Africa's North Korea | Hoser | History Teacher Reacts

I bet you know nothing about Eritrea. I bet you couldn't point it out on a map. However, they've had a crazy history, even more so in the last 30 years. Did you know they've had the same leader since 1991? Did you know it has one of the largest militaries in the world? Did you know they basically operate as some weird form of communism? They are basically the North Korea of Africa. Hoser tells the ignored history, and Mr. Terry has A LOT to say about it.

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[MrTerry]

How close is Eritrea to Stalin-era Soviet Union?

[hser]

Nice video, thanks for reacting. Great additions, a bunch of stuff I hadn't thought of/seen anything about before! Off the top of my head I think I remember reading the diaspora tax would be "enforced" through threats of family punishment, but they also severely restrict financial flows into the country. I'd have to look more into it to be certain though.
And at 22:40 I think you misinterpreted the line. It was "China claims to be what Eritrea actually is.. which is a command economy." I could see your confusion to me calling the US and Europe command economies too lol

[Erilovr]

I promise you if go to Eritrea 🇪🇷 you will love it the most peaceful country in Africa he forgot to mention 0 crimes

[HistoryNerd]

Merry Christmas, Mr. Terry!

Aa for Eritrea, I think a lot of people don't realize or don't care about a lot of the places that have human rights problems or tensions that aren't in major strategic locations like North Korea or Ukraine and it really sucks. Obviously, regarding governments, they will have to make choices about what's most important to focus on but even those of us as regular people avoid things and we don't have those limitations.

Reminds me of something that I know personally: my church when I was growing up had a congregation in Sri Lanka that was under threat constantly because of a radical Buddhist problem they had and I believe do still have. Unfortunately, one things we humans are really good at is finding reasons to treat people as less worthy humans.

[YAH]

A video about Eritrea, Terry somehow mentioned Ukraine. Is Terry secretly the owner of Real Life Lore?

[owennoad-watson]

I think there's an important distinction to he made here- Britosh colonies supported minorities as a power-check on the larger populations that might cause issues and as this region was separate from Ethiopia before the war and then further by Britain's colonial policy, these efforts only worked to further separate the region from the wider "Ethiopian identity", already divided by British policy. So independently, they hoped to recreate that feeling but without the colonial power granting extra rights to minorities. The result being that they were more violently opposed to surrounding populations (also under British rule for a time) and inadvertently creating an artificial sense of isolationism that became tradition (maybe intentionally or maybe not- there are many cases of the British Elpire designing their decolonisation program in such a way as to increase conflict with neighbouring powers and therefore increase reliance on the old European powers for things such as arms. Ie- the Middle East). I say this as a proud Brit. We created globalism at the expense of many that we gave independence to as well as their opposition. A short-term plan to gain favour that could fuel future trade opportunity. Instead it divided nations and identity to the point that trade became either impossible or a source of fuel for the fires of local war. I'm in yhe camp that says decolonisation should have been an international and methodical effort to boost trade- infrastructure such as ports and airports built prior to handing over legal power, thereby creating more peaceful trade opportunity rather than forcing one nation or another to rely on separate powers for basic resources. I hate that decolonisation was fueled by cold-war and imperialist mentality

[DanTheMailman]

In the early 2000s I had a restaurant employee who had grown up in Eritrea during the 1980s and 1990. I knew she was from the Horn of Africa and asked her on my first day whether she was from Somalia or Ethiopia. The mere question that she might be Ethiopian made her enraged due to what she had seen as a child during their war for independence.

[marphillois]

The Albania video was very interessting, would be nice to know your reaction

[toadofsteel]

The Albanian video about Hoxha that you mentioned at 1:52 is a really well-produced video and worth a react

[jadedaim]

its almost like when one dude gets all the power he always get paranoid, who could have guessed lol

[dsxa]

I think it's always interesting to think of any culture (any number at one time, influencing) in a geographic terms of historical sociology amounting to modern demographics. The country is sounding a little like if any area of North and South America had different contexts in which the modern age arises or contextualises what is actually going on at this time.

[Iwillcallyoulater]

Thanks for mentioning my country Eritrea. Real hell wadya😢

[Will-xfqe]

I watched a travel video about Eritrea the other day and there is still bombed out buildings everywhere. Almost no electricity. The Internet is the slowest in the world. The guy could connect to Wi-Fi but it was too slow to load a webpage. They have never recovered from the war. It's really sad

[ninjawarrior]

I also saw a video called "Europe's North Korea" which talked about Albania under the rule of Enver Hoxha.

[mr.d]

*Fun fact: in the 2012 movie **_The Dictator, _** the country ruled by the title character is shown on the map with the boundaries of real-life Eritrea.*

[OSUforlife]

The scramble for Africa was definitely wrong, but I do think people use that to excuse countries that should have been able to turn things around by now. Their are countries in Africa that have put things together and other countries throughout the world that have been colonized they have turned things around. The scramble for Africa does not get to be used as an excuse for all countries that are failing.

[t-mag]

Eritrea is actually the only Non-Communist One Party State in the world. Given that for most of the 20th century 'One Party State = Communist State' it's quite interesting to have only one legal party that *didn't* start as a communist party.

[ETOC]

Merry Christmas to my favorite history teacher! 🎄🎄🎅🏻🎅🏻

[Fusako]

Hey Mr. Terry! Been watching your channel essentially since you started. Enjoy your reactions and the context you provide!
Something I am curious about: Is there any good history media on the various treaties and concordances? War is often the sole focus of history teaching, and I'd love to see things that ended the fighting, or prevented it in the first place. Also things like the Hague and Geneva conventions. Hope you had a recuperative winter break!

[Cykeys]

I'd have to recommend Jabzy's video about Eritrea.