End of Communism: How 1989 Changed Europe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Seventy years ago -- on May 12, 1949 -- the Soviet Union ended its 11-month-long blockade of Berlin. The blockade had begun on June 24, 1948, amid a currency dispute with the Western Allies. Moscow cut off road, rail, and water access to Berlin's Western sector. Food and electricity would soon run out. The solution? The Allies set in motion a massive undertaking that would become known as the Berlin Airlift.
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I remember when my parents used to tell me about the Communism time in Romania! My Grandfather was killed in protest by soldiers! No food! No nothing! While Ceaușescu set on his toilet made out of gold! Romanian people lost they're lives!
Communism never works and was never about helping the people
This brings tears to my eyes watching it, and yet it seems sometimes the lessons of 1989 have been forgotten by so many
me too! I'm looking for short, easy to understand videos on civil society for my ESL politics class. I nearly teared up thinking how all of this is coming undone in the world right now
I too was recently searching for videos like this one. I was 20 when communism fell in Central European countries and 1989 shall forever be etched into my memory as the most pivotal moment in 20th century European history
I will never forget the fall of the Berlin Wall, at that time I was an election official in the 1989 UN (UNTAG
) supervised Namibian elections in a rural area of Namibia when we heard the news broadcast.
Greetings from Slovakia. Namibia also received its independence in 1990, and Apartheid fell in South Africa by 1994. Never-ever underestimate the importance of the pro-democratic revolutions of 1989 and the early 1990s worldwide. We went from a divided world with bleak prospects to a world that can have a future.
It is all the more important these days, worldwide, to never vote for far-right or far-left populists and demagogues spreading lies and hatred against democracy and transparency. They want to bring back the bad old world from before 1989, and that must never be allowed to happen, on any continent. Not in Europe, not in Asia, not in Africa, not in the Americas, nor Australia and the Pacific. We must not allow ourselves to be ensnared by people who constantly use appeal to emotion and violent rhetoric. We must instead think, be rational, check our facts, think twice, and above all, never stoop to panic or to hatred.
such an underrated video
I am so sorry that Georgia is not mentioned in this video, as in 1989 Georgians rescued their lives for freedom!
Any troubles always starts in Poland :) But to be more serious - we helped Eastern Germans in September 1989 in Warsaw who escaped their country. Food, blankets, sleeping bags, medicines. My dire friends from DDR, students of Warsaw University, helped as an interpreters.
Long Live Soviet Union 🇮🇳❤🇷🇺
Great. :-)
Searched for (Mirodrom Koncert Split 1985).
End of communism explains how I ended up in England.
Wonderful to see, though history will repeat itself if we're not careful
uhahaha, thats what you got soviets
This is the kind of video I am searching for, a decent documentary on how each country broke the communist occupation of 45 years.
Lol anyway yall check out blackshirts and reds by Michael parenti
These were crazy times. Everyone was watching the news in hungary.
before anyone say democracy is bad, the bad thing is capitalism not democracy
Capitalism makes democracy an ilusion. Banks rule the world, not the people.
@@thathalak7243 F off communists
@@uyoebyik Communists? Communism doesn’t work. But there may be better alternatives to unsustainable capitalism
@@thathalak7243 like what?
@@uyoebyik We will have to try and possibly burn a little to find out. Maybe some regulated form of capitalism, where people would be paid shares of the company instead of money. Or try out some form of anarchism (anarchism doesn’t mean anarchy and was never tested on a larger scale like communism) … just try things out, if they work, keep them, if they don’t abandon them. But the way it is today is eroding democracy and making plutocracy
Ukraine famine:3-12 million died
But British in india famine:55-60 million died because of British looted every thing in india.....
You say that as if it's somehow better.
I’m missing the point you’re trying to make….
I'm guessing that he's implying that the famine in Ukraine wasn't as bad as the famine in India; as if those Ukrainians have nothing to complain about.
What goes up will come down 😆
More like what is happening in europe last year and this year. I wonder how these times will be mentioned years to come
England has suffered a lot with mass migration. Even though a lot if East Europeans are hard workers.
England has suffered nothing. Most English citizens wouldn't do many menial jobs, even if the survival of the economy rested on just that. It's "beneath them". You should be glad the UK can still "import" hard-working people from abroad, just like in the days of the bygone British Empire. You don't know half of it of how good you have it in the UK, and how good you would have had it, had you not wasted time and energy on the spectacular self-harm that was Brexit.
Yugoslavia went on ... and disbanded in a triadic ending of death rape and destruction
1989-1992
3:26 batalia uniunii europene sa inchida tot si sa ne fure bogatiile, asta a fost
When I look at the life in communist nations , I thank god that my country (India) though was highly influenced by the USSR and thier socialist views , it never became a communist nation. Else god know what would have happened to a poor third world nation which was already suffocating under corruption and poverty. Correct me if I am wrong ' I guess Poverty attracts Communism'
without communism world would have been still reeling under dynasties and aristocracy, Jars in Russia, third Reich in Germany, powerful queen in England, Africa and Asia under imperialism, emperor in japan.
@@krishanrathi9119 agreed but atleast a dynasty rule or Imperialist structure doesn't mingle with the basic rights and freedom , if everything is decided by the nation, it gets too complicated and corrupted. It's like u are boxed while you sit and kicked while u sleep and forced to stand up all the time in every harsh calamities. For example in India , when the airports were managed by the government under AAI , how poorly they were maintained and cared after, more of strikes and the red flags with sickle and hammer disrupting the operations on daily basis . Now when they have been privatised, an Indian airport looks like an Airport of international standards and facilities.
@@Ghazal23778 i am not justifying communism but completely against its demonetization without facts, i am just saying communism has its role to play in its hay days, its just an evolution process, today communism is not that relevant, tomorrow crony capitalism would not be but each has played its role and had an profound impact on civilizations and do not got surprised if the same fascism against which communists fought in 2nd world war will emerge again in different form, sometimes cycle repeats, one thing is for sure crony capitalism is adding so much dissent among masses that globalization is no more welcome in many western societies.
@@krishanrathi9119 european monarchies were destroyed after WWI by nationalists who wanted their own independend countries, not by commies
@@Pidalin i do not think so, Red army was the major reason otherwise Germany was winning 2nd world war comfortably and even in Spanish civil war communists were the major resistance and there were numerous examples, i am not left leaning or communist supporter but credit should be given where its due, even Indian revolutionaries were inspired by October revolution