The Soviet Union Past And Present (1970)

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  • Traces Russia's history from Ivan the Terrible to the present, and focuses on current efforts to increase industrial output and improve living conditions.
    This film has been posted with permission by the copyright holder, Phoenix Learning Group. To use this footage from this film in your project, please contact us at footage@avgeeks.

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  • @rederickfroders1978
    @rederickfroders1978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Greed is a severe sickness that has to be cured

    • @richardmoloney689
      @richardmoloney689 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's also a grievous sin

    • @seankessel3867
      @seankessel3867 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brilliant observation fella. Except we can only cure it in our own self...and very, very few are honest about their progress.

    • @verzeda
      @verzeda ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Greed is entirely subjective so can never be classified objectively, therefore there is no cure

    • @larkatmic
      @larkatmic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Communism breeds famine and living without. Forced submission by those greedy ones who rule and know what’s best for you. It’s destined to collapse with its deluded good intentions. A death spiral. Capitalism allows one to live and choose his destiny. When one is allowed to pursue one’s own happiness without government overreach. He wants what’s only best for his neighbor. For when his neighbor has a full tummy and succeeds, all the community prospers.

  • @WalkSpot
    @WalkSpot ปีที่แล้ว +18

    5:45 Vladimir Lenin. Not Nikolay

    • @igor_202
      @igor_202 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      N. Lenin is one of the pseudonyms. Real name - Vladimir Ulyanov.

  • @JoeyBelgier
    @JoeyBelgier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    That was surprisingly unbiased,
    great content!

    • @ryandepp7640
      @ryandepp7640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You can see some bias sweep through. It paints the October Revolution as a coup by a minority even though by November (Gregorian calendar) 1917, the Bolsheviks made up the overwhelming majority in the urban and soldiers’ soviets. And the Soviet government itself was initially a coalition government between the Bolsheviks and the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, the latter of which had large influence in the peasants’ soviets. So between those two parties, the Soviet republic represented the vast majority of Russian working people. Hence, it was not a “coup” but a popular revolution. Also he says Lenin’s party crushed the free election; here he’s referring to the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in 1918; the Bolsheviks were indeed in a minority there, but by that point the RSFSR had already been established and the Soviet government had popular support. The Mensheviks and SRs that dominated the assembly were not popular at all. The fact that there was no resistance to the dissolving of the assembly shows that it didn’t not represent the people as the video claims it did.

    • @ryandepp7640
      @ryandepp7640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      All I really have to say to prove my point is that in November 1917, Y.O. Martov (the leader of the Mensheviks) said “almost the entire proletariat supports Lenin.”

    • @JoeyBelgier
      @JoeyBelgier 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ryandepp7640 Wow, I'm really not that literate on the subject but thanks for trying to educate.

    • @alextyy
      @alextyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ryandepp7640 It was objectively a coup.

    • @ryandepp7640
      @ryandepp7640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@alextyy The Bolsheviks had won a majority in the urban soviets and in the soldiers’ soviets. The Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, which formed the other part of the Soviet coalition government, had a majority in the rural and peasants’ soviets, meaning the Soviet government represented the vast majority of Russian working people. Even the Mensheviks admitted that the Bolsheviks had gained power before they even made it official.
      How could the Soviet government had endured and emerged victorious out of 3 years of civil war, faced with 21 armies of foreign intervention, equipped with technology such as tanks and planes mostly unavailable to the Red Army, if the revolution was not popular? The Russian workers and peasants were willing to sacrifice much to defend their revolution, and not only this, but the Bolsheviks appealed to the workers of other countries. Many detachments of the armies of intervention mutinied and either defected to the Red Army (as is what happened with some British regiments at Archangel I believe) or refused to fight. In the Black Sea port in 1920 was a mutiny by French sailors, who refused to fight the Reds.
      Read the actual history of the revolution before you sound stupid.

  • @nawumchik
    @nawumchik ปีที่แล้ว +10

    As russian, I can say that this documentary has got a lot of mistakes and manipulations (lol, glance at the map of Peter's Russia, It didn't look like that), but, anyway, it's not rusophobic. That's great

    • @eugene8524
      @eugene8524 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      пшелвон, ruZz

    • @nawumchik
      @nawumchik 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@eugene8524 здоровеньки булы, порося

    • @mihnea919
      @mihnea919 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Eugene, great job representing your fellow "okrainians" by telling your brothers to go away

  • @BillyBob-ux6br
    @BillyBob-ux6br ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great film! Wow, having the option to go on vacation and have the Young Pioneers to babysit my kids!

  • @22mukul
    @22mukul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fantastic

  • @2bit661
    @2bit661 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    5:45 His name isn't Nikolai Lenin,. Its Vladimir Lenin.

    • @konstkaras
      @konstkaras 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "N. Lenin" was one of his multiple pen-names, his birth name was Vladimir Ulyanov - but yes, this if one of small mistakes.

  • @surinderjitsingh8954
    @surinderjitsingh8954 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A very meaningful documentary

  • @konstkaras
    @konstkaras 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    2:08 Icons also could be paintings of Saints, Prophets, Angels, scenes from the Bible and Saints' life
    2:35 To those times Russia had vastly expanded, especially to the east
    3:43 rather Italy. Byzantine influence was kept just in some churches
    5:39 Mensheviks were never dominating the Provisional Government, in the first lineup before April 1917 there were no one there.
    5:48 "N.Lenin" was one of pen-names of Vladimir Ulyanov, though he is best known as Vladimir Lenin
    8:30 Stalin is buried not in the Kremlin wall, but in a grave in front of it.
    11:21 Nevsky prospect slightly turns in one place.
    13:15 A one room apartment was given to one family - why shouldn't they share the kitchen?

  • @robertx3890
    @robertx3890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That guy Nikolai Lenin sounds like a badass !

    • @yuziklabetski4433
      @yuziklabetski4433 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not Nikolai but Vladimir

    • @EscapeFromRussia
      @EscapeFromRussia ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yuziklabetski4433 did you watch the video?)

    • @dant.3505
      @dant.3505 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have seen a few other old documentaries films where Lenin is referred to as "Nickoli Lenin". At first I thought it was a mistake but many times back in the day that mistake was made. It makes me wonder if the world really knew him as Nickoli back then?

  • @calripson
    @calripson 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Nikolay Lenin???

  • @BackBruck
    @BackBruck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The old house at the beginning ... definitely not pre-fab🙂

  • @konstkaras
    @konstkaras 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love how the narrator calls Russia not "it" but "she". It's very personal.

  • @imaxdigital7052
    @imaxdigital7052 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does anyone know the music at 2:00? Please...

    • @TanyaFedorova
      @TanyaFedorova หลายเดือนก่อน

      I believe it is this version: State Ural Russian folk choir, directed by L. Christiansyan, singing P. Titar th-cam.com/video/7CYaEENRNYU/w-d-xo.html

  • @cameronpottle5409
    @cameronpottle5409 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Who the fuck is Nikolai Lenin and the Menshaviks?

    • @konstkaras
      @konstkaras 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mensheviks were the moderate Socialists, a former fraction of once unite Socialist Democratic party - other, radical fraction Bolsheviks than will be renamed Communists.

  • @dant.3505
    @dant.3505 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I seen other old educational films where Lenin is named "Nickolai Lenin"
    Before I thought it was a mistake but why is that mistake made so often back then?

    • @user-ty4bu6lx2k
      @user-ty4bu6lx2k 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Это псевдоним Ленина для печати, Н.Ленин, по имени отца.

  • @Lennonlover06
    @Lennonlover06 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The irony is the people look happy

    • @alextyy
      @alextyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh shut up.

    • @hawks-wings
      @hawks-wings 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ?
      After Stalin the USSR was a fairly decent place to live. Especially in the 60s. (This is from 1970, so it was likely filmed/the footage was likely gathered from the 60s.) They weren’t all always miserable.

    • @alexandrnaumov8982
      @alexandrnaumov8982 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@hawks-wings не после Сталина, а благодаря Сталину.

    • @nawumchik
      @nawumchik ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Why is it irony? The Soviet Union was a golden age of Russia

    • @Lennonlover06
      @Lennonlover06 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nawumchik then perhaps it will be soviet russia again, one day.

  • @dima_galkin
    @dima_galkin 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lenin is not Nikolai, but Vladimir 🤦 The former palaces were used not as hospitals, but as sanatoriums. And rest there was provided "for especially hard work" for free, but no one was forbidden to rest on the Black Sea at their own expense. In general, it will do for a primary acquaintance with life in the USSR.

  • @hypnophonz
    @hypnophonz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Tucker Carlson approves of this video.

  • @user-jn2wx7db1c
    @user-jn2wx7db1c 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The joke was the Russians made their bicycles out of cement.

  • @user-jn2wx7db1c
    @user-jn2wx7db1c 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    See Ronald Reagan’s jokes about Soviet Union

  • @santhoshlkumar6743
    @santhoshlkumar6743 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    that is why capitalism is hated most..

  • @sunnyta619
    @sunnyta619 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nikolai Lenin????

  • @dmitryostrovsky5763
    @dmitryostrovsky5763 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Boring documentary. Typical of school films of the 60's that cranked out boring facts about countries in a boring way in order to not offend the Texas School Board, the lowest common denominator for a school book or film to pass in order to make them saleable to all 50 states. No wonder I hated history and geography as a school kid but loved it as an adult. Having parent decide on school books was insane idea.

    • @ronanrogers4127
      @ronanrogers4127 ปีที่แล้ว

      This has absolutely nothing to do with the Texas School Board

    • @borninvincible
      @borninvincible ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ronanrogers4127 sure it does. Those idiots in Texas are trying to burn books that talk about their awful history.

  • @brianarbenz7206
    @brianarbenz7206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Damn common-ust prop-ta-ganda. You one a them commies, A/V Geeks? (satire. That was a nice if cursory film.)

    • @nijebitno9042
      @nijebitno9042 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's Communist propaganda.Not common-ust prop-ta-ganda.

  • @robertwill23
    @robertwill23 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In some places quite a liberal propaganda. Lol. Also Nikolai Lenin?

  • @user-jn2wx7db1c
    @user-jn2wx7db1c 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Capitalism proves a better life for everyone

  • @tedb4459
    @tedb4459 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Propaganda

    • @stalins_comically_large_spoon
      @stalins_comically_large_spoon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This wasn’t even filmed by the Soviet government.

    • @imaxdigital7052
      @imaxdigital7052 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stalins_comically_large_spoon It would have been permitted by the Soviet Government, and reviewed by the ministry of propoganda.

    • @stalins_comically_large_spoon
      @stalins_comically_large_spoon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@imaxdigital7052 I doubt this was even shown to the Soviet people. (Since they obviously didn’t frequently speak English.)

    • @imaxdigital7052
      @imaxdigital7052 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stalins_comically_large_spoon It was made either by a European or American production company for Western audiences. But anything filmed for commercial or educational purposes in the Soviet Union would have been done so under the permition of the ministry of propoganda, who would then review the final film before allowing it's release.

    • @stalins_comically_large_spoon
      @stalins_comically_large_spoon ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@imaxdigital7052 so you really think they grabbed hundreds of actors and put them on beaches in Crimea, the streets of Moscow, etc… disrupting daily life for a simple film? Really? And it’s spelled “propaganda.”