Comments by "Kim Jong-un" (@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un) on "The Present Past" channel.

Besides the South Pacific and Africa, the Germans also had the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory from 1898 to 1914. They wanted a model colony by copying the UK and acquiring a Chinese harbor to show both the Chinese and the other powers what it means to have effective colonial policy. In 1860, a Prussian expeditionary fleet arrived in Asia and explored the region around Jiaozhou Bay. The following year, the Prussian-Chinese Treaty of Peking was signed. In November 1897, local peasants killed two German priests, and Wilhelm II ordered admiral Otto von Diederichs to respond. Despite occupying all the forts and disabling the telegraph line, Wilhelm II canceled the order and opted for a lease over outright cession. As the territory was not a colony but a lease, and because of its importance to the German navy, it was placed under the supervision of the Imperial Naval Office rather than the colonial office. The impoverished fishing village of Tsingtau was laid out with wide streets, solid housing areas, government buildings, electrification throughout, a sewer system, and a safe drinking water supply, a rarity in large parts of Asia at that time and later. The area had the highest density of schools and highest per capita student enrollment in all of China. During the German period, Tsingtao Brewery was founded in 1903 by an English-German joint stock company, and Tsingtao is still around today, and Qingdao has a thriving beer culture thanks to the Germans.
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Brazil: is the flag featured on many sites when switching the language to Portuguese Portugal: And they ask you how you are, and you just have to say you’re fine when you’re not really fine, but you just can’t get into it, because they would never understand.
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This is what I don't like about the effect of memes on the Internet. In the case of history like OverSimplified, Bill Wurtz (these channels are still great and not entirely their fault) and here with Johnny Harris, it has made us want to simplify everything. When another channel showed every atomic test in history, I commented on the effect of the tests on the Marshallese, when I was told by a reply that they weren't going to read my "essay". That is exactly what I'm talking about, memes have shortened our attention spans. History isn't something you can just simplify and be done with, because reality is it is way more complicated than people think. The reason Korea is the way it is and hasn't reunified is because the situation is complicated (more than just the war). Same thing for Cyprus. By cherry-picking things to tell, we ignore even bigger things. Not to mention TikTok's influence doesn't help, the single worst platform
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The Dutch first stated their intentions of not handing over West Papua at the same time as the rest of the colony during the Denpasar Conference in 1946 when they created the independent State of East Indonesia (as a counter to the revolutionaries; the intention was for Papua to join this state, but it never happened). Originally, they WERE going to hand it over as part of forming the United States of Indonesia which both sides agreed to during the Linggadjati Agreement (where they also recognized revolutionary sovereignty over Java, Sumatra, and Madura). However, due to pressure from Catholic missionaries, the Dutch decided to interpret this agreement differently and form this East Indonesia state which included Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda, and Moluccas.
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Another thing the DDR did to show superiority was build the Fernsehturn. They purposefully built it so tall to dominate the Berlin skyline as symbolism that socialism dominates. But the most interesting GDR/DDR fact of them all...the Palast der Republik lives on through the Burj Khalifa in Dubai! About 35K tonnes of steel from it was shipped to the UAE for the Burj Khalifa. The Palast der Republik opened in 1976 and was the main gathering place of the DDR in East Berlin. Besides parliament, it also had restaurants, a performing arts center, a post office, a casino, galleries, a bowling alley, and even an indoor swimming pool! The Palast was demolished in the 2000s to rebuild the old Stadtschloss. The Palast may be gone from Museum Island, but across from the former site is the former State Council Building, which houses the ESMT Berlin campus. They've been quite passionate about preserving its history. The interior has a large glass socialist mosaic by Walter Womacka. The interior also has a ballroom with a preserved GDR emblem made of one million mosaic stones. And the building's entrance is actually a balcony kept from the ORIGINAL Stadtschloss and was added to the State Council Building. The balcony is significant because it was the balcony Karl Liebknecht, who led the Spartacist uprising declared a new socialist republic in 1918. It's also the same balcony the Kaiser declared war against Russia
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Suriname fun fact: The country is the home of the famous blue poison dart frog. They are found in patches of forests surrounded by the Sipaliwini Savanna, known in Surinamese Dutch as blauwe pijlgifkikker. The frog is also known by its indigenous Tirio name, okopipi
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@aplayeraplayer a short-lived federal state to which the Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies (except Netherlands New Guinea) on December 27, 1949 following the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference. It lasted less than a year. Gotta love when people like you don't actually do research! Look up the Denpasar Conference, look up the Linggadjati Agreement, and look up the State of East Indonesia. All of this info about their intentions with Papua can be found online with different sources.
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Ah yes, the Majapahit...Bill Wurtz did well in teaching me about that empire. Regarding Prince Diponegro, Prince Diponegoro's rebellion wasn't him overworking the farmers but rather, the Dutch were unwilling to lose influence over the Yogyakartan court by creating a succession crisis, and they also wanted to build a road through his parents' tomb which was his final straw. Of course, it ended in Dutch victory, and when they invited Diponegro for a "peace conference"...they captured him. He died in Makassar, South Sulawesi in 1855 at age 69 (nice) while kept prisoner in Fort Rotterdam.
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