My babushka tells about her life in the Soviet Union
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2023
- I asked my babushka about her life back in the USSR! (she was born in 1938, the Soviet Union dissolution was in 1991, so most part of her life was in the USSR)
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From wooden plows to launching satellites in a single generation
6000 years later😂
6,000 years elapsed between 1917 and 1950? Wow, look at your math skills.
@@cartb3569 All of your incoherent rambling is entirely inconsequential. You try to look intelligent but can't even write. In 1917, the primary tool for administering agriculture was a wooden plow. Less then a fraction of 6,000 years later, the Soviet Union became the first space faring nation in human history.
@NORTHERNscreams Yet the pyramids and ships was made millions -billions of years ,with wood ,and various metals ,the first civilization on earth ,but yes ,let's talk about 1917 for your history 👏 bc you're such a scholar!
@@cartb3569 I will not be bothered to read that disgrace of basic grammar and syntax rules. I can't even understand what the points you try to make even are.
Eli: "I work for myself"
Babushka: *gazes in disgust*
Ego b i t ... she think
she(babushka) is like then what? live with who?
Babushka❤
Russian mothers do hard manual labour, so I don't know what you're thinking.
Lmao
I like kid in background 🤣 he wants his camera time
Good memory for him to look back on when he is old (if he makes it, life can be short).
my grandma told me the same things, she was living in Communist Hungary and she said that life was a lot easier and slower. You worked, ate and had fun at life, no complicated things to worry about. People were simply equal ordinary humans, having lot better communities than today, people came together everyday and played, talked and simply enjoyed life
Not everyone was equal though. People who were friends with people in the ruling party were more equal than others, while people with different ideas and criticism on the ruling party were MUCH LESS equal than others.
@@birgerbaert6175 True, but that also sounds exactly like the world today lmao
Ordinary humans= work drones, bots, NPCs...
You couldnt travel, you couldnt have your dreams... Exactly as you said. You could only sleep,eat,work, repeat.
Thats not a life.
@@birgerbaert6175So basically, what every capitalist country was doing? Nepotism and cronyism was rife not only in the ussr but was actually felt to a higher extent in other countries
We’re talking about the masses however.
We want a full interview from grandma about USSR time!!😊
Yes
Yes
Yes
Absolutely yes!!
да
as a wise man once said, The nostalgia of the soviet people of the USSR is not the nostalgia towards the past but towards a future that is lost.
What a beautiful quote
Я думаю это ностальгия по своей молодости и хорошему отношению людей друг к другу.
Damn!
Beautifully written like a poetry.
Wao
What she is saying is precious. She’s trying to explain equality which we don’t have now.
She was brainwashed and she is still living in that false reality.
Equality in being nothing
There was never true equality. Probably less disparity than today, but the politically connected lived lavishly, She just wouldn't have seen it because they didn't mingle in working class circles. Communism is fine for smaller scale communities. Unless we can fundamentally alter human nature it just doesn't work at a large scale. Eventually have to centralize power to be able to effectively run a country, and eventually power corrupts.
You can see the inequality now where the poor minorities and prisoners go to the cannon fodder brigades and the better off in big cities don’t.
@@GeraldBeagan-ee6se You are stuck at (the country) where you live. If you look around in other Countries you’ll find how deadly capitalism turned out for them.
Здоровья и долголетия бабушке!
I can totally understand what she is trying to say. The people were united under one banner, achieving unbelievable things and striving to make the Soviet Union a super power. The First man in space was a Russian after all. Nowadays everyone is so greedy, selfish and vain
That was the case back then too, don’t worry it’s just nature
They are much more vain and shallow today. Thinking more of themselves and less for the good of all.
@@uituituituituituitno it's not
@@uituituituituituit it isn't human nature to be selfish, that's bullshit. you can't throw away morality because you think we are supposed to be selfish.
Greed and vain is normal according to the one of most evil economist Milton freedman
Her generation were heroic. Need to listen.
Yes, but as you listen, hear not just the pleasantries of nostalgia, remember the sounds of gunfire that led bullets into the backs of German civilians, gates of the labor camps as dissenters were left to be slaves until their deaths, the wails of those who's hunger grew while the communists ate meat and wine within the halls of the Kremlin, but most of all remember the sounds of the sirens as they stood ready to set the world ablaze in nuclear fire.
@@Sumschmuck bro when you have millions of people and trash agriculture of course people will die to make the nation great, also no fucking nukes of the soviet union where used on a country, the gulags were for traitors and those who wanted to overthrow the USSR, and you think the germans didnt do the same to soviet citizens, the soviet union was furious at the nazis and made them pay for everything the did to them. sad you fell into such stereotypes and misinformed
@@SumschmuckThe Germans deserved it. Far more military personnel were killed by the Soviets than civilians, compared to Germany killing far more civilians than military personnel
@@Sumschmuckno
@@SumschmuckUnited states
My mum also loved in the Soviet Union and she says it was a pretty great time…
Great, nice to meet you, Bolshevik
Because they were young and bolshevik. And they liked their assignments
@@juanantonio3487 my mum was like, 30 when the Soviet Union fell and she was really smart in these types of things. But I agree
@@kittyaya3425 Try to like soviet union in Czechia, were 2% of the population was forced to be an py for the government. Or in Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan, were most of the population was forced to work in cotton fields for minimum wage for 14 hours.
Or being a georgian in mafiosi Kutaisi.
Or an armenian in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) where they were getting fucked in their own historical territory by both, russians and turk azeris.
Or try to be a Christian anywhere.
Or try to be an artist that the regime wouldn't like
Or try to earn some money for you and your future without the likes of the CP
Try to move yourself from a shitty assignment
And I won't talk what could happen to you if you fell sick, therefore a rare or complicated disease. In the western capitalist countries would say to you "pay for your shit", in the socialists would say "we will provide you whatever you need, but we are going to ruin your tax outcome for coverage", in Soviet times was "blyat, sorry brat, medical aid is "free", but we can't help you here and we are not allowed to send you to Moscow, unless you are famous or a foreign country pays a lot of money to still get you attended poorly".
Now she is not your mom
She is our mom
Now she's ✨OUR✨ Babushka 🇮🇳❤️🇷🇺
Russia is not Soviet Union. We need to come out of this mindset!
❤ LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER
Let babushka live long and healthy, hugs and may God hear her prayers!
She’s not babushka babushka is for Russian. They are called something else because she is tartar
@@mmassehs3251Soviet first all else second!❤
@@DaboiBurt that is Soviet sOviet means everyone
No place for God in communism.
@@mmassehs3251Soviet is a type of council but okay
Бабушка говорит правду. Большинство пожилых людей вспоминают с любовью и благодарностью СССР.
Да, деменция никого не щадит
@@79keydet, уважаемый, многие, как и я, выросшие и закончившие школу в СССР, вспоминаем те времена с любовью. Нам от 45 лет и у нас деменции нет)))
@@user-lx5dp2gc3tнууу...
@@user-lx5dp2gc3t "многие", это обычно немногочисленные детишки партэлиты или вертухаев. большинство помнит, какой голодный и нищенский песдец был в совке.
@@79keydet , хорошо) Скажу за себя. Родилась в 1975 в многочисленном рабочем поселке, где была больница на несколько корпусов. Получила отличное образование в сельской школе, которую закончили и мои родители. Отец работал мастером связи, мама учителем в вечерней школе. Жили в квартире, полученной от ненавистного Вам совка))) Каждый год меня возили на море: Черное, Каспийское, потом к бабушке, которая переехала в Запорожскую область, на Азовское. Сами родители ездили за границу по путевкам: Румыния, Югославия, Болгария, Чехословакия, ГДР... в Прибалтику. Да, это было не на одну зарплату. Отец был пчеловодом, охотником, рыболовом + много денег делали на обычных березовых вениках. В совке можно было заработать. Кто хотел - тот и жил. Все по-разному, но в целом это было не заметно.
Сейчас вроде все то же самое, да не то...
Где больница? Даже корпуса снесли...
Как с образованием? В школе, где было 3 учителя математики и 5 учителей русского и литературы, учитель истории преподает химию.
Как с работой? Почему мои родители не подались в город, как сейчас вся молодежь поголовно?
Население поселка в треть от прежнего: в большинстве пенсионеры, дачники, немногочисленные бюджетники и предприниматели... Ну и алкашни полно... В совке они тоже были, но в меньшинстве в основной благополучной массе.
Ну да, в 90е разруха, где-то нищета...
Но почему бы сейчас, в прекрасное по-вашему время, все не восстановить? Но нет, элита элите рознь. Это именно сейчас "правительство живет на другой планете, родной" (С)
Пы. Сы. ...а 90е я даже не заметила: у нас было всё: свои овощи, фрукты, мясо ( кролики, свинина), рыба.
Деньги только пропали на книжках, и не маленькие... Но это, оказалось, дело наживное)))
Общаясь со сверстниками (45 и старше), вспоминаем "совок" с теплой грустью. Это мой опыт)))
Ваш, наверное, другой... или Вы помоложе)))
Your grandma is BASED AS FUCK! Keep it up comrade granny🫡❤
*Our grandma comrade
More like delusional 😂
Your Grandma is Right ❤ best wishes for wise Women.
Grandma dropping the truth bombs. I love how she just ignores what you say/ask and keeps going. 😂
She doesn't know of all the intellectuals and dissidents being murdered or sent to camps for a slow painful death. She's a product of life long propaganda.
What a load of bullcrap, my parents and grandparents lived in Poland which at the time was russian puppet. There was no equality, people with high position in the government and some celebrities which were less than 1 percent of popularion were Rich and everybody else was very poor. My mom Lived with her 5 sibling, her parents, her grandparents, and grand grand parents in small house. At winter it was cold, shelves in stores vere empty, inflation was skyrocketing. Dont be fooled with this russian propaganda!
based Grandma 🗿
@@ishredder4006huh
@@ishredder4006nothing about communism is based. She remembers it well because it was good for her and her people at first. Just like how many old Germans would look back at the Third Reich and talk so fondly about it because they were looking at it through a nostalgic lense. The soviets and the nazis have done amazing things for their own community but both spread terror and misery in other communities.
Her babushka is now OUR babushka
Edit:mommy im famous
OUR
@@TranHoa12388п2тп2лщ
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@@Donny-eb8hrAs a tatar, I can confirm
Im a russian
Translation: Everyone was poor and the KGB was indiscriminate in their brutality.
Nope bubba everyone was equal those where great time no stupid stuff like today
😂😂😂😂sure Westerner. Enjoy being too poor to buy bread now in Russia
Wrong
...but some were less equally poorer than others.
Sorry, but you wrong.
She’s rooted in her thinking. It’s beautiful ❤
My grandparents, parents, and myself were born in the USSR, present day Azerbaijan. My grandparents and parents grew up there; I have no memory of this time cause I was a baby (born in '91, right before it fell), but my grandma speaks very fondly of those times and tells me very similar stories like these about the Soviet Union - unfortunately they'll never teach you this perspective in schools, especially not in the U.S.
Yes. Here in my country, they don’t even mention it being the USSR. They just call it ‘Russia’, and try to avoid it most as possible
Pozitiv danışmalarının bir səbəbi o zibildə qalmış kimiyik bir totalitar rejim getdi avtoritar rejim qurdu başçımız, indi isə korrupsiya ilə baş- başayıq. Eynisini polşalılardan estonyalılardan eşitmərsən çünki oların həyatları, qazancları daha da yaxşılaşıb. Berlin duvarını boşuna tikməmişdilər.
Over a bottle of vodka one night with the father of my now ex-girlfriend, I listened to Igor (her father) praise the USSR and "communism." It all sounded nice, but I couldn't refrain from asking him that if the USSR was so great, why did he have to escape from it as a "Christian refugee?"
Nahh when yuo have that type of profile pic yuo cant be called a real azeri will have their flag in their pic not some jpg image i dont accept yuo ass are real azeri
Probably because the US and most democratic countries sees communism as a crappy deal for the people that are in it. Not saying the people weren’t happy and enjoyed their lives but without freedom. Without the ability to leave their country to travel. Not enough food. You were told where yo work and live and how much food you were going to get. Ask your grandparents how they felt about not being allowed to travel. I’m sure nobody could afford too but why would a govt not allow travel outside the country? Sounds like a prison. I’m happy the Soviet Union is now somewhat free and the people can make choices. If it was so great, why did your family leave?
From this, I understand both sides of the coin. She had everything she wanted. We have everything that advertisements tell us we want. She didn't know any different and now we have so much at our fingertips, we want what we have and what everyone else has too or we feel we cannot be happy. I do miss the simpler times.
Spot on.
Now people are chasing the "dreams" that they don't even need.
People were just happy and united back then
Silly take. Americans live off stealing from poorer and weaker nations. USSR HELPED poor nations. I know because I'm from such a nation the US destroyed.
@@StrongRespectNeighbor feuds resulted in snitching and accusations. The veneer of unity is a result of regimentation.
I do not have the things they show in advertisements XD
She probably didn’t have everything she wanted because there was no upwards mobility in society. Also, she was lucky: INSANE amounts of people were killed as a direct result of Communist ideology for doing nothing wrong, merely believing in a different system of government. You might think a capitalist country such as the U.S.A. has the same outcomes, but it does not. Never has there been mass killings of U.S. citizens on the same scale as Stalin, Pol Pot, or Mao.
Thank you for having your grandma share her earlier life experiences with us! Very interesting!
Many won't understand what she menas with "we were like people". Today we're not treated like humans beings, we're not treated even as a living thing. Sad that babushka had to die seeing the world the way it is.
Saying that this nasty regime treated people like people is the biggest lie ever. No, they most certainly didn't. Unless you were high in certain positions. You as an individual had no saying in anything, even what you're going to do after school. Where you'll work or live, even which potato you'll buy in a shop. If there are any potatoes.
I'm not sure the millions of displaced people , those who went to Gulags, those of starved to death would agree with you. older generations that survived idealize the Soviet era because they have forgot what was bad about these era just like boomers in the west think it was better before .
@@Zvaigzdute14 have you lived in that system and experienced it first hand?
no lmfao
@@someguy4512 my parents have experienced full "joy" of it. I know full well what im talking about. Persecutions, horrible treatment of the individuals, horrible health care, propaganda, lack of basic things in the shops etc.
@@Zvaigzdute14 can you tell me which decade? 1930's isn't 1960's onward to over generalise this is just pure rubbish not gonna lie.
and based on ur name i will assume your latvian, which is interesting . . .
Babushkas are there to be respected, listened to, taken care of and loved. ❤
She is absolutely right!
I could talk for hours to this woman. What a fascinating individual.
my parents and my grandma say the same. I was in born in 1985 and I got to see a bit of ussr life and it was amazing, remember how we used to have a big family, relatives, friends who always met at my grandma house and it was a special atmosphere back then. Cost-Free education for everyone, medical services for free, unemployment close none and no one made you go through countless interviews. Life was stable and you were sure in tomorrow. My other grandma received a three flat room for free as a present from the factory she worked for
Some grandparents got free apartments, my grandparents had their homes burned by soviet soldiers lol. I don't know what kind of soviet union this old babushka is talking about, it's definutely not what my family lived through.
@@jailejeu Were your Grandparents selfishly hiding Grain?
Collaborating with Nazis?
Rich Assholes?
aww poor you
@@jailejeu If they had their houses burned, they obviously did something bad. Most likely trying to build wealth, or being religious, or some other type of thing.
@@jailejeu where are you from?
@@kjbrandman grandparents were Lemko
I cannot fail to leave a comment to this gracious grandmother who, with her testimony, which is monumental for all of us, has struck me deeply.
I've heard many people who lived through the Soviet period say the same things about your grandmother.
I respect this grandmother and give her my best regards and hugs.
Thank you so much for these warmest words, I am so touched 🥹🙏🏻
Your grandmother is very tender and I feel from the bottom of my heart that she deserves appreciation. 🫂
Ive watched quite a bit of Bald and Bankrupt's videos as well and he travels all around former soviet union places and the vast majorities of older people he asks similar questions too also really liked it better when it was all the soviet union.
Its really rough seeing how many of them feel much worse off now
No, before now, I didn't know this youtuber who, out of curiosity, took a tour of his channel and noticed that he travels a lot too. Surely her contents are also very informative, however, if I also watch her videos I will necessarily have to stop watching Elina's channel. 😜😎
Surely all the elderly of the world, who have reached senility, see the world changed and, in some respects, for the worse; we will see it too. But in Russia the change is particular because the change that is taking place all over the world in this historical period is strange and ambiguous and in Russia there is more than a degree of sensitivity to this change almost to bear an anguish because of the fact that too much change is being made from one excess to another which is never good.
The elderly have a much deeper way of seeing and try to warn us that we are doing something wrong. We should listen more to our elders and perhaps make real guides out of their knowledge.
@@Frranc1s Because everything they built in their lifetime went to several people. A couple hundred people became very rich, and the elderly plunged into poverty. Supporters of capitalism consider this the norm.
Thank you documenting this. It's important to get the perspective of people who actually lived in history rather that only getting the point of view from history books.
Well, you can’t really get the perspective of any dissenters because they’re all dead.
The Soviet Union was a beautiful achievement in many ways. In my opinion anyway. 🚩
Edit. The Tartar culture is also amazing, I studied lots of cultures from eastern Europe Russia and Siberia, and I love that during Soviet times all these peoples were united together. Like I said, an amazing achievement, considering how divided everyone is today.
Edit edit: your Grandma seems cool!
Yeah, right. Tortures, persecutions, deportations, slaughtering no freedom neither to your body, nor to your mind. Locking oposition to "mental asylums" that were there basically to toerture you for years using drugs.
Just remember: Its beauty was outweighed by its evil
@@tickbrick6631on that point we'll have to agree to disagree I guess.
@@littlestone1541 How can something be beautiful if it causes so many deaths in a short period of time? (Cambodia, North Korea, Soviet Union…)
Much love and respect to your grandmother.
Thank you , спасибо!! 🙏🏻
@@ElifromRussia oligarchs existed back then also. People called them party leaders or some other term. Now, wealth is displayed, back then people hid them in offshore banks.
@@ElifromRussiaWhat's funny is that most of those who lived under Ceaușescu's communism in Romania miss it too, and that's because there was order and discipline, everyone had a job and a home, and Romania's assets belonged to Romanians, not foreigners! The part with standing in line for food was only a few years towards the end (and only in the city, in the country side people ate very well anything at any time from their household, and many in the city had relatives in the country side) to achieve the impossible: pay off all the debts, which happened (Romania being the only country in the world and in history that has achieved such a thing), and for that Ceaușescu received a bullet in the head! And the country is now rotten with corruption and is skinned from all sides: Austria is cutting down our forests and taking away our gas, human trafficking has wreaked havoc and filled Europe with Romanian prostitutes, missing children, parents are abroad for work and children alone at home without a reference in life, the food is all imported, the capital has moved to Brussels, the birth rate drops dramatically, woe is us!
@@ElifromRussia she reminds me of my Бабушка Она Очень красивая
@@2HN. The difference between real modern oligarchs, who have inadequate wealth that they are not able to spend in a lifetime, and those "party leaders" who were just somewhat richer than the rest and had access to imported goods is so huge that it is not clear how you could come up with such an "argument". Any worker could afford to travel to resorts or buy a car.
Been watching videos from Russia for years and have never seen one Soviet era citizen say they didn't like the Soviet days. Capitalism destroyed their towns and villages, and reduced everyone to absolute poverty.
I have seen some people from the Eastern bloc and some gusanos (“Cubans” from Florida) say that, but after talking with them (not gusanos, they’ll never change) they seem to offer a nuanced perspective, most didn’t even live when it was actually good, and only lived in the bad times.
“Can’t have the truth come out if all the victims are dead” - America
Hundred percent right 👍
@@AI_in_ServiceOf_KGB1926 Lame ass response.
@@tempejklIn Germany the former GDR gets really demonised, but despite that many residents of the East to this day have nostalgia for their communist past. We call that "Ostalgie"
we were very happy and that feeling cannot be explained , friends meant a lot and so much creativity . Thinking about profession for life , not a job ...
Я помню. Десять лет в СССР прожила. На всю жизнь хорошая память осталось
What I think she's trying to tell you is that ppl may not have had material wealth/variety but they had a stronger sense of community and everyone supported each other more
Edit: plz don't write any replies to me, I don't wanna have a meaningless f*cking online debate
Нет, моему отцу и моей матери в СССР дали квартиры в Москве, сейчас они стоят каждая около 2 миллиона долларов, им дали потому что они просто работали, всегда была еда, всё было по одной цене
@@Ivan_Polyak Her next two stories talk about the time the police wouldn't let her mother leave the collective farm to feed her baby who ended up dying... and her main diet consisting of nettle plant
It's all lies, though. The entire premise to communism is total obliteration of what came before. So much blood was shed trying to get rid of Russia Orthodox Christianity, but all attempts failed. Let's not forget that commies invented gulags which housed unwanted people that were used as the backbone to industrialize Russia. Slavery built the USSR, whether people like this woman can acknowledge it or not.
Ohh yes they supported each other so much that snitching to the secret police and getting people sent to the gulag wasn’t uncommon. How many millions died bc of this “stronger sense of community”?
@@blankface5052 I don't actually know what it was like to grow up in the Soviet Union, I just said what I perceived from the old woman, so calm your damn tits... besides,
look at all the upvotes I got! It must be true then
What a lovely lady! She has a lot of wisdom and I believe she lived the USSR era with satisfaction. Current times are very different but her life is a very important testimony for us, because knowing where we come from we will build a better future. I wish health, peace and joy to your gracious grandmother.
Бабушке здоровья , все правильно говорит 👍
My love and respect for your grandma. God bless her and you’re family 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
God don't exist anymore, just Lenin and soviet party!
I have a lot of respect for this generation
The generation that invaded Poland with Germany? The generation that starved to death? The generation that was raped by beria?
I have zero respect for people who says that "gulag wasn't real"
@@cyriljanda2609 ok
@@cyriljanda2609 Gulag was actually about reform. American prisons put them to shame brutality wise.
@@RedArrow808you going to try and claim there were no poor also? They were all poor!
Everyone WASNT poor. You just didn't see the rich.
Respeto mucho a tu abuela
Lots of respect for your Babushka, from Singapore 🙏
I truly feel her joy for her СССР days. I wish her a peacefilled life with excellent health and true happiness.
Great days.....I mean not for Ukrainians starving to death due to holodomor, not for Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Germans etc deported and killed in gulag to replace them with russians in their own countries...but aside from that, what a wonderful time
Wut??
Singapore 🇸🇬 is the Cccp and USSR combined you live in a one party state ruled by the people’s action party pap and controlled by the yew family there is no democracy !!!!! No wonder we Australians fly over that place to England and the USA, we don’t have stop for jet ✈️ fuel anymore!!!!!
Ussr was like heaven for everyone 😂😂😂😂😂 uraaaaa uraaaa uraaa
Here comes the alien from mars…sorry Singapore
My mother was born in '63 and grew up in Kazakhstan... In '95 we moved to Germany.
She often told me how life was simple in the USSR and that she had a happy, stable life and didnt miss much... Everyone had work and if you didnt like a workplace you could easily find something else... Food, water, electricity, housing was really cheap and education was for free (Soviet universities had high standards, though of course technology-wise they were behind the west)... Her family (grandparents and her siblings) wasnt rich, but we werent poor either... It's true, you couldnt drink Cocal Cola evry day or go to Paris... But some people dont even want that.
Yeah, right, happy and stable life, what a pile of bullshit. 25 milliions died in gulags, empty stores, communist terror, domestic migration restrictions, occupation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia.... Seriously? Never heard of that? 1968 Prague invasion by soviet troops, come on.... Your mother must have lived in some other country, not USSR..... She was just younger, prettier and healthier, THATS IT.
Coca Cola - full of Sugar
Paris - full of Riots..
So you were of German ancestry??
My father in law was perfectly happy building his soviet dacha, growing fruit and vegetables, and making samogon from potatoes 🙂 He never travelled overseas, even after perestroika. Mother in law was totally different and travelled many times to Europe and the UK.
Did your mother or grandmother told you about Aşarşılıq in 1932-1933 in Kazakhstan. It was hunger caused by Stalin when half of the population of Kazakhstan died.
Great ussr, but not for 4 mln of Kazakhs who died in that time. Yeah?
Слава Советской Родине!
Hearing her brought back memories of myself as a child during the Cold War in the US.
Eli ...she meant to say that your richness will be the richness of your community.the happiness was spread evenly among the rest.The que in the shops was at the last days 80s & 90s .ты ее не перебивай. (respect)
wtf that's MY NAME TALK STALKER
My grandmother would probably have said the same, as she also lived in soviet time. She passed away, long time ago, so please Elina give a very big hug and kiss from me to your grandma.❤❤❤
What a load of bullcrap, my parents and grandparents lived in Poland which at the time was russian puppet. There was no equality, people with high position in the government and some celebrities which were less than 1 percent of popularion were Rich and everybody else was very poor. My mom Lived with her 5 sibling, her parents, her grandparents, and grand grand parents in small house. At winter it was cold, shelves in stores vere empty, inflation was skyrocketing. Dont be fooled with this russian propaganda!
Very wise words thank you for spreading your wisdom to us
God bless comrade babushka from Serbia. I was born in the last years of Yugoslavia and listened to literally the same kind of stories from my grandparents.
Babushka reminded me in the old good days when I was in Romania. God bless her with good health.
Rural babushkas in Eastern Europe Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria,Romania and so on are very much alike.they seem to have the same dress code😂
@@EdReddish184 I'm Romanian & that's exactly what I was thinking. 😂 She looks like my grandma
Our family made a swift exit from Romania when the dictator started knocking down swaths of Bucharest to build a palace for himself and food/heat was not easy to come by. Communism sucks
She made a mistake, should be no rich only poor
@@dyawr universal East European rural vibes.
You can see all the older folk were proud of the soviet union. It obviously had many problems, but it was a force to be reckoned with.
Lmao, all old people throughout the world are the same; nostalgia is a powerful thing.
Usually the younger someone is the more he/she hates the Soviet Union… most of old people I’ve met tells good about it.
@@SCARRIOR Time changes quick and history is constantly rewritten ,and the young and old are always played out since Television is invented . The two most important groups in human society are the kids and the old , they deserve the most care and Respect so they won,t make the same mistakes again and again . And governments dont like that they love to control that part , that why family and unity Is the most important , And love this Babuska Peace from Amsterdam
Its a hard one to judge. Everyone remembers history their way because it uniquely happened to them. It. My life history is no one else's etc...
It is funny though. I went to Laos a few years back and they are just becoming a capitalist market inside a communist system of governance.
And *im being 100% serious when. I say outside of taxi drivers trying to scam extra money from tourists. The mindset of the people is very versatile honest. The things I bought and places I ate at and stayed people thought it was strange if I offered to pay extra or tip or give some money for some trip tips and things... they had a very humble but proud of each other helping each other mindset and that carried through, even in the stall pop up markets. It was EVERYONE helping everyone type thing.
You don't really get that community mindset in modern capitalist nations at all.
That life was all they knew.
Да си и жив бабушка. Поздрав от България 🇧🇬❤🇷🇺❤🟥
Yes please. A full interview with your grandma about her life in the USSR
Awwww I love her ❤. Based grandma
I can pretty much understand her Tatar! It's lovely! Love from Turkey!
то, что она сказала, это абсолютная правда, она такая честная и мудрая женщина.
No. She is not.
she spoked Tatar at some point. we're the Tatars ethnically cleansed from their lands, dicriminated against by the state?
@@Zvaigzdute14 Yes, she is.
@@gabidiac3285 you do know that the Tatars try to conquer Russia. Nowadays they live like all the other Russians.
Why always look in the past?
Бабушка с обычной советской прошивкой
As a Vietnamese, I think I needn't say anything to show out how we respect and love СССР❤
Beautiful grandmother, lovely granddaughter 🌹
I've just visited my 80 something grandma. 🥹 I live abroad and she is ever so dear to me.
Какой узкий кругозор! А бабушке почёт и глубокое уважение.
Very nice video Eli . Nice grandma .
well said. my grandmother has the same thoughts. the great generation
BS
@@marekniedzwiecki7663🤡
@@marekniedzwiecki7663Did you single-handedly defeat the most evil country in history? Didn’t think so
Based grandma 🗿❤️
I can’t fucking believe people are nostalgic for and are glorifying that evil regime, this can seriously only come from the most privileged regions, I assume they are from Tatarstan.
Здоровья вашей бабушке.вам повезло иметь бабушку
such a beautiful moment. Thanks
My greatest salute to the Great Soviet people! 🙏
From the Philippines.
Only Socialism is the answer to Philippine poverty
Soviet people doesn't exist and never did, only russians who cry about the lost empire. And you are not from Philippines, you are from Spain Empire. Same logic, you are a Spanish subordinate.
Желаю здоровья бабушке!
Tell her I love her from Greece ❤ My babushka was also Russian and she is the most precious human in my life !
Эля, может, ты не замечаешь, но ты создаёшь и определенный образ страны, то есть работаешь на страну тоже. И надо сказать, делаешь это хорошо)
Бабушка говорит о том, что деньги и богатство не были определяющей целью, мы были прежде всего людьми и ценились человеческие качества. Это похоже на то, когда ты чувствуешь субъективную оценку заграницей, когда тебя оценивают не потому, какой ты человек, а потому откуда ты и что у тебя есть, «взвешивают» тебя ;)
А это не всегда приятно ;)
Если кратко, то люди в Союзе были настоящими, было намного меньше фальши, сейчас слишком много «наносного»…
Привет бабушке, красавица)
I think there's one thing we can all agree on - the Soviet National Anthem is by far - the greatest national anthem ever written.
You never been to America then
@@jimcatanzaro7808 Dude I'm american our national anthem is the gayest.
@@jimcatanzaro7808 As a combat veteran of the US Army who was born in raised in America - I can tell you - you are wrong. Thanks.
@@vgrepairsmade my day
Azerbaijan trust me
I always carefully and patiently listen when older people talking about days long before I was born. I do not understand many times... but I remember what they say, and one day, when I grow up to that, I will find out what they tried to say to me. It happend many times...
Those people love the memory of their youngselfs. Nothing can replace the youth.
You should do a full interview with your grandma, it would be amazing.
What a load of bullcrap, my parents and grandparents lived in Poland which at the time was russian puppet. There was no equality, people with high position in the government and some celebrities which were less than 1 percent of popularion were Rich and everybody else was very poor. My mom Lived with her 5 sibling, her parents, her grandparents, and grand grand parents in small house. At winter it was cold, shelves in stores vere empty, inflation was skyrocketing. Dont be fooled with this russian propaganda!
Same here for my country. I came from Croatia what was before part of Yugoslavia and like your grandmother said for your country that to there was no rich or poor everyone was equal. It was same for my country then there where no like: "Oh, I'm rich and ur poor", no, everyone was equal, people had empaty, even if someone was rich they would gladly help someone who was poor and will never complain and never spend money for stupid things like today. Btw I like how you respect your grandmother, many people just forget about elders😔
plain lies. i remember very well both periods of times in romania, I am standard middle IQ of 116, plain middle class, and nobody was equal both then or now and there was a general lack of empathy everywhere (in the factory,military service, services etc) doubled by corruption at all levels and poverty that 80% of the population stole from work to make it. they were just utterly poor from every perspective at a mass scale. they just miss their youth,the rest was junk as they were not allowed to travel to compare their situation, so happy to live other times now!
Well yeah, your right at one point.
@@strigoiu13What time period was this though? Also Yugoslavia and Romania were different, Yugoslavia wasn’t in the eastern bloc and had a kind of different economy
thank you dear babushka
She has a point, capitalism might have given you material hapiness but it's never succeeded at solving any societal or social issues. In fact it makes them much worse.
Did communism solve it?
Genocide and standing in line for some bread and a pinch of salt isn't an important societal issue being addressed under communism...
I see everybody try to go to Europe or USA. But I didn't see the other way around why???
Communism means absolute ppwer to the government. If that's what you prefer, Cuba's not far from the US. Neither is Russia depending on where you are in the US.
@@josecaetano2388 because they have forced the rest of the world to escape through artificial wars and market manipulation.... If left alone, most people would prefer their own homeland
Masha'Allah may God give you and your family health and happiness.
They're Muslim ❤ Tatars
@@AmritDillonnot true. Christians had it worse then Muslims but it was not banned it was just suppressed
@@maxwolf8055there is no place for Religion in communism
Alhamdulillah, God have mercy on you and I
@@maxwolf8055 do not cover your wife and sisters and mother from now on! The faith is not what you force people to wear👍💖💪🇮🇱🙏🕊️
A wonderful woman, God bless her.
Your grandma is so nice! Take care of her
Thank you, I will!
@@ElifromRussiaYour grandmother Muslim
Love to fellow russians and post soviets 🚩 from India
🇮🇳💖🇷🇺
Ohhhh....a Tatar? Very cool. I have only read about the Tatars. Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Мой папа таджик, мама русская, папа очень любил СССР, он говорит, что он советский человек, что было очень хорошо, дружили, любили, работали, люди были честные. Он сейчас живут в Таджикистане и вспоминает те времена с любовью.
Спасибо, что поделились!🙏🏻🤍
🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭🌹🌹🕊️
Интересно, знают ли ваши родители, любители СССР, что Сталин убил больше людей, чем Гитлер? знают ли они, что голодание целых наций, смешение наций через депортации, нацистские лагеря для военнопленных, геноцид были частью этого режима? они знают что советский союз начал 2 мировую войну как агрессор и союзник гитлера?
Я родилась в Таджикистане 😊
God bless your Grandmother Elina. 'hope you're all getting along without your father.
Your grandmother is wonderful. Please pass her my best wishes.
take as much videos if her as possible ..it is my biggest regret and she reminds me of my grandma😌😌😌
Fantastic testimony.
I love your grandmother.
Капитализм щастье зашибись. Есть все в магазинах , это конечно факт. Но это если слишком поверхностно смотреть на вещи. Во первых не все могут работать на себя и быть бизнесменами. 90 % людей это обычные рабочие , которых эксплуатируют за ничтожную оплату труда.
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Working people of the world: unite!
😆 communism is slavery.
Yes give ur money and time to the ruling elite in Moscow and St. Petersburg and die in a wunderschönen war for imperial expansion!
🤡🤡🤡
@@ChichaGad🤡🤡🤡
Let’s go. Love the USSR, they helped my country
I know a woman who survived the ww2 as a child (she is polish). She is very grateful and romanticising of the Soviet and sometimes glosses over their slight failures
Ive heard those stories a lot, i was born right after ussr collapse in Poland.
Man older generation is a different cut of cloth from us. I mean it in a good way. They seem to value the good things than the negative things. I'm sure their were some not so good things during the USSR, but she just remembered the good times.
Ye only a few tens of millions of people died of famine and a couple were sent to the gulags
It was ALL she knew! To suddenly have so many changes & choices, must have been overwhelming for many. Lots of chaos and adjusting, too. Takes time for the change to be adapted.🤷♀️
Look at the united states , it is dead and falling down around me , my country is dead but walks like a zombie
lol keep coping
@@uituituituituituit no bro 10000 million ded in famin
I agree with your grandma
That's interesting!! 🤔👍🙏
Thank you for sharing! 🙂
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏A big kiss to your babushka
Lots of respect to her. People should be proud of their country and take care of each other like good friends.
Should the British be proud of the British Empire? What about the Germans? Japanese? French? Why should she be proud of the last Imperialist empire in history, and yes, the Soviets were the most recently to Imperialize, even more recently than China in Tibet, with their conquests into Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. Why look at the Soviet Empire positively when it colonized all of Eastern Europe and Central Asia while the US just liberated, it was the 20th century, and the Soviets talked about how evil colonialism was yet they were the only last colonialists of the 2nd half of the 20th.
The French and the British dismantled their empires before the Russians did. That's a fact.
Russians kept their empire til the 90s.
Brits/French broke it down way before that.
America ended our empire in 1945 with the liberation of Philippines, and stopped conquering in 1900.
If you think the French should be proud of conquering Africa, then I guess you are consistent, but if not, then you are hypocritical. If the Soviets are proud of their evil empire, then the French should be proud of their less evil but still evil empire.
@b.ballooon9225, Hahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhaahhaahhahahaahahhahahah
@@b.ballooon9225Hungary was not imperialism, it was meddling in foreign affairs, like the USA does today. The USSR did not colonise Europe, these areas have similar cultures and have been together a long time, likeUkraine Russia and Belarus. UK and France’s empires are still going, I’m living in a place colonised by the British, they had death squads here to murder our people for being the opposite religion. The USA is literally 100% colonised. The Native Americans are the only people that helped us during the British genocide of us, so I think they deserve their land back.
Masha Allah ❤ grand maa is still strong , looks like my mom
She is Muslim , I can tell it from her accent.
Your Babushka is a bolshoi blessing!
Madam Elina, 🙂 your babushka looks like my babushka.
Wow, people that lived in Yugoslavia in the 70s and 80s would give the same answer. Word for word.
I have heard the same from others in that generation I have asked, it was a simpler time with less income inequality like today. In America, my grandparents generation also had much more community and pride in their country than we have today. It is very different. Thank you for sharing your beautiful family with us
Yes, back then everybody on a certain peice of land was more or less very similar to each other, which is what creates the strong tribal bond we call community.
@@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013Russia was an incredibly diverse country. Even the people in the video are not ethnic Russians, but Tatars.
The US too was insanely diverse compared to basically any other country in the world. The bloodiest wars are always between similar people.
And criminals and tyrants tend to target people from their ethnicity.