How the USSR Stole a Martial Art

is Sambo really Russian? Use code WHOSCHO at the link below to get an exclusive 15% off your entire Flowtica order: https://bit.ly/3VFZlJK 🔗 LINKS Patreon:   / nathanielcho   The Eurasian Knot: https://www.euraknot.org/ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Intro 1:54 — Judo Ripoff? 3:46 — Vasili Oshchepkov 9:26 — Physical Culture 11:17— The Other Guys 13:45 — Terror by Quota 17:01 — Made in the USSR 20:03 — Beating Japan at Judo 21:14 — How do we know? 24:11 — What Now? 👇 SOURCES & FURTHER READING "All-Russian Sambo Federation." International SAMBO Federation (FIAS), https://sambo.sport/en/federations/eu... Baldaev, Danzig. Drawings from the Gulag. FUEL Design & Publishing, 2010. Beyer, Thomas R., Jr. "Russians in America: The Third Wave." Middlebury College, https://community.middlebury.edu/~bey... Gorbylev, A. M. "Приказ № 633 и его роль в развитии борьбы самбо" [Order No. 633 and Its Role in the Development of Sambo Wrestling]. 75 лет самбо: итоги и перспективы [75 Years of Sambo: Results and Prospects], RGUFKSMiT, 2013, pp. 8–23. Grant, Susan. Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s. Routledge, 2013. Gregory, Paul R. Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives. Hoover Institution Press, 2008. https://hoover-s3-website.s3.us-west-... International Judo Federation. "Official Announcement of the International Judo Federation." 27 Feb. 2022, https://www.ijf.org/news/show/officia... "Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics." Olympedia, https://www.olympedia.org/editions/16... Kharlampiev, Anatolii A. Борьба самбо [Sambo Wrestling]. Fizkul'tura i sport, 1949. https://www.sambo.spb.ru/book/har/h_2... Kulanov, A. E. "Василий Ощепков: человек-легенда" [Vasily Oshchepkov: Man-Legend]. Ежегодник Япония [Yearbook Japan], 2012, pp. 250–265. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/vas... ---. "Василий Ощепков: черный пояс между Россией и Японией" [Vasily Oshchepkov: A Black Belt Between Russia and Japan]. Russian Historical Society, 15 Jan. 2019, https://historyrussia.org/tsekh-istor... Nagaki, Kosuke. "Randori and the Unification of Jujutsu Disciplines by the Kodokan." Judo Research and Development Group, Dec. 1998. JudoInfo, https://judoinfo.com/randori1/ Oltarzhevskii, Georgii. "Самбо устояло: кто на самом деле придумал «борьбу вольного стиля»" [Sambo Stood Its Ground: Who Really Invented "Freestyle Wrestling"]. Izvestia, Nov. 2018, https://iz.ru/812195/georgii-oltarzhe... "Ощепков Василий Сергеевич" [Oshchepkov, Vasily Sergeevich]. State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture, Museum Archives, https://gtsolifk.ru/ob_universitete/m... "Putin Awarded Eighth Dan by International Judo Body." The Moscow Times, 10 Oct. 2012, https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2012/1... "Путин избран президентом" [Putin Elected President]. Vsluh.ru, 15 Nov. 2005, https://vsluh.ru/novosti/sport/putin-... United States, Department of State, Office of the Historian. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; Eastern Mediterranean, vol. VIII, doc. 551. https://history.state.gov/historicald... USA Sambo. "History of SAMBO." https://usasambo.com/sambo-history/ "The USSR and Japan Signed the Basic Convention." Presidential Library of Russia, https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/618963 VCIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Center). "Хоккей как национальный вид спорта России" [Hockey as Russia's National Sport]. 12 Dec. 2024, https://wciom.ru/analytical-reviews/a... — Experts interviewed — Taylor Weber Sean Gillory Ben Manuatu #sambo #russia #stalin #putin #ussr #gulag #wrestling #mma #judo #ufc #combatsports #martialarts #documentary #journalism #investigation