00:00Orphans were trained as spies and assassins at the Red Room Academy.
00:04Having been created by Department X, the Soviet program to create super soldiers,
00:10the headmistress ran this program for Natasha and the other girls.
00:14The Black Room, as with all things, the Red Room came to an end.
00:19A new program and facility called the Black Room emerged after it was shut down.
00:24Orphaned girls were trained in black ops by the headmistress and her daughter.
00:29She defected for Hawkeye.
00:31Hawkeye and Black Widow share a lot of history.
00:34Due to her love for Arrow-loving Avenger,
00:37she stopped working for the Soviet Union and joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and the United States.
00:42Natasha doesn't seem to have an ideology.
00:45While she grew up under Stalinism,
00:47she does not seem particularly loyal to the Soviet state or Marxism.
00:52Despite defecting to the West,
00:54she has no real use for capitalism and seems skeptical of democratic flaws.
00:59As long as she's teamed up with Thor, she can hardly be considered an atheist.
01:05Natasha Romanova may be the most famous Black Widow,
01:08but another took the title much later.
01:11Natasha's teachers trained Yelena Belova,
01:14the second Black Widow, in the Red Room,
01:17making her the ideal choice to take up the mantle,
01:19though they have a long rivalry.
01:21Thanks for watching.
01:23I greatly appreciate it.
