Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Frederick the Great: Prussia’s Fabulous King" video.

  1. "who largely wiped corruption from public offices" The contrary was true. He did welcome corruption. He liked that other governments paid bribed to his clerks and officials to spy on their behalf, because that only meant that he could keep on paying low wages for his workers and hand over the cost of living upon other governments. "who lived almost like a commoner" He was a very fat man who later on would die from obesity related causes. "Sure he was a tyrant, but he didn´t delight in inflicting pain to others" Of all the untrue things said about this man, this does remain the most untrue of all. It seems like you have gotten your untrue opinion from a nazi propaganda movie called "Der Alte und der Junge König". Fact is that he loved to humiliate and bully others - and especially his own son. He did beat up his officials and he loved to make joke at their expense in the Tobacco Cabinet. He did beat up Frederick the Great's teacher for the crime of learning his own son latin language. He was not a caring father. He wanted his son dead, and even went as far as trying to get him to commit suicide with his bullying. He forced him to marry a girl he thought unattractive, instead of getting the prestigious honor of marrying the princess of England who's beauty Frederick greatly admired. opportunity The diplomatic pressure simply became too high to make his will go through. But in the end did he want to kill Frederick. He despised everything which were different from himself: Fredrick William was a christian fundamentalist, a militarist, he was a simple man that he loved hunting. While Frederick was open minded in religious issues and he was not a simple man since he had deep intellectual hobbies - he could read foreign languages, he was an excellent flute player, he read lots of books and he could discuss philosophical works. Just like the rest of Frederick Williams family did he think that his fathers hunting trips were boring. Frederick loved military life, but he was not as obsessed about it as his own father. And that made his father despise him. He thought that speaking french, intellectual interests and flute playing was useless feminine hobbies. The only thing this primitive brute was right about when it came to his own son, was that Frederick in his young years liked to waste much money on foreign luxury garbage: perfume, tonnes of rings on his fingers, and buying tonnes of books in secrecy. But this also a little bit shows the corrupt culture in Prussia under Frederick William, as his son in secrecy waste money on junk behind his fathers back.
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  2. Too bad that he died. Had he lived two decades more and helped Frederick conquer more lands from Austria, Saxony and Sweden then it would have been the biggest LMAO LOL ROFL moment in history.
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  3. Well I respect that man. He introduced freedom of speech, freedom of opinion and meritocracy long before anyone else did. He made the Prussian economy into the strongest in continental Europe, despite his country was a tiny piece of land with no natural resources in abundance. His military fought alone against 3 of the strongest armies in the world for several years without going out of the war with a loss, and he won many battles against armies twice as strong. He was a gifted flute player, a thinking philosopher in an age of religious dogma and lack of thinking. He introduced the potato to Prussia and thereby saving thousands of lives from famines. He created the worlds first modern school system. He took on the bullying Habsburg empire and wrecked them and humiliated them, by conquering the rich province of Silesia which stood for 25% of Austria's tax revenues. While other Kings motto was "I am the state". Did Frederick instead say "I am the first servant of the state", which implied that he was not a man free from duties and obligations, but instead would he work hard just like the rest of his subjects. A typical day he woke up early at the morning and read 30 letters, and afterwards he wrote a respons to all of them one by one. And he traveled around his Kingdom and talked to ordinary people and listened to their concerns and he suggested ways how to improve the economy. He was a man who never cared to glorify himself in art or improving the stories told about himself, like the propaganda of other monarchs, but instead did he let his actions speak for themselves. His fate was in many ways a sad one. His childhood consisted of severe bullying from his father. His heart was crushed when his dream of marrying the beautiful princess of England was rejected, because his father wanted to further humiliate Frederick by marrying an ugly girl he didn't like instead. He was also forced to watch the execution of his friend Katte. And the seven years war did not seem to end well for Frederick despite his brilliant victories at the battles of Rossbach and Leuthen. And Frederick thought of committing suicide, as the war seemed lost and he seemed to have ruined his family's generational project, and his Kingdom was nearly wiped off the map. He would however get of the war unharmed. But his psyche had some scars after the hard life he had been through. He never married the woman he wanted, and people who he thought of as friends were often times only people which wanted money, high positions and favors from Frederick once he became King. And they became disappointing as he preferred meritocracy over nepotism. Later on would he say that he preferred his dogs over humans because "they are always loyal and never ungrateful". Fredericks life would probably have been better if he had married the girl he wanted and without the bullying from his dad. Perhaps he could have created a few good off-springs that could have become better replacements for Frederick than the useless Frederick William II that managed to in just a few years waste all money that Frederick had saved up. And then he would also go to war against Napoleon and suffer a humiliating defeat.
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