I'm old enough to have seen the Berlin Wall go up, and I never thought I'd see it fall. I sat on my couch and watched the live feed from Berlin of the wall being knocked down and had tears of joy going down my cheeks.

@artmusic2

10 ай бұрын

💛💙 me too friend . Pro-Democracy alll the way - then & now in June 2023 - proves that love wins.

@shelbypatterson9140

10 ай бұрын

I remember being in 4th grade (long after the wall had fallen) but a classmates mother came for career day to speak to our class, she was in the US army and brought pieces of the Berlin wall with her and when she told us how we were looking and touching a true piece of world history and the emotions she had when telling us about the Berlin wall.. that day is what sparked the life long love of history I have today ❤

@triciac.5078

10 ай бұрын

I remember watching the wall come down and my mom felt the same as you. She never believed it would come down. She was in shock and crying.

@malibu13203

10 ай бұрын

@@shelbypatterson9140and now people have pieces of the towers to share

@88njtrigg88

10 ай бұрын

@@malibu13203 This and that, that and this.

I remember my mother waking me up in the middle of the night telling me to watch the TV. The wall was falling and people were crying. It's a wild memory I have as a child.

This has to be the best series I have seen regarding this era. Thanks for the upload

@NohabloEng

10 ай бұрын

I love watching them, Got to be on a PC with ublock though cause they flood them with ads if the views are good.

Exactly the right documentary for today, the 2nd part may come soon

@robwernet9609

8 күн бұрын

I believe that's why putins been busy trying to retake all those little satellite countries back. He wants to restore the soviet union.

I was 12 years old in 1989 and remember this vividly, it was a wonderful time. This was what the world was like before Twitter and Facebook.

@tobikzlobivy3379

18 күн бұрын

Or before tiktok.

Living in Berlin/Germany, I will be for ever grateful for what Michail Gorbachev did while he was in power. Experiencing freedom and liberty is invaluable. May he rest in peace 🙏

@wajahatshafi6626

9 ай бұрын

Y u invaded Russia? Had Germany not invaded Russia history would be different

@rolandvoss3600

9 ай бұрын

Of course.

@rippspeck

9 ай бұрын

​@@wajahatshafi6626 Quit yapping, vatnik. Your completely schizophrenic whataboutism doesn't fly with Westerners.

@ricardonavarro6530

9 ай бұрын

​@@wajahatshafi6626If us not invaded europe history would be different

@forrestbernard1243

9 ай бұрын

​@@wajahatshafi6626and 😢

Thanks so much for posting

I love the videos about MAD World… keep going with this SAGA….. the best you’ve ever done…!! 👑🤙🏻🙌🏻

The hubris of thinking that our world is no longer under threat presented here is amazing. We are still under the same nuclear threat, maybe even worse.

@Matt-qv8zj

10 ай бұрын

Threat yes. Worse no

@freezy8593

5 ай бұрын

By Putin!

@s052e

Ай бұрын

Try not huffing paint

THIS IS GREAT WORK… A DOCUMENTARY THAT EVERYONE TODAY SHOULD WATCH AND SEE THAT WAR AND OPPRESSION IS NOT THE ANSWER

@resevoirdog

9 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more

@Alehzinhah

8 ай бұрын

Tell it to the US military, please. I'm sure the population of Yemen, Palestine, Libanon, Iraq, Siria, Vietnam, Corea, all agree with that too, and expect apologies.

@truesosense7722

8 ай бұрын

@@Alehzinhah The US did nothing wrong compared to russia

@Alehzinhah

8 ай бұрын

@@truesosense7722 nothing? Really? Do you know anything about world history outside US? Because US directly caused the death os thousands worldwide, causing Dictatorships in Latin America, Iran, and many other countries...

@user-ho2bw8kd9z

4 ай бұрын

Tell it to Hiroshima and Nagasaki at first @@truesosense7722

Superb documentary touch on history of the late 80s!

To say that it was only the fall of the Berlin Wall that triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union is oversimplified. The first event that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union was the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev. His policies, aimed at trying to make the Soviet Union democratic, by trying to improve Communism by turning the policy of the Communist Party towards the Communist ideal, the one where everybody works towards greater good, where the nation as a whole would live in prosperity, people would have freedom of speech and peace. Additionally, not only did it stop participating in the Arms Race, but it wasn't going to prop up Satellite States any more. While intended to make Communism more popular, it instead, led to those who were dissatisfied with the Communist system to vote enmass for Independence. As a result, the breakup of the Soviet Union really began with Lithuania declaring Independence in 1990. Gorbachev's reaction to this was telling, as he didn't send the military to forcibly take over Lithuania once again, instead implemented an economic embargo. Inadvertently, the last ditch attempt to reverse Gorbachev's policies, with the failed coup of August 1991, led to the remaining nations in the USSR declaring Independence one after the other, beginning with Estonia in the same month as the Coup attempt and ending with Russia and Kazakhstan in December that same year. Gorbachev held a short speech announcing his resignation, not only expressing sorrow at the fall of the Soviet Union, but frustration at past mistakes and hope for a more peaceful world.

@Blanka1100

10 ай бұрын

Poland was first soviet satelite state to have free election. It took place on 4th of june 1989 while the fall of the Berlin Wall took place in November.

@SiVlog1989

10 ай бұрын

@@Blanka1100 exactly, and Hungary also had its revolution before East Germany (indeed, it was a reaction to Hungary removing their electrified barbed wire fence on its border with Austria, opening a relatively safe path for East Germans that wanted to leave for the West to do so and the regime of Erich Honeke reacted in an ultimately self-destructive manner, first by closing all its borders, even to other Communist States, and then allowing those who fled to the West German Embassy in Prague to transit through East Germany to the West)

@jasont9907

9 ай бұрын

Any Communist government will fail always they’re headed by humans and greed is too big of a temptation to resist There are no exceptions

@kimobrien.

8 ай бұрын

@@SiVlog1989 It was NOT possible to reform the Stalinist bureaucracy and Stalin's followers. Gorbachev rose in the bureaucracy because Gorbachev as a child had written the most slavish praise of Stalin as the leader. A leader who had murdered all of Lenin's closet comrades. Stalin the butcher the leader of defeated revolutions and Gorbachev could not overcome what was rotten by restructuring the bureaucracy. Instead what happened is they adopted the neo liberal theories of Milton Freedman who advised on how to bring back capitalism and markets to unleash capitalist prosperity. Instead the only thing unleashed were depression like conditions and new laws making private ownership of property for use in exploitation the law of the land. It was they who became the new corrupt oligarchy and instituted shock therapy.

@Paulius-lb4ng

8 ай бұрын

Incorrect. Soviet Union was already collapsing 10 years before Gorbachev. It failed because of unsustainable free healthcare for too many people, is what bankrupted the idiotic Soviet system.

I am so surprised by your great effort to teach us the previous documents many thanks to you all

Mikhail Gorbachev may be the most important character in the history of politics ! May he rest in peace !

@user-fs8pp4uy4f

8 ай бұрын

Gorbachev is a traitor, he brought a lot of grief after the collapse of the USSR

@maksim05makarov

8 ай бұрын

Горбачев предатель и убийца миллионов.

@ciprianpopa1503

7 ай бұрын

@@user-fs8pp4uy4f He let that dying corpse to be burried. It was all stincking. It was his enemy that unburried it, put some strings on it and pretended it was alive.

@mikealvord55

6 ай бұрын

@@user-fs8pp4uy4factually that was Stalin. Gorby just fixed it!

@jesusramirezromo2037

2 ай бұрын

​@@user-fs8pp4uy4f Not really his fault that Russia elected bad politicians

Who would had thought 34 years later after he gave that speech in Heroes Square in Budapest in 1989 that Viktor Orbán would reverse to authoritarian rule. This should be a lesson for all of us never to take Freedom and Human Rights for granted. In any moment they can be taken away if we are not careful. Great series, still relevant today

@Daculaboy

10 ай бұрын

Lmao he was against Marxist and communist ideologies then and he still is today. Just because you moved to the other side of the Berlin wall doesn't mean he did.😂

@alexb9969

10 ай бұрын

​@@DaculaboyHe is not a leftist dictator

@cartrips9263

10 ай бұрын

WTH are you even talking about? just because he doesnt want to take part in this suicidal conquest against Russia and sees whats really happening in Ukraine, doesnt mean hes "reverted to authoritarian rule". Look in a mirror at the actions of the West. Everyone who grew up in the west during the cold war is terrified of whats happening to us, how roles have shifted, how real totalitarian methods are being used!

@rohankurian5641

9 ай бұрын

🤔👊🔥❤✌

@bittertruth4847

9 ай бұрын

Democracy is good till the party i like comes to power 😂😂😂

Best documentary❤

Brilliant documentary

Excellent doc ❤

Can u do a playlist of this series plz. So I can watch all episodes

The world is so fragile. It's resilient at the same time, but it's probably more fragile than the average person realizes. We've came a long way, but still got a long way to go

@matthewsuleski6565

9 ай бұрын

That's very well said. I concur.

@obtuseangler768

9 ай бұрын

Do you think we will get there eventually or rip ourselves apart like we have been, before we have an honest chance?

@S-tank_

9 ай бұрын

@@obtuseangler768 might be optimistic but I think we'll get there. We've consistently throughout history gotten more and more civilized. We've had the ability to effectively end life on earth as we know it for nearly a century. And despite our differences and a few close calls we haven't done it yet. I think nuclear war is probably one of the greatest threats to civilization but the more time that goes by it's probably less and less likely that happens. The world is slowly but surely moving towards liberal democracy. And I think once the autocracies are gone that will also greatly reduce those chances. In the grand scheme of things a couple hundred years ain't nothing. Few hundred years ago we were enslaving each other and depriving certain parts of society of equal rights and democracy was just a pipe dream. I gotta think in 2 or 300 more we'll be even more fair and civilized. I hope lol.

@jakeh6980

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’s too bad and sad at the same time, that we have been going backwards for the last three decades, and we are about to hit major global depression bc of the world government elitists

Ceaușescu mobilized supporters in a meeting in Bucharest meant to reminisce of his peak popularity, the denouncing of the crushing of the Prague Spring, on 21 of August 1968. He had a few days earlier returned from his last political visit, to Tehran. Instead, a large boom was heard in the square, and then people booed him. That day, him and Elena flew via chopper, but they were stopped and arrested

@garyleibitzke4166

10 ай бұрын

They got what they deserved.

@conorwhite2066

8 ай бұрын

There is a video showing the moment his world fell apart as he realized they were booing not cheering him...

@Flyinghigh3597

8 ай бұрын

He was stupid enough, he should learn from his friend "Deng Xiaoping" of the Chinese communist party. Deng hold his guns tight at least two years and slowly moving away from emergency curfew .

I love this documentary so dearly.

OMG, swimming 30-35 miles in the ocean. That’s insane.

@stevejohnson6593

7 ай бұрын

POV: your neighbor has been visited by the KGB and he *did* know something

Gareth Evan’s is a remarkable thinker on foreign affairs. Excellent to see him being utilised. The man changed the world.

I am just amazed to see government working together to accomplish something, anything.

So interesting to watch history from all sides

Ohne thing that should be corrected is that Schabowski wasn’t a Soviet minister but an East German one. The draft from which he read was already approved by the Politbüro, but was marked not to get into effect until the next day, a line which he thankfully overread

I enjoy watching these types of documentaries.

Günter Schabowski wasn't a Sovjet Minister, but a German / DDR politician born in Berlin. 24.29 min. It was a wonderful evening, November 9th, it made me happy for all those people in the DDR. Free at last.

I'm old enough to remember the Berlin wall coming down, but was far to young to understand the significance.

@FuhrerHeisen

8 ай бұрын

that was me but 9/11

@roosell793

7 ай бұрын

I watched it happen on TV. I didn't understand, but I knew it was important.

I love it when the Soldiers declare peace.

i was in the 6th grade when the Berlin Wall fell. thinking back on that time & what has transpired since is both fascinating & haunting

When the documentary mispronounces names and has an Australian talking about European politics, you know you’re in for a good one

It's not achivable from 'above' to reconcile with and forget the past without truly facing its crimes. Gorbachev had to experience it when his good intensions brought about events that turned that part of the world into a direction entirely different from what he intended. People did not judge led by dry common sense but driven by a lot of emotions. It was clear that no good will but merely the military presence of the Soviets were keeping the Eastern Block together. That is, brutal force. Although by then, this force was smiling at the people, trying to win their hearts. And the people said NO. Greetings from Hungary and thank you for the video.

@leojohn6702

7 ай бұрын

At least now we are free from the dictatorship. I am happy and will never join urss

@johannjohann6523

3 ай бұрын

I think I get what you are saying. One reason Gorbachev failed was because he was not seen as a good Russian for being "honest". In the Russian culture if someone designs a new missile from scratch that is awesome - meh no big deal. Probably won't get noticed. And probably won't get built. But if a Russian were to steal the plans of such a missile from one of the NATO countries, then he is made a hero and the missile will get built. That's just the culture of Russia, and has been that way for hundreds of years. Russia doesn't design anything "new". They steal a design of whatever they need from one of its enemies. Check out my comment for even more detail about that and what America did during the cold war. Finally. take care (Just like Russians don't need no edukation or training to be great soldiers and military leaders. Russian men only need Russian Vodka to be great soldier. lol. and it's so funny because it's 100% true of the Russian perspective.)

Commandant hats look warm for the winter

When I hear Bush talk, I realize just how well Dana Carvey did of his impressions.

@mikealvord55

6 ай бұрын

You win for one of the stupidest comments in KZread

Chernobyl was also a big factor which was the beginning of the Soviet Union's collapse

@EShirako

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, agreed. It had been am embarrassing and EXPENSIVE factor, even.

Yeltsin almost started WWIII once. Not by any military or political act, but, when staying in Washington, he disappeared one night from the guest home he was staying in..until he was found on Pennsylvania Ave, drunk and in his underwear at midnight, trying to hail a cab to get a pizza.

@mlassz009

10 ай бұрын

Classic Yelstsin

@charlesmagee1853

10 ай бұрын

When they put pineapple on his pizza, he almost went Defcon 4.

@BamBamSr

9 ай бұрын

​@@charlesmagee1853 and who could blame him, pineapple on pizza? WTF 🤨

@jdocean1

9 ай бұрын

@@BamBamSrpepperoni and pineapple is great!

@civlyzed

8 ай бұрын

@@charlesmagee1853 Aren't we always in Defcon 4 status?

The Berlin Wall came down because of shoddy workmanship.

@innalarsen1781

9 ай бұрын

Lol

@arnodobler1096

8 ай бұрын

It wasn't a US wall

@stevejohnson6593

7 ай бұрын

damn camp labourers, neither like working in Germany nor Russia /:

@arnodobler1096

7 ай бұрын

@@stevejohnson6593 camps? What?

@LEK-we2hh

2 ай бұрын

🙈😂

I was born in 1979 and I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

i went from Ireland to live in Berlin in 1984, in 85 i moved from west Berlin to east berlin,i lived through the demos against communist rule.went thru the checkpoint the first night the border was opened,Bornholmer Brucke,bridge,district Pankow,was on the wall with hammer and chisel.lived there till 2019,returned home to ireland only to see drug gangs running the island,drug dealers on every street,politicians corrupt,the police useless,Ireland is under siege,at least in communist east Berlin,we had no drug cartels.

@sands7779

8 ай бұрын

People snitched on their neighbours to the secret police and 44:45

Apparently reality is circular...nothing can ever be resolved for good; the same rotten patch of the wheel comes round again.

Perfect episodes, I’ve witnessed events shown here, however it’s not as simple as it looks like. There were thousands of secret russian agents across Eastern Europe and after 1990 majority of them went into business, banking and by keeping files- had an influence over political decisions.

loved the look on the dictator of Romania's wife's face as hes giving that speech on the balcony to a group of dissenters. She could see what was coming at that moment.

Like many of us, I remember all this.....its ashame where things are today with Russia. Infact things are much much worse than they were during the Cold War....

@anagrosu8269

9 ай бұрын

What s the problem with Russia TODAY?

@chriswilde7246

9 ай бұрын

@@anagrosu8269 Nothing.....I'm going on about the situation.

@maksim05makarov

8 ай бұрын

@@anagrosu8269либерализм.

@truesosense7722

8 ай бұрын

@@anagrosu8269 Its military commits war crimes and tries to invade countries

@markobucevic8991

7 ай бұрын

​@@chriswilde7246go on coward. Russia is doing fine, the people live much better lives today than during the cold war.

There is a piece of THE WALL with a painting of Reagan on it, in the Devore area, of San Bernardino, just off the 215. It stands 12.5 feet high, and is in Ronald Reagan park. Going North, get off at Palm, go right to Irvington, turn left, down a little ways on left.

BGM IS GOOD

It is so eery to be watching this at a time in history when the world is on the doorstep of WW3.

the background melody is extremely familiar but i can't put my finger on the name , i think its some version of sweet dreams

Im I the only one that realizes these are decades old documentaries that were simply purchased by Timeline?

@stevejohnson6593

7 ай бұрын

Or bits cut together from a few documentaries. I think so too, some cuts also hint at TV advertisement breaks.

I wonder what Queen Marie of Romania would have thought about the whole thing. Maybe, "it's about time".

What happened in Poland then, happened in Ukraine 2014. Only Putin intentionally reacted different from Gorbachev.

@lukazupie7220

9 ай бұрын

Not rly ukraine had elections since 90' also and they had i believe 2 pro western leaders.. then the leader who campaigned with promises of further westernization changed his mind and people replaced him..

@fujohnson8667

9 ай бұрын

What happened in Poland was organic. What happened in Ukraine in 2014 was a CIA backed Coup.

@maksim05makarov

8 ай бұрын

И правильно сделал. Украину нужно сравнять с землей. И Польшу тоже.

@srinathradhakrishnan

8 ай бұрын

​@@maksim05makarovThe only thing that's razed to the ground is your feeble economy and fragile pride. Russia is a failed state.

@lafayetteplace3031

8 ай бұрын

While there are many similarities there are also many striking differences. Not exactly a repeat entirely, but familiar themes are present, yes.

when you talk about berlin wall, you should talk about Eduard shevardnadze !

Part 8 ? Where is 1- 7 ? Any chance?

I survived the Cold War! 💪 🇺🇲

@electronicsworkshawp

10 ай бұрын

We all did

@arnodobler1096

8 ай бұрын

Which wasn't really cold.

Isn't this series made for Amazon Prime?.

@BamBamSr

9 ай бұрын

No it dates back further than that, still a good doc though

Gorbachev was the closet democratic Russian leader in Russian history. He was willing to make compromises to his own Soviet Republics who wanted more autonomy, and he had a hands off approach to his Eastern European political subjects (which costed him by 1988).

I remember seeing Regan yelling, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall". A while later it actually WAS torn down. It was unbelievable.

@BigEightiesNewWave

2 ай бұрын

Gave me goosebumps.

Rocky 4. Rocky defeated communism. This is common knowledge.. hahaha. Great show though

@taelorwatson9822

10 ай бұрын

You can't forget Apollo. Wasn't for Apollo dying. I doubt we would have had a Rocky 4

@BamBamSr

9 ай бұрын

hahaha what? He did defeat communism, him and his pudgy drunk buddy, i was there

I was living in Finland when the Baltic States rose up against the USSR. It was wild watching TV news broadcasting images of Soviet tanks marauding through the streets of Tallinn, our close neighbor across the Baltic Sea.

Correction: The USSR dis not collapse, they Agreed to disolve the Warsaw pact as they understood for peace, at that time with Nato with existing members & boundries, both parties were no longer at threat to each another.

@raevj

6 ай бұрын

I heard it was financially collapsing & it was better to steer it down than let it crash down.

I remember watching the wall go dowm on tv as a 13 year old, of course i didnt recognize the signifigance of it at the time but it was absolutly huge! But it seems that we have lost years of good relations because of putin but maybe someday we will get another gorbachev

@fate4395

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, it is beneficial to you... Imagine that under one "president" your country will fall to pieces, you will lose your former influence in the world, your economy will be destroyed, the country will plunge into poverty and hunger, oligarchs will privatize people's (state) property and houses, and banditry will continue everywhere for 10 years. years, then you'll (probably) be able to understand what we've been through... Soviet people wanted changes and a better life, looked to the West and thought that life would get better under capitalism, but in the end your whole world turned out to be plastic and an empty wrapper. America lives by exploiting the countries of the periphery, pumping resources out of them in exchange for green papers. The West does not understand what the USSR is, and is unlikely to understand... It is easier for you to believe in tales about the Gulag, imposing stereotypes based on dubious facts on us... Gorbachev and our entire leadership (to spite the people) destroyed not only the country, but also the entire civilization... The plastic world has won! (E. Letov)

@jenniferagey8867

9 ай бұрын

I was 13yrs old as well. I also didn't realize what a huge significance it was. Gorbachev was an amazing man. May he R.I.P

@maksim05makarov

8 ай бұрын

Надеюсь что у нас к власти придет русская версия гитлера и сравняет всю Европу с землей.

@Styxswimmer

8 ай бұрын

​@@jenniferagey8867I was 7. My parents told me I was watching HUGE historical events unfold in my lifetime. I watched the wall fall with no context of how important that was.

🙏🏼

One side ended the war Others side started the war He was so happy Because he thought that he would be boss of the world

Gorbachov was type of person " giver not taker". He wanted the best for Soviet Union. Unfortunately his social democracy approach brought peace but also chaos and destruction in his country. USSR wasn't ready for democracy because they aren't Czechs, Poland or Hungarians. Russians didn't have civilian society through history.

@dorzy207

10 ай бұрын

Who are you ?

@walterm2618

10 ай бұрын

His approach to change was born out of the fact bc the system was financially bankrupt and also otherwise not sustainable. He wanted to implement slow change to prevent the events that now did happen due to factors beyond his control. Nothing else.

East German youths crossed over, and were buying all the Led Zeppelin albums they could get their hands on!

@stevejohnson6593

7 ай бұрын

"Wörth it"

The best Human being of the century.

An IT security executive is who i turn to for all my Soviet Bloc and USSR information. 😂

Fun fact: Ceausescu was not a brutal dictator at all(that is pure USA propaganda), he loved his country Romania and what he wanted most, was independence from both USSR and USA, that were interfering in the state affairs.

@mathisnotforthefaintofheart

3 ай бұрын

But he certainly knew how to keep his people in poverty while Elena was flying around in the helicopter. Talking about love for his nation. Ceausescu was hanged by his own people, and so was his wife. I have been to Romania after the Curtain came down and what I saw was staggering with awe...

I miss the cold war

Günter Schabowski was a German SED secretary and journalist. Pretty mistake as it was one of the most famous press conferences in the world!

I LOVE history

The narrator 😍😍😍

Did Gorbachev sold his country and the way of their life.

@LEK-we2hh

2 ай бұрын

Uh they had a life ? 😂

You can't help but smile at peace

I was 11 years old when I saw photos in Life Magazine, of the commencement of erecting the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent airlift of supplies by American and British planes.

@Poisson4147

9 ай бұрын

Uh, the airlift was in *_1948._* That was the *first* time the USSR tried to cut off Berlin. The difference then was that Stalin didn't order a wall to be build but blocked the land corridors that allowed rail and road access to Berlin from West Germany.

Love Regan. Read art of war. The greatest leader to win without min. Losses to your people & enemy.

The destalinization policy of glasnost and perestroika caused the dissolution of the Soviet Union because the Soviet communist party did not have visionary figures like the Chinese communist party which opened itself in 1978

I was in Estonia in August 1991… interesting times!

6:05 Is that Victor Orban?

@LEK-we2hh

2 ай бұрын

🙈😂

No Innovation, No Modernization, Death Knell

PEACE..no need for nothing else

I was nine when the wall went down I remembered my parents watching the live coverage at that age I had no intellectual or political interest to understand the meaning of it all but there where mixed opinions amongst the people in East Berlin some didn't like the pressure of the idea in living in a world of consumerism guided by superiority in the more you own

Reagan was President He said “Gorbachev Take down this wall” why is that not mentioned what’s with Bush taking credit?

This whole thing is fascinating.. you can see the look on his face the moment he saw that revolution was right downstairs😂😂😂😂 it was like uh oh then GTA mode grab a helicopter..

The love of money did not end so well...

@SuperGreatSphinx

4 ай бұрын

Avarice

The irony is the collapse of the USSR, was bad for ordinary Americans. Led to deindustrialization, rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.

@sickeningmisfit9898

3 ай бұрын

Lmao ok.

@LEK-we2hh

2 ай бұрын

🙈😂

Granted there was always the scare of WWIII those were pretty tame times next to WWI, WWII & even the present..

H.W. fell in love with Gorby... GeeDubyuh swooned in the eyes of Putin.

Gorbachev did a lot to help the world. And Putin has taken us back to Stalinist times

@user-fs8pp4uy4f

8 ай бұрын

Вас это кого??

@user-fs8pp4uy4f

8 ай бұрын

Gorbachev sold out

@maksim05makarov

8 ай бұрын

Да где вы сталина увидели ? Мне нужен у власти Сталин, но его нет.

@stevejohnson6593

7 ай бұрын

​@@maksim05makarovMao can offer you a great leap forward I heard

i remember in the 80s east germany and the spviets were unbeatable in tne winter

5:00 IMF structural adjustment programs had a lot to do with what happened in Romania. Nikolai refused to privatization of state owned assets because he would have to sell them off to the G7 Countries and refused to take on new loans. So instead he paid off the IMF debts at a huge human cost to Romanians.

Whys Putin there in Gorbachevs entourage? Wasnt he already in politics at that time?

Tôi sống ở Việt Nam, tôi ra đời khi chiến tranh Lạnh đã kết thúc

Mikhail Gorbachev was TRULY a wonderful man.

@kettle_of_chris

10 ай бұрын

Yes he was! Pardon the melodrama but he was (for me and many my age) the face of hope. Especially to those of us sick of the cold war.

@jackhardy3905

10 ай бұрын

But a weak leader

@aguerra1381

10 ай бұрын

@@jackhardy3905 It would have been impossible for a weak leader to convince a country of millions of people on the revolutionary concepts of Perestroika and Glasnost

@larissaskylark1174

10 ай бұрын

He was a traitor, a self-righteous debuted fool. Endless thousands of people whose lives he has ruined along with the ruined country are on his conscience.

@justin4652

9 ай бұрын

@@aguerra1381United States will have the same wonderful men In future😊

In later year's, Russia exaggerated their military power.

@markobucevic8991

7 ай бұрын

Tell that to ukraine and their ever expanding cementaries

I think I want to move to stillwater I have not lived there since 1980

Yeltzin nominated Putin as his successor ! His big mistake

Stop blurring the photos. We all know what this is good grief.

I grew up during the Cold War .But in the last half it ,When it starting to slowly end .And when it ended it was like so sweet ! But In 1989 it was watershed moment for me ,Since like one thing dying out .And something new and different was coming ,The best way describe is from a R.E.M.'S tune called "End of the World " .And I just know every Gen Xers out there feels like I do about that time !