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I was depressed: therapy didn’t fix it, exercise didn’t fix it, relaxing outdoors didn’t help. My depression ended when I met my girlfriend and got an increase in my income Money may not be able to buy happiness, but a lack of the stuff causes it. I don’t think about money anymore, I am still poor, but I have enough to live a minimalist lifestyle without tight budgets

Banger video! ~3:00 Glad you included a poster like that among them (and translated them)! From ~1956 on, I'm thinking posters similar to that one probably weren't as much of a thing, if you catch my drift [and "de-Stalinization" was really de-Leninization]. Also, love your fit, and the matching eyeshadow and stuff. You looked very nice :) [And the "gay and correct" was awesome, haha.]

The most radical difference the western entertaiment media have compared to USSR are the "superhero" idea. In USSR there could be no "superhero". It could and would be a hero, but he will be regular guy made hard descision and being better version of himself. And even there, he will do only what he can, but eventually will be supported by other people (or die trying, like Nipper-Pipper). It is never be a solo magically-evermighty hero who will save the day, so you don't even have to try if you have no such powers. No, it always has been a message that every one could be a hero, when courage combined with competence. I'm telling it as a USSR child brushed with such amazing and glimmering western media in an age of teen and learned a conception of super-hero for the 1st time.

hey hey hey. hold on. you confuse 'private property' with 'private ownership of means of production'. that's not the same thing

"What propaganda films teach us about the ideology it's lying about"

Amazing content ❤

Bump, for content with a wonderful message.

The easiest way to get rich in a capitalist society is to sell the Das Kapital

I'm working on it. Trying to get people to talk more.

i love this

Soviet child media is an extremely interesting topic. So I think there is one more topic that can be discussed: vision of the future in soviet science fiction (like “Guest from the future” or “Third planet’s mystery”). Do you have some plans on covering this topic in your analysis?

need commie gf (send your worst)

SELL ШАРИК!!!!

in Brazil we had our version of the "bremen musicians" called "os salimbancos", it was a musical adaptation for children's theater made by chico buarque, and in this version the animals are not only expelled from their homes by their owners, but then they meet again and decide to take revenge by expelling them from a mansion that belonged to them, this version is a criticism of the military and the bourgeoisie who took over the country between 1964 - 1985, and each animal represented a class: the donkey - the field workers, the dogs - the lower clergy of the military, generally small and not very powerful police officers, many of whom did not want to join the regime and were expelled, the chicken - the factory working class and the cat - the artists class, many artists of the time were against the regime and many were expelled from the country or arrested and tortured (or even killed) just like anyone else against the regime at that time

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thank you for pointing that book out, i could only find a audio book with a comically cheap sounding A.I. voice made only 2 weeks ago. The Soviets Expected it By Anna Louise Was a true masterpiece.

Gen A is growing up fully aware that the world as we know it is going to end within their lifetime. Millenials were promised the world... it was a lie. MilZs saw the betrayal, Gen z knew it was a lie, and gen A cant imagine ever believing it.

If you ever do a part 2 I’d love to hear your analysis on The light blue puppy Africa story The Khalif-stork I think the first two are good for this type of video and the last one can be squeezed in there

Please do more of these, even films meant for adult audiences. It is always fascinating to see how different cultural choices can affect how it functions and the character of its citizens. Actually, I have heard of Lev Vygotsky. I learned about him when I was learning to become a teacher, and he was one of my favorite child psychologists.

I really do believe that Soviet Culture is going to influence more and more future creative projects in the United States, the more and more accessable they've become on the Internet, their uniqueness, creativity, and style will become more seen throughout other work.

This was a fun watch and if I can find these I'll check em out. I was also constantly looking at my tattoo of Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse duo: Worker and Parasite! (It's from a Simpsons episode and I got them on a banner as a tattoo as a low key communist high key Simpsons fan thing)

19:09 Being from Russia, I have never once seen this in practice. Of course I really appreciate that this was written in theory but the practice has been pretty much the exact opposite. That said, I do see socialists in the West treating children with a lot of respect. Overall a very nice video. I grew up with soviet cartoons and can confirm that they're wonderful and teach great lessons. It's also refreshing to see a video promoting socialism without any delusional harmful garbage like praising Lenin, Stalin or Soviet government as if it was the best thing since sliced bread.

7:21 the cop bumping his head. 😆

Stay strong humanity :D

10:37 Something about this is giving me a strange case of daja vu and I know why. The Fearless Four is a very similar concept..... and I'm sure a LOT of drugs were involved. Actually this looks like it was made on drugs too.

I am Cuban and I remember growing up on "muñequitos rusos" or "Russian cartoons" as we collectively called all the animations from the socialist camp, from Hungary to Czechoslovakia, from GDR to Poland, and of course from the USSR, they were all a major part of my childhood.

This is such a great video essay.

Love what you do. Thank you

Dope analysis. ! I'm a finance graduate and have been burned by capitalism way too many times. Learning more about other finance systems and never noticed the capitalist critique of my beloved movie

I am from the country that sent some american news in frenzy because we depicted a magic phallus as a main part of a children's show.

It has always shocked me how much American media pushes consumerism and greed even over individuality.

How do you think Revisionism in the CPSU under Khrushchev and Brezhnev affected the socialistic themes of Soviet cartoons, especially considering the argument that the Khrushchev coup of 1956 spelled the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR?

Can we see a cartoon about Gorbachev and Yeltsin? lol

Like Oscar Wilde, there's a whole school of thought within anarchism that focuses on the super individualist perspective, like Stirner's ideas such as Union of Egoists. While most of them are more market-socialist oriented, there were also more communism-oriented individualist-anarchists like Emma Goldman

What a contrast to the kind of Animation we grew up with in West Germany, which above all were violent (i.e. Tom & Jerry) or enforced capitalist worldviews (there is always a company and a boss). Thank you so much for introducing these animations to us. Your summaries alone made me both laugh and cry. I can confirm what was said about the people in socialist countries being more caring for one another. I live in China and although China has adopted certain capitalist characteristics, the solidarity among the people is still very strongly to be felt if one gets close to them or is in need of help. It's a very different mentality. I always hope they can keep this mentality and not become too influenced by the Western ways. As you mentioned Harry Potter I would love to see a video about Harry Potter from a socialist view, but then all your videos are always inspiring, so I have no doubt whatever you'll do next will be just as good. 🙂

I'm so pissed. I share all your videos, but I have no friends. The fact that you only have 10.6k subs just goes to show that life it's self is an injustice and I hate it... Love your videos and thank you.

Bruh, the rant about capitalism making everyone an asshole. Real shit. You could do a whole video on that.

I wish there were more people like you in real life

You know that's not how it worked though right?

Funny enough, niece of Nikolay 2 Наталья Александровна Андросова - урождённая княжна Наталья Александровна Искандер-Фурманова, lived in USSR pretty pleasant life, loved the country and the government. She worked in circus and rode a motorcycle on the walls😅

Soviet animation is so cool. It always seems to have this wistful feel to it, like the actions of the characters take place outside the constraints of time

Based! I'm going to have to track these down! I'd also recommend the soviet version of treasure island (Остров Сокровищ)

10:15 There was private property in Ussr , owned personaly by the owner like watches , houses , diches . The State only controles the means of production like factories By the way , if there was personal personnal , stealing was illegal and puniched by prison in peace time and execution in war time (ww2) I am not anti communist , communist have done great things by also commited atrocites in the cold war , both sides comited, Im only siting historical facts

Love the cartoons. I think tho they didn't quite reflect Soviet reality but that's another story 😉

Hate privliged ass westerners and russians glorifying the USSR dictatorship while sitting in their cozy little apartments crying about how horrible capitalism is. Also cool how you have hundreds of posts about palestine in your profiles, but not a single one about Ukraine. How come?

I can just see how behaviours are different between eastern european and western people my parents show behaviours of being more lax about borrowing things while english friends of mine could never thing of stealing or borrowing things

I grew up with these and comparing to the western children media of the 2010s communist shows and movies held up extremely well

When I was a kid, I mostly watched Looney Tunes and stuff like that. These characters like the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and so on, would always be getting into fights and trying to kill each other. It was mostly just tons of senseless violence but it was made to look fun and entertaining. I am American, obviously. I never really thought about what values that glorified until just now when you asked that in this video. Heh, it is funny now that I think back on it, how messed up a lot of the stuff the American media promotes is that I saw as a kid. When I got a little older I watched shows like South Park, Futurama, or Family Guy, and, umm... yeah they kinda are just more sophisticated versions of what happened in Looney Tunes... it seems like all of American animation is like that. I guess that is why I prefer Japanese anime, it has such richer storytelling and isn’t just nihilistic humor, and has much more variety of genres to it, and much more creativity in the writing. But I have to say, these Soviet animations are very charming and I wish I could watch them with English subtitles. I have also seen other animation from countries like France and mainland China, and it is also quite charming too, although not promoting socialist values the same way as Soviet animations. Although if you watch enough Japanese anime, you will see quite a few critiques of things like capitalism, Japanese society, and American imperialism that turns Japan into essentially a U.S. colony. A lot of times it is not explicitly stated in anime but a bit more subtle. Most of the Chinese animation I have seen is part of a genre about Taoism and things like cultivating immortality, very similar to fantasy anime except with Taoist inspiration instead of Shinto and Buddhist. It is a bit different because the concept of cultivating immortality is unique to Taoism. I am a little surprised that Chinese animation doesn’t do more to try to promote communism or anything. It seems like the government of China doesn’t actually control the messages in Chinese animation, at least not the Chinese animation I see, which is almost all made by the company Bilibili, a for-profit company based in Shanghai, which I think is one of those special economic zones that is quite capitalist.

A bear for the algorithm! 🐻

Worked in a used bookstore and collected unusual (and unusual foreign) kids' books, I had two Soviet-era Russian kids books that were about a crocodile that was in the Army (?) and a book about why you should become an Olympic athlete. I think, since I can't read them and would only go by the pictures. These were high quality kids' books and on par with anything America printed.