Social Stud Reacts | Geography Now! Albania

Mini-bio: My name is Brady. I'm 24 years old and am a graduate student in history. I started this channel as something fun to do while I finish my schooling. My primary area of study ranges roughly from the American Revolution through the first sixty years of the 19th century. While I am a historian (with a B.A. in Liberal Arts), I am a very new historian. I am more of a learner than a teacher, so I use the react format to do a little bit of both. Also, flags are fun, and I like them very much... and video games... and maybe some other stuff. While my videos are not all history related, this channel has a serious social studies bend to it.

Bird Note: I have a bird, his name is Peridot (Peri for short). You may see him appear in some videos and not others. While he has quickly become the channel's mascot, he only appears in videos when he feels like it. I don't force him to come on camera, he just likes being around hoomans, and I am hooman. Also, understand that birds are a lot of work, so don't go out and get one impulsively just because mine appears behaved in my videos. Bird parenting is a full-time job.

[velvethead]

This does look like it'll be a great series for your channel

[robertguy]

Just a heads up, eventually the flag segment splits off to a separate episode “flag Friday’s” where they talk about the flag, and make some corrections

[sergiovazquez]

Geography now has a lot of episodes with a lot of different countries. From the A to S, he is doing the Spain episode by now

[dinamosflams]

This is going to be probably the longest reaction series on yt. And I'm all for It!

[-gemberkoekje-]

5:04 that IKEA is the one we always go to near our house

[darreljones]

In the first episode of "Cheers", one character tries writing a song to remember things about the country, singing (to the tune of "When the Saints Go Marching In") 'Albania, Albania, you border on the Adriatic...", then abruptly stops when he realizes it doesn't rhyme.

[HistoryNerd]

GN's a really good channel. Haven't watched as much of his stuff recently but he has a great ability to be neutral, even to nations(read governments) we as Americans may not like all that much for geopolitical reasons like China, Iraq, Iran, etc.

[Krokostad]

My two favourite chanels combined! I love it! ❤

[cjrecio]

Can you watch the Cuban Missile Crisis by TimeGhost History, please?

[trla]

A yes, the county with the "we are evil flag"

[jnliewmichael]

Wow, it's been so many years since I've first watch the Albania video. I binged the whole channel back in 2016 when the China episode was released.


Well, seeing how their only friend was China back in the day surrounded by the Eastern Bloc, it's clear why they were isolationist and were forced into self-reliance, and built all those damn bunkers XD

Honestly, skimming through Albanian history, what I feel is: *PAIN*
Like, the social reforms (in terms of class) seemed decent for such an agricultural society, but damn. The destruction of historical religious sites and literature is just so damn painful to read about. I'm quite atheist, but the destruction of anything with any historical value pains me to my core.

Even the first decade of their democratization was quite a mess, it seems. Government-run Ponzi schemes, that's one way of adopting capitalism, I guess.

[banobani]

As for Albanian flag it dates since 1443, and is fourth oldest flag in the world (Denmark 1219, Austria 1230, Latvia 1279, Albania 🇦🇱 1443) so 🍻 😉

[johannesvonmalos]

The term you might be looking for is Autarky

[LeveyHere]

If Albania is having it's coastline stolen, then you should look at Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[UndersiegeAl]

Albania was never part of the Soviet Union