When did the First World War begin? (07.10.2023)

Date
7 October 2023
Duration
7:34
Platform
YouTube

A chat-roulette dialogue in Russian: the interlocutor from Russia cannot answer basic questions about his own history (the consequences of the Seven Years’, Crimean and First World Wars), while Dribnytsya names from memory the dates and the composition of the blocs of the First World War and specifies who attacked the USSR in 1941 and with whom.

Key moments

  1. 03:14 Start dates of WWI: 28.07.1914 (Austria-Hungary's attack on Serbia) or 01.08.1914 (Germany's declaration of war on Russia) — different approaches
  2. 04:41 The composition of the Triple Alliance and the Entente; Italy switches to the Entente in 1915
  3. 05:30 22.06.1941: Nazi Germany, allied with Slovakia and Romania, attacks the USSR
  4. 06:05 What these dialogues are for: to show that Russians do not know their own history

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