Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1.  @TheImperatorKnight  Yes, the state is a monopoly of lawful violence. By the way, state power is inevitable, necessary, and so much better than the alternative (which is mafias and anarchy i.e. random rape robbery and murder plus private vengeance of all kinds).
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  2. Yes, monetary policy absolutely can cause a recession; but that's not the only cause. Can also be caused by tax policy; usually tax and monetary policies are coordinated. But if we think of exogenous causes: disease is one, obviously, so also is war. Finally of course cataclysmic environmental catastrophes can cause economic downturn. The material forces of production can cause or cure a recession or depression; the structural relations of production can exacerbate or diminish a recession or depression. But in the dialectic of structures of production as opposed to forces of production it is the forces of production which generally determine. In other words: if everyone is dead there's no recession! MARXIST ECONOMICS AT WORK!
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  3.  @MatoroTBS  but as a Finnish communist you are already a traitor so I would molchat
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  4. there's no guessing to it. The baby bust. The grandbaby bust. The great grandbaby bust.
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  5. you can get so much free stuff if you just ASK for it, especially if you ask nicely. but when you try to take stuff then there will be problems
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  6. Why ever would anyone conspire against Stalin?
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  7. and the greatest contribution of lend lease was radios and trucks. the US was glad to send radios since obviously if your enemy in the next war is literally using your radios... and trucks because you can't use trucks well as weapons (Diana mounting of ATGs on trucks might work in the desert but W.Europe isn't a desert).
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  8. ww2 in real time is much less detailed a broader overview and generally says non-controversial things but is prolific and so well done that i must recommend it too especially for noobs.
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  9. Don't worry, if you don't finish the script on time we'll just airlift it in to you
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  10. the free market tends toward monopolies. these tend to be vertical rather than horizontal.
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  11. I knew a German army veteran. Germans fought on in part because of the fact the regime was a terror dictatorship. If you didn't fight you would get shot. Maybe in 1944 people were still fighting to enjoy socialism but by 1945 it was SS maniacs running the show, more or less accurately portrayed in that famous tank film Fury.
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  12. You must love your work even more than your broken heart. You are now something of a hero. Herzlichen Beileid.
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  13. 1:02 "I sense a demonetization in the force. As if the souls of 1000 pennies were suddenly snuffed out"
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  14.  Tracchofyre  but sexay sexay times! this is an impossible topic to treat correctly. it's going to attract pervs, be misinterpreted, and even when you've got a filthy accurate historian like TIK you're gonna have distortions and false accusations of intentional distortions. He might be wrong but at least he's in good faith.
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  15. Narrow front > broad front because of the principle of concentration of force to overwhelm the enemy with local absolute superiority. broad front ONLY makes sense if you are also scouring for the german nukes which they were.
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  16. Hitler knew Britain would fight ... eventually. All the rest was window dressing to forestall that day as long as possible and IF POSSIBLE to ally with Britain against the USSR. When that was not possible Molotov Ribbentorp pact and the rest is literally history
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  17. sounds like no one wants to conclude that international finance capital and inter-imperialist rivalry squeezed Germany so hard that they voted for a dictator with the aim of unleashing another world war to get out from under Versailles reparations and to get swag.
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  18. Obviously the USSR being a capitalist market economy enjoyed vastly superior logistics or, economic reductionism sometimes fails.
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  19. Non-monetization isn't merely "let's not fund secret nazis" but also "let's try to get funds to the victims" (most all of whom are dead by now) but above all "how can google avoid paying out while convincing others it pays out" I don't know of any other video service which pays you to upload, it's economic competition as well as political factors. Doesn't mean it's right just explaining the objective facts.
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  20. Sweden sent a regiment of volunteers to fight in Finland in 1940 btw. though that was never official you don't just have an entire regiment of volunbeers show up with guns and uniforms and a command structure without shall we say some ACTIVE MEASURES
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  21.  TEXOCMOTP  yeah, holdomir even kulakization weren't intended to murder off masses of people. the sovs were vicious but well intentioned. they considered their vicious qualities as necessary evils forced on them by the material conditions etc etc.
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  22. THE SHININGRAD
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  23. TIK stands for TIGER IN KURLAND (Tigers in Courland)
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  24. one of the weaknesses of our current era, late modernity, is it's pusstastic rejection of hatred as a virtue, in certain circumstances.
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  25. that is generally true of humans; they are not so nomadic, they tend to settle down; more to your point, there is the fact that people prefer a known bad to a possible good. "better the devil you know". It's one example of economic irrationality identified by behavioral economics.
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  26. when a country debt defaults no one will lend it anything so it can't buy things and people lose their jobs go hungry and rebel. defaulting is no easy thing.
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  27.  @TheImperatorKnight  Hoover was the opposite of a socialist: he was a non-interventionist. His response to the depression was -- do nothing, this is normal, improvident people are having their asses handed to them, and that's good. His motto was "prosperity is just around the corner". Reagan was similar only his motto was "stay the course". But Reagan was a borrow-and-spend interventionist in practice. Borrow money to build weapons to defeat the USSR, which he did. Go Reagan!
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  28. NUCLEAR ARMS RACE FTW oops.
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  29. Apparently the best English language video series about the Stalingrad campaign. I can think of none even rivalling it.
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  30.  @sabhishek9289  "the DESCENT of man" Buried lede: mann, we wuz KINGZ! Charles Darwin: Nation of Islamist this joke sponsored by "No. 1 in particular" hope it gets a larf try not to hate ppl.
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  31. Economic cyclicity is the result of speculative expectations, trading imbalances, and literal weather. Toss in a few wars or earthquakes for "exogenous shocks". Inflationary spending can however absolutely wreck an economy: see 1979. But the libertard think government is the problem when in fact human civilization would be impossible without government. The alternative to government isn't some hippy anarchic paradise: it's the war of all against all because no central enforcer of law (The State) means that the only law is the law of the jungle, dog eat dog.
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  32. this is true but is also an open secret. it might even have aged out of being covered under the official secrets act. 75 years ran out already though we're still under good god what does the queen think so important that no one alive NO ONE shall know for certain? Even the murricans don't have 100 year state secrets!
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  33. it in fact depends on what / who counts; only Germans? Or all axis powers? Or only some? What about Russian civilians - partisans, or suspected partisans?
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  34. Lots of anti-stalin nazis got sent back to the USSR. Um, these were in fact nazis, specifically SS. It's kinda hard to defend them, and yet here we are.
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  35. I feel really badly that you don't grasp that this was a war of extermination with no surrender possible on either side. Collapse into what? Complete extermination? Surrender under any circumstance or condition was impossible for the USSR. Even an anti Stalin coup would not have ended the fighting. This wasn't "surrender or die" this was "don't bother to surrender you're gonna die anyway" which is very close to "conquer or die" but more earnest in fact. Maybe this way: would Britain have been "starved into submission"? Was Japan "starved into submission"? I know of no not one instance of a country surrendering in war due to famine. Name one case where that happened! You can't because it doesn't. But even then no the war would have gone on untill all the people in the ex USSR were dead or literally enslaved.
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  36. if you are too stupid to make your own weapons you really shouldn't have them...
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  37. um... Gott strafe England means "may god punish england" But yeah, your pronunciation is correct and this word is the source of the word "strafe" as in airplane machineguns in English.
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  38.  @Whatisthisstupidfinghandle  more like 3 months
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  39. Btw I uploaded the speech where hitler explains how the labor backed mark ended inflation and was better than the gold backed mark. Guess what happened next?
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  40. Sorge's most interesting role will prove to be the debunking of the "Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor beforehand" myth but only at the time the Russian government so desires.
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  41. My bet is Yeremenko blew it; 2:44 he had already proven himself incompetent in Finland (along with Timoshenko). Both were loyal to Stalin which explains their rise to prominence but while they were not sabotaging him holy hell did they suck!
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  42. Nukes.
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  43. Totalitarian regimes claim the state has the right duty and power to control all aspects of life, that there is no private life. Totalitarian regimes like Hitler's are really rare, but yeah the NS ideology claims TOTAL CONTROL for TOTAL ARYAN VICTORY TOTALITARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYAAAAAAAAAAAN hope it gets a sick laugh the ideology is so batshit cray cray that you can really only make sense of it as just one in a panoply of militarist and authoritarian regimes in competition for global hegemony against liberalism. Good thing that non-aggression pact failed, huh!
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  44. though TIK's basically correct about monetary policy his view is also a bit simplistic (not taking into account taxation or even bond policies). Government has lots of indirect levers to influence the economy (prime lending rate, printed paper money supply, taxation especially, government owned businesses, trade policy, regulatory policy). These have proven in practice far more effective than "central planning" which is why all the Marxists regimes collapsed or were replaced by pseudo Marxists (China, Cuba, Vietnam). Can the government make an economy boom permanently? Yes! But it's tough because of exogenous factors like wars, disasters, diseases. There's no such thing as over production or under consumption btw. That's keyne's thinking and he's a retard (or a liar). Pick B!
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  45. Being in a concentration camp probably helped his case a lot, huh.
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  46. Prior to the war I know Zhukov studiously avoided the Kremlin. That's where people die and get exiled! During the war I strongly suspect as in have never heard of him ever making a run to the Kremlin for a potentially deadly conference. All Zhukov wanted was to be a great Russian general. Even still he wound up promoted out of power in the post-war era, not blood purged but also was seen as way too popular and militarily effective and thus to be kept far away from potential coups. He's the interesting guy who dodges ever bullet, he and Chuikov could have a competition. I think he was a better general than Chuikov.
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  47.  @TheImperatorKnight  some monopolies result from thug tactics others because of economies of scale sometimes both. Are you still working on German? Or are you ready to start in on Russian?
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  48.  @TransportSupremo  non lawyers REGULARLY confuse law, justice, and morality. Lots of laws are immoral. Lots of justice is extra-legal as in illegal. In fact the former implies the latter. Most people have no idea what they mean when they use terms like "justice" "fairness" and "equity" "equitable" all of which have precise legal definitions btw.
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  49. Hiroshima says Yes, and Nagasaki agrees.
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  50. that depends on the fascist. some are/were quite intelligent. yeah, there is a thuggish clubbish element there, and even the majority however it's not that they had no ideas or entirely retarded ideas. in fact one could study the varieties of fascism and lay out with good precision their splits.
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