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@Jimbob Robob Exactly how would control hundreds of millions of people even the Germans found it near impossible.

@Influence08 Australia never entered Europe other than providing pilots.

Planning for an invasion is a bit of the usual paranoid middle class overreach about the USSR. As if a conventional bombing campaign might not have preceded a nuclear one or sabotage and special ops by agents and special forces wouldn't have been a thing. Invasion indeed! How paranoid. It's as if the anxiety over Putin has pushed aside the collapse of the USSR under it's own deficiencies when it was revealed to be almost certainly incapable of such a thing and had been for decades.

@thats not your bussines Unlike America that is about to become a 4th World Country.

@Raged Ape evo Russia had Germany on the run before the Allies entered Europe they actually captured Berlin. They also at Americas request defeated Japan in just 2 weeks. America only fought 20% of the Japanese Army that had no equipment and had to steal food to operate. They used the A Bomb to stop them surrendering to Russia. FYI the British Army outfought and captured more territory than America in Europe you must have seen the movie version where America won.

Just spotted Copenhagen at 5.29. Greetings from a Danish map-fan.

OMG You guys mentioned the Soviet Maps in Afghanistan and how they were used by the U.S. I never deployed, but when I trained using Afghanistan as a scenario, I was very, very confused when looking at the various maps of Afghanistan, I had NO idea why the most accurate, meticulous and most detailed map before the actual safelite images was completely in Russian.... Now I know!

Any interest in Tartary Maps?

They have the best spies

"And I for one welcome our new Soviet overlords."

Other countries: we’ve heard of this undiscovered area where nobodies ever chartered before Britian: 0:14

3:44 where these spy icons from? Some videogame?

Chips Challenge

I love how you included Georgy Malenkov in the list of leaders, despite being only a transitionary leader from Stalin to Khurshchev.

He’s on Wikipedia’s list, so he counts.

I found my town on the map

6:04 For anyone wondering, Кошмар literally means Nightmare, and can be used to express emotion when something goes wrong.

Russia winning WW2? Aha. I never knew that. I do remember this saying from a Soviet Diplomat. "You guys went to war to stop Totalitarisme in Eastern Europe by Hitler, and you ensured it by us." Btw, i thought the west also had a part in it? Btw, i remember Poland was to be protected, by the Western Powers. Like Britain. Btw, i remember Stalin also invading Poland right after Hitler went in first (Stalin claiming he was not yet ready.) So yeah, i guess you are right.

@foopyu nooui what do you mean?

Still don’t have New Zealand on all of your maps

The bit that you're in black suits next to the path and the building site fencing, is that turkey brook at forty hall. I know this is random

Cartography, Sovietism and niche knowledge, sounds like a wet dream. Great vid.

One word. HUMINT

They were not "Russian leaders", ffs, they were Soviet. And if you want to inform about their nationality, well, most of them were Ukrainian.

A detailed map of the Cuillin Ridge would be usefull, cos there ain't nothing I can find.

Don't play with the Russians!! They even mapped the PMs bowel movements.

where the FUCK is the second "men" at the end of the intro i am not ok with this

interesting but the over-perky-sing-song voices are unbearable. Sort it out lads, just be yourselves.

“Winning World War 2.” Yeah, with US money

3:38 "until no matter where you lived in the world, you were always at least 10,000 miles from a Russian spy." Where were the spies? In a medium Earth orbit?

Old Soviet topographical maps are realty the best in the world. Highly detailed USSR Military Staff maps from 70s or 80s are still extremely popular among the hikers and alpinists in Russia and other ex-Soviet countries. No wonder they have made maps of other countries too. Going hiking in Scottish Highlands you better take old Soviet military map than the useless modern touristic one 😊 So, fellow British

Planning for an invasion is a bit of the usual paranoid middle class overreach about the USSR. As if a conventional bombing campaign might not have preceded a nuclear one or sabotage and special ops by agents and special forces wouldn't have been a thing. Invasion indeed! How paranoid. It's as if the anxiety over Putin has pushed aside the collapse of the USSR under it's own deficiencies when it was revealed to be almost certainly incapable of such a thing and had been for decades.

Question is were the non sovie maps meant for civilian use or not. Because if no, any basic knowledge about how military works can explain inaccuracies.

Do one about google mars.

Russia is the guy on the internet you challege to for a 1v1, and then texts you back your address

Still don’t have New Zealand on all of your maps

I think you know why.

Russia had Germany on the run before the Allies entered Europe they actually captured Berlin. They also at Americas request defeated Japan in just 2 weeks. America only fought 20% of the Japanese Army that had no equipment and had to steal food to operate. They used the A Bomb to stop them surrendering to Russia. FYI the British Army outfought and captured more territory than America in Europe you must have seen the movie version where America won.

I like how the conflict meter has ‘Not in the Christmas card list’ and ‘Nuke ‘em!’ with no gap between them

The rough mall karunagappally bolt because rock cellularly coach besides a sick earth. shocking, loving punishment

America defeated the wrong enemy in ww2.

So they can find Salisbury 😉

"Don't watch it nowwwww, watch it laterrrrrr..."

Pure English humor..and such a finest theme.. oh man, I like it.

You guys really hate Frome!

Why are you studying Polish? To learn how to pronounce English place names of course!

At some point, those map making spies must've thought "Gee, everything sure is a lot nicer here than it is at home. There was probably at least some hesitation to return to the soviet union and its brutalist architecture after the job was complete.

When they were actually in print East European city maps of the cold War era were much better than British ones, full colour printing with all the public transport routes layed out very neatly in different colours on the map, with the stops named, so that a stranger to the town or city, such as myself could easily navigate from the map.

i thought u guys were smosh at first lol

We must protect Uncle Colin at all cost

i subscribed as soon as i heard that intro. YES

I hate my job, I hate my life, I want to get out of here, I want to learn new skills so I can start a new career.

"Polish Allies" more like Polish subjects

Just stumbled on your channel, it’s so “Fun with flags” - I absolutely LOVE it! You guys have just gotten a new subscriber :)

The USSR inherited highly accurate military maps from the Russian Empire, most of the British maps were the best due to the Tsar and the King being cousins bringing a close military alliance between the two Imperial Empires.

America defeated the wrong enemy in ww2.

Jay ваша личность была раскрыта. Немедленно покупайте билет в Москву. Агент СВР свяжется с вами как только сможет. Явка там же, если увидите фикус - явка провалена. Glory to Russia

English vs Russia Maps ? I can't to choice because there are beatyfull at all. In Bulgaria we still use Russian Topo maps. It helps very well BUT... Some objects like war base is missing. Probably in English map is visible. Or the map have a mistakes with details of map (missing coordinates, or type of plan (like 1: 25 000)). If have a coordinates, always check with little Mathemathic tasks to find the real coordinate because in Bulgaria some maps was made with totally wrong details (Somewhere in North, but actual is South or fake name of the towns).

Watch the Depeche Mode Album from 1987 - Music for the Mases - Cover Album Photo. Soviet Map and Big Speaker like Easterns.

I mean, is it really surprising that your enemy has better maps than the public ones you released of your super secret facilities?

Winners tell the story for sure and this is a clear example.

Xeers from Mexico gals

You two found a lot of these maps in a scour of Eastern Europe? If that’s true, it’s one of the most amazing stories. And you can’t believe how please I am to hear Frome pronounced properly ... again 🙂

“What have the russians ever done for us?” *TETRIS*

How do you make history so funny 😭

I'm pretty sure I've seen the Polish map before and it was for Polish pilots in WW2...which would make sense, and not the cold war/soviet era

Very detailed maps and bottom topography of Swedish river outlets into the baltic sea have surfaced in the post Soviet era. During the "Whiskey on the rocks"-incident when a swedish naval officer came aboard it he was shown detailed maps of the archipelago and they claimed to be lost. Later they realized their mistake and showed maps of the south baltic sea and said they had navigated with those...

2:37 special effects to rival interstellar

Cool but the Polish made vodka

The Soviet maps warmly recommends the 123-metre spire of Salisbury.

MY SCHOOL USE YOUR POLITICS VIDEOS BRUH

5:29 "кристиансхавн" means Christianshavn, this is in Copenhagen I know you bombed us hard during the Napoleonic wars but I am pretty sure Denmark isn't part of Britain just yet

All military have these kind of maps. Have to keep your spies busy, and planing starts with maps.

this is utter garbage, communist traitors in UK passed OS Maps onto the Soviets.

they did a very good job considering they were rushing

This channel is one of the very few who whenever they post a video I rush like hell to watch it. No matter what it's about. Fcking great job!

Wait, how come this video has so many different subtitles, as per usual, but... no Russian?

Russian’s on its way. I had a whole bunch of volunteers volunteer to translate the captions into their language, and the Russian one is taking them a little longer I guess. Shouldn’t be long now.

Map men map men map men.....oh great now thats guna be stuck in my head for ages

0:24 Pure polish. Sauf-end on Sea.

Plans for a Soviet world conquest.

The speech and mouth movements seems ever so slightly out of sync.

Lol Я и есть русский шпион.

Me like map. Me subscribe.

Кошмар! Они нас раскрыли! Ups, shh, you didn't see this! This is just an illusion...

jesus christ your mouths shoot words out like an mg42. Slow down man!

you can always slow down the video playlist

For two men who pride themselves on their geographical knowledge of important stuff like the fonts used by various London boroughs, I'm quite frankly shocked that you don't seem to be aware that Russia as a country did not exist for the vast majority of the twentieth century,. It was in fact, only one of 15 Soviet Republics. Just one of these, Kazakhstan, is larger than Europe. As for your comment that "Russia "won the war". This is offensive and ignorant. Like saying Kensington is the capital of the UK.. Overall loses were greatest in Ukraine. Ukraine's pre war population was 42 million, in 1945 it was 28.5 million. Per capita losses were highest in Belarus. In both these countries the civilian populations paid a heavy price (watch the film Come and See, set in Belarus) Don't write these people out of history.

The way text about «fun facts» flash on the screen for less than a second each gave me a headache, I stopped watching at about 90 seconds and I will never see it through. Stupid and childish way to make a video about something quite interesting in itself. ☹️

@Jay Foreman So this is a video game? Count me out!

It’s YouTube. You have a pause button.

All military have these kind of maps. Have to keep your spies busy, and planing starts with maps.

Russian spies did a good job.

The english are the baddies

Chinese spyware zoom I see.

Love the advertisement skits at the ends of these videos. Your creativity is really appreciated.

Jay Oneskin

Is there a way one could fine these online?

There’s a link in the description.

The map of Bradford shows the junction of Haworth Rd and Bingley Rd. The West Bradford Golf Club is the most significant thing on it; and shows an obsession for covering every piddling little thing; a trait thankfully rare amongst Map Men.

6:05 Кошмар! 😂

2:29 missed oppertunity to make the pencil joke

Maybe the reason why the British didn't include building etc on the map of the navy base is because they want to make it as hard as possible for spies and foreign intelligence services. Don't think the British forgot or didn't know their land.

Wired had an extensive article on the subject. Not only UK maps but the ENTIRE WORLD maps. When companies began building GSM networks in the 90's throughout Africa and Asia they used old Soviet maps to set up networks. I worked making GIS applications pre Googlemaps for Vodafone Greece and I have a soft spot for geomapping content.

I live in St.Petersburg, there is definitely a Russian spy in my computer D:

The fact that was only one men confused my brain aaaaaaaaaaa

Skillshare, its kinda like youtube only it costs you money.

Jay is russia embodied because he said thank you.

Clickbait. The best maps of Britain are unquestionably those made by the Ordnance Survey. These come in a range of scales from 1;1250 up. OS maps are a global standard. Nobody makes better ones and they are publicly available.

True! I absolutely bloody love a good ordnance survey map!

Map Men is the best series on YouTube

They're said to have the best map's of the worlds Sea floor as well.

Incorrect Her Majesties Theatre reads the Home of Queens

What do you mean the Russians won WW2 for us, without the allies help Russia would of lost and without Russia’s help the Allies would of lost

"There might be a Russian spy in your computer right now!" Youre right! Because im Russian!

2:24 Loved the sonar sounds... IN SPAAAAAAAACE!!

Soviets did not win ww2