is Sambo really Russian?

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⏱ 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/european-sambo-federation/all-russian-sambo-federation/

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/~beyer/ratw/index.htm

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-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/uploads/documents/Lenins_Brain_Paul_Gregory_43.pdf

International Judo Federation. "Official Announcement of the International Judo Federation." 27 Feb. 2022, https://www.ijf.org/news/show/official-announcement-of-the-international-judo-federation

"Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics." Olympedia, https://www.olympedia.org/editions/16/sports/JUD

Kharlampiev, Anatolii A. Борьба самбо [Sambo Wrestling]. Fizkul'tura i sport, 1949. https://www.sambo.spb.ru/book/har/h_2.htm

Kulanov, A. E. "Василий Ощепков: человек-легенда" [Vasily Oshchepkov: Man-Legend]. Ежегодник Япония [Yearbook Japan], 2012, pp. 250–265. https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/vasiliy-oschepkov-chelovek-legenda/viewer

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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-oltarzhevskii/sambo-ustoialo-kto-na-samom-dele-pridumal-borbu-volnogo-stilia

"Ощепков Василий Сергеевич" [Oshchepkov, Vasily Sergeevich]. State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture, Museum Archives, https://gtsolifk.ru/ob_universitete/muzey/litsa_i_lichnosti/repressii/spisok_repressirovannih_infizkulta394/oschepkov_vasiliy_sergeevich117

"Putin Awarded Eighth Dan by International Judo Body." The Moscow Times, 10 Oct. 2012, https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2012/10/10/putin-awarded-eighth-dan-by-international-judo-body-a18489

"Путин избран президентом" [Putin Elected President]. Vsluh.ru, 15 Nov. 2005, https://vsluh.ru/novosti/sport/putin-izbran-prezidentom_66833/

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/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v08/d551

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/analiticheskii-obzor/khokkei-kak-nacionalnyi-vid-sporta-rossii

— Experts interviewed —

Taylor Weber - https://www.patreon.com/nathanielcho/posts/conversation-pt-172962649

Ben Manuatu - https://www.patreon.com/nathanielcho/posts/evolution-of-in-172962460

Sean Guillory - https://www.patreon.com/nathanielcho/posts/exploring-great-172962183

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