The Russian Revolution (Part 2) - Oversimplified // Historian Reaction

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[itsdantaylor]

7:04 Fun fact, people were so paranoid about Rasputin they dug up his grave to cremate his remains. However those who were cremating him failed to sever his tendons. As he was burning his tendons shrank causing him to sit up in the pyre and scare the living bejessus out of everyone in attendence.

[joshuahunt]

“Battalion of Death. You can imagine how that’s gonna go.”
Oversimplified: “...who immediately gave up.”

[supersasukemaniac]

"The Battalion of Death... who immediately gave up."
I did not see this coming.

[CORALLLLLLLLL]

Fun Fact: Lenin's last words were "Good Dog." because his dog brought him a dead bird on his deathbed

[reddelta]

Fun Fact: Someone asked Kaiser Wilhelm what Queen Victoria would have thought about WW1, since they were all related, and he responded that if she had been alive, she simply wouldn't have allowed it.

[finnhe]

Fun fact: Kaiser Wilhelm and zar Nikolas actually wrote each other letters, where they adressed each other as Niki and Willi.

[JSprad]

My second great uncle was Alexander Guchkov who was one of the politicians who convinced the tsar to abdicate. He is in the famous picture of Tsar Nicolas II sitting on the train next to the abdication papers. It’s cool seeing you talk about the Russian Revolution because it had such a big impact on my family.

[shadowrfox]

Funny thing about Rasputin was that the poisoning surviving could be explained. It said that Cyanide can be countered with sugar. And what they did put out for Rasputin to eat, lots of desserts and pastries that was heavy in cream and sugar. Less about magic and more about these guys didn't know how to poison people properly.

[TheLibermania]

I love how Stalin is a couple of times in the picture. Simply standing without saying anything.

[littlekuribohimposte]

The Battalion of Death

"Oh we know what's gonna happen"

"Who immediately gave up"

Shocked Pikachu face

[pmwklwm]

Fun fact: as you said, Stalin's actual last name was Dzhugashvili, he was a georgian, but in georgian language this last name still basically meaned "Son of the Steel" and he actually was "Joe Steel" as you put it, he just translated it into russian.

[Chooopy]

This period in Russian history is so fascinating to me. A mythical wizard, a royal family well into the 20th century and their massacre, social uprising, the culture of music and dance and theater at the time. I don't know how to explain it, but it's so intriguing as a turning point in history.

[perciusmandate]

The Romanov assassination was a crap show. Not only were the firing squad blind drunk and the Romanovs essentially wearing blinged out bulletproof vests, the basement they did it in had no lights and the guns they were using filled the room with smoke after the first few rounds. It was such a fiasco that they weren't even sure if they had killed everyone by the end of it. Which is what eventually led to the myth of Anastasia's survival and escape.

[hunterlandry]

"General secretary" who had that job again? Oh wait, oh no...

[jakob]

Came for Sabaton, stayed for Oversimplified and Extra Histroy!

[jamesfranken]

Love this dude, feels like one of my history professors. You know, the ones that teach a WW2 class and they love talking about the intricacies of that war more than they love anything else on this earth. That’s what this channel feels like.

[IowanMatthew]

Fun fact: A pretender of the Romanov throne (and relative of Nicholas II), Paul Illyinsky, was Mayor of Palm Beach, FL for a good chunk of the 1980s and 1990s.

[mistertwister]

“You can imagine how that’s gonna go”

That was perfectly timed

[musikbox]

Saying "Look it up. 'something'" is the way I tell people to look up something they probably shouldn't, lol

[forgottenfamily]

Re: tie ins: there's actually two scenes in this that originally aired in the Cold War Pt 1 video, one of which being the one where the guy goes "whoa, deja vu"