Conquering a Continent | Russian Conquest of Siberia

Howdy folks, for today's video, I decided I wanted to do something besides one of those biographies that I've been doing a lot of, so, for today's video, I decided to answer the question of how a bunch of random Slavs managed to create one of the largest land empires ever seen on the face of the earth. Enjoy!

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[MustafaAli-lbdq]

Russians are great and fearless people.

[papazataklaattiranimam]

Crying Turkic, Finnic, Ugric, Samoyedic and many indigenous noises

[gregoriop]

La URSS no acabó con la extensión territorial del Imperio Ruso, sino que lo transformó en algo mucho más basado

[valhalla]

Thank you for the informative video, Josh. Keep up the great work

[GeorgeRamsey]

You breifly mentioned Alaska! Should have included more of that.

[papazataklaattiranimam]

Slavic, Germanic, Sinitic and Turkic peoples have really powerful histories.

[dylangtech]

The Siberian tribes and peoples were bound to fall under someone at some point due to the sheer geography. As a 21st century American witnessing the fall of Russian influence and projection, better them than China, the nation almost certain to do what the Russians did way back then. Because Manchuria remains partitioned between the Chinese and the Russians, and the Siberians neared revolt a few years ago, matters in the far east and Suberia are bound to come up again in the future.

[BurnBird]

I find the fact that you describe the Russian empire as "one of the greatest empires ever seen on the face of the earth" while describing the Soviet Union as a "nightmare" quite telling

[ShadowSkryba]

8:50 What do you mean by "couldn't be allowed to happen" ?

[benjaminobienu]

If you're interested, I have some ideas for future alternate history videos for future videos. This is a fantastic video, Josh, for it is very educational and exciting to learn more history about Russia. Keep up your excellent job, and always stay true to yourself!

[multiverse-UFO]

Why is European conquest of America considered "barbarism", while Russian conquest of Siberia a "strength"?

[whyismyricewet]

underrated channel, I also do history videos, want to collab?

[lunohodpashenskiy]

ruriks staff was at 9th century, not 12th.

[nord_anon]

Who's your favourite czar, Josh?

[frontendprotogy]

Long live to caucasus, #რუსეთიბოზია, #UnitedCaucasus.

[LibertarianLeninistRants]

The Bolsheviks were the best thing that ever happened to Russia