The Largest Megaproject in History

Now make one about the Orchestra

Damn this is a good channel.

Not much different to the construction of the trans Canada railway.

Bullish on this account

funny! The American Democratic Railroad carrying freedom to the west and the imperial autocratic Trans-Siberian Railway, a political tool where guards bullied prisoners

One thing to mention, railroads were THE hot thing of the late 1800s-early 1900s. All of Europe and America were laying tracks like crazy. Had the Czars not been laying tracks, they'd definitely have looked backward and behind the times. Just to keep up their pride internationally they HAD to build this railroad or one like it.

Just like many people complain about how USA took advantage of slaves..
Almost this entire railroad was built by slaves, prisoners and unlucky souls

I like how you called the largest slave labor project and mass genocide tool (in conjunction with gulags) a "megaproject". This is what we do now.

I like how an entire country goes on this huge endeavor to prove other countries that there political beliefs are good. Shouldnt your government naturally be doing good things because its good for its people and not just doing them so they can prove something? Why do they need to prove something to a different type of government? Who cares? Just take care of your people correctly and you will naturally known as the ‘superior’ government.

Bullcrap. You're not even close.

Part 2 please!!!!!

You're tellin me this entire railway is trans?

Imperial russian simps be buttmad

Fantastic video!

Really love the presentation, the animation. Hoping to see more of your videos.

Nice video

Was the Trans-Siberian railway also a kind of precedent for the Soviet state run mega projects? They treated their prisoners like cattle to build this thing, so it may also have been the historical precedent for the Gulag, the main administration of the soviet labour camps :-( I think that the communists party derived it's legitimacy by means of continuing the Russian imperial project. Also the war on Ukraine is being legitimized today as part of the Russian imperial project, by extension. It's a very sad show. Like this song by Nautilus Pompilius: Скованные одной цепью/Bound by the same chains.

Typical Westerner’s point about anything Russian: autocratic this, autocratic that. For some reason, connecting a huge underpopulated country by the state’s effort is considered to simply be a whim of a tyrant, but if it’s done anywhere else and by entrepreneurs it’s legit because it enables connectivity, productivity, trade, tourism, prosperity. Well…

I really wanna see the follow up viseos!!!

Breaking, modern Muscovite government to dismantle "woke" railway, workers to be conscripted and die in Ukraine

Jesus man, "autocracy" and "Tsarist ideology" had very little, if anything, to do with it. Any country that wants to stay a country needs to be able to control its territories - communication is key to that. Not all of us have the benefit of coasts.

If something happened in the Far East, government officials had to spend months getting there. Telegraph lines helped, but they were still in need of maintenance and infrastructure.

State control was a matter of military and economic concerns. Private enterprises didn't care about Siberia. And transporting military cargo over private lines is a nightmare. Railways are originally a military tool, they did not originate with civilian concerns in mind. At least not in Russia. It was never about "showing them capitalists" as you're trying to say in the video.

I mean, you could use the same logic for American bases in the Pacific, where no private business had any desire to create infrastructure, but the government did in order to preserve control over territory. Was that an expression of some sort of imperialism, or just a rational measure of preserving state sovereignty over its territories?

Consider that in the Crimean War, Russia had to fend off British and French fleets in the Far East. Just to report the result of the battle of Petropavlovsk took months of travel. Britain was very interested in removing Russian presence there. Trans-Siberian is a measure against that.

A bunch of filthy propaganda. Countless mentions of wrods such as tsarism, autocracy, control, terrified, scared.... And american projects are always "economical" and "right", ofc without mention of extincted Native Americans.

Corrupted western minds will never change

a set of western cliches and western nonsense. another degenerate view of Russia from the western bell tower

While the Russian government my have been concerned the East would develop it's own political structures they probably were more concerned with China and Japan. Russia largely took the Far East from China, and with the rise of Japan they sensed possible future conflict. And Russia sold Alaska to the US in 1869 because it was so remote.

Im not first but 666

Why did Russians built railroads? Well, you see, it's to consolidate power under an authoritarian regime. Why did Russians built nuclear power plants? Obviously, to tighten the grip on power, therefore controlling the population. Why do Russians plant trees? It is a covert operation by a totalitarian tyrannical government to destroy freedom!

This topic was mostly missing from Soviet school program.

Bunch of Ruskie agressors.

I thought it was Russian transvestites , Ohh well .😂

With the amount of back door dealings, its hard to say the canadian railway was built privately.

into the land of enchanted

This was really refreshing, like seeing this kind of video for the first time

This is as high quality as a government sponsored documentary would be

Please include real measurement (imperial) along with your fake measurements (metric), so that actual human being can understand. Real people don't use your nonsense jibberish, we use correct human measurements, aka the imperial system. Only those incapable of doing things correctly use that mentally deficient metric system. Do better, lol.

Excellent presentation.

tldr; The Russian state wanted to increase the reach of their central government by making it so that their forces could reach the farthest reaches of their empire in record time, it also opened up Siberia to economic exploitation.

I was disappointed that this doc doesn't tell how or even where the line was built.

I have such a passion for this style of video aesthetics, a real secret-agent vibe that I love

The sentiments here about the railway remind me of the railway megaproject built in China that, essentially, ferries an entire population across the country. It's very difficult to measure that sort of economic, social, political, and military advantage until something (like a war) comes along. The US interstate took about 20 years to be built and was primarily framed as a convenient way for airplanes and convoys to navigate a embattled nation. There was even going to be a toll fee for using it to justify the cost. Now it's a crucial bloodline between the East and West coasts.
I think it's paramount that we, as westerners, should be careful of casting any socialist or imperialist idea as "vain" or "unnecessary" just because it costs a lot in taxpayer money, and doesn't immediately make money on the first day. Investments require patience, faith, sacrifice, and risk - something that is normally heralded by the general population when done by a billionaire, but lauded if done by a politician.

Save me jebus

I assumed Great Wall world’s largest mega project.

Please make a second, longer video on this topic! The Trans-Siberian is so interesting.

Your comparison of the trans-siberian railroad to the transcontinental railroad is almost wholly invalid. First, the rural Russian landscape isn't perpetually frozen. It has an amicable climate during the summer months. More importantly, during that season there is plenty of water available. Third, you're comparing it to ONE transcontinental railroad project and not ALL of them, particularly the ones that languished for a long period of time such as the Southern Pacific line that crosses the Sonoran desert to Los Angeles. This was proposed around 1850 but wasn't finished for another 40 years after a bunch of fits and starts. Lastly, the whole comparison of how quickly a thing is finished as a metric of it's technical dificulty is a logical fallacy to begin with.

Is it really trans though.... The cars should be painted like 🌈

They'll have to change the name if they want more woke tourist's.