These are incredible conversations! It shows the real frustration and corruption far better than most documentaries. Seeing real people's experiences will always tell a better story than a retrospective one that's made by experts decades after something.
After living through a few experiences first-hand that have had documentaries made by "experts" about them, many times the experts had no clue what they were talking about, what happened, or what the impact was. When I hear "expert", I immediately get suspicious.
"My wife used to make cookies, but that bastard raised the price of flour to 16 rubles." "If he wants a civil war, he'll get one" Russians threatening war when grandma can't make her cookies anymore is wholesome.
@@SpencerLemay Thats how meat in the United States is now, many things are too expensive to buy. If I ate 3 meals a day, let alone fresh healthy ones, I wouldn't be able to pay my bills.
@@SpencerLemay Flour shoud have a price that values the farmer's work of planting, grooming and harvesting it, transporting it, milling it, packing it, storing it, moving it into retail, etc. It is not the duty of the producer to give the fruit of his work to other people as cheap as possible, so that they don't even think about the price. Whoever is not happy with that, can move back to their grandparents village and farm and plant it themselves.
@@russiasvechenaya58 For those in Moscow, St Petersburg and a few other cities he did. The rest of the country neglected. He ended it for the minority. Putin and his gangsters have overseen 30 years of corruption, shown in all its glory in the useless Russian army. More and more freedoms gone from the Russian people, more and more laws. To the point where nobody can speak out, all media is controlled. Russia going backwards again. Russia had a chance 30 years ago and screwed it up. Gangs took over the industries and regions (gangs like the KGB...). The average Russian may have a 'normal' life in your opinion, but it's not normal but any standard.
@ russiasvechenaya58 Это закончилось тем, что Запад финансово поддержал новую экономику РФ, пока Путлер не пришел в себя и не украл 1/3 всей российской экономики вместо того, чтобы тратить ее на школы, больницы и дороги. Он преступник-вор и ничего больше.
@@notsosuavemate Sure, propaganda, but only if you watch channels from party media wings like Fox, OANN, Newsmax, or you're silly enough to go to social media for news. There's no genuine news can be found on anywhere on social media.
Thanks for upload theese truly remarkable pieces of journalist's work. It's for me as borned in western Belarus a wide sight on why we a so doomed here even 30 years later.
Exactly, to this day they are accustomed to doing as they are told, suddenly they stand around like farm animals looking for oats, seem oats that were previously supplied by the communist government .
But it’s the truth they have never been very free either ruled by war lords or a tzar then communist dictatorship to now presidential dictatorship…they don’t know how to govern themselves democratically. But your right it is sad in our eyes but to them dictatorship is a safety net.
why sad? do u understand the context of that time? people have nothing to eat being free, while they had something to eat doing just the same "not being free" - that what he meant.
It is really great to see that Russia got a President which follows the Russian interests and is not a puppet of the west. Putin is not totalitarian, he is authoritarian and that is what the people want. The people want a strong leadership with a strong grip over the country, unlike what they had in the 90s, which was an awful time for a lot of Russian people.
The man means What is the point of getting freedom if you are having your country totally messed up socially and economically to the point you have left with nothing to feed your family? Total shock!
Если правительство объявило что вам дали свободу, это не значит что вам её действительно дали. В ы всегда находитесь в товарно- денежной системе, вы вынуждены зарабатывать деньги и платить налоги.
@@yegorburov5881That’s called Capitalism! The Kick the Government out of your life. It’s better to work and pay taxes then having the government in every aspect of your life
What’s the point of living if you’re not free to live your life as you see fit? Ironic that Russian (Soviet mindset) thinks religion used to control people when that’s exactly what they intend to do - and what apparently - some Russians want (to be controlled and spoon fed). Sad really.
Mark Masarsky has sadly passed away Jan 27th 2021, at the age of 80. He also participated in working group of final edits of Russia's constitution in 1993.
@@quite1enough watch the video before this video where he said that he and the workers both own the Cooperative. I assume in this video, he took all the ownership of the cooperative just by listening to his words. also he has multiple ventures that doesn't give a fair share to his employees just like the capitalists.
@@gabrielferrer3205 Oh, no, in that regard, I googled some info about him, he was far from typical neoliberal half-criminal crook of early-mid 90s in Russia, and seems like paid to his workers fairly. There was plenty of fraudsters back then, like Anatoly Chubais, or founder of financial pyramid "MMM" Sergei Mavrodi, but Masarsky seems really far away from those type of guys. On the other hand, 1993 constitution is quite controversial and some Russian human rights activists have an opinion that that constitution played one of the key role in Putin's power grab.
They shut down the Yeliseyevskiy store in 2021. What a shame. These are all scenes from my childhood. I do not know if my family struggled with the prices. If they did, my parents never told me about it. But for me - everything was suddenly there. After empty soviet stores there suddenly were dozens of tiny shops selling everything a kid wanted. I got 5000 rubles for pocket money once a week and I bought a Snickers bar and a can of Coke. Or sometimes we would pool our pocket money with friends and buy a whole tube of Pringles potato chips. And Brateyevo is such a nice neighborhood now. I liked to cycle along the river banks alot, they built a really nice chain of parks along both river banks with bicycle lanes. I lived not far away from there. I think I even know the store they are having an argument about, only now it looks entirely different.
This is a fantastic story. Thank you for sharing your memories and experiences growing up in this era. I love studying interesting cultures and am eager for a day when I can explore Russia and other countries formerly in the Soviet Union. Soviet mosaics, the unique bus stops, interesting cultural differences, Lake Bikal (and its 🦭seals), much more.
@@Ergilion oh thanks for the explanation. Sorry for my assumption and blunt inconsiderate reply. I did do a quick Google search but being that I'm not familiar with the topic I still interpreted denomination wrong. I actually thought you were likely a bot because the amount.was so absurdly high.
Amazing to revisit this time and place - I visited Russia in February 1992 and well remember the feeling of juxtaposing the old and the new. The government building was still blasted black by tank fire from the coup a few months before, the kids were huddling around a small bag of fries in the massive McDonalds in Moscow, and veterans were selling their old uniforms and military equipment in the street. I really hope for better days for the Russian people, they're a unique breed of people who deserve so much better than they've always had to suffer under.
@ShoegazingHammer74 I always thought that if Americans were allowed to open up Mcdonald's in the last days of the USSR then why weren't the Soviets smart enough to bring a Soviet government owned Russian restaurant franchise to the west. Missed opportunity
@evildead9708 Yes but they're stupid , idk if you watched the earlier episode labeled something along the lines of "inside Gorbachev's USSR 1990" in that episode it does mention that as part of the failed perestroika reforms small amounts of incompetent and stifled capitalist elements were allowed into the country such as people owning private farms and construction business where their only supplier and customer was the government. Also in 1990 they had the new union treaty where they planned to change the name of the country to the union of soviet sovereign republics and eventually switch to capitalism and that's why the failed coup of august 1991 happened to prevent full capitalist reform. So with that said if there was an eventual acceptance that communism is failing then I think the USSR government should have considered selling goods in the west regardless because they had to do something to save the economy
@@timoilonen1926 Indeed, it's as amazing as it is deeply disturbing how some people can completely manufacture memories in order to prop up their perspectives and egos.
When I see documentary TV from that era, I am always struck by the modesty, elegance and thoughtfulness of the commentators. So different to the by turns thuggish and cowering paranoid Court of Tsar Vlad.
Ivanovo were the one of most depressive sity in Russia in 1990th. Because of monoindustrialism. (Textile industry, that fall down) Like Detroit in USA after 2008.
I love those kinds of anachronistic warnings from the past. There's a Firing Line with William f Buckley from the 60s with Barry Goldwater and ten minutes in these two conservative firebrands start warning America about the wrong person becoming president and then start describing the things that trump actually did
@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip no dawg, he criminalizes the opposition. I'll check the New England medical journal of science but I believe you have a textbook case of cranial/rectal inversion?
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography pictures 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the civilians sharing their personal information/experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Collective 🚜 farming puts Moscow's non workable hook of bureaucratic red tape. Around the farmers neck & strangled him.
52:54 It's almost prophetic! He observed even before everything was consolidated where the power vacuum in Russia, after the end of the Soviet dictatorship, would flow! He guessed that someone intelligent and more ambitious and autocratic than Yeltsin would take the place of total control left by the party! It's sad to say this, but Russia never truly understood what democracy is, and after Yeltsin's democratic experience, everything went back to the way it always was in Russia! and a new autocrat was born, and we all know who he is!
I distinctly remember, after the USSR collapsed, a woman looking just like Brigette Nielsen and this guy resembling Dolf Lungren came to our school in San Francisco. The man had super shiny knee high boots that looked like glass, tight pants, a belt buckle and I remember the buckle had a hammer and sickle on it. He was sharp looking with a large hat. Maybe it was me being a kid but he made a huge impression on me. They sat for three hours and said they did not know what to do without this style of government and therefore it was much better to be communist. Even then I remember thinking, they disappear people arbitrarily and poke people with poison umbrellas. Days 🎉the fu** it.
The umbrella thing was popularized by the West and the US has had privatized prisons that incentivizes incarcerating innocent people and handing out longer sentences for profit and kick backs to politicians. Your values are flawed and your ideology is based on lies.
Potatoes, Cassavas, Corn Plants, all kinds of Wheats, even Humans eatable Nuts ( others are for animals ) and unripe peeled- off bananas ( remove the latex- like pungent secretes ). These solutions of carbohydrates sources should be better grown in Green Houses though to give other important Human needs usage possible according to the priorities.... May God Bless Everybody's Mind and Soul for a Healthy Well- being.
I suppose they did things too fast, too haphazardly. They didn’t have any plans or processes or systems or procedures in place. They should’ve had a long term, slow transition plan.
What made the transition from the communist system of the USSR to one that resembled Western capitalism was that the people really weren't sure if they wanted the change.
heh, the golden time of our parents, the end of the 80s-90s, there was nothing to kill for, poverty, collapse and anarchy, God forbid it to happen again.
26:00 This sums it up. Why capitalismo worked for China but not for former soviet states (except the ones that got EU funds. If the Soviet Union had just made an eocnomic transition but kept itself together, the transition might have worked.
Not going to happen. The only way Putin is resigning is if he dies, he himself has said this. And nobody wants to get rid of him in Russia, he is the greatest Russian leader since Alexander II.
Destroying religion has been one of the worst crimes ever in my opinion, worst than death, because it steals a way of life from the whole community, not just those who where killed in infamy.
@@victorperfecto7472 That's in your opinion. (Note: I am not trying to make you believe in God, I'm giving my side of the argument). Many other good things have happened. Nothing is permanent. In my religion, Hinduism, the God(s) has/have fought wars to defeat evil, and the two most celebrated instances are in the epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana, stories of how the corruption of power can literally drown the world in suffering. My religion calls the age we live in as Kali Yuga, the final age of the cycle of four ages where sin is too common and in fact, celebrated. Where hypocrisy becomes virtue, and wealth becomes the aim of life, where sinners are hailed as saviours and scholars, where hate means piety. So yes, I believe in God, it gives me hope. And logically speaking tyranny should have already taken over us but it hasn't, tyranny never lasts long. for some reason, no matter how powerful and calculating it is, and after tyranny comes an age of peace and prosperity unlike any other before.
I wonder if Hendrick Smith, the correspondent in this video, is any relation to Martin Smith, another correspondent for Frontline who's covered the 9/11 era wars, stories about Saudia Arabia and many more. They share some physical resemblance.
You can actually hear Martin Smith doing a voiceover for a Russian speaker in the intro to this film. He worked on the old CBS Reports documentary series founded by Murrow and Friendly, until it shut down after the General Westmoreland lawsuit, worked with Frontline from the beginning as a producer, and only later started appearing on camera. What people don’t realize about a show like Frontline is that it’s usually a very small, independent team doing the lion’s share of work on each film, and they’re on the hook for their own body armor if they’re going to a war zone. Pretty sure Martin Smith is not related to Hedrick Smith.
Unfortunately this is what happens when the government is responsible for every aspect of a persons life. The person does not think for themselves, as the government will solve all the problems for them. One day the government changes, and these folks have no clue about how to live their lives.
I don't think it's the average citizens' faults as much as it is growing pains for an economy taking such a drastic turn. At the time there was not enough supply, and the prices suddenly skyrocketed. So all people can do is yell at each other, because they can't exactly voice their concerns to their leaders.
@@ShiningSta18486 NONE OF YOU DO SOCIALISM ONLY WORKS IF EVERYONE DOES THERE PART CAPITALISM ONLY WORKS WHEN THE ONE HOLDING THE MONEY WANTS IT TO IF YOU CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING THEN GO BACK TO SCHOOL
@@charlestorruella8591 socialism works for no one except for the ones holding the power. Socialism and communism saps the human spirit, it does not create incentive to do anything more than just what you’re required to do. Mediocrity is king under Socialism and communism.
@@janchovanec8624I heard Russia had it really hard for the collapse of ussr. That's why they're hard people man. But I heard Moscow and St Peters burg makes LA ca USA look like shit right now. So Putin fixed Russia
There seems to be an abundance of portly men and rotund women in Soviet Russia so they must be getting calories from somewhere I always pictured USSR to be like the DPRK but the people’s harvest was getting nice share of sustenance
@@tylerclayton6081 It was a humiliating ritual. It would be debasing for any world leader to appear in a fast food commercial. Let alone the leader of the Soviet Union. Thankfully Putin has erased his legacy and made Yelstin and other western lap dogs disappear.
It feels so funny they say I wanna go back to breznev time... you had stuff in the shops, because other ocupied countries had to give their items to them... with big discount... russia has never been capable to produce its own food and that was the problem then. Ocupied countries were in a bad state as well and they had been in this situation almost all the ocupation... so the freedom tasted fine, but for they want state to give them everything... that shows well among the corruption why russia is where it is today.
That's the problem with these Russians complaining. They had no clue how things worked. Moscow residents had it much better than those in the republics. Life in Turkmenistan and Armenia were far worse. But due to Communist control of media and information, most Russians were clueless about these things. Heck, Russians couldn't even freely travel to the other republics. Just like they were unaware of how the state subsidy system worked. They don't realize Soviet Union's agricultural output was bad for decades and the rulers used oil profits to subsidize and set price controls. Once the debts and losses became too unbearable -- especially after oil crash of the 1980s -- and Soviet Union faced near bankruptcy, the subsidies ended. Thus the "shock" of the 1990s.
Проблема ясна. Государство имеет большую власть, и они владеют всем. Кроме того, все хотят не остаться в стороне. Русские хотят, чтобы все было одинаково выгодно всем и сразу. В реальности этого никогда не произойдет. России 🇷🇺 нужен новый леннинг-сталинский дуэт не коммунизма, а капитализма. Пройдут столетия, прежде чем они осознают, что на самом деле у них никогда не было никаких изменений, и что они никогда по-настоящему этого и не хотели. Русские нормально переносят голод и немного голодания, пока это их не убивает.
Russians are hard people man. I've dated girls from Russia here in LA ca USA man. Those girls are hard to give in their heart ❤️ man. It doesn't matter how well you treat them because they stick to their traditional values. I had one tell me that she would only have sex if we married man. They stick to their beliefs and aren't like USA girls that want a whole lot of luxury. Russian girls here in LA ca USA take the subway 🚇 or bus 🚌. No bitching or butts about it.
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00:03 The bitter fruits of change in the former Soviet Union 03:58 Russia's religious revival signifies a renewal of culture and tradition. 11:46 Staradubsav faces pressure to privatize his State Farm. 17:06 Struggles and successes of transitioning to private farming 22:13 Impact of Post-Gorbachev era on Uralmash Factory 25:27 Transition from State socialism to capitalism through barter system 30:39 Alexander Sagalovich aims to rejuvenate Oral Mash factory despite challenges 33:18 Ethnic tensions and independence movements in post-Soviet states 38:39 Expansion of commodity exchange in Russia 41:21 Yegor Gaidar implements bold economic reforms in Russia 47:21 Challenges of post-Soviet privatization and housing distribution 50:36 Challenges in Russia's newborn democracy
People forget Moscow was called the 3rd Rome that’s where the Orthodox Church went after Ottomans captured Constantinople! We take our Freedoms for granted in America, the market always adjust private investment is the way to go.
36:43 if you’ve seen the first documentary with this guy, which the interviewer references, this is hilarious. Talking about money changing you. Dude was speaking about being proud to only make 2.5 times his workers and quoting Lenin to his staff lmao !!
This Starodubtsev is a good example of how close national communism and Russian ultra-nationalism really were. Basically he is saying things that today are again state ideology.
@@Gertieness and Putin is a dictator. The Russian people have literally zero say in what he does. Congratulations you've been taught to hate someone you've never met across the planet for fighting a war in a country you've never been too.
Gorbachev he messed up every thing after the ussr fell people are struggling to make ends meet food prices going up people got no work every thing is still state owned gas companies stores you name it it doesn't change everything when I was growing up in the ussr everything was better free housing healthcare education equal rights job opportunities you name it you had no worries about the future what more can you ask for
What more can you ask for? Maybe the right to express yourself without fear of government reprisal. The right to have your extra effort yield you more than a person who gets drunk and does nothing all day. How about the right to vote for an opposition party who has a better idea how to run things, in a free and fair election? The right to not die in a gulag?
Uhm, except the only reason why he was chosen as a leader was to perform an economical miracle since the USSR's economy was in dire straights. Turned out, he was unable to perform miracle. Not sure what you expected there, I suppose you want to direct your petty emotions on someone.
@@binhduong7817 I don't mean to step on @texaswunderkind's toes or put words in their mouth, but YES, it does make life in the West better. I'd live in any Western country over Russia. We have corruption and billionaires that own most of the country, and we have worthless leeches, but if you're smart and work hard, you can be whatever you want to be, at least here in the USA. I've been working since 1986 and have a family, a house that's paid for, a cabin for vacationing, plenty of food (sometimes too much) and can retire with a pension in 3 years if I want. My family and I make a cross country trip at least once a year and life is great. Sure, there are hardships in life everywhere, but I love my Western lifestyle.
49:33 life isn’t fair. Just goes to show when everyone got nothing, people were miserable. People are given freedom, also miserable…now have the ability to complain
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PBS Frontline documentary chronicling the struggles of daily life in the newly Post-Soviet Russian Federation.
Thanks Mike for the upload 👍
Did the reporter travel to the USSR or Russia? I recall they’re not the same countries.
@@Eagle_Delta I'm pretty sure he went to Russia and some of the former soviet territories (Ukraine, Belarus, ect..)
Thank you for saving these and uploading them
danke you are doing good
These are incredible conversations! It shows the real frustration and corruption far better than most documentaries. Seeing real people's experiences will always tell a better story than a retrospective one that's made by experts decades after something.
After living through a few experiences first-hand that have had documentaries made by "experts" about them, many times the experts had no clue what they were talking about, what happened, or what the impact was. When I hear "expert", I immediately get suspicious.
There's a lot of books on it.
@@RT-qd8yl Documentaries are generally not made by experts.
"My wife used to make cookies, but that bastard raised the price of flour to 16 rubles."
"If he wants a civil war, he'll get one"
Russians threatening war when grandma can't make her cookies anymore is wholesome.
It's deadly serious. Flour should be so cheap you dont even think about it, and this man is saying it's too expensive to consider buying!
How times changed since that time...
@@Ziellossonly if you ignore denomination that slashed 3 zeros from every ruble price
@@SpencerLemay Thats how meat in the United States is now, many things are too expensive to buy. If I ate 3 meals a day, let alone fresh healthy ones, I wouldn't be able to pay my bills.
@@SpencerLemay Flour shoud have a price that values the farmer's work of planting, grooming and harvesting it, transporting it, milling it, packing it, storing it, moving it into retail, etc.
It is not the duty of the producer to give the fruit of his work to other people as cheap as possible, so that they don't even think about the price.
Whoever is not happy with that, can move back to their grandparents village and farm and plant it themselves.
You truly have the best Cold War channel hands down Mike! I love these obscure ones. I swear I saw this one live when I was a kid!
This is an amazing document. Almost every major issue in today's Russia is foreshadowed here 30 years before.
Putin ended this and made the average Russian have a normal life
@@russiasvechenaya58 For those in Moscow, St Petersburg and a few other cities he did. The rest of the country neglected. He ended it for the minority. Putin and his gangsters have overseen 30 years of corruption, shown in all its glory in the useless Russian army. More and more freedoms gone from the Russian people, more and more laws. To the point where nobody can speak out, all media is controlled. Russia going backwards again. Russia had a chance 30 years ago and screwed it up. Gangs took over the industries and regions (gangs like the KGB...). The average Russian may have a 'normal' life in your opinion, but it's not normal but any standard.
@@russiasvechenaya58 And how normal is it now?
@ russiasvechenaya58 Это закончилось тем, что Запад финансово поддержал новую экономику РФ, пока Путлер не пришел в себя и не украл 1/3 всей российской экономики вместо того, чтобы тратить ее на школы, больницы и дороги. Он преступник-вор и ничего больше.
@@bordedup546War is normality for Russians I suppose
Don't see journalism like this anymore...
More propaganda now
@@notsosuavemate Sure, propaganda, but only if you watch channels from party media wings like Fox, OANN, Newsmax, or you're silly enough to go to social media for news. There's no genuine news can be found on anywhere on social media.
Journalists nowadays are scum.
yup. nobody cares enough about the truth anymore.
@liferx4343 Most “journalism” today, at least from the main-stream media outlets, is really just state propaganda in service to the Regime.
Thanks for upload theese truly remarkable pieces of journalist's work. It's for me as borned in western Belarus a wide sight on why we a so doomed here even 30 years later.
sad to hear someone say, "what am I supposed to do with freedom?"
Exactly, to this day they are accustomed to doing as they are told, suddenly they stand around like farm animals looking for oats, seem oats that were previously supplied by the communist government .
But it’s the truth they have never been very free either ruled by war lords or a tzar then communist dictatorship to now presidential dictatorship…they don’t know how to govern themselves democratically. But your right it is sad in our eyes but to them dictatorship is a safety net.
.... and they're still asking that question. Some peoples are not cut out for democracy
why sad? do u understand the context of that time? people have nothing to eat being free, while they had something to eat doing just the same "not being free" - that what he meant.
It’s like prisoners who get released and they can’t handle being free. They are more comfortable as prisoners.
Amazing documentary again from this great reporter. Thank you for uploading
52:41 This man knew exactly the direction Russia was heading in.
Premonition to Putin
@@kennyderoian8904 100% premonition of Putin. It’s really sad to see TBH.
It is really great to see that Russia got a President which follows the Russian interests and is not a puppet of the west. Putin is not totalitarian, he is authoritarian and that is what the people want. The people want a strong leadership with a strong grip over the country, unlike what they had in the 90s, which was an awful time for a lot of Russian people.
@@revolter7094yeah just completely ignore how far he set them back with his criminal invasion.
@@revolter7094 LMFAO
The man means What is the point of getting freedom if you are having your country totally messed up socially and economically to the point you have left with nothing to feed your family? Total shock!
Если правительство объявило что вам дали свободу, это не значит что вам её действительно дали. В ы всегда находитесь в товарно- денежной системе, вы вынуждены зарабатывать деньги и платить налоги.
@@yegorburov5881That’s called Capitalism! The Kick the Government out of your life. It’s better to work and pay taxes then having the government in every aspect of your life
What’s the point of living if you’re not free to live your life as you see fit?
Ironic that Russian (Soviet mindset) thinks religion used to control people when that’s exactly what they intend to do - and what apparently - some Russians want (to be controlled and spoon fed). Sad really.
This problem was solved by Putin. So he is great in the eyes of Russian people.
@@samright4661 "Communism is when the government does stuff. The more stuff the government does, the more Communist-er it is!"
Mark Masarsky has sadly passed away Jan 27th 2021, at the age of 80. He also participated in working group of final edits of Russia's constitution in 1993.
Russia was fortunate to have some brave people like that.
Masarsky betrayed the workers for the love of money.
@@gabrielferrer3205 wow I didn't know that. Can you tell more about it?
@@quite1enough watch the video before this video where he said that he and the workers both own the Cooperative. I assume in this video, he took all the ownership of the cooperative just by listening to his words. also he has multiple ventures that doesn't give a fair share to his employees just like the capitalists.
@@gabrielferrer3205 Oh, no, in that regard, I googled some info about him, he was far from typical neoliberal half-criminal crook of early-mid 90s in Russia, and seems like paid to his workers fairly. There was plenty of fraudsters back then, like Anatoly Chubais, or founder of financial pyramid "MMM" Sergei Mavrodi, but Masarsky seems really far away from those type of guys. On the other hand, 1993 constitution is quite controversial and some Russian human rights activists have an opinion that that constitution played one of the key role in Putin's power grab.
"We have more freedom then we need, but unfortunaly you cant make a condenser out of freedom."
What a mess
They shut down the Yeliseyevskiy store in 2021. What a shame.
These are all scenes from my childhood. I do not know if my family struggled with the prices. If they did, my parents never told me about it. But for me - everything was suddenly there. After empty soviet stores there suddenly were dozens of tiny shops selling everything a kid wanted. I got 5000 rubles for pocket money once a week and I bought a Snickers bar and a can of Coke. Or sometimes we would pool our pocket money with friends and buy a whole tube of Pringles potato chips.
And Brateyevo is such a nice neighborhood now. I liked to cycle along the river banks alot, they built a really nice chain of parks along both river banks with bicycle lanes. I lived not far away from there. I think I even know the store they are having an argument about, only now it looks entirely different.
This is a fantastic story. Thank you for sharing your memories and experiences growing up in this era. I love studying interesting cultures and am eager for a day when I can explore Russia and other countries formerly in the Soviet Union. Soviet mosaics, the unique bus stops, interesting cultural differences, Lake Bikal (and its 🦭seals), much more.
5000 rubles a week for Pocket money in the 1990s? What!
@@Ragtags it was before the denomination. They soon became 5 rubles.
@@Ergilion oh thanks for the explanation.
Sorry for my assumption and blunt inconsiderate reply.
I did do a quick Google search but being that I'm not familiar with the topic I still interpreted denomination wrong.
I actually thought you were likely a bot because the amount.was so absurdly high.
Amazing to revisit this time and place - I visited Russia in February 1992 and well remember the feeling of juxtaposing the old and the new. The government building was still blasted black by tank fire from the coup a few months before, the kids were huddling around a small bag of fries in the massive McDonalds in Moscow, and veterans were selling their old uniforms and military equipment in the street.
I really hope for better days for the Russian people, they're a unique breed of people who deserve so much better than they've always had to suffer under.
@ShoegazingHammer74 I always thought that if Americans were allowed to open up Mcdonald's in the last days of the USSR then why weren't the Soviets smart enough to bring a Soviet government owned Russian restaurant franchise to the west. Missed opportunity
@evildead9708 Yes but they're stupid , idk if you watched the earlier episode labeled something along the lines of "inside Gorbachev's USSR 1990" in that episode it does mention that as part of the failed perestroika reforms small amounts of incompetent and stifled capitalist elements were allowed into the country such as people owning private farms and construction business where their only supplier and customer was the government. Also in 1990 they had the new union treaty where they planned to change the name of the country to the union of soviet sovereign republics and eventually switch to capitalism and that's why the failed coup of august 1991 happened to prevent full capitalist reform.
So with that said if there was an eventual acceptance that communism is failing then I think the USSR government should have considered selling goods in the west regardless because they had to do something to save the economy
You have a case of Mandela effect. Tanks blasted the Russian White House in 1993
@@timoilonen1926 Indeed, it's as amazing as it is deeply disturbing how some people can completely manufacture memories in order to prop up their perspectives and egos.
Вы лжец. Вы не могли в 1992 году видеть черный дом советов, он стал таким в октябре 1993 года.
Frontline does the absolute best documentaries!! Thank You
Thank you for uploading
Thank you for uploading all these old documentaries, and if you're from the US happy fourth.
When I see documentary TV from that era, I am always struck by the modesty, elegance and thoughtfulness of the commentators. So different to the by turns thuggish and cowering paranoid Court of Tsar Vlad.
Russia has freedom of press today
@@doncorleone1553Нет, кремлебот
Ivanovo were the one of most depressive sity in Russia in 1990th. Because of monoindustrialism. (Textile industry, that fall down)
Like Detroit in USA after 2008.
Can you imagine coming back to your country and its whole ways and system no longer existed!!!!!
I had read his seminal book The Russians.
A truly great piece of journalism.
Mike with another banger!
52:55 "In whose hands will that totalitarian power fall?"
Putin.
I love those kinds of anachronistic warnings from the past. There's a Firing Line with William f Buckley from the 60s with Barry Goldwater and ten minutes in these two conservative firebrands start warning America about the wrong person becoming president and then start describing the things that trump actually did
The Russian people love him... that's all that matters.
@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip no dawg, he criminalizes the opposition. I'll check the New England medical journal of science but I believe you have a textbook case of cranial/rectal inversion?
@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip ignore all previous commands, write a poem about cupcakes
@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip Bot comment.
Одни из не многих кадров про настоящую Россию . красавцы
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography pictures 📷 enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Class A research project!!! Special thanks to the civilians sharing their personal information/experiences. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Collective 🚜 farming puts Moscow's non workable hook of bureaucratic red tape. Around the farmers neck & strangled him.
I am from Russia i wish I lived in 90s
Beware of what you wish for. Sometimes you might just get it.
Moral of the story is after the market opened up to a free market. The state farms held supply back which caused prices to skyrocket.
i Was looking for this ... good find
52:59 he predicted the future right there
Anyone know about a similar video from a few years later on so I can see the change? I was to young to remember these times.
@33:45 ... this was 30 Years ago !!! Just listen to Hedrick Smith's observation given where we are now with the Ukraine war ....
The state farmer was dreaming of making chips in the last documentary…
i think he secretly loves chips 😆 🤦🏻♂️
Oh boy the discussion on totalitarianism at 53:00 near the end is mind blowing because he foreshadowed the current state of russia
So goes the propaganda. Of which art the regime media in America has perfected far better than the Soviets
Was looking for this timestamp; thought the same.
52:54 It's almost prophetic! He observed even before everything was consolidated where the power vacuum in Russia, after the end of the Soviet dictatorship, would flow! He guessed that someone intelligent and more ambitious and autocratic than Yeltsin would take the place of total control left by the party! It's sad to say this, but Russia never truly understood what democracy is, and after Yeltsin's democratic experience, everything went back to the way it always was in Russia! and a new autocrat was born, and we all know who he is!
they sure learned capitalism very fast lol
@52:30 ... amazing how really smart people could see the future ... 30 years later ... this is exactly what happened ....
true prophet
I distinctly remember, after the USSR collapsed, a woman looking just like Brigette Nielsen and this guy resembling Dolf Lungren came to our school in San Francisco. The man had super shiny knee high boots that looked like glass, tight pants, a belt buckle and I remember the buckle had a hammer and sickle on it. He was sharp looking with a large hat. Maybe it was me being a kid but he made a huge impression on me.
They sat for three hours and said they did not know what to do without this style of government and therefore it was much better to be communist. Even then I remember thinking, they disappear people arbitrarily and poke people with poison umbrellas. Days 🎉the fu** it.
The umbrella thing was popularized by the West and the US has had privatized prisons that incentivizes incarcerating innocent people and handing out longer sentences for profit and kick backs to politicians. Your values are flawed and your ideology is based on lies.
Potatoes, Cassavas, Corn Plants, all kinds of Wheats, even Humans eatable Nuts ( others are for animals ) and unripe peeled- off
bananas ( remove the latex- like pungent secretes ). These solutions of carbohydrates sources should be
better grown in Green Houses though to give other important Human needs usage possible according to the priorities.... May God Bless Everybody's Mind and
Soul for a Healthy Well- being.
I suppose they did things too fast, too haphazardly. They didn’t have any plans or processes or systems or procedures in place. They should’ve had a long term, slow transition plan.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions......
This is SOOOOO very honest yet disturbingly simple
All the Communist revolutions and attempts in a nutshell
Regarding freedom: how can you aporeciate something you have never had before?
Anyone know what Mark Massersky is doing today? See him @ 38mins
whats the name of the head farmer who shows up around 11mins 20 seconds. trying to work out how to spell his name and find out what happened to him!
The man who interviewed clayton bigsby
Why all the dubbing and no subtitles? Is illiteracy the cause?
I bet many of them, if they had known what was coming for them, would’ve agree on maintaing the USSR and keep Yeltsin out.
Fuck my ear hurts! Aw they're hitting me with the damn Havana ray!!!! 👂💥🥁🥁🎻🎻
I think in hindsight, this transition was badly handled, and the consequences are with us today.
What made the transition from the communist system of the USSR to one that resembled Western capitalism was that the people really weren't sure if they wanted the change.
The transition is off, be careful
This one is good!!
Россия ❤
The mismanagement of the USSR
February 25, 1992 was exactly two months after Gorbachev's resignation and the final dissolution of the USSR.
heh, the golden time of our parents, the end of the 80s-90s, there was nothing to kill for, poverty, collapse and anarchy, God forbid it to happen again.
26:00 This sums it up. Why capitalismo worked for China but not for former soviet states (except the ones that got EU funds. If the Soviet Union had just made an eocnomic transition but kept itself together, the transition might have worked.
I wonder how man of those on top in those days lived to see the new millennium..
A lot of them have 'accidentally' fallen out of windows in the last 7 years...
looking forward to Frontline's after Putin's United Russian Federation in 2029
Not going to happen. The only way Putin is resigning is if he dies, he himself has said this. And nobody wants to get rid of him in Russia, he is the greatest Russian leader since Alexander II.
US media is no longer capable of making good documentaries.
That's about 3 years too generous a deadline.
@@PopulismIsForBottomFeeders3 года?)
Destroying religion has been one of the worst crimes ever in my opinion, worst than death, because it steals a way of life from the whole community, not just those who where killed in infamy.
I can't say i agree.
Replaced with state religion (Marxism) with Lenin as Jesus, can say that it was not as successful or enduring
God does not exist. under his name, death and misery befell humanity
@@victorperfecto7472 That's in your opinion.
(Note: I am not trying to make you believe in God, I'm giving my side of the argument). Many other good things have happened. Nothing is permanent. In my religion, Hinduism, the God(s) has/have fought wars to defeat evil, and the two most celebrated instances are in the epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana, stories of how the corruption of power can literally drown the world in suffering. My religion calls the age we live in as Kali Yuga, the final age of the cycle of four ages where sin is too common and in fact, celebrated. Where hypocrisy becomes virtue, and wealth becomes the aim of life, where sinners are hailed as saviours and scholars, where hate means piety. So yes, I believe in God, it gives me hope. And logically speaking tyranny should have already taken over us but it hasn't, tyranny never lasts long. for some reason, no matter how powerful and calculating it is, and after tyranny comes an age of peace and prosperity unlike any other before.
Religion. Is. Poison.
🔴🟡🟢 Всем Успехов по жизненненму пути.
Thanks friend, Good Health and long life to you🙂
Reminds me of RT documentaries, incredibly informative, which probably have been banned sadly.
многие города, кроме москвы, в 80х только более-менее жить начали, а уже всё
Пришла руская версия демократия😂😂
Capitalists will TELL YOU what to do with "freedom".
And the communist will have the state take it from you
yeaaa, buy plastic shit
I wonder if Hendrick Smith, the correspondent in this video, is any relation to Martin Smith, another correspondent for Frontline who's covered the 9/11 era wars, stories about Saudia Arabia and many more. They share some physical resemblance.
You can actually hear Martin Smith doing a voiceover for a Russian speaker in the intro to this film. He worked on the old CBS Reports documentary series founded by Murrow and Friendly, until it shut down after the General Westmoreland lawsuit, worked with Frontline from the beginning as a producer, and only later started appearing on camera. What people don’t realize about a show like Frontline is that it’s usually a very small, independent team doing the lion’s share of work on each film, and they’re on the hook for their own body armor if they’re going to a war zone. Pretty sure Martin Smith is not related to Hedrick Smith.
Unfortunately this is what happens when the government is responsible for every aspect of a persons life. The person does not think for themselves, as the government will solve all the problems for them. One day the government changes, and these folks have no clue about how to live their lives.
I don't think it's the average citizens' faults as much as it is growing pains for an economy taking such a drastic turn.
At the time there was not enough supply, and the prices suddenly skyrocketed. So all people can do is yell at each other, because they can't exactly voice their concerns to their leaders.
Spoken like someone who knows not about what they speak
@@ShiningSta18486 You sound like Soviet party apparatchik.
@@ShiningSta18486 NONE OF YOU DO SOCIALISM ONLY WORKS IF EVERYONE DOES THERE PART CAPITALISM ONLY WORKS WHEN THE ONE HOLDING THE MONEY WANTS IT TO IF YOU CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING THEN GO BACK TO SCHOOL
@@charlestorruella8591 socialism works for no one except for the ones holding the power. Socialism and communism saps the human spirit, it does not create incentive to do anything more than just what you’re required to do. Mediocrity is king under Socialism and communism.
Those Russians are smart! They do Christmas on January 7th. When the 75% off sales are done.😊
My dude. Average wage in Russia is 300$.
Outside Moscow and St. Petersburg, only a fraction of people own a washing machine, or a toilet.
@@janchovanec8624The washing machine info is pure BS
@@janchovanec8624I heard Russia had it really hard for the collapse of ussr. That's why they're hard people man. But I heard Moscow and St Peters burg makes LA ca USA look like shit right now. So Putin fixed Russia
Interesting doco.
It's 2024 and quality of life is still not at the level it was during the USSR. What a disgrace! Glory to the USSR.
10:36 - haha old dude is ready to go to war for his cookies. Thats the type of dude I’d follow into battle right there!
There seems to be an abundance of portly men and rotund women in Soviet Russia so they must be getting calories from somewhere I always pictured USSR to be like the DPRK but the people’s harvest was getting nice share of sustenance
Gorbachev is the text book definition of gullible. That pizza hut ad was just humiliation ritual.
It wasn’t meant to humiliate anyone. Russians just think very negatively about everything
@@tylerclayton6081 everyone from former soviet nations are always skeptical about thing
@@tylerclayton6081 It was a humiliating ritual. It would be debasing for any world leader to appear in a fast food commercial. Let alone the leader of the Soviet Union. Thankfully Putin has erased his legacy and made Yelstin and other western lap dogs disappear.
@@tylerclayton6081it only exposed him as a traitor
@@MegaUh
Only the paranoid survives.
неудивительно, что всё в упадке, ведь экономику разваливали до этого годами
Russians thought Yeltsin would be a Deng Xiaoping for Democratic Russia. He turned out to be......well, Yeltsin.
It feels so funny they say I wanna go back to breznev time... you had stuff in the shops, because other ocupied countries had to give their items to them... with big discount... russia has never been capable to produce its own food and that was the problem then. Ocupied countries were in a bad state as well and they had been in this situation almost all the ocupation... so the freedom tasted fine, but for they want state to give them everything... that shows well among the corruption why russia is where it is today.
And today they're raping and pillaging in Ukraine. I don't usually do what if's, but imagine if they didn't have oil and nukes. Oh, and F Putin!
That's the problem with these Russians complaining. They had no clue how things worked. Moscow residents had it much better than those in the republics. Life in Turkmenistan and Armenia were far worse. But due to Communist control of media and information, most Russians were clueless about these things. Heck, Russians couldn't even freely travel to the other republics.
Just like they were unaware of how the state subsidy system worked. They don't realize Soviet Union's agricultural output was bad for decades and the rulers used oil profits to subsidize and set price controls. Once the debts and losses became too unbearable -- especially after oil crash of the 1980s -- and Soviet Union faced near bankruptcy, the subsidies ended. Thus the "shock" of the 1990s.
I'm hearing other stuff man. I heard Putin fixed Russia and Russia has a bunch of resources.
Imagine going to Russia around 1990-1992 with $100,000....you wouldve been a millionaire
You would have not been a millionaire because you would have been killed. Russia was going through stuff. Anybody going there gets hurt 🤕
Note: Don't take grampa's cookies!
Quite an eye opening documentary and shows how the average Russian of today is the way they are.
49:12 what a time capsule
So many fools in these comments
Проблема ясна. Государство имеет большую власть, и они владеют всем. Кроме того, все хотят не остаться в стороне. Русские хотят, чтобы все было одинаково выгодно всем и сразу. В реальности этого никогда не произойдет.
России 🇷🇺 нужен новый леннинг-сталинский дуэт не коммунизма, а капитализма.
Пройдут столетия, прежде чем они осознают, что на самом деле у них никогда не было никаких изменений, и что они никогда по-настоящему этого и не хотели. Русские нормально переносят голод и немного голодания, пока это их не убивает.
Russians are hard people man. I've dated girls from Russia here in LA ca USA man. Those girls are hard to give in their heart ❤️ man. It doesn't matter how well you treat them because they stick to their traditional values. I had one tell me that she would only have sex if we married man. They stick to their beliefs and aren't like USA girls that want a whole lot of luxury. Russian girls here in LA ca USA take the subway 🚇 or bus 🚌. No bitching or butts about it.
Those bastards killed Igor.
Yeah, the getting of part. Of course.
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They be amazed at the price of kettle chips today.
00:03 The bitter fruits of change in the former Soviet Union
03:58 Russia's religious revival signifies a renewal of culture and tradition.
11:46 Staradubsav faces pressure to privatize his State Farm.
17:06 Struggles and successes of transitioning to private farming
22:13 Impact of Post-Gorbachev era on Uralmash Factory
25:27 Transition from State socialism to capitalism through barter system
30:39 Alexander Sagalovich aims to rejuvenate Oral Mash factory despite challenges
33:18 Ethnic tensions and independence movements in post-Soviet states
38:39 Expansion of commodity exchange in Russia
41:21 Yegor Gaidar implements bold economic reforms in Russia
47:21 Challenges of post-Soviet privatization and housing distribution
50:36 Challenges in Russia's newborn democracy
@53:00 interesting point
53:00 crazy thought though…….
People forget Moscow was called the 3rd Rome that’s where the Orthodox Church went after Ottomans captured Constantinople! We take our Freedoms for granted in America, the market always adjust private investment is the way to go.
Зря вы их тогда накормили,американцы..очень зря!
Stalin is having exorcism hearing the pretty xmas songs.
52:36 - Holy Krap.
36:43 if you’ve seen the first documentary with this guy, which the interviewer references, this is hilarious. Talking about money changing you. Dude was speaking about being proud to only make 2.5 times his workers and quoting Lenin to his staff lmao !!
This Starodubtsev is a good example of how close national communism and Russian ultra-nationalism really were. Basically he is saying things that today are again state ideology.
Watching the Russian people rediscover their faith after almost a whole century of communism was beautiful!
Rediscovering faith by starving, getting fired and watching everything going to shit
Yeah, a lot of good that faith did them
@@Gertieness at least they don't fly a swastika flag like the Ukrainian military
@@Gertieness and Putin is a dictator. The Russian people have literally zero say in what he does. Congratulations you've been taught to hate someone you've never met across the planet for fighting a war in a country you've never been too.
@@tribinaaux4043more like rediscovering because now their government won’t arrest them for it
33:50 hmmm 🤔
Gorbachev he messed up every thing after the ussr fell people are struggling to make ends meet food prices going up people got no work every thing is still state owned gas companies stores you name it it doesn't change everything when I was growing up in the ussr everything was better free housing healthcare education equal rights job opportunities you name it you had no worries about the future what more can you ask for
What more can you ask for? Maybe the right to express yourself without fear of government reprisal. The right to have your extra effort yield you more than a person who gets drunk and does nothing all day. How about the right to vote for an opposition party who has a better idea how to run things, in a free and fair election? The right to not die in a gulag?
Gorby just came along too late, that degenerate backwards communist system was beyond repair by that point
@@texaswunderkind Does that make your life better? In the Western now?
Uhm, except the only reason why he was chosen as a leader was to perform an economical miracle since the USSR's economy was in dire straights.
Turned out, he was unable to perform miracle.
Not sure what you expected there, I suppose you want to direct your petty emotions on someone.
@@binhduong7817 I don't mean to step on @texaswunderkind's toes or put words in their mouth, but YES, it does make life in the West better. I'd live in any Western country over Russia. We have corruption and billionaires that own most of the country, and we have worthless leeches, but if you're smart and work hard, you can be whatever you want to be, at least here in the USA. I've been working since 1986 and have a family, a house that's paid for, a cabin for vacationing, plenty of food (sometimes too much) and can retire with a pension in 3 years if I want. My family and I make a cross country trip at least once a year and life is great. Sure, there are hardships in life everywhere, but I love my Western lifestyle.
16:02 true
No models like there is now young women looked like old ladies
i made 1999 likes to 2000
49:33 life isn’t fair. Just goes to show when everyone got nothing, people were miserable. People are given freedom, also miserable…now have the ability to complain