Just so you know, I'm going to mention the Chechnyan war and 90s apartment bombings in a future video about Putin's consolidation of power. They happened during the time frame covered in this video, but I think they are more relevant to the next part of the series. Cheers

@Giguv05

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit I thought nobody would have the guts to discuss that. You never disappoint, Georg.

@WokeBegone

2 жыл бұрын

Sheesh... It only took a Russian invasion to get a new video from you...

@aaronpuzey6051

2 жыл бұрын

It's about time you do a video on the film Threads. It's seems more relevant than ever.

@icemachine79

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Georg! BTW your videos are absolutely wonderful, deeply insightful, and nearly technically flawless... except for the audio. Any chance you could crank it up a bit on the next one?

@rjchavers9267

2 жыл бұрын

Super excited to hear about this series (?) from you. 👍

It was terrible shame, the accident Georg had tomorrow.

@trapezeoidthreelobed7683

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, when he very sadly, accidentally, brutally cut off his own head whilst combing his hair...

@darkchild130

2 жыл бұрын

@@trapezeoidthreelobed7683 hate it when that happens

@Dogen70

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was supposed to be my tomorrow. Shit...let me check my orders...again, Tovarisch. This video was never supposed to come out. Bosche Moi!

@Mbeluba

2 жыл бұрын

Eh, it's not like he was exposing the Clintons! He might live.

@dekai7992

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Now he ... ... is potato.

I subscribed years ago for film analyses, stayed for the social commentary. Keep up the great work 🤘

@deadredeyes

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Cheers!

@BennettsShed

2 жыл бұрын

Here here

@gnarlestongnu637

2 жыл бұрын

All art is political, so Georg's channel doing videos on film, society, and politics is really just a more honest form of art critique than you get from most.

@Kaucukovnik666

2 жыл бұрын

@@gnarlestongnu637 Come on, how is a still life, forest landscape or a nude figure political? Only inept artists *have* to employ politics to get response out of people.

@48917032

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kaucukovnik666 A nude is political. In Saudi Arabia, for example.

From what I've read about Yeltsin's transfer of power to Putin, I don't think Putin necessarily needed to have any dirt on Yeltsin. Yeltsin was an incredibly unpopular politician with a ton of ongoing corruption investigations. His term was almost up and it was practically guaranteed that he'd lose and whoever came next would score some easy political points by prosecuting not just him but also much of his family. He just needed a successor who could protect him, and Putin seemed to fit the bill.

@MrJohndoakes

2 жыл бұрын

He (Yeltsin) also had blood on his hands from the White House shelling and the first war in Chechnya.

@RazgrizWing

2 жыл бұрын

Additionally, Alexander Lukashenka was making a run for the Russian presidency to have a unified Russian and Belarusian state under him.

@maesterchris2120

2 жыл бұрын

He had become the most unpopular man in Russia since Alexander II, he was never going to keep power

@SlapstickGenius23

2 жыл бұрын

😣 that’s not that shocking.

@sartajparveen2001

Жыл бұрын

What I have heard Yeltsin transfer power to Putin in return Putin prevent dropped corruption charges on Yeltsin.

This channel has such a distinctive vibe to it from the visuals to the sound. It's cynical of society but for me without cookie cutter feel that much of the video essays on KZread have. You don't necessarily know the man from his art.. that said I know your doing alright George.

@liamjones9115

2 жыл бұрын

Very well articulated

@Alex-hp2rs

2 жыл бұрын

You can tell he prioritizes avoiding being pretentious, which I think is what differentiates these videos

@ajcrichton81

2 жыл бұрын

Love it.

@andybaldman

2 жыл бұрын

*you’re

@andybaldman

2 жыл бұрын

I never really like the videos, but I love the channel.

This was so well told to an almost disturbing degree.

I feel cold war anxiety fits your style very well. We kind of thought it was gone for a long time, and now it is re-emerging, but having undergone a change. I feel your work, no matter how tangentially related, all seems to be directed toward that anxiety. A very peculiar western "end of history" anxiety. I look forward to seeing your film.

@Torus2112

2 жыл бұрын

Feels like he's slowly drifting towards doing One Minute to Midnight again and that makes me glad.

@Jenniferentrance

2 жыл бұрын

"end of history" ? More like History is finally starting again after we stuck our heads in the sand and pretended it was going to be 1999 until the sun burnt out

@Dogen70

2 жыл бұрын

As an African American, the chaos is interesting

This guy's been president my entire life. Fucken snowy hellhole... I'm 23 btw Peace to Ukraine, freedom to Russia.

@saga960

2 жыл бұрын

Did you make his coat?

1:20 Just so you know, Vlad is not short for Vladimir in Russian, Vova is.

@Jesse__H

2 жыл бұрын

What is Vlad short for then, if anything?

@kanakawase

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jesse__H Vlad is short for Vovamir.

@autismspirit

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jesse__H Vladislav

@megashillyshally

2 жыл бұрын

@@kanakawase lmao. Thank you for this.

@LordZordid

2 жыл бұрын

Vova is short for Vladimir and Vlad is short for Vovamir. ohh no, it's a vicious cycle!

Please do a video on Vladislav Surkov. He is regarded as the father of Putinism and the brain behind "non-linear warfare" I think him and his actions are very important to Putins power and modern Russian politics.

@benimanah

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, he's incredibly interesting especially when it came to funding both sides of any issue just to cause confusion

@BryanBortz

2 жыл бұрын

Hypernormalisation

The macho man intro was perfect 👌

@granudisimo

2 жыл бұрын

HEY!

What a dark world indeed, Georg. What a dark world indeed.

Yes, most of Putin's appeal stands on the memory of the shameful collapse of the Yeltsin years and the long descent into chaos of Soviet Union in the later 1970s and 1980s.

To me what is the most fascinating is how some people just get promoted from position to position to position.

05:01 "A Dog's Heart" is also the name of a short novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, an early Soviet-era writer and a man hounded by Communist Russia for most of his life. It's a satirical sci-fi story about turning a dog into a man who then becomes a blind party follower and a typical average Joe (or Vasya, if you like), despite his creator's best efforts to educate him.

@StanislavG.

2 жыл бұрын

Props for knowing this excellent story. But Mikhail Bulgakov was never hounded by the "Communist Russia" (what's that? RSFSR?), he was highly regarded his entire carrier (even by uncle Jo himself)

@RatSitnov

2 жыл бұрын

@@StanislavG. I admit the wording was incorrect; however Bulgakov's relationship with the regime was at best complicated, some of his work banned and some relentlessly destroyed by critics. Which is no wonder given his frequent portrayal of an average Soviet citizen as ignorant and cowardly.

@StanislavG.

2 жыл бұрын

@@RatSitnov You need to understand the historical context for things to make sense. Let's just say "The Communists" weren't a bunch of barbaric Borg-like creatures the western propaganda painted them to be. Let's just say 1. Bulgakov wrote about the esoteric, which was "antithetical" to the Soviet realism at the time. Sounds silly now, but consider this - it was a highly religious region living by medieval standards couple of years back. 2. Тhe critique of his work was mostly coming from the intelligentsia, trying to suck up to the current regime (as they do to this day). The Master and Margarita is basically one long (sometimes pretty dark) satire, lampooning the intelligentsia and the ex middle class. 3. His portrayal of the average Joe (i.e. Sharikov) was employed by the Soviet regime to shame the ignorant, uneducated and reactionary parts of the society, displaying them as a ridiculous opposite to the "Kommunist", The Komsomolets - the young, educated and active communist. It kindda worked, USSR did some pretty cool shit before apathy and greed took over. 4. As we can see today - the alternative to the USSR is... whatever the fuck it is we're seeing now :/ But i dunno, i'm not a politician

@kitchensinkmuses4947

2 жыл бұрын

@Immortal Science of Hauntology I read this book a couple of years ago and it's pretty scathing of the non communists too. The whining doctor who needs more rooms, and a maid etc.. great book all round

can't overstate how great your videos are, except for the volume. it's WAY too low. I kind of have to post this because I just caused a small audio explosion after finishing it and switching to a different video.

@juliettedemaso7588

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the volume is peculiarly low

@Jinjins

2 жыл бұрын

Every time. You'd think I would've learned by now... but nope.

@truthhurts2879

2 жыл бұрын

Just a suggestion that may or may not be helpful, but In direct response to said "low volume" quality which seems to be prevalent on youtube with the varying levels of quality of recording equipment used by content creators , I've recently downloaded a volume booster app and I have to say its incredibly useful especially when using ear buds which seems to effect the sound quality even more. I didn't hold out much hope so was pleasantly surprised to get the boost in volume that I did. Some have equalisers to tailor the sound even better as I like a lot of low end (bass) and less high end (treble) but it's worth a try... Oh, and the "auto volume" function is a must for keeping the volume level the same across all sources, so no "audio explosion" when the adverts begin lol.

Gotta say, I’m really getting tired of living through major historical events. Thanks for shedding some light on this Georg. It always seemed like an open secret, but current events have without a doubt only raised scrutiny. Staying tuned for more.

@Ivor8

2 жыл бұрын

Oh poor you

@Champigne

2 жыл бұрын

What, do you expect history to stop? Makes no sense and is straight up narcissistic.

@billhicks8

2 жыл бұрын

He's just saying it'd be nice if things calmed down for a bit, you weirdos

@lamecasuelas2

2 жыл бұрын

Well, history doesn't really care

@hinzuzufugen7358

2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant, dashing and daring - or am I gullible? Rather, how naive have we been about Vladi (as an East German friend calls him)?

I watched an entire Prager U ad for this and it was worth it

@InquisitorThomas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your sacrifice, I pray your brain cells eventually recover.

@robertely686

2 жыл бұрын

When did the ad end?

Can't wait for the fall chapter. Coming soon to the theaters near you

That ending is pure gold, and pure sadness

I could sense an upload from you, and lo and behold search your name and you have uploaded and it is a topic I expected. Thank you again for sharing more excellent content.

Your videos are so good mate.

Omg totally reissuing that sweater joke at the end! And this was great, excited to hear the next one. So glad I found your channel all those years ago, and that you came back to KZread making new videos!

Cheers Georg. Much respect

You're one of my favorite people on KZread.

@livewithmeterandnomeasureb1679

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too. Keep up the good work.

You had me at "hey. hey. hey!"

Well done.

Thank you 💕 I don't know what else to say 😶 Thank You. 👍❤️

Wow, what an interesting video on Putin, I wonder what he’s up to these days

@Ragnarok540

2 жыл бұрын

I heard he is making bad decision lately, like everything he does gives the opposite of what he wants.

@ludilka

2 жыл бұрын

Not much. You know, taking us Russians back into Stone Age, attacking the neighbouring country, threatening to use nuclear weapons... The usual shenanigans.

Good lead-in for the return of One Minute to Midnight

Good work!

These are great. You deserve way more view and subs.

Thank you, Georg. I hope you're OK.

Really exceptional detail!

If I had a thought bubble that appeared over my head during someone's conversation about Vladimir Putin it would show the wide Putin walking meme from a few years back.

@LoveProWrestling

2 жыл бұрын

I'd never seen it till I read your comment. Thank you for your service sir.

Love your content. Keep it up! Xx

Nice work

"I bet the person who made it is almost an adult now" hahaha genius!

Right on time and on the money.

great stuff georg

Just keep going. Your the best.

Thanks for the video. It was engaging and informative. I'm really liking the content of this channel. Furthermore, your sweater is serviceable.

Very, very to the point, as always. Hats down, sir.

Brilliant.

Georg - your videos get better all the time :)

you're a legend man, appreciate your awesome work :)

I love your sweater. X

That sweater bit at the end was amazing.

Very interesting thank you

I’m loving these videos Thanks

Great video.

These videos break our hearts.

13:55 so glad I watched this to the end.

have i ever told you how much i LOVE your videos?

been watching your content for many a year now and its rare that you disappoint...congrats @Georg Rockall Schmidt.

Can we all have a look down the back of our sofa’s for Georg’s missing “e”? You’re one of my favourite KZreadrs. I still reckon referring to someone as KZreadr is basically calling them a potato. Not that you’re a potato. I’ll get my coat.

@igotes

2 жыл бұрын

I think I may have found it. I crushed it up and snorted it. Sorry.

@BennettsShed

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you had a good one!

I was gonna tell you I liked your sweater even before you mentioned it.

I love your videos so much

I feel like im always to sober for your video.

Gawd the intro had me howling 🤣

Thank you for doing this video. I also plan to Rise to Power

I gotta be honest Georg. I’m gonna need more sarcasm.

You should have mentioned how the US kinda helped in putting Putin in power. The US had interfered in the 1995 Russian elections to elect Yeltsin, which is one of the reasons Putin is incharge today.

@zerocool5395

2 жыл бұрын

"Imagine if the US interfered with other countries elections" - Joe Biden.

@alanmanrick5593

Жыл бұрын

You reap what you sew.

I hope there are at least 6 parts of this

Nice

I adore your videos :D

Your sweater is stunning

Really love your videos for being well researched, and only started watching this one, but please, don't use Vlad as a short form of "Vladimir" - it's actually Vova. Vlad is short for Vladislav. Not supposed to be a hater comment, just pointing out a common mistake made by non-slavic people.

I zoned out for a second and thought you meant Mark Radcliffe the radio DJ.

How come megalomaniac dictators always look like dorks when they're young? Or perhaps that explains it...

@thepeatboggy

2 жыл бұрын

Nah man Have u seen young Stalin? Famously a hot young stud

@54tisfaction

2 жыл бұрын

​@@thepeatboggy Maybe in his own propaganda... Like Putin!

I bought a knock off Tommy Hilfiger polo shirt in China. It was so good I bought a real one back in my home country for about 20 times the cost of the knock off. The real one lasted 6 months before the stitching came out. I still have and wear the knock off nearly 20 years later.

@michaelodonnell7970

Жыл бұрын

Very allegorical

Hey Hey Hey that intro tho....lol

it is a very nice sweater

Good video :-)

Chaos is a ladder.

I choose to believe you own a giant floor-to-ceiling lava lamp

I've been a Russia weeb my whole life. Thanks for covering this.

Succinctly done.

Georg, get ready for your Novichok dose...

@runningcommentary2125

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean the man next door's Novichok dose?

Hah, i noticed the McDonald's sign at 4:26 , i was wondering if you were going to do something on the Russia/McDonald's thing, and you did at the end

theres no way you got that sweater x years ago from primark, it would be one giant undulating bobble by now. "we can smell our own"

Oh George. You've come a lomg way from analyzing Alien movies.. A long way indeed. Keep it up mate.

Diggin' what hair you got left, Georg!

Хиптанг больше, чем мертвый мем

@Stret173

2 жыл бұрын

хиптанг спасёт человечество!

Back then the economy was in shambles - now there simply is no economy.

@54tisfaction

2 жыл бұрын

That's unlimited Capitalism for you.

@ennuied

2 жыл бұрын

Russia is leaning towards the Chinese approach, industrialisation and one party rule, not communist per se but not turning away from communist and tsarist Russia ideals. Leaning but not running since people are not as oppressed by the upper classes as pre revolution and times are different, globalisation and all. If I was living in Russia I would beat the drum of democracy or just leave, the alternative is a police state.

@Giguv05

2 жыл бұрын

@@ennuied The last time anyone could properly beat that drum was on Bolotnaya in 2011. After that leaving has pretty much become an only option.

@54tisfaction

2 жыл бұрын

@@ennuied China and Russia had totally different approaches. The Chinese Communist party very slowly and in a very controlled (even oppressive) manner allowed SOME privatization, as long as the big industrialists remained loyal to the party. Russia on the other hand had no plan at all when the Soviet Union fell, but swiftly privatized everything under the advise of Western financiers that was hoping to dominate a new market. This instead created the opportunity for a limited group of influential former Communist officials and managers to scoop up all the assets very cheaply, crush any domestic or foreign contenders by criminal means, and then become the oligarchs of today. This of course left the Russian society in chaos and poverty, but that created the opportunity for "a firm hand" leader like Putin to ascend to the throne as a sort of guarantor of "order" - supported by the oligarchs but pretending to keep them in check for the benefit of the public. So totally opposite stories.

@ennuied

2 жыл бұрын

@@54tisfaction different stories, but stories have a continuation, I think Russia is looking up to how China is managing its population, and fat pockets are more spies than anything, their freedom is relative. I might be insane but I will not be surprised if China Russia and North Korea will become ideologically closer in the near future.

Before i watch this: This video appeared as the very first thing in the top-left corner of my screen, as I opened my youtube page. My initial reaction: Oh boy. I am going to love this. EDIT: The first four minutes strike especially hard, i would say.

Georg, Are you a fan of Adam Curtis? Your narrative style reminds me of his documentaries.

maybe next week Georg there wont be a next week. . . . .

I've had some Primark jumpers that lasted for a decade. It's just a lottery though.

Everyone should go watch Oliver Stone’s documentary about Ukraine that KZread all of a sudden decided couldn’t be up on the platform anymore. It’s up on Rumble.

@wmurd

2 жыл бұрын

I would say he is biased, so I wouldn't trust much. Because his infamous "interview" with geezer was so damn ridiculous, it was obvious for any russian it was payed by russian gov for pp looking cool and intimidating, being asked wright questions. So, personally, I wouldn't believe one word about Ukraine from him and his crew.

7:27 The FSB is not all; it is half of the old KGB, the domestic intelligence wing. The SVR is the foreign half ("First Chief Directorate") and NOBODY IN THE WEST TALKS ABOUT IT. There is also the GRU (military intelligence) and that has been around since Catherine the Great. NOBODY IN THE WEST TALKS ABOUT IT EITHER.

@repletereplete8002

2 жыл бұрын

GRU did get a lot of coverage in the UK when they went on a shoddy poisoning spree in Salisbury 2018.

@StanislavG.

2 жыл бұрын

Because when you try to sell a narrative (as media does), you need to keep the story simple and to the point. Too many acronyms and historical context would just confuse the average Joe, hence the focus on the "antagonist", the evil KGB (or whatever)

@emanueldobos8452

2 жыл бұрын

@@StanislavG. does it make a meaningful difference though?

@StanislavG.

2 жыл бұрын

@@emanueldobos8452 It depends - Do you want the narrative or the truth?

The first 32 seconds of this video, OMG dead 😂😂😂

0:12 "Hey!" Wha "...Hey!" wtf "..Hey, hey hey..." *finally clicks* Ahh, ,very god one ;D

Your beard looks good. You should eat bread, drink beer, watch birds, but watch out for bears.

I get anemoia when I see that video footage

finally a political monotribe as good as Down Periscope (David S. Ward 1996)

Don't you normally do movie reviews or something?? Not complaining, this was really well done.

@yurei3714

2 жыл бұрын

No?

Putin's imdb page was a shocking eye opener.

Very Interesting perspective, from what i could gather in the russian community the ,,consensus,, seems to be that he got his position mostly by happenstance, since he was basically some nobody in the KGB and Jelzin needed someone to safe face since russia was basically doomed after him.

@francisdec1615

8 ай бұрын

I use to call him the most non charismatic mass murderer ever.

"If your name end with "-in", it's time to get out!"