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In Turkmenistan, we had to keep something similar in the house available for inspection at all times. It included similar entries to what you show in this video, but also had blue-print like floor plans. Every few months, government officials would show up at the door unannounced to have a look at it, and tour the house to make sure it was accurate. This was around 2009. Fun times! 😣
Well the system wasn't perfect but my God what good musical gear they produced! My 14 soviet synths is a good example of this! The system is partially still alive in Russia!
The difference is obviously night and day, but as a proper Ruskie troll you yet again try to play the "whatbouthism" -card, and fail pretty badly. Sure your movements can be tracked, well at least Google and Apple can, but you won't be sent to Gulag if you move in suspicious places. Modern China would be a much better example of the USSR oversight on steroids. There you can be monitored even if you don't own a smartphone. They have CCTV-cameras with face recognition on every street corner.
@JC Denton People are monitored in many ways even in democratic countries, but it's not the type of paranoid, authoritarian surveillance as in China or the USSR. In west it's more like they can track you if needed for some legal reason or in emergency, but in the forementioned fascist countries they track you by default in a paranoid fashion, and of course you will be punished if you don't behave as a proper commie. And let's not forget that in the USSR you needed a "passport" to even travel domestically... And of course travelling abroad was mostly out of question.
governments don't need to track you, since most people *willingly* give every single detail of their life on their social media account (and if anything...nowaday, private corporations spy on you far more than conventional governments, as people tend to trust private entities far more in the west)
A new arrival to Gulag is asked: "What you were given 10 years for?" - "For nothing!" - "Don't lie to us here, now! Everybody knows 'for nothing' is 5 years."
"patronymic" is the term for the middle name based on your father's... A Soviet woman comes to register her six children: "What are their names?" She is asked. "Ivan, Ivan, Ivan, Ivan, Ivan and Ivan," she replies. "How do you tell them apart then?" comes the question. "By their patronymics!"
@@1nfinitReality We've pretty much figured out how to make all this state spying into something we do to ourselves for fun. No real difference to what's happening though.
This document didn't go down in history and is valid till now. My one was started in 1946, I used it last time in 2008 for my newborn daugher's registration.
They have this system in Norway but it is digital. It is illegal to not report a move to a new location within 8 days. They gave us bar codes to stick on our doors 10 years ago and mail boxes are next. They are even talking about "safety inspections" at home now.
Frigging insane. I have heard holland has a similar thing bit its like a few weeks. It's ACTUALLY an open public register. And I heard "it's good because friends can find you". Yeah, so can crazy ex girlfriends...... screw that. Just in my local area, they started "fire safety inspections" because out here in Australian countryside grass fires can result in house fires (had one at my place about a year ago, 26 fire trucks, even helicopter). But the funny thing was they seemed to pick up everything EXCEPT long grass around houses. And I highly suspect that it was a few adult children of other local government employees who had the job MADE just for them to get a job. Only lasted like a year or 2.
I'm sorry to hear about that..that much government control is never a good thing..before long they will control the type of food, for your safety of course, then curfews to be home to get the proper amount of sleep , it will only get much worse my friend.. Here in the U.S. the land of the free..isn't free at all..must have a passport to leave the U.S. ,must work basically till you die just to barely live just okay..the standard of living has declined for decades in every country including the U.S. ..
@@agentcovert It is all headed for a hard reboot. There are limits to what people will put up with. We have already had one white dude go apeshit on the system, but 77 socialists is not enough. Most people will do nothing until their plates are empty.
Umm, what? Bar codes on doors/mailboxes? Safety inspections? Wow. Much love & prayers for you fine folks of Norway from the US, may you find your way toward true liberty. And for our own sakes, long live the US Constitution!
@@cenewton3221 The constitution is slowly being chipped away at by your socialists. Each new law and rule removes another bit of your freedom. Your 4th amendment protection was obliterated with the Patriot act, your 2nd has been under constant assault and your 1st is fast disappearing. I was disarmed with a Red Flag law several years ago because of a vindictive ex. Don't think it is not happening in the US also. If we don't win the next election cycle in Europe and the US, all is lost and our only option will be violence. But commies seem to enjoy that, so I am only too happy to oblige them. I'll see you on the barricades brother :)
I could not help but notice the quality of the paper . The paper nowadays yellows in a few years . The Soviets must have been using acid free paper which means they were serious about records and keeping files on people . It might be that the chemicals used in paper manufacturing today weakens the paper somehow and causes it to yellow sooner .
depens on age and region. In some former udssr lands the paper quality in the 80s was abismal. Lots of books and documents will be unreadable in a few decades because the paper is thin and brittle.
We’ve had this in Romania also. It was keeped by one of the people in the building. We have to tell him if someone come to our home and stayed for few days or weeks and he write in that book the names.
@@Frommermanour government should be burned to the ground for what Snowden revealed. It should then be dug up and salted for what they’re doing that we do not yet know about.
I was staying with my wife at her apartment in Kharkiv. One day we went to the central office to register me at the house. I remember thinking how strange it was.
I've missed you comrade! How're things in жизнь? By the way, my word is "SAUDADE" for you, which is unique to my native Portuguese. It's a special feeling when we miss someone we care.
Getting close to this in USA - track your phone , master computer record conversation on phone and in home. And what ever you do, don’t post anything on social media
Hardly. I know what you're saying but it's NOT the same as an authoritarian one-party system that literally spies on it's citizens - by using their neighbors and secret police. What's striking is the difference in the systems: 1)USSR/communist - government holds complete power, people are told what they can do, when, what job they'll have, how much they'll be paid, where they will live and for how long; 2)USA, government only has power given to it by the people, powers ENUMERATED in the Constitution, people & markets are free (largely) to do as they please. Ours isn't perfect, no system is. But clearly, the one based upon a collective power that is derived from individual autonomy is the one I'll always hope and pray to live in.
The Fort no you equating the two is dangerous. It’s not anything close to this. Did you ever watch the video? I seem to doubt it. Also you posted this to social media, is the FBI coming for you now? LOL I hate corporate culture but come on gtfoh
Yes, it appears so. The USSR was just before its time. The technological means now exists for this type of monolithic top down authoritarian power structure, planned economy, allocation and mobility of labor, etc. The current direction is essentially the creation of a Machine God, probably witht he delusion of using / controlling it as well. Look at what's happening in China, with their social credit system. The US is very rapidly moving in the same direction in accordance with UN Agenda 21 / sustainable development goals, id2020, and so on. It won't take the same form as the Soviet style, but has a similar overarching intention. In the US we're organized to a point of paralysis. The market is not free, there is no flexibility, established players via the government agencies they've created can and do suppress innovation, barrier of entry is high, risk is large. Such a system is somewhat brittle to insult, but overall stable enough to just begin working together or vying in a high level "factional" way which shakes out to looking like one monolithic agenda to anyone on our level. I got into Russian history through Soviet-era science, and the more I get into it the more similarities appear. The manner of control just comes in a different form, with saturation of attention, distraction, information harvesting and psychological profiles, preemption, fostering apathy, etc.
Acetyl if you are looking at the rich as “they”, then you have already lost. As Sergei said, in the USSR if you were a peasant you couldn’t even leave your home village. In America I see my co-workers go on vacations to the Caribbean and blow money left and right on relationships, etc, when they are living paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile I’m working tons of hours and just got a new job on the west coast where I can now set my own hours. It’s slow progress but it’s hard work, NOT luck or who you know (like in the USSR), of course knowing someone helps but in the USSR if you didn’t know someone you were practically stuck in neutral for life. If you are living paycheck to paycheck and have a girlfriend/bf, go on lots of vacations, use all your paid time off, don’t stay late ever, etc, then you gonna be poor forever. Sorry just how it is. Middle America has been abandoned and that needs to be fixed, and American culture has been sort of lost due to technology and a nihilistic attitude and that needs to be fixed, but you are dead wrong that there is a monolith controlling our lives.
Hello Sergei, Great channel! I just wanted to ask you about the fins around the cab windows in the picture of the kolos combine harvester? Was this to reduce the sun rays? Cracking picture. The first combine I learned to drive as a teenager here in the UK was a 1978 Massey Ferguson 525 without a cab. My mum would go mad at the black mark I would leave around the bath each night after being covered in dust and chaff from barley wheat etc. love seeing the Soviet agricultural machinery! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@UshankaShow Looks nice and mean!😎 I was not sure if you had driven one in your youth so thought I would ask. Cheers for your reply. 👍🏻 Love your channel keep up the good work 🤝.
I keep meaning to ask you what the average Soviet kid felt about (or were taught about) the Romanovs’ and their execution by the Bolsheviks. Also what you felt about Cuba and China... and if you bought Pepsi and if you ever went to Lenin’s Tomb and also if you had heard about what happened to Nixon (who Brezhnev rather liked).
I don't recall anyone really cared about Romanovs' fate. It wasn't even mentioned in our history books. Cuba was our friend, although no one liked Cuban cane sugar, it wasn't as sweet as ours. China was barely mentioned after Mao got mad at Khruschev for deStalinization. Yes, I used to love Pepsi. It was pricey (45 kopecks) and liked it with fresh white bread. I never visited Moscow and Lenin's Mausoleum during the Soviet days. I was born in 1971 so no memories of Nixon. I only recall Carter's loss to Reagan and my hopes that Cold War would end with the new US President.
Additionally. Please show us Work records. I recall encountering such records as a collectible about 20 years ago. Civilians had quite a few ranks they could achieve. What was the employee Hero award? Hero Worker of the Soviet Union? Some such designation? I'd be interested in seeing that as well.
My father's first name was given to me as my middle name, my brother was given our grandfather's middle name as his middle also. I guess if you have brothers you all have the same middle name? Interesting. My mother too was born in 1937 - in Indiana - and I was born in 1970 in Kentucky. Growing up I think the one thing that was scary about the USSR (aside from nukes obviously) to most of us here in the US was the notion that the party was watching everyone and also not having freedom of movement without the government's eyes & ears everywhere. At least that's how we perceived life over there. We were never scared of the Soviet people, but the system was definitely scary - much as China has become today.
It's like the Scandanavian naming system with the addition of a family name. We have several different middle name traditions in the US. Sometimes it's automatic, like mother's brother's first name becomes her son's middle name. Another is to give the child the first and last name of a famous person, e.g. George Washington Carver. The mother's maiden name is another common middle name, although it's getting more common to hyphenate the family name...
I just found your channel. Thank you thank you thank you. I've always been interested in the USSR but I always found it hard to find out about all the minutiae related just Soviets living their life. The western media only likes to talk about geopolitics and cold war, not how people really lived during the USSR era
Sergei, were there censuses taken when you were growing up, or were these documents considered a replacement for it in the eye of the government? What was required for people to move from the rural areas to say, Leningrad?
What an example of how expensive Communism is. Or just Dictatorship. Some individual had to track. Had to write down each entry. Had to communicate with each individual, and agree or ascertain that each action was lawful. Then some other individual had to check books in each block. Then someone for several blocks.
My Russian friend made me laugh because her middle name was Victor. In class she went by Natalie by of course her real name was Natalya. Natalya Shikaloff.
That was the best! I think one section was missing though. A checkbox to indicate whether the people under investigation are thought criminals or not. Damn, homo sapiens is messed up!
Soviet Communism is scary. People were really free to travel around or move anywhere they please. Very sad that you had internal passports to travel inside the USSR just so the government could keep track of everyone.
I've always been fascinated with Russia, I really want to visit Moscow and St Petersburg. How are western tourists received in Russia? Is there any hostility or animosity towards westerners?
Not these days. It's pretty easy going but I gather almost no English, VERY cheap food and fantastic food quality, but the visa can be quite complicated. Like more than you would expect. My sister's friend looked into it and you will wait weeks even months for approval.
Traveled extensively throughout Russia/ Soviet Union during the early 90s. Never had any danger. Primarily stayed in family’s homes, dachas, and government run hotels. Absolutely the most enriching experiences of my life. People everywhere have the same basic needs, connections to family and friends. The incredible amount of history, suffering, and hardships are incomparable to what Americans have ever experienced. My respect for these people is unbounded. Never allow fear to stop you from going.
Last names and genealogy episode would be interesting, not many people here are aware of the patriarchal way of naming your last name after your father‘s first name. Here in the United States it is typical that a child bears the last name of the father of his father and his father. This creates some feelings for dynasty or to keep your lineage going on. Is there something similar like that in USSR or Russia?
Hello Sergey, I love your videos and I learnt a lot from them so far, thank you for making such good content. I have a question though, you mentioned "militias" in this video, how did they work? And how did they compare to police in the west? And what about security in the Soviet Union, how safe was it? How prevalent were crimes like robbery or murder? Did you feel safe doing things like wandering around at night or being in empty spaces? Thank you, again, for such entertaining and informative content, I love it!
Canada is more nosy than the US, according to someone I know who's lived in both countries. But realistically, there is no privacy from authority, including private and corporate authority, anymore. People are so worried about the government! IMO, there are even worse sharks in the cyber sea.
Did only start watching the Video, but in Germany we (today) have Einwohnermeldeamt. You are required to let the State know where you live - not really possible to get around that nowadays (apart from living off the grid, eh!)
The Demo-rats have annulled the Constitution since you wrote that comment. The 2nd is dead, the 4th is next (a bill is already in the House to allow police to search your property without a warrant). 1st is probably after that. All politicians are now above the law and do as they please without penalty. God help us...
@@UshankaShow Thanks for the responds and the honest answer, I asked this because I once read an article of how a few soviet citizens reacted to the book in 1990 were they said they felt like that would have been a not to far off future if Yuri Andrepov and his followers were to hold power.
Hm, I am not sure about that. Don't recall any mass slave starvation in the Ancient Rome or anywhere else. The Soviets starved close to 8 million Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh peasants in the 30s.
@@UshankaShow Good point, but I was thinking of the serfs under the Russian empire, and I was thinking only of the issue of mobility, of being legally tied to the land. I wasn't making an overall comparison.
I'm not sure if it's because of the times I've gotten stung or what, but don't you think you should be running like hell after lighting that nest of bees?
Hey Sergei, my channel has videos of my travels of Cuba.. I think you may find it interesting because of it being one of the last planned economies on earth.
In some States you practically have to maintain and submit a Renters Resume if you want to move to decent housing. But since it's Capitalism it's 'voluntary'. You can always choose not to participate and just live on the street...we are good at that.
Coming soon to the USA, where the watchdogs already want to inspect the home environment of newborns, and will certainly want to check up on the rest of us once they start offering cradle to the grave benefits.
You aren't permitted to be homeless. You show up at the work you are assigned and get assigned a room (or a shared room). You don't show up, your next stop is a labor camp. If you are handicapped and not retired and have no family, you are institutionalized and will probably soon die.
Sergei, Brat!! You showed us a record book of a terrible, Totalitarian State. We THINK we're free. My smart phone provides Corporations, and State Agencies 70 cross referenced points of information. Complete with real time cross reference information to everyone we were merely nearby. OUR "free" State uses that information daily and readily. Merely leaving your phone at home is no protection from discovering where you were today, and what you did. Increasingly, this information is available to the public for a fee.
That sounds great. You need a place, they put you in one. You report and keep records so they know you're using your place correctly. I would GLADLY have that than what america has been doing against me!!! I don't see that what was shown in the video was bad or wrong. Why was it creepy???
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We call it the "US Census" and it is nearly as intrusive
In Turkmenistan, we had to keep something similar in the house available for inspection at all times. It included similar entries to what you show in this video, but also had blue-print like floor plans. Every few months, government officials would show up at the door unannounced to have a look at it, and tour the house to make sure it was accurate. This was around 2009. Fun times! 😣
Well the system wasn't perfect but my God what good musical gear they produced! My 14 soviet synths is a good example of this! The system is partially still alive in Russia!
@@mariamolina7306 Well despite the faults of some socialistic systems it is still the only system that will work!
I guess this book is same thing the USA is trying to do to us in the USA they basically know everything about you now!
Now days our cell phones and social media does those things automatically behind the scenes. How times have changed...and not changed.
The difference is obviously night and day, but as a proper Ruskie troll you yet again try to play the "whatbouthism" -card, and fail pretty badly.
Sure your movements can be tracked, well at least Google and Apple can, but you won't be sent to Gulag if you move in suspicious places.
Modern China would be a much better example of the USSR oversight on steroids. There you can be monitored even if you don't own a smartphone. They have CCTV-cameras with face recognition on every street corner.
@JC Denton People are monitored in many ways even in democratic countries, but it's not the type of paranoid, authoritarian surveillance as in China or the USSR.
In west it's more like they can track you if needed for some legal reason or in emergency, but in the forementioned fascist countries they track you by default in a paranoid fashion, and of course you will be punished if you don't behave as a proper commie. And let's not forget that in the USSR you needed a "passport" to even travel domestically... And of course travelling abroad was mostly out of question.
@@joojoojeejee6058 Jesus Christ! Are you serious or a parody account?
@Qff Qff Wbhjob Your comments are correct.
governments don't need to track you, since most people *willingly* give every single detail of their life on their social media account (and if anything...nowaday, private corporations spy on you far more than conventional governments, as people tend to trust private entities far more in the west)
A new arrival to Gulag is asked: "What you were given 10 years for?" - "For nothing!" - "Don't lie to us here, now! Everybody knows 'for nothing' is 5 years."
"patronymic" is the term for the middle name based on your father's...
A Soviet woman comes to register her six children:
"What are their names?" She is asked.
"Ivan, Ivan, Ivan, Ivan, Ivan and Ivan," she replies.
"How do you tell them apart then?" comes the question.
"By their patronymics!"
Ah, a kurwa.
@@Elyseon Suka, since we're talking Russian
What I gather from all this is that : Simply living a life was a serious bureaucratic operation in the Soviet Union.
Without paper you are maggot, with a paper you are human. Без бумажки ты букашка, а с бумажкой человек.
And intentionally inefficient to enable and obfuscate the unbelievable corruption and incompetence.
And the US is heading that way fast. Mostly via social media.
@@1nfinitReality We've pretty much figured out how to make all this state spying into something we do to ourselves for fun. No real difference to what's happening though.
It’s not just the USSR. Most authoritarian spaces have this partially or completely. Bureaucracy is part of this.
This document didn't go down in history and is valid till now.
My one was started in 1946, I used it last time in 2008 for my newborn daugher's registration.
That does not shock me, since passports are still issued
What???
@@poutinedream5066 internal passports never went away
The internal passports go back to Tsarist times.
@@2thelimit ergo, that’s what is used.
Thanks for preserving this history.
This channel has hit on something that both people in the West and the new generation in the East find fascinating.
They have this system in Norway but it is digital. It is illegal to not report a move to a new location within 8 days. They gave us bar codes to stick on our doors 10 years ago and mail boxes are next. They are even talking about "safety inspections" at home now.
Frigging insane. I have heard holland has a similar thing bit its like a few weeks. It's ACTUALLY an open public register. And I heard "it's good because friends can find you". Yeah, so can crazy ex girlfriends...... screw that. Just in my local area, they started "fire safety inspections" because out here in Australian countryside grass fires can result in house fires (had one at my place about a year ago, 26 fire trucks, even helicopter). But the funny thing was they seemed to pick up everything EXCEPT long grass around houses. And I highly suspect that it was a few adult children of other local government employees who had the job MADE just for them to get a job. Only lasted like a year or 2.
I'm sorry to hear about that..that much government control is never a good thing..before long they will control the type of food, for your safety of course, then curfews to be home to get the proper amount of sleep , it will only get much worse my friend.. Here in the U.S. the land of the free..isn't free at all..must have a passport to leave the U.S. ,must work basically till you die just to barely live just okay..the standard of living has declined for decades in every country including the U.S. ..
@@agentcovert It is all headed for a hard reboot. There are limits to what people will put up with. We have already had one white dude go apeshit on the system, but 77 socialists is not enough. Most people will do nothing until their plates are empty.
Umm, what? Bar codes on doors/mailboxes? Safety inspections? Wow. Much love & prayers for you fine folks of Norway from the US, may you find your way toward true liberty. And for our own sakes, long live the US Constitution!
@@cenewton3221 The constitution is slowly being chipped away at by your socialists. Each new law and rule removes another bit of your freedom. Your 4th amendment protection was obliterated with the Patriot act, your 2nd has been under constant assault and your 1st is fast disappearing. I was disarmed with a Red Flag law several years ago because of a vindictive ex. Don't think it is not happening in the US also. If we don't win the next election cycle in Europe and the US, all is lost and our only option will be violence. But commies seem to enjoy that, so I am only too happy to oblige them. I'll see you on the barricades brother :)
I could not help but notice the quality of the paper . The paper nowadays yellows in a few years . The Soviets must have been using acid free paper which means they were serious about records and keeping files on people . It might be that the chemicals used in paper manufacturing today weakens the paper somehow and causes it to yellow sooner .
Probably also exposure to sunlight
depens on age and region. In some former udssr lands the paper quality in the 80s was abismal. Lots of books and documents will be unreadable in a few decades because the paper is thin and brittle.
We’ve had this in Romania also. It was keeped by one of the people in the building. We have to tell him if someone come to our home and stayed for few days or weeks and he write in that book the names.
Why I'm not surprised? )))
I am amazed how so many people put up with this for so long.
@@Heywoodthepeckerwood If you have a cellphone you're still putting up with it.
@@Frommermanour government should be burned to the ground for what Snowden revealed. It should then be dug up and salted for what they’re doing that we do not yet know about.
Last time I was this early, Sergei was eating borscht in the USSR
I was staying with my wife at her apartment in Kharkiv. One day we went to the central office to register me at the house. I remember thinking how strange it was.
Fascinating history. Thanks for sharing.
Just a word of thanks!
I've missed you comrade! How're things in жизнь?
By the way, my word is "SAUDADE" for you, which is unique to my native Portuguese. It's a special feeling when we miss someone we care.
Getting close to this in USA - track your phone , master computer record conversation on phone and in home. And what ever you do, don’t post
anything on social media
Hardly. I know what you're saying but it's NOT the same as an authoritarian one-party system that literally spies on it's citizens - by using their neighbors and secret police. What's striking is the difference in the systems: 1)USSR/communist - government holds complete power, people are told what they can do, when, what job they'll have, how much they'll be paid, where they will live and for how long; 2)USA, government only has power given to it by the people, powers ENUMERATED in the Constitution, people & markets are free (largely) to do as they please. Ours isn't perfect, no system is. But clearly, the one based upon a collective power that is derived from individual autonomy is the one I'll always hope and pray to live in.
@@cenewton3221 hit the nail in the head.
The Fort no you equating the two is dangerous. It’s not anything close to this. Did you ever watch the video? I seem to doubt it. Also you posted this to social media, is the FBI coming for you now? LOL I hate corporate culture but come on gtfoh
Yes, it appears so. The USSR was just before its time. The technological means now exists for this type of monolithic top down authoritarian power structure, planned economy, allocation and mobility of labor, etc. The current direction is essentially the creation of a Machine God, probably witht he delusion of using / controlling it as well. Look at what's happening in China, with their social credit system. The US is very rapidly moving in the same direction in accordance with UN Agenda 21 / sustainable development goals, id2020, and so on. It won't take the same form as the Soviet style, but has a similar overarching intention.
In the US we're organized to a point of paralysis. The market is not free, there is no flexibility, established players via the government agencies they've created can and do suppress innovation, barrier of entry is high, risk is large. Such a system is somewhat brittle to insult, but overall stable enough to just begin working together or vying in a high level "factional" way which shakes out to looking like one monolithic agenda to anyone on our level.
I got into Russian history through Soviet-era science, and the more I get into it the more similarities appear. The manner of control just comes in a different form, with saturation of attention, distraction, information harvesting and psychological profiles, preemption, fostering apathy, etc.
Acetyl if you are looking at the rich as “they”, then you have already lost. As Sergei said, in the USSR if you were a peasant you couldn’t even leave your home village. In America I see my co-workers go on vacations to the Caribbean and blow money left and right on relationships, etc, when they are living paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile I’m working tons of hours and just got a new job on the west coast where I can now set my own hours. It’s slow progress but it’s hard work, NOT luck or who you know (like in the USSR), of course knowing someone helps but in the USSR if you didn’t know someone you were practically stuck in neutral for life. If you are living paycheck to paycheck and have a girlfriend/bf, go on lots of vacations, use all your paid time off, don’t stay late ever, etc, then you gonna be poor forever. Sorry just how it is. Middle America has been abandoned and that needs to be fixed, and American culture has been sort of lost due to technology and a nihilistic attitude and that needs to be fixed, but you are dead wrong that there is a monolith controlling our lives.
Hello Sergei, Great channel! I just wanted to ask you about the fins around the cab windows in the picture of the kolos combine harvester? Was this to reduce the sun rays? Cracking picture. The first combine I learned to drive as a teenager here in the UK was a 1978 Massey Ferguson 525 without a cab. My mum would go mad at the black mark I would leave around the bath each night after being covered in dust and chaff from barley wheat etc. love seeing the Soviet agricultural machinery! 👍🏻👍🏻
My guess those were sun blockers
@@UshankaShow Looks nice and mean!😎 I was not sure if you had driven one in your youth so thought I would ask. Cheers for your reply. 👍🏻 Love your channel keep up the good work 🤝.
I keep meaning to ask you what the average Soviet kid felt about (or were taught about) the Romanovs’ and their execution by the Bolsheviks. Also what you felt about Cuba and China... and if you bought Pepsi and if you ever went to Lenin’s Tomb and also if you had heard about what happened to Nixon (who Brezhnev rather liked).
I think it was kind of like "clearing out the elitist scum"
Not sure what most Soviets felt during the USSR, but later on the Romanovs were canonised
I don't recall anyone really cared about Romanovs' fate. It wasn't even mentioned in our history books. Cuba was our friend, although no one liked Cuban cane sugar, it wasn't as sweet as ours. China was barely mentioned after Mao got mad at Khruschev for deStalinization. Yes, I used to love Pepsi. It was pricey (45 kopecks) and liked it with fresh white bread. I never visited Moscow and Lenin's Mausoleum during the Soviet days. I was born in 1971 so no memories of Nixon. I only recall Carter's loss to Reagan and my hopes that Cold War would end with the new US President.
I watch this drinking Kvass, which is addictive I might add.
Segei, you know what, you are my favorite comrade.
Will there be an audio book version of your book?
Thank you! I am looking into audio book option but it looks like a lot of work
@@UshankaShow ahh OK. I just will buy the book.
To hire a narrator is like $200 / hour. And I have no equipment, sound room, etc
@@UshankaShow Sergei, no one here wants anyone to narrate but you! It would not be the same being read by anyone else.
@@dustinaskew1757 Agreed
In America, you book into hotel. In Soviet Russia, hotel books you!
Very important document
This is truly terrifying.
WOW.. I though the US government was nosy. So interesting! Thanks so much!
Additionally.
Please show us Work records.
I recall encountering such records as a collectible about 20 years ago.
Civilians had quite a few ranks they could achieve.
What was the employee Hero award?
Hero Worker of the Soviet Union? Some such designation?
I'd be interested in seeing that as well.
My father's first name was given to me as my middle name, my brother was given our grandfather's middle name as his middle also. I guess if you have brothers you all have the same middle name? Interesting. My mother too was born in 1937 - in Indiana - and I was born in 1970 in Kentucky. Growing up I think the one thing that was scary about the USSR (aside from nukes obviously) to most of us here in the US was the notion that the party was watching everyone and also not having freedom of movement without the government's eyes & ears everywhere. At least that's how we perceived life over there. We were never scared of the Soviet people, but the system was definitely scary - much as China has become today.
It's like the Scandanavian naming system with the addition of a family name. We have several different middle name traditions in the US. Sometimes it's automatic, like mother's brother's first name becomes her son's middle name. Another is to give the child the first and last name of a famous person, e.g. George Washington Carver. The mother's maiden name is another common middle name, although it's getting more common to hyphenate the family name...
Looks like what we know as “paper wasps” - you really don’t want to get stung by that swarm !
Отчество = patronymic name
This was to much of a hassle but fortunately then someone came up with Google to simplify all this!
I just found your channel. Thank you thank you thank you. I've always been interested in the USSR but I always found it hard to find out about all the minutiae related just Soviets living their life. The western media only likes to talk about geopolitics and cold war, not how people really lived during the USSR era
Sergei, were there censuses taken when you were growing up, or were these documents considered a replacement for it in the eye of the government? What was required for people to move from the rural areas to say, Leningrad?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census
I recall 1989 census, a lady sitting in our kitchen and asking questions.
All your videos are fascinating . This book is very strange . Does your Mother help with ideas for videos ?
What would the people have to do if these books were lost or damaged?(like fire or flood)
What an example of how expensive Communism is. Or just Dictatorship.
Some individual had to track. Had to write down each entry.
Had to communicate with each individual, and agree or ascertain that each action was lawful.
Then some other individual had to check books in each block.
Then someone for several blocks.
My Russian friend made me laugh because her middle name was Victor. In class she went by Natalie by of course her real name was Natalya. Natalya Shikaloff.
Her middle name should be Victorovna because her father was Victor
That was the best! I think one section was missing though. A checkbox to indicate whether the people under investigation are thought criminals or not. Damn, homo sapiens is messed up!
Soviet Communism is scary. People were really free to travel around or move anywhere they please. Very sad that you had internal passports to travel inside the USSR just so the government could keep track of everyone.
Seeing a paper wasp nest get burnt is really satisfying to watch for some reason.
Ja pierdole ale wiocha. Dobrze ze nie bylo wtedy komputerow zeby to wrzystko zalogowac.
Maybe "county" for "Raion"?
I've always been fascinated with Russia, I really want to visit Moscow and St Petersburg. How are western tourists received in Russia? Is there any hostility or animosity towards westerners?
Not these days. It's pretty easy going but I gather almost no English, VERY cheap food and fantastic food quality, but the visa can be quite complicated. Like more than you would expect. My sister's friend looked into it and you will wait weeks even months for approval.
Traveled extensively throughout Russia/ Soviet Union during the early 90s. Never had any danger. Primarily stayed in family’s homes, dachas, and government run hotels. Absolutely the most enriching experiences of my life. People everywhere have the same basic needs, connections to family and friends. The incredible amount of history, suffering, and hardships are incomparable to what Americans have ever experienced. My respect for these people is unbounded. Never allow fear to stop you from going.
Now? You'll be put in prison and used as a bargaining chip, like brittney griner
Wow, this is like the game "Papers, Please"
Well it is paperwork, and Papers, Please is baisically a paperwork simulator.
@@ajorsomething4935 Glory to Arstotska
Where did you store the book and did someone have copies of it?
House manages kept the book somewhere safe
Curious that it was all arranged around location instead of identity.
In the US ,ten years ,the census. We're you been, what you been doing, how many kids you have ,who's been living with you ,etc, etc same thing!
Why was the government so concerned about people's movements and address?
I would like to see a video about how the government portrayed the Kursk incident to Russian citizens
For a while they blamed an American sub that was spying in the area
I felt so sad for those boys.
Last names and genealogy episode would be interesting, not many people here are aware of the patriarchal way of naming your last name after your father‘s first name. Here in the United States it is typical that a child bears the last name of the father of his father and his father. This creates some feelings for dynasty or to keep your lineage going on. Is there something similar like that in USSR or Russia?
Comrade neighbor works at kiosk 9pm-9am but falls asleep occasionally
You go #2 more often than once a day? Good progress on the Diaries!
Hello Sergey, I love your videos and I learnt a lot from them so far, thank you for making such good content.
I have a question though, you mentioned "militias" in this video, how did they work? And how did they compare to police in the west? And what about security in the Soviet Union, how safe was it? How prevalent were crimes like robbery or murder? Did you feel safe doing things like wandering around at night or being in empty spaces?
Thank you, again, for such entertaining and informative content, I love it!
Your uncle got permission to attend art school in the city well before 1978. Was he issued a special passport?
He had a recommendation paper from his village school to attend arts college in Kiev.
Damn the government was nosey! I thought they did this kind of thing during Stalin. I'm surprised they had that system in the 70s.
Canada is more nosy than the US, according to someone I know who's lived in both countries. But realistically, there is no privacy from authority, including private and corporate authority, anymore. People are so worried about the government! IMO, there are even worse sharks in the cyber sea.
It looks like old census records I've seen here in the US. Hardly 'big brother'.
Not boring at all. The Soviets showed the US how to do it.
11 minutes ago this was posted and there are 106 views. Not bad
And usually the view count is stunted. You'll see videos with 20 views and 35 likes and 30 comments.
Did only start watching the Video, but in Germany we (today) have Einwohnermeldeamt. You are required to let the State know where you live - not really possible to get around that nowadays (apart from living off the grid, eh!)
It's book like this that make the Constitution so imortant
Do you think extensive, intrusive surveillance doesn't happen in the USA? It's a big issue, NSA is doing it constantly.
We just call it google
The Demo-rats have annulled the Constitution since you wrote that comment. The 2nd is dead, the 4th is next (a bill is already in the House to allow police to search your property without a warrant). 1st is probably after that. All politicians are now above the law and do as they please without penalty. God help us...
@@kcraig51 Like the Republicunts aren't just as guilty. Who pushed for the so-called Patriot Act?
I couldn’t help but think that the kolkhozniks were the Soviet version of serfs.
Which they were. The communists enslaved the workers.
Hail Red Comrade Ushanka
What did citizens of the U.S.S.R. think of 1984 by Orwell, since Orwell made the book in mind of Stalins Totalitarian overnment.
Orwell books were on the naughty list and weren't allowed
@@UshankaShow but the year before the U.S.S.R. collapsed the book was open to the public in 1990. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
In 1990 a lot of things came to light. I recall reading Animal Farm but can't tell you when, before or after 1991
@@UshankaShow Thanks for the responds and the honest answer, I asked this because I once read an article of how a few soviet citizens reacted to the book in 1990 were they said they felt like that would have been a not to far off future if Yuri Andrepov and his followers were to hold power.
If no farmer living in a kolkhoz could ever travel, how different was that from being a serf in the 19th century?
The word "Soviet" was added
@@UshankaShow Hah! Sure, they were little better than slaves, but at least they working to build Socialism. I'm sure that was a big comfort for them.
Hm, I am not sure about that. Don't recall any mass slave starvation in the Ancient Rome or anywhere else. The Soviets starved close to 8 million Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh peasants in the 30s.
@@UshankaShow Good point, but I was thinking of the serfs under the Russian empire, and I was thinking only of the issue of mobility, of being legally tied to the land. I wasn't making an overall comparison.
@@alexcarter8807 Millions left the farms to get factory and service jobs. Your imaginary America is a hilarious place.
I'm not sure if it's because of the times I've gotten stung or what, but don't you think you should be running like hell after lighting that nest of bees?
Like number 100.
So basically Soviet peasants were tied to the land, almost like medieval serfs.
Correct! Till 1973 when villagers got their passports
That's TOO MUCH CONTROL 😂
Sergei all this is coming back. GOSPLAN is the first. And the internal passport never quite went away
this is like...the exact same process i go through in usa to rent apartments.
Shhh, we are bashing the USSR around here, not the most freest free country the free world has ever freed.
Yeah… no it isn’t.
Hallo comrades 😎
Just like an 80s council flat form in the UK. Now they want even more
Hey Sergei, my channel has videos of my travels of Cuba.. I think you may find it interesting because of it being one of the last planned economies on earth.
I will check it out, thanks!
In some States you practically have to maintain and submit a Renters Resume if you want to move to decent housing.
But since it's Capitalism it's 'voluntary'. You can always choose not to participate and just live on the street...we are good at that.
I stop the video to watch when I see to burning the bees.very cruel.
Waaaaasps 😮
Those wasps look slightly less annoying than bureaucracy
I found this video interesting, then again I find games like paper please fun.
Hornets?
Coming soon to the USA, where the watchdogs already want to inspect the home environment of newborns, and will certainly want to check up on the rest of us once they start offering cradle to the grave benefits.
What's old is new again
The tedium is stifling; the tendency to lie must be irresistible.
"Let me see your papers please*
KG Bees😁
*ANTIFA* would *L O V E* this!
(As long as none of it applied to THEM!)
What if your homeless
You aren't permitted to be homeless. You show up at the work you are assigned and get assigned a room (or a shared room). You don't show up, your next stop is a labor camp. If you are handicapped and not retired and have no family, you are institutionalized and will probably soon die.
This was george orwells vision of 1984.
And here in the US they make you pay for a device that tracks every move you make.
Sergei, Brat!!
You showed us a record book of a terrible, Totalitarian State.
We THINK we're free.
My smart phone provides Corporations, and State Agencies 70 cross referenced points of information. Complete with real time cross reference information to everyone we were merely nearby.
OUR "free" State uses that information daily and readily.
Merely leaving your phone at home is no protection from discovering where you were today, and what you did.
Increasingly, this information is available to the public for a fee.
Wasps. A little splash of gasoline will take care of them.
US censes
That sounds great. You need a place, they put you in one. You report and keep records so they know you're using your place correctly. I would GLADLY have that than what america has been doing against me!!! I don't see that what was shown in the video was bad or wrong. Why was it creepy???