Kharkiv. HAHA, I live here :) Texts shown in Kyiv and Kharkiv are in Ukrainian except the map of Spain - which is in Russian. ‘The old monastery’ is Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
It didn't look like the Communists were purposely starving Ukrainians in any of this footage like some claim. It looked quite idyllic. Such a terrible shame the Great Patriotic War ever had to happen. Thanks for all the sacrifices your people made to defeat Nazism.
Of course they don't show the dark side here. And of course there's place for normal looking things in almost any country. Ukrainian village just had experienced an awful famine some years before with city people hardly knowing about it at all.
Along the river boulevard Gorki Park 15:23: МОПР, i.e. "International Organization of Aid for the Fighters of Revolution" or International Red Aid as it is called in English. A pretty strange choice to film of all the things in Moscow if the choice is yours. Everything was orchestrated for foreign visitors, and in the 30s many Western intellectuals were positively charmed by Stalin's paradise in the making. It is worth reading the accounts by André Gide because of his change of heart.
As tourists visiting East Berlin in 1988 we had "East German Government Minders" on the tour and it was stressed "Don't lose your Passport". Not familiar w/ André Gide--I looked him up. Yes he says, Basically what Yuri Bezmenov says, when people see "Communism" in action they see it for the "Monster" it is.
I lived in post USSR, so if you interested in socialism read about great purge, poum uprising in spain, soviet invasion in finland and lifestyle of stalins son Vasiliy and you truly understand how "Great " was to live here. Oh of course i small part of the everything
The USSR was a beautiful socialist country that prioritized the needs and well-being of the people over any other concern, especially over what it is that capitalist countries worry about: private profit.
yeah. and look how it turned out. crumbling buildings thanks to cheap building material, cancerous factories, gangsters in power, common people from a sexless youth, their faces filled with misery, regret, and struggle, corrupt and sexist media written by corrupt and greedy men, sleezy marketing, trashy advertising, zero support for artists and thinkers (unless you're in the underground), I could go on forever. Everything the Soviet Union did was cheap, it's just an illusion of beauty and order. It was rotten at the core, and now years later the core is exposed but people still suffer the aftermath, with the poor persons' mentality, the mentality of a slave, still lingering in our youth generations later.
Jessica Leyba No they prioritized power over people, and started wars with others. Capitalism is fixing the disaster left by the socialist in the USSR and Eastern Europe today.
What glasnost and perestroika exposed was some of the frailties of the Soviet system. The is a 1989 New York Times article that claims 20% of the Soviet Union population lived in poverty.
There were many foreign engineers, for example, who helped to develop industry at that period. Maybe reporters. But don't let fool yourself that they could go where they wanted and show what they wanted.
yo boi jonx Don’t forget that the US and USSR fought on the same side years later in WWII (‘41-45). This was well before the Cold War and the Iron Curtain years (‘46 and beyond). The US actually established full relations with the USSR back in 1933 and even Ford Motor Company set up plants there around that time.
Amazing video! Very rare footage! 10/10
Kharkiv. HAHA, I live here :)
Texts shown in Kyiv and Kharkiv are in Ukrainian except the map of Spain - which is in Russian.
‘The old monastery’ is Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
It didn't look like the Communists were purposely starving Ukrainians in any of this footage like some claim. It looked quite idyllic. Such a terrible shame the Great Patriotic War ever had to happen. Thanks for all the sacrifices your people made to defeat Nazism.
Of course they don't show the dark side here. And of course there's place for normal looking things in almost any country. Ukrainian village just had experienced an awful famine some years before with city people hardly knowing about it at all.
Along the river boulevard Gorki Park 15:23: МОПР, i.e. "International Organization of Aid for the Fighters of Revolution" or International Red Aid as it is called in English. A pretty strange choice to film of all the things in Moscow if the choice is yours. Everything was orchestrated for foreign visitors, and in the 30s many Western intellectuals were positively charmed by Stalin's paradise in the making. It is worth reading the accounts by André Gide because of his change of heart.
As tourists visiting East Berlin in 1988 we had "East German Government Minders" on the tour and it was stressed "Don't lose your Passport". Not familiar w/ André Gide--I looked him up. Yes he says, Basically what Yuri Bezmenov says, when people see "Communism" in action they see it for the "Monster" it is.
I lived in post USSR, so if you interested in socialism read about great purge, poum uprising in spain, soviet invasion in finland and lifestyle of stalins son Vasiliy and you truly understand how "Great " was to live here. Oh of course i small part of the everything
The USSR was a beautiful socialist country that prioritized the needs and well-being of the people over any other concern, especially over what it is that capitalist countries worry about: private profit.
yeah. and look how it turned out. crumbling buildings thanks to cheap building material, cancerous factories, gangsters in power, common people from a sexless youth, their faces filled with misery, regret, and struggle, corrupt and sexist media written by corrupt and greedy men, sleezy marketing, trashy advertising, zero support for artists and thinkers (unless you're in the underground), I could go on forever. Everything the Soviet Union did was cheap, it's just an illusion of beauty and order. It was rotten at the core, and now years later the core is exposed but people still suffer the aftermath, with the poor persons' mentality, the mentality of a slave, still lingering in our youth generations later.
Jessica Leyba No they prioritized power over people, and started wars with others. Capitalism is fixing the disaster left by the socialist in the USSR and Eastern Europe today.
Looks like you've done your research!
@@vincentbarbes7672 Couldn't have put it any better
What glasnost and perestroika exposed was some of the frailties of the Soviet system. The is a 1989 New York Times article that claims 20% of the Soviet Union population lived in poverty.
Going by the Spanish Civil War map, that sequence was filmed around May-August 1937.
Wait, can someone explain to me how americans were allowed to tour the soviet union?
There were many foreign engineers, for example, who helped to develop industry at that period. Maybe reporters. But don't let fool yourself that they could go where they wanted and show what they wanted.
There were many Americans who sympathized with the Soviets in this era.
yo boi jonx Don’t forget that the US and USSR fought on the same side years later in WWII (‘41-45). This was well before the Cold War and the Iron Curtain years (‘46 and beyond). The US actually established full relations with the USSR back in 1933 and even Ford Motor Company set up plants there around that time.
Jim Vann ah. And i bet that’s where the GAZ truck comes from.
yo boi jonx huh?
socialism: hell on earth.
After millions starved by Stalins plan
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