Peoples Of The Soviet Union (1952)
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2019
- A film shot by Julien Bryan in the early 1930s and revised in 1952 which covers Moscow, the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theater performances, dance festivals, and the newly established U.S. Embassy, as well as local daily life.To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
I love how the Normies in this comment section think it's somehow smart of them to find out that this film is 1950s American propaganda while they simultaneously consume propaganda from Netflix and Google
If you are gonna use the word normies and think you are special I don't think you should tell anyone anything
@@OmnistarEast LMFAO "factual sources" Google is a known propaganda tool by manipulating the search engine with false algorithm and banning websites. They themselves put websites up on the front page based on what they prefer you to see. Google also owns UA-cam - before 2016 the search results on UA-cam we're unbiased now it's all mainstream media.
You are in denial
@@OmnistarEast "back to reddit" says the guy that larps as a commie while simultaneously protecting a trillion dollar corporation
@@OmnistarEast
1. I don't use google.
2. It's not about "Left or Right " the fact that you think that shows you have no clue what you're talking about. It's about THEM or not.
3. I didn't say UA-cam was bought by Google in 2016 i said UA-cams algorithm has noticibly and purposely changed in 2016.
2014 was when they started to intervene by forcing people to use Google+ and removing massive amount of videos etc.
4. You're denying that Alphabet a trillion dollar company who has monopolies on websites, UA-cam and Images is not manipulating and subverting people's search results.
@@OmnistarEast alphabet capitalizes on 1 trillion dollars this doesn't mean they phyisically own or cashout on a trillion dollars. It's the same as Jeff bezos being 127 billion dollars worth.
Anyone who has been around the internet long enough notices the censorship and subversion that is being used. Use other search engines the results are completely different from googles, this is solely because they have created a algorithm they want you to see, they rather put mainstream media articles than the actual result up.
It's not a "conspiracy theory", it's sad that ZOOMERS can no longer experience the free Internet as it was.
We're moving from "freedom" to enslavement with the message of falsehood like equality and freedom.
They're never honest.
32:00 "so backwards, that even today they use sledges instead of wheel carts"
In Siberia. Where the snow gets over 10 ft deep, wheels would be considered "backwards"
But it was in Georgia, not Siberia. But I still think that people are not idiots and if they use sleds, it's more convenient. Maybe it's easier to haul them on a rocky road than a cart on wheels.
@@SatEight I use a sled anywhere north of the 45th parallel.. 😉 to be honest, I just didn't like the guy who's profiting from telling their tale calling them backwards. His misguided sense of superiority disgusted me, so I wanted to take a shot at him, especially since those people aren't here to defend themselves.
(Lol autocorrect had other plans for the word "shot" I'm glad I caught it in time)
@@user-vz8dd1dt2x It's human nature - if someone does something differently than I do, it's at least weird, and most likely wrong.
@@user-vz8dd1dt2x "His misguided sense of superiority disgusted me" Agree.
@DOCTOR PETERSON Under Stalin, the peasants got electricity for their homes and machinery for the collective farms. They learned for the first time what it was like to harvest grain with a combine harvester instead of by hand. They also all had access to free education, as an unprecedented number of schools, colleges, technical colleges, and institutes were opened everywhere. According to the last imperial census before the Bolsheviks came, on average only 20% of the population could read and write. In some regions less than 10%. And naturally, the percentage of illiterates among the peasants was higher. Under Soviet rule illiteracy was completely eradicated so the children of peasants became scientists and cosmonauts in 20 or 30 years. General Secretaries of the USSR came from simple families. Gorbachev was the son of a peasant. Brezhnev was the son of a worker from a village factory.
So tell me please how is this "forcing to be backwards"?
I like how the narrator is surprised by the fact that men and women works together. American mentality in the 50's...
I don't think he was surprised as much as stating a fact. American women BTW began entering the workforce during ww1 and at a greater pace during ww2 and thereafter, no surprise there. The family provider was able to make enuff money to support a family, whereas in Russia this was often not the case. Nor generally is it the case in USA today.
@@ronalddunne3413 He is not surprised by the fact that women work. He is surprised by the fact that they work in the same place as men! I don't think in the 50's there was a lot of factories is USA where men and women were mixed. (And now it's still not really the case)
@@Hicham49Ros True, but that’s mainly because American women don’t generally take factory jobs.
The women didn't have a choice but to work. They were forced to by the state. Ironically, now in America, women don't have a choice either. Thanks to inflation as a result of a private central bank flooding our economy with fiat currency, to the U.S. dollar no longer being backed by gold, and to the endless stream mass migration of 60 million migrants driving down wages, the average household now requires two incomes just to sustain itself. Had America stuck to the roots of capitalism (no private central bank, a gold reserve-based currency, and regulated immigration policies), one income would be more than enough to sustain a family of ten just as it did in the '40s through the '60s, let alone a smaller family of four. Thus, if a married woman wanted to work, should could but it wouldn't be out of necessity.
@@kirbfx It's your opinion, personnaly I think it's a good thing that women work. Before their marriage of course but also after, maybe like that both the husband and the wife can work less and be more present for the kid. But it works only if the pay is decent.
In USSR people were working only 7 hours per day and 35 hours per week.
28:45 Stalin was born in the town of Gori, not in Tbilisi. The house where he was born is still there.
It's worth mentioning that Stalin's house is now broken, and James May is responsible.
@@djdjukic wait what
Fun fact (kinda related) Hitlers house of child hood has actually now been taken (and bought of course from the owners) by the government because of neo nazis going to said house and bothering the people there
@@djdjukic He is going to the gulag.
@@djdjukic I've broken Stalin's house... cheese, I'm going to the Gulag
One of the strangest parts of watching this is the fact that the USA made a very different documentary about the Soviet Union in the 1940s, during World War II.
The 1940s documentary portrays the USSR very positively, and the takeaway is essentially "Sure the people in the USSR are different from us in some ways, but they're still great people who love their homeland and want to win the same war we do"
Whereas this one, made less than a decade later, portrays the USSR very negatively (or tries to at least) even though the two documentaries show some of the same footage. I found that incredibly fascinating, it just goes to show how propaganda is used to manipulate people's opinions. And it also goes to show how frequently the US changes their mind on certain countries/governments on the fly, depending on what's convenient for their goals and purposes.
It's a matter of perception. This movie says things like, "All books are censored. Book printing is entirely in the hands of the state" or "Children are taught communism at school. Or "All land belongs to the state. And the implication is that this is bad. But I'm not a liberal or a capitalist, so I don't see anything wrong with that. For me this film has absolutely no negative connotations except for the opening text and the final words.
Так и есть)))
Clearly, these films are driven by political imperatives, and not (just) factual ones
Absolutely: I have 1936 issue of National Geographic about Berlin Olympic Games RAVING about the nazis.
Its almost as if the Soviets were our allies in WW2 purely by circumstance so we wanted the public to support the war effort and by proxy our allies. Not to mention the soviets multiple times stole our nuclear secrets, invaded poland, romania, finland, Lithuania, latvia, estonia, the kaytn massacre, or their intentional halting of troops during the warsaw uprising so the Poles would crushed by the germans so the soviets wouldn't have to deal with it post-war. They were morally fucking evil and we had no choice but to play nice during the war. That is why you fucking manlet.
The uzbek girl dancing is gorgeous
She is married to a strong, angry and wild uzbek. Don't even dare...
@@kissthis5361💀
She may be a very old granny now. Sad.
The USSR was the first country in the world where the working day was 8 hours. Many capitalist countries made concessions to their workers, so that the revolution did not take place in them. While women fought for their rights in the West, the USSR became the first country where women were equal in rights with men. This is truly a great country.
My family and our friends with nastolgiya remember those times!
А Вы знали, что в нашем Киевском авиационном университете еще до войны учились девушки пилоты? Какие они красивые на фото того времени! А ведь они первые профессионалы девушки-пилоты и даже авиаконструкторы среди первых профессионально обученых пилотов в мире. И это только маленькая толика достижений нашего народа, несмотря на войны, репрессии и голодоморы
@Leviathan 2 Ottoman Turkey was! Lenin had no relation to homosexuals and it was still banned in large parts of the USSR.
@Leviathan 2 In European Russia Tsarist laws were abolished, including those concerning pederasty. However, in Caucasus and Central Asia male homosexually was still banned due to the Muslim tradition of Bacha Bazi.
@Leviathan 2 Wikipedia isn’t a real source. Lenin never mentioned anything about homosexuality in his works. As I said, Tsarist laws were abolished in the European parts of Russia, but the Bolsheviks were never pro-gay.
@Leviathan 2 Thank you for the link - I didn't know that - that's a big news for me.
My parents lived in Soviet Uzbekistan - I was born in USSR. No one never complained about life in Soviet Union - only if for political purposes. In private conversation all from older generation remember that time with a smile.
Uzbekistan is among the most interesting former Soviet Republics, especially with its connections to the historic silk road
yeah because no one knew you could live a better life than a poor human in a kulak. It's better now tbh
Same.. my parents also lived in USSR (Azerbaijan SSR). they said everything was good.
Javlon Juraev I lived in the USSR to I also loved it
ᔑリד ̣ Jリ you are making zero sense
To the geniuses in this comment section, congratulations on figuring out that a American propaganda film made at the height of the cold war is not entirely objective.
Ironically, it was mucj much worse than what this movie shows
They must feel so smug, to see through the 70 year old propaganda, with the clarity of hindsight
lmao
1930s is a Friendship, - Cold war goes after 1945, but America feeds Ussr and gives technologies
@@roisingtommy I see you probably lived there. Only for some reason the memories of my grandfather and father speak of the opposite. Фантазер малолетний.
Footage: beautiful cities with a developed and advanced society, with people living well
Narrator: this is all horrible, everyone is a peasant and satan has condemned this place to hell
Propaganda as it is
@@whoareyou7399 my grand father and parents lived in ussr, and when i showed them this footage, they laughed at this movie hystericallyat what he was saying, and asked me if its a comedy film lol
Well during this time the USSR was led by Stalin, was especially repressive and brutal, and was committing multiple acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing. So the narrator isn't too far off.
@@scarybird977 nice joke, mate
@@user-fn6kf5ex6t cope
The narrator does a very good job at butchering every ethnicity’s pronunciation.
True
Yeah he does! Lol
Well, there was no internet to easily learn like we do now. If you learn words by reading then you do not always know how it is pronounced.
@@knp3335 No excuse Merriam-Webster been around since the 1800’s...LoL
and background music adds up to this
They look happier than today's Americans.
Their great happiness caught my attention actually
Probably because they would have been shot had they not smiled for the cameras.
@@joelressler5619
Hopefully you are joking.. otherwise I feel very sad for you lol.
@@joelressler5619 Mccarthyism did a great job on you
@@joelressler5619 😃
Even as old as this video is...still as interesting and enlightening as ever
If you call this propaganda enlightening then you have problems with filtering information. By the way, I don’t support communism and not a fan of USSR but I don’t fall into western lies because I know how people lived there from the stories of my own relatives
YES. Very interesting and informative footage. And YES, very eye-opening, rather provoking one for any one searching for REAL Facts & Figures of that time and those stories.
@@whoareyou7399 You saying propaganda . It is propaganda made by outside journalists against or beside the USSR ? Definitely confusing 😀
@@nasirchowdhury5145 Facts and figures. Like the 20,000,000 people killed by the USSR?
@@unclesamiam2359 *killed by Stalin, don't forget
my whole family used to live in the soviet union NO NO ONE WAS POOR WE HAD FOOD WE WERE HAPPY WE WATCHED MOVIES WE DANCED AND LAUGHED
Funnily enough, it's supported by statistics that the soviets in fact ate well, watched lots of movies and danced a lot.
@@brunoactis1104 *russians, we slovaks n our czech neighbours didnt have it well and lets not talk about what happend in ukraine :(
What city did you live in?
@@TheKiller1922 krasnodar, armavir
СССР любимая моя Родина! Нет тебя лучше и краше и нет тебя справедливей!
Before the Social Revolution of 1917, these people, in their majority, lived almost as slaves in the hands of the tzar, the nobility and the kulaks. They were "death souls", as well pictured by Russian writer Nicolai Gogol. Therefore, despite many flaws,, in a few years, USSR developed into the second econnomic power in the world (and first in many social issues, like equality between men and women) from the dungeons of an almost feudal previous society.
This said is VERY TRUE.
Your ridiculous ideas about tsarist Russia do not correspond to reality. Until 1917, people lived in a law-governed state and had tremendous opportunities for self-realization. The standard of living has improved significantly every year ... Russian writer N. Gogol lived in the first half of the 19th century. In those days world was very harsh. The lower classes had no rights anywhere or had illusory rights. Read "To the Men of England" by P.B. Shelley.
@@vitalydirkoutsk Ridiculous ideas in any case would be to think that living in a country governed by an absolute monarchy is living in a State of laws. In ALL monarchies the Law is the State of the Monarch: "The State is me."
@@vitalydirkoutsk When King Louis XIV said: "L´État, c´est moi", he was referring to the absolute power of the king even above all laws. The State truly is the King, and the King truly is the State. This is what a Monarchy is. The person who occupies the throne (the human being) is not the State, BUT the Monarch is the State, much like any symbol of power becomes the power it represents.
@@vitalydirkoutsk Sorry for being wrong. As I said, Gogol might have been mistaken too. And millions of illiterate people as well. But you and all the businessmen are correct. WE believe in you.
So peaceful, hard to believe this is anti UdSSR... More like a warm invitation to visit that amazing county where do many ethnics live together
Pretty boring. Im going to bail out at the 17 minute mark
@alan dtarg number one piece of bullshit, in 1991, 70% of russians in the soviet public was opposed to the dissolution of the soviet republics, even in countries like poland and three baltic states that pushed for seperation, the public opposition reached 40-60% refusal of break up from soviet union, yet the goverment still went with anyways disragading the will of the people.
@@user-tt2mh3bb9e 90%!
Yes, as you know, the reality differs from the picture that they want to impose on the layman, as if the USSR is an Arctic zone where a drunken KGB-man runs around with a gun and shoots everyone. As you understand, the one who claims this or close to it is a complete jerk.
@alan dtarg
whose propaganda is in the video, Soviet? Are you a moron?
Such a beautiful variety in cultures, nationalities, traditions...
Meanwhile in the US: people who look different can't use same restrooms.
@@pf1038 idk about spoiled, but sure brainwashed as your comment shows lol
@@pf1038 tell me about japanese concentration camps in the US again? If Soviets punished those who did or say something - Americans were punished just for who they are!
"Wah, I had to sit at the back of the bus!"
*Ukrainian people literally being shoved into death camps for existing*
@@pf1038 Say "Hello" to the first women and man astronauts from USSR : Tereshkova and Gagarin.
P.S You can start yelling at 3...2...1...now!
I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union was transphobic too
The American narrator seems that he doesn't understand that jury judicial system is the oddity and not the other way around. The people are tried by the law not by the feeling of other people.
Barbaric nation
I’ve heard an attorney refer to juries as 12 idiots in a box. Sometimes it seems like playing poker, but you can see the other person’s cards (discovery), and sometimes the rules change and a pair of 2’s beats a full house.
Another way to look at it is: who is "the law", other than other people? A judge must still make a ruling in systems without juries. Better to have the unanimous agreement of 12 (with the advice & guidance of 1) than the judgement of only 1
@@saintburnsy2468 Yeah, I also still prefer our jury system. Though there is an occasional verdict that seems to make no sense, no system is perfect.
@@digge2210 solid conclusion based on a propaganda documentary from the 50's
"All school are closely supervised so as to meet with government approval." You mean like "No child left behind" ?
@@foodconnoisseur9321 lol, like this "documentary" and many others of the time 😂
@@foodconnoisseur9321 our schools indoctrinate you into capitalism, same thing
@@zachfarmer3386 same thing...but more $...but technically you're right, the same thing...just more $. 🤣
@@zachfarmer3386 this is a pathetic comparison clearly you don’t understand the nature of the Soviet Union or any totalitarian Socialist state such as Communist China.
@@TheLocalLt oh he does you just believe you’re free but you’re not you’re chained to low paying jobs for a fat pig to lower it over time to get more profit
"the peasants stubbornly cling to the traditions of their forefathers: vodka, black bread and the desire to own their own land" LOL @ the narrator saying this like it's a bad thing :p
There is many propaganda comments like this.
The 1990s were a terrible rip-off. All of these people were snatched away from their private farms starting in 1930 with one of Stalin's five year plans. But sixty years later, the grandchildren of these Soviet apparatchiks threw off their communist past and embraced "western freedoms", actually they turned into oligarchs, able to purchase vast collective farms for a bargain and become instant billionaires. What a terrific "manifestation of western freedoms". Meanwhile, the great grandchildren of the slave workers toiling away on collective farms were turned out, left to figure out how to survive under Yeltsin and later under Putin.
@@weetbix4497 True
Have to stop those bad wants that move, right? Saturated, here, and straight back into Hell. I want to get away from NATO. I will not fit in anywhere. I've had too much "fun." Wander away, not waddle away, so that I am no longer the hunted. I submit to the competent. Is any human competent?
Consider that the Bolsheviks collectivized agriculture (no one could own land other than the state) and alcohol became a serious vice in propaganda, "clinging" to a tradition that the Soviets tried to destroy makes sense.
wow, very interesting! thanks for the upload!
I gotta say the Uzbek band at 27:07 sounds like no traditional Uzbek music I ever heard. It sounds like the Americans put their own sounds over it to make it sound stupid. Here's some real traditional Uzbek music: ua-cam.com/video/ZC2WPeZP_ZQ/v-deo.html
And some more, much nicer: ua-cam.com/video/xLLgp2-RmVE/v-deo.html
I was wondering about that too.
100% correct.
OMG I was thinking the same thing 🤣🤣... that music sounds horrible ... the worse intention ever to to try to make ANY kind of Eastern music ... it’s a joke
This documentary got many things wrong:
1. Did I mishear it, or did the narrator say that there were 16 republics in the Soviet Union? There were 15. What a low quality piece of propaganda. What an abyss of ignorance.
2. What does "vodka" have to do with the collectivization and the desire of peasants to live the lives of their ancestors???
3. It is because of the "old fashioned system of education" the Soviet Union sent to the outer space the first in the world Sputnik (5 years after the release of this documentary) and launch of the space exploration programs (first man in space).
4. Is this documentary tried to promote separatism in the part about Ukraine?
5. The part about Trade Unions is so funny. Yeah, in the States Unions were and are independent :).
6. Kvas is a non-alcoholic drink and they called it "beer" in this documentary.
7. There were no colonies in Siberia or anywhere in the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire for that matter.
8. There was no food ration in 1952. As a matter of fact, post-WWII food ration in the Soviet Union was lifted before it happened in post-WWII Britain.
9. Make a note of how friendly representatives of different Central Asian ethnic groups are to each other.
10. Native languages were allowed in Soviet Republics (signs in local languages). No linguistic discrimination.
11. Poor Cherkess and Georgians had to dance to a Russian tune because documentary makers were ignorant of the difference, apparently :).
12. It was WWII that kept the country back. That's the reason not all parts of the country were electrified.
13. The Iron Curtain was forced on the Soviet Union by aggressive and unfriendly actions of the West (Churchill's infamous Fulton Speech). This documentary is a perfect piece of evidence that this is exactly what happened.
14. Our theatres showed classics and modern productions. We also read tones of Russian AND foreign classics.
15. At least we didn't have to pledge allegiance to our flag every day as they still do in the States :).
16. Watch min 14.30-15.15 -- you'll hear a contradictory message -- "Many Ukrainians fought against Soviets during the German invasion." And -- "This is the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, much of what we see here was destroyed by Germans in the war." In other words, those Ukrainians who fought against Soviets contributed to the destruction of their own capital??? Thank you for confirming that collaborators were as guilty as the invaders.
If you are able to perceive and overhear “in between the lines”, instead of the anti-communist verbiage, the film becomes educational instead of a propaganda tool. Keep in mind that the film describes a scenario of the extraordinary diversity of the Soviet Union and the general conditions during the reconstruction efforts. Contrary to the United States, the countryside and many cities, of the USRR were destroyed by the Nazi war machine, not to mention the devastated economy, giving the USA a decisive advantage at the start of the Cold War confrontation.
Being a person raised in the Soviet Union, I here a lot of discriminatory passages. E.g., about the system of education, which proved to be the best in the world in 1957 when the first manmade Sputnik was launched. I also see how the narrator distorts history by saying that the Baltic states were occupied by the Soviet Union. This is not true. The people of these states chose to join the Soviet Union. I hear how the narrator is moarning the fact that Ukraine is not a separate country. Lots of details that are meant to brainwash the viewer into believing that Russians drink vodka and suppress other ethnic groups. You can hear the same rhetoric now.
Soviet Russia was broke before the war. It relied on much slave Labour. The people were starved in order to divert money to developing heavy industry. It still didn’t work.
@@forthfarean You don't even know the definition of "broke." No broke country can achieve what Soviet did in its 10 years of industrialization between 1928 and 1938. Soviet economy literally quadrupled its output in ten years (14% year-over-year growth, is a doubling every five years corresponding to a doubling of economic output for each of the first 5 Year Plans), bringing income per capita up from less than 10% to 33% of United States by 1939. And they accomplished this despite being invaded by 18 different capitalist powers (including the USA) between 1917 and 1921 before the USSR was nationally recognized in 1922; nevermind all the Western sanctions imposed on the USSR to weaken and cripple its economic development for its existence.
By 1976, the USSR had reached 66% income per capita of the United States, meanwhile Japan was roughly 70% or so. (For reference, in 1969 when USA was at its absolute peak in social, economic, political influence, the GDP per capita when adjusted for inlation in 2021 dollars was $24,000. Today the GDP per capita is $60,000 in USA, and in Japan it's roughly $45,000).
@@NUCLEARARMAMENT You really are living in fantasy world.The Soviets starved the people literally to death in order to sell grain to invest in heavy industry. But industry was very inefficient and production figures faked . People were forced to ‘volunteer’ for extra work without pay. Terror ruled. In the 1920s The Soviets were using slave Labour to produce timber for export. There were huge shortages in the shops for the whole Soviet experience .
During the Lenin and Stalin eras the people were ruled by fear and terror. Huge numbers of people were moved around or exterminated,especially the wealthier peasant class that resisted the collectivization of land and farms.
In the 1920s things got so bad that Lenin had to bring back private enterprise for a while.
Property was stolen by the state and given to those who fitted the ideology. Later in the 1940s and onward people people relied on ’ blat’ to live anything like a normal life. If you had no contacts you went without.
The whole system was a murderous,corrupt monstrous distortion of humanity and human life. Millions were killed by starvation or execution or murder. Millions were incarcerated in horrific conditions,starved and worked to death.it was the ideology from hell. Haven’t you read Solzhenitsyn? If not you should.
It is hard to believe that there are still people with pure thoughts and knowledge of history. Now, even in Russia and the CIS, there are very few people who know the history and essence of socialism, what it is, what it led to, why it collapsed and why we should return it.
This is why we didn't have racists back then! I was born after the collapse of the USSR but I had Russian, Greek, Ukrainian, Uzbek, German, Tatar, Korean neighborhs in Kyrgyzstan. My grandparents, parents, teachers were born in the Soviet Union and we still have that culture nowadays because of those people. Tourism and cultural exchange between former Soviet countries are even stronger now. Especially in Central Asia 🌏, we speak the same language and share similar values.
Bro needs a history lesson
Thank you for upholding those values. I grew up in Kazakhstan -- same sentiment about our happy Soviet childhood.
This documentary got many things wrong:
1. Did I mishear it, or did the narrator say that there were 16 republics in the Soviet Union? There were 15. What a low quality piece of propaganda. What an abyss of ignorance.
2. What does "vodka" have to do with the collectivization and the desire of peasants to live the lives of their ancestors???
3. It is because of the "old fashioned system of education" the Soviet Union sent to the outer space the first in the world Sputnik (5 years after the release of this documentary) and launch of the space exploration programs (first man in space).
4. Is this documentary tried to promote separatism in the part about Ukraine?
5. The part about Trade Unions is so funny. Yeah, in the States Unions were and are independent :).
6. Kvas is a non-alcoholic drink and they called it "beer" in this documentary.
7. There were no colonies in Siberia or anywhere in the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire for that matter.
8. There was no food ration in 1952. As a matter of fact, post-WWII food ration in the Soviet Union was lifted before it happened in post-WWII Britain.
9. Make a note of how friendly representatives of different Central Asian ethnic groups are to each other.
10. Native languages were allowed in Soviet Republics (signs in local languages). No linguistic discrimination.
11. Poor Cherkess and Georgians had to dance to a Russian tune because documentary makers were ignorant of the difference, apparently :).
12. It was WWII that kept the country back. That's the reason not all parts of the country were electrified.
13. The Iron Curtain was forced on the Soviet Union by aggressive and unfriendly actions of the West (Churchill's infamous Fulton Speech). This documentary is a perfect piece of evidence that this is exactly what happened.
14. Our theatres showed classics and modern productions. We also read tones of Russian AND foreign classics.
15. At least we didn't have to pledge allegiance to our flag every day as they still do in the States :).
16. Watch min 14.30-15.15 -- you'll hear a contradictory message -- "Many Ukrainians fought against Soviets during the German invasion." And -- "This is the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, much of what we see here was destroyed by Germans in the war." In other words, those Ukrainians who fought against Soviets contributed to the destruction of their own capital??? Thank you for confirming that collaborators were as guilty as the invaders.
@@evawind Riiiighhhttt onnnnn!!! That's what I am talking about. Lots of people don't even know how things were and how things worked.
Keep up your propaganda. Maybe that way you will manage to keep the people who are still wavering asleep a little longer. Let the readers of the comments look in the magazine (Great Capitalist) for the diary of George Bush "father", where he himself recognizes the superiority of the system and life in the USSR. We who lived through it know better than anyone and yes. It was superior to anywhere else. For this reason he was fought and slandered so obscenely.

@@evawind Почитай про 14ую Галицинскую дивизию СС, многие украинцы действительно сражались за нацистов. После войны их остатки укрыли в Италии, а затем через Британию увезли в Канаду. Недавно была нашумевшая новость с одним из этих недобитков.
sallam from dagestan , my grandparents and parents lived in the ussr , dagestan as a chechens , they said it was better back then then now
Can you speak Farsi?
@@blkcortex6545 uhm nope , only Chechen and russian
Hey, I'm not an expert in Chechen history, but didn't the Chechen rebelled to the Soviet Union, or was it against Russia?
Anyway, very interesting to hear from someone who actually lived in the USSR, and not by an American guy claiming it was bad.
@@dabelli3818 they didn't first rebel , Chechnya protested in 1991 after the breakup of the USSR , Chechnya was still under the control of Russia , Chechnya wanted to be a free country by protesting , Boris Yeltsin sent out the army to Chechnya and so the war began
@@rus2073 I understand.
So it was against Russia not USSR.
Yeltsin was a drunk idiot.
Thank you for responding so quickly.
Stay safe, my Chechen friend, and have a great day.
Some old pictures and videos really shows us how wonderful they were living before cold fusion war...
I red some more infos about USSR. It wasn't really like Western Propaganda! Actually
Vice versa...
They lived much better in 60’s -70’s
@@blkcortex6545 U right boi! It was a workers PARADISE where everyone had more rights than in the US and were MUCH HAPPIER and MORE FREE!
Advocate for peace the US full of drug dealers and drug takers while in Soviet Union, everyone lives happily without considering these bad things.
@@50megatondiplomat28 WHAT WAS UNDER STALIN. WHAT WE HAVE LOST.
1. STYROFOAM WAS MADE OUT OF MILK FOAM. YOU COULD FEED IT TO CHILDREN.
2. GRAVITY WAS 80 PERCENT WEAKER. PEOPLE COULD JUMP ONTO A HOUSE FROM A RUNNING START.
3. PEOPLE LIVED ON AVERAGE 150-190 YEARS. THERE WERE NO DISEASES OTHER THAN BLISTERS.
4. IF YOU STUMBLE AND FALL IN THE STREET, PEOPLE WOULD RUN UP, PUT MONEY IN YOUR POCKET, KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH, OFFER YOU A DRINK AND BECOME FRIENDS.
5. HARES AND PARTRIDGES WOULD FLY INTO THE FRYING PAN AT ONCE.
IF YOU BOUGHT BREAD, THEY'D PAY YOU EXTRA.
IT WAS SCARY TO GO NEAR THE RIVER: BURBOT WERE JUMPING INTO THE POT.
6. MY GRANDFATHER TOLD ME THAT PEOPLE WOULD WAKE UP AT NIGHT WITH THEIR HAPPY, GOOD LAUGH. IN THE MORNING, EVERYONE POURED ICE-COLD WATER OUT OF A BUCKET.
7. THE GESTATION PERIOD WAS 4.5 MONTHS. THE CHILDREN WERE 12-15 KILOS EACH, WITH BLOND HAIR, CLEAR BLUE EYES, AND STRONG-WILLED INTELLIGENT FACES - THEY WERE ASKING TO GO TO WORK STRAIGHT AWAY.
8.THE WATER IN THE VOLGA WAS AS SWEET AS MOLASSES. AND THE YENISEI CONSISTED OF DARK BEER.
9. IN WINTER, IT WAS MINUS 300°, AND EVERYONE WALKED AROUND RUDDY.
10. THE BERRIES GREW ON THE EDGE OF THE FOREST THE SIZE OF A CAT. CATS WERE AS BIG AS A DOG, A DOG WAS AS BIG AS A COW, AND A COW WAS LIKE A FACTORY, AND IN THE FACTORY THE MEN PLAYED CHESS BY THE BOTVINNIK METHOD - THEY MATED WITH A KNIGHT FROM THE FIRST MOVE!
It's funny how the narrator is talking over this beautiful footage and just being like, "trust me, it's bad now, also race science"
Race science?
@@WhiskeyTango84 I mean, yeah, basically, essentializing traits of people based on their ethnicity is pretty much that.
@@Sam-lr9oi Describing someone's ethnicity and highlighting it - featuring it in positive description is not the same as "race science". In fact, ignoring people's distinct ethnicities and culture can be considered dehumanizing and it's often the first step in totalitarian ideologies' efforts to forcibly adapt them ideals they do not choose. The mere mention of race or ethnicity is not in itself evil and highlighting it tastefully in an attempt to be educational isn't wrong.
As for the time of this filming, yeah it was pretty f*cking bad. From 1917-1953 over 18 MILLION Soviet citizens were arrested and send to SLAVE LABOR camps with tens of millions dying or being executed, 99% of who were completely innocent. Read some Aleksnder Solzeneitsyn sometime. I can also guarantee you that what was filmed was carefully managed by the Communist Party, as the Soviet Archives reveal those practices. Nothing, absolutely nothing made it out of that country in this period that was not carefully checked and managed for propaganda effects. That's just a matter of historical fact.
Just because this is a film that came from 1950's America doesn't mean it's grossly inaccurate.
@Jack Ferghana Yes, the US has it's own history problems. That doesn't absolve the Stalinist government of it's crimes. Each societies criminal past has to be dealt with. To float the idea that I can't mention the millions of Soviet slave laborers and their suffering (not to mention the scores of millions executed) because the United States had racist policies at the same time doesn't border on the absurd, it crosses it.
@Jack Ferghana I'm not "amplifying" Soviet crimes against humanity one bit, I'm talking about objective truth revealed not only by Sozlhenitsyn, who was himself a slave laborer, but confirmed in the NKVD/KGB archives that were opened to Western researchers. Do they not teach this in school? Anyway here's literally the first google search return. Keep in mind the Slave labor death toll is separate from the Purges and the Holodomor. www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/forced-labor-ussr
If you want to know more, educate yourself. This really isn't some sort of secret.
It’s amazing how the soviets preserved every nation’s traditions and lifestyle
and at the same time, they sended the first man into space
Not really
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union LOL nice joke buddy
@@feels_bad-man this is not racism
and their nation fell. it was violent, last century was filled with blood, tears, starvation and war. They didnt prederve anything. MAny real russians where genocided by the bolshviks,
1950's bald and bankrupt doco
Where's the soviet sink
Is that a soviet bus stop?...
@@Foggysteven22 да
It's crazy that Stalin was still alive and the ruler during this film
How so? This film was shown in USA in 1952.
The film was recorded in the early 30s according to the description.
But Stalin stayed in power till 1953
@@dabelli3818 yes, I'm aware of that. I just don't see what's the crazy thing about it.
@@stochasticwhistles I don't see it either
@@stochasticwhistles He’s just used to western propaganda and is astonished to see that the Soviet Union wasn’t literally hell on earth but quite the opposite (for the material conditions and time in history ofcourse)
Such beautiful documentary!!. thanks for upload
this is pure propaganda
XGamer Anglo-Saxon mind Controller are really good at propaganda.
@@yeshiyangzom8532
Are you triggered about the fact that the Soviet union doesn't exist anymore?
*Cry harder*
@@kayvan671 USSR has low level mind control skills while Anglo-Saxon has advanced one
The first time I heard of a nation known as : The Soviet Union , was from a British TV documentary produced by Thames in early 1970s! "World At War"! I was 6 years old at that time sitting with my father watching at late night 🌙 !
Excellent video. I was a young man in the 1970s.
Great documentary
“This is our border” I felt that😔✊
It's not stupid usa....
@@mickbond2895 USA has all the right in the world to protect its borders! PERIOD!
@@ingesnack1799 Why it sticking it's NOSE everywhere in the World !??
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Mongolia itself it’s and was its own country not part of the Soviet Union or China
@All in one Tamilan Da no it wasn't
ThePeanutButterCup13 Mongolia was a soviet puppet state until the collapse of the USSR
@@evyn04 tell me five reasons it was a puppet state
@@ThePeanutButterCup13 nerd
@All in one Tamilan Da none of what you said is coherent, learn something and stop repeating bullshit you have no understanding of
Happy, inspired and honest people
Happiness is out of the question. Several years ago there was a war, before - a terrible famine. Stalin is alive, which means that people are still afraid to get into the GULA. And also the forcible resettlement of the same Crimean Tatars, who returned to their homeland only after 1991.
I tell you this insofar as my ancestors lived in the USSR
@@user-lc9io2mx9w If you worked, didn't steal or trick, produce smth useful for the society you had no chance to be in prison. And you got free medicine, flats, education and guaranteed job.
I'm from USSR, my parents, grandparents and so on lived or are living here. So I know what I'm saying.
@@hesmatisov208 LMAO! What are you talking about! And for anecdotes not put in jail? What else can you tell me?
@@user-lc9io2mx9w I agree with Matisov what he says is right.
@@hesmatisov208 Here, have 15 rubles for commie ba propaganda
Images are worth a thousand words.
29:20 This is Armenian script, right in the middle of talking about the Georgian one.
it's funny how an anti-communist propaganda looks like a pro-communist propaganda
It wasn't propaganda more like a documentary
because capitalism failed so hard even anti-communist propaganda looks better
it was filmed in the late 30s, when tensions weren't as bad. They just revised it to be anti-Soviet.
@@paxvostrum4824
Oh is that the reason why the soviet union collapsed?
Communism doesn't exist anymore in Europe and it will never rise again.
*Cry harder*
Almost every country has abandoned Communism.
Now Europe is almost completely Capitalist and part of the EU and NATO.
Does that trigger you?
*I hope so* 🤣
@@kayvan671 Right. Because ideologies and leaders that gain power are always just and benevolent. Oh, wait...
19:55 claims the books talk against USA, while litteraly writing at the start of the "documentary" that "the Soviet Union is the worst enemy of humanity".
Cold war, I swear...
But anyway, beautiful example of what words can do, twisting reality in your own interpretation of it.
Nice.
the books talk against the USA
the Soviet Union is the worst enemy of humanity
sounds like a reasonable conclusion to me
@@cipher1579 then keep believing your daddy mccarthy
@@WM-gf8zm never said i supported him, commietard, what i am saying is that denying the man made soviet famine that killed millions is just as bad as denying the holocaust
@Bryan Bradley the projection is hard innit
@@cipher1579 you like a scholar on Soviet Union?
Stalin: How diverse your country do you want?
Stalin: Да
Stalin was a SJW almost a century before it was cool
@@BaliesStories Because it's not like Russia wasn't diverse before the Soviet Union was around.
Actually he russified every nation. Many languages and history are lost and replaced by russian.
@@Sashalexandros That's completely untrue. Ever heard of "Ukrainization"?
@@BaliesStories that's a pretty different story tho, Russians and Ukrainians are the original 'Rus, from the Kievan Rus
Russians wanted to unify the Eastern Slavs apparently
Muchas gracias por el vídeo 👍 me encanta
Narrator: Scientists are not even able to meet to discuss their ideas! *shows footage of a science convention of scientists convening to talk about their scientific research*
This documentary got many things wrong:
1. Did I mishear it, or did the narrator say that there were 16 republics in the Soviet Union? There were 15. What a low quality piece of propaganda. What an abyss of ignorance.
2. What does "vodka" have to do with the collectivization and the desire of peasants to live the lives of their ancestors???
3. It is because of the "old fashioned system of education" the Soviet Union sent to the outer space the first in the world Sputnik (5 years after the release of this documentary) and launched the space exploration programs (first man in space).
4. Is this documentary trying to promote separatism in the part about Ukraine?
5. The part about Trade Unions is so funny. Yeah, in the States Unions were and are independent :).
6. Kvas is a non-alcoholic drink and they called it "beer" in this documentary.
7. There were no colonies in Siberia or anywhere in the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire for that matter.
8. There was no food ration in 1952. As a matter of fact, post-WWII food ration in the Soviet Union was lifted before it happened in post-WWII Britain.
9. Make a note of how friendly representatives of different Central Asian ethnic groups are to each other.
10. Native languages were allowed in Soviet Republics (signs in local languages). No linguistic discrimination.
11. Poor Cherkess and Georgians had to dance to a Russian tune because documentary makers were ignorant of the difference, apparently :).
12. It was WWII that kept the country back. That's the reason not all parts of the country were electrified.
13. The Iron Curtain was forced on the Soviet Union by aggressive and unfriendly actions of the West (Churchill's infamous Fulton Speech). This documentary is a perfect piece of evidence that this is exactly what happened.
14. Our theatres showed classics and modern productions. We also read tones of Russian AND foreign classics.
15. At least we didn't have to pledge allegiance to our flag every day as they still do in the States :).
16. Watch min 14.30-15.15 -- you'll hear a contradictory message -- "Many Ukrainians fought against Soviets during the German invasion." And -- "This is the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, much of what we see here was destroyed by Germans in the war." In other words, those Ukrainians who fought against Soviets contributed to the destruction of their own capital??? Thank you for confirming that collaborators were as guilty as the invaders.
@@evawind хочу заметить, что по первому пункту ошибки нет. Фильм снимался когда карело-финская республика еще не вошла в рсфср. Тогда республик было 16
@@terraincognita3310 :) спасибо! Да, согласна с вашим замечанием.
Beautiful!
Blyatiful..
@@ntred0911 hot ironic, you having Lukashenko name and profile pic lol
The most educated nation in the world back in the USSR as it was the national ptiority - to eliminate illiteracy. Yes, it was government run educational system. But the best quality system for education.
Yeah thank God it collapsed.
@@kayvan671 you next) thank God :)
@@martinmartin-gd3zp
I don't think so.
Europe is now completely capitalist.
Most if it is now part of the EU and NATO.
Communism doesn't exist anymore in Europe.
EU is not stable. It's a pay time for colony era) and credit money bubble .... boom)
@@martinmartin-gd3zp
Who cares?
Europe has abandoned Communism.
Nobody here wants to ever live in a third world Communist society again. 😂
Communism has died in Europe and that triggers you right?
17:35 now it’s a war zone
NATO borned that
@@alanmalan3819 what da fuckin bullshit you're talking about ebaniy vatnik?
@No Wallet Russia doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO or EU , thats why they invaded crimea and started a war in Donbass.
@@daniljoveazamio1435 Crimea was a part of Russia that's why they wanted it back
@@iljenshumilin467 Crimea - part of Soviet Union, Russian Federation and other Post-Soviet country Illegal organization
This is excellent.
Holy hell this was sad, the music and commentary made it slightly eerie
This was a typical classroom movie shown to our school pupils, most likely at the 'middle school' or high school levels. All movies in those days had a narrator like this one. The only thing missing was the tick-tick-tick sounds of the school motion picture projector.
very "American"
wonderful historical document
WONDERFUL documentary and a relic of the time past. THANK YOU for finding and posting thi priceless piece. I love it. It is like discovering a lost world/tale. With the USSR being gone long ago, this is a museum piece done in the 1930s..
Compared to a lot of anti-Communist propaganda, this film is relatively objective. I am 77 years old, and I remember an endless comparison between the immense prosperity of America due to capitalism and our way of life, how we cherish freedoms and so forth. But meanwhile, the Soviet Union was an economic wreck, very long lines, shortages of everything, etc. etc. Of course, it was not mentioned that Nazi Germany invaded and then destroyed the western Soviet Union. It was almost as if World War II never happened, except how it started on June 6, 1944 when the GIs landed in Normandy. I grew up in southern southern California, not far from San Diego which might explain a lot of propaganda I was exposed to. That area was "ruby red" as far as politics was concerned. Not until 1962, did I know much of anything regarding World War II until I read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer.
Correct... This is just the mild propaganda... It was heavier than that at times.
Found this gem of a video. Wow times have changed.
''Where is not unusual to see men & women working side by side'' SO WHAT?
Yes, he "forgot" to mention that the SU was the first country to give equal rights to women - and when film was shown to Americans, most of them lived in mostly segregated states 😂
Beautiful people
Благодарю за видео .
È stupendo questo filmato…
Good night. Thanks. Like and gratitude from me. Country Azerbaijan
Very informative video sirji.
This documentary got many things wrong:
1. Did I mishear it, or did the narrator say that there were 16 republics in the Soviet Union? There were 15. What a low quality piece of propaganda. What an abyss of ignorance.
2. What does "vodka" have to do with the collectivization and the desire of peasants to live the lives of their ancestors???
3. It is because of the "old fashioned system of education" the Soviet Union sent to the outer space the first in the world Sputnik (5 years after the release of this documentary) and launch of the space exploration programs (first man in space).
4. Is this documentary tried to promote separatism in the part about Ukraine?
5. The part about Trade Unions is so funny. Yeah, in the States Unions were and are independent :).
6. Kvas is a non-alcoholic drink and they called it "beer" in this documentary.
7. There were no colonies in Siberia or anywhere in the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire for that matter.
8. There was no food ration in 1952. As a matter of fact, post-WWII food ration in the Soviet Union was lifted before it happened in post-WWII Britain.
9. Make a note of how friendly representatives of different Central Asian ethnic groups are to each other.
10. Native languages were allowed in Soviet Republics (signs in local languages). No linguistic discrimination.
11. Poor Cherkess and Georgians had to dance to a Russian tune because documentary makers were ignorant of the difference, apparently :).
12. It was WWII that kept the country back. That's the reason not all parts of the country were electrified.
13. The Iron Curtain was forced on the Soviet Union by aggressive and unfriendly actions of the West (Churchill's infamous Fulton Speech). This documentary is a perfect piece of evidence that this is exactly what happened.
14. Our theatres showed classics and modern productions. We also read tones of Russian AND foreign classics.
15. At least we didn't have to pledge allegiance to our flag every day as they still do in the States :).
16. Watch min 14.30-15.15 -- you'll hear a contradictory message -- "Many Ukrainians fought against Soviets during the German invasion." And -- "This is the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, much of what we see here was destroyed by Germans in the war." In other words, those Ukrainians who fought against Soviets contributed to the destruction of their own capital??? Thank you for confirming that collaborators were as guilty as the invaders.
Being Russian, I am amazed at the way foreigners relate to the history of the USSR by reading comments. I expected to see some anger, bejadism, gloating over the collapse of the USSR, but there is nothing. I'm pleasantly surprised.
If we speak for the history of the USSR, I can only say that this Soviet Union is the brightest page in our history. A time of goals, aspirations, a time of incredible discoveries and achievements. In the Soviet Union there were a lot of social guarantees for the population, like free education and health care. Very often given free apartments.
The USSR was a totalitarian state, but it had almost everything for a wonderful life and for confidence in the future. You have always had a job, housing, education for your children and more.
забавно про тоталитарное государство, скажу больше нужна диктатура пролетариата, если вы рабочий конечно, а не банкир))
@@user-ju5zn8uw6x да, диктатура пролетариата нужна, но мы ведь говорим про СССР... В СССР, к сожалению, диктатуры пролетариата не было.
The brightest page?) Tell it to the deported and killed chechens, finns, germans, scientists, doctors, artists, poles executed in Katyn, etc. GULAG was the worst thing which had happened there and had been practising for ages in USSR. Execution of the Russian royal family is a bloody spot on our history. I like Soviet cinema and music as all the russians, but we mustn't support autocracy and glorify it...Despite of my grandpa, who was one of the "troyka" members and his merits, courage in WW2, I wish this USSR hadn't happened.
@@liddium To deport Ingush and other nations there were good reasons.
It is the first time I hear about the targeted murders of Finns, Germans, scientists. Can you give me a concrete example of targeted extermination of the population on ethnic and educational grounds?
Gulag is a fairly effective method of eradicating crime. You are a grown man and you must understand that in the Gulags sat not innocent people and infants, and criminals who practiced their punishments by work. If today they are in prison with your money, in the Gulags they built railways and other infrastructure.
(By the way, this method is not new. It is actively used in private prisons in the United States, but there the state does not look at the contents of prisoners and with them can do whatever you want).
The Soviet Union was a totalitarian country, but very successful in almost every sense. Russia has not achieved such a level of development in any other period.
@@chapayev6787 а что же было до 1961 года?
Тогда люди выглядели счастливее, не смотря на тяжёлую работу.
I love this documentary and the narration. Have watched it several times now
Other than the narration being propaganda.
@@nightster6378 still interesting tho how they present the different ethnicities in the former USSR and I don’t think I’ve noticed them talking bad about them ethnicities
@@nightster6378and what isn't propaganda
@@the4thindustrialrevolution225 You really don't know? That said pretty much most of what the commentator in this film said is propaganda. If you are still unsure or confused maybe you should look for the definition of the word and watch the film again with the volume a bit higher.
@@nightster6378 everybody knows it's propaganda fool, you're not smart for pointing out the obvious.
My question for was: what isn't propaganda? Everything is propaganda, you just choose to call it that because you fundamentally disagree
29:29 Our beloved kurdish nation ❤️☀️💚 made my day seeing this clip of our old roots
the dance is very beautiful combined with the music😍
@@omaryrasha7650 Indeed it’s beautiful, best music and best dance.
music name?
@@ahmetozbil I don’t know, I love it i wish I could find it too.
@@taba8218 I've been looking for this song for over an hour. unfortunately I still can't find it
This Looks like a kind of film I may have seen back in my day late 70s or early 80s geography ? USA
Would he great if we had colored version of this 😍
i would LOVE to live that time, my family is from dushanbe, tajikistan and they told me that it wasnt that bad until a civil war
Do most Tajiks support and miss the USSR today? And my dream also is to live in those times
@@valen23arg i think mostly elder people miss those time
@@galfro1214 so there isnt too much chance of socialism returning to Tajikistan?
@@valen23arg nah, its actually changing right now rapidly
@@galfro1214 damn. Is the situation bad right now in Tajikistan? Cuz at last in Lithuania, 99% of people dislike USSR
It is so amazing that so many ethnic people live in one country the Soviet Union had more then 100 ethnic groups that called the Soviet Union home
Even today Russia itself still very ethnically diverse, especially the further east you go.
Today there are 180+ ethnic groups calling Russia their home.
What's amazing here? States with such high diversity are doomed to crisis and decline. Diversity is a weakness, not a strength.
8:21 damn she 🔥
U joking right ?
She is a 4 at best
@@mmkw5621 a 4 !? you guys are kidding me right ? this is what quarantine does to a mf.
@@noneedforthis5710 seriously shes like a 8
@@jaobyeden4143 She's at least 17, what are you talking about?
Good and peaceful old days
I's really interesting to see how they edited video and the final result during that time.
So fascinating. Would be even better if there wasnt an ad every 2 seconds though
This documentary got many things wrong:
1. Did I mishear it, or did the narrator say that there were 16 republics in the Soviet Union? There were 15. What a low quality piece of propaganda. What an abyss of ignorance.
2. What does "vodka" have to do with the collectivization and the desire of peasants to live the lives of their ancestors???
3. It is because of the "old fashioned system of education" the Soviet Union sent to the outer space the first in the world Sputnik (5 years after the release of this documentary) and launch of the space exploration programs (first man in space).
4. Is this documentary tried to promote separatism in the part about Ukraine?
5. The part about Trade Unions is so funny. Yeah, in the States Unions were and are independent :).
6. Kvas is a non-alcoholic drink and they called it "beer" in this documentary.
7. There were no colonies in Siberia or anywhere in the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire for that matter.
8. There was no food ration in 1952. As a matter of fact, post-WWII food ration in the Soviet Union was lifted before it happened in post-WWII Britain.
9. Make a note of how friendly representatives of different Central Asian ethnic groups are to each other.
10. Native languages were allowed in Soviet Republics (signs in local languages). No linguistic discrimination.
11. Poor Cherkess and Georgians had to dance to a Russian tune because documentary makers were ignorant of the difference, apparently :).
12. It was WWII that kept the country back. That's the reason not all parts of the country were electrified.
13. The Iron Curtain was forced on the Soviet Union by aggressive and unfriendly actions of the West (Churchill's infamous Fulton Speech). This documentary is a perfect piece of evidence that this is exactly what happened.
14. Our theatres showed classics and modern productions. We also read tones of Russian AND foreign classics.
15. At least we didn't have to pledge allegiance to our flag every day as they still do in the States :).
16. Watch min 14.30-15.15 -- you'll hear a contradictory message -- "Many Ukrainians fought against Soviets during the German invasion." And -- "This is the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, much of what we see here was destroyed by Germans in the war." In other words, those Ukrainians who fought against Soviets contributed to the destruction of their own capital??? Thank you for confirming that collaborators were as guilty as the invaders.
Лайфхак для заграничных товарищей, используйте впн с российским айпи адресом и рекламы не будет 😂 у нас её отключил сам ютуб
Can somebody restore this film in full color?
@@hinchlnt
What the hell are you talking about?
USSR was separated into 🇦🇲🇦🇿🇧🇾🇪🇪🇰🇿🇰🇬🇱🇹🇱🇻🇷🇺🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿🇬🇪🇲🇩, but most of these countries are still missing about Soviet era. If Boris Yeltsin didn't come back after 1986, I think that we are still living with Soviet Union.
Michail Gorbatschow is the one that ended it all. Thanks to him, he sold the ussr and russia to the americans and gave an alcoholic the power to wise a country. Americans stole many resources from russia, till Putin came and kept those ant's out (Still to this day!)
Not really. Uprisings across Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania were already breaking the nation apart in the
My family helped the brothers in fighting off against the Russian colonists
@@compatriot852By the way Poland and Hungary were not part of the USSR. Vast majority of Soviet citizens(Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks etc...) wanted to keep the Union. The Soviet Union should have survived until to this day if not for greed.
the collapse of the soviet union was a tragedy, however, the system needed to be reformed. just curious, your name looking korean, are you from gwangju?
@@williamyao5317 I'm South Korean, I live in Busan.
8:14 wow. what a nice zoo. i can just imagine how huge that cage is
Your nickname broke my screen, lol.
Nice direct presentation with certain a point of view. No internet, no smart phones...
i like these old docs, better than modern ones
Same here .. And people were decent that time
The Uzbek girl is gorgeous
Yes, they are so beautiful.
Normal for Turkic women!
Balies' Stories Turkic women are too distinct. Some look like very Chinese, some very Arabic.
@@yeshiyangzom8532 most of them are mixed race. That’s why they are so beautiful.
@@BaliesStories half Asian half European/Arab best mix
Read the description and opening text, people. This is footage from the 30s then re-purposed and voiced over in 1952.
They were forced to make it "slanted" against them... The laughable narrator's accusations can apply back onto the USA, plus, of course, our Jim Crow and Klan terror of the time
U.S. propaganda 1930's - "USSR is bad"
U.S. propaganda 2021's - "Russia is bad"
Things change i see.
May be Russia (and russian people) isn't bad, but Russian Goverment is defenetly bad.
The Goverment lives in there own world and have nothing common with other russians. In Russia there are two opposite groups of people - people of television (mostly 60+, Putin's supporters) and people of internet (mostly opposition, who hates Putin).
@@rsynk i'm 25 y.o. internet Putin supporter 🤪
@@rsynk "but Russian Goverment is defenetly bad" I'll tell you about governments. Maybe Russian Federation as government is bad for common people, but Soviet Union is the best what humanity did. Ofk, there was some problems (there are everywhere and everytime), but Soviet achievements in science, industry, social protection and equality nobody can deny. I tell you about it as young man.
Just because US deep state wants Russia's Sibir and other places that could exploate
U.S propaganda 2021 - Communism is Good
U.S propaganda 2021 -Russia is bad for getting rid of communism.
Putin strongly opposes and criticizes communism.
@27:00. Did anyone else fall slightly in love? :)
24:16 I guess workout just meant work back then.
just mention one thing - education, day cares, medicine, etc was for free for all soviet people.
Wow 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Here in Germany too.
So whats your point?
@@kayvan671 because most of ur parliament was born in GDR and Angela Merkel as well, shes using the same ideas that she saw in the USSR
How about a few others? Dekulakization? Gulags? Holodomor? Apologists for the Soviet Union love to talk about a brief period of prosperity while ignoring the mountains of innocent corpses that were used to build it. It must be so deeply insulting for sane citizens of former Soviet republics to see people still possessed by the USSR's ghost.
@@Ulani15
That has nothing to do with Communist Germany.
Free education and free healthcare have always existed in our country.
It was first introduced by Otto von Bismarck, more then 100 years ago.
So please don't spread your lies here.
Nice footage, weird music, and funny voiceover. At a few points it felt like the sound producer wasn't quite sure which music went with which dances and pulled random tracks out of his hat, just for laughs.
"Stalin's real name was Vissarionovich Jugashvili" was plain ridiculous. Not wrong exactly, but a rough equivalent of saying "Biden's reall name is Robinette Biden Jr." What is it with Americans and non-American names?
Overall, very enjoyable, thanks for posting.
Isnt it that in minute 29:21 they are actually showing a book written in Armenian, not in Georgian?
They are. It's an Armenian translation of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"
Central Asiatic Republics :D I guess, that was the adjective back then
:D
What was Soviet time like?
Free medicine
Free education
Free apartment ( no loans and credits)
Miners(people who worked hard) earn more than top managers.
No terrorism
No corruption
1 soviet ruble - 0,99 American dollar
No racism - all nations respect each other without prejudice
@ritemoelaw_books83what is a femines?
@ritemoelaw_books83 thankyou and sorry if I offended you with my question
@ritemoelaw_books83 Mr Stalin took Russia with a plow ... And gave it back with an atom bomb. Think about it.
@Polina Baldassarri
*rampant corruption and indoctrinated education
@@wisconsincheeseprincess2893 u a the victim of propaganda)there was no real corruption, as the borders were closed and the income was under control of KGB
It's so funny to read the comments.
It seems that everyone is talking about the same facts, but only in a good way or only in a bad way.
For example, one person says that it was so cool that there was no unemployment and homeless people, and another says that there were defenseless people who were forced to work all day.
I think it all depends on the source from which the information was obtained.
P.S. all smiling people are happy because they are being filmed, don't come up with strange reasons.
@Leviathan 2 it depends on the perwon and his country. In Lithuania (just as in the Baltics) probably around 99% of all old people would say that now it is better than during USSR, people have more freedom and are happier. Maybe, in Russia, Belarus and other countries it is the exact opposite
@Leviathan 2 I din't say anything about the Balkans, I said the Baltics
@@saulgoodman5451 Is it because only old people are pretty much populating your country now? Do you know that your country lost 2/3 of its population after gaining the "independence" and the birthrate is still outmatched by the deathrate? That Lithuania is the leader among European nations in the number of suicides?
Unfortunately, this is what the "western freedom" brought along -- deindustrialization, depopulation, "European prices", ethnic tensions. Ah, I forgot -- it is a worthy price to pay for "no Russians around" lifestyle.
Only children don't understand that small nations will always depend on bigger nations. Today you depend on EU that destroyed your fisheries and plants. No jobs -- outflow of young productive population. In other words, Baltic states tuned into big nursing homes, pretty much. What a heafty price to pay for the illusory freedom...
I think a cool part of this documentary is when the globe at 2:36 was made, no one had ever really seen Earth or photographed from space
we still haven't
Любимая моя Страна СССР! Родина и колыбель моя!
Никакой мерзкий западный политик и критик не сможет очернить тебя и вытравить из памяти этот прекрасный мир добра и справедливости, высоких целей во благо человечества.
Любимая Родина Советский союз ❤❤❤
great stuff guys!!! we have California/Boston/ and more from the 60s!!
At this point my recommendations legitimately don't make sense
Great movie! I am Russian, and it's enjoyable even for me. Unique video frames!
Hi comrade
This is gold!
Gold standard of propaganda
@@whoareyou7399
Are you triggered about the fact that Communism doesn't exist anymore in Europe?
Nice piece of propaganda! I especially liked his description of the courts. I see nothing wrong with judges supplying the verdict (after all they are the ones with the legal education) and then having a jury of peers determine the sentence. In fact those type of trials are also conducted in the US, and all western nations, they are called bench trials.
Known in the UK as Diplock Courts (3 British Judges) and used in Northern Ireland from 1971 - 2007 when it was repealed and replaced with another type of non-jury court i.e. Diplock Courts. Of course if implemented by any of our non-friends i.e. China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, etc it would be heavily criticised and condemned.
The only problem is the system was not at all concerned with the rights of the defendant. A prosecutor could overturn a Court’s verdict. Defense attorneys were not state employees and did not belong to a trade union.
@@tracyjamieson362 The American judicial system doesn't seem to be very concerned about the rights of the defendants: the public defenders offered free of charge to the accused don't even go to trial but offer a plea bargain thus over 90% of the sentenced are simply sent to prison without any trial. Btw - USA has way more prisoners the USSR ever had or today's China has. Keep that in mind - it's an interesting fact.
@@enuajsifoto because they usually committed the crime and would most definitely get more time than with the plea bargain, that is why they accept it.
@@UrMom-jb7vl Not at all - because prisons got sold to private companies and they make money not just by squeezing profit of a daily allowance per prisoner they receive from the states but also using prisoners as forced labor at $1 per day - it is like concentration camps in the country that once before neoliberals liberated Dachau:)
23:14 omg this guy with the pipe had a style :)))
2:16 Pretty Uzbek lady
How was named that time in the US? Nice revisited product of the Mc Carthy years
Please someone, lemme know the title of first music !!!!
I wish I could live in that time. Free education and medical care, no GMO products, no crime, and a good goal for my entire life.
@Miriam Khaser stupid asshole, Putin is a real capitalist and fascist.
You would love nazi germany
@@adrianshephard378 I do not like hypocrites
@@user-sv5vb1mj1q You literally described nazi germany tho XD. You'll enjoy the anti-animal abuse laws as well
@@adrianshephard378 This en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law proves that you are nothing more than just a troll