Back in the USSR (1988) - Soviet Union in late 1980s

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  • Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
  • This film follows the family of Jerry Schecter, Former Moscow bureau chief for Time magazine, as they return to the Soviet Union after twenty years. Talking to their Russian friends and acquaintances, they discover what the Russian people are thinking about the changes brought by Perestroika and Glasnost.
    Produced by WGBH Educational Foundation.
    #sovietunion #1980s #history

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  • @jonnnyren6245
    @jonnnyren6245 Рік тому +154

    At least I get to see life in the USSR. Aa a history nut, this is gold for me. Thanks for uploading it. 😊

    • @Littlefarmtales
      @Littlefarmtales Рік тому +7

      Lol I can show you footage of rich Brazilians that doesn’t change the fact that most people are poor.

    • @user-bq4cv1dh1p
      @user-bq4cv1dh1p Рік тому +9

      @@Littlefarmtales I can show you thousands of fentanyl zombies crawling around US cities.

    • @Littlefarmtales
      @Littlefarmtales Рік тому +6

      ok and? you Just proved my point LMAO. ussr, America, russia, etc all can look nice in selectively edited clips but in reality that are poopshoots@@user-bq4cv1dh1p

    • @alexanderwolf8766
      @alexanderwolf8766 Рік тому +3

      @@Littlefarmtales Then show us footage of the streets full of zombies under animal tranquilizers from Russia. You won't find them.

    • @KingerHammer
      @KingerHammer Рік тому +2

      @@alexanderwolf8766 Is there a high unemployment rate among young people in Russia, and will they become homeless if they lose their jobs

  • @AbuHajarAlBugatti
    @AbuHajarAlBugatti Рік тому +461

    People here filmed seem more proud and happy than today

    • @Whatthellisthisthing
      @Whatthellisthisthing Рік тому +70

      (And smarter)

    • @ann7753
      @ann7753 Рік тому

      Thanks to the collapse of the USSR and strong Western propaganda, Russians started to believe that they are not capable of anything great. I am Russian, and I know what I am talking about. We are actually a great nation full of incredibly talented and smart people, and we are going to rebuild what we have lost.

    • @delmatadelmata4511
      @delmatadelmata4511 Рік тому +22

      Its 1988 people are happy that they can see that there is possibility of change and great hope the system is rotten and on the horizon is so many possibilities so everyone is excited not knowing that buncrup and Chechenya putin Kursk and mafia is behind the corner everyone can learn a lot from this documentary really a lot because our the fact that human nature is not so different Russians American black Asian…

    • @SIMONREMISH
      @SIMONREMISH Рік тому +18

      it depends where you're from in the soviet union. the countries that have been occupied like moldova, the baltics are a lot happier now, being independent and being able to express themselves freely, without the fear of being punished. in moldova we were very poor and this regime was horrendous. thank god the USSR fell.

    • @ann7753
      @ann7753 Рік тому +32

      @@SIMONREMISH lol have you ever been to those countries while they were in the USSR? We lived worse than the “occupied” Baltic countries. Moldova is not the best place right now. They destroyed their production. All former republics did. The Baltics live only due to the EU. Ask Germans whether they want to invest in Latvia without real profit, just to create another anti-Russia, and you will understand everything.

  • @metaphoric-j1c
    @metaphoric-j1c Рік тому +299

    Those days just came to my mind from 1980s. I was a voracious reader of Soviet publications in 1980s. Through those publications I came to contact with Soviet literature, culture, art and technology. Those full page photographs of Soviet scenic beauty , sculpture and their life are still very clear in my mind. Missing those really valuable days. Thanks for uploading.

    • @sofiabessonova2214
      @sofiabessonova2214 Рік тому +8

      Russian reality is different now.

    • @miguelangelizquierdosanche2500
      @miguelangelizquierdosanche2500 Рік тому +2

      I share those feelings!!

    • @kissthis5361
      @kissthis5361 Рік тому +2

      @@sofiabessonova2214
      Do you live in Russia? What's so different with it at the moment?

    • @USGrant21st
      @USGrant21st Рік тому +9

      I vividly remember those days, there was so much hope and happiness in the world. Everybody thought it was the end of the darkest century of the world history, the communism was dead and good times lied ahead. Gorbachev was a hero, welcomed everywhere in the world. Now Gorbachev is dead and Russia turned into a fascist state. Never thought that could ever happen, not in my life time, but here we go.

    • @ИгорьАлексеев-т2я
      @ИгорьАлексеев-т2я Рік тому +23

      @@USGrant21st а что плохого в коммунизме? Справедливое в экономическом и политическом смысле общество. Торжество науки и прогресса. У вас в США люди до сих пор в картонных коробках живут. В СССР все люди имели жилье работу, бесплатную медицину бесплатное образование. Назовите хоть одно преимущество вашего строя. Для простого рядового человека. А не чиновника или капиталиста?

  • @camaradacomissario9641
    @camaradacomissario9641 Рік тому +679

    It's a bit weird that Americans don't film a single young person in the USSR. If you walk in any public place or street in Moscow you will see women who would easely get a job in a model's agency in a Western country, but not in US documentaries about the USSR.

    • @emrecanarduc4378
      @emrecanarduc4378 Рік тому +83

      there is but you will not find these in blockbuster hollywood films. They are all have propaganda in them subtle or open

    • @jojobibi3617
      @jojobibi3617 Рік тому +10

      it's about empathy, and the hegelian thing

    • @caezar55
      @caezar55 Рік тому

      In the 1980's those "model" women were probably doing back breaking labor down uranium mines. Ah good old Communism.

    • @sbansban
      @sbansban Рік тому +62

      Babushkas are more photogenic than devushkas

    • @camaradacomissario9641
      @camaradacomissario9641 Рік тому +6

      @@sbansban actually I've seen more photogenic babushki than the ones shown at this video.

  • @doinitforthestreets
    @doinitforthestreets 11 місяців тому +12

    This documentary is excellent. Having people talk about their lives without a bunch of melodramatic music and leading questions is the best way to get to know people.

  • @scarletred8888
    @scarletred8888 Рік тому +102

    This was so well made, a very interesting perspective from the 80s when there was so much hope for the future, just saddening to know now how some things have turned out tragically.

    • @olehfeia
      @olehfeia Рік тому

      What turned tragic? Destroying of USSR was best what happened in 90-s. But it was not destroyed entirely - large peace in the name “russia” remained. But we are in process f destroying this shit

    • @angis888
      @angis888 Рік тому

      the collapse of this fake ass union was the best thing ever happened in my life. it was never a union anyway. occupation

    • @ChickenMcThiccken
      @ChickenMcThiccken Рік тому +6

      giving russia to putin was the worst mistake ever made for russia itself.

    • @andrewwomble2722
      @andrewwomble2722 Рік тому

      @@ChickenMcThiccken It seems hard coded in Russian DNA to submit to authoritarian strongmen.

    • @samemain9999
      @samemain9999 11 місяців тому

      It was total evillness and disaster. I get vommit even from name of this pieces ir shit.

  • @omarimack194
    @omarimack194 Рік тому +177

    Teachers and students remembering each other is a universal experience. I love it 😊

    • @JuneBug_87
      @JuneBug_87 Рік тому +1

      ❤📚

    • @vr-vm6br
      @vr-vm6br Рік тому

      communism is good? so why fall, because not work hehhe

  • @jasonlouis5498
    @jasonlouis5498 Рік тому +288

    Honestly, I think the US and Russia were probably in a better state back in the late 80s. I miss those times. So much hope in both countries.

    • @VinnyUnion
      @VinnyUnion Рік тому +21

      US is much more powerful though. Russia on the other hand is much weaker. NATO was only created because of the Soviet Union, but now it's gone, there isn't a former power balance between those. China is the new rival. It would had been quite interesting if the world power was, US, China and Soviet Union. A trio superpower. But I think a modern and powerful Soviet U would've been disastrous. Glad the next leaders after stalin were fairly weak.

    • @gustavocode
      @gustavocode Рік тому +8

      A União Soviética causou muitas mortes e a fome aumentou exageradamente. Não desejo que a URSS volte nem um pouco.

    • @gustavocode
      @gustavocode Рік тому +2

      @@VinnyUnion O português não soa feio, é um belo idioma. Apenas utilizei palavras mais ofensivas, pois é o que sinto. A URSS foi uma merda.

    • @VinnyUnion
      @VinnyUnion Рік тому +2

      @@gustavocode try french bro
      you don't need portuguese to be happy and civilized.

    • @gustavocode
      @gustavocode Рік тому +2

      @@VinnyUnion I am already happy and civilized with Portuguese.

  • @thefaric5016
    @thefaric5016 Рік тому +14

    do not show only Moscow. Petersburg and Moscow is a total different Russia than orther republics. There were a lot of poor people who did not have anything to eat, most people were like slaves, work all day, back to home only to sleep and work again.

    • @user-ee6nb9ec6v
      @user-ee6nb9ec6v Рік тому +6

      Nice joke, love it

    • @thefaric5016
      @thefaric5016 Рік тому +1

      @@user-ee6nb9ec6v i guess you are from moscow

    • @geist9080
      @geist9080 Місяць тому

      ​@@thefaric5016если ты пишешь о РСФСР и Белорусии, то могу понять.
      Это были республики доноры и можно шикарно сравнить по производительности, куда шли деньги.
      Украина, Прибалтика, Грузия производили меньше, чем получали, при том конкретно у Прибалтики разница в два раза, а у Грузии в 4 раза, что мягко говоря чудовищные цифры.
      Пока у них люди шиковали, мой тувинский дед работал в три смены по 8 часов каждая на кобальтовой шахте, чтобы прокормить троих своих дочек, одну приемную и не менее 5-х сестер и братиков жены, помимо этого помогал вставать своему младшему брату, пока тот учился на в институте МВД.
      Честно говоря слушая истории деда с бабкой о периоде жизни с 60-90-е просто хочется спросить где были эти социальные нормы, где было всё то что должно было быть. Где то, что в будущем русские будут называть: "пришли и сделали вашу жизнь лучше".
      Домашний скот благодаря Хрущеву ещё в 60-х сами резали из-за налогов. По всей Сибири тогда популярна была присказка "домашняя коза - это корова Хрущева".
      А потом в 80-х началась сегрегация на местных и русских. Тувинские дети не могли даже в одном детском лагере с русскими быть, тувинцы стали людьми второго сорта в родной республике. Это вылилось в погромы и рост национализма со все присущими ему преступлениями в 90-е.
      Боже, хорошо жилось только на Украине, в Прибалтике и на Южном Кавказе, ну и плюс столицы, в других местах будто социализма не существовало вовсе.

  • @paulmorley1225
    @paulmorley1225 Рік тому +35

    Millennials and younger can take note from this video on how people can all be in a room together, talking, being sociable, and just interacting. (as I sit behind a keyboard and type this).

    • @brinjoness3386
      @brinjoness3386 Рік тому +4

      At least you admitted your fault. Older people should take note

    • @romanovtiktokhistorian9052
      @romanovtiktokhistorian9052 9 місяців тому +1

      The oldest millennials are 40 years old lol we were alive before the internet took over

    • @KozelPraiseGOELRO
      @KozelPraiseGOELRO 4 місяці тому +1

      Dude, by the economic circumstances of today it is not like many can avoid it.

    • @Justin-pe9cl
      @Justin-pe9cl Місяць тому

      You really think you said something intelligent, don’t you?

    • @paulmorley1225
      @paulmorley1225 Місяць тому

      @@Justin-pe9cl struck a nerve on you apparently

  • @pavelsoloduhin3461
    @pavelsoloduhin3461 Рік тому +26

    Мне одному кажется, что раньше у людей взгляд был более осмысленен?

    • @shadow_7621
      @shadow_7621 3 місяці тому

      спасибо советскому образованию

    • @Sergey_Naumov
      @Sergey_Naumov Місяць тому +1

      Щаз все лупятся в смартфоны - жертвы интернета

  • @KungFury1
    @KungFury1 Рік тому +93

    Фильм полный бред и пропаганда того, что в СССР все плохо, все бедные, не умеют друг с другом общаться, голод, разруха и т.д.! Даже не стал досматривать эту пропаганду! Горбачева ненавидели раньше и ненавидят сейчас! Развал СССР это большая ошибка!

    • @S_misa
      @S_misa Рік тому +24

      величайшая геополитическая трагедия 20 века

    • @elfinseacerca3737
      @elfinseacerca3737 Рік тому +5

      Que te pasa la URSS ERA QUERIDA POR SU PUEBLO

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Рік тому +1

      This documentary was not like that

    • @Whatthellisthisthing
      @Whatthellisthisthing Рік тому +3

      Someone didn’t really watch the documentary

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Рік тому +5

      @@Whatthellisthisthing I know. This video portrayed the Russian people in an extremely favorable light. Friendly educated idealistic people

  • @gonzalesfrederic6213
    @gonzalesfrederic6213 Рік тому +24

    In mid-1986, nobody (or almost so) expected the USSR to collapse during the XXth century. In early 1988, everybody (or almost so) deemed it possible.

    • @jaskkk
      @jaskkk Рік тому +2

      this is how the "Overton's window" works in real life..

    • @vaoline
      @vaoline 2 місяці тому +2

      That’s not true. Very few believed it was possible even in 1991.

  • @JS-xn8xn
    @JS-xn8xn 2 роки тому +70

    I love these videos.

  • @olegpetrovskiy1583
    @olegpetrovskiy1583 Рік тому +61

    On August,12-13th in 1989 there was a huge rock concert with Motley Crue, Ozzy, Scorpions, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Cinderella in Moscow. Time was changed.

    • @dracgotbands
      @dracgotbands Рік тому +11

      man that must’ve been a good concert. ozzy just announced today he won’t be on stage anymore

    • @611Anime
      @611Anime Рік тому +2

      Billy Joel was in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1987.

    • @kiansedaghaty7900
      @kiansedaghaty7900 Рік тому +3

      I have seen a video of Metallica there to and the crowd is the biggest I have ever scene! 🎉

    • @brinjoness3386
      @brinjoness3386 Рік тому

      Now they have Shaman.

    • @life69467
      @life69467 Рік тому

      ​@@dracgotbandsSearched for Mirodrom Koncert Split 1985 .They are Aeodrom,Film,Denis Denis and grouphs like that .

  • @hank12-z7w
    @hank12-z7w Рік тому +730

    The power of western propaganda is truly incredible.

    • @ES-pt3mr
      @ES-pt3mr Рік тому +88

      This is sovjet propaganda!

    • @StayBasedJesus
      @StayBasedJesus Рік тому +174

      @@ES-pt3mr American Iq 😂

    • @zymbaluknik8093
      @zymbaluknik8093 Рік тому

      Western propaganda is when life is horrible inside of collapsing country

    • @zymbaluknik8093
      @zymbaluknik8093 Рік тому +80

      @@StayBasedJesus soviet fan found,opinion rejected

    • @-derasta2514
      @-derasta2514 Рік тому +50

      в чем тут пропаганда? это все правда, дай мне пруфы что это американская пропаганда

  • @youtubeaccount931
    @youtubeaccount931 Рік тому +20

    People miss those times. More social cohesion, better social services, families closer etc. I guess you can buy 40 kinds of pop tarts now.

  • @cougsjohnson1
    @cougsjohnson1 Рік тому +48

    They need to do another episode 35 years later. "Back Again to The USSR" See how much things have changed.

    • @cbrown9287
      @cbrown9287 Рік тому +19

      Yeah but there's no USSR to go back to bro.

    • @bedeutsam
      @bedeutsam Рік тому +2

      @@cbrown9287it is there fewer land but people are more soviet than in 1980th

    • @thomaslove6494
      @thomaslove6494 Рік тому

      😅😅😅

  • @user-th8cb2er3r
    @user-th8cb2er3r Рік тому +29

    Сколько улыбок тогда....

    • @dont.try.to_search
      @dont.try.to_search Рік тому +5

      Да и сейчас есть улыбки, но безнадеги больше на лицах..

  • @patrickvernon2749
    @patrickvernon2749 Рік тому +20

    Better dressed better cities than every city in the usa 2023

  • @elzorro7of9
    @elzorro7of9 Рік тому +75

    Reminds me of when I first went to the US. I could not get over the open poverty and homelessness. The USSR was the dream that did not become reality, the US is the reality that is the nightmare.

    • @yang8244
      @yang8244 Рік тому

      was no homelessness in the ussr because it was illegal, homless people were simply locked away.

    • @elzorro7of9
      @elzorro7of9 Рік тому

      @@yang8244 They had a job in the USSR. Reagan tossed all the mentally ill out into the streets for budget cuts. There are no go areas in US cities, and that is considered normal. Its not working Yan. I visited 21 states in the US and it was shocking compared with Europe.

    • @jaskkk
      @jaskkk Рік тому

      U.S. is the real empire of Evil. Soon it will fall.

    • @galactic_mapper
      @galactic_mapper Рік тому +5

      At least in US there is Food

    • @elzorro7of9
      @elzorro7of9 Рік тому +4

      @@galactic_mapper I gave a homeless person a dollar in New Orleans and he complained it was not enough. I asked for it back.

  • @jimmycash1982
    @jimmycash1982 Рік тому +7

    People tend to look back on old days and remember only the good. Obviously in the soviet union there were people who lived comfortable lives. But the heart of the soviet union communist system was evil. Millions died and lived in terror. Thousands disappeared and were sent to concentration camps where they lived in miserable harsh conditions. Many didn't survive. Needless to say the suffering of the people under communism was immense.

    • @americanfreedomworldpeace
      @americanfreedomworldpeace 8 місяців тому

      Exactly, people just trying to remember the good without the bad

    • @thechannel6762
      @thechannel6762 Місяць тому

      blind western propaganda would have you believe so. the stuff youre describing only happened under stalin. it was actually going great after him, but whatever lets take MSM propaganda by face value

  • @user-ok2ln1pv7h
    @user-ok2ln1pv7h Рік тому +29

    Мне кажется сейчас наоборот идёт тенденция к прохожим, люди прохожими становятся, а в том времени все таки в обществе люди держались вместе, роднее были... Пусть были гнилые, подлые и хорошие, добрые, но люди роднее были

    • @czczejnaczczo5712
      @czczejnaczczo5712 Рік тому

      W Polsce to samo ,ludzie nie są teraz mili.🤗

    • @vladimirmiakota8406
      @vladimirmiakota8406 Рік тому

      люди были в страхе примерно как животные в колючей клетке за границу выезжали тщательно провереные люди с работниками кгб мир жил своей жизнью а нам досталось страшные конс лагеря и ужасные тюрмы почти все кто это прошол получили язву желудка вернетесь ещо хуже будет хорошенько выучите историю растрелы высылки искуственный голодо мор

  • @TrueHighlander_Scotland
    @TrueHighlander_Scotland 7 місяців тому +23

    I lived in Moscow in 1993 and was there during the 2nd Coup. Lots of turmoil that year. Even though there wasn't freedom to do what you wanted during the USSR I believe life was more peaceful and families were closer than they are now.

    • @RusSoldierZ
      @RusSoldierZ 3 місяці тому +2

      Не было свободы убивать всех и вся? В остальном свободы было сильно больше, чем сейчас

    • @maxcole5553
      @maxcole5553 2 місяці тому

      Yeah well blame Yanoyev and his fellow conspirators for killing the USSR.

    • @tomb9420
      @tomb9420 Місяць тому

      Back before androids and internet controlled everyones life

  • @galvk
    @galvk Рік тому +57

    Soviet Union, unique, ideal, charming, utopic state. Soviet people were naive from the point of view of modern person, who's only wish is eating, dominating and making sex. Soviet people were flying in the ideal world. They red books, attended theaters, listened classical music. Soviet state was very mild, you could work 4-5 hours daily, drink tea during working time. You got apartment from state free of charge, you got free healthcare, free education in universities, free recreation in sanatoriums. This all has gone and will never come back. Please, don't say it is a lie or propaganda. What I have said, is my personal experience. Western media hated USSR, because it was a challenge to Western billioners elite and their paradigma. Media always lied about positive side of Soviet life. People in the West had opinion, that Soviet people worked hard in misery and feared KGB. The reality was different. I have never in my life seen any KGB. Soviet people were happy, though they were not conscious about it. The USSR was the first and the last, single state, where people thought not only of earning money, eating, dominating and making sex, like animals.

    • @CoffeeSuccubus
      @CoffeeSuccubus Рік тому +5

      What about treatment of the other republics that weren't Russian? Are they treated like Soviets or "minorities"?

    • @user-ee6nb9ec6v
      @user-ee6nb9ec6v Рік тому +5

      @@CoffeeSuccubus there were better than in РСФСР

    • @auroraborealis6398
      @auroraborealis6398 Рік тому

      Yes, this was the U.S propaganda's fault, and it's still running. So sad, I'm tired to argue with people about that matter.

    • @mrm8943
      @mrm8943 Рік тому

      Yep, for the most part the so called satellites were enjoying same or better benefits

    • @bodyloverz30
      @bodyloverz30 Рік тому +2

      So sex was boring in USSR?

  • @behuman5292
    @behuman5292 Рік тому +156

    Почему так грустно? мне было 2 года, все родные были со мной, радовался всему, жизнь только начиналась)

    • @kostilks
      @kostilks Рік тому +5

      Да да да, те же мысли. Ностальгия... Грусть...

    • @user-sx9bl1sl2t
      @user-sx9bl1sl2t Рік тому +14

      Подавитесь своим совком, он сдох в 1991-м году и находится на свалке истории, можете больше не упарываться! 🤣

    • @Max-io8hs
      @Max-io8hs Рік тому

      @@user-sx9bl1sl2t Вы ещё от антисоветской пропаганды 90х не отошли

    • @user-sx9bl1sl2t
      @user-sx9bl1sl2t Рік тому +3

      @@Max-io8hs вы ещё от совковой пропаганды 70-х не отошли? 🤣

    • @RegulusBlackPureBlood
      @RegulusBlackPureBlood Рік тому +11

      @@user-sx9bl1sl2t то вам Путин ,то Ельцин ,то Жириновский ,никто понимаешь..не нравится! Ну сколько можно!(

  • @THEPITZU
    @THEPITZU Рік тому +26

    Extraordinar, melodia de la inceputul reportajului, pe care ati ales-o este o DOINA romaneasca!👋

    • @tania-iw6kz
      @tania-iw6kz Рік тому +2

      I also noticed, something like Moldavian melody. Americans just have no idea about russian folk .Hi from Belarus!

    • @THEPITZU
      @THEPITZU Рік тому +1

      @@tania-iw6kz not moldavian music region, BANAT region folklore

    • @tania-iw6kz
      @tania-iw6kz Рік тому

      @@THEPITZU ok, I mean they are very similar

    • @ekesandras1481
      @ekesandras1481 Рік тому +2

      daca aud melodia asta chiar vâd carpați în minte, cu brazi, poiane cu oi, vârfuri în nori, pârâuri reci, caprioare ...
      daca ma uit afara geamul vâd tot carpați, cei reali, dar multe ori sunt prea leneș sa parasesc oraș și ma duc la munți ... din pacate.

    • @cgruita
      @cgruita Рік тому

      Definitely Romanian song ;) Nice documentary.

  • @kirav2536
    @kirav2536 Рік тому +6

    I wish kids in America would clean their classrooms after school day is over. I tell my son stories about going to school in Ukraine. We used to stay after school and wash the classroom floors. I think it is a good practice.

  • @Whatthellisthisthing
    @Whatthellisthisthing Рік тому +230

    I love this. It demonstrates very well the change in humanity in the past 40 years.

    • @divacroft1034
      @divacroft1034 Рік тому

      its same russiza you fool..how about show occupied countries at that time? its totally different from this nonsense

    • @Theactivebob
      @Theactivebob Рік тому +1

      А что ты темный тогда?

    • @Ivan-wp1ne1
      @Ivan-wp1ne1 Рік тому

      @@Theactivebob он цвет не выбирал, а вот ты геем стал по своему выбору😂 Видимо, негры тебя выебали

    • @АлександрИванов-е6д3б
      @АлександрИванов-е6д3б Рік тому +22

      Расскажи это американцам, которые бомбили гражданские дома Ирака и Белграда

    • @Raa-agent
      @Raa-agent Рік тому +2

      That means you are still living 40 years back. 🤔

  • @whyme760
    @whyme760 Рік тому +50

    And then came the nineties and all hell broke loose. Amazing.

    • @martinbitter4162
      @martinbitter4162 Рік тому +13

      Yes and suddenly all hope was lost.

    • @americanfreedomworldpeace
      @americanfreedomworldpeace 8 місяців тому +1

      Russia was booming right after USSR fell and opening business to the West (McDonald's, Starbucks, etc.). Though it's going backwards recently due to Putin. So it didn't come crashing in the 90's, standard of living was way higher due to opening up to the West, just like what happened in China when they tried it as an experiment.

    • @valentinbarinov
      @valentinbarinov Місяць тому +1

      Ahh yes the dude with the american flag profile photo knows all about Russian economy

    • @DevinNixonDavis
      @DevinNixonDavis Місяць тому

      Yeah that's bs​@@americanfreedomworldpeace

    • @americanfreedomworldpeace
      @americanfreedomworldpeace Місяць тому

      @@DevinNixonDavis most of Russia was poor during the Soviet Union. That is because the country was CLOSED OFF to the rest of the world (just like North Korea is today). After the Soviet Union fell and became Russia, the country opened up to the west, and many companies enteted Russia (McDonald's, Starbucks, etc.), basically they allowed capitalism. Now, all of them have left Russia once again. The country is making money from selling gas to Europe but Europe has made plans in 9 years from now to quit buying Russian gas. The US has already stopped buying Russian oil/petrol, fuel prices are higher because of it (for now). Hundreds of thousands of Russian people (mostly men) have fleed Russia to avoid the mandatory military draft, there are video clips of it. Even some Russian women fleed, especially if they are afraid of going to prison for having an opinion about the government.

  • @ratrace468
    @ratrace468 7 місяців тому +4

    I dont know how much people are interrested by the USSR but its really fascinating

  • @ilshyf
    @ilshyf 2 роки тому +42

    This is an episode of Frontline, a PBS current affair documentary, broadcast on March 29, 1988 (season six).

    • @tinahale9252
      @tinahale9252 Рік тому

      The newest one is a turn up on propaganda for US. We've wronged those people and bullied them

  • @bosanceros0172
    @bosanceros0172 Рік тому +110

    Boy, those poor people had no idea they where about to experience 'the sweet taste of freedom'...

    • @DeeDeex007o
      @DeeDeex007o Рік тому +7

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Juzztas
      @Juzztas Рік тому +21

      You can visit transnistria for that authentic "waiting in a breadline at 5am" experience

    • @melvisole881
      @melvisole881 Рік тому +3

      @@Juzztas non come in USA

    • @Epirustravel
      @Epirustravel Рік тому +18

      Freedom in the USA ? I think modern slavery ….

    • @DENCSER
      @DENCSER 9 місяців тому

      They lie that there were problems in the country. It's a lie. About Stalin's repressions, about economics. All lies.

  • @Dusankk
    @Dusankk Рік тому +339

    Beautiful times, so many happy, peaceful, normal, sincere people in this documentary. There's so much hope in the air. I was a kid during the '80s growing up in socialist Yugoslavia, those kids at school were at my age then. I reminded of those times how similar my childhood was and how people got close together. Present times are so much more depressive and sterile, young people are sterile, we are now living in technological dictatorship, staring in our phones, distant from each other, in a capitalist rat race and inequality and everything is artificial and wrapped in silicone. Modern taste for beauty is disgusting, women start to look like zombies with this pumped lips and breasts. I prefer those times as more close to human nature that today. As how much people didn't have, their hearts were happy, we will never have those ideal times again. Now our stores are full, our wallets are half full, but the hearts and souls of people are more and more empty.

    • @russiawilldestroynatoscum2315
      @russiawilldestroynatoscum2315 Рік тому +2

      Better than your globalist life.

    • @Dusankk
      @Dusankk Рік тому +18

      @CI_b0y hmm that is a rhetorical question. It depends, life in communism was not the same in every country. Also there were periods where the dictatorship methods were more opressive, there were times when people have been given more rights and the life in general was lighter. In the Soviet Union for example there was a difference between life under Stalin and life under Brezhnev. The only thing these periods had in common is that the public welfare was guaranteed for everyone, workers had more rights than today, public health care was of good quality and nobody was left over if he didn't have money for the health insurance. But at the same time the government had tight hand, there was a censorship over the media, so to criticize the government publicly it was something you should be aware, that if you start picking your nose into these matters too much, the secret police or the regular police will pick you up in their headquarters for interrogation.

    • @yuriyfedoskin
      @yuriyfedoskin Рік тому +9

      Как же точно Вы всё сказали.

    • @Dusankk
      @Dusankk Рік тому +6

      @@yuriyfedoskin Спасибо ! 🙂✌️

    • @claudiamorley799
      @claudiamorley799 Рік тому +13

      Mate I think you have depression. You remind me my depressed grandad who always talks about his youth as the best time ever😂

  • @robrot404
    @robrot404 16 днів тому +1

    My mother gave birth to my sister in that year, back then in Soviet Ukraine. She said that those years of her life were wonderful and that her and everyone around her were happy, excited and full of hope for what the future would bring. Little did they know what disaster would come a few years later...

  • @JML6988
    @JML6988 Рік тому +39

    Little did they know that their country would no longer exist three years later.

    • @borodino9913
      @borodino9913 Рік тому

      They knew it from gorbachev

    • @USGrant21st
      @USGrant21st Рік тому +12

      Little did they know that their country would descend into fascism just a couple decades later.

    • @UppedOne
      @UppedOne Рік тому +6

      @@USGrant21st gotta remember that there is no fascism in US-backed Ukraine raised on purpose as an anti-Russian buffer state, haha

    • @USGrant21st
      @USGrant21st Рік тому

      @@UppedOne dumb russian propaganda for feebleminded

    • @UppedOne
      @UppedOne Рік тому

      @@USGrant21st what is propaganda in this one? Neo-nazi Ukrainian soldiers and enforcers? Anti-Russian nationalism? Ukraine being rigged with Western NGOs and money and purposely weaponized? Care to elaborate?

  • @easternfrontagain
    @easternfrontagain Рік тому +10

    All people are poor but look and talk more intelligent then now in Russia, it’s incredible.

    • @calaf1816
      @calaf1816 Рік тому +5

      because of the Capitalism makes people less thinker.

    • @ScriptedLinks
      @ScriptedLinks 10 місяців тому +1

      @@calaf1816 That makes no sense, but regardless, it's time and modern internet that has made people much more stupid. In capitalist societies, most people, even poor; would speak at a much more articulate level. I don't deny that these people aren't intelligent, but you make it out to seem that "capitalist nations dumb lol" when in reality they've created nearly all modern tech used.

    • @JackSmith-xx5mi
      @JackSmith-xx5mi 3 місяці тому

      @@ScriptedLinks
      Wow created all the modern tech so great really wish they hadn't though. Their really should a control & discussion on technological development.
      Liberalism/Capitalism & the Bourgeois Class won both World Wars & the Cold War but now what is Liberalism exactly? Yeah you could say freedom but Freedom to & from what exactly? I'll tell you want.
      Liberalism seeks nothing but total atomization and alienation of the individual making him free from Family, Nation, Nature, and God and granting the Individual freedom to engage in all vices destroying any greater destiny for mankind as he competes to outdo his neighbors and exploit everyone underneath him well making shitty products and commercializing & desacralizing every aspect of society.
      Under the chaotic direction of Liberalism intelligence has been lowering every year along with fertility and testosterone, pollution is at an all time high, deaths of despair are an all time high, sexual perversions are becoming normalized, etc. I piss on John Locke, the constitution, Freemasonry and capitalism from what I see none of the people today deserve the luxury we have.

    • @crisgetcrucified6972
      @crisgetcrucified6972 2 місяці тому

      ​@@ScriptedLinkswtf are you talking about? You only see the slaver side of capitalism and not the slaved side

    • @Justin-pe9cl
      @Justin-pe9cl Місяць тому

      @@calaf1816Learn to write before you make up nonsense.

  • @nomad1517
    @nomad1517 3 місяці тому +1

    Amazing. To see something like this is surreal. We hear about it in movies and read about it in books. But to see it in this style is amazing.

  • @pjacobsen1000
    @pjacobsen1000 Рік тому +12

    Hey, I was in the Soviet Union in 1988, just for two weeks, though. It was weird! Of course we had no idea what would happen over the next 3-4 years. I'm glad I went, it feels like I'm a little part of history.

    • @Spectre11B
      @Spectre11B Рік тому

      Hi there, I was in the USSR in 88 also for a couple weeks APR-MAY, it was part of a school trip. I was just curious why you were there? Where did you go?

    • @pjacobsen1000
      @pjacobsen1000 Рік тому

      @@Spectre11B I was going on the Trans-Siberian Railway to China with my good friend, Sep. 1988. First we took a regular train from Europe to Moscow. In Moscow we were told that our Trans-Sib tickets had been 'postponed' so we had to stay 3 extra days in Moscow (Intourist paid). I have vivid memories. Supermarkets were practically empty, the big department store GUM had nothing on the shelves, we saw a woman exiting a shoe store with a box of shoes getting mobbed by passersby, wanting to see her shoes. We were scrambling to find vodka, but Gorbachev had limited sales. We were approached a black market guy who wanted to buy my friend's wrist watch (a cheap plastic watch he'd gotten in a gift bag) and we spent an entire evening with this guy running around town trying to find vodka in exchange for the watch. He never found vodka, but it was a fun night. We eventually were able to buy vodka from our hotel restaurant the last night there.
      My friend and I were 21 at the time.

    • @chronicillz1879
      @chronicillz1879 Рік тому

      @@Spectre11Bpart of a school trip? from america...?

    • @Spectre11B
      @Spectre11B Рік тому

      @@chronicillz1879 No I was living in Germany but it was an American school.

  • @muhammadaqil5993
    @muhammadaqil5993 Рік тому +4

    Love the maps, them songs of the channel. Wish I could've born and lived at that time.

  • @blah23vr234v
    @blah23vr234v Рік тому +219

    Propaganda in this is super strong. If you look at approval of Gorbachev in Russia now, it's abysmal. The idea pushed in this documentary is "if only they could be like the US" and "the US is so much more prosperous". No better than Russian propaganda.

    • @sigmus5543
      @sigmus5543 Рік тому

      as much as America sucks they wouldn't be wrong in thinking that

    • @I_like_big_bombs
      @I_like_big_bombs Рік тому +48

      I mean at the time America was a good deal better. Although media bias, media sensationalism, government corruption in the economy and military was corrupting with time. And there were some pretty sus events in American history (entry into WWI).
      But I'd rather live in 80's America than 80's Russia.

    • @I_like_big_bombs
      @I_like_big_bombs Рік тому

      Also Russian propaganda at the time, and now is and was so much more shameful compared to what American media did then. Because Russian media has even in just this war with Ukraine, filmed "Dead British Pilots who were acting as saboteurs". And you can see the Russian actors standing up and laughing at the end of the video, as if they didnt expect you to watch that far. And Russian state media at the time would always play Classical Music or Opera on the TV when a government "change of power" occured. And then when it came back on, you had a new face on the TV.
      America has fallen pretty far, with outright story fabrication being admitted by the CEO of CNN. And in this very story there is emotional, propagandistic, and storytelling elements. But thats more so because this is more about the book these Americans were writing, and at that it shows a good window into both the moods at the time, for Russia and America.

    • @blah23vr234v
      @blah23vr234v Рік тому +8

      @@I_like_big_bombs fair enough. I would say the same wrt 80's America vs 80's Russia, but I'm also saying that from 20/20 hindsight. The 90's were a terrible time in Russia

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Рік тому +1

      @@I_like_big_bombs
      Better for who? Certainly not for the grotesque homeless encampment in every major city, or the people living in the hollowed out inner cities deprived of industrial jobs, and the 2 million Americans in prison. The standard of living and life expectancy went down in russia after the USSR dissolved. Unfortunately, the Russian people were sold a total fantasy about what life is like here in the states. Their intellectuals only interacted with educated upscale affluent American visitors, like the white collar family featured in this video

  • @motyabolkonsky
    @motyabolkonsky Рік тому +10

    Вопрос американцам, почему в вашей демократичной и свободной стране более 2 миллионов заключенных?

    • @palyani
      @palyani Рік тому +1

      потому что они совершают преступления, условия лучше, многие не прочь вернуться. черных и мексов много, преступность вот и высокая

    • @-UkraineD-Ukraine
      @-UkraineD-Ukraine Рік тому +1

      По твоему преступников нужно отпускать?

    • @billybigballs5776
      @billybigballs5776 Рік тому

      @Lewis C how America was called before colonists came?I know was long time ago,and different tribes live in different part of the country.But do you have name for what’s today US?

    • @josefcibulka2198
      @josefcibulka2198 Рік тому

      вы не понимаете это другое

    • @EliHaNavi
      @EliHaNavi Рік тому

      Potomu chto bol'shoye kolichestvo naseleniya eto chorniye obez'yani i tak nazivayemii belii musor.

  • @mohammadmansur0578
    @mohammadmansur0578 Рік тому +8

    СССР это моя молодость. Всё было хорошо. Не было криминала, бандитизма, работа была у всех. Бездомных людей не было.
    Горбачев целенаправленно уничтожал страну внутри страны. Русские люди в основном наивные и доверчивые. Обманули , что у нас будет светлое прекрасное будущее, но по сути потеряли всё и всё стало намного хуже.

    • @TheStrang007
      @TheStrang007 5 місяців тому

      "Не было криминала, бандитизма"
      СССР развалил не Горбачев, а такие наглые вруны и лицемеры как вы!

    • @dangidangi7561
      @dangidangi7561 Місяць тому

      Ты просто больная скотина, если ты веришь в то, что пишешь.

  • @camaradacomissario9641
    @camaradacomissario9641 Рік тому +33

    From 04:50 you know that it was filmed during the autumn, in October.

  • @izabotin
    @izabotin Рік тому +8

    I was kid and visit Moscow with my mother in 1988. Maybe I saw the film crew on the Red Square. It was big black guy with big Betacam. He filmed the mausoleum's guards and after that put the camera down on me. I remember it because it was very unusual for me - kid from Siberia.

  • @djannias
    @djannias 10 місяців тому +6

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
    00:08 📺 The video discusses the changes happening in the late 1980s Soviet Union.
    01:18 🇷🇺 Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership promises openness and economic change in the Soviet Union.
    02:10 🎥 The video provides an intimate look at the lives of Soviet citizens and their thoughts on the changes.
    04:53 📚 An American family, the Schecters, lived in the Soviet Union 20 years ago and returns to see if things have changed.
    05:33 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The Schecter family sent their children to Russian schools during their previous stay in the Soviet Union.
    09:55 🗣️ Opinions on Americans and Russians have changed, with more openness and communication between the two.
    12:36 🌍 Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost are discussed, leading to more openness and economic changes.
    15:43 🇺🇸 Americans express their freedom and mobility, which differs from life in the Soviet Union.
    17:06 🏫 Some Soviet schools still promote anti-American sentiments, causing concern.
    19:54 📜 The video highlights the struggle of dissidents and those who oppose the government's ideology.
    21:33 💼 Economic challenges and housing distribution issues are discussed.
    25:53 🏙️ The Soviet system limits mobility, especially in terms of housing.
    27:08 🔄 The video mentions the desire for fundamental changes in society.
    30:02 🧠 A change in mentality among the younger generation is noted.
    32:08 🖌️ The video discusses the impact of the generation that grew up during Khrushchev's time.
    35:56 🇺🇸 Refuseniks, Soviet Jews who were denied exit permits, face difficult choices.
    38:17 🇷🇺 There's excitement and a sense of national renewal in the Soviet Union despite challenges.
    38:35 🎭 Gorbachev's loyal allies, including thinkers, writers, and dreamers, risk their positions if he falls.
    39:20 🎭 A group called Theater 2, known for pushing boundaries, satirizes political corruption and government lies.
    41:52 🎤 A dissident historian explains that high-ranking officials knew they could be shot if they disagreed with the government.
    45:44 🕊️ Human rights activists like Yuri are released from prison but still face restrictions, showing the struggle for change.
    48:29 📚 Soviet society grapples with its past as plays, books, and movies from the censor shelf become accessible.
    49:03 🎥 The film "Repentance" forces the audience to question if Stalin was solely responsible or if the system played a role.
    50:40 📖 Writers like Anatoly Pristovkin become historians, sharing the untold tragedies of the Soviet era.
    54:26 🌟 Friends gather for a farewell party, signaling changing times and uncertainty about the future in the Soviet Union.

    • @ScriptedLinks
      @ScriptedLinks 10 місяців тому

      Could at least give credit to the AI you used for that.

  • @yitianwanbing
    @yitianwanbing Рік тому +6

    In the late 1980s, Gorbachev led the political and economic reforms of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, all failed in the end. The Christmas of the Gods in 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union.

  • @alexanderberyozkin
    @alexanderberyozkin 5 місяців тому +2

    At that time, Russian people believed that they could change their lives for the better, but through time, they lost this faith and went back to a time of fear, hate, and despair.

  • @ОлегБукреев-к8н
    @ОлегБукреев-к8н Рік тому +38

    Советский Союз!!! 👍👍👍👍

  • @flovv4580
    @flovv4580 Рік тому +15

    It wasn't all bad as some Westerners like to believe. Every system has it's pros and cons.

    • @brinjoness3386
      @brinjoness3386 Рік тому

      The Swiss and Nordic countries have some of the best social services in the world.

    • @Justin-pe9cl
      @Justin-pe9cl Місяць тому

      @@brinjoness3386ok?

  • @jerrycoomberry2541
    @jerrycoomberry2541 Рік тому +11

    I'd be interested to see what the Russians in this documentary would think of America today if someone went back to Moscow and talked with them. I doubt they'd be so envious of American "freedom and democracy" now.

    • @paulanderson7796
      @paulanderson7796 Рік тому +5

      I agree with you. Modern Russia, meanwhile, looks to be an extremely nice place to live.

    • @bndkllr2763
      @bndkllr2763 Рік тому

      I think you mean the other way around. In America today, Fascists are trying to make America as bad as Russia is today, like in Florida. The Soviet Union was oppressive for sure, but today's Russia is even worse. The Soviets were no friends to ethnic minorities, women or LGBT people. But they didn't have "Christian" Extremists and police systematically brutalizing and murdering them like they do today. That, and their criminal invasion of a Ukraine is why their economy is crumbling, their military is decimated, and their standing in the world is severely diminished. @@paulanderson7796

  • @Morussian
    @Morussian 9 місяців тому +7

    Unlike the USSR, we can say whatever we think freely in the USA. For example, we can say that the lives of blacks matter, we can kiss their feet and ask for forgiveness on our knees. We also have democracy, which is when you always choose one president out of two, even if one of them is the son of a former president. But do not confuse it with the monarchy, because the English Queen does not have real power, and the American president can claim that he bombed Yugoslavia, he bombed Iraq. And we also have independent media, although they dismiss those whose opinion does not coincide with Washington's opinion. And of course, as a great and free country, we help other countries... by supplying weapons, ammunition, and giving a lot of freshly printed money to hire soldiers of fortune. It is good that this dark USSR has finally collapsed and the new democratic republics... began to drown in blood, on the basis of national enmity and territorial conflicts. This is the whole strength of democracy, because whoever has more guns and dollars is right.

    • @UserUserUser2001
      @UserUserUser2001 8 місяців тому +2

      Все тоже самое, что и в России, но вместо негров нацмены, вместо монархии пожизненный президент, вместо Ирака и Югославии Украина

    • @digitalronin7787
      @digitalronin7787 4 місяці тому

      Funny atleast alot of blacks in USSR are not being oppressed and no segregation there compared to a democratic country like US

    • @dagmastr12
      @dagmastr12 Місяць тому

      Most former Soviet country are corrupt to this day. .. Some are worse than others but the damage done over 50 years of communism is not something you recover from overnight. I would just say spend a month in a former Soviet country that is not an EU member and you can still see the destruction.

  • @sonaldosui8154
    @sonaldosui8154 Рік тому +23

    It active great to see how much passion people had without phones. And USSR life doesn’t look that bad

    • @ledeyabaklykova
      @ledeyabaklykova Рік тому +9

      More ppl reading books and poetry and novels. Reading the Russian classics and discussing them in book clubs with tea and sweets every month or every two weeks. Workers had little money but had plenty of leisure time to read and pursue hobbies, etc. My grandparents lived this way.

    • @waykool698
      @waykool698 Рік тому +1

      If they had a phone, they’d be using it.

    • @Sonyboj
      @Sonyboj Рік тому

      zoomer retards blame this on phones. but everything was a fucking hassle. now I pay my bills with my phone instead of going to a fucking post office

    • @tmoe6674
      @tmoe6674 Рік тому +3

      @@ledeyabaklykovain America we work ourselves to death for material things. Having grown up in Europe (primarily Germany), before it became more like America, it was very nice with community and leisure time. In America many people don’t know what a vacation is now, and people are very isolated.
      It’s very sad, actually.

    • @origamihirn
      @origamihirn 11 місяців тому +1

      This is propaganda, ussr life in fact, most of the part, didnt look like that.

  • @Rgc4-suyn4n7v3c2vn
    @Rgc4-suyn4n7v3c2vn Рік тому +18

    Люди замечательные, ещё неиспорченные, простые, дружелюбные, образованные. Много интеллигенции.

    • @vutsereteli
      @vutsereteli Рік тому +3

      Ой, да хватит. Серость, в магазинах ничего нет, тоска и вранье.

    • @chesterdonelly9893
      @chesterdonelly9893 Рік тому +1

      @@vutsereteli вот сейчас нет этого, особенно вранья

    • @dont.try.to_search
      @dont.try.to_search Рік тому

      @@vutsereteli На фронте особо тоскливо, съезди, расскажи

    • @vutsereteli
      @vutsereteli Рік тому +2

      @@dont.try.to_search ,я с этой страной 24 года не имею ничего общего. А теперь еще и презираю

    • @dont.try.to_search
      @dont.try.to_search Рік тому

      @@vutsereteli да мне насрать на тебя и твое вранье))

  • @Dadsezso
    @Dadsezso Рік тому +33

    Interesting info at the very end of this show about the US military and toxic waste. I was exposed to toxic waste in the USMC in the 1970's and am now part of a study as a result. I never knew about this until around 2012 when they contacted me.

    • @mutiny_on_the_bounty
      @mutiny_on_the_bounty Рік тому +1

      Yeah! We were exposed to toxins in the last wars. Wonder if they'll pay us. Naw! I'm joking. They won't.

    • @aliorr9356
      @aliorr9356 Рік тому +3

      I hope you’re ok.

  • @ghostress2001
    @ghostress2001 Рік тому +15

    They showed us Moscow so we must believe the whole country was like this

    • @origamihirn
      @origamihirn 11 місяців тому +1

      Wrong, moscow was as good as it gets, life was very different in the peripheries and colonized neighbour countries. The USSR was a fake image of egaliterian internationality, when in reality it was taking more from the colonized countries and not giving back the same, but i do believe that in particulary russia with it's centralized policies lived pretty decently

  • @KungFury1
    @KungFury1 Рік тому +22

    8:00 Это не правда! В школах никогда не критиковали США! Это выдумали сами США!

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Рік тому +2

      Did you go to school during the Soviet union?

    • @tatianahawaii13
      @tatianahawaii13 Рік тому +2

      They did not criticize the USA in schools. I grew up there

    • @edfra4756
      @edfra4756 Рік тому +1

      Я пошёл в школу в 1987 году и нам показывали картины детей лежащих и живущих на улице и учительница говорила: вот дети в Америке не могут ходить в школу, если нет денег, а мы в СССр такие счастливые, что можем бесплатно учиться и больницы бесплатные ! Я сидел и думал, как хорошо, что я живу в ссср!

    • @stevencoardvenice
      @stevencoardvenice Рік тому +1

      @@tatianahawaii13
      Lol yeah sure. Nothing to criticize. Like McDonald's

    • @mistersquare7327
      @mistersquare7327 Рік тому

      @John Silver And there was some criticism of American imperialism and capitalism in the satirical magazine "Krokodil " (it had 3 issues per month). The cartoons in it were funny as f.=)

  • @Earth098
    @Earth098 Рік тому +69

    If this trend continued without the economic collapse and Yeltsin's corruption, Russians would have embraced democracy, just like other eastern European countries. The Yeltsin's chaotic 90s made Russians favor authoritarian governance once more, and ultimately gave rise to Putin.

    • @natalias50
      @natalias50 Рік тому +12

      It always had to collapse. The command economy is inferior- it might work in certain areas but not to power the whole country.
      I’m from Poland and we went through exactly the same- shock therapy, hyperinflation etc. Difference is people’s mentality- Russians never really tasted democracy and freedom- from tsars to Putin- they only know dictatorship; small period of Yeltsin could not undone the damage done.
      It’s our dream in Poland that Russia will become normal, democratic country that doesn’t have imperialistic ambitions, but we are also realistic because we know what Russian occupation means.
      From my side- my great grandfather was murdered by Russians in Ostaszkow camp. He was shot in the back of his head, whilst his hands were tied behind his back, then he was buried in mass grave with thousands other Polish officers and soldiers.
      People who committed that crime were never punished, they were allocated to well paid jobs in Russia.

    • @Earth098
      @Earth098 Рік тому +10

      @@natalias50 Interesting to here your view. But, Poland wasn't ruled by a crazy and corrupt leader like Yeltsin, who were drunk most of the time. That made Poland embrace democracy despite difficulties. Just like Russians embraced freedom under Gorberchev, despite economic difficulties. With regards to past experience, Poland also had not experienced democracy prior to WW2 either. Democracy is a relatively new concept and real democratic governments began to form only after WW2.

    • @jackbarhillel1065
      @jackbarhillel1065 Рік тому +9

      Earth+, speak about what you know, man... I knew Russia in the 1990ies, Putin was the best thing that could happen to Russia. Yet his ending is being infamous. There's no good and evil in history. That is "manichaeism". There are victors. And these victors define what is good and what is evil, as they're the ones who write history. Actually your sentence makes no sense at all.

    • @Earth098
      @Earth098 Рік тому +9

      @@jackbarhillel1065 You haven't read my comment. I was refereeing to 90s chaos when I said about Yeltsing. And I never said there is good and evil either. I was merely explaining why Russians came to dislike democracy, because they were given a rotten version of democracy to taste (in 90s). Please read carefully before making judgements.

    • @AlbertMr1981
      @AlbertMr1981 Рік тому

      I do not agree. Apart from domestic affairs, Yeltsin was the best ally US could ever find. They misused him, ignored him, did nit listen to him about new pan EU security foundation. He gave them the hand, the west took away his arm. The west arrogance ruled by the US brought Putin in power.

  • @Sebask88
    @Sebask88 Рік тому +57

    Какие же люди на видео добрые, отзывчивые, образованные, не то что ныне при капиталистах.

    • @urbanstepper
      @urbanstepper Рік тому +17

      И не только и небо голубее и трава зеленее была что не помните

    • @XepPOMA
      @XepPOMA Рік тому +8

      @@urbanstepper и бабки моложе, и пломбир вкуснее

    • @nikeria6683
      @nikeria6683 Рік тому

      И ебаться в попку было веселеее

    • @MeowSin11
      @MeowSin11 Рік тому +11

      Так и скажи, что у тебя стоял во времена совка 😁

    • @robertm5895
      @robertm5895 Рік тому +4

      Эх, где мои 90- 00вые. Самые лучшие времена, не то что нынче при совкодрочерах)

  • @DixieBanjo
    @DixieBanjo Рік тому +6

    80s Yugoslavia was super comfy like that as well

    • @Dzanarika1
      @Dzanarika1 2 місяці тому

      Yes, Yugoslavia and USSR had similar fate 😢

  • @robo0052
    @robo0052 Рік тому +39

    Old people who lived in soviet union always nostalgic about old times.
    It was a good times where people was more united even tho live wasn't easy.
    Now we live in times were people doesn't care about each other.
    Best movies, cartoons was made in USSR.
    Now it's robbers in charge, mafia.

    • @Ruofer
      @Ruofer Рік тому

      Да да сейчас сплошные грабители) хочу напомнить что именно при ссср всю партийную верхушку постепенно растреляли за измены и прочие политические статьи. А сталин грабил дилижансы с золотом принадлежавшие российской империи

    • @Ruofer
      @Ruofer Рік тому

      @John Silver мм то есть заработанное ты считаешь награбленным? интересная логика тупого коммуниста) если человек зарабатывает пусть делает что хочет а вот ты любитель считать чужие деньги держись подальше. а то однажды увидишь как я трачу деньги на удовольствия недоступные рабочему классу и возжелаешь совершить революцию отняв у умных людей всё что они нажили своими мозгами)

    • @HannaARTzink
      @HannaARTzink Рік тому

      Old people get nostalgic, some of them, sometimes.

    • @yang8244
      @yang8244 Рік тому +1

      people didnt care about each other back then either.
      a happy society where people treat each other well requires freedom.
      If human interactions are through force and coercion as oppose to free trade, nobody has incentives to care about others.

    • @USGrant21st
      @USGrant21st Рік тому

      Russia made a quick transition from communism to fascism. The period of perestroyka and glastnost was a brief aberration. You start to wonder if there is something genetic in Russian population that they always choose oppression and death.

  • @bigbong1449
    @bigbong1449 Рік тому +9

    Как у советского человека, может быть много американских друзей?
    Почему не говорят о том, как процветала СССР во время Великой депрессии в США?
    Почему смеются с того, что "якобы Америка может сбросить ядерную бомбу", учитывая то, что у США и Великобритании был разработан план " Немыслемое" по уничтожению СССР ядерным оружием?
    Все просто. Вы сейчас увидели американскую пропаганду.

    • @yang8244
      @yang8244 Рік тому

      CCCR did not prosper, it was busy killing millions of its own people after stalin took power in 1928.

    • @user-so1nx4bl7z
      @user-so1nx4bl7z Рік тому

      Фантазер

    • @Cyborg_Lenin
      @Cyborg_Lenin Рік тому

      Да ну нафиг! В холодную-то войну и пропаганда? быть не может!

  • @lw3646
    @lw3646 Рік тому +55

    Russia seems in a far better state in 1988 than 2022, more press freedom, more freedom of thought, more artistic freedom, more outward looking...
    It's tragic, the young people there in 1988 seem so fed up with authoritarian rule, they want to express themselves, they want to think for themselves, they want to travel.....now its all unravelling there.
    What a nice family too (Schecter) in this documentary, so friendly and genuine and inquisitive. Seeing them meeting young Soviet adults was great with the country at a crossroads or the older guys debating ideas openly, freethought is so important to life.

    • @DDtch6669
      @DDtch6669 Рік тому +25

      Have you been there?

    • @ВладимирЕпифанцев-ф8з
      @ВладимирЕпифанцев-ф8з Рік тому +31

      Are you kidding?

    • @DDtch6669
      @DDtch6669 Рік тому

      @@ВладимирЕпифанцев-ф8з He is a fine product of brainwashing from media. I can only imagine what else they think. UA-cam Education..

    • @user-ev9dy7yv9m
      @user-ev9dy7yv9m Рік тому +1

      Засуньте свои свободы поглубже в ваши американские задницы. Россия возрождается!

    • @Ivan-wp1ne1
      @Ivan-wp1ne1 Рік тому +4

      And huuuuge queues for anything you wanna buy 😂 More freedom lol. Of course not! I am Russian

  • @retke922
    @retke922 Рік тому +54

    Какие люди спокойные и счастливые! У людей появились права свободы выбирать самим , что и как им хочется делkrть и как им хочется жить. В то же время у них есть советские надежные рабочие места и все, что построили их советские дедушки и советские родители для их достойной комфортной жизни.
    Еда натуральная свежая без пальмового масла! Все поля под Ленинградом полны коров и коз , и вся молочка самая натуральная. Хлеб с утра горячий и свежеиспечённый...
    Все женщины прекрасно причёсаны, и хорошо модно одеты! Пожалуй лучше, чем сейчас. Советские квартиры у всех не нужно покупать, они заработаны на предприятиях. Есть возможность летом съездить на море в самый сезон. На дачах растят вкусную свежую клубнику и яблоки и ягоды и цветы...
    Все спокойно с улыбкой рассуждают разговаривают о внутренней политике от детей до любых людей и на улицах и профессионалы ... никто не заявляет, что «политикой не интересуется»

    • @artrueprod
      @artrueprod Рік тому +6

      Они ещё не знают что их ждёт. Я только родился

    • @wild4836
      @wild4836 Рік тому +6

      Выкинь свою методичку

    • @ВикторЩЩавель
      @ВикторЩЩавель Рік тому +4

      "Спасибо" Москвичам за 91 год...

    • @user-sx9bl1sl2t
      @user-sx9bl1sl2t Рік тому +1

      Совок был преступным эксплуататорским государством и тоталитарной сектой пропагандирующей террор и экстремизм и ксенофобию!

    • @artrueprod
      @artrueprod Рік тому

      @@user-sx9bl1sl2t обоснуйте.

  • @bgdrewsif
    @bgdrewsif Рік тому +3

    Definitely don’t miss the smoking of the 1980s… musty have been even worse in the USSR than in America back then… both my parents smoked like chimneys and I despised every second of the smoking…

  • @sbatomic1210
    @sbatomic1210 Рік тому +3

    I hate to say it but the USSR and the USA were way better countries back in those days .. better leaders and there was mutual respect.

  • @MH-jt3lx
    @MH-jt3lx Рік тому +5

    The mass transportation system in the USSR was really good and fare prices were good. I wish the US had a good mass transit system like they had.

    • @brinjoness3386
      @brinjoness3386 Рік тому +3

      They also had propiska, you couldn't leave your job and travel to a new job or region without authorisation

    • @maxkosh4839
      @maxkosh4839 Рік тому

      "fare prices" were because of basically slave workforce.

    • @simoncowbell.6783
      @simoncowbell.6783 Рік тому

      Would you give up almost all the cars for the mass transit system?

    • @user-zg5wr9sl5l
      @user-zg5wr9sl5l 9 місяців тому

      @@brinjoness3386 легко можно уволится с работы. при переезде в паспортном столе меняется прописка. а если меняешь регион, то нужно разрешение, в евро союзе примерно та же система.

  • @Vikingdescendent
    @Vikingdescendent 9 місяців тому +1

    Beautifully made, amazing cinematography for the time.

  • @Sergio-eu1vg
    @Sergio-eu1vg 9 місяців тому +4

    Человеческая глупость бесконечна. С надеждой и в иллюзиях смотрели на запад, поверили в человечность и искренность тех, кто манил посулами… а что в результате? В результате развалили и разграбили великую страну за обещания и обман. Алчность, стяжательство и беспощадная эксплуатация - вот что такое капитализм. :(

  • @-1945-
    @-1945- Рік тому +96

    Помню эти времена, ностальгия по детству.

    • @genrihk164
      @genrihk164 Рік тому +5

      нОстАльгия

    • @kissthis5361
      @kissthis5361 Рік тому

      @@genrihk164
      А "Генрих" разве так пишется?! 🤣🤦‍♂️

    • @genrihk164
      @genrihk164 Рік тому

      @@kissthis5361 В русской фонетике - так.

    • @kissthis5361
      @kissthis5361 Рік тому

      @@genrihk164
      🙂

    • @genrihk164
      @genrihk164 Рік тому +2

      @@kissthis5361 Чего смешного? Если я пишу по-английски "Антон", то я пишу "Anton", а не "Antony" либо "Матвей" - Matvei, а не Мэтью. С Генрихом тот же случай.

  • @919_PEDRO
    @919_PEDRO Рік тому +51

    Soviet union still lives in our HEARTS ❤️

  • @tomlee6430
    @tomlee6430 Рік тому +4

    The core difference between socialism and capitalism is who owns the means of production. In the US,most of the means of production are private, which means owned by small groups of people to make profits while under socialism it is owned by the state.

  • @MrMikusha
    @MrMikusha Рік тому +4

    19:09 what an adorable child.

  • @Alex_Lubomir
    @Alex_Lubomir Рік тому +13

    Куда ушли те времена? Где ответ?
    В СССР мы ЖИЛИ!!! А сейчас нет!

    • @dnl2247
      @dnl2247 Рік тому

      Кто "мы", чучело? Партийная элита, торгаши?
      Народ хуй с солью доедал +/- в зависимости от периода.

  • @ailleurd
    @ailleurd Рік тому +20

    Compare of today its seem like a paradise. We know what we lost, we don’t know what will be.

    • @brinjoness3386
      @brinjoness3386 Рік тому +1

      Gorbachev was stuck between a hammer and a sickle. Blaming others or stealing is easier I guess.

  • @cristianm7097
    @cristianm7097 Рік тому +21

    More humanity, less materialism in the 1980s

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind Рік тому +3

      Maybe in Moscow, definitely not in the United States. In the 1980's the entire U.S. maxed out its credit keeping up with the Joneses at the local mall.

  • @BubuMarimba
    @BubuMarimba 2 роки тому +42

    Empty streets. People were at work and they were happy. And they were confident in their future. And naïve. The future came with the deceit of the Party... Anyhow there was a great culture, great science and (even) great industry. Not so great agriculture. As for "Jerry Schecter" etc., what can he possibly know or feel! He was from the other side of the mirror.

    • @romulodecastrodasilva5863
      @romulodecastrodasilva5863 2 роки тому +1

      Good for you, but i dont want that life!

    • @BubuMarimba
      @BubuMarimba Рік тому +8

      @@romulodecastrodasilva5863 Just you wait! There would be either that life or no life at all. The middle class is disappearing everywhere.

    • @Ricardogs
      @Ricardogs Рік тому

      it's about time, i do not like communism either but the planet is collapsing in many fronts (water resources and food), and China still exist to do slap in the face to crony capitalism system, to restart and protect the middle class again, the fall of USSR byte us in the form of derogate laws against usury, both system were playing who manage to do more happy people-worker, soviet system colapse and now we have drugs, lazy people, Billonaires paying penauts to they employees.

    • @mwanafalsafa3613
      @mwanafalsafa3613 Рік тому +1

      @@BubuMarimba which industries?

    • @yang8244
      @yang8244 Рік тому

      industry was complete garbage. it was backwards which is why it collapsed the moment it had to compete with western and asian industry.

  • @someoneelse6703
    @someoneelse6703 Рік тому +4

    Reminded me of former Yugoslavia, the best country in the world. Why would anyone think that something was wrong with socialism/ communism of that era and that model..

    • @Dzanarika1
      @Dzanarika1 2 місяці тому

      I agree. Watching this and thinking of Yugoslavia 😢

    • @Justin-pe9cl
      @Justin-pe9cl Місяць тому

      Maybe the lack of freedom?

  • @JML6988
    @JML6988 Рік тому +12

    It's too bad they no longer speak Russian as they did when they attended that school decades ago.

  • @Shafferhead
    @Shafferhead Рік тому +3

    Funny thing how everyone that speaks badly about the USSR/DDR are mostly people from the west that never even lived there to begin with.
    I know both Russians, Poles, Lithuanians and Latvians that grew up there and mostly no one really recalls anything bad that we dont experience in the western sphere.
    Obviously we all known the bad things, but i think we get so up in our own propaganda we actually start believing it ourselves.

  • @mer3abec
    @mer3abec Рік тому +30

    They regretted it 1000 times. When democracy came. 1 million died every year. Millions of unemployed. Thousands killed in national conflicts. And what is now in Ukraine is a consequence of the collapse of the USSR.

    • @ritemolawbks8012
      @ritemolawbks8012 Рік тому +4

      You act as if the Soviet people had a choice and intentionally decided to dissolve the Soviet Union by a popular vote. The entire system collapsed before the nationalist, democratic, and independence movements became powerful.

    • @mer3abec
      @mer3abec Рік тому +6

      @@ritemolawbks8012 Nope. The collapse of USSR started from Khrushev. The political elites rotten. And Communist idea did not updated. As China did. But. Until the last hour, before USSR flag was down Gorbchev still had power to stop it. He just need to make a order to KGB. It could be bloody. But defiantly much less, then what people of USSR have got after collapse. Again. China did that. 3000 died in one day. But, now it 1 world economy.

    • @ritemolawbks8012
      @ritemolawbks8012 Рік тому

      @@mer3abec Is English your primarily language? You started your post with "Nope," and then went with a rant about Nikita Khrushchev.
      Did Khrushchev give the Soviet people an opportunity to vote on independence? It still collapsed, and you acting like the Soviet citizens had a decision to regret or change.

    • @mer3abec
      @mer3abec Рік тому +8

      @@ritemolawbks8012 I was a Soviet citizen. And there was referendum in 1991. 77% of all people voted to keep USSR. But, those three Sheshkevich, Yelcin and Kravchuk didn't care about people. Who u think Yelcin called the first? Bush.

    • @ritemolawbks8012
      @ritemolawbks8012 Рік тому

      @Fornax1984 I felt so hungry today with it being Thanksgiving that I remember the suffering of the Soviet and Russian peoples.
      Is it this what it was like in Soviet Union when your grandparents had to eat other, and then blame on the Germans? I'm sure you learned the lesson about tagging random people.
      I have plenty more cannibalisms stories from the USSR, and for the modern Russia-Ukraine, we already know your AIDS, TB, Covid-19, Crocodil, Vodka-kidney, and heroin problems.
      You and the other cocksucker with the Georgian flag probably think it's a good thing being associated with the Soviet Union and communism, but if it were so good, it would still be here like the American Empire that you live under right now.

  • @marat7433
    @marat7433 Рік тому +19

    Развели неискушенных людей

  • @kimjong-il4918
    @kimjong-il4918 Рік тому +5

    its so wholesome to see them go back to their old school

  • @АлександрИванов-е6д3б

    Такие наивные, думали, что Запад их спасет

  • @itsraj244
    @itsraj244 Рік тому +5

    Feels like everything was planned back then ,no chaos and the most important people were nice talking no matter what the problems were .

  • @motorheadbanger7720
    @motorheadbanger7720 Рік тому +41

    Russian women are just beautiful

    • @mac11daddy6
      @mac11daddy6 Рік тому +1

      They are scum

    • @ann7753
      @ann7753 Рік тому +3

      Thanks)❤

    • @mwanafalsafa3613
      @mwanafalsafa3613 Рік тому +2

      @@ann7753 are you single? 😁

    • @SM-ot5rv
      @SM-ot5rv Рік тому +1

      Lol

    • @bp341
      @bp341 Рік тому

      @Lewis C well if your dumb enough to get scammed that's on you dude. Ukrainian women are good and bad like every other country. They are old fashioned who still conform to old fashioned ideals and expect their husband's to be the bread winner. Much different than here in Canada but very refreshing. Maybe less American kids would stop shooting up schools if they had a parent at home to raise them and teach them values. Our way of life sucks and is not something to be emulated.

  • @aleksandrresident5099
    @aleksandrresident5099 Рік тому +5

    88 год это не СССР уже. Местные олигархи присвоили уже все плоды народа, капитализм пришел в страну и разграбил её.

    • @user-rn5kc3uu2o
      @user-rn5kc3uu2o Рік тому

      Пишет тот.. кто родился в 90-е ))) Ахахаххаха ты чмо!!!!

    • @aleksandrresident5099
      @aleksandrresident5099 Рік тому

      @@user-rn5kc3uu2o ну ты и клоун 🤡
      Есть принципиальная разница какого я года? Если данное мнение разделено с людьми которые уж точно родились 50х годах и говорят о том же. Ну ты и идиот)

  • @БагирАгаев
    @БагирАгаев Рік тому +23

    Бойтесь Данайцев дары приносящие!!!!!!!!!

  • @user-dl3zo8xf7g
    @user-dl3zo8xf7g Рік тому +22

    это была не просто страна, это была целая цивилизация, более развитая, которой не стало...

    • @user-li2dh2ox8j
      @user-li2dh2ox8j Рік тому +5

      Ахаха 😂😂😂😂, более развитая 😂😂😂

    • @alexkobets27
      @alexkobets27 Рік тому +3

      И хорошо. Чем развитая? Она отставала от запада и это признавалось. Дифицит товаров тоже нечто развитое?

    • @dmitriystoyanov933
      @dmitriystoyanov933 Рік тому

      Это был кусок Дер*ма который плагиатил тупо ВСЕ что придумывали на западе.

    • @vladislavg7455
      @vladislavg7455 Рік тому +2

      Господе... в ГДР катались на Трабанте, весь мир был в афиге что комушисткий блок такой отсталый.

    • @user-sf5zv4jc5v
      @user-sf5zv4jc5v Рік тому +4

      @@vladislavg7455 ну это ж в твоей голове так устроенно, что иметь одному человеку прекрасаный Ламборджини, а он действительно прекрасный, важнее чем иметь людям дом с гарантией что тебя не выпнут на мороз и гарантию трудоустройства. Дефицит начался в 85-ом с перестроечными реформами. Короче я вот думаю, что человеку который продался за жвачку и джинсы это сложно объяснить. Ну и плюс у меня в голове не укладывается как можно назвать страну которая была первооткрывателем космоса отсталой. Нууу в общем как-то так.... Делайте выводы и выбирайте сами либо общество потреблядства либо общество разума.

  • @AlexanderUnit-731
    @AlexanderUnit-731 11 місяців тому +3

    Love the smell of that old 1980's American propaganda.

  • @alexkessel5980
    @alexkessel5980 Рік тому +6

    Россияне столь открыты , при том, что говорят о себе, что секреты должны быть засекречены. Они воспринимают этих "посланцев", как друзей...Какая страна выдержала бы все то, что происходило в России? Невероятно... Абсолютно уникальная страна , абсолютно невероятные люди! Сегодня все видится иначе. Нежность, гордость и любовь теплой волной накрывает меня , когда я смотрю кадры этого фильма...Живи и процветай , великая Россия!🙏❤️

    • @dkmcdk724
      @dkmcdk724 Рік тому +1

      Сказочник ты. Россия никогда не процветала, плелась в хвосте развития цивилизации. Но понтов всегда было много. А сейчас тем более процветать не будет, в такой ситуации как Россия сейчас никогда не была, даже при совке. Жить Россия возможно и будет, но с таким народом вряд ли, скорее всего точка не возврата пройдена, в современный мир Россия не вписывается никак.

    • @alexkessel5980
      @alexkessel5980 Рік тому +2

      @@dkmcdk724 Я- сказочница? Да мне...пофиг, что вы думаете , подросток. Чао.

  • @natalial7924
    @natalial7924 Рік тому +11

    Не , такую , свободу , мы хотели, не такую!!!!!

    • @bugulman5337
      @bugulman5337 Рік тому

      А какую хотели?

    • @natalial7924
      @natalial7924 Рік тому +1

      @@thanksread5192 враг хитёр и коварен , светлые души учатся распознавать все приемы темных , светлый человек всегда верит в добро, по другому не может , поэтому вырабатываем иммунитет на шесть , коварство и т. д.

  • @user-nb67i945b
    @user-nb67i945b Рік тому +17

    Holy cow! Mikhail Efremov (currently serving an 8-year sentence for vehicular homicide after a long film and stage career and a simultaneous descent into alcoholism) 39:23

  • @robertshonk518
    @robertshonk518 Рік тому +5

    This is incredibly interesting and well made, but I will note the lack of any mention of the many minority nationalities of the Soviet Union. My understanding is that Russians were genuinely surprised by the resentment from Lithuanians, Ukrainians, etc. over Russian suppression of their nationhood. It was something they never thought about. Nationalism the main reason the Union broke apart as fast as it did. If you went back in time and tried to explain to them that in 34 years Russians would be bombing Ukrainians and their soldiers would be slaughtering each other, they would laugh in disbelief.

    • @sts7422
      @sts7422 10 місяців тому

      You are badly brainwashed. Ppl in USSR lived in peace and respect to other nationalities unlike west segregating everyone who is not local. You have a long way to go to learn how to live in truly international county. The collapse was due to wests disgusting ‘diplomatic’ agreement to stop harassing Russians with your military bases, the promise was obviously broken by morally corrupt thieves in DC.

  • @schoenwettersl
    @schoenwettersl Рік тому +5

    This is the most capitalism- and US-positive documentary I've seen in a long time. And it does this without seeming too much like an ideological movie! Brilliant film makers

  • @PeaceAndCommunisim
    @PeaceAndCommunisim Рік тому +15

    I swear to god I lived for 5 years in america all what i can remember is my back hurts for working 12 hours a day

    • @Gnashercide
      @Gnashercide Рік тому +1

      N ussr u work too

    • @PeaceAndCommunisim
      @PeaceAndCommunisim Рік тому +1

      @@Gnashercide yeahh true 5 days a week
      No worries about bills 💸

    • @Gnashercide
      @Gnashercide Рік тому +1

      @@PeaceAndCommunisim like Evry countries

    • @brinjoness3386
      @brinjoness3386 Рік тому

      Did you speak English and hold ay qualifications when you were working

    • @PeaceAndCommunisim
      @PeaceAndCommunisim Рік тому

      @@brinjoness3386 yea speaking very well since day one no qualifications

  • @olimp-fx3nd
    @olimp-fx3nd Рік тому +30

    Великая и большая страна!!!

    • @jaskkk
      @jaskkk Рік тому

      которую все эти люди добровольно просрали через 3 года в погоне за "200 сортами колбасы", джинсами, жвачкой и чтобы жить "как у них там на Западе". Результат того предательства и отсутствия критического мышления у масс мы пожинаем до сих пор.

    • @rayglover
      @rayglover Рік тому +3

      США!

    • @claudiamorley799
      @claudiamorley799 Рік тому +10

      Такая великая что в друзьях только северная Корея и талибы😂

    • @claudiamorley799
      @claudiamorley799 Рік тому +2

      @@ilyalyanov2473 открой голосование в ООН и увидешь кто Россию поддержал😄. Но что-то мне подсказывает что ты английского не знаешь и не умеешь пользоваться нормально интернетом как и весь Путинский электорат😉

    • @Воин-б4ю
      @Воин-б4ю Рік тому

      @@rayglover США не великая страна , а госудаство терорист

  • @filipasales9291
    @filipasales9291 Рік тому +4

    The accent of their English is perfect. I can say computers made us stupid.

  • @dijikstra8
    @dijikstra8 Рік тому +2

    "In this school their children were not allowed to ask questions".. I mean, this coming from a country where each morning still begins with a mandatory "patriotic" pledge of allegiance. I'm sure asking critical questions in US schools would be *very* appreciated especially in the 60s (that's sarcasm btw). I'm sure there were plenty of such things in the Soviet Union, but it can be difficult to recognize such things in your own culture when it's so ingrained.
    Much of 20th century US history consists of repression of anyone who dares try to work for change, from Pinkterton assassinations of labor acitivists to McCarthyism blacklisting anyone even remotely associated with any socalist cause.

  • @Bone74838
    @Bone74838 Рік тому +1

    Perestroika dayz.
    There is also a good Soviet film called "The courier". Which was made about these times of change in the Soviet Union. I do recommend it.