A Historian Breaks Down Oversimplified - Cold War (Part 1)

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[jameswatts]

My mother in law was a US soldier and stationed in Germany when the Wall came down. She still has pieces of it in her house. Spray paint and all.

[arimpact]

18:29 His face: "ha I finally get to show my history buff knowledge- oh well played oversimplified, well played."

[justinhubbard]

Death of Stalin is one of the best comedies I've seen in a while.

[Colinop]

the height of soviet leaders, for those who are curious, goes as follows:
6'0" - Andropov
5'9" - Gorbachev
5'8" - Stalin, Brezhnev, Chernenko
5'7" - Malenkov
5'5" - Lenin
5'3" - Khrushchev
Unknown - Yanayev

[Geographus]

I grew up in West-Germany and was 6 years old when the wall went down. My father got me in front
of the TV to "watch history happen with my own eyes" when the first news of this came in and I still
remember that moment vividly.

[celestegronda]

I have never commented publicly on a YouTube video before. I just want to say that I am a Native American originally from what is known as present day Michigan. My father gave his whole legacy to connect better to the truth of our lineage. I hope to find more pathways to realizing that dream for him in my lifetime, and your passion for history plus the way you deliver the information help me so much to see how that could be possible. So, thanks so much! Go Sparty 🙃😉

[marleyjr]

Id just like to say that you're that type of teacher I wish I had in highschool.

[HollowHusk]

I know that Stalin and his father actually did have a very unstable relationship so Oversimplified is accurate when he said that Stalin’s father punished him severely

[hopeless]

You even elaborate on the sponsorships! You’re an amazing teacher, even if you technically aren’t one

[wolfmus_]

I really appreciate that you leave in the ads that the creators put in. Your content is not only transformative, but you try to help the original creator as much as you benefit and I really think that's awesome of you.

[dontbethatguy]

Oversimplified French Revolution would be great to see a reaction to afterwards 👍

[mrdollyman]

One of the poems said
“Sadness, misery everywhere. My wife was eaten by a bear”

[brandonarmienti]

My grandmother actually has a piece of the Berlin wall and we still have it today. It's actually cool to have a piece of what is cold war history at my house.

[Cramblit]

Red Alert taught me about the "Iron Curtain", then I grew up and learned it was a real thing and did everything I could to learn about it.

[karlsson]

as someone born in East Germany, it is always interesting for me to see how people in other countries perceived and learned about the Cold War and its aftermath. I am already looking forward to Oversimplified doing an episode about the German Reunification and your reaction to it.

[TheRoughStar]

I like how you show how simple it is (today) to look up facts, even though you're already a historian.
Some people need to realize how you shouldn't just vomit out false (specially, when harmful) information. It takes less than 30 seconds literally to contribute a better knowledge.

[lordkirov]

As a man who has reaction videos as his guilty pleasure, and history videos as a general pleasure. I am more then Happy to catch a live broadcast after only finding this channel a few days ago and having spent said previous days binging all your videos.

[eegulpee]

I shrieked with happiness when you clarified China and the Soviet Union wasn’t communist, most of my history teachers failed to note this loll

[Yora]

Seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall on TV from Hamburg is my first memory of a global event.
I don't remember the reunification the year later, or the fall of the Soviet Union the year after that, though.

[MrMitchbow]

I like the small screen set up. We get the whole screen, you don’t get CR struck, and now you have more room on your screen for activities