What was it like to live in Stalin's time?
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Drawings from the Gulag:
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Thanks. That was really disturbing. But an important document.
Here’s a good song about Stalin’s treatment of Russian war hero’s
Red Army Blues - Waterboys
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A song about Stalin’s treatment of Russian war hero’s
Red Army Blues - Waterboys
When I left my home and my family
My mother said to me
"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts
It's how many people you set free!"
So I packed my bags
Brushed my cap
Walked out into the world
Seventeen years old
Never kissed a girl
Took the train to Voronezh
That was as far as it would go
Changed my sacks for a uniform
Bit my lip against the snow
I prayed for mother Russia
In the summer of '43
And as we drove the Germans back
I really believed
That God was listening to me
We howled into Berlin
Tore the smoking buildings down
Raised the red flag high
Burnt the reichstag brown
I saw my first American
And he looked a lot like me
He had the same kinda farmer's face
Said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee
Then the war was over
My discharge papers came
Me and twenty hundred others
Went to Stettiner for the train
Kiev! said the commissar
From there your own way home
But I never got to Kiev
We never came by home
Train went north to the Taiga
We were stripped and marched in file
Up the great siberian road
For miles and miles and miles and miles
Dressed in stripes and tatters
In a gulag left to die
All because Comrade Stalin was scared that
We'd become too westernized!
Used to love my country
Used to be so young
Used to believe that life was
The best song ever sung
I would have died for my country
In 1945
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
But now only one thing remains
The brute will to survive ...
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Your intro was comedy gold. Sad, but funny !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Gulag Archipelago
The woman was 27 in the year of 1953? That would make her 96 years old now, I really doubt that.
yeah I just saw that scene and was thinking the same
Was thinking the same
Sometimes people make mistakes. I'm making more 'stupid' mistakes because I'm getting older.
Maybe she meant 17, old people tend to misspeak
Why u gotta think everything’s a lie
3:22 - вот за это я не люблю этот канал. Ну проводите вы опросы, так проводите их без личных каких-то предвзятостей. Она вам рассказывает о том, как хорошо было и как подарили летнюю поездку в лагерь, вы шутите про гулаг. Надоели.
Тут не какие-то серьезные опросы, а развлекуха для иностранцев.
You‘re performing a great service to your people, giving them the space to speak their mind!
However small they may be ...
they way much better then germans
@@adah254 ?
The last lady was spot on. My grandparents grew up during Stalin's reign, and their parents also said to them: be quiet! Too many people (especially Tatars, but many other ethnic groups) were directly targeted by intelligence, everywhere were snitches. You only had to say one thing wrong, you'll disappear over night. the brother of my grandmother was a leader in a kolkhoz, but ethnically German. A worker found it out, snitched on him by saying he's a German spy - nobody has seen him ever again from the next day on. He didn't do anything wrong.
Stalin times were so scary, I am happy not to have to live under such circumstances
В России донос, на западе гражданская позиция. Двойные стандарты, товарищи либералы.
@@yowussap1661 не понимаю, что вы пытаетесь сказать. Неужели вы хотите сравнить репрессии при Сталине с чем-нибудь западным? Не читали "Дети Арбата"?
@@ralfimuller8948 большенство репрессий это либеральные сказки.
А так я очень интересуюсь историй западных стран. Скажите пожалуйста, что было с японцами которые проживали на территории США в период войны? Нигде не могу найти информацию, но очень интересно.
@@yowussap1661 double standards. XD so called liberation of Poland and 1,5 mln innocent polish citizens sent to Siberia, 20 thousands of elite killed in Katyń, Underground Army which fought against nazis was hunted down, tortured and killed. Few hundred thousands people died during Uprising in Warsaw though red army was near by city, on the 2nd side of Vistula river. Not to mention about special polish operation of nkvd before war. Communism installed by force and falsified voting. No Marschal plan, no free market for 50 years.
@@yowussap1661 А ето почему Сталин был хороший человек или что? Что хотите здесь? 500.000 Немцы которые жили в СССР умер под режим Сталина. Мои бабушки и дедушки мне рассказали, как ето было. Мой бабушка любила жить в СССР раньше, а не под режим Сталина.
Thank you for this video! There are some people idealizing Stalin nowadays. I'm just tired of hearing that bullshit. My grandma always told me about her father, my grandgrandfather. He was an engineer, fought in WWII, and when came home in 1945 unfortunately told someone "Stalin doesn't know how rurals live". Soon he was arrested (some of his colleagues wrote a clause, because they wanted to get his flat and his inventions) . When my grandgrandfather was in jail, they found out that he was a son of Orthodox priest (who was also repressed after revolution). Because of his careless words and his origin my grandgrandfather was sent to gulag for 8 years. My grandgrandmother was left alone with two kids. The kids always were called by neighbors "daughters of enemy of our people". But my grandgrandfather was lucky - he lived and came back after 8 years in gulag. Burt there were so many his friends who never returned. My grandma was born in 1933 and no one could hate Stalin and totalitarianism more.
What a story. I'm glad your great grandfather survived, but so sad to think of the many who didn't. And now you have Putin throwing people's lives away for his ego. I hope Russia can get better for its people soon.
China is full of stories like that too (if anyone is brave enough to relate them).
"There are some people idealizing Stalin nowadays"
If you don't have the past you can be proud of, you have to be proud of the past you had.
A part of our human nature. We all tend to idealize the past and to suppress negative memories. However Russians seem to be World Champions in this discipline.
@@renemagritte8237 Stalin killed over 20 million people. More than Hitler. Everyone who spoke negative about Stalin is death. If you look back it was better for the world if Hitler defeated Stalin and the U.S. defeated Hitler. Much more people would be alive.
Putin is idealising Stalin right now and rewriting history in his favour!
I am going through some seriouse identity crisis. This video have helped me understand why it's always been "hush hush"- type of atmosphere in my family (raised by grandparents in Russia who were born during Stalin time). In atempt to understand them (they are dead now) as an adult, I came to a conclusion that it was their "trauma", but now I can see that it's bigger than that - it is a trauma of the whole nation.
@@tpynegar01 Russia has been a police state focused on expansion from the very beginning (like pretty much every major european state back then). We only experienced democracy in short period between 1905 and 1917. That was not the best moment for implementing democratic institutions to say the least, but Nicholas II lacked analytical mind and vitality to find a compromise with a growing demand for political liberalization and the state collapsed. Second try was in the beginning of Yeltsin's rule (1991), but it ended in 1993 when Yeltsin ordered army to bomb it out alongside with an independent parliament. It's not about Stalin or Putin, we are just not used to democracy itself yet, most people don't feel in charge and don't believe in effectiveness of protests, as they had always been brutally put down.
Я сейчас как раз читаю книгу на эту тему, может вас заинтересует, называется "Неудобное прошлое"
Бл(яяяяяяяяяяяяяяяяя. Капец. От таких «психологов» у нас все бедыЯ
@@tpynegar01 что за чушь?
@@tpynegar01 привет тролль амерский, так и быть отвечу тебе ещё раз, чтобы хватило на дозу героина и поездку до Филадельфии. Удачной поездки:)
My father who was a young child in communist Poland was told to cry when Stalin died even though he didn't understand the concept of death at his age. I would compare it to North Korea when Kim Jong Il passed away. Even years after Stalin's death people still lived in terror and were told to praise him. It wasn't until Krucshev took power and the USSR and Warsaw pact became destalinzied that things calmed down. You should do a video asking elderly people what they think of Kruschev's destalinzation campaign.
В России действительно верили и верят сталину, старшее поколение любило его. Не из-за страха, даже после распада союза они продолжают.
Its that GTA 1Billion+ guy!!!
Never knew this was your sorta expertise?? You still talking to Dark_Viper and doing GTA videos?
As for Russia, it is a tragic, those in the West have family in the East, same other way around, way to end the war would be peace on both fronts, no nukes, no dukes and certainly no flukes, hope your doing okay too, been about 3+ years since I've stopped watching due to the game being a dragged, I've joined your lobby a few times and we've even chatted until gaming days ended.
Hope your keeping strong.
Such a shame that country restalinized. Was on track to be a cool country, but now we have a dictatorship that is nostalgic of the 1940s instead.
Khrushchyov destroyed the USSR. If Stalin was still around, the USSR wouldn't have people lining up for foods
@@bigporkcity420 Stalin was great. If Stalin didn't die in 1953, the USSR would be more succesful and will have no people lining for foods
Very well done!! Like recent song by Anacondaz: "эти детишки теперь старушки"... 🤷♀
Эти старушки теперь детишки
Great interviews and also great editing with the historical footage. Keep up the good work.
One of your best videos in my opinion. We need to speak to older generations to learn before they're gone ! What a hard time they lived through. 😪
My family escaped russia under Stalins ruling. More than half of my family were sent to the gulags to dig to their death
. My family owned a hostel ( those monsters) so their neighbors hated them because they had money. One by one all the men were sent away and never came back.
My great grandma escapee firstly to Finland where all soviets were hated. And then to Sweden. Now we are a big family here in Sweden thanks to her bravery.
Hjärtligt Välkomna!!!
...70 år i efterhand.
And when you crossed the border, everyone clapped? Not to discount the existence of gulags, but as with a large number of these stories, definitely needs more evidence than "owned a hostel therefore DiG To tHeIr DeAtH".
@@ДенисГаев-у6е people rented accommodation out in the past as well, it could have been a flat where they would rent out rooms. I don't see how that's implausible
Russians will tell you it is all propaganda.
@@henriashurst-pitkanen8735 I'm a Pole and my family was repressed both by the Nazis (Auschwitz concentration camp) and the Soviets. My great grandpa was sent to GULAG, because the Soviets said he didn't fight withdrawing Nazis "well enough". He came back to Poland after several years, but he was a wreck of a human and actually died shortly after. Just read how many millions of people died in II WW and how many millions were repressed by the USSR. You know, if it was SO MANY then it's obvious that so many people will tell you stories about how their families were killed or sent to different camps.
I am Latvian, born right when USSR collapsed. My grandfather was chased by Stalin soviets because he openly didn't support the regime and by then was considered to be a 'partisan', nationalist. He kept moving between multiple addresses and hiding in the forest to not be deported.
Imagine you live in the remote countryside, it's a late evening of dark, cold winter. You are home alone with your two small children and you hear the car pulling into your yard, that's all you need to know to make a decision.
Regular people had no cars, and no one else would come so late..
In a matter of seconds, you grab your children straight from the beds, wrapped in blankets, climb outside the window and run for your life through knee-deep snow to hide in the nearest forest.
That was my grandmother's experience in 1949 when thousands of people from the Baltics were deported to Siberia in cattle wagons.
Sleeping in daytime clothes, not leaving the light on in the evening, constantly preparing dry bread for an emergency run, hiding worthy belongings... the fear that with the next visitation house will be demolished or burned down.
My childhood was filled with such stories and not only from Stalin years but from the soviet period altogether.
People had to keep their mouths shut, snitches were everywhere, you were not allowed to be who you are, and you were not allowed to celebrate your culture, beliefs, or language. You were not allowed to be different, the levels of oppression, torture, shaming during the Russian occupation years were insane and have left so many dysfunctional patterns for the collective and generations to come.
I think that the work this channel does is really needed and I wish for more historical gapping points and deeper self-reflection moments with the older generation because they carry the roots.
Ironically, the Baltic republics were called "the window display of the Soviet Union" due to higher quality of life compared to other Soviet republics.
Wow, learning about your grandparent's experience has really stuck with me. I keep trying to imagine your grandma's daily life with that always on her mind, her every single move had to be planned, always looking and listening for something, being strong in front of her children... It really puts things into perspective of how much better our lives are now. And to realize that was happening not even that long ago! I sincerely hope your family members were eventually able to find peace and stability ❤
Sad to hear all of that :(
That is a very sad story that many in the Baltics can unfortunately relate to, thank you for sharing.
They came for my grandfather's family one night in Lithuania when he was still a child and they were stuffed into a train without time to pack. They were on the way to Siberia when the train stopped and a Soviet solider got into the carriage. My great grandmother had received a medal for some sort of domestic duty (I think having an above average number of children or something like that) and he allowed us to return. By the time they came back though their home had been looted. Crazy to think that if the train did not stop there I most likely would not have been born.
I also know a very nice man living in my apartment building who was deported as a child but luckily survived and eventually returned, he gets a good pension now from the government and I think free utilities but it seems wrong that they have to pay for the actions of the occupiers. There is no justice in the end for those that did this.
Stalin was the best leader of the world. Two times he recovered country from ruins to the second economy in the world! GULAG was small prison compared to modern US prison system. Majority of people were happy and great country was developing with unprecedented speed.
This is an excellent video that incorporates terrific vintage film clips.
One of your best videos yet. It's fascinating to hear and learn about history from people who actually lived it. Thank you so much for this.
my granddad lives through tzar times, then soviet, then modern Russia, can u image that?
@@justthesun I bet he has a lot of wonderful memories and stories to tell. i could listen to stories from someone like him for hours and hours.
@@justthesun how old is he?
That last woman made no sense. They lived in a 3 story barn, were called kulaks, got their barn repurposed and farmland collectivized, which would've increased access to food but she biked 11 miles for bread? How
11 miles isn't that much to bike either? Maybe it was different for her because of physical differences between men and women but yeah, very confusing.
Ну всё, диванные эксперты будут мусолить о том, какой Сталин был плохой и ужасный. Проигнорировав всё остальное в интервью.
Обожаю европейцев 😆
It’s like an entire country has Stockholm Syndrome.
Дай бог Великой России такой коммунизм какой был при Иосифе Сталине. Какое прекрасное время!
reminds me of the interviews that have been done of the Holocaust survivors-important to gather their memories of Stalin what they saw and felt before they are all gone as so many are very elderly now. Glad they were able to speak openly now about some of the things they experienced. Very important work Dani! interesting that it is mostly women who have lived this long, with few men.
@@natureblank1401 i was in no way referring to putin but to the era of stalin where open criticism was not tolerated.
Men are more prone to bad habits, do not like to go to the doctor and care less about their health.
Its hard to understand what people like that went through. It would have been bad enough for the kids, but for their parents, with families to look out for it must've been far worse
@@jbowerdel how could you even put the Holocaust and Stalin in one sentence? after the war, the world was very mixed up, spies were seen everywhere if you don’t understand the meaning of sends to Siberia
@@AIwRussia I think he was referring to the format, like the documentary Shoah, which was direct witness testimony of what occurred. I don’t believe it was a comparison to the actual Holocaust.
Very neat choice Danil in this topic! I like seeing interviews with older Russian citizens. Very neat!
Thanks for the video dude, well done to all 1420 team
This subject has tremendous potential, so many people coming with true and special stories. Would suggest to keep asking it in different locations 🤞
If someone wonders 3:24 is from "Everlasting summer". It is a visual novel about a soviet summer camp with a pitch of mystery.
Overall a great game and worth checking out
Here's a playlist with an english language playthrough of the game, for the curious
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The game is awesome tho
NUDES PIONEER CAMP 🤣
Тот,кто считает этого нациста героем и хорошим человеком,тот или роzиянец ,или не учил историю ,или учил историю по учебникам роzии
Ну заплачь укрейн социети
@@wex6187 типичный ответ роzиянца,который историю учил с пивасиком в руках на болотной
at 5 minutes the woman was 27 in 1953? Are you sure?
And Stalin was just great
My family was sent into Gulags during Stalins time because they were ethnically German. Even though they were against the Nazis as well they were falsely accused for being facists and spies their whole life in Soviet Union. My grandparents thought they will never survive the gulag. Until today my grandmother said it was the worst time of her life
National socialist was a pretext. Stalin deported Koreans to Central Asia. Were they national socialists? No. Tartars deported. Were they national socialists? No. Chechens were deported. Not national socialists as well. Pontic Greeks deported too. Also, not national socialists. And the list goes on.
Deportations started in 1930 and went on to 1952. Long before the threat of national socialists emerged and long after the national socialists had been defeated.
Any group that had too strong an identity was deemed suspicious or worse. If you were near the border, and most of those ethnics were, there was a high likelihood you'd be deported.
Really sorry for that🥺 as a Latvian, we try not to talk about gulag, cheka, deportions etc, atleast in my family.. It just spoils the mood
was it Gulag? more people were deported and send on settlements. some of russian germans were send to Gulag, but not because of nation but because someone else made an assumption that they are spies.
@@Latvian07 in Latvia is was much lighter
Same for my grandparents, they were ethnically German (Volga German) from Krasnoarmeiskoe/brabander village (southern Russia/saratov Oblast), they had lived there since the mid 1700s up until the 1940s and luckily escaped just in time to America..many other relatives of my grandparents escaped to Argentina. Horrible times for the ethnic Germans of Russia, and sadly this story is so unknown amongst the world of the tragic times they had to face and practically became extinct during both Lenin and Stalins reign. All that they gave to Russia for hundreds of years and they got killed and imprisoned in return. And like you said, my grandparents also spoke of how Germany abandoned them because they accused them of being 'Russian' at that point, and Russia wanted them dead because they considered them as "once a German, always a German" even after putting them thru Russification and everything. Sad, sad, sad 😔 Germans from Russia in the end had no homeland of their own and still don't. They are like forever nomads and virtually unknown of and forgotten.
This is so interesting!
Hey Tay
Chocolate rain
Whoa, nice to see you here!
Part 2 please, we need to preserve those memories!
Nope, there’s enough pain already! Enough holding on to dark past. If you cared about Russians, you’d recommend them to move forward. Enough fuсking nasty darkness in that place, can’t you see? Look at the war?! Putin is holding on to the past. It’s a BAD idea. Learn from the past and MOVE ON!
@@mikenoneofyourbusiness7122 History is very important and we need to preserve it
Спасибо, крутая работа👍🏼 Я считаю что очень важно делиться такой информацией. Осталось не так много живых свидетелей того времени...
Как житель Запада, мы задаемся вопросом, почему русские так мало сочувствуют и закрывают глаза на происходящее. Интересно, жива ли еще культура доноса?
@@andrewlesterthomas5581 Русскоговорящий человек/или люди( 'житель запада' или всё-таки 'МЫ задаёмся вопросом'? Тут неувязочка вышла), который живёт где-то на западе, задаёт вопросы русскоязычному человеку, который живёт в Испании о русских в России😂 Оставив 168 комментариев на этом канале и просмотрев кучу видео мог бы уже и сам догадаться. Канал Владимира Золкина тебе/вам/им/ей/ему в помощь понять что к чему. И нафига ты хутлера мистером называешь... Опять неувязочка. Ну или воспитание такое😉
@@andrewlesterthomas5581 Твой коммент, где ты называл путина МИСТЕРом меня поставил в тупик, учитывая какие типа искренние вопросы ты мне задавал. И я решила тебя проверить. Была не была. THOMAS, Andrew Lester твоё имя в черном списке вместе с твоей компанией TECHNALINGUA LIMITED на украинском сайте😂 И далее по списку:
Connection with Financial Industrial Group from Russia
Connection with the Politically Exposed Person of Russia
Company has a connection with business in Russia
PSC of the company has a connection with Russia
Company’s Officer has a connection with Belarus
PSC of the company has a connection with Belarus
Sanctions soon👍 И чего ты тут забыл заблудшая душа? Это не вопрос, и так всё с тобой ясно. Ждём санкции 😂
@@tovanova I'm English. I used a Russian translation because you wrote in Russia. My question was simple: Are Russians Snitchers now like they were in Stalin's time? Я английский. Я использовал русский перевод, потому что вы писали в России. Мой вопрос был прост: русские теперь такие же стукачи, как были во времена Сталина?
@@andrewlesterthomas5581 Тебе ли не знать, мистер Андрей Лестер. Ничего не изменилось. Забавно, что вид деятельности твоей компании TECHNALINGUA LIMITED -
информационные технологии, связанные с Россией и Белоруссией. Что ж это за технологии такие!? Ни телефона, ни электронной почты у компании в открытом доступе нету. Короче, ждём санкции.
Thank you for this. There are not many alive who remember this time. These are the people who witnessed it first hand and who remember. My late mom was born in 1921 and we talked about her early life. It was not as hard as those who lived in Russia at this time. You have provided a noble service.
Do not exaggerate , the repressions affected a little more than 2% of the population of the USSR , and then most of them had criminal overtones , the rest of the population lived an ordinary life , not even knowing about any repressions . Now it is fashionable to give this phenomenon a political connotation in the USSR , but repression has been and is in all countries with regard to crime.
In any case, Russia does not need a democracy that conquers countries, governments, peoples. Better pray for Putin's health, otherwise a more cruel person will come to power
@@АлександрДухин-р3ц 2% of dead people is not a lot? Besides repressions there were famines, nationalization of property, collectivization and much more. This is no 'ordinary' life by any means.
@@D_D660 And you tell me how many people were shot in the United States in the 30 years before the war ? Let 's say in the USA now there are as many people in prisons at the same time as were imprisoned in 30 years in the USSR . You also attributed the losses as a result of the famine to Stalin's rule, then it can be attributed that Stalin is to blame for the deaths from sunstroke and from a heart attack and from skin cancer, etc.
@@АлександрДухин-р3ц How can a comparison with USA (who gives a shit bout it) be an argument? Our fellow citizens were dying in Gulags with a smile, knowing that on the other side of the globe people were also oppressed?
That lady who says she was 27 in 1953 must be confused. My mom is 91, she was 22 at that time. There is no way that lady is 94 years old.
More likely she was 7.
My friend's aunt is in her 80s but looks like she is 50. Pretty amazing. But yeah, I doubt that's the case here.
now ask them, what do they think about Leonid Brezhnev
I feel like Older people are outside more in Russia than in the US. If i were to walk to my inner town i dont think id be able to find old people just hanging around. Well ppl over the age of 80 that is. I might be wrong but thats how i see it.
Its very cool that you get to just walk anywhere and ask them how it was like.
Wonderful interviews. I think it's so important to capture these memories and preserve them for future generations. This is really important work in my opinion as well as quite interesting. The woman at the end was was amazing and spoke so vividly and poignantly
Excellent Danill, your channel has come a very long way and in a positive way. Now you bring excellent questions and history from people that actually lived during those times. We would never know how it really was for the people of Russia, just ordinary people. This type of reporting will serve you well as a journalist recording history.
Stalin was the best leader of the world. Two times he recovered country from ruins to the second economy in the world! GULAG was small prison compared to modern US prison system. Majority of people were happy and great country was developing in all areas with unprecedented speed, has achieved the greatest results in science, education, free medicine, free houses and flats, culture, art, industries, sport, etc., etc. Only parasites and criminals were unhappy with Stalin. But later contrrevolution won and today bourgeois parasits and criminals brainwash working majority and demonize Stalin, Lenin and socialism, try to cover them with shit, but fail with it. People remember progress of socialism and see where capitalism leads- to crisises and imperialistic wars. Finally they have to awake again and find the way that was already shown by Marks, Lenin and Stalin.
For the fatherland, for Stalin.. it’s always the same.. the slogan doesn’t change except for the name of the new dictator called Putin
True. The reason is that Russians never have come to terms with the past.
Can you ask the question:
"If Putin announced that the war with Ukraine must end and Russia should pull its troops out of Ukraine, would you support another candidate in the next presidential elections who supported continuing the war and keeping all the territory its annexed?"
Or
"Would you support the war to continue even if Putin announced that it was in Russia's best interest to seek peace with Ukraine and make concessions, such as giving some or all of the territory back to Ukraine or allowing Ukraine to join NATO?"
I'm really curious about whether the Russians who say they support the war would continue to do so even if Putin and the government were now against it?
I changed what i wrote here because i have no right to have an opinion if it is not good opinion.
@@na-kun2136 Really? So you are an average imperialist then. The answer is easy, leave ukraine the fuck alone, return the territories, all of them and pay reparations, also remove putin and gang from power, take everything from oligarchs, and build a fucking normal and functioning society. Your population is laughable in comparison to territory and resource wealth, you should've lived in the richest country in the world. Yet you can't even compare yourself to Estonia. Supporting a new pro-war candidate and continuing with stupid imperialist ideas brings will end your country, and that would be a relief, since having an insane and unstable nuclear power in both asia and europe is tragic.
I think the majority of people would not support war in any form and would welcome peace, but Putin has to provide them with more substantial gains - something that can be presented as victory and achievement of some big goals. Otherwise, If he just pulls out troops without any meaningful gains, it would be considered a defeat and Russian people generally dislike leaders who lose wars. Putin also knows that, so he'll never pull troops out like without anythings that can be branded as substantial achievements. So he really must come home with nothing in order for the amount of people who would support another pro-war candidate to be more or less noticeable.
I doubt you'd get truthful answers. Many of them are still afraid to even call it a war, never mind speaking against it.
I’ve heard opinions of some sociology scientists, there are around 20-25% real war supporters. So, these people would like to continue the war, and would be against any negotiations. If Putin stops the war these people will be against him.
And backwards, there are also 15-30% of those who directly oppose the war. ( it’s much harder to count this group, because it’s hidden).
The third and the largest group it’s the sleeping majority: people without their own opinions. Around 50-65%. They’ll support any Putin’s decision - whether it’s further escalation or peace negotiations. They’ll agree with every government’s decision, cause “the authorities know better”.
But without government been mentioned, these group also tends to prefer peace negotiations.
And also there’re movements inside these groups. The group of war supporters keeps steadily reducing.
The main fight will be for those members of political majority: they are in the process of waking up, and which “team” they’ll choose will be crucial.
Thanks! One of your greatest videos. So important, so sad and revealing.
What's that? TH-cam found a new way to make money?
Thank you Dan!
You are doing very important work here 1420. I appreciate it.
Stalin gets buddy buddy with nazi Germany
Splits Poland in two with Germany
Gets stabbed in the back
Uses his own people as cannon fodder.
Babushka: "Yeah he totally gave us the win".
You should lay of the propaganda
@@natureblank1401 I won't give any value to what a mokhol says as long as he is using a letter from my alphabet as a war propaganda tool.
@@natureblank1401 Nazi Germany did it better than russia. At least Japan was their ally, so it made a little bit of sense to use the Swastika. Meanwhile no russian ally whatsoever uses this alphabet. Use your own letters, maggot.
@Mārcis Bukovskis A symbol isn't an indicator of propaganda. Spar me a higher IQ comment next time
@@natureblank1401 there's russian news and everything else is propaganda... Sounds like "WE KNOW THE BEST" lol
Great content as always, 1420! My grandfather was taken off the front in Stalingrad, convicted on the charge of "enemy of the people". My grandmother didn't know anything other than there was suddenly no word from him, assumed him killed in battle, only found out after the war that he was in a penal colony in Siberia. My mother was born in 1941, and spent her childhood having to say that her father was killed in the war...it was a pox on the family to have a family member labeled an enemy to to the Soviet Union, so better to just claim them dead. When Stalin died, my mother was balling her eyes out like the rest, oh no what is to become of us now that our great leader is no more! Soon after that, my grandfather was released along with many others imprisoned under that charge. He came back younger than I am now, but looked around 30 years older...toothless, body wrecked with TB, had emphysema, he was a mess. My mom recalls he had a lingering stench about him, which no amount of washing could resolve, it just came out of him. He was a very quiet man, he hardly ever talked about his experiences in the war or in the labor camp. My grandfather was awarded war medals prior to his conviction. When he was released he was declared "fully rehabilitated", was offered his medals back. He didn't want them. He lived another 25 years, and hated the Soviet Union with a boiling passion that entire time. He was an avowed communist and blind patriot to Stalin at the start of the war, but the gulag certainly cured him of all that.
It's stuff like this that makes me hate that Hitler didn't defeat Stalin in WW2. They were both monsters, but at least Hitler didn't hate everyone like Stalin did. And as horrible as the Nazis were, they were more civilized than the Red Army run by rabid sobaki.
bawling*
@@encycl07pedia- That's like comparing who you better off babysitting your kids, a child molester vs violent paranoid schizophrenic. I'm from Zhytomyr Ukraine, I could tell you a story about nazis if you like, about how civilized they weren't.
@@encycl07pedia- "Hitler didn't hate everyone like Stalin did" I do not thing so....
This was brilliant. Thank you for sharing it, so thoughtfully, and well.
This is a more correct version of reality...if only because he got the generation wrong...mostly because the right ones to ask, first hand...are dead. And not all naturally so. Still...too late for most.
In Russia...as in any place...nostalgia of the very old is NOT necessarily because it was good. It's because change is often difficult to adjust to, and the past was something that proved to be survivable (for them, at least). The present and future lack that certainty.
And the familiar is often more comfortable, even when NOT better...rather the way people repeat abusive upbringings in their own relationships. They know this. They UNDERSTAND this. They know the rules.
I have watched many of these videos, only to hear the bitterness of the very old, people loathed to relinquish the rigid certainty and lack of personal decisions of the Communist years.
I would guess...that the total lack of ANY responsibility for the outcome of their own lives...somehow relieved them of the burden of that responsibility. Sadly, too many EVERYWHERE, are sheep looking for a shepard, to tell them what to do. And the Shepards, too often, have their OWN agendas...which are far less than admirable. And the fewer are swept up in this decision.
Sadly, for Russians...there IS NO HISTORY of total self reliance. Or self determination. For, literally, centuries. If ever. ALWAYS there was someone who controlled their lives, who limited EVERYTHING. Who's very word was law.
West Germans, when the Wall came down...were quite frankly, terrified. Briefly, thrilled...but they thought it was all about color TV's, washing machines and new cars...THAT was what freedom meant for many. The sheep.
But freedom is much more complex. It can be, for some...the lack of someone else to blame. That freedom of choice, to them, can be devestating. OVERWHELMING in its complexity, and options. And because it is also...the freedom to fail. With no one to blame but yourself.
Urban Russia has been merely toying with this, for these prosperous years of Western Capitalism. Their street persona rarely match their living conditions...by Western standards.
But MOST of Russia is rural...and this never touched their pathetically poor lives. It might have...in time...if Putin and his cronies weren't systematically looting Russia.
The fact is..there ISN'T any State funds for this renewal of 5/6ths of Russia. Though Putin, PERSONALLY, could finance ALL OF IT.
Putin NEEDED this war in Ukraine, this DISTRACTION...because the next step towards Capitalism...is ALL invested in Western condos and yatchs, etc., of the guys who have backed his power ALL THIS TIME. There would be No expected change...because there was NO money. In spite of the fact that RUSSIA is immensely rich, in natural resources. If you doubt this...look at the difference, ON PAPER, of the resources of the military...and the actual reality, in the field. Graft and corruption..ate it.
But Putin knows the sheep. And the underlying fear, they have come to expect as ...normal. The velvet glove is off the iron fist. He's carting off another 300,000 to slaughter in Ukraine.
And they are doing...nothing. For Russians...pretty brave. But not EVEN compared to a place like Iran..certainly not to the totally unified effort of Ukraine.
Most Western people don't understand the Russian mentality. It is alien to them. Incomprehensible. But MY grandparents are Russian...as are yours...
And ALL Russian literature...is depressing. Brilliant...but depressing is a given...
@@diannshoemaker6419 "Sadly, for Russians..there IS NO HISTORY of total self reliance. Or self determination." This, in a nutshell. All their freedoms are bestowed onto them by the state, speaking truth to power is a foreign concept to them.
People who have lived longer than us can tell us a great deal about history, especially about their own lives but also about the climate of the times and what the people around them thought about what was happening. This video does a wonderful job of illustrating that. I used to ask my mother about her life, especially her life before I was born, all the time and learned a great deal. What an ordinary person saw can often differ from what the history books say.
History is infiltrated with agenda and propaganda, but individuals also tend to be delusional, especially describing their youth.
Truly wonderful people. Loved listening to their stories. Greetings from Scotland.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂do you know russians history?😂😂😂its not the truth!!
Yet Sweden in 1973 gets credit for and the the pride of naming the coping mechanism of a captive in an abusive situation where people develop positive feelings toward their captors or abusers. Stockholm syndrome should have been understood and labelled many years prior. Peace/JT
Stalin the Great, he managed to lift the country down 😅
My grandma is a Russian Jew. That means that for many generations my family has lived in Russia but they are Jews by blood. I am Russian with Jewish roots. We have a bad opinion of Stalin because so many people were killed during his time in repressions and whole nations like Soviet Koreans, Crimean Tatars and Chechens and Ingush were deported to uninhabited places like Siberia where many of them died as there were no conditions for surviving (read in Wikipedia a bout Population transfer in the Soviet Union). More the a million people died as a result of it.
Ordinary Soviet people were very poor. The idea of communism or socialism is that people should be equal but in fact the elite in Moscow was eating red caviar while people in other cities and the countryside were struggling.
Then the Doctor’s Plot started and it caused more antisemitism. My grandparents were so scared that it would lead to the second Holocaust. Thank God Stalin died.
As for the Soviet Union defeating the Nazi Germany, we should give credit to the Soviet people and not to Stalin. In fact he made it more difficult to win the war as he killed the most experienced and educated people before the beginning of the war (the marshal, senior military officers and around 15 or 20 thousand of other military people.) Read about the Case of the Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization which was kind of made up and made the Nazi Germany very happy as they were preparing to attack.
PS. I just added some information for those who are interested to read about the history so that it’s easier for you guys to look up these events.
Great post on a terrible subject.
@@be6715 it's not. It's basically social-darvinist post masked under 'humane' approach and plain lie. Basically an author wants you to dismiss actual conditions and history of Russia and view at events in a mythological way where everything is either because of ONE MAN or despite of him. Therefore victories and successes are achieved despite Stalin while everything bad and tragic - because of him. It's not fact based rather fact distortion and omitting facts that do not fit the narrative. This author actually ELEVATES a single person to a status of a god. Unlike Stalin-worshipers this woman thinks he is sort of a demon or an evil entity. Otherwise it has little to do with actual history.
The people in that case - is not a subject. An author dismisses the people as an actor in historical process. Because those millions of men and women can be intimidated and forced to hard labour and war by a single person. Which is not only impossible but also indicated the author attitude towards common people. Also a simplification of purges portraying those events as a killing THE BEST is a pure nazi-like idea of dividing people to SORTS. Basically, an author acuses Stalin of killing 'ubermenshen'. And the whole idea is actually depicts an authors worldview rather than Stalin era.
For example. The Doctor's Plot is often depicted as an anti-jewish campaign. But at a time there were many famous jews among acamedia and arts who were awarded with a Stalin Prize - the most valuable in USSR. Also, the re-investigation of a plot was actually ordered by Stalin not long before he died. And Lazar Kaganovich - one of Stalin closest allies was pure jew.
And personally I am of jewish descent. And I cannot be against a leader of the Red Army which stopped the genocide of slavs and jews. As a jew and as a russian. I cannot afford that. And it is a shame that some jews can. That does not mean someone has to worship Stalin or take a blind eye on tragedies. We should study that and not simplify. There cannot be simple answers to such complicated questions.
You have said about the chechens, koreans, tatars, but i've not said about millions of russians who died because of bolshevik/stalin policies. Well, westerners as always.
I’m an American white small town Southerner. I never went outside the South until I was 20. I returned to the South after a brief vacation. I had no encounter with people from another country until I went to college. So watching this video reminds me of the kind of thought manipulation which in principle connects me to the people you interviewed. Totally fascinating. What would I say to your interviewees? One has to have the curiosity to find the truth, but fear of what you might learn can easily crush the curiosity..
Excellent comment and observation.
And the dark Stalinist age is back in Putinist regime
Недавно пыталась выяснить у свекрови (она родилась в 1947) про ее родителей. Она очень неохотно мне рассказывала. Каждое слово тянула из нее щипцами. Я удивлялась - почему человек не хочет рассказывать про своих родителей, это же приятно, они же родные? Свекровь рассказала, что мать и отец были из деревни, мать родилась в 1916 г. Переехали в Санкт-Петербург. Мне кажется, это было в результате уничтожения деревень в те времена. Очень многие крестьяне бежали тогда в город. Мне этого не понять, но видимо, люди того времени до сих пор боятся что-то говорить о себе.
Some Russians talk about Stalin like Prince Andrew talks about his friend Jeffrey Epstein:
"Some of his actions may have been untoward"
I remember Stalin still during world war 2, since I was born in 1933 in Germany.
trust me, all Russia remembers Germany
@@justthesun And all in Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,Checkolovakias,Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, etc remembers Russia
@@coltr7561 you should add germany
@@namesurname-1488 Why? Most of these people collaborated and were guilty of the holocaust themselves.
@@lukebruce5234 if you added to that list islamic terrorists, why shouldn't you add nazis or what ever
Greetings from ex-Yugoslavia (Croatia), the only socialist country whose leader Josip Broz Tito had the balls to say NJET to Stalin - and lived to tell the tale.
Tito was far from perfect but I thank him for taking us out of USSR sphere of influence.
5:04 no way. If she was 27 in 1953 that would make her 96 today. She barely looks 70.
You are right. Maybe she meant when Brezhnev died in 1982, that would make her 67.
she meant 17
@@justthesun She doesn't look 86 either.
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Thanks so much for the great video. You do a smashing job interviewing people ! Take care and best wishes Daniil ! !
i greet you my friend, best wishes and thank you for your great and important work from germany. keep up 👍🏼
Very interesting and informative interviews with varied viewpoints.
I like how you interspersed different period films into this.
More like this!
"It is 'right' to consult the elders before considering action."
Anyone worth asking is dead.All these people were children and have limited understanding
I hope that Daniel, being a Jew, is grateful to Stalin for defeating Hitler
Is he Jew? Why do you think so?
I know many Russians died in WWII, but I've heard that more than 1/2 died because of Stalin's mishandling of the war. Then again how many starved to death because Stalin didn't care?
This episode I ENJOYED. I usually get upset over the lack of education and brainwashing so I appreciate this video. Talk to the elders, pick their brain, ask question. Their memories can teach us a lot and once there gone, there gone.
.....once THEY'RE gone,.THEY'RE gone......learn English.....
@@urbanurchin5930 don't be so rude. This isn't an English class it's u tube
people in Russia are much more educated then in EU, lol. we still read books, learn history and much more
@@justthesun Please tell me, why the educated Russians want to emigrate to the stupid EU countries and nobody from the EU wants to emigrate to RUS?? Why is the border watched only from one direction???? 🤔😂
@@justthesun Right and we see how well educated you treat your neighboors. Wtf??
In 5:09 the lady says she was 27 years old in 1953 …. That means she is almost 97 years old while giving this interview …. Well I highly doubted it.
Спасибо, Даниил, за то, что поделился с нами воспоминаниями и печалью этих стариков.
This question was written in another video by a viewer who wanted to know in the comments. Thank you for always listening to people's voices. While I was made to think about various answers, at the same time I respected the healthy and sincere of elderly people. Everyone in the interview team and every one accepted the interview, thank you.
Russia is a crazily big country and there are so many cool places 95% of russian people don't even know about. However, they still think that russia has to have ukrainian territory.. I think it could be interesting to ask russians if they know this or that place in russia and if they have been there, how many places in russia they have visited and then to ask if they live in the same shithole the whole life, why would they want ukraine
That lady is 96?! Bloody hell, she’s found the elixir of youth somewhere along her journey
and history is repeating itself
It's interesting it varies from "there was no atmosphere of fear, everyone just trusted Stalin" to "you had to be quiet and anyone who said bad things about Stalin went to Gulag."
most of peaople loved him, who were more tuched by the regime - understood the cruelty.
Babushkas !!!!! 🥰
According to the facts in this video:
1) The girl wrote a letter to Stalin that she wanted a children's camp, as a result, people came to her who really offered to arrange a girl in the camp.(here the author of the channel inserted a sarcastic joke about the GULAG)
2) The grandmother says that no one has been put in jail.(Strano, right? And they tell us that everyone was arrested and everyone was shot)
3) The author of the channel inserts various excerpts of the video with scary sounds.(Terrifies the audience)
4) At the end (and as you know, the last one is remembered), an old woman from the Kulak family is shown. (Here, apparently, they offer to pity the slave-owner - kulak and not his slaves - workers.It's like now feeling sorry for the oligarchs who rob and exploit the working people.)
5) And after this old fan of kulaks and oligarchs, the author of the channel shows executions from some films. (And this is natural because there are no real videos or photographs that can show the crimes of the Soviet government except in fictional anti-Soviet films)
The author of the channel himself is saturated with bourgeois propaganda and his agenda works for Western culture, so he becomes a slave to capitalism.
Not saying it didn’t happen because it definetly did but there’s a weird amount of accounts with anglo names commenting how their families were all sent to the gulag to suffer in unimaginable ways. Like just for once can we see someone with a Cyrillic or at least Russian name comment about this because tbh the only ones I really believe are the polish and Baltic stories because they actually have polish names and their stories actually make sense unlike the vague stories told by obvious Americans about how their grandparents got sent to the gulag for charges that actually probably would’ve met a firing squad, like really you want me to believe that soldiers accused of espionage on the Leningrad front wouldn’t have been shot on the spot…
Great documenting work!
i wounder how russians would feel if they actually got a good president for once, one that is against corruption, against war, not have imperial ambition, only wants to see the current russia grow richer and make the people happier. not to expand borders, but to expand and enchance its economy.
Ты иногда, кстати, развивай диалог дальше, чтобы больше инфы узнать, инфа от старых людей на вес золота. У последней интересно было бы узнать, сейчас для неё лучше или нет
лучше, естественно, человек, которого не коснулись сталинские репрессии только может думать что сейчас так же, такая глупость. мою семью они коснулись, есть с чем сравнить, сейчас прекрасно
Сталин сейчас стал "мальчиком для битья" , легко пинать "мёртвого льва " . Виноват конечно во всём Сталин , но не те соседи которые донесли и непрофессионализм следователя . У меня тоже есть родственники которых не справедливо раскулачили , но виноват конечно был Сталин , а не родной брат который написал кляузу и не те следователи которые занимались этим делом.
@@justthesun There were no "Stalinist repressions", on the contrary, this one stuck in recent years after the 20th Congress, the repressions were called "Yezhovsky".
@@АлександрДухин-р3ц на все что творилось в стране нужна была его воля - те кто осмеливался руководствоваться своей волей или просто не соглашаться вслух были уничтожены - и это тоже была его воля, так как он узурпировал власть физически уничтожив оппозицию
You should ask your fellow Russians what they think of the von Ribbentrop-Molotov treaty from 1939. Many may not remember, but for the first two years of the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis and Soviet Union (Great Russia as Putin thinks of it) were Allies.
Allies is an odd term, used mostly to transmit some emotional message. Were they hardcore military allies? Definitely not, otherwise USSR would have been in war with both France and UK starting from 1939. Were they economical allies? Sure, but USA and Great Britain were also trading a lot with Hitler in the 1930s. You have to consider the "West" wasn't very eager to trade with USSR back then because of the Bolshevik threat, so USSR had to find another economical partner which was Germany.
Then comes the Polish invasion question which of course can be considered as an aggression act from USSR. Make sure to familiarize yourself with the fact USSR began this invasion on 17th of September when Warsaw was already taken by the Germans and Polish state ceased to exist. If the Soviets didn't invade the Eastern part of Poland, it would have been entirely taken over by Germany which would make Hitler too close to Moscow. Would Hitler attack Poland even without the treaty and its secret protocol? He definitely would. Guess what, USSR was just trying to appease Hitler as the West has done before in 1938, by also taking some advantages from it.
Btw the Great Patriotic War as you called it didn't begin in 1939, but in 1941 - after the treaty was expectedly broken by the Germans. Was the partition of Poland worth it, taking into account the "drôle de guerre" led by France and UK (they weren't literally doing shit, sorry)? I would say it was worth it, otherwise Hitler would have probably made it to Moscow in 1941-1942, what do you think? But yeah, bad Russians, mkay.
if they actullay were allies why did not Britain declared war to Soviet Union?
and btw Putin is antistalinist and russian gov systematically financed anti-stalin propaganda in Russia
It kind of surprises me that Russia hasn't seemed to develop a culture against "snitching" given the experiences during the Stalin years. Maybe it's collectivism? If one can pass off a reward to one's self as the collective good, it can overcome that pang from anti-moral behavior? IDK. I was just shown a funny Meme where a Sherrif's sign went up asking drug dealers to report their competitors (number here). Without any goodwill towards such people, and despite the funniness of the sign, I instinctively felt the pangs of danger about government power/authority overreach. I think it's cultural and would weigh on any of our minds where I'm from before deciding if such action was right or wrong.
If you're from US you're facing same problems soon enough. Ever hear the moto "See something say something" Well thats a stalin mindset, DDR , east germany were programmed the same way, and oh dear lord did the see and say things..
Collectivism? No. Modern Russians are extremely individualistic people, to the point of egoism. They don’t care much about other Russian people if other people aren’t their loved ones etc. Even during those snitching times, people very often snitched on each other because they were envious that some proletarian family lived better than the others, so they snitched on that family.
Snitching is frowned upon today in Russia.
@@Пальцерезка Yeah, no it is still the way of life, still. Nothing changed, Z population snitching on the rest.
remember there is no snitching outside Russia or USSR. Only REPORTING.
It's always interesting to ask if we should respect a leader for his achievements despite his methods being morally questionably or worse. I personally don't think we should because everything can be achieved in a better way. If Stalin wouldn't have been in power, somebody else would've probably won the war just as well because it was the Russian people who fought it after all.
Just one detail: ir was the Soviet people who fought (russians, Ukrainians, bielorusians, georgians, etc. Not only russians)
Nazism, comunism, nationalism in general shouldn't be respected despite their "achievements".
And Stalin made decisions that actively made things worse for the course of the war and for his people. If Stalin hadn't entered into a secret pact with Hitler or if Stalin hadn't purged the officer corps of his own army, so many things could have been different. And as much as the stoicic heroism of the people during the Siege of Leningrad is celebrated, that heroism would not have been necessary if the city had been evacuated in time.
Personally, I don't see anything about Stalin worth respecting. He was as monster as much as Hitler and Pol Pot
@@RS-nw6pz yep dude he is the most pure evil ever
Russian people won the war, not Stalin
@@RS-nw6pz The pact with Nazi Germany was the best tactical decision Stalin ever made. Hitler was gonna invade anyway, we know that from archives. Hitler didn't believe the Allies would join on Poland's side (well, they really didn't help much in practice). So taking parts of Poland in the process only helped Stalin during WW2. Remember that when the Soviets decided to invade Poland, Warsaw was already encircled.
Very important historical records. For future generations to understand what exactly totalitarianism felt like.
Danil is really a very skilled content producer. In an era when most of his generation only know how to dance on Tiktok = influencer.
Russians are strange people. I lived there for 13 years(st. Petersburg). Most people are aimless and don't know what they want. The whole world thinks in a similar way, Russian, and Chinese think a different way.
Don’t come back then, churka.
Very interesting! Please document more about the past. It may be too hard to talk about the present but the comparison is obviously very interesting.
stalin is one of the greatest rulers in history . the stats graph and us breathing says as much . i didnt live under his time , but my parents did , they enjoyed it . they saw huge changes after stain rebuilt the country in just half a decade . their lives improved a lot and they got acces to education , healthcare , housing etc . people in the village would sometimes bad mouth stalin when they ddnt like some of his actions . guess what ? no one went to gulag . i dont know why peope think if you speak bad you go to gulag . if you protest and make a public scene then you go . and snitches were hardly listened to. and we had a lot of sldiers passing by the village every few years . nice people . they would help us inthe village sometimes . we used o wait evry year to see if they had us in their route . good times . people were very civilized back then . now days , no soldier will help ou with plumbing or hunting or anything ike that , they would shoot you first . we did give them some food like millwt and bucjkwheat when they left though . som of them even shared with us some fuits like banna or some other fruit we dont always get . i remember back then that we all flt a bond with each other , like part of something bigger . it unified us and made us see each other as part of society .when stalin died , we spend the day in his honour. he gave so much for the country . he was paranoid at the end so many of us believed he was assasinated , some still do
Very interesting video. Thanks!
You are becoming a very good journalist! Keep up the good work! We truly appreciate it!
Another thing that subtracts from men living into their 70's, a high propensity for falling out of open windows!!
The deeper you look into history of WWII the clearer it gets: Stalin and his regime were the reason Germans made it to the Moscow and killed so many Soviet troops and civilians. The heroism of the ordinary Soviet people (my 2 grandpas included) + Lend-Lease+ allies were the reason Hitlers army was defeated in 45
Sounds pretty deep. I mean, rock solid type of deep.
Living times like these in Russia and understanding the relation to the past as well impacts on the future must be hard on you, Daniil & colleagues. I don't know anything about your life or position, but documenting all of this while understanding what is going on can be really exhausting. As a subscriber I'm always waiting for your next video, as is everybody else. But don't overwork yourself, please - take a break and distance yourself, if necessary.
About half way through, the lady sat on the park bench, saying she was 27 at time of Dictator Lenins passing, Funny how she speaks positively about Lenin, yet she appears to be constantly looking around her while answering you. I imagine her thinking this may be a KGB set up to find someone else to throw into prison for the slightest comment. Maybe just my imagination.
Lenin lost an election and took power anyway.
There are some nowadays who would wish to emulate him ...
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 True he Lost 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly Election to Viktor Chernov of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. So he threw a Political Temper Tantrum and dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly
This young man is very very smart the questions he asks and how he asks them.
My dad was at school in the 50s in Poland. He told me that once the teacher asked why was our flag white and red. And my dad said: "it was the white clouds above and the blood of workers underneath". The teacher got so scared to say "no, that's nothing like that" that he just agreed ardently "Yes, of course", beacuse this must have souned good to the communists. My dad had no idea why that newtalk popped in his brain, but he was just a child. But poor teacher, I guess everyone was scared and like "hush, don't say anything, pretend to love Stalin and the commies".
Russians keep talking about this "motherland", like it's something deeply embedded.
Could someone please explain it?
What does it mean "for the motherland"?
Greetings from the UK 👍🏻😀🇬🇧
Motherland is "Родина" in russian. It means land, where you were born
It means homeland, your country. Germans say the same about Germany, it’s their Fatherland.
Very good video. One day you will do same one but question will be about Putin.
I noticed that opinions on Stalin greatly differ depending on a status of a respondent. The last lady was from "kulak" family, which means wealthy peasants from Russian empire. When USSR came to be such kulaks were stripped of their wealth to "share" with others, and were hated. Obviously, such people would despise such laws - along with any kinds of merchants, nobility, or other remnants of wealthy or indepndant people. Those of poor upbringing - regular peasants, which were a backbone of the empire, or proletarians, suddenly received power, so of course they were happy. Freedoms? They never could speak their own thoughts before that, so nothing really changed.. It's a direct upgrade for them. Stalin enforced such divide. If you kept your mouth shut, you get to live better then before, in the empire. If you don't, or you are too independent.. Then it's gulag for you, and you'll hate Stalin and everything related. It's very rare to see someone unaffected by repression dissaprove of him or vice versa.
I talked to a lady in Russia whose parents were deemed Kulaks (rich peasants) because they owned one plow horse. The horse was taken by the collective and in short order worked to death logging.
"wealthy peasants from Russian empire" - according to their standards when you had 10 chicken you became kulak, it was not related to your status, it was related how much you are independent and able to survive without any support.
if you did what state wanted from you you were more less save.... but everything was possible to do for state, run on minefield, killing other people, everything because it was totalitarian state
Let's remember 'wealthy' meant having a horse or a cow !
Hey im interested by your response. What do you mean when you say the regular peasants "suddenly received power," what could they do that they couldn't do before?
@@ivanvongreiff8177 they could report you to a commissar, although I'm sure the Tsar had his own. But it was believed that they were there for the working man, so I guess that made them more approachable. A lot of old scores must have been settled by a few sly words.
Some people are born to be saves!
Brilliant! Solid work! 😂
Interesting, that the last woman has strong ukrainian accent, saying about hunger and disposession I bet 90% that she was born in that area, because in ukrainian villages situation was horrific and nobody loves Stalin there.
Excellent interview and film footage you included in the video.
So they cried for Stalin buy not for their own family members that were murdered by him.
”Be quiet, be quiet” - in the time of Stalin. Nothing has changed…🤐
a very clear divide between people who never got to experience his rule in full effect and those who did, my grandpa was a pilot in the military and one day found out he had an order set out by the NKVD to search him, charge him for treason and then execute him; all because he was amazing at his job and another guy closer to the higher ranks wanted to be in his place (there were more pilots than there were planes) thankfully he saved his life by dropping his military duties and asking to go serve in Germany doing mostly paperwork. if they really wanted him for treason he would have been killed right then, but he called their bluff and realized they just didn't want someone with no connections, like him, for the job. it was never a fair system that punished criminals with zero error, it was always messed up hunger games of climbing the ranks at the cost of human lives
That woman was definitely not 27 in 1953.