Wonder about how it was like for the rest of the country... of course people in the capital had it good. Just like the capital in north korea has the elite and the rest of the country is in poverty.
"We weren't able to buy anything, we had money. Now we have everything but we don't have the money." - this describes the situation so well. Edit: 683 likes... Wow
@Mafwi maybe I'm biased, but I prefer society of generally good ppl, rather than society of materialism. I know USSR wasn't all that perfect, but ig it was still better(?) Although again, it depends on your values
What he means is you wouldn't able to buy like gold teeth, gamer girl bath water, expensive golden phone, ect. But you will always guaranteed your needs to be fullfiled
I am calling from India . Can you tell me what is the position of C.P.R.F ( communist party of russian federation ) in these days? Is Gennady zyuganouv a powerful leader ? Yes or no
Actually, until the Brezhnev era, USSR basically had everything the West had. Even better because USSR were the first to develope space technology. Then came Leonid Brezhnev who was a sick close-minded conservative and decided to cut spending for everything except the military. That's when the technological gap between west and east was born. Consider that USSR could have had computers and internet before the rest of the world but Brezhnev did not believe in it and turned it down. But still the USSR, until the 90s, still manage to provide its citizens, all its citizens, with every mean necessary for a stable life. It may have been simple but it was happy. Cinema, theaters, festivals and other enterteinment was very cheap, sport was free, the Moscow Metro price was stable at 5 copecks. And Crimea, Sochi and the Baltics beaches were always beautiful as well as the siberian taiga and the lake Baikal. So no wonder people were happy.
I don't know what it was like totally in Romania but I think Ceaucsescu was worse than the USSR not when compared to Stalin but when compared to others like Brezhnev, Gorbachev era . I don't know how you can miss Securitate and power cuts, long lines for food, no heating. (80's era) I'm from Albania which was the worst communist regime in Europe and people say they miss 0% unemployment that they had in those times and how life was more stable but no one actually wants to go back to that regime ever. There was no freedom, no opportunities, very limited information, life was always same old same old. People need to have stability in their lives but they also need freedom.
People in Romania lived in fear. Cops were very brutal, the government stole the fields and houses of the people, there were a lot of poor people and corruption in every single institution. Some of the elders really wish those times back. But not all of them. I think the psychology behind this is that they could adapt to their situation and they were young, they had friends, relationships, so they lived their "good times" in this period. All their good memories are from this time period, so it's not a surprise if they want to go back. Also, white-collar jobs were well respected, so extra goods were available for people in these fields. If they (and their relatives) didn't talk against the government and didn't were kulaks they could live a pretty satisfying life.
Also people in poland were not doing very good in the communist ages :/ well many people nay not know it was just rhe beggining of communism in these countrys who knows if the U.S.S.R somehow didnt collapse the countrys may of had more food because the U.S.S.R was dealing with the U.S.A
Алкоголизм - это болезнь, и страдающие ей всегда находят какие-нибудь объяснения (оправдания) для пьянства. В то время как причина только одна: психологическая и физическая ЗАВИСИМОСТЬ. Это медицинский термин.
И вообще, нечего их жалеть. И тем более, умиляться. В России какое-то снисходительное отношение к этой проблеме. Ни капли жалости не вызывают эти прокажённые, алкашня чёртова. Почти все преступления совершаются под действием алкоголя. Нужно калёным железом выжигать этот недуг. Алкоголь сужает сознание и делает людей агрессивными (или обидчивыми и ранимыми, что на глубинном уровне, на самом деле, одно и то же). Уж лучше травку покуривать, чтобы снять напряжение, чем пить. Если выбирать из двух зол, так сказать.
Im from Kyrgyzstan, ex soviet country. I also hear the same thing from elders. And when I saw old pictures I was so surprised how neat, intelligent and elegant they all looked. When you listen to older people often time I feel they are more educated compared to nowadays young people. The same with talents, there are more highly professional talents back in history than what we have now. Once in a time my parents talk about this period of their life with a smile on their face. They were actually living in present, not worrying about future. No ambitions, no rush. People were also kinder cause they didn’t have anything to be jealous of or to be compared for. They were friends for who you are not for what you have. They had few pairs of clothes but they were always neat. This was a proper “sustainability” in terms of product consumption. I also often hear that they used to read a lot and spend a lot of time with people having fun. The education, healthcare and all the institutions worked perfectly, with no corruption. The only negative things I heard is that they had money, but they couldn’t buy much. The history and media was manipulated. Limited freedom and a bit strict system, but I guess it’s not also that easy to sustain such a huge territory with sooooo many different nations under control. In general people had a good life, maybe better than now.
This has literally nothing to do with communism, it's just the regular "kids these days" rhetoric. Go ahead and look up socialist realism and the Prague spring, they literally sent tanks to our country in 1968 because we were getting too liberated in our thinking. Living in Russia, the country prospering the most from the regime, was a different thing from living in a country manipulated by force into joining the union. I'm leaning towards the left but the west's "i'm a communist uwu" trend is seriously disturbing to me as someone whose parents still grew up in the regime. There will never be a perfectly working political system and communism alone won't save us. Also "worked perfectly without corruption"... 🤣 sorry can you give me your resources for that information? People were literally forced to spy on each other and report anything seemingly against the regime, healthcare, education and production might've been free or at least cheap, but that's also saying something about the quality. I've read both, 1984 and Animal Farm, and I recommend reading at least the latter so you could see how ineffective and demanding the industries were. Do your research before idealising someone's painful history.
@@trebaneconapise7793 stop lying troll. You were never in the union. You were one of the vassal state of OUR MOTHERLAND and a member of WARSAW PACT. You were axis and got defeated and became a subject of the victor. Hungary being in union with us lol
@@lunasephiroth I have no idea what country you're referring to as your motherland but I'm assuming it's Russia and in that case, you're probably fed a lot of propaganda and I'm sorry for that. We were a satellite state of the Soviet Union and I'm glad you're mentioning that we were a member of the Warsaw Pact, because they invaded one of its own out of fear we were getting too free in lack of censorship and surveillance by the secret police. Do some reading if you can think on your own, you don't have to trust a "troll". Here's a link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
@@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935 Brazil, Argentina and Chile had a capitalistic dictatorship, so you don't need communism to lose you freedom of speech. Ah, and in Chile, specially, the government would chase, torture and kill communist just because their political opinion. So yeah... Some food for thought
@@pilarcouto4326 You just mentioned 3 or 4 capitalistic country where I can't have my freedom of speech. But there's loads of others countries where anybody can share their views without any kind of trouble. Now, here is the thing you can't mention any socialist country where mass people can express their opinion. Just look at the history of former USSR or modern day North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela.
@@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935 Venezuela is not a communist country, and yes, they are communist and also a dictatorship, but we have countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark where they have high rates of socialization of the mean of the production and they are democratic. I brought that example just to illustrate that capitalism does not have democracy as a foundation to work.
I'm from the young generation but my parents lived in the Soviet Union times, and I am jealous that I hadn't been born earlier. I'd also add here that, unfortunately, these days the young generation is brainwashed, misinformed. They get information from doubtful sources but speak up the most of the things they do not have any idea about.
@@dwaynethewokjohnson6646 nobody says it was perfect. It's only there were some advantages in it. There was much wrong about. Like it's economy policy. I' m not an English speaker, forgive me my mistakes
I miss it much. It was like another planet . Quite a different system of living. And there is no possibility to buy a ticket and visit it for a day at least. 😢
buckplug want to fucking be depressed come to the middle east. Shit i think every country in the east is suffering in some way but glad that here it's not like the west
Randevu yes i have alot of friends from the east i live in kuwait saw it all from corruption to talaban to alqaeda to isis to social inequality because you are not a sheikh or a royalty you have to work alot harder to succeed and more time than not you will fail i'm not spitting nonsense my friend i'm just stating that people from the east got it a little bit hard but again i'm blissed that i'm not from the west
I like how the adults who lived in the USSR say that it was better then than now, and the Americans who heard on TV that "the USSR is the gulag, death and hunger," say "no, it was very bad there, we know it better than you!"
@L2020L 2 Yes Yes. everything was bad with us, and now everything is bad. So said your "independent" democratic media in which there is absolutely "no" propaganda. You have democracy (or "democracy") and therefore you know what others have good and bad.
Marx said capitalism leads to worker alienation. My parents lived under a Marxist Leninist state, and one of the most interesting things I hear about is how much solidarity there was with not just your family, but your community. Nowadays we get up go to work, come back and lock our doors. Maybe we say hi to one neighbor every once in a while. we've become so alienated from our communities thanks to neoliberalism.
I dont think they have freedom now. I mean there are dozens of people who arrested because of critizing the government. In soviet union thats normal because you know they were athorotian . But now they switched to democracy but still they are arresting people for nothing.
USA: communism is horrible and all the Russian hated it! Most of the Russians: Yeah, it was pretty good, we got to go to school for free and we got what we needed. I wouldn’t mind going back to that time. USA: No that’s not how you play this game
To know what the USSR was like, you must ask people outside of Moscow (since people in Moscow had everything they wanted). I know many people who lived in Moldova and Ukraine and they all say that life was hell in the USSR. They are all truly traumatized by what they have experienced. Don't forget that the wall in Berlin was not built to prevent people from entering in the country illegally, it was built to stop East Germans from ESCAPING the country.
@@PG-3462 Hi, Russian from outside Moscow here, grandparents lived in small village in the Vologda Oblast, are part of an ethnic minority, loved everything back then.
@@jakemails9240 As I said, I don't know any Russians, but I know several people from Ukraine and Moldova and all their parents/grandparents hated their life in the USSR. I also know a ton of Romanians and a few East Germans. While Romania and East Germany were not part of the USSR, they were still highly influenced by it and they all hated their life there. Name me a single capitalist country that ever built a wall not to prevent people from coming illegally in their country, but to prevent people from escaping it
@@braddawson4496 Is that why East Germans treat Russia and Russians with warmth and much more sympathy for Russia than West Germans, according to the polls? 🤣🤣🤣 Before you talk nonsense, talk to the people who lived there. I have rich experience. You don't have it. Most of all "suffered from Communism" those who never even lived there 😂
Tell that to the people living outside the big cities at that time. These guys had it well because everyone who lived in Moscow at the time had jobs. Literally millions died from famine, purges towards the religious, ethnic cleansing. There is a reason why almost all former USSR countries hate Russia
@@cielonegro9054 Famines happened under Russian Empire regularly, USSR actually ended those famines. Also ethnic cleansings and purges happened in WW2 where brutality was only way to win the war.
A teacher from my school was from Romania and we once started talking about communism and how it was like living in a communist country. I remember her saying "being able to have access to a specific amount of things is better than having everything without any access whatsoever".
@@ДмитрийХисматуллин-д5ш I can agree. Even if the theory of communism or socialism might be ideal for some people, they cannot work functionally in today's society.
blonde lady with glasses is definition of intelligent, genuine and graceful soviet person, she speaks so calm, sincere, polite and explains its so good... what a woman, her husband must be one of luckiest guy when he met her young :)
@@ILaunchNukes You don't know shit about ex-socialist countries. My parents also lived in East Germany, and there's no “long line” you are talking about until the early 90s. They got everything they needed, even things you no longer have today like good quality healthcare, job guaranteed, etc.
@@sir_humpy There is indeed a difference in perception between people living in different regions, but it's almost always in the opposite direction of what you think. The thing is, while there was certainly a difference in available amenities between Moscow and places you've mentioned (Siberia, Uzbekistan, etc.), the gap was much smaller than it is now. Thousands of villages and small cities died out after the dissolution of USSR. The newly acquired wealth of the capitalist era is disproportionally concentrated in Moscow. This is why people still living in these remote areas consider themselves forgotten and abandoned by the current regime, and have a more favorable perception of USSR than an average resident of Moscow.
При социализме было бы норм, но, естественно, не в том виде, в котором он существовал на закате СССР. Но даже тогда не было такого социального расслоения
@@МаратМаранкян после Сталина мы уже никуда не двигались.. а генсек-дурак и его шапка просто жили-кутили по энерции на том хорошем что успели заложить до них. Где живут потомки этих всех патриотов можно легко загуглить... Тоже самое и с нынешними. Сейчас ещё в июле подпишите "пользовательское соглашение раба" и ещё 30 лет в сторону банановой республики.
@@ttbr7687 It's all the same. I'm certain someone Soviet dude said the same however in reverse. Hierarchy of needs. Some prefer those things now because those things are the things some need now. Once that is satisfied, the need of the freedom of speech, expression, product, will want to be satisfied as well.
@@ArchTazer exactly, we have the opposite. A homeless person has all the free speech in the world but not the means or accessibility to the most basic requirements for life.
Amount of currency is meaningless the everything so the amount of goods and services is all that matters. You want a punch of wortless paper and you go to the store and cant buy anything or rather less wortless paper but ability to buy more real goods and services with it. Your ability to access real goods and services is what matters.
Tito kept the people of Yugoslavia from killing each other for over 3 decades, which is quite the historical achievement considering the bloody history of the Balkans. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks, all lived together in peace & brotherhood thanks to his leadership.
“My son is sick we have already spent 145,000 why do you think things have gotten better?” “Maybe you would have spent a million.” “.... they would have cured him.” Damn, and even accompanied by an awkward silence. There is no way the interviewer did not feel instant regret upon asking that 2nd question.
The point was that it could have cost them even more in the old days to fix him, but it would have cost everyone, and they did not have as good technology. Meaning, they might have saved his son, and a million other sons, and gone bankrupt.... AS THEY DID IN REAL LIFE... and then again maybe not because they didn't have as good of technology. The point is, the dad is making an emotional argument with rosy lenses on, and the interview is inviting him to make an objective assessment.
Nostalgia and rosy retrospection are no substitutes for reality--there's enough written by former Soviet citizens and writers like Bunin, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn to chronicle what life in the Soviet Union was really like.
People are like "wow we didnt have smartphones in the USSR" Like, these smartphones came out barely 10 years ago. I don't remember seeing smartphones in the 90s anywhere in the world.
yeah, well, they are mainly refering to good technology... Meaning that Western countries/the free world had access to quality Japanese electronics, appliances and vehicles, while the Soviet block was producing their own bad copies, and very few people could buy genuine Sony/Technics, brought from afar by navigators and sold illegaly at a very high price. People had to use with poorly built local electronics, appliances and cars. The idea that you didn't have access to such goods, such as the free world !
@@uwi2 Even in North Korea normal people have smartphones. If you look up the New Year's celebrations everyone is recording the fireworks with their androids
@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx Really? Why does almost everyone call Vietnam "state capitalist"? I'm pretty sure its socialist. Please check out this video and other videos of this channel: th-cam.com/video/mMubOw5H-yo/w-d-xo.html
@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx I'm a student,so I know the most about schools in Vietnam.The State owns most schools here and it's the State that pays the teachers,so education is very affordable here! Extra classes are run by private companies,therefore they're expensive. Also the States owns all large hosputals in Vietnam,only small clinics are run by private companies! I'm not sure about gyms as I have never been to one but I don't think gyms really matters :))
@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx actually, North Korea isn’t exactly Communist (economically yes but politically no). NK is simply Communist by name (similar to China). It’s actually the last remaining stand for Japanese Imperialism that flourished pre-WW2. One of the many things they have in common is way the people of NK treat their dictator is as if he’s god and that was something that was a part of Japanese Imperialism; the Emperor was considered a god. So closest thing there is to a fully Communist country would be Cuba and Laos. (I’M SO SORRY IF I’M INCORRECT OR IF MY GRAMMAR AND SPELLING IS WRONG! english isn’t my first language! please forgive me!)
@@digge2210 i don’t know who to trust now. people who actually say that the USSR was a good place when they actually lived through it while western propaganda says otherwise.
The Soviet Union had other 15 countries which have bad past being invaded and annexed by Russia, go and listen to a Baltic person who also lived through it, let's see if they have the same to say.
@@katitadeb I don't know where you're from and if your family in particular was negatively affected, but the majority of the aforementioned 15 republics saw USSR positively. USSR is not Russia, stop equating the two.
As a young Chinese, we all know that: Once we were young, we have a big brother, he taught us a lot, he gave us the essential industry that we can survive and not bullied by others in the world. And he lead us to a path, a red path, he told us, at the end of the path, there will be the most beautiful things in the human world. Although we have fight each other when we were drunk, but we know he is my big brother forever! One day, he died, with his flag in his hand, his head towards the end of the path. Now, i am taking the red flag and walking on the path, although all the enemies laugh at us and slander us, but we will keep walking, walking towards the end of the path, not just for me , but for my big brother! For the most great country in human history!
@Prasanth Thomas China is communist. They’re market socialists. Private businesses but there’s no free market. The workers still have control and workers are still prioritized. Have private businesses doesn’t make it capitalist. China still has all the socialist programs that full socialist economies would normally have and workers still have control over their future and their job. The government still highly regulates businesses and most of the successful Chinese businesses are pretty much nationalized.
Lets be honest, the story of that man on 1:45, who spent enormous anmount of money to help his son is beautiful and i hope its all ok with him and his family Upd:shit, i've listened to that 'they' d've cured him there' part and i gonna cry
@@maimohammed529 Ask any family with a sick person who needs an operation. In the USSR, everything was free. It was better to wait 2 months for an operation (if it was urgent, you did not have to wait at all) than to lie in the grave because you are not a Rockefeller and do not have hundreds of thousands of euros for an operation.
I am from Mongolia. My grandparents always said things were far greater during those times. But the youth and the new generation has so much negativity.
Meanwhile Young Americans are positive. Will not be surprised if America becomes socialist and Russia remains capitalist, and have an opposite cold war
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 I actually thought about that but I think if America becomes socialist way more countries will follow as East-european countries. They are truly struggling under capitalism
@Alejandro Rodriguez Извините но мой русский не самый лучший, Но моя мама съехала с Латвии потому что есть больше возможностей в других странах, не связанных с СССР. Я спросила у неё и она говорит то что все было бесплатно там например образование и медицина И то что было хорошо. Я у бабушки тоже Спросила и она говорит то что было всё хорошо но пожалуй самый негативный эффект был когда развалился СССР.
My grandpa, who was from East Germany, also got a free apartment, and it was the place my dad grew up and lived his childhood. So sad it was no longer “free,” and he had to leave after the collapse of the regime.
@@LeonWagg If everyone finds out (if the English-language Internet has it) how many factories closed down after the destruction of the GDR, the tales of the West German politics and monopolists about how they are feeding East Germany will sound like mockery. The GDR had many promising industries, in particular electronics from Robotron (1969-1990).
For free? Wow, unbelivebel! In Romania, houses/apartaments were received but paid in installments, nothing is free. Something is wrong with what you are saying.
@@predacorneliu well they were given it by the government/city council or whatever it’s called but now my grandmother just pays for the building upkeep ( like maintenance to the building and keeping the area around it clean ) like everyone else in the apartments
The same. I miss USSR much. I would give my three flats, my business for that... I would burst into tears with happiness seeing USSR. What a country we lost...
@@phraya_techapit9910 i don't see how they wouldn't. The guy literally made it legally required for every household to have at least one gun by law, you were taught how to use it and it was legal for people over the age of 18 to own a gun without a lisence. The people could've easily revolted if they wanted to, but obviously Something kept them from not. You should think about what.
I was an exchange student in the Moscow University, All of my Russian teachers always say back then education was really good and free, there were high education institutes in every town but now they need to go to big cities to study because of a lack of budgets.
It is all true. Soviet-trained scientists and engineers are still respected over the world because everyone understand they were well trained and have exceptional knowledge. Standards declined drastically after the socialist system fell. There was no money for universities. Professors became jobless! There is indeed a reason why there are so many Russian academics teaching in American and British universities. It really wasn't their choice to flee, they didn't have jobs after the USSR collapsed.
Why were people prevented from leaving if the USSR was so good? The Soviet Union will go down in history as the only place that had to build a wall to prevent people from leaving......
4:33 That's exactly what my father said. They had a lot of money, but there wasn't variety in products. And now you can buy anything but with little money
thats so true, back then there were white and dark bread, few varieties of that or that and we bought it for cents. Now milions of varieties but we dont have money to buy it, just basic.
There probably could have been a much more thoughtful moderate liberal economic solution. Instead of opening the country up to corporate capitalist vultures and selling away the country assets for pennies, open the county up to small scale entrepreneurship within the country and preserve the most important social guarantees.
@@unrealbot3027 yes 20 million, many of whom worked their lifes to death were also "fascists" according to the USSR and socialist apologists like yourself...
The blonde woman with eye glasses, its seems that she is pretty privileged. She enjoyed her life and she has a lot of good things to say about Russia. I love her gesture when she was answering the questions, she's like remembering all the good things about Russia when she was young..
She’s not privileged, she is an example of Russian “intelligentsia” - highly educated people who form an intellectual elite but don’t necessarily have much money
@@LizaTripsget but we must demarcate "intelligentsia" and "creacliat"(they thinks what they are hightly educated, but they just lazy russophobic people)
First of all back than it was not Russia, it was USSR, which incuded 14 more republics, and even more nationalites. By saying that you unintantionally disrespect all thouse people. And second the woman was not privillaged, it was normal life for soviet netizens. Personally I'm not a fan of Soviet Union either, but people lived there much more better than you think. It's not like North Korea, exept the time Stalin ruled.
She wasn't forced to go on a field. It was like a public service. It was done in Yugoslavia as well. Yes I consider it "forced" or "stupid" because when I see the system now for me it would be idiotic to even think of doing something like that when I know how corrupt politicians are. But back then people were more innocent (you could say "naive"), they were idealistic and believed in real change so they did things like those gladly. My parents speak of those labor works with a fondness as well
Considering it stupid i would say it is the naive thing to say, things like this build character, teach kids patriotism, hard work, connect them to the land and make you feel like you are a part of a community.
You could really say that about any political ideology or political figure. We all know trump does not follow the law but that's nothing new for a country were the rich do this alot. My question was how did the corrupt of communist countries when they couldn't really leave the country and they were different from the corrupt of capitalist nations?
If that were true, the Soviet Union would have been over in 1945. The US had nuclear weapons first and it took awhile for Soviet spies to steal the technology.
@@superiorshotgun4348 All because you attacked small socialist countries "in the name of democracy" and commited a lot of war crimes and killed a lot of civilians, and you rigged elections in Russia in favour of Yeltsin. That's how democracy works right? Let me remind you that 71% of the people voted for the preservation of the USSR.
@@_arthur_360 Let me remind you that the most recent one showed people not in favor of the ussr and the poles germans, Ukrainians Russians didn’t really like communism for oblivious reasons,we attacked them people they wanted a system that kill millions and will never work, we killed lots of communists and communism committed the worlds worse war crimes for a system that even marx said was impossible
atleast the difference for both countries is freedom of speech, in USA u can mock all u want on the government but not too far while in Russia u cant mock the government even a single bit
@@mkmllrc try to talk shit to the government when you are someone (not a nobody like you and i) and you’ll see if that person doesn’t face a “tragic accident”. All regimes are the same, but the Americans really know how to brainwash their citizens into a sick nationalism hahah Even in mexico you can criticize the government being a no one and nothing happens to you so your precious freedom doesn’t worth that much.
What people are looking back on with fondness was the sense of collectivism, community, and national pride. You felt like you had a tribe and belonged to something bigger than yourself.
Communism almost killed my father. On the flip side materialism doesn’t bring lasting joy. In modern times we don’t have conversations like we used to; simpler back then.✌️
In Yugoslavia we had the same plus freedom to travel, have both Western and Eastern culture, less oppression by the government etc Yugo was the perfect example how communism can work, it failed only because of foreign presure since u can't have communist country in the heart of capitalist world.
Same thing here in former SFR Yugoslavia. People smuggled Levi's jeans and Nike shoes from Italy to look cool. They did not appreciate what they had and now those same people watch their children going away across border, but not coming back.
What was great about USSR?: Free healthcare, free education, plenty of jobs, wealth, access to sports and culture, etc. What is better now?: YoU cAn Buy SMarTPhone!
@@phil16 Mate you wouldn't even have free healthcare and other socialist policies in the UK were it not for the USSR putting pressure on the West to provide better standards to working class people. Also it was only in like the 50s that the UK created the NHS and it was the first in the West, the USSR socialized healthcare way before then.
@@GenocideWesterners normal people don't care about that, they cared about community and of course the people were "better". It wasn't "everyone for themselves" like now under capitalism. People were not strangers but comrades.
This is the fourth one of these in a row I’ve watched. Now I just feel depressed. Everything these people worked so hard for 70 years to build... just gone. All because goons like Yeltsin saw an opportunity to seize wealth and power under Gorbachev.
@Krzysztof Bartczak The technology in China is making it easier. You don't know, everything is known. There is always someone somewhere writing down whatever you do. Not the USSR everywhere. From the US to Germany to even Russia and Bulgaria
The complexity of “worked so hard for 70 years” glosses over people like Lenin and Stalin murdering millions of it’s own people and starving millions in Ukraine (possibly inadvertently, but still wanton disregard for Russian lives). There was no accountability, checks and balances or freedom of reporting these horrific actions. It created the environment for rampant corruption for such “goons.” A lot of blood was sacrificed at the alter to get to that point of stabilized normalcy. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bath water, but please don’t disregard the brutality of the Marxist dream mindset that hid the bodies under the ignorance of the common person. Every nation has their sins, but the stories that have emerged are pretty crazy. These lives shouldn’t just be dismissed as the “cost of doing business.”
watching this video right now from my dacha in Moscow Oblast wishing to be a part of this cool project and dreaming of how amazing it would be to spend at least a week back then in USSR all these videos have such a great vibe, keep growing guys:)
What’s amazing to me is not a single person mentioned living under constant threat of nuclear war with the U.S. Talk to Americans who lived during that time and they’ll tell you how they had to do school drills where they hid under desks in the event of a nuclear bomb... as if hiding under a desk will save you. They’ll tell you about Vietnam, gas shortages, and a war on drugs.
Well they judge people by themselves.. they were the only state that ever used nuclear bombs ( when there was no need), so they were so shirtless afraid of ussr back then that they cannot let go for 30 years and continue to destabilise world order by provoking the war in Ukraine
Obviously, they had civil defense drills in the old USSR. And, of course, Soviet subjects (sorry, I can't bring myself to call slaves or serfs "citizens") experienced shortages of a wide variety of daily items and had to wait in long lines at stores for many things we take for granted will be available every day at your local supermarket. I went to school in the USA in the '70s, and we weren't doing the "duck-and-cover" drills anymore. Living in suburban Arizona, I don't remember ever participating in a civil defense drill. By then, we had become reconciled with M.A.D. -- mutually assured destruction, and fighting the Cold War through proxies (with extended periods of "detente" -- in which we would witness things like the Apollo-Soyuz link-up in 1975 or '75).
i had the good fortune to spend some time in moscow in 1986 and in east germany in 1981. in both cases my experience was that my surroundings were clean and safe and the people were educated and happy.
@Steve you mentioned that, in your view, foreigners were not allowed to visit ussr outside of moscow. thus, i take it that you resided in the former ussr(?).
As an American, I gotta say, life in the USSR as described by these people really doesn't sound half bad. Work where the government assigns you for a few years and then you can get any job you want? Concrete job security? Free education? Most hardline conservatives in my country would scream in horror at most of those ideas because "MUH FREEDOM!!!" but I can definitely understand why it's a tradeoff that a lot of people would happily make. Shit man, it really doesn't sound bad at all to me.
yes mate, everyone was employed, there was no hunger, no homeless, still some dumbass think its better to have a 90% chance to be broke and 10% chance to life a better life than in a socialist country, where you have what you need, you dont need cellphones to survive you need food, a house, a good education, a good health system(those 2 need to be free), a job and happiness, and in the ussr they had everything, they needed to for a good life, i dont think its worth it trading this for "freedom" and a small chance to become rich, do you?
It was not bad. Free education and healthcare. Afterschool chess, music, swimming, all free. No luxury but no homelessness, almost 100% literacy. Access to arts, cinema, theater. Almost everybody I meet miss those days. They were not perfect but they were not bad. More friendship, camaraderie. These are important.
It sounds amazing, I already work a job I pretty much didn't choose (since there wasn't that much of an option) just so I can save up to go to university (something that in the USSR would be free) to maybe land a job in a related field with some luck, because jobs in a capitalist society exist purely because of how much money they can produce and not because of their utility to society
My parents were born in the USSR ,and they still talk about how good it was back then. They had good jobs and a steady salary. Everything was calm and organized.
@@haraldazzlackGulags were a stalin era thing and were being phased out in the 50s and completely abolished by the 60s. Chances are this persons parents weren’t even alive when gulags were
Remember that Russia was a poor country and they are behind Europe until USSR kicks in.It did has bad start but for the rest of its life it will be one of the most developed country.
You get it wrong. People was freer back then. Now, only the filthy burgeoisie is free, and that's essentially a bad thing. Worker's freedom only can flourish just as burgeois' is undermine.
People were freer and much happier back then. And people now are not poorer. Simply poor or rich didnt exist back then it was pretty much equality. What do you mean?
I hope the comrade at 5:30 can fulfill his promise to his son, resurrecting the first great nation of the immortal science would be the highest achievement.
If anyone wondering why the Soviet Union collapsed if it was such a good place to live in, the answer is that it was a good place to live for ordinary people. The affluent Soviet elites were really not happy with all those limitations Soviet society put on them. They wanted the level of life of rich people in the West like personal mansions, servants, yachts, private jets, their own factories and banks. So they destroyed that country which was not allowing them to have all this.
It collapsed because of revisionist coup. Stalin era was the best era for the union. socialism is much more superior than capitalism and i promise one day workers will have thier freedom and world will be free
@@mcboat3467 USSR was not a socialist society in any sense of the word. They were a state capitalist society. Sure they had some social reform policy but to say that they were socialist because of those policies are absurd.
No, It’s called nostalgia. I guarantee that there were Germans who grew up during the Nazi regime and had a nostalgic remembrance of those times; this doesn’t mean Nazi Germany was good.
I am from Russia, and my parents, who grew up in the 1980s, told me that life in the Soviet Union was very difficult. People couldn’t buy anything. My family dislikes communism because half of my relatives were executed between 1920 and 1950.
I am really glad there are videos like this on TH-cam. I can watch all the documentaries in the world, but I still don’t know what the actual people think about the Soviet Union. спасибо!
this makes me mad when I tell Americans that Soviets were interviewed and they say they are forced to. The USSR ended so why would they be forced to? Putin also does not like the anti religion rule
@Yakov Sverdlov my uncle said Russia was communist right after arguing that no countries practiced socialism anymore. Americans can't think all they know is propaganda
Some Americans and other Capitalist countries think that it’s very bad to live in The USSR, but they are wrong. My dad explained to me that he had a great time of living in the USSR. I asked him why does the Americans and the capitalist countries complaining about living in the USSR is bad? He explained that the Americans they didn’t see that the USSR was actually good to live there.
Im not from russia or former ussr states but im from a former socialist state. My father said he misses the good old times. I guess not only the ussr had good times but probably most of the former socialist states
No, they are not! It was very bad. Slave wages, tiny apartments (100 square feet for 3 people), waiting in line for 2 hrs to buy some sugar.... are you kidding me?
@Hussain Mirahmadi Partially. Partially imposed, partially it's due vicious anti-Russian propaganda since the early 1990s. The whole generation has been brought up in the atmosphere of hatred to the Soviets. Funny that the majority of their today's political elite used to be ardent Komsomol and Party leaders in the USSR who professed the coming of Communism ))
Комментаторы из капиталистических стран до сих пор не понимают, что многими своими благами сейчас они обязаны именно СССР, а не своим чиновникам. Дело в том, что в период "холодной войны" США и СССР подсматривали и учились друг у друга, внедряя в свою жизнь те преимущества, которые были у одной стороны и не было у другой. Благодаря этому сейчас во многих странах до их пор и существуют определенные социальные гарантии, но они отнюдь не являются настолько доступными, какими они были в самом СССР. После распада СССР весь смысл такого реформирования капиталистической системы утрачен, соревноваться им не с кем. Оттого пусть никто не удивляется тому, что жизнь в капиталистических странах постепенно ухудшается - система всегда деградирует, когда перестает развиваться.
Well, western media told people exactly the opposite story about USSR. They said USSR was an evil country where people were oppressed by the government and they were forced to do anything CCCP asked. But in this video, we all see pre-USSR residents think highly of that era and wanted to go back to it. The only person who disliked USSR was a young girl who obviously hadn't been living in USSR. She proved how successful western propaganda is. The collapse of the USSR made the west realize that slandering communism is working, especially on young people.
@daniel yu Here you are. My parents were living in Kazakhstan in Soviet period, and they say everything the same as what the people from the video said. Don't trust everything from the media. I know several Ukrainians, and they all have the same opinion about a prosperous life in the USSR.
@daniel yu Yeah see what's happening now in Ukraine after its “democratic activities”. Let's not talk about the severe inflation and unemployment, Ukraine is already a surrogacy center for Europe. Thanks to the U.S. for bringing “democracy”.
My grandparents were some of the first American Missionaries into Russia after the Fall of the USSR. This is really powerful, and shows how much propaganda we received after the Fall of a system that supported the communities...
At the expense of basic human liberties like freedom of speech? I would rather have student debt than risk being held at gunpoint for liking western music.
Belonging to a middle class family from India and constantly fighting with the system of costly education, medicine, job stability,it seems a dream come true while living in the system of former USSR. india couldn't even become 5 percent of former USSR still as long as USSR was there, it's values influenced all poor and middle class people who constantly fights with the capitalistic society. Hope one day, people of former USSR will understand their mistake. I wasn't even born when USSR was dissolved but hope to see her reunification before my death. All workers and peasants will start their victory march from her womb again and will claim all what are rightfully theirs.
Soviet Union didn't work. These are just old people being nostalgic about their youth. All Russia needs is a new law-abiding government that doesn't steal from its people and higher tax rates for the rich. Especially billionaires and big corporations. And stop spending huge amounts of money on military and invasion of other countries.
нужно понимать что она выросла во времена агрессивной антисоветской пропаганды, это не её мнение, она просто ретранслирует то что ей внушалось годами, у нас полстраны такие же, правда после отъезда иноагентов потоков грязи стало заметно меньше
It's always interesting to hear how the people who have lived under socialism actually think of it. The USSR was not perfect, but it did a lot of things right when compared with the US or western Europe and that needs to be remembered.
Ugh, with videos like this you’ll be starting a war in the comments 😂 honestly, as a person who was born in Russia in the 90s and moved abroad a few years ago (not that I wanted to move really badly, but I had to - in order to be with my partner), I wouldn’t want to live in the USSR as I wouldn’t be able to have the lifestyle I have now. BUT my parents are also as nostalgic about the life in the USSR as the people featured in the video. My dad always wanted to be a university professor and a researcher. He eventually became a professor and then the USSR collapsed, in the 90s, his faculty was closed and he, the doctor of science and his former colleagues had to go and start working as plumbers, security personnel and manual workers cutting trees and holes in the ground. Eventually, he waa able to start his own small company, but he always wanted to be a professor, so he hated having a small business. My mum as a school teacher has witnessed the fall and the decay of the school education in Russia. From having a good lifestyle in the USSR and certainty in the future, they went to poverty and uncertainty in the next day. Then the country sort of recovered in 2005-2015 due to high oil prices, but there is still so much uncertainty and instability! Most of my friends want to move abroad because they are not certain that the country won’t collapse again in the next 10 years :(
@Liza Tripsget - London blog "Most of my friends want to move abroad because they are not certain that the country won’t collapse again in the next 10 years :("----- How can Russia fall in 10 years? This is a country with a lot of resources, with a good education and normal medicine and a good military unit. Maybe they want to leave, because they are ordinary opportunists who think that this country limits them? If they do not achieve anything here, then in the same Britain they will also be unable to do anything.
Тиграшка our president isn’t eternal and I don’t foresee a younger version of him emerging anytime soon. Now it’s seems like the county is holding on a strong authority, but what is going to happen in 5,10 or 15 years? None of my friends are planning to move to the UK, btw) and they would ideally like to stay home if they could, but they are a bit afraid for the future of their kids.
I think it is common to want to go back to the way things were in the past, no matter what country you live in. It’s nostalgia and the good old days mentality.
As Chinese,we hold the extremly complicated view on USSR.We remember that,maybe we pity that,maybe we hate that,maybe we give thanks to his birth,and his death.But I still think the USSR was GREAT!And LONG LIVE MARXISM!LONG LIVE THE HUMAN BEING!
@@vlad_47 That's why the following dialogs happened. Chine and USSR kept a same ideal direction. "Hey,comrade,do you know where are the Leningrad and Stalingrad,I can't find them on the map." "No,no more,we have failed!The gangsters and capitalists once again rode on our heads. If you want to follow the red star,go to the East!Cross the Dnieper River and cross the Ural Mountains,at the end of the Siberian Plains. The spark of the red star is still burning there."
Love this video Danil! As an American it’s fascinating to hear the older Russian citizens talk about their life in the Soviet Union. I’d love to hear another one like this again!
1950's to 70's was pretty good from what I've heard due to the entire rest of the world still reeling from the carnage of WW2, everything afterwards has been pure shit apparently
@@narasimhashelar6745 If only it were so simple… Too much of the world has been poisoned under western influence. It would be extremely difficult, or perhaps take a completely different generation…
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Wonder about how it was like for the rest of the country... of course people in the capital had it good. Just like the capital in north korea has the elite and the rest of the country is in poverty.
Flip, it was not filmed in Moscow
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@@mustafacanaydn3872 did i beg? 😅
Nice joke i think
"We weren't able to buy anything, we had money. Now we have everything but we don't have the money." - this describes the situation so well.
Edit: 683 likes... Wow
@Mafwi maybe I'm biased, but I prefer society of generally good ppl, rather than society of materialism.
I know USSR wasn't all that perfect, but ig it was still better(?)
Although again, it depends on your values
What he means is you wouldn't able to buy like gold teeth, gamer girl bath water, expensive golden phone, ect. But you will always guaranteed your needs to be fullfiled
I am calling from India . Can you tell me what is the position of C.P.R.F ( communist party of russian federation ) in these days? Is Gennady zyuganouv a powerful leader ? Yes or no
@@edhiepitz Nooooo, my gamer girl bath water
Actually, until the Brezhnev era, USSR basically had everything the West had. Even better because USSR were the first to develope space technology. Then came Leonid Brezhnev who was a sick close-minded conservative and decided to cut spending for everything except the military. That's when the technological gap between west and east was born. Consider that USSR could have had computers and internet before the rest of the world but Brezhnev did not believe in it and turned it down. But still the USSR, until the 90s, still manage to provide its citizens, all its citizens, with every mean necessary for a stable life. It may have been simple but it was happy. Cinema, theaters, festivals and other enterteinment was very cheap, sport was free, the Moscow Metro price was stable at 5 copecks. And Crimea, Sochi and the Baltics beaches were always beautiful as well as the siberian taiga and the lake Baikal. So no wonder people were happy.
I live in Romania.. also a ex-comunnist country, and the elders from here say exactly the same things like russian elders
I don't know what it was like totally in Romania but I think Ceaucsescu was worse than the USSR not when compared to Stalin but when compared to others like Brezhnev, Gorbachev era . I don't know how you can miss Securitate and power cuts, long lines for food, no heating. (80's era) I'm from Albania which was the worst communist regime in Europe and people say they miss 0% unemployment that they had in those times and how life was more stable but no one actually wants to go back to that regime ever. There was no freedom, no opportunities, very limited information, life was always same old same old. People need to have stability in their lives but they also need freedom.
People in Romania lived in fear. Cops were very brutal, the government stole the fields and houses of the people, there were a lot of poor people and corruption in every single institution. Some of the elders really wish those times back. But not all of them. I think the psychology behind this is that they could adapt to their situation and they were young, they had friends, relationships, so they lived their "good times" in this period. All their good memories are from this time period, so it's not a surprise if they want to go back. Also, white-collar jobs were well respected, so extra goods were available for people in these fields. If they (and their relatives) didn't talk against the government and didn't were kulaks they could live a pretty satisfying life.
Also people in poland were not doing very good in the communist ages :/ well many people nay not know it was just rhe beggining of communism in these countrys who knows if the U.S.S.R somehow didnt collapse the countrys may of had more food because the U.S.S.R was dealing with the U.S.A
Look at germany you dont even need to work to be rich. This would be without socialism
Comunismul sovietic nu se compara cu mizeria de comunism roman
06:27 when that man said that he’s a bit drunk because he doesn’t want to see what’s going on in his own country my heart shattered💔feel him
Алкоголизм - это болезнь, и страдающие ей всегда находят какие-нибудь объяснения (оправдания) для пьянства. В то время как причина только одна: психологическая и физическая ЗАВИСИМОСТЬ. Это медицинский термин.
И вообще, нечего их жалеть. И тем более, умиляться. В России какое-то снисходительное отношение к этой проблеме. Ни капли жалости не вызывают эти прокажённые, алкашня чёртова. Почти все преступления совершаются под действием алкоголя. Нужно калёным железом выжигать этот недуг. Алкоголь сужает сознание и делает людей агрессивными (или обидчивыми и ранимыми, что на глубинном уровне, на самом деле, одно и то же).
Уж лучше травку покуривать, чтобы снять напряжение, чем пить. Если выбирать из двух зол, так сказать.
@@КотШрёдингера-г9к, я тоже так подумал сначала, но он в конце сам признался, что выпил.
she answers in english, and you @rioand answer in Russian?
@@tatakae4608, her name is written in Russian. What do you think it means? :)
Im from Kyrgyzstan, ex soviet country. I also hear the same thing from elders. And when I saw old pictures I was so surprised how neat, intelligent and elegant they all looked. When you listen to older people often time I feel they are more educated compared to nowadays young people. The same with talents, there are more highly professional talents back in history than what we have now. Once in a time my parents talk about this period of their life with a smile on their face. They were actually living in present, not worrying about future. No ambitions, no rush. People were also kinder cause they didn’t have anything to be jealous of or to be compared for. They were friends for who you are not for what you have. They had few pairs of clothes but they were always neat. This was a proper “sustainability” in terms of product consumption. I also often hear that they used to read a lot and spend a lot of time with people having fun. The education, healthcare and all the institutions worked perfectly, with no corruption. The only negative things I heard is that they had money, but they couldn’t buy much. The history and media was manipulated. Limited freedom and a bit strict system, but I guess it’s not also that easy to sustain such a huge territory with sooooo many different nations under control. In general people had a good life, maybe better than now.
Everything was thrown away for petty nationalism.
Lmao educated in what? Spewing propaganda from their TV and being racist & homophobic?
This has literally nothing to do with communism, it's just the regular "kids these days" rhetoric. Go ahead and look up socialist realism and the Prague spring, they literally sent tanks to our country in 1968 because we were getting too liberated in our thinking. Living in Russia, the country prospering the most from the regime, was a different thing from living in a country manipulated by force into joining the union. I'm leaning towards the left but the west's "i'm a communist uwu" trend is seriously disturbing to me as someone whose parents still grew up in the regime. There will never be a perfectly working political system and communism alone won't save us.
Also "worked perfectly without corruption"... 🤣 sorry can you give me your resources for that information? People were literally forced to spy on each other and report anything seemingly against the regime, healthcare, education and production might've been free or at least cheap, but that's also saying something about the quality. I've read both, 1984 and Animal Farm, and I recommend reading at least the latter so you could see how ineffective and demanding the industries were. Do your research before idealising someone's painful history.
@@trebaneconapise7793 stop lying troll. You were never in the union. You were one of the vassal state of OUR MOTHERLAND and a member of WARSAW PACT. You were axis and got defeated and became a subject of the victor. Hungary being in union with us lol
@@lunasephiroth I have no idea what country you're referring to as your motherland but I'm assuming it's Russia and in that case, you're probably fed a lot of propaganda and I'm sorry for that. We were a satellite state of the Soviet Union and I'm glad you're mentioning that we were a member of the Warsaw Pact, because they invaded one of its own out of fear we were getting too free in lack of censorship and surveillance by the secret police. Do some reading if you can think on your own, you don't have to trust a "troll". Here's a link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
I would give up cool jeans for a free apartment, free college, job security and for a universal healthcare
I would love to have those things you mentioned but I won't give up freedom of speech at any cost.
Neon Genesis yeah, because these people definitely don‘t get a visit from putin next time they criticize him in the media.
@@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935 Brazil, Argentina and Chile had a capitalistic dictatorship, so you don't need communism to lose you freedom of speech. Ah, and in Chile, specially, the government would chase, torture and kill communist just because their political opinion. So yeah... Some food for thought
@@pilarcouto4326 You just mentioned 3 or 4 capitalistic country where I can't have my freedom of speech. But there's loads of others countries where anybody can share their views without any kind of trouble. Now, here is the thing you can't mention any socialist country where mass people can express their opinion. Just look at the history of former USSR or modern day North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela.
@@md.jobaidulislammaruf9935 Venezuela is not a communist country, and yes, they are communist and also a dictatorship, but we have countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark where they have high rates of socialization of the mean of the production and they are democratic. I brought that example just to illustrate that capitalism does not have democracy as a foundation to work.
"let me tell you how horrible communism is, I grew up in the soviet union" - born in 1994
USSR split in 1990. You were most probably born in Russia!!!!!
@@samp811 Wasn't it in 1991.....
@@rita6276 yes it was 1991
@@rita6276 it’s close enough.
Your last name is wang so I'm assuming that you're Chinese.
only person who gave unreservedly negative feedback was a person who probably never lived in the Soviet Union
@@MrStolboy Propaganda, primarily.
I'm from the young generation but my parents lived in the Soviet Union times, and I am jealous that I hadn't been born earlier. I'd also add here that, unfortunately, these days the young generation is brainwashed, misinformed. They get information from doubtful sources but speak up the most of the things they do not have any idea about.
@@dwaynethewokjohnson6646 nobody says it was perfect. It's only there were some advantages in it. There was much wrong about. Like it's economy policy. I' m not an English speaker, forgive me my mistakes
@@НатальяМусабаева-у8е yeah if it was good why did it collapse then
@@dwaynethewokjohnson6646 That is right. It only lasted 69 years.
You can see the nostalgia in their eyes..
I miss it much. It was like another planet . Quite a different system of living.
And there is no possibility to buy a ticket and visit it for a day at least. 😢
😢
"I'm a little drunk today, because I don't want to see what's going on". The Slavic life in a nutshell.
That's... pretty stereotypical.
@@meh9230 No shit. It's true though. You're either drunk, high or too sheltered/rich to know what life's really like in the East.
buckplug want to fucking be depressed come to the middle east. Shit i think every country in the east is suffering in some way but glad that here it's not like the west
Randevu yes i have alot of friends from the east i live in kuwait saw it all from corruption to talaban to alqaeda to isis to social inequality because you are not a sheikh or a royalty you have to work alot harder to succeed and more time than not you will fail i'm not spitting nonsense my friend i'm just stating that people from the east got it a little bit hard but again i'm blissed that i'm not from the west
@@buckplug2423
there are more drug addicts in the usa than in russia
1:22 I have doubts that this teenager lived in the Soviet Union
She didn't live there, which is why she says it was bad in the USSR-propaganda in action
@@Виталий-м3ч9й One hundred million people died under communism at least
@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz lmao thats fake
@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz thats wrong, it was a gazillion people at minimun
@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz don't you mean 30 trillion brother?
I like how the adults who lived in the USSR say that it was better then than now, and the Americans who heard on TV that "the USSR is the gulag, death and hunger," say "no, it was very bad there, we know it better than you!"
well, people from gulag didn't survive to tell you about their life in this video...
@L2020L 2 im pretty sure you know nothing about russia and just spout your western liberitarian propoganda.
@L2020L 2 don't worry for us, you'll see the effects of globalization and lgbt's lobby soon. Just wait for several years.
exactly
@L2020L 2 Yes Yes. everything was bad with us, and now everything is bad. So said your "independent" democratic media in which there is absolutely "no" propaganda. You have democracy (or "democracy") and therefore you know what others have good and bad.
Marx said capitalism leads to worker alienation.
My parents lived under a Marxist Leninist state, and one of the most interesting things I hear about is how much solidarity there was with not just your family, but your community. Nowadays we get up go to work, come back and lock our doors. Maybe we say hi to one neighbor every once in a while. we've become so alienated from our communities thanks to neoliberalism.
The rulers don't want community. They want people to be good little worker bees and consumers. It is all by design.
@@flovv4580 pretty much spot on
Then why Russia abandoned communism? Are Russians stupid?
See? We need communism.
Yeah but for starters at least we have food
They have more freedom now. Freedom to pay for things that used to be free.
I dont think they have freedom now. I mean there are dozens of people who arrested because of critizing the government. In soviet union thats normal because you know they were athorotian . But now they switched to democracy but still they are arresting people for nothing.
Nothing is free you d*mb*** you think sh** just materializes out of thin air?
Freedom and Democracy™️
Don't worry future generation pay for that debts
@@mankind8807 say it I dare you say it :))))
I am from Kazakhstan, my elders also say the exactly the same thing as the Russian elders said in the video.
Я тоже из Казахстана. Моя бабушка тоже так думает(
@Karl Marx young people yes
Салем
@@olzhastortpayev8053 Салем!! Как дела?
damn thats nice to hear! We really need a worldwide socialist revolution
USA: communism is horrible and all the Russian hated it!
Most of the Russians: Yeah, it was pretty good, we got to go to school for free and we got what we needed. I wouldn’t mind going back to that time.
USA: No that’s not how you play this game
USA: Ok i invade u
To know what the USSR was like, you must ask people outside of Moscow (since people in Moscow had everything they wanted). I know many people who lived in Moldova and Ukraine and they all say that life was hell in the USSR. They are all truly traumatized by what they have experienced. Don't forget that the wall in Berlin was not built to prevent people from entering in the country illegally, it was built to stop East Germans from ESCAPING the country.
@@PG-3462 Hi, Russian from outside Moscow here, grandparents lived in small village in the Vologda Oblast, are part of an ethnic minority, loved everything back then.
@@jakemails9240 As I said, I don't know any Russians, but I know several people from Ukraine and Moldova and all their parents/grandparents hated their life in the USSR. I also know a ton of Romanians and a few East Germans. While Romania and East Germany were not part of the USSR, they were still highly influenced by it and they all hated their life there. Name me a single capitalist country that ever built a wall not to prevent people from coming illegally in their country, but to prevent people from escaping it
@@PG-3462 Japan. Didn’t build a literal wall, but it was impossible to legally leave the country for most of its history.
You realise how much Amercian media influences you when most of the people in this video liked living in the USSR but you were told it was horrendous
They didn't interview any of the ones who had been killed and imprisoned. They were unavailable.
@@braddawson4496 This is Stalin's era, not 50-60-70-80s
@@braddawson4496 Don't tell me that those killed were peasant or ordinary people during those days?
@@Anonymous-qj3sf remember all those who died sneaking into East Germany?
@@braddawson4496 Is that why East Germans treat Russia and Russians with warmth and much more sympathy for Russia than West Germans, according to the polls? 🤣🤣🤣 Before you talk nonsense, talk to the people who lived there. I have rich experience. You don't have it. Most of all "suffered from Communism" those who never even lived there 😂
“american communists need to listen to people who lived in the USSR”
people who lived in the USSR:
Tell that to the people living outside the big cities at that time. These guys had it well because everyone who lived in Moscow at the time had jobs. Literally millions died from famine, purges towards the religious, ethnic cleansing. There is a reason why almost all former USSR countries hate Russia
@@cielonegro9054 1st the famines were happening until the 1950's 2nd they hated russia even before because of the tsar and his empire
@@cielonegro9054 Famines happened under Russian Empire regularly, USSR actually ended those famines. Also ethnic cleansings and purges happened in WW2 where brutality was only way to win the war.
if you prefer safety over freedom you have no soul
@@wendigo017 Stfu tankie
A teacher from my school was from Romania and we once started talking about communism and how it was like living in a communist country. I remember her saying "being able to have access to a specific amount of things is better than having everything without any access whatsoever".
If a gun license costs 3 million dollars, you still technically have gun rights, but what’s the point?
@@dankmemes7342, it means "better have money, but little choice in shopping then no money, but a lot of stuff to buy."
@Nicholas Rodriguez, since when Romania is the US? Read the message above.
Better have money and high quality stuff to buy with rights of freedom speech and etc. Communism is shit where you just a slave
@@ДмитрийХисматуллин-д5ш I can agree. Even if the theory of communism or socialism might be ideal for some people, they cannot work functionally in today's society.
blonde lady with glasses is definition of intelligent, genuine and graceful soviet person, she speaks so calm, sincere, polite and explains its so good... what a woman, her husband must be one of luckiest guy when he met her young :)
2:22 ?
@Birgitta Nilsson yes umrikkan inbreds knows better than the former USSR citizens themselves
I love her.. she is so relaxing to hear
@@LTUGang kodėl fufaika? :D
You nailed it. Very nice, polite and intelligent person. I wish I was older and Russian somewhere in her surroundings :-))))
I am glad and proud that I lived in the USSR, I saw the best system made for a common man, not an elite.
So you're proud of almost 70 years of an autocratic regime that killed tens of millions and forced people to wait in long lines for basic necessities.
@@ILaunchNukes You don't know shit about ex-socialist countries. My parents also lived in East Germany, and there's no “long line” you are talking about until the early 90s. They got everything they needed, even things you no longer have today like good quality healthcare, job guaranteed, etc.
@@ILaunchNukes damn that long ling thing sounds like American’s in bread and soup lines
Gulags...
@@lockdown1776 weren't any worse than any other prison
So many USSR experts here in the comments
Lmao 😂 i don't know who to believe
@@kylewilliams4691 the people Who lived there or Studied soviet history Well enough.
@@sir_humpy There is indeed a difference in perception between people living in different regions, but it's almost always in the opposite direction of what you think.
The thing is, while there was certainly a difference in available amenities between Moscow and places you've mentioned (Siberia, Uzbekistan, etc.), the gap was much smaller than it is now. Thousands of villages and small cities died out after the dissolution of USSR. The newly acquired wealth of the capitalist era is disproportionally concentrated in Moscow.
This is why people still living in these remote areas consider themselves forgotten and abandoned by the current regime, and have a more favorable perception of USSR than an average resident of Moscow.
you aint have to be one. Just aks you parent what it was like to live back then and post it here
funny that most who hate it are from europe or usa and tell lies about it...
My grandma says that it would be soo much better if we still lived in USSR lol
Ещё 20 лет при Володе проживёшь... начнёшь понимать.
При социализме было бы норм, но, естественно, не в том виде, в котором он существовал на закате СССР. Но даже тогда не было такого социального расслоения
@@МаратМаранкян после Сталина мы уже никуда не двигались.. а генсек-дурак и его шапка просто жили-кутили по энерции на том хорошем что успели заложить до них. Где живут потомки этих всех патриотов можно легко загуглить... Тоже самое и с нынешними. Сейчас ещё в июле подпишите "пользовательское соглашение раба" и ещё 30 лет в сторону банановой республики.
Hell no! Never!
I live in America and the people here think Bernie Sanders is a communist so I don’t know want to know what they will feel about USSR lol
I would prefer a free apartment, guarenteed job and free education over some jeans and coca cola.
Sure, sure. "Free".
Remember: If you are not paying anything, chances are the product is actually you.
@@lfos31 Remember: I couldn't give a shit about some saying if I was able to live in state supplied housing with rent capped at 5% of my income.
@@ttbr7687 It's all the same. I'm certain someone Soviet dude said the same however in reverse. Hierarchy of needs. Some prefer those things now because those things are the things some need now. Once that is satisfied, the need of the freedom of speech, expression, product, will want to be satisfied as well.
@@ArchTazer exactly, we have the opposite. A homeless person has all the free speech in the world but not the means or accessibility to the most basic requirements for life.
@@ttbr7687 you actually make a good point.
5:30 - His son must be extremely proud.
"Now there is everything but no money" welcome to the west
Its their fault they have a corrupt government.
@@Unikt_brugernavn2979 I agree.
@@Unikt_brugernavn2979 1) Definitely not everything
2) Take a wild guess where the West's "prosperity" came from...
Amount of currency is meaningless the everything so the amount of goods and services is all that matters. You want a punch of wortless paper and you go to the store and cant buy anything or rather less wortless paper but ability to buy more real goods and services with it. Your ability to access real goods and services is what matters.
Then go to Venzeuala . They have all the money ( or should I say worthless paper) but people still can't afford basic amenities.😏😏😏
I live in Serbia,a successor state to Yugoslavia,and elders say it was a better life than now,and they all loved Tito.
Tito kept the people of Yugoslavia from killing each other for over 3 decades, which is quite the historical achievement considering the bloody history of the Balkans. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, Muslim Bosniaks, all lived together in peace & brotherhood thanks to his leadership.
The power of Brotherhood and Unity.
I heard some really nasty stories about the breakup of yugoslavia some really dark cant imagine what these people were put through.
я живу владивосток 😀😀😀😀
Tito is the boss!!! imho
“My son is sick we have already spent 145,000 why do you think things have gotten better?”
“Maybe you would have spent a million.”
“.... they would have cured him.”
Damn, and even accompanied by an awkward silence. There is no way the interviewer did not feel instant regret upon asking that 2nd question.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E MICKEY MOUSE MICKEY MOUSE MICKEY MICKEY MOUSE
I don’t know what he meant “maybe you would have spent a million there”
@@lani6647 Neither. They were talking about free health care lol.
The point was that it could have cost them even more in the old days to fix him, but it would have cost everyone, and they did not have as good technology. Meaning, they might have saved his son, and a million other sons, and gone bankrupt.... AS THEY DID IN REAL LIFE... and then again maybe not because they didn't have as good of technology. The point is, the dad is making an emotional argument with rosy lenses on, and the interview is inviting him to make an objective assessment.
@@Monaghan3000 They didn't go bankrupt, you have no idea what you are talking about.
First man in space. You can't argue with results.
From a poor country to a global superpower thanks to the bases built by lenin
"What's going on?"
-"TRASH"
lmao
Me rn -
Describes the wreck that the Federation is in one word
fun to you, right
more correct translation is "disorder", "mess", "confusion", not trash. Bardak literally means "whorehouse", "bordello"
You never know what you have until you lose it...
Straight facts!
Nostalgia and rosy retrospection are no substitutes for reality--there's enough written by former Soviet citizens and writers like Bunin, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn to chronicle what life in the Soviet Union was really like.
@@fredpearson5204 75 percent of Russians want to go back to the Soviet Union
@@glizygxbler3131, if that's what they want, they should pursue that.
@@glizygxbler3131, by the way, are you Russian?
People are like "wow we didnt have smartphones in the USSR" Like, these smartphones came out barely 10 years ago. I don't remember seeing smartphones in the 90s anywhere in the world.
There were mobile phones in the late 70s in USSR.. you can communicate within 1to 2kms .. I have read it somewhere..
But not smartphones.. yeah , it was a stupid response..
yeah, well, they are mainly refering to good technology... Meaning that Western countries/the free world had access to quality Japanese electronics, appliances and vehicles, while the Soviet block was producing their own bad copies, and very few people could buy genuine Sony/Technics, brought from afar by navigators and sold illegaly at a very high price. People had to use with poorly built local electronics, appliances and cars. The idea that you didn't have access to such goods, such as the free world !
We already have it here back in 97 but of course not a smartphone, just a regular Motorolla cellphone 😁
@@uwi2 Even in North Korea normal people have smartphones. If you look up the New Year's celebrations everyone is recording the fireworks with their androids
I’m from Vietnam. We’re happy and proud to live under socialism.
Nice to see an educated person for a change.
@@Alec72HD ikr. Looks like not everyone is falling for the Americans lies .
@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx Really? Why does almost everyone call Vietnam "state capitalist"? I'm pretty sure its socialist. Please check out this video and other videos of this channel: th-cam.com/video/mMubOw5H-yo/w-d-xo.html
@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx I'm a student,so I know the most about schools in Vietnam.The State owns most schools here and it's the State that pays the teachers,so education is very affordable here! Extra classes are run by private companies,therefore they're expensive. Also the States owns all large hosputals in Vietnam,only small clinics are run by private companies! I'm not sure about gyms as I have never been to one but I don't think gyms really matters :))
@@PumpkinEater-dm1xx actually, North Korea isn’t exactly Communist (economically yes but politically no). NK is simply Communist by name (similar to China). It’s actually the last remaining stand for Japanese Imperialism that flourished pre-WW2. One of the many things they have in common is way the people of NK treat their dictator is as if he’s god and that was something that was a part of Japanese Imperialism; the Emperor was considered a god.
So closest thing there is to a fully Communist country would be Cuba and Laos. (I’M SO SORRY IF I’M INCORRECT OR IF MY GRAMMAR AND SPELLING IS WRONG! english isn’t my first language! please forgive me!)
Bruh I’m from Portugal and when I hear Russians speak, they sound very familiar to my ear.
Portuguese sounds the same to Russians. The languages phonetics are very similar.
Paul V. That’s pretty dope
Actually, I can't notice this familiarity with Portuguese. Nevertheless I hear very often, that this languages sound similar.
wow really portugues sound so slavic. but portugal so far from slavic countries, so weard
Данил Романов check Portuguese from Portugal not Brazil. In Portugal we pronounce our S as Sh.
We usually say: "The younger the person, the worse his life under communism."
Western propaganda did a good job
@@digge2210 i don’t know who to trust now. people who actually say that the USSR was a good place when they actually lived through it while western propaganda says otherwise.
@@rusty3073 the Man from your nickname and avatar says: "Learn, learn, learn". Read Lenin, read good books;)
@@herewego3858 Which one?
@@rusty3073 state and revolution for start
Thank you for this, I’m studying Russian history and it’s very insightful to hear the experience of people who lived through it
The Soviet Union had other 15 countries which have bad past being invaded and annexed by Russia, go and listen to a Baltic person who also lived through it, let's see if they have the same to say.
@@katitadeb I don't know where you're from and if your family in particular was negatively affected, but the majority of the aforementioned 15 republics saw USSR positively. USSR is not Russia, stop equating the two.
@@katitadeb Troll detected. Aren't you tired of writing complete nonsense in every comment 😁?
@@Anton-kl5xq lol theres no secret at all baltics mostly dont like anything related to russia
@@katitadeb можно еще послушать тех прибалтов, кто состоял в коммунистической партии, их было тоже немало. Там же были не только националисты.
As a young Chinese, we all know that: Once we were young, we have a big brother, he taught us a lot, he gave us the essential industry that we can survive and not bullied by others in the world. And he lead us to a path, a red path, he told us, at the end of the path, there will be the most beautiful things in the human world. Although we have fight each other when we were drunk, but we know he is my big brother forever! One day, he died, with his flag in his hand, his head towards the end of the path. Now, i am taking the red flag and walking on the path, although all the enemies laugh at us and slander us, but we will keep walking, walking towards the end of the path, not just for me , but for my big brother! For the most great country in human history!
CHina was one of the contribution to Soviet's Death, so stop being prententious
Beautiful writing
Vpn user????
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@Prasanth Thomas China is communist. They’re market socialists. Private businesses but there’s no free market. The workers still have control and workers are still prioritized. Have private businesses doesn’t make it capitalist. China still has all the socialist programs that full socialist economies would normally have and workers still have control over their future and their job. The government still highly regulates businesses and most of the successful Chinese businesses are pretty much nationalized.
Lets be honest, the story of that man on 1:45, who spent enormous anmount of money to help his son is beautiful and i hope its all ok with him and his family
Upd:shit, i've listened to that 'they' d've cured him there' part and i gonna cry
Also that he promises that they’ll get back to those times. They’ve clearly had turbulent times,
I didnt get the point of that man
He is pro ussr?
@@maimohammed529 Ask any family with a sick person who needs an operation. In the USSR, everything was free. It was better to wait 2 months for an operation (if it was urgent, you did not have to wait at all) than to lie in the grave because you are not a Rockefeller and do not have hundreds of thousands of euros for an operation.
@@maimohammed529 Why shouldn't he be? It made his life so much better.
@@judejud355 .
I am from Mongolia. My grandparents always said things were far greater during those times. But the youth and the new generation has so much negativity.
Meanwhile Young Americans are positive. Will not be surprised if America becomes socialist and Russia remains capitalist, and have an opposite cold war
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 I hope America doesn’t go to socialism
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 I actually thought about that but I think if America becomes socialist way more countries will follow as East-european countries. They are truly struggling under capitalism
@@jeborismonke3270 yeah because we’re doing so well right now right Jeboris
Yes, but the old generation also has many negativity.
my grandfather was given an apartment in latvia (1972) for free and my grandmother still lives her to this day
@Alejandro Rodriguez Извините но мой русский не самый лучший, Но моя мама съехала с Латвии потому что есть больше возможностей в других странах, не связанных с СССР. Я спросила у неё и она говорит то что все было бесплатно там например образование и медицина И то что было хорошо. Я у бабушки тоже Спросила и она говорит то что было всё хорошо но пожалуй самый негативный эффект был когда развалился СССР.
My grandpa, who was from East Germany, also got a free apartment, and it was the place my dad grew up and lived his childhood. So sad it was no longer “free,” and he had to leave after the collapse of the regime.
@@LeonWagg If everyone finds out (if the English-language Internet has it) how many factories closed down after the destruction of the GDR, the tales of the West German politics and monopolists about how they are feeding East Germany will sound like mockery. The GDR had many promising industries, in particular electronics from Robotron (1969-1990).
For free? Wow, unbelivebel! In Romania, houses/apartaments were received but paid in installments, nothing is free. Something is wrong with what you are saying.
@@predacorneliu well they were given it by the government/city council or whatever it’s called but now my grandmother just pays for the building upkeep ( like maintenance to the building and keeping the area around it clean ) like everyone else in the apartments
I would happily give up anything to bring back this marvel of human society.
Same.
The same. I miss USSR much. I would give my three flats, my business for that...
I would burst into tears with happiness seeing USSR.
What a country we lost...
I live in Albania and my parents and grandparents say the same. They talk with positive nostalgia about Communism period.
Interesting but how can they cope with that madman Hoxha?
@@phraya_techapit9910 they managed to survive
@@phraya_techapit9910 i don't see how they wouldn't. The guy literally made it legally required for every household to have at least one gun by law, you were taught how to use it and it was legal for people over the age of 18 to own a gun without a lisence. The people could've easily revolted if they wanted to, but obviously Something kept them from not. You should think about what.
@@hatinmyselfiscool2879 You know they could easily arrest anyone with a gun despite the law, right?
May I ask what city/town your parents and grandparents are from? I lived in northern Albania for a couple years.
I was an exchange student in the Moscow University, All of my Russian teachers always say back then education was really good and free, there were high education institutes in every town but now they need to go to big cities to study because of a lack of budgets.
It is all true. Soviet-trained scientists and engineers are still respected over the world because everyone understand they were well trained and have exceptional knowledge. Standards declined drastically after the socialist system fell. There was no money for universities. Professors became jobless! There is indeed a reason why there are so many Russian academics teaching in American and British universities. It really wasn't their choice to flee, they didn't have jobs after the USSR collapsed.
Why were people prevented from leaving if the USSR was so good? The Soviet Union will go down in history as the only place that had to build a wall to prevent people from leaving......
@@rgsxyz1105 that’s eastern germany. they made the mistake of not fixing up the mess and reversing industrialisation.
@@rgsxyz1105 doesn’t the west sanction and travel ban nearly every single socialist country though?
@@ggrey3155 зачем они нужны если стране нужны только продавцы?
4:33 That's exactly what my father said. They had a lot of money, but there wasn't variety in products. And now you can buy anything but with little money
thats so true, back then there were white and dark bread, few varieties of that or that and we bought it for cents. Now milions of varieties but we dont have money to buy it, just basic.
Hey guys don't forget that before we had a organic natural food and now we have any kind of shit and it's real shit. GMO. So do the math
There probably could have been a much more thoughtful moderate liberal economic solution. Instead of opening the country up to corporate capitalist vultures and selling away the country assets for pennies, open the county up to small scale entrepreneurship within the country and preserve the most important social guarantees.
You have as much money as you want...
@@matthewkopp2391 that's what Deng did in China. Look at them now.
When the blonde lady with the glasses started talking about the soviet union I swear she suddenly was 19 years old again.
We all miss our youth
I am 37 and I would do anything to go back to 17. I miss my youth
young people asked this question: uhhh yes according to memes, everything was shit.
Mostly western liberal fake ass depressed teens , neo nazis and deathbed boomers
@@unrealbot3027 yes 20 million, many of whom worked their lifes to death were also "fascists" according to the USSR and socialist apologists like yourself...
@@wheatandtares9764 Stalin didn't kill enough in my opinion. Class enemies should be purged in the worst possible way. Any questions?
@@wheatandtares9764 Also the grain hoarding kulaks deserved holodomor
@@unrealbot3027 thanks for revealing to us your ugly face. Shows how heartless many leftists are...
The blonde woman with eye glasses, its seems that she is pretty privileged. She enjoyed her life and she has a lot of good things to say about Russia. I love her gesture when she was answering the questions, she's like remembering all the good things about Russia when she was young..
Why do you think so? I dont think shes privileged.
She’s not privileged, she is an example of Russian “intelligentsia” - highly educated people who form an intellectual elite but don’t necessarily have much money
Щас бы убогий термин в виде привелегий сюда приплетать.
@@LizaTripsget but we must demarcate "intelligentsia" and
"creacliat"(they thinks what they are hightly educated, but they just lazy russophobic people)
First of all back than it was not Russia, it was USSR, which incuded 14 more republics, and even more nationalites. By saying that you unintantionally disrespect all thouse people.
And second the woman was not privillaged, it was normal life for soviet netizens. Personally I'm not a fan of Soviet Union either, but people lived there much more better than you think. It's not like North Korea, exept the time Stalin ruled.
She wasn't forced to go on a field. It was like a public service. It was done in Yugoslavia as well. Yes I consider it "forced" or "stupid" because when I see the system now for me it would be idiotic to even think of doing something like that when I know how corrupt politicians are. But back then people were more innocent (you could say "naive"), they were idealistic and believed in real change so they did things like those gladly. My parents speak of those labor works with a fondness as well
Considering it stupid i would say it is the naive thing to say, things like this build character, teach kids patriotism, hard work, connect them to the land and make you feel like you are a part of a community.
You could really say that about any political ideology or political figure. We all know trump does not follow the law but that's nothing new for a country were the rich do this alot.
My question was how did the corrupt of communist countries when they couldn't really leave the country and they were different from the corrupt of capitalist nations?
Thats true (im from croatia)
Yugoslavia was paradise. I know, I lived in it.
@Birgitta Nilsson That's true.
Communists: "Life is good, we have what we need".
Americans: "We need to stop communism at any price, attack now!!!".
Capitalism can't survive competition
@@sisyphusvasilias3943 we survived the cold war
If that were true, the Soviet Union would have been over in 1945. The US had nuclear weapons first and it took awhile for Soviet spies to steal the technology.
@@superiorshotgun4348 All because you attacked small socialist countries "in the name of democracy" and commited a lot of war crimes and killed a lot of civilians, and you rigged elections in Russia in favour of Yeltsin. That's how democracy works right? Let me remind you that 71% of the people voted for the preservation of the USSR.
@@_arthur_360 Let me remind you that the most recent one showed people not in favor of the ussr and the poles germans, Ukrainians Russians didn’t really like communism for oblivious reasons,we attacked them people they wanted a system that kill millions and will never work, we killed lots of communists and communism committed the worlds worse war crimes for a system that even marx said was impossible
Russian Federation and capitalism: Money is main resource
Soviet Union, communism and socialism: People is main resource.
I am Russian and know this
USSR was not a socialist regime in any sense of the word. They were more of a state capitalist society.
People are the main resource everywhere, money is merely an abstraction to direct labour.
Without workers money is just paper.
@@Name-jw4sj lol no
@Jaskaran Singhread Stalin and Lenin
@Moljo hmmmmm
Tried to destroy POVERTY?
Keyword - POVERTY *?*
LOL nope
American definition of freedom: the ability to endlessly consume and hoard a bunch of useless, toxic garbage.
Good point
Says the one who is like that
atleast the difference for both countries is freedom of speech, in USA u can mock all u want on the government but not too far while in Russia u cant mock the government even a single bit
@@mkmllrc us literally making memes about Putin playing bad piggies drip theme on piano
@@mkmllrc try to talk shit to the government when you are someone (not a nobody like you and i) and you’ll see if that person doesn’t face a “tragic accident”.
All regimes are the same, but the Americans really know how to brainwash their citizens into a sick nationalism hahah
Even in mexico you can criticize the government being a no one and nothing happens to you so your precious freedom doesn’t worth that much.
What people are looking back on with fondness was the sense of collectivism, community, and national pride. You felt like you had a tribe and belonged to something bigger than yourself.
Communism almost killed my father. On the flip side materialism doesn’t bring lasting joy. In modern times we don’t have conversations like we used to; simpler back then.✌️
True, but Not everyone needs that
I agree. Not a fan of the Soviet Union. I was just identifying what they felt and why.
Just tell me that capitalism is good,and you don't have to say anything more.
@@amradzinovic4086 Capitalism is good. Best system that exists.
In Yugoslavia we had the same plus freedom to travel, have both Western and Eastern culture, less oppression by the government etc Yugo was the perfect example how communism can work, it failed only because of foreign presure since u can't have communist country in the heart of capitalist world.
It's collapse is because yugoslavia took IMF loans and didn't nationalize enough. The near perfect system is arguably communist poland.
Because the us refused to let communism work. The USSR let people travel too, by the way. Many people took vacations to places like Greece.
Same thing here in former SFR Yugoslavia. People smuggled Levi's jeans and Nike shoes from Italy to look cool. They did not appreciate what they had and now those same people watch their children going away across border, but not coming back.
What was great about USSR?: Free healthcare, free education, plenty of jobs, wealth, access to sports and culture, etc.
What is better now?: YoU cAn Buy SMarTPhone!
How is it free?
@@sarcia96 they always ask how but not "when" :FeelsBadMan"
@@sarcia96 bro in socialism there are no taxes all the people are happy because there was nothing oppressing them
What’s the difference between this and UK? Free healthcare free education already…..
@@phil16 Mate you wouldn't even have free healthcare and other socialist policies in the UK were it not for the USSR putting pressure on the West to provide better standards to working class people. Also it was only in like the 50s that the UK created the NHS and it was the first in the West, the USSR socialized healthcare way before then.
Same goes for my parents (well or at least my mum). She wants to go back to those times.
They are just missing the times when their country was bigger and more powerful.
@@GenocideWesterners normal people don't care about that, they cared about community and of course the people were "better". It wasn't "everyone for themselves" like now under capitalism. People were not strangers but comrades.
Such a beautiful people and country, with rich culture and traditions.
This is the fourth one of these in a row I’ve watched. Now I just feel depressed. Everything these people worked so hard for 70 years to build... just gone. All because goons like Yeltsin saw an opportunity to seize wealth and power under Gorbachev.
@Birgitta Nilsson China is diffrent, I'd much rather not put brain scanners on my children and not punish people for having fun.
@Krzysztof Bartczak I'm happy that he didn't.
@Krzysztof Bartczak Not leaving the country isn't liberating and neither asking permission from the government to do so too.
@Krzysztof Bartczak The technology in China is making it easier.
You don't know, everything is known. There is always someone somewhere writing down whatever you do. Not the USSR everywhere. From the US to Germany to even Russia and Bulgaria
The complexity of “worked so hard for 70 years” glosses over people like Lenin and Stalin murdering millions of it’s own people and starving millions in Ukraine (possibly inadvertently, but still wanton disregard for Russian lives). There was no accountability, checks and balances or freedom of reporting these horrific actions. It created the environment for rampant corruption for such “goons.” A lot of blood was sacrificed at the alter to get to that point of stabilized normalcy. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bath water, but please don’t disregard the brutality of the Marxist dream mindset that hid the bodies under the ignorance of the common person. Every nation has their sins, but the stories that have emerged are pretty crazy. These lives shouldn’t just be dismissed as the “cost of doing business.”
watching this video right now from my dacha in Moscow Oblast wishing to be a part of this cool project and dreaming of how amazing it would be to spend at least a week back then in USSR
all these videos have such a great vibe, keep growing guys:)
yeah exactly moscow oblast
What’s amazing to me is not a single person mentioned living under constant threat of nuclear war with the U.S.
Talk to Americans who lived during that time and they’ll tell you how they had to do school drills where they hid under desks in the event of a nuclear bomb... as if hiding under a desk will save you. They’ll tell you about Vietnam, gas shortages, and a war on drugs.
Well they judge people by themselves.. they were the only state that ever used nuclear bombs ( when there was no need), so they were so shirtless afraid of ussr back then that they cannot let go for 30 years and continue to destabilise world order by provoking the war in Ukraine
Obviously, they had civil defense drills in the old USSR. And, of course, Soviet subjects (sorry, I can't bring myself to call slaves or serfs "citizens") experienced shortages of a wide variety of daily items and had to wait in long lines at stores for many things we take for granted will be available every day at your local supermarket.
I went to school in the USA in the '70s, and we weren't doing the "duck-and-cover" drills anymore. Living in suburban Arizona, I don't remember ever participating in a civil defense drill. By then, we had become reconciled with M.A.D. -- mutually assured destruction, and fighting the Cold War through proxies (with extended periods of "detente" -- in which we would witness things like the Apollo-Soyuz link-up in 1975 or '75).
i had the good fortune to spend some time in moscow in 1986 and in east germany in 1981.
in both cases my experience was that my surroundings were clean and safe and the people were educated and happy.
@Steve you're stating that from personal experience, are you?
@Steve you mentioned that, in your view, foreigners were not allowed to visit ussr outside of moscow. thus, i take it that you resided in the former ussr(?).
Let us return to that time, comrade!
As an American, I gotta say, life in the USSR as described by these people really doesn't sound half bad. Work where the government assigns you for a few years and then you can get any job you want? Concrete job security? Free education? Most hardline conservatives in my country would scream in horror at most of those ideas because "MUH FREEDOM!!!" but I can definitely understand why it's a tradeoff that a lot of people would happily make. Shit man, it really doesn't sound bad at all to me.
yes mate, everyone was employed, there was no hunger, no homeless, still some dumbass think its better to have a 90% chance to be broke and 10% chance to life a better life than in a socialist country, where you have what you need, you dont need cellphones to survive you need food, a house, a good education, a good health system(those 2 need to be free), a job and happiness, and in the ussr they had everything, they needed to for a good life, i dont think its worth it trading this for "freedom" and a small chance to become rich, do you?
It was not bad. Free education and healthcare. Afterschool chess, music, swimming, all free. No luxury but no homelessness, almost 100% literacy. Access to arts, cinema, theater. Almost everybody I meet miss those days. They were not perfect but they were not bad. More friendship, camaraderie. These are important.
It sounds amazing, I already work a job I pretty much didn't choose (since there wasn't that much of an option) just so I can save up to go to university (something that in the USSR would be free) to maybe land a job in a related field with some luck, because jobs in a capitalist society exist purely because of how much money they can produce and not because of their utility to society
Government assigns you a job for a few years? So just a little bit of slavery. Actual slavery. But don’t worry, you’re emancipated after
BUT remember, you don’t have rights there. You are owned basically.
My parents were born in the USSR ,and they still talk about how good it was back then.
They had good jobs and a steady salary. Everything was calm and organized.
And gulags
25% of the prisioners in the world live in the US prisions@@haraldazzlack
@@haraldazzlackGulags were a stalin era thing and were being phased out in the 50s and completely abolished by the 60s. Chances are this persons parents weren’t even alive when gulags were
Remember that Russia was a poor country and they are behind Europe until USSR kicks in.It did has bad start but for the rest of its life it will be one of the most developed country.
The guy who has made a promise to his son. I want to hug him
From what I understood, people are now freer but also poorer.
And ironically, being "poor" does not afford you much freedom. In effect, they exchanged security for an illusion of freedom.
You get it wrong. People was freer back then. Now, only the filthy burgeoisie is free, and that's essentially a bad thing. Worker's freedom only can flourish just as burgeois' is undermine.
People were freer and much happier back then. And people now are not poorer. Simply poor or rich didnt exist back then it was pretty much equality.
What do you mean?
"Freer" lol current government jails any political activist that isn't popular enough to cause massive protests
@ no, it was runners of underground soviet economy
I love your videos, keep em coming! I just wish they’d be a little more longer
I hope the comrade at 5:30 can fulfill his promise to his son, resurrecting the first great nation of the immortal science would be the highest achievement.
1:15 ah yes, a Russian elder who has experienced many years of brutal dictators
I was shook by her survivor testimony of war and famine. my toths and prayers
If anyone wondering why the Soviet Union collapsed if it was such a good place to live in, the answer is that it was a good place to live for ordinary people. The affluent Soviet elites were really not happy with all those limitations Soviet society put on them. They wanted the level of life of rich people in the West like personal mansions, servants, yachts, private jets, their own factories and banks. So they destroyed that country which was not allowing them to have all this.
It collapsed because of revisionist coup. Stalin era was the best era for the union. socialism is much more superior than capitalism and i promise one day workers will have thier freedom and world will be free
True.
@@user-xc7lh9go9f screw everyone who hates stalin
@@mcboat3467 USSR was not a socialist society in any sense of the word. They were a state capitalist society. Sure they had some social reform policy but to say that they were socialist because of those policies are absurd.
Bull shit post. That is NOT the reason for the USSR collapse. Can't believe this got ten likes.
Even in this age, they are beautiful.
This video had the best outro. 10/10
The older people are really the only reliable sources.
Facts.
No, It’s called nostalgia. I guarantee that there were Germans who grew up during the Nazi regime and had a nostalgic remembrance of those times; this doesn’t mean Nazi Germany was good.
Спасибо тебе за эту шикарную тему! Продолжай!
1:15 this girl was like 20 years old she don’t know shit. I lived in Saint Petersburg during the Soviet Union and I had a perfect life 👌
1:15 she wasn't even born in the time of the CCCP but she talks bad of it🤦♂️
Brain washed boi brainwashed
@@nonamenolastname8600 she is the one that isnt brainwashed
@@biggamer7876 No, she is CIA.
@@mozambique9113 so everyonw who doesnt support the failed ideology called communism is either fascist in the cia or a russophobe
@@biggamer7876 failed?
I am from Russia, and my parents, who grew up in the 1980s, told me that life in the Soviet Union was very difficult. People couldn’t buy anything. My family dislikes communism because half of my relatives were executed between 1920 and 1950.
I am really glad there are videos like this on TH-cam. I can watch all the documentaries in the world, but I still don’t know what the actual people think about the Soviet Union. спасибо!
this makes me mad when I tell Americans that Soviets were interviewed and they say they are forced to.
The USSR ended so why would they be forced to? Putin also does not like the anti religion rule
@Yakov Sverdlov my uncle said Russia was communist right after arguing that no countries practiced socialism anymore. Americans can't think all they know is propaganda
@@alicesenz6374, "HoW YoU cAn SaY tHaT mY **dEmOcRaTiC** cOuNtRy cAn LiE?????///????//?/"
Their reaction reveals who is actually brainwashed by propaganda lol.
@@shilanaisilang they live in moscow that means they most likely were elites if you ask a NK elite they will say it is great
@@shilanaisilang Truely brainwashed people tend to lash out when they hear something counter to their brainwashing.
Some Americans and other Capitalist countries think that it’s very bad to live in The USSR, but they are wrong. My dad explained to me that he had a great time of living in the USSR. I asked him why does the Americans and the capitalist countries complaining about living in the USSR is bad? He explained that the Americans they didn’t see that the USSR was actually good to live there.
yes same with my grandparents who lived in the ussr.
Im not from russia or former ussr states but im from a former socialist state. My father said he misses the good old times. I guess not only the ussr had good times but probably most of the former socialist states
No, they are not! It was very bad. Slave wages, tiny apartments (100 square feet for 3 people), waiting in line for 2 hrs to buy some sugar.... are you kidding me?
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I live in Lithuania and almost everyone has negative thoughts
@Hussain Mirahmadi Partially. Partially imposed, partially it's due vicious anti-Russian propaganda since the early 1990s. The whole generation has been brought up in the atmosphere of hatred to the Soviets. Funny that the majority of their today's political elite used to be ardent Komsomol and Party leaders in the USSR who professed the coming of Communism ))
2am in my country and hard chillin from too many bears, but its never too late for some good 1420. greetings from germany
3am in Moscow ✌🏻🥳
Grüße aus moskau
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The man at 5:30 with principles and determination is very wonderful. Such men rarely exist now.
My grandma and grandpa always say it would be so nice to live in Yugoslavia
Комментаторы из капиталистических стран до сих пор не понимают, что многими своими благами сейчас они обязаны именно СССР, а не своим чиновникам. Дело в том, что в период "холодной войны" США и СССР подсматривали и учились друг у друга, внедряя в свою жизнь те преимущества, которые были у одной стороны и не было у другой. Благодаря этому сейчас во многих странах до их пор и существуют определенные социальные гарантии, но они отнюдь не являются настолько доступными, какими они были в самом СССР.
После распада СССР весь смысл такого реформирования капиталистической системы утрачен, соревноваться им не с кем. Оттого пусть никто не удивляется тому, что жизнь в капиталистических странах постепенно ухудшается - система всегда деградирует, когда перестает развиваться.
My parents grew up in USSR, and yeah they had places to live before they even graduated high school. It’s not as greedy.
Well, western media told people exactly the opposite story about USSR. They said USSR was an evil country where people were oppressed by the government and they were forced to do anything CCCP asked. But in this video, we all see pre-USSR residents think highly of that era and wanted to go back to it.
The only person who disliked USSR was a young girl who obviously hadn't been living in USSR. She proved how successful western propaganda is. The collapse of the USSR made the west realize that slandering communism is working, especially on young people.
@daniel yu Here you are. My parents were living in Kazakhstan in Soviet period, and they say everything the same as what the people from the video said. Don't trust everything from the media. I know several Ukrainians, and they all have the same opinion about a prosperous life in the USSR.
@daniel yu Lol, older Ukrainians say the exact same thing, westoid
@@xolodnyponos9117 noooo but the BBC said everything was bad!!!!
@daniel yu Yeah see what's happening now in Ukraine after its “democratic activities”. Let's not talk about the severe inflation and unemployment, Ukraine is already a surrogacy center for Europe. Thanks to the U.S. for bringing “democracy”.
@daniel yu Ukraine was not European Womb during USSR era.😂 And ppl used to have a job back then.
This really changed my view...
This fills me with a joy to see someone say this you have no idea
My grandparents were some of the first American Missionaries into Russia after the Fall of the USSR. This is really powerful, and shows how much propaganda we received after the Fall of a system that supported the communities...
I will not worry about anything if I get free education,job gaurantee and free medical services.All things have become business.
At the expense of basic human liberties like freedom of speech? I would rather have student debt than risk being held at gunpoint for liking western music.
Belonging to a middle class family from India and constantly fighting with the system of costly education, medicine, job stability,it seems a dream come true while living in the system of former USSR. india couldn't even become 5 percent of former USSR still as long as USSR was there, it's values influenced all poor and middle class people who constantly fights with the capitalistic society. Hope one day, people of former USSR will understand their mistake. I wasn't even born when USSR was dissolved but hope to see her reunification before my death. All workers and peasants will start their victory march from her womb again and will claim all what are rightfully theirs.
Soviet Union didn't work. These are just old people being nostalgic about their youth.
All Russia needs is a new law-abiding government that doesn't steal from its people and higher tax rates for the rich. Especially billionaires and big corporations. And stop spending huge amounts of money on military and invasion of other countries.
@@Rib_bs Бред.
Самое смешное то, что плохо о Советском Союзе высказалась только девушка, которая никогда и не жила в нём.
Америку в России обычно тоже ругают те, кто там никогда не бывал
@@Good-Win2015 но Америка существует в наше время, а они во времена СССР даже и не жили.
нужно понимать что она выросла во времена агрессивной антисоветской пропаганды, это не её мнение, она просто ретранслирует то что ей внушалось годами, у нас полстраны такие же, правда после отъезда иноагентов потоков грязи стало заметно меньше
It's always interesting to hear how the people who have lived under socialism actually think of it. The USSR was not perfect, but it did a lot of things right when compared with the US or western Europe and that needs to be remembered.
USSR genocided millions of people, and more millions were put in Gulag!
Ugh, with videos like this you’ll be starting a war in the comments 😂 honestly, as a person who was born in Russia in the 90s and moved abroad a few years ago (not that I wanted to move really badly, but I had to - in order to be with my partner), I wouldn’t want to live in the USSR as I wouldn’t be able to have the lifestyle I have now. BUT my parents are also as nostalgic about the life in the USSR as the people featured in the video. My dad always wanted to be a university professor and a researcher. He eventually became a professor and then the USSR collapsed, in the 90s, his faculty was closed and he, the doctor of science and his former colleagues had to go and start working as plumbers, security personnel and manual workers cutting trees and holes in the ground. Eventually, he waa able to start his own small company, but he always wanted to be a professor, so he hated having a small business. My mum as a school teacher has witnessed the fall and the decay of the school education in Russia. From having a good lifestyle in the USSR and certainty in the future, they went to poverty and uncertainty in the next day. Then the country sort of recovered in 2005-2015 due to high oil prices, but there is still so much uncertainty and instability! Most of my friends want to move abroad because they are not certain that the country won’t collapse again in the next 10 years :(
@Liza Tripsget - London blog
"Most of my friends want to move abroad because they are not certain that the country won’t collapse again in the next 10 years :("-----
How can Russia fall in 10 years? This is a country with a lot of resources, with a good education and normal medicine and a good military unit. Maybe they want to leave, because they are ordinary opportunists who think that this country limits them? If they do not achieve anything here, then in the same Britain they will also be unable to do anything.
@@тигрушашмк В начале 80 в СССР все это было. И тоже никто не верил в развал.
Тиграшка our president isn’t eternal and I don’t foresee a younger version of him emerging anytime soon. Now it’s seems like the county is holding on a strong authority, but what is going to happen in 5,10 or 15 years? None of my friends are planning to move to the UK, btw) and they would ideally like to stay home if they could, but they are a bit afraid for the future of their kids.
Sergey gg все верно
It’s good that your friends want to leave Russia. Because Russia would be better off without them. Collapse? do not even dream.
I think it is common to want to go back to the way things were in the past, no matter what country you live in. It’s nostalgia and the good old days mentality.
As Chinese,we hold the extremly complicated view on USSR.We remember that,maybe we pity that,maybe we hate that,maybe we give thanks to his birth,and his death.But I still think the USSR was GREAT!And LONG LIVE MARXISM!LONG LIVE THE HUMAN BEING!
The PRC owes the Soviet Union alot.
It lives in our heart
Hopefully China can restore socialism on a global level again
@@vlad_47 That's why the following dialogs happened. Chine and USSR kept a same ideal direction.
"Hey,comrade,do you know where are the Leningrad and Stalingrad,I can't find them on the map."
"No,no more,we have failed!The gangsters and capitalists once again rode on our heads. If you want to follow the red star,go to the East!Cross the Dnieper River and cross the Ural Mountains,at the end of the Siberian Plains. The spark of the red star is still burning there."
Well, the conflicts between USSR and China started when the revisionists took over in the USSR so
Love this video Danil! As an American it’s fascinating to hear the older Russian citizens talk about their life in the Soviet Union. I’d love to hear another one like this again!
Alternate Reality: asking elders was there like in the USA
1950's to 70's was pretty good from what I've heard due to the entire rest of the world still reeling from the carnage of WW2, everything afterwards has been pure shit apparently
If you were a white man in the 50s, 60, 70, and 80s it was heaven.
@@ziinx5899 I don't know. Black people and other races had it pretty good, arguably better for much of that period in most places.
I am so sad that i don't live in that alternate reality...
@@SaneAsylum but in USA these were the years that afro American kids were going ro school with the airborne paratroopers.
The Soviet Union will return one day, and the Soviet dream will be realized world wide.
i sure hope so man… What would we have to do to make this possible?
We need to work together to bring it back.
@@narasimhashelar6745 If only it were so simple… Too much of the world has been poisoned under western influence. It would be extremely difficult, or perhaps take a completely different generation…
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@@chickencommie3000 Are we commenting imperialistic flags now? Have fun, hypercapitalist 😜