Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?
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who cares what they have just came to drop a dislike, i h 8 stup i d videos with clickbaity titles, just pause em as soon as the load dislike usually block the channel and move on
@Jimbob Robob Exactly how would control hundreds of millions of people even the Germans found it near impossible.
@Influence08 Australia never entered Europe other than providing pilots.
Planning for an invasion is a bit of the usual paranoid middle class overreach about the USSR. As if a conventional bombing campaign might not have preceded a nuclear one or sabotage and special ops by agents and special forces wouldn't have been a thing. Invasion indeed! How paranoid. It's as if the anxiety over Putin has pushed aside the collapse of the USSR under it's own deficiencies when it was revealed to be almost certainly incapable of such a thing and had been for decades.
No-one guessing the maps at 5:19, ok New York Manhattan? Portsmouth & Isle of Wight Paris? London (tube) Prague?
Co on powiedział? 0:50
Commys
Понимать надо. Люди работают.
Thank you DEfasts algorithm, you have blessed me with another godlike channel. Satan bless the bots
Google maps be like: I still have to learn much.
I like how you acknowledge the Russian achievements and contrbutions that mostly everyone else prefers to deny and ignore...i.e. periodic table and WW2 👍
6:14 what about when the CIA invaded in 1979? Whose maps were used then?? ...also this is absolutely brilliant, I can't believe I'm just finding this show now.
Winning World War 2. Sarcasm, please say that was sarcasm..
Maybe they did invade not physically but culturally. You can't deny how communism is an upwards trend since then.
The Siegfried-Maps of my native country Switzerland are still the best!
2:24 Guys, you should have put pencil in there. Missed opportunity.
_"...always within 10,000 miles from a Russian spy"_ - ...or anyone
I'm sure the Soviet military had more detailed maps than the USGS, thats like saying an F1 car has more horsepower than a Prius
THE MERCENARY 2020 BRUTAL ACTION BY THE FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER FROM GANGS OF NEW YORK NOW ON AMAZON PRIME .............
Cold war map off is my preferred name for arctic navigation.
Jay Foreman: "Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?" Russia: "xexexe"
Jay Foreman: "Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?" Russia: "Why don't you call yourself Hayley Cropper any more?"
I like your new haircut jay :)
This "Polish map" isn't from cold war era, rather it was made for polish pilots during WWII.
Russia didn't even come up with vodka
2:58 diskette.
So if someone would have asked me last week if i liked maps i would have said 'hell no!'. Yet i seem to have binged loads of videos on this channel over the last few days. The comedy mixed with facts and the ad skits are strangely intriguing. I may have become a map facts fan. Good Job with these videos! 😊
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I'm polish No joke
Poland allied during the Cold War? You mean soviet puppet?
miniurl.es/milfhot8z1mz Nel loro impegno per migliorare la qualità della vita, dimenticano che la costante crescita quantitativa e la portata della nostra attività ci consentono di adempiere a compiti importanti per sviluppare i compiti stabiliti dalla società. E non c'è dubbio che molte personalità famose si mescolano a dati non univoci al punto da essere completamente irriconoscibili, il che aumenta il loro stato di inutilità.Le considerazioni ideologiche di ordine superiore, così come la pianificazione futura, giocano un ruolo decisivo nell'analisi dei modelli di comportamento esistenti. Tuttavia, non bisogna dimenticare che il nuovo modello di attività organizzativa offre ampie opportunità per ripensare le politiche economiche estere.💕 Assim, o conceito de alta tecnologia de estrutura social e perfeito para a implementacao de formas de influencia. Ate hoje, apenas os estados independentes continuam sendo o destino dos liberais que desejam ser distribuidos associativamente entre os setores.
6:06 but do not forget, that china, the ccp, is the bigger problem.
There is a great 1970s Russian map of Wellington NZ. It has every building in all the Quarters and the Parliamentary Precinct, all the companies that were in that building, and even little notes on what you could buy from shops at every location. Someone in the Soviet Embassy really really liked maps and spent a lot of time doing it, and updating it.
U are so very good at those adds :)
You know there's a mistake at the start, right? Two, if you consider that you did not mention Dostoievski.
This is by far one of the most interesting you tube video I have watched and that has changed my option on the entire soviet union 10/10.
As a Pole, I felt weird when you suggested that our air force could invade GB. We always liked you, guys! The Soviets wouldn't let us be nice to you :c
Are these Soy Boys gay lovers?
They don't
They do say the Russians have the best spies in the world. They even managed to get one into extremely high up in the Japanese forces during WW2 who told them they had no intention of invading through China. Freeing up a LOT of specially trained and equipped troops to stall and then drive back the German advance in the middle of the Russian winter
I never thought anyone could make maps fun, well done.
Is this what BeardyMan does in his off time from creating epic tunes? 😂👍
Beardyman (Darren Foreman) is my brother, and he made the Map Men theme music for us.
Its the MAP, it’s the MAP, It’s the MAP, it’s the MAP, ‘tis the phucking map KOmrad
Yo I’ve only just realised the ‘intro song’ is different every episode - pretty epic if u ask me
Кошмар!
i was singing along to the intro only to realise that there is no extra "men" in the end! am i hallucinating or did you remove it? if yes, pls get it back on!!! :(
I never trust English guys who say Russia won the war. Way too beta
@Cian MacGana =))
@dushas nah Britain won the war
pretty sure that's what you call it, when one side has inflicted 85-90% of casualties of the defeated side.
sweet surname bro
Winning ww2 ? Debatable
English people really should use Polish spelling, it's far easier! (I'm Polish of course)
"Winning WW2" GTFO
Dendi ?
sheldon cooper(s) ... it's funny. But i will continue to hate england for what you done in your history. Don't worry guys one day we will come :))) See you later :)
What a ridiculous thing to say.
They still put planes in our airspace.
should be asking "who gives a fuck?" lnstead
Look at Google map and on Yandex map...
U Fucking suck
4:05 Žilina , Slovakia ... 😃
Not sure if anyone has ever commented on it, but does anyone think that Jay sounds as if he were the identical voice twin of James Burke? I love it.... I've always really enjoyed James' documentaries. And I love your channel.
The way I was caught out by the “don’t watch it now, watch it later” spooked me😭
The Soviet maps warmly recommends the 123-metre spire of Salisbury.
It's bc they know who to be scared of
lol russia "won" ww2
0:49 excuse me? i am a native polish speaker and have absolutely not an ounce of a clue what you were trying to say
OTOH, I did read a story about Western made maps of Moscow being the best ones. That because the Russian messed with their official maps to avoid giving away intelligence (www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-maps-were-faked-for-50-years.html). IIRC, it ended being so bad that diplomats in Moscow needed to use the maps provided by their own intelligence agencies (mainly the CIA) to do their routine functions, and the maps being leaked to everyone (including Russians with the right connections!) who needed to travel through Moscow.
Why are people surprised that Russians can make good maps, if it was the US that made these maps of USSR nobody would bat an eye
sorry, but if USA made good maps even of USA i will be surprised.
The WWII comment could be debated
Very good.
Where can we see a Russian map of Area 51 ?
Great as always
Well, either I’m mistaken or I just heard Jay’s distinctive tones doing a voice continuity on top telly channel Dave??!!
You’re not mistaken, I have done some voiceover work for Dave.
I'm just glad someone else identified the true victors of the 2nd world war
Well Arnold Schwarzenegger let the cartographer go together with Jackie Chan from the jail in Tayna pechati drakona so im sure thats why..
Russian didnt made vodka
"Kolczyste" (Colchester) and "Sendłycz" (Sandwich) are my favourite on that map :) . "- Two kolczyste sandwiches pliizzz" would be like "Two spiky sandwiches please" ;) :D
So many subtitles in different languages and no russian...
Turn to Jesus Christ!
Isaiah 13:11 KJV And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
No.
Saint Luke 5:32 KJV I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Saint Luke 13:3 KJV I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Хехе)
0:49 excuse me? i am a native polish speaker and have absolutely not an ounce of a clue what you were trying to say
@Jay Foreman ohhh, i'll assume that was dobrze zrobione, meaning "well made" or "well done", is that right?
Dobre zdrobione. (Sorry I did such a terrible job pronouncing it!)
0:50 What he meant to say: "Dobrze zrobione!" What he actually said: *"DOBRE ŻRONIE!"*
If not for subtitles in Polish - I would have had no idea what he had said :) . Not to mention, that they just 1:1 translated English phrase "well done" - which no Polish person would have used in such a situation :D . So..., wcale NIE "dobrze zrobione" ;) Still, they tried - and Polish is no joke for foreigners so props for them! :)
As a german I am amused by "Saufend-on-si" bc "saufend" means "getting drunk" in german XD
Jawohl! I guess being saufend on see makes one much amused ;) .
Transliterated. I gotta remember that one.
0:00 You didn't mention Tolstoy!!!!
"Polish allies" is a bit of a stretch.
Thanks again 👍Who’s the jazz pianist on the soundtrack in the end of the video?
6:25 is an oil field in California near Bakersfield.
Очень нехорошо: выпустили ролик, касающийся России, однако перевели его на все наречия, которые только возможно, кроме русского :(
Thank you very much, I will wait :)
Sorry! I guess the Russian-speaking volunteer is taking longer than everybody else. I’m sure the Russian translation is coming soon. Hopefully no more than just a few days!
New vid noice one lads. This reminds me of that bimig bang show when Sheldon reviews maps
Polish allies? Are you off your trolley? Since when does being occupied by the Russians mean you're on their side?
Polish Allies SHIT a brick poles if anything hated their soviet oppressors.
Ю ар вэлком!
In the soviet russia, you dont need maps, the maps need YOU!
The comment about expecting Russian maps to be defective is such a good illustration of latent anti-communist ideology clouding our understanding
Amazing video man
Secret? I've got officer atlas literally at home from my father's day in the red army as a tank officer, and considering the size of the damn thing there is quite a lot of maps in there
2:24, aha the Russians didn't use pens in space comrade. LOL 🤣
I like your new old look. old new look wasn't working as much.
The lack of excitement in "What's Skillshare?"
You guys make some of the best content on DEfasts
It's good to see Britain was actually an half interesting country back at the time and not a shithole only known for a pretty terrible series of books made for grown-up kids where you can get arrested for having a swiss army knife in your pockets.
Just found out there's a secret bunker for the regional government in my hometown.... That's unexpected
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"... until no matter where you lived in the world, you were always at least ten thousand miles from a russian spy" That got me lmao.
Dont watch it now, Watch it later. - Mark, 2020
First time here, you two are brilliant.
5:41 I like how everything is in Polenglish, but they left ,,Przyl." for przylądek (cape), I mean like ,,excuse me do you know where is przylądek Łodm-Point?"