Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?

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I never trust English guys who say Russia won the war. Way too beta

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 :)

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

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

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??!!

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!

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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

0:50 What he meant to say: "Dobrze zrobione!" What he actually said: *"DOBRE ŻRONIE!"*

As a german I am amused by "Saufend-on-si" bc "saufend" means "getting drunk" in german XD

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 :(

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

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 EEprojects

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?"

Link to polish map, please, pretty please🙏

I thought the Polish did take over the UK though?

it all started with beep, beep, beep, beep in 1957

How did they do it!? Answer: “they be the best at *I spy*

well......... why does snapchat have the best map overall?

FUN FACTS: - Stalin: Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize This is correct, in 1945 and 1948 for his efforts to end the second World War, he didn't win the Prize though. Hitler was also nominated (although the nomination was intended as sarcasm) for the Prize, in 1939. He didn't win it either. - Malenkov: Was known by the nickname "Two Jags" No evidence of this. British politician John Prescott did have this nickname, because he owned two Jaguar cars. There is a resemblence between Prescott and Malenkov in this picture - Khrushchev: Unsuccessfully tried to patent a self-boiling egg No evidence of this, nor for the existence of a self-boiling egg (patent). He was mostly bald (at least when he was in power), and a bald head can be referred to as an egg-head. - Brezhnev: His hands were superglued together throughout the 1970s No evidence of this, but the picture makes it look like this is the case - Andropov: He doesn't know who you are either This is probably true, depending on who you are. Andropov may be the least-known poast-war Soviet leader, possibly together with Chernenko, both due to their short time in office. - Chernenko: Was a huge fan of Catchphrase, and had every episode on VHS This is demonstrably untrue, as the first episode of the game show Catchphrase aired after Chernenko's death - Gorbachev: Did an advert for Pizza Hut in 1998. (Look it up!) This is true, you can find it on EEprojects. In the advert, Gorbachev is seated in a Moscow branch of Pizza Hut with his real-life granddaughter while other customers argue about his legacy.

But would they include Thameslink on their tube map?

2:24, aha the Russians didn't use pens in space comrade. LOL 🤣

Ive seen the Russian map of Barrow-in-Furness with the shipyard marked in very good detail

I like your Russian secret agent at 3:43. Trigger Happy TV, "you're not grey squirrel?"

Just stumbled upon this 😂 wtf those guys are so weird and funny

You missed the last 'men' on the song.

PotatoeS? :)

THIS IS THE BEST INTRO EVER!

STOP PEDDLING TE MYHT THE RUSSIANS WON WW2.

Кошмар... То есть, круто).

Hungarians also made a spam a lot :) spam anagram maps.

But why would Polish pilots - or American, for that matter - be interested in the British pronunciation of British place-names? In order to ask local air-control for permission to bomb? Or to ask for their way to the target-city? Oh, I know. Foreigners are stupid. Otherwise, they would be British.

How many Russians fought in the Pacific Theatre in WW2? Zero. Russians didnt win WW2

To These blokes.... Didn't you know, Education shouldn't be funny and that, while having a laugh it might actually sink in to audiences memory... Thats wrong wrong wrong Wrong. Its supposed to be BOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNNG🥱🥱😴😴😴😴 Nah just stirring yas. Some of your videos reminds me of Monty Python's skits, and I end up waking up the missus or the baby from my laughter late at night. Keep Up The Good Shit 👍 ya Funny Fuckers👍🤣👍

LOL whats laughable is thinking the Polish troops would have tried that hard for the USSR.

1:21 I mean, Andropov is dead, but if he was alive, he would DEFINITELY know who we all are, that was basically his job.

OMG These Polish-pronunciation names on maps made my head hurt. And I am Polish... OMG, Roczyste... :)

So Soviets wanted to turn the world to Communism through massive invasions supported by highly detailed maps just so they could colonise Mars and Venus in 1999, but Gorbachev and American CIA prevented it all? Damn, I really do live in the wrong timeline!

Me a russian watching this video: Кажется меня раскрыли...

Guys I...don't know how to tell you this but...the Communists won.

Yuri was right™️

The Soviet Union had mapped out the Swedish and Finnish archipelago far better than Sweden and Finland They had also mapped out Swedish/Finnish rivers/streams if they were suitable for their tanks to traverse

My father in law is Russian, and he told me the story of how ships going down the Volga River had pilots come on board at certain times during their voyage armed with special maps dating back to Stalin times to assist in the safe navigation. These maps were jealously guarded as 'secret' by the pilots, so you imagine their horror when after peristroika and the opening of borders with the West, a Captain produced a Michelin map of the Volga which was far more detailed than that held by the official pilots! The advantages of satellite photographic topography!

I saw a Russian kill a wolf with his bare hands in the news last week.... I did.

not to be a dick but I'm Polish and I had to turn on CC to see what Jay said around 0:50 lol

i prefere russian spies to american corporations

I never thought Hayley Cropper would become a cartographer.

Why do people use that phrase, "destroyed many times over"? Because surely by the first time it's destroyed, there's nothing left to destroy, so one can't destroy something many times over unless they first rebuild it before once again destroying it. Sorry lads, my just Brainworks that way, I can't help it, it's like fir eg, when one has long hair, they go get it cut short And Someone says, have you had you hair cut, or when you're putting your coat on and someone always says "what are you looking out then". Enjoyable video.

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Where did that second, slightly off-beat, “men” go from the end of the title music?!

Yeah, so, I have no idea what you said at 0:50. Care to explain?

Why is this video always in my reccomendations?

1:24 - That's a nice topografisk kart over Norge. 👍

If i ever got spied on, I'll let them know who's the best Japanese Porn Actress of the year Thank you

Don't forget spreading communism 😂