They don’t make historical series like this anymore. I agree, I love this series. Kenneth Branaugh is superb

@stephenturner5854

3 жыл бұрын

I agree totally. This series is great

@sarahpalmer1105

3 жыл бұрын

I agree completely

@Omar-sr1ln

3 жыл бұрын

because all of the good people are dead now

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chapters 📖🔖: 1:23 Khrushchev's socialism; American National Exhibition 🎭1959 2:42 Soviet space 🌌🚀 program 3:38 Soviet command economy; Soviet military; Soviet Chimera 10:29 Khrushchyovka🏫🏡1960s 11:26 27:01 Khrushchev's agri- experimentations: *Virgin Lands Campaign* 👩🏻‍🌾🚜🌽 13:47 Soviet modernization: food 🌮🥗🍱, clothes👗🧣, picnic, resort 🏩, dance💃🏻🕺🏻, radio 📻, culture ♀️♂️, literatures 📚, art🎨🧑🏻‍🎨 29:10 Khrushchev fades into history 31:52 Leonid Brezhnev 32:40 Prague Spring; Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿 Communist reforms; Alexander Dubcek; repercussions 38:16 Warsaw Pact invasion ⚔️ of Czechoslovakia 1968

Only four researchers for the whole series? Hats off ladies! Well done!

@steveweinstein3222

4 жыл бұрын

They found some great footage.

@joostvanwijk3842

2 жыл бұрын

It's a great series, and congrats on going your own way!

@user-io6pj8bz8h

Жыл бұрын

Pfffft, males did the work

@octavios8081

Жыл бұрын

@@user-io6pj8bz8h Look at the credits, 45:53, it says Research: Svetlana Palmer, Martina Balazova, Kate Clark. Film Research: Miriam Walsh. And I concur, great job to everyone involved with this series, including the four ladies.

This has helped get my 9's in History. Great Job!!!!!!!

Your comments and thoughts mirror my own! I was telling my brother today about all the Fantastic Interviews from the actual participants who shaped history. I was 7 when the Cold War "Ended", but I was curious about what the whole thing was about. I'm curious like that.... Wonder what it would be like to see this series from a Soviet POV... There's always 2 sides? to every story!!! I like how "Fiesty Khruschev was. This is maybe one of the best Documentaries ever made.

what a fantastically educational series ! even though i lived through these periods, it's as if i was asleep and unaware of most of these events.. i do remember Khrushchev, Kosygin, Kennedy, and even Sputnik , but hardly any of the others.. how ever did they manage to get personal interviews from so many "real" participants ? i thank you for taking the time to help educate us.. isolationism is habit-forming...

@anthonybrummett9231

8 жыл бұрын

I was as surprised as you!

@randywestfall7984

8 жыл бұрын

+zazen2004 Like you I remember the happenings of this presentation. The oppression of Chechslovakia in 1968 during the Democratic convention in Chicago. Watching the films of the take over of Prague is a grim reminder of why we Americans have the second amendment. BTW before anyone sends me a message about spelling the name of Chechslovakia wrong, I already know it. Thanks anyway.

@DNchap1417

7 жыл бұрын

It's spellt Czechoslovakia...

@DNchap1417

7 жыл бұрын

You're doing the right thing protecting and promoting the Second Amendment, which protect all the other rights and discourages authoritarian regimes.

@SamuelJamesNary

7 жыл бұрын

Randy Westfall, DNchap1417 - The Second Amendment does NOT protect against dictatorship. With the army at its command, a dictatorship would EASILY put down a group of random "rebels," regardless of whether or not they were armed. Home militias and private citizens are not going to have the training to stand and fight against an organized military. And even if the uprising is large enough to force a military response, unless these rebels go from private militias to raiding military ammo dumps and bases to get artillery and heavy weapons, the military would have a weapon advantage. If America wishes to avoid a dictator rising, they'd best study the the campaign promises and speeches made during elections and not vote for those promising everything but offering little in specific solutions.

I like the fact that the Communist Party USA was telling Americans to get out of Vietnam but they remained completely silent over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

@shatnermohanty6678

5 жыл бұрын

brian sedlock Communist party of US was better than Communist party of India. During 1962 Indo China war, Indian Communist supported the invaders and said, "China's Chairman is our Chairman," . till today, Maoist guerillas are causing great loss of life and property in the jungles of central India.

@67nairb

5 жыл бұрын

@@shatnermohanty6678 Maoist forces took control of Nepal in the 2000's overthrowing the monarchy. The American Communist Party of the United States may or not have denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia of 1968. But if they didn't denounce the invasion it wouldn't surprise me.

@shatnermohanty6678

5 жыл бұрын

brian sedlock leftists are same everywhere. whatever they do is justified while the SAME thing done by others is violently protested. Japan invading China is bad but China invading Tibet is fine. America invading Vietnam is bad but China invading Vietnam??

@67nairb

5 жыл бұрын

@@shatnermohanty6678 I don't know whether or not the Communist party of the United States or CPUSA took it's orders from Moscow during the Cold War. It certainly doesn't now since the Soviet Union no longer exists. Maybe it opposed the Vietnam War because the USSR did. Or maybe they spoke their own mind and saw as an immoral war; they thought independently from the Russians. I do know about the Indo-China of 1962, but I didn't know the Indian Communist Party supported Chairman Mao Tse-tung in his war against the Indians. How do you know the Indian Communists supported China in that war? Are you Indian? I wouldn't call the Indo-China War a real war just a border skirmish over some land. India's real enemy is Pakistan, her neighbor to the west. Coincidentally. The Indo-China border skirmish took place in October the very same month and year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I thought Maoist guerrillas were causing death and loss of property in Nepal not India. One thing is for certain, Communist China never took it's orders from Moscow. Mao thought that he was the true leader of world Communism and world revolution not the USSR whom he thought was deviating from the traditional values of communism set down by Lenin and Stalin. He didn't like Khrushchev's modifications and peaceful-coexistence with the West. In the 1960's China reluctantly agreed on Soviet rail transports with military equipment to be sent across Chinese territory to the USSR's North Vietnamese ally in their war with the United States. But some of that equipment never reached North Vietnam. Because the Chinese stole them. Mao saw this Soviet railway as a future Russian invasion and occupation of China. The Sino-Soviet rift had gotten so bad by the late 1960's there was a border skirmish on the Russo-Chinese border in 1969. Red China was certainly no slave to the Soviet Union. Khrushchev was definitely fearful of Mao China and it's very aggressive nature during the 1950's and 60's. When the news reached Peking of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Chinese feared that this would be a prelude to an invasion of China.

@shatnermohanty6678

5 жыл бұрын

brian sedlock 1962 was a not just a border skirmish. Here we had two ancient civilizations, recently free from colonial rule, with large population and area, aspiring to improve their people's lives and regain their prestige on global stage- natural allies. There was great bonhomie between both nations and the recurrent slogan was Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai - Indians and Chinese are brothers. That our Bhai would attack us was more traumatic than actual scale of the conflict. Nehru took it personally and his health deteriorated rapidly and he died 2 years later. Indians,till date still view this action as a betrayal. regarding "China's chairman is our chairman", this slogan was raised by Charu Mazumdar, the founder of Maoist guerilla movement in India, which is still destroying lives and property in central India. the effect of China invasion on Indian communists was bigger. It led to a SPLIT in the Communist Party of India and birth of the CPI(Marxist) in 1964. this was due to one Party supporting USSR and the other, enthused by possibility of China actually entering India. when communist leader VS Achutananadan called for a camp for donating blood for the soldiers fighting the Chinese, he was hounded for anti party activities, punitive action was taken against him and he was demoted. as to the question"are you an Indian?" If course I am. Moreover, I was a leftist in college. But many of my valid questions were just overruled by senior Comrades as well as my colleagues. like, why did USSR attack Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland? if Communism is beneficial to people, why send an army to enforce it? why East Berliners are jumping the Wall into West and not other way round into People's Paradise? I asked my comrades why did China annex Tibet? " Oh, it was part of ancient China empire" . EMPIRE- the root word of IMPERIALISM- the bitter enemy of Communism. so why are we using Imperialist methods? "oh, we did that to bring Tibetans out of feudalism and usher in development because Tibetans are incapable of developing themselves." isn't this identical to White Man's Burden where people of Africa and Asia are incapable of developing themselves and must be ruled by Europeans ? again, we are using a tactic of Racism and Colonialism whom we consider our enemies. China siding with the West to boycott 1980 Moscow Olympics. Isn't this betrayal? haven't we been told about brotherhood of Communists everywhere and that whatever problems/issues between Comrade nations have to solved without bringing in the Evil West. On economic issues, my Comrades were worse. Their only slogan was ban private enterprises. none of them had any ideas or intention of competing with them and providing items for better lives of people - stationary, washing machines, telephones furniture, clothes, toothpaste, shampoo, shoes. they did nothing constructive, only sloganeering and disruption. I believed in Communism improving people's lives but actions of my Comrades, around the world disillusioned me. I have insider knowledge of Leftism and I can sum up the actions of these people- either they WRITE (as professors in universities and authors of ideological books) or they FIGHT ( sloganeering/protesting in Free democratic countries or as violent Guerillas). whatever it's flaws maybe, Democracy is the best system.

I love this series.

On both side the tactics were identical - tell your people that the other side is winning. Therefore we need to build more missiles and enlist more soldiers. The Russians are usually shown in grey, cold, snowy winter. Americans are always shown in sunshine. Since Stalin's time every Soviet five year plan collapsed after three years and was replaced by ... another five year plan

Great documentary. Thanks for posting.

Every now and then I get flash backs of things I'd forgotten at A-Level 15 years ago. The boring bits like 'Virgin Lands Campaign!'

who loves the introduction thee music??

Who else's history teacher made you watch this

@adventuresofmilkdudd2187

3 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@generalpatton1232

3 жыл бұрын

Adventures of MilkDuDD yep

@degeneratelemonofsociety2856

3 жыл бұрын

right here

@riverd3698

2 жыл бұрын

same haha

@alligatorshade8110

2 жыл бұрын

I hope they made you watch more than just this episode lol

This is a great series.

In America in the late 50's into the 60's Rock n Roll was considered decadent. I remember the schools had dress codes. Jeans were called dungarees and were forbidden in school. Sneakers or tennis shows were only worn in the gym and only dress shoes were allowed. Leather jackets of any style were an immediate expulsion. If any neighborhood boy wore just a T-shirt he was consider a juvenile delinquent. Teachers would measure the girls hem length to just above the knee. At school dances couples could be reprimanded for dancing too close. Watching this about Soviet youngsters made me realize, There really wasn't much difference in people. We all wanted to live and let live.

I love how Russians could tell what chemicals were in Pepsi just by smelling it! Took the yanks decades!

@shakag.k.2815

6 жыл бұрын

and the men ever being so pragmatic asking if it could get them drunk!

@williamgill_esq.6487

5 жыл бұрын

That's stupid.

@christinastephesn1548

5 жыл бұрын

dan taylor They still drank it though lol? What’s ur point?

@sarahpalmer1105

3 жыл бұрын

@Coach Black Pill You mean H2O 😭

@user-io6pj8bz8h

Жыл бұрын

Except they couldn't twll what chemicals were in it. Watch the doc.

39:48 Dat look.

@dukesmithers

7 жыл бұрын

Sir Fabulous Gimme Dat look and dem panties comin off off.

I am watching this series for I think, the third time.

'socialism with a human face' may exist in Norway, but Prague '68 proved that the Soviet Russian version was unreformable. After that it was just a matter of time.

@kiviuq3495

2 жыл бұрын

Norway is not a socialist country.

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

2 жыл бұрын

Norway isn't Socialist... Lol Norway is by and large a market economy... Market economies, often pejoratively called (often by those who don't understand a lick of macro-economics) as "capitalism". A country simply having social programs and state owned enterprises doesn't mean it is "socialist" (they are often referred to as a "mixed economies"). If that was the case, the United States would be considered a socialist country, and so would the UK and so-on. But, similar to the US, Norway operates by and large off of a market-based economy with social programs and various degrees of state-owned enterprises.

It had not failed but was brought to an bloody end.

Very interesting take on the Soviet 60s.

Now wait a minute, did the west corrupt the soviets, or did communism corrupt the west? - LOLOL, LOLOL, LOLOL !

@dmrrobertson6856

6 жыл бұрын

Can't you tell? The world has flipped 180 degrees. They both won/lost, 1984 style. Stay tuned for the next magnetic pole reversal, coming sooner or later.

Does anyone know the name of the rock'n'roll song in 17:28?

14:02 Hey, it's the KGB. Look at her facial expression. She's shopping, and for what seems to be a nice expensive dress. This should be a happy time when one is going out & buying or admiring nice things. So, why the serious face? And she's coupled with her "partner" who looks like he's observing anything but his "partner" and the clothes she's interested in. Clothing stores are a nice place for agents to run into and change ones clothes, in case of surveillance. Just speculating here..don't mind me haha

Now come to think of it, I feel sort of sorry Nikita Khrushchev.

Technically this is an American CNN product but in name only. Most of these people working on the project people speaking in heavy British accents.

Cool video! solid 8/10, solid cinematography however the quality is very bad, also my teeth fell out whilst i was watching so that sucks

@bofrim4833

3 жыл бұрын

same thing happened to me!!!! if you could fix the problem that would be ace other than that gr8 vid

@kobihampshawmusic8840

3 жыл бұрын

@@bofrim4833 did a man name Yousseff come and collect your teeth to eat? that happened to me and it would be weird if it happened to both of us, other than that great vid i hope they fix the problem

@stanisasol8560

3 жыл бұрын

@@kobihampshawmusic8840 YOU SHIT YOUR TEETH THROUGH YOUR BUM BUM

@bofrim4833

3 жыл бұрын

@@kobihampshawmusic8840 yes as he was ripping out my teeth one by one i tried to scream his name however i was so intrigued by the fascinating topics in the video. lots of pain, otherwise gr8 vid guys keep up work

@kobihampshawmusic8840

3 жыл бұрын

@@stanisasol8560 OH NO THAT SOUNDS PAINFUL, I HOPE NNOT

This enraged the State, who punished him severely.

@vinnydaq13

3 ай бұрын

Found the fellow Oversimplified fan! 😊

We are traveling in the 60's and the panel is speaking about democracy, socialism, freedom but their missing a big hub in this conversation of historic value-warheads. If, they know what transpires in the beginning stages, then they are keeping their mouth hush-hush. However, their missing another concept in this, where did it drop come from, and is there a plot among these tories.

25:18 ...and that has absolutly nothing to do with socialism...nothing at all - thats (what sovjet was) was a dictatorship, pure and simple.

Usa : Trials Commies in country Us people : i sleep USSR : bans anti soviet speech Us people : Real shit

24:48, I agree with Krushchev on this issue!

This August 21, 2008 will mark the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and her Warsaw Pact allies.

Totalitarianism doesn’t work either far right or far left. It destroys the human spirit. Personal freedom is the most important thing and shouldn’t ever be sacrificed, not for wealth, power, stability or whatever. Those living in totalitarian regimes aren’t really living, they’re just surviving. Only they don’t know it.

@user-io6pj8bz8h

Жыл бұрын

Far right works every time.

@Barricade379

7 ай бұрын

@@user-io6pj8bz8h Hitler committed suicide. Yeah, it worked alright

@Barricade379

2 күн бұрын

@@user-io6pj8bz8h Tell it to the millions of dead people during the early 1940s, idiot

43:36, this man says the Soviet invasion of '68 was crueler than the Nazi invasion in World War II

@user-io6pj8bz8h

Жыл бұрын

Which would be exactly correct

Behind every Soviet political video, there’s someone saying “smile” all the while holding a kalishnikov rifle at them or the family

22:49, this man explains what the KGB did against anti-Soviet ideology.

Unfortunately, the Czechoslovaks' peaceful response to the Soviets backfired. The Soviets published pictures of Czechoslovak citizens conversing with Soviet troops and declared that the Red Army was being welcomed into the country. Within days, the citizens of Czechoslovakia were urged not to speak to the troops and to stay at home.

Stepan Chervonenko died in 2003.

Zdenek Mlynar died in 1997.

For all Kruschev’s dangerous games played with Kennedy and the West, he sure was a clownish and jovial guy. If only the hardliners had known what good PR he was, many ppl from the west may have softened on communism.

Eduard Goldstucker died in 2000.

24:02, I’m with Khrushchev with his appreciation for good/wholesome art, classical music, etc.

@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917

Жыл бұрын

That doesn't mean that other art forms cannot be appreciated though. It is fine to appreciate specific styles/genres of art. But it is something completely different to forbid art which one may not understand, nor savvy. What one may consider to be "unwholesome" or "not good", another may very well see as the completely opposite. How does one define "good" art anyways? Art is subjective-by-nature for this very reason. One must respect that others may have different tastes for the subjective.

@McIntyreBible

Жыл бұрын

@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 hey guy, I’m all for different forms of artistic expression, but not abnormal!

Soviets an make nukes and go into space, but they sure failed at agriculture. Although I wonder if some of the failings were purposeful; particularly thinking to what Stalin did…and then China started doing those backward practices which led to famine. I’m from rural agricultural Wisconsin; we have the FA, university extensions and Moo U’s (agricultural college programs). A few bright minds dedicated to learning about the soil, crops, animals and so forth is a worthy cause as going to the moon. (But it’s not always easy to live off the land…that’s where trade can be helpful).

Kruschev's policies in Kazakhstan were an environmental disaster with consequences for that country today.

Vasil Bilak died in 2014.

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If only they had let people take their freedom as far as they needed and left the amazing public projects to the central state...

Everyone who's voting for Biden needs to watch this.

@krishnamukherjee6028

3 жыл бұрын

Trump is a clown

@tylertone2776

3 жыл бұрын

This is hilarious, Biden was just behind Scoop Jackson in being one of the biggest opponents of the soviet union within the democratic party. The difference between he and his current opponent is HE HAS ALSO OPPOSED THE MODERN SOVIET UNION'S EXPANSIONISM! He opposed it in the early 90's when they were backing their ally Serbia's genocide in Bosnia by being one of the first to call for lifting the arms embargo on the Bosniaks, he opposed the same soviet ally's ethnic cleansing in Kosovo through supporting military action, he opposed them when they attempted strongarming former soviet bloc states by working with Bush to bring them into NATO, he opposed them when they were invading Georgia by encouraging NATO action, AND HE OPPOSES THEM NOW!

@Anonymous______________

Жыл бұрын

The dead can't watch TV lol.

@Barricade379

2 күн бұрын

@@Anonymous______________ I fail to see how "lol" fits into that

Have you ever noticed how coincidentally any year that ends with 8 has historic significance to Czechoslovakia. 1918: Czechoslovakia is formed in the wake of World War I and out of the wreckage of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 1938: Czechoslovakia is carved up by Germany, Hungary and Poland as agreed in the Munich Pact. Germany got and the Sudetenland as well as what remained of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 in direct violation of the Munich Pact, Hungary got Ruthenia in the southeastern part of the country while Poland the Teschen parts of the region in the north. Slovakia becomes a semi-independent country. But it is governed by Nazi puppet named Joseph Tiso who takes his orders from Berlin. 1948 A communist coup takes place in Czechoslovakia and a government sympathetic to Moscow is put in place putting that country well into the Soviet orbit. 1968 Czechoslovakia is invaded by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact allies to crush the liberal reform government of Alexander Dubcek. Most of what's happened in Czechoslovakia's history in a year that ends with 8 ends badly. The one exception was 1989 when it broke away from the Iron Curtain as the rest of the Soviet satellites subsequently did and this time the USSR did nothing to stop this Velvet Revolution. The Cold War was over thanks to such people as an electrician named Lech Walesa, an archbishop of Krakow name Karol Wojtyla, a grocers' daughter and chemist named named Margaret Thatcher, a former lifeguard and Hollywood actor named Ronald Reagan, and a playwright named Vaclav Havel.

The Russians liked it rationed.

WELL HE WAS THE BEST SOVIET PRESIDENT AS WELL AS BRESHNEV AND MIND YOU THEY ARE BOTH FROM UKRAINE …… THEREFORE IT WOULDNT SURPRISE ME WHEN VLADMIR PUTIN TRYING TO CONTAIN UKRAINE WITHIN RUSSIA UMBRELLA UKRAINE PLAYED A MAGNIFICENT ROLE THROUGH OUT THE SOVIET ERA

Who's here from Mr. Chase's history class? #EasternSHS

Socialism looks so nice

SO Soviet Union celebrated cosmonauts and made heroes out of their scientific achievements? USA on the other hand celebrated John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Marilyn Monroe and zsa zsa gabor yeah I'm happy which side had their priorities straight.

@aw5366

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. That's why America became so much more technologically advanced than the USSR as the cold war went on. The US did it right, started behind, then far surpassed them in about a decade. It was amazing.

@MrConstantine02

5 жыл бұрын

1) The reason the USSR didn't celebrate their own movie stars was because they didn't have any. I don't think it should be viewed as derogatory that one side (the US) had a booming and successful cultural industry, while the other did not. 2) Dude, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became fucking *rockstars* after they went to the moon. WTF are you even talking about?

It was Czechslovakia then, today it's Ukraine. And across the world, it's Palestine 🇵🇸 Freedom and self-determination is the bedrock of democracy.

@seitengewehr98

3 ай бұрын

The arabs in Israel made their choice when they refused the UN partition (which Israel accepted) and chose war in 1948. Czechoslovakia and Ukraine are sovereign nations invaded by another without provocation, while Hamas invaded Israel and murdered the equivalent of over 30,000 arabs when one considers the number killed as a percentage of the total number of Jews in the world. Arabs control the entire area of Northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula - this is is plenty of homeland, including their ancestral home. Jews deserve their ancestral home like anyone else. Finally, democracy doesn't even exist in Gaza under Hamas, while Israel is the most democratic state in the middle east. There's no comparison or moral equivalence at all.

Self censorship is full effect today in MeToo era! Women have gone to far their Accusations!

@davidbreault3283

3 жыл бұрын

What?

@misstekhead

2 жыл бұрын

That’s interesting. I recall women also having to self censor for their own personal safety, and that of their children.

This series should be mandatory viewing for every Bernie supporter until their ears bleed. (40% of Iowans are socialist? I never thought I'd see the day...)

@darthpatricius

7 жыл бұрын

I think it should be noted that Bernie Sanders never said anything that would be considered "socialist" in any other part of the world than the US or political science for that matter. Bernie Sanders really just was a form of social democrat that western europe and scandinavia had in the 60s and 70s. Free health care and college education does not lead to to a soviet dictatorship with no personal property and repression of human rights.

@BOB-wx3fq

7 жыл бұрын

communist today, are the same as punk rockers flaunting nazi symbolisim in the 70s. its just a way for the youth to revolt against the conservwtive generation above. watch a bunch of kids convert to islam or flaunt islamic symbols if we ban it in the jext 20 years

@BOB-wx3fq

7 жыл бұрын

Krauty McLederhosen you have good taste(;

@BOB-wx3fq

7 жыл бұрын

Krauty McLederhosen it's good to see national socialists interested in actual history

@satoterror

6 жыл бұрын

Jes that level of stupidity hurts the logic unit. Ignoring setting activated.

Doesn’t make sense. None of this happened

@Barricade379

2 күн бұрын

Then be sure to travel back in time and try to reverse it, bonebrain

@deoglemnaco7025

2 күн бұрын

@@Barricade379 you’re a silly goose!

Clownish dosn't it remind us of Trump and Borris Johnson.

@Macolicious88

4 жыл бұрын

Swedish Dissident the 6 companies that own and control 90% of the media, don’t be misinformed. Then again there is so much misinformation, no one knows what to believe. Then again, that may have been the whole agenda

Stepan Chervonenko died in 2003.