How did they live without the subscribe button? Can't imagine... 😐

@kean6577

4 жыл бұрын

Wonder about how it was like for the rest of the country... of course people in the capital had it good. Just like the capital in north korea has the elite and the rest of the country is in poverty.

@daniilorain

4 жыл бұрын

Flip, it was not filmed in Moscow

@mustafacanaydn3872

4 жыл бұрын

it's not nice to beg for subscriptions, unsubscribed

@1420channel

4 жыл бұрын

@@mustafacanaydn3872 did i beg? 😅

@yosha_ykt

4 жыл бұрын

Nice joke i think

I live in Romania.. also a ex-comunnist country, and the elders from here say exactly the same things like russian elders

@frenkli9815

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know what it was like totally in Romania but I think Ceaucsescu was worse than the USSR not when compared to Stalin but when compared to others like Brezhnev, Gorbachev era . I don't know how you can miss Securitate and power cuts, long lines for food, no heating. (80's era) I'm from Albania which was the worst communist regime in Europe and people say they miss 0% unemployment that they had in those times and how life was more stable but no one actually wants to go back to that regime ever. There was no freedom, no opportunities, very limited information, life was always same old same old. People need to have stability in their lives but they also need freedom.

@GalaxyLemonade

4 жыл бұрын

People in Romania lived in fear. Cops were very brutal, the government stole the fields and houses of the people, there were a lot of poor people and corruption in every single institution. Some of the elders really wish those times back. But not all of them. I think the psychology behind this is that they could adapt to their situation and they were young, they had friends, relationships, so they lived their "good times" in this period. All their good memories are from this time period, so it's not a surprise if they want to go back. Also, white-collar jobs were well respected, so extra goods were available for people in these fields. If they (and their relatives) didn't talk against the government and didn't were kulaks they could live a pretty satisfying life.

@chickenbukbukgaming6895

3 жыл бұрын

Also people in poland were not doing very good in the communist ages :/ well many people nay not know it was just rhe beggining of communism in these countrys who knows if the U.S.S.R somehow didnt collapse the countrys may of had more food because the U.S.S.R was dealing with the U.S.A

@noproblem4155

3 жыл бұрын

Look at germany you dont even need to work to be rich. This would be without socialism

@hellenicgyp5966

3 жыл бұрын

Comunismul sovietic nu se compara cu mizeria de comunism roman

"We weren't able to buy anything, we had money. Now we have everything but we don't have the money." - this describes the situation so well. Edit: 683 likes... Wow

@akarina4433

3 жыл бұрын

@Mafwi maybe I'm biased, but I prefer society of generally good ppl, rather than society of materialism. I know USSR wasn't all that perfect, but ig it was still better(?) Although again, it depends on your values

@edhiepitz

3 жыл бұрын

What he means is you wouldn't able to buy like gold teeth, gamer girl bath water, expensive golden phone, ect. But you will always guaranteed your needs to be fullfiled

@ranjitadalui8460

3 жыл бұрын

I am calling from India . Can you tell me what is the position of C.P.R.F ( communist party of russian federation ) in these days? Is Gennady zyuganouv a powerful leader ? Yes or no

@Thigas1809

3 жыл бұрын

@@edhiepitz Nooooo, my gamer girl bath water

@pikppa

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, until the Brezhnev era, USSR basically had everything the West had. Even better because USSR were the first to develope space technology. Then came Leonid Brezhnev who was a sick close-minded conservative and decided to cut spending for everything except the military. That's when the technological gap between west and east was born. Consider that USSR could have had computers and internet before the rest of the world but Brezhnev did not believe in it and turned it down. But still the USSR, until the 90s, still manage to provide its citizens, all its citizens, with every mean necessary for a stable life. It may have been simple but it was happy. Cinema, theaters, festivals and other enterteinment was very cheap, sport was free, the Moscow Metro price was stable at 5 copecks. And Crimea, Sochi and the Baltics beaches were always beautiful as well as the siberian taiga and the lake Baikal. So no wonder people were happy.

Im from Kyrgyzstan, ex soviet country. I also hear the same thing from elders. And when I saw old pictures I was so surprised how neat, intelligent and elegant they all looked. When you listen to older people often time I feel they are more educated compared to nowadays young people. The same with talents, there are more highly professional talents back in history than what we have now. Once in a time my parents talk about this period of their life with a smile on their face. They were actually living in present, not worrying about future. No ambitions, no rush. People were also kinder cause they didn’t have anything to be jealous of or to be compared for. They were friends for who you are not for what you have. They had few pairs of clothes but they were always neat. This was a proper “sustainability” in terms of product consumption. I also often hear that they used to read a lot and spend a lot of time with people having fun. The education, healthcare and all the institutions worked perfectly, with no corruption. The only negative things I heard is that they had money, but they couldn’t buy much. The history and media was manipulated. Limited freedom and a bit strict system, but I guess it’s not also that easy to sustain such a huge territory with sooooo many different nations under control. In general people had a good life, maybe better than now.

@Nando-po3db

8 ай бұрын

Everything was thrown away for petty nationalism.

@user-di8kl4cc5u

6 ай бұрын

Lmao educated in what? Spewing propaganda from their TV and being racist & homophobic?

@trebaneconapise7793

5 ай бұрын

This has literally nothing to do with communism, it's just the regular "kids these days" rhetoric. Go ahead and look up socialist realism and the Prague spring, they literally sent tanks to our country in 1968 because we were getting too liberated in our thinking. Living in Russia, the country prospering the most from the regime, was a different thing from living in a country manipulated by force into joining the union. I'm leaning towards the left but the west's "i'm a communist uwu" trend is seriously disturbing to me as someone whose parents still grew up in the regime. There will never be a perfectly working political system and communism alone won't save us. Also "worked perfectly without corruption"... 🤣 sorry can you give me your resources for that information? People were literally forced to spy on each other and report anything seemingly against the regime, healthcare, education and production might've been free or at least cheap, but that's also saying something about the quality. I've read both, 1984 and Animal Farm, and I recommend reading at least the latter so you could see how ineffective and demanding the industries were. Do your research before idealising someone's painful history.

@lunasephiroth

4 ай бұрын

@@trebaneconapise7793 stop lying troll. You were never in the union. You were one of the vassal state of OUR MOTHERLAND and a member of WARSAW PACT. You were axis and got defeated and became a subject of the victor. Hungary being in union with us lol

@trebaneconapise7793

4 ай бұрын

@@lunasephiroth I have no idea what country you're referring to as your motherland but I'm assuming it's Russia and in that case, you're probably fed a lot of propaganda and I'm sorry for that. We were a satellite state of the Soviet Union and I'm glad you're mentioning that we were a member of the Warsaw Pact, because they invaded one of its own out of fear we were getting too free in lack of censorship and surveillance by the secret police. Do some reading if you can think on your own, you don't have to trust a "troll". Here's a link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia

Marx said capitalism leads to worker alienation. My parents lived under a Marxist Leninist state, and one of the most interesting things I hear about is how much solidarity there was with not just your family, but your community. Nowadays we get up go to work, come back and lock our doors. Maybe we say hi to one neighbor every once in a while. we've become so alienated from our communities thanks to neoliberalism.

@flovv4580

Жыл бұрын

The rulers don't want community. They want people to be good little worker bees and consumers. It is all by design.

@Mark-zk3gu

Жыл бұрын

@@flovv4580 pretty much spot on

@TueLesPigeons

4 ай бұрын

Then why Russia abandoned communism? Are Russians stupid?

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

See? We need communism.

@frozenrats

Ай бұрын

Yeah but for starters at least we have food

06:27 when that man said that he’s a bit drunk because he doesn’t want to see what’s going on in his own country my heart shattered💔feel him

@rewandrew

4 жыл бұрын

Алкоголизм - это болезнь, и страдающие ей всегда находят какие-нибудь объяснения (оправдания) для пьянства. В то время как причина только одна: психологическая и физическая ЗАВИСИМОСТЬ. Это медицинский термин.

@rewandrew

4 жыл бұрын

И вообще, нечего их жалеть. И тем более, умиляться. В России какое-то снисходительное отношение к этой проблеме. Ни капли жалости не вызывают эти прокажённые, алкашня чёртова. Почти все преступления совершаются под действием алкоголя. Нужно калёным железом выжигать этот недуг. Алкоголь сужает сознание и делает людей агрессивными (или обидчивыми и ранимыми, что на глубинном уровне, на самом деле, одно и то же). Уж лучше травку покуривать, чтобы снять напряжение, чем пить. Если выбирать из двух зол, так сказать.

@rewandrew

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-et3zf6pe4d, я тоже так подумал сначала, но он в конце сам признался, что выпил.

@tatakae4608

4 жыл бұрын

she answers in english, and you @rioand answer in Russian?

@rewandrew

4 жыл бұрын

@@tatakae4608, her name is written in Russian. What do you think it means? :)

"let me tell you how horrible communism is, I grew up in the soviet union" - born in 1994

@samp811

3 жыл бұрын

USSR split in 1990. You were most probably born in Russia!!!!!

@rita6276

3 жыл бұрын

@@samp811 Wasn't it in 1991.....

@Razorcarl

3 жыл бұрын

@@rita6276 yes it was 1991

@CoolzerYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@rita6276 it’s close enough.

@RekhaSharma-wg4kr

3 жыл бұрын

Your last name is wang so I'm assuming that you're Chinese.

You can see the nostalgia in their eyes..

@helloworld-ti5zs

Ай бұрын

I miss it much. It was like another planet . Quite a different system of living. And there is no possibility to buy a ticket and visit it for a day at least. 😢

You realise how much Amercian media influences you when most of the people in this video liked living in the USSR but you were told it was horrendous

@braddawson4496

2 жыл бұрын

They didn't interview any of the ones who had been killed and imprisoned. They were unavailable.

@Anonymous-qj3sf

2 жыл бұрын

@@braddawson4496 This is Stalin's era, not 50-60-70-80s

@cesarmontera2247

Жыл бұрын

@@braddawson4496 Don't tell me that those killed were peasant or ordinary people during those days?

@braddawson4496

Жыл бұрын

@@Anonymous-qj3sf remember all those who died sneaking into East Germany?

@Anonymous-qj3sf

Жыл бұрын

@@braddawson4496 Is that why East Germans treat Russia and Russians with warmth and much more sympathy for Russia than West Germans, according to the polls? 🤣🤣🤣 Before you talk nonsense, talk to the people who lived there. I have rich experience. You don't have it. Most of all "suffered from Communism" those who never even lived there 😂

I am from Kazakhstan, my elders also say the exactly the same thing as the Russian elders said in the video.

@edgarallanpoe209

3 жыл бұрын

Я тоже из Казахстана. Моя бабушка тоже так думает(

@lukebruce5234

3 жыл бұрын

@Karl Marx young people yes

@olzhastortpayev8053

3 жыл бұрын

Салем

@purple.requiem

3 жыл бұрын

@@olzhastortpayev8053 Салем!! Как дела?

@mikemikeetoo9094

3 жыл бұрын

damn thats nice to hear! We really need a worldwide socialist revolution

"I'm a little drunk today, because I don't want to see what's going on". The Slavic life in a nutshell.

@meh9230

3 жыл бұрын

That's... pretty stereotypical.

@buckplug2423

3 жыл бұрын

@@meh9230 No shit. It's true though. You're either drunk, high or too sheltered/rich to know what life's really like in the East.

@ms76m32

3 жыл бұрын

buckplug want to fucking be depressed come to the middle east. Shit i think every country in the east is suffering in some way but glad that here it's not like the west

@ms76m32

3 жыл бұрын

Randevu yes i have alot of friends from the east i live in kuwait saw it all from corruption to talaban to alqaeda to isis to social inequality because you are not a sheikh or a royalty you have to work alot harder to succeed and more time than not you will fail i'm not spitting nonsense my friend i'm just stating that people from the east got it a little bit hard but again i'm blissed that i'm not from the west

@dmitry8399

3 жыл бұрын

@@buckplug2423 there are more drug addicts in the usa than in russia

When the blonde lady with the glasses started talking about the soviet union I swear she suddenly was 19 years old again.

@brianticas7671

13 күн бұрын

We all miss our youth I am 37 and I would do anything to go back to 17. I miss my youth

American definition of freedom: the ability to endlessly consume and hoard a bunch of useless, toxic garbage.

@slime4953

3 жыл бұрын

Good point

3 жыл бұрын

Says the one who is like that

@mkmllrc

3 жыл бұрын

atleast the difference for both countries is freedom of speech, in USA u can mock all u want on the government but not too far while in Russia u cant mock the government even a single bit

@lestranger7440

3 жыл бұрын

@@mkmllrc us literally making memes about Putin playing bad piggies drip theme on piano

@leonardobustamante759

3 жыл бұрын

@@mkmllrc try to talk shit to the government when you are someone (not a nobody like you and i) and you’ll see if that person doesn’t face a “tragic accident”. All regimes are the same, but the Americans really know how to brainwash their citizens into a sick nationalism hahah Even in mexico you can criticize the government being a no one and nothing happens to you so your precious freedom doesn’t worth that much.

1:22 I have doubts that this teenager lived in the Soviet Union

@user-jj9cj8eg2c

4 жыл бұрын

She didn't live there, which is why she says it was bad in the USSR-propaganda in action

@BigBangAttack-mt6pz

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-jj9cj8eg2c One hundred million people died under communism at least

@almabenitez1411

4 жыл бұрын

@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz lmao thats fake

@davidmoralespalma

4 жыл бұрын

@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz thats wrong, it was a gazillion people at minimun

@ab_khanayy

4 жыл бұрын

@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz don't you mean 30 trillion brother?

I would give up cool jeans for a free apartment, free college, job security and for a universal healthcare

@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to have those things you mentioned but I won't give up freedom of speech at any cost.

@hatinmyselfiscool2879

4 жыл бұрын

Neon Genesis yeah, because these people definitely don‘t get a visit from putin next time they criticize him in the media.

@pilarcouto4326

4 жыл бұрын

@@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935 Brazil, Argentina and Chile had a capitalistic dictatorship, so you don't need communism to lose you freedom of speech. Ah, and in Chile, specially, the government would chase, torture and kill communist just because their political opinion. So yeah... Some food for thought

@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935

4 жыл бұрын

@@pilarcouto4326 You just mentioned 3 or 4 capitalistic country where I can't have my freedom of speech. But there's loads of others countries where anybody can share their views without any kind of trouble. Now, here is the thing you can't mention any socialist country where mass people can express their opinion. Just look at the history of former USSR or modern day North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela.

@pilarcouto4326

4 жыл бұрын

@@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935 Venezuela is not a communist country, and yes, they are communist and also a dictatorship, but we have countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark where they have high rates of socialization of the mean of the production and they are democratic. I brought that example just to illustrate that capitalism does not have democracy as a foundation to work.

I am glad and proud that I lived in the USSR, I saw the best system made for a common man, not an elite.

@ILaunchNukes

3 жыл бұрын

So you're proud of almost 70 years of an autocratic regime that killed tens of millions and forced people to wait in long lines for basic necessities.

@LeonWagg

3 жыл бұрын

@@ILaunchNukes You don't know shit about ex-socialist countries. My parents also lived in East Germany, and there's no “long line” you are talking about until the early 90s. They got everything they needed, even things you no longer have today like good quality healthcare, job guaranteed, etc.

@hb2495

2 жыл бұрын

@@ILaunchNukes damn that long ling thing sounds like American’s in bread and soup lines

@lockdown1776

2 жыл бұрын

Gulags...

@lukebruce5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@lockdown1776 weren't any worse than any other prison

In Yugoslavia we had the same plus freedom to travel, have both Western and Eastern culture, less oppression by the government etc Yugo was the perfect example how communism can work, it failed only because of foreign presure since u can't have communist country in the heart of capitalist world.

@iamhuman5728

2 жыл бұрын

It's collapse is because yugoslavia took IMF loans and didn't nationalize enough. The near perfect system is arguably communist poland.

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

Because the us refused to let communism work. The USSR let people travel too, by the way. Many people took vacations to places like Greece.

only person who gave unreservedly negative feedback was a person who probably never lived in the Soviet Union

@MadJackChurchill1312

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrStolboy Propaganda, primarily.

@merlin3776

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from the young generation but my parents lived in the Soviet Union times, and I am jealous that I hadn't been born earlier. I'd also add here that, unfortunately, these days the young generation is brainwashed, misinformed. They get information from doubtful sources but speak up the most of the things they do not have any idea about.

@user-is8ec9hz2v

3 жыл бұрын

@@dwaynethewokjohnson6646 nobody says it was perfect. It's only there were some advantages in it. There was much wrong about. Like it's economy policy. I' m not an English speaker, forgive me my mistakes

@dwaynethewokjohnson6646

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-is8ec9hz2v yeah if it was good why did it collapse then

@robertmorrison1657

3 жыл бұрын

@@dwaynethewokjohnson6646 That is right. It only lasted 69 years.

A teacher from my school was from Romania and we once started talking about communism and how it was like living in a communist country. I remember her saying "being able to have access to a specific amount of things is better than having everything without any access whatsoever".

@dankmemes7342

3 жыл бұрын

If a gun license costs 3 million dollars, you still technically have gun rights, but what’s the point?

@user-dy1yp4vb9y

3 жыл бұрын

@@dankmemes7342, it means "better have money, but little choice in shopping then no money, but a lot of stuff to buy."

@user-dy1yp4vb9y

3 жыл бұрын

@Nicholas Rodriguez, since when Romania is the US? Read the message above.

@user-no4yp9pe3t

3 жыл бұрын

Better have money and high quality stuff to buy with rights of freedom speech and etc. Communism is shit where you just a slave

@heyymanniceshot

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-no4yp9pe3t I can agree. Even if the theory of communism or socialism might be ideal for some people, they cannot work functionally in today's society.

5:30 - His son must be extremely proud.

As a young Chinese, we all know that: Once we were young, we have a big brother, he taught us a lot, he gave us the essential industry that we can survive and not bullied by others in the world. And he lead us to a path, a red path, he told us, at the end of the path, there will be the most beautiful things in the human world. Although we have fight each other when we were drunk, but we know he is my big brother forever! One day, he died, with his flag in his hand, his head towards the end of the path. Now, i am taking the red flag and walking on the path, although all the enemies laugh at us and slander us, but we will keep walking, walking towards the end of the path, not just for me , but for my big brother! For the most great country in human history!

@PumpkinEater-dm1xx

2 жыл бұрын

CHina was one of the contribution to Soviet's Death, so stop being prententious

@glebperch7585

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful writing

@Hello-wt7rf

2 жыл бұрын

Vpn user????

@THomas-ussr

2 жыл бұрын

ты предсказал даже то, что напишут в ответах к твоему комментарию, твоя культура и твой монолог - прекрасны

@owenklein1917

2 жыл бұрын

@Prasanth Thomas China is communist. They’re market socialists. Private businesses but there’s no free market. The workers still have control and workers are still prioritized. Have private businesses doesn’t make it capitalist. China still has all the socialist programs that full socialist economies would normally have and workers still have control over their future and their job. The government still highly regulates businesses and most of the successful Chinese businesses are pretty much nationalized.

I like how the adults who lived in the USSR say that it was better then than now, and the Americans who heard on TV that "the USSR is the gulag, death and hunger," say "no, it was very bad there, we know it better than you!"

@DANiel25178

4 жыл бұрын

well, people from gulag didn't survive to tell you about their life in this video...

@mocha8908

4 жыл бұрын

@L2020L 2 im pretty sure you know nothing about russia and just spout your western liberitarian propoganda.

@e.a.7806

4 жыл бұрын

@L2020L 2 don't worry for us, you'll see the effects of globalization and lgbt's lobby soon. Just wait for several years.

@stenty8464

4 жыл бұрын

exactly

@impervas5801

4 жыл бұрын

@L2020L 2 Yes Yes. everything was bad with us, and now everything is bad. So said your "independent" democratic media in which there is absolutely "no" propaganda. You have democracy (or "democracy") and therefore you know what others have good and bad.

blonde lady with glasses is definition of intelligent, genuine and graceful soviet person, she speaks so calm, sincere, polite and explains its so good... what a woman, her husband must be one of luckiest guy when he met her young :)

@fuadbahariawan8455

3 жыл бұрын

2:22 ?

@unrealbot3027

3 жыл бұрын

@Birgitta Nilsson yes umrikkan inbreds knows better than the former USSR citizens themselves

@yassin8036

3 жыл бұрын

I love her.. she is so relaxing to hear

@benas_st

3 жыл бұрын

@@LTUGang kodėl fufaika? :D

@dm9634

3 жыл бұрын

You nailed it. Very nice, polite and intelligent person. I wish I was older and Russian somewhere in her surroundings :-))))

As an american, if the USSR wasn't socially conservative, I would totally rather live there than here. I will be expecting a visit from the CIA at some point this week after posting this.

@BeefyWalrus

3 жыл бұрын

@Chris Jok I don't think you and I agree on what constitutes degeneracy and how important tradition is. I really couldn't give a crap about tradition, I care about economics and the material world. The USSR had good economics, but they had little free speech and people were imprisoned for things such as being gay and speaking against the government. All social conservatism does is push minorities who are being targeted against the government and make communist countries look bad. If the Soviet Union wasn't so conservative on social issues, there would almost quite literally be nothing negative for the west to say about them. You can't claim the Soviet Union is the oppressor when there is no oppression, but you can when there is.

@deleteme924

9 ай бұрын

What do you think about Germany?

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you that the USSR was great. Although it did grant many freedoms to the people. Did the CIA come and try to reprogram you?

First man in space. You can't argue with results.

“american communists need to listen to people who lived in the USSR” people who lived in the USSR:

@cielonegro9054

3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to the people living outside the big cities at that time. These guys had it well because everyone who lived in Moscow at the time had jobs. Literally millions died from famine, purges towards the religious, ethnic cleansing. There is a reason why almost all former USSR countries hate Russia

@mpampislarsons

3 жыл бұрын

@@cielonegro9054 1st the famines were happening until the 1950's 2nd they hated russia even before because of the tsar and his empire

@wendigo017

3 жыл бұрын

@@cielonegro9054 Famines happened under Russian Empire regularly, USSR actually ended those famines. Also ethnic cleansings and purges happened in WW2 where brutality was only way to win the war.

@sss1029

3 жыл бұрын

if you prefer safety over freedom you have no soul

@ez4joniy125

3 жыл бұрын

@@wendigo017 Stfu tankie

USA: communism is horrible and all the Russian hated it! Most of the Russians: Yeah, it was pretty good, we got to go to school for free and we got what we needed. I wouldn’t mind going back to that time. USA: No that’s not how you play this game

@jimboonie9885

3 жыл бұрын

USA: Ok i invade u

@PG-3462

3 жыл бұрын

To know what the USSR was like, you must ask people outside of Moscow (since people in Moscow had everything they wanted). I know many people who lived in Moldova and Ukraine and they all say that life was hell in the USSR. They are all truly traumatized by what they have experienced. Don't forget that the wall in Berlin was not built to prevent people from entering in the country illegally, it was built to stop East Germans from ESCAPING the country.

@jakemails9240

3 жыл бұрын

@@PG-3462 Hi, Russian from outside Moscow here, grandparents lived in small village in the Vologda Oblast, are part of an ethnic minority, loved everything back then.

@PG-3462

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakemails9240 As I said, I don't know any Russians, but I know several people from Ukraine and Moldova and all their parents/grandparents hated their life in the USSR. I also know a ton of Romanians and a few East Germans. While Romania and East Germany were not part of the USSR, they were still highly influenced by it and they all hated their life there. Name me a single capitalist country that ever built a wall not to prevent people from coming illegally in their country, but to prevent people from escaping it

@jakemails9240

3 жыл бұрын

@@PG-3462 Japan. Didn’t build a literal wall, but it was impossible to legally leave the country for most of its history.

I’m from Vietnam. We’re happy and proud to live under socialism.

@Alec72HD

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see an educated person for a change.

@ahbabmuttaki1856

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alec72HD ikr. Looks like not everyone is falling for the Americans lies .

@ahihileuleu7735

3 жыл бұрын

@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx Really? Why does almost everyone call Vietnam "state capitalist"? I'm pretty sure its socialist. Please check out this video and other videos of this channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4GpxLGwZauTqdI.html

@ahihileuleu7735

3 жыл бұрын

@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx I'm a student,so I know the most about schools in Vietnam.The State owns most schools here and it's the State that pays the teachers,so education is very affordable here! Extra classes are run by private companies,therefore they're expensive. Also the States owns all large hosputals in Vietnam,only small clinics are run by private companies! I'm not sure about gyms as I have never been to one but I don't think gyms really matters :))

@niz2640

3 жыл бұрын

@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx actually, North Korea isn’t exactly Communist (economically yes but politically no). NK is simply Communist by name (similar to China). It’s actually the last remaining stand for Japanese Imperialism that flourished pre-WW2. One of the many things they have in common is way the people of NK treat their dictator is as if he’s god and that was something that was a part of Japanese Imperialism; the Emperor was considered a god. So closest thing there is to a fully Communist country would be Cuba and Laos. (I’M SO SORRY IF I’M INCORRECT OR IF MY GRAMMAR AND SPELLING IS WRONG! english isn’t my first language! please forgive me!)

Communists: "Life is good, we have what we need". Americans: "We need to stop communism at any price, attack now!!!".

@sisyphusvasilias3943

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism can't survive competition

@superiorshotgun4348

2 жыл бұрын

@@sisyphusvasilias3943 we survived the cold war

@albeit1

2 жыл бұрын

If that were true, the Soviet Union would have been over in 1945. The US had nuclear weapons first and it took awhile for Soviet spies to steal the technology.

@_arthur_360

2 жыл бұрын

@@superiorshotgun4348 All because you attacked small socialist countries "in the name of democracy" and commited a lot of war crimes and killed a lot of civilians, and you rigged elections in Russia in favour of Yeltsin. That's how democracy works right? Let me remind you that 71% of the people voted for the preservation of the USSR.

@superiorshotgun4348

2 жыл бұрын

@@_arthur_360 Let me remind you that the most recent one showed people not in favor of the ussr and the poles germans, Ukrainians Russians didn’t really like communism for oblivious reasons,we attacked them people they wanted a system that kill millions and will never work, we killed lots of communists and communism committed the worlds worse war crimes for a system that even marx said was impossible

They have more freedom now. Freedom to pay for things that used to be free.

@BomboloaCat

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think they have freedom now. I mean there are dozens of people who arrested because of critizing the government. In soviet union thats normal because you know they were athorotian . But now they switched to democracy but still they are arresting people for nothing.

@mankind8807

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing is free you d*mb*** you think sh** just materializes out of thin air?

@Xiphactinus

3 жыл бұрын

Freedom and Democracy™️

@Koczu0

3 жыл бұрын

Don't worry future generation pay for that debts

@iambored9650

3 жыл бұрын

@@mankind8807 say it I dare you say it :))))

"What's going on?" -"TRASH" lmao

@sooryan_1018

3 жыл бұрын

Me rn -

@erenyeager3829

3 жыл бұрын

Describes the wreck that the Federation is in one word

@user-um1tj5nm1g

3 жыл бұрын

fun to you, right

@MrVanitatum

3 жыл бұрын

more correct translation is "disorder", "mess", "confusion", not trash. Bardak literally means "whorehouse", "bordello"

I would happily give up anything to bring back this marvel of human society.

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

Same.

@helloworld-ti5zs

Ай бұрын

The same. I miss USSR much. I would give my three flats, my business for that... I would burst into tears with happiness seeing USSR. What a country we lost...

I feel like we can combine elements from different government types. Have the freedom and democracy but also the free college and low prices for basic needs.

@ludmillavrska7116

2 жыл бұрын

@zcvbvcvcxdsffg built on imperialism

@montag4516

2 жыл бұрын

"free collage" So who is paying for all this free stuff? The ruling government? No governments pay for nothing. The funds must come from somewhere.

@ludmillavrska7116

2 жыл бұрын

@@montag4516 i believe what you meant to say is “no government pats for anything” as your statement was grammatically incorrect and, even if that were overlooked, would mean that every government pays for something

@Istealtoast

4 ай бұрын

@@montag4516 tax??? For example the free healthcare in most of europe is a socialist thing and they pay that with tax

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

In other words, the USSR.

I would prefer a free apartment, guarenteed job and free education over some jeans and coca cola.

@lfos31

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, sure. "Free". Remember: If you are not paying anything, chances are the product is actually you.

@ttbr7687

3 жыл бұрын

@@lfos31 Remember: I couldn't give a shit about some saying if I was able to live in state supplied housing with rent capped at 5% of my income.

@ArchTazer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ttbr7687 It's all the same. I'm certain someone Soviet dude said the same however in reverse. Hierarchy of needs. Some prefer those things now because those things are the things some need now. Once that is satisfied, the need of the freedom of speech, expression, product, will want to be satisfied as well.

@ttbr7687

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArchTazer exactly, we have the opposite. A homeless person has all the free speech in the world but not the means or accessibility to the most basic requirements for life.

@quanhoang636

3 жыл бұрын

@@ttbr7687 you actually make a good point.

I am a kid from 70-s Soviet Union and I can understand those people. Have the same memories. But we have to understand one thing - 1960-70-80s is post Stalin Soviet Union, so all these horrors of purges, famines, wars never touched us. Second - in every group of teenagers there was one who felt not free, bored with all this propaganda and who wanted to see the world, who wanted cool fashion clothes, more fun and considered the country to be grey and unhappy. First thing they did after the collapse of the Soviet Union - run to the West.

@LizaTripsget

4 жыл бұрын

My grandma grew up in the 40s and 50s (when Stalin still was there) and honestly, if you were just a regular person, who was happy with the regime or, at least, didn’t share ur negative experiences with every single person u would meet - you had nothing to be afraid of. She also remembers her young years as very happy years, despite the fact that it was just after a devastating war. She was 10 when the WWII ended

@kevinf6572

4 жыл бұрын

You have to understand that Russia used to be a backward agricultural state that was completely destroyed in the first world war and then civil war. Harvest wasn't always too good but with he collectivation of agriculture that changed. The last "famine" was in 1946 due to the effects of the great patriotic war. Remember Russia had basically no industry and it had to be industrialized. That was a though task but they managed it very good. And yes there were purges because there were elements that wanted to overthrow the government. Between 1921 and 1953 a total of 3,8 million people were charged because of counterrevolutionary crimes and about 680.000 were sentenced to death. Most of them in 1937/1938 but not all sentences were carried out. In the whole territory of the USSR lived between 1918 and 1958 about 400 million people means just 2,5% were victims of oppression compared to 97,5% that weren't. Just as the comment above said it wasn't very present in people's lives. And before you say it: Yes they made some mistakes for example when Yezhov was the head of the NKVD he ordered numerous executions that weren't justified. He was sentenced to death because of that crime. I want to finish with a quote of the well known anti-communist Churchill: "Stalin took over hook plow Russia and left it in the possession of the nuclear weapon" And before I am labeled a Stalinist (which is a unscientific term) 70% of Russians say he played a positive role in the country, 25% admire him and just 5% fear him!

@leksolee6135

4 жыл бұрын

@@LizaTripsget My parent were happy too. Though my neighbor's parent were sent to Siberia only because they had wrong ethnicity - Assyrians. And most people have still no idea that Assyrians were sent to Siberia too. Also huge number of rich peasants perished. But you are right - most people lived their ordinary lives. And the numbers of victims are exaggerated in western propaganda.

@TheLocochico

4 жыл бұрын

Same happened in Yugoslavia. 50s were tough but slowly in 60s and 70s was good. The decay started slowly in 80s and in 90s all hell broke loose

@LizaTripsget

4 жыл бұрын

L2020L 2 do you really think that your opinion changes anything nowadays?

About that so-called "guaranteed job placement (so that you don't have any illusions). My mom is a doctor. When she graduated from the university she was placed in the boonies. She was not given an apartment, she wasn't given a room (you couldn't just rent by yourself back then). She was told to sleep ON A CHAIR at a club. That's all you need to know about guaranteed job placement utopia.

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

Note that this comment doesn't say where this was. Obviously it was not in the USSR.

i had the good fortune to spend some time in moscow in 1986 and in east germany in 1981. in both cases my experience was that my surroundings were clean and safe and the people were educated and happy.

@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568

2 жыл бұрын

@Steve you're stating that from personal experience, are you?

@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568

2 жыл бұрын

@Steve you mentioned that, in your view, foreigners were not allowed to visit ussr outside of moscow. thus, i take it that you resided in the former ussr(?).

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

Let us return to that time, comrade!

My grandma says that it would be soo much better if we still lived in USSR lol

@paveltelegin7736

4 жыл бұрын

Ещё 20 лет при Володе проживёшь... начнёшь понимать.

@user-in4gp5ui8i

4 жыл бұрын

При социализме было бы норм, но, естественно, не в том виде, в котором он существовал на закате СССР. Но даже тогда не было такого социального расслоения

@paveltelegin7736

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-in4gp5ui8i после Сталина мы уже никуда не двигались.. а генсек-дурак и его шапка просто жили-кутили по энерции на том хорошем что успели заложить до них. Где живут потомки этих всех патриотов можно легко загуглить... Тоже самое и с нынешними. Сейчас ещё в июле подпишите "пользовательское соглашение раба" и ещё 30 лет в сторону банановой республики.

@ionelaciutac2760

4 жыл бұрын

Hell no! Never!

@Name-jw4sj

4 жыл бұрын

I live in America and the people here think Bernie Sanders is a communist so I don’t know want to know what they will feel about USSR lol

my grandfather was given an apartment in latvia (1972) for free and my grandmother still lives her to this day

@valeriakovalcuka9428

3 жыл бұрын

@Alejandro Rodriguez Извините но мой русский не самый лучший, Но моя мама съехала с Латвии потому что есть больше возможностей в других странах, не связанных с СССР. Я спросила у неё и она говорит то что все было бесплатно там например образование и медицина И то что было хорошо. Я у бабушки тоже Спросила и она говорит то что было всё хорошо но пожалуй самый негативный эффект был когда развалился СССР.

@LeonWagg

3 жыл бұрын

My grandpa, who was from East Germany, also got a free apartment, and it was the place my dad grew up and lived his childhood. So sad it was no longer “free,” and he had to leave after the collapse of the regime.

@user-dz1cd6zx9t

2 жыл бұрын

@@LeonWagg If everyone finds out (if the English-language Internet has it) how many factories closed down after the destruction of the GDR, the tales of the West German politics and monopolists about how they are feeding East Germany will sound like mockery. The GDR had many promising industries, in particular electronics from Robotron (1969-1990).

@predacorneliu

2 жыл бұрын

For free? Wow, unbelivebel! In Romania, houses/apartaments were received but paid in installments, nothing is free. Something is wrong with what you are saying.

@valeriakovalcuka9428

2 жыл бұрын

@@predacorneliu well they were given it by the government/city council or whatever it’s called but now my grandmother just pays for the building upkeep ( like maintenance to the building and keeping the area around it clean ) like everyone else in the apartments

Such a beautiful people and country, with rich culture and traditions.

It is not just in Russia that people have become more unsocial and poorer (because everything is expensive) but in all of the world. People talked to each other more everywhere before and had better social interactions in whole, plus you could buy your own house in your 20s. It's harder today, it's also harder to find a job or find a place to live. People have less kids too because they deem it harder to raise them. I live in West Europe. People say it was better before.

Bruh I’m from Portugal and when I hear Russians speak, they sound very familiar to my ear.

@PaulV.

4 жыл бұрын

Portuguese sounds the same to Russians. The languages phonetics are very similar.

@clinto9042

4 жыл бұрын

Paul V. That’s pretty dope

@daniil_romanov-dr

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, I can't notice this familiarity with Portuguese. Nevertheless I hear very often, that this languages sound similar.

@durtcobaine9765

4 жыл бұрын

wow really portugues sound so slavic. but portugal so far from slavic countries, so weard

@clinto9042

4 жыл бұрын

Данил Романов check Portuguese from Portugal not Brazil. In Portugal we pronounce our S as Sh.

People are like "wow we didnt have smartphones in the USSR" Like, these smartphones came out barely 10 years ago. I don't remember seeing smartphones in the 90s anywhere in the world.

@cijoykjose

3 жыл бұрын

There were mobile phones in the late 70s in USSR.. you can communicate within 1to 2kms .. I have read it somewhere..

@cijoykjose

3 жыл бұрын

But not smartphones.. yeah , it was a stupid response..

@Noverbia

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, well, they are mainly refering to good technology... Meaning that Western countries/the free world had access to quality Japanese electronics, appliances and vehicles, while the Soviet block was producing their own bad copies, and very few people could buy genuine Sony/Technics, brought from afar by navigators and sold illegaly at a very high price. People had to use with poorly built local electronics, appliances and cars. The idea that you didn't have access to such goods, such as the free world !

@uwi2

3 жыл бұрын

We already have it here back in 97 but of course not a smartphone, just a regular Motorolla cellphone 😁

@LucianoClassicalGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

@@uwi2 Even in North Korea normal people have smartphones. If you look up the New Year's celebrations everyone is recording the fireworks with their androids

There people are just feeling nostalgic because there were young at the time. I do myself remember Soviet life and do not miss it at all.

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

How can you not miss all the freedoms?

And in the USSR, according to the stories of my grandfather, there was theft in the workplace, to which the authorities turned a blind eye, elections consisting of one candidate (in fact, there was no choice), prisoners who worked in uranium mines, terrible dentistry, rudeness and negligence among the staff (doctors, teachers, police, etc.). And there were also those who were “more equal”

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

Not true. Listen to these people. There was comradery.

@user-oe7pw9hv8k

2 ай бұрын

​@@TrueSpace61 And what are these people saying? They talk about free education, but they are silent about the fact that the humanities suffered then. They talk about my medicine, but in fact its quality promised to be much better. They say that everyone was kind, friendly, smart, but they forgot about Chikatilla. All this chatter is more like nostalgia embellished by the current Putin propaganda. And why am I talking about this so confidently? Because we are still seeing the consequences. The USSR died, but it was big. Therefore, it will stink for a long time!

@TrueSpace61

2 ай бұрын

@@user-oe7pw9hv8k Putin hates the USSR. The us killed the USSR. The USSR had the best medicine. One person of 290,000,000 is negligible. And right, I forgot that not having jeans or the option between coke and pepsi is enough to neutralize having free housing, education, healthcare, food, and public transport. Lol.

I live in Serbia,a successor state to Yugoslavia,and elders say it was a better life than now,and they all loved Tito.

@fortunekookimon4610

3 жыл бұрын

Tito kept the people of Yugoslavia from killing each other for over 3 decades, which is quite the historical achievement considering the bloody history of the Balkans. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks, all lived together in peace & brotherhood thanks to his leadership.

@Xiphactinus

3 жыл бұрын

The power of Brotherhood and Unity.

@pietervanderzwaan4295

3 жыл бұрын

I heard some really nasty stories about the breakup of yugoslavia some really dark cant imagine what these people were put through.

@abhishekupadhye6974

3 жыл бұрын

я живу владивосток 😀😀😀😀

@luizeduardogomespinto846

3 жыл бұрын

Tito is the boss!!! imho

"Now there is everything but no money" welcome to the west

@ghost_1153

3 жыл бұрын

Its their fault they have a corrupt government.

@dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002

3 жыл бұрын

@@Unikt_brugernavn2979 I agree.

@zeromortalsplan

3 жыл бұрын

@@Unikt_brugernavn2979 1) Definitely not everything 2) Take a wild guess where the West's "prosperity" came from...

@TheMongolianWay

3 жыл бұрын

Amount of currency is meaningless the everything so the amount of goods and services is all that matters. You want a punch of wortless paper and you go to the store and cant buy anything or rather less wortless paper but ability to buy more real goods and services with it. Your ability to access real goods and services is what matters.

@dnhdfnfkrjxjxfjjggj3002

3 жыл бұрын

Then go to Venzeuala . They have all the money ( or should I say worthless paper) but people still can't afford basic amenities.😏😏😏

Watch the Golden Girls episode called Sisters And Other Strangers where Stan's cousin Magda comes from Czechoslovakia to visit Dorothy and the girls and talks about her love of communism versus the inequities of America. I learned the USSR wasn't as horrible as history portrays it as from that episode.

Belonging to a middle class family from India and constantly fighting with the system of costly education, medicine, job stability,it seems a dream come true while living in the system of former USSR. india couldn't even become 5 percent of former USSR still as long as USSR was there, it's values influenced all poor and middle class people who constantly fights with the capitalistic society. Hope one day, people of former USSR will understand their mistake. I wasn't even born when USSR was dissolved but hope to see her reunification before my death. All workers and peasants will start their victory march from her womb again and will claim all what are rightfully theirs.

@Rib_bs

2 жыл бұрын

Soviet Union didn't work. These are just old people being nostalgic about their youth. All Russia needs is a new law-abiding government that doesn't steal from its people and higher tax rates for the rich. Especially billionaires and big corporations. And stop spending huge amounts of money on military and invasion of other countries.

@user-hg1fk9wg8z

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rib_bs Бред.

You never know what you have until you lose it...

@zeromortalsplan

3 жыл бұрын

Straight facts!

@fredpearson5204

2 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia and rosy retrospection are no substitutes for reality--there's enough written by former Soviet citizens and writers like Bunin, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn to chronicle what life in the Soviet Union was really like.

@glizygxbler3131

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredpearson5204 75 percent of Russians want to go back to the Soviet Union

@fredpearson5204

2 жыл бұрын

@@glizygxbler3131, if that's what they want, they should pursue that.

@fredpearson5204

2 жыл бұрын

@@glizygxbler3131, by the way, are you Russian?

Lets be honest, the story of that man on 1:45, who spent enormous anmount of money to help his son is beautiful and i hope its all ok with him and his family Upd:shit, i've listened to that 'they' d've cured him there' part and i gonna cry

@dnflrz7926

4 жыл бұрын

Also that he promises that they’ll get back to those times. They’ve clearly had turbulent times,

@maimohammed529

2 жыл бұрын

I didnt get the point of that man He is pro ussr?

@user-dz1cd6zx9t

2 жыл бұрын

@@maimohammed529 Ask any family with a sick person who needs an operation. In the USSR, everything was free. It was better to wait 2 months for an operation (if it was urgent, you did not have to wait at all) than to lie in the grave because you are not a Rockefeller and do not have hundreds of thousands of euros for an operation.

@judejud355

Жыл бұрын

@@maimohammed529 Why shouldn't he be? It made his life so much better.

@user-mz4cf6zh2h

Жыл бұрын

@@judejud355 .

1:15 ah yes, a Russian elder who has experienced many years of brutal dictators

@Toroleco

Жыл бұрын

I was shook by her survivor testimony of war and famine. my toths and prayers

such a lovely video, i find it's always nce to hear another point of view of another people :)

@sashakeltane4763

4 ай бұрын

yes it was refreshing, better than the russian bashing videos he generally puts out

Thank you for this, I’m studying Russian history and it’s very insightful to hear the experience of people who lived through it

@katitadeb

4 жыл бұрын

The Soviet Union had other 15 countries which have bad past being invaded and annexed by Russia, go and listen to a Baltic person who also lived through it, let's see if they have the same to say.

@boshi9

4 жыл бұрын

@@katitadeb I don't know where you're from and if your family in particular was negatively affected, but the majority of the aforementioned 15 republics saw USSR positively. USSR is not Russia, stop equating the two.

@Anton-kl5xq

4 жыл бұрын

@@katitadeb Troll detected. Aren't you tired of writing complete nonsense in every comment 😁?

@egorsurimov5996

4 жыл бұрын

@@Anton-kl5xq lol theres no secret at all baltics mostly dont like anything related to russia

@lenadima5168

4 жыл бұрын

@@katitadeb можно еще послушать тех прибалтов, кто состоял в коммунистической партии, их было тоже немало. Там же были не только националисты.

So many USSR experts here in the comments

@kylewilliams4691

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao 😂 i don't know who to believe

@Daniel-fr3us

4 жыл бұрын

@@kylewilliams4691 the people Who lived there or Studied soviet history Well enough.

@boshi9

4 жыл бұрын

@@sir_humpy There is indeed a difference in perception between people living in different regions, but it's almost always in the opposite direction of what you think. The thing is, while there was certainly a difference in available amenities between Moscow and places you've mentioned (Siberia, Uzbekistan, etc.), the gap was much smaller than it is now. Thousands of villages and small cities died out after the dissolution of USSR. The newly acquired wealth of the capitalist era is disproportionally concentrated in Moscow. This is why people still living in these remote areas consider themselves forgotten and abandoned by the current regime, and have a more favorable perception of USSR than an average resident of Moscow.

@kirillz3822

4 жыл бұрын

you aint have to be one. Just aks you parent what it was like to live back then and post it here

@NostalgicMem0ries

3 жыл бұрын

funny that most who hate it are from europe or usa and tell lies about it...

The guy who has made a promise to his son. I want to hug him

My great aunt who lived in DDR had much the name positive feelings about it. It wasn't all bad. She did move out though, but wasn't as impressed by capitalism as she thought she would be.

@slevemcdichael5274

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a big thing a lot of people don’t realize; how capitalist propaganda has penetrated other systems of government abroad. My mother is Venezuelan and when she was there in the 2000s, people would refuse to believe that there was poverty and starvation in the US when she’d tell them about things here. Everyone thought it was all gold streets and Cadillacs

I live in Albania and my parents and grandparents say the same. They talk with positive nostalgia about Communism period.

@phraya_techapit9910

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting but how can they cope with that madman Hoxha?

@lido1994

3 жыл бұрын

@@phraya_techapit9910 they managed to survive

@hatinmyselfiscool2879

2 жыл бұрын

@@phraya_techapit9910 i don't see how they wouldn't. The guy literally made it legally required for every household to have at least one gun by law, you were taught how to use it and it was legal for people over the age of 18 to own a gun without a lisence. The people could've easily revolted if they wanted to, but obviously Something kept them from not. You should think about what.

@GlitchedBlox

2 жыл бұрын

@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 You know they could easily arrest anyone with a gun despite the law, right?

@hajenso

2 жыл бұрын

May I ask what city/town your parents and grandparents are from? I lived in northern Albania for a couple years.

“My son is sick we have already spent 145,000 why do you think things have gotten better?” “Maybe you would have spent a million.” “.... they would have cured him.” Damn, and even accompanied by an awkward silence. There is no way the interviewer did not feel instant regret upon asking that 2nd question.

@HelicopterStudio

3 жыл бұрын

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E MICKEY MOUSE MICKEY MOUSE MICKEY MICKEY MOUSE

@lani6647

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know what he meant “maybe you would have spent a million there”

@liambeirowski4680

3 жыл бұрын

@@lani6647 Neither. They were talking about free health care lol.

@Monaghan3000

3 жыл бұрын

The point was that it could have cost them even more in the old days to fix him, but it would have cost everyone, and they did not have as good technology. Meaning, they might have saved his son, and a million other sons, and gone bankrupt.... AS THEY DID IN REAL LIFE... and then again maybe not because they didn't have as good of technology. The point is, the dad is making an emotional argument with rosy lenses on, and the interview is inviting him to make an objective assessment.

@deadringer6759

2 жыл бұрын

@@Monaghan3000 They didn't go bankrupt, you have no idea what you are talking about.

The blonde women in the glasses. Very beautiful and happy. I bet she made a great wife and mother.

The thing is though is that these people are reminiscing on the halcyon days of their youth. Ask most people in the UK of a similar age and they will look back fondly of the 80’s too. It’s little to do with regime or politics really.

@user-xl2it6wg1l

10 ай бұрын

It has everything to do with the regime and politics. Today there are people whose youth and/or childhood was in the nineties. THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE VERY NOSTALGIC FOR THIS TIME!

@Istealtoast

4 ай бұрын

well they did say they wanted to return to soviet union and they said they liked every free healthcare and such

@archiet2205

4 ай бұрын

@@user-xl2it6wg1l ppl look back very fondly of the 90s in the uk, even more so than the 80s actually, nostalgia and the past are two very powerful things, believe you me

@Leninn1922

Ай бұрын

@@archiet2205в России почти никто не ностальгирует по 90-м. Для нашей страны это были годы голода, бедноты, экономических кризисов, коррупции и бандитизма. Это очень зависит от политики и режима.

We usually say: "The younger the person, the worse his life under communism."

@digge2210

3 жыл бұрын

Western propaganda did a good job

@rusty3073

3 жыл бұрын

@@digge2210 i don’t know who to trust now. people who actually say that the USSR was a good place when they actually lived through it while western propaganda says otherwise.

@herewego3858

3 жыл бұрын

@@rusty3073 the Man from your nickname and avatar says: "Learn, learn, learn". Read Lenin, read good books;)

@rusty3073

3 жыл бұрын

@@herewego3858 Which one?

@herewego3858

3 жыл бұрын

@@rusty3073 state and revolution for start

4:33 That's exactly what my father said. They had a lot of money, but there wasn't variety in products. And now you can buy anything but with little money

@NostalgicMem0ries

3 жыл бұрын

thats so true, back then there were white and dark bread, few varieties of that or that and we bought it for cents. Now milions of varieties but we dont have money to buy it, just basic.

@ingakamynina8056

3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys don't forget that before we had a organic natural food and now we have any kind of shit and it's real shit. GMO. So do the math

@matthewkopp2391

3 жыл бұрын

There probably could have been a much more thoughtful moderate liberal economic solution. Instead of opening the country up to corporate capitalist vultures and selling away the country assets for pennies, open the county up to small scale entrepreneurship within the country and preserve the most important social guarantees.

@hubertman694

3 жыл бұрын

You have as much money as you want...

@slickrick2420

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewkopp2391 that's what Deng did in China. Look at them now.

I was small when i livin in USSR . But i remember how we got a free apartments in new house. 10 years ago we sold it around 70 0000 eur. This was a real gift from from USSR. Just open borders and opportunity for leaving a poor Latvia. Now i pay for health, education , water, gas, telephone - all these things were free in Soviets.

I wonder how much nostalgia is playing a role in these responses. Most of these people were young in the 80s and 90s when the Soviet Union was collapsing, and young people were overwhelmingly supportive of reform - which likely included many of the people being interviewed. Yet they all remember fondly those times now.

@glebperch7585

2 жыл бұрын

They were duped by Western propaganda

I was an exchange student in the Moscow University, All of my Russian teachers always say back then education was really good and free, there were high education institutes in every town but now they need to go to big cities to study because of a lack of budgets.

@ggrey3155

3 жыл бұрын

It is all true. Soviet-trained scientists and engineers are still respected over the world because everyone understand they were well trained and have exceptional knowledge. Standards declined drastically after the socialist system fell. There was no money for universities. Professors became jobless! There is indeed a reason why there are so many Russian academics teaching in American and British universities. It really wasn't their choice to flee, they didn't have jobs after the USSR collapsed.

@rgsxyz1105

3 жыл бұрын

Why were people prevented from leaving if the USSR was so good? The Soviet Union will go down in history as the only place that had to build a wall to prevent people from leaving......

@rusty3073

3 жыл бұрын

@@rgsxyz1105 that’s eastern germany. they made the mistake of not fixing up the mess and reversing industrialisation.

@prodskaivve7496

3 жыл бұрын

@@rgsxyz1105 doesn’t the west sanction and travel ban nearly every single socialist country though?

@VasterLordUlquiorra

3 жыл бұрын

@@ggrey3155 зачем они нужны если стране нужны только продавцы?

young people asked this question: uhhh yes according to memes, everything was shit.

@unrealbot3027

3 жыл бұрын

Mostly western liberal fake ass depressed teens , neo nazis and deathbed boomers

@wheatandtares9764

3 жыл бұрын

@@unrealbot3027 yes 20 million, many of whom worked their lifes to death were also "fascists" according to the USSR and socialist apologists like yourself...

@unrealbot3027

3 жыл бұрын

@@wheatandtares9764 Stalin didn't kill enough in my opinion. Class enemies should be purged in the worst possible way. Any questions?

@unrealbot3027

3 жыл бұрын

@@wheatandtares9764 Also the grain hoarding kulaks deserved holodomor

@wheatandtares9764

3 жыл бұрын

@@unrealbot3027 thanks for revealing to us your ugly face. Shows how heartless many leftists are...

I think it is common to want to go back to the way things were in the past, no matter what country you live in. It’s nostalgia and the good old days mentality.

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I am from Mongolia. My grandparents always said things were far greater during those times. But the youth and the new generation has so much negativity.

@hamanakohamaneko7028

3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Young Americans are positive. Will not be surprised if America becomes socialist and Russia remains capitalist, and have an opposite cold war

@jeborismonke3270

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamanakohamaneko7028 I hope America doesn’t go to socialism

@mikemikeetoo9094

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamanakohamaneko7028 I actually thought about that but I think if America becomes socialist way more countries will follow as East-european countries. They are truly struggling under capitalism

@lewkie9825

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeborismonke3270 yeah because we’re doing so well right now right Jeboris

@teodortodorov1662

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the old generation also has many negativity.

1:15 she wasn't even born in the time of the CCCP but she talks bad of it🤦‍♂️

@nonamenolastname8600

3 жыл бұрын

Brain washed boi brainwashed

@biggamer7876

3 жыл бұрын

@@nonamenolastname8600 she is the one that isnt brainwashed

@mozambique9113

3 жыл бұрын

@@biggamer7876 No, she is CIA.

@biggamer7876

3 жыл бұрын

@@mozambique9113 so everyonw who doesnt support the failed ideology called communism is either fascist in the cia or a russophobe

@eyar163

2 жыл бұрын

@@biggamer7876 failed?

A homeless and poor guy in USA can have freedom of speech but no access to daily and living stuffs. A poor guy in 1970 USSR can have access to education and healthcare, jobs and stuff but has no freedom of speech. So what is better

@christopherhook2141

2 жыл бұрын

Obviously free speech. It's not your fault if you're born poor, but if you die poor, then it is your fault.

Well, western media told people exactly the opposite story about USSR. They said USSR was an evil country where people were oppressed by the government and they were forced to do anything CCCP asked. But in this video, we all see pre-USSR residents think highly of that era and wanted to go back to it. The only person who disliked USSR was a young girl who obviously hadn't been living in USSR. She proved how successful western propaganda is. The collapse of the USSR made the west realize that slandering communism is working, especially on young people.

@xolodnyponos9117

3 жыл бұрын

@daniel yu Here you are. My parents were living in Kazakhstan in Soviet period, and they say everything the same as what the people from the video said. Don't trust everything from the media. I know several Ukrainians, and they all have the same opinion about a prosperous life in the USSR.

@zeromortalsplan

3 жыл бұрын

@daniel yu Lol, older Ukrainians say the exact same thing, westoid

@zeromortalsplan

3 жыл бұрын

@@xolodnyponos9117 noooo but the BBC said everything was bad!!!!

@shilanaisilang

3 жыл бұрын

@daniel yu Yeah see what's happening now in Ukraine after its “democratic activities”. Let's not talk about the severe inflation and unemployment, Ukraine is already a surrogacy center for Europe. Thanks to the U.S. for bringing “democracy”.

@shilanaisilang

3 жыл бұрын

@daniel yu Ukraine was not European Womb during USSR era.😂 And ppl used to have a job back then.

She wasn't forced to go on a field. It was like a public service. It was done in Yugoslavia as well. Yes I consider it "forced" or "stupid" because when I see the system now for me it would be idiotic to even think of doing something like that when I know how corrupt politicians are. But back then people were more innocent (you could say "naive"), they were idealistic and believed in real change so they did things like those gladly. My parents speak of those labor works with a fondness as well

@yusufobaidat4730

4 жыл бұрын

Considering it stupid i would say it is the naive thing to say, things like this build character, teach kids patriotism, hard work, connect them to the land and make you feel like you are a part of a community.

@mty5

4 жыл бұрын

You could really say that about any political ideology or political figure. We all know trump does not follow the law but that's nothing new for a country were the rich do this alot. My question was how did the corrupt of communist countries when they couldn't really leave the country and they were different from the corrupt of capitalist nations?

@null9541

3 жыл бұрын

Thats true (im from croatia)

@chickenlover657

3 жыл бұрын

Yugoslavia was paradise. I know, I lived in it.

@chickenlover657

3 жыл бұрын

@Birgitta Nilsson That's true.

Same goes for my parents (well or at least my mum). She wants to go back to those times.

@KillerofWestoids

3 жыл бұрын

They are just missing the times when their country was bigger and more powerful.

@alexanderstauber

3 жыл бұрын

@@KillerofWestoids normal people don't care about that, they cared about community and of course the people were "better". It wasn't "everyone for themselves" like now under capitalism. People were not strangers but comrades.

what charming that first old lady that appears is makes me wanna hug her

It would be interesting to partner these with interviews of folks from the USA in the same time period, not just in the minority wealthy neighborhood’s, but go talk to a demographically representative group. Or just broadcast this on random outdoor walls in Richmond Virginia.

1:15 this girl was like 20 years old she don’t know shit. I lived in Saint Petersburg during the Soviet Union and I had a perfect life 👌

The blonde woman with eye glasses, its seems that she is pretty privileged. She enjoyed her life and she has a lot of good things to say about Russia. I love her gesture when she was answering the questions, she's like remembering all the good things about Russia when she was young..

@katyad3113

4 жыл бұрын

Why do you think so? I dont think shes privileged.

@LizaTripsget

4 жыл бұрын

She’s not privileged, she is an example of Russian “intelligentsia” - highly educated people who form an intellectual elite but don’t necessarily have much money

@sasapsaful

4 жыл бұрын

Щас бы убогий термин в виде привелегий сюда приплетать.

@тигрушашмк

4 жыл бұрын

​@@LizaTripsget but we must demarcate "intelligentsia" and "creacliat"(they thinks what they are hightly educated, but they just lazy russophobic people)

@nani2155

4 жыл бұрын

First of all back than it was not Russia, it was USSR, which incuded 14 more republics, and even more nationalites. By saying that you unintantionally disrespect all thouse people. And second the woman was not privillaged, it was normal life for soviet netizens. Personally I'm not a fan of Soviet Union either, but people lived there much more better than you think. It's not like North Korea, exept the time Stalin ruled.

asking 6 people out of what millions that could have possible had a different experience, especially the minorities

The Soviet Union will return one day, and the Soviet dream will be realized world wide.

@pashasoro

2 жыл бұрын

i sure hope so man… What would we have to do to make this possible?

@narasimhashelar6745

2 жыл бұрын

We need to work together to bring it back.

@pashasoro

2 жыл бұрын

@@narasimhashelar6745 If only it were so simple… Too much of the world has been poisoned under western influence. It would be extremely difficult, or perhaps take a completely different generation…

@chickencommie3000

2 жыл бұрын

🇺🇸

@pashasoro

2 жыл бұрын

@@chickencommie3000 Are we commenting imperialistic flags now? Have fun, hypercapitalist 😜

1:15 Девке и 20 лет нет, но в СССР ей было хреново))) Бедняга, не одну войну пережила. Наверное, голодала, лишенка, и на заводе по 20 часов работала без сна и отдыха.

@ingakamynina8056

3 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏 чем моложе россиянин, тем больше он пострадал от СССР и Сталина в частности. Это пи...ц, слов нет!

@jetamtskheta

3 жыл бұрын

Да ее для рофла вставили, не иначе. Ну или для сравнения. Едва ли ее всерьез посчитали за "elder Russian"

@feelingnether158

3 жыл бұрын

Omg i cant read that but google translate can : “The girl is not even 20 years old, but in the USSR she was shitty))) Poor fellow, she survived more than one war. Probably she was starving, deprived, and worked at the factory for 20 hours without sleep or rest.” Ok, so he is right this girl doesn’t know anything she is way too young she knows the Soviet Union through media.

@Istealtoast

4 ай бұрын

the thing is the soviet union was abolished over 20 years ago and i cant tell if this is sarcastic as i am using google translate

I remember how my father blamed USSR in 2000s.: You would't able to start your own busines, there was no motivation for professional growing, most of modern civilization benefits was not available for ordinary people as a modern west culture etc. But now.. He idolized that time. He forgot all disadvantages and tells only about benefits. It's because he became elder, and USSR is a country of his youth. And i think it happens with all people his ages.

@ggrey3155

3 жыл бұрын

You do realise that in the 2000s, capitalism was still this shiny new thing people were adjusting to. They were still waiting to see where that promised "freedom" would bring them. But after a while, reality eventually sets in that life post-Communism isn't any better than before. In fact, it is worse for most people. Post-Soviet countries lost two-thirds of their GDP during the collapse. Entire industries were privatised and a tiny elite ended up owning most of these countries' industries and wealth. The people of Eastern Europe never had a say in ecoomic "shock therapy", or even whether the USSR should collapse, because if they did, the USSR would still be standing, and the things people speak fondly about would still exist. Instead, people saw their livelihoods completely destroyed, their jobs/income gone, their sense of security and belonging disappear. Millions were forced to migrate to Western countries. Others became homeless and rampant alcoholics. Only after you've spent enough time living in post-Communism and can evaluate both systems fairly are people now judging that things really were better under Socialism. Think of the flip side - there are countries like Vietnam or Cuba that went from capitalism to socialism. How come there is no capitalist nostalgia over there? Only people who lived in socialist countries speak fondly about socialism.

@worldoftancraft

3 жыл бұрын

Кварк, ты конечно молодец, как аниматор, только Только вот анализ - вышел крайне поверхностным. Попытки свести сложные явления к лишь одной причине, а здесь я вижу именно это - это ровно так же глупо как и сказание о чём-то, используя оценочные высказывания со словами абсолютно/вечно/никогда/вегда/ни разу/каждый/никто и так далее , всё это методы или инфантильных личностей; или людей, не копающих в глубине, а остановлившихся на поверхности; или просто корыстных мерзавцев. Есть, конечное, и другие, но может я не буду это слишком сильно расписывать? Говоря короче: нихера это не только "ну он по юности ностальжирует, да и все дела". Ну я не знаю, мысли прям архитипичного НЕпропагандона Либерала: ну юность там, ну детство там, ну ПроПаХанда. Каждый же человек - марионетка, и только и годен, чтобы быть упровляемым. Стоп, получается что, если всковырнуть либ.... И да, как я лично считаю - отечественной экономике находится в мировой экономике не за чем, если исходить из позиций рядового члена общества. Некие "бенефиты бытия Белого Человека" - они даже в странах Белого человека имеются только лишь у процентов населения. И даже не десяти. Глубоко - возможно - удивлю, но «очень Бохатые» "Омаро-Ка-n-ts-ы", в большинстве не имеют паспортов. И не нужно здесь на меня извергать потоки говна, это я заранее пишу: если тебе не верится - это не значит что это не правда, а демоснтрацией того, что же это такое, правда-или-неправда - является массовая культура: ты много раз у них паспорт видел? Я лично нет. Зато Драйвер АйДи - не один раз. Это так, подумать. За сим закончил. Доброго времи суток.

@user-bn3mm7mm5v

3 жыл бұрын

You're wrong

@eto_el_348

3 жыл бұрын

@@ggrey3155 True.

@Yet.Another.Rapper.KiG.V2

3 жыл бұрын

@Krzysztof Bartczak Why would these older people no longer living under communism speak kindly of it? I had a friend from Vietnam, she spoke fondly of it in comparison to America. Why? Was she afraid secret government agents would break down the window if she spoke ill? Your reasoning is weak.

I think they prefer the old days because they were young then. Everything is better when you are young and healthy, instead of old and unhealthy.

1:15 why does she look like she never was born under the ussr, living under the finale moments and the collapse is a stretch but she could be talking about the aftermath of the collapse.

What’s amazing to me is not a single person mentioned living under constant threat of nuclear war with the U.S. Talk to Americans who lived during that time and they’ll tell you how they had to do school drills where they hid under desks in the event of a nuclear bomb... as if hiding under a desk will save you. They’ll tell you about Vietnam, gas shortages, and a war on drugs.

@neptunefog6082

Жыл бұрын

Well they judge people by themselves.. they were the only state that ever used nuclear bombs ( when there was no need), so they were so shirtless afraid of ussr back then that they cannot let go for 30 years and continue to destabilise world order by provoking the war in Ukraine

@MrJm323

10 ай бұрын

Obviously, they had civil defense drills in the old USSR. And, of course, Soviet subjects (sorry, I can't bring myself to call slaves or serfs "citizens") experienced shortages of a wide variety of daily items and had to wait in long lines at stores for many things we take for granted will be available every day at your local supermarket. I went to school in the USA in the '70s, and we weren't doing the "duck-and-cover" drills anymore. Living in suburban Arizona, I don't remember ever participating in a civil defense drill. By then, we had become reconciled with M.A.D. -- mutually assured destruction, and fighting the Cold War through proxies (with extended periods of "detente" -- in which we would witness things like the Apollo-Soyuz link-up in 1975 or '75).

As an American, I gotta say, life in the USSR as described by these people really doesn't sound half bad. Work where the government assigns you for a few years and then you can get any job you want? Concrete job security? Free education? Most hardline conservatives in my country would scream in horror at most of those ideas because "MUH FREEDOM!!!" but I can definitely understand why it's a tradeoff that a lot of people would happily make. Shit man, it really doesn't sound bad at all to me.

@danisports8194

Жыл бұрын

yes mate, everyone was employed, there was no hunger, no homeless, still some dumbass think its better to have a 90% chance to be broke and 10% chance to life a better life than in a socialist country, where you have what you need, you dont need cellphones to survive you need food, a house, a good education, a good health system(those 2 need to be free), a job and happiness, and in the ussr they had everything, they needed to for a good life, i dont think its worth it trading this for "freedom" and a small chance to become rich, do you?

@msinanozeren6733

Жыл бұрын

It was not bad. Free education and healthcare. Afterschool chess, music, swimming, all free. No luxury but no homelessness, almost 100% literacy. Access to arts, cinema, theater. Almost everybody I meet miss those days. They were not perfect but they were not bad. More friendship, camaraderie. These are important.

@israelsalgado2499

Жыл бұрын

It sounds amazing, I already work a job I pretty much didn't choose (since there wasn't that much of an option) just so I can save up to go to university (something that in the USSR would be free) to maybe land a job in a related field with some luck, because jobs in a capitalist society exist purely because of how much money they can produce and not because of their utility to society

@justinabajian1087

Жыл бұрын

Government assigns you a job for a few years? So just a little bit of slavery. Actual slavery. But don’t worry, you’re emancipated after

@popper4064

Жыл бұрын

BUT remember, you don’t have rights there. You are owned basically.

Not every country is perfect. But what's important is the country develops for the better, and to focus upon one section of development would mean foregoing the other section's status. For every sector improved requires a form of sacrifice. Both USSR and The Federation has their own pros and cons, it is necessary that we cross-reference from one another and identify potholes and seal them up for a smoother path towards the glorious future. Love from Singapore 🇸🇬!!

people reminisce like this about the former Yugoslavia too. they must have been doing something right!

Russian Federation and capitalism: Money is main resource Soviet Union, communism and socialism: People is main resource. I am Russian and know this

@Name-jw4sj

4 жыл бұрын

USSR was not a socialist regime in any sense of the word. They were more of a state capitalist society.

@danielon3625

4 жыл бұрын

People are the main resource everywhere, money is merely an abstraction to direct labour. Without workers money is just paper.

@ThePeanutButterCup13

4 жыл бұрын

@@Name-jw4sj lol no

@ThePeanutButterCup13

3 жыл бұрын

@Jaskaran Singhread Stalin and Lenin

@sooryan_1018

3 жыл бұрын

@Moljo hmmmmm Tried to destroy POVERTY? Keyword - POVERTY *?* LOL nope

What people are looking back on with fondness was the sense of collectivism, community, and national pride. You felt like you had a tribe and belonged to something bigger than yourself.

@ramongonzalez2112

3 жыл бұрын

Communism almost killed my father. On the flip side materialism doesn’t bring lasting joy. In modern times we don’t have conversations like we used to; simpler back then.✌️

@alessandroferraro9608

3 жыл бұрын

True, but Not everyone needs that

@saulgoodman4953

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Not a fan of the Soviet Union. I was just identifying what they felt and why.

@amradzinovic4086

3 жыл бұрын

Just tell me that capitalism is good,and you don't have to say anything more.

@saulgoodman4953

3 жыл бұрын

@@amradzinovic4086 Capitalism is good. Best system that exists.

The man at 5:30 with principles and determination is very wonderful. Such men rarely exist now.

I was born in former Czechoslovakia under Soviet occupation. And I am really happy this is past because my country was completely declining in that period - culturally, economically and also morally.

@abraxadabra4224

2 жыл бұрын

Feel sad for you. That your country was so bad to live in ☹️ Oh well, at least now you're much better off. Yes?

@abraxadabra4224

2 жыл бұрын

@Steve I don't understand what you mean. I asked a question, I didn't make a presumption...

@timonurcikan8196

2 ай бұрын

No byty za 13000 korún si vynechal moj zlatý

Even in this age, they are beautiful.

I love your videos, keep em coming! I just wish they’d be a little more longer

Plot Twist: All of these people are saying good stuff about the USSR because if they don't the KGB will hunt them down

Maybe, but life was better for EVERYONE back in the 80's, so not a fair question haha. Check out Gilbert Arcinega's videos where he talks about and shows videos of 1980s life in LA. Pretty much raises the same points -- housing was within reach, affordable health care, etc. You know I bet health was better overall back then too in USSR. The healthiest way to live is to be half starving, but eating some nutritious non processed junk food. Pickled Herring and boiled eggs and not high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated soybean oil.

My parents were born in the USSR ,and they still talk about how good it was back then. They had good jobs and a steady salary. Everything was calm and organized.

@haraldazzlack

11 ай бұрын

And gulags

@deretti347

9 ай бұрын

25% of the prisioners in the world live in the US prisions@@haraldazzlack

@laika6661

9 ай бұрын

@@haraldazzlackGulags were a stalin era thing and were being phased out in the 50s and completely abolished by the 60s. Chances are this persons parents weren’t even alive when gulags were

This is the fourth one of these in a row I’ve watched. Now I just feel depressed. Everything these people worked so hard for 70 years to build... just gone. All because goons like Yeltsin saw an opportunity to seize wealth and power under Gorbachev.

@liberator101

3 жыл бұрын

@Birgitta Nilsson China is diffrent, I'd much rather not put brain scanners on my children and not punish people for having fun.

@liberator101

3 жыл бұрын

@Krzysztof Bartczak I'm happy that he didn't.

@nightslasher9384

3 жыл бұрын

@Krzysztof Bartczak Not leaving the country isn't liberating and neither asking permission from the government to do so too.

@dotnask0001

3 жыл бұрын

@Krzysztof Bartczak The technology in China is making it easier. You don't know, everything is known. There is always someone somewhere writing down whatever you do. Not the USSR everywhere. From the US to Germany to even Russia and Bulgaria

@drizzle452

3 жыл бұрын

The complexity of “worked so hard for 70 years” glosses over people like Lenin and Stalin murdering millions of it’s own people and starving millions in Ukraine (possibly inadvertently, but still wanton disregard for Russian lives). There was no accountability, checks and balances or freedom of reporting these horrific actions. It created the environment for rampant corruption for such “goons.” A lot of blood was sacrificed at the alter to get to that point of stabilized normalcy. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bath water, but please don’t disregard the brutality of the Marxist dream mindset that hid the bodies under the ignorance of the common person. Every nation has their sins, but the stories that have emerged are pretty crazy. These lives shouldn’t just be dismissed as the “cost of doing business.”

"Before we had money but nothing to buy, now he have no money but everything to buy" "Yes, I have the jeans now, but I don't live in the Soviet Union anymore" We all think of these problems nowadays, and fear for our kids