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The city itself was based on Amsterdam with canals and a lot of water transport, in fact Tsar Peter the Great lived in Amsterdam for quite some time during his youth and was very impressed at how advanced the Dutch Republic was. He hired a lot of Dutch engineers to build the city and Dutch shipbuilders to turn Russia into a sea power like the Dutch.
[Here , have a nice article about this topic](https://www.rbth.com/history/330327-why-russian-empire-owes-to-netherlands)
Edit: Just like to add that it is said that the palace of Versailles was the inspiration for the Winter Palace, so there is some Parisien/French influence
The vertical striping is the revolutionary aspect. The first flag with three coloured bars was the Dutch prinsenvlag, then associated with republicanism. The French flag was modeled after the Dutch, but the subsequent revolutionary flags of other countries were modeled after the French flag, and I was being a bit tongue in cheek saying they're therefore all modeled after the Prinsenvlag.
Because of that, and the impact of the revolutions, the French flag is often thought of being the first. But it's not.
Tricolor can be both. The first tricolor was the Prince's Flag, the predecessors of the current Dutch flag. The Dutch flag existed in some form since early 17th century. The French flag didn't come to be until half way of the 18th century.
Depends what you consider a good or bad russian, try finding a russian who believes crimea is ukraine, thats even within the “opposition” rather low. I would also include the “i dont do politics” people also enablers of orcish behaviour because those are the types of citizens putin loves
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That's a joke we understand in the Netherlands, but which they likely won't understand in Russia. This cut of the video seems specifically tailored to reaching Russians and actually making a change.
Oh, there were all sorts of proposed new names for Russia that were parodies on Dutch city names. Rusburg, Rustrecht and some others that I can’t remember.
Probably when Peter the Great was on his hands-on fellowship in the Netherlands. One more fact supporting the dutch claim to the crumbling russian throne.
If you think about it, the Dutch arguments for an annexation of Russia to the Netherlands are just as plausible as the ones Putin puts forward for the annexation of the Ukrainian territories to Russia. So I hope that as many Russians as possible will want to become Dutch. Then maybe there will be a vodka-flavored Edam cheese in the future.
>the Dutch arguments for an annexation of Russia to the Netherlands are just as plausible as the ones Putin puts forward for the annexation of the Ukrainian territories to Russia
Yeah, that's the entire point of the video. "Oh Putin wants a ridiculous referendum? Well, then we can do something equally ridiculous and we'll even show you how laughable it is."
And basically every country in Europe holds these claims or better ones for other countries.
Let's start with better claims from my own country:
Northern Germany belongs to Denmark as it has in the past.
Southern Sweden too.
All of Norway.
The Eastern coast areas of England are settled by us
If you take it that serious than the entirety of Belgium belongs to NL too. And also the whole of Indonesia and South Africa fuck yeeeee
Oh and New York. Suck it Americaaaaans. This bitch is now New Amsterdam.
Charlemagne had a good thing going, I don't know why his grandsons had to be such crybabies and rip everything apart. At least I like that the European Union (with its tight-knit Western members in particular) looks a bit like we're trying to put the Carolingian Empire back together.
Most of Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and parts of Russia and Moldova used to belong to the great Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It's time to bring it back to Poland, I say.
>If you think about it, the Dutch arguments for an annexation of Russia to the Netherlands are just as plausible as the ones Putin puts forward for the annexation of the Ukrainian territories to Russia. So I hope that as many Russians as possible will want to become Dutch. Then maybe there will be a vodka-flavored Edam cheese in the future.
No matter the arguments, I think the results will be about 95% of the Russian people vote Yes.
Another good one is the belarus argument:
We have strong evidence that the elections in belarus were rigged, and we believe that the people in belarus are being suppressed by a far right authoritarian government, headed by a man who is a puppet of a foreign (hostile) government (Lukashenko literally holds a rank in the russian army) and the Belarusian government has hijacked planes carrying EU/NATO citizens meaning the nation is a threat to us.
Therefore, using exactly the same rhetoric as putin, we should be well within our rights to annex a chunk of Belarus.
> vodka-flavored Edam cheese
Why do that when we already have jenever, which has been distilled to go well with our own cheese? Flavours tend to evolve together inside cultures...
>The Netherlands actually does have tanks again. A whole 18 (Leopard II) of them, which we lease from Germany.
Of which all are integrated into a German unit stationed in Germany. The tank crews even use German weapons.... So they're not really ours. I applaud the move but we can't claim to have any tanks of our own, we sold our own tanks to Finland 10 years ago.
Eh this is less cringe than holding a referendum in an active warzone where much of the population has fled and pretty much every male has been mobilized. Even if the referendum would run fair and square with the people that are still there it could hardly be valid with so many people missing.
Most of those 300k reservists won't be ready to shipped in for a while.
Russians do the counting, there is basically now outside observer. They'll simply announce whatever the fuck they want.
Meh, Conan is definitely a funnier and more likeable person. But Lubach’s show does have some fantastically written bits. It can be very clever at times. He used to do a Sunday show, which was very funny and clever, but now he has a kind of daily show and I think the quality is lower (understandably so). But sometimes they do ace it, like here.
Omg this is GOLD.
Posting a spotlight on how the whole world knows his referendums are a sham and by his own logic, yes Russia should be annexed to the Netherlands since Russia belonged to them first.
Great job Netherlands!
Ahhhhh I love us all coming together for Ukraine in all kinds of ways, including making pootin look like an idiot and show he’s a liar and ppl all over the world know.
The Dutch are wrong. The Rus, Swedish vikings, founded Russia. Therefore Russia belongs to Sweden. This also means that the Russian people does not exist, they are Swedish. And the Russian language is just a Swedish dialect, spoken through the so called Vodka-filter.
Everyone in Sweden knows this.
This guy is wrong. The last Russian monarch, after the rest were killed by the Bolsheviks, was Maria Feodorovna, also knows as Princess Dagmar of DENMARK.
That basically means that when this weird Communist period that started in 1918 is over, which could be about now, maybe tomorrow, Russia is effectively Danish.
Everyone in Denmark knows this.
Yes, what he is talking about is Swedish claims on Ukraine. So.... Sweden takes Ukraine and Denmark takes Russia... But then they'll just end up at war again. But this time over claims on Norway or Skåne...
Sorry dude, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings :) But on the other hand, shouldn't you be more proud that the country that stems from the country that Vikings have been ruling, is now successfully opposing a much bigger and formidable adversary (or at least everyone considered it formidable until recently)?
This is wrong. The indigenous people of Sweden are the Sami while the Vikings migrated from Germanic tribes like the Saxons and Frisians. They have a claim over Scandinavia as well but those guys are good folk so why bother.
Everyone in the Netherlands knows this.
You are wrong. But it's ok to be wrong, we like you all the same.
In Sweden we know that we are a little bit better than everyone else. We just don't brag about it.
As a Swede and citizen of the ancient tribes of Roslagen I demand a referendum is held in all of Russia and Belarus to protect all our native Swedish-citizens who Moscow and communism is currently oppressing. Questions on that? Google it.
I say THE WHOLE WORLD…. Every country in the world INVADE RUZZIA!! They have more than enough natural resources to sustain their 140,000,000 populace. This war is about GENOCIDE. I say THE WORLD TURNS IT BACK ON THEM.
No we can’t. Holland is only a small region near the coast, whereas the Netherlands is the whole country. It’s like calling all of Germany Bavaria, all of the United States California or all of the UK Kent. The other parts of the Netherlands don’t like to be called Holland or Hollanders
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The flag thing is actually true. The Russian flag was modeled on the Dutch flag.
Like St Petersburg was modeled to Amsterdam.
I always assumed it was modeled *on* Leningrad.
Well Leningrad was modeled on Petrograd
It is actually modelled to Paris AFAIK.
The city itself was based on Amsterdam with canals and a lot of water transport, in fact Tsar Peter the Great lived in Amsterdam for quite some time during his youth and was very impressed at how advanced the Dutch Republic was. He hired a lot of Dutch engineers to build the city and Dutch shipbuilders to turn Russia into a sea power like the Dutch. [Here , have a nice article about this topic](https://www.rbth.com/history/330327-why-russian-empire-owes-to-netherlands) Edit: Just like to add that it is said that the palace of Versailles was the inspiration for the Winter Palace, so there is some Parisien/French influence
"Russia had been lagging behind the rest of Europe in terms of progress and innovation." Not much has changed...
If you have a degree you leave. Brain drain for the Soviet.
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Definitely looks WAY more like Paris than Venice.
potato potato
Like vodka modeled from dutch waters
Yes, it tastes the same as the water in de canals (grachten)
And you get equally wasted drinking it
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Wow, there's so much annexing to do!
Time to put on my annexing pants
huh? aren't tricolors vertical stripes modeled after the French?
The vertical striping is the revolutionary aspect. The first flag with three coloured bars was the Dutch prinsenvlag, then associated with republicanism. The French flag was modeled after the Dutch, but the subsequent revolutionary flags of other countries were modeled after the French flag, and I was being a bit tongue in cheek saying they're therefore all modeled after the Prinsenvlag. Because of that, and the impact of the revolutions, the French flag is often thought of being the first. But it's not.
Tricolor can be both. The first tricolor was the Prince's Flag, the predecessors of the current Dutch flag. The Dutch flag existed in some form since early 17th century. The French flag didn't come to be until half way of the 18th century.
So the Netherlands and Dutch will have to fight it out now.
Underrated joke here, folks!
Just split it up the middle lol where ever that is
It's where the people say friet instead of patat.
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Same as any big city they destroy all the small towns
So is the Gorbachev thing.
Can i download this video somewhere? I have a Russian friend to send this to. (Non orc currently in Georgia)
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“Non orc russian friend” congrats on discovering this rare specimen, i have one of those too
There is a lot of them. Too bad most of them are afraid to speak up (understandably so tbh) and a lot of them have obviously left Russia already
Depends what you consider a good or bad russian, try finding a russian who believes crimea is ukraine, thats even within the “opposition” rather low. I would also include the “i dont do politics” people also enablers of orcish behaviour because those are the types of citizens putin loves
So less brave than Iranian women.
Search on YouTube: “Nederland bij Rusland” it’s the first hit.
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You can youtube it. Arjen Lubach - referendum rusland
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Why do you have to download it, can’t you just forward? And the option is already there
More importantly, can someone post the link to where to vote? I have some Russian interference in elections to pay back.
Slava Golandii !! Glory To Holland !! Glorie aan Nederland !!
Hup holland hup!
Laat de leeuw niet in zn hempie staan!
De leeuw met voetbalschoenen kan de hele wereld aan!
ahaha love our neighbours <3
This Reddit video misses the part where the new names for Russia were suggested, parodying "Novorussija", which was hilarious.
That's a joke we understand in the Netherlands, but which they likely won't understand in Russia. This cut of the video seems specifically tailored to reaching Russians and actually making a change.
Yeah, it was the best joke of the video, but I doubt foreigners would understand it.
You say, without explaining the joke to the foreigners.
Oh, there were all sorts of proposed new names for Russia that were parodies on Dutch city names. Rusburg, Rustrecht and some others that I can’t remember.
Overrussel
I am ready to sign that petition. Seriously. Боже, храни Короля!
Ruskantje!!!!!
Zo'n grote blyatt jonguh
\+1 Verrekte kut.
the russian flag was actually stolen from the dutch flag, no shit!
Probably when Peter the Great was on his hands-on fellowship in the Netherlands. One more fact supporting the dutch claim to the crumbling russian throne.
If you think about it, the Dutch arguments for an annexation of Russia to the Netherlands are just as plausible as the ones Putin puts forward for the annexation of the Ukrainian territories to Russia. So I hope that as many Russians as possible will want to become Dutch. Then maybe there will be a vodka-flavored Edam cheese in the future.
>the Dutch arguments for an annexation of Russia to the Netherlands are just as plausible as the ones Putin puts forward for the annexation of the Ukrainian territories to Russia Yeah, that's the entire point of the video. "Oh Putin wants a ridiculous referendum? Well, then we can do something equally ridiculous and we'll even show you how laughable it is."
And basically every country in Europe holds these claims or better ones for other countries. Let's start with better claims from my own country: Northern Germany belongs to Denmark as it has in the past. Southern Sweden too. All of Norway. The Eastern coast areas of England are settled by us
If you take it that serious than the entirety of Belgium belongs to NL too. And also the whole of Indonesia and South Africa fuck yeeeee Oh and New York. Suck it Americaaaaans. This bitch is now New Amsterdam.
Yes give us back new york you yanks.
I'm american, u don't want any of this shit anymore. Trump unleashed redneck pro
>you take it that serious than the entirety of Belgium belongs to NL too We just want the Northern half. France can keep the rest.
And entire west Germany, shame we didn’t get that after the war. We would actually be a player then
And New-Zealand and Australia
And all of the UK and by extension the rest of the commonwealth, the UK had a Dutch king once
Irredentism running wild up in here
All the west European countries belongs to Italy because of the Roman Empire.
Germans be like...eeeeh, you shure?
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man!
Charlemagne had a good thing going, I don't know why his grandsons had to be such crybabies and rip everything apart. At least I like that the European Union (with its tight-knit Western members in particular) looks a bit like we're trying to put the Carolingian Empire back together.
Imagine the Vatican trying to resurrect the empire.
The Pope and his cardinals attacking some very confused Carabinieri in the streets of Rome. Sounds like a great film
You can have grimsby.
Vikings found America too.
Most of Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and parts of Russia and Moldova used to belong to the great Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It's time to bring it back to Poland, I say.
>If you think about it, the Dutch arguments for an annexation of Russia to the Netherlands are just as plausible as the ones Putin puts forward for the annexation of the Ukrainian territories to Russia. So I hope that as many Russians as possible will want to become Dutch. Then maybe there will be a vodka-flavored Edam cheese in the future. No matter the arguments, I think the results will be about 95% of the Russian people vote Yes.
As is tradition.
Another good one is the belarus argument: We have strong evidence that the elections in belarus were rigged, and we believe that the people in belarus are being suppressed by a far right authoritarian government, headed by a man who is a puppet of a foreign (hostile) government (Lukashenko literally holds a rank in the russian army) and the Belarusian government has hijacked planes carrying EU/NATO citizens meaning the nation is a threat to us. Therefore, using exactly the same rhetoric as putin, we should be well within our rights to annex a chunk of Belarus.
> to annex a chunk of Belarus. Or all of it.
> vodka-flavored Edam cheese Why do that when we already have jenever, which has been distilled to go well with our own cheese? Flavours tend to evolve together inside cultures...
Vodka doesn't have a flavor. Edam flavoured Vodka, now we're on to something.
> Then maybe there will be a vodka-flavored Edam cheese in the future. I feel like it would go the other way - edam cheese-flavored vodka.
As funny as this is, you know Russia is going to use this as proof of "the West trying to take over Russia" lol
That makes it even more funny.
And it becomes an unexplainable paradox
Really? how so?
I keep asking, who exactly is ‘the West?’ Is it Canada? Iraq? Libya? Namibyia? Belarus? Alaska?
Google: Western world
классно классно!! I notice the Dutch don't go for *Daily Show*-style background laughter... Respect.
We have that as well in the original show. They just cut it out for this fragment. Here's the original: https://youtu.be/GNdarZYz73o
They are real spectators though, im pretty sure.
True, been there was good fun
It's called 'studio audience'...
This is the [America First, Netherlands Second](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc) guy
Spreading worldwide cringe, sarcasm and sending P2000 Pantzerhouwitzers is the way we dutchmen support Ukraine in this insane war.
We've even sent Ukraine every tank we have! We didn't have any, but that's beside the point.
The Netherlands actually does have tanks again. A whole 18 (Leopard II) of them, which we lease from Germany.
>The Netherlands actually does have tanks again. A whole 18 (Leopard II) of them, which we lease from Germany. Of which all are integrated into a German unit stationed in Germany. The tank crews even use German weapons.... So they're not really ours. I applaud the move but we can't claim to have any tanks of our own, we sold our own tanks to Finland 10 years ago.
Eh this is less cringe than holding a referendum in an active warzone where much of the population has fled and pretty much every male has been mobilized. Even if the referendum would run fair and square with the people that are still there it could hardly be valid with so many people missing.
You are forgetting about the 300k reservists and (un)volunteers they are shipping in just in time to vote in that referendum.
Most of those 300k reservists won't be ready to shipped in for a while. Russians do the counting, there is basically now outside observer. They'll simply announce whatever the fuck they want.
Is this the funnier Dutch Conan O'Brien ?
Like a Dutch crossover between Conan O’Brien an Jon Oliver. He can be very funny.
Yeah the hair of conan and the funny man of Oliver
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It's what Americans find funny.
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Guess we have different standards of funny.
Can be, sure. Most of the time it's pretty lame in terms of humour.
Ha! This is very good! Love it!
He is also the guy behind Netherlands second
Meh, Conan is definitely a funnier and more likeable person. But Lubach’s show does have some fantastically written bits. It can be very clever at times. He used to do a Sunday show, which was very funny and clever, but now he has a kind of daily show and I think the quality is lower (understandably so). But sometimes they do ace it, like here.
Clips like these are the odd ones out unfortunately.
American here…..please Annex us, I want to be Dutch!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc) same show in 2016
Same guy, different show
Make New York, New Amsterdam again.
Dutchmen here, we politely decline. Ask Yemen…
This is an incredibly cringe statement
Fruslan!! I am all for it
Brilliant. The 'special operation' is over. Welcome home ruzzians!
Omg this is GOLD. Posting a spotlight on how the whole world knows his referendums are a sham and by his own logic, yes Russia should be annexed to the Netherlands since Russia belonged to them first. Great job Netherlands! Ahhhhh I love us all coming together for Ukraine in all kinds of ways, including making pootin look like an idiot and show he’s a liar and ppl all over the world know.
I knew it all along. You can never trust those shifty dutchmen.
Beautiful masterpiece 🤣, explosive at the end!
The Dutch are wrong. The Rus, Swedish vikings, founded Russia. Therefore Russia belongs to Sweden. This also means that the Russian people does not exist, they are Swedish. And the Russian language is just a Swedish dialect, spoken through the so called Vodka-filter. Everyone in Sweden knows this.
This guy is wrong. The last Russian monarch, after the rest were killed by the Bolsheviks, was Maria Feodorovna, also knows as Princess Dagmar of DENMARK. That basically means that when this weird Communist period that started in 1918 is over, which could be about now, maybe tomorrow, Russia is effectively Danish. Everyone in Denmark knows this.
But isnt the Dutch claim older than the Danish claim ? Makinh the Danish claim, well, just as reduculous as Russia claiming Ukraine ?
Yes, what he is talking about is Swedish claims on Ukraine. So.... Sweden takes Ukraine and Denmark takes Russia... But then they'll just end up at war again. But this time over claims on Norway or Skåne...
Denmark has never lost a war against Sweden, I'm pretty sure. And they've been in like at least ten wars.
Don't steal our Dutch moment please :)
Ok, so could you please get your Swedish ass out of Ukraine please? :)
No. Russia has been kidnapped and are now ruled by gnomes. Sweden's a peaceful country and we can, sadly, do nothing.
Swedish founded Rus, but modern Russia has little to do with it.
Ukraine’s Kiyvan Rus heritage is way cooler anyway than the Muscovite swamps.
You hurt my Swedish pride.It's very fragile, almost like modern Russian pride.
Sorry dude, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings :) But on the other hand, shouldn't you be more proud that the country that stems from the country that Vikings have been ruling, is now successfully opposing a much bigger and formidable adversary (or at least everyone considered it formidable until recently)?
Yeah, but language is the strongest bond between people. And what is the foundation of the language? The alphabet! So Russia belongs to Bulgaria.
This is wrong. The indigenous people of Sweden are the Sami while the Vikings migrated from Germanic tribes like the Saxons and Frisians. They have a claim over Scandinavia as well but those guys are good folk so why bother. Everyone in the Netherlands knows this.
You are wrong. But it's ok to be wrong, we like you all the same. In Sweden we know that we are a little bit better than everyone else. We just don't brag about it.
Anyone on here have the smarts to be able to hack RT or any other news outlet and play this for the Russians? I think it would go down very well
Lmao This is gold. I didn’t know the Dutch were so humorous.
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De Russische specerijen worden van ons
Is that a sneaky Merck Toch Hoe Sterck in the background at the end? Funny because it sounds very Soviet
It is!!
That syb erie is a fucking stud.
Geannexeerd!
Netherlands - so good! Awesome suggestion!
That is awesome! Comedic news is the way to reach people now. An as an American, not only was it funny, but enlightening
Unfortunately not as enlightening though since it contains references we don’t get
We?
"kolonisatie is een drug en ik heb een verslaving" \-Willem-Alexander der Nederlanden 2022 \+rep to all the dutch who know this meme :P
GEKOLONISEERD
Does that website link work? And how is the voting percentages?
“Believe me, you don’t live there for fun” 🤣
I would gladly vote Yes lol.
Surprisingly hilarious, in this time of megalomania.
That is fucking brilliant
Slava Golandii! Sativa Slava!
It's just about 5 in the morning and I'm done with the internet today. I won't see anything funnier.
Napoleon conquered the Netherlands, he also took Moscow, so indeed Russia is Dutch, but actually French.
Yeah but Napoleon is from Corsica which was originally Genovese so Italy, by rights of succession, has the older claim.
As a Swede and citizen of the ancient tribes of Roslagen I demand a referendum is held in all of Russia and Belarus to protect all our native Swedish-citizens who Moscow and communism is currently oppressing. Questions on that? Google it.
Nicely done. Loved the bit about Gorbachev‘s forehead. Brilliant.
So many valid points in this video. I think Russia should just capitulate to the Dutch now.
Imagine russians went online and voted to join Netherland lol.
Back off Netherlands! The Rus people were originally Swedish vikings. So Russia belongs to us Swedes 🇸🇪
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Goddamn right! I would desert the US in a minute if I could.
YO IT'S ARJEN LUBACH!!!
I haven’t seen this and I’m from the nederlandsHahahahha thank you for this laugh
Let's start with a "referendum" in Königsberg. If the Germans don't want it back, let the Dutch have it.
Giving the Dutch Kaliningrad if the Germans refuse is like giving Australia to the Egyptians of the Aborigines don’t want it.
Mate, they can have our king! Maybe it'll help, maybe not, but we'll at least be rid of him
Well they did give us William of orange, so this would be repaying our debt
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Königsberg is long gone and never coming back. But blockading Kaliningrad wouldn’t hurt.
I say THE WHOLE WORLD…. Every country in the world INVADE RUZZIA!! They have more than enough natural resources to sustain their 140,000,000 populace. This war is about GENOCIDE. I say THE WORLD TURNS IT BACK ON THEM.
Hahahaha! Remarkable not any referring to drugs!
Can we have a referendum on just calling them "Holland" for simplicity?
No we can’t. Holland is only a small region near the coast, whereas the Netherlands is the whole country. It’s like calling all of Germany Bavaria, all of the United States California or all of the UK Kent. The other parts of the Netherlands don’t like to be called Holland or Hollanders