The Khodynka Crush | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

"I survived khodynka and all I got was this stupid cup."

I was trampled under the crowd at a rock concert when I was younger which left me with a broken spine and permanent damage to my back. It was truly the most terrifying thing I have every experienced, the way I fell meant my head was between my knees and people were stood on my back. My throat was crushed into me so I couldn’t scream, all I could do was tug at peoples trousers until they pulled me out. It’s been 20 years and I still can’t do big crowds.

I did not like crowds before I found this channel, but now I actively avoid them.

This is why crowd management is an important topic of study

As a boy in 1970’s Glasgow, it was a ‘normal’ thing to be carried along in a football crowd crush..feet not touching the ground and arms pinned to one’s side by the pressure. Thrilling at first, but soon very scary indeed. It is so easy to die in such circumstances and, from time to time, many did😞. To this day, crowd control is a huge challenge to event organisers and it is only a matter of time until the next big tragedy.

I kind of figured when the gifts were said to be "bread rolls" that it might not go well. Obviously if those are the gifts intended to excite the populace, then the populace is in a state of poverty. Desperation leads to ugly things.

7:48 "clear the area and remove the bodies so the festivities could continue as planned"

holy shit

Started this story looking at Nicholas like a fool but:

"What is going to happen to me... to mother, to all of Russia?
I am not prepared to be a czar. I never wanted to become one.
I know nothing about the business of ruling."

That genuinely hurts my heart, and that caliber of unpreparedness is terrifying.

Usually when I think of crushes they're in part caused by some sort of bottleneck. A building, wall, or fence. This was in a wide open area, it's hard to imagine the size of the crowd to cause so many deaths. Crowd control is an underappreciated safety measure, until something goes wrong.

The numbers killed and injured is staggering, and for free gifts plus rumours of grand prizes.... what a tragedy. Another well done doc Kristian.

I get so uneasy in overly large crowds because of these stories. If I can avoid them, I do.

The crush was definitely a symbolic omen for things to come of Tsar Nicolas' reign for sure, considering what would later happen.

You won't see me near a large crowd. It draws the worst of humanity.

"Wellllllllllll get these bodies out of here and then we'll serve the pretzels"

The more I learn about Tsar Nicholas, the more it becomes clear that his rule was a comedy of errors. As early as his coronation, the Revolution was already inevitable.

It's like Mardi Gras when they're throwing out the krewe's new doubloons and cups for that year.
People will maul anybody else on earth for a bit of plastic beads, so i can only imagine the fuss over a king's cup and refreshments.

People don't change. These crushes still occur. In the U.S., every Black Friday, a crowd somewhere will go crazy.

Just a little more context and history, Tsar Nicholas also resembles his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Also Nicholas was raised in England in the palace alongside both his cousins Wilhelm, George V, though George V and Nicholas had a contentious relationship with the Kaiser. Which was one factor of many why Germany declared war on Russia and started WW1.

Chinese Imperial Ambassador over here saying "A Chinese Emperor would never attend a ball after such a tragedy" is hilarious bc of course they wouldn't be attending they would be the one Throwing the ball!! 🤷

Please do a video on the many crushes that have occurred during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. They have some of the most horrific and astounding death tolls each time it has happened, yet it's very difficult to find any videos on any of these events.

the Russian royalty is like cursed or something, bad stuff keeps happening to them till Nicolas and his family were murdered.