How I left Soviet Union / USSR
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2016
- Many people asked how I left Soviet Union. Crazy Russian Dad explain.
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This guy is amazing. I love watching his videos!
well THANK YOU! :) am glad you like - and tell friends ;)
The Gulag Archipelago is a great book which goes into great depth about the intelligentsia and camps. It’s a brutal read but worthwhile
I read book 1 of Gulag Archipelago when I was 13 years old. Took me all summer and a month into the new school year, a teacher found it on my desk and held me after class to get my thoughts on it. It gave me nightmares and caused such a deep dark season of depression. That's a heavy book for a 13 yr old. I just found it online last month and have been re-reading it off & on.
Crazy Russian Dad is one of the top ‘video’ists. Many thanks.
thank you. knowledge is the greatest treasure, and today you have given that gift
+mojopy01 thank you kindly,
I love this channel, and I get a good laugh every time I watch your videos.
You are hilarious, and you and your wife are doing a excellent job of raising your son. He seems like a very smart and great kid. You always take time for your son, very awesome. Your son will appreciate you, and be more likely come to you when he needs to talk. You're a great father.
Very informative on a person who lived there. Thank you for this.
Very nice story . We are so lucky here.
Every thing you said makes a lot of sense ❤
So glad you’re here CRD!
I like hearing your stories 👍
You made a lot of sense!
I didn't realize that the USSR allowed people to leave and come to America.
I guess it ain't like North Korea. You can't leave North Korea.
They let Jews leave because they were terrible anti-semites.
The USSR allowed Jews to leave since I think the 1970s. However, the main characteristic feature of the USSR was, in my opinion, unpredictability and weirdness (at least, in the post-Stalin era). In theory and practice, only Jews and defectors could leave the USSR with no return. But, to be correct, the USSR also sent away several dissidents to the West. And, and here is where Mr. C.R. Dad would definitely disagree with me, I almost have no doubt that if there happened to be an extremely brave Soviet citizen who knew the laws, the constitution, that literally bullied the respective institutions with his pleas to leave the USSR... - I bet, there was some puny 1-5% of probability that the Soviet authorities would let him/her away, without making much noise of it, for sure. This is of course the abstract retrospective political algebra that I am talking about - but still: in the nazi Germany if you were a Jew or a gay or an anti-nazi, you only had one route to go: to the concentration camp. In the Soviet Union luck, connections, epoch, place of living inside the country, date, time of day, mood of the boss, career achievements, feats during the war, handsome smile, bit of insolence, naivety, tears et al, could change everything in your life.
as i commented elsewhere, you turned out great :) you have a great sense oh humor :) and i think that you feel kinda russian btw, as in "a country i was born in"...what i am trying to say, i don't feel any kind of hate and resentment towards USSR.
am just glad i discovered your videos, thank you !
thank YOU for discovering me! :) please tell friends
I really like the beard!
I usually watch u on my dads Facebook but I found u on UA-cam ! My dad Oleg Gladshteyn and u have lots of things in common ! Love ur videos👍🏻
Thank you for watching Mia! I am really glad you like them. Please say hi to dad - he has been so supportive!!!
+Crazy Russian Dad omg ! Hi ! Thanks for replying to my comment ! U r so funny ! Heheheh lol
@CrazyRussianDad why I can't start a new my own comment? Sm K blocket 😮
Thank You CRD.
Can relate 100%
I love your picture, you had such a baby face.
Im glad you found freedom, you deserve it.
You have a beautiful family ,very good dad.
Thank you for a cool video’s my Jewish friend, you are amazing!!!
Crazy how much you look like your lad in that picture 👍😎
Hi Crazyrussiandad! My parents are Ukranian and Jewish, and I'm a first generation American in my family. All of us find your story very interesting. My grandparents and parents went through the same things as you, and I myself as an American born to immigrant parents am learning to understand all that people underwent in a totalitarian society. Also, I'm reading 1984 right now for school, and find that situation very similar to yours and many others, but probably because it was modeled on a totalitarian regime haha.
Hi there! thank you very much for watching and for writing here - makes my day. yeah 1984 is something. "pay attention" so history does not repeat itself
+Crazy Russian Dad haha, thank you for replying! Very true :)
But you never said what type of visa you entered the country with. Everyone who immigrates comes under a specific path such as Refugee, fiance, family reunification, spouse of US citizen ect. What visa path did you use?
good video! but you called the video "how i left cccp" and ended up explaining "why i left cccp"
+MANOFBOBRUISK hmmm.... good point! :) sounds like I may need to make another one ;)
+Crazy Russian Dad please do! There was no easy way to leave Soviet Russia before the Union's dissolve. I'm sure it's a very interesting story. Don't shorten it for the 5 minute rule!
MANOFBOBRUISK will do my best
Love your videos !!! Please do not stop
He slips his accent around here multiple times
Happens when you love somewhere else for 20 years. I imagine if I moved somewhere else, my American accent would slip occasionally too.
He is actually Russian
Thank you for another great video insight into the U.S.S.R. I didn’t know that its citizens could just pack up and leave the country. It also makes a lot of sense that the citizens who were born and raised under that system of government would be socialized into only knowing and understanding an authoritarian state. They may not know how to fully express themselves. I’ve heard this same narrative from Chinese American citizens who left and were born under communism say that they are taught to not rock the boat and to keep their mouths closed. That was one thing I remember visiting Beijing 🇨🇳 back in 2017 that a friend of mine who worked for the U.S. Federal Government in the 70s said to keep the Chinese President’s name out of your mouth while you’re there. He only had to tell me once because I wanted to come home!! So thanks for the video, very informative.
I love the beard
You r cool guy!
Да ты тоже)
There's another place like (except the yoga) the one you're describing... America. We just have different propaganda. Unfortunately we are becoming what the USSR used to be.
Ну, cпасибо за видео! Я очень люблю!
somehow I think you are look like Pavel in Metro lastlight😂 both appearance and voice.
Thank you so much! Love your wisdom...
It's funny, but I can't seem to recall any prison camps back in USSR, nor do I remember anyone who was tortured for criticizing the State. Lucky son of a bitch I am. I guess.
Which USSR did you live in?
Are you kidding? What about the gulags??
@@gryphons.5604depending on when he was born thered be none left the last proper camp was closed after starlin, despite the common trope there were no gulags in post 50s union just hard work jails which existed everywhere
5:56 you weren't an idiot my man. Just intentionally misinformed. Much the way some of (maybe a lot of) our media is doing right now in USA.
только не было сказано когда ты покинул СССР
2:17 see, that's sad too. The fact that you know more about the country you lived in after you left it, means you were lied to about quite a lot
I went on a merchant ship to Novorossijisk in 1969. And l loved Russia ever since.!!!!
You live in USA now?
On the card, the name? Is ovir Lenningrad, probably not crazyrussiandad though.
Leningrad is a city in Russia, though it’s now referred to as St. Petersburg. So no, not Mr. Crazyrussiandad
Прикольный чудак. Я так не умею
Very handsome. ☺
Own the same green paper....but from 1977 :)
I am a Indian. I can understand half of you words.
That sounds like a you problem
Crazy russian dad i love watching your videos sph see bah and by the way eat like the soviet 🇷🇺
Ive spent about over a year in russian speaking countries, and thats no russian accent I have ever heard. whats the deal?
Jew...he's a Jew.. it's a Jewish kind of accent . If you interacted with Jews there you notice it. His is not very very strong but sounds as a Jewish accent. The Jews spoke Yiddish among themselves so imagine a Yiddish accent mixed with Russian . Listen for the letter R especially, Yiddish has several R sounds Russian 1 hard rolling Rrrr
CRD, you didn't exactly say how you left -- you only said why you left. How were you able to leave the country? Was it still the USSR or was it Russia? Did you have to sneak out?
So, you live in America now?
Obviously
You were a very handsome devil. 😁
On if these days, I will tel you how much "liberty" USA, the CiA and the State Department gave us in Argentina alone, not to mention the rest of the Latin American capitalist world.🇦🇷
The regime keeps all Russian equal, so if one person is sick then the entire country is responsible. It is quite sad that most people in America have rich and poor but the rich is responsible for some country that needs breads(foods) and medicines. The rich don't use money fast enough, instead they keep it in their pockets. While back then in USSR, Russians spend money fast as they get their salaries. I think 1970's Russia is different to 1940's Russia.(Stalin's regime)
Aimar Ramadhan socialism & communism is based in shared misery.
The video should have been called "Why I left the USSR". I'm really interested to know "how", though.
don't fuck with system
The problem with the Communist regime in Soviet Union was that Politicians & leaders they did not apply its principles and value of equality. In that time there were many exclusion. Jews, for example, consider them as race, not religion, this is a racism.
The second problem is the closure of the Ideology and the lack of development that was evident from the economic. The public ownership of the state caused a lot of flabby and weak institutions that have become unable to afford & spend on themselves.
I am not against socialism, but the totalitarian socialist system in the Soviet Union proved as a fruitless system.
DiesbitielHa?
you left because you wanted to be free like we are. we have fought and died for our freedom just as y'all have but you would have never been free like you are now. God bless the USA and all the good men who died for us. 🤠
Why u leave me
US, UK or Europe... is the same prison. We all killing ourselves at work just to survive, we are told how to live and so on. But that is what makes our brain poluted... I opened my eyes after discovering for myself His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupāda lectures and His books...
Bloody hell, five minutes of this guy and I had to turn it off. Pity, I would have been interested in his story if he could just get to the fekken point.
Hey John, if you don't like it don't watch. So many things on the internet, why would you put a negative comment? (Maybe because you weren't born in U.S.S.R?) I for example was born in in Belarus, a part of Russia at that time.(It's own country after Russia broke apart.) My family immigrated to this country in 1979. At 4 years old and turning 5 in Italy, I was clueless of what live was like in Russia. We live in the best country in the world! Were you can give idiot responses. But hey that's the beauty of this country. Maybe in the former U.S.S.R you would be not heard of by now. Or maybe you would be in a very cold place and no longer seen. Either way, wonderful that you can shit on another person online and still be here to see it. What a country we live in. Go U.S.A!
It is not serious videos, it is for entertainment. If you want on point, then search better. Best of luck . Bye