*In Soviet Russia, we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.*

@SiahRainmaker

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that saying. We also said "they can't pay us as little, as little we can work."

@elchapojunior3091

3 жыл бұрын

Went from illiterate agricultural state to industrial superpower in the time it takes you to go from shitting your diapers to graduating high school, but ya they totally “pretended to work”

@beaudaniel1370

3 жыл бұрын

@@elchapojunior3091 you realize that's a saying the workers themselves used

@elchapojunior3091

3 жыл бұрын

@@beaudaniel1370 I know man, all of the infrastructure, military comparable to the U.S., and rebuilding an entire country after being obliterated by the Nazis all happened with the wave of a wand. Not to mention Russia has an economy that still isn’t comparable to that of the Soviet era

@jokuvaan5175

3 жыл бұрын

@@elchapojunior3091 How much blood was spilled, how many families destroyed, building it? Millions of lives lost unnecessarily due to paranoia of one man. Was it all really worth it?

"That's it, no work for me here. I am going to USSR. Surely they'll have something for me to do" Soviets: "Oh you'll get work. All the work you'd ever want" *Laughs in Russian*

@moonostultus

3 жыл бұрын

Хахахахаха...

@joshelguapo5563

3 жыл бұрын

People make stupid decisions when they can't feed themselves

@finejustgivemeaname

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshelguapo5563 he was a college student in the 30s. Bet he had no issue with starvation. Most likely, he came from a well-to-do family, with means.

@joshelguapo5563

3 жыл бұрын

@@finejustgivemeaname during the great depression? Having to learn a trade? It's possible but not likely

@finejustgivemeaname

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshelguapo5563 he was moving to a land where he didn’t speak the language. Learning a trade would be a necessity. It’s kinda hard to be a knowledge worker when you don’t speak the language. But, I’m speculating.

Well, his first mistake was thinking New York = America

@mfspectacular

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, decades ago it wasnt entirely shit. Big emphasis on entirely tho

@granderondeproductions3286

3 жыл бұрын

Wisconsin had lots of jobs and still does but he somehow ended up in NYC?? Hmm.. I suppose UW back then were teaching the same shit they're teaching millenials now and gave Tony Evers the election this past cycle..

@tailgunner2

3 жыл бұрын

Karl Marx made the same mistake. "The New York City publishers won't print my book! Capitalism is evil!" In all seriousness, I wonder what this world would look like had a US publisher printed his works and be done with it. I doubt it would have been as intense an ideology clash, instead straight up war of conquests of old.

@manictiger

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mfspectacular It's always been sh77. Look up Tammany Hall and read the laundry list of investigations against it. New York has always been a corrupt Democrat-run hellhole.

@mfspectacular

3 жыл бұрын

@@manictiger youre preaching to choir telling me this. Being born & raised there, im well aware of the city's long history of dumb fuckery. Leaches off the rest of ny state. Glad to be out og there

“Something seem to be wrong in America.” It was the Great Depression

@johngalt6838

3 жыл бұрын

The great communist experiment with FDR.....15 years of poverty leading to global war.

@kirillassasin

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngalt6838 what experiment? USA faked up big time giving credits to everyone, than realising that they destroyed not only their economic system, but whole Europe

@jonathangardner4475

3 жыл бұрын

Yah, and Obama is largely credited with ending the great recession... 🤢

@fortusvictus8297

3 жыл бұрын

There has never been a time where there WASN'T 'something wrong with America'...its a feature of the system not a bug...when you have a system of diverse ideas, goals, and cultural norms things will never feel 'complete' or 'whole'.

@jonathangardner4475

3 жыл бұрын

@@fortusvictus8297 I had to read that three times. Profound and true. Right now we have a party that is in open war against dessent. As you say, a cornerstone of our system.

Imagine if the History Channel had content of this quality.

@NecromancyForKids

3 жыл бұрын

They used to, but those days are long gone. The almighty dollar is more important to them than integrity. Everyone needs money, and it makes sense to do things to make money. But when you completely sell out, that's when it's a problem.

@JBGARINGAN

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, not fucking Pawn Stars and that Ancient Aliens shit

@knrst9061

3 жыл бұрын

@@JBGARINGAN I think no one works there. They pushed the re-run button and left 🤷‍♂️

@liamconverse8950

3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid history channel was more like this but it's basically always been propaganda

@Dave-om4kv

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKCD28OwZ9zQfbQ.html

As soon as I heared Magnitogorsk I thought "you my guy is going to have a bad time".

@vernedictb.valentine2057

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about Magnitogorsk from TNO ruled by Mikhail Lysenko the Soviet Mad scientist of the Urals

@mekolayn

3 жыл бұрын

@@vernedictb.valentine2057 and in TNO is surrounded by NKVD, SS, slaves etc

@UnwaryThunder9

3 жыл бұрын

The Gary, Indiana of the Soviet Union

@jasonbelstone3427

3 жыл бұрын

...This guy knows his Magnitogorsk.

@haruharii

3 жыл бұрын

Haha *THAT* Magnitogorsk isn’t from our timeline

And in 1939 he himself was purged...for his excessive enthusiasm in purging.

@anteeko

3 жыл бұрын

Mike M pure insanity..

@pwnmeisterage

3 жыл бұрын

@@anteeko Political doctrine is insanity. Along with the politicians who support it. And, by extension, the people who support the politicians.

@julioperez8324

3 жыл бұрын

Insanity is how you know the socialists are near.

@gearoiddom

3 жыл бұрын

@@julioperez8324 Towering intellectuals with fabulous ideas on how best to spend money that belongs to other people.

@houseplant3542

3 жыл бұрын

"Ironic he could save others from purging but not himself"

"no work for me in USA" "i learned a trade before going to USSR" Maybe he would get a job in USA if he had a trade?

@deadmeme8011

3 жыл бұрын

This was during the 30's, my guy. Haven't you ever heard of the Great Depression?

@undergroundman1993

3 жыл бұрын

My Great Grandpa was a master carpenter and brick layer in the early 1930s and even he couldn’t find work

@cgmason7568

3 жыл бұрын

@@deadmeme8011 i mean the U.S. didn't* kill 4 million of it's own people

@therideneverends1697

3 жыл бұрын

What job? what is a welder going to do when there is nothing to weld?

@oceania2385

3 жыл бұрын

@@therideneverends1697 He could weld up the "crack of dawn" - sorry, old welders joke...

Weird how the dude just casually mentions his brother got killed

@EvillBob

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Soviet Russia, you either accepted it or you were next up against the wall.

@LostShipMate

3 жыл бұрын

Its stranger that he had a M1 Garand.

@laurengaskell2098

3 жыл бұрын

The destruction of family as such, and of family is a big part of the idea of marxism, so it's not surprising. One of the heroes promoted in soviet primary schools was a boy named Pavlik Morozov, whose achievement was to snitch on his father to the authorities.

@zanizone3617

3 жыл бұрын

@@laurengaskell2098 yes, and was killed by his family in retribution and made a hero of the state. If I recall correctly, Stalin privately despised him and said "the little bastard" got what he deserved. Nice.

@m7ray

3 жыл бұрын

@@zanizone3617 And nobody of these idiots above in the thread know trues story.... *facepalm Oh. My. God. How can you know what Stalin privately though about this poor boy??? Yes. Poor boy. Because his only crime was to collaborate his mother's testimony at the trial against her husband, who was a criminal and his own family abuser. Wow! Little sneaky snitch didn't stitch and already trial?!?! :D Yes. Because two peasant who were caught with false documents reported on Trofim Morozov and not because of Pavel Morozov. Btw the trial even rejected to use Pavel as a confirmation to Tatiana's testimony. The judge considered Pavlik too small and suspected that his mother could manipulate him. Horrible story really. At least Trofim's criminal degenerate relatives were punished. So Stalin couldn't say this because he knew about him from real criminal case and not from fantasies like you. Canonization of Pavlik has nothing to do with the criminal case. BTW and if even "saint Pavlik" and real Pavlik were same thing and he really snitched on his bad father so what? He could only want to protect mother, brother and himself from "dad" who didn't stop beating even after he left them. Also interesting... When a cop or a politician don't snitch on his relatives and even help them to do some business it is a corruption, mafia thing and crime. When others don' t a snitch it's called beautiful family values.

"In America, you have work...In Soviet Russia, work have you..."

@immaculatesquid

3 жыл бұрын

in america, you have community, in soviet russia, community have you

@sumvs5992

3 жыл бұрын

Cue the "but wage slave" comments

@IdleWorker

3 жыл бұрын

lol, Im not a fan of communism, but do you really think that doesnt apply to capitalism as well?

@LibeRevolution

3 жыл бұрын

Lol you’re not wrong

@williamberlin6540

3 жыл бұрын

I lived in socialism for 30 years. Be happy it is history. It was a bad life

And imagine, we still have “highly educated” people who think that this is the way.

@janesawyer3495

3 жыл бұрын

Because those "highly educated" people believe they will be part of the elite. The communist elite in the former Soviet Union had special stores where they could shop. They didn't have to suffer under the system. The same is true in NK today.

@mattheww.6232

3 жыл бұрын

@@janesawyer3495 They are mistaken. When the shortages happen the people stuck in ghettos in the literal shadows of towers filled with hyper wealth will come for them. Riots and revolutions travel on foot, and they are so very close to the madness.

@chaossphere4980

3 жыл бұрын

SJWs

@cristianluna5568

3 жыл бұрын

Socialist dont want to be socialist in actual socialist countries. They only want to be socialist in capitalist countries.

@annar1805

3 жыл бұрын

@@janesawyer3495 👍 you are 💯 right... but ordinary folks that keep voting for socialism don’t understand this that they are being played by elite

This guy learned a very big lesson about fantasy vs. reality. He's just lucky he wasn't in Russia when the Nazis invaded.

@wolfgangkranek376

3 жыл бұрын

He was lucky he wasn't in the Soviet Union when the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed and both Fascists and Communists were allies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

@rohanbansal2324

3 жыл бұрын

@@wolfgangkranek376 The only reason the Bolsheviks didn't invade the rest of Europe was because of fascists and the National Socialists whose political strategies and policies were later adopted by the previously heavily capitalist Western nations. Of course, they also kept the Soviets at bay with their pact so you have fascists to thank for this. Now I know, it sucks to be born in both those regimes but you would much rather be born into a mature nationalistic country with moral citizens than a banana republic with relatives who can be bought out with bread and potatoes.

@wolfgangkranek376

3 жыл бұрын

@@rohanbansal2324 Maybe for a short period of time. But think about this: Every single fascist regime that existed crippled the economy in the long run. And the "high moral" standards where only for the average citizens, not the leadership.

@Warsie

3 жыл бұрын

The dude was in fucking Urals he wasn't at risk of Nazis killing him jfc

@mam162

3 жыл бұрын

@@Warsie Although he could easily have been conscripted and sent to the front lines. The Soviets were desperate enough they were throwing all the soldiers they could into the fray.

It's odd how enthusiastic this guy is, this sounds like a horrible life but he still tries to see the bright side.

@EndsleyIV

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine if he treated New York with that optimism.

@mirzaahmed6589

3 жыл бұрын

@@EndsleyIV Impossible. NYC is even worse than USSR.

@quanbrooklynkid7776

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 u sound crazy

@aydenhernandez2572

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

@dolandlydia

3 жыл бұрын

@@EndsleyIV um, he did state he went to New York for work, but no work. It was the depression at that time.

In Voices of The Past, History teaches YOU!

@kingofnuclearfallout39

3 жыл бұрын

This is better than school

@NecromancyForKids

3 жыл бұрын

It's not wrong.

@DeltaSpark8

3 жыл бұрын

That's the whole point of history, and that's why it's so precious :)

@royriley6282

3 жыл бұрын

fucking perfect

@goyonman9655

3 жыл бұрын

brillliant

My grandparents were also unemployed off and on during the depression- I wonder why they didn’t think to go to the Soviet Union. “You’ll own nothing and be happy”

@brandonbarnette5407

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard that you only vote for Socialism once.

@MaxwellsWitch

3 жыл бұрын

"You'll own nothing and be happy" - western capitalists of the world economic forum.

@MaxwellsWitch

3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonbarnette5407 "nuh uh, the great reset is not real capitalism, it's communism bro!" - retarded westerner coping about their new ruling class

@baconboi4482

3 жыл бұрын

@@MaxwellsWitch well it sure as hell ain’t free market capitalism

@manictiger

3 жыл бұрын

@@MaxwellsWitch Neofeudalists.

I respect him immensely for actually going and working an actual factory job and not opting for an easy life. Steel Mills and the like are still today very very difficult jobs and one can imagine back then, they were even still more difficult and filled with hardship. Regardless of my personal opinions on the USSR, there's something inherently depressing about seeing bright idealism meet the grit of reality. Another fantastic upload.

@OffGridInvestor

Жыл бұрын

Working in one is terribly difficult but he was building one. Regardless, building one with over an inch of ice on your work....

@loganstroganoff1284

Жыл бұрын

I do as well. Communist college kids these days that have never worked a trade in their lives unironically calling themselves workers of the world and living in conditions that are luxurious compared to that of actual soviet times. This guy actually went there and made a go of it and learned the truth first hand. Can't fault him for trying.

@ToxicGamer86454

Жыл бұрын

I don’t respect him at all. He is a monster

@Randomdive

Жыл бұрын

​@@ToxicGamer86454how?

@stephanthegreat1348

7 ай бұрын

He didnt have the option for an easy life in the first place. In general if you werent the son of someone important in the Soviet Union or got a lot of luck your life was pretty miserable.

Boyyy if I haven't met a lot of pro soviets who, when critiqued, just deflect by pointing out the same shortcomings of the west. As if critiquing the ussr is being pro capitalist. Absolutely dichotomy mindset

@jackotaco5054

3 жыл бұрын

Me: I think the Gulags were a horrible crime against humanity Tankie: Well what about the Us prison industrial complex that’s also bad right Me: Yes that to is bad

@michellesnow128

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackotaco5054 catalonia had them too

@twilightcitystudios

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you watch the video, but someone brought up a similar argument to him in the book while living in the USSR according to the author.

@bogdanbogdanoff5164

3 жыл бұрын

Or maybe all materialist systems have very similar flaws?

@cristitanase6130

3 жыл бұрын

Not a single westerners was stupid enough to cross the border in the East to get to a "better life". Despite all the anti-west and anti-capitalist leftist propaganda, even the useful idiots and their indoctrinated pupils knew deep inside that "equality for all" means in reality just prison life.

There is a similar account by French singer Yves Montand (that once was Marilyn Monroe's lover). Once a staunch socialist, he came back absolutely appaled from a tour behind the iron curtain, after seeing the bleak reality of sovietic life.

@oni2538

3 жыл бұрын

@@SMGJohn Sure, yes, the jump to industrialization from an agrarian society has a cost. Nobody would argue that point- hell, look at modern India and China, Vietnam to a lesser extent- they're dealing with the same problems that Western countries did when they began industrializing. But there might be just a teensy little bit of a fucking difference between industrial accidents here and there due to lackluster/nonexisent safety regulations/equipment and the Secret Police massacring this or that village, starving out ethnic groups suspected of being dissidents, etc. To say nothing of the other oppressive tactics these regimes employed, such as censorship- partly for what they imagined to be the good of the people, but mostly because shitty regimes can't weather honest observation, much less direct critique aimed at them. I'd also like to point out the absurdity of lampooning "Capitalism" (really Britain and America) for it's imperialism, whilst making scant mention of that very same expansionism that the USSR participated in- both on the level of conquering nations, as well as their policy of "Russification". And really, let's not even get into China, who are to this day engaged in a slow, steady campaign of repression and ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs and Tibetans, having already pacified and Hanified the Manchurians. They also engage in de-facto economic imperialism in Africa today, on a level that would make the old European powers blush. And don't get me started on your comment about disproportionate wealth in Capitalist societies. While I agree it's an issue, it was hardly any different in any other Communist state. It's a bit different now in China, but they're barely even Communist at this point. You know why? Because they couldn't make it work. They had to make a choice between economic stagnation and economic growth, and they chose the latter option. It's probably the only reason the CCP is still in power, rather than collapsing or being overthrown. Why don't we just be more honest? Governance is butchery. Governance at the level of a superpower is a goddamned sausage factory, no matter who is in charge, what they call themselves, or how they organize their economies. Given this fact, the only thing left to ponder is this: what does each provide to the common citizen? Would a communist rather be in a capitalist country, or otherwise? For all of South Korea's ills, it's the North Koreans who are willing to risk life and limb to escape to the South, rather than the other way around. It's Cubans making improvised rafts and braving miles of shark-infested waters to get to America, not the other way around. Bear in mind, I'm not even a staunch advocate of Capitalism. I am in opposition to Liberal Capitalism, as well as Communism. But the world is run by materialists, unfortunately, be they historical materialists or the money grubbing shitheels calling themselves bankers, shareholders, "people", etc. in the West, and if these are my only options, I'm going to choose the side that, for the moment, has no intention of putting me in a camp for sharing the wrong memes, and can, outside of the odd natural disaster, keep the lights on.

@danielpace13

3 жыл бұрын

@@foodconnoisseur9321 "no has been killed in the name of capitalism" - source trust me bro

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

TheZappan...I had no idea about Yves, and now I'm disgusted! What can be expected from the French, though? I lived in Communism and fled with my parents when I was 16 and can't believe people had any positive opinions about this system. You couldn't leave your country, at least mine (I don't believe Soviets had any success in procuring their passports - people didn't have those, except for the fat pigs in the Politburo and the devout Communists). I know, I ran on...

@SMGJohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@foodconnoisseur9321 Well seeing how the author deletes my comments probably because _MUUH SOCIALISM BAD CAUSE DISNEY TOLD ME SO_ mentality. Nice of you to quote black book of Communism which was debunked by Conservative historians, ironic for you.

@SMGJohn

3 жыл бұрын

@@oni2538 I am not going to waste too much time on this since author of video deletes my comments so I will keep it short. Secret police going around killing people is a myth which is never proven, you should have merry times trying to prove it with facts. I dunno how British Corporations mass murdered 500 million Indians over 200 years is the same as USSR invading Poland in the 20s to reclaim Russian territory, what a strawman argument. Also China restored Capitalism in 1976, another fallacy in your argument. 0.001% of world population owning 80% of wealth is totally the same as richest men of USSR who could barely afford the most expensive cars, yes yes very good comparison. Oh government is evil bla bla bla same right wing conspiracy because you cannot understand how Capitalism is screwing you over and how the Capitalist state is literally a tool of Capitalists, its hilarious. Oh those 1000 North Koreans who defected in course of 20 years out of 26 million people, totally says how terrible the country is, lets just forget how many Americans leave USA each day. Also lets just pretend embargoes does not exist on Cuba and DPRK because they DARE to be different and independent free of Goldman sachs banking systems, how DARE THEY!!! Capitalism is Capitalism, you trying to fix Capitalism by doing more Capitalism is literally what the Nazis did in the 30s, oh our economy is falling apart! Lets PRIVATISE IT ALL! Oh shit we need labours? Lets use SLAVE LABOUR There literal evidence that America planned to build concentration camps and utilise slave labour because their economy is falling apart, slave labour is what we call in economics for dead weight. Costs more than it yields, always.

Stepping over the party line? That's a purgin' Banditry? That's a purgin' Purgin? Oh you better believe, that's a purgin'.

@RonaldMcPaul

3 жыл бұрын

Kulack?

@davewolf8869

3 жыл бұрын

Straight to the purge

@fiendish9474

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the "there's a tax for that" meme

@scottydu81

3 жыл бұрын

“Bismarck ALWAYS had a Walpole.” ..... wait

@ahmadsuleman9045

3 жыл бұрын

Doctor? That's a purging, great leader will never be sick!

I’m a pressure welder in Canada ( piping and vessels and everything else) and hearing the working conditions is heartbreaking.

@chuckeddy2588

2 жыл бұрын

Pembroke Ontario 🇨🇦🕶

@connycontainer9459

2 жыл бұрын

The only sane comment in this whole section.

@shintaiden

Жыл бұрын

You're good at laying down that pipe eh?

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

Knowing he went voluntarily, must give you a good chuckle, however.

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

@@connycontainer9459 awww, you like the gulag? Yes, you do….

This dude left cause he couldn't find a job, but found a job before he left? Dufus

@ihavenosociallifedaddy0253

3 жыл бұрын

@David Vazquez yeah, I’m sure that’s exactly what would have happened.

@Awakeningspirit20

3 жыл бұрын

@David Vazquez What I was thinking, but it WAS 1931 during the Great Depression, so maybe not so easy. Still, had he stuck around a few more years he would have seen a much better version of socialism, the New Deal, come about in America and could have been part of the CCC or any other public works project. In the USSR, at least, they needed as many workers as possible in the rapid industrialization.

@kady5991

3 жыл бұрын

@David Vazquez you do realize that this was way before both job training and education was made mandatory, right? Like the trope before all the automotive jobs left the US was that you could leave school, get a job at the auto plant and be setup for life.

@therideneverends1697

3 жыл бұрын

@David Vazquez it was not a job it was an apprenticeship all the work none of the pay

@gorskieric2134

3 жыл бұрын

That's because none of this is true

John Scott was lucky that he didnt end in a Gulag, like many of his fellow Americans who immigrated to the Soviet Union. Many other socialists who immigrated to the Soviet Union ended in Gulags.

@herpderp728

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah - kind of like how modern America throws its own political dissidents in prisons on ridiculous charges.

@sufimuslimlion4114

3 жыл бұрын

So what?

@herpderp728

3 жыл бұрын

@90 / 90 more like Americans dont exactly have a lot of room to criticize soviet penal systems given the absolute horrors going on in their own backyards at this very moment.

@regulustheron2565

3 жыл бұрын

@@herpderp728 like they tried to impeach Trump? XD

@CrafterboeyMiner

3 жыл бұрын

@@herpderp728 No they definitely do, there is a huge difference in what you're talking about and soviet penal systems. That's what a democracy is about, you can criticize anything.

If this happened today, that American would say “this isn’t real socialism.”

@misterscienceguy

3 жыл бұрын

Well yes and no? It was socialist on the surface but systematically just an industrial version of feudalism.

@mikeb5372

3 жыл бұрын

@@misterscienceguy Good god! It never ends with you collectivists! Forever in denial of the fact that fully collectivized systems are doomed to misery and failure. If only such a system could have righteous and benevolent managers/leaders/rulers. It's an illusion not based in reality

@gamf5996

3 жыл бұрын

The thing is that they dont know that the well being of citicens correlated to productivity in a society and politicians have the worst track record on that the love wasting resources and be vipers and you want to expand that

@anteeko

3 жыл бұрын

Mr.Science feudalism and socialism both strongly restrict human economical freedoms and both lead to suffering.

@lightzpy8049

3 жыл бұрын

They do, but we don't argue the nazis aren't real socialists as well now do we..... Even though the nazis were socialist

Imagine leaving America to voluntarily go to the Soviet Union 😂😂😂

@Ston247

3 жыл бұрын

Now, we have Joe Biden and Big Tech. The Soviet Union came to us ! Lol

@han3wmanwukong125

3 жыл бұрын

There are people who want to think the US to become the soviet union.

@daru5002

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, being jobless and homeless in the USA is much better.

@kensington1199

3 жыл бұрын

@@han3wmanwukong125 we're pretty close

@williambuck5617

3 жыл бұрын

i wish all our commie wantabees would go try it on somewhere else. maybe then they would understand how nice it is to get something for your hard work. and how much it sucks to work for nothing.

There are those on twitter with a young Stalin display picture and a list of flags in their bio dreaming of life in those days, I wonder how long would they have survived then and there.

@bespit6654

3 жыл бұрын

@Jack Meoff mfw 70% of venezuela is in the private sector

@chaosXP3RT

3 жыл бұрын

@@bespit6654 All the big corporations are state owned

@xr88yu

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but my friend was actually born a male then discovered he was actually an fema....shot fired.....dead. In all honesty, it would be. ill have a soy..... shot fired..... dead.

@xr88yu

3 жыл бұрын

@John Smith Surprisingly, yeah.

@stoyanb.1668

3 жыл бұрын

They would bitch and whine and end up in a gulag.

My parents were born and raised in Albanian communism - one of the harshest in the world. They saw a lot of purges but didn’t get caught up in any of them as they were mostly high ranking people.

@sufimuslimlion4114

3 жыл бұрын

Soviet one was mostly high ranking too

@Sheerspeechcraft

3 жыл бұрын

Albania was pretty harsh especially with its suppression of religion. Suppression of religious freedom is one of the greatest flaws of the policies of 20th century socialists

@godsmarine5734

2 жыл бұрын

You mean they were informers or enablers of the purges

@OspreyKnight

2 жыл бұрын

ah rank and privilege, corner stone of communism. Not a jab at you or your family. Just enjoying the irony that in almost every communist nation some people are more equal than others.

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

So they complied. Did they feel for those who didn’t?

It's interesting that despite how disillusioned he was, he still maintained that 'a large number of spies, saboteurs and fifth columnists were exiled and shot during the Purge.' He says that 'the NKVD' and not 'the Party' 'seemed to have run away with the show,' as if the whole thing were the fault of one organisation, not the whole society and its leaders; and that is even after he candidly explained the role of the peasants themselves in De-Kulakisation. In the Tsarist era Russians used to say, 'if only the Tsar knew about this, he'd sort things out.' Perhaps this points to how persuasive Bolshevik ideology could be: a man might not entirely see through it, even if he had experienced the harsh reality, and had also experienced the alternative.

@kieranblazier4058

3 жыл бұрын

Or, y'know maybe there was actual nuance to the situation. Imagine that.

@henrikg1388

3 жыл бұрын

@@kieranblazier4058 Yeah, and there were nuances to Nazi Germany as well.

@innawoodsman

3 жыл бұрын

Communism is a cult. It's never the cult's fault when things go to shit.

@sama847

3 жыл бұрын

@@innawoodsman >The capitalist says as they consume capitalist media on a daily basis

@innawoodsman

3 жыл бұрын

@@sama847 I like capitalism because communism killed my family brah, there's just no comparison

"You ask for a job so we give you a job. Now you still want to get paid?"

Hm, funny that everybody who was calling this channel “Communist Propaganda” during the Ilf and Petrov videos are now conspicuously silent.

@VoicesofthePast

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@mormacfey

3 жыл бұрын

It's a communist propaganda channel... is that better? jk 😁

@juzojuzo1806

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, it was silly, ilf and petrov even tried to shed some light or be overly obvious in their praises in soviet union in their book to wink at the audience a little, sadly, it was lost on the comment section there anyone who is familiar with the book can atest this, voices of the past left out most propagandistic material, and focused on descriptions and accounts ilf and petrovs other work even tried to point out or reform some things in soviet union thru satire, but it is also good to view their perceptions with the grain of salt, while their work was written after holodomor, it is notable that they wouldnt exactly have the knowledge of many of repressions, and even if they had, they were still somewhat party loyalist and first and foremost bolsheviks, not socialists in marxist sense, it doesnt help they were reporters for pravda under stalinism either

@savsmaster4183

3 жыл бұрын

THE CHANNEL IS COMMUNIST PROPEGANDA!!!!!!!!! (Just kidding I'm joking)

@Kriosaivak

3 жыл бұрын

@LordMacKarl I honestly, genuinely, can hardly believe somebody would actually try to defend the point of the channel being Communist propaganda. I do appreciate that you’re being polite, it’s always nice to disagree with someone online, *without* it devolving into name calling, but still. Relating the text of a historical source does not make someone a communist, anymore than relating the text of Mein Kampf would make someone a nazi. They’re telling history from the biased perspective of the author, whether that perspective be two members of the Soviet semi-elite on tour throughout what they see as the decadent USA, or an idealistic American who sees his dreams crushed as he moves to Russia.

"Wore only one suit until it disintegrated." Man, what a dream...

Perhaps the most honest and authentic description of that period I’ve seen in English - nothing is made up, not even exaggerated. Very well written and detailed observation that offers no opinion for the listeners giving each room for making one’s own mind. Details are just priceless, he so precisely communicates the mentality and the mood that explains how it was even possible.

_"you'll own nothing and be happy"_

@khanaliqasim1757

3 жыл бұрын

World economic forum

@John8-32EnglishFortheFamily

3 жыл бұрын

So say the neo Nazis of the World Economic Forum like Klaus Schwab.

@captainamerica8118

3 жыл бұрын

@Paladin Kray nope actually that's from the world economic forum bud but it's been quoted by many people

@mrs.hancock4124

3 жыл бұрын

Talmudic prophecies premeditated into the diabolical reality before the world...

@John8-32EnglishFortheFamily

3 жыл бұрын

@Nigger Man commies and Nazis are twin brothers.

"In soviet Russia, the harsh reality of life discovers you"

@arty5876

3 жыл бұрын

In Russia*

Idealism always gets crushed in the face of reality.

“No need for material possessions” yeah I bet.

@manictiger

3 жыл бұрын

_"You’ll own nothing And you’ll be happy."_ -World Economic Forum

@GH5050-SO

3 жыл бұрын

Until he realized it wasn't a choice.

@iraholden3606

3 жыл бұрын

@@manictiger Since when did Stalin become a mutualist?

@mridulkanti1995

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how the men in USSR attracted pretty gals without having any material possession...? I need to know this.. as I'm a man of "still not having any material possession... ✌️

@jf8465

2 жыл бұрын

@@mridulkanti1995 looks and charm which you don’t have either 😂

“I couldn’t find a job in the US so I resolved to go to The Soviet Union” “On advice of my parrents, I learned a trade as a welders apprentice before going and got my welders certificate” ????????? Bro that’s a job right there

@harriffanconshertini8804

3 жыл бұрын

No it isn't, it's a qualification

@Nonamearisto

3 жыл бұрын

@@harriffanconshertini8804 He could have used it to easily get work building any number of New Deal construction projects. Maybe the Hoover Dam, the Triborough Bridge, the TVA Dams, the Golden Gate Bridge, or any number of other things we built then.

@ruskibot7745

3 жыл бұрын

@@harriffanconshertini8804 never in history have welders/metal workers been in a position where they couldn't find work. The dude just wanted to go to the soviet union and larp.

@captainamerica8118

3 жыл бұрын

@@harriffanconshertini8804 I'm guessing you've never actually worked a blue collar job

@fizkallnyeilsem

2 жыл бұрын

The guy was just toxic copium

I'd love something from the American frontier, maybe from the journals of Lewis and Clark?

@stevenunyabidness

3 жыл бұрын

Read Blood Meridian by Cormac Mcarthy.

@RPfau1

3 жыл бұрын

There's also "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose

@timothymatthews6458

3 жыл бұрын

@@RPfau1 Okay, nerd.

@LordSluggo

3 жыл бұрын

@@RPfau1 Stephen Ambrose was a plagiarist and a hack. He literally plagiarized entire pages from actual historians and authors. No one figured it out until after he died, though.

@Tempusverum

3 жыл бұрын

“Scouting on Two Continents” by Russel Burnham, “Journals” by Jedediah Smith”, Autobiography of Kit Carson & Davy Crockett. Those are excellent for getting a feel of frontier life and dangers

The funny part is how he refuses to believe that Stalin himself was the one signing the death sentences.

@lombardia1509

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he only was killing people 24/7. Sure, and also I don't know why, but he also industrialized the biggest country in the world, won an sww2, conquered the spaces, free medicine, free education, free home for workers, and educated the whole nation so 95% of them can read in 1970 which is crazy good. I mean, a terrible leader.

@OffGridInvestor

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, the NKVD got out of control and tried to overthrow the country when Stalin died.

@oakleaves8370

8 ай бұрын

A lot of what we know about Stalin and the Soviets have only really come to light since the fall of the USSR in 1991. Before then, it's police state tightly controlled all information, both good and bad.

@Zaytsev167

8 ай бұрын

Is it possible to see a document signed by Stalin on the murder of any People?

@grizzlyblackpowder1960

7 ай бұрын

​@@OffGridInvestorhere's the issue though, this was during the purge, a byproduct of the five year plan. This was Stalin in his prime, you have more than a decade of his rule left after 1939.

Colombian writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez travelled with a group of friends around the Eastern Bloc and we're also disappointed,one of the them fell a sleep while they were traveling by car, when he woke up he said: I had this horrible nightmare, That Socialism was not what we expected

@jeffsamuels2539

2 жыл бұрын

Eastern bloc was practicing communism NOT socialism

@PerpetualSmile

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffsamuels2539 Uh...

@jeffsamuels2539

2 жыл бұрын

@@PerpetualSmile they are very different economic systems

@sebastianguevara3615

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffsamuels2539 Oh Be Quiet Communism And Socialism Mean The Same Thing Communism Is A Political Theory Dervied From Karl Marx, Advocating Class War And Leading To A Society In Which All Property Is Publicy Owned And Each Person Works Is Paid According To They're Abilities And Needs All Property Is Basically Owned By The State Private Property Is Abolished Under Communism!!!!!!! Socialism Means A Political Theory And Economic Theory Of Social Organization Which Advocates For The Means Of Production, Distribution, And Exchange Should Be Owned Or Regulated By The Community As A Whole In Other Words All Private Property Is Abolished And The State Owns Everything From Factories, To Small Shops Everything Is Owned By The State!!!!!!! Both Communism And Socialism Mean The Same Thing!!!!!! Both Communism And Socialism Are Both Evil Wicked Ideologies!!!!!!!! Capitalism Is Superior To Communism And Socialism!!!!!!! I'm A Right Wing Conservative And A Huge Anti-Communist As Well!!!!! Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin Killed Millions of Innocent People In The Soviet Union And In The Ukraine, Mao Zedong Killed Millions Of Innocent People In China 🇨🇳, Ho Chi Minh Killed Millions of Innocent People In North Vietnam 🇻🇳 Later Vietnam 🇻🇳, Fidel Castro Killed Millions of Innocent People In Cuba 🇨🇺, Dainel Ortega Killed Millions of Innocent People In Nicaragua 🇳🇮 During The Nicaraguan Civil War In The 1980s!!!!!! To This Day Ortega Is Killing Millions Of Innocent People!!!!!! Venezuelan Socialist Dictator Hugo Chavez Killed Millions of Innocent People In Venezuela 🇻🇪 As Well As Nicolas Maduro Has Killed Millions of Innocent People In Venezuela 🇻🇪 To This Day He's Still Killing Millions of Innocent People!!!!!!!!

@jeffsamuels2539

Жыл бұрын

@@sebastianguevara3615 yeah I know. But just cause you say communism is socialism doesn’t mean you’re correct. I’m an educator. My passion is in the information, not being emotional 🥲. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I guess this guy's parents really believed in letting him learn the hard.

@nancyjeffries9053

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. And he said that his parents did not value material things. I think I'm paraphrasing. So he had nutty parents who could not properly guide him.

@RealHankShill

3 жыл бұрын

@@nancyjeffries9053 Blows my mind that anyone would say that someone who does not value material possessions is nutty. That literally makes anyone who believes in just about any religion or their teachings, any monk, any philosopher, all the minimalists, all of them are nutty eh? But you, running out to buy the 10th TV on black friday as you trample over a crowd to get it first, the one with 27 pairs of shoes in 32 colors that match your 15 hats, you are completely rational and not nutty eh? I am not pro communism and think people should be able to own whatever they want. But the love of material possessions absolutely is the downfall of our American society. Just a new form of slavery with different slave masters keeping you under their thumb.

@henrypena5228

3 жыл бұрын

his father was a socialist. scott nearing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Nearing

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

No, they were gung ho commies themselves.

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

@Awawawa CM no, they were worse, they were communists.

yup they feared and mistrusted those who could live without assistance... farmers and homesteaders

@JohnGalt916

3 жыл бұрын

Isn't that always the way of socialism? Anyone who dont need daddy government is a baddy.

@therideneverends1697

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnGalt916 No, the way of socialism is everyone putting resources together to make shure everyones needs are met.

@Roadwarior2

3 жыл бұрын

@@therideneverends1697 And failing horribly at it.

@therideneverends1697

3 жыл бұрын

@@Roadwarior2 Just because the first show had flaws doesent mean you dont take notes for a better sequal

@Roadwarior2

3 жыл бұрын

@@therideneverends1697I think we all saw enough when the first show killed tens of millions of people.

That was one of the best chosen and produced records on this topic. I’m still amazed by how candid the writer was about his life in Russia.

I read this book in college for my Soviet History class. It was intriguing. I think our professor was a Soviet sympathizer and used this as a best possible resource to compel us towards the "successes" of the early Soviet Union. At the end of our assigned reading our professor told us that John Scott had been secretly sending information to the US government. The interesting thing about John Scott was that his father, Scott Nearing, was an Assistant Professor at the Wharton Business School at UPenn. Scott Nearing was fired for espousing Socialist and Marxist ideas in the classroom and later encouraged his son to travel to the Soviet Union.

The hero of this story...the brother who picked up a rifle and fought.

@ALiBi212x

3 жыл бұрын

I feel if every citizen had the balls to go down shooting like the brother (and if they all had access to guns), authoritarian regimes like those in WWII would not go as far as they did.

@rainbosprinkles6548

3 жыл бұрын

Its why Americans have such love for the 2nd. Those in the US who attack the 2nd, have no understanding of history or have authoritarian ideals.

@sadwingsraging3044

2 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@abdiabdi3225

2 жыл бұрын

@@ALiBi212x I love how people have this magical believe that one day poff authoritarian regime pop up they are slowly cultivated and start with popular consent and slowly move away from that but always flood everyone with propaganda.

@Micha-ge3ws

2 жыл бұрын

@@rainbosprinkles6548 Agree

Learning actual history is basically the opposite of watching a documentary.

@Hella333

3 жыл бұрын

This one is actually very accurate and very telling on what, how, and why. I wish there were more films like that and less of Cold War propaganda that is exaggerated out of control and so easily debunked.

@namenameson9065

8 ай бұрын

@@markhorrocks7605 The challenges the west faced were organic, being that the new technologies created new problems that were both unforeseeable and unavoidable, like rapid surges of rural populations into cities creating overcrowding. What Russia experienced, and also China, was the Communist government enslaving everyone and murdering everyone who complained. Not quite the same thing..Also, they never really evolved out of that since their governments are still doing the same thing..Communism is a slavery system.

It's fascinating how the hope of the few americans turns rapidly into suspition and finally ends in fear.

@jrt818

3 жыл бұрын

You made me think, suspicion. Yes, there is no sense to English spelling.

@tedking6790

3 жыл бұрын

What’s the goal of this comment? Is this good praxis?

@jrt818

3 жыл бұрын

@@tedking6790 My goal was to poke fun at myself for having to think about what the correct spelling of 'suspicion' is, and to make fun of English spelling which is more historical than phonetic. BTW you made me look up 'praxis'.

@kireta21

3 жыл бұрын

socialism sounds like great idea, until it becomes reality and you have to live in it

@antonikudlicki1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrt818 +rep

The grass is always greener, but when you get there it all you got to eat.

The scariest part of this is how the Russian at the end still believed. He believed that liberties that were taken would be given back "as soon as.....". The ends justify to means to ALL ideologues.

I used to travel around a lot when I was younger. I looked down on the Southern, uncouth people of my childhood. I eventually came around and found peace in the town I grew up in. There's no place like home.

@alexcarter8807

3 жыл бұрын

I feel this so much, about where I grew up. Thought people were ignorant and dumb and old-fashioned and looked down on them for eating foods that aren't mainstream American, and our funky local comedians and our funky non-mainstream music ... all of it. In fact for years I'd never tell anyone where I grew up. Now, well, I take it all back. It's one of the least American places in America and I can't wait to retire there.

@BessieRiggs

3 жыл бұрын

That's likely going to be my direction as well. I've lived from sea to shining sea but may go back to the South to retire.

@greggeverman5578

3 жыл бұрын

Simple people are often best.

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

Why do you refer to them as uncouth?

@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied

Жыл бұрын

@@greggeverman5578 wow, this is verging on insulting.

Your channel is like Audible, but history. It's actually great. Thanks!! :)

Thank you so much for this video! It is very interesting to know the memories of real participants in the events!

Glad the young man made it through. He strikes me as the type Solzhenitsyn said would literally be in the gulag and still insisting there must have been a mistake, they couldn’t have possibly meant to take him and the error will be sorted out any moment and he’d be released.

@thejohnreview9650

6 ай бұрын

Yes, it happened that they were sent to the camps by mistake, and there were cases when innocent convicts were released. What is the problem?

These videos are always so fascinating and so well put together. They're awesome, always. Without exception. Thank you! ☝️😎👌

This guy ended up developing a really dim view of the Soviet Union. I suppose it's understandable.

@immaculatesquid

3 жыл бұрын

you know if i was in charge it would be perfect

@Incantationem

3 жыл бұрын

The gulag and starvation stuff was probably just a misunderstanding of some sort.

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't anticipate such massive corruption - because he didn't know the Communists wrote the book on corruption - everyone tries to get as high as possible in the govt so they can steal as much as possible. That's how became so wealthy after the fall of Communism.

@007kingifrit

3 жыл бұрын

its the only view that is correct, communism doesn't work, socialism is communism

@Scorchluck

3 жыл бұрын

@@007kingifrit You are kinda special kid, aren't you?

This video was incredible! I learned a lot! Thank you!

Really phenomenal video. Immersive, compelling, informative. Subscribed.

Fascinating video as always votp, I hope these firsthand accounts of soviet life continues.

Thank you for this video! It showed a really rare perspective one usually won’t know of.

@Bobelponge123

3 жыл бұрын

This what JOE BIDGEN AND THE LIBERAL REPUBLICANS WANT TO DO

@Bobelponge123

3 жыл бұрын

@@destinysoblivion3268 JOE BIDGEN

@chewjingwei2635

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bobelponge123 you’re entitled to your opinion but I do wonder what is your basis for saying that

My man is improving the accents, honestly you're very good at imitating an American one, even if at times some of your original British accent comes through

@rejvaik00

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not convinced, he needs more work

@Overlord99762

3 жыл бұрын

@@rejvaik00 I didn't say he's perfect, I said that his original coems through at times

@rejvaik00

3 жыл бұрын

@@Overlord99762 hence why I said I'm not convinced he needs more work

Wow. Eye-opening, thanks for creating and sharing!

Beautifully written, beautifully narrated.

The prize of fast-achieved industrialization seems to have been terrible in every country. I highly recommend "Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan" by Mikiso Hane, exposing how these miserable conditions and high human cost also happened in Japan during the Taishō and Shōwa eras.

@Canhistoryismylife

3 жыл бұрын

except without that industrialization of the urals at magnitogorsk and other cities in the east the soviet union would have lost the war

@ihl0700677525

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, also the case with those in England and Germany as well. But those in England, Germany, and Japan had freedom to quit, to return to their previous life in the countryside, and, above all, to live without fear of persecution (i.e. the purge).

@SiriProject

3 жыл бұрын

@@ihl0700677525 Sometimes female workers were accepted after paying their family in advace X number of their salaries, vastly depreciated but peasant families had never dealt with liquid money. Once at the mill they were prohibited to quit or even write to their relatives and many died there

@SiriProject

3 жыл бұрын

And of course, Japan abducted thousands of Koreans from their"protectorate", for slave labor in Japan's coal and iron mining. They were the grandfathers of the zainichi. Prisioners were also forced to death through labor

@ajrollo1437

3 жыл бұрын

@@ihl0700677525 ......well, in theory anyway. I suppose it's much like low-wage workers in the US today have the freedom to quit their work, and to take up any sort of life they wish. Except in practical terms they absolutely don't. This condition seems to be universal, however. Capitalist, communist, there will always be people to rig the game.

"Tell me, how is it being de-kulakized?" "Hm, well, that's a hell of a question!"

Incredible content thank you, subbed

A masterpiece! Really wonderful content, I wish I had good enough words to praise this with.

1:28 - If Leonardo Di Caprio were to play Lenin.

@Pampersnoot

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds like an amazing movie idea. Leo could pull it off.

@jussim.konttinen4981

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pampersnoot I'm still hoping for Beach 2

@TW0T0NGUE

3 жыл бұрын

I recommend the Netflix series, Trotsky. I appreciate the casting of the early Bolshevik leaders in that series, including Lenin. Lol, Leo would have to shave his head to play the role (bald caps look absurd), but based on his performances as Monsieur Candy and Jordon Belfort in particular, I can see him as a formidable Lenin. If we get something in the vein of Death of Stalin, but directed by Tarantino, BAM this red blooded American would jump in line to see a film about his political opposite HA!

@theknight4317

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, somebody has to make a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio as Lenin.

@gregorbegger9291

3 жыл бұрын

Nah that would be a terrible thing

Hahah, the graphics are very well-done, much like they'd do on History Channel documentaries (when they ran documentaries...................). You just use cheap stock footage, but these days it's much easier to find such stuff and available at such a low cost that anyone can do it. Good on you for noticing this and providing a service.

The reality is that living in the Soviet Union was harsh the entire time.

@sulaimation6253

7 ай бұрын

It was a recently industrialized nation. A third world country if you will.

Wow, such a small channel for such quality content!

truly fascinating, such a gem of a channel

Thanks! For sharing

17:43: And that was the birth of Russian "Whataboutism"

@tomitiustritus6672

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree. His Argument was proven wrong pretty decisively, but it wasn't whataboutist. He was arguing that even the united states took a century after their revolution to become "the land of the free". The marxist-leninists were convinced, that it would take such an amount of time and hard work to transform their society into a truly equal one. This is the great narrative to justify everything that happened. "We're working towards it, comrades. So our children can live our dream. Endure all this horror for their future." And one has to grant them, only marxist-leninist countries managed to fully industrialize feudal societies in one or even less than one generation. A feat that was deemed impossible before. The human cost was of course unspeakable. And of course, that "its gonna be tough now, but we are building something for future generations"-narrative is a christmas gift for authoritarian actors. I would go so far that it wasn't coopted but outright created for that purpose. It is the secular equivalent of "don't speak out or you'll go to hell" and "do this and you'll go to paradise". If anything, that argument is a misunderstanding of how american society and mentality works, through the lense of a soviet revolutionary.

@007kingifrit

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomitiustritus6672 america was always more free than the soviet union, always

@200131356

3 жыл бұрын

@@007kingifrit Then why does the USA have the highest Incarcerated people In the developed world in it’s privatized prisons? And also the highest income inequality in the developed world as well as the most expensive healthcare in the developed world. And lock immigrant children in cages and torture them? Must be from all that “freedom” huh.

@spartanx9293

3 жыл бұрын

@@200131356 what would you do leave them with people who may or may not be their parents that's child trafficking waiting to happen we have to keep them in one area and they are not entitled to live here to begin with

@200131356

3 жыл бұрын

@@spartanx9293 Um, well for starters not put them in a concentration camp and cages and expose them to inhumane conditions would be a start lol. Like I seriously cant believe your asking this question.

I'd love to hear a personal account on nazi germany. Fantastic video!

@antonikudlicki1100

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea

@ediodimacaroni

3 жыл бұрын

I heard it was great! If you were germanic

@cahallo5964

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that is a bad idea considering how youtube has shut down channels just for talking about it mate

@Awakeningspirit20

3 жыл бұрын

@@cahallo5964 That's sad... as someone who would have been killed by the Nazis at least three times over, I want a damn video on Nazi Germany!

@louisa.520

3 жыл бұрын

@@ediodimacaroni no, not even then...

This was awesome.. Thank you

Great video!

The brutality of socialism is only apparent to the believer of socialism when it comes for them.

@sataniccabal4276

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, plenty of socialists recognize the authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union. Socialism is a principle, not a specific type of govenment.

@xr88yu

3 жыл бұрын

@@sataniccabal4276 Yes, a principal that leads to the soviet union then and the Chinese communist party today. Never works, never will work.

@blarstone9322

3 жыл бұрын

@@sataniccabal4276 of course socialism is just an idea. But when that idea becomes the dominant party in government, it leads to totalitarianism.

@JuanPNavarrete

3 жыл бұрын

Always with the stupid excuses. Socialists are like the woman who keeps coming back to the abusive husband.

@JuanPNavarrete

3 жыл бұрын

@Awawawa CM All socialism is useless crap.

More people need to see this.

This guy would be a reddit user today

Superb timing

This comment section is going to go well

@Nsaf_UKR

3 жыл бұрын

@What authoritarian communists are the same threat as christian nationalist

@johanmikkael6903

3 жыл бұрын

@What that's just like your opinion man

@alexl572

3 жыл бұрын

I love you.

@warriormasterdeath7093

3 жыл бұрын

OH YEAH YEAH

@johnmemes6447

3 жыл бұрын

@@warriormasterdeath7093 oh yeah yeah

Read this book last year. Great stuff!

This program is a good contrast to the "Soviet Tourists in America 1936 series based on two Pravda columnists who took a coast-to coast driving tour across the country

I think this guy would be happy that his story was being shared like this.

'Then, later in life, I heard of some fella named Pol Pot and his Year Zero being implemented in Kampuchea. Now I can go where people are one. Now I can to go where they get things done. I gave it a crack and, coincidentally, received several upside my head.'

@herewardthewake5433

3 жыл бұрын

@Oh Kinawa 'It wasn't real Communism!'

@NaviRyan

3 жыл бұрын

@Oh Kinawa whatever you say tankie

@GarfieldRex

3 жыл бұрын

👌

@BichaelStevens

3 жыл бұрын

@Oh Kinawa Tankie cope is real

@TheCol111

3 жыл бұрын

@Oh Kinawa Lmao they were supported by the PRC to counter vietnam lol

Your American accent is getting pretty decent.

@SirSoliloquy

3 жыл бұрын

I only watch this channel occasionally, so I forgot he wasn’t American before I read your comment.

@finnleason6916

3 жыл бұрын

Where is he from?

@timothymatthews6458

3 жыл бұрын

@@finnleason6916 His accent sounds English.

@102938475646665

3 жыл бұрын

@Iron Gamer right but as non-americans we cant really tell. also in the 30's didnt some americans have a slightly hybrid american/british accent? trans-atlantic accent i think it's called. this sounds a bit like that

@102938475646665

3 жыл бұрын

@Iron Gamer fair enough

i was with Magellin but due to work i had no time. I thnk i will join again!

I will dare to say my Grandfathers life in Mexico at the same time was way better than the soviets , not rich but had a house a truck abundant food for 6 kids work all year as a construction worker, couple pigs all year his own tools and they always kept a cellar with a couple tequila and brandy bottles. He didn’t even go to elementary but he always warned me If Mexico was like Cuba we wouldn’t even have this ( which I guess he considered a very humble lifestyle) sounds very abundant compared to the Communist Countries.

@joeblow9657

2 жыл бұрын

Even sounds abundant compared to what some western workers get now.

@lombardia1509

Жыл бұрын

it wasnt better lets not delude ourselves

@hugojaime9565

Жыл бұрын

@@lombardia1509 It was, and socialism will always fail into eternity

@lombardia1509

Жыл бұрын

working 24/7 on Amazon and McDonald. Your salary js only enough not to die from starvation. 0,111111% of the population have much more money than the other 99,999%. That is free market.

@hugojaime9565

Жыл бұрын

@@lombardia1509 Who ever mentioned McDonalds ? So if you don’t like McDonald’s and Amazon you have the liberty to go elsewhere unlike your totalitarian states where there’s no liberty of anything. It’s never going to work , it will always fail miserably and people will always find their way into a free market

Of course they didn’t know that they don’t realize how lucky they are to live here or Europe

This is 20 years after Russia was a hellhole with most of the population as serf farmers, living short, essentially medieval lives of utter misery, servitude to the wealthy. The level of food production was so low due to the extreme poverty of the peasants that famines were a frequent occurrence. The wealthy boyars who controlled those serfs had no interest in spending the money they made on things like school or medicine for the peasants, and they treated them very badly. I personally K ow family of a woman who was a serf to a serf mother and a boyar father. The father's family were so mad at him for marrying a serf that at Christmas time they had him over for dinner and made his wife and children stand outside in the cold. This is what I meant by a medieval society. When the government took the side of those oppressed masses of people, development was the immediate goal. The economy boomed in a way that was totally unprecedented. They had basically forced the transition of their society from the 1400s with cities in the 1800s super fast into the 20th century in like 15 years when this guy was there. You have to expect this is going to create huge problems, but the level of development created way higher living standards for the average person. That grandma I mentioned earlier who had to stand in the snow as a peasant girl in winter became a factory worker, hurt herself, and was educated for free to become a surgeon. A surgeon, at University, for free! And this was a woman the 1920s. How common was that in the free democratic west, think about it. That guy in the video, the Central Asian guy who had never seen a staircase or a roof, do you think if he had stayed a herdsman living on a steppe under the rule of a literal Khan (they were really really bad dudes) his life would have been better? If one of the frequent droughts occured across the steppes, he would have probably starved to death along with his family and hundreds of thousands of others. This was the knife edge that pre-industrial Russia stood on, agriculturally speaking. Those people benefitted immeasurably from the improvements made to the agricultural system by the Soviet union. There was the horrendous famine of the mid 1930s of course, and other smaller famines, but they ended. They had been a staple of life in that region for hundreds of years, until the society run by the people for their own economic benefit solved the problem. The regime was definitely heavy handed and made terrible mistakes at multiple points, but in terms of economic development and the development of the quality of life of ordinary people, whether you like it or not there were tremendous benefits of the prewar soviet economy. It was the largest economic growth in all of human history until it was beaten by China in the late 20th century. Totally eclipsed any of the western powers, mostly because they developed over hundreds of years (with the help of the plundering of the globe)

@olikane530

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent summary, thanks for the very incited contribution

@maurycy4735

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, because Russia was totally not an imperialist power looting everything it could. Read up on their "liberation" of Poland

Timely video...some people need to take note

Excellent.

"There seems to be a mistake i planned to be a neuro-queer videogame streamer for the cause" "DIG THE FUCKING HOLE!"

This guy ends up working for the OSS, then the CIA... Wild

@finejustgivemeaname

3 жыл бұрын

What?

@jamesbay115

3 жыл бұрын

finejustgivemeaname he did, he ended up writing for time too

@finejustgivemeaname

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbay115 interesting

@hajanejdjsms

3 жыл бұрын

Not wild. He was a spy.

@finejustgivemeaname

3 жыл бұрын

@@hajanejdjsms you think, before he left for Russia, or after his experience? Do you think it’s why he initially went, or a result of his experience?

Good stuff

SUBSCRIBED!!!

I was born in Czechoslovakia. Twice "freed" by Soviet union. Even now, more than 30 years after the revolution I can sense the old times in both Czech republic and Slovakia.

Great video, something all young people in America need to watch.

@rowdyrx6109

3 жыл бұрын

Will never happen

Pictures are rarely as beautiful as you see them to be in your head

I Want the series *NOW*

I remember as a child my grandparents and parents talking about their lives before the war, jobs were few and far between, a doller bill looked the size of a horse blanket and scarce as rain in a Texas Summer. Yet somehow they managed to survive, even if it was bread and soup lines for many, they pulled in their belts and helped each other out. I remember reading about Mack Huges Life of a Hashknife Cowboy in Northern Arizona during the Great Depression, he said" We never noticed the economic depression as we never had much to begin with, we had our horses, doller a day and sometimes three hot when we could get it, we never went hungry"! The 1930 was hard for everyone, hardest for some than others, Stalins five year plan to industrializ the nationg gave rise to the HOLDOMOR of the Ukrain, forced collectivization to feed the cities and induries.....yet as we hear in this documentation there was no bread to be had! So where did all the grain go? Export? to who? Germany had hyper inflation, France and the other european countries had their oun grain supply, America had it´s own bread basket. So much todays wanna bee socialist do not know about.....maybe because they have never really been hungry. Every Pain Has It´s Scream - A Full Belly Remains Silent.