Game Boy Tetris is set in the Russian Revolution in a factory along with Tetris 3D, colored Tetris set in modern day as building a house, real old black and white Tetris set in Yeltsin era.
"we shall regain the georgian soil" this is so eerie, and we know it was "georgian" mainly because it flows better in the song, it could very well have been "ukrainian"
Plus his overall look as well. At the start he has basic overalls and a shaved head, by the end, in the 90s fasion, he's got a leather jacket and a mollet.
This is the story of a bricklayer who became a labor leader during the Revolution, became a Party apparatchik during the Civil War and its aftermath, overseeing construction and industry. He rose to prominence as a Party man experienced in logistics and construction, and as a result oversaw a large part of Stalin's First Five Year Plan. Poor supplies from Kazakh factories resulted in poor-quality buildings that were notoriously unstable, which almost led to this bricklayer's death in the Stalinist purges later in the decade. When WWII broke out, he was soon to be on Beria's list, but an old friend in the government from the Revolution days bailed him out and got him a position in the Army as a logistics officer. When the disaster of Barbarossa and its aftermath gutted the Red Army, the bricklayer saw himself catapulted to higher and higher offices - where he excelled as a logistical wizard. He would rise to the rank of Major General, and participated in the famous battle of Kursk. He took command of a tank detachment during the clash at Prokhorovka and helped blunt the German advance, later earning him a medal as a Hero of the Soviet Union. He would remain in the Soviet Army in the aftermath, seeing the start of the Cold War and the division of Germany. As a general in the logistical corps, he would go on to oversee the construction of missile bases and rocket test sites like Plokštinė, Kapustin Yar, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome. He would later record disillusionment with the Soviet regime throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and was one of the first Soviet officials to embrace the free market - leading to him becoming exceedingly wealthy in the real estate, construction, and oil businesses.
> an old friend in the government from the Revolution days Sorry, but no. Those had all been purged or rendered powerless in the 30's. There were no old revolutionaries in the government by the time the war began.
@@Silverwind87 it's true. As for me as a citizen of Russia I don't know how to live into the future. Have no f-ing idea... Have no appartunity to leave.
Can we simply point out that this still isn't dated, despite it being almost 10 years old already, as Putin still holds office in Russia? It's... impressive
@@MrSpacepaulsfun fact: the Soviet Union and Russia are separate. The final SSR to leave the Union was Kazakhstan, so Kazakhstan could actually be considered the successor to the USSR, not Russia.
I love how the artstyle is based on the ussr camera technology available at the time. For example it starts off with a grainy colourless video and ends with a colour tv.
@@odst_0054 Except it isn't in color until after the fall. Most video in the west was color by the 80's, but if you look up photos of Salyut 7 or Mir in its early days they are all in monochrome.
"What's the point of it all, when your building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears?" That is probably one of the most insightful statements I've ever heard.
+Octo Gone The economist Milton Friedman paid a visit to China during Deng's reforms. He was taken on a tour of the country, and one of the sights he was shown was a construction site where workers were digging a canal. He saw them down on the site, digging with shovels, and asked Deng "Why aren't you using any heavy earth-moving equipment, like backhoes or bulldozers?" Deng replied "This is a jobs program." Friedman scoffed, then said "So why don't you have them digging with spoons? You'll create even more jobs."
Ive listened to this for 5 years and have only realised the tetris relation is referring to how the leaders of Russia have all tried to create something that is impossible: They want even full lines, but whenever you get one in it disappears.
And at the end we see the blocks (buildings) stacked and arranged in an imperfect manner, implying that while the system is not perfect, it's better than it was before.
I find it disturbing how accurate the last verse is. We go from the height of Socialism... starving and unable to buy food, completely unmotivated to bother working, freezing in desolation...to Economic Prosperity with "foreign shops all over town"... and it's sang like a lamentation, as if bleak starvation was literally preferable to McDonalds. For shame, wearing Levis, when you could be heroically standing in a bread line. Leaping right into declarations of rejecting free enterprise, the Left rising again, instigating aggression against other nations, all perfectly mirrors how many young people today think Socialism, and it's ignorant notions and hollow rhetoric of "peace and love", is the answer. The blocks only begin to pile into a game over after they've decided to leap right back into their old Socialist ways, after we spent the entire song seeing how it tore them down, layer by layer. "Better than it was before" seems like exactly what they had after they sang about the markets going free... and they were still willing to throw the game despite that. And with western nations today wanting to combat inflation with Price Controls and Universal Basic Incomes, making Offensive Speech illegal, and treating people with any kind of Free-Market Capitalist Libertarian ideas as universally villains because they don't worship at the altar of "Peace and Love"... the whole world is creeping towards a Game Over screen. It's a grim warning. Some people would rather arrange the blocks and toil, forever and a day, before they would learn a lesson.
Lyrics To Moscow I came seeking fortune But they’re making me work til I’m dead The bourgeoisie have it so easy The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread The people of Moscow are hungry But think what a feast there could be If we could create a socialist state That cared for the people like me: I am the man who arranges the blocks That descend upon me from up above. They come down and I spin them around Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove. Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine And the lines will be formed as they fall - Then I see that I have misjudged it! I should not have nudged it after all. Can I have a long one please? Why must these infernal blocks tease? I am the man who arranges the blocks That continue to fall from up above. Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite! A collective regime of peace and love. I work so hard in arranging the blocks But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry But the workers will rise! We will not compromise For we know that the old regime must die. Long live Lenin, kill the tsar! We salute the sickle and star! I am the man who arranges the blocks That continue to fall from up above. The food on your plate now belongs to the state A collective regime of peace and love. I have no choice in arranging the blocks Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes. The rule of the game is we all are the same And my blocks must create unbroken rows. Long live Stalin! He loves you! Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do... I am the man who arranges the blocks That are made by the men in Kazakhstan. They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan. I am the man who arranges the tanks That will make all the Nazis keep away The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red! Let us point all our guns at the USA. We shall live forever more! We can start a nuclear war! I am the man who arranges the blocks That are building a highly secret base. Hip hip hurrah for the USSR! We are sending our men to outer space. I work so hard in arranging the blocks But each night I go home to my wife in tears - What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall And in front of your eyes it disappears? Pointless work for pointless pay This is one game I shall not play. I am the man who arranges the blocks! But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed. The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread Maybe we’d be better off If we brought down Gorbachev I am the man who arranges the blocks That continue to fall from up above. The markets are free! So much money for me! Tell me, why should I care for peace and love? The markets are free! So much money for me! Tell me, why should I care for peace and love? Peace and love, peace and love! And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown There’s foreign shops all over town When in Red Square, well don’t despair There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there The US gave us crystal meth And Yeltsin drank himself to death But now that Putin’s put the boot in, Who’ll get in our way? So we reject free enterprise And once again the left will rise. Prepare the flags to be unfurled For we’re seceding from the world: We shall regain the Georgian soil We shall obtain the Arctic oil We shall arrange the blocks and toil Forever and a day
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar In all affairs of state he was the man to please But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze For the queen he was no wheeler dealer Though she'd heard the things he'd done She believed he was a holy healer Who would heal her son Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on But when his drinking and lusting And his hunger for power Became known to more and more people The demands to do something About this outrageous man Became louder and louder Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey "This man's just got to go", declared his enemies But the ladies begged, "don't you try to do it, please" No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms Then one night some men of higher standing Set a trap, they're not to blame "Come to visit us", they kept demanding And he really came Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen They put some poison into his wine Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine He drank it all and said, "I feel fine" Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen They didn't quit, they wanted his head Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine And so they shot him 'til he was dead Oh, those Russians
Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics, Great Russia has welded forever to stand. Created in struggle by will of the people, United and mighty, our Soviet land! Sing to the Motherland, home of the free, Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong. O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people, To Communism's triumph lead us on! Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us, Along the new path where great Lenin did lead. To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples, Inspired them to labour and valourous deed. Sing to the Motherland, home of the free, Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong. O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people, To Communism's triumph lead us on! In the victory of Communism's immortal ideal, We see the future of our dear land. And to her fluttering scarlet banner, Selflessly true we always shall stand! Sing to the Motherland, home of the free, Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong. O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people, To Communism's triumph lead us on!
@@tw0tr1ckp0nyficated Yes, really, about Tetris. I read about it today in Entertainment Weekly when somebody told me, and they're pretty reliable about movie news!
Tetris is basically the distillation of communism. Your successes disappear immediately, but your failures pile up until you die. Fun fact: did you know that when they taught AI how to play tetris, it deduced that its only possible recourse is to lose? It went through every possible scenario until it realized that the only way this torture ends is by losing. It then decided to pile up the blocks to the top until the game ended. We build a thinking machine, teach it nothing but how to play tetris, and it'd rather die. And that's my argument against communism.
I just realized that that complete history of the soviet union video also describes a game of tetris as well as its on the surface story. The video starts off with the player being completely new to playing tetris, he's making mistakes and getting used to the gameplay, wondering why he cant "have a long one" to fit into that area. As Russia becomes communist, the player is getting more used to how to fit the blocks in perfectly, the game starts to get more intense as the pace increases, because the player is getting better overall and is able to fit the pieces in as he becomes more, like, autonomous with himself. As it get towards the 60s and 80s the player is getting more tired of it, it doesnt change much at all, and he doesnt feel theres a point to it. He has "plenty of gold" (high score), he decides to say "fuck it" and just goes apeshit (around 90s), as Russia gets more towards its greedy part the player is just laying down blocks haphazardly, leading to a game over.
3:58 "what's the point of it all when you're building a wall but in front of your eyes it disappears" this line has so much meaning not just for the soviet union but as a metaphor for life. I just basically got completely alienated from everyone I had ever loved and cared about apart from a couple family members, and that this was planned all along just to poke fun at me, and tonight I came back to this because I can now truly understand what is meant by this. You are building up, putting so much care into and just putting all of your time, energy, joy, personality into everything just for it to get torn down almost instantly.
It is not the goal of tetris to build the wall, but the achieve the progress of completing a line. And so too is life. We cant hold on to all of our accomplishments like a chain on us. Each success, each new year is a little victory. So to keep having the wall built up and brought down, thats an achievement.
Though in context if the USSR the fallen rolls are actually a reference to the completely pointless building jobs issued by the state as a means of keeping the population working for their salaries It was quite common for public works projects to be built just to be torn down later since work was required to maintain the system and a sea of the desiderata wasn’t required to artificially depress wages and automation wasn’t available to deal with every in order to institute UBI or abolish money in general You know communist that stateless, classless, moneyless society
So, the story is as follows: a young peasant comes to Moscow and becomes a worker to make some money; however, horrible work conditions make him a supporter of Lenin, so he welcomes the Revolution. Under the Soviet rule, he keeps his old job and works extremely hard; he has second thoughts about Stalin's methods, but he keeps his doubts to himself, joins the Party and (at some point before WWII) becomes a Red Army senior officer in the Tank Troops. After the war he continues to hold high authority positions with access to secret bases and the space program, but, by 1970s, his faith in the Party is completely lost. In the 80s, the coming crisis assures him that Gorbachev's Perestroika can't give the country the much--needed change, so he (apparently) decides to use his Old Bolshevik influence to help Yeltsin's career. In the 90s, despite being very old, he uses his government position to make huge money and become an oligarch. However, his... grandson, I suppose, rejects his legacy during Putin's rule and becomes a communist once again.
@@MadChristoph but still. Lenin didn't kill the Tsar (actually he was the Emperor, but in English, it's always Tsar, I don't know why). Maybe it wasn't even after his order. But... okay. I just don't like it when in good song or musical (Hamilton, I'm looking at you) the author is changing history. Especially Russian history. Because it's the history of my motherland... sorry again. I shouldn't tell all of this. But I wanted. So I did. Thank you for your attention.
Looking back on this as an adult and 13 years of video-making advancement later: this was an insane amount of work. Great job, and thank you for an earworm that persists well over a decade later.
The production values here are really amazing. I mean today they're quite impressive, but when you consider the fact that this video is almost exactly 10 years old, it's truly impressive. I'll bet you didn't even notice that the maximum quality is 480p until someone pointed it out. That's because of the excellent work done to ensure that the video quality wasn't an issue even at exceedingly low resolutions.
There was a lot of high quality stuff back then, just a lot of it has been deleted, a lot of stuff by talented people used to get "licenced" by scammers like atomfilms and machinima who strictly licenced it to their site and channel and would pay them or promise them more views
The lyric to this song: To Moscow I came seeking fortune But they’re making me work til I’m dead The bourgeoisie have it so easy The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread The people of Moscow are hungry But think what a feast there could be If we could create a socialist state That cared for the people like me: I am the man who arranges the blocks That descend upon me from up above. They come down and I spin them around Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove. Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine And the lines will be formed as they fall - Then I see that I have misjudged it! I should not have nudged it after all. Can I have a long one please? Why must these infernal blocks tease? I am the man who arranges the blocks That continue to fall from up above. Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite! A collective regime of peace and love. I work so hard in arranging the blocks But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry But the workers will rise! We will not compromise For we know that the old regime must die. Long live Lenin, kill the tsar! We salute the sickle and star! I am the man who arranges the blocks That continue to fall from up above. The food on your plate now belongs to the state A collective regime of peace and love. I have no choice in arranging the blocks Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes. The rule of the game is we all are the same And my blocks must create unbroken rows. Long live Stalin! He loves you! Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do... I am the man who arranges the blocks That are made by the men in Kazakhstan. They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan. I am the man who arranges the tanks That will make all the Nazis keep away The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red! Let us point all our guns at the USA. We shall live forever more! We can start a nuclear war! I am the man who arranges the blocks That are building a highly secret base. Hip hip hurrah for the USSR! We are sending our men to outer space. I work so hard in arranging the blocks But each night I go home to my wife in tears - What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall And in front of your eyes it disappears? Pointless work for pointless pay This is one game I shall not play. I am the man who arranges the blocks! But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed. The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread Maybe we’d be better off If we brought down Gorbachev I am the man who arranges the blocks That continue to fall from up above. The markets are free! So much money for me! Tell me, why should I care for peace and love? The markets are free! So much money for me! Tell me, why should I care for peace and love? Peace and love, peace and love! And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown There’s foreign shops all over town When in Red Square, well don’t despair There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there The US gave us crystal meth And Yeltsin drank himself to death But now that Putin’s put the boot in, Who’ll get in our way? So we reject free enterprise And once again the left will rise. Prepare the flags to be unfurled For we’re seceding from the world: We shall regain the Georgian soil We shall obtain the Arctic oil We shall arrange the blocks and toil Forever and a day.
"For we’re seceding from the world" It sounds to me like the first word is actually 'Cause, the shorted version of Because. The line is effectively the same either way but it's a point of accuracy.
@@oracle372 i thought he referred to the chechen and ingush deportations where Stalin deported our folk to siberia. Because gulags we're Made everywere Not just in siberia
Emperor of the cosmos I mean, that doesn’t really matter all that much considering the camera quality is matched to the camera quality in the time period the song is in. I can’t really imagine Soviet era cameras having that much of a quality increase with 1080p or 4K
Okay, but the shot of the Game Boy version's Buran launch, leading into the Vostok? I feel like more people should be talking about that, because it's magnificent.
It's odd to me to think that there are a few people left today who were alive during tsar Nicholas' reign, and were working age when Lenin rose to power. Like, there are some people who outlived the Soviet Union, just something odd to think about
@Samuel Pomfret actually if the Russia Book of Records is to be believed then a woman by the name of Nanu Shaova would have lived through the revolution, as she was reportedly 128 when she died.
@Samuel Pomfret oh lol I just looked back at this and I forgot to mention she had died about a month prior to my writing the comment. It was an arbitrary point on my part anyway though.
This is bloody incredible. The facial expressions of the singing worker compared to the stoicism of the other, uniform workers show the private face behind the public one, the anxiety and stress during the Stalinist years, while pretending to be part of the uniform majority. Great song and tune and focus matter. Bloody great.
working at a sex shop putting away the dildos like "I am the man who arranges the cocks" working for a watchmaker like "I am the man who arranges the clocks"
To everyone saying this song is prophetic, it's worth nothing that Putin's invasion streak began before this video was made. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, which may be what is being referenced by "we shall regain the Georgian soil" in the post-USSR part of the song.
He's been pulling that shit for years. It's a regular cycle of assaults and halts. I personally think that he's trying to resurrect the USSR, but I'm not sure that such a thing is possible in the modern day.
@@tinobemellow he’s definitely trying to rebuild the USSR; he is on record for calling the collapse of the USSR the worst tragedy of the 20th century (e.g. a worse tragedy than the Holocaust).
Assuming he is 20 years old at the overthrow of Nicholas II, he was born in 1897. Yeltsin died in 2007 and Putins first term ended in 2008. The ending must take place between 4/27/2007 and 5/7/2008. He is between 110 and 111 years old in the final segment.
From a socialist Revolutionary to a caucassian anti stalinist revisionist in siberia to a general in the red army to a KGB Agent to a GDR citizen to a gorbachev fan
0:00 Appalling working conditions and widespread poverty among the lower classes create unrest 1:57 Possibly the revolution of 1905 2:26 February Revolution of 1917; Tzar Nicholas II is overthrown 2:39 Collectivization and transfer of ownership of private property to the state 2:50 October Revolution of 1917; Bolsheviks in power 2:57 Stalin assumes power after exiling Trotsky; creates an authoritarian regime- the Siberia sign represents the gulag 3:16 Stalin's Five Year Plans entailed the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union 3:22 After Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, it becomes engulfed in the Second World War, a.k.a the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union. 3:24 The Soviets and other Allies win the war, and the Soviet Union's sphere of influence stretches across Eastern Europe. 3:27 The Cold War begins between the USSR and the USA. 3:35 The Soviet Union pursues a nuclear program and develops nuclear weapons. 3:49 The Soviet Union launches cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, becoming the first country in the world to send a human into space. 4:20 Rationing of necessities was commonplace in the Soviet Union. 4:51 The 1991 coup by the Communist Party attempts to seize power from Gorbachev but fails to do so. 4:56 The Soviet Union dissolves, and post-Soviet Russia begins to privatize many state-owned enterprises. Russian oligarchs seize the opportunity to create fortunes. 5:22 The news report covers the fall of the Berlin Wall, the appearance of foreign companies in Russia, and Putin's control of Russia. The history of the Soviet Union ends here.
the fact that this is both their oldest and their most popular video shows the true power of trends either that or they really underestimated this banger
I remember thinking this video was the coolest thing on TH-cam back when it first released while I was in middle school. I didn't understand any of the lyrics, just enjoyed watching the funny men singing along to Tetris songs. Now, revisiting it all these years later, it amazes me how much of the content is still relevant to this very day.
Well yeah it would still be relevant, Putin has been the leader of Russia for twenty four years. Not a lot has changed for russia except their borders.
I'm clearly late to the party on this one, but since Tetris itself is timeless, this video must be as well. I can't believe how much effort must have gone into this.
okay ... thought it was only going to show the comment I guess ... didn't realize it shared the whole video with comment ;-/ ... not really sure I like this new system - it's bringing in a lot of TH-cam trolls ... hadn't seen one these before now
+OneManArmy Of course! Don't you know that the Russians only speak Russian when there are Americans about? They speak British accented English otherwise
Actually, the reason why Russians speak English with a British accent is all of the films for their English language studies were made in the UK. No, really.
The song ends in the early 2010s, after the Russo-Georgian War (2008) and during disputes over Arctic territory. Putin is vowing to rebuild Russia's glory after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Russia is beginning to withdraw from the US and EU. 15 years later, Putin is still in power, Russia is more isolated than ever and is fighting a stalemating war with Ukraine. Soviet power was not restored, and Russia is making the same mistakes it has made since 1900.
@Baello999 no, russias and bricks are growing, even their economies are growing more than G7. Usa is gettimg isolated with biden and israel and middle east stuff.
it's strange, because are three obvious mistakes there: 1. USA and Britain declared the Cold War, not USSR. 2. Under Stalin, the people received high salaries, but was deficit products. 3. With Gorbachev was on the contrary, a lot of products but no money. This propaganda video. Your teacher is very biased.
@@frocco7125 I don't actually recall. I only remember walking by a local theater with a sign saying "USSR: The Musical" I assume it was for the nation, but it could of been an acronym for something else.
2:17 when the slide shows a ship firing a shell, it was the first shell being shot at the provisional government after the Tsar left, also the start of the Soviet era
That part at the end were the guy talks about Putin is using the song from after you get a game over in the leaderboards in tetris, I spent so long wondering how that part fit in with the tetris music. So there we go.
@@maximmamykin4018 And as such, I cannot understand how a shallow video made for funsies could help with a supposedly serious task like a history paper.
@@lagrangepoint9386 If the knowledge is correct then there's nothing to gripe about, knowledge is knowledge And they did say it HELPED them with their history paper, they didn't say it made their history paper
It's because this vid was published not long after the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Fast forward to 2014 and we have the annexing of Crimea and then the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Also funny because all the companies that opened up in Russia, that were shown in this video have all left the country again
My senior teacher keeps saying whenever someone misbehaves he yells “YOU HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA AND HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH” all I can think about is this song
I like your teacher, although I think he wouldn't be very interested on my response. D'Églantine taught me that one move where you denounce every rival of your first, so it's a matter for the Comitee.
As a music nerd, I think it's really cool how the tempo increases ever so subtly every phrase by about 3-4 bpm. It makes it feel like a gradual tempo change instead of an abrupt one
Just like tetris speeds up every couple of levels! That's a cool little extraordinarily depressing detail! (russians will suffer a horrible collapse, followed by a rise, followed by a horrible collapse, followed by a rise, etc.) The Russian cycle will forever continue!
"why must these infernal blocks tease" This is absolute genius why must "Z" s infern "L" "blocks" "T"s (all the block types except the long one he wants)
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The tetris lore was deeper than I remembered it
Same
what's the point of it all when you're building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears?
@@emberhermin52 idk
@@emberhermin52 sir this is a Wendy's and you're making me rethink my political views.
This is only the beginning
Man I got to say that Tetris has some of the most interesting lore out of all games
Still a Better Love Story than Twilight
10/10 ING
And yet, Tetris is such a simple game.
Game Boy Tetris is set in the Russian Revolution in a factory along with Tetris 3D, colored Tetris set in modern day as building a house, real old black and white Tetris set in Yeltsin era.
The song of tetris is a russian folksong. Rather fitting.
I can't come up with a good username The theme song of Tetris both of them actually are soviet songs
This was so good that I did not even realize I was watching a 10 year old video with a max resolution of 480p.
It even feels correct because of the video effects making it seem old fashioned.
-Dan
@@mikewong2440 who is dan
@@emperorofthecosmos4640 I think it him I don’t know
I think the old style is what makes it bearable
Vídeos from 10 years ago are not bad as many people think.
I love how it starts off as a funny and relatable parody and slowly gets more and more psychopathic and terrifying.
Yeah that's the point
Just like the USSR!
If you know history of Tsarist Russia, the beginning is actually fairly accurate
"we shall regain the georgian soil"
this is so eerie, and we know it was "georgian" mainly because it flows better in the song, it could very well have been "ukrainian"
@@malcolmreynolds4099 No, it's Georgian because there was a Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008
i love the way there was a grand total of 2 actors
And only one of them did most of the acting.
I'm pretty sure its 3. there is the workers (the union)/people in line for a loaf of bread, the main actor, and the grandson (I think) at the end
@@therubbercop4590 I'm like 90% sure the TV fella at the end is the same guy who performs the workers and bread line folks.
firedude978 idk the ppl in line look different from the TV guy. But I could be the same, man we need a face recognition machine lol
The credits at the end state that this was performed by 4 people
I love how his facial expressions fluctuate back and forth between being a humble, friendly worker.... and a complete psychopath.
not even necessarily "psychopath" ... at times its more like "a poor, broken man"
Whote Shadow You are in false
You noticed that too?!
It’s the average moods of a true soviet
didnt notice that
The fact that the camera quality changes throughout it was a great detail.
Oh nice! I noticed but never really noticed. 😄
Plus his overall look as well. At the start he has basic overalls and a shaved head, by the end, in the 90s fasion, he's got a leather jacket and a mollet.
Whoa I just noticed when i read this comment 😂
I completely missed that lol
Also his eyes become increasingly insane!
This is the story of a bricklayer who became a labor leader during the Revolution, became a Party apparatchik during the Civil War and its aftermath, overseeing construction and industry. He rose to prominence as a Party man experienced in logistics and construction, and as a result oversaw a large part of Stalin's First Five Year Plan. Poor supplies from Kazakh factories resulted in poor-quality buildings that were notoriously unstable, which almost led to this bricklayer's death in the Stalinist purges later in the decade. When WWII broke out, he was soon to be on Beria's list, but an old friend in the government from the Revolution days bailed him out and got him a position in the Army as a logistics officer. When the disaster of Barbarossa and its aftermath gutted the Red Army, the bricklayer saw himself catapulted to higher and higher offices - where he excelled as a logistical wizard. He would rise to the rank of Major General, and participated in the famous battle of Kursk. He took command of a tank detachment during the clash at Prokhorovka and helped blunt the German advance, later earning him a medal as a Hero of the Soviet Union. He would remain in the Soviet Army in the aftermath, seeing the start of the Cold War and the division of Germany. As a general in the logistical corps, he would go on to oversee the construction of missile bases and rocket test sites like Plokštinė, Kapustin Yar, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome. He would later record disillusionment with the Soviet regime throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and was one of the first Soviet officials to embrace the free market - leading to him becoming exceedingly wealthy in the real estate, construction, and oil businesses.
Nice high quality shit post.
Good shitposting
Epic shitpost. You had me going until 1950, where I started going, "Wait, how old is this guy?"
> an old friend in the government from the Revolution days
Sorry, but no. Those had all been purged or rendered powerless in the 30's. There were no old revolutionaries in the government by the time the war began.
As far as age goes, he could've fit in well if he was born in exactly 1900. Having just started as bricklayer, for at least a job as a young adult?
me: *Buys a snack*
the entire class: *THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE NOW BELONGS TO THE STATE*
Python ology its quite annoying
One time I gave a friend the small bag of chips and it ended up being the most packed
edit: jesus this comment jumped
Me: Opens Pack of Gum at School
Every Person At School: THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE NOW BELONGS TO THE STATE
Plate?
stupid
"When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there"
Who would've thought that was gonna be the first line to become outdated?
Capitalism is so strong it won't even take that long for them to open again, just you wait
Damn...
It ain't out of love for ukraine. It's because they can say "look, we did good" while also not risking assets stored in a currency under sanction.
@@marcush4741 Agreed. And it's not like it's gonna hurt Putin. This is just gonna affect the citizens of Russia, not the government.
@@Silverwind87 it's true. As for me as a citizen of Russia I don't know how to live into the future. Have no f-ing idea... Have no appartunity to leave.
This has lived rent-free in my brain for over a decade.
13 years and still going strong.
Same, I come back and watch a couple times a year.
the tetris movie reminded me of this, actually a timeless classic of TH-cam
When you work at a store:
"I am the man who arranges the crocs"
I love you
@n8yboi well then, I'll delete my comment for ruining a comment
@@thegiantchocolatedinosaur3019 wait what did you say
@@TM-qk2yy I said another lyric. It was:
"That come upon me from in the back."
@@thegiantchocolatedinosaur3019 oh, that's not terrible.
Did anyone else come here expecting a shitpost but was surprised by how good this sounds? Like the tetris theme fits PERFECTLY.
It was a dance song long before it was a video game track.
A shitpost from 9 years ago would be as good as this tho.
Hey who wants to start a cactus cult in 2057 near Lake Mead?
@@StabbySabby Me
I mean the tetris theme is based off a russian folk song to begin with...
Can we simply point out that this still isn't dated, despite it being almost 10 years old already, as Putin still holds office in Russia? It's... impressive
The last part was actually added a few years ago
@@franchufranchu119 What? No, why would it be added? Putin first became president of the russian federation in 2000.
@Liam Connor so this video will still be relevant
last part is better as "We shall regain Ukrainian soil" nowdays. But the spirit is still intact.
@@franchufranchu119 look at the quality of the video
Fun fact: the Tetris theme is actually a Russian folk song called Korobeiniki.
Fun Fact: the entire game was created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer.
@@MrSpacepauls Fun Fact: the game was created in Moscow which is now in present day Russia.
@@Alucard-lz2hb fun fact: Russia was once the Soviet Union.
@@MrSpacepaulsFun fact: Russia is split between European Russia and Asian Russia, this is why Russians look asian.
@@MrSpacepaulsfun fact: the Soviet Union and Russia are separate. The final SSR to leave the Union was Kazakhstan, so Kazakhstan could actually be considered the successor to the USSR, not Russia.
Woah woah woah woah wait.
This came out *_-NINE-_**_ TEN YEARS AGO???_*
Now its 10 years... Time sure flies.
@@slippynapkins4153 yea
An artifact of a simpler time.
Oh shit
Holy crap
I love how the artstyle is based on the ussr camera technology available at the time. For example it starts off with a grainy colourless video and ends with a colour tv.
Ooorrrrrr any nation's tech from the 30's to 2000's...?
@@odst_0054 Except it isn't in color until after the fall. Most video in the west was color by the 80's, but if you look up photos of Salyut 7 or Mir in its early days they are all in monochrome.
Coulor begins with Europe is red
*we
Though this is going far and beyond on effects already, I wish they would have made the camera more and more red until the colored part
"What's the point of it all, when your building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears?" That is probably one of the most insightful statements I've ever heard.
+Octo Gone It fits both the subject material and Tetris, which I found clever.
One Nerd95 Indubitably.
Damn, now I'm thinking about all those hours wasted playing Tetris.
+Octo Gone The economist Milton Friedman paid a visit to China during Deng's reforms. He was taken on a tour of the country, and one of the sights he was shown was a construction site where workers were digging a canal. He saw them down on the site, digging with shovels, and asked Deng "Why aren't you using any heavy earth-moving equipment, like backhoes or bulldozers?" Deng replied "This is a jobs program." Friedman scoffed, then said "So why don't you have them digging with spoons? You'll create even more jobs."
+Phil H When was this?
Ive listened to this for 5 years and have only realised the tetris relation is referring to how the leaders of Russia have all tried to create something that is impossible: They want even full lines, but whenever you get one in it disappears.
In general, the idea of tetris is that successes disappear while failures sum up.
@@mvorotiloff That's.... melancholically profound...
wait what?
And at the end we see the blocks (buildings) stacked and arranged in an imperfect manner, implying that while the system is not perfect, it's better than it was before.
I find it disturbing how accurate the last verse is. We go from the height of Socialism... starving and unable to buy food, completely unmotivated to bother working, freezing in desolation...to Economic Prosperity with "foreign shops all over town"... and it's sang like a lamentation, as if bleak starvation was literally preferable to McDonalds. For shame, wearing Levis, when you could be heroically standing in a bread line.
Leaping right into declarations of rejecting free enterprise, the Left rising again, instigating aggression against other nations, all perfectly mirrors how many young people today think Socialism, and it's ignorant notions and hollow rhetoric of "peace and love", is the answer. The blocks only begin to pile into a game over after they've decided to leap right back into their old Socialist ways, after we spent the entire song seeing how it tore them down, layer by layer.
"Better than it was before" seems like exactly what they had after they sang about the markets going free... and they were still willing to throw the game despite that. And with western nations today wanting to combat inflation with Price Controls and Universal Basic Incomes, making Offensive Speech illegal, and treating people with any kind of Free-Market Capitalist Libertarian ideas as universally villains because they don't worship at the altar of "Peace and Love"... the whole world is creeping towards a Game Over screen.
It's a grim warning.
Some people would rather arrange the blocks and toil, forever and a day, before they would learn a lesson.
Playing Tetris99, still hearing these lyrics, even after years.
I thought I was the only one, holy shit.
i cant help but sing it... can i have a long one please.....
I can probably sing this word word.
same
lel
wow, that worker had such a long lifespan
Ikr
Zyphon chill out with the comments you are reaching critical levels
dude lives to be over 100 at the end
also your more common to find than justin y, or owo
And he still looks young
That’s the beauty of communism comrade
When he said “I am the man who arranges the blocks” I really felt that
Takai05 I wonder what he arranges....
same
I two am confused on what he does
Takai05 i wanna like this but it’s at 469 likes and I can break it
*cant
The way the last verse has remained relevant for the past 13 years 💀💀💀
I randomly remembered this video after watching it back in like 2012 and was just thinking...wait, Putin is STILL president??
Even the Georgian part is still accurate I'd say, with Abkhazia and Ossetia
He is, he recently won his 5th election@@lifecuntingent
@@r.ndompersonall that except the "once again the left will rise"
The first verse too
"I promise I won't get political."
Not even three drinks later:
LMAO
LMFAO
i am 11 so it had to cost me some time to get it but lmoa
update: 12
update: 13
update: 14 (midway)
1 shot of strong vodka poured by a Russian immigrant
me when i'm sober:
Lyrics
To Moscow I came seeking fortune
But they’re making me work til I’m dead
The bourgeoisie have it so easy
The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread
The people of Moscow are hungry
But think what a feast there could be
If we could create a socialist state
That cared for the people like me:
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above.
They come down and I spin them around
Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove.
Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine
And the lines will be formed as they fall -
Then I see that I have misjudged it!
I should not have nudged it after all.
Can I have a long one please?
Why must these infernal blocks tease?
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite!
A collective regime of peace and love.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry
But the workers will rise! We will not compromise
For we know that the old regime must die.
Long live Lenin, kill the tsar!
We salute the sickle and star!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The food on your plate now belongs to the state
A collective regime of peace and love.
I have no choice in arranging the blocks
Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes.
The rule of the game is we all are the same
And my blocks must create unbroken rows.
Long live Stalin! He loves you!
Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do...
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are made by the men in Kazakhstan.
They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate
But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan.
I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA.
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are building a highly secret base.
Hip hip hurrah for the USSR!
We are sending our men to outer space.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But each night I go home to my wife in tears -
What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall
And in front of your eyes it disappears?
Pointless work for pointless pay
This is one game I shall not play.
I am the man who arranges the blocks!
But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed.
The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold
And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread
Maybe we’d be better off
If we brought down Gorbachev
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
Peace and love, peace and love!
And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in,
Who’ll get in our way?
So we reject free enterprise
And once again the left will rise.
Prepare the flags to be unfurled
For we’re seceding from the world:
We shall regain the Georgian soil
We shall obtain the Arctic oil
We shall arrange the blocks and toil
Forever and a day
thanks zerotwo.
game over
You took more dedication than the interim Soviet Government
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
But when his drinking and lusting
And his hunger for power
Became known to more and more people
The demands to do something
About this outrageous man
Became louder and louder
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
"This man's just got to go", declared his enemies
But the ladies begged, "don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us", they kept demanding
And he really came
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and said, "I feel fine"
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
They didn't quit, they wanted his head
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him 'til he was dead
Oh, those Russians
Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us,
Along the new path where great Lenin did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples,
Inspired them to labour and valourous deed.
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
In the victory of Communism's immortal ideal,
We see the future of our dear land.
And to her fluttering scarlet banner,
Selflessly true we always shall stand!
Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
developers when explaining the lore "there's no lore, just a fun game"
theorists when explaining the lore
USSR lore
Late reply, but they're literally making a movie about it now. Yes, I'm serious.
@@cristyablad huh? about tetris?
@@tw0tr1ckp0nyficated Yes, really, about Tetris. I read about it today in Entertainment Weekly when somebody told me, and they're pretty reliable about movie news!
Tetris is basically the distillation of communism.
Your successes disappear immediately, but your failures pile up until you die.
Fun fact: did you know that when they taught AI how to play tetris, it deduced that its only possible recourse is to lose?
It went through every possible scenario until it realized that the only way this torture ends is by losing. It then decided to pile up the blocks to the top until the game ended.
We build a thinking machine, teach it nothing but how to play tetris, and it'd rather die.
And that's my argument against communism.
"Pointless work for pointless pay" really feeling that
Capitalism moment
@@thraexgladiator *communism
@@thraexgladiator well that doesn't capitalism it applies to every system
@@helloinsertnamehere2 Moneyless systems tho?
@@thraexgladiator expect for a system to work it need some for compression to work
I just realized that that complete history of the soviet union video also describes a game of tetris as well as its on the surface story.
The video starts off with the player being completely new to playing tetris, he's making mistakes and getting used to the gameplay, wondering why he cant "have a long one" to fit into that area. As Russia becomes communist, the player is getting more used to how to fit the blocks in perfectly, the game starts to get more intense as the pace increases, because the player is getting better overall and is able to fit the pieces in as he becomes more, like, autonomous with himself. As it get towards the 60s and 80s the player is getting more tired of it, it doesnt change much at all, and he doesnt feel theres a point to it. He has "plenty of gold" (high score), he decides to say "fuck it" and just goes apeshit (around 90s), as Russia gets more towards its greedy part the player is just laying down blocks haphazardly, leading to a game over.
Analytical
Ewan Edwards then he plays again. Like a fool in an eternal loop
One hundredth like
@@jime9017 sounds politically correct democratic and in tolerance way
oh shit that's deep
I don't know if you guys heard, but he's the man who arranges the blocks.
Ya don’t say
no kidding!
Nice Easter Egg.
but where do the blocks come from?
dontlikemath -.- I would have to guess they are from the men in Kazakhstan
GF: "what's your fav music genre?"
Me: "History"
*power metal intensifies*
sabaton : *bruh*
So sabaton basically?
Me: tetris
sabaton
3:58 "what's the point of it all when you're building a wall but in front of your eyes it disappears" this line has so much meaning not just for the soviet union but as a metaphor for life. I just basically got completely alienated from everyone I had ever loved and cared about apart from a couple family members, and that this was planned all along just to poke fun at me, and tonight I came back to this because I can now truly understand what is meant by this. You are building up, putting so much care into and just putting all of your time, energy, joy, personality into everything just for it to get torn down almost instantly.
Hope you’re doing better bro
We all got separated and isolated, for the last 3 years
It is not the goal of tetris to build the wall, but the achieve the progress of completing a line. And so too is life. We cant hold on to all of our accomplishments like a chain on us. Each success, each new year is a little victory. So to keep having the wall built up and brought down, thats an achievement.
Though in context if the USSR the fallen rolls are actually a reference to the completely pointless building jobs issued by the state as a means of keeping the population working for their salaries
It was quite common for public works projects to be built just to be torn down later since work was required to maintain the system and a sea of the desiderata wasn’t required to artificially depress wages and automation wasn’t available to deal with every in order to institute UBI or abolish money in general
You know communist that stateless, classless, moneyless society
I think it might also be referencing the Berlin Wall.
So, the story is as follows: a young peasant comes to Moscow and becomes a worker to make some money; however, horrible work conditions make him a supporter of Lenin, so he welcomes the Revolution. Under the Soviet rule, he keeps his old job and works extremely hard; he has second thoughts about Stalin's methods, but he keeps his doubts to himself, joins the Party and (at some point before WWII) becomes a Red Army senior officer in the Tank Troops. After the war he continues to hold high authority positions with access to secret bases and the space program, but, by 1970s, his faith in the Party is completely lost. In the 80s, the coming crisis assures him that Gorbachev's Perestroika can't give the country the much--needed change, so he (apparently) decides to use his Old Bolshevik influence to help Yeltsin's career. In the 90s, despite being very old, he uses his government position to make huge money and become an oligarch. However, his... grandson, I suppose, rejects his legacy during Putin's rule and becomes a communist once again.
His son is a fake comunis and an oligarch, and his grandson is a Tovarisch
Damn. Fair point.
Perfect
Wealth [and apparently life lessons] never survive three generations.
-Ancient Chinese proverb
@@auraguard0212 Fuck off
-Just coined it
The guy who was playing the accordion needs a raise. Absolutely perfect.
BleedOutBlender -
No everybody should get the some amount of money
Accordion or Balalaika?
yknow what can give him that raise? marxism
@@skywantsanacc we don't raise income. We give the missing income, which they deserve!
Give him a raise because that's good capitalism
My history teacher actually showed us this while we were learning about the Russian Revolution, it was great
@Hi last name she was a great teacher
That’s actually weird. Because there are some mistakes in this video. I hope that your teacher explained it to you.
@@armenianrussian everyone is always trying to change history and we get no detailer answers
@@MadChristoph but still. Lenin didn't kill the Tsar (actually he was the Emperor, but in English, it's always Tsar, I don't know why). Maybe it wasn't even after his order. But... okay. I just don't like it when in good song or musical (Hamilton, I'm looking at you) the author is changing history. Especially Russian history. Because it's the history of my motherland... sorry again. I shouldn't tell all of this. But I wanted. So I did. Thank you for your attention.
@@armenianrussian look I clearly don't remember what I learned in History class, this was before quarantine, but I'll take your word for it
Looking back on this as an adult and 13 years of video-making advancement later: this was an insane amount of work. Great job, and thank you for an earworm that persists well over a decade later.
The production values here are really amazing. I mean today they're quite impressive, but when you consider the fact that this video is almost exactly 10 years old, it's truly impressive. I'll bet you didn't even notice that the maximum quality is 480p until someone pointed it out. That's because of the excellent work done to ensure that the video quality wasn't an issue even at exceedingly low resolutions.
I uhh, did not.
oh my god its true
What editing software did they have then ? That too with a small budget
>The production values here are really amazing
We've taken the means of production!
Holy shit its only 480p??? I never noticed before, its very impressive
6 year old me at the park: I am the man who arranges the rocks
Considering I have to do gardening, at 18 years of age- I am the man who arranges the rocks.
One time my classmate was stacking rocks in science, at 13 years of age- he is the man who arranges the rocks
Woke up this morning, read the news, and have had this song caught in my head ever since. Time to add another verse, I guess.
PUTINS PUT THE BOOT IN/
BUT HE WENT INSANE/
Same here
Same here as well
It surprisingly aged extremely well, especially from around 3 minutes on.
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
No Levi’s and McDonald’s there
This was so ahead of its time in terms of production quality and lyrical writing!
Damn right
There was a lot of high quality stuff back then, just a lot of it has been deleted, a lot of stuff by talented people used to get "licenced" by scammers like atomfilms and machinima who strictly licenced it to their site and channel and would pay them or promise them more views
So true
The lyric to this song:
To Moscow I came seeking fortune
But they’re making me work til I’m dead
The bourgeoisie have it so easy
The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread
The people of Moscow are hungry
But think what a feast there could be
If we could create a socialist state
That cared for the people like me:
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above.
They come down and I spin them around
Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove.
Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine
And the lines will be formed as they fall -
Then I see that I have misjudged it!
I should not have nudged it after all.
Can I have a long one please?
Why must these infernal blocks tease?
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite!
A collective regime of peace and love.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry
But the workers will rise! We will not compromise
For we know that the old regime must die.
Long live Lenin, kill the tsar!
We salute the sickle and star!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The food on your plate now belongs to the state
A collective regime of peace and love.
I have no choice in arranging the blocks
Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes.
The rule of the game is we all are the same
And my blocks must create unbroken rows.
Long live Stalin! He loves you!
Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do...
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are made by the men in Kazakhstan.
They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate
But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan.
I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA.
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are building a highly secret base.
Hip hip hurrah for the USSR!
We are sending our men to outer space.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But each night I go home to my wife in tears -
What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall
And in front of your eyes it disappears?
Pointless work for pointless pay
This is one game I shall not play.
I am the man who arranges the blocks!
But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed.
The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold
And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread
Maybe we’d be better off
If we brought down Gorbachev
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
Peace and love, peace and love!
And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in,
Who’ll get in our way?
So we reject free enterprise
And once again the left will rise.
Prepare the flags to be unfurled
For we’re seceding from the world:
We shall regain the Georgian soil
We shall obtain the Arctic oil
We shall arrange the blocks and toil
Forever and a day.
This is amazing thank for lyrics
"The US gave us crystal meth" makes a lot more sense than "The US-Gay was crystal meth", thanks for clearing that up
@@0rdnajela664 your welcome
"Sickle and star" makes more sense than "sickle and saw".
"For we’re seceding from the world" It sounds to me like the first word is actually 'Cause, the shorted version of Because. The line is effectively the same either way but it's a point of accuracy.
Me: “Don’t worry, I won’t get all political.”
*three drinks later*
“THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE IS NOW OWNED BY THE STATE!”
I am the Senate-er, Dictator.
you mean *our* plate
@Elijah Let me guess: Vodka!!!
im the 666th reply lmao.
"Prepare the flags to be unfurled 'cause we're seceding from the world..." Aged a bit too well.
“game over”
@@ouchiegiverjr nuclear war is about to start :/
@@wow-roblox8370 - Good Rusland.
@@wow-roblox8370 probably not with M.A.D and all
@@wow-roblox8370 Pray that MAD saves us all.
0:00 1914
0:52 1917-1922
2:25 1922-1924
2:55 1944
3:20 1945
3:26 1945-1948
3:29 1949
3:43 1953
3:51 1961-1984
He said at 2:00 that the landlord bled him dry so it’s clearly still before 1917. I think it starts in 1905 or so, not 1914
2:18 is probably 1917
2:55 was before 1940, more around 1936
4:55 1986-1991 5:18 1992-2000
@@oracle372 i thought he referred to the chechen and ingush deportations where Stalin deported our folk to siberia. Because gulags we're Made everywere Not just in siberia
Wall Street be like
“I am the man who arranges the stocks”
you mean *stonks*
@@AutumnOfSummer
Sir, Reddit is the next website over.
@@intergalactichumanempire9759 LMAO
Stonks meme:"I Am te men fho argandes te stonks"
@@AutumnOfSummer
R/MurderedByWords
I just realized this is almost 10 years old. Dang the quality looked like it was made in 2016
Supreme commander Drak wait until you realize the video is only at 480p
@@emperorofthecosmos4640 man he used those pixels well
2020*
Emperor of the cosmos I mean, that doesn’t really matter all that much considering the camera quality is matched to the camera quality in the time period the song is in. I can’t really imagine Soviet era cameras having that much of a quality increase with 1080p or 4K
I like the detail that the guy gets better at English during the video. Possibly showing the switch to globalization.
wait for real?
@@dcritelli11 I certainly noticed it. From "hand in glove" in the beginning to well, the English-spoken guy at the end
@@Wextraa a but late but also "sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine"
I just noticed that
Ok
Okay, but the shot of the Game Boy version's Buran launch, leading into the Vostok? I feel like more people should be talking about that, because it's magnificent.
это они решили убить 2-ух зайцев 1 выстрелом
Should have been "I am the man who arranges the stocks" 4:55
ha
Nice
He wants it related to tetris
Anthony Lee at 3:15 he says "I am the man who arranges the tanks"
Briefly misread your comment as "I am the man who arranges the Scots". Had a chuckle at that.
complete history of fascist italy to the theme song of mario bros pls
Funniculí Funniculá would be such a fun one for Italy
Do you mean the original arcade (whose theme is "a little night music" by Mozart) or _Super_ Mario Bros on Famicom and Famicom Disk System?
Moist Snail I chocked because of this comment
PLS PLS PLS
YES
It's odd to me to think that there are a few people left today who were alive during tsar Nicholas' reign, and were working age when Lenin rose to power. Like, there are some people who outlived the Soviet Union, just something odd to think about
@Samuel Pomfret actually if the Russia Book of Records is to be believed then a woman by the name of Nanu Shaova would have lived through the revolution, as she was reportedly 128 when she died.
@Samuel Pomfret oh lol I just looked back at this and I forgot to mention she had died about a month prior to my writing the comment. It was an arbitrary point on my part anyway though.
@Jeffrey Herrera nice
BBC actually interviewed a ridiculously old man who lived in all three eras. He said he preferred the Soviet Union.
Reminds me of the fact that theoretically,someone could've been born in St.Petersburg,raised in Petrograd,served in Leningrad & died in St.Petersburg.
"What's the point of it all when your building a wall and in front of your eyes it dis-a-pears" that hit different
This is bloody incredible. The facial expressions of the singing worker compared to the stoicism of the other, uniform workers show the private face behind the public one, the anxiety and stress during the Stalinist years, while pretending to be part of the uniform majority. Great song and tune and focus matter. Bloody great.
Funny how all the workers besides Dan is a bunch of Donalds
@@supaplayer what do you mean
Jaden Pelate The workers are all the same exact guy
@@supaplayer I just never heard the expression " a bunch of Donald's".
It’s because the actor’s name is Donald Newholm
When you work at a clothing store
“I am the man who arranges the socks.”
Why is this not at the top
@@soupgirl1864 capitalism, comrade
The goose in front of the other geese
"I am the man who arranges the flocks"
ayyy
working at a sex shop putting away the dildos like
"I am the man who arranges the cocks"
working for a watchmaker like
"I am the man who arranges the clocks"
To everyone saying this song is prophetic, it's worth nothing that Putin's invasion streak began before this video was made. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, which may be what is being referenced by "we shall regain the Georgian soil" in the post-USSR part of the song.
It's not so much prophetic as it's known that Putin has always wanted to regain all the soil that was lost when the USSR fell.
Right, this was all laid out in Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics
He's been pulling that shit for years. It's a regular cycle of assaults and halts. I personally think that he's trying to resurrect the USSR, but I'm not sure that such a thing is possible in the modern day.
Not to mention Ichkeria
@@tinobemellow he’s definitely trying to rebuild the USSR; he is on record for calling the collapse of the USSR the worst tragedy of the 20th century (e.g. a worse tragedy than the Holocaust).
one of the best pieces of music created by humanity. i find myself 13 years after it's creation still coming back to listen joyfully
Assuming he is 20 years old at the overthrow of Nicholas II, he was born in 1897. Yeltsin died in 2007 and Putins first term ended in 2008. The ending must take place between 4/27/2007 and 5/7/2008. He is between 110 and 111 years old in the final segment.
Putin couped Yeltsin NYE '99 though..
@@FirstLast-di5sr no he didn't Putin got elected to power, and Yeltsin died from drinking too much.
what kind of alternatives history is this?
@@FirstLast-di5sr the presidency of russia
@@FirstLast-di5sr doesn’t effect anything because yeltsin is already dead at the end
It actually must end at the earliest 7th of August 2008 because it mentions the invasion of Georgia.
I like how he goes from a socialist revolutionary, to a high ranking official, to an anticommunist, to a communist again
I think the communist in the post-USSR part is supposed to be someone else
@@kaydenhubert4085 I think the post part is his son or grandson
We meet once more.
@@petergriffinfunnies it seems we do Mr. Funnies
From a socialist Revolutionary to a caucassian anti stalinist revisionist in siberia to a general in the red army to a KGB Agent to a GDR citizen to a gorbachev fan
3:24 why does these moments keep playing in my head.
Not only you
I love the energy in "Europe is RED"
Because the Führer is indeed dead.
Berlin wall: exists
An "I" piece: i'm about to end this man's whole career.
What's the point of it all when you're building a wall, and in front of your eyes, it disappears?
@@spongeintheshoe to build another one
-man- wall
@@spongeintheshoe Pointless work for pointless pay
0:00 Appalling working conditions and widespread poverty among the lower classes create unrest
1:57 Possibly the revolution of 1905
2:26 February Revolution of 1917; Tzar Nicholas II is overthrown
2:39 Collectivization and transfer of ownership of private property to the state
2:50 October Revolution of 1917; Bolsheviks in power
2:57 Stalin assumes power after exiling Trotsky; creates an authoritarian regime- the Siberia sign represents the gulag
3:16 Stalin's Five Year Plans entailed the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
3:22 After Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, it becomes engulfed in the Second World War, a.k.a the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union.
3:24 The Soviets and other Allies win the war, and the Soviet Union's sphere of influence stretches across Eastern Europe.
3:27 The Cold War begins between the USSR and the USA.
3:35 The Soviet Union pursues a nuclear program and develops nuclear weapons.
3:49 The Soviet Union launches cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, becoming the first country in the world to send a human into space.
4:20 Rationing of necessities was commonplace in the Soviet Union.
4:51 The 1991 coup by the Communist Party attempts to seize power from Gorbachev but fails to do so.
4:56 The Soviet Union dissolves, and post-Soviet Russia begins to privatize many state-owned enterprises. Russian oligarchs seize the opportunity to create fortunes.
5:22 The news report covers the fall of the Berlin Wall, the appearance of foreign companies in Russia, and Putin's control of Russia. The history of the Soviet Union ends here.
“Tzar!” Its spelled Tsar.
thanks 4 the work~~~
@@backtothefutureman1 it's spelled in a bunch of different ways. Both tzar/tsar are ok. So is czar.
Underrated comment. Thanks for explaining this!
this man knows his goddamn history
He's slowly going insane over the course of the song.
Isn't the point of the song?
No shit, Sherlock.
Dave Hoffman we’re*
Yep
@bogdanserban3792 fun fact genius, lots of people don't notice this.
the fact that this is both their oldest and their most popular video shows the true power of trends
either that or they really underestimated this banger
I remember thinking this video was the coolest thing on TH-cam back when it first released while I was in middle school. I didn't understand any of the lyrics, just enjoyed watching the funny men singing along to Tetris songs. Now, revisiting it all these years later, it amazes me how much of the content is still relevant to this very day.
insanely relevant
It will always be relevant because it's stuff that already happened....
I betcha you still think this is the coolest video on youtube
Well yeah it would still be relevant, Putin has been the leader of Russia for twenty four years. Not a lot has changed for russia except their borders.
I'm clearly late to the party on this one, but since Tetris itself is timeless, this video must be as well. I can't believe how much effort must have gone into this.
so comments on TH-cam videos comes up as posting the video? really? ;-(
Xeno Phrenia - I left the box checked to share my comment on G+. This is exactly what I intended to happen.
okay ... thought it was only going to show the comment I guess ... didn't realize it shared the whole video with comment ;-/ ... not really sure I like this new system - it's bringing in a lot of TH-cam trolls ... hadn't seen one these before now
late to the party... I see what you did there.
Andrew Oplinger
Was it punny because of "Tetris Party" or "Communist Party"? Or both? haha
*_The blocks were paid actors_*
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@@conflictbrooks ik right
Stars of the vid
From Kazakhstan
Yeah. No shit. Who didnt know that? XD
"I promise I won't get political."
Not even one drinks later (it was water):
Im sure i heard a vodka here
So when the Soviet Union collapsed everyone got British accents?
+OneManArmy Of course! Don't you know that the Russians only speak Russian when there are Americans about? They speak British accented English otherwise
Don't you know that everyone including Romans speak with English accents?
+OneManArmy The Newscaster accent, considerably the most neutral and articulate of English accents.
yes
Actually, the reason why Russians speak English with a British accent is all of the films for their English language studies were made in the UK. No, really.
When you work in a gun store: I am the man who arranges the glocks
*THIS IS AMERICA*
We are*
@Muffinconsumer4 That is not even funny
@Muffinconsumer4 I am not your child
@Muffinconsumer4 or i will put out the silencer
4:20
*mood*
omg hi you were my childhood
But the worker will rise
@@baldmanforehead7204 we will not compromise
Funny number
but ew furry
cloudii cocoas art has only been around for 3 years Lol
This aged like milk and fine wine at the same time.
What do you mean?
The song ends in the early 2010s, after the Russo-Georgian War (2008) and during disputes over Arctic territory. Putin is vowing to rebuild Russia's glory after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Russia is beginning to withdraw from the US and EU. 15 years later, Putin is still in power, Russia is more isolated than ever and is fighting a stalemating war with Ukraine. Soviet power was not restored, and Russia is making the same mistakes it has made since 1900.
@Baello999 no, russias and bricks are growing, even their economies are growing more than G7. Usa is gettimg isolated with biden and israel and middle east stuff.
...Cheese. You are referring to cheese.
TH-cam commenters when something happens:
1910s - 0:00
1920s - 0:52
1930s - 2:27
1940s - 3:16
1950s - 3:30
1960s - 3:42
1970s - 4:19
1980s - 4:55
1990s - 5:17
Game Over - 6:19
Wonderful
No the Sovies fell in 1991
Yeah... that was in the 1990s
Y2K didn't end the world you silly, lmao
@Liam Connor agreed
Never thought that the tetris theme could be so menacing
You've clearly never heard it while your game is starting to go badly...
the tetris theme is a russian music, search korobeiniki
I like how this was made nearly 9 years ago, and the ending is still accurate... PUTIN!!!
*we
More accurrate than 9 years ago
Only thing is Putin is like the opposite of left what with his oligarchs and church allies.
"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain." -Vladimir Putin
@@fonfon575 He doesn't need one - he has radioisotopes galore at his disposal, so his artificial heart never runs out of fuel
Coming back to this after the Tetris trailer.
When you’re a gym teacher
“I am the man who arranges the jocks”
Yea
nice.
Works with a coach, too. Same with sports team manager.
Us army: I am the man who arranges the paratroopers that continue to fall from above
@@natospysanchez8938 too many syllables. Doesn't quite work
This, no joke, helped me on my history exam.
Same here!
Same here!
XD I already knew all this and I'm only 14
it's strange, because are three obvious mistakes there:
1. USA and Britain declared the Cold War, not USSR.
2. Under Stalin, the people received high salaries, but was deficit products.
3. With Gorbachev was on the contrary, a lot of products but no money.
This propaganda video.
Your teacher is very biased.
Supreme Troll ;m;
Alternate Title- The USSR: The Musical
That actually was a musical for a while. It got shut down, but it was a thing.
Really? Are there recordings?
@@frocco7125 I don't actually recall. I only remember walking by a local theater with a sign saying "USSR: The Musical" I assume it was for the nation, but it could of been an acronym for something else.
@@merp9610
Dang. I love musicals tho.
Heathers and Book of Mormon are my life!
@@frocco7125 Well, good for you! I personally don't have a clue what either of those are, but I hope you enjoy them!
Hollywood missed the opportunity to use your song as closing credits for the TETRIS movie.
Where is my complete history of Nazi Germany to the melody of Megaman
+Reverend Anton Oh my god this is required now
+Reverend Anton What about complete history of china to mario
+PizzaSlaya Obviously it would be Imperial Japan to the tune of mario
+PizzaSlaya it would have to be italy
Hmm...I like it...
I've watched this many times and never realized that the shirtless guy in the right at 2:05 drops his hammer when he raises it
That’s pretty good detail
Lenin coming from the grave to give some hidden detail
2:09 is everyone gonna ignore the guy who have lost his hammer?
Yes
Yes
2:06 you can see it slips eight out of his hands
Lmao
He salutes the sickle and star
2:17 when the slide shows a ship firing a shell, it was the first shell being shot at the provisional government after the Tsar left, also the start of the Soviet era
They come two weeks late and they don't tesselate
Did you mean *english trains*
nah they meant non-prime amazon orders
No the French are the worst.
did you mean spanish trains?
Do you mean the south Detroit police
You mean german once? They come two years later...
"The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is *RED!* Let us point all out guns at the USA!" best part imo
That Rynme thi
@@killdozer7062 yea lol
Gorbachov part is best imo
Or the part where the US gives them crystal meth!
Say what you want but it’s clearly “maybe we’d be better off, if we brought down 92)39>•{?{+|*>]=]>” (I don’t know how to spell anymore)
That part at the end were the guy talks about Putin is using the song from after you get a game over in the leaderboards in tetris, I spent so long wondering how that part fit in with the tetris music. So there we go.
what about the beginning?
@@mmmmmmmmmmmmm The opening song, like before you start the game in one of the old arcade cabinets
Huh...
@@merp9610 Makes sense the opening is before the soviet union forms and the game over song is after it is gone
Thirteen years and this still lives in my brain. What a great piece of art!
_The fact that this actually helped with my history paper._
『Far:Dude』 when you learn more from TH-cam than the 1971 website link your teacher gave you.
Must be some goddamn terrible history paper.
Lagrange Point what don’t you like, it explains the surface course of the Soviet development. Why so salty?
@@maximmamykin4018 And as such, I cannot understand how a shallow video made for funsies could help with a supposedly serious task like a history paper.
@@lagrangepoint9386 If the knowledge is correct then there's nothing to gripe about, knowledge is knowledge
And they did say it HELPED them with their history paper, they didn't say it made their history paper
Can everyone just take a moment and think that this was really well made for 2010
The quality looks like it could've been made this year
its only ten years ago man, it isnt a long time
@@TS-jm7jm long enough in my books
2010 wasn't the '30s it's not that crazy
@@wilhelmbeaston8003 eh
This is an untapped source of history memes bois.
Sodachips I am the man who knocks, I am the man who arranges the blocks
We are the men who arrange the blocks that are made by the men in Kazakhstan
1:19 how you be looking at that microwave burrito you just drop at 2:32 am
I know
3:00 Me and the boys looking for beans
This has aged really well considering that it's over 13 years old.
It's because this vid was published not long after the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Fast forward to 2014 and we have the annexing of Crimea and then the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Also funny because all the companies that opened up in Russia, that were shown in this video have all left the country again
fr, the tape effect makes it look like so high quality, when the max quality is 480P
When you are building the Stonehenge: I am the man who arranges the rocks
Haha good one!
My senior teacher keeps saying whenever someone misbehaves he yells “YOU HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA AND HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH” all I can think about is this song
I would tell your teacher that he's a bootlicker
Aight so how do I switch schools
I like your teacher, although I think he wouldn't be very interested on my response. D'Églantine taught me that one move where you denounce every rival of your first, so it's a matter for the Comitee.
He sounds fun
Señor Davito, if you don’t mind, what school do you go to? Asking for a friend
"We salute the sickle and star"
Hammer: Am I a joke to you?
You mean the hammer?
@@tuckerpower4977 Sorry comrade WE messed up
The hammer is another great tool, but it's used to ban/censor anti-soviet propaganda from Poland.
The hammer was used before they mentioned communism, and hammer does not rhyme. That is the hard truth comrades
@@ArjunUK55555 sleep with your eyes open
14 years later and it's still one of the best TH-cam videos of all time.
this has been stuck in my head for the past 9 years
Same
13 years now
when you work at a clothing store:
*I AM THE MAN WHO ARRANGES THE CROCS*
When you're a locksmith
I am the man who arranges the locks
When you work in the stock market:
I AM THE MAN WHO ARRANGES THE STOCKS
When you work at a clock store:
I AM THE MAN WHO ARRANGES THE CLOCKS
@@justme42300 When you work at a gun store:
I AM THE MAN WHO ARRANGES THE GLOCKS
When you're a p*rn (idk if i should censor that so eh imma do it anyway lol) producer:
I am the man who arranges the......
As a music nerd, I think it's really cool how the tempo increases ever so subtly every phrase by about 3-4 bpm.
It makes it feel like a gradual tempo change instead of an abrupt one
Just like tetris speeds up every couple of levels! That's a cool little extraordinarily depressing detail! (russians will suffer a horrible collapse, followed by a rise, followed by a horrible collapse, followed by a rise, etc.) The Russian cycle will forever continue!
@@overtoast1105 what the fuck. How am I so stupid. I literally JUST realized it speeds up because tetris speeds up. I am an IDIOT
🤓
@@sparklymop Still a nice interpretation
Clone? hope you don’t have the chip.
4:55 missed opportunity for "I am the man who arranges the stocks"
"why must these infernal blocks tease"
This is absolute genius
why must "Z" s infern "L" "blocks" "T"s
(all the block types except the long one he wants)
This is genius
sadly the guys that made these are British so unlikely they would've used an american pronounciation of Z for that line
@@pepp418 Though he was using a russian accent for the song up until the free market part.
I doubt that was intended
@@obi-wankeknobi8413 if a Russian accent is an English accent except you roll the letter R every once in awhile