Fascinating. Looking forward to the next.

Fantastic interview. Enlightening and realistic

Thank you TRNN and Aleksander. Beaituful!

"What is Communism for us? First of all, labor is a pleasure. I'm glad I'm happy to have my work. I'm going for the work because I like it. Not because I must make as small as possible and to receive as much money as possible. Another motivation, another logic. Second, in the workplace, we have comrades not competitors." A. Buzgalin I totally agree with Mr.Buzgalin. Lobor is our expression of our lives and to create something valuable for us. I don't want to be a mere slave of money. Money can't compensate for our lost time. Unless labor is a pleasure, we all miss most of our lives.

When I was a kid - (4 yrs old when Stalin died) - we were raised and brought up to hate and fear Russians. Was Alexander taught to hate and fear us? That is the question I would ask. Being taught to hate and fear backfired though when I was a sophomore in high school (the year Kennedy was assassinated) and our history teacher was droning on and on about how Soviet propaganda techniques brainwashed their people and how we needed to be ever-alert to those techniques so as to never fall victim. But as she was talking I daydreamed, and "Hey...I wonder if the U.S. government does that to us? In fact, I wonder if this history teacher is doing it to me right now??" Such a good lesson...5 years later I'd be living at the corner of Haight and Ashbury in SF. LOL!

@noviycels1439

6 жыл бұрын

KInky : No, Soviet people were not educated nor raised to hate "Western".

@earthandwind820

5 жыл бұрын

Kinky As a progressive American that actually comprehends a good amount of Russian, my observation is unfortunately that there is far more anti-Russian sentiment here than there is anti-American sentiment amongst common Russian people. Common Russians, especially the younger generations, have an almost ultra-idealistic idea of the USA and Americans. Many of them largely admire the USA or the ultra-utopian idea they have of it anyway. Yes, things like sanctions that effect them more than the regime bother them. Yes, a substantial amount of Russians find our foreign policy hypocritical and annoying. However, it doesn’t translate into the extreme forms of xenophobia I often see here. For example, it seems to be quite “in” lately to take the identity of millions of people (Russians) and use their identity for negativity just because of Putin and the regime (I.e. flag, matrioshkas,Russian salad comments, etc). For some people that might seem simple, but it adds up and is not okay - it’s xenophobic. I feel for the approximate 3 million Russian-Americans and immigrants who have to see such signs and rhetoric by people claiming themselves to be “tolerant”, especially since I know many...to not say most...aren’t even pro-Trump. They have their backs against the wall. Then there are xenophobic comments like Jennifer Palmieri’s in which she tweeted that she was going to disappear because she got in an Uber with a Russian driver. Even the sign that can be seen in the back of the Paul Jay and Marc video is troubling: “Trump, Putin...make Russia great again”. Like seriously? What’s the opposite of “great”? I don’t wish millions of common human beings in a foreign country a “bad” country just because I think their government is terrible. Then of course there’s all the cherry picking: picking bad citizens in their country and pretending those types of people don’t also exist here and only showing those types of people, to create the illusion that they represent the majority of the Russian population when they don’t. Hence, the Russians are brainwashed and scary people narrative.

Love this interview. Thanks prof. Buzgalin for sharing your story with us.

I am so much interested in watching these videos , but please do us a favor. Instead of 12 parts please put it there in 1 part. If it's not possible, then maybe 6 or 4 or 3 or 2 parts

@satishnagare

6 жыл бұрын

dregeye maybe we should talk with them

@satishnagare

6 жыл бұрын

I am going to talk with real news about this. Please share their numbers. By the way, remember folks, I am gonna call from India. So please give me a legit number

@TheSnowyBlizzard

6 жыл бұрын

They have two numbers: Baltimore, U.S.: 410 800 4295 Toronto, Canada: 1 866 396 4231

Wonderful interview!

Google the book _Khruschev Lied_ (I can give you a link to the pdf if can't find it)

Very interesting! Thank you! :)

Oh my God. Are there TWELVE videos?! (Or is that a typo?)

@Yikum24

6 жыл бұрын

Hahah, my thoughts exactly. I'm always looking for good insights into Russia and its citizens though. Looking forward to these.

@Antman4656

6 жыл бұрын

Yikum24 yeah I want to know what it's like to live in Russia today from people who live ther3 according to western media it's hell on earth led by a dictator who murders journalist.

@jimmihotdog3469

5 жыл бұрын

WOW!

Does anyone know the titles of the Soviet fiction books he discusses? Is there any translated into a language different from Russian?

@Mary0Kule

3 жыл бұрын

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky . "The Way to Amalthea", "Hard to Be a God", "Monday Begins on Saturday", "Space Apprentice".

Great talk … but you must change the subtitles @ 1.14. Paul says ‘atmosphere' …. Not ‘pisser' !

Бузгалин!!!

12:28 She had me mesmerised.

For anybody interested, i created a sequential playlist of this series. Just copy/paste after the-> .com/ playlist?list=PLWLSesWEg5c7d6RhOrnCBJ8c62vGxpsfl

12:26

Quite balanced for TRN video. Considered still relatively privileged life described in it, I'd recommend interviewing people who didn't live in big cities or weren't related to military industrial complex. Maybe even somebody who didn't speak Russian at home? Overall tone would probably be much darker. BTW: I agree with book recommendations: www.goodreads.com/book/show/331256.Roadside_Picnic for example.

Under Stalin, hundreds of thousands of children were born in or sent to, the gulags. Children as young as three could be considered dangerous counter-revolutionaries and taken to the wilds of Siberia. Condemned for 'coming from the worst stock', these children were separated from their families, abused, neglected and starved. Over time, more and more babies were born into the hell of the work camps. They grew up never knowing their families or homeland, believing that every child in the world lived the same way. Gaelic title is "Clann nan Gulag". kzread.info/dash/bejne/lXibudFqnM7MqLQ.html

His father was a dreamboat .

@rachelk7555

6 жыл бұрын

Sagar Dhillon What the hell is a dreamboat???

@sagardhillon9270

6 жыл бұрын

Rachel K a good looking dreamy guy . Amazing that his wife is fat and not that pretty

@sagardhillon9270

6 жыл бұрын

Zeke Krahlin there were more female than male in Russia so that kind of relatively well to do guy with his looks is a catch and he could've had a more aesthetically pleasing women . Plus Russian women are more beautiful than any . A roam around in Moscow metro would confirm that . Maybe it's a sexist thing to say and beauty is subjective obviously but majority have a dominant idea of it .

I believe commnism in the ussr, while not perfect, was great. It needed a political revolution like that advocated by Trotsky not the restoration of capitalism.

@zardi9083

6 жыл бұрын

Non Prophet if your aim as a system is to eliminate the human race then i agree it was a great system

@mannyortiz3656

6 жыл бұрын

I believe that is capitalism which is destroying the planet, leading to a 6th mass extinction. Try again, next time, better.

@zardi9083

6 жыл бұрын

Non Prophet Ok, let me try again. It very well could be that an overdose of the free market could be slowly destroying the planet. But the facts speak differently. Besides the fact that communism (and it's effects) damn near annihilated the planet (cuban missile crisis 1964) and caused the death of over a hundred million people under internalised oppression in communist regimes, the capitalistic approach has the ability to save us through development of new technologies and knowledge on how to reduce co² emissions for example. Take Singapore as an example, arguably one of the most capitalistic nations in the world sets big values on the air pollution and a clean environment. They even analyze which sort of trees are most effective to keep the air clean. All made possible through the development of knowledge and technologies. And since the industrial revolution there has never been that much forests in the world as today. So we are doing a lot to "save" this planet from our "evil capitalistic" systems. And by the way, please open a history book because the fact that you think the communist system in the ussr was great is disturbing beyond belief

@mannyortiz3656

6 жыл бұрын

Capitalism, has caused the deaths of hundreds of millions (just look at the middle east, africa, latin america), not communism. You're just repeating platitudes. The US caused the cuban missile crisis, the solution: the soviet pulled out of cuba/usa pulled out of turkey. The failure of captialism is all around you. The opioid epidemic. The vast inequality. The lack of acces to life essentials; housing, health care, decent food, clean water etc. is all AROUND you. Yet you bring up singapore as a 'success story' LOL. Give me a break, you pathetic liberal, capitalist apologist.

@zardi9083

6 жыл бұрын

Non Prophet Sure ignore the points I've made by saying i am repeating platitudes. First of all you need wealth inequality because you need people who have capital to provide jobs. Wealth inequality is not all bad. Second of all housing food and health care would be affordable if we had a free market. There has never been a more effective way to reduce poverty than the free market. Capitalism has produced the richest country the world has ever seen since the declaration of independence in the u.s. And third, please elaborate on how capitalism killed hundreds of millions. And even if i'm wrong in what i'm saying, atleast i'm not the person who excuses the absolute horrors of the soviet union.

He talks about the workers entering University as if it was a bad thing.

@Stewiehleba

6 жыл бұрын

No he doesn't. Where did you get that from?

@vitico1630

6 жыл бұрын

IIBizzy im still not in that part...But public schools are a good way to indoctrinate the population into believing whatever u want...

lol, okay so the "democratic freedom" of this school they were at was that they were obliged to clean and repair the place, and that then your own free time was made subject to a collective decision. Whow. George Orwell would like a word with you I believe.

@Fux704

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, cooperation between human beings is so horrible! Sure it's way healthier to teach kids to not have responsibilities and only think of themselves.

@wishcraft4u2

6 жыл бұрын

Your comment stinks of bad faith. Obviously, I'm not saying it's inherently bad for kids to clean and repair their school. It's a different think if they are basically forced (obliged) to, and it's even worse if this is then supposed to be a "democratic freedom".

@Fux704

6 жыл бұрын

You seem to not be able to deal with the fact that there are also rules in socialism. There are rules in any civilised society that trump whatever your "personal freedom" is, especially when you're a kid. Since when do children choose whatever they want to do in America all the time? There's no such thing, for children to learn they have to be OBLIGED to do stuff even if they don't want to, like clean their rooms, or practice sports, or clean their school. In Japan, where children also have duties towards their schools, they don't go asking kids whether they want to do it or not, they are taught that it is their responsibility to do it and THEY DO IT, and you don't see people going around calling Japan a stalinist nightmare. Instead, we praise Japan for building a strong and caring community where people value work from a young age. Socialist culture is similar, since the crib you learn that your work improves the lives of everybody around you. Liberalism isn't the holy grail of ideologies, a liberal society like the US destroys human beings and is the most mentally ill society in the world, because such individualism isn't natural. So what if a collective assigns tasks to people? For thousands of years it has been like this. Now your boss does it by himself and you don't even have a say in it. It's an entire different ideology, not to be seem through a mind raised in capitalism and taught to only think of itself first.

@wishcraft4u2

6 жыл бұрын

again, spectacularly besides the point. The point is, he gives these things as examples of how democratic the school was for its pupils, as facts by which we are supposed to realize how democratic it was. That is obviously bullshit, in fact, it is exactly that which people call "Orwellian", i.e. some term is used in its opposite sense in complete bad faith.

@wishcraft4u2

6 жыл бұрын

Also, stop calling people that criticize the repressive nature of Bolsjevism "liberals", it's just an embarrassment at this point. It is in fact you who is not a Socialist.