As a child of the Cold War, I was a teenager in the mid to late 1970s and can relate to everything here. I was then living in my native country, Pakistan, and clearly remember the propaganda wars between the USA and USSR. There was a Soviet place in the city of Karachi called "The Friendship House." It was free and open to all. We kids would go there and watch free Soviet movies (mostly their own propaganda) but being that young, it was all entertainment to us. They also taught Russian if one wanted to learn, free of course. At times they also had "cultural functions" where they provided food. They would hand out free issues of "Pravda," the Soviet propaganda magazine, in the English versions. On the other end of the spectrum, the US embassy in the same city had similar "programs." You could access their library, learn English, watch movies and so forth. We used to listen to "Voice of America" and this was the US side of things! Us kids would take advantage of both places! LOL! It was just fun and free stuff to us! We were just too young and naive to understand the depth behind these opposing philosophies plus our own Islamic background kept us from getting "too close." How things have changed.
@@uglaegilsdottir At 65 now, I can say one thing with complete conviction. I now know how little I know! LOL! But as a young person I had all the answers. But another fact that I have observed which is absolutely true about the human animal: We are the top and worst and predator in nature because unlike other predators, we intentionally destroy everything around us including our mental health! I have no idea if anything in Pravda was true anymore than if all that is said about the so-called good life in the West is true.
@uglaegilsdottir In so called "Pravda"😁 for decades was told that USA 🇺🇸 will collapse any day. And somehow so called "USSR", but eventually that Empire of Evil COLLAPSED. Ha ha ha😁 You're just BRAINWASHED ruSSian Fascist-ruSShist Z-ZOMBIE as most of ruSSian Fascist Z-ZOMBIE population. RF is ZOMBIELAND🧟♂️📺🧟♀️📺🧟♀️📺🧟♀️ Instead of "Pravda" you got now ruSSian Fascist TV and other media to BRAINWASH ruSSian Fascist Occupants and send them to SOVEREIGN country of 🇺🇦 Ukraine with rusty "kalashnikov" against HIMARS to DIE for retarded Dictator Putin by nickname "Huylo". Over 230 THOUSAND DEAD ruSSian Fascist Occupants are at the Kabzon Concert and all together are waiting for "Collapse of USA" Aha ha ha👍🏻😁 You, guys forgot your own saying: "Do not dig a grave for your Neighbor. Because you going to fall into it yourself" And that's what happening for ruSSian Fascist Occupants in Ukraine. So, you're just ruSSian Fascist Z-ZOMBIE. Stop spreading your Kremlin's Propaganda POISON here. And at the end I'm going to repeat FAMOUS saying: ruSSian Fascist Warship "Moscow", idi na huy! 🚀 🚀🔥🔥🔥☠️☠️☠️
@@uglaegilsdottir АХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХА Именно поэтому союз и развалился. А США до сих пор живёт и здравствует. Ну, никто не мешает тебе дрочить на мертвый совок и марксизм дальше.
You didn't get robbed by a methamphetamine addict ? 😂 You didn't get HIV AIDS from a street whore ? 😂 You didn't get robbed by a released colony prisoner ? 😂
In the U.S. so much of the violence in our cities comes from the descendants of African slaves. We are perpetually punished for the sins of our ancestors.
I remember this as a kid. A lot of my mates whom watched this, asked me if this was true? I said, its is, but like anywhere, the extent to which it is the same for all, is different; and Russia is huge, though its supposed to be the same for all. - This is what socialism, or rather 'social experimentalism', is; a permanent revolution of society (we term progressivism), that is ultimately unsustainable. The burden on the state was no joke, it was enormous. Listen carefully at whats being said, it very much sounds like wokeism, sure, but there are clues in there for those wondering what systemically forced the USSR to close its doors. - and I put it like that because, the nuts and bolts of it, really was like that. A massive corporation; and when a corpiration runs out of money, its curtains. So yes. The closure of the USSR was a great tragedy culturally. - however, anyone that wants to try this had better think twice; or have a lot more money stashed away all over the world. - because, for this to sustain itself it needs a lot of cooperation from other parts of the world. Which can't be guaranteed. Frankly, given recent events its not even guaranteed stashing money away all over the world is safe anymore.
Exactly. If you only half pay attention it sounds great. Bus rides cost practically nothing. Telephone calls cost nothing. Healthcare costs nothing. Food is cheap. Great, right? Well where does it all come from? How is the infrastructure maintained? How are the costs for labor and materials paid? Well it doesn't matter the State centrally plans everything and it all goes perfectly! Until it doesn't anymore...
Stashing money all over the world has never been safe. And it never will be. I have a deep hatred for a huge centralized state. Doesn't matter if it's the USSR, or the USA. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human nature is what it is, regardless of the country. The powers that be are doing all they can to create chaos so they can concentrate all of the power into their own greedy, grubby hands.
10:00 "These traditional songs and dances remind them of the strength and humour and the capacity for joy of the ordinary people ... of earlier times." Oof.
There is more funny that is a Ukranian folk dance but narrator call it Russian (for me it is one brother nation, I still truly bilieve in that). But now all EU and USA news media told us that Ukranian not same to Russian and emphasaise it all the time. See how they change their mind 30 years later))))))
@@Andrey198923man, this video do not at all show real life in the soviet… the wast majority had huge economic hardship and the forced movement of entire villages was common. this is very much a late soviet propaganda video… a few years after this video there was a revolution after all
@@oleand14, what are the economic difficulties? It is now, under capitalism, economic difficulties, and in the USSR there were no economic difficulties. Now the payment for utilities is 1/2 - 1/4 of the salary, and in the USSR we paid 1/10 - 1/15 of the salary for utilities. What are the movements of entire villages? Do you mean the USA, when the Indians were driven off their land and driven into the reservations in which they still live? In the USSR, whole villages and towns were really resettled when these settlements fell into the flood zone during the construction of hydroelectric power plants. But this happened in the second half of the 20th century in all developed countries, both in Europe and in America. Only, unlike capitalist countries, the USSR did not get rid of people with monetary compensation for lost housing, but provided comfortable apartments to all relocated people, and if there were children in families, then these apartments were provided near schools and kindergartens. Какие экономические трудности? Это сейчас, при капитализме, экономические трудности, а в СССР не было никаких экономических трудностей. Сейчас плата за коммунальные услуги составляет 1/2 - 1/4 зарплаты, а в СССР мы платили за коммунальные услуги 1/10 - 1/15 зарплаты. Какие перемещения целых деревень? Это вы имеете в виду США, когда индейцев сгоняли с их земли и загоняли в резервации, в которых они живут до сих пор? В СССР действительно переселяли целые деревни и города, когда при строительстве ГЭС эти населённые пункты попадали в зону затопления. Но это во второй половине 20-го века происходило во всех развитых странах и в Европе, и в Америке. Только в отличие от капиталистических стран СССР не отделывался от людей денежной компенсацией за утраченное жильё, а предоставлял всем переселяемым людям благоустроенные квартиры, а если в семьях были дети, то эти квартиры предоставлялись вблизи школ и детских садов.
@@Andrey198923 this is a myth that the Russians invented to hide their anger and hostility towards the Ukrainians! A Ukrainian is not the same as a Russian - I'm telling you as a Ukrainian. Ukrainians and Russians are completely different people - a different language, a different culture, mentality, thinking, values. today the Russians took off their masks and showed their true face - the whole essence of Russians is to drink vodka, kill someone and destroy something. Ukrainians are ready to die for their freedom, while Russians die for their slavery.
As we say in Russia: "Before, the grass was greener, the sun was warmer, the snow was whiter, the air was cleaner and people were kinder." Friendly greetings from Russia.
if you talk about a appt people wait aproximetly 10 years (thay get it free of charge, you can not just buy appt even if you have money). cost of appt in modern price about 170 000 $ for 50 m2. If we talk about a car then everyone buy 2-3 years old car (buy a new one was imposible, only for gov and military forses bla bla). cost in modern money rate about 80 000 for chevy cobalt
That answer is in one of Ronald Reagan jokes: “One of Reagan’s best Jokes. Soviet apparatchik: OK you can have a new car. Pay for it now and you can collect it in 10 years from today. Russian asks: Morning or afternoon. Soviet: why would that matter. Russian: the plumber is coming in the morning.”
20 mil dead was most poignant for me. it's easy to forget or not hear about the fact that the russian holocaust was at least 3 times greater than the jewish one. you can understand why some of them still have a bee in their bonnet. and why the allegations of nazism in the ukraine is really a stab at the west and germany. all of these rogue states have a history of being violated brutally
When I hear about the soviet "Free Healthcare", every time I remember my father going unconscious due to pain shock, while undergoing jaw surgery without anesthetics. During the 80s, I also had the pleasure of doing root canal(and some other dental procedures) with absolutely no pain lowering medications. I would love to share those sensations with anyone who is teary-eyed about the soviet Free Healthcare..
Welll...those days are gone.....free education, free health care, low rents, having fun for fun sake with friends....wholesome laughter....and kids enjoying school and life and job security.
Outside of the big cities soviet russia looked like your average poor hood either run by the russian mafia or a bunch of angry commie soldiers that shoot u if you disagree with them
i agree 100% in the USSR everyone had a job and had an apartment and rents did not go up every year like here, here in the west now you have freedom yes, but we are slaves to the system, i work 80hrs a week driving a cab for what? to pay rent and bills and eat and sleep, yes i have freedom but freedom does not pay the bills does it, in the USSR you didnt have to worry about getting kicked out of your apartment because the rent stayed the same mostly, there was no luxury yes, but there was stability
@@petejames1326Educate yourself you fool! You don’t have a clue what communism would be like. Go to a communist country and see how long you last before you run back to freedom!
@@petejames1326.. Denmark here, I'm a home owner, of a 95 m2 = 1,022.5 sq. ft. house in the outskirts of the 2nd largest city in Denmark. Partly renovated in late 2021 (new 3-layer/triple pane windows, new doors, new red tile roof). The house mortgage is just around $450 a month + a $212 private homeowners cooperative community association fee (which include property taxes, a homeowners' insurance, outdoor/external maintenance and renovations, including, windows, roof, private community roads and sidewalks, snow plowing and salt spreading service, trash & garbage disposal service) My electricity bill is around $34 a month, while the hot water/heating bill is around $71 a month in fixed monthly installments (got around $70 back at the end of last year), but my suppliers neither use oil or gas, only renewables. So $662 a month all included + $140 a month for water, electricity and heating Internet, 2 phones, an extra large TV package = $145 a month Food and all the other stuff you would need = $290 a month So all included I spend around $1,237 a month to pay for all the basic necessities. I earn around $245 to $360 a day, depending on the hours and day of the week, and my present part-time job as a night watch with no degree required (though I do have one) is nothing fancy. My income taxes are around 25% when you consider all the deductibles and that the first around $7,000 you earn a year is totally tax free in Denmark. So in principle I only need to work 7 days a month on average for all the basic necessities to be paid for. In comparison a security guard with 4-5 years experience like me, earn 23,400 rubles = around $256 a month in Russia and an apartment (3 bedrooms) in the outskirts of Saint Petersburg is 52,447 rubles = around $575 a month.
Where did you got that bottle of vodka cost $15 in former USSR. It was essential to keep people high. Cheapest vodka cost 3 rubles 62 kopeks per 0.5 liter bottle of vodka , a bit better vodka 4.12 . official exchange rate was around 90 kopeks for dollar, unofficial 8 rubles per Dollar. So, 0.5 liter was cheaper than 50 cents.
Correct, I spotted his way-out price of vodka, Vodka was dirt cheap because staying drunk was the way of getting through a miserable existence for most Russians, I lived and worked there from 1984--86. Russia was a giant prison camp full of unhappy people, tatty and falling to bits. Who could have guessed in 1984 the inefficient bankrupt Communist system had only six more years to live.
I am sure this documentary was made by Channel 10 in Australia. I was there just after the fall of the USSR and it was almost the same as this doco portrays ,especially the Trolley .I saw lots of them which had flowers and potted plants in the drivers space. 😁😁A vodka was damned cheap although I knew people who made their own .
Valuable as view of the pop culture of the USSR of the time, and some anecdotal daily life insights as well. But this is an incredibly optimistic depiction- the young children in the video are of my approximate age group, and would go on to grow up during tremendous social and political turmoil. If things were truly this favorable for everyone (which I doubt) then at best it was a house of cards ready to tumble...
Its amazing and sad at the same time how many people think Russia and its population are from another planet....... try actually getting to know them for a change instead of hating them like we are being constantly told to do!...... you might learn they are no different to the rest of us humans
No one hates Russians ))) But not a single decent man likes a neonazi dictator-kleptoman. Come to Moscow and visit all the great, fantastic places, but also listen to what common Russians in Moscow think. No support there for nor the dictator or for the war. Never ever has anyone told me to “hate Russians” ))) How silly.
That's generally true of most people groups. It's always those assholes in power that fu$k everything up. And the lap dogs that protect the psychopaths.
@@theafricanobserver8785 you are free? If you think in canva what is narrated you from TV or Internet media of your country, it is not a freedom. You just accept someone point of view, point of view that is allow to you to accept, and think it is your choice. It is more sophisticated that it was in USSR? - yes! Does it freedom? - no!
Impressive? 😂 The old Russians still can't handle their freedom, even after more than 30 years, that's why they wish their Soviet dictatorship back ... Vatniks ... they are like little children who need a parent to guide them in the most brutal way! A pathetic nation!
You mean Soviets. The Russians are just one group of several groups of people who all worked together as the Soviet peoples, although I wouldn’t say everything was so fine and dandy all the time for a lot of these other groups compared to the Russians.
13:15 - I have a question: 600$ (~360 rub.) for a dock worker was it a lot or a little in contemporary (it means of 1984) UK, France, USA or other Western country?
Minimum wage was $120 a week in the USA in 1984. Federal income Taxes were about 15% then you had state income taxes of an extra percentage and also extra fees from local governments. So you went home with about $100 a week.
@@vgrepairs и всё равно это гораздо, гораздо больше чем в СССР. Средняя зарплата в СССР была меньше 100₽. 100₽ в месяц! А не 360₽. И надо учитывать, что курс по отношению к доллару был рисованым, ибо рубль был неконтролируемой валютой по факту. На чёрном, реальном рынке рубль стоил в разы меньше официального.
In 1984 all footage exported from the ussr had to be reviewed by the kgb and approved. It was law. Also filming inside the ussr required approval from the kgb, unions and the party. So if the Australians wanted to do a documentary, the russians said “of course, I just happen to know a few well off people who have no complaints”
Hakim must be delighted to see this video. Where's the long slow queue on stores in this video? Oh wait that only happened when Gorbachev introduced Capitalism in USSR..
There were always long lines for basics like bread, especially in the morning. It worsened after Hrushchov's policies by using corn meal, which made bread last less. The free market is superior to a command economy, which makes your argument not have sense. Besides, capitalism was never introduced in the Soviet Union, the transition to capitalism was annulled half way during the 500 day program.
I am from peru in southamerica, My brother received a scholarship to study medicine in the Crimea university, when I was just 1 year born, I grew up seeing his photos of Soviet culture, books with magnificent illustrations, wonderful music, all souvenirs that he sent from the Soviet Union, he got married there and returned after finishing his studies. a few years later the soviet union fell. Many years later, he found out that the family that housed him in his youth had to flee Odessa during the Maydan coup. the current war has destroyed a beautiful country, nato is the bloodiest terrorist organization that rusia has suffered since the nazis For my part, I feel that I love Russia, I know some people and soon I will travel there and settle in Vladyvostok.
Russia have quite many neonazis of their own. Why would they want a Peruvian neonazi? The Russians aren’t pro-putlerism if you haven’t noticed ))) Walk in any park and hear the political talks the Russians have with each other and read what the young generation writes on walls and benches )) No support for mr Putler there. But for the moment, he’s the neonazi dictator.
I'm a pure blooded American. I hate NATO. I want it dissolved. I want my country to stop being the world police and I'd prefer us to be a lot more isolationist. But that won't happen, sadly.
@@user-pe3qq5ji5d Ukranian, huh? No wonder I like it so much. Thank you. Do you know what they say during the dance? The women say something in unison, then the men say something. Also, a man calls something out and the women do a spin. I'm curious what it all means.
From US. Where did these videos come from. Some of them are quite amazing in content and what they knowingly or unknowingly reveal about Soviet life. Where did they come from? Are these USSR propaganda films, or independent documentaries? Cuz if the latter, how? Being communist I'd expect that such things as documentaries werent' really possibly....lack of freedoms of speech/press and such. I've heard of kino runners back in day that would smuggle movies into, and other stuff out of Soviet Rus. But I've never heard of a 'Soviet Film Industry' back in day.
The rents for housing were also fixed by the state in USSR. The State Price Commission set prices in the USSR. Each Warsaw Pact country also had a State Prize Commission. To compensate for the lack of freedom, there was all-round care for the citizens. In the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, there were never people who were unemployed. There was pointless work, for some, because there was a legal obligation to work. Full employment for all citizens existed because the world of work was not nearly as automatized as in the West. On the other hand, the factories of the socialist countries were far from being competitive on the world market. In principle, there were no enterprises that were privately organized, since all enterprises were people's property, but in practice they were state property. No enterprise was allowed to decide for itself how much to produce; that was dictated by the state planning commission. The plans were valid for between 2 and 5 years.
Yes everything was nciely planned, you got a house and a job, but the country had no exports and couldnt pay its debts, everyone in Romania and other soviet bloc countries would wait for hours if not days in line to get a fucking orange or banana and to buy a shitty soviet car you were put on a waiting list of 5 years for the priviledge, and you had 0 freedom to travel freely. Big failure, I still remember the poverty and misery of the 1990s in the wake of the old system.
Но, это не совсем правда, так как советские фотоаппараты хорошо продавались, автомобили возможно из-за дешевизны, возможно трамваи, тепловозы, если в стране производилось практически всё и качество было относительно нынешних дешёвых китайских товаров отличное, то наверняка пользовалось спросом, дефицит в последние годы возможно был связан с продажей товаров заграницу и желанием разбогатеть поздних руководителей советских предприятий, которые имели свои коррективы, свой бизнес, уже тогда зародилась мафия. И последние годы СССР это и рэкет и кооперативы, и огромные доходы у шоу-бизнеса, плановая экономика уже не справилась с полукапитализмом.
А Горбачёв наверное хотел развалить СССР, сначала он развалил Восточный блок, вывел войска из Афганистана. Способствовал объединению Германии. Простые граждане не понимали, что СССР движется к развалу. А Горбачёв подготовил союзный договор, плюс внутри СССР начались вооружённые конфликты, что очень странно, откуда у простых людей оружие, и против армии простые люди бессильны.
There was no unemployment in the USSR because labor was less automated than in the West? So you think that unemployment exists because labor is too automated? 😂😂😂 And what about unemployment in the 19th - early 20th century? In those days, why was there unemployment? After all, there was no automation then. It's just that unemployment is a necessary element of the market system. The capitalist needs a labor market. Under capitalism, everything is for sale, including labor. Labor is a commodity. If there is a labor market, then there is unemployment, and if there is no market, there is no unemployment. В СССР не было безработицы потому что труд был менее автоматизирован, чем на западе?То есть вы полагаете, что безработица существует потому, что труд слишком автоматизирован? 😂😂😂 А как на счёт безработицы в 19м - начале 20го века? В те времена отчего была безработица? Ведь тогда не было автоматизации. Просто безработица - это необходимый элемент рыночной системы. Капиталисту нужен рынок труда. При капитализме всё продаётся, в том числе и труд. Труд является товаром. Если есть рынок труда, то есть и безработица, а при отсутствии рынка безработицы нет.
a lot of the older people who can remember the ussr are realy pissed at what happened to there country and like Americans who remember when America was 90 oercent white dont like what they see now
American here. I don't give a crap about skin color. I care about the content of character. And communists have infected the cultural centers. McCarthy was apparently correct. We were being overrun by commies. Now, 80 years into it, they have destroyed the blessings of faith and freedom with their satanic, trash ideaologies.
No! There was the constant threat of nuclear war between the free world and the soviet dictatorship! Soviets at that time / Russians today can not deal with power, they fall through a corrupt government into a mafia state that threatens the whole world! This country has no right to exist!
Absolutely not. So many people were being oppressed by the USSR, either directly within the regime or within their "sphere of influence". So much suffering was caused by Stalin's purges and conquests during WW2. So much less had to be spent on military after it fell. Unfortunately Russia is now pushing those budgets up again but at least it is smaller than the USSR was.
@prestallar4339 nah, the usa is not sending millions to gulags, oppressing its own people or forcing governments around the world to poverty and similar oppression. The USA is nowhere close to as bad as the soviet union was or current Russia is.
@prestallar4339 The US might not be a perfect country, but at least we aren't oppressed by our own government and can essentially do whatever we want barring legality. We can say LITERALLY whatever we want about our government with our right to freedom of speech. If the Soviets/Russian citizens were to protest or slander the state and it's government, they would be killed, sent to gulags or at a minimum, arrested which is what we are seeing now for the protesters in Moscow against the war in Ukraine. They are performing peaceful protests and getting arrested which if the police were to do that in the US, they can be sued for violating our rights. With the two superpowers during the Cold War, the population of both countries were in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. Back then students would have to conduct nuclear disaster drills which aren't done in today's school.
The "collective" concept is appealing in some ways, but only if everyone is of equal ability and willingness to work toward the common good. In truth, some people aren't smart and some people are just plain lazy. Also, these collectives were protected from economic reality with heavy government subsidies, and when the USSR could no longer afford those subsidies, the collective idea started to fall apart.
But I will add the Russian people are beautiful -- inside and out. A fantastic culture and history. We can never allow the West to drag us into a war against them.
I learned a lot about Soviet history in schools. Eventhough life was living with less freedom and food ration systems education, healthcare, households etc are all free and doesn't need to be worried about, which is now bringing more wealth inequality in many developed countries.
What a wonderful video of the true life of the Russian people and how they live , work, play and down to earth goodness...If the government people would spend less time fighting in the world and spend more time loving their families , we would be so much ahead!! But greed , money and power leads to whatwe have today!!
The Brezhnev years were the height of life in the Soviet Union. Life was really good, people enjoyed the enormous resources and safety of living in the Soviet Union, practically everything was almost free, obviously there was no such thing as unemployment or homelessness. In the west probably only countries like Holland or West Germany could compare for quality of life for working people, while Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland were suffering from debilitating poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and lack of education, and America was a quasi apartheid state with black folks in the south not allowed into shopping malls and restaurants, and the slums of big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. no-go zones for the white population.
you'd like Los Angeles now,it us fully inclusive and a dump thanks to diversity.calfornia we t from 90 percent white in 1965 to 27 percent today and it looks like a cross between south Africa and the Spanish third world.theres not some kind of magic dirt that makes white countries self sufficient and safe,high crime areas and poverty aren't caused by some kind of racial cast system ,just like no one makes east Asians do the best in schools every time and blacks do the worst every time,in every country on earth.mongolians still live In huts but have an average IQ higher than whites.and the biggest factor in crime or poverty is iq specificly low iq.and if russia had a violent minority that only made up 10 percent of the population but committed 60 percent of homicides 80 percent of aggravated assaults and 90 percent of attacks on other races and used 650 billion dollars a year more than they payed in it would have crippled the whole ussr
Nice of you to ignore the slave labor and robbing of the conquered satellites states to feed the Russians and give them such a cheap and comfortable life. In my country all our produce, meat, coal, gold, went to Russia for free, while we suffered. Plus this propaganda pieces only shows Moscow and Sochi, but none of the rest of Russia, where there was no paved roads, no electricity, and work was equal to slave labor.
@@wqsuuhhdrvjj all living pritty much the same, purpose was control that territory not withdraw the money from them. Many as you say colony living lot better than Russia. Mostly it is why USSR was so popular. It is asking only for the loyalty (some times with usage of guns) not money
What fantasy land are you living in? I know a lot of people from the former soviet union and I can assure you their quality of life was anything but nice. The enormous disparity between the US and soviet union is grossly understated due to the fact that every bad thing about the US was open and well known because of free speech and freedom of the press. In the soviet union people weren't allowed to speak a bad word of their government for fear of going to prison or the gulag. Obviously you weren't from the soviet union
Ya, you're right. Vladivostok is 7 hours ahead of Moscow. Though, with them being so north, probably its also true the other way around at some point during the winter, with the day being short enough that the sun is rising in Moscow and already going down in Vladivostok.
the cost of living in russia is cheaper than n.a., regular fuel in moscow is 56 cents a liter or thereabouts, in canada its 4 times that, just one example of many more.
@@martthesling sure was, no argument there, then again multitudes in the u.s. or canada live well beyond their means, a short story for you related to some degree, my grandfather when i was young bought a new volkswagen beetle outright for $1700 in cash, owned it free and clear from the day purchased,,neighbor bought a cadillac for $5000 plus and made payments for five years, yet laughed at the vw, surely a nice car that caddy but does one really need it? The captain obvious answer is no, one does not.
A bottle of vodka was 2 to 4 roubles in that period not 15 $. Had someone made the vodka that expennive back then they would hava started another revolution. This is not accurate at all prices wise furthermore it gives a fall impression in 1984 USSr is already colapsing and black market is prosperring finding every day items to buy or even food results in long queues .
I find it very difficult to consider this video as anything but propaganda. Example 1:07:00 Pot kettle black. Russia did the same in Poland in WW2 and use the same tactics today in Ukraine . If it was such a wonderful utopia , why did they do everything possible to prevent their citizens from emigrating. They also had an internal passport system , where people needed special permission to travel around the country.
It's not a utopia, but a place where people had safety nets. It's a meagre existence but nobody is homeless and die on the streets. Now, thousands of people die daily in the west as they're left behind by capitalism. Is that humane?
RENT WAS PEGGED AT 3-4% OF INCOME, amazing, if thats true, how can the arrogant USA say our system is so much better? im a cab driver in the west, about 30% of my income goes to rent, its a joke
Communism is a joke, my dear cab driver. Would you like to live in a rented communist apartment, no hot water, no cooking gas, no electricity after 10:00 🕙 PM? Would you like to wait five years for your car, paid in full in advance? You are hilarious! If the system was that good, then why it crumbled like a sand castle? And don’t give me that excuse “it crumbled because of the evil West”. I trust you can judge better. All the best!
@@petejames1326 Sure. Why? Because you're lazy and don't know what work is? In 1984 I made what is the equivalent of $35 an hour today and I was only 20 years old. People that were willing to work for it could live very well. If you don't work in cement or something of equal difficulty then you don't have much room to complain. It's called earning a living and no one said it was supposed to be easy
The USA and Russia both have way many poor people. The two both have double digits poverty rates. I would say there is many nations still worse to live in then both. The majority of African countrys are insanely poor and some southeast country's are bad living quliry worse then USA and Russia.
He got the action, he got the motion Oh yeah, the boy can play Dedication, devotion He turnin' all the nighttime into the day The song about the sweet ole lovin' woman He do the song about the knife And he do the walk, do the walk of life Yeah, he do the walk of life Here come Johnny, gonna tell you a story Hand me now my walkin' shoes Here come Johnny with the power and the glory Backbeat, the talkin' blues He got the action, he got the motion Oh yeah, the boy can play Dedication, devotion He turnin' all the nighttime into the day The song about the sweet ole lovin' woman He do the song about the knife And he do the walk, do the walk of life Yeah, he do the walk of life Here come Johnny singing oldies, goldies Be-bop-a-lula, baby what I say Here come Johnny singing "I got a woman" Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay He got the action, he got the motion Oh yeah, the boy can play Dedication, devotion He turnin' all the nighttime into the day And after all the violence and double talk There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life Hmm, you do the walk of life A-woohoo Woo-hoo-hoo Woo-hoo-hoo Woo-hoo Woo-hoo-hoo Yeah, do the walk of life
This one was missed among the them young general populace at the time. But I'll bet my bottom dollar them Russkies could translate and sing, Money for noth'n by the same, Dire Straits before the wall came down. 501 blue jeans were desperately wanting, anything Beatles but not so much Elvis. Interesting. Control.
@@sergeyvyatkin Look on a map, you will see that Odessa is in Ukraine. That was also the case at the time of The Ukrainian SSR. I didn't have to do my homework because I know for a fact that I'm right. This is a TV documentary from the 1980s, and there was also Odessa in Ukraine. What was 200 years ago was not the issue.
@@Fabian-Wenzel yeah, dude... as well as Crimea... lol Crimea was a part of Russia (RSFSR) until 1954. Odessa and all "Southern Ukraine" was a part of historical Russia until 1917. 106 years ago, not 200. My great-grandmother was born before that in 1912 (my ancestors were Cossacks).
Don´t be fooled in thinking that marxist-comunism was a benign regime.Socialist-marxism or comunism was the most terrible and satanic regime ever imposed on mankind. At the time,when this movie was made,the Soviet Union was no more comunist,and that´s why we see a happy and free people.Also,at that time Communist China party members,called the Soviet Union,a fascist state ,not a communist state,and on account of that,they stop and closed all political and economic relations with the Soviet Union. Today Russians say,that these were the golden times of the Soviet Union.
The USSR is rightly considered a prison of peoples, who have been released, and who is still in this chauvinistic Russian prison. My Yakutia also deserves freedom Buryatia, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, etc.
@@martthesling they had a very good education, great culture and no Gulags when this movie was shot :) I guess you can talk about dictatorship from your personal experience today too :)))
@@tomasfuk8439 no free speech. dictatorship. no democracy. prison if you disagreed with the system. murder. 10x less pay than in the democratic west. less medical technology. shall I go on? if you think the evil empire of the Soviet Union and eastern communist block was great, why were so many people trying yo flee west? why did they have to put up a wall to keep people in?
Never trust Soviets. Yes it was free, but it was not a decent healthcare. Yes you had a 4-week vacation, but the pay was meagre and, much worse yet, they won't let you out of the country.
It was a wonderful human face of Soviets in 1984 ....it was an enjoyable documentary video looked ....it was orchestrated and directed by the USSR regime....it was not shown the reality lives in the the USSR...in meantime massively hype and western propagandists machines including ( the USA )were not showed ,disclosure...the reality of the USSR ...times aren't returning back 😢...for Russian populations and westerners geopolitical conspiracies and plots aren't stopping against Russian population before theirs governments
I was in Moscow in 1998 working and I was impressed about the place, two things I noticed that people seldom smile to foreigner they met like me, and I asked them why seems smiling in a workplace with co-workers is almost not seen? One person replied to me that during the Communist time they were prohibited to talk or even smiling for fear that someone might be their enemy. Their Lada Car was too old and the designed was way behind the West and Japanese cars, by the way the sub-way is indeed excellent.
Что за брехня? ua-cam.com/video/ZGVE-dQflAI/v-deo.html В 1984 году я учился в школе, ходил на практику на завод. Работяги там рассказали анекдот: Сидит Брежнев на том свете, приходит Андропов. Ну, как там Родина? - спрашивает Брежнев. Не знаю, - отвечает Андропов - не успел разобраться. Сейчас Черненко придёт, расскажет. Черненко при этом был ещё жив. Никто никого не боялся. Для этого и были коммунистические времена. Без ограблений на улицах, массовых расстрелов, как в Балтиморе, наркоманов на улицах, как в Ванкувере, харрасмента, ЛГБТ и БЛМ. И насчёт Лады смешно. Как раз в перестройку на конвейер встали совершенно новые автомобили - разные и на нескольких заводах.
The Soviet Union fell in December 1991 and you went to Russian in 1998. You would think they would be so very happy with all that new freedom to consume? But perhaps it might have to do with the millions who died after the fall of the Soviet Union. Never mind, let's see what will happen when Yankeeland collapses. Already poverty is 4th major cause of death in Yankeeland.
I'm pretty sure that guy told you a joke about smiling. It's just a part of our culture, there is an old saying "laughter without a reason is a sign of stupidity"
you re right. as for the guys commenting it may not be good for many in america but sovietism and communism in general is not the answer. When you have to kill millions to have this kind of heaven something is wrong.
Wonder how closly they where monitored filming this. They onviously had well off citizens chosen. Meanwhile in 1984 plenty of suffering on ussr in places, plenty still in gulaugs. Just seems like if u went to usa in 84 u could find well off workong class but alot of poverty too. Only difference in usa u can choose your profession pretty much. Ussr not so much
In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism. Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution." Yeltsin asked customers about what they were buying and how much it cost, later asking the store manager if one needed a special education to manage a store. In the Chronicle photos, you can see him marveling at the produce section, the fresh fish market, and the checkout counter. He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops. "Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev," he said. When he was told through his interpreter that there were thousands of items in the store for sale he didn't believe it. He had even thought that the store was staged, a show for him. Little did he know there countless stores just like it all over the country, some with even more things than the Randall's he visited. The fact that stores like these were on nearly every street corner in America amazed him. They even offered him free cheese samples. Yeah the Soviet Union and Russia has always been full of shit.
@@speterj Nikita Kruschov had a similar experience in the late 50's or early 60's,him and his entourage that were also from glorious Soviet Russia were blown away at something as simple as walking into countless stores,mostly mom and pop stores,and having so many different items for sale and in abundance
@@speterj I read about the same account from Victor Belenko, a Soviet mig pilot who defected to the West; the first time he went into an American supermarket he was just blown away by how much food there was, and the variety.
That's only because your shitty ideology (communism) infected America and those ravenous, murderous twats took over the cultural centers. They're actively doing everything they can to dismantle the land of freedom.
That was a Lie when she said that the family is the most important part of the Soviet State, The STATE is the New God, and the most important part of the Soviet State, Any Logical arguments are Welcome!
As a child of the Cold War, I was a teenager in the mid to late 1970s and can relate to everything here. I was then living in my native country, Pakistan, and clearly remember the propaganda wars between the USA and USSR. There was a Soviet place in the city of Karachi called "The Friendship House." It was free and open to all.
We kids would go there and watch free Soviet movies (mostly their own propaganda) but being that young, it was all entertainment to us. They also taught Russian if one wanted to learn, free of course. At times they also had "cultural functions" where they provided food. They would hand out free issues of "Pravda," the Soviet propaganda magazine, in the English versions.
On the other end of the spectrum, the US embassy in the same city had similar "programs." You could access their library, learn English, watch movies and so forth. We used to listen to "Voice of America" and this was the US side of things! Us kids would take advantage of both places! LOL! It was just fun and free stuff to us! We were just too young and naive to understand the depth behind these opposing philosophies plus our own Islamic background kept us from getting "too close." How things have changed.
That awkward moment you realize that everything said in "Pravda" is actually true!
@@uglaegilsdottir At 65 now, I can say one thing with complete conviction. I now know how little I know! LOL! But as a young person I had all the answers. But another fact that I have observed which is absolutely true about the human animal: We are the top and worst and predator in nature because unlike other predators, we intentionally destroy everything around us including our mental health! I have no idea if anything in Pravda was true anymore than if all that is said about the so-called good life in the West is true.
@uglaegilsdottir In so called "Pravda"😁 for decades was told that USA 🇺🇸 will collapse any day. And somehow so called "USSR", but eventually that Empire of Evil COLLAPSED. Ha ha ha😁 You're just BRAINWASHED ruSSian Fascist-ruSShist Z-ZOMBIE as most of ruSSian Fascist Z-ZOMBIE population. RF is ZOMBIELAND🧟♂️📺🧟♀️📺🧟♀️📺🧟♀️ Instead of "Pravda" you got now ruSSian Fascist TV and other media to BRAINWASH ruSSian Fascist Occupants and send them to SOVEREIGN country of 🇺🇦 Ukraine with rusty "kalashnikov" against HIMARS to DIE for retarded Dictator Putin by nickname "Huylo". Over 230 THOUSAND DEAD ruSSian Fascist Occupants are at the Kabzon Concert and all together are waiting for "Collapse of USA" Aha ha ha👍🏻😁 You, guys forgot your own saying: "Do not dig a grave for your Neighbor. Because you going to fall into it yourself" And that's what happening for ruSSian Fascist Occupants in Ukraine. So, you're just ruSSian Fascist Z-ZOMBIE. Stop spreading your Kremlin's Propaganda POISON here. And at the end I'm going to repeat FAMOUS saying: ruSSian Fascist Warship "Moscow", idi na huy! 🚀 🚀🔥🔥🔥☠️☠️☠️
@@uglaegilsdottir АХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХА
Именно поэтому союз и развалился. А США до сих пор живёт и здравствует. Ну, никто не мешает тебе дрочить на мертвый совок и марксизм дальше.
That's an interesting perspective. I'm pure blooded American. I'm not very happy with how my country is doing.
Thanks for uploading!!
This was a real eye-opener, thanks for posting.
Это лишь пропаганда, в реальности дела обстояли намного, намного хуже.
@@dmitriysmith.1672No it wasn't. USSR was far better than today's Russia.
I got to visit Moscow, Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg and Sochi Recently, and I was amazed! I have never felt as safe as I did in those cities.
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What a strange thing to take note of! Safety is a safely assumed thing in the European union
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You didn't get robbed by a methamphetamine addict ? 😂 You didn't get HIV AIDS from a street whore ? 😂 You didn't get robbed by a released colony prisoner ? 😂
In the U.S. so much of the violence in our cities comes from the descendants of African slaves. We are perpetually punished for the sins of our ancestors.
This video paints a rosy picture of life in the USSR. A few years after this video’s release, the USSR collapsed.
And now the USA is collapsing.
Good the whites won at the end
I remember this as a kid. A lot of my mates whom watched this, asked me if this was true? I said, its is, but like anywhere, the extent to which it is the same for all, is different; and Russia is huge, though its supposed to be the same for all. - This is what socialism, or rather 'social experimentalism', is; a permanent revolution of society (we term progressivism), that is ultimately unsustainable.
The burden on the state was no joke, it was enormous. Listen carefully at whats being said, it very much sounds like wokeism, sure, but there are clues in there for those wondering what systemically forced the USSR to close its doors. - and I put it like that because, the nuts and bolts of it, really was like that. A massive corporation; and when a corpiration runs out of money, its curtains.
So yes. The closure of the USSR was a great tragedy culturally. - however, anyone that wants to try this had better think twice; or have a lot more money stashed away all over the world. - because, for this to sustain itself it needs a lot of cooperation from other parts of the world. Which can't be guaranteed. Frankly, given recent events its not even guaranteed stashing money away all over the world is safe anymore.
Exactly. If you only half pay attention it sounds great. Bus rides cost practically nothing. Telephone calls cost nothing. Healthcare costs nothing. Food is cheap. Great, right? Well where does it all come from? How is the infrastructure maintained? How are the costs for labor and materials paid? Well it doesn't matter the State centrally plans everything and it all goes perfectly! Until it doesn't anymore...
Stashing money all over the world has never been safe. And it never will be. I have a deep hatred for a huge centralized state. Doesn't matter if it's the USSR, or the USA. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human nature is what it is, regardless of the country. The powers that be are doing all they can to create chaos so they can concentrate all of the power into their own greedy, grubby hands.
A really interesting glimpse into another time and place
10:00 "These traditional songs and dances remind them of the strength and humour and the capacity for joy of the ordinary people ... of earlier times." Oof.
yeah I felt it too
There is more funny that is a Ukranian folk dance but narrator call it Russian (for me it is one brother nation, I still truly bilieve in that). But now all EU and USA news media told us that Ukranian not same to Russian and emphasaise it all the time. See how they change their mind 30 years later))))))
@@Andrey198923man, this video do not at all show real life in the soviet…
the wast majority had huge economic hardship and the forced movement of entire villages was common.
this is very much a late soviet propaganda video…
a few years after this video there was a revolution after all
@@oleand14, what are the economic difficulties? It is now, under capitalism, economic difficulties, and in the USSR there were no economic difficulties.
Now the payment for utilities is 1/2 - 1/4 of the salary, and in the USSR we paid 1/10 - 1/15 of the salary for utilities.
What are the movements of entire villages?
Do you mean the USA, when the Indians were driven off their land and driven into the reservations in which they still live?
In the USSR, whole villages and towns were really resettled when these settlements fell into the flood zone during the construction of hydroelectric power plants. But this happened in the second half of the 20th century in all developed countries, both in Europe and in America. Only, unlike capitalist countries, the USSR did not get rid of people with monetary compensation for lost housing, but provided comfortable apartments to all relocated people, and if there were children in families, then these apartments were provided near schools and kindergartens.
Какие экономические трудности? Это сейчас, при капитализме, экономические трудности, а в СССР не было никаких экономических трудностей.
Сейчас плата за коммунальные услуги составляет 1/2 - 1/4 зарплаты, а в СССР мы платили за коммунальные услуги 1/10 - 1/15 зарплаты.
Какие перемещения целых деревень?
Это вы имеете в виду США, когда индейцев сгоняли с их земли и загоняли в резервации, в которых они живут до сих пор?
В СССР действительно переселяли целые деревни и города, когда при строительстве ГЭС эти населённые пункты попадали в зону затопления. Но это во второй половине 20-го века происходило во всех развитых странах и в Европе, и в Америке. Только в отличие от капиталистических стран СССР не отделывался от людей денежной компенсацией за утраченное жильё, а предоставлял всем переселяемым людям благоустроенные квартиры, а если в семьях были дети, то эти квартиры предоставлялись вблизи школ и детских садов.
@@Andrey198923 this is a myth that the Russians invented to hide their anger and hostility towards the Ukrainians! A Ukrainian is not the same as a Russian - I'm telling you as a Ukrainian. Ukrainians and Russians are completely different people - a different language, a different culture, mentality, thinking, values. today the Russians took off their masks and showed their true face - the whole essence of Russians is to drink vodka, kill someone and destroy something. Ukrainians are ready to die for their freedom, while Russians die for their slavery.
It wasn't perfect by any means, but set some standards that we've sadly strayed from these days.
Nobody is perfect.
I was in Armenia recently. I heard a friend say to another Armenian friend that the USSR were “kind times” ( Добрые времена)
As we say in Russia: "Before, the grass was greener, the sun was warmer, the snow was whiter, the air was cleaner and people were kinder." Friendly greetings from Russia.
He joined the waiting list and paid his $9000. I notice they didnt mention how long the wait was 🤣
Probably till after he died.
if you talk about a appt people wait aproximetly 10 years (thay get it free of charge, you can not just buy appt even if you have money). cost of appt in modern price about 170 000 $ for 50 m2. If we talk about a car then everyone buy 2-3 years old car (buy a new one was imposible, only for gov and military forses bla bla). cost in modern money rate about 80 000 for chevy cobalt
He also probably got invited to an interview with a certain organization to explain where he got the $9000.
That answer is in one of Ronald Reagan jokes:
“One of Reagan’s best Jokes.
Soviet apparatchik: OK you can have a new car. Pay for it now and you can collect it in 10 years from today. Russian asks: Morning or afternoon. Soviet: why would that matter. Russian: the plumber is coming in the morning.”
Riiiiiiiiiiiight?!!
I would like to see a documentary a decade and a half later on the faces of the fall of the Soviet Union.
There are lots. Just do a search
Keeping little sergey home from pre school was a way for mom and dad to make sure little Sergey did not become a Marxist
1:06:13 has the most poignant thought of the whole film; and very sad that it's no longer true.
Keep dreaming, austerity was Soviet Russia. Russians are far more prosperous now.
@@sillyoldbastard3280 Maybes this austerity will soon be felt again under Putin's regime.
@@PiperTMTotalWar another baby killer
Yeah, the family is under attack in the West
20 mil dead was most poignant for me. it's easy to forget or not hear about the fact that the russian holocaust was at least 3 times greater than the jewish one. you can understand why some of them still have a bee in their bonnet. and why the allegations of nazism in the ukraine is really a stab at the west and germany. all of these rogue states have a history of being violated brutally
Very informative, Thank you.
When I hear about the soviet "Free Healthcare", every time I remember my father going unconscious due to pain shock, while undergoing jaw surgery without anesthetics.
During the 80s, I also had the pleasure of doing root canal(and some other dental procedures) with absolutely no pain lowering medications.
I would love to share those sensations with anyone who is teary-eyed about the soviet Free Healthcare..
Where were you?
You are right. This is why I was scared to go to the dantist in USSR.
sounds like yankee propaganda.
im sure it would be better to go into life crippling debt for the dental work instead.
@@Red_Lion2000 in Russia now the dantists are not so expensive as they are in USA.
The wanna-be communists in the U.S. believe they can wish free healthcare to be different. And their believing is good enough for them.
Welll...those days are gone.....free education, free health care, low rents, having fun for fun sake with friends....wholesome laughter....and kids enjoying school and life and job security.
Free gulag.
It's because of the neolibs like Reagan and Thatcher.
@@W_H_KFree Gulags? Ok if you are so smart what are gulags and how did they affect the whole soviet population
All that "freedom" comes at a cost.
Outside of the big cities soviet russia looked like your average poor hood either run by the russian mafia or a bunch of angry commie soldiers that shoot u if you disagree with them
You can see why a lot of the older generation say that miss the USSR, times were better.
i agree 100% in the USSR everyone had a job and had an apartment and rents did not go up every year like here, here in the west now you have freedom yes, but we are slaves to the system, i work 80hrs a week driving a cab for what? to pay rent and bills and eat and sleep, yes i have freedom but freedom does not pay the bills does it, in the USSR you didnt have to worry about getting kicked out of your apartment because the rent stayed the same mostly, there was no luxury yes, but there was stability
@@petejames1326 No offence, but are you by any means an American?
80 hours a week is not normal by any means, in Europe.
@@ChrisTian-lf2oh40 hrs a week is a normal work week in America. Anything over that is over time
@@petejames1326Educate yourself you fool! You don’t have a clue what communism would be like. Go to a communist country and see how long you last before you run back to freedom!
@@petejames1326.. Denmark here, I'm a home owner, of a 95 m2 = 1,022.5 sq. ft. house in the outskirts of the 2nd largest city in Denmark. Partly renovated in late 2021 (new 3-layer/triple pane windows, new doors, new red tile roof). The house mortgage is just around $450 a month + a $212 private homeowners cooperative community association fee (which include property taxes, a homeowners' insurance, outdoor/external maintenance and renovations, including, windows, roof, private community roads and sidewalks, snow plowing and salt spreading service, trash & garbage disposal service)
My electricity bill is around $34 a month, while the hot water/heating bill is around $71 a month in fixed monthly installments (got around $70 back at the end of last year), but my suppliers neither use oil or gas, only renewables.
So $662 a month all included + $140 a month for water, electricity and heating
Internet, 2 phones, an extra large TV package = $145 a month
Food and all the other stuff you would need = $290 a month
So all included I spend around $1,237 a month to pay for all the basic necessities.
I earn around $245 to $360 a day, depending on the hours and day of the week, and my present part-time job as a night watch with no degree required (though I do have one) is nothing fancy.
My income taxes are around 25% when you consider all the deductibles and that the first around $7,000 you earn a year is totally tax free in Denmark. So in principle I only need to work 7 days a month on average for all the basic necessities to be paid for.
In comparison a security guard with 4-5 years experience like me, earn 23,400 rubles = around $256 a month in Russia and an apartment (3 bedrooms) in the outskirts of Saint Petersburg is 52,447 rubles = around $575 a month.
Where did you got that bottle of vodka cost $15 in former USSR. It was essential to keep people high. Cheapest vodka cost 3 rubles 62 kopeks per 0.5 liter bottle of vodka , a bit better vodka 4.12 . official exchange rate was around 90 kopeks for dollar, unofficial 8 rubles per Dollar. So, 0.5 liter was cheaper than 50 cents.
Correct, I spotted his way-out price of vodka, Vodka was dirt cheap because staying drunk was the way of getting through a miserable existence for most Russians, I lived and worked there from 1984--86. Russia was a giant prison camp full of unhappy people, tatty and falling to bits. Who could have guessed in 1984 the inefficient bankrupt Communist system had only six more years to live.
I am sure this documentary was made by Channel 10 in Australia. I was there just after the fall of the USSR and it was almost the same as this doco portrays ,especially the Trolley .I saw lots of them which had flowers and potted plants in the drivers space. 😁😁A vodka was damned cheap although I knew people who made their own .
@@stormywindmillRussia is still there, Rhodesia is not.
Valuable as view of the pop culture of the USSR of the time, and some anecdotal daily life insights as well. But this is an incredibly optimistic depiction- the young children in the video are of my approximate age group, and would go on to grow up during tremendous social and political turmoil. If things were truly this favorable for everyone (which I doubt) then at best it was a house of cards ready to tumble...
An Australian commentator, how good is that
The good old days of total censorship.
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Its amazing and sad at the same time how many people think Russia and its population are from another planet....... try actually getting to know them for a change instead of hating them like we are being constantly told to do!...... you might learn they are no different to the rest of us humans
No one hates Russians ))) But not a single decent man likes a neonazi dictator-kleptoman. Come to Moscow and visit all the great, fantastic places, but also listen to what common Russians in Moscow think. No support there for nor the dictator or for the war. Never ever has anyone told me to “hate Russians” ))) How silly.
А кто тебе говорит ненавидеть их? Правительство и народ это разные вещи.
That's generally true of most people groups. It's always those assholes in power that fu$k everything up. And the lap dogs that protect the psychopaths.
Does anyone know the name of the song starting at 1:06:45?
Like, Like, like. How beautiful.
The Russians are impressive.
They love utopia, to be free is a concept that is hard for them to understand
@@theafricanobserver8785 go back to Start and try again
@@theafricanobserver8785 you are free? If you think in canva what is narrated you from TV or Internet media of your country, it is not a freedom. You just accept someone point of view, point of view that is allow to you to accept, and think it is your choice. It is more sophisticated that it was in USSR? - yes! Does it freedom? - no!
Impressive? 😂
The old Russians still can't handle their freedom, even after more than 30 years, that's why they wish their Soviet dictatorship back ... Vatniks ... they are like little children who need a parent to guide them in the most brutal way! A pathetic nation!
You mean Soviets. The Russians are just one group of several groups of people who all worked together as the Soviet peoples, although I wouldn’t say everything was so fine and dandy all the time for a lot of these other groups compared to the Russians.
13:15 - I have a question: 600$ (~360 rub.) for a dock worker was it a lot or a little in contemporary (it means of 1984) UK, France, USA or other Western country?
A typical house in 1984 in the USA would cost about $75,000
Minimum wage was $120 a week in the USA in 1984. Federal income Taxes were about 15% then you had state income taxes of an extra percentage and also extra fees from local governments. So you went home with about $100 a week.
@@vgrepairs и всё равно это гораздо, гораздо больше чем в СССР.
Средняя зарплата в СССР была меньше 100₽. 100₽ в месяц! А не 360₽. И надо учитывать, что курс по отношению к доллару был рисованым, ибо рубль был неконтролируемой валютой по факту. На чёрном, реальном рынке рубль стоил в разы меньше официального.
"A 1984 documentary chronicling everyday life in the USSR." From the perspective of mainly party members and controlled by propaganda commissaries.
Crazy that an Australian company would do propaganda for the USSR like this.
In 1984 all footage exported from the ussr had to be reviewed by the kgb and approved. It was law. Also filming inside the ussr required approval from the kgb, unions and the party.
So if the Australians wanted to do a documentary, the russians said “of course, I just happen to know a few well off people who have no complaints”
The singer at 1:06:45 is Nina Matviyenko.
Do you happen to know the song? Thanks
the lexus and vovan videos told us what people really are are doing
Hakim must be delighted to see this video. Where's the long slow queue on stores in this video? Oh wait that only happened when Gorbachev introduced Capitalism in USSR..
There were always long lines for basics like bread, especially in the morning. It worsened after Hrushchov's policies by using corn meal, which made bread last less. The free market is superior to a command economy, which makes your argument not have sense. Besides, capitalism was never introduced in the Soviet Union, the transition to capitalism was annulled half way during the 500 day program.
I am from peru in southamerica, My brother received a scholarship to study medicine in the Crimea university, when I was just 1 year born, I grew up seeing his photos of Soviet culture, books with magnificent illustrations, wonderful music, all souvenirs that he sent from the Soviet Union, he got married there and returned after finishing his studies. a few years later the soviet union fell.
Many years later, he found out that the family that housed him in his youth had to flee Odessa during the Maydan coup.
the current war has destroyed a beautiful country, nato is the bloodiest terrorist organization that rusia has suffered since the nazis
For my part, I feel that I love Russia, I know some people and soon I will travel there and settle in Vladyvostok.
Russia have quite many neonazis of their own. Why would they want a Peruvian neonazi? The Russians aren’t pro-putlerism if you haven’t noticed ))) Walk in any park and hear the political talks the Russians have with each other and read what the young generation writes on walls and benches )) No support for mr Putler there. But for the moment, he’s the neonazi dictator.
No se le haría mas fácil simplemente mudándose a Cuba?
Lastima que Perú no tuvo su propio Pinochet.
I'm a pure blooded American.
I hate NATO. I want it dissolved. I want my country to stop being the world police and I'd prefer us to be a lot more isolationist. But that won't happen, sadly.
Does anyone know the name of the "well known, lighthearted Russian folk dance' that starts around 56:30?
It s not a russian dance,but western ukrainian. One of those dances.hutsuls dance it
@@user-pe3qq5ji5d Ukranian, huh? No wonder I like it so much. Thank you. Do you know what they say during the dance? The women say something in unison, then the men say something. Also, a man calls something out and the women do a spin. I'm curious what it all means.
From US. Where did these videos come from. Some of them are quite amazing in content and what they knowingly or unknowingly reveal about Soviet life.
Where did they come from? Are these USSR propaganda films, or independent documentaries? Cuz if the latter, how? Being communist I'd expect that such things as documentaries werent' really possibly....lack of freedoms of speech/press and such.
I've heard of kino runners back in day that would smuggle movies into, and other stuff out of Soviet Rus. But I've never heard of a 'Soviet Film Industry' back in day.
What minute mark is the photo found at?
Creep.
You really want that tits do ya?
@@CuttySobz creep is the author of this vid who put this foto upfront
@@bartomiejtudryk5649 and the one who looks for it
The rents for housing were also fixed by the state in USSR. The State Price Commission set prices in the USSR. Each Warsaw Pact country also had a State Prize Commission. To compensate for the lack of freedom, there was all-round care for the citizens. In the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, there were never people who were unemployed. There was pointless work, for some, because there was a legal obligation to work. Full employment for all citizens existed because the world of work was not nearly as automatized as in the West. On the other hand, the factories of the socialist countries were far from being competitive on the world market. In principle, there were no enterprises that were privately organized, since all enterprises were people's property, but in practice they were state property. No enterprise was allowed to decide for itself how much to produce; that was dictated by the state planning commission. The plans were valid for between 2 and 5 years.
Yes everything was nciely planned, you got a house and a job, but the country had no exports and couldnt pay its debts, everyone in Romania and other soviet bloc countries would wait for hours if not days in line to get a fucking orange or banana and to buy a shitty soviet car you were put on a waiting list of 5 years for the priviledge, and you had 0 freedom to travel freely. Big failure, I still remember the poverty and misery of the 1990s in the wake of the old system.
Но, это не совсем правда, так как советские фотоаппараты хорошо продавались, автомобили возможно из-за дешевизны, возможно трамваи, тепловозы, если в стране производилось практически всё и качество было относительно нынешних дешёвых китайских товаров отличное, то наверняка пользовалось спросом, дефицит в последние годы возможно был связан с продажей товаров заграницу и желанием разбогатеть поздних руководителей советских предприятий, которые имели свои коррективы, свой бизнес, уже тогда зародилась мафия. И последние годы СССР это и рэкет и кооперативы, и огромные доходы у шоу-бизнеса, плановая экономика уже не справилась с полукапитализмом.
А Горбачёв наверное хотел развалить СССР, сначала он развалил Восточный блок, вывел войска из Афганистана. Способствовал объединению Германии. Простые граждане не понимали, что СССР движется к развалу. А Горбачёв подготовил союзный договор, плюс внутри СССР начались вооружённые конфликты, что очень странно, откуда у простых людей оружие, и против армии простые люди бессильны.
@@-kruz In the West, Soviet-made goods were often considered to be inferior in quality, even if this was not necessarily true.
There was no unemployment in the USSR because labor was less automated than in the West?
So you think that unemployment exists because labor is too automated? 😂😂😂
And what about unemployment in the 19th - early 20th century? In those days, why was there unemployment? After all, there was no automation then.
It's just that unemployment is a necessary element of the market system. The capitalist needs a labor market. Under capitalism, everything is for sale, including labor. Labor is a commodity. If there is a labor market, then there is unemployment, and if there is no market, there is no unemployment.
В СССР не было безработицы потому что труд был менее автоматизирован, чем на западе?То есть вы полагаете, что безработица существует потому, что труд слишком автоматизирован? 😂😂😂
А как на счёт безработицы в 19м - начале 20го века? В те времена отчего была безработица? Ведь тогда не было автоматизации.
Просто безработица - это необходимый элемент рыночной системы. Капиталисту нужен рынок труда. При капитализме всё продаётся, в том числе и труд. Труд является товаром. Если есть рынок труда, то есть и безработица, а при отсутствии рынка безработицы нет.
When this was happening, Putin was in east germany catching snitches.
Putin was a lawyer
@@katalinkiss120 Putin was KGB colnel stationed in East Germany.
THE GOLDEN ERA
Дерьмовая эра
the bride breaks a glass like the hatan groom does.
Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪
go back to your non-go muslim gang zones
How did it all work out?
Hmmmmmmmmm?
a lot of the older people who can remember the ussr are realy pissed at what happened to there country and like Americans who remember when America was 90 oercent white dont like what they see now
America was never white in he first place.
You mean after they genocided the Native Americans?
American here. I don't give a crap about skin color. I care about the content of character. And communists have infected the cultural centers. McCarthy was apparently correct. We were being overrun by commies. Now, 80 years into it, they have destroyed the blessings of faith and freedom with their satanic, trash ideaologies.
they know what gander they are.
I am a goose.
Posturing in the flash.
this doc is about how life in the Soviet Union could have been without the kgb
World was better during that time due to the presence of two super powers
No! There was the constant threat of nuclear war between the free world and the soviet dictatorship! Soviets at that time / Russians today can not deal with power, they fall through a corrupt government into a mafia state that threatens the whole world! This country has no right to exist!
Absolutely not. So many people were being oppressed by the USSR, either directly within the regime or within their "sphere of influence". So much suffering was caused by Stalin's purges and conquests during WW2. So much less had to be spent on military after it fell. Unfortunately Russia is now pushing those budgets up again but at least it is smaller than the USSR was.
@prestallar4339 not even close
@prestallar4339 nah, the usa is not sending millions to gulags, oppressing its own people or forcing governments around the world to poverty and similar oppression. The USA is nowhere close to as bad as the soviet union was or current Russia is.
@prestallar4339 The US might not be a perfect country, but at least we aren't oppressed by our own government and can essentially do whatever we want barring legality. We can say LITERALLY whatever we want about our government with our right to freedom of speech. If the Soviets/Russian citizens were to protest or slander the state and it's government, they would be killed, sent to gulags or at a minimum, arrested which is what we are seeing now for the protesters in Moscow against the war in Ukraine. They are performing peaceful protests and getting arrested which if the police were to do that in the US, they can be sued for violating our rights. With the two superpowers during the Cold War, the population of both countries were in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. Back then students would have to conduct nuclear disaster drills which aren't done in today's school.
The "collective" concept is appealing in some ways, but only if everyone is of equal ability and willingness to work toward the common good. In truth, some people aren't smart and some people are just plain lazy. Also, these collectives were protected from economic reality with heavy government subsidies, and when the USSR could no longer afford those subsidies, the collective idea started to fall apart.
But I will add the Russian people are beautiful -- inside and out. A fantastic culture and history. We can never allow the West to drag us into a war against them.
That's why socialism fails. It's an attractive idea but it doesn't match up with reality.
@@tshandy1 зато Путину позволим)))
I learned a lot about Soviet history in schools. Eventhough life was living with less freedom and food ration systems education, healthcare, households etc are all free and doesn't need to be worried about, which is now bringing more wealth inequality in many developed countries.
It really depends on how you define freedom - in US you have "freedom" to sleep under bridges and pay for health care and education (or not)
Not in Germany
What a wonderful video of the true life of the Russian people and how they live , work, play and down to earth goodness...If the government people would spend less time fighting in the world and spend more time loving their families , we would be so much ahead!! But greed , money and power leads to whatwe have today!!
What is the purpose of this movie? Talk about sugar-coating the former Soviet Union. I just find it totally depressing.
song starting 9:03 🔥tho
What a pile of propaganda hilarity. Everything's great. Just wait 10 years for a car. So much "money" but nothing to buy.
Made by Film Australia when documentaries were just that
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The girl in the thumbnail image is dressed the same as all the trendy girls do now, with the baggy vintage clothes look. Too funny
Apparently, she's an 18-year-old prostitute named Katya, photographed by Peter Turnley in 1991.
They were 20-30 years behind the west in conveniences and technology in manufacturing... and still haven't figured it out. Wasted years
good times create weak men...
8:10, now, in 2023, singers from Ukraine, that sounds surreal.
Ukraine has historically been a region of Russia - the Ukraine translates as - the Borderlands
Russia largest country , slim people , America largest people , slim culture.
The Brezhnev years were the height of life in the Soviet Union. Life was really good, people enjoyed the enormous resources and safety of living in the Soviet Union, practically everything was almost free, obviously there was no such thing as unemployment or homelessness. In the west probably only countries like Holland or West Germany could compare for quality of life for working people, while Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland were suffering from debilitating poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and lack of education, and America was a quasi apartheid state with black folks in the south not allowed into shopping malls and restaurants, and the slums of big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. no-go zones for the white population.
you'd like Los Angeles now,it us fully inclusive and a dump thanks to diversity.calfornia we t from 90 percent white in 1965 to 27 percent today and it looks like a cross between south Africa and the Spanish third world.theres not some kind of magic dirt that makes white countries self sufficient and safe,high crime areas and poverty aren't caused by some kind of racial cast system ,just like no one makes east Asians do the best in schools every time and blacks do the worst every time,in every country on earth.mongolians still live In huts but have an average IQ higher than whites.and the biggest factor in crime or poverty is iq specificly low iq.and if russia had a violent minority that only made up 10 percent of the population but committed 60 percent of homicides 80 percent of aggravated assaults and 90 percent of attacks on other races and used 650 billion dollars a year more than they payed in it would have crippled the whole ussr
Nice of you to ignore the slave labor and robbing of the conquered satellites states to feed the Russians and give them such a cheap and comfortable life. In my country all our produce, meat, coal, gold, went to Russia for free, while we suffered. Plus this propaganda pieces only shows Moscow and Sochi, but none of the rest of Russia, where there was no paved roads, no electricity, and work was equal to slave labor.
That was absolute nonsense.
@@wqsuuhhdrvjj all living pritty much the same, purpose was control that territory not withdraw the money from them. Many as you say colony living lot better than Russia. Mostly it is why USSR was so popular. It is asking only for the loyalty (some times with usage of guns) not money
What fantasy land are you living in? I know a lot of people from the former soviet union and I can assure you their quality of life was anything but nice. The enormous disparity between the US and soviet union is grossly understated due to the fact that every bad thing about the US was open and well known because of free speech and freedom of the press. In the soviet union people weren't allowed to speak a bad word of their government for fear of going to prison or the gulag. Obviously you weren't from the soviet union
Women and children were certainly safer.,
soviet russia was renamed in a soviet union in 1922
0:26 Is that not the other way around? Dusk in Moscow and Dawn in Vladivostok? Unless the earth spun the other way around in Soviet time.
Ya, you're right. Vladivostok is 7 hours ahead of Moscow. Though, with them being so north, probably its also true the other way around at some point during the winter, with the day being short enough that the sun is rising in Moscow and already going down in Vladivostok.
Course, at 1:06 they also labeled Korea as part of Russia. So, the geography knowledge/editing doesn't seem the strongest.
51:53 The early days of glastnost and Ronald Reagan during his goodwill tour of the country.😄😄
1984 - it's one year before.
Underrated comment hahaha
Good for the people of the USSR that it broke up. Although the world faced bad effects due to the USSR break up.
Australian Narrator for sure 😂
Love it or hate it I dont give a f. Russia is my fav whatever is empire soviet or federation. So glad I borned here.
Love Russia. From San Diego!
I miss these good times
$8000 a year for a full-time job. Sounds like paradise.
...instead of making 0$ immediately by not being able to get one! ooooof
@@shainemaine1268 ok, mate. Go to Cuba and be a bus driver. Its a paradise i hear.
the cost of living in russia is cheaper than n.a., regular fuel in moscow is 56 cents a liter or thereabouts, in canada its 4 times that, just one example of many more.
@@reverendjimjones9061 yeah, the standard of living was lower in the Soviet Union compared to the west.
@@martthesling sure was, no argument there, then again multitudes in the u.s. or canada live well beyond their means, a short story for you related to some degree, my grandfather when i was young bought a new volkswagen beetle outright for $1700 in cash, owned it free and clear from the day purchased,,neighbor bought a cadillac for $5000 plus and made payments for five years, yet laughed at the vw, surely a nice car that caddy but does one really need it? The captain obvious answer is no, one does not.
And now Vladimir Putin has pissed away the goodwill this film is meant to build up.
1:09:09 truly apocalyptic
1:06
Rip Korea
A bottle of vodka was 2 to 4 roubles in that period not 15 $. Had someone made the vodka that expennive back then they would hava started another revolution. This is not accurate at all prices wise furthermore it gives a fall impression in 1984 USSr is already colapsing and black market is prosperring finding every day items to buy or even food results in long queues .
good old days
In 1994 the whole thing collapsed.
Lmao, somebody track down this presenter and ask him what the hell he was talking about 40 years ago.
showing footage and stating facts?
I find it very difficult to consider this video as anything but propaganda. Example 1:07:00 Pot kettle black. Russia did the same in Poland in WW2 and use the same tactics today in Ukraine .
If it was such a wonderful utopia , why did they do everything possible to prevent their citizens from emigrating. They also had an internal passport system , where people needed special permission to travel around the country.
It's not a utopia, but a place where people had safety nets. It's a meagre existence but nobody is homeless and die on the streets. Now, thousands of people die daily in the west as they're left behind by capitalism. Is that humane?
As an American this feels illegal to watch
Живи, родная Россия! Ты прекрасна! Россия была, есть и будет! 🤍💙❤
There is only hell for orcs
@@infinitelp7796спок хохлонацик
meanwhile
Capitalist Central America:
EXISTENCE IS PAIN
Uhh, central America.. capitalist?
That's funny. Good joke man.
@@XXNerdzillaXX it is
what do you think they are?
communist? like the Soviets who had nukes? and they cannot even build schools.
RENT WAS PEGGED AT 3-4% OF INCOME, amazing, if thats true, how can the arrogant USA say our system is so much better? im a cab driver in the west, about 30% of my income goes to rent, its a joke
Power of communism , they flood people with power
Communism is a joke, my dear cab driver. Would you like to live in a rented communist apartment, no hot water, no cooking gas, no electricity after 10:00 🕙 PM? Would you like to wait five years for your car, paid in full in advance? You are hilarious! If the system was that good, then why it crumbled like a sand castle? And don’t give me that excuse “it crumbled because of the evil West”. I trust you can judge better. All the best!
You can always move to Venezuela to experience how nice socialism is
@@mikeb5372 ok you got me bro, I'll just stay in the west and be a modern day slave, working till I drop dead one day from exhaustion
@@petejames1326 Sure. Why? Because you're lazy and don't know what work is? In 1984 I made what is the equivalent of $35 an hour today and I was only 20 years old. People that were willing to work for it could live very well. If you don't work in cement or something of equal difficulty then you don't have much room to complain. It's called earning a living and no one said it was supposed to be easy
The USA and Russia both have way many poor people. The two both have double digits poverty rates. I would say there is many nations still worse to live in then both. The majority of African countrys are insanely poor and some southeast country's are bad living quliry worse then USA and Russia.
He got the action, he got the motion
Oh yeah, the boy can play
Dedication, devotion
He turnin' all the nighttime into the day
The song about the sweet ole lovin' woman
He do the song about the knife
And he do the walk, do the walk of life
Yeah, he do the walk of life
Here come Johnny, gonna tell you a story
Hand me now my walkin' shoes
Here come Johnny with the power and the glory
Backbeat, the talkin' blues
He got the action, he got the motion
Oh yeah, the boy can play
Dedication, devotion
He turnin' all the nighttime into the day
The song about the sweet ole lovin' woman
He do the song about the knife
And he do the walk, do the walk of life
Yeah, he do the walk of life
Here come Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-bop-a-lula, baby what I say
Here come Johnny singing "I got a woman"
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Oh yeah, the boy can play
Dedication, devotion
He turnin' all the nighttime into the day
And after all the violence and double talk
There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life
Hmm, you do the walk of life
A-woohoo
Woo-hoo-hoo
Woo-hoo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo-hoo
Yeah, do the walk of life
This one was missed among the them young general populace at the time. But I'll bet my bottom dollar them Russkies could translate and sing, Money for noth'n by the same, Dire Straits before the wall came down. 501 blue jeans were desperately wanting, anything Beatles but not so much Elvis. Interesting. Control.
We love Dire Straits here in Russia
Dollar for Wodka? Sure..
Good great days
This is a propaganda film, this marvellous society collapsed just a few years later ...
Exactly.
Or, they could have made a film that at least somewhat resembled real life.
And we know now the collective was a fail, taking away the spirt and the creative initiative of the individual never ends well.
There is big mistake because Odessa is also in Ukraine.
You need to do some homework. Read about Odessa's history.
@@sergeyvyatkin Look on a map, you will see that Odessa is in Ukraine. That was also the case at the time of The Ukrainian SSR. I didn't have to do my homework because I know for a fact that I'm right. This is a TV documentary from the 1980s, and there was also Odessa in Ukraine. What was 200 years ago was not the issue.
@@Fabian-Wenzel yeah, dude... as well as Crimea... lol
Crimea was a part of Russia (RSFSR) until 1954. Odessa and all "Southern Ukraine" was a part of historical Russia until 1917. 106 years ago, not 200. My great-grandmother was born before that in 1912 (my ancestors were Cossacks).
@@sergeyvyatkin The 200 years was meant figuratively. You should take rhetoric lessons.
ukraine was part of russia until 1991
I love it
Don´t be fooled in thinking that marxist-comunism was a benign regime.Socialist-marxism or comunism was the most terrible and satanic regime ever imposed on mankind. At the time,when this movie was made,the Soviet Union was no more comunist,and that´s why we see a happy and free people.Also,at that time Communist China party members,called the Soviet Union,a fascist state ,not a communist state,and on account of that,they stop and closed all political and economic relations with the Soviet Union. Today Russians say,that these were the golden times of the Soviet Union.
The USSR is rightly considered a prison of peoples, who have been released, and who is still in this chauvinistic Russian prison. My Yakutia also deserves freedom Buryatia, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, etc.
It was 100 time better than most if not all countries of the world.
You had me at free healthcare and 4 weeks paid vacation
The USSR had gulags and concentration camps. Dictatorship is awesome.
@@martthesling they had a very good education, great culture and no Gulags when this movie was shot :) I guess you can talk about dictatorship from your personal experience today too :)))
@@tomasfuk8439 If you tried to defect in the Communist world you were shot. Berlin wall.
@@tomasfuk8439 no free speech. dictatorship. no democracy. prison if you disagreed with the system. murder. 10x less pay than in the democratic west. less medical technology. shall I go on? if you think the evil empire of the Soviet Union and eastern communist block was great, why were so many people trying yo flee west? why did they have to put up a wall to keep people in?
Never trust Soviets. Yes it was free, but it was not a decent healthcare. Yes you had a 4-week vacation, but the pay was meagre and, much worse yet, they won't let you out of the country.
looks like an ideal system that may of worked if not for the widespread endemic coruption at every level!
It was a wonderful human face of Soviets in 1984 ....it was an enjoyable documentary video looked ....it was orchestrated and directed by the USSR regime....it was not shown the reality lives in the the USSR...in meantime massively hype and western propagandists machines including ( the USA )were not showed ,disclosure...the reality of the USSR ...times aren't returning back 😢...for Russian populations and westerners geopolitical conspiracies and plots aren't stopping against Russian population before theirs governments
It was made by Film Australia...hardly the USSR regime
I was in Moscow in 1998 working and I was impressed about the place, two things I noticed that people seldom smile to foreigner they met like me, and I asked them why seems smiling in a workplace with co-workers is almost not seen? One person replied to me that during the Communist time they were prohibited to talk or even smiling for fear that someone might be their enemy. Their Lada Car was too old and the designed was way behind the West and Japanese cars, by the way the sub-way is indeed excellent.
Что за брехня? ua-cam.com/video/ZGVE-dQflAI/v-deo.html В 1984 году я учился в школе, ходил на практику на завод. Работяги там рассказали анекдот:
Сидит Брежнев на том свете, приходит Андропов. Ну, как там Родина? - спрашивает Брежнев.
Не знаю, - отвечает Андропов - не успел разобраться. Сейчас Черненко придёт, расскажет.
Черненко при этом был ещё жив. Никто никого не боялся. Для этого и были коммунистические времена. Без ограблений на улицах, массовых расстрелов, как в Балтиморе, наркоманов на улицах, как в Ванкувере, харрасмента, ЛГБТ и БЛМ. И насчёт Лады смешно. Как раз в перестройку на конвейер встали совершенно новые автомобили - разные и на нескольких заводах.
1998, you come to late.
If I would have lived in Russia in the late nineties, I probably would have hated every Westerner I came across.
The Soviet Union fell in December 1991 and you went to Russian in 1998. You would think they would be so very happy with all that new freedom to consume? But perhaps it might have to do with the millions who died after the fall of the Soviet Union. Never mind, let's see what will happen when Yankeeland collapses. Already poverty is 4th major cause of death in Yankeeland.
I'm pretty sure that guy told you a joke about smiling. It's just a part of our culture, there is an old saying "laughter without a reason is a sign of stupidity"
Utterly depressing. A stifling of the human spirit.
not as depressing as Haiti.
Far better to be sleeping under a bridge with no future.
Yeah...we see plenty soaring human spirit amongst the homeless on the streets of US cities.
Homelessness, open concentration camps
you re right. as for the guys commenting it may not be good for many in america but sovietism and communism in general is not the answer. When you have to kill millions to have this kind of heaven something is wrong.
Wonder how closly they where monitored filming this. They onviously had well off citizens chosen. Meanwhile in 1984 plenty of suffering on ussr in places, plenty still in gulaugs. Just seems like if u went to usa in 84 u could find well off workong class but alot of poverty too. Only difference in usa u can choose your profession pretty much. Ussr not so much
In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism.
Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution."
Yeltsin asked customers about what they were buying and how much it cost, later asking the store manager if one needed a special education to manage a store. In the Chronicle photos, you can see him marveling at the produce section, the fresh fish market, and the checkout counter. He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops.
"Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev," he said. When he was told through his interpreter that there were thousands of items in the store for sale he didn't believe it. He had even thought that the store was staged, a show for him. Little did he know there countless stores just like it all over the country, some with even more things than the Randall's he visited.
The fact that stores like these were on nearly every street corner in America amazed him. They even offered him free cheese samples.
Yeah the Soviet Union and Russia has always been full of shit.
@@speterj Nikita Kruschov had a similar experience in the late 50's or early 60's,him and his entourage that were also from glorious Soviet Russia were blown away at something as simple as walking into countless stores,mostly mom and pop stores,and having so many different items for sale and in abundance
@@speterj I read about the same account from Victor Belenko, a Soviet mig pilot who defected to the West; the first time he went into an American supermarket he was just blown away by how much food there was, and the variety.
It wasnt that bad.
But the gulags no longer existed in the 1980s, formally disbanding in the 1960s.
In Soviet Russia student disassemble AK-47.
In Capitalist USA AK-47 disassemble student.
😂😂😂
In the 60s us student dissasembled a hunting rifle tho, but your not wrong
@@realslimsh8y true.
That's only because your shitty ideology (communism) infected America and those ravenous, murderous twats took over the cultural centers. They're actively doing everything they can to dismantle the land of freedom.
That was a Lie when she said that the family is the most important part of the Soviet State, The STATE is the New God, and the most important part of the Soviet State, Any Logical arguments are Welcome!
Bro the Soviet union doesn't exist anymore chill
no, it does not, the democrats are trying to re-invent it here@@yaya_is_real