@@daffyduk77 Advice for ignoramuses, liars, and Russian trolls: It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to pipe up and remove all doubt.
@@deanronson6331 You certainly attest to that assertion. A lot of the millions of basic but livable flats Kruschev had built - they became known as Kruschevka - a lot of poor Americans could have benefitted from. They even had proper places for kids to play. Instead of eradicating even footpaths etc. as in the US. But living space has typically been less of a problem for them, instead the cost of living, atrocious public transport, education, discrimination etc. A study of health outcomes contrasting Russians in the 60s vs. Americans would be an interesting one. I am not Russian.
@@daffyduk77 Yeah, right, you're trying to school me, who visited a couple of friends in Moscow in the 80's and was personally able to "attest" to the cloaka that was the USSR. Russians loved their Kruschevskas so much that 4-5 million of them left when the House of Cards collapsed. What's next - an ode to Putin? A wise man had your number when he said that the difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits.
I remember my 6th grade teacher back in 1971 talking about this. The thing he remembered was the kitchen exposition with Nixon and Khruschev. Nixon was showing off an electric can opener. Khrushev laughed and showed a hand operated can opener. He said "are Americans so weak that they can't turn a can opener?" It's 2024 and I still don't have an electric can opener. That one stuck with me.
The electric can opener is exactly the sort of thing you don't appreciate until arthritis, old age, or worrying about your widowed mother living alone hits you. Its like the electric wheelchair; easy to mock while your arms hold out or if you can afford a nurse to push you around.
@@NikovK well yeah but that’s like a somewhat rare case when you need that. In the 1950s-1970s these were being marketed to people that absolutely didn’t need them. My grandma had one from General Electric that she bought back in the day and 90% of the time we just used a hand operated one cause it was almost quicker and less bulky. I remember thinking it was stupid when I was like 5. Really seems like something most people only bought because of a good marketing plan or something. I definitely wouldn’t have shown that off to a foreign nation and they probably only did because GE or whoever paid them. It’s just asking to be mocked by Soviets either for toxic masculinity reasons or for Western decadence reasons.
15:29 'Are all these products really available in America?' And then a few decades later a certain Boris Jeltsin could have his answer in a supermarket in Houston, shattering his believe in the Soviet system by simply seeing for the first time in an uncensored manner the reality of American market-economy capitalism.
The Soviet foreign minister under Gorbachev, Eduard Shevardnadze gave this as a major reason why communism collapsed: At that time, sufficient Russian diplomats, scientists attending international conferences, ballet dancers, sportsmen, and others had visited the West, and seen what was on sale in shops, that just about everybody in the USSR knew someone who had visited the West, or worked in a factory set up with Western help (eg Lada making Fiat copies),or had a grandfather who drove a lend lease truck in the War, etc tec, they just couldn't hide how much better the West ran, no matter how much bull was printed in Pravda ("Truth"), and the morale of their officials just collapsed. They just gave up.
@@keithammleter3824yeah, honestly that was the primary culprit of the collapse as dudes just weren’t willing to send in the tanks anymore or work hard to achieve the communist dream. People will get real gritty for stuff they believe in but otherwise wont
@@keithammleter3824 But Russia, from Kruschev onwards, was always better at satisfying *all* citizens' basic needs. It's something America still cannot do. Rationing by price instead of by allocation system. Look at the US health racket er "system" lol
@@daffyduk77 It is true that the US, and other Western countries, has very small numbers of people homeless and living on the streets. And this was less of a problem in the USSR - or so we are told ..... The US is rather a special case in regard to medical care, due to their tradition of having employers pay the medical insurance of their employees. However, I know a number of people who have emigrated here from the USSR and its satellite states like Poland. They all say the West is and always has been, far better at supplying its people with their needs. One lady I know was a senior obstetrician (equivalent to clinical professor) at a large Soviet maternity hospital - something like 2000 beds. She had delivered thousands of babies there, and there won't be anything about delivering babies she doesn't know. But her Soviet obstetrics degrees are not recognised here, so she is not permitted to deliver babies here at all. She works as an ordinary GP. I said to her one time "It must be dissappointing for you, not being able to work in your own field." Her reply was that was true, but in terms of her lifestyle/standard of living she is infinitely better off here as a low paid basic GP than she was as a top-line specialist in the USSR.
@@keithammleter3824 medical staff salaries over there were always low. Whereas in the US, it's a licence to print money. Employer-funded scheme ? If it's a "good" job, and how much deductable & co-pays ? How many medical bankruptcies in the US due to bad accident/long-term illness/cancer. There are zero such bankruptcies where I live (not Eastern Europe/Russia). In USA you get the level of care you can afford, healthcare should not be based on your socioeconomic status. And people driving to Canada for the affordable insulin they need just to stay alive ... American advertising where consumers are programmed what medicines to request their doctors provide. No wonder the health business swipes so much of USA' GNP before everything else. With worse health outcomes. Truly sick. It's why a friend moved back here after 30 years over there. And I don't think many Americans will recognise your glowing characterisation of an American accommodation nirvana, with soaring rents, foreclosures, evictions.
@@RaquelFoster Being obsessed with mind-numbing techno crap doesn't leave one much time for learning and thinking. Instead, it promotes seeing conspiracy theories in everything around you.
Glad I discovered this channel! The scene of the famous "Kitchen Debate". Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei was there, and when interviewed about it after moving to the USA, said that to the Soviets, the Americans were like "aliens, first man from Mars". Before the end of the video, I thought of the U-2 incident. Khrushchev was understandably livid about that, and I wonder what the US reaction would have been had a Soviet spy plane been shot down over the USA.
@@SMGJohn wdy they didnt have slums? most industrial places or non city center places did have slums the ussr had plenty of sobering centers where drunks were being cured places all around these were awful.there was always gangs back then just they did not have guns.
@@SMGJohn p.s im from vilnius and in the soviet days a small distric here in the old town called paupis in the soviet days was an abandoned slums where drunks used to hang out.now its a expensive place to live
@@lolita19711 Your "idea" of what a slum is, is frankly hilarious. "Abandoned places with drunk people in them" imao, dude, you never been in an actual slum, you never seen a picture of one. Yet you claim to be an expert already, thats interesting to me, because slums are essentially dense towns built out of shacks and other cheap materials with extreme poverty and usually these places are lawless or have gangs running zones. If you want a good example of a slum, you can look no further than South Kore, Guryong Village, or if you want something closer to home, any village in Russian Federation, specially worst are the shack towns of Vladivostok. Perestroika era does not even count since thats when the Capitalist restoration happened in USSR. Thanks Gorbachev, friend of the US.
@SMGJohn its weird why your denying my version,the oitskirts of russia were like skums ppl in huts no roads or plumbing,and big problem with alcohol.Gangs were a thing.Here in vilnius paupis distric a city centre in vilnius was abandoned and a real slum
The Congressional resolution Slobin calls stupid a number of times was the annual resolultion declared Captive Nations Week in July. It was a declaration of solidarity of freedom loving Americans with some 20 nations that were held enslaved by Russian communists. Slobin's grandmother left the Russian empire before the Bolshevik takeover. Her people, both those that left and those that stayed, were generally supportive of the communists. Nations such as Ukrainian, Poles, Belorussians, Lithuanians, etc.simply didn't exist for them. They favored the preservation of the empire, no matter what system it took on, since this was convenient for their trading activities. Slobin remained a leftist professor though his academic speciality was the psychology of language. It was interesting that he could travel many times to Uman which at the time was a closed city.
You're using the word "propaganda" very loosely. That's not what it actually means. But, sure, bragging, showing off, that's what Americans do best, because we "gots the goods"!
Потом было еще три выставки и на всех были километровые очереди. А Хрущев, конечно, мог держать покерфейс и нахваливать советский строй. "Нашему начальству хорошо, у них нет конкретной работы", - как сказал когда-то папаша Мюллер. P.S. Нужно было приходить в последний день, тогда можно было что-то отхватить, все раздавалось.
"Because in my country we have that right." Wow remember unions and strikes? Two very American things that afforded the common man a living wage and kept the standard of living high?
Smol note: the Soviet union did not have the technology for toilet paper until 1965. Also Tatayana got into all sort of troubles xD. P.S.: i was 78% sure the guy is going to be jewish, like proper rabbi material. I wasn't wrong.
In a student dorm in Leningrad in 1969, toilet stalls had small sheets of thin, crisp paper hung on a nail next to the toilet. They were also useful as airmail stationery. (Back then, airmail postage was expensive, so lightweight writing paper was desirable.)
They had the technology for tissue paper. It just wasn’t a priority in the planned economy, at least it wasn’t as much of a priority as rockets and tanks.
American in the 1950's: House, car, free public education, high paying job at capitalist factory, social security, plentiful food, democratically elected president who loves his country and people. USSR in the 1950's: Cramped appartment, no car (only the political elite have cars), no education (only the political elite have an education), job at state owned factory, no social security, no food, ruled by a dictator named Stalin who un-alives thousands of his countrymen for selfish reasons.
That's mainly because Russia is a backwards empire that doesn't want to end old habits. Europe tried its best to normalize relations post USSR but no surprise Russia went back to Soviet style antics.
20:27 No The difference between capitalism and communism is... In communism women trade their bodies for a pair of levis jeans And in capitalism they trade their bodies for expensive french purses 😂😂😂
i'm an american and this expo was the year i was born. however, my grandfather was born in russia, just outside moscow, he moved to the u.s. in 1910, where he met my polish grandmother.
LOL obviously you didn't live through the 50s/60s/70s/80s when the whole time the US thought it could be nuked by the USSR at any moment. School children had drills of what to do when a nuke went off. Fallout shelters were everywhere.
9:20 " he would give the later a wave when the ussr overtook them" Couldnt help but laugh, with their 5 total cars produced each year im sure they got close 😅
8:47, Khrushev ridiculing the more advanced kitchen, 9:15 makes faces while saying that everything is better in the USSR, he reminds me of my soviet dad born in 1950. Me as someone who lived whole my life in russia and ukraine, I can tell you that this mentality is always been there in soviet people, mostly older, my dad kinda acts like Khruschev when he denies and ridicules more advanced things or something he does not have, even when I get something new, tech or anything he acts similarly - I don't need a fancy thing, I have a strength of spirit, all I have is enought for me and you are spoiled and you buy things you don't need, haha. Yeah dad, all I did is just showed you the new thing I got, my friends are curious and happy for me but only you acts like I am attacking you🤣 soviet born kid, even he says about soviet union famous saying - I don't need anything and the thing is - you don't have to have anything either. (meaning if I am poor, I will do the same to you if you won't share, I either steal or destroy. The same way USSR stole all the technologies from the USA and other places)
up to this day the world still look up the american way…iphones,android,francisings.,cars,dollars ,abundance,universities,,etc..the only problem is the americans are looking the other way ,,easy life.,relaxing ,low costs of living..
This young man was handpicked by our great uncle sam to defeat the Soviets by using his trusty camera. And yet all this young man can do is focus on the young women 😂 this is why we couldn't defeat the Soviets until 1989.
I'm an American and have always been so fascinated by the USSR/ Russia, it breaks my heart how our leaders have made us enemies. Hopefully with President Trump back in office this will change and I can finally visit Russia ❤ 🇺🇸 🤝🇷🇺
Bruh, get real only when the russians end their neo-colonialism and their longing give the days of the soviet colonial empire will the relations be good again.
What exactly was the purpose ?! Which side side gained and which lost ?! After all,exhibitions take place in order to sell products. Which soviet citizen could allow himself to buy the products ?! For the soviet side,wasn't it embarassing to show the advanced american way of life so far from the reach of common soviet people ?! .."...to change mentality..." as the speaker says Could't this become dangerous for soviet power ?! Was this maybe exactly what happened ?!! That deep inside the minds of Soviet people Perestroika already started ?!
@Swellington_ I was born in Moscow Russia Feb 15 1985 grew up in the mid late 80s before coming in the usa in 1993 I had happy memories living in the ussr there no homelessness everybody had a place to stay a job free health care education who would not want that that something usa don't have like the ussr had
@@ilyabenkhin8491 I know,theres zero good about the USA,just all bad,Russia on the other hand is the land of plenty and no hunger or war or ethic discrimination or oppression,I wish I could live there,I hear theirs so many jobs and opportunities,I bet you went back to Russia your first chance didnt ya?
@@Swellington_ yeah i m planning to go to russia when the ussr returns its not the same but Russia still don't have no homelessness poverty discrimination and yes they do have a lot of job opportunities anything from working in the food industry to the factories
"no food shortages" This man is a clown. How many people died because of famine in Russian Empire in the XIX century or in Russia after 1991? Thousands. How many people died because of Soviet famine in 1921-1922, 1930-1933, 1946-1947? Millions. Even after Stalin, USSR couldn't feed themself and always bought wheat in US, Canada and Australia.
You see a lot of diff types of people in the us but never, ever do you see Russians lol. I saw one my whole life and he worked at foodlion. Though he may have been ukranian, hard to tell
Say what you will about the USSR at least they weren't selling people to private equity firms. Sure there was some slave labor but it was state slave labor not corporate slave labor
@@achatcueilleur5746 My grandmother traveled in tour of Mediterranean. Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Spain and it's in Cold War. And no negative consequences for her in USSR.
@@ХУЖЕТАТАРИНА Now hasn't changed in the Ukrainian SSR since the USSR times, while other 14 Republics have become corrals for the Nation State's life stock. In the industrial urban matrix, you can only be a prisoner or a slave/sheep/laptop dog. There are only 2 options.
@@achatcueilleur5746 Тоже верно, хотя городская матрица давно перестала быть индустриальной - она стала матрицей для безудержных потребителей ))) поэтому нужно перебираться на землю☺
The dads enthusiasm for an instant photo with his daughter was adorable
Kid before photo :(
Kid after photo :)
What an incredible slice of history from the not too distant past. I was three years old. Thank you for posting this.
as was I, so I kind of missed that. Both had rationing, just for Americans it's by price
@@daffyduk77 Advice for ignoramuses, liars, and Russian trolls: It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to pipe up and remove all doubt.
@@deanronson6331 You certainly attest to that assertion. A lot of the millions of basic but livable flats Kruschev had built - they became known as Kruschevka - a lot of poor Americans could have benefitted from. They even had proper places for kids to play. Instead of eradicating even footpaths etc. as in the US. But living space has typically been less of a problem for them, instead the cost of living, atrocious public transport, education, discrimination etc. A study of health outcomes contrasting Russians in the 60s vs. Americans would be an interesting one. I am not Russian.
@@daffyduk77 Yeah, right, you're trying to school me, who visited a couple of friends in Moscow in the 80's and was personally able to "attest" to the cloaka that was the USSR. Russians loved their Kruschevskas so much that 4-5 million of them left when the House of Cards collapsed. What's next - an ode to Putin? A wise man had your number when he said that the difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits.
I was in previous birth.
I remember my 6th grade teacher back in 1971 talking about this. The thing he remembered was the kitchen exposition with Nixon and Khruschev. Nixon was showing off an electric can opener. Khrushev laughed and showed a hand operated can opener. He said "are Americans so weak that they can't turn a can opener?" It's 2024 and I still don't have an electric can opener. That one stuck with me.
I'm sure Soviet housewives would've loved an electric can opener, people love convenience.
@@dannyzero692 Také jej nemám. Nejím konzervy 🙂
The electric can opener is exactly the sort of thing you don't appreciate until arthritis, old age, or worrying about your widowed mother living alone hits you. Its like the electric wheelchair; easy to mock while your arms hold out or if you can afford a nurse to push you around.
I dont have any and i dont need it
@@NikovK well yeah but that’s like a somewhat rare case when you need that. In the 1950s-1970s these were being marketed to people that absolutely didn’t need them. My grandma had one from General Electric that she bought back in the day and 90% of the time we just used a hand operated one cause it was almost quicker and less bulky. I remember thinking it was stupid when I was like 5. Really seems like something most people only bought because of a good marketing plan or something. I definitely wouldn’t have shown that off to a foreign nation and they probably only did because GE or whoever paid them. It’s just asking to be mocked by Soviets either for toxic masculinity reasons or for Western decadence reasons.
Around the 16 minute mark, that father and his boy getting their picture made me smile. Heartwarming :)
Hearing George and Tatiana ended up together is very great!
❤ same
She just married him for the green card
@@harryshuman9637 i doubt she knew what a green card was lmao
@@GottaGoBoom She was marrying for green card before it was mainstream.
It is amazing, but then I ended up doing research and found out they got divorced later.
The end part of this documentary when finally George hooks up with Tatiana is the biggest victory!🎉🎉🎉
And I was born in 1969!! 😂
I was thinking the same thing. "Way to go, George! You really walked the walk.:
They got divorced later
Honey trap 😂
@@tw8464 Right, that's what it's called. I think the Russians called those agents "sparrows" or "swallows".
This channel is absolutely my new favorite
The quality of the images and videos is amazing.
Likely enhanced by AI
The child's smile at 16:21 reminds me of how much the two nations could achieve without conflict.🙂
15:29 'Are all these products really available in America?'
And then a few decades later a certain Boris Jeltsin could have his answer in a supermarket in Houston, shattering his believe in the Soviet system by simply seeing for the first time in an uncensored manner the reality of American market-economy capitalism.
The Soviet foreign minister under Gorbachev, Eduard Shevardnadze gave this as a major reason why communism collapsed: At that time, sufficient Russian diplomats, scientists attending international conferences, ballet dancers, sportsmen, and others had visited the West, and seen what was on sale in shops, that just about everybody in the USSR knew someone who had visited the West, or worked in a factory set up with Western help (eg Lada making Fiat copies),or had a grandfather who drove a lend lease truck in the War, etc tec, they just couldn't hide how much better the West ran, no matter how much bull was printed in Pravda ("Truth"), and the morale of their officials just collapsed. They just gave up.
@@keithammleter3824yeah, honestly that was the primary culprit of the collapse as dudes just weren’t willing to send in the tanks anymore or work hard to achieve the communist dream. People will get real gritty for stuff they believe in but otherwise wont
@@keithammleter3824 But Russia, from Kruschev onwards, was always better at satisfying *all* citizens' basic needs. It's something America still cannot do. Rationing by price instead of by allocation system. Look at the US health racket er "system" lol
@@daffyduk77 It is true that the US, and other Western countries, has very small numbers of people homeless and living on the streets. And this was less of a problem in the USSR - or so we are told .....
The US is rather a special case in regard to medical care, due to their tradition of having employers pay the medical insurance of their employees.
However, I know a number of people who have emigrated here from the USSR and its satellite states like Poland. They all say the West is and always has been, far better at supplying its people with their needs.
One lady I know was a senior obstetrician (equivalent to clinical professor) at a large Soviet maternity hospital - something like 2000 beds. She had delivered thousands of babies there, and there won't be anything about delivering babies she doesn't know. But her Soviet obstetrics degrees are not recognised here, so she is not permitted to deliver babies here at all. She works as an ordinary GP. I said to her one time "It must be dissappointing for you, not being able to work in your own field." Her reply was that was true, but in terms of her lifestyle/standard of living she is infinitely better off here as a low paid basic GP than she was as a top-line specialist in the USSR.
@@keithammleter3824 medical staff salaries over there were always low. Whereas in the US, it's a licence to print money. Employer-funded scheme ? If it's a "good" job, and how much deductable & co-pays ? How many medical bankruptcies in the US due to bad accident/long-term illness/cancer. There are zero such bankruptcies where I live (not Eastern Europe/Russia). In USA you get the level of care you can afford, healthcare should not be based on your socioeconomic status. And people driving to Canada for the affordable insulin they need just to stay alive ... American advertising where consumers are programmed what medicines to request their doctors provide. No wonder the health business swipes so much of USA' GNP before everything else. With worse health outcomes. Truly sick. It's why a friend moved back here after 30 years over there. And I don't think many Americans will recognise your glowing characterisation of an American accommodation nirvana, with soaring rents, foreclosures, evictions.
Wow. What a marvellous documentary! Thanks so much for it!
It's not a documentary. It's a charming fantasy based on the guy's photos - they 0:49 "reconstructed his thoughts"
@@RaquelFoster Being obsessed with mind-numbing techno crap doesn't leave one much time for learning and thinking. Instead, it promotes seeing conspiracy theories in everything around you.
This is an amazing slice of life. Thank you for your work!!!!
Wow, just discovered this channel by accident today. Excellent!
Excellent video! Thank you for posting.
Thank you for watching! ☺
The sign doesn’t say work in progress but no entry!
He’s confidently incorrect throughout lol
Freestyle translation it is
Glad I discovered this channel! The scene of the famous "Kitchen Debate". Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei was there, and when interviewed about it after moving to the USA, said that to the Soviets, the Americans were like "aliens, first man from Mars". Before the end of the video, I thought of the U-2 incident. Khrushchev was understandably livid about that, and I wonder what the US reaction would have been had a Soviet spy plane been shot down over the USA.
😮😮
the reaction would most likely be like when the Chinese spy balloon was floating above the use
The same, it was no real surprise.
Damn. I read U-2 and I immediately thought if that band had that much influence in the Soviet Union. Glad I was wrong
We were closer to Russia in that summer than now, that's for sure.
It was the USSR then.
@track1949 yes, but still was Russia pulling the strings. Just another empire with a different set of rules and logo
Informative and entertaining
Beautiful photos. Everyone look so happy and excited. I’m glad George’s Romeo and Juliet story got a happy ending.
My grandparents fled the Soviet Union in 1948, not the fond memories they had.
I’ll bet!
Why did they flee?
@@iamcleaver6854 If you have to ask, you'll never know.
1948? If they left for Europe they would only find ruins.
48? Seems untrue.
this is so beautifully produced
That was very interesting!
I was genuinely happy when I heard George and Tatianna finally got married.
Drinks Pepsi: “does this strange drink get you drunk?”
American: “Nah, but you can throw some vodka in there no problem”
Thanks for upload, I enjoyed it.
Velmi zajímavé.
So sad that the hope for a peaceful future between the two countries fell apart after this exhibition.
Awesome 😊
the soviets lived very poorly compared to americans
Yup, avg Soviet citizen did not have mansions and golf courses with private yachts. But they also did not have slums and gang wars so there is that.
@@SMGJohn wdy they didnt have slums? most industrial places or non city center places did have slums the ussr had plenty of sobering centers where drunks were being cured places all around these were awful.there was always gangs back then just they did not have guns.
@@SMGJohn p.s im from vilnius and in the soviet days a small distric here in the old town called paupis in the soviet days was an abandoned slums where drunks used to hang out.now its a expensive place to live
@@lolita19711
Your "idea" of what a slum is, is frankly hilarious.
"Abandoned places with drunk people in them" imao, dude, you never been in an actual slum, you never seen a picture of one.
Yet you claim to be an expert already, thats interesting to me, because slums are essentially dense towns built out of shacks and other cheap materials with extreme poverty and usually these places are lawless or have gangs running zones.
If you want a good example of a slum, you can look no further than South Kore, Guryong Village, or if you want something closer to home, any village in Russian Federation, specially worst are the shack towns of Vladivostok.
Perestroika era does not even count since thats when the Capitalist restoration happened in USSR. Thanks Gorbachev, friend of the US.
@SMGJohn its weird why your denying my version,the oitskirts of russia were like skums ppl in huts no roads or plumbing,and big problem with alcohol.Gangs were a thing.Here in vilnius paupis distric a city centre in vilnius was abandoned and a real slum
I have one of those 1959 USSR exhibition pamphlets.
The Congressional resolution Slobin calls stupid a number of times was the annual resolultion declared Captive Nations Week in July. It was a declaration of solidarity of freedom loving Americans with some 20 nations that were held enslaved by Russian communists.
Slobin's grandmother left the Russian empire before the Bolshevik takeover. Her people, both those that left and those that stayed, were generally supportive of the communists. Nations such as Ukrainian, Poles, Belorussians, Lithuanians, etc.simply didn't exist for them. They favored the preservation of the empire, no matter what system it took on, since this was convenient for their trading activities. Slobin remained a leftist professor though his academic speciality was the psychology of language.
It was interesting that he could travel many times to Uman which at the time was a closed city.
Интересно было послушать про те далекие времена. Пропаганда и показуха была всегда. Спасибо за ваш труд.
You're using the word "propaganda" very loosely. That's not what it actually means. But, sure, bragging, showing off, that's what Americans do best, because we "gots the goods"!
Потом было еще три выставки и на всех были километровые очереди. А Хрущев, конечно, мог держать покерфейс и нахваливать советский строй. "Нашему начальству хорошо, у них нет конкретной работы", - как сказал когда-то папаша Мюллер.
P.S. Нужно было приходить в последний день, тогда можно было что-то отхватить, все раздавалось.
very well made incredible
The Soviet Union got MTV in March, 1991.
The Soviet Union collapsed in December, 1991.
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam brought down the evil empire...
Perhaps as McDonalds might have done had they got a foot in the door in 1960 ??
That was amazing thanks for sharing
"Because in my country we have that right."
Wow remember unions and strikes? Two very American things that afforded the common man a living wage and kept the standard of living high?
Most people in the US barely have an idea of what a strike is
@@zachhoward9099 Unions are the TRUE trickle down economics...
Smol note: the Soviet union did not have the technology for toilet paper until 1965.
Also Tatayana got into all sort of troubles xD.
P.S.: i was 78% sure the guy is going to be jewish, like proper rabbi material. I wasn't wrong.
"like proper rabbi material". But he ended up morphing into Richard Dreyfuss instead😆
In a student dorm in Leningrad in 1969, toilet stalls had small sheets of thin, crisp paper hung on a nail next to the toilet. They were also useful as airmail stationery. (Back then, airmail postage was expensive, so lightweight writing paper was desirable.)
Their first TP factory was built in 1969.
The whole production line for it was imported from England.
They had the technology for tissue paper. It just wasn’t a priority in the planned economy, at least it wasn’t as much of a priority as rockets and tanks.
India has shown you if you have a left hand then you don't need toilet paper....
So glad that George was able to marry Tatiana, hope they ended up living happily together.
The Soviets looking at the exhibition and thinking to themselves “Why are we living like peasants?”
American in the 1950's: House, car, free public education, high paying job at capitalist factory, social security, plentiful food, democratically elected president who loves his country and people.
USSR in the 1950's: Cramped appartment, no car (only the political elite have cars), no education (only the political elite have an education), job at state owned factory, no social security, no food, ruled by a dictator named Stalin who un-alives thousands of his countrymen for selfish reasons.
There is no "better Russia".
Just imagine, this is only 14 years after WW2.
Now I know why Pepsi was first into Russia.
18:50 nice 😂
Oh what could have been, if only friendship prevailed in this world.
I was born on the date of The Kitchen Debate (July 24, 1959). 😉
Not much has changed when comparing the United States to Russia today!
That's mainly because Russia is a backwards empire that doesn't want to end old habits. Europe tried its best to normalize relations post USSR but no surprise Russia went back to Soviet style antics.
Not true. Russians have no problems with malls and food now. Russia is pretty authoritarian, but is a market economy nonetheless.
And I bet this comes from a guy that obsessively watches videos about Russia. Talk about fairy tales lmao
Triggered memories of the Russian Pavillion at the 1973 Spokane World's Fair. I don't think they have world fairs anymore, they were once a big deal.
We have the internet and don't need to leave our cells, ehrm... rooms.
20:27
No
The difference between capitalism and communism is...
In communism women trade their bodies for a pair of levis jeans
And in capitalism they trade their bodies for expensive french purses
😂😂😂
Both ways the human race has opportunity to continue 😂
i'm an american and this expo was the year i was born. however, my grandfather was born in russia, just outside moscow, he moved to the u.s. in 1910, where he met my polish grandmother.
We had dreams in the 20th Century. Now nightmares and extinction, yet not nuclear.
LOL obviously you didn't live through the 50s/60s/70s/80s when the whole time the US thought it could be nuked by the USSR at any moment. School children had drills of what to do when a nuke went off. Fallout shelters were everywhere.
Tatiana were in love with the US way of living...
9:20 " he would give the later a wave when the ussr overtook them"
Couldnt help but laugh, with their 5 total cars produced each year im sure they got close 😅
Interestingly, there's no mention of the soviet "farzovka" trying to obtain their clothes/electronics.
I was not even born. My parents were child kids back in time.
2k thumbed 😎
Fix subtitles please.
- Very Revelead DocumenTal...~
8:47, Khrushev ridiculing the more advanced kitchen, 9:15 makes faces while saying that everything is better in the USSR, he reminds me of my soviet dad born in 1950. Me as someone who lived whole my life in russia and ukraine, I can tell you that this mentality is always been there in soviet people, mostly older, my dad kinda acts like Khruschev when he denies and ridicules more advanced things or something he does not have, even when I get something new, tech or anything he acts similarly - I don't need a fancy thing, I have a strength of spirit, all I have is enought for me and you are spoiled and you buy things you don't need, haha. Yeah dad, all I did is just showed you the new thing I got, my friends are curious and happy for me but only you acts like I am attacking you🤣 soviet born kid, even he says about soviet union famous saying - I don't need anything and the thing is - you don't have to have anything either. (meaning if I am poor, I will do the same to you if you won't share, I either steal or destroy. The same way USSR stole all the technologies from the USA and other places)
Consider how far Russia has fallen since then
Smells like a AI video and AI comments. Maybe I'm paranoid?
Paranoid android
You’re probably paranoid, go outside and touch a tree.
Put the bong down, dude!
"Caught with a prostitute in the bushes"
Admittedly, I'll admit
Tatiana and george got divorced later on
Did they?
@@jasperobinsonthat’s all this guy talks about in this comment section. He’s probably one of those red pilled manosphere types.
@@tycobandit you can search it up
Whar ever happened with Maria?
Doesn’t really sound like Maria was into him the way he was into her so by the end it sounds like he had accepted it
Vielleicht werden die Menschen irgendwann wieder normal?!
Back when Europeans had a home.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦.
"Let's make Russia small again". Who did say that?🎉
При чем здесь-то какой-то Слава?
up to this day the world still look up the american way…iphones,android,francisings.,cars,dollars ,abundance,universities,,etc..the only problem is the americans are looking the other way ,,easy life.,relaxing ,low costs of living..
People so like me🤣 If he only how soviets felt in return
America McDonald's food in Russia
Tricky Dick Nixon-of all the people to send.
This young man was handpicked by our great uncle sam to defeat the Soviets by using his trusty camera. And yet all this young man can do is focus on the young women 😂 this is why we couldn't defeat the Soviets until 1989.
I'm an American and have always been so fascinated by the USSR/ Russia, it breaks my heart how our leaders have made us enemies. Hopefully with President Trump back in office this will change and I can finally visit Russia ❤
🇺🇸 🤝🇷🇺
The problem is Putin, not Biden.
@@flopunkt3665
No
It's BIDEN
@ 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 right. FO please. Bye.
Bruh, get real only when the russians end their neo-colonialism and their longing give the days of the soviet colonial empire will the relations be good again.
@@AlexC-ou4ju I guess the CIA bots are out in full force! FO
Orcs will be orcs and even steal from an American exhibit 🤦🏻♂️
No obeese at that time😂😂😂
They didn't have "all food-no nutrition" back then.
Brilliantly produced program with a very strong personal side?
I have heard and read many anecdotal references to the american kitchen, LOL LOL
What exactly was the purpose ?!
Which side side gained and which lost ?!
After all,exhibitions take place in order to sell products.
Which soviet citizen could allow himself to buy the products ?!
For the soviet side,wasn't it embarassing to show the advanced american way of life
so far from the reach of common
soviet people ?!
.."...to change mentality..." as the speaker says
Could't this become dangerous for soviet power ?!
Was this maybe exactly what happened ?!!
That deep inside the minds of Soviet people Perestroika already started ?!
The soviet union was better free housing health care no food shortages equal rights job opportunities what more can you ask for
did you live there?
@Swellington_ I was born in Moscow Russia Feb 15 1985 grew up in the mid late 80s before coming in the usa in 1993 I had happy memories living in the ussr there no homelessness everybody had a place to stay a job free health care education who would not want that that something usa don't have like the ussr had
@@ilyabenkhin8491 I know,theres zero good about the USA,just all bad,Russia on the other hand is the land of plenty and no hunger or war or ethic discrimination or oppression,I wish I could live there,I hear theirs so many jobs and opportunities,I bet you went back to Russia your first chance didnt ya?
@@Swellington_ yeah i m planning to go to russia when the ussr returns its not the same but Russia still don't have no homelessness poverty discrimination and yes they do have a lot of job opportunities anything from working in the food industry to the factories
"no food shortages"
This man is a clown. How many people died because of famine in Russian Empire in the XIX century or in Russia after 1991? Thousands. How many people died because of Soviet famine in 1921-1922, 1930-1933, 1946-1947? Millions. Even after Stalin, USSR couldn't feed themself and always bought wheat in US, Canada and Australia.
You see a lot of diff types of people in the us but never, ever do you see Russians lol. I saw one my whole life and he worked at foodlion. Though he may have been ukranian, hard to tell
Say what you will about the USSR at least they weren't selling people to private equity firms. Sure there was some slave labor but it was state slave labor not corporate slave labor
The USSR was a prison not a slavery.
@@achatcueilleur5746 теперь тюрьма у вас 😆
@@achatcueilleur5746 My grandmother traveled in tour of Mediterranean. Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Spain and it's in Cold War. And no negative consequences for her in USSR.
@@ХУЖЕТАТАРИНА Now hasn't changed in the Ukrainian SSR since the USSR times, while other 14 Republics have become corrals for the Nation State's life stock. In the industrial urban matrix, you can only be a prisoner or a slave/sheep/laptop dog. There are only 2 options.
@@achatcueilleur5746 Тоже верно, хотя городская матрица давно перестала быть индустриальной - она стала матрицей для безудержных потребителей ))) поэтому нужно перебираться на землю☺
You still live and glorify the past so you must be ashamed of the present or the near future guaranteed to be worst for the once great now drowning us