It still surprises me to see just how different this parade is from the one just a year later in 1990!

@user-qp2rz2yt3v

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you can find parade on the 7th November 1982

@RedSamurai84

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-qp2rz2yt3v These days I am not very hopeful for that. Russia does not have the original recording any more. Our only hope is from a foreign country that still has a recording. Russia doesn't even have this (1989) parade! I was very fortunate to obtain a VHS recording of the 1989 parade from someone who happened to pop in a tape and record it off their VCR in 1989!

@louislungbubble

4 жыл бұрын

when the inspection vehicles move off red square to the troops of the mechanized division of the parade , what is the band that plays for the greeting ? it seems to be the same band each year in this position .

@tv-iq2fm

4 жыл бұрын

@@RedSamurai84 What is 45:47,music??? and what is 46:16 music???

@RedSamurai84

4 жыл бұрын

@@tv-iq2fm Я шагаю по Москве

19:17 Anthem start

@pixeltine6886

4 жыл бұрын

Ironic

@skilllost9584

4 жыл бұрын

October revolution 1917 * anthem starts at 19:17

@Presentive

3 жыл бұрын

@@rylencason4420 ddue hitler created the ussr anthem before *lol*

@F1_Nathan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Presentive That's not true.

@F1_Nathan

2 жыл бұрын

@@Presentive Hitler is just a dictator he didn't even made the USSR anthem

2 days later the Berlin Wall fell

@pezcore2142

3 жыл бұрын

living in isolation and having a ten year war with Afghanistan sucks :p

@KillerofWestoids

2 жыл бұрын

And traitor Gorbachev did nothing to stop that or fall of USSR. Gorby is also partially responsible for brotherly soviet people killing each (Russians and Ukrainians, Armenians and Azeris)

@shahrulamar5358

2 жыл бұрын

@@KillerofWestoids Gorby is blessing with a long life.

@barbarapitenthusiast7103

Жыл бұрын

@@shahrulamar5358 he lives longer so he can suffer more

@shahrulamar5358

Жыл бұрын

@@barbarapitenthusiast7103 Probably. Our former prime minister, Dr Mahathir is 6 years older than mr Gorbachev. He also still alive. Age 96. 🇲🇾 🇲🇾

OMG，the full version

@brianrunyon266

4 жыл бұрын

Long time, no see. Thanks, dude.

@purple.requiem

3 жыл бұрын

Tianamen Square

Wow, wasn't expecting you to upload a quality version of this parade! Kudos to you for getting the best quality of this important piece of history.

This parade has better video and audio than the same you uploaded before!! Thank you for this peace of history. Hope that you find the full video of the 1972 october parade!

@RedSamurai84

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's a new copy of the broadcast! The one I really want to find is the 1982 parade - Brezhnev's last public appearance!

@slavenskazajednica7912

4 жыл бұрын

@@RedSamurai84 kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5yNs7eKctyeiLQ.html

@myduck3518

4 жыл бұрын

Чтабы найти 1972 - надо найти 1973 (как и 1982)!Все закономерна и логична (как привычна и типична (иба ничега здесь нет савсем неабычнага))..

4:06 - Jubilee Slow March 25 Year of the Red Army 5:00 - Slow March "Tankmen-Winners" 5:58 - Guards Navy counter march 6:39 - Slow March of the Officer Schools 7:19 - Censored march 8:00 - Red Army Patrol March 8:39 - Crucifixion March "Victory" 9:16 - Slow March "Severian Ganichev" 10:03 - Guards navy counter march 10:45 - Guards navy counter march 11:46 - Long live our state (long live our country) 13:05 - Fanfare (Moscow parade fanfare, October Revolution version) 19:29 - 22:23 USSR anthem 22:26 - Fanfare signal 23:37 - Let's march bravely comrades 24:15 - Parade march (dulsky) 26:00 - In defense of the motherland 26:32 - On guard for peace 28:07 - Phalanx march 29:26 - Avia march 30:30 - Leningrad 31:01 - We are the army of the people 32:58 - Sports march 33:46 - Victory Day 35:02 - Long live our state 36:16 - We only need one victory 37:50 - 39:30 ≪Indistinguishable due to running sound and narration 40:55 - March Tankmen 42:03 - Invincible and legendary 44:24 - Salute to moscow 45:04 - I step through Moscow 46:11 - [There's a parade on Red Square] 46:46 - Varshavianka 47:20 - Victory 48:48 - End of parade by Soviet troops - start of demonstration by workers 49:16 - Parade march (dulsky) 52:41 - ??? 2:10:34 - Intervision's Signal (Not official name) Please reply for information provision, correction request, etc.

@vietanhhoangnguyen8557

Жыл бұрын

I did think 45:04 was "I step through Moscow" march/song tho

@ykamoshita

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@vietanhhoangnguyen8557

Жыл бұрын

@@ykamoshita No problem, by the way can you reply me the link you attach to "I step through Moscow" march/song before?

Thank you for nice video!!

I loved going to Moscow especially in Red Square! I was there last late June! :D

@ziplin5412

4 жыл бұрын

Me too :)

Наконец то , полный , а самое главное в норм качестве парад.

Thanks for the video, a better sound

È stata, è e sarà sempre un grande Paese!

"Peace and Happiness to Everyone" are playing here, I wonder they have a good quality version of this because no one else does, they did play this towards the end of the 1990 USSR parade.

Наконец-то нашёл этот парад в хорошем качестве. Прошлое видео было с "касетным" качеством.

music sounds very clearly!

Beautiful

Can you add captions or subtitles for non-russian speaking people. Because we are so interested in learning more about this great nation.

47:48 - о, Ленин))

@chernovbrichtofen4767

Жыл бұрын

да

Would it be alright if I used this footage for something I’m working on? I’ll credit you if yes.

@user-fb9ql8bm2e

2 жыл бұрын

It’s Soviet-filmed which makes it most likely public property. I’d be very doubtful that committed socialists would charged you a royalty for their footage 😂

I really like how the broken sounds like

Вот он удивится в 2014-2016 годах, что холодная война вообще ни на минуту не ослабевала.

Just ware does that line of people start and where do they go after they leave the square

If Gorbachev pulled off a China style opening of the economy while keeping an authoritarian government (keeping suppression) will it work to prevent a Soviet collapse? What do you think?

@KillerofWestoids

3 жыл бұрын

He could have done that when he came to power in 1985 but the soviet bureaucracy had become too rotten and didn’t want to accept any change in the status quo and eventually the whole system collapsed 6 years later in 1991.

@shahrulamar5358

2 жыл бұрын

@@KillerofWestoids Gorbachev is the first Soviet leader born after 1917 Revolution.

@generaliv8658

Жыл бұрын

Probably not... I mean, the Soviet Union needed some reforms, everyone can agree on that. But Gorbachev had very little understanding of how the country worked or what it really needed. Andropov probably could do it had he lived longer, but Gorbachev could not.

@XOSinclairSmytheXO

5 ай бұрын

@@generaliv8658 Reforms needed to be done sometime in the mid to late 1970s before the war in Afghanistan. I'm sure it didn't help when Castro was fighting his private wars in Latin America and Africa. If these reforms were being made would this mean the so called Iron curtain would be push back to cut cost of military spending instead use it science, medicine, engineering, and technology to improve the daily life of Soviet Citizens.

Where do you find these recordings

27:40 Знания диктора в области грамотности - говорят за себя! Как и итоги - абновленийа..

Cool. Odd how for this one, the anthem's in a lower key, A flat, I think, or sharp.

what is the russian song at 1:57:43 its very catchy thanks?

@YANFAHAD

2 жыл бұрын

Have you found it?

@user-ji3dg5wi3p

Жыл бұрын

Лариса Кандалова - Жить на земле - это счастье (П.Аедоницкий - Ф.Лаубе)

Name of music playing at beginning?

@KomradTM

3 жыл бұрын

Soviet / Moscow Fanfare

What's the march at 4:07?

@oscar20chan

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eId72rqMeJDXnLg.html jubilee march of 25 years of red army It was played in 1945 victory march

что это за песня 1:08:39? what is that song on 1:08:39?

What's the song at 4:08? Thank you.

@user-qz6iw2mg6j

2 жыл бұрын

25 years of red army

@MartiC988

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-qz6iw2mg6j Thank you!

Good old days in USSR ;)

Did you know what is the counter march in 9:17?

@Rustycaddy17

4 жыл бұрын

It's called "Slow March" by Severian Ganichev. I have a modern day recording of this march on my youtube channel. Not only is it my favorite inspection march, it was EXTREMELY hard to find out the name of it and there was very little information regarding the march. I spent a whole year wondering what it was called, but I finally had some help from a march legend by the name of PetrovFed. Your welcome!

19:31 Soviet Anthem starts playing

Как зовут дикторов?

In the 20th century, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, the world became more chaotic The disintegration of the Soviet Union brought about the war in Ukraine and a new Cold War.. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was Yeltsin's fault!

Impressive

Моя родная…

I'm watching this using google translate; the narrator has just explained 'the hotdog will lie down with the sheep.'

What is 24:24 music march?

@cankesmis3559

4 жыл бұрын

Dimas Bactiar Парадный марш Parae march

@PetrovFed

4 жыл бұрын

"Parade march" by Vasily Dulsky. See in my channel.

А где "от имени и по поручению ,политбюро ЦК КПСС ,Президиума ВС СССР ,СМ СССР" ?

Здравствуйте, товарищ. Maybe this memorizing word only can be heard in current China.

I consider myself fortunate that I got to watch all of this happen in real time. Hell, Chernobyl at the time happened less than 3 years before this was recorded lol.

@KillerofWestoids

2 жыл бұрын

The mighty red empire went away peacefully but will west and especially the US go away peacefully ?

@shahrulamar5358

2 жыл бұрын

Putin was only 37 years old KGB officer in 1989. 🇷🇺 🇷🇺

Last Red Parade

@usuarioanonimo5899

3 ай бұрын

True, USSR ended months after.

1:29:28 ohhhh Tom Hanks!!!

Мне 6 месяцев тогда было) валялся в коляске себе))

@user-vq4ke2nn4p

Жыл бұрын

А мне 5 месяцев!

China also had protest on that year too. (June fourth incident)

@lyannWin

4 жыл бұрын

huh what in the hell is that ???.

@karlchung

4 жыл бұрын

@@lyannWin It was a democracy movement, just like in Eastern European countries.

@b.s.1929

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah...Incident

Bring back USSR

@skibididopyesdop

3 жыл бұрын

No I think we had enough of communism

@dungeon_masster.

3 ай бұрын

не надо нам его)

31:01 мы армия народа

Two days later, the Berlin Wall fell.

Name of epic intro music?

@PetrovFed

4 жыл бұрын

"Parade Fanfare" by Andrei (? - I'm not sure) Golovin (not to be confused with "Moscow Parade Fanfare" by Unknown author).

11:44 13:06 23:37

19:30

What is this song called 1:57:32?

@user-ji3dg5wi3p

Жыл бұрын

Лариса Кандалова - Жить на земле - это счастье (П.Аедоницкий - Ф.Лаубе)

What is the name of the song at 00:01

@aolid7578

Жыл бұрын

Moscow parade fanfare

@yirmiyahu7265

Жыл бұрын

@@aolid7578 Thanks

Is there any possibility left of reunification of USSR?

@user-fb9ql8bm2e

2 жыл бұрын

Not without a revolution I think because the economy is now owned by a few rich people who won’t want USSR back for fear of losing their power

@KillerofWestoids

2 жыл бұрын

No, the USSR can’t be reunited .The oligarchs don’t want to lose their power and America doesn’t want another Eurasian empire to dominate Europe.

@user-fb9ql8bm2e

2 жыл бұрын

@@KillerofWestoids Facts. Only way it comes back is through foreign intervention, because there is popular support for the Communist Party of Russia but not a lot of funding or media attention. Unfortunately there is no state today which wants to fill this role of promoting global communist revolutions like USSR did in the past

Gorby,Galinin,Shevernadze,Yeltsin...

Единственный минус отсутствие товаров в магазинах

@user-po6gi9jk4m

5 ай бұрын

Минус который за 3-4 года бы решился, ибо было не корумпированное правительство, которое исполняло свои обязанности Но имеем, что имеем😔😔😔

Как называется музыка на 33:02

@user-wy6zs3lc4k

4 жыл бұрын

???

@user-nt3vu9jv5h

4 жыл бұрын

Спортивная честь

Sława wolnym Rosjanom :)

24:15

О мне 3 года было) я спал скорее всего в это время

@sportlive5950

3 жыл бұрын

7,5 лет было. И я думал какая же это нудятина... А сейчас думаю по другому...

30:45

ウーーーラーーーーー！！！！

@iwakura-1ain

4 жыл бұрын

УРА!

Are they marching with a sort of goose steps? Why? In the 1945 victory parade they used more simple steps. Perhaps in that time the comparison was too odious, as it is still now for me.

@vladvlad8071

4 жыл бұрын

Yet the manner of the Russian goose step is different. But the goose step of the Chilean army is an exact copy. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2d_xsucXb2YXZc.html

@Russian_Comrade

4 жыл бұрын

Russian army use the exact same goose steps tempo as during the Soviet times - 120 steps per minute

@dies1domini

4 жыл бұрын

24 june 1945 the victory parade in the Red Square, Moscow kzread.info/dash/bejne/iH58zKZ7lNqcZbw.html Or here kzread.info/dash/bejne/mn2I3LiMp5naYZs.html Might be 120 steps per minute but not goose ones.

@KillerofWestoids

3 жыл бұрын

@@dies1domini Yes it looks like a toned down goose step.

Is it just an illusion, or did the hardware move faster than todays parades?

@Kreatorisbackyt

Жыл бұрын

Hardware moved faster in that time period and 6-7 times more in quantity

Nov 6 is my birthday

That communist flag was waving so proudly

@tomidfm3723

4 жыл бұрын

A flag can not be proud, it is an object urod

@tomidfm3723

4 жыл бұрын

@QuaintAlex126 from a guy who has a flag as profil picture? Not so shre

@Cubano1hero

4 жыл бұрын

Glory to the crimson banner of the downtrodden

We miss you ussr

What do the soldiers shout? 5:46

@vladvlad8071

4 жыл бұрын

Hello, Comrade Marshal of the Soviet Union.

@geisterfahrer9207

4 жыл бұрын

@@vladvlad8071 Thank you

@geisterfahrer9207

4 жыл бұрын

@@vladvlad8071 And what is the marshall saying to the soldiers?

@vladvlad8071

4 жыл бұрын

@@geisterfahrer9207 - Hello comrades. - Hello, Comrade Marshal of the Soviet Union. - I congratulate you on the 72nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. - Ura! Ura! Ura!

@geisterfahrer9207

4 жыл бұрын

@@vladvlad8071 Thank you very much

Nelemta,, revoliucija "

سوشل ازم زندہ باد انقلابی جدوجہد زندہ باد

A month later, the Berlin Wall fell.

@ypoa7827

3 жыл бұрын

It was 2 days later, not a month

@Spanish_Patriot

3 жыл бұрын

@@ypoa7827 True! I confused the parade's date. Thanks!

13:06

Music at 1145?

@Russian_Comrade

4 жыл бұрын

"Да здравствует наша Держава" (Long live our Power)

@tideatmilehigh2727

4 жыл бұрын

@@Russian_Comrade Thanks a ton!

@Russian_Comrade

4 жыл бұрын

@@tideatmilehigh2727 you're welcome

ambassador USA very good speak russian👏👍

@KillerofWestoids

2 жыл бұрын

Timestamp ?

@floppenburghd7995

2 жыл бұрын

@@KillerofWestoids 2:00:45

45:00

Что за марш играет на 33:11

@user-nt3vu9jv5h

4 жыл бұрын

Спортивная честь

Есть парад в этот день в Ленинграде на Дворцовой?

4:06

45:05

1:12:40

The last cold war parade

@user-oj8sn3mx7g

3 жыл бұрын

No the last cold war parade is 1990 parade

@KillerofWestoids

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-oj8sn3mx7g I think he meant it was the last Cold War parade in the sense that the Cold War ended 2 days later with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Cold War lasted from 1947 to 1989.

9:15

Вот она ... Родная Советская Армия!!!

i hope one day Sovite Union returned but not in that form

@claudiapinho-memorias

4 жыл бұрын

korush jl I hope too

@Akshayattr1

4 жыл бұрын

it can only be in that form. soviet union was born because of socialism and its aim was to achieve communism. I hope soviet union be reborn and attain communism in whole world

@korushjl2787

4 жыл бұрын

Akshay attri I hope too but I think the communism must reform like China to Compete with capitalism

@Akshayattr1

4 жыл бұрын

@@korushjl2787 communism cannot exist with capitalism. Its impossible. Capitalism means capital (money)-ism. And communism means community benefit. In communism money or currency does not exist. Neither government exist. In communism people are paid by unlimited products and services according to their need. If a person needs a car, house, bed. Phone he will get it in communism just he has to work whatever work he likes to do 5 days a week. As long as money exists, communism can't be achieved. Money created greed, social evils like jealousy , murders, rape, thefts , wars.

@scgamerchannel1276

3 жыл бұрын

@@korushjl2787 Soviet Union is different from China , USSR was Marxist Leninist while China is Maoist . Maoism is the most disgusting form of Communism .

КОНЕЦ ДЕСЯТИЛЕТИЯ ТОВАРИНИ!!!!! 89 МОЖЕТ КТО-нибудь УЗНАТЬ СЕБЯ ДРУГИХ ТОВАРИЩЕЙ ОПЕРАТИВНИКОВ СПЕЦНАЗА ДМИТРИЙ ЮРИЙ И Я ПА!!!!!!!!! НИКОГДА НЕ ЗАБЫВАЙТЕ НАШУ CCCP

46:12

Clearly Gorbachev was sort of toning down the communist symbols a bit more. He felt like the Soviet system had strayed too far from original Leninism. But his reforms came too late.

@RedSamurai84

4 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was interesting seeing the evolution of the parade decorations from 1985 - 1990. In 1986 you could see the slogans were first toned down, by 1987 the entire manner of the decorations were completely changed and went very retro. In '88 we saw a new layout with 4 signs on the GUM, but in '89 the number of signs on the GUM was cut by half, and the large flag pole in the water fountain was done away with (probably due to budget reasons and the failing reforms). By 1990 the decorations and slogans were almost non existent. Seeing the 1990 parade, it was very apparent the country had run out of money.

@tennisguyky

4 жыл бұрын

RedSamurai84 it was as much economic as Gorbachev’s personal tastes. I feel like he found the numerous slogans to be a bit much and contrived, being a more sophisticated worldly man, he wanted to present the Soviet system as a modern dynamic system again to try and foster appeal, but the reality was the country was bankrupt and broke by the late 80s. The Brezhnev years while building up the massive Soviet military machine neglected economic vitality and diversification, and the system just ambled along and really there wasn’t much Gorbachev could do. His glasnost and prerestoika may have sped up the people’s’ intolerance of the system quicker than otherwise might have happened under an older Soviet leader, but regardless the economy was so bad that the Soviet Union would have fallen apart anyway.

@RedSamurai84

4 жыл бұрын

@@tennisguyky Yes, I have heard from many experts, and their assessment was the country was practically bankrupt by the time Gorbachev came to power. The nation's economic collapse was inevitable, Gorbachev just accelerated the process. Not to mention the massive political turmoil in Poland. Many in the Politburo were already discussing losing Poland as a very real possibility and how they could manage without Poland. If a massive upbringing occurred in Poland, the Politburo conceded they could not quell it while fighting a war in Afghanistan at the same time. The Soviets essentially bluffed to keep Poland from full out revolting in the early 80's. In the past, the Soviets used their military to put down uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, so everyone thought the Soviets would send troops into Poland as well. But in reality the Politburo wasn't even planning any military intervention into Poland in 1981. If a more conservative leader came to power, he might have been able to delay the collapse. The overinvestment in the military machine while not diversifying the economy sent the nation on a downward spiral, by 1985 it was too late. Putin has learned from many of the mistakes of the Soviet past, and he has iterated many times he will not get drawn into another arms race, nor will he overspend on the military. In fact, in recent years Russia has slashed their military budget. If memory serves, I do think Putin is on the recorded of saying Soviet socialism is a failed idea, and Russia will not revisit the Soviet system. What he and many Russians greatly mourn is the loss of territory when the USSR broke apart. Ironically, it was the Bolsheviks who reorganized the Russian Empire in such a way it became a confederation of 15 Republics that could break away - and that's exactly what happened in 1991.

@tennisguyky

4 жыл бұрын

RedSamurai84 spot on! I think Kruschev had a slightly more tenable strategy for emphasizing the economy and slight liberalization and more dynamic thinking while of course he was a vehement communist, he I think had a more viable long term plan of focusing on missiles as a deterrent and not so much on simply pouring every single resource into the Soviet military as a whole. Kruschev’s weakness of course was his tendency for impulsiveness and risk taking which of course led to the powers that be installing the static, predictable, status quo Brezhnev. But I feel if the Soviet Union had gone down a more balanced track a la Kruschev, focusing on the economy and balancing military spending, maybe they would have been in better shape by the 80s. Assuming of course Kruschev didn’t do anything stupid. Who knows. But the years 1964-82 especially the 1970s ruined the Soviet Union in the end. Their military was more powerful than the United States at least until the Reagan defense boom started, but the neglected everything else, including even ideology on which their system was based. I think Putin is a shrewd leader, but he has dangerously consolidated power in such a narrow way that didn’t even exist in the Soviet days even then there was more of a committee rule except of course under Stalin. Putin has made the Russian state synonymous with himself as an individual. I’m not sure that’s a viable strategy. The country needs massive economic investment and upgrades and diversification. And Putin’s near total consolidation of the Russian state creates a very tenuous situation.

@RedSamurai84

4 жыл бұрын

@@tennisguyky I essentially compare Putin not to a Soviet leader, but rather to the past Tsars of Russia. Putin rules Russia like the past Russian monarchs in my opinion. He is the closest thing Russia has to a monarchy in the modern era, but he has consolidated so much power, the hard question is: "What will happen to Russia after Putin?"

19:19

UUUUUURRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Один выстрел снайпера по Гоrбачу мог спасти страну.

@user-fv9zj4xe8q

3 жыл бұрын

Нет... заговор был в самом вверху один горбач там такое никогда не провернулбы

@user-zj3vu4vz6p

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-fv9zj4xe8q Это он сделал!

@KillerofWestoids

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone was tired of the soviet system in Eastern Europe and within the Soviet Union. I don’t think killing him would have solved anything. I have actually seen a CIA document written in 1980 during Brezhnev’s rule that if the soviets didn’t implement reforms, they would have faced serious economic problems by the early 1990s. Все устали от советской системы в Восточной Европе и в Советском Союзе. Не думаю, что его убийство решило бы что-нибудь. Я действительно видел документ ЦРУ, написанный в 1980 году во время правления Брежнева, о том, что, если бы Советы не проводили реформы, к началу 1990-х годов они столкнулись бы с серьезными экономическими проблемами.

That reviewing stand with all those 'officials' watching and waving. Looks a like a bunch of Mafia Dons - all thugs.

@teruterubozo

4 жыл бұрын

At least he had a chance to star at a Pizza Hut ad.

@KillerofWestoids

3 жыл бұрын

@horselips They are the communist party’s politburo and top officials. They were among the most powerful men in the world. Don’t forget that it was basically soviet union’s mercy to let go of their empire which they had conquered by the sacrifice of 27 million lives. I bet every Russian official now regrets letting go of the eastern bloc countries as NATO has expanded to Russia borders.

RED SALUTE COMRADE.

السنه الاخيرة

2 years later horoable things happen

Vay amk

Kuat di luar,kropos didalam

@comradeilham2424

4 жыл бұрын

Daripada gede omongan,lemah dikekuatan apalagi senjata

@rifqimaulana2405

4 жыл бұрын

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The success of Stalin - the man who used to boast that he conquered the United States "from the plow to the atomic bomb in just a generation" - compared to Gorbachev's failure shows that a socialist economy is unable to function with a minimum of efficiency without requiring a massive dose of political violence. In an attempt to reform a decadent regime, Gorbachev moved faster with the process of economic opening in the hope of removing the predictable resistance that the Soviet bureaucracy would create to economic reform measures, as CABAL proved with the failed attempt. coup d'état in August 1991 - which ended up precipitating the final crisis of socialism and the dissolution of the USSR itself Its Chinese parallel - Deng Xiaoping - adopted a logic diametrically opposed to that of Gorbachev: it prioritized the achievement of economic prosperity (adopting in practice capitalism) precisely to delay any attempt at political opening, as was evident with the acceleration of the economy. reforms after the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is important to note that it was Karl Marx himself who, in his Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, discerned the scenario in which the conditions for a social revolution process are formed, describing it as follows: “At a certain stage in its development, the material productive forces of society contradict existing production relations or - which is only their legal expression - with the property relations in which they have been active until then. From the forms of development of the productive forces, these relations are transformed into fetters of them. So, it is a time of social revolution. '* By rejecting the pursuit of profit maximization as an instrument to stimulate innovation, socialist countries ended up condemning themselves to obsolescence. Thus, they lost the chance to incorporate the productivity gains made possible by technological progress. That is why the capitalist countries managed to provide a greater rise in the standard of living of their population, even without pursuing the egalitarian ideal. Therefore, until the “final crisis of socialism” (to paraphrase K. Marx's own definitions once again), it was only a matter of time. But religious fanatics do not give up on their faith, even against the indisputable proof of the facts, which completely refute it! * Reproduced according to MARX, K. Preface to the Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, organized by Florestan Fernandes and published under the title K. Marx: Theory and historical process of the social revolution, In Marx & Engels, Great Social Scientists Collection, History, vol. 36. São Paulo: Ática, 1983. p. 232. Commemorative edition of the centenary of Karl Marx's death

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