shouldn't be taken as historically accurate at all

    • @johnny.V03
      @johnny.V03 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I find most of the comedy to be lame but he does do an excellent job of breaking down every historical event he covers.

  • @lukeyuan9741
    @lukeyuan9741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2814

    When Oversimplified doesn’t include a "dude...uncool" scene:
    *Dude...uncool*

    • @rishi7629
      @rishi7629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      He did "Dude... Super cool" instead.

    • @stop8576
      @stop8576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      i expected Rasputin to say "Dude.. uncool" when he gets shot

    • @d1nesh._223
      @d1nesh._223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Or the kid when he stole the lollipop

    • @slepyjestrab
      @slepyjestrab 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That´s the magic of a good sidekicks... when you abstain from them, the more you value them

    • @sharilshahed6106
      @sharilshahed6106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      in -Soviet- Russia, it becomes dude, so cool.

  • @adityas3587
    @adityas3587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1941

    Oversimplified: **uploads both parts at the same day**
    Everyone: "Dude... VERY COOL"

    • @deepdaddy1208
      @deepdaddy1208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      "Everyone liked that"

    • @pepcore
      @pepcore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw part 1 thought ah uploaded 4 days ago. Guess I need to wait. Was a nice surprise indeed.

    • @masternobody1896
      @masternobody1896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      very chill indeed

    • @Bangladeshi_Edits
      @Bangladeshi_Edits 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Very cool

  • @vis_viva
    @vis_viva ปีที่แล้ว +29

    So old family story. My great grandfather was a train station master in Lithuania (but he was of German origin). He spoke Russian, German, & Lithuanian. Trains in Russia had a different gauge then the rest of Europe, so his station was somewhere trains were swapped. As the station master and knowing those languages, he sometimes was an "independent" interpreter. At one point he was aware of the some of the intrigues regarding German plots involving Lenin. I don't know how much of that is TRUE, but those are the stories my father and grandfather used to tell after a "few" beers.

  • @dvoynoytroynik
    @dvoynoytroynik ปีที่แล้ว +113

    23:45, i love this transition so much

  • @TheLUCKGOD1
    @TheLUCKGOD1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3641

    Lenin: Don't make Stalin the leader.
    Stalin: *How about I do it anyway.*

    • @aldihamzaraj4795
      @aldihamzaraj4795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      NoiceX I uNdErStopOoD tHaT rEfErEnCe
      Bill wurtz

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Stalin was more before being secretary
      During the revolution he was in charge of lenin's newspaper and during the civil war, he was the commander of the armed forces

    • @Ake-TL
      @Ake-TL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Claudiu Toea and then he was in charge of ethnicities department, I think

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ake-TL nyet

    • @Ake-TL
      @Ake-TL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Claudiu Toea “Народный комиссар по делам национальностей РСФСР” , don’t know how to translate that properly.

  • @_thirtyseven
    @_thirtyseven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1814

    Everybody gangsta until Rasputin resurrects himself in 2020.

  • @oliviadavis3638
    @oliviadavis3638 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    2:50
    fun fact: basically, they did try to poison Rasputin. But the guy who was supposed to put the poison in ended up feeling bad and didn't poison it, so Rasputin was fine. Then they sh0t him and, just to be safe, dumped him in the river, but they ended up finding scratch marks underneath the ice, like he'd been trying to claw his way out.
    Basically, the dude was next to immortal, and for that reason I have a cat named after him that looks and acts like the female cat equivalent of a crazy homeless guy.

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Not gonna lie, having just watched every OverSimplified video the past 2 days, 1:51 is easily my favorite scene he's ever done.

    • @micahphilson
      @micahphilson 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Okay, that Trotsky joke at 12:31 comes close!

  • @Justin-pe9cl
    @Justin-pe9cl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1375

    Funny story regarding Rasputin, after his assassination he was buried in a church cemetery which was later broken into by red army soldiers. They took the body to a forest to burn him and when they set him on fire he sat up and allegedly tried to walk lol. The reason for this was because you're supposed to cut the tendons when you cremate which shrink when they burn hence the "sitting up" part. I would have SHIT if I saw that guy sit up in his fire pit.

    • @kf338
      @kf338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Would have ran and never looked back

    • @ethanmcfarland8240
      @ethanmcfarland8240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      I bet those atheist communists didn’t expect that

    • @JustSomeGuy7613
      @JustSomeGuy7613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar you do know that the communist dictators were atheists right? Just in case you thought he was making fun of athesits

    • @JustSomeGuy7613
      @JustSomeGuy7613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar are you... okay?

    • @sailoroftheinternet3290
      @sailoroftheinternet3290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @EmperorJuliusCaesar "cultist trash" says the person advocating for communism

  • @xMovieManiacx
    @xMovieManiacx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3766

    Actually they didn't put poison in cakes. They put some poison into his wine. And he was also Russia's greatest love machine.

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      I understood that reference.

    • @quuaaarrrk8056
      @quuaaarrrk8056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +312

      And he was in fact the lover of the Russian queen.

    • @exoels
      @exoels 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      And he was the lover of the russian queen

    • @quuaaarrrk8056
      @quuaaarrrk8056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      @Joseph Koranyi Plus, there was a cat that really was gone

    • @Cbrmkn98xs
      @Cbrmkn98xs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      N o s t a l g i c r e f e r e n c e

  • @Pick.0
    @Pick.0 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    I love that oversimplified makes history funny

  • @juliadagnall5816
    @juliadagnall5816 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    King George V, Czar Nicholas II, and Kaiser Wilhelm II were all first cousins. In fact, George and Nicky looked so much alike when they were young that they were sometimes mistaken for each other at family gatherings. George is sometimes criticized for not doing more to try and save Nicholas and his family, but if he (a constitutional monarch) had tried to bring his (extremely unpopular and autocratic) cousin to England in the middle of a war… yeah, that wouldn’t have gone over very well. In any event, it’s not likely that Nicholas and Alexandra would have agreed to go, at least not until it was too late.

  • @danieloray5649
    @danieloray5649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2878

    Man in 1900’s: doesn’t have moustache
    Literally everyone: yeah, there’s gonna be a tax for that

    • @Lacks-intelligence
      @Lacks-intelligence 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      What

    • @Armorion
      @Armorion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@Lacks-intelligence it's a reference to the French Revolution Episode.

    • @Armorion
      @Armorion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Joshua Lor You'll never catch me alive!

    • @theodoreprovencio9097
      @theodoreprovencio9097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I made this post have 667 likes

    • @danieloray5649
      @danieloray5649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Theodore Provencio you have my thanks

  • @davidn7685
    @davidn7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3508

    Please bro, Do the ,,Stalin Oversimplified” just like u did with Hitler

    • @winstonchurchill5815
      @winstonchurchill5815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +182

      At least say please

    • @davidn7685
      @davidn7685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Kim Jong un calm down King Kong Un

    • @unproductiveknight
      @unproductiveknight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      he'll probably do it in 2045

    • @amarbirsingh3341
      @amarbirsingh3341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And punished him severely.

    • @gaminglegend
      @gaminglegend 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@unproductiveknight Nahh that's gonna be Trump Oversimplified

  • @lily8261
    @lily8261 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I love Rasputin's animation in this. It is so funny. I start giggling everytime

  • @WanukeX
    @WanukeX ปีที่แล้ว +16

    5:30 in fairness, the initial plan was for his brother to be regent for his son if his son was made king. But Nicholas changed his mind to straight up just making his brother king when he was reminded that when he had to go into exile his son wouldint go with him if he was tsar. And given his son’s condition, that would have almost definetly meant he would never see his son again as he would very likely die young.

  • @JDB-tc5rs
    @JDB-tc5rs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +699

    Rasputin used magic to survive in Siberia until the time was right to return. Only he couldn't use his name. So he removed the first 3 letters and ruled Russia forever more.

    • @indeedaperson4128
      @indeedaperson4128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Eyeden Montgomery Indeed

    • @Pusheeen_
      @Pusheeen_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      and he also became thicc while walking recently

    • @KaiserMattTygore927
      @KaiserMattTygore927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The PROPHECY IS AS FORETOLD

    • @slavskeleton1503
      @slavskeleton1503 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Forgot to add ‘Vladimir’

    • @starrymoonlol
      @starrymoonlol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aaaaandddd.... he made two memes.

  • @code6499
    @code6499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4686

    Such a missed pun
    “The Germans were getting more Germany” 😔

  • @MKM_2002
    @MKM_2002 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    19:47 There's something eerily disturbing seeing only real life photos (instead of the digital animatics) during this grizzly moment . . . . . .

  • @paulagyeiboakye8211
    @paulagyeiboakye8211 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The killing of Rasputin was so funny that I cried while laughing and almost lost my breath

  • @TinyDeskEngineer
    @TinyDeskEngineer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3580

    "The palace was guarded by a force named "Battalion of Death"..."
    "...who immediately gave up"

    • @user-ol4jf6wh2m
      @user-ol4jf6wh2m 2 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Technically their name was "Women's Battalion of Death". These were all-female units created by the Provisional Government, mainly for propaganda purposes - to raise the patriotic mood in the army and to shame the male soldiers who refuse to fight. Despite their propaganda role, they took a limited part in the war at the front (yes, in Russia in 1917 everything was so bad).

    • @TheHeavyshadow
      @TheHeavyshadow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Why does noone use their full name? "Battalion of Death by Old Age"

    • @kingethanthegreat2681
      @kingethanthegreat2681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The Battalion Of Death Who Immediately Gave Up

    • @burney7998
      @burney7998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@TheHeavyshadow Battallion of death by starvation

    • @ManofPeel
      @ManofPeel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@TheHeavyshadow Battalion of death by Stalin.

  • @googlenotgoogle2171
    @googlenotgoogle2171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +852

    German Empire: I’m beating the Russians cause I funded communists
    Nazi Germany: I’m losing to the communists I funded 3 decades ago
    Mission failed successfully

    • @abcd-du3tf
      @abcd-du3tf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Copied comment

    • @epsilon1563
      @epsilon1563 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Germany and Nazi Germany are two very, VERY different things.

    • @wiiam4
      @wiiam4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Reagan: I'm beating the Russians cause I funded the Afghan Freedom Fighters
      Bush: I'm losing to terrorists I funded 3 decades ago
      Mission failed successfully

    • @gabeg9855
      @gabeg9855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Blowback.

    • @acatthatlookslikehitler1277
      @acatthatlookslikehitler1277 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      abc d no

  • @stellajuuno995
    @stellajuuno995 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    18:20 Technically, this list would be ;
    Capitalists, liberals, social revolutionaries, national separatists in Poland, Finland and Ukraine, independent warlords setting up chiefdoms, anarchist rebels, the "Green Peasant Army", the Cossacks, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ossetia, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the British, the French, the Americans, the Japanese, the Mongols under a White Russian warlord from Brandenburg (Ungern Sternberg), Tannu Tuva, China and a legion of Czechoslovak soldiers who captured the Trans-Siberian Railway and stole the Imperial gold reserves. ..

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Damn

    • @stellajuuno995
      @stellajuuno995 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@lucasnelson2649 and also Perjola, Belarus, Makhnovshchina, the Altai Duchy, the Alash Orda, the Basmachi Rebellion, Khiva, Bukhara, Ottoman Generals setting up Imanates in the mountains, the Crimean Khanate and the Free Matroses of Estonia.

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Damn x2

    • @misfitgaming2935
      @misfitgaming2935 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So basically he pissed everyone off

    • @lucasnelson2649
      @lucasnelson2649 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You can say that again

  • @dersteve4240
    @dersteve4240 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love Rasputin's story because it's completely bonkers. If you would release a film today about the queen of one of the largest countries on Earth being influenced by what's basically a giant unkillable sex wizard, no one would take it seriously because it sounds completely made up

  • @YOMAMAXXL
    @YOMAMAXXL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2170

    I live near the bridge where Rasputin's body was dumped.

    • @jaxmatthews2748
      @jaxmatthews2748 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      jesus christ

    • @noalapizza-paella3986
      @noalapizza-paella3986 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      OH GOD

    • @hans95332
      @hans95332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      You live near Malaya Nevka river am I right

    • @YOMAMAXXL
      @YOMAMAXXL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@hans95332 yep

    • @amiwong
      @amiwong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Small world

  • @chowder4656
    @chowder4656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +953

    you forgot the part where Anastasia escapes and Rasputin comes back to life and have an epic showdown in Paris

    • @taloscal
      @taloscal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      or where Ivan the terrible returns as a giant mammoth emperor... also everyone in Russia is now a furry for some reason.

    • @trajan6879
      @trajan6879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      An epic showdown with fire, pyrotechnics, guns and modern dance

    • @colvamoon6962
      @colvamoon6962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@taloscal wait, what story is THAT from (sarcastic grin)

    • @ezelfrancisco1349
      @ezelfrancisco1349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      You forgot about his talking bat sidekick

    • @eloramaxwell7020
      @eloramaxwell7020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      He also forgot to cover that jazzy Rasputin song and dance number.

  • @jondobbs69
    @jondobbs69 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    8:35
    Ah, the old "Dual Power Conundrum".
    We've all been there, eh?
    I, myself, have been married for 11 years....

  • @Chong688
    @Chong688 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Watching Lenin have those consecutive strokes 22:18 over an over again might be my favorite moment in youtube history

  • @osberswgaming
    @osberswgaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8005

    Fun fact: You will watch this more than once, and have watched every oversimplified video over once

  • @qorso
    @qorso 3 ปีที่แล้ว +727

    "is he dead?"
    Rasputin: *summons satan*

    • @mrtzarangamer1708
      @mrtzarangamer1708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I know he was the anti-christ

    • @yumm186
      @yumm186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Bold of you to assume he himself wasn't satan

    • @zmanprodigy
      @zmanprodigy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      *demonic screeching*

    • @thedevilsadvocate788
      @thedevilsadvocate788 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yumm186 My client has nothing to do with this. Back then, we were in hell playing poker.

    • @Random20106
      @Random20106 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thedevilsadvocate788 Do you have proof? If you don't, your argument is ineffective.

  • @CaptainFacts-kr8fb
    @CaptainFacts-kr8fb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    2:09
    "I said they are not poisoned!"
    Meanwhile Rasputin: *Eats everything including the candlebra*

  • @JoshuaC923
    @JoshuaC923 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    Being born in Russia is playing life on veteran difficulty

    • @EclipseINF
      @EclipseINF ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This video is so rewatchable that it's not uncommon for VERY recent comments to appear near the top

    • @JoshuaC923
      @JoshuaC923 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@EclipseINF yep it is

    • @AmirSatt
      @AmirSatt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Can confirm

    • @lifewithnicko
      @lifewithnicko 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      imagine north korea lol, thats playing life on impossible mode

    • @The_whales
      @The_whales 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lifewithnickobalance change: fixed bug where you earn paper money

  • @memeapproved446
    @memeapproved446 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1810

    “Tsar Nicolas failed to be a good tsar”
    This enraged his father, who punished him severely.

    • @rhyscallinan203
      @rhyscallinan203 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Nah, he dead. Also, he'd just call him a girly girl

    • @abdallahibrahim2277
      @abdallahibrahim2277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Not funny I swear it got old stop making the same joke every single video

    • @jonnee1234
      @jonnee1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Haha this joke never gets old

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      “Tsar Nicolas failed to be a good tsar”
      This enraged the bolsheviks, who punished him severely.

    • @soggychip3784
      @soggychip3784 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      old joke

  • @primal_guy1526
    @primal_guy1526 3 ปีที่แล้ว +860

    Russian Peasant: Hey, this tsarist regime doesn't seem so gre-
    Okhrana: Are you sure about that?
    *20 years later*
    Russian Person: Hey, Stalin doesn’t seem so gre-
    NKVD: Are you sure about that?
    *20 years later*
    Russian Civilian: Hey, this communism thing doesn't seem so gre-
    KGB: Are you sure about that?
    *60 years later*
    Russian Citizen: Hey, maybe this Putin guy isn’t so gre-
    FSB: Are you sure about that?

    • @doragonL
      @doragonL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Same shit now :(

    • @Apotheosister
      @Apotheosister 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Same shit, different day is a timeless saying.

    • @Sorcerers_Apprentice
      @Sorcerers_Apprentice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @dirk _ Now it's a corrupt and unfair plutocracy.

    • @kargaroc386
      @kargaroc386 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      NKVD

    • @TheCheat_1337
      @TheCheat_1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Except socialism was very popular and even to this day, a majority of Russians want the USSR back (and praise Stalin)

  • @c.lynnmiller5677
    @c.lynnmiller5677 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Lenin: “Simple people! I’m here to liberate you from your Tsarist oppressors.”
    Russian Peasants: “WOO!!! YES!!! “ 😃
    Lenin: “And replace them with Bolshevik ones!”
    Russian Peasants: “ohhhhhh” 😢

    • @user-bk7vy1rk4q
      @user-bk7vy1rk4q ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, well, fuck, how I adore foreigners who don't understand the history of Russia, but judge our life by such idiotic videos with a bunch of anti-historical stuffing).

  • @dragskcinnay3184
    @dragskcinnay3184 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    two-part Russian revolution into two-part cold war, and two-part French revolution into two-part Napoleonic wars. Such symmetry...

  • @TheDreamLeaf
    @TheDreamLeaf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7385

    "You've probably been wondeiring what Nicholas has been up to this whole time"
    I forgot he even existed

    • @bobing1752
      @bobing1752 2 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @Tsar Nicholas II oof

    • @rebelgaming1.5.14
      @rebelgaming1.5.14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      @Tsar Nicholas II Return to the grave buddy. Go see your Cousin Wilhelm.

    • @myles3856
      @myles3856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Lol

    • @Bombsbombsbombs
      @Bombsbombsbombs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @Tsar Nicholas II you is ded.

    • @British_navy
      @British_navy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Tsar Nicholas II Shiit so I shouldn’t send those twelve battleships that can go on land to liberate you or???

  • @jmcelhinny
    @jmcelhinny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4730

    “The Russian Civil War was extremely intricate and would really need its own video.”
    Yes please!

    • @m1k3y48
      @m1k3y48 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Funny story, Lindybeige did a video about that division of Czech soldiers who took over the trans-siberian railway. Fascinating bit of history

    • @BajanEnglishman51
      @BajanEnglishman51 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      M1k3y Czechoslovak legion

    • @Amandor2011
      @Amandor2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      It was actually, there were like 4-5 parties in this conflict and it wasn't clear which side will come victorious for 3 years
      Betrayals, civilian deaths, breaking up families, shooting down peasants for some bread-all that good stuff

    • @fixsationon7244
      @fixsationon7244 ปีที่แล้ว

      In Estonia we wall russian civil was à
      "freedom war" and we came out pretty good. In the war there were à lot of schoolboys. People were afraid of Red terror. We got pièce of it. It was horrible. And many estonians thought that nazi Germans are going to save us. After the red terror. And it was good. Until we were occupied

    • @jay24176
      @jay24176 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      mans still waiting after 2 years

  • @timojek
    @timojek ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I feel like leaving out the white terror which was the reason for the red terror is a pretty big mistake. But pretty good music

  • @cannongaming7695
    @cannongaming7695 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Leon trotskii was finger-licking good at organising" got me 😂

  • @Anglomachian
    @Anglomachian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +851

    Funnily enough, when the Soviets came to power, they dug up Rasputin and burned his body. Unfortunately no one had prepared the body properly, so when his ligaments shriveled in the flames, he sat up and scared the crap out of everyone.
    Good times.

    • @mauz791
      @mauz791 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Thanks science

    • @johnnyapplesmith
      @johnnyapplesmith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      He was also alive days after being shot and left outside in the snow.

    • @snanoopis6584
      @snanoopis6584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      AtheismDies actually the autopsy showed that rasputin had died from being shot in the head which happened before he was dumped in the river

    • @oraclex2976
      @oraclex2976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe Putin will do the same.

    • @MatrixWorxs
      @MatrixWorxs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Marissa Lopes, I see the comment you wrote so many times... SO really. You're the one copying someone else's comment.

  • @spacerace1448
    @spacerace1448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7713

    Okay so no one is gonna talk about how much his art style and attention to detail has improved over the years?

    • @gracehuang2406
      @gracehuang2406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

      and his voice acting!!

    • @gallantcavalier3306
      @gallantcavalier3306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +272

      And the fact he makes a new joke every video, and referencing old and good ones.

    • @happycamperds9917
      @happycamperds9917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Grace Huang *Why does he have to be so mean?*

    • @Loganopeta22
      @Loganopeta22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Bro ur literally not the only one seeing it as well good job

    • @mzkilla2715
      @mzkilla2715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      It’s almost as if people get better at things they practice as time goes on.

  • @RDY736
    @RDY736 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    7:54 “Who wants to start a Rebubublution!”
    “I mean uh”
    “Rebublu…”
    “Revoluti-“
    “Dangit!”

  • @Matt_from_Florida
    @Matt_from_Florida 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    14:26 Anybody notice that's exactly how Yevgeny Prigozhin's armed revolt happened? (Including all the _"bigwigs"_ fleeing Moscow) Until Prigozhin just decided to call it off, that is.

  • @sleepy5975
    @sleepy5975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +838

    Let’s be real here. Peace, land, bread is easily better than *live, laugh, love*

    • @adarshvenkateswaran795
      @adarshvenkateswaran795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Indeed. If you have peace land and bread, it's very easy to focus on living laughing, and loving.

    • @jasperbakker261
      @jasperbakker261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Now I want a sign saying Peace, Land, Bread on my wall in that live, laugh, love style, thanks.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lenin was just a middle-aged suburban homeowner but communist.

    • @Demxnicisthebest
      @Demxnicisthebest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah... sorry mom.

    • @mirzaramishbaig8980
      @mirzaramishbaig8980 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah

  • @wolfieplays3365
    @wolfieplays3365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1341

    The battalion of death
    They gave up immediately
    I did not see that coming

    • @ishanafondekar6334
      @ishanafondekar6334 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      this angered their fathers, who punished them severely

    • @kodys1492
      @kodys1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      They were called that for their extreme fear of death

    • @JWP-56
      @JWP-56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wow that was anticlimactic

    • @masterxicon2453
      @masterxicon2453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Brotherhood of steel knight ha.

    • @yeetusmeatus2241
      @yeetusmeatus2241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I did NAZI see that coming

  • @MasterClassComments
    @MasterClassComments ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "2+2=lettuce. I'm so smert" 😂😂😂💀💀

  • @marciimeris503
    @marciimeris503 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What the reds did to Nicholas and his family was just heartbreaking
    Autocrat or not, bad or not.
    Murdered the family and scattered the remains so they couldn't rest together.

    • @url7167
      @url7167 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yet no one gives a damn on the countless people, including children, who perished under the Tsar's rule. The kids' death was terrible but I just can't bring myself being devastated by the death of these imperial, privileged children.

    • @marciimeris503
      @marciimeris503 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @url lol. Death is death. It's tragic regardless. If you can't see that you're a psychopath. Your not sad that people died under him, you're just sad because people tell you that's what's right.
      In fact let's be real, your comment was completely unnecessary and was only made to make yourself look better than me.

  • @anushkaranjan259
    @anushkaranjan259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14394

    A guy who can draw, likes history AND has a sense of humor.
    It must be heaven

  • @ZeroneAngel
    @ZeroneAngel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1103

    Germany in the 1910's: Lets fund these soviet fighters in russia, it will be great for us in the long run.
    USA in the 1980's: Lets fund these Muslim fighters in Afghanistan, it will be great for us in the long run.

    • @antongebhardt3924
      @antongebhardt3924 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nice one!

    • @Palora01
      @Palora01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Overall it went a lot better for the USA. They got some good casus beli to invade a nation just next door to another rival nation (Iran)

    • @joelwilcox5424
      @joelwilcox5424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      * *Curb your enthusiasm theme* plays *

    • @FreeHashbrown
      @FreeHashbrown 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Imperialism doesn’t change, just evolves. Toppling governments for political and/or economic gain

    • @Palora01
      @Palora01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@FreeHashbrown how is that evolution, nations have been doing that to other nations since antiquity. The tools evolve, the objectives remains unchanged.

  • @lunettasuziejewel2080
    @lunettasuziejewel2080 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I have my history documentaries on a playlist, and I order the videos by rough chronological order of the topics. OS's WWI videos are sandwiched in between the Russian Revolution Parts 1 and 2, and it's so interesting to see the evolution of his videocraft in such stark terms. That said, I like that he opens this video with the same visuals for the archduke's assassination that he used in the WWI video. It feels like he's giving a high-five to an old buddy he hasn't seen in awhile.

  • @mista5875
    @mista5875 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    20:16 all this angered his father so he punished him savourily

  • @Vehxx-
    @Vehxx- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +500

    Poisoning and Gun wounds: *Exist in Rasputin*
    Rasputin: *Dies from Hypothermia*

    • @bastiangalaz4580
      @bastiangalaz4580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Not even Rasputin could beat the russian winter, damn.

    • @kaminari1927
      @kaminari1927 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Nobody expects the Russian Winter

    • @heavythegreywolf
      @heavythegreywolf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      RA RA RASPUTIN RUSSIAS GREATEST LOVE MACHINE !!

    • @lookatthepicture4107
      @lookatthepicture4107 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He actually drown

    • @aviz8590
      @aviz8590 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look at the picture no

  • @hunterkiller1440
    @hunterkiller1440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7144

    Here's a crazy idea. How about a video about the Chinese Civil War?

    • @Johnathan04
      @Johnathan04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +707

      Or if he’s truly insane. The entire history of China.

    • @Niko-kp6pk
      @Niko-kp6pk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +375

      What Chinese civil war? There's a lot, he already posted the Three Kingdoms one too

    • @Godmfingdamn
      @Godmfingdamn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +304

      @@Niko-kp6pk The Communist one

    • @Godmfingdamn
      @Godmfingdamn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      @@Johnathan04 Hey.... That’s Bill Wurtz’s job

    • @jeff1liam2
      @jeff1liam2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Or the Mongol invasion

  • @anthonyboylan3410
    @anthonyboylan3410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Oversimplified: there is a lot of mystery around his death !
    Commenters: thats not how rasputin died!

  • @ashsomething
    @ashsomething 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My great great grandfather was actually a top general to tzar Nicholas during the war and the revolution. Our family is German but we moved to Russia during Catherine’s land promise. Anyway our family got into the military and my great great grandfather helped Nicolas. He ended up quitting and fleeing to America when Nick made himself top general. He moved to North Dakota and helped America with learning about Russia and many other countries (he spoke around 11 languages)

  • @elliepoli2871
    @elliepoli2871 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10058

    Rasputin wasn't just 'a homeless wizard', he was Russia's Greatest Love Machine, come on people
    👏🙄

    • @loturzelrestaurant
      @loturzelrestaurant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Oversimplified,
      the Commentary on the Past.
      HBomberguy,
      the Commentary on the Present.
      Sci Show, Veritasium, and others,
      the Science TH-camrs that cover the Future and comment on it.

    • @udhavvarma7097
      @udhavvarma7097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +514

      Don't forget the fact that it was a shame how he carried on. There was no mention of the cat that really was gone in the video, sad.

    • @mochalo4912
      @mochalo4912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +248

      the guy that perfromed that song (bobby farell)died on the same day Rasputin died on the same month , in the same city ... think about it

    • @assassinabhya
      @assassinabhya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      tar-tar-tartaglia and ra-ra-rasputin

    • @keanuh8203
      @keanuh8203 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      It was a shame how he carried on

  • @jcrmakesshorts8656
    @jcrmakesshorts8656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    TH-cam: You are not on trending
    Oversimplified: ya, there is gonna be a tax for that

    • @sophiad548
      @sophiad548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      youtube: not trending
      father: enraged
      oversimplified: punished severely

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oversimplified isn’t trending, the Vikings are

    • @shrekoof722
      @shrekoof722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Out of date joke there's a tax for that

    • @TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv
      @TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Using an overused joke?
      There's a tax for that.

    • @ItzChocolateChipz
      @ItzChocolateChipz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheNintendoNerd-wd7bv you're using one too
      There's gonna be a tax for that

  • @Cherryfxmls
    @Cherryfxmls ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is a perfect revision introduction:) I haven't been revised the Russian revolution in quite a while and my exam is tomorrow so this is a great refresher!

  • @evolvebtw1672
    @evolvebtw1672 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Kornilov marched on Petrograd in allegiance with the Provisional Government, in order to be prepared for another people's uprising. However , Kerensky panicked and armed the Bolsheviks - consequently leading to their seizure of power

  • @icel8828
    @icel8828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +734

    “My German wife and a homeless wizard”
    Never in my life did I think I’d hear that

    • @GoofyManMF
      @GoofyManMF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Neither did i

    • @xyruzianjabagat
      @xyruzianjabagat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did oversimplified had a face reveal?

    • @icel8828
      @icel8828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@xyruzianjabagat so far. No

    • @xyruzianjabagat
      @xyruzianjabagat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      wish he had so we can see the face of our dear creator

    • @Real_Mick3y6
      @Real_Mick3y6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "DUH!"

  • @dominickeijzer5844
    @dominickeijzer5844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +798

    Rasputin was a cat in Human form
    • Completely crazy
    • Looked and acted permanently high
    • Had like 9 lives

    • @annandres8483
      @annandres8483 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm a cat too-

    • @evanv7420
      @evanv7420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      He was a cat that clearly was gone

    • @rinalde7121
      @rinalde7121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@evanv7420 Ra ra rasputin

    • @melanieavakin8550
      @melanieavakin8550 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ra ra rasputin
      There was a cat that really was gone

    • @evanv7420
      @evanv7420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Rinal De Russias greatest love machine

  • @Marlowgris
    @Marlowgris 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I didn't think this video would become pertinent again in 2023, but I guess history does repeat itself.

  • @dongbeigirl66
    @dongbeigirl66 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    “Get the doctor” just killed me for some reason😂

  • @InsanityPlea100
    @InsanityPlea100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +624

    That Rasputin death scene was hilariously accurate to the way it was originally reported. Although, i agree, it was likely done to make him look more like a threat, and less like a group of men ganged up to kill an unarmed guy with a very picklable pickle.

    • @SpecterVonBaren
      @SpecterVonBaren 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      From what I understand, the part about the poisoning not working could very well be true due to low quantities and poor quality.

    • @InsanityPlea100
      @InsanityPlea100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @AR - 09UR - Heart Lake SS (2462) all valid options, but I guess we shall never know. Unless Rasputin comes back, again, to tell us.

  • @Holesale00
    @Holesale00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +714

    Guys, I don't think Lenin was up for this whole "Revolution" thing. He literally failed upwards until he stroked out.

    • @Akshit.vats.
      @Akshit.vats. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      guys I think I am a hot dog

    • @NajwaLaylah
      @NajwaLaylah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He had massive help from the Germans even getting *to* Russia.

    • @henrimourant9855
      @henrimourant9855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pretty much sums him up. He lucked out with the Germans.

    • @munchenonyou3774
      @munchenonyou3774 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ehhh

    • @Sergio-ml3gl
      @Sergio-ml3gl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NajwaLaylah There wasnt any help from Germany.

  • @Timmy_Bob_Jr
    @Timmy_Bob_Jr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 4:15 I love how the one of the revolters throws a torch and it bounces off the wall and hits him

  • @queenratiganthefirst5442
    @queenratiganthefirst5442 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My aunt put it in a good way when she said "Communism is a good idea on paper, but not such a hot idea played out."

    • @KravenTheHaunter
      @KravenTheHaunter ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What the Soviet Union became is hardly communist by any means

    • @joshuaslawson9125
      @joshuaslawson9125 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@KravenTheHaunternot really... If you actually read up on Engles and Marx you would find scary parallels when they wrote about how a communist nation would work. And also the fact Marx literally said Communism can't work because even he knew it was a pipe dream.

    • @Stien58_
      @Stien58_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      exactly!!@@KravenTheHaunter

    • @kongdragon4364
      @kongdragon4364 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Pretty much all modern communist country’s showed promise for the situation they were in. Yeah they weren’t perfect but, leftist country’s usually makes really poor country’s less poor, and make the people have a better living standard.

  • @marvelgeek9577
    @marvelgeek9577 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3806

    Rasputin: *eats a butt ton of poisoned cakes
    Russians: Were you killed?!
    Rasputin: Sadly, yes. But I lived!

    • @andreasanchez9453
      @andreasanchez9453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      I understood that reference.

    • @pog16384
      @pog16384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@andreasanchez9453 don’t r/whoosh me but a fun fact
      The wine was poisoned
      I laughed at the joke for34 mins

    • @Abbad1579
      @Abbad1579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      😂😂

    • @deeznoots6241
      @deeznoots6241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@pog16384 fun fact, nothing was poisoned, the assassins literally forgot to poison the wine, that is the real reason Rasputin didn’t die from poisoning.

    • @Reagan1984
      @Reagan1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@deeznoots6241
      That's one reason, another is that the poisoned they used was old and less potent.

  • @anandaa6980
    @anandaa6980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1864

    "throughout his entire reign, he had done everything he could to keep all the power for himself, and in the end, that's exactly what left him with none"... That hit deeper than expected.

    • @fly_youmper_
      @fly_youmper_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +

    • @fly_youmper_
      @fly_youmper_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      but as a Russian who has studied history well, it infuriates me that he exposes the EMPEROR (just in the video of the tsar) with his dibil, although he has done a lot of great things.

    • @alex2005z
      @alex2005z 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Next time you try to be a tzar on a massive empire make sure to have a brain

    • @anothershellcialistturtle8568
      @anothershellcialistturtle8568 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The more you take the less you have-oogway

    • @mathias5980
      @mathias5980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me when there is no toilet paper: 16:36

  • @thegoldavenger.3829
    @thegoldavenger.3829 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    If I had a nickel for every time a revolution had an event known as “the terror” I’d have 2 nickels, it’s not a lot but weird it happened twice

    • @Angelosanto
      @Angelosanto 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I mean it's not that weird considering that one was based on the other, and also that revolutions based on untested theory are unstable and tend to require violent suppression in order to sustain themselves.

    • @ink2812
      @ink2812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wouldn’t it be three due to the French “Great Terror”

    • @thegoldavenger.3829
      @thegoldavenger.3829 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was the other terror I was referring to, there’s a third?@@ink2812

  • @kittyaya3425
    @kittyaya3425 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    2:21 this scared the living heck out of me.

  • @Gabowsk
    @Gabowsk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1053

    Germany when funding communists to take Russia down:
    *_THIS IS THE GREATEST PLAAAAAAAAN!_*

    • @squidydabeast2159
      @squidydabeast2159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      You know charles is dead

    • @FonVegen
      @FonVegen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Does that make Lenin the bold-action man?

    • @radec5437
      @radec5437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Charles no!

    • @asvenson5267
      @asvenson5267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      me goongaga Only in one ending my friend, and I won’t accept that one

    • @R3elTalk
      @R3elTalk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      RIP
      Charles
      Loved By All
      "He always had the Greatest Plan"
      -Henry Sticmin

  • @ksj2936
    @ksj2936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +743

    Lenin: Tell whoever is in charge of giving people jobs not to let that jerk Stalin become the next leader.
    Me: hey, I've seen this one before!

    • @jayjaybee
      @jayjaybee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      TheSovietBedrock “Dejà vu.”

    • @tsczar0
      @tsczar0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      What do you mean? It’s brand new!

    • @keszelll
      @keszelll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Hey, should we tell him about the ABomb?
      Yeah tell him about the ABomb, that will scare him

    • @aviz8590
      @aviz8590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      qckdxter irrelevant

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      By the way, who is in charge of giving people jobs?

  • @johnwise7244
    @johnwise7244 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    holy shit at 1:47 that's Dostoevsky, I recently read his book the brothers karamazov and wow what an experience that was. It was at least part of why I clicked on this video. I remember struggling so much to remember all the dates of the russian revolution in high school I think I got a C on that unit. Thanks for all the passion that goes into each of these videos I hope you change the landscape of learning for many young people.

  • @kukuikai2
    @kukuikai2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    stalin was not in the background 10:15

  • @andrecosta6783
    @andrecosta6783 3 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    A wise man once said: “who wants to start a revolution!” He is now our messiah big papa oversimplified

  • @zebruh5930
    @zebruh5930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1643

    How to watch the Oversimplified videos in order:
    The First Punic War (Parts 1 & 2)
    The Second Punic War (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
    Three Kingdoms
    Battle of Hastings
    War of the Bucket
    Henry VIII
    American Revolution (Parts 1 & 2)
    French Revolution (Parts 1 & 2)
    The Napoleonic Wars (Parts 1 & 2)
    The Pig War
    American Civil War (Parts 1 & 2)
    Russian Revolution (Part 1)
    Hitler (Part 1)
    World War 1 (Part 1)
    Russian Revolution (Part 2)
    World War 1 (Part 2)
    Hitler (Part 2)
    Emu War
    Prohibition
    World War 2 (Parts 1 & 2)
    Cold War (Part 1)
    Football War
    The Falklands
    The Cold War (Part 2)
    Correct me if I’m wrong

    • @gabrielcaceres4375
      @gabrielcaceres4375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      first the football war and then the falklands,
      everything else is fine

    • @justjoshuaaa
      @justjoshuaaa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      This needs to be a playlist

    • @caf-rs9hp
      @caf-rs9hp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wowie

    • @emoegotin2886
      @emoegotin2886 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@justjoshuaaa I made the playlist, but in Bulgaria the hitler videos were blocked so i included a re-upload

    • @wandefter
      @wandefter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      THANKS

  • @crazyyy_.
    @crazyyy_. 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "can i have shuggles?"
    - Nicholas (traz)
    "orh naur..."
    - Literally everyone