Because USA didn't need huge land army unlike huge Soviet Union.İf USA want produce ten thousands of tanks like Soviet Union they could easily produce and had 50.000 active tanks.But they didn't need.Still USA had World largest economy and industry in 1980s.And had better air force and navy.
Yea well a funny thing tends to happen after funding dries up; Wars get started by those who didn't dry up their funding. If the objective is peace and security then it is achieved by preparing for war. This is because the ability to conduct a proper attack carries w/ it an effective defense, which tends to dissuade tyrants and thugs.
Great video, but it is one sided anti Soviet, as is most of the media at the time. It neglects to mention the US military buildup that was going on at the time which sparked the USSR to do a military buildup of their own.
+degen83 US military build-up was a direct response to Soviet military build-up, not the other way around as you are suggesting. During the Brezhnev-era of the 1970's, the US was cutting down its capabilities, notably under US President Jimmy Carter. Lots of highly sophisticated US military programs were cancelled or left underfunded during this time. At the exact same time, Brezhnev had been rebuilding the Soviet armed forces into the largest force since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Before Carter, the US had the largest nuclear stockpile, but at the end of his term the USSR had built a *significantly* larger nuclear stockpile. Ronald Reagan's leadership sought to reverse all the cuts and reductions made by Jimmy Carter in order to regain parity with Soviet forces. Brezhnev's excessive military spending obviously had a lot to do with the economic issues faced by the USSR in the 1980s, and it was further compounded with disastrous results by the Soviet leadership's desire to further increase the pace of weapons development in response to Reagan's move to improve NATO's capability. Long story short, no, the US did not spark the USSR into an arms race, rather it was Brezhnev's built-up of Soviet forces which sparked NATO's build-up to regain parity. The Soviets then attempted to one-up NATO with even further military build-up, which they simply could not afford by that point, thus contributing partly to the economic collapse of the USSR. I'll concede to the fact that we in the West are not always told the entire story, but the full story isn't always as sinister as it is sometimes made out to be. :)
AxebeardHammerdick Quite incorrect. The fact is the USSR built weapons because they feared a NATO invasion/attack. Now we know now that NATO didn't plan on offensively attacking the WP. There are two sides to every story, and the truth is somewhat in between.
***** The Soviet Union kept eastern Europe under ocupation because they feared another invasion from the west, like Napolean did, like Hitler did. They wanted to stop that from happening. They were also convinced NATO meant to invade the Soviet Union, and so they kept a huge amoun of forces on active duty and built up their own domestic arms indusrtry and military forces to rival that of the USA and NATO. NATO, who didn't understand the Soviet poit of view, saw the USSR building up as a threat to NATO and thus NATO built up, which sent signals to the Soviets that NATO meant to invade and so USSR had to build up. It was a cycle because nobody had t aken the time to develop trust between the two sides. Instead the closest thing to trust was MAD, which ended up keepign the peace between the two sides.
***** I was born during the Cold War. I remember when the Berlin Wall came down, and my sisters boyfriend, who was in the military at the time, took a chunk home. We still have it to this day. Stop with your revionist crap. You look at it with the lens of the victor rewriting history. I remember it from the lens of the impartial historian who recognizes facts and is not influenced by propoganda like you are. I bet you even think Russia started the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, don't you? How does it feel to have others tell you what opinion to have instead of thinking for yourself?
***** Child? I was around when the Soviet Union existed. I was around before the wall fell. I remember the wall coming down. You are the one with the revionist view, so pro NATO that you just cannot see how NATO was the agressor in the Soviet Union's eyes. How the string of US military bases all around the USSR could be seen as agressive. How NATO formed years before the Warzaw Pact did and how the WP was formed as a direct response from the NATO alliance, which was aimed directly and ONLY at the USSR. Wake up and look at actual history and not just what the victors wrote.
Before the the 70s (and specially under the first half of the 60s) the Soviet would’ve Crushed Nato in europe. Then Breznev arrived and the Soviet economy instead of growing faster than the US one (under Kruschev USSR economy had a far bigger growth than the US one) started to stagnate.
@@damianhoratiu2287 CIA estimate of USSR vs USA ICBMs stockpiles in the 1970s: 1500 for USSR vs 1054 for USA. Today the US maintains only 405 ICBMs while Russia deploys 286 ICBMs.
Not a bad video, but why didn't the DOD save some time and just send a letter instead: "Dear Congress, Everything is all good but please send more money. Yours Truly, Dick from The Pentagon" It worked for me when I was in college and needed cash from my parents. I didn't need to make slick videos and I still got the job done.
Soviet Union of 1989 was the largest air land nuclear force second largest navy largest country by land mass third largest population 60% of USA economy largest commercial subway air and railway transportation in the world. It held the half and much under its controll. Simply a greatest superpower of the time even in his worsest point.good bless ussr
@@gabenewell3955 yes around 5.7 trillion dollars but industrial capacity was the same but usa had more car production capacity than ussr and more meat production capacity than ussr but ussr produced more oil gas iron ore coal and armaments.
Back when my enlistment had purpose. Not this modern shit where the CIA uses our taxes to protect their heroin to sell to Americans so they can kill us and double their money! Miserable scum!
US Army documentaries where they kind of need to be slightly biased to maintain morale are still more unbiased than *_certain_* news sources. 11:16 "Replace the Hind" impossible.
У нас есть шутка в России...Что московское метро это доказательство высокоразвитой цивилизации,которая проживала на территории России в прошлом.Это можно отнести ко всем достижениям советского союза,которые остались до нашего времени.Это печально.
А попадались вам видосики из подземных хранилищ всевозможных запасов на случай обострения напряженности до термоядерной войны с половиной мира? Вот жеж готовое доказательство того, что холодная война была настоящей, а некоторые другие - спектакль для дурачья.
Very cool. I remember reading somebody else’s 1986 copy that year while I was in high school. (I was actually at model UN, in the original United Nations building in The Hague.). For a high school kid who was very interested in the Cold War and the military standoff, it was pretty amazing to see the concept artists renderings of new Soviet ICBMs, boomers (Delta IV, I think), fighters (the MiG-29 had not yet been publicly revealed), etc. And this was prior to any real pullbacks or military cutbacks due to impacts of Gorby (as are discussed in this video a couple of years later).
Everything that was said of the soviet Union in this documentary could have been said of the USA at the time 15 to 17 % of gdp spending in the soviet Union equated to about 5 or 6% defense spending in the USA as the American economy was so much bigger than the soviet economy some 2 and a half to 3 times per capita bigger we now know as history has proved that America was ahead both quantitive and qualative in nuclear missiles
GOD Bless Mikhail Gorbachev for being a man of Peace. The 1991 end of the Soviet Union could have turned into a World-ending Apocalypse. Also, may GOD Bless the Russian Peoples during our current Crises (2024). I pray Putin either wakes up or sees the true value of World Peace. May GOD Love & Protect us All.
That is why they used traitor gorbachev and his gang of jewish apartchik traitors such as Gaidar Chubais Aven Fridman Fradkov Boiko and Yakovlev to destroy the USSR from within!!!!!!! Gorbachev is a masonic globalist libtard and anticommunist who was installed by crooked jew Andropov to the Central Commitee and later made general secretary through killing of prefered candidates and scamming by Gromyko and Andropovs KGB man Chebrikov. May they all rest in Hell for their betrayal!!!!!!!
The USSR had a lot more tanks and weaponry in general (1989) than the US. In retrospect the quality of the USSRs arsenal was not very good to say the least .
so funny to click on some nice looking old 80s military documentary and then we end up watching some intelligence report that starts with "hello this is Dick Cheney" lol bizare shit
A misrepresentation of both intention and potency of the opposing block. It did not want to start a new world war (signed disarmament treaties), and it was barely capable of feeding its population at this time as Perestroika caused a total disintegration of the economy.
"A misrepresentation of both intention and potency of the opposing block. It did not want to start a new world war (signed disarmament treaties), and it was barely capable of feeding its population at this time as Perestroika caused a total disintegration of the economy." And the reason why it could barely feed its population is because it was spending all of its money on the military. Your point is incredibly ironic and self-defeating.
@@adamanderson3042 It was capable of feeding it's population since the end of postwar rebuilding. And suddenly, in 3-6 month time it couldn't. Journalist investigations into food being just dumped outside of cities didn't evolve into any prosecution (to my knowledge). And sweet songs about capitalist economy and effective managers that soaked from every potato, including government channels, just added to that.
Some people believe in the end of history. The USSR failed because of internal problems not because of pressures by the US. It choose this path itself without any urgency to do so as it had atomic armament deterring any potential attack.
Zava "Not really the usa has't paid pay it back yet "...Lol yes we have. The US annual Defense Dept spending is 16%. The Cold War ended in 1991 so yes, we've paid that off. Most of our debt is due to other expenses such as healthcare 25%, and social security 24%. These entitlements are what keep increasing steadily each year, not defense spending. So in short, military spending isn't the issue and never has been. "The decline of the American Empire it's going to bite the USA in the ass"...Lol ok, we've been hearing this bullshit for decades. Whenever the world is uncertain, they come back and reinvest in the dollar since it is the most stable currency regardless. Let me know when the "American Empire" falls lol
Andal8811 " It choose this path itself "...Yes, it chose the path of self destruction when it felt it had to compete militarily with the west by devoting up to 20% of its GDP to the military to coincide with the US' own military buildup during the 80's. It's centralized economy, unlike the US, could not sustain such an arms race for long. Makes sense they'd collapse under their own weight by '91
I'm probably the VERY FIRST PERSON who will tell you this,so maybe it's a premiere. Romania was a powerful military force in Central Europe BECAUSE OF the Soviet Union. From 1948 to 1963,Romanian Infantry and Special Forces were equipped with original Russian AK-47 assault rifles,PPSH-41 (whom were used since 1941 stolen from the Soviet conscripts,Romanian original M-41 Submachine-guns,Gewehr-43 from the Germans,Mosin-Nagant Sniper rifles,Vz.24 Mauser Sniper rifles,SVT-40 rifles,their own M16A1 carbines versions and other various firearms and assault rifles of Europe).From 1963,Cugir,Romania's Weapons Company produced and still makes the best AKM patterned assault rifles from Central Europe.
hey.....intro by DICK Cheney lol I wonder if he could have envisioned that a short time after this, the Soviet Union would collapse and the US had very little to do with triggering it.
"lol I wonder if he could have envisioned that a short time after this, the Soviet Union would collapse "...He was under Reagan's administration, so he knew very well that Reagan's plan to make the soviets compete with our military buildup would eventually sink them. Even in Afghanistan, we helped bleed them dry by pouring billions into backing the resistance. So yet, the US had a big hand in, at the very least, speeding up their demise.
@@damiion666 The main problem would be USSR stopped being a communist country for 25-35 years and was in reverse-transforming process into capitalism by then.
What Gorbachev did in 89-90 to make sincere n severe efforts for peace stability n growth of Russia with other nations Putin has reversed all that since 2015.
No Putin has been protecting Russia since he became President. The West repeatedly lied to Russia before Putin became Prez. The WEST (USA) MADE PUTIN by their continued expansion Eastward, attacking Serbia, funding islamic terrorists in Chechnya, destroying the Middle East, organising color revolutions and coups in Russia's neighbors, betraying agreements, economic warfare, flat our lies like Russiagate etc etc. The whole world is finally waking up that the US is a deceitful tyrant whereas Putin is sane.
This was a propaganda piece by the DoD to say "Congress, give us more money". You know a bureaucracy has jumped the shark when they start making thinly veiled advertisements.
They where there in support of the MPLA rebel group against UNTIA a pro western group the intervention was called operation. Carlotia. Just one of the many proxy wars of the cold war really
Both sides would have had a real interest in not having it go nuclear. Nuclear war has no winners. Mutually assured destruction is mutual. So if war did break out, I think both sides would have refrained from using nukes for as long as possible. The real risk would have been ending the war conventionally. If either side felt like they were under an existential threat, they likely would have used their nukes as a last resort. That means that at some point, both sides would have to back down and agree to a negotiated peace. There couldn’t have been an unconditional total defeat of one side or the other like in WWII. If it looked like it was going to happen, the losing side would launch and that would be that for everyone.
I think nobody was really taking the Soviet Union as that of a serious threat after the 1989 withdrawal from Afgan. In the last 2 years the Soviet Union was a dramatically dying state. After the state died... so did many it's allies.... all of the eastern bloc nations didn't have a lot of support after the collapse so i understand.
Daniel Goodman Not quite, there was indeed a coup to keep the soviet government in power, and when you have a major entity as the USSR, you never know what may happen. instability is never a good thing for the free world. They were and still are a threat.
Not even close. Just recently US SF got their asses handed to them by Russian SF in Syria. US is in open shooting war with Russia, the only limiting factor is the scale.
In 2015 some people still view Russia like it was the old Soviet Union. The party is over for the USSR and has been for 20+ years. I know people who actually still fear Russia. Well, the Cold War is over and we won, hands down. I've worked in the Defense industry for over 35 years and watched the Soviet Union dissolve. Their current Defense Budget is under $70 Billion Dollars while the USA's Defense budget is about $700 Billion Dollars. Looking at the current Russian Air Force is like visiting a Cold War museum. Sure, they have some cool planes but in real small numbers and poorly maintained. They can't afford the fuel and upkeep to keep more than a handful of top notch pilots. Watching Cheney was a piece of history. His cynicism is almost hilarious, but at the time was sort of understandable. Peace!
+randy109 What a shocking display of arrogance, ignorance, and naivety! Militarily, Russia remains the single greatest threat to the West, followed by China. I have no doubt that NATO maintains a clear strategic advantage over Russia and China, both in conventional and nuclear warfare, but it has always been wise to *never* underestimate your enemies, especially when they still remain ideologically at odds with the West. It is always better to perceive your enemies as stronger than they really are, rather than to be surprised to find out they are much stronger than imagined.I should remind you that ALL of the world's most powerful empires have been defeated by inferior forces because they foolishly believed in their undoubted superiority. America is the world's only proper superpower for now, but if the people running the show at the Pentagon and NATO allow themselves to believe the idea that they cannot be challenged, then that is the beginning of the end. Unfortunately, a lot of the analysts and some of the leadership involved in those organisations now seem to be thinking the way you are. They have have this dumb idea that radical Islam poses the greatest existential threat to the West, and they are ignorant to think that. Extremism is merely a nuisance, not a proper threat to existence, and making it a primary focus means tens of billions of dollars are wasted on addressing extremism rather than spending more on areas which really need it. All the most important programs are being deprived of funding; such as modernising the nuclear deterrent, aviation (billions wasted on the worthless F-35), space-based systems, directed energy weapons, cyber capabilities, etc. The Russians are consistently violating nuclear treaties with brand new nuclear weapon developments which pose an enormous existential risk because NATO *still* lacks a cohesive missile defence system. While the Russians continue breaking nuclear agreements, the Americans are sitting on their arses doing practically nothing in the way of modernisation. The US still have the greatest nuclear ballistic missile ever made, the MX / Peacekeeper ICBM, sitting in retirement due to a treaty obligation with Moscow which Putin has already broken! Instead reactivating Peacekeeper, they have artificially limited their land-based capability to 40+ year old Minuteman III missiles with an artificially limited number of MIRVs, again due to the same treaty obligations which Moscow has broken. So let's not be stupid and underestimate the realities of the world today.
lol what fucking world are you living on? Who gives a fuck about planes, tanks, men. Do you have any idea what nuclear weapons are capable of? And Russia has more of them
@@HELESPONTifyno not really the battle of Britain was won. The germans gave up and went east. What would backwater Russia of done had they not gotten lend lease from the United States. The germans were very close to Moscow, even with all the supplies they were given. Most likely the red army would have starved to be honest.
Richardd Plantgnt very true. East Germans would have revolted and probably many other Warsaw Pact hellholes. Problem is too many Russians would choose to fight rather than face death at the hands of rear echelon units of the Stavka
Wrong. Until gorbachev was installed by jews Andropovs KGB gang and traitor Gromyko there was a real brotherhood between socialist countries in Europe. Stop saying idiotic things that you do not understand.
@Ron Lynquist They are not exaggerating. The soviet army had 6 million soldiers, 55000 tanks(T 80 and T 72) which were so ahead of their times, 50,000 artillery pieces, 97000 AFVs, thousands of scud and krug ballistic missiles. The soviet airforce had more than 14,000 aircraft of which more than 9000 were combat aircraft. The soviet navy had 7 aircraft carriers, 45 destroyers, 33 cruisers, 275 submarines, 113 frigates, 124 corvettes, 41 amphibious warships, 425 patrol ships and 35 minewarfare vessels. The soviet nuclear arsenal was almost twice as large as the combined NATO arsenal( 40,000 vs 23,000). This is data from 1990, at lowest point of the soviet military might. During the 1960s, 70s and early 80s the soviets would have absolutely dominated the US and NATO without any help from their Warsaw Pact allies (puppets). The soviets also had the fearsome NVA on their side, a comparatively small army of 200,000 men which were considered to be one of the most elite armies in the world.
The Baku ended up as a STOBAR carrier with the Indian Navy as the INS Vikramaditya, with a full complement of MIG-29K fighters.
Yeah that carrier is nothing but a piece of junk, i don't know why indian is using it.
@@tinyyoutuber.2091 if you have an better option then tell me
Great video, thanks for busting out the VHS, now I just need some batteries for my walk man.
yeah and that classic sound from the 80s and 90s... the BZZZZZZZZZZZZ of a worn out tape ! XD
Pick up your boomBox and walk ,bruh.
9:00 usa self claims soviet union is still worlds largest military power .
Because USA didn't need huge land army unlike huge Soviet Union.İf USA want produce ten thousands of tanks like Soviet Union they could easily produce and had 50.000 active tanks.But they didn't need.Still USA had World largest economy and industry in 1980s.And had better air force and navy.
@@AFT_05G yeah right the Soviet Union is a world superpower just like Russia today
@@ninjagonesmith4495 Russia has a GDP equal to Italy, its not a superpower.
@@AFT_05G ah yes in also a history man espacially with soviet history
@@AFT_05G Soviet Union had no GDP or economy.......its a self sufficient industrial complex state ...
Always gotta have an enemy. Otherwise the funding dries up
Yea well a funny thing tends to happen after funding dries up; Wars get started by those who didn't dry up their funding. If the objective is peace and security then it is achieved by preparing for war. This is because the ability to conduct a proper attack carries w/ it an effective defense, which tends to dissuade tyrants and thugs.
As it should be.
Military industrial complex
That fictitious enemy is the extremely important though. Large amounts of Military spending and training, makes superpowers
they were a real and major threat at the time though
It’s weird seeing him so thin someone give Cheney a burger lol
Was it a Weinberger?
He already had one. Hes fine.
@@jukeboxhero1649 Oh he had more than plenty.
@@freundschaft870 With eggs and tomatoes too.
Great video, but it is one sided anti Soviet, as is most of the media at the time.
It neglects to mention the US military buildup that was going on at the time which sparked the USSR to do a military buildup of their own.
+degen83 US military build-up was a direct response to Soviet military build-up, not the other way around as you are suggesting. During the Brezhnev-era of the 1970's, the US was cutting down its capabilities, notably under US President Jimmy Carter. Lots of highly sophisticated US military programs were cancelled or left underfunded during this time. At the exact same time, Brezhnev had been rebuilding the Soviet armed forces into the largest force since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Before Carter, the US had the largest nuclear stockpile, but at the end of his term the USSR had built a *significantly* larger nuclear stockpile. Ronald Reagan's leadership sought to reverse all the cuts and reductions made by Jimmy Carter in order to regain parity with Soviet forces.
Brezhnev's excessive military spending obviously had a lot to do with the economic issues faced by the USSR in the 1980s, and it was further compounded with disastrous results by the Soviet leadership's desire to further increase the pace of weapons development in response to Reagan's move to improve NATO's capability.
Long story short, no, the US did not spark the USSR into an arms race, rather it was Brezhnev's built-up of Soviet forces which sparked NATO's build-up to regain parity. The Soviets then attempted to one-up NATO with even further military build-up, which they simply could not afford by that point, thus contributing partly to the economic collapse of the USSR.
I'll concede to the fact that we in the West are not always told the entire story, but the full story isn't always as sinister as it is sometimes made out to be. :)
AxebeardHammerdick Quite incorrect. The fact is the USSR built weapons because they feared a NATO invasion/attack. Now we know now that NATO didn't plan on offensively attacking the WP.
There are two sides to every story, and the truth is somewhat in between.
***** The Soviet Union kept eastern Europe under ocupation because they feared another invasion from the west, like Napolean did, like Hitler did. They wanted to stop that from happening.
They were also convinced NATO meant to invade the Soviet Union, and so they kept a huge amoun of forces on active duty and built up their own domestic arms indusrtry and military forces to rival that of the USA and NATO.
NATO, who didn't understand the Soviet poit of view, saw the USSR building up as a threat to NATO and thus NATO built up, which sent signals to the Soviets that NATO meant to invade and so USSR had to build up.
It was a cycle because nobody had t aken the time to develop trust between the two sides. Instead the closest thing to trust was MAD, which ended up keepign the peace between the two sides.
***** I was born during the Cold War. I remember when the Berlin Wall came down, and my sisters boyfriend, who was in the military at the time, took a chunk home. We still have it to this day.
Stop with your revionist crap. You look at it with the lens of the victor rewriting history. I remember it from the lens of the impartial historian who recognizes facts and is not influenced by propoganda like you are.
I bet you even think Russia started the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, don't you? How does it feel to have others tell you what opinion to have instead of thinking for yourself?
***** Child? I was around when the Soviet Union existed. I was around before the wall fell. I remember the wall coming down.
You are the one with the revionist view, so pro NATO that you just cannot see how NATO was the agressor in the Soviet Union's eyes. How the string of US military bases all around the USSR could be seen as agressive. How NATO formed years before the Warzaw Pact did and how the WP was formed as a direct response from the NATO alliance, which was aimed directly and ONLY at the USSR.
Wake up and look at actual history and not just what the victors wrote.
Before the the 70s (and specially under the first half of the 60s) the Soviet would’ve Crushed Nato in europe. Then Breznev arrived and the Soviet economy instead of growing faster than the US one (under Kruschev USSR economy had a far bigger growth than the US one) started to stagnate.
It could never have crushed NATO. With what? With the one ICBM they had in 1962?
@@damianhoratiu2287 CIA estimate of USSR vs USA ICBMs stockpiles in the 1970s: 1500 for USSR vs 1054 for USA. Today the US maintains only 405 ICBMs while Russia deploys 286 ICBMs.
@@GenocideWesterners Fact is,the Soviets did not crush anything. Under Khruschev the Soviets had 1 (one) ICBM missile, a version of the Koroliov R 7.
@@damianhoratiu2287 NATO was weak for Soviets.
@@pharaon6718 Too humane, yes.
Not a bad video, but why didn't the DOD save some time and just send a letter instead:
"Dear Congress,
Everything is all good but please send more money.
Yours Truly,
Dick from The Pentagon"
It worked for me when I was in college and needed cash from my parents. I didn't need to make slick videos and I still got the job done.
Soviet Union of 1989 was the largest air land nuclear force second largest navy largest country by land mass third largest population 60% of USA economy largest commercial subway air and railway transportation in the world. It held the half and much under its controll. Simply a greatest superpower of the time even in his worsest point.good bless ussr
Of the world a forgeted after of much of
USA economy was much larger USSR gdp (nominal) was 2.4 trillion
@@gabenewell3955 yes around 5.7 trillion dollars but industrial capacity was the same but usa had more car production capacity than ussr and more meat production capacity than ussr but ussr produced more oil gas iron ore coal and armaments.
man..
they were armed to the max.
great upload. More like this if you have any.
Sahib Al-shemeri Oh I've got plenty more videos like this along the way. So stay tuned and subscribe to be updated. Thanks for watching.
+Chris Butler wow. thank you.
Ah! The cold war, how I miss thee!
Back when my enlistment had purpose. Not this modern shit where the CIA uses our taxes to protect their heroin to sell to Americans so they can kill us and double their money! Miserable scum!
@@jukeboxhero1649 - unfortunate, uncomfortable truth
US Army documentaries where they kind of need to be slightly biased to maintain morale are still more unbiased than *_certain_* news sources.
11:16 "Replace the Hind" impossible.
I want to see the Mig 15 make a comeback.
Very educational i enjoyed watching this , thanks Cris
У нас есть шутка в России...Что московское метро это доказательство высокоразвитой цивилизации,которая проживала на территории России в прошлом.Это можно отнести ко всем достижениям советского союза,которые остались до нашего времени.Это печально.
И то верно...
Та цивилизация туалетную бумагу не могла произвести в нужном количестве. Сейчас дела идут в чем-то лучше, а в чем-то хуже.
А попадались вам видосики из подземных хранилищ всевозможных запасов на случай обострения напряженности до термоядерной войны с половиной мира? Вот жеж готовое доказательство того, что холодная война была настоящей, а некоторые другие - спектакль для дурачья.
Great find.
Holy crap I have that magazine/book cheney's holding!
Ha!
Very cool. I remember reading somebody else’s 1986 copy that year while I was in high school. (I was actually at model UN, in the original United Nations building in The Hague.). For a high school kid who was very interested in the Cold War and the military standoff, it was pretty amazing to see the concept artists renderings of new Soviet ICBMs, boomers (Delta IV, I think), fighters (the MiG-29 had not yet been publicly revealed), etc. And this was prior to any real pullbacks or military cutbacks due to impacts of Gorby (as are discussed in this video a couple of years later).
6:00 that 90-s 3D shuffle tho...
Everything that was said of the soviet Union in this documentary could have been said of the USA at the time 15 to 17 % of gdp spending in the soviet Union equated to about 5 or 6% defense spending in the USA as the American economy was so much bigger than the soviet economy some 2 and a half to 3 times per capita bigger we now know as history has proved that America was ahead both quantitive and qualative in nuclear missiles
keep speaking shit
@@MH-je3ht keep thinking shit!!
GOD Bless Mikhail Gorbachev for being a man of Peace. The 1991 end of the Soviet Union could have turned into a World-ending Apocalypse. Also, may GOD Bless the Russian Peoples during our current Crises (2024). I pray Putin either wakes up or sees the true value of World Peace.
May GOD Love & Protect us All.
Well someone was waaaaay off on their analysis,given today's circumstances.
A pity they didn't digitalize this video into HD
USSR would have destroyed the US on a break...............just too big and armed to the teeth.
That is why they used traitor gorbachev and his gang of jewish apartchik traitors such as Gaidar Chubais Aven Fridman Fradkov Boiko and Yakovlev to destroy the USSR from within!!!!!!! Gorbachev is a masonic globalist libtard and anticommunist who was installed by crooked jew Andropov to the Central Commitee and later made general secretary through killing of prefered candidates and scamming by Gromyko and Andropovs KGB man Chebrikov. May they all rest in Hell for their betrayal!!!!!!!
Dick Cheney spoiled an otherwise informative video.
The USSR had a lot more tanks and weaponry in general (1989) than the US. In retrospect the quality of the USSRs arsenal was not very good to say
the least .
This is a bit out of date. But many thanks 🙏.
1st man on the left at 4:17 is who me?
Brought to you by Dick Cheney.
"Hans, are we the baddies?"
This footage is very groovy
Slava had his name changed to Moskva and was sunk last year.
That drunk electrician was leading the U.S. military posturing, what a world.
Dionysus
Cbristian Bale was spot on playing as Dick Cheney in The Vice
so funny to click on some nice looking old 80s military documentary and then we end up watching some intelligence report that starts with "hello this is Dick Cheney" lol bizare shit
Horrible quality but informative.
Rather disinforming, as the USSR was collapsing at the time.
do expound
A misrepresentation of both intention and potency of the opposing block. It did not want to start a new world war (signed disarmament treaties), and it was barely capable of feeding its population at this time as Perestroika caused a total disintegration of the economy.
"A misrepresentation of both intention and potency of the opposing block. It did not want to start a new world war (signed disarmament treaties), and it was barely capable of feeding its population at this time as Perestroika caused a total disintegration of the economy."
And the reason why it could barely feed its population is because it was spending all of its money on the military. Your point is incredibly ironic and self-defeating.
@@adamanderson3042 It was capable of feeding it's population since the end of postwar rebuilding. And suddenly, in 3-6 month time it couldn't. Journalist investigations into food being just dumped outside of cities didn't evolve into any prosecution (to my knowledge). And sweet songs about capitalist economy and effective managers that soaked from every potato, including government channels, just added to that.
this propaganda allowed spendings for f-117 , b-2 bombers, f-22 and so on.
And??? We out spent the ussr and it worked
Some people believe in the end of history. The USSR failed because of internal problems not because of pressures by the US. It choose this path itself without any urgency to do so as it had atomic armament deterring any potential attack.
Zava "Not really the usa has't paid pay it back yet "...Lol yes we have. The US annual Defense Dept spending is 16%. The Cold War ended in 1991 so yes, we've paid that off. Most of our debt is due to other expenses such as healthcare 25%, and social security 24%. These entitlements are what keep increasing steadily each year, not defense spending. So in short, military spending isn't the issue and never has been.
"The decline of the American Empire it's going to bite the USA in the ass"...Lol ok, we've been hearing this bullshit for decades. Whenever the world is uncertain, they come back and reinvest in the dollar since it is the most stable currency regardless. Let me know when the "American Empire" falls lol
Andal8811 " It choose this path itself "...Yes, it chose the path of self destruction when it felt it had to compete militarily with the west by devoting up to 20% of its GDP to the military to coincide with the US' own military buildup during the 80's. It's centralized economy, unlike the US, could not sustain such an arms race for long. Makes sense they'd collapse under their own weight by '91
damiion666 All Empires fall. let's hope when it's time for a new one, the US can take it without destroying the rest of us.
Must be the 80’s Cold War days that’s when Cheney was sec def.
I'm probably the VERY FIRST PERSON who will tell you this,so maybe it's a premiere. Romania was a powerful military force in Central Europe BECAUSE OF the Soviet Union. From 1948 to 1963,Romanian Infantry and Special Forces were equipped with original Russian AK-47 assault rifles,PPSH-41 (whom were used since 1941 stolen from the Soviet conscripts,Romanian original M-41 Submachine-guns,Gewehr-43 from the Germans,Mosin-Nagant Sniper rifles,Vz.24 Mauser Sniper rifles,SVT-40 rifles,their own M16A1 carbines versions and other various firearms and assault rifles of Europe).From 1963,Cugir,Romania's Weapons Company produced and still makes the best AKM patterned assault rifles from Central Europe.
Yes and no. Romania"s military doctrine was against the Soviets.
I want a PSL in 308.
Cheney reminds me of Senator Palpatine at the end of episode 1 (Star Wars) wasn't that a space defense load of B/S from Ronny Raygun?
Soviet power supreme...
If you look carefully you can see the strings of the Military Industrial Comple on Cheney.
Why the us interfere in every country matters why why ???
@Duffelbag Drag bro if us is face of freedom then why its uses the forces for freedom ??
hey.....intro by DICK Cheney lol I wonder if he could have envisioned that a short time after this, the Soviet Union would collapse and the US had very little to do with triggering it.
"lol I wonder if he could have envisioned that a short time after this, the Soviet Union would collapse "...He was under Reagan's administration, so he knew very well that Reagan's plan to make the soviets compete with our military buildup would eventually sink them. Even in Afghanistan, we helped bleed them dry by pouring billions into backing the resistance. So yet, the US had a big hand in, at the very least, speeding up their demise.
I'm gonna guess you were ''educated'' by the americam system
@@damiion666 The main problem would be USSR stopped being a communist country for 25-35 years and was in reverse-transforming process into capitalism by then.
What Gorbachev did in 89-90 to make sincere n severe efforts for peace stability n growth of Russia with other nations Putin has reversed all that since 2015.
No Putin has been protecting Russia since he became President. The West repeatedly lied to Russia before Putin became Prez. The WEST (USA) MADE PUTIN by their continued expansion Eastward, attacking Serbia, funding islamic terrorists in Chechnya, destroying the Middle East, organising color revolutions and coups in Russia's neighbors, betraying agreements, economic warfare, flat our lies like Russiagate etc etc. The whole world is finally waking up that the US is a deceitful tyrant whereas Putin is sane.
@@Internetbutthurt Let's hear it for Putin's sock puppet doing an impression of Eric Blair's most well-known character! /s
@@NorthForkFisherman Truth hurts. Even close US allies are getting jack of the US and it started before Trump.
Nyet
Da
CCCP 2.0
Not gonna happen.
This slick Pentagon paper is pure applied Sun Tzu.
I think I had that book.
Ah Mr DEATH,Dick Cheney. Some people honestly think he is Satan incarnate!
I loved Krushchevs and Breshnevs time periods!!
Gorbachev Sucks!!
They were all piece of shit .
Brushnev era is era of stagnation...what he had to overcome economic problems
Then come pootin! 😵
Must watch in 120 P
Cheney's (and friends') attempt to keep the military supplies money flow running despite of end of cold war.
He sure looks young here.
Soviet power
look at power
Lol I'm looking at the shit stain on Gorbachovs head instead
@@lamolambda8349 then fuck you capitalist pig see largest submarine fleet
I have this publication from the DOD.
Wow you're so special
This was a propaganda piece by the DoD to say "Congress, give us more money". You know a bureaucracy has jumped the shark when they start making thinly veiled advertisements.
Wait ...... Why in the hell were there Cubans in Angola!?
They where there in support of the MPLA rebel group against UNTIA a pro western group the intervention was called operation. Carlotia. Just one of the many proxy wars of the cold war really
T minus 2.5 years and counting. Good ol'e dick did not see it coming.
And the Tbilisi now gives headache to Russian navy.
Could a Warsaw Pact/Nato conflict have been kept conventional?
Makes sense.
Why? Tac nukes are super useful.
Yes. Mainly because I doubt politicians on either side would have given the green light to such an escalation.
Did they use gas in WW2?
Both sides would have had a real interest in not having it go nuclear. Nuclear war has no winners. Mutually assured destruction is mutual. So if war did break out, I think both sides would have refrained from using nukes for as long as possible. The real risk would have been ending the war conventionally. If either side felt like they were under an existential threat, they likely would have used their nukes as a last resort. That means that at some point, both sides would have to back down and agree to a negotiated peace. There couldn’t have been an unconditional total defeat of one side or the other like in WWII. If it looked like it was going to happen, the losing side would launch and that would be that for everyone.
Dick Cheney was the best soviet propagandist!
Keep the funds running, Dick! 😂
I would like to purchase a pickup truck made in Russia.
Just check spares availability in your area 😉
I love jist how American Eljtes play with the common citizen... without any shame... lying, scaring, paranoia, just sickning.
I think nobody was really taking the Soviet Union as that of a serious threat after the 1989 withdrawal from Afgan. In the last 2 years the Soviet Union was a dramatically dying state. After the state died... so did many it's allies.... all of the eastern bloc nations didn't have a lot of support after the collapse so i understand.
Daniel Goodman Not quite, there was indeed a coup to keep the soviet government in power, and when you have a major entity as the USSR, you never know what may happen. instability is never a good thing for the free world. They were and still are a threat.
+Konrad Ford (HumanSVD) So nice to read something constructive in the comments. Thank You Sir
Is this Dick Cheney?!!!
A powerful Russia is good for stability and peace of world. Love and respect from Pakistan.
Russia is not soviet
Russia is not USSR anymore,China has already become the new primary Challenger .
I love how history went, they lost and now are truly a paper tiger and a laughing stock.
Cruise missile SS-20?😀😀😀
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Bucks County Community College should be put out of business forever!
I'm glad we are allied now!
Not even close. Just recently US SF got their asses handed to them by Russian SF in Syria. US is in open shooting war with Russia, the only limiting factor is the scale.
@@BigSmartArmed LOL! Who told you that!?
Get Russian visa and come here, comrade :) Wait, what visa, we're allies, right?
When the government actually cared about the communist problem
Yeah back when communists also cared about capitalist warmongers
@@muhacnt7988 This video literally shows the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
@@CoiboiXD so muricans even then were were instigating regime changes.the invasion was to secure a socialist leader there
Wow
In 2015 some people still view Russia like it was the old Soviet Union. The party is over for the USSR and has been for 20+ years. I know people who actually still fear Russia. Well, the Cold War is over and we won, hands down. I've worked in the Defense industry for over 35 years and watched the Soviet Union dissolve. Their current Defense Budget is under $70 Billion Dollars while the USA's Defense budget is about $700 Billion Dollars. Looking at the current Russian Air Force is like visiting a Cold War museum. Sure, they have some cool planes but in real small numbers and poorly maintained. They can't afford the fuel and upkeep to keep more than a handful of top notch pilots. Watching Cheney was a piece of history. His cynicism is almost hilarious, but at the time was sort of understandable. Peace!
+randy109
What a shocking display of arrogance, ignorance, and naivety! Militarily, Russia remains the single greatest threat to the West, followed by China.
I have no doubt that NATO maintains a clear strategic advantage over Russia and China, both in conventional and nuclear warfare, but it has always been wise to *never* underestimate your enemies, especially when they still remain ideologically at odds with the West. It is always better to perceive your enemies as stronger than they really are, rather than to be surprised to find out they are much stronger than imagined.I should remind you that ALL of the world's most powerful empires have been defeated by inferior forces because they foolishly believed in their undoubted superiority. America is the world's only proper superpower for now, but if the people running the show at the Pentagon and NATO allow themselves to believe the idea that they cannot be challenged, then that is the beginning of the end.
Unfortunately, a lot of the analysts and some of the leadership involved in those organisations now seem to be thinking the way you are. They have have this dumb idea that radical Islam poses the greatest existential threat to the West, and they are ignorant to think that. Extremism is merely a nuisance, not a proper threat to existence, and making it a primary focus means tens of billions of dollars are wasted on addressing extremism rather than spending more on areas which really need it. All the most important programs are being deprived of funding; such as modernising the nuclear deterrent, aviation (billions wasted on the worthless F-35), space-based systems, directed energy weapons, cyber capabilities, etc. The Russians are consistently violating nuclear treaties with brand new nuclear weapon developments which pose an enormous existential risk because NATO *still* lacks a cohesive missile defence system. While the Russians continue breaking nuclear agreements, the Americans are sitting on their arses doing practically nothing in the way of modernisation. The US still have the greatest nuclear ballistic missile ever made, the MX / Peacekeeper ICBM, sitting in retirement due to a treaty obligation with Moscow which Putin has already broken! Instead reactivating Peacekeeper, they have artificially limited their land-based capability to 40+ year old Minuteman III missiles with an artificially limited number of MIRVs, again due to the same treaty obligations which Moscow has broken.
So let's not be stupid and underestimate the realities of the world today.
+fireson23 It really sounds like you're just parroting what you read off youtube's comment section.
lol what fucking world are you living on? Who gives a fuck about planes, tanks, men. Do you have any idea what nuclear weapons are capable of? And Russia has more of them
Russiasvechenaya The US has a far higher population. Let alone the rest of NATO.
+OWNYOMAMA *American got triggered *
Haven't seen old dickey in this manner
Russian military is till strong and modern. Not old leftovers of the Soviet era.
Yeah your comment didnt age well at all
God bless America , Americans and great military.
Harris S Soviet Union better.
Glory to the great USSR!!!!!!! Death to its traitors!!!!!!
Without Red Army Great Britain and Europe no exist
@@HELESPONTifyno not really the battle of Britain was won. The germans gave up and went east. What would backwater Russia of done had they not gotten lend lease from the United States. The germans were very close to Moscow, even with all the supplies they were given. Most likely the red army would have starved to be honest.
benign my ass..........
seems DOD needed to play two 180 degree propaganda fight - one for Homeland another Foreignland! this one was surely aimed at the US Congress😎
Wonder how the Soviets would of done in Ukraine 2022.
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How obsessed USA was of ussr
USSR had 50,000 tanks ready to roll over Europe
NATO's only defense was nukes
@@taterater1052 russia has 32k tanks now
@@gabenewell3955 Most are outdated, stored in warehouses and haven’t been touched in decades
This aged POORLY
SS-21
not that traitor Cheney , god , stopped watching the moment I saw him .
chicken-hawk draft dodging, war profiteer.....
Then you missed out a good program. Thanks for commenting!
Same here.
the Poles never would have fought for them and very doubtful any Germans
Richardd Plantgnt very true. East Germans would have revolted and probably many other Warsaw Pact hellholes. Problem is too many Russians would choose to fight rather than face death at the hands of rear echelon units of the Stavka
They didn't actually need to fight but to drive west and soak up NATO munitions with their machines and bodies. Like Chinese human wave.
Wrong. Until gorbachev was installed by jews Andropovs KGB gang and traitor Gromyko there was a real brotherhood between socialist countries in Europe. Stop saying idiotic things that you do not understand.
@@slavenskazajednica7912 Zolushka! Dont be mad! No one here knows how things went over there from our perspective. Just a few.
@@jukeboxhero1649 Youre not even Russian dude....
When I see Dick Cheney introducing the clip, I know what follows is a lie.
Not a "less threatening image of Soviet military power " but a less visible recognition of defeat in Afghanistan
😀😀😀
Now I know is that the west was the bad guys not the east
Russia doesnt have half of soviet era power 😂
India. Spotr booth country,s
Us - russia
And. Peace of. All. Word. 👆
Lol!!!
Никто не знает, почему Горбачев оставил могущественную советскую Россию в таком запущенном состоянии.
We should of never built the first nuclear bomb
An exaggerated threat.
@Ron Lynquist They are not exaggerating. The soviet army had 6 million soldiers, 55000 tanks(T 80 and T 72) which were so ahead of their times, 50,000 artillery pieces, 97000 AFVs, thousands of scud and krug ballistic missiles. The soviet airforce had more than 14,000 aircraft of which more than 9000 were combat aircraft. The soviet navy had 7 aircraft carriers, 45 destroyers, 33 cruisers, 275 submarines, 113 frigates, 124 corvettes, 41 amphibious warships, 425 patrol ships and 35 minewarfare vessels. The soviet nuclear arsenal was almost twice as large as the combined NATO arsenal( 40,000 vs 23,000).
This is data from 1990, at lowest point of the soviet military might. During the 1960s, 70s and early 80s the soviets would have absolutely dominated the US and NATO without any help from their Warsaw Pact allies (puppets). The soviets also had the fearsome NVA on their side, a comparatively small army of 200,000 men which were considered to be one of the most elite armies in the world.
@@GenocideWesterners I was alive during the cold war it was all exaggerated.
@@ronlynquist9183 doesn’t mean you know what they had
@@gabenewell3955 I studied it. It was propaganda.
We miss USSR
West will soon sheet themselves
these always talked of their achievements as if they were perfect. yes it was a threat but their technology was always no match for the West.