Imagine living in Siberia with sub zero temperatures and you have no food to eat. Your only two options are hunt a wild bear or wait in a 4 hour line for a piece of bread. What do you choose?

@Anon-greyman

Жыл бұрын

You have a voice that could almost be a good fit for a (better then what we got) forensic files reboot

@Hanzered

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to commies my grandparents and parents didnt have a choice.

@AstarionWifey

Жыл бұрын

I’ll risk it with the bear 🐻

@kristianbritton5435

Жыл бұрын

I was raised in Siberia for the first 5 years of my life, though sadly I have no memory of it

@darthsilversith667

Жыл бұрын

Bread lines are good!! - Bernie Sanders

I was born in the Soviet Union, I was just a kid when it collapsed but I remember what it was like. Parents had to go stand in line for bread at 4am. Dad was the only one working and sometimes wouldn’t get paid for months because his bosses didn’t have any cash to give.Luckily, he worked on ships and was able to bring home frozen blocks of fish to feed us. Power and water outages were very common and would last for weeks. My parents sold everything they owned and fled to the US via green card with just the clothes on our back and $5000 in cash.Most of our family and friends also fled to western countries, Greece, Germany, Canada and so on, so we are all scattered all over the world now. I remember seeing Russian troops and tanks in our town during the Armenian/Azerbaijani conflict in the early 90s and me and my brother would go around collecting shell casings from tanks afterwards. What a crazy childhood 😂. Makes me appreciate the US so much.

@silviuvisan505

Жыл бұрын

My father was given a good job and an apartment and could provide for all the family.

@παυροεπής

Жыл бұрын

Lines for bread; u r exaggerating. Not for bread since last hunger in 1947.

@jasonmontgomery8393

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this, it's just a good reminder for some of us to stay humble.

@yassine3978

Жыл бұрын

You speak Russian still or lost it over time in USA?

@tonypopondopoulo5169

Жыл бұрын

@@yassine3978 yes, I still speak it but I’m forgetting how to read and write it.

As a political refugee from Communist Czechoslovakiai 1968, I was a Defensive Contractor for the US Airforce when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was totally awestruck by the surreal nature of what I was seeing on the news. I had no idea that such a thing was possible.

@VickyShawcooksalot

Жыл бұрын

How do you feel about the Democratic party trying to push fascist ideals down Americans throats now?

@Greg-yu4ij

Жыл бұрын

Got to be even weirder for you to see the collapse of the United States. The CCP revived the old active measures programs and put them into overdrive

@EdwardSnortin

Жыл бұрын

And now you'll be witnessing the collapse of the US in your lifetime as well

@dtaylor10chuckufarle

Жыл бұрын

I'm an American who lived through the Cold War and never thought I'd see the Berlin Wall fall. Fast forward to the mid 90s and I actually walked through the Brandenburg gate... it was a surreal experience. I'm glad you made it out, Stevo!

I love reading people’s story in the comments and learn how they got through this dark period. The resiliency that some people show is insane. I hope all of you are now living better lives.

I survived it. My mother did as well. Life is not nearly as good for her as it is for me, as I am no longer in Russia.

Take away the AI generator from the editor that was terrible

I met a man who served in the USSR army! He was a customer at my bank and I was amazed ❤

@dsxa918

Жыл бұрын

Did you fight him? Did he rob the .....

@dsxa918

Жыл бұрын

I mean that in curiosity, not to imply anything. It's nice to interpret that it's nice that it doesn't sound bad.

Love the term 'kleptocracy'. Perfect way to describe the politicians and their minions in Australia.

@ferengiprofiteer9145

Жыл бұрын

And all the Democrat party and a lot of the Republican party here in the USA.

@BarryKoostachin

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Canadian liberal Party

Coming soon to America. Reference: California

@brianticas7671

8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately yes. Greed has gotten to USA. Also did you know that California is not American owned anymore. All of downtown building 🏢 are Chinese and Japanese owners.

But I did, I was in West Germany at the time. 😉

@lucasmcqueen7815

Жыл бұрын

🛑🧢

Don't know who that nuttyhistory sounding gentle man is but loving this new format

I hate the titles to these. OBVIOUSLY 10s of MILLIONS of people survived the collapse of the Soviet Union. 10s of MILLIONS. And, they didn't leave. Most stayed right where they were.

@Meight50five

Жыл бұрын

Most didn't have an ability or option to leave, or they would have. Stop trying to downplay tithe seriousness and suffering that people went through then.

@PickleRick65

Жыл бұрын

@@Meight50five - Horse crap. The largest departure from Russia just happened earlier this year when almost 2 Million people left all at once. The largest departure since WW2. This is disinformation. And the title is stupid. I'm not trying to downplay Anything. You're just a simpleton.

@z_ed

Жыл бұрын

​@@Meight50fiveImo, Rick is not. He is stating that millions did, in fact, survive it 😐...how dense can one be?

@Meight50five

Жыл бұрын

@z Ed you tell me? How dense are you? WHY is he even pointing it out? Just the same way you're attempting to explain what he meant as "obvious" and my reply unnecessary, as was it being obvious the video was not implying that and his original comment unnecessary. But the reality is he's being a low key apologist for a regime that was at least as bad as, if not worse than, the 3rd Reich. So really, how dense can you be? Or are you defending a fellow apologist?

So many not seeing the US so close to the same thing

Nutty History is SO GOOD its almost nostalgic as though i grew up watching it on history channel, but i didnt! This is too good for history channel! Thanks for the Info-tainment

Thank you for making this well researched and easy to follow documentary

Your videos are close to perfection. I always learn something new watching them. Thank you.

This is the second of your programs I have watch....Well Done

Great video though, I thoroughly enjoy history and you do a great job retelling it.

STOP THE CGI

Great channel great video you are a great presenter

Hey, maybe if Stalin got to drink as much coke as he wanted, he would've been a nicer guy.

@Hobbsdad

Жыл бұрын

Or got diabetes and died young. Win, win either way

@MadamoftheCatHouse

Жыл бұрын

@@Hobbsdad Hahahahaha!

Yet the Canadian youth feel this is the ideal way to live.

@yaoiis4life

Жыл бұрын

Yea they didn't do communism right 😆

@dirtyoldbroad7583

Жыл бұрын

@@yaoiis4life has anyone in the history of ever, actually “done communism right”?

@yaoiis4life

Жыл бұрын

@@dirtyoldbroad7583 nope, some say only ten percent of humans can think like that cause we are all super selfish compared to communist ideas

I hope the long-suffering people of the former Eastern Block nations have better lives today, but I'm not sure they do.😞

@QualityPen

Жыл бұрын

My father grew up in the Soviet Union and says the standard of living in Russia is the highest it has ever been. Even our relatives in Crimea are doing well, much better than when I visited them in 2012. Crimea has gone from a backwater back to a thriving region over the last 8 years. Most of the eastern block nations are doing much better now. The westernmost ones got US and EU funding to rebuild their economies, but the eastern ones (in Asia) still have a ways to go since they had to rebuild their economies without any help.

@afookingarcher7195

Жыл бұрын

​@@QualityPen my family is still in Kaliningrad, and although you are correct the standard of living is the highest it has ever been, it is nothing compared to the prosperity many nations have enjoyed. As my mother once told me "You get to live, I must survive."

@renesagahon4477

Жыл бұрын

They don’t. 🥴!

@javiermartinezjr8849

Жыл бұрын

​@@afookingarcher7195 wow ty for that,your mother is a poet ,that sentence captured the emotions of millions in my mind

@simonh6371

Жыл бұрын

Eastern Bloc nations implies the former Warsaw Pact nations not in the USSR, i.e. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc. The EU funding given to Poland alone is the biggest transfer of wealth ever, more than the Marshall Plan, and that was to rebuild all of Western Europe. Politicians there have admitted they literally don't know what to spend the money on. There are brand spanking new motorways funded by the EU in remote areas, with hardly any cars using them, while the German Autobahns have roadworks and tailbacks every few miles, the days of no speed limits are long gone. Small towns in Eastern Europe have tram and underground networks, which only a couple of cities have access to in Western European countries. I was in Ostrava, a small town in Czechia, a few years back and in the early hours of the morning thought I heard a tram passing but told myself I must have dreamt it as in Western Europe trams don't run after midnight normally, a few minutes later I heard it again, looked out of the window to see an empty tram passing, they run 24/7 there. After communism fell, the state which formerly owned all property disappeared, and people bought houses and flats for peanuts. Even now young Eastern Europeans are able to outright buy or have new properties built after working 5 years in the UK or other Western European countries. Don't feel sorry for them. I used to feel sorry for some Polish alcoholics who looked like they were homeless in the Netherlands, until one of them showed me a photo of his - not his family's but his own personal - 3 story house with large garden back in Poland, which he had been given by a relative, which was empty. A lot of them have flats or houses in cities which they rent out while they come to work or not even work in Western Europe. Most of them have less worries than West Europeans and North Americans now. The boot is on the other foot now.

Joke's on you. I did.

@garlandgarrison3739

Жыл бұрын

Impossible......

nice videos but cut the AI

@renesagahon4477

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Sorry to say

15:15 face palm Soviet Union existed for 70 years. What time period are you talking about?

I never thought you would look how you do, good suprise tho your the goat the infographics show wishes

great illustrations

The 1000th like! Also Living in the Soviet Union during the Stalin Era or as I call it, the Devil's Era you had nothing but the Grim Reaper breathing down your neck every single day.

@guycrew3973

8 ай бұрын

Yeah no wonder after his death the USSR immediately went into a de stalinzation period

I love the way you're doing your videos now

Another awesome history.😁👍.

Thank you good sir 🙏🏾

Great video. I was about 16 when it happened but didn't pay enuff attention. I learned alot

Big love from Estonia, love youre videos.

Thank you.

Can you do a video about the very first insurrection in the US that happened in 1807

I was sitting next to a guy from Russia on a flight. He was from Siberia and was flying home to his wife. She was from Siberia. They met in a bar in Seattle

I have no link to the Soviet Union but students of my country. They used to go to deepen their studies there! I remember one of them, returning from the Soviet Union, reporting to me that the wears there were expensive and nobody could buy them. He reported me too, that all the years studying in Moscow, he and other students, were provided only with milk and chicken, all long he was there! He got married with a russian woman, and lived in the appartment of her parents, because a couple has to wait years, before obtaining an appartment! 😥👀 It was at the beginning of the 80s!

@guycrew3973

8 ай бұрын

You know the sad part couples having to wait years before being able to get an apartment is becoming the norm

Please, do not tattoo Stalin nor Coca Cola on your body.

They survived by leaving the USSR.

@danielvictor3262

Жыл бұрын

Those child prostitutes and drug traffickers gotta be so thankful for the US giving the USSR economic shock therapy huh

@tiggie_96

Жыл бұрын

@@fuckdoicare you’re better off in the Gulag than LA nowadays

@darthsilversith667

Жыл бұрын

Right. What these socialists ignore is that you never see people risking life and limb to leave America or other western countries.. but you certainly see people risking it all to leave socialist countries alllll the time. That right there should tell you everything you need to know about socialism.

@Anarkitty420

Жыл бұрын

@@tiggie_96 you must be extremely privileged to even be able to think that

@Anarkitty420

Жыл бұрын

@@darthsilversith667 there have only been shitty socialist countries, but socialism doesn’t have to be Leninist or Stanilist. Sadly it has never been tried.

Your overdoing it with the AI content in your videos, quantity is not more important than quality.

@renesagahon4477

Жыл бұрын

Eventually he might see the light ……when he starts losing subscribers

Mikhail Gorbachev had a "port wine" birthmark.

Well I actually did 😂

...are we that sure coke hasnt ended more people than stalin?

Has Coke not kill millions?

My family survived it from beginning to end. 2 World Wars and the collapse! Now in the USA.

Russia is as weird/wild as it is intriguing.

I'd say the number one reason I couldn't exist there is I don't speak the local language and everyone is terrible

That first sentence kinda reminds me of the UK ATM... Revolution probably coming soon if things don't improve.

10:40 says he says 1891

I learn a lot of things in Nutty History. Would one survive in present North Korea?

@kylehammond8091

Жыл бұрын

Considering they are eating lawn clippings, I’d say no. 😕

I was impressed that you pronounced Yeltsin correctly given your history of criminal pronunciations and then...Yelstin. Very entertaining though.

Take down that Wall..it was great to watch...

Hey, I DID survive it! My mental health got messed up though.

@afookingarcher7195

Жыл бұрын

Same! I got orphaned for it.

@guycrew3973

8 ай бұрын

@@afookingarcher7195damn what happened?

Gorbachev did a Pizza Hut commercial. Pepsi sold their drink for an aircraft carrier. Russia preferred Pepsi! 😊

@evelynzlon9492

Жыл бұрын

Suddenly I have a taste for Pizza Hut. I almost forgot how rich and buttery their pizza crust is. They say the Russian Communist Party was a puppet for the Christian Church all along anyway. Amongst other similarities they cried poverty but in fact enjoyed abundance and luxury like the Catholic clergy. I personally know this guy who's a professional singer/songwriter but served as an unofficial German diplomat to China as far back as the '80's. I'm pretty sure he was a fake poor fake garage band leader too. Plus he told me to my face that he was a redneck. Coca-Cola in particular stole all the water from a lake near their Mexican production plant. This placed the Mexicans under additional survival stress and all Hell unraveled including a booming illegal slave trade across the US border. They still do stuff to blacks too.

How can nationality be wiped out? Citizenship, yes. But nationality stays with you until death.

Was anyone else paying attention when he said 1891?😂😂

I lived in the Soviet Union, in Feodosiya, Ukraine. I remember the paper money became so worthless people used it as wallpaper. Bread was valuable and we never had meat. Every now and then we’d have stewed goose necks.

Soviet citizens survived fine but yeah my parents moved to the Philippines in 1985. Apparently was wrong timing as month later the EDSA Revolution happened and partially helped by the local communists.

Just wanted to let the Channel or someone know that in the video at about 10:21 mins it says "1891" instead of "1991". Seems a bit of a difference 😘

That intro sounds familiar 🤔

I'd put a pitchfork and club, and horse and plow symbol on my sub and put it in a forest paintball field by my forge probably, while some doctors like to do underwater therapy and things. I'm not sure if a singing revolution and not getting run over by tanks would work as well these days though, or at least not my favorite way of winning independance anyway?

the first minute kind of describes the usa in some places 🤣

Lol 90,000 stazi informants. Sound familiar? We don’t need to dismantle the FBI, just call them as they are, Stazi

Why you wouldn’t survive in the Soviet Union: Cold 🥶 lol I would be dead sooner than everyone. Can’t do cold weather 😂

Wow. Finally seeing the narrator is _weird._ 😂

The first 20 second's sound's like the America I live in now at least the direction it's heading 🤦🤦🤷🤷

Bio 3 puta u doba socijalizma i sve je stvarnost i navikli na takav život

How you survive is you steal and barter.

Good video, ditch the AI. It sucks and brings an otherwise well put together work, down.

Did he say August 1891 instead of 1991😮? 10:39

Good history/ autobiography shows what communism does to a country. It’s called Forgive Me Natasha by Sergi Kourdakov and has another title called The Persecuter. It’s about an orphan boy who loses his whole family during Stalin purges and purges after Stalin died. He became #1 communist youth leader, worked for secret police, & eventually defected to Canada

Why did Stalin sound like a cowboy?

I wanna say i did survive it but i was safely in the states

Russia in the 90s and no mention of the Russian mob?

Nikita Khruschev while speaking at the UN told the US "We Will Bury You". Look around?

Remember all of this.

Why you wouldn't survive in the projects... imagine living in a concrete jungle with subzero temperatures and you have no food to eat.

ITS COLD

Dammit senor Gorbachev. Tear down that wall. Yall no its over

The collapsed was due to the being bankrupted by the arms race. The things you mentioned are the effects and not the causes

I wouldve never been there. The USSR was suckiness level 1000.

I was born also in Soviet Union and Im pretty much alive

It should be titled “ The collapse of the Soviet Union”.

the era you couldn't survive is the stalin era

If I survived New jersey and Atlanta, I can survive the u s s r

it's 2023 and cold war propaganda still prevail

Wow this was a good video. I think I will send it to my daughter who doesn't quite get why I am not big on even Socialism. She was born in 99' no big surprise. I am glad KZread brought you up.👍🏼💐

@debbylou5729

Жыл бұрын

It won’t matter….I’ve seen members of that age group argue with actual refugees

@Honeybeerose88

9 ай бұрын

What was happening in the USSR wasn’t the true ideals of communism or socialism, it was totalitarian communism which is a different and much more dangerous form of government. Capitalism isn’t safe either though and our two party system and elites in government is becoming frightening here.

Now, Putin is falling back on his autocratic tendencies in Russia.

Why WOULD you want to survive in the Soviet Union in the first place. … unless you had plenty of vodka and a blindfold ! DA?

3:55 Why do you shame people who have a birth mark?

@ 10:40 - 10:42 !🤔🙃

Because I’m a gigantic wuss. Next question.

I Thank the Lord, I wasn't born in Russia!

I was born there 😅

Please, please stop with the creepy talking pictures. It stops your momentum in its tracks.

Sounds and feels like a Western propaganda piece. Their own people live 1 salary/payment away from homelessness, and they blame the Soviet Union for it! I would love to be given a free apartment like they did in the old Soviet Union. I have worked in the US for 20 years, and I have certainly earned one.

But I did survive and so is my wife.

It dont take much time to figure out that capitalists would not survive very long in Russia. Thats my 2 pennies.

Communism/socialism works so well that it needs to be enforced on people! A true paradise,indeed!!