I remember my parents watching this with their mouths hanging open. Even though it was inevitable by that point, they still couldn't believe their eyes.
The collapse of Soviet Union is a reason why he shouldn't have been so disregarding of the impact of The Simpsons. As Bart got stronger, the Soviet Union got weaker.
@@dimitarmargaritov There is a threat coming from Russia (the only threat being nuclear warheads wiping out the planet again) but we don't really have much influence from Russia, mostly from the echoes of the Soviet Union back then, and its affects on other countries that were part of the Bloc.
😂 then Russia pop up in front of your faces with Putin 😂 USA wish they had leave USSR alone. Now they deal with some bigger than USSR . The USSR on steroids 😂
And Able Archer '83, The Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination...it's a repeating cycle that those of a certain age know will start again, and again, and again.
Lol. Wasn't it Kazakhstan that didn't let go for a while? Edit yeah, Kurjiztan is the pronunciation. Not that the average American ever heard of it, they must've thought "there was a country called that this whole time? Why didn't anybody tell me?"
Wow, at 21 I wasn't a supporter of HW Bush, but I recall hearing this Address to the Nation and being impressed. It's hard not to gloat in a situation like 1991, and HW set the tone carefully of both reminding Americans to support him and be glad that the Soviet Union was over. He even said "won the Cold War" but the instruction and explanation is all about not gloating, about supporting the people left in the newly independent states and supporting democracy and their retreat from 70 years of the Soviet experiment.
Two Poles celebrated some time after this by starting a family. One of those babies is the current love of my life. I’m so happy our worlds were able to become one. There’s so much love that can be shared when we can live in peace. I love you Sandra ❤
@@JackR_TVNope, Russia recognized the entire national sovereignty of Ukraine, Belarus, etc This was even reaffirmed in the Budapest Memorandum when Ukraine gave up its nukes to Russia
@@nameman7936 By 'revolt' you mean Russia sending in Russian unmarked troops and mercenaries, commanded by Russians like Igor Girkin using Russian supplied equipment like Buk missiles to shoot down airliners full of civilians. Yeah, why would Ukraine's government be mad about that and respond?
Always thought Cold War ended, or at least began to end, on Nov. 9th, 1989 - when the Berlin Wall was finally destroyed. Either way this was a truly historical moment: the day after HW's announcement, the dissolution of CCCP / USSR took place. Михаил Горбачёв ( _Mikhail Gorbachev_ ) has been a great leader, the best out of the Soviet Union's eight rulers, imo. Someone who truly had peace at heart.
Oh, no. What you had done in China, you will not be able to handle this one so easily. The orthodox communism ended after Mao. What you have in your presence is nothing like someting you saw before.
@@KozelPraiseGOELRO exactly, it's not even that far from being a possibility now. If officials can advertise other products what's stopping them from advertising kfc one day 💀
@@abhidxs6121 Dude, I am trying to sound serious. Deng Xiaoping, left behind the class struggle, the only thing that puts a limit to a Planned Centralized Economy, therefore the Chinese production apparatus is smarter, than the US one, hense more productive, but equally immoral.
"Well Barbara, kinda hard to imagine, but our son Ol'Dubya will take our Superpower Status and send us into a slow decline. Barb I should have pulled out"-George H.W Bush
Tell that to the people in Iraq,Libya,Syria,North Korea and Cuba who have been victims of US/Zionist totalitarianism and had no other superpower to back them up
@@hueyfreeman1983 they did... it used to be called the Soviet Union. Those countries are going downhill due to civil wars, low stability, and having a history of socialism/communism
@@hueyfreeman1983 and also the US is not totalitarian due to the wonderful thing called the constitution. Most countries you have listed there have had a civil war in the past 30 to 40 years.
@@HalfLife-hq8eu Their civil wars have all been a result of American sabotage and invasion, America is no more a democracy than any of the countries i mentioned
@OwenDale-pc2bv Japan has been free for nearly a century and Korea became free after the National reconstruction and the establishment of the Sixth Korean Republic in 1987, before that it was a anti-communist dictatorship.
I miss the nineties. As a child of that time, the world didn't seem such a frightening and confusing place back then. Then 9/11 came. And then there's now.
The world we have today is much more dangerous and volatile than what we had in the 90s, all because Russia and China decided to elect dictators as their presidents.
Imagine those days, those 10 years between 1991 and 2001 when there would have been real optimism and hope about the future of the world. Well..... little did they know shit was only just getting started.
Those ten years looked to be the end to the long violence outbreak stretching back to the assassination of franz Ferdinand with the start of ww1 in 1914 ww1 left Germany broken witch allowed for hitlers raise and ww2 witch allowed the Soviet Union the gain the eastern block witch then fed the Cold War However during the Cold War the Middle East got stirred up by the Soviet Union and combined with the us support of Israel scence its independence in 1948 lead to the 2001 attacks witch sparked the war on terror Now Russia wants there Soviet era terrority back And here we all are again It’s amazing and terrifying to think how all of recent history was caused by one man shooting another man in the balkans
It still hurts to look back at the Decade and having seen it go to hell. Much bad was Happening behind the scenes, but it appeared so crystal clear and hopeful.
@@averageguy3108 There's a lot going on in the background you're probably not aware of. I'm not so sure this version of Russia is any weaker than the Soviet Union.
@@dyslexicbatnam1350 Soviets had double the manpower, 3.5 million more square kilometres of territory, as well as 30% more GDP. The modern Russia is nothing but just a Chinese Pawn.
Honestly, i couldn’t imagine what it must feel like to be in the Soviet Union. During all of this. The Confusion, Hope, Fear and all that. All the new countries, people separated and united. The Reforms. Like THAT is what i imagine "end of an Era." Must feel like. Or the relief of the average US citizen, at the time (not self proclaimed, intellectuals those bozos still think communism is good.) thinking "Are the nightmares of Nuclear War finally over?" Like this, is one of those moments that just feels. Like a movie, something we don’t have today. Where everything feels, more like a annoying comedy that should have been, discontinued after its best season.
Nothing good: poverty, destitution and civil wars all along the borders.. that’s what it felt like, while USA was celebrating the victory , in which “every American can take pride for” for whatever reason.. this was the loss of the empire of true values to the evil empire of USA that was and still is discriminating people based on race and prostituting children even then
It was hell on earth same with Yugoslavia now we live ina Demographic crisis becasue of the shit hole govt's in the west we had the best quality of life in the east before the fall now because of greedy bastards like Yeltsin and Bush we're livid hell and shit holes.
Why would he? He wouldn't have known his idiot son would do that, he was clearly against invading Iraq since he had the chance but refused it with the Gulf war.
I am not surprised Putin came to power. I told people in the mid 90s that you try to keep Russia down you will get a strong man like in Germany in 1930s. 1991 was not 1945 ! The Russian military and intelligence structure basically remained intact. 2022 not a surprise to me.
Russians suck with having freedom; every time they tried making their country free ended with a more vile dictatorship. They haven't formed the political nation that would withstand any scum trying to get the power for his self-enrichment. Russia is like a giant with the immunodeficiency syndrome, there is just *nothing* that would keep the body clean and healthy.
While 1991 began the era in America when our country truly began to lose itself, it must have been nice hearing that at the time. Let it serve as a lesson to all: Ideological wars don't collapse with nations. Any political that is done can be undone. Nothing is "settled law"
Everyone should just watch this and understand how hard we fought for the freedom of all peoples just for a cybermob to protest just to have communism back.
@@elcat7811again, freedom of speech and expression. If you can express your views and beliefs, so can they, whether either side believes the other to be morally wrong.
America was at its zenith in the 90's; economically, culturally, and militarily, but had already begun the painful process of deindustrialization. I miss that decade. Things haven't been the same since that September Day and the '08 crash.
being born in the 90s before 9/11 happen even as a kid and looking back as an adult the Earth almost had world peace. it was the most awesome time to live in during that small decade. id imagine when Jesus Christ comes back we will have 1000 years of this peace but better. To the future for there is hope.
Bush was just preparing for the elections here by claiming he had played any part in ending the cold war when it had pretty much ended during Reagan‘s presidency.
agreed. It was over by the Washington Summit in 1987 when Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty. This was just the loose ends. The peace came first, the breakup of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR came as a result of this.
By that token you need to include every President going back to Truman, to tell "the whole story" Bush was the President when it happened. This is why he's giving the speech.
@nizloc4118 yes, Truman mobilised the NATO alliance, and Nixon had the "Structure of Peace" and detente, but it was under Reagan that a final determination of that struggle was achieved
At that time, America believed that it would dominate the world forever, but little did it know that the Chinese giant was building a great power. Then Russia came back to the fore, stronger than the Soviet Union, and finally BRICS dealt the final blow to America.
George Bush was a great president. It's a shame he wasn't given a second term in office. I will forever be pissed off at Perot for taking away votes that would likely have gone to Bush. More people voted against Bill Clinton in 1992 than voted for him. This speech from Bush shows his grace and class that we don't see today. Many people in his country were mad at Bush for not celebrating the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He calmly announced it and did not gloat the obvious loss of the Cold War by the Soviets. Gloating could have caused hard liners to launch a coup.
Why do you love this neocon establishmentarian looser so much? If Bush cared for the hard working man and women of this country, he would have received another electoral landslide. Instead, he sold them out in horrific atrocities like NAFTA. This led both Democrats and Republicans to vote for Perot the only candidate who cared for the American people.
Looking back, though I didn't vote for HW, he was a good president. Reaganomics (Laffer curves, trickle down economics, increasing the national debt) had to explode eventually. It exploded on HW's watch and, relatively honest man that he was, even as he was head of the CIA before, he raised taxes and was booted. Bill Clinton gets abuse from Republicans and Newt Gingrich types, but he was also a good president. He cut spending and, as I recall, even cut taxes. The economy did well, he was re-elected.
The final collapse of the Soviet Union was chaotic and in some places warlike. Civil war in Georgia and the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Azerbaijan. Nevertheless, it was the best thing that could happen, that this dungeon of nations would collapse like a house of cards. Multiethnic states that come into being under coercion are doomed to failure, like Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union. But if this multiethnic state is a voluntary project like the USA, then the house will continue to exist.
Hence why China’s growing empire is more than likely not gonna last, with the imprisonment of Uyghurs in China, HK falling into the CCP’s control, and the possible future invasion of Taiwan, I can’t see people wanting to side with China in the long run
I was born in 1990 so I was so glad I didn’t have to watch the Burt the Turtle videos and Duck and Cover thanks to Reagan and Bush for the ending of the Cold War
Those two idiots didn't end the Cold War. The Soviet Union collapsed because its model wasn't sustainable. The reagan cultists will ridiculously tell you it was all because of him.
Unfortunately we were too complacent back then. When Bush says "Eastern Europe is free", that may be being undone if we dont step up and support Ukraine. It borders several Eastern European countries.
Why? Russian Federation didnt try to rebuild its empire. They invaded Ukraine just to avoid them to join NATO and put them nuclear bases few meters from Moscow. In First 10 years as Russian president, Putin tried all the way to establish good relationship with US but was rejected every time.
@@woozy7405 Ukraine didnt want to join NATO till 2014, when there was a coup that lead another party at the government. A corrupt government (you can find many articles about it) that want to join a military alliance that can only destabilize all the situation in the eastern sphere of the planet. There were specific agreements made at the end of the Cold War that Ukraine had to remain neutral. Yes, NATO already bordered Russia but not a such huge border. US would have done an invasion too if Mexico or Canada wanted to join a military alliance with Russia or China, we both know that. They did it for far less important reasons in Iraq and Afghanistan (just to tell the last). Zelenskyi doomed his own people and before that he slaughtered tons of thousands of civilians in the eastern part of Ukraine for 9 years. You forgot that. But Im not surprised.
@@hanbyol19bruh, Russia did the same. Ukraine’s old government was just as corrupt and incompetent as the new one. Open your eyes, there aren’t any “good guys” in this conflict
The Persian Gulf War; where a president who invaded Panama 8 months prior invaded Iraq because it invaded Kuwait, then began an embargo that killed almost a million Iraqis, all to save a corrupt royal family who owned an oil state. Yep.
@@chadzahirshah2588there were discussions about Nato and eu not expanding past Germany but they never put it on the agreement when it came time to sign.
It will be OK. The Presidency seems to go back and forth between R and D these days with a bit of regularity, so everyone in the country gets some time with the party they support at the helm.
@@scottw6704that’s a nice comment , don’t see many people embracing democracy as much as they should, especially on the internet, good to see some people still do.
My dad and his family were Lithuanian. They were so excited in 1990 when Lithuania broke free. My grandmother died a year and a day before (12/24/90). My father would die 4 days before (12/21/91).
I see comments, and oh boy most of the people here are CLUELESS on what has happened after this and what Yeltsin has done to the country after the fall. I was 11 when this happened and know how it was before, after, and what's going on now, and I have to say The Fall of the Soviet Union is no less than a tragedy for all Russian people whether you believe in it or not.
Let's look at what the USSR achieved: - 2nd fastest growing economy in the 20th century - Extremely low unemployment and homelessness - Saved the world from Nazi Germany - Achieved all of the "firsts" in the space race except for the manned moon landing - Ended century long cycles of famine in Eastern Europe - Higher calorie intake than the US - Ended racial and sexual inequality - Free education - 99% literacy rate - Most doctors per capita in the world - Eliminated poverty - Doubled life expectancy What happened post collapse? - GDP instantly halved - 40% of the population drops into poverty - 7.7 million dead in the first year alone - 1 in 10 children on the street - Industrial production collapses - Infant mortality and tuberculosis reaches third world levels - Life expectancy drops 10 years - Original Communist Party becomes so popular that the 1996 election had to be rigged to prevent them from winning - Stalin more popular than Yeltsin, everyone wants the USSR back "BUT SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK!!!!!"
@@Jack-ub8kc The Soviet Union inflated their numbers just like China does today. There was still antisemitism in the Soviet Union. Japan and Spain grew faster than the USSR in the 20th century.
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Not really, Even with the Ukraine War Russia is no longer what it used to be back in it's heyday, Look at the Russian military now being steamrolled by the Ukraine's forces and Putin on his last legs
@@chummygun Yes, it was. Without the control of the socialist world, it gave us the situations that whole world is in today, and it only got worse thanks to the constant wars that the US keeps pushing against other countries. The world became more harsher against anything that is progressive and better for society.
You're rapidly disintegrating abomination of a state was failing. The situation in the 90s would have eventually occurred regardless under the old regime, just 10 to 15 years later. Unlike other enslaved communist countries that switched to capitalism, Russia's transition was absolutely incompetent, something it continues to this day.
Then tell me why Capitalism worked in the west. You guys have no work ethic or competitiveness. Just look at Germany. From being destroyed by WW2 to becoming the largest economy in Europe. Only because of free market.
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I remember my parents watching this with their mouths hanging open.
Even though it was inevitable by that point, they still couldn't believe their eyes.
Sounds like a life long memory right there!
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That was my feeling when the wall came down. I was 18. I stood there with my mouth open. I couldn't believe the wall was down.
Honestly I would've reacted the same if I saw so many historical moments during such a scary era
This is probably when America Peaked.
edged*
@@elpanchomayonesa8069bus
Gooned
All the way up until the Iraq war
@@JesusOrDestruction Pretty much.
1991: The Cold War has ended
2020s: Cold War 2.0 has entered the chat.
In hindsight now, I think it never ended.
And this time middle east became hell instead eastern countries like Vietnam
Could have avoided the cold war completely if the allies had listened to General Patton
@@Winterwolf-fs3wh it was a 50/50 situation, either fascism would've won or communism
@@SomeGuy5555 if the other side won we wouldn't be dealing with communist China, north korea today. And Europe would be for Europeans still.
The collapse of Soviet Union is a reason why he shouldn't have been so disregarding of the impact of The Simpsons. As Bart got stronger, the Soviet Union got weaker.
Remember the simpsons predicted the return of the USSR
@@hueyfreeman1983 Oh yes, and for good reason. It's like they were saying they had the power to bring it back after playing a role in destroying it.
@@hueyfreeman1983 Can we consider the situation that is happening now as the prediction?
@@stormtrooperfun2525 slava rossiya 🇷🇺💪🏻
@@realcritical-kr2dd LOL
"Eastern Europe is free, the Soviet Union itself, is no more." That's cold.
Though unfortunately we are still under heavy influence from Russia.
@@dimitarmargaritov There is a threat coming from Russia (the only threat being nuclear warheads wiping out the planet again) but we don't really have much influence from Russia, mostly from the echoes of the Soviet Union back then, and its affects on other countries that were part of the Bloc.
It was true, if hopeful for permanence...
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😂 then Russia pop up in front of your faces with Putin 😂 USA wish they had leave USSR alone. Now they deal with some bigger than USSR . The USSR on steroids 😂
Such a shame that events like 9/11 would cut short the feeling of optimism that was felt at this time…
And Able Archer '83, The Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination...it's a repeating cycle that those of a certain age know will start again, and again, and again.
But despite that America continued to prosper despite the 2008 downturn, 9/11 didn't destroy the economy and the country came together
The economy lol how’s the economy now ?
@patrickvernon4766 Badly under Biden especially but if we vote in another Republican that can be turned around
@@patrickvernon4766doing well
He spent Christmas morning opening presents, muttering "Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyr-gyz-stan!"
Lol. Wasn't it Kazakhstan that didn't let go for a while?
Edit yeah, Kurjiztan is the pronunciation. Not that the average American ever heard of it, they must've thought "there was a country called that this whole time? Why didn't anybody tell me?"
I think you mean Kazakhstan
@@Kpoole35 No lol?
@@NuortenHistoria Kazakhstan was the last country in the USSR for a few days before declaring independence. It’s pretty obvious that’s what he means.
@@FakenameStevenswhat is "Kurjiztan"?
Wow, at 21 I wasn't a supporter of HW Bush, but I recall hearing this Address to the Nation and being impressed. It's hard not to gloat in a situation like 1991, and HW set the tone carefully of both reminding Americans to support him and be glad that the Soviet Union was over. He even said "won the Cold War" but the instruction and explanation is all about not gloating, about supporting the people left in the newly independent states and supporting democracy and their retreat from 70 years of the Soviet experiment.
в России в 90 годы было плохо! Моя семья голодала временами😭 Процветал бандитизм, терроризм и коррупция.
Two Poles celebrated some time after this by starting a family. One of those babies is the current love of my life. I’m so happy our worlds were able to become one. There’s so much love that can be shared when we can live in peace.
I love you Sandra ❤
Lucky man
My favourite part is when they said they'd recognise the independence of Ukraine.
They do, just not Eastern Ukraine or Crimea.
@@JackR_TVthey did recognize it though.
@@JackR_TVNope, Russia recognized the entire national sovereignty of Ukraine, Belarus, etc
This was even reaffirmed in the Budapest Memorandum when Ukraine gave up its nukes to Russia
@@JackR_TVat that time the east and crimea had not revolted as we know it
@@nameman7936 By 'revolt' you mean Russia sending in Russian unmarked troops and mercenaries, commanded by Russians like Igor Girkin using Russian supplied equipment like Buk missiles to shoot down airliners full of civilians. Yeah, why would Ukraine's government be mad about that and respond?
Always thought Cold War ended, or at least began to end, on Nov. 9th, 1989 - when the Berlin Wall was finally destroyed. Either way this was a truly historical moment: the day after HW's announcement, the dissolution of CCCP / USSR took place. Михаил Горбачёв ( _Mikhail Gorbachev_ ) has been a great leader, the best out of the Soviet Union's eight rulers, imo. Someone who truly had peace at heart.
The August Coup conspirators stated that they wanted to win the Cold War, so for some it wasn’t over until it was over
the best leader is the leader who destroys the state? Kek.
@@TFON3212 the USSR by the time it took charge there were also no hope for it, it was going to either dissolve peacefully or violently
@asnekboi7232 the ussr lost more men and equipment in 10 years in Afghanistan than the US for 20 years... let that sink in.
@@SteveInLava that’s my point the USSR was a doomed state that by the time Gorbachev took office was going to die
I hope I can watch a Xi Jinping Pizza Hut commercial before I die
I understood that reference
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Oh, no. What you had done in China, you will not be able to handle this one so easily. The orthodox communism ended after Mao. What you have in your presence is nothing like someting you saw before.
@@KozelPraiseGOELRO exactly, it's not even that far from being a possibility now. If officials can advertise other products what's stopping them from advertising kfc one day 💀
@@abhidxs6121 Dude, I am trying to sound serious.
Deng Xiaoping, left behind the class struggle, the only thing that puts a limit to a Planned Centralized Economy, therefore the Chinese production apparatus is smarter, than the US one, hense more productive, but equally immoral.
This video will get millions of views If Soviet Union is restored
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Very funny joke
funny guy
"Well Barbara, kinda hard to imagine, but our son Ol'Dubya will take our Superpower Status and send us into a slow decline. Barb I should have pulled out"-George H.W Bush
Gross
I just spat out my coke reading this 😂😂😂
not Bush Jr.'s fault. it was the great recession that did it
Who's here after the Black Ops VI trailer?
me XD
Me. I wasn't sure if that was an AI-generated alternate history speach
@@senorelroboto2 Right? I thought that too,
Time for our daily history lesson brought to us by treyarch😅
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30 years later and it still means something good.
Tell that to the people in Iraq,Libya,Syria,North Korea and Cuba who have been victims of US/Zionist totalitarianism and had no other superpower to back them up
@@hueyfreeman1983 cope
@@hueyfreeman1983 they did... it used to be called the Soviet Union. Those countries are going downhill due to civil wars, low stability, and
having a history of socialism/communism
@@hueyfreeman1983 and also the US is not totalitarian due to the wonderful thing called the constitution. Most countries you have listed there have had a civil war in the past 30 to 40 years.
@@HalfLife-hq8eu Their civil wars have all been a result of American sabotage and invasion, America is no more a democracy than any of the countries i mentioned
I guess '90s is the peak of USA's power. during these years they had technically no rival
1990s is peak US.
Now US is not a power ... CHINA RUSSIA INDIA
and now ?
1940's was peak America
@@haigboardman 1940? 💀
It's so sad that time never be back again!
I am optimistic that sooner or later Russia will become a free country and China will too.
@OwenDale-pc2bv Japan and South Korea are already democratic countries
@OwenDale-pc2bv Japan has been free for nearly a century and Korea became free after the National reconstruction and the establishment of the Sixth Korean Republic in 1987, before that it was a anti-communist dictatorship.
@goodlife385 It's not a democratic country. Elections are rigged, opponents die, people are forced to go to war, etc.
@@bananenmusli2769 nah we don't need your "freedom". Create one in your country first)
America: good at winning the war, terrible at winning the peace
Nixon warned Bush about that.
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I miss the nineties. As a child of that time, the world didn't seem such a frightening and confusing place back then. Then 9/11 came. And then there's now.
The world we have today is much more dangerous and volatile than what we had in the 90s, all because Russia and China decided to elect dictators as their presidents.
@@lacosta0892 and you guys elected a puppet as your president.
Russia in the 90s was a nightmare. 9/11 was nothing
That's because you were a child lol
@@jlo7770 so?
"Good evening"
- 1991 fills the screen -
*Screen shows the hammer and sickle symbol shattered as it crumbles.
Imagine those days, those 10 years between 1991 and 2001 when there would have been real optimism and hope about the future of the world. Well..... little did they know shit was only just getting started.
Clinton was kinda lucky to be the president at that time
Those ten years looked to be the end to the long violence outbreak stretching back to the assassination
of franz Ferdinand with the start of ww1 in 1914
ww1 left Germany broken witch allowed for hitlers raise and ww2 witch allowed the Soviet Union the gain the eastern block witch then fed the Cold War
However during the Cold War the Middle East got stirred up by the Soviet Union and combined with the us support of Israel scence its independence in 1948 lead to the 2001 attacks witch sparked the war on terror
Now Russia wants there Soviet era terrority back
And here we all are again
It’s amazing and terrifying to think how all of recent history was caused by one man shooting another man in the balkans
It still hurts to look back at the Decade and having seen it go to hell. Much bad was Happening behind the scenes, but it appeared so crystal clear and hopeful.
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The guy from blackops
holy crap, they made him in real life
Yeah, black ops vi
This is not peace;
it is an armistice for 20 years
its like ww1
@@funnyguy-ko9mcexcept that the germans came back stronger, the russians seem to be a whole lot weaker.
@@averageguy3108 There's a lot going on in the background you're probably not aware of. I'm not so sure this version of Russia is any weaker than the Soviet Union.
@@dyslexicbatnam1350 Soviets had double the manpower, 3.5 million more square kilometres of territory, as well as 30% more GDP. The modern Russia is nothing but just a Chinese Pawn.
@@averageguy3108 Yes, cause this is hoi4.
Honestly, i couldn’t imagine what it must feel like to be in the Soviet Union. During all of this. The Confusion, Hope, Fear and all that. All the new countries, people separated and united. The Reforms.
Like THAT is what i imagine "end of an Era." Must feel like.
Or the relief of the average US citizen, at the time (not self proclaimed, intellectuals those bozos still think communism is good.)
thinking "Are the nightmares of Nuclear War finally over?"
Like this, is one of those moments that just feels. Like a movie, something we don’t have today. Where everything feels, more like a annoying comedy that should have been, discontinued after its best season.
Nothing good: poverty, destitution and civil wars all along the borders.. that’s what it felt like, while USA was celebrating the victory , in which “every American can take pride for” for whatever reason.. this was the loss of the empire of true values to the evil empire of USA that was and still is discriminating people based on race and prostituting children even then
It was hell on earth same with Yugoslavia now we live ina Demographic crisis becasue of the shit hole govt's in the west we had the best quality of life in the east before the fall now because of greedy bastards like Yeltsin and Bush we're livid hell and shit holes.
Beautifully put.
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Вы считаете себя мудрым, потому что думаете, что коммунизм это плохо?😁
The fact that this happened on Christmas too
Bush forgot to add.
“We now need a new country to perpetuate a wasteful and expensive war against. Iraq? Afghanistan? “
Why would he? He wouldn't have known his idiot son would do that, he was clearly against invading Iraq since he had the chance but refused it with the Gulf war.
Bush Sr. Did 9/11!!
The USSR was a victim?
@@Janis6566 yes
@@hothdog I didn't ask you.
I am not surprised Putin came to power. I told people in the mid 90s that you try to keep Russia down you will get a strong man like in Germany in 1930s. 1991 was not 1945 ! The Russian military and intelligence structure basically remained intact. 2022 not a surprise to me.
lol the west gave billions in order to help Russia not crash and the leaders just stole the funds
Russians suck with having freedom; every time they tried making their country free ended with a more vile dictatorship. They haven't formed the political nation that would withstand any scum trying to get the power for his self-enrichment. Russia is like a giant with the immunodeficiency syndrome, there is just *nothing* that would keep the body clean and healthy.
30 years ago today.
Thank you for the upload. What an iconic piece of history. But unfortunately it aged terribly.
This was the moment they should’ve realised there was no longer a need for NATO.
Or, at the very least, the CIS could’ve formed their own alliances .
Without NATO, things would have been very different…
Yes, better! @@Squiddy-go1du
@@Schnipp08 Better? Only 3 years later he invaded Chechnya and continues with several other countries to this day.
Thank God they preserved NATO; Putin might protest it, but by his actions he PROVED that NATO is more relevant than ever.
@@eber792 er…. Putin didn’t invade Chechnya in 1994. I think you’ll find Yeltsin was President .
While 1991 began the era in America when our country truly began to lose itself, it must have been nice hearing that at the time. Let it serve as a lesson to all: Ideological wars don't collapse with nations. Any political that is done can be undone. Nothing is "settled law"
I thought it started on 9/11 though? No?
@@professional.commentator it actually started when clinton took office.
Fun fact: the soviet union lasted for four more days as kazakhstan stayed in until boxing day
No, Kazakhstan had already withdrawn from the Union. Who they outlasted was the RSFSR.
Everyone should just watch this and understand how hard we fought for the freedom of all peoples just for a cybermob to protest just to have communism back.
but that comes with freedom of speech and with freedom in general?
And for a random 11 yr old stereotypical dweeb spamming “capitalist pigs” in the chat whenever they see an american or supports US in youtube
@@elcat7811again, freedom of speech and expression. If you can express your views and beliefs, so can they, whether either side believes the other to be morally wrong.
Who asked you? Let your own people freely express themselves first, like students for Palestine in the campuses.
@@hanbyol19Communism is an ideology, Palestine is a place, I think there is a difference.
In a alternate timeline, it was Biden doing this speech instead of Bush Sr.
How do you figure?
Ha! Biden... 😂
Think it was a reference to the failed Biden campaign in the late 80s @@chrisahearn789
@@chrisahearn789 Because Biden ran for President in 1988.
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Acknowledges Gorbachev's contribution to the end of the Cold War but not the policies of Ronald Reagan that pushed the policy forward. Why is that?
I still find it hard to believe that the American voters replaced this man. What a loss.
Why?
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And if they were going to replace him, it should’ve been Ross Perot. NOT Clinton.
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Worst candidate ever!
@Movingforward2000 He said he wouldn't raise taxes, and then he did. So, literally, everyone wanted him out after that
George Bush 1990: "A Democratic russia..."
30 years later Putin: 😂
As something produced by the White House, is this video copyright free?
Obviously
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this is the best day in human history
alright yank...we get it...cope harder
Christ being born, dying as the Ultimate Sacrifice, and Rising on the Third Day. After those this is definitely near the top!
Worst*
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 Lol
@@Zopiexx Комунняку на гілляку
Anybody here after the BO6 reveal trailer?😂
America was at its zenith in the 90's; economically, culturally, and militarily, but had already begun the painful process of deindustrialization. I miss that decade.
Things haven't been the same since that September Day and the '08 crash.
It was then on this day, a young Valdimir Putin vowed revenge.
I greatly admire this address, and the great work accomplished by leaders Reagan, Bush, and Gorbachev.
History video right here
And it re started on February 24 2022
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More like in 2014
24*
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being born in the 90s before 9/11 happen even as a kid and looking back as an adult the Earth almost had world peace. it was the most awesome time to live in during that small decade. id imagine when Jesus Christ comes back we will have 1000 years of this peace but better. To the future for there is hope.
You are nostalgic of ur childhood, + u are racist
Ah, "The End of History"
what a joke
what
George Bush, you were not perfect, yet you are missed. Especially when compared to certain members of your party today.
Bush was just preparing for the elections here by claiming he had played any part in ending the cold war when it had pretty much ended during Reagan‘s presidency.
He was vice president for Reagan and this was symbolically the Cold War’s ending.
agreed. It was over by the Washington Summit in 1987 when Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty. This was just the loose ends. The peace came first, the breakup of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR came as a result of this.
By that token you need to include every President going back to Truman, to tell "the whole story"
Bush was the President when it happened. This is why he's giving the speech.
@@nizloc4118 he was not. The cold war effectively ended before he came into office.
@nizloc4118 yes, Truman mobilised the NATO alliance, and Nixon had the "Structure of Peace" and detente, but it was under Reagan that a final determination of that struggle was achieved
At that time, America believed that it would dominate the world forever, but little did it know that the Chinese giant was building a great power. Then Russia came back to the fore, stronger than the Soviet Union, and finally BRICS dealt the final blow to America.
Current russia is certainly not stronger than the USSR
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@@yessir889umm no
Late 41st US President George Bush
Born : 12 June , 1924 A.D.
Died : 30 November, 2018 A.D.
Ages : 94 years old .
Mala hierba nunca muere.
Both bushes can rot in hell for ruining America.
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And then we lived happily ever after
George Bush was a great president. It's a shame he wasn't given a second term in office. I will forever be pissed off at Perot for taking away votes that would likely have gone to Bush. More people voted against Bill Clinton in 1992 than voted for him. This speech from Bush shows his grace and class that we don't see today. Many people in his country were mad at Bush for not celebrating the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He calmly announced it and did not gloat the obvious loss of the Cold War by the Soviets. Gloating could have caused hard liners to launch a coup.
Why do you love this neocon establishmentarian looser so much? If Bush cared for the hard working man and women of this country, he would have received another electoral landslide. Instead, he sold them out in horrific atrocities like NAFTA. This led both Democrats and Republicans to vote for Perot the only candidate who cared for the American people.
Iraq
@spawnerist6241 ok
Dude Perot didn't even get any electoral vote
Looking back, though I didn't vote for HW, he was a good president. Reaganomics (Laffer curves, trickle down economics, increasing the national debt) had to explode eventually. It exploded on HW's watch and, relatively honest man that he was, even as he was head of the CIA before, he raised taxes and was booted. Bill Clinton gets abuse from Republicans and Newt Gingrich types, but he was also a good president. He cut spending and, as I recall, even cut taxes. The economy did well, he was re-elected.
The final collapse of the Soviet Union was chaotic and in some places warlike. Civil war in Georgia and the Nagorno-Karabakh war in Azerbaijan. Nevertheless, it was the best thing that could happen, that this dungeon of nations would collapse like a house of cards. Multiethnic states that come into being under coercion are doomed to failure, like Austria-Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire and the Soviet Union. But if this multiethnic state is a voluntary project like the USA, then the house will continue to exist.
USA is a voluntary project? Native Americans were not massacred to establish United States of America?
Hence why China’s growing empire is more than likely not gonna last, with the imprisonment of Uyghurs in China, HK falling into the CCP’s control, and the possible future invasion of Taiwan, I can’t see people wanting to side with China in the long run
I was born in 1990 so I was so glad I didn’t have to watch the Burt the Turtle videos and Duck and Cover thanks to Reagan and Bush for the ending of the Cold War
Thank Gorbachev, if that prick never sold his country out for mcdonalds the cold war never would have ended
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Bush and Reagan where horrible presidents that didn’t end the Cold War.
Duck- *pssh pssh* and cooover! Duck- *pssh pssh* and cooover!
Those two idiots didn't end the Cold War. The Soviet Union collapsed because its model wasn't sustainable. The reagan cultists will ridiculously tell you it was all because of him.
Looking back, I think wish we had re-elected President George Bush. We’d be in a much happier place.
God Bless this man!
He's dead
@Mk78 do you have proof?
@Mk78 Source: Trust me bro
That is George h.w bush, former president of the United States. He sadly passed away on 2018
@@radscodyp1233 proof you can find by Alex Jones film. There are some secret party in California woods.
Unfortunately we were too complacent back then. When Bush says "Eastern Europe is free", that may be being undone if we dont step up and support Ukraine. It borders several Eastern European countries.
Why? Russian Federation didnt try to rebuild its empire. They invaded Ukraine just to avoid them to join NATO and put them nuclear bases few meters from Moscow.
In First 10 years as Russian president, Putin tried all the way to establish good relationship with US but was rejected every time.
@@woozy7405 Ukraine didnt want to join NATO till 2014, when there was a coup that lead another party at the government. A corrupt government (you can find many articles about it) that want to join a military alliance that can only destabilize all the situation in the eastern sphere of the planet. There were specific agreements made at the end of the Cold War that Ukraine had to remain neutral. Yes, NATO already bordered Russia but not a such huge border. US would have done an invasion too if Mexico or Canada wanted to join a military alliance with Russia or China, we both know that. They did it for far less important reasons in Iraq and Afghanistan (just to tell the last). Zelenskyi doomed his own people and before that he slaughtered tons of thousands of civilians in the eastern part of Ukraine for 9 years. You forgot that. But Im not surprised.
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@@woozy7405 NATO places puppet governments, then make them "freely" join it. Old trick of yours.
@@hanbyol19bruh, Russia did the same. Ukraine’s old government was just as corrupt and incompetent as the new one. Open your eyes, there aren’t any “good guys” in this conflict
No empire lasts forever! Not even America... Fall in inevitable!
That’s from black ops 6 trailer
Little did they know they sat on 9 years and 8 months before the next Cold War
The biggest victory of Bush Sr's presidency was inviting Eazy-E to the white house
Nobody Ever Thought That a Second Cold War Deadlier Than The First Would Start!
Not the case.
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I don’t who’s more evil, this man or his son 💀👁️
His son for sure
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Who is here after COD BO6 TRAILER 😅
Me
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It was the free different countries from the U.S. Alliance Victory by the end of the Cold War and the end of the Persian Gulf war and brought peace
The Persian Gulf War; where a president who invaded Panama 8 months prior invaded Iraq because it invaded Kuwait, then began an embargo that killed almost a million Iraqis, all to save a corrupt royal family who owned an oil state. Yep.
Really he means “Yay! Our markets can devour Russia and its people now! Russians can now experience the horrors of capitalism!”
Oh boy I sure hope Russia doesn’t become a hellhole.
US has destroyed everything it has touched. Now, it has to deal with the phatoms of the past.
IS THAT THE GUY FROM BLACK OPS 6
Yes
Bush: "Eastern Europe is Free."
Putin: *"I'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move."*
Ended in 1991 and began again 8 years later with NATO's eastern expansion despite promising that it wont happen
when exactly was it promised and by whom? repeating delusions don't make them true btw
@@jolly-rancher Secretary of State James Baker promised that NATO would not expand into post-Soviet states.
It was the Eastern Europeans who wanted protection from U.S in case of Russian aggression. Ukraine didn't join now they are facing invasion.
@@Enigmatism415He promised he would not expand into East-Germany. Not Eastern Europe.
@@chadzahirshah2588there were discussions about Nato and eu not expanding past Germany but they never put it on the agreement when it came time to sign.
Rest In Peace George H.W Bush (George W Bush's Father) A 41st President of US 1924 - 2018
Personally, I HATED the two George Bushes because they were among the WORST line of U.S. presidents from Truman to Biden!
It's all down hill from here
It will be OK. The Presidency seems to go back and forth between R and D these days with a bit of regularity, so everyone in the country gets some time with the party they support at the helm.
@@scottw6704that’s a nice comment , don’t see many people embracing democracy as much as they should, especially on the internet, good to see some people still do.
Wait is this guy from Call of Duty Black ops 6? 😧
Anyone here from bo6?
My dad and his family were Lithuanian. They were so excited in 1990 when Lithuania broke free. My grandmother died a year and a day before (12/24/90). My father would die 4 days before (12/21/91).
a Great Christmas Morning in 1991.
I remember watching this on TV as a kid with my mom.
A message from one of the "sons": peace and bright future did not come
And sadly we squandered this incredible historic victory...the US became insanely arrogant and now we are paying the price.
I see comments, and oh boy most of the people here are CLUELESS on what has happened after this and what Yeltsin has done to the country after the fall. I was 11 when this happened and know how it was before, after, and what's going on now, and I have to say The Fall of the Soviet Union is no less than a tragedy for all Russian people whether you believe in it or not.
Let's look at what the USSR achieved:
- 2nd fastest growing economy in the 20th century
- Extremely low unemployment and homelessness
- Saved the world from Nazi Germany
- Achieved all of the "firsts" in the space race except for the manned moon landing
- Ended century long cycles of famine in Eastern Europe
- Higher calorie intake than the US
- Ended racial and sexual inequality
- Free education
- 99% literacy rate
- Most doctors per capita in the world
- Eliminated poverty
- Doubled life expectancy
What happened post collapse?
- GDP instantly halved
- 40% of the population drops into poverty
- 7.7 million dead in the first year alone
- 1 in 10 children on the street
- Industrial production collapses
- Infant mortality and tuberculosis reaches third world levels
- Life expectancy drops 10 years
- Original Communist Party becomes so popular that the 1996 election had to be rigged to prevent them from winning
- Stalin more popular than Yeltsin, everyone wants the USSR back
"BUT SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK!!!!!"
Yes
Any administration which is not directed towards people's growth is a hell.
@@Jack-ub8kc that doesn't defend the Marxist principles. And today's Russia's sufferings are due to Boris yeltsin not because of democracy.
@@Jack-ub8kc The Soviet Union inflated their numbers just like China does today.
There was still antisemitism in the Soviet Union.
Japan and Spain grew faster than the USSR in the 20th century.
Congratulations the youtube algorithm has chosen you.
I'll be honest, we are about to be in a second cold war.
😂
the cycle is inevitable
we are
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Not really, Even with the Ukraine War Russia is no longer what it used to be back in it's heyday, Look at the Russian military now being steamrolled by the Ukraine's forces and Putin on his last legs
And the world lived happily ever after. Oh wait...
Who's here after Black Ops 6 reveal ?
This speech is loaded as fuck hahahah.gah dam what a world to exist in as a 19 day year old then...!
December 27th 1991 - September 10th 2001 was the peak of the Western World.
Anyone watching this during the Second Cold War?
The second cold war was the US challenging China
And everyone lived happily ever after. The end.
or did it?
@@wong1030they did
Until 9/11 happened. Terrorism started spreading to Africa and the Middle East.
Islamic radicals: hello there
Vladimir Putin: hello there
Cold war with china: hello there
@@dawidos369 Obi Wan Keno - never mind
"Kirgisistan" 💀
Well this did not age well....
😂😂😂 FR FR. Bringing down the USSR was a huge mistake.
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No it wasn't lmfao @@MUZUKUN-YT
@@chummygun Yes, it was. Without the control of the socialist world, it gave us the situations that whole world is in today, and it only got worse thanks to the constant wars that the US keeps pushing against other countries. The world became more harsher against anything that is progressive and better for society.
@@MUZUKUN-YT COPE.
Освободили от работы, еды и денег. А потом вы удивляетесь, почему здесь ненавидят капитализм.
You're rapidly disintegrating abomination of a state was failing. The situation in the 90s would have eventually occurred regardless under the old regime, just 10 to 15 years later. Unlike other enslaved communist countries that switched to capitalism, Russia's transition was absolutely incompetent, something it continues to this day.
Then tell me why Capitalism worked in the west. You guys have no work ethic or competitiveness. Just look at Germany. From being destroyed by WW2 to becoming the largest economy in Europe. Only because of free market.
Буш не имел ввиду это, а потом удивляетесь почему вас не слушают иностранцы
@@fr_T_T ленту посмотри. Путин сказал то, путин сказал это. Не слушают
@@БидонКадыкавич-х2ц ленту посмотрел, только причëм здесь Путин?
Black Ops 6 reveal
His son was a devil to us for 8 years. The 2000s sucked very hard because of his son. His son was a monster.
You mean George H. W. Bush his son George W. Bush
@@Frenchempire his son bush jr
@@hectorlopez1069 yeah George walker Bush his name is not George jr
Just because you don’t like a decade that doesn’t mean it sucked for everyone
@@davidthebest3443 well Ik
And now it’s started again
It's been started again since 2014
Dang! I feel so much nostalgic while watching this
I watched this in my classroom it was taped by our history teacher i was born in 1985 and watching the USSR collapse in 1991 ❤🎉
You were only 6 and remember this
Yo that's the Black Ops guy