now you live in them now you don't explain that to your God welcome to watch module.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 countries that no longer exist but what makes us both Americans just one thing one one one the rule book for this list we'll be looking at Nations republics states and countries that were divided replaced absorbed or other wise ceased to be flags and all well let's go you can stay here Don not likely number 10 the viar Republic from 1919 to 1933 Germany was unofficially called The vimar Republic
and officially Deutsch's Reich formed between the second and third reiches this attempt at a republic was doomed from the start at the end of the first world war the Treaty of Versa imposed penalties on Germany which contributed to issues with hyperinflation and Waring communist and right-wing nationalist paramilitary movements it wasn't all bad though as the government ended up helping German currency and Railways and got out of most of the imposed restrictions from the treaty but it was all for not however because after the Reich doog fire a certain Chancellor influenced the government to call a
state of emergency effectively ending the Republic and beginning Germany's Nazi period Number Nine East Germany after World War II Germany was reeling from their losses and their territory was divided up by the Allies West Germany ultimately stayed connected with the rest of Western Europe East Germany officially the German Democratic Republic or gdr was snatched up by the USSR as a Soviet satellite state and was occupied by Soviet forces for decades they built the infamous Berlin Wall in 1961 to stop immigration and and killed many defectors despite having the best economy of the Eastern block States
it was a grim situation the Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989 and a year later as the USSR was dying the gdr was absorbed into a unified Democratic Germany number eight Prussia wow Germany's had more names than Puff Daddy excuse this iteration was called Prussia starting out as a duy it became a kingdom in 1701 under Frederick I and became famous for its military strength most notably under Frederick the great and Otto von bismar at its peak Prussia covered parts of what are now eight European countries after German unification in 1871 Prussia was the
largest state in the German Empire but ceased to be a kingdom after World War I it later lost Independence after the viar Republic dismissed prussia's cabinet and by 1934 their powers had been completely Stripped by the Nazis after World War II the Allies effectively dissolved Prussia with Poland and the USSR taking the spoils and kicking the Germans out number seven the United Arab Republic this ill-fated project was a union between Egypt and Syria the United Arab Republic or U was the first move towards eventually forming a larger pan Arab state it was also an attempt
to subdue that pesky communist influence in the area the project was short-lived though as Syria became independent again in 1961 after aou d'a Egypt kept the name U for another 10 years before realizing they weren't United with anyone they officially changed back to Egypt in 1971 shortly after the death of their president and founder of the U Gamal Abdel Naser number six silon just off the coast of India silon was the converted name given to Sri Lanka after the Portuguese landed there in the early 16th century like a lot of countries during the age of
Discovery and new imperialism silon went through its fair share of European overlords ending with the British who Consolidated rule over the island starting in 1815 fast forward to 1948 and cilon became a Dominion fully independent of Britain but still recognizing the British monarch it stayed this way until 1972 when it became a republic and its name was changed to Sri Lanka today Parliament plans to erase most references to the country's old name number five Czechoslovakia after the Central Powers were defeated at the end of World War I the ostroh Hungarian Empire was dissolved and split
into a bunch of successor States one of these was Czechoslovakia one of the few countries in Europe that was a Democratic Republic at the time they had a good thing going until the Nazis gobbled it up and later of course the Soviets during the Velvet Revolution in 1989 the Cs deposed their government and restored their democracy but things weren't all Rosy by 1993 nationalist tensions between Czechs and slovaks caused the country to peacefully split into two the Czech Republic in the west and Slovakia in the East effectively making them checkmates number four rodesia starting out
as the British colony of Southern Rhodesia and named after cesil rhods the British businessman who exploited the region this Southeast African state had a history mired in blood in 1965 the minority whites signed a declaration of independence from the UK which was declared illegal as Britain only allowed the majority to make such a declaration after British sanctions and a 15-year civil war between Robert mugabi zanu Joshua Nomo zapu and Ian Smith's rodian government rhia buckled universal suffrage was granted and the state was named Zimbabwe rodesia elections were held in 1980 and Robert mugabi and zanu
won the European name of rhia was replaced with just Zimbabwe and mugabi has been in control first as prime minister and now as president ever since number three the Ottoman Empire with an over 600y year existence the ottoman Empire's run was one of the longest in history the Ottoman Empire ah I could get used to this you know what this is what I want our Empire to be about they officially ended the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire by taking Constantinople they annexed much of the Middle East under sulon I dominated the land surrounding the Mediterranean
Sea and were instrumental in causing European nations to modernize their Weaponry they had a good run barring multiple genocides but political ineptitude internal revolts and the sheer vastness of the Empire caused it to decline allied with Germany during World War I the loss saw the empire dism mantled with the Turkish war of independence the sultanate was abolished and the Republic of Turkey took the Empire's place while its Legacy was Whitted down number two Yugoslavia along with Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia was another remnant of the old ostroh Hungarian Empire unlike its peer which adopted democracy Yugoslavia became a
kingdom that kingdom was invaded by the Nazis in 1941 as was the trend in Europe at the end end of World War II it became a socialist federal republic unaffiliated with the USSR under the leadership of ysep Tito it was a Federation of six different republics that after Tito's death in 1980 wanted Independence because of ethnic differences some republics declared independence in the early 1990s effectively dissolving Yugoslavia into what is today seven different countries including Croatia and Serbia the story doesn't end there though as the Yugoslav wars unfortunately continued throughout the 1990s before we unveil
our number one pick here are some honorable [Music] mentions number one the Soviet Union the latter half of the 20th century saw the planet turn into a chessboard with America on one side and the Soviet Union the largest state in the world on the other an iron curtain has descended across the continent and that division still exists today along with the United States the Union of Soviet Socialist republics or the USSR influenced World politics to such an extent that the effects can still be felt in our modern world with areas like Asia South America the
Middle East North Africa and the Caribbean all feeling the effects ultimately because of economic failure most Soviet satellite States in Eastern Europe replaced their Communist governments and eventually the ussr's republics followed suit in the 9s instead you treat us as stes for the Union of Soviet Socialist republics can we just call them the Russians it'll save time they are now 15 independent States including the territory that is Russia or the Russian Federation which is the ussr's legal successor do you agree with our list what are some other countries that have left the map for more
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