Grab Atlas VPN for just $1.83/mo + 3 months extra before the BIG DEAL deal expires: get.atlasvpn.com/Hakim Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim The illegal and anti-democratic dissolution of Socialism in Eastern Europe was the single greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the past century. My editor was rushed due to a variety of factors when making this video, please ignore the few spelling mistakes in the title headers. *Sources:* www.reuters.com/article/us-serbia-population-idUSKCN1B315O dorf-alwine.business.site Depopulated and Abandoned Areas in Serbia in the 21st Century-From a Local to a National Problem www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-21/eastern-europe-population-decline-rural-bulgaria www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/18/living-in-a-ghost-town-meet-the-moldovans-who-refuse-to-be-climate-migrants THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF SUDDEN IMPOVERISHMENT: EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE 1989-94 TRANSITION web.natur.cuni.cz/ksgrrsek/acta/1999/AUC_1999_34_Rychtarikova_Is_Eastern_Europe.pdf www.oecd.org/els/emp/4383228.pdf www.worldbank.org/en/region/eca/publication/youth-unemployment-in-south-east-europe-10-key-messages ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_142377.pdf www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/icemss-13/8673 www.ppesydney.net/content/uploads/2020/04/Marxs-reserve-army-still-relevant-100-years-on.pdf data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?end=2021&locations=LV&start=1960 www.foreigner.bg/eastern-europe-experiencing-deep-demographic-crisis/ intellinews.com/population-decline-to-take-emerging-europe-back-to-the-early-20th-century-253068/ worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-declining-population www.deturope.eu/pdfs/det/2022/01/09.pdf hypeandhyper.com/brain-drain-in-central-and-eastern-europe/ www.tcd.ie/Economics/assets/pdf/SER/2021/eastern-eu-niamh-howley.pdf www.ft.com/content/c5d3e0ae-36eb-11ea-ac3c-f68c10993b04 eeca.unfpa.org/en/news/what-do-about-eastern-europes-population-crisis www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2020/03/future-of-aging-populations-and-economic-growth-in-eastern-europe-petrakis www.oecd.org/els/public-pensions/PAG2021-country-profile-Hungary.pdf www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-pension-idUSKCN1C60Z6 www.reuters.com/article/us-croatia-pensions-idUSKBN1W4123 www.helvetas.org/en/eastern-europe/about-us/follow-us/helvetas-mosaic/article/March2021/demographic-decline-southeast-europe www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2020/03/future-of-aging-populations-and-economic-growth-in-eastern-europe-petrakis\ www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/1994-806-30-Johnson.pdf www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/05775132.2015.1012402?journalCode=mcha20

@mostazezo

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listen to the deprogram to hear Hakim talk about BALLS

@mostazezo

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oh also thank you for putting your sources most people dont do that😊

@Pridetoons

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Great video Hakim but why don't you post your sources in the KZread description? Does this have something to do with KZread Censorship?

@8is

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How was it undemocratic? The people ousted their dictatorships and established democracies were the people voted against communist policies.

@AlexGreat87

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happy beginning of ramadan, hakim

As a Romanian it is depressing to see my nation lose more and more people. Romania's population has dropped from 23million to under 19 million. If you go and travel through the countryside you will see old people or abandoned buildings. The village that my grandparents live in has nearly no young people in it, as there are no jobs from which young people to be able to make a living from. Nearly all villages through the nation are like this. Despite all of these villages having great sceanery, plenty of cheap land and decent infrastructures, there are no jobs so only retired people live there.

@tortellinifettuccine

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Don't fear what you don't understand. Yes, many towns in romania are experiencing this. This is NORMAL, and what we want. Every other nation that joined the eu earlier than us did the same exact thing. You go to other countries that pay higher wages, but your life is back home, and you return in a few years with money and a career. Around 80% of all romanians that leave the country return before 4 years. 96% of romanians that have left have said they plan on returning. This is how the eu is made to function.

@john.premose

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In America you will see buildings and cars but no people. That's because no one ever goes outside and they're just indoors on their phone.

@rolandperlitz8508

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@@tortellinifettuccine this is a fantasy. Most who left do low skilled manual labor for which no ecquivalent well paid work can be found at home.

@tortellinifettuccine

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@@rolandperlitz8508 yes, hence why they go abroad, make money, then come back, and stimulate the economy

@chasesans

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@@tortellinifettuccine Some of my tovarishchi in Romania don't get to see their fathers often cause they're abroad, working. Does that seem like a good system? Does having to go abroad to get enough money for your family to prosper seem like a positive thing for the populace? The "per capita" wages in Romania (which are not a good measurement anyway) have been lower than commie wages until the 2010s, and even then, they fluctuated. Also, I can't find any sources to back up your claims, mind sending the names of the publications?

As a Bulgarian, I can say that this is an obvious issue here. Not only is our population falling rapidly, what is left is getting concentrated in the cities, with much of the countryside being a handful of older people, with their kids/grandkids either in the cities, or out of the country completely. I can't lie, I'm very worried

@yomilala8929

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Just make immigration easier. It's very clear to everyone that Eastern Europeans are not going to solve their population problems by giving births. 🤔

@oneukum

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That is not an eastern issue. Or rather this is an issue you start seeing in the east first due to a lack of funding. Almost all wealth creation today is happening in cities. Sure we need farms, but if you look at how many people one farmer can feed today, rural areas should be so thinly populated. Keeping the same standard of living in a rural area as in a city is much more expensive. Longer electric cables, larger distances for you internet connection, more roads, longer commutes and so on. Big cities are more expensive because the people already there resist the population densities and construction required to make them efficient and thus cheap, it is not an inherent feature of cities. Thriving rural areas are a luxury, not an investment. You need money to make them possible. Many people feel like you, so rich western countries spend the money. But it is only delaying the inevitable. The most remote rural areas in western Germany, just to give you an example, have started emptying out.

@adwaitnaravane5285

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That's called urbanisation buddy.

@denzzlinga

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@@oneukum but especially germany shows that it is possible to balance things out a bit. Especially in the two wealthy south states, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, where there are hundreds of small companies in the rural areas, manufacturing some state of the art products, paying high wages for the workers, who are living nearby and spending the main part of their money in theese rural areas. And since working from home became big, even more people are moving to the villages again, because living there is just cheaper than in big cities and brings much more quality of life.

@larryc1616

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That's because eastern Europeans are racists and shun immigrants into their country yet love immigrating to other countries = total hypocrites

This also happens in some Western European regions. In Spain we have an area that is known as "España vaciada" (Emptied Spain), which is a mostly rural area that has lost most of their population, as they migrated both to the main cities and to other countries like France, Germany or the UK. This process began in the late 1950s with the restoration of international relations between Spain and those countries (after WW2). By the way, there is an excellent comedy film from 1971 parodying those migrations called "Vente a Alemania, Pepe" (Come to Germany, Pepe), in which a young rural man called José [Pepe is a Spanish way of calling Josés too] decides to try his luck working in Germany to earn money as the wages there are higher. He ends up being worked to the bone in three jobs (one main job and two part-time jobs).

@Biden_is_demented

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Same in Portugal. And Italy. What is happening is thanks to the EU rules, that attributed agriculture quotas to each state, which meant many countries that had large agrarian history saw thousands of farms closed, and the population headed to the big cities. The EU nations have largely became tertiary economies, based on services. All industrial capacity was moved overseas, and we depend on foreign food products. The war in Ukraine and the souring of relations with Russia (the barn of the planet), has sent the EU into deep crisis. The EU is now in deep recession, and i suspect the worst is yet to come. All thanks to disastrous policies by Brussels, and their subservience to Washington.

@charliexx2680

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German supermarkets have taken over the market in Europe, food contaminated with pesticides and above all Spanish vegetables and fruits are a nightmare - in the countryside in poland where i live a lot of people came from england/ usa and thanks to that they built houses and opened small businesses such as sawmills, construction companies etc. The most important thing is a positive attitude and willingness to work in Poland we have a problem with the birth rate but several million Ukrainians came to us - mainly women and children 😂

@auggieeast

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This happens in the US as well, with the best and brightest leaving both rural and rust belt areas for affluent and modern urban areas. And quite often there's a cultural/political rift because education tends to create a liberal cosmopolitan outlook that clashes with the Trump supporting relatives left behind.

@coops1992

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Yep, birthrates in Spain and Italy are way lower than in Eastern Europe too.

@Alex-df4lt

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@@auggieeast Concentrating brightest minds is one of the factors that make US so successful. EU just follows suit. Poor US regions are poor because they have backward mindset. One manifestation is voting for Trump. These people exist in all countries, also in the EU. And everywhere, they are poor because of their mindset. They tend to shift the blame to others - rich capitalists, West, government, globalists but never blame themselves.

As a Hungarian from Budapest - but with strong ties to the countryside - I can state that the real problem is that the differences between cities and rural areas increased in an unbelievable rate. Of course, this trend started in the '80s but rapidly accelerated in the last 10 years or so.

@jascu4251

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Same in Bulgaria, Portugal, CHina too

@alexanderrose1556

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This is called urbanisation and its been going on for.. well 200 years give or take Imao.

@adamkovacs4368

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@@alexanderrose1556 Wow you're so smart! :) I had no idea that this was going on! It's all right then! :))

@alexanderrose1556

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@@adamkovacs4368 Go there then fascist supporter.

@igorurbanek8217

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Here in US just opposite, cities are unlivable , homeless, piss , poops on sidewalk , hijacking cars at gun point, drug addiction epidemic . US is ahead of EU it comes soon. Liberalism is mental illness. Vote for Soros / WEF ideology will speed up.

When I was in my final year of high-school a few years ago here in post Yugoslavia, we had all the different university faculties come to our schools, and every single one of them used "once you finish your degree, we will help you find a job in the EU", i.e study hard now you you can abandon your countire's economy later and work in Germany for a slightly better wage. Brain drain is a very big part of modern imperialism.

@otterable1

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Have fun staying poor

@turtlegamez4274

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Slažem se, druže

@smrdamudic47

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Najbolje inženjere,doktore,majstore itd. izvoze napolje,na kraju ovde ostane ili ko se izuzetno dobro snašao ili ko ne valja ništa

@briankrebs7534

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Damn, it's almost like capitalism creates a class of traitors who consciously sabotage the national project for their own interests. You know those people get kickbacks for trafficking labor to the west.

@dannyboy-vtc5741

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Except it is nothing new for the ex yu countries at all, people working in the west supported yugoslavian economy in every crisis since early 70s, when i was in school, early 80s in georgraphy we learnt that yugoslavia at that time was at best barely capable to reoplace its population with a two decades trend on deminishing growth and entering the negative growth back then, croatia and slovenia already had negative growth, bosnia and nothern serbia were between negative and positive, m.n. so so, and only macedonia and kosovo had the positive growth still, so yu as a whole maintained ots 22 million for a time but it never got to 23 million, i remember when i was on school in that time, most families had at most two children, rare were with three, probably more with a single child than with three children, it just a normal consequences of the society that shifts from the agrarian to industrialised one. Also nombers vary a lot and not all are the same or calculated the same, for an instance it looks like more people are leaving croatia than serbia, which is not exactly true if you look at the number of empty households in slavonia and vojvodina, with an asterisk that slavonia is the poorest part of croatia and vojvodina is the richest part of serbia, then the difference is even bigger. The thing is that in the 90s due to wars croatia lost a lot of population as refugees, both croats and serbs, while serbia gained a lot that came in from croatia, bosnia and kosovo, their numbers were never clear or accurate, but probably between 1 and 2 million all in all, ofc they also lost some of their domestic population too, but politics there played a big role in everything and certainly in producing of numbers of any measurement, so it is difficult to comment and compare, same for other ex republics, every one has its own specific reasons and conditions. Ultimatively, this recent wave of emigration also differs on how it's done, temporarely or permanently, eu countries have that privilege to have it more temporarely becausecpeople can just m9ve and work without changing their documents and moving their entire life elsewhere, on their countries is to make them wanna go home, if not suits them well, if need be we can always import cheap workforce from elsewhere, if you don't want too many foreigners make more children, i lived until my twenties in yugoslavia, nobody can tell me it was better then because it wasn't, some things maybe, but overall no it was certainly not, the difference is you can't be a weight on society as easy as back then, but a working man can afford more than he could back then, but can't have some things free that he once could too, but i know how many pairs of shoes average middle class child had in my school, in gymnasium not some trade school and how many they have now, or what types of cars their fathers drove back then, and how many cars a family had, you won't easily find a family with only one car nowadays, people are not realistic, yes depopulation is a problem in entire developed world, western countries have no problem with imported labour force, neither should we, and we in fact do it too, on a smaller level as our industrial output is smaller too.

Me again. did you know that Lenin didn't like shooting stars? he liked shooting tzars. Edit: thank you everyone for the likes, if you want more of my...no OUR memes wait for another comrade Hakim video.

@gwynbleidd1917

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Hell yeah. Monarchs get the guillotine

@dinosaurisillumination

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Interesting fact: Lenin didn't even know that the royal family had been killed for several days.

@alili945

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Hi

@alihashim3855

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@@alili945 Hi

@gwynbleidd1917

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@@alihashim3855 hi

This video really struck a nerve with the reactionaries, so many comments full of cope

It's not just population. First, East-European countries gave up most of their industrial base - all those hardware factories and plants that were built in Soviet time. Now they don't have much by way of jobs outside the services sector, and people are fleeing for better life opportunities.

@encorefootball

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Spot on

As an Eastern European I am very grateful for your covering of this depressing topic. Keep up the good work!

@raquetdude

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Eastern Europe is just ahead of Western Europe when it comes to both economics and politics.

@Sven-ql3ch

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@@raquetdude its literally not

@spoonikle

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@@Sven-ql3ch I think they mean the Liberalization of Western Europe - which is progressing into late stage capital, while Eastern Europe was accelerated in its "Liberalization" of markets. Eastern Europe was gutted and the Nobles (Corrupt business/political class) where anointed during the transition. Will is referencing a "race to the bottom" you made the mistake of associating "ahead" as positive.

@rohankishibe8259

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Depressing? Wait until you found out same consequences are applied for African nations yet for them, they die trying

@emanuelneagu14

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I was about to comment exactly this, thank you

As someone from Eastern Europe ( specifically Romania) , this video really got to me, and made me reflect on a phenomenon that is so hard to ignore but nonetheless myself & many others try to not think about it as it brings so much sadness to us. I remember in my early childhood, many villages were still mostly populated, and even though this was during the late 90's & early 2000's, I still felt that there still was something left of a community in them. As I got older, I noticed a trend that was becoming impossible to just ignore, literally year after year w/o exception the amount of people living in those villages became significantly smaller. After a while, whenever I'd go to a village to visit relatives or friends, instead of feeling a sense of happiness that I am finally away from the hustle and bustle of the cities, I was greeted with a sense of melancholy, most certainly due to the fact that most of these once thriving villages are now nothing but a shell of their former selves. I can say without a shred of doubt that these same villages I'd often visit now have at most 15% of the population that they once had from the time of my childhood. These villages are situated in some of the most picturesque landscapes I have had the privilege of laying my eyes on, with rustic homes in traditional styles, but now they lie often in disrepair, invoking a sense of emptiness in people like myself. The situation has gotten so bad that I no longer find any pleasure in even visiting those villages, as it simply brings way too much sadness whenever I do. Thank you so much for shedding light on this often overlooked issue Hakim, it really means a lot for those of us from here. 11/10 amazing video as always Habibi

@marcusj9947

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The villages were populated because of the Iron curtain. When communism fell, everyone who could leave picked their bags and left.

@sundorgo6973

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@@marcusj9947 why do you speak so authoritatively on an issue you know absolute nothing about? Have you spoken to any of those villagers? If not then please shut your mouth! The vast vast majority of people I know who left the villages for the city would go back in a second if there were jobs to sustain their communities. Anecdotal I know but literally just about everyone I know from the countryside say that life was better during socialism. They'd stay if they could, but because of the troubles brought upon by the free market, small farmers simply can't compete with massive agrobusiness, so people are forced to find work in cities (or as is the case in Romania, migrate to the west to find employment). So please, don't speak on a topic you know jack shit about, it will just make you look even more stupid than you already are.

@marcusj9947

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@@sundorgo6973 Why do you assume I have no family or relatives in Eastern Europe? You know nothing about me.

@serpik1988

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​​​@@marcusj9947 Go f yourself, propagandon

@1homelander179

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@@marcusj9947 i mean, that’s true to an extent. 1. A lot of people would have stayed even if the Iron Curtain fell, if there is no economic crisis. 2. Not a single person would want to emigrate to the west if the west wouldn’t exploit the whole world.

From perspective of Pole. 1. "Funnily enough their recommendations for suitable solutions to the problems of rising mortality and declining fertility rates in Eastern Europe are stronger support measures in health and more effective family transfers but also much more aggressive policies to enhance tax collection to support employment, minimum wages and social safety nets and to control inflation. Basically things that were non-issues prior to market transition - last verse was a clear referral to communist/ socialist system we had before transition" Unfortunately - that is a lie. People were living in absolute poverty. Sure, they had money and housing. However no-one could get any basics. Starting from food ending with home appliances such as washing machines etc. Govt controlled the prices. Therefore everything was cheap. But also widely unavaible since producing products wasn't actually worth it for such a low price. People all across Warsaw Pact countries started rising up. I don't know what was the reason in every country. But in Poland it was mainly because of INSANE decline of living standards. Sure, we are told that Soliadarity(main anti-communist movement at the time) rised up to fight for the freedom, etc. But that's not exactly true. The first rise of Solidarity was because workers started to lose their jobs, they had their pay reduced. While there was shortage of literally everything. These issues existed in almost entire 70s and whole 80s - before the market transition. 2. Loss of jobs after transition. Poland in late 80s was literally on the brink of collapse. We had debts we couldn't pay off. Most of our agriculture and manufacturing sector was not profitable. Why? Because the west was vastly superior in that matter. They could produce more, cheaper, better. We were not competitive. That's why when the transition happened plenty of unprofitable sectors had to be cut down - so the profitable ones will recover, so we get investments from the west and get more jobs. The truth is if we countinued the way we did in the 80s - the outcome would have been much worse. Author also mentions unemployment levels - 20% in the 90s and 7% in 20s. Yes, 90s were terrible. People were suffering. That's the part I'm not happy about. Govt was able to at least provide the basics to the poorest so they get to live with minimum of dignity while we transition. That was partially because of IMF which didn't allow us to implement many social benefits etc and partially it was on all of us. We all stupidly believed that by quickly changing from socialist to market economy we will all be far better off. Which is true when you compare it long term. However we disregarder many dangers such as insane housing costs, social care and mentioned before lack of help for the poorest during transition. However there is also some manipulatio from the author here. 7% unemployment was during covid. Before and after it's changed over a decade but sat between 2-5%. In comparison unemployment before transition was around 10%. And that's despite the fact that the country provided jobs for everyone - no matter how useless said job was. So nowadays we have plenty of jobs that in theory produce some kind of value, while before we had plenty of useless jobs that didn't bring much value just for the sake of providing jobs. 3. Migration - true. We are migrating like crazy. While living standards got better, we also have the freedom to get the heck out of here and live better life elsewhere. Author also mentioned raising retirement age. Well. It had to be done. Sorry, but expecting women to work until they are 50 and men until they are 55 was simply unsustainable. On top of that plenty of people instead of retiring were choosing various insane govt social retirement programs - for example you could be alcoholic at age of 40 and go on said social retirement while getting 80% of normal retirement money. 3 out of 4 of my grandparents retired between age 45 and 50. All on those said weird govt programs - starting from fake diseases/ disabilities ending on the alcoholic example I mentioned. Thanks god you don't get that option now. Sure, disabled people get help from the govt. In some cases it's much more significant than it was before. But you can't fake it nowadays. Nor you can't go on alcoholic retirement. Currently the retirement age is 60 for women (which is honestly amazing) and 65 for men. In this day and age I think around 63-64 sounds fair for both genders. Retirement age of 50 was introduced when you got to live 60 years on average. However times have quickly changed and suddenly people who reitred in their 50s get to live into their 70s on average. In conclusion. Transition period was terrible. It makes me mad how shitty of a choice we had. All thanks to IMF which didn't allow us to do many social policies. If we did, we wouldn't be allowed to borrow any money to develop etc (and I do believe that while we could meet their demands to cut down unsustainable business we could also add some social policies which wouldn't lead to collapse of the country) Anyway, the choice was to either stay in unsustainable system or go through rapid transitioning - which forced A LOT of people into poverty, while many others got to buy provious state properties at a bargain. I'm just glad we didn't end like Russia, Ukraine etc. On one hand we kind of did amazing. We had one of the worst forecasts. Poland was supposed to fail but instead we became one of the most thriving countries out of ex Soviet/ Warsaw Pact states. But also many social policies went down the gutter. We had to go through awful period of liberals that didn't help the people at all - all that mattered was GDP. Housing prices shot up (relatively compared to our socialist times nowadays it's 30% harder to buy a house than it was before). Childcare vastly reduced, etc. And on top of that we also had no leftist party that we could trust. The only leftists back then were ex-commie members. We voted them in to rules us again. They turned out to be one of the most corrupted govt in the modern Poland history. Possibly only current ruling party is more corrupt than they were. TLDR: Author romanticises previous system and blames all the issues on the new one. Which is outright lies in many matters. Truth is much more complex. I wish I had more time and skills to properly explain it all :D

@tatra2165

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doskonale powiedziane. Pozdrowienia z Czech

@PL_WhiteEagle

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@@tatra2165 obecna partia jest bardziej skorumpowana? - ciekawe spostrzeżenia. Politycy PO nawet jak nie rządzą to wybuchają afery. Przypomnę ostatnio - sekretarz miasta Warszawy - 5 mln przyjęcia łapówki. Nie mówiąc już o Nowaku, którego na korupcji nawet w Ukrainie złapali. Nie będę już wracał do (nie)rządów tej partii i afer. Nie twierdzę, że PiS jest święte, ale nie ma tutaj co porównywać.

@pxltr

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Well captures the Polish reality

@parmafoi4066

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Very true! Z tą róznicą, że polityka prywatyzacji nie była fair, i jak zwykle w czasach chaosu najwięcej stracili uczciwi. Natomiast tzw. kapitalizm potrzebuje dwóch rzeczy: delegalizacji lobbingu (powinien być traktowany jak korupcja) i zakazu spekulacji pieniądzem , w szczególności lichwy.

@FR4NK1002

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I live in Czechia and it’s very similar to what you say about Poland. Also his unemployment rate are off for Czechia as well which is one of the lowest among the EU countries.

Growing kids is very expensive. In the past the birth rate was much higher because parents didn't have to pay as much for education and healthcare. We need to start addressing this problem and looking for ways to solve it.

I am very happy to see that people have begun to notice the tragedy that is Eastern Europe. Even here in Greece, which was not in the "Eastern Bloc", the degradation you describe has been happening for a while. They privatized trains, they decayed, two of them crashed killing some 60 youths a month ago. During the pandemic our hospitals were severely underequipped and understaffed, resulting in thousands of deaths. About two weeks ago some tourist resort owners from Mykonos hired thugs to beat up an archaeologist who pointed out that their businesses were violating regulations regarding the ancient site there. On the streets you see delivery drivers that should be in retirement, driving in the rain. Our power company daily cuts power to hundreds of households to bully people in advance before the due date of their bill. Liberalization, privatization, EU "integration" has destroyed us. Our elderly see our brightest working in places like NASA, and are proud instead of asking why they are not working here. Our young glamorize pointless violence over sports and worship cars, shoes, and the "grind", thinking that they are somehow "rebelling" against the system. And then we wonder why nobody wants to have children here. We have been here since time immemorial, only to be wiped out by the unelected European central bank, and if we dare protest every liberal publication will say "um sorry sweetie, Greece can't afford its lifestyle". We need to stop thinking that we will somehow make it into the club of big Western powers, and realize that we and our Eastern neighbors need to stand together and overcome the tide of destruction.

@richneuro6121

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@@cordfortina9073 The Communist Party of Cyprus (AKEL, Progressive Party of Working People) was in government in Cyprus 1998-2003 and 2008-2013

@jokerwick

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The recent train crash was absolutely tragic. Unfortunately people don't want to acknowledge the death toll of neo-liberalism and its consequences. I hope for the best for you and everyone in Greece.

@baraodascolinas979

Жыл бұрын

​@@cordfortina9073 Turkish cyprus has a foreign «patron» of sorts, investing in economy and stimulating immigration at least. Greek cyprus became a very infamous tax haven, which is very useful and Works if the nation is small and manages to build an economy around or with it. It is by definition a solution that will not Work for the majority of places and people, and even many tax havens are not so lucky, there is Poverty in some Caribbean islands.

@LMB222

Жыл бұрын

Yes, good that you mention Greece, because the depopulation phenomenon has to do with Orthodox and Muslim religions. Catholic and protestant countries are not depopulated. In short, go ahead and stop blaming capitalism when the fault DEFINITELY lies in your culture.

@odysseus5607

Жыл бұрын

@@jokerwick Thank you, that is much appreciated. May the future be brighter. Wish you well too!

Glad to see you also talking about this very very important issue. Thank you for spreading awareness and explaining the actual fundamental causes of this tragic phenomenon. Top tier content comrade.

@Sasha-trans-fenix

Жыл бұрын

Deprogram Balkan Odyssey collaboration when? I’m kidding, glad to see you on here, love your content and greetings from Bulgaria!

@YaBoiHakim

Жыл бұрын

👀👀

@BalkanOdyssey_

Жыл бұрын

@@YaBoiHakim They're onto something 👀

@BalkanOdyssey_

Жыл бұрын

@@Sasha-trans-fenix I'm glad to hear that mate, thank you for the support - greetings to Bulgaria!

I'm from Norway. Population growth stopped around 1975 here but the number of inhabitants increased because of immigration...The same is all around western europe....

@northernswedenstories1028

Жыл бұрын

It's pretty crazy. I feel sorry for these people and these places though. Couldn't imagine how hard life must be. Don't blame them at all for leaving and looking for a better life elsewhere. Heck, I left the UK to Sweden myself (for love not money 😅) and feel very privileged that I can do this so easily.

@americancommunist6076

Жыл бұрын

there are differences

@ten_tego_teges

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, his entire argument ignores that Western Europe has the exact same problem and fixes it with immigration. But that doesn't fit his narrative.

@user-nk8zx1yw8s

5 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@ten_tego_teges How? Immigration is a legitimate form of population increase. Unless you want to say that it’s bad because “white people” are losing majority in western countries? You said it yourself, western europe has the same problem but *fixes it*. Not sure how you manage to not even read what you yourself said.

@weewoo2076

4 ай бұрын

@@ten_tego_teges I'm sorry bro but i wouldn't say immigration "fixes" they're problems it simply dumps the problem to other people(immigrants). Bringing over immigrants who would do really shit jobs for cheap, since these immigrants have garbage pay they wont be able to interact with local population which makes their society more polarized and this also creates a lot of ghettos and shitty areas in Western Europe. Additionally the rise of far-right in Europe who are very against immigrants coming to their countries brings even more problems.

As a Lithuanian I still remember the stories of my parents living in the USSR. It wasnt perfect but we had so much more back then. We were a functional and connected society which was able to stand on its own, and that being something I have never had the privelege of experiencing, it makes me sad. What makes me even more sad is what we could of had as my grandparents lived under stalin prior to soviet revisionism and before they died would often talk about how the future awaited them but it was robbed. Good video!

@RUSTA5

9 ай бұрын

Hi there from Russia! Its patetic how agressive we are all nowadays 😢 Why cant we just be friends? Europe is such a smart place. Why we fight knowing that America is happy? Peace 🙏❤

@anasain6590

9 ай бұрын

@@RUSTA5 ❤️❤️ our enemies aren't each other but our bourgeoisie and the imperialists which make us fight.

@anasain6590

9 ай бұрын

@Toivo58479 thousands of times better >half of the population was functionally illiterate

@anasain6590

9 ай бұрын

@Toivo58479 source: my grandparents who was alive prior to 1940 and lived under the Smetona dictatorship. But no of course, it doesn't have the boot print of the EU on it for you to lick which is something our lovely Eesti neighbors are known for.

@anasain6590

9 ай бұрын

@Toivo58479 I'm telling you right now that its bullshit. This may have been the case for urban Lithuanians however this was no where near the case for rural Lithuanians. But yeah keep licking the boot of the westies and keep asskissing Finland, I'm sure things will get better. Sometime, eventually, maybe.

As a Lithuanian who lives in the capital city, which is actually growing; seeing towns and villages outside dying and seeing more old people than young people feels depressing, especially knowing that these places used to thrive during Soviet times. The whole privatization and the transition to capitalism lead to a closure or selling of the factories, leading to unemployement and less opportunities. I doubt that the future will be better, as it keeps declining.

@TheErva22

Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain bro, I am lithuanian too, I live in Ireland tho. however my old home is going to be destroyed because of railway construction. And everyone is going to relocated to an apartment probably. The future is not looking too great

@workingproleinc.676

Жыл бұрын

What is going in your country my chap. The Lithuanian political elites are going full _Blut&Boden_ ideologie what i observe

@foca7550

Жыл бұрын

@@workingproleinc.676 Lithuania is fucked. The Lithuanian SSR was making so many electronics and was one of richest republics. Now they make sprats and commit Alt F4...

@john.premose

Жыл бұрын

True but as an environmentalist I like to see nature take back some of the land myself. I mean where are the animals supposed to live?

@Watashiwadeus

Жыл бұрын

At least you don't live in Latvia which is en route to become one big ghost town

Dude from Latvia here. Our periphery is basically an empty space. There's a lot of life in the capital and some life in a handful of medium towns. Anywhere between those places, however, the population numbers are laughable. Of course, official state propaganda is still blaming "Soviet Occupation" for everything, including obvious demographic problems. The parts about "brain drain" and labor power extraction are spot on as well - we've been heavily de-industrialized since the LSSR, however our educational system still can produce laborers who are not that much less qualified than our western colleagues, but will work for significantly less money. I see ads online about "welders wanted for oil rig in Sweden" regularly, not to mention that our entire IT sector is outsourced by foreign companies because we're relatively cheap and relatively qualified. Thank God we don't have oil, otherwise we'd probably get democratized to bits. We do, however, have a huge hydropower plant left from the inhumane commies, and the funny thing about it is that while it generates enough electricity to power ~70% of the country (I might be mistaken about the number, please feel free to correct me), our electrical bills are insane, cuz all of the generated power gets sold to an electricity stock exchange, and then we buy it back from them at a much higher price. I love the smell of free market in the morning. The worst part is, though, that people around here don't see that the root cause of all this insanity is capitalism, at least not yet. They'll blame whatever from their neighbors to supernatural forces, but never capitalism as a system.

@frenzalrhomb6919

Жыл бұрын

Are there any Baltic Germans left? Or did they all get chased out or away from the Country, after the War?

@kalvisjatnieks7740

Жыл бұрын

sveiki! vienmēr labi sastapt tautieti šīs vietās!

@guybunchofnumbers123

Жыл бұрын

It the fault of communism! All problems that surfaced when the USSR was split up and after 30 years of capitalism and not getting any better is the fault of the damn commies!

@vadimk3484

Жыл бұрын

@@frenzalrhomb6919 AFAIK, since most of the Germans who lived here in the first half of the XX century were bourgeois (either landlords or capitalists), they were repressed or forced to emigrate eventually, and that was even before Soviet Latvia. At least, currently the populations of the Baltics mostly consist of people of the titular nation plus a large chunk of Russians left from the Soviet times. This situation, by the way, is incredibly convenient for the ruling class, because it allows to manipulate people effortlessly, through nationalism - titular nations are brainwashed to hate Russians because "they're occupants", and Russians are, in turn, brainwashed into hating back on equally asinine ideas of Russian chauvinism and imperial revanchism. Basically, the ruling class is deliberately keeping us all hating each other for no good reason to prevent any solidarity among the working class. Works like a charm too, never failed to deliver over the last 33 years - imagine any inhumane law or policy, and our "elites" could probably pull it off without fear of any real protest from the people. In this regard, the French never cease to inspire me - whenever their government tries to screw them over, they roll out the guillotine. We should learn to do that too.

@vadimk3484

Жыл бұрын

@@kalvisjatnieks7740 Sveiks, Kalvi! Ļoti patīkami redzēt latviešu biedru. Ceru, ka internacionālisms un strādnieku solidaritāte kādreiz uzvarēs cīņā par mūsu tautiešu prātiem :)

Honestly, although the way socialism was implemented in Romania was fucked up, there was a significant effort made to develop the entire country, urban and rural areas, not just the big urban centers. That's the most significant thing. We had libraries, cinemas, industry (so jobs), medical facilities and schools that are now gone. Not only villages are dying but small towns have also been decimated by capitalism. It's honestly infuriating to see so many "compatriots " even in this comment section still drinking the koolaid and being good little slaves for western capital like it's going to benefit them. We've been so thoroughly brainwashed. Oh my god, we barely even have public kindergartens today and that's in the big cities.

I have a personal experience on this. Being an italian my country """accepted""" at least 1 million albanians and romanians that were both praised (from escaping EVIL COMMUNIST REGIMES when they came after their socialist governments fell) and discriminated (you know we are westerners and they are not.... so they are inferior, dirty, thieves etc). My ex-gf was romanian and her parents lived under socialism, but when it fell they needed to find jobs once again. Her mother came here and stayed for a long time and sent money back, while her father worked in the military. Despite being that they still almost froze every winter and all other shit. When i went with them in Romania for a vacation i found a monument in Bucharest for the "victims of communism". Kinda ironic... I could add other stories, for example the sheer amount of abandoned industries around the roads is just mind blowing. Also railways left to rot. When i asked a local if the trains passed a lot of times in the station (because my hotel was near the train station) he said "before 1991 yes, now not so much" and it was a city of 100thousand people (Piatra Neamț). Also public transport being defunded so lines of trolley bus left alone replaced with enviromentally friendly diesel buses (bought with EU funds). Food prices at supermarkets were the same as in Italy but their salaries are 1/4 of what you get here. Usual capitalust masterpiece

@sm3675

Жыл бұрын

In my Canadian-Albanian community, there are many Albanians who have lived in Italy prior to arriving here. Neat.

@andreamarino6010

Жыл бұрын

@@sm3675 in one of 1991 20thousands albanians landed in Italy with the ship Vlöra (Valona in italian) in the city of Bari. The distance between Albania and Italy is quite small so they made it alive but it was one of the first humanitarian crisis, and a sign of something coming. Albanians chose Italy because it was their only choice (up there were yugoslav civil war) and for whatever reason RAI (italian state own television and radio) broadcasted in socialist albania and so albanians learnt italian

@briankrebs7534

Жыл бұрын

@@andreamarino6010 "For whatever reason" lol the reason was they intended to cause the crisis and would rather make money broadcasting Italian into the target nation before you have to leave than spend money teaching you Italian when you arrive.

@andreamarino6010

Жыл бұрын

@@briankrebs7534 RAI started to broadcast in the 60s i believe, far far before the collapse in the 90s. But knowing imperialist historical italian ambitions it was probably a way to influence Albania

@derunfassbarebielecki

Жыл бұрын

My boy why do you think the states were in such catastrophic states in the 90s? There is a reason nobody like Commies in these countries. The way you Tankies praise USSR and its colonies makes me wonder, why you dont justify American slavery, because the slaves were indeed unfree, but they at least were provided with food and a shelter. The transition was a catastrophe, but this neither makes the regimes suddenly "good" or gives an answer to why the countries are in such a poor state nowadays. If you look at all those oligarchs and former ones from the eastern block, you can see that most of them had strong connections to the communist regime or were part of it. Yeltsin and his clique were just former communist party members, a well known example. And there is the issue. Leninism requires widespread corruption to function properly, for democracies on the other hand corruption is a death sentence. Dont try to argue with me, because my family has many former communist officials from this system and many more who resisted against it. Thievery is that what drives this systems, because if they functioned as planned everything would fall apart, what actually happened after the iron courtain fell.

In bulgaria there are more ghost villages than normal ones.

@Sasha-trans-fenix

Жыл бұрын

Ужасно е.

@kirilmihaylov1934

Жыл бұрын

​@@Sasha-trans-fenix тва си е заслужил народа

@johan8724

Жыл бұрын

If there is farm land around it i can make a living there. Not luxurious but good anyway.

@simdimdim

Жыл бұрын

​@@johan8724 With inflation and wholesale prices of food, that's becoming increasingly difficult, for small to medium producers

@johan8724

Жыл бұрын

@@simdimdim i mean selfreliance not growing to sell it.

It is happening everywhere (Europe, America, China, Japan). I went around some small towns in Italy and I could not get any WiFi signal. There was nobody living there.

@lioneldemun6033

Жыл бұрын

Less so in the UK, Ireland, Western Germany, the Scandinavian countries,France, the NL, Belgium,Switzerland Austria , Northern Italy, because of massive, unsustainable immigration.

@durshurrikun150

Жыл бұрын

@@lioneldemun6033 Northern Italy is being exploited by northern Europe too.

@bingchilling4717

6 күн бұрын

​@@lioneldemun6033no migrants go to villages they go to the big cities

Spain and Italy also are having a problem with abandoned villages. People want to live in larger towns and cities.

@broadcasttttable

Жыл бұрын

People that remain in the villages...how do they sustain themselves? If they're elderly, do they get a state pension? Are there viable farms? Tourist enterprises? How do they get money for basic necessities?

I live in Romania, and it makes me despair when I see people worship the system that has taken so much from us and brought so much hate. I can not hope that things get better, only that they get worse slower, I can see no way out, and it pains me. I see people hunger, live in the cold, and the ones that don't envy and want to take, the same way they were taken from.

@rimondas6729

Жыл бұрын

Capitalist Realism

@utvm6748

Жыл бұрын

I live in Austria because of the conditions in Romania. Moved to Austria at age 6 for a better life. Never got to experience what it is to be a Romanian at all. Miss the place but u can't do shit there.

@tortellinifettuccine

Жыл бұрын

​@R yes you can, you going to Austria at 6 made sense, romania was quite fucked in the 90s, but romania today is on ANOTHER LEVEL compared to its neighbors. Bucharest alone is richer than all of Bulgaria

@andreamarino6010

Жыл бұрын

I went to romania with my at the time gf (who was romanian). And holy shit dude it was really depressing seeing so many things abandoned and how people talked about pre 1991

@gdl9362

Жыл бұрын

Yes but then again. You can't blame only the system. There are people so brainwashed by the system, by their old and poor ways that they can't even grasp anything else...

A channel called Balkan Odyssey made excellent videos covering this topic too: "The Balkans are disappearing, quickly" "The depressing journey from Germany to Bosnia Herzegovina" The modern state of Eastern Europe and Russia was actually well described by the main villain of CoD 4: "Our so-called leaders prostituted us to the west. Destroyed our culture. Our economies. Our honor. Our blood spilled on our soil." When I first played it, I didn't think much of that speech back then. But now I realize that Zakhayev had a point, so this speech hits different now.

@GTAVictor9128

Жыл бұрын

@@Yk9o Or maybe your stance against LGBTQ is morally corrupt? I'm guessing you might be Russian to think that way, since many people in modern Russia seem to think that homosexuality is an "artificial Western construct". Besides, whether you support LGBTQ or are against it has nothing to do with socialism, but since socialism is a progressive ideology, most socialists also support LGBTQ rights.

@hishamalaker491

Жыл бұрын

@@GTAVictor9128 Well the socialists before 1991 all despised the LGBT look at Stalin, Castro and all the dictators and leaders in eastern Europe and even though as a religious person i hate communism and socialism i also dont like the LGBT so seeing them act against them is to me the only good thing they ever did.

@ciii4361

Жыл бұрын

@@Yk9o socialists really should strongly support lgbtq rights, they’re a minority exploited by capitalists and discriminated to divide working class. You can say western may use their rights as a pretext to attack enemies, which is true, but the west do this also with women’s rights, this doesn’t mean socialists stops to support them

@kokorochacarero8003

Жыл бұрын

@@Yk9o and what does being gay even have to do with economic development? social issues ≠ economic systems

@BiomechanicalBrick

Жыл бұрын

u really look for meaning in u.s. state dept propaganda lol (balkan odyssey and cod)

I used to be from Estonia, but left not because of the economic reasons, but because of the people and society in general. People were just so unfriendly and cruel to each other in my opinion, so I did not want to be there. Also, I never really felt home there as there were a lot of Russians who were unwilling to learn Estonian and have basic respect for the country.

@annikamerimaa7253

Жыл бұрын

On point with that as being Estonian, what u said is true

@sleepyjoe7843

Жыл бұрын

Yeah no that just means that Estonia is not really a country but a mix. If Russia dominate there then it's just Russia. There were enough racist remarks from Estonian government so ofcourse nobody will start learn language and respect a racist country.

@annikamerimaa7253

Жыл бұрын

@@sleepyjoe7843 so true, its just horrible, it is like mini Russia and when u say Estonia all are like ahh Russia. As Estonian its disgrace and something to be ashamed off. Im sorry for your bad experience tho

@annikamerimaa7253

Жыл бұрын

@@Gunit935 yea but as we Estonians talk with each other, our goverment never dealt with issues and now kind of late. There are so many people in Estonia who cant even speak i word in Estonian, everybody just speak Russian. Sad that one country isnt what it should be and that also causes tensions in normal people which shouldnt be the case. Its simply brutal truth and its sad to hear so many people have negative feelings towards Estonia🥲

@annikamerimaa7253

Жыл бұрын

@@Gunit935 nobody can ever learn it if every company and service is offered in Russian. Example: if you go Finland you are forced to learn language, not even on shops people talk with u in English which us right in my eyes. In estonia even if u call phone service company u get reply press 2 for russian.

Not sure why you're focusing on eastern Europe? You can find this in almost every country on earth. Go to rural Japan, Canada, the US. It's the exact same story. This is what happens when countries don't subsidize rural industry, or some type of incentive. Why you can literally buy a house in rural Italy for almost nothing. Again why are you, an Iraqi person, focusing on eastern Europe? Did you ever see them as being a haven of happiness? Gimme a break bro 😂

@aviztar

Жыл бұрын

It's because the Eastern European intellectuals who can debunk his false statements and propaganda never understood the importance of the soft power of the public intellectual in the west, so they never bothered to learn english or try to sell their ideeas in the West. On the other hand, the ones that are still leftists did understand that power, and spread a lot of the propaganda he is spewing. In short, he does it because he thinks there is no one to call him on his bullshit, and he is right.

A guy I used to work was from a village in Serbia, near the border of Croatia. His village's children have pretty much all left, like himself.

@horvatlovren7198

Жыл бұрын

I drove through South Eastern Serbia ... and the whole place just seemed void of human life. Yet Serbia claims they have a population of 6.8 Million which is just impossible. Slavonia in Croatia is undergoing same fate.

Я из Украины, и я не понимаю на что надеются люди, которые идут на войну за интересы капиталистов. Очевидно, что мы превратимся в страну "призрак".

@UniDeathRaven

Жыл бұрын

Буржуи тратят миллиарды спизженных денег у населения земли на пропаганду рая из капитализма. Многие ведутся и верят. Только когда очухиваются, уже поздно.

@ShomLZ

Жыл бұрын

Не хватает классового сознания, товарищ, ещё и промывка пропагандой. Эта проблема народов по обе стороны фронта.

@vadimk3484

Жыл бұрын

Мир захвачен буржуями, у людей повсюду в голове квасной винегрет. Очень печально, но закономерно. Ну, может, получив на орехи от господ, рабочий класс начнёт потихоньку просыпаться.

@foca7550

Жыл бұрын

Если Россия выиграет, украинский народ проиграет. Если Украина выиграет, украинский народ проиграет. Я был в Одессе в прошлом году, и бедность удручала.

@vladimirstarostenkov4417

Жыл бұрын

Пламенный привет! Добавить нечего.

For anyone in Eastern Europe thinking the UK is the land of milk and honey, with 2.5 trillion in debt, it is the land of 8 hours work per month on a zero hours contract.

@rahiemturner9504

11 ай бұрын

Plus the cost of living, high rent etc young ppl my age are struggling

@rahiemturner9504

10 ай бұрын

@@saccount-z3 At least Germany got good food lool

As a Yugoslav, this tragic fact has been a great source of intergenerational depression for me ever since I gained class consciousness. All this horrific loss, just for corporations to be more profitable...

@workingproleinc.676

Жыл бұрын

Same here! I was born 1982 in SFRY

@Meerque

Жыл бұрын

Pozz

@YaBoiHakim

Жыл бұрын

Never be pessimistic, there's a world to win. Agitate, educate, organize. The first Socialist Yugoslavia was formed in far harsher conditions, don't lose hope!

@smrdamudic47

Жыл бұрын

Kako je rekao Hakim-organizacija,agitacija,edukacija. Nema predaje druže

@yuriy5376

Жыл бұрын

Class consciousness? What are you, 5 years old? 😂

Hakim i want to thank you for everything you do, there have been few changes in my life as important to me as those caused by particularly your reading list videos. You and Parenti have taught me so much about how to differently view the world. your videos have reached this privileged, wealthy american who frequently has the ears of people more powerful than would be believed in youtube comments. Thank you from across the world for being a huge part of my education and radicalization. Never stop the fight, your message reaches people of positions you may never expect.

@koimackan1287

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on getting on the path of unlearning decades of red scare propaganda, my American comrade ^^ Warm greetings from the (still) Socialist Republic of Vietnam 🇻🇳

@emvv3784

Жыл бұрын

@@koimackan1287 ❤️. I hope to be visiting your wonderful country in the coming fall

I have checked the demographics of all the former Eastern Bloc countries. The percentage population losses are even larger than what you reported here. For example, there is no way Ukraine only lost 15-18% since 1991. Ukraine peaked at 52 million at the point of Soviet dissolution. Even before the "Special Military Operation", Ukraine's population had fallen to 41 million. Even this figure does not account for 8 million Ukrainian migrant workers who had gone to the EU, only returning for major holidays, but are still in the book as Ukraine's permanent population. Georgia and Armenia are another two former Soviet republics with 20-30% population losses. Capitalism concentrating not just wealth into a few hands, but people/capital in a few geographic areas is actually a worldwide phenomenon. Even in a still-growing country like the US, if you looked at the growth rate county by country level, most of the US is actually losing population, because all the growth is concentrated in a few metropolitan areas. Japan has a very similar problem as Eastern Europe of villages populated only by elderly people which are turning into ghost towns. Meanwhile, the Tokyo metro area is actually still growing.

all these collapsing villages reminds me of the situation that we have here on the prairies in Canada. Our small towns are also dying, though the death is slow. Its particularly sad because many of these towns are quite old. However the causes are different, here it is simply a result of changes in agriculture methods and technology. Simply stated less people are needed to work the land. What really surprises me is to see that poverty is causing a decline in birthrate in eastern europe, generally speaking its places with lots of poverty that have the highest birth rates. Africa, much of south america, the asias all seem to churn out people in large numbers despite the poverty. I wonder if there will be a population boom after the end of the russo ukrainian war as so often happens when wars end and the men return.

An interesting statistic I found recently: In Romania in 1990 there were 12529 preschools, all of them public, with 60 pupils per preschool. In 2005 there were 3769 preschools, 3598 public and 171 private. There were 178 pupils per public preschool, and 55 pupils per private preschool. In 2013 there were 1187 preschools, 877 public and 310 private. There were 629 pupils per public preschool, and 54 pupils per private preschool. For 2020 I was able to find there were 1153 preschools, 751 public and 402 private, with 94% of pupils going to a public preschool. I wasn't able to find the exact numbers of pupils per school. You can take these numbers as you want, but to me it shows the difference between socialism and capitalism. In socialism, even the flawed implementation that we had in eastern Europe, you have resources being fairly distributed, while in capitalism the average person has to compete for a share that gets smaller and smaller while the rich live in luxury. Only in eastern Europe you will have people born in 1970 which went to preschool but their children couldn't. I was born in the 90s, and my parents couldn't send me to preschool, and it was the same for the entire village that year. We were among the first generations that didn't go anymore, back when we started school in the early 2000s it was considered weird by the teachers and parents, but now 20 years later it's something normal if you live in a rural area or if you're poorer.

@anmolt3840051

Жыл бұрын

that's an insane(ly depressing) progression

@phoneticalballsack

Жыл бұрын

I don't care. Reduce your workweek.

@user-bx2kd7jt8t

Жыл бұрын

At least you don't have to line up for cooking oil!

@tultoi5651

Жыл бұрын

@@phoneticalballsack What? Please explain.

@BenYork-UBY

Жыл бұрын

To me, it points to what happens when public schooling is neglected and defunded in favor of private schools. Forced consolidation of education into a few big schools that have all the money rather than lots of smaller ones that are evenly distributed across the country and have a fairer distribution of funds. That can contribute to families needing to move out of smaller villages

It’s so sad to see what my home country of Albania has become. Everytime I go back I can’t help but feel depressed to see what it lost economically and socially

@phoneticalballsack

Жыл бұрын

Reduce ur fkng workweek then

@oosthuizen2012

Жыл бұрын

Albania has had the worst fertility decline too, from 2.25 in 2000 to less than 1.30 today, easily the lowest in the Balkans

@roolentodd395

Жыл бұрын

@@oosthuizen2012 It's not the lowest fertility rate in the Balkans. Stats don't take into account the migration since 2011 when calculating fertility rate and still use the numbers from that census of 2.8 million. It's 1.4. Bosnia and Greece have lower fertility rates.

@raptorcheesus

Жыл бұрын

@@roolentodd395 lmao isnt that such a stereotypical balkan thing to pick in the details to better your fertility score by 0.1 in order to say Bosnia and Greece have it worse

@SashaArsic

Жыл бұрын

Love your nick, i would say you have a plethora of humour :)

I wish that you also have commented the economic implications of Russia's war in Ukraine. Because of this war and the sanctions to Russia, eastern Europe has the highest inflation rates, because it was the region most closely connected to Russia. Now we are losing cheap goods and cheap energy. It is kinda ironic that these governments are more pro sanctions than most of western Europe, this just shows that the governments of eastern Europe don't really care for their own citizens.

@benismann

Жыл бұрын

they're just playing on either russophobia or on hatred towards the soviets

@organicfarm5524

Жыл бұрын

​@@benismann hatred towards Moscow/Kremlin and turds like putin

@ihorv44

Жыл бұрын

russia can withdraw its troops from Ukraine, pay reparations for its crimes, and then sanctions will be lifted from russia. then you will get cheap goods but I`am not sure that russia want to stop the war

What is this guy talking about? Poland, the Baltics, Czech Republic, Slovakia etc have all thrived since the fall of the Berlin wall (1989). The first 5 years were harsh but all are now thriving now. People lined up for food in Poland during the 1980's. This must be a Russian Bot.

even 2010s ,2020s eastern Europe immigrated population after arriving in the imperial core nations(some of them get "successful" and deal from survivorship bias,praise "free market, capitalism,"free world")still blames "communism" for their nations' slowdown,lawlessness in 2020s.

@1homelander179

Жыл бұрын

They will blame socialism for everything even in 2090 when eastern europe has completely died out.

@TiananmenPrism

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's also funny how eastern europeans just assume that without communism everything would magically have been better. That the Americans would treat us on par with western europe and help us rebuild after WWII, or that the invisible hand of the free market would just pull the capital and resources out of the invisible ass of the free market, letting everyone to live prosperously and ensuring peace in the region (lmao).

@stevekook-xw3is

Жыл бұрын

As if before communism most of our states were booming and heading for their golden century. They can't blame communism. We became vassals to the far more exausted super power. The already way more advanced states in West became vassals to the largest industrial nation on earth which had less casualties in ww2 than Yugoslavia or way smaller Greece. It's a big difference when a whole bunch of states got more people dead than the largest industrial power on earth. My country Bulgaria lost 3 wars in a row. We got to be thankful to Stalin for making us vassals. Serbs in Yugoslavia and Greeks be thirsty for revenge after our free real estate grab during the German conquest of them. Romania wouldn't be a true friend anyways and Turkey is obvious one. So wtf were we gonna do besides becoming Soviet satellite? Feeling pity for Poland ofcourse. Their struggles could never fkin end. Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria rightfully deserved to become Soviet vassals. We were on losing side of war. Got to get back to reality instead of being emotional about communism.

@DrNiradino

Жыл бұрын

There was a popular saying in USSR: Stalin took a country with a plow, and left it with nuclear reactor. In 30 years of Soviet rule country went from a fuedal state with 90% peasant population and 15% literacy to a second world economy that was able to be first at launching a man into space, all the while surviving two brutal world wars, revolution, sanctions, and constant meddling from the rest of the world. In the 30 years since collapse of USSR, only thing that most post-soviet respublics succeeded at was finding more excuses to blame USSR for their failings, while expiriencing no wars and often with direct monetary support from EU.

@hishamalaker491

Жыл бұрын

@@DrNiradino Well yeah but how many millions died from his terror and how many millions more died in WW2 due to the weakning of the red Army pre 1942 Stalin literally murdered and Purged most of his top tier Generals.

Belarusian here. Out country didn't engage in privatization in the 90s, most of the industry we inherited from the USSR times is still controlled by the state. We also retained most of the welfare systems, like families receiving financial support from the state when having babies, free healthcare and education, etc. We are also don't experience labor extraction and specialist poaching like eastern european countries in eu, especially after all the sanctions on us it's actually very difficult to emigrate to the west for a regular person. Yet we face all the same problems with population decline and villages and small towns getting depopulated. I don't think that's it's fair to just blame this all on "western imperialism" especially when the west also faces population decline. If not for all the immigration to western Europe you'd see small towns and villages disappearing in France and Germany the same way they are currently disappearing in Romania and Bulgaria. Obviously the trauma of the 90s and the following wave of emigration to the west plays a serious part in the current situation, but it's more complex than you paint it to be.

@user-xl2it6wg1l

Жыл бұрын

My Belarusian friend, there are two points: The first is that what you have listed has largely saved Belarus from the crisis that many countries are facing. Belarus has lost only 10% of its population in 30 years (still a tragedy), while many others from 17 to 30. Sanctions have been imposed on you, and still your demographic situation is better than those countries in which subsidies are invested. Secondly, yes, Western Europe has faced a similar problem, but it is similar, not identical. Just look at the age and gender pyramid of Belarus of conditional Germany, you will quickly see what the catch is.

Western developed nations', being dominated by private enterprises, are only interested in taking advantage of cheap labor from the east. These companies are only for profits (and short term profits at that). They are not interested in long term investments, least of all in infrastructural investments. Sadly, the depopulation trend will continue as it maybe too late to do anything about it, especially under current environment.

Sounds like you suggest communism would have solved the problem of people leaving Eastern European countries. Communism doesn't work due to one simple fact: if people do not get rewarded for their work/effort and they receive the same salary like anyone else, you destroy their motivation to work. People will always take the simplest way to success: in a communistic country it means work little to nothing and still get the same salary as everyone else. Furthermore, people will always try to go there where they can earn more money. So how does Eastern Europe solve their problem? Well, Poland was able to solve this relatively well. Why not copy them? In Asia Singapore faced the same problems and solved it excellently, moving away from a very poor to a very rich country. It is not leftist whining which will make a country rich, but getting people educated and enabling them to earn their own money in a stable economy! So the solution is not communism, but a government who understands on how to unlock the potential of their country: 1) fight corruption, 2) invest in education, 3) make it as simple as possible for their countrymen to make business and get successful, 4) attract foreign investors to invest in their country. Aware it is easily said, but communism is definitely not the solution. You can see today that any remaining communistic country on this planet belongs to the poorest and the most corrupt countries. Why still thinking it could be successful, after seeing all these failures? Nice video explaining the success of Singapore: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYd_rtSAetyrfKg.html

@DeoMachina

Жыл бұрын

"if people do not get rewarded for their work/effort and they receive the same salary like anyone else, you destroy their motivation to work." That's capitalism. You're describing how society works now, under capitalism. "but a government who understands on how to unlock the potential of their country: 1) fight corruption, 2) invest in education, 3) make it as simple as possible for their countrymen to make business and get successful, 4) attract foreign investors to invest in their country." Wow neat idea Wonder why nobody tried it in the past 200 years "You can see today that any remaining communistic country on this planet belongs to the poorest and the most corrupt countries" The poorest countries are all capitalist, what are you talking about

@blackblade1286

Жыл бұрын

@@DeoMachina Yes, that is capitalism. Well observed! Capitalism is far from perfect, but definitely lightyears better than communism. Countries very well did that! I even gave a link where Singapore did apply that strategy for example. I guess we have only 5 communist countries left on this planet, because most people in the end understood communism doesn't work. Just bothersome and dangerous that leftwing idealists try to revive this on a constant basis, not understanding basic fundamentals of economics (and human nature). I didn't say they are the poorest, but they belong to the poorest. Apart from China, which is rich, but has a very bad wealth distribution among its people (see Gini coefficient), all other communist countries are poor. I really do not understand what is so exciting about communism that there are still people out there favoring it. Someone needs to explain me that.

@DeoMachina

Жыл бұрын

@@blackblade1286 "but definitely lightyears better than communism" Friendly reminder that civilisation itself is about to collapse later this century, thanks to climate change. You people literally think the end of the world is preferable to communism. "I even gave a link where Singapore" Interesting how the greatest success stories of capitalism tend to be micro-nations, I wonder why? " I guess we have only 5 communist countries left on this planet, because most people in the end understood communism doesn't work" Oh yeah I'm sure it was that I'm sure it had nothing to do with the millions of socialists murdered in anti-communist purges in the 20th century " leftwing idealists try to revive this on a constant basis, not understanding basic fundamentals of economics (and human nature)." Again, that's capitalism you're thinking of. "I really do not understand what is so exciting about communism that there are still people out there favoring it" Maybe we just don't want to live and die in poverty man I dunno

Seeing all these comments is more than enough to absolutely destroy the "Just ask someone who lived under Communism" meme that capitalists like to push.

@dekenlst

Жыл бұрын

Just because capitalism is horrible doesn't mean that communism was any better. It was in fact worse. We need to find other solutions.

@dekenlst

Жыл бұрын

@Tohrµ Why not? You can always move to North Korea. Nobody's stopping you 😁

@der6409

Жыл бұрын

@Tohrµ There's literally hundreds of communes and thousands of co-ops. Grow a pair.

@gloverfox9135

Жыл бұрын

@Tohrµ go move to Cuba and tell me it’s the best thing since sliced bread. But since you’re a communist, you probably don’t even know what bread is in the first place

@assim2213

Жыл бұрын

​@Tohrµ Cuba Venezuela e Nicarágua te aguardam

imma keep it real with you hakim the reason marrige fell so far down in Georgia was mostly because half of our male population just got slaughtered in the 3 wars we had between 1989 and 1993

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

Жыл бұрын

3 wars? I thought it was just 1 really long war.

@giorgilobjanidze5667

Жыл бұрын

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 nope 1989 ethnic conflicts all over the country (including ethnic clensing on both ossetian and Georgian sides) The 1991 civil war And the 1991 Russian invasion/intervension All in all Georgia in the past 30 years has had 7 wars

@bigboyman5743

Жыл бұрын

but that only happened during the final days of the USSR, no?

@YaBoiHakim

Жыл бұрын

For sure it played a role, but the pattern was region-wide.

@giorgilobjanidze5667

Жыл бұрын

@@YaBoiHakim oh no i agree just shedding some extra light on the situation so its more obvious the whole ethnic conflicts happened because of our fascist post soviet government (literally fascist too considering Gamsakhurdia started advocating for a "Georgia for Georgians" and stealing property from ethnic minorities)

The same thing is happening in Western Europe, except immigrants are making up for the depopulation to sustain economic growth. It's more of a cultural issue that young people are not starting families, less to do with money. People in Africa have many children and rapidly growing populations, and compared to Eastern Europe they are much poorer.

You forgot to mention that during the proletarian dictatorship if someone tried to leave the country as a doctor for eg. could easily be shot on the border. Security was at different levels back then. As a Hungarian I found this video firmly biased ideologically so to say propaganda.

As old russian liberal saying goes: "Они просто не вписались в рынок" - "They just didn't fit into the market". Now they have freedom, democracy, and they can become rich!

@FillinTAG

Жыл бұрын

Рыночек порешал всех. В итоге получилось, что у олигархов всё, а у людей ничего. Дорешались.

As a Bulgarian (who was not yet born during the 90s) I can say that this video is really on point. Although Bulgaria was as a whole spared the destruction that the fall of socialism caused in places like the USSR, Yugoslavia and Albania, the terrible and irresponsible way that the 'Transition' between socialism and capitalism was handled scarred the country for decades to come. Basically, in the 90s Bulgaria stopped being a proper social country and became a anarcho-capitalist state where the corrupt undemocratic government privatized everything and gave it to 'special people', inflation skyrocketed, everyone lost their jobs, thousands of people immigrated and all social policies where dropped like hot potato, organised crime flourished and live became increasingly insecure and unstable. The country and economy was in such a state of crisis that in 1997 the Bulgarian lev was fixed to the euro that is still standing. Although currently Bulgaria is 'developing' (as per capitalist vision) economically and people's income has risen significantly compared to the 90s, the feeling of economic and social insecurity still lingers, coupled with conservative social views and lack of governmental vision for the future, are one of the reasons that drive many young people to immigrate to Northwestern European countries, where they at least feel secure.

@andrijakocic1049

Жыл бұрын

"Anarcho-capitalist state where the corrupt undemocratic government privatized everything and gave it to 'special people', inflation skyrocketed, everyone lost their jobs, thousands of people emigrated and all social policies were dropped like a hot potato", literally the exact same thing is happening in Serbia right now since 2012, and I'm planning to leave the moment I graduate from college since I don't think anything will change any time soon. The best/worst part? The gov't keeps blaming Kosovo, war in Ukraine and whatever they happen to think about instead of the billions of euros they embezzled and wasted or the dogshit management of gov't firms and terrible fiscal policies.

@HeroesofWar7

Жыл бұрын

> proper social country Стагнацията под Бай Тошо е нищо за завиждане.. искаш да се развиеш, да създадеш нещо.. искал си да си купиш една кола.. и познай.. не можеш; то че и сега имаме корупция не се отрича, ама моля ти се, по добре сега отколкото тогава > the feeling of economic and social insecurity still lingers еми като ми плащат по-добре в Германия за същата работа която мога да върша в Бг за двойно по-малко..

@ni9274

Жыл бұрын

The USSR was designed that way, it couldn't be dismantled without forcing Eastern Europe into capitalist since the system was centralized around Russia. The Russian elite/Soviet elite (oligarch) are also responsible for much of the damage done to eastern Europe, they are to this day still extracting the most wealth and power possible to feed their master Putin. Learn about the Russian mafia in eastern europe

@kirilmihaylov1934

Жыл бұрын

That's what the aim was . The West wanted to dismantle the Eastern Bloc and they did ...now as Bulgarian myself I can say Bulgarians are very stupid and deserved it all

@simdimdim

Жыл бұрын

For a governmental vision we first need a government, that won't just lose majority the next day unfortunately :/

As someone who lives in Japan, it would be cool to learn how while we face a similar issue here, which causes are similar and which are different. Also, the prefecture I live in (Okinawa) has the highest birthrate, relatively high migration to, and is also the most politically based 🧐

@lovrovalentic3056

Ай бұрын

No , here is due to poverty, we have like 20 jobs that dont pay well, 1 that does.People didnt pool the money to build big factories.

This only shows devastating impact of communism on these countries. When communist dictatorship finally fall, 20% of people were working in agriculture. Now it is bellow 4%. Modern agriculture is far more effective and unskilled people had to find new jobs - and it was hard. Production of steel dropped by 75%, USSR stopped producing weapons and could not pay for steel anymore. Thousands of miners got unemployed. Something similar happened in Britain when they lost their empire. The whole transformation was painful, unregulated, and former communist abused all opportunities and stole everything could be stolen.

the largest source of foreign money in Romania is not, as you'd expect, from the oh so benevolent capitalist bussiness investors. it is from romanian workers who migrated for work. our countrymen and countrywomen go to Germany, to Italy, to Spain, to the UK, to work for them and send money back home. just the drama of the families broken by the threat of poverty is crushing. both parents, away, over the borders, to slave away on minimum wages that are still many times more than they'd make here. the north-east and south of the country, outside of the capital, are depopulated. only old people and children left, having to fend for themselves and look after one another. you know, it's not an easy life, being an elder or taking care of one. everybody here knows at least one family like this

@andreimoga7813

Жыл бұрын

and for a less tragic but still concerning follow-up: many educated young people do not want to stay here, because their prospects are just awful. i will present anecdotal evidence: of three students of a top engineering college who took a job at the same company, two want to leave the country in the nearing future. only i will stay, God bless me with strength. when i want to feel desperation quickly, i think of how we were three and will soon be just one. tens of thousands of trained professionals leave before at least giving back what the state invests in them. oh, yea. its the state universities that still give quality education

@andreimoga7813

Жыл бұрын

many more can say it is so in their country. we have been lied to, indoctrinated to worship the west. we are destitute, stripped of our riches and our will. the east is becoming a place full of old people, stupid people, hungry people or any combination of the above

Feels very broadly similar to many rural areas in the US after the implementation of NAFTA and the end of the Cold War/the rise of neoliberal globalization. Working class areas lose jobs, young people move away to pursue opportunity elsewhere, older people remain out of sentimentality for home or just because they can't afford to leave. Services decline or cease, buildings become abandoned, and the yearly festivals get a little bit smaller each year as a couple more people in the community pass away of old age and nobody moves in to replace them. I've seen it happen in my home state of Maine since I was a kid.

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

Жыл бұрын

I can count on my hands the amount of people in my neighborhood that are under 30.

@cjthebeesknees

Жыл бұрын

Same in rural Ohio, the rust belt was hit hard.

@adwaitnaravane5285

Жыл бұрын

Free trade is good actually.

@lioneldemun6033

Жыл бұрын

Bringen sie den Mauer zuruck, BITTE

@TheJosman

10 ай бұрын

It is the same in Mexico after NAFTA. Working class areas in the US lost jobs because many American manufacturing/industrial companies relocated to Mexico because of its cheap labour, compared to that of the US. American companies would pay less by hiring unskilled Mexican workers instead of hiring qualified American workers in the US. As a result, not only unemployment grew in various parts of the US, but Mexico saw a rapid suburbanization in the 90s and 2000s, because job was abundant in various Mexican cities and people from the countryside flocked to cities in order to work at an American company. This led to various issues that are noticeable nowadays (Mexicans being overworked and underpaid by various foreign companies, poor urban planning as a result of massive rural migration into the cities, causing urban spread and pollution, Mexican companies going broke after the Mexican market became dominated by US companies, etc).

I live in Novi Sad, Serbia. Love this place, not changing this place for anything 🫶

@nebojsa1976

Жыл бұрын

I think you should leave. Serbia will be burned soon. Run Sonya run.

This always happens when you surrender your national interests to a supranational bureaucracy that was not created by you and not for you.

I remember spending a day in a small town in old east Germany. The main street pedestrian area was absolutely deserted. And it was a nice weekend day, beautiful weather. Normally a place like that would be bustling. So creepy, I kept wondering what happened to all the people.

@123soistes7

Жыл бұрын

Same experience in a lot of towns as well as cities in Germany.

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism happened

@UniDeathRaven

Жыл бұрын

capitalism killed.

@john.premose

Жыл бұрын

That's how it is in America too, but not because there's no people but because everybody is inside looking on their phone

@hectorvega621

Жыл бұрын

​@@john.premose or driving a car, alone by themselves.

Such a diverse community you have cultivated here Hakim. Much love to all comrades from within the belly of the beast!

My mom is Bulgarian, dad from Montenegro, wife from Romania, adoptive father from the US, got plenty of relatives in Serbia and my best friend is croatian. I was raised in Germany, lived in Switzerland and the UK and before I start talking about my siamese cat, let me share my take on whats going on: Fertility rates are plummeting globally across the board - Singapore, China, Italy, Puerto Rico, S.Korea,... you name it. The fabric of what gave people a purpose and their lives meaning has been ripped apart: The nucleus family, a strong believe system, national and cultural identity, tradition, loyalty and locality - a fading memory. Globalization and high mobility, social engineering, technology and media have brainwashed people into believing these to be harbingers of a better world. Promises of health, prosperity and enlightment for everyone. Only it is little more than a cargo cult, shallow and pointless. People stopped settling down and having kids because they are restless and to busy chasing the wrong gods and escaping their demons. As for eastern Europe: Most are depressingly behind in the rat race, slow and stubborn. People leave them and go to their competitors, the same way they leave their employer for one fifty extra an hour or to pimp their resume.

@mkuc6951

Жыл бұрын

No come on, I can speak for Polish standards but the inflation is crazy now, 18%~ and its getting more impossible to survive. A 700 Euro salary can barley make it to the end of the month. People are leaving for a 3x-4x in salary.

Why would you represent violence with a man loading a revolver? Gun violence is very rare in Eastern Europe.

The people in Eastern Europe fail to see that instead of gaining independence, we lost any resemblance of independence we had. We can now only get as prosperous as our imperial overlords will let us and it was never the plan to let us flourish. Countries like Poland are relatively better off as they are a natural extension of German border and a buffer zone. Thanks for covering this topic, love from a polish emigrant

@spizganypywak7338

Жыл бұрын

so the only alternatives are not being prosperous at all (as before 1989 - very slow economic growth and social progress, falling behind other nations more and more) or being prosperous by delivering goods and services to "imperial" countries?

@phoneticalballsack

Жыл бұрын

@@spizganypywak7338 The only alternative is adopting the dollar and reducing the workweek. Or go bankrupt

@spizganypywak7338

Жыл бұрын

@@phoneticalballsack I don't quite understand.

@phoneticalballsack

Жыл бұрын

@@Yk9o The dollar is shitting on every other worthless currency. It's just credit. Better to have a common currency like in Europe. A commodity-backed world reserve currency will not work.

@phoneticalballsack

Жыл бұрын

@@spizganypywak7338 The only alternative is communism

same thing happening in Greece that remained "capitalist" through the cold war

@mulan-jinglesemusicas1513

Жыл бұрын

the true difference is not being capitalist country, but being rich country

To be fair, demographic trends in Eastern and Western Europe are very similar. The difference is that the West has immigration (also in substantial part from the East), while the East is still an emigration region. What worries me the most is how quickly a population ages as soon as trends go that way and how many crises come about after this process has hit a critical point - and how impossible it is to reverse such trends afterwards, because each generation gets smaller and the relative share of people beyond their "reproductive age" grows accordingly. I don't think technological progress can keep pace with the demands of societies that are so aged. The only positive trend is that people tend to be "more healthy" longer, so that, on average, what it means to be 60 years and older, has changed in the last 50 years (positively). Still, I think radical system change must happen. We don't have societies that can cope with modern demographics, but societies must adapt if trends cannot change (which they can't, many countries have tried).

@therealnuggetball

6 ай бұрын

Exactly! The actual birth rates are similar... Some eastern European countries even have positive immigration like Czechia...

I'm getting tired of this two-dimensional view of Europe, based on the 20th century cold-war era geopolitical East-West division. Best example of this nonsense is the inclusion of "East" Germany and Czech Republic in this video. Former Eastern Germany, as a part of today's united Germany, and Czech Republic are both CENTRAL European countries. Geographically, historically, economically and culturally. Except for those few stupid decades of the socialist/communist regime in the 20th century, for over a THOUSAND years they belonged to the CENTRAL/WESTERN part of Europe in all possible meanings of the word (Holy Roman Empire etc.). Besides being located in the very center of Europe, Czech Republic has HIGHER GDP per capita than Spain and Portugal (the so-called "Western" countries that are, in fact, Southern Europe both culturally AND economically) and its GDP per capita is now at the same level with Italy. There's no "depopulation" or "ghost towns" in the Czech Republic. If you're looking for depopulation, you have visit real Eastern Europe with states like Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia etc. And if you're looking for ghost towns, visit Southern Europe, for example South of Italy, where you can buy empty villages or even small towns, or South of Spain, where you can buy empty hotels and restaurants.

As a bulgarian I'm so happy you made a video on eastern Europe and the topic was very well picked out as well

It’s good to hear someone talk about this in a way that isn’t “WE ARE BEING REPLACED” Nazi bs

@lucasgrey9794

Жыл бұрын

The replacement isn't a conspiracy, but it is encouraged by neoliberalism.

@ernestokrapf

Жыл бұрын

@@lucasgrey9794 but it isn't a bad thing either, idiots are mad because people are f*cking and having babies together lmao

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

Жыл бұрын

@@lucasgrey9794 The real great replacement is replacing workers with machines.

@segala7853

Жыл бұрын

​@@lucasgrey9794 I've never seen one of you before

@SVTDI

Жыл бұрын

Not wanting your people and culture to be replaced is not nazi bs, its common sense.

Bullshit as it comes to Poland there was never unemployment over 20% and now we have an unemployment rate of 3% and a population whichi is growing from 2015 38mln to 2023 march 42mln

@banzaaiiiii

2 ай бұрын

Sweden got 15% unemployment rate ty too muslim migrants

It is still way better than what is happening in Asia (China specifically). In 2022 in UE 4.5 millions were born while the UE is about 450 million people. In China which is 1.5 billion people country it was only 10.5 million newborns

@nemaproblema6879

Жыл бұрын

but china is communist so this info has to be suppressed so we can achieve fully automated space homosexual communism!

How is this an east European problem alone? It is not: look at the countryside in parts of the US or parts of Norway. Wildly different countries, but very rich, and in both you will find a steady decline in rural population in favor of increasing urban population.

@nemaproblema6879

Жыл бұрын

because those countries were not communist so he cant say therefore it was better during communism and space gay communism will fix this. Either way he will probably rope himself like a good commie one so lets hope for the best!

I'm watching this on my phone from work in "Burgeristan" (USA) and it is very chilling and sad what happened to these small villages thst were once lively and prosperous, now are gutted and abandoned because of capitalism. You did a excellent job on this video, Hakim. And I hope you have a wonderful Ramadhan al-Karim.

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

Жыл бұрын

Some other commenter on this video mentioned that there's something similar happening in the South and Midwest.

@idrislamont1064

Жыл бұрын

You’re correct the rust belt and Appalachia are depopulating from migration due to deindustrialization and opioid deaths/suicides.

@therat1117

Жыл бұрын

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 From my own experience I can say this is true. The young people go off to college and never come back to rural and farming communities. Even in a mid sized Midwestern town with a local industrial plant, the population was visibly aging and the size of school classes shrinking over the decade I lived there because the plant wasn't hiring anyone without five years of experience, housing was not affordable as there were very few apartments, and people were moving out for the cities or other states. The local area had a median age of 40, compared to a median of 30 in the cities, and the population shrank by about 5% over that decade.

@hectorvega621

Жыл бұрын

​@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 I want to do something to help my State and fellow Midwestern States.

@LMB222

Жыл бұрын

Go slowly with those conclusions. The video conveniently skips the fact that the largest Eastern state of EU, Poland, is doing very well - no unemployment, no emigration. Czechia and Slovenia are doing even better, they have already surpassed Portugal. It's the orthodox and Muslim states that are poor. Those are cultures of mental slavery. In short, this video is full of BS

And it hurts to think that all these years people have being responding to Marxists with the phrase: "Ask someone from Eastern Europe about what they think of Socialism!" I think they should give Socialism a second run to be honest.

@dazzlebreak4458

Жыл бұрын

Socialism in Eastern Europe was brought by the Red Army at the end of WWII and was established first by political repressions, then by collectivisation (the state seized all "means of production"; if you refused you were beaten and ostracized). There were also labour camps (some for political prisoners, but also for priests, "amoral people" (gays, lesbians, prostitutes), people who didn't subscribe to the "communist morals"; most of those who went there never came back). A softer measure was to deport you to other side of the country. To this day there are only approximations of the casualties related to ascension of the Communist party. Not having a job, earning money on the side, immigrating were illegal; travelling abroad could be done only with special papers, but it was next to impossible to go to a capitalist country. It was written in the Constitution that the Communist Party had a leading role in the state affairs. A lot of the infrastructure, buildings and even whole towns were built by conscripts. The salaries were almost the same for everyone, but even if you had money there wasn't much to buy - in order to buy a car you had to be put in a waiting list, electronics were exclusively from the Eastern Bloc countries, you can get Western European/Japanese only in special places with US dollars or on the black market; there were also regular blackouts and shortages of some foods in the end of the regime because they were exported in order to repay the rising government debts. Of course, a lot of those problems didn't exist for party officials; connections and bribes helped a bunch when it came to applying for jobs, promotions and getting into schools and universities. Also towards the end of the Communist regime the Party grew paranoid and caused what was later called "The Big Vacation" when thousands of people from the Turkish minority were made to leave the country because of repressions on ethnical basis (like forced name changes). Granted, things were easier for people had the right connections, but I still have a lot of relatives in Turkey. I am Bulgarian from the aforementioned minority, who had grandparents with some Communist Party connections. If you want to see real socialism, visit Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea or Belarus.

@KrotowX

Жыл бұрын

Eastern Europe got hit by feudal empire led by a lowlife mob who called itself communists. They had nothing common with western type socialism.

@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195

Жыл бұрын

It would take so much longer to reason with people on socialism than it will take capitalism to destroy the planet. Our literal air and water are being taken away, but we sit around acting happy that there’s new shopping malls opening everywhere

@dazzlebreak4458

Жыл бұрын

@Adrians Cehins If there is only one entity which rules over the economy, the politics and all the institutions this is a dictatorship in the making. There are always people who want more or just something else and Socialism has to suppress them or let them go (most regimes opt for suppression). The closest thing to Socialism without being an authoritarian regime is Scandinavia - political and economic freedom, excellent social net and very high taxes.

@DjDeadpig

11 ай бұрын

Eastern Europeans who lived through the Cold War and have questions like that asked to them must really be fighting the urge to cave the heads in of every so called “western communist”.

Hi, I'm from Serbia near Repušnica. TLDR: The declining population in Serbia is almost dramatic. The mentioned Repušnica is mountainous and inaccessible, its and similar villages depopulation started during the industrialisation. Economic decline after Yugoslavia dissolution is not the sole reason. It is interesting how socialist managed in 20 years after ww2 to bring the country to its peak in industrialisation and economy, and now after 20 years of Yugoslavia dissolution, we are not even returning to the previous standards. I confirm the depopulation of my region, the municipality is like halved in population. There are a lot of villages like Repišnica here, but they are not good examples for depopulation after Yugoslavia dissolution. Most of those are mountainous villages which started to be depopulated when the industrialisation started in 60's and 70's. I have visited Repušnica several times, and one of the villagers explained to me that people moved to the cities to work in factories. They would dismantle their houses, transport the bricks, roof tiles, wooden beams, and other materials to the city, and rebuild their homes there. This was happening even before the dissolution of Yugoslavia. As you can see on the image of Repušnica you provided there are only hills and forests have, little to no surfaces for agricultural fields. Repušnica has no permanent residents, and people mostly visit in the summer for hunting and logging. Some other mountainous villages near the Bulgarian border are also left with only a few residents. The roads to these villages are often in poor condition and not asphalted. To reach the farthest villages, one usually needs a terrain vehicle. Therefore, living in these remote locations is not very convenient in modern times when people need more access to the city. The narrative is that people populate this remote locations during the Ottoman rule to escape oppression. However, after the liberation and especially during the industrialization period, people moved to cities for better and more convenient lives. That was the story for the mountinous villages, but in Vojvodina, a rich agricultural region, there is also a declining village population. In my city, after the wars and destruction of the industry in the 90s, the population has almost halved in two decades. Many people are leaving for Belgrade, larger cities, or some western countrie. Many doctors and nurses are migrating to Germany, for example. Today marks the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing of Serbia. We have barely recovered to the level of the 1980s. After World War II, Yugoslavia was already a backward country and had been destroyed by the war. However, the socialist government managed to achieve peak development and industrialization in just 20 years by the 1970s. New capitalist regimes inherited all of the infrastructure and facilities but sold them for almost nothing. As a result, factories were left empty and deteriorating. Only in recent years have some of the factory facilities and halls started to be renewed and operational again, albeit with minimal wages for workers.

@nebojsa1976

Жыл бұрын

Sta pricas covjece??? Ja zaradjujem 2600 eu u BG sada. Najbolja drzava na planeti. Svi se vracaju u Srbiju. Niko ne odlazi u inostranstvo.

As Serbian, it's gut wrenching to see that our nation has depopulated by 500.000 people for the past 10 years. But in a way that's what you get when you have corrupt, selfish government. I don't know what'll happen with us in the next 100 years, but I surely would not like to see us replaced by these Africans, Arabs and generally third would migrants. Or anybody else for that matter. I also blame neoliberal policies being put to place and radical attempts to thwart patriotism

Me: "There, no more communism. so you guys happy now, right?" Eastern European >Literally leaves the country... Right-winger "This is proof that communism bad!"

@oosthuizen2012

Жыл бұрын

You do realize that socially Eastern Europe was right wing regardless if it was socialist

@user-ze1ej5zb6z

Жыл бұрын

@@oosthuizen2012In some aspects this is true but in others not so much.

@Davdit

Жыл бұрын

Of course they leave the country if the other countries that have been under capitalism for much longer are more developed hahaha

My parents left Eastern Europe and took me with them, however Western Europe (at least where I am) is still completely unliveable. The sheer destruction of the East is an insanely disappointing thing to grapple with, considering my ancestry lived in such a great part of history. I still think a lot about the apartment my grandfather lived in, a truly beautiful feel to the place.

@LMB222

Жыл бұрын

What destruction? Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, and a bunch of others are doing very well.

@benismann

Жыл бұрын

@@LMB222 who r those "a bunch of others"? u named basically all of them

@shaunmckenzie5509

Жыл бұрын

​@@saccount-z3 because Czech Republic is still the most common name for it in English-speaking countries. Never heard anyone say "Czechia"

@shaunmckenzie5509

Жыл бұрын

@@saccount-z3 Don't know, don't care. Just telling you how it is.

@gyozop

Жыл бұрын

I don't know. I live in Hungary and life is pretty good. I travel a lot all over Europe and I think hard times are over in Central Europe. That is if they don't nuke us all. Even many villages start being repopulated rapidly as city people move out to family houses doing home-office. 50K families moved out just from Budapest in three years. Of course some people still move in.

the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

It seems that the author of the video has not delved into where and how the population is disappearing - and why urbanization is happening. 1989 Approximately 2.7 million people lived in the territory of Latvia. population, but in 1994 2.3 million - where did about 400,000 go in such a short time? They were military personnel who remained in the USSR with all their families - wives, children, etc., who were ordered to leave the independent Republic of Latvia (and it must be said that fortunately they were ordered to leave, because today we see that military conflicts have broken out in those countries where the soldiers of the USSR/Russian army remained) . In the period from 1995 - 2022 The number of inhabitants has decreased from 2.3 million. up to 1.9 million - half can be blamed on emigration to Ireland, the UK and other countries, as well as the fact that mortality exceeds birth, but it should be added that the birth rate in Latvia since the Second World War has been very low, or even negative (a birth boom occurred only in the 80s - but all the rest of the time, and especially from 1960 - 1989, the growth of Latvia's population was carried out exclusively by immigrants from other territories of the USSR). Another emigration wave that is never really mentioned is 1938. emigration of the so-called Baltic-Germans to Germany.

If it wasn't for former colonies and immigration from said colonies, Spain and Portugal likely would also be suffering a similar fate due to economic disparities between wealthier countries to the north which speak Germanic languages for the most part. More particularly, Andalusia's economic income per capita is more comparable to Croatia and other depopulated areas than to Basque Country within Spain itself. In between all the urban centers of economic activity like Madrid, Barcelona, and Basque Country? You end up with Teruel Exists and heavy depopulation similar to Moldova, Serbia, etc with migration first inside of Spain and Portugal and if they can't find a job good enough but still have funds, they'll flee to the Netherlands, Germany, etc. Edit: As in there's more people of Cape Verdian descent in Portugal now than in Cape Verde for a scope for how significant the immigration from colonies whether formerly of the country in question's possession or a French/English colony like how Inaki Williams has both a Spanish cap and 6 Ghanian caps.

@Markel_GR

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Spanish country side and villages like my grandparents in Galicia are either empty or filled with old people that will be dead in 20-30 years at most

@Eibarwoman

Жыл бұрын

@@Markel_GR And the population growth is mostly as I described it, centered around cities with extreme depopulation elsewhere. Teruel is perhaps the most extreme example of a declining province with the population having peaked some 130 years ago and is the size of the American state of New Jersey yet has 1% of the population where about 60% of it is in just two dying towns. Edit: Teruel's so sparsely populated these days that there's no place in the EU as sparsely populated. The closest places would either be in Greenland, Western Kansas, or Siberia.

@1homelander179

Жыл бұрын

Most of the west keeps itself alive with migration, otherwise they would die out like eastern europe.

@arminivanics1916

Жыл бұрын

Even with that immigration Portugal managed to stagnate economically and get overtaken by Slovenia & Czechia. The heck they doing over there in Portugal?

@Eibarwoman

Жыл бұрын

@@arminivanics1916 It's a problem which explains why the McDonalds orders in the US never seem to get much faster than 2 minutes 45 seconds, extreme turnover of the workforce from emigration and immigration at the same time. Edit: Just do the issue of what's going on at a McDonalds over a whole country and reduce the rate a fair bit for both entering and departing. It's not good for improving productivity which requires a more stable workforce. A lot of the best automation is also a bit too expensive for a Portuguese corporation which also leaves them at a disadvantage to Germans, Dutch, Americans, etc who can afford it.

me and my mom were talking about moldova this morning and how everyones leaving and its falling apart rlly sad to see

@dreamsdeep1076

Жыл бұрын

World population is still growing. Humanity will survive at least for awhile longer

@segmentsAndCurves

Жыл бұрын

@@dreamsdeep1076 humanity, also known as "the civilized west"

@mulan-jinglesemusicas1513

Жыл бұрын

@@dreamsdeep1076 but growing far away from said countries

@shreyaskumarrath721

Жыл бұрын

@@dreamsdeep1076 China's population has started declining, India's population has reached replacement level in fertility rates and drop lower in a decade or two. Most of Europe has declining population, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan etc. Southeast Asia will also experience the same in a decade. It's only Africa that's exploding in population

@JayForsure

Жыл бұрын

@@shreyaskumarrath721 Expoding is an understatement. In Nigeria on average each woman is having 9 kids.. NIIIIIINE JESUS

JUST LOOK AT THE DATA CONCERNING POLAND, CZEKIA, SLOVAKIA OR THE BALTICS TO SEE HOW ABSURDLY UNTRUE YOUR CONCLUSIN APPEARS TO BE, AND NOTICE THAT GERMANY AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF WESTERN EUROPE HAVE GOT BIRTH RATES EVEN LOWER.

As a Romanian, thank you so much for covering this topic, it's hardly ever talked about even inside the country, and it's pretty much going to lead to this country basically dying out, and i don't mean in the failed state way.

@fredtheted3530

Жыл бұрын

Honest question. What are your opinions of Causescu? I found he made really bad decisions that lead to the 1980's austerity measures where the stereotype of chronic socialist bread lines became a reality for over 10 years if not longer not to mention rationed gas, heating, and almost every bit of supplies. From what I've seen, most Romanians do not like him as a result of this. Just how bad was Causescu and what are your opinions on him(and possibly what general sentiment of Causescu is today).

@torum6448

Жыл бұрын

@@fredtheted3530 Well, it's kinda neutral, i mean he's leagues above any of the clown school rejects we have nowadays. In the late 60s and 70s he wasn't that bad, stuff started going downhill in 79 mostly because stuff in the USSR was going downhill. But like 80% of this country was basically built under Ceausescu, 15% or so under the monarchy and like 5% in the last 30 years if i had to make some statistics. The blocks most people live in Ceausescu, the Bucharest metro - Ceausescu, we had some of the best railways in Europe in the 70s, also Ceausescu, btw said railway system ever since the transition to capitalism is now by far the worst. Thing is Ceausescu also ruled in a troubled period full of uncertainty. In a way, i think people remember the bad stuff too much like the austerity or his personality cult, but his first decade or so was a time of great progress. He essentially managed to somewhat put Romania on the map. And probably, the best thing he did in my opinion, and the reason why i think he does deserve some sort of respect is the fact that at least he had some backbone. When the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, Romania was the only Warsaw Pact country that did not partake in the invasion, and Ceausescu is the man to thank for that. What do you think happened in 2003, when the US invaded Iraq. Cowards like Iliescu and Basescu quickly hopped on board, and helped the US pillage another country and murder millions. Btw, Iliescu is a man responsible for a lot of bloodshed in this country, the fucker is 93 years old and still lives comfortably. Back during communism, he was Ceausescu's main rival within the party.

@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45

Жыл бұрын

@@torum6448 The invasion of Czechoslovakia was the one thing that got Tito and Hoxha to stop bickering with each other. Funniest shit I've ever seen.

Shame that Serbia is mostly always brought up in some negative light on the internet. Greeting from here, love your work!

@ilovec00ckies

Жыл бұрын

Why do you think that is the case? Do you think it s false data on Serbia? What positives should we know more about Serbia?

@gyozop

Жыл бұрын

I am Hungarian and Serbs are nice people. I had to say it.

It should be noted, however, that while emigration hurt Eastern Europe hard after the collapse of the USSR, it would have happened DURING the USSR times if those countries had had open borders. My parents grew up in the USSR and it wasn't paradise. Just FYI, why did people in the USSR not leave villages behind? You think, because it was a good place to leave? Nah, simply because villagers could not legally move out of a village. They were "assigned" to them just like during feudal serfdom. If people could move out of the USSR, they would. Hence, many famous cases of sportsmen, scientists, and other "brains" leaving the USSR at the earliest convenience. Stanislav Kurilov, for example. And damn, illegal USSR dissolution? Tell it to all my ancestors who died in GULAG. Our people voted out of that jail of nations, over 90% voted out.

I can't get over the fact that at 13.00 someone playing Monopoly has put houses on the Water Works. WTF??

I always get emotional driving through Bosnia and seeing all the abandoned villages.

@LMB222

Жыл бұрын

Why? It's a normal process.

@nebhalabir1201

Жыл бұрын

​@@LMB222 low iq comment

@hassanashwas6719

Жыл бұрын

I had the same reaction

@hyacinna

Жыл бұрын

​@@LMB222 Normal process of what? Mass deculturalization?

I'm from Southeastern Serbia and my town alone lost over 20,000 people since the last census. In the city centre there are abandoned houses and buildings. The surrounding villages are depressing and full of misery, some pensioners receive only 100$ and less pensions, there are no jobs in the area and all young people who want to study have to go somewhere else where there is higher quality education, they usually never come back. The only place in Serbia gaining population is Belgrade due to migration from Southern Serbia, and even there, unemployment is rising, you must join the party and have your intelligence insulted to get a job in the public sector, inflation is going up as well and housing prices are through the roof even for shitty apartments on the outskirts of Belgrade that are more expensive than some decent places in the USA. Honestly I have no hope for this country and want to get out as soon as possible.

@jonizymberi6787

Жыл бұрын

In Serbia Novi Pazar, Tutin, Presheva and Bujanoci also saw population increase vs last census. This is because they are overwhelmingly Albanian or Bosniak municipalities where population is younger and has more kids then ageing Serbian population.

sorry just are you realy sure that my country Czech Republic has had problem with high unemployment rate for last 10 years ??? really weird data .

Every village in Germany is happy as hell if the biggest problem is depopulation. Must cities have to handle massive invasions and repopulation. That's way worse.

Something very similar happened in South Africa post-1994. The apartheid government used to subsidise certain industries but the end of apartheid came with an IMF loan and trade liberalisation that killed these subsidised industries virtually overnight. The textile industry in Cape Town shed a few hundred thousand jobs in a few short years and skilled workers were left with nowhere to go. Now we get all our clothes from China.

@Exxperiment626

Жыл бұрын

If you don't like post-apartheid South Africa, you can always return to the Netherlands, where your ancestors came from. Kiss the Boers!

@kirilmihaylov1934

Жыл бұрын

It happens all where IMF and WB are involved

@RRR-dv5yl

Жыл бұрын

If China was a freer country, they could go there and put their skills to good use.

@Halgame99

Жыл бұрын

China is better than IMF and the world bank

The frustrating thing is that young people still blaim socialism for this. They claim that it's because of socialism's failure that it takes us this long to recover.

@UmQasaann

Жыл бұрын

Self-protection, capitalism is an inhumane system that spreads poverty, famine and war. It's a bottom of the pit and you can't have any vestiges of it left.

@Zolkte

Жыл бұрын

Communism is what brought them in the state of being exploitable by the west following its unavoidable fall.

Im Czech. Before communists gained power, our economy and finances were roughly on the level of Austria. No wonder that after 40 years of soviet imperialism and economical self-destruction things went upside down for a time during the transition. The state of our economy was so bad after the communist rule that opening the borders would ALWAYS mean being completely unable to compete with economies that were simply better. Anyway, after that bunch of chaotic years, our GDP per capita and wages just keep on growing, our unemployment rate is one of the lowest in the entire EU and the only ghost towns around here are those destroyed by communists because of the Iron curtain. If commies had not fuck things up, all would have been fine.

This is what pisses me off when people celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union. That whole region has never recovered. You used to be so great Eastern Europe. The greed of the west knows no bounds

@kieferkarpfen6897

Жыл бұрын

Cope

As a romanian hearing u say Cotul Morii is so funny 😂

@YaBoiHakim

Жыл бұрын

I genuinely had no idea how to say it, my bad I know it's terrible lmao

As a Macedonian, I appreciate this video. Thank You, Hakim. Edit: Just to put into perspective how fucked we are: Foreign Debt of Yugoslavia in 1991 [in 2023 dollars] - *$41.7 billion* Foreign combined debt of ex-Yugo states - *$159 billion* GDP of Yugoslavia in 1991 [in 2023 dollars] - *$263.8 billion* GDP og Yugoslavia in 1989, it's peak [in 2023 dollars] - $312.4 billion Combined GDP of ex-Yugo states - *$252.2 billion* Population of Yugoslavia in 1991 - *23,532,279 people* Population of Yugoslavia in 1990, it's peak - 23,657,623 people Combined population of ex-Yugo states - *20,466,318 people* Edit: Converting 1991 dollars to 2023 dollars accounts for the inflation of the dollar in that time period.

@Albtraum_TDDC

Жыл бұрын

@radiohead3719 "Macedonians" identify as "Greeks" (Hellenes). "North Macedonians" identify as "Albanians" (30%), "Serbians" (10%) and "Definitely-Not-Bulgarians" (60%). Although a lot of the 3rd group are slowly coming out as less sure they aren't Bulgarians as time goes on.

@segala7853

Жыл бұрын

0 we

@KekusMagnus

Жыл бұрын

@Radio Head They are Bulgarians in all but name. They don't identify as such because they've been fed anti-bulgarian propaganda for a century as a result of the 2nd Balkan war

@Intreductor

Жыл бұрын

Well, Macedonians got out of Yugoslavia easy. Rest had to fight a war.

@1075Marijavera

Жыл бұрын

​@radiohead3719as a (north) Macedonian i can answer this question. We do not identify as bulgarians in any way. Our country has been under bulgarian rule ( same with ottoman hence why we also have alot of turkish words).

Crazy how those glorious communist party leaders of yours became oligarchs and far-right authoritarian populists politicians THE SECOND capitalism came around. I live in a small city in Bulgaria that has a abandoned copper mine and many abandoned buildings, but the government didn't close them, the person who owned the buildings and abided by the communist party shut everything down DURING COMMUNISM and ran with the money the second capitalism came around, my grandfather and grandma worked at the mine but hated their work, they were sometimes forced to work a job they are not familiar with, from making bricks to bread to even alcohol and lemonade, and they were punished sometimes for making the slightest mistake, my grandfather was a depressed alcoholic who smoked 3 packs a day and my grandma was just miserable, at one point my grandfather was almost sent to a penal colony, very "communist" of them sending someone to a camp.

You might hate me. But East Germany is Central Europe at best. Serbia and Bulgaria is Southern Europe. You can say that Carpathian region and nearby countries are Central Europe. Therefore Western Ukraine is part of that region whilst most of Ukraine is Eastern Europe. And once again Balkans are not Eastern Europe in any way.

@benismann

Жыл бұрын

balkans are eastern europe wdym

@lioneldemun6033

Жыл бұрын

@@benismann Romania and Bulgaria yes, former Yugoslavia more Southeastern Europe like Greece save Slovenia and Croatia that are Central Europe.

3:37 - That's exactly what's happening in Lisbon right now. A small home with 1 room and a living room costs about 400,000€, the average annual wage in Portugal after taxes is about 15,000€. That's 3.75% of the house price.

@scentlessapprentice7643

Жыл бұрын

ora viva camarada :)

@ibn_klingschor

Жыл бұрын

I was visiting Lisbon talking to locals. They were blaming the high prices on the rich tourists.

@theswagman1263

Жыл бұрын

@@ibn_klingschor zero structural analysis

@foca7550

Жыл бұрын

A house in my village in Germany costs that much. If you go anywhere close to Berlin it will cost you millions of € to get a flat sadly.

@peenus5120

Жыл бұрын

A lot of things in this video reminded me of Portugal. And funnily enough our liberals constantly point to Eastern Europe as an example to follow. Hell, our libs want to copy Eastern European liberalism so hard that they also blame all of our current economic problems on "socialism", despite Portugal not being or having ever been a socialist country.

As an Albanian, a video that greatly (yet sadly) describes the situation we have :(.

"Formely self-sufficient and developed economies as agriculture.... vassals." As educated czech citizen Id say this sentence makes it pertty clear you are a tankie. No former soviet block citizen would describe 1985 economy as self-sufficient and developed.

@crossmaster77

Жыл бұрын

Capitalist propaganda works well lol. Eastern communist bloc have developed and well functioning economy.

@jakekaywell5972

Жыл бұрын

It was indeed self-sufficient and developed relative to much of the rest of the planet. From someone who's family lived in the HPR and Russian RFSR for decades.

@tomaschlouba5868

Жыл бұрын

@@jakekaywell5972 dude, there were shortages of literally everything. Most famously toilet paper. You couldnt get a flat or a house to live in, especially if you werent in the party. You spent most of the money you made on groceries and utilities and if by chance you saved some, you couldnt by anything fancy anyway. It was self suffficient in a way that people barely didnt die of hunger but it is incomparable with what it is now or even what it was in early 90s.

@jakekaywell5972

Жыл бұрын

@@tomaschlouba5868 Toilet paper was readily available, but in compressed packs instead of the now-familiar roll style. Getting a house to live in was simple. Just agree to pay in installments and inform the town registrar and you were good to go. Being a member of the Communist party certainly helped, but that was more than an acceptable price to pay. Money that was made paid off necessecities first and foremost, true, but luxuries were also available without too much trouble. Especially technological goods such as cameras and wristwatches. It was self-sufficent in the sense that everyone's basic needs were met with a moderate amount available for luxuries. The whole 1990s were a hellscape for my family. After being fired from the Penza Watch Factory due to budget cuts and not being able to work elsewhere, we were left with the choice of either starvation or banditry. Not willing to do either, we left. Looking at almost all of Eastern Europe now, my uncle was right when he said "we sold our birthright for a mess of pottage".

Ireland deals with rural depopulation too, several times. There was even a "brain-drain" in the 70's & 80's but that was reversed in the 90's. Ireland is now a well off country with a similar GDP to Austria. The Eastern EU countries are starting to do better lower corruption, more political diversification, national strategic planning, return of immigrants, more foreign and local investment.

@Purple_flower09

Жыл бұрын

Apart from some Eastern Europeans, mainly Poles, going back because of brexit there is no evidence to support this suggestion of migrants returning. Albania, the Baltic states and others are still emptying rapidly.

@roryoneill9444

Жыл бұрын

@@Purple_flower09 Brexit???? WTF has the uk's economic suicide got to do with various problems in Eastern European countries, unless you are saying that the brits will be leaving Britain in hundreds of thousands (as if getting 2 million extra people after a border poll will not be a huge jump in population, Ireland will be swamped by cheap labour from Northern England and Wales). It is very unlike that anyone is going to go to Russia, Belarus or Ukraine in the next year or so due to the war, while Lithuania's population has stopped declining recently and in the last 3 years have increased & the same can be seen for Estonia. I don't know where you got the numbers for Poland but Poland still has net outward migration.

@durshurrikun150

Жыл бұрын

"lower coruption, political diversification" That never happens. Foreign investement aka destruction of the local economy. Libs are so stupid.

@manjushagongale

Ай бұрын

​@@Purple_flower09Estonia is doing somewhat better. Problem is for Latvia and Lithuania.

It's chilling to think that in the end the Nazis got almost everything they wanted one way or another. Really an awful timeline

@neo-nkrumahist5765

Жыл бұрын

Literally everything from No More USSR to the disappearence of Europes massive Jewish minorities who were near majorities in places like Odessa to the depopulation of Eastern Europe to Germany as the leading European power.

@gabbar51ngh

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Nazis wanted immigration of refugees in Europe.

@ciii4361

Жыл бұрын

Well you know.. paperclip

@neo-nkrumahist5765

Жыл бұрын

@@ciii4361 Paperclip isnt even the worst Nazi rescue, its kinda funny how people focus on it.

@ciii4361

Жыл бұрын

@@neo-nkrumahist5765 it’s because it’s more famous