You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter". Soon enough, he gets into a tight situation, and he opens the first letter. It says - "Blame it all on me". So he blames it all on the old guy, and it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation, he opened the second letter. It said - "Sit down, and write two letters".

@shawndoran2879

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful.

@KneelBeforeBlue

3 жыл бұрын

Leaders in Democratic countries do the same

@onceANexile

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍✔

@brendenb9045

3 жыл бұрын

Is this true?? @mario

@MrUnit731

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. This is not true, but it’s a good story.

This was excellent. Love the raw footage of the meetings and video clips from the people involved.

@Pow3llMorgan

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! No cheesy reenactments, no sensationalizing, no upbeat action music. Basically just the bare facts.

@888ssss

2 жыл бұрын

..yeah...thats called a documentary...

@AliMagerramov

Жыл бұрын

No word about Caucasian conflicts, nothing about Central Asia. Bullshit

"who is running the soviet union?" "we dont know."

@Oka100

4 жыл бұрын

At 46:31

@the_fifth_wheel

3 жыл бұрын

The International Bankers

@the_fifth_wheel

3 жыл бұрын

Zod 23 - fact, lots of evidence

@lomparti

3 жыл бұрын

Just like today the masses have no clue who runs America, they think Trump runs the show. lol

@chrisk.5964

3 жыл бұрын

@@lomparti thats the problem i always have with people who lose their minds whenever the candidate they dont like wins the presidency. they act like the entire world is coming to the end, as if the president is some almighty king who decides & chooses everything, who lives and dies. fucking local & state elections & laws effect you more than the president does, and you never hear people freaking out about those.

I never knew that the Molotov-Ribentrop agreement's secret annex included the annexation of Baltic states by the USSR. Every time i red about or heard something about it, the main point of this secret part of the Pact was the agreement to carve out Poland between the Third Reich and the USSR. I wasn't aware of other significant points in it that talked about the annexation of Baltic and the invasion of Finland. It's always nice to learn something new about the topic or an event that is considered to be the general knowledge. Well at least general knowledge to an educated person or to a person that's willing to learn and absorb new ideas.

@AstroPhobo

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it's a fact, and ww2 started not only by Germans invasion to Poland but the same day Russians invading Poland.

@psy-lion

2 жыл бұрын

They stole our freedom and tried to russify us completely!!!

@lhagiduty

Жыл бұрын

You would wanna know what USSR were allowed to conquer and what they could not. I think they also took some land from moldova and romania.

@1984isnotamanual

10 ай бұрын

Yea the Soviet Union was an empire through and through

This documentary should be called how Estonia acheived its independence, not the collapse of the soviet union. The events in the batic states, though important in their own right, were but a sidenote to the really important stuff happening in Moscow.

@romandawydiak4476

2 жыл бұрын

Sor Alb, you are 100% correct! While the chronology of events that occurred in the Baltic States were a very significant factor and/or catalyst leading to the implosion and demise of the Soviet Union (including the crippling of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), it should also be understood that; a) During and after the attempted coup d'etat of August 19/1991, both the Communist "hawks" on one side and Mikhail Gorbachev's Administration on the other side became discredited in the eyes of most Soviet citizens as both were accused of being incompetent and corrupt, b) Gorbachev fancied himself as a peace-maker and not as a war monger. Therefore, he rejected the option of using force to prevent any potential "bloodbath" as well as any further disintegration of the USSR and instead wrongfully believed that he had the ability to negotiate a "new" peace with the Soviet Republics by decentralizing the USSR, c) (Note: This is where the documentary made a major error by totally ignoring the vital role that Ukraine as the second most powerful Union Republic played in the dissolution of the Soviet Union). So, in essence, the "Genie" (AKA the Union Republics) escaped from its bottle (AKA the CPSU/USSR) and with that, the destruction of the Soviet Russian Empire.

@yuchenchen8012

Жыл бұрын

Well, I'd argue the Baltic states were one of the key reasons behind why the Soviets collapsed. The revolutions of 1989 already shook the soviets to its core, but they weren't directly part of the Union. The Baltic States, as members of the Soviet Union, drumming up independence at the same time only added to the fuel for independence in other Soviet states. The 1989 revolutions spread one by one, and when Ukraine also decided to call it quits, the union was finished. There was no point to continue on when the second biggest republic of the Union quit.

@yuchenchen8012

Жыл бұрын

@@romandawydiak4476 Yeah, Ukraine's role in the fall of the soviet union is often underestimated. After the baltic states, the stans were on their way out, and Azerbaijian was also way out the door. Many communists still believed that the Soviet experiment could continue as Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Ukraine's large population calling for independence at the same time meant that there was no hope left for the Soviets to continue existing.

@Sp4wn82

Жыл бұрын

@@romandawydiak4476 Yeah, I my self thought so too.. too much Baltic, too little other Soviet Republics. Ukraine was a cornerstone as her lands were voluntarily forced or forcedly volunteered in the 20s then. And with such a large state seceeding from USSR there was no USSR anymore. Ukraine and Kazakhstan were , one could say, the Non-Russian heavyweights within the USSR. Why the need for Baltic States anyway? If they go independent, it is just a needle by size. Secesseion of the Baltics wouldn't have thrown USSR in disarray. It's like to go crazy because some cake crumb falls off the Soviet table. If a fat slice like Ukraine is gone you better start to worry.

@indrebutku

2 ай бұрын

​@@yuchenchen8012 Invalid argument, on this occasion the size of brain, bravery and motivation had a higher effect than a size of land. Since when the amount of land is a problem to Kremlius? Estonians should be recognised for the impact their example of determination had. It's the hardest to be the first to bring the change.

I never thought I'd see an Estonian-Centric film.

@Dave-id6sj

4 жыл бұрын

@High Overlord Snarffie Beagle Nah, Borat is from Kazakhstan (Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)

@VytautasLL

4 жыл бұрын

Does this film was sponsored by Estonian? Somehow it seems that YES. Other baltic countries also played big role in this collapse. For me this film was not very objective.

@artyerty35

4 жыл бұрын

@@VytautasLL Did actually see the documentary?

@parkercushingable

4 жыл бұрын

@@VytautasLL yes it seems to support the collapse and the counter revolution

@Awakeningspirit20

4 жыл бұрын

And it's great to see their perspectives. My ancestors were Lithuanian so I feel a lot of love towards the Baltic and hope we can keep it free.

What an excellent documentary, a pleasure to watch and very informative about history that is ignored in most schools.

@algirdasstasiukaitis9576

3 жыл бұрын

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@algirdasstasiukaitis9576

3 жыл бұрын

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@jasont9907

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly they praise Communists and blame the evil USA for their demise

@indrebutku

2 ай бұрын

​@@jasont9907 In what country schools teach that?

The fact is.... During the collapse of the Soviet union, only one old bolshevik was alive to see the demise. His name was Lazar kaganovich. He was the last surviving Old Bolshevik from the time of Vladimir Lenin & was in the inner circle of Joseph Stalin along with Vyacheslav Molotov (the guy behind Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact )

@krle7970

29 күн бұрын

Because Stalin had all the others killed…. “Revolution eats its own children”

1960s America - the three most unthinkable events - Mars invades USSR disappears Cubs win the World Series I suppose now we're just waiting on Mars

@runi5413

5 жыл бұрын

+ America elects a black president

@chrisa2612

5 жыл бұрын

@@runi5413 in the 60s?

@runi5413

5 жыл бұрын

@@chrisa2612 Sure. The Voting Rights Act wasn't signed until 1965, before that black people couldn't even vote in some states. The idea of ever having a black man in the oval office must've seemed pretty unimaginable at the time.

@donkeyslayer4661

4 жыл бұрын

You should include World War I and II. They were the catalysts for the way we live today.

@replysoon3216

4 жыл бұрын

USSR didn’t disappear until the 90s.

Fascinating documentary - thanks for posting.

I never realised the seeds of their independence lay in those secret clauses in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. I read a whole book on the pact for a history project back in the early 90s but never knew its contemporary significance. Thank you for putting this online.

@elcormoran1

3 жыл бұрын

What about polish german non-aggression pact signed in january 26 1934 by Josef Pilsudski in Poland with vos Germán counterpart hans-adolfvons Moltke,7 year before Rivventrop-molotov, the polish already knew that the german interest was Russialand

@oydaladno4992

3 жыл бұрын

"They" have their own non-russian ethnic identities. There are no other "seeds".

@elcormoran1

3 жыл бұрын

@@oydaladno4992 but the fascist poles are always complaining about russian collussion

@KronStaro

3 жыл бұрын

The secrecy, denial, and distortion of the pact today, is how Putin's regime is still holding on. Most Russians dont even know about the pact, and those who do adopt the distorted version of it, which completely justifies it.

@ivantomic2366

3 жыл бұрын

You have great documentary called SOVIET STORY on YT on this topic.

For these who don't remember: Lithuania declared Re-Establishment of independence on March 11, 1990; Latvia declared Re-Establishment of independence on May 4, 1990; Estonia declared Re-Establishment of independence on August 20, 1991.

@mjfan653

3 жыл бұрын

yeah and estonia declared sovereignty on nov 16 1988 its all a comment section game of "first!!!" but it doesnt matter, it was an unified action, estonia couldn't do it without the other baltic states, the baltic states couldnt do it without moscows weakness, moscow wouldnt have been weak if it wasnt for the international state of things... and so on. but the republics wanting freedom worked together fantastically, all these actions a'la baltic chain, were gigantic in showing unity of the baltics against moscow.

@nichelovek

3 жыл бұрын

Darius A, no one cares, lol You did not establish anything, you were just released by Russians, just like you were leashed by them before. Till next time, lol

11:00 I LOVE how they used Revolutionary Etude here, by Chopin, when talking about the revolutions that were occurring in the Soviet Union.

As many people are complaining that it is focused on Estonia - the original title was actually "Eestlased Kremlis" ("Estonians in the Kremlin"). The English title is misleading, but likely not many people would watch it with the original title... Yet, it is more informative than most of the docs created by big companies (and made with much smaller budget). Check out "The Soviet Story"; as it was made in Latvia, a lot of the footage is Latvian; it's just natural with the available budget, contacts and other options.

Thank you for posting this documentary here

Great video. Highly informative and well-produced

These are the things that people all over the world should watch and learn... Thank You - ... to the persons involved in this production...

52:10 them asking where they will show the footage and their excitement when they hear "Estonia" honestly breaks my heart now. The Russian people went from being free to being ruled by, let's face it, a dictator -- once again. "Let's be friends.", that's what people want, not conflicts.

I had tears in my eyes watching this video. I'm Polish and pact between Hitler and Stalin impacted my country immensely. Thank you friends from Estonia.

@ripp846

4 жыл бұрын

Poor Polish, won the war against Nazis, lost the peace with U.S.S.R. Was attacked by both.

@WM-gf8zm

4 жыл бұрын

@@ripp846 forgets to say polish signed NAP with hitler, pilsudski pact & annexed czechoslovakia :)

@WM-gf8zm

4 жыл бұрын

@fan8281 so many dumb stuff, it was just game for few while few knew what will occur

In the middle of 1987 in Tallinn, Estonia, it was not the first students' demonstration against Soviet policy, but the second. The first one took place in December of 1986 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. That demonstration was suppressed by the military troops brought from Ryazan', Russia, and many students were killed.

@emmaearnshaw3282

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, this is the first time I've seen mention of this.

Very interesting and inspiring. Thanks for uploading this!

Brilliant film, watching this unfold as a teenager in California was astounding. We could not believe that the USSR was just fading away. This film puts beautiful faces to the brave deeds, and incredible efforts that brought about Freedom.

@ehboy3804

2 жыл бұрын

and by freedom you mean economic depression and more authoritarianism

@HammerundSichu

2 жыл бұрын

Freedom😂

@kishanchali8752

2 жыл бұрын

You're living under the rule of a bunch of corporate oligarchs boy. Don't lecture others about freedom. Useful idiot.

@miguelborges3125

2 жыл бұрын

@SwordFish ironically enough the use of the expression “useful idiot” in 2021 shows you’re more of an useful idiot than op ever was.

@kishanchali8752

2 жыл бұрын

@@miguelborges3125 LOL you're using a term on me that is used almost globally to refer to people who blindly follow liberal Democratic govts🤣 calm down boy

Great posting! Thank you so much.

There is no empire or kingdom will last forever,according to history! And its true!

@tommyodonovan3883

4 жыл бұрын

"Hold my beer." -SPQA

@Mmeyers101

3 жыл бұрын

China basically been around forever

@ratanakmetal

3 жыл бұрын

How about Japanese royal family?

@sjmc1974

3 жыл бұрын

@Deenie Beenie we are in late stage capitalism, it will fall.

@davidmitchell3997

3 жыл бұрын

@John Anthony Saburao Unless you can change that history before it even happens! On a side note, many African empires and kingdoms were able to prosper and survive far longer than any other civilizations around the world. Of course, this was before the rest of the world (mainly the Europeans and Arabs) started to invade the continent and enslaved most of the populace.

Endel Lippmaa proves knowledge is more powerful than anything including soviet union

@teknikgroup7597

5 жыл бұрын

Sad he isnt mentioned in Google search much at all. He had the smoking gun and refused to put it away. Bravo. The people of Estonia must have been terrified of the wrath of the Soviets.

Putin says the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century. I'd say the rise of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century.

I am an Indian we are very curious about of your history. It's very good initiative as well as reference for us.

This is one of the best documentary i have ever watched, amazing

@emmaearnshaw3282

2 ай бұрын

I think the producers of this vid are also responsible for; The power of Nightmares, The manufacture of consent, Bitter lake, and Hypernormalisation. I think.

Thank you for the documentary! It vastly helps with my European History course.

@doposud

4 жыл бұрын

and this is just recent history and so many events .... if you will learn history of each european country counting back 1000 yeasr you would be next Einstein

@unknownmf2599

3 жыл бұрын

Mostly based in Asia. But okay

Thank you for uploading this video, it clears alot of things up for me, I grew up during the collapse of the S.U. but was too young to really know what happened.

@highpriority4015

4 жыл бұрын

Now you being foolished again

Thank you. I wish I'd seen this 5 years ago.

Very informative documentary Thanks for upload

When real news existed.

@stephenellison1

3 жыл бұрын

It has always existed. Just because some dick head in the Oval Office doesn’t like criticism doesn’t mean news is fake.

@uytdeman

3 жыл бұрын

I got news for you fake news has existed since long before this. “Everything they believe will be a lie and then we will know our campaign is complete.” William J Casey 1981

@Lou-ry6yq

3 жыл бұрын

now the media's only purpose is the propagation of brainwashing falsehoods... All of this to consolidate the power of corporations and twisted political parties...

@pepevonkek7803

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe you noticed the TV NEWS almost in the end of the video. It was called AK and it flickered and exposed eye symbol. Also Gorbachev and kallas are both freemasons. Don't get fooled... It was controlled by same criminal secret sects as today.

@andreworiez8920

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lou-ry6yq If it can be independently verified using source material... It isn't fake

Great documentary. Even though I remember that time well, I did not realize the importance of the secret pact in the chain of events leading to the break up of USSR.

Remarkable in its clarity. Brings alive the dull. Recommended for everyone.

Excellent documentary. Thank you.

"Everything the Communists told us about Communism turned out to be false. But everything the Communists told us about Capitalism turned out to be true."

@JK-br1mu

2 жыл бұрын

As the old saying goes, "anyone who accepts Communist propaganda at face value, or makes false equivalencies between Communist dictatorships and Western democracies, is a totalitarian criminal."

I watched the whole thing and have a better idea of the situation but many more questions than answers. It also seems very heavily focused on Estonia and I was hoping to learn more(or anything) about the resolution of Germany as well. Suffice to say, education on this topic is taught to us in the West but in a very cursory manner.

I don't think it was much of a secret the Baltic states desired independence throughout the existence of the Soviet Union!

I visited Estonia in the early 2000's. Well worth your time to go visit.

@johnleber3369

4 жыл бұрын

Are Estonians related to Swedes ? Their language looks Germanic?

@kake12

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnleber3369 their language is actually very close to Finnish.

@ultonian63

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnleber3369 You obviously don't know any German.

@hbtm_434

4 жыл бұрын

ultonian63 The Estonian language does have some words that derive from German (when German nobles lived in Livonia) but mostly our language is related a lot more to Finnish, due to both languages being in the Finno-Ugric language group.

@ultonian63

4 жыл бұрын

@@hbtm_434 Sure HBTM, I'm aware of the German influence (eg loss = Schloss, amet = Amt, kunst = Kunst) but I'm sure that someone who knew German and looked at a piece of Estonian text wouldn't conclude that the language looked Germanic.

Everytime I see Gorbachev I keep picturing the scene from the movie "Naked Gun" of the guy grabbing his head in a head lock and trying to wipe off the birthmark on his head with a rag thinking it was a stain. LMFAO

Its almost orgasmic to find something, like this, that is so informative and well done about a time in history that most of us THINK we know about. Yet I did not know about any of this. lol Brilliant film.

@johncronin9540

2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know about how the Estonians used the secret protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact (though I did know about those protocols) to leverage their independence. But I did remember the human chain across the three Baltic States.

My Mother being from the Ukraine remebers when the Soviet Union collapse watching it happen on tv My Mother said it would eventually happen and she was right and also said Her country The Ukraine was considered the bread basket of the Soviet Union My Mother Died in 2019 and we took her home to be buried in her home country I will miss her Love you mom you are where you belong

This is one of the most well made documentaries iv ever seen.

@kulnokaiklem

2 жыл бұрын

Estonia the Baltic Tiger - also a good documentaries in YT. Gives answer how Estonia develops after 30 year from collapse Soviet Union.

@OliBolivia

2 жыл бұрын

@@kulnokaiklem thx ill check it out

New title: How the little country of Estonia killed the USSR

@KronStaro

3 жыл бұрын

Poland - never forget, always remember

@MrSp0iler

3 жыл бұрын

New title how eastern europe is dying from hunger 2020

@tekmekster

3 жыл бұрын

Oh jesus fucking christ, every single roach is claiming to have single-handed destroyed it. U.S Chernobyl disaster wartime economy since Stalin Poles Perestroika Afghans Alcohol prohibition and now this. who is gonna be the fucking next...

@MrSp0iler

3 жыл бұрын

@@KronStaro Yes Tibet, remember how allies helped you

@Chaiserzose

3 жыл бұрын

Better one: "A new D-Day: the invasion of Estonia with Dollar$$ instead of an army".

Very interesting documentary and insightful

42:59 Where is the image of the three political figures taken from? The text is in Romanian, and it seems to me to be some painting in a church and I wonder where could that be. I could pay a visit to that place

the opening quote hits so much different now

Superb stuff!

Informative documentary. Good to see the backstory and chronology. I was in my early 30s during these events and I remember that the world, as we knew it, changed within a few months. Thank you.

What a powerful video. This video answered several questions I had about Russia and its current political Congress.

@Hoosier_Boy

2 жыл бұрын

@Jake Johansson Read the definition of congress, you moron!

@Hoosier_Boy

2 жыл бұрын

@Jake Johansson Sorry about calling you a Moron, it was meant for someone else. I guess that makes me a Moron. Anyway, I think it's just a word game here. State Duma is what I considered their Congress. Russia's State of Duma appears to be closely made up of members very similar to the members of Congress of the U.S.

@Hoosier_Boy

2 жыл бұрын

@Jake Johansson I appreciate you filling in with the info.

Excellent content

It is amazing how Gorbachev is smiling and laughing while people talk about dismantling the country. I try to imagine Brejnev or Khrushchev in the same situation...or Stalin....OMG...

@jamescromarty1455

3 жыл бұрын

Times had changed gone where the days when they could just be taken out back and shot with no consequences.

@u.v.s.5583

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamescromarty1455 There still existed old school guys. There existed operative plans in the spirit of Stalin. The trains were ready, hundreds of thousands of pairs of handcuffs were stored and waited for the X hour. It might have happened. Blood might have been shed. Lives could have been destroyed.

found this in my suggested last night and watched it till 2 am

Very well done. I think now historians are emphasizing that the cost of the Soviet military buildup, the cost of the Afghan war, and the cost of Chernobyl were eventually just too much for the Soviet economy which was very fragile anyway.

@highquality86

2 жыл бұрын

Country can't fall just because of economy. People hated USSR. System just politically bankrupt.

Brilliant video

the bottom line people want to control their own destiny not someone else

@analtubegut66

5 жыл бұрын

corey oldknow - and they still don't.

@DataWaveTaGo

4 жыл бұрын

@Sp3nd Coin Chekist brain_farts much...

@hobsdigree2

4 жыл бұрын

Democrats want to control your health care

@DOMiNOUKAE

4 жыл бұрын

Now its African American turn to do this in the United states

@eakintunde84

4 жыл бұрын

@Sp3nd Coin I hope that is some kind of joke... Stalin bringing FREEDOM?

Well it is 2024 and the USSR has gone but Russia unfortunately has not changed

Superb !!!

What is the song in the beginning few seconds ?

Great documentary movie! Greetings from Poland.

There’s a moral to this video for western countries at the moment, take time to View it and you will realise what people can do.

@WolfgangVonKempelen838

4 жыл бұрын

What can they do ? You lost me.

@Astrobucks2

3 жыл бұрын

@ So....are you saying we can overthrow liberal democrats? We'll keep that in mind.

@mynamejeb8743

3 жыл бұрын

@@Astrobucks2 yes u can but overthrowing a government comes with a cost as well despite how right their beliefs might be

@chicxulub2947

3 жыл бұрын

@@mynamejeb8743 The problem with the collapse of Communism is that nobody was held accountable like Nazi refugees. The cost is now that they are spread around the world without a single problem for them. They were once all rounded up in one place but now they are spread around the world and specially concentrated in D.C. in the USA. Now things that were once so much forbidden in the West as terrorism is now part of politics with even Communist Parties in a lot of countries. People were way less brainwashed by politics before 2012. It happened an eerie boom of politics that took over the world not for the better I guess. People are also getting increasingly more domesticated in such a way that is unbearable to talk with most of them. A gazelle would look like a prey close to them. They are ready for any authority to do anything with them. People also don't have self beliefs... they always believe in what "everybody else" already believes and just follows. So they don't know what really is right or wrong inherently, truly in its reality... they just consider what "most people" considers already, so when they don't know what "most people" considers already, they are stuck in a pit completely clueless about the morality of such thing. This level of collectivism and lack of individualism is detrimental to society as a whole. It's dangerous. Plus, Civilization is way more prone to fall this way. *Even science can be politicized now!* We are losing culture as a whole and replacing it with politics... a dystopian political culture that knows to care only about this. It became the life's purpose of many people now when before we had more nuanced interests and actual intra-cultures that were lost in a mere 15 years leaving the whole scenario way more plain and boring to the point of the designs of the cars become the same thing over a decade! The world is way more boring now and people have their whole attentions free to politics as politics that was always boring before became way more interesting now. See??

@chicxulub2947

3 жыл бұрын

@@mynamejeb8743 The whole social justice thing was lost a long time ago and became only a mere orchestra, a show. It's devastatingly disappointing the whole stupidity of people of believing this crude cheap show called politics is true! If they wanted just votes they should just do a single constant campaign of encouraging the people to vote no matter which side. But what they really want is to indirectly control the amount of votes from each side so they don't ever need to rig elections with fake votes. The voting system is legit, but the brainwashing is SO EFFECTIVE to the minuscule level where they can keep it 51% against 49% constantly every single election switching just a little amount of people engaged in politics to vote. Since I was a kid I looked at these percentages and told myself they know just how much proportion of amount of political propaganda from one side to the other is necessary to reach these numbers of people voting without having to rig the elections! It's genius! Or maybe not! But you get the point. The proportion of votes always show that both candidates half won all of the times, but just because one number is higher the candidate is considered 100% winner instead of just 51%. This is the invisible dance of democracy. As long as people believe that the politicians are in true opposition fighting against each other it works because there are sides to vote. But taking democracy out, the playing members and the leaders they represent are always the same. Democracy gives a lot of security due to its dynamics because anything else would be dictatorship. Let's say we live in a "very dynamic dictatorship"...

Bravo to the Estonian and Polish people for showing such immense courage and patience!

A more or less non-violent end to an empire that had required about 300,000 direct casualties and about as 450,000 military personnel dead from disease to come into being (according to Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis; source- Wikipedia). Good documentary. Eye opener to the Baltic situation in the late 80's.

Black and white film from 80s & 90s. That's a perspective for being behind the west.

awesome hearing so much Estonian spoken

the new star wars trilogy is garbage

@ocpofficialrep7026

4 жыл бұрын

@Alan Dempsey yep

@irisretro1030

3 жыл бұрын

Why here tho

@mattclayer6541

3 жыл бұрын

I like turtles!

@oliverkalamata2753

3 жыл бұрын

Leeeroy Jeeenkins!!!!

@determineddad7935

3 жыл бұрын

@@ocpofficialrep7026 let's talk about forts, couch forts...

Thanks

I remember that my mom was an ussr citizen and when the ussr collapsed alot of people were shocked, TV channels were closed or something..., alot of people were confused ,after that, the crimes started alot and cops were confused and it was hard to take controle that time, and i heard alot of people said that there were good times,so i started to became curios and interested, anyways i think ussr had a good and bad things and it had alot of talented people... but ussr was a worthful country.

@emedel5772

4 жыл бұрын

"i said i wish the ussr came back"...so did Putin, and he's working hard at it

@mshbeatbox

4 жыл бұрын

Because your just dumb. You idiots love to be controled like mice

@hjalmarzolachristensen8080

4 жыл бұрын

@KAY EM yeah well communists were a lot poorer than the western people, which is why they tried to flee from the east to the west. So yeah sorry captitalism>communism

@tommyodonovan3883

4 жыл бұрын

There were hard times....I remember all the old people/pentioners starving and freezing, the hyperinflation of the 1990's having left them penniless.

@razorvex7182

4 жыл бұрын

@@mshbeatbox You idiot love to be controlled by some west medias.

Winners write/distort History!

@leandradozier968

4 жыл бұрын

Because those who lose aren’t discontented at all 🙄🙄🙄

Great watch. I've always viewed the collapse of the USSR as a series of independence movements against the new Russian empire, because all roads ultimately led to Moscow. The Kremlin was at the centre of everything. While true to a large extent, it's also interesting to see how Russia, led by Yeltsin, wanted to secede 'from itself', so to speak. In the simplistic history I grew up with (I was too young to follow events at the time), it was always presented as a straightforward 'Russia vs the Republics'. In fact, Russia was in a civil conflict of its own, so perhaps its fairer to view the demise as less a movement against Russian imperialism (which was no less real for it) than against Soviet imperialism specifically. Just as the British empire had British victims because it was in reality the empire of the British aristocracy and working British got screwed), the Soviet empire had Russian victims too.

very high quality info.indepth and reliable. delicious. awesome and unique footage

Ok, the conclusion part was so stupid. Peaceful disintegration of the Soviet Empire? War in Grozny, Massacred Azerbaijanis by armenia, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Transnistria right when it was disintegrating. Today the war in Ukraine, seriously this documentary is very Estonia-centrical (which is totally fine as it focuses on Estonia) , it should have conlcuded like "phew- not many casualties here, let's now act like we are Nordic"

@christinas.4342

7 жыл бұрын

It was peaceful. The movements for independent republics were a consequence of Gorbachev's liberalization policies, not their cause. Most people didn't want independent republics. In a March 1991 referendum, most had voted to stay in a reformed Union that respected individual and national rights. Only the Baltic states, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia had held their own referendums and had overwhelmingly voted for independence.

@christinas.4342

7 жыл бұрын

From _Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945_ by Tony Judt: "The disappearance of the Soviet Union was a remarkable affair, unparalleled in modern history. There was no foreign war, no bloody revolution, no natural catastrophe. A large industrial state -- a military superpower -- simply collapsed: its authority drained away, its institutions evaporated. The unraveling of the USSR was not altogether free of violence, as we have seen in Lithuania and the Caucasus; and there would be more fighting in some of the independent republics in the coming years. But for the most part the world's largest country departed the stage almost without protest. To describe this as a bloodless retreat from Empire is surely accurate; but it hardly begins to capture the unanticipated ease of the whole process." books.google.nl/books?id=aU8laRbSvrMC&pg=PA657

@nix4110

7 жыл бұрын

Kristina S. Are you trying to prove that most people actually liked the Soviet Union? The fact that a bit of free speech allowed by Gorbachev opened up a world of dissent proves the opposite.

@christinas.4342

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick Savage Most of the population didn't dislike the USSR enough to want it gone. That's why most voted to stay in a reformed Soviet Union, that would respect individual and national rights.

@christinas.4342

7 жыл бұрын

+Nick Savage Most Central Asians liked the USSR. These nations had no history of independence, they were created in the 1920s and 1930s by nationalists supported by the Soviet regime, and also received massive economic support from Russia and other European republics. There was a movement to make Russia independent from the USSR, these people believed that the Soviet regime was destroying Russian culture and that Central Asia was an economic drain on Russia. But in Central Asia there were no pro-independence movements. "Central Asia, and Kyrgyzstan, did not launch an independence movement from the USSR, instead the USSR/Russia removed itself from Central Asia. The result of Soviet/Russian colonization was that the collapse of the USSR was an about and unexpected end to membership in what most residents regarded as a legitimate political community. Unlike the Baltics or Eastern Europe, or Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan along with other Central Asian states, did not want to leave the USSR. The ambivalence, even reluctance, with which Kyrgyzstan greeted the Soviet Union's collapse is directly related to the Soviet contribution in modernizing Kyrgyzstan and in nurturing, if only unintentionally, the beginnings of a Kyrgyz national identity. In a March 17, 1991, referendum (nine months prior to the official end of the USSR) the Central Asians overwhelmingly voted to remain part of the USSR. The population of Kyrgyzstan today is not one that looks back to a heroic resistance or a daring independence movement. There are no democratic leaders in Kyrgyzstan since there was no movement for freedom, independence, and democracy. The resulting post-Soviet population generally feels abandoned and years for the Soviet past. With no goal, no struggle, no clear vision of the future, anarchy is one likely resulting state of affairs. *The population of Kyrgyzstan is one that did not want to leave the USSR, and today overwhelmingly agrees that life was much better during Soviet times than today because there was certainty, security, and jobs."* books.google.nl/books?id=jGTXJ65Z2j4C&pg=PA97

A member of the Estonian delegate spoke to Gorbachev: "It is the issue of discrimination...but everything is decided by an official in high office." Isn't it the same with the current EU? Everything is decided by the unelected technocrats? The EU is USSR EUSS - European Union of Soviet Socialist

@OmmerSyssel

5 жыл бұрын

No it's not.. You poor British airheads were free to join this successful union & still free to leave. Notice the days with ongoing special treatment of you lazy nutters along with loads of subventions will finish too. Shut up with your unsubstantiated nonsense and Sail on 👋🙌

@teknikgroup7597

5 жыл бұрын

Is history repeating itself?......by definition it does.

@mookins45

5 жыл бұрын

ffs you have a whole European Parliament, of course they will employ technical experts for safety standards etc. Every government does. YOU ARE A CLEVER KREMLIN TROLL! KUDOS!

@SocialistFinn1

4 жыл бұрын

Unelected how? We have European elections.

@maestissimanoctem3649

4 жыл бұрын

@@OmmerSyssel Successful hahahah. EU days are numbered, and im not even British

When everyone is entitled to everything, no one is responsible for anything..

@gabrielbaynunn2418

2 жыл бұрын

Well said.

Loving this Euro music

Who's here after watching HBO's Chernobyl? (I don't like such stupid comments 'whos here in 2019' but here I just want to see how many people got interested in Soviet Union history after the show)

@sport3047

5 жыл бұрын

I m here after watching chernobyl. I ve been binge watching chernobyl videos on youtube lately and this has popped up. Chernobyl may have been one of the causes of the fall of soviet union because it exposed the mass deficiencies in soviet infastructure

@Pradeep.Poonia

5 жыл бұрын

@High Overlord Snarffie Beagle how old were you when chernobyl happened? You were in US?

I never knew Russia played such big role in breaking Soviet Union.

@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977

4 жыл бұрын

Everybody wanted to dissolve the USSR. In each republic.

@T9RX3

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 not everyone

@kelvinbremont1341

2 жыл бұрын

@@T9RX3 who then?

@T9RX3

2 жыл бұрын

@@kelvinbremont1341 it started with the Baltic Republics but it was Gorbachev who allowed meetings and agreements with them to start the process. If the Soviet Union and Gorbachev still wanted the Soviet Union it would have continued to exist. The truth is they wanted better economic opportunity with the WEST. Russia is still alive and well and they now have the same national anthem as they had in the Soviet Union which was selected by Stalin after WWII. Putin brought it back after Yelstan had changed it.

@kelvinbremont1341

2 жыл бұрын

@@T9RX3 so a few of the Baltic republics did NOT want to dissolve?

good work

The dissolution of the USSR started before 1989, blowing up in 1953 in Berlin, 1956 in Poland and later in Hungary (which was the bloody one!) and Prague in 1968. These events led to Solidarity and the brave Poles to carry it through to the end. With the Pope on board and a clear zeal to be free , it still took a great deal of lucky twists and turns , as if scripted by a higher power . The USSR was just plain inefficient, a nation of bureaucrats , deeply rooted among the social lines.

This proves the GREATER IMPORTANCE of LANGUAGE to human kind than any other identities that later artificially stressed on him by OTHERS .

@pradeepkengeri6399

4 жыл бұрын

I think you are Kannadiga..

@tulayamalavenapi4028

3 жыл бұрын

tad viddhi pranipatena pari prashnena sevaya...

I never knew Estonia's perseverance was one of the engines that powered the downfall of USSR. This is to prove that nobody can truly ever defeat a united people. As a Romanian who had to suffer because of the Communism, I give thanks to the Baltic people, whom I can consider to be my friends, for the good they indirectly did to my life. It would have been a drastically different live, should Communism have continued.

@Ridddigg

5 жыл бұрын

Romanians served the Nazis. Be thankful you're not destroyed. Russians are too kind to Romanians.

@Loup-mx7yt

5 жыл бұрын

Scorpius look at how kind the USSR was to Romania in 1989, indeed, they were not very kind.

@johnleber3369

4 жыл бұрын

The damn Bolsheviks claimed to be athiests to hid her blood lusts to Gods people everyehere.They were Satanists and proved it starting in old Soviet Union. To paraphrase Reagan:Putin before you retire, tear down that Vile Lenin tomb and bury his evil remains in some unmarked hole. How can his body be still there while this POS was the man who gave the orders too butcher theCzars family and servants? Destroy that vile symbol of Pure evil Mr. President .Now!!

8:17 what a meeting! in some random hallway, not even facing each other. just on a couch.

@aa2339

3 жыл бұрын

& it was just amazing enough that the Commies simply didn’t just snuff it out in the same old way!

10:52 chopin revolutionary etude 17:12 mozart requirem

the world is so different now that I can hardly believe that this happened only 30 or so years ago

5:42 “look busy”

@drgustaf2450

3 жыл бұрын

At our meeting in the elevator lobby

phenomenal piece. learned so much. ILL BET ANYTHING RUSSIANS TODAY ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS DOCUMENTARY AND LOOK BACK ON THIS PERIOD IN HISTORY WITH A SOME SHAME. I WONDER... PUTIN SURE WOULD FEEL THAT WAY. FANTSTIC FILM.

Superb -

This is really dope. Also shoutout to my fellow Andres at 6:29

4:38 somebody knows the name of this music?

@sergiubudu

5 жыл бұрын

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-Requiem

@VALTEX76

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKifz5mhZ9q-ZNY.html

@hbtm_434

4 жыл бұрын

You can search “wake up Baltic States”

Song name at 10:31?

good documentery! from India 🇮🇳

didn't know that Estonian language sounds so similar to Finnish or Suomi however you call it

@johnniebee4328

7 жыл бұрын

Check out the National Anthems too almost the same

@WolfgangVonKempelen838

4 жыл бұрын

You do now

@HJ-ju4ui

3 жыл бұрын

estonia just sounds like speech impaired finnish to me

@unknownmf2599

3 жыл бұрын

Uralic languages :)

@warrcoww6717

3 жыл бұрын

It’s because Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian are all Finno-Ugric languages originating around the Ural Mountains, in the age of migration they ended up in different places, so the languages diverged, but they’re all from the same root.

When you run out of money to steal you have hundreds of millions starving and a mega rich class who wants even more ,thats where it always ends

@jasont9907

2 жыл бұрын

@ayy lmao your teachers misled you junior go play video games you just want free shit it doesn’t work that way

In the USA it was quite a mental shift to take this in...for my entire life, there'd been this looming USSR threat, or so we thought, and then it was suddenly just gone.

@wom_Bat

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry Putin has your back

@hebneh

2 жыл бұрын

@@wom_Bat When the USSR collapsed, it pretty much ended as a threat. Putin is working hard to regain that former threatening stature.

9:35 Footage from Vilnius, Lithuania January 13th 1991.

It was interesting seeing people living back in those times. Completely different time in history.

@WolfgangVonKempelen838

4 жыл бұрын

Nothing escapes you, does it ?

@bruce8429

2 жыл бұрын

Some of us were adults then kiddo.

11:08 Gdansk dance Revolution.

Freedom is subjective it powers the heart, loved the evolution aspect ♥️♥️♥️

You can see why fatty wanted to stay in the USSR - he was doing quite well for himself out of it