Why hello youtube this is tipsy fish history and for people that aren't regulars on this channel
What I primarily do is short videos talking about various historical events and/or subjects
I throughout all types of history. The videos are not particularly in-depth. They're not the highest quality that you've seen
However, it is a History Channel that you know
I'm just trying to expand out and get people a greater understanding of events that occurred throughout history
And due to a recent poll on the channel, which was surprisingly in favor
People wanted to see this type of historical analysis sort of video. So
it's probably end up being modified to some degree as
time goes on if I keep on doing it views and
engagement and all that sort of stuff will determine if I continue on doing this but
We'll be looking at some like epic Rap Battles of History
Which pretty much my entire basis on what's going to happen is give a little bit of background information in regards to the people
involved if they need any
very
Well-known figures such as Joseph Stalin because that's gonna be was the first one that we look at
He doesn't really need much of an introduction
but some of the lesser-known individuals will be given a little bit of background information and if they end up saying
Anything historical at least that I end up catching. I will try to give some information
As to what that means. I am by no means a historian. I'm not a history teacher
I didn't go to school for history and school sure as hell did not teach me anything about history
But I do this merely as a hobby
so I
Will probably missing a few things
I'll probably get a few things wrong, but this is just to give a bit of a greater understanding as to
the history behind some of these lines
Pretty much I'm gonna let it play and whenever they say anything I'm gonna pause it give a loop of explanation and
As you can see I my co-host here all grandpa Poli with his nice
naval hat
Anyway, um, let's go ahead and get this started
How about first one that we're going to be doing is Rasputin versus Stalin and keep in mind
I haven't watched like any other stuff in quite some time. So this is pretty much going to be kind of a
Me trying to catch it and hopefully to remember it exactly what it is
Cuz whenever I'm on the spot, I tend to not remember diddly dick. Trust me
Anyway, let us go ahead and start. How about I
Think that's just actually the first one I ended up saying
Okay, so first of all Rasputin who exactly was he because not a lot of people know who he was
Rasputin was not really much of anybody up until World War one or hereabouts
you know in 1906 more or less but
Rasputin was a peasant dad. That's what he was. He was originally just a plain old peasant
he and failing had been a monk essentially and
He ended up going and being a holy man or a pilgrim essentially and he traveled all around
I think he even went down to Greece got some friends in there and that sort of thing, but by
1900 he had developed a small amount of followers or acolytes -
To him not entirely certain exactly what sect or if he was just a devout Christian. I don't exactly remember
the exact history on him
But he hadn't gained a little bit of popularity from that sort of thing
And then in the early nineteen hundred's he went to the city of kazan and from there
he kind of got known as a mystic and
he and again a lot of
influencers and monasteries and
you know a lot more peasants were following him because they believed he had this mystical power and that's how he got involved with the
Czar Nicholas at the time and he ends our Nicholas's wife. I don't remember her exact name
It was like Alexandria or something
or Alexandra
they end up gained a
pretty well, and he
and Czar Nicholas and giving a lot of influence and line of time to Rasputin to try to
cure them essentially of whatever albums they ended up having and
Rasputin was not particularly liked in mizar's court, especially later on and
there's a lot more information to go on that but
He hadn't been assassinated in
1916 and a few weeks later the Romanovs
and being overthrown
As well during the during 1917 and the whole Russian Revolution Fiasco. But anyway, I don't want to go too far into it
Just that's who he was
he was essentially a nobody that meant again to the Tsar's court and had a lot of influence with the Tsar's wife and
You know was known as a mystic animal it's continuing
We don't need information about stolen I at least hope so
That's one thing I like to end and make you mention and I'll do this a lot
Is that whenever people refer to the Soviet Union?
there's a
lot of people that think that the Soviet Union and Russia are interchangeable that you know, they were essentially the same thing and
You can make that argument
But what the Soviet Union was was literally a union of various states
the Russian Empire before
Before the end of World War one had control over a variety of dutchies
Essentially if you know the term like dukedoms
and
They had some level of autonomy cord and cord autonomy within the Empire
and
The Soviets the Soviet republics kind of took over that sort of thing
You had a Karelian one eye at the time. I think you had a Korean one
a
Ukrainian one
Cossack and and all these sort of Soviet republics
Russia was just the largest most powerful and the most populous out of all of them
And so whenever you hear about the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 90s you we'll see all of these
states that split from I believe there were 12
Yeah, there was a number that ends up splitting from I don't remember the exact number now
That split in the early 90s so still it was a it was a union of states. It wasn't just Russia
It encompassed the majority of the Russian Empire land, but it wasn't all Russia
anyway, I just want to get that point across it's
Continuous tones that beat him a lot same with Hitler stand very very people family
That was another one too Rasputin had
following his assassination or you know even
Shortly beforehand. He had a lot of
very odd things said about him, you know, his power was as a
Divine or unholy person
and yeah him having a huge dick was one of the big ones they
falling his his supposed assassination was a case where he got poisoned and he survived he got drowned he survived and
then he end up being shot three times once in the head and that's what ends up killing him and I believe
following that there was a cult of followers that had managed to get his
to get his wing and like devoted themselves to
Him and his spirit or something of that sort
It's probably not true. Let's just say it's probably not true
But that's Rasputin was one of those very odd carriers where there's a lot of myths surrounding him
Not as much as someone like George Wallace
by still there was a lot of
Myths and really weird things that came out of it. I
Haven't done a whole lot of research on Rasputin. I just know that for example, anyway, let's continue
Yeah that also ended up happening
Post-world war two I believe I don't remember the exact specifics as to what it was
but
I'm Stalin Sunda was imprisoned and I believe was going to be either I want to say was going to be executed
Or he was gonna be thrown into labor camps
and
Stalin would bless son out and
his son tried to commit suicide and failed and I wanna say Stalin made some comment about oh
He can't even kill himself correctly or or something of the sort who knew he was a bit of a deadbeat dad
You know who knew?
Well time I'll end to anyway but there he is, um,
Him saying that he crushed people while he was laying the state that is very true when Stalin died in 1953
his casket was being transported and he was a very large casket very well decorated one and
The supports for it ended up falling during a procession and it killed a number of people. I want to say ten
You know either killed or wounded ten people from it
So yeah, that was a that was a bit of a a bit of a em
And never mind. I'm not gonna make that certain joke
I should probably at this Matt and when you said I learned to trust out of the picture what happened?
There is that with the Russian Revolution. There were three
Kind of main heads you could say you had
Vladimir Lenin you had Leon Trotsky and then you had Joseph Stalin and Stalin was the third
You know essentially image in command Trotsky was the second
When wennen had an assassination attempt done on him in 1919
He and having a lot of brain damage from it a bola
Mm being lodged in his neck, I believe and it caused him a lot of problems. He end up having a number of
I want to say seizures and strokes. I struck what ended up killing him later on
but his mental faculties
ended up des came quite a bit and
through that
Linen of removing Taurasi from the picture. He ended up. I don't remember the exact story. I should have looked it up
but
essentially stalling and of becoming the next in line behind trois key and
that
Really cemented the change as to how the Khans movement end up happening in the world
Because prior to that Lenin and Trotsky were both very interested in trying to expand
kindness influence throughout the world by any means possible so that I mean giving funding a possible military aid or a military equipment and
putting pressure where they could to expand the Communist revolution
Stalin on the other hand was much more focused on building up the news Russian Empire the new Soviet Union
Into a state that is able to do it by force
While Lenin and Trotsky were not aiming so much at direct fighting they viewed
the revolutionist mean to happen from the people of the countries while Stalin
Viewed it more as a this I'm gonna forcibly take them over to install a revolution. That's a very simplified
Version of it of course, don't take that at face value
This is not meant to give a huge history about it because that would take about 50 hours
But you know that that's essentially the
How the course ended up happy now is the minds and that's what end up causing a lot the shifts
they ended up seeing you know, we're song was very much more focused on building up the
The Soviet Union itself where I've been trying to expand the kindness
Within the various other countries. Anyway, let's continue
I
Will admit the costumes and once you may you never tell me noses to how good the costumes are
Because costumes what are what to make something better or worse, but he saw Jarrell probably the hardest thing to end up
Getting to work and look good
Shot
So with him, the the story of the Berlin Wall falling was a bit of a it was a misunderstanding
Gorbachev had ordered the wall to be open temporarily
However, there was any misunderstanding and so they started to simply tear down the wall, you know
Because they thought it was a permanent opening and then once an end up being, you know open permanently. There was no stopping it
So they just had the entire thing torn down
which was very I guess you could say a bit ironic and
People in the Soviet Union. Well via a number of the higher-ups in the Soviet Union were not happy at that decision
there was a lot of
a
Lot of political turmoil and I believe even military
turmoil in the immediate, you know, not really even the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, but
You know surrounding it, you know where you had people loyal to garbage
I forget people lo loyal to the Soviet and there was a lot there's a huge mess surrounding it who knew?
That I might have to do a video on that at some point in the future. Let's continue
We have Putin now, oh, yeah. He's without shirt
And use that infos quite a lot and experience quite well
Alright, let's go ahead and go on to our second one today which will be federic Douglas versus Thomas Jefferson
and of course I got about partway through this ie about
20 minutes of me rambling and then realized that the
my microphone ended up shutting off partway through
Well, I'll try not to ramble this much which is honestly probably a better option. Hmm. Anyway, let us go ahead and start off
Yep, yep Jefferson here. He was the third President of the United States
And it being the second vice president of first Secretary of State. He was one of the
Predominant members that wrote the Declaration of Independence
He was a bit of a controversial figure during his presidency more so during his second one and his later life
very
He was a bit wishy washy on the rise in that sort of thing
major events that occurred during his presidency would be
The creation of the United States Navy the permanent creation of one from the creation of the Marine Corps
The first Barbary war
That was an event where the United States sent their near to create Navy over to North Africa
To fight against a whole bunch of pirates. I actually have a video on that which would be this way that way
Caught up there. They can collect if you look at that
What else ended up having that period of time?
the pseudo creation of a standing army
Because beforehand thing nice Aysen have much of a stained army
it was a few hundred maybe a thousand men at most because a lot of it had been disbanded post the post revolution and
state militias was how the
the United States had army essentially outside of that the
He had the
1807
Lawn that prohibited slave
Imports into the country which took 11 years go into effect, but that's gonna be profitable later
I'll say that hands looking perfectly fine
you know again costumes are a big thing with this sort of thing and it takes a lot of
time a lot of detail a lot of effort a lot of skill to make it look good and
They always they always end up making the sort of stuff look good
Okay, Fredrick Douglas who exactly was he not a lot of people know exactly who he was so Frederick Douglas
Was born as a slave he had one parent that was enslaved and I believe his father
Was a free man
They were I want to say a mix of a native and they black individual. I believe if I could be mistaken on that and
Throughout time he managed to escape
he was a slave in Maryland and he managed to escape over in to
Massachusetts and he later sold in New York for a period of time
through that period of time he had a number of friends that he ended up making he in a bind his
Legal slavery. It's a his legal slavery his legal freedom during his time in New York, I believe or
He am going off to Ireland and the UK during the mid
1840s that's when he hadn't gained enough money to buy his legal freedom. I don't remember exactly how it worked. So
My my member on that is off I know within that time frame that's when he got the money able to
really buy his his freedom from his master and he
Ended up going there too. He was very he was very well known for his orderly skills and
His first autobiography, which I want to say
Was I don't remember the exact title. I'll post it up in here. But his first autobiography
Became a best-seller almost immediately
sold, roughly
11,000 copies within a year had to be reprinted nine times and
That was kind of a big reason that he ended up going to
In the UK and that really opened it up his eyes a lot
because by that time the
the UK didn't have
slaves anymore
They had been fully abolished in the entirety of the British Empire
kind of a lease in the English homeland since 1833
Even though forms of slavery existed until well essentially the end of World War two
I'm
Flavour is not the best word to use but that essentially what happened in, you know, Africa and India and that sort of thing
But during that time they didn't have large
colonies really anywhere outside of Canada
But his trip to the UK and Ireland really opened up his eyes a lot and when he came back he was a very avid
supporter and he always had been a very avid supporter of
Equal rights women's rights. I believe he was huge advocate of religious freedom as well
But his artery power his artery skill I should say it was really what set him apart and
That was his main his main skill for the entirety of his life, and he was well renowned for it
He never really served a hole on government. He was I once a appointed like minister to Haiti
Shortly before his death in 95. I don't exactly remember. What role he played in
he did some stuff under the
President grants administration I
That was in regards to looking at annexing San Diego and San Diego
Sent to Domingo the island Santa Domingo axing that and giving African Americans their own state
That was a proposed plan, which he was actually in favor for
Congress wasn't though. This would have been in ninth in 1871 or 1870. He was the first
African-american ever
Nominee to the vice presidency under the Equal Rights party in 1872
He had no sainted. He didn't he may not have even known that he
At the party had elected him, but he didn't even he didn't even acknowledge it essentially
That evil rights party had nominated Victoria Woodhull, which was a woman
And is the first woman?
Technically to have ever ran her president in the United States. It wouldn't be until another sixteen years later
That a woman get a vote which would have been I don't remember her name now
I'm gonna feel like crap know what bouncer name
I'll put it up on I'll put up on the video because I do not remember her name
That was in 1888
But other than that
Let's just go and continue all because otherwise I'm going to ramble on and that's and knowing my like the video will probably end then
He actually did invent the swirl chair
that was something that I came across randomly, but he ended up taking the very popular chair during that period time and
He got the mechanism from a sash window which was you know
using ropes and that sort of thing to
Kind of rotate I even looked exactly how they worked but he put the mechanism onto a chair and booming up this wheelchair
I'm surprised they found that a little bit of information. I kind of liked it he end up using his chair for
Whenever he and upside the Declaration of Independence
And I think it's actually I think the same chair is the one that he made I think is in a museum in, Pennsylvania
I don't remember exactly where
I
Can have to look that up and the line before that we're saying
You know pirates and tyrants beware that's in reference to the Barbary Wars again have video that already up on the channel
Where he created the United States Navy essentially and they end up attacking
Tripoli that's where the song shores of Tripoli come from. I think that's named for that anyway
And it was the first time
That the United States had sent soldiers
That landed on foreign soil
Ever since the Revolutionary War and well, yeah
the attack on Tripoli was the first time and pretty much the--
The first time for a good while afterward that the United States sent troops overseas
And actually had military success
Yeah, Frederick Douglass in the brain three
autobiographies, the first one I
Can I'll put the name up again that was released in 1845 was a very well known hit
He released one in I want to say
55 or 58 and then he released one in the eighteen the late 1880s early 1890s
I'll have to get double check on that one
but the first one was
Very well known and that's what he is known for the other two were autobiographies that he expanded on a little bit
Each one having much more detail about his life and what he was going on. But the first one is what he's known for
garrison actually ended wrote one book - which was I want to say the notes of
Virginia I think was the title he was released in
1775
I'm not entirely certain what the book was about. I'm going to assume it has some notes about Virginia though
He served as governor of Virginia as the second governor from Virginia ever in
1779
For two years and he was the congressional delegate to the Continental Congress
Before that and had a whole bunch of other
Positions he was also ministered to France which they will make a mention of and in just a bit as well
Garrison had one of the I want to say largest slave plantations in Virginia at the time he had
I'm trying to member the exact number. I wanted to say around six hundred
individuals
In slavery and his plantations that may have been total and non at one time. It would have been you know
There are a few numbers that I've seen flowing around some have said only one hundred fifty some of Ghana all the way up to
six hundred
It's hidden miss
But yeah
he was a slave owner ass was a good amount of the founding fathers and
That has definitely tarnished the reputation to some degree in more modern a days. His people are actually looking back on
Who these people were what they were as as a whole and going they're not as good as we once believed which is you know
Some will say it's bad things
some will say it's a good thing, but you're essentially acknowledging what these people actually were who they are and
you know because there was a very long period of time and even now you have a lot of people saying that the
Founding fathers were infallible
They were the best people that have ever existed and it's like they're humans of the time so you have to take that into consideration
They weren't some you know, some Messiah essentially they were people of the time that's that's that's simply the truth
Okay, so what is he referencing with you can't with the 5th of May so in
1787 there was a
what they refer to as a compromise in regards to the House of Representatives for people that don't know the
United the United States House of Representatives at least before
1929
was based on
population and so a state would gain a certain amount of seats within the House of Representatives based by the population and
In the southern states word slaver was most prominent it there were a few northern states. Were it existed? Of course?
But gradually it was largely gone. I want to say the last nerving state to remove
slavery I want to say was in the
1830s the 1820s
Delaware still taken we had slaves come to the American Civil War, but it's Delaware who who cares about Delaware essentially?
My name would to that he was a question of well, you know, the the southerners wanted to count their slaves as regular population
To you know, make sure that they interview more seats in the house
and of course the northern states were there weren't a lot of
There weren't slaves or there was you know lesser population they went. No, that's ridiculous. And so this compromise
was done where
every three out of five slaves would be counted as a person in the terms of the census population and
there was quite a lot of
slaves in the South there
There was a lot of them so it gave the southern states a lot more representation and then they would have had normally
Just for an example
Come the American Civil War would and the start of the American Civil War which was in
1860 you know over almost 100 years post this
They the southern states the entire United States the entire
population in the United States was about 31 million people and
The southern states that went formed the Confederacy. They had a population of around 9 million and
4.1 million of those were enslaved people. That's a lot. You know that
gave them quite a lot more representation in the house and what they ended up having and
That's it's this law. That's still technically on the books
But it's been superseded by the 14th amendment or the 15th a guy got my amendment screwed up
But essentially no matter what it you know
The only way to have it even come up again because they really don't removal laws from the books ever. They just supersede it
That's why we have you know
A an amendment that makes that create a prohibition and then an amendment later on that
Overrule that overruled the previous amendment. They don't remove a loss. They just supersede them
So he did as as governor
He did work on preventing new slaves from being imported into Virginia from Africa
From the in regards to the interstate trade. I don't think he touched anything whatsoever on it
Now in in regards to Jefferson and how he viewed slavery
It's very he kind of flip-flopped on it to some degree
If I remember my history correctly and it's the entire point of this channel
During
Jefferson's earlier years. He was much more about banning slavery at least in the new territories
He worked to prevent the slaves from going into the western territories at all
during his
Before he became president and through his influence it got them banned in the Northwest Territories which included, Ohio, Michigan
Wisconsin, Indiana
You know that grouping of states up until I want to say Tennessee if I remember the territory map correctly
However, during his tenure as president
he
Whenever he and have deemed by Louisiana from the French
he
He
disallowed slave
slaves and slave holders from entering the territory for a year
but then allowed them to expand into it not a whole idea but a few did
at least during his tenure I'm saying and of course he worked to get rid of the Native Americans that lived in the
Louisiana territory the French were much more lenient with the American natives than the United States
Especially Spain and the British were pretty not good to him
The French were the best out of all of them, which is really not saying much
But later in life whenever Jefferson wasn't in the in the political life he was much more
Adamant against it to some degree
he
He viewed them regardless as inferior. He wanted to grant them rights, but he still feud them as inferior
however, whenever the Missouri
Whenever the Missouri Compromise in 1820 came up
he was one of the individuals that said that barring slaves from Missouri would tear apart the Union and
He had a number of instances like that. He was also one of the individuals that that expressed a lot of interest in sending
freed
freed slaves or free black men back to Africa under in in American colony essentially, which is how light beer the
Independent of Liberia and Africa, which still exists today?
end up being formed was
essentially through american colonization
A lot of people don't know about that because that's a topic that doesn't get really talked about much
I'm working on a video on that too. Because of course I am
so he was very wishy-washy later in life about
How slavery should exist but I haven't done as much reading on it. So I don't want to say too much
Anyway, let's just go and continue on
Okay, so that was also another thing that a lot of people looking back and I believe even at the time we're kind of like
Come on, man
there was really controversy around it, but just more of a
Distaste Minh when Jefferson died he in his will he end up releasing five?
Five men, I want to say he he released a few
Before then I can only think of three off the top of my head with her may even more
But he released five
Men at the time of his death in his will but in reference to this
yeah, he end of having six children with a enslaved woman and ananda freeing her and
How slavery worked then and will fight it worked
The entire time that it was in existence is that if there was a child that ended up being born from someone that was enslaved
That child would be enslaved as well. So
Yeah, it not a great look to say
So I guess I should end up asking you who do you think won who you think's next in terms of this in terms of
This debate if there are any other interesting historical facts about either these
individuals they want to share please say you so down the comments below, you know, I want a discussion to happen about
You know ginta keen to know more about these figures. That's the entire reason. I'm doing this
Give me some context about the people behind it
Give some context to the lines that they're saying and that sort of thing, you know
Of course, if you if you like the video go look at the epic Rap Battles
YouTube channel, they're the ones that create this there wants to do an amazing job
I'm just some schmuck on the Internet given some historical context to it
But outside of that I would go for another one but this video is already gonna be long enough and
I want to prevent myself from rambling even more so
With that I'll see how this video ends up doing
I might end up doing more will end up seeing
let me know if you end up liking this you've want me to if you want to see me do more of it if there's
Anything you'd want me to change or adjust or anything? Let me know and
Other than that, is there anything else I need to say really?
No, I don't think so. So thank you for everybody that ended up watching and I hope to see you next time
