NOT The Origins of Russian Authoritarianism (Response to Kraut)

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  @nojrants · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Hey everyone, thank you for checking out the video and leaving so many great comments. For people who left questions below I am still going through them and answering as best I can. Be sure also to check out the source document linked in the description, which explains several of the commonly asked questions. <br><br>I&apos;m pinning a comment here because I noticed an error in the video:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_bEpKBd07w&amp;t=3210">53:30</a> - In the chart it accidentally says that Soldaty were cavalry, but that was supposed to say infantry.

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  @redaerf2b414 · 2 years ago

  Remember kids, Fukuyama failed so badly that he is still alive but his opus magnum is already outdated.

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  @Sage-xr1on · 1 year ago

  Kraut&apos;s perception of Novgorod as democratic 100% comes from playing EU4

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  @swanstarr1441 · 2 years ago

  I hate how people act as if nations are inherently a certain way, I think it’s one of the worst ways to view politics, and kraut has that big time

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  @SK-ik9mc · 2 years ago

  Kraut be like:<br>“Let me try and fit history into my political axiom whilst sounding posh”

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  @albertp3721 · 2 years ago

  Treating irl nations as if they have faction traits/specializations like in strategy games is entertaining but otherwise silly and narrow minded

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  @gustav331 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_bEpKBd07w&amp;t=2851">47:31</a> Kraut&apos;s point here is absolutely astounding when one considers that he has made a video on Denmark, and must therefore presumably be at least somewhat acquainted with Danish absolutism, which was in actuality the closest any European country came to &apos;a perfect absolutism&apos;. Danish absolutism was the only formally codified form of absolutism in Europe, and has frequently been cited as the most absolute of the absolute monarchies. Danish absolutism was no fluke either, as it lasted almost two hundred years without any serious revolts or threats made against it, and the modern day Danish civil service is a direct inheritance of absolutism, as the introduction of a parliament in 1848 did not do away with the old absolutist institutions. Most were just given a name-change.

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  @kvltntr00 · 2 years ago

  ok smart guy, where are the countryballs and funny memes? your video is not credible without these.

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  @cdru515 · 2 years ago

  Yeah, I&apos;ve been always annoyed by how people can&apos;t say &quot;The current russian government is bad&quot; without resorting to pseudohistorical bullshit

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  @badbird-zc4or · 1 year ago (edited)

  ‘In acquiescing to a despotism being inevitable, we only contribute to that despotism becoming insurmountable’ 🔥🔥🗣🗣

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  @f-14btomcat · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_bEpKBd07w&amp;t=815">13:35</a> Kraut mistakes Rostov with Rostov-on-Don, which was founded centuries later. Oh, boi...

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  @derrickb89 · 1 year ago

  Novgorod was a Republic but so was Genoa. No one pretends that its empire was democratic but people imagine that Novgorod could have created a republican Russia for some strange reason.

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