History of Belarus (2017)

The History of Belarus (Belarusian: Гісторыя Беларусі, Historyja Bielarusi) is a video on Art's Animations. It tells about the detailed history of the state of the Republic of Belarus in the style of Countryballs. All dates and most records were shown in Belarusian.

It is a remake of the video "History of Belarus (2015)".

Background
On January 12th 2017, Artyom notices that there were many shoals in the first History of Belarus (both historical and animated). And then he decides to start restarting sooner or later. On March 12, he announces the start of work on the History of Belarus in his VK public. The "restart" plans high-quality backgrounds, high-quality animation and the maximum number of historical events.

Throughout the creation of the video, the author posted screenshots or cropped scenes in the VKontakte group. Even then, the band members noted a rather good video quality. On June 28, the author announced a computer breakdown, due to which the release of the series was postponed. On July 17, the author notified of the continuation of work. The thoughts of the crowd were expressed by one comment "Holy Allah. Finally. I waited and now I see it in tears."

The author uploads a video on YouTube on August 10, 2017.

Plot
The whole plot tells a detailed history of the Republic of Belarus in the style of Countryballs.

In 24,000 BC, a tribe of prehistoric people came to the south of present-day Belarus. Suddenly, the tribe hears the cry of a mammoth. The mammoth stood near them and ate grass. 4balls without hesitation throw a spear at it. The mammoth runs away from the hunters in a scream, but he falls into a trap pit, where he is finished off with a stone. The tribe is located in the south of Belarus and deals with everyday affairs.

In 16,000 BC, the last Ice Age was coming. The tribes have to leave their settlements and leave as soon as possible.

In 10,000 BC, The ice melted, the Ice Age is over. The prehistoric ball finds the river and fishes with its spear.

In 2000 BC, Indo-Europeans roam to the west, to the territory of Belarus. Balty is located on the territory of Belarus. Balt builds a village, grazing cows, is engaged in agriculture.

In 600 years, Slavs came to the territory of Belarus. Balts and Slavs make friends with each other. The Balts are Slavicized. Many Slavic tribes unite with each other up to three large peoples: Krivich, Dregovich and Radimich.

862. The first city of Polotsk appears.

980. Polotsk notices the battle between Novgorod and Kiev. After the battle, Novgorod (Prince Vladimir) decides to marry Rogneda, but she refuses. Vladimir wounds Polotsk in anger and takes Rogneda. Rogneda is going to take revenge. A new city of Turov is emerging, which becomes part of Kievan Rus. Vladimir is sitting on the throne. Nearby stands Kiev, which is chained. Rogneda and her son Izyaslav (Zaslavl). Noticing her husband sleeping on the throne, Rogneda decides to take revenge. She takes a knife and prepares to kill Vladimir, but he wakes up, snatches a knife and is going to kill her herself, but Izyaslav does not let her do it. Then the prince lets his mother and son go, and in honor of Izyaslav makes a new city of Zaslavl.

988. Baptism of Russia. The Polochanin puts a cross instead of a totem. Now Kievan Rus is Orthodox.

1065. The Principality of Polotsk wounds Pskov and takes away its wealth. He does the same with Novgorod. Kiev, Peryaslav-Khmelnitsky and Chernigov see it.

1067. The city of Minsk is born. However, he immediately becomes a victim of Chernigov, Kiev and Peryaslav-Khmelnitsky. Polotsk sees them on the other side of the river and rushes into battle with them. However, he is easily defeated. Later, Polotsk fights the Teutonic Order.

The middle of the Xlll century. Novogrudok convenes Minsk, Turov and other Lithuanian and Belarusian cities. They unite in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania! The GDL is immediately attacked by the Golden Horde. However, the GDL army successfully chases away the Mongols.

1307. Polotsk joins the GDL. The ON is getting bigger. Tour is grazing in the field. Suddenly, he sees a flying arrow. He was hunted by VCL on horseback. Lithuania kills Tours on a hill. At night, on this hill he sees a wolf howling to the moon. However, it was a dream.

1323. The GDL creates the fortress of Vilna (now Vilnius).

1362. VCL is fighting the Mongols. In a fierce battle, Lithuania kills three Mongols.

1385. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland conclude an alliance (Union of Kreva).

1410. The Great War with the Teutonic Order. Battle of Grunwald. The GDL and Poland are fighting together against the Crusaders. They damage Teutonic and kill him. Lithuania and Poland leave the wounded city of Malbark with Dobrzyn land and Zhamoytia.

1413. The GDL and Poland conclude another agreement.

1432. The GDL is fragmented, because of which one half was on the side of the Teutonic Order and the other remained with Poland. Battles began, during which the GDL became united again.

1512. The Grand Duchy of Moscow attacks the city of Smolensk, Lithuania drives Muscovy away from its territory, but very soon returns and drives a gun, shooting it at Smolensk. The GDL is deprived of Smolensk, it becomes part of Muscovy.

1514. Battle of Orsha. GDL and Poland against Muscovy. Lithuania is driving away Muscovy, but it is located in the fortress of Smolensk, which is why he could not go further than his GDL and he had to run back.

1517. In Prague, Francis Skaryna demonstrates the first printed book The Bible.

1522. Wars continue with the GDL and Muscovy continue. Soon, they conclude an agreement, albeit reluctantly.

1558. Livonian War. The Livonians are attacked by the Russian Kingdom, and on the other hand by the GDL. They take Livonets and tear it into two parts. Lithuania and Russia look at each other and continue the war. The GDL is in a bad position. The Russian Kingdom subdued Polotsk. Lithuania complains to Poland that they are doing badly. Poland has already come up with an idea: to unite in one state. I don't like this idea, but Poland makes him do it.

1569. Union of Lublin. Poland and the GDL are signing a merger agreement. On, he signs it very reluctantly. After signing, they are united in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth expels Russia from Polotsk.

1582. Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth sign a peace treaty, ending the Livonian War.

1605. There is turmoil in Russia, there is no tsar, there is no heir and there is no food either. Russia is depressed. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth then decides to help the impostor become an heir and king. Russia sees the heir and makes a tear. False Dmitry becomes king, but sitting on the throne, the fly erases a little paint from False Dmitry and Russia ruthlessly kills the impostor. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth returns to Smolensk, but he refuses to join the line-up and shoots a gun. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth wounded Smolensk with a sword. Russia sees it. But instead of battle, the Kingdom gives the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the post of king.

1610. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth becomes the king of the Russian Kingdom. However, the Russian people do not accept a new tsar and drive the Pole out of the palace. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth passes by Smolensk, and in the end the RP and Russia begin a battle in which Russia loses and escapes. And Smolensk remains the city of the Republic of Poland.

1654. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth sees the alliance between Russia and Hetmanate. Two approach the RP, but it begins to take the Hetmanate region, and Russia is trying to pull it in its direction. A brutal war has begun.

1667. Russia and the RP are negotiating the division of Hetmanate. However, the Kingdom also leaves with Smolensk.

1700. The Great Northern War. Sweden v. Denmark and Saxony. Denmark escapes after injury, leaving Saxony alone. Sweden is preparing to finish it off, but he is attacked by Russia, and later Saxony is helped by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In an unequal battle with three enemies, Sweden loses. Russia takes a little territory, becomes an empire and founded the city of St. Petersburg.

1772 - 1795. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is not good. On the one hand, the Russian Empire looks at him menacingly. On the other hand, it is overtaken by the Austrian Empire, and on the third, Prussia. Three take out swords and share the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the first time. Then Russia makes another section. And in the end, the three take the mortally wounded Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and finally break it. Belarus woke up in the grass, on its territory. He tries to go, but sees that he is chained to Russia. Belarus wants to leave, but Russia does not allow it to do so.

1812. War with Napoleonic France. Russia is losing ground. France sets fire to the cities of Belarus and goes to Moscow, but winter comes and France comes back. Russia is recovering.

1830. The Kingdom of Poland and Belarus decide to confront the Russian Empire together and achieve independence, but Russia beats them and they retreat.

1863. Poland is rising again. Belarus takes advantage of the moment and helps Poland, but Russia is winning again.

1914. Shot. Serbia shoots the Duke of Austria-Hungary, which was the reason for the First World War. Entente vs. Triple Alliance.

1915. Belarus sees the German Empire and Russia fighting on its territory. Suddenly, Russia gives up its position and flees to St. Petersburg. GI takes advantage of this moment and takes Belarus. GI and Belarus see a revolution.

1917 - 1922. October Revolution. Overthrow of the emperor. The emergence of the Russian Republic. However, she is immediately overthrown by the reds. GI is preparing to kill Belarus, but the RSFSR is negotiating peace with him. Belarus is becoming an independent Belarusian People's Republic. But the RSFSR is made by another government of Belarus and it becomes an SSRB and loses a piece. After the adoption of the GI surrender, Poland becomes independent. The Pole and Soviet Russia are fighting. The SSRB becomes a Litbel for a moment. The SSRB sees the Ukrainian SSR without a Western piece, Poland and the RSFSR divide Belarus. There is a small piece left of Belarus. He wants to unite with the Polish himself, but the RSFSR takes the SSRB. The RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the BSSR and the ZSFSR sign an agreement on the establishment of a single state of the USSR.

1924 - 1927. The RSFSR gives the SSRB eastern territories. Meanwhile, Belarusians within Poland fought against Poland. There is propaganda in the USSR. The USSR is becoming advanced in industrialization. Belarusians work in a collective farm, which is beneficial for them.

1937. A period of great repression of Stalin. A Belarusian worker eats at home. Two NKVD officers come to him. They asked the citizen to go with them. They take the Belarusian into the forest, where they shoot. They throw the killed "enemies of the people" into the ditch. Crows flew away from the sounds of a shot from the trees.

1939 - 1945. The USSR and Nazi Germany are signing a non-aggression pact. The Third Reich and the USSR share Poland. The eastern part returns to Belarus. The BSSR stands at the post at the entrance to the Brest Fortress. Suddenly, he sees German planes in the sky dropping missiles on the fortress. The Great Patriotic War Is Going On. A German tank is undermining a Soviet tank. The soldiers are fighting to the last. The Germans burn all the residents of the village of Khatyn in the barn. Belarusian partisans are laying a mine under the rails. A German train passes over a mine and explodes. Katyusha is damaging the Nazi army. Belarusians celebrate the liberation of Minsk and meet the returned soldiers. At the end of the war, a Soviet soldier waves the flag over the Reichstag. The BSSR together with the Ukrainian SSR is signing an agreement on the establishment of the UN.

1963 - 1985. Belarus is starting to develop in industry. Thanks to Soligorsk, Belarus has a supply of potash salts. The BSSR finds oil and produces it. The BSSR is flying into space for the first time. The BSSR opens the first subway in Minsk. Meanwhile, the USSR is beginning to perestroika.

1986. Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Ukrainian workers are sitting at the control panels, but suddenly there is an alarm. The fourth power unit at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is exploding. The Ukrainian SSR is running for help to the RSFSR. The BSSR passes by, which has a third eye. The RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR pretend that everything is fine with him.

1988 - 1989. The Belarusian is reading the newspaper. Suddenly he notices in the newspaper "Kurapaty - Daroga Smertsi!" What he can't stand and goes to the rally. Protesters wave white-red-white phages. The police beat the protesters with sticks. There are a lot of Belarusians and they are moving forward.

1990 - 1991. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are seceding from the USSR. The BSSR signs a declaration of sovereignty of Belarus. Belarus returns the coat of arms "The chasing" and wears a white-red-white flag. Independent Belarus, Ukraine and Russia are signing an agreement on the collapse of the USSR. The Sad Council goes into darkness. Instead, the CIS approaches the three countries.

1992 - 1994. Belarus is creating its Belarusian ruble with bunnies on money. Creates its own constitution.

1995-1997. Belarus suddenly throws out the coat of arms "Pogyn" and puts the changed Soviet coat of arms. Also, Belarus changes the flag to the one it had in the USSR. Belarus is starting to pester Russia. Russia is fleeing Belarus in panic. Belarus and Russia are becoming close allies.

2001. Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are creating the EurAsEC.

2004. Belarus is rewriting its constitution.

2010. The same president (Lukashenko) wins the election. There are rallies on the streets. The police are hitting the rebels.

2011. There is a strong explosion in the subway. Several Belarusians are dying. The Belarusian ruble is jumping. However, in the end, he falls down. Belarus and Russia are designing a Belarusian nuclear power plant. Lithuania doesn't like it.

2012. Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia launch a common satellite into space.

2015. Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and Armenia are creating the Eurasian Economic Union. Belarus looks sadly at the conflicting Russia and Ukraine. The Belarusian hosts the Minsk agreements, which included Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.

2016. Belarus is denominating. She takes old money out of the cylinder and replaces it with new ones with coins.

2017. The Belarusian receives a tax on parasitism. He can't stand it and goes to a rally where he is beaten by policemen. Belarusians wave white-red-white flags. The police are holding them back...

The sad Belarusian returns home. He puts on a straw hat and goes to the wheat field. He looks at the sky and sees a stork flying over Belarus in the sky.

At the very end, Belarus appears in Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which looks at the viewer.

Differences
Unlike the first version of the History of Belarus, where almost everything is focused on the positive, the History of Belarus has a deeper awareness of everything that happened to the Belarusian lands. Art's Animations showed the heyday of Belarus and its fall. What is only the scene with the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Atmospheric music, black background, cruelty. All this hints to the viewer that a terrible thing is happening now: a whole state with a rich culture and history has ceased to exist. The same with ON. The GDL is the ancestor of Belarus, who has always been for independence. Lithuania did not really like the idea of unification, but the war with the Russian Kingdom forced it to do so.

Unhappy moments were also shown in Belarus after joining RI. Burning of cities by Napoleonic France, division between Poland and the RSFSR, repression in 1937, Great Patriotic War. Even after independence, Belarus had bad times. Constitutional changes, rallies against the dishonest government, tax on parasitism.

Characters

 * Belarus
 * Prehistoric tribes
 * Europeans
 * Balts
 * Slavs
 * Radimichi
 * Dregovichi
 * Krivichi
 * Polotsk
 * Tours
 * Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 * Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
 * Belarus (as part of the Russian Empire)
 * ON (1812)
 * Belarusian People's Republic
 * Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus
 * Litbel
 * Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
 * Republic of Belarus
 * Belorussia

Other characters

 * Veliky Novgorod (Vladimir)
 * Kyiv
 * Zaslavl (Izyaslav)
 * Pskov
 * Peryaslav-Khmelnitsky
 * Chernigov
 * Minsk
 * Teutonic Order
 * Novogrudok
 * Golden Horde
 * Vilnius
 * Kingdom of Poland
 * Malbark
 * Dobzhinsky land
 * Jamoytia
 * Smolensk
 * Grand Duchy of Moscow
 * Orsha
 * Prague
 * Livonian Order
 * Russian Kingdom
 * Hetmanate
 * Sweden
 * Saxony
 * Denmark
 * Russia
 * St. Petersburg
 * Austrian Empire
 * Prussia
 * Napoleonic France
 * Kingdom of Poland
 * Kingdom of Serbia
 * Austria-Hungary
 * Russian Empire
 * German Empire
 * Great Britain
 * Ottoman Empire
 * Russian Republic
 * RSFSR
 * USA
 * Kingdom of Italy
 * Japan
 * Republic of Poland
 * Ukrainian SSR
 * ZSFSR
 * USSR
 * Third Reich
 * United Nations
 * Netherlands
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Belgium
 * Chile
 * Australia
 * Argentina
 * Soligorsk
 * Estonia
 * Latvia
 * Lithuania
 * Ukraine
 * CIS
 * Tajikistan
 * Kyrgyzstan
 * Kazakhstan
 * EurAsEC
 * EAEU
 * Belarusian ruble
 * Armenia
 * Germany
 * France
 * Mammoth
 * Pisces
 * Cows
 * Rogneda
 * Tour
 * Horses
 * Wolf
 * Francis Skaryna
 * False Dmitry
 * Red
 * Crows
 * Peoples

Trivia

 * "History of Belarus" is currently the second longest video in Countryballs, the first currently being "Starch Brotherhood: Starch Collapse".
 * This video had the longest development process, as the project was in 5 months of development.
 * "History of Belarus" is the first, and currently the only video to be titled in Belarusian.
 * At the beginning of the video, a similar screensaver to the screensaver "VID" from the first teaser of "History of Belarus" appears.
 * The model of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is taken from the 15th edition. The same with the tax on the Tunedism from "Travel to Italy".
 * An 8-bit version of the USSR march from the game Red Alert was made in Minecraft using sheet music blocks.
 * Napoleonic France's jump through Belarus is a reference to the first version of "History of Belarus". There, France also jumped on defeated Belarus.
 * Initially, in the last scene, a bison was supposed to approach Belarus, but in the final version Artyom decided to remove it.
 * The preview of this video has changed once. In the first preview, Belarus had the same half-closed eyes as the other characters in the preview. However, this was changed to Belarus depicted with ordinary eyes. The current first is the slightly edited first teaser of History.

Easter Eggs

 * On the sheet of the agreement on the unification of Poland and the GDL in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, there are several capital letters among the scribbles. If it is combined, it will receive "POLSKA MOZE".
 * On the sheet that GI signed, the line "Gi, Ahaha, Noob" can be seen among the scribbles.
 * At the creation of the UN, on the sheet signed by the BSSR and the Ukrainian SSR, it was written "UN" and "Polska jest tutaj!", which is translated from Polish "Poland is here!"
 * At 22:07 at the bottom right for a moment there is an inscription "no one was changed".
 * At 21:21 Belarus has Lukashenko's mustache for a moment, which is a reference to the fact that he became president once again.
 * In the tax on parasitism, among "blah blah blah" there is "yes-here-more-nothing-no-again-:(".
 * In the credits, when the roles were shown after Belarus, Belarus appears for a moment. A small scene with Belarus appears immediately after that.