The Russian Revolution - OverSimplified (Part 2)

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the most influential human in russia: 1900 - Rasputin 2000 - Putin 2100 - Tin

Oversimplified: Starts talking about World War 1 Everyone else: Hey, I've seen this one. It's a classic.

Those assasins made a misstake about Rasputin: they've poisoned a cake with a cyanide, while sugar is known to neutralize it.

Trotsky: “surprising military genius” Also Trotsky: “let’s stop fighting and see what happens”

Things everyone loves: Food Water YouTubers who post a part 1 and 2 on the same day.

For some reason I feel Oversimplified doesn't like his mother-in-law.

If anyone's curious about what became of Alexander Kerensky after he fled Petrograd, he managed to survive the Russian Revolution and lived a relatively peaceful life, outliving many of the significant figures of the Russian Revolution. Oversimplified didn't cover this, but after Kerensky escaped the Bolsheviks during the October Revolution, he fled to Pskov, where he rallied some loyal troops in an attempt to re-take the city. They managed to capture Tsarskoye Selo but were beaten the next day at Pulkovo. Kerensky narrowly escaped again and spent the next few weeks in hiding before fleeing Russia for good, eventually arriving in France. During the Russian Civil War, he supported neither side, as he opposed both the Bolshevik regime and the White Movement. Eventually, after Germany invaded France in 1940, Kerensky fled to the United States, where he spent the remainder of his life. He lived in New York City with his wife but spent much of his time at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, where he contributed to the Institution's huge archive on Russian history and taught graduate courses. He wrote and broadcast extensively on Russian politics and history. Kerensky eventually died of heart disease in New York City on June 11, 1970. At 89, he was one of the last surviving major participants in the turbulent events of 1917, having outlived Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and all the other prominent figures who had overthrown him.

I absolutely love how completely random the introduction of Rasputin was to the Russian Monarch, and how crucial his role was to the collapse of Czarist Russia, despite the fact he was some weird horny and overall batshit crazy guy who just did whatever he wanted, like a literal college student. It's random shit like this that makes history so fascinating to me, and it shouldn't be that way lol

Lenin: Don't make Stalin the leader. Stalin: How about I do it anyway.

Man in 1900’s: doesn’t have moustache Literally everyone: yeah, there’s gonna be a tax for that

15:03 "The palace was defended by a force known as: "The Battalion of Death" who immediately gave up." love it

“The peasants were getting more peasanity, the workers were getting more workery, all the while Germany was getting more Germanery.” 😂

When Oversimplified doesn’t include a "dude...uncool" scene: Dude...uncool

....and when the world needed him the most, he returned...

the fact that oversimplified does better Rise Of Kingdom ADS then the actual game, OverSimplified should just be the media manager for them

THESE VIDEOS AREN'T JUST EXTREMELY EDUCATIONAL... But they also have that PERFECT touch of satire and comic relief!! AWESOME JOB!!

Oversimplified: *uploads both parts at the same day* Everyone: "Dude... VERY COOL"

Just to point out Rasputin did not die from being poisoned, shot, beaten up, and from being thrown into the river. He died from hypothermia after he broke free and crawled out of the river.

23:45, i love this transition so much