Do rural Russians want the USSR back?
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Same video from Moscow:
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Rural Russians playlist:
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Could you ask the rural people if they see China as a friend or ally . It would put a perspective on more things
Hey Daniil, I’ve been thinking for a while now, are you guys not also at risk of getting mobilized? What will you do if it happens? Will you go to Ukraine or try and escape?
Could you please ask for Russian opinion on PACT invasion on Czechoslovakia 1968. I heard russians are taught their own version, where they went there to fight against some NATO forces or an armed insurrection. I am sure that your Czech and Slovak viewers would appreciate it.
Back in the USSR: th-cam.com/video/XN8Dm4oJysA/w-d-xo.html
Учитывая, что вы снимаете на ядринском, не могли бы вы снять видео с вопросами на чувашском? Эпĕ чăвашла вĕренетĕп.
"Everyone was working! Even the kids!"
Ah! What a time to be alive!
Being a hard worker, a workaholic, is smth that people in Russia take pride in. Yes, even to the extent that they believe it is better to teach your kids hard work than for the kids to be lazy
@@NeroNich Being hard working person isn't bad, but not to perversed extreme.
Crazy to me!
Don't get me wrong I agree. Just trying to understand all the ussr born and raised Russians. Which comes really hard for me.
I live in a modern European country. I worked in shops, factories etc. during my holidays from the age of fifteen. Overall, it was beneficial and a good life experience. I definitely wouldn’t change it.
I am from Moldova ( it was a part of the USSR) and the condition of the country definitely went downhill after USSR. I am from a small village that was prospering in the 60/70s, but now, everything is closing down, people are leaving to go abroad and the country is slowly dying. I think it is because we just can not provide for ourselves, in the USSR we were in a union and we helped each other , but Moldova alone can not survive. There is a similar situation in most of the post- Soviet countries. You can dislike the Soviet regime but the living conditions of poor countries like Moldova have changed to the worse
bro feel you. my city once used to make airplane engines and trains for the nation, the population was nearing 500,000 . After the fall it all rapidly changed. Some folks even stole our wires to run our already decaying trams. WIth the war in ukraine it also cascaded.
@@arseniipianykh8425 thats sound depressing
Yes the USSR wasn’t as flashy and attractive as the West BUT people actually had lives back then. One question I think many post Soviet and Soviet citizens failed to ask is “How many Americans/West Germans own Sports Cars, Gold watches and nice Houses?”
I think modern day Moldovans are actually living the American life…worse of course but the truth is? Many Americans are actually poor.
During the Cold War the West made sure to make themselves look prosperous. Especially to East Germans so naturally Soviet citizens and East Germans really wanted to live the Western life and see what it was like. Spoiler alert Capitalist Western life isn’t all that it’s cut out to be and many who used to support Gorbachev/Yeltsin still regret the transition.
This isn’t even counting the people who hated the Soviet breakup altogether and still know their Country was taken from them.
Yep that's what my Moldovan cabbie in Dublin, Ireland told me, almost exactly.
That has nothing to do with the USSR, but with politicians stealing every single Penny of your taxes and building themselves expensive Mansions and Yachts.
And with no government cracking down on those thoeves, because the government itself is 90% corrupt, the stealing increases more and more.
Moldova actually has much more money than before. But it doesn't stay with the ordinary people in Moldova, it wanders into someone's pocket.
Exactly like with Yeltsin in Russia.
They stole everything that was not tied down or bolted down and drove the country into the ground to become super rich.
That's why it's going downhill.
The government was replaced by thieves.
the video you showed (about food shortage) is literally soon after the USSR collapsed. it’s from the 90s, about the economic loss due to the installation of the RF
people also have no idea that the famines that happened during the USSR were absolutely nothing compared to the famines that happened in the same area previously
Rf ?
@@thethirdwheel4758 Famines were exist in Russia before USSR also! Most part of the country was under the snow for 9 months a year! During USSR one major famine happened in 1920-22 and another one created by western academics ( according to legends,its happened in Ukraine in 1933-34. in reality they legalised Ukrainian SS war criminals as Holodomor victims).
Russian Federation @@PotionsMaster666
@@PotionsMaster666 Russian Federation
Many of the comments are not specific to USSR/Russia. Probably many people who have known the 70's and 80's in Canada as I did would say the same. Life was easier, people were more friendly and were visiting each other, etc. The pace of time was different and life was less stressful than today. But at the same time, there have been many improvements on other aspects. But for these people in rural Russia, their nostalgia of the USSR might be because their hasn't been so many improvements of their conditions in the last 3 decades.
Those people just have false memories _and_ do not know the _real_ life in the USSR: crime was high but not exposed in media, etc.
@@foilcap crimes officially started after collapse then you can't call a majority of people's memories false, all they know is what they experienced, all you know about them is what you read: take a minute think if the capitalist media we most probably heard, had any reason to praise the Workers Union (USSR)
@@vincentmwangi5968 I quite well remember life in the USSR since 1960's. So I think that I know what I'm talking about. You'd get mugged in Leningrad's parks in daylight and nobody would even think to go to a militia (police) and complain - they would not do anything. All serious crime stats were secret.
If it was still the time of USSR, there would be a heck of a lot less cars on the roads. One's that were not broke down anyways.
I disagree. Half of my family comes from Yugoslavia. They came to Germany and immediately noticed the negatives of capitalism. In socialism, they might have been poor, yet things were simple, uncomplicated, free. I hear similar reports from people from Eastern Germany. They have more bananas now but everything is expensive. Bureaucracy rules. There are no fair chances, just like before.
The nostalgia for the Soviet Union makes sense to me. In the rural areas, they have no money or future, hence all the affluence of capitalism remains out of reach. Whereas under Soviet rule, you may have had to wait in line for an apartment or a car, but so did everyone else. You simply didn't feel as poor as people do today
@Darcy And yet that guy is the one paying for it...
No really think about it, how is it "unfair" ? it's the guys who pay for that and that's why it's a successful business.
robray111 Your extremely right, They were WAY TOO RIGID, but evreyone had the basic needs
@Darcy and why is it the fault of the girl PROVIDING THE SERVICE?
Don't you mind that other services are expensive? every service and thing has its price!
this value is not formed on the spur of the moment. no one is forcing the guy to buy this service, it's his OWN decision.
for some reason he does not buy a yacht, car or other expensive thing, or an expensive plane ticket to fly to a place where his work pays better or does not try to save these funds to get a better education and earn more
after all, he does not take an example from the girl, and does not offer his services in order to earn well and not to be jealous of this girl.
No. he chooses to hate the girl for her work. (and this is work and service, obviously in high demand)
so why are you accusing a girl who works honestly and earns HER money?!
maybe the guy should think about his life?
ugh
In USSR, you could forget about your needs and focus on your wants , especially in knowledge and skills . I studied in USSR , i didn't pay a penny . Now when my kids study , the prices aren't very friendly
I agree absolutely. I lived in the USSR. I was 14 when it collapsed, but I remember those times very well. All people were equally poor, and they simply did not envy each other.
ya'll need to be less rude when interviewing people on the street, you need to respect their opinions and not cut them off with your opinions.
the guys recording and asking the questions are obviously total losers
Rude? Hardly. They are asking pointed questions, and challenging the people they're interviewing, with the facts of the repressive and unpleasant aspects of the USSR. This is legitimate reporting.
@@hebneh I'd say it's, if not rude, then at least extremely biased to immediately repudiate the opinions of people who actually lived through the USSR. After all, the interviewers are too young to have ever experienced it and only understand the USSR through modern media (extreme anti-communism). You'll notice that a common theme with these interviews is almost all people old enough to have lived in the USSR think it was better and almost all people too young to have experienced it somehow know better, that it was terrible and capitalism is great actually. Personally, I defer to the opinions of the elders, and the historical facts.
@@alexjeffrey3981what the fuck would you know about the reporters' age?
@@astro_mapping1 I'm gonna guess you've not seen their other videos.
Now ask a Pole. Almost overnight, life dramatically improved. Stores had more goods, people moved around freely, attended church without fear, and smiled. We know our bondage was finally over. Russia needs to try to put themselves in the shoes of others if it wishes to gain perspective on the ussr. For them, it was about power and prestige. For all non Russians, it was a brutal suffering which is waited every day to come to an end. 😊
This is the best comment to explain the USSR.
But there was a segment of the population who longed for the ease of those days - back when it was tough in Poland- the late 90s or so. It was a struggle here and many felt the system was against them. We once had a young man who was working in a store like Home Depot tell us no one could get ahead unless they stole (here in Poland). We felt like things changed so fast and so many people were not ready for it economically or educationally or mentally - and many fell behind. It's as if, as a country, they were trying to go from living in the 50's to the 90's (in the US) in 2 years - or even 10...and it was difficult for many, many people. And yes, some people longed for the days under communism. Not now, though - haven't heard anyone longing for those days for many years now. (Americans living in Poland since 1994)
I wouldn't say everything dramatically improved. 90s were mostly a dark time of poverty and misery, add to that the capitalistic mindset that now broke many families apart and you have a screwed up generation. And no, I don't miss the Soviet times but let's not be ridiculous.
USSR was basically parasiting by Russians on other nations.
I read about polish history that was written by finnish university. The amount of detail in history including Putinism era, I do indeed feel relieved for Poland that you managed to endure the horrible era like that. It was real rough to read that I had to loan the book for 2 months.
I am from the Czech Republic and I remember 1989 vividly - everybody around me was so happy when communism collapsed. The one big error I made was assuming that Russians were happy too - I thought they too would be happy to get rid of the totalitarian regime and have democracy so they can build something better out of their country. Things improved so much here - when I was a kid everything was grey and falling apart, stores empty... and we did not even have some great governments after the fall of communism - some politicians were corrupt, and still things improved... if Russians had half-decent governments, with their resources they could be one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world. Why do they insist on ruining everything for themselves? And why do they always have to export that misery to others? For fu*k's sake, why?!
Good question. They seem to be happy that way.
Submissive culture. They're born to follow, not question.
Putin is secretly known to be the richest man in world. He and his bandits rape Russia.
And even after decades, I still heard from certain family members that Polish people are so bad, and Chezch people are so lazy, Latvians hate Russians, Lithuanians are rude etc. However, whenever I talked to people, I got the impressuon things weren't quite adding up. Chezch people seemed to be reacting to "ruRussian history" like "yea, they don't kniw what really happened", Latvian people never treated me badly, Americans treated me very well... hating on all of them seemed very strange. As an adult, I began seeing more and more through the Russian lies
Nobody cares good or bad communism was...Russians want better life..they were betrayed as usual. By who?....probably by West.
The work of Daniil and the guys cannot be appreciated enough. Nowhere else do you get such a deep and up-to-date insight into life in Russia. Thanks, guys!
Daniil gave an interview 2 days ago with Canadian TV and showed his frozen village and some other clips from his posts. I think he is endangering his life by giving interviews with foreign media. He did not say anything about Putin being bad. he said one thing very correctly people don't blamed Putin, but his authorities.
@@bazlurr yea, was surprised that he shows his face at the beginning of each vid
Agreed, this channel is very important for the population of the world right now.
Daniil is nothing but a traitor to his motherland because of western propaganda
The two women outside the store were wrong. American Lend Lease started in 1941 and was being shipped over via Alaska. However, the Soviet and Russian government didn’t want the people to know the contributions to USSR via Lathes, tanks, Jeep’s, planes and trucks. Many of these people being interviewed seem somewhat bitter and broken. Many elderly appear rife with contempt for a lost country and pursuit of broken dreams gone the way of a real or perceived Empire. I’m rather perplexed at the mention many seem the USA is the source of their woes. These productions as well as others are giving good insight on the bleak, “apolitical, apathetic, neutral, “I’m not political” disconnect of the citizen to the government and history of the USSR and Russian Federation. It appears there’s a lot of resignation with regard to their lives and country. Keep up the good work 1420. Scary times for Russia and indeed the world.
These women certainly do not know that Russia invaded Poland on September 17, 1939 and celebrated it with the Germans with a joint parade.
It's what they learned in school.
The Russian media and education system don't mention inconvenient truths. It's a bit like the Republican mindset in the U.S.A. trying to whitewash how America treated Africans and Native Indians in the past.
Totally agree, as the Murmansk convoys were running in 1941, my Dad being one of the RN sailors escorting them.
@@tonybaker55 my Dad was in the merchant navy, he was torpedoed 3 times while he was on the Mermanks convoys, he ones was arrested and put in a jail cell, they though that he was a German spy, probably couldn't understand his Geordie accent
I went to Russia for the first time in 2003. I met a lot of wonderful people for 8 following years with a lot of travelling and working in sports all over Russia. I even trained a russian women sport team for 15 months in Moscow. I am still in close contact to 10 or 12 of my sport friends in three different cities in Russia although I have not been to the country in the last 10 years.
The people I got in contact were open, friendly and never thought of a good time while talking about the USSR. They accepted me although I am german as a true friend. For some of them I am still a very close friend, as we had such a great time in sports together! I showed them that life can always be so great when all the people work together - Жизнь Прекрасна - I always said as their trainer. The mood of the Russians changed a lot to the bad in the last 10 years of Putin's leadership. There is no positive feeling anymore. Just some kind of despair and abandonment, fear and caution. Sad, sad, sad........
I've learned that many Russians who do not speak a foreign language or have not been outside the former Soviet Union can be quite xenophobic and anxious. That is maybe the reason why Putin and his Entourage still has a strong support.
Thank you for writing I am happy to hear light I have seen a TV show here in Sweden called a Viking's journey where two Norwegians take a boat and go all the way down to the Black Sea from the Baltic Sea and I just learned from the film and see wonderful people how helpful Russian seriously and also other countries going with the whole channel down you are so right in What you say I also know Russians I have met them in games There are wonderful people still today but people are afraid people are blind and They are afraid because they don't know what's around the corner and Putin is scaring all the people that the west is dangerous We don't want any harm I feel you have a big heart It was nice to hear Thank you for writing Is it good or Ok then you are quiet and then you are my neighbor I am a Swedish citizen of Gothenburg
Good analysis. I think you hit the nail on the head.
God bless Putin from Denmark.
@@marshuswp3325 no not at all lol putin gained lots of support for getting russia through the worst of the 90’s and back to a world power, and if you look at his approvals now it’s up to around the highest it’s ever been. there is a disconnect between what westoids think the russians want and what the russians ACTUALLY want. we need to remember that for many of these people the ussr is their true motherland, and a better time for many things. the soviet union was comprised of 15 countries, during the ussr you were free to travel and work in any of these countries as you were a citizen of the greater union as well as your ssr and while the majority of people were not rich by any measure the majority of people were at least equally poor and when russia went to capitalism it was just a handful of oligarchs that came in and robbed all the wealth, leaving the people more poor than they were before. while younger generations may not have lived through those times, to older citizens it would be the biggest of betrayals losing their motherland and then the poverty that followed. i am in no way a supporter of communism, but we have just as many problems here, they are just different issues or the same issues in a different tune. every system has things that are better about it, as well as worse, and for a lot of these people the soviet union at least brought a sense of pride, stability and patriotism which is why they look back fondly on it. people like to bring up the gulags as if we don’t have people jailed wrongly here every day, as if we don’t have our own political prisoners. i would even argue we have more problems here in the west then they did, wether it’s social or economical does not matter, we are self destructing here just as they did. and as far as food goes, they are correct, here the producers are more worried about how they can make food quick and cheap so we are eating a lot of very unhealthy chemicals and products that otherwise would never been considered edible, look at how obese the united states population is compared to russia, that’s partially portions, but also a testament to the quality of food people are eating. many issues to talk about, but the idea that they were freed from an oppressive regime and they should have nothing to be reminiscent of or sad about losing is just absurd. people here look back to better times too, it’s human nature and times were probably better back then for all of us… it is funny to read the comments and see just how ignorant we are in the west to the way the rest of the world lives/wants to live. we are not the pillar of everything that’s right and good in the world, a good amount of people here hate the way things have been going yet we insist the rest of the world do everything just as we do.
@@yggdrasild755 well then invite him to Denmark and elect him president. I think you should have what you like.
These guys are very audacious to go in public with this stuff.
🤣 "very brave"
I think they're safe since they're not saying anything against the current government/leadership
@@Cacofonicoasimetrico They are though, they risk prosecution
much much braver is Kanye West
@@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla Not really. For one thing, from what I've observed, bipolar disorder can give false courage and make you reckless by taking the filter off your words and behaviour. For another thing, living in the US, no matter how much social disapproval he might meet with, he's unlikely to be dragged off, beaten, tortured and possibly disposed off out of a window, poisoned or shot multiple times in an unfortunate 'suicide' for expressing his views.
Nostalgia is the strongest drug.
Nostalgia for the USSR is not nostalgia for the past but for the lost future ;)
No I think Vodka is the strongest drug.
@@gerardoguaran6356 glad it was dissolved hahahahahahahha
@@samhoward7418 good for you. By the way, so many "hahaha's" make you look like a schizophrenic. Are you okay, champ?
@@samhoward7418 says the American, you don’t always decide what’s good or not my friend
It’s nice to see a “behind the scenes” look at how you make your videos! Cheers to you Danill and your friends! You are all providing quite a service to the world
I could be wrong, but I swear 90% of the guys they interview out in the rural areas are inebriated
And 50 percent of the babushkas too. It's both weird and sad at the same time. Alcohol in those amounts makes you feel like death and makes your life fall apart. The hangovers alone limit me from drinking that much more than once.
@@Stephen85 you don’t get hangovers when you’re always drunk. They’re like 98 years old. I don’t think they’re life is falling apart now.
@@Lepocoloco no it fell apart decades ago. I don't think the drunk ones are in their 90's either. They just look 20 or 30 years older than they are from staying piss drunk all the time. Every bit as bad as crack heads and junkies in my opinion.
hahahaha it seems to me you are drunk that you write like that without understanding the speech that the person is drunk
There's nothing else to do out there but drink and hope to die.
You should ask them do they think people in former soviet Republics or in Eastern Europe want the Soviet Union back
I don't think those people are able to give a proper awnser
Russian people DO NOT KNOW that many other ex soviet countries were basically occupied by ussr and their citizens were suffering. Even till this day Russian people believe that many eastern European people have negative feelings towards Russia because of so called russophobia and western influence.
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o True but it is a reasonable guess as it's unlikely they were really informed of how folks in those places viewed the USSR. That said I would like to hear their answers
No, we don't want it back. I live in the post-soviet country, and I didn't need to pay for my studies (both bachelor and master), also you can find a job, but you need to put some effort into looking for it. No one is going to bring it to you.
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o не считаю. Говорю маме "А как же гулаг? А как же оккупация ссср балтийских стран?" Она чуть плакать не начала, сказала, что я западной пропаганды насмотрелся
The illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union was one the worst tragedies of recent times.
The Russian Revolution was one of the worst tragedies of recent times, the worst is the Enlightenment.
According to who or what?
Oh i guess you legally annexed eastern europe, caucasus, and central asia?
- The rich dont understand to the poors
+ maybe you just need become in a rich
Your answer its really ridiculous, take learn of the older, please. 🤦♂️
I really love this video. All the people seemed to enjoy this question and reminisce about history. They also seemed pretty friendly considering that they were saying it was a thing of the past. Cool to see you guys at work on the snowy streets.
I remember when this channel was about the opinions of people in Russia, now it seems like a debate between the interviewee who is in support of the USSR and the interviewer who is feeding people American propaganda.
"American propaganda" lol
Ну да, ну да, все кто Совок ненавидят - это они распространяют американскую пропаганду. Например русские националисты, воюющие на Донбассе
yes exactly. these kids think they know more about the Soviet Union than all the people who lived in it 😂😂
@@renovatio93 Soviet Union was shit, it just so happens that Russia is also shit, so shit when you’re young seems better than shit when you’re old. Simple explanation. They also have no comparison because most Russians don’t really leave the country. There you go.
This whole channel is about spreading Russophobia and Red Scare McCarthyism.
wow - another perfect documentary insight into life in Russia. People often discount provincial Russia but it is clear that there is a wide mix of views. Some people clearly know exactly what is going on. And it is heartbreaking to see and hear at the same time. :(
oh a liberal genius from U$ or UK who knows exactly "what is going on."
"It wasn't the Soviet Union it was communism". I don't know what that comment means. I got some studying to do.
@@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla I was referring to one old lady in the video who was asked if she want to go back to the times of Stalin and she simply replied "No, no, no". Is she the liberal genius that you refer to? She is in rural Russia, not US or UK.
A lot of these Russians are far more aware of "what is going on" in Russia, than people in the west know "what's going on". The amount of people in the west who comply with governments who openly admit that their agenda is white replacement, and covered up grooming gangs that raped 10s of 1000s of young white girls, and force LGBT propaganda in primary schools and coerced a massive amount of their populations to take an experimental mRNA "vaccine". And these citizens still partake in voting and think that their governments are somehow more honest than Putin and his cronies lol
@@MrWarrensimmons , she is one in the whole video with such views. but you think that exactly she knows what is going on
It's very annoyng how you never accept good answer! And gulags was closed in 1953!
*1956
The differences between those times and now are consistent the world over.
Greater wealth gap.
Education costs increase
Medical costs increase
Living standards drop
Processed food vs natural
People looking out for themselves and not others ( divided and conquered the population )
...these things are valid for MANY MANY nations around the world.
Yep! That's neoliberalism and globalisation.
lady at 4:00 is not wrong, 70+% of people said they wanted to preserve the union.
also gulags aren't really a great argument, after the records were opened it was found that the estimates made before then that most people tout about saying hundreds of millions passed through the gulags, it was found to be incorrect, the gulags held less than American prisons have which we even currently hold 25% of all the prisoners in the world, as well we pay maybe .35 cents to max $4.00 where as in the USSR gulags you worked 8 hours, got paid the same as everyone else due to the fact the constitution set a piece rate pay system, and if you wanted you could work an additional 2 hours of overtime for extra cash, where as here in the US they do 1hour sometimes but sometimes do up to 12 hour, all at the same pay rate of .35 cents sometimes, isn't that odd? that the amendment banning slavery within the US ONLY does so so long as the slavery is not punishment for a crime? there are many stories as well of people who were in the gulag who said that it was not that bad, there are people who were innocent and still said it wasn't that bad, the worst "accounts" from the gulags come from a book that was written on hearsay with no actual tracking or verification, and it was mostly written by his wife, who admitted a lot is fabrication, all states have bad, certainly the gulag had shortcomings like how many people got put in sometimes unjustly, but, it was just a prison, listen to your elders.
Yeah but ask people from other former states of the ussr the same question. No intelligent person should be surprised by their answer.
Such great interviews! Keep it going and be safe.
This was one of your best interviews. Keep them coming. I watch each and every one.
I agree....very good interview!Thank you Danii.
Woman at 3:44 is so well spoken and smart. The interviewer trolled her about Americans being involved. It looks like a channel with agenda unfortunately, not really an independent channel.
I was thinking exatly this
That little video clip at 3:06 showing the grocery store is Russia post USSR era around the mid 90s....not a really good " USSR was evil" example but okayyyy
Yeah cause in 90s is their lowest time, tried 60s 😏
You would get hugely different answers from countries that were (often literally) starved by the USSR. RU people remember those times with positive sentiments, because they were in charge, the were the ones that planned the economy etc. However, a lot of good things were achieved by taking advantage of smaller countries within the Soviet bloc. I dread the possibility of USSR coming back in any kind of shape and form, yet the Stalinist cult is even stronger now in RU than it was in e.g. 80s
Exactly. Moldovans were treated as garbage, they would get offended if you spoke Romanian in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. Same with Central Asia or the Baltics
Because in the 80s people actually felt the affects of it.
See, it's true that the USSR was doing better than the other areas because of the centralization, but you can't take grain from a dead peasant. Eventually they started starving in Russia too.
Yes. Noboby in Ukraine wants the USSR back.
It seems Russia can do well only at the expense of others, their neighbors, whom they sometimes have to kill to have an advantage, and the ethnically different Asian people who are poor and whose men die in Russia's wars.
@Adrien Yes indeed. I am from Latvia. There are no good memories. Just everything gray. We couldnt sing our national anthem. Need we say more? Life for the 15 occupied republics was not peaches and cream.
It seems like you are frustrated by their answers. Do you think they are stupid? A lot of theirs answers were reasonable. Education, food and healthcare are the things that most affect me on my day-day life. Having free education and healthcare it's not something stupid to wish for.
I remember my dad telling me a story from when he went to Leningrad back in 1985. They were searched thoroughly for any materials they brought that were "unsuitable" for the russian people like unsuitable music, boomboxes and modern clothes. But when they eventually came in to Leningrad it was like time had gone backwards and everything there were very outdated. Russians lived in their own bubble under the iron curtain and sadly continue to do so at their own expense.
I remember reading about how a guy and his father travelled to USSR in a brand new Mercedes 500 SEC and how people were shocked to see it. I imagine it was like a spaceship to them.
@@footballfactory2574 There was certainly "modern" automation in manufacturing in 1980, and even for many years prior to that in the US. Not as advanced as today of course, but still pretty impressive. Houses and cars were much cheaper than today, but of course, incomes were much lower too on average. But even adjusting for inflation, I think it was cheaper to live back then. Plus I think that people back then didn't live as much beyond their means as they try to do today. I've noticed that people have increasingly bought more house and car/truck than is necessary, as well as other extravagant expenditures, creating too much debt, making it necessary for 2 incomes to maintain that lifestyle. I think that's what happened to some people. But, not all live like that. It's still possible to buy a cheaper old house and car, so that they are easy to afford. I chose to buy an old house, and always bought old cars, so my expenses were low, so I didn't have to work so much to pay for them, and had more time to enjoy. It took some time, but now I own the house and several cars outright, with no debt, and do what I feel like doing all the time. So, regardless of whether it's 1980 or 2022, it still depends on how you decide to live your life.
@@footballfactory2574 Capitalism happened.
@@footballfactory2574 Specifically neoliberalism happened
unsuitable music, boom boxes, and modern clothes. - those are not the reasons. They checked everything that western or other foreigners do not bring porno books or spying materials etc. I lived there at that time. When I came back from England or Berlin with my shopping, they checked thoroughly that we did not bring something not good for the commies or propaganda materials. At that time we brought the latest vinyl records, TVs, Musical equipment, and Jeans to sell them the handlers and they sold them to the public. at that time selling jeans, you could buy a fridge. A lot of foreign students made hundreds of thousand dollars doing those businesses (russian authority called the speculation).
For me it's very interesting. Because here in Switzerland and Austria, where I grew up, people tell the same. People were much kinder in former times and helped each other, today, everyone just looks for themselves.
Foreigners often complain that people in Lithuania are cold to strangers: no smiles, minimum words. This is left over from Soviet times when people snitched others to authorities and strangers especially made people wary. Younger generations show less of this reservation and are more open and engaging, they are also a lot more into volunteer work and so on.
@@ZaltysZ That's good to hear. It is natural for people to care about and help others. I am American and whatever good or bad things you can say about my country, there is a lot of volunteerism both when there are disasters here, as after hurricanes, and abroad. The same is true for people anywhere, I think. Some are more ready to help people who are different from them or unconnected with them, and some will help anybody. A lot of Ukrainian-identifying people live in Canada, but I don't think that's the main reason Canada has been so terribly supportive of Ukraine. The UK doesn't have many Ukrainians living there and their support for Ukraine has been phenomenal.
Same in Scandinavia - must just be that people were working together to build the world up back then, while it's all about grabbing a piece today. Scandinavia has never been communistic, so that's not what caused it
Its just nostalgia. Really hard to define a fact from a person's perspective. A lot of people say that people were nicer before, but we always look nicer at things that are in the past. Easiest example is school.
@@PaulRakoczi mh.. don't agree with that. Sure some things we remember are because of nostalgia, but from the old photos and videos you clearly see that the people were together in the streets daily, today it is a miracle to see someone on the street talking, all are just stressed to go somewhere, no time to talk.
I don't like the way you and your friend are responding to the people that were giving opinions and more importantly, LIVED through what they are talking about.
11:33 "Everyone was working! Even kids!" Maybe this isn't the best example of why life was good in the USSR. 🧐
Chimneys need swept, Comrade.
The older generation, who found the USSR, thinks that child labor is good, and the fact that now young people are "very lazy is not what they were in their time," my grandmothers really like to brag that they were "accustomed to work" from childhood.
Hahaha true
My parents have stories how they were taken from school to fields to help harvest potatoes at autumn. Its so weird to think about
Whats wrong with that? almost every teen in 1st world countries has a job
This is a common theme in the former Czechoslovakia as well. The truth is, not everything was worse back then. Instead of arguing that we are now better off, we should be fixing the problems that people have right now (such as housing costs). Then people won't have to choose between gulags and being able to afford food.
Gulag isnt something u have choose. They just put u In and make work till u die. Thats how they was
Gulags stopped soon after Stalin dies,
I'm from Czechia, people really dislike Russia and communism in general here. The communist party is dying off (and was very unpopular and frown upon for decades, thankfully they didn't really have any say here). There are a few old people talking about how life was better back then, but that's just nostalgia of their youth, in comparison, after adjustments, stuff was more expensive, items were way less accessible and travelling abroad was forbidden (you would get shot down if you tried to cross the border).
@@mikotalik In late USSR life was much easier then even in modern Russia..But yes ..if we to compare where quality of living better right now USSR of 80s or modern Russia even now thats obviuosly modern Russia mainly because many consumer products which was very expensice in USSR became very cheap today.
Well, it was good. For ... simple people. For the general folks to say so. Was not good for smart people with opinions or business owners. So many family fortunes taken away for the state, restituions after fall of czechoslovakia were a joke...an absurd joke, we got back pieces and trash in terrible conditions, absolute joke...
It's amazing how people in the comments still don't want to believe that in USSR people had better lives.
This channel is absolute gold
Why are these youtubers so arrogant...
If you guys dont respect their opinion why would you ask in first place?
They clearly enjoyed the Soviet times, and you guys always have to interupt with your negativity.. (especially when they say something positive)
Gulag my friend.. Inform yourself more please.. they were clearly talking about the 60's to 90's Soviet times. Gulag was in its peak During Stalin rule. It was later on Abolished... +1960 if im correct... So most of these people never lived during that slavery time.
Another example: I dont know if its irony or sarcasm. but at 09:30 "Maybe you just need to become rich"
Another example: 07:20 You keep asking about the gulag.. AGAIN... He even said it was before him...
Another example: 11:10 I love how they told you to learn history which ofcourse i 100% agree..
Another example: 11:40 My mother comes from a village in Poland during Soviet times. At that time no matter where you were even if you had 12y you still had to help your parents with the fields.
So it was pretty normal to work at that age.
Etc.
Not to hate but before making a video you should make some research before asking questions to be honest...
And if you clearly dislike Soviet Union but still want to make a video be postive, have cold blood and respect their opinions.
The USSR is still alive in our hearts comrades
To be fair.....every older generation thinks things were better back in the day 🤣😂
To be fair, it might have some true as in that Russia has been a complete shitshow country for decades.
Some things were better, and others are no different than now.
Some are astute, though. Some people are more independent-minded and like to think for themselves. I love those responses especially when they come from older people, who usually seem to be women.
And they are right. What we have now in the modern world? Feminism, abortion, death of family, men became slaves of women(sex), prostitution, alcohol, drugs, in the west racism against whites, LGBT, etc.
because standards of living until 90s were better than now
I love your videos. They are my personal favourite as they seem to be the best at showing the Russian peoples honest opinions. Underneath their devotion for the state, sometimes you can see honest reflections of frustration to that state, sometimes that is nice to see; that is, real people saying what they can when they can. Well done sir!
Love your videos, One of the Biggest problems in 🇷🇺 society is that 1% of the population hold 60% of the Wealth, It’s why 1 in 5 Russians don’t have an indoor toilet ( indoor plumbing, tarred villages ) among other things … money not filtered down to the majority of the population..
Ummm, several have no devotion to the state whatsoever, if by that you mean the govt., which means Putin. To Russia that group usually does, but some of them, not even that. Some are downright EMBARRASSED and disgusted at what their country is doing right now. ALL of them should be. This invasion is benefiting Russia and its people in exactly zero ways, and harming them in a LOT of ways.
@@mike4480 utter lies !!!only less than 20% are considered poor
@@vincentmwangi5968 from Moscow times:
More than one-fifth of Russian households do not have access to indoor plumbing, according to official statistics obtained by the RBC news website on Tuesday.
Russia leads the developed world with the worst sanitation record, according to the London-based WaterAid NGO. A 2012 estimate citing official data placed the number of Russians whose households are only equipped with outhouses at 35 million, or roughly a quarter of the population.
@@vincentmwangi5968 LOL! that's a lie bye Troll
I was born and grew up in communist Romania. I was 22 when the regime collapsed. For 42 years the Romanians were slaves in their own country. The last decade of the regime was atrocious: institutionalized shortages (food, power, heating, clothing, EVERYTHING). Food and fuel were rationed. We had to queue for EVERYTHING! Wait for 5 years to buy a car. Pay a monthly salary for a pair of jeans.
Yet, there are still nostalgics about it. I had an encounter with one of them recently. I nearly freaked out when I saw Ceausescu's portrait on the dashboard of his truck.
I asked him if that was a joke, and he came out very forcefully:
- Ceausescu was the greatest Romanian! During his rule we had everything: jobs, homes, food, clothing... It was good, we didn't have to work our asses off like today!
- How old were you then? I asked, in disbelief.
- I was 6, but my folks told me that they had jobs, and the government was allocating them apartments, and...
- Wait a second, I said. Stop and think for a moment. THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE IN THE HUMAN SOCIETY where the Government provides free shelter, 3 square meals a day, free clothing, and guaranteed jobs. Do you know what that place is?
- NNo, he said, hesitantly.
- IT'S THE PRISON, my friend. That is the ONLY place where ALL these come together like that, for free and guaranteed by the government
I could almost hear the rusty cogs of his hard drive starting to move, like the early, old computers. He thought for a few long seconds, then he looked at me in disbelief, his face showing all the pain of lifelong beliefs crushed:
- Does that mean that THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS A PRISON?
- Right! You got it. And I walked away.
To be fair thats common thing to pay 5 years for a car???!!! The problem is that in communism you have no such thing like credit..instead that you have such thing like line for buy..But you have a time to save so money before buying
@@pekranevikrane That doesn't change the fact that the socialist countries in Eastern Europe during the Cold War were basically prisons. It's just most older people don't want to accept it. They just think the youngsters are brainwashed with liberal propaganda, and that's why we have what we have.
@@pekranevikrane you got it wrong, my friend. You didn't pay for 5 years. YOU PAY IT IN FULL FIRST, THEN YOU WAIT 5 YEARS TO BE DELIVERED!
“And the Goverment was allocating them apartments…” I find it funny cause they are doing it too even today 💀. Like…people be missing things that still exist
And then everybody clapped
There were no rich, no poor.. lol
There were connected to the party, and not connected to the party.
That's what it was called back then.
they say so because It was better in the past than it is today The country has gone backwards
Absolutely.👍👍👍
- В СССР все дружные были, а сейчас все злые и не помогают друг другу.
- То есть вы сейчас злые и не помогаете другим?
- Нет, мы хорошие и добрые. Это все кроме нас злые
This is a very special video. If anyone is interested in how Russian ethnic minorities live in their natural habitat, then Daniel has given you a great opportunity to touch their lives. The video was filmed in the Republic of Chuvashia and most of the people in this video are Chuvash, one of Russia's ethnic minorities. I know this because I am another ethnic minority, a Tatar, and I live in the neighboring republic of Tatarstan. For some reason unknown to me, our good Chuvash neighbors are really big patriots of the Great Russia. Although the number of Chuvash speakers decreases by about 20% in each census.
How likely do you think we are to see an independent Tatarstan soon?
@@yagruumbagaarn If it were up to me alone, Tatarstan would become independent right this evening. Unfortunately, Tatarstan does not border on any other state and is surrounded on all sides by Russian or pro-Russian regions such as Chuvashia. In addition, Tatarstan itself is home to a significant number of ethnic Russians. That is why I do not count on the full independence of Tatarstan.
But I do believe that Russia's current aggression against Ukraine will end in Russia's heavy military, political and economic defeat. This, in turn, may lead to a revision of relations between the regions and the federal center. Plus, the attractiveness of Russian-speaking culture in general will suffer greatly, which will additionally strengthen the autonomy of regions like Tatarstan.
@@ayrat7410 Keep dreaming, freedom lover. Russia's too big to fail. We'll just keep suppressing people until we run out of them.
(sarcasm)
@@ayrat7410 I hope you're right.
I think 1420 could have told us that this is a special region. If you hadn't said almost all who see this video wouldn't have known.
Bro that food shortage footage is literally from 90s russia lmao. That is such slander lol.
“Maybe just become richer” as if that was easy💀
I was born in Poland back in 1960. We had one orange per person at Christmas only one. The stores did not carry oranges and we ate a lot of soup. Life was simpler but not very good.
due to the embargo?
Why are people from the former Eastern block so hung up on oranges and other fruits. Truthfully, how many do you eat per year?? I bet most people (even in Western countries) hardly eat any.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 Right now most people don't appreciate small things and take them for granted. But back then many people had so little that one orange or a handful of candies were the greatest gifts. It's not about the orange, it's about what that orange meant in those times and what it means now.
And those orange were far worse quality than what you have today.
in 92 in Texas several russian exchange students lived at my dormitory. they could not stop eating, especially oranges. 5 Russians at a table would have a two foot tall pile of orange peels between them
"People were friendly back then!".. starts war.
O snap
These people are responsible for the 2014 Maidan coup and ejection of Yanukovych by the Verhovna Rada, which triggered a civil war in Donbas? I don't think so.
pov america for the last 70 years
It is okay to hate Communism, but when the old people are answering, be respectful to them. You think you are some kind of genius by intervening those old people? Take a good look on the state of your country today. It is just a remnant of its former self. Socialist USSR was competing head to head with US in many technologies, despite being devastated by 14 capitalist countries during civil war, despite being bombarded to stone age by Nazis during world war. After all these hardships, USSR became the second largest economy by 1960s. The fastest increase in Human Development Indexes ever recorded in the human history was during the Stalin era and because of Stalin era educational policy and centralized planning, USSR won the space race against US. Until the death of Stalin, USSR was ahead of US in every technological spheres. And most importantly, USSR never colonized other countries to achieve these things, while at the same time, the Britain empire and other western Imperial powers were criminally exploiting the colonies around the world. These are the achievements of USSR. What are the achievements of Capitalist Russia? I actually love Russia, but let's be honest. Today's Russia is just a joke compared to USSR. If Putin didn't nationalize the oil industries in the 90s and arrest many billionaires who were betraying Russian in the 90s, even this Russia would have been history by now.
Go off, King!
“What do you mean downsides? Everyone was working! Even kids”
Fucking lmao
Based on this answer I think that russia will not change until the generation that so severely traumatized as to say this dies off.
what is funny comrade? you work hard, you eat potato. is good life.
There was a practice in USSR when students and their professors must go to "kolkhoz" and help with agricultural works. Just imagine Ph.Ds with their students who dig potatoes or fertilize the soil with manure. For free of course.
Kolkhoz - soviet state farm
To be honest when they had fun while working why not.....
Under the Soviet regime, people were taught that labour is glory !
how can you be this dishonest and say to a person "you should become rich" like is that simple, damn if it was that simple wouldn't we all be rich by now? lmao
guess what, you can work your entire life and still be poor
There are many reasons why people (especially the elderly) want the USSR back. Life expectancy has dropped enormously since the fall of the former USSR, there is a huge demographic decline in all non-Muslim countries of the USSR, the Baltic countries have lost almost a third of their population since the 90s , The population in Ukraine has fallen from 52 million in 1991 to 41 million in 2021, the same in Russia, Armenia, Belarus. These countries have different political systems, and yet the same result. At the economic level, we cannot say that it is better either, the Baltic countries maintain an acceptable standard of living thanks to European aid, Eastern Europe has been emptied of its youth, this youth who leaves to work and settle in Western Europe. Only the old have stayed, it's a time bomb, who will pay the pensions? It's the same in Russian rural areas, young people go to Moscow and St Petersburg to work and leave their old parents alone, under the USSR it was different.
Thank you for your channel and work. You are purely a journalist!
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In fact, Ukraine's capital, Kiev, was a significant population center long before Moscow even existed. Moscow was founded in 1147, while Kiev already existed in the 5th century. Then as a trading post between Constantinople and Scandinavia. The Norwegians called Kiev Könugård.
Yes Russians started from kiev
Вот только Киев был столицей Руси
@@andrushka5626 yes, and Rus was founded by Swedish vikings as they established trading posts to the middle east and rome
You're wrong. Are you familiar with the history of Kievan Rus? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27
Kiev must conquest Moscow!!! :)
People are so nice explaining their opinions about a time where free education, free health care, etc. existed and the two young guys who have never lived that time keep interrupting them, trying to influence their opinion. So sad that young Russians have digested so well the neoliberal propaganda.
Exactly, very biased video, it made me sad
Never mind, the pendulum is swinging and you could very well find out for yourself. 😊
As a lifelong westerner whose mother grew up under communism in East Germany and had friends and relatives there during the cold war, I try to keep a very open mind about the pros and cons of different systems. This video is very interesting, because it appears people would be willing to trade some degree of political freedom and capitalism for better social services and a better sense of camaraderie and community. The problem is that the Soviet Union offered very meager living conditions with very little stress, and Western capitalism offers better living conditions with very high stress. Somewhere in the middle, there must be a sweet spot.
There is. Here in the US, you can be as poor as you want or as rich as you want.
It's your choice.
What is it you are looking for? Someone to care for you?
The government isn't your mommy.
Grow up.
@@TheBandit7613 within reason, that is correct, but I think part of the problem is having the mindset of how rich you want to be in the first place. As some people said, kindness and camaraderie become somewhat pushed aside when people obsess over materialism. Being free to make a lot of money is great, but it isn't emotionally meaningful either. For me, an ideal balance would be having personal freedoms but combining deeper human values.
Great observation. Communism offers low stress but is unsustainable. Ultimately life is stressful and humans will always find themselves in this condition.
@@TheBandit7613 The whole point of a goverenment is to take care of its people...Youre braindead
I think democratic socialism would be interesting to look at
I love it when I see an old but sharp interviewee. I hope time will be kind to me.
You guys are living legends, doing what you do in the freezing cold, never knowing whether you will get angry reactions or confrontations with drunkards.
It seems that this topic received less push-back than most others so it was good to see a few people prepared to chat with you without negative emotion just because you ask a question. The friendship response was interesting as earlier generations clearly had less to share and help each other with - I have heard these kind of comments in my own countries too (UK&NZ) that regardless of political systems, people looked out for each other much more in the past. Something to seriously think about.
“we’re still living in ussr” i felt that as a native Russian…
Because mentally they still live in the USSR.
@@malkontentniepoprawny6885 we don’t just live there mentally, in fact almost nothing changed since the USSR fell apart. the only difference is that we’re not communists anymore, in other aspects everything is just like it was in the Soviet Union
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@@dietmountndew "the only difference is that we’re not communists anymore" - I highly doubt that one, especially when we're talking about nostalgists
@@Randomizer92mx nostalgists aren’t necessary communists. still, it’s hard to know anyone’s political views here as it’s illegal to talk about politics in any other way but positive. even unofficially with your friends.
USSR went bankrupt. Do people miss the Gulag also?
I'm Italian. The two old ladies are right. Soviet people defeated Nazism. Everyone who studied history half heartedly knows that. If Russians only knew how much we European people loved and respected them before those horrible images of tanks marching toward Kiev appeared on our televisions. It was one of the greatest shocks of my life.
Ha! That woman would be Deutsch sprechen today if the U.S. had waited until 1944 to start providing the USSR with military equipment through its "Lend Lease" program. In reality, the first shipments of U.S. "Lend Lease" weapons and materials were already on their way to the USSR in the fall of 1941.
@@ernestinebass4371 On the other hand, the Allies would not be able to land on Normandy if the Soviets didn't fight the brunt of the Nazi army.
The U.S. depended just as much on the Soviets as the Soviets depended on the U.S.
@@ernestinebass4371 "we'd be speaking German"
@@ernestinebass4371USSR would be able to win without lend-lease.
But without german forces being focused on the west and Africa tho? Not so much
@@dontforgettonerfthepig3322It would have taken longer though, with more casualties.
People often feel nostalgic. The same as a 50 year old dude wants to buy a fast car and live his youth again. It doesn't mean life was as a whole, better.
@STS Did USSR even had fast cars? As far as I know Melkus RS was the peak "sporty" automobile, but even then it was dogshit slow.
No one seems to have money, there. But Putin and his allies have trillions.
They don’t care. They love it. Their children will live in Shiite too but “what are you going to do, eh?”
@@Lepocoloco eh, more like they don't know any different so they can't think any different - it's common human behavior.
Some people have more colorful life, but many people have bitter life. Before, people had simple but happier life.
When I was in Russia 20 years ago it was amazing to me the level of paranoia the older Russians felt. For example outside the flat I stayed in was a dark hallway with no lights. The building installed a light with motion sensor, but the older tenants kept tearing the light down because they were convinced it was a camera.
That's actually kinda funny ngl
Those two women are sadly mistaken, and you should do an hour telling/asking about the tensof thousands of American planes, tanks, weapons, fuel and FOOD that America began providing to the USSR in 1941 BEFORE the US even entered the war.
Without the Allied Lend-Lease program, the USSR would have fallen before 1943.
It's sad, and to many Americans, pitiful (pitiful holds an emotion of hatred) that Russians really have no idea of what happened then.
Without lend lease, it would've been the 3rd Reich that would have fallen around 1947.
You cannot get an unbiased investigation if you, the investigator, are already biased. In this case it's obvious the investigator has it's own very strong mindset about the subject and this makes the whole investigation irrelevant. Sorry guys, you should do better than this.
"Maybe you need to become rich"
This is the most stupid thing i've ever heard
This is just pure ignorance
I don't know what Russia was like, but I know what Berlin Germany West and East was like in the early 1980's. The East Germans while nice also had to be paranoid because of all the Stasi. To openly talk to me as a United States soldier, they were taking a risk and you could tell they knew it. Some were apologetic and I was like you don't have to apologize for things outside your control. People are people and they are going to do the best they can no matter the environment they are in.
It seemed to me at that time most everyone wanted to live in a better world without fear of nuclear war and the cold war tensions. Things were really coming to a head then with the cold war.
Maybe those in Russia were more insulated from the ugliness than those in the Eastern Countries and along and behind the Iron Curtain. In the West especially those of us older and more worldly are familiar with the stories of Soviets seeking political asylum in the west. Also, of people sometimes successfully and many times not, trying to sneak over the iron curtain and the Berlin wall. Very rarely did you hear of stories of people going the opposite direction.
I think there is some nostalgia for even some Americans to go back to those times! The cold war built good little American's and Russians!
While not longing for the Soviet Union many Americans share similar feelings as expressed by those you interviewed towards social issues and the growing divide between the wealthiest and poorest in society and towards crime problems.
Usa and other capitalists blocked their borders you know??
Forever Glory to CCCP ❤️🚩
Thank you for another interesting video.
It's difficult to gauge the effect of nostalgia. I can look back 20 odd years in the UK and say, I was better off, earned more money on overtime etc back then, I was also younger too. This has an effect.
It also has to be remembered that interviewing Russians about the USSR is similar to interviewing British people about The Empire. You are probably going to get different answers in Moscow and London than you would in Kenya and Poland.
Good post 🙌🏽
Yep you needn't look so far the fake nostalgia about pre EU times for brexit , that was utter tosh so yeah "the it was better then" trope has worked since times immemorial I kind of remember some ancient Greek making fun of it .
@@ingridschmid1709 Heh yes. Harking back to a "Golden Age". Trouble is, if you asked people who were around in that supposed perfect time I'd imagine they'd tell you that no, the golden age was some years ago!
@@jimb9063 Yep infinite regress to times nobody was there to harp about the good old times.
@@ingridschmid1709 Ahhh, remember when life was all single cell? The good ole days, simpler times, but we were happy!
Very interesting that so many preferred the USSR era even though they did not have choice of food or apartment or government. They all had jobs and friendship, but of course the system collapsed because too many jobs were unproductive.
They saw the cameras and all gave the same answer. Some even claimed they still lived in the USSR. Think about it.
The only thing I agree with them is that families stuck together because things were shared, the enemy was the state and that unified people. When capitalism arrived, many went crazy with the property mindset and destroyed all relations, families broken up for generations. Speaking from experience.
ye i remeber my father had a friend (sweden) who went to russia (soviet times) to a Lada factory to help them with something, and he was chocked becuse it was like 50 men in the factory bulding and fixing ladas, then in another room there were like other 50 men who sat and played cards. and he asked who their were and he said there were workers but dident have anything to do. and the shiftet this, so one day u can just sit and play cards all day another day u build. u can do this till the money is gone.
Define "productive". We define it as making money. Not everything is about making money.
Well, one thing remains the same, they still can't choose the government.
When you get the answer you want (communism bad, gulag, etc), there's no further questioning. Funny lol
yeah because they want to make russians say the ussr was bad
Si no les gustan las respuestas, para que hacen las preguntas??...
Se ponen a discutir con la gente, dejen de buscar aprobación de occidente..
It's hilarious - Two young guys go ask a bunch of people who actually experienced the Soviet Union their opinions, and then get frustrated and try to argue with the opinion they asked for 😂
Всегда были предатели вроде этого канала, иначе не развалилась бы страна.
Glad my family got on a boat over 100 years ago to America to escape that hellhole. If you can here me thank you :)
People apparently find it difficult to take care of themselves for that they had a government that determines what you should do. It is always easier if your parents (government) give you food, shelter for free, but if you have to stand on your own two feet then life suddenly becomes a bit more difficult. And only if you manage to save yourself will another world open up for you.
That's one side of it. Psychologically many did not look at the state like that, they hated the Soviet system but that in return united the people. In capitalism, nearly everyone is my competition, there are no friends, only temporary alliances.
This, it's like watching an interview of a child who didn't get any food or candy today.
Well, that control of your own life and not reliance on the state is only reasonable if you didn’t have to pay taxes and were not involved in the social contract with the state. In better functioning countries, the state provides certain needs and protects certain rights. There are more dysfunctional states that basically extort the population
@@peagames2002 so what?
@@peagames2002 "we dont have any healthcare because its not profitable to work in a rural place like this as a doctor"
"Lol shut up you dont get any candy today"
"Please sir, my son is dying, surely it would be possible to divert some resources so that we may.."
"No. Candy."
Tl;dw: two hipsters going around, trying to convince people who saw their whole lives collapse so they could have Big Mac's (but not the money to buy it) that now they're "better". Showing a very specific video of a market in pre-dissolution (1990-91), and a photo of kids working out-of-context in a farm (while forced child labor was documented under tzarist rule) is the final touch.
I get the feeling that people are just remembering the days when they were younger. Everything is better when you're younger whether it's 1 year or 40. Now, people want everything for free; they don't want to work and suffer to get ahead in life.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
that's not the main reason. People evaluate their position not because of their wealth in absolut measures, but compared relative to others. So you can have little, but FEEL wealthy if you have more than the people around you.
As often stated in these interviews, they more or less felt equal back then. Now there are few very rich people, wealth and money is the life goal and these values are often shown on tv and there is more competition in the population. So they start to compare themselves and feel that they are poorer than people close to them and around the world now. Even if most of them have way more wealth than in USSR, they lost compared to the wealthy and the rest of the world, so their rank fell quite a lot. Less military power and less political power for the nation, less wealth, less technology leadership. And that's what makes them unsatisfied compared to the "good old times" of USSR
Not totally true. Many of them are willing to work, but there seems to be few jobs available to those elders who'd lived most of their early lives under the Soviet regime.
I am buying a bullet for this statement and all alike future statements. More like they want you to work for free, but your head is up your own ass. My bullet is for suffering. Survival games will end at the gun barrel, so warning to the missing link.
Nah. You're coping.
I remember the times of socialism when I was a child, in my country in the "Soviet bloc". Our socialism was a system that bravely fought against problems that it created itself and which did not occur anywhere else in normal countries.
A lot of brave people fighting😂
Making me so glad this video. People like me (honestly) want USSR back!!!! Please?
This is the problem with some people. Some of them are always nostalgic about things they don't really remember as well. _"Back in the day, things were much better! Oh, the good old time!"_ ... It's nonsense. There are no 'good old times, it's in their head! Things were worse than today. We can be nostalgic about music, movies, and things like that, but about life in general back in the day? That is not true, at all. Things were worse than today, such as medicines and hospitals, cars, clothes, computers, TV ... everything. 10:40 -- _"They want us to have a bad life,"_ says the man wearing European clothes, saying really stupid and mean things because people like him like to say mean things just _"because! ... I don't know."_ 11:30 -- _"Everyone worked, even kids! Now they don't allow children to work, but they were working since 3rd grade!"_ and this is why they had many accidents and bad health! And that's why their life expectancy was shorter! And that's why we have Children's rights in this world. To protect them! Well, maybe not in Russia anymore and in a few other countries around the world. Stupid and ignorant women!
Love the pros and cons angle.
Your jacket and hair are awesome, but also a shining billboard. Stay safe. 💙
Love from Dallas, TX
What is a shining billboard? (non native english speaker)
@@peterlustig2143 it is a reference to a beacon. A metaphor for something that draws great attention from passersby. :)
Asking these people "wasn't it bad you could not criticize the govt?" has no effect since they can't do that NOW either.
Well I do want it back! For sure!!! Matter of respect for Human Being. Worthwile! (this now is just messing around with kapitalism)
"It's not the USSR, it's Russia now."
That man clearly had no idea what the elderly woman was getting at.
She's right. The USSR is a renamed Russian empire basically. All the territories that's been in the Russian empire, later turned into soviet union. So, the USSR is a renamed Russia basically.
@@user-yj7um6hv1d действительно. Ведь чем ещё может отличаться СССР от РИ? Только территорией. Возможно и я так думал раньше. В первом классе примерно.
These people remind me of those who romanticize the 1950s here in the US. They look at it through rose-colored glasses and forget the injustices that were prevalent at the time.
They are nostalgic for economic stability, not social justice causes.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 Some of them, but others lament the loss of friendliness or social equality.
The problem is financial capitalism and crony capitalism. If any county could solve this without the violence and the repression, I would live there!
I like how he is starting to loose patience with those people😆
wait, so your a liberal that promotes empathy but dont have empathy ?
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o No, its cus they rural people in this video are ignorant and delusional.
I'm impressed no one lost patience with that hat of his.
@@birdick1307 says the guy who hasn't been in truly cold artic weather.
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o who are you to say he doesn't care? who would believe you cared? your comment is regrettable.
Funny, that in the Baltic countries you would get completely opposite answers (if you ask non-Russian speakers of course).
For those people who wonder what is going on here. Due to the incompatibility of a capitalist sistem over the USSR communist corpse after the disolution, all public domains in the country either got private or disapeared entirely, this lead to some people becoming extremly rich and the rest of the population working in those sistems unemployed and poor. That's why so many russians want to go back to Breshnev's or Gorbachev's time, you didn't have much but the little that you had was good
A friend of mine graduated in Slavic language (Russian) from university back in 1986. She spent the next year on a grant in St-Petersburg. She came back with stories of utter depression- if any water out of the tap, then brown and bad tasting, alcoholism, poverty...no fun whatsoever. She never returned.
I was a student(final year eng) in st. Petersburg. Just the economy started to collapse. I met some girls and boys who came to study 6 months in the st. Peterburg university from different universities in the USA. Not all spoke Russian well, but they live in the hostel in better conditions and feed with reasonable food, but most Russians lived not well, except the thieves(who stole money from the govt).
There was way more poverty in the 90's than there was under Communism.
Don't call ruSSian slavic. Call it ruski.
@@Halo_Legend Russian is Slavic, peabrain
She either lied to you or she was there not in 1987, but around 1991-92, when the USSR fell apart. And even then it wasn't as bad as you described.
I'm from Poland and the way russians talk about USSR is wild considering that here pretty much everyone agrees that USSR was absolutly horrid and the collapse was the best thing that ever happened to us.
Infact Poland is a wonderful country to live nowadays…
@@dannyesse3043 Was that supposed to be sarcasm?
@@edwinvoncarstein why should it be? It’s not ideal but I would say that the country is pretty good.
that's because your exit was much smoother. In Russia, the 90s were a time of unprecedented organised crime, money consolidating in the wrong hands, taking even more away from the people, and foreign businesses outcompeting all domestic industries to the point of near total collapse of any kind of manufacturing. Putin stabilised the situation, stopped the bleeding, but the problems still persist to some degree, and as it stands we are no better than in the Soviet times, potentially worse because there are no near future prospects. Poland made a recovery, in no small part due to significant external support, meanwhile all Russia got was disdain and corporate vultures picking the bones clean
This guy is the most non-biased reporter in human history
It would be better if you would comment to people's questions in a more neutral way, they may be people from the countryside, but they have the right to think as they want and if you think they are dumb, life is going to give you a surprise at some point.
The guy who talked about the "the bandits on tv" is ready for another 1917💯💯
how disrespectful... Young guys are sarcastically making fun of a man.