Full podcast episode: kzread.info/dash/bejne/o5Vh2c5xj9rWiqQ.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzread.info Guest bio: Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.

The Soviet Union collapsed because Rocky went over there to fight Drago and won the hearts of the people there. "If I can change, then you can change, everybody can change!" The Soviets all stood up and clapped.

@helluvastart

Ай бұрын

Oligarchs said to this fake historian , if you spread a propaganda we will give you position in Harvard University as a professor. They gave Gorbachev Nobel prize and job in prestige university too. For what did oligarchs gave him a job ? For destroying the country. I think Reagan’s propaganda was a better propaganda than Ricky ‘s stupid propaganda which was designed for American people.

@APieceofNewYork

Ай бұрын

“In here, there were 2 guys killing each other. But I guess that’s better than 20 million” - Rocky Balboa

@derekrushe

26 күн бұрын

Finally someone told the fucking truth

@DanielOrtaM

26 күн бұрын

“If he dies, he dies” - Drago probably talking about the URRSS.

@ryanromero5803

23 күн бұрын

Dragon didn't, in fact "break" Rocky

As someone born in the USSR, I completely agree with the historian. The USSR would have collapsed in more or less the same time. There are publicly accessible records of the meetings of the Supreme Soviet at the start of Gorbachev's term as a head of the party and the state. From the economics point of view, the arguments and decisions in these meetings are idiotic, these people would have driven any successful enterprise into a ground.

@DanielOrtaM

26 күн бұрын

Funny you say this, because Gorbachev did walk away a multimillionaire, supported by the US. He even did that KFC commercial, remember?

@jakebarnes28

16 күн бұрын

​@@DanielOrtaMhe became a multimillionaire, if that's even true, by getting paid by whoever owns KFC. He probably wrote a few books. Lots of money in Bestsellers. Speaking engagements pay very well. "The USA" simply provided a place for him to earn.

@marcbuisson2463

15 күн бұрын

​@@DanielOrtaMIt does not stop the USSR mathematical planning tools to be absolutely and remarquably shitty and miles behind basic stuff in the west. And their implementation at a local/industrial level way, waaaayyy less widespread. Add to this 15 years of Brezhnev "stability of cadres' policy, meaning you can't oust anybody for bad practices/corruption and 20 years of dutch disease by selling oil for cheap to eastern Europe against pillaging their products, and you end up with the 80's USSR.

"there isn't a world anymore to take over, it's just corporations"- number 2 from Austin Powers movie

@botshelomoatshe3153

14 күн бұрын

Name of the movie?

Very interesting. Makes me wanna do an even deeper research on this.

@amkoLs

Ай бұрын

ooooh, be careful brother. if you learn soviet history, wait till you get to bolsheviks

didn't know Serhii Plokhy worked at U of A, a local university. Small world

Keep up the great work Lex!!

Nailed it. Adding: US pressure imploded the superstructure of the Soviet Bloc, and in that way really sped up this continuing trend of the historic collapse of the Russian Empire that he's talking about. The USSR froze a whole lot of things, conflicts, trends, in a lot of countries, but this collapse of the superstructure is part of this much longer trend.

@rosesoulis1840

3 ай бұрын

Superstructure is called Communism......AMERICA IS THE NEW WORLD...ALL OF THE REST IS THE OLD WORLD.....NOW CHINA IS THE EVIL THREATENING DARKNESS AGAIN....AMERICA WILL PREVAIL AND EVEN THE SCOURGE OF HOMOSEXUALITY WILL BE DESTROYED

@Indigobolo

3 ай бұрын

The Soviet Bloc isolated itself. Its policies didn’t work. Glasnost failed.

@jenniferkruse7269

3 ай бұрын

@@Indigobolo All true.

@jimmicrackhead12

Ай бұрын

Sounds like you don't know what your talking about

@jenniferkruse7269

Ай бұрын

@@jimmicrackhead12 😆and you are...?

I would like to hear more of this guy

The Soviet union collapsed, waiting for this guy to get to the point

Actually, Lithuania was first to gain indepemdence from soviet unio. It is much smaller country than Ukraine, but Ukraine followed us after 😊

Gorbochov said the turning point for the USSR was Chernobyl.

@greenlantern7959

Ай бұрын

It was always going to fail, and Chernobyl was a huge accelerant. They could no longer maintain the facade.

@sergeygaliev

Ай бұрын

Чернобыль стал катализатором. И вскрыл множество накопившихся проблем. Главной причиной стало резкое падение качества жизни.

Logical perspective.

2:53- He is missing lots of key factors when he talks about Russia or then USSR size…they didn’t have much livable land…they did have a lot of useless land..where the United States is almost 92% livable with the ability to expand that almost to 100% other then some areas in the Arctic of Alaska (more Islands way off Alaska). That matters, you can say you have a piece of land, but if it means nothing..what is it actually doing for you? Now you could say maybe under that land is natural resources, but with out a major build up or a population willing to live in that area…the land still means nothing. Just like in China and India..who have more livable land than Russia…but do not build it up. Instead they stack the people higher up in the cities. Or just stuff more people into one room.

Why don't you just ask Putin, he knows the whole 400 year history of Russia

@meddoc2703

3 ай бұрын

Bro, the Tsardom of Russia alone is older than 400 years

@yankchef4067

3 ай бұрын

Be nice if American leaders knew 200 years of American history

@Rocky-sn6fl

3 ай бұрын

He also knows who the liars are...😂😂😂

@oguun_garvey6531

3 ай бұрын

More like 1200

@lv3184

2 ай бұрын

I‘d rather listen to a tenured professor of history rather than a former kgb agent turned bad amateur historian.

Central planning and state control of industry doesnt work.

@Fedor12118

2 ай бұрын

Go to African demogracy doesn't work

@brentsrx7

2 ай бұрын

@ybma6950 Democracy doesn't work. Constitutional republics and free markets do. Africa is seeing the fastest increase in its standards of living. That's down to free markets.

@Commie_Mike

2 ай бұрын

Communism turned the USSR from a backwards agrarian country to an industrial powerhouse capable of winning the largest land war in human civilization. But sure, it doesn't work lol

@TrueDreeamss

2 ай бұрын

Yes. It does. China is doing amazing with it. Soviet Union didn't work cos the leaders were corrupt and was taking bribes from USA and they weren't really communist in their belief. And things got much much worse after it's collapse when it turned capitalist

@dimetronome

2 ай бұрын

​​​​@@brentsrx7Setting aside ideology and looking at everything as objectively as possible, it appears as though BOTH central planning statist socialism AND free market capitalism (which also uses central planning, but within large business corporations) have been huge failures. We need to evolve past this black and white binary way of thinking from the Cold War era to focus on building more just and efficient economic systems.

As expected, Lex did not ask about the Crimean referendum back then in 1991 and 1994.

@sergiokhrystyuk2441

2 ай бұрын

54% of inhabitants of Crimea voted for independence in 1991. Independence from USSR

No one can really understand or answer why Soviet Union fell. I've watched numerous content and read many books about 20th century. My mom says that leadership just got old. There were too many old people who didn't really control shiet, soviet people (among others) saw western life through TV, some were able to travel and they were done. Soviet life was miserable. Nobody wanted it anymore. So once the leadership weakened, people of different nations tried to take back control

@NoobaLV

27 күн бұрын

Interesting how you say you’ve educated yourself and the first source you name is your mother. You sure you earned read these books?

@AldoApachi-

26 күн бұрын

@@NoobaLV no, I've educated my self but couldn't come to one conclusion. Because many authors and researchers claim different things and everything all at once. So I just listened to my mom who lived it.

@NoobaLV

26 күн бұрын

@@AldoApachi- name the people whose work you’ve read

@AldoApachi-

26 күн бұрын

@@NoobaLV I'm Georgian so I've read georgian authors: Guram Odisharia, David Turashvili, as well as georgian professor's work who were teaching me at the Uni. I've also read Henry Kissinger's book, read many articles about this subject and something new still pops up in my feed every now and again. But you can't really get a decisive answer. Maybe there isn't one.

@zmeu_md3831

21 күн бұрын

​​@@AldoApachi-no point to talk to western marxists or russian bots my friend, I'm from Moldova, a post soviet republic as well . We here are not even close to russians, we have our language and culture , romanian one . We also chose and celebrated our independence from soviet union. I remember the stories of my grandparents and grand grandparents when i was very young , life indeed was miserable,not even compared to western Europe ,but as it, miserable. Russians were the first class citizens here , we spoke russian in gov buildings and capital city and major cities . Church was closed , our traditional orthodox hollidays and traditions were banned as well, everyone was snitching on each over , it was pretty bad ,not even speaking about the 30s 40s when my grandparents almost died of famine (they lived in a moldavian village, today's Ukraine) . Soviets literally confiscated all the food from homes and farms ....letting us die . It was in the winter of 1946-47 , if you don't believe me google "Basarabia famine 1946-1947 " It's not much info in English on yt ,but a lot in romanian, with interviews and photos from the people who survived this . Literally lived tragedy stories , everyone is talking about holodomor which was on a larger scale but just as such tragic and deadly . Communism is evil ...

@Aktoto1 what are you trying to say?? If you question his qualifications, check his credentials! Are public.

Me too

Sounds like the US now.

Being thick! I'm glad he explained it to me. "What was the Man-U score, again?"

Barely scratched the surface

What a wonderful perspective.

Maybe have a historian on who can talk about how Communism in Russia was a British psyop

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4:56 no he said that they shouldn't devolve into their racial hatred, speaking of Russians and Ukrainians as one people, or not...

9:10- I disagree, although the United States is a different type of power, it is still to this day on Empire that reformed the British model for Empire building. You don’t need to own a whole country, just control the major trade routes, then indirectly…you own that country. The US uses military bases, military agreements, and control of 96% of oceans to make this happen. We are an Empire that has won the world. That when countries act out of line or out of our interest…we can directly affect them.

British Empire ended after the hand over of Hong Kong

Yeltsin withdrew Russia from the USSR to get rid of Gorbachev and to promote his own position as president of Russia to the highest political position.

Time for Vlad to understand it’s done. No redo’s.

@raaid85

23 күн бұрын

yeah keep believing the propaganda u have been told. ur country is the real empire with its tentacles in every corner of the globe

"mobilization from below, collapse of the centre" I'm not sure what he is referring to but my theory is that it collapsed because it was way too politicized... Too many people had their polical school diploma and acted like little caesars scuppering many chances for meaningful change... Thats why it fragmented along republican lines because that's where the actual power was and the little assrs from inside Russia couldn't become independent because practically they had no power that was all in Moscow

The Soviet Union was the last of a particular kind of empire, but I wouldn't call it the last empire. The US is very clearly an empire now and China seems to be laying the groundwork to become an empire in the future.

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

I don't think you understand what an empire is.

@gamemaker1234

Ай бұрын

The US is a very powerful country but not an empire. In the days of the British Empire, London dictated everything. From culture to prices to dress code to religion and taxation. The US doesn't have this power over Mexico neither Canada despite being neighbours and far weaker.

@clintmeyer

Ай бұрын

I don't think you realize how weak China is.

@dimetronome

Ай бұрын

@@chickenlover657 Yeah, you're right that it could be a stretch to consider China an empire.

@dimetronome

Ай бұрын

@@clintmeyer Maybe not.

The reason the soviet union collapsed is because they failed to imprison everyone. 😆

One of the interesting problems related to the fall of the Soviet Union is exactly that 10s of Millions of Russians ended up in these other countries that were longer part of the Union. And it appears that they face discrimination in most of those countries... Which is interesting / unfortunate. Makes you wonder why Russia didn't just give them an option to come back home... Which would be an alternate option to the Russia-Ukraine War... The ethnic Russians and Russian speakers move to Russia, and Russia gives them homes and money to try and rebuild their lives. Fighting over ownership of land... Is primitive stuff... It only really matters if there's some critical resource connected to that land.

@pomeloco1554

2 ай бұрын

More interesting to Russian to keep them as minorities in several of the countries for diplomatic pressure.

@imGeistevereint

2 ай бұрын

Problem with very nationalistic people is that they often don’t integrate into the societies of their host countries and how can you expect to be treated normall if you see yourself as something better.

@OG-Jakey

2 ай бұрын

Except that's not even why the war is happening. It's because NATO expanded after agreeing not to and it was until they expanded all the way to Ukraine that It forced Russia's hand to do something. Remember Russia has been invaded through Ukraine like 7 times in its history and I doubt the USA would be sitting on the sidelines if Russia or China was chilling in Mexico... *cough* Cuba....

@PUARockstar

Ай бұрын

​@@stephanswanepoel2448"centuries" not even one you mean. Also, russians in Ukraine predominantly want Ukraine, not russia, telling you otherwise was a nice propaganda achievement from russia

@glinamesh_of_uruk

Ай бұрын

@@stephanswanepoel2448 Crimea had autonomy, South Ossetia had autonomy, Abkhazia had autonomy..do you see any pattern?

Ignoring the people's demands creates change; GIVING it to them creates it even more quickly. The Soviets were *always* doomed.. because in the modern (instant global communication) age, citizens could easily compare the inferior quality of their lives to those of their Western counterparts.

@Mike.The.Jeweler

Ай бұрын

Ask any modern liberal they'll tell you about how russia was on track to be the most advanced well fed country in the world until the us ruined them

@jackncoke171

4 күн бұрын

How's that working out for people in North Korea?

@Mike.The.Jeweler

3 күн бұрын

@@jackncoke171 ahh right because no one ever defects from north korea

Oh yes, this clip will get the russian bots seething 😂

@MrSvinkoyaschMrSvinkoyasch

3 ай бұрын

Well, as a Russian bot I can say I agree with the most part of the things said in this particular vid.

why does he sound like hannibal actor

💥 Factors contributing to the Soviet Union collapse: interconnected processes, including ideological collapse, end of the Cold War, and territorial disintegration. 00:03 Interconnected processes of ideological collapse, end of the Cold War, and territorial disintegration contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union. 00:03 Disagreement with the sole explanation of ideology for the collapse, emphasizing factors like mobilization from below, economic collapse, and ideological implosion. 01:20 🔍 US did not intentionally cause Soviet Union collapse, as they wanted to maintain it during the Cold War. 04:22 US did not aim for Soviet Union collapse and disintegration. 04:22 Strategic documents from 1948 show US concern about Soviet collapse. 04:30 Even in 1991, US did not desire Soviet Union's collapse. 04:36 🌍 Global processes led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, inevitable due to historical and geopolitical factors. 06:39 History is full of 'what if' scenarios, but the collapse of the Soviet Union was bound to happen due to global processes. 06:39 The 20th century saw the disintegration of empires, highlighting the inevitability of the Soviet collapse in a different form. 07:26 The comparison of world maps in 1914 and 1991/1992 shows the significant changes due to empire disintegration. 07:43 🕰 Significance of Ukraine in the Soviet Union collapse and post-Soviet Russia's policies. 09:56 Post-1991 Russia shifted to a more centralized structure and increased russification. 09:56 Ukraine played a critical role in the collapse of the Soviet Union through a referendum and subsequent dissolution. 10:44 Chronology of events, including the Ukrainian referendum and dissolution of the Soviet Union, was crucial in understanding the collapse. 11:01 🔍 Analysis of Vladimir Putin's perspective on the collapse of the Soviet Union and its significance in Russian history. 13:38 Ukraine's independence marked the end of the Soviet Union and remains crucial in current geopolitics. 13:38 Vladimir Putin's statement on the collapse of the Soviet Union was strategically timed around Victory Day celebrations.

Lex should interview Putin.

@Getssumfreedom

Ай бұрын

Cause the Tucker interview went well for him? Lol

Not first!

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

lol

He said the US was doing everything it could to keep the Soviet Union in tact. I'm glad that Lex has started having comedians on his podcast.

@konkyolife

3 ай бұрын

Post your Russian historical credentials/degrees and fluency level in Russian. Thanks.

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

@@konkyolife Well I'm a qualified historian and I will confirm his statement. Now why don't YOU go and study some actual history and fix your own ignorance first.

@konkyolife

2 ай бұрын

@@chickenlover657 chicken lover lol please post your rebuttal with specific facts and not ChatGPT responses let’s see how you do

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

@@konkyolife Do you believe education is free and I owe you something? Pray tell.

@konkyolife

2 ай бұрын

@@chickenlover657 then please stop talking about what you know and/or show it. "I know he's wrong" So we ask, "How is he wrong?" and you say "Not my job to tell you" = you everyone else: LTAsO

319th view! Yayy

KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union in his book New Lies For Old. Under Khrushchev the communists adopted a new long range strategy to overcome the west and bring about the communist revolution. Part of this strategy was to take away the image of the enemy, and collapsing the USSR, was, he believed, part of this plan, a grand deception that will bring about a false sense of security in the west then ultimately disarmament of the enemy. Considering how things have played out since then, one would have to assume Golitsyn was not only credible but also extremely accurate.

@primary5050

3 ай бұрын

Fake collapse of the USSR and then what ??

@primary5050

3 ай бұрын

Fake collapse of the USSR and then what ??

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

Key word "defector". His theory is a useful lie for the west. I know this as a fact, because to the actual russian mind such plan would be beyond insane.

@CybrosisEvolved

Ай бұрын

In my personal opinion. Western Civilisation was always going to collapse. You can't have an infinite growth paradigm on a finite planet - Communism or socialism being involved or not. Karl Marx's critiques are still valid. Under capitalism, everything is tainted, morals laws and policies don't mean shit under the endless power of greed if that's the only goal of capitalism, which it is currently defined as thanks to neoliberalism. The sign of a real civilisation is a society that doesn't encourage human base wants over everyone's needs.

@greenearth975

24 күн бұрын

Capitalism is stronger than ever what are yall talking about?

A nice review of the history of dissolution, but it misses the point. The proximate cause of collapse is the failure of communist economics. Communism lacks price signals to match supply to demand in modern economy. The underground black market, practice of "blat" managed by "tolkach," offered barely enough to limp along for two generations, 1948 -1988. Contributing - vainglorious military taking half of GDP. But it was lack of free market signals, and devastating waste of resources, that killed the beast.

The single best thing that happened to socialism everywhere. And you think otherwise you are not paying attention. The collapse of the Soviet Union was not the collapse of socialism.

Lex should explain what it’s like to sell his soul

@andrewscott8892

3 ай бұрын

By taking to anybody that wants to come on and have an genuine conversation?

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

@@andrewscott8892 Where's the conversation part?

@andrewscott8892

25 күн бұрын

@@chickenlover657 the whole thing is a conversation wtf are you talking about...

@chickenlover657

25 күн бұрын

@@andrewscott8892 Do yourself a favor and look up that word.

This guy is not correct. I was in America in 1991. NO ONE wanted the rotten Soviet Union to continue. Maybe a tiny few elites but 99% of the American population wanted the USSR to fall. Only then could we consider the Cold War over. No one wanted the USSR as a "junior partner" - that is fantasy, although we did like Gorbachev. But we had high hopes for Yeltsin as well.

@_ncko

Ай бұрын

Why do you think your opinion mattered?

@TheLoyalOfficer

Ай бұрын

@@_ncko LOL - it ALWAYS matters, son.

@_ncko

Ай бұрын

@@TheLoyalOfficer well kid I’m here to tell you it doesn’t. You can have opinions left right and center, doesn’t mean anybody is listening.

@TheLoyalOfficer

Ай бұрын

@@_ncko You're listening, so there you go.

@bruxodomorro

Ай бұрын

@@_ncko Severe mental illness reacting to a interesting comment relevant to the topic at hand.

This dude is a dope

Putin sees things in tribal terms.

His illogic makes me doubt everything he says. At 3:44, he is asked if the collapse could be attributed to pressure applied by the US, which had an interest in weakening the USSR. His answer is “no, because the US did not want the USSR to disintegrate.” If a boxer is killed during a bout, did his opponent-who had an interest in beating him up-contribute to his death? “No, because his opponent had no intention of killing him, which would create all kinds of problems.” Uh…

For more balanced view let's interview russian historian next, many of which independent and living in the west like Tamara Eidelman. This interview is kinda asking japanese on Hiroshima and american history, which pretending to be neutral.

The Soviet union was a colonial empire. Corruption killed it

The only two books I would recommend on this topic are from Vladislav Zubok, which as a russian-american, was highly critic but accurate of USSR's policies, and Armageddon Averted. This Ukrainian historian, of course, cannot be relied on.

@rageintruths

3 ай бұрын

Vladislav Zubok should be on this pod

@LusoPatriot77

3 ай бұрын

@LexClips will never bring him. He doesn't care to show a more balanced view

I am more worried about thr collapse of the US

@ChauvinistTroll

3 ай бұрын

Don't worry, Russia had a Military Coup a few months ago, and a lot of separatist groups came forward... it's going to be a matter of time before Russia collapses. China seems very interested in Russian territory too.

@andrewscott8892

3 ай бұрын

Even if that's is all true, which it isn't, why would that make him not worry about the collapse of the US? Our collapse isn't going to happen because of Russia or the russo-ukrainian war

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

@@ChauvinistTroll LOL wut? Don't do LSD, kid, it's bad for you.

@bruxodomorro

Ай бұрын

@@ChauvinistTroll Totally unrelated to the comment you replying to.

Yo lex !!! Ur mum

China still has an empire for now.

He didn't explain anything

Never happened. Russia is Soviet Union 2.0 ;-(

it's the most aggressive tone historian i've heard which right away makes feeling he view history subjectively, not neutral. And why making such angry face with brows?

@kallanr360

2 ай бұрын

The soviet union occupied multiple countries and committed more war crimes than the Nazis. Former countrymen and historian's who know about the crimes of the state have strong feelings.

@fontende

2 ай бұрын

@@kallanr360 i'm not asked history memo here by the way. Subjective opinion makes you not historian but just witness of many others, you need to understand science rules. This is just shame to present emotions as any analysis. You could collect such emotions from japanese, vietnamese and arabic historians about USA crimes, which don't recognise Court in Hague by special George Bush bill, which made for a future crimes?

@ObiAmajoyiSrMD

2 ай бұрын

@@fontendeyet here you are….you are literally presenting your emotions as analysis…and you don’t even recognize it! That’s the real shame

@fontende

2 ай бұрын

@@ObiAmajoyiSrMD since when blaming the people for opinion become a norm? Ah, yeah, cancel culture, intolerance to any critique. Shame for you, shamer from non-democracy.

@merik7928

Ай бұрын

@@kallanr360War crimes? Sure in WW2 maybe when they were advancing into to Nazi Germany after their whole country literally almost got wiped… but after WW2? What “War” crimes? What Wars were the soviets in, boots on the ground fighting? Sure, Afghanistan in the 80’s killing taliban, who were America’s buddies? I would tell you to research what the western counter-parts where doing during that time…

It's sad. In a few years you'll be asking "WHY AND HOW DID THE AMERICAN EMPIRE FALL?".

@CristianMartinez-cr1eo

Ай бұрын

The US isn’t an empire

@bzkmodels9397

Ай бұрын

What's "sad" about it? A lot of independent countries gained their freedom from communism thanks to the collapse of the Soviet union. And what "American empire" are you even talking about? 🤨

@marlonmungcal5047

Ай бұрын

There is no such thing as an American empire.. america is a free country..

@romanmanner

22 күн бұрын

@@marlonmungcal5047😂😂😂😂

These are some sorry viewers... 90,000 views and only 900 likes... Come on guys. It just takes a second.

Russia is the last empire

Lex. Hello sir. This Dude is nonsense 😂😂 Bush wants Soviet 😂😂

@ChauvinistTroll

3 ай бұрын

The Russian bots cognitive dissonance is going through the roof 😂😂😂

@Wargutz666

3 ай бұрын

Bush? Get a grip man😀

@TheKronicspider

3 ай бұрын

Do you seriously not see why George W Bush wouldnt want this. I dont think its as far fetched as you people think. Only someone with a very simplistic understanding of how the world works, would think that wasnt a possibility. If you solely think about the interest of the US I would think the continuity would have been the best of the two options for various reasons. One of the reasons would be political stability within the US. The existence of a rival like the Soviet Union provided a clear enemy, which helped rally domestic support for military spending and foreign policy initiatives. The collapse would also destabilize this balance and leave the US without a clear adversary. Look how well its gone trying to fill that void, the military complex has too much power for it not push a conflict if one doesnt exist. He also could understand that this would create geopolitical uncertainties, think about it, all the power vacuums and regional instability of former states, all this would then raise concerns about the safety and control of its vast nuclear arsenal. Clearly there was a big risk that nuclear weapons and materials could fall into the wrong hands, increasing the threat of nuclear proliferation and terrorism. The seperation of this power could have also led to conflicts and humanitarian crisis, which would have required US intervention and resources to address, and it has. If we look at the economic end of the Cold War and collapse would mean the loss of a significant market for American goods and services, the restructuring and privatization of these new states would also affect the global economy and would lead to increased competition for US companies in global markets specially in the natural resource sectors. We could go on and on as to why a weak Soviet Union was of interest to the US and GW Bush knew the alternative was a big risk. Keeping the cold war cold had become very atainable and simple. A change would create a clusterfuck, of unknown outcomes.

@andrewscott8892

3 ай бұрын

​@@TheKronicspiderwe have a huge problem with the inability to think critically nowadays, it makes perfect sense why wtf wouldn't want the Soviet Union to collapse, I mean we had to create a whole barrier to justify the GWOT so we had a enemy to focus on. I'm more interested in US actions within the Russian federation from 1991 to Putin becoming president

It's interesting to consider... That the real reason that the US Civil War happened was not slavery so much as that the Confederate states wanted independence. And Lincoln decided that that was just not going to happen... That the union was critical to maintain. So, Putin's view of Soviet collapse, or the Chinese' view of Taiwan... Seems to speak to a rather common instinct. The Germans reunited West and East Germany. And even the Koreans half want North and South Korea reunited... If likely, on healthy terms, where the North Korean governmental system vanishes.

@muddywatters4886

3 ай бұрын

And ehy did they want independence? To keep their slaves.... What type of states rights did thet want? To decide keeping slaves is ok.... Wtf is this pathetic garbage, how are you this deliberately ignorant?

@jimreplicant

3 ай бұрын

This is a common mistake people make. Sure the civil war was about states rights. But, it was about states rights to base their economies on slave labor. Saying the civil war wasn’t fought over slavery is just missing the whole point. They knew it was wrong and we fought a war over it

@beefchampion2792

3 ай бұрын

@@jimreplicant It was fought over the succession of the southern states. Lincoln didn't make the abolition of slaver a goal of the war from the very start, because he was afraid half of his army would drop their weapons and leave.

@jimreplicant

3 ай бұрын

@@beefchampion2792 Yes, it was a smart move in his part he waited til the 3rd year of the war to free the slaves. The war was fought over slavery. The south wouldnt have wanted to succeed if it wasn’t threatened financially.

@chickenlover657

2 ай бұрын

@@jimreplicant It wasn't. Here are Lincoln's own words: "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."

I totally disagree with Serhii. Many national republics in Russia have a wide cultural autonomy, wider than in the ussr. They strongly hold and support their traditions, language, religion (especially in Chechnya). Unfortunately people who don’t live here just can’t see it in real life. Greetings from Russia.

@PUARockstar

Ай бұрын

Except that's not actually true

Stopped watching after this charlatan started calling the USSR an "Empire" 🤡🤡🤡

Putin bitches and moans, plays the victim card ad nauseum. Quite the poor excuse for a Czar.

СССР не был империей. Он не подходит под это определение даже при всем желании натянуть сову на глобус После 3 минуты очень сложно стало слушать эти измышления. Если делить на периоды жизни Союза, то падение началось после смерти Сталина, когда выплыло все гнилье наружу, которое мимикрировало по коммунистов с 18 года. Если обратить внимание на экономичкскую составляющую, то саботаж начался с реформ Хрущева, которые и были направлены на подрыв экономики. В итоге на излете Союза эти псевдо-коммунисты и распяли страну на 28 сьезде проголосовав против спасения 2/3 голосов. А сами коммунисты за Родину погибли в ВОВ. А тут про дичь затирают с умным лицом для западной аудитории

So we can blame all these problems on Jewish thought.

"historian"

@ChauvinistTroll

3 ай бұрын

Nah, Putin is the only historian in your book right? Putin is a senile ignorant man who cherry picks what he likes from children history books 😂

@romabu2041

3 ай бұрын

Why?

@Aktoto1

3 ай бұрын

He is revisionist, ukrainian liar.

@muddywatters4886

3 ай бұрын

​@@romabu2041because not Tucktard, i guess

@lesserson2182

3 ай бұрын

...he is literally a historian. Whether you agree with him or not is beside the point.

Explain Nato expansion and effort to mount nuclear weapons at Russian border, please...

@Conorp77

3 ай бұрын

NATOs continued existence beyond the Cold War is because of the possibility that Russia would one day embark on the exact kind of enterprise that they are currently attempting; reconquest of its former territories. If any country wants to join NATO, Russia is of no authority to tell them they can't. That's how sovereignty works.

@AndriiMuliar

2 ай бұрын

NATO expansion is natural process of european entegration and effirt to end political international tenstions in the EU. But Baltic states are different. They were occopied by USSR for more than 40 years and Russia tried to colonize them.

@tommyrq180

2 ай бұрын

Easy to explain. The Russian threat, which we see “frozen conflicts” (Russian physical intervention in another nation’s sovereignty) in Georgia (Ossetia, Abkhazia), Ukraine, Moldova (Transnistria) and tensions everywhere they have a border with another nation. Russian militarism. Russian strategic culture. NATO would fall apart without a Russian threat. Name a country bordering Russia, and I’ll show you their well-founded, deeply felt fear of Russian imperialism, aggression, internal meddling, cultural disruption, and outright violence. It’s why Finland and Sweden joined NATO. It’s why all those former Warsaw Pact nations joined NATO. They knew the end of the Cold War was not the end of centuries-long Russian imperial revanchism.

@tommyrq180

2 ай бұрын

Also, your knowledge of history is troubling. First, Russia has nuclear weapons fielded right next to NATO and always has. For example, they have placed nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad, which borders on Lithuania and Poland, but which allows those weapons to range the whole of European NATO. Secondly, NATO nuclear weapons have not changed their location AT ALL since the end of the Cold War. They are all air-delivered (B61 gravity bombs) located in longstanding, well-known storage locations NOT bordering Russia (i.e., Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey). If you want to count British and French strategic nuclear arsenals, they, too are not based in areas bordering Russia.

What was a country that left Warsaw pact first after " Solidarity" movement and made others in Central and Eastern Europe to fallow? Hint: the same country that send Bolsheviks back home when they were trying to spred communism to the rest of Europe

NINETY NINETY NINETY ONE

Funny that Jewish Friedman doesn’t explain the Soviet Union’s rise. Why would a Jew leave that part out, I wonder?

@GabbleFolk

Ай бұрын

Not really. You're antisemitic. You decided it's "the jews" first and then tried to justify that conclusion afterward.

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