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I am not anti-history, but hearing my teacher in school explaining about history, I quickly fell asleep in just about 2 minutes. But I can watch the entertaining videos about history like these for 6-7 hours marathon videos a day
Technically yes, but it's not like the USSR central government moved there or anything. It was just that they still called themselves the Kazakh SSR and hadn't got around to passing a law saying they were independent yet even though they already were because the union didn't exist anymore.
Kazahstan did not want to have CCCP dissolved. Nursultan was taken by surprise when he gets the news that CCCP is no more by the will of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus...
Like the last part of the Western Roman Empire was Realm of Siager around Paris... a technicality that Clovis (King of the Franks and Roman vassal) "solved" by invading and annexing it a few months later. Curious anecdote but mostly irrelevant.
Incredible job making this video. This taught me a great amount of the world history during the last century and it's so valuable in understanding the world today. Thank you so much for this.
Love how the Rybinsk reservoir is filling up during war. I'm seeing it right now through my window. My ancestors lived on territories that were flooded. Great job by the way, love your vids. History loves to repeat unfortunately.
however in different video about history of 1000 years ago there was Rybinsk reservour already :-) What a miss! th-cam.com/video/qUgzqkCW6A4/w-d-xo.html
Forgive us, I live in the city of Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan, my city is located 500 kilometers from the Aral Sea. My history teacher spoke about how our people quickly depleted this sea, at the moment there is nothing left of the sea. As a Kazakh, I apologize;)
@@Thegagagaha what? I'm an Uzbek, but we didn't use Aral Sea so much in the past but USSR government forced us to use it for more cotton harvest. Pay attention to your own disinformation
If this channel has a point to educate someone who is not so in touch with topic, it is nicely done. If it aims to be serious work with history... sheeesh it has a space for improvement. Yet pictures and maps are always cool for boys, when there are flags and soldiers.
My great-grandfather, Yaakov Pevzner, lived on the outskirts of Leningrad when the Germans invaded in 1941. His house was repossessed by the Soviet government to use for the war effort. This resulted in him moving into the center of Leningrad, which was now blockaded by the German Navy. Throughout 1942, my great-grandfather suffered through the worst of the Blockade of Leningrad. He was evacuated in 1943, after the victory at Stalingrad. He was taken to Kyrgyzsia (Kyrgyzstan), where he first met my great-grandmother. One year later, in 1944, they had their first child, my maternal grandma. At the same time, Yaakov's cousin, Sacha, was shot down by the Luftwaffe. He was lucky to survive, but his legs were shattered. He, a member of the Soviet Air Force, should have been given military awards for his bravery. Instead, once the war was over, Stalin put him in a gulag. Sacha survived that only because Stalin died in 1953. One of Georgy Malenkov's first acts after Stalin's funeral was to release all prisoners in gulags, which included my great-grandfather's cousin. Sacha died in 1971, without receiving any military awards from Malenkov, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev. However, my great-grandfather received three Thank You Letters: one from Gorbachev, another from Yeltsin, and a third one from Lukashenko. He also got military awards from Andropov and Chernenko. Yaakov was NOT in the Red Army, Navy, or Air Force. He was simply a factory director who survived the blockade in Leningrad. Furthermore, he lived long enough to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, Putin, and Lukashenko, and long enough for me to actually know him. He was born in 1919 and passed away in 2012. He was born before the Soviet Union was and died after the Soviet Union did.
9:45 The figure of 800k deaths (799,455 to be precise) is the total number of all death sentences for all sorts of crimes from 1921 till 1953, not just in 2 years.
@@ASlickNamedPimpback the 700k-1.1 million in the two years claimed would be 400k a year at least but when the stats are for 20 years it doesnt seem as bad that is what he original comment is about
Despite the US and USSR being a few miles away from eachother in Alaska and the Far East, there were never any positions of nuclear warheads in Alaska, at least, that the public knows of.
Because no many people was in the east of USSR so it is unprofitable to put rockets there. The distance to the central part of the USSR where many people live would be approximately the same - from Alaska or from main USA territory.
Small correction on the League of Nations graphic (9:32): Germany was still in the LoN until 1935, even though they had decared they'd leave in 1933. The LoN allowed countries to leave but there was a 2 year transitioning period (similarily to say Brexit after its vote).
All people outside Germany: Yes. Germany clearly caused the First World War. That a group supported by Serbia killed parts of the royal family of Austria-Hungary, and Austria-Hungary then attacked Serbia, has nothing to do with the First World War. And the fact that Germany was dragged into the war as an ally of Austria-Hungary, was attacked first by Russia and then only defended itself, is also completely irrelevant. Germany is to blame for the First World War. That's why the war winners had to take away 1/3 of Germany's land, occupy their most important economic center and send a bill of any amount in billions every year, which Germany has to pay, although the Treaty of Versailles didn't specify any amount about the reparation payments. No idea why Germans started hating their neighboring states and minorities so much that they elected a man who brought them a better economic situation and who started a new war 30 years after the end of the war against the war winners of WWI. Germany evil. And only through the Americans, Germany learned democracy. America! Fuck Yeah! Land of the Free!
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Who else agrees that this guy's videos are ALWAYS interesting? Your historical presentations are among the best, and you inspire me to achieve my dreams of becoming a historian in future. Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!
You want to learn something about USSR? So Russian Empire's popultaion on 1913 (without Finland) was about 171 millions, in january of 1923 USSR's population was 137 millions. Yeah there was a territory loss of western so-called belarus & ukraine, also of baltic states, but obviously population of those regions wasn't reaching 34 millions, so what happened then? Bolshevik party happened. During WWI they talked about the need to start a civil war, and as a result, they started it. There are at least 10 million of loses during civil war in Russia, which was started by communist. Those loses include victims of the red terror and «prodrazverstka» (confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants) politics arranged by the bolsheviks. The second one resulted in the famine in volga river region which was very horrifying: around 2 millions of deaths, some cannibalism incidents. There was some tries to help victims of the famine including from abroad ones, but they all were supressed by the bolshevik party, moreover they started campaing of destroying russian culture by eliminating remaining parts of the russian orthodox church in region that suffered from the famine. So how then bolsheviks won in the civil war with those to put it mildly unpopular politics? Because of the red terror, which resulted in at least 1 million and up to 2 millions of deaths, especially because of the hostage taking politic: bolsheviks was taking hostages not only to get a ransom, but also to force the officers of the former imperial army to serve in the red army. Also bolsheviks had a conscription army, and the white army was a volunteer one. And there is also a myth that the Whites were supported by the Entente, this is true, but this assistance was extremely limited, and sometimes help went into the hands of the Bolsheviks, for example, when the entente left the port city of Arkhangelsk, then the entire huge arsenal that was stored there went to the Bolsheviks, a similar situation was in Odessa. The Entente believed that the worst outcome for the Russians, the victory of the Bolsheviks, was the best outcome for it, but it was mistaken and the red plague began to spread rapidly to the surrounding countries. So after the end of the civil war there was NEP (new economic policy) which was basically capitalism and this was the best economic development of USSR for all of its history - this is the only fact you need to know about planned economy. But if new economics were the best option for the russian people, the cultural they were suffering a cultural genocide policy called «korenizatsiya» which was a policy of destroying russian identity and making from russians the so-called ukrainians&belarussians in western regions by rewriting russian history, destroying the russian cultural heritage (such as destroying the church as i said) and eliminating russian intelligentsia by killing them or forcing to flee from country. But in 1929 there was a moment of the «great brake» and all of 30s were a new huge wave of genocide of russians policies: in the period of 1930-1934 died about 8 millions in all of the USSR, most suffered region was the «middle-volga kray» and all of the volga, don and kuban rivers regions with saved russian majority and not the ukraine, but ukraine also suffered a lot and actually as i said majority of so-called ukrainians had a russian identity before the 1920s, so this golodomor tradegy is not genicide of ukrainians, but the genocide of russians. Also kazakhstan suffered but not mainly kazakh people but the russian nation: in ural river and north kazakhstan regions there were a russian majorities, but all russian population of those regions were deported and only in north kazakhstan this majority was restored (nowadays it is opressed by kazakhstan authoritarian xenophobic regime minority), but to the ural river region russians never returned. So, only to the 40s there were at least 20 millions of deaths that were mainly a russians, but this genocide never stopped to this day in the territories of former Russian Empire, it just remains unnoticed not only in the West, but also among the Russians themselves, but this is another conversation. Obviously USSR is not Russia, for the Russian nation USSR is something like Nazi Germany for the Jews (but don't forget that nazies also wanted to destroy the Russians, not only the Jews and Poles). Please share this information with your people, world must know about this.
@@adhprakash as i said, world must know the truth about the fate of the Russian nation, about its tradegy, as world knows about holocaust. Maybe it is nothing, but at least you know now.
Many important Cold war proxy conflicts that had huge Soviet involvement were not mentioned, aside from the Arab-Israeli of course. I won't complain more about it though because I believe it might have been intentional to make separate videos on them. Good work!
не думайте, что они настроены на советскую сторону. они объявили основной причиной победы над Германией в 1941- подкрепление с востока страны однако с начала и до конца война в Сибири находились 40 дивизий на случай нападения Японии это грубо
@@outerspace7391 want to know the real reason for the victory near Moscow? this is a choked blitzkrieg in the desperate resistance of Soviet soldiers in the summer and autumn of 1941: the Brest fortress, the Vyazma ring and other blitzkrieg just simply choked🤷♂️
4:40 That map is flawed- Estonia got united into single administrative zone composing of largely modern borders by russian provisional goverment back in 1917. Same applied to Latvia. Also Belarus has *never* reached that far north. Not even close. Also bolsheviks werent *forced* to recognise independences of countries by treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Interesting how the germans still used the names Courland and Livonia for the regions of Latvia and southern Estonia. The 2 were duchies under the polish-lithuanian commonwealth courland in particular having an impressive navy and even colonizing at one point.
They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...
In my personal view, these "headlines" of world history guide me to sources of far more detailed information. As we can gloss over WW2 in a video, it does make us aware of events that we can further study on our own. That's the magic of shows like this.
That somewhere else is almost exactly the borders from 1000 A.D. Stalin undid the german pushing on the east expansion lasting over 900 years with one decision.
@@crank1985 I don't really see the point you're making. Many Poles have long settled in that region by then. Imagine if someone came to your home and forced you to move on the basis of some random historical context.
@@jonathanodude6660 "Sorry officer, but I think you've mistaken me for my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, an understandable mistake." *Closes door*
This is a very good summary of what happened. I would recommend it to anyone especially to teachers or aspiring diplomats or to members of the military. I hope you do more of these. Great job!
The actual reason why Russia mobilized as Austria-Hungary was about to invade Serbia was that the Russians caught wind of just how big an army the Austrohungarians were assembling and concluded that it was A LOT of soldiers if you only wanted to have a war with Serbia. Without going into too much detail, by that moment, a continental war had been looming for some time, e.g. see the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.
I wonder if people will actually think while watching this. Isolation is always a way to a war. Isolation of a big power results in great wars. There will be always small conflicts, but isolation will only escalate everything. I wonder what will happen if EU and NA will further isolate Russia right now. At least China and India is smarter i guess.
Certain European countries should isolate themselves from the US. The problem is on the one hand you have big angry American NATO... on the other you cause friction with the EU. By the way, I meant Germany and France and the Nordic countries.
Nato brought piece and unity in Europe as there was always war between countries. Every addition to nato means a country living in peace. In the history of Russia we can clearly see they will take every opportunity to conquer other countries. Unfortunately for Ukraine and Georgia the NATO membership came too late. But fortunately for Finland and Sweden it openend their eyes.
@@waylon6241 NATO was created as a military alliance against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is no more, but the alliance remains, and this makes you think about who is now NATO's rival. after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was an agreement between Gorbachev and Western leaders to stop the expansion of NATO, and what we see is seias, a huge "army without a goal" at our borders
@@МаксимЛитвинов-н9н Meanwhile, Russia threatens the NATO countries - Poland and the baltic countries, and not vice versa. This is Russia attacking other countries for the purpose of occupation, not NATO.
I didn't know Austria was about to be partioned between West and Soviet Union as happened in Germany. Exactly the same case for Vienna as in Berlin, also. Kruschev withdrew their part in 1955. That's why that region (Lower Austria) was in red color between 1945-55.
Its quite interesting that it took so long for Austria to be re-established, I forgot the details on whether the early socialist government had influence across all occupation zones
Guys, these videos are so great! I use them in my Geohistory class, I'm a teacher in Italian secondary school system (11-13 years old students), we just love your work. I would like to start a cooperation to translate them in Italian, how can I contact the owner? I didn0t find any contact detail in the profile.
Interesting, here shows ussr like rusia, but ussr was created from some different respublic. So ussr is not rusia, but unated respublics together and rusia was only part of ussr
Russia was the largest republic in USSR, 50% of the population of the USSR lived in Russia, the capital was in Moscow and all other republics were subordinate to Moscow. In Western countries, this is an established tradition.
Just USSR was 15 different respublic, take out 14 respublic and you will see how Russia her self is big... you say 50%? I am not sure.. just all 14 respublic was for feed Russia with capital Mascow
I am surprised you didn't bring up the Regan operation to deny the USSR any debt financing. That had a huge effect on the stability of the USSR. Otherwise great summary. other
Star Wars, of more properly known as Strategic Defense Initiative, really helped ruin the USSRs economy. Star Wars could have totally fake, but when presented to the Soviets, it was real. That was one of the elements that brought down the Soviet Union.
They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...
В Казахстане был председателем умный политик Назарбаев,он знал,что при развале страны будет плохо всем народам страны.И до последнего сопротивлялся.Все беды начались с Горбачева,слабый,некомпетентный политик.Хотя были проблемы в стране ,Россия надорвалась всем помогать , русский народ устал тянуть историю империи .К сожалению,нас опять тянут в это ярмо.
I still remember when kazakhstan was the ''soviet union'' for 4 days straight. , I still remember also when the nuclear disaster happened it was terrifying.
When it happened I was 8 and didnt understand shit. I only knew people had to leave a certain zone near Kiev, it was so far away from me (Siberia) that I didnt care until I got to know the aftermath of the disaster
I'm currently teaching world war today to my students today. I taught the two Russian revolutions and the abdication of Nicholas II as well as the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk
Fact: Austria/Hungary didn't immediately go to war with Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. They were of the opinion/thinking that Serbia was directly involved in the whole thing,so they sent a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia. Serbia went along with 8/9 points of it,they asked for the 1 or 2 points they didn't agree with be submitted to the international tribunal at the Hague. Austria/Hungary considered this to be a rejection of the whole ultimatum,so war was declared.
@@stephenjenkins7971 still my point stands. USSR didn't allow free elections until it was too weak to enforce control over them. Whenever a country fell under USSR control the election became more rigged than rather last in Russia, when frequency was above 100%...
After continuously watching video after video. I have accepted there shall always be a rise and fall of nations. Peace is not a guarantee but rather just a short-term agreement between one government to another. When a population rises against the ruling class there are always nations waiting, willing to finance a coup d'etat. I hope citizens could see this as I do. The weakness starts internally.
Thank you for nice video. Me as Slovak found out, there is a small mistake. The border between Slovakia and Hungary during the WW2 was different as result of occupation of Horthy's Hungary.
8:06 You are misinterpreting the meaning of the word "Kulak". A "Kulak" is a well-to-do peasant or landowner who leased the means of production at 100 percent or more, i.e. kept ordinary peasants in a fist, yes, "Kulak" literally means Fist in Russian.
“We drove across the Red Square past Lenin's Mausoleum and the towers and domes of the Kremlin--and stopped a block away at the Grand Hotel. Our rooms were ready for us--clean and comfortable, with hot and cold water, homelike settees and deep roomy chairs. Courteous attendants were there, baths and elevator, a book shop and two restaurants. Everything that a hotel for white folks at home would have--except that, quite truthfully, there was no toilet paper. And no Jim Crow. Of course, we knew that one of the basic principles of the Soviet Union is the end of all racial distinctions. That's the main reason we had come to Moscow.” ― Langston Hughes,
Advertisement visit... Just like Reagan meeting random German tourist on Red Square... named Vladimir Putin... In USSR there was no race discrimination because everyone was discriminated....
Not so fun fact: my great grandpa served in world war 1 fighting for the Russians. He was a medic and he would help injured soldiers in the trenches. He would say how the shrieks of pain as they amputated limbs with nothing but a shot of whiskey or vodka still rang in his ears. Eventually he had enough and he deserted back to his home where he hid in his hayloft till the war was over
Very cool, now do one Europe and especially Asia if you can. I am curious to see how much of roman culture survived, seems Italy and Germany kept Western Rome alive and it's been battling Eastern Rome who escaped to Russia for almost a couple thousand years now.
That's really weird way to put it. Roman culture is long dead. Reneissance isn't a thing anymore. Etc. Noone speaks Latin or Greek koine anymore. Even Eastern slavic languages are divided into 3, not a single one resembling what was used in times of ERI.
Ролик интересен с точки зрения штампов западной пропаганды. Понятно теперь,почему на западе все время делают одну и ту же ошибку в отношении России. А так - фактические ошибки есть, движущие силы событий тоже мимо во многом. Но было интересно. Местами
This is more than we were taught in schools. I saw all three episodes starting with how Russia was created. I was born in Budapest in 1955. Immigrated to Canada in 1965.
There was hunger in 1932-33 not only in Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Kavkaz, but Ural, Povolzhie, Syberia. So nobody tortured Ukraine or Kazakhstan on purpose. And it was a complex of causes for that hunger, not only Stalin's desigion.
0:00: 🌍 Tensions in pre-WWI Russia, including social, military, and diplomatic aspects, leading to the assassination of the Austrian heir in Sarajevo. 4:45: ⚔ Russia faces opposition from former allies and rebel armies as World War I ends, leading to a struggle for power and control. 9:35: ⚔ Soviet Union signs nonaggression pact with Germany, triggering Second World War and defining spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. 14:36: 🌍 Soviets win and take initiative, leading to liberation of Leningrad, conquering Eastern Europe, and accelerating Japan's capitulation. 19:29: ⚔ Tensions escalate between the Soviet Union and the United States, leading to the space race, Berlin Wall construction, and Cuban Missile Crisis.
There's a major oversimplifying of the conditions that lead to the October Revolution. No mention of the important revolution of 1905, also lead by the Bolsheiviks and the Mensheiviks that started the creation of soviets (traduction of workers council) mostly in Saint-Petesburg and Moscow. These councils formed the base for political organization of the russian working class all through the war. Lenin didn't create another revolution, it was already well on its way before 1917 and when the Kerensky government lost all support from the population, Lenin held the motto "All power to the soviets!" and placed them in power.
“In the balkans, tensions rise”
I swear I’ve heard this one before
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I am not anti-history, but hearing my teacher in school explaining about history, I quickly fell asleep in just about 2 minutes. But I can watch the entertaining videos about history like these for 6-7 hours marathon videos a day
I find it interesting that before its dissolution, Kazakhstan was the entirety of the USSR, even for a few days
Technically yes, but it's not like the USSR central government moved there or anything. It was just that they still called themselves the Kazakh SSR and hadn't got around to passing a law saying they were independent yet even though they already were because the union didn't exist anymore.
@@johnsMITHhhhhh88 Yeah, I guess so
Kazahstan did not want to have CCCP dissolved. Nursultan was taken by surprise when he gets the news that CCCP is no more by the will of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus...
@@markosan2525 no one want it in the USSR - people vote against it
Like the last part of the Western Roman Empire was Realm of Siager around Paris... a technicality that Clovis (King of the Franks and Roman vassal) "solved" by invading and annexing it a few months later. Curious anecdote but mostly irrelevant.
Incredible job making this video. This taught me a great amount of the world history during the last century and it's so valuable in understanding the world today. Thank you so much for this.
Love how the Rybinsk reservoir is filling up during war. I'm seeing it right now through my window. My ancestors lived on territories that were flooded.
Great job by the way, love your vids. History loves to repeat unfortunately.
Ахуеть реально они нарисовали как блять... Вот это внимание к деталям! 👍🏿
however in different video about history of 1000 years ago there was Rybinsk reservour already :-) What a miss!
th-cam.com/video/qUgzqkCW6A4/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for sharing such an awesome detail I would have never noticed.
History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.
@yellow01umrella it changes across times
I like how you can see the Aral sea change, nice detail
Thank you, I was wondering if someone would notice it
Forgive us, I live in the city of Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan, my city is located 500 kilometers from the Aral Sea. My history teacher spoke about how our people quickly depleted this sea, at the moment there is nothing left of the sea. As a Kazakh, I apologize;)
@@afrodiy6539 apologize for what? Aral Sea is mainly used by Uzbeks, and Kazakhs saved their part of water
@@afrodiy6539 no need to apologise for the actions of others
@@Thegagagaha what? I'm an Uzbek, but we didn't use Aral Sea so much in the past but USSR government forced us to use it for more cotton harvest. Pay attention to your own disinformation
Let’s take a moment to appreciate Geo History and his hard work, especially during times like these. Bravo Sir 🙏🏽
If this channel has a point to educate someone who is not so in touch with topic, it is nicely done. If it aims to be serious work with history... sheeesh it has a space for improvement. Yet pictures and maps are always cool for boys, when there are flags and soldiers.
@@marekhavrlik9851 what are some examples you would wish a viewer to learn beyond what is shown?
@@marekhavrlik9851 it seems good as long as you keep in mind that it is a vague summary.
Haha if you take a education you will fast see how propgandist this video is. Read a book instead.
@@glennrasmussen56 Give examples instead of spewing general statements
Outstanding - clear and to the point without oversimplifying
Well He Didn’t Mention The Black Armies
@@piepile6328 The Black Army, Look It Up
Idk Why People Don’t Know About It
Oversimplified does this a lot.
This is oversimplified af
He didn't mention Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg either.
My great-grandfather, Yaakov Pevzner, lived on the outskirts of Leningrad when the Germans invaded in 1941. His house was repossessed by the Soviet government to use for the war effort. This resulted in him moving into the center of Leningrad, which was now blockaded by the German Navy. Throughout 1942, my great-grandfather suffered through the worst of the Blockade of Leningrad. He was evacuated in 1943, after the victory at Stalingrad. He was taken to Kyrgyzsia (Kyrgyzstan), where he first met my great-grandmother. One year later, in 1944, they had their first child, my maternal grandma. At the same time, Yaakov's cousin, Sacha, was shot down by the Luftwaffe. He was lucky to survive, but his legs were shattered. He, a member of the Soviet Air Force, should have been given military awards for his bravery. Instead, once the war was over, Stalin put him in a gulag. Sacha survived that only because Stalin died in 1953. One of Georgy Malenkov's first acts after Stalin's funeral was to release all prisoners in gulags, which included my great-grandfather's cousin. Sacha died in 1971, without receiving any military awards from Malenkov, Khrushchev, or Brezhnev. However, my great-grandfather received three Thank You Letters: one from Gorbachev, another from Yeltsin, and a third one from Lukashenko. He also got military awards from Andropov and Chernenko. Yaakov was NOT in the Red Army, Navy, or Air Force. He was simply a factory director who survived the blockade in Leningrad. Furthermore, he lived long enough to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Yeltsin, Putin, and Lukashenko, and long enough for me to actually know him. He was born in 1919 and passed away in 2012. He was born before the Soviet Union was and died after the Soviet Union did.
Wow am I included?
He lived for 93 years
9:45 The figure of 800k deaths (799,455 to be precise) is the total number of all death sentences for all sorts of crimes from 1921 till 1953, not just in 2 years.
still doesn't refute the genocide
@@ASlickNamedPimpback 25k a year doesn't seem as bad as 400k though does it
@@theonioneater9307only if you ignore the fact that most estimates put the death toll at 700k - 1.1 million
@@ASlickNamedPimpback the 700k-1.1 million in the two years claimed would be 400k a year at least but when the stats are for 20 years it doesnt seem as bad that is what he original comment is about
@@ASlickNamedPimpback genocide of who?
Everytime Geohistory uploads, it's a guaranteed banger
Despite the US and USSR being a few miles away from eachother in Alaska and the Far East, there were never any positions of nuclear warheads in Alaska, at least, that the public knows of.
Because no many people was in the east of USSR so it is unprofitable to put rockets there. The distance to the central part of the USSR where many people live would be approximately the same - from Alaska or from main USA territory.
funny how two different worlds were so close to each other. In 1987 an American Woman swam across.
@@airatgimaev6821 yea but remember, the Russian port of Vladivostok, along with North Korea and China, were right across there as well
That's because both countries avoid direct confrontation and rather play the puppet game by aiding other states whoever supporting their ideology.
Ours was in Palin's backyard.
Could you do something like this for Germany? That would be interesting
@@universo5564 i mean why cant he fo this in english for germany
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@@Taifun2 Because its not that interresting probably.
@@universo5564 You misunderstood. He's requesting a video ABOUT Germany, not in German.
@@pallasathena7372 Kind of an ignorant & relative statement.
Small correction on the League of Nations graphic (9:32): Germany was still in the LoN until 1935, even though they had decared they'd leave in 1933. The LoN allowed countries to leave but there was a 2 year transitioning period (similarily to say Brexit after its vote).
what the hek this is amazing, one of the best overviews I've ever seen - throughout the 3 series & without the BS of bias.
I'm telling you, this was worth the wait. Love your video's Geo History.
All people outside Germany: Yes. Germany clearly caused the First World War. That a group supported by Serbia killed parts of the royal family of Austria-Hungary, and Austria-Hungary then attacked Serbia, has nothing to do with the First World War. And the fact that Germany was dragged into the war as an ally of Austria-Hungary, was attacked first by Russia and then only defended itself, is also completely irrelevant. Germany is to blame for the First World War. That's why the war winners had to take away 1/3 of Germany's land, occupy their most important economic center and send a bill of any amount in billions every year, which Germany has to pay, although the Treaty of Versailles didn't specify any amount about the reparation payments. No idea why Germans started hating their neighboring states and minorities so much that they elected a man who brought them a better economic situation and who started a new war 30 years after the end of the war against the war winners of WWI. Germany evil. And only through the Americans, Germany learned democracy. America! Fuck Yeah! Land of the Free!
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the video of a really trash quality. It's better it didn't exist. It makes it worse by its existence.
Its a good day when Geo History uploads
Been waiting for this video for so long glad it is finally released :D
Who else agrees that this guy's videos are ALWAYS interesting? Your historical presentations are among the best, and you inspire me to achieve my dreams of becoming a historian in future. Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!
Its SUPER hard to summarise a whole country's history but this guy just did it! Most underrated TH-camr.
I was literally trying to learn something about the USSR yesterday, and today you uploaded a video about it.
You want to learn something about USSR? So Russian Empire's popultaion on 1913 (without Finland) was about 171 millions, in january of 1923 USSR's population was 137 millions. Yeah there was a territory loss of western so-called belarus & ukraine, also of baltic states, but obviously population of those regions wasn't reaching 34 millions, so what happened then? Bolshevik party happened. During WWI they talked about the need to start a civil war, and as a result, they started it. There are at least 10 million of loses during civil war in Russia, which was started by communist. Those loses include victims of the red terror and «prodrazverstka» (confiscation of grain and other agricultural products from peasants) politics arranged by the bolsheviks. The second one resulted in the famine in volga river region which was very horrifying: around 2 millions of deaths, some cannibalism incidents. There was some tries to help victims of the famine including from abroad ones, but they all were supressed by the bolshevik party, moreover they started campaing of destroying russian culture by eliminating remaining parts of the russian orthodox church in region that suffered from the famine. So how then bolsheviks won in the civil war with those to put it mildly unpopular politics? Because of the red terror, which resulted in at least 1 million and up to 2 millions of deaths, especially because of the hostage taking politic: bolsheviks was taking hostages not only to get a ransom, but also to force the officers of the former imperial army to serve in the red army. Also bolsheviks had a conscription army, and the white army was a volunteer one. And there is also a myth that the Whites were supported by the Entente, this is true, but this assistance was extremely limited, and sometimes help went into the hands of the Bolsheviks, for example, when the entente left the port city of Arkhangelsk, then the entire huge arsenal that was stored there went to the Bolsheviks, a similar situation was in Odessa. The Entente believed that the worst outcome for the Russians, the victory of the Bolsheviks, was the best outcome for it, but it was mistaken and the red plague began to spread rapidly to the surrounding countries. So after the end of the civil war there was NEP (new economic policy) which was basically capitalism and this was the best economic development of USSR for all of its history - this is the only fact you need to know about planned economy. But if new economics were the best option for the russian people, the cultural they were suffering a cultural genocide policy called «korenizatsiya» which was a policy of destroying russian identity and making from russians the so-called ukrainians&belarussians in western regions by rewriting russian history, destroying the russian cultural heritage (such as destroying the church as i said) and eliminating russian intelligentsia by killing them or forcing to flee from country. But in 1929 there was a moment of the «great brake» and all of 30s were a new huge wave of genocide of russians policies: in the period of 1930-1934 died about 8 millions in all of the USSR, most suffered region was the «middle-volga kray» and all of the volga, don and kuban rivers regions with saved russian majority and not the ukraine, but ukraine also suffered a lot and actually as i said majority of so-called ukrainians had a russian identity before the 1920s, so this golodomor tradegy is not genicide of ukrainians, but the genocide of russians. Also kazakhstan suffered but not mainly kazakh people but the russian nation: in ural river and north kazakhstan regions there were a russian majorities, but all russian population of those regions were deported and only in north kazakhstan this majority was restored (nowadays it is opressed by kazakhstan authoritarian xenophobic regime minority), but to the ural river region russians never returned. So, only to the 40s there were at least 20 millions of deaths that were mainly a russians, but this genocide never stopped to this day in the territories of former Russian Empire, it just remains unnoticed not only in the West, but also among the Russians themselves, but this is another conversation. Obviously USSR is not Russia, for the Russian nation USSR is something like Nazi Germany for the Jews (but don't forget that nazies also wanted to destroy the Russians, not only the Jews and Poles). Please share this information with your people, world must know about this.
@@Ragulenschaft did you srsly type that to answer his question
@@adhprakash as i said, world must know the truth about the fate of the Russian nation, about its tradegy, as world knows about holocaust. Maybe it is nothing, but at least you know now.
@@Ragulenschaft did you copy and paste the ussr wikipedia page lol
@@HelloEdits613
Oh, mind you, he's just writing russian propaganda.
Nothing new.
Many important Cold war proxy conflicts that had huge Soviet involvement were not mentioned, aside from the Arab-Israeli of course. I won't complain more about it though because I believe it might have been intentional to make separate videos on them. Good work!
The video is 20 minutes, they can’t fit much in there, only the main points each decade basically
не думайте, что они настроены на советскую сторону.
они объявили основной причиной победы над Германией в 1941- подкрепление с востока страны
однако с начала и до конца война в Сибири находились 40 дивизий на случай нападения Японии
это грубо
@@smash3394 true point
@@outerspace7391 want to know the real reason for the victory near Moscow? this is a choked blitzkrieg in the desperate resistance of Soviet soldiers in the summer and autumn of 1941: the Brest fortress, the Vyazma ring and other
blitzkrieg just simply choked🤷♂️
@@outerspace7391 not true, but false
Love this channel. Great content as always, easy to understand and to the point.
4:40
That map is flawed- Estonia got united into single administrative zone composing of largely modern borders by russian provisional goverment back in 1917. Same applied to Latvia. Also Belarus has *never* reached that far north. Not even close. Also bolsheviks werent *forced* to recognise independences of countries by treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Yeah, the part about "forcing" recognition was... surreal.
Thank god someone said this. I could not handle nobody saying it. It's too big of a deal. I just couldn't. Thank you for curing
Interesting how the germans still used the names Courland and Livonia for the regions of Latvia and southern Estonia. The 2 were duchies under the polish-lithuanian commonwealth courland in particular having an impressive navy and even colonizing at one point.
This was the most informative and to the point video I've watched on youtube this week
Great video!
Of course there are details I wish would have been in the video, but for an overview, is this a great video!
yes exactly feel same, i wouldnt have known many of this without this, but more detail.
They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...
In my personal view, these "headlines" of world history guide me to sources of far more detailed information. As we can gloss over WW2 in a video, it does make us aware of events that we can further study on our own. That's the magic of shows like this.
Quality content... Geo history, been a long time for your long video
Same
the video of a really trash quality.
Gran video, cómo me encanta este canal. De mis favoritos!
Me ágree
15:15 I would like to know the name of the BGM from this time.
Fascinating. All schools should adopt these videos
"Let's take Poland and _PUSH IT_ somewhere else!" -Stalin
Гениально давайте
That somewhere else is almost exactly the borders from 1000 A.D. Stalin undid the german pushing on the east expansion lasting over 900 years with one decision.
@@crank1985 I don't really see the point you're making. Many Poles have long settled in that region by then. Imagine if someone came to your home and forced you to move on the basis of some random historical context.
@@guntherdoesaliltrolling5757 "your house used to be over there, so now it is. youre welcome 😊"
@@jonathanodude6660 "Sorry officer, but I think you've mistaken me for my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, an understandable mistake."
*Closes door*
This is a very good summary of what happened. I would recommend it to anyone especially to teachers or aspiring diplomats or to members of the military. I hope you do more of these. Great job!
I would advice against it. The all-important transition period from monarchy to socialist revolutionary rule in Russia, is at best lenient.
@@sancalisto2371 He's not going to explain that in full detail.
@@sancalisto2371what did he get wrong?
Excellent work mate 💯
Очень хорошо, товарищ, вы награждаетесь поездкой в Болгарию
who are you to grant free travel to Bulgaria?
The actual reason why Russia mobilized as Austria-Hungary was about to invade Serbia was that the Russians caught wind of just how big an army the Austrohungarians were assembling and concluded that it was A LOT of soldiers if you only wanted to have a war with Serbia. Without going into too much detail, by that moment, a continental war had been looming for some time, e.g. see the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911.
Incredible video, literally like something you'd see on Nat Geo or Netflix!
Probably better.
I wonder if people will actually think while watching this. Isolation is always a way to a war. Isolation of a big power results in great wars. There will be always small conflicts, but isolation will only escalate everything. I wonder what will happen if EU and NA will further isolate Russia right now. At least China and India is smarter i guess.
Certain European countries should isolate themselves from the US. The problem is on the one hand you have big angry American NATO... on the other you cause friction with the EU. By the way, I meant Germany and France and the Nordic countries.
Nato brought piece and unity in Europe as there was always war between countries. Every addition to nato means a country living in peace. In the history of Russia we can clearly see they will take every opportunity to conquer other countries. Unfortunately for Ukraine and Georgia the NATO membership came too late. But fortunately for Finland and Sweden it openend their eyes.
@@waylon6241 Taking the opportunity to annex/conqure a country when given is a trait for every nation it ain’t only a Russian thing 🥴
@@waylon6241 NATO was created as a military alliance against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is no more, but the alliance remains, and this makes you think about who is now NATO's rival. after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was an agreement between Gorbachev and Western leaders to stop the expansion of NATO, and what we see is seias, a huge "army without a goal" at our borders
@@МаксимЛитвинов-н9н Meanwhile, Russia threatens the NATO countries - Poland and the baltic countries, and not vice versa. This is Russia attacking other countries for the purpose of occupation, not NATO.
Would love to see a video on the Romans!! Enjoying the videos thanks 👍
Excellent narration! Liked & subscribed...
This is very simplified history, but correct.
I didn't know Austria was about to be partioned between West and Soviet Union as happened in Germany. Exactly the same case for Vienna as in Berlin, also.
Kruschev withdrew their part in 1955.
That's why that region (Lower Austria) was in red color between 1945-55.
Yeah, they agreed to make the country neutral by treaty, what is still formally a thing. Then they tried to do the same with Germany but didn't work.
Its quite interesting that it took so long for Austria to be re-established, I forgot the details on whether the early socialist government had influence across all occupation zones
Guys, these videos are so great! I use them in my Geohistory class, I'm a teacher in Italian secondary school system (11-13 years old students), we just love your work. I would like to start a cooperation to translate them in Italian, how can I contact the owner? I didn0t find any contact detail in the profile.
You might have to join their Patreon?
You might get some contact information then
I thought teachers should use information from proven sources, not from youtube videos created by some unknowns
@@scpmr Im pretty sure most teachers do use youtube in some cases.
@@scpmr TH-camrs can often be better than the proven source and can be just as reliable
he video is lying trash
I personally feel that I like all its videos and find them interesting. Can you post more in the future?
This is an incredibly balance view of the history of the USSR
Thank you very much 😊! Было классно посмотреть и на русском, и на английском.
Excellent video, thanks, Kind regards!
Interesting, here shows ussr like rusia, but ussr was created from some different respublic. So ussr is not rusia, but unated respublics together and rusia was only part of ussr
Russia was the largest republic in USSR, 50% of the population of the USSR lived in Russia, the capital was in Moscow and all other republics were subordinate to Moscow. In Western countries, this is an established tradition.
Just USSR was 15 different respublic, take out 14 respublic and you will see how Russia her self is big...
you say 50%?
I am not sure..
just all 14 respublic was for feed Russia with capital Mascow
So well narrated you forget you're just staring at a map for 24 minutes.
Uncomfortably close to Russian propaganda. Which is also 'beautifully' narrated.
@@sancalisto2371 can i ask how is this propaganda?
@@sancalisto2371can we ask how this is propoganda¿
thank you so much for maybe the first time that i ever heard the right countries starting the war
Holodomor wasn't only ukrainian treat. Holodomor was in most agrocultural parts of USSR. My ancestors from Altay run to Tashkent to survive.
These are fantastic. I hope to see more. Subscribed!
This is going to age like fine wine...
I am surprised you didn't bring up the Regan operation to deny the USSR any debt financing. That had a huge effect on the stability of the USSR. Otherwise great summary. other
Don Regan? :D
It's not the Reagan,it's incompetency of Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Star Wars, of more properly known as Strategic Defense Initiative, really helped ruin the USSRs economy. Star Wars could have totally fake, but when presented to the Soviets, it was real. That was one of the elements that brought down the Soviet Union.
That really didnt do anything or else that would be mentioned.
Love these videos. Really great way to understand complex issues
yes as long as we also go into the details to verify some facts that seem to be missing
They voiced what the Western man in the street wants to hear. Nothing new - the rulers are tyrants, winter won the war, other countries were invaded constantly. It would be better to tell about the achievements of Soviet science and technology, about the heroism of people during the war and post-war reconstruction, about how many new cities, roads, enterprises were built, how the population of the country grew, how they helped other countries...
Great Video. Thank you!!
Thanks to this video I will never forget the meaning and pronunciation of the word Rapprochement ;)
Me who has already watched The Original French version: I am four Pararel Universes ahead of you.
This is a superb video!
Thank you !
@@GeoHistory do you like men?
23:40 hehe... Russia and USSR existing at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In foresight, ussr should be the 🇰🇿 Emoji, not the 🇷🇺 Emoji
When will this video be released on the Russian version of Geo History?
Loved the detail with Kazakhstan being the last state leaving USSR 🤙🏻
В Казахстане был председателем умный политик Назарбаев,он знал,что при развале страны будет плохо всем народам страны.И до последнего сопротивлялся.Все беды начались с Горбачева,слабый,некомпетентный политик.Хотя были проблемы в стране ,Россия надорвалась всем помогать , русский народ устал тянуть историю империи .К сожалению,нас опять тянут в это ярмо.
The way it's told simplifies a complicated subject and puts opinions and singular facts as major deals that in itself made major changes
I still remember when kazakhstan was the ''soviet union'' for 4 days straight. , I still remember also when the nuclear disaster happened it was terrifying.
When it happened I was 8 and didnt understand shit. I only knew people had to leave a certain zone near Kiev, it was so far away from me (Siberia) that I didnt care until I got to know the aftermath of the disaster
I'm currently teaching world war today to my students today. I taught the two Russian revolutions and the abdication of Nicholas II as well as the signing of the Treaty of Brest Litvosk
I like how you included the Aral sea draining
I love this channel, I get to enjoy history on a map while bopping my head to sick ass beats
Slava SSSR.
Ukraine should be returned to mother Russia.
@@GenocideWesterners cringe
@@Rolando_Cueva not cringe
Blue&yellow - colors of downs, debils and imbecils? 🤔
@@GenocideWesterners never belonged to them
1:06 bro how is nobody talking about that fire beat 🔥🔥
As usual, a awesome video
GEO HISTORY IS ALIVE AGAIN!
I like the detail of the Aral Sea evaporating.
Fact:
Austria/Hungary didn't immediately go to war with Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
They were of the opinion/thinking that Serbia was directly involved in the whole thing,so they sent a 10 point ultimatum to Serbia.
Serbia went along with 8/9 points of it,they asked for the 1 or 2 points they didn't agree with be submitted to the international tribunal at the Hague.
Austria/Hungary considered this to be a rejection of the whole ultimatum,so war was declared.
because the ultimatum was literally impossible
@@charlie8344 Austria could've just as easily negotiated with Serbia over the sticking points of the ultimatum.
Austria wanted to go to war.
@@colindaniels945why Austrians so aggressive man? Why can’t they chill
Love your narration ❤️
Eastern Europe: your freed us
USSR: i wont say "free" more like under new management
Eastern Europe: oh sh*t
Nobody believed in freeing from the same people that started the war as Hitler allies.
@@crank1985 USSR agreed to let democratic elections occur, so everyone did. Also, USSR was Hitler's ally right up until they invaded.
@@stephenjenkins7971 USSR and democratic elections... choose one...
@@crank1985 Not within the USSR, in the occupied nations, genius.
And again, it's what everyone agreed on. Which was my point.
@@stephenjenkins7971 still my point stands. USSR didn't allow free elections until it was too weak to enforce control over them. Whenever a country fell under USSR control the election became more rigged than rather last in Russia, when frequency was above 100%...
Very good video! Keep the work up.
I like how at the end of the video, you can see Finland's borders but no one else and it also has its old borders
After continuously watching video after video. I have accepted there shall always be a rise and fall of nations. Peace is not a guarantee but rather just a short-term agreement between one government to another.
When a population rises against the ruling class there are always nations waiting, willing to finance a coup d'etat. I hope citizens could see this as I do. The weakness starts internally.
Thank you for nice video. Me as Slovak found out, there is a small mistake. The border between Slovakia and Hungary during the WW2 was different as result of occupation of Horthy's Hungary.
Что такое during, скажи по братски
@@fredjkiller4198 в течение
8:06 You are misinterpreting the meaning of the word "Kulak". A "Kulak" is a well-to-do peasant or landowner who leased the means of production at 100 percent or more, i.e. kept ordinary peasants in a fist, yes, "Kulak" literally means Fist in Russian.
Excellent video! Thank you!
Great video thnx!
What about Gagarin? He wasn't mentioned
Very interesting and easy to follow. Thank you!
“We drove across the Red Square past Lenin's Mausoleum and the towers and domes of the Kremlin--and stopped a block away at the Grand Hotel.
Our rooms were ready for us--clean and comfortable, with hot and cold water, homelike settees and deep roomy chairs. Courteous attendants were there, baths and elevator, a book shop and two restaurants. Everything that a hotel for white folks at home would have--except that, quite truthfully, there was no toilet paper. And no Jim Crow.
Of course, we knew that one of the basic principles of the Soviet Union is the end of all racial distinctions. That's the main reason we had come to Moscow.”
― Langston Hughes,
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Just like Reagan meeting random German tourist on Red Square... named Vladimir Putin...
In USSR there was no race discrimination because everyone was discriminated....
Not so fun fact: my great grandpa served in world war 1 fighting for the Russians. He was a medic and he would help injured soldiers in the trenches. He would say how the shrieks of pain as they amputated limbs with nothing but a shot of whiskey or vodka still rang in his ears. Eventually he had enough and he deserted back to his home where he hid in his hayloft till the war was over
Dislike for your great grandpa
@@MGEGEREZ dude, tf is wrong with u
@@MGEGEREZ /:
@@MGEGEREZ Lmfao why you gotta disrepect the croaked
My great-great-grandfather fought in the First World War and was an artilleryman
Great videos!!!! Thank you
In addition to the Japanese non-aggression pact the Soviets knew they were in no position to attack
17:15 I thought the Berlin blockade was about the value and acceptance of East German currency, not the reconstruction of West Germany.
It was a simple attempt at land grab just like Putin is doing only with less risk of nuclear war.
Wow that video was amazing
History has it, I love Geo
Very cool, now do one Europe and especially Asia if you can. I am curious to see how much of roman culture survived, seems Italy and Germany kept Western Rome alive and it's been battling Eastern Rome who escaped to Russia for almost a couple thousand years now.
That's really weird way to put it. Roman culture is long dead. Reneissance isn't a thing anymore. Etc. Noone speaks Latin or Greek koine anymore. Even Eastern slavic languages are divided into 3, not a single one resembling what was used in times of ERI.
5:30 there were no ways for him to regain the throne. I would say Yanukovich had more chances to regain in 2014 than Romanov in 1918.
The closer to the present it gets the more propaganda arrives.
11:55 lol it's kinda funny to see the Axis as pink
Отлично Жду русскую версию СССР история на карте
You guys over there @ Geo History are Awesome👍
Ролик интересен с точки зрения штампов западной пропаганды. Понятно теперь,почему на западе все время делают одну и ту же ошибку в отношении России. А так - фактические ошибки есть, движущие силы событий тоже мимо во многом. Но было интересно. Местами
This is more than we were taught in schools. I saw all three episodes starting with how Russia was created. I was born in Budapest in 1955. Immigrated to Canada in 1965.
yo cool, i too saw all three, starting from the origins, russian empire, and ussr, amazing
There was hunger in 1932-33 not only in Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Kavkaz, but Ural, Povolzhie, Syberia. So nobody tortured Ukraine or Kazakhstan on purpose. And it was a complex of causes for that hunger, not only Stalin's desigion.
Why there's no mention about military Land-Lease from USA to USSR? It was significant enough to turn WW2 in its favour.
0:00: 🌍 Tensions in pre-WWI Russia, including social, military, and diplomatic aspects, leading to the assassination of the Austrian heir in Sarajevo.
4:45: ⚔ Russia faces opposition from former allies and rebel armies as World War I ends, leading to a struggle for power and control.
9:35: ⚔ Soviet Union signs nonaggression pact with Germany, triggering Second World War and defining spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.
14:36: 🌍 Soviets win and take initiative, leading to liberation of Leningrad, conquering Eastern Europe, and accelerating Japan's capitulation.
19:29: ⚔ Tensions escalate between the Soviet Union and the United States, leading to the space race, Berlin Wall construction, and Cuban Missile Crisis.
There's a major oversimplifying of the conditions that lead to the October Revolution. No mention of the important revolution of 1905, also lead by the Bolsheiviks and the Mensheiviks that started the creation of soviets (traduction of workers council) mostly in Saint-Petesburg and Moscow. These councils formed the base for political organization of the russian working class all through the war. Lenin didn't create another revolution, it was already well on its way before 1917 and when the Kerensky government lost all support from the population, Lenin held the motto "All power to the soviets!" and placed them in power.
I believe some of this is mentioned in the Russian Empire summary video.