My Soviet Money Playlist: th-cam.com/play/PLNq3y0OU1_BZI2KcJ-t8TCm_vU0cIyphb.html Hello, comrades! My name is Sergei. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available on www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B08DJ7RNTC Please contact me at sergeisputnikoff@gmail.com if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with tips by clicking a "heart" under this video, or: Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop If you are curious to try some of the Soviet-era candy and other foodstuffs, please use the link below. www.russiantable.com/imported-russian-chocolate-mishka-kosolapy__146-14.html?tracking=5a6933a9095f9 My FB: facebook.com/sergey.sputnikoff Twitter: twitter.com/ushankashow Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/Sputnikoff
When I was a kid, I used to barrage my Father with hundreds of questions about The Soviet Union. His response: "How the hell would I know. Go ask a Soviet"! This channel is the answer to 90% of my questions, just 40 years later.
Me too! Memories of my 70's childhood 😅 I was a bit of a foreign coin collector as a kid and being in the UK at the time there was always old pre-decimal coins around too. I'm sat in my car right now , but if I wasn't, I might be at home "etching" as I think we called it here 🤷🤣
I've noticed you've been doing a lot of videos of everyday life in the soviet Union lately. I've been enjoying them, hopefully it gets you more viewers and subscribers. Good luck
It is so amazing to see. Life isn't so different between the two styles of government. Unfortunately in this modern day, it is damn near the equivalency of paying double for everything.
Sergei, re the viewer's comment and your answer. Though countries and economic systems are not apple to apple, the comparative measure purchasing power parity (PPP) is a used to overcome currency and standard of living differences. For example, we can compare the prices of same items such as loaf a bread, a litre of petrol, etc. It isn't just a handful of items and services. Analysts using the PPP method collect and weigh extensive amounts of comparable price data for goods and services of _equal quality_ and of _equal representative importance_ in each country being compared. Now, equal quality and equal representative importance may be tricky. The World Bank and partners such as the UN collect data from member states (begun in 1967) under the International Comparison Project (ICP) and perform technical analysis to determine equivalence and equal importance. The USSR didn't participate in the ICP; Russia joined it in 1993. During the Cold War, what the CIA did was buy consumer goods (food and non-food products) in the USSR and send back to the US for expert appraisal to find like-for-like. Where that was impossible, it determined to what extent a Soviet good was like an American one and assigned weights. Such comparison was not only of interest to the USA and other capitalist countries. The USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute for the World Economy and International Relations (Институт мировой экономики и международных отношений, IMEMO) initiated a secret study in the early 1970s and completed in 1975 to estimate the real ratios of the economic indices of the USSR and USA. It sought to answer this question: can the USSR reach the USA level or not? A key figure in this endeavour was Soviet economist Valentin Mikhailovich Kudrov. (You might want to search for his papers published in Russian.) The study was never published. In his paper _The Comparison of the USSR and USA Economies by IMEMO in the 1970s_ Kudrov wrote about the study in 1997: 'As a whole the comparisons of the main macroeconomic indicators of the USSR and the USA carried out in IMEMO reflected lower ratios than those published in the Soviet official statistics on a regular basis. In many cases the IMEMO ratios were close to those published by the CIA. That was the main reason these comparisons were kept secret by the Institute.' Kudrov added: 'To the best of our knowledge, the value-based comparisons of the USSR and U.S. economic indicators performed at the IMEMO are still the most extensive, detailed, systematic, and factual as compared to all other comparisons ever done *in the USSR* .' They were replicable and verifiable. However, in hindsight Kudrov believed they were Soviet-biased. How so? The data collected from Soviet sources was fudged by the sources to make things appear better than it was. IMEMO didn't learn of this until after the USSR collapsed. Kudrov's study (using flawed data) determined Soviet per capita consumption in 1969 was 31.9 per cent of America's. Re your explanation. What is unclear to me is how US engineer's salary of $70k is derived. Is that presently or during the Soviet era you discussed (which I understand to be roughly from the mid-70s to the end of the USSR). I checked US data for the same period and found from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1985 entry-level engineers started at $27,405 on average and the most experienced averaged $76,205. I think when prices and salaries of the late Soviet era are used, the point of comparison ought to be the same era in the US. An engineer's average annual salary was about $40k, so $3333 per month. At 43 per cent less, I think this changes the value of 10 kopeks to $2.
I remember my uncle, when he was still alive, bought me Hematogen as a treat, from time to time. I thought that it was an iron, or protein bar. I had no idea that it had blood in it. You learn stuff every day. Unfortunately hematogen, is very difficult to find in Australia, these day's. P.S.This made me crave hematogen bar's. Thanks Sergei for making me hungry ! 🤣.
Ive got some questions about the "Victory Parade" .. where do you find a translation of what the General is saying. I know he greets the troops and that causes a ooooorah. Is there an English version.
Well, prices also were lower in par with $40K salary. That's the beauty of capitalism. Unless the government gets involved, the threesome: Inflation/Prices/Salary stars pretty consistent.
Got scammed by a small ma and pa store. Instead of getting a dime I just got a 1943 10 Kon CCCP coin. 😕… but I’m kinda not so mad cause it’s from 1943. So far ur the first video of any speaking and info on this coin and internet is just so all over the place telling me nothing really
The fruit ice cream sounds like we call Sherbet here, like that Fred Flintstone Orange Sherbet Push Up. I don't like just tomato juice but spicy V8 is good! 👍😆
Wait, there is a soviet milk drink for 10 copec (USD 3.50?) In the northern par of India and Pakistan, there is a yoghurt drink called Lassi. In it's most basic form, it's yoghurt mixed with water and sometimes salt, sugar, or even pepper at times, but there are different variations of Lassi. Is this milk drink a Soviet Lassi?
Goodness knows the USSR wasn’t perfect. But the pax Sovietica ensured education, health, and human dignity (with flaws, yes, but still) for all, from Bishkek to Kaliningrad, and even beyond into East Germany at its westernmost extent.
@@UshankaShow Of course they did. They also shopped In special stores, and had better ZIL’s. Lived in Stalinkas and had their own dachas. When I was young, the world was ruled by power blocs, east and west, and I believed that the West stood for all that is good, and my country (not USSR) was burdened by these pseudo socialist self servers. That sort of unfairness caused outrage and I burned for better things. Now I’m older, so realise the value of the decency of every day life that a country like the USSR achieved for so many. I have seen and gone through enough to know what that stability means. The baltics are better off without the USSR. Is Kyrgyzstan? Is Tajikistan? Is even, Ukraine, or come to think of it, Russia, ruled as it is by a corrupt, failed Chekist? Whatever else may have been, there wouldn’t have been a war. I might be wrong. It’s just my thinking. By the way, members of the US congress, senate, Supreme Court get special healthcare from the office of the attending physician, a naval medical centre in Washington, which isn’t open to the general population. People in power always make things work for themselves.
Baltic states are doing definitely better, they kicked former communists from power. The rest of the former Soviet republics let former communists remain in power and rob them blind.
You are overestimating what American engineers made for your ruble/dollar conversions. 40 years ago, a mid- grade Engineer IV had an average salary of $34,443, or $2,870 a month. If an equivalent Soviet engineer was making 150 rubles a month, then 10 kopeks would be equal to about $1.90. Here is a link that shows what American white-collar workers were making in 1982: www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1982/10/rpt2full.pdf
@@UshankaShow According to the inflation calculator, one 1982 dollar had the current purchasing power of $3.07. A monthly salary of $2,870 would have had the equivalent purchasing power of $8,810 today. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, there is no way of knowing what a Soviet engineer would be making today. The only way to fairly compare Soviet wages and prices is to find the American equivalent from that same era.
Oh, it's easy. Technically, we had no inflation, government controlled prices and salaries. From 1971 till 1991 a box of matches was always just 1 kopek.
@@UshankaShow Unfortunately I don't know what a box of matches cost in the US 40 years ago. We know a box of matches was 1/15000 of a Soviet workers monthly salary. Without knowing what an American match box cost, we can't find the equivalent.
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Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR.
My books about arriving in America are available on www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or Amazon:
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When I was a kid, I used to barrage my Father with hundreds of questions about The Soviet Union. His response: "How the hell would I know. Go ask a Soviet"! This channel is the answer to 90% of my questions, just 40 years later.
Better late than never, right?
Seeing this thumbnail just triggered a memory of putting a sheet of paper over these coins and "etching" over them with a pencil, just because... 😅😅
Me too! Memories of my 70's childhood 😅 I was a bit of a foreign coin collector as a kid and being in the UK at the time there was always old pre-decimal coins around too.
I'm sat in my car right now , but if I wasn't, I might be at home "etching" as I think we called it here 🤷🤣
Oh, I forgot we used to do that! And with all the different American quarters that have been issued since 2000, that would have been fun to do!
I've noticed you've been doing a lot of videos of everyday life in the soviet Union lately.
I've been enjoying them, hopefully it gets you more viewers and subscribers. Good luck
It is so amazing to see. Life isn't so different between the two styles of government. Unfortunately in this modern day, it is damn near the equivalency of paying double for everything.
1:56 so 10 kopeks amounts to tree fiddy ($3.50)
I TOLD YOU ZONE MONSTER I DON'T GOT YOUR TREE FIDDY
Sergei, re the viewer's comment and your answer. Though countries and economic systems are not apple to apple, the comparative measure purchasing power parity (PPP) is a used to overcome currency and standard of living differences. For example, we can compare the prices of same items such as loaf a bread, a litre of petrol, etc. It isn't just a handful of items and services. Analysts using the PPP method collect and weigh extensive amounts of comparable price data for goods and services of _equal quality_ and of _equal representative importance_ in each country being compared.
Now, equal quality and equal representative importance may be tricky. The World Bank and partners such as the UN collect data from member states (begun in 1967) under the International Comparison Project (ICP) and perform technical analysis to determine equivalence and equal importance. The USSR didn't participate in the ICP; Russia joined it in 1993.
During the Cold War, what the CIA did was buy consumer goods (food and non-food products) in the USSR and send back to the US for expert appraisal to find like-for-like. Where that was impossible, it determined to what extent a Soviet good was like an American one and assigned weights.
Such comparison was not only of interest to the USA and other capitalist countries. The USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute for the World Economy and International Relations (Институт мировой экономики и международных отношений, IMEMO) initiated a secret study in the early 1970s and completed in 1975 to estimate the real ratios of the economic indices of the USSR and USA. It sought to answer this question: can the USSR reach the USA level or not? A key figure in this endeavour was Soviet economist Valentin Mikhailovich Kudrov. (You might want to search for his papers published in Russian.)
The study was never published. In his paper _The Comparison of the USSR and USA Economies by IMEMO in the 1970s_ Kudrov wrote about the study in 1997: 'As a whole the comparisons of the main macroeconomic indicators of the USSR and the USA carried out in IMEMO reflected lower ratios than those published in the Soviet official statistics on a regular basis. In many cases the IMEMO ratios were close to those published by the CIA. That was the main reason these comparisons were kept secret by the Institute.' Kudrov added: 'To the best of our knowledge, the value-based comparisons of the USSR and U.S. economic indicators performed at the IMEMO are still the most extensive, detailed, systematic, and factual as compared to all other comparisons ever done *in the USSR* .' They were replicable and verifiable. However, in hindsight Kudrov believed they were Soviet-biased. How so? The data collected from Soviet sources was fudged by the sources to make things appear better than it was. IMEMO didn't learn of this until after the USSR collapsed.
Kudrov's study (using flawed data) determined Soviet per capita consumption in 1969 was 31.9 per cent of America's.
Re your explanation. What is unclear to me is how US engineer's salary of $70k is derived. Is that presently or during the Soviet era you discussed (which I understand to be roughly from the mid-70s to the end of the USSR). I checked US data for the same period and found from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1985 entry-level engineers started at $27,405 on average and the most experienced averaged $76,205. I think when prices and salaries of the late Soviet era are used, the point of comparison ought to be the same era in the US. An engineer's average annual salary was about $40k, so $3333 per month. At 43 per cent less, I think this changes the value of 10 kopeks to $2.
Can't wait for the 15-kopek coin version, especially with that whole bit about making phone calls
Phone calls? Those were 2 kopeks
im addicted to your videos Mr Sergei !
slava ukraini from Morocco!
Thanks!
I remember my uncle, when he was still alive, bought me Hematogen as a treat, from time to time. I thought that it was an iron, or protein bar. I had no idea that it had blood in it. You learn stuff every day. Unfortunately hematogen, is very difficult to find in Australia, these day's.
P.S.This made me crave hematogen bar's. Thanks Sergei for making me hungry ! 🤣.
The name should have been a giveaway. But I admit I am not sure if I would put 2 + 2 together if I ever knew about that product before now.
Probably the best potatoes grown on the collective farms ended up being sold at the farmers market.
I neither can confirm no deny your allegations
Ive got some questions about the "Victory Parade" .. where do you find a translation of what the General is saying. I know he greets the troops and that causes a ooooorah. Is there an English version.
To be fair,
You're comparing modern American to 1970s Russian.
A 1970s engineer might have earned only 40K a year.
Well, prices also were lower in par with $40K salary. That's the beauty of capitalism. Unless the government gets involved, the threesome: Inflation/Prices/Salary stars pretty consistent.
Those those sheets the ones that are meant to help you with a cold those things cannot remind me of a chemical heater from an MRE.
I grew up having mustard plasters. Yeah they burned, but they worked great!
Blood sausage candy certainly sounds intriguing.
Made of the blood of capitalists.
I can already imagine its delicious ferrous taste lmao
Hi Sergei may I ask a questions,was chicken popular in USSR?
Yes, for eggs and meat
It seems like your references to cottage cheese is more accurately described as cream cheese.
Farmers cheese. Its more dry and not salty
I look forward to the cooking video if you find a recipe for em!
Same here
Got scammed by a small ma and pa store. Instead of getting a dime I just got a 1943 10 Kon CCCP coin. 😕… but I’m kinda not so mad cause it’s from 1943. So far ur the first video of any speaking and info on this coin and internet is just so all over the place telling me nothing really
1943? Its probably worth way more than a dime
I need about three fiddy
no lochness monster, you ain't gettin' no tree fiddy
The fruit ice cream sounds like we call Sherbet here, like that Fred Flintstone Orange Sherbet Push Up.
I don't like just tomato juice but spicy V8 is good! 👍😆
Wait, there is a soviet milk drink for 10 copec (USD 3.50?)
In the northern par of India and Pakistan, there is a yoghurt drink called Lassi. In it's most basic form, it's yoghurt mixed with water and sometimes salt, sugar, or even pepper at times, but there are different variations of Lassi.
Is this milk drink a Soviet Lassi?
in the US they make "mango lassi" at Indian restaurants... so delicious
I want 10 Kopeks.
Ebay or Etsy
How many Kopeks equals a Ruble?
100
Sing it Sergei Spears.
Your view into the past is the russians view into the future. Their currency is also locked from the rest of the world. Just like their freedoms.
I love this shit
Same and I can never get enough of the Ushanka Show.
Goodness knows the USSR wasn’t perfect. But the pax Sovietica ensured education, health, and human dignity (with flaws, yes, but still) for all, from Bishkek to Kaliningrad, and even beyond into East Germany at its westernmost extent.
Are you aware that the Communist leaders ensured their own health in special medical facilities that were not available to the rest of the population?
@@UshankaShow Of course they did. They also shopped In special stores, and had better ZIL’s. Lived in Stalinkas and had their own dachas. When I was young, the world was ruled by power blocs, east and west, and I believed that the West stood for all that is good, and my country (not USSR) was burdened by these pseudo socialist self servers. That sort of unfairness caused outrage and I burned for better things. Now I’m older, so realise the value of the decency of every day life that a country like the USSR achieved for so many. I have seen and gone through enough to know what that stability means. The baltics are better off without the USSR. Is Kyrgyzstan? Is Tajikistan? Is even, Ukraine, or come to think of it, Russia, ruled as it is by a corrupt, failed Chekist? Whatever else may have been, there wouldn’t have been a war. I might be wrong. It’s just my thinking. By the way, members of the US congress, senate, Supreme Court get special healthcare from the office of the attending physician, a naval medical centre in Washington, which isn’t open to the general population. People in power always make things work for themselves.
Baltic states are doing definitely better, they kicked former communists from power. The rest of the former Soviet republics let former communists remain in power and rob them blind.
*no taste test?*
You are overestimating what American engineers made for your ruble/dollar conversions. 40 years ago, a mid- grade Engineer IV had an average salary of $34,443, or $2,870 a month. If an equivalent Soviet engineer was making 150 rubles a month, then 10 kopeks would be equal to about $1.90. Here is a link that shows what American white-collar workers were making in 1982: www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1982/10/rpt2full.pdf
Thank you for your input! Do you think American engineer purchasing power changed much? I am not familiar with US retail prices back in 1982.
@@UshankaShow According to the inflation calculator, one 1982 dollar had the current purchasing power of $3.07. A monthly salary of $2,870 would have had the equivalent purchasing power of $8,810 today. Since the Soviet Union collapsed, there is no way of knowing what a Soviet engineer would be making today. The only way to fairly compare Soviet wages and prices is to find the American equivalent from that same era.
Oh, it's easy. Technically, we had no inflation, government controlled prices and salaries. From 1971 till 1991 a box of matches was always just 1 kopek.
So I underestimated! It should be somewhere around $4.80 American value of a Soviet engineer's 10 kopek.
@@UshankaShow Unfortunately I don't know what a box of matches cost in the US 40 years ago. We know a box of matches was 1/15000 of a Soviet workers monthly salary. Without knowing what an American match box cost, we can't find the equivalent.